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ROW GEN. BADEN-POWELL
IS TRAINING ENGLISH BOYS
i'Scoutind for Sport," the New Pastime, Appeals to au Old Instinct
.of Boyhood, Develops rhysic1/4u 3 and Conveys Ethical Lessons,
(1311ifelo Courieen
While we bane the :UMW, ntates
meny And matt yoried forme of eum-
mer outdoor life and itnildey
moan: for our boys -naval echools,
ottinp life waning toure of inetruction,
ete.-oor'lenglieh cou,sieus go tie ono bet-
ter, said have, sauce last year gone in
foe "sceutiug' as a opera" 'The head
and front of this new luetructive wa-
tt= is theft famous Englishmen, Lieut. -
Gen, Sir. R. S, liaden-PowellA who se deo
tingeished hanetilf in the South African
War.
At Rome period during out invenile
years every, man has played Indian,
WA therialied the hope of leeding
the life of a hunter Or Dackwoodsman.
General Bad,en-Powell Iwo realized this
aisle of every boyai heart, foul besides
publishing a beta: ,"Souting ter Boys,"
has gone personally and practically ho
to the work and has lied his elesses of
boye in the field greedily learning to
be "like real scouts." He recognizes
that it is useless for a boy to epecializo
oil military scouting until lie has aad
generel education in the many differ -
ma ways and arts of open-air living-,
and he believes that a very large per-
centage of boys are capable of assimilat-
ing such teaching.
The general claims that the scout
mat always be a "liandy man," 'will-
ing and able to do any kihd a work
In an emergency, from mending Ins
own bootee to building a bridge, and his
little books form veritable eucycio-
pedias of the practival information re-
quired by boas who wilh to eollaw the
life of the scout, Ile tells how the mon
who knows the life of the American
arairiee, of the black -veldt of the Aus-
tralian bush, has a Inindred devices for
making himself comfortable. There is
the question of beddbag, and cut grass
or straw makes quite a comfortable
place to lie dove upou, not so soft, per-
haps, as a spring bed, but very good
when it is all one eau get. •
Sleeping Outdoors and Warmth.
The secret of keeping warm is to
have as many blankets underneath as
above you and lest the hardness of
the greund enter into your soul, before
lying down make a small hole about
the size of a teaoup in which the hip
joint will rest when you lia,ve turned
on your side. This morale all the dia
femme between comfortable Sleep and
no sleep at all, with a dull ache in the
morning the whole long* of one aide.
lf there are no blankets newspapers
placed upon the waistcoat --and be
careful to cover the small of the baok
-are an excellent subetitute.
If one possesses the luxury of a
tent, camp candlesticks May be con-
structed in several ways -by bendipg
a bit of wire into spiral or using a
deft stick stuck ineo the tent pole or
lanocking off the bottom ef ae bottle
end placing it upside down in the
ground with a candle stuck in the
neck. The bottom of the bottle may
be neatly cut off by filling it with wa-
ter an inch or more in depth and.
standing it in the embers of the fire
when it will crack at the water level as
neatly as, possible.
These and a score of other little
tricks are known to those who know
how to camp out comfortably, but not
5 per cent. of them could be thought
out by the inexperienced. Let the
making of fires be considered. Boys in
holiday camps invariably forget the
pacessity of "ring burning" -i, e.,
clearing a circular space about the
Ike: of all dry debrie, grass-, heather,
etre, but how to cover the blaze with
ashes, so that it will smolder all night
without wasting fuel, has not been re-
vealed to them. Yet the average boy
is infinitely more intelligent than" the
grown-up man who hes become hope-
lessly dependent on servants and the
mechanical inventione of modern civili-
zation.
In one of his chapters Gen. Powell
nays: "You will often get wet through
on eervice, and you will eee recruite
remaining in their wet clothes until
they get dry (wain: no *Id scout would
de se as that le the way to catch fe-
ver a'sal get ill. When you are wet
take the fink oppotbunity of getting
your wet clothes off and drying them,
even though you may not have other -
clothes to put on, .ae happeted to me
many a time, I have sat naked under
a wagon While my one suit of olothes
Was diTing over a fire. Tihe way to
elry clothes over a fire is to make one
of hot ashes, end then bald a small bee-
hive-eslianed cage of sticks over the
hre and hang your clothes over this
cage, and they will dry vety quickly.
Also In hot weethea it is dangerotui
to sit fit youv -clothes evibern they bave
got wet from perspiration On the
west coast of Africa I always. emoted
au extra shirt, beenging down my bael
with tbe eleeves tied around my neck;
eo 8004. 473 I halted I waildi take
off the wet slid I was weaxing end put
on the dry, which had been hangleg
out in the sun on my back. By tbesse
means I never got fever wben almost
every ohe else went Own. witheit,"
Tthe camp for Gen. PetvelPe "Boy
Scoutan was on an island nearly two
miles long by ono nale wide, partly
thiclolg Wooded, and with two lakes in
the centre. of the Island. The camp woe
composed of officere' and Mese touts.
kiteleen, mid a ten to each pat'rol----a
group of five boye -with a eenior la
oath es epotrel leader," and. tbis• organ-
izatien seemed to be the Aecret of vac -
caw. lead petrol leader evaa giver%
reeponeibility for the bake -vier of
his patrol tet all timins, in tame anti
in the field, and the patrol wee the
°unit for work or play, and +melt patrol
had it; separate :spot. Itespomibility,
discipline, and competitive rivslryi
were time onee exteblished, and a
good standatd of development, wee in.
surea through the troop.
Lessons for tt Week.
The following were the eubjeets of
the tonree of instruetions teethe week:
Filet Day: Preliminara werk, est -
distributing of cluties, cadets, ete.
Seeona ettimpahplieg. Omnp re-
soureefulnees, hut and mat waking,
knote, fire lighting, oceakinh, Inalth
and satittition, endunence, finding way
a 'strange couetry end beet menage'.
