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could discover a fact which Philip Bar bour could not discover?
 Here are some other facts that need ex- planation:
 We were once sojourning for a while at a little inland town in Virginia, where business was dull and times were hard. People complained nightly of the hard ness of the times, and the scarcity of money. At the hour of the arrival of the train, that is, near noon, quite an array of citizens, of various occupations and of no visible occupation, might be seen almost any day of the week standing about the railway platform, sitting in split-bottom chairs, leaning against the wall of a house, whiting sticks and dis cussing the hard times" The ticket agent -ad educated and observing man-once made the remark: Nobody has any money; but they all ride on the railroad and go to the show" Now, everybody knows that railroad ticket and circus ticket are strictly cash articles We never heard of anybody asking for credit for either.
 In a certain western town-the very paradise of loafers-the pastor of one of the church said in a sermon: q have been reading upon Japan, and find that when a young man gets married in Japan he goes and lives with her folks.
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been silent listener to Mary's babble, dropped her eyelet embroidery in her lap, and glancing at the girls, said: There is surely sane reason why girls prefer widowers to men who have never worn the halter of matrimony. Had you thought of that and the reason? You see clever girls and wealthy young widows are an easy mark for the widower, and they will marry the sort of man if he is a widower that positively they would not look at if he was a bachelor.
 Listen girls, the secret is this-a woman knows a good thing when she sees it, and that is exactly why she hitches up with a widower that some other woman has worked herself to death breaking into matrimony You know the difference in marrying a man who has never boen married and a widower is like hitching yourself along side of fractious, balky, kicking colt and a good, quiet family horse that Is perfectly trained to double harness and used to pulling more than half the load.
 One of them is full Of starts and troubles, the other full of peace and rest ana naVlnS your own way all the times and that Is just why, girls every woman who has cut her wisdom teeth jumps right down a widower's throat the very minute he opens his mouth to ask her to be Mrs. No. 2.
 I do not remember of a widower landing in a divorce court It Is al- ways the first wife that has to ask for alimony. The second one gets all the money without asking for it. That is quite natural for when a man mar rfes the first time, he thinks woman is an angel with never a pain in her temper, and that she has absolutely no use for money--that her shirtwaists an dother parphernalia just grow, and all the amusement she wants is wait ing at the front door with a radiant smile to welcome him home
 That is the rude, brittle platform man marries on the first time. It Is safe to say the time he steps down and off, that he and his wife have con tested for every inch of 1t until Mrs.
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open it. I see a sign across the alley IFS ist streng verboten die there zu necken," an I thought he might stand on that. "Git the neck sign, Nutty-git the neck sign" I yells. an he drove fer it, but twas nailed, and he skipped back, an begun jumpin' agin.
 Jest then the lion roared, an' Nuttree got rattled an begun to holler: Fer Gott's sake, reach to me the hand" ut couldn't toucn him. 1 rolled on my side to git a longer reach, an I felt something hard in my pocket. It was a ball O cord, strong, an fair sized, an in less time than l kin tell 1t I had @ moose made an Nuttree roped. l couldn't pull him alone, but he helped some, by scrab- blin' agin the bars, an 1 begun to git him up. I'd hauled him bout six feet, when the lion see him, an give another roar that made things buzz an scared Nuttree so that he let go all holts, an as soon he took his hands off the bars the rope begun to twist an turned him round sos his back was agin the cage, an I couldn't hardly hold him, to say nothin' O histin him higher. He was scared bad before, but now he could see the lion an he went clean crazy. He jest chattered. You couldn't tell him from the monks by sound.
 WiSl, udIn ye, yeHS. Cdn nOlu ye. Twist round an git a hold O them bars or I'll drop ye."
