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Show 1 nisrs ilVITti THE JVOPLD'S tof0r me In IU beauty Ilea the prairie, Ana Ui cloud &bo a swiftly LiiHsir.it train, ITha trees upon the distant hills are waving summer hate la rent Ins on the iTet memory retails a tairer alley, plain. within It dearer tar to me, UAnd a spot knoll btsait a winding here a little old log cabin used to be When daylight dies behind the distant mountain, And the mist has hid the valley from my sight, fThen memory returns to scenes of child-- j J . IX ntr We wondered why they never could agree The hardest problem of our early child hood. Whi re the little old log cabin used to be The silent Indian glauoed within the doorw 4 , Ills squaw laid down her burden In the 1 glass I hood And on lifes summer morning sheds Us light. The sunlight glimmers out upon the r. Where, undisturbed, the minnows sport a-- , ed rThe ' file, duamy jeais but added to their number. White the little old log cabin used to be And, looking our her gaily colored has kets How quickly would a summer evening pass The twain enjoyed the white mans ample nut per, A hriixe unit In across the distant li a The latihetnng disapptared, the day was on r Where the little old log cabin UBed to be , I he far I The world, to us, was bounded by the fill l si That siMtihid away, we reeked but litllt ut foretold a brighter sa- The w i in slim, bim W'hun loses gave their fragrance to the an In sprit g there came the childrens songs laneht-- r aid The squirrel scampered up the nearest tree And chattered to the wildly barking collie. Where the little old log cabin used to be. - The above the clover blossoms. Bang o er again his song of summer joys, Bob White, from his perch be(And side the meadow, Kept watch upon the collie, and the boys (Along the crooked pathway to the river. e The twittering blue-bir- d and the chlck-a-de- Hew In and out among the ferns and willows, Where the little old log cabin used to be. The timid deer looked In across the wheat held, The partridge hid her fledglings In the brush. The voice of Robin Redbreast, In the ;d. Was mingled with the singing of the thrush; (The crow and martsn quarreled oer the Is 1 hf 'I he off wtnp-poo- music ii'iki,t n uh nn i, .light ! n mo-ime- will commenced joined the evening sere- glirti-nion the leafy ma-- I in and out among Its branches pU ed The night wind stored the vines around If W ll dow And wlleiercd In Its dreamv lullaby Whin ail within was wrapped in peace ful slumhtr where the little old log cabin used to Ami I be When the fitful dream of this short Ilfs is over. And wearily we lay Its burdens down. What will we care for earthly fame or glory? What matter If the people sheer of frown? Leave what remains of this old, worn- out body High on a mountain top, or In the sea. But let my longing spirit once more wander Where the little old log cabin used to be. v. I By Earl U. Pratt. Oek Park, Illinois The purpose of the Forethought drena clothing is to always have 11 ON HOW getting back to nature. Note Book library is to collect useful comfortable. On how to keep children ideas and send them around the world quiet in church, I would lesvs them Students of American life think la various Since some of our very rich ftrtt out of church if they attend Sunday ways and directions. that they detect a distinct tendency to have taken to publ e discourse upon school. About the diet of a peculiar letFrom comes Idaho the following The first effort is. ter: all sorts of matters their utterances revert to nature In a paper printed on ons side child, let tbe child choose what it of -: course, to acquire a competence; lave somewhat diminished their repuat this place I find your request likes best if it agrees with IL To tation for infallible wisdom. It has the second, to amas a fortune, but only for helpful information on different teach a little girl to love her younger teen discovered that a man may pos- the third is to own a country place, I will endeavor to answer brother, let her believe she Is loved subjects. and to be able to spend all but the sess ertat wialth and still fall of a few of your queries from my ex- as much as he." y of the science of winter months out in the open, away complete a feat part of early life perience. the crowded, dusty city Whethgovtruuunt or the principles of po- from If a st ranger should ask you to which has pr