Show NTEMPRMR1TLiiHT r r Powers of the Senate In an nrtlclo on The Oligarchy of r the Senate which he contributes to the February number of the North American Review Mr IL Maurice Low argues that the Senate has gradually taken to Itself powers which the framers of tho Constitution never intended in-tended that branch of the national legislature to exercise Through an abuse of Its right to amend bills originating in the House of Representatives Represent-atives the Senate has virtually assumed as-sumed control of the appropriating power which was Intended to be the exclusive prerogative of tho House 1 Is the Senate Mr Low avers which dominates legislation tho House having hav-ing been In effect reduced to 0 negligible negligi-ble quantity Even the President may bo made on occasion to feel Its power as when it rejects a Presidential nomination n nomi-nation out of regard to the obligations of tho socallMl Senatorial courtesies courte-sies I is notorious to says 11 Low that tho power of the Senate centers cen-ters In the hands of the halfdozen or so Senators who are at the head oC the Important committees these men being be-ing to all Intents and purposes the Senate Sen-ate of the United States Mr Low criticises strenuously 11 pronencss of the Senate to Interfere in the conduct of our foreign relatIons He says As showing the assumption of the Senntc notice the remarkable change made In the wording of a recent treaty Last year the Senate ratified a tieaty with Grmt Britain The Tenure and Disposition of Heal and Personal Property Prop-erty providing for thf disposition of real estate and giving any British colony the right to adhere to the convention con-vention on notice from the British IDm bnsaddr nt Washington to the Secretary Secre-tary of State and similarly any possessions pos-sessions of tho United States beyond the scan were to be Included In the tw compact upon notice being given by the representative of tho United States at London by direction of the President Presi-dent The Senate amended this lore lo-re by direction of the treatymaking power of the United States Thus by tho addition o a few words the Senate assumed to Itself the right to conduct foreign relations an assumption assump-tion for which no warrant can be found in the Constitution Tho House Wo Used to Livo In The house vc used to live In looks at us S wistfully as wo go driving by The wind that makes Its near tree mur murous Flies swiftly after with entreating sigh Coma back como back vo hear It I low Implore I Lift up the grasschoked gate tho earth stained door And enter In your childhoods home once more Ah jio speech let us mako merry with light Of newer days and push tho past aside Close to that cloor tho baby used to reach The knob and play with 11 before he died lie used to sleep on the broad window sill A sunbeam In his curie no not that hill This level road Drive fast oh faster still How small It was Before the birds arc grown roy lie so warmly In one tiny nest But nil the world Is theirs when they havo hewn lown And foreign roofs replace the mother breast Ah wol IDod cnreth Seo before us now Tho ampler homo beneath a lofty bough Lift up the saddened heart and clear the brow For intlmt omptynest bayontLthchlU Are blessed shadows at Immortal case The suncrowned baby on tho window sill The happy children underneath the trees Old house look not so piteous Thou art Of larger lives the very sweetest part The Urat lovo of tho unforwettlng heart Ethelwyn Vethcrald In Youths Companion Com-panion Not Just What She Meant The pitfalls which the English language lan-guage offers to the foreigner are many A French woman who has undertaken housekeeping In Now York thought she bad a good working knowledge of the language but she soon discovered her mistake Ono day last summer she called a carpenter car-penter and planned with him to havo somo work done about the house in the way of putting up shelves casing some doors and Improving the place in other small ways She went over the ground with him as carefully as possible to get an estimate of what the work would cost costAfter it was done the bill submitted was considerably In excess of the sum first named The woman endeavored to remonstrate but succeeded only inputting in-putting her French thought into the following English But you are more dear t me than when we were fist engaged Short Stories The Baby and the Monkey Babies ore very like little monkeys and we < are least human when we ire youngest But by way of solace and to save our selfconceit If I that has suffered suf-fered they assure u that whereas the little monkeys grow less and less like humans every hour they grow our babies turn their backs on the monkey type at tho first squirm and grow away from It hand over fist during the whole of their protracted period of development de-velopment The monkey childs fitrength runs to jaw and length oC limb a dto aplllty and monkey ways The human childs noae asserts itself his brain grows and grown and insists in-sists on having room to expand In and hlH skull takes shape accordingly lie finds his legs and gradually puts them to use though in somo children strength comes to the legs very slowly The learned doctors assure us too that the period of upward development In which tho child grows more human all the time and keeps putting distance between himself and tho monkeys Is In Infancy and early youth and that presently upward evolution stops and development becomes air adaptation to tho environment without regard lo upward zoological movementE So Martin In Harpers for February A Prudent Parson