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Show me INDEPENDENT. FRINQVILLE. UTAH The union of undertakers' helpers Is said to be a dead cinch. It cannot be denied, at any rate, that Gen. Uribe-Uribe is well connected. Mascagnl finds that the American dollar, while pleasant to take, is elusive. President Baer lays it all on the miners. He himself is blameless, if he is allowed to tell it. - Castro's hardest job seems to be to convince the Venezuelan rebels that they are whipped. Alfred Austin has written a poem entitled "Good Night" If we could only believe he means it. President Schwab seems determined determin-ed to emulate the "man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo." The population of . Siberia has doubled during the past twenty years, but not of its own accord. Mary MacLane has tried all of the breakfast foods and is going back to Montana as unhappy as before. In Canadian cavalry regiments the sword has been ruled out. The sword will soon be with the battle-ax. It Is a little early yet to assume that John Bull is trying to make Ireland Ire-land loyal on the Botany Bay plan. We know men who will spend a dollar In an effort to secure the favor of a free pass to a 25-cent ball game. Buffalo Bill Is going to quit after two years more of it. Russell Sage must pity him for his lack of enterprise. enter-prise. A college of golf has been opened tjk New York. Of course there are lots of D 's in the degrees conferred. con-ferred. The Russian language is to be taught in some parts of China. This is not only adding to but multiplying China's troubles. Gen. Corbin's advice to young army officers about to marry is a barefaced Infringement on the London Punch's copyright. "The Joy of Living" was too exuberant ex-uberant for the nerves ox Mrs. Patrick Campbell, and she fainted before the second act. The Chicago school strike naturally raises the question as to whether the old-fashioned art of spanking has become be-come a lost art ' If Reed Smoot of Utah goes to the senate, it looks as if he would give Washington an interesting social problem to solve. There are times, after all, when divorces di-vorces are justifiable. An Indiana man has secured one because his wife smoked cigarettes. Sarah Bernhardt's Hamlet was not liked In Germany. The Germans are not acustomed to Hamlets that require re-quire a spyglass obligato. Noah, Columbus and J. Pierpont Morgan have been referred to as the three great masters of the sea. Why should Noah and Columbus be mentioned? men-tioned? Notices have been posted In the Richmond (Va.) Union station forbidding for-bidding women to smoke in their waiting-room. This looks like a straight cut. The miners are mining, and that's just what they should be doing. And the operators are thinking, and that's what they should have been doing some time ago. Why should anybody kick against the proposed mint trust? All the principal ingredients of a. julep except the mint, If we mistake not, are con trolled by trusts. John L. Sullivan is appearing at a continuous performance house in New York. John L. has been in the continuous con-tinuous performance business, how ever, for a long time. Carrie Nation declined pay for a little gash in her head which she got in a railroad accident. Carrie seems to be-next to the fact that her value as an article of commerce is too small to compute. A Jersey City preacher is going to organize a boxing class to be composed of members of his flock and teach It himself. If this doesn't have the desired de-sired effect be may hire a regular advertising ad-vertising manager. The Doukhabors, not satisfied with abandoning their horses and cattle, are now deserting their wives and children and trudging barefoot hundreds hun-dreds of miles "to seek the light." Did those wives fall to fill the lamps? The Crown Prince of Siam tooli pains to avoid women during his stay In Chicago. Ilia royal highness will, in accordance with Siamese customs, be compelled to have anywhere from 50 to 500 wives, and he probably is desirous of putting off his trouble until the last minute. The superintendent of the Philadelphia Philadel-phia public schools says good spellers are born and not made. Still, most of them have to learn more or less before be-fore they get along very far. If they can secure enough Boei commandos to assist them, the British Brit-ish may be able to put down the So-maliland So-maliland revolt without much trouble. The announcement that a St. Louis man has lost his mind in a poker game Indicates how recklessly soma men will bet on a good hand. "The Boer generals are going back home. At first It looked like a hurried hur-ried retreat from entertainers but 'tis all plain now Chamberlain is going to South Africa! . If any mistake Is made In eating any of the new breakfast foods it can easily be corrected by using some of the new patent medicines. Prof. Loeb Is going to California. Very likely they have an unusually line breed of clam there, from which to study the orlgir of life. - We Too. We could not see the sunlight jesterdar. We were too full of bitterness nd pain, And I shall never see your facu again. For love haa crept away. We could not hear tho wren's glad voices sing, Our hearts were cold and deaf; w coutf not see The fairy bower made for you u.nd m. For grief