Show i i k > V rfVti SZ It A DAYS READING FOR ALL HERE IS A FEAST C Th h t AND EACH ARTICLE < fS Contempoay Thought OF GOOD THINGS Y oug WELL WORTHY of PERUSAL J A lH J < I S r a > C hilI l I 1 n l Womens Ways in Fimmce I J S I I Several financiers and bankers were sealed hi the cafe of the Hotel Alms S 1 5 one evening during the past week and the conversation turned upon ppeiiliai i incidents in banking life I I One of them remarked A very comical occurrence took place In our bank I J I recently A lady who is t well known in the city as a businesslike Ill body i I carries an account with us which Vas recently overdrawn to the extent or about I S S150 We Gent her the usual notice that she hud overdrawn and asked her lo I S come down and settle up As 1 said she Is a business woman from the word I I I go and the next morning she appeared at the t bank and handed one of our I men n check for the amonut she had overdrawn I I Well Wheres thc point to that narrative asked one of the gonUcmcn I 1 after the banker had presumably ended his story I The point said the banker lies In the factv that the check in which shu I pioposod to pay her overdraft was drawn on our institution the very bank in I I which she had overdrawn her account S I A Another banker chimed in wilh You should 1 have seen the young lady whop I who-p II vicilcd our bank just boforo Christmas She had been given a chock for u snug l I amount by 1 her father as I Christmas gift She passed It to the paying teller II I t S who handed it back to her with the curt announcement Youll have toIn I lore this Why this Is a Christmas present from papa said the young lady I I I somewhat embarrassed Well write your name on the back responded the S teller The young woman went to one of the public desks wrote a few words on I I the back o the check returned and triumphantly handed the paper to the f What to Grace Christmas 1302 teller Vh she had written was Papa 1 I S II I Still Had the Pork The fortunes have been made Will I Piiyne tells readers of the March Century I Cen-tury in The Chicago Board of Trade not by men who entered the market I i i S with a preconceived theory as to its I I course which they attempted to make I lch tle tlemI mals I good through thick and thin hut rather I I by those who took things aa they came S i watching the drift shaping their way I from day to day like prudent merchants S S mer-chants according to the current i 1 This Is confusing to the novice for i the novice almost always comes in with a preconceived theory Some time ago I a young man with a large hope a mol I i eratu fortune and considerable social f I prestige was shown the enormous posS I pos-S sibilities in December pork I looked S I i absolutely convincing but he called j upon a great packer with whom he had 5 n personal acquaintance Yes the I i I packer thought very well of pork was i I I J buying it In fad Thus doubly assured I S I I sured the young man bought The S I market went his way and he bought S Ii more Then the market turned The i S f young man reviewed his convincing statistics remembered the words of the I packer and stood stubbornly upon his line When he was getting near to the I end of his margins he was horrified to learn that his friend the packer had shifted to the other side of the market 8 two weeks before He visited him recalled c re-called their conversation and explained S the situation The packer stared Do you mean youve been holding 2500 barrels S I bar-rels of pork all this time he demanded de-manded Yes said the p1an young manS man-S and I have It yet Now what can I do with it I dont know said the packer unless you can eat i i The Fussy tan I Habakkuk Smith he Is always ahurrylng Rushing and lashing nil over the place llltlier and thither youll find him usciir rying I Almost youd think he was running aS t S S I race i S I I never saw a man fuller of business i i ft I Something Important hes always begun 1 I Still though Ids speediness gives me a I 1 dizziness Ilnbakkuk never gets anything done I Hnbakkuk Smhli In some effort laborious I I Spends all the time lies not tucked In tuccll his bed No one who knows him however censorious I censori-ous Says ho has one Inzyhnlr in his head Yet though a task querns to b < fast diminishing II di-minishing S I Somehow or other still longer Its spun i I I I TIll It would take an eternity I 8HJ I Ilabakkuk never 1 j nlvcr gets anything done S Ilabakkuk Smith is a man of ability Lively whip and brisk and as smart as a Tnckks a thing with the utmost facility No one would think that heuvor would I I flip t I I But it Is funny with all his cekrlty wih al I S I If I fun you may call 1 such a tragic t timing I All of his