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CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT:
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2N Sr. Woods Hutchinson.
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BALY knows when he wants to eat and is provided vita an
excellent and most musical apparatus for conveying that
i'act to your apprehension. He knows what he wants, and
will reject vigorously what doesn't suit him. And you
may be sure that he knows far better thun most adul-s
when he has had enough.
This faculty is present from his very earliest appearance
upon the stags of life. During the first three days of his
existence the healthy baby cries but little and sleeps al
most constantly.; and we have now discovered that during this period he
not only requires no food, but is better off without it. He is still digesting
and living upon the nourishment in his blood derived from the veins of his
mother, and until that process is completed, food in his little stomach is a
foreign body. In fact, the impression that colic or colickiness in a baby
is a natural characteristic is chtefly due to the senseless insistence of
officious nurses and anxious mothers upon crowding things into the baby's
stomach during his first three days. There is another clear indication on
the part of Nature of this fact, if we had only been open minded enough to
see it. in that there is no natural supply of nourishment for the child until
the close of these three days. The horrible things, that are poked into the
unfortunate baby's mouth in order to correct this stupid oversight on the
part of Nature and keep it from starving to death would almost stagger
credulity.
His faculty of knowing what be wants in the way of food is equally to
"be trusted. He is largely a creature of circumstances here, and if what he
really likes doesn't happen to be offered him, he of course can indicate no
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prererence for it. He vastly preiers mature s own source ut uuuusumcui,
and Is a thousand times justified in his preference. Nature has taken a
quarter of a million years fitting a cow's milk to grow not a baby, but a
calf, and a mother's milk to grow a baby, and we cannot expect to com
pletely reverse the process in one generation. Not only is the natural sup
ply a far better food, but it is infinitely freer from risks of contamination
ard the conveyance of disease. Woman's Home Companion.
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Cartoon by Macauley, in the New York World.
SECRETLY MURDERED 170 FOR THE SULTAN
S it not time to ascertain what railroads are worth to find
out thrpugh state and national bodies just what they are
worth? They claim to be so much of a pubtic institution
as to borrow a right of eminent domain from the state.
We want a reasonable rate; we want to stop the issuance
of watered stock and to stop fictitious capitalization. I
used to be called a dangerous man, a man trying to destroy
property rights. Now it is seen that the destroyers of
nronertv are the manipulators who rob stockholders. These
are the men who by their wickedness have brought odium on honest wealth.
In the interest of the widow and the orphan I demand that the stock of rail
roads be built on an honest basis. Some are always talking of the sacred
ness of property rights. Man comes first and property afterward. You can't
protect property rights by destroying human rights. It is time for the small
business man to come out from those with whom he has been associated and
fight against predatory wealth.
Railroad rates should be so reduced as to give a reasonable return on
honest capitalization. I should define such a rate as one that would keep
the stock at par on an honest capitalization. That would allow local business
conditions to determine how large the rate should be. The time has come
when we shail recognize another honest purchaser, not the innocent pur
chaser of stock he can find out if the stock is good. I mean the innocent
purchaser of land along a railroad, whose right to a reasonable rate on his
product is as sacred as the right of the stockholder to a reasonable dividend.
ame Mature9 s Part
How the Production of Monsters
Is Kept Down.
Ey Gordon Kelso.
Zia Bey. ex-Head of Turkish Secret Police, Explains Methods of Camanlla
The System of Espionage-Euad Pasha, a Field Marshal and
Adherent of Young Turks, Tells of His Escapes.
HE discussion on "mismating" Is enough to provoke a smile
on the face of Nature. That estimable dame has her little
hobbies the same as the rest of us, and her pet fad being
the maintenance of the average she accomplishes her pur
pose by making extremes meet whenever they appear. The
vast majority of tall men, for instance, mate with women
of medium height or under, and the tall women (except in
comparatively few cases, about the medium height for a
man) marries a man of her own height or slightly beneath
it, and there is "overproduction cf neither giants nor dwarfs.
