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Hamilton had formulated our federal
Constitution: Horace Greeley had founded
the New York Tribune, and John Howard
Payne had sung his deathless song OF
Home, Sweet Home"
-
At thirty-one Renni planned and built
the London bridge; .Lescot. the Louvre;
Christopher Wren was commissioned to
rebuild st. Paurs, London; Champollion
announced his wonderful discovery Of the
Egyptian alphabet. and Maurice OF
Saxony secured religious liberty for the
Protestants In Germany by the memo
rable treaty of Passau.
At thirty-two Give established British
power in India Rubens painted his DE
scent Of the Cross" Sir Philip Sidney, one
Of the brightest figures of the Elizabeth
an age, died: Schiller published his his
tory of the Thirty Years War. recognized
as the best historical work Of Germany.
and Joseph Story became Chief Justice
OF the Supreme Court Of the United
States. - ...--.--- -.-.
of France; Phil. Sheridan rode on a foam
ing steed twenty miles, seized his re-
treating army and. hurting 1t upon Early,
snatched victory out Of the jaws of de-
feat. sending him. with his rebeIlious
hosts, flying up the valley of the Shen-
andoah Wolfe scaled the heights Of
Abraham at Quebec. dispossessed the
French Of their possessions in Canada
and gave two provinces to England: Cor
reggie had produced his three world.re-
nowned pictures. 1.-The Assumption OF the
Virgin, "Ecce Homo" and 1.-THE Penitent
Magdalen:" George Stephenson made his
first locomotive: Edison had harnessed
electricity to the uses OF man: Gray wrote
Thomas Jefferson the Declaration Of
Independence" Byron died at thirty-six
and Burns at thirty-seven.
Such are some Of the young men OF
yesterday: their success before forty Is
an inspiration to the young men Of to-
day.
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eaven, and it is at night that the round

heaven. and it is at night that the round
up is accomplished.
A frog roundup is a romantic and pic.
turesque sight. In the midst of the con-
cert. dancing lights surprise the musical
creatures. They are fascinated by the
glare. In thousands they go dancing to-
ward a long line OF flaming fagots
soaked in tar and carried steadily by
small boys. Behind the boys go men with
frog nets. AS many as thirty fascinated
frogs, leaping to the lights, are gathered
up in one swipe of a net. :.
Magnificent "fattened" frogs legs sell
at one dollar the brochette. on which are
spitted six or eight. They are served In
omelettes, fricasseed In butter. fried in
bread crumbs with white sauce. or
drilled on their brochette. or with beaten
eggs. An authentic English lord at
Monte Carlo last winter ordered q pate
Of frogs legs and truffles, which cost him
500: but even these are laborious profits.
compared with the sinecure of the Peri
CORD truf1es farmer-whOm contain
porancous corner Is making only the
richer.
You know what truff1es are? Certainly
YOU have seen round, black slices of them
III foie gras or ported game, or mixed I'm
black cubes with the potato salad of mi
lionaireS.
They arc a kind of fungus. growing un-
foreground like black potato; and their
flavor is far more arstocratic than that
of mushrooms
Toward 1850 the high livers of Paris
could find truf1eS only at the Hotel de
Provence and the Hotel des Americans
where a truff1ed turkey cost $50 of our
present money. With the present cor
ner, single handful of truh1es will
cost you $50 at the Paris Central mar
ketS.
When a rich Partisan wishes to do
merely the right thing by guests, he has
the capon "truffled" with slices showing
black beneath the fowls skin: but when
he desires to put on real expense, he
serves whole truffles piled around it like
potatoes Tears come to Frenchman's
eyes as he CUBS a IS truffie the size Of
an apple.
Truff1es are not heavy on the stomach;
they are very digestible. and their In
f1uence on man is like that of generous
Wines They make the heart glad. And
when you take champagne and trufiies to-
gether, you feel a divine afiiatus. Man
becomes a god. and woman knows she
has always been a goddess!
They are the most mysterious of -vege-
tables. No one knows their origin, their
of growth. 1t is simply known that they
grow, without stalk or roots. in certain
places and refuse to grow in others.
