| Show fJ r f = lOntemPQafYCbOMgbt Uk P1WISM IN BUSINESS II F J Potter I in Cpsslera Magazine ier of the Bethlehem Steel company Xncssed opinions which ure refresh n1 businesslike and sensible whj n ntrlslPd with the coldbloodod men111sm on one side and exaggerated exagge-rated philanthropy on the other which h1chcn shown In cenlnJ with work ingnien lie says that If I tho wage cnle Is once fairly adjusted the 00 r plojer need not worry himself about r altruistic measures adopted fOI the i benefit of his employees and having thus hit the mall on the head he goes cn to hammer it In t as follows II I Jt must bo remembered that kind ords and restrooms and libraries other socalled altruistic measure au 50caled alruistc 1eas ire although excellent In their proper ur prop-er time and place do not in thom felvw bring happiness and content nt for they do not supply food awl clothes and house rent and home jarnforts and tho latter ure what men Berk for Of such things therefore uulll the proper time arrives the men tecarne suspicious as they partake of lit I nature of charity and honest I workmen resent anything of such n I nature The men must be mentally I tappy and well advanced In modern l thought and methods before such c things can be introduced I i Nor should an employer allow the C 1 announcement to become current that I he has a morel shop when he hast has-t mad > his business a success by adopting adopt-ing the t methods outlined above and added such conveniences as he finds 1 arc of common advantage to his business 1 re j ness and his men Jntelllgent workmen work-men are sensitive to being referred to as adjuncts to anything model This Is sound business sense and the 1 best sort of philanthropy as well J There Is nothing more mischievous than to accustom a whole community f i to live on charity Private charity there msut always be and the more of I 11 the better but when one rich man I r assumes the responsibility of providing c provid-ing for a whole village luxuries which f the inhabitants should have money r r enough to provide for themselves hoI ho-I Is usually d6lng them a harm Washington I r Wash-ington Times I THE GROWTH OP WEALTH I I Tho wealth of the United States is computed every ten years from the census returns The total wealth in 1S50 3SPU t zLt 71357022S or > 303 per capita and In 3870 at 3006S5IS507 i 0 7SO per capita This amount rosIn ros-in 1SSO to 543642000000 or S70 per capita and again in 1S90 to 63017 I 091 i1e7 O 1036 per capita Expert Ex-pert statisticians estimate that 1 the amount for 1IFOO will be at r least 90000000000 or nearly 1200 pisr capita When it Is considered that the I latter amount represents accumulated 1 ravings ofSCOOO or nearly four times the average of 1850 for tvory family of five perrons It is evident that the world Is growing rich at an astonishing astonish-ing rate under the operation of machine ma-chine production A Conant in the World n Work 1 J Yorl t i I OUR POLICY IN CHINA i i 1 The press of Great Britain is almost U unanimous commending our Chinese j policy The Times and the Dally News London usually at opposite political 11 poles seldom lose an opportunity to praise our moderation and good sense The American suggestions In the far East are always sensible says the unre Ian maaicai I isiancnester commenting com-menting on Mr Rockhllls plan for r basins the Chinese Indemnity on the sum China can afford to pay without becoming bankrupt the Guardian says Compensation there must be but the assumption throughout the negoOa f Uons that It is the lower limit that Is fixed by the actual expenditure of the H lctorrf m the war Is wholly novel Beuldes Technically we have never jeen at war with China what then Is the legal Justification of an Indemnity 4 Indem-nity Again what compensation do c the powers mean to pay lo China for the Indiscriminate pillage in which their troops have Indulged Surely tnt losses Incurred by China through the lm F shameless violation of the laws of war r wat by some of the International troops should be told off against the expendi cxpereJ tures Incurred by the powers In pro j tecting their legations 1 Mr Rackhllls plan Is a commonsense common-sense and businesslike proposition propositon says the O look London but It fears that the plan is too simple for acceptance accept-ance The Celestial Empire Shang hai published under English auspices sees evidences of an attempt on the part of Russia to gain American friendship and even alliance This alance Journal quotes the Russian statesman Prince Ukhtomsky as declaring that Russian autocracy has nothing In nothing common with Caesarlsm but Is a na d tional Idea of unity which fits her for i I t alliance with America against English Imperialism I scouts this Idea and assorts that Russia and America can have nothing in common Their nothIng pOll l > des in China are at complete variance Russia opposes lending to 1 endlnr missionaries China as the enlightenment of nHthtelment o the Chinese would mean the failure oC Russian ambition But the American missIonary perhaps more than any S other stands for enlightenment tHIS t-HIS PROPER INTRODUCTION sir Really your face Iff I very familiar but you seem to hoe the advan tage of me In names I And the looked at the djstingulshed I stranger wtlh a puzzled air U I fancied he said that you would I know me My name Is Bangs