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NOTES AND COMMENTS
The infant prodigy is at a discount.
Prean ily ir; regurded as a species of
bruin del. i nity. Plants and animals
muy le forced, and unusual and interest -
Ing results niay be produced by forcing;
but people no longer wish a son or a
daughter to be a prodigy in one direc-
tion at the cost of normal development
In other directions. Perhaps the most
valuable contribulkon to the science of
education has come thrdugh a study of
the laws which obtain in the growth and
development of the bruin, and the con-
ditions ti :der which that growth and
▪ development are most heulthy and com-
plete. There aro limes and seasons for
the development of the mental and
moral faculties. as there aro of lite phys-
ical faculties. While such tines and
seasons are not precisely the same for
all children, we fed that all attempts at
premature development not only are
worthless, but are permanently injuri-
ous. The physiologists say that the brain
cells develop as do other physical
organs, not only through Thought, but
through muscular activity, and the exer-
cise of our senses. Accordingly, a
!healthy and timely growth of the brain
is to t,e prorfoted by an education in-
volving a great variety of activity, skill-
fully adjusted as to quality and quan-
tity to the mental and physical status of
the child.
. 'One of ,..e largest and most interest-
ing typewriting competitions that ever
have taken place was the recent one at
Paris, when 157 competitors, male and
female, rattled and banged at their
machines for four hours. Those who
were present describe the noise as a
miniature hail and thunder storm. 11.
says much for feminine nerve and endur-
ance that it was a woman gained the
first place. .Mlle. Gabrielle Revert, a na-
tive of Bordeaux, at the end of the four
hours was ?,000 words ahead of every
one else in the room. flow formidable
was her victory may be imagined from
the fact that her most dangerous oppon-
ent n11 through the dictation was a M.
Porde., secretary of the Paris Chamber of
Ccnlmerce. At ono time, indeed, this
gentleman had gained some hundred
wards on Mlle. Revert ; butt she soon
pulled up with a brilliant finish. The
judges had given some chapters of "Paul
and Virginia" as the test -fairly difficult
prose, as all the world knows -and when
the bell was rung for a finish Mlle.
Revert, had written 17,000 words In the
four hours. or at the rale of seventy
,words a minute. An arousing, if some-
wha( pathetic, incident of the competi-
tion,scrivener,
tun, was an old fashioned ,
wito would not adroit that the pen could
be beaten. The conlrary was proved be-
fore Ise was half an hour at his task.
The doctors are rechristened-; they
are to be inununizators. Our blood con-
tains red and white corpuscles that float
in a yellowish fiuil, plasma; or serum.
Them are 500 limes as ninny red corpus-
cles as white, hence the color of the
blood. But the white corpuscles or leu-
e,eytes aro the soldiers of the system
That help tr. resist the disease -bearing
germs. There seem to be in the serums
or the blood other agencies which resell
and kill bacteria, and the white corpus-
cles swallow the slain and carry thein
e lf the field. These defending And pro-
tecting powers willen us may be
strengthened indefinitely. Sir Almnrth
\\ right recommended inoculation for
typhoid some eleven years ago. end now
il is practised successfully in Indira, it
is not ne esenr•y, however. that we be
immunized against all the hosts of germ
diseases that flesh 1s heir lo. Against
ninny of Ithe.e ills most of us are im-
mune; bol the doctor. the medical int-
miunizntor, must find out what ore the
best vaccines or alexines, otherwise re -
/deters, to give us when disease slims
itself. That is the duly Ihnt lies before
us. says Dr. \Vribht. It is a new science
end a new art, of unbounded eotentiali-
ties.
PCNe11)\ 11111 111 rail 1 t 11111:.
Court %wards 'Workman Nho Lest %rnu
le Per ( cue. of \\.ewe.
\ curious ensc tins been decided in
Augsburg In eonneelinn with the Ger.
min employers' Liability laws. \
e• rimiest named Glaser, employed in n
e. ;or and varnish works, wee biller ,u
the arra by a ,nosquitee 1 bite fes.
tend. blood -jester -ming 'et in and the
ares had to be amputnted.
Ile brought his ease before n mixed
✓ .ncit of enlplvyere and workmen's
✓ I„eeentatives, which decided against
a. on Ilse ground that this was nn
P anent to W111011 anyone might have
Le, n liable. and was in no way connect -
el with (iiaser'a work. Glaser appealed
t the erhilrab.rs, which The Invv' pro•
v., lee. and the cites, wa. Finney decided
in his favor. Ile will he paid fur the
rest of his life on annuity amounting
le 45 per cent. of tits wage!.
