The Brussels Post, 1910-4-7, Page 6IIIE GREATEST RIVER
1UE )11G11TY AMAZON OF
SO11TJI AMI Il,1)A.
its Source and Mouth—Rapids in
Its Course—Wealth Along
Its Brinks.
ALMOST BEHEADED!
Terrible experience eP px:, bander
When. In Tibet.
Vitae Dr. Henry Savage Lander
teas in Tibet he was, he says, al
most beheaded by the natives, Le
writes, "The man Ncrba, wile was
still holding me by the hair, was
told to make me bend my nock. I
resisted with what little .strength
I had left, and, with the nervous
strain of a doomed titan, determined
While the Amazon is the world's to keep my head erect and arty fore-
greatest river, if not a length at head high. Theym! httill me true
least in the volume of water which enough they ight hack me to
Bows through it, it is the world's pieces if they tshose, but never un-
strangest river as well, til 1. lead lost niy last atom of
The few travellers and explorers strength would these ruffians make
who have journeyed up this water- iiia stoop before them. I should skillful operator. Even an organ
course to its many; sources in the perish, but it would be looking like the heart, the very citadel el
glaciers of the South American down upon the Pomba and his life, has now conte to be included
mountains tell stories which are al- countrymen. within the surgeon's province. Not
must incredible about the literal "The executioner, now ()lose to so very long ago a curious case oo-
yoaze of Omahas—wince unite to form me, hold the sword with his uerv-
it, each stream having its birth in ams hands, lifting it high above his
one of the great ice masses. Yet shoulder. He then brought it down
a few hundred utiles below, where to my neck, which he touched with
they merge and create the river, the blade, to measure the distance, the patient made a complete recov-
the temperature is • such that it as jt were, for a clean, effective ery In this particular ease, which
works its way through a perfect stroke. Then, drawing back a step, was the result of an assault with
labyrinth of tropical vegetation. he quickly raised the sword again intent to kill, surgery undoubtedly
Only the mariner can tell the and struck a blow at me with all prevented the assailant from being
place where the Amazon really has' Itis night. The sword passed dis- indicted on a capital charge.
its mouth, because , the opening it agreeably close to my neek, but it P'' understand wounds of this na-
has made on the eastern coast of del not touch me. the it must be borne in mind that
the heart is
A HOLLOW MUSCLE.
If .a vital part, and one closely eon-
uected with the internal mechanism
VERY CITADEL QF LIFE
HEART IS SUBJECT OF MANY
S CI0Cli1SSFt% OI'i'11tAT1ON S,
It is Trifle Remarkable What Can
be ,Accomplished by a Shiitial
Surgeon.
According to Dr. Andrew Wilson;
F. 11. S. lee the modern surgeon famine," issued bytheCollege of
hat learned that praeticelly no oneru
- , g' r
gen ox `tissue of the human body is Agriculture, University of O aitfo.
to be regarded a$ lying outside pose nue, Berkeley, 4alifornia:
sfble interference on theart of a (Page 30) if-uoalyptus planting has
p now passed the experimental stage
a.tct may he . considered without
question as a commercial proposi-
tion. The value of the crop and the
porsibilities of growing it in Cali-
fornia have been suflieiently de-
monstrated to make judicious
plantings even on a large scale per-
fectly safe, with an assurance of
sure and reasonably large profits.
(Page 31) The profits to be deriv
A HARDWOOD TriAiil�`fl.
itnntinent In America—Growing
Biteolytltue'lr'ees About the Only
Solution for Enture Supply.
Eucalyptus trees in California
leave been propogated from the
seeds only. To this fact is due
their freedom from incurious insects
and diseases usual to exotica whioh
have been introduced into Amex•ica
by cuttings :or aeodlings, Accord-
ing to extracts from Bulletin No,
19C, entitled, "Eucalyptus in Cali -
curved in • London wherea man
stabbed in the heart was taken to a
hospital. The wound in the heart.
was duly sutured or stitched, and
South America is so wide that it "I would nob flinch, nor speak,
extends over 100 miles. A long and my demeanor seemed to irn-
distanee before one comes to the press him almost to the point of
mcirth ofthe river, however, one frightening him. He became reluc-
is really sailing on the waters of tent to continue his diabolical per -
the Amazon, says Chamber's Your- formance; but the impatience and of the organ has been injured, re-
nal, because they force their way turbulence of the crowd were at eotery is, of course, impossible. On
out so far into the ocean. They their highest, and the lamas near the outer hand, where the substance
say that to him gesticulated like madmen of the heart itself has alone been
and urged him on again." Dr. affected, surgery is enabled to place
' Lat•dor somehow escaped. the patient in a condition favoring
300 MILES OUT AT SEA
oft' the month of the Amazon, you
can hoist a bucketful of fresh water
out of the ocean from the deck of
the ship, such is the quantity of its
water that flows from that gigantic
basin.
