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1Vlien I was getting better,
And they propped mo up in bed„
Oh, didn't I feel hungry!
But .1 knew the doetor'd said,,
Ile can't have much to eat yet;
So 1 thought of things instead:
I thought of basket picnics,
And of mince and apple pie;
Of sandwiches and doughnuts,
And the tarts I used to buy.
I :vented to taste them, almost,
Such a hungry boy was I, n
My nroelter'd sit and read me
Any story I'd pick alt;
I guess you know already
What the stories were about.
1'cl listen and—imagine;
And it helped me do without,
But oh, I want to tell you
That there's nothing you can take,
3n thinking or in syo•ies,
In a dream or when awake,
That ever tastes as splendid
As the first real slice of cake!
SHOPPING.
Dorothy is the only, little girl
mother has and mother is the only
caretaker Dorothy has; so where
mother goes, Dorothy goes, too,
Squirrels in the park, eating nuts
from one's hand, are delightful, -and
so is a sandy beach where wavelets
play tag with little bare feet. Why,
when there are parks and beaches,
should a mother ever choose to go
shopping in a•gleat wearisome store?
Mother understands that little girls
aro not shoppers, and she always
provic-es a "compensation." That
is what she names it; Dorothy calls
it "pep'mints." She carries, too, a
light folding camp -stool, Past the
right heigli£_ for a small girl, on
which Dorothy can sit whenever she
is tired, and rest the little aching
legs.
One morning another had to buy
many articles and match others,
wl:icb takes time. Passers-by smiled
at the girl sitting on her low stool
out of the way of the crowd, and
eating small white peppermints out
of a paper hag. There are only ten
in a "compensation," anis Dorothy
FOG HUNG OVER THAMES
HEAVY SHIPPING LOSSES ON
CHRIST112AS WEEK.
Sad Weather Cost 1Vfillions to
Shipowners and Mer-
chants,
The fog of the Christmas week will
long be remembered in London ship-
ping circles because of the oiler -moue
losses which it entailed upon Ship-
owners and merchants, says the Lon-
don Express.
Shipping men, who alone can esti-
mate it even approximately, put
down the damage at from a million
and a quarter to a million and a
half a day, or something approach-
ing £10,000,000 for the week.
During seven days traffic in the
Thames was practically suepended
the whole time—only the most reck-
less of captains daring to "up an-
chor."
When, on Christmas day and Mon-
day,
o-day, the weather cleared a little,
the shipping collisions began, and
there was an appalling list of dis-
asters posted at Lloyd's.
"When once the ships began to
move," said an old Gravesend wat-
erman, 'they rushed out in double
file for all the world like a proces-
sion of soldiers. It was altogether
the most curious sight—what with
the wrecked bridges and davits and
masts—that I ever saw in my life.
LLOYD'S SUFFERED,
The cost of these disasters will fall
upon the underwriters at Lloyd's.
All the damaged vessels will have to
be surveyed; the majority dry dock-
ed, and the whole cost—survey fees,
clock charges, and repair account—
paid by the insurers. At a low es-
timate the bill for this will cone to
a couple of millions sterling for the
week.
Although shipowners can claim
from the underwriters for the dam-
age to their vessels by Collision and
stranding, they have to pay all the
expenses of detention, and these in
themselves form a very heavy bill.
The wages of the crews are a small
matter compared with the loss ow-
ing to the idleness of tho boats.
Vessels in dock could not get out in-
to the river, and so have been charg-
ed additional dock dues.
Some of the owners had a 1111n1-
ber of boats Hung up in the Themes.
One firm had seventeen steamers,
each of 500 tons and over, and ar,-
could not decide whether they lasted other fourteen large vessels. The loss
longer if one sucked them or if one to these two owners alone through
ate them fou' bites to a candy. Af-
ter she had finished the tenth she
waited what seemed to her a long
time before sbe decided to search for
mother.
"I will go in the bird -cage," sho
decided, and went toward the clova-
tor.
"Where are you going, little girl?"
asked the guard in a blue uniform
with brass buttons, who opened the
doors of the elevators.
"1 am going to find my mother,
soldier man," replied Dorothy, with
much dignity.
The man laughed and inquired,
"Are you lost?"
With still more dignity Dorothy
replied, "I'ni not lost, soldier man.
Can't you see that I am right here?
It is mother who is lost,"
The man was surely very jolly, for
he laughed still more heartily as he
said, 'You go over by that counter,
—see?—and when your mother comes
I'll send her to you."
