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U! t'.i 1 14 ii wy. hulloir th who) Cleveland Leader. j . , , e 1. aint Lucky Flier in Stocks Tricks of the Forger Tit-Bit- s. So-an- d . The Frigate of Eternity The ship Is stout, and stanch the seamen, Tn every age a dauntless crew Has manned the craft, and sons of freemen Arc still on deck to see her through! Let changelings prate, and cowards palter. Let .onguesters shriek, and shriek in va.n. Let crafty cowards cringe and falter. She holds her course in fierce disdain. Through wind, through rain she minds the Master And plunges through thin, aerial foam, Ko Noahs ark to meet disaster. No Flying Dutchman faint for home. Ko ref she fears, or hidden treason: The stars her beacons through the When stas run high like mountains swelling, F'-threes through thin silvery spray. Proud music of the storm is welling 'fi.e Uium-ei- s growl hoarse roundelay. The lightn.rg's lance Is redly flashing And yearning like some fiend In pain. Big brood rg clouds like Titans clashing In ui gobies drench hill and plain. Like some great frigate nobly sailing, Fome transport for Elysian strand. Wan windy winds are weirdly wailing, The pilgrims yearn for native land. Through summer's soft salubrious season. Through shaggy winter's sleet and snow. Through Aprils tears and autumns treason. She hears our hopes, our joys, our woe. o What harbor will she touch. I wonderT What port will greet her as a guest? Ce'estlal cannonades will thunder When she drops anchor ends her quest. Dear vanished friends will greet th Berene she rides through s'ormy season, The wind and wave are her delight. Almost Too Methodical. A woman of methodical habits and rigid observance of a system in her household must have arranged this telegraph blank which her hustrand lost In the street one night last week and a messenger picked up. It reads: bom at "Jennie had a oclock. Both doing well. Fine Walter." pounds. weighing Thats good enough so far as It goes, remarked the man. to whom the finder showed it, but what would Waiter have done, if it had been twins? All those forms would have been wasted. New York Sun. n'ght. -- "I want to ask your consent. old fashioned love song that the judge emeiobered well from the days of his youth. And this stirred memories of one who sang the song in those days the mother of the girl who was singing now. But this thing must net be. What was to remain to cheer his own life If this young man was taking away his only daughter, the daughter whom he had so loved and watched over, J must b. jut rloHr ore of tbe blooJ blniory lent epot-- : of it f orld. In 1531 oo CurroJ the O.lmt Jn,jm r ar. Joenj came our war vith Fpaln, , Imn.t-Jlaiy fu'ioui-,y England' war nvnl.ut tho lm r. and n w Japan) ind Ilui'a an E,! tit s f r the ma-s these, lory of oriental Asia. m-a- i strtisvio U;re stt-rothers of icjut size and noi. Italy, Germany Krsrre, Ergland and Iortural bavo fjught the retlx tribe of Africa. In-- j unur AMs bis boon tbe tbciter of; Tbe ri(t-- n In r d ) Hi-tl- d much flrhtlnsr. Tho Dutch) rdT. lav lad an Insurrection to cooterdj with In th Kant Indie. Ilijtl, Central London Ano rlia and the txiribirn nations of t'jiTtalir, tend to cctiflrm this but w have still to dh.ruter fcuuth Aaverici bate bad rebellion or tto numerous to met t on, wbllo wo whiilnr the change Is Is or ly a passing ir.rod. It Is a little lave been busily enuvi;ed In suppress-Iru In Ho difficult to biliete that tbe vivid hisk.llipplnea. cf an Intention to Many clrcu r.stancf, rays the i JKR-min- t, H-l- tory of France has ended; but It Is that (bo great and growing oc I.t psriy cxres little about the fieet and to convert tbe army Into a purely difenslve force, organized on the Swiss plan. Only, wl!) not tbe rise of a great leader, the appearance of some object of ambition, or the receptii n of some Inniit remove all tbat appreciation of peace? bo was Ibo Image of the daughter bei dearly loved mother? As be libteued unheedingly to th argurmnts of the young man and dreamily to the music from the open window, another dream of tbe lung ago came to him: He, a young man once more, was standing before an old man and asking for bis daughter, answering argument with argument, and wrath with proud humility and dogged tenacity of purpose. After all, he reflected, each of us Is an Individual and llfo must be lived. Ho had halt forgotten that Richard was waiting, and ho recalled himself 1 Kansas City Journal. HEALTH AT HOME. wi-h- There arc several reisons why In- valid Imjrovo at a health resort.: I? homes were more comfurtablo and Iea hurly-burlthey might prove' quite as effeenve as the resort. Rett, baths and water are the three) watch words of resorts." 