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Hennessey Clipper
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Pauperism n Disease.
Public pauperism is really parasit-
ism, and it seems to be a modern dis-
ease, due to the very ease with which
assistance can be obtained. Man, like
every other organism, takes the path
of least resistance. Once relieved of
the necessity for the struggle for exist-
ence, he ceases to snuggle, and his
power of work atrophies. lie then
lives at the expense of the organism
to which he is attached, says a medical
authority. There is a large class ct
men who derive good incomes from
railroad accidents which they skillful-
ly bring on. It is even reported that
men have voluntarily suffered serious
injuries even to the point of losing
legs, and all for the sake of the pen-
feioii. Since Biblical times, and long
before, paupers existed*in every civil-
ization, but it is only within a century
that they have become a dreadful pub-
lic burden; they were formerly more
apt to be hangers-on or retainers of
iho well-to-do. The appalling Increase
of public paupers in England is now
being duplicated in America, and it is
<* real disease of society, a disease due
to an abuse of natural laws, it follows
the rule of every disease due to atyplc
mid abnormal cell growth of any kind.
From being benign, it can become
Inalignaut and can injure the organism
(society) or even destroy it. It is a
very natural result of our necessity to
cave every human life and prolong it
ko iis greatest length. It therefore be-
hooves physicians, who are more vital-
ly interested in the matter than any
other class of life savers, to look into
the cause of the disease and the reme-
dies. It is to the interest of every
worker to reduce the number he must
support in idleness, so the problem
comes home to every citizen. It is
even found that a large pension is apt
to curse a man instead of blessing him,
for he ceases the struggle for a living
t*nd is content with mere food and
lodging. Nothing Is more pitiable than
the state of men who are pensioned
too soon. It is a soriologic necessity
to render aid only when it is needed
r.nd compel men to keep up the strug-
gle for existence. The present trend
in thought is in the direction of reliev-
ing society of its burdens and shifting
them to the shoulders of the individual
families or relatives. In addition,
there is a growing protest against the
Indiscriminate and maudlin charity
which is thought to be responsible for
the dreadful increase of pauperism.
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PECK'S BAD
BOY WITH
THE CIRCUS
By HON. GEORGE W. PECK
Author of "Peck s B«d B-y Abro-d." Etc.
Music and Character.
Good music is a powerful tonic to
many people, especially those suffering
from melancholia. It lifts them out of
their solemn moods, dispels gloom and
despondency, kills discouraged feelings
and gives new hope, new life and new
vigor. It seems, says the editor of
Success Magazine, to put a great many
people into proper tune. It gives them
the keynote of truth and beauty,
strikes the chords of harmony, dispels
discord from the life, scatters clouds
and brings sunshine. All good music-
is a character builder, because its con-
stant suggestion of harmony, order
and beauty puts the mind into a nor-
mal attitude. Music dears the cob-
webs out of many minds, so that they
can think better, act better and live
better. Some writers are dependent
upon music for their inspiration and
"their moods. Somehow it brings the
muse to them. It adds brilliancy to
the brain, and facility to the pen,
which they cannot seem to get in any
other way. Good music seems to give
us a touch of the divine, and to put
us In contact with divinity. It drives
out evil thoughts, making us ashamed
of them. It lifts us above petty an-
noyances and little worries of life, an I
gives us a glimpse of the ideal which
the actual is constantly obscuring.
ic «>)>>iit>ht i > J. a
The Bad Boy Feeds the Menagerie
Scotch Snuff—Pa Gets Mauled by
the Sneezing Animals—Pa Takes
a Midnight Hide on a Mule to Es-
cape Punishment.
Well. I spose I have done it. now. and
it would not surprise me to be killed and
fed to wild animals. The manager of
the show was talking to pa and me, be-
fore we left New York, about the condi-
tion of the show. Its finances were all
balled up on account of settling with
people who pretended to be injured
when the tent blew down at Poughkeep-
Ble, and the hands and performers arc
kicking because we area month behind
on salaries, and they get drunk when-
ever any jay will buy for them. Every-
body gives passes to everybody that
wants to get in the show, so the box
office man has a sinecure, and people
chase us from town to town for money
for board, and hay. and everything.
