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6 THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1903. %) an Wives Abroad. BY EATHRYN OSTERMAN. | | | (Presi@ent of the International Dramatic Aseo- ) ““There be 1wo cl of pecple.” says the quaint old proverb. “Those who have bra and those who have | y. And it is a clear »f Providence that those who no brains should be those with brains and mno | money.” { More t title han one impecunious foreigner of | had cuuse to repeat that adage | hasis, as some dollar- girl hes given her for- r future in exchange for his ¥ loves a lord,” but not the freeborn American tle before her name. In | who might have appy as Mrs. Mary Smith | of misery and neglect as | s, or Duchess Mary. | of course § of inter- | way into | marriages of int has growr rnational marriag jon where title is béught for American b: notes n Europe | b 1 thin me extent an au LR ing is human A 3 to marry that | to bring this fair and good thing, and endured for one » forget that is not to | Ver an out- to be | | | s fo rican girl! heart. The more prompted her into the keep- not imagine from this that r that | have no liking for | of my dearest friends nome is more quick ze the countless vir- tter sort of Europeans But the law of “natural selection” can- not erruled. And no nitural selec- be 1 in the average union nd a woman whose birth, tio between 2 m education, ancestry, language, environ- ment prejudices are =0 wholly at variance as must be the case when an | American girl weds the typical foreigner. It 1= the same, be he prince or peasant. That there are many and notable ex- ceptions to this rule no one can deny. But they remain exceptions and not the rule. And so they ever must remain. The American man is the best hus- band on earth. He is more considerate 10 women, more generous and tender to- ward them, more devoted, more true. This i not & mere patriotic outburst on my part, but 1s borne out by facts. Where else have women been so considered and protected in the laws, so guarded as to their property rights, so defended from bharm, so welcomed into the professions, a8 in America? This is all the work of men. Of American men. And it is a true criterion of the treatment the average American woman receives from her own husband. As the nation treats women in general, so the husband as a rule treats his wife in the home. i Go to Germany and stop at any of a bhundfed rural hoteis. The porter who staggers upstairs under the weight of your heavy trunk is & woman. A half- dozen strong men stand idly about watch- ing her. How long would a half-dozen American men stand still and let a wom- e&n carry such & burden? Go to country districts in some of the Latin countries and behold women toiling in the fields with the beasts. In even the most penu- rious American family of the farmer class woman'’s place is indoors—her hardest toll housework. Can you expect a Teuton or a Latin (who has been brought up to view such scenes as I have described, as a matter of course) to be as considerate of his Amer- jcan wife as would be an American, in whom gentle care of woman is a heredit- ‘UW"E ‘woman the European For the European o bhusband, for the American an American. ‘When a foreigner comes here, is natur- alized by law 2nd s Americanized by time and environment that is a different story. Such a man may learn to appreciate an American wife and to accord to her the treatment which she has a right to regard &s her due. But when she marries a for- elgner and goes to his land to live she foregoes that right. crops can be harvested EL Py plants get in the way. xmmxbuapm can, £ > 4 s INSTRUCTIVE, STODIE-S | , EN A |15 a mechanism for converting the energy | comparison could not be carried. | of energy in conversion is about one-tenth | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL WMMM JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. - - -« « - - . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager | PubHcation OFce. ....eueeenrnsese senes Third and Market Streets, S. F. N = | THURSDAY ... | | THE OUTLOOK. the idea that the European is in sxy re | SN0 D i spect worse than the American. He fs | i York is the in different—that is 21l He has one stand- HE success of Tammany in New Bt “’": bg ard. We have another. In marrled life gambit in the politicalychess of 1904. uf ‘!rm‘:hfe those two standards do not usually blend. | : : 2 eneral results of Tue: s Home life in Europe is as beautiful as studied in the light of the g by v Neda here and the marriage ties as sacred. But | balloting. Mayor Low had probably given ew' e temperament and environment are all im- | firot example of decent government it has had in a score portant factors in married life, and those | Fti ho finally su; of the American differ from the Euro-|of years. But District Attorney Jerome, wl y sup- 9";,1"'\" i ¥ | ported him, uttered sentence upon him before the nomina- tles year by year 'w more value-'' . . 1 less. Examples of mue‘f;“mm the inter- | tion by declaring him to be cold and unsympathetic, too national g‘“"‘.