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School House Architecture.
rom the Los Angeles Express.

From the Los Angeles Express.
Even the inartistic will commend the
avowed purpose Of the board OF education
improved architectural appearance The
day is past, in this country. for slavish
adherence to conventionaism There was
a time. in certain sections, when all dwell
ings were painted white and had gable
roofs and green blinds. and all school
houses, If they aspired to the dignity Of at
least four rooms. were shaped like a dry
goods box. Possibly a school house that
does not by its outward appearance betray
it's purposes could be designed it could
really be as useful the conventional pat
tern. To vary the architecture of these
public buildings in such way TO con-
form to surroundings and improve the APP
move much of the popular prejudice of
property owners against the immediate
presence of a school house.
Naturally, the man who has put several
thousand dollars into a dwelling is averse
to the placing next to his property a star
ing. straight and prim school house with
barren yard. He may object, also, to the
noise OF playing children, but every man
must take his share of that If II may be
granted that childhood cannot be suppress
ed altogether. let us agree that other fea-
lures of the public schools can be made
unobjectionable BY all means make the
eXteriors of the school houses as attractive
as possible. not only for the pupils and for
the neighbors, but to crafty the sight Of
The chance wayfarer.
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from the open kitchen door behind the boy,
he saw that he was swathed in bandages
as If he had been hurt in some way, he
stopped in astonishment For an instant
the sight took his mind wholly from his
own trouble. He did not notice Hubbard,
who was sitting in his shadow.
why, Billy, what's the natter" he said,
in distressed astonishment.
Hubbard turned as II the editors voice
had been a gunshot. Now he was at bay.
"Oh, nothin' much" said Billy, bravely.
1.-The press got fresh and kicked me
that's all,'
How did 1t happen?" demanded selkirk
hurrying up to him.
"Oh, 1 don't know" said Billy. Its
just
Then the boy caught sight of Hubbard's
face and stopped
Selkirk also saw him then, and would
have greeted him had it not been for the
amazing expression of his face. All the
hatred that had been simmering in Hub
bard's brain for months was shown in 1t;
all the vicious passions all the jealousy and
strong, reasonlesS resentment.
Hello HUBBARD Selkrk said. after he
had recovered somewhat from the surprise
which had been caused by the look upon
his face.
Hubbard made no answer. For an in
slant his only thought was to vent his hate
and his muscles worked convulsively. like
an animals before a spring. Selkirk looked
at him without understanding.
Whats the matter?'' he said.
1t was a night of mysteries.
Without warning Hubbard sprang for
him, and, taking Selkirk unawares, bore
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Safer Games Than Chess.
From the Lafayette Gnd.l Journal.

FROM the Lafayette llnd.) Journal.
Checkers is less dangerous game than
chess. Few checker players go crazy. al
though many are crazy to play. A safer
game than any of them is seven-up, and
there is nothing the matter with four hand
ed euchre. And then there are cribbage
and sixty-six, both of which are almost en-
tirely safe, very few cribbage or sixty
six players ever get more than half crazy,
and then only when they lose seven or eight
games in succession. But perhaps the game
that allows the most latitude for vigorous
kicking without in any way affecting the
mentality of the kicker is the game of
spade-hearts, occasionally played by in
ferior players at the Lincoln Club in Bos-
ton and other places down east, where the
game originated. A man must be of sound
mind to be able to play spade-hearts. He
can't keep the queens off of him If he gets
ratified. and a queen counts twice as much
against him as a jack. king or any other
heart. Men of ugly tempers never play
the game. To be a good player one must
be cheerful. loser and keep still about it.
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understood in Washington than here. The
truth is the men at Panama use every
means possible TO get what they want for
their work. Some OF the employees even
take money out OF their own pockets and
buy at the stores. trusting TO be paid back
In the future. The French supplies and
machinery on hand have been of enormous
value, and the French warehouses are ran
sacked to supply many deficiencies.
A Business Administration.
Indeed the enormous interest and working
cost of building the canal demand that It
should be pushed to completion as rapidly
as possible. We need modern business
administration, with modern business meth
DDS. We need men who will look at the
commercial side OF every proposition as
well as the technical and political sides.
In order to shorten the time We should
first adopt careful. well considered and
comprehensive general scheme of work and
then have an administration which will see
that the labor material and machinery
necessary to vigorously prosecute that work
are promptly furnished
This means that we must have one-man
power at the head of all things connected
with the construction of the canal, and that
this power must be on the ground with
ability to meet emergencies and with au-
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outside. This costs on the average about
50 per month. In addition there are many
other expenses. so that all told. one makes
much less here than at home
THE truth IL. the salary of a trained
nurse at Panama. should be $40 $10o
per month. everything included. / think
the nurses would be satisfied with s75. but
considering the work. the risk to health and
the distance from home. 500 month IS
little enough. Such salary would raise
the standard of the nurses here. and would
bring the best. AS 1t is now We are paid
too little. Indeed we set SO per week
when we nurse IN private families iR tho
United States, and that usually in rich
families where the comforts are far greater
than here"
How many nurses are there at Pan
ama?"
