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Show MIDDLE MAN. THE rt thouiili the top st'euicd always very reached it. Yet , ;tbouslit each day !fm of Wore j, of a bu; he, jdoei time Th. b aa S light! then, put in his precious way? rm th, i hi no! cheers dull gok fun(f that there V all those who pass him, as they STORY OF BOXER FtfW puppy and His Disastrous Effort to Do Riglt 5'e!lo l tr . BURNS IN ST. NICHOLAS. ; ! Hf--t i name! L ned t, ss. Or o node; Porker acher was work REVIVAL OF SNUFF HABIT. w,fnturuing to the struggling ones be- Come on! Theres room up Fashioiinlilft Snrlcty Asuin Tiikri to Aro cries there for you! luntic Hint l'niigfiit 1owtU-r- , Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Fashion's pendulum is forever on the HE drapc-r- and there he stands pass him on their upward Nre, -- it clear, he might closer t, itr u eded h 'aths c: ie of tl on the head, "Good doggy! he exclaimed In a queer, shaking kind of voice. And then, Dont you see wlmt lies done? He thought I whipped him all because he didnt put them In a idle! Good doggy! Nice old fellow! uf! harked Boxer, wagging almost double for joy. It Is doubtful if any of the goslings would have lived to become geese If Uncle Ted had not come that afternoon to take Boxer home. And the next time he visited the farm he was much too wise a dog to chase barnyard fowls of any kind. Yes-sir-e- rtT he stopped Erase;,. made that lie saw - press- by a ed- - patted Boxer the ladder of success, to climb was a bird-dog- , or was be one when lie grew up. yet lie was just a big, lovable puppy, le Ted sakl he would be worth a .tired dollars after he was trained; Uncle Ted ought to know, for he las many dogs as the old woman in the shoe had children, 0 lived y Uncle Ted knew what to do. ra never was a man, Ben and Laura tight, who was as clever with dogs Unde Ted. ie never would have left Boxer at ndma's, only a telegram came very .tally, calling him away. Take good care of the dog, he said last thing, and Ben and Laura with e voice answered: We will! y were delighted to think of having h a dear, ridiculous puppy to play Ji. Uncle Ted had left him chained a post, but they begged their father let the floor fellow loose. Why, yes, said papa, laying aside The farm Is big enough paper. hold him, 1 guess; and even If lie 1 get into mischief, I think we can nage him. Then Boxer saw them coming, he :gled and frisked till his tail almost bed his head. Wuf! Wuf! he barked la his funny py way, which was to say, Let loose! Let me loose! What's the f of being on a lovely big farm If j have to be bitched to a post by a Md old elm in ? in should have seen him when he d the chain drop! lie bounded and theu back again, upset Ben comical excitement, leaped up to e Laura a kiss, and there is no ing what he would have done next e hadnt caught sight of some g away in the flower bed. And In a twinkling he chased the last one out Deary me! ejaculated grandma, a the window. If we had a dog smart as that, my sweet peas might c a chance to bloom! He wasnt thinking of sweet pens," ickled papa. "Its just because lie's .'id dog. lies chase anything with iora till lies trained, If it were only old stuffed owl! Tie children listened with respect 1 admiration, for papa knew almost nnioh about dogs as Unde Ted. They had a delightful afternoon with xer. and ho begged off so when y took him back to the post that y decided to leave him loose. 'ext morning there were seven goslings missing at feeding :e. They found them at last, seated along at the edge of the pond-de- ad! Boxer lined to chick-scratchin- 1 Inquiries made iu the tobacco trade tend to show, says the Loudon Mail, that snuff once more bids fair to play a not insignificant part iu the ainejffUes of social life, A steady increase has been noticed In the consumption of snuff. At both cuds of the social ladder, too, for, like the pipe, snuff knows no distinction of rank or intellect. A dirty habit the use of it has, indeed, been called, but devotees at once join issue here with the consumption of tobacco in other forms, and claims that if ballots were taken of of mothers and sweethearts the smoker and not the snuff-take- r would be banished from t he household. While Ichuhod is written in the dust on many an old snuff jar and discarded snuff box, the gentle art of snuff-takinhas been s uilously cultivated by high and low. Among the poor In the east end of London snuff is in great demand nnd scarcely a tobacconist U:t keeps some variety of it in stock. Many west end simps, on the other hand ignore snuff altogether. There Is no protit in snuff, said the manager of one of arid the sale of these establishments, it would