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Court Prewrilationa. Here is one of the posers which Ico casionally find in my letter' box, sayi London Truth: ‘‘Some young married ladies— iuiU loyal to the queen—beg Truth t< tell them what is the good of being pri seat ed. Two of them have been teased to go through this ceremony. 1 ’ Personally I do not know what return is to be gained by the process at all commensurate with the expense in volved. As, however, a young married lady’s point of view may possibly be different from mine, I have sought fur ther information among my feminine acquaintances. As far as I can make out from the information I have ob ex tained, the chief advantage of being pre- ■ sen ted is that it enables a young lady, \narried or otherwise, to make her hus band or father, as the case may be, pay for a magnificent frock, which she would hardly be able to get out of him under any other circumstances. It also enables her to be photographed in tbit frock and become an object of envy and admiration to her less fortunate female acquaintances. Os course the frock, aft er it has served its original purpose, will, in the hands of a judicious owner, come in useful on many subsequent oc casions. I must leave my correspondents to decide for themselves whether the possession of such a frock is worth the worry and anxiety incidental to being presented or whether it is better to stay away and submit to further teasing. Little Indian! at Play. . What unoonfined joy when the camera came out to picture some one, or when we played pa-tol, the game of the bounding sticks, or the aboriginal hide and seek! Wildest of all was the fun when the fire fights were on, and one party defended the pueblo and the oth er, assuming to be Comanche, attacked it at dusk. Then how we rolled adobe mud pellets and stuck them on the tops of our throwing sticks and jammed a live coal into the side of each and sent them hurtling into the enemy’s camp until all the sky seemed to rain shoot ing stars. And what perfect spirits! Now and then a fire ball would find its billet, and there would be a howl of pain, and in the next breath the wound ed warriorling would be bombarding again, with more spirit than ever, and not a whit worse nature. That is an- • other of the good things that .generally go with the brown skin—these Children of the Sun, young and old, are fit play ers at any game, for they do not lose their tempers. They give and take like the manly creatures nature meant us to be, and not the peevish, selfish, inflam mable things that civilization has made us. I would like to see just how long one of these happy, fire fights could go on between an equal number of Little Lord Fauntleroys before there would be several real fights on hand.—C. F. Lum mis in “Land of Sunshine.” The Rats’ Pound. There is in the city of Paris a regular pound, surrounded by a massive stone wall, wherein the services of rats are utilized for clearing the bones of dead animals from flesh. A horse thrown in • overnight is quite stripped by morning, and it is- the regular work of the man in charge to remove the beautifully pol ished skeleton. Os course the rats thus pampered increase at a terrible rate and invade the neighboring slaughter houses. So it becomes necessary at times to have a regular battue. This is rather clever ly managed. All around the walls of the pound hundreds of little holes have been bored, the depth of each being just that of a rat’s body. Early in the morn ing, while the rats are still enjoying their meal, a of men with lan terns jump suddenly ill with a great noise and clatter. The terrified creatures rush for the nearest refuge, and the walls are soon ornamented with a regu lar forest of tails whisking about like animated black icicles. Then arrives the rat collector, who with skillful hand seizes each pendent tail and deposits the astonished owner thereof in a bag which he carries slung over his shoulder. The skins are largely used for making gloves.—New York World. Mr. Gladstone as a Sport. While on a visit to Mr. Gladstone Sir William Harcourt mentioned that the boys at Eton take in a large number of evening papers. * ‘ Dear me, how remark able!” said Mr. Gladstone. “How things have changed since I was at Eton! But it shows what a remarkable inter est the youth of the present generation take in current events.” Sir William ventured to suggest that it might be that the youth of the present generation took a remarkable interest in sport. “Indeed,” said Mr. Gladstone, “not gambling, I hope, V Then Mr. Gladstone became reminiscent. “I think the only thing I ever did in that direction was to put an occasional shilling on a prize fight. ” —Household Words. On a Technicality. “I see your friend Giltedge, the banker, has had some hard luck lately. ” “How was that?” “He was out fishing, and the shore caved in with him, and he swallowed about a gallon of water before they could get him out” “That was pretty rough." “Yes, but that wasn’t all. He was arrested afterward for taking in a draft when he knew the bank to be broken." —Detroit Free Press. Paris Milk Supply. Paris consumes 209,000,000 liters of milk a year, which comes to about only two-fifths of a pint daily for each in