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mothers reduced to a basis, physically speaking*
of hard muscles, sound stomachs and clear brains,
would pass on these virtues to their progeny who,
in turn, would better the aggregate result for the
benefit of the succeeding generation.
Laugh at the idea if you will, but the nation
which passes such a law, while it may have to
temporarily combat the opposition of those charg
ing it with impertinent and paternal legislation,
will eventually occupy an exalted international po
sition by reason of the very fundamental operation
of the law itself.
Haisuli as the Gentle s
manly Bandit
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A Tax on Excessive Fat
Folk
HALL fat men and women be re-
quired to enrich the coffers of the
■ government by submitting to a tax
on each one of their abnormal
pounds avoirdupois? This is the
bizarre suggestion presented by the
British Medical Journal, a periodi
cal long noted for its ^ober-sided,
eminently sane view of subjects
within its realm affecting the pub
lic. It is pointed out that “as lux
uries should be taxed rather than
necessaries, a superfluity of fat,
which is mostly the result of luxu
rious living, may not unfairly be re
garded as a fitting object of taxation.” In support
of this novel stand the editor goes on to say: “One
municipality in Sweden already taxes superfluity
of fat.” There have been many taxes of the
uniqug, the assinine and the sensible order project
ed and actually levied; among them the tax on
bachelors ,the tax on spinsters, assuming that the
latter were responsible for their solitary state, and
a tax on childless couples—but there is little doubt
that this proposed fat tax will cap the climax of
legal whimsicality, if it is carried into effect. It
has a smattering of justice about it, too, for medi
cal authorities assert that the bulk of abnormally
heavy persons acquire their weight through self-
indujgence and indolence. Of course, there are
exceptions where the tendency toward unusual
flesh accumulation was inherited or is the result of
of disease. It may be set down, however, as a fact
of practically universal application, that the man
or the woman who is rolling in fat as a rule is
either roiling Jn wealth, or that ( they have a suf-
^iiolently .ge"fiFPUS inco/ne to permit the pamperia/
of the palatejfo an undue extent. jOfff this beurfe
the literal case, it is pretty apt to be true that
excessive indolence led them to that ignoring of
exercise or ordinary exertion which piles op the
surplus weight in undulating, unsightly layers.
It will be seen, therefore, that in the majority
of cases above cited a modest, discriminate tax
would have a salutary effect on the individual
while it would simultaneously further the welfare
of the state. At the same time, it would relieve
the lean proportion of the population of a large
part of the burden of public support under which
they are now staggering. We can imagine the
ludicrous result should the'federal government, or
any of the states, announce the laying of such a
tax. It would immediately become a national
issue more strenuous than the tariff, the trusts or
Chinese immigration and the representatives of
the dear, confiding people would be overwhelmed
with memorials and petitions against the enact
ment of such “pernicious” sumptuary legislation.
HE element of the unique is always'
present in the news of the world.
Some times the fine comb of intel
ligent research is neccessary to its
discovery, but occasionally it pre
sents itself in such glaring colors
that it cannot fail to fall under the
observation of the most obtuse.
Such is the case in the current
Raisuli-Perdicaris affair, to which
the attention of the entire civilized
world has been called by reason of
its picturesqueness; Had some in
genious writer of fiction dreamed
the events of tffe case as it stands
at present, with possibly a trifling embellishment,
he could have sold the stqry to any one of a dozen
reputable magazines at a fancy price. Or had his
fancy taken another direction he would have found
ample, colorful material to his hand for the crea
tion of one of the most effective comic operas in
the history of the craft. For the actions of Mr.
Raisuli and those of his victim or “guest,” Mr.
Perdicaris, partake strongly of medieval romance.
There is the richly tinted background furnished
in tropical Morocco, with its quaint inhabitants
the history of whom rivals that of any nation for
intensity; there is the peculiar set of circum
stances under which the American was kidnaped,
“the swarth foeman baring his cruel steel,” the
threat of death just sufficiently vague to make it
deliciously thrilling; finally, the incongruous cli
max when Mr. Perdicaris declares in a well-au
thenticated letter to a friend that “Raisuli is one
of the most interesting and kindly hearted native
gentlemen it has been my good, fortune to know.
