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HONOR TO GROTIUS. REMEMBRANCE ACT TO INTER¬ NATIONAL LAW MAN. The Graceful Tribute of the Pence Con¬ ference Recalls Memories of a Man Dearly Lovod Slnee Three Centuries Ago—Made for History. On July 4 last the members of the international peace congress at The Hague performed the graceful act of decorating with laurel blooms the tomb of Hugo Grotius, the father of the code of international law. Though 250 years have elapsed since the death of Grotius it was appropriate that the members of the pea.ee congress should honor the memory of the man who ac¬ complished more toward uniting the powers of the globe under the benign influence of the olive branch than per¬ haps any other individual of his time. Grotius was born in Holland. During his eventful career he played many useful parts, being jurist, theologian, statesman, poet and founder of inter¬ national law. His name was Latin¬ ized from De Groot. In 1613 Grotius occupied the modest position of pen¬ sionary of Rotterdam. Six years lat¬ er, as a remonstrant, he was sentenced to life imprisonment at Lovestein. Through the aid of friends he es¬ caped from this prison in 1621. Fly¬ ing for safety to Sweden, he was wel¬ comed with honor by that country and was mads Swedish ambassador to France. He died at Rostock, Germany, ’ : r‘’ . -v SI „ m. i i H 1 m % w w V HUGO GROTIUS. In 1645. His best-known works, aside from his essays and volumes on the law of and between nations, are es¬ says on the credibility of the text of the Bible, annotations on the Old and New Testament and two tragedies— sne on the fall of Adam and the other lepicting the patience of Christ. The wreath which Andrew D. White, our minister to Germany, laid upon the tomb of Grotius bore the inscription, “In reverence and gratitude from the United States.” The tomb is at the Nieuve Kirk, Delft. King Oscar of Sweden telegraphed his homage to the memory of the author-statesman. THE AUTOMOBILE. Some of the Chief Essentials of a Horseless Vehicle. The distance an automobile will travel without replenishing the reser¬ voir (whatever the power material used) is, of course, dependent on the cdpacity of the latter, and the effort being to keep the bulk of the apparatus at the smallest limit that will serve the purpose, the result is generally a trip not much greater than the twenty-five miles accorded to the practical electri¬ cal vehicle. The weight of the compressed air carriage, with its apparatus, is little less than that of a storage battery ve¬ hicle of equal capacity. The motor apparatus suitable for carbonic-acid gas, ammoniacal gas and liquid air would differ little from that of steam in appearance and weight. The lightest automobile of which I have learned is a French wagon for two persons, all equipped with a steam motor, the en- gine^weight being stated at 140 pounds. Several of the applied motive powers have apparatus sufficiently compact to be contained in a little more than the space under the seat of the vehicle, among which is the very volatile pe¬ troleum spirit. All existing automobile vehicles ex¬ cept the electric carry apparatus for producing an electric spark or a flame, for igniting the vapor or gas in the cylinder, or for warming the expansive material. Most motors now recommended for road vehicles can be driven at any pace up to the speed of an average trotter, and the day of automobile racing has already arrived in France, and prob¬ ably will not be long delayed in other countries. The prize contest at the Charles River park exhibition of horse¬ less vehicles, in Boston last summer, involved the following conditions: Speed at level grade, at greatest pos¬ sible grade; turning round in the smallest space; stopping at an unex¬ pected signal in shortest space; econo¬ my of fuel; quickness of preparation, and durability and cost of machine.— Lippincott’s. Women’s Odd Pets. Some minds are strikingly original, even in the choice of pets. Certainly this was the case with the wife of a gentleman farmer, who, according to Woman’s Life, made a pet of a pig. The animal lost its mother early, and the lady, taking pity on the little or¬ phan, bore it off to the kitchen, where she succeeded, by the aid of a feeding bottle, in rearing it. The pig became a great pet and used to follow its owner like a dog. It eould hardly have been its outward at¬ traction that won her heart; it must have been Its qualities which endeared it to hor. Another very singular pet was that of a frog, which was tamed by a young girl in the country and would come out from under the leaves at her approach to be fed with a strawberry. A lady who was confined to her room had a fowl whlnh, before her ill¬ ness, was a constant companion. It used