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KNOWN BY HIS SCARS.
That la the Way Uncle Sam Keeps 1
' _ of Hit Bnllat. d Mea.
~~ While a good manj people kn« vin
a general way of the Bertillon ay tern
for the identification of criminals, oxn
paratively few know at the simple
method which Uncle Sam has been
using for a number of years past to keep
track of tha men who eat his rations
and weay his uniform in the regular
army. The system employed by the war
department might be termed the ‘ ‘nat
ural method” and is at once simple and
ingedtoua 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 fonnd
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 those
’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 85.
Further, so infinite are the chances of
combination that there have never beOn
two individuals whose height, weight
and the number and location of their
scars came anywhere near coinciding.—
Washington Star.
Slum Work In London.
To accomplish any substantial result
in slum work in London, a woman must
not only give time and strength but
life itself. Miss Meredith Brown, the
English philanthropist, who has been
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
misery of the slums close to the aristo
cratic parts of London. The girls which
Miss Brown’s special mission reaches
are so rough and lawless that the Sal
vation Army would not take them in,
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.
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
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.
Made a Difference.
“I can’t take that half dollar,
madam. It’s a counterfeit.”
“Why, I got it here yesterday morn
ing.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, sir. I bought a pair of shoes
for (8.50. I handed you a(5 bill. You
gave me a dollar bill and this half dol
lar in change. There can’t be any mis
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
coin’s all right It looks a little suspi
cious, but on closer examination I find
it’s only battered. I’ll take it”
"Oh, I beg your pardon. Now that I
think about it I didn’t get it here at
all. A fruit peddler gave it to me in
charge this morning. I 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.
A Society Mystery.
Mrs. de. Fashion—So Clara Pretty
has married Mr. Noble. Why, he’s poor
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?
Mrs. Tiptop—lt’a the greatest mys
tery.
Mrs. Topnotch—Yes, everybody in
society is puzzled over it, but it seems
impossible to solve the problem.
•••* • • • •
Mr. Noble (in parlor car of fast ex
press train) —My darling, why did you
marry me?
The Bride—Becans® I love you.—
Me- Weekly
THE MOUNTAIN MAIO.
•be Had a Natural Anxiety. WTjeh
Made Maalfest.
As my horse, puffing like a porpoise,
drew me and my buckboard up the last
sharp acclivity of the mountain road
i that led out into the pass between the
summits rising on either hand ha would
I have exercised his privilege and stopped I
* moment to blow, but 100 yards ahead
of us I saw a bright bit of calico gleam
ing in the morning sun, and, driving on,
I came up to a buxom mountain maid
sitting on a stump at a point where a
footpath leading up from the valley
met the main. read.
“Good mornin,” she said before I
had a chance to stop, and there seemed
to be an anxious tone in the voice.
“Good morning,” I responded, and I
was on the point of asking her how far
it was to the next place, a favorite man
ner of starting a conversation on moun
tain roads, when she broke in.
"Air you a preacher?” she asked.
“No,” I answered, with a smile, for 1
had never been asked that question be
fore.
i “Nor a squire?”
“No.”
i “Well, Jim Martin’s comin along
i this away purty soon now, an I wux
jis’ axin bo’s th ar wouldn’t be no mis
takes.”
“I don’t quite understand your ex
planation, ” I said, completely in the
dark as to what she was trying to get at.
“I reckon not, but I ain’t takin no
chances, an I thought I’d better stop
you while I had the chance. ’ r #
“Thank you, I’m sure, but if you
will tell me what’s up I may be able to
know what you are talking about.”
She laughed good naturedly.
“Well, you see it’s this a-way,’’ she
said. “Jim, he’s been a-courtin an
a-sparkin round me fer about two ye’r
noW, an last night he popped an says ea
how es I’d be here this mornin ez he
i come along we’d go down to Logville
an git hitched, an Jim’s mighty onreli
able, an like’s not es we got thar an the
i preacher ner the squire warn’t thar I’d
never git Jim in the mind ag’in, so I
kinder thought mebbeyou might be tha
squire er the preacher an I didn’t want
you to git away. Es you meet Jim any.
wheres down the road, don’t tell him
you seen me, fer I don’t want him
skeert. ” —Washington Star.
ABOUT THE WEATHER.
Mr. Wlngleby Explains to Georgia About
the Seasons.