dimmed everything. We did not know the beauty of thai place, Nor the soft gems upon the flowers, nor knew The charm of that last hour for me and you. For tears were on your face. O Love, dear Love, spring's days grow old and gray. And shaJows fleck the woods--and w must go Lonely and desolate through vales of enow Since Love has crept awayl Eggs Within Eggs. A reader sends to the Maachesteif Dispatch this interesting photograph of an egg curio served up to him al breakfast the other morning. On cracking the shell of what was ap parently an ordinary egg, he discovered discov-ered that an enterprising fowl had presented him with a double supply. The double-yoked egg is by mo means uncommon, but in the above picture it will be seen that the fowl has gone one better, enclosing one complete eea within another after the manner of the Chinese box puzzle. Tree an Inquisitor. One of the most deadly trees in the world Is to be found in Madagascar, where it Is known as the tangen tree. Its scientific name is tanghlwia vene-nlfera, vene-nlfera, the latter word signifying poisonous. By the natives it is regarded with a sort of horror, and for excellent rea sons. For centuries It was the custom cus-tom to use the fruit of the tangen for the purpose of ascertaining whether criminals charged with grave offenses were guilty or not. In each case the prisoner was brought into court, and the judge thereupon solemnly handeit him a fruit from a tangen tree and told him that if he ate it and it did him no harm he would be consideied innocent, inno-cent, but that if It killed him he would be considered guilty. As there is a great deal of poison In the fruit it can readily be seen that very few, if Indeed any, were able to pass through this ordeal unscathed. It is said that some criminals Who had great political influence or con slderable wealth managed to escape through the connivance of the judges; but, on the other hand, the criminal records tell of many cases in which prisoners died a horrible death very soon after they had eaten the noxious fruit. More civilized methods of Jurisdic tion now prevail in Madagascar, but though this barbarous custom is ob solete, the tangen tree is regarded with almost as much aversion as It ever was. A proof of this may be found in the fact that a French natur alist recently tried to obtain some branches and fruit of the trees, but though he asked several natives to aid him in the search, he was unable to obtain the slightest assistance from any of them. Spiders Set the Style. Two centuries ago missionaries taught the natives of Paraguay to make lace by hand. The art has been handed down from generation to generation, gen-eration, and In some of the towns lace- making is the chief occupation. Al most all the women aud children and many of the men are engaged in it. A singular fact about the Paraguayan laces Is that the designs are borrowed from the curious webs spun by the semi-tropical spiders which abound in that country. For this reason the lace is called by the natives nandutl, an Indian word that means "spider web." Monster Wine Vat. Asti, Cal., boasts of the largest wine vat in existence. This monster vat, recently built on the property of the Italian-Swiss Agricultural Colony, a successful co-operative concern, is cut In solid rock, being 84 feet In length, 34 feet wide, and 25 feet deep. Its capacity is something over half a mil lion gallons of wine, being about three times more capacious than any similar vat known In the world. Eleven Toes on a Foot. There is a woman in Russia with eleven toes on one foot She is one A Double Foot "X" Rayed. of the daughters of a poor family living liv-ing In the territory of LJublin. The four outer toes are normally developed, devel-oped, but in place of the ordinary big toe is a shortened and smaller one. It is at this point that the deformity begins. . There are six superfluous toes. Of these two are well developed, but Instead of being free they are united by a piece of skin, and of the remaining four toes there are parallel with each other and the fourth is turned off at an" angle. With the exception ex-ception of this last one all the toes are moveable, and the X-rays show that all except the fifth and eleventh have each three distinct bones. Uses a Golden Washboard. A golden washboard, with a golden bar of soap, is in possession of Mrs. L. J. Horn, who has arrived at Seattle, Seat-tle, from Skagway, en route to Southern South-ern California. Mrs. Horn is wealthy now, but there was a time, and not so very long ago. when gold was a stranger to her purse. Now. that It is fll over she laughs at her hardships,- and washes her little laces and finery on a golden board. In 1896 she went to Skagway and by washing clothes earned enoigh monej to grubstake her husband, who went to the Klondike in the rush of thai year. She followed him later to a claim or. the Bonanza, which made him rich after it had been developed. She had a washboard made of their gold as a symbol of her struggles to help her husband. New York Journal. Fourth Wife He Bought Runs Away James Bargera of Pittsburg has been committed to jail on complaint of Gas-par Gas-par Scalia. About Sept 5 Bargera agreed to get Scalia a wife for $125. Shortly after ward he introduced a pretty Italian girl by the name of Santa