er ofyi most useful wase this lie an effiet of inheritance, a litical economy. Nay, it is evident hold s baby a moment and then not from the age of eixteen to twenty-thretha such a man may not even prove barkjrg ha h to the form whence all A useful hint on chll- - return for It, what yould you dot years. a reliable emtio to the Inquirer who Ci'y dwellers at one time or another errang or not it is eels for the road to wealth. Interesting fart. Ht i'ih is bettor, life is longer One of the most didactic of our and hanpir. if all thtr'time that can vivacious millionaires has recently debe spared fiom the exactions of Busiclared that riches are within the ness be si i ut in the open air, where reach of every man who wishes to be the breathing - paces are large, the sir are but rich. lie asserts that there pure, the sunlight clear, warm and full The laziest man 1 ever knowT That tank blew up one day when two requisites tor the acquisition of of comfort Jackson had put a doable char grin to Well, said Mr. Stoggleby, I am wealth moderate Intelligence and unto think that that was a man it to save himself the trouble of charglimited industry. Given these, he deTHE CZAR'S PRIVATE FORTUNE. I knew once named Rlffieton Jackson ing it so often, and blew Mr. Rlffleton clares that any man can get rich. Rlffleton who was considerable of a across his room and through the door Which is. of course, entirely false Many have seriously re- player on the cornet, but who didnt but Into the ball and broke bis left and misleading, even though It comes produced newspapers a from a gentleman who has piled Up In s Paris telegram which appeared very often play one because be was arm and damaged him otherwise, and Journal that too dum lazy to blow IL laid him up for quite a long time; great wealth and Is now engaged In tha Emperor Nicholasannouncing had presented But finally he bit on a plan that and when he got out again be was Everyone bis piling up free libraries.. privato fortune, amounting to let him play all he wanted to without quite another man. " knows that Intelligence and Industry eighty millions sterling (1400,000,000). "Whether In that long enforced Idletaking the trouble to blow; all be are not the sole essentials to the ac- to the Russian government for war bad to do was to manipulate the keys. ness he bad stored up enough energy quisition of riches. Everyone knows purposes. It was added that this huge He had a tank, built that he used to give him a start, I dont- of men highly intelligent and thorun stands to the credit of the emper- to pump full of hte1 1s and It bat certain after that air, compressed can scarcely or In s bank of-oughly industrious who country not friendly which had a pipe leading from it up arm healed and fee got out again b make a living. to Rossis. Eighty millions would be a back of In was another man, as and enIt Is true that Intelligence and In- pretty sort of a sum to be held at of withbisanhead and aroundfitted front Into ergetic as he had bees lazy before;! it that opening the to favorable are can qualities dustry by any bank; but tbe whole story the mouthpiece of his corneL which and so be has ever since continued.1 attainment of wealth, but It Is not Is a romance, and so are all the other hs was thus enabled to hold In the for hes still living; and to see him true that the posdfession of those tales about tbe emperor's dealings usual for playing and to play now yon wouldnt think he had ever position even in the qualities, highest degree, vtth fels civil list The fact Is that upoa without blowing had n lazy bone In his body. hlasslt constitute any assurance of riches. the emperor of Russia has no civil He had a valve ta the tank which "Now that was a queer case, wasn't . g a Is The money-makinlist, and he draws at his discretion on ke used te faculty wltk kte feet, and Itt It surely waa I have heard of a' operate thing apart from other natural endow- thi imperial treasury, every rouble o supply tka seeded air. And wkea good many slmpla things and of a ments. An ignorant, illiterate man of which is supposed to be his prop- hed filled sp kte Uak hed aft there good many odd things, serving finally who possesses it will get rich, and erty and absolutely at his disposal. and play, till hte air gave euS, with te spur some apparently hopelessly intellectual genius without it will re- London World. the greatest