 Nuttree was past talllin', but every muscle was worlxin' overtime, though they wasn't under what yed call good control. He looked like a fallin ayrnaut that had ben attacked by epilepsy. The lion kep' comin.' He didn't hurry none, fer he could see that Nutty was his sure meat, but jest then the monks set into the game, an the luck changed. As long as Nuttree faced 'em. a1' kep scrabblin' the monks kep away-an' I don't blame 'em, the way he looked-but when he twisted his back to em, they got their nerve, an begun to toy with him. They began to search him, same as if he was a monk, an so many got fastened into his hair that he started whrin' agin, an soon he was goin' like a athlete on a bar, an all the time he was chatterin' an grabbn', no matter which way he faced, an he seemed to git the lion con fused, fer he quit creepin' up, an sat still an looked at Nuttree. At last, jest by luck. Nuttree caught hold O the bars, an at the same time. I histed as strong as I could, an I landed hlm on top O the cage, but his feet stuck over the edge an he continered to wave 'em, an chatter, an I was fearful he'd attract
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him; then they slid the box close up to the front of it an got some jack screws, an put 'em under the box, an begun to twist 'em round. Then I see their game. When they got the box up to the partition they'd open a door, an O course the liond have to go into the cage. Shakes pere-poetry feller-says that the plans O mice an men gifts frequent tangled an he might a stretched 1t to include Hons. They kep' histin the box, an every time they'd git the lem tn O the jack screws they'd block it up, turn down the jacks, an begin over. They didn't seem to me to be over particular how they put the blocks under, an every time they histed the box wabbled little harder I was willin to see the rest O the show from the back row, an I went there an took Nuttree with me. He didn't like it, and he says:
 From here can I him not see," an I says, right, Nutty; an from there can he you not see.' an begun lookin' over all the cages, careful, an the ginral plan O the beast house, fer it's ben allers my rule, when I set into any game with strangers, to know which door opens on the street, an the shortest way to get to it-but I'd orter say here that the door the box come in at ketched on the out side, an one O the supers had locked the other, sos to keep out them that didn't have no invite. When they got the box most high enough they run shy O blockin an I see they was goin' to put some of 'em on end, 'stid O layin' lem f1atways. I pushed a couple O directors in front of us, keerless like, an I says: "Nutty, has the ginral restiveness of the prolytariats extended itself Into the-reg larslion movers7 Hey they struck? These dubs act to me as if they was strike breakers or scabs."
 Before this." he says, 'have they not any moved"
 That's the way I sized em up,'' says I, "an' I'll gamble they won't move any after this one"
 At the fer end O the alley was a big cage. with little monkeys into it, that looked good to me, an I edged round the crowd till was in line with it, an l drawed Nuttree with me. Jest as we got there the movers had lifted the box most up, an they blocked, with the blocks on end, an started to untwist fer the last histe, when the loness turned loose fer fair, an the he one joined in. l never heered sech a raclxet-'t was hells orchesty tunin' up-an' the jack men got rattled One of 'em quit an the other kep untwistein', which give the box
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MARY and Sue had just returned "H from TIilda's wedding. One of 1V1 these elaborate, spectacular church affairs with it's magnificent decorations of graceful smilax, rich palms and ferns made q most beautiful frame for the pretty picture of the dainty3bride in her soft trailing gown of satin and her lovely maids. With apologies to Blackman's Mandy, fit was one of those scrumptious fairs wid de mourners' bench all roped off wid white ribbon for de members of de family"
 Yes, the wedding of TIilda, the wealth. fest, most charming young woman in her exclusive social set to MT. Jackson. a bald-headed, runty, bow-legged, measley- looking widower, whose sole possessions were family of four, was decidedly the most important and elaborate affair of the season.
 As the girls sat before the fire in their own cozy room, Mary said: TT simply can- not understand how Hilda, the loveliest and most clever girl in our set, could have elected to tie herself to MT. Jackson (even if she did have a most elaborate wedding and receive numbers of handsome pres ents) who is quite old enough for her father and as homely as Hooligan. It is indeed more than l can understand how he was favored in preference to one of her many handsome young friends of wealth and social position-say Joe for in- stance.
 You know she was always very hard to please; this friend was too careless another too extravagant, while the ob- jection to poor Joe, who was daffy about her, was his card read IT. Joe IIodge then, too, he parted his hair in the mid dle, and she reasoned men of this type were usually too selfish and wealS-willed Now just to think she passed every one of these up for widower and his brood of four. Really, it would seem from this a widower may claim for his own the sweetest. most dainty bud in the whole flower garden of girlhood. They get on so famously, these widowers, after losing their companion, perhaps explains why there is no word of comfort in the scrip lures for widowers as there Is for the widow"
 Grandmother. who all the while had
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denounelng the grogshop, and who will yet give money to the confirmed opium eater knowing that the money is to be expended on an opium carouse; and they say that they do this "out of chari- ty." or for pity's sake.' I cannot ex- plain it on any principles that com mend themselves to my reason.
 Now, do not believe that any of the people upon whose conduct have here commented are fools. If they were, then we should have short and sat isfactory answer to most of our Why's But the difficulty is that these things are all done by people who must be counted as rational and here our phil osophy is helpless.
