Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-01-11 | Page 26 | Contemporary Thought

CUNTEMFflRY r THHUB I i I ff wwwwswww i 44 I 4 A Prophecy About Battleships good indication t In the matter of explosives a dication of what may be expected Inothe future are the thunderbolts as the t Spaniards allied them hurled by the Vesuvius against the Cuban fortifications I i fortifica-tions So far no great range la possible I possi-ble In discharging projectiles of this class The problem of giving a sufil j J clontly strong Impact to Insure long 1 flight without exploding the material b with which the shell Is loaded has no U II 1 been perfectly met But progress alo ji j that line Is rapid and in the next w wo may be reasonably certain that hr d1 1 explosives will be thrown from powerful j ii power-ful guns at long range Various su h gestions have been made that noxlou q gestons d j gases may be used In lie future Co some forms of shells Humanity will probably not admit of the employment ci t of such forms of offensive warfare hu f I I certainly believe that some form of 1 gas which produces Insensibility will be 1 t i developed a the airship comes into use I li t and perhnps before Js electric influences 1L 1 have no doubt that soon clectrc 1 L fluences will be projected and the 1 metal work of nn enemys guns may be able to transmit shocks to those serving I1 serv-ing them The most important factor ri 1 we have at present to Influence the future r i fu-ture navy is Iht submarine boat I is V a peculiarity of this new addition to our U lighting force that Its influences will j m be outside itself But that I mean that l so far as the submarine bOlt is concerned f con-cerned it Is at the i very outset a practically prac-tically perfect craft Such changes ask as-k i will be brought about by its enrollment in the navy will He in the conditions to L which it Is opposed Lewis Nixon inn in-n Il VI 1 i11 f t U f I I Ho Made n Mistake I II I 1 The man who was soliciting for a 0 I J lt I r I charitable institution argued long and j I earnestly lie wanted a contribution of I I I 5100 Finally the merchant reached for his died book v I I I The Lord loveth a cheerful giver q 1 quoted the solicitor with cheerful satisfaction I satis-faction facton t i I J Does he asked the merchant hesitatingly I i 1 hesi-tatingly S f I F I I Youll find It In the Bible asserted I I the solicitor ii 11 The merchant put back his cheek I I J book t I I was about to give you S100 he I II I explained but I couldnt possibly do yI I that cheerfully Doubtless It would be f tl II I more pleasing in the eyes of the Lord t l i l It I kept down to a point where I can be pheerful j C I I II Thereupon he handed a J5 bill to the k m solicitor and smilled pleasantly Chicago j I Iii l I I I Chi-cago Post II i Ij Ii American Chivalry I l j r t J 1 C I We were not so overly far from Cheyenne t I I Chey-enne when the Russian going down to ir II the Overland limlteds barber shop with ei I t l I Trio fni Vile ciluiinnnn uul hill Paid n n f i Your a American women make me m think so much of those of my own country coun-try They are so Independent so well j able to take care themselves Our Japanese cannot recover yet from the I shock of knowing that two ladies may i l safely Journey from your Lake Michigan 1 ii Michi-gan California without some relative 0 j to care for them In his country all I women are dependent sheltered until Iu they are helpless J fin America said I the women i l I come first No nation not even your own does her so much honor as ours I The first the highest the truest ambition I ambi-tion of every American of honor is tot to-t t i care fO his women his mother his l sweetheart his wife or his sister No I I j I corporations understand this better than the railways They have studied jii I this phase of American travel 1 so closely ii close-ly that a woman may journey where I she will alone and have the entire 1 I protection of the railroad thrown about her From engineer to president of the road she may feel although she is ant t an-t m utter stranger to them that they will I 1 care for her legitimate needs and accord I ac-cord her the courtesy due her sex I I i matters little whether she Is in these I t luxurious compartment cars In the I t comfortable tourist sleepers In the easy I I chair coaches or the day coach of any train she can travel where she will unmolested II 1 Cleveland in National Na-tional Magazine I Ii I Cinderella on Skates I In a worn satin hood and a shabby old 31c cloak And 1 dress that had long been outgrown out-grown i 4 ai Apart from the girls In their feathers and L furs i t She quietly skated alone 1 They laughed at the quaint little figure 4 t she made J And passed her with Klanccs of scorn I Till nhc dartud away like a swallow Mint lc n m cleuvcs Ii The infinite blue of the morn 1 AB swift as an arrow she gracefully sped I j Oer the aniooth shining hour of tho 1 lake Leaving crosses and stars and the Ins of her name I On the glittering Ice In her wake i t Tho scant woolen skirt In its shortness I revealed I The trimmest of fairyllkc feet L And the furbordered hood WUK a frame for her face r That was as pink as a rose and as sweet iI The lads as thoy looked left the circle of p glrlsi iTo b i-To follow the faded blue hood 1 And the talc t came forward to walk with t her home Through thy shadows and snow of time t wood 1J Hewedded the lass and In cables and t silks She rides in her carriage today But alio tenderly treasures a hluo quilted hood Iulcd t J Viili a motheaten border of Kray 4 j Minna Irving In Nov York Nuws 4 jH p 7 Good Resolutions I should