Long after you have entered the
actual river and have its banks to
SENTENCE SERMONS.
Ideals live only as we strive to-
ward them.
Heaven sends some burdens just
for ballast.
A pious eloquence is not always
an eloquent piety.
north and south of you, if you are. There never was an argument
it midstream you will still be out equal to an affection.
of sight of land, such is the breadth People who are rich in heart
of the vast channel. The river never put their money there.
stretches far into the ocean and far Often the clock that strikes loud -
up the oountry. Take a map of est is farthest oil the time. anuther case, reported at a German
South America and look out a place The pleasures of folly never come surgical congress, a wound of the
called Iquitos. It lies four-fifths of up to the promise of the pictures. heart was successfully treated, :the
the way across the continent from A chilly .manner is not the best injury being on the right tapper
east to west. Yet from Iquitos preparation for a warmer climate, cavity of the organ. It is related
there is a fortnightly service of Religion is a poor thing if you that this wound in the heart was
oceangoing steamers to Europe, never enjoy it till you get into trolls, closed by three silk suxtures; and,
which descend some 3,000 miles of ble though the patient suffered from a
theriver before they reach the sea. The habit of prayer can get to complication of troubles thereafter,
It is not only one branch of the mean as little as the habit of pro -
Amazon but many that are thus to lenity.
be regarded as the same as ocean Some men believe yon cannot en -
highways. The southern branches joy life's berries unless you eat its
of the Amazon are broken by rap- briers.
ids along a line where a low contin-
ental shelf exists. Above these rap-
ids,' however, there is again deep
water. Thus beyond the falls of
"„-,_,—. the Maderia there are
OVER 10,000 MILES
of navigable water en that river,
and its branches, and these only
await the making of a short rail-
way less than 200 miles long to be
brcught into connection with the
other highways of the world.
Away in this remote part of the
South American continent nature
Bas been indeed generous, for in
addition to the wealth of for
there Are known to be deposits of
gold and other precious minerals.
It is said that nearly every one of
the glacial streams washing down
~"-tiro'foothills of the mountains ear-
riessand laden with gold which has
been accumulating in its beef for
centuries, but as yet none has been
soettred by the miner, owing to the
distance to these streams being so
greatandto there being no route
• by which machinery or tools for get-
ting the gold can be taken to these
places.
Not only Sir Martin Conway but
ether travellers who leave ventured
along the upper river and its tri-
butaries say that here a curious many of the English soldiers found; no means uncommon, there are
earthly paradise really exists. To that their wives bad married again even well -attested instances of corn-
'
the surface of the water the sun's in the belief that They were widows, plete recovery from such wounds in
rays seldom reach; and one may The formal .selling of the wile was the medical annals of the American
go many miles along waterways regarded among the ignorant as a Creel titer; though the state of sur -
where it is well nigh as legal solution to the problem thus gory in the early '00i seems to prove
preerea d and it is said that the a the
though .the work of the
organ apparently does not cease• hardwood, and that there is an In-
a
the month of March, 1906, evitable scarcity of hardwood tim-
e negro, 30 years of age, was treat- bon even within the present goner-
, for a wound of the heart in a alien, which will insure still better
New York hospital. The wound prices in:the near future, are em -
was on the left side of the heart, phasieed in the following quote,
et the base of the upper part tions:—
of the left ventricle. After the op-
erationFrom the patient matte a full re -: March 20, 1909, the greatest lumber.
covery, though he had _walked a trade journal in the World:
"]i "Chicago averages 118 murders in iSeesions with taking an' eight-year-'
long distance to the hospital from is probably true that.land can be a year. In the'same space of timelold boy from his parents.
