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fr THE HASTI VOL. L. --.NO. 26. LIFE SPONTANEOUS. It Is the Inevitable Outcome of the Cooling of a Globe. So far as we have evidence, Ufe is an inevitable outcome of the cooling of a globe. provided that globe is sufficient- ly large, for life did not reach this earth from without. No fanciful mete- orite bore it the seeds which have since sprouted and overrun its surface. Me- teorites gave it life, indeed, but in the more fundamental way in which all nature's processes are done, by supply- ing it with matter only from which by evolution life arose. Of this we are absolutely certain from the fact that while meteors were failing upon it in any numbers they were forming its mass, the full heat of which had not yet been evolved by their impact and subsequent condensation. The heat that thence ensued was excessive, many fold greater than sufficed to kill any germs that might have come to It housed In the meteorites themselves. Thus the action due the meteorites after they came must have annihilated any organic possibilities they may have brought with them. Those arriving after the heat had waned enough to make survival possible found life al- ready started, since protoplasm formed the moment cooling permitted of It. The proof that life was here spon- taneously evolved appears at every stage in its history not only in its ori- gin, but at every step of its progress upward where a marked departure oc- curs from its previous course. It and the environment are observed to have changed together. Two short parallel columns, the one showing the changes that have occurred In the habitat, the other those supervening in the habitat, will make this not simply clear, but striking. As effective as the well known deadly parallel of oratorical ut- terances, this life giving one reaches the same certainty through the proba- bilities disclosed. Occasion of this vital parallelism oc- curs at the very start. Indeed, we may go back of this and note agree- ment before the start, for until the conditions were such as could support Ufe no life appeared. This is the first coincidence. Another follows on Its heels with the dawn both of conditions fit for some existence and of that ex- istence itself. The waters were its birthplace. No other portion of the surface could then have offered it a home, and nowhere except In the sea is It then found. The simultaneity of each new birth and each new cradle crops up again when a new field arose by the making of the land. As soon as this was suit- able plants appeared to take possession of it and from that time on neglected more and more the sea. The fourth parallel is found In the significant fact that the edible plants and the plant eaters made their debut on the scene together in miocene titres, the world having got along without both before that epoch. This entry hand in hand, so to speak, De Lap - parent, the great French geologist, does not hesitate to link logically and to re- gard the one as the necessary comple- ment of the other. If this were not the case, there is certainly no reason Obs they should appear at the same instant of time. Food evokes its eater in fact as definitely as in phraseology. The last of this procession of coinci- dences, man, came on the globe at the time when the cooling of the globe ren- dered his own extension possible at the least expense to himself. His brain allowed him to take advantage of con- ditions less intrinsically favcrable than other animals could endure. His mind clothed his body and gave him tire, and with these two products he sallied forth into a world where antagonists were chiefly climatic, with which he was fitted to cope. Thus all along the line we perceive that life and its domicile arose togeth- er. The second is necessary to the first, and the first is always sufficient to the occasion. The coincidence of the possibility and its seizure, of the posse and the ease, seems to be a gen- eral principle of evolution. Endless variation is constantly in progress, and this variation takes advantage of any opportunity so soon as it occurs. Life but waits in the wings of existence for its cue to enter the scene the moment the stage is set.