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Miguel de Cervantes. The eoimneiuorntlon of the tercet.tenary of the pubileatlou of “Don Quixote” brings to the fore the complex personality of tbnt prince of Spanish letters, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. “If by the spirit he was a writer," says Professor George Edward Woodberry In McCltne’s. “by the 3esh be was a soldier.” In that adventurous age roving and fighting were the typical Spaniard's life. Cervantes* boyhood is wrapped in mystery and tradition. It Is known that be w^t born In 1547 In Alcala de Henares, about twenty miles from Madrid, of poor but noble parents, and educated at Sala xnanca and Valladolid. Ills biographer believes that be may be satisfactorily Identified with that Miguel de Cervantes, a page at court, who-was sentenced for some’ escapade exile and the loss of bis right band, escaping these punishments by flight At any rate, he left Madrid In 1570 in the train of the papal nuncio and spent that year In Rome, enjoying the most cultivated society tn the world. The Turks were then storming Cyprus and threatening Vienna. The cry for a crusade against the Infidel was loud, and Cervantes was of those who gave It a willing ear. For five yean the young Spaniard served the cross against the crescent at Nararlno, Corfu, Tunis. In Sardinia, 81clly«and Italy. Don Joan de Austria himself bore testimony to his good conduct Sailing for home, Don Miguel was captured by Algerian pirates and for five year* more was a Christian slave. He returned to Spain , a crippled soldier and serf. He became a king's officer and married one Donna Catalina, a as poor as himself. Trouble pursued him In bis native soil, and'be was more than once In prison. It Is amid that be began to write “Don Quixote” in a cell. “Pen never blunted lance," be said, “nor lance the pen,” and one falling him be took up the other. He wrote a shepherd's book, full of rhetoric and lover's plaints. He tried the stage, with scenes from his life In Algiers. The short story, then a most popular Add, be attempted also. Yet twenty yean of such labors brought him neither fame nor fortune. .He bad, however, taken his master's degree in the Utter school of experience, and when •T>on Quixote” appeared. In Cervantes’ fifty-eighth year. It was the work of a wise old man. It was a popular cess, but instead of friends It woo enemies and left him In the slough of poverty. Cervantes himself did not perceive the Importance of his chef d’oeurre. Not recognizing that be bad broken out of the beaten path, be returned to bis old ways, seeking agate the honors of a poet te his “J<

llgatory or voluntary, glum, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Hungary, Finland. Italy, Bwltserland and Germany. The English system Is the most primitive, embracing only voluntary Insurance, while that adopted by Germany la the meet elab-

orate.

There Is perhaps no country In the world where the workman U so well protected and cared for by the state as In the German empire. Even clerks and shop a »* Is taut* are compelled to Insure. There are three forms of Insurance—namely, against sickness,-ac-cident and old age or Infirmity, snrance against sickness lr especially intended for those occupied in Industry and commerce. Among Its bent-tit* are free Uedlcal attention In the case of Inability to work, financial assistance for thirteen weeks equal to 50 per cent of the workman’s wages or gratuitous use of a hospital and 25 I tor cent of the daily'salary to the family, and In the case of death funeral expenses equal to twenty times the dally salary. Two-thirds of the sick assessments are paid by employers and one-third by employees, in proportion to their wages. Workmen in Industrial and agricultural labor earning not over 5432 a year must Insure against accident Assessment* are equitably divided between employers and employed. Insurance against old age and Infirmity Is compulsory from the sixteenth year upon all workmen earning leas than $482.50. Resources for this Insurance are furnished by employers, workmen and the state. Tbe state gives a uniform subvention of $12 to every pension and pays the workman's dues during bis term of military service. All remaining expenses are shared equally by employers and employees. The lowest amount paid by a workman Is 3.3 cents a week, the highest 8.68. Infirmity pensions range from $28 to f 108.50 and are not granted for less i 200 weeks' work. An old age pension Is given to every workman of enty years or over who has paid 1,200 weekly does. The minimum is $26, the maximum $5550. New Zealand pays a pension to indigent persons who have lived te the country uninterruptedly for twentyfive years and who have not been convicted of crime. Belgium has a voluntary national retiring fund, which gives Its members at sixty-five a pension of $60250. The Swedish city of Gothenburg pensions all employees of tba municipality who have reached tba aga of sixty-five and who have served the city thirty years.