The man might have been a little
girl bimself, he chose the waiting -
place so well, for the counter was
the doll counter. Dorothy sat down
on her camp -stool in sheer amaze-
ment at sight of big, little and tiny
dolls; talking, walking and sleeping
dolls; father, mother and grand-
mother dolls; girl, boy and baby
dolls; cook, mammy and nurse -maid
dolls; soldier, sailor and fireman
dolls.
On the next counter were bods, cra-
dles and cribs; chairs, hammocks and
couches; tables, dires and sideboards,
stoves, skillets and teakettles for
the dolls that stayed at home; and
for the dolls that travelled, trunks,
bags and luncheon -boxes; carriages,
horses and automobiies;'boats, trains
and trolley -cars.
It took time to examine all these
wonders and Dorothy had just reach-
ed the fions, lambs, COWS, cats;
dogs, tigers, rabbits, roosters and
"billy -goats" on a third con ter
when mother came toward her, till
mailing at something the guard had
told her.
"0 mother," alert Dorothy, "don't
you see the 'compensation is all
eaten! Do you think I might have
a 'front,' too, to -day?"
Mother was troubled as she looked
at the l:eautiful toys, for she feared
Dorothy would choose a costly one
which she could not buy her.
"What would you like for a
treat?" she asked.
Dorothy pointed to a rabbit made
of soft white cloth and stuffed with
cotton.
"Lions end tigers are :earful," she
explained, "but a little rabbit is
lovely to take to bed at night."
Another agreed, and that night the
little white rabbit slept in Dorothy's
Crib.
COULDN'T SPAM,: WWII.
"Your husband will pull through,
madam," the surgeon said, "al-
though the injury to the skull is
quite severe, rand 150 shall have to
remove a small portion of the brain
before the operation is entirely
over."
',Don't remove any more than Is
absolutely necessary," pleaded the
anxious wife. "Poor George hasn't
any to spare."
Friend (noticing the confused heap
of goods of every ;loserlption scnt-
i:ered - promiscuously around the
thop)--'"I.lAallotel what's happened!
!leen talking an inventory, had a
flee, or ore Yon p;oleg to move alit?"
Merchant.--"Thltt shows Trow little
you knowabout, shoplkgepllxg. Wo
have merely been waiting on a lady
who dropped in for a paper of
pins,�l
SEEK UNCLAIMED WEALTH
STRANGE STORIES TOLD TO
LONDON AGENTS.
A Great Number of People Who
Believe Themselves llsir to
Vast Estates.
The belief that they arra the "right-
ful heirs" to boundless wealth of
the whareabout of which they have
no earthly notion is strong in the
ininds of many men and women,
some of whom from time to time ur-
gently call upon -members of Ina
lirlt1511 Parliament to place them at
mice in possession of their heritage.
On the other hand; there is a vast
amount. orproperty in Chancery to
which no one has hitherto been able
to establish a legal claim, and this
condition of affairs has brought in-
to existence a number of agents in
London who make a business of en•
deavoring to bring the heirs and the
property together.
"Outsiders," said an agent the
other day, "can harc[lee imagine the
romantic stories which come before
Ino, the extraordinary claims that
aro put forward, and the curious
peoplewho have great expocta-
tioms.' ,,"NIIXT OF KIN WANTED."
non -working alnounts to several
thousand pounds. In addition, many
valuable charters have had to be
cancelled, and as long -voyage char-
ters are frequently worth a couple of
thousand pounds the loss from this
cause is heavy enouggh.
The shipowners' 15i11 for the week
is probably. heavier than the under-
writers'.
The value of Christmas- goods in
the Thames was nearly a million
sterling, in addition to the ordinary
regular consignments.
F
T1:IS OLD STORY,
Physician (at hospital),—"Flow did
you happen to fall from the top of
the ladder?"
Patient—"A preLty woman was
passing, and while trying to get a
good look at her I slipped and fell."
Physician -"Ah, the same old
story --a woman at the bottom of
it,' ¢
Old Man—"You were foolish, Ger-
tio, to accept my boy Jack. You
will have to wait till I'm dead now,
afore you touches my money, where-
as if you'd taken ale instead, as I
asked, you could have started spend-
ing it right away from now! Silly
girl l"
"When I took you into partner-
ship," said the indignant father,
"5 expected you to he untiring in
your devotion to the interests of
the business." The son took one
foot down from tho desk long enough
to strike a match to light his cig-
arette. "I think I ]lade been," said
he. "You never have noticed lee
tiro myself yet, have you, pa?"
Near the Blatt: Head, Coverack
Cornwall, a dead whale 50 feet long
has been washed ashore.
