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By M. Marcet Sembat,
Member of the French Chamber of Deputies.
T has been said that music softens habits and customs, and
f wo are surely in need of learning gentler habits. You can
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tardly onen a paper wiuiout reauing uuuga tuai, ocuu
ers down your back, articles about the growth of crime,
but when you have read that crime grows and you look for
a remedy It is condensed into five or six lines. And still
five or six lines are too much to express a thought when,
the thought is anything but clear, as is mostly the case.
ThA rfimpiif RuereBted Is often very vague. It is sometimes
eaid: "We shall stop the growth of crime by jpolice." Now the police are
sometimes nece&sary, but I doubt if it be an efficient remedy against such a
plague.
It Is very important to them and to us that the young man chooses the
eood road, because if he chooses the evil he will himself only reap sad and
cruel results, and we ourselves run the risk of finding ourselves face to face
tvth the young man who has gone wrong on some dark evening and if the
young man holds a knife in bis- hand the papers the next day will tell of the
latest crime of the apaches.
To counteract this I Bee only one means, for the young man is not
really lost to society, and those who really understand how to rule would not
give him up as lost No, he would have said: "Those people are the ones
who are to make my beBt soldiers." Have we not seen many of them in our
African regiments give the most splendid proofs of courage and heroism?
Ko, they are not lost, but it is- our duty to show them another way, and, I
repeat, a way where they are sure to meet with approval, sure to please.
A new epdrit must be infused into the people, and it is in this connection
that the Idea of music forces Itself upon me. In all the big cities, in all the
large towns we must (have musical schools where young girls and young men
re to be taught to sing together. Here they will be taught the value of so
lidarity v in the most efficient, the most practical, way. In each of these or
chestras, 2a each of these choruses, the absence of one or two performers
will leave a hole which the others will endeavor to fill, and thus they wU all
go to work together toward a common artistic goal.
The Manly Art of
Self 'defense. ?
By Ed J. Goetvev
,. NGLAND was one of the first of the civilized countries to
take up boxing as a serious matter, and the Briton with the
TH ready fist in time of need has been the center of news and
gtory for hundreds of years back. There were prize fights
j there of the brutal type, but the Englishman appreoated the
Kgood points of sparring from the first, and went out of his
way to perfect and elevate it to the plane of recognized ath
I letics. It soon lost its title of "boxing" and was given that
of "the manly art of self-defense," because it was realized
that a good boxer could take care of himself on -most occasions without resort
to the cowardly knife or the revolver. The British, teamen were taught to
box, and -Usy carried the art to the four quarters of the globe.
The trouble la that In this country boxing has been too often made a bru
tal Bport, because, like most everything else here, It was promoted, until re
cently, solely as jl commercial proposition. Some great boxing contests were
held that were between men perfectly trained and evenly matched, and when
the battles were over and "the cleverer men had won, none was much the
worse for the struggle he had gone through.
The bad feature was that men who would "promote" anything that prom
ised financial returns gained the upper hold of the boxing game and held it
for years. They took advantage of the fact that Americans love an athletic
contest, and they overfed us. They cared not whether the men who boxed
were evenly matched or were in good physical condition. All they wanted
was "the dollar," and they so abused their privileges that boxing was stamp
ed not only as brutal, but ofttimes as crooked. Then the public in all parts of
the country rose up and put the boxing game almost out of commission. It
was solely the faulit of the money-mad promoters, the men who ruined racing,
WTestllng and every other professional sport in this country except baseball
and they'll kill that, too, unless the fans are vigilant. From Leslie's.
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Boys Are Bad Nowadays
Ji Graceless Generation Chargeable to
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By F L. Jf. Quastety
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UR boys and youths act very bad nowadays. Wherever you
travol they are in evidence, breaking the laws and ordi
nances of the city, and breaking the laws of God also.
Why is it? My conclusions are that parents are at fault.
Boys are not cautioned against evil and law breaking; they
are allowed to have their own way, to follow their own sweet
wills. The result is a crop of selfishness, and acts that are
vicious, criminal and un-American.
No one checks the boy who puts his feet all over the
car seat; no one says "stop" to the toy with the fiendish and shrill whistle;
no one calls a halt on the boy who fights and yells in the streets. Who says
"don't do it" to the boys playing baseball, tip cat, pitch pennies, craps, etc.,
in and on our streets?
- No one. Why not? Because the parents of these angels, these mamma's
and papa's darlings, are up in arms at the least reproof to thei offspring. No!
They will do what is needful dn the way of punishment for their spoiled
chicklets; they will bring up their young as they please; the laws be hanged;
no law must antagonize their darling's inclinations.
