| Show f ri U NTEMPRAY THHUHT i Increasing Length of Life The desire to live long is so universal t among clvillxcd peoples who have learned the value of life und Its oppor L tunltles thnt any statistics bearing upon longe Ity aro Invested with much popular Interest The ngurea oC tho twelfth census on the question of lon lrh gevlty furnish the optimist with much cI r material for expatiating upon the general gen-eral Impiovcmcnt and advancement ot the human race at least that portion I of It living within the boundaries of i the United States The race Is growing i grow-ing older says the statistician This of course Is I selfevident proposition It requires no statistics to verify thin statement But the race Is l also llv jnjr laeDnL The average age 13 slowly but surely increasing as human Intelligence Intelli-gence anti knowledge of hygienic and nanltary science Is more widely dls flnlaly scence Hfininated l This is I the showing made by the sta tlstlcH of tho twelfth census on length of life in this country Instead of I merely computing the average ago from I decade to decade the statisticians of the new census computed tho median F line which Is i the halfway station between be-tween birth and the average age I reached by the population The median age In 1900 was 22S ay compared with F < > 19 In 1Sifl I we eliminate the negro rnco from the calculation however we llnd that the median age of the whites nl 1S90 The was 234 as against iSl In L increase in the median age of the white population In the last nine decades J amounted to 71 1 year while during the tame period tho colored population In F creased only half as fast t While many Influences have coop crated In producing this Increase In CJtcd r the average length of life thm la acrge t that It be attributed little doubt may nlrlbuted I to an Increasing knowledge of the laws i of life The people are living more r tlonnlly than ever bcfoic The rules ot < health are more widely observed there Is more widespread interest in sanitary science and a more general dependency upon such agencies ns outdoor exercise healthful recreation proper ventilation rational diet nnd clean thinking to pro j Jong life Chicago RecordHerald Common Things Give me clear Lord thy magic common things jj Which all can see which all may share feunllKbt and dewdrops grass and stars ft and aca V Nothing unique or new and nothing i rare f Just daisies knapweed wind among the f thornH I t Some clouds to cros 3 the blue old sky above I tBaln winter fires n useful hand a heart J The common glory of n wonyms love t 1 Then when my feet no longer tread old > paths Keep them from fouling sweet things V anywhere Vcrltc one old epitaph In gracelit words Such tltliiKO look fairer that ho soJourned so-Journed here Spectator i A Typical Labor Agitator Consider the bridgebuilders Said Ito I I-to their agent What would happen 1C the Pencoyd or Steclton bridgebuild ers were aggrieved In Africa or Asia The men would strike In New York 1 paid he There Is union power reaching around the world This agent has served the union for the last live yearn year-n l 310 dollars a day and expenses not r here alone but abroad I Like other union oJllccrs he thinks union as you and I think the shop1 of our dally I toll lie goes armed Ke shuns no L trouble I asked a member of this union about il him lies all right came back Why nott None of his men are out of work e their pay Is I and as much mot as they can earn their day Is eight hours L theY have a practical monopoly of their f f trade The business agent has done It I have heard It said he remarked to me one evening that we fatten on I the worklngmen the deluded workingmen working-men These boys five years ago worked ten hours a day for 27fi Each contributes con-tributes half a cent a day to my salary sal-ary can they afford that from their i dollar and a quarter added pay Is the half a cent a bad Investment and he walked quickly toward a meeting of his local union to he stopped In the hall and on the stairs by seventeen whisperers whis-perers I counted on urgent business A successful politician could not be Dxore besetM G CunnlfE In The Worlds Work The JamEating British Army Now that we know that the British army consumed in the South African Afrcan war SI500000 pounds of Jam the fact I suggests some nice computations In the statistics o sweetmeats For Instance In-stance If the British army In ouler to crush I comparatively small provincial state that began the war without an army needs to be sustained by over thirtyfour million pounds of jam what quantity of jam would be necessary for It I If I had a real war with some great I military state Would there be Jam I enough In the world to meet such a I 1 crisis And what would become of the finances of The British empire If i In I such a case some of the Chicago men should corer all the Jam In the world Just before the war began Harpers Har-pers Weekly I Distance Was Diminished A Iv MrOlure during the Civil war knew a planter who was given tQ pull Ing a long bow in narratives of the hunt and Usually had the hacking of hlc negro servitor 1 slowgoing but r quirkwilled old flow who simply adored his master says the Philadelphia Philadel-phia Times Once at a dinner Iho planter told of shooting an alligator through the eye and the tail with a single sin-gle bullet The guests were Incredulous Incredu-lous and plainly showed It but smiling smil-ing blandly