BODY OF PAUL JONES

Identification of American Admiral’s Corpse In Paris.

BEMAIHB WERE WELL PRESERVED

Popster Taste la Literature. It Is -encouraging to discover that, while the run of people read nx tion nowadays than they do fact, they' read more fact than ever before. After a careful investigation Mr. Herbert Copeland writes In tbe Boston Tran-

script as follows:

The Increase In both the publication and circulation of books of. travel, blosrmphy, letters-and reminiscences has been in tbe last few yearn astounding. Never before in tbe history of tbe world have peoQle

P m _ en a lot of reading of this kind, but tbe very great advance in this department means that tbe great mass has begun to read there things as well as fiction and. having onco acquired tbe taste by reading tbe new and :b advertised books of this nature, are going back to tbe standard and older works which until recently had been read

little save by the student Mid ~ few. Two practically sew » bars come Into the market

called "nature books” and works of pseudoscientific nature. Both kinds have

large sales.

Tbe ted for books, whether good or ted, has teen taken as a sure sign of degeneration, but Mr. Copeland thinks tbe popular taste Is not so low as K appears and that on tbe whole there is a good deal of health in all tbe flood of so called “popular literature.’

It and the aieci v softsjef Bko' j *t lately—tbe K

New York city baa a Paul Jones' greet fight

horn me Richard and shouldn’t be Jealous If tbe hero's remains find a tomb

Tbe memento is a grave In

stands s slsb with a legend in French,

inscribed to tbe memory at

Pierre de Laudala,

the Alliance, which at a turning point

nfe Ski* Was Tanned, MantmISed, bat Altogether InUtet—Body Was 'Wedged Into Its Co Mis So Tightly Thai rinehers Were Toed to Drew It Oal—Measarements of Feaferea. The patriotic efforts of Gefieral Horace 1‘orier, our retiring uniUiMtadur In 1‘arU, to tiud the body of Admiral John Paul Jouex, the fattier of the United Suites navy, under the modern buildings which cover the site of the old Protestant cemetery In Paris, where It has lain since 17U2, have been described In the American press. An autopsy after that length of time la so rare that the following report of Dr. Pupillaut, assistant director of the laboratory of anthropology at the Kcole-des Haute* Etudes, should prove interesting as well aa curious, says the Paris correspondent of the New York Post: "My eminent colleague. Dr. Cap I tan. professor' of onthrupoiagy. who made the examination of the corpse along with me, la more familiar than 1 with the excavations which have been made to find the coffin of Admiral Jones. As a member of tfte commission of old Paris he Interested himself In the search made by M. Weiss, mining engineer. I had to do only with the identification of the body after the leaden coffin had been opened. The coffin was brought to the medical faculty on tbe 0th of April. It had no inscription, but its fabrication showed exceptional car*. It exactly enveloped tbe shape of tbe body, outlining even tbe contour of the bead. « "Tbe body which was found In this coffin was wonderfully preserved, and It had most likely been plunged in alcohol. The akin was tanned, mummified. but altogether Intact. The only clothing was a un£_shirt. Tbe body was wedged Into its leaden envelop with straw and hay so tight that to get It oat of the coffin it was necessary to use pinchers. This must have been done to avoid injury from shaking In

