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Its “rat tling in the throat” is an auricular il lusion. A Chicago princess .who is stranded In Paris finds it lb mighty little in the way of groceries that she can buy on her title. We are worried about where they are going to put the gasoline stations for these new air machines.—Atlantic Constitution. The Russian minister of commerce Is named Shipoft. It is to be hoped for, the tradd of the country that he Jives up to it. IDVO CATES of the canteen claim that the abolition of the sale of beer at post exchanges has not been in- the interests of temperance. I believe they are right. I believe prohibition does not prohibit. For a number of years I had charge of the post exchange at Fort Monroe, Va., with garrisons varying from 6 to 20 companies of soldiers. During this period beer was sold in, the post exchange to the soldiers, with very little restri(?tion, ________ and with no marked intemperance due to such sale. Since that time I have commanded army posts in the Philippines, Maine, New Jersey, on the Potomac and in Boston harbor, with complete restrictions as to sale of beer or any intoxicating liquor. I have always found about the same average amount of drunkenness among the men, increased, perhaps, by the fact that the inability of a soldier to get his glass of beer at his own post exchange often induces men, or the friends of the men, to smuggle poor whisky in quantity into the company quarters —a practice causing more indiscipline and trouble than any I know. A It is hard to check. It shows results without warning. There is no law for its severe pimishment. A fine of $5 or less is all that can be im posed on a man legally for introducing intoxicating liquor into the bar racks, and that has no deterrent effect whatever. This most baneful prac tice upsets all law and order in barracks, causes lack of confidence in all men who drink, promotes drunken rows, riots, quarrels, fights, affrays, pet ty thefts, disrespect to superiors and disobedience of orders, and general unrest and discontent. Liquor in quarters is a great disorganizer, and is a less frequent source of trouble at a military post where beer is sold at the post exchanges, as the inducement to break the rules is less. IflEETS HORRIBLE DEATH IN TRRESHINB MAGHINB FARMER TRIPS OVER ROPE AJ^D BODY IS GBOUNP BY WHIRLING DISKS. New Brunswick, N. J.—The brain of a Poe ccfuld hardly conceive a death more horrible than that suffered here by Abraham Gulick. Tripping over some obstruction, Gu lick plunged head foremost Into the mechanism of a threshing machine and was killed. GuUck was a prosperous farmer re siding on the Raritan River road with his wife and one child. He bad vol unteered to aid hla neighbor, John Mc Donald, to thresh a crop of wheat, us ing a powerful threshing machine. GuUck was feeding the grain Into Kelr 'Hardle advises Americans to \go into politics.” They do. But not like a flock of silly sheep with some agitator for bell-wether. “Rats no longer are worn In the hair.” says a woman's magazine. No, they seem to have been supplanted by those little rows of mice. It is hard to tell which tastes bet ter, the first piece of flanky, juicy, spicy, ralsiny mince pie In the fall, or the first cucumber in the spring. Probably thdt Milwaukee hermit who refused to wash for eight years was not a teetotaler and consequently did not want to encourage any undue Intimacy. I believe an idenl army post would be one where no one drank beer or intoxicating liquor and where those articles were unknown. Unfortu nately, we don’t get that class of men always as soldiers. Whisky is an eflBcient recruiting sergeant. We have men who enlist who have riot in their blood, who crave indulgence in drink at times, and therefore cannot keep a steady job. They give good service and high grade work often. They lapse now and then, take their punishment and then take up the bur den of life again. These men are born with a love for strohg drink, and they will have i t “Thou shalt not” does not deter them. The canteen saved many of them from a prolonged absence from duty. __________ % Gulick Plunged Headfirst Machine. Into the Of course plants are capable of feel ings. Hasn’t the corn ears to hear and the potatoes eyes to see? Haven’t you heard the trees moan and seen the rose blush? An Insurance man says there are 19,500 women In Ne-w York who are past 75 years of age. This Is not sur prising; there art lots of chorus girls ln_ New York. Flowers may have memories, but as long as the corsage bouquet and the honeysuckle on the porch can tell no tales what does It matter?