Show i CUNIEMRYTllHT 1 I E Tho Richest JNation r Some Interesting statistics have been Pi prepared by the United Slates bureau of statistics for the London Dully Mal YearBook They are very far from l being exhaustive or contributions to i the discussion now going on over tho enormous balance apparently duo us from foreign countries as the result of V the commerce of the last tel years f V They are Interesting and Important however as far as they go They put y the United States at the head of the nations In point of wealth estimating our property at JSl750000000 that of the United Kingdom at 550000000000 that France at 4000OOOOCO that of I Germany at 40000000000 and that of r Russia at 32000000000 At the same time our public debt Is the smallest V nnd that of France Is the largest The percentage of debt to wealth Is also V lowest In the United States being 11 while the percentage of debt to wealth In France Is 123 In Russia IL In Germany V V Ger-many SI I Is very clear that we can I on spending for go money 0 good many I years to come without Incurring a debt as great as that of the United Klng dom for example which Is the next smallest to our own but Is still 2150 000000 In excess of ours But do we want to Are we to be tempted further Into debt by the example of other nations na-tions I there Is danger of this It Is a pity that the compiler of these statistics sta-tistics did not furnish us also with a comparative table of taxation so that we might know how much public extravagance ex-travagance costs the private burden bearer The remainder of the table shows that our wheat crop In 1901 was nearly 45000000 bushels In excess of the crop of Russia which Is our nearest competitor but produces less than half our own product In 1900 we made about 6000000 more tons of pig Iron V than were made In the United King dom and nearly C000000 more tons of steel Harpers Weekly V 1 V V Tell Him So V I you have a word of cheer That may light the pathway drear V Of n brother pilgrim here Let him know V V Show him you appreciate What he docs and do not wait V Till tho heavj hand of Fate Lays him low I your heart contains a thought V That will brighter mnko his lot Then In mercy hide It not I V Tell him so Bldo not fill the end of all Carries him beyond recall When beside his sablo pall V To avow Your affection and acclaim To do honor to his name V And to nlace the wreath of famo On his brow V Rather speak to him today For the things you have to say May assist him on his way Tell him now Life Is hard enough at best V V V V But the love that Is expressed Makes It seem a pathway blest V To our feet V And tho troubles that we share V V Seem the easier to bear Smile upon your neighbors care V As you greet Rough and stony are our ways Dark and dreary are our days VV But anothers lovo and praise Mako them t sweet Walt not till your friend Is dead V Era your compliments arc said For tho spirit that has llccl V I It know V Dogs not need to speed It on Our poor praise where It has gone Iono Loves eternal golden dawn Is aglow But unto our brother hero V That poor praIse Is very dear 4 Ifyoirv theword oC cheer Tell him so J A Egerton In Denver News Popular Demand for Beauty Writing In the February Century of V the Influence of tho Columbia exposition exposi-tion on public tate and of the proposed Improvement of Washington City the architect D H Burnham writes V V We go forward What the people desire their great representatives feel The United States Senate has authorized author-ized Its committee to obtain a plan for thc Improvement of the District of Columbia Co-lumbia When the people cry In this Western Republic Lot the conculs look to It that the Republic take no harm they bid their wise men not alone to safeguard them from foreign Invasion or Internal corruption but to remove and forever keep from view the ugly the unsightly and even the commonplace It Is the signs of the time that the people will no more continue to endure gross violations of landscape art than they will the disgusting and disorderly In domestic and municipal environment Sentiment Is gathering to the form oran or-an edict that the offensive shall not be forced upon the multitude and that when the chief expenditure Is of brains and not money they shall no longer be denied the right to live among beautiful things And I say again that it Is not ro much money that Is wanted to shape V municipal improvements In response to the growing taste of the American people V peo-ple as It is a general a wellthought out llana plan that reaches out not merely through the life of one throw of the political dice but beyond men and r cn > oiiB and policies for a century What Is logical is also beautiful The monuments of Pericles reared In the V zenith of Attic supremacy are logical The pilgrims of twentyfour centuries Bay that they are also beautiful Cecil Bhortess Fatalism I As with to many men of commanding commandlnS personality there is f strain of fatalism In ehe nature of Cecil Rhodes fatalism as regards his own destiny and that of others l When In danger among native tribes he like his friend Gen Gordon discards all arms I was with a small switch In his hand that he penetrated V tOlhe heart of the rebel camp oC the V Matubelc In 1S06 VV VV A few days before tho relief of Kim Iim herle a Boer shell dealt sudden death V to Mr George Labram the designer of the Long Cecil which had boon made at the cost of Cecil Rhodes and was the only gun capable of coping