‘“ flr; dye?rlyn:nore g‘:- | self-contained for American politics. t an ‘e recorde n e ublic . ::!m-. o ¥ | That counts in a fight. The late S. S. Cox was, a fine These two items will, I believe, check | mixer, He had Presidential aspirations once. On an occa- the international marriage in the course | . int is la of time, or will at least cut down the | Sion he drew a fellow member of Congress into h;‘,s D number of its unthinking victims. |with many expressions of fondness and confidence, finally Lo i 3 W, | saying, “Is there anything I can ever do for you?"” The reply ’. | % b ’. E Vonders 0f the Bad)‘ | was, “Yes, Sam; let me sit in your lap when you're Presi- BY W. B. C. LATSON, M. D., dent.” New York evidently wants a man whose lap is at the n};;ar fnwt:h c-u;urah Magazine, N:" ""l'"‘- | disposal of his constituency. ik e fact that the human body is so in- - . ith that in other States, -ordi sult there with that in othe s finitely beyood any other object knows| = Co-ordimating the re el ¢ Fina T to man in complexity, in mechanical per- | there are two points in the political firmamen fection and in the number of its parts | Democratic stars may fall next year, Tamman¥ and Mary- makes it quite impossible to give any|jand Tom Johnson and Tomijohnsonism fell in Ohio un- 512:’ ’d;:o“," ?" Mioping ’: mr"lher ‘z]b' der a solar plexus blow administered by Senator Hanna. ects. r instance, man is frequently | = 5 : fori compared to a steam engine. And in a | 1hat State has ._pven_ahou: the !arg:s( Republican majority certain sense such a comparison is en- | in a State election since the Civil War, a_nd returns Mr. lightening, for, just as a steam engine | Hanna to the Senate by such an overwhelming vote that the ition is ing. This retires Mr. John- latent In ocoal and water and air into | OPPOsition is among the scattering This ; J i energy manifest as heat and work, so the | son as a Presidential candidate and strikes a blow at his human body is merely a mechanism for | kind of political mountebanking that will no doubt have an the transformation of food, water and air | ; : D e cat into heat and work. But beyond this the | admonitory and corrective effect upon the Democratic party. In the | A\ Gorman makes a showing in Maryland that will put first place, the body is so much more per- | e : B : i fect as a plece of mechanism that the loss | music in his bugle on the color line issue, but he will be Will the Sachems and the powerless without Tammany. It that lost in the finest steam engine. | i Again, as to complexity, if all the steam | Wiskinskies accept him? That seems to be in doubt. engines of all the world were.to be com- | is intimated that reaction from Bryanism has carried Tam- bi i ‘ q z el %t 0 b jETaeLmectignin. That k- | many so far into conservatism as to make Mr. Cleveland its chine would be crude and simple in com- S g parison with the human body. That means that if he will not run he T To the wonders of the body absolutely no end. | preferred candidate. | will say who shall The political flower garden of Mr. William Randolph :imfil‘:i; Hearst got badly frosted. It is true that his New York The skin covers an area of about twenty | paper supported the Tammany ticket, but Tammany wants 00,00 Ia,\rl;:li : ’;,rf"fmtrrd by RbAEL Y ipers In®San Francisco the Examiner of which 15 & complex little apparatus for | makes a sorry showing. While we do not pretend that the the collection and outpouring of the per-| election of Mayor Schmitz is complimentary to the field of *Frhe 1u or | newspapers, the defeat of Lane is a revelation of the weak- there is The following figures some interesting facts and par- and not tomcats The lungs are simply a turned in i tuc ‘.;o—rt in” portion of the hody and their | ness of the Examiner that cannot be overlooked. When it membrane cove is merely a modifica- : : ivi B oF (5o saatr ey (epithelial | ©pposed Lane for Governor he carried tAhe city, receiving cells) which form the skin. The lungs. | 33,000 votes. But when it supported him for Mayor by although they oecupy comparatively little constructed as to present an This incre of sur-| d by the adoption of a sim nd ingenious mechanical device found | roar and roorback, by tooth and nail and all of its political resources of hammer and tongs, he makes a bad third in the run, getting less than half the votes he had when it fought | thing enormous many parts of the body, notably in the | him. Its daily jackdawing of “Lane’s the man” and its lam- in and the intestines. It consists of & pooning of other candidates produced no dividends. It smplicated “crimping” or wrinkling of | the surface. By a device of this kind the | would seem as though the people struck at Hearst through lungs, with a ftotal cubical contents of | Lane, and while the shield suffered the Presidential can- only a few hundred inches, present| .. . } a surface of about 1600 square feet— | didate behind it got a smell of the mold above the rose that that '; an ;"Bn equal to the floor of a | may weaken even