—Louisville - tlouHer-JournaL. Is th e S o u l Im m o r l a l ? A man in Des Moines buys his mo ther-in-law five pounds of candy every week. The scheme should work and Is safer than the slow poison plan.— Detroit Free Press. Now that the North cape’^js cliffs have been desecrated by the brushes of the advertising painters we almost wish that Peary would never give them a chance at the north pole. A perfectly good Imitation of a Car negie hero medal Is offered to the man ,_whQ has read all of the political plat forms, speeches of acceptance . and campaign hooks.—Louisville Courier- Journal, \Auto-suggestion” is receiving con siderable attention from scientists. Did you ever catch the monologue of the man on his back In the dust trying to coax the machinery of one of the snorting go-devils? An up-to-date farmer in Connecticut Insists op having a flying machine clause in his Insurance policy, arguing that flying machines are quite as un certain as tornadoes, for you never know what or when they are going to strike. iv I A Fhlladelphla heiress alleges that she went through a mock .marriage •with an American for the purpose of keeping her parents from purchasing a foreigner with a title for her. We can hardly believe her story Is true, be- .‘cause It is reported that her mother has fprgiyeij her. •%'e'gov6hlrn6nt is going to lay a Mo really existing -thing perishes, but only changes its form. Physical science teaches ns this clearly enough concerning matter and energy, the two great entities with which it has to do. And there is ho , likelihood of any. great modification in this teaching. I believe that the soul is one of the really existing things, and that consequently ij; cannot perish. There are in the uni- Yerse two kinds of values—^namely, matterial values and spiritual values, A piece of coal, for example, is a material value, and when hnmed appears to have ceased to exist. Yet the particles of long fossilized wood are not destroyed; they enter into the atmosphere as gaseous constituents, und thedong-lodsed-np solar energy is releatod from its potential form and appears once more as light and heat. This burning of the piece of coal is compared to a kind of resurrection. Ifight and heat were temporarily, imprisoned in tlie earthly cage, but even tually returned to their prime source. Though the piece of coal has dis appeared, there is no discounting its existence in another form, which shall probahlv-aganh-at some futarQ-date.-gojthrQugh an analogous process. lYho Kjr SIR OLIVES LODGE. molasses road in Massachusetts. That % jit. :^ill prepare a. binder for ma- toads the basis of which will be ■he'residue t of sugar-cane manufacture, A by-product for which there Is at -.present no known use. But isn’t there Some danger that the small boys and girls will carry off: the road for allrday suckers or Bdine Other terrible things? ■ j The dahlia Is tomlhg to .a place of ■hdiibr In t y .-floral world. . Last year ,a special display of this flower was made in Indianapolis and exhibitions are now in course of preparation in eastern cites. The dahlia Is a* stiff, formal blossom, with po sentiment con nected with it^ but it has.the beauty o' - Tlcli coloring in. a variety of rhadei^ There ato a a id, to he ^oo or .more ItnowA-Yarleties of the .dahlia, and v-a. jt Is easy to produce, new speclmo.n both pro,fessioaat ajid amateur -flcrl 5 t>-- ;vK,; extorimentlng with H : , A dahhA -M ,is 'impohciiue, can cavil, then, at its material value, and who shall say that its essence is not immortal, since it released, on being burned, constituents that axe scientifically sho-wn to be imperishable ? If-, moreover, you accept Ernst Haeckel’s dictum that the most infimtesimally minute particles of matter have a relative amount of consciousness, then you must admit that the space between the palpably material and the impalpably existent—the mind, for example—does not appear to be wholly -unbridgeable. Nothing of any value can be lost in the scheme of the universe. Therefore is it not a sensible reasoning that the soul is immortal? Sci