Southeast France. Burgundy and Cham
payne furnish the best: and they are al
ways found underground beneath oak
and chestnut trees. 1t is imagined that
the trees are even essential to them;
that the trufae germ Is tree parasite
that falls-though no such spore has ever
been discovered. Certainly, botanists are
unable to plant truffle germs and raise
truffles. Truff1es are found purely by
chance and he is lucky peasant who
has a truffie orchard.
At Lapoujad, in a field Of half an acre,
where grow a few sparse chestnut trees.
the peasant Alcide Lacroix gathers an
nually $3.50 worth of truffies. At Madas
trel field bought for $4,000 by the peas
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of preserved truffles left: 1t was from
one of the best houses of PerigueuX.
Gen. Whites officers put it up to auc-
ton and it went for $3.50 to a young
lieutenant. son of a great noble house.
At Mukden during the winter of 19O4-5
Russian officers paid up to $50 per pound
for truffies preserved in glass bottles.
But the record price was paid in 1870,
during the siege of Paris, when a rich
gourmet paid $15O for simple crock
of the Perigueux truffied foie -gras.
England. America and Russia each buy
annually S1,OOO.O0O worth of French truf-
nes; but the yearly production is over
two tons. At 81 the kilo-the average
wholesale value of, past years-this rep
resents s. GOO, 900, of which 500, 20
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market commissioners ana caterers.
There is nothing in the world so bad to
eat as a bad snail. This is the explana-
ton of the trust.
My experience justifies the trust. !
bought forty juicy live snails and gave
them to our cook. When she took one
of her hairpins to pull them out of their
shells I doubted.
Home cooking brings us too close to
the individual snail. She cooked them de-
Iiciously. but 1 shall never forget the aw-
full feeling when I bit into bad one. a
wood snail. perhaps, or graveyard snail
or just too strong personality. The
taste lasts three days.
The trust method-which produces uni
formity of perfume like the mixed wines
of a great champagne "cuve"-is a vast
collective cooking.
In the great snail ranches of the French
wine districts 10000 ..purged snails'' are
boiled together twenty minutes. With lit
tie iron hooks their bodies are pulled from
their shells and thrown into the trusts
"malaxeur' machine, the secret Of its
success. The great cylinder. turned con-
tnually over slow fire. is filled with
snails. butter. garlic. thyme. bay leaves.
onions, good cOgnac and a suspicion of
certain expensive lioueurs.
The snails and their ingredients when
cooked come out in sticky perfumed
paste.
Into the cleaned and polished shells
they pack the perfumed paste and cook
them with butter and chopped herbs. You
will find the trusts snails in the most ex-
elusive restaurants. They are no longer
risky individuals, but snail abstract Of a
sure bouquet.
The wholesale price of uncooked snails
varies between 81 and Sc per thousand.
Cooked by the trust they cost from $40
10 SIS per thousand.
Connoisseurs prefer the little Bordeaux
variety. because. though the big Burgun-
dams are more highly favored. tender
ness in a snail is more than strong flavor
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in the proportion of pauperism to the
population. In districts where the
socialists are i'm control and the policy
has been to make the pauper far more
comfortable than he could hope 10 De II
he worked for his living there has been
a remarkably rapid rise.
The best Hlust -ations of this are seen
in London. Poplar Is the classic district
for socialist administration. There the
ratio of pauperism to the population is
90 per 1000. The adjoining parish OF
WhitechapeI is inhabited by persons just
as poor and Just as liable to suffer from
the fluctuations of trade, but the proper
ton of pauperism in this parish is only
2l per LOCO. In Poplar when a man,
his wife and three children throw them
selves on the poor law the practice IS
to send the man to the Suardisns' farm
at I.aindon in Essex, where tic is asked
to do a very little work in return for
maintenance. clothing and
a little pocket money. His wife is al
lowed 1915 a week for herself and her
which is probably more than
she received from her husband when
he was in full work. and she Is relieved
of the expense of feeding him. She also
receives grants of boots and clothing
for herself and her children, and her
husband is allowed to visit her at regu-
lar intervals, his railway fare from
Laindon to Poplar being paid 1t is
small wonder that under these condi-
tons man who gets out of work rush
es off to the workhouse instead of look
ing for another job.