'I-should say about forty. and OF these
two-thirds are Americans and the rest Ca
nadisns. They are all fairly good, tn; II
IS claimed that the salary Is so low that
the very best American trained nurses will
not come. We have no nurses from johns
Hopkins, the University of PENNSYLVANIA
or the Blockley Training School OF Phila-
delphia. We have some from Bellevue
Hospital. New York. but none from tho
other large and weli-known hospitals Of
that city or Washington. Some OF our
nurses have served in Cuba and the Phil
ippines. and We have one who went with
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CHAPTER XIV.

CHAPTER XIV.
For a time he lurked there in the shadow.
Then. carefully he worked his way out to
the sidewalk again. and. once there, ne
waited in the gloom beneath an elm until
a man whom he did not know, and who
did not know him. passed before him sell
kirk spoke to him.
What is all the excitement about ne
incurred Tell me about this man Selkirk
whom they seem to feel so resenttul TO-
ward. What did he do?'
The stranger did so. and the manner OF
his listener astonished him, although sci
kirk did his best to act as IT MS interest,"
WIS but casual. He listened with amazed
eyes and asked only such questions as were
necessary to give him clear understand
ing of the charges which had been pre-
ferred against him. Then he turned away
into the night to think the puzzle over.
In The meantime the screen had shown
more returns but none from a distance;
Barnard had been doing what ne cou!u
with frantic ticking on his Instrument u
get figures from other points IN the as
frjot hut in the smaller towns the count
vas slow and he had nothing so lar. IN
Ton,s River and Immediately around
about Cooper had been completely oEei-
whclmcd. - -, ,,e-,o
lantern showed pictures of various sorts
some of them incongruous. me oPeidto,
was a man with fine whiskers but WIN d
small sense of pictorial fitness. Election
,,igbt wound not have been just the time
which most men would have selected loI
exhibiting pictures of the Holy Lauu' no,
tLat the crowd be then deeply interested
by scenes from the life of Christ-yet Illus
trations of them, highly colored, were
flashed upon the screen. But they pleaseu
the children, and Cooper and sam Bun sa"
20 Il that the crowd gave the little ones
chance to look at them. Occasionally pc
tween them the operator showed sllgni
spasms of appreciation of the audience anu
the occasion. and flashed crudeiy woroeu
and written campaign sentiments IKE;
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Food and Consumption.
From the London Post.

FROM the London Post.
What are the kinds of food which pre-
dispose to phthisis and which are they that
tend to ward 1T Off There are probably
few authorities who would be In accord
on this point, but as an individual view the
paper read by DR.. A. n. Bell before the
last international congress on tuberculosis
is worthy of attention.
DR.. Bell maintains that the food impera-
lively necessary is "fat"-and the average
amount needed by a healthy adult is two
ounces. He gives some very curious ex-
amples of the influence of abstention or
partial abstention from fat on the part
of races which had become used to it. In
the case of the North American Indians
their food used to be almost exclusively
the fat game which they hunted and killed
in such a manner as to retain the blood
and the earliest records of consumption
among them are contemporary with the at
tempted methods of civilizing them, re-
stricting their game supplies and educating
them up to an excess Of farinaceous food.
Education also, we may point out, induced
them to wear clothes and live In houses,
and these are causes which also might
have predisposed them to tuberculosis.
Again, says Dr. Bell, consider the case of
the aborigines of New Zealand. Till fifty
years ago they were cannibals, eating
their captives in war, and consuming be-
sides an enormous quantity of fat pork.
Dogs also composed part of their dietary
They were remarkable for their physical
development and exemption from tubercu-
lar diseases. But soon after the introduce
ton of the potato as a staple food at
about the time mentioned tuberculosis dis
eases set in among them and have at
tanned a degree of prevalence even greater
than among the people of Ireland, where
the staple food is of the same kind. We
think, however, that In the of tubercu-
losis among the New Zealanders as among
the North American Indians, it is contact
with new bacillus to which they were
not immune-and perhaps also contact with
chief.
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ed nurses who has been employed at Ancon
for several months. Said she:
We have had great trouble in getting
thlngs or an kinds on time. When the
Americans took hold supplies were sent
down for hospital of 100 beds We have
now 300 beds in use and no proportionate
increase of supplies. This means a lack of
basins, rubber sheeting, lamps and lanterns
We have had only a few tempera ture Their
mometers. In my ward 1 had twenty-three
patients and IN order to get a thermometer
10 take their temperature I had to go to
another ward to borrow one. This was the
case in other wards and It so resulted that
In one ward no temperature was taken
from 1 pm. until am. the next day
me nurse In charge Of that ward would
have had to go out in the dark down
the hill, through the trees to another ward
to borrow a thermometer. She was afraid
and did not go. and 1 don't blame her.
