Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-10-19 | Page 26 | Contemporary Thought

1 EUNTEMPRRT r r JHBUBftT r I H I I Chicago and Theodore Thomas The mortcst little statement recently j I In < u6d by the iisioclatlon which hia for I cloven years generously and splendidly I backed pnd BUPPOI tei the great Chicago I Chi-cago orchoetra of which Theodore I Thomas Is the director Is a somewhat I nipiossivc iXud markable document T cn forth for Instance the striking inct that within these eleven years thj I members of the association who are nil Chicago menanrt vomcn have made up a total dlffoiencc of 4370000 between the Income and tho cxpensoR of the orchestra orches-tra ThlB groat deficit has boon cheerfully cheer-fully rnet by the wall musiclovers of Chlcapo because they Imve been I I willing to sppnd the money In educating educat-ing and gradually elevating the musical tngle of ihe Middle Y1t The existence of nn nnnunl deficit In the finances of the orchestra Is no evidence that Chicago Chi-cago people arc at all behind those of any other section of tho country In I their t appreciation of orchestral music of tho highest class for Theodore Thomas had nOl only fulled to mnku his I orchestra pay for Itself In both Boston 1 Bos-ton and Now York befnio he came to I I tho csl but he had failed to llnd In Minor city the sonorous public spirit whIch has held up his hands for the I pact decade There is something paradoxical I para-doxical In the fact that Chicago only I the I other day known chiefly as the capital cap-ital and lllth and PhlllBtla should stand alone among the jieat cities n tho country us willing to t spend hundreds I hun-dreds of thousands 0 dollnrtf to maintain II t main-tain high mufikal kknls But almost I ovorythlngahoiit Chicago Is I f paradox I I and nothing It docs or Is would much nothlnt f excite surprlFfc Meanwhllo It hns In L I Theodore Thomas perhaps the greatest living leader of orchestral music Ills j wholo career has ben one of complete 1 I I devotion to an Ideal Rather l than I I lower the iilaYidnrdn of his orchestra he rj I would lay down his baton In second E I and for all tlmo Harpers Vc kly I Ii ji j I l i The Land of lnlccDoleve I 1 la well to wander sometimes In the land i I of MakeBollcvc I Through Its cvorsnllllng gardens where I I the heart innv yoisc to grlevo Where the beds arc gay with IOBCS and the pnthu arc pavcu wIth gold I I And our hopes like soaring songsters I I 1 their mercurial wings unfold I I Let iid nil be little children for l while and make our way I Through the sweet and Runny meadowland I I I meadow-land l of MaUeBcllovc toddy I t Thcros 1 Queen within an arbor where I II 1 she rules In high renown I With a lily for a copter and a rose I wreath for a orown And her laws arC love and laughter for I they leo not sorrow there Never hale or pnfn or money tntor In her Ulnrlom fair t So we slag the songa tho children sing und jHiy the E nut they piny l i AsjWo wander In the golden land of Mnkc r I Believe today f i R E M 1 In St Jamess aol I SI I I How Rothschild Profited There Is probably no more plclur erfiuc and unique bit of financiering In history than that by which Nathan I I TJothHchlld made 000000 as n result of the battle of Waterloo The story ia I told by Mr Henry Clews In his book Twentyeight Years In Wall Street Rothschild had followed Wellington during his campaign against Napoleon and at Waterloo the man of money sat lee 0 soldier In a shower of rain I and bullets watching the battle As I poon ns he observed tIC arrival oC Blucher and the rout of the French Rothschild set spurs to his horse and I i rode swiftly to Brussels A carriage whirled him to Ostend and the next i morning he was at the Belgian const f I The sea was eo rough that ho 1 had to pay S500 to n boatman 1 lo carry him 1 i across the channel and he landed at II i Dover In the evening The next morn I i i lag he was In London before the openIng ii open-Ing of the stock exchange I was I known that ho had come direct t from i Wellington and must t have the latest hews He had outstripped all the cour I J I Irs and messengers of the Nation I i There was no telegraph then In an swer to the anxious Inqulrlea for then the-n W5 of Wellington Rothschild discreetly dis-creetly said nothing of the battle of Waterloo Instead he sighed and told 0 Eluchern previous defeat at Llgny l and said that as a result there could belittle be-little hope for Wellington The gloomy report caused a panic on the exchange and when the t market had reached the bottom Nathan Rothschild bought everything that he could find money for all being done quietly through his tt hrokers Then came the news of the battle o Waterloo Englands Vlctoi y Hie final defeat I of Napoleon Securities I of all kinds went up with n rush and Nathan Rothschild being well stocked at small cost made great prollts about 0000000 He was oro 0 the live sons I of the original Mayer Anselm Roth schild who began hlR career In a little I moneyloaning shop In Frankfort Germany I I Ger-many and founded tlv > richest family 1 St In the world Leslies Weekly I I 1 Bishop Tuttle ns a Chopper j The St L9Uls GlobeDemocrat thus I speaks o Bishop Tuttlest vacation days t b In upper Michigan When Bishop Tuttlo starts In stately cassock upon his country visitations 1 next