StY wellknown minister In a small but elect congrcgnlloa not for from Boston received an invitation to a swell supper to be given by one ofthe wealthy members of his church The supper was so very swell that tho dominie found himself surrounded by dress suits and extremely fashionable ovening toilets When he got home most naturally the first thing his wife said to him was on Thomas what did the ladles have II dont know my dear ho replied n I didnt get under the tuble Boston Herald f Mental Capacity of the tChickt In 1SS6 I made a great maT experiments experi-ments yith young chicly testing tholr ability to learn a variety of perform L ances such f getting out of n boxby pecking at a certain n certin spot on a door or by Jumping upon a little platform or by pulling downn string with the 01 r thcr necks escaping from n pen by going up i a ladder or following an Intricate pall ii through a mnzectc etc writes Prof Edward L Thorndlke of Colum Thorntkeor I bia university In The International Monthly for February They learn readily toabandon WORe acts vhJch bring discomfort and to at emphasise those which are successful In securing them food shelter arC I warmth and the companionship of their I fellows Their learning like that of the Italics Is essentially lke of selection For sentially a process selecton sentlal3 Instance a elilclc Is I confined In a cage from which It can escape only by pecking peck-Ing atn certain spot and so opening Ins door It sees the other chicks and food outside and reacts to the situation confinement according to Its Inborn organization by running about peeling peel-Ing Jumping at tho walls trying to In1 Jumping squeeze Ouough any small openings and pecking at the barriers confining I IL The chick feels a score or more I 1 of Impulses to n COr or more acts I I Its relictions Include one particular act It certain namely n peck at a spot I of couiae escapes This one act is followed I fol-lowed by freedom food and general I comfort The other acts resulted only I In a continuance of the unpleasant solitary I sol-itary confinement I after tho chick I has enjoyed freedom a while we put I it Into tho cage again we have a repetition I repe-tition of the fIrst event except that I the chick Is likely to run and peep and I jump and squeeze less I and to peck at I the door sooner I we continue this process so that the chick Is again and again confronted by the situation confinement In a box of such and such appearance It constantly decreases the useless acts and performs the suitable suit-able one sooner and sooner until finally It pecks at the spot Immediately whenever when-ever put Into that box 1 has learned we say to get out of the box by pecking peck-ing at a certain spot Her Intentions Were Good She really Intended paying her fare when she boarded the street car for she had 10 cents saved from the bar gainday scrimmage but the conductor happened to bo a gentleman and by paying the faro himself saved her a weary walk to the family residence She had the 10 cents with her when she boarded the car and she still had tho money when the conductor came through on his trip for fares but she did not pay the conductor I was all the motormans fault With her arms full of bundles she was compelled to hold the 10cent piece between her teeth The motorman turned on the current the car gave a Jerk and she gave a start Fare please said the conductor and she turned paler pale-r cant pay you she stammered going from white to red and from red back to white But I cant carry you for nothing remonstrated the conductor I know I but I cant help it I had the money when I got on the car but but I swallowed It A rough on the other side of the car snorted 1 rude In ugh but the con ductor was a gentleman and without I another AVO d he pulled the register rope for another fare and passed on St Paul Globe Freedom of Contract To the capitalist corporation the wagecontract Is simply a question of so many dollars to be pafcl writes Sidney Webb In The International Monthly for February To the workman work-man It Is a matter of placing for tenor ten-or twelve hours out of every twenty four his whole life at the disposal of his hirer What hours he shall work when and where he shall get his food the sanitary conditions of his employment employ-ment the safety of the machinery the temperature and atmosphere to which he lb l subjected the fatigue or strains that h6 endures the risks of disease or accident that he Incurs all these are Involved I In the workmans contract and not In his employers These arc matters of ns vltal Importance to the wageearner as are his wages Yet about these matters he canno In prac Llce bargain atall Imagine a weaver before 1 accepting employment In a Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts cotton mill examining the proportion of steam In tho atmosphere of the shed testing the strength of tho shuttleguards and criticising the soundness of the shafting belts a Plttsburg mechanic prying Into the security se-curity of the hoists and cranes or the safety of the lathes and steam hammers ham-mers among which he must move a workgirl In a Chicago sweatshop computing the cubic space which will be her share of the workroom discuss ing the ventilation warmth and light i ng o the place In which she will spend nearly all her working life or examin ing disapprovingly tho sanitary accommodations ac-commodations provided think of the man who wants a Job In a New Jersey wtylle lend works testing the poisonous influence of the particular process employed em-ployed and reckoning In terms of dol lars and