Any such law is wrong and must be nullified, and the result Is a lot of mis
fit men and women, undesirable citizens of all sorts later on, the kind that
fill our jails and prisons and add to our taxes and the cost of living.
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From Germany
By Rutledge Rutherford
G
ERMANY Is the greatest producer of coal tar dyes. None
of them is used in German foods, but America, the largest
consumer, bought C59 tons from Germany last year. You
and I have helped to consume them in the colored jams,
jellies and other painted foods we ate.
America's importation of chemicals from all nations for
use in food products and patent medicines last year reach
ed the bewildering sum of $85,000,000, or just about twice
what it was ten years ago or before the National Food
and Drags act went into effect. This is to say nothing of the enormous con
sumption of chemicals of home manufacture.
American food reactionaries say making foods pure would make thern
more expensive. Well, our food supply today, generally speaking, is the
most expensive- Germany's foods are the purest of any, and they are the
cheapest.
And Germany is now sending her foods everywhere, because people of
other nations have confidence in her food laws and their enforcement. The
ame would be true of America 4f our State laws complied with the national
law and all were more vigorously enforced. National Food Magazine.
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A SOLDIER' OF FORTUNE.
Of all the soldiers of fortune who
have helped to make Latin America
interesting in recent years, none was
more picturesque that young Harper
Lee, who nearly lost his life in the
bull ring at Guadalajara the other
day. Whether he will get well and
take up bull fighting again, the Mex
ican dispatches have not yet made
quite clear. Ib wouldn't be surprising
if he did, for it isn't the first time that
he has been reported dead.
Last October the papers told how
he had been badly gored while saving
the life of a fallen picador and it
was supposed that the young dare
devil would retire then. But he re
covered, only to add still more daring
performances to those which had al
ready made him a hero to the crowd
which follows bull fighting in Mexico.
He was very popular down there,
both with Mexicans and Americans,
both with those who flock to the Plaza
de Toros, as our crowds flock to the
polo grounds to see the Giants beat
the Brooklyns, and with those who,
perhaps, considered bull fighting a
cruel and barbarous amusement and
kept away from it. That meant a
pretty all-round popularity. To nov
elists tired of Herzegovina and unheard-of
little European courts and
the Zenda scene, we commend this
tall and agile young man, standing,
sword in hand, awaiting the charge,
in the dazzling sun of the Mexican
bull ring, with the senoritas and sol
diers and politicians and promoters
all that curious, vivid crowd watch
ing with bated breath.
It has been said that he is a Har
vard man, a Princeton man all sorts
of stories have been told about him.
As a matter of fact, he isn't a college
man at all. He came from Texas.
His grandfather was Colonel George
Baylor, a Confederate veteran and
Indian fighter. He went to work,
while a boy, for the Mexican Central
Railway, and most of his young life
he is not yet thirty years old has
been spent in Guadalajara.
Several years ago he took up bull
fighting as an amusement, very much
as young men up here go in some
times for boxing. He began to ap
pear as an amateur in the ring at
Guadalajara, and there, it is said, he
attracted the attention of an old
Spanish bull fighter, who at once took
the young gringo under his wing.
Lee improved rapidly, and finally
like "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, for
Instance became a professional. It
is a lucrative business. He probably
received $5000 "Mex." for each per
formance in Mexico, and a popular
bull fighter makes a good many
appearances during the season. As a
money maker he compares favorably
with an operatic tenor of the first
class here; socially, his position is
Jike that of a successful prize fighter.
Often appearing at several smaller
rings, Lee made his metropolitan
debut in Mexico City about a year
ago.
In the minutest details of dress and
deportment, Lee was all that the most
dandy bull fighter should be. And
everything goes by tradition in bull
fighting. The ring was crowded to
the roof. As the American toreador
entered he towered by a head above
the other two matadors. He killed
his first bull, a powerful black ani
mal, in slashing style, and the ring
rang with the shouts of "El Ameri
cano!" and "Es otro Monies!" (He
is another Mcntes.) Mor.tes was per
haps the most famous of the Spanish
bull fighters. Colliers Weekly.
side, her foot caught in the chain, ana
she fell backward into the water,
head first.
The shock of immersion revived
her, and once more she was able to
clamber into the treacherous bucket.
Safely above ground again, she gave
way to exhaustion, but only after her
task was done.
DISAPPOINTED CONDUCTOR.
Here's another one about a woman.
She was one of the three or four pas
sengers scattered over a Shaker
Lakes car the other afternoon. Also
she wore a dark, spotted veil that
gave an air of mystery to her appear
ance. The conductor, when he looked up
casaually from his work of jotting
down the trip statistics on a heavy
manilla card, saw her watching him
furtively, stealthily. From him she
would turn her glance toward the
other passengers to make sure she
was not observed. After he'd re
turned to his bookkeeping the con
ductor, keeping tab on her out of the
tail of his eye, saw her reach into a
little black satchel and take some
thing out. Then her supple form
became almost, rigid as she cast a
searching glance in his direction to
ascertain if there was danger of him
seeing what she was about to do. .