anjoymsnt, except whea Isay man on to endeavor, bnt Jackson main poor all his life. Like a gift for he was too lazy to press the valve Rlffletons Is tha only casa I ever COST OF lNSEQT PEST. music, it can be cultivated, but It canwith hte foot ' beard of in which a man was thus not be acquired. "Yes, I think that Jackson Rlffleton transformed my the explosion of a The extent of damage done by In The sayings of our loquacious milwas the laziest man I ever knew, But compresed air tank built to help a lionaires, like the aphorisms In the seefs which prey on the agricultural he didnt always remain so. lazy man play the cornet" copybooks, will not always bear analy- interests of the United States is but sis. In the present instance the fal- little sppreclated. Twelve bugs, acsity of the proposition is evident to cording to reliable statistics, do an everybody, since a vast majority of estimated damage to farm products of the people, though they are intelligent $363,000,000 per aunum. The chinch and hard working, never acquire so bog beads the list, with $100,000,000 much as s modest competence, let a year; grasshopper, $90,000,000; Hes-sl- u A letter making Inquiry of Colonel and objects. The English language alone wealth. Chicago Record-Heralfly (a reminder of the revolution, does not apparently since the mercenaries hired by King Edwards, chief of the bureau of Inacquire many It would bs George brought its eggs over in the sular affairs, war department as to words from savagery. words grafted Into the English lan- pretty bard to nsms any words la MEDICAL COLLEGES. straw for their horses), $50,000,000; otton worm and boll worm (cotton), guage oa account of the American the English language that were acwas quired from tbe Indians of North ifSXWiOOOO spicce; cotton boll weevil, occupation of the Philippines Medical colleges are responsible tarued ore ia Ammie misstv er panes. Gapeua the horde of failures who parade svVd.Coo.eoOj Jo aiaio, grata No one knows how many dialects and do what they can to men-- j vll, apple worm and army worm, $10,' an excellent Spanish scholar and Is ace the public health. Some of the 900,000 apiece; potato bug, $8,000,000, getting up the history of the Philip- and different languages are spoken la and cabbage worm,- - $5,000,000. Al- pines from the public documents cap- the Philippine islands. General Anmedical schools are' tured from the Filipinos. He made a drew Burt, who spent several years la schemes, taking every applicant wto bany, N. Y, Argus. reply which Indicated that not so the Philippines and served in imporcomes along with the requisite fees many words come over from the Phil- tant positions, said that oftentimes he WHOLESALE BANKINGS They spoil hundreds of good farmers ippines, although thousands of United occupied one point with troops where black shoemakers and mechanics, "No personal accounts, large or States soldiers have spent years la one language was spoken, while three smiths. Issue sheepskins and leave the medical profession to struggle wltk small, wanted here; we do business the islands. Probably the Tagalog miles away a totally different lanthe reproach. This language and the language of the guage was spoken, differing apparentEvery decent doct only with large corporations. should join him and pursue the fa- was the reply the president of one of different tribes do, not impress the ly mors than the languages of differAmericana who go to tbs Philippines. ent Indian tribes In this country. Tha. kers, grafters and moral perverters u- the $25,000,000 Wall street banks gave Spanish 1s the chief language of acquisition of any of tbes tribal lanntil it is made too warm for them to to an Inquirer as to the minimum del posit that Institution would accepL the Philippines, and by ths acquisi- guages outside of the Tsgslog was .continue in the profession. A diploma ought to be beyond pun It was a notification that this was dis- tion of Florida, New Mexico, Texas almost Impossible and useless. It lsj chase' by anyone not fitted in ever) tinctly a "wholesale bank. 8uch and California the United States ac- apparent that whatever else ths Fhil-- j quired about all of the Spanish terms tpplnes contribute they will not en an s answer of not phywould have made been for the responsibilities way five years ago. But this is a new age. needed In the English - language to rich or enlarge the American