to be regularly taken to her room every morning to see her and be fed by her own hands, and allowed to take a short walk about her room. Another member of the feminine gender actually made a pet of a tur¬ key, and declared it should “never be eaten, but die In its own good time,” which it did of old age. A much more extraordinary instance of a strange pet, for a woman at any rate, was where an old lady so far overcame the natural repugnance of her sex as to tame a mouse which had been caught in her store cupboard. So successful was her treatment that at last the tiny animal would take crumbs from its mistress’ Angers. AN ALINE STAMP. Mark on the Magazine Cover Prevented an A it pat. “It used to make me mad,” said a lady teacher, “to find the backs of new bought periodicals disfigured by the analine stamp of the newsdealer. ‘What right,’ I used to say, ‘have these fellows to print their advertisement on things I pay for?” Now I feel differ¬ ently. It came about through a visit which I paid to another city last week. As I passed through the depot I bought a magazine at the news stand, and lat¬ er on, when I wa^ up town, I had occa¬ sion to step into a large department . store. As usual they had a book coun¬ ter, and -while looking at a volume that caught my eye I laid my magazine carelessly upon a pile of periodicals. When I was walking away a strange man stepped up hastily and said: ‘Ex¬ cuse me, madam, but you have forgot¬ ten to pay for that magazine.’ ‘Why, I didn’t get it here,’ I replied, greatly startled. ‘I had it with me and have been holding it in my hand all the time.’ As soon as I spoke I realized that that wasn’t strictly true, and the girl clerk, who had rushed around the counter, contradicted me at once. ‘It ain’t so!’ she said breathlessly. ‘She wasn’t holding it in her hand! I saw her pick it up myself right off the top of-the pile!’ ‘I witnessed that myself,’ said the floorwalker; ‘madame has probably forgotten,’ he added, ironical¬ ly. I thought I should faint. A thou¬ sand things rushed into my mind. Of course, I could prove my innocence by the man at the depot, but that would involve the scandal of an inquiry— probably an arrest—and some people would always have doubts. On the other hand payment would be a confes¬ sion of guilt. The affair would certain¬ ly cost me my position and blight my character forever. I held out the mag¬ azine mechanically and there on- the cover was the big, hideous, blessed stamp of the dealer! We all saw it at once, and oh, I wish you could have witnessed the abashment of the floor¬ walker! He groveled. The very curl came out of his mustache. He told me he had a wife and children, also a mo¬ ther, which I took the liberty to doubt. His anguish was all that sav¬ ed me from hysterics. The clerk shed maudlin tears and ’oped the lady would not bear no malice. I treated them both with scorn. I spurned them. When I went home I bought peanuts of the depot news dealer.” AN INDIAN ARISTOCRAT. This distinguished-looking gentle¬ man is his highness Maharajah Bhan- war Pal Deo Bahadur Yaduk.u Chau- dra Bhal, and compared with him Queen Victoria is a low-born plebeian. His pedigree stretches back to the @8 // rnkm f III mur WmJi I l .vis id m "1 CHAUDRA BHAL. time when the Yadu or Jadon kings ruled in Asia, and centuries before Caesar landed in England this worthy prince’s noble forbears were an old and respected family. His highness of the many names is now thirty-five years of age and spends most of his time in India shooting tigers and studying his antique pedigree. Mrs. Scrimp's Gardening. Old Friend—“Did you have much ot a garden this year?” Mrs. Scrimp (of Serimpvifie)—“No, it didn’t amount to much. In the spring I gave a grand garden digging tourna¬ ment, the young men who dug the most to have the pick of the girls for the evening, and it worked very well, but it cost me ’most two dollars for re- freshments. Then I had a planting bee, and that wasn’t so expensive, only the planting wasn’t half done. Later on I tried to get up a weeding festival, but somehow the young folks sort o’ lost interest, and I gave up gardening i n disgust.” LADY SALISBURY. WIFE OF THE PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND. Her Present Illness May Result In a Political Crisis—Husband’s Devoted Loyalty to Queen Victoria—Division in the Tory Party. Among politicians in England today the renewed serious illness of Lady Salisbury overshadows even such ex¬ citing topics as the Milner-Kruger duel in South Africa. The best traditions of English public life respect the privacy of the domestic hearth even of the greatest men, but grave political issues are once again forced upon the atten¬ tion by the attack of partial paralysis by which this august lady