his colossal egotism, room forty feet square. The trachea, or| - i i windpipe, the passage leading to the| Lhe people of the city now know what the charter means. Tu p»; vides and subdivides into smaller | Its intention was to provide one-man government and one- penings, which finally lead to the min-| ibility. T % B 3 uis, chambens Niless HNe s ot tbe) n]rln responsibility 'lh‘erc \'\t‘l’e.l"fla'n) who thought this u'n» These air cells. or lobules, | wise. But the professional politicians never doubted its are called, vary from 1-16 to H n inch in diameter and number | about 60,000,000, The muscles of a man of average size ninety-eight pounds, the bones | pounds, the skin ten and a and the brain three pounds. e twenty-eight pounds of fat and ounds of blood. If the water acted from all these tissues it would weigh 110 pounds. weight. During waste away at different rates. The great- | €8t loss. as might be supposed, is in | | muscle and fat. which has been found to | be 654 per cent of the total loss. The | | skin loses about 9 per cent, the bones 5, | the liver 5, the blood 3 and the stomach and intestines 2. The heart loses nothing of ite weight during starvation. How long can a human being live with- out food? 1In one instance fr quoted. out of a shipwrecked crew of 130 who were without food for thirteen da only fifteen survived, This case, how ever, furnisnes no just data, for £XPo: ure, fatigue and anxiety were undoubtedly responsible to a large extent for the high mortality. In one of his recent books | Dr. E. H. Dewey of Meadville, Pa., mer tions the case of a boy of 4 years old | whose stomach and intestines were so dis- organized by drinking caustic potash that not even a swallow of water could be re- tained. The child died on the seventy- fifth day of Jis fast with apparently nothing of the body left except the bones, skin and ligaments, g . R The working energy of the body f% some- The muscles of the jaw can exert a force of 534 pounds. The heart is a most remarkable worker, although its work s .not, as is often stated, continu- ous. As a matter of fact, the periods of rest are longer than the periods of work, | and the heart as a whole works no longer than a man who labors nine hours a d The total work af the heart is not less than 150 foot tons a day. This means | work equal to lifting 150 tons one foot, or | one ton 150 feet. A day's work for a ln-i | | boring man is 300 foot tons. The muscles by which the body is supplied with air, the respiratory muscles, do a work of twenty-one foot tons a day. It is estimat- ed that the human body as a whole per- forms in a single day labor equal to 3600 | foot tons, that is, the work of twelve la- boring men, . . The heart beats at an average of sev- enty-five per minute. It is said that a normal skin absorbs one-sixth as much oxygen as the lungs. There is in the body of a man enough iron to make a dozen tacks, enough phos- phorus to make a half-dozen boxes of matches, and enough hydrogen to fill a balloon that would lift him. There are in the human head about 120,- 000 hairs. During each year about one and a hal?¥ bodym of material pass through the human pass into and out of the lungs about 400 cubic feet of air. The body pours out through the skin about two pints of perspiration each day. Each outgoing breath poisons 5000 cubic inches (that is, about half a barrel) of air. The Facts ‘About Bananas. Of the $1.635.274 worth of bananas which came into New York City within the last year, 2,862,000 bunches were from the Brit- ish West Indies, 1,152,000 bunches from Costa Rica, 877,00 from Colombia and 355 Cuba. They pay no duty. are often grown in Guatemala in connection with the growing cf a rub- plantation, being planted between the #mal! rubber trees ,and £ wisdom. When Judge Wallace removed the old Board of Super- visors, under our consolidation act, which preceded the charter, Rainey, a most experienced professional boss, when interviewed, said that he approved of it and hoped the Su- preme Court would affirm it, for he wanted to know where the whole power of the city government met in one man, for he would elect that man. It is a significant sidelight on Tuesday's result that Mr. Rainey supported Mayor Schmitz. The charter created the one-man power for which he had been hunting, and out of all the candidates he selected the one that seemed to him the most useful in his business. The charter of Greater New York is on the same plan. Tammany wanted the one-man government and got its man in Mayor Van Wyck. But the charter gave such lush op- portunity fer graft and loot, and Bill Devery and his ban- dits improved it so openly, that in a spasm of reaction Low was clected. Now the sickening enormities of Devery are forgotten and the people have let Tammany at the flesh- pots again, and there no reason to hope that Mayor McClellan’s exercise of one-man power will rise above its source. Already the shouts ring from the Bronx to Castle Garden that it is to be ““a wide open town.” To return to the general result, it makes sure a