LJBEETY AJSTll I , A W .

BUSINESS - CARDS.

LUTHER .E. WADLEIGH,

L A W Y E R . /

Brooks" Block, Potsdam, ». Y.

WM. M. HAWKINS,AttorneyCoun»elor-al-Law,

Special attention given to d r a ^papers Also to the foreclosurei of morteaifes and to the collection of claims.nffieeinthe Hawkins'block, Potsdam.

VOLUME XXVII; S JiAiTKBNOB OOTJ2Srtt|;15r. .^'.iFBEDAir, DECEMBER 3 0 , 1 9 0 4

A. X. PARKER,

Attorney tandCounseI©r-aulfUW,

Ives' New Block, Potsdam, N.I.

HOWARD E. THOMPSON

AiiGrnej at J aw.

Bonney Block, Potedain, N. I

C. OLIVER SUMNE^i, M.D.

Homeopathic Physicianand NSurgeon.

Jfflce Hours—1 to S and 7 to 8 p. rSo. 4. Park St., Norwood, N. Y.

L. T. BOTSFORD, M. D.

Homeopathic Physicianand §urg^on.

office Hours-1 to 2 and 7 to S p. in("iffice and Residence 27 Main street,

Potsdam, N. Y.

TUB POSITION OF AMERICANWOMEN.

Those of our readers who are en-thusiastic oa the question of fran-chise for women, will enjoy the fol-lowing from the pen of Dr. Mary Pul

acobi..All women—no matter bow well

born, how well educated, how Intelllgent, how rich, how serviceable tc

I the State-are the political inferiorsof all men, no matter how base bor-how poverty stricken, how ignorant,

j how vicious, how brutal. The pau8 I per In the alinshouse may vote; thi

lady who devotes herself to gettingthat alniBhon«e made habitable ma;not. The tramp who begft cold vietuals in the kitchen may vote; th.heiress who feeds him and endows iuniversity may not. Communitiesare agitated and, Legislatures con-vulsed to devise means to secure theright of suffrage to the Illiterate VoterAnd the writers, journalists, phyBldans, teachers, the wives and daughtera, and companions of the best edu-cated men in the 8tate are left in sil-ence , blotted out, swamped, obliteriated, behind this ciond of often be-sotted ignorance. To day the itninigrants pouring irj through the opengates of our seaport towns, theIndian when settled in severally, thenegro hardly emancipated from thedegradation of 200 ye«rs of slavery,

the State. The white woinan-the

whose veins rnns the blood of thoseheroic colonists who founded onrcountry, of those women who nelpeoto sustain the courage of their] hasbands in the Revolution; the woman

youth and health in the servj«e of

ed. To-day women constitute theonly class of sane people excludedfrom the franchise, the only clase^de-prived of political representation,except the tribal Indians and theChinese.

W. N. BELL, M. D.

Eye, Ear Mo?and ThroatSpecialist.

Ogdensburg, N. Y.

B A T C H E L D E R & S O N SFUNERAL DIRECTORS.

0. A. ILKINSON,ACCTIO3JEEI&.

Pann Property, Live Stock, D:•operty. Live Stock, Dryall kinds oi property sold

I hold myself r«=*dy to attend

H O R A C E N. C L A R K ,

UNDERTAKER AND

EMBALMER,

Pert Block, Potsdam, N. Y.

CHARLES A. OWENS,Tuner of Fianos

and Organs.

SATIS? ACTIOH . eUABASTKED.

77 Elm Street, Potsdam, Ni 1.

Sprac^ Hemlock and Pine Limbereither rough oe worked into

fLQORIHB, SHEATING: NOVELTYSIOINQ, CLAPBOARDS, SEILING.

C«darv Sprnee, flentloefc $ Pine Shinglesof superior quality and manufacture.

POTSDAM, F, T.Dxnuuni

lUlLOlNa STOME AND FLABQJN8.

Estimates & Price List on application.

| I*! BRANCHAUD,^ Painter and!"" Paper Banger.

FATE OF ALBANIANS WHOPERSIST IN BECOMING

INTOXICATED.

Here is a graduation of penalties3

>r a '"plain drink," which seems toiadioate that higher civilization is

tolerant, of intoiication thanbenighted communities nr communi-ties so considered.

In this county, ?2 and coBts.In Persia, eighty lashes on the soles

of the feet.In Turkey, the bastinado to a more

Bevere extent.In Albania, death.In the three latter instances the ex-

treme penalty is given above. Be-fore the officials give a man aD as eonSrmed in his caps they lecture him.In Persia they put him on the blacklist first and forbid him th» bazaarsexcept in certain hours and thtn nrx-3er police supervision and also places}f amusement and worship.

In Turkey the offender recei ss an

jffenae, and the bastinado is applielifterward if the crime be repeated.