It is impossible not to like the man.” We have
the further odd spectacle of the brigand, probably
arrayed in flowing robes, a mighty saber and a
cardinal-hued turban, amicably sharing the meals
of his victim, while barbaric forms flit to and fro
and the savage orchestra furnishes music suitable
to the occasion. Of course, it is possible that Mr.
Perdicaris intended h'is’ complimentary references
to his captor as a shrewd “jolly,” which might se
cure him better treatment during his detention and
more lenient terms at the windup. This theory,
however, would mar the picturesqueness of the
scene, so we will not long entertain it.
How easily it would have been for this little in
cident ito have occurred in the gloom of the middl
centuries, wjhen the wfein
Uhe Art of
“Dying Game*
By T. P. O’CONNOR.
PAUL GAULOT’S “A Con
spiracy Under the Terror,”
which has just "been pub
lished, suggests to me an
other reason, beside that
of tihg contrast between
the death scenes of Louis
XVI and of Marie Antoi
nette. Not the least horri
ble of all the haunting
horrors of “The Terror” is
the death struggle on the
scaffold of Louis XVI.
Here is Louis Blanc’s
description of it in his ‘‘■Hlstoire de !a
Revolution Francaise:” “Descending from
his carriage Louis fixed his eyes upon
the soldiers who surrounded him, and
with a menacing voice cried, ‘Silence!*
The drums ceased to beat, but at a sig
nal from tiheir officer the drummers again
went on. •What treason is this?’ he shout
ed. T am lost! I am lost!’ For it was
evident that up to this moment he had
been clinging to hope. The executioners
now approached to take off a part of his
clothes; he repulsed them fiercely, and
himself removed the collar from his neck.
All the blood in this frame seemed to be
turned into fire when they sought to tie
his hands. *Tie my hands!’ he shrieked.
A struggle was inevitable. It came. It
is indisputable that Louis fought with
his executioners.
“The Abbe Edgeworth stood by, per
plexed, horrified, speechless. At last,
as his master seemed to look inquiringly
at-him, he said: ‘Sir, in this additional
outrage, I only see a last trait of the re "
.semblance between yout ■ majesty and the
God who will give you your reward.* At
these words the indignation of the man
gave way to the humility of the Christian
and Louis said to the executioners, T will
drain the cup to the dreg3.*
“But after the executioners had made
all the grim toilet of death, and Louis
had protested his innocence and pro
nounced this forgiveness in the loud voice,
which the drummers at the command of
the comedian, Dugayon, proceeded to
drown, he again lost his self-control. ‘Si
lence! Be silent!’ cried the king, losing
all self-control, and stamping violently
with his foot. Richard, one of the execu
tioners, then seized a pistol and took aim
at the king. It was necessary to drag
him along by force. With difficulty fas-,
tened to the fatal plank he continued toj
utter terrible cries, only interrupted by
the fall of the knife.”
Contrast this frightful death struggle
on the scaffold with the dignity of that
despicable fratricide, Philippe Egalite.
He was no sooner condemned to imme
diate execution than, says Mongaiilard,
he ordered and consumed with much rel
ish some dozens of oysters, a couple of
cutlets and a bottle of claret. Then
erect, easy, commanding, In faultless at
tire and with the air of a prince proceed
ing to his coronation, he is drawn, to the
scaffold. ... ^ . .
“The cruel populace says Carlyle,
“stopped him for some minutes opposite
the Palais Egalite, whilom Palais Royal,
along whose ashlar wall ran in huge
tricolor print, 'Republic One and Indivisi
ble* 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or
Death: National Property.’ Philippes
eyes flashed hell fire one instant, but the
next instant it was gone and he sat Im
passive. On the scaffold Samson was .for
drawing off his boots. "Tush!/ said
Philippe, “they will come better off alter.
Let’s have done!”
Now, I have often thought that the se-
oret of what the Jpopulace call ‘
—
A
lone' the Hiahws
xy
By FRANK L. STANTON
j
LOVE LEADS TO LIGHT.
L
Prom the shadows of the night
Love still leads us to the light;
Though the way be dark and long,
Love brings morning and a song;
Scatters all the violets sweet
Where the thorns have pierced the
feet;
Leading ever where life* seems
Truer than our truest dreams!
n.
