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UMrtMt High OfffeialM
A foreign representative has to meet
On business not merely the Russian
Minister of Foreign Affairs and the
heads of departments In the Foreign
Office, but various other members of
the imperial cabinet, especially the
Ministers of Finance, of War, of the
Navy, of the Interior, and of Justice,'
"as well as the chief municipal author¬
ities of St. Petersburg; and I can say
that many of these gentlemen, both
as men and as officials, are fully equal
to men in similar positions in most
other countries whioh I have known.
Though they were at times tenacious
in questions between their own peo¬
ple and ours, and though they upheld
political doctrines very different from
those we cherish, I am bound to say
that they generally did so in a way
whicn disarmed criticism. At the same
time I must confess a conviction whioh
has more and more grown upon me;
that the popular view regarding the
power, vigor and astuteness of Rus¬
sian statesmen is ill-founded.—From
Andrew D. White’s “A Diplomat’s Rec¬
ollections of Russia,” in the Century.
Jack’s Picturesque Slang.
Although, with clue-garnets and
stu’n’-sails, much 'of the picturesque
language of the sea has passed away,
Jack’s conversation is still garnished
with expressions and terms born of the
conditions of his life on the ocean. His
language with his mates is a curious
combination of Bokery slang and sea
phrases—“Youse guys come in out or
that boat and bear a hand!” as I heard
one young cockswain order—and I be¬
lieve that if Shakespeare could have
known our modern Yankee man-of
war’s-man, he never would have put
strange -oath's in the mouth cf a sol¬
dier. "Sw in spite of the peculiarities
of his speech, and his almost univer¬
sal n’egiect of the rule that two nega¬
tives make one affirmative, he can
send or read the most complicated
message in either the international or
naval code—with signal-flags in the
daytime, or by the Ard-c-is system of
red and white electric lights at night,
through "ivith wlft ch our warships another.—From hoy con- R.
one
urn’s “Our Modern Bine
in the Century.
“Spoiled Parents.”
A correspondence in one of the
morning papers, on the “spoiled chil¬
dren” of the present day, has brought
to the front many interesting aspects
of family training. It seems general¬
ly felt that there is in many cases
an undue laxity nowadays on the part
of the parents, with disastrous re¬
sults to the children. One writer has
traced this tendency to one of —s
sources by pointing out that frequent¬
ly it is the parents who are spoiled:
He says;
“Indifferent and ease-loving fathers,
weak and vacillating mothers, one mo¬
ment will scold and punish; and the
next coddle and pity their children,
with the result that the children, with
their wonderful powers of observation
and imitation treat the desires and
feelings of their parent with corre¬
sponding contempt.”
Good parents are few and far be¬
tween, and that is because the quali¬
ties of firmness, self restraint, and
Wisdom, so needful in family training,
are so rare among men and women.—
London Christian.
Commandments of the Home Maker.
1. Make your household one har¬
monious whole, no matter how small
the scale.
2. Use only what you can comfort¬
ably afford in good quality and ample
quantity.
3. Let your home appear bright
and sunny. It is not easy to be un¬
pleasant in a cheerful room.
4. Treat your servants wisely and
kindly, and it will be impossible for
them to either impose or oppose.
5. A certain formality is necessary
to save every-day life from triviality
and freedom from looseness.
7. Do not forget that “society” is
the death of home life—hospitality its
flower.
S. Know how to talk and how to
listen, now to entertain and bow to
amuse.
9. Have many interests and no
studies.
10. Do not forget—your home
should not only be a well-conducted
dormitory and boarding place, but
truly a home, the centre and focus of
all interests, pleasure and happiness
for everybody connected with it.—
Harper’s Bazaar.
About Yawning.
Yawning is not considerel a very
graceful act, and I think it should b"
avoided in unseemly places; but
Health Culture considers it an impor¬
tant effort of nature to rest and
otherwise benefit the body. The
writer is of opinion, though, that if
practiced too much a yawning habit
may be cultivated which may be more
troublesome than useful. But the
publication referred to says whenever
you feel like yawning, just yawn.
Don’t tfir to suppress it because you
thing it is impolite to yawn. Put your
hand over your mouth if you want to,
but let the yawn come. And if you
are where you can stretch at the same
time that you yawn, just stretch and
yawn. This is nature’s way of
stretching and relaxing the muscles.