the narrulor turned to the old negro who stood behind his chair as though soaking confirmation Dim I am rime ma abul youse clean forgot to tell e ladles and gcnmen dat de gator were a scralchln his eye wlf de end ul his tall jus bout th time yo flr < Hl dat shot massa Then leaning forward lo whisper the old retainer added An massa damn 11 de nex time dont tell em ao far apart A Grand Dukes Views of Chicago The RusHlan Grand Duke Boris cousin cou-sin of the Czar who with his start Is completing a tour of tin world evidently evi-dently found Chicago much to hlrt king k-ing When Ilrst the I Hug Q the Grand Duke was ralsod over the Russian con btilat on ItiiHh street his plans contemplated con-templated a stay 0 only two days In the city by Lake Michigan But once caught In the current of stronuoiifi Testcrn hospitality Boris postponed departure from day to day and n any two weeks passed before tns flag was finally lowered During that time the Grand Duke asnliucd In the dedication of a Russian church hew he-w ll poaching through the sumnW uettlcmonls on the North Shore he ls Ittd the stockyards and tho university lie played polo at the Onwenlslu club and nm C racing automobile Into an oak tree he wan the guest of honor at Innumerable dinners and luncheons he went up to Lake Geneva the Newport I of the West around which the rich men of Chicago havn built a circle of sum mer palaces and there looked at he I stara through the great Yurkcs tele r SCOpe he drank champagne from tho while eatln slipper of a Chicago chorus girl and finally In departing he left this picturesque message to his hosts Most truly I I dare not tell you how much i like Chicago You would not bollcvp Let mo to make farewell glv opinion that It IH one most square tpot of all 1 discover I hate Cunr go away from It and ns you Americans say you bet I shall return The one incident i of the Grand Dukes stay In Chicago to whlph especial significance Is 1 attached Is his acceptance of an Invitation In-vitation to luncheon at the Standard club an organisation composed entirely entire-ly of wealthy Jows Tho speeches made on that occasion are taken to Indicate that the policy which has within recent years driven so many Jews from thy land l of the CzarIs no longer believed In i by UL least one member of the Russian Rus-sian royal family Harpers Weekly Washing in the Orient The Japanese rip their garments apart for every washing and they Iron their clotlies by spreading thorn on n Hat board and leaning this up against the house to dry The sun takes the wrinkles wrin-kles I out the clothes and some of them have quite a luster The Japanese AVOIII HU does her washing outotdoorn Her washtub Is not more than six Inches high The hardest worked washerwomen In the world arc the Corcans Thuy have to wash about f do en dresses for their husbands i and they have plenty to do The washing Is usually done In cold water and often In running streams Thc clothes are pounded with paddles until they shine like a shirt front from a laundry Wonderful Yield of WellTilled Soil As to what the sol may be made to produce under the most enlightened piogrcsslve and scion title methods weave h we-ave some Interesting facts and figures presented In the work Fields Factories Fac-tories and Workshops by Prince ICraptokln tho Russian economist The statements In this work arc based chiefly on the results of Intensive agriculture agri-culture In parts of France Italy and BelgIum and the Islands of the Eng 1 lish Channel It is shown for example exam-ple that under these methods the soil of Belgium supplies with homegrowh food no less than 400 Inhabitants per square mile with a large overplus for export not loss than Jo000000 worth of agricultural produce being sent to Great Britain every your At this rate of production New York Slate alone would supply food for over 23000009 people I and hact large surplus for export and from the soil of Texas sufficient could be produced to sustain a population nearly double that of the United States Numerous Instances arc cited In this olume where eighteen tons of hay I have been gathered from < i single acre I and others whore the same area has been made to yield from 1600 to O I bushels of potatoes these crops being from nix to ten times as large as the average yield of American farms Still more astonishing aro the results attained at-tained under glass house culture so extensively followed In Belgium and the Isle of Jersey one crop succeeding succeed-ing i another there the year round By this method one area of thirteen acres In I Jerey Is cited where the money returns re-turns obtained In a year wero declared to be equivalent to what on ordinary farmer would obtain from 1300 acres of land Leslies Wckly Handicapped From tho Start A young man who Is now 0 model husband and father was celebrated In PhlndelphII for his wlklncss and reckless reck-less l gnyly before his marriage about six years ago On one occasion he lilt on the Idea of giving 0 midnight supper sup-per for seventyfive to be made up of a dozen of his Intimate friends and six friends of each The dozen were told to bring whomever they pleased without regard for sock standlng personal per-sonal character or anything of the port When all were seated the host thought It a rare Joke to ask a blessing bless-ing i and cast about the table for somebody some-body to pronounce the words A clerical cler-ical I looking stranger