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New-York tribune., 1908-06-28
COPPEE'S DAILY LIFE.

He was accustomed TO 60 along the pavement;
absorbed stoop shouldered, his hands peIllhd
his rack frequently throwing them out anu up
in earnest Gallo defamation, At nome ne az
cIsin7ed-confdngly proclaimed IN lhlS ne
seemed q sort Of pendant to Sardou' VINO, ilhe-
wise a man Of the theatre, is great decIalIlier
in his everyday life. ;,,..,
I often thought OF Sardou as a InlHohaIIe.
dwelling I'D toward the high. wealthy incline ol
Northern Paris powerful and with sIrohs
+7eF7-Ing hold on existence amid MS costly tdPes-
tries and antiques. And then OF Coppee. HVlEg
hun1blv and unwell. away down on the poor plain
of southern Paris at the end of the 1ndlsent art
quarter Fortunately, however. his prohhc pen
in his later DAYS. brought him safety
He occupied fer years with his sister, nooes1
one story house in lonesome street You en-
Tered ward where the surroundings gave llttIe
frtie1atio2 Of the near presence OF one OF the
hest known Htterateurs Of France. Like Sa-dou,
~onDee was extremely friendly il his home. lie
welcomed every one, was interested in every
thing Ee talked and moved restlessly ABOUT In
: favorite red smoking Jacket which recalled the
famous RED coat of the romantic Gauter. There
were cats (he Was fond of tnenl), cigarettes ana
abundant examples Of the latest forceful slang
In country inns Coppee was sometimes taken
10 be commercial traveller. For he ldled
about smoked and told stories with every one
As sample OF his popular kind OF fun making
was his account OF his laundress who called
upon him one evening and finding him absent.
left this line: Monster, Je suis Venus avec le
lirge Stuart Henry. in The Bookman.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-28
AN ENGLISH TURF TRAGEDY.

The death Of ST. Simon. perhaps the greatest
racehcrse OF his generation. recalls almost for
gotten tragedy OF the turf Half hour befors
the race for the Two Thousand Guineas OF 1883
Prince Batthyany. who bred ST. Simon and who
was one OF the most popular racing msn OF any
time. talking with Lord Csdogan in the lunch
con room Of the Jockey Club stand az Newmarket
when he suddenly reeled and fell He was carried
10 Weatherby'S Office and doctors summoned:
but the prince beyond all human aid. and Just
before the bell rang for the for which his
colt Gaiard. brother Of St. Simon. was first favor
tte he breathed his last A few minutes later
the clear blue sky rang with cheers and shouts
the horses laundering along. which
into roar Giaillard by head. while be-
hind the drawn blinds Of Wsatherby's Office Call
iaTd's owner who had been looking forward
eagerly TO this moment, lying dead II
owing ID the death of his that CfalOpins
great could not in the Derby of 1854. which
he would almost certainly have won-'-NScnn.
ster Gazette.
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: REMARKABLE EXPERIMENT.

Il is established beyond question that horse
can be brought UP and worked more than ordi-
nary horses on milk. Furthermore. Azote
reached his maximum weight and development.
1912 pounds in the unprecedented time CT
eighteen months and ten days or an average
gain during the 533 days OF feeding of over one
and one-half pounds a day.
Ordinary horses take TWO and one-haIf years
TO reach their full weight development and their
average gain day IS less than one pound An
other astonishing fact; and one Of which he is
the only living example. is that he had all his
three -year-Cld teeth when he was two years and
two months. It would seem that the day when
the wise ones could tell the age of horse by
looking in his mouth past Now the ordi-
nary horse does not reach his full power that is,
the maximum Of what he do upon the track
until he is four five years old All the best
prizes are offered for two and three year olds
and as a horse begins carrying weight
for age his chances for grand killing" are
pretty well over. But suppose by a new method
of feeding Il colt could be made TO gain year
and while in reality only three years old have
the growth and strength of four? With this idea
OF rapid development in view the colt Azote was
bought
He taken from his mother when he was
tWenty-six DAYS old and started upon dry milk
~ received one-haf pound of the powder
mixed with two quarts Of water every two hours
and half, eight times day. Just like a
New-York tribune., 1908-06-28
FISHES FACES