be understood that good resolutions are usually If not Invariably I Invaria-bly against bad habits none of which we will specify lest our readers accuse I Ii us of being personal and having one i or other of them In mind I IB the nature fi na-ture of good resolutions to require the penitent to be constantly his constunly on guard I and while one may readily remember t do a line thing or a noble thing when I the chance otter or the duty thrusts Itself upon one in that offensive way of duties one Is always forgetting not to do the shabby or low or disgusting 4 I 01 wicked thing that one vowed ones slf to forbear and It Is there that one I hits gravel as the old moralists Bay We note the facts not with the expectation expecta-tion that the reader will be insturilly and fully able to profit by them but partly for the psychological 1 pleasure hi that their recognition gives and partly i In the of ii hope suggesting dimly remotely re-motely a way out of the vicious circle In which the reason eddies round and i I lund I Is apparent at this glad 1 i hour of the Infant year that we ought to form good resolutions and not put it oft till the Fourth of July or next i1t 1 Chrlstmo Yet I 10 Just as apparent L that If we resolve not to do this or that ve shall HolY surely do it because we forgot not to On the other hand It I is again Just as apparent that If we resolve to do this or that good thing rsoIc 10 I we shall now and then do it because the opportunity offers or insists The godd resolution ought therefore to be godl resoluton ought positive and not negative In its terms I This seems to us the solution and we commend It to bur readers For our Ivcs as we have already hinted we o not feel the need of so sharp u spur Harper Weekly Make Way for the Man et us have no peace no cravens peace Nor sluggards to snpu and dream But the Ktcmious peace of tho lands i Increase And the powerful bent of steam Let the cannon of commerce roar over thb Molds And the bugles of brotherhood play For the I arm of the man and the brain of time man And the gilt of the man make way I Lit us have peace no timid peace That doubtful clings to Its place But the free brave peace of the oldtime I Grpoco I And the faith of a patriot race Let the vision of virtue enrapture the gaze And the bolts of Integrity stay For the arm of the man and the brain of the man And the nervo of the man make way Let us have peace no anchored peace That holds its s < iils in the slips Cut the peace that sweeps all the strange blue ileopj With the I keels of Us own great ships n iui iionor commanding ana triun at the helm And beauty to welcome the spray For Limo nerve and muscle and brawn and brain For the soul of the man make way Charles Eugene Banks In Saturday Evening Post Tho Point of View My word Fltznoodle said a Vat office clerk to a colleague who sat at the next desk just look at that workman work-man on the roof of that building over the way Whats the I mater with him 7 inquired in-quired Filz glancing through the window I I win-dow at the individual indicated Matter retorted the other why Ive been watching the lazy beggar for the last twentyJive minutes and he hasnt done a stroke of work in all that time Al the precise moment at which the nbtfvc conversation occurred a British worklngman was addressing his mateS mate-S Clll he remarked In a tone of deep disgust dye see that ere loafin War oflls clerk in that room darn there Shclp me IC III nlnt been a vatchln Mm for nigh on art a hovver an the bloomers done nol hin but stare hout a th window the ole blessed tyine Thats the sort of chap ns we pys taxes ter keep London Express The Sailors Song Oh the l winds to the west and the sails arc tilling free nnllJ sals Take your head from my breast you must say goodby to me Youd my heart In both your hands but you did not hold It fast 3t And the mill cannot grind with the water that Is past 0 I r must away and its you must bide at borne I I I am sped like the spray I am fickle as the foam I was sweet my dear twas sweet but twas all too sweet to Inst For the mill cannot grind with the water that Is past Wo have clasped we have kissed but you would not give me more I must win what wo missed on some other farther shore7 You can never hold the gray gull that swings about the mast And the mil cannot grind with the water that Is past You will mourn you will mate but twill never be with me I i am off to my fate and It lies across the sea For its God alone that l knows where my anchor will he cast i And the mill allot grind with the water that is past Josephine Douge Dasknm in January I Scrlbnurs The Good Old Times So my parents set up their simple housekeeping and passed I have no doubt their happiest days days as happy very likely as any of their chi dren or numerous grandchildren or glcatrnn < chidren have enjoyed in i the stress of I more complex civilisa tion She sang at her work his ax resounded re-sounded in the forest lie made a clearing clear-ing and planted corn and beans cear tatoes among the stumps Their first child was born in that hut The clear lug grew and before bug a larger wellbuilt house replaced the primitive cabin This more substantial house had onofJtiTgii room on he I ground floor about twenty feet sciuani a lowroofed chamber to which access was had by a ladder and In the course of lime a Hnter leanto addition lme ln ter was framed but the main part was built of logs These were hewed on the inside and the cracks between them fled with a plaster made of clay The filling was liable to crack and It was necessary to patch the broken places every fall This Was called chinking up the house