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Rear Admiral Nicolai Ivanotitiii Ncbog.tioh', who comma ad* a divtiioit of Admiral Itojeatveiuk/'s fleet, left tire Baltic on Feb. 15 ou hu long journey to the seat Of war In the far ca rt. Ib-ar Admiral NebogntofTs division of tlnBaltlc fleet, officially dmlgniited Russia'* third Padflc sqn.->dron. condnts of four battleships from nlue to sixteen years old. one armored cruiser twentyfour years old and twaauxiliary cruisers «r converted merchantmen. These vessels are the single turret. It,TOO ton, third class battleship Emirc-rar Nicbo-

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“To identify the body of Admiral Jones two kinds of documents ted been placed at our disposition—first, written documents, among other details of his physique from memoirs of the

PLAYS AND PLAYERS. Miss Louise Drew lui* lawn engaged for Robert Edesou's company and took her place In the cast of "Himrigbeart" recently In the role of Molly Living-

stone.

Another blushing dehutaule in vaudeville la Mrs. Annie Yeaumns, who made her bow at Uurtlg A Keamon's, New York, recently. Kh* Is anklated by Louis Wesley. Harry Conor, once tbe Welland Strong of "A Trip to Chinatown." appeared for the first time In "Mrs. Temple's Telegram" In the Madison Square theater. New York, recently. Joseph Coyne will have a part In Sydney Uonenfekl'* musical comedy, “The Rollicking Girl,” which will follow Blanche Walsh's engagement In the Herald Square theater. New York. When FJoreux Ziegfeld sailed for Europe recently with hi* -vif- .\ :iu* Held, It wa* with the pm p»e i arming nn alliance In London with vaudeville manager* who should supply him with attractions. Henry Miller's performance In iv*--tor’s theater. Twenty,third street. :.evr ‘ York, in the one act Clyde Flh’-h piny. Frederic Ijemaitre.” had all the merit j that might be expected of that "star," ; who has been wan over to vaudeville.

SHORT STORIES.

KZXB -vDMIKAL XE1KX3ATOFT. las L, the double turret. 4,000 ton sea* going coast defense ships Admiral Benia vine. Admiral Oashakoff and General Admiral Apraksin and the converted cruisers Russ anti Xenia. In Rnssia Admiral Nebogatoff Is regarded as an authority on naval tactics, Previous to hi* npj>oiutnicnt to' Rojestvcnnky’s fleet he was for two yeans In command of a squadron of sebootabips In tbe Black sen. Admiral Nebogatoff is about hfty-five years of age.

disease of which be died; second, two busts made by tbe sculptor Hoodoo st

different dates.

"According to tbe written documents, tbe admiral died at about tbe age of forty-five. He ted brown hair and of a stature of LTD met era. The examination of tbe teeth of tbe cor. which, after being scraped snd waited, appeared brown with white line*, showed s man of about forty-five. For tbe stature I found 1.71 meters, which abould not surprise, for a man lying down tea always one of two centime-

‘These first verifications were satisfying. but they were not sufficient. With tbe two busts of Houdon I • able to obtain results far more precise and Interesting. One of these busts belongs to tbe Marquis de Blron. It Is a rough cast, graceful and spirited, representing rather ap elegant courtier than a marina* of vaunted bravery. Tbe otter boat, tbe original of which la In Philadelphia, but which has a plaster replica In the Trocadero museum, to hare been modeled more exactly. Id It Houdon appears to have aimed chiefly at the likeness. On this bust we took measures and verified tbe morj>bo!ogieal characters capable of determining identity. Tbe roots of tbe hair, abape of tbe eye socket, form of the forehead and root of the nose were identical In the bust and In tbe corpse. Professor Herve. who helped in the operation. even pointed out a particular disposition of the ear cartilages. In which tbe corpse agreed with tbe bust “But It was tbe measurement of tbe height of tbe face, of tbe minimum frontal diameter and of tbe chin and tbe rest which astonished me by Us

always take e

a tendency, often | characteristic, to a or three mlliimeteni from the real n

burying ground. <*er which Dakm. who was a very ex--k wm. . a*—^ n»de •*«> important