Let us walk with Love, and gain
Fields of roses rimmed with rain;
Gardens where the angels tread
And the lilies hide Love’s dead!
Yet, to Love, what death can come?
Eyes are dim, and lips are dumb,
But they rise to heavens supreme
Where Love gives to God Life’s
dream!
by the telegraph and we were/not forded"
SOME LITERARY NOTES.
We sometimes get so tired of the
Hill of Fame we’d roll down to the
valley again—if the world wasn’t
looking at us.
One of the great magazine editors
announces that he “will print some
good poetry this year.” This makes
us wonder what kind he has been
printing all along.
Literary recognition is hard to gain,
and often, when it does come to us,
we’re worn out with the'' battle for it-
Gray was seven years putting the
finishing touches to his “Elegy;” but,
in these days, we couldn’t wait that
long and keep up with the gas bill.
One popular novel Is enough to
make an author rich these days; but
the most of them are lost in oblivion
before the author spends half his
fortune.
Genius is merely patience and hard
work; but few of us have patience,
and hard work doesn’t agree with
some of us.
AN OLD-TIME PHILOSOPHER.
I.
When sorrow came to lead him from
the meadows of delight,
He just kept on a-sayin’: “It’ll all
come right!
The brightest day will follow all the
darkness of the night—
We’ll reach the land of Promise in
the mornin’!”
II.
And souls bowed down with trouble—
they listened, and they knew
A star was in the storms of life, a
beauty in the blue; *
And Love was greater than a dream
and let the sunshine through,—
They reached the land of Promise
in the mornin’!
Ghe ' Week in a Busy
World
The republican national convention has
convened and adjourned In Chicago, ful
filling the course anticipated of it in
unanimously nominating Theodore Ruose-
velt, of New York, as candidate for
president and Charles W. Fairbanks, of
Indiana, as vice presidential candidate.
Since there was little or no contest in
volved in the two nominations, the pro
ceedings were mainly of a perfunctory
nature, although the nominating and
seconding speeches drew much applausg
from the delegates.
Foe months preceding the convention, In
fact since the untimely death of Senator
Marcus A. Hanna, it has been evident
PROVERBS OF THE HIGHWAY.
If there was a feilce built around
Paradise, Faith would be strong
enough to pull down the palings.
The world may he better or worse
than we deem it; but let us all be
thankful we are still on praying
ground—even if we do have to pay
rent for it
Love can make even the thorniest
road blossom with undying violets.
The song of a bird Is only the echo
of the music of the angels.
Heaven is never so high but the
heart can sing its way to its light and
beauty.
LITERARY ITEM.
“Brown’s book must be having a
great sale.”
“Why do you think so?”
“Because he’s had his hair cut, and
the other day I saw him looking into
the window of a first-class restau
rant, just as if he were able to walk
in and order something!”
THE LOVELY WORLD.
L
The world is like a picture in a living
frame of blue,
An’ the angels up in heaven—they
wave their hands to you;
The stars are lights of loveliness, and
all the sunshine seems
To ripple like a river through the
meadows of our dreams!
II.
And life is joy amazing!—The daisy
lives in light,
And the lily is a thought of God in
sweet celestial white!
And the birds there, in the branches,
are singing well in tune.
And we hear in dreaming valleys the
rosy steps of June!
Tale of the Mule
A Leading Southern Asset
By HELEN HARCOURT.
Written for SSunns' Sooth
HE word “mule” is often.
mize ou our pennies that we might obt
rasl
paper extras 1 And how vividly the ge
Moor brings to mind the courteous Rob:
the ingenious and implacable Rob Roy and the
sack-loving and purse-cutting Falstaflf—though we
hardly think poor Jack had the commercial in
stinct in the same-degree it inspires Raisuli.