and It made n happy time for the older children I had not yet appeared on the scene there being always some of the moist clay left over which they could use in making cups and saucers for their playhouses and other ornaments The floor was of dressed chestnut planks the beautiful grain of which was kept scrupulously clean and smoothly polIshed pol-ished At one end of the room was a huge alone fireplace with great iron andIrons and Iron shovel and tongs in the corners In the hinter were the spare bed with its white counterpane a tall brasshandled bureau and our fathers large oaken cheat With Us I complicated tills always a marvel to the younger children who would run ant peep wonderingly whenever he went 1 to i open itJ T Trowbrldge in the Atlantic ALlntcHer Her Blind Side The Wichita Eagle tells a little story Illustrative I or time vanity of women Recently Re-cently Miss Tirabello Crawford the soprano so-prano gave t concert at Wichita For I come reason she wanted the stare lishta turned low white she was singing Now I lie manager had decorated the stage for the occasion and he was anxious to have plenty of light in order to reveal its beauties to the audience But Miss Crawford waff obstinate and utterly 163 re fused to permit a high Illumination Well said the manager diplomatically diplo-matically Nordlca allowed UH to turn the lights on full blast ant us far as personal appearance goes everybody < win uKnowieugo that minim iK uCU to > OU i < < UiulUa lUullUI L Vcil LUili nciii on hum imas Crawiotu J u L y to btaiia ttiiiaa5 LILY Journal Navajos as cjiiversmuhs Next to the jugs tao faiivtr indUstrY tatunus conspicuous but while tnu women lu JiiouL uses do hue weaving the silversmith is always a man All of hIs tools arc of time most primitive liort but under his skilled fingers rings bracelets bolt buckles buttons trappings I trap-pings for bridles and saddles and necklaces neck-laces with wonderful silver pendants erIul slver Jendunls and fuchsialike ilowcrfl burst Into really radiant bloom Many of the designs de-signs are artistic in heextreme Turquoise Tur-quoise and silver Is a favorite and happy combination the beautiful blue of the gem showing most effectively against the rich warm bronze of tlc skin Much of the turquoise Is found among the old mounds lef by the prehistoric pre-historic peoples of which there are a great number on the reservation Nearly all the smaller pieces of Jewelry the rings and buttons which they use for fastening coats and moccasins mocca-sins are almost Invariably made from dimes or quarters Fiftycent pieces and Mexican or United States dollars serve as the foundation for belt buckles necklaces and the larger pieces of silver ormmnineitta tonI ton-I these people can be tided over the coming winter then assisted by the Government to provide D proper storqge for conserving all the precious water that now goes to waste even in the most Infrequent rains It Is safe to predict for them I prosperous future independent Inde-pendent yet willingly subordinate to the white mans authority Brooklyn Eagle > Appreciated Himself A little boy while playing near the Serpentine last Christmas day fell Into the water An Irish laborer who was passing at the time courageously Jumped Into the water clothes and all and rescued the boy boyA A lady who had observed the brave deed went up to Pat and shaking his hand said I feel it an honor my brave man to shake hands with 1 you many 0 worse man than you have been presented at I court courtFaith Faith jourc roight mum replied Pat as he proceeded to wring the water out of his coat Th last tolme 01 was prcslntcd at court 01 only got one month wholle me mate got two be gorraSpare Moments Strauss is a Conundrum For two years past the orchestral compositions of Richard Strauss have been the exciting features of the leading lead-ing I orchestral concerts in this country They have fairly set the musical cognoscenti of the United States by the cars The strenuous German artist is yet a young man and what he may achieve in an uncertain future is a fruitful subject for critical speculation What he has alrendv dOle is to stir un the musical world as It has not been stirred since Richard Wagner proclaimed pro-claimed his regenerative theories of the muslcnl drama Strauss has turned the technie of orchestral composition topsy turvy and has made orchestras sing new song lie has in certain ways discredited dis-credited Beethoven and the prophets and has shrunk the orchestral wonders of Berlioz and Wagner to the dimensions dimen-sions of a Sunday afternoon band concert con-cert lie has caused the critical heathen to rage and the longhaired people to Imagine vain things In fine the simple question now frankly dlbcussed in the sacred circles of the Inner brotherhood Is Just this Is Richard Strauss a heavenborn genius or is he merely crazy I W J Henderson In the Atlantic At-lantic White Residents in Indian Territory One thing remains to be considered the condition of the while residents of the Territory These now number over COOOOO and arc increasing every day There IS no evidence that the condition qf these people is of particular concern to Congress although their situation Is worse than that of the inhabitants of Porto Rico or the Philippines I 1 have already mentioned the palsied business situation Of this the worst may be be lieved Nearly all the actual progress is directly due to the presence of the whites There is no way of getting them out of the country and nobody except m a few reactionary fullbloods wants them to go They are needed Yet their own Government lo which they must look for relief