energy all his dexterity I Plabakkuk never gets anything don I S Emperor Williams Homes j i The Prussian budget provides for the S construction of a new royal palace at S Posen This will bring the number of I ot S I I J the Kaisers residences up to fiftythree r S He has already the Chateaux of Belle Delr S I fl vue and Mon Bijou and the royal palace In Berlin the royal palacethe NewS New-S Palace Babelsbcrg SansSouci the Mnrblo palace the Orangery the Star Pavilion Belvedere Sncro Chariot tpnX hof Wn park Paons and Alexand rows ka In Potsdam and J neighborhood Potsran nu IU 1 morons shooting boxes I I hoolng throughout the I I I country and imperial residences at Hanover Stettin Breslau Coblenlz I II elsewhere Wiesbaden Konlgsberg Osnabruck and I l I Nino National Capitals How many readers could tell offhand the number of national capitals this countrys Congress has sat In and give the names Not many probably Well there have been nine of them Washington Wash-ington D C Baltimore any Annapolis In Maryland Trenton and Princeton In New Jersey Philadelphia Lancaster and York In Pennsylvania and New York City The first session of the Continental I Con-tinental Congress was held In Carpenters Carpen-ters hal Philadelphia September 5 1771 Thereafter the American Congress Con-gress was for a long time something like the Philippine Congress while the latter was dodging American later eodglng troops and for much the same reason FearIng Fear-Ing to remain In Philadelphia after the defeat on Long Island Congress went to Baltimore and voted George Washington Washing-ton dictatorial I power for six months Congress returned to Philadelphia two months later February 27 1777 Lancaster Lan-caster and York got their sessions after af-ter the defeat at Brandjwlne Congress again retreating Nine months the lawmakers law-makers remained In York the news of Burgoynes surrender was received there Then six months In New York and another term in Philadelphia Menaced Me-naced by unpaid troops Congress went oven to New Jersey Sessions were held in Pjlnceton college library Annapolis next where Gen Washington resigned his commission Trenton had 0 trial then with Henry Lee as President Here Lafayette took leave of his American Amer-ican allies National 1 Magazine Shall Lovers Tell In the Interests of antematrimonial honesty and prenublal frankness the German courts have given 1 a divorce to a woman who discovered only after marriage that her husband was bald Before the wedding lie nefariously concealed con-cealed his capillary lack by l wearing a wig wigThe I The possibility of that ruling invading an American court Is food for thought How far should sweethearts confide to one another a physical decrepitude Should the kneeling petitioner ask ing for his loved ones hand plead in tender accents Dearie my teeth were made In Syracuse or Darling the glitter of my eye will fade And should the coy and blushing maiden loath to confess but eager to be won confess Take me though I am not what I seem There are many details of makeup charming to the lovers biased gaze that lose their glory during the fourth quarter of the 1 honeymoon the removable remov-able Complexion the adjustable balmS balm-S the Jointed selfacting anatomy to say nothlngyOf the thousands any one ap purtenances which remain to the end mysteries to the masculine mind enc Should nil these enter into the matrimonial I matri-monial pioblem then Indeed a Daniol Times must come to judgment t Washington s Mistress March Youre a crabbed clone and crust v un j Mistress Alnrch I Vibrant Is your voice all gusty As you sweep down highns dUst Swaying with abandon lusty Brittle boughs of oak and larch Yet wo hal you herald trusty I Mistress March I For despite our storm and stinging S MUilrohs March Hints you bear of buils imsnrlnRinir Silver Hounds of wild birds slnctnfr Flash Wlnir of the swallows blue aides fleetly overarch winging Blesu you for your mcssagibrlnglng mcssagJhrhlGlnS Mistress March zinc Hilton R Grecr in Llppincotts Maga Typhoid Fever Problems The typhoid fever epidemic at Ithaca N Y has developed some puzzling Phases similar to thOHu noted in the typhoid visitation in thin city last sum trier Tho coincidence appears to > cast some doubt upon the conclusions of the sanitary experts Practically all these t gentlemen have reached the conclusion that polluted water is the principal cause of typhoid They admit the possibilities of Infected milk fruit and vegetables but place the greatest emphasis upon the water supply sup-ply I that be pure they are prepared to Insure against typhoid epidemics Yet In Chicago that part o the city which was supplied with the purest Mater Ma-ter t was most