Among th- mountaineers of AIbania and Montenegro drunkenness.8 regarded as a political offense and

Leers fight i

Bust and Disease.It Is perhaps n little too soon to ac-

cept, In tot», tho conclusions of Dr. Rob-ert Hessler as to the existence of a dustdisease, says American Medicine. Somephysicians long have recognized the partplayed by dust in the conveyance of dis-ease. However, whether there Is one"dust disease" or several dust diseases.Dr. Hessler has done a notable servicein BO graphically drawing attention to asymptom-complex closely associatedwith city dust.1 While his study lacks bac-teriologlc confirmation, few physicianswho have had their attention directed tothe role played by street dust In the pro-duction of disease will fail to accept Dr.Hessler's work as well founded In factCertainly, here Is real progross—finalfact may Inter come to light. Very manyphysicians everywhere in the UnitedStates after reading this paper will read-ily recall many cases whose history canbest be explained as resulting Blrectlyfrom the exposure to dust infection.Whether due to a coccus Infection, abacillus infection, or perchance a hv-phomyceies infection, Is a problem olgreat interest, but we need not await itasolution before acting on the knowledge

we can actively attack the ca;.'

to c

The Expen; battle ship, ii when dlsastf

'ithitsTOOorSOOtr

Civilised Man and Savage.There ;Is no euontlal difference In

Qualities; between ihe civilised man andthe savage, writes Dr. Orireen la %-hnie •' Gfnerale des Science* (Paris).[There 1$ nothing in the civilized peo-ples1 thit does not exist potentially Inthe negjro. The difference is a quanti-tative oW Among the whites there isa greater Individual difference. One ne-gro, is very much like another; whitesare moi?e diverse. The whites possessgreater extremes; there are amongmem inidlvidualB more vicious and moredebased! than the indigenous African.The; saijage almply lacku morality, whilethe 'white may be Bteeped in crime anddebauchery. But, on the other hand,the white reaches heights qTintellectu-.llty add morality of which the negro

has: no conception. Then comes thequestion ot the possibility of developinglie negfo. Can he reach the heights of:hewh|te? Anatomically, there la noreason firhy he should not; theoretically,evoliitidn is possible, but this course otevolutfqn Bhould not be forced too rap-Idly U has appeared, in some cases,that to& rapid development has killediut isavftge races—that in the attempt to:ecp ujj with the civilized peoples theyiavo purMicri t»y the wayside. This, inlr> c.ur-<> nl tin' negro, would not only•e a mUfortune from the standpoint ofhe humanitarian, but also from that ofhe economist, for negroes are neces-

sary for the development of parts of

Those whinot advocate Its development. No oneargues for the building of battle shipstwice as long and broad and deep asthose that now <>xist, wilh twice thathickness of armor and weigh! of guns.

t, if the big battle ship be not devel-ed still further, it will cease to exist

Dored cruiser; then, as the speed and,lon of the submarine is increased and

perfected, by the fast protectfJ — ' rid faster destroyer; and If

'.i ,ated.parently cannot, become accli

| The conclusion 1B that the evolution ofthe^*race should be gradual. Theyihould be trained to greater skill In ag-riculture and the mechanic arts, and

[the highest results should be expected ,inly alter a long period of time. i

American Forest Congress. jThrough Secretary James Wilson, of !

the United States departmI ' . - : . • « , • - . f i : - s A

nt of agrl- ' gaged i

'J fatlla wet ringing, ringingNftn f tar

wltlj it fna or Bottom, fallingnn our tar.

ring and Imup runglong Hfnrr past,

tmro ui> atmh ana UaUi\. Irt uu'''tis* not ttft '

NUMBER 53.

trikes

of th«lergible

who is the boy'.

North American Review. Such, then, isthe ultimate aspiration, the crowningambition of the Japanese race. Byreconciling and interaBsimilating thetwo civilizations, Japan hopes to Intro-duce western culture and sclenceinto the

ays the New York World. This

for than sdlty. Jemembers that Prof. Frcilsp of Chicago, took in. boy of the streets who r<>y disappearing with the

Hniofes

dependec upon to furnish at leas3 offset another which seen solved. The quest!.VQ iDflusucc of ticrsditynt In the formation of cb;

If the 10,000 Ruittle below Mukden had

lad to SB

graft of Llast year,

and drinking agg

not considered totogether, and to be able to fight is

the first datv of a citizen. Thereforethe drunkard is hsjrshly dealt wilh.At first they try moral suasion withthe festive tipler, but when that failg

id he persists in making the moun-tain peaks ring to his Montenegrin

institute for "We won't go home tillorningr" he is declared to be a dan-

is- quietly ssinated byrder of the local chief.-1" iptist

David Hyman, of Rochester, •* Voirehased the St. Lawrence Marine>mpany, &ouverneor, from Milo M.