Merit.
the campfire or otherwne resting, aud
with demonetratioes in the practioe hour
before breakfast, Tile practice was then
carried out in competition and sebeines;
for exampheetake one detail 'of the sub-
ject "Observetionsel via, tracking, At
Ow camp -fire overnight the boys would
be told some interesting inatanees of
the rattle 01 being eble to track, and
next to read trance from inahing foot-
mark:: of different boys and different
pam, and ebowing them how to read.
and deduct their moaning.
In the afternoon there would be a
genie et deer etalking, in which one
boy wont off, with half a dozen tennis
bails, as the deer. Twenty minutes
later four hunters would etart off
after aim following his tracke, ana
each hunter armed. with a tenuie ball,
'rho doer, after goleg It mile or two,
would bide and endeavor to ambush
his hunters, and eo get them *Man
range; eign hunter hit with his tennis
ball was counted gored to deabh, but
if the deer Was hit- three thees by the
bans he was killed.
Disoipline was very -satisfactory, in-
dee4.. A. "Court of Honor" was eons‘ti-
tuted to try any offence against dis-
cipline, but it was nover needed.
Gen, BadeloPowell has innumerable
suggestions for scouting games to be
pi-edit:ea when- ,settled in camp, Here
is an exercise in despatch running: One
of the boy ecouts is given a despatch
to take to the headquartere of a be-
sieged town, which may he a real
place, a village, a fa-rnt, or a house,
and he must return with o, receipt for
it. He must wear colored rag, two
feet long, pinned on his shoulder, ana
he must start at least four miles
away from the suppose& headquarters,
Besiegers who have to spot him can
place theroselves w -here 'they like, but
must notego nearer than 30Q yarde to
the headquarters building. Any one
found within that limit by the umpire
will be ruled out as shot by the de-
fenders.
'The deepateh runner can use any
rue() he likes exeept dressing ep ao a
womanhOut he must always wear the
red rag, and to catch 'him the enemy
mud get his badge from. him. Ten
tours may be allowea as the limit of
time by which the bearer of the des -
pad should get his meseage to head-
quarters and get back again to the -
:starting point with' the reeeipt.
On the great subject of cooking in
onmp or bivouac, Gen. .Baden-Pow-
ell is full of excellent rnatter. "An
army travels on its belly," be soya,
and if the belly be not *well looked
after the pace will be slow ane many
will fag out by the way. If all boys
were compelled to learn .all ae tells
about the thrieling, mastery of open-
air 000king the military efficiency of
a nation would vacate,' increase in ,, the
next generation. There is no reason in
the world why the sehoolboyscout, oven
though his training is carried.' eut in
tho courtry, should '.not be put through
all the object lessons suggested and
so become an expert he this all-in:port-
ant brand. of the scout's general edu-
cation.
'
More you haVe the atitt1011 all to your-
self.
"iiut here! ihrie#1 whietiel What
dote that meant And lookiag clown the
line, yoa see the think, black emoke
coming engine and yon discover that Ws
a freight trein. And maybe tide is a
-single track road And tide Iva passing
station, and then you SRO the poutterous.
locomotive coming,. dragging an eediess
line of care, and tura out here 0A the
siding.
"But that doesn't break up the pleasore
of your vacation; it eimply gives it a
tiovel feature of interest. I Alweye look
along at the cars; I never tire of that,
of reading on their eidee the mimeo of
the roads whence they came, A. country
railroad station? Why hero in this
freight train you see cers of a dozen or
twenty roads, including some Qua per-
haps you never heard ot before, Variety?
Why, yon can scarcely fiud in countrY'
or city any more veried assemblege of
men than you do of cars in this freight
Ueda halted. at a country =Bread sta-
tion, end they teke me to -ail the -varied
parts whence; they came, and I like to
read their titles on the mire awl, it
pleases me to think putt most et them
I know and they all bring visions.
"And then in due thew the next, pas:
eenger train COMAS along and we have
that sone on the platform repeated, aOd
.then the freigbt gets the right ef way
and soon, with everything aroma XsOW
all to itself, it pulls out,
MR.
PH LKINTROSS'
Or the One 'He is Thinking of Taking
at Country Railroad Station, `
"I was reading the other day," said
the cheerfal Mr, Philltiatross, "of some-
body that just missed a train and so had
to wait. six hour's at a country railroad
station -as if that was about the tough-
est thing that a limn could be celled
VACAT I ON.
Third. dey, observation: Notiebig
memorizher details far and near, land -
markt, traekitg, deduoting meaning
from tracks and eigns, and traenieg
the eyesight,
Fourth day, wooderafts Studa of
animate, birds, plante and stars; sheik-
h* 'noticing pimple, reeding
their etattaeter tted. oendition, and
theetsbet gaitieg their spite:nay.
The best way of bettpaxting the theo-
retieal itetruetiot eetia totgive oat
shott inotallizenta vvith ample it
ittothetive tortinple.,- when sitting arena
upon to endure. But do you know I'm
thinking 'of spending my vacetion that
way this summer. For if there is any-
thing I like to do it is to loaf, where
they .hove about two passenger trains a
day each way, with a freight coming
along occasionally.
"Quiet and peaee, with nobody about
and the wind ruffling idly the leaven on
the treee, and the empty glistening rails
!stretching away mysteriously. Back
from the platform down at one ena of
the station there's a boot all craeed up,
end a mowing machine likeevise crated,
and a few boxes and bench, and I look
them over with ioterest, undisturbed by
anybody and With plentv cq" time, and
then ta.ke a leek into 'the freight mid
baggage room and then into the oinpty
waiting room and then I settle down on
the stotion Pletfbrin in the shade, with
my back Nonfat:a:1y neainst the build-
ing and loaf until it's efetty near time'
for the 10.2P.