All through New Jersey we showed to
claim agents and c r ditors. ami didH't
Cee, but you never saw such a change
in a lion. The crowd of visitors were
right near his cage, when he sniffed, and
when he got the snuff into him. he began
to heave his shies like a man who is pre-
paring to sneeze, caught his breath a
few times, and let out a sneeze that
sounded like the explosion of an auto-
mobile tire. It threw cut feed all over
the audience, and everybody ran away,
yelling that the lion had busted.
He kept on sneezing, and looking so
astounded, as though lie couldn't make
out what had got into him. Pa heard
the commotion and came running up to
the cage to find out what ailed the lion.
After I had gone around to the other
and I told pa to come on, 'cause Vessu-
vious was going to erupt.
Pa came on the run,, just as he was,
and then the worst happened. 1 think
the hippo went under water when he
found the sneeze was coming, for just
as pa got to the tank the water flew into
the air like a torpedo had exploded un-
der a battleship, and the hippo had
sneezed all right, and pa and the audi-
ence which had followed him were
drenched and deafened by the explosion.
The hippo had blown the water all out
of his tank, and lie lay at the bottom, on
his side, sneezing little sneezes not
louder than the report of a six-pound
cannon, and panting for breath. Then
cages and put snuff in all of them, I came 1 he raised his head, got up on his feet.
up to the lion's cage. The lion had
stopped sneezing and was roaring and
jumping up and down, with his mouth
open, trying to catch his breath, like a
man who has taken too big a dose of
fresh horse-radish.
Pa said: "What you been doing to
Shadrack?"
1 told pa 1 had woke Shadrack up. and
t hat in about a minute he would find that
the whole animal kingdom had got a
bellyful, mid would join In the chorus.
Pa tried to soothe the lion by going up
to the cage and stroking his mane, but
the lion looked cross-eyed and stoppc^l
prancing and gave a sneeze right at pa,
which blew pa clear across the tent to
w here the sacred cow had just got hers.
When the stuff began to work on that
cow it was simply scandalous, 'cause
she bellowed and cried and sneezed all
at once, and pawed pa. He got up and
told me 1 was overdoing this waking up
act on the animals.
and opened his mouth like a gash cut in
a steer by a cow catcher of an engine,
and he yawned, and I guess he got the
lockjaw, 'cause he kept his mouth open
all the afternoon, to get the air. like a
soprano singer in a choir, who has been
fed a cayenne pepper lozenger by the
tenor, just before she gels up to sing:
"A Charge to Keep. I Have."
We went around and inspected the
sneezing animals, with the manager,
and he complimented me by saying I had
saved the show from becoming an ag-
gregation of stuffed animals, only fit for
a taxidermist studio, and made every
animal show that he had ginger in him.
He wanted me to try my snuff cure on
the performers and freaks, 'cause they
were getting to be dead ones.
Well, before the day was over at Wil-
mington. Del., pa was scared worse
than lie ever was in all his life before.
The state of Delaware is the only state
that punishes criminals by tying them
By i
time the cage of hyenas began I up and whipping them on the bare back
to sneeze a quartette, and fight each !
other, and the atmosphere about their
take in money enough to buy meat for
the animals. He said the animals had
all taken cold, and lay around dormant,
and didn't take any interest in the busi-
ness and the manager told pa he must
think of something to wake the animals
up. Pa said he would leave it to me to
wake 'em up. and get some ginger into
them. 1 told pa if I had five dollars to
spend 1 c ould make every animal jump
like a box car. Pa gave me the money,
and I went and bought five pounds of
Scotch snuff, and divided it up into ounce
packages, and stflTted during t he after-
noon performance at Wilmington, Del.,
to wake up the animals.
There is something peculiar about
animals, if you try to give them any-
thing that they think you want them to
take, you can't drive it down them with
a pile driver, but if you try to hide some-
thing where they can reach it. they
w atch you out of one rye. and when you
go away they look at you as much as to
with a cat-'o-nine-tails. and all our
men had been warned to be good while
they were in Delaware, 'cause if they
committed any crime there was no pow-
er on earth that could save them from
being publicly horsewhipped. Pa him-
self impressed it on the men to look out
that they didn't get into any trouble,
(lee. but the fear of a public whipping
makes men good.
Twenty years ago some hold-up men
from New York robbed a bank in Dela
ware, and were caught, and given 50
lashes apiece on the bare back, by a big
negro, and there has never been a bur-
glary in Delaware since. We thought
we would play a joke on pa. so the man-
ager told pa that constables were look-
ing for him to arrest him for cruelty to
animals, for kicking a camel in the
stomach, and hitting the camel with an
iron bar. and that if pa didn't want to
be publicly horsewhipped on the bare
back he better skip out for Washington,
D. C.. where we would show in a couple
of days, and wait for us.