Bonsitti to Scalia and the two were wedded amid great festivities. The bridegroom swore at the hear ing that he had paid Bargei-a the $125 agreed upon. Next day, however, Sea Ha alleges Bargera persuaded the bride to run away. Since that time he has not seen his wife. Scalia has been unfortunate, for all of his three fouuer wives left him much in the same manner as the last All his wives, it is said, were purchased pur-chased in the same way. jfPf Moorish Imagery, The specimen below in the Moorish epistolary style, which comes from Mr. Budgett Meakin's recent book, "The Moors," and is merely an Invita tion to dinner, is calculated to make the imaginative resources of our entertainers, en-tertainers, who write on a visiting-card, visiting-card, "Come and dine," look small Indeed. "To my gracious master, my re spected lord: "This evening, please God, when the king of the army of stars, the sun of the worlds, will turn toward the realm of shades and place his foot In the stirrup of speed, thou art besought to lighten us with the dazzling rays of thy face, rivalled only by the sun. Thy arrival, like a spring breeie. will dissipate dis-sipate the dark night of solitude and isolation." One Preparation for Death. The subject of the accompanying picture is surely unique. It represents an old Lancashire man sitting In his bedroom beside his own coffin. The old gentleman Is approaching 100 years of age, and has had his coffin cof-fin In readiness for about fifteen years. Moreover, he made it in its entirety with his own hands, and Is proud to shw it you as being a piece of his own handiwork, of which he need not be ashamed. He assured the writer that it was both air-tight and watertight water-tight He had tested it for both. Bird That Cries Pa, Pa, Pa. This bird is a native of South Africa. Afri-ca. It is as large as a crow, with long legs and bill, wings are dark green in one light and golden in another. This species is called "hadeda." They live in marshy places and are easily tamed to Uve in houses, and soon go in and out as if they were a part of the family. fam-ily. You would think they were a pat of it if you would hear them cry out "Pa, pa, pa," like an impa-tieut impa-tieut child. Two of these birds were ve.'y fond of the father of the family anfl followed him about all day. On Sundays they would actually walk into church with him, walk gracefully up th aisle and take their stand near the miriister, who was their master. It was very funny to see these solemn looking birds standing there. It was lucky they did not cry out "Pa, pa, pa," for the congregation had already laughed quite enough. The birds would not go away until the minister was-ready was-ready to go also; then they followed him home. Bird's Nest of Steel Springs. In the Museum of Natural History at Soleure, Switzerland, there is perhaps per-haps the most extraordinary bird's nest in existence. It is made entirely of steefc In Soleure are many clockmakers' shops, and in the yards of these shops broken clock springs are often thrown. A clockmaker one day saw in a tree in his yard a peculiar kind of nest, and upon further investigation discovered that a pair of wagtails had litilized the unused bits of steel lying about and built a home entirely of clock springs. . " In size it measured more than four inches across, and it was apparently as comfortable for its inmates as if the usual materials had been employed. em-ployed. After the brood had been reared the deserted nest was taken to the museum, where it is now exhibited, exhib-ited, a striking illustration of the skill and ingenuity cf birds in turning their surroundings to advantage. Coin Walks on Edge of Knife. This very entertaining trick is done in the following way: Make a spool of three coins of different sizes, a dollar, a ten-cent piece and a half-dollar, half-dollar, by sticking them together with a little piece of wax. By plaeiag this epool on the edge of a knife you have solved the problem. The dollar will roll up and down the knife to the great amusement of the audience. Husband's Mean Trick. A Brooklyn man had a spat wit Ma wife, and she deserted him. He offered a reward of ten cents for Information regarding her whereabouts .Tho email reward made her Indignant, and she returned two days later to renew the spat, and "have It out with the mean fellow." - When a married roan falls down stairs he i uxe to blama his wife for the mishap. If a man is a failure he is sure K Is some woman's fault. Beauty of Women's Feet Some Pointers on That Most Important Part of the Human Form Divine Shape -liness of the Most Importance. A great w;riter once said, "The vanity van-ity of woman dies hard." - Foolish man! It never dies at all, and of all the prides there Is none so hard to subdue as that a woman takes in her little feet and trim ankles. Little feet, however, are a deform ity, or rather feet too small to harmonize har-monize with the figure are. Better that the foot be too large. If shapely, than too small. JThink of a Juno who stands 5 feet 7 inches and tips- the scales at 150 pounds teetering to and frb on num ber one or number two feet! She should have a number four foot at thjt very least, and a number six would not be out of proportion. To judge by the ideas of the Greeks" and Romans, beautiful feet are