• "Along ,about 10 the station agent
comes, 'anti then pretty 64011 tWo or throe
people that are going to teke that train
or to meet people- coming. on it, and
when the people begin coming like that,
why, I stop loafing, or I loaf in a .dif-
ferent; loaf with the iatereet of at-
tention, and the owning of the train iS
greet .event to nie,
"r stand around and without iterudieg
view the people, and they all intereet
me, every one; and to be sure, more
people Coina, and one or two wegoris or
earryinIs errive- and draw up tit the
back of tlic station and their drivers
eprae around to join the -yes, the throug
on the platform; for there aro a dozen
people here now, and the atetioe is a
vary different place from what it Was
half an hour ago,
"Anti then aVray down the roAd, far
out of sight beyond the curve, wo hear a
whietle--she's coming; and in a minute
aou see the engine coming a -humming
with the 10.22; with the fireman keeping
the beIl going, and. the train baggage -
man atanding at the door of tho bag-
gage car, aud people on the platform:
of the core. And the baggagemen drape
off a trunk or two or three or four, and
half a dozen people got down, and their
friends meet thom, or the driveta that
have como for them take possession of
them, end the station pletfotni is a
Atone of livelo activity, while the people
irt the ears look on end glanee up at the
eignboexcl. t* see what otation this is,
`Vend then the shition platform Man-
ually thins out, and. everybody that's
going is now aboard the train, aud
there's nobody left etaxiding'between the
pletforra aud the train except the train
conductor. Ile looks coolly nlong the
ond sees that everybody is off arid
everybody's Oohed, aud then viltheut
turning around he raiSeri ItiS halal estiraly
AS ft entail to the engineer, aed the fire-
men pulls on the bell -rope, and the en-
gineer pulle the throttle, Ana gives the
big engine just a breath of istelon end
gate the heitvy train so easily Ana
emoothly that MI seareely realize it had
started Until you see it moving, mid the
conduetor steps eoolly up on tho front
pletforn% of the forward passtagot ear
mid the train hi off on lie way.
"'Then the station Agent drnsie In there*
trenke that the train lees left, and five'
aateeta
eve e hoe-
eneheetehentee I
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;
, ,
"An4 then you settle down at the ;
station platform again with all the world
to yourself, respousible to nobody mid I
with absolutely nothing te bother you,
and steep yourself hi pence Ana puiet,
ana if you care to look so high you can
:see there your Moods the white elouds
loafing by, and then looking down again
end menu the fields bright in the sun-
light, you heer the breeze ruffling the
trees, and you hear the birds and maybe
In sheer contentment of spirit and com-
plete bodily restfulness your head deeps
and—
"When you wake up Rod, look around
to eee if anything new has heppened in
the world since you dropped off you see
comine along the track slowly and
silefftly a solitary figure, all the time
looking down in froet of him, and to
either side as he comes -the section bose,
looking along the track, and after you
have met him thus for two or three days
if he takes .you for a resin he will tell
you when the track was stone ballasted
and when they put in the ninety -
pound rails, and if you tell him, which
is true, that everything along here looks
kept up in perfect order he will tell you
that this section last year took the prize
offered by the compeller for the best.
kept section on the road,
"Marootietl ot a way 'station? Why, I
am thinking of spending my vacation
that way this summer at a country rail-
road station."
• 0
WHEN MEN WORE SHAWLS.
President Lineonl's Partiality to His
Big Scotch Plaid.
On very rare oceasions you now see
some old lady wearing a shawl, but gen-
orally speaking this once univereal gar -
testa has become obaolete.
Those children that are, say, 40 years
old. or more can probably remember
when even men- wore shawls instead of
overcoat:1. For about ten years they
were considered just the thing. ashis
wea the decade beginning with about
1800. President Lincoln was very par-
tial to his big Scotch shawl, which, ac-
cording to the vogue, he wore, not fold-
ed diagonally in feminine fashion, but
folded lengthwise, says the Pathfinder.
This folded shawl was passed over the
shoulders and around in front, where it
was either heId 'by the hands or pinned
by a huge shawl pin. This case of the
shook). is about the only ono where the
men have appropriated an article of wear
from the women's wardrobe -though the
instances where the reverse has happen-
..
ed are legion.
Even then, the shawl was originally
not a woman's garment exclusively, for
the Bead Highlander has his tartan
plaid, and the mei% of northerti Italy
still wear a cloak whieh is very little
more than a saawl. There can be uo
question that ilie shawl is more useful
and more picturesqu.e as an article of
attire than the close fitting coats both
men and women now wear. The shawl
could in case of ernetgen.cy be used to
protect two persons, or to wrap a child
no or as en extra bed covering; its fash-
ion did not cbange every three months,
and it email be used and passed down
in the family until it was worn out.
Some• Anecdotes of Queen Victoria.
ia unlikely that there will be any Amer-
ican reprint of Sir Theodore martian "Queen
Vittoria as Knew Her" Onseltweed, Edin-
burgh), but the little book contains aomo
amusing and interesting anecdotris which aro
worth quoting for American readere.
No living person °aside of royalty itself,
knew gnosis Vietorits as well as Sir Theodore
did. As tar back ars 1886 ho was recatarnettd-
ed to Her Majesty by Sir Arthur Helps as
the proper person to undertake a life of
the late Prince- Censert. Tho result was five
volumes, which, amid a masa of trivialities,
give us not ouly the,sisest vivid picture of
the domestic life of Hartland's Royal famea,
but a rarely authentic history of langland,
so tar as that history •was made or affected
by the Court. Naturally the work implied
constant visite by the blegraphor to the
Queen and constant and close interoeurse
betWeen, theta.
Frorn the beginning the former made an
exoellent impreseloa upon the latter. The
QUeen in her evin Word*, found the biog.
sachet "clever, kind and sympathetic."