and four c years ago I hand the honor to be your r butler i The face of the lady l blazed 1 J But n remarkably lucky series of stock I Investments he went on have r I enabled me to become l your flex tdoo r neighbor The ladyR face softened So pleased to renew our acquaint ance Il Bangs she smilingly arild I New York Telegram BEYOND THE GATES IB there no God for those Who sin No prayer that mounts From aching hearts to I Troubled lips And to the ear of God IB HHTO no echo yet Of honor and of Innocence No breath that rayfl This ruln too was once divine Arc wefiBui out forever wo Who onctypasG the gates Paul Keslrr In McClures Magazine r HORRORS OF JOURNALISE What Is the difference casually I ly aBjtfrt tK exchange editor betwqcn Bathhouse John and the little donkey he sent Mayor Harrison Ones the boss of the borough and the other i the burro of the boss the information editor replied Why Is Kansas City down on Bryan 13 ln Kaws Mouth When 13 O nol Its a LUll town Mine beats that all hollow When J 1 the ship of state a cattle ship when Texas steers Whats the dif ference between a boy beating a drum And John R Tanner Huh1 Where IH the difference C Didnt a boy bet Tanner too That Imtlt One is i play din and I the other Is played out t I You wftary my tympanum Why Is i an Egyptian longing for a freshet on I the NUc I Like n boy that hay outgrown lilkj 1 trousers On account of his high wa 1 ifir pants Farfetched la pnntl Why n last wil and testament t Like coloring the hair of a straw Berry blonde Red after you dye Dont do anything like that again HoW can you tell 1 shepherd dog By Its fleece Whats the difference 1 between a lobster salad I And Billy Mason Hes a lobster I solid11 I So 11 Grover Cleveland and hes as shell llsh as they make them Whats t difference between a lobster salad T dont know Youll have to tip the waiter to find out Whats the difference differ-ence between a Greenland Iceberg and I One Is Northern ice and the other Is I South W terYhal Is the difference differ-ence elcc enceOnes tg paste and the others pig faced Yha < the sea wtes I Sad Nothing to wear but serge Whats the difference between a real estate agent Lots Why Is a mackintosh I In JsnU l Theres a difference Ones your rain coat and the others your own Kate Why Is a mob 1 A I Iiot Let I t go at that How I would you gain the friendship i Of a farmers daughter Cultivator Why IB a yarn sock Nit It isnt I Why is a dairy farm Cheese It Why is Satan 0 whip him around the stump Whereupon several of the other editors edi-tors offered to arbitrate the dlfliculty and peace was finally restored Chicago Chica-go Tribune COLDS COSTS MONEY A leading insurance journal says somewhat pathetically that colds cost the life insurance companies a million dollars a month What they cost those who catch cold Is of course quite beyond be-yond cavil or reclaim but the paper goes on to warn the careless who happen hap-pen to own policies how to be able to I cepon paying premiums a while longer The gist of the advice Is to avoid exposure keep put of draughts and fight t cold from start to finish The grave Is still very hungry it adds Besides the life Insurance lie companies com-panies Would like to save a million dollars a month lhe highest medical authority In Journalism gives the aulhorl The philosophy of prevention is to preserve the natural and healthy action of the organism asn whole and of the stir face in particular while habituating the skin to bear severe alterations of temperature by judicious exposure and natural stimulation by pure air and clean water and orderly habits of hygiene and health All this Is Important Im-portant at this particular season People Peo-ple are changing clothes rushing out upon golf fields taking long rides on wheels speeding in automobiles swinging along In country rambles and I courting the open air and Its I brcexcs In Its way It is well but overdoing Post leads to undoing Saturday Evening WITH A CHINESE POINT Nook of exultant devotion glorified the countenance of the fated missionary mission-ary If I am killed he cried as one communing with himself the indemnity indem-nity for my life will enable the society which sent me here to pay off the mortgage mort-gage on Its thirtyfivestory building in New York buiding And the heathen understanding not his speech marveled greatly at his for titude as they dragged him to the stake nal and burned him Detroit Jour A USELESS OUTBREAK The Albany strike has been declared 0 iff and the outcome Is virtually complete com-plete defeat of the strikers The agreement agree-ment reached concedes to the company t he right to employ nonunion as wells I a s union men and to discharge them a i t l pleases hichq 11 the chief point for which the company conterided An ex c ellent clause of the agreement reqUires re-qUires a fortyeight hours notice of i ntentlon to strike and the lapse of six days afterward before the strike shall l begin it Is to be hoped that u movement move-ment that was started yesterday to investigate in-vestigate the conduct of the police and 1 I 0 ther city officials during the strike will be pushed vigorously1 A selfcon stituted body of citizens calling them olyes the Committee of Thirteen have issued an address In which they declare hat the city officials have signally failed In their duty to maintain order and secure to every citizen protection