cents the exact degree of In Jury to his health whl h he is consent Ing to updergo On al l these matters at any rate we must at once give up the notion of freedom of contract In the absence of any restraint of law the conditions of sanitation decency and security from cecenc sculI accident In the vari ous enterprises of the United States Steel corporation or the Standard Oil company the Western Union 01 graph company or the Pennsylvania railroad are absolutely at the mercy of the rulers of these great undertak ings They decide these conditions of life for the millions of workmen whom L they employ and thus to this extent for the American nationas natonas arbitrarily fund It Is to be hoped as humane as a they do for their homes In the gen fS eral course of human COU hUm3n nature re marked the shroud founders of the American Constitution ConsLtulon power over a man s sbslsllnce a amounts to a power over his wil Not Equal t It Whats Your order sir asked the WoltPL h ch cn cheese ssssandwich and ltic crrcup of c c c ccorfco said i the stuttering customer Anything elte1 Y yr yr ° s Aaaaask me Apple pie N n nno Lemon cream pie N n n no Custard pie 4 N n n no I PumpkIn pie w Y rjry yes Thlh III Dials whir what I wwwnnt bbbbut Kuev T never old fagSay It In the wwWworld Chicago Tribune American Demand for Diamonds no The world has never scjen and In other part of the world Is there now jeeimadness rJl seen like Americas lmadnCHs as shpwn by the condl tor oC i today when more than three hundrea Unred New Ydrk establishments are tenffoged solely in the Importation arl a precious stones when agents of Amer lean H dealers arc searching Europe for the white gem and hopelessly endeav rAie to supply American appeals for rubles and emeralds and when six thousand men In South Africa are toll ling to obtain diamonds more than half Ir ami o which are to add to the beauty arul happiness of the American woman I it M I she that has his caused the United Mates to become the greatest diamond market In the world greatest we have imported In n single year 320000000 worth oC precious stones i for her at one period we smuggled them In at the rat of 7000000 n year for her C annually buy something like 512 I 000000 worth of diamonds and thus for her sake heartlessly leave of tho worlds total output of diamonds only o some 58000000 worth to satisfy the vanity of all the satsty YJnlt al rest of the women on arth For her adornment we an nually cause to be brought to this I brouEht country diamonds weighing 4 Jn the ag I grcgaUi one thousand two hundred L pounds a weight three times that of the total output of the famous Kimberly Kimber-ly I field and practically the equal of that of the whole of South Africa the worlds greatest diamond mine Frank S Arnett In Alnslees Wen Your Clothes Dont Fit I once went to I party with a sot o reKlur swells I thought that r would bo a beau an captivate tho b cHAn cH-An f I hired a dress suit which 1 thought would be ndmlred But pi oily soon T knowed that t everybody bdy knowed twns hired I felt the wrinkles In tho back Tho sleeves want long enough It seemed about six Inches twixt my glovoiop an my cuff I shuck han a once or twice an then I went back homo an quit Cause thcvo aint no Joy In llvlh when your clothes dont I dontl l 4 An sometimes T feel sorry for the huntlln biiHtlln t mun Ascrainblln and acllmbln as persistent t as ho can Fur somo empty mark of glory when hos likely to ho vexed lcl By not excl knowln what Its proper to do next For luck is 1 mighty freaky An a man feels lost nn grim Ylien It puts him In u uniform thnt wasnt built for him Tho honors that you covet dont bring happiness a hit When you suddenly discover that your clothes dontfit IlL Washington Star Wolseley and Melba Field Marshal Lord Wolseley hero of campaigns has met defeat in nn engagement I en-gagement of wits He has been van finished by r woman The vlclor In little dlnneitable tilt was Mme the Ille dinnertable tt lrmc I Melbn and the scene of the occurrence aristocracy the house of a member of the British Mme Melba nt this dinner was seated seat-ed at the right of Lord Wolseley who was at the right of the hostess of the evening Lord Wolseley at the beginning begin-ning of the dinner abked of tho hostess host-ess essWho Is the lady at my right Why that Is Jme Melba Who Is this Mine Melba lu It possible that your lordship does not know the great singer Oh yes Born In Australia I believe be-lieve And with that the General applied ap-plied himself to the course then served After n fow minutes he turned to the prima donna greeted her pleasantly and said You arc an Australian I believe madame I know a great deal about your country My brother lives In Melbourne Ah pray sir what Is the name of your brother tho singer naively Inquired Goodness Why his name Is the same as mine Wolseley answered the surprised officer Who is Wolseley I do not recall Melba explained that name Mme ilba Why I am Gen Wolseley replied the astonished officer Wolseley Wolaeley Wolseley whlspeied the singer a if appearing to refresh her memory And then the General applied himself again to the food He had leaincd his lesson London Lon-don Correspondence Philadelphia North American Cheapness of Wireless Telegraphy It is rather needless to say that Mar conis splendid demonstration of transoceanic trans-oceanic signaling means In tho near future a big reduction In cable tolls Marconi i himself says that a cent n word is i within sight But oven this Is a purely arbitrary figure In England where the public telegraph tele-graph is not run to enrich rich people it I