Did you ever stop to exan mine the expression
on the face of a fish? L do not mean of some
VIGOROUSLY grotesque fish. but of just any plain
seafaring fish. l confess that the fascination
for me Is the same whether I stand in front
Of some great collection of little monstrosities
like that in the Naples aquarium or whether
I sit by my dining room window and contern-
plate the gold fish in my little BOYS glass bowl
People watch the monkeys at the Zoo and re-
mark how human they are, how sly and crafty
the old ones. how cute" and playful the young
ones. But for steady company give me the fish.
How restfuI they with their u1outhings. as
regular as if they were governed by a balance
Wheel How quiet, too. for not one word Of
r1urmured protest or of =chatterfng fauItfnding
do they tnfiict upon US How philosophical as
they bask in the sun the liveloug day or seek
the occasional shade OF the modest sprig OF
green's which forms the conventional garnish-
ing OF their watery abode, How easily gratided
are their simple tastes. Surely with their good
manners, their quiet department, and their
stolcal bearing gold fish are the ideal com
panions of the mature man Monkeys and dogs
and kittens may amuse the children by their
tricks and antics, but only the grown man can
appreciate the solid qualities of the fsss char
acteT as written upon his features-The Allan
tic Monthly.
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J.962 were fataI-i. e. 81 per cent: while in
1915 there We're :. All cases and only 731 deaths
i e, 9 per cent. In London IN 1894 there
were 81 .666 cases of which 1885 were fatal,
while in 1901 there were 1922 cases. of which
only $40 We're fatal In America, among 5.o!6
private cases. not in the hospitals. in 1896, only
491 were fatal Taking the cases the world
over, If may he stated that the mortality in
diphtheria has been reduced from % per cent
TO per cent.
Another application of these facts has been
made in the discovery of the use of antltoxln
in cerebro- spinal meningitis by Flexner in the
Rockefeller Institute in this city in 1901 dis
Covery Important and far reaching as thar
Of Bering
The organism causing cerebro-spinal menln--
gifts is not found in the blood. but grows ano
fourishes in the oily fluid which lies about the
nervous system and protects It from INJURY
against the bones. Il can be separated from
this fluid and can be transferred from man ["
monkeys or horses, which animals are susceP-
tible to the disease II their blood the antttoxln
is formed the disease goes on FROM that
blood. by various careful methods, II can ne
secured Wasseruann in Koch laboratory IN
Berlin had prepared antitoXIn, but II had
failed when injected into the nood. FIextlea' .i.
however. injected it into the cavity or the spine
thus reaching the oily fluid which lies about the
brain and spinal cord and in which the organ
isrns are growing. thus killing them there. II
5s necessary to runcture the spine with hollow
needle 10 draw away some of the oily Huld ana
TO throw into the spine the antItoxin through
the needle and leave II there 20 do It's work
The earlier il IS done in the disease the better
the result. The effect is seen both in a cessa-
ton Of the fever and in return 10 conscious
ness and a relief of paralysis And this effect
is Immediate so that one who yesterday was
living an unconscious, contracted inert oooy To-
dav NAV be clear of mind and comfortable
There are few diseases more dreaded by the
doctors than cerebrO-spinal menlnglus' OF
snotted fever There was no means OF treat
n1er1t known last year, when S12 persons died IN
New York from it. The mortality in the cpl
dernic was 20 per cent Under the new ano anm1
toxin treatment the mortality IS reduced 10 10
per cent and will be much more reduced when
fhe methods of application are more fully per
fected IL, -
;noculstion the English troops in India nave
peen largely prevented from contracting typh9id
fever during the last two years, anu lI.uS @ @z7 ;l
disease which had long been terror TO medical
men ir the tropics among masses OF soldiers. Is
no longer dreaded.-Dr. VI. Allen starr III f1dr-
New-York tribune., 1908-06-28