Don’t be afraid to open the mouth
wide and yawn and stretch whenever
very tired but do not feel like yawn¬
ing, there is nothing that will rest you
so quickly as to sit on a straight-back
chair and lifting your feet from the
floor push them out in front of you as
far as possible, stretch the arms, push
the head back, open the mouth wide
and make yourself yawn.
Poison in Oriental Rugs.
A salesman employed in the rug de¬
partment of a big Market street .store
died of blood poisoning the other day,
and since then no one in the estab¬
lishment has been permitted to handle
any new importations that have not
been fumigated unless gloves are
worn. The salesman in question had
scratched one of his fingers with a
opening a bale of rugs that had just
come from the Orient-he had become
inoculated with poison, which resulted
fatally.
“It’s a wonder to me,” said a friend
of the victim, “that such cases are
not more common. I have traveled
through Turkey and Armenia, where
most of the rugs are manufactured on
hand looms amid filth and squalor al¬
most indescribable, where the most
loathsome of diseases are everywhere
in evidence. These products, while
beautiful from an artistic point of
view, may readily carry germs to
other countries that might spread all
sorts of horrible contagion.”—Phila¬
delphia Record.
Inklings.
It is generally the woman with a
fine carriage who is most willing to
walk.
“Where there’s life, there’s hope”
is not exactly the motto for an under¬
taker.
The girl cf the period seldom comes
to a full stop until she finds the young
man of the interrogation point.
There is nothing some disdainful
women hold up to ridicule oftener
than their lorgnettes.
The confidence man’s road to suc¬
cess often seems to be paved with
gold bricks.—Everybody’s Magazine.
A poultice of finely scraped beets is
well recommended for cuts with glass
or wounds from rusty iron. It should
be frequently renewed in order to
keep the wound moist for several
hours.
All But One of 23 Children Twins,
A Media physician went down to
Morton today to examine a woman for
life insurance. The policy required
that answers be made relative to the
family history, and the doctor asked:
“How old is your father?”
“Forty-two.”
“How many in the family?”
“There is father and mother and
twenty-three children; I am the twen¬
ty-third one. There were eleven sets
of twin®.”—Media Correspondence
Philadelphia Record.
BtrAa That Imitate.
“The roar of the ostrich resemble*
the roar of the lion because the os¬
trich stole from the lion this sound,
even as one playwright steals from
another a plot.”
An ornithologist made that odd as¬
sertion In a taxidermist’s shop. He
went on to elaborate it as follows:
“Birds from the ostrich down are
imitative. The ostrich, where he lives
alone, is silent, but in a country where
lions abound he roars. Why? Be¬
cause for centuries, admiring the maj¬
esty and grandeur of the lion’s roar,
he gradually learned to roar himself.
Believe me, it is fine to see an ostrich
throw back his little head and emit a
roar like thunder.
“Buntings imitate pipits, and green¬
finches imitate yellow hammers. They
seek their food in the winter together,
and they gradually steal each other’s
calls.
“The jay is an insatiable imitator.
Some jays will include in their reper¬
tory not only the whoo-oo of the kite,
the scream of the buzzard and the hoot
of thu owl, but also the bleat of the
iamb and the neigh of a horse.
“Even the nightingale imitates. In
a nightingale’s perfect song I have of¬
ten heard the tipsip-sisisis of the-wood
■warbler and the bub-ub-ubble of the
nuthatch.”—Washington Post.
He Wanted tc See John.
In anticipation of the Horse Show
an uptown carriage house is display
ing in a broad show window wax fig'
ures of coachmen in uniform, sui
rounded by the iatest fads in saddler;'*
and carriage fittings. A few night*
ago the policema i on beat saw a mar
violently shaking the main doors o'
the establishment. Then he tapped on
the window and beckoned to one of
the figures insiue.
“Come out here, Jchn, he shouted
“Come and have a drink.”
“Friend of ymrs?” asked the pallet
man.
“Sure,” replied the man. “Didn’t
sit beside hin for a whole year when
he was coachman for Dr. Dix? Come
out h?re, Jnhn,’i he repealed,* again
rapping on »,lve. window. The police¬
man put the man on an uptown car,
telling him to call around and set
John in the morning.—New York Post.
Russian Weddings.
Besides bridesmaids there are
bridesmen these latter being obligee
to present the bridesmaids with'sweet
meats. A personage follows the pro¬
cession bearing an elegantly mounted
picture cf Christ in gold and silver,
which is stationed against the altar.
The bridesmaids do not all dress alike
and their number is unlimited.