—Professor Lowell in Century Magazine. "If the Eye Is Maimed"— Necessity gives to the eye a precious power of seeing, and in the same way it gives a precious power of feeling to the whole body. Sometimes it seems as if the very substance of my flesh were so many eyes looking out at will upon a world new created every day. The silence and darkness which are said to shut me in open my door most hospitably to countless sensations that distract, inform, admonish and amuse. With my three trusty guides—touch, smell and taste—I make many ezcur- alone into the borderland of experi- ence which is in sight of the city of light Nature accommodates itself to every man's necessity. If the eye is maimed so that it does not see the beauteous face of day, the touch be- comes more poignant and discriminat- ing. Nature proceeds through practice to strengthen and augment the remain- ing senses. For this reason the blind often hear with greater ease and dis- 1��` tinctness than other people. The sense '" of smell becomes almost a new faculty to penetrate the tangle and vagueness of things. Thus, according to an im- mutable law, the senses assist and re - enforce one another. — Helen Kelley's "Sense and Sensibility" in Century Magazine. A. fool at forty will never be wise.— Irish Proverb. Moderate Price AZETTE. HASTINGS. MILAN., STAT URIAY. MARCH 21, 1908. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. $1 pair Year le Attunes. glume Baking Powder 11,000.E will be Iven tor anr.obstanoel orlon.to bealthfoondla lumot. r.- CROMWELL'S BODY. Conflicting Stories as to Its Disposi- tion After Death. "What became of Cromwell?" The question is a vexed one. According to an ancient tradition Cromwell's body was conveyed away immediately after his death In obedience to his last or- ders and was buried on Naseby field, "where he bad obtained the greatest victory and glory." According to an- other account, Mary, Lady Faucon- berg, Cromwell's daughter, was able t„ convey the body away from its grave in the abbey and to have it bur- led In her husband's house of New- burg, in Yorkshire, where the tomb, in impenetrable marble one, is still shown. Another corpse was substitut- ed for Crdittwell's In the abbey, and it was this nameless corpse which under- went the indignities put upon It in January, 1661, when the putative body was hanged on the gallows at Tyburn. together with Ireton's and Bradshaw's, while the head was set up on a pole above Westminster hall. This head, still transfixed by a spike which was let through the cranium by means of a specially drilled hole, is now in the possession of Horace Wil- kinson of Sevenoaks. It is the head. curiously enough, of some one whose body has probably been embalmed, for the top of the skull has been sawed off 1n order, presumably, to admit of the removal of the brains. The body to which this head belonged was burled under the gallows of Tyburn, unless, which is probable, the Fauconhergs obtained the body there and carried it off.—London Lancet. A TRAGIC EXPERIMENT. How a Husband Tried to, Cure His Wife's Fear of Pythons. Concerning pythons, the following is a true story: A young lady in England for a loug time resisted her lover's eu- treaties to go out to India with him as his wife. She had a horror of the wild animals she believed she might en- counter there, especially serpeuts. At length, however, after he bad issued a sort of ultimatum, she consented to ac- company him. She did not, however, leave her fears behind her and lived in cogstant terror of some day meeting what she so Intensely- feared. Her hus- band did his best to laugh ber fears away, but without avail. Then he re- solved to try more drastic means. A huge python was killed fa the nelghborhooU of his bungalow. With- out telling his wife anything about it, he ordered the reptile to be brought into the drawing room and coiled up as if asleep on the hearth rug. Then he went out and called his wife, telling her to go Into the drawing room and that he would join her 1n a few min- utes. Soon after tie heard a dreadful scream. "That will cure her of her fear of serpents," he smiled to himself and purposely delayed his entry. When at last he went into the drawing room he saw his wife lying dead ou the floor, and coiled around her was another huge python, the mate to the one that lay dead on the hearth rug.— St. James' Gazette. The Turret Battery. Early in the nineteenth century, in 1812, Colonel John Stevens conceived the idea of the construction of an Iron plated vessel of war with a saucer shaped hull, propelled by screws so ar- ranged as to give a rotary motion to the structure. The battery was to be of the heaviest ordnance of the time and the plating heavy enough to resist the shot of similar guns at short range. The main purpose of the craft was harbor defense, and the plan of action was to moor the vessel by a chain leading down through the bottom of the ship at iia center and to spin It around this center, firing gun after gun as it came in the line of Bre, thus an- ticipating the later Timby turret, which in turn was the germ of the modern monitor armorclad. Such a vessel was actually built half a century later by the. Russian government and was a good representative of the first Stevens battery.