Show u NTMf0RARY r THflUHT J f America and France Apropos of the unveiling of tho statue of Count Rochambcau In Washington Wash-ington the article in the June number num-ber of the North American Review on America and France by Ga ton Dcschatnps who paid i prolonged visit to the universities of the United States last year will bo read with peculiar Interest M Deachnmps refers to the friendly relutlons which were established estab-lished between France and America through the services of such men an Lafayette and Rochambeuu and SUK fayele if there has been any looson gests bonds oC amity between the inc of the bondf two countries I t has been because the two peoples do not know l each other well enough Parisians form an n wel char tlrelv erroneous opinion of the Actor of the people of the United States from a great number of the Americans who visit that city while Americans are badly Informed about French affairs af-fairs and the tastes nd customs of Frenchmen M Dcschamps pays an enthusiastic tribute to the Generous support given by Americans to higher ed uca ton Everywhere I admired the generous Instinct which has caused these temples tem-ples of learning to rise from the earth The 1t8 Americans have understood that material force Is as noihlmr without moral power They have desired to be as great through the impalpable prestige pres-tige nf of the Intellect as through the terrestrial ter-restrial royalty of silver and gold For roal Jestrlal this reason men and women have rIvaled valled each other In zeal and liberality In endowing these universities most of which arc young and all strong and already mature What an enthusiasm of generosity With one accord millions out to form lions have been poured 10n5 endowments which are destined to support these laboratories these libraries li-braries these gymnasia all this hrrles Inmasla scholastic equipment which tends to assure at the same time the mental aSlro and physical development of the new America Thanlts to these memorable endowments gold In America has become be-come a fluid and ductile medium Interchangeable In-terchangeable with science and art Certainly Idealism is making progress and the flower of money will be nn nobled The Americans Inventive In I everything have made a new Invention Inven-tion the idealized dollar Tho Giant Cactus No one over saw the giant cactus deserts of the I on the sandy ceser Africa primeval architects of the Nile never knew this motive for their colossal I dreams says Harriet Monroe in the June Atlantic Hrre alone do these lull monuments guard the graves of the worlds and perhaps this very one I gaze o was scarcely begun when gae Ramesln was born Day and night I question i by sunlight and moonlight nnd the unfailing stars until gradually gradu-ally the unfamiliar harmonies of Itr I Bunsearched life justify themselves tom to-m soul The sense of uncannlncss or monstrosity passes away the emotion no longer appalls and rends me but noothcs with Immensities of restfulness restful-ness To go out on the desert day after day and meet these cacti Is like whispering whis-pering into the ear of tho Sphinx and listening at her locked lips So wise they are so old with the age of tho wprld s majestically still In those cataclysmic solitudes And to go out In April and see them suddenly abloom Js as though the lips or the Sphinx should part and Utter solemn words A bunch of white flowers at tl14 j tip ot the obelisk flowers springing spring-ing white and wonderful out of this dead gaunt prickly thing In not that Natures consummate miracle a symbol conslmmato bol of resurrection more profound than the lily of the iciclE And In April also the lesser cacti are abloom with flaming colons each dragon gorgeous faminG colorLcach < rson bears a Jewel In Its teeth as a tribute to the fervid sun And the paloverde puts forth Its delicate downy yellow plumage and the sagebrush renews Its silver Even the changeless desert must follow the changing year must greet tha spring with renewal of life must unfurl Its banners to the sun And Jf a few dropsfof rain Just moisten KB crust It Is strange how suddenly the sternness of its mood will change the entire face of the pale earth will become be-come softly green in n night gratefully grate-fully veiling Itself close with a silvery leafage tiny and tender and delicate and masse of California poppies will spread out their patches of cloth of gold I Daw A ship vrlth cargo laden to the guards HQD come to port Lo how her masts and sjmra Above tho kindling cloud begin to lift And her great peak has dashed the skies with light For all on earth she brines n royal gift Morn precious than wan over Dung by bards Her hold Jo stuffed with Incenso and with myrrh IAnd round her dines a fragrance and ascent a-scent Of Thulo or Dome distant Orient With wlilffc of n diviner air the swift Sidereal blast that bore her from the alarn Tho woods and hills rejoice to welcome I her An though she bore to earth some envoy or Some Goilaccrcdilcd cmbnosndor I Sent hither from beyond the Pleiades scar and more near she draws The U heavens crow bright With her approach Lo In what vessel rnrdB i Were her stout timbers hewn What workman laid i Her starry frame What tearless pilot b0 weighed ploL fid Hor anchor steered her through tho clmrtlcss seas z William PrcHcott Foster In tho June