entists will tell us that everything in God’s creation, after being put to its initial use, will again be found in another form doing work in the same strength that it possessed before. Therefore with scientific reasoning to back up this belief, is it any -wonder that the question has set the scientific world to wondering and has found many believers among men who pro fess to possess brains which can arrive at a plausible solution for most any sort of |)henomenon? Take a notable instance of the reasoning that nothing in creation is lost. The bad oxygen which passes from human and aniinal lungs is again found doing work in fertilizing plant life. There are a thousand other arguments in this line hardly less convincing, but to enumerat& even a few of them would take volumes upon volumes, for tlie subject itself is one of the mysteries of mankind which still remain to he solved. 6. B rin^ C k i l d r e n U p to W o r k By THEODORE ROOSEVELT. tieiiMent tl Iht Unihd SUIep> My ideal of a boy is one who will grow up and be able to support himself and A ’wife and childreil. To be fit to he an Amefi- can citizen he has got to preserve his self- respect and coquet himself so as to wrong no one. Fathers need the most preachiug.., Frequently the motheis V ho have had hard lives take the fin-wise cofirss in attemptifi^ to benefit their daughters by brihgitig' them up free from hard knocks. NText to hard ness of heart the next . 'C •, least desirable ^''^dlity is softness o f headj anh the mother or father should not try to bring up ibeir child in that waj/, 'STqfi don’t get the right stfiff out of those ehildren ffir the next tvar, otryou domt.gefe deceht ciiidehs. tthefi' there'isn’t any War. Bring them fijj to ‘vtorfe Bo ttfat they shall recognize an obstacle is not something, io= b* shirked) but, to be .overcomd ^ the machine and calling ior more sheaves of the wheat. “Hurry up,.boys! Let’s get this job done. I am beating you to it!” he laughingly shouted as McDonald and two helpers renewed efforts to over whelm him with the bound grain. Gulick turned to look at McDonald, took a step forward and tripped. Some say a rope caught .his toot. At all events, he plunged head foremost into the machine. He screamed as he fell. The horror- stricken men working with him stood helplessly by. Gulick threw out his arm as he de scended. This was first caught by the grinding burrs. Slowly he was drawn Into the machinery, screaming. Each succeeding revolution of the w'heels brought him closer and closer to his death, and with each inch of ap proach to the awful opening his screams grew more frantic. His arm was crushed to the wrist, the elbow, the shoulder, and then the head \Vas drawn in and his face and scalp torn and mutilated beyond recog nition. Overcoming thO paralysis of terror, McDonald and his helpers shut off the engine and stopped the thresher and set to work to release Gulick, now un conscious. So tightly was he -wedgetL in between the disks that ij; required half an hour’s work to dislodge his mangled body. He was still breathing when taken out and was hurried to a hospital, bu all hope of saving his life was aban doned by the surgeons as soon as they saw his condition. He died soon after reaching the hospital. GIRL BRIPE^IN WILD RIDE. Gleanings of Gd^am Interesiiuii Bits of Ne^s from the Great Metropolis. Dealt in Millions, Owes Grocery Bill M m . |HEW YORK.—Against Ella Rawls Reader, greatest woman financier, diplomat and a 'Warwick of South American republics, who a few short months ago was dealing in millions and planning to finance the revolution- torn and bankrupt Santo Domingo, judgment has been filed for a grocery bill of $629.88. The ungallant grocer is James Butler, and be sued upon Mrs, Reader’s note of band, the Judg ment also including costs. Mrs, Reader, who has an oflfice at 45 Broadway, is said to have spurned matrimonial proposals from px-Sena- tor William A. Clark, Sir Thomas Lip- ton, Sir John Dewar, a German prince, an Indian ditto and several other promising admirers.. She has been much In the public eye since she, stormed the state department at Washington w ltt letters of full au thority to treat for international agreements between Santo Domingo, and any other old nation on earth. She sued J. B. Haggln. capitalist, for $3,160,000 damages for alleged slanaer, and she accused