—Cassler's Magazine. Paved With Tombstones. "Not the least noteworthy thing about the beautiful building," writes Dr. Sundermann from Mayence to the Wochenschrift, referring to the cathe- dral of that place, "Is the pavement. This is made with stones on which there are Hebrew letters, which aroused our curiosity. Investigation showed that the stones at one time marked graves in the Jewish cemetery and had been taken thence when there was a Scarcity of building material and used to pave the cathedral. They have re - manned there ever since, and some of the inscriptions are still in a fair state of preservation." Perhaps She Did. "Did your daughter Inherit her tal- ent for drawing?' "Well, i never thought of it before. but It maj be that she did. One of my brothers is a dentist."—Chicago Rec- . ea. ord-Harald LIBRARY THIEVES. Assorted Into Four Classes by a 1.1. beery Official. "Library thieves fan Into four clun- es," said the librarian. "The first and most numerous is the umbrella class. gender, I regret to admit, feminine. "This lady lounges about your libra- ry with an unrolled umbrella in her hand. If she sees a book she wants, a magazine or a newspaper, pop it goes Into the umbrella's capacious folds. Her type Is well known. Never carry an unrolled umbrella into a library If you would escape the surveillance of the watchers and attendants. "Another class—male--steals week- lies. This daring thief rolls a weekly into a cylinder, slips his hand through it and works it up his sleeve. Fancy running such risks for a Ave or ten cent weekly! "A rare genus, feminine again, is the partitive or Installment thief, who steals a book a few pages at a time. Though this genus is known to libra- ries, I have met with but two speci- mens In ten years. One stole a Hail Caine and the other an H. A. Vachell volume In Installments. Both were more or less daft. "The most numerous class of all is the open, daring one. These people bluff. They walk out wltb a stolen book or paper under their arms as if it were their own. And. hang 1t, they escape, too, if they are careful that our label doesn't show. "Our percentage of thefts? Well, we count to have about two books in every hundred stolen."—Cincinnati Enquirer. A BORN TRADER. He Was a Bit Unlucky, but Then He Had No Dull Times. "One hundred dollars seems en aw- ful high price to pay for a typewrit- ing machine," said Mr. Jenkinson, who had just bought one. "It may seem so to you," answered his friend, Mr. Hanktn- son, "but I have one at my house that cost me $750, and I don't suppose ft's half as good as yours." "You needn't tell me such a"— "It's n fact," broke in the other. "Why, how 1n the world"— "Well, I'll tell you. A year and a half ago I bought an automobile for $«o. After I had paid $150 for re- pairs, storage, fines and other expenses connected with it I traded it for a suburban lot. "The lot proved to be In the middle of a swamp, and when a real estate man offered me a horse and buggy for It I took him up. "The horse ran away one day and smashed the buggy into kindling wood. I traded the horse for a gold watch. "The watch wouldn't keep good time, and I swapped It for a bicycle. One day I fell from the bicycle and put a finger out of joint. Then I exchanged the machine for a secondhand type- writer." "I see." "And I've no use for the typewriter. Do you know of anybody that would give me a good dog for It?"—Youth's Companion. The Runner's Attitude They were walking through the office of a big athletic club when one of the men stopped and said: "Do you see anything wrong with that painting?" indicating a mural decoration up above the clerk's desk. "No," said the other, "I can't say that I do." "Well, it's a thing that most persons wouldn't notice," said the first man "That runner there who is just passing the finish line has his left leg forward and has his left arm out at the same time. If ever you've had anything to do with athletics you'll know that the arm extended always is the opposite to the leg, to keep the balance. You'l notice that sort of thing all the time !n athletic pictures made by those who don't study the subject."—Washingror Post. How It Works. Once there was a struggling young author who was blessed with many - friends, all of whom told him that to was the coming great writer of tilt country. So one day a bright thought struck him. He said: "I will publish my book, and all soy friends who admire It so mild] will n my book, and i will be rich." So he printed his look. And all of his !Mende waited for bpm to send them autographed copies of bl' book. And so his books were sold as junk. And ever after he didn't have any friends.