Show T 1a s O jUK1TLNPnRAY 1 A TUUHJT i I iI i I I I bIt English the Worlds Language Twothirds of all the letters which iiIII I pass through the poBlfficcs bf thc world ate written by and sent to people who 1 speak English There are substantially i 500000000 persona spel Icing colloquially t l one or another of the ten or twelve tl I chief niQdurn languages and or these about 2 per cent or 125000000 persons t speak English About 00000000 speak lUibSlan 75000000 German 3500000 EYA1 t t11 French 15000000 Spanish 35000000 in Italian and 12000000 Poi tuguest l and eiit the balance Hungarian Dutch Polish Fkinlsh Bohemian Gaelic Rou t manian Swedish Finnish Danish and Norwegian Thus while only one quarterof those who employ tjie 1aeiU ties of the postal departments lyi tcs llzid governments speak iia their native na-tive tongue English twothirds of those who correspond do so in the English En-glish language Tlioto are for Instance In-stance more than 20000 postofiires In I India the business if which In letters and papars aggregates more than 300 000000 parcels a year and the business or these olllces Is done chlolly in English r En-glish though of Indias total population popula-tion which la nearly 300000000 fewer than SOOOOO persons either speak or understand English Bradslrcets Lip1 Heads Usually Win f An unnumbered multitude of boys 1 and young men who think that the lot of a professional athlete Is i one of the I finest possible to attain ought not to overlook the object lesson furnished by the present employment of Amos Husic Jong one of the most popular w and bestpaid baseball players In 1 the l United States Rusfe used to he given anywhere from SiiOOto 55010 U year for playing ball lie had at least three months free every wintcr His expenses S ex-penses wero paid at hotels and on railroads roads when he was away from the 4f city where his club was located Now he is still a young man full of strength and vigor and he Is diggingS digging-S trenches in the streets of an Indiana town at 150 a day y How different everything Is now and how empty the very JiHef scobon of S this ball players good forty no sterns He has neither capital for business skill In any lucrative calling which will last into old age nor any other I advantage over an ordinary laborer I is Cen probable that his free and easy life as n baseball player has left t him with less than the usual stock oCr oC-r vitality and ability to take good care of himself and any who may be dependent de-pendent on him as age comes on All t of which teaches the old but ever Interesting i In-teresting and always vitally Important 1 lesson that heads win I is good to have strong and dextrous arms and J legs but brains heat them out of sight f in the long competllon of life Let no youth glorying In his bodily powers t forget that fact I Is the rule of existence 5 i ex-istence and the key to tho worlds adjustment 1 ad-justment of human fortunes Cleveland 1 Cleve-land Leader I Chaplain Said NothingS Nothfng Winston Churchill tells aji excellent S story of a chaplain Who quarreled with the captain of J ship on the way 1 to South Africa because the captain I refused to let him hold service In the saloon The captain regarded himself as the priest of his own ship f Mr Churchill found the chaplain Pjl tramping t the deck in anger And 4 what did you say to him asked Mr t 1 Chuichlll sympathetically when he i Jiad heard the story L J I Oh I said nothing at all answered i the chaplain with a splendid show of 1 sAjlfcommand but I may tell you that any other clergyman In the I 1 S Church of England would have told I i I him to go to Manchester England Eng-land Guardian I They l Had Guns Georgia has a stilngont law forbidding forbid-ding Its citizens to carry pistols on pain of forfeiting the weapons and paying t line of 50 or being Imprisoned Impris-oned for thirty days Shortly after I the passage of this enactment relates the New England Magazine Judge 1 Lester was holding court In a little town when suddenly he suspended the trial of a case Iby ordering the Sheriff to lock the doois of the courthouse Gentlemen said the Judge when the doors were closed I have Just seen 0 pistol on a man In this room and I cannot reconcII6 It to my sense ot duly to let such a violation of the law pass unnoticed I ought perhaps to go before the grand Jury and indict him but If that man will wale up to this stand and jay his pistol and a fine of 1 down here I will let him oft this time The Judge paused and S lawyer sitting sit-ting Just before him got up slipped his hand into a hip pocket drew out a neat Ivoryhandled sixshooter and laid it with 1 down upon the stand This Is nil right said the Judge but you are not the man I saw with thc pistol Upon this another lawyer arose and laid down a Colts revolver and S dollar dol-lar bill before the Judge who repeated his former observation The process wont on until nineteen pistols of all kinds and sixes and shapes lay upon the