The arbitrators decided that mnsgui•
kers in paint and vnr•nish worke in all
probability were more pots/mous than
ether mnequiloce. and that the ordin-
✓ rule applying to mosquito biles del
tee apply in (iineer's Case.
1 i;rr,, are at present over 5e10.(Mln doge!
al reinveyl in the world, of vvhich very
4 ocarty halt are American.
OUR TREATMENT OF OTHERS
Or -
Be Calm ; Wait Before Acting in the
Hour of Emotion
Oh that 1 had wings like a dove.
For then 1 would Ily away tied be at
rest.-1'sulins lv. 6.
It Is probable that these words were
culled forth by Absalom's rebellion. Ile
wanted his father's throne and had him-
self proclaimed king. When David heard
of this he was greatly distressed and
wished that he could get away into
some quiet theert place. It was u fool-
ish wish. Ile was not at his best and
should have waited until his feelings
were under control.
No flour of life calls for more care
than that which brings us face to face
with en unpleasant experience. R
would be unreasonable to ask that such
a thing should not affect our feelings,
but it is not unreasonable to ask that
we should move at such a time with
great care.
Every man knows when he is not at
his best, and, knowing, should school
himself into lite habit of waiting until
he calms down before speaking or act-
ing. No surgeon would perform an op-
eration calling for great care if he had
trembling of brands. No engineer would
go into his engine to do important duly
if ho had serious trouble with Isis eyes.
UNFITTED TO 1)0 111S Blsf,
either would say, "i cannot do this un-
lit I stn in better condition." •
11 should be the sande in everyday life.
If things have gone wrong in the office
so that we cannot sleet the visitor in a
pleasant, manly way, we should ask
him to call at another tune. if the an-
noyances of the home have been such
that when the child has done wrong we
cannot administer correction without
show of temper, we should either defer
correction or let the wrong go unno-
ticed.
We nhnke a mistake every lime we
net our feelings vvhich do not represent
cur best selves and sometimes do in-
jury to others.
No moll ran be at his best all the
time. The• most even-tempered may fe
ru111ed sometimes. The most cheerful
alien have blue ailments. As well ve-
tted that the .body should not be affect-
ed by changes in temperature as That
mind and heart should not be affected
by the experiences of everyday life.
A man who spends the night in toss-
ing is not as well prepared to meet
the irritieeens of the office as one who
las had sound sleep. The men suffer-
ing from bodily ►11 (Inds it harder to
give a pleasant un -wee to every question
lean the nrnn who scarcely I;nows what
ache or pain is.
It is not possible to prevent unpleas-
ant circumstances having some effect
upon our feelings. but It is possible to
refrain from speaking or acting
UN'l'll. BETTER FEELINGS COME.
Most of us contrive to control our feel-
ings when there is something personal
at stake. The man of business may be
vexed, but when a good customer ap-
pears there is little danger of his doing
anything rude. Many annoying things
may conte into the life of a good house-
wife, but !hero is not much danger c;1
their showing effect when a good soci-
ety friend calls. The day in the store
rung• le hard, but the husband, if he
will, can control his feelings when an-
swering tedious questions f'oin his wife
as when such questions are asked by a
good cit tomer.
The day in the home may be trying,
but the wife who can, despite this, con-
trol her feelings and be agreeable to a
visitor should be able to assume nn equ-
ally pleasant planner to her husband. We
cannot always is al our best, but when
cur feelings are ruffled it is our duty
to keep them under control and to be
especially careful at such times in our
treatment of others.
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HOME3.
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EIES.
Banana Cream Pie -Line a deep pie
plate with a crust and rim and fill with
thin dices of berme'. Bent the yolks
et two egef> with tub tablespoonfuls
celery cut into half inch pieces, one cup-
ful stock, two teaspoonfuls of flour, one
tablespoon butter, one tablespoon le-
mon juice, one dessertspoonful of curry
powder, one teaspoonful chopped onion.
Cook the onion in the butter until slight -
I colored, add the (lour, and stir until
it browns. Then mix in the curry pow-
der Pour in the stock and bring to a
to I. Add the celery and lemon juice,
reheat, and serve with border of hot
boiled rice.