—Success Magazine. troadian elite. You frequently bear folks say they wish they were millionaires. Bet ear idea of happiness is the one that owss forty acres of land to the hills, doesn't owe a cent, has a wife and sem CAO. dren, five good coon dogs. a sorrel team of mules, a good shotgun, toety- seven miles from a retlroad and right on a good stream of fish. It that would not be happiness "unalloyed" we would like to know where you would go to and It—Auzvasse (llo. Review. The Editor Regrets. Office Boy—The editor says be's much obliged to you for allowing him to see your drawings, but much rsgmts be is unable to use them. Fair Artist (sager- lyi—Did he say that? 011scs Boy (truth fully)—Well, not exactly. He just said: 'Take 'em away, Pimple. They make me sick,"—London TaWtr, Good Temper. Good temper is as a sunny de.y.•- Prench Proverb. STEDMA LOST BOOK. Hew the Poet flanker Paid For an Outb of Temper. Edmund Cla : Stedman, the poet - banker, had a high temper and was ex- ceedingly seasltive. One day. exas- perated by then crass stupidity of a servant, be th a book at his head. The boy duck and the book sailed out of the w, After It hurried the menial, Du he was too late; a passerby had pfbked it up and walked of with it. Stedman began to wonder what book he bad thrown away and to his horror discovered that it was a quaint and rare little volume for which he had paid $50. His chagrin was In- tense, as the work was almost unique and the prospee;s of replacing It were remote. Some time att+Tward when browsing in a second hand bookshop our aple- netic poet -banker perceived to his great delight a copy of the very book be bad lost. He asked the price. ''It's very rare," replied the dealer, "but as you are an old customer I'll let you have It for $40. Nobody else could have it for less than $00." Stedman gladly paid the $40, got home wltb his treas ore as soon as possible and sat down to gloat over It. A card dropped out of the leaves. it was his own. Fur ther ezaminatio4 showed that he had bought back its own property. It cured him of casting hooks at servants' heads.—New Yotk Press, THREE DEADLY AGENTS. Peculiar Properties of a Spider, a Grain and • Vine. What is the most terrible form In which death comes? Here are three. but which one of them is the worst ft is hard to say: In Peru and parts of South Australia there is found a small spider about halt as big as a pea. When this insect digs its fangs into Its victim it inserts a poison which begins at once to act. It scorches up the blood vessels and spreads through the tissue, causing most dreadful agony. The worst part of it la that the victim usually suffers for two days, but death in the end is Inevitable. Another fearful death results from eating "bhat," a vegetable which grows in the east, of which a fel. grains cause violent mania, ending in death. "Bhat" occasionally grows lo among the rice crop, from which It is hard to distinguish until dry, wbep the poisonous grain is of a brick red color. There is a South American vine call- ed the "knotter."...7hicb_ . g r_j F Ing thing coming in contact with it. Its tentacles twine round the object seised, searing and burning the flesb like redhot wires. Then the prey is drawn into the heart of the foliage and there crushed to death. The meth- od la too horrible to describe in detail. —Pearson's Weekly. A Sporting Judge. After Baron Martin, who possessed a great horror of sporting "prophets," had become partially deaf be was on one occasion trying a racing case, an exercise of his functions he reveled In. One of the counsel engaged in it was named Stammers, a solemn, formal, sententious personage, who seldom made a speech without quoting pas- sages from Scripture. In addressing Use jury he was about to pursue his old habit and got as far as "as the prophet says" when •the judge Inter posed: "Don't trouble the jury, Mr. Stam- mers, about the prophets. There is not one of them who would not sell his fa- ther sixpenny worth of halfpence." "But, my lord," said Stammers In a subdued tone, "I was about to quota from the Prophet Jeremiah." "Don't tell me," replied the baron. "I have no doubt your friend Mr. Myer Is just as bad as the rest of them." -- London Graphic. , Presence of Mind. A clergyman was talking on the prev• slence of selfishness. "We incline," he said. "to put ourselves too far ahead of other people. We could all make no better resolution than to be leas selfish. As It is we are too much