Repub- lican national victory next year. New Jersey, Colorado and Nebraska, Ohio and Towa settle that. Mr. Bryan carried in | the South, in 1900, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Lonisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Caro- lina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, and in the North only Idaho, Montana and Nevada, getting 151 electoral votes in all, of which only nine were from the North. These nine seem assured to Roosevelt next year. The Democrats may have Delaware, Maryland and New York, with all of Bryan's Northern votes, and yet have only 198 to Roosevelt's 249. So these elections show no prob- | able or possible change in the administration next year. i A Sheriff of New Mexico, hitherto innocent of any indica- tions of eccentricity, accused himself the other day of mur- der. He was promptly acquitted, the offending cause of his seli-accusation being a dead horse-thief. There is nothing like due formality in the solemn processes of New Mexican law. The unrecorded killing of a horse-thief might have led to the suspicion that the Territory was careless of its laurels. I of Commissioner Sargent’s recommendation for the abolition of the noisome detention shed for immigrants at this port will result in the making of the proposed im- migrant depot on Angel Island. The existing shed, which shames our civilization, was built down to the supposed level of Asiatic coolies. To it must go all immigrants who are under examination to determine their right to land. Chinese ladies and gentlemen, and there are such, must go there to take pot luck with the lower class of their country- men. It has proved to be far from safe against escapes, and those detained there have good reason to complain of their treatment. A decent depot on Angel Island will offer no facilities for escape, and will better represent the civilization which is the boast of our people. . The location of a Federal quarantine station on the isl- — AN IMMIGRANT DEPOT. T is to be hoped that Secretary Cortelyou’s indorsement | and has proved an excellent thing in the operation of the port and safeguarding the community from imported pes- tilence, while giving to all passengers held in quarantine proper conditions of comfort and safety. The island is large. It belongs to the United States and can amply accommo- date a clean, decent and roomy immigrant depot, without any contact with the quarantine station at all. Our mem- | bers of Congress should immediately and actively second the effotts of the Secretary of Commerce to secure this addition to the proper administration of _this seeaiisasdes inei s NOVEMBER 3. 1903 | THE MAYOR'S SECOND TERM. AYOR SCHMITZ bore himself well on the evening M following the election when the returns had made certain his re-election for a second term. He had no harsh words to say of his opponents, nor did he display any excessive exultation over his victory, His statement to the public, published in The Call of yesterday, was doubtless read with gratification, not only by his political supporters, but by all who have the interests of the city at heart and wish the new administration well. The Mayor admits that his first term of office has been to some extent unsatisfactory to himself, and he hopes for better things in the term that now approaches. As he him- self said in his statement to The Call: “I have no hard feelings against those who opposed my re-election, and I will endeavor ¢o0 give the people of San Francisco a good, clean administration. I have tried to do this, and would have done much bettq if I had had the proper support, but now that I have the confidence of the people I hope to carry out my intentions.” The promise contained in that statement is not weakened | by the implied admission of past mistakes and failures. On the contrary, it is distinctly strengthened by them, for the admissions serve to show that the Mayor has learned some- thing by experience, and will avoid some at least of the mis- takes that disappointed even his own expectations of his first term. - How far the Mayor will profit by the teachings of the past and rid himself of those influences that did so much to discredit his first term remains to be seen. He may be | sure, however, that he will have the cordial support of The ! Call in all that he undertakes for the public good. A simi- lar support indeed may be promised from almost the whole conservative element of the people. What is desired is good government, an administration of public affairs such as will conduce to the public welfare and individual prosperity, and in a vast measure it rests with the Mayor whether or not such administration shall be given. Mayor Schmitz is no longer an inexperienced official. He has been tried in office and a plurality of his fellow citi- zens have expressed at the polls a continued confidence in | him. It is nothing more than right, therefore, that he should have ample support from all in his efforts to make his sec- ond term a full reparation for the mistakes of the