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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. i dr 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. ». .. 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. VHC MMTMM TV MVMMV *r*Crr. »»• -<»»• —GET YOUK — ■ a- •* Al. JOB PRINTING DONE A.T The Morning Call Office. We have Just supplied our Job Office with a complete line of Btataonerr ■ kinds and can get up, on short notice, anything wanted in the way <m LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS. STATEMENTS, IRCULARB, envelopeb, notes, MORTGAGES, ' PROGRAMS,? 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