is possible to send a twelveword message anywhere In the kingdom for sixpence There is no good reason why with healthy competition 0 20word London message from New York to Paris or Manila should not bo sent and delivered for 0 dime or for that matter anywhere In the United States The first cost Is small A wireless telegraph station la I more complicated than an ordinary Morse station and costs more But needing neither cables wires Insulators nor poles the stations are practically the whole of the expense ex-pense Such an Installation as those of the Marconi company on board tho ocean ships probably costs between 200 and 300 at retail The largest expense Is I a good Induction coil which for a twelveInch spark costs between 150 and O the rest of the apparatus any clever mechanic once he has seen it and read the descriptions of which the scientific Journals teem can rig up for himself And the field Is free Tho shower of patents has been large Signor Marconi alone has taken out 132 But they relate chiefly to minor improvements and special deles which while doubtless often of individual value are not a block to others to try their hand I for example Prof Branly had patented his discovery and had applied It to tho reception of signals himself Instead of leaving that to Prof Lodge and others then we might have had another Bell Telephone monopoly As It Is wireless telegraphy has been made possible by men who do not take out patents and whose work Is not done for money Carl Snyder In Review of RevIews for February Tho Origin of Buckboard Orign There aro few persons says a soldier sol-dier long since returned to civic ranks who know how thoname buckboard came to be applied to u vehicle I was away back in the early 20s when the transportation of goods wares and merchandise was principally all by wagons Dr Buck who for long years after was the military storekeeper here was then in charge of stores en route to army posts In the Southwest In cast Tennessee difficulty was experienced experi-enced by reason of the rough roads and there wero frequent mishaps mostly from the wagons overturning Dr Buck overhauled the outfit and abandoning the wagon bodies long boards were set directly on the axles or hung below and stores the huns were reloaded re-loaded In such a manner that there were no further delays from breakdowns break-downs and the stores safely reached their destination The idea doubtless was not new but Dr WDS Bucks example was followed especially when roads wero rough and soon much hauling was done by the use of wheel I axle and boards only Now the fashionable buckboard recalls the old gentleman somo of UH Washington Star Doctors Enormous Fees Tn the medical world some enormous fees have been paid from tlmo to time In 17C2 the famous Hertfordshire Herlfordshlrc physician physi-cian Thomas Dlmsdale was summoned sum-moned to SL Petersburg to vacclnnto the Empress Catherine I He was in the city less than a week but so successfully cessfully did he accomplish his task that he was paid a conslderution of 12000 in addition to a life pension of 500 a year Another costly vaccinat ing operation vas that performed n few years ago upon pix Indian Rajahs and from each of the patients he re ceived 10000 for less than a days work When King Edward or tho Prince of Wales aa ho was then lay at deaths door with typhoid fever the famous William Jon 1 I l was called in for a period of four weeks and In return for It ho was paid at the rate of 2500 a week and given abaronetcy In the bar gain Nor wag it by any means m usual for him t receIve a fee or 500 for an hours consultation with less celebrated patients But royalty Invariably pays their medhcah pendants highly Tho late Sir Morel Mackenzie Jpurneyed to Ben jQurnGYc lin to relieve tho SUf rClcYe sufferings of the Em peror Frederick during his nst Illness Frederlckdurllh hl 1nt lness and secured a fceiof 20000 while Prof 20QO whIe Zachorlno of Zacolno Moscow who was called to Lav Ida when tha Czar Alexander III lay dying was presented with fcreheckV for 10000 ia addition to all expenses for a two days attendance upon his Illustrious patient Dr Yowskl l the famous oculist pocketed I fee of 27000 for attending the Shahs SOIl at Te hernn some years ngot figure completely I com-pletely l I put Into the shade by that captured I cap-tured by I British army surgeon who furEeon paid occasional vMts to the Rajah of Rampur India when that potentate wan suffering from an acute attack of rhcitnitillsm The patient did not wait for him to send In i his bill for finding his treatment beneficial he rewarded him with a draft for 10000 The highest medical fco over paid however became the property of n blind h physician DI Gale of Bristol who cured 1 wealthy patient of i diseased dis-eased knee by electric treatment and In i return found his banking account richer by r 50000 Pearsons Weekly A Defense of the Old Maid A toast is offered to the spinster We meet a great many pleasant people In i ths world but nowhere do wo llnd co a more satisfactory person than that elderly unmarried woman generally ami somewhat disrespectfully known l ii < tin old maid and I tl o11 nne supposed to be allllcted with nerves and a cantan kerous i disposition As 0 matter of furt she Is frequently the sweetest most selfforgeltul of her sex She usually walks with tact and a loving heart i In other womens paths lives In i other womens Joys making them her l own The children adore her for she becomes to them a sort of fairy godmother I one who possesses all the tenderness of u mother without the extremes of maternal