'heulth TLere can be no rent where there nr ARBITRATION VERSUS WAR. "riung and ruthlng. Turn fretting-arrushing out of the homes. Few! There, Indeed, I one proat point of superior value cf arbitration ovtr war. ropl drink enough of wa'er. In tbej ! It settles things, says the New York frai rlace, ft must Le taken slowlya Tribune. A war within a nation may but liberally all through tho day. It .ad.le something. One between two most bo cool, but rot too cold. Men, sovereign lowers does not. The very women and children would bo bap-- ' and healthier If they rested moriy next year another war may be started I over the very tsame Issue to undo the bathed of loner and drank more effects of the former one Jut as water. Ph ladclphla Inquirer. i. i France began planning Immediately after 1S7I for her "revanche and for WHAT RATIONAL PLEASURE IS. the reversal of tho verdict of the There Is a time, which we all know, Terrible Year. Eut there is no such when most reoplo read tbe poets with) planning to undo the work cf arbitration. The verdict of an arbitral tri- lleasure, and few enn be restrained bunal stands. It sets a precedent by from themselves writing verse. If a which not only the nations concerned man passes adolescence without exerbut others are thereafter guldrd. and cising the poetic semlbllltles thero K which serves to determine the settlesmall chance cf his acquiring them, ment cf subsequent disputes. It Is In anorward. Darwin relates tbat In hls that sense that the progress ot arbi- early youth be was fond of the best' tration Is most rral and substantial poetry and music, and tbat bavins and Is most fraught with ths promise neglected the arts for science he arrivof peace and Justice for the world. ed at a time when Shakespeare and! Beethoven bored him. In our endeavor to insure the cultiCHRISTIANITY AND CASTE IN vation of the more serious and fundaINDIA. mental virtues. Intellectual and moral, Tha Image of her dearly loved mother, Although a professed follower of we have neglecteJ tho Importance of1 with a start. to hear tbe young man Christ, Swaml Dharmaranda, accord- youthful training in habits of relaxasay: Parents T realize, sir, tbat I am not at all ing to the London Spectator, blames tion and rational pleasure. the Christian misssionarics In India and educators are learning to revise I no know of but that her, worthy man could be worthy, and my love for addressing themselves so largely the adage, all werk and no play makes to the lowest castes. The terms in Jack a dull man. If Jay Gould had, shall make up for my deficiencies. After all, Richard seemed to have which he speaks of the butchers, spent a reasonable share of nls youth! some Idea of the magnitude ot the sweepers, Chamars and the like who among orchids and on the sea hie' bracing Christianity are char- riches might have been less, but he boon which he was seeking. He would are would have been pretty sure to have bid them wait awhile; they would acteristic of the attitude of the highlived longer to enjoy them. If Mr. know their own minds better In a few born Hindu. The intellectual Indian would if learn to can able be and admire Rockefeller had taken to the links at1 years wbat they felt was really love or only everything in Christ except his asso- the age when he was fixing tne habits Its counterfeit Something of this he ciation with publicans and sinners. cf thrift his digestion would not reThe gospel has many charms for him, quire so much golf now to say nothput into words for his answer. but they are sadly Impaired by the ing of the profit to his driving and put-- ! Much to his surprise his great con! cession seemed to meet with a cool fact that the common people hear It ting! Saturday Evening PosL reception. With a singular tenacity gladly. The feeling Is not merely one of purpose and stupefying audacity of disapproval. It frequently rises to TO BE TREATED AS CRIMINAL' the young man seemed about to argue bitter resentment, as In the case of an ' with him. Instances are common of the develIndian acquaintarce of mine who "Margaret Is 21, sir, and I am 26. I could never speak on the subject of opment of a criminal instinct In' a parthink we may each of us claim to be native Christians without anger. His ticular direction and there are noto-- , old enough to know our own minds. mild face would fire and his deferenrious cases in which the craving for You, yourself, as you told me, were tial voice deepen with Indignation as crime has manifested Itself at a very, married wben you were 21 and your be said: I hate them! I hate them! early age. The criminal appears so! wife 18. This, too, from one who was a dili- sane In every other direction that In-- j But that wss different case, gent student of the New Testament, srnity can not serve him for defense-beforRichard. a jury, yet he may be lrrespon- particularly of the fourth gospel, and How different, air? who avowed belief in the divinity of sible in this one direction as any ln- For the life of him the Jesus. Why mate of an asylum. Often, however, Judge could not have told what the j the prompting to crime is hidden awayj difference was. ROOT CF A FRANCHISE BRIBERY. deeply and mysteriously, and the nor! You mean that you loved the girl mal condition of the mind in reference! who was to become your wife very to everything else being so apparent! dearly, and that you felt you could there is nothing to be done but apply! 