Belding, of New York, on Nov. 15th.ras closed a contract with the St.>awreuce Transmission company

whereby the latter agrees to furnish200 eleetric horse power to the formerx> be transmitted to Gouvernear'rom Massena over the power linewhich the Transmission companyproposes to construct, work on sameto commence as early next spring aspossible. Within less than one yearMassena electric fluid will be flowingthrough a wire from the "Niagara ofthe Horth" to the Marble City andthe wheels of industry in that village

'ill be tnrned by the power generat-ed at the mighty plant of the St.

renee River Power company/ onthe bank of the Grass river at Mas

Italians are daily arriving herefrom Canada seeking entrance to thiscountry. They had spent the pastsummer in Canada after i s ^ i n g

Italy and are now seeking awarmer climate on this side. Manythrough ignorance or by design failto go before the United States Exam-

sing board at Montreal and securethe certificates necessary for the en-trance into this country, and theseare sent back, to Canada, to go beforethe examining board at Montreal.Threeinen fhat crowed in • row doatafter haying been sent back to Cana-da, were arrested and are now per-

tl d b d from entering the

~ - - r~>y~~uv v i s Wflierat-HOSpil

i^aa?-*--1? *•**•.«

MISS A. a. SMITH.

spec tors.—Ex.By the will of the late Washington

Farmer, St. Lawreiwe Uatv»rBitygetaa legacy of 11,000. Leonard 8:Farmer, a cousin of the testator, V1

named as executor. •

Mr. Jacob O. Partjow, of Norwood,has Juet b«*n granted a raise In. hi*

from Biz dollars to ten azdbntb", commencing Aug..ToeephH.fi, f " - ~ i i - " -Sis attorney.

9,840 peraiys and 76,&53 othei

official statistics,

worse, insteadDeauty. Thisbreach-of-picrr

igist of Chicago is con-damage suit of ?20,000 fora defective nose still

if making it a thing of3 a modified form ofse suit in which p-r-I-

to bless the activity of his

thief,takes t

•Iding Into one the two formsif culture, the oriental and the occi-

-.;:•;. «... •-••.ir .••:. a • :i.i nas been is- dental, ita ambition being to harmonize• : • ! . ' : • " ! • ! • -i >•«•.! : • •- : '•'• • '•• them, even as Rome harmonized tha•,•••' I' '' J v v i - , <• •'. *• : i! militarism of the northern tribeB with

the subjects that will be considered at the culture of the southern races of Eu-thls convention are "The Relation of r o p e , s a ys Baron Kentaro Kaneko, in thethe Public Forest Lands to^Irrlgatlon;""The Delation of Public Forest Lands toGrazing;" "The Timber Industry andthe Fcjrest;" ^The Importance of Pub-lic Forest Lands to Mining;" "Forestry

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Forestry Policy." Among the men whowill attend this meeting are many ofleading agricultural, educational, rail-road, xnlxii&g, IumlDeringf, commercial,editorial, forestry, live stock and lead-

i - : . 1 - • ; • • , • . « • • . : • - . 1 1 1 b e

•\.<-' :!'•.: i i •• •< - . • : /Inter-esting ;to western farmers and stock-men. In view of the fact that provisionsha^e b§en ^ade for delegates from everyrepresentative organization In any way

Miec|;ed with the purposes of the*tln^, there is little reason why every

Interesi should not be represented andtake part Ir. important rtisouspinns ani'vote on a.: <|!ie.«iior:.-. TIK- Antcriran

semtatlVe American attendance.

Selfishness and Sympathy.Fron^ the top of a mountain you catr

see intb the valley around about—yourhorizon la very broad, and you can dis-tlnguisli the details that it encompasses;but, fr^m the valley, you cannot see thetop of he mountain, and your horizon islimited , says Annie Payson Call, in Les-lies^ Monthly. This illustrates truly

breadth and pone a d pow._uman! sympathy. With iv hujjnan natuj

Don't forget the old manwith the fish on his back.

For nearly thirty years hehas been traveling around theworld, and is still traveling,bringing health and comfortwherever he goes.

To the consumptive hebrings the strength and fleshhe so much needs,

To all weak and sicklychildren he gives rich andstrengthening food.

To thin and pale personshe gives new firm flesh andrich red blood. ,

Children iyho first saw thepld.man with the fish are howgrow UP an<i h a v^ children-,ofciheir-own. • .,

He*stands"for Scott's Einul-m-o^p^re;*coti 'liver oil—a

delighifuj fbpd" and a natural .'*•"--- fqr*€h&ft|n, for old .folks

r" afl.wK^need flesh-aridth».

real lovelas a clear,

hlgjh standard of his own—a standardwhich he does not attribute to his own

illigence—his understanding of the

• .• < • : . : . . ! • : ".' : : . ••..' • : , , • : . ;

conditions of men into the region with-in the '• horizon of his mind. Not onlythat, bjit he will recognize the fact whenthe standard of another •!•..• .» • .••.. rthan Ms own, and will be ready to as-cend at once when he becomes aware ofa higher point of view. On the other.:.:.. when selfishness is sympathizing

with Selfishness, there Is no ascent pos-sible, but only the one little

of thoae concerned.