bring us a elass of customers which we don't want. Rome houses in London are especially noted for snuff. They are places, situated, oftener than not, iu the quiet side streets, and they carry on a growing business with clientele. an aristocratic and well-to-dThe printers of Fleet street are said to be large consumers of snuff. swing. g o FricntlsliiiS, "Smurt-So- t Then there are friends in wlmt Is labelled the smart sot whose motto in life would appear to lie Banish dull care. These e the people who give those cheerful dinners where nobody carps a rap for precedence. Everybody takes liis affinity Into dinner; the host starts off with the prettiest girl and the hostess is taken down a-- by some beardless boy. It is Liberty Hall, with nicknames for nil present, abundance of chaff nnd stories something more than rlnky. They are all great friends, of course, and call each other denr things and know exactly how much Is meant by that, while they smile sweetly nnd say Cat In connection with most of them behind their friendbacks. Few of these a without made are in society ships purpose, either political, social or financial. The peeress wants a tip from the millionaire, either a Rlock Exchange tip or ono affecting coin or copper or whatever his special line may friends are nice In so he. Our nlc far as they are useful to us. At the same time in justice to society It ought to be pointed ont that no one is taken in by tltose interested friendships. The people who make friends calculating how much they will benefit thereby are seen through by everybody nnd disliked so openly that only their toadies fail to let them see it.The Countess, in London Outlook. Off Jnptuicfte Servant 'ow In a mmu!n inwsp:tjpr recently Japanese lichcliold serOh, dear!" walled the children, disvants were advertising for situations. ced between grief for the goslings All of them said they could Rive referJ pity for the ences. showing that they bad work' i gullly pup In the a tve that was sure to overtake him, In New York nnd elsewhere, by didnt we chain hint up? Oh, of them were registered at an emnl will papa do? ployment ngemy in Sixth nvemie, and Hint papa did do was to gather up had been a month trying to get someI cannot explain It," godings ami arrange them hi a thing to do. e. with their poor limp nocks all snld the proprietor, "except on the theping one way. Then ho sent for ory that housekeepers are tiring of ier. Japanese servants, A few years nco he said Sternly. they were qtille the thing, especially 'Naughty dog! Ming to the goslings. Bad, bud on the upper west side. The only trouble with them was that limy dl.l not Hien he understand the law about hiring and whipped him, Poor Boxer! lie looked at the discharging servants, and oftentimes ami lie looked at papa, and If put their employers to the trouble of re ever was a penitent puppy. It going before a loliee Magistrate to get he. ms brown eyes shone with matters s'raight. Still, the Japanese ,r. and he licked papa's hand and fad was quite long lived. Now It Ned so sorrowfully that It was all for ns to find places for the Japs. children could do to keep from Rome of them have gone back to Japan rtw luir their arms about Ids neck with well tilled purses. Others have 1 telling him not to feel sad any gone Into different businesses suggestIt didn't matter, anyhow. ed by their countrymen in tuts eity. Ihere could not have been a better I saw one old servant on my list doing heloo 8 than w let Boxer was that dny. The a Juggling net nt the circus Inst spring. ' t thought him a more wonderful Irish nnd German servant girls seem tiefe hiro than ever. lie seemed so to be having tho run Just now." gliteif whenever ty t he pleased any New York Press. lefis and was so heartbroken when lie tea inderoil that no one Here of Hi Teltl emigres. really had the rt to scold him very much. tt; Tho hero of the Celtic Congress woo" that night they let him loose which Is now being held lu tho Old a f" da convinced that the lesson had World twin villages of Lesneveu nnd v learned. l.n lolgoet. the homo of tho grent X'l- H'cxt morning before breakfast he Duchess Aline of Brittany, is tho man who linn nmro Inllueueo over tho mounding lift Joyfully to pnpa. uf! Vuf! he said, as expressive-' Breton mind than anybody or anything If he had said, Come with me! rise To the M. Theodora Botrol. am, too Westminister Gaxelte, says tourist, everybody! ld xcryhody catne. Boxer frisked M. Botrel Is well known from the fact mtn 'i proudly at the head of the pro-b- that hit hnndsomo figure (alwnya In n and led them straight to the picturesque Breton costume) and tho iftlO pond. fac simile of his autogrnpu are dragged Wufl