 The following aneedote Is here in place:
 "A certain deacon had two sons who were approaching mans estate. They were wild and reckless in their lives, and their conduct had no relish of sal vationin it. They frequened the drink ing saloons, patronized the theatre, and spent their fathers money freely on fast horses and ballet dancers. One day, their father was remonstrating\ with them. when the oldest boy replied thus: Well, fathe CT, what else can you ex pect? We never hear you pray in your family. No religious paper comes to
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NVE day some 19 years ago there was an uproar in the assembly of O the New York legislature, when a tall, rather slender, not ungraceful, not quite unhandsome, though nearly that, a red-headed man, was called to order for savage words spoken in debate. He was arraigned at the bar while the house debated the enormous and perennial question of bad manners, of which it convicted him. and the speaker delivered the judgment of the body in words in- tended to be severe and in mien intend- ed to be provocative.
 The culprit never turned hair, never blanched a cheek, never batted an eye, never forced on his heart an additional drop of blood, never quiclkened his pulse a beat; but in serene disdain he remark ed: "In the next legislature Of this State I'll sit where you now sit. Mir. Speaker, and if anybody is to be censured l will pronounce 1t myself"
 And so it turned out-William Sulzer was the speaker of the New York assem- ply in 1S93 as he had predicted he would be- He is of the German race, whose in- vincible persistence has stood them the stead. dash has offered the French. or pluck the English Disappointed a score of times your German returns again and again to his purpose, from which he can
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HhAPPY is he who can find out thi
 causes of things. Virgil. 4 4 "Cone vo1tr raaeape Taels

ASSs sa... $ of 9' %as can aa out the
 4 Come. your reasons, Jack, your reasons. Shakespeare.
 President James Madison had neighbor who gained for himself some local celeb rity by making the remark: Mir Madi- son is the curiosest old man I ever saw always talkin' about reasons. reasons" This critic seldom allowed himself to be troubled with reasons.
 Let us illustrate with the following anecdote:
 When Andrew Jackson commanded against the British at New Orleans, he put the city under martial law, arrested judge and did sundry other things that some people regarded as acts of usurpa- tion. Many years afterward his conduct was investigated in Congress, and Judge Douglass of Illinois defended him in a. speech of marked ability. When Congress adjourned Judge Douglass called at the Hermitage" to see General Jackson, who greeted him very warmly, and said i: Douglass I always knew what I was right in what I did at New Orleans but l never knew why, until I read your speech"
 am not in love with the philosophy of MT. Herbert Spencer, but 1t must be
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only be separated by the memorable sum- mons of death.
 William Sulzer was born in Elizabeth, N. J. in 1s63 the day that most eminent Democrat of his generation, Grover Cleve- land, was 26 years old. He was educated in the common schools, studied law, and came to the bar the year he attained the age of a voter. Then he opened an office in the big town across the Hudson, where there were more retainers in a day than in all Jersey In week, and there he en- tered with native persistence on the practice of his profession, and suc- ceeded.
 But if William Sulzer had been en- dowed with the legal mind of Charles O'Connor, and the legal skill of James T. Brady, there was that in him that would have forced him from the bar of the lawyers to the forum of the poli- tician, and so he became a public man and in 1890 a member of the New York legislature, in which he served four years.
 It is my impression that Sulzer is a political organization that is the envy and despair of every rival order of our political history in or out of the metropo- lis. It has but one principal, and that the majority; 1t has but one policy, and that discipline. It has elected more presi- dents, more governors, more judges, more
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senators, more congressman than any subordinate political society of our his tory. It is as old as the Constitution and had won or lost many a political battle ere the Whig or the Democratic parties contended under those names. It was veteran in experience and ripened in age when the Republican party was born, and today the political seer cannot predict that neither of the great parties now on the stage will survive the Tammany So- ciety."
 The secret of the vitality of Tammany Is found in this-it is not burdened with gratitude or corroded with malice. It looks on every friend as though he may become an enemy, and on every enemy in the expectation that he may be a friend. It plays no favorites and would depose a Kelly or a Croker for failure as readily as it would deprive of his place any underling of it's obscurest district leader for that crime or crlmes-a falling off of the Tammany vote In his guard.
 And what history 1t has! It partic- pated in the rivalr1es of Burr and Hami- ton, and 1t took sides in the wars of the Clintons, the Schuylers, the Liyingstons, the Spencers It was the ally of the Albany regency, and in the thickest of the fight when lizards" and "Softs'' and "Hunkers" and "Barnburners" were face
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BABY HORRIBLY BURNED


BY Boiling Grcase-Skfn All Came
on One Side of Face and Head
Thought Her Disfigured for Life
Used Cutfcura--No scar Left.