those which are large enough to carry tbe. body most gracefully. The ancients admired a stately carriage. Latin poets speak of the gait of their beau ties, rather than of their feet. "Shall I be tried in this manner?" says Juno, "I, who walk the queen of the gods?" In the "Iliad," Homer paid homage to Thetis, the silver-footed queen; and Paris, when making choice among the many beautiful maidens brought be fore him, did not forget the attractions attrac-tions of their feet. Their gait he marked, as gracefully they moved, s And round their feet his eye sagacious roved. Poets and romancers have ever raved over the beauties of the "human foot divine." "How beautiful are thy feet with sandals, O Prince's daugh- ter," was the greeting of the bride in Solomon's song; and in spite of the rich adornments of Judith's dress, her sandals "ravished the eye" of Holo-f Holo-f ernes, their buckles being studded with precious gems, a fashion which later was forbidden to the Roman matron. Petrarch admires In his Laura her walk above all else. He counts It chief of her four principal charms. Dryden, too, is not proof against the charms of the female foot and walk: In length of train descends her sweeping gown. And by her graceful walk the Queen of Love la known. The mention of the foot in poetry has often been used purposely to ex press revereDce, as when Ben Jonson declared that his love for his mistress was so great that he "would adore the foot, and if slipper was left he would kiss it, too." Every one is familiar fami-liar with his highly poetical: And where she went the flowers took thickest root. As she had sowed them with her odorous odor-ous foot. Or a similar reference by Butler: Where'er you tread, your foot shall set The primrose and the violet. That fascinating combination of loveliness, love-liness, arrant coquetry and rigid virtue, vir-tue, Mme. Recamier, worshipped her own beauty. It is on record that she preferred dinners to any other form of entertainment, hot for the sake of the pleasures of the table, but because her feet, which were not pretty, were hidden and her exquisite hands and arms were well displayed. She was a coquette to the last, keeping keep-ing up her platonic flirtations till the day of her death, and she lived to be a very old woman. . A woman's foot, when perfect, is hollowed out well, both inside and out with a high instep, short heel and long, straight toes, slightly spatulate at the ends. This is the type of the most beautiful beau-tiful foot. It is on the whole a foot not frequently seen In its perfection, for often one or the other element of beauty is wanting. The rarest point of beauty is the hollowing of the outside out-side of the foot. It used to be that shoemakers' lasts were made upon the Greek principles, but now a hump is made on the out side of the last, just above the point where the slight hollows should be. If any one would convince himself that the hollow on the outside of the foot is rare, let him watch the prints that seaside bathers leave when they step on a dry plank walk. Most of such footprints show a greater of smaller hollow on the inside of th foot, but nearly every one shows a straight, wet mark on the outside. That water could flow under the arch of the foot, without wetting It. is an old rule where feet are concerned. That the ioct has an arch, under which an apple could be rolled. Is said of one well-known beauty of the present day. She is so proud of her lovely .feet that she has them photographed In every possible way in twentieth century cen-tury slippers, in sabots, skates, Louis Quinze slippers, Japanese and Russian Rus-sian shoes. She has also any number of plaster casts showing every graceful grace-ful curve and dimple. WAS A CASE OF CONSCIENCE. Priest Gave Good Advice to a Penitent Peni-tent Football Enthusiast. . Perhaps the Maryland priest of whom the following is related did not give the best possible advice to the penitent who appeared before him, but he has not yet been reproved by Ms bishop. The penitent was a young theological theologi-cal student, who was also a football enthusiast and the commander of a team engaged in a very hot contest The game was a tie, depending on grand rush to secure the victory. II was a man-to-man contest, and th youthful bishop In embryo, with all the fire of those militant churchmen of old who rode in armor, with biasing eyes, into the thick of the fight, cried out to his squad: "Do your d dst! Do your d dst!" But when the exultation of victory had passed off and calm reflection had restored the youngster to his normal state of mind conscience troubled him as it has troubled many another man after giving way to the excitements of the flesh. He felt that he had done wrong and should atone for It In his trouble he went very penitently to a priest who had witnessed the exciting struggle on the college campus and "was hardly done rejoicing over the result, for he was a backer of the side which won. The conscience-stricken student apologetically said: "Father, I fear that in my excitement I did very wrong and said things I should not have said." "What did you "say?" "I urged our side to do their d dst. What penance should I do?" "Well, do your d dst." The wisdom, the wit and the consolation con-solation of the advice were gratifying. It showed him that he bad consciously" done no wrong, and If he had the maxim of the homeopathists should be applied to the case similia simili-bus simili-bus curantur. tawyers Lead In Overcrowding. Overcrowding is the motto of the day, says the New York Commercial. The factories are overcrowded. The theaters are overcrowded. The- tenements tene-ments are overcrowded. The only reason why one does not say the street cars are overcrowded is that they are something worse. All such overcrowdings, however, are sparse-ness sparse-ness and loneliness compared with the overcrowding of the bar. In 1891 there were 58 law schools, with. 6,073 students.