Isa-- ! sician. Sioux City Tribune. t convey the meaning of various places fiuxg The billioq-dolla- r trust and tbe f I to are THE DUTY OF Wall SCHOOL, street what FIRST bank wireless telegraphy Is to electricity-wond- ers. The vast demands of modFrom the common school of the country district to the highest unive- ern Industry, often requiring the negorsity in the land, the fundamental Idea tiation of a loan of $5,000,000 upon 'a of American education is to make few houra notice, with frequent calls American citizens. There is no thought for stupendous accommodation from . One of the oddest card rooms la the moved to make room for hands. of making soldiers, or office holders, transcontinental railroads or - syndiTwo or three packs of cards arst or merchants, or traders, or inventors; cates financing foreign government city la la a bachelor fist np town. It make pitlzens first, then let each bond Issues, .have called into being Is the resort of half a dozen poker ased each evening, and now Instead! young American choose for himself these new banka veritable incarna- players, who gather about the green of being thrown away the hig ban del ; 'the line of life be deems best salted to tions of power, holding. Indeed, the covered table almost every evening are outlined in oourt cards, while the ante game. ' gape la between are filled In with' fels capacity; be does choose, and that safety and happiness of a people ta and play a flre-cewere decorated spots. Tbe entire wall Is filled jnj walla shall the their hands. Saturday evening Post Originally commonly without bias, what he with a few cheap sporting prints of and notable hands, carefully labeled, be; for young American has ideas of the old English style and a set of are now posted on the celling. Not HIGHER EDUCATION. hla own and Is ready to aid them, too, poker pictures. One night a royal n square inch of the wall plastering, on appropriate and even sometimes It la not the least but, one of the flush came out and the five cards 1s now vtelbls, and It makes a singu- on Inappropriate occasions. After- - all, 1 com. larly appropriate decorartlon. however, the best method of judging greatest advantages of higher educa- were tacked upon the wfi! to Tbe cards are so placed as to shed of any system of education Is in its re- tion that the woman of does memorate the event A few weeks pot went to a mas the dust, as much as possible, butj sults and, without saying a word ln know herself much better than did her later a seven-dolla- r and the nerve they cannot be fastened down firmlyj disparagement of the people of any mother or grandmother, and with that with a pair of deuces other nation, Jt may be said that is self knowledge comes a better under- to bluff, and for contrast and as a and the problem of cleaning the place! two spots was was the despair of the caretaker until! every essential quality the American standing of her relations to the world warning the pair of citizen has demonstrated his efficiency about her. The college girl of today placed alongside the royal hand. From the owner of the flat rigged up n large1 in life and action the value of his te healthier, stronger, saner, more In- time to time other hands were simi- bicycle air pump,,. with n line of flex en(ble rubber tubing such as la assd to dependent, more resolute and more larly posted nntU they began to training. St Louis useful than were the social butterflies croach upon the prints. One night extend the shutter radius on cameras or tha household drudges of her whea three plsyors each held four of Now the air te forced under the cards KEEPING IDEALS. to and by creating a draught through the grandmothers time. In the experi- n kind, n print was taken down and the for room the window, the dust te taken up New make hands, who mental That was a wise old clergyman stages of this new develop- next re were York Press nQ the prints evening rged his brethren not to admit young ment there may have been danger, but men to the ministry unless they were and evidently morn in their ' faith than their elders. "We must allow," hs said, than in colleges ft ifor the inevitable shrinkage." The Boston Transcript same allowance le necessary in every illfe for the sure closing in of the real CURBING TREE BUTCHERS. Want flickering from abed te ehad; Come back! 