Most of the reports received from the
agents or the local government board
comment on the increase in vagrancy, and
some of them give really alarming fig
ures but il is pointed out by the com
pliers that these figures are altogether
unreliable and that a uniform system of
reckoning must be adopted. Thus, for
three or four counties gives the number
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THIRTY DOLLARS WORTH OF TRuFF1Es.

moline, near Tonnerre who sells them
100000 snails per year at a profit of 81, 900,
and while there are individual frog
ranchers who earn more it is not certain
that the frog trust, now under study,
will have the same elements in its favor
France has no monopoly of frogs and
production of 100000 frogs would make
a pile higher than that other Arc de Tri-
omphe of the TuierieS.
Certain towns have specialties of frogs.
as others have specialties Of snails, foie
gras and truff1es. Fresnes, a village in
the environs of Paris. is the most re-
nowned. In the height of the season
Fifine Boulinier and the Diard restau-
PANT receive professions of automobiles
bringing the most fashionable Parisians
to eat Fresnes frogs. Each of the two
restaurants serves over $4,000 frogs in the
short season.
In frog ranching. as practiced at Fresnes.
great ponds are alive with the jumping
animals At night their song goes up to
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China-China's been getting the short cut
in every deal ever since-or for a fountain
Of perpetual youth, fountain Of hair dye,
1 would suppose it was from the name, or
maybe patent medicine, or for what we
most of US are still engaged in looking
gold that you don't have to work to get.
And if they continued their westward no.
ing long enough they bumped into the con-
tinent Of North America and discovered
it, on the same principle that a person
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ant Massalgue returns him 5000 year
in truffles.'
In the south of France truffle poachers
are shot like horse thieves
The man with his intelligent little dog
may lift $50 worth of truffies in single
night. The dog is trained by burying
truff1e with a piece of meat tied to it.
When he finds the meat he finds the truf-
file. So. he learns the truffle shetland
thinks of meat and takes pleasure in
the hunt Soon he can sniff them at
distance, scratching where he smells the
valuable black potatoes
IT is the only instance of a dog max
ing pig of himself. because the natural
trun1e digger is the pink pig of Bordeaux
Pigs so love truffies that they were their
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lightful germ theory which has filed US
with suspicious toward the drinking water
and our old friend, the fly, and enabled
US to die of many new diseases that we
didn't used to know anything about
well, I guess we amt making no mis-
take in shootn' off a few fireworks fur
Hudson and Fulton said the House De-
tective. Them parties wuz all right and
I'm very strong for them"
'So'm t. said the Hotel Clerk, none
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great institutions wherein the state houses
It's incompetents. refer to Sing Sing,
Matteawan and the capitol at Albany. I'll
bet you Hudson wouldn't know his own
river now if he should see 1t.
But did you ever stop to think, Larry,
that he couldn't help discovering 1t once
he'd run up it a little ways. It's quite
sizable body Of water with q nice, wide
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The Ancient Mariner and Don John Of
Austria had won Lepanto.
At twenty-siX Howe invented the sew
ing machine; Roger Williams had aroused
all the intolerance of New England and
proved himself the pioneer of religious lib
erty and the first. type OF true American;
BENJAMIN Franklin had written his best
philosophical work. Poor Richard; at
the same age Mark Antony was the hero
the entire Carthaginian army and John
Wesley had identified Methodism with one
OF the worlds greatest denominations. 1t
was also at twenty-six that Charles Dick
ems produced his best and most popular
novel, "Oliver Twist
At twenty-seven Eli Whitney invented
the cotton gin. Calvin wrote his 'Insti-
tutes Of the Christian Religion and Ma
poleon led his brilliant Italian campaign.
At twenty-eight Raphael painted his
masterpiece. the Sistine Madonna; Thomas
Moore wrote "Lalla Rookh" and Pollock
his Course Of Time
At twenty-nine Scipio gained the battle
of Zana and James Watt revolutionized
the industries of the earth by making
steam the most powerful agency in the
progress of mankind. 1t was at this age,
twenty-nine. that Shelley died after en-
riching the world of literature with his
unrivaled poetry.