habitant. City cows yield 21,0(10,006 liters; suburban cows within a radius of 12 miles, 53,000,000 liters; the re-, maining 153,000,000 liters come by rail from a greater distance. Planta, growing near the sea have thicker leaves than those growing in land. Apparently the sea salt is the cause of this phenomenon, as plants cul tivated in artificially salted soil yield thicker leaves. , DISSIPATION OF FORTUNES. * ■ . • Haw Millions Are Thrpwn to the Wlnda. Fact and Reputation. I Are the great fortunes of our plutocrats I dwindling? Are wc not giving them too • high a rating? We thought Ogden Goelet J worth at the very least *100,000,000. The most conservative men placed his fortune I at *50,000,000, yet it dwindled to less than I *10,000,000. The *30,000,000 of “Spite house” Richardson dropped to *500,000 as I soon as it struck the courthouse. George ! M. Pullman was supposed to bo worth ev ■ ery cent of *50,000,000. Immediately after I his death *25,000,000 was the figure, but ! the latest reports name *7,000,000 as the value of tho estate. How is this? Can it be that we are far wrong in placing tho fortune of John I). Rockefeller at *200,- ' 000,000? Will it dwindle to *50,000,000 when ho shuffles off? Is General Sam ' Thomae, a partner of Cal Brice and In i man, worth *10,000,000? I doubt it. What i is Cal worth? His is about tho only for -1 tune that no one tries to estimate. From I the way ho flies Abound he must have big I money. i Who can tell whether Uncle Collis Pa cific Huntington is worth *3,000,000 or *30,000,000? What is Flagler’s fortune— *lo,ooo,ooo or *75,000,000? Is it possible that James B. Colgate is worth *20,000, - 000? No. Is John E. Andrus worth *30,- 000,000? .1 think not. Is J. Jennings Mc- Comb worth *30,000,000? Where did he get it? Is Charles L. Tiffany worth *30,- 000,000? That is his rating. And there are William Rockefeller, with *80,000,000; H. Walter Webb, with *5,000,000; Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard, with *50,000,000; Cor nelius Vanderbilt, with *110,000,000; Wil lie K. Vanderbilt, with *90,000,000; Fred erick Vanderbilt, with *40,000,000; George Vanderbilt, with *30,000,000; George Gould, with *30,000,000, and so forth and so on. ft’he safest way to got at tho size of a main’s fortune is to take the public esti mate and divide it by 10. I generally find that a man who is rated at *20,000,000 outs up for about *2,000,000. It is the custom of the day and generation to con verse in millions. Wo account a man poor who has no more than *1,000,000. He is between the devil of entertainment and the deep sea of financial stress—too well off to be parsimonious and too poor to trot heats with the Croesuses. He cannot afford *lO,- 000 for a dinner and reception without feeling it. It is so easy to talk millions that we invariably use the word in the plural. Our popular estimate of the fortunes of our richest men remind me of Maine. Up in the state of the pine tree and the foxes we find a great many miles to the mile, a great deal of water to tho gallon, a tre mendous amount of air in the atmosphere and a powerful sight of mountains to the hill. And so with tho fortunes down here. There are a great many millions to the million.—New York Press. Eating Too Much Salt. The use of salt as a condiment is so gen eral and so universally believed in as nec essary that we rarely hear a word against its excessive use, but there are a multi tude of persons who eat far too much salt —eat it on everything, on meat, fish, po tatoes, melons, in butter, on tomatoes, turnips and squash, in bread and on a host of foods too numerous to mention. To so great an extent is it used that no food is relished which has not a salty taste, and this hides more or less the real taste, which is often very delicate. Now, the amount of salt required in the system is comparatively small, and if the diet has been rightly compounded very little is necessary. Some go so far as to discard its use altogether, but whether this is wise or not we will not here consider. What are some of the evils of tho excess ive use of salt? They are to paralzye the nerves of taste or to pervert them so they cannot enjoy anything which has not a salty flavor, and in addition there is a di rect tax on both the skin and the kidneys in removing it from the blood. Whether the skin is harmed by this tax we do not know. Possibly it is not greatly injured, yet we know that few people possess a healthy skin. But it is now pretty well settled that an excessive use of salt does overtax tho kidneys in its removal, and that the gteat number of cases of derange ment and disease of these organs is due to this us e. It takes only a little time to learn to enjoy many kinds of food with out salt, and we advise our readers and others to look into this matter and to try to diminish the use of this condiment as far as possible. We believe they will be better for it.—Journal of Hygiene. The Cause of Leprosy. The active cause of leprosy is a specific micro organism, the bacillus leprae.