“You see, Georgie,” said Mr. Win
gleby, whose youthful son had asked
him how we came to have different
kinds of weather, “the weather is put
up in tin cans, a day’s weather to a
can, and usually they put up about a
year’s supply ahead, enough to last
through a spring, summer, autumn and
winter. In filling the cans they sort it
all out as well as possible. Sometimes
when they get a can full there may be a
little left over, aud whatever remains
in this way they throw into one lot.
When they’ve got pretty nearly all the
cans full and the regular stock of weath
er has run out, they fill up from that
lot of odds and ends. The cans so filled
contain what is called variable weather,
because it’s mixed, but most of the
weather they get pretty well sorted out
according to the season.
“When they’ve got all the cans filled,
they stack ’em up where they’ll be
handy to get at, and there’s a man that
does nothing but open them. Every day
he cuts a can and pours out the weather
for that day, and of course a great deal
depends upon him. Sometimes this man
gets careless and pulls down a lot of the
wrong cans, getting them, say, from the
July shelf in the month of April and
likely as not getting down a week’s
supply at once, so as to have them handy
on the opening table. Os course he dis
covers his mistake the first can he opens,
but he is too lazy to put the rest back,
and so he keeps on then until he has
opened them all, and that’s how it
comes about, as it sometimes does, that
we get a hot spell at a season when we
ought to have nothing but cool weather.
“But of course those April cans are
not lost. They must be around some
where, and we get ’em later. Maybe
the man will sprinkle them along with
the hope that we won’t notice them
much, but as likely as not he opens
them one after another together, maybe
after some terribly hot spell in July or
August, when they are sure to be a
blessed relief, and if he does this we are
pretty apt to forgive him his mistake in
April.’’—Louisville Courier-Journal.
Clever Man.
It is said of a contributor to some of
the comic papers of the day that his
wit shines more brightly in his speech
than in his “copy.”
“What a clever man that Tompkins
is,” he said lately to an acquaintance,
referring to a well dressed, ordinary
looking man who had just passed him
with a bow.
“Clever!” echoed the other. “Why,
I never heard of his saying or doing
anything!”
“That’s just it, ” returned the write?
gravely. “Think of his being able to
live without saying or doing anything.
I couldn’t. ” —Youth’s Companion.
Ito UaefnlneM.
Mrs. Newlywed—That is our new
burglar alarm. You see, if a burglar
should get into the lower part of the
house, that would ring.
Her Mother—Ob, and scare him off?
Mrs. Newlywed (doubtfully)—Well,
it might, but it would give Clarence
and me plenty of time to hide in the
attic anyway.—Pick Me Up.
Whistling is tabooed in the dressing
rooms of a circus. That it is an ill
omen is one of the superstitions of the
circus people. Somebody is sure to be
discharged if any one whistles, they
'say. . ■,
More than 11,000,000 yards of tweed
are used annually for clothing the male
population of London alone.
MAY HAVE MEANT WELL.
■«t Her Kflbvto IMd Not Me t With
Mknk
Last season a Washiiq ‘on woman,
possessing both social an I charitable
ambitions, elected to giv a reception.
The affair was to be very exclusive.
Judge of the surprise when a bundle of
invitations was left at the door of a
hospital in town upon whose board of
managers Mrs. Z. serves. invita
tions were found to be addressed to the
trained nurses of the institution, and
great was the wonder that the profes
sional ranks had been invaded for so
ciety recruits.
A few days elapsed, and Mrs. Z. paid
a visit to the hospital. Making herself
extremely agreeable, she remarked to
the nurses:
“Well, girls, I hope you received
cards to my reception?”
Smiles and acknowledgments answer
ed in the affirmative, and Mrs. Z. went
on complacently:
“Indeed, I was only too glad to re
member you all. I appreciate how much
Work and how little play you girls
have, and I thought yon would enjoy a
little glimpse ot society fun. ”
“No doubt of it, Mrs. Z.,”oue of
the nurses spoke up, “but none of us
are likely to have gowns suitable to
wear at such a function. ”
* “Oh, that need not trouble yon in
the least, ” returned the smiling Mrs.
Z. “Now, my idea is this. Os course I
understand you have no evening gowns
and that you know very few society
people, but these facts must net inter
fere with your getting a peep at my
guests and eating some of my supper. I
thought the whole thing would be sim
plified if you all came in your pretty
uniforms and caps and took up your
stations in the dressing rooms. You
would only have to assist the ladies
With their wraps,'and you could see the
gowns to such good advantage, and”—
But such a chorus of indignant ex
clamation rent the air at that juncture
that Mrs. Z. ’s sentence was never com
pleted.