'upon the ideals of youth, and the un' Tba fagots crumbling, spier, good. little lads some keek! torched avoidable narrowing of hope and aim ' It is satisfactory to note that public Mr tracks Brought ia from tbe greet wood: Mr Uttia maids with Tbo dark that bald you aU about maids eoma back! that must come with middle age. The opinion Is being aroused on the sub-o- f Mr lads mrtraea Tha wind that would not oT black era The peplar more Idealism we start with, the more the wanton destruction of Asainst tba kaas lens tbrabblag akr; , Come back, mr women and mr sees , And taka them all agate! boa aid of tba tbe shade Tha trees by the servants of teletang stoutly we defend It against ; a a Fills tba clear duak trees waB te waO, shocks It is certain to reecive, the phone, telegraph and ' electric light And ' Come back! tbe dewe tall. Came np the atilt, accustomed, wtatM more joyous life will turn out to be companies, who are sent out to string Cam back! ' lands as we go on living. Tbe dreariness and who carry the implements laevsTtke rade wharf, the aaart; Tbe d lands Tan need not call. (of the middle-age- d view of life springs wlth which to make short work of a 1 iSTlUsIh bear! For mr break shall know. Ideals which they deem In the way of largely from the fact that its And light the candles tall, - . are so shrunken as to be no longer thrir operations. Such outrages are Am I forgot t wine and loaf Coma beck! wn a source of vitality, of renewal, says Dgu&ily committed when those able y 4&ya M sweet, thy crooning tnnee; Unlatch tha door, The warm, 0 And fall upon mr heart once aaors Harper's Bazar. 'As long as we bewining to protect trees are away Tbe tundar afternoons For I shall comfort you, oh lad; lieve in life, and In love, and In friend- front home. Protests from women Wreught bat tor rou; I shall make yoa whaBy Oh, daughter, other In In and and C0'JI for very little, and tears for heroism, glad!- ship, Tba tha wrens wreck, 1 Ideal possibilities, life is worth living leds. Against subsequent salts . The unavailing throng, and wa are strong to take our part :or images the Tha sting, tha smart, curious prlokljr rlns companies are well Bhall be as they ware UbL Cna; In IL Living for Ideals Is happy and loftified. If a valuable tree 1s ones With And amcUing far and row. Forgot, a forgot! in plcturee courageous living. Come back, living without Poiied what its owner can recover by The Of folk rro did not know And fall ahrlll. reetl tha upon m t heart! them is the dull gray life and ape gar nit at law would not trouble any Tba toys the gamaa, LUette woodworth Rees, la tba Ate Tba lantern that at hour for bad, ons. tketle and." lan tic. red. Chicago Chronicle. A ebermed. bat bomelr ina-tcr- What Cured Lazy Alan -- t, Ave, let the daisies blossom by the river, The fragrant lilies deck Its quiet breast. The giant maplp shape the humble doorway, Inviting every wanderer to rest There let the panting collie sit beside me. And listen to the shouts of childish , glee; For backward bn Ufas pathway Ues my heaven. Where the little old log cabin used to Albert Greenwood. clearing. Ordinarily no man is rich enough to escape that certain sense of elation which comes from picking up a nickel on a sidewalk; but when a railway postal clerk finds such a coin in a jin 11 pouch where it has worked out ifrom insufficient wrappings, not only does be miss this elation, but it may provoke profanity. For a nickel lost in a pouch of mail fin transit becomes a matter for na itional concern. It comes to view, (Perhaps, Just as a pouch of mail Is emptied upon a sorting table; and when it has broken away from the bunch of letters and cards and circu Iars, rolled to an open space on the (table, and there aettled down, heads or tails, with a noisy spinning dance, the clerk who first sees it is it" A necromancer could have no more tides than the man in the moon as to ;what particular package it rolled out tell the i of, and if he had and should , postal clerk, the clerk wouldnt dare try to restore the coin to the original That would be too easy package. altogether. No, It is a lost nickel from the the clerk has to see it snn-Inin- g there before his eyes; and to the tender governmental r r prcrr BEST MISTERS' conscience the clerk has to get ready for the inauguration of about fl8.43 worth of fuss ovet it. For himself be doesnt dare to go to bed for a short nap until he has got rid of his five cents worth of to the government for thd