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Show 11 lElILIlL i CF I WW Wrong System in Educitlng Indian. in ; THP pist ears of selecting a few In i ' I(N 3J. youths from each 'b "n ,"E?V-"! Hail? US" ." i Mncrl an jouths sHl Itf&B JffiT h I " either ln "lon"'f ,"r ftl 91 1 JHfi Vv , n the end to torn out un- 'tlil 8Sf f for the Indian h mi. If The ' 111 l weaned rrom hi; old nocltt- Vfiif SfSgt and accustomed to n "'" " BfSci 'lf'1 urlousease A.r M. cation I. I'M) W Mm Pl'trf there r. mains no ""' iVlik8i tl1 n to him but to return to hi oil MWm I 1W : IrtUKSU. very Jlfe hi, schon! uJ I'rtSit F?1 f ownment tenia not provide whi'vf iv If of Wmi Point anl Annapolis All 11 M IS I J" &'fw IV 1 1! ' r.sr siss.k.'S -? fiALltfJ,?1! IF 1 heln recorded In tho rnm- KifiiMH H HmUoT ticket To live In pcre j Plj8li J w Hi the tribe he must not appear to H SlpPtSJ, rut on aim If he trie; to adopt 'he H 'iWlxrT ,1 rS torn, of eh in i lion he he. on e a K I' 3 la vl V ulject ' ridicule and "raelan unt I H E1 7 ' "If 1' luhmlta an.l f ilia hack Into lh old, IJ' ' 1 hy life or tlio lepee . !t 'H ul t evils of the present ayetem which Q 1 M J a' '" 1"''lt ronfera mlueitlon on er iUai 'i fe, and 111 t at ureal "P,"'" '". "',' .?1jV1 f.-nernment Mr I.lltlo of ArL(l"?i ...hill ! ' rd io adoption of an ntnfflJiwnl ftft$!3$ " "'r " I,,,llnn nnrrnprl"V ,,o, Siti W ' I "I el t. tho t ommlaaloner of In Ian IHllvJlliT ' i ill io examine and deride on the SirH' 1 f' ! ' " im' expedlenry of eduot InB LHfly 1 AH ' !. 1 ll i in In achoola on the ieira-HkeTiF ieira-HkeTiF mi -i t ni 1 in communltlea here au.h lBfr'l-r ill a n ae and to anhmlt the he,t LHWtr'Kll' in ' oninltaih till" end l.i iTm IHBlrf Hilt! e it ' e next aeaalon The e HKlilHi'l i 'M -t of ndciuato 'oiiimon Silttf? tj I ' r ?" Hie reaeratlon wld. 11 f WV p f, J b"y m,y. benellt not on1 ji! il Jl) 'I ' 1 R ' numhera of the Indian elill Vh51i3 ill t ould alw ael ai ft cll UlnB iM'rtiiJ I ti home life of the trlbea -HKfflmi'U Ic r kl mAiv 'A . LLHattUt) I li'U Tho Other Tool iHMviIl3rT (i.1 fro l rtudyart i:ipllnB Hw 1 i v ar,x u' ' " " aaHuSfrifl' jPiH Till ' eorpulenr maieiillne lr HffflMtr WM " him a hllow with room to BaMii 11 lilp But n 'lt'1 h'm h" h"" ,'y""1 rm LLbIkIhIi SwP f i a oi and I Hf jfj jl W Ch ii- ear e waate and Iho tears o Hlllt 'l B TO? I Aoj Ihe meali we hae If ft on hin.l HP'' 'f W Anau pb th. huband ho neer come. H.H' Wfljl I ; Ar.1 n"oTe know that he oul ln t come LlaWth 'If'' Aa'lons na he could annd aHoWftj"' It I A fool there wa. and her tore he IH311!ri u US i ip-m- , , SffilP", i mi l ,.rIu;noutnnUanrtm,.hf Price of the rent H flilt' f P I 3 Till ihc i threaten to eae, and then he d Hi'ir' I, 5, VI ' WhenTh"' fool In her heart ould grow IHSliK 3i 3 i ami relent. .ffiutii If! W-M i:r" "' "'" " iliT'1 i t'll oh' "" pln he c0,t" nA ,h" "'" '" LIStlI'rl Ei lElw-J Fot"iie turnet down houaea and land Biff f H Iff To marry a leagai who eoul In t coma nftti ! it And iio' know thnl ho wouldn t tome aBi I ) H 4 Aa"ion aa he could atand '' WtillS Ih" ' ,nl rrlMl "'n'd'l-" 'e " "d I 1 Ym hlchnvmliihtl,lhar eeen aa aha put ' f WAt i nut there'""! on record a word that he fi I IB t ' fine l"'V' "P prctcnee, hut her ani,rr a tr HifJi 1 K'" "" 0U "ni ' iVJ lliy , f !ird It Im I tho Ion and It len t the croes iiflS! il Of walllnit with meal on hall I ilRlif I ft ,l'" c'n,lnB '" kn0,l lie talking f i llfc'l llearirVfrom other he turlel for home ll fnfiilli Whiii Iw wa unalle to land fMwl1! -Clay Clement In Story Hook '! ' 1 Trlbttto to Mlnera fi It! Ir "Vlnter In tho nocky Mountalna," ii iKl i 5 Ko'hcrlm humner paya a tribute to tho "I fS r ,nl " of f10 mountulna rrom the aaaai -if 1 Jftl fflfi article whloli uppeora In the l.m Mag- tUm f it) ?AjTi nzlnc t quote iH ;' (3 f M