the place, inhere he was injured. In devoted to no other use that will Paris records only 15 murders and I She hacl found the child in 'Beth -
be so profitable as the growing of attempted murders. London, four • nal Green Road, and, decoying him
eucalyptus, if the climate and land tines the size of Chicago, has only, away, had forced him to sell match.1
axe both suitable. Under proper 20 murders. In the courseoftwelve' es. Luckily, a policeman noticed
conditions 'a eucalyptus plantation s, G org a a typicalexample: tbe, little boy prying bitterly, and,
should begin to pay after five or six of the average American State—re-', after questioning him carefully,
years, and within ten or twelve curds 45 homicides—more than the l discovered the truth. The woman'
years should be yielding enormous whole of the British Empire! More; is, now serving a five years' term
net profits, exceeding anything that people are murdered in this conn of penal servitude.
can be secured from a citrus crop,try in ayear than are killed on the! i
y i A most extraordinary case of kid -
truckhorticultural crop, or even railroads. In three years the vie napping occurred riot long ago in
truck gardening. The probabili- tiros of our murder oases total more : the Channel' Islands. A man, mei:-
ties thus expressed seem like a than the losses of the British army; ing from Jersey to Guernsey, lett
dream, so tremendous are the fig- in the Boer War Ihis twelve -year-old boy as the guest
ures of yield and almost certain And now we discover that when 1 of a friend. Presently came the
profits.'our. poets and our orators and our. startling news that the friend had
Extracts from Circular 116, en- artists have finished telling of our i sold his house and left for A.meri-
titied, "The Waning Hardwood greatness and our glory, we have; ca taking th
Supply," issued by the Forest Ser- fostered wickedness find lawlessness i e boy with him. The•
vice U. S. Department of A ricul- as has no other nation in the world • Liverpool,
with detectives, hurried r to
tune ;—
vice
P g that, behind our boasted institii�; Liverpool, and caught the run
(Page 8) While we know within tions of Government, the thug and,: away» just as they were about to
reasonably close limits how much the thief and the assassin are open -;and took He declinednhe,to prosecute,1
hardwood is used for the manufae- atingwith a vigor and a freedom: and his two
home.
g A week. or taro later the kidnap
tore of lumber, we do not know how duplicated nowhere. else in civilix per turned up again in Guernsey.
much is cut for other purposes. ation. And our crime and wicked :Next morning the boy was again'.
Enormous quantities are required nese are steadily increasing. missing. The father rushed to the
eaeh year for railroad ties, tele- "There are four and a half times; landing -stage. The mail steamer'
phone and other poles, piles, fence as many murders for every million was leaving "He wired to way I
POLICE .ARE 1JELPLESS.
V FB QI' 1d.11ltDalll AND C'BIf i
Iy AMJCBICA.Iv :C'I1'II S
Many Guilty Ones Escape --Chicago
Averages 118 Murders
a Year.
That 200 persons a, week are be
ing murdered in this country and
erimo is costing us $3,500,000 a day,
while the police stand practically
THE MEANEST OF GRIMES!
SoME'RVEER, CASES OF CRUD,.
BIDNAPPING.!
Soino(ltnos .lfeeuveruid Years Aficr
They Hove teen. Guyon 'D P
Yue Dead,
Fourteen years' penal servitude—
that is the punishment set by Brit-
ish law for the offence of child-
1,(fSS Qf+' ,1. Jolt,
Bans Net to Mimi Leek, the Mart
Thinks, but !o Itis Own. Fault,
"As a matte): of feet," said a
Hurn who has found it pretty
cult lately to connect ,with e job,
"I don't believe numb in hick. I
think that tt'hen a mail fails he owes
his faihue as a rule not to hard
luck, but to some fault of his own.
Let me give you an illustration
from a recent persona! experience.
"I wanted a job and I wanted it
very bad, and 'I saw an advertise-
st;ealin •. 'I'orha a it is this sever -
suit
of one that I thought would
he! less i t s r` 1 ity, combined with the feet that suit nae and that I knew I could
P , s he tiding declaration cI e'n an pod she a so I a Iles
of Mr. Hugh 0, Weir m The World judges have small mercy .upon the g p > pp
To -Da (Chicago). He figures that
ef£enclor', which has ntacle the crimp 1°r' it; ancl, as I tu]lted along wltlr
251,009y g known as "kidnapping" so rare. tial ,manager there seemed every
persons whom the haw never , I .