week he will present a figure de I i Hdedly different from that remembered I I I hy those of his SL Louis acquaintances t who watched him take his summers I recreation at Wequetonslng I was not uncommon bore to spe the bishop at early morning swinging an ax lust ly nfc he strode along the board walk I dressed In knee breeches and outing I shirt and walking vigorously toward fame goal The fact that fOmf nc was the bish I op1 plcnsantcfst holiday was when he I waa felling trees When a newcomer I arrived In I Wequetonslng to build a I rottngc the bishop won wont to approach ap-proach him with profoundoat entreaty j asking that to him might be accorded I the privilege o cutting the trees that I must be cut on the newtettled place In several ckarings he felled nearly all I I ihe trees President Roosevelt It I will I he seen does not stand alone as a suc crrsor to Gladstone I Should Take His Legs Too In Mr Dcpcw In said a life Insurance Insur-ance ogont handing his card to the of I lice attendant I Ill see air replied the minion go Ing Into the Senators I tt Senatort iMinctum II II Mr Depew glanced at the card and shook his head In the negative Although l Al-though the upper part of his body was hidden from public view by hIM desk the Senators log yt Ire plainly visible nw he sat with his side toward the desk Mr Depew la out said the attendant ltCIc ant i antVThll I said the Insurance eollcltor I glancIng through the half open door I wish youd tell him when he comes In that 1 thlnkmy cdmpany would posi wOltc psl I Lively refine to1 accept him as a flrnt class risk unless he will agree to always al-ways take his legs 1 with him when heR he-R outNew York Times Origin of Sorosis I Is an Interesting fact recorded In John Russell Youngs Men and Memories lrem cries and not elsewhere stated so far I as we know that the famous womans club In New York known us Sorosls I fAVOR its origin to a dinner given to Plckcns at the time of hlo second visit to America by the newspaper men Il the metropolis When the arrange ments for tho foast of reason and the S flow of soul had heel perfected Itwas discovered that no provision had been made for any women guests that In tuu fact there wqa no room for them at the banqueting hall America vas favored 1aored at that time ao well au at this with a 11 number of gifted women who seemed o Icd fairly entitled to a place In such n t gathering where men o letters AM well nu newspaper writers were to do honor to the great English novelist Among I these wero Fanny Fern then at tho I height of her glory and Alice Gary whose sweet und gracious presence wan welcome always and everywhere All I efforts to secure admission of ladles to tho banquet failed however and as a result to use the word b Mr Young the rejected ones Under the leadership leader-ship ot Alice Cary MrM Crolj Miss Kate Field and other resolved to form n club of their own to exclude men from their festivities an they had been excluded and when DlckcnE or some other of relative fame came to the United States they would honor him In tluMr own sweet and gracious way The club was named Sorosls Leslies Weekly October October Is the treasurer of tho ycir And n 1 the months pay bounty I to her stcr The fJelilM and orcharla still their tribute rAnd r-And more fill ill brlmmlnjr coffers moro pnd But she with youthful lavIshness Spends nil her wealth In guudy dress And docks hcraclf In garmontil bold Of scarlet purple rod and gold She hccdcth not how utvlfl tho hourS fly But nlonsr dmllcs and sings her happy life Sho only sees above l bhlnlng sky She only hcara the breeds volco in song Her garments trail the woodlands hAnd h-And gather pearls of early dow TJint sparkle till the roguish sun Crepes niul them up meals m every one Paul Laurence Dunbar Origin of Watered Stock The expression watered stock which describes ro well the expansion of the I block of o company beyond the value of the property originated It Is I sold In connection with Daniel Drew who was once the wealthiest und most unique manipulator In Walt street Drew had been a drover In his younger days and It was said of him that before selling his cattle In the market her would first give them large quantities of salt to make them thirsty and then provide them with all the water they could drink In title way their weight was greatly Increased and the purchaser was buying watered stock Leslies Weekly Famous New York Hotels Between 1S36 and ISWwhen the Fifth Avenue hotel was opened many large und for their day fine hotels for the most part since razed to the ground were built In IS 10 was opened the New York hotel corner of Broadway Broad-way and Wavcrlcy place > nn arlsocratlc house where many line old famlllto stayed and where Jenny Lint wan accustomed ac-customed to stop In 1850 came the Clarendon on the European plan also an aristocratic place where many foreign for-eign diplomats stayed A house opened about the same time and In much the came style was the Irving hotel Chambers street and Broadway In 1S52 the St Nicholas and the Metropolitan Metropol-itan on an expensive scale and Introducing Intro-ducing bridal chambers were opened The St Nicholas was built on the Broadway side In marble and In that respect WS an architectural hmo a Uon so far as New York hotels l enL This house was the largest and