with the Ore of the enemy To one who remarked re-marked on the Irony and illluck of this death Cecil Rhodes responded No It V was no case of luck Then ho told how he had seen Mr Labrum have three separate escapes within L few days and addcdj You see it I was to he What canTyou do when God Is I chasing a man for iyst Upon the artist who wishes to Sketch him or the camera man who desires to V transfer his portrait to a photographic V plate Mr Rhodes Imposes one hard and fast condition He wll not be pictured in profile full face or not at all1 is his motto Little he reeks of the pho togniphern dictum that one side of the human countenance Is better than another an-other this empirebuilder elects to have men look him squarely In the face If they look at alL Pearsons Magazine H for FebrUary V Olive Schreiner on Women V Are there not women who under the V pulse of work aro seeking Increased means of pleasure and passive gain to whom intellectual traIning nnd the opening of new fields of labor side by I V side with man mean merely new means or selfadvertisement and parasite success suc-cess who hidden under the mantle of the new woman obtain and abue new privileges We answer There are truly such Among us but not of ue this at least may be said that wo oureelves are seldom deceived by them Undoubtedly the sheep generally recognize rec-ognize the wolf In sheeps clothing though the onlookers may not and though not always able to drive him from the flock Using our password of work they yet cannot give any re I sponse In any accomplished toll or sincere sin-cere endeavor The outer world maybe may-be misled by them we who stand shoulder to shoulder with them know them I They are not many neither are Ihcv now They are one of tho oldest survivals and among the most primitive I primi-tive relics In tho race They are as old a lve relcs among tin gods as LucIfer the among the Sons of the Morning as snake In the Garden of Eden as pain and bin In the web of human life Such a woman Is as oIl as that first primitive woman who when she went n lth her fellows to gather wood for the common household put grass In the center of the bundle that she might appear to carry as much as they yet CITY nothing she Is as old ns the Unit man who threw away his shield In battle and yet when It was over gathered with the V victors to share the spoils as old as cowardice and lust In the human and animal world only I to cease from being when perhaps an enlarged and expanded humanity hu-manity shall have cast the last scurf of Its most primitive skin Oliver In Bazar Schrclner Harpers 0731 WJiat Is the Shape of the Earth P The exact shape of the earth Is a question winch cannot be settled without out fresh Ividence from the Antarctic For this purpose two at least of the expeditions have 1 ben provided with outfits b the exact pendulum ouLt by noting < xrct Itnglh of time occupied by the swing of a pendulum the distance of the place 0 observation from the earths center can be determined I says the Popular Science Monthly 1 is held that the south polar loglon projects further from the plane of the equator than does the north polar region according ac-cording to one estimate the south pole Is slightly more than onehundredth further from the earths center than the north pole Ordered Out Grade and Mamie had been particularly particu-larly bad the other day and their mother was desperate Finally she called the little girls to her and said sternly V Children I want you to Just pick up your clothes and go away from this house You arc so bad 1 cannot stand It any longer Your papa and I have picked two other little glrls out that we want to live here they are good and do not quarrel Just take all your dolls and dresses and clear dols go cear away Grace burst Into tears and Mamie looked distressed Finally between her sobs Mamie exclaimed 4 < VeIl I dont care if the little girls are good they wont be good long af tor they come here to live anyway Plttsburg News American Products Everywhere Bread Is baked In Palestine from flour made In Minneapolis American windmills are working east of the Jcr dan and In the land of Bashan Phonographs Pho-nographs are making n conquest of all tongues The chrysanthemum banner of Japan floats from the palace of the Mikado on a flagstaff cut from a Washington forest as does the banner ban-ner of St George from Windsor cas the The Ameilcan typesetting machines ma-chines are used by l foreign newspapers and our cash registers keep accounts for Scores of nations America makes sewing1 machines for the world Our Jlcycles are standards of excellence everywhere Our typewriters are winning win-ning their way wherever a written language Is used In all kinds of electrical elec-trical appliances we have become the foremost producer guys Scribners Magazine In many European cities V American dynamos light streets and operate railways Much of the machinery ma-chinery that Is to electrify London tram lines Is now being built In Pitts burg The American shoe has cap tured the favor of all Europe and the foreign markets are hastening to Import Im-port out machinery that they may compete with our makers In the far East In the capital of Korea the Hermit Her-mit Nation there was recently inaugurated Inau-gurated with noisy music and flying banners an electric railway built of American material by a San Francisco Francis-co engineer and now it Is operated by American motormen The Old Santa Fe Trail It wound through strange scarred