WE ARE A PATIENT PEOPLE.
\ erdict of Jerome K. Jeroiue After a
Fen Weeka' lu?i?eetioii.
Jerome K. Jerome, the English hu
morist, who recently lectured in Pitts
burg. has been interviewed in Chicago
on his impressions during his tour, says
the Pittsburg Dispatch. First of all he
indignantly denied that he pronounced
his name Jerrurn K. Jerruin. "Jer-oam,
please," he said.
"A great deal of stress generally is
laid on the fact that America is youth
ful," he commented. "I should go even
further and declare America extrava
gantly boyish. You are like a big fami
ly of healthy, rollicking boys, working
with all their might, playing hard, but
undisciplined, restive of restraint and
often unmanageable. You are learning
how to behave properly by experience.
You go along here for a generation or
so allowing your had toys, your gruft
ers, as you cull tliein, to plunder you
right and left, and suddenly you. wake
up and say: "Here, this isn't right.
We've got to reform this,' and then
you take ten minutes off to do the Job
It's hard on the grafters, poor fellows.
Here tlicy have beeu going along with
their plundering, thinking it was all
right because every one else thought
it was all right, and then suddenly
they are called in and told they are
naughty and are punished.
"Then you are such a patient people.
Why, today coming from the railway
station with our bags?there are never
any porters to carry one's luggage?we
were stopped fully ten minutes by a
train 011 a crossing. 1 was fuming
with indignation, but my fellow Amer
icans seemed to to enduring the out
rage with good uatured patience. In
England we should have made quite a
row about it, written letters to the pa
pers and had the railroad punished.
"Yes, you have the virtue of exces
sive meekness. The way the great ma
jority allows itself to be tossed is sur
prising. I've never been so much toss
ed by men wearing brass buttons in
my life. One can't leave his seat in
the car or ojton a window without be
ing tossed. One must wait until some
one with buttons gives his permission
to move. Y'ou meekly allow yourselves
to to ordered about.
"Over lu Kngland we boss the cab
drivers and the policemen, but here
they boss you. That's why I say that
the Americans are meek."
"How much of the rldicpious have
you seen since you have been in Amer
ica, Mr. Jerome?"
"Nothing." <
"Then we're not an amusing people?"
"Far from it. You all seem to be
foud of your mothers-in-law, and you
never get drunk. As for swearing,
why, every one swears so much that
there's no humor to be derived from
it."
NEW WIRELESS TELEGRAPH.
Letter* lMfttliifrtilfthed by Munleftl
Tone*. GIvIiik Inereafied Speed.
In the presence of a hundred repre
sentative citizens of Scranton, Pa., a
public test of the wireless telegraph
system Invented by Rev. Joseph Mur
gas was recently made between Scran
ton and Wilkesbarre, a distance of
eighteen miles, says a special from
Scranton, I'a., to the Washington Post.
Several messages were received and
sent with precision and certainty. Dr.
Van Hoagt, representing the national
government at Washington, was an in
terested spectator of the test and upon
his report will depend in a great meas
ure whether or not the system will be
adopted by the government.
The system differs from other wire
less systems. Instead of using the
Morse code, or alphabet of dots and
dashes, each letter Is distinguished by
a musical tone, which enables the mes
sage to be sent and received at a speed
of eight to ten times greater than that
attained by other systems. Father
Murgas also says that his instruments
are so delicately adjusted that they can
intercept messages sent by other sys
tems and says that he" has intercepted
several messages sent by ocean liners.
WIND MADE ELECTRICITY.
Imltunn Man I'erfectn a Device of
F.ni*}' Adaptability.
It. VV. Wilson of Westfield, Ind., is
lighting his house anil workshop with
wind made electricity through a device
of his own. on which he has secured
letters patent, says a specinl dispatch
from Crawfordsville, Ind., to the Chi
cago Inter Ocean. A windmill is used
in pumping water into a hydraulic reg
ulator. built on the principle of a hy
draulic lift. The pressure is regulated
by weights, and the water is admitted
to the hydraulic chamber, and It is dis
charged from It under seventy-five
pounds pressure through valves work
ing automatically.
The water is then forced Into a gen
erating plant and runs through a mo
tor directly connected with a small dy
namo. in this way there is a steady
pressure, and enough electricity Is gen
erated to provide ample light. The cost
o( the windmill and electrical appara
tus does not exceed $200, and Mr. Wil
son asserts that every farmhouse can
be easily supplied. The plant once es
tablished runs comparatively without
cost.
Scented Ma'trnnneN.
In Paris it Is the tad. It seems, to
seek repose on scented mattresses, says
the New York Press. Rags of different
colored silks are made and filled with
violet, heliotrope or lavender and sewed
on the sides of the mattress. These
bags, which Impart to the bed a dell
clous fragrance, are tied with satin rib
bons. Some of the scented mattresses
are most elaborate affairs, and, though
the dealers urge that they are sold for
a mere song, it, strikes most women
that they must be those "i ? gs" which
are sung bv high class opera birds for
society's edification.
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A WAC.Nc... . .-CCOTE.