The social veneering must be thickly
coated on Mrs. Z., for to this day she
does not seem to understand why the
nurses meet her advances with frigid
indifference and why her visits to the
hospital are no longer pleasant.—Wash
ington Star.
MAKING PLATE GLASS.
An Operation That Requires a Deal of
Skill and Care.
A visit to a plate glass works reveals
nothing perhaps more interesting than
the casting tables on which the heavy
plate glass used in most store windows
is cast. “The casting tables, ” said the
superintendent of a large factory, “are
the most important pieces of apparatus
in this establishment.
“Each table is about 20 feet long, 15
feet wide and from 7 to 8 inches thick.
The heavy strips of iron on either side
of the tables afford a bearing for the
rollers and determine the thickness or
diameter of the glass to be cast.
“The rough plate is.commonly nine
sixteenths of an inch thick, but after
polishing it is reduced to six or seven
sixteenths. All casting tables are mount
ed on wheels which run on a track made
to reach every furnace and annealing
oven in the factory. The table having
been wheeled as near as possible to the
melting furnace, a pot of molten glass
is lifted by means of a crane and its
contents poured quickly on the table.
“A heavy iron roller then passes from
end to end, spreading the glass to a uni
form thickness. This rolling operation
has to be done by expert hands quickly,
as the boiling glass, when it comes in
contact with the cold metal of the table,
cools very rapidly. When the rolling
process has been completed, the door of
the annealing oven is opened and the
plate of glass is introduced.
‘ ‘ The floor of the annealing oven is on
the same level as the wheels of the cast
ing table, so that the transfer can be
made by rail quickly. When the glass
is ready to be taken out of the oven, its
surface is very rough. In this condition
it is used for skylights and other pur
poses where strength is desired rather
than transparency, but when intended
for windows it is ground, smoothed and
polished and is then ready for the mar
ket. ’ ’ —Boston Globe.
The New Jersey Vote.
The amendment to confer school suf
frage on the women of New Jersey was
defeated by a majority of over 12,000.
The antigambling amendment was de
feated by over 3,000, and another
amendment was lost by only 843. This
vote shows two things—first, that the
suffrage amendment was defeated by
opposition and not by indifference mere
ly; second, that it could not carry even
the vote of the moral element of the
state. New Jersey needs a good deal of
education.—Woman’s Tribune.
A Titled Coetermonger.
An aristocratic costermonger is what
one would hardly expect to find in
Shoreditch, yet some years ago this was
a favorite character of Lord Lonsdale.
It was no unusual thing for this eccen
tric nobleman to lay aside his dinner
dress and robe himself in the corduroys
and colored handkerchief of the coster,
and a capital coster he made, having a
pair of lungs like a couple of foghorns
and a genius for acting the part which
was irresistible.—London Answers
Fountain pens are rather older than
most people imagine. As long ago as
1824 they were in use, for in that year
Thomas Jefferson saw a contrivance of
fcis sort, tried it and wrote to General
Bernard Peyton of Richmond asking
him to get one of them. The pen was
of gold and the ink tube of silver, and,
according to Jefferson’s letter, the mak
er was a Richmonl watch repairer
named Cowan.
There are more than 100,000 chil
dren in the national schools of Germany
who stutter.
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CRYING AS A SAFETY VALVE.
Scientific DoelaraMmt That “a Oo»4Cry”
Xs Beneficial.
The Hcepital declares that the popu
lar belief that “a good cry” gives at
times a salutary relief has a good scien
tific foundation. A writer on that sub
ject asya:
"Crying is so commonly associated
With distress that man’s natural in
stinct is to put a stop to it as soon as
possible. We should not forget, how
ever, that it has its uses. Dr. Hany
Campbell has recently shdwn bow com
plex are the phenomena involved in ‘a
good cry. ’ Thia does not consist merely
in the shedding of tears, but includes so
general and widespread an action of the
muscles that the whole body may be con
vulsed. In children also a great change
takes place during crying in the manner
in which the respiration is carried on.
Expirations are prolonged sometimes
for as much as half a minute and are in
terrupted by short inspirations. During
expiration the glottis is contracted so
that the intrapulmonary pressure rises
considerably, aud there can be but little
doubt that it is the equal distribution of
this increased air pressure throughout
the whole of the chest, leading to the
dilatation of portions of the lungs that
have become more or less collapsed, that
is the explanation of the great benefit
which often results from crying in cases
of infantile bronchitis and of the large
p discharge of bronchial mucus which so
often follows. Children may become
very blue during the paroxysm, but the
deep respirations which succeed quickly
restore the circulation to a better con
dition than before in consequence of the
larger lung space rendered available.