Shs trusted bet impunity. Thle feoung was
strengthened when Mr. Biographer met with
an oricident while skating et Osborne and
Het neva' Rightism, the Queen, straight.
way summoned his wife, tbo quondam Helen
Traucit, ef stage celebrity, to nurse hint baok
to team at the royal residence. Hor trust
was amply juStified, Hero ie. an anecdote
ipolut. We all know that Queen Victoria
never liked Gladstone, Sir Theodore ens uS
oertous instance of her persibtaet misun-
derstanding of the igt4te81114/1. GiAdeltalltA)
eent her a draft of the bill for the establish -
:nem Of the Trials Churls, *with an fotplan-
atory letter cy .hts own, welve gnarl() pages
la length, Mae frankly could not make head
or tail Out isf either bill or letter, and oont
them both to our author, whose long impa-
tience a$ a tesrliantentary orator enabled
him to reduce them to falCh 'aNferm that
even a lotelligeoce could Master them.
nattiral and very friendly," Is the ocumnsm
of ea intoillitgent
"Not very constitutional, porhept, but very
Cook for Francis Joseeh. •
Although thenAtuitrian Eniperor tate
very frugelly, His Majesty pays his chief
cook 42,000 a year, The eourt is noted
for its elaborate repasts, and it French
eontemporery fives an amusing aatiount
of hoiv Peak -lot such is the dors
namee-entered the Einpetores 'service.
Parski WAS formerly elnif to Count
FOAM, and. one day Erencis Joseple who
dined et the lionise of the count, was
tieliglited With the manner ifs Whiels the
boar's heed. WaS ltereed, and complarient-
ta the clief, Two dnys later an °tor-
tuous packing ease arrived et Solion.
.bnitin with the Count's respects. 'What
the box was (mimed they fottrui irt it
Perski, gooa health, bet somewhet
"snakeri tip." The Emperor vieeepted tho
preseut, and l'erski become head, of the
kitehen,-From the London allolie.
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WARM AIR A_BOVE/THE COLD..
A Curious Fact Recently etabserved be
M ate° ro log ists
Students of the upper air were aston-
ished when, the little balloons they sent
up, with self -recording therrnometers,
told them one day that in the high
atmosphere there is a stratum which is
warmer than the air immediately below
it. Noame has yet explained this strange
inversion ottemperature, but it has now
been observed so many times indifferent
parts of the world that there eau be
no doubt about It.
It was discovered in 1891, aemost
simultaneously, by Mr. Teissereno do
Bort rwar Paris and by Prof. Assmann in
Germany. Since then nearly all the bal-
loons then have risen above 40,000 feet
in central Europe have penetrated this
stratum of warmer air. No one knows
yet its upper limits.
In England it has been found that the
average height of this layer of warmer
air is about 86;000'foot.
. an the last three years Dr. A. Law-
rence Retch has eat afloat seirentyseven
ballonssondes at St. Louis. Most of
those whieh rose higher than 48;000 feet
tountroer.ed the -stratum, of warmer tempera -
On Oct. 8, for instance, the teniperan
tura at 4e,000 feet was 90 degrees
Fahrenheit, while at the greater /Maude
of 64,100 feet the temperature had risen
to -72 degrees. The days later the
coldest temperature„ 80 degrees, was
found at 89,700 feet, while only 2,500
feet higher the temperature rose to 09
degrees.
This warmer stratum of air has not
yet been disooverld over the tropical
Atlantic but the noteworthy fact has
been estliblished. that above the equator
in summer it is colder at a height 6f
eight miles than it is in winter at the
same height in north temperate regents.
Meteorologists now think they have
reason to believe taat this warmer air
exists throughout 'the tropical regions
at heights e-xceeding 50,000 feet, and
that it is probably a universal phonon -
mon existing at some height all around
the giobe.
• • et
EGOTISM THE MAN'S HANDICAP.
re. mit the mere intim:Ian of youth.
L'ei the other oale the hiee, (era-
:le:it man of' eel:crime: who dovidoe
that the young' leatrieralant iti liken
io woe': hinieelt and hi3 chanee3 on
rocks of which he 1.i whelly ignorant
for leek of a proper chart. Thie owe
abundant eistillISUlS111 and If oature.
some eetivity irom either of these:.
points of view, le dietresaing in an
organization. Men who are jealoue
ot its invasion will have opportun-
ity to pett impedimenta in its waY,
while the wiser ones who seek to warn
the vice* of it may see their ef-
forts tail:
I have a friend who has arrived at
tide ago of wiedoin front which he
may see clearly into the statue of the
Young moat of this. type. ror veva
he has conducted a department in a
geeitt institution which calls for Molt -
meal work of the highest degree. Al-
ways the dopartinont hes had at toast
one young man in its rather in the
position 'of a postgraduate apprens
tice, He spoke` to nie Immo time age
in discouraged tonee,
"live dieoherged three young men
from this depaxtment in tareo yoara
because of the 'big head.' " said he,
"and the yeung man I WING BOw ia
getting away from me in that direction
faster than I oan him back."
lu this particuler iestauce, however,
a rather unusual influence is at' work
in the office to the uudoing of this.
young man. IId canto into it a gentle,
timid, thoroughly conscientious bo.
ginner., who was little more than n
boy. He became popular with tho
men in the offieo fran the firat. Hari
he been full of ego, even, it might
have been better for him, for the of.
fice considered that luorweded eacour-
agement. They eneouraged him and
overdid ft. From the shrinking, ner-
vous dispoeition which woe appealed
to the sympathies of that office this
young man hale evolved distressing
confidence and complacency which ho
has not earned;
Out of the natural buoyancy 'of his
youth the young man in business is
likely te fail a victim of egotisia.
True ambition rarely separatee iteelf
from the element of ego on the youth-
ful side of thirty. The young man
may. be constitutionally egotistic, or
to, the case cited. he may have
egotism thrust upon him.
That young. man nho would test
hiinsell for signs of this hampering
ego has a material paint to approach.
He may ask himself, How well Satis-
fied 'am I with tbe work I am doing?
Complete satisfaction with hinwelt
and his work is a first sign of decay
in oven the adult; there is no pro-
gress beymed this state of mind, In
the young, man this evidence of sate
isfaction dart mean • only arrested
development because of aerested :effort.
Get a line on yourself, young man.
If yeti ere eritleized You ougnt to be
able to determine whether plialouty
or wisdom is prompting your critic.
But either voice is Worthy of a
thoughtful hearing.
One Orand WIletake.
Alfterieft11-4TOW, if you want to Tetra
her age you *wit say; -*Tow did are
pear
efreteeltmen mothent latet-AN,
minutee later flo last of the people alooftt mitienretettlete wish to say 'how old ye*
the station hare disappeared, and 'otter &ill
(I3y Sohn A. Howland.)
