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ONIIERFUL
LEV
Teeing Bey 1lIt Wenderkti Eye
sight is -$1 rung Enough In
ronetrate Substances in Sante
liashien as the X KnYe.
in the Dark. •
They may be freaks of Nature, hot
all the same it is doubtful whether
'there are More wondeilal babies in
-Ahe vorld than ibhoso inentioncd in the
.:foillowing exhale. There is Arthur
;Keene, a eta -year-old boy, Keine :With
parents at Pennth We io, in whom
about a year ago, British mediCal
,A"re much interested: The boy had
lived on. DMA ever since his birth, not
a itarbiele of solid feed beieg taken.
At six years of age -he was. 'finely
titeeeoped and healthy, and his diet
consisted Of thirty pints of Milk per
sok Mixed with sugar and m lirfie
Then. there is James Adolph ,Cody,
of Ohicage, who is two years said
ttilee Months old. He Weighs lie the.,
uneasures 14 in. round the ilea, 36 in,
round the waist, 16 in. above the knee,
mid '13 iii. below. He eats more than
both his parents.
Far breakfast Young James 'eats
numerous biscuits spread With butter
and syrup, and drinks two glasses of
as well as a. couple of cups of
,coffee. For dinner and supper he is
• MtepLied with a large plate of boiled
bacon and vegetablw, and he gives
full vent to a lusty pair of lungs if
he is not given light refreshment
beh,ieen meals ,
,X.Eay Eyes
When Lionel Brett, a young boy of
Massachusetts, was a baby in arms,
tees. mother notieed that there was
'soinething peculiar about hie eyes, and
elating that Ire was in danger of
gcqie blind She had him examined by
ceveemi oculists. These gentlemen dis-
covered that the child was possessed
'ef the most wonderfut pair of eyes,
tthis eight penetrating sub.stances in
the same fashion as the X-rays.
Or. Ferretti, of Narbonne, awl Dr.
Krassee of Montpellier, some years
back examined a young girl of Nar-
bonne, and she was found to possess
eyes similar to those of Lionel Brett.
Experiments proved that she cei4d
,see through, opaque bodies as clearly
etnet penetratingly as if her eyes gee -
'orated Rontgen rays.
Another child possessed of wonder-
ful eight was a German lad named
'Schaefer, who created a furore in
.oixobililocircles scene thee ngo, There
was nothing unusual in his appear -
lance, and yet he bad a very strauge
parr of eyes. The usual order of
',things was reversed; in the daY he
...was practically blind, while In the
darkness of than ight the keenness
ext his sight was astonishing. When
night oame on, young Schaefer could
il3EVO with an acuteness which many
ordinary people would have given
math to possess even ht daytime.
A MOORISH ,MARRIAGE •
,
What„ They. Ate at a Wedding Feast
' That Lasted Two Bays.
A .remitrIcalite wedding, uniting 'the
'two most, powerful families, has
'takes place at Tetuan. The son of
the celebrated Moor, Lebady, lately
ihe'Bitelta of Tetuan, has married the
elatighter of the Moor, Aitayna.
Nearly all the Christian residents in
'Tetuan attended the ceremony, as
well as others who journeyed from
Xeuta,
The Moors who were Invited to the
'feasting and revelry, which tasted
Awe days, had such enormous appe-
tites that for the purposes of differ-
ent imneuets they slaughtered 2,000
4hens, 2,000 chickens, 500 sheep, 40
oxen, and 500 pigeons. Honey and
,-eheese were consumed by the inin-
'dredweight, axed bottles of lemonade
..tlizappeared by, the. thousand.,
For coffee and tea, 5,000 /b. of sugar
was required, and Lebady spent $600
on. bisethits, pastry, and confectionery.
Christkins dialed in tUrePeall
style in an hotel, and I,ebady's house,
wijOnh is beautiful Moerish palace of
thigh oitistic merit, was full of
'presents. '
lir,USSIAN LETTER -OPENERS
In RuSela one letter in every ten
poets:mg through the post is opened by
the authorities as a matter of course.
Indeed, the postal authorities of every
'country have experts who have raised
letter -opening to a fine art, Some
kinds of paper can be steamed epee
without leaving any 'traces, and this
eample operation is finished by re -
burnishing the flap with a bone ta-
:eirutueut. '
In, 'io case of a seal, a matrix is
telt= 'by moans of new broad before
breaking the wax. \Viten Other me-
• thods fail the envelope is placed be-
tween pieces eat wood, with edge
-projecting one -twentieth of an inch,
• -The edge of the envelope le first
Ifattened, then, roughened, and finally
lila Open, later a hair line of strong
twhite gum Is applied and 'the edges
.united under pressure, ,
SKAIL BOORS BE BURNED7.'