severely scourged by fever fe-ver while the section whose water supply sup-ply 1 was marked bad in the daily reports re-ports escaped with only a few cases In Ithaca the Hcrfilh d department notes Avitli surprise and perplexity that though the drinking water is now being I boiled where imported water Is not I used there Is no diminution in the fever fe-ver rate Eleven neW cases were reported report-ed In the twentyfour hours endinG at noon Thursday showing which in n city of Ithacas sIze cannot but be deemed most ominous and alarming > We are forced to conclude therefore that both in Chicago and In Ithaca some other agency than the drinking water must be suspected of spreading the fever What that agency is the sanitary experts should be at great pains to discover There is today no more Important sanitary arid medical problem than the prevention of typhoid fever Chicago ChronicleS Chronicle-S Made His Creditor Sleepless A Michigan man owed another man sitS I was due on Tuesday At midnight mid-night on Monday night the man who owed the money came around woke his friend up and told him he couldnt pay the bill bi I worried me so T couldnt sleep I and so I just thought Id tell you now he said Bern I said the other mal by I didnt you wait till morning Now I cant sleep cither J Vegetables as Beautifiers She was a listless colorless ambitionless ambition-less 1 girl of 15 when her mother brought her to see a certain doctor The physician physi-cian prescribed for her a glass of claret three times n day with her meals The mother was somewhat deaf but apparently appar-ently heard all he said and bore off her daughter determined to carry out the prescription to the letter In ten days they were back again and the girl looked like a different creature She was rosycheeked smiling and the picture of health The doctor congratulated himself upon the keen Insight he had displayed in his diagnosis of the case I am glad to see that your daughter I Is so much better he said Yes exclaimed the excited and grateful mother thanks to you doctor She has had just what you ordered She has eaten carrots three limes a day since we were here and sometimes oftener of-tener and once or twice uncookedand iov look at her The physician gasped but did not otherwise ol1 erwise betray himself Onions are almost al-most equally good he said blandly They are particularly good at this time of year between winter and spring as hey act on the liver and take away that tired feeling that numbs bran as well as body The carrots wel CtrotH are not alone good for ones health but they are fine for hair eyes and complexion Ive even heard that they make the nails grow well A manicure told me so As for skin and hair well you know If youve ever lived In the country that hey give carrots in abundance to horse whose coats are not soft and glossy enough to suit their ostlers osLers Well they have the same effect on human hu-man beings SAnd S-And thus by presence of mind a glib ongue and a benevolent manner did this doctor skilfully veil a blunder but nade the blunder redound to his credit and to his reputation na a physician of wonderful discernment and sense Kaiibas City Journal I The Victim of Germophobin Not all who dine In the cafe of a certain cer-tain uptown hotel fare sumptuously Some search painfully for the cheapest articles on the bill or fare starving their bodies for thc satisfaction It Is lo their pride to dine in the hauntsof u luxury I is not however an at 5 cmiated pocketbook but an exaggerated exag-gerated fear of hostile and predatory germs that makes one patron eat with such caution and circumspection as to rob him even of mich comfort as most of his fellows would take In a 10cent luncheon Two poached eggs was the order he gave In one of tho Fifth avenue hotels Just L drop them In clean boiling water Dont let them cook Take Uiem out before they absorb HID impurities in the water and drain all the water off offThen Then he scoured his plate with his napkin washing bin knife fork and spoon In 0 glass of water mind warily ipprouched his poached eggs Instead of bread he Junlisted I on crackers and dusted each one off with his napkin The waiter brought him French fried i otulocu I i must have whole boiled potatoes h ma Insisted No other potatoes are i I clean With this me l he had a glass of lolled mile brought In hot and cooled I by placing tho glass In a bowl of cracked ice Thim with fear and trcpl d ton the victim of gormophobla ate In Ole of the most elaborate public dining rooms of New York New York Mull and Express The Disguises of Nature By I decree o nature onehalf the world flourishes at the expense of the other half The sparrow chases the butterfly