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Show The Old Log Cabin the prairie, it. cloud above a awiftly pacing are wav- "ipon the distant hills beauty 11m f - )! 1 summer ""'JOS? Th resting on the plain; hws)s a farer valley, to memory rithln lt dtarer tar me, T6 U V SnoU beside a winding river. F' Uttle I yDght o old los cabin used to be. dies behind the distant r,hntmi"t' has hid the valley from And m e' returns to scenes of 1 a . chlld-onW- memory summer morning sheds its the glimmers out upon flight y the minnows years but added to their little old log cabin used to sport-frt'am- undlstui bed, ' nm,bhe9r , world, to us, 'frt&ched. winter e " wa-er- e,' "but foretold gave their fragrance to the fprlri there came the children's songs ruesaulwtf1 Scampered up the nearest (flwe he-- above ,, ths clover bios- - smfo'er again his song of summer White,", from his perch the meadow, the collie, and the gept watch upon be-ti- de , tmfUie' crooked pathway to blue-bir- d and twittering the river, the chick- - ew'ifand out among the ferns and mere thViittle old log cabin used to be. ,, tmid deer looked In across ths In the Tbepartridge hid her fledglings Redbreast, In ths or- wu mingled with the singing of ths erowand marten quarreled oer ths heroic of Eobin clearing. ON HOW TO GET RICH. . Since some of our very rich men av taken to public discourse upon ail Borts of matters tbeir would a ummer utterances pass. evening have somewhat diminished their repuTh8 thwh ample tation for infallible wisdom. It has A breese cume in across been discovered that a man the distant may possess great wealth and Th still fail of Wred, the day was complete mastery of the science of Where be littl. ,ld ,K wbln Ugcd government or the of po- . ,,, Mr c0 Th commenced Jolmd the tvenln o moonlight glistened on the leaf, ma. his mus Thene'kfct ere-Th- Ut Andplayednd The amtmg ,Stft i!Stlrred 9 nllhwm,in WhilfunillSTu1ml!,nrWaS Where the little col- - Jittered to the wildly barking the little old log cabin used to tt. And, ta,kln, How quickly sea- - 8onros(,a d "S we recked but a brighter id p," te was bounded by the away, Eg I'Vmi THE WORLDS tVRITERS lts branches ,he " around rtreamy 'oUnby. WlllN old log cabin btace. used to When the fitful dream of this short Ilfs is over, And wearily we lay its burdens down. Whatwillwe care (or earthly fame of What matter If the people cheer of frown? Leavs what remain of this old, worn- out body High on a mountnln top, or in the sea, But let my longing spirit once more wander Where ths little old log cabin used to be. Aye, let the daisies blossom by the river. The fragrant lilies deck Its quiet breast. The giant maple 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 on lifes pathway lies my heaven. Where the little old log cabin used to be. Albert Greenwood. Lost Coins in Mails no man is rich enough to j conscience the clerk has to get ready that certain sense of elation for the Inauguration of about $18.43 worth of fuss over it rtich comes from picking up a nickel For himself he doesn't dare to go a when but railway sidewalk; I to bed for a short nap until he has such a coin in a istal clerk finds rid of his five cents worth of regot out worked :i!l pouch where it has sponsibility to the government for the :cm insufficient wrappings, not only action of the fool person from whom m he miss this elation, hut lt may the nickel was parted. He digs up :roroke profanity. his printed form for such occasions Tor a nickel lost in a pouch of mall printed and provided, and at once fills out a long blank, describing the transit becomes a matter for concern. It comes to view, coin, telling the circumstances of Its ;rttps, Just as a pouch of mall is being found and whether It landed heads or tails on the table, naming untied upon a sorting table; and via tt has broken away from the the pouch from which it was emp uch of letters and cards and circutied, the number of the train carry it, rolled to an open space on the Ing lt, the date, and a few other littll there settled down, heads details any one of which In ho cr tans, with a noisy spinning dance, weather would have cost a mug ol beer. ilfcMwho first sees it Is "it, This report, with the nickel, goes t4 iifcromancer could have no more 'Idea ttu the man In the moon as to the headquarters of the postal divi'hi particular package lt rolled out sion In which the car was operated, tud If he had and should tell the and from these bonded officials, by Postal clerk, the clerk wouldnt dare the same general red tape route, ths PT to restore the coin to the original small coin finds Its way to the seat ol Package. That would be too easy national government and to the fund altogether. representing the great constituency to, tt is a lost nickel from the moof the postofflee department, which unt the clerk has to see it snfn-Pi- n persists In sending money In envel there before his eyes; and opes through the unregistered malls to the tender governmental of the service. Chicago Tribune. Ordinarily ?cape principles