18 h6r- 0t that t1 i they ought to be, for selling public the usual penalties of the law, Balti-- ) more Herald. wbat of , The Judge thought the young man franchises, frarc4es? of those who b the was treading very close to the borbeads of , WORLD GETTING look ACQUAINTED.' derland which lies between earnest- - this hole mattercorporation from a commercial ness and impudence. But he had stab The value of an assemblage of per-- i ed the true condition of affairs. sonalties such as the peace congress! The song Inside the bouse had has given America at this session is! ceased, and Margaret came toward this, that the abstract concept.'ons ofj them along the piazza. In the mooninterrationalism and nationalism are) to the resemblance her mother light seen in the new light of personalities. seemed even stronger than in the dayTo held the theory that it would be! light. well for men to be brothers is good.i When she reached the two she but action alorg that line depends! stood and looked at her father. There much on what the brothers both seem was a question in her eyes, a questo be and are. Any gathering whichi tion that was pleading. reveals to Americans just what sort, And when the judge had nodded his of men and women the Idealists of consent the young man and the young Europe and Asia are, makes for woman looked at each other as brotherhood, for fhe incarnations of a only truth are always more persuasive, than the truth itself Boston Trans-- ! As he sat alone In the moonlight cript. and smoked dreamily, the Judge reThe question is naturally asked:, called with a deep sigh that tbe love-ligGROWING HORROR OF WAR. Why and bow are bad men in office which he 6aw in his daughters eyes had completed the resemblance it the people do not put them there? That a greater herror of war never, to her mothex. Vernon Warren In The simple truth Is that the people do put them there. K the city governBoston Globe. pervaded the earth than Iso- felt now ment is made up of thieves and ras- In the presence of the mighty strug-- ( cals it is because the alleged best cit- gle in Manchuria is one good sign.' Record for Long Service. Sir Jenkin Coles, speaker of tbe izens put them in office either by vot- The glory of war is now seldom menSouth Australian parliament, has Just ing for them or by failing to vote tioned, for the world is beginning to' established what Is probably a worlds against them. ' The, failure to vote Is doubt the reality of a glory that is record. He has completed fourteen the crime of the American citizen. based on the destruction of human years of uninterrur ted service in the These same citizens keep careful life. The greatest statesmen of tochair without ever once being ab3h,.t enough watch over their money, their day are called great for their ability i during the working hours, from Ill- property and their private business. to maiutain peace rather than ness or any other cause. They take great pains to see that capacity to conduct war. Fnr-- i their employes are honest and faith- thermore, there have never been; Blissful Ignorance. ful, and they do all in their power to greater efforts on the part of leaders He They say he has more money keep robbers out of labor bank vaults of human thought to influence men' than he knows what to do with. and strong boxes. But they utterly end governments for peace than have She Has he really. Such ignorance neglect to look after their public busibeen put forth during the past year. Is bliss. Puck ness. New Orleans Picayune. Nebraska State Journal y lr j - stranger Shy, rosele.af faces flown before. soft eyed sleep will soothe th ranger. Hi peril and Lifes voyage o'er! JAMES E. KTNSELLA. Registry Division Chicago Post Office. And 1 b'-ir- ne orm-bac- by rep(l;ng Rudyard Kiplings The Soldiers Last Chantey in pi'em,Seven Seas. The The earth is a huge frigate, riding ess sea of Time. shore the Alorg A man of war her Hplmsman gu'dinff, a sweep sublime. with S''e surges Cosmopolite her l?ecrew will muster. mu in the hold. The ineers The steenge holds the men that cluster so stanch and bold. The mariners wr 1 Rich-iror.