finest hotel In the country and remained such until the erection o the Fifth Avenue I wa very sumptuously furnished of solid rosewood arid had double the caPacity ca-Pacity of the Astor house The mirrors alone cost 3GOOOO I In said that the fiirnllure cost more than the furniture o tho WaldorfAstoria In slzo It wnn larger It IH said than any New York hote yth the exception of the combined com-bined Astoria and Waldorf In 1851 two hotels still doing business the Bre voort and tho Everett house were opened on the European plan and were of n high order The latter house took Us name from Edward Everett n nor trait of whom still hangs In the recep j tionroom The Everett house Is structurally struc-turally n good example of tho old stylo of New York hotels I Is built of brick Record but Is very old Architectural Sleep for Children In Sweden n committee was recently appointed by the Government for the mirpoHo of nncertiilnlng how many hours children of various ages ought to sleep in order that they may be able i to study properly According to the report forwarded to the Minister of Education children who ore1 1 years old should sleep twelve hours children who are 7 years old eleven hours children who are 9 years old ten hours children who are from 12 to 1 years old from nine to ten I hours and those who are from 11 to 21 years old from nine to ten hours I further points out that anaemia and wcakncfio In childrenare frequent ly I due to lack of Blcepew York Times Thankful for Profanity A story of his earlier days when ho was a sailor before the mast l Is told by United States Senator George Perkins ot California He recalls a tlmo When a tremendous storm made It look as though the stanch ship would have to surrender to the forces of King Nqp tunt In the midst of the excitement clement c minister who was one of the paven gcrs asked the captain If he could have prayers dOh never mind about the prayers said the captain The men arc swear swerr Ing too hard to stop for prayers and as Ions as you hear them swearing added the captain there Is no danger dan-ger The dominie returned to his stateroom state-room A little while Inter when the storm grew worse the Irew preacher went on deck to see what the sailors were clolng Then he went back to his wife Thank God he ejaculated fervent ly I those men are still swearing Dubuque Telegraph Turnip Time Its disgraceful the way children are taught fine began with 3 painful disregard dis-regard of tact and diplomacy Their studies are ao Jumbled together that they dont know when they have fin ished l with arithmetic and taken up geography The other day Bessie same home and said that the teacher had stopped In the middle of the singing lesson right in thtj middle of a song singIns I ask how many turnips were In a peck You must be mistaken paid the astonished principal No manm Bessie told l mo and Bessie never lies said Bessies 00 mother atmosphere with n complacency that Irritated the The teacher was sent for She denied that she had Interrupted tho music Ics son to satisfy her curiosity In regard to turnips and pecks She went hack with unkindly feelings hut three mln utus later she ll8 returned smiling I know now what she mount Mid she I aiikcd the children how many don beats Answers there were In C measure Lon A Rare Find The scientists excavations nowadays are revealing many rare treasures Four hundred years before Christs time u public festival was given In Greece to Phllopoomen who won freedom for the Achaean league I by defeating a Spartan Spar-tan tyrant At that fefitlval the poet Jol TlmotheuB recited a poem tfhlch created creat-ed great enthusiasm I I Scholars have wondered what became o It but no trace of It has been discovered until a few weeks ago when It was found by members of the German Oriental society so-ciety who were excavating at Abuslr C little Greek suburb of Memphis Egypt The papyrus was found In the grave of the pool from which It Is inferred in-ferred that It was his favorite song The find Is not only Interesting as containing the whole text of the famous poem frngmcntu of which heretofore only have been known but probably It Is one of the oldest If not the oldest Greek document which has yet como to light Chicago Tribune Tho Popo and tho Philippines From Rome comes the announcement that 1 pontifical bull on the apostolic constitution of the Philippines will soon be Issued I will Indicate the papal view of the objects ohjcctt and alms of Arch bishop Guldls mission to Manila Foreshadowing Fore-shadowing the contents of the bull It is paid that the apostolic delegate will have to reorganize the whole ecclesiastical ecclesias-tical hierarchy of the archIpelago creating three new diocese and proponing pro-poning prelates for the archbishopric of Manila and the remaining bishoprics after which he will convoke a synod toe to-e the forms of ecclesiastical government In harmony with the customs cus-toms of the Islands One of the first flst projects of the archbishop In tho eotnb llshment at Manila of two seminaries for the education of the native clergy who are destined Immediately to displace dis-place the foreigners These seminaries will be Rent to Rome to complete their education either at the North American Ameri-can or at the South American college or In 0 special Filipino college If It