but-terfly hut the hawk chases the par row For the problem of life Is twofold two-fold I is not enough merely to eat It IF necessary to avoid being eaten Yet Nature detests killing for killings sake Musuacrc forms no part of her great plan So we set that every creature is provided wIth ore more or less effective ef-fective quality of defense by meaTs of which the attacks of Its natural atacks I ntllll enemies ene-mies are rendered less frequent or less deadly Thus the antelope by l mcnn of UB superior speed at limes escapes from the lon I The nrmnndlllo rolled In its wondrous coat of mall lies secure among score of hungry gna wins foes while the white hare scarcely distinguishable distin-guishable from the snow on which I crouches If often overlooked by his foe the fox rutlf all creatures none have received more ample protection than I the Insects Some of them possess stings others bite and n few puff out clouds of poisonous vapor to stupefy or blind their pursuers Again there are Insects clothed In Impenetrable armor ar-mor Injects covered with sharp spines amid prickles nnd others whose means of defense consist In nothing but a likeness like-ness lo the objects which surround them Threatened to Haunt Him A Blalrgowrie man had married n native na-tive of Ivlrkcaldy Some years later when the woman was dying she said to her husband John Ive been a good wife to you and r want you to do me XL favor i Weel oman what Is It Weel John its jlst this that yell bury me among my ain folk at Klrk cardy I Hoots oman It canna be I tell you it canna be Wcel John if ye dinna tak me to Ivlrkcaldy Ill haunt ye me speerlt will haunt ye Awell If it comes to that oman Ill hae to do it but Ill try ye In Blalr gowrie llrModern Society When a Man Has a Cold When a man has a 1 cold Ii Is really surprising The way that this friends try tostrnijht on him oul I Their cures for tho same confidently advising ll vising n Each ono calculated to put It to rout Its hard with so ninny sure timings to be choosing I A remedy hoinemamifacur < or sold Hit equally hard If you think of vofuslng To try one Its tough when L man has C cold To please my lear friends the most nau COlS potons Decoctions of onions the vilest of tens I think aafellda one of tholr notions I took jiint bocause I wits anxious to please Ive made myself stupid with brows alcoholic alco-holic Ive scalded my fl c In Iced sheets I have oiled i j The lemons Ive eaten have fjlvcn me colic 1 tell cold you Its lough I when a nniri has I a My ears with the qulnlno Ive taken 1 ore ringing Im smell of liniments nibbed on my Yet other new cures theyre porsislently bringing Until I just ache for a moment ot rest Im blistered with soaking and Ininiod and Im sopgy 1vo swallowoU mOo drugs than memo mortals holil CHI holl I Isnt a matter of laughing or joklnp Thevrc tough on a man iiro those cures for a cold Chicago News Wonderful Knowledge During a visit to the South with an eclij expedition some years ago an eminent American professor met an old negro servant whose duly it was Jo look u net the chickens of the establishment estab-lishment where he was slaying says the Omaha Mercury The day beforetime before-time eclipse took place the professor in an idle moment called the old man lo him and suit Sam If tomorrow morning morn-ing at 1 oclock you watoh your chick ens roost you will find they win all go to Sam was skeptical of course but when at the appointed hour next day the sun in the heavens waa darkened and the chickens rellrtd lo roost tlu negros astonishment knew no bounds lie approached the professor In awed wonder Massa he asked how long ago did you know dat den chickens would go to roost f Oh a long lime said the professor airily Did you know a year ago niassji Yes Then dot beat de debll exclaimed the astonished old may Dcm chickens chick-ens werent hatched a year ago Tho Busiest Man in Wall Sfreot Mr E H llurrlman Is jruly one o thebusiest men In Wall street says a writer In I the March Cosmopolitan I and It la 1 only by the most careful system I that he can attend to nil of the 1 duties I I that require hit attention I On Thursdays Thurs-days lIe has about twenly committee I meetings to attend He i has HO subdivided subdi-vided the time that they Kucceud one another at Intervals of fifteen to thirty I minutes with the regularity or clockwork clock-work In fact they are cut short by Ithc clock In some cases the perform anccB go oft with as much precision asa as-a PunchandJudy slibw the strings being pulled as It were by the power that dominates them Extensive ofilcea have been tILed up by h Mr Harrlnmn on the fourth floor of one of the largest downtown buildings and the concourso of men passing