Is it not true, too, that the Moor has the art of
brigandange developed to a finer length than any
one of his famous predecessors ? Not only does he
select a man of great personal wealth, but one of
such importance that the trembling sultan will be
compelled to release some of the picturesque ras
cals who compromise an ill-fated portion of Rai-
suli’s band. Here is the dogma of “utility” worked
to its finest finality with the woYld-old maxim
anent the killing of two birds with one -stone, not
forgotten. At the same time, with the menace of
violent and ignominious death held over his cap-
But consider the {rood which would result to the tive and his will implacable as to the successful
_ . . . ‘ r * j * f 1 — ^ _ L.. — A M n ( 1 .a 11 a- 1. ^
•game” ^QcsVnotJpC»lely in Jhe con-
be .w^acter oHthe vic-
tifflf I m y boyrtooa be*
taken j ail the gov
leraor,. Captain WArcy, and shown,
amongst other criminals, a man named
Heffernan, who had just been sentenced
to death for murder. As the poor wretch
for some reason or other had expected
a reprieve, he erfed feverishly the mo
ment we entered the condemned cell,
“Any news, captain?’’
To this day I remember the exjrresslon
of his face—the starting eyes, tne dis
tended nostrils, the parted lips—as he
asked the dread question. He looked
at the moment horror of death personi
fied.
Three weeks later he ‘died game,'
marched resolutely to the scaffold with
out a symptom of that terror of death,
when it was certain, which he pad sfEs-wn
when it was yet uncertain. Afcd that
seems the rule with tho.se condemned
to death who have time to get used to
their inevitable fate, “their torments.” as
Mammon cheerfully suggests, of hell, “In
length of time become their elements.”
They sleep soundly the night before their
execution, and eat heartily an hour be
fore they stand upon the drop.
But Louis XVI, even when on his way
to the scaffold,. had hope of a rescue.
“It was evident,” says Louis Blanc in
fixed ind p-rowlimr individual! He would be i fruition of his machinations, Raisuli is still the the passage I have just quoted, “that up
.. . n , 1 ...» i. . • • 1: 1 „ r * tn this moment-Shuis had been olinerimr
forced to reduce his gluttonish diet and get out
and walk oft his surplus pounds—a condition
which would add to his keenness of brain, buoy
ancy of spirits and length of days. Indirectly it
would put money in his pocket, or enable him to
develop the other side of his nature, not quite so
animal. The time would soon come, under the
gentleman;” he inquires solicitously after the
health of Mr. Perdicaris each morning, discusses
the weather and international politics at high noon,
and at dusk wishes him, gracefully, a sound night’s
slumber.
Surelv it begins tor appear that nature, as Oscar
W llde accused it, IS copying 1 irom art and tact ' by the attack, to carry off the king.
to this moment-Hbuis had been clinging
to a hope.” To what hope? ’M. Gaiilot,
and properly, applied to
the produce of creatures of ‘
different species. For - in
stance. the young of a
canary and a g*^bfmch
ctfr^Ctly ^frmed
a mule, because the Word
really means a hybrid, or
cross. In its ordinary and
most popular use, however,
when we speak of a mule,
we mean distinctively tne
offspring of tne equine and
There are two kinds 01
asinine races,
mule, in this sense of the word, the sub
ject of this article, which is the “mule”
proper, and the hinney. The first is the
cross of the male ass with a mare, and
the second the product of the stallion
and the female ass. The mule, being by
far the more valuable of the two, ab
sorbs the attention of the breeder of
stock, to almost the entire exclusion of
the more humble hinney, which is conse
quently very rare, especially In this
country.
The equine and asinine races have no
love for each other. They do not of tneir
own free will associate with each other.
This aversion is chiefly on. the side of the
horse, which is a born aristocrat, and
evidently looks down upon the ass as an
inferior being. When two, especially it
they be of the same sex, meet each other
in freedom, combats ensue that are often
serious affairs for them and for their
in his inteersting “A Conspiracy Under owners. The male ass is friendly to tne
j 3* ou - A certain Baron , mare , but the mare does not reciprocate.