'Quite recently Lord Reseberry de-
-clitime,d against the system of hoard-
ing up thousands upon thousands of
hooks in public and private libraries.
it it probably a feet that many of
the hurley tomes so carefully guarded
'and stored will never be of use again;
;but who shall weed out the works that
.lhave doet their pristine value?
Libraries tyre as old as our civilise-
, Ilan.. Antstotle possessed a collection
books eenturies before the Chris -
'Van. era, and Plutarch .owned 200,000
ef the carious volumes of luis day,
As proof of the etimentme numbs.r
of books that, have been shepherded
into public keeping, it may be men-
. toned that the Bodlefaji Library, at
os,ford,, Contains no fewer than 600,0•M
volumes and the Advocates' *Library,
Ii Iiiiiinbargh, 00,000.
ItevonEie is 'sweet (tale after tile
keart, has become soured.
Clinton News -Record
HOW C11:11TREN
ARE POI'S, °NED
Every Vent Brings its Remerd
Children Who nave Bee
Poisoned A$ A Remelt of
Bating Berries front
the Woods.
Every eumeierand autetee brings
its record rehlikiren who have beeni
poisoned, sometime with rata ellfeets,
sit a result of eating some berries
leaves, or ether parts of plates Which
they hays pickeel In the woods. " One
Of the -ritst thiugs'a Child should be
tatight is never to eat any berries
except the welOcomen barnaess ones
emelt as bleclaberrieS wild straw tier,
ries or itopberries. leittM ones must
be watched tial they are old, enough
to recognise edible fruitee but even
when very young they may be taught
mot to try eating anything which Is
unknown. The plants that me most
commonly responsible for illness and
even death when eaten by children
are irivat berries, laburnum seeds,
aconite leaves, the brilliant red, ;inlay
berries of the arum (lords and kettles)
end the woody nightshade. The dead-
ly night shads is pretty well known
to be poisonous, but it is tar less com-
mon than the woody nightshade or
biter -sweet. The .common 'hemlock M
a strong poison, but there is nothing
to tempt chlildren to eat it; one dan-
ger, however, hes in its hollow stem,
teem which whistles may he made,
and these of course when pule to the
mouth Will convey the Poisonous
juice to the tnembrauss and the salve
by which means it may reach the
stomach.
a •
TIlEBIJSINESS SPY
Each of the Two Great World's Oil
Trusts have a Large Number of
Frivate Detectives to Watch
Each Other.
In old days, before Patent Acts had
been passed ..to confer well-deserved
monopolies upon inventors, the man
who discovered a new process in the
arts Or in mechanics took the most
elaborate precautions to guard It.
He worked behind locked doors; his
workmen were put under oath not to
reveal tale process, and were Searched
wheat going 'out, while all visitore
were rigorously excluded.
The business.spy of those days had
to resort to the most elaborate dis-
guise, and he practically carried his
life in his hands. The man who, in
'1770, stole the famous Huntsman pro-
cess for making steel, got access to
the Attercliffe works under the gale°
of a half -frozen tramp, who begged
admission one bitter winter night.
To -day the owner of a intent Is
protected bY law from Infringement
In every country In the world, yet
the trade spY Ins far , more numerous
than he was a century ago,
The 011 Business
There 'has been, and is, war in the
oil trade. The two great companies
-- one Of whit% draws its supplies
from America. the other from Runt).
— have been cutting prices.
Part of the campaign — the meet
important part — is conducted ey
spies. The Standard Oil, it Is said,
emPloys no fewer than eight hundred
secret police, many of whom act as
paid employees in, the works a the
rival company.
Thus the rival' oil companies are
Inept informed of the yield of their
enemies' wells, of the names of timer
customers, the wages they pay, and
parelcularly of the prime cost of the
carriage of their products' to the
Varioes markets.
In England, many ef the great
wholesale firms have their own corps
of secret police. Mere M at least
one firm of whisky manufacturers
whose secret agents 'constantly visit
the retailers, their object being to see
that no inferior substitutes are offer-
ed to customers in place of 'their own
brand.