Thu finger -print system has this
year led to the identification of
over 5,000 prisoners as previous of-
fenders,
At 1Vestdale Heed School in Cum
-
be•land, every scholar has been in
his place each time Lhe school epee -
00 during the past year,
At the age of 78, Sergeant John
O'Neil, a survivor of the Birleonhuau
troopship disaster, died recently at
Boston, Lincolnshire.
To the Devonshire Education Com-
mittee an account Was submitted fo
six shillings for clay pipes, used by
the children to blow hubbies.
Nearly half a century after the
event, 1411'., John Raiford, of stoking•
ton, Derbyshire, has just received
his prize money connected with the
Relief of Lucknow.
While the aged prior of Exeter
Were being entertained at a Christ-
mas dinner they sent a telegram to
the Bing and queen at Sandring-
ham, and received a gracious reply
within an hour,
According to his annual custom,
Lord Rothschild has 'given every
omnibus driver and omnibus con-
ductor in London a brace of pheas-
ants, The men say the birds wer0
exceptionally fine this year.
The first election of a clergyman
to the Coennon Council of the city
of London since the itoformation
took place recently, when the Rev.
Percival 0, Smith was elected for
the Castle Maynard Wa'dm.ote,
in a family at SlowItley, Dueke,
the mother Was ill when a child
contracted scarlet fever. Tho nurse
caught the disease, and then of the
two r•emeAning children one Watt el-
ve'ely hurried and the other scalded.
Ile, Ton Dewhurst, of 331acll1nrrn,
has been given a Shetland . pony,
believed 1,0 be the smallest in the
Kingdom, 1t is four years old, ful-
ly grown, jet black, and only e? e
inehee high, :1 b inches less than the
next sralleet penny,
It 50011(5 that among people of
humble life the advertisements fur
missing heirs, which appear regular-
ly in certain London newspapers,
are read with the utmost eagerness,
x111 it is a common belief among
people of that class that they allay
mho day hear of "something to their
advaat.age" in co0nentiun with some
long -lost relative, who may have
made his "pile" and remembered the
old folks at home. In higher -class
society it is not so easy to lose one's
relatives, They have a habit of
(cooping in touch with their uncles
and aunts from whom they have ex-
pectations. But among the poor it
is no uncommon thing for a family
to be scattered over the whole
world.
AN "(STATE" AT (2VG731tO.
During the last 200 years consid-
erably over 100,000 advertisements
for unknown next-of-kin legatees,
heirs and others have been issued.
Among the curious claims to money
or property the following may lir
quoted for its strangeness:
One of G.'s ancestors was a soldier
under General Wolfe. After the in.
vasinn of Canada he settled in One-
bec and took to himself a colored
wife. Ile became an extolls'
"Planter," and died without issue.
His fortune was left to a large fam-
ily of brothers and sisters in Eu„ -
land, who, seeing an advertisement
for them, got together sufficient
money to pay their passage to Qu: -
bac to prove their title. They, hoer•
ever, lost heart on seeing the sea at
Liverpool and only stayed there
sufficiently long to spend their pas-
sage money, after which they were
content to walk home and forego the
fortune.
DREAMS 01: FORTUNE.
One Hurn wrote: "I don't kno v
anything about law matters, as I've
been buried in the coal pits over
since I was 9. Prone this you will
know that my knowledge of tho
world is very limited. I'nr told my
great grandfather was a very weal-
thy planter, and left his relatives El
lot of money; but, being pitmen,
they were too poor to go to the
West Indies and look after it, and
not one of them could read or
write."
Another man, even more lazy n1
his ideas, wrote: "Believing myself
entitled to some unforseen legacy ur
property, inherited from sone near
or distant relative at home ( 5
abroad, I have a presentiment that
thole is a legacy awaiting ane front
some source.''
DESCIINDANTS, BUT NOT II151(LS.
Another agent told some interest -
Ing stories of his clients, "One man
cane to me," he said, "ugith a
story that he was the heir to 1b.)
title and estates of a certain earl
dont, He showed me letters ad-
dressed to his mother from' the earl,
and I was anile to find out that they
were actually in the handwriting of
that: nobleman. 'Upon going into the
case further, however, I found that
ray client was the son of tho earl,
but debarred from inheritance.
"In many oases poor people who
cortin to 1110 with 'curious documents
from Which they build great hopers
of fortunes are really the lineal dee-
condants of good old English famil-
ies who at ono time ruled the land.