Mince or Calf's Liver end Celery -Six
slices buttered dry toast, one and one-
half cupfuls celery cut into hall inch
0! sugar; add one teaspoonful of orange nieces, Three-quarters cupful cream
extract and one and one -halt cups of sauce. one -halt cupful cooked calf's liver
rich milk; pour over the bananas and cut into quarter inch cubes. Cook the
bake like custard, then cover with n celery in stock or water until tender,
meringue mode of the whites of two drain thoroughly,
then add it and the
eggs and two heaping teaspoons of liver to the cream sauce. .. c
easbn to
granulated sugar. Brown lightly in the taste, stir over the fire until bubbling,
oven. then pour it on the toast and serve hot.
Mock Lemon Pie -The yolks of two linked Celery with Cheese -Three cup.
eggs welt beaten; add one scant cup et tuls of celery cut into inch pieces, one
sugar and ono heaping teaspoonful of cupful stale bread crumbs, three-quar-
corgstarch and a pinch of salt. Beat ler cupful grated cheese, one-half cup -
all together, then add one teaspoon of fol milk, two tablespoonfuls butter. one
lemon extract and one cup of thick sour tablespoonful flour. Cook the celery In
milk; bent with en egg beater 1111 smooth; boiling salted water until tender. drain
pour into crusts and bake like custard. Ihnroughly, and set aside half a cupful
when done frost welt the whites of two of the liquid. Melt one tablespoonful
eggs and two heaping teaspoons of of the butter, add the flour, and mix un -
sugar and brown delicately. 1l: smooth. Turn In the milk and the
Mock Cherry Pie -One cup of cyan- half cupful of celery liquid. Bring to a
berries cut in halves and mashed to re- foil and cook for three minutes. stir -
move seeds. one-half cup of raisins ring constantly. Add half a cupful of
chopped fine, one tablespoon of flour. the cheese, stir until 11 melts. then mix
ere cup of sugar, one teaspoon of ea- in the celery, ndding salt and paprika
film, pinch of salt, one cup of boiling or cayenne. Melt the remaining table -
water. Stir over the stove 1;11 it thick- spoonfuls of butter end moisten the
eros. ten add one-quarter lesepron cf bread crumbs with it. Place the celery
almond extract; pour Into crust lined and emotes in n baking dish in alter -
plates, cover with upper crust, and bake elate lap re leaving the last !neer crumbs
till the cruet is brown. and sprinkle the remainder of the
Pineapple Pie --One can of chopped sr cheese over the top. Bake on the upper
grated pineapple, Iwo cups of sugar. reek of the oven until a meliumn brown
two eggs. one and one-half cups of cold and serve bol.
water, one tablespoon of cornstarch dis- --
solved in the water. Mix Thoroughly USEF'UI. 111N i'`;.
and bake in Iwo crusts in a moderate A little vinegar in polish will be found
even one-half hour nr a little longer. !n obviate the dead, oily look so often Pie -Cook the prunes, then line patient rifler cleani
ng l s
• plate with crust and fill with the If your finger fs shut in n door, or
stoned primes, adding enough juice to
make it moist. Cream together butler as can
put it al once in waled ns hot
the sizn of an egg with Iwo tablespoons a. con Ir borne. ChangeItle water ns
o' sugar. then two tablespoonfuls of fine leen minutes'
it cools, end keep the finger in for fif-
breaderunlbs and the well beaten yolks
of two eggs: add the stiffly benlen
when grease is spilled on the kitchen
whites of the eggQ. spread over the flnlil' pourcold vv'nter Ilpwgl it lit once.
prunes. and bake In a moderate oven. ing into the beards.
The
will harden 11, and prevr:it ifs soak-
• 4hoc(dale Custard Pie -Three eggs. The following paste will make the
two-thirds cup of sugar, Iwo tablespoons re,righrst hands smooth if cnnslnnlly
c conn or one square of clxicolate mel u.el: Mix one•quarte.r pond of unsett-
led, pinch of salt, flavor with vanilla, e; Inn!. afterclarifying ung and dipping in
odd one pint of milk and bake In one rose-water. with the yolks of two eggs
crust and n large spoonful of •homey. Add as
\leg chop rine Mince Pie- -es. o core, much pn-le of almonds. well pounded
end rhnp twelve apples, ndldi oar
cup of vveler, n little cinnnnlnn and nuein a mortar. as will work This com{x,und
nx'g. graded rind of a lemon. one cup Jilin, a pastee
o' sweet apple )oke, one cup of sugar. od cooks knee the value of n fevv
r in
butter the size of nn egg. one cup ora�la, nlnk pe of .glycerine
In the proportkel ion' et car lett-
ere'',
• raisins, mak till lender, lel it Spoonful to one (5 5511(1 of hour. this mak-
ing then 1111 the pies and bake till the the dough light end leathery. while
three tensponnfuls with every pound of
fruit in jam -ranking prevents the ter -
mentation +,1 the sugar owing to insuffl-
dent belling. And obviates all risk cf
the letter erystnlllzing.