touches "are engaged in the sista- But that the crime of kidnapping pr nepectt ticat a seas going to guet it,'
matic pux•suit of erimo as a bust- 1s not extinct is proved by the re• a tut ax fly I felt rare', match
Hess." Meanwhile the nnlioa Gent Southend case, w'her•e a baby elated, and then all of rho sudden
1
valet a targe part of their time to fourteen days' old 'teas stolen £rein
gathering in "drueks." Out of its parents,
780,000 arrests in. this country last So lately as last March the whole
kidnap -
year, over 350,000 were for drunken- of America was stirred by a ness. It is one of th,e argitxeenfs of ping crime of a most sensational
my coat caught the manager's ay
and he said to me:
''But ire couldn't hire a man
1 wills a coat like drat,' and he point
ed as he spoke at the edge of my
coat, where the ()loth had worn
away, to show here and there a lit
tie glimpse of the white lining.
"That ended it and I had to come
awe ; 'I failed to e
Y, get that job be-
cause the edge of my coat was worn
ono white.
e
ed from Eucalyptus in the future
the temperance reformer that if"kind.,' A ten -year-old boy, named
will be found in hardwood lumber
drunkenness were abolished, the }fillip Whitla, mysteriously disap-
for wagon work, farm and other
police could give more attention to 35,11' d on his way. home from
implements, railroad coach and prc,tecting life and pruperQv, and His father, awell-know=n
house finishings, furniture, etc.; tti'. Weir seems, inferentially at lawyer, employed scores of detee-
tics. telephone poles and bridge, least, to reach the came cuaclu- tiros. They discovered nothing.
timber will also prove profitable. sitar. At any rate, crime is ramp -SENTENCE ;'25 YEARS.
For any of the above. named pro- ant and unpunished. Mr. Weir be Then Came anonymous letters de-
ducts of Eucalyptus at least ten gins with some disquieting remarks Y '
years' growth will be required; and, 'on murder:
of course,the older the trees the "Tan tlionsancl persons are mur-
greater te profits in proportion. tiered in this country every year--
. . The Eucalyptus lumber is be shot,"strangled, poisoned, stabbed,
ing used in every place where great oe h t with club sand -b
strength is required, and the fin-
ished product is valued at the same
price as oak lumber.
That there is money to be made
under present price conditions of
mancling a ransom of $10;000, fail-
in which the boy would be killed.
The sum was at once handed over,
but there was still no sign of the
buy: The letters, however, gave a
ea en wi a c u or a sen - a clue, and a inert named Tames
Of the murderers, two in every 100 Boyle and his wife were arrested.
ate punished, The remaining 98 The woman confessed; and was
escape—absolutely free ! In many sentenced to 25 years' imprison -
of our States the proportion of cot- ment, while the man got a life sen-
victions is only half as great. In tence. •-
Georgia, for instance, only one Tu Italy there is a considerable
murderer in every 100 is. punished. traffic in unfortunate children sto-
Ie a recent census of American len from their parents and taught
clime, digesting the nation as a to beg for their kidnappers.; Fifty
whole, the statement was made that years ago a similar form of child=
in only 1.3 per cent. of our homi-
cides do we secure a conviction.
CHICAGO'S AWFUL RECORD.
stealing was not' uncommon in
Great Britain. Even now it is not
quite extinct, for not long ago a
woman was charged et the London
his recovery from the effects of the
operation was perfect.
IN A RECENT CASE,
recorded in the medical journals of
One trouble with the grave stone Paris, a French soldier was wound-
tic:ket to glory is that it is printed ed in the left side by a ball from a
too late. pistol. The bullet was implanted
It is always easier to straighten in the left upper chamber or auricle
out the truth than it is to line up of the heart. At first no very seri-
with it. ons symptoms were experienced,
Some men think they are lifting but ultimately the patient suffered
up the church by hiding their faults from difficulty of breathing and pain
under it. in the side. The heart was photo-
-When you bury your sorrows graphed by means of the X-rays,
don't water them; forget where when the bullet was seen on the
you planted tbent left side of the heart at its base.
You do not learn the way to hea-It was fixed in the heart -substance,
von by inquiry as to the wayward- and moved with the impulse of the
ness of your friends. heart. An operation was under
taken,the bullet removed and the poets, and fuel, and a great amount of our population to -day as there; mouth, artc1 when it arrived there
The fact that You are fighting foris wasted in lumbering and mann- were twenty years ago 1 ` the boyand his ca
the truth does not excuse you soldier within a short time was able facture. The present lumber cut of i "The significant fact about it a11' aboard. This time pswere b nd
from practising it once in a while. to report for duty. 7 1-3 billion feet represents prosecution a d.