Impressed him asa as-a proper man and he made known his wish The stranger arose and said From the direction of your glance sir I think you were speaking to me but Im so deaf I couldnt hear a damned word you said Philadelphia Times Whore Money is Useless The Island of Ascension out In the Atlantic Is the property of the British Admiralty and governed for them by a a captain In charge As a result there Is I no private property In land no rents rates or taxes and no use for money The flocks and herds are public property prop-erty and the meat Is Issued In rations rtons So arc the vegetables grown on the farms When the Island fisherman makes a catch he brings it to the guardroom guard-room where it Is Issued by the ser geantmajor says London Stray Stories Sto-ries The only private property allowed al-lowed is fowls and pIgeons Even the wild donkeys are under Government control They are on the books of the paymaster and handed over at stocktaking The population Is about 300 all told There are a few blue jnckils a company or so of marines Bore Krooboys from Sierra Leone and I j very few civilians What a marine cant do It Is hard to discover The muleteer Is a marine KO IB the gardener garden-er so are the shepherds the stockmen tho grooms the masons carpenters and plumbers Even the Island trapper trap-per who gets rewards for the tails of rats Is n marine Military Lessons of Boer War Although the war with the Boers has ended the discussion of Its lessons goes on among military men without cessation One of the most Interesting contributions to the subject Is from the pen of LieutCol F N Maude long recognized au one of the ablest British writers on the art of war He llnds that there was a stupendous advance ad-vance In English military preparedness prepared-ness between JS70 and 1900and resents the imputation that this could have ben accomplished by an urmy who ° e nflleorH were conspicuously deficient In Professional keenness Lieu LCol MIre moat original I contention contenton which he boars out well with statistics statis-tics of several wars Is I that tho modern breeohlondljiK rifle does not kill more readily than the ole Khortrango mux xlclondlng weapons Whereas charges made by Mamelukes Turks Ghavis and Sikhn were easily stopped with t hp old weapons ueh rushes he llnds have frequently been successful In modern times when the European troops had five times the distance and five Union the rate of Ira to meet their enemies with His final conclusion Is quite favorable fa-vorable to the attacking side whereas most writers hoAc seen In the Boer successes a substantial gain for tho defensive LieutCol Maude also bc llot that the leaders Influence on the issue o a battle Is greater not less than It ever was before To those who have boon hoping 1 to see vors nS ondcd by the Increased destructiveness of weapons LloutCol laudeR conclusions con-clusions about the modern rifle will bring distinct disappointment New York Evening Post Ten Cents Worth of Bath A certain HUlc man of 6 had been all eagerness 11 i anticipation of a sum mer at the seashore He could hardly wait for the frt bath When however he saw the ocean with the great waves rolling on the beach he could not be Induced to go near Jt and iositiveiy refused to the put on bathing suit of which he hd been BO proud say Trained Motherhood One day his father fa-ther offered him EO cents If he would put on his HUlt and get wet all over once He wanted the money very much HO hp finally consented Clasping his nfms around his fathers neck like a vltse the great undertaking was begun After much shivering and trembling he a wet about two Inches over his I ankles when he exclaimed Papa I guessIwIllonlytake 10 cents worth this time Bad Weather Accounted For The old black mammy her dayn work done sat on the doorstop contentedly con-tentedly smoking her pipe and thinkIng think-ing of the happy days hone by i Jane the servant of the neighboring family came over to the fence That right auntie she said tqke all do fresh air you can Its nwnc to rain tomorrow How dye know Its gwlnc to rnin tomorrow De papers say soMa so-Ma good Lawdl ejaculated auntie no wondah wos having hurricanes and cyclones and tornadoes why doyve oven taken the weather out of dc Lawd3 hands Council Bluffs NonpareIl Non-pareil Phyllis Phyllltr moOR and speaks sedately Phyllis IK n maiden dear I She Is going up to college Thin her wondrous freshman year Thcvy will teach hor Greek and Latin The will discipline her mind Little flo 1 care If Phvllls Docs not leave her Tfome behind f Phyllln has a plain old father Following a plnln old trade Dut he loves with rare devotion This Imo dainty little maid Phyllis baa n tollworn mother Who bout given of hor best That the world might bo nil lunehlno For this darling of her nest Pnyllls may find store ot knowledgo Ncolh her Alma Milers wing May she not forget time measure Of tho homebound tune to slpg May she bring nor sweetest treasure Iovc undoled and faith < ovc uncolCd nnc rolh nndlpimec When again she neokn the cotlnso Where tho evening Inmpn nrV trimmed Margaret 10 Sangotarx In Will Carle tons Magazine Every Where Choosing Their Ankles There Is nci end to the foibles of femininity fem-ininity Some of the latest Ideas for the entertainment of capricious beauty certainly possess the merit of novelty others It niunt t be confessed arc calculated calcu-lated to Induce a smile of cynicism on the part of