But this principle governs individual selection not only through anatomy
but through temperament and mentality as well. The grouch marries the an
gel because he needs her in his business, and the good natured, easy going,
ma nan a type cf man marries a woman whose mctto is "No backward step"
and who stands constantly on guard at his spinal column to see that he does
n't sneak in a couple when she isn't looking.
The individual cf "purely speculative" tendencies, already mentioned in
this discussion, simply conformed to this law, whether he knows it or not.
when he picked out a "purely practical" wife. She is his ballast, and in all
probability if he threw her overboard he'd perish of starvation between the
clouds and the stars.
I know just such another couple, and perhaps a little incident from their
experier.ee will illustrate the interdependence that exists in such a match
letter than any abstract argufyin' can. They were walking along the street
cne clear, cold night last winter. T'te beauties of the sky thrilled him.
"How wonderful the stars are," he remarked.
"Yes," Fhe replied, her eyes on the sidewalk, "but you'd better not step
on that ico."
She clipped his wines a a oo.ved his neck.
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P How to Approach Work $
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UT the right spirit into your work. Treat your calling as
divine as a call from principle. If the thing itself be not
important, the spirit in which- you take hold of it makes all
the difference in the world to you. It can make or mar the
man. You cannot afford grumbling service or botched work
in your life's record. You cannot afford to form a habit
of half doing things, or of doing them in the spirit of a
drudge, for this will drag its sliny trail through all your
subsequent career, always humiliating you at the most un
expected times. Let ether people do the poor jobs, the botched work, if they
will. Keep ycur standards up, your ideals high.
The attitude with which a man approaches his task has everything to dD
with the equality andefflclency of his work, and with its influence upon his
character. What a man dots is a part cf himself. Our life-work is an out
yicturlng of ojr ambition, our ideals, our real selves. If you see a man'3
work yoa iei the rnr.n.
No one can re:-pec t himself, cr have that sut-'ime faith in himself which
Is essential to all high achievements, when ho puts mean, half-hearted, slip
shod service into what he does. He canr.o pet his highest self -approval un
til he dcej his 'level best. Success Maga;.inc.
Loudon. Zia Bey, the former head
of Turkey's Secret Police, who is a
refugee in London, in an interview
said:
"I am glad to be here, and it is
not possible that I will ever return to
Turkey. You must remember that
at the bidding of my superiors I have
been the means of ruining Ministers,
officers and Government officials, and
170 Turks, many of them members of
the most honorable families, disap
peared during my term of office.
"It mattered not who were the
persons to be removed, the orders
from the Yildiz Kiosk were implicitly
obeyed. To be denounced by the se
cret police was suflicient to ruin any
one. Can you wonder that Turkey
has seen the last of me?
"The Porte as an administrative
machine ceased to exist twenty-five
years ago; since then all the power
has been centred in the Yildiz Kiosk.
I do not blame the Sultan entirely,
aor the Chamberlains entirely. Their
power rested in a sort of working
agreement, which enabled them to
manipulate the resources of the em
pire in their own interests. Izzet
Pa:ha, the Sultan's secretary, is re
puted to have saved $7,500,000,
which he has invested in the United
States. The Sultan himself has at
least $15,000,000 invested in Europe,
this amount being his percentage on
bribes from contractors for war
stores and army and navy supplies.
"I often reflected that this could
not go on forever, but the end came
quicker than most of us expected."
Zia Bey explained the difficulties
he had in making his escape from
Turkey. The Sultan, he said, warned
him to flee, and he had to shoot a
man dead who tried to prevent his
embarkation despite tho disguise he
had adopted.
Constantinople. Euad Pasha, one
of the most brilliant Turkish officers
in the Russo-Turlcov ;w, who was
exiled for being identi.'ed with the
Young Turk Party in 1902, but who
was recently restored to his rank as
Field Marshal and returned to Con
stantinople, tells an interesting story
of his exile and imprisonment at
Brussa. He says that before his de
portation his life was attempted four
teen times, his struggle against the
infamous palace rule involving him
in dangers of all kinds.
"When they failed to murder me,"
he said, "by secret means I was de
ported without trial or warning, and
even while imprisoned the systematic
precautions did not cease.