lii found practicable to establish the latter lat-ter The friar question might Itl la flug geBted be solved without recourse to tho recall 0 the friars by opening the Philippines to all the clergy o all the religious orders without distinction of nationality thus quickly overshadowing overshadow-ing the few hundreds of Spanish friars lemalnlng there The reorganization of the church In the Islands will be paid for by the money coming from the sale of the friars lands and from the In demnity which the TJnlted States will pay for tai damages to church nron crty The church Is to submit an ctf mate of the amount demanded uhlch may become the base of negotiations neotalonu between the apostolic delegate and the Governor Harpers Weekly A Now York Gourmand I would not render him happy to name him but NewYork has In official life a gourmand of gourmands Hla record rec-ord o fourteen pounds of beefsteak at a meal Is nothing He eats a cove of quail for breakfast every day during the season and C quarter o mutton for dlnner I Brlgnolls capacity was ns a peck measure to this mans bushel and I have bean the celebrated singer make a dozen large chops disappear at a midnight mid-night cupper Our friend whets his ap petite with three dozen o > stern The other day the landlord of the place where he dines offered him 2 to eat elsewhere On one occasion he sudden ly l left udcon lef a banquet because there was not enough to cat and his friends found him an hour later demolishing the bill of fare In C noted chophouse I In I evi 1 dent that he lives to eatNew York Press I Why Russell Sage Went to Church As an illustration of Russell Sager eager desire to keep In close touch with what Is going on In the financial world n Wall street broker tells this An Im portant meeting was scheduled for a day on which Mr Sage was unusually busy and when he arrived at the desig nated place the deliberations were over and all the participants had dispersed Use the telephone as he would Mr Sage could not get in communication communlclton with any of them Knowing that one i of those who had attended the gather onl InS passed tho plate at < midweek ser vice In C church near his homeMr Sage went there Ho did not walt for the close of the service but taking a seat on the aisle through which his I ac quaintance passed h < waited until he untl came along with the plate and as he put a dollar hill on Jt remarked Ed lemurkec ward what did you fellows do down there today I did not get around in time The gentleman spoken to smiled and took the earliest smied ane earlest opportunity to In form Mr Sage o what had transpired New York Times Look to the New Day Diving Hassnn well beloved woo wontvto say When aught wont wrong or any Inbor failed Tomorrow friends will bo another And In that faith wll slept and day vailed I so pre Long shall live roll this procrb While the world Tomorrow night fresh shall rise from out the And new baptlns the Indomitable soul With courage foS Its revorcnfllng fight No one I soy la conquered till ho And from yield glass he need not while like yields mint God wipes the stain of lifes old battle olr fields bntte From every that ho cer morning thlt brings to pass New day ncw hope new courage Let this be Oh soul thy cheerful creed Whats yesterday With thee all Its shards and wreck and grief to Forget way it then here lies the victors Christian Endeavor World Too Dangerous for the Dog Raymond Hitchcock saya that while he vas lying In a Philadelphia hospital three or four weeks ago convalescing from an operation for appendicitis opelalon npprndlcltll one 0 those fool friends who always say the wrong thing In the wrong place called on him and told wronS follow ing story to cheer him up Philadelphias most famous appendi citis export has a dog of which he thinks a great deal which had a lop sided walk A friend asked the doctor on one occasion tho cause of this Why was the reply lies got ap pendicitis Then lyll dont why you operate on him queried the caller What operate on that dog Why that dogs worth a hundred dollars colara New York Commercial Practical Smoko Consumers The most Interesting contribution that has been mac to the contributon Itela ture of the day comes from Arthur M Wnltt superintendent of motive power on the New York Central It1 there be any abler authority he htKnot yet spoken Mr Wultl Haiti In his ddleRR before the American Railway Mauler Mechanics association In Saratoga on June 23rd Experiments during tho last year have clearly and fully demonstrated demon-strated that there arc ono or two prac I PIlC tical devices In actual operation by moans of which the poorest grades of bituminous coal can be burned with absolute freedom from black smoky and with only an occasional trace I of lightbrown smoke regardless of whether the engine Is I working steam or In 1 shut f On the Now York Central Cen-tral a device of this kind has been In I successful operation on one locomotive for about ten months and since Janu niy 1st Jt has been applied to tth6V i ivelve additional engines with such success that It has been specified on new equipment New York Press Cruelty to Mario Corelli The average reader of Marie Corelli Corell perhaps does not remember the slight Ing remarks which oho makes In her novels about the press and particularly about the society columns