Such thermometers cannot cost more than
80 cents apiece at wholesale.
Another thing we needed but could not
get, the nurse went on, was absorbent
cotton and gauze. We ordered 1t from the
United States, but it takes a month to
get an ordinary purchase through, and for
weeks we lacked this material to dress
wounds and drain them. We used old mos
quito netting for time, and also bought
cheese cloth of the Panama stores and
tried that The cheese CLOTH contained
starch, and when it became dry. it would
make covering over the wound standing
out from it. do not know that any injury
resulted from this, but 1t was certainly a
great annoyance to the doctors and
nurses
How about drug supplies" I asked
I'VE have been short of a number of i'm
| portant medicines at times. We have been
entirely out of arsenic, strychnine potash
| and digitalis, and also of IRON iodine and
similar drugs. One of the medicines we
use is the elixir of quinine, iron and
strychnine. We were once out of that for
weeks, and it was the same with Fowler
| solution of arsenic"
Nurses at Panama.
What kind of position is that of
| trained nurse at Panama."
| 1T is not an easy one and it is poorly
| paid was the reply. I'VE nurses came
| here on the understanding that we should
| have all our expenses and $50 a month.
| we get $50 but there are SO many Incl
| dentals that there IS very little of our
! pay left at the end of the month We
| live at Ancon and have to have a cab
| every time We go to Panama to shop. This
| costs us about dollar time, and the re-
| suit is from IS to $40 a month goes in cab
| fares And then the washing. Only the uni
! forms can be done up at the hospital laun-
| dry. and all the small articles that
woman must have, such as handkerchiefs.
laces, fine dresses, ETC., must be washed
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lifted hand holding a thick cane, from be-
hind the trio and toward Selhirk.
"Oh. jack Look out!' said Mercy, quite
involuntarily.
1t was too much for the young mans
self-control, and like an animal al bay he
whirled and sprang for his assa.ldnt Coop
stepped between them.
Hold on there Mr.. Selkirk,'' he said,
calmly, you can't strike any guest on my
placer
Then he glanced at Mercy, who, not ten
feet away. leaning anxiously forward,
watching. She did not speak again, but her
lips were open, and her wide eyes, even in
the darkness. showed that she was wrought
up beyond measure. Coopers face as he
looked at her and then at Selkrk was 50
set and stern that it hardly seemed as If II
could be that of the same good-natured old
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thority to act without the delay incident
to making reports to some other authority
1000 miles away and without wasting one
or two months of waiting before any i'm
portant individual move can be made.
1t means that the ordinary restrictions or
our routine government work should be
modified, and that those which prevail In
our great railroads and other business in
situations should take their place 1t means
the abolition of the red tape which now
holds to such work, and that everything
should be done to hurry on the completion
of the canal at the earliest possible mo-
ment. 1t means that we should have the
best and the most improved machinery,
that no time should be wasted in expert
menting, and that only machinery which
has been in actual use and has stood the
test of actual service should be employed.
This is the idea of the engineers here, and
as 1 have shown. in describing the handling
of the Culebra cut, it will make possible
the completion of the canal in a compare
lively short time.
1t seems to me that If a like the
chief engineer were given entire charge
of the work at Panama, with a large
enough contingent fund to meet every pos
sible emergency and with the authority to
act in emergencies, far the isthmus is
concerned: and If at the same time a man
of similar ability and training could be
placed under the Secretary of War and the
President at the Washington end of the line
the canal would go jumping from now on
to the finish. This, of course, means con-
sulting and advisory engineers for Mr.. Wal
lace, and it also means plenty of assistance
for the at the other end, with the
President at the head the boss Of the
whole
A Kick From a Trained Nurse.
Some of the most serious delays, caused,
I suppose by advertisements for bids have
been in supplying the hospitals. Several
of the doctors have told me that they have
been out of important drugs for a consd-
cradle time, but 1t was not until this morn
ing that had a detailed statement as to
the lack of medical and surgical necessities
My informant is one of the American train
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Misunderstood.
Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
And do you like Wagner" asked the
young lady with the piano-fattened fingers
Il don't know him. replied the country
aunt, bluntly.
"Oh, l just adore him. Why, I have
been several hours every day with him for
the last five years.
.Tha country aunt held up her hands.
"Gyacious! And aren't you married yet?"
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like three thousand houses here. The other
day an order was sent to Washington for
twelve thousand doors to be forwarded i'm
mediately. The Panama department of ma
terials and supplies advised that they be
purchased in the open market; but one of
the commissioners tells me that they would
not dare to do so, for Congress would surely
investigate such outrageous action.