De Batz had organized a rescue party of i . ... , .. „„„
400 young men, who were t 0 assemble, i rhe stallion aLo dislikes the female ass,
armed, near the Porte St. Denis, mix 1hsucc the rarity of the hinney, even In
with the crowd, and at a given signal [countries where both range freely, and
attack the escort, and, taking advantage | often meet.
of the confusion and commotion caused | i n mule breeding the mare has to be
changed regime, when he could afford to regard from fiction. If Mr. Perdicaris will just be. kind
he waddling, perspiring efforts of his neighbors enough to fall desperately, in love with Raisuli s
vith great amusement, giving the tax gatherer the daughter, and if she will butt in in the nick of
laugh and pluming himself on his own lithe, slen- j time to save him from a gory finish, the romantic
der build. Think, too, what a vast difference such j side will be complete and our slim-witted poets
a statute would make in the physique of the na-i furnished with a theme for dramatit* peregrina
tion within a few generations. The fathers and tions extending over the space of several decades.
Physicians Rapidly
Conquering Tuberculosis
EW people have any cos- | Instead of a center of infection, a center
of education and enlightenment to the
ception of what has been
,, . _ .... .. masses not only in sanitary science, but
aecompllsHad within the) a , SQ jn the ]aws of health as they affec t
last few months in the Humanitvas a whole.
Ml
. ▼ -A
m
way of checking the rav- ! And w hat is true in New York city is
-ages of consumption in the i true of Philadelphia, Boston. Chicago
^land. and the Improved and all the cities of the country. Ad-
metihods of science em- vanced methods are being applied to turn
ployed to counteract the «be tide t>f tuberculosis into a tide of
deadly plague.
ED.
The serum therapy has been tried in
health and happiness, and this consum-
Many of the most prom- devoutly wished for, Is actu-
inenx physicians in the al * bein? accomplished.
United States have been SERUMS ARE ALMOST PERFECT-
quietly at work in their
v laboratories and private , , _ _
hospitals wrestling with the problem, and America by Da Schweimtz, ru tail,
these will make their reports of varying. ^ tubbert ot bers - The most suitab e
success at the coming meeting of the' »»j«tion consists of an aqueous extract
National Aviation for the Study, of virulent but duto bacilli, supplements
Treatment and Prevention of Tubereulo- 1116 lnfiltrate °f a • oun S culture. In
sis at Atlantic City the second week in this way is obtained the full value of the
j une bncilliary bodies and toxins.
When this serum Is injected into healthy
From all the leading hospitals and in
stitutions come the most gratifying re- 'men or animals, there is an increase of
ports as to checkmating tuberculosis, and defensive substances in the bioed of the
eomft of the cures effected are little injected vnimal greater than the geo-
detectlng tuberculosis, and al the same
time finding out the extent of its rav
ages. is now employed In the New York
health department dispensary. This is
nothing less than the use of the X-rays.
For example, “galloping consumption” Is
readily detected by the mottled appear
ance of the lungs or body. Lesions are
But of this 400, only three besides the
baron kept this heroic tryst.
But the conspiracy with which M.
Gaulot has chiefly to do in this book is
one for the rescue, not of the king, but of
the queen. Toulan, a daring, clever,
and chivalrous Gascon, one of the com
missioners charged with the custody In
the temple of the queen, Mme. Elizabeth,
the young king, and his little sister, had,
in collusion with a fellow-commissioner,
Lepitre, arranged an ingenious and elab
orate plan for the escape of all four pris
oners together. The queen and Mme.
Elizabeth were To pass out, disguised
as municipal officers, the little princess
dressed as the lamplighter’s daughter,
while the little king was to be smug
gled out in a basket covered with serv
iettes and carried by a loyal kitchen
boy.
It does not sound a promising scheme,
>et the alertness, adroitness ingenuity,
and daring of Toulan would probably
have carried It Through successfully if
that poor pedag*,.Lepitre, had not lost
heart at the.cf. liBpment. There is
r.o doubt that n
could have es-
blindfolded. that she may not recognize
In her mate a member of the family with
which hers has evidently an old-time
feud. But for this precaution, the too
confiding ass would meet with a lively re
ception from her feet and teeth. In breed
ing mules, there is not much choice in the
sire, for all asses are pretty much alike.
They all have,. In proportion to tneir
height, a head too large, a neck too short,
sides too flat, shoulders too low, a narrow
croup, thin arms and thighs and narrow
hoofs. These defects being always pres
ent, the breeder must look to the moth
er’s Influence to correct them. A mare
should be selected that has a small head,
a round body, short back, wide chest, a
muscular croup’ large thighs and arms,
a long, well-set neck, and wide, round
hoofs. It does not matter so much about
the height, but about fourteen to fifteen
hands is preferable.