the superior person who Is I generally unromantIc and unimaginative unimagina-tive man says the London Mall Even ho however Js taking kindly to the latest Importation in dances According to the Queen It Is caIed the Dolly Varden A screen IB placed atone at-one end of the ballroom with an aperture aper-ture at the base the ladles at one side and the gentlemen on the other The ladles walk In procession behind the ncreen displaying just t trifle of their pretty ankles The gentlemen kneeling kneel-ing on the other side choose the particular par-ticular pair of ankles they wish to dance with then the screen Isremoved the band strikes up and the gentlemen claim their partners A Famous Mans Wife Apropos of I recent sale In London ort or-t first edition of Rolilnson Crusoe and a second edition of the Farther Adventures dated 1710 for the sum of 2ir is revived an enjoyable story of Mme TalleyrandH appreciation of Robinson Crusoe says the Literary World Talleyrand used to excuse his marriage mar-riage with a woman so luc lns In tact and sense on the ground that clever women might compromise their husbands hus-bands whereas stupid wpmen pnly compromised themselves One day Dc non the famous Egyptologist dined with the Tallcyrands M Talleyrand Instructed his wife to read Denons books She dutifully went to the library li-brary but on the way forgot the name She coukt only remember she wanted the book of a famous traveler whose name ended In on The librarian ian gave her Robinson Cruse Mmc Talleyrand read the book marveling that a great traveler could write such an Interesting work At dinner she astonished as-tonished her guest by suddenly exclaiming ex-claiming Mon Dleu monsieur what Joy you must have felt on your island when you found Friday Comfort for tho Bald We have never understood the popular pop-ular sentiment which regards a head free from hair as n disgraceful or ridiculous ridic-ulous object That the sentiment Is as old as It Is widespread Is shown by tho story of Ellsba and the mocking boys The sentiment is also shared by the public prosecutor at Cracow says the Pall Mall Gazette There Is n club ot baldheaded men In that city and they asked Archduke Charles Stephen to become be-come their honorary president the public pub-lic prosecutor heard of their appeal and Instiuctcd proceedings to be taken against the petitioners for an Insult to one of the royal family We are glad to say that the Archduke Intervened and the case was quashed although his royal highness felt unable to accept the proffered honor That oillclous public prosecutor must hold similar vlos to those of a comrade In longago Spain who regarded It as an Indelicacy to suggest that the Queen of Spain had legs Meanwhile we look forward to the time when a smooth clean pate shall hear honorable and fffshlonable as 0 cleanshaven face Ic now i One Way to Get 0 Husband There arc many amid unique methods of obtaining a husband but one tried recently In Maryland Is the strangest up to date Miss Mamie Zcrcross thought It was about time that ihe should be settled and knowing of no eligible young man in the neighborhood who was looking her way she sent up n balloon on the Fourth of July with a photograph of heiself attached together with a letter to whom It might concern Had this been done by some pcrwns the letter would have gone up In smoke or been found by some grandfather or children under 7 but Miss Zercrons was one of the earths lucky ones and her epistle was discovered by a beautiful young man who was as heartlonely as the young woman After this he wrote to her and she to him and now If I every thing goes smoothly there Is to be a wedding I First Trust on Record The earliest form of trust that ever existed wan undoubtedly the cornering of food stutie by I monarchs and their agents Accounts of such transactions are to be found In Assyrian records dating back 7COO or SOOO years and the Bible descrIbes a very large operation of this kind carried out by Joucph when out of the wealth O the seven fat years he provided for the poverty J of the seven lean onus says Stray Stories The IJomnns did the same thing through their taxfarmers who laid embargoes On tho food supplies of tho provlnceo against arrears of taxes and the probability Is that similar operations opera-tions were nlfio conducted with regard to manufacturers Another form of monopolies known ns trade guilds has existed from the very early times and these In the mid dle ages amounted practically to the eornerlnr of certain arts and Industries Indus-tries as well as means of distribution The fjresitcat of them was the famous league of the llanse towns So close n combine ins thlo that It possessed Its own fleets of armed merchantmen and con armies of mercenaries mer-cenaries In order to guard Its monop oly a length to which not oven Amer lean proceed capitalists have yet ventured to Not a Pleasant Prospect lr Plchve the CVarfj Minister of tho Interior has received a warning to the effect that he Is sentenced td death by the terrorists and he Is destined to share the fate of his predecessor In office of-fice Slplogulne and Bolollepoff Hfe Is carrying his life In his hands and he realizes It He knows when he wakes every morning that his chance of ever Jioelng the Hun tivl If one tha no Insurance Insur-ance company would care to risk None the less ho goes about his business In the moat unconcerned fashion and up parently without any