- Nowr according to an estimate es-timate made by Prof. Hoffcutt of Cornell, Cor-nell, there are 120 schools, with 14,-000 14,-000 students. Meanwhile the number of full-fledged lawyers in the United States is saidjby the last census to be about 114,000. No other profession, with the exception of teaching and medicine, is so populous. -Long Row of Corn. Kansas Is simply Inexhaustible in the matter of oddities. Just when It might be supposed that she had run the whole gamut she appears with another an-other novelty such as nobody else In all the wide world would ever have thought of. For example, a Kingman county farmer is growing a row of corn a little more than twenty-five miles1 long' for no other reason than to be singular and extraordinary. He commenced in a fifty-acre field and went round and round in a circle with a lister until he had planted, the whole in a single row which commences at one of the edges and terminates In the middle. When he cultivated It of course he had to plow the same way. As appearances go the field will make as much crtrp as it would If planted in the ordinary way. 1 How Morgan Geta Rid of Bores. Rather a determined looking man appeared in Pierpont Morgan's New York office not long ago and said he wished to see the . great financier. "Mr. Morgan is busy just now," said an attendant "Well, I'll wait, for I must see him if it takes a year." In a few minutes Mr. Morgan appeared and said: "I cannot see you. It's out of the question." "But I have a letter from Gen. Blank of St. Louis a letter of introduction," said the visitor. vis-itor. "Yes, I know," answered Mr. Morgan In matter of fact tones. "The general Informs me by wire that he gave you the letter to get rid of you. Good morning." And the financier disappeared Into his private office. Exit the St. Louis party in a slightly dazed condition. The Task Was Impossible. The plan to erect eight granite monoliths In the chancel of the cathedral cath-edral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan Man-hattan has been given up at last The contractor has for years been trying to turn out these columns entire, six ty feet long, but no machinery exists by which they could be turned with out breaking by their own weight. So the contract has been modified to al low the columns to be in two sections, sec-tions, thirty-six and eighteen feet long respectively, the bases, plinths and capitals to be added. Three of these will soon be erected. Each one wil cost $16,000, will be the gift of some individual and named after eminent emi-nent men of the church. No "King of the Dudes." For the first time in a number of years New York has no "king of the dudes" this leason. This doubtful distinction, dis-tinction, one held by Berry Wall, J. Waldere Kirk, Archie Bell and oth ers, Is not claimed by or credited to any particular dandy this year-Doubtless year-Doubtless the title, with all its bazarre glory, has passed away for good, for nowadays & dead level of excellence In sartorial matters makes It almost impossible for anyone to shine conspicuously in this respect Woman Charged With Repeating. The first arrest made in Denver on election day was that of a woman, Jennie Sanderson, who was charged with repeating. : Philosophical Observations 5 : Py BYRON WILLIAMS. . ! V rf An association of physicians out in Iowa has declared against kissing In other words the members have joined forces with the railroad magnates , ' who are seeking to suppress osculation in depots. "Kiss Till the It is now the allied forces of the doctors and the Cows railroaders against the world. Sentiment is fast Come Home." crystallizing and you must soon line up for or against an ecstacy as old as Adam and Eve. About the custom cus-tom cling all the love, sentiment and soul soughing of an affectionate race. Despite this, the doctors say we must desist or shorten our lives. They seem to have overlooked the true measurement of life.