- Bufizsted ulm t lo th 'ilo.'ka!" laid ah, bool. a: tbem'n till tlni y.le lad J! njeili-s- . We exjuct th town In tie town of Froth cni-ircouncil bre to aim rr r:et week, and He a I tint wlrn le arrlwd wote baktd Hem Johan) rake aoa Wt elb In ton It o be to bo re Illy when they come. m real ire du-drew i.p rt a tawrn and iar.uTrd of or tc tnXook the Johnrycake. packed tt l.iiolli r I fi r lierli g for the nleht. roni'y in ei d upon the shelf, fur The landlord rijlrd In the aflirmv bool or tot. It Is bard lo ay, thouen tlio end nit a ljy to take bla hore, U ero Is no doubt that the atory did It was second nature with the Judge ns l.e wa in I Tie Renile-Ira- not Use oniillns In the telling, but mart lih He boy and renoved l.y ae'ual count there were aeaenty-int-o to wish to put bla visitor thoroughly at eae. Moreover, be rather liked the laJdklagt and brought tU-r- luto Johnny eakti cn tbo shelf. the visitor, ibis son cf bis old friend and comrade in arms. "You will ait down, Rlehnrd? ho asked, noting an unusual trace of awkwardness In the younger man's manl ast night Quiil dropped in at the ner. It was a hot n.gbt In the first week From an open window on the other of last August. The jkanuaeouUea! l.ibe ratory and the doctor remarked: side of the house floated the sound chcxM wa sitting among the hot-ti- n "Say, neighbor, remember that In- of a glrl'a voice, a full, rich contralto, anJ list tubes and mortars In bis ternational Power tip? Well, sho fashlal.ordtory. Hi family were In the ouclied 52 on Wedne-da- y and I let sluglrg a little love song. Old beautifuL ioned and was bo Le and wh.hed quaintly that country her go. I domed up Just $I.7"0, It brought up memories to the older wltn then. He bsfjereJ to be In thanks to you, but tLat Isn't the best h.s laborab ry because there wasn't of It. On Oct. 13 the Missus and I man, and in thtlr strain be seemed any cil.ir p'aco be wauled to go and w III baro been married seventeen half to forget the presence of the became be had some work to do. years. A good many things might other. It cost him an effort to bring himself About 10 o'clock bis friend Qtti.l barren between now and the 13th, back Into tbo present and to make In d for a docior's of the 1 drof.pi nip ro thought ld cinch the anniversary abort the 'Scotch on his way home. with a little someth. ng to make It some conventional remark to "Say, Doc. laid Quill, "do yon want worth remembering. Therefore, Lav- beauty of the evening; a remarkIn a man replied the which younger to take a little flier In the market. I ing banked the seventeen hundred, I'd rather take a flier Into the coundrew a check for the amount and gavo strain of equalIs conventionality. In the drawing room, I "Margaret try. was the reply. "But alnce It to the best part of me this morn can't do that, let bear your proposi- Inc, end she wanted to know wbat it Richard, and ts expecting you, 1 believe. At last I seem to remember tion. all meant, and 1 raid: that she said you were going to call "Buy a little International Power." an Investment th's evening. Well, honey, as said Quill. "Us a stock with a his1 will Join her pure and simple, I've calculated you've presently, air. But tory, I krow, but I got It pretty been worth to me at least $100 a year I wished to see you flrsL 15 It'll on or before Oct straight that the last seventeen years, so 1 At this remark the old man looked be telling at 52 or better. It cornea lor She gave quickly and sharply at the guest. I'd better settle. thought so straight that. If I had some money me a bat over the ear and did some Could it be possible this young to gamble with, I'd buy a little tnyaolf other stunts In which you wouldn't was coming to ask for Jackanapes and bold for about a ten point rise, be Interested, and, womanlike, she Margaret's hand? The idea was too Just to have leeway enough." wanted to know where 1 got it, but ridiculous to be entertained for a i'll think about It. replied the docall I raid was: moment his a and with after tor, nightcap Margaret was a mere child of 20 "Now, you're commencing to begin .friend, Quill, he went home. The nest or 21 at most, apd this youngster ,day Quill dropped Into the laboratory again "If you have any more like that, could be but little older. It was and the doctor said: nly the other day that Maigaret and and "Im In, got a hundred at 35, my bring em around. The Missus likes mud plea broker was curious to know who put v.hat she knows about em. New Richard had been making together. York Sun. me on." There was a disquieting air of grave solemnity In Richard's voice, which disturbed his host, and tbe words which followed completed the ahcck. I want to ask your consent to