"It is the fashion to say that the
sovereign is ignorant of the fearful
crimes committed in his name, but
His Majesty must have sheaves of re
ports in my handwriting reciting the
mysteries of the camarilla for years
past. Every Ottoman functionary
was compelled, whether he liked it
or not, to be an accomplice to a great
er or lesser degree in the wholesale
robbery which has made Turkey a
byword. Comparatively honest men
were drawn into the meshes, and
once there it was impossible to resist
rowing in the same boat. To refuse
meant to become the object of perse
cution and to pay dearly for one's
temerity in the end.
"I ask you whether the mere grant
ing of a Constitution at the sword's
point is sufficient to blot out the
memory of the sufferings of thou
sands like myself, who have under
gone far worse physical and mental
tortures than I have. If the Sultan
henceforth sets his face against the
abuses he formerly fathered he has
nothing to fear, but he must be
warned that the slightest symptom of
tampering with the nation's rights
and liberties will be the signal for
his downfall. That he has for so
long a time been unmolested is large
ly the fault of one or two European
Powers, whose interest lay in main
tainins Turkey's weakness as a pow
er. We now look chiefly to Great
Britain and France to foster our liberties."
PRUSSIA TO GRANT WOMEN EDUCATION EQUAL TO MEN,
Forced by Modern Conditions to Prsnaro Them For Earning a Living-Co-Education
in Universities-- E abor?te Courses of Study ts
Begin at Six Years and Lead Up to Matriculation.
Berlin. German homes and Ger
man newspapers have been far more
occupied during the end of the week
with the Prussian Government's de
cree granting higher education to
women than by discussions on Ger
man and British naval armaments or
the meeting of the two sovereigns.
The granting of educational opportu
nities for girls and women equal to
those of men is regarded as marking
a deep change in German life, where,
more than in the Western States,
women have been considered as the
keepers of the homo and the workers
in minor industries.
The introductory paragraphs of the
decree of the Ministry of Education,
which has been approved by the Em
peror, recite the reasons for the
change in the system. Modern life,
says the decree, develops an increas
ing disinclination on the part of men
of the upper classes to marry, and
more girls in the upper and middle
classes are prevented from becoming
wives and mothers. It is desirable,
therefore, that the surplus of young
women should have a chance of pre
paring themselves for professional
callings, and that they should be
trained in the higher mental func
tions According to the scheme, girls are
to be educated in all studies embraced
in a specially arranged curriculum,
beginning at a in'n'nium age of six
years. At the end of the seventh
school year the p ipils will begin to
differentiate in their studies, those
preparing fur advanced instruction
having special courses laid out for
them, such as Latin. After two
years they will again be arranged in
divisions, classical or modern higher
study respectively. Then after four
years' work they will, under normal
conditions, be admitted to examina
tions for matriculation to the univer
sities. Up to this time their education will
have been carried on in separate
schools, but in the university ("-education
will begin under conditions
similar to those governing men stu
dents. Those who at the end of the
seventh school year do not elect to
specialize for a university course may
continue the ord:nar5r courses until
they reach the age of sixteen, after
which they may leave school or take
two years in modern languages, mu
sic or domestic accomplishments, or
they may take four years' special
training as teachers.
This scheme has been under dis
cussion and preparation for a year.
There has been an agitation for equal
privileges for the seces since the early
eighties, and most of the other Ger
man States have already granted
them.
Fran Helene Lange, the noted edu
cationalist, has been a leading advo
cate of this intellectual emancipa
tion. Professor Adolf Harnett, of
the University of Berlin, said that
women now have equal rights with
men to enter all the technical schools,
with the exception of the art acade
mics, and that this prohibition is like
ly soon to be removed.
m-rvurd Has ?20,00').000 Irt-
vestea Income of f.9 1.1,176.
Cambridge, Mass. According to
the report of the Harvard College
treasure:-, the investment funds of
the coil.o amount to $19,977,911,
and the annual income is $945,176.