persists In regarding re-garding them as unwelcome Interlopers ahd turns a deaf ear to their entreaties There are today In the Territory 90000 white children of school age growing up without even rudimentary educational I education-al 1 iiflvfinlnf Thlc fnlr nf fiolc Iii continue 1 until Congress Is nf aroused from I Us singular apathy and grants some form of government to the Territory The while children cannot attend the Indian schools and other schools cannot be created In the absence of any government gov-ernment empowered to levy taxes for school purposes Children of residents of the towns attend schools which their parents have built and which are maintained main-tained by private subscription but scattered scat-tered l farming communities cannot formlng communites cannot secure se-cure even this form of relief Some attend at-tend school established by missionary societies for the enlightenment of the Indian now turned aside to become missionaries to the Indians more Ignorant Igno-rant m white cousin Every day grown white men and women appear In the courts who can neither read nor write White residents of the Territory who are In the third generation of illiteracy arc common enough but you will not find many such Indians Congress cannot can-not plead ignorance i of this appalling tate of affairs Thomas F Mlllard In the Forum Stolen Watches Not Pawned in Paris Of watches alone there are received here and at the twenty two branch offices of-fices from n thousand to twehc hundred hun-dred a day about three hundred and fifty thousand In a year the average loan on a t watch being 10 or 10 francs The ofllcial assured me that In this I great number of watches scarcely one I in a thousand has been stolen a thousand Itolcn time fact being that people who have come dishonesty dis-honesty by witches or other property fight shy of the montdeplele The reason o this was presently made plain as we watched the formalities of record all I realized how difficult It would be for anyone to do business here under I a concealed Identity Every client receiving re-ceiving t loan srrealcr t than l 15 francs must produce some ofllcial document an Insurance policy a clllscns voting curd a permit to carry arms or a rent receipt bearing his signature and throw ing1 light upon his station In life For loans under lf > franca I he client Ja simply sim-ply required to show an envelope sent through the malls to his address All these facts wllh various others are duly Inscribed upon huge recordsheets so that whocvet deals with the montdc piete exposes himself to a scrutiny that must be ungrateful to folks of shady antecedents Indeed certain persons make this a grievance against the mont depiete and declare the Paris system an impertinent intrusion upon a clients privacy which would seem a point badly bad-ly I taken If the client Is an honest man Cleveland Moftctt on Paris Pawnshops In the January Century The Trail of the Skirt With apologia lo Tom Hood Skirt skirt Bklrt Mode of woman attire In i she walks with footsteps trite Picking up dust and inlro Sweep sccp sweep Through tilth and food and dIrt I needs must be tis Fashions decree So she trails time trail of the skirt Oh Englands sisters dear Oh England mothers and wives C Is i not your dresses youre wearing out But human creatures lives Ocrm perm jjrnn Juries In that murky dirt xou carry today wttn a double tread A shroud no well as 1 skirl Trail trail trail t The labor you never Hhlrk Through filthy Hood and slush and mud Doing but scavengers work Trail trail trail t Giither microbe as doctors assert Pit style with stealth gainst comfort and health This Is the sons of the skirt Westminster Gazette The Hunters Servant A hunters servant while out on the chase lay down in a quiet nook watching watch-ing for the game to pass by A rabbit soon passed but he did not arise because be-cause he said he was then looking for deer I Presently a deer passed but by this time he was looking for pheasants and so did not move lie next saw ducks quail pigeons squirrels and other oth-er game but he did not attempt to get any of them because they were not what he was looking for at the time He was waiting for an opportunity lie said But everything passed except what he was looking for or else passed n tal me when he was looking for something else His master finally came and reproached him for his Inaction saying that one will never get an opportunity oppor-tunity exactly to his liking but should learn to take what came along and make the most of It Austin Bierbower In St Nicholas Womans Eights and Privileges After all that has been done for American Amer-ican women by legislators and educators edu-cators anti college builders and reformers reform-ers it still remains true that the most valuable possession a normal woman CU acquire Is a suitable and satisfactory satisfac-tory man Nothing else is quite so serviceable ser-viceable In promoting the fulfilment of her destiny and her content while it is In lht process of fulfilment Nothing else If she Is normal she normaland there are very few women who are not considerably normal quite takes a mans place with her One of her most valuable privileges privi-leges Is that o selecting her man of picking and choosing and taking her lime about It and possibly even of changing her mind after she had he unto un-to think she knew it I is observed that woilicn who are good and have the luck to he charming also have great I advantages in currying this important I process or selection to a successful Issue Is-sue More men are available for such girls to choose from and once the choice is made the