- The period of incubation varies from a few minutes to several years. Two principal types or forms of leprosy that are recognized as the brunt of tho disease is determined toward the skin or toward the peripheral nervous system. The first form is termed tubercular; the second, anaethetio, or nerve leprosy. In the first form infiltrations occur in the skin, forming nodules or tubercles, which are especially prominent about the fore head, cheeks and ears. Later, these nod ules break down, forming ulcerating sores. Often they occasion pictures of horrible deformity. The tubercular form is the most severe and rapidly fatal. The aver age duration of life is from five to ten years. In the anesthetic form the nutri tion of the skin is interfered with from , implication of the nerves, leading to < on- • tractions and deformities of the members. Not Infrequently there is marked mutila tion from the sinking in of the nose, the : loss of the sight, and the dropping off of , the fingers and toes, so that only the ] stumps of the hands and feet remain. In ; this form the course of the disease is slow- ( er and life may be prolonged to 10 or. 15 , years, or longer. Some patients exhibit the characteristics of both forms (mixed j leprosy).—Dr. Prince A. Morrow in North < American Review. Dromedaries That Smoke Cigars. , Dromedaries are said to be particularly i fond of tobacco smoke, and can be made to do almost anything under its influence, i Travelers in Egypt, it is asserted, rely 1 more on tobacco smoke for their control i over these huge beasts than anything else. < When traveling on long journeys, the I dromedaries are in many cases required to ■ travel adght and day without rest, and the j beasts are kept up to their tasks by uraok- i ing cigars. The driver carrjes a triangular i piece of wood, which is pierced at one 1 point like a cigar holder. This is inserted i in the mouth of the beast, the cigar being t lit and pressed into the hole in the same fashion followed by man. The dromedary immediately closes its eyes and puffs away through its nostrils until the cigar is ’ burned away. The Indulgence appears to ‘ refresh it, and the keeper has no difficulty in persuading the animal to plod on with- • out further rest.—Strand Magazine. 1 A WOMAN GAME WARDEN. Perilous Duties Discharged >y Mrs. War ren Neal at Kogi. > Jeh. Once again a new and etc. til ng occupa tion has been found for the new woman. It is that of game warden, a’d the woman who distinguished herself Ly making thia brand new departure is Mrs. Warren Neal of Neal, Mloh. This woman was appoint ed game warden for Grand Traverse coun ty not long since, nnd from theappearanco of things she will attend to the duties of her office in a businesslike manner. The duties of game warden are of such a nature that many men would not care to undertake to fill the place, but Mrs. Neal is a plucky little woman, and she has no fear whatever of not being able to over come all obstacles. A-game warden is supposed to travel nil over the county and keep a sharp lookout for violators of the game and fish laws. As Grand Traverse county, of which Mrs. Neal has control, is densely wooded and has many lakes, she will be kept very busy seeking out and bringing to justice violators of the law. Mrs. Neal handles a gun like an expert, rows a boat and is a skillful woodsman, and she knows every inch of the territory she has to patrol. In order to make her way through the dense growths in the forest land as easily as possible Mrs. Neal has adopted a costume modeled after the much reviled bloomers. As to the trousers, Mrs. Neal says that she has no desire to be considered as set ting the pace for the new woman. In fact, she told the writer she thought every woman ought to dress according to her own ideas of comfort, though for the life of her she could not see why any woman should want a skirt when hunting or row ing. It really appears as if Mrs. Neal is tho sort of new woman that lias a mind to advance her sex along sensible and health giving lines. She usually makes a trip over the entire county once a week. When out after the violators of the game law, she rides over the country on horseback, and when she comes to a lake she secures a boat, and with a steady, swift oar she rapidly covers her territory made up of water. She carries a rifle on all of these trips, and woe to the evildoer caught napping, for this plucky game warden is a relent less pursuer of all lawbreakers, and she has brought many of them to justice. During May. the state game and fish warden’s department prosecuted 109 al leged violators of the law and convicted 96, growing out of 149 complaints. This breaks the record for any previous month in the history of the department. All but three of the convictions were obtained for violation of the fish laws, and the major ity of these cases were established by Mrs. Neal. Her skill with the rifle is something phenomenal, and she drops her quarry with the ease of a professional Nimrod. Mr. Neal, who is an enthusiastic sports man, long ago taught his wife to be skill ful with the revolver. Last July when they were in the upper lake region camp ing he induced her to try her hand with tho rifle. He declared that a woman who could shoot so well with a revolver would with practice become a dead shot with the larger weapon. Now, rifle shooting re quires a good eye, a steady hand and wrist and a control of the nervous system that very few women possess. Generally the novice fires at a target. Mrs. Neal's first target, however, was a glass bottle thrown in the air, and at a third shot she struck the bottle, a surprisingly good attempt. Mrs. Neal kept on practicing, and now is so expert that she can hit the glass bottle nine times out of ten. In addition to her other duties Mrs. Neal carries the mail three times a week to Traverse City for Uncle Sam.