Of course, they have no legal claim
on any moneys cm, estates, but, it is
curious and pathetic to find mean
who rightfully bone the names u(
at old nobility living in poverty
and wretchedness, while peers ..f
mu:01roon growth have sprung up
and obliterated the memory of their
fnre1'031E8's,
"It is only rarely that we Orn
able to snbslaeltiato a claim, for
property held by people other than
the 1•ightfnl heirs, and it is surpris-
ing how few of all the missing pee,
pin who are so constantly adve•tiz-
ed for over make thcrosolves known."
FOR THE COUNTRY'S SAKE
IIIIPERTURBABLE RESOLUTION
OF THE JAPANESE.
How the People Have Faced the
Losses and Crises of the
War,
ONE, F011 COUNSEL.
"I presume, my good fellow, you're
a laborer?" said a lawyer to a
plainly -dressed witness at court the
other clay.
"You are right., I am a workman,
sir," replied the witness, who was a
civil englneer.
"Familiar with the use of the
pick, shovel and spade, I preeume?"
"To scone extent. Those are not
the principal implements of my
trade, though.
"Pre -haps you will dondescend to
enlighten me ag to your principal
implement s?"
"It: 15 hardly Worth while, You
don't understand their nature or
(se."
"Probably not," loftily, "blit I
insist on 1•itotwing What, ,they aro.".
"rains." _
After 27 years' residence amoitg the
J'apareso I thought that. I had
learned to understand their charas
ter, Writes the London Times eorres-
BRIGHTON'S QUEER GHOST
SITE SEEMS TO BE MUSICALLY
INCLINED,
English House Has a Strange
Lodger—Figure of Woman
Who Stticided,
From Leighton, 'England, 0(01105 a
story of (L haunted house Where
ghost ham 00511 soon.
Brighton's ghost has ;selected ail
TOLSTOI AND THE CZAR r,g,44 r4"' " r .,y„"l
RUSSIAN REPORIVIER APPEALS
TOR IRE.CDOld.
(
Rernarkable Letter to the Emperor 4"b+'t i" +'g•,.,,,., '44. $ T+
.-.-Denounces Itis
Rule, MEDICAL USIES OF LIGHT,
HEALTH
Three years ago, When Leo Tole- The recent death of Dr, Niels Fin -
tot and all around hien thought ho sen of Copeabagcn recalls the won-
- was dying, ho addressed a long let- derful results he obtained in the
ter to his "Dear Brother," the Oear cure of certain diseases of the skin
on the subject of ltuesinn reforms, by exposing them to the action of
pendent. But I confess that I was ordinary' two -storied house in a ver, j
not prepared for the imperturbable °milieu's' street as ICs residence, For The letter hos only Immune public concentrated sunlight, One might,
resolution they aro now displaying, obvious reasons, we refrnl( from now, rather say "sun dIlIk," for it \vas
c publishing the names o1' those who Starting from the nrlcnowledged 'the rays nt th0 violet end et the
They make no protestations 1101, d fuel tlt(,L n third of lilt sin !los in 5
they indulge in any bluster, They claim to be able to snbstaltLi(lto L t, spectrum, and oven those boyoxl it
arils a elety detail we give b0loty, and io he state of "special control" -1,5„ (which have no parte In the pu'odue-
goal simply set their Paco tow is outside the law—and that the tion of light, but favor (malt, chenl1-
goal and they will hold to the path
the Jnterests of the lundlutd tiro nisu g y
whatever sulTorin s aro met on the withhold the neuro of tho :trent, army of pollee, visible and secret, cal processes), which had the most
w'ay, 1'heve t•4 Id scarcely bate A middle-aged lady, who formerly goes on eoul inlutlly incrouoing, Tula -t0 de 111 pr'oducin'ghis cures.
boon an severer test of their deter- occupied the house, says that one 11)1 declares that, ns the result of the sly means of a special apparatus,
y Sunday eveuln 111)0 teas startled to 5trenu0un and cruel activity of the whereby the heat of the suns rays
urination than the recent alteration g flovernulenl, the tr'(iruiturai populu
See standing by the piano in the ]f' was abstracted, and the useful -'aye
limn—those 100 0111ltuns upon everywerewere focused by a powerful lens and
rests the power of Russia—are avery directed on the part to be treated,
year bottoming Dearer, so that famine directed
Finsen and other physicians
is a normal ocour'rence. And the un- who used his method were able to
1501801 dissatisfaction of all classes Duro many cases of shin disease, in -
with the Government las increased chldLtg sumo forms of cancer, and
especially lupus. The same results
were found to be produced by the
electric light as by sunlight, and as
elolight is 111050 easily con-
trolled and always at hand, in
cloudyctrlc weather as Well as in clear,
it is now generally used by prefer-
ence.