very sensible bit OF advice expressed IN horeiy
language was given by mar not long ago 20 an
excitab!s and quarreIsonie friend T was IN a
br1ckyard and two or the workrnen had engaged
in an angry dispute. which eliminated IN 1ercs
encounter.
IN the skrraish one OF the combatants was rastiiv
hurt on the head, and the employer, who happened
TO come or the OF action when the fight
was finishing and a man ot more temper than
discretion. advised the injured one 70 get var
rant for the others arrest
While the matter was being discussed BY a mum
her OF workren who had gathered round. a big.
bJIrlv fellow who had heard everything and seen
the whole affair. made his way 70 the with
fhe dar1age Uranium and said.
you don't want 20 ger no warrant. Bill You
inst 20 70 the chemists shop and get yersef two
pIeces OF pIarster-goOd big ones-and put
piece on yer head ar the other yer mouth.
YOU II be all f-ghtt.--Tit-Bits-
New-York tribune., 1908-06-28

baby. He drank it from pail IN aDout d - -
ute and that was all there was 10 MS IeeuI4S,
He was weighed every morning at > o CLOCK anu
as he grew the quantity OF food was HlcfedSSu
in propcrtion to his increase IN weight AFTER d
time it was found advisa BILE TO give him z Ger
tain amount of hay not for any purpose OF nu-
triton but in order to give bulk TO the hlgnIy
concentrated food upon which he subsisted- he
was given about one-half much hay as other
horses receive This is all he has ever eaLer'
a little hay and the milk powder mixed with
water: never any oats or corn, and in this lies
the novelty of the experiment Yet when we
consider that one pound Of dry, separated milk
contains as much muscle making material as
five pounds Of oats corn and as twelve pounds
Of hay it was not daring after all; and. be-
sides. dry milk is digeSted 10 the extent Of rs
per cent, oats and to 90 per cent and hay
only 80 per cent. The advantages of this last
fact are obvious. fer besides receiving more
nourishment in proportion to the bulk it re-
quires only twenty-six hours for dry milk TO
pass through the intestines. whereas ordinary
food takes three to four days, that there is
much less waste material and horse during
race carries over the course much less dead
weight. 1t is just if his handicap had been
cut down-A. c. Robinson, in Outing.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-28

wanted them shut. and always when told 10 do
would get behind the door, if ii was opened
wide against the wall. and then push it shut
never knew him 10 push it the wrong way Ny
camping companion had spanie- that we dId
not want to take 10 camp. and when leaving
home. as had a drive of several miles. he
would shut his dog up, with instructions not to
have him let out for some time after we left
In more than one instance when I had come
to his house. the dog was not found TO be shut
up, and when we had got mile or more from
roadside for US Did he reason that he would
be shut up. and that he needed 10 get so far
from home that would not return? II looks
that way to me.-FOrest and Stream.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-28
eRANT At MOUNT McREcoR