Atlantic ii What the Hobo Is and Sow He Lives Two further facts about the oho may serve to dispel n popular error First he Is within certain bounds a L2 patron or literature There are very many exceptions to the general rule p of Illiteracy Second he spends a very respectable amount of his time in the i4 use of water toap nnd tovel7 Aside from the question or special fitness a man Is I the creature of his opportuni ij ties and this truth In He scope runs I to the laot farreaches of Hobodom The dweller In this realm when In the 1L haniOHH obtains but a slight acquaintance I acquain-tance with leisure He rises early L and na he must work on the average I aver-age ten hours n duy he must have 1r more than eight houru sleep I In 14 hue that even this schedulu lever di him a few hours to himself on work tJJ ing days but the fact remains that through fatigue and lack of facilities ti1 for the appointment of a railroad camp are few and extremely rough hr L In unable to utilize his spare time to the best advantage After supper mOil of the men retire to the bunIctents J2i to Hi on their bCd lw nmokn and talk Some play cards others disposed dis-posed to be exclusive arrange their t blankets for a comfortable reclining Lit position and read books and bilatcd i1 newspapers by the dickering light of C4 a candle fastened at the head of the Lrh j bUnk Sunday of course Is the ious liLy > of freedom and he appropriateit t the time in avocallonn of bin own ln ellnatlon He bathos shaves oils his i3r lihOcF bolls his underclothes sewn on i4 buttons takes slItdOB where noudoil gosalpH writes letters I to absent pard I ncrs and reads As may be supposed trashy novels predominate among the books of t hp hobos selection Ilowoxor as a counterbalance 1 coun-terbalance to theme which are altogether r alto-gether trivial and volatile he relishes th polemics of the famous agnostics bting especially affected by tholr sou ratlonallsm and eloquence O his trampo from camp to camp the hobo addicted to reading burdens himself with a volume or two which when he has finished he exchanges with follow 1 fol-low travelers of similar propensity A box o old magazines provided by one contractor for the use of his employes proved to be greatly appreciated Dy th men the demand for the periodicals being quite extensive and constant The amount of gcneral Information thus acquired by the reading hobo would surprise those gentle personages of glorious opportunities and cultivation cultiva-tion who look upon him as an outlandish out-landish clo lee piece of humanity The existence of a world more polite than he has over seen the developments develop-ments of popular science inventions ot ntOm and events of national importance the recurring crises In European diplomacy diplo-macy all those chiefly through the medium of the newspapers he Is aware of and can discuss with a readiness which would do credit to an even more alert mind Charles Ely Adams In the June Forum Tobacco War in Great Britain i Mr Lincoln Springfield gives a spirIted I spir-Ited account In the June number of I the North American Review of the I leading Incidents connected with The Tobacco War In Great Britain Mr Springfield describes the condition o the British trade at The time when the American Tobacco company announced Its Intention of capturing the British market and the effect of that announcement an-nouncement In leading the more Important I Im-portant Inns to form themselves Into a combination far defense against the threatened aggression Writing from the33ngllsh point of view he expresses the utmost confidence that this enterprise enter-prise of what he terms the American Tobacco lust will end In dlHinal failure fail-ure and he even hints that the Imperial Im-perial Tobacco Co limited as the British combination Is called may take retaliatory measures I is rumored that In all probability probabil-ity the Imperial company may l con1an carry the war Into Mr Dukes own country and fight him on his own freehold as It Is understood he considers the United Uni-ted States to be Such a development Is by no means unlikely for although n great deal of amusement may occasionally occa-sionally be obtained by twisting the lions tai the noble beast has a way of retaliating In a forcible manner when once he Is aroused I Is believed that not a few engaged In the tobacco business In the United Slates would welcome the starting of 0 factory under un-der the auspices of a powerful company com-pany possessing ample resources and conducting its business on fair and equitable lines and opposed to the methods employed by the Consolidated Tobacco trust Other reports have been current that an arrangement ex isIs or Is under consideration with some of the most Important manufacturing manufac-turing concerns in America and Canada Can-ada who still Ire outside the trust Whether there Is any foundation fOI these statements we cannot at present say definitely but we may feel sure that 0 good deal more will be heard of the Imperial Tobacco company not only in Great Britain hut IIHO In that great country whose ambitious representative repre-sentative into existence called the Imperial company Toleration Yes he It Is thats marked 1 most tho man That docs the broadest tolpratlon shown show-n follow atoms that for a brief while Movo side by aide with us then from us