for every nation, and peaceJ»ured to all the teeming wealth of theChi i

The President's Mail.May the earth rest lightly on Galus

Plinlus Caecilius Secundus and every»ther prolific epiatolator of the ages.

bulk but as an ant Mil to Olympus whenBet next to the mountain of correspond-ence which the president of the UnitedStates is about to assail. Answer per-sonally every one of the 10,000 lettersof congratulation that have alreadypoured In, together with the myriad ofothers that may still be looked for! ItIs seemingly impossible, says the Bos-ton Transcript. Not if he had a tdred clarion tongues, each dictaceaselessly to 100 stenographers

B t e e l n d U r e dJ i g wealth of thChinese empire. Nothing less than an p e n s (aim thus ideal and lofty, is what Japan epistlesaspires to realize; and should f taspires to realize; >uld fortui

he had 100 hands, armed withbusily signing a series othey elided from 100 swil

:hines; not even if lie had th.ty of expression of a Clydi

Fitch or a Cyrus Townsend Brady, couUlarm a B o u t a Mr. Roosevelt hope to keep up with th.! character of corespondence that is likely to follow

. ^ u - Europe and j the announcement of the president's in-

.erica to become acquainted with the ] t ention to send forth a

;h persoiat Mi

itrenuosity and impetuosity may findlh< !).s4rh<'.-> justified in this instanceUucii morning as the white house door-bell rings and the president looks oui

not forsake her, she will be content with jnothing less. In the light, therefore,what has been said, th."yellow peril" takes ona golden opportunity for

real strength andThe

of Japaie cry, moreover, Intended to! T h o 8 e w h o c

injury and disgrace, provides ; {

N ii !.'<>:<:»i. ()[)jio!!iir,iiy i o show

ote of reply to

;>art in the aspiratloi r people.

The Crusade Against Tipping.The "anti-tip" movement seems to be

gathering appreciable momentum inEngland, and it Is to be hoped that It3force will extend to ttfese shores, wherethe tipping nuisance has of-late years

gaining ground appreciably., saysthe Springfield Republics Eng-land King Edward has used his influ-ence to check the growing extravaganceof country-house tips, which hasreached so absurd a scale that personsof moderate means were obliged to re-fuse the hospitality of their wealthyfriends because of the taxes levied byservants. In London a large restaurant

lately been opened which charges

allowed to accept gratuities. Some as-pects of the matter have been take

sued a request to householders to dis-continue tie tipping of dustmen,ground that It impairs the Efficiency olh paid substan-

rk, and they

of the window upongroaning-mail wagonto exclaim: "Alas,have I ione?"

the long'line ofi he will be likely

the service. The mential wages for .their w

j •• to serve all impartially. The. i. ;. ..." the tipping system is, quite

j naturally and inevitably, that those who

itutes for the cotton plant,company with 5250,000 cap-

ital his recently been formed to de-,velpp )c Mexico the culture and spin-ning oj th-j ramie plant, which is aperen-nial, and grows from four to six feethigh, j The stem of the plant yields afine fiber that may be spun into yarn,hoalerjr and underwear. From three tofiva crpps a y W can be harvested fromthe ramie In some regions. The. cottontree iat the other substitute. It like-wise fe perennial, flowers, bolls andriiJje cotton being seen on the tree allthe tiine. It growB in dry places, andcojtjainfe from the seed has been known toreach bine feet six inches in a year.

> great American lntervieweito have met more than. hU

, In the archbishop of Canterbury.Before; leaving England his grace de-claiedjhls intention to make no utter-ance tip the public except his addressesueUveied in public, and he adhered tcth^t determination with a genial per-tlnacltv that was the admiration anddestpahj of every gentleman of the press.eajte tie Youth's Companion. It takesa ftroig character to get the better o)

in this way. A manwhcadroit would attain the pur-» method politicians favor:

to taU| much and tay nothing.

i f ttjere is a world's-fair to celebratethe; opening of the Panama canal, SanFrancisco can, have It without any op-pTJ»tio|a: from Philadelphia, Chicago,Buffalo or, St Louis. One fair amplysa|lsfl«s the cravings of the city In whichitdili«adL

Swift New York, accustomed to theV has already condensed the su6way.