Ofhis person and property They cal upon all persons who have Information or evidence against the police or other city officials to come forward with It I 1 and plac It in the hands of counsel whom they have engaged to conduct an Investigation One of the most rep I rehensible s was that of the Common I Com-mon Council on Thursday last In voting to call a special meeting on Friday for the purpose passing 1 resolution calling upon the street railway company com-pany lo terminate the strike on Mon L day next and declaring that unless It did so its franchise would be repealed Tliat was a move directly In the in terest of the strikers and designed to encourage them In their turbulent course The members of the Common Council as well as the police should I DO investigated for they have left no doubt as to where their sympathies lc The strike has coat nearly 70000 about half of which will fall upon the i taxpayers for the militia service which the incompetence I of their own police and other officials made necessary That Is surely ample reason for an Inquiry In-quiry by the taxpa prsNew York Commercial Advertiser I OvEWHELMtNG CORDIALITY Do your country cousins treat you cordially when you visit them in the summer sumIGr Do they Say thr minute I get there they make me take some elder eler berry cordial an a fatigue destroyer then I have to drink some peppermint rordlal for fear the water wont agree with mo next day they Insist agee absorb some snakeroot cordial to ward off possible chills and fever and then I have to gulp down some liverwort cordIal for the good of my system generally gen-erally Do they treat me cordially 1 lal By Jove there plenty of cordiality cordlaltyJ I can taste it for months after Alex RIcltU8 in June Smart Set PLYING IACHITESI The underlying principle of main taining equilibrium In tho air Is that the center of pressure upon the sus taining surfaces shah at all times be upon the came vortical line as the cen ter of gravity due to the weight of tho apparatus In calm air this Is fairly sccured but Inn wind Hin faninr or t pressure is constantly shifted by the 1 turmollH of the air for turmois It advances or recedes with the diminution or in crease of the angle of Incidence In regard to the shape o surfaces to be employed Illlenthal demonstrated that concavoconvex wings like those of birds arc far superior In oupporting power to planes and the latter have now been practically abandoned by aviating experts The propeller Is the next thing to be considered after the equilibrium has been secured and a reliable motor worked out Both Hargrave and L Ill onthal gave preference to nappIng vanes over the screw propel l but I other experiments prefer screws I Is yet too soon to draw definite conclusions conclu-sions on this question and It opens a I Held for further experimenting Wo can however already calculate t approximately the proportions the I strength and weight the supporting J efficiency tho speed and the power i i i required for a projected flying machine I so aa to Judge the practicability of a i design Indeed the mathematics of I I the subject have been so far evolved that engineering computations may I eventually replace vague speculation In the domain of aerial navigation But after the problem has been I worked out to a mechanical success I the commercial I uses of aerial apparatus appar-atus will be small Tho limitations of the balloon are various such craft will be slow frail and vcry costly We i are now sufficiently advanced In the I design of flying machines to perceive some of their limitations They will be comparatively small and cranky I require much power carry little extra weight and depend for their effective speed on each Journey whether they against the wind or with It so that I they cannot compete with existing modes of transportation In cheapness or In carrying capacity It Is true that high h speeds may be attained and this may serve in war In exploration perhaps per-haps in mall transportation and in sport but the loads will be very small I and the expense will be great But flying machines will develop new uses j I of their own and as mankind has always 1 I al-ways been benefited by the Introduction Introduc-tion of new and faster modes of trann portatlon we may hope that successful aerial navigation will spread civilization civiliza-tion knit the nations oloser together make all regions accessible and perhaps I per-haps so equalize the hazards zf war ns I J to abolish It altogether thus bringing J about the predicted era universal peace and goodwill Octave Chanute y In Casslers Magazine for June i WHY SHOULD YOU CARE Why should you carol If little ones are crying For bread to eat about you hero and I there Why should you care If older ones arc I dying For Inck of nursing Yes why should I you care Why shuild you care If hands with toll are aching J And many a brow Is written with writen despair Why should you care If hearts with grief arc breaking I I What matters It to you Why should you care Why should you care It voices loud are calling To have removed from out their path somo snare In which since they are weak they eer arc falling Why should you hear their cries Why should you care Why should you care If life seems grow seemss ing cheaper And seeds ot vice and wrong are every where Why should you care Arc you your brothers keeper