G'T.rral investments aggregate
.Z,Vl-. Over $3,000,000 are
invested i:i railroad bonds, over $1,
000,000 in ra'.hoad stock, $2,000,000
Jn real estate and $1,500,000 in trac
tion bonds. Besides, over $2,500,000
are invested in sundry bonds and $1,
125,000 in mortgages and notes.
Spain Has Used False
Coin For Fifteen Years.
Madrid, Spain. The Government
will sustain a heavy loss as a result
of the decision to retire from circu
lation $200,000 worth of count:..-:!
five peseta coins.
These coins have been in circula
tion for the past fifteen years, a:d
they have been practically accaptod
as legal tender from the people. The
only return the Government will get
will be from the sale cf the Ingots
into which the coins will sooa be
melted.
THE AWFUL JUNGLE.
The meadow is an awful place
For one so young as 1;
The dandelion you must face.
The fiery dragon fly,
The snakeroot and the adder's tongue;
Terribilous to one so young.
Thouph pentle cowslips kindly yield
Milkweed and buttercup,
Beside rou, hidden in the field,
The bear a paw reaches up
To grab at you, behind, before;
While tiger lilies rounce and roar.
And my! what brigand armies pass
On horse flies or on foot,
Their Turk's beards waving in the grass;
They're armed with arrowroot.
And all the flowers have pistils, too:
While sword grass waits to cut you through.
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Now maybe Indian pipes don't mean
A horrid Soowix camp!
And think! there's toadstools to be seen,
Horrifficently damp.
I tell you, I ain't going to go
Where crawly-wawly creatures grow!
Sinclair Lewis, in Woman's Home Com
panion. HOME-MADE TOYS.
A Lively Snake. This snake is
easily made if you follow the pattern
carefully. Paste this pattern on to
thin cardboard, and then cut the
whole out.
Prick a tiny hole in the snake's
head, thread a piece of sewing-cotton
through, and make a knot at one end
of the cotton, so that it doesn't slip
through the hole.
Hang the snake under a gas-jet
by tying him on with the piece of cot
ton, and he will drop his coils down,
and twirl away merrily for hours. .
And j-ou ought to see how he glit
ters in a lifelike way when you put
a little frosting on him!
If you don't want to cut up your
"Playbox," you might get a piece of
tracing paper, lay it over the draw-
this tongue in a very odd way, for
by means of it he catches flies. If
you Keep a toaa as a pet ana put
a fly Into his cage he will not seem. -f
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iu lutte any notice oi me insect a.t an
You would think that he did not sqq
it; but after, a little while, perhaps,
the fly will settle two or three inches
away from the toad. Still the toad
will not appear to notice it r but a.
few seconds later it will vanish, sc ,
suddenly and so quickly that you will
not be able to see what has become
of it. The fact Is that the toad has
really been watching the fly all the
time, and when it settled he took
careful aim, flicked out his long elas
tic tongue, and just touched the in
sect with the tip. As it Is so gummy,
of course the fly stuck to the tip, and
when the tongue flew hack into the
mouth it carried the victim with it
and pushed it right down the throat!
As a rule the toad feeds only upoiL
small insects. But he is very fond
of the odd little pill millepedes, which
roll themselves up into balls when
they are frightened; and just now
and then he will swallow a worm,
which he always seizes by the middle
of the body. The worm, or course
does not like being swallowed at all,
and wiggles and twists about bo ac
tively that you might think that it
would easily succeed in making Its
escape. But the toad takes hold of
it with both his forepaws, crams it
into his mouth and gives two or three
great gulps. And at last it disap-
pears just as the fly did. -r
Another very curious thing about
the toad is that every now and thea
he throws off his skin and gets a
new one instead. When he is about
to d this the old skin splits dowa
Jumping frog,
(toy)
tlively snake (ioiff. A toy wheelbarrow"
ixiik of the snake, and hold it down
Blrmly with your left hand.
Then carefully go over the lines
o the drawing with your pen or pen
cil, and when you've colored it all,
take the piece of tracing paper and
paste it down on to the piece of card
board, without letting the paper get
the least little bit creased, and then
cut it out when the paste has had
time to dry. Philadelphia Record.