Light has curative action in other
cases. Light -.laths, that is, expos-
me of the unclothed body tor the sun
aro found to be beneficial in general
weakness, in consumption and in
various nervous affections.
Light of a special color has also
been used in the treatment of dis-
ease. Some thirty-fcvo years ago a
"blue -light erazo" swept over the
country, and everybody and every-
thing were surrounded by blue,glass.
The cure-all claims of those who
preached blue light were so absurd
and full of exaggeration that the
fad soon died. But there was a
germ of good in it, and to -day some
scientific physicians, in Europe
especially, believe that it is useful in
consuunption, neuralgia and other
allectiorls.
Red light was, very many years
ago, believed to be sovereign fn the
0050 of smallpox. A son of Edward
I. of England was said to have been
cured by being wrapped in rod cloth..
Doctor Finsen revived this treatment
and it was found that there was lit-
tle or no pitting of the skin after
smallpox when the patient was kept
in a room with red glass windows.
The effect is believed to be due to a
shutting off of the chemical rays,
and the same result is said to follow
keeping• the patient in a dark room,
or covering his face with a black
lnaslc, IC has beensaid that sea-
sickness may be prevented by the
Wearing of rod glasses, but that is a
statement rather ]lard to credit.
of the military service law, 13y that
change 300,000 men in the primo of drawing loom the figure of 0 woman,
life, all of when had already, servei 'There was all awful look on the face,
three years with the colors and wore but the appetition vanished before
living in happy assurance that war the terror-stricken occupier could
had cedsed to concern them, found gather any ftu•ther (lelnil.
themselves suddenly summoned from A gentleman well known in llrigh- in proportion, Then the ('Dunt con -
their homes and their occupations to ton lived in the house with his wife.
re-enter the ranks. I have conversed and children for 15 months. Sturdy tinucs:
with many of these men, officers and and muscular, with a partiality for Your helpers assure you that, by
soldier's, and with many wluo non mountain climbing as n pasthne, this the arrest of all progress of life in
her others of them among acquain- gontleuun is ccrtalnly not j,kind o na0, they hensu-°
oil 1nt111 to suffer from "nerves.ho" the welft1arenof -(hitwill peoptleereby 0nd yew'
own peace and safety.
But one c'a.n moaner at't'est the flow
of a river than that incessant 1)10-
gres5lVe nmoVCTllenl'. Of mankind which
is established by God.
WORN OUT SYSTEM
80, as to autocracy, ff it were na-
tural to the Iles -fun people while
this people still believed that the
Czar is an infallible deity who alone
rules the people, it is far from Draw -
takes or 10150(15, and in net otic
instnnce have I hoard, or heard of, a
murmur, "For the country's sake,"
,(kuni no tarne) is the comprehensive
creed of all.
KNEW THE WORST,
PLAYED 11(1E' GUITAR,
HIe says that he had gnat seen the
ghost., but a very 0uriens thing hap-
pened in the corner of the drawing
room where the 115050 is send to have
And to the prediction that adverse appeared.
fortune would quickly break their "We hall our piano thele," he said,
spirit, the answer is that they have "and over it bong a guitar. One
hall reverses. The attempt to carry night, just nr I had got into bed,
Port Arthur by storm in. August last the guitar suddenly sounded three
was one of tho most terrible ordeals notes in quick succession.
an army ever endured. In five day's "I exclaimed, 'Whatever is that?"
al to them now when they all know,
at continuous fighting, from the 1.Oth and my wife and I walked to tiro in- or t'lc0 fled out. ws soon as they get
to the 23rd, an average of nearly strumiut and looked at it. It was a little education, first that a good
8,000 mere fell daily. Five thousand hanging on the wall ns usual, but as' (,`'Ent
is only a (nappy ,1)w cr., and
two hundred and forty were lost—
killed or missing -1),200 were wound-
ed. Tho fate of these "missing"
(128,150) must have weighed heavy
on the hearts of the besiegers. They
had fallen withinthe enemy's lines;
fallen wounded only in many cases.
Did they perish' after .days of pro-
tracted agony or were they merciful-
ly but barbarously slaughtered au
they lay helpless? Thera are no pris-
oners in the hands of the garrison.
This disaster was not told to the
world. But it was well understood.
