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’ KNpWN BY HIS SCARS. la She Way Unel. Fam Kaapa Tr Mk M HU. Knitted Men. While a good many people knov In • general way of the Bertillon syi am for the identification of criminala, com paratively few know of the simple method which Uncle Sam has been ■ wing for a number of years past to keep track of ths men who eat his rations gnd wear his uniform in the regular army. The system employed by the war department might be termed the * ‘nat-~ oral method” and is at once simple and ingenious. It does away with all ap paratus except a vertical measuring rod and a pair of scales. It is known as "the soar system” and has been found wonderfully effective. There is an unwritten theory in the army that every man who enlists will at some time or other desert This is not entirely true, but the desertions are numerous enough to make it worth While to keep track of the offenders. In war the penalty for desertion is death, but in peace it is a long term of impris onment, and the subject is liable to pun ishment no matter how long a term has elapsed since his offense was committed. Strange as it.may seem, the men who desert most readily are the ones who straightway go back and enlist again, though usually in some remote section of the country. The '‘recruiting card,” as it is called, is big enough to contain two 6 inch .outlines of a man's form, front and rear view, with a good sized border for mar ginal notes. When the recruit is strip ped for his physical examination, he is gone over from head to foot, and every appreciable scar or permanent skin blemish is recorded. Its location is ac . curately noted by a dot on the card, and its description is written on the mar gin. The hands and face usually have the greatest number of scars, but these on the body are apt to be the more pronounced and characteristic, as it is usually a more severe wound that pene trates the Clothing and leaves its record on the flesh beneath. Moles are also noted, their color and dimensions, and other birthmarks or blemishes that would not ordinarily disappear with time. The question may arise as to what if a man have no scars, moles or birth marks. That.would be enough to identi fy him, for in all the thousands of men < who have been catalogued by the de partment there has never been one who bore less than three clearly defined scars, while seven or eight is the more usual number, and there are some cases where the number runs up to 30 or 35. Further, so infinite are the chances of < combination that there have never been 1 two individuals whose height, weight 1 and the number and location of their scats came anywhere near coinciding.— 1 Washington Star. ’ c Slum Work In London. 1 To accomplish any substantial result ' in slum work in London, a woman must , not only give time and strength but i life itself! Miss Meredith Brown, the : English philanthropist, who has been l the champion of the factory girls for some years, says that women who know only the slums of New York and Chica go have no conception of the horrors and 1 misery of the slums close to the arista- , cratio parts of London. The girls which i Miss Brown’s special mission reaches are so rough and lawless that the Sal vation Army would not take them in, . 1 and the directors of a mission which had invited the girls to tea refused to . allow them into the building again. The girls came to the feast with pillow ] slips under their aprons and snatched everything to eat off the table before their hostesses could stop them. 1 Finally the courageous women inter ested in the welfare of these young semisavages decided that to reach the girls they would have to live among < them. Ten dauntless women took up I their residence in a rickety old house in ‘ the very heart of all the misery and squalor which makes the wild girls ' what they are, and their efforts at last ' were met with more than an encour aging response. “But it Is very hard on , the health,” says Miss Brown. “Two < years will break down any one, so we < have lost some of our best workers.”— ' New York Commercial. .’ * i Made a Difference. **l can’t take that half dollar, madam. It’s a counterfeit. ” “Why, I got it here yesterday mom- . Ing” \ ] “Are you sure!” ] "Yes, sir. I bought a pair of shoes 1 for (8.50. I handed you a(5 bill. You i gave me a dollar bill and this half dol- 1 lar in change. There can’t be any mis- 1 take about it I haven’t had any other ’ 50 cent piece in my possession since. ” ‘‘Let me look at it again. H’m—the j coin’s all right It looks a little suspi- > cions, but on closer examination I find : it’s only battered. I’ll take it” I “Oh, I beg your pardon. Now that I 1 think about it I didn’t get it here at 1 all. A fruit peddler gave it to me in 2 charge this morning. *1 had forgotten it However, if it’s all right you’ll ( take it so it doesn’t make any”— ‘‘H’m—on looking at it still closer, ma’am, I find my first impression was correct It’s a counterfeit and a bad one. I shall have to refuse it, ma’am. ” , •—Chicago Tribune. • ▲ Society Mystery. , Mrs. de Fashion—So Clara Pretty < has married Mr. Noble. Why, he’s poor 1 as a church mouse. Mrs. de Style—No prospects either. Mrs. Highup—No, and no family. Mrs Wayup—What on earth could she < have married him for? Mia Tiptop—lt’s the greatest mys- t tery. 1 Mrs. Topnotch—Yes, everybody in 1 society is puzzled over it, but it seems 1 impossible to solve the problem. ••••••• l Mr. Noble (in parlor car of fast e*- 1 press train)—My darling, why did you ' marry me? The Bride—Because I love you.