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MAY STARVE TO LIVE. POLICY TO BE PURSUED BY THE CAUTIOUS. Medical Selene# Is Arbitrary—To Eat Bread Is Folson—Beef Is Also Bad and So Is Mutton—Pork Out of the Question. a Medical science has taken up the food question ao closely during recent years and gone to such trouble and expense to find out every deleterious quality In articles of every-day consumption that the man who studies hygiene attentive¬ ly can only eat—If he believes all he reads—at the great risk of contracting disease or poisoning himself. Bread is not to be thought of as an article of diet. It is a treacherous compound, consisting large of alum and potatoes, and, concocted in some unsanitary cel¬ lar, It is teeming with microbes and to¬ tally unfit for food. No careful man will touch beef, owing to the number of tuberculous carcasses which are constantly being placed on the market. Mutton and lamb are also being ta¬ booed on similar grounds, and no one would think of touching pork for fear the late lamented piggy might have died of swine fever. The vegetarian chortles in his Joy and points out that none of these things, except bread, af¬ fects his style of dining. But hi3 triumph is short-lived. Root vegetables are to be dreaded because of wire worm, tomatoes induce cancer, cab¬ bages may become poisonous by the application of improper fertilizers, and therefore are best left alone, while, in addition to the disease microbe which devotes its attention to the potato, there is always the risk of damage to the digestive organs. Butter and milk are poisoned with boracic acid and other noxious preservatives, to say nothing of the artificial coloring mat¬ ter which is frequently added. Eggs are dangerous, because so many of them are packed in lime to keep them good, and recently, too, a French bacil¬ lus has found his way in through the shell. In addition to other drawbacks, cheese helps to ruin digestion. Raw fruit helps along cholera to a great extent. It also contains prussic acid around the skin, pips and stone. When cooked it induces dysentery. Of tinned and potted stuffs little need be said, except that the solder of the tin makes for lead poisoning, and potted meats have recently been shown to be sim¬ ply a mass of spiced rotten filth and garbage. Fish, although possessing highly nutritious qualities, should be avoided, owing to the large quantity which is sold in an unfit state for hu¬ man consumption and the difficulty of obtaining It really fresh. With bever¬ ages the same difficulties present them¬ selves to the careful feeder. Beer, wines or spirits are not to he thought of. They affect the brain and eyes and act injuriously upon the coating of the stomach. Tea and coffee may set up insanity, but at the least they are sure to induce dyspepsia. Water is full of disease germs, and, if distilled, becomes dangerous by reason of its lack of mineral matter in solution. Poultry, if fresh, appears to be the most wholesome sort of dish, as there is only a vague, undecided sort of mi¬ crobe to its account. Therefore duck and green peas appear to be the dish to make a stand upon; but let the peas be fresh, as the tinned sort are poison¬ ous, owing to a solution of sulphate of copper being employed to give them a fresh, bright color.—London Mall. The Secretary Bird. The secretary bird of South Africa is useful in destroying the serpent race, on which creatures it almost exclu¬ sively feeds. It derives its name from the curious feathery plumes which pro¬ ject from each side of its head, and have a fanciful resemblance to pens carried behind the ear by human sec¬ retaries. Undaunted by the deadly teeth of the cobra, the secretary bird comes boldly to the attack, and in spite of all the efforts of the infuriated and desperate reptile, Is sure to come off victorious. In Its combats with the serpent the wing is the most important weapon, and answers equally all the purposes of a shield and a club. As the serpent rises to strike, the secre¬ tary presents the front of its wing as a buckler and almost immediately dashes the snake to the ground by a blow from the same member. It also kicks with considerable force, and almost in¬ variably concludes the combat by a violent blow on the head from its beak, which lays the skull of the enemy completely open. Home for Families of I.amllts. Not actuated by remorse, but by pure philanthropy, Jim Jenkins, hunter of outlaws, has concluded to devote all his money to the maintenance of a home for the orphans and widows of men he has run to earth, in particular, and of criminals of the great South¬ west in general. Jim Jenkins, now of Kansas, is now 65 years old and has spent forty years as a scout and hunt¬ er of bandits and train robbers. In this way he has made about $50,000. Among the distinguished outlaws he has chased were Jesse James and his broth¬ er, Bob Ford, Bill Dalton and Bill Cook, while he was the leader of the band that caught Cherokee Bill in 1895. In the Dalton raid in Coffeyville, Kas., Jenkins was shot eight times. He esti¬ mates his bag of bad men at about 150. The home, which Is being built on a 5,000-acre farm owned by Jenkins, near Pryor Creek, I. T., is to cost $20,- 000.