in amid out on Thurs dtiyu in an Interesting sight The Honey Was All Gone A young Phlladelphian whom wo may call Johnson because that is not his name Wa5 married several dnys ago and It occurred to him that he would take his bride Into an upflute town on their honeymoon He was particularly particu-larly desirous of visiting this town she s-he told his bride because at the hotel where ho Intended staying they served such delicious honey at every meal l That will be delightful said Mrs Johnson The couple arrived at the hotel in due course and they were just In time for tea Johnson escorted his bride proudly to f table in the diningroom and then after an admiring glance at her looked quizzically lund the board There was no honey on the table and none In the room Johnson was surprised and anc called the waiter See here said he wheres my lone = 1 The waiter seemed at a Ions as to what to say but finally leaned forward and in a stage whisper said She don I work here no mo Philadelphia Public Ledger S Cupids Good Eyesight The poets of all times have stated That lovo lo blind blnt To think loves blindness overrated 1 am Inclined when Ilrst man loves he only sees Ills sweethearts charms her power to plonsjo The taults that others sec I with case Ho cannot find But In the days that follow marriage lies sure to see set The traits So that changed he muSt Is he needs dlspirngc halo ohnrniri he saw In days gone by Now only faults can ho espy Her temper he must now decry Though mild she be And so I bold that Cupids Ilnlhl 5 They overrate In view of which It Is but kindness Herewith to tatn A fact thats known to inortiiU l brlpht Though Cupids foresight may be slight There Is no doubt his afteralgbt Is very great 1 Brooklyn Eagle A Wife a an Investment A welltodo farmer of Secaucus N JM according to the dispatches is seeking seek-ing divorce from his wife because she is n new woman In his bill of particulars par-ticulars this dissatisfied Jersey agriculturist agricul-turist alleges that his better half spends most or her time attending club meet ings and reading trashy literature on the enfranchisement of the sex She I refuses to milk cows feed chickens make butter or perform any 0 the I duties naturally expected from one of her station According to her dl ler stllon disappointed disap-pointed spouse she characterlxcs farm work ns unwomanly and because of her Idleness has proved an incum brance too expensive for r farmer causing the petitioner to lose money steadily since their marriage I is plain from the nature o this Jersey Jer-sey farmers complaint that he entered Into tin blessed estate of matrimony for business reasons He expected It seems that the partner of his Joys and sorrows would relieve him ot the expense of a hired man Perhaps he reasoned that Cupid would be good to him and give him a ulfe able to perform all the duties of a robust farmhand The farmers wife ought to be his helpmeet and If the necessity exists she should not be too proud or too learned or too independent inde-pendent to lend lair lord and master such assistance as she may be able to render But I Jersey agriculturists Judg ing by this specimen may be too exactIng exact-Ing A nlan who marries In the expectation expec-tation uf putting money Into his pocket from the results of his wifes Industry Is not a person on whom sympathy will be hulshed This Jerseylte demands i more thannny man has C right to asic He wants to derive a steady Income from his gentle partners toll Matrimony Matri-mony with him is principally 0 business Investment No wonder his ltmEnt spouse rebelled re-belled and passes her time in reading trashy llterntttre on the enfranchisement enfranchise-ment of the sex She has ample provocation pro-vocation Marriage will usually prove l failure whcna man talces unto hlm Ii If ch 1 t eM 00 < A t 0 which he would pay to his lured man his cook and his laundryman The new wqman Is bound to assert lieu self In such a prosaic household Baltimore Balti-more Sun Are We Getting Worse I docs not contribute to OUt wolfcom placency as a people to be informed as wo are by I the Chicago Tribune that more crimes were committed in this country in J002 than ever before in American history that the number of murders Increased 12 1 per cent In a single year while the Increase of suicides sui-cides was much larger those among women beinG actually trebled This is a kind of recordbreaking which we might surely wish to be spared The total t numbcr of murders and homicides of various kinds for tho year was 8HU1 as compared with 7852 in 1901 A remarkable re-markable feature In this connection wai the great Increase of murdors committed com-mitted by burglars thieves and