discipline She loves l to give children a good time iind does It with extraordinary success Tn household details what a treasure How l many dinners owe their success to t her who reaps no glory except the glory of doing And In i the ultimate trials of life what a prop and solace she becomes But It Is I to the young boylivers of the family that she ex hibits the finest flower of her capacity for friendship What a gift of understanding under-standing she seems to have There Is i no difficulty sho cannot dissipate I no fear she cannot lessen no tender little l halfscared hope that she does not encourage to bloom for the encourge or other woman I IB always for somebocry else thai she Is working and perhaps It i Is this which gives to her eyes the look l that even the worst among us I unconsciously associates with nil that Is i best and fairest In life Let them make fun o her If they will but could we do without her Harpers Weekly Week-ly l Honesty nnd Policy Yes said the policeman a patrolman pa-trolman meets with many thrilling adventures ad-ventures and hairbreadth escapes and I had my share of them while on the fore I think the one tliat made my linlr l curl hardest happened one night on Fulton street I was sauntering along and wondering if the horse I had h backed for the next days races would come In frt when I saw a package on the sidewalk a few feet away I struck mo in u moment that tho package contained money and my heart was In my mouth as I sprang forward and picked it up I was scarcely In my hand when the rounds man turned the corner and stood before be-fore me and said Dick I am sure that package Is made up of greenbacks So am I I said Hand It over 10 me says he For why says I Because Im your superior officer and looking for 50000 to buy and furnish fur-nish me n country residence Ill divide says L 4 Thats agin discipline and tempting tempt-ing i an honest man Hand It right over overI I handed It over sighed tho ex and the roundsman bought him a beautiful l country seat and lived tho life l of a nabob to his death When he left l the force I asked him if he would not hire me to cut his gross and wash his carriage but he shakes his head and says Couldnt dolt Dick Nabobs and patrolmen never get along together You go right on and find another package pack-age and keep It for your honesty Brooklyn Cllz n Common Sense O Common Sense No diadem Is thine And on thy plain unsentimental ceo There Is no brilliancy nor hint of graco And yetI lovo theo and would mako theo mine Bccaupo tiiou art essentially divine Thou traco only through los labyrinth canst Tho true safe path for our distracted race Ever lo follow thee my h art Incline Onco on tho wilderness of waters wide Brooded the Spirit and tho lands uprose And Chas saw sweet order then commence Such com-mence Is thy power and whero thou dost auldo Each moon and plant straight and state I ly goes goe Hcnvenbom earthsaving CommonSense Common-Sense Kato Upson Clark In Boston jBudgct Mr Carnegies GiftAbused From a speech delivered by Principal Prin-cipal Story at the annual conference of the students councils of Scottish universities it appears that Mr Car necles recent gift Is being abused 1 The donor Intended to give poor students stu-dents a free education So far the scheme has been an unqualified success suc-cess The advantages have however been utilized by dther and less needy students who can well afford to pay the fees Principal Story In referring to tho matter said that the best remedy reme-dy was tho creation of a healthy public wa opinion among undergraduates I this were formed theN would be no more complaint as to the abuse of Mr Carnegies gift by people for whom it was not intended London Express Faith in ProfitSharing1 Samuel M Jones Mayor of Toledo student thinker and humanitarian who sends a check representing 5 percent per-cent of wages to each of his employees at Christmas and gives to each l copy of his breezy Letters of Love and Labor La-bor talks to them In Golden Rule park on almost every Sunday afternoon after-noon In summer or gets some other man of Ideas to talk to them conducts a kindergarten for the children In Golden Gol-den Rule house takes his work people on picnicsup the river and sees that everybody has a weeks vacation with pay has an abiding faith In profit sharing a the first tep In the economic econom-ic revolution which is to bring the millennium lennium nearer Profitsharing he said the other day over his own signature is a phase of cooperation and though there Is not much of an outward manifestation I believe that the cooperative spirit Is growing throughout the country and the world 1 believe that by the slow processes of growth and evolution after af-ter the slow lapse of years society ingoing In-going to realize a perfect democracy In Industry and the brotherly relations In life outlined In the history of the early Christians where wo are told that No man said that aught he possessed was his own neither woe there any among them that lacked but distribution was made to each according as any had need I do not believe that there Is to be an economic revolution or upheaval up-heaval that will bring about a change from the present capitalistic and profit getting system to C socialistic state of affairs that Is I do not believe that the socialists will ever take forcible possession of land and the Instruments ot of production a they say but through the growth of lntehhigenc each man will come to see hlmgclf as a part of the whole and come to understand that only as he cooperates tram that standpoint he In any proper sense real