—Buffalo Express. One doesn’t get rid of bills by tear¬ ing them up, but they are disposed of for the time being.—Er. A JEALOUS HUSBAND. The Gr..n-l£y«d Mounter b Making Him Wre tolled. A young woman who lives with her ferociously Jealous but otherwise tractable husband on one of the proper named (as distinguished from lettered or numbered) streets uptown Is Just now endeavoring to convince her spouse' that he is endowed with too gifted an Imagination, says the Wash¬ ington Post, It all came about through a 2 a. m. serenade. Before her mar¬ riage a young amateur violinist of the city had been exceedingly attentive to her, but when it came to the point of selection she passed the musician up for the man upon whom she bestowed her hand. Her husband’s Jealousy of the violinist, without any reason what¬ ever, continued after their marriage. She did not perceive any good reason why she should cut the young musi¬ cian dead on the street when she met him, but every time she bowed to the violinist, no matter how distantly, her husband stormed and raged. He tore the fiddler wide apart to her. But I knew him before I knew you,” she al¬ ways replied, “and what surname am I known by now, pray?” “But what do you want to recognize the slob for?” it was his habit to inquire, with the beautiful reasonableness of the male being. “Because I am not hankering to achieve a reputation for being de¬ void of ordinary good manners,” she would reply. One beautiful midnight last week a well-known young vio¬ linist of Washington (not the one who had aspired to the hand of the heroine of this truthful tale) and three of his mandolin and guitar-playing friends decided to serenade a few of their young women friends. They engaged a barouche and went forth. They were all admirable players and the uptown streets were made mellow with the strains from their instruments. The last young woman on their list of girls to be serenaded happened to live di¬ rectly across the street from the home of the young woman whose husband carried within his bosom a carking weight of deadly animosity for the young violinist who had antedated him in his wife’s list of friends. The ba¬ rouche of the serenading party drew up in the middle of the street in front of that young unmarried woman's house, along toward 2 a. m., and mournful, passionate strains of wild regret and hopeless love began to pro¬ ceed from the strings, the tender wail of the violin rising above it. They played for half an hour or so and then drove off. The young matron had to hold her husband in order to prevent him from throwing water on the mu¬ sicians, and she has been trying to convince him ever since that there is more than one violinist in Washington. But he doesn’t see it. It is difficult for green-eyed people to see anything. AUTOCRATIC JUDGES. No man probably can be placed in a more perplexing position than a judge who has to deal with ignorant and dull-witted jurors. A jury of this kina of men in a western court brought in a verdict of “Not guilty, but recom¬ mended to the mercy of the court.” The late Justice Hawkins, a learned but eccentric English judge, when the verdict did not suit him, sometimes took the decision into his own hands. After a long trial of a civil case, in which the possession of some property was contested, the jmy, against the law and the evidence, unanimously found for the p,aintiff. Justice Haw- kms listened to the verdict in amaze- ment, and then, with a shrug, said; It takes thirteen men to rob a man of his house. The suit is decided in favor of the defendant.” A certain Justice Leet in Pennsyl¬ vania, in the early part of this century, was equally autocratic in his decisions. The country was newly settled by Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, a class of just and religious, but irascible men. When they brought . ...... into his court . di- voree or civil cases which had grown out of quarrels with their wives or neighbors, they were not infrequently met with refusal to listen to their com- plaints. “I will hear no statement concerning this case from any lawyer. Do you two quarrelsome fools go home, shut yourselves up together, and pray to Almighty God to help you to see the truth. Then talk the matter over quietly alone. If you then can’t come to an agreement, you may go to law about it.” Tradition states that but a small per cent of these applicants ever came again before him. / Simple Life at the Elysee* The rule of life at the Elysee is as simple as circumstances will permit, except- when obliged to give official en¬ tertainments, M. and Mme. Loubet take their luncheon at 12 and their dinner at 7 in a small dining-room, the furniture of which is as plain as the menu on the table, though now and then they have an intimate friend to join them at the former meal. M. Loubet, however, simple as are his tastes and , frugal , , as is . his , . fare, . is . fully alive to the