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Great importance of
School Sanitation
From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.


The result of inquiry by the state board
of health of New York as to the spread
of contagious diseases by the public schools
is report which places upon the authorl-
ties Of cities. towns and villages the duty
Of safeguarding the public against the dan
gers incident to the congregation OF chill
dren under the compulsory school law. The
report says that "in guarding the state
against the evil of allowing these children
to grow up In ignorance we expose 1t to
other evils which every health officer who
has to deal with the filthy, ignorant and
superstitious foreign element which we are
now taking into the body polite ought to
appreciate"
The duty of school sanitation is one that
cannot be safely ignored. Where a thou
daily for five or six hours. the best pos
sble ventilation should be maintained. and
absolute cleanliness established by careful
sweeping of the floors in the class rooms
and the corridors, and daily busting and
wiping of the furniture The New York
board of health advises fumigation with
formaldehyde gas when conditions are
tably bad, but this would not be necessary
in the average school that Is well kept in
other respects.
made compulsory imposes responsibilities
upon the school authorities to the con-
ditions of health among the pupils. and
thus in a measure indorses the policy OF
medical inspection which has been estab-
lished in New York city, where conditions
are more dangerous than elsewhere be-
cause of the congestion, not only In the
schools, but in the tenements In which
many of the children reside. Although
happily these conditions are not general In
American centers of population. school au
thorites everywhere should be on the alert
to prevent the spread of diseases
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Contraband Liquor
Is Thrown Away

Tom d, KANSAS City Star.
At the southwest corner of the Federal
Court building in Muskogee, Ind. r. the
brick wall furnishes the buffer for Bud"
Lrdbetter in action, and there thousands
OF gallons OF liquor, from the finest cham
payne of the lowest grade of beer, have
teen spilled y spadeful of soil from that
sro, burned in the fire will give off an odor
OF burning alcohol. If the glass of broken
bottles were allowed TO remain there would
Dee pile half as high as the courthouse
itself
Uuder the law. when an officer finds
Al-or IL Indian Territory he must confiscate
and destroy 1t. Ledbetter is special
officer, whose duty it is to suppress boot
lcsslHs lie has come nearer breaking it
up than any other man in Indian Territory,
but even he is at this time more or less
discouraged To keep liquor out of d town
OF =-,~n population. with five railroads in
the city. in addition to having half q hun
urcd other towns in his district, is not
small matter. especially when bootiegger
can double his money or every quart of
whisky he can get into the territory, and
when profit and thirst create genfuss in
the art Of getting liquor past the marshdlS.
When Ledbctter finds any considerable
quantity Of liquor he gets dray hauiS the
stun to this corner of the old courthouse
and destroys IL by hurting the bottles
against the brick wall Ledbcttcr in action
always draws big and thirsty crowd. All
are willing To assist, with the hope of being
able TO get away with one bottle without
Ledbettcr seeing them. Often liquor runs
in a stream down the gutter and negroes
will kneel down and drink it. When this is
done match is applied SO that flames will
spread over the top of the liquor soaked
ground. This keeps the negroes Off, no
matter how thirsty.
The courthouse corner was selected be-
cause it is sheltered from the wind in the
winter and there Is a large shade tree val
ucd IN the summer. How much whisky has
been spilled there Ledbetter does not know,
but he says there have been thousands OF
gallons. He has figures to show that dur
Ing the last three years he has confiscated
10000 gallons of liquor, worth at Indian
Territory prices, $4,000.
Bud Ledbetter is ffty-four years old, n
sjX-footer, and weighs more than two hum
cred, He has been an officer for twenty
five years and has never been seriously
wounded in fight. He has been deputy
marshal in Indian Territory for thirteen
gears and is considered the best field deputy
L. the country. He made his reputation at
that reckless period when the fight for su-
TrcTacy was on between the government
officers and the gangs of outlaws which in
:ested Indian Territory.