of the press and how bitterly sho assalli the snobs who neck the notice of the press However the editor of the Gentlewoman Gentle-woman published In England rentem here them Every expression of contempt con-tempt for the newspapers and newspaper newspa-per notoriety and newspaper snots that Marie Corelli has rlttcn > has been treasured by that person with the conviction con-viction that day other that tome cn or sooner or later the collection mlghtl servo a good purpose Aud sure enough Marie Corelli with Lady Byron as her guest attended the Urftemer l Highland gathering In the royal Inclosure recently I IH part of tin business of Ihc Gentlewoman to make special mention of Much affairs as this and the Gentlewoman did not neg ner lect I Its duty However In mentioning those present It named Lady Byron an one of the most distinguished and omitted all mention of Marie Corelli Whereupon tho authoress who despises de-spises the press and loathes newspaper notoriety and entertains nothing but contempt for the snob who s oks It or tolerates It writes to the Gentlewoman Gentlewo-man complaining of the omission and after reciting the cIrcumstances cayc I can only conclude that my namo was purposely omitted To which charge the editor of tho G < nU6womnn frankly pleads guilty hut with tho explanation that the omission wag In deference to Miss Corcllls ex prosred opinion of newspaper puffs Her letter of protest however proves to the editor that she has been misunderstood misunder-stood and that mention of her name ao that of one who was among those present pres-ent would have gratified her The editor can plead only some little excuse for the mistake because of the npMrent sincerity o Miss Corelln letters 1 let-ters and writing f on the subject of snobs and newspapers and HO explains ex-plains that logical consistency compels com-pels him to believe that Miss Corel In marking her letter private and confidential confi-dential only meant a request for publicity pub-licity Chicago InterOcean Forgive and Forget Forgive and forgot It lo bet r To fling all ill feeling nsldo Than allow the deep cankering fetter Of revenge Ih your breast to abide For your stop oer Hfon path will be lighter 3cr When the load from your bosom Is cast And the glorious sky will seem brighter When tho cloud of displeasure has passed I Though your spirit swell high with emotion emo-tion ton To give buck Injustice affftln Sink the thought In oblivions Ocean For remembrance Increases the pain Oh why should wo linger In sorrow When Its ohndow IE passing 1 away Or seek l to encounter tomorrow The blast that oerawcjit us today Our lifo stream Is n varying river And though It may placidly glide When toe sunbeams of Joy oer It quiver I must foam when the storm meets Its lido tde Then stir not Its current ot madness For its wrath thou wilt ever regret Though the morning beams break on thy sadness Ere the Bun forgive and forgot Robert Gray In October Success Indians Getting Civilized I Is many years since the Tuscarora Indians have held a condolence a ceremony with the red men which Is Hlmllnr to the Inauguration of a President Presi-dent by the whites In explanation of Mils an old chief says that the Indians no longer look upon the ceremony of a condolence with the reverence of old The Tuacaroras arc the adopted children dren of the Six Nations and they say that the Onondagas the firckccpcrs of the nation practically have disqualified themselves for this honorable position und that the Tuncnrorns no longer lookup look-up to them as children are wont to do to a parent for advice and help From these feelings between the adopted children chil-dren and s leading tribe of the Six Nations It I a evident that the Indians are clinging closer to civilization and the white mans customs and that a chasm Ts Opening between the Indian tribes of the State As a result of this severance of tribal relations the Indians In-dians of western New York arc looking forward to citizenship Now York Sun Parsons Retort Was Ready Many stories me told of Rowland HillVhbwas burled beneath the pulpit of the charel at hie own request I was his custom to read from his desk any prayer that might be sent In and on one occasion he commenced The prayers of this congregation are desired conrresa aired for L brief pause and a clearing oX the throat the Rev Rowland Hill that he will not go riding about In his carriage on Sundays For our Lord lode humbly upon a colt Uiefoal of an nss The reverend gentleman looked up not in the least disconcerted ana graely snld I the writer of this Impertinent I Im-pertinent request Is among the congre pcrtntnt gallon und will go Into the vestry after r service and let me put a saddlC on his back I will ride him home Instead of going go-ing In my carriage London Chronicle The Aerial Programme Two aeronautic experiments that are heralded an the first successful flights of airships in America were made Tuesday One trip ended In a tree the other on top of 1 telegraph pole The dirigible balloon will not become a common com-mon cnrrlcr until success has a different dif-ferent 10n definition In the dictionary of aerial travel The trials at Brighton and Manhattan Beach and the news of other recruits hi this country and abroad to the semI sclenllfic sport In which SantosDu mont was practically