You surely are That Is why you should care Thomas F Porter In Boston Globe Glol A HEART IN HIM Some time ago there was a ship wreck at St Margarets bay England and the lifeline brought sailor after sailor to shore amid the cheers of the rescuers At last lastnly the Captain remained re-mained on board The line was ready the signal was given but the answer InS jerk did not come Again < and again for n quarter of an hour the question passed along the rope without with-out reply At last when hOe > was nearly dead the signal came and the Captain was hauled dripping ashore He picked himself up drew n small wet quivering dog from his breast pocket and set It tenderly down Then he looked round and said In simple apology i I couldnt find the little brute anywhere I HEALTH OP THE PHILIPPINES 1 With n view to determine the advisability advis-ability of extending the business of life Insurance to the Philippines Dr R J Sloan an American physician oC Shanghai has been engaged in study ing l the subject along scientific Ilhes alonS scientfc lnes and his Judgment Is In the affirmative I I The Philippines are tropical throughout through-out their whole extent but their climate cli-mate Is betel than that of Ceylon or Java Yellow fever Yelow ever Is unknown and I malarial diseases are confined to un drained localities The djscascs that have sometimes taken an epidemic at form are smallpox cholera berlbcrl dysentery bubonic plague and leprosy but the chief sufferers are the natives natves Few white residents or Chinese are attacked Tuberculosis Is found among poorlynourished natives The Islands are a region pf severe storms earth quakes are frequent and have some times boon destructive In December last l the mortality In Manila was 905 made up of 877 natives Chinese mes tizoes t 20 Spanish < 3 tzoes SPal1Sh3 English 2 and Americans Italians and Roumanians 1 c achiSt Louis GlobeDemocrat SPLIT OVER ORIGINAL SIN A Wisconsin Congressman who was looking l after his fences In tho rural districts recently found himself at one of those little corner villages so common com-mon In the southern part of the State There was the customary blacksmith shop the postofllce and grocery several sev-eral saloons and two magnificent t churches He had never even heard of the place before but meeting one of the denizens of the burg his political instincts moved him to conversation Good morning sir he cheerily commenced fVel I see you have been making some Improvements since I was here last The village must be I picking up Yah was all he got In reply Lets see the Congressman mused aloud about how many families have you here now Oh about tirty Oder forty came the answer Aha By the way what church is that one pointing to the obviously older oneDots Dots de church said the man naming a popular denomination Is that s1 And what Is the new one across the street Veil dots de Vei same klnt You dont mean to tell me that with only thirty or forty families In the town you need two churches of the game denomination Yah ve gotto hat ou3ce golo em see Its dees vay Do olt fellows day got to talkln df tIng blot unt day tray dot Elam dnmhe was a putty soot t feller until he eat of de eppel apple 1 aber do young fellers day claim dot Ktam he vass a sonfonagun right for del shtart Unt so ve hetto half two churches Split on the doctrine of original sin Milwaukee Sentinel BOTHAS TIP TO XITCHENER Charley Hands 0 Transvaal war correspondent cor-respondent told rather n neat story at our club the other day I seems said Hands that while whie Kitchener and Botha1 had their friend ly l peace powwow recently Botha sud den h rose to go 4 Dont be In A hurry said Kitch ener Theres no hurry General you know you havent a train to catch Oh yes I have answered Botha smiling And three days after the interview Kitchener discovered that Botha ac tually did catch a trainone of Kite eners provision trains on the Delagoa Bay hlhelLlondon Correspondence Washington Post I rost I HUMOR OP PHILIPS BROOKS I does not lessen the dignity or c1Jnlt I Phillips Brookss memory to lear from his biographer Alexander V G Allen of Cambridge that he had an I abounding senee of humor humor that crops out In a fund of anecdote I To the person who wondered at tho possibility of the whales swallowing Jonah ho said There was no difficulty diffi-culty Jonah was one of the minor prophets Contrasting the anclept church with the modern he remarked that the I early devout tried to save their young men from being thrown to the lions Now headded we areglad Ie we I can save them from going to the dogs r A clergyman going abroad talked in j jest of bringing back a new religion I with him You might have some trouble In getting It through the customhouse some one remarked No observed Bishop Brooks we may take I for granted that a new I religion would have no duties attached at-tached A person for the sake no doubt of I argument once drew attention to the fact that Bore men calling themselves I atheists seemed to lead moral lives le and Brooks promptly disposed of It They have to said he They have no God to forgive them If they dont The Youths Companion I THE PHILOSOPHER Ho wrote that innn Is at his beet When poverty nssnlls In graceful worlds he sang tho pralso Oc strength that nver falls 3Je penned tho wondrous beneilt Of labors horny hand I And I who rend asked other folks I Now Isnt