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off the boards for over 1000 years,
that the eating of human prisoners by
wild beasts in the presence of the
Roman populace was played out, and
that the Coliseum was ruin and did not
exist as a place of amusement. He
thought everything that he had read
about the horrors of Roman holiday
was running to-day, as side show, and
he wanted to see it, and had encouraged
him in his ideas, because he was nervous,
and l didn't want to undeceive him.
He had come to Rome to see things he
couldn't find at home, and it was up to
me to deliver the goods.
Gee, but it made me sweat, cause
knew if dad did not get show for his
money, he would lay it up against me,
so I told him we. would go to the
Coliseum that night and see the hungry
lions and tigers eat some of the leading
citizens, just as they did when Caesar
run the show. Then found an Ameri-
can from Chicago at the hotel, who
sells soap in Rome, and told him what
dad expected of me in the way of amuse-
ment, and he said the only way was to
take dad out to the Coliseum, and in
the dark roll a barrel of broken glass
down the tiers of seats and make him
believe there was an earthquake that
had destroyed the Coliseum, and that the
lions and tigers were all loose, looking
for people to eat, and scare dad and
make run back to town.
didn't want to play such scandalous
trick on dad, but the Chicago man said
that.was the only way out of it, and he
could get barrel of broken glass for a
roar like lions for few dollars, and it
would give dad good exercise, and may
be save him from a run of Roman fever,
cause there was nothing like a good
sweat to knock the fever out of fell
lows system. The thing struck me as
not only good experience for dad, but
life saver, so whacked up the money,
and the Chicago soap man did the rest
After dark we went out to the ruin OF
the Coliseum, where a great many tour
lists go to look at the ruins by moon
light, and dad was as anxious and blood
thirsty as young surgeon cutting up his
first stiff" When we got to the right
place, and I told dad we were a little
early, because the nobility were not in
their seats, the villains began to roar
three dollars worth, like hungry lions
and dad turned little pale, and said
that sounded like the real thing.
told him we better not get too near
because we were not accustomed to see
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The Coming Man.

In the prehistoric period, even, mans
mouth had ceased to be an instrument
Tor grasping food; it is still growing
less prehensile, his front teeth are
smaller, his lips are thinner and less
muscular; he has a new organ, a man
dible not Of irreparable tissue, but of
bone and steel-a knife and fork.
There is no reason, says professor of
physiology, why things should stop at
the partial artificial division thus af-
forded; there is every reason, on the
contrary, to believe my statement that
some cunning exterior mechanism will
presently masticate and insalivate his
dinner, relieve his diminishing salivary
glands and teeth, and at last altogether
abolish them. Then, what is not need
ed disappears. What use is there for
external ears, nose and brow ridges
now? The two latter once protected
the eye from injury in conflict and falls,
but in these days we keep on our legs
and are at peace. Directing his
thoughts in this way,'the reader may
presently conjure up dim, strange
vision of the latter day face: Eyes
large, lustrous, beautiful, soulful;
above them no longer separated by
rugged brow ridges, is the top of the
head, glistening hairless dome, terete
and beautiful; no craggy nose rises to
disturb by it's unmeaning shadows the
symmetry of that calm face, no vestigial
ears project; the mouth is small, per-
fectly round aperture, toothless and
gumless, jawless, unanimal, no futile
emotions disturbing its roundness as
it lies, like the harvest moon or the
evening star, in the wide armament
of the face" Such is the face the pro-
fessor beholds in the future. Of course
parallel notifications will also affect
the body and limbs. Every day so
many hours and so much energy are
required for digestion; a gross torpid
ity, carnal lethargy, seizes on mortal
men after dinner. This may and can
be avoided. Mans knowledge of or
ganic chemistry widens daily. Already
he can supplement the gastric glands
by artificial devices. Every doctor
who administers physic implies that
the bodily functions may be artifcially
superseded. We have pepsin, pancrea-
tine, artificial gastric acid know not
what like mixtures. Why, then, should
not the stomach be ultimately superan-
nuated altogether? A man who could
not only leave his dinner to be cooked
but also leave it to be masticated and
digested, would have vast social adj
vantages over his food-digesting fell
low. This-is, let me remind you here,
the calmest, most passionless and
scientific working out of the future
forms of things from the data of the
present"
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FACTS ABOUT SUN SPOTS.
They Often Break Out and Disappear
Under the Eye of the
Observer.