— , New Weekly AN ARTISTIC REVENGE. The Klevator Boy Made Life Miserable ffor the Stoat Stenographer. The elevator boy was a genius, although nothing of the kind had ever been charged up against him. When the fat—that IS to say, stout, for only men and the lower animals are fat, women of that style of architecture being Invariably stout—when the stout stenographer on the ninth floor repulsed the admiring advances of the ele vator boy, shp did not know that she was laying a mine for the destruction of her peace of mind if not of herself. The ele vator boy, brooded upon the snubbing be had received and resolved that be should be gloriously revenged. But how? as the cheap novela say. The elevator boy did not know at first, but the next time the stout stenographer entered his car to ride to the ninth floor an inspiration came to him. The inspiration came on a Monday morning. At noon of the same day the elevator boy, shooting downward from the pinnacle of the building, found the stout stenog rapher waiting at the ninth floor to go down and get her cup of coffee and peach pie a la mode. | “Nine, downl’’kpiped the stout stenog rapher. The lift stopped, and with great dignity and politeness the elevator boy opened the door. The stout stenographer entered. The moment her foot pressed the floor of the cage the elevator sank two inches. The elevator boy closed the door without a word, a glance or a smile, and the downward journey was resumed. The three men who were in the dropping box, however, gazed about with a wondering expression on their faces. When their eyes took in the proportions of the stout steno grapher a satisfied look came into their countenances. They understood why the elevator had dropped two inches under the pressure. The stout stenographer colored a rich, autumnal red and looked daggers, sabers, broadswords and other cutlery at the boy. He said no word other than “Main floor. All out!” After the luncheon hour the stout stenog rapher sauntered into the rotunda of the big building once more. She had forgot ten the incident of tho two inches. “Go ing up!” cried the elevator boy, and she accelerated her movement toward the lift. Four men and two women were inside. The boy again, with princely politeness, held the door open. She entered. At the pressure of her foot the elevator promptly dropped two inches. The four men, aroused from after luncheon reflections by the sudden lurch, looked about inquiring ly. They saw the stout stenographer and smiled. The two women smiled with smiles of even greater dimensions and duration. The boy was a hewn monument of imperturbable dignity. The stout ste nographer glared about her. She half sus pected, but could not be certain. It was in this fashion that things con tinued for six days. She tried to catch the boy off his guard and slip into the lift when his attention was attracted to other things—the cigar stand, for instance—but all such endeavors were unavailing. That fatal drop of two inches always manifest ed itself. She felt that she was a marked woman and the talk of the town. Once she '•esolved to walk up the nine flights of stairs rather than submit herself to the ig nominy of that elevator, but by the time she had reached the fifth floor, dishearten ed and perspiring, she rang the bell for the lift. “He will not expect to catch me on this floor,” she said. But he did. She steppedinside. The elevator dropped. An ill bred man, who pretended to sell wire fencing on the eleventh floor, snickered. The stout stenographer turned upon him, but seeing the quiet, solemn face of the elevator boy she remembered in time that she was a perfect-lady. On the sixth day the stout stenographer capitulated. She caused this advertisement to be inserted in a newspaper: “Wanted —A position by a capable ste nogapher; wages not so much a consider ation as a position with a firm doing busi ness on the ground floor.” The next day she went forever out of the tall building. The boy found the adver tisement in the paper and pasted it up in his cage, where he could see it all day long. Such is adequate, beautiful, glorious re venge when undertaken by ah artist.— Chicago Record. Au Early Mention of Daguerre. M. Daguerre’s invention enables him to combine with the camera obscura an en graving power—that is, by an apparatus, at once to receive a reflection of the scene without and to fix its forms and tints in delibly on metal in chiaroscuro—tho rays of the sun standing in the stead of burin, or, rather, of acid—for the copies thus produced nearly resemble aquatina en gravings exquisitely toned. As to the pre cise details, M. Daguerre objects to impart them to any one till he has received some definite answer from the government, with whom he is in treaty for the sale of his secret. The value fixed upon it is said to be 300,000 francs. It is necessary, observes M. Arago, to see the works produced by the machine, which is to be called the daguer reotype, fully to appreciate the curiosity of the invention. M. Daguerre’s last works have the force of Rembrandt’s etchings. He has taken them in all weathers—at all hours—a sketch of Notre Dame was made in a pouring rain (the time occupied by the process being lengthened under such unfavorable circumstances), and a sketch was produced by the moon’s light which required 20 minutes for its completion. As might be expected, the Invention fails where moving objects are concerned. The foliage of trees, from its always being more or less agitated by the air, is often but imperfectly represented. In one Os the views a horse is faithfully given, save the head—which he never ceased moving—in another a decrotteur, all but the arms— which were never still. Tho invention will be chiefly applicable to still life—that is, to architectural subjects, etc. Aldine Magazine, 1839. Insects That War With the Mosquito. There are two natural enemies of the mosquito—the dragon fly and the spider. The latter, as we know, wages constant warfare upon all insect life, and where mosquitoes are plentiful they form the chief diet of their hairy foe. The dragon fly is a destroyer of mosquitoes in at least two stages of life. The larva dragon fly feeds upon the larva mosquito, and when fully developed the former dines constantly upon the matured mosquito. The dragon fly as a solution of the mosquito pest ques tion is not wholly satisfactory, for while there Is no serious difficulty to be encoun tered in the cultivation of dragon flies In large numbers, yet it is manifestly impos sible to keep them in the dank woods where mosquitoes abound, the hunting ground of the “darning needle” being among the flowers and dry gardens wnere the sunshine prevails. For this very im portant reasun the scheme of banting one kind of insect with another must be aban doned as impracticable.