Other orders have been made for picks and
skovels, others for water pipe, machinery,
large and small, and for hundred other
things which the work imperatively needs;
but ships come and ships go, and the sup
were sent in for blue print paper months
ago. All drawings and engineering reports
are copied on this paper, and 1t is almost a
necessity to the furtherance of the work
l suppose it will come in time.
AS to the waffle irons and muffin tins.
made much of in one congressional investi-
cation, they were probably the part of a
furniture order. The United States gives
quarters to its American employees 1t has
already bought four hunderd or more sets
of furniture for this purpose. 1t will need
ALI sorts of ranges and kitchen supplies, and
suppose the Miss Nancys of Congress will
demand that each stove lid and stove holder
be duly advertised for competitive bids.
while In the meantime good American
laborers may do their cooking on splits
AS far as l can there Is no extraya-
gance here. The chief kicks among the men
at the top are not on account of personal
discomfort. but from the delay which oc-
Luis Al iHS l1Nh VI lUOlS IOr eXDeditinO
their work.
The Twelve Whitewash Brushes.
Indeed all sorts of stories are told here AT
Panama as to how red tape works in tho
government service. A very pertinent one
which, however, 1 do not believe, is the
story of the twelve whitewash brushes. Ac-
cording to this one of the sanitary officers
in the middle of the zone had sent in an
order fo- twelve men to come to his station
to do some embarrassing to make the place
sanitary and at the same time he sent in a
requisition for twelve whitewash brushes
The men came all right, but the order for
the whitewash brushes had to pass through
the government mills and the clerks in
charge first mailed query to the sanitary
agent as to whether nine whltewash brushes
would not do quite we'll He replied that
they would not, and in the course of two
days the extra three brushes arrived Mean
while three men had been waiting for a
chance to get in their work, and their wages
footed up many times the cost Of the
brushes.
/ might also tell the story of a feather
buster upon which bids are alleged to have
been gotten at the Panama shops and other
stories. but such things are only illustrative
of government methods which are better
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CHAPTER XVI.

1.-The thing for you to do, said Cooper to
the editor, when they were talking matters
over after the crowd had gone home happy
and as much was known as would be for
that night. sis to let Jake Musser foreclose
on that press. 1t amt worth much, Jest now,
to no one
Betsey, who was sitting by and listening
with a smile, now yielded to an impulse that
had been struggling in her bosom for some
time. Up over her head her apron went and
she rocked back and forth quite desperately.
while the others looked at her amazed.
He can't foreclose," said she. He ain
got no claim on 1t. It's me that will have
that press lyin useless on my hands If Jack
won't help me out in some way!'
The two men looked at her in sheer amaze
ment; but before long she managed to con-
troll her mirth long enough to tell the tale
of her interview with Musser when Sam
Bull and the clergyman were with her.
Roldlv. and without asking for her leave,
Selkirk marched across the room and took
her in his arms.
you amt got nothing to forgive her for, y
said Cooper. slowly, after moments pause,
but l don't suppose l could git you to
shake hands with me-.
He could. and did.
Mercy, shy and trembling. had already
begged for her forgiveness and received 1t.
For a time Selkrks wrath had risen high
against Hubbard. but the man had done
the best ne could after having done the
worst. The whole story OF the conspiracy
TO wreck COOper'S election and Selkirk' S
name for decency had been revealed; but
the miserable tale had. at Selkirk's own
suggestion, been told where Billy could not
hear II. The man had been grateful for
that They had even let him carry the boy
amazed but happy after all-up to his bed.
the mother and new-found wife following,
and mixing tears and smiles behind
When the group left in the sitting room,
tired but happy, decided that it would be
unwise to wait for dawn before they FOL
| lowed suit, Betsey looked around her to
! find Bess.
Where is the grip" she said.
Jack had been standing at the door with
| Mercy.
II think" said he, that she Is out there
| with Frank Barnard. They are pretending
to take the lanterns down. but they seem
| to be searching for the lights strangely
| enough only in those places where the shad-
| ows fall the thickest"
| Cooper rose and stood beside him with
his hand upon his shoulder. Selkirk point
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IF woman's heart is in the right place
II doesn't make such a sight of difference
to the men whether her hat Is on straight
or not but it does to her women friends.-o
Jacksonville Times-Union.
Once young fellow named rs
Asked KS If she'd be his ms.
I'm sorry to SITS
I'm married" said KS.
And such was the young fellows fS
London Tit-Bits.
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Quite So.
From the Philadelphia Ledger,

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Mrs Nearby-rm SO glad you've got such
a Sood servant
Mrs. Hunter-Good?
Mrs Nearby-Why, yes: your husband
says she works like lightning.
Mrs. Hunter-Exactly. She leaves ruin
and disorder behind her.