co Thcro was a blind man once who seeing not Denied the sun that warmed him us It chose While seeing naucht In others that Is good May we not but proclaim tho lack our own That no two things are just alike tis said The good In all wlao toleration shows The lomra wo who sec no grace In bloom That roc has not form and softness of the Boston Transcript Balky Horse and Secretary Wilson I happened that Secretary Wilson i Secretary Cortelyou and two or three other members of the party occupied I seats behind a nice looking team widen followed the procession from the depot ce pot to the hotel a mile and a half away over country roads That K the team tried to follow the procession proces-sion but soon one of the horses balked and then tile carriage had to stop The colored driver whipped the unruly horse very sharply and was klnliy reprimanded by the Secretary of AS rlcultijre who told him that was not tho proper way to make n balking horse overcome his troubles Ill MicVv you what you ought to do said the Secretary He got down from his scat patted the hortc gently on the head neck and shoulders spoke encouragingly en-couragingly to him and then resumed re-sumed his seat whereupon the hore moved off very promptly IIr Wilson Wil-son puffed up with great pride over his achievement and pointed out ills success to the colored driver and told him that was just the way he should always do The driver looked wise however but said nothing Five minutes min-utes later the same horse balked again Mr WJISon waited a few minutes for It to go on and then got out to repeat his feat of D few minutes before After Af-ter coaxing the horse and showing him every attention Mr Wilson gently gent-ly pulled at the reins but the horse went backward Instead o ffitward The more Mr Wilson talked and worked the more the horse backed and balked The wlso looking Ethiopian smiled grimly to himself when Mr J Wilson gave up In disgust and took another vehicle that was passing W W Pierce In June National Mexico in Distress Tourists who have visited the ruins of ailtla In Mexico and fancied that they had Impressed the simple inhabitants in-habitants of the region will be shocked to know how their pilgrimage has been viewed by the languid natives IllHlhl nalc3 In moat places an inrush of American tourists with money to spend Is welcomed wel-comed with C great and hearty Joy hut not ao In Mltlii The Mltla Messenger Mes-senger mournfully murmurs The tourist wave Is Mowing in upon our tranquil life under the palms and the orange trcei They come with guide books red green and brown wearing spectacles H goggles of blue glass to break the force of the tropical tropi-cal sun kodaks and other cameras and n binse look DIos sibe why some people travel It Is a mania like collecting col-lecting stamps or autographs Moan I time as the moon rises over the rtate ly palace of foigotten kings and shades of the mighty dead come forth from their lurking places and bemoan the onrush of unsympathetic tourists who aro given to singing ragtime songi nmld the alA that have sheltered majeaty To gettack to Oaxaen ana an-a square meal I1 Is their most frequent wish Cleloa Are there no square meal In the United States when life begins with the morning gong ruahes till the hour of tho Ice water nnd pic lunch and ends V ith nervous prostration pros-tration In the late hours ofthe night Anecdotes of the American Navy When the Constitution hind cleared for action and was bearing down to engage the Guerrlore Mr Morris the llrst officer came to Commodore Hull and said that he ought to make a Npccoh to the mel that they expected that hn would say something to them Commodore Com-modore Hull was no speechmaker but 1 It being expected he replied Woll Mr Morris pipe the men aft The boatswains whistle rang out and when they were assembled aft Commodore Hull said Men you see that big ship off there Well that Ir a British Brit-ish frigate I we capture her it Is live hundred dollars uplcce in your pockets pock-ets Pipe to quartern Mr Morris pipe to quarters The men gave three rousing cheers and went to their sta tons in high god humor Another Incident nay be related I no happened Just before war was declared de-clared that the Constitution and Gucr rlere were both lying at anchor In Hampton E Roads and the commanders as naval officers were Interchanging courtesies dining and taking wine to gcther and on one occasion after Capt Dacres had shown CapL Hull through his ship Capt Hull todd Take good car of this ship Capt Docrea for If we have war and I meet her on the high seas I nhall capture cap-ture her Capt Dacros derisively laughed and replied Ill bet you a hundred guineas you wont Oh no rejoined Cupt Hull I cant bet you a hundred guineas but I will bet you a hat After the capture of the Guer rierc CapL Daeres came aboard the Constitution and approached to surrender sur-render his sword when Commodore Hull exclaimed No no No matter about your sword I dont want that but Ill trouble you for that bet Isaac Townsend Smith In Leslies Weekly > Thres Wishes An infant In Its cradle slept And In Its sleep It smiled And one by ono throe women knelt To kiss the I fairhaired child And each thought of the days to bond bo-nd breathed a prayer half silently One poured her love on many Hvca But knew loves toll manY Its burdens oft had been to her A heavy