—Washington Star. A BEA ABOVE THE CLOUfIB. i Extraordinary Sapowtitton Omo Pmvw lent la England. • The curious superstition that there fa 1 an ean above the clouds i illustrated J by the following strange story by an ( old English writer: “One Sunday the , people of a certain village were coming . out of church on a thick, cloudy day, . when they saw the anchor of a ship i hooked to one of the tombstones—the t table, which was tightly stretched, ■ hanging down from the air. The people [ were astonished, and while they were consulting about it suddenly they saw the rope move as though some one la bored to pull up the anchor. The an . chor, however, still held fast by the ■ stone, and a great noise was heard in the air, like the shouting of sailors. Presently a sailor was seen sliding down the cable for the purpose of nn fl ring ’ the anchor. When he had just loosened it, the villagers seized hold of him, and while in their hands he quickly died, just as though he had. been drowned. “About an hour after the sailors above, hearing no more of their eom- ■ rade, cut the cable and sailed away. In memory of this extraordinary event the , people of the village made the hinges of the church doors out of the iron of the anchor. ” It is further stated that these hinges “are still to be seen there, ” a bit of evidence much like Munchau sen’s rope wherewith he once climbed to the moon. If you doubted the story, you were confronted with the rope. Theie is another queer tale about this aerial ocean. “A merchant of Bris tol,” it is said, “set sail with his cargo for Ireland. Some time after, while his family were at supper, a knife sudden ly fell in through a window on the ta ble. When the merchant returned and saw the knife, he declared it to be his own and said that on such a day, at such an hour, while sailing in an un known part of the sea, he dropped the knife overboard, and the day and the hour were found to be exactly the time when it fell through the window. ’ ’ All of which was once implicitly believed by many and regarded as incontroverti ble proof of the existence of a sea above the sky. One is at a loss to conjecture how that ' ‘unknown part of the sea” connected with the rest of it. A phys ical geography showing this would be no small curiosity.—Boston Post. SILKWORMS OF LEBANON. How They Are Cultivated In the Moun tains of Tripoli. Harry Fenn, the artist, has written a paper, entitled “Silk and Cedars,” for St. Nicholas, describing his visit to the famous mountains of Lebanon. Concerning the silk industry, which plays such an important part in the lives of the natives, Mr. Fenn says: As the time approaches for the silkworm to hatch out the egg the family move out of the house and camp under the trees, giving up the entire establishment to the worms, after having placed the eggs on shelves made of a reedlike bamboo. At first the young worms are fed on finely chopped leaves, but as they grow larger the leaves need only be broken in two. The people have to feed and watch the worms night and day, or they wander in search of food and get lost, and in the silence of the night the sound of the worms feeding is like a gently falling rain. The worms fast three or four times during this period, and about 24 hours is the length of each fast. A curious feature about their fast is their posture. They assume the attitude of a cobra snake about to strike and remain rigid ly fixed in that position for the entire period. When they are ready to spin, small branches are placed on the shelves, and as the cocoons are formed upon them the dead twigs seem to bear golden fruit. When the worms get through that part of the business, the neighbors are called in—something as to an old fashioned New England ap ple paring bee. They call it “qtaf’ in Arabic —that is “picking,” and soon you see piles of pale green, pure white and golden yellow cocoons heaped upon the floor. Later they may be spun into hanks, but usually the cocoons are sent down the mountains to Tripoli or Da mascus, and after their 30 or 40 days of toil they, too, often have to sell the produce for next to nothing, as the Chi nese are always ready to undersell them. Another curious use Mr. Silkworm is put to is to soak him in vinegar for some hours, after which he is drawn out into so called “catgut” to make snellS or leaders for fishhooks. Serving Carrots. Away of serving carrots is the fol lowing, evolved by a cook desirous, as all cooks should be, of “something new.” The vegetable is scraped, diced and boiled till tender. Meanwhile a slice of onion is browned in a table spoonful of butter. With this one table spoonful of flour is rubbed smooth and stirred until the flour is cooked. Then one cup of tomato juice, not heated, is added to the mixture with a half tea spoonful of salt and a dash of pepper. The whole is stewed together three or four minutes before being strained over the carrots, which have been drained. This dish is much more palatable than the creamed carrots because it adds a needed flavor and is none the harder to prepare than the better known prepara tion. —New York Post. What la Really Needed. “Somebody has invented another talk ing machine. ” * ‘That’s a stupid thing to da Won’t these scientists ever learn that what the world needs is listening machines?”