resulting contentment is more apt to endure and to ax Instead of diminishing The most that legislatures legisla-tures can do for marred women is to protect them from bad husbands I Choosing good ones is a inattor of personal per-sonal enterprise which laws can do little to promote But of course a woman who has few rights and is in complete possession of n satisfactory and competent compe-tent husband Is better off than If she hal more rights and no satisfactory means of realizing her destiny I the American girl ever has to choose between be-tween her rights and her Including In-cluding the privilege of being charming and this invaluable privilege of selectIng select-Ing a man that suits her she will undoubtedly un-doubtedly do well as Miss Duskarn advises ad-vises to hold on to her privileges and let her rights go Bjt she will hardly have to make such a choice She will retain her privileges anyway and all the rights she can make up her mind to wan besides Harpers Weekly Kipling on the Germans rime London Times publishes the following fol-lowing poem by Uudyard Kipling called The llowers rime banked oars fell an hundred strong And backed and threshed and ground 13m bitter was the rowers song As they brought the war bout round They had no heart for the rally arid roar That makes the whalebaclc smoke When time great blades cleave and holland holl-and leave As one on the racing stroke They annf What reckoning do ye keep And steer her by what star I we ole unscathed from the Southern deep To be wrecked on a Baltic bar f Last night ye swore our voyage was done oage But seaward sllll we go And ye tell us now of a secret vow Ye have made with an open foe That we must lie off a lightlcsu coast And haul amid buck and veer At the will of the breed that have wronged us most For a year and I year and a year There was never a shame In Chrlalcndle They laid nol to our door And ye say we muat takedie Winter sea And sail with them onco more Look south the gale Is scarco ocrpast That stripped and laid us down When we stood forth but they stood fast And prayed 1 to ceo us drown The dead they mocked are scarcely cold Our wounds are blooding yet And yc tell us now that our strength Is sold ro help them press for a debt I Neath all time flags of all mankind That iiwii ujion the seas I Was tlinn no other fleet to find That yo istrlko hands with these 01 evIl limes that men could chooao On evil Late to fall What brooding judgment let yc loose To pick the worst of all In sight of peace from the narrow seas Oer halt the world to run With a cheated crow to league anew With the Goth and the shameless Hun A Desperate Condition Street CleaninG Commissioner Paul Iglehart came back to the city hall this week from a gunning1 trip In Anne Arundel county and brought with him t fcupply of new slorius told In the historic his-toric old South River club The one that particularly took Mr Igleharts fancy was that t of the Irish servant girl who one day I uskod her mls less what was the meaning I of the I word klbineL After thinking1 a little while the mistress said Why Bridget It Is another name for fate A day or so afterward the mistress J discovered Bridget hobbling down the I otalrs evidently In great pain and walk lug very lame Why what on earth is the matter with you she asked Oh sure maam was the reply Ive got bunions on my InetBnl tiniore Sun The Universal Apple The latest estimate places the total number of apple trees of bearing age In the United States at something over 200000000 This In nearly three trees to every person These trees yield more than 175000000 bushels Not all these apples are consumed at homo for In years of full crop more than n000000 bushels go abroad Yet the apples kept at home are more than two bushels for every adult and child We are a Na tion of appleeaters This fact may nol be to Pam credit however when we remember thai a good part of all these apples are Ben Davis iirid other kinds that a refined and cultivated taste would not choose for Its dessert Yet probably half our people never raise an apple and of the half who do raise them hut 0 small percentage grows for market and of those who grow for market only a part mnke a profit from the business Yet there Is money In apple ica growing Country Life in Amer Chinese Dreams of Revenge The Empress Dowager never forgets for-gets This is her constant boast She is still possessed with the one idea l of obtaining revenge on the barbarians of the West Hence we are now informed from a reliable quarter that l she is hay lug her Manchus secretly enrolled and has 20000 men divided Into a number of regiments and half regiments avoid the tiollce of outsiders who are assiduously assid-uously drilled and have been armed with the most modern weapons North China News ShanghaI Kitty of Colerainc As beautiful plnjr Kitty one morning was trIp With of n Colcralnc pitcher of milk from the nil When she saw me she stumbled the pitcher It tumbled And all the sweet buttermilk watered the plain butterllc 0 what shall I do now twas looking loo1dng at you now Sure sure such a pitcher Ill neer meet aiati 1 I Turns the prtilo of my dairy 0 Barnuy McClenrv Youre scat as a plague to the girls of Colcralnc I sn1 down beside her and gently did chide her le 1 genl ll That such a misfortune should give her ouch nnltu Jl A kiss I then gave her and ere I did leave her dil She vowed for such pleasure shed break It again Twas haymaking seasonI cant tell the reason Misfortunes will never como singly tis plain core ts For vory soon after poor Kittys disaster Kitys TJo devil a pitcher was whole In Cole ralne Charles Dnwson Shanly Shonl Tn