weight ol bear She tiloopcd and murmured lovingly Not hardened hands dear child for thee One hand not known 1 Die burdened hands Bu knew the cmnty heart At lifes rich hanquot she had satAn sat-An minted guest nnnrt Oh not she whispered tenderly An empty heart dear child for thee I And ono was old she had known care Sho had known lonclliUiin I She knew God leads us by no path Ills presence cannot bless I She smIled hnd murmured trustfully I Godj thee will Gods will dear child for British Weekly Whence Comes Electricity At a time when electricity Is rapidly rapid-ly I transforming the face of the globe when It Isis 1 already In great measure annihilated distance and hidH fair to abolish darkness for us It Is curious to notice how completely Ignorant the plain mal remains as to the later developments of electrical theory Some recent t correspondence has led me to think that a vague notion that electricity Is a fluid which In some mysterious way flows through 0 telegraph tele-graph wire like water through a pipe Is about as far as he has got and If we add to this some knowledge of what he calls electric shocks we should probably exhaust his Ideas l on the subject says the Academy Vet this is not to be wondered at Even the most Instructed physicists can do nothing but guess as to what elI richly t Is and the only point on which they agree Is as to what It Is not There Is In fact i a perfect consensus of opinion among scientific writers that it Is not a fluid 1 1 c a continuous contin-uous stream of ponderable matter as Is u liquid or n gas and that It is not a form o energy UB la 5 heat Outside Out-side this limit the scientific Imagination Imagina-tion Is l at liberty to roam where It llstcth and although It has used this liberty to II considerable extent no definite result has followed up to the present I time Superstition Hard to Kill For more than a millennium Eng land has been a Christian nation yet In the museum at Oxford we sue Images Im-ages bristling with rusty nails and needles which demonstrates the late survival of a belief In sympathetic magic In the rural communities henco these objcclH came says the Journal of American FolkLore Within the university Itself I secured n desiccated desiccat-ed specimen of a famllar vegetable which an officer of one of the colleges had carried for years as a preventive of rhctnnatlsm Neither centurIes of enlightenment nor the revolutionary changes of this progressive age have exterminated such beliefs They even adapt themselves to the new conditions condi-tions as In the case of the lady living liv-ing within the shadow of the walls of Harvard university who maintains that carbons from arc lamps are a I sure preventive of neuralgia I Mr and Mrs Sparrow He Is anxious to help with the nest making and holds forth without ceasing ceas-ing while his lady builds Occasionally he lends a land He catches sight of a straw It may be or a small piece of stick and It occurs to him that here is the very thing his foolish wife has sought for days and failed to find Whut docs not occur to him is that he is a garrulous old Incompetent and knows no more about nosibulKlhiR than he does about the laying of eggs His wife knows all about him however how-ever and the straw Is turned out or the nest again as HCOH as his back is turned says Longmans Magazine Jlo has probably placed It In some impossible impos-sible position and after explaining what u marvellous fellow he Is and what a trcnnuro he has brought up In the way of building material departed depart-ed forgetting I till about the llnS ul mmcr t In a moment or two Even when < iu sees that straw lying upon the garden path so conceited IH he that he doen not recognize it because l he cannot contemplate con-template the possibility of Its rejection by the missus He thinks he has found another treasure There says he dumping It down by her Ride as site sits resting psrhapa laying a little egg In the semicompleted neat t theres another splendid straw how IK It you dont come acrossihern0 I can Inc them whenever I Ilka t Game in the Congo The natives tire not heavy meat cat era The domestic fowl that marvelous I I marvel-ous combination of skin bone and I fcathers thcoltl friend of all African travelers and the Inevitable bleitlWT gnu t arc common to I all districts There arC also nome sheep to be had But the darling pet of a Congo man Is his pig You can treat his wife and children as you like but IC you tourh his pig beware To kill a man pig I limit breaks through your fence and digs up your vegetable garden Is to commit I I the unpardonable sin and the > unc owner never forgives you Hogs flesh Is equally dear to him Gamp In some pails Is plentiful a I but I more especially In Zombo nays the Geographical Journal Jour-nal There we have several kinds of deer 1 antelope and wild hares the only dlfllculty Is to bag them Guinea fowls pnrtrldgen and pIgeons abound a mid them are some phensantn and In the ownrnpy valleys we find wild ducks and many other birds Eagles vultures vul-tures and other birds of prey are common com-mon and very annolnr while the woods arc resplendent with the gorgeous gor-geous plumage of th birds Elephants buffaloes and leopards I are to be found but must be nought for lp tie more I sparsely populated districts Carnegie Has Been in Love Shortly before Mr Carnegie led