That the heart of man contains morfeeling for tie more timid and helplessspecies of animal as the world advancesIn civilization is indicated by the pres-ent revulsion from the killing of ani-mals for sport alone. This is aA indi-cation of the increasing delicacy of thesensibility of the time. The'thoughtof Inflicting n<ing creature as

Value of Electricity,.That electricity is coming to be more

and more a reliance for motive power isreceiving illustration almost daily. Theelectrical equipment of the New Yorkelevated railways and later of the newunderground railroad are conspicuousInstances of th« growing use cf thisagency. The test made of an electriclocomotive constructed at Schenectadyand which is to be used by the NewYork Central & Hudson River railroadwhfiir th« Grand Central terminal lm-!.:•'. •< :i.> :.-.•• are completed, shows, ac-cording to the statement of competentJudges who watched the experiments,that the engine is a perfect machinefor the purpose for which it is intended.Vice President Wilgus, who Is an en-gineer of high repute, is very enthusias-tic over the matter^ and says; "Therecan be no doubt that we can pick uptrains at Croton, 34 miles from NewYork, and bring them into the Grand

Buy a Dog.The swift set in New York has a new

fad. It is so far-reaching In its ca-pacity for burning ;up money that itpromisea to become popular with the!class whose hours are all idle hours,and whose heaviest labor is the -clip-ping of coupons, sayB the CincinnatiPost. If you are not the possessor ofa Pomeranian dog, you might as wellbid farewell to any idee of butting intothe Four Hundred. A pup about thesize of a rat, that can readily be car-ried in a shopping bag, has become thehall-mark of aristocracy in New York.The smaller the dog the more impor-tant the owner. Pomeraniansbeen sold for as high as"110,000. Mrs.Stuyvesant Fish paid f 100 an ouihers, and the total cost of the animalwas. about f5,000. That society dar-ling, Harry Lehr, has equipped his span-iel with a pair of emerald earrings anda ruby bracelet clasps one of the ariltocraUchind legs of the brute. It wasnecessary for Mr. tenr to do somethingpretty strenuous, else society might re-member that a few years ago he was apeddler of wine and worked for a IIing. It is only a fad. It 1B simply ameans by which a certain element inthe so-called smart Bet can secure ad-vertising and notoriety. And notorietyto those people is as the breath of life.It is more to them than the applausethat greets the (successful actor. They

court publicity,into the newspape

Thej int I'and so fev

getish It

that desire that they do things that dis-gust saner folks, and they find a thrillin shocking the public. It Is foolish,of course, but what are they to do?

to work, and so they will network. Or-dinary methods of securing pleasure

the great American vaudeville, in whichmen and women caper and cut up, thrcvast Bums to the birds, and are realBO simple-minded as to call It pleasuiIf you like that sort of thing, you ciget a place on the stage if you are Uowner of a high-priced Pomeranian.

Advertising Pays.The man who would be successfi

must let the world know that he wantsto succeed. In this day and timegum shoe seldom treads the pathvictory of one kind or another. WhoIs not familiar with the mustached faceand unusually high forehead of th.who is to be the next governor of Mass-achusetts? All of us have seen itprint practically every day for a loitime, and the west knew It as well as t:east, says the Indianapolis News. Wh.the democrats of Massachusetts noiinated "William L. Douglas as theircandidate for governor, there wasneed to explain who he was. Noasked, because every one knew. Andwhen Mr. Douglas entered his newsphere of activity he did not fallthe ways of those who were alreadythere. He had methods of hi!which he had tried and found effective.Printers' ink and paste were among hismost able lieutenants, and the peopleof Massachusetts knew from the ad-vertising columns of the public prints,which werefreely used, and frc

r the state that thewho had been successful idetermined to be successful in aMere political schemes were not de-pended on; statethe like, which sthe multitude, wmeans which nev

ents, interviewsoften fail short of

e supplanted by the• fail to reach.

relie Netribulatio

York •that trai

i.-Bl thrc the

tunnels has forced upon it f<past." The Troy Times says this laan extremely sanguine view, but it isan expert one. Electricityachieved such triumphs that no onenowadays is astonished at anything ac-complished by Its aid.

Buskin as an Art Critic.It is probably by thfs time pretty gen-

erally recognized that the debt that -v•Imarlly for whatart, considers L.

dless pain pn any liv- [owe to Ruskln IS notpria means of obtaining , he did and said about i

pleasurable excitement has become dis- j W". Clark, in Macmillan'sl It was as atasteful. The animal has risen to a ' moralist and a philosopher that he wasnew place of dignity. It has become really great Of course, when a man ofa creature to which more consideration high intellectual powers devotes a largeis given. Besides, the whole tone of portion of his life to the study of a sub-modern society is of a keener, sensibility, ject it is inevitable that his labors mustPain in itself shocnTthe nerves of tha possess a certain value. We may evenobserver of i t A little bird struggling g 0 further than that, and say that whenin the agony caused by a sjpoitsman>& „ m a n of high intellectual powersshot ia likely to stir in him la feeling of chooses to write upon a subject, what he~" 1"'"u * " *"'""" ' rites must possess a certain value; but

IB Quite possible that the kernel of thipity which' turns pleasure-seeking into w

mournful self-accusation. The man n __ _ „„»„,„who Bla^s an animal for necessary food n u t may be7ound in his dlg^ess7ons,"ormay be tolerated, but he who slaugh-, in u m incidentally thrown upon othertern harmless animals for naother pur- m f t t t e r a . R u s k l n % ^ri t l n g s u p o n ^pose than the excitement of tak- possess very great Value; but their valueing a weaker life ffiaa Wai*more than j , - t for wb^t they tell us about art,contemptible. ; b u t f o r w h a t ^ e y t e l I u g a b o u t R u s k l n >

No nongovernment will KS available Every page oj "Modern Painters" isfor experiments with Prof.i; Langley'a worth reading, not because ife authorairship. If the government is going to was a great art critic, bui because hesubsidize any airship inventor, it ought -was a great philosopher ana moralistto help Capt. Baldwin in thfe improve- No time is wasted which is spent in themeni of his Arrow. company ot_ e_wlse_and good.