The °WIWI'S Of welleknown brands
of patent antieles, such as soap, drugs,
motor -ear tyres, etc., also send round
men, whom they mull "inspectors," to
see that the retail firms do not sell
their products below the advertised
prMes.
How Dressmakers Suffer
The woret sufferers from trade
spies are the fashionable dressmakers.
Very large prices are paid to the
artists who design new fashions in
ladies' dresses, and these, of course,
own be registered, and so protected.
Plants, however, that either cannot
or will net pay the best artists are
always on the look -out for these •de-
signs as BODO as they appear; for, by
making a few trivial alterations, they
elude the copyright, and so manage to
profit dishonestly by the brains of
others.
MANUFACTURED MILK
Cows are not numerous In Japan,
but the Japanese are fond of milk,
and to meet this demand in the face
of a natural shortage they long ago
put their wits to work and evolved
a prqduot that till average person
cannot dietinguish from the • regelar
dairy article.
The artificial milk is, derived from,,
the sole bean. The beans aro first
soaked, then boiled 'in water. Pre-
sently 'the liquid curns white; sugar
as% phosphate of potash in proper
quantities are added, and the boiling
continued until a stibstance time thick-
nes4 of molasses is obtained. This
fluid corresponds • very accurately
with ordinary cendensed milk, and
when water is added cannot be told
from fresh, If the present rise in the
price of British milk continues we
can foresee a big run on soJa beans.
Now, Mr. Milkman, beware!
A, man 'should never try to !COO
any' subsets from his wife, Some
kind friend will come along, and tell
her, anyhow.
LATEST STYLES
IN PRISONS
mates In New Instil:dem Halm the
Pleasere of Aesociating at 'labia
and 'Calii111; Part le Literary-
, Work anti Debates
and Gaines.
From time to time we have heard
of remarkable prisons in' the States,
where the inmates are allowed to
driek, ?smoke, play cards, indulge is
sport, music, and thetitricals, and
who are so delighted with thcir "home
away from home" that they are often
reluctant toreturn to freedom. We
have no penitentiary in this country
which is quite so attractive, as is a
delightful retreat for habitual offend-
ers, now almost Completed, near Park-
huret,.in the NM of Wight.
The Prevention of Crimes Act of
1908 permits the detention of the
haleitual criminal far 'certain ponlods,
end it Is with the object of providing
an institution for the accommodation
of sada criminals that the authorities
have erected a new establishment in
the Meddle of Parkhurst Forest, a
position hard to equal for seclusion
and runt charm Even the unemo-
tional, hard-headed Prison Commie -
cleaners speak enthasiestioally of the
institution in their latest report.
"It has been possible," says the
report, "to secure not only an admi-
rable site, with saffecient grouted for
cultivation mid for additional build-
ings if necessary, but a locality which,
from the point of view of climate and
salubrity and opportunty for agricul-
tural' work of a severe nature, is well
adapted for the custody, and treatment
of •a new class of prisoner:" .
The inmates of this new institution,
ieetead of having meals alone and
apart, rirbil have the pleasuee of asso-
elating at table, and good behaviour
well enable them to meet for addi-
tional relaxation of a literary and
social character. A good library is
bong built up, entertaining lectures
will be given in the math hall, while
the men will be able to earn money at
various occupations, The money will
not actually be handed over to them,
but they will receive it when they
leave, and will be able, by means
of a canteen establishment in the in-
stitution, to purchase little luxuries
which they might not otherwise get.
No cash will change hands, the
amount of each purolease being de-
ducted from the official gratuity
earned by the customee for work done
within the eztablishment. If by
chance an innate becomes ill, he will
still, under the recommendation of
the doctor, receve a gratuity in pro-
portion to hes earnings when in full
health. ,
6000 BARGAINS
IN OLD BOOKS
Some Wonderful Bargains Made by
Collectors — In One Instance a
Book Bought for 75e Sold
For $500.
Everybody collects nowadays, from
the small boy with a penchant for
tram -tickets and elgarette-carde to
the millionaire, like Mr. Pierpont
Morgan, who seems to be making a
determined effort to "corner" the
world's art treasures. And there is
no keener bargath-thunter than the
collector, not even excepting a wo-
man at eels time, and his cup of hap-
piness is full when he .buys for a
a $5 note an object he imagines to
be worth $200.
"He glories in the feat," says lefr.
Charles Edward Jerningham, "and
claims to have engaged in a perfectly
legitimate transaction; whereas if the
object tarns out to be worth no more
than $2 he denounces the dealer as
a thief."