that Just grand Ho wrote about tho prIde oC work I And what a noble thing ort It was to HOC a limn boar up Beneath ifflletlons suing I I Iho argued It the better part I To starve most every clay I And they who rend VoW < to themselves I Its best to live that I way I I And l who WIS he who wrote this thing He was a mllllonnlic He never worked In all his life And so hind time to spare I I was nn easy book to wrllo ItHo L also made a stir Ho was an easy thing to boA bo-A rich philosopher v Baltimore American SIMILIA SIMILIBUS The correspondence was brief but to the point The letter she received was I as follows Dear Madam 1 take pleasure in shipping to your address a rug valued at 50 for which I shall be glad to receive re-ceive < your check J you do not desire de-sire The rug please return it The Idea she exclaimed M never knew such Impertinence Then she sat down and wrole the following fol-lowing Dear irI have ordered no rug norUI from your establishment and I see no reason why I should go to the expense of returning that which I do not want and which was sent to me unsolicited To this she received the following answer In due time Dear MadamI will send for the misocicc rug and I trust you will dome do-me the favor to send for the unsollclt etl charity entertainment tickets which I t now lie with about twentyeight oth ers on my desk The discourteous boor she exclaimed ex-claimed i Evidently he soliloquized there ore methods of procedure that cannot be successfully applied to business St Paul Trade Journal EVADING A DIFFICULTY The PostmasterGeneral 6f New Zealand Zea-land is able to get himself out of a 1 difficulty in a very smart manner When the penny post was established In his colony the Australians refused to fall In with the arrangement and I surcharged e ch letter 3 halfpence Naturally enough Writers did not wish to put their correspondence to this ex lr charge and welt back to the old twopence halfpenny But the Post maslelGenllwasequal to the occasion oc-casion He told his people to put the usual penny StuD on and the Government Gov-ernment would add the additional 3 halfpence which as wad said would cost nothing beyond the most of print ing It was a clever Idea and its adop lon will no doUbt help on the day of a general penny postage for Austra lian h letters lan lolers i ESSENTIALS OF AN ORATOR In my opinion the two most Important Im-portant things that 3 young man can r younS do to make himself a good public speaker are < First Constant and careful written translations from Latin or Gre k Into English Second Practice in a good debating society debatng It has been said that l the greatest great-est parliamentary orators of England are either men whom Lord North saw or men who saw Lord North that Is men who were conspicuous as i public speakers In Lord South i y S-outh his contemporaries and the men wh9 saw him ns an old man when they were nb themselves This would Include Bolingbroke und would come down only to the year of woul LOtc I John Russells birth So we should hG l ave to add a few names especially p Gladstone Dlsraell John Bright and Palmerston There Is no great Parliamentary mentar orator mentary omtor In England since Gladstone died I once a good many years ago looked at the biographies of the men who belonged to that period who were famous aa great orators in i the Parliament In court to find If I could the secret of tholr power With the exception of Lord Brsklne and of John Bright I believe everyone of them trained himselC by careful and constant translation from Latin or Greek and frequented a good debating society in his youth Brougham trained himself for extemporaneous extem-poraneous speaking the Speculative society the great theater of debate for the University of Edinburgh He also Improvcd i his English style by tans lations l from Greek among Ichls his wcllknowji version of the Oration < lon on the Crown Cannings attention while at Eton was strongly turned to extemporan tocxlemporan eous peaklng They had 0 debating society In which the Marquis oCWI 1 lesloy and Charles Earl Grey had been trained before him in which they had all the forms of the House of Commons Com-mons speaker treasury benches am aid an opposition Canning also was disciplined dis-ciplined by the habit of translation From Oratory by Senator George F Hoar In the June Seriliners PRAYER FOR A MANS PASSING Lit me not pa5 > s till eve Till that days light Is done What sOldIer cnrcs to I lcavo Tho field until its won And I havo loved my work and fain Would be deemed worthy of the ranks again Let twilight conIc then night And when fhe urst blrdb sing Their maim bongs and light Wakens each slumbering thing let Someone waken me and lhlnb My feet to steps that lead mo upward yet Howard V Sutherland In Jaclnta Jet Other Vcrsrb PERIL IN ORIGINALITY No said Mr Meddergrass the Consolidated Combined Colossal Megatherium and Mastodonlc Monarchs Mon-archs of the Minstrel World didnt do well In our town They didnt tell a single joke that any of us could re member an we didnt get the funny points tbg red out until two weeks after they had left town which was of course and consequently too late for applauSe Give us a joke that we recognize as such from old acquaintance ac-quaintance an well do our parts a an audience but when any pars Sc new model witticisms so to speak IH handed out to UP we got