Ref, •re using preserved vegelahlee.
'hien neny all their liquor. place the
vegetables on a sieve or a entlander.
and [mint' hniiing water over. This pro-
cess rids the vegetables of the water in
which They were preserved, and which
ellen enuses a hiller taste; and boiling
water also lends to soften the vegetables
and makes there more cney to cook.
Preserved vegetehleI. as o rule, do not
requite In boil so king as fresh.
To prevent kid hionls from becemtng
tent And Miff after They hove been wet.
they nmt1 1e flret rubbed with a soft
cloth immediately After removing them
from the feet. and while stili damp
kerosene nil should he rubbed in well
with a piece of flannel. repeating this
treatment again when the first applica•
titin is nearly dry. Then place the hnote
In warm place. where the drying on
crnlie.n can he Botched gradually. L
crust is hrewn.
Stair Milk I'iecrust--To four cape et
Cour add one even teaspoon of sodn.
t e minding t(n•peons of salt. and four
!(aping lnblesp(lnns of lard for part lard
end huller). \Vhen ready lo mix use
s, er milk or buttermilk -to make as
stiff as unapt.
Clil.l•:uY C0111blN\TR INS.
Celery Custarde--Two eggs. one cup-
ful milk. three-quarter euphll celery cut
into hell inch ple<'es. dao inhlespxlnn•
lilts ehoppid teethed chicken, one 'able-
st -eels teeter. ene•hnlf Iahl epxeon chop•
fed onion. one-half teaspoonful salt,
0iiC- lghth Ien.peenfut pepper. Cook the
celery. onion and teeter together for
leen' minlues over a moderate fire until
the vegetables are n pale brown. Beal
the egg-, thin Ater all of the ingredients
together. four into small custard cups
end bake ;mite firm. Serve in the cups.
•\'sauce lltllnndnlse may be served with
them If the' ircd.
Curried Celery -Two cupfuls of cooked
ft re wearing them rub over once more
with a little kerosene and then apply
a good kid polish in the usual manner.
The tissue paper in wihich parcels are
wrapped should never be Thrown away,
but smoothed out and laid in a drawer
for future use. A small pad of tissue
paper sprinkled with methylated -spirits
will give a brilliant polish to mirrors,
p.icllir glasses, and crystal. The pad.
used without the spirit, is excellent for
burnishing steel, rubbing grease spots
off furniture. polishing silver, etc, l'or
packing glass, ch;ma, and ornaments, a
roil of tissue paper is invaluable_ \Vhen
pricking hats, a wisp of tissue paper
should be twisted round all upstanding
ends of ribbon, ospreys, and wings, 'o
prevent crushing. Dress and blouse
sleeves should be stuffed with soft paper,
and a sheet of it placed between the
folds. Silk handkerchiefs, ribbons and
lace should all be ironed between a lay-
er of tissue paper, and the latter is a
fine polisher of steel buckles and hat-
pins.
Success in ironing Shirts. ---Any of
the • (chewing named substances when
put into toiled stared will help to make
the garment iron smoothly and lake a
gloss; Borax, sugar, call, wax, lard.
turpentine. eperniaceti. The shirt front
is slarch••d with hot boiled starch in
which there has been mixed one or more
o! the above ingredients. 1l is dried,
and then dipped in thin, raw starch.
After a few hours it Is ironed. A thin
piece of muslin is placed between Iles
slarchal surface and the iron. After
the shirt -front has been ironed smooth
it is rubbed with a damp cloth, and then
polished with an iron specially made or
this purpose. '('here must be a great
deaf of pressure used on the polishing
iron, and practice is required to do this
work well. Place a hard smooth board
under the shirt -front when polishing.
Many men object to the highly -polished
surface, preferring the dull one.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
IN 1'EIINATION x1. LEssON,
APRIL 7.