for Europe a friend congratulated him on the success of his nsw book I and addid jokingly I hear Mr Carnegie I that you Intend writing a ssnall volume vol-ume of love poems Is that a fact What answered Mr Carnegie I write a love poem Whnt nonsense How I ridiculous I could not write a love poem to save my life lte But persIsted his friend I do not see why you should not You have been in love have l you not 1 Yes dryly answered Mr Carnegie I have of COliC like any other sane DOUBTFUL NEWS fr I I Smytho to servant Bridget I have to go out this evening and I want you to see that your mistress gets this note as Boon as she comes In without fall Bridget Ties norr Ill just lave It I In the pocket of the trousers yve Just taken off She he sure to go through them man been In love I have also been seasick and will very likely experience the same sensation again before I reach the other side but thats no reason why I should write a poem about It loem New York Commercial Advertiser Faults of Pronunciation 1 A correspondent points out that our pronunciation which Is too often pro nounclatlon his Its faults I Is only too true and Glberalter Is a rock on which ftiany1 split Helghth Isa common mistake and a few months ago thousand of people were convinced con-vinced that they were In Fcbuary Not one man In a hundred calls an Isthmus anything but an Ismus And aerated The maltreatment of that word demands a separate hospital Arcateil Is the common Injury But there has been heard uuch compound fractures us aereated and nerl orated After that dlpthcrln which merely loses an h in a mild case Foreigners however may be excused since their mistakes arc usually due to a superfluity of conscience One may sympathize with a Frenchman who puts faith In any rule IS to the pronunciation pro-nunciation of ough The plural of potato may have no terrors for him hut set him to pronounce this sentence Invented by Punch A roughcoated dough faced ploughman stroke coughIng cough-Ing and hiccoughing thoughtfully I through the streets of Scarborough The foreigner who could take that fence would deserve Immediate nationalization na-tionalization aa he alighted In regard to the popular pronunciation pronunci-ation of Berkshire Derby and clerk I correspondent reminds us that the late Prof Freeman dismissed the question Home twenty years ago In the nineteenth century Trof Free mans view wrs haLt It did not matter mat-ter whether WD say BarksJilre or Burkshlre fciijee both arc equally wrong He supposed that the original and proper sound of the first syllable was the samcas that heard In ber hCIc ry or Berwick when they are lot pronounced is they are in many provincial pro-vincial lislrIaC burrv and Bur rick If you lake a Scotsman unawares un-awares he will Invariably I revert to the original and proper Balrkshlre and clalrk London Chronicle i Russian Juggle oC Words You do not change a mans state by eaTIng him another mime The liberation libera-tion of the serfs was merely a Juggling Jug-gling of words the Russian peasant Is not and never has been free England Eng-land paid Its colonists millions and net their negro slaves free says the Outlook Out-look Russia liberated the serfs by ordering or-dering them to pay to the State an amount equal to the t capitalization oC the dues their landlords extorted plus the cost of collection The contention of the peasants was that they were unable to pay the sums the landlords I demanded as being beyond the yield of the land occupied Tho annual levies I are more than the dues used to be cues the tenants got Into arrears the forty nine yearly payments which were to bring about the redemption of the land will not balance the outlay and to all Intents and purposes time payments pay-ments are Imperial taxes and permanent Women of tho Antipodes The female voter the tomals barrister barris-ter the female auctioneer and the fe lull sharebroker have already ar rived at the antipodes and now the lady juror and the lady magistrate are promised Asked whether ho Intended In-tended to Introduce n measure giving women the right to act as jurors the Premier of New South Vales replied I see no reason why women should not act us Jurors They wuld lake a long time to come to a decision some member Interjected In-terjected That may be rejoined the Premier Prem-ier I believe In women having lImo same rights as men and so for aa ram r-am concerned I Intend that the women wo-men of New South Wales shull have them London Chronicle The Birth of the Confederacy The rrlsls came The constitutional convention assembled In Montgomery on Jan 7 1801 It was composed of ono hundred members repiesentlng all shades of political opinion and anxious to meet wisely th Issues before the country The Ordinance of Secession dissolving the union between the State of Alabama nnd other states under the 11 uncO compact styled The Constllutlonof the United Stales of America was passed by a vole of sixtyone to thirtyone on Jan 1 IG1 Montgomery was thronged with visitors The vole wan taken behind closed doors In executive session The halls nnd porticos and grounds of the capitol wero packed with ladles and gentlemen oagerly wo It Ing upon thfc acton of tho runventlon When the doors were opened to the puillc and Judge William K Brooks the president of the convention announced an-nounced the result of the vole