In Japan. There t1)° people knew
we looked at it it gave out the sane that Czar's nloy be and have been
three notes again, and then athird monsters and maniacs—like John IV
time, We 10011 the guitar clown and and Paul; and, secondly, that how -
maw that it had not 'nen down' in' evergood and wise a man a Czar
any way. We could find nothing '1)1ight' I: e, hu himself cannot possibly
whatever to account for the sounds." 1 rule a nation of 180 millions, but
"'These were the notes," said his that the people are ruled by those
wife, who was standing by, "a rain -i who surround the Omar, and who
or chord," anti she played on the' are more concerned with their own
piano the tones A. C, Ie. "On more position than with the people's wen
than 0110 (118,881011(118,881011eller that," she, fare,
added. •'I heard notes sounded o1' Autocracy is an outgrown form of
the piano by an invisible hand." i government which may answer to
SAW THE GHOST. ; the demands of a people somewhere in
A barrister, now living in a filth-; Central Africo. apart. iron the t\he15
that to reach the last and strongest ionable port of Drighton, says that world, but not the demands of the
line of defence nearly 20,000 of their soma time ago he and two friends I R P l ] which is growing
countrymen bad been struck down,
and that tho great assault, to cele-
brate the result of which they had
prepared their flags and their lIlun-
inations, had ended in the capture
of two secondary forts at a cost of su(ldcnly I heard my friends who; indeed, Ts
newly fifteen thousand officers aid ware In another room, cry out, '1''oi' land of violence., S (10101 control tu-
010n. Women's ey03 were wet, of Ileaven's sake, cone here at 01105 ' bitra•y exilvnt0nts, executions, reli
course, but the nation at large 'did •lack gio,ls perscrutiuns, prohibitions of
not utter a moan. No lank was Iran dawn, and in the icon 5� 1)onlcs aid papers, distortion of edu-
heard of the catastrophe. That such saw, as clearly as I see 3011 naw+, a' cation, and, in general, Query, kind
a thing had happened could not have woman crossing the floor. T looked of hall and cruel dcrds.
been divined from any sound or sur- straight at her, a.nd I rah tell you CZA1.1'S MISTAKES,
row or voice of lamentation. that I than never for et Lhe si 1)L ofl Such have hiLhorto been the arnicas
- GRIEF NOT SEEN, aL s a c g gcl
her face, Its look of agony was awl of your reign, beginning with the
The newspapers said nothing. The fol, Sho walked cap to the wall, and; answer to the 'Over deputation, which
flags were folded, the lantern laid then vanished. We all three of ns called forth the general indignation
aside, and the people went about felt that We had s0en enough fora of the !Russian Dubuc, 1511011 yon call -
their daily business, many perhaps that night, and cane out at omb, 11 ed the most, legitimate desires of the
with sad hearts, but all unshaken in hurl a great effect on our nerves." 1 people "'0nseiess dreannings," and
their determination and their eonfi- It is said that some years ago a continuing in all your measures
deuce. So silent was their mourn-
11ss1an (r(` 1 0
decided to sleep in the house and in-' 01''-r more enlightened by the e light-
vcstigatc. 11e took with hint a re -1 ounent commonto the whole world,
volver and a terrier. , and therefore it is passii,le to main -
"During the night," he says, "my i fain this form of government .and
dog became, strangely agitated, and! the orthotloxyconi iicted with Vi -as,
Ing and so stoical their demeanor
that foreign nations did not suspect
what had happened or hesitated to
utter their suspicions. The sinking
of a defenceless transport, with her
freight of a thousand soldiers, had
caused incomparably greater excite-
ment, for this was a calamity that
should have been avoided, Whereas
that other was the outcome of a
deliberately undertaken enterprise.
It will be imagined, doubtless that
many critics are questioning tiro
quality of that military prescience
which assize! to troops of flesh and
blood the task- of.escalacling an in-
tact permanent fortress—the strong-
est, pel'hape, in the world. As to
that the Japanese people maintain
absolute silence. They seem to have
entire confidence in the military and
naval commanders, and they are not
unsustained by a sentiment of pride
that their country's soldiers should
have essayed such a task and only
desisted metier such conditions.
This evidence should suffice to dis-
pel all doubt as to the "staying
Power" of the Japanese, and it docs
not stand alone.
FACING 'A CRISIS,
port Arthur furnished another
trial. 11m second effort to reduce
the fortress was made in the clos-
ing 'days of October, and again only
partial success resulted. This time
nothing in the naiu•e of a catas-
trophe had to 130 faced; only a dis-
eppointnleht, But the disappoint-
ment eves greatly accentuated by col-
lateral issues, Would the fortress
defy capture until the arrival of tiro
Baltic fleet? 1( so, if Togo's squad-
rons found themselves caught be-
tween tho five surviving battleships
of fort Arthur and the seven of
itozbdestvonsky, then Japah could
hardly hope to retain the command
of the sea, and the Whole situation
would be imperilled.