Lesson 1. Jaeol►'s Vision and God's Pro-
mise. Golden Text: Gen. 28. 15.
THE LESSON WORD STUDIES.
Based on the text of the Reeisedl Ver-
sion.
'fhe History of Origins Resumed. -The
Temperance anti Easter Lessons to
which we have given our attention on
the two preceding Sabbaths have broken
into the continuity of our study of line
early beginnings of the Hebrew people.
To -day's lesson picks up the thread of
the Genesis narrative exactly where we
dropped it three weeks ago, 110 recorded
events intervening between the lesson
for March 17 and this one. Rebekah, the
wife of Isaac, after counseling her son
Jacob to flee front the wrath of Esau to
Laban, his uncle, in distant Horan, pro-
ceeds to enlist. the oo-operation of Isaac
in furthering her plans and ennbling
journey in
the guise of
t make the
Jacob o t
a suitor, rather than as an acknowledged
fugitive from the just auger of a deeply -
wronged brother. To accomplish her
purpose Rebekah resorts to deception
and by its practice succeeds in withhold-
ing from her aged husband the real rea-
son for desiring that Jacob shall without
delay proceed upon the long journey
suggested. Apparently also she succeeds
in keeping Esau from suspecting the
real purpose of the journey upon which,
shortly afterward, his brother sets forth.
Verse 1 . Isaac called Jacob -Soon. it
not immediately. after the petulant nut -
break of Rebekah : "1 am weary of my
life because of the daughters of Ileth
11 Jacob take a wife of the daughters of
Ilelh. such as these of the daughters of
the land. %vital good shall my life do
me?"
Thou shall not lake -More than a sim-
ple request of father to son, the paren-
tal aulherlly of the Ortenlnls in ancient
limes not being abrogated as in modern
limes when the son reached twenty -ono
years of age. 'tribal rind family govern -
men! was so closely interwoven that the
authority of the father over the son wile
In part the authority of a tribal superi+,r
over an in inferior.
The daughters of Cannon --Daughters
of the native inhabitants of the land,
here nppnrently referring to Hittite wo-
men from among whom Esau 118(1 cho-
sen fora of lits w(%ds.
Y. i'addnn-anion •- Elsewhere referred
to simply es Atom. the prefix Padden
signifying nem or tract of land. In the
Oki Testament ,\rnm includes lire north-
ern part of Me•sn{otnrnia. Ilnran being
the name both of a city and of a smaller
province.
4. The blessing of Ahrnlinm---fhe di-
vine promise oft -repealed to Abraham.
insuring In his posterity as a permanent
inheritance the Bout of Canaan, here re-
ferred to by !sone ei !peaking to lamb
like Isaac his father and Abraham his
JIE
brandfatuer, was to be lad a sojourner
in the land of which Isis descendants
should in later times take full posses-
sion.
Verses 5.9 inclusive record the effect on
Esau of Isaac's sending Jacob into Pad-
den -Gram to secure a wife; for "Esau
saw that the daughters of Canaan
pleased not Isaac. his either ; and Fsau
went unto ishmael and took besides. the
wives that he ljud, Midweek, the daugh-
ter of Ishulael,- Abraham's son, the sis-
ter of Nebak,th, to be his wife."
10. 13te•r-sheba=The name means liter-
ally "well of the oath." It was here that
Abraham had enteral into cOvennn1
with Abimolech„ king of Gerar itien. 21.
31;. "Wherefore lie called the place Beer-
sheba; because there they sw,u-e both of
there." A different derivation, however,
i; suggested in Gen. 26. 33 : "We have
found water. And he called it Shibuh :
therefore the name of lite city is Beer-
sheba unto this clay." -
11. One of the stories of the place -in
the vicinity of Beitin, the site of ancient
Bethel, the ground is covered by large
sheets of bare stone with herr and there
n rock in upright position, whiled little
Is the southeast a hill rises to its top in
terraces of stone.
12. lletold a ladder ---The physical fea-
tures of the place, especially the terraces
of stone referred to lit the preceding
nate, seemed in the dream to constitute
a huge staircase or ladder set up on
earth, and the top of it reaching to
1lcavep.
13. Above it -Or, beside hien, as the
marginal reading of the Revised Version
indicates.
14. As the dust of the earth -Compare
the similar promises in which the count-
less stars of heaven (Gen. 15. 5; 22. 17;
2, 4 ;) and the sand iGen. 22. 17 ; 32. 12),
which serve as figures to describe the
great number of descendants which are
promised.