1 prob- � is that the rest of the world' does! corvjctlon followed.
Wt'hen a man's heart is drying up All experienced surgeons know ably not one-third of the hard-; nee share these' statistics. Our in
the desert of con yearly y ,creased wickedness is confined
in
comfort himself by
size of his head.
Religion must bo
to ceit he tries to that in a certain number of cases woods earl used. Twent -five . FATHER, v. MOTH:ER.
oo ing at t e where ° i a as a injured
patients may recover without any
a rowboat to operation at all This is, of course,
many, because they are not euro due to the fact that the wound in
they are headed for heaven unless the heart closes of itself, a result
they are facing the other way. which depends very materially upon
• the part of the organ affected. As e
WIFE SOLI) WITH HALTER. just noted in the case of the. French s
soldier, a Bullet wound in the heart 4
Formal Selling of Wives Was Item -
1 ki h h the heart h been ' d
billion feet yearly is certainly not a' our own borders. In the march of
sigh estimate. t civilization, as applied to the prow!
The amount of standing hard-!tection of public life and public pro-'
coeds is still more uncertain. There. party, we have fallen wofully be -
has been no census of standing tim-hind. We may lead the globe in,
bar, and there have been but few; many things. We assuredly lead it.
stimates. The largest estimate, in crime. In 95 per cent. of the ho-'
ets the figure for hardwoods at' miracles of Germany, the guilty per -1
00 billion feet. If we are using son is brought to justice. In Spain»
,arclwoods at the rate of 25 billion the number of convictions is 85 per
tidy for Ille l Merritt
ga :err age
is 1
NOT ;ECESSARILY FATAL. f
act per year, this would mean a cent. of the total number of crimes,
DI France, it is 61 per cent.; in
Italy, 77 per cent.; in England, 50
per cent. Do these facts—when
offset against our two convictions
in every 100 murders—explain why
we have more homicides every year
than Italy, Austria, France, Scot-
land, Spain, Hungary, Holland,
and Germany combined? . .
PRIVATE DETECTIVE CORPS.
"A number of years'ago, the jew-
elers of America were forced to
form a national detective orgahiza-
tion to guard their property. The
banket•a of America have done like -
wide. So have the hotel -keepers. So
bave the railroads. They could not
depend on the 'public police: It
was cheaper to maintain a police
system of their own. Will the peo-
ple of America also be forced to.
employ private watchmen?"
The annual cost of crimp is fig-
ured in property stolen or destroy -
ad, and in. the money spent on
Police Courts, jails, etc., reaches
this impressive total of 51,378,000,-
000. yet the police imein helpless.
And, as if this stinging indictment
of inefficiency were not enough,
Mr' Weir goes on to say that what
tile police lack in efficiency ,they, try
to "snake up -in brutality, .By the
barbarous "third degree,, which
the writer c=ompares with the Span-
ish Ingnisitien in ferocity, .any citi-
zen, guilty or innocent•, perhaps
tot even charged with any cringe,
may be cireggred'to the ]police sta-
lon and Mit througli torturers that
wreck him physically, or, worse.,.
unhinge his reason, "end send him
forth • a hopeless idiot."•
•
When the war between Great Bri- The records kept by military sur-
sixteen years' supply.
erns show that such cases are by According to figures published byr
tain and France erxletI, in 1515 g The American Lumberman, our
native hardwoods require a great
many years to grow from the seed-
ling to 12 inches in diameter.
The black oak about 50 years,
the black walnut abort 58 years,.
ash about i2 years, hickory about
90 years, and white. oak 100 years.
The fact that Eucalyptus' will
grow from the seedling in good soil
to 12, inches in diameter in 10 years
demnstrates its possibilities for
reforesting purposes.
.DARX AS NIGHT.
because the sty is almost complet-
ely shut out by the mass ref vines
which interlace the trees and are
so thick .with leave.e. Deprived of
the sunlight all is dark and rank
The damn air is laden with un -
'healthful vapor.