That millionaire philanthropist «f Tho Omaha' young woman who beatNow York whojs looking fur a bouse in out a would-be hugger by sticking blmthe alums so.that he may belp his neigh- In the cyo with a hatpin certainly won.bora evidently deapaiu-of -reforming puC Qtt flolpto.

:- " I "itttBrta -tor taking steps ter have netK ^ ijuhfi-battle army officers «urfppe<! wtth touljet*prtx»

of the Rrver <6brtfe»--Tbal'B enough to .vests. The baeYs should be made donbltmake-lHmEfealier • ttiifc

. A UtUe later Ittuala will think an in-ternational peace congress la thegreat-

Syracuse is enjoying the pr«»nt*-.tion of the great opera Parsafal.whioli

It is a 'ear of big crops, Includingthat of republican votes, says the TroyTimes. The returns from Europe showthat the grain yield in most countries ofthe continent has been exceptional. Thisis conspicuously true of Russia, insome parts of which the grain is soabundant that the peasant farmers havedifficulty in finding storage room forIt. It is a notable coincidence thatJapan, which relies chiefly on rice foifood, also has a big showing for Itsstaple, ihe output being 20 per centabove the average. This abundance

leans that both countries will have suf-ficient food, even if the war and itawaste continues for many months long-er. Yet it also accentuates the factthat such strife la costly. But for the'j*h~ in•-.-tlw : :r;»

Even blacksmiths and locksmithsmust have technical school educations inthe learned fatherland. Germany hasseven schools devoted to the training ofaspirants to these trades.-*. Only grad-uates of public schools are admitted, andto one of them, that at Rosswein, areadmitted only the graduates of one of theother six blacksmith and locksniita

Tka Psychology of Vanity.A French scientist, M. Camillo Mell-

nand, discusses, in La Revue (Paris).the psychological aspects of vanity,which, he declares, is the desire forpraise become all-powerful. Vanity inthe beginning, he declares, is morecaprice than a vice, but vices may ariseout of It. He discusses vanity of dress,of manners, and of intellect To pre-vent the development of vanity, he says,we should begia very early with tinchild. In fact, it is we who mak* Onehlld vain by the misuse of pratoe, com-parisons with companions, too much ad-miration; also by raillery, which maycause the child much suffering andteach him to fear criticism. There istoo much appeal to amour propre, andthere are too many competitions aiprises which may stimulate energy, bu.require very prudjant use. It would bebetter to compare th« scholar with bim-•elf. To work to be the flret need aotbe bad, but to work for the Joy ot work-ing and learning is mw* bette*; « H !less exciting. Finally, let us remem-ber that the advantages wel boast olhave little value in themselves; all _ -pends on the use we make of them. Theonly quality of which we can never bvain is justice. %

Must Nurse Their Babies.Perhaps Dr. Jacobl's most praise

worthy pleading, rising to command, itthat the mother's nfllk Is the best It Is,of course, an old story, older than thenthusiasm of Jean Jacques, who, wit:his own hands, made gifts for thosemothers who obeyed the most primlthand fundamental of duties, says Ame;lean Medicine. The splendid optlmlsiof the kn r of his functio nd thilover of his kind breathes in theweighty sentences of advice andIng. Those mothers who are abl<should even be compelled to nurse the!Infants, because no additions or atBtractions can ever change the cow;milk into the human mtlk. Artificial In-fant feeding, unknown to antiquity, isverily a disease of modern times,takes modern civilization to exposehies to disease and slow extinction.'The ancient and oriental infanticidewas indeed more humane, and bett.for the race, than our later hypocritiimethods. The call for the Btate to tak.upon itself its proper duty of - protect-ing, the young and of making them better -procreators and citizens is alto-gether admirabl.

"The eternal servant problem" isphrase which is more accurate thamost people suppose. Higher crtti.have not yet settled the question wheth-er the story of the serpent enteringEden Is merely an allegory setting fort)the troubles attendant upon the ar-rival of the first housemaid; but itheory is extremely plausible. 1Latin comedies, as all our.readers willInstantly remember, are filled with thepranks of tricky servants; and Shake-speare himself touched upon the them,more than once. The activities of th.nurse in "Romeo and Juliet" andEmllla'blunder in giving Desdemona's hand-kerchief to Iago in "Othello" are in-

in point Whenhousewife of to-day says in her hast*that never has the difficulty of procur-ing good servants been so serious as inher own home at the present momei__she simply repeats the complaint al-most as old as civilization.