alone until recently re-cently serve to show the widespread Interest In-terest In tho problem of human flight As yet however we see no reason to alter our belief expressed In the words < of Lord Kelvin that the dirigible balloon bal-loon can never be anything but a big of wind with a paddle helpless as Montgolfiors creation In any wind heavier than a gentle breezea toy and n dangerous toy and Impracticable always al-ways for I safe use orcertainty of dcstl on tI Oil It Is a harzardous thing to prophesy the continued usclesBncss of such playthings play-things The steam engine and lie telephone tele-phone were toys at one time and dls A covciles of the near future may cause a recantation o dIsbelief In the development develop-ment of the airship But at present there Is no apparent flaw In the argument argu-ment of scientists throughout the world that If the air Is ever made a thoroughfare thorough-fare for fiylng men It will become so by the discovery of mechanical devices entirely en-tirely distinct In principle from the dirigible I di-rigible balloon The contest for the prIzes of the S1 Louis exposition will be Interesting as arc the present experiments but there IB no likelihood that the moat notable feat accomplished will result In any real benefit to the world Now York Mal and Express Tricks of tho Trade In the laboratory of the Massachusetts Massachu-setts State Board of Health Is a package pack-age o honey In the comb of which Is n dead hoc drowned In Its own sweetness holding a prominent place but the un I romantlc analylst telln you that the hone la an artificial product and the bee was placed there ito deceive the buyer It Is asserted on good authority that Vermont publishers have iccclved orders to forward thousands of papers tnjown t l Arc the lowann anxious to Inform In-form themselves concerning the every day happenings In the Green Mountain State No These papers arc used to wrap up the Townmade but Vermont labeled maple sugar a product compounded com-pounded of hickory bark nnd glucose made Into cakes the size and shape of the Vermont product wrapped In newspapers news-papers published In thai Slate labeled Pure Vermont maple sugar Even the elect arc deceived t Population of China The present population of China la comparatively vory little In excess of that recorded b > various European statisticians sta-tisticians half D century ago At that period Inc even later It wan a matter of infinite dlniculty if not 11 sheer Impossibility Im-possibility to obtain anything like authentic au-thentic Information concerning the pop ulation of China By some writers this was given UH aM000000 by others as 100000000 and 150000000 The Chinese population of today number about KGt 000000 of souls Including S500000 in Manchuria 2SOOOO In Mongolia 6430 020 In Tibet and 7200000 In Chinese Tur keotan Shantung with a population 0 33247000 is the most densely Inhab ited province o China Klnngsu In which Shanghai Ic situated has a POPulation pop-ulation of 1398235 In denally Of popu O la lon ShnnsI with fifty Inhabitants to tho square kilometer may bo compared com-pared with Hungary ant Fuklen and Hupeh with England Chile with France and Yunnan with Bulgaria On an average China proptrI I c the eighteen provlnccfl not much moro thickly populated than the German empire em-pire Tho four great Chinese out lands connoting chletly of steppe and wlldcrncss aro very sparsely populated I Was Force of Habit Take a young nUn who has been hIs ing civilized alf through his youth and fne compel him to subsist on restaurant fare for two or three years and you mol < him n dyspeptic n hopclefcfc martyr mar-tyr or a married man Ire becomes no accustomed to r reading tin column beginning email steak nr loin extra sIrloIn etc and cndlnc with something that Is always clH1lnr when lie getS Into a place where hp doesnt have to order hln food nnd wait f6r It he becomes wholly Irresponsible Ono of llieie young men was recently Iecenty Invited to take dinner with n friend who lives In a suburban town lie accepted ac-cepted with an alacrity that was not understood nor until he began on the din nerThe The old passion for home cooking was 50 strong that he ate voraciously and long to the amazement and delight delsht of the hostess He complimented everything that was served nnd asked himself the question Which has never yet been answered Why can t they do things this way in a restaurant As he and his friend were chatting chath1g over the cot o he began to fumble around his saucer as it In search of something I What are you looklncr for nskr > ri m the friend The check Then he remembered where he was and ulohcd he could disappear through the floor He nays he will rehearse be fore Inxadlnc another private family Now York Times Productive Power of Money The reproductive power of money Is Illustrated In the suit brought by the descendants of Benjamin Franklin against the cities of Philadelphia und Phlndelphla Boston to recover the 1000 which the great statesman left to each of those cliles ns a fund lo aid printers nnd other oth-er artisans In starting business on their own account These descendants any that no attempt has ever been made to carry out the provisions of the will and lay claim to principal and interest The 20CO of the thrifty printer has now increased