L mississippi flowed North The Rhine is less than 900 miles long and the Danube less than 2000 The length of the longest river In India is 2300 miles and the longest In Asia Is Pn20 The Nile Is 10G2 It affords however how-ever only 7HO miles of continuous nav igation from Its mouth You may take a steamboat from the mouth of the Mississippi and pass up MOO miles from mlcs the Gulfas far as from New York across the Atlantic lo the strait of Gib raltar across the Mediterranean and the Aegean sea to Asia Minor and up rnor the Dar aneles to Constantinople and then you will have to disembark and walk 100 miles if you wish to equal nnl distance that would have to be traveled lo reach the head waters of the river What if this Father of Waters like ot the Nile had flowed north instead lee south and like the Red River of the North had emptied into the Arctic ocean instead of the Gulf Commer daily speaking It would have cut oft this great river system from the world would have mate the Isthmian canal useless to thc Mississippi valley and would have spread annual devastation throughout its course because the floods of spring from the southern por tion of the river would have poured down upon the northern while the lat tel was still Icebound Tilting the basin 01 the Mississippi only a few hundred feet would have made all this vast dif al ltis at ference Josiah Strong In Success Tom Reeds Dog There was one loyal and devoted member of the late Tom Reeds fam ily to whom the death of his masler would have come as a great grief If his own had not forestalled It This was Dash the dog for many years thc fam ily pet and well known to all the family j frlemmdswimo s who never failed to inquire for nun uno GObs death wan In the na ture of a tragedy I was not an event to reach the newspapers but Mr Reed told the story to an old Maine friend who visiting Portland this summer made the usual inquiries for the dog Poor Dash had Ion so old that his year did not sit easily upon him His nerves were senslive sensitve everything Irri 1111 eVCythlnE tated him and he was cross and snap pish The family finally decided that the situation was unbearable and Dash was punished If such anc I a thing had hap pened to him before It was so long ago In his puppy days that Dash had for gotten it Mr Reed always Insisted that his heart was literally broken by the humiliation for Dash never raised his head again and died Ihc net day Since his death Dash has held as high a place in the family memory as he had Times before held in Its affections New York Retort to Theater Talker They hat been reading a Rolfe annotated an-notated edition of the play and there waR nothing in Julius Caesar lhat they were not perfectly familiar with Before the performance was half through there was nothIng that they I knew which everybody within half a dozen rows did not hell about for among the three of thema man and two women there were such capacities for superfluous conversation as are met with nowhere exciopl in a theater In tones that alternalely hissed and brayed andvrasped till spinal columns I all around tHem ached they told one another lhat Antony was much better clone than Brutus that Portia would come on In a minute In the garden scene that Casca was supposed to he a gruff old Roman that Caesar actual did have fits think of I that it was a pity this In a whisper that shivered far down the aisle and splintered at least a score of vertebrae Roman latHes la-tHes didnt weal corsets So on ad nauseam nau-seam I At last tho ghost and the distraught Brahms met antI there was a thrilled silence si-lence in all the crowded house save row Q where a strident voice complained lT cant hear a word the ghost says Why doesnt he speak louder A man behind the querulous disturber disturb-er quite beside himself with rage leaned forward and said In tones as courteously sweet as the sting of a honey hon-ey bee Perhaps the ghost Is a gentleman and does not like to annoy people Which of course was very rude though U did fill many hearts with an unholy press joy New York Mall and Ex i The Man Who Tried to Please Onco on a time thero was 1 man who novel made mistakes I Ana all the people stared irt him and aid For pity saints I I must bo very nice to find ones life a Krund sweet soiirc To bu su very proper that you never cun KO wronji But soon he grew so lonely that ho lee not what to do For conversation always ceased when Ill cume Into view Ills moHl surpasdlnr qualities each prnlncd with till hln boarl But each seemed quit relieved when he was ready to depart So ho bought himself a parrot the project caused him pain And studiously set to work and learned a word profane And still he for the Ant sti wasnt happy gosslns raised a fuss And naUl Aint hi deceitful I Why hos human JUt like us Washington Star Ho Was Hot Offended I Natures gentlemen still are found In Kansas despite the refinements of luxury lux-ury that big crops have brought On the Rock Island railway recently neat Marion according to thc Record o that town two well dressed ardent lovers evidently a newly married couple amused the other passengers wllh their cooing After a while the fair young bride leaned back In her chair and iXH aalecp Her companion took advantage of the lull In affectionate demonstrations demonstra-tions and went Into the smoker to enjoy a cigar While he was gone i long lean lank grizzly specimen of humanity human-ity came In and sat down In the vacant chair beside the sleeping beauty Presently Pres-ently the young woman half asleep turned and laid her head lovingly on the shoulder of the stranger and put her plump arm uiound his neck The