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ARE QUICK NssERs,
Illinois, Damgels Have Be
come Adopts in Art Of Speedy
Oscillation

Princeton, the capital OF Bureau
county, ILL.,, has an odd distinction,
Its girls can bestCW a kiss quicker
than any other set Of pretty young
creatures in the state 1t is related
ia the Chicago Tribune that the quick
kissers belonged to the old town, but
when the railroad built its main line
a mile away, a new town was built UP
nearer the depot, and there were more
swift osculators than ever. The other
evening a pretty Princeton girl board
ed west bound train. Several girl
friends accompanied her to the depot,
but she was followed into the car by
young man. He showed her suit case
under a seat and then looked into her
face. Then she placed a hand on each
Of his arms and before any passenger
knew what she was about she had
kissed him The young man blushed
and fed, but the sweet kisser wasn't
abashed at all. She knocked on the
window pane to the girls outside. Did
you see that?o she called aloud, SO
that everyone in the car could hear
her. They nodded that they had.
Pretty quick movement, wasn't it,"
she called out again, and the bevy OF
sweet things out on the platform sig
nailed to her that it was up to the
Princeton standard
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I'm 3. FOOLS
PAR = Disc
---- -------------------
~ EDGTR wsLs or

d WHISTLE blew The train pulled
Al out A man arranged his golf
cubs and his glasses to his satisfac-
lion, and then glanced at the passen-
ger at the other sud C. me carriage.
He hesitated for tha brief space OF
one second, and then rushed on TO
tamper with fate.
Miss Bruce. Why, how do you
do?''
How do you do, Lord Lughton?''
This is jolly enough, to be sure!
aEow do yea come 10 be here?''
How 10 l come to be in this par
tieuIar compartments that what YOU
@ean?''
Clever, aren't you?"
''No. not clever Remember, I'm
travelling first class! They say that
oaly lords and fools do that! You're
abe lord in this case. Perhaps I'm
Tho fool!'
What's wrong now"
E1verything!" e
sWe1l, please refrain from calling
yourself unpleasant names, at any
eate."
Unpleasant names! Think Of the
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HISTORY OF THE GORILLA.
Interesting Facts Concerning the
Huge Apes Cleaned by
Naturalist.

Gorillas have figured in the writings
of historians, or at least Of some OF
them. for thousands Of years, according
to Andrew Wilson, the naturalist. Inc
ancients. however, were apparently I'M
able to distinguish them from sayages.
in the sixth century before Christ.
saws Mr.. Wilson. we find Hanno. the
voyager of Carthage, telling OF his en-
counter with what seem to have been
manlike apes. He speaks Of a bay called
the Horn of the South, This was prob
ably situated near the Gaboon, on the
African east coast. Here the ehimpan-
zee is met with to-day, the gorilla be-
ing found, as rule, farther inland. In
the bay, says Hanno in his 'Perlplus,
was an island Of great size. having a
lake. and in this another island full of
wild men. Much the greater part were
women with hairy bodies, whom the
interpreters called gorillas. We were
unable to capture the men, who escaped
by reason of their great agility. They
climbed preeipitous rocks and trees and
defended themselves by throwing stones
at US. We took three women, who bit
and tore those who caught them and
were unwilling to follow. We were
obliged therefore, to kill them, and took
their skins off, which skins were brought
to Carthage, for we did not sail farther,
provisions becoming scarce.
Thus far Hanno There may be a
doubt regarding the identity of the ami
mails he saw, while the name gorilla
must not be regarded as necessarily ap
plying to the real animal. Purchas, Of
the 'Pilgrimages, records next the story
Of a native of Leigh. in Essex, Andrew
Battell by name. Battell, it appears,
was sent by the Portugals prisoner to
Angola, and lived there and in the ad-
Joining regions neere eighteene yeeTs.
Purchas tells US of a kinde Of Great
Apes, ii they might SO bee termed, Of the
height Of a man, but twice as bigge in
proportionable, haire all over, other
wise altogether like men and women in
their whole bodily shape.
"Battell discourses of their habits
They sleep in trees and build shelters
against rain. They walk on their legs,
but carry their hands clasped On the
nape Of the neck when on the ground
They are vegetarians, eating no flesh.
They have no speech, and cannot keep
up q fire they have found because they
have no understanding to lay fresh wood
thereon, When they die, according to
Battell, the survivors cover the dead
with heaps Of boughs and wood
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THE HERO.