Youth claims title to buoyancy and
venturesomeness because of two
things. First, perhaps, are the -prompt -
ins of an excess of mere animal spir-
its; second, lack of a sobering, quali-
fying experierme. Why is it, then,
that in the face of this statement,
which few people will chellenge,. one
of the moat hampering oharectenstics
of the young roan in business comes
of his showing in his business re.
latidns a marked evidence of this
quelity to whioh yeneth is the most
logical heir?
An employer will overlook a serious
blunder of a young man's on the
gprund that the boy is young yet.
-workets, discovering that ie
a. quiet, sober indrostriouiness the
young man has made an error and
is in a tight place, *ill turtt
ly to help him out. But th,at young
man who has brought a breezy, omit.
ing optimism into a staid, eonserva-
tivo h.ouse full of old enipleyee will
diseovet, if able to senate it, that ex-
ousee are ior others than himself,
"Ho's too freah," is the colloquial
diagnosis of his eaae when his baok
is turned; a if it the opinion of the
yeung offeredet's felloWs he has en,
eeeded prescribed bounde, one Or
more el those iellow waken may
make the diagliosis of the young
man's especial benefiL
Two widely cliveteghag pointe of view
Seem to be respontible felt thie mite
ioism of the young man's suporabitnia
ant aotivity. On the one side are tho
bedividuals atrived at more sober es,
Wes, Who, joalMite cia their positions
and oonneetion with an eetablishment,
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‘114401,40 4,E44,Civils 4941441/41terMel liungery, wee hat Wee appointed by
the mellagere ttle Cheht•
kali to be their reproseutetive L'alee,
has lilt for the lioly Lane. The
AuArian hrinister uf Foretell Attain bee
warmly xe.ioneueeded hint ta all tbe
Aintro-liungarien Consulate* hi Tinliey.
Itussian Jewish Einigratioa Soul-
ety has decidee to eetablieli echoole
the Pale for the study of English.
AMON TUE JEW
-NM NOTES MINT THOU MOM
oVE11. 0.14
fratehledeennifaileteMandOanKetlenaishei
Tao Austrian noat .Offiee atintinititra-
tion luta order:el all. postai Waldo. used
in Palestine to printed in the Hebrew
hinguage (not Yiddiela„ becauee Hebrew
is becoming more and more the laugnage
uf the people in Paleetine.
The kindergartens. in Palestine are be-
coming daily more end ntore populer,
though it le may shtirt time sinee they
girl, at Auguste, Me. is conetelea to be
stvoelty-eu.inatituted ln the Orient.
the most accomplishe'd Jingoist la that
Miss Elsie Yelanski, it young Jewieh
The United States Striae Depertment
lute announced the ephointraent of Dr.
L. S. Rowe, of the Univereity of Penn -
KEEP CHILDREN WELL
DURING HOT WEATHER
'Every mother hnows boa. fatel the
sunamer months are to `small
dren Cholera infantum dierrlicea,
dysentry and stomaeh 'troubles aro
alarmingly frequent at this time and
too often a•precious little life is loot
after a few hours illness. The moth-
er evho keeps Baby's Own Tablets In
the house feels safe. The oacasional
use of Baby's Own Tablets prevent
stomach and bowel troubles, or if
the eronble comes suddenly -de it
geoerelly does -the Tablets...will bring
the little one through safely, hers.
George Iloveell, Sandy Beach, Que.,
says: "My baby was suffering with
colic, vomiting and dim/twee, but
after giving him Baby's OWD, Tablets
the trouble disappeared. I would ad. -
vise all mothers to keep a box of
Tablets always at band." Sold by
medicine dealers or by mall at 25a
a box from The Dr. William& Medi-
cine Co., Brockville, Ont,
THE ENGAGED MAN.
The Federation of (dietician aad Deco-
. rinian ,l'etre hole their annual Convention
. in New York, for the purpose ef offeet.
ing union oe all JOWS !a eity on
questions affeesting Judaism, Eight hum.
drat delegatee, representing sixty the*
send members, were present,
The new Kaitnaikan of Jreffe le heina
highly praisea .45 man of great ire
telligenoe and. of narairable eaMinietree
tivo Tite Jews of Jaffa 1001
aseured now that under his protectlen
the reeent agitetions agoinst them. wal
not repeat theiusehree.
Jacob If, Schiff has not been ecinvert-
ed. to politicel Zionism. or even 'totem
by his recent visit to Palestine, bue he
has been greatly impressed by all that
he lute seen, He sees the lerge ittflu-
sylvanta, to eetreseut the 'United once of Jerusalem upon the desting• el
States at the wee lug of the Pan -A -mere the Jew; he beholds beauty in its ark
atm Scientifie Congress in Santiago,
Chile, in December next,
The death of Abrithein Broataty, one
of the very few jewisli millionaires of
Russia, is announced from Odessa, The
deeezteed is seed to have loft over six
million roubles, 200,000 roubles of which
will be dietributea by tte heirs among
various Jewish obilsoithropic organiza-
tions. Brodsky conductea a large benk-
ing establielueent ie. Odesea, wiille
eon was. engaged be other businose,
Rabbi Abraham Joffe, of Lozdu (near
Suwalka one of the most learned rabble
in Russia, died there at the age of 88.
j)r. Stepivare' S. Wise of the Free
Synagogue, New York, 'has been elected
Viae-Fresident of the Free Religimes
Association of America-, vice the late Die
aloncure Cenway.
At the forty-seventh conuricncernent of
the Washington University of St, Loub,
Moe the commencement address Was de-
livered by the Rev. Leon Harrison, Rabbi
of Temple Israel, of St. Louis.