to study over em first before indulgln In the propel amount o laughtqre Baltimore American Amerlcan THE WORDTINY ITI1Y1 Tho word tiny has never been sat isfactorily explained I believe have made three discoveries about it or which only the lust ha hitherto tic bun noticed 1 1 was originally never swelled with 0 final y but only with a finale 2 I was originally a substantive UvC 3 It Is seldom lCevcriiDcd In any old writer without the word little preceding It That Is the correct old phrase wan Il little tine the word tine being properly dissyllabic as at present though It was sometimes actually ac-tually treated ns n monosyllable Jt occurs four tlinon in Shakespeare In each Instance It I Is spelled with a I final l e In tho edlllon of 1023 but It Is used as an adjective The four references i ref-erences are A little tine boy I Twelfth Night V I 39S Any ret I little tlno kickshaws l 2 Hen IV V i 2n h My little Lyric lhlcCld V ili I i GO A little tync wit King Lear I nf IK 214 I In the two following Instances It is also an adjective Ijlttcll tine child I I und llttpll tyna child in a Coventry pageant printed by Sharp see note to I Coventry Mysteries ed Ilalllwell p Haliwell JM So also In n lltlll tyne egg I Wars of Alexander ed Skeat 1 507 NO QUARREL IN IT Two brothers grown men now aro fond of sitting down and comparing past t experiences One particularly happy recollection Is this I There was an old coffee mill in the atc which as boys they greatly desired to posses One of them Tom by name sought his mother and bogged her to give It to them I dont believe I can Tom said she regretfully I should like to but Im afraid I cant But why mother said Tom You dont use It No we dont use it Then why wont you give It to us Well dear said the mother gently Im m afraid you and Ben will get to I quarreling over l Oh no we shant cried Tom eagerly eager-ly l You neednt be h bit afraid of that mother I wont let Ben touch IlYouths Companion I TOD SLOANS GREAT INCOME James Todhunter Sloan Is taken all In all as the best Jockey of the Amen Jean turf today Notwithstanding his egotism turfmen agree thaI he has ddne most to revolutionize the art of riding Born at Kokomo Ind In August I Au-gust l573 and raised by foster pa lents he began to earn his living by Infiatjng balloons for a professional arconaut This business he followed until his brother put him in a racing stable at Pueblo Colo He worked as stableboy three years showing suhi natural talent for riding that In JSSO lie earned a mount on the New Or I leans l < track He finished third on 1 stubborn horse which was regarded 1 as a worthy effort especially when the owner learned that Sloan had placated the brute by feeding him carrots before the race I Sloan gave evidence then of a trait that has well served him In his call InS namely kindness to dumb animals ani-mals and thorough appreciation of r their nature When Sloan enters the paddock down here a trainer at11 Sh eepshead bay told me and speaks aloud horses that he has once ridden recognize his voice and turn to look In his direction iA good racehorse says this learned youth Ms tfie best judge of human character He knows you better I bet-ter than you know him Sloan Is five feet and threequarters of an Inch In height has a chest measurement meas-urement of thirtysix inches and wears a seven and threequarters hat He is fond of fine clothes and big fat cigars makes as much as 5100000 n i year and spends money freely While riding for ugust Belmont at Saratoga Sara-toga one season he engaged a 50 suite of rooms at tho Grand Union hotel and was comfortably situated there d when Mr Belmont himself arrived accompanied ac-companied by his wife a How much Is this suite per day gram he asked the clerk pointing to the dhl < gramForty dollars sir was the reply a Oh too much too much exclaimed ex-claimed the multimillionaire Give me something cheaper How about that l one1 pointing to the adjoining apartments Thats S50sald the clerk but Its occupied Looking over the register Mr Belmont Bel-mont saw that the occupants were James Todhunter Sloan and valet O Well he decided I guess Ill take that 40 suite Allen Sangree In 1 lnslcea ANSWERED A CHALLENGE Once when the late Dr Tanner had asked In the House whether it was true that the Duke of Cambridge ha designed d-esigned his position as Commander InChlef I n MaJ Jones of Penzance was so outraged that he challenged Dr Tanner to a duel and the following telegraphic correspondence took place In reply to your despicable question about the Duke of Cambridge I designate desig-nate you a coward Delighted to give you satisfaction across the water Pistols Pis-tols tolsTo To which Dr Tanner at once replied Wire received Will meet you tomOrrow to-morrow In Constantinople under the Tower of Galata midnight Being challenged prefer torpedoes Bring another ass Tanner DRAWING LINE ON JACKSON A good story Is told in Missouri at the expense of its once famous Governor Claiborno F Jackson Before he solved the enigma of lovelock he had married mar-ried five Rlstelsln reasonable lapses of consecutiveness After one wife had been lost and appropriately mourned he espoused another and he kept his courting within n narrow circle cir-cle of his own relatives for he rAther liked l the family The antiquated father of these girls was almost deaf and when the Governor Gover-nor