hills down canyons lono h1s Where for wild company things screamed with winds Its milestones woro the bones of plo 11CTF Bronzed haggard men often with thirst nmonn Lashed on their beasts of burden toward the sea An epic fillet It was of oldcnyoare For fabled pardons or for godd red gold Tho trail men strove in Iron days of old Today the steamgod thunders through the vast While dominant Saxons from the hurtling trains hurtng Smile at tho aliens Moxlc Indian Who offer ware keencolored I like their past Dread dramas of Immitigable plains iobuko the softness of the modern man No menace now the deserts mood of sand Still land westward lies a green and golden Iror at the magic touch of water blooms The lldornesa and whero of yore the yoko Tortured the toilers Into dateless tombs Lol hrlghisome fruits to feed a mighty folk I mlrh Rlchunl Barton In February Century Social Traits of Browning I In an artk1 on Browning In Ven ice In the February Century by the late Mrs Arthur Bronson occurs this charming glimpse of the poets democracy de-mocracy In his Immense humanity he refused to make distinctions of manner among those o his own class of life who ap lorached him always excepting the are cases here bae qualities had qualtes been proved beyond a doubt to his mind The thing ho most abhorred was untruthfulness even Insincerity In Its most conventional form was de testable to an upright mind which loved and sought for truth in all Its haes His first Impulse was to think veil of people to like them to respect them they were human souls and therefore to him of the greatest earth ly I Interest He conversed affably with nil Lover of beauty ns he was he would talk ns pleasantly with dull old ladies as with young and pretty ones He made himself delightful at a dln her party whether the guests chanced to bo of mediocre Intelligence or of superior Intelgnce perior brains his fund of sparkling an I cdote for all was never exhausted In I this as in many other ways one earned from him the lesson I of self orgetfulncss He never asked Do these people amuse me Do I find them agreeable His only thought was Let me try to make their time pass pleasantly V Prof Atwater and tho W C T U On December 2Sth Prof Atwater of Wesleyan university addressed the New York State Science Teachers as oclatlon on Alcohol In the Public Schools The M C T U and other V tern iterance societies which have succeeded suc-ceeded In having antialcoholic In tructlon Included In tho public school ourses of most States have been much displeased with Prof Atwater because as the result of protracted and careful experiments which we have all read about he reached the conclusion concu lon that alcohol has nutritive Ilcohol his nutrlhe properties proper-ties whereas the temperance reformer reform-er have preferred the conclusion that It was a poison and nothing else They have abused Prof Atwater a good deal > ncauee his conclusions were not to theIr taste In return he gave them Tt Syracuse some excellent advice about the Instruction In their specialty which has been introduced Into the public schools He approves of the Instruction In-struction as a general idea but he says that the approved tcxtbooks the use of which the reformers are able to procure do not accord In their teachings teach-ings nbout the physiological action of alcohol with the views of specialists or the result of the latest Investigation Investiga-tion In some of the approved books doubtful theories are set down as facts Others sot forth principles that ivre partly true and partly false Others Oth-ers make statements squarely opposed to the best and latest scientific discoveries dis-coveries and support them by authorities author-ities that arc not trustworthy Mr Atwater At-water thinks the teaching In the schools about the effect of alcohol should be limited In extent and sclen IIdeally correct anti he believes that the ihlif argument against the use of alcohol should rest upon the ethical rather than thy physiological or economic eco-nomic basis Ills recommendations are worth hodlng They are moderate sound and timely and no one can moke them with more authority than he Harpers Weekly Important Details of Studying Music I Obviously the most essential part of musical study Is i a teacher Money and valuable time are saved by obtaining before entering on a course of trainIng train-Ing the udvlce of some qualified person per-son who Is not n teachor to assist one In his section of a master In my case I had the valuable and sincere assistance of my father Therefore 1 speak absolutely of the experience of others who are not so fortunate With the help of a good teacher talent may be fully developed A thorough instructor In-structor will keep one a long time learning the rudiments of the art scales harmony eta To hear you play a piece soon after you learn to finger the correct notes Is the ambition ambi-tion of your relatives but this ability counts against you eventually Stick to scale as long as you can Some years us a violinist of great reputation reputa-tion was asked to examine the violin pupils of a great aonservlolre I saw Mm after hours of patient listening and he was perfectly horrified with his experience Not one In ten could playa play-a scale correctly but all played dif cult pieces I mention this that a beginner may see on what commonplace details his success will finally hang No matter how full of fire or enthusiasm Is his heart no matter how wild with longing long-ing