Aid eve.' a vital crisis confront any
nation, hero was such a crisis. Yet
it Is a fact that tiro outloolc teemed
to cause much greater excitement
among the members of the foreign
e pa- t1) J a .
community than among
ese, These remained to all appear-
ances impereubable, "Tho Baltic
fleet may find you stili on the out. -
side of the fortress," cried the for-
eignder. "1t will not," answered
the Japanese, "!.hut even if you re-
duce Port Arthur before the fleet
arrives, you w'ih not have any leis-
ure to dock your ships," urged the
fanner, "Wo have already docked
them," replied tiro latter.
AFRICA ONCE AN OCEAN.
In Lake Teng'anyika is Pound a cer-
tain species of jolly -fish, or medusa,
unknown to any ether fresh-vator
lance. It, therefore, sarins probable
that the lake Was oncb connected in
sane Way With the sea. ,Phis theory
has been etrmagthentsd by the prose
epee of a series of ivhclkeliko nn01-
�ilpe8 (and in the lake,
young Woetan, drivel, mad by tho
cruelty of a man, hanged herself in a
bedroom of the house.
EXTRA FOR CONFETTI.
En.glish Vicar Exacts Fine for Use
in the Chinch,
'rho Vicar of Burgess 11111, Sussex,
England, has issued an ultimatum
on the subject of throwing confetti
at v.eddings, if the contain is per-
sisted in, he states, an additional
five shillings - will bo charged for
the cleaners' labor alter the con-
fetti
o-fetti shower.
"1 think the Vicar of llnrgess Hill
is justified ill the protest ho has
made agalest the custom," said a
London clergyman. -
"It in a case of 'Save me from n1y
Mende.' The showers of confetti are
very Pretty soletimes, and the ef-
forts of bride and bridegroom . to
escapo,'ole laughable; but I doubt
if tins' happy pair are, made happier
by being compelled to advertise the
fact that. they have just been mar-
1"
"The custom 111th have a ron11a11-
ticvalue to the wedding party, hilt
to the women who Have to clean
up the Munch thuru is 110 such inter-
est, and often' enough no compensa-
tion for the extra labor involved.
lever',ybody knows time confetti ere- h•on place to place, freedom of coo-
fles nrdittury brooms naul hrttvhrs• cu tion, aud fn'eudmn to profess tiro
"It is ettstouat;y in ano.;t ahuiChes .aril inn which corresponds to their
to 00111100 confetti-lbrnwutg to the spirituel needs; and, above all, all
por0,11 or outside the porch, but a the 1(10 million people woad say
light breeze will carry it all over with Mai voice that they desire trac-
tile c•ihn'011.''
concerning Finland, Ohinesc appro-
priations, y0nr Tn"ojeet of The Vague
Conference accompanied by the in-
crcaeo of the army, your weakening
of self-government and strengthening
of administrative riespotiam, your
support of persecution for faith,
your consent to the institution of
the spirit monopoly—i.c., Govern -
anent trading in that poison which
is ruining tin people—and, lastly,
your insistence in maintaining con -
poral punishlucttl, notwithstanding a
the petitions which are being address-
ed to you for the abolition of this
senseless and utterly useless measure
w.hieh disgraces the Russian people.
All these aro deeds which: you could
not have committed had you not, ac-
cording to the advice of your light, -
minded helpers, put before yourself
the impossible atm not only of ar-
renting the life of the people, but
of reverting it to its former and out-
lived eontlitlon, -
WI1A,T 11lJ1ISIA NEEDS. •
'The 'desires which the Russian peo-
ple would at present express, were
it possible for them to do so, would
in . the (fount's opinion, be the fol-
low'iug':
first of all the working people
would say that they wish to be de-
livered from those special laws which
place them in the position of a par-
iah, deprived of the rights of all
other citizens; then they would say
that they 'desire Freedom of removal
Laril70,"59: 1,1131EAItY.
There will shortly be inaugurated
upon the Alpine peak 01 011en, on
lionte Rosa, the most elevated liter-
ary and scicntile institute in the
world, Its altitude will be 10,000
foot. The library, which will take
the name of tlluce.t Ma'ghe•itn, owes
Its organization to Liar Majesty,
supported by Ministers and many
eminent, persons in linty and abroad.
It will motorise bo0k1, sculpture,
iandscapes, - told photographs obtain-
able relating to the Alps,
19' WAS A HABIT.
Ile---"Guair habit Miss Passay ]las
when you're talking to her,"
She—"Doesn't site listen?"