like the art etodsnt There was, you know, a poor Vermont art student wbo shared a etodlo bedroom with a journalist from Wisconsin. The Vermonter went out one morning to do the marketing and brought home two chops. Ile laid them on the table, and the cat leaped up and devoured one. "'Bang It,' be said to his Wisconsin friend, 'the cat has eaten your chop.' " —Washington Star. A Puzzler. Solomon was fain to admit that there were three things too wonderful for him. yea, four which be knew not: "The way of an eagle in the air. the way of a serpent upon a rock. the way ef a ship in the midst of the sea and the way of a man with a maid." Had Solomon lived till this day and gen- eration. soya the Philadelphia Ledger. he would have added a fifth puzzler— to wit, the way of an express company with a prepaid package. A Word of Approval. "Bo you approve of your European soo•ta•lawr "To some extent," answered Mr. Nitres. "it's a certain relief to bane Some of our tamgv quarrels conducted to a language that l don't understand" —Washington Star. Changed Condkions. Mamma — My dear, the good book tens a to love our neighbors as our- Nivea. urNivea. Little Ethel—Tey, mamma, but web didn 't a In thea.—ban IRO Mg FOY�/, ItAKIrld POWDER Absolutely Pure The only besides powder made with Royal Drape Cream of Tartar No Alum, No Lime Phosphate A Lost Bank Note. A friend of mine, writes a Scottish correspondent, recently saw a piece of paper Tying on the street. He picked it up. It was a one pound note. Some men tuight have pocketed ft, with a smile of satisfaction. My friend, how- ever, honestly handed it over to the pence. A short time afterward he dis- arvered that he himself had lost a pound. tie thought over the matter and remeinbered that before finding the note he had been standing on the edge of the pavement for some time. It slowly dawned upon him that the pound be had found was his own and that he had drttK-rt It from his pocket unconsciously. He went back prompt -t ly to the pollee station and explained, the circumstance. The officer in charge' only shook his head and smiled fu - credulously. "Very clever," he said, "but—eh—it will scarcely do." If my friend cared to call back at the end of six months, he was Informed, he would get the pound if in the interval it had not been claimed. During this time of waiting he Is Inclined to meditate as to whether honesty 1s always the' best policy,—London P. T. 0. in Cass of Accident. Don't bluster. Be tactful. If there are dangerous germs present, ask them to withdraw. If they demur, ask them where they were brought up with gen-3 tie irony. Be careful to render first aid to the injured. A great deal of unnecessary; suffering has been caused by persons hastily rendering third or even fourth aid where first aid was Indicated. In ease of drowning select a best method of reeuscltatlon. There are 4,639 best methods in all. Have them about you in the forst of loose news- paper clippings and stn them over briefly before acting. Keep cool. Stop every little while and take your temperature. If the coroner arrives while you aro at work, immediately desist. 1t Is dis- courteous to save life In his presence. Take accurate notes of the street and number. nevi% lug patients almost a1 - ways ask where they are. If possible, induce death to super- vene rather than Co take place merely or even to ensue. It gives the family a sense of dignity.—Puck. The Frank Critic. "When Sir John Millais was engaged in painting his 'Chill October' among the rushes on the banks of the Tay, near Perth," said an English artist, "a railway porter from the station at Kin - fauns used to carry the canvas back and forth for him. "The porter was a quaint chap. His services were called for many days In requisition, He became quite friendly with Sir John and seemed to take a hearty Interest In the progress of the painting. "Well, 'Chili October' was eventually finished and sold a little while atter- r4ard for a thousand pounds. This fact somehow reached the porter's ears. He met Sir John's brother -In-law at Bin - fauns one day and said excitedly: "'Mon, lel true that Sir John's sold Yplcture and got a thoosand poond fort r "'Yes, certainly.' was the reply. "'A iboosand poondr repeated the porter. 'Wby, mon, 1 wadna glen half a croon tori' Rotundity of Earth. We are assured by competent au- thority that Thaleo of Mlletns taught that the earth was of a globular form so early as 040 B. C. Pythagoras dem- onstrated from the varying altitudes of the stars that the earth must be round. Aristarchus of Samos main- tained that the earth turned on its own axis and revolved about the sun, which doctrine was held by his con- temporaries as w absurd and revolting that the philosopher nearly lost his life B. C. 280. The wisdom of the an- cients was, of coarse. lost sight of in the darkness "middle ages," and it took GaIji and Copernicus to re- store the oldowledge to the world.