I'm very handsome fellow, would have
YOU understand,
For I'm tall and have a chest OF ample
girth,
Broad and stalwart are my shoulders and
in general I'm planned
With all the modern qualities of worth.
| am brave and bold and daring; my honor
is as gold;
As lover, no one ever undertook
To suggest the least improvement in my
making, for behold,
I'm the hero in the modern story book
Still this business. like most others. has its
har9ships more or less.
For many things I'd differently DO,
If l had my way about it; and the heroine,
/ guess
Is troubled by the same restrictions, too.
When offer her my heart and hand, on
page one twenty-three,
She spurns me and such treatment must
brook,
For she'd like right well to take me if she
could, but where would be
The story in the modern story book?
There are dangers ali about me, of the most
appalling kind;
But not the least degree of fear haveI;
For, thrilling deeds of valor to effect, am
Inclined
And. by the merest chance. omit to die.
If you should do such things as I, don
count upon success.
This bit of truth you must NOT overlook:
Its never safe to be SO fearless and SO brave
You're the hero in the modern story
Robert Is. Beach. in Chicago Record-Her-
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STORY or THE FlRELANDs
Tract in Ohio Set Apart for the Con
necticut Victims Of Bene-
dict Arnold.

Unnumbered native Ohioans, not 10
dents Of the state from foreign lands and
other states of the union, must have Won
dered why a fertile and productive tract
in northern Ohio, a district which in no
way hints of the ravages of fire, should
be called the ''Firelands.' Among all
the vicissitudes of Ohio's early history
great CONGREGATIONS were notable for
their absence. No such terrible forest
fires swept this state as rayaged large
areas in Michigan and Wisconsin 70 or
so years later.
The fires to which the name refers
ragged in Connecticut, not Ohio, and they
were the work of British or Tory sol
diers instead of the result of accidents
or natural causes. In 1881, when the
long struggle for independence was
nearly ended, Benedict Arnold COM
manded an expe5 ton which ravaged
the Connecticut ooast of Long Island
sound He burnet New London and
other towns and lie. behind misery and
restitution as well s a more bitter
hatred than he had earned before that
outrage upon his native state.
This and other cruel and senseless at
taeks upon Connecticut's towns left so
strong a feeling Of sympathy and injus-
tice behind that in disposing of Connec-
ticut's rights in lands now forming part
of Ohio ISL square miles in the extreme
western edge of the western reserve
were set apart to be donated to sufferers
by the British raids. Five ranges of
townships running north and south were
included in this tract
Sandusky bay and Lake Erie extend
SO far southwark at this point that the
five ranges of townships contained only
about 100000 acres of land. The tract
measured some 27 miles by. 80 The Con-
necticut sufferers from the torch of the
enemy lived chiefly in New London,
NorWalk and Fairfield, and it was from
those towns that many of the settlers OF
the "FIrelands" came to build in the
Ohio wilderness settlements bearing the
same names and having like civic ideals
and character.
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First Ocean Cables Cost.

The original 1858 cable weighed 90
pounds peg mile, and had a conductor
Of seven copper wires Of 2215 gauge;
price Of deep sea wire per mile, 5000;
price of spun yarn and iron wire per
mile, $3.50; cost ct outside coating OF
tar and gutta percha, SIS. total cost
per mile. $4S5- 1t SASS per mile the
total cost of the $500 miles of deem
sea wire was $1.212.5oo. ~ this add
% miles Of shore end wire, COSTING
$1,450 per mile, and we ind that the
first ocean cable, exclusive oil instru-
ments. cost 1,250. 900.
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NEWEST MIcRoBE is FOUND
seTetracoccus of Acute Ascending
Paralysis Is the Wonder of
Scientists.