- Does not Browning tell us we count time by heart throbs, not in figures on a dial? Who has not felt his or her heart go pit-a-pat at the amorous touch of a lip that was kissed? And in so doing, if the poet's philosophy be correct, we have prolonged our life rather than shortened it. The young man who has been spending his summer salary in nursing a growing right to sip the honey from the honeysuckle's chalice, will never give up being electrified lor the mere matter of a few bacilli! Never, not If he has to live so fast in heart throbs that he gets a hot-box in his interior anatomy. And the young lady! Is she afraid of the cars? Not if she loves her Charlie not with all the saw-bones in the country waving red flags and lanterns lan-terns in the middle of the right of way. She had rather "feel the lips which press love's glowing seal" and die, than live unkissed to become as old as Methuselah! This is a subject of such vital interest as to pronounce the antagonists' bravery, but even brave men are occasionally In error. On the other side is arrayed a determined army of "bussers" who have decided to return either with or upon their shields still kissing. In case they are dead, of course, the kissing would be very still-but anyhow, they are firmly resolved to take Beaumont and Fletcher's advice and "kiss till the cows come home." The enemy should beware! "Everything is fair in love or war," is an old saw. Here we have both love and war. We pause to contemplate to what righteous extremes the apostles of the kiss may not go in the protection of their rights to drink the nectar of the gods! Religious wars have been terrible but when it comes to the sanguinary effort to tear lips from lips that have wedded the very souls of man and woman look out for the fireworks! Who would not have his worries kissed away after a weary day of wrestling wres-tling with business Goliaths! "Come, lay thy head upon my breast, , And I will kiss thee into rest." and who would not fight for this phase of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Who would not kiss away the tears of those we love! Happier far the man who truly lives, and by his-kissing speaks to kindred heart of love! In the chamber of death angels hover, waiting while the lips of the living cling to the lips of the dying! The grief of holiest sorrow finds some comfort there! . Speak not of contagion! Life itself is not so dear as that long, lingering, linger-ing, last caress! ' If Byron wrote truly, the dearest remembrances of life is the first kiss of love: "Our sweetest memorial, the first kiss of love!" The doctors and the railroad presidents would rob us even of this! Cruel wretches, have they no past! .lave they never been kissed or kissed anybody! Even philosophical, staid, old Ben Jonson knew a good thing when he sipped it He says: "Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine." Shakespeare says we have kissed away kingdoms and provinces. Tennyson, Tenny-son, in "Locksley Hall," gives kissing a pretty illustration: "And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips." Benjamin West said a kiss from his mother made him a painter! Thus we realize that the associations of osculation have ever been ardent, always demonstrative and generally holy! The anti-kissers may seriously embarrass some sighing young swain whose sweetheart has been "almost persuaded," but not quite, yet, further thanjhis, they are helpless! We were kissed when we were babies, not only on the face and lips, but on the feet. As children we were kissed and kissed each other, as sweethearts we got together somehow when the moon was under a cloud or both had our eyes shut, at the bridal altar we have kissed our troth anew. In sunshine and sorrow, over the cradle and the grave have our lips met in communion, and doctors or no doctors, we are going to keep up the good work as long as there Is anyone left who doesn't dodge! s Ours is a race of imitators. When Cain in the deep grass discovered a funny bug and handled it, Abel had to do likewise. If there had been another pair of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and The Imitator Eve Number-Two had seen Eve Number One tempt and the Adam Number One, she would have turned a back Originator. somersault, quicker than scat, to find Adam Number Two and tempt him. And Adam Number Two seeing AdaifiNumber One tempted, would have lain awake nights but that he, too, would have been tempted. From the crudest time to the later days, men have imitated the faults and successes of others. The small boy who sees the neighbor's neigh-bor's boy smoking "grapevine smokewood" and burning all the coating off his tongue, will haunt the river shore for hours looking for the smoking material. mate-rial. The same hoy grown to man's estate will toil with might and brain, dilating every nerve, straining with tension his muscle, to follow in the footsteps foot-steps of some more forward brother. Moses was the first journalist, and ever since then men and sawbucks have been imitating him and faring variously so to speak. The prince of fashion starts a new style and the cholly boys are his prototypes as soon as the "little tailors" can cut and sew the cloth. Some time ago, we are told in Biblical history, there was an Elijah. In these later days along comes a man named Alexander Dowie and proclaims himself Elijah's incarnation, a second edition. The Dowie-Elijah business is so good another imitator has arisen to file his claim for notoriety. This man's name is John Hoppe of Albany, Minn., and he claims to be John the Baptist II. The world is full of Imitators. There are too many imitators and not enough originators. If there were fewer of the former and more of the latter, there would not be such a plethora of conditions in the general lines of trade. Men fashion after each other too much. Suppose our great men, the men who have invented the steamship, the telegraph, the telephone, the wireless telegraph, tele-graph, the airship, built the Brooklyn bridge and fashioned