the wildest wild-est cheering arose Political differences were blended In the unlvomil glow of enthushipm The new flag of Alabama floated over the convention and the boom of cannon roso over the shouts oft of-t happy multitude I telling tHe martial mar-tial message of the Independence of n Sovereign Stale On the next day the senators and representatives rep-resentatives from Alabama withdrew In a body from the Congress of the United States Cot Mooreordered the seizure of Forts Morgan andvGalncs at the entrance of Mobile bay and of the United States arsenal at Mount Vernon that these forts might not become bases for the United States troops Intended for Invasion of the state He also sent troops to aid Florida In taking charge of the forts about Pensacola President Buchanan declined to receive Mr Thomas J Judge the commissioner sent from Alabama to negotiate for payment of the debt which the state conceded to bo due the general government govern-ment for tho forts arsenal fid customhouse custom-house seized by order of Gov Moore The Unionists of North Alabama proposed pro-posed the formation of that section Into a Federal Slate to he named Nlcka Jack but the rush of events and the genuine secession enthusiasm swept It Into Magazine the Confederate Slates Pearsons The Use of Coal Mining Machines Actual figures referring to the use of coalcuting machines In the two countries coun-Tries show that ill l I such machines were Jn use In Great Britain 1000 whereas where-as In America there vere 3907 or about 12 per cent and 20 per cent It should be pointed out however that as British Brit-ish mining Is very largely on the long wall system the 311 machines Include l large nurnlxr of longwall and heading machines while the a907 machines In America Include 12350 of the pneumatic percussive type which Is of course a much smaller and cheaper machine Still In the states there were 1509 I I i I I I I Frayed Freddy Whisky please BartcnderrrtWhat lend 1 F Gnnine time same as the feller had wots lying l under the pool table chain breast machines and IS longwall machines and the Increase In the pcs centage or coal mining by machinery In West Virginia was from 927 per cent In 1SS5 lo 1500 per cent In 1000 Thi corresponding responding Increase for Pennsylvania Considering the bituminous coal only was 907 per I cent to 13G5 per eentA S E Ackcrman In The Engineering Magazine Temperance Moisture Whatever the temperance advocate may hold says Professor Woodworth of Lewis Institute Chicago this map of moistures Is the temperance map of the United States In effect alcohol In the m system Is a drier In the wet atmospheres 3stcm < rCI mospheres where the human synlem has moisture lo spare the effect of drink Is scarcely noticeable You seldom sel-dom sec 0 native or Florida Intoxicated Intoxi-cated But In lhe arid regions of the West where we have the other atmospheric extreme liquor produces i something like mtdriess Its effect on the system In such as Is unknown In the lowlying coast country Hollls W Field in Frank Leslies Monthly That Settled the Officer PvCcenlly a Duluth minion of the law had occasion to visit a family living In the West End lIe worried to see the man of the house but as he was not In hu sat down and waited In the kitchen A = ounl girl apparently about years I of age was busying herself kneading bread The ofllcer watched the proceeding for some time when he remarked Dont you go to school No I stopped school some time ug I should think that a girl your age would want to get as much education as possible before taking the responsibility responsi-bility attending household duties 1 Yes maybe But why dont you go to school thenWell Well she stammered because my husband thirties I had better stay at home Then the officer looked out of the window nnd the conversation came to an end Duluth News Tribune I A Terrible Moment Professor Oscar Browning writing In the June Century of The Royal Family Fam-ily of England tells this anecdote of Queen Victoria One can Imagine a piIvy council at which the new ministers had to be enrolled en-rolled The admitted members stood round the room the novices knelt in time center The Queen looker wistfully at those who technically her were tcChnlcal servants serv-ants but who were really her musters wondering ng what her relations with them would be and whether they were lit to bear the 1 burden Intrusted to them Some who accept office are perhaps haps surprised at the details of the ceremony One whose duties necessitates necessi-tates Hint he should be for some tlmo tmo absolutely alone with the Queen In a small room without a single attendant wondered what she would say to him and his reply to her The difficulty was folvcd by his saying nothing and thC Itlt Queen only remarking when she had to sign his commission What a tremendously tre-mendously long way they have put thc ink off 1 Tho Duties the Century T was an ambitious and Inspiring programme which Dr Edward Everett Halo laid out In His recent address In Chicago on The Dutles of the Twentieth Twen-tieth Century but who shall sax that It I was not on the whole un excellent programme and quite within the bounds of practicability The first duty of the century according to Dr Hale is the construction of a fourtrack railroad from Labrador to Pattigonla This Is necessary he thinks to keep