the government at Washington of conspiring to defeat her plans for the re-establlshment oM the Dominican republic. She is a well-known figure on ’change in this country and In London, and Is young, handsome and well ed ucated. Some years ago she was a soda fountain attendant in the west,^ and first came to New York as a stenographer. When her account at the corner- grocery became so large as to worry the dealer, the -woman financier gave Butler her note for the amount, but neglected to pay It when due. She is. still buying her groceries from the same store, but she’s paying cash for them now. Large Restaurants Tendency of Times HE announcement that there Is to be in New York a new restaurant seating 5,000 dineps at once will not be a surprise to those who have no ticed the present tendency in such matters. The small Intimate restau rant of the first class is almost a thing of the past in this city. If small restaurants do exist they are rarely of the same grade as the large ones. They are small because the proprietor has not yet been suc cessful enough to go In on a large scale. As soon as he does make money and attracts a sufficient num ber of customers he is certain to make his place just as large as his resources warrant. There is no such thing here as a restaurant kept small for its own sake. In the European cities there are res taurants which have existed prosper ously for years and never increased their capacity for guests by a single square foot. It is mo^e custoipary in Paris for a proprietor who finds suc cess in one place to open another in some other part of the town. There are. for Instauc*, restaurants in the Champs Elysees which are con ducted by proprietors with places else where In the city. Thus It Is possible to keep some intimacy of atmosphere In them. But the demands on the re sources of these places are so small that they are not to be compared in any way with the Ne-w York restau rants. If any restaurants have the same problems to meet that face the- New York managers they are those of the large hotels In London. One reason why New York restau rants have become so large Is the re cent union of the hotel and the res taurant. Formerly hotel restaurants- were comparatively little patronized by any save the hotel guests. The old Brunswick a quarter o f a century ago- tried to rival Delmonlco’s, which used to stand opposite, and made some- sort of stab at it In the beginning, but later It was only the restaurant that survived. 1 was with the opening of the Wal dorf-Astoria that New Yorkers got Into the habit of going to a hotel only to use the restaurant. The recent erection of so many new and hand some hotels with the effort always to attract outside enstomers has made dlping In hotels q-ulte as usual as eat ing In a restaurant. So the possi bility of a quiet and unmusical meal seems more remote than ever. Much S}unpatfay for Son of Senator Brice Dashes in Darkness Over Steep Moun tain Trails Pursued by Hubby. Durango, Col.^—Mrs. Agnes Soulson, a bride of 16, to escape her husband, rode In the darkness over steep moun tain trails along the edge of ravines hundreds of feet deep, made daring jumps across narrow ra-vines and forded the Animas river half a dozen times. She reached the homo of her parents In this city just half an hour ahead of her pursuing husband, and fell Into her mother’s arms asking protection, saying he had abused her and that she could no longer live with him. Soulson, who had missed his -wife an hour after she left the ranch near Chama, N. M., tried to obtain an in terview with her, but she was ob durate. Then, being told of his grief over her departure, she finally con sented to talk with him. She then agreed to return with him, < Thqy started soon after breakfast and rode .steadily until noon. Then a halt was. made for- dinner, when the girl decided she had made a mistake In agreeing to go back, emphatically declaring she had had enough of him and more than enough of ranch life. After 'Vainly arguing for two hours SbUlson gave up and returned home to his ranch. Harnesses Self In Shafts. Alton,' 111.