Since the outlaw days are past Ledbetter
had been specially detailed to break up
the liquor business. He has worked faith
fully a it for three years. and. while he
has not suppressed ii entirely, it is harder
10 get drink In Muskogee today than
IL ever was before. and that. too In spite
o: the greatly increased population. He can
Ind liquor where no one else would ever
think Of it
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The Powerful Influence of Love as 1t is Seen in Antrim

begun to ask questions and after we'd been
sitting there awhile she was some able
and informed. Old man Redmond he told
her all about the cattle that was wearing
his brand and the ranches he owned
the same being some numerous-and the
money he had in bank. And the more he
talked the more Daisy seemed to take to
him till it come that they was both sitting
on one side of the table, and Redmond
he was a snickering and whickering like
a two-year-old.
Gentlemen, it was that way for a
week, and then we bought a present for
the lady, which was Mrs. Redmond, and
hit the trail for home.
The mayor paused and shook his head
at me, regretful like.
The old man wasn't never the same
after that, Sanger he said. Him which
had got on with the lady which was Mrs.
Redmond. he begun to buck jump some.
There was nothing pleased him. and he be-
gun to find fault, lively and continual.
Mrs. Redmond hadn't never been no prize
package so far's her face was concerned,
and travelling the trail of life, with him
close and adjacent, hadn't improved it
none And it hadn't made her no younger
neither, sitting up nights wondering
whether he was coming home, ambling
and conscious or stretched and unknowing.
1t sure hadn't
Then one day it busted loose. Old man
Redmond he come to me and he says,
arguing and persuasive. BILL he says,
lit amt right for young and frisky per-
son like me to be htched up close and
forever with an old woman like Mrs. Red
mond. 1t amt rightly natural"
"''Look here. Redmond l says. L
thought you was some solder than her
Gentlemen, he flushed up some. He got
right peevish. Bill" he says. its all in
the way you feel. Before l met Daisy
was getting old ahead of time, and Mrs.
Redmond she's that way now
you're right, l says and anyhow
Mrs. Redmond amt never done nothing
but mend your socks and sit up nights for
you. and brace you up when you went
wrong and keep you straight all the time
and nurse you when you was sick and
such like. Amt that right
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n RESIDENT ROOSEVELT as a noun
taineer has not been much heard of,
but he is among those present says
the Boston Herald.
He has been elected an honorary MEM
Der of the American Alpine Club, the sig
nifcance of this being that no amount of
distinction in other lines will go there.
To get in at all. even as an honorary mem
Der, one must show evidence of having
done things" which in the American AL
pine Club only means climbing high noun
tains. really high mountains.
The Presidents proposal for membership
in the club brought out a side of his &C
tivities never suspected by the seasoned
cragsmen whose votes were sought for
the President of the United States. One
of these veterans objected.
This is a club of mountain climbers
he said in effect. "A man may be Won
der in other fields of effort, but unless he
has climbed at least one frst-class peak
he is nowhere so far as we are concerned.
| yield to no one in my loyalty as a Roose-
welt republican, but must withhold my
vote for him as d member of the American
Alpine Club.
"One moment" interjected the proposer
Let me tell story.
dent he was proposed for membership in
the English Alpine Club and much the
same objection was urged, until one of the
members related an experience he had in
the Alps several years previously.
The Alps story hogan in Zermatt. at
the foot of the Matterhorn, which Is GER
tainly a first-class peak. This Englishman
said that he got interested in a stout. red
faced American who was Tuning around
the hotel at the weather, which prevented
an immediate assault on the Matterhorn.
Are you familiar with high mountain
cIimbng?' asked the Englishman.
mo said the stout, etc, American.
But it's largely matter of sand and
intelligence, / guess, and the guides Will
do the rest I'll climb that peak If 1t takes
all summer.
1.-The next day. or few days after, the
weather cleared, and the American was
missing for two days. only 10 show up
again more disgruntled than ever
They tell me the Natterhorn doesn't
count he observed in reply to congratuia-
tions proffered when it was learned that
he had reached the summit of the peak.
What are you going to do about it?'
was asked of the American.
Climb EN- all, if necessary was the
prompt yeply. AT any rate, I've list of
their horns as they cali them, and will
begin on some of them this week.
Arrangement was made by the English
mar that the American should advise him
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own and other studies of the range. 1t is
the difficult but picturesque portion of the
Rocky mountains, avoided on that account
by the transcontinental railroads, and thus
off the usual lines of travel.