stand together with 19 by their lde The Tudgo laughed as he complimented S compli-mented thenlnetccn clcUnquents upon being l men of business but added that the man whom he had seen with the pistol had rot yet come up and glancIng glanc-Ing at the far side of the court he continued Ill give him one minute to accept my proposition and If ho foils I will hand Jihn over to the Sheriff Immediately iwo men from the back of the court arose nndbepan to move toward the Judges stand Once they stopped to look at each other and then coming slowly forward laid down their pistols and their dollars As they tinned their backs the Judge said This man with the black whiskers is the one that I originally saw Comity of Missions in China The University Gazette publishes tfome rules which the Protestant churches at work In the Nlngpo district dis-trict have agreed upon as consonant with the comity of missions The preamble pre-amble states that formerly there was discord between churches because of the stgpidity of some of their adherents adher-ents and therefore In the Interests of peace four rules have been mutually agreed upon to guide future relations First Converts may unite with whichever of the six contracting churches please But If they have had dealings with another church or been Inquirers elsewhere tho pastor whose church they desire to enter must first ascertain all the facts from the former church and only after It Is found that their past history Is all right w1 they be received I it Is found that they have lawsuits with I other church members still pending they will ijot be received I Second If ore church has planted a chapel In any place another church WJ11 not do likewise within a radius often I I of-ten 1L I a church wishes to erect another an-other chapel within a radius of twenty Il J shall first consult with the church 1 which first had a chapel fn that region I re-gion Outside the twenty I radius all will be freo to do as they think best I Third If thc members of one church have dealings with thc members of dealngs 1emhlrs 0 another an-other the preachers should first inform the Western pastor for consultation But If the matter only concerns their ovn church it does not come under this rule 1 I luleFourth Fourth A member expelled from one church will not be received into another I an-other But If the expelled give real proof of repentance ho may he received 1 re-ceived provided the pastor of the church from which he was expelled be I first consulted regarding the case Shanghai Mercury I Rockefellers MotherinLaw Story John 1 D Rockefeller Jr was the principal speaker at the annual dinner loc I the NeW York Young Mens Bible I I class air Rockefeller who has only I bpon married n few weeks made so bold as to talk of women and mothers inlaw Ho was the last speakur but I he was loudly applauded Mr Rockefeller Rocke-feller told this motherinlaw story u A yqung man and his wife had lived for years and not always pleasantly I with the wifes mother At last the old lady ledor at least l they thought i j she had died The pallbearers carried I her coffin down the front steps and one of them slipped The cofiln struck a trot tho lid cam off and then It was found that the mOthcrlnlaw had l not died II all but was only In n trance Well she lived for some years after I that and then she died again this 1 I I time pdrmanently And as the pallbearers I I bearers approached that same tree at the foot of the steps the young man stopped weeping turned to the man who had slipped and whispered Be careful Sam dont slip this lime Chicago Tribune Not His Fault At All They were quite newly married and she was much too young to understand that a mart takes little Interest In shopping shop-ping expeditions She had left his side to look in a window In which were exhibited some i Winter mantles which were just lovely love-ly I When she returned she took the arm which seemed to be half grudgingly grudg-ingly proffcrcd and sobbed > < i You dont even loIook at anything any-thing I want you toto see You dQv dont care how I am dressed You JUQ longer lolve me You havent even ker kissed me for a whole day and you f ouI 4 I am extremely sorry madam but that Is my misfortune not my fault said tho gentleman looking pathetically pathetical-ly down Into her face She looked at him and gasped She had taken the arm of the wrong man I Stray Stories The Debts That Stand Often I think ihit the world IB cold And that men are unkind unfair Often I mourn and fret and scold And coddle my own despair And often 1 think mankind must bo In league for the shame of defeating me 1 Yet rinG at men I ought tC know That I sin when my plaints are made For theres many oh ninny a debt I owe Thnt never can bo repaid What deep In my heart they could sometimes some-times seeThe see-The kind ones who have befriended me So E Klacr In Chicago RecordHerald The Uses of Perfumes SI 1 A considerabledifference of opinion exlsls in regard to the propriety of using