has been suddenly stricken down. Among the English statesmen of the Victorian era Mr. Gladstone is alone comparable with Lord Salisbury in the simple hap¬ piness of his domestic life. It is the rarest thing in the world to And the latter in clubland. He hardly ever dines out. He lives the life almost of a recluse, neglectful In a strange de¬ gree of social fame and of Ackle pub¬ lic opinion, and is only kept by bis keen sense of public duty and his per¬ sonal devotion to the queen from the quiet joj's of his beautiful Elizabethan retreat at HatAeld and of that labora¬ tory where his friends say he has pa¬ tiently evolved a scientlAc discovery of no mean Importance. This is the man whose conAiet between private iy,\] i JfSs few m 7/A // \ :/ W \ v V LADY SALISBURY, sorrow and public duty today awakens the keenest sympathy among all Eng¬ lishmen, for they know that domestic anxiety is the one superadded burden which the overweighted prime minister and foreign secretary cannot bear. It was that one superadded burden that nearly' forced on his resignation of one or both of his portfolios last autumn, and should the universal though not over-sanguine hopes for Lady Salis¬ bury’s speedy recovery be frustrated, the ministry will, in the last year before its appeal to the electorate, be brought face to face with a crisis in that ever- recurring personal conflict which has harassed it ever since Mr. Chamber- lain made the provision of offices for his personal following the price of ins alliance with the Salisbury and Hicks- Beach sections of Torryism. Her Sense of Humor. There was a man out at one of the suburban resorts night before last for whom I felt the sincerest sympathy, says a writer in the Washington Post. He was a very young man and you could see from his looks that he meant well. The girl with him was younger even than he, and pretty enough to eat, and he was doing his best to be witty under the most disheartening cir¬ cumstances. Story after story he told, till the perspiration trickled down his cheeks and every time he told a story the girl either didn’t laugh at all or, worse yet, laughed in the wrong place. At last he remembered one he knew she’d like. “I was over at Alexandria yester- GOV. SAYERS OF TEXAS. B iSP. in , *•> ’• > 'U wm r ; u. / r tim A 1 ■. y §l#l IPtlSI / 7. ■v y A oSl'il W —T* v. !/ Joseph D. Sayers, the genial and pop¬ ular governor of Texas, who Is the chief promoter of the anti-trust con¬ vention which is about to meet in St. Louis, is a man of microscopic preten¬ sions and gigantic ability. His most notable political work was his active campaign against extravagant expsu- diture when he was chairman of the committee on appropriations, succeed- ing “Watch Dog” Holman in that po- sition and fully carrying out his ideas, day,” said he, "with George Robinson and Pat Sheehy, You know what a brogue Pat has. Well, we had to run to catch the ferry, and George was a half block behind us. By the time he got to the edge of the dock the boat was ten feet away. Pat was terribly 1 excited and dead in earnest. He lean¬ ed over the edge of the boat: " ‘Jump, George,’ he says, with his brogue. ‘Jump! You can make It In two jumps.’ Here the young man loaned back and waited for his hard-earned ap¬ plause. None came. The girl looked at him expectantly. “Ain’t that a good one?” he asked, a bit discouraged. "Oh, yes," she said. “And d.J George do it in two jumps?” “DRUVTO DECENCY.” In Many Place* tlie Triumph of “Good” Leaves Maoh Required. I stood at Seven Dials and beard the policeman's account of what it used to be, says Jacob A. Riis in the Atlantic, Seven Dials is no more like the slums of old than is the Five Points today. . . . The policeman’s story rambled among the days when things were dif¬ ferent. Then it was dangerous for an officer to go alone there at night. Around the corner there came from one of the aide streets a procession with banners, parading in honor and aid of some church charity. In it marched, young men any boys with swords and battle axes, and upon itr outskirts skipped a host of young roughs—so one would have called them, but for the evidence of theil honest employment—who rattled col¬ lection boxes, reaping a harvest oi pennies from far and near. I looked at tho battle axes and the collection boxes and thought of forty years ago. Where were til® Seven Dials of that day, and the men who gave it its bad name? I asked the policeman. “They were druv into decency, sor!” he said, and answered from his own experience the question ever asked by faint-hearted philanthropists. “My father he done duty here afore me in '45. The worst dive was where that church stands. It was always full oi thieves”—whose sons, I added mental- !y, have become collectors for