Ignorant English Dealers
Perhaps the most remarkable cases
are those which are given In support
of the e,ontesetion that the average
English dealer does not know his busi-
ness, It wall scarcely be believed that
at one of the foremost sale -rooms in
London n small casket was recently
sold for $60 which later, melted down,
produced several hundred pounds'
worth of gold.
And there was Lord ---, who
one day bought in Wardour Street,
very cheaply, a pair of silver -gilt
"entree" dishes whioh were after-
wards discovered to be Made of gold;
and a certain general, who purchased
au old Georgia snuff-box, sold to hint
by the dealer as sever -at, which
was also made of the precious metal.
An 'amusing story is teed of an old
bookseller, who was packing up some
volumes which 'a customer had just
bought. "Ah, sir," he said, "since I
.waO young times have changed alto-
gether in the book -selling trade. As
a youth I often bought volumes which
were worth as many dollars as I paid
pennies for them. Those days are
past, never to return. The value of
books is knoven to all now, and---"
"Apparently the value of all of them
is not known to you, my friend," in-
terrupted the customer, "for you have
sold to me for one dollar a book the
market price of which Is $25.
A Little Knowledge is a Goat Thing
Even a little knowledge May some-
times•,secure a. bargain, as the, fellovve`
leg instaiices show. A 'governess,
who had been with the family of a
Collector and had loarned a little
about the value of rare books, picked
tip on a bookstall in a by -street of
London a first edition of Goldsmith's ,
"Deserted Village," She paid six-
pence for the book, and it Wiwi sub-
sequently acid at emotion for $420.
Then there was a clergyman who
bought far 75e a copy of the "Vicar
of Wakefield; Supposed to be Writers
by Himself." The book is now valued
at over $500. At Sotheby's' not long
ago the second copy of Shelley's eetr,-
gime Poems by Victor 'and C'azire"
dated 1310, was sold for $30e0, though
it is understood that Ito preceding
owner only paid $75 fIih
CONFESSIONS Of
A HUSBAND
ff 911 a Man, Who Mewled_ for afoney
Was for Years Rept in Pocket
Roney )37 BIN Wilt! --- who
Held n Tight Hold on the
I luarried for money, and now I
seize I hadn't. I was a bank -clerk,
whese a wealthy etmeomer, a widow
— took a fancy to me. • Sae invited
nae to various social functioni at her
house and before long I knew 'that I
lead only to propose to be accepted. ,
I didn't hesitate. While I wa,s net.
in the lease bit 13m love with Mrs. --`-'-
I hiked her, and foresaw a. pleasant
existence as the master of some thou -
muds a year, a cosy 'muse In town,'
and a nice place in the country, , •
At least, 'I fancied I was going to
be Use master of. all these good things;
but that was where I made the mis-
take.
Naturally, I resigned from the bank
— indeed, my fiancee insisted on my'
doing so — and this seemed a favour-.
able opportunity for hinting that I'
should require some money for 'my
oven personal Use. .The answer was
satisfactory in a way. Didn't I know
that all she had was mine? That
eounded all right; but, alas, her law-
yers took precious good cram that not
a single penny of her money did really
becoanc mine!
There may be cases of rich women
mmrrying poor men, and making them
independent ,for life by handing them
over a lump sum, but I can only say
that I have yet to hear of an authentic
instaatoe. As it is, I receive an al-
lowance ef $1600 a year, but it is
abso'l'utely at my wife% pleasure.
Well, you may say, $1500 a year
pocket -money, the "run of my teeth"
In a comfortable, even a luxurious
home, motor -cars, heaters, what have
I to grumble at? But I am no longer
a bank -clerk on $660 a year. I have
developed expensive tastes. I aro
thrown. with men who spend $1500 a
year and more on their clothes.
True, my wife pays my tailors' and
other bills and makes me handsome
presents from time to time. Practi-
cally, however, I am harder up than
ever I was as a bank -clerk.
We do not get on at all badly, ray
wife and I, but there are 'times when
my position Is almost intolerable, and
I wish I were hank at my desk, a
free man, not ashatned to face other
If we hit it off pretty well to-
gether, occasional tiffs are inevitable,
and it is then that my wife is apt to
remind me that it as she who holds:
the purse -strings, And, one way or.
another, I am always being reminded
of this disagreeable fact. If a man
wants to sell me a horse, I cannot
say "Yes" until I have asked my wife.
If we subscribe to anything the sub-
scription appears hi her name or
jointly with mine.