— New York American. How It Woe Becoming. "That dress is becoming, my dear." said the man who thinks he is a diplo- mat She looked at him coldly for a mo - 1 asset and then replied: "Yes. It is berosrtlns threadbare." Why He Concealed His Catling, "I hope," said the young man, "that partial concealment of the truth is no Ile. If it 1s, I am telling a whopper right now, and I'm a divinity student too. That is what I am lying about. I don't tell that I am studying theol- ogy. It I did I wouldn't And it so easy to hold this job. I'm one of the down -on -his -luck students who has to work his way through college. One of the first things I learned when I be gan to look for a position was that the average employer of labor has no use for the divinity student. Somehow ev- ery man engaged In business bolds the opinion that a young fellow who L studying for the ministry lacks back- bone, and he is afraid to trust him with important duties. "After I bad ingenuously explained my circumstances to about twoecore of employers and had been turned down by all of them I got wise. I am work Ing now. The boss doesn't know I am pegging away nights on church bis• tory. If be did the chances are he'd discharge me, not because he has any grudge against parsons or church his tory, but because he, like everybody else, would think I hadn't pluck esougb, 18 earn my salary."—New York Times Staggered Webster. In the somewhat famous cane o1 Mrs. Bodgen's will, which was tried in the Massachusetts supreme court many years ago, Daniel Webster ap- peared as counselor for the appellant. Mrs. Greenough, wife of the Rev. Wil- liam Greenough of West Newton, was a very self possessed witness. Not- withstanding Mr. Webster's repeated efforts to disconcert ber she pursued the even tenor of her way until Web- ster, becoming quite fearful of the re- sult, arose, apparently to great agi- talion, and, drawing out his large snuffbox, thrust his thumb and singer to the very bottom and, carrying a deep pinch to both nostrils, drew It up with gusto, and then, extracting from his pocket a very large handkerchief, be blew his nose with a report that rang distinct and loud through the crowded hall. He then asked, "Mrs. Greenough, was Mrs. Bodgen a neat woman?' "I cannot give you full information as to that, sir. She had one very dirty trick," repined the witness. "What was that, madam?' "She took snuff." Most Popular of Pictures. The best known picture in the world, it has been said, is Vandyke's portrait of James II. of England u an infant, popularly known as Baby Stuart. Two million copies of it are said to be in American homes, and It Is equally popular in England and continental Eu- rope. This Is not because it is a por- trait of a child who became king, but because it is a masterly piece of in- fant portraiture. The plump, round cheeks and tiny nose, surmounted by a tight fiting cap, appeal to every lov- er of children. The figure with which the world is familiar is the central one in a group of the eldest three children of Charles I. painted to 1635, when the baby, afterward known as the Duke of York, was only two years old and barely able to stand alone.—Youth's Companion. Its Cost. A Frenchman, meeting an Engileb soldier with a Waterloo medal, ani- madverted sneeringly on the govern- ment for bestowingarcb a tribe, which. be declared, did not cost 8 franca. 'That is true, to be mire," replied the hero. "It did not cost the Ifinglish gov- ernment quite 8 francs, but It cost the French a Napoleon." Returned Empty. A mean multimillionaire who suf- fered terribly from seasickness on bis way back to New York has, it Ila said, demaneed a rebate off his fare, claim- ing special terms as a "returned empty"—Punch's Almanack. The Retort Caudle. Mise Rlnkies—Everything costs so much nowadays! I suppose illi have to Uva plainer. has airplane—Why, my dear, you couldn't be say- plague and live.—London Telegraph. A rat may Goats f lack -0111111 i Proverb. WALKING BANKS. All Mexicans Carry Large Sums of Money on Their Persons. A bank- to the Mexican is not to bo thought of for the handling of smain amounts. Almost any Mexican In pro- fessional or business life carries on hi .