green gawky stranger seemed a Irlfle surprised al this unexpected familiarity familiar-ity but madu no desperate effort to escape lie merely looked around at the convulsed passengers and grinned Then the hilarity awoke the young woman and opening her large blue eyes she saw her mistake With flushed cheeks she stammered an apology apol-ogy You neednt pologlze to me drawled the stranger I dont keer They All Look Alike Tlie women of society In New York are not distinctive according to a member mem-ber of the sex who has traveled much I does beat all she said how New York audiences baffle me Business and pleasure take me twice a year to anc the leading cities of the country I always go to the theaters A glance at the boxes reveals the social status of the occupants An Indefinable something proclaims persons of importance But In New York I can iever tell who Is who The women may be serial lad ers Intellectual giants reformers or chorus girls All are dressed equally well or conspicuous The faces in repose re-pose tell the same story the struggle to keep up with the procession struggIe the men identification l is no less difficult diffi-cult Millionaire counterJumper chef or bookma eral put on a brave front shuffle and shift places in the spectacular x Worlds Tank Drama Max Mordau ushers in the glad New Year with a prophecy that the construction con-struction of the Panama canal will transfer lthe tragic stage of the worlds history from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean In this magnificent playhouse lie Is going to bring out a thrilling tragedy a superb specimen thrl1ng sup pose of the tank drama In which all the nations of the world will contend wi for the mastery The first act which will be played in the tank will witness the expulsion of the French and German Ger-man flags by the AngloSaxon element ele-ment The second enacted upon the coast of Asia will consist of a tremen dous struggle between the Aimglo Sax ons and the Russians and the curtain will fall upon a grandscene of carnage and universal devastation which one can Imagine only with horror Mr Nor au has thus quite outdone our compatriot Mr Brooks Adams who It will be remembered has followed the metallic threads that run through all history and finds that they become fearfully tangled up somewhere about longitude 120 cast latitude fC for fortyorfight The former has pro duced a tragedy in which trged nil the ocean Is a stage and men of different races are the players the latter prefers to guide the actors by metallic threads and his drama can hardly l possess aB much human interest as that of his rival ri-val If there is bound to hr > 1 rvmfrt for the mastery of the Pacific we n arc inclined to think that It will be confined lo Messrs Adams and Nordau New York Evening Post Child Life Sixty Years Ago In the Editors Study of Harpers for January Mr Alden tells of the life of the boys and girls of New England sixty six-ty years ago The editors early boyhood was passed in one such district in the mountains moun-tains of Vermont near the source of the Otter creek The children of a feu families living far apart went to school during the summer months through woods where bear were sometimes captured cap-tured The schoolhouse was built of logs yet it was there that wo had our first glimpse of a celestial globe and wo vividly recall thc mysterious fascination fasci-nation of Mis quaintly figured constellations constel-lations Already the Bible latons Bilie the only book excepting Watts Hymns In the home also a log house had been read especially such portions of it as were of dramatic or poetic Interest and had had Its I wonderful way with the boys Imagination mingling naturally with the wild mountain scenery Now arid then a honeytree was found and it le semed to us that It was In just such t wilderness that John the I3apl 1st fed on locusts and wild honey lime stream a mile or two distant where sometimes the rile of baptism was performed was easily translated into the sacred Jordan Jor-dan The fear of beans gavo new zest to the story of tho prophet Ellsha and the railing children The Typhoid Germ and the Lemon The alleged discovery of Dr Asa Ferguson Fer-guson of London that lemon Juice destroys de-stroys typhoid germs in drinking water Is now ascertained to be new only In respect to an attempt to apply a well known bacteriological fact to time bactellologlcal supposed sup-posed needs of the public From a sensational sen-sational point of view the Iden being a talcllb one has quite naturally commanded com-manded wide popular attention The only wonder is that some practical 1 use has not been made of time Ideal long ago The explanation of the fact how over Is that lemon juice cannot always be trusted as an absolute destroyer of j I the virulent microorganism The only j I safe way to kill time I kl thl pathogenic by boiling which gertn 1 boilnG s mUch ton lhan lo easier to I ° lrlnk ii crlnl const water r constantly 1 tet Lemonade ma nCldult 1 may bo n W ru lo In one sense but niedlclni in vcraK Boiled water Inslpll and lifeless cr In 1 can be lCEles a h Cfn tolcrsi ted inuh loi al I any mere f jnltlcatt drink er llaI It I must nol llu forgotten that forrotten there that arc numerous numelous otho of propagating fever than othtr uuzi fIOpatnS bv of drinking water The germs ilnd nitai way in US lhr II our mile exist at time raw vegetables lH5 Jim OU il and arc v cY mu t home In the infected mUch at r Inreete and oysler The lalel Is very nmuth utewaSefeii 1 I the ban at I nnlh under Ulltcr tie ircrent and lHc needs nnl nccds lo b watched Wllh caution watcher wHi due cauton Even