happiness I believe that the trust movement Is n indication of the growing spirit of cooperation Immoral l Jn Its primary aspect because It Is inspired In-spired by the desire for bigger profits but It is realjy religious inlts results r that Is i It r elminates waste Its failure is found In the fact that it does not t Justly distribute the caving effected by the economy of combination The next step and the Inevitable bno as I be love Is cooperation In the field of distribution that will involve the men who work with their hands as well as those who work with their h wol H E Armstrong In Alnslcoa Girl Wished to Help Sibley Representative Slbley of Pen nsylva nia has a beautiful bald pate I shlnoM with glistening smoothness A few days ago n little girl was visiting ltte WfS visiing at Mr Slbleyn handsome nome on K street AW she sat near tho Congressman Congress-man In the library enjoying the open Ire and the big hearth n funny thought seemed to strike her for she laughed out loud i Mr Slbley sho said presently wouldnt you like a rabbit painted on your head Llko What queried Mr Sibley as hO smiled upon his little visitor A rabbit painted on head your repeated re-peated the youngster Why 1 asked the Incautious I Sibley lous Because said the little one tri umphantly It would look like a hare Cleveland Plain Dealer A Guileless Community Browning never failed to read the London dally papers but seldom found time to look at those published In Venice When he did take up one of the latter he would smile and say Now listen to the Iniquities commit ted In this wicked city yesterday Then he would read aloud the police reports which never recorded anything more serious than a petty theft of oars or arcola cavall til gondola oar caal I gondolC or at the worst some household linen by u bold thief abstracted from Us IJtreted ls drying place to the value of 5 francs Comparison of these delinquencies mpa1son delnquencies with those of similar columns in nhnlnr other lands was really a source of delight to the poet How pleasant It is to bo in the midst of so guileless a community he would say with a genial laugh On reading the necrologies which often recorded the demise of some one morte nella ancora fresca eta di sessnntaclnque fesCntclnquc annl dead at the still youthful sti age of 65 They consider 65 an early death apparently he said with a smile February Century wih I Shall Not Go as Others Do I shall not go as others do To seek tho quiet spot In which they laid spt last of you There all 1 loved Is not I would not help me who havo known That all that llfo could die To read tho record on the stono Recording where you HoI Ho-I do not scok you In the grave Hard by tho 1ou Ie tower gavo But when the sun is I on tho wave Tho dowdrop on tho flower When morning slugs nnd swallows dart Across tho bluo above I feel your spirit stir tho heart In which I burled love Ronnell Rodd In February Century Civil Government in Porto Rico Tho story which Charles II Allen the first Civil Governor of Porto Rico tells in his article In the February number of tho North American Review entitled I How Civil Government was Estab lished In Porto Rico Is one of much Interest In-terest The situation to which Mr Allen and his coadjutors had to address themselves when the military regime In the newlyacquired Island came lo an end Involved many problems not easy of solution The people though disposed to be friendly toward their new rulers had never had ahy experience In self government or Us practical methods They were besides divided locally into facllons The whole machinery for con ducting the public affairs of the colony had to be created and set In motion and measures had lo be taken for providing pro-viding the resources for meeting the necessary expenses of the Government Americans may well feel proud of the manner In which the dlllicult problems pertaining to their task were solved by those to whom that duty a delegated without precedent of any kind to guIde them and Mr Allens account of the work done which forms a now chapter in the history of our national development develop-ment Is characterized by the authority which comes from tho fact not only that he was a participator ac It and an eyewitness of it but that the main responsibility for the successful accomplishment accom-plishment of it rested upon his shoulders should-ers Mr Allen thus sums up the condi lon which existed at the close of tho first year of the new government The first fiscal year closed on Juno 30 1900 with all bills paid with wih al his a valuation of the Island of over one hundred million dollars against which there was not a dollar of floating or funded Insular debt and with a clean wholsesonie surplus of over one and n half million dollars entirely available and subject to check Such Is the ro 10 suit of tho first years American admin I Istratlon of Porto Rico civil government ment fully established and running smoothly I in all departments a complete financial reorganization with a lower rate of taxation than elsewhere to be found and yet yielding abundant YieldinG revenue reve-nue a people contented and beginning begin-ning to realize the benefits of American sovereignty and ready to understand perhaps tho real meaning of the motto on their great seal Prospcra lux orltur a happy day is dawning Ono Childs Curiosity The child was I years old logical persistent per-sistent and curious The mother en deavored In all possible conscientiousness conscientious-ness never to depart from any statement state-ment once made the child as fact One afternoon this conversation