the human family from being squeezed together too much The next great duty Is tho I construction of a similar railroad line across Europe and Asia from the Atlantic At-lantic ocean to the Pacific ocean with n branch road to Odessa This Is necessary neces-sary to open up Siberia t the much squeezed population of eaMcrn countries coun-tries seven hundred thousand of whom would be seeking settlement In this country next year It would also serve to divert one hundred thousand Russian Rus-sian Jewa who wished to settle In this country from their purpose and locate them In the land of their ancestors The third duty of this century Is to construct con-struct another railroad In pursuance of Cecil Rhodcss Idea from the Mediterranean Mediter-ranean sect to the Cape of Good Hope The fourth duty Is the faithful treatment treat-ment of the race question as presented by tho negro the IndIan und the Chinese Chi-nese lhe fifth and last duty Is the advocacy ad-vocacy or the doctrine of universal peace Leslies Weekly GoodMornlnV Ho always anld Good mornln An emphasized the good As If hud make It happy FoiViCach one If ho could Good mornlnl JUt Good manila ITo I-To ovrv one he met Ho said It with I twlnklo Tlmt no one could forget Ho always anld Good mornln An people used to say runt ono o his good mornlne Clun to you all the day An matlu you nlwayu cheerful Jot thlukln o tho sound I always was good mornln LonJ aa he was around lie nlwnrs said Good mornln1 1 An glad mi1 happyeyed Ho tmld them iust as muni Tho mornln that ho died Thoae won tho word he whispered < As cheerful as he could An I bollovc the ancols They emphasized the good W N Ncsfoll In niltlnioru American How Ocrvora Nearly Escapsd In the U S S New York and Brooklyn Brook-lyn I and 1 J S Blake and Blcnhftlrn a method of engine design Is used by which the gain In economy Is I unquestionable unques-tionable These are all large vessels with engines from JGOOO to 20000 horsepower horse-power and they were designed with t two complete tripleexpansion engines on each shaft the idea being that at anything below half power only one sot of engines on each shaft would be used and this Is actually the privet I coin co-in ordinary cruising Special objection objec-tion to this type of engine was developed devel-oped at the time of the naval battle of Santiago On both the New York and the Brooklyn there was a comparatively compar-atively simple coupling for connecting the two engine shafts but It required about half an hour to perform the operation ope-ration During the blockade both the New York and the Brooklyn had been kept under half power using only the after engines When Cerveras fleet came out so unexpectedly l It was not deemed wise to lose half an hour In coupling up so that It was possible to work the engines up to half power only The poor work of the Spanish engineers rendered this lack of efficiency effici-ency less Important than It would have been had the enemys fleet been possessed pos-sessed of skilled engineers hut the lesson les-son was learned and this added toOl to-Ol het pbjectlons already mentioned renders it unlikely that this type of engine will again be uscdW M Mc Farland In the Engineering Magazine Innovation in Theaters Innovnton There Is to be an Innovation In Now York theaters It Is said that should be adopted In every playhouse In the country The buildings department has Issued an order to theater proprietors requiring that all exits from the auditorium audi-torium whether from the main floor or the galleries filial be marked on both sides by 1 red Incandescent lights connected con-nected with an Independent circuit 1 the entire general circuit is rendered useless the fire escape exits will be indicated in-dicated Within twenty days all the theaters In Manhattan borough arc to ho equipped with automatic asbestos curtains running In Iron grooves directly direct-ly under a socaled automatic skylight The curtains are rigged with ropes which in case of fire are to he cul The dropping of the asbestos curtain opens the skylight and shuts off the stage from the auditorium Any fire In the wings Is expected ito go through tho automatic skylight for a tIme at least before It burns Its way Into the auditorium audi-torium The buildings department has made arrangements to have every one of these automatic curtains tested once a month All passageways arc to be kept lighted throughout performances hereafter It has been the custom In many theaters ns soon as a perfor nuance was fairly begun to shut oft lights In many of the passageways Detroit Free Press Two Kinds of Dreariness You hear often from car window observers ob-servers of the dreary desert the hopeless the cheerless desert But the desert deserves none of these ad Jsc ves It Is dreidful If you wish In the way In which It punishes the Ignorance Ignor-ance and presumption of those who know not the signs of thirst It Is some timcG awful In its passions of dust torrents tor-rents heat It Is even monotonous to those who love only the life of crowded ollles but It Is never dreary or cheerless cheer-less Hopelessness may well apply to the deserts of Mulberry street mind Smoky hollow with their foul odors their swarms of crowded and hldcou human life but the desert of the arid land is eternally hopeful smiling strong rejoicing In itself says a writer In