first. His statement made to the public through The Call has an un- questionable ring of sincerity, and will be received with a high expectation of a faithful endeavor on his part to live up to the spirit of its promise and its pledge. Y aminer, written apparently as soon as the returns had made known his defeat, said: “I have nothing to re- gret about this fight except the defeat. It was my judgment at the beginning of the campaign that there was no, possi- bility of success. I accepted the nomination in this belief. Upon the day that I accepted a group of my friends met in my office and I told them I would accept it out of a sense of duty to my party and of obligation to the city, but that 1 had no expectation whatever of success.” No one will care at this stage of the game to question Mr. Lane's peculiar sense of duty, nor his extraordinary idea of his obligations to the city, but to many of his sup- porters that statement, coming on the morning after elec- tion, must have been more depressing than defeat itself. Thousands of men voted for Lane under the impression that he was an honest candidate, honestly expecting to win. Re- peatedly during the campaign he asserted an assurance of coming victory! Over and over again, on the stump and in letters to the public, he declared himself sanguine of suc- cess. He invited votes on the ground that a vote for him was the surest way of providing good government for the city, and he unquestionably obtained a good many votes in that way. The voters who were thu$ induced to throw away their ballots, as it were, have now a right to ask whether they were fairly dealt with by a man who admits that he was making a bluff all the time and knew from the start he was but a dummy candidate. The extent of the deception practiced can be seen by comparing the letter Lane wrote for the Examiner on Mon- day with that of yesterday. On Monday Lane said: “In . A CAMPAIGN OF DECEPTION. | to the lieutenant at the desk. TALK O - il The Night Alarm. Everybody down at the Hall of Jus- tice knows ‘‘Beech,” the elevator man. He has a word and a smile for all and will even beam upon the prisoner whom he is lifting up to the iron door on the top floor in a manner which invites him to stay a while. ‘The other night ‘“Beech” had a late trick on the elevator and about 3 o'clock in the morning, when all was still in the hall and justice reigned supreme, he seized the fleeting moment to snatch a little sleep. ““Beech” dozéd peacefully. But hark! A noise in the property- room—suspicious footfalls and muffled noises from the room where the Police PDepartment stores all that is sacred. “Beech” sprang to his feet and listened, his nerves all a-tingle. Could any thief dare to invade the sacred precincts of the citadel of justice itself and carry off his loot from under the very noses of the arms of the law? The honor of the de- partment rested upon ‘‘Beech.” Noiselessly he stole into the Central station and whispered the thrilling news Two pa- trolmen were summoned post haste and the four crept up to the door of the prop- erty room. Their teeth were gritted and the cold steel of their revolvers shone in the light of the electric lamp on the corner. Inch by inch they drew nearer and the goose flesh which raised itself on ‘‘Beech™ would have served the purpose of a nut- meg grater. With a trembling hand the lieutenant raised the latch of the door and, counting one, two, three, slid it back upon its rollers. There was an unearthly scream. “Beech” hid behind the door and the three policemen threw themselves flat on the floor to escape the shower of bullets. Then with a hissing like a steam roller a long black shadow of a cat leaped over the prostrate forms and was gone down the echoing corridors. Burglar-Proof Safe. “I just had a funny case,” said a West- ern Addition policeman to the station keeper as he reported off half an hour late yesterday morning. ‘It was one of those instances where the ‘ounce of pre- vention' didn’t score at all with the ‘pound of cure.’ “Soon after 6 o'clock I was called to the residence of a merchant to investigate a burglary., The master of the house ex- plained that his wife had been reading all about the recent burglaries and porch climbing jobs and had decided to foil the crooks if they decided to pay her a visit. Accordingly, on retiring last night she put all the family jeweiry, including his watch, in a stocking and secreted it in a hole made for a stove pipe in one of the rooms. “This morning the stuff was gone and I was called. I searched the place and sent for detectives. The case had all the ear- marks of mystery. When we had search- ed about two hours a man in the flat be- low appeared at the door. *‘Does this belong to you? he asked of the merchant, holding in his hand a so06ty stocking. ‘I found it in my fireplace. It must have fallen down the chimney.’ “The jewelry was a delight to look upon. The watches were smashed to pieces, rings bent and hardly a stone re- mained in its setting. On the whole it looked like a lot of junk. The fellow is on his way now to find a repair shop. He says the burglars can have the stu next time.” The World's Great Want. may safely fly; stars up in the sky: each of us may know profit long ago; vive the love of art, Here and there some poet bravely sings song that's from the heart. Babylonian brick, to Get Rich Quick. still to have the right they kneel to pray at night; They are chafing their fathers did before, luckless parents wore; my “opinion this contest is entirely between Mr. Schmitz and myself. I believe Mr. Crocker will take third place be- cause he is practically without any vote south of Market streect and because he has been deserted by practically every Republican politician who has any following whatso- ever in the city. * * * Take from my vote for Gov- the total labor union vote cast two years ago, and there still remains 23,000, which is probably enough to elect me.” the campaign Lane induced many a good conservative citi- zen to cast a vote for him, and it now appears Lane knew from the beginning that such votes would be futile. know not what name Mr. Lane may give to such political practices; they may have their origin in his strange sense of his personal obligation to his party and the city: but in effect they amount to no more, no less, than obtaining votes by false pretenses, and those who were deceived by them have good right to complain of the deception. There is every reason to believe that Wyoming will shortly be blessed by a sudden increase of good Indians, The venturesome red men have left their reservation and have dispatch to their happy hunting grounds. The Governor of the State is laudably inclined to accommodate them. PRGBS VIR The insurgents of Santo Domingo have arrogated the hazardous privilege of interupting communication between this country and its diplomatic representative in the pestif- erous bantam republic. Somebody will probably have cause on the business end of a gun, the conclusions of the Alaskan Boundary Commission. This really seems like carrying a good thing too far. with his own gun. school in music at the University of California. Inadequate right direction and argues that more and necessary atten- tion is to be given to the consideration of the fine arts at Berkeley. the county. We may expect to hear soon that the deposits The Federal Government has decided to accept Canadian ‘,‘,“;!"flfi" charts as a basis upon which to make the survey dictated by | Sun. i ‘ashingtin, quick Arrangements have been made to establish a summer ?.; that is correct,” sald s encouragingly. as this provision may seem, it certainly is a long step in the | p, tempts to let us know How to make fair Peace forever the sweet mistress here below, But we have no time to bother over such affairs; we stick To t Get Rich Quick. ernor, which was 33,000, a full 10,000, which is two-thirds of The preachers keep on preaching of m,' glories over there ‘Where the boodlers cease from troubling and the prospects all are fair; By statements of that kind made persistently throughout | The anxious, eager doctors keep on striv- ing to defy Grim Nature and arrange it so that people needn’t die; * We | But away with all the dreamers and the foolish ones who preach, Who or what ancient tablets teach? ‘We are looking for the' hero who will show us all the trick, Who - to Get Rich Quick. Thoughts. A man's conscience is the best barome- ter of his ability. People who have to measure the size of their meals by the length of their purses istakabl, it i i are very apt to become a trifle unsteady showed unmistakable symptoms of a desire to be sent with gty g S tions. No one lives more lavishly and knows less how to save than the poor. them how to keep house, and Teach they will make homes, Ages cannot be measured by years. Owen Kildare. Knew His Lesson. to reflect shortly that he has been scratching an itching nose An Ttallan stood befors one of the Commissioners in the Fed- ding to answer the necessary e ioms Which would enable him to take first papers, say the New York was young and had a strikingly pic- turesque garb and manner. He had evi- It is | dently made himself up for the occasion like using the other fellow’s powder with which to shoot him fi-h:uw. it not correctly. He F THE case. Touhey engaged him as a typewriter and bought a machine for quently the machine disappeared and on They are trying to arrange it so that man They are trying to learn more about the They are digging up old ruins so that Just what people did for pleasure and for Here and there is some one trying to re- But away with art and science and the ‘What we want is some sure way in which 1 Men are fighting still for freedom, fighting To address their God unhindered when ‘neath oppression as They are tugging at the feters which their Here and there some man arises and at- he hope of finding ways in which to cares what the stars are made of, ‘will kindly point the way in which E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald. TOWN 1§ - - ley was President, but he is not President now. Can't you think of