he is to express all the feeling for beauty that lives In his soul no matter mat-ter how deep his devotion to his art he may not reach the people If he does not pay heed to special details Jan Kubcllk In February Success V French Banking Methods I was studying the mechanism of the Bank of France under the guidance of one of the ofHcers We wont Into one great room in the old building In which there were 200 desks Inclosed In wire cages all empty at the moment I asked what these were for says a writer In I the Century These cages are for our city collectors col-lectors I was told When f small merchant borrows from the Bank of France he does not ns with you In America borrow a bank credit and have his loan merely added to his balance bal-ance on the books of the bank With us the merchant when he makes a loan gets the actual money and takes it away He probably has no bank account ac-count with us He writes no checks When the loan Is due he does not as would be the case In your banks cOme Innnd pay his Indebtedness with a check Instead of that we send n collector col-lector to him and that collector Is paid the loan in actual currency Two hundred men start out from the Bank of France every morning and collect matured loans Several days each month It is necessary to send out 100 men and on the 1st and 15th of each month GOO collectors go out These collectors were uniformed men carrying leather pouches In which they have the matured notes and which are later filled with currency as the collections col-lections arc made from the banks borrowers bor-rowers Assorted Voices I Is a wellknown fact that voices differ greatly according to nationality and geographical position Thus In Russia one hears male voices which are absolutely unique In the lowness of their compass The Italians on the other hand are notable for their fine tenor voices Some Asiatic nations according to Engel sing In shrill notes by strainingthe voice to its highest pitch others delight in a kind 1 of vibrato or tremolando says tho Gentlemans Magazine Somo sing habitually in an undertone others In L nasal tone Llchtenstein in describing the singing of a Hottentot congregation congrega-tion In South Africa abscrvcs that of all the singers consisting of about lac Hottentots of both sexes there was not one man with a bass or bailtone voice all the men had tenor voices The Chinese voices seem to bear soin resemblance to the weak character of people A military man who had three years service In the country declares that he never once heard a Chinaman sing from his chest Schoolboys HFnct The historical and other facts given here arc taken from schoolboys examination papers Of whom was it said ITo never smiled again William Rufus aid this after he was shot by the arrow My favorite character In English history his-tory is Henry VII because he had eight wives and killed them all Edward III would have been King of France If his mother had been a man Alexander the Great was born in the absence of his parents What followed the murder of Becket Henry I received whacks with a I birch The principal products of Kent are Archbishops of Canterbury The chief clause In Magna Charta was that no free man should be put to death or Imprisoned ylthout his own consent V consent Where wore tho Kings of England crowned On their heads What were the three most important feudal dues Friendship courtship marriage V What do you know of Dryden and Buckingham Dryden and Bucking ham were at first friends but soon became be-came contemporaries What Is Miltons chief work Milton wrote a sensible poem called the Canterbury Can-terbury Tails Give the names of five Shakespercan plays Macbeth Mikado Quo Vadls San Toy Sign of the Cross An optimist Is 1 a man who looks after your eyes and a pessimist Is a man who looks after your feet A man who looks on the bright side of things Is called an optimist and the one who looks on the dull side Is called a pianist London SU Jamess Gazette Rebels In Parliament The interesting question of rebels In Parliament which Is likely to engage en-gage the attention o the House of Commons a few weeks hence recalls a famous phrase used by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy In his first speech on Australian Aus-tralian soil He refused to apologize in any way for his Irish career or the part he had played In promoting the ISIS insurrection Insurrec-tion As regards Ireland he proclaimed claimed himself to be still a rebel to the backbone and spinal marrow The speech created a tremendous commotion commo-tion at the time but it did not prevent hiM election to the first Parliament of Victoria or his attaining the Premiership Premier-ship or his receiving knighthood from the Queen The question was again raised in July 1830 when the Hon Peter Pe-ter Lalor another Irishman succeeded Sir C G Duffy In the Spoakershlp of the Victorian Parliament A member of the Government violently protested against the highest honor In the gift of the House being bestowed on a man who had fought against the soldiers of the Queen The Conservative Premier of the period the late Hon James Service Ser-vice severely rebuked his subordinate I and said the Incident referred to In no way reflected discredit on Mr Lalor rather the reverse Mr Lalor was tho commandorlnchlcf of the rebel gold diggers of Ballarat who on December Z 1S5I fought an engagement with the Imperial forces New York World Tho Modernized Mikado The Mikado Is the first Japanese sovereign