ttffl The liardleat and most courageous of UmWl ' I I m "! the human rato arc the mlnera ho Hjt '. f Sit-,'; Inhabit the mounlnlnom regions They 1 Sit at spend their llea dellne for the gold , M i)n Mhlch ulmoat lnarlubl pannes fiom iHAJiK'!!) XnlBX hclr rough toll-ntnlned hands to en. ' 'A ilH ' Wf, rh h the already rich The nic used MmU' It'liX' IWJ tu danger It la a part of their lives. iH '2MHIP4SS r A I romlslns claim hulf wa up the iH i iilt lU ''lli mountain site must not be abandoned LaH rTi29? M 'P. Jiecnurt a quarter of n mile of thick tUt Jt 3?' '' 7 timber iK'ir It Iris been hurled down LbB' I'fV'lr IP ' l,u" ""' canon by an aalni(.he the ttU i" if T' ' pielou winter Tho take the chance iH V n'r i?t "f suonslldea us they do that nf iarm- MUM , it ili'1. ,I1K Riant id wrier, und picking out tttt iJt' IS, i lnlaseil shots Dally the) snow shoo aH-SllA IS kc' I mrosii tho track of aalnuchea, tuk- tUm . lU ' W", I tni- th( rlek knnwliml) .NoiIiIiik but aiBillt-1 the rcnt lleulf win atop thuii mil WUm W:1 ih !; then the end of all rinks for I hem HV, i,Ji lit? Vi It la not i luiieh what tho inoun- l '',ij 'jtl ;.' tnlneera ire ln thcli dal! lives that tttt St I il ' It mikt them rmurkable It Is wlnt WMMu J i" 'Lr ,nc re capahle uf whr n ci isla arises tUM !M ill' fl!l' Ir " comrade Is nveirame b noxloua MMMm Jl 1 !' 1 h apora and fill In Hie slope or drift iiV 'I i 'ij! I' R( IS or Is Imprisoned In a burning mine or LH.lli J . i W burled In a slide, It I amailng an 1 LBillt M'l pathetic lo witness tho self-abni nation V ,f; IS that la shown b the mountain miners tttt ill t i T i4' 1 hey rush to the oaalatiince nf unfnr-LHi'lU unfnr-LHi'lU " '41 tunate laylnit down then Uvea with Ui J ll!) ( itbaolute (llarecanl No lUk Is con LbHwiH 113 Mlered when there lathe sllghttst tUM f 1 il!' 8' rhnnce of rescue fni u conirnde or of aH'i'li l ! even the reioer of a burned or man-B man-B 'v t) II f-Ud, or fioaen thins for u woman to uW.Vi IF 'I mourn oer. H lm hi 'I i bbHUiIi t!i i To Oooa " LUr' aHiVlii " ill 'D1 young man from lianffehlie tins Hjlf nl i' srmdlng his holldaa ln Aberdeen ' ,( (. , hlle walking on ' the Oraen ' In com IaaS fj-l j, (Si r ny wllh his unele he was surprised J . ) S il, R t see so many kite tlylng cibst rv Vi $ li. ' ' onP far 1,1'thr ,hn 'li rest he 1 at c lied lila unciei, attention ant nskel 6(i 9 i) If ever he had seen a kite fllng aa lLw ft 0 I1 I'1 before Dirt evei I see ano as f)(, t S-i" fl S 1 ill afore? Man Jammle that s . 1K.'ij'Ji 1? 1 r elhlng for I hae en aoine o them aHlff iff ' t!'1 i c,ran f" n itM ' ScottUh Ameri- BHllH' 'i"' ca" bHmj ' ' WA Tbe B-lnllina" 0( Oatrlch Farmo HjQli , '' f ,P 1 Flfti yearn ago the domestleiiilon of gaHrffl . 11' I o'trlch was an Idea scouted by aLWftl 111 'I ! VI 1 '"""f r tn aoologlats who ha 1 given sS'9 H 9 flNi ' "" a,ld thought to the subject Their HH 1 li ill an '' "" believed could not be gH 'l I1 ii$ "' ,n ' "'' "f eaptlvlty The mmmU l y i' J 1 at demand- for ostrkh feathera was WMMmfH I, l h$ ' " mtt by hunting and lining wild gaH'S If nlLW l d" und ther1 ,re Indications that gaaV A 'ft K W it 111 11" anecles would soon become extinct BgflN lit Ul 'i ' '' In the early slxtlei a Pren h sci- WUm f ill ' V V entlat name' Ooaae Issued a pamphlet Hl I 'ftl ,1 ! in which he argued thai the dnm-tnl Mi h Jrl't' j( , ration of the oat'lch was feaalbl- and M Ti t . 1 J pinctlcablii Not long nftarvvarda a ggi. H. 