A Jumping Frog. This is made
with a wishbone, a bit of string, a
little stick and a tiny bit of cobbler's
wax.
Tie the string round double across
the wide part of the wishbone; put
the cobbler's wax on the end where
you see the black mark in the pic
ture; put the bit of stick between
the two pieces of string, and twist
the string round and round, away
from the narrow end of the bone.
Then, when it is tightly twisted,
put the other end of the stick tightly
down into the cobbler's wax, and turn
the whole thing over. Now watch.
The cord pulls the stick up off the
wat, and away up in the air goes this
queer jumping frog!
A Little Wheelbarrow. This is
made with a matchbox, three thin
wooden skewers, a bit of cardboard
and a pin.
Make two holes far apart at the
back of the box, and two holes near
together on the front.
Now thrust two of the skewers
through the holes till they stick out
in front enough to fasten the wheel
between them nicely.
Cut the wheel out of cardboard,
and put the pin through the wood
and the cardboard.
Cut the third skewer in two, and
fasten it on the back of the barrow
for the stands. From the Philadel
phia Record.
the middle of the baQkUfluhat yoi
can see the new one lying under
neath it. Then the toad begins to
wiggle and twist about, and to rub
his legs against his body and his
body against his legs, till at last he
manages to strip off his old skin alto
gether. Then what do you think he
does with his castoff coat? I am
sure that you will - never . guess, , so
I must tell you. He rolls it up into
a kind of ball, by means of his front
paws, and then swallows it, just as if
it were a big pill.
Some people think that the toad
is poisonous; and it is quite true
that if a dog picks one of these ani
mals up he very soon drops it again,
and begins to foam at the mouth.
But the fact is that the lumps which
you may see on different parts of a
toad's body are really glands or bags,
which contain a small quantity of a
kind of acid liquid. When these are
squeezed the liquid is squirted out;;
and if a little of it gets into a dog's
mouth it makes it smart so much
that he is very glad indeed to drop
his victim. But even this liquid is
not really poisonous. And certainly
you need not be at all afraid to
handle a toad, for it cannot hurt you
in any way whatever. The Rev.
Theodore Wood, in the London Trifk
bune.
ABOUT TOADS.
Toads are so plentiful in all parts
of the country that everybody knows
them very well by sight. During the
daytime you may find them hiding
under logs of wood or big stones, or
in some damp, dark corner of the
garden. And you can hardly take an
evening stroll without seeing several
of them crawling about in the roads.
But it is not everybody who knows
what curious creatures they are.
For one thing, they have such very
odd tongue. Cur tongues bve the
root down the throat and the up rust
behind the lip3. But a toad's tongue
i3 turned the other way round, and
has the root just inside the lips and
the tip down the throat. Besides this,
it is very long and very elastic, so
that it can be darted out of the
mouth to a really wonderful distance,
while it is quite as sticky as If it had
baea dipped in gum. Tho toad uses J
BETTY'S PLAYTIME.
"Oh, pshaw!" said Betty,, when
mamma called her from play, "some
body's always a-wantin' me to do'
something!" She ran into the house
with a frown on her face.
"Betty," said mamma, "if you
can't obey cheerfully "
"Well, I always have to be doin'
somethin'," burst out Betty. "I
never can play "
"You may play thi3 whole day
long," said mamma, quietly.
"And not do anythin else?" asked
Betty.
"Not do another thing," said mam
ma. "Oh, good!" cried Betty, and she
ran and got her doll things and be
gan making a dress for Cora May,
her new dolly.
Grandma came into the room while
she was sewing.
"Betty," she said, "will you run
upstairs and get granny her spec
tacles?" "Yes, ma'am," cried. Betty, jump
ing up in a hurry, for she dearly
loved to do things for grandma.
"No, Betty," said mamma; "you
The Pursuit ef Letters.
All the world may not exactly love
a lover, but it always takes quite an
interest in his letters when they are
r e a d 1 tJ t ,4 r y From Puck.