Pa was so frightened he couldn't get
supper, and everybody talked about
cats of nine tails, and how prisoners
were cut to pieces, and every time pa
saw a jay with a slouch hat he thought it
was a com.*tahle after him. After dark
cage was full of hair and language that • he put on an old suit of clothes and said
would be much like cussing if it could 1 he was going to Washington. They told
be translated into English. Pa tried ^o
quiet the crowd and silence the hyenas
by taking an iron bar and mauling them,
Tl-e Lion Sneezed and Blew Fa Clear Across the Tent
but the hyenas just backed up against
the rear of the cage and howled and
sneezed at pa. and dared him to come on.
One of them caught him by the shirt
sleeve and tore pa's shirt off and eat it
Pa was a sight, with no shirt on. and he
ought to have gone to the dressing room
and slicked, but just then the camels
and the giraffes, who had inhaled their
| snuff, began to sneeze and beg to be
| killed, and pa had to go over there and
! quiet them. A camel is the solemnest
■ looking beast on earth when he tries to
be good natured. but w hen he is sick and
mad. and full of snuff, he is a fiend. One
! such camel is enough for a man to
i handle, but when 14 camels are all
sneezing at once, and trying to locate t he
1 person that is responsible for their
Keep Going.
"We must all either go forward or g<
l ack," said a reflective man of affairs;
"there is no standing still in nature.
This is a truth that applies peculiarly to
the business world. Young firms grow
because they have not yet become
slavc3 of old-time methods. Old house;
of business have a tendency to drop out
of existence, unless there is a constant
infusion of new blood. Habit and custom
keep them in old ruts, and as it is becom-
ing less and less possible to merely 'mark
time' in commerce, they are gradually
edged out of existence by stress of com-
petition. "My advice, then, to those who
want to succeed In life Is to 'keep going.'
Keep putting out new ideas, new meth
cds, and new developments. It is the
only way to keep abreast of the world,
whether in your individual lite or in i
business career."
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m r.o:!e Out of Town and Hcule All Night.
Such unexampled insolence and tot:il
disregard of common decency was
shown by photographers and ranic-a
fiends in New York during Miss llooso
vcit's visit to that city that there is
enrntst renewal of agitation in fa-
vor of seme measure of leyul protec-
tion against «uch persons. There Is
already some sort of enactment on
the subject, but the talk now Is for
•nmething more stringent. The camera
HenJ has become a world-wide nui-
eanre that should t* abaUd without
pay: "O you think you are smart,
don't you?'' Then they will go and dig
it up and play with it. and cat it if they
want to.
I took my first package of snuff to the
lion's cage, and he was the sickest and
most disgusted looking lion you ever
saw . ac ting like a man who kas taken a
severe cold, and wants to kill anybody
that looks at him. The lion lay on the
straw, stretched opt full length, paying
no attention to the crowd that passed
his cage, and act ing ns though he wanted
a hot whisky and his feet soaked in
mustard water. When lie was not look-
ing 1 hitl the package of snuff under the
straw, and rattled the straw a little.and
he opened his eyes and looked at me as
much as to say: "You can't fool old
Shadrack. for I am on to you." I w alked
away behind the hyena cage, and Mr.
Lion got up and stretched himself, and
walked to the place where 1 put the pa-
per of snuff, put his foot on it and broke
the paper, and then he put his nose
down and sniffed a sniff that drew the
whole of the snuff up Into his nose and
lungs, and insider geuerallv
him if ho went to take a train he would
surely be arrested at the depot, so pa
put a saddle on one of the mules, and
rode out of town and rode all night, and
all the next day ho bought oats of farm-
ers to be delivered at Wilmington for
the circus. Finally he got out of Dela
ware, and th^ next day the farmers came
in with the oats, but the show was gone,
and they won't do a thing to pa if he
ever shows up in Delaware again.
Pa met us at the depot in Washington,
but he was ever so changed from his
long ride and anxiety over the possi-
bility of being arrested and pilloried,
and lambasted by a negro in Delaware.