sov-ereign to emerge from the dignified retirement re-tirement In which his predecessors lived This step ha only Increased the passionate loyalty of his subjects toward to-ward him and people arc already comparing com-paring him with the Kalutr as regards the prominent nt public role he seems dls pored to play During the his Maj army maneuvers 1nj esty who followed events with tho greatest Interest and enthusiasm ordered or-dered two privates to be brought before be-fore him nnd questioned them through the medium ol his chief aidedecamp I His questions were of the paternal kind such as the following How did they get on with the hardships hard-ships of barracks life Did they long to go home whenever tie thought of their nearest relatives Did they not think their lot a hard one each time lme their thoughts wandered back to the ease and Joys of their home Were they not feeling the effects of their daily exertions In the maneuvers Did not tho exactions of the military service ser-vice sometimes make them cry in secret se-cret cretThe V The young soldiers answered that they were quite happy in the army 1 and that their only desire was to do their duty toward their beloved sovereign sov-ereign A few days before the Mikado while trn cling by rail was cheered by a number of very old people at Shlr alshl station He sent them all presents pres-ents through the local Government an act of kindness which moved the old people to tears of gratitude Yokohama Yoko-hama CorresiKnrdcncc London Mall Judges and Juries I would be perilous for any ordinary mortal to address a Jury In such language lan-guage as Mr Justice Phllllmore felt compelled to use at Carmarthen A Juror says Mr Oswald In his well known work on Contempt of Court will bo protected from Insult In the snme way as Judge Even counsel must be careful of the attitude they adopt toward a jury Mr Oswald refers re-fers to a criminal case In which the foreman of the Jury several times Interrupted In-terrupted the counsel for the prisoner in ins crossexamination 01 toe witnesses wit-nesses The counsel 1 In his address to the Jury said I thank God that there Is more than one Juryman to determine deter-mine whether the prisoner stole the property with which he Is charged for if there were only one and that one tlu foreman from what has trans plivnl today there Is no doubt what the result would bc This was regarded as an allegation that the foreman of the Jury was prepared to violate his oath to try the case fairly and the advocate was found guilty of contempt of court and fined 20 Mr Justice Phllllmore is by no means the only Judge who In recent years has come Into conflict with Welsh Juries Lord Russell of Klllo wen ould appear to have been more fortunate than some of his brethren on the bench for his last I utterance n a Judge was In commendation of the Intelligence andIndependence of Welsh Juries At the cjose of the business on the North Wales circuit In August last year he referred to the uncomplimentary uncomplimen-tary things which had some times been said of Welsh Jurymen and remarked re-marked that his ojvn experience Justified Jus-tified him In saylnK that he could not desire more intelligent Juries than those who had laly assisted him in the administration of Justice A verdict ver-dict was returned at Carnarvon with which he did not agree but Lord Russell Rus-sell did notasaunve that the Jury was necessarily wrong I myself he said should have arrived at n different differ-ent conclusion but the circumstances were of a very extraordinary character charac-ter and I think that It was quite possible pos-sible for intelligent Independent men to arrive at the conclusion which tho jury arrived aLLondon Globe Inventor of Writing by Wire Almont at the same time that Mar coni proclaims the practicability of sanding telegranis without the usa o wires 0 countryman and priest announces an-nounces that he has perfected a method meth-od of reproducing pictures and written writ-ten messages In Inc simile by means of electricity using wires however Teleaulography as this form of electrical elec-trical communication Is knowjii has been at last brought within ranga of the practical In the strictest sense by Lulgl Cerebotanl an Italian Jesuit father by whoso system messages can be dispatched over a single wire instead in-stead of four which Ellsha Grays invention in-vention requires A trial message was sent over the MunlchAugsburgMu nlch wire quite recently under tho auspices aus-pices of the Bavarian postal authorities authori-ties who expressed their satisfaction with the experiments The principle of the new system It Is stated lies In 0 mechanical arrangement arrange-ment whereby the motion of the transcribing tran-scribing pen results In two movements always mathematically at right angles to each other Every point In the writIng writ-Ing area covered by i the pen Is thereby exhibited by the straight lines before mentioned The apparatus Is however how-ever so contrived that first the transmitting trans-mitting pen Is light and handy and secondly that while there is only one point In the writing area In which the lines Intersect the movable point or writing pencil can by means of slides touch the whole area Cerebotanls invention in-vention Is desciibed as a marvel of simplicity and simply astounding In Dispatch the accuracy of Us working Plttsburg Why He Didnt Jump Here Is one that a young man who knows a good story when ho hears It heard one railroad man