The servants treat me with veiledU
insolence, for they know my true
position as well as I do.
A Wife Keeps the Heys
In a recent lawsuit between a rich
wife and a poor husband it was shown
that she kept the keys of the whine-'
cellar, and every Usti° her "lord and
master" wanted a bottle of wine, he
'had to ask his wife for the keys, My:
wife does not pat such an indignity
on me as that; but still we are not,
king and queen, but queen and prince-'
consort, and in the end, emetically.
everything connected with the house
has to be referred to her.
I have met a good many other rich
women'a husbands, and I don't know
one who is really happy. Often they
take to drink to drown their feelings
of self-et:Internet. Sometimes, kept.
short of ready -money, they get it by,
forging their wives' names to bills
and cheques.
I am talking, of course, of men who
like myself, are absolutely dependent
on their wives. I don't say that rich'
women should only marry rich men;
but, unless a man can maintain him-
self independent of his wife, theft his
position is at beat invidious, while it
Is often Little short of intolerable.
REALISM IN THE CHURCH,
The cult of realism is spreading.
Art, Literature, and the Stage have'
all beets permeated by it, and now
the Church seems to be following
suit. The pioneer is the Rev. Charles
Harrison, vicar of Selston, a colliery
village in England. For the celebra-
tion of the harvest festival the vicar
decided to use "God's own temple"—
a stockyard attached to the farm of
one of his congregation. A farm
waggon, with the horse In the shafts,
was used as a pulpit, sheaves of
cora being placed at each corher. On,
one side of the waggon was a large
wheat stack, on the other eide a stack,
of oats, and at the rear hay a,nd strew
ricks. 'The s u rpl iced choir and
school children sang harvest hymns,
To Check Floating of Fake Comm. :
panics.
• Under a law passed by the Kansas
Legislature at last session all eons-
panies offering stocks, bonds of other
securities for sale in that State must
first obtain formal permission from,
the State Banking department. This'
department investigates the financial,
standing of the company and direct-,
ere WhO seoloito,:float securetiesetheire-
plans.oe operaeioto and eif need .beetine
physical value of their properties.
How, effective this law is seems to
Le indicated by the fact that in seven
months since It went into operation
five hundred companies have asked
permission to sell securities, and only,
forty-four have passed examination.
It is said that before the law was
passed Kansas investors were robbed
of $5,000,000 a year by the floating of
securities by fake companies.
EXTRAORDINARY
u-ADYERTISI\4:
'Beef ..FiSRI Offered la pay the
Nicaregnan Goveraesent a limo y
Sant If Allowed to Permit, the
Shies of, its Warsitips
Plaeardeel witli Ade.
A eiriking novelty le what iniebt
be egia lee political advertisement has
jeer been hit upon by an Englieet
V.' Ishing to draw Meantime tn.
the net'; for reform in the present
electoral system, be has' had a number
of Wee pales erected on a eonspietume
site in the Strand.
These poles, which vary Ia eiae
from eight inches to twenty -tea° feet,
representthe number of voters le
each constituency. Below appear.% in,
large letters the inscriptions: "Each
upright, whatever its size, eounts the
santeeth the lobby. Is this fair?" And
the' thousands of people who have
stoppea and stared, have walked on
chuoiting over the neatness of the
idea.
But some of the most startling ad-
vertising ideas have neier gene be-
yeed the idea siege. When the new
King George stamps were, being de-
eigned, a 'well-known firm offered a
good many tens of thousands a year
tor tae right to use the reverse sides
of the stamps, as well as the blank
stamp -paper, as advertising space.
The Government, howevene firmly de-
clined the offer.
On Cliffs and Stamps
It was a firm of equal enterprise
that some fifteen years ago talked of
having an illuminated advertisement
In gigantic lettering on the face of
Dover cliffs. The smart firm pro-
bably knew quite well that they would
never be permitted to, but the news-
paper talk of the project was a good
enough advertisement in itself.
Beef ou Battleships
In the U. S. A., laws in restraint
of the more blatant form of advertis-
ing awe practically nen-exietent. Some
of the growing towns of the West
spend moneylike water on advertising
their own merets. One may see train-
loads carrying big inscriptions like,
"Here Is another batch of wise men.
They are settling down at Portland."
In many 'a town all 'the Inhabitants
pledge 'themselves always to wear a
button -badge with the town's name
and motto.