He summarizes the High Sierras' as a
single block of the earth's crust pushed
upward highest on its eastern edge. Inc
block is, roughly, 800 miles long north and
SOUTH and at its southern extremity about
forty-fve miles wide, widening out at
Mt Shasta, at its northern extremity,
to about eighty miles. The popularity Of
its tipping from one edge, the eastern.
gives it, according to the professor, Its
special character. The eastern side Is thus
a steep, high rise out of the prairies, the
western slope a relatively long, slow de-
cline. About 90 per cent of the surface
of the range is assigned to this western
slope toward the Pacific ocean.
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Safe Travelling for Women in Cuba.


Mrs. C. R. Miller in Leslies Weekly.
There may be people who do not like
Havana, with it's gayety, its clean streets.
it's fascinating shops and its attractive
cafes, but they must be counted among
the pesslmists who find fault with any and
every condition in life. 1 fingered long in
this beautiful tropical Paris, and every
day visited some part of the city. always
going alone, mingling among the rich and
the poor. In many instances my camera
must have appeared impertinent, as l pho
tographed the natives after l had literally
held them up In a manner l would not
have dreamed of doing in the states, yet
1 received nothing but kindness and cour-
tesy from both Spaniard and Cuban. But"
said the croaker, wait until you get into
the interior, and then the temper of the
people will be quite different" So on l
wenty stopping in small towns seldom-visit-
ed by strangers and perhaps never by
foreign woman alone, mingling with the ma
tives, whose jargon was as Ineligible to
me as the moaning of the sea. yet not even
the sembance of insult was noticeable.
Several times was the only woman on the
train, and met few English speaking peo-
pie. At Camaguey I never saw white
woman on the street, except one night
when. the band played on the plaza, and
during the day only few female negroes
who seemed to be marketing.
For days I wandered alone through the
narrow, crooked streets of the old town,
making pictures of whatever caught my
fancy secretly hoping for some excitement.
and that the American flag might be torn
down in my presence or that l might at
least be hooted as a detested Americana.
1t never occurred, I went from town to
town alone and unprotected, doing exactly
as l pleased with sense of security not
felt In some large cities of this states
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Mount Shasta and Mounts Fujiyama,
Asamayana and other peaks in Japan.
Prof Roger B. Merriam of Cambridge
made first-class ascents in the Swiss and
Italian Alps.
Prof. E. c. Pickering of the Harvard OBJ
servatory made researches in meteorology
at high attitudes and has climbed the
Andes.
A. Lawrence Rotch of Boston also made
researches in high altitude meteorology in
Europe and South America, and has to
his credit numerous ascents, in particular
of Mount Blanc.
George Marston Reed of Newton made
numerous ascents in the Canadian Selkirk
range
George N. Whipple of Boston negotiated
the ascents of the Matterhorn, the jung
frau and the Wetterhorn in Switzerland.
New England claims. in addition to the
following Librarian George T. Little of
Bowdon College who made many ascents
in the Selkirk range; Miss Annie S. Peck
of Providence, r. l.. famous for ascents
of the Swiss and Italian Alps, the Rockies
in the United States and Mexico and the
Andes; Prof. H. A. Perkins of Hartford,
who scaled the Matterhorn and Mount
Blanc and made explorations in Iceland.
William II. Workman and Mrs. Fannie
Bullock Workman of Worcester are also in
the list. They made ascents in the Swiss
and Italian Alps and the Himalayas, Mrs.
Workman having the record Of the high
est ascent ever made.
OF mountaineer clubs, the Appalachian
of Boston has by far the largest member
ship, now about 1000. There is a large
sprinkling of social members, who go on
outdoor excursions, walks or summer out
ings, but rarely attempt real cragsmen's
work The Sierra Club of San Francisco
has 1000 members, made up the same way
"a small nucleus of mountain climbers
proper and a large number of men and
women interested in the sport. but not at
tempting the more serious phases.
The Mazamas of Portland, Oregon, has
about $50 members, almost wholly noun
tain climbers. fairly stiff record of as
cents being imposed as condition of
eligibility. The Canadian Alpine Club of
Winnipeg has about 100 members, scat
tered all over Canada. Membership is
conditioned only interest in mountain
exploration. without requirements in actual
climbing. The club makes specially of
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Owe" remarked the Hon. Bill
Sanger sheriff of Arnm, lis
plumb eevating some times
IL and other times it amt. But
always it keeps you busy and
occupied in the head. One-eyed Manuel,
which was planted yesterday by subscrip-
ton he was that way. He didn't amount
to much. being a Greaser, but that don't
make no difference. Love is right general
and rromisCuous.