'Ill I' irood or oilrlcihe was retred In Ihe ti j cltv nf Alslera Ooaae pimphlet and B i' i'l J, I news nf the e.t-eiimcnt In Meiers ho- gaB f H ' tame familiar to two tanners in cape MUM Vlll pi ti . ( olonv who dettrmined to undeiiike algaH fl'r (t i ftl V1 th' domestication of oatrtche in South mMm il)U f J I Af lea Beginning with tu i bids gggHlllI H A Bi H? i v. h ch Ihey ciught and pllrl In Mi gggHkliii 'tS t ' ln ''ire In a tnalvemont'i thev h d gggggftttt ' 'Si ,16.1 n rrojd of elglily. whleii mi tot n ggaHi ' UllflV h,'h "' " ntw Indualrv which 1, gggaW li 4 (VI I I pljved a potential pu-t In the rteelop- i gggHil ij'it if. ''.'I ment and oomimirse of n Mint riiluii ggaH I fri'JlH i1 ( ' Juipe tierta of la- d In S-iulli fil l ggaH ' I'MlV :(i il which could not be piuflt-iblj u i fc B,' 't"H ' V fs any ottur PurP" c are now dcvoKJ to Klmlll gB f 1 1 ill! k y thla buMnce and feathera to the alue of six million dollars from neaily four hundred thousand domesticated blrcn ore now annuall sent abroad from I r ape Colony Success Tho Spall of L1fo The Isughier In a childish voice. The love light In a woman ii; Th-j raising of a white-crowned head In wilciime whmi lis evenllu A shelletliig roof S ifildi nt tood . . . , Al.nndiint slrfnuh wherewith to work A nravcr of gratitude for thes, for warm lug sun and cooling rain Iho endless ilrclo Is complete -Hirper s Misquotations In a letter to the noston Transcript nn the subject of mlaquolntlons a correspondent cor-respondent aaya I hac In my scrap-book scrap-book three notable examples of quoto-llona quoto-llona from the Thanksgiving proclama-llona proclama-llona of the floveinors of different States Oov Hell nf Texas ocean lila vvllh Now Is the winter of oni discontent discon-tent made glorious summer In the words of holy writ I once attended a funoial In the country where the rlergjmana mining remark was "My bereaved filend ou have loved and lost the demise 1 It ha been trill) said It la Impossible lo solve the biography bi-ography of death That Is my be-renved be-renved fi lends the only way for us I look at It' n acquaintance of mine tells tne that Cjrus llurlelgh one of the well known writers of fifty eara ago toll her that he had Just come firm a Quaker meeting where he saw a woman speaker rise and with a Qui-krr Qui-krr tone snv, ' A boss a hosi, my klngd im for a hose Doubtless my frlendt, Ihe Inspired psilmlst when he penriel these words meant a spiritual boss That was nil she sail iind she solemnly resumed her place on the high seiln' A Promoter's Dream A Chicago trust-promoter has had a drenin which lacks only the element of liiai tlcablllt) to make It n national nlghtmore He has Incorporated a rorupanj In South Dakot i with an null nu-ll orlsed capital stock of M 000 000 wili no Kss a purpose than to control nrd monopolize the stlllne, nnd dls trlbullon of nil the products of nil the farms In the United Stiles. And that Is only his starting point Once the Parmer fiust Is well under wny In thla lountis Viulh America will be In-nded In-nded and befoie long every man who anywhere tltklea n square fqpt of the Lirths surface Is expected lo become a stockholder In nn Intercontinental cnl irfccment of Ihe original Idei Mean time It must be admitted the Chicago promoter has done more than dream lie haa placed hli stock In the hands of mnnv banks In the Western ngrlcultur nl Htates. with Instructions to sell It onlv to real farmers and he has ae-cured ae-cured the services of men of long ex. perlence In the hindllng of grain and produce, nnd of considerable business standing to serve os orttcers and man-agera man-agera nf his trust lie reports that several millions of his tupltal stock have already been subscribed for. and as the Western farmers hive more nio-ne nio-ne this fall thin thes know what to do with subscriptions might he reasonably reas-onably expected. especlall If allow-ance allow-ance la made for the effect of an eloquent elo-quent promoter s rhetoric on men who have been known to buy gold bricks Since people who are not farmera can not buy tho stock of the vompany, the only way they tan get any protil out