In women the beneficial effect of a good
cry is proverbial In them also this is
partly due to the increased depth of
respiration and the improvement in the
often languid circulation thereby in
duced, but to a large extent it is the re
sult of the muscular exercise involved,
by which the general vascular tension,
and especially the blood pressure in the
brain, are much reduced. The profuse
flow of tears no doubt also acts strongly
on the cerebral circulation in still fur
ther reducing tension. The sobbing
movements, again, have a good influence
upon the venous circulation in the ab
dominal and pelvic viscera, while the
exhaustion produced tends to produce
sleep and thus to give the nervoqs sys
tem its beet chance of recuperation. We
should not, then, too hastily intervene
to stop a woman from having out her
cry. If we can remove her trouble, by
all means let us do so, hut if the trouble
is to remain, let her cry herself to sleep.
This is far better than soothing drafts. ”
AN AFRICAN POISON STORY.
Strange Phenomenon Wltneaeed In the
NoHheaet of the Dark Continent
Charles M. Stern of Chicago, who re
i turned to this city after a journey
i through northeast Africa, told of a curi
ous meteorological phenomenon which
he observed in a district called Gwallah.
“The vegetation in that region is very
luxuriant,” said he, "and the plant life
must give off an unusually large quan
tity of carbonic acid gas. At least that
1 was the conclusion I reached after see
ing three natives die and four or five
: dogs.
“The moment the animals put their
i noses close to the ground they would
; fall over and gasp and die in about five
minutes. The natives who died slept on
the ground instead of in hammocks, as
others did. I saw hundreds ot dead
birds. My theory is that a stratum of
the deadly gas covered the ground for a
depth of three or four inches, and any
living thing breathing in that area
would be asphyxiated.
“I could not understand, however,
how the gas was not distributed in a
thinner layer and what kept it in one
place for a whole day. Nothing like it
had ever been known there before. The
deaths of the men and the dogs all oc
curred within 24 hours. Then the gas,
if it was really gas, seemed to dissipate.
It was a very strange occurrence, and I
might have been induced to make a
more exhaustive investigation if my
presence had not excited distrust. I got
away as quickly as possible rather than
be accused of being the cause of the
sudden deaths. The natives are super
stitious and attribute most of their mis
fortunes to witchcraft, so I thought it
the part of wisdom to get away. ” —New
i York Mail and Express.
To Keep Faria Clean.
To do this work and to remove the
i 2,500 cubic meters of rubbish there are
i 140 brigades of sweepers, numbering
8,845, in conjunction with 550 rubbish
carts and 1,075 horses.
From before dawn till long after sun
, set one sees in Paris the street cleaners
in their peaked caps and watermen’s
boots or sabots hard at their work of
sweeping, swabbing or watering. Each
hour of the day brings its particular
work for them. From 4 to 6:80 a. m.
they have to wash and sweep the pave
ments and streets, and in winter oast
gravel on the asphalt (815,470 meters)
and wood paving (868,800 meters) of
the city. From 6:80 till 8:80 four of
them and a woman sweeper accompany
the scavenger’s dust cart to clear away
from the dust bins the refuse which the
chiffoniers have discarded. From 8:80
to 11 they are again at work sweeping,
cleaning, watering and flushing the gut
ters, till these almost assume the form
of little mountain torrents. From 11
till 1 they leave off for dejeuner, and
then they are hard at work again cleans
’ ing streets and benches, and in winter,
from 7 till 9 p. m., it is their duty once
more to throw gravel over the wood and
asphalt pavements.—Good Words.
"Mero knowledge,” said the prosy
man, “is of little value.”
“Now you hit it that time,” said the
listening young man with much earnest
ness. "I know what tee exactly thecor*
sect things inclothea, but I ain’t able
to buy ’em.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.
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AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” AND
“ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,’’ AS OUR TRADE MARK.
I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA ” the same ||
that has borne and does now ‘ on
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original" PITCHER’S CASTORIA,’’ which has been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty
years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the hind you have always bought on
and has the signature 6} wrap-
per. No one has authority from ’me to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is
President. /> t
March 8,1897.
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yo”
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he docs not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought”
BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE Or • 1
Insist on Having*
The Kind That Never Failed You.
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