3?} ,fuls of flour. until they foam, them put them into — THE CURFEW IDEA. . How the Movement Is Received Throughout the West. Regarded as a Good Instrument for the' Regulation of the Morals ‘or the Rising Generation -— Inter- esting Particulars. The curfew ordinance, designed to keep children off the streets at night, with which the children of this state are now threatened, and against which they are organizing a protest, has come to be accepted as a matter of course in the smaller cities and towns of almost every state west .of the Mississippi river. Perhaps no movement in recent years has spread so widely in the west and met with such general approbation as this curfew law. It was first intro- duced in a Minnesota. town a year and a half or so ago. In the past six months curfew ordinances have been adopted in various towns in Oregon, Washing- ton, Idaho, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Michigan, Missouri, Indiana and Georgia. The idea does not appear to have been generally taken up in any eastern or southern state, al- though isolated cases have been noted of the passage of the curfew ordinance in the south. But in the west the cur- few idea is spreading at such a rate that . it is likely to be adopted universally soon in the states west of the Mississip- pi. Heretofore the large cities have not thought it best to adopt such a law, although in many cities it has been brought up for consideration and in some cities a curfew ordinance has passed the city council by a small ma- jority and been vetoed by the mayor. The other day, however, Omaha, N eb., adopted the ordinance by'a unanimous vote of the city council. Lincoln and South Omaha already have such an ordinance, and so generally is approval of the idea spreading that, with Omaha’s example, it seems probable that even the big cities of the west will before long revive the curfew for the purpose of regulating the habits and morals of the rising generation. An effort was made recently to bring the subject to the attention of the leg- islature of this state and to get it to take some action in the way either of the enactment of a state law or of an expression of approval of the curfew principle. Nothing definite resulted at the time, but the news that a curfew ordinance was proposed spread among the children of the state, and various protests from societies of young people have reached the legislature and the ex- ecutive. The general principle of the curfew ordinances is the same wherever they have been adopted, but the ordinances differ in details. The idea is to pro- vide that childrenunder a. certain age, varying in different towns from 13 down to 15 years, shall not be on the streets of the town after a stated time, ranging from 7:30 p. m. to nine p. m., unless accompanied by a lawful guard- ian. The penalty for violation of the ordinance also varies in different towns, but as a rule it is provided that the of- fender shall bc taken home by the po- lice for the first offense and be pun- ished by fine or imprisonment or both for the second and subsequent offenses. When the curfew idea first began to spread the suggestion of passing such an ordinance was in many cases re- ceived with ridicule. It was denounced as paternalism in its worst form, be- cause it delegated to the municipality duties which belonged solely to pa— rents. This argument was met by the statement that the ordinance was di- rected against the young hoodlums that exist imevery town, who congre- gate on street corners and in public places after nightfall to the discomfort and annoyance of many peopleand to their own detriment, to say the least, and often to the danger of the com- munity. This argument usually was convincing to the opposition. It was also urged that the hoodlums exercised considerable influence in causing or- dinarily well-behaved children to be- . come, unruly, and that good children were very apt to be. influenced to re— main on the streets after the time they should be at home. Another advantage set forth was that the law would be of great assistance to parents who, under ordinary circumstances, failed to exercise proper supervision over their children. The curfew ordinance and its penalties could be used as a. mild threat tb enforce obedience in the mat- \ ter of being at home nights. All these arguments have been re- iterated in the various towns where the curfew ordinance has been introduced, and very much information as to the working of the ordinance has been ad- duced. Usually, when it has been pro- posed to institute the curfew, the town officials have written to the authorities in places where the idea has already been in force some time for