went to this octogenarian to ask for his surviving daughter the follow ing i conversation ensued I want Lizzie Eh 1 i I want you to let me have ElIza Elza both bothOh t Oh you want Lizzie do you Whnt for For my wife For life MI wantomaimylier Oh yes Just so I hear you boy Im precious glad you do mut tered the Governor Well slowly responded the veteran vete-ran you neednt halloa so that the whole neighborhood knows it i Yes you can have her Youve got em all now my lad but for goodness sake if anything happens to that ere poor misguided gal dont come and ask me for the old woman Jackson solemnly promised that ho never would TitBits BADLY TIMED COMPLIMENT Brig Gen James F Smith of San Francisco became Colonel of the First regiment California National Guard In 1597 went to the Philippines In 1SOS became the first American Governor of the island of Negros In 1S9D and IB now a BrlgadlcrGcnem of volunteers volun-teers His rapid advancement recalls an Incident that marked the time when I I he was elected Colonel The election was held In the evening During the day Mr Smith who Is a lawyer was engaged In defending fifty Chinamen charged with gambling During the hearing the Judge suddenly asked the prosecutor to out prosecutO point certain cer-tain ones of the indicted Chinamen who were supposed to bo standing among the horde of Orientals In the back of tho room The prosecutor could not and asked Mr Smith to do no Mr Smith declined tho prosecutor prosecu-tor persisted the Judge Insisted and the future General remulninigr defiant was tent to Jail for contempt of court Ilf went to jail late In tho afternoon after-noon and that very evening was elect ed Colonel The next morning the newspapers throughout the State pub llnhed a brief Associated Press dispatch dis-patch fjrom San Francisco relating the fact that James F Smith had been eJetPJ Connl ol br > First regiment t n 1 I I The fact that he was also In jail was I omitted A friend of Mr Smith who had gone to Napathe day before saw the dispatch and Immediately sent the I following congratulatory telegram The right man In the right place I When the message was delivered to the newmade Colonel In Jail he couldnt no the humor of It at first Then he realized that his admiring I I friend did not know the place where I the message found him Philadelphia J Post I CURIOUS REGARDS I tl f is I a curious phase of personal rc gar cor humor which prompts 1 man 5 t to send to another 0 beast or bird I I which he call t use and which lies 1 doe < lie-s not viaivt i l A few years ago ln enthusiastic Democrat In the far West went to PIC tiouhlc and expense of shipping a mountain lion to President 1 Cleveland The late Mayor Harrison was literally bombarded with eagles and owls by admirers in various parts of tho country The present Mayor of Chicago finds himself the recipient of a fine l young burro which an Alderman traveling In Colorado deemed a very aprpoprlato gift for the chief Magistrate Magis-trate of a great city As these Inter eating spcciments generally find their way quickly to some menagerie or zoological < garden the wonder Is that they are not so disposed of In the first I place Chicago Chronicle BULLFIGHTERS I FEAR COWS It will probably not surprise our readers < to hear that most Spanish I bullfighters object to fighting cows The reason may however astonish them A sports lnlke objection lop lo-P 1 female animal has nothing noth-ing whatever to do with It The fact I It that the average toreador is sincerely sin-cerely afraid of a cow I And he has good reason The cows of the halfbreed used for the arena are much quicker in tlicdr movements than are the bulls Their horns are more pointed and more formidable they do not lower their heads to the ground shut their r c and charge like a locomotive upon the rails but are alert and ready to follow every 1 movement of their persecutors Their warllke > tactics have been adapted not Ilohlnd bovine frontal attacks but to the strategy of actlvo and cunning beasts of prey of which the human bullfighter Is only a feeble mimic If these cheap idols of tho Spanish populace popu-lace would face young and active wild I I cows which had Just been robbed of I their calves hey mlglit perhaps forestall fore-stall t the butcher but they would at any rate do something to earn their I laurels From Animals at War in I Pea ons Magazine WOMANS LEGAL POSITION Thus in New York Stale for Instance In-stance a woman has a larger control of her real estate than her husband baa of his She iCshe likes may make out t a will whereby she cuts him on I or Ignores him entirely wherehs he cannot sollj mortgage will or Valien I ate any oC his real property without I I her consent In writing and In some Instances a In-stances under seal He must reserve to her what is commonly known asher I as-her dower right or n life Interest In onethirdof all his real estate possessed pos-sessed or acquired by him during their married life I t Is thus Impossible for 1 him to alienate his real property without i with-out his wife Joining In the deed to bar her dower Thus does the law protect I tho woman in the enjoyment of her I property rights Harpers Baiar I OFFSETTING A DEBT I Joseph Rend was telling n little the Great I coterie of gentlemen at the Southern hotel a funny story recently nanatec to him by Gay McCorklo of1 Vet Virginia A colored man