Love sure does change people, too. even
If it don't poster them similar and alike.
Old men get young when they have 1t.
and young men get old and middle aged
men do both. occasional and different. One
eyed Manuel which l was speaking about.
it sure changed him. Before he got that
way there wasn't nobody more peaceful
and behaved. He never pestered nobody
except when the Mescal was going round.
free and continuous, and even then 1t
didn't make no real difference. because
mostly he knitted another Greaser.
But when love come Looping into camp
Manuel he swung on his cinch and lit out
for the bad lands. The lady she liked
somebody else and she showed it, swift and
unCaring After that Manuel got to
ambling round by himself coversing fluent
and ventilated with his cayuse and look
ing some hurt and irritated when anybody
come within half a mile. But this wasn't
minded none to speak of till day
Manuel he gave some back talk to a cow
gentleman which was feeling peevish and
jumpy-the same not having been to bed
for some days-and afterward everybody
put dollar in the hat 10 have Manuel
planted proper and cultured. We all felt
sort of sorry for him. account of this here
love which kept him pestered in his mind.
But 1t wasn't worrying about Manuel
that made me start this fool line of talk.
! don't rightly reckon he's got a kick COM
ing anyhow and besides. he find lots of
company. situated similar and precise when
Ire gets to the end Ct the long trail over
the range. Why just the other day there
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Kansas Fine Senate Chamber.
From the Topeka Capital.

Kansas has. with the exception of New
York. and possibly Pennsylvania, the finest
senatorial chamber in the country. The
Kansas senate chamber was adorned so
lavishly that $4,000 In excess OF the ap-
preparation was spent and a scandal grew
out of the matter during Gov. John A.
Martins term of Office. Having spent SO
much on the senate chamber. the state
had nothing left with which to decorate
and furnish Representative Hail. and the
result is a cave of gloom, in which even
habitues of the place occasionally get lost.
Nobody knows who bought the house fur
niture or how much was paid for 1t, but
the impression Is that 1t was picked up at
an auction sale.
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water. But speaking of Corey, I'm re-
minded of old man Redmond, which went
out in bed quiet and unpleasant. couple
of years ago. l used to be his foreman on
the Flying X, over near the Grande, and
| guess him and Corey was some relation.
They sure did act similar and foolish
I'm making motions at Sam says
Hicks, bright and encouraging. Cut the
dust mayor and lope along
Well says the mayor. following advice
gleeful and abandoned, when old man Red
mond got married he was some young and
frisky, and he didn't have nothing except
a thirst. He was just a plumb ordinary
Cow-gentleman like the rest of us, handler
with his hardware than most and real
ready and anxious to let off steam pretty
pear any time.
But AFTER Redmond got married he
sure did brace up. At first the trail was
some winding, but after awhile it come so
he wouldn't get drunk more'n once a week,
and even then, when 1t come o'clock and
he was out with the boys, he'd just set
down his glass, whistle for his cayuse and
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Mountain climbers, as may be guessed
from the personnel enlisted in Alpine clubs
statesmen, professors, professional men
and women of all sorts-are not merely
concerned with the climbing of mountain
peaks. They study the geology. the botany
and the zoology of mountains; the rela-
lions mountains have to the weather, to
economic conditions and to health; the
light which they may throw on the geologic
history of continents, and often. also, on
their records during historic times in pre-
venting or facilitating intercourse between
nations
Swiss and Italian Alpinists have dug up
no end of history in the relations of Alpine
passes to the growth Of cities. Innspruck
and Munich, for example. became great
cities largely because of their positions at
the ends of the Brenner pass. the only
route across the Alps that is always open
to travel.
Alpha, the periodical of the American
Alpine Club, presents this month a paper
on the High Sierras of California by
Joseph N. he Conte, a California Alpinist
of renown, but also a teacher and student
of many other things. Alpha is an odd
sort of periodical In itself. 1t is the one
ton periods are irregular. 1t appears
whenever the club discovers 1t has money
enough to issue a number, provided, also.
its editor. Prof. Fay, thinks it has some
think worth printing
Other editors plan on coming out with
more or less regularity, but not so the
lord Of Alpha. Regularity is the last thing
considered. Given. however. something
deemed worth while and no pains are
spared to present the subject as 1t ought
to be, regardless of commercial consdera-
tons. If pictures are required, the best
obtainable are secured and printed as per-
fectly as printing presses can do it.