information as to its results, and the information obtained has been made public for the benefit of those interested. All the tes- timony gathered frorn every town where the curfew has been instituted appears to be in favor of the law, and it seems everywhere to have proved suc- cessful and gained general public favor. Even the children are said to be pleased . with the law. It is not enforced in an oppressive manner, and a good deal of latitude is allowed in its enforcement. -—N. Y. Sun. Egg Puffs. Soften a tablespoonful of butter to a creamy consistency by working it with a fork; beat three eggs to a froth and add them to the butter; add also a. level teaspoonful of salt and six tablespoon- Beat all these together buttered earthen cups or small tin pans, and bake in a hot oven for about half an hour, or until they are cooked through and nicely browned. Serve hot for breakfast or luncheon—N. Y. Ledger. i—It is said that there are only two words in the English language that contain all the vowels~in their order. They are “abstemious” and “facetious.” mtg-1L-“ ,-..-- : v PROVIDENCE AND A PISTOL. Rather Remarkable Story Which Carries a Moral Teaching. A half dozen or-so men were sitting out in front of an uptown hotel the other evening telling stories, and a Star reporter was taking them all in with an avidity peculiar to his class. “When I was 21,” said a tall man, evi- dently, from a southern state, “I had an ungovernable temper and a half—broth- er three years older than myself. We were both church members, but that didn’t seem to bring us any close-r to- gether, for he was a Methodist and I was a Baptist. You may have ob- served,” he threw in as a decoration to the story, “that Christian charity and brotherly love don’t always thrive on denominational feed. However, as I was saying, we were“ of different de- nominations, and we got along fairly well together until we began arguing on our respective faiths. Then we got hot, and I always lost my temper. I may say that he did very nearly the same, but he wasn’t quite as bad as I was in that regard. "One day we were out hunting with only one gun, a squirrel gun, between us, and 1 had the gun. I may add here that we lived on a farm, and a one-gun hunting party was not at all unusual. We had sat down on a. rock near the edge of a. stream to rest, and in some way I slipped and went into the water. It made me mad to begin with, and when he began chaifing me and telling me that a' Baptist ought to be used to a little thing like that, I got ten times worse and hit him a lick in the face. He ran off a few yards and picked up a bowlder about as large as your double fist, while I made a grab for the gun, which I had set up against a willow tree under the bank. “Of course, we did not know what we were doing by this time; only I remem- ber of telling him if he raised his hand to throw the stone I’d shoot him. He was nervy, though, and I hadn’t more than got the words out of my mouth than he let the bowlder come at me, and, true to my word, I banged away at him. We weren’t 40 feet apart, and it was a stand-off between the bowlder and the bullet as to which was the more dan- gerous, but Providence, I reckon, was watching over us, for, as I fired, the bowlder flew into a dozen pieces, and both of us were left standing looking at each other in a dazed, helpless way. Then, still not understanding what had happened, but. realizing how nearly our tempers had brought us to bloodshed, we rushed into each other’s arms and began crying over each other. “When we had got over the excite- ment and collected our wits sufficiently to make an investigation, we discovered that by the merest chance—by Provi- dential interference, I mean-my bullet and his bowlder had met in their flight and nullified each other. On one piece of the broken stone we found the blue mark of the bullet, and in another place we found the battered bullet. He took the bullet and I took the piece of marked stone, and we have kept them to this day, as sacred souvenirs, and as very potent reminders never to discuss our respective beliefs. I’m just as strong a Baptist as ever, and he is equally a Methodist, but we both believe that greater than either Baptist or Method- ist is the Providence that watches over us all.”—Wa.shington Star. ' ' - he: .5.