That great sun spot that Chicagoans
were treated to recently did not smash
the record for bigness, even though it
did appear to do SO to those who looked
at it with naked eyes through Chicago's
smoke, says the News, Of that city.
Some astronomers said that the spot
was 10000 miles across and others that
it's diameter was $1,000 miles. But even
$4,000 miles would not be the record
diameter. For, back in 1S43, whenethe
Millerites were looking for the end of
the world, there was great sun spot
that to many seemed to lend weight to
the Millerites' arguments from the time
prophecies in the Bible. For week in
that year there was sun spot that was
visible to the naked eye. 1t measured
74,S16 miles across. On the day of the
eclipse in 1858 a spot $4,000 miles in
extent was clearly seen. These spots
are considered to be storms in the glow
ing gases that correspond to the atmos-
phere of this earth. If there were ships
on the sun as large as this earth they
would be tossed about like autumn
leaves in an ocean storm.
These solar spots are most abundant
on the two sides of the suns equator.
where they mark something akin to a
terrestrial cyclone belt. The center of
a cyclone is rarefied and therefore cold
er. Cold on the sun is darkness. An
astronomer says that these cyclones
carry down into the depths Of the solar
mass the cooler materials of the upper
Iovorc formed prip o;po1Jv ~ bydrooon
and thus produce in their center a de-
cided extinction of light and heat as
long as the gyratory movement lasts.
Finally the hydrogen, set free at the
base of the whirlpool, becomes reheated
at this great depth and rises up tumult-
uously, forming irregular jets, which
appear above THE chromosphere.
Sun spots often break out or disap-
pear under the eye of the observer.
They divide like piece of ice dropped
on the surface of a frozen pond, the
pieces sliding off in every direction, or
they combine like separate foes driven
together into pack. Sometimes spot
will last for more than 200 days, through
six or eight revolutions of the sun.
Sometimes spot will last only half an
hour
"The velocities indicated by these
movements" writes Henry White War
rem. D. D., ARE incredible. An uprush
and downrush at the sides has been
measured of 20 miles second, side
rush or whirl of 100 miles a second.
These tempests are over regions so wide
that our own Indian ocean is too small
to be used for comparison. AS they
cease the advancing sides of the spots
approach each other at the rate of 20. 900
miles an hour. They strike together ard
the rising spray leaps thousands of miles
into space"
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And this is charming feature of
Spain: this fine capacity to imagine
yourself the center of the earth for the
time being, and yet not be offensive,
writes Poultney Bigelow in the Ma
tional Magazine for May. You meet a
man on a donkey in the interior and
get to talking with him, and soon you
learn that he has the finest donkey of
the province, and, so far from envying
any man, he it is who is satisfied that
he is exciting the admiration, if not the
envy, of his neighbors. If l met that
same sort of an outfit in the mountains
OF Colorado or Nevada the cavalier
would be sure to hold his burro in con-
tempt, and would talk of the fine horse
he meant to have when his mine had
been developed. We Americans preach
contentment, but we despise the peo-
pie who are contented. The true Span
lard Is thoroughly contented.
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Reads Like q Miracle.