I us-ing scent upon the person The practice prac-tice Is of Oriental orlgln and had for Its original object the desire to make the person pleasing lo the opposite S sexThe The use of scent by many women is excessive and by men Is looked upon as effemlnat6 prejudice that we confess con-fess to sharing and yet the question naturally arises as we study our enl en-l Ironment to please the eye by color and natural effects and to please the car by musical notes why should wo not make similar endeavor to please the nose by agreeable and fragrant odors Each sense may suffer offense and there Is no reason why each senso should not be equally defended In this regard And the use of scent on the I pocket handkerchief which Is where wo commonly find it Is I calculated to exercise a higher ofllcc than merely to please the son C of smell The handkerchief may easily prove a source of Infection for Ills mode to be tho common receptacle of secretions from tho nose and mouth and the employment em-ployment of an antiseptic handkerchief handker-chief Is perfectly consistent with the dictates of common bacteriological evidences The liberal use of scent on I the handkerclhef Is calculated to make it antiseptic and to destroy the germs J in It owing to the action partly of the spirit of the scent and partly of the essential oils dissolved In the spirit Before therefore we condemn the persons per-sons who use scent upon the handkerchief I handker-chief for practicing a fopplsh or luxurious luxu-rious habit we should remember that they may actually be doing good tp their neighbors by checking the distribution distri-bution of Infectious materials London Lancet I Imprisonment After Death i The trial of a notorious Bavarlani l I robber has Just been ended in Augs burg with a remarkable vordlcU The I robber Is one Manillas Knelsl who lived In the Dachaucr Moos a great 1 Bavarian moor which owing to Its impenetrable 1 im-penetrable bogs and general desolation has long been a hiding place for all I sorts of lawless characters Knelsl came o a family of lawbreakers and he onco had sewed a term In prison A II year ago he committed a burglary and I when pursued by two gensdarmes he turned upon them and killed them both Ho fled to the moor and fora longtime long-time defied pursuit Finally however he was betrayed by l L neighbor whom he Jiad Injured and one night the ruined house In which ho had taken j refuge was surrounded bY gonsjd armes who first poured 1 volley into the place and then Iushed In Knejsl was found hiding In the chimney He was brought down by the rvoIveis of his pursuers so badly woundcU that his life was despaired de-spaired of He recovered however and i was then brought to trial The prose cutinadcmartdiidhls cnvlc lon on throe countsfor murder for robbery and as Ian I-an habitual criminal He was found guilty on all three charges and the I court gravely Imposed n sentence to fl the verdict On the first count Knelsl Was sentenced to death on the second to fifteen years penal servitude and on1 II the third to deprivation of civil rights during the remainder of his life Ii I i Dinner Costs a Fortune Probably the most expensive dinner given at Delmonlcos restaurant on Fourteenth street was given by Morton Mor-ton Peto to the tea and coffee merchants of New York > 200 In number I cost 25000 The rarest fines and the most elaborate decorations were mere Incidents Inci-dents The menu cards were of gold and the guests sat on silk cushions on I which their names were embroidered In the center of the table was a miniature I minia-ture lake In which swam swans taken from Central park Clara Louise Kellogg Kel-logg received 1000 for singing two songs at this feast and a present besides of 1 diamond bracelet The salon was wa smothered In lowers Another dinner given at one of tho Delmonjco establishments ten people peo-ple cost SiOO uiplate NIt was luxurious enough to be classical The waiters I five of them Kyere dressed ns sailors I The host wasTa vachtsman and he bought the waiters clothes TJiejguests drank or rather tasted every vinted I liquor that ever has been brought to America They finished with a pousse I cafe made of eleven liquors Before each platesat a cutglass basin about twenty InchesfIn diameter and four Inches deep Each was nearly filled with water perfumed with alter of roses on the surface of which floated < halfopen pond lilies In the basin a perfect model of the yacht owned by the host was placed I was cut in red I cedarwood with cabin rail wheel for steering brass work such as belaying 1 pins and binnacle manropes worked and trimmed with sailor knots scraped plno masts and booms rigging of silken cords colored as It would ho In tho original and sails of watln There was a gold oar and many other gewgaws New York Sun 1ork I An Optimistic Song After tho roses wither S JeavIne the IhornR alone I Bo glad for the thorns tocalllng Tho roe Hint redly shone Aftlr tho llenco haunts u I Holding UH overlong I