occurred I Mother where Is your grandmother grand-mother In heaven dear Ohl I Silence and apparent absorption in i toys for a full hour absorpton Mother didnt I come Com heaven Of course Well mother its awfully funny that I doesnt remember mooting your grandmother there New York Times An Incorruptible Official 11 Mouchel a Magistrate at SL Saw vour le Vlcomle Department of Los Manches has posted a notice on the walls of the commune warning the In habitants that I they continue to importune im-portune him to accept presents of poultry I game provisions etc wHh an Intention easy to dqflnc amid stop I him In the street to request him to use his inlluence in favor of their friends ho will proceed against them I with the utmost rigor of the law London Dally Mal Carnegies Epitaph That shrewd and always entertain ing rich man Andrew CarnegIe took occasion In the course of an address last evening to suggest an epitaph for himself I think ho said that I shall have put upon my tombstone this Inscription Here lies a man who knew how to get around him l great many men who were much cleverer than he was himself Mr Carnegie not only has framed In these few words a most honorable and desirable inscription for his tombstone but has given a valuable recipe for greatness and power To be canny to give genius its head without letting It got beyond control to draw out of other men the best that Is In them this Is greatness this Is power Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly Mr Carnegie has shown ability of this sort to 0 marvelous degree de-gree The man who direct conserves and renders practical the brilliant minds which he has the shrewdness to discover and enlist in his enterprise enter-prise Is himself a great man A connoisseur con-noisseur of brains ho yet has u liberal lib-eral supply of that desirable article under his own hat be can appreciate good service can get together men capable of giving U can draw It forth canreward it generously and can make the moat of whatit produces Tho epitaph suggested by Mr Carne gie should serve several useful purposes pur-poses besides standing to the honor of a unique personality It should aid other men In their efforts to achieve large l successes hy taking out of thorn lhat parllctijar Ingredient pi their es sentialegotism which Isi offensive to others arid harmful to themselves That men are men and not tools IM a lesson l which some manterful cnp talns of great cnterprloes find difficult to learn MX Carnegies epitaph may help them to grasp this Important truth To the clever and iirnhitldujs young man flit same sentence gives a clear glimpse of the formula by which success Is achieved The nbrucandabra In I easyIt you know how to apply It But to overlook the tidy bunch of brains L possessed by the great Iron master hImself and tho highly necessary Mar part which those sary brains have played In his vast enterprises would be News an exceedingly crass error Chicago Coronation Calves Parisians must and will bo amused When there Is nothing to occupy their attention they upset ministries and ralso barricades ConHequently one must not begrudge them their Joke even If It Is 0 false calf I would appear or at least Parisian newssheets news-sheets tell UH so that a certain quantity quan-tity of artificial calves are being manufactured man-ufactured In Paris In view of the coronation cor-onation festivities We are not all Pickwicks with n wellfilled gaiter and when according to all rules of precedent and etiquette knee breeches must be donned If nature has been unkind to tho wearer he must call In artificial aid Consequently the trade In artificial calves is very brisk I has been found however that even without such an Incentive as the coronation fetes the artificialcalf industry In-dustry Is regularly occupied In manu fnclurlng such articles for home consumption con-sumption Frenchmen must not chaff England In this respect for every year numerous French cyclists society socie-ty menyca and society women Invest In-vest thirty francs In padding for their nether limbs Wo must therefore add another article to tho list of adulterated adulte-rated and Imitated goods for even legs are not always what they seem Paris Messenger Stories of Tildcn Tho great lawyer great Democrat and great man Samuel J Tllden had a touch of humor at times Iuerulous In Its tone and at other times ho cqulcl be funny without meaning to be Ho was an expert Judge of wines and his cellar was choicely stocked When dining out however he had a little way of measuring by tho taste of his guest and ordering accordingly The late Col John R Fellows noted this tri and onco when dining with Mr Tllden saw that as usual the Sage of Greystone had ordered n small bottle ofan ordinary brand for his plate and n very choice vintage for himself Mr Tllden was called away from the table for a moment and the Colonel deftly shifted tho bottles When Tllden lifted bio pint to pour out the wine his eye quickly noted the difference but ho got out of the dlfllpulty nicely Here waiter ho said you have made a mlslakp in my wine I want tho same kind COb Fellows has A certain politician still eminent but not refined made Mr Tllden a business call at his Gramercy park mansion Wishing to be particularly nice to him the old gentleman got out a bottle of Johannisberger Schloss the rarest of Rhine wines and began to decant the contents Into n minute glass sniffing the savor of the Juice and taking great pains to Indicate that a treat was coming com-ing A tray with some large glasses was at hand JChe politician reached for one and grasping the