Moravia, n. Y, July l7th.-(Special-
Bordering on the miraculous is the case
Of Mrs, BENZ; Wilson, Of this place SUIT,
away TIL from weighing 200 lbs. she
barely tipped the scales at 100 lbs.
DoddPs Kidney Pills cured her. Speaking
of her cure her husband says
My wife suffered everything from
Sugar Diabetes. She was sick four years
and doctored with two doctors, but re-
ceived no benefit. She had SO much pain
all over her that she could not rest day
or night. The doctors said that she could
not live.
Then an advertisement led me to try
Dodd's Kidney Pills, and they helped her
right from the first. Five boxes of them
cured her. Dodd's Kidney Pills were a
God-sent remedy to us, and we recon-
mend them to all suffering from Kidney
Disease"
Dodd's Kidney Pills cure all Kidney
Diseases, including Bright's Disease, and
all Kidney aches. including Rheumatism.
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fallen down, killing n Ire tAan 10000
Romans, and the animals cages are
busted and the animals are loose, look
ing for fresh meat, and We better get
right back to Rome, too quick, or We will
be eaten alive. Come on if yoG are with
me! Do you hear the lions after us?"
said he, as the hired villains roared.
Well, you'd a died to see dad get up
out of that prickly cactus, and take the
lead for good old Rome. l didn't know
he was such a sprinter, but we trailed
along behind, roaring like lions, and
snarling like tigers and yip-yapping like
hyenas and barking like timber wolves,
and We couldn't see dad for the dust, en-
that moonlight night
We slowed up and let dad run ahead
and he got to the hotel first, and We paid
off the villains, and finally We went in
the hotel and found dad in the bar
room putting and drinking a high-baIl
Pretty near hell, wasn't it." said dad,
to the soap man, Did the lions catch
anybody" 20 a few of the lower
classes" said the soap man, "but none of
the nobility. The nobility were in the
boxes, and that part of the Coliseum
never falls during an earthquake" and
the soap man joined dad in hieh-ball
After dad got through putting and had
wiped about two quarts of pers piration
off his head and neck. and the soap man
had told him what great thing it was
to perspire in Rome, on account Of the
Roman fever, that catches a man at
night and kills him before morning, dad
turned to me and said: "Hennery, you
go pack up and we get out of this in the
morning, for l feel as though l had
been chewed by one of those hyenas.
Not any more Rome for papa and the
high-ball party broke up, and We went
to bed to get sleep enough to leave town.
Do you know, the next morning those
hired villains made the soap man ard
pay ten dollars extra on account OF
| straining their lungs, roaring like
lions? But we paid for their lungs all
| right. rather than have them present a
| bill to dad.
Well, good-by, old man. We are get
ting all the fun there is going. Your
only, HENNERY.
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cused of crime in the states. l thought
dad came out of the hotel and threw a
handful of small change into the crowd,
and it was all off.
After they picked up the coin they
beckoned me to come out and play some
more, but not any more for little Hen
merry. | have been in love in all coun-
tries where We have travelled. and in all
languages, but this Italian love, takes
the whole bakery, and do not 60 around
any more without chaperone. The
girls are ragged, and wear shawls over
their heads, and there are holes in their
dresses and their skin isn't white, like
American girls, but is what they call
olive complexion, like stuffed olives you
buy in bottles, stuffed with cayenne pep
per, but the girls are just like the
cayenne pepper, so warm that you want
to throw water on yourself after they
have touched you. Gee, but 1 wouldn't
want to live in a climate where girls
were torrid zone, cause l should melt,
like an icicle that drops in a stove. and
makes steam, and blows up the whole
house
Well, old man, you talk about
churches, but you don't know anything
about it. Dad and l went to st. Peters
In Rome, and it is the grandest thing in
the world. Say, the Congrega tional
church at home, which We thought SO
grand, could be put in one little corner
of st. Peters, and would look like 80
cents. st. Peters covers ground about
nall mile square, and when you go in
side and look at grown people on the
other side of it, they look like flies. and
the organ is as big as block of build
ings in Chicago, and when they blow it.
you think the last day has come. and
yet the music is as sweet as melodeon.
and makes you want to get down on
your knees with all the thousands of
good Christians of Italy. and confess
that you are fraud, that ought to be
arrested.
Dad and l have been to all kinds of
churches, everywhere, and never turned
hair. but since we got to this town. and
got some of the prevailing religion into
our systems. We feel guilty. and it SEEM
as though everybody could see right into
| US, and that they knew we were heath
en-, that never knew there was a God
Sure thing, never supposed there were
so many people in the world that wor.
| SHIPPED their Maker. as there are here
and l don't wonder that all over the
world good people look to Rome for the
1 light. Dad keeps telling me that when
We get home We win set an example that
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ing live men chewed up by beasts, and
dad said he didn't care how near we got.
as long as they chewed and tore to
pieces the natives; so we started to work
up little nearer, when there was a
noise such as never heard before, as the
hogshead OF broken glass began to roll
down the tiers Of stone seats. and fell
over on the ground. and pushed dad, and
he went over in the sand and struck his
pants on cactus, and yeifeit that he was
stabbed with a dirk, and got up and
fell down again, and just then the Chi
cago soap man came UP on gallop. fol-
lowed by the villains playing lion and
tiger. and dad asked the Chicago man
what seemed to be the matter, and he
said: Matter enough: there has been
an earthquake, and the Coliseum has
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Tried Epey KnoUn Remedy With
out Relief Serious Stomach Trouble
Cured By Three Bottles of PerunaI
Capt. w. w. jackson, 7o5 G St., N. W.,
Washington, D. c., writes:
g am eightythree years old, a
veteran of the Black Hawk, Mexican
and the Civil Wars. 1 am by profession
a physician, but abandoned the same.
"Some years ago was seriously af-
fecfed with cafarrh of the stomach.
MY sufferings were pr0fracted and
severe. tried every known remedy
without Obfainfng relief.
"In desperation began the use of
your Peruna. / began to realize Inn
mediate though gradual improvement
''After the use of three bottles every
appearance of my complaint was re-
moved, and have no hesitation in rec
ommending it as an infallible remedy
for that disorder"-W. w. jackson.
Address DIR. s. B. Hartman, President
of The Hartman Sanitarium, Column
bus. Ohio.
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or OF Pecks sun, Author OF 'PecK
Bad Boy" etc)
Copyright. 1905. by Joseph B. Bowles.) !.
ROME, ITALY.-MY DEAR OLD
"PARD:" Well, sir, If you could see me
now. you wouldn't know me, because
foreign travel has broadened me out, SO
/ can talk on any subject, and people
of my age look upon me as an author
ity, and they surround me everywhere
go, and urge me to talk. The fact that
the boys and girls do not understand
word | say, makes no difference. They
do not wear many clothes here, and there
Is no style about them, and when they
see me, with a whole suit Of clothes on,
and hat, and shoes and socks, and a
scarf-pin on my necktie, they think 1
must be an Americana that is too rich
for any use, or something that ranks
with prince at least, and the boys de-
light to be with me, and do errands for
me, and the girls seem to be in love with
me.
There is no way you can tell if girl
Is in love with you, except that she looks
at you with eyes that are as black as
into your insides, and when they take
hold of your hand they hang on, and
squeeze like alamand-left, in a dance
at home, and they snug up to you, and
are as warm and cheerful as gas stove.
Say, l sat on bench in a plaza with a
girl about my age, for an hour, while
the other girls and boys sat on the
ground and looked at us in admiration,
and when l put my arm around her and
kissed her on her pouting lips, it brought
on a revolution. An Italian soldier po-
liceman took me by the neck and threw
me across the street, the girl scratched
me with her finger nails and bit me. and
yelled some grand hailing sign of dis
tress, her brother and a ragged boy that
was in love with the girl, and was jeal-
Gus. drew daggers, and the whole
crowd yelled murder, and l started for
our hotel on run. and the whole popu-
lation of Rome seemed to follow me, and
| might as we'll have been a negro &C
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According to the New York Sun
many immigrants change their names
arriving in this country because of the
difficulty in getting them properly
spelled. A good many residents of lae
east side have adopted as their SUI
names the names of streets. In Rig
lngton street there is tailor, Isaac De
iancey; in West Broadway, cap man.
ufacturer, Solomon Ludlow; a tobacco
mist not far away sports the name of
Abraham Clinton, and there is an Is
rael Christie in Orchard street. This will
help the postman as well
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Sounded Just That way.