was telling a white friend about another negrq who owed him 2 and absolutely refused to pay the dehtThe creditor dunned and dunned him but all to no purpose Finally the creditor went to his white friend who is 0 lawyer and poured i his tale of woe Into his ear Well Mid the lawyer If he positively I posi-tively refused to pay you what reason did he give rel boss Said the colored man ho said he had owed mo c l money fo i so long dat de Interest had dun ct it I all up and he didnt owe me 0 cent Columbias Dispatch SOLDIERLY APPROVAL Sir Claude l MacDonald lie British Minister at Peking has been accorded the grateful thanks of his nation In I language l such as Is rarely red In I blue books Sir Claude has not been one of the heroes of the populace He is i a young man In tlplomacy In 0 few years he has risen from the position of a soldier in Egypt to the duty of pro tecting t British Interests In one of the greatest countries In the world and t he went lo this post an untried man straight from tho obscurity of West Africa Ho rose rapidly In Africa I where ho held Important posts I fell lo his lot to try some of the followers I of Arabl Pasha and the story Is told that In tho military court one day nearly all the prisoners pleaded for leniency l on the ground that they had I taken part In the resvolt under compulsion compul-sion One man howevrr refused to plead for leniency he was proud and not ashamed of his work He declared his hate of England and his readiness lo fight again Sir Claude was a magistrate but he was a soldier too and he rose from his seat and shook I the honest rebels hand A TREATY IN A SENTENCE A correspondent of the Now York f Tribune suggests that a new canal treaty reading as follows would bo brief clear and efficient honorable alike to Great Britain and the United Stales Article 1 So mtich of the convention of 1S50 commonly called the Clayton Bulwer Treaty as may ho held to preclude pre-clude the United Slates from building I owning and controlling alone a ship I canal through Nicaragua from tho Atlantic to the Pacific is hereby abrogated ab-rogated It being expressly covenanted that said canal subject to uniform tt tolls t shall be treated ns a neutral arm oC the sea In peace and In war for the use of all powers who signify their approval of this convention except that In case of war between the United Stales and any power or powers the United States shall have the right to exclude its enemy or enemies from the use of the canal This Is a canal treaty in a single sentence It would be satisfactory to this country and what reasonable objection ob-jection could be offered by Great Britain If this country Is to construct con-struct the canal with Its own money It certainly should have the right to control con-trol and defend It and close It to an onemy durlrv war Rochester Post Ex press A CHURCH TRUST i A local paper of Toledo says that the evangelical churches of that city are to form a trust The plan has been approved by the Pastors union and will be submitted to the various congregations con-gregations tomorrow The object Is to concentrate force economize effort and afford a solid front against municipal public and private evil There are in the city 102 religious gathering places for a population of 133000 The erection of unnecessary churches will be op posed A prime idea of the federation will be to stand as a unit fdr Sunday observance and for the abolition of gambling and other evils The opinion now is that every evangelical church in the city will enter the federation HOW ACTIONS SPEAK It is not the least of many interesting Interest-Ing phases of Washington experience to note the dealings of those who have been in to see the President with reporters certainly offering interesting in-teresting studies In practical psychology psychol-ogy Still there are many reporters and men of affairs who are wonderful adepts in this kind of mind reading One Journalist who is an expert at this sort of thing walked a couple of squares with a member of the Cabinet trying lo elicit l art expression of opinion on a certain matter of moment mo-ment The secretarys lips were as firmly closed as the shells of a Hlng ham quohaug at low Water so far as the desired last word was concerned or even a hint of the situation He was not so completely selfcontained however that his actions and manner man-ner were inscrutable The reporter hazarded d t guess founded on his impressions im-pressions and wired the result to his paper The next day the secretary met him and said How did you got that information Mr From you sir said the reporter smiling Frojn me sir said the secretary I never said a word That Is so replied the correspondent corre-spondent but you acted It Well you were wrong In some things anyhow Still I think Ill have to take a course of Congressional Congres-sional pokerplaying1 until I can disguise dis-guise my thoughts Such people are the easiest of all to read And how do you do it Why you read their hands by reversing their expression The man who seems to bet on an acefull probably prob-ably holds a bobtail Hush and the disconsolate surveyor of a probable bobtall flush Is likely laying for you with the acefull and there you are There is always some way to figure it outJoe Mitchell Chappie In the National Magazine for 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