The bride’s old nurse superintends
the removal of the dowry from the
bride’s homo to that of her future
husband and is a most important mem
her on the day of the wedding. A
witness--a connection of the family
pays the priest’s fees, and the num¬
ber of assistants, each with a separate
duty alloted him, is often considerably
great.—Washington Star.
A Thought for che Week.
You cannot do wrong without suf¬
fering wrong. “No man had ever a
point of pride that was not injurious
to him,” said Burke. The exclusive
in fashionable life does not see that
he excludes himself from enjoyment,
in the attempt to appropriate it. The
exelusionists in religion does not see
that he shuts the door of heaven on
himself in striving to. shut out others.
Treat men as pawns and nine pins
and you shall suffer as well as they.
If you leave out their heart, you shall
lose your own.—From Emerson’s Es¬
say on “Compensation.”
Honest.
Sammy Phipps had been promised
a whipping by his mother in liquida¬
tion of his many misdeeds, and, being
a devout believer in the efficacy oi
prayer, dropped to his knees and be¬
gan praying in a loud, childish treble
to the Lord to spare him.
Mamma—Sammy, what are you do¬
ing?
Sammy—I’s prayin’ to the Lord, but
I hope yen’ll hear me!
American Tea.
An interesting visitor from the
South, a gentleman reminiscent in his
own person of the palmy era of the
Palmetto State, is Dr. Charles A.
Shepard, of South Carolina, who is at
the Arlington. Dr. Shepard is like¬
wise interesting because he has done
things that nobody else In the South,
or any other part of the Union, per¬
haps, has attempted.
He lias proved on his own planta¬
tion at Summerville, twenty miles out
of Charleston, that the growing of tea
can be carried on successfully and
profitably. He has been doing this
for the past twelve years with such
good results that the Secretary of
Agriculture and the Congress of the
United States highly approve his
deeds, and both are extending him
liberal assistance.
“My idea from tlio start,” said Dr.
Shepard, “was to add an additional
crop to the farm products of the coun¬
try. The road to agricultural suprem¬
acy is through diversifying. My
friends seem to think I have been suc¬
cessful. and I have every reason to be
gratified with what has been accom¬
plished. Tea raising in the United
States is certainly practicable. It is
no new thing in this country, for in
the old days a French priest planted
tea on the banks of the Ashley River.
But owing to the difference in the
cost of labor the United States can¬
not compete with the Orient in low
grade or cheap teas. It will pay us
to produce only that of the highest
quality and which brings a high price
in market. The tea grown on my
place in South Carolina compares with
the best that is imported from East¬
ern lands.”—Washington Post.
Japs in Texas.
As the result of an investigation
just completed by County Attorney
John T. Wheeler, it would appear that
the Japanese prowess in the art ol
war is not to be exceeded by their
craft" i suicdeU in V |j£ 'J pursl'its.
Som;°J..'-Hs tyks aso it occurred to
the County Attorney that the Japa¬
nese colonies in Harris and GaHuston
Counties were very probably in viola-'
tion of the Texas alien land law and
he proceeded at once to look into the
matter. As a result of the investiga¬
tions he has given out the following:
“The Japs in Harris and Galveston
Counties are not violators of th.i
Texas alien land law. The Texa!
alien land Jaw is silent on the ques¬
tion of leases, so the .Taps have not
bought, because that would bo a vio¬
lation, but have taken long term
leases on the land occupied. They
look no chance. The question now to
be determined is ‘Are they bona fide
farmers, alien laborers under con¬
tract, or men who, having no chance
in a crowded land, have come here tG
suck a living from the soil and re¬
turn home when they have saved a
stake?’ The alien who buys land and
remains upon it may some day be¬
come a citizen, but the leasing of
land and the retention of fealty to a
foreign power clearly indicates that
the lessee desires every advantage en¬
joyed by our citizens without shoul¬
dering the full responsibilities of
American citizenship. Later on I may
be able to answer the question. I have
just asked and the press will be wel¬
come to a full report of ray investi¬
gations on the Jap farm question.”—■
C-alveston Tribune.
An Up-to-Date Diogenes.
An eccentric eld gentleman placed
in a field on his estate a board with
the following generous offer painted
thereon:
“I will give this field to any man
who is contented.”
He soon had an applicant.
“Well, my man, are you a contented
fellow?” asked the old gentleman.
“Yes, sir, very.”
“They why do you want my field?’’
The applicant did not wait to reply,
—New York Press.