Wuf! he harked again. Just by honk or by crook, Into almost every w I did it Breton picture postcard. But hi verso this time! Till ere m the hank were seven more both In Breton and In Freueh, la forth and full of feeling, .dead graceful goslings, arrntiged always npntly tt w'11! lr'p ffked Panting and bis sotigs, which are Innumerable, are to bo heard lu every cottage In ssd 1 Shi never" grandma. began Brittany, even where French la au unI twenty-eigh- t pun-me- '. rc-t- lmt I 7' . j1PaU -- uddeiily Hooped out and known tongue. A lEo Social Chasm Th By Charlctte Teller HEBE Is more significance in the appearance of The Woman Who Tolls than in the recital of the facts given between the covers. To be sure the two youug women who laid aside their accustomed luxuries and went Into the factories, mills and shops to see for themselves the lives of the working women, picture the conditions they found with ruthless honesty and without exaggeration, but tbe strongest element of the book lies outside what is written. This hook nppenrs after nineteen centuries of teaching that all men are brothers, and It is in itself evidence that men are strangers and, unconsciously perhaps, enemies. Human beings move iu groups, which know little of each others life, although speaking the same language, obeying the same laws and recognizing the same flag. Miss Van Yorst knew of this social chasm before she undertook her work, for she says: Any journey into the world, any research in literature, any study of society demonstrates the existeuee of two distinct classes, designated ns the rich and the poor, tlie fortunate and the unfortunate, the upper and the lower, the educated nnd the uneducated and a further variety of opposing epithets. Those who would know something of the life of the other group, If they have been born into the group which Is rich, educated or fortunate, must step down and out and, for a time, nt least, become as near as possible like those who live in the elass which is known as poor, uneducated and unfortunate. Ro well did t he two authors understand this that they made, first of all, a change In their dress. One of them laid aside a eostuintwhose total cost was $147, nnd put on one which cost only $0.45, but this contrast iu clothes faded ns nothing before tho other contrasts between' leisure and toil, between the homes and holies of the two great classes of the rich, or well and the poor. America Is a democracy, yet in Its realities there are as great eon trusts ns lr any monarchy, where title and rank of birth make the elass distinctions. Two children may sit side by side in school, nml then go out Into lives so different that after a few years they no longer know- - each others circumstances, and the fortunate one has to change her habit and manner If site would know of the other's life. To those who have not seen the life nnd read Its story In the faces of young girls, pallid and tired, nnd In the eyes of older women left unspurred by hope, ll:e book will be a revelation -- it may even stir such readers to n desire for change. But wherever there is a man or woman to whom it seems a revelation there Is one who is separated from the human family by a chasm. Better, even could nothing be done, that each person should know something of all, than that this ignorance longer exist. Better that the suffering which comes from knowledge Increase, than the chasm of elass indifference grow wider. There is no need, however, that any one suffer In silence. Let every one who reads cry ont against the conditions of modern industry which make such Looks possible. If there lie any one who fenrs to take up tlm fight for change after learning the facts in this life of toiling women, such a one Is either without mercy or a coward. The strongest protection to he given to the modern slavery is the protection of Blleuce. New York American. to-d- j2 PRIVATE STRONCHOLD. Latest J Mujest of Crritt I nti l.llfly Tho steady growth of Socialism in Germany and the revolutionary utterances of tlie more reckless leaders of tho party seem to have made the Emperor se. lously uneasy in retard to the safety of his family, Rtrange disclosures have been made by tlie editor of the Socialists journal, Yorwnrta, who was recently arrested for lose inajesle. The paper published the statement tlmt the Emperor had purchased an island called Ilchelswerdor. In the Havel Uiver, siluat d nt equal distances from Berlin, Iotsdnm nnd Rpandae, nnd not far from the great military camp at Dooberit,. The Emperor, It was said. Intends to build on t s island ft stronghold to x..ieli Insurhe could send his family if rection broke cut suddenly in Germany, The defenses