tIi lemon cannot be relied lhl J he upon to fro tree ha bivalve from Its acViired blnl flom ncwlv Is aeqimiretl Usmr as the sorms are nequlct Is stomach j and cannot hI l reached by ever t n mi mUch sprinkling of Its I surface The 10 onhwn o ThE oh ua r to guard asalnst Infection n t1 glmt afaln tITfecton fromthe Vn IOUS sources Is by 1 cooking the voc tables stewing roaning or brolllne th oyster and boiling the at hlollnG lhe In spite of all these precautlona OCluth 11 dCnh still lurk may In the 3ll pot there Is ROln comfort In hoping c that there may uc i an escape Ihrough an inhcrilel Llough or ac qulrcil immunity New vork Herald nc I A Bookish People The last census makes us figure as c l the most bookish I people on the earth II France has the largest libYary eCrth it true 1bretY b i hut true lnt Germany produces thc moat new books but ar booliowncrr wcK he world The existing tock of hoofe In the world Is computed AH follows Tim the United States 700000000 ln Went cm Eurone lSOO000000 In eastern Pl r rone 1COOOOOOO In other countries 210 000 000 One can readily see therefor that the American people lend the worM t in the line of books It is computed s that Europe has in round numbers six v books lo the hood We In Amcrlcn ri with over 700000000 books carry over ii nine volumes to the head Of coursc 1 these figures were eomoiled before Mr Carnegie began to restock Annlea vltli books They perhaps may need correction Im cor-rection now It sometimes occurs that fi a country where every nan carries nlinj Im books in his head Is in some danger oj ii becoming topheavy But moat hooks 01 are not very heavy after aliBosto ti Herald UI The Old Story Tailed I thought Id be all right sobbed the young wife when I married a young man who had been rraiscd In an orphan asylum Of course a sympathetic female friend m was near Why whats wrong dear Inquired a the visitor pleased at scenting domestic domes-tic discord liehe ii The bride of a few short months sobbed nfresh It lie I old me that my pies were not as good ns the matron used to make 5t There Is no escape from these ceo nomlc problems old aa ercislence Ncvr mu York News ni The Shriveling of the Earth In 1 lI ms SAlt tt Aicasureu us today is as great as in the days of the Pharaohs A hundred years ago It still 31 retained lhat formidable girth Today B measured by the hour glass the planet has shriveled Into a mere miniature of Y its former self Under the compressur of electricity steam and steel bridges a spectacle is presented ot practical time and space annihilation Seas have been dried up continents pushed togeth or and Islands wedded that this might be Nations once Isolated are now In earshot of one another and the markets mar-kets of all peoples line a single street American wheat fields are days not months away from British bake shopr French wines are hours not week removed from American dinner tables New York Is on the outskirts of London Lon-don and Paris not a block away Deep sea cables and land wires hem the buyers buy-ers and sellers of the world Into a vortex vor-tex of competition whose diameter is a minute and within whose circumference n circumfer-ence ia gathered all the products and all the purses of mankind Robert B Armstrong in National Sir Iii Vermonts One Dravrback Ucn A number of members gathered about 5y the seat of Representative Foster of 5yIt Vermont yesterday were discussing coM lire weather In the New England and other Co Northern States Mr Foster declared that Vermont has sleighing more weeks 1 in the year than any other State of mint Vlo Vic Ibis assertion re Union and to prove Lrn laled the following story Lthr Hank While a noted minstrel In IiU h nn time who piobably was time original Ehi end man was a native of Vermont EhiP One of his jokes used to run sonielhlns als like this chl So you come from Vermont tin Tun middle man would ask Yes I am proud to say I was bom and raised In the good old Slate of er mom Wiilte would answer by You make prctly good maple sugn up in Vermont Yes our maple sugar is the sweetest i sweet-est on earth Have some pretty good horses vi there too The Morgan horses bred In Verrnon ie are not excelled anywhere hi tuG world Inn Pretty girls eh by Vermont has the prettiest girls iii Xrim America cc Well Vermont must be pretty nwcn woimlil lAY Stein of a State the middleman In conclusion tIts t-Its the greatest State In the Un on Emm tue just ono wag Whiles answer There is O thing about It I dont like For abou when un six weeks In midsummer snow melts off we have lo drag arouna on wheels Washington Post bio Hypnotising the Indy Pea tlt by behind an Two men were walking at gnnlly dressed woman on Fulton street tho other day a Did you ever nee me hypnotize man asked one Nonsense the other sneered Bet you 2 I can make that wom eiIh both her ears befori ahead of us touch she has gone half a block a Do you know her No Never saw her before What would you do to her I ner Nothing but walk behind wont touch her What would you say to her Nothing not a word And youll make her put touching bOut nor l hanils to her ears without in or speaking to her Yes sir rain itll be worth 2 to sec you It Ill have to go you Ott torI In 3 lla Watch now Very well I the woman to hear for loud enough itO Svoi paid to his companion Chari uroni mlo do you like the new fashion tIme itili one oarrini only have of wearing d Instantly the woman clapPed to rears gloved hand and then the oilier 01 i 5t ears lo see if she had lost one tiy sparklers Tlr tin Altei said lime Itl work every mile bd i nor You can make good tSmb tui ting on it if you can ihid enough to take you up BrooK gte