At thirty Luther broke the sable night
Of the sixteenth century; Charlemagne
had made himself master of the French
and German empires; Cortez gazed on
the golden cupolas OF Mexico: Alexander
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The champagne snail, a delicate and
cleap-feeding beast, is tender, but lacks
body.
Burgundy wine. which does not go well
with oysters, you must eat the Bordeaux
snail-for Observation-Disclosures intro
dnced into the big Burgundian shell for
illusion. When neatly polished the shells
look like yellow crumpled vine leaves.
IF you like Burgundy and do not like
snails.' says President Fallieres, lit is
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secretion which hardens. He lets himself
fall to the ground. At this moment the
round up is accomplished by women
with iron rakes. They range the sleeping
SnailS on endless shelves to await dur
ing months the needs of the market.
Forced fasting does not hurt the beast. 1t
makes him healthy eating. These are the
''purged snails'' of the trusts ''malaxeur''
machine.
Snail rafiching for the trust is good
business. There is peasant of Dame
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eats 10000, =
600 snails per year.
All together they
would make a pile
higher than the
Arc de Triomphe.
This snail renais-
s q NC is due to
the m row e d
methods of the new
French snail trust.
formed by an i'm
portant group of
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stronger. All honor to Hudson, the dis
coverer of that majestic stream whose
ba nks today are lined with real estate de-
and Thomas F. Ryan's gas
tanks. and summer hotels, and two thou
sand places where Washington had his
headquarters, and icehouses, and lofty pal
isades crowned with corset signs, and
holes where other lofty palisades used 70
be before we blasted them away to make
for fertilizer factories, and
West Point. on the hazy heights, where
the hazers come from, and at least three
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nineteen: at the same age George Wash
ington was a major.
AT twenty Weber was producing sym-
phonies; Schelling had grappled with the
philosophy Of Kant; Calico had discoy-
cred the use of the pendulum and I.afa-
yette was major general.
At twenty-One Beethoven was famed as
a musician. Alexander stood at the head
OF his army on the plains Of Thessaly and
Tasso had begun his immortal poem Of
Jerusalem Delivered At twenty-five
now In the museum at The Hague, said
to be one OF the finest animal pictures on
canvas. At the same age Campbell wrote
his Pleasures OF Hope" the work on
which his fame as a poet rests
Browning wrote "Paracelsus" at TWEEN
ty-three. Bailey gave US 'Festus" when
no older. and Wagner had written his
wonderful musical composition. "Lohen-
grin" at the same age. Emmett thrilled
Ireland with his pathetic patriotism be-
fore his twenty-third year and Michel
angelo had completed "Pieta," his mas
terpiece in marble. 1t was also at this
age that Newton made his discovery Of
the law Of gravitation
At twenty-four William Pitt was chan
cellor OF the exchequer: Ruskin had writ
ten his Modern Painters In five VOL
Englands greatest art critic, and Sheri-
dan had produced THE Rivals at the
same stage on life's journey.
At twenty-five Aeschylus was the most
famous poet Of Greece. Coleridge had fin
tshed the marvellous metrtcal poem OF
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ELL" said the Hotel
Clerk of the St.
Reckless, " t h o s e
certainly are going
to be the big doings
for Hank and Bob"
Hank and Bob
who?" a S X e d the
II o u 8 e Detective.
Sounds like some
vaudeville team git
tin up a benefit for
themselves"
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because you never tasted them together"
A snail ranch of the Bordeaux district
is composed Of miniature fields Of cab
bage. lettuce and clover. Between them
are endless narrow alleys backed by
hedge rows and dwarfed yew trees. Ev-
erywhere are what seem countless little
birdhouses. They are the houses of the
snails.
Here are beds of odorous plants. des
tined with the famous vine leaves to in
crease the perfume" Of the beasts.
The fattening requires four years. The
Misunderstanding 10000 young snails for
each 200 yards of surface-are stocked
with baby snails captured by small boys in
the countryside. at cents per hundred.
and every mother snail produces sixty
little ones per year besides.