The report of the prevalence of al-
coholism among the pea -emits and Jews
has been iosued by the Ruesian Ministry
of tat Interior. . The report gots to
show that the inortopelizing of the
whiskey trade bl.nthe Government, in
order to lesson drunIcenueee among the
mujike, proved a positive failure. The
eMoriopol," as they call it In Russia,
brought ruin to eountlesse Jewish fam-
ilies, who praetically controlled' every
brewery and inn in RuSsia .Dranken-
nese trinoag the peasants, sans the re-
port, has moreased threefold •since the
"Moriopol," Among Jews at the present
time aloohol is almost not used. et all.
In the weitern provinde it was found
that among thirtythree Jews one is
to bo found who drinks whiskey once
a year,, ana ono drink at that. In the
smaller cities of the Pale, where meet
of the drunken peasants live, the Jaw
drinks on Simchas Torah only, and
then not every year. Alcoholism alining
the higher classes, or the "Intellectualee
ignite at the present time.
Oneethied of fifteen pupils selected
from aanong thousands of- Cleveland
school children, because of their pre-
latic:nay in spelling English words, are
Jews.
The Jewish Deputy, Nisselowitz, bas
called the attention of the Douma th
the Shameful way in which Russo -Jew-
ish. immigrants axe being treated by tho
Prussian officials.
Jewish colonies in Bulgaria are flour -
!thing. Almost ell of the colonists are
Itussian Jews, and they till the soil with
great zeal and industry. The women
are as indefotigeble as are the men,
and are to be seen at every variety: of
bard ogritultural work, reaping, plow-
fhg, narrowing, sowing, reaping, eaeaf-
binding and staaking, shoveling and dig-
ging. Even. the anti -Sematic agrarians
of Bi4nria :have nothirig but praise for
the Russo-jewish oolaniste.
Fiancee's Loyal Sisters Flee as From
the Plague.
The behavior of the newlyengaged
'often affords the looker-on much food
kr amusing, reflettion, but far more in-
teresting is the attitude which the fam-
ily assures toward the happy pair during
tb.o period of probation. If they enter
a xopm together every one flies from it
immediately, es if they had the, small -
pax. If you come ution thom in a library
you may met Iso much as pa,use to find
your hook, but must precipitately re-
treat, taking care softly to close tbe
deer,
The man does not always seera to like
these <renditions, He, perhaps, la not a
illeent talker, and may even enjoy the
scesiety of his own seil, stars The N*w
York Evenifig Sun. Ile may think regret-
fully of the times wben he had interest-
ing Mae chats with "her" 'sisters, or,
wither, when. taey were willing to chat
with him. Or ha may be so cerld-blooded
as to exitleipete tho time when he and
his wife will have almost too much of
each othera society.
Waen they go out to walk or ride, he
thinks he mild enjoy the compauy of
her elder sister, who is a good horse-
Whanan, or of the younger one who
sketehes; he may fancy *he siniging of
obi, or the wit of another, possibly the
jokes of a third. But he is Made tO feel
it would be high treason to yearn for
straits& gods.
Sisters who aro loyal to ono anothee
would consideeht shocking. The man is
Wind to one, and Om otaa, and it is al -
Most reelatehola to witness the ettim-
peck% which nacos plaae at his coming.
a
IniUdICIOUsneS5.
Prilideinstila-Jildge, this prisoner acted
as if ho was inisano at the baseball game
lestOrdaY•
judge -What did he do?
Policeman -Daring the gain° he thteW
his wietel at One of the playere
Prisoner -It was an Ingersoll, Judge,
and was endeavering to make the vis -
Meg cAteher muff foul fly,
13olicemen-A few minutes later he
ran through the grand etetd ahrieking
likc, e wild porton. and :meshing ether
men's hats-et--
PritiOner-,-One of our team matted
out a three-begger and brought in three
runo, meking the game a tie,
Polioeman-The next seemed he after..
ode ontO the diamond Ana &vaulted tho
umpire.
Prlisorter (excitedlye-The umpire WI.
ed that three -base bit A foul, Advs.
Jadge (en old lae)-The pritioner le
diecherged. Officer, reprimand you for
your inaidicioueriessa-laroni the May
Bohemian,
alAniti Governtrient owneethip.
erieieeedelly japanese etatoineunt are
'complaining that it Woe tiot io much
tee tiott of Ntfer, but the pureletee told
/
opmettiot of Japaneee railways ley the
Obvert -it -mint that brought about the
present terietla fillaitelal Striligettey in
the lend of Nippom-Ohnilimati Cete, *ton teleulex#1311ms day aftet it Was the 19th,--Detrisit
mereitel Tribune, Rabat xi, )1. Heteteite, of Buda restli, Xfatell Trittine.
and narrow streete, go feels that Jerli•
Went Jewry moulds the non-jewieh
conception of the Jeri in, evely respeet,
504 regrets thet this is the MAIO since
the state of the jeruseleiti Jew is
wretched. There is room for noble work
in Joruselem ond there is splendid op-
portunity- for the foremast American
newish philanthropists to /inane° and
engineer a greet missiouary task in tho
upliftment of the Jew of the Holy City,
NI EX 100'S I N LAN D WATER WA Y.
Canal 104 •Miles Long Between Tam-
pico and Texpam,
Tuxpean, 10exiece-The Mexican Gov-
ernment is building an inland waterway
104 miles long to connect the ports of
Tampieo end Tuxpau. It is now about
one-half finished, and will cost about
$5,000,000 Mexican money, which is
equivalent to $2,500,000 gold.
It is 75 feet wide and has a uniform
depth of 101/2 feet. 'Tlewfirst divisien of
00 miles is now practically finiehed and
Is open far traffic. It is now expected
that the waterway will be opened ell
the way through for small boats within
two years.
This waterway runs within from two
to five miles of the gulf along its whole
length. Its construction grew out of the
faot that there are frequently daere at
a time when small boats engaged. in
coastwise trade are unable to weather
the rough water of the gulf, and 'that
there is ineufficient water over the bar
at the mouth of the Timpani River at
times to enable the boats to reach the
battier at Tuelisen. Another great in-
centive that led to the building of the
canal >vas that it would be the means of
developing a broad agricultural. region
that has heretofore been badly lacking
ih transportation, facilities for its vari-
ous products.