litical economy. Nay, It Is evident that such a man may not even prove a reliablo guide to tho inquirer who seeks for the road to wealth. One of the most didactic of our vivacious millionaires has recently declared that riches are within the reach of every man who wishes to bo rich. lie asserts that there are but two requisites tor the acquisition of wealth moderate intelligence and unlimited industry. Given these, he declares that any man can get rich. Which is, of course, entirely false and misleading, even though lt comes from & gentleman who has piled up great wealth and Is now engaged In piling up free libraries. Everyone knows that Intelligence and Industry are not the sole essentials to the acquisition of riches. Everyone knows of men highly Intelligent and thor oughly industrious who can scarcely make a living. It Is true that Intelligence and Industry are qualities favorable to the attainment of wealth, but it Is not true that the possession of those qualities, even in the highest degree, constitute any assurance of riches. The money-makinfaculty Is a thing apart from other natural endowments. An Ignorant, Illiterate man who possesses lt will get rich, and intellectual genius without lt will remain poor all his life. Like a gift for music, it can be cultivated, but It cannot bo acquired. The sayings of our loquacious millionaires, like the aphorisms In the copybooks, will not always bear analysis. Iu the present instance the falsity of the proposition is evident to everybody, since a vast majority of the people, though they are Intelligent and hard working, never acquire so much as a modest competence, let alone wealth. Chicago g na-ot- il MEDICAL COLLEGES. tyedical colleges are responsible for the horde of failures who parade as doctors and do what they can to menace the public health. Some of the medical schools are schemes, taking every applicant who comes along with the requisite fees. They spoil hundreds of good farmers, mechanics, shoemakers and blacksmiths, Issue sheepskins and leave the medical profession to struggle with the reproach. Every derent doctor should join him and pursue the fakers, grafters and moral perverters until It is made too warm for them to 'continue In the profession. A medical diploma ought to he beyond purchase by anyone not fitted In every wa7 for the responsibilities of a physician. Sioux City Tribune. By Earl M. Pratt. Oak Park, Illlnots. Tha purpose of the Forethought dren's clothing la to always have lt GETTING BACK TO NATURE. Note Book library Is to collect useful comfortablo. On how to keep children Ideas and send them around the world quiet in church, I would leave them Students of American life think In various out of church if they attend Sunday ways and directions. that they detect a distinct tendency to school. About the diet of a peculiar From letcomes Idaho the following rovert to nature. The first effort Is, of course, to acquire a competence ;, ter: "In a paper printed on one side child, let the child choose what it best If lt agrees with It To the second, to amass a fortune, but only at this place I find your request likes to love her younger the third Is to own a country place, for helpful information on different teach a little girl she la loved believe her let I will brother, to answer endeavor subjects. and to bo able to spend all but the as much as he. winter months out in the open, away a few of your queries from my exfrom the crowded, dusty city. Wheth- perience. That part of early life If a stranger should ask you to er this bo an effect of Inheritance, a which has proven most useful was from twenty-thre- e of sixteen a baby a moment and then not hold to tho age harking back to the form whence all years. A useful hint on chil return for It, what yould you do? city dwellers at one time or another sprang, or not, it Is an interesting fact. Health Is better, life is longer and happier, If all the time that can be spared from the exactions of business bo spent In the open air, where the breathing spaces are large, the air pure, the sunlight clear, warm and full "The laziest man I ever know? "That tank blew up one day when of comfort. Well, said Mr. Stoggleby, "I am In- Jackson had put a double charge Into clined to think that that waa a man it to save himself the trouble of chargTHE CZARS PRIVATE FORTUNE. I knew once named Riffleton Jackson ing lt so often, and blew Mr. Riffleton RIffleton who was considerable of a across his room and through the door Many newspapers have seriously re- player on the cornet, but who didnt out into the hall and broke his left produced a telegram which appeared very often play one because he waa arm and damaged him otherwise, and In a Paris journal announcing that too dum lazy to blow It. laid him up for quite a long time; the Emperor Nicholas had presented "But finally he hit on a plan that and when he got out again he was his private fortune, amounting to let him play all he wanted to without quite another man. eighty millions sterling ($400,000,000) the trouble