tell another In a depot up the line tho other day We picked up a new Irishman somewhere some-where upcountry and set him to work brnkin on a construction train at Z cents a mile for wages One day when him an me was on the train sho got away on one o1 them mountain grades and the first thing AC knowod she wus fiyln down the track at about ninety miles an hour with nothln in sight but the ditch and the happy huntln grounds when we come to the end I twisted em down as hard no I could all along the tops and then of n sudden sud-den I see Mlko crawlln along toward tho end of one of the cars on all fours with his face the color of milk I thought he was gottln ready to jump an I seo his finish If he did 4 Mike I says for Gods sako dont jump jumpHe clamps his fingers on the runnln board to give him 0 chance to turn round and lookln at me contemptu Otis answers Jump Is It Do yes think Id be afthcr Jumpln an me mnHIn money a fast as 1 am V A HundredMile Coast Lord Ernest Hamilton in the February Febru-ary Pearsons describes hlf experience In a thrilling but perilous pastime the descent In a small handcar of a wonderful won-derful mountain railway In Peru AS a matter of fact lu writes referring re-ferring to the title of the article It i Is l a hundred and six but for the sake of a title the extra six may oa hundred hun-dred are enough at any rate for purposes pur-poses of Illustration These hundred odd miles aro to be found on the Fern Carrll Central of Peru commonly called the Oroya railway and they are to be found nowhere else This Oroya railway is a very wonderful won-derful line indeed It not only climbs higher than any other railway In the world lhpn also distinguishes itself in a variety of other ways Incidentally referred re-ferred to hereafter But the accom plIshniQnt with which I am chiefly con cerned is this That it provide the only road In the world down which a man on wheels can travel for over 100 miles by his ml own momentum and prac tically at any pace to which the fiend oC fcnd recklessness may urge him The object of what Is here written > H to trace the sensations born of a nindown from the summit of the Oroya railway IRfiGG feet above sea level to the verge of the very shingle lHt grinds under tho away of the Pac Pa-c lie You start under the eye of tho eternal snowa and you finish among hummingbirds and palms You start sick with the unspeakable sickness of soroche and you finish In the ecstasy of an exultation too great for words V The gods of Olympus were worms beside the man who has during the last three hours controlled his car from the Paso do Gelara to Callao for It Is Lt the control that lIes the joy as in other things apart from carrunning To flit beside the brakeman Is good but to drop the brakeman on friendly l siding and grasp the lever In your own firm but not too exacting hand Is to sup a liberal foretaste of the joys of heaven The House Where Lincoln Died Above Judeas purplemantled plain There hovers still among tho ruins lone amonI Tho spirit of tho Christ whose dying mom mOln V Was heard 1 In heaven and paid oundcbt in pain As subtle perfume lingers with tho rope Even when its petals flutter to the earth V So clings tho potent mystery of tho birth Of that deep love from which all mercy flows V 0 0 S Within this house this rooma martyr ltd A prophet of a larger liberty A liberator setting bondmen free A fullorbed man above mere mortal V pride Tho cloudrifts opening to colostlal Klaclco Oft glimpse Btlll him und his spirit lingers As Christs sweat Influence broods upon tho hill hii Where tho red lily with the sunset fades A little girl with ayes of heavenly blue Sings through tho old place Ignorant oral or-al Her angel face her cheerful birdlIke call Thrilling tho heart to life moro full more true Robert Mackay In February Succcns An Historic Town Obliterated Remarkable evidence of the need for n Jamestown tercentenary anniversary Is furnished by the Ignorance of most Americans with regard to the status of Jamestown Itself Thlc cradle of the Nation as all Virginians know Is no longer Inhabited by any person except those who keep guard over the ruins there Jamestown Is nothing but a name and n remnant I it were not for the care with which the society for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities Antiqui-ties preserves the old walls and other relics not a trace of the famous town we dare say would bo left Norfolk Landmark He Had His Suspicions I Is related that on the last tour of President McKinley in the South Andrew An-drew Carnegie was In the party and all were asked to attend a negro church In Thomasvllle Ga where avery a-very fervid colored minister olllclated It Is said that whenever 0 lull came In the services the deacons took up a collection but through hospitable motives mo-tives avoided passing the box to the white visitors The old pastor rose at last and preached a sermon that was at the same time eloquent earnest and ridiculous preaching right at the white folks and his description of the poverty pov-erty of the church was so Impressive that when the deacons passed the contribution con-tribution box around for the third time Mr Carnegie Intercepted them and dropped a 50 bill in the box The old preacher counted the contents con-tents When he had finished he placed a handful of small change on one side and a crisp greenback on the other Clearing his throat he said Breddern we has been greatly blessed by dish yer contcbutlon We has head