But probably the moat startling idea
On record is that of the big Chicago
beef Gard, which proposed to pay the
Nicaraguan Government heavily if in
return It would permit the sides of
its warships to tell forth the glories
of a certain pressed beef. And it was
only by a narrow majority that Nica-
ragua. refused to turn its fleet into
sandwich -boards.
BOYHOOD OF
GREAT NAPOLEON
In the Frenoh military school at
13rienne a small garden was allotted
to each pupil to be tilled for his
exercise. But one of them, a stunted,
sickly youth, palisaded aud entrench-
ed his portion, and in this miniature
fort he sat and read without dis-
turbance. Fifteen years later this
youth had carved his way to ma throne,
was making and unmaking kings, was
terrorising Europe, and proving him-
self not only the first of all soldiers,
but a legislator and constructive
statesman beyond compare. Who ever
tires of the story of Napoleon? The
spell that he cast over the Continent
in his lief stall clings to has name
to-cley.
TIIE FIGHTING TURK
The Turk is a great fighting man,
perhaps the best in the world — that
is, on land, for as a sailor Ile hits
never shone.
Within the last fifty years mighty
Russia has tried to heat him twice
(in 1854 and 1877) and failed signally
on each occasion. The way Turkel,
pat paid to Greece's account lit 1897
is fresh 1,rithin most people's memory.
He is a great fighter because he is
physically a strong man. The Turkish
peasantry, from whom the Army is
recruited, have to work hard for a
bare Hying, and there is no room
emong thorn for weaklings. There-
fore, blae Turkish soldier J6 capable
of tremendou: feats of madurance,
and can live on nettling, 01' meat door
to it. Then he is accustomed to fight-
ing almost from babyhood. On the
frontiers rind in the country districts
of Turkey there is always trouble
going on.
Death in battle has no terrors for
him, for by his religion it aeeares him
of paradise,
Burmese Spells.
Some curious sidelights ou the Bur -
man's character are contained in a
report on the work of .the Archaelo-
gloat Survey in Burmah. It is stated
that the Burman highly prizes the
following gems --ruby, diamond or
crystal, pearl, coral, topaz, sapphire,
cat's eye, amethyst, and emerald, Col-
lectively they ward off sickness or
danger. '121e cat's eye Is supposed
to secure IlevAltheraleility in war. In-
eAteeloni' areemutteredeover: seine or
Ill of 'these stoneseand 'the- water in
which they are immersed is druak
in order to secure immunity from all
evil. Spells are uttered over values,
and they are inserted as amulets in
the flesh of men who desire to be
buneme from wounds inflicted by
word, spetr, or gun,
Edith—"There Is one thing in par-
ticular that I like George for.- He
elwaYe tells me of ray faults without
the least hesitation. That was the
Tourist --"Why do you call that boy
agreement I caused him to make."
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aoseph Pulitzer Who Started as a
Tramp Became lite Millioneire
Owner of One of Atnerira's
Createet Papers and a
Force In Polities.
Tile history of modern blisIneee
commeree coat:ens 711 SI ly sl,rikie g
examples of 1114,5 who, commencing
'ILI,,ecewielliedeaseely a penny in thr
ei
packets, bave in the course of years
,umtiate
vast fortunes. None of
‚their
exqarraceorldsinahar; hi4eewe env er,o as althledat
of .Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, the propaietor
of the "Ne* York World," Who, has
lust died `at the ageof eiaty-four,
leaving a fortune of $30,000,009. He
was seventeen years of age when he
decided that there was no opening for
him in hits native country, Mbravia.
He 'therefore tramped through Ger-
many to the coast, sailed in an ',emi-
grant ship for New York, and when
he reached Boston harbour jumped
overboard and .sleam to shore because
he 'had not sufficient to pay the head -
tax on aliens. Ultimately he arrived.
in New York with just twenty cents
in his pocket.
However, he managed to enlist as a
private in the Lincoln Cavalry, and
eerred through the last year of the
Civil Weir. After his regiment was
disbanded he begat his fierce etruggie
for existence. The worked at any-
thing that came his way -- coal -
heaver, coachman waiter, butler, and
stoker on a Missouri ferry -beat. It
was while engaged in the latter occu-
pation that he strolled one inght into
a small saloon in St. Louts where a
game ef chess was in pro -grew. Pent-
zer possessed a perfect genius for
chess, end that night he beat the best
lean in the saloon. Ilia play attracted
the attention of a German journalist
who was prpprietor of a paper in St.
Loais. He gave him a. job and within
a few years Pulitzer was managing
editor and part -proprietor of that
newspaper, .