He said to me, w ith a trembling voice:
"Hennery, this 'ere show business is too
much for your pa. I would rather be a
Mormon, in I'tah. with 40 wives, and
several hundred children, and long
whiskers. 1 am a changed man, Hen-
nery. and afraid of my shadow."
WASH IN RUNNING WATER.
Public Drinking Plices in Buenos
Ayres Must Cleanse Glasses
That Way.
"They do some things better in Buenoo
Ayres than we do in this country," said
a former Milwaukee man. who has spent
many years in Argentina.
It may be considered.a small matter
by sonic, and yet one ironc lad regulation
down there always struck me as emi-
nently sound—a regulation providing
that all glasses us d in barrooms.saloons
and public drinking places shall bo
washed in running water. The idea is
that by cleansing them in water that is
used over and over t here is a good chance
for the transmission of disease. Inspec -
tors are always on their rounds seeing
that the law is observed, and woe to the
man who is found derelict in its ob-
servance. Buenos Ayres, by the way. is
kept as clean as any city in the United
States, and is one of the most progres-
sive towns in the world.
"When a man dies down there it does
not matter whether he made a will dis-
posing of his property of not. The law
of the country comes into play, and di-
vides all his possessions equally among
his heirs. Not one of them can be disin-
herited. One good effect of this is to do
away with big landed estates. Many of
these, though, are still of enormous size,
and farms of 6,000 acres are the rule,
rather than the exception.
Up-to-Date Monks.
Tho monks of the St. Bernard
hospice in Switzerland are bound to
be up to date. They have purchased
trouble, it is the safest to keep awav. and
when pa went in amongst them, with !
no shirt on. and the Arab keepers had j
run away in fright, it was a dangerous
t hlng to do.
But pa is brave even to rashness. He
went up to Mahomet, the double- I
humped leader of the herd, who was the !
leader of the sneezers, and kicked him i
in the slats and told him to hush up his I
noise. He clubbed him on the humps j
with a tent stake. Then there was a
rebellion in Kgypt. and Mahomet bit pa. j
and wouldn't let go. and the other i
camels sneezed all over pa. and had him ( nn automobile to carry provisions up
down, walking on him with their padded | the mountain. In order not to
feet. The circus hands had to pull pa
out. and it wasn't so bad, because the
crowd remained and tliey thought It
was a part of the show, and that the ani-
mals were trained to sneeze flut way.
The worst o«e was the hippopotamus.
He was so big. and had such big nos-
trils. that I laid about half a pound of
snuff on the side of h.s tank, and when
he snuffed it up his nose he got it all. 1
heard a howl from the tank and 1 knew
the hippo w:.s getting ready to sneeze,
Not Deserving of Good Luck.
Three (jennans were sitting at luncheon
recently nnd were overheard disens-ing
the second marriage of a mutual friend,
when one of them remarked: "I'll tell
you \hat. A man vhat marries de sec-
ond time don't deserve to have lost his
first vile."—Life.
—♦
A liar is either po depraved that he
is not ashamed to be known as a liar,
or so stupid as to imagine that he can
be a liar without being found out. Home
and Abroad.
To Get the Best Out of Life
Order the life habits to conform to the
laws of hygiene, lake proper rest, tood,
drink and exercise, have plenty of light,
fresh air and sunshine, and take a cup of
Garfield Tea daily. This mild laxative in
sures Good Health. Druggists sell (Jar-
field Tea.
—♦—
If a man should try to obey all the
laws on the statute books he might es-
cape the penitentiary by getting into
the lunatic asylum. St. Louis Globe Dem-
ocrat.
A Guaranteed Cure for Piles.
Itching, Blind. Bleeding, Protruding Piles.
Drugcristsare authorized to refund money if
PazoOixtmknt fails to cure in ti to 14days. 50c
«———■
The term acute gastritis was invented
no that physicians would not be ashamed
to charge live dollars lor treating stomach
ache.
«
Do your clothes look yellow? If so, use
Red Cross Ball Blue. It will make them
white as snow. 2 oz. package, 5 cents.
It takes a married genius to invent a
new cxcuse.
tce«l or money refunded.
' 20 Pkts. Seeds
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of which were not intended to; such
heavy loads.
Not His First Love.
"1 understand he m&rrleti his first
love."
"Say. how can a fellow marry him-
self?"- Judge.
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Keeps the skin in a
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Better than the old-farhioned
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safest, most modern and the
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Superior to anything in
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Cures sun-burn.
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