fo1 dollahs an foty cents dat Is good and If I do 50 bill put in by de white gemman wld de gray whiskers is also good we Is blessed a whole lot moah And he looked suspiciously at the giver of libraries and campaign funds Des Molneo Leader Presidents Favorite Book A certain llterary man is engaged In Htprary writing an article on President Roosevelt Roose-velt A few days ago he happened to mention this circumstance to n New York publisher and the latter remarked re-marked that It might be Interesting to state that the President Invariably carried car-ried a copy of Plutarch In his pocket The suggestion was accepted and the note Incorporated in the article Two days later the writer met another an-other publisher nnd informed him of the article that was being prepared The publisher said Well now Ill tell you something that ought to be of use to you Im toll by one of his most intimate friends that Mr Roosevelt always has a volume of Thuodldes with him The same evening the literary man was dining at a hotel uptown and whIle smoking a postprandial cigar was accosted ac-costed by an employee of ono of tho Federal department at Washington Thc later had heard that his friend was endeavoring to obtain copy about the President and proceeded to furnish him with some In the course of his remarks he shid V And Just stick In that he never goes out without a little pocket volume of Herodotus New York Times Mosquitoes Liko Music A mosquitos delight In music seems now to b clearly proved Dr Joly a naval surgeon who has been experimenting experi-menting at Madagascar where these troublesome Insects swarm and who has written a lucid description 01 their habits and mode of life says positively that they are affected in a strange manner man-ner whenever they hear a musical instrument in-strument especially 0 stringed one IH one plays Iru 0 room ho says all the mosquitoes that are hidden in it will begin to dance and if the windows win-dows are open many more will dart In and join In tho sport Moreover a person who plays in tho open all is soon surrounded by l so many of these insects that It Is Impossible for him to give proper attention to his instrument instru-ment New York Herald j Of Two Evils I was 2 n m and the man sat on his own doorstep with his head in his hands Presently a policeman came leisurely by Hey you he said to the sitter what are you doing there Thinking replied the man thIckly thIck-ly I but not so bad as it might have beenThis This Is no time for thinking said the guardian You go in the house If you live here Tvc got to think awhile first the man Insisted What the I dlkens you got to think about 7 aboutWell Well explained the man looking wearily up at the officer standing over him now Ive got to think whether Id jotter go in and let my wife murder an me or just sit here and freeze to death The average would be the same but Id like to do it the way that would please her best SeeThe See-The policeman SW and much against the kindlydisposed mans protest pro-test he called the lady up and submitted ted the question to her She took tho nan InNew York Herald Are Always as Young as You Feel People grow old by thinking themselves them-selves old When they reach the age of forty fifty or sixty they Imagine that they look like others of the same age lok and that they soon will bo useless unfit thnt work and unuble to perform their wonted duties As surely us they think this it will come true for thought I Is creative How many of us ca say with Job The thing which I greatly feared Is come upon me Tin time will como when children will not bo allowed to celebrate their birthdays when they will know that by thinking themselves young they will remain young and that they will cease to grow old when they cerise to believe lobelee In old age Tho body Is built up on be Hers and our convictions are slampe upon every liber of our beings What we believe what wo think that we are so people who remain young In spirit never grow old Not one of n hundred students oC whom the writer was one under Olive Olver Wendell Holmes ld1 at Harvard ever thought of him as an old man althougl ol < lhoulh He had then passed his SOth blrthda > His spirit was so young and he wa so buoyant so fresh and full of lIfe that we always thought of him as one of ourselves Ills vivacity and Joyous ness were contagious You could TIO beIn his presenco five minutes without feeling brighter and bettcr for 1 t The genial doctor never practiced medicine yet he did more to relieve human suf fell ng than many practicing physicians Ilia presence wan n tonic Itwau a perpetual per-petual delight to be near him Success for February V Progress Tho poor old ways of long ago Aro not for UB today alO Our fathers ways wero crudo and slow We vc put them all away Weve risen from tho bogs and elhno bOH9 s1mo Of Irenoranco and drawn Ourselves to heights that are sublime But still we arm ourselves to slay Tho bloody wars go on Wo take Times forelock In our hands And calmly bid him stay And ho given heed to our commands And tarries by the way Wo play with forcwi of the air Mrovo found tho heights and drawn Deep at tho wellsprings gushIng there But still wo arm ourselves to slay V The foolish wars go onl Tho < rld old means Ho far behind Wovo stripped tho bark away And given polish to mankind AVe proudly rim each day A llttlo grander In our pride Since wo have deftly drawn Tho curtain hiding knowledge wide But still wo arm ourselves to slay Tho brutish wars go on