. The Turning of the Tide
This was the turning of the title
In 1878 he was able to buy the 'St.
Louis Dispatch,' and, amalgamating
it with his first newspaper, he formed
the "St. Louis Post Dispatch," now
one of the most pro,sperous journals
in the United States. Five years later
he acquired the 'New York World'
from Jay Gould ,a paper which soon
developed into one of the moat in-
fluential journals In America under
the guidance of Pulitzer.
Pulitzer, having sbovvn whet he
could do in the newspaper world,
turned his attention to law and poli-
tics, and soon became a great force on
the platform. Be had an extraordi-
narycommand of English, although
when he first landed in America he
could not speak a word of the lan-
guages. Every spare montent, how-
ever, was spent in the public libraries,
and within four years he could write
trenchant English. At the height of
his fame and prosperity, however, a
greet misfortune befell him, Early in
the 'nineties he became quite blind,
During, his last years he spent moat
of his time on his yacht.
MANY MILES itRie'
OF SODA
,
Bight in the Heart of Afr:ca is a Lake
— Thirty Miles Square of S01111
Deposit Which Will Supply
the World for Years
To Come.
Forty million tons of the best
washing material, supplied and manu-
factured by Nature, are waiting to be
carried from Central Africa to the
European markets, and an extension
of the Uganda Railway is to be built
from Ulu to Lake Magadi in order to
effect this. Lake Magiuli is not really
a lake, but an area of thirty square
miles of soda deposit situate in the
heart of Afrca.
Two expeditions have gone out into
tide soda lake region, which, though
hot In the middle of the day, is de-
clared to be quite healthy. It Is in the
midst of one of the finest big -game
sheeting areas in the British South
Afrioan Protectorate. In ordinary
times the lake has a perfectly level,
hard, and dry surface, like that of a
gigantic mass of ice, If a thirty -
square -mile area, con be imagined.
It apepars that in the past it has
been left to the Indians to remove
soda tram the lake. They cut out
blocks, 'and what is called "Mother
Liquid" spurts up and re-fortris into
solid soda, which they cut away aext
season. There is evidence that the
'sods. In the lake is being continually
atigmented.
In addition to the many surface -
springs discharging considerable
quanta:les of soda into the lake, there
are ieditatdons of large springs In the
lake Itself, On the removal of the
soda already crystallized the "Mother
Ligind," which takes Its place at
once, starts to re-ferin the crust.
It Itelas as If washerwomen can
sleep comfortably in their bade for
Wine, -yearn, to, come, So long, as.
washing is provided . ler:them, their
soda saall he sure.
A 'NATURAL CLeefp,
A. thing that has caused many peo-
ple to wonder is the fact that a
ebiciten never falls off Its perch. The
reason, is that whenever the fowl's
leg is bent, the toes are involuntar-
ily Pureed to close Inwards, clenching
the foot like a 'fist. Thus, when a
chicken wishes to roost, it mounts
tete perch with legs straight, and,
having selected a foothold, lowers
,tself by bending Its lege. Iramedi-
etely LIi, toes close tightly round the
parel, mid the bird remains clamped
to It without effort until the legs are
agele. straightened. _
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('ANA DIA N,TURICISII ADMIll at
Beekeent Pemba of Wittman fleet is;
Neal toil Is atid Started Live eel
II Lake Beal.
Tbor, Is a proportion of Iticatalltaa,
bruins behind wh ate ver pottion of is.
Omit it is thet flies the Toritisli
for if 'is tend hi, lilIcksam, a OSII8d5 ail,
teller knoiv 11 as BLicitiot in Pasha is
ra I and naval ail visor to thee
'mini uus 's aide and frimet
IS no Antoricad, W. Ie. Ledbetter, who
rank of' cone -dander. It Wall
a be Eli ei -yetcru ago that Galata=
weal; to Turkey as commander of tho
new crelser Metlildia, built tor the
sultan; by the •Cramps-
Sacknam's adventures began young.
ale was born le Nova Scotia, and tea
father died at item Wheu his grand-
father gave "lvini thim choice betweea
farming and' seafaring, he choee the
sea. He had an instinctive love for
the s.ea, a love that helped him to pick
up the knowledge of a ship with.
hardly an effort.. His first venture
wee made on the Great Lakes. At
the age of 14 he became a cln-boy on
a schooner of welch the captain was
also the owner. The captain's wife
took a fancy to the youngster and..
ultimately they adopted blin. TedaY
the schooner's captain le a wealthy
shipowner in one of the lake towne.
and the lonely cabin -boy Is a Turkieh
noble of the highest rank.