- DANGER.IN EXCESS OF EXERCISE People May Overexert Themselves and Defeat Their Purpose. ' Housework, chores, gardening, walk- ing, climbing, cycling, running, swim- ming and many other sports give just the kind of exercise that is indicated in certain conditions, due regard being had to the physiologic effects of vary- ing dosage. Oertel has shown how the simple exercise of walking may be adapted to sufferers from cardiac de‘ bility by prescribing the distance and speed and the number and length of the rests on definite paths graduated according to their slope. His interest- ing and original work has not only given a new direction to the treatment of certain cardiac affections, but is des- tined to have an important influence in establishing accuracy in the prescrip- tion of exercise. Whoever has studied the map of the environs of Reichenhali, Bavaria, prepared by Oertel for the ap- plication of his method, will acquire a vivid idea of what precision of dosing in exercise means. In this map the dif- ferent paths suitablefor the work are marked in four different colors, to indi cate those that are nearly level, those slightly sloping, moderately sloping, and steep, and figures are placed along each route to show the space that. should be traversed in each quarter hour. The locality itself is prepared for its remedial use by placing benches for resting at suitable distances, and by marking on certain trees near the path. circles, colored to correspond with the map, to indicate the difficulty of that certain section. By systematic practice on the easier paths, the heart and sys- tem are progressively trained and strengthened. Intelligent analysis may do the same work for cycling, horse— back riding and many other familiar exercises. In this way the dosage is practically reduéed to a definite number of kilogrammeters in a given time, and a step has been taken in placing the prescription of exercise upon a scien- tific basis.—Appleton’s Science Month‘ ly. A Singular Coincidence. A gentleman from the north was spending a few days in Houston. He was stopping with a leading citizen whose‘acquaintance he had made. As they entered the house, the stranger asked: “Haven’t you got any old relics of the Texas revolution?” . “Allow me to introduce you to my mother-in-law,” responded the Houston man, as the old lady, the widow of. a Texas veteran, entered the room.——-Da.l- las (Tex.) Sifter. s—Mobile is 1,237 miles from New. York. .r‘ anJI r,".-";:.‘-.n Words by GEORGE COOPER. Moderate. fliqrtato z'l fiesta. é; pin allegro. a - way from lov - ers has flown we met as 1'. My heart 2. At last, (011:: wee. own - er of a bright and win - Park 53F en - tranced; I And smile my soul sweet - 1y strayed a - long, she gave, not tell danced ! song ! -.- in. a sil - ver brook with lips I kissed, or held her lil - ies ros - y thought the day was o’er; prom - ised to a - dore! And ve CHORUS. Oh,she’s an an - gel, she’s a rose, and she’s a calla vote. see her ev - ’ry day, pret‘ ty girl next 4‘ «The Pretty Girl Next Doom—3." one eve, when stars were in the ' sky; I We think, with joy of and you all COPyright, 18 There nev - er was a THE PRETTY GIRL NEXT! noon. Music by ALBERT CHEVALIER. ' me, 'I’ve missed it from do; its, she blushed and looked so \ place, SW; ’Twas stol - an by ram - bled thro’ Vie , saw teld some face ; I her ev - ’ry word she spoke _ but the a was all, she said, that her can-not com-pare! lit - tle hand of snow! sweet-er - ry soon I’ll wed with A lit - tle dove! I still ad - mire her more; to it at the my heart’s dc see - ing . her, that was sweet me WS stars might 94, by New York Musical Echo (10. win - - vo day - tion, while. the the her we dow, and I could have - er than a sun - shine fair! let you wvn—v know ! And when she fad - ed from my sight, I But this than joy Oh, the pret - ty girl the pret - ty girl is - ’nt I’ll tell you, she she a a -lone I door 2 door ! next next She is a darling joy, that if you saw you couldn’t help but jew — cl bright, the ' Several of the 3 - ‘- ’ ,- . IN'COMMAND OF THE‘ARMADA- Things Which Philip IL . Forgot. - In the Armada the crusading enthu- f siasm had reached its point and focus, says Froude in Longman’s Magazine. England was the stake to which the virgin, the daughter of Sion, was bound in captivity. Perseus had come- at, last in the person of the duke of Medina Sidonia, and with him all that was best and brightest in the countrymen of Cervantes, to break her bonds and re- place her ‘on her throne. They had sailed into the channel in pious hope, with the blessed banner waving over their heads. ' To be the executor of the decrees of Providence is a lofty ambition, but men ' in a state of high emotion overlook the precautions which are not to be dis- pensed with, even on the sublimest of errands. Don Quixote, when he set out. to redress the wrongs of humanity, for- got that a. change of linen might be necessary and that he must take money with him to pay his hotel bills. Philip II., in sending the Armada to England, and confident in supernatural