RADICAL DIFFERENCES.
Mules inherit to a remarkable degree
the shape and peculiarities of the sire,
while from the mother they Inherit size.
skin being tougher, and less sensitive, it
can better endure extremes of heat and
rain. It is very easily fed, being less par
ticular as to its diet than the aristocratic
horse, and it Is equally as good as the
latter under the saddle, as for drawing
loads. The mule walks well and steadily.
Is better and safer than the horse for
traveling bad or steep roads, and can
pick its way along the edge,of a precipice
wlt, i£^S»eaae ‘-aita ‘security of a goiAttl
Cold and w ! et countries are not suited to
the mule, but in hot, dry and mountain
ous counfries it is thoroughly at home.
This hyofld animal is nfAre hardy in
all respects than the horse, not only as
to endurance of fatigue and heavy work,
hut as to immunity from disease. When
horses In a certain locality are suffering
from an epidemic of epizooty or fever,
mules escape. But in the rare instances
where the mule is attacked by disease,
glanders, for example, the trouble runs
its course with great rapidity, and is of
ten more acute than with .the horse. The
mule is also especially liable to tetanus,
or lockjaw, and from trifling injuries that
would not affect the horse seriously.
Mule breeding is “as old as the hiir s ”
and mules have been popular domestic
animals from very early times. The
Greeks and Romans valued it very high
ly, employing it to draw their pleasure
carriages, as well as for transportation
purposes. At the presenf day the mule
is almost a cosmopolitan, being used ex
tensively In nearly all civilized countries
of the hot or temperate climes. In some
lands it is rapidly supplanting the more
delicate Tlorse. For military purposes,
for the transportation of heavy wagons
and of artillery over mountainous roads,
it has sS’ often proved its superiority over
the horse as to be almost exclusively em
ployed In army movements,
large, fine mules are bred for the use
of the rich, who often prefer them for
the saddle and carriage. A pair of first- M
class mules for these purposes cost more 1 fuses t0 say aye ° r nay re * ardin S
President Roosevelt.
that President Roosevelt would have no
opposition and that the proceedings of
the republican delegates, as relating
solely to him, would be rather in the na
ture of <a ratification meeting. More
doubt hovered round the choice for vice
president, and up to within a week ago,
the lig'htning threatened to strike in
several widely different directions—among
them Speaker Cannon, of the house;
Congressman Hitt and others. The em
phatic declarations of Cannon, however,
and the illness of Mr. Hitt practically
eliminated them as factors, and senti
ment centered on Fairbanks, though the
course of the latter has throughout been
strikingly non-committal.
Of President Roosevelt, it is necessary
to say little. His meteoric rise in national
politics, the many sides of his nature, in
cluding statesmanship, political ethics,
war and literature, are familiar readir.sr
to the public. Less is known of Mr.
Fairbanks. He is a man whom
designation of “self-made” fits to a
tUCrfety* • Of. unassuming parentage -and
ed oi^portunltfcs. fie mad^hlal com-
Senator Fairbanks.
mercial and political success through his
own unremitting endeavors. He has the
reputation of being one of the most con
servative and astute of the republican
T I politicians and enjoys a large personal
I £ollowing - He * s cre dited with presiden
tial ambitions four years hence, although,
with his customary reticence, he re-
caped all alone, the connivance of i but rarely any bad shape, or any un-
ICi— 1 ’“'— - — - 1 ....
Lepitre and thel
, „ . . ,_ ,, contrivance of Toulan, aoundness. This latter is a fortunate
clearly shown, as well as infiltrations and ; if she could have been Induced to aban- I ’ • for mare * that are tils
consolidations in the lungs. ' ; don her children. But at the lit mo- lcircUm ’
It is proved by experience, ioo, thal > ™ ent she could not' brin*- herself. to part
x-rays will relieve coughs and pains, to sheiemaincC and d au?hter, and
. . ... ! sne remained to endure tne unsDeakahie
And one thing is cer- humiliations and horrors of her iiaJ
and of her execution. “ iaJ
'£ ha J ‘ be child king, at the age of 8
was fight enough to be carried out in a
basket on the arm of a kitchen bo# vig-
Efihlfi what a Tniini-aM. S'... ^ ^
than equally fine horses. In Italy they
are also much employed for riding, and
for traveling or pleasure carriages.