to blow; all he "Whether In that long enforced Idletaking to the Russian government for war had to do waa to the keys, ness he bad stored up enough energy manipulate purposes. It was added that this huge "He had a tank built that he used to give him a start, or what, I don't sum stands to the credit of the emper- to pump full of compressed air, and know; but certain tt Is that after bis or In a bank of a country not friendly which had a pipe leading from It up arm healed and ba got out again be to Russia. Eighty millions would be a back of bis head and around in front was another man, as and enpretty sort of a sum to be held at of lt with an opening that fitted Into ergetic as he had beon lazy before; call by any bank; but tho whole story the mouthpiece of hla cornet, which and so be has ever since continued, is a romance, and so are all the other he was thus enabled to hold In the for hes still living; and to see him tales about the emperors dealings usual position for playing and to play now you wouldn't think he bad ever with his civil list The fact Is that upon without blowing himself. had a lazy bone In Ills body. the emperor of Russia has no civil "He had a valve in the tank which Now that was a queer case, wasnt list, and he draws at his discretion on be used to operate with his foot, and It? It surely was. I have beard of a the Imperial treasury, every rouble so supply the needed air. And when good many simple things and of a of which is supposed to he his prop- hed filled up his tank hed sit there good many odd things, serving finally erty and absolutely at his disposal.-Londo- n and play, till his air gave out, with to spur some apparently hopelessly World. the greatest enjoyment, except when lazy man on to endeavor, but Jackson he was too lazy to press tbe valve Rlffietons la the only case I ever COST OF INSECT PESTS. with his foot. heard ot in which a man waa thue "Yes, I think that Jackson Riffleton transformed my the explosion ot a The extent of damage done by In- was the laziest man I ever knew. But compresod air tank built to help a sects which prey on the agricultural he didn't always remain ao. lazy man play tho cornet." Interests of the United States is but little appreciated. Twelve bugs, according to reliable statistics, do an estimated damage to farm products of The chinch $303,000,000 per annum. bug heads the list, with $100,000,000 a year; grasshopper, $90,000,000; HesA letter making inquiry of Colonel and objects. The English language sian fly (a reminder of the revolution, since the mercenaries hired by King Edwards, chief of the bureau of In- does not apparently acquire many George brought its eggs over In the sular affairs, war department, as to words from savagery. It would be straw for their horses), $50,000,000; words grafted Into the English lan- pretty hard to name any words in rotton worm and boll worm (cotton), guage on account of the American the English language that were acwas quired from the Indians of North $25,000,000 apiece; cotton boll weevil, occupation of the Philippines turned over to Captain Taylor, who Is America save the names of places. $20,000,000 ; San J ase scale, grain weean excellent Spanish scholar and Is No one knows how many dialects vil, applo worm and army worm, of the and the different languages are spoken in Philipup history getting apiece; potato hug, $8,000,000, and cabbage worm, $5.000,000. Al- pines from the public documents cap- the Philippine Island a. General Antured from tbe Filipinos. lie made a drew Burt, who spent several years In bany, N. Y., Argus. reply which Indicated that not so the Philippines and served In Impormany words come over from the Phil- tant positions, said that oftentimes be WHOLESALE BANKING. ippines, although thousands of United occupied one point with troops where "No personal accounts, large or States soldiers have spent years In one language was spoken, while three different lansmall, wanted here; we do business the islands. Probably the Tagalog miles away a totally was of the and tbe guage language spoken, differing apparentThis language only with large corporations. more not do the than the languages of dlffei-e- nt different tribes Impress ly was the reply the president of one of In this country. Tbe to Indian who the tribes Americans go Philippines, the $25,000,000 Wall street banks gave Spanish Is tbe chief language of acquisition of any of these tribal lan-- , to an inquirer as to the minimum deand by the acquisiguages outside of the Tagalog was posit that Institution would accepL the Philippines, It was a notification that this was dis- tion of Florida, New Mexico, Texas almost Impossible and useless. It lsj Phil-- ! Such and California the United States ac- apparent that whatever else the tinctly a "wholesale bank. en-j an answer would rot have been made quired about all of the Spanish terms Ipplnes contribute they will not lan-- j . the American to tbe in needed or rich language English enlarge five years ago. Dut this Is a new age. convey the