--—Charles Rodemeyer, a torifidr wagon manufacturer, moved 'bis family and household effects from ■Sixth and Alfiy street, Alton, to an- ^o^ther housb a block away, / 'Ttodemeyer, in a fit of compassion - lo t the horse ,haullng the loads in j.;; ; “toch warm weather, Unhitched the ani- '■ fijfil and hiinself took hold of the sbfifts, • He said he was able to stand it and wished to- save the horseflesh! After thtoe hours' work In the bar fie.ss bo hnd all of the household goodc- ifioved.: 'He ifiade about a dozen trips. ■\NE hears expressions of sorrow and ■^-Bympatbv-On-alLJiflnflH fn r gtow- art M. Brice, son of the late Senator Calvin M. Brice of Ohio, whose mind has become so affected that a court has appointed a guardian of’ his per son and estate. The Brice home has been In New York since the senator’s death, and when Stewart Brice came here fresh from his college athletic honors and pitched Into practical poli tics with a fervor which exceeded anything even his father ever showed, a brilliant career was predicted' for him. He had wealth, high social posi tion, moral courage and a capacity for making friends which has seldom been equaled. He soon became - a member of nearly every club In town, and when, although a member of Tam many and a Democratic alderman, he delivered a terrific lecture to Richard Xhoker—one_nlghfc_ln—fho Dpmpf-rqitr. club, he could at that time. If he had pushed his advantage, have become 80 powerful that Croker to the eon- tfary, Tammany hair could not have refused- him the nomination for con gress which his friends wanted him take. But just then the Spanish -w.ir came and he sought Instead service in the field. President McKinley HmSae—him a captain and the stories of correspond ents fold of him when, airily dressed In a pair of khahl trousers and a sleeveless undershirt, he picked up a broken wagon spoke and attacked a mob of Spanish who were stealing the food Intended for refugee women and children, reads like'a description of one of Ouida’s heroes. One of the correspondents wrote th a t,Brice, -who- Is a giant in strength, literally laid out a dozen of the thieving bullies and chased a score of them half a mile His illness dates frdm his return from Central America, where he went to look after some valuable timber and mining concessions controlled by the- Brice family. ■ I t Is hoped that his mental malady may he overcome by seclusion, rest and quiet. Famous Church Observes 60 tli Birthday t MPRESSIVE services the other day • marked the sixtieth anniversary of the foundation of the Church of the Transfiguration, popularly known as \The Little Chupch Atound the Cor ner.” Eminent Episcopal clergymen offered their congratulations. Thd sermon was preached by Very Rev. Dr. Wilfred L. Robbins, dean of the general theological seminary, with the faculty of which Rev. Dr. George H, Houghton, the founder, was long con nected. Now YOhk's Butter Consulnptloh. This Is the house of worship which Bishop Greer described as \the home body’s ebutoh, the stranger’s- church, and everybody’s church,” It includes In Its membership the wealthiest and the poorest, and all walks of,life, in the seventies JoSefih. Jefferson went to the pastor of a .Chhreh a t Mad-. Ison avenue and Twenty-eighth street to sec If he could mske Srfangefnents for the filneral Of deorge Holland, a distinguished actor. The minister dC-t cllned to. read the_ sCrvico, hut re* marked that there was a little church \around the corner” that did that kind of thing. “God bless, the little church around the corner.'' said Mr. Jefferson. That phrase gave ;the Transfigura tion church its wor/d-famous name. Theatrical people have regarded It ever since as thelp home. In the old days, Booth, the elder Wallack, Mr. Jefferson and other distinguished members of the theatrical profession attended servlets there. French \Tax on jBicycles. Last yeaif ‘certain’ changes wero made in the Fiteneh hlcycie taX -which have reduced the amount of Its con tributions to the revSfiue, but none the less the iaxf brought In. the not. confemptIbIs.Bum of e,50,0,000 francs ($l,300,0d6,5. i, ■Fdrrneriy' tke bicycle was taxed every time It changed hands, but nb-w ,the tax Is not per- sphal, hul levlad oh the bicycle itself, and the official Dlhtdi ' -itolch is the proof that (he .tte hUs been paid, i-s vail'd, for the tvhble 'yeari' The tax on ordldUry- hlcycftoi qtto, was reduced from six to-threo francs. While that on motor-blCycles ajid iUe (Ike is main- tulttod W 12 francs.. It appears (hat therff' weteritt U W sorietoins <>ve» 2,0fiO>(lb(i oralhary'uloydlos’ Ftohce- ■’V i