France is the most important mule
breeding center of Europe. At one time,
about 1717, the French government made
the great mistake of trying by every
means in its power to suppress the breed-
of mules, believing it to be to the
detriment of the nation that so many
mares should be raising mules instead of
horses. But the industry was so profit
able and its value so well’understood by
those who knew more about it than the
gnorant law makers, that the good work
veht on in spite of severe laws to the
contrary, until at last even the govern
ment awoke to the fact that mule rais
ing, notwithstanding the handicaps its
own shortsightedness had placed upon
the industry, was adding greatly to the
national wealth, and that mules were bet
ter than horses as*pack and draught ani
mals, and for transporting mountain ar
tillery.
proposition.
The platform adopted by the republicans
deals with all of the measures which have
developed in the last four years, assum
ing credit for the prosperous condition
of the country and deprecating demo
cratic ideals a.nd policies. It glorifies the
action of the party in the Cuban and
Philippine departments and the Panama
canal negotiations. It departs little from
the traditional republican policy of tariff
protection and calls for the creation of
a more powerful na\*y than the one in
present existence. The plank regarding
the trusts is rather evasive in tone, leav
ing the way open to many different in
terpretations. The document closes with
panegyrics on Presidents McKinley and
Roosevelt and their administrations.
Rumor -concerning the status at Port
Arthur continues uncertain and frag
mentary. One Chinese report credits the
Japanese with having captured one of the
inner forts, at a loss of 1.000 men. Such
a certain extent,
tain—the fluoroscope is a valuable aid in
detecting incipient tuberculosis before it
is discovered by other means, and also
in revealing lesions and structural
.. .. , humanity he must have hepn m
cussion nor auscultation can disclose. ,deed, we know from an inscrimion ilfl
I*. tTinnU onsm tn Ko tKo TWO hv VTnria jer L
circumstance,
qualified' because of bad shape or un-
soundness, for horse breeding-, may be
profitably used for the raisins of mules,
without detriment to the good qualities
of the latter. The mule foal Is not as
strong on Its legs as the horse foal, nor
does it grow so rapidly. It is also longer
in reaching the age of usefulness, tor it
cannot, or should not, be set to work un-
In Great Britain the mule is not yet/ rurnors are unconfirmed, however, and
appreciated as it should be. Hence it is ; exP ; te uttle credence. It Is known as a
seldom bred there and slmosl- none are . ; it , ve howtver> t’hut severe fight-
imported. This national ignorance of a
good thing was shown once upon a time j ls proceeding In the region of this
in a significant manner. In 1882, after | vital point and that world-start’.ing news
the war in Egypt, a large number of | may be expected at any moment. The
mules that had been bought by the Brit- ; decisive land battles expected have not
Lsh govenmopf and u%eii in the cam ‘materialized, although both armies are on
paign were sent to England to be sold
at public auction. The bidders proved £be ^ U1 vivo and experts are of the
their want of knowledge of the true bpinion that an important clash may come
value of the animals by offering less than
one-half the amount the government had
paid for them in the countries where they
YT - «s 1.*- . . ^ u ich til It Is at least four years old. On the ! were ^iged, and their value better un-
Hence it would seem to be the part of by Marie Antoinette on the walls of her I other hand, it is In its prime for a longer ! derstood.