special precautions precau-tions beingtakcn to Insure his safety Baltimore American Telephone Firo Guard Novel and up to datq In 1 the method of bridling the fire monster when ho goes forth to devour a feast of forest that Is In use In the San Gabriel forest for-est reserve In California This Is 0 chain of fifty telephone stations about the reserve for the special purpose of giving warning If a fire should breakout break-out In tho woods In addition t patrol of twentyfive rangers arc on guard They carry portable port-able phones with which In 0 sudden emergency they can cut In on the near cat wire and bo save valuable time which would otherwise be wasted In reaching the station I This somewhat expensive scheme won put Into execution by the electric and Irrigation companies who control the water nnd wood facilities along the San Gabriel river I someone would only Invent some equally efficacious method of guarding against the other destructive element water In the form of rain especially he would benefit the whole human race and Incidentally become be-come a multlmllllonalro as well I one could only press a button and turnoff turn-off the weather wealler Tho Origin of the Stomach Orign The primordial organisms from which all higher nnlmnls Including man developed I de-veloped consisted only of a tube made up of a layer of cells This tube was the stomach and the Gtomach was the organism Food entered at one end of this tiny canal and after Its nutriment had been absorbed tho refuse was reuse forced out of the other end precisely the same nu food material Is passed through the alimentary canal of tho highest organisms today It will be Interesting to learn In this connection how the manIfold parts and organs of the higher animals were de eloped from the simple structure of these liny protean organisms Outside o the single layer of cells that formed the tube or stomach mentioned above was another layer of cells formIng form-Ing an outer lube attached to the Inner ono only at the ends where the tubes were continuous with each other The Inner tubeliko structure was ns has been said the digestive sac and out of it has been developed all the complicated cated organs that now form the alimentary ali-mentary oystem the throat oesopha gus stomach liver digestive glands nnd Intestines and the outer layer has given rise to the nkeloton muscles blood systems epidermis organs of sense etc The space between these two original layers Is represented by the bodycavity that now exists between be-tween our own bodywall and the alimentary ali-mentary system Will Carletons Magazine Mag-azine Everywhere Tho PlowBoy of tho West Across farronclilng level flolda Neath arly autumns sun Changing a stubble 0 gold to brown Tho plowboys course la run hoc2iate ribbons of earth behind Long miles ot tqll before Whistling to rival tho rncrna clcnr cal Of larkn that skyward sour Panting In noontides fervid heat Facing the evening breeze Every round of hlo shining share Means more than the plowboy seen I Beyond he grconlng darn to come Beyond tho rippling wheat Fair harvests o a worlds delight Walt on hit sturdy feet i i Bread and rent and hnpplncss Fpnd npplrntloni gained Comforts swecTl and treasures dear By lonelngrhfinds attained v All these and more aro tho wondrous gifts That roll from the shinIng share In ribbons brown where tho plowboy toils Oer the reaching acres bare Charles Morcau Hargcr In Leslies Weekly LC31c8 Pure Sunlight and Air We have often heard of Sunny Italy or the clear light o Egypt says the Desert but believe me there Is no sunlight there compared with that which falls the fals upon upper peaks of the Sierra Madre or the uninhabitable wastes of the Colorado desert Pure sunlight requires for Us existence pure air and the Old World has little of It left When you are In Rome again and stand upon that hill where all good Romanlsts goat sunset look out and ace how donpo In the atmosphere between be-tween you and St Peters dome That same thick air Is I all over Europe all around the Mediterranean even over In Mesopotamia und by the banks of the Ganges I has been breathed and burned and battlesmoked for 10000 years Ride up and over the high tablelands ta-blelands of Montana one can still ride there for days without seeing a trace of humanity and how clear and scentless scent-less I how absolutely Intangible that skyblown sunshot atmosphere1 You breathe It without feeling it you see through It a hundred < d nilles and the picture Is not blurred by It Once more ride over the enchanted mesas of Arizona Ari-zona at sunrise or sunset with the ragged mountains of Mexico to the south of you und the broken spurs of the great Sierras round about you anal an-al the glory of the Old shall bo as nothing to the gold and purple and burning crimson of this New World Matched Quarters for 120000 When the mon who play poker together to-gether at regular Intervals In a hotel all Fifth nvonuo met a short time ago for the last time before a vacation of several weeks the play wan n llttje higher than usual although the limit remained the same It was It f not necessary neces-sary to Ijolst that to provide the oppor tunity to make or lose t great deal of money When the game came to an end and the bankerwas adjusting the transfers of money ndj6tT taken place during the evening It was found that one of the players had won 560000 TJils mans name Is kiunvn from one end or the country