During a recent examination in Amer
lean history in one of Hartford's schools
the question was put: What was the
Mayfo compact" This is the thor
oughly logical reply of one good little
American:
The Mayfower and the Speedwell
started together from England, and tho
Speedwell went to peaces, and sunk, and
they put all the people into the May
flower, and SO the Mayhower come
packed."-N. Y. Times.
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Knew Her Business.

She had just filed her application
for the position Of culinary assistant
in boarding house, and the land
lady was cross-examining.
do you carve the pie In four
pieces, or fve?" asked the landlady.
six" promptly answered the APP
plieant.
She got the job-and it served her
right Chicago Daily News.
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England's Boy Babies.

The average of births in London Is
IL 900 a month. 1t is computed that
a single months births of male babies
would nearly suffice to replace the men
lost by England on the Boer battle
field.
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After a successful medical campaign
against the "lazy worm" in Porto Rico. a
similar one might be undertaken in this
country. 1t is anaemia that troubles the
tramps.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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Took All Precautions.

With reference to an accident which oc-
Cured during the motor car trials in the
Isle of Man, when car drove into q
house, we are informed that it was not
the chauffeur's fault, as he sounded his
born three times,-Punch.
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Information.

ssPa, what's the Hungarian diet?"
"Oh, macaroni and goulash, and
sach like stun Don't bother papa
now."-Louisville Courier-JouruaA
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Don't spoil your clothes. Use Red Gross
Ball Blue and keep them white as snow
All grocers, cents a package.
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1t is easy enough to make an airship
that will fly. The manufacture of one that
will light according to programme is the
problem of real difficulty Washington
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The Bad Boy Makes Friends with Some
italian Children-Dad Is Chased
by Lions from the Coliseum-"Not
Any More Rome for Papa" Says
Dad.
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will make people pay attention, but he
says he does not want to join the church
until he has seen all the sights. and
then he will swear off for good.
He said to me yesterday: Now, Hen
merry, have been to all the pious places
with you, the pope's residence, the cata-
combs and st. Peters, where they
preach from 40 different places, and
make you feel like giving up your sins
and ! have looked at carvings, and
decorations, and marble and jewels, and
seen the folly of my ways of life, and
am ripe for change, but before give
up the world and all Of its wickedness.
I want blood. want to go to the other
extreme, and see the wild beasts at the
Coliseum tear human beings limb from
limb, and drink their blood, and see
gladiators gladiate, and chop down their
antagonists, and put one foot on their
PROSTATE necks, like they do in the
theaters, and then I am ready to leave
this town, and be good"
Well, sir, have been in lots of tight
places before, but this one beat the band.
Here was my dad. who did not know that
the Roman gladiator business had been
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BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.
Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, Former Edit
or of Peck's Sun, Author Of 'Peck's
Bad-Boy." etc.)
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