Wcvo put tho torturewheel tho rack Tho screws and stock away thoughts o back And shudder as our po To Torquomadas day But still gold braid charms women when Tla oer our shoulders drawn Brass buttons still distinguish men And so we an ourselves tp slay The hellish wars go on S E Klser In Chicago RecordHerald FiveCent Concerts A number of kindhearted society women wo-men In New York are Interesting themselves them-selves In what is called the nckel concert con-cert They are members of prominent music societies and came to he conclusIon con-clusIon that others ought to enjoy what they are permitted to possess The Idea Is to furnish good music to the poor people and working people at 5 cents ahead a-head The concerts will be given In the public school buildings which have been tendered by the Board of Education Educa-tion All the music will be high class although tho programme will natim rally vary so a to fit the locality in which the concert is given The first idea was to charge no admission but on second thought a charge was decided upon so that selfrespecting men and women would attend without feeling that the were objects of charity The price vas placed at 5 cents so that the concerts might bo within the reach of all Detroit De-troit Free Press Bead and Talked at Same Time The other day John R Proctor president presi-dent of the Civil Service commission was talking about President Roose volts marvelous ability to get things doneto grasp the root of a question ota ot-a glance as shown in his work as a member of the Civil Service commissIon commis-sIon in which Mr Proctor was asso elated with him I remember on one occasion he said I had occasion to consult Mr Roosevelt about a certain question set forth In a foolscap page of typewritten matter I handed him the paper but he Immediately began talking about something entirely I different simply glancing at the paper now and again in an absentminded manner as he talked Come now Roosevelt I said at last rene that paper and let mo have your opinion I have read It1 he replied and I approve entirely I of your position You have read It When did you read It 7 While we were talking But thats Impossible Ive watched you the whole time and you havent had a chance Well If you dont believe me Il tell you Ihe contents of the paper and therewith he began and gave me a summary of the whole matter which was absolutely correct and exhaustive I couldnt have stated It better myself New York Times Talking to Ones Self Talking to ones self has this obvious advantage over any other form of oratory ora-tory or gossip ono Is assured of a sympathetic sym-pathetic audience But It has also this peculiar drawback it Is supposed to be ono of the early symptoms of insanity Wrongly so perhaps A maddoctor might rule the habit out of his diagnosis diagno-sis Nevertheless the popular belief Is firmly rooted And It Is for fear of this belief doubtless that we talk to ourselves our-selves at any length oxoopt In the do llrlum of a fever In moments of ordinary ordi-nary excitement of course we utter to the wind some sort of appropriate ejac ulatlon Delight wrings from us a cry of Hurrah or Thank Heaven even though there be none ny to ccno us Similarly in any disgust we emit one of those sounds whose rather pooi equivalents In print are Ugh and Faugh Dni and Tut Much further than this we do not go Why what an ass am I cries Hamlet In ono of his soliloquies Omitting the firs word and transposing the last two the ordinary modern man does often soliloquize solilo-quize to that extent But he could no more sollllqulze to Hamlets extent than he could speak In decasyllabics Nor Is there any reason to suppose that that class of the community with which contemptuous of his own fluency Hamlet compared himself Is or ever was more prone to soliloquize than any other In the matter of soliloquies solil-oquies we cannot accept Hamlet as an unbiased authority Wo merely find In him the possible origin of the belief that talking to ones self Is ci bad sign London Lon-don Saturday Review The Cardinal and Women Cardinal Gibbons renews his complaint com-plaint against ho spirit of Independence Independ-ence and unrest among women American women In particular which has brought such changes that the social condition I which presents Itself today even among the best and most cultured classes differs I essentially from the standards heretofore held rfs Inviolable In-violable He finds the shibboleth of the change to be Masculinity Is greater than motherhood Perhaps the spirit of Independence which the Cardinal deplores has been in some measure forced on woman A considerable number of women reared under the old system for a matrimonial career arc fated to live singly An Increasing proportion of young men do not marry fearing to risk fin Interference with theli utter absorption In business which Is the price of modern success In the oldor communities there Is an excess of women over menIn Massachusetts 1GS females to ovory 100 males Many athero and brothers find the struggle hard and women oC keen sensibilities do not want to be a weight on them specially since the industrial and com ncrclal conditions make It possible for vomen to support themselves It Is tot altogether from a spirit of unrest but often from unselfish and generous natives that they enter into pursuits outside the home It Is not a rare thing for men to die leaving their daughters wlthrfilt adequate means of upport Philadelphia Record |