- ,;ss 81 Mount McGreeor was necessarily
-cnotonous. When he was not engaged on
" .sFsr1oirs~ n his little Office adjoining his
ee.s-coTn H. would sit for hours on the porch
rs.-r The newspapers or watching the crowds
'esirAfseers who were constantly about the cot
Rv an unvritten law Of instructive co1lr-
- y was understood bv the visitors that thev
bc,is not approach too near or in other WAYS
s.nifest sny unseer1iy curiosity. The general
s>-,-,e very spprecia1ive Of this display of good
..slins and respect for him. and often regretted
.hat he could not make suitable return Many
: +hev PASSED the porch would lift their hats in
- feel5nely acknowledge the attention These
sslutations however. became SO frequent that it
vas impossible to respond 10 them it being gen.
.-sTv understood that 70 do so would tire him
~rDeoessa-ilv On one occasion q lady removed
ser bonnet and waved il in most 6eferential
-,s-ner This action so appealed 20 the natural
ssIlantry Of the general that he duly acknowl-
s5rei she courtesy by rising from his chair and
9ftinc bis ovn hat by way cf graceful recogni-
uan.
when out of doors he always wore high
-stove-Tpe hat being particular in this way
70 prevent neuralgia attacks. 20 which he seemed
81 rhe time to be specially liable For the same
reason. also. light silk scarf was wrapped
s-ound hls neck. and sometimes. when in a draft
~ would tuck che corner Of the covering under
The rim 4 his hat in order to protect himself
rore eeectuallv- His steadily increasing weak
ness did not allow him TO walk much. He vent
u7el only short distances and then always with
az attendant one time in strolling to a sum
meT house on the edge Of the mountain tc, enioy
The me View he became so much exhausted that
fears were entertained OF a serious cola pse
This experience had a very depressing effect
upo1 hls spirits, and necessitated the use Of q
so-caed bath chair. in which afterward ne was
wheeled about The grounds. On one occasion
vhile MS co-oTed servant Harrison was pro-
Feling him he humorouslv remarked that often
before fe had ta6 much faster horse ;olJt Droln-
ssoiv no Sarer one as h. was certain thar rl,e
sHl1lai could not run away uphiIl.-Dr Shrady,
n The Ce1Curv
New-York tribune., 1908-06-28
RAILS LAID BY MACHINE.

A1 engineer draws 2 line from one city 10 an
t-s"k. comes the steam shovel. eating its way
through the hills. depositing giant handfuls Of
earth in The little dump cars. that the valleys
MAJ he flled-tWenTv men are doing the work of
thousand Now comes the hardest part Of the
work With sweating hrows and muscles
strained "a The utmost the track laying gangs
creep SLOW r. forward. each rail and tie being
handed separa fely--twenty men 10 z rail and
t7e - 2 tie half mile If track laid on pre-
pared rosdhed Is remarkably good progress in a
dsr In the preparation of that graded roadbed
Z thousand piCks and Z thousand shovels swing
= weary toll.
Bl- the 5aF II the laborer toilinE in the hot
sTr II nearing its end. In his place even nov
in soma instances the track iaving ma chine al
resGv has heen substituted and where II hss
PASSED the Wsy of the iron horse is finished
= hen the grade haS hesu prepared the track
7aTing machine Is pushed fcrward ties and rails
are fed into the ccnvevors. and the machinery
s-arfed. B0th ties and rails are brought for
ard on automatic carriers run hy endless
- bic.
As soon one Tai section has been spiked
down the machine is pushed forward. two more
= is are dropped upon the ties and ties enough
10r another section are distributed. The only
limit % the capacity of the machine is the speed
WITH which the ties may be spaced and the rails
81 sllzee.-Ers1est Haller. IN The Technical World.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-28
HOW TO KNOW 4 MAD DOG.

Hvdrophohia Is IN reality SO rare and so terri
fyrng thai its symptoms and treatment are little
understood As a matter Of fact. the commonly
sr0spted expression of madness in dog is often
rIsles ding The real mad dog does not slun
water. as II Is said On the contrary mad dogs
oftec rush 10 the water and drink II eagerly. #
thev are able 70 swallow The mad dog does
not fro-h a. the mouth II does not run arnuck,
sns spping al everything IN its path. What. then.
The indications of the mad dog To those
familiar ~-ith q given dog the s1rest symptom
and he one which should excite closest atten-
tor Is distinct and unaccountable change in
the dogs dispositions sIaid dog becoming ex
citzhle and frisly one dull. That condition
does rot necessarily mean rabies, but II is sus-
pcicus. and II in addition the dog has trouble
in swallow lng-as though II seemed 10 have
bone II IT'S 1hroa at-oewarel That dog should
- instantly tied Ug. because II II be rabies II
takes bur z dav two for feTocious instincts
70 dez-s lop. The unn1is1akahle evidence, how
eyer II { dog with rabies is the sticky, Whitlsh
saliva which covers the teeth and shows on the
eraE-n lips. The eyes glare and are red; the
dug has paroxysms OF running fury, during
Ehach j barks hCarsely, which alternate with
Dsriods Of temporary exhaustion.-Caspar Whit
leE in Outing.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-28