Usually Alpha has just one paper. like
the current number. The High Sierras"
is abundantly illustrated in half tones. The
text well-night exhausts the subject, Prof.
LIE Conte having made a life study of the
region in the intervals OF other labors,
and in this paper has brought together his
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Determined to Climb All the "EIorns," if Necessary
English Organization Depended on His Sand
Overcome Great Obstacles.

of any important conquests he might make.
A week later the Briton got a telegram at
Geneva. 1t ran:
Climbed Schreckhorn. Ought to hold
them.-T. Roosevelt
1T held them.'' resumed the American
Alpine Club member to the doubling
Thomases. He was promptly elected, a
man with two first-class ascents being &C
counted good enough for them"
The President was thereupon elected a
member of the American club unanimously.
When it Is LEANED that the Hon. James
Bryce, now British ambassador is MEM
Der of the British Alpine Club and an hon.
orary member of the American club. one
may ask if the Englishman in the story
ever became an ambassador to the United
States. Members who have been asked
refuse to disclose club secrets; but they do
look as if it was a near guess.
The list of honorary members of the
American Alpine Club is a short and eX-
tremely select one 1t includes the Duke
d Abruzzi one of the greatest mountain
climbers living; J. Norman Collie of Lon
DON who has a great record of aScents in
the Canadian Alps; Sir William Martin
Conway of London, mighty in the Himala-
vas; Douglas W. Freshfield, well-known
English geographer, with record in the
Caucasus; Gen. A. W. Greedy, U. S. A. !;
Rear Admiral George w. Melville. U. s. N,
and Commander Robert E. Peary, U. 8. N.
President Roosevelt and Ambassador Bryce
complete the list.
There are only fifty active members. Of
whom eight are New Englanders. All are
prominently identified with the Appa-
lachian Mountain Club. For instance:
Prof Charles E. Fay of Tufts College,
an honorary member, also, of the British
and Italian Alpine Clubs. has made numer-
Gus ascents of high peaks in the Canadian
Selkirk range and done much mountain
exploration in that region. He is a men,
Der of the Sierra Club of San Francisco,
Mazamas of Portland, Oregon, and Ca
madam Alpine Club of Winnipeg and edi-
tor of Alpha, the American Alpine Clubs
periodical.
Rest F. Curtis of the Boston schools
made many ascents in the Canadian Sell
kinks.
Roosevelt z. Lawrence of Medford, Bos-
tom lawyer, assembled and reascended
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bling my bride hand. you sure are a true
friend. You called the turn and. of course.
there amt nothing for me to do but get
a divorce. I'm going over to the railroad
now to get a train for New York. You
lope along back to the ranch. and If the
old lady cuts up any didoes, you console
her some
But the old lady she wasn't cutting
any didoes. She was Just sitting by the
window looking down toward the corral.
where a couple of cow-gentlemeu were
poetic. and she was crying, soft and gentle,
over one of them gray wooden socks that
old man Redmond used to wear. account
of his rheumatism. So l see that there
wasn't anything for me to do. and | hit
the trail thinking of old man Redmond
and cussing some frilly and ornate. Like
wise, l couldn't swallow none free and re
peated.'
What happened to Corey asked on
of the boys after we'd all liquored quick
and unremarking.
why said the mayor. he and
But says Hicks. brisk and interrupt
Ing. L thought you was talking about "lt
man Redmond all the time
Does 1t make any difference. ask tho
mayor
Not none noticeable. says Hicks
Then the mayor he waves h's hand a'
Sam, the barkeep. and we drink. Silent
and thinking.
THAT'S what 1 thought says he
l. G. y
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w Olives in Spain.

From the Echo de Paris.
Packs of famished wolves and wild boars
are terrorizng the Pampeluna district of
Spain The animals venture into the CEN
ter of the villages.
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Become Member of Famous
and Intelligence to

Canadian mountains and welcomes every
body who studies them, Prof. Fay. for
example, though an American, being
rather active member.