Hear In tho echoes of silence Strains of an old sweet song I After the clouds swing lower After tho Sight Is done ight 10ne See In the Bloomy shadows Promise of golden sun oJ Rich In the hour of sadness o Cornell the rare alloy Memorys l wonderful pictures Showing our onetime Joy What If thu gloom of midnight Brlnpeth a clrcum forlorn r Urllfcth clinging darkness SprlnKcth tho rosy morn What IC the roses wither leavjnp the thorny stem Think of the glowing roses Let us bo glad for them I Bnlllmoro American Storing the Suns Buys I Is stated that n resident of Richmond Rich-mond Tnd has made one of the greatest great-est discoveries of modern limes being a method of storing the heat rays of the I I sun The theory Is similar to the making i I mak-ing of Ice only the process Is reversed I The Inventor claims he has dIscovered a substance which Is abundant and r cheaply produced which will absorb the heat rays and hold Uiem until driven out again The process by 1 which the heat will be driven out and the compo lllonof the blocks are still n secret There has been ono meeting of capitalIsts capital-ists at which a practical dcmonslra i Ion or the process was made one all present were satisfied that the process I Is practical and that it will revolutionize revolution-ize the present methods of heating I GentloSteed Bit OffSHis Zaf v r Bit rHis I Here Is set forth the reason why Dennis I Den-nis Winters failed to sell 1 horse the other dajvfcWInters deals in I horses I His stable Is in the rear of 751 South I I Fourth street An Italian called at tho i slablo and said he wanted to buy a horse k I I Bring out that bay mare Winters I ordered thf stable boy Tho mare was produced I In she gentle asked the prospective j I purchaser I I Gentle said Wlnter Gentles no I name for It Shes sound kind and true works well in double or single I harness amis gOod fur track or road Dont balk crib or kick and hasnt a mean trick under his hide Ill At this Juncture the marc reached 1 I around and bit off Wlnterss right ear I Winters went td the Philadelphia hos I I pllal to be patched up The Italian did < not buy the horse Philadelphia North I American I I Cancer and Violet Leaves Lady Marsham of England Is firmly convinced that she was cured of a cancer I < S cer In the throat by an infusion of violet 1 I vio-let leaves and has made a public statement state-ment to that effect In order that other II sufferers may be saved But there I sedms fj be conslderable doubt as to I the cancerous nature of the disease The London Lancet shares In this doubt I remarks that even under the microscope micro-scope there K a close resemblance be I nween eplthelioma a njallgnant growth I aiul genuine growth especially when I the tonsils are Inllamed I and that erroneous I I er-roneous conclusions may be reached unless I un-less the examination Is extremely careful care-ful and thorough I therefore believes I that there was a wrong diagnosis In Lady Marshams case Violet leaves I were used for medical purposes l by the ancients but so far as known not for the cure of cancer While standing ready to welcome any effective treatment I treat-ment of that dread disease the Lancet < < evidently does not thInk It well to raise false hopes in the minds of sufferers oy spreading a belief In remedies that I have no curative power Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Lovely Womans Way A pretty girl In a pretty hod ice at n tea the othet afternoon aliracted at I tention for something beside her prCt I I tmess Every other button of her bodice which fastened in the back was unbuttoned Had It been only a few buttons here and there lndone had Lhe unfastening not been so itfgu L laiif might not have been so noticeable I notice-able As it was there could be but one key to the situation the deliberate Intentional oversight of the kind friend or spiteful I mnld who had fastened fas-tened the bodice Whatever the motive I mo-tive whatever the cause those every oilier buttons agape stood for revenge achieved Nobody not even the hostess apparently knew the girl well enough to tell her and have the mischief mis-chief repaired but Involuntarily the hand of every other woman In a corsage cor-sage fastening in the back bought that fas onlng to see whether any kind friend or spiteful maid had played her falne Possibilities for wreaking revenge re-venge In tHls way were suddenly revealed re-vealed as never before And to think she may never know about It I sighed one woman to another Whoever Who-ever buttoned the bodice up Avlll probably prob-ably unbutton I and Its l owner will be as blissfully unconscious then as now Not a bit of it tald the other woman f n womanbe she maid or friend fastened that bodice or rather left It half unfastened rest assured as-sured shell take precious good care that her victim knows it Thats lovely love-ly I womans way No matter how crafty or clever or otherwise Machiavellian Machia-vellian she may be when she makes anybody