Another subtle foe of mankind has
been unmasked in the shape of the
.'tetracoccus of acute ascending paraly-
Sis
1t was immensely admired by the
French doctors during their visit to the
Westminster hospital, London, recently,
where some of these organisms have
been cultivated from patient suffering
from this rare disease. It affects the
spinal cord and the patient rapidly
loses the use of every muscle in the
body and the mortality is extremely
high.
The patient at the Westminster hos
pital has been more fortunate Within
is days of being attacked by il he was
an inert piece OF clay, with the exception
that he was able to move one toe. At
present he is progressing favorably.
At the height Of the disease a hypo-
dermic syringe was plunged into his
back and from the material thus OBJ
tanned the famous tetracoccus was iso-
lated. It's existence has been known for
some months to the heads of the profess
sion, but the organism is sufficiently
new to gender this confirmation well
come.
1t takes multitude of extended ex-
perlments to prove satisfactorily chat
a certain microbe is the cause OF a GER
tain disease. The tetracoccus seen UNI
der the microscope appeared like a
series of dots arranged in tours. At the
Westminster hospital the Identifying
experiments have had to be stopped
halfway toward proof. Proof is OBJ
tanned when the culture reproduces the
disease consistently in living animals,
and the Westminster is not allowed to
practice vivisection.
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Head of Aerinna

a discovery of considerable 1mpor-
lance was made in August at suse, the
ancient segusio, in the province of
Turin, Italy. At a depth of six feet
or more Q colossal mans head was
found 1t is of bronze, and is double
the natural size. The head is of ex
celient workmanship, and is well pre-
served. 1t is supposed that the head
belonged to statue OF the minister Of
Augustus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa,
who was the husband of 1ulia, daugh-
ter of Augustus. Agrippa was the
grandfather of Caligula and the great
grandfather of Nero. He died in the
year Il B. C--Chicago Daily News.
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rs she here, now Z"

Is she here, noW?"
+ Yes, she's with my mother, over
there promised to take her Tor .
turn and get her away from the crowd.
She's tired. By the way, Todd, she
has to go back To town to-night-on
that Special You're taking II, too,
aren't your
yes"
VIII you look after her % the way
up"
With pleasure"
Thanks, old man ! don't believe
she's well, but she says she's all right,
and-I suppose she ought to know"
Yes. she ought to know"
Todd thought Of the yiolets. and
put his hand in his pocket to assure
himself of their safety. They we're
there
The Ascot Special was nearing
Waterloo as d girl tossed a bunch q
withered violets to the winds. and
then turned to the man sitting opo-
site her.
1T is better that they should go with
all the rest, Rex!
Yes, perhaps so, Becky. Strange
that / should have found them 1 rec
ognized them at once as being those
had sent YOU"
Should you have sent them, ReX?"
Why not? It was for the last time,
Becky!- Do you remember how We used
tc build castles in the air, and talk Of
the violets and roses we should have
when"
Don't, Rex. 1t was not to be- We are
both poor, We have nothing. am CRATE
full to the man who has been loyal to me
through everything | mean to be loyal
to him from this time forth for ever
morel"
You think that might have given up
my profession, given up eyerything-o
Becky, I'll do that now. ii you say the
world"
But the girl was not listening. She
was thinking of the woman Rex Todd
was going to marry.
The man went on:
Becky. were nearly there. For the
Hast half-hour we have talked of what
might have been.
I'VE have. am sorry. Let us talk now
of what is to bel"
Becky, / can't give You up!''
Stop, Rex. VIII you make me regret
that my cousin sent me back in-your
care?"
4 see. It's all over. Becky, for the
sake of Aud Lang syne, tell me, is there
anything can DO to please you after
this?"
ayes. Be good to Madge. You're lucky
! to have won her
Some one met them on the platform
and called out:
Hello, good people, where've you
been-to the races?'
The girl smiled and answered: Yes. =
| The man touched his hat. glanced
back at an empty railway carriage, and
muttered:
Been in FOOLS paradise! Lady :
4 Realm.
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According to the Talmud.

It would appear the rabbis of south
ern Russia have just revived an old law
Of Talmud. According to this law,
when a married man leaves for a
war, he must grant to his wife a con-
ditional divorce, to be put into force
if he does not return within a reason
able time. All the married soldiers of
Ledz have had to carry out this for
mula before leaving for Manchuria.
Each one has left with the rabbi his
name, address, age, height, and any
special marks about him, and if after
a certain fixed time he does not put
in an appearance the wife will obtain
her dispensation from the rabbi, and
will have the option of marrying again
as soon as she pleases. Smiths
Weekly.
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Big Profits.