to the othert and tho fact that he appeurert on the horl zon only a few years ago hag not served to hide his hijhmt The winner of the largest amount aUhc Able was S100 QOO richer than when he had sat down to play It dont want to stop with an odd sum like GOOOO said the second winner win-ner But Its too late to play anymore any-more I toll you how well settle l It Ill match the man who won 5100000 to see If Hw double or lulls That suited the other and time two men matched with quarters The second sec-ond winner cnme out bent and rose from the table with 120000 and ho plays In this gnmo along with a certain cer-tain number of congenial friends at I lOast I twice I week New York Sun Before and ACtor Taking Sary Ann sighs the HIgglns boy In tremulous tones If I sit L red ear at the huskjn boo tonight Im gala too to-o KometulnV Are C 7 k I bo What are y agoln1 to do oI I git n red ear Im agoln to take a kiss fm you I you inko a kips fm me assorts Sary Ann giving her head a saucy toss you kltubft sure that youll sit two red ears right aityTudge Ant Hypnotists That ants doctor their pick by hypnotism hypno-tism and magnetism IH proved by observation ob-servation An ardent student tells how he witnessed what may be termed n seance In medical science among ants Ho saw several of these little creatures emerge from the hlllu and noticed that there were some among them which were weak and emaciated Invalids in faqu They were accompanied by healthy members of the community and all made their way toward D distant dis-tant mound On following their movements through a frlavs the observer saw on this mound n big and sturdy ant which made some motions In the direction of the advancing Invalids The latter went up the mound one by ono and submitted thomselvpn to treatment This consisted In the physician ant panning his feelers over the head und body of the patent In a manner distinctly dis-tinctly suggestive oC the hypnotizing of nervca and muscles practiced by human hu-man doctors Every one went through tho treatment then tho patients went back and the doctor marched off In the opposite direction This Time I ThIs time In tho good time Youth la faraway But wn cant forget tho places whero the old times used to stay Tho valleys and the vlolots the meadows of tho May Tho starlight tho morning and the drcamo that made Thle time la the Rood II time Earth fnlr with mm and dow But wo cnut forget tho pisces that to Youth were swrot and now When Love wan yet your Hweotheart and sale swrntcHt I things to you Tho starlight and the dream that mado anc the mornlnffl IlL This time IP ho rood timoBut oh tho time limits aisl For now tho slmdowo deepen and bitter hues the blast Do yon think well ever reach a homo ao sweet aa thnt at last Tho slarllchl and tho dreams that made the mornlnc Frank lon L Stanton In Atlanta Constitu Tho Work of n Poot TIme poet Walt Whitman was as li I well known dependent during hiost of his life upon the kindness of friends and admirers for supporV making little or nothing oil his Writings A few years before hIs death one of thesc friends cnlldd upon him In his little house In Camden suburban town of Philadelphia Well Walt he said how goes It this winter Any sub scription needed for Christmas No said Whitman No Im at work now Im In tho employ of George Chllds lie pays mn 50 a month You at work May I ask your occupation oc-cupation Why I ride In the street care I fall Into talk with the drivers and conductors con-ductors and find out which of them have np overcoats and guess at their size and not Chllds and then he fends tho overcoats Its not hard work said the poet And then you know It helps Chllds along Detroit Free Press I Had Another Flame A man who had lost his muchbe loved wife consulted a stonemason In regard to the erection of a tombstone wllh a suitable epitaph After having a number of Jlnes suggested he llnally HurFlSlet iouly selected t the following The light of my life has gone oul rFn A > hurl time afterward tIme wldnwor fell In ltnv I > with f v 41 ry charming gIrl to whom he bcttpns ongiiguil Ho In tended to leave town returning on the day of the Weddlnjr and before ho w ont off Instructed the mason to alter the epitaph so that tho feelings oC his prospective bride would not be hurt This the mason promised to do and whn he ii ldiiwo returned hi visited the griVo at once finding that the ma son had been true to his word the epitaph epi-taph no > v appearing The light nC my life hasujijni rjut but I have found in other m tch1 Philadelphia Times Washingtons Many Pews IL la hardly conceivable that George Washington could have remained the richest man fp AmerIca hud he paid rent for l the church pews accredited I to him > Scarcely a village that had I church In his day but points with rrlde now to tho Washington family pew His H-is true however that he had much need of the Invocation of spiritual gracf for hin Ifl l lost control of a tamper never vny nMd as he did nt Trenton and oJitr poees he was qui capable at sweating a volley of good round oaths says a Pllthhur paper By the waj Is a man morally responsible respon-sible for profanity say occasioned under un-der straps of great excitement Quch nn may occur while commanding troops In battle One of the purest and most devout de-vout men we ever knew was a Baptist deacon who wan n LieutenantColonel In the Civil war who always went Into battle praying and who prayed fervently fervent-ly