Above this is really a scene of
lite and beauty. hires and butter-
-Aka and other gorgeous insects are
!lying, from plaen to plane..; flowers
-,,,5tf.:]zundreds of hues and ebapes are
blooming from the plants attached
to tree, ltraneh anti trunk. Thin
upper world of the Amazon forests
has been rlosecl to human beings
ritrtl promises to r'ernei.0 a perpetual
mystery unless with the aid of some
aerial craft one may be able to vis-
it it,
After listening to a peseilnist for
half ern hour a roan 111 0411) to feel
the way he does after taping a char
0.1 fritter medicine.
huh 1,:'i:J.i --„Qh0 darling, our
honeymoon was just tiro lovclierit
aver 1" The teroomee"It ceetaiely
was, dearest 1" :Clic Bride --' "And
I have only one regret ---Luray ucv-
ei' have Lha p)eaeuro of going
thrntrrli Another 1" -
e°
thee; these cures must have been
,authorities of the day deemed] it brought by Nature. Indeed, there
'best to ,,hut their eyes at the pro- are veterans of that great contest
reeding. A certain amount of for- alive to -day, who carry about im
715011115 had to he observed however, bedded in their hearts bullets
;1,'sfore the sale was considet'ed le- whieh have, so 10 speak, made.
,cell, even ley the roost ignorant. A
Yorkshire. writer mentions two eon-
ditinus which must be carried out
to make a satisfactory sale. The
price of t1re, wife must not be less
than 1 shilling (24 emits) and she
must be delivered to her pnrcheser
with a new halter around her neck.
The same writer recordsthe ease
of the woman who zealously pre-
served the receipt for herself as a
jn•co£ of respectability.
GLASf•1 TELEGRAPH POLES.
Europe is now beginning to, use
glass telegraph poles, and patents
have been granted in (Iermany and
the 'United States for a machine to
be need in their manufacture. Thal
pries are said to be especially rain -
able in countries where wooden
poles are quickly destroyed by.in'.
sectsor by climate. Tho Imperial
Pont, Department of Germany, it is
said, has already ordered that these'
Ix lel be used in its telegraph or
telephone lines,
themselves quite at home. These
bullets have, through the wonder-
ful power of accommodation of that
iiftgiving organ, remained in the
Heart since the day the wound was
-received. And, they apparently
give little or no trouble to the men
were carry these strange souvenirs
of historical battlefields hidden in.
their breasts. unknown to the
public, ; they are medals of honor
beside wlxfoh the erose of Legion of
Honor appears a mete bauble.
COW WITH WOODEN LEG.
The supplying of artificial limbe
to animals is by no means uncom-
mon, A well-known London firm
fitted a cow with a wooden log as,
fax back as twenty-five years since,
and some time ago the Comte do
Perla had a valued dog 'fitted with
a leg of wood and leather, The
late Colonel North had a new foot
supplied to a greyhound veined at
.r,0d0, and Lord Denman rejoices
In the pesseezion of te wooden-leg-
gc 1 belle*.
ae
THE FALSE TEETH TRADE.
Some•idea of the general use .of
false teeth may be gathered from
the statement that 20,000,000 of
them are exported from America to
England every year. When we con-
sider that probably not more than
hall the inhabitants of (Treat Bri-
tain indulge in the luxury of false
teeth, no matter how many grind-
ers they may have lost, these fig-
ures would seem to indicate that
nearly everyone in England suffers
from defective or missing teeth. Aa
far as observation goes, the United
States is no better' off than lenge
land in this respect.
d'
Mrs. SIiaepley-"Next time you
call I want you to give your opin-
]en of the new dog we are going to
get. Mr,''Baie- Delightful, Fin
surae. When do you expect it?"
Mre Sluarpley-=-"Qh, not for twelve
months at leant".
As Eddy Krieger, an American
buy of twelve, was playing in a
garden near Hamburg, two nxaskod
men sprang upon him, gagged hint
and carried him off, while his mo-
ther, who saw. the dramatic episode
from an upper window, screamed
madly for help. In this case, the
instigator of the kidnapping was
"You'd say that was hard luck,
wouldn't you? So world most peo-
ple ; but it wasn't hard luck at all.
My loss of that job was due to sine -
pie, sheer neglect. 1 had known for
a week that that edge had got white
and I knew T ought to ink it, bu't I
had simply failed to do.so. It is
some little time now since I've had
any new clothes and naturally my
clothes now. show quite some signs
of wear, but you can keep clothes
looking pretty good if you'll only
take the trouble to look after them,
and that as a genera] thing I do.