My baby was sitting beside the
fender and we were preparing the
breakfast when the frying-pan full of
boiling grease was upset and it went
all over one side of her face and head
Some one wiped the scald with a tow
Ell, pulling the entire skin Off We took
ner TO doctor. He tended her week
and gave me some stuff to put on. But
II all festered and / thought the baby
was disfigured for life / used about
three boxes of Cuticura Ointment and
IT was wonderful how it healed In
ABOUT five weeks it was better and
there wasn't mark to tell where the
scaid had been. Her skin is just like
Veiyet. Mrs. Hare, l, Henry ST., South
shields, Durham. Eng. March %, 1905"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole
Props. of Cuticura Remedies. Boston.
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Port Arthur Barracks School.
1t is a curious aftermath of the
great war between Russia and Japan
and of the vast program of ambitious
aggression which eliminated in the
war that the Japanese government has
decided to convert the Russian bar
racks at Port Arthur into a high indus
trial school (koka gakudo). The fact
is announced by the Official Gazette,
and the numbers and ranks of the Off
Gals forming the faculty of the school
are detailed. The institution is to be
under the jurisdiction of the governor
general of Kwantung. The destination
of these spacious barracks had long
been subject of discussion and con-
lecture, and the Japanese government
is to be congratulated on the use to
which it has finally determined to put
them.-Japan Mail.
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Woes OF the Monarch.

There is considerable danger that
Spanish AL may be forced to join the
overcrowded ranks of unemployed
monarchs.-Washin Post.
The car of Russia is said to look
much older than he is. Well, King AL
fonso, of Spain, may also begin to
look much older than he is. There is
a lot of wear and tear on a monarch.
Toledo Blade.
Here is an unpleasant tangle in
court etiquette. 1t isn't proper to sit
in the presence of royalty, but unless
the new six-foot three chancellor seats
himself the kaiser win have to look up
to him.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The arrest Of eight Russian students
for { conspiracy to overthrow the gov
eminent would indicate that nihilism,
instead of being an insidious, far
reaching influence, is getting down to
a remnant basis.-Washington Star.
The boy shah of Persia is downcast
because they're getting up collection
of wives for him. Considering how the
average man gets fused up when he's
about to marry one, it can be seen the
young shah has reason for gloom
Washington Times.
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1891 -92-At the age of 26 surgeon of
Peary expedition into the Far
North.
1S94-Organized and conducted the ia
nous Miranda expedition into the
Arctic.
1S97-Surgeon of the Belgian expedi-
ton into the Antarctic.
1S99-Decorated by the King Of Bel
GUM for his services on Antarc-
tic trip.
1S99-Published his book, Through
the FIRST Antarctic Night"
1901-Surgeon of the Peary Erik
auxiliary expedition into the Arc
tic.
1906-Made the ascent of Mt. McKin-
ley in Alaska, being the first man
to successfully scale this noun
tain.
1906-Published his second book, ITO
the Top of the Continent"
1907-Started on his last trip into the
North as the leader of the expedi-
ton that bore his name.
190S-Planted the Stars and Stripes on
the North Pole.
1909-On the last leg of his homeward
trip
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was when he left. While the paralysis
has not returned, a general debility
from nervousness has made his life
unhappy in the last few months
The going of Tillman will take from
the Senate one of its most picturesque
characters. "Pitchfork Ben" as he is
called, is feared of all other Senators
from the sharpness of his tongue and
the keenness OF his wit. No man in
the United States Senate is an ADLER
rough and ready debater than Till
man. While his remarks have never
carried much weight they have appeal
ed to the galleries and looked we'll in
print His logic might have been poor
and his speeches inferior to those of
his opponents, but his mannerisms
have won the victory for him in the
popular mind. The name of Tillman
was practically unknown until Sena-
tor Tillman was elected governor of
South Carolina in 1892 He celebrat-
ed his election by forcing through the
Legislature the dispensary liquor law
in that State. In his career in the
Senate Mr.. Tillman has had stormy
time.
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One of the greatest nuisances Of
travelling is tipping. A smile from a
head waiter is a costly commodity,
and no mental service is too small for
remuneration. An unusually ingenious
plea for tip is that of a small HI
bernian. mentioned by John Augustus
OShea in Roundabout Recollections.
The author was travelling in Ireland
| drove down to the station on the
faint chance of catching the train to
Dublin. When / got out of the cab at
the station a bright-faced boy accosted
me.
All, sure, sir, you've Just missed
the train he said.
1t was true. | booked my luggage
and ascertained when the next train
would leave. While l was waiting the
lad came up to me and asked me for
tip.
What for?' / asked.
Sure, sir. l told you that you were
too late" he unblushingly responded
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