the church. The one fact was a whole chapter on tlie slum. London’s way with the tenants we adopted at last in New York with the slum landlord. He was “druv into de¬ cency.” We had to. Moral suasion had been stretched to the limit. The point had been reached where ons knockdown blow outweighed a bushel of arguments. . . . The rear tene¬ ments were chosen for this purpose. They were the worst as they were the first of New York’s tenements. The double-deckers had, with all their evils, at least this to their credit, that their death rate was not nearly as high as that of the old houses, That was not because of any virtue inherent in the double-deckers, but because the earlier tenements were old, and built in a day that knew nothing of sani¬ tary restrictions and cared less, The mortality of the rear tenement had long been a scandal, They are built in the back yard, generally back-to- back with the rear buildings on the adjoining lots. If there is an open space between them it is never more than a slit a foot or so wide, that gets to be the receptable of garbage and filth of every kind, so that the win¬ dow's in these walls become a source of greater danger than if there were none. Advice. “I know what you are going to tell me,” said the high-browed youth who wore a uniform; “you are goiug to ad- vise me to learn to say no.” “Not at all. I was about to advise you to learn to say nothing.”—Wash- ington Star. Gov. Sayers is a native of Mississippi and first saw the light of day at Gre¬ nada fifty-eight years ago. When he wae a boy of ten he became a citizen of the Lone Star state and before he was out of his teens had enlisted in the confederate army. When the war was over and he gave up soldiering he went at the study of law and was re- markably successful in his praetioe up to the time of his entry into active pol- itics in 1873. "CANGWAY!” A New War Cry Kaieed by Our M«n In the Philippine*. The Manila correspondent of Col¬ lier’s Weekly, writes as follows: The enemy were invisible ami shooting. That made it necessary for Uncle Sam’s troopers to go on nutil they got near enough to got a good close view of the little brown euemy, And they did it with splendid spirit, rushing, shooting, cheering and laughing. Two companies of Cook’s battalion of the Third were ordered to the left of tho railroad, while tho other two com¬ panies, under Captain Cook, kept to the right of the track. All four of the companies were made up mainly of “rookies,” as recuits are called, but they made up in Hpirit what they lacked in effective drill. As the two companies to the left of tlie track, under Captain Day and Lieutenant Hannay, got their first glimpso of the shooting euemy their officers shouted out to steady their commands. It was unnecessary, Ono tall rooky, who was the first to catch sight of the heads of the mass of Fili¬ pinos ahead, yelled gleefully: “Gang¬ way!” With one accord tho two com¬ panies took up the cry of “Gangway!” aud oil they rushed. It was their slogan. They kept it up until they reached the thrown-up dirt of the trench and saw the Filipinos, now an irregular mass, iieeing a hundred yards ahead of them. The Filipinos gained another trench, but “Gang¬ way!” was the battle cry that drove them out of it. It was the same with the third line of trenches. Parenthet¬ ically, it is understood,, of course, that our boys shot oft' something be¬ sides “Gangway!” Dead and wound¬ ed Filipinos strewed the ground and filled the trenches. Our losses all along tho line that day were tri¬ fling by comparison. Day’s and Han- ney’s companies, for instance, which suffered rather more than the average losses, had five men killed and eleven wounded. But that cry of “Gangway!” is fam¬ ous over in the Filipinos Hues, In- surgents who have been brought in either wounded or prisoners have in¬ quired eagerly the meaning and po¬ tency of that mysterious Yankee word which invariably preceded a Filipino retreat. And so the Third has con- tributed anothar famous word to the technical slang of the American sol¬ dier. Indian Village Lost. Historians are at a loss to account for the apparent ruins of an Indian village in Silver Creek Township, Michigan, about half a mile west of Indian Lake. In 1848, when William Gilbert, one of the wealthiest farmers in this section, built his house in this locality, he built upon the ruins of what had evidently been a church. Iu fact, settlers in the twenties claim to have attended church there, the ser¬ vice being conducted by a priest from Bertrand or Notre Dame. Other old settlers state that in the early thirties one Slater taught school there, later goiug to the vicinity of Yankee Springs and continuing that occupation there. The fact of its be¬ ing a sehoolhouse would not