highwaymen high-waymen the number being 333 UB1 compared com-pared will 10o in 1001 The lynchlnga reported In IflOU show a decrease being hut 00 ns compared with 135 In 1901 The record of embezzling > forgery defaulting de-faulting and bankwrecking for 1002 shows 1 considerable increase the total being 6769125 as compared with 51OSCI5GO In 1901 The losses arc distributed dis-tributed as follows Stolen by public ortldals Gl8in8 from banks 2GtOiO by agents 1032011 forgerlcrf 3539MO from loan aPHOcIatlons 471100 by post mantcrK 7202 miscellaneous stealings 1187l HLI Sale A May nurd in Leslies Weekly Instinct9 No Education Tea hes J J r 1 jic S There Is a school of the woods just as much aa lucre is a church ot thu fj wood or 1 parliament of the woods Ot n Society of United Charities o the Woods aid no more there Is nothing In tho dealings of animals with their j young that the remotest 1 way suggests human Instruction nnd discipline The youns of nil the wild creatures do instinctively what their parents do and did 3 < They do not have to be taught they arc taught from the jump The bird sings tat t-at the proper age and builds Its nest and takes Its appropriate food without any hint at all from Us parents The young ducks take to the Water when hatched by a hen an readily sis when hatched by a duck and dive and stalk Insectn and wash themselves Just ns their mothers did Young chickens and young turkeys undeistnnd the various calls and signals of their mother the first time they hcnr or sec them At her alarm note they squat at her call to food they j come on the first day as on the tenth t The habits of cleanliness of the nest < hugs irc established from the first hour of their lives When n bird comes to build Us first nest and to rear its frt brood it knows how to proceed as well k a it deem years Inter or as Its parents did before it The fox is afraid of a trap before he has had any experience with i and the hare thumps upon the ground at the sight of anything strange and unusual whether its mats be within i hearing or not It Is true that the crows and the Jays might be called the spiei and informers of the woods and that other creatures seem to understand the imanlng of their cries but who shall presume to say that they have been Instructed in this vocation Mr Long would have us believe that the crown teach their young to fly He might as well say that the rooster tcache ita young to crow or that the cock grouse teaches the young malea to drum No bird teaches Its young t < fly They fly Instinctively when their wings are strong s enough John Burroughs in Atlantic s V A FortyNlners Joke The geological survey is In possession of a curious example of what might be called petrified Western humor Throughout northern California there are n number of soda springs In which u great I dfil of carbonate of llmu and silica is held in solution by the waters Issuing therefrom Wherever this water wa-ter flows or stands objects beneath the surface are quickly coated with carbonate car-bonate of lime and In the course of time t petrified andconverted Inlo stone says the Washington Post This fact was well known to the old miners of IS10 and 1SGO one of whom took an egg and after carefully extracting the content con-tent stuffed the shell with a quid of plug tobacco that he had been chewing returning the tobaccoBluffed snell to the water Doubtless he Intended to return re-turn at some future time to note the action ac-tion of the water on the object but having hav-ing forgoUcn to do so it remained for 1 J S Dlller of the geological 1 survey lo flail the object during n sojourn In that region last summer The e g had probably been lying in the t spring for I I thirty or forty years and was incrusted tllrl with carbonate of lime forming a hard outer coatlngxover a quarter of an Inch In thickness Mr Dlller spIt the egg open finding the tobacco within almost as hard as the outer coaling having been also affected by the water I retained re-tained Its natural color however and to one endowed with a keen sense of smell the odor of tobacco may be detected de-tected still clinging to the Inner stalling of this remarkable potriflcatlon Growth of the Trolley In Massachusetts last year four times as Inany passengcfS were cUred by electric cars as on thc steam roads OC course that was due chiefly to the dense city trntllc but still the city street car systems were pretty complete com-plete seven years ago and the trolley passenger business has doubled since that time while the steam pi < iP U < O f m business has actually declined rhe electrlq mileage of the State has increased in-creased from no IS per cent every year since 1S9I In IDOL the Increase