meaning of various places guage. trust and the The billlon-dolla- r bank are to Wall street what wireless telegraphy Is to electricity wonders. The vast demands of modern Industry, often requiring the negotiation of a loan of $5,000,000 upon a few hours notice, with frequent calls for stupendous accommodation from One of the oddest card rooms In the moved to make room for hands. transcontinental railroads or syndiTwo or three packs of cards are cates financing foreign government city 1b In a bachelor flat up town. It bond Issues, have called into being la the resort of half a dozen poker used each evening, and now Instead' these new banks veritable Incarna- players, who gather about the green of being thrown away tbe big bands tions of power, holding. Indeed, the covered table almost every evening are outlined In court cards, while ths flve-cen-t ante game. gaps In between are filled In with safety and happiness of a people in and play a were decorated walla the spots. The entire wall la filled in. Post. Originally bands. their Saturday evening with a few cheap sporting prints ot and notable hands, carefully labelod, tbe old English style and a set of are now posted on tbs celling. Not HIGHER EDUCATION. square Inch of tbe wall plastering poker pictures. One night a royal It Is not the least but one of tbe flush came out and the five cards is now visible, and lt makes a singucom- larly appropriate decorartlon. greatest advantages of higher educa- were tacked upon the wall to Tbe cards are so placed as to shed tion that the woman of to day does memorate tbe event A few weeks seven-dolla- r man went a to tbe a dust as much as possible, but later pot did her know herself much better than mother or grandmother, and with that with a pair of deuces and tbe nerve they cannot be fastened down firmly,) self knowledge comes a better under- to bluff, and for contrast and as a and tbe problem of cleaning tbe placo ot two spots was was the despair of tbe saretaker until standing of her relations to tbe world warning the pair the royal Land. From the owner ot the flat rigged up s large alongside placed of her. The college girl about time to time other hands were simi- bicycle air pump, wltb s line ot flexIs healthier, stronger, saner, more more resolute and more larly posted until they began to en- ible rubber tubing such as la used to useful than were tho social butterflies croach upon the prints. One night extend tbe shutter radius on cameras. or tbe household drudges of her whoa three players each hold four ot Now tbe air Is forced under tbe cards a kind, a print was taken down to and by creating a draught through tbs grandmothers time. In tbe experi- make room for the hands, and the window, the dust la taken up. New mental stages of thla new developall the prints wero re- - York Press. sext evening ment there may have been danger, but tbe education of tbe body as well as the mind la now looked after In all our girls colleges, Indeed, much better than In college for the other sex. Boston Transcript. What Cured Lazy Man Use Few Island Words $10,-000,0- $25,-000.0- Tale of the Armada Three hundred vessel of the and fifteen years ago Spanish armada was hlowj up In Tobermory bay, off the lst of the Island of Mull. Recently "omerots relics have been recovered ton It by divers. They Include old cannon, swords, pistols, plate and win. The vessel was the Florencla, Florentine galleon which came from kvknt, one of the Italian posses-lo- o of the king of Spain, and was commanded by one Perelja. After the of the armada the Florencla u forced by bad weather and lack Provisions to put Into Tobermory There Sir Lauchlane MacLean, because of his feuds with his Wgbbors, had been made a "dcnounc-- 4 rebel" by King James of Scotland ornied an alliance with the Span-Wit- h the aid of a hundred sol-,e- r from the ship and of bis own 00 nolKhborlnS claM fp orae 7 Una 48t ho - received a message from 1crelja requesting that the PWIsh so(iiprg be sent back at once, Wr preparing for sea. At the time ho heard that the pro visions supplied to the Spaniards had not been paid for. Sir Lauchlane remonstrated with the don for his injustice and satisfaction was prorals ed. On the strength of this the men were sent back, but MacLean, not re prom lying entirely on the captains a lse, retained three of the soldiers should be paid. debt the till hostages At the same time he sent one of big own men, Donald Glas MacLean, on board the Florencla to receive an ad Justment of e demands of his peo fwf A FIRST DUTY OF THE SCHOOL. From the common school of the country district to the highest univerIdea sity In the land, tho fundamental of American education Is to make American citizens. There Is no thought of making soldiers, or office holders, or merchants, or traders, or Inventors; make citizens first, then let each himself young American choose for to suited best deems he life of line the bis capacity; he doe choose, and that commonly without bias, what he shall of be; for young American has Ideas hi own and