the name of the President?” “Yes. Makinnela,”™ sisted. “Oh, no,” sald the Commissioner rather impatiently, for he was disposed to help the young man. “Now think again.” “Makinnela—Washingtin, Georga Wash- ingtin, gen'ral, he was firsta Pres,’ Ma- kinnela was sccon’ Pres’.” The Commissioner sent him away, rather sorrowfully, and told him to make inquiries and come back later. When his friend took him out in the the applicant per- corridor he asked him why he did not say Roosevelt, as he had been told. The young applicant replied: *Makinnela. secon’ Pres amma foolla,” shouted his friend. “Makinnela secon’ Pres’, da Roosevela he come next’,” and, sulting the words to the action, he put up three;fingers. Then they went away, one of them angry, the other disappointed.—Philadelphia Ledger. The Sundial. It “only marks the hours that shine,™ The time when skies are bright; ‘The hours when sunbeam roses twine— The hours of sunset's red-spilled wine— It notes not clouds nor night. O, Memory, I cry to thee— Mark but my hours that shine. All love and kindness show to me— The best, the brightest let me see— Mark but my hours that shine. —GRACE HIBBARD in Springfield Re- publican. Double Capacity. The Rev. John T. Touhey met Benjamin Roberts, a negro, In Sing Sing several months ago and became interested in his When Roberts was released Father his use. Subse- the. floor of Roberts’ room was found a pawn ticket for a machine which Father Touhey declared was his. He had Rob erts indicted When Roberts’ case went to trial before Judge Foster in General Sessions, Judge Foster assigned counsel to him. “I think I would rather be my own counsel,” said Roberts. Counsel Roberts then cross-examined Father Touhey, asking how he could pos. itively identify the typewriter as his own, Father Touhey said that he could not. ‘“The defendant will take the stand,™ said Counsel Roberts. “Benjamin Rob- erts to the stand,” called Clerk Cowing. Roberts walked around to the witness stand and the oath was administered. ‘“Were you ever in prison?” asked As- sistant District Attorney Townsend. “I object to that question and instruct my client not fo answer,” sald Counsel Roberts. Then he changed himself into Witness Roberts, who sald: “By the advice of counsel I decline to answer."” “But you must answer,” sald Judge Foster. By a lightning change the wit- ness became counsel. “Very well, give me an exception. Wit ness, answer the question,” said Counsel Roberts. “I was in Sing Sing,” sald Defendant Roberts. Roberts kept up the change act for some time and finally the jury went out and acquitted him, leaving Judge Foster gasping.—New York Sun Book Recalled. An Eastern paper tells' the following remarkable incldent of the recovery of his sanity on the part of a physiclan: Dr. Henry H. Cate, a well known prac- titioner here, who disappeared from the Hotel Albert in New York on April 21 and wandered to various parts of the country previously to being found by his brother-in-law in the Morgan House at Poughkeepsie, recovered his memory about 10 o'clock this morning whils read- ing a medical book in the Interpines Sanitarfum at Goshen, N. Y., where he went several weeks ago. The doctor surprised Dr. Seward by putting down the book that he was read- ing and telling him that he remembered being a physician and having a sanita- rium in Lakewood, N. J. He recalled even the name of a patient he had sent to Dr. Seward. It appears that the medical terms suddenly came to him and the power of memory was suddenly re- stored. FHe said that he remembered many of his friends here. He remembered also walking past a vacant bullding in New York and being struck on the head with a sandbag or some blunt instrument and being knocked unconscious. As his mind be- comes clearer he remembers a great many things regarding his past life. Just at present he is naturally exeited over the return of his memory, and is doing more writing to friends than talk- ing. His general condition is greatly improved, but he will remain at Goshen for the present. Wisdom’s W hispers. It is hard to make some men understand the meaning of the word “no.” Some pretty women show to most ad- ‘when their face is in repose. Men like to address women by their Christian name. When a man is in love there comes to him higher aspirations and a tendency to turn to religion. that he had been | Let a man know you pue implicit trust i o R R first President?” asked dreams i L which place her in sy " was the reply. sions. the Com-| A man at a wedding 3 ‘what all the women see that is interest- The Italian evidently was not sure, for | Ing. as follows: “Gen'ral Washingtin—Georga Washing- . 8s If to test the Gen'ral.” young t's intelligence, asked: “Was it George H. Washington?" Siskiyou has barred all nickel-in-the-slot machines from | “Na, na,” was the quick answer, Georga gen- S =.° is President now?” asked the “Washingtin, ‘Washingtin, plying endearing epithets to men they like. Many men miss their true vocation by devotion to a fad.—Philadeiphia Bulletin. —_—— Townsend's fruits and