Dr. Wiley's Campaign.In hla effort to establish a standard oi

purity for foodstuffs, and to expose th.failures to meet the standard, Dr. Wile:has the utmost sympathy of the publicThe extent to which the public is robbedor poisoned is appalling. The crime, ata rule, Is committed by people who aredeemed respectable, even by themselves.Whether the article they make and sellis intended for the table or sickroom,with equal lack bf. conscience they render it unfit for use by putting in cheatsubstitutes. They do not hesitate tcfill the markets with spurious goodsand the drug stores and hospitals witicounterfeits. In other words, they steal,lie and run. the rlsfi of committing mur-der.

Spain has been figuring out the detail!of H:e (o::.-.;;.-i tf :<.- •,. ai,: ;.WH .,;i..:..'-I'.VK- ;.r!:li> c i l of il-p «K-V-.>:<•;>:::• -; ?:»

33 per cent of its people can read andwrite, says the Boston Transcript Fortyyears ago Iesa than 20 per cent of theSpaniards were illiterate. Evidently tbsschoolmaster is marching on in Spain.even If his rate of progress Is not ex-actly rapid.

The third pair of twins has beenborn to a l i ly Lake (111.) mother, and

schools. This Rosswein school has a the president'has been notified. Inth«highly advanced curriculum which cov- exuberance of spirits that should pos-ers physics, chemistry and electricity, aesa him now something extraordinarywith particular reference to practical m a y b e expected froljt the president Inconstruction of machinery. The schools commendation of results of all efforts inare supported by the blacksmith and general to please him in Illinois,locksmith guilds, aided by subventions j = = = = = = =from the government of Saxony and prl-1 There is testimony of a life of scru-vate beneficence. The course lasts from pulous honor In the news that thu latotwo to three years, according to thoschool.

The king of Italy tMorgan with the Insignia of knight oithe c a testimonial of We grat-

i tude of the nation for the retufn of theAscoli cope, to the Italian governmentIf the cope had fallen into J. P.'s handswhen he had the trust fever a few yearsagohemigbthave been inclined to waive•side" the knighthood* and incorporatethe valued cop^for 1200,000,000.

4 been computed that for every100 tons of pig Iron consumed for allpurposes the quantity of steel producedis approximately 1B Great Britain atons; In Germany, 75 toss; hrAmerfca,80 tons. '

The'blg railroads are gobbling np thelittle railroads so rapidly that'll beginsto look as If the day may- not be so fardistant when, there will be only oa*

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Robert E. Pattlson, after a lifetime spentIn the discharge of public and privatetrusts, died a poor man, says the Pitts-burg Dispatch. It is announced that theproperty he left Is Incumbered, and acommittee of prominent Philadelphia^has opened a subscription to dischargethe Indebtedness and preserve the prop-erty for his family. That Gov. Patti-son could, in the positions which he held,have accrued great Wealth if he hadbeen willing to subordinate his In-tegrity to the dictate* of acqulsitlvenees,19 beyond dispute. That he did notdo so may be exceptional to the profes-sional politics of Pennsylvania, but thatfact makes the exception no lets to h

Cassimer Zeglen, the American In-ventor of bullet-proof cloth, has* an offerof 130.000 from the Russian governmentlor the privilege of manufacturing hiselotk into clothing tor aray use. When&• Slavs get these new clothes, pity th*p o w J a p s . • * • • • • • . - v

. Marshal Oyama's Use confronting thoBosnian forces in Manchuria to reportedto be 60 miles long. And when be s4-Tances, It may be counted on tojDove like

If took hold ofIb* situation and prevented a rapturewith Great Britain. H« feels able to use

— - . — • a w If possible inwoa, but few accomplish It k n «down to not rating; in (act, It ii M I W ,to rest tlttlnc t b n lying flow*, if on.!

«ly, «ad thft woman who does not re-' 'tax when she u « down cannot r e t no

Hamilton, In Good Hoowtoeping. To"tax properly. He at Ml bftgtfrontlHWck wtth the b«aa ICT.1 with the bodytthearmaextendedrtlghUyftoitlie body." « th. feet separated « » « «U Inch*.The clotting should be loose, If lying m

a conch, but it is best to undmutflsttlntobed. StartwlthlongbrShJSSkind known as "abdominal bNtfMh*-followed by upper chert toSS*.Keep this up for a few BlnotoTwSrand thtin beginning with the atariMluall the muscles the whofe length «C-tbabody, that is, release the tension onthem, so that If feet or lianda wer» lifted v

they would fall to the bod as If they wcrslogs of wood. It is not very difficult torelax the muscles of the arms and legi,but it takes patient practice to relaxthe muscles of the back, thorax and .breast, but by persistent effort ii can beaccomplished. When all the ^nusciesare relaxed the person feels aa! if shewere floating In the air, there! is nosense of weight Now an effortj shouldbe made to relax the mind. This cannot -be done as some have recommended by"thinking of nothing"-an impossibility—but It can be done by directing themind to the latest pleasant thing thathas occurred, conning It over repeatedly,and it will not require many repetitionsto send one into a deep, baby-like sleep—the kind that rests, and| fromwblca one awakes refreshed, and with'every nerve tuned hi unison to thawork ahead. Try i t