Immediately after the great fire in
Baltimore some leading society women
of the city opened lunch counter estab-
lishments to supply middag refresh
ments for business men until better ar
rangements could be made. The enter
prises have paid such handsome diri-
dends that the society women have de-
clded to keep on, turning over to sun
ordlnates the actual work of running
the eating houses.
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BICYCLES in France

According to an official statement
just published, 1,Sto,223 bicycles were
taxed in France in 1903, being to3, 481
more than in 1902. The department of
the Seine Paris had the largest num-
Der (244,386), and Corsica the small
est (337. The number Of motor cy-
cles was 1886, and of automobiles
1896.
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name ! carry about with me from one
years end to another! Rebecca Bruce.
Can you imagine anything more try
ing than that?"
Trying? For my part, I think Re-
becca charming. Excuse me-nothing
personal. reallyl AS for Bruce, that
name appeals to me Whenever |
hear ii, think of the gentleman Of his
tory who toyed with the spider, don't
you know! He, I believe, mad bald
head2 50 have y, and"
Lord LughtoR. you're making fun of
me. It isn't nv fault that my names
Rebecca 2ruce"
1t is!'
"Oh, you surely
Exactly! | don't forget that you've
refused me twice already. Ii you
don't like your name, why don't you
change it2 Change It for mine!a
Let as tslk Of something else
pleaseI-
Very well. But think It over. /
\ see yoGf tlcket's for ascot. I'm going
on to the links. Let me know your
answer, for the last time, before you
get off shall never ask you for one
again
Give me a week to consider it,
mo. You've had plenty of time to
consider it. Now, what shall we talk
about? We've Just II minutes left
t'HoW's your sister,
"Flourishing, thanks. BY the way.
she and Todd have just Strengthened
things up"
'.What-are they-engaged?"
Eyes. The announcements to be
made soon. He's an awful decent
chap Don't know of anyone else I'd
rather see Madge marry"
The girl leaned back in her up
holstered chair.
a guard sang lastily: Next station,
Ascot"
Lord Lugton sat gazing out at the
scenery, and in an off-hand question
ing way said: "Well?"
The magazine that Rebecca Bruce
j had been reading when he entered the
gIoyed hand to the floor. - Half an
hour later a man picked it up, and
discovered between its pages bunch
of withered violets. He glanced about
10 see that no one was looking, and
then he placed the flowers in an in
side pocket. His name was Todd. He
was leaving the golf club for Ascot
AS the train moved out he saw his
future brother-in-law SPEEDING toward
The links as if gliding on air, He was
thinking of Lord Lughton's reply when
he, Todd, had wished the other luck
In the afternoons match Lughton had
said:
Thanks, old boy! See you later.
I'm in paradise fit Tor the gods."
Todd wondered what he meant He
was soon to know. Afterwards he
wondered how it was that he had not
understood The races had COM
menced when he reached his destina-
ton. He was Just in time to get a
lift on friends drag. The friend
happened to be y cousin of Miss Re
becea Bruce. The first thing he said,
after they had settled in their re-
spective places, was:
Heard the news, Todd? Becky s
engaged to Lughton!'
Todd had not heard. He smiled half
ironically as Becky's cousin Eent On
sLughton's an awful good sort! I'm
tickled 10 death about II! You know
Beckyts life hasn't been bed Of roses,
and she is such a little trump! I'm
awfUliy fond Of Becky"
The man understood the young tel
lows enthusiasm. No, life had ser
tainly not been a bed Of roses Tor the
girl who was To make the most brill
liant match Of the season. Todd knew
that. The poverty stricken man
s1nothered y sigh as he turned to his
companion ara asked:
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LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS MAD
Occupants of the Circular Structure
on Minot Ledge Lose Their
Reason.