"That edge of my coat began to
ahow white about two months ago,
aril then of course I inked it. When
the white 'shows through as the ink
wears off you have, to ink 1t again,
and that's what I've generally
done, but sometimes I've been neg-
lectf 1 as I was in this ease.
"1 know well enough a week ago
that that coat ought to bo looked
,after, but I just neglected it, let
it go, and finally it cost me that
job That was not hard look; it
was all clue plain as could be to
my own fault.
"Lots of us no doubt lose ohanc-
es in just that way. In case of
hard lack, as they call- it, we are
likely ea let go more oe less and try
to keep up as we ought to. We
say: 'What's the nee? Everything
seems to be against me, and why
should I try?'
"01 course there couldn't be any
worse mistake than that, What a
max, wants to clo when luck seems
against him is to keep up better
than ever. He must put up a good
frc:nt, Though inside his heart may
sag a little he should keep a cheer-
ful countenance; nobody, positive-
ly nobody, wants a 'downcast man
around. Now you want to put up
a good front and look more scrupu-
lously than ever after your coat and
hat and shoes, after every detail.
See what I lost by neglecting .just
one simple little thing 1
"But Pre got it inked up all right
now and I sha'n't lose another, good
chance right away just because my,
coat shows white on the edge."
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QUEENS WHO SMOKE.
According to a Paris journal, the
now Queen of the Belgians is a lov-
er of the Egyptian cigarette, says
the London Globe. The Queen
Mother of Spain used to terga the
Ambassadors to smolt° in her pies -
the child's own father. He and the 0
mother had been divorced some
years before, .and tie mother bad
the custody of the child,
In 1904 the father stole the boy
at Chicago, and fled from the Unit -
cd States to Germany. The mo
Cher, with the patience of a wea-
sel, got on the scent, followed, and,
invoking the aid of German law, re-
gained her son. But she only had
ham with her twenty-four hours be-
fore he was stolen again, in the
manner described.
Sometimes a stolen child is ee-
cot-erod years after it has been giv-
en up for dead. Such was thecasewith little Margaret Taylor, born
in 1894, the daughter- •of an Ameri-
can manufacturer. When the child
was five' years old she WAS stolen,
and, after her father had •spent
years of time and large sums of
money in a vain attempt to trace
her,. she was found, almost by pure
chance, at Genoa. It was te rola-
tiro who had: stolen her, apparent-
ly out of; spite.
LIGHTNING SPLITS TREES.
Lightning,, makes trees • explode
like overcharged boilers. The flame
of the lightning does not burn them
uj ,- net dace the electric flash split
them like an axe. The belt flows
through into all the interstiecs of
the trunk and into the hollows un-
do its bark. All the moisture' at
once is turned into steam, which
its . immediate explosion tips
open en the
c. 1'ar centuries, "
P f�4 furies ',title
ria
s]mple ;jittery puzzled scientists,
but the have Wet: in right at last,
nee when Regent of the kingdom,
I Majesty being a good smoker
herself, On the other hand, the
late Queen Victoria had a great ob-
jeetion to tobacco, The German
Empress tolerates smoke, for her
lord is a great smoker -cigarettes,
cigars, and even the olcl china bowl
pipe. Queen 1tlargtter:te in the time
of King Humbert used often to set
the example among the palace
guests. Perhaps there to no coun-
try where .ladies of high degree
smoke so generally as they cin in
Russiahe Empress, unlike her
mother-in-law, has forbidden ladies
in her presence toindulge in nico-
tine.
THE MAIN DIC"FERENCE.
"Papa," asks the littlr, bey; "how
do men and women pick' out the
hats that will be most becoming to
thein?"
"A man, my scat," explains the
fond father, ''selects his hat by the
size, and a •woman choses hers by
the price.''
`All men may be liars, but it isn't
sate 10 say so.
Tiro fad of
oire cannot be the faith
Fancies ]rave lie mete to do with
love -making than facts.
Tt's cos to reseribe
,Y p a remedy
for other people's ills,
Aznn'isaie-e -
a 1 to this back it's
P.,
when he is told• to hump himself. ,
The avoralgo girl is prouder of
her_englgemellt Mug than sh''e eifer .: .
will be of her wedding rine. •
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