Thou shalt spread abroad -Heb. break
forth.
To the west, and to the east, and to the
uurll, and to the south -In the days of
He greatest prosperity the united king-
dom actually did extend as far in every
direction as these words •of prophecy
could possibly be interpreted to indicate.
15. Bring Thee again into this land -
The word "again" in Old English is con-
stantly used where we should say
"back." The archaism in this case does
not, however, as sometimes, create am-
biguity.
16. 1 knew it not-Appnrently Jacob
itad been accustomed to think of Jeho-
vah's presence as associated especially
with certain sacred places at which his
forefathers had dwelt and worshiped.
Ile seems to be surprised to find Jeho-
valh's presence'in this strange and lonely
.{glace.
17. Dreadful -Lit. "to be feared."
The house of God -The place of Jeho-
vah's own abode and consequently the
gate of heaven.
18. For a pillar -Lit. "a standing
stone," that is, a sacred monolith such
es in tinily Old Testament limes consti-
tuted the distinguishing !nark of a
littered place, often standing beside an
altar. In Exod. 23. 24, and in 2 Kings
1'). 26, the "pillars" of the Cai111nnites lll'e
ordered to be destroyed, and in Deut.
16. 22, it is forbidden to erect pillars by
11t altarotJehovah.
.
Poured oil upon the top of it --Thereby
consecrating it and setting it nport
(sacredly as making a place of worship.
19. Bethel - Meaning literally "the
house of God." The ',extern Heflin is n
(small village with ruins of early Chris -
tion and crusnders' buildings, about ten
finks north of Jerusalem and a little east
of the main highway leading from Jeru-
snlern northward lo Shechem.
The city was Luz id the first-Appa,-
✓ e'ntly the sacred place "Bethel" was out-
side the ancient city ; but later the fettle
of the sanctuary lad to the city being
known by the same name, being called
Bethel in place of Luz.
20. Vowed n vow -:\s was common
among ancient Oriental peoples, this
vow consisted of a solemn promise to
render to God some service in the event
of a particular . boon asked for being
genntid.
21, 22. And Jehovah will be my God,
then this stone --Or, "then shall Jehovah
be my God and this stone."
Shall be God's house -Not in nn idola-'
Imus sense but meaning simply that in
the place of the stone (here shall be
erected at some future time a permanent
sanctnnry for the worship of Jehovah.
1 will surely give the tenth unto thee -
The distinct command to eel aside a
tenth as Jehnvnll's portion Is given In
Lev. 27. 30-32. In Gen. 14. 20, however.'
Abraham is referred to es paying tithes
ithat is, tenths) unto Melchizedek, king of
Salem.
NOT A DI.SBIELIi:VER.
"1 suppose." rernnrked the dear girl,
"That you do not believe In love at first
sight 9"
"Oh, yes. 1 do," rejoined the old bach-
elor. "If men were gifted with second
sight they would never fall in love."
in n bushel of wheat
550.000 seeds.
there ore about
DOW:STiC SC.IF.VCP. DOINGS.
\lic'res. "1\ ey. Mnryl You're kitt.tien s ir; ;,u, awful state. It'll take you
Tall a day to el ,nn 11 up. What en enrtt; !.ase you Leen doing?"
\tory "Your twe daughters have ben showing nee how to boll a potato
according lo for;r cook book."
JiNN1NI"%LI.% 1\111. S:\U HIS
1)41s 1% 'fat: 110111.1101 st'
Career ul the "Green Goods Ilan Had
Plundered the Public of
slilliun..
"Jimmy" McNally, helpless from rhea-
matism, penniless, ragged. homeless,
staggered into the Tombs Police Court,
New York, ami begged to be sent to the
almshouse. McNally. who had •spent
millions of dollars, asked only 11181 the
might be sent some place where he
plight spend his few remaining days.
"All in: he said huskily, to the ser-
geant. Drugs, opiates, morphine and,
cocaine, dissipation in the days of his
prosperity and exposure of late had
ctmbined to put 1dn1 "down and rut."
Fifteen years ago he claimed that his
profits for a single week were $250,000.
Those were the days when his men were.
receiving victims in \\',st Street, in
Chambers Street, in Christ:ether Street,
around Bleecker Street, and further up-
town. All this was done under the eyes
of the police and without their objection.