Reason.
The Minot ledge is famed for the
number Of men who have gone crazy
in it, and for that reason is an object
of interest to students of mental dis
eases. It is, as everybody knows, says
the Chicago Chronicle, a piece of en-
cheering of the highest order, being
in that respect only second to the IA
nous Eddystone light. More than a
year was consumed in getting a
foundation for it and SO high are the
tides and SO terrific the storms that
the entrance to the light is more than
10 feet above the water.
Then, one above the other, come the
five rooms occupied by the keepers
and used for storage purposes, and
then the Watchroom, and, finally, the
lantern. The tower being circular,
and space greatly N demand, naturally
everything is made to conform, SO
that no room shall be lost. Even the
beds on which the men sleep are
curved. The tables against the walls
are circular, and the benches are half
moons. Everything is round.
In this lighthouse there have been
at least five We1l-marked cases of in
sanity, and others in which madness
has been suspected, and the men re-
feVed from duty Experts in mental
diseases who have made a study OF
conditions az TFa nfiuof Tod 90 Iiubf o4
tribute the unusual prevalence of in
sanity There to its peculiar form OF
structure. There is no point, they
say, on which the eye may rest. SO il
travels round and round in madden
ing Whirl.
They therefore suggest that some
means be devised for filling up the
curves and producing corners and an
giles. In support OF their theory they
cite instances OF men who have lost
their mental balance during long con-
fnement ID circular prisons. but have
quickly regalned it on being trans
ferred to an ordinary room Of corners
and angles.
Baron TTenck spent much of his
time in prison making marks and cor
ners to break the circularity of his
surroundings and kept his reason
from slipping away on the mad Whirl
Of encircling walls Casanova, an Ital-
ian engineer, who was imprisoned in
q, round tower. gives much the same
testimony. He says he felt great
mental relief On being moved TO an
ordinary square room.
As it is Well-nigh impossible to
make much change in the form Of
the structure Of the Minot ledge light
house, the number Of men in charge
of it has been increased to five in Or
der that they may have frequent
leaves from duty, and take turns in
going ashore for visit to family and
friends. This system has resulted in
a decrease in the number of cases OF
me1ancholia and more serious mental
disorders.
In fact, but for the frequent changes
made in the service by shifting men
from one station to another, the num-
Der of cases of this sort everywhere
would be much greater than it is. In
some cases a man is kept in a place
for only a few months, and then sent
to some less isolated station fol
awhile.
To give the men something to think
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Japs Speak Russian

Most japanese officers, and many of
the men, can speak Russian. There has
been a professorship of the Russian Ian
guage at the School Of War in Toxic
ever since 1882. There is another at the
University of Toxic, where the pro
fessor Of late years has been a Muscovite
by birth, named Kerder, who is now a
naturalized japanese.
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was His Wife a Fiqhtert

Its terribly slow here wrote the
war correspondent to his wife; 7
haven't actually seen any lighting since
I left home. ..-Yonkers Statesman.
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NotFatal.

Patients there anything serious the
matter with my eyes?
Oculist-Oh, no, you'll get overit. You
have office seekers squint;;' there's an
epidemic of it in the country at present.
Detroit Free Press.
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Still Insin11ating

Bill-A man wouldn't expect to be
cheated in church; now, would he?
Jill-No, not unless he was mar
ried there.-Yo nkers Statesman.
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When one Fails.

Surely he is a failure who dies without
at some time having been referred to
as .sthe cynosure of all eyes. - Chicago
Record-Herald.
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head Again.

The last survivor of Balaklaya has
died again. At Denver this time.
There are only a few Of them left
Indianapolis News.
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A Glass dashboard.

From a purely sanitary standpoint
there is no dashboard equal to the
one made Of glass-especialy if there
is sickness in the house.
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Iisa strous Omission.

Togo still has the reputation Of be-
ing the Dewey Of the japanese navy.
The Russian navy doesn't seem 70
have any Dewey somerFiIIe Journal.
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AS High as He Went.

Gov. Hayward, of South Carolina,
tells a joke about a young Bostonfan
who was visiting New York city and
had occasion to go into the Park Row
building. On reaching the twenty
sixth story, which is the highest,
everybody except the Bostonian left
the car.
rs this as high as you go?" asked
the young man.
Eyes, sir, unless the elevator falls, -
answered the truthful elevator man.
m Y. Times
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Easily Pleased Then.

Nell-so their engagement is off?
BELIEVES. She says he was too hard
o please.
That's funny. He must have changed
since he proposed to her. philadelphia
Ledger.
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Obesity Cure.

From the present outlook high prices
are going to serve lot Of people as
an obesity cure. Chicago News.
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Once II q while

It sometimes happens that q father
knows almost as much as his son
Chicago Daily News.