— Chicago Record. To the poet, to the philosopher, ts the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.—Emerson. The man who has not passionate lo cal attachments can never become pa triotic in any broad or generous sense. --American Friend. 4-: ■ .. 'Tf.-K ■■■ CAR HORSES HARD TO GET. • . Th, Demand Is Mo* So Small That tho Tvado Noglo«t« Thom. One of the most curious effects of the general replac ng of horses by electrici ty and cable t; action for drawing street cars is being experienced by one of the extensive oar lines in thia city which still usee horses. Ode would suppose that, since the only lines in the whole country which continue to use horses now form but a very small percentage of those which used them five years ago, these lines would have a much wider range of choice and could get horses of a grade superior to the gen eral run of those which used to be offered to them. Remarkable as it may seem, this is the exact opposite of the truth. The New York city line referred to runs in direct competition with the cable lines of the upper west side, and its managers, who recently purchased it, determined as soon as they came in to possession to place upon it a superior lot of hones, and in this way improve its running until mechanical propulsion could be introduced. Orders were sent out to buy the needed horses. Much to the surprise of the managers, it was discovered that there were almost no street car horses of any kind to be bought. . The explanation of this situation lies in the fact that since the demand for street car horses almost ceased the trade machinery by which they were gathered has fallen into disuse. A few yean ago the street car horses were one of the most important features of the hone market. They were animals of a stand - ard grade and of almost stable price, and every part of the country contributed its quota. The street car hone had to be big and able and sound of limb and wind, but it might be of any age. Few lasted long enough in the service to make the question of a few yean more or less of any consequence. The demand was constant, and the price never varied in New York more than from about (125 to (150 each. Dealers could always count upon getting this price and get ting it promptly, and as a consequence every horse which would answer the purpose was a safe investment at a lit tle smaller price, and a clean profit of (10 a hone was regarded as a fair mar gin in handling them. Horses of all sorts, which lacked the qualities of speed, beauty or youth, but possessed the other requirements, were quickly sorted out from the markets of the whole country, and every big dealer was always able to gather droves of car horses as fast as the companies needed them. The trolley has superseded the oar hones, and oar hones are no longer quoted as staples in the market. The companies which still use them are obliged to go out and search the marts and buy them one by one instead of simply sending out an order for 100 or 200 or 500 and getting them as readily as they would so many loads of hay or grain.—New York Sun. Greco-Egyptian Painting. The remarkable series of portraits found in Egypt are described in The Monthly Illustrator and the methods of the old artists employed. The methods of these ancient days were totally different from those of the present day and were evidently vastly more durable. Panels of wood were used to paint oh —sycamore and cypress —also panels of papier mache, and oc casionally they were formed by gluing three thicknesses of canvas together. These panels were usually about 14 inches long by 7 inches wide. The artist used liquid wax instead* of oil to mix the colors, which were made not from vegetable, but from mineral substances and were of marvelous brilliancy and permanence—blue powdered lapis lazu li, green malachite, red oxide of iron, etc. The colors were laid on in patches, somewhat after the fashion of a mosaic, and afterward blended with an instru ment called the oestrum, which appears to have been a lancet shaped spatula, long handled, with at one end a curved point, at the other a finely dentated edge. With the toothed edge the wax could be equalized and smoothed, while the point was used for placing high lights, marking lips, eyebrows, etc. The final process, which gives the name encaustic to this kind of painting, was the burning in of the colors. This was done by the application of a heated surface to the panel, though George Ebers believes that in Egypt the heat of the sun was probably all that was needed to complete the artist’s work. Ths Eye of a Child. Who can explain or fathom the won drous instinct of the child? Lying in the arms of its nurse, in its carriage or else where, its large, round, wondering eyes roam over a sea of faces till suddenly its features break into a sweet smile, a baby laugh dances in its eyes, perhaps the tiny hands are extended, and the lit tle body gives a bound as though it would throw itself through space. What has happened? It has recognized a friend, nothing more and no less. It makes no mistake. Wiser, perchance, in that moment of inexperienced helplessness than it will be years afterward, when the world and its in mates have been studied in the light of instruction afid experience, its Iqye , offering is seldom if ever mistakenly presented. By what power is this child love directed? By what subtle influence does it see and know what in after years it may strive in vain to discern?— Good Housekeeping. Life In th. 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