protec- tion, imagined an unresisted, triumphal procession. He forgot that contractors might be rascals, that water four months in the casks in a hot climate turned putrid and that putrid water would poison his ships’ companies, though his crews were companies of angels. He forgot that the servants of the evil one might fight for their mistress after all and that he must send adequate supplies of powder, and, worst forgetfulness of all, that a great naval expedition required a leader who understood his business. Perseus, in the shape of the duke of Medina Sidonia, after a week of dis- astrous battles, found himself at the end of it in an exposed. roadstead, where he ought never to have been; nine- tenths of his provisions thrown over- board as unfit for food, liis ammunition exhausted by the unforseen demands upon it, the seamen and soldiers har- assed and dispirited, officers the whole Week without sleep, and the enemy, who had hunted him from Plymouth to Calais, anchored within half a league of him. A WEIRD SEA TALE. "“ The Deep Mystery of an Abandoned Ship and It: Missing Crew. One of the strangest stories about an abandoned ship comes from the Indian. ocean. In 1822 the British corvette Lizard was crulsing off Ceylon. A ship came in sight with all sail set, and makingr good speed through the water. The cheers took a long look, and- one said: “There is something wrong about that vessel. IIer crojack is loose and flapping, and there is no man at the wheel. We mer run down to her.” ' This was done, says ‘.I-e New York World,_and when near it was seen that the ship had no crew, as there was no answer to the bail. When boarded there were no marks of trouble until, on raising a sail that was spread over the main hatch, the body of a man was found. He had been ironed to the lock-bars of the hatch cover, and had apparently been dead a week. ' On going into the cabin the body of an- elderly man was found. He had been stabbed to death. On examining the log-book it was on record that the ship was Spanish, from the Phillippines, and named El Frey Antonio; but, strangely, the last entry was six weeks past, and spoke of abandoning the ship at a. point a thousand miles away, bound for Malaga, Spain. She was left on the road to China. A pitcher of water on the table was intact. Could the vessel have come this long-journey without meeting a storm, and how had the dead men got here? They had not been dead six weeks, and both were Lascars. The Frey Antonio was taken into Madras, the Spanish government noti- fied, and their answer Only made the mystery deeper. The ship had sailed from Celebes more than a year before, with six Roman Catholic priests as passengers, bound for Spain, and had no Lascars among her crew. . And this was all. And from that far away time until now the story of El Frey Antonio is One of the secrets of the deep. ' HOW TO FIGHT INDIANS. A Recipe Given for the Benefit of Blood- thirsty Boys. . Jack now took off his blue flannel jumper and overall trousers, fixed them artistically together and stuffed them out with the coarse grass growing-every- where around us.‘ Then he held the dummy beyond the edge of a bowlder in such a way as to look as if the bulge of his own body were protruding, says Lippincott’s Magazine. ,. The old, old ruse succeeded admir- ably, for instantly there came from the cover, about thirty yards away, a hurt- ling shower of arrows; and as soon as Tom and I had fired our decoy shots a squad of hideously painted Apaches sprang up, and with uplifted toma- hawks and terrific yells, rushed toward us. But not for far. “Now, boys!” shouted Jack, and at the crack of our rifles the three fore- most braves went headlong down. For a few seconds the others stood bewildered, and then, as one after an- other dropped under the storm of re- volver bullets, fired so rapidly as to seem like the work of a dozen enemies, the surviving warriors darted of to their ponies and scurried away. Napoleon’s Death Mask. '7’ ' The death mask of Napoleon, which was taken immediately after the de-- mise of the conqueror at St. Helena by Dr. Automarchi, was obtained under great difficulties. There was not an V ounce of plaster of paris to be had on the island, therefore the doctor scoured the cliffs in every direction for a piece of gypsum. This he at last found and calcined until powdering was possible. . On this account the work was very crude, but this notwithstanding he had an offer of six thousand pounds sterling > (about thirty thousand dollars) for the . cast before it was a month old. Sev- eral of the replicas are now valued at twenty thousand dollars each.
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