• person anywhere between $200 ant: $800. Even the poor Indian In hi • blanket can more than likely produce more than many foreigners. The ordinary foreigner in Mexico. whether tourist or business man to cated here, carries perhaps $50 to $loin with him and no more. If a tourist. the foreigner will deposit auy money over that amount he happens to haw with him in the safe of the hotel al which be is registered; if a business man, be will carry no more than that amount on his person and will give a check for anything over that amount. The Spaniard resident in Mexico is in- clined to carry much larger sums that any other foreigner here, and he win: often carry sums of money aggregat Ing nearly $1,000. The ordinary Mexican professions! men will be found to carry sums of money on his person that would sur, prise the ordinary traveler and eves cause hint worry were he forced to carry It with him, yet the Mexican never even thinks of it. It was but a few days ago that an Instance of this kind was brought to attention. One Mexican of the middle class asked another In a casual way if be could change a thousand dollar bill. The other pulled out a wallet from his inside pocket and counted out nearly $2.000. Time after time this has happened, and it seems no uncoil]. mon thing for a Mexican of the middle class to carry between one and two thousand pesos on his person. One Mexican, who was being re- proved for this apparent carelessness and imprudence, replied: "We do not have any of your Ameri- can holdups and highwaymen in Mex- ico. I have known my friends to have their pockets picked for large amounts through their own carelessness as to where they carried their money. but have never beard of any one being hit over the head with a blackjack and his pockets rifled of their contents. That thing is unknown In Mexico. and so we have no fear In carrying these amounts" The check idea seems to have taken but small hold as yet upon the citizens of Mexico, especially when small amounts of less than $1.000 are con- tented. They consider it much easier to pay spot cash than to give a check for amounts of $50 and $100, and they claim, with some amount of reason, that a business deal can be put through with better advantage to themselves when the cash is in sight. Even the Indians In the street carry amounts of cash that would never be supposed to be to their possession. They carry their money lu leather belts fas- tened around their bodies inside their trousers. These belts are hollow and are open at one end. Into the open end the Indian slips bis pesos or bills until he has the whole full. The belt then is either taken off and hidden away or the bills are changed for lar- ger denominations and still carried around the body. But the Indian Is a stickier for "pesos duros" and prefers them to any other class of money ex- cept gold.—Mexican Herald. Too Much at Stake. The question for discussion before the debating society that had met In the little schoolhouse belonging to dis- trict No. 13 was this: "Resolved, That the works published under the name Of William Shakespeare were really written by Lora Bacon." The debate was fierce and prolonged, but as frequently happens in such cases, the disputants on one side had informed themselves thoroughly, while the others, relying upon their having the popular side of the controversy, depended solely on their oratory; pence the Bacontans, having learned all that could be said In favor of their con- tention, made really a very plausible case and had decidedly much the bet- ter of the argument. At the close of the discussion the three judges who had been selected held a brief consul- tation and decided in favor of the neg- alive. "Why did you decide against us?" subsequently asked one of the dispu- tants. "You know we presented good arguments. while the other fellows didn't show any." "That'll all right," answered the judge to whom this question was ad- dressed, "but two of us had just bought expensive copies of 'The Works of William Shakespeare' that cost us $15. Do you suppose we were going to acknowledge that Shakespeare didn't write 'ems"—Youth's Companion. A Bit of Vanity. The doorbell of the Vanitys' house rang at about 8 o'clock the other nlgbt, and Mr's. Vanity said excitedly to her husband: "There, Charles, I just know that's the furniture van coming with the new bedroom suit we bought today, and if It fa 1 just won't receive it; that's all!" "Why not?' asked Mr. Vanity. "Why notr replied Mn. V. "Do yon think I'm going to pay £20 for a suit and then have it sent out here after dark„ so that none of the neighbors an sea it when Ifs brought in? Not 1ft I know myself!"—Landon TK -Bits. Two Questions. "W'by don't we see men like the nov- elists describe?" "i. gin it up. Why don't we sea EMI as the Ulastratoes draw?"—' CseelsrJsaaaL 5 r --5-