HOW HE STARTED.
\Vhen in his Ieeris, McNally appeared
as a waiter in a reseal frequented by
thieves, known as the "Plunge." It Was
here that he mel "Bed" Leary, Draper,
Irving, and finally, Joe Little, one of the
pioneers of the green goods game.
McNally and n friend got 84,000 from a
visitor at the "Plunge" one night, and.
with that bought the resort. It has been
said that a police official lent him 520,-
000. Ile wrote the famous "So Help Me
God" circular letters, scattered them
broadcast through the United States, and
began to gather in the harvest.
Then he met Jennie Munro or Nellie
Marne, as she preferred to be called. Ile
is said to have presented her with $250,-
000 worlh of jewels in ten years, besides
spending as much more upon her. They,
filled up an opium den. When the down-
fall came, Nellie Marue died penniless at
Bellevue Hospital.
BEGINNING OF THF. END.
Up to 1891 McNally flourished. Ile
moved across the river to Hoboken, New
Jersey, and then to Jersey City. An-
thony Comstock and his men made a
raid upon the headquarters, which was
an entire house, in which 40 clerks
worked.
Ile went abroad for a year, after living
in Philadelphia, Bridgeport and South
Norfolk. Ile carne back, started in Chi-
cngo, where he was arrested, and in
1S95 was sentenced to three years' im-
prisonment at Joliet. Ile served his!
term and returned to the world and
found that the men he had trusted had
appropriated his money to their ow•ne
use. Since then the lived from hand to'
mouth, getting little from the men ho
once befriended.
The magistrate sent him to the work-
house for three months. The mon who
had spent fortunes thanked the magis-
trate for the kindness, with tears in his.
eyes.
TELEPHONE TOO SLOW.
Forerttst of What the Future May Bring
--Private Telegraph Lines.
The following forecast of the tele-
graphic depe'opnlents which will pro-;
tally coma into being in connection(
with commercial work is given in a pro-
minent electrical journal.
The big business houses will have
their private telegraph lines to 1110 near-
est once.
A typewriter telegraph instrument be-
ing placed in the merchant's office, a
typist will typec messages previously
die-
Wel,
1-ae1, and these will be receival on 0,
printing machine at the post ounce.
The dropping of an indicntnr will
wnrn the operator Butt n rn:ssngo Lsi
wailing; 1t will be taken from the recety-1
er and despatched to its destinnllen,
vwilhnut delay.
if the message is an order to nnother
merchant, the littler will In a few min-
utes see it signalled to his office. anti
going to the receiving instrument, will
simply abstract It, and acknowledge it'
In a s(milw•.
Nn fuss andar woayrry. No welling In get.
ot: the telephone, with the loss of lime
end temper. Eything working'
smoothly. and gnielverly, awaiting tlo ap
preach of lite millennium.
MILLIONS FOR Grum 1\ %Mlle
V, ill Have New nines and Cannon
Navy to (:et New 1'esseis.
The Appmpriatien committee of the
lte'chstag has approved the bell authoriz-
Int; the Lssue of $87.500,010 in ireasury
tends with which to strengthen the
available funds in the imperial Treasury.
The Government. it is understood,'
since the beginning of 1900 hes expend-
ed or ecnlrncted to expend sums esti.
nutted to amount to 875.000,000 in cam•
Dleling the rearmament of the nrlillery
and the improvement of the rills used
in the. ninny. There seems to be no
doubt that Parliament will approve the
measure. The rearmament of the nrlil.
lery is on the point of teeing compkt.
ed, the Krq,ps working at the highest
pressure on the contract.
The committee also agreed to rnpnrt
favorably on the naval programme for
the construction and emelt-tent of war-
shiple. Including two bntlieships. one
rumored cruiser, Iwo small cruisers endo
several torpedo bottle.
The sum of $.50.000 w•ns epprnprinted
to increase the fortifications of the Rlver
Elbe, and $3.A25.00A was voted for belld•
Ing a new arsenal at Sonderburg.
"Tho boy has evidently been ruling too
much between meals," sold the cinder.
"Nonsense f' replied the boy's father;
"a boy can't eat in his Fleets.' "flow de
you mean?" "I mean that each of hlR
meals begins when he gets up In the
me•rntng, and ends when he re's to
bed."
The 51. lotherd M e•nv.stsry Ls tag
snowiest in Europe. 1 here anew falls ore
tub days in the year.