In-creased to about 100000 an Increment from which Franklin If he were alive would not fall to extract a moral as to the potency of small savIngs The Mile Pont All Right When Mayor Low was at Great Bar rlngton last autumn resting from the fatigue of n strenuous political life hr enjoyed several driven about the Berkshire Berk-shire country On one of these he observed ob-served a milestone Indicating the dis tance to Stockbrldge as four miles when he knew they were within u much shorter radius of that town Said Mr Low to the driver Whats the matter with that milestone mile-stone mle Oh was the keen response prompt ly given The milestones all rlghl only Its In the wrong placel Now iork Times How to Tell tho Time Ive Jus learned how to tell the time My mother cached me lol tme An of you think youd like to learn J guess I might teach jou At flnst though Its hard oS fun An mnkcn you tWist an turn An mother Bays that they Is folks Big folks what never learn 1 You atrid bofort the clock ins so An start right at the top Thntu twelve oclock an whon you reach Tho little hand you atopt ttop t Now thats the hour but youvo got To watch what youre about Because the hardest part Is to come To find tho minutes out You go right back again to where You started from nn sec How far tho minute minue hands away Like this youro wnichln1 m01 An i Alien youvi found the mlnuichnnd You multiply by five An then youvo pot th > J time o day As sure as youre alive Thoys folks I know what says that they Dont have to count that way That they can tel Jua by 1 glance At any time 0 day But I dont blleve no fibs like that Because cf that was true My ma would know It but she showed Me hke Im flhowlu you W W Whltelock jp 1 Leslies Monthly A Womans Wit and Courage A noteworthy Instance o combined courage and rqady wit has just earned the hlgli commendailonof the Newcastle Newcas-tle watch committee The Newcastle Chronicle says that a policeman was being be-ing brutally maltreated by a gang of hooligans und Was in danger I of his life while nobody dared to interfere until a young woman darted among the assailants assail-ants rapidly blew the policemans whistle and darted away again Her act brought prompt rescue to the ofil ocr Sho herself was a1 policemans daughter A Hot Shot A city clockmaker has placed the following fol-lowing notice In his window The misguided mis-guided creature who removed the thermometer ther-mometer from this door had hotter return eleI turn It as It will be of no use where he Is going as it only registers 125 degrees de-grees London Express Justice Tempered With Mercy Sir Hartley Williams senior puisne Judge o Victoria was the most die cussed personage In Australia when thin weeks mal was leaving l Presiding at the ilelbouri Criminal court he announced an-nounced that afl3r much thought and Inquiry he had core to the conclusion that except In cases of nn outrageous character or of rampant crime It was not right to send Itt offenders to jai whether they were young or old Its It-s the custom to exicnd a certain amount of clemency to the young offender of-fender I but he thought that a man who had spent fifty years In a country and lived an honest and Industrious life was entitled to twice as much consideration ns the youth o 20 In accordance with this pronouncement Justlcu AVIlllams promptly llberaied half a dozen convicted con-victed first cffenclers Jlst of ages ranging from 19 to 05 Ills action and speech have evoked considerable 1 comment I is cujiKjmiiu UKIL nun judicial policy practically imans1 that Just as every dog IB entitled lo I one bile so every human hu-man being Ir entitled 10 commit one crime wlih Immunity London Dally Chronicle For Fajr Barbarians Ostrich feathers are plucked for market mar-ket as follows A man carefully examines exam-ines the flock and plckt out those birds whose fealhorft are ripening groups them Into dozens und pens them In so hat i the cannot rim about and injure their beautiful plumage When the plumlle plucking time comes each bird Is enticed en-ticed Into a narrow dark passageway Tho entrances are thon closedand Iho bird thus Imprisoned A cloth bag is thrown over Ih6 I creatures head Then the plucking begins Threo men perched upon platform outside of the pen reach over the board Inclosure ant with varlouo sclesorllke appliances pluck off thC fcathcfB Who lever wounds a bird may receive are Imine dlaloly dressed The tail feathein are pulled and not cut simply because they reproduce better lhan ethel feathers o the ostrich While ole plucking Is In progress the ostrich ketrji up a dismal I oaring Were it not for the stanch condtructldn o tho pen the creature would kick the boards Into splinters Detroit Free Press Marriage Tottery in Husloa In the Russian provfnre of Smolensk there Is a most extraordinary lottery every three month Thc tIckets cost about 2 shillings and there IH only one prb This consists of the entire sum mode by the snh of the llclets amounting to about 3 T O to gelher with a lady described as ot noble birth The tickets are only aold to men and the winner of the prize has to take the lady or foregp the money I married already he may however put any friend to whom he wishes to do a good turn In the position of prize winner I may happen that the winner of the litter la willing to marry the lady but