Japan's Industrial Activity.Since the beginning of hostilities Jap-

an has bought 33 steamers of more than85,800 aggregate tonnage and chartered76 vessels with a total tonnage of 161,800.The Japanese Toyo Kisen Kalsha, oisteamship company, has declared Its :

usual dividend of 12 per cent The com-pany Is to construct two 15,000-ton pas-senger steamships. Instead of orderingthese from some British or Germanshipbuilding company, the raw materialwill be bought and sent to Nagasaki andthe ships built by the Japanese ship-building company at that port. In spiteof the war n6 less than eight steamersare now under construction at the MitsuBlshi dockyard and engine • works atNagasaki, Japan. One of these Is foi *:the Seattle service, and will be launchedhi November—6,000 tons. Five of theothers are for service In the China seas.Japan is buying the locomotives for th«Korean railroads exclusively In thaUnited States, chiefly because of morespeedy -delivery. It Is favoring Eng-land and the United States In tlie pur-chase of material for the new water-works of Yokohama. England Is par-ticularly favored for material for ship-building and naval equipment Thtlarge war vessels built for Japan in Ger-many were ordered to England for theliarmament Cheap living is no Iongeithe order of the day In Japan. Smallhouses rent; for $25 a month.. German2$4-cent cigars cost 13 cents. Beer is 18to 25 cents a bottle.

Long Step Toward Peace.Among the hundreds of thousands oi

American citizens who decry tbre awfulinfluences and effects of war, the in-formation that the negotiation of an ar-bitration treaty between this countryand France may be followed by similaipeace contracts with Germany and GreatBritain will be received with enthus-iasm, says the Chicago Sun. No betteisign of the times and the desire of thegreat nations of the world for peace andthe prosperity that Invariably followsis at hand than this disposition to takesteps to avert possible war. Slawlybut surely the peoples of the earth aragetting away from this one great relic oibarbarism. The time may never comewhen war will be a thing of the pastand no longer called in as a means oisettlement of the last resort, but it lareasonable to hope that arbitrationtreaties will have the effect of reducingthe danger of war to tie minimum andforcing disputing powers to exhaust allother means before the dogs of war ar*turned loose. It is a matter of satisfac-tion to Americans that, although thiscountry is young in years, it is old inexperience and wisdom, thus becomingone of the foremost factors in bringingabout conditions that are steps towardtha time of universal peace. j

Mrs. Ksk, of "Becky Sharp" fame. Isout with a letter condemning the ship- pment of cattle in stock cars during thesevere weather of wintertime. With theIncidental observer's usual degree oipenetration she advises that either thecattle be shipped after they are dressed

. , .'••'. .• suitable canvases for th«i . :•..'•. ,." the shipping cars. j

Dr. Wiley, of the department of ag-jriculture, says the bulk of the whisky

tsumed in America has prune juiceas its base, fiereafter we shallunder-stand the literal significance of thehlth-|•rto vague expression, "full of prunVjuice." , j

War would not be so horrible If allof its evils were those of mere carnage.fbe death of a thousand men by bal-lets is a dreadful thing, but the deathof 10.000.by the slow process of torturingdisease is much more terrible. Everyrecord of international armed conflict,tells its story of the ravages of disease.

Washington, Pik, will not permit any»f Its young girls to go to the publicschools If (bey aro given lo smokingclgaitett«s. A betet r punishment for theoffense would be to spank their mothers.

However, it is a trifle disconcerting tothink I what a decline in population Chi-cago would suffer if the proposed penaltyof capital punishment f«r highwaymen!ever became a reality. j

When one gin tells another that sheis ptactfeing beauty culture the other,always asks if she has just begua.

me J. CsDtzT makes oath that! he is thepartner of the firm of F. J. Ohoiey * Co,,

doing btutaesB in the city of Toledo, County and~ -J> ftforemid, and that said firm inU pay tbe

i of ONE HUNDRED DOLLABS for tmchevery ease of Catarrh that cannot be ooted

>y the uwot HALL'S Catarrh Cure. 'PBAJJK J. CASKET.

Hall't CaUrrh Cure is taken uictad-reoUy on the blood and mucous surfaces

of UKUyttom. Send for testimonials, free.F: J. CHEHBY *Co.,T»Iedo, O.