importance of maintaining the dignity of his office; and it may be taken for granted that he will, when he returns to Paris from Rambouillet' and Montelimar, between which places he will, if all goes well, spend his well- earned summer holiday, put himself in¬ to training for the severe social duties which the president of the republic will have to discharge during the ex¬ hibition year. Spiders In Japan. Spiders are a serious plague in Japan. They spin their webs on the telegraph wires, and are so numerous as to cause a serious loss or insula¬ tion. Sweeping the wires does little good, as the spiders begin all over again. ASTONISHED THE DOMINIES. Sau.atlonal Rmflt of • Fancy Urau Costume at a Ministerial Gathering. From the Philadelphia Post: Judge E. B. Martlndale of Indianapolis, Ind., owns one of tho handsomest residences in that city— a large stone mansion hidden from the street by a thick grove of trees. It was in this house that one of the most exciting functions ever known in the hoosier capital took place many years ago, the true story of which Is now printed for the first time. Tho Judge, who was one of the leaders of society and at the same time was a pillar in the Presbyterian church, had issued Invitations for a fancy dress ball, which at the last moment he had to withdraw because of t;he presence in this country of a large body of Presbyterian delegates from Great Britain on their way to an Interna¬ tional conference In the west. They were to be entertained at the Judge's on the night set for the ball. It so happened that every guest received h s notice save one, a merchant namcu Woodward, who was on a trip through the northwest. It also happened that Mr. Woodward had hit upon the most startling disguise of any planned. He had bought a complete costume of a Sioux war chief and intended making up as nearly like the original as pos¬ sible. Mr. Woodward did not return to Indianapolis until the evening fixed for the ball, and, therefore, to save time put on his costume at his office and drove to the Martindale residence in his carriage, which he dismissed at the gate. Through the trees and shrub¬ bery he glided stealthily until he reached the house. Looking through the window Mr. Woodward saw some persons whom he knew and many of whom he did not, but every one was in ordinary evening dress. “They've unmasked,” soliloquized the war chief, “but I’ll have my fun just the same.” Thereupon, stepping upon a ledge, he made one spring through the open window and landed in the center of a group of Scotch delegates, meantim brandishing a genuine tomahawk and uttering shrill and bloodcurdling wai whoops. The effect was astounding to the masquerader. Some of the guests fainted, others crept under the tables and sofas or fled to the upper stories of the house. It took only an instant for Mr. Woodward to discover that a terrible mistake had been made. In order to preserve his identity and make his escape he gave a few more whoops, executed a fearful dance and darted out of the window into the darkness. It was explained to the foreign guests that one of the Indianapolis Indian tribes was evidently restless, but that no further trouble need be feared. As for Mr. Woodward, his side of the story was not known for nearly twenty years afterward. THAT MAN J1M1NEZ. Dispatches from San Domingo have recently had much to say of Don Juan Isidro Jiminez in connection with the succession to the presidential chair of that little island republic. At one time Jiminez was perhaps the richest man of Spanish blood in the western hemisphere. He owned extensive plantations - in San Domingo and in other islands of the West Indies, and ori acc ount of his great wealth he pos- gessed wide influence in political af- f a j rs some time after Heureaux be¬ came presidell t of San Domingo he Eent for Jiminez and told him there wag r00m on {he island for'only one man a t a time. Jiminez was not convinced tliat this was really the case until some 0 f t he buildings on his plantation h ad been burned. Then he decided that Heureaux was right, and he sold out to a German syndicate and retired from the island to wait an op¬ portunity for revenge. He thought this chance had come when the war with Spain broke out. Under the pre¬ text that he was going- to organize an expedition to fight for Cuba libre, he was allowed by the United States gov¬ ernment to pack a little steamship, the Fanita, with some San Domingo and set sa „ Irom Mobile. But instead of going to Cuba he went to San Domingo. One dark night he landed there with his cargo of refu- r t- .