n the roof and enjoy II beyond words If ne
had 10 do any Of these things he would declare
Z strike. But not being compelled by some
tyranniCal boss he enjoys II thoroughly. At the
end Of two weeks he Will he tired out. and VIII
drag himself back work. rather glad TO get
settled down 70 the regularity Of daily work but
willing admit II soul on earth that he
has not had corking time. For "eeks he VIII
tell his friends down at the store. the factory.
all the wonderful things thar he did up at the
lake" It's the change thar makes the vaca-
tion time s. delightful in memories and so bene
fetal in heal;h.-Jofn T. McCutcheon. in Apple
Tor
New-York tribune., 1908-06-28
TIE ELEPHANT AT Bay

TWENTY years Of experience tells me that 2
vnols regiment Of lions cannot produce the
sane moral effect as one twelve-foo1 Africa 4
tusker when he cocks his big sail-like ears
d7swS himself up - his fun height and looks at
seg, letting off al She same time a blood clIrd-
Eng scream while in all probability others in
visible 10 You are stampe6ing on all sides with
me Gin and vibration Of earthquake. Sur
rounded ~ dense jungle by herd of ele-
ThautS theN seem TO block out the whole hori-
zon one I measured was actually sixteen feet
from EDGE q ear "a edge of ear No wonder my
Insignificant self seemed To ShriVeI and my huge
eXTreso rife 10 dWindie into mere pea shooter.
TrT ss I VIII on such occasions. ] can never
iRrir1ed 70 throw Gown my elephant gun and
run fog safety Till ] drop.-W. g. Fitz-Gerald.
In Success
New-York tribune., 1908-06-28
HOW Wa GET OUR oNE-CENT PIECES.

The evolution OF CTR present copper cent is one
of the interesting facts of American coin his
tory Every one will cGncede that the very
meek and feminine looking Indian on the face of
this coin is nothing short Of ridiculous, its sym
boIisrn is meaningless, its idea weak and un-
American II was out of this coin portrait of
tbe terrified woman whose back hair had broken
from it's moorings to he immortaItzed IN the
penny of l793-the penny for which Hamilton
and Washington were Justly Crlticlsed-that
the characteriess red person on our 1~cent
Dieces has grown. The streaming hair OF the
I7e3 model was carefully comhed back in the
1-a4 n4nny and in 1876 the young woman looms
AN T,ri positve comeiiness, her rebellious locks
neatly arranged and on the back of her head n
lille cluster of saucy ribbons Ihen after pass
inc through strange and ugly metamorphos1s.
-, which there is an admxture Of Greco-Teu
tn,ic tvnes. this same reformed female comes
New-York tribune., 1908-06-28
THE MOCNTAIN.

Each builds his world forever, dark or bright,
And sits within his separate universe.
The shepherd sees in this green mountain top
Place where his sheep may wander and grow fat
What to the drover is this lilied pool?
4 hollow for his swine TO wallow IN.
Gold hunters find upon this rocky peak
Nothing but Lodges for their ringing picks.
But to the poet all this soaring height
Smokes with the footsteps of the passing Cod
Edwin Markham, in Nautilus.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-28
WILD ANIMAL TRAGEDIES.