suffer she makes sure that tho sufferer is awaie of ItNew York Sun Costliest Painting in the World The Duko of Marlborough is believed to bo the possessor of the costliest painting In the world which was atone at-one time the property of the first Duke oi Marlborough The picture Is known as the Blenheim Madonna painted by Raphael hI ir 1anl now valued at no less than 350003 Boy Husbands i and Girl Wives Persons who think they are oer young to marry yet should look abroad and see what Is thought In other nations about the proper age for matrimony ii I Austria a boy and girl 1 having arrived at tlie age of 14 are Irre old enough for matrimonial matri-monial purposes and the law allows I them to marry und begim housekeeping as soon as they please In Germany a man is not considered to have arrived I until Is 18 at 1 marriageable age unti he I and In I France and Belgium the man must be 18 and the girl 15 In Spain I the bridegroom must have arrived at thc mature age of 1 and the bride must bee < tlld young lady of 12 The I law Is the sane in Portugal l Hungary has a funny marriage UW For Catholics the marriageable age is considered to be 1 for the boy and 12 for the girl but for Protestants It Is 18 for the boy and 16 for the girl Why this distinction In Switzerland and Greece the ages are 1 fOr tho boy and 1 2 for the gIrl the same a In Spain I and Portugal In Spain Greece and Portugal boys and girls mature rapidly rapid-ly and ahoy of 1 there Is as old physically as a boy of 18 in more northern countries but It seems strange that the hardy mountaineers of Switzerland where there Is no such excuse for child marriages should set such nn early ago for matrimony FOII ueally youthful marriages one should go to Turkey There the law allows any boy and girl who can walk pioperly1 and who understands the meaning of the necessary religious service ser-vice to be united for life fn Bulgaria and Servla girls are allowed to marry as soon as they cease to bo babies and the girl who Is fmot engaged by the time ha Is lo Is considered n hopeless old maid In America a woman never loses hope nor a man either Trouble With the Sum I A teacher in the Dallas County public pub-lic school has received the following I letter SirWIli you in the futureglve my son easier some to do at mutes This Is what lies brought hoam two or three nlto back I If fore gnlllns of here will fillthirty t ninfbottles how many pints and half bottles will nine galllns of bore fliT Well we Lrled and could makeS make-S nothln of It at 1 and my boy cried I and laughed and sod he didnt dare togo to-go back In the mornln without doln I I Sol had to go and buy t a nlnc gallln Iceg of hero whIch I could ill afford to doXand then ho went back I and borrowed a lot of wine and brandy bottles we fill them and my boy put the number down for an answer I dont know whether It Is right or not as we spit some while doing IL I P SPiease let the next some be I In water as J am not able to buy more bereMoblle Register > The Weaver In a dlmIIttcn room I J saw a weaver plying < il his loom That rhyme ran as swiftly as I nn Itinerant And for the workman at the loom was Time looJ Weaving tIme web of life Twas particolor wrought of Peace and Strife S S NAnd N-And through tho warp thereof Shot little golden Ihrcnua ofJoy and Love S And ono stood by whoso eyes wcro brimmed wIth learN i Poising Iho mighty shears Whorewlth when seemed the en weavers sceme will at ebb Ho cut tho wondrous web Time weaves and WC cDna his dark brother ho Will ono day cut tho web for you and me Clinton Scollard In The Independent Electricityin cit Travel The amazing manner in whlch this i I rich and famous town with Its vast resources and lib nlllllons of people has lagged bftlilnd other American centers pf wealth and population in I Street travel Ijs illustrated by the fact that 60 percent of the horse car lines I among the big places of the United States are contained within the borders bor-ders of Now York San Francisco Cleveland and other municipalities wereyears ahead of Manhattan In the use of cables In thoroughfares In the eighties of the last century and Gotham has ben dilatory and procrastinating procras-tinating In the adoption on the largest scale of the useful inventions In elec trio equipment But It may be expected ex-pected fairly that the dawn oC n better bet-ter day Is almost here New York is waking up and ere long the great multitudes wnich need so sorely swift and convenient transportation from one end of the metropolis to the other Will be carried hither and thither with fewer delays and obstructions New Yorkers are confident that with the coming of the new administration an impluse will be given to public spirit gven of splendid opportunities I amiL the quick grasp < portunities which will afford them just reason for pride and will furnish ample I am-ple cause for Americans to rejoice over the progress of the splendid capital of I this continent NQVV York Tribune |