are to he the most formidable, but will be concealed by grassy slopes, nml tho castle will not be the private possession of the imperial family, but will be the property of the C- 'wn. The fortress will he guarded by a special force chosen from the regiments of the guard, and only the Emperor's servants will have access to the island. For some months past It has been noticed that n new road Is in course of construction from Berlin to Doeberitz, where tho regiments of the guard have their camp of exercise, but the Voerwarls explains the building of tbe road by pointing ont that It passes close by the island of nnd will enable the Fielielswerder. Imperial family to go to the fortified castlo without following the old road, which Is very circuitous. The semiofficial papers do not deny that the Emperor Is thinking of buying tbe Island, but the editor of tlie Vorwnrts has, nevertheless, been arrested, nnd will be tried for lose majeste. If tlie reports of the trial are allowed to be published, which is supremely unUkely, they will furnish sorno Interesting rending. - WISE WORDS, JZ? CIEglTIFIC lNPV5TRJA to Prove ro-- t. Virtue Is moral victory. Ignorance Is indolence. False men want false gods. Luxury Is the nurse of lust The life that docs not go out cannot By the Editor of Youth's Companion go up. BECEXT story Is the study of a character of a man who from sin can never be a refuge from One exIs a he has conviction to some bom that youth extraordinary perience. As he grows older the Idea becomes more sharply de- another. fined. The experience Is to be painful nnd tragic, and is to reA cool enthusiasm Is a good deni like move him from the plane of ordinary life. The idea takes pos- a wet fire. sesion of him and dominates his career. He undertakes nothing Genuineness Is the only lasting form of Importance, since it may be interrupted by catastrophe. He of genius. does not permit himself love he scarcely ventures on friendsbp You cannot divorce piety from philbecause he believes himself marked for disaster. anthropy. One woman, to whom he confides his secret, shares his apprehension. At The wind blows nothing off but withlast, not long before her death, she perceives that the tragedy lurking for him ered leaves. Is merely hesitancy, inaction. Incapacity, brought about by the delusion and A human cry of need Is a heavenly tho fear nurtured In his own Imagination, To the victim himself the truth Is revealed when It Is too late for him to commission. You caunot have pure polities with acquira any habit of life other thaw the tremulous and unachleviug one. He discovers his own hideous lack of feeling and of will by tlie sight of the impure people. face of a man who has sounded the depths of human pain, and The heathen hare no monopoly on found even those to be better than the shallows of apathy. vain repetitions. Tho story has Its lesson even for an age as active as ours. We are not free Rins tlmt look like dwarfs often have from the bane of reluctant fear lest feeling shall outrun mere pleasure. The children. gigantic not she should who will a man lest lose love who will not permit girl It, the pet Is a short step from the critical lint It himself any share In religious enthusiasm lest ho should lose his head, tlie woman who will undertake no social reform for fear she become too much In- to the hypocritical. lie who Is occupied Is urmed against volved lu it for her own comfort these are some of the cowards of our day. of lack with a their there which often subtle many temptations. courage goes Along egotism, Social duties cannot he hidden in they fancy sets them apart from the common herd, but which is almost sure to meet Its final defeat in the discovery that those powers which were believed theological difficulties. Bum's Horn. to lie above the average were really below It, and that obscurity is the only catastrophe likely to fall upon so Ignoble a nature. Rourt-of th Sleeping blrkneu. The British authorities in Uganda are making great efforts to discover the source of tho terrible sleeping sickness" which periodically decimates the natives of that territory nnd other parts of Africa, nnd, If possible, to find a means of preventing its spread. By the Rev. J. William Lee In May last year tho Itoyal Rodety successful business man keeps close watch of his contracts to dispatched a commission to Entebbe, HE sij jAS (At boo that they are fulfilled. Husbnud, how long has It been siuec Uganda, for tho purpose of Investigating the disease, nnd early tiffs year a you lnive looked at your marriage contract? A model husband is a man of good memory. lie remembers second commission was sent from Enghow the introduction to