—Phila delphia Inquirer. The Late Due d’Aumale. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, in an article on “Royalists and Republicans” in The Century, says: Os all the members of the Orleans fam ily none as yet has had so marked a physi ognomy as the Due d’Aumale, third son of King Louis Philippe. His name is closely connected with the conquest of Al giers. He was almost constantly in Africa during his father's reign, and on vartous occasions covered himself with glory in attacks upon the Arabs. The old Prince de Conde, who had no children, made him heir to all his fortune, and bequeathed to him among other estates the chateau of Chantilly. There he lived, surrounded by the marvelous collections which he had formed and which are to go to the French academy now that he is dead. The Duo d’Aumale laid the sword aside for the pen and became a historian. The academy opened its doors to him, and Chantilly once more became what it was in the days when Bossuet pronounced his famous “fu neral oration of the Prince de Conde”— the home of arts and of letters. All the celebrities of France have been received under the roof of Chantilly. Every distin guished foreign guest who went to France was seen there likewise. The Duo d’Au male took pleasure in himself showing his art collections on such occasions. He bad many things restored at Ohantilly—the entrance railing, the porch, the vestibule, the great staircase, with its wrought Iron baluster, the chapel, the ballroom, the li brary, and all with faultless taste and ex treme care. Conkling Loved tho Letter “O.” A writer in The Home Journal says that Roscoe Conkling was always fond Os words containing the vowel “o” pronounced with its long sound, and this fondness was very curiously illustrated after his death. He was so delirious during his last sick ness that he could not communicate to any of his friends matters of which they should have been advised in case of hisdeath. His library drawers, his desk, his private table at his home in Utica, contained no scrap of paper which would suggest to his friends what his wishes were, yet there were reasons for believing that he had written a will. At last his daughter brought a small box upon which was a lock which could be opened only by a person who knew the combination, ffebody knew what this combination was. They tried various words—pet names and favorite expressions—upon the combi nation without avail. At last the daughter said: “You know father was very fond of pronouncing words which had ‘o’ in them. I remember that he was delighted with the word •Rome,’ which be used to pronounce, dwelling fondly on the ‘o’, sound in it Let ns try that word. ” It was tried upon the combination, and found to be the key, for the look yielded, and within the box Mr. Conkling’s will was found. Keen Vision The organ of sight is more highly devel oped in birds than in any other animals. British naturalists declare that the kestrel is possessed of such wonderful powers of sight that it is able to see a mouse when it is itself at such height in the air that it to Invisible to the naked human eye. ■ T-ST INEXPERIENCED BATS. Fennd In a Cavern One Hundred root Be> low the Surface of the Earth. A nest of live bate was found 100 feet under ground in Snowshoe gulch, near Cottage Grove, the other day. This is con sidered a most remarkable discovery, and those who have visited the place and seen the animals are at a loss to account for it. John Dinman and Andrew Wilson have been developing a claim in the gulch by running a tunnel to roach the vein. The tnnncl runs obliquely, and a few days ago, when a depth of 150 feet had been reached, the rock began to asssume a different con dition. It sounded loose or hollow in that particular spot, and the partners knew that they were nearing what in miners’ parlance is called “a change." Their “holes” were nearly loaded when this discovery was made, but they coil tinned loading and then went to tho sur face and touched off the charge. Upon thelj return they expected to find a vein uncovered, or at least a dlfferentfrook from that through which they were running. But a quite different matter attracted their attention when they went back to the end of the tunnel, and the circum stance has been the wonder of the entire country ever since. It lias created an im mense amount of discussion, scientific and otherwise, but no certain explanation has yet been adduced. Instead of finding ore or any particular change in the rock they found. tho tunnel full of bate. The cause of the peculiar sound that Indicated a change of ground was a small cave, and into this their last shots broke, and out of it came the bate. How the bats got into the cave la the problem, and what sustained them there? The point is about 100 feet below the sur face, and there