The Tampleo-Tuxpain Canal follows
the route of an inland. waterway which
has been in use for more than three-
quarters of a century.
Capt. Charles Shillaber, of Chicago, is
construeting the canal for the Mexican
Gavernment on a percentage boats. -
He heti made a comfottable fortuue,
had just reached his sixtieth year and
had planned to open& the remainder of
Ms life in comfort and enjoyment. Chanc-
ing to visit on a pleasure trip,
he conceived the possibilities of improv-
ing the old waterway, brought the mat-
ter to the attention of the Government
and undertook to do the work.
Your dining roma and kitchen can be
kept free from flies by using Wilson's
Fly Pads as directed on each package.
Get the genuine Wilson's; no other fly
killero compare with them.
The art exhibition held in Vienna. in
coaneetion with the diamond jubilee of
the Emperor Francis (Joseph broughthto
light several - Jewish axtists, whose
neracie, heretofore were unknown. The
Russian artist, Lazar Kestin, became
especially popular. The heir .eo the
throne sought an introduction to him,
and spent a long time in front of hie
petting, "The Seribe of the Lawn!
Adolf Seligman, Leopold Hurwitz and
Isidor kaufman became mailer, too.
Dr. Iilidielson, Roibbi of Riga, Rus-
eia, &led recentiy. Bis dos,th is deeply
doplored by the Jews of kiga, whose
protector he was for many years. Rab-
bi Mid:aeon was an ocknowledged
alai 4 man of great intelligence
and keen judgment.
The sat committee of the Soeiety of
Jewish Alt purposes an exhibition of
Jewish art to •he held in the fall, in
New york. The committee asks the co-
operation of all its. menabers tO make the
affair a suecess.
Jewisia Educational Alliante of
St, Lents has oppointed a committee te
Visit Crawferd County and select a. site
for a Jewish colony there. Me plan
is to relieve the congestion in the
Ghetto by sending several hundred
families to the country.
The DOUnlit has been asked. by the
Rueeian Patriote to traneport all Jews
to Palestine, or to declare there foreign-
ets throughout the empire.
The British assanetion for protection
of Jewesees in da er of moral Groot-
•
AN EASY WAY TO WASH DISHES
It is easier to wash up the cooking
dishes lisist ae soon as you are through
with them. It will take but a few. mo-
nients.
When the table dishes are removed,
gather all the plates together, then the
etips and saucers, the vegebehle dishes
and the aide dishes and finally the plat-
ters o.nd bowie.
the a good plate scraper on the plates
and platters, Ito remove all grease and
food partioles. The besb kind of scraper
made of sheet rubber, and will not
mar the most delicate plate, yet will ef-
fectively remove food and grease. Do uot
use Your water -tap or faucet as a plate
soraper, for,it washes too muole greape
into yOui eink. Serape everything into
a hip pan, end. if pessibk, taro the re-
fuse bite a tea newspaper and doosign
it to your repo fire. That solves the
garbage qUestion.
If you do not have a coal or wood.
range, get a srruull garbage burner, 0
leoesible. If this is impractioable, get a
good odorless garbage can, ono that can
be tdorouglay disinfeeted atid cleaned:
Ilext on the programme is the putting
away of the left over foods. Do this
carefully and tidily, Butter Mad oream
should be pat in one place vegetables
and meat another, a.nd all ih a good,
clean refrigerator.
The real dishwashing begins now, wed
invention bee solved that problem in a
pr410tiOal Way. , The best di:awe:there are
roads. with A galvanized iroo
iato,whid is fittea cylioaricel basket
or tray for the dishes,. Taw cylinder is
half /Wed with water, to which gopd
soap eemeoued has been added. Thie is
brought th the boiling point. Mee the
t is boilieg and soa 7, fill the ttay
throw, knoWit as t o Jewish Atisolise or airket with the tab ti dishes; stand
tion for Protection of Jewish Girls ena the *tee on' edge, ratting them against
Women, him iseued itts tennuel reaort. the litele brackets prepared for them,
the crotitents are tregie Most of the then Out in the 'mutate then the cups,
teethes are free& Ruesia and Roumania, ellen fele seas dishes,
Pittuge them into the cylinder, turn
the *rink a couple et Vilma then re.
verso, Mid the tray of dishes he *meted,
Lift it out, Nat it on the reverse delver
tied bead 'with clear boiling water,
Width quiekly iezaporates mid 'Cares but
few dishes to be wiped With a 'cloth.
DishWashing With mesh epplimice eat
lirs" none in a gliattet of the time eta
done Elettier than by the old herid me-
thod. Mehl is no need of Iwo/ding ted
liana from diehtvineting to -day.
The old dishwcwhing nutetines were
failure. It Wes more work to eleah the
nutchinen than it woe to wash the :Balms,
gbitt the modern meoltioes are Almelo irt
meeraititee arid conetruetion rend very
moderete in price. A good one tan be
pareactied cheap, nald will last many
yeats if Oren ordinary care end atten.
tion.-Succeas.
ivhere perspeutten has sent inany girls
reaming over dietalit seste, mid, being In
straege Ismile, theO became prey to the
%vitae 'which beset the unwary, Stetres
are perpettualg laid for these vletime.
The Adeociation thes protected 71t tine
ptotected girls, familial/1g a number of
Christien Wednen.
Jewish titioneliem is beteg tevived in
13111g:trim. Organitatipies for that pur-
pose are being formed. It every city,
and large dot:dials ate beitg pontra
bitted by Ohristrane.
The ginperor Vrencis Joseph of Aus-
tria•Ilungary hal Meter:ha the Gold
fjeoret of Merit on PAIN Dr. Weiss, of
Esztergeni, Hungery, appreelation et
his Interne public itetivity,
mantitoth fitir and feetival, to be
triton the neW Ooliseate, St. Louis,
IYeeember, under the atioploes of the
Jewish Chatittible and Edtblatienitl
Thelon fot the teirreite of raising $100e
000, ft being plienned.