he does not meet with her approval In that case they arc permitted to remain In single blessedness and to divide the money 11 Is not difficult to Imagine that even In Russia where old maids arc generally gener-ally looked down upon the choSen bride may often decide that the sum of J1125 In it more desirable possession than II lord and master of whom she known nothing New York Mail and Express Migration to Canada I In 1 true that a good many Americans Ameri-cans have In the last two years cone to the Canadian Northwest and taken upland up-land Tho homestead habit Is strfm in the Western American Finding the free farm now denied him In r great park 0 the West he has on I small scale trekked to Canada However I Canadian statistics show that not over stotstcs 20CO Americano a month have been goIng go-Ing to all parts or Cnnu la In the past year The movement Is I Inconsiderable and will be checked soon by the occupation occu-pation of all the really good Canadian lands On the other hand the moment the I United Slates embarks ns II 11 sure to I embark sooner or later In the business of creating Irrlgallng reservoirs in our arid West and the roBiiltln great Companies Com-panies are formed to watjr the now dry plains of the Southwest nt only will I there be farms for all but the production produc-tion o wheat will vnsMy increase Far from losing our position aj feMor I of the it world we shall Immensely strengthen I We arc now drawing out of Canada more people than we ore sindlnsr Into It In spite of the llUIo trl k l lo the Norlhvest The average American does not like to expatriate hlmspU Ho mixes patriotism even with his Business Busi-ness He Is going to put r little o It even Into the shipping business and when he does we are much airall that Canada will suddenly wakii from her pipe dream of rivalry Ncv York Mall I and Express In Ancient England NcwcastleuponTync I very rn clcnt 3teu When the business of the assizes Is ended the Mayor makes 3 quaint speech to the Judge ot the Northern circuit He says My lords we have to congratulate you upon having completed your labors In this ancient town and have also to Inform you that you travel hence to Carlisle through Border country much and often Infested by the Scots We therefore present each of your lordships with a piece of money to buy therewith a dagger lo defend yourselves Then as required by custom he gives the senior Judge a Jacobus and Ihc Junior Judge a cnrolus ft costs no little sum lo buy these old coins London Lon-don Answers A Rejected Gift The chief eunuch of the harem belonging be-longing to a son of lhcJatc Abdul Asls and cousin of the present Sultan recently presented his Majesty with a sluve The Sultan however was convinced con-vinced that he was dangerous and sent with an evil purpose and so refused re-fused the gift and exiled the donor The Prince was furious and went lo the Sul lan lo demand his servant back as he had been with him for twenty years The Sultan replied that he had had him so long It was quite time he changed The Prince got more excited and was talking very freely when he suddenly found he wns alone In the room It turned out that the Sultan who had been apparently leaning against the wall had vanished through an Invisible door which Is there In ease of emergencies emer-gencies The Prince went home and has not been allowed to come out since London Daily Telegraph Big Family Hotel Innovations along the lines of domestic domes-tic economy In New York City follow i each other In such quick succession that they become Institutions before they are heralded A 2500000 family hotel IB to be erected at the southwest corner of Sixtieth streets and Fifth avenue which will aim to solve the servant problem To attract families the hotel I will have unusually large and high rooms and will provide servants Though the lessee o1 the hotel will have a large foiceof help tenants will be permitted per-mitted to bring their own servants If they ChOOse Accordingly each suite of apartments will have servants rooms The hotel Is to have fifteen siorles and 1 a frontage of fifty feet In Fifth avenue and 200 feet In Sixtieth street A roof garden Is one of the contemplated fea lurce There will be a cafe In connection connec-tion and In the basement will be safety deposit vaults There will be bachelor suites of two three and four looms Detroit Free Press Ho Tilled the Bill Why he asked when they had I seated themselves alone at one end of I the porch do you suppose It Is that educated women d6 not marry But educated women do marry shE replied I know of three or four educated edu-cated women who have married within I the past month or two Oh yes of course sonic of them marry But why do so many of them I remain single Perhaps It Is because the educated I womans horizon Is broader than that of the uneducated because she demands de-mands more Then It Is not because she lookr upon marriage Itself as a bad thing Oh dear no And you have declined proposals because be-cause you have demanded much She tied and untied her dainty hand ke > chief and looked down nnd blushed I and faintly answered 1 Yes One of them wan five feet and I three Inches and the other couldnt have weighed more than ninety pounds Being six feet four In his socks he then spoke out and got her Philadelphia Philadel-phia Times