your moment the swindlers withdrew and Space prohibits the brief recapituladaughter's marriage with me, sir," retion of remarkably Ingenious frauds cleared with the cash. The bank went on the younger man, somewhat customer's the but claim, pudiated Of pride yet fresh In the public memory, but action was ordered upon hastily, but with a fine air the principal aim of the forger of to- after a tolong In his manner. make good his loss. appeal After all, reflected the Judge, someday Is toward the Indorsements on Again, late on a Saturday morning, like this was bound to come checks planned to be stolen subsething Lonto emanate the from purporting sooner or later. But there was no quent to signature, says London don or other office where a wealthy No pains, expense or trouble customer keeps an account, a tele- earthly reason why the young man a hurry to carry ell are spared by the swindlers In order gram may arrive addressed to the should be in such were both mere chilThey to obtain a business memorandum manager of a local branch of that Margaret. neither could be certain of and dren, ad. firm of bank at some fashionable resort, bearing the signature of the at so tender an age. a reliable their mind payees, and upon a printed copy of vising that Mr. Yet Richard, he was bound to adthe former the forged signature of and responsible customer. Is arriving mit, filled most of the requisites of the latter is sent to the drawer of the In the town, and requesting that every tbe man who should marry his daughetolen check, thus allaying suspicion courtesy and attention be shown him. ter. The wire Is followed by the advent of temporarily. Determined not to offend the young So himTwo swindlers of this type ascer- the respected Mr. man nor hurt his feelings unnecessarIn was the self a prosperous-lookintained that a gentleman gentleman ily, he began to point out these reawho. producing a check for, say sons habit cf sending two checks for subwhy the desired consent should 1,000, requests the immediate openstantial amounts periodically by post. b withheld. Opening a small account at the same ing of a current account. As the The exposition was beautifully logibranch of the bank, at one of these check is drawn by him In favor of cal, tbe judge felt with warm pride, self the usual forma.'.ties ars easily and must certainly appeal to any rea.times, the thieves contrived to obtain possession of the checks from subscribed to by the personator of soning human being. And he had althe post box wherein It was the gen- the genuine customer, and if an astute ways felt that' Richard was a young tlemans custom to post his letters. bank manager denies Mr. man of exceptional Intelligence. Receipts were sent bearing imitations permission to draw upon the check Eut. strange to say, the reasons did of the previously obtained signatures until cleared he can scarcely retuse not seem to impress the young man of the payees and the crossed drafts to issue a checkbook, which the swin- as seriously as he could have wished. bearing forged Indorsements were dler can use for 'all it Is worth pre- Indeed. Richard showed an obstinate paid through the post into the for- vious to h!s departure fer other scenes tendon-to combat them. The checks on the following evening. This trick mers own account. Tbe judge scarcely heard all of the imIn could thus be drawn upon almost has been successfully carried out young mans eager arguments. The mediately and at the earliest possible several instances. voice from within tbe drawing room bad taken up the burden of another hi la ! r. !f u 1 l! cut." "Right elf," r I ed lb man, Flow RECORD CF A CCRY DECADE. ndt lit of th I ou to a remstk-ahluro of the war lu toe cotj.i-qu- i fir rest, 'I ft berrors suJ suCvriiiK e airui k the attendant on that war Imag. nation ol the 1 rt ru b, and d ep-nuJ the gioalng uni ular.iy of ! In anility of all trade, it.lih the to cmn-of u rlous ater rtsdy ntdii r the military r!ii fi. Tho Idta of dragged Into a campaign a fvdlng wl trh, if It Cotit.n-ueswill a fleet all tltu johtlrs of the to world. France. In fact, will n-:to the slate Htiijirtid by uti;i:i n The 1'nrls eorrej dou Tluioi rail Ions, top of WAR. FRCM TURNING FRANCE rapid' thtnsa jor.d )uur kn; In iirnuoo rapid you'll And dlamsy; food wot Id if you thus j tanir Im Away flora lb lour. Tht-- tie tie f.re j reparainry to cooking lha l'o- - rten'aa tneil. Ho Inquired of be la tl rie vfi'jir.J to whirr tie ' of f ,r tin t! t.l,! t ,Vr. who ua vutli b.m I i 1 craft . While be jut If you In to In lli Mf, shallow lare ch alioic; food world If you Mil your It' f, t 1 bt woilj. long u;n 1 WORLDS BEST WRITERS' iYlTH TKE On the Surface ilroahtf them down up to tbo fir fcirit4 ' and. ! for-thei- |