When he was 16 years old, Buck -
nam sailed from New York as,
quartermaster of a schooner bound
for the Pacific. At Manila tbe cap-
tain and mates died ofcholera, and
Bucknam weat before a special board
to be examined for a master's certi-
cloak:, he being the only man aboard
the vessel who had studied naviga-
tion. }le passed the test without any
difficulty and was made captain at.
17. To prove his efficiency, he brought
his ship home.
Shortly before the world's fair at
Chicago, in 3893, Buckner° went to
that city and built the whaleboat
Columbus, of which he was captain
while she was on exhibition at the
fair. Later he went to the Pacific
Steamship dompany's service, and
two Years later wns made captain of
the fela,nd of Nitoe at Panama. It
was there Inc met Ledbetter, who haa
been his aide Its Constantinople for
the last four years.
At all events, the Sultan sent for
Bueknarn and asked him if Its would
`eke the post of naval adviser, to the
Porte, 13neknam considered the
matter and finally told Abdul Hama .
that he would. Blicitnam was prac-
tical, and the salary offered him
nothing short of princely, But be
stipulated that he was to have a pre-
liminary leave of absenee In order
that he could go home and marry -
In girl In San Francisco. Tee Seamy
assented, and Bucknn,m married the_ •
Young woman, Mi school teacher. She
weut with him to Constantinople.
Proroking an Appetite
Shakespeare's wish that good diges-
tion may watt Ot) appetite expresses,
dietinet physiologicel truth. There.
is no doubt that food -taking, con-
sidered all round, should be, and is,
Its the healthy person, a pleasant
duty, If hunger be regarded In pro-
verbial language as being the best
Fence for food, it Is clear that an,
appetite for food mint constitute the
first and mrituary condition for the
enjoyment of our diet. The question .
of appetite is not such a simple one
as many persons. might be inclined
to suppbse. Popularly regarded, ap-
petite, of course, implies and means
a desire for food. Hunger is differ-
ent from appetite. Hunger may .be
regardea as the condition which In-
dicates that the body demands 'a food ;
supply; appetite, on the other hand, :
indicates an additional something
which contributes to the enjoyment
of the food, and causes an agreeable
anticipation of the advent of a meal.
Scientific research has shown ue that
appetite may be excited in various
and, in • some degree, complicated,
ways. For instance, It is known that ;
If the nerves of the stomach be duty
stimulated so that gastric Juice be
poured out at the beginning of a
meal, appetite for food is theerby
developed. In this connection it Is
extremely interesting to note that
certain substances appear to possess
a definite power of effecting this .
action, and so of stimulating appetite.
Amongst such substances, extracts of .
meat or the stimulating bodies con -
tallied in meat are known to 'cause
stomach stimulation, and in all pro-
bability the taking of some light meat
soup as a first course mit, dinner Ia
justified from a scientific point et •
view by the effect it produces on the
stomach and its work. In other words.
the soup provokes an appetite for the
foods which are to. follow.
Interviewing the Editor
Meny folks are Cull of the idea that
the newspeper editor by reason of his
sedentary' occupation Inuit ne:yssarily
be a than of slight miterular develop-
ment. But 'tie not always the case. ,
One day a young man might have
heen seen teeming up against the front
of a sporting journal., a prey to Un-
controllable grief. A benevolent -look-
ing old gentleman who wee passing
by, noticing the man's [rano- shaken
with his outburets of sorroW, ap-
proached him, and sale:
"What is your trouble, my friend?
Is there anything I can do fat you?"
"Alas!" said the young man, "it
is my poor misguided erother,a
"Anti Iwhnt, oil your brother, my
young friend?" gently inquired the
benevolent old man.
"Well," sobbed the stricken one,
"this moraine he saw an insulting
paratook getsro,a"fribesaf ei dire tthotilelhliscmizpd, ee ar,r tey7 si cehn
tlis
moan.
• "Wall, ten minutes ago he went up-,
stairs to knock the stuffing out of I.'
theenddhas "Ahe come (Iowa yet?" ask-,
od.pth-epaarntxiooure Inquirer,
ha
uirer.,,, said the
brother, in a voice that was chokedt
with emotion. "He --he's coming;
1 -down in a-sectidns, I d-dunno"
.010W when the Milk will arrive!" I,
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