his future wife set his heart fluttering. land for the same purpose. k.4 Tlie conclusions of the Joint commisHe remembers the walks together, arm In arm, side by side. Therefore he does not get half a square ahead after marriage and then bawl sion arc now available through the out: Susan Jane, for heaven's sake, why dont you hurry? report. publication of a progressive A single rosn perfumed with love in life Is worth more than a dozen wreaths This shows that tho disease Is caused on a casket lid. by a minute parasite la the blood, which could not be conveyed from man My model husband doesn't wait until his wife dies to give her flowers. Beinemlier tlie kind, loving words before marriage. Give ber n few now. to man. Consequently suspicion fell When you go home put your arms around wife nnd tell her how sweet and upon the tsco ily, u species of which, beautiful she is. t nmv be stretching tho truth, but God will forgive you, and similar to the one prevalent In was found abundant In Uganda, jour wife will be happy. If you ha e discovered your wifes faults keep your eyes closed. Bemember nnd experiment nre now In progress to settle v luff her tlie Uganda tsetse how blind you wore before marriage. When yon think less of your wife nnd more of another's, the breakers of carries In Its blond tlie Identical parasite which Is peculiar to tlie disease, hell arc before you. My model husband doesnt serve God by proxy. He doesn't send wife to and whether It enu pass It to an anichurch nnd stay borne poring over Uls ledger. A wife who goes to church for mal. One rather tentative experiment both will go to heaven for both. seems to show this, and It Is expected that the truth or falsity of the theory Modern Cowards 7 Phases of a Mode! Husband n AU IVnusylvaiiiii railway pusseuger ears are to be lighted by electricity from storage batteries. A recently Invented door lock has tho keyhole In the knob of the doo, and there Is no other keyhole. The assertion is made by a naturalist devour fie drones of a beehive, hut never molest the workers. that nightingales By the use of the anti toxin treatment In diphtheria cases, of which there were (1500 last year In the Ixm; don hospitals, the death rale from the malady has been reduced In a few years from over thirty to eleven per cent A plant that yields a sugar twenty times as sweet as the ordinary cane rbeet sugar has hoeu found in Routh America, Its scientific name Is Ku patorhun rehatulium; It is an herb that grows eight to twelve Inches high, and Its saccharine matter is not fermentable. - A 1arls physician 1ms noted the hour of death of fisSO personage of all ages in a mixed population, nnd during a period of several years. Tlie maximum hour of dentil Is from 5 to G a. m., the minimum from ! to 11 a. m. In tho first case the mortality Is forty per cent, greater than the average, aud In the hitter six nnd one half per cent. less. From It) a. nt. to 3 p. in. In the day the mortality Is not high, and the most fatal hours are from 3 to G In the morning. The river basin of tho Thames, with an area of only 53 It square miles, sinks into Insignificance when compared with the Mississippi, having the lurgest drainage area of the rivers of North America, amounting to 1.214.. 000 square miles, which, la Its turn. Is exceeded by two river basins In South A merlon, namely the La Plata with a basin of 1,000,000 square miles, nnd the Amazon with a basin of about 2,250,000 square miles, the largest la the world. In the Medical World. Dr. Moses describes a novel method of removing a fish bone crosswise from the throat Tho bone was too low to be reached by any forerps nt hand, and the author recalled a method of procedure told him by an old doctor who had been taught by a boy, namely, to tie a string In the eye of a smooth button and have the patient swallow the button, edgewise of course, and ilvaw. the. button trw vij This was done nnd tlie hone was promptly dislodged. An effort Is being made In England to raise sufficient money for the erection of a memorial to John Kay. the Inventor of the "fly shuttle." In every loom before his time the shuttle was passed by band through the warp from one side to the oilier. The invention about doubled the capacity of the operation, and the Innovation aroused the Ire of the weavers to such an ei-tethat ICny was made the victim of a mob attack at one time, and his home and property destroyed. lie died In poverty, .and the location of his grave is unknown. nt The authorities of the biology department of Missouri University have established a rat farm. Ture white rats will be used entirely for breeding, and a part of the biology building lias been especially