disdom for every consumptive to be X- prison that at this age the child was but time than the horse, often, fT well cared
rayed, so that the hidden lesions and in- 3 £ eet *^.“ le8 L 1 P height: /‘27th of ; for working well until it ls thirty to
ternai injuries from the tubercle bacillus , 026m.” 1793 ‘ T T ee ; feet 2 inches— {or [ y ypars old, and being capable of
may be laid bare. * And 'this before he fell into the foul light work for many more years
One of the prominent specialists who hands of Simon,'tl* shoemaker, who In ’
will have an interesting report to make order to carry out his instructions’ to
at Atlantic City is Dr. Lawrence F. bring the boy up in the’ principles of
Flick, an author and practitioner of ac- sausculottism, taugit him <o drink, to
knowledged ability. Dr. Flick himself f wear ’ ’[Carmagnole," and
kept him so filtfijr tat his shirt was not
ruies eiieciea are lime mjcvieu —~ I a victim tuberculosis ,»«1H 'um no uiui
short of marvelous. In New York city metrical proportion, and the organism beeame intensely interested In ! C £ a ?® ed *J 0r *** i? /“a 118 ’ aJld 90 cowed
alone the results accomplished in the plays an active part in this tremendous ! 8Jld he “" e became intensely interested in that nothing could induce the shrinking
r£t few months fn the dispm.LV tieaL Cease The pTrucipation of the or- . sut ^ ct in ° rder to »*“ ow “
ment of tuberculosis give promise of ganism is necessary to this increase,
magnificent development in the near fu- Dr. Herman C. Herod, president of the
ture. Newark. N. J., board of health, has ob-
The various hospitals, clinics, medical -tained a different serum, from which he
schools, and dispensaries of the metrnp- is getting splendid results. Government
oils have within the last few months set .hospitals have asked for supplies of the
aside wards for the special study of tu- serum, and they. too. secure, the same
bereuloslB, and thousands of victims are good'"results.
get-tlrg a new lease of life and becoming,, | One of the most up to date means of
life. I Poor Uttle chap* He was taught the
Dr. Flick was asked what he thought /bitter significance f his pwn words to
of Professor MaxagUand’3 attempts to ‘ I ’ s mother on, •eturn of the recap-'
cure consumption by vaccination. It will i ^Y* r g n>CT - °* > '
be recalled that this professor of the ! Whose ci
University of Genoa, tn Italy, only a
short tim»-ago gave his concliudana, based
of M. Barnave, In
W»ra, the motto
‘To ttvs %ee, or 4| he asked: “Mam
ma, what does to ac free’ mean?" To
where you idea i, my child.” “Ah,
—- — ere pot free.”—Chi-
A full-grown mule measures from thir
teen to sixteen hands, but the preferred
ECCLESIASTICAL MULE.
But there was a time even, in England,
when the mule was considered the peer
of the hors®, and that, too, by some of
the most eminent personages of the
kingdom. In those days, clad Jn.imag-
heigut is fourteen or fifteen hands. The niflcent housings, the mule .bore upon
mule has the voice of neither the horse j Wg abbots blshops . a h d even the
nor the ass, but gives utterance to a princes of the then all-powerful Catholic
feeble, hoarse noise that is a ll its own, ; church A nd the mule held this honored
and Is not as sweet as that or the mock- ; ranlc because the lazy, luxury loving
Ing bird, hut yet an Improt ement on the churchmen had come to the conclusion
terrific bray of its sire. 1 e usual color , from experience that the long-eared ‘ani-
of the mule is brown, or bay-brown, and nia[ was the supe rior of the horse under
occasionally a chestnut tint crops out. th@ gadd]e
The mule has all the patience, endurance ln Francei eve n as late as 1830, the
and sure-footedness of the as -' together mu]e wag deemed an Indispensable part
With the visor, strength and courage or y ie equipments of the Bourbon court,
the horse. In many ways it Is preferable Whenever Charles the Tenth and his
to the horse for working purposes. It ls _—
more patient under heavy loads, anj_ its j CONTINUED ON: LAST PAGE.
at any moment. One of the most spec
tacular events of the week has been the
foray of the Russian Vladivostok squad
ron from port and its safe return. It is
reported that Rear Admiral Bezobrazoff
even went so far as to menace the Japa
nese coast, all the time expecting an at
tack from the Japanese fleet.
It is very generally conceded that all
that saved him from an encounter with
Kamimura was a dense fog which hung
ov&r the strait at the time of “nis sally,
not only obscuring his own movements,
but effectually handicaping the maneuver
ing of the Japanese vessels. It ls agreed
on all sides that a land and sea crisis is
rapidly approaching and it is possible that
the next week may see the enactment
of far-reaching events. The Japanese put
out a tentative statement regarding
reconciliation, whidb was so illy received
in St. Petersburg, as to leave no room
for d<rrf?»t that the war will be fought to
a bitter conclusion.
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