when the battle was over hut who lost his religion absolutely while the battle was on apd would swear as loud and as fiercely as any trooper In Flanders Flan-ders The mans sincerity could not be questioned for moat men prayed where he stopped praying nnd stopped praylns where he started HenPecked Sparrows Female sparrows are especially tyrannical tyran-nical toward their partners especially at nestbuilding time hn they frequently quently attack their husbands fiercely on account of their laziness At such limes the female voice can always be delected both louder and shriller than that of her mate as she pecks and tousles tou-sles him until he beats in Ignominious retreat Hen blackbirds and thrushes arc often very overbearing and even spiteful toward their males when their houses are In course of construction Sporting and Dramatic News Faint Heart Won I can never marry you said the beautiful blonde But pleaded the wealthy old nan wont you make my life happy for the short years I will ho bore I am troubled trou-bled with a weak nnd faint heart In that case r accept you And yet they say faint heart never won fair lady Nashville American What Would tho Fathers Think Princeton unh orally Is putting In an electric light and steam heating plant and the dormitories arc to hp enrlchcl with bathrooms and shower baths We oriicr vliat lhc sturdy oi 1 Nassiu Presbyterians of the eighteenth century cen-tury would htV thought of such soft Cnmpanlan device A man rund not be mOle than medlvVfil to remember when a bathroom In a oollosc building was unknown npd th pnlrM accommodations accommo-dations If thoro were any w erc primitive primi-tive Where did John Adams and hl1 contemporaries In MjiBSiichusets hall at Cambridge wash lhcrri > lv > K At time pump Or dll Ihov break t I > ice f l vcry morning In a bucket or tin wash buln a custom to whlcn pcroup slmuM hr attrlbutod John Quincy Adam ts habit of bathing hI the Polona In tIme bah of winter The shabbiest r > oorhouf < c Is n palace comparol with tin cniligo buildingsof the t Kovontrcnlh and eighteenth eight-eenth ccnturjes imudd with thost uf the first sixty or nlltY yonrs of the nlnetconth century New York Sun A Lincoln Story In Lincolns early political career he had occasion to travel quite a distance to be In tme for n coni nton in which ho had t deep Interest Pie went to a llvcrj i tile and kAJ for thi hift horse possible one that was both fast and fresh Lincoln reached the convention conven-tion too late to be of service to those he had wished to serve and drov hack tithe ti-the stable where he quietly asked timekeeper time-keeper What do you commonly use that horse for Waal drawled the denser we find him n good horse to draw the hearse at funerals lies so tractable Too slow for funerals too slow entirely en-tirely I commented Lincoln Why that horse wouldnt get tho corpse around In time for the resurrection Cincinnati Enquirer Senator Dopews Dual Life I By the use of a private car Senator i Depew IH able to lead l L dual If not a triple life Wiun he goes to bnl In Wellington about midnight It 1r I often on a comfortable cot In u wellappoint ed prlvitf car v hlch his bosn switched upon 1 sidetrack near tit Pennsylvania Pennsylva-nia station That Ic whenj his coachman coach-man sometimes drives after n dinner < or theater engaGement Mr Dopew Avakca up In Xcw York Nine oclock ices him nnaworlng mall and attending to business thrf 1 ihi re Is I to be 11 vole on tho Philippine bill or 1 debate on tho election of Senators by the people peo-ple he will be In his scat nt time Capitol In the aflornoon He can be there by I oclock or halfpast which Is early enough Then thor Is time Id dress and partake of 0 light repaid and Ito alfa ble diner out Is I ready to crack Joles an 1C I society Aiyie the only thln in the wo rlNc W York Evening Tost te Tonsorial Art Even tonsorial Ht Is long If we may Judge by the dotallcd report of a recent congress of the musters of this craft The jjormlcss shave was discussed and also tho farreaching Influence of hair food and Iho paradoxical practice of burnishing a red mustache with bril hrl llnntlnc A scientific paper explaining tIme esoteric mysteries of pushing the razor against the grain and of shaving a man two days under the skin was read amid storms of applause by n mas ter o tonsorial phrase who also admonished ad-monished hiM brothers to consider inviolate In-violate any husk of Information dropped by the Hhavee and above all other things to religiously practice the aria of silence Judge A Danger Signal Students of French politics will sec n deep meaning In the acton of the courtmartial convened to try Col Dc St Rem for a serlpun breach of discipline dis-cipline In 1 refusing to obey orders The Colonel was among the oU Gcrs chosen to carry out the provisions of the au soclalionit ta w which 111 TWildeck Rousseau ministry r formulated and which M Combey thf present Premier Prem-ier hascarried Into effect althccost of dangerous civil disturbances That law Is I aimed directly it the religious I Institutions of the Catholic church which hoIdo property In Franco on a communal bnsls and Ha I enforcement necessitated lie ejection from their coiuerrts of thousands of nuns who where greatly beloved by the population popula-tion surrounding the places of their retreat The Brotono particularly resented re-sented lhe action of the Government ao warmly that troops were required