Verlag Progress!, of Warsaw, an.
notices the publication ot a 'Yiddish
Crietrituer, ineludirig. etymology end eye,
taX &linen Raisin,
Ishe tiolestiehetion of the Haittesitirte
talon brim& ot Hie Herlitte eallwitY
ishortly to be initerecniced. It is elpeen
thot tho vin be ready' in tWO
esti, Itt *ill at Ana Sera*
No boubt About tt,
lawyer -Ate you sure that oecuerence
*es on the lIth. a the month?
Witness -Yes, it was the Inh.
Lawyet-NOW, temeihber, lira von
dee oath. HOW -do you know it was the
Witness-VA/else the day before 'that
11a.mn•••••••••,..11.
Vawyer-Da eareful whet you say
now, Go On,
Wittiest- Jos- wart the latit and 44
pkttC
• 4,*
04, 400
.4111MMIIZAMWIIVIOra
Ready 10r Emergency:
"De real resourcetul elan," eal4 Thule
ELAM, "when someoue hands. ban a le-
mon, is ready wit cte sager and other
flidn's to make It tol'ehle pleeseut to
teke."-Washington Star.
!mt.* ••••-r,
Not Difference,
*Divorce ie 4.1700St PC easy of iternin-
plieliment as marriage."
"Yes, You will observe that. only a
truneportution of two letters is. eweeed
to make eitnited' eurtied.'"e-Puek,
WISH HE vamp,
'Book Agent -le your pa le?
Boy -Yes, eir.
Book Agent-Cau 1 see .hhof
Boya-No, Hen in for thirty days.
--
Yields the Point.
"What's the matter with yon?n de-
mandee Bonen, batty, "rye got a right
to air my opiniens, bavena It"
"011. of et:mete" replieti
"Therto .ert etale end ninety they cer-
taints need something of that sore"-
Philatlelpilla Press, •
•
Of Two Evils.
"Say, alike," queried Plodding Pete,
who was looking at the piece of a Sun-
day Felipe! paper that bad. eorne with a
hendout, "'wot dace it mean 'bout Lein'
between the -devil ate de deep lien!"
"It's de saute es bein' told t' take Ter
choice between goin' t' work an' takin'
batb," explained Meandering Mika -
Chicago News.
A Mementoes.
"But, has your sweetheart got any
money ?'
"Of course; aidn't he give 010 tide
ring?"
"I know, but bas he any left?"
' Wrong Brand. •
as f ollowe :
The prodigal son wrote the old man
"I got religion at c.ampmeethig th e
other flay. Send me ten dollars.' .,
Tint the old man replied:
"Religion is free. You got the wrong
kind1'-Ablanto Constitution,
^ •
Serious Quandary.
The stenographer who was transcribing
her notes of a convention speech paused
:a great perplexity.
"Fellow citizens, I entreat you not to
be too hasty, If we
platform in •its present shape we seal -
put foriverd Ole
fice the all important—'
"I wish I knewe'. sbe said, "Whether I
wrote that next word 'planks' or
'plunk:al"
Uncle Henry's Opinion.
"Uncle Henry, what is a shysher?"
"A Oyster, my boy, is alawyer who
would defend you for ae if you were to
shoot at a man in. a balloon."
Rs Bright Side.
Earnest. Reformer -Can you -Mention
one good purpose that is served by our
idiotic aud barbarous method of celebrat-
ino the Fourth of July?"
The Other Man -Yes, sia I can. It
furnishes the practice necessary for con-
y -canner a student into a skilled. surgeon.
Convention Horror.
The Doctor -I can't vote for Taft He
ie mining on a cut and dried platform.
The Professor --Ana I can't vote for
the other man. He's going to run on a
plateorm that bas twee. pickled in Bry'n
for the last six maths,
THE MEAN THING.
Kitty --My 'dressmaker says it is such
a pleasure to fit a gown to me.
Edith-Considere at a sort of artistic
triumph, I suppose? The true artist de-
lights in.. diffieulties,
No. Cause for Alarm.
"Oh, is my Inieband. allot?" cried the
frightened wife, as they bore the limp
form a the premature celebrator acrose
the thteshold °Ellie home.
"No, nutdam," answered one of the
bearers, reassuringly, "'he's only. hell
shot.e-Baltimore American.
THE iHFFERENCE.
Mrs. N awed -airs. Old.vife has•
two new dresses to my *one.
Mr. Nuwed-Quite so, dear, but
Mrs. Oldwife has had two husbands
to your one.
I3oarding School Accent.
lilobbs-How did you get along in
Paris? Do you speak French? '
Slobbs-Only enough to make myself
misunderstood. -Philadelphia. Reeotd.
The Record Smashed.
"Now, Johnny," said 'elle Sunday scheol
teacher, "fain you tell me one of the
most remarkable things Moses didt"
"'Yes, ma'am," replied the bright yoitele
"be broke all the Commandments at the
same time." -London Opinion.
A Joke in Season.
"The lawn mower," said the Clifton
Hill, Moe Rustler, es a good thing. Ewe/t-
it along."
Poor Fellow.
Ohaine-How io Winter getting on?
Waggia-Well, when I last saw him he
hadn't got e shirt to hie back.
Olitime-Poor fellow! Where dia you
sea
Waggie-Bathing,
Not Her Choice.
Tess—Inas ?assay- elitints that she is
an at maid from eboiee.
Jess -Doubtless. Every marriageable
lean of her acquaintance lifts choseu
some one else.
• "I hat heatdWyr ineentloo Dabley7.
said the retlirned traveller, °When I
knew lam some yeata ago he 1.14ta to go
on a tear mice in it while."
"WeIV replied ele• key -et -home, "he
eare on a tear twice in a while now."--
eath -Standard .ana
HAD TES IPTOritEm. .
Ire--Tbpn what Aid yen marry me for?
She -Mamma reckoned it up at the
time nua Said it Was for a million nod
n half.
AT
Diak-Are you going to heae Ilittaine
lecture to-niglit?
Stranger -Yee.
DiekeeTtileehog foul aont hies
tot awful bore.
-*ranger-I 1111181; go. rift varicio.0