When we laid hands upon Huffman's prize
and examined II. q strange and interesting story
of wild animal life revealed. About three
months previously. that il 10 say about August
I that deer had been leaped upon from above
t,y a mountain lion. Its right ear was fearfull>
torn. and there q big wound on the top OF
+ha neck where the skin and flesh had been
torn open. The main beam OF the right antler
had been broken of half way up while the
sr+lers were still in the velvet. The end Of the
r-oken autIer had healed over in A way that
ena bled us to fix the Gate OF the encounter with
a fair degree of accuracy. Both the hind legs
had been either clawed or bitten. but we couId
nor surely determine which
II is our opinion that when the mountain hon
leaned and fastened upon the neck or MS IN
tended prey the struggling buck either ieapeo 81
fell over q cut bank and lanued upon ms oaCA'
with the puma under1nost. Although he broke
~. the executive branch Of his antler, he so
xerio1Jslv injured his assaIlant that the mountain
lion was glad 10 escape without doing further
damage 49,. 49,. ,;,z
.Eo,,s o,,r camp. close beside the dry bed OF
TaII rSreek the story Of another wild animal
-rs9.d1- On tiny bit OF level bottom land,
which was well planted with thick cIIinps o.
raU sage brush. there lay the wen gnaFeQ re-
mains Of mule deer Close nesioe me $685. 80
there vas round hole IN the earth, like a post
80 made rv the waters of the creek, about
80 feet in diameter and five feet deep ms
hole contained about two-t1irds OF the halr taat
onre had covered the deer. As sure as fate.
+I,at --avrinR hole, which lay like hidden trap
"a -, -,a long grass and the dropping branches
- 1ba sage brush had been the undoing OF the
S.i,ls<s deer II seemed 10 US that while helnS
t--e6 rs, wolves the deer had landed neAVlN
- 80, snot with both ITS forelegs III the hole,
, gu o1x-es had bounced upon it, cut its throat
=. r.,scL, time and afterward deVoured me am
rsaI ss il lay across the opehing'-"' l. f1'i
naday. in Scribners'
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1arN1NG OF a PRINCE

Fs-,,-A Wilhelm, me Crown Prince OF Ger-1lan ny
is rovv bsvinE the unusual experience OF oe4t4s
thoro,,g,Iv trained 70 rule. He goes daily 70 I-s
Ministry of the Interior 10 assist me hsaae %
depa-r-nente IL discharging the many I.ieloe
sts- come before them fer decision NieA ne
mas mastered ali the details OF TINS oepat tLs s
he viii continue his training in otner
UNI Ie shall understand the workings OF eEeIy
wheel in that big machine known as the 1es
mar government At the same time ne aLocl.1s
Occasional interesting debates - the HelcflsIns
OF IN the Pr71ssisn Diet. But this Is NOT al L1es
the prince is doing 20 fl himself FOR the tashe "
PRACTICAL craftsmanship. He has receilns
rolleo himself as special student al the IecIIlI
ca University IN Charlottenburs where ne neais
lectuHes on mechanical engineering 1Hus - ~ e
making good what he said 10 tie rector VI s d.
University upon the occasion Of his e2
istion when he expressed the hope that ne Nouiu
he able through assiduous study for hiInssit, "
al I'D the gaps left by his university couis sS;
That vas I've years ago. and the prince - s'A44
Engaged IL stopping those gaps. he mas eti-
oently learned that with q serious man tue ""ih
VI education never ends.
After he had been tWO years al Ploh tIie
if1noe stood successfully the so-caiied ensign
szanl.a ton u had been the ETnperors lnLen-
uon 10 have him break orf his course al tiilo
bont, hu- the physical and moral results g the
sNo years work there had been 50 satlhIactpiy
lha: il WAS decided 70 let him remalE anothef
30 years and complete the course IiiIs voc
zone and be stood mis- final exauinauohs on
= february D. 1900 Ge passed the written part
u tie examinations so well as 70 entitle MIN 10
New-York tribune., 1908-06-28
WONDERS OF MODERN MEDICINE

WONDERS OF MODERN MEDICINE.
Just qunne acts to counteract malaria, so
the antitoxins counteract the symptoms OF the
various diseases in which they used II
used early in the disease they are most ef1ca-
cious, and even if used late they are Of service
This is proved by the fact that in 1888, before
the antitoXin of diphtheria was used, there were
GAGS cases in New York hospitals. of which