Is ready to aid them, too, on appropriate and even sometimes on Inappropriate occasions. After all, however, the best method of Judging reof any system of education Is In Its word in a without raying sults and, of any of the people disparagement In other nation, it may be said that every essential quality the American citizen has demonstrated his efficiency his In life and action tho valuo of DeraocraL Globe St. Iuls training Donald uiat. when he went on board the ship, was disarmed and madd communication was prisoner, and no his allowed between himself and conceived Glas Donald friends. Dut a plan which, though it meant certain a speedy death to himself, promised bis captors. and terrible retribution to In which he Finding that the cabin maga was confined was close to the It and. Into KEEPING IDEALS. hla way sine, he forced from it to the outside, train a laying who was bluwn to That was a wise old clergyman he fired It The ship bun r or admit to young not three rged his brethren pieces, killin'? the were on hoard. men to the ministry unless they endred persons who were and more evidently thusiastic la their faith than their elders. "We must allow," he said, The "for the Inevitable hrlnkago." in every Is necessary same allowance In of the real Jlfe for the sure closing and the unof Ideals youth, upon the of hope and aim Hmb to avoidable narrowing and walk out on the in order middle age. The with come that must wifeh It was nailed Then, with the more more Idealism we siart It against the stoutly we to receive, the I certain shock It ll! turn out to be life more jovous K' on living. The dreariness back, hilling Jf the middle aged view of life springa arouMbt that Ita Ideals largely from the faet be no longer temper. . so shrunken as to source of vitality, of renewal, saya As long as we beonly Harper's Ilsrsr. In a hanler love, and In and ths lieve In life, boaln cot "real mad ,r7,fetch bJm . t.0j In heroism, and In other and rock until It would jjjli possibilities, life Is worthour living part and we are strong to take Is happy and Ideals for in It IJvIng Uln without courageous living. life and apadull gray "ths them Is thetic sod. cans next morning' broad-minde- How to Catch Bears this! habitants of California In ot Mlcan rule had a unique a Ht1 th black bears that ACa,i,urln Toothtlla near tho coast Umi i01 the? fRnnturB,1y vegetarian, but g''t a piece of freah meat Is knsTk,r tl Rm',Hy. The Mexicans 1 and I)reP,irel their trap tbm WM found tortjnf,4'! j. j. 1 ait iboVo with two one above the other. wcr ,,mb P,cc of fresh Umba. nalI,,1' Frora th limb Mott!!!!0 wa" ""Pild, at the ,a bp,vjr roclt WM attach d m hnln Inches iboTa.nck aI a.n tnidde of the meat. )m1lnlh' Mr. n,,ar "uld corns ,nd melting ths "Ht ' he oild qulcklycllmb up th rjsr tWfSr5 ,, ,,rVto , 7,0 d to-da- y Cry of Old House CURBING TREE BUTCHERS. It Is satisfactory to note that public opinion !h being aroused on tbs subject of the wanton destruction of hade trees by the servants of telephone, telegraph and electric light companies, who are sent out to string wires and who carry the Implements with which to make abort work of a tree which they deem In the way ol their operations. Such outrages srs usually committed when those able and willing to protect trees are sway Protests from women from borne. count for very little, and tears for even leas. Against subsequent suits for damages the companies srs well fortified. If s valuable tree Is ones spoiled what its owner can rceovsr by s suit at law would not troubls soy one. Chicago Chronicle. Come back I My little lads, coins bark! My little maids, with starched frocks; My lads, my maids, coma back I Th poplar traa ar black Aralnst th kan, Ion, throbbing iky: Ths tang of th old bos Fills th clear duals from wall ta wall. And tha dews falL Coma back! I cry; Lwatch, art tha ruda wharf, tha marti t'omo back! Elao 1 shall break my heart Am I forgot; My day as thsy wr not? Th warm, crooning tuns; Th Sunday afternoon, Wrought but for you; Th larkspurs growing tall, You wrsathd In pink and blua. Within your prayr-hook- a small; carved both In and out. Th cupboard With curious, prickly vlna, And amrlling far amt flna; Tha picture In a row. Of folk yru did not know; Th toy, tho anma, th shrill, gay rout Th lantern, that at bmir for bed, A afearmed. but bontly red, awt, Want flickering from shed to shed; Th fagots crumbling, aploy, good, Brought In from th great wood: Tt dark that held you all about! The wind that would not got Como back, ray women and my msa, And tak them all again! 1 a Com back! Como up th atlll, accustomed. lands, Th poplar-haunte- d lands. You newt not rail, For 1 ahull know, And light th cainlirs talk Kt wine and loaf torne wtotM lrk! Unlatch the door. And fall upon my heart once more. For 1 ahall comfort you. oh lad; Oh, daughter, I ahall maka you whoOg aUil! Th wreck, th wrong, Th unavailing throng, The allng. tti smart, Shall b a they wr rfbt, Foigot. forgot! Come hack. And fnll upon mv heart! I.laHte Woodworth Iteeae, la ths I |