equipped for tho rearing and care of the rodents. The rats are to be used for experiments with poisons nnd dissecting. Tbe while breed lms been found the most desirable. Cats were formerly used Instead, bnt ths towns supply of felines has been exhausted. The students, under cover of darkness, enticed them away from the Columbia households and concealed them nt the unhcralty. Zulu-lan- 7 will Our Daily Work Boon be determined. I)la of Ilomr In th riiltlppln. A preliminary report upon Trypanosomiasis of Horses In the 1hillp-piuIslands." ly Messrs. Musgrave nnd Williamson, lin been Issued from the Government laboratory at Manila, Tito disease seems to lmvo been Introduced Into tho riiillpplnes quite recently, for careful Investlgatlou has failed to show any evidence tlmt It existed there before June, ItMit. It la transmitted through tho bites of Insects, and until the exact species aro Idem Ified for preventive measures, all Insects should be considered as carriers of the Infection, In Manila a certain number of rats hnvo been found to bo infected with tho horse trypanosomn. An account Is given of tho symptoms of tho disease and of tho preventive measures to be adopted, tho most Important of which is the prevention of tho access of all flics and insects. o Woe to Him Who Docs Not Find Healthful Joy in Hard Labor By the I'd1 tor of the Century Magazine AllDl.Y any ono who comes In contact with affairs can fall to notice as u sort of corrollnry to the enervation which comes to men of wealth through luxury, un increasing laxity of view among workingmen concerning labor, a tendency to regard the dally task us something greatly to bo regretted nnd hastily to he escaped from. In some minds an air of sentimentalism pervades tlie whole labor problem, as though the millenluui only wulted upon largo wages nnd short hours. J'ho old time love for ones work and tho pride lu It ns one' best reason for existence have yet to find any widespread ond active propaganda In the conventions of labor, Ro far ns wo Imvo observed, no labor lender has taken upon himself the conservative office of preaching to his followers tho virtue of good work well done, not only ns a duty to tho employer, but as a service nml inspiration to tho workingman himself. The theories even of those who lend most wisely aim at the elevation of the Individual through tho class rather than the reverse. The general troud of the workingman seems to be away from hard work and good work. It Is time that tlmro was less preach. Ing of rights nnd more of duties. Berlmps It would bo easier to get the rlghli by a little more conscientious devotion to tho duties. At n matter of fact, nnd not of theory, no man can do worse service to another, w hether rich or poor, than to deprive him of the absolutely healthful Joy which there Is In hard work. Woo to him who does tmt like his dally work; for If one cannot luivo tho work ho likes ho would better learn to like the work bo bus. old-tim- e 's Bril-Titi- 'i Ataurlllls. The Deutsche Juristenzeltnng records the following Instance of ITus-sln-n red tape: A woman who legally ledisappeared from her homo was a time. after gally adjudged dead Three year later she reappeared, proved her Identity beyond a doubt and demanded a pnr port and other legal documents which Germans are required to possess. The authorities, however, refused to give her the docu- ments, declaring that legally she was dead, and the law court decided tbut she could not appeal against the ruling that she was dead, because too grant an Interval bad elapsed for an appeal to be allowable. The courts of appeal upheld this decision, so that tho unfortunate woman Is ttlll dead, though very much alive to the absurdities of red tape. London Tit dills. A Oil Fainting. A wngoa load of rusty horseshoe or a truckload of whalebone nre not uncommon sights lu tho streets of lower Manhattan, but a truck containing a single oil painting of largo proportions,1 uncovered to the gae of thousands, rather more rare. Such a load came dowo Efondtvsjr a few days ago. The frame of the painting was fully six feet high and long lu proportion, and the canvas bore the picture of one of tho noted occnn liners, snlllug along bone In he with the proverbial teeth," under a sky as blue as tut Fxyt'lUn ropuUtlonaJnrrvuiilnf- quolse. The truck stopped before t Thu Temps publishes au lutcrciUn,7 steamship office, and four men who letter from Its Alexandria correspond- had held the painting In position durent on the great progress of Egj pt. Iu ing the Journey carried It with much less than five years the pupnhiuoti 1ms effort through the doorway.New Yorl Increased Burn t.W.UO) to lG.WU.WU. Bust |