precious bottle by the neck dumped half the contents into It and drank It all at one gulp Mr Tlldon eyed him malevolently malevo-lently and did not try lo prolong time visit When the door closed behind the guesthe said with 0 snap Dn him The next time he comes Ill glvo him beerNew York World A Lapland Clock Perhaps It Is not realized by many persons that In the higher latitudes clocks become more and more a convenience con-venience If they are not n prime necessity ne-cessity to the housekeeper When the sun Is above the horizon for weeks together to-gether there Is little difference to be noted between day and night An Eng lish traveler describes n clock he met with in Lapland An ordinary solid clock docs not take the Laplanders eye He likes something some-thing flimsy and if possible something some-thing novel At one place hung on n peg driven Into the logs of the wall we wore condemned to gaze hourly upon the exasperating device of a dentrlfice advertisement ad-vertisement connected with a clock In this a smiling young person drew a toothbrush briskly across a beautiful beau-tiful set of cardboard teeth between every tick I was much wishful for sleep and forgetfulness but neither would come Hour after hour I was condemned to lie awake and stare at the toothbrush clock and to read the legend printed In my native tongue that It was made In rirtrmnnv and that the dontrlllce was put up In neat packets price sixpence six-pence or one shilling and that It could be had of any chcmlstrwith the least presumption to call himself respectable re-spectable I argued nt the time that the clock had drifted far from the landto which the Ingenious advertiser had destined It seeing that the letterpress was English Eng-lish and that the Laplanders do not use tooth powder oven If they could have read about It Youths Companion Compan-ion His First Esecutivo Session Senator Mason has wrItten an arlicle about Tho Farce of Execulivo Sessions Ses-sions After telling of his awe of executive ex-ecutive sessions when he was a Representative Repre-sentative he describes his first closed session after he became a Senator A Senator from New England arose and solemnly and earnestly moved that we go Into executive session Tim bells all over the Senate end of the Capitol rang and made music to my cars The chief page clapped his hands three times and the pages all rushed from our sacred presence Amid tile ringing of bells and rushIng of feet the people wore all moved out the doors were closed and we were alone Thereupon the Senator who had moved the executive session struck a match In the usual wcy and lit a cigar audibly informing his neighbor that It was the only one he had Ho then moved that John Smith be confirmed In hit 5700 postofllce in Podunk The Vlcc President of the United States said Without objection it is so ordered A motion to 4acVourn was carried In one moment my dream was broken New York World it Victor Hugo I P 1 1 On the whole it may as well be admitted ad-mitted that the Verdict of the critics upon Hugos writings Is Just says George McLean Harper In the February Atlantic It might perhaps here and there be a little more generous But we must remember that SalnteBeuve and Nlsard land Lemaltre at least began by being ardent admirers of Hugo If they lost their enthusiasm and freed themselves from his magic we may be HCVQ them when they tell us that the process was nvoluntary and painful They could np Iqngor constrain their better Judgment And their Judgment wllhatand More nnd more ns education brings the nines up to a level where current literature bpcomes one of their interests popularity and tame will have to be carefully distinguished They rest on quite different bases There is no longer any ground for the assumptlpn that What the reading public enjoys will be approved by persons who know most or have theinost refined taste In Victor l tlugos case there la at present every J ndlcatlon that what literary history will say a hundred years hence will be flomctllng like this He was Immensely popular in his day and long afterwards Although he was n character and an ii nlclllgcncc of secondary order he was popularly accepted as a leader of opinion and feeling In the nineteenth century But posterity hearkened not ao much lo the popular voice as lo the great French critics of his time and they found him wanting1 in many qualities which the larger public bought he possessed In compensation the critics appreciated and posterlly appreclales more than lie general pub lic l of his day over did Hugos wonder ful mastery of Iho French language Hugos energy and versatility Hugos exuberant Imagination Bananas by the Million How largely the toothsome banana and the festive cocoanut enter Into the dietary of the American people may be Judged by the fact that the United Fruit company alone during lie post year distributed In the United Stales and Canada approximately no leas than 17500000 bunches of bananas and 13500000 cocoanuts in nddlllon lo other tropical fruits Sixty oceangoing steamers were engaged exclusively in the banana trade Estimating not over 100 good bananas to a bunch these figures show an average ave-rage consumption of more than twenty bananas each for every man woman and child In the United States and a few millions extra for good boys and girls But an attempt to divide up the cocoanuts per capita will probably get us into trouble for while the bulk IB enormous It means only one cocoanut cocoa-nut to every halfdozen persona enough for all perhaps If the division were made on strictly equitable prin clples Leslies Weekly |