1i>? He SiiunrJ II!? Joy at a "Par*
aiful** II -h?'!irKal.
The following anecdote uf Wagner Is
'old by Alfred Keisenauer, the pianist,
who, as a impil of Liszt, knew the
composer of "Parsifal" personally.
"Wagner was always more or less
self conscious," says Leiseuauer, "ant!
only at rare intervals did his friends
M-e him in moods that could ^ callei
anything but premeditated. In Bai
reuth I saw him in a highly character
lstlc situation, and 1 never shall for
get it. It was at a rehearsal of Tar
sifal.' The garden stvoj had Just beet
admirably sung and danced, where
upon \yaguer, In his exubcruut Joy.
hugged and kissed the artists, and
then, quite l>eside himself, got down on
all fours and barked like u dog. con
cluding his exhibition by throwing his
legs in the air and balancing himself
on his head.
"At this interesting moment Liszt
and several of his pupils, including
myself, walked on the stage. Quick as
I a flash, Liszt, who always played the
I role of Wagner's self constituted de
I fender, said grimly, 'Well, if that's a
[ pose, it's the hardest one in the world
i to hold, by thunder!' For the sake of
'lie meister we tried to restrain our
mirth, but the effort was not wholly
successful. I tlrmly believe, however,
I that Wagner himself was secretly
pleased at the sensation for which he
I was resi>onsible."?Harper's Weekly.
EFFECT OF IMAGINATION.
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Man Bitten by lIurnil<*nM Sunk** Be
lieved He Wan Dying.
An English physician in India once
told of an extraordinary case of the
effect of imagination on the physical
system. He says:
"Some time ago on visiting the hos
pital one morning I was told that a
man had been admitted during the
night suffering from a snake bite and
that he was very low. I found him in
a state of severe prostration; he was
hardly able to speak and seemed to be
in a state of great depression. He and
his friends said that during the night
in going into his hut a snake bit him
on the foot; that he was much alarmed
and rapidly passed into a state of in
sensibility, when they brought him to
the hospital. They and he considered
that he was dying and evidently re
garded his condition as hopeless.
"On being asked for a description of
the snake, they said they had caught
It and brought it with them in a bottle.
The bottle was produced, and the
snake turned out to be a small, inno
cent lyeodon. It was alive, though
somewhat injured by the treatment it
had received.
"On explaining to the man and his
friends that It was harmless, and with
some difficulty making them believe it.
the symptoms of poisoning rapidly dis
appeared, and he left the hospital as
well as he ever was in his life in a
few hours."
DOLL AVERTED WAR.
KlntlneNN to Apache Child Prevented
Trouble With the Indians.
A doll once averted a war with red
skins. An American general was try
ing to put a band of Apaches back on
their own territory, from which they
hud persisted in breaking out. but
could not catch them without killing
them, and that he did not wish to do.
His men captured a little Indian girl
and took her to the fort. She was
quiet all day, but her beady black eyes
watched everything. When night came,
however, she broke down, just as any
white child would have done. The men
tried In vain to comfort her, but finally
the agent borrowed a beautiful doll
from an oHirer's wife, which had be
longed to her little daughter, and prom
ised the Apache girl that she could
have It if her sobs ceased. She then
fell asleep.
When morning came the doll was
clasped in her arms. Eventually the
little Apache girl, with her doll, was
sent back to her people. When the
child reached the Indians with the doll
in her chubby hands It made n great
sensation among them, and the next
day the mother came with the child to
the post. She was hospitably received,
and through her the tribe was persuad
ed to move back to its own territory.?
New York Herald.
A Venomonn Retort.
"Don't take it so hard, Mr. Playn
man," said the young woman mock
ingly. "There are other girls, you
know. There's 1,11 (lumplir.s, Sal lie
Plimboru, Kate Isnoggles and Fan Bll
liwtnk. Any one of them would make
a better wife for you than I would."
"I know it," ho said, swallowing a
lump in his throat and turning to go.
"If any one of thoao four girls had said
yes, do you supjiose I would ever have
thought of coming here for a wife?"?
Chlcngo Tribune.
Pnntnir It.
"Are you ready?" asked the first
man.
"I am," came the answer In a firm
tone.
"Then come. We may as well know
the worst."
Closing the door behind them, they
resolutely descended the stairs.
When they rose from the boarding
house table, however, they agreed that
the meal had boon no worse than usual.
Vila I Nib lk* AddrrM.
Mrs. I.ittlowlt fpmndlyl?Only tost
ii i. ;.! (.'(Juries has gone '
puonc gathering. I die n't
know ho was a speechmaker. Mrs.
Llttlewit?Nor I, but he has been called
upon to make a statement before a
meeting of his creditors.
If a mm makes tie keep uiy dls
- . t.< ? ?? lie keeps his at
.....ie time.?Swift.
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SWEEPS ALL POISONS 8^? BLOOD.
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Different from any other remedy. The result of the
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CURED AFTER 16 YEARS.
Baltimore, Dec. 10th.
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of ever being well again. But hearing of
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I have taken two bottles, and, thanks to this
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MRS. LAURA D. GARDNER,
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