£■ f§K fUl 7 //, $9 % r/' JUAN ISIDRO JIMINEZ. gees, expecting to find 1,000 insurgents under arms awaiting him. But his let¬ ter of plans had miscarried, the raid was unexpected, and no revolution had teen started for hlm . H e fired a few shots, but was forced to beat a retreat. Jiminez boasts that Heureaux was killed by his agents, and that one ot these days he intends to go to San Domingo and take up the presidency. New Marriage Law in Massachusetts. A new law has just gone into effect in Massachusetts forbidding the per¬ formance of the marriage ceremony by justices of the peace unless they have been specially designated for that pur¬ pose. Newspaper Handkerchief. A Madrid journal is printed on linen with a composition easily removable by water, and the subscriber, after de¬ vouring the news, washes his journal and has a handkerchief. M. PAUL DE KOULEDE. HE WOULD BE A ROBESPIERRE OF TODAY. Threaten* to Overthrow the Republic and Root the Rothschilds and Bankers Out of the Country—Having a Maid Time of It. Paul de Roulede, who has lately been arrested at Paris, was born Sept. 2, 1846. At fifty-three his chief claim for distinction is that he Is one of the most violent and most silly of all the enemies of Dreyfus and the French re¬ public. When the Franco-German war broke out he went to the front, but was captured at Sedan. The Germans carried him to Breslau, but he escaped and returned to the French army, where he remained until peace was de¬ clared. Then he wrote novels and plays, preaching the doctrine against the Prussians, and tending to the apotheosis of that army which seemed to him more noble in defeat than it could have been in victory. He is tall and slight, wears a beard, and looks like an Englishman. He i3 intensely Z4 & §C m K/ J; ymimm ■/ i m \y]l / w V m if PAUL DE ROULEDE. Under Arrest for Treason, patriotic, and makes no attempt to conceal his hatred of all foreigners. He hates Dreyfus, too, and on Sunday, Sept. 25, 1898, at a meeting to protest against the revision of the Dreyfus case, he presided and delivered a furi¬ ous tirade against Prime Minister Brisson and all who had shown a de¬ sire for revision. He declared that if a revolution occurred and the scaffold was erected in Paris, the first head that ought to fall was that of Clemenceau, and that if Dreyfus ever returned to France he and his partisans would be lynched. This meeting was In further¬ ance of the reorganization of ths League of Patriots, which had been suppressed some years ago by the gov¬ ernment. Of this reorganized league De Roulede became president, He hates so much that he hates also the •constituted government of France, and at the death of President Faure un¬ dertook to overthrow the republic and establish a government with the army as a basis. He Ipd a procession of kindred spirits through the streets of the barracks, and was summarily ar¬ rested, not on the charge of treason, or attempted coup d’etat, of which he would have been proud, but on the more common accusation of trespass. This almost disgusted him with the profession of patriot. He is, however, still intensely bitter in his enmity to Dreyfus, and the formation of the League of Patriots is largely his own work. Besides, he is an inspiring spirit of the anti-Semitic leagues that have lately been formed in Paris. Since the affair of the barracks—Feb. 23, 1899—De Roulede has boldly pro¬ claimed his purpose to overthrow the republic. His present was decided upon as a means of checking what otherwise might in time become a dan¬ gerous organization. De Roulede may know more than he is willing to tell of the attempted assassination of La- bori, one of the counselors of Dreyfus, from ambush recently at Rennes. The ordinary courtship is a very weak foundation upon which to erect the gigantic structure of matrimony. BUCHANAN’S BIRTHPLACE. K L < i tr m •2/ - -v. -■ •• / I ;.§V V -i 'Mjrb A xf. ■ u. m ; mfm -1 V 'III rjm wt laS, ifr- ■ : 1 Mirlyr- • ■ - 1 B m I, i m ■di In Mercersburg, Pa., stands the old home of James Buchanan, president of the United States from 1857 to 1861. Underneath the roof of this ancient structure Buchanan first saw the light of day and spent the period of his early boyhood. Some fifty years ago the house was moved to the present location from Stony Patler, several miles distant. One of the stories of Buchanan’s early life in this neigh¬ borhood states that his mother tied a bel! around his neck when he was quite young so that she might be able to find him readily if he strayed Into the woods. The home of Buchanan was a trading post. It was on the line of the turnpike that ran from Chambersburg to Pittsburg, and as the father of the A "MECHANICAL HOOTER.** lovr» tienlui <’on*tru,itml • Shriek ifhl«k He Wanted the Government to Boy From the New Orleans Tlmes-Dem- ocrat: "All sorts of freak devices have been submitted to the govern¬ ment since the beginning of the war," said an officer lately on department duty at Washington, “but the queer¬ est of the lot was undoubtedly the 'mechanical hooter.' You never heard of It, of course, but you would If you had been within half a mile of the war office about a month ago. The hooter Is the invention of an Iowa gentleman and consists of a wooden tube about the size of a 4-inch section of a bologna sausage. Stretched across the aperture is a piece of perforated rawhide, and when blown Into It emits a strange and blood-chilling howl-something absolutely indescrlb- able In words—a sort of cross be- tween the shriek of a buzz saw when it strikes a nail and the lower register