automobiles of progress, had been mere imitators, we would be a set of plodders still. It is the men who do not imitate but who branch out into heretofore unknown and unforeseen lines, who make this old globe-mare trot. Quit imitating and work awhile on perpetual motion. You won't Invent an impossibility, but it will be good, independent practice. He was a wise old philosopher who said, "It takes all kinds of people to make a world." What a heterogeneous and conglomerate multitude this philosophic phil-osophic axiom encompasses. Pausing to ponder the Commonality and Progressiveness. toral heart-throbs of the people, are in demand everywhere, has won success already. There are some who turn the olfactory nerves heavenward in disdain, at "the simple annals of the poor." Many beautiful things of life are simple and transitory, yet the rainbow attracts with its beauty as it fades in the canopy of the Great Above. The common people are so multitudinous, there are so many of the bone-and-slnew-folks who live by the sweat of an honest brow, who shy at a finger-bowl finger-bowl and who never stand around on one foot in "four hundred society," enjoying themselves, that sympathy in volume Is never denied the man who writes or speaks directly to them. It is not Dooley's dialect that has made Dunne. It is not George Ade's slang that has sold papers and books, but rather the true touch on the key-note of a sentiment pure and akin to real living. The clothing light, airy filaments of lace surround the real philosophy, philos-ophy, adding to and embellishing the fascination of reality without which the whole would be as dross. History is replete with epochs made by the common people, wars have been won, presidents have been made, the Great Ruler of the universe exalted all by the common people. Fuss and feathers, sham and hypocrisy, fall as chaff before the verdict of the real backbone of this republic. Great deeds of national significance are almost universally traced to the middle strata of, existence,and truth prevails when uncovered by the rude hand of the man who never wore a silken undershirt or a spike-tailed coat. Like a rainbow in a drouth, even like an unexpected heritage, comes the joyous tidings that the buckwheat crop this season is a humdinger." It is greater than for years. What a soothing, comforting Please Pass sound this news has. It puts our troubles to sleep. - the What care we for a shortage in coal, in rye, in meat- Flapjacks, Ma. have we not the festive, brown and palatable buckwheat buck-wheat flapjack to cheer us through the long days of winter? The cake is crisp and delicious. How it melts on the tongue when coated with butter or maple syrup or both: It is a cake for the rich as well as the poor, and unless a few kernels of ground corn are sifted In to make It digestible, it is a cake for the physician ,as well. ' f Mother used to make buckwheat flapjacks. She piled them before you on a breakfast platter until you could scarcely see over, and then you ate away the barriers and went free to school, as full as a toad that has been sucking wind from a garden hose. Let crops fail and the harvest be short," trusts eat us up and politicians belittle us with plenty of buckwheat cakes and " lasses" we will live happy, untrammeled by circumstances and unfettered by lordly menus, kings of the table, serfs only when the buckwheat bin is empty! You're scratching, we will! When the Lord or the devil, or whosoever it was -nade trouble, had finished his labors and was about to break the mold, an imp uiust have happened along and Insisted that he cast a busybody In the same box. The Busybody At any rate, trouble and busybodies have been stalk- Is ing over this land in close companionship ever since Considered. the evolution of things. A busybody in a neighborhood is like green apples in a boy's stomach. The heartaches and pains that date their primordial beings from the tongue of the busybody, are as grains of sand on the sea sht e. A tongue which is hung on a middle pivot, and wags at both ends, is more to be feared than a smallpox epidemic or an infusion of black-leg Into a community of the nude for art's sake. When a busybody gets into the front row on the stage of life the devil winks the other eye, takes a creme de-menthe. and goes to sleep for a fortnight knowing all things will be well cared for during his comn&mbulistic reverie - truth of the saying, "The noblest study of mankind is man," how the enormity of this wisdom impresses. The writer or the speaker who has learned that themes closest to the real life of the masses, the pas 1 " Sens of fjKe Shah of Persia. It Is not generally known that the shah of Persia has "four sons now Is Europe receiving their education. They are mild and inoffensive, with hardly enough spirit between them to declare an opinion, such Is their feat of " their royal parent. The latter was not in favor with his father, Nessei ed Din, who was assassinated in 1896. Until his accession he was governor o! a distant province. The princes until recently were confined In the harem with their father's numerous wives. Teacher Makes Neat Answer. Chicago once had as its superintendent superin-tendent of city schools a bachelor named Howland, whose gruffness of manner and love of neatness were proverbial. Going