the Century The desert la never morbid In Its adversity on the other hand It Is calm and swsot and clean the cleanest of all land Not till mm comes bringing his ugly mining towns amHils dcslruclVvo herds does It bear even the vestige of the unclean the dreary the unplciuresque Snow Stops Bullets Experiments which have been made ncu Chilsllunlu Norway with the KragJorgenscn rifle seem to show that during a winter campaign snow can be used most effectively by the soldiers The experiments showed that a bullet from this rifle could penetrate loose snow more than a yard and a half The same result was obtained no matter mat-ter from what distance the shot was fired Military experts consequently point out that snow offers more resistance to the penetration of such a bullet thai any kind of wood and almost as mud as earth and that therefore It might he advisable whenever ills possible to use snow as a material for Intrench menis and other works during a earn palgn Detroit Free Press What the Story Showed A man who was called on to addrcso a Sunday school In a Pennsylvania town took the familiar theme of Un children who mocked Elijah on his Journey lo Bethel how the youngster taunted the poor old prophet and how hey were punished when the two she beaus came out of the wood rind ate fortytwo of them And now chll dron said the speaker wishing to learn jf his talk had produced anj moral effect what does this story show showPlease sir came from n little girl well down In front It shows how man > children two shebears can hold I New York Tribune Prophets Advertising Ideas It must strike the unbiased observe as remarkable that John Alexander Dowlo coming to Chicago from the other side of the world an unknown man In 1S0 was able five years late to t wage u successful war upon a cltj of two millions of very excited people at a cost of 0000 without Interfering with bin real work In life As a matter mat-ter of fact time fight left him strange than before It advertised him broad cost and brought him letters from unknown un-known sympathisers all over the country coun-try It was through such experiences utf this that Dowlo has learned a Icsaoi he has made much uQ5 oftue vuluc 01 advertising Ho believes In lighting the batttc of the Lord with modern weapons nnd he glvs lie greatest pos Iblc publicity to ovrythlng which con corns thai Zion In fact ho even wel cornea the constant riots which pro lalni the advent of Zion Into new fields because they advertise Its com Jug more thoroughly than anything chute can The American people hike a good lighter and there are many who idmlre the grit with which Dowle and Jmiutx elders storm new citadels In the face of angry mobs Leslies Monthly Business Honor There never was a time when business busi-ness honor was so high an now the whole commercial fabric IB based upon It Whether the moral sense has been quickened or experience has taught hat honesty Is the best policy matters nottime cant remains that in business a man must be honest and honorable llshonest dealing Is fatal Dishonesty certainly exist as It alwaya has ex ated and as It alwaya will exist until mans nature changes says the Popu ar Science Monthly It Is no novelty for long ago It was asserted that every nan haiti his price But there Is proportionately pro-portionately less nov than ever before Ours is an age of commerce nn age of levotlon to material things but that levotlon has none of grossncHS nor Is it any sense inconsistent with a Just levotion to higher thlnga Thus far the argument bar boon largely nag ative nn effort to show that this age is not worse hut possibly better than Its predecessors The positive argument remains to show that because of commercialism com-mercialism this age on the whole is vastly hotter than Its predecessors Happy Days at St Pierre Every bright Sunday afternoon near ly tho entire population of St Pierre went out to a great open park to sing the Marseillaise and otherwise amuse themselves says the New York Press To use the New York phrase every timing was wide open There were dancing racing Jumping Tolling on the grass merrygorounds rifle shooting marbles a kind of baseball little circuses cir-cuses under tents etc men women and children joining In A band of fortyfive pieces played French tunes the Marseillaise being repeated at Intervals of a quarter of an hour to give all a chance to use their lungs It was a wonderful family picnic One of the principal performers was an edu cated bear The park lay low and scoopllke between two mountains making an Ideal parade ground Of course the gay uniforms of the French soldiers flashed hero there and every where The local gendarmerie were always a feature of the landscape i Divorce Too Good to Be Spoiled No one wishes to take anything but a charitable view of individual cases of divorce No one desires to assume the functions of Judge in such delicate and generally obscure matters when pre tainted to ones sympathies In the cir ole of acquaintance Indeed tolerance on this subject is almost forced upon one by the prevalence of that painful social expedient Tolerance Indeed la the rule In America but there may be said to bo a conviction on the part of toe most tolerant that divorce Is too good a thing to be spoiled as it Is be log spoiled by being to put It mildly grossly overdone June Century Edi tonal |