to close the convents and some blood was shod Col DC St Hem r was directed di-rected to shut the doors of one establishment estab-lishment whose occupants declined to comply with the mandates of the associations as-sociations law lie refused on the ground that while he was a soldier he was also a Frenchman and a Catholic Cath-olic and would war neither upon women wo-men nor upon the church Hence the courtmartial which of course found him guilty of an offense against discipline disci-pline which he did not deny and Imposed Im-posed upon the dreadful penalty of one days Imprisonment The absurd inadequacy of the punishment pun-ishment Is 0 warning the Ministry dare not disregard No more significant danger signal has been hoisted by the army since the days of the Dreyfus scandal I means that the military authority IP I not ready to follow the civil In the latters crusade upon clericalism cler-icalism I means that the armya tacit condonation of Individual disobedience diso-bedience In this case Implies a readiness readi-ness to make general disobedience a matter of opportunity rather than of Inclination Brooklyn Eagle The Quest Long years by years one walked lifes crowded street And each face with scanned passing eager oyc In hope that silent messenger to meet Fates herald men call Opportunity Ono Instant only his gaze dropped and v tloot Aa souls last Joyglimpse Opportunity TJnkcnned within that moment hastened byRobert Robert Cox Stump In Donahocc The Giant Cactus r The giant cereus of Arizona and northern Mexico Is the largestgrowing member of the cactus family attaining attain-ing a height of sixty feet and a diameter diam-eter or two feet or more In the United States It is usually known simply as the giant cactus In Mexico they call It the saguarro the g has the sound of vI In proportion to their size the giant cacti arc among the heaviest plants known the body being largely composed of water So fullarc they that travelers nearly perlnhlng of thirst have saved themselves by cut ting1 out a large piece and shaping the bottom of the wound td catch the water wa-ter pr sap which collects In a considerable consid-erable quantity In an Incredibly short time One would scarcely seek to quench his thirst in this manner except ex-cept In cases of dire necessity for the sap Is not of n pleasant taste The flowera usually white though sometimes tinged with smoky blue arc borne In a circle of clusters near lie top of the plant giving the effect of Ha being crown cl l with a wreath of while blossoms These blossoms are followed by dull red edible fruits quite like a fig or pear In shape The native Indians make It a point to gather all thcw fruits for food and In addition manufacture from them an Intoxicating beverage To obtain these frulta time Indians push them off one nt a time using a long pole which Is sometimes obtained from the dead trunk of one of hone giants for when dry the body splits up Into thin strips the extreme length of the plant The flower of the giant cactus has been adopted by Arizona Ari-zona as the Territorial flower but the sensational newspaper articles about the danger of its extinction arc greatly great-ly overdrawn Country Life In America Amer-ica The Love of Mothers Among the lower animals the mothers moth-ers love for her offspring lasts only until the offspring are able1 to shift for themselves The hen will fret and light for her downy chicks but when they become feathered and commence to do their own foraging the another hen becomes Indifferent to them and thinks only of hatching smother brood The mare loves her foal and the cow her calf only during the suckling period pe-riod Canine dams cease lo show affection af-fection to their progeny after the puppy pup-py age says time San Francisco Bulb tin So through the cnllr animal kingdom bolow the human species the maternal Instinct endures only while the young ones are helpless and ceases when they luau e grown How different In the love of a human mother for her children That love never dies nnd seems to grow more intense In-tense according at the children become less and loss worthy of IU The black sheep Is often the best beloved A Years Railway Accidents A striking feature of the report of the Interstate Commerce Commission waa the extent of lie passenger movement move-ment In the United States in the year ended June 30lh last and tho proportion propor-tion of Injured The number of passengers passen-gers carried during the year was C07 278121 of whom 2S2 or one In each 15IU69 were killed b > various accldenta and 1128 were injured Collisions and derailments account for llO passengers killed and 220S Injured While railroads are thus shown to be comparatively safe for passengers It Is far otherwise with railway employees engaged In tIme freight as well an tho passenger business busi-ness nnd kept by their duties at the positions of greatest danger The number num-ber of employees was J071103 Of theso S173 were killed und 10211 Injured Of trainmen Including cnglncmcn firemen fire-men conductors etc one In every 1I1G was killed and one In every thirteen was Injured There has been some improvement im-provement since 1S994 when one trainman train-man was killed for each eleven employed em-ployed In that year one passenger was killed for each OilSJO miles traveled while in the past year one vin killed for each Gl537f miles traveled Travel yearly becomes safer Baltimore Sun |