K*e«v Davie’s Pen. David Belasco say* that In the days when “The Charity Ball" wa* being put through the' early rehearsals one of the actors of the company came up to tbe late H. C. De Miile. who bad collaborated with Mr. Belasco In writing the piece, to complain of one of his speechIt so hap!>eued that the lines which the actor objected to were quoted from tbe Psalms, and Mr. De Ullle said, “It may be as bombastic and stilted as you say, but don't blame me; blame David." -I thought a* much," snorted tbe actor. “I might have recognised Dave Belaaco’a old fashioned pen without ask ; Ing.”—New York Times.

tew Pmldomt of tke D. A. R. Mrs. Donald McLean of New York, who succeeds Mrs. Cbartes W. Fairbanks as president general of tbe Daughters of the American Revolution, Is perhaps as widely known as any woman in public life She le a . _ jersouj ' character and noted tion and tenacity of purpose. Eminently fitted by ter qualifications for tbe position to which she has beat chosen. Mrs. McLenn'e bead of the society Is assured. She is a charter member of the Daughters of tbe American Revolution and for ten years served as regent of tbe New York city chapter. In 1806 that cfaap-

tfon of 1B01-02. She Is probably teat tfir son of ter public

In the c^ty of Honolulu there Is a woman policeman who la not only young, but pretty apd j>o*se*»ed of

wealth.

A heavy hailstorm took place at Santiago. Cuba, the other afternoon, which inated twenty minutes. The last recorded storm of thi* kind occurred seventy-seven years ago. The finding of 1Z000 nest* of the brown tall moth in the town of Y'ork, Me., has aroused the. citizen* of that town to a realization of the extensive bold which these pests have already gained in certain parts of York county. Governor Spark* of Nevada and some other wealthy men Intend to establish an oasis In Death valley, seven-ty-five miles south of Goldfield, for the benefit of travelers. Artesian wells will transform it. and It is to be stock-

ed with game.

A dispatch from Fairbanks, Alaska. Feb. 22, to Tacoma said that a common United States two cent postage stamp

ted just been sold there for t and that It was tbe last stamp IJ Tbe last lemon in town had a J consumed. It sold for $2.

*.»e stamp r s^loiicr p iMpwn.

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IN SAN FRANCISCO.

Men and women can be seen bathing In tbe ocean every day In the year. Few native sons have ever seen snow except on the crests of the distant

mountain*.

The newspaper bulletin boards tell of New York happenings nearly three boon before they occur—San Francisco

time.

Overcoats and woolen underwear are In ordte'the year round. A lady starting to make afternoon calls carriea an umbrella and a fan. Tbe difference In temperature between San Francisco and Oakland, tbe suburb across tbe bay, often varies 10 or 15 degrees. Before crossing the bay one must telephone ahead to learn whether te needs an umbrella or a sunshade.—New York World.

HORSES AND HORSEMEN. Coney. 2:02, will be raced as a trotter tbe coming season. Several engagements bare already been booked for Dan Patch. Gus Ms coy Is said to have recently refused $7,500 for County Jay. 2:10ft. Sherman Clay, 24K/ft by Clay Dust, was sold at auction in rhilauelphla recently for $320. Tbe Driving association at Oshkosh. Wls, is plsunlng for a race meet the week of Aug. 14. The dues for members of tbe matinee club at tbe Empire City track have been fixed at $25 for tbe coming season. Tbe Pittsburg owners of tbe speedy fiHy Alice Edgar, 226, by Moko, are 1 to have recently refused $12,000 for ter.

MODES OF THE MOMENT.

Gay plaid ginghams have red for tbe redominating Influence. Bilk and wool chains is shown la the attest colors Imaginable A new fan is made of flowers, poptea or violets being tbe most popular. For evening cloaks comas matelassa, a thick silky stuff that looks Uks a gor-