into the room of a young and attractive teacher one day, Mr. Howland took notice of an untidy desk and a carelessly arranged bookshelf, book-shelf, and, pointing his finger at them, queried, brusquely: "What kind of a housekeeper do you think you'd make?" "Why, Mr. Howland, are you looking for one?" was the humorously aulzslcsi reply. McKinley's Niece a Financier. Margaret McKinley, niece of the late president and daughter of Abner McKinley, is a clerk In the national bank at Oklahoma City and has made a small fortune in real estate speculation. specu-lation. Miss McKinley has been In her .present position for several years. She began her real estate operations by buying city lots, for which she paid about $125 apiece. The property was located In what later became a prominent prom-inent business section and the young woman's profits ere said to have exceeded ex-ceeded $40.W. WONDERFUL WORK. Case No. 18,977. David M. Bye, Mich., says: "Three months I was almost - mcapacn.aw;u uviu could not sleep at night; had to walk the floor, owing to terrible pain In the hips, in the small of the back, In my instep and ankle of the right leg. I was treated for sciatio rheuma tism in the hospital, but received no benefit. One month ago I returned home and was given a box of Doan's- Kidney Pills. To-day residents of this city can bear witness to the fact that I am able to work, and can also walk to my work without the aid of a walking-stick or crutch. In speaking of the immediate effect of Doan's Kidney Pills, I did not find them to deaden the pain, out quicmy and surely to eradicate the cause of it. I am of the opinion that Doan's Kid ney Pills are the best remedy for kidney ailments that can be procured. I was especially careful in my diet, in order to give the treatment fair play. In conclusion, I shall be pleased, at any time, to answer any inquiries regarding re-garding my case, from anyone desir ous of obtaining it." A FREE TRIAL of this great kid ney medicine which cured Mr. Bye will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. Nordica s Gymnastic fcxercise. Mme. Nordica, the opera singer. Is i - i . . V a ..norantla art rf nnnrlv TTl IKI I f'ISM III LUC LlUJkUWW w vuuwm Ine: a bag. This is a daily exercise with her, as she conciders that It givet. opportunity tor an necessary muscular muscu-lar training and subjection of adipose tissue. The punching bag is a compromise. com-promise. She desired to learn boxing, but It was pointed out to her that an accidental blow on the neck or chest even with soft gloves might wreck her vocal career. Work Only Under the Whip. In a recent lecture at Gresham college col-lege Dr. Symes Thompson, in speaking speak-ing of the effects of climate, remarked that It had become necessary to sublet sub-let English government, work in Egypt because it was found that the natives would not work only when chastised, and it was a rule that a British officer must not strike a native. Clark's New Enterprise. Senator Clark of Montana has secured se-cured a controlling interest in the Salt Lake and San Pedro railroad and will push it to completion. It affords an outlet for the product of tbe senator's copper mines. The attention of ourreaaersis called to the advertisement of "Ores and Metals" Met-als" in another column. Inis is not a technical journal but a mining news paper. Those who wisn to keep posted on the mining development of the more valuable publication Uian this. Authors' Peculiarities. A writer In the London Tatler says that he knows few men more hearty and more genial than Sir Arthur Co-nan Co-nan Doyle and Robert Barr. Both are unconsciously more fiercely tory In their politics than anything that the Primrose league can boast, although one is a member of the Reform club and the other of the Devonshire. But they are both true liberals In being ever ready to help lame dogs J over' stiles. Tips Discouraged In China. The tipping system is not encourag ed In China. An execution recently took place outside the gates of Tal-Yuan-Fu. The decapitated corpse belonged be-longed In life to a telegraph messenger. messen-ger. On the occasion of a great festival festi-val he asked for tips from some leading lead-ing merchants who habitually used the telegraph offiie. The governor of the province heard of It and took prompt steps to suppress the nuisance. nui-sance. Good Season for Fishers. Between 400 and 600 has been earned on the average this season by the boats' crews engaged in the herring her-ring fishery on the Northumberland All creameries use butter eoTor. Why not do as they do use JUNB TINT BUTTER COLOR, The National Result Yes, sir, we turned In and elected that chap on a reform ticket, and Inside In-side of a month he had every one of our fellows put off the pay rolL It was a regular boomerang of an election, by George!" "Well, what else could you expect of the Australian ballot?" Chicago Chi-cago Tribune. Mrs. Wlnnlow'n Soothlnjr Syrup.' For children teething, softens the gums, reduces ta (UmissAlon, alUys pain, cures wind colic 26c bottl. The "Pathfinder's" Widow. The name of Jessie Benton Fremont Fre-mont the aged widow of the "Pathfinder," "Path-finder," was the first to be entered on the new register of the Fremont hotel recently opend In Los Angeles and named in honor of her husband. |