action of the fool person from whom the nickel was parted. He digs up his printed form for such occasions printed and provided, and at oncq fills out a long blank, describing the coin, telling the circumstances of its being found and whether It landed heads or tails on the table, naming the pouch from which it waa emptied, the number of the train carry ing it, the date, and a few other little details any one of which in hof weather would (have cost a mug o beer. This report, with the nickel, goes U the headquarters of the postal dlvi slon in which the car wag operated, and from these bonded officials, by the same general red tape route, ths small coin finds its way to the seat oj national government and to tbe fund representing tbe great constituency of tbe postofflee department, which persists In sending money in envel opes throngh the unregistered malls of the aervice. Chicago Tribune. d . c.--- win-docto- rs med-jlca- $25,-000,0- had Three hundred ahdflfteen year ago visions supplied to the Spaniardsfor. Lanchlana was been not Sir armada paid the of vessel Spanish a blown up ip Tobermory bay, off the remonstrated with the don for his coast of the Island of MulL Recently injustice and satisfaction waa promts numerous relics have two recovered ed. On the strength of this the men Ifrom It by divers. They Include old were sent back, but MacLean. not repistols, plate and lying entirely on the captains prom enon, Theswords, vessel was the Florencla, tee, retained three of the soldiers ag debt should be paid. a Florentine galleon which came from hostages till the time same he sent one of hig At f the posses-oItalian of the one Ithe Levant, the king of Spain, and waa own men, Donald Glas MacLean, oq commanded by one Pereija. After the board the Florencla to receive an ad demands of his peoi "'defeat of the armada the Florencla Justmeat of was forced by bad weather and lack plSLDonald Oiaa. when hs went oh board lof provisions to put into Tobermory ibsy. There Sir Lauchlane MacLean. tbe ship, was disarmed and made te I with his Jwho, because of his feuds "denounc-le- d a made been had neighbors, rebeC.W Kin James of Scotland .formed an alliance with "the Spaniards. With the aid of a hundred soldiers from the ship and of fete own ,war on nelghborlfig clans for some i time. At last fee received a message from the Capt Pereija requesting that at once, Spanish soldiers be sent back as he was preparing for sea. At the same time he heard that the pro prisoner, and no communication was allowed between himself and hid friends. Cut Donald Glas conceived a plan which, though it meant certain death to himself, promised a speedy and terrible retribution to bis captors Finding that the cabin la which he was confined was close to the mg sine, be forced hla way into it andj laying a train from it to the outside, he fired it The ship was blown to pieces, killing the three or four feoaJ dred persons who were on board, A ' nt f -- Globe-Democr- broad-minde- Tbe Inhabitants of California la the days of Mexican rule had a unique way of capturing the black bears that Infested the foothills near the coast Bruin la naturally a vegetarian, but meat when he can get a piece of fresh ke devours it greedily. Tbe Mexicans Anew this and prepared their trap thus: ... An oak tree was found with two Ihorteontal limbs, one above the other, piece of fresh bn the lower limb a From the limb was nailed. at the was suspended, a rope above was attachrock a heavy which of some Inches ed, the rock hanging meat of the . Inside end bgvs ' At night Mr. Bear would come 'prowling around . and. smelling the meat, he would quicklyclimbjsp the tree and walk out oa the limb to which It was nailed. Then, In order to reach the appetizing morsel, ho would have to shove aside the stone with his nose. Before the meet conldi be torn off, the stone would swing back, hitting Bruin a hard blow. This was enough to arouse hla temper, so hs would hit back with his paw. But the stone did not mind; It only swnqg out and came back with a harder whack. Then Bruin would get real mad" and begin boxing the rock until tt would fetch him a bloY hard enough to knock him oat of the tree. Underneath there would be g deep hole to catch him, and the fiH would so disable him as to leave him completely at tbe mercy of the Mex cans next morning. ,u to-da- y d it , poplar-haunte- -- KFSjssattLsr'i r ,1 ! 1 . |