preclude its being used occasionally as a ! church, aud there are in existence in this city records of baptism of Indian children at tha “Church of the Indian Village.” ruins of On this same, farm were nine sugar camps, each about twelve by sixteen in size, with holes bored in a log at the back, in wttich sticks had been driven on which to make | their beds. knives, Copper nails kettles aud were hatchets used, | and copper i of poor temper, have been ploweci .ip j ti lere . There is not an Indian in this j vicinity who knows anything about | ! tLia this church church or school, yet the evi- ■ donee that one did exist is iudisputa- ble. Indian Lake was named from tlie fact that this locality was the faworite resort of the Indians in the maple 1 sugar season.—Detroit Nev?s. Dentist Tells by Signs. A peculiar aetunl or imagined cor¬ respondence has been developed be¬ tween physical acts and mental atti¬ tudes. The elocutionist declares that the sledgehammer gesture indicates emphasis and the hands opened with an outward spread of the arms candor. The student of handwriting assures you that the up curl at the end of a word indicates a hopeful mood and the droop a despondent one; that if the handwriting begins boldly and ends in smaller characters a weak will is indicated, and vice verna. Curly hair is supposed to imply a quick temper, and the dentists will tell you that the teeth of the curly haired man pull hard. “I can tell as far as I see a man,” one of them remarked, “whether his teeth will be difficult to pull. If he has a bull neck and curly hair, yon will need your strongest forceps. Somehow the roots curl themselves up in the bony tissue of the jaw in as much of a tangle as the hair itself.”— New York Mail and Express. Kata and Trap Swallowed by a Snake. A remarkable snake story that is vouched for by the family of Charles Braddock, Sr., of Shatnong Township, N. J., is told by John Dellett, the hired man. Dellett went to the barn the other day to milk the cows. Upon entering one of the stalls he saw a largo white- throated blacksnake. It was curled up inau apparently comfortable posi¬ tion, and it was noticed that a rat’s tail was hanging from its mouth. Dellett summoned Mr. Braddock and other members of his family. At first the men arranged to give battle to the reptile, when it was found to be dead. An examination showed that in its hunger and greed to get the rats, three in number, the snake had swallowed the trajt,and all. This caused its death. 44 A Gentle Wind of Western Birth” Tells no sweeter story to humentty then the announcement that the heelth-ghier end hselih-brtnger, Hood’s Sarsaparilla, tills of the birth of an ere of good health. R is the one reliable specific for the cure of ell blood, stomach, end lever troubles. Two Movers’ Bibles. The other evening a tolerably well- dressed young man entered a junk shop vritb an exquisitely bound vol¬ ume. The denier gave him in return for the book teu ecuts. He had sold hi* mother’s Bible for a drink. A few minutes later another man strolled in this same place and bought that very Bible. It was worth something more than $2. “My mother.” he explained, "gave me just such a book two years Ago, nnd this one looks to have been need considerably. When she sees it she’ll think I’ve been reading it. That’s why I want to buy it.”—Knoxville Sen. tinel. What 1* Tetterlne? It 1s a sure cure far all skin diseases. It cur'*a itch, tetter, ringworm, eczema, salt rheum, etc. Never fails. Nothing is “Just a© good.” Don’t accept substitutes Try. an<3 you will be convinced, as thousands of others Have If your druggist doesn’t keep it, send 50c. in stamps direct to the maker, .7. T. Shup- trine, Savannah, On., fora box postpaid. Large possessions bring graat cares, and these too often silence songs of praise. How’s This ? Wo offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for »ny caae of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & < o , Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cho- ney for the last 15 years, and believe him per¬ fectly honorable in all business transaction* and financially able to carry out any obliga¬ tion made by their firm. West & i buax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. Ohio. Walbino* Kin van Martin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act¬ ing faces directly upon the blood and mucous sur¬ of the system. Testimonials sent tree. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. HalTa Family Pills are the best. Advice is seldom welcome, .end those who want it the most always like it the least. No-To-I.nc for Fifty Cent*. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak men strong, bleed pure. tOc, $1. 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