Se—"Oi, vary- attentively; but she
keeps nodding her hend and inter-
jetting 'Yes, ,yes,' all 1 he tine,"
She—"I think she hes fallen into
that habit waiting for some man to
propose."
A PAT'tol)'Y.
Count that clay lost
Whose low desecndlllg sun
Saes 110thing 'doing
and 110 ono Clone.
dont in the its° of lain—i.e., the
abolition of the right of landed pro-
perty.
Personally T think that in our time
landed property is as crying and- eb-
viote an injustice as was serfdom
fifty years neo. 1. think that its
abolition would place the Russian
people on aA high piano of indepen-
dence, welfare, and content. I also
thin], the this eneasu'e would ma
doubt.c(lly dctsi ('03' all that socialis-
tic and revolutionary irritations
which is now spreading amongst the
workers, and is likely to bo of tlue
greatest danger to both the Goven-
mont and the people.
Dear liruthev,—You have but one
lite in this world (it commences),
and ,you can spend it painfully in
futile efforts to arrest the God -or-
dained progress of mankind from
evil to good, from darlouoss to light,
or yon may, entering into the needs
anti desires of the people and devot-
ing your life to then setistaelion,
peacefully and joyously pass it, in the
serv'ice of Clod find men,
{---^"-.'-
"'I have httcrwn better days, lady,"
began Vaded Tnlues, "'Yes. It"a a
wreith'd 111,111i1;g," replied the fa'm-
er's wife; "hut t'vo got 110 time to
(tisanes the weather with you, !tat as
it, is." And .she 5hnt tho door • mai
Joh, ' him,
VALUE Ole UNCOOKED FOOD.
There can bo no doubt that fresh
fruits, nuts, and other fresh and un-
cooked vegetalhlo food, contain some-
thing which is absent from food
which bas been dried, salted or
otherwise preserved. Sailors whose
bodies have been reduced to a most
pitiable state by scurvy recover with
most astonishing rapidity when
fresh fruits and green vegetables are
added to their dietary. No investi-
gator has yet shown just what this
necessary element is, but that it
exists has been clearly shown by il-
lustrations.
Careful experiments have shown
that fresh juices possess the power
of destroying germs, especially those
which are capable of growing in the
alimentary canal. Cooked fruit
juices possess this property also to
some extent, but by no means to
so great an extent as do uncooked
fruit juices. Persons suffering from
biliousness aro wonderfully benefited.
by omitting the evening meals, eat-
ing nothing later than four o'clock
and taking the Joico of two or three
o•onges, apple juice, or unsweetened
lemonade before retiring. If there is
an apparent demand for food, this
may be satisfied by eating some ripe
apples or other fresh fruits, or a
little stowed fruit may be oaten, but
care should bo taken to avoid the
free use of cele sugar.
TI-IOUGIT'r AND DIS.Jfl&S15.
Thousands of people actually think
themselves to deaths every year by
allowing their minds to dwell on
morbid subjects.
The idea that one has 80)110 incip-
ient disease in one's system, the
thought of ib1an01a1 ruin, that one
is getting on in life without innprov-
ing prospects—any of those or a
thousand similar thoughts 1ney oar-
l;y a healthy elan to a premature
grave. A melancholy thought that
fixes itself on one's mind needs ns
!much doctoring as physical disease.
It needs to bo et•adicated from the
mind or it will have just the same
result as a neglected disease would
have.
Every melancholy thought, every
morbid notion and ovel;y no.gginll'
worry, should he resisted to the Ut-
most, and the patient shouldleo pro-
tected by cheerful thoughts, of
which there 1$ te bountiful store in
every one's possession, 'Blight com-
panions are cheaper than drugs and
Plasters, 'Phe 'rhe _morbid condition or
11111(1 pro(lirces a'Melt dd mut-Ilion or
body, final if the (11811se does hap -
Pen to be In the syslent it receives
every eneout•agcnnent to develop. Wo
need 110-0 1111o.al therapy,
PECULIAR. 0LO0E.
Onto of 1110 host remarkable forms
of clock in the world le EL clock fan
manufactured by a Swiss jeweller.
The eloek consists of twleve leaves
hinged like an ordinary fan. The
number of the hour Is narked from
ono 10 twelve tie the red of each of
thane loaves The fan eimepiuee
stats at sib O'clock and %0,11(10
ra-
511101.137 for twelve holt la een it,
suddenly closes up 11,A'1 01)1111 all
over again, The half h1nr is iodic."at-
ed by, the I(•of of the -frit bumf only
half Wended,