of an adult steam calliope. It Is the sort of noise I imagine a hippopot- amus might make during an attack of membranous croup. But the scheme of the Inventor was really not so bad. He pointed out in his letter that the yell played a very prominent part in .all military operations. The demoralizing effect of the rebel yell was freely admitted by all Northern generals during the civil war and his- tory has repeated itself in the recent campaigns. It was tho yell of the Rough Riders as they went up San Juan hill that scared the Spaniards out J of their trenches and the Kansas yell has spread more terror among the Fil- | ipinos than all the Gatling guns put j together. From these facts he argued j very logically that a mechanical hoot¬ er, plementing augmenting, the magnifying natural voice and would sup- j J greatly 7 increase the efficiency of our ! troops. A charge, , „ su j company on a - denly hooting in chorus, would strike I dismay into the hearts of the bravest ! foe. All All American American soldier soiaier h'lmnina lumping and hooting over a rics field would cause any Filipino alive to immediate- lv lose interest in the sacred cause ot freedom and scoot for the far end __. of - the archipelago. At least such was tl e clairn of the inventor and after hearing I the machine tried I am inclined , 1 agree with him. A clerk was in- j structed to return the sample and say: that that in m the ine oninlnn opinion nf of the the dennrfmpnt department it would be a cruel and ' inhuman weapon and a violation of the rule3 of civilized warfare as laid down in the conference of The Hague. You may think this is a fairy tale, by the way, but it isn’t. It’s cold fact.” A CItj Beehive. It seems a little odd to think of domiciling bees in a great city, yet i the New York Times has discovered a man who successfully attempted this, His name is Joutel, and he is an ardent naturalist. It was Mr. Joutel’s love for insects which led him to experiment in keeping an apiary on the roof of his home at East One Hundred and Seven- j teenth street. He procured a hive, stocked it, and awaited results. In a ] short time they had combs in process of construction, and were filling them with honey. As to where they got thi# material, Mr. Joutel’s explanation is of considerable interest. Soon after he started his hive, he said, he was in Mount Morris park, some distance from his house. Here he found some of his bees hard at work on the few flowers in sight. He made a trip to Morning- side park, on the west side of the city, and observed a few of the honey mak¬ ers there. He was sure they were from his hive, as they were of a peculiar variety and easily recognized. Mr. Joutel believes that they also made trips to Central park, as well as pa** ronlzing all the fire-escape conserva¬ tories in the neighborhood. At any rate they collected a large amount of honey, and some of the combs have been exhibited in the American Mua- eum of Natural History. Judas was probably a good female impersonator. future president was a shrewd business man, he accumulated there what was considered a large fortune in those days. He sent young James to Dick¬ inson college, in Carlisle, from which he graduated in 1815. The house in which Buchanan was born is now re¬ built on Fayette street, Mercersburg. Before it was torn down all the logs were carefully numbered and when it was again erected it was made a fac¬ simile of its former self. The house is a story and a half high, containing two rooms. It is constructed of large, roughly hewn logs and is twenty feet wide on Fayette street and twenty-one feet deep along an alley. There is a single window and a door in front and one window on the alley, side, with a door at the rear. " You Can’t Catch the Wind in a Net." fMther can you cur* catarrh by local application*. It it* constitutionaldisease, and * cured by Hoed’a SsrvaparitU be- cauaa it is a constitutional remedy, if upeta from the blood the impurity which caaaea the disease, end rebuild* and jfax£i repairs the inflamed membranes. ‘ ft] I | Up-to-Dato Tommy Atkins. Tammy Atkins _ , is still regarded in the Boer homestead as the poor man in a red coat nnd a whit# helmet who | stands up to be shot nt; whereas if the Boer were to see the Natal garrison la h * would be thunderstruck to that thero la not a rod coat or a white helmet among them; that Tora- my I s almost as clever as the Boer himself In taking cover; and that Uta uniform is such that he can scarcely be distinguished from the dry grass through which he Is wriggling his way. —Transvaal Critic, A curious Discovery, At a depth of twenty-seven feet a cmdous discovery was made recently ’ a Berl!n paper saygt on the island Q Qotlilsnd—the skeletons of several knights In full armor seated on their (j 01 .* eg Archaeologists think they date { 0 the ninth century. QUALITY AND NEWS. Fame and Excellence Are Determining Factors in Suco^Mful Development* ONE OF THE IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS OF HLGH-CLA.SS NEWSPAPERS. 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