Toward October the snail locks himself
up in his shell by means of an internal
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Anyhow it's a sacred cinch that all the
really desirable property in this neighbor-
hood had been discovered before any Of
that fifteenth and sixteenth century bunch
got here from the other side. Now you
take the Hudson itself From what can
gather it was probably discovered in the
first place away back yonder by the
Dinosaurs and the Thunder Lizard. bet
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of Migrants admitted in Il year 10 the
casual wards in hi. district as 296. G:u.
while another refers to the admission OF
$3.50 children as "a sad phase of the
problem and declares that there are
1850 vagrant women I'm his district Now.
as matter OF fact, the number or
Migrants sleeping In all the casual wards
of the country seldom exceeds 1oOOD on
any one night. of whom about LOCO are
women and 400 children.
i :.
1t must be remembered that the tramps
are like a stage army. They are count.
ed over and over again. Then tramps
passing from casual ward to casual ward
and being counted in each will figure as
$500 persons i'm the course of the year,
This is one of the things that Mr. Burns
has set out to reform. He realizes that
he must have accurate figures shown
what the problem is before he works gu,
a comprehensive plan to deal with it, and
am told he Is now working on a plan
by which all the Migrants of the country
will be registered and furnished with
identity tickets. Thus a man going on
tramp will have 10 show his ticket and
tell where he slept the night before. when
he applies at a casual ward for shelter.
and in this way 1t will be possible 10
avoid counting him many times in the
course Of the year. 1t will also be pos
sible by this means to separate the habit
ual tramp from the honest workingnan
who is making his way from town to
town in search Of job.
Another plan which has been suggested
to Mr.. Burns is based on the system OF
travelling tickets in vogue in the American
trade unions. English labor organizations
will be asked to furnish their members
who are compelled to take to the road in
.tln.. .lrn
they will be asked to have viseed by the
secretaries of the local branches at the
towns at which they stop. 1t will thus
be possible to get some idea of the num-
Der of workngmen on the road and the
reasons which compelled them to adopt
this mode of life.
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home with her folks because he spends all
his money making smelly experiments
But after he's been dead a suitable length
Of time We all chip In to erect a me-
mortal arch that we'd have been pleased
to hang him to when he was alive.
Some day a gent comes around with
the subscription paper. You know the
kind of. party that always comes around
with the subscription paper. In a small
town he belongs to the Masons. the Odd
Fellows and the Woodmen. and has been
an Elk almost long enough to be an Eagle.
He serves on all the standing committees,
attends all the funerals and gets UP the
resolutions Of respect. But in New York
he is an honorary vice president of all the
uplift movements and belongs to all the
reform parties. And he comes around to
you with the paper.
What's this for? you say to him,
suspiciously. a fund to provide suitable
tribute to the memory Of the late Alonzo
Gezookums.' he says. I've heard my
father speak Of him. you say. Wasn't he
the one they called Dippy Lon, that died in
the poorhouse? The same he says. His
was a sad fate, but his immortal inven-
ton, the self-opening egg. was one of the
going to erect a neat monument to him,
costing about million and a half So
you hand over your share and eventually
We perpetuate the lineaments and liga-
ments Of Alonzo Gezookums in figure
that is suffering from white swelling in
both Of its Parian marble legs.
"A genius. Larry, Is a crank that's des,c
The longer he's been dead. the more of
genius he Is. Distance lends enchantmen..
as the poet says, and time pays interest on
the investment. Sir Isaac Newton, sitting
under an apple tree. doping out the attrac-
ton Of gravitation from the significant
fact that the early June pippin fell down.
ward instead of going up, is one Of the
master minds Of history to you and me,
but I'll bet you the neighbors talked about
the way he loafed around the orchard
when he might have been helping Mrs.
Newton with the housework. When Har-
vey discovered the circulation of the blood
there was popular movement to take
him out and toast him at the stake, but
now we know that without his discovery
we might still be in ignorance of the de-
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mouth like a calamity bowler, and when
you're coming this way you can't very
we'll miss 1t. There were some Of those
old-time discoveries who got d lot Of swell
reading notices for doing things that hap
pened accidentally. To be sure, they took
some risks. They dared the perils of the
Vastly deep in vessels that couldn't have
been much safer than modern motor
boat. And they sailed westward no! and
came and found the new world. But tina:
wasn't what they were looking for. What
they were looking for was a short cut to