He became really alarmed. Per
haps this woman was wrestling with
a great secret sorrow and was about
to commit suicide? Was it a small
dagger or a vial of poison that she
was taking from her satchel? He
went ahead jotting down figures on
his card, so that she wouldn't know
he had guessed her awful plan, but
he held himself in readiness to spring
upon her in time to prevent her deed
of self-destruction. He had never had
a suicide on his car.
She raised up the dark veil, fum
bled at something concealed in her
lap and started to lift her hand to her
face. The conductor rushed forward.
But he checked himself just as he
was about to detain her hand and
went on up as if to speak to the mo
torman. For all the woman had been
filing to do was to apply her powder
rag for a moment to the shiny part of
her nose. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
DOG DIES SAVING BABIES FROM
BEAR.
Three little children of S. B. Waite,
who lives on the mountain near Ty
rone, Pa., the eldest of whom is but
nine years old, were saved from an
infuriated female bear by a faithful
pet dog, which was torn to ribbons in
their defence.
The children, accompanied by their
canine pet and playmate, were strol
ling through the woods, intending to
visit an aunt, who lives a short dis
tance from the Waite home. Pass-'
ing a piece of dense brush, the oldest
child, a girl, saw three young bear
cubs at play. The children stopped,
and she ventured into the brush and
picked up a cub not larger than a
kitten and began to stroke it.
While the younger children
watched, half afraid to approach the
other two cubs, who began to while,
the mother bear came crashing
through the brush and charged. The
little dog, not one-tenth the size of
the bear, leaped to the rescue, tack
ling the animal and distracting her
attention while the three children
dropped the cub and fled back over
the train to their home.
Arriving there they told their fa
ther of the occurrence. Mr. Waite
promptly summoned neighbors and,
armed, went to the spot, hoping per
haps to find the brave little dog alive,
but the faithful little pet had fought
the bear and given the children time
to escape safely and died in the task.
The body of the dog was carried
home and burled, the parents of the
children and their playmates acting
as chief mourners. Over the grave
a marker was placed with the in
scription. "He was only a dog, but he
died for his little friends."
A HEROIC WOMAN.
One of the most interesting exhibi
Hons belonging to England's jubilee
year was the Women's Roll of Honor,
containing five hundred and eighteen
names of heroines belonging to the
Victorian era. These were women
who had performed some act of self
sacrifice or devotion, and the brief
record of their deeds furnishes read
ing calculated to stir the mind from
its everyday calm.
The most commonplace among such
actions must have taken the greatest
of courage and self-forgetfulness.
Take the case of Mrs. Pumphrey,
a delicate, shy little woman, whom-no
one would suspect of latent heroism.
A little girl a five had fallen into a
deep well, and the mother, with two
neighbors, rushed hurriedly to the
brink. Mrs. Pumphrey, one of the
two neighbors, offered at once to go
down after the child, and resolutely
stepping into the crazy bucket, she
was lowered into the abyss. At a
distance of between thirty and forty
feet she touched water, and leaned
over to grasp the little girl, already
half-drowned.
No sooner had she done so than the
bucket overturned, and left her hang
ing from the chain, clutching her
precious burden.
At length a boy of fifteen wa3 let
down by a rope, and he succeeded in
carrying up the child. Mrs. Pum
phrey then placed one foot in the
bucket and signaled that she was
ready to ascend. But the noxious
gases below had been too much for
her, and midway in her course toward
the surface she suddenly fainted.
The bucket crashed heavily to one
PLUCKY ENGLISH DOCTOR.
A young Flamborough egg gath
erer named Joseph Major, while
working on the cliffs near the North
Danes Dyke yesterday met with an
accident which may cost him his life.
He and his brother started gath
ering early in the morning, and the
j second time Joseph went over a stone
apparently became displaced and
caused him to fall and cut open his
head. When his companions did not
receive his signals they became
alarmed and went over to see the
cause. They found the youth lying
' on a grassy slope, bleeding badly
from the wound.
With the assistance of other egg
gatherers two men were lowered over
the cliff edge and placed the unfor
tunate man on a ledge of rock below.
The tide was coming in at the time.
A York visitor, H. Brown, who Is
staying at Flamborough, ran to his
apartments some four or five miles
away, and then cycled to Bridlington,
another six miles away, to fetch Dr.
Wetwan.