is apparently no opening, or means of ingress or exit The bats when caught and taken out to the day light appeared to be without eyes and able to fiy but a little way. In fact their wings were but meageriy developed. The first thing that attracted tho men’s attention upon their return to the tunnel was the peculiar odor, which, notwithstanding the amount of gas from the exploded powder, Was quite disagreeable. - ■ The only solution of the strange oocur sence that has yet been offered lies in the fact that the rock is of metamorphic and aqueous origin, and, being in the Cascade range, is of recent occurrence. The rock is a closely bedded shale, and at the time of the geological disturbance that put it into its present position the bats had their nests there and then became incased as they were found. It would seem, too, that the bate must be of that nature that be comes dormant and able to retain - life without food. An effort was made to save some of them alive, but they rapidly suc cumbed to the sunlight and fresh air.— San Francisco Call. A Report on Antltoxine. The American Ptediatric society’s sup plementary report on the use of antltoxine in laryngeal diphtheria (prepared by a committee consisting of Drs. W. P. North rup, Joseph O’Dwyer, L. Emmett Hol* and Samuel S. Adams) is worthy of dose study. Laryngeal diphtheria requiring opera tive interference furnishes the best test of the methods of treatment. There is entire harmony of opinion aS to Its severity, and Its statistics before and after the advent of the antltoxine are more reliable than those of most other well observed diseases. The report contains an analysis of 668 cases operated upon, with a mortality of 27.24 per cent. As the report mentions, early statistics of intubation, in preantitoxine days, could show only 27 per cent recov ery.* Other factors remaining constant, the use of antltoxine has carried the per centage from 27 per cent recovery up over the divide till it now reads 27 per cent mortality. The next point of importance is the per centage of oases escaping operation under antitoxine treatment. It was formerly be lieved that 90 per cent of laryngeal cases required operation; now, with the use of antitoxine, 39 per cent req&ire it. The returns from physicians show, for the most part, an earlier use of antitoxine in diphtheria treatment and an increasing confidence. There exists, however, a cer tain amount of timidity. Doses from one tenth to one-fourth the amount required have been administered, in some cases 200, 400 and 500 antitoxine units being used, whereas the dose required is from 2,000 to 2,500. It is believed that the percentage of mortality will gradually decrease. Thia decrease will depend upon the factors: First.—A better quality of strong antl toxine will be found in the market. Second.—The serum will be adminis tered earlier. Third.—Appropriate doses (2,000 units in laryngeal cases) will be employed. The report bears the impress of pains taking labor and constitutes an addition to the literature of the subject. The Am erican Paediatric society has developed col lective investigation to a high state of usefulness.—Medical Record. Promptly Indorsed by the Senator. Senator William E. Mason has made the record as the champion indorser of this administration. There are a dozen in stance which show his readiness to oblige. The other day a friend wanted to read him a letter about some matter relating to tariff. They happened to meet at the White House. The friend pulled out the letter and prefaced It, or sought to preface it, with a short explanation. .“That’s all right,” said Senator Mason, “of course I’ll indorse you. Got your ap licatlon ready, I see. That’s the way to do things. Here, give me a pen, and I'll put down my signature now and take it right in and hand your application to the president. I’ll say a word to him about you too.” Before the astonished friend could say a word Senator Mason had seized a pen, written a signature, and was pushing for ward to Secretary Porter’s room to tho presence of President McKinley. As tha letter has not got back to its owner, it la presumed that the Hlinois senator kept his word and handed it to the president. Who referred it to the executive clerks, but they must be puzzling themselves to determine to what department it shall be sent.—Washington Post. Stanley's Protegees. Mr. H. M. Stanley hat lately adopted a little boy. The child has been christened Derail, a fine old Welsh name. The author ot “Darkest Africa” has always been vet/ fond of children. Several of the blacks rescued by him from slave raiders have since turned out successful men and women. Indeed, one of his protegees is now a prosperous widow in San Francisco, and she never omits to write and thank her benefactor for all he did for her on the anniversary of the day when he saved her from the hands of her tormentors.— Strand Magazine. - • —■> ■ - ■ r ■ n n'" * irACTnmA I THAT THE 1 I SIGNATURE slmfla ting ttteTood and Ursula I tiigiheStanwxhsaDdlJawelsaf’ H OF PromotesT>i£eslion.Cheerful and Best. Coo tai ns neither I 18 m D i WRAPPER . 1 gg*- I ? 0F eveby | BOTTLE OF A perfect Remedy for Co ns lipa- SSh H K* tion. 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