was 2427 miles In the same year the length 0 steam lines was reduced by 139 miles In Connecticut where there are no very large cities to Inflate the trolley figures and where one great steam railroad rail-road system is supposed to be the feudal proprietor of the entlVe State there were 20 pet cent more passengers on the electric lines In 1900 than on the steam iO7idS E Moffclt In lnd Ciures Iloftell Marph Mc I Douglas Jerrolds Wit N I His quarnils with actors during the I years ol his dramatic activity wore In cessanl he complained that they would give their Ideas of the Characters rather rath-er than his Once he complained of the Inferior company that was performing one of his plays at the Haymarket the nter IVIEd themes V said the manager protesting he was bred on these boards IIi looks as If he bail boon cut out of them growled the playwright Jcrrold was always very nervous on a Hrst night Another7 dramatist popularly supposed to lift his plots and situations from the French assured him that he did not know lie meaning of nervousness on such an occasion T can quite understand I under-stand that the wit said pleasantly your pieces have always been tried before Call that I a kind man said an actor speaking of an acquaintance who was abroad L man who is away from his family and never sends thena farthing Call that kindness Certainly Cer-tainly Hall Jerrold unremitting Kindness Bookman Points of View of the Negro Himself In most of the discussion of the race problem little Is said of the negros own j point of view He is the chief figure of it all He Is at once the Innocent cause of it and the chief faqtor in its solution solu-tion S Ii There has not been time enough nor work enough nor money enough nor opportunity op-portunity for great masses of them to be built up to responsible citizenship but the leaders of the race the real leaders show a steady growth in thrift In responsibility and good citizenship I A study of the result of the work done I at any of the great schools where they I arc properly trained will give the most I despondent man high hope In fact I the record of the best men and women i who have gone out from Hampton and Tuskegce and other such training places i make one or the most remarkable chapters chap-ters in human progress The negro conferences con-ferences that are held at Tuskegee show year after year growth of character and of economic efficiency among large masses of them and the reports ot the Negro Business Mens league and other such bodies tell of remarkable progress The negros children too will be wisor than he Is and after all this whole problem Is not one that we who are now living shall see the End of If we pass It to the next generation In n better shape than we found Itthat 13 all W can hope to do And no man who knows Southern life can for n moment doubt I that It Is now in very much better shape than it was twenty years ago 8 much better is it that the aspects it now presents tents are not dIscouragIng to those who know what has been done The Worlds work I love her for tho wealth of gold That glistens In her windblown tresses Wheneer the sun and breeze grown bold Bestow on her their soft caresses I lovo the diamonds In her eyes That sparkle from each glistening facet h j Ah me tho wealth that in 1 them fc The ICohInoor cannot surpass It Ics The pearls that peep with every smile The ruby lips that opo so W et 8010 i j And all my weariness beguile i wClrncss By ridding me of care completely The voice that whispers sweet and low Its silver tones my heart consoling So tenderly that I bestow My life my all to Its controlling With thus my ceaseless longing fed T fel On all that mortal man bewitches How can I calmly shake my head And say I will not wed for riches London Answen A Perfect Little Gentleman At a euchre party in Bala the other afternoon n young woman told a funny story that she had a part In in Colorado Colo-rado recently says the Philadelphia S Record 5 T wus calling she said on a lady in Denver and In the parlor with us were the two sons of the house Willie and George aged respectively 8 and 5 years Willie was very quiet and good but George behaved awfully He broke an ornament lie fretted and cried he kicked his mother he cut his finger with a fruit knife Finally my hostess sale to him George why cant you behave yourself your-self Just look at your brother Willie i1 See what a perfect little gentleman he V is His good conduct ought to make J you ashamed irea perfect gentleman gentle-man youa little beast The good Willie sitting upright his chair smiled ohoh smIed acquiescence to nil this S praise I George Is making l d n foot of him elf isnt he hC remarked com plaeently S |