The doctor was lowered over the
precipice, a distance of about 400 feet
an exploit that is dared by few who
are not experts and he bandaged
up the young fellow's head. The
rocket life saving apparatus was
taken out. and one of the men, Rob
ert Barnes, descended and brought
up Joseph Major in the breeches
buoy. Afterward Dr. Wetman was
hauled up. and a cheer was raised
as he reached safety. Westminster
Gazette.
Joyous Mental Exercise.
A lot of people nowadays are plan
ning perfectly grand summer vaca
tions they know very well they arp
not going to take. Washington Her.
aid.
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THE BAT'S DISGRACE.
The battle raged 'twixt the beasts and the
birds,
And the bat looked on, though he spoke
no words
Until the beast were winning the day,
And then the victors heard him say:
"I belong to your ranks, for who e'er knew
A bird with two rows of teeth, did you?"
At last the birds had the best of the fight,
And the bat, with manners quite polite,
Then joined himself to the winning side
And in their ranks he tried to hide
As he said: "I have wings, and 'tis quite
absurd
To think that I can be -aught but a bird."
But the beasts and the birds thought it
was base
To agree with all sides a real disgrace
So neither would own him, and to this day
He keeps carefully out of their way.
He hides in caves, far, far from their sight.
And comes out only 'neath shadows of
night.
' Emerine S. Rees.
HOW TO MAKE AN AEROPLANE.
By William G. Bertram.
Get a piece of wood (white pine)
thirty-six inches long and cut eight
sticks one-quarter inch square, or
you can buy at any hardware store
thin round sticks thirty-six inches
long, called, dowels, at one cent
apiece, which will do very nicely. If
you use the dowels measure off four
of them in six-inch spaces and cut,
making twenty-four elx-lnchJ up-
rlghts, which you nail top and Ubttcyn
Fig. 3. Now get a thin piece of tin
and cut as in Fig. 4. To make a pro
peller shaft take a piece of steel wire,
or a hair pin will do, and put through
the wood of propeller (b sure It is
in the centre of wood) and bend the
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wire as in Fig. 2. Get some washers
or a small nut and put on the steel
wire as in Fig. 5, and put through
framework as in side view or top
view. Fasten a piece of wire to the
front of machine and get 6ome very
heavy rubber bands (four large ones
will do). Knot them together and
run them through the machine as in
side view. Then wind up the propel
ler, from left to right, about seventy
five times. Now let the machine go.
It will fly some distance. The more
rubber bands you use the longer it
will fly. Woman's World.
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four of the thirty-six-inch dowels, un
til you have a long frame box. Now
take four of the dowels, which you
bend two at the top and two at the
bottom, as i&i side view drawing. Then
cut eight twelve-inch dowels, which
you nail as in top view; then take
four twenty-one-inch dowels and nail
to three-inch uprights at bottom of
machine, as in side view, to make the
GROWING' A NAME.
Little Luke Hays brought his slfrte
to show his mother what round, clear
letters he could make.
"Would you like to make your
name grow, Luke?" said his mother.
"I never saw a name grow," Bald1
Luke.
Then his mother took him out into
the garden. She gave him a stick,
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falling. Cover front wing, middle
wing and back wing with cloth or
paper as in top view. Cut four twenty-one-inch
sticks, which the rubber
bands run through, and nail from
front of machine to back as in side
view or top view drawings.
write his name in large letters in thei
middle of a bed of black earth; then
his mother sowed mignonette seed
along the letters.
"Now," she said, "in a few weeks
you will see your name growing tall
and sweet.
Luke went away the next day to
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To make the rudder cut one eight
inch stick and four four-inch sticks
and two three-inch sticks and nail as
in Fig. 1. Take two nails and cut the
heads off and hammer into fr?me to
make a hinge for rudder to turn on.
The propeller is made of a piece of
wood four by two inches, cut as in
. visit his grandmother, and, when he
' came home again, three weeks later
! he ran at once to the garden. There
j was his name, "Luke Hays," in pretty
j green letters, just as he had written
j It. Luke was delighted, and has nev
i er failed to grow his name every year
I since. Christian Register.
A Novel Crib.
A combination crib and baby car
riage has been invented by a Michi
gan man. The whole i3 of metal
tubing and the body more closely re
sembles a crib than a carriage. Head
and back rcst3 arise from both ends,
however, and make the device con
vertible into a carriage. The body Is
supported on a track which Is detach
able either at the bottom of the body
or at the axle?, making It possible to
h7e the crib either oa wheels, on a
stand or to rest flat on the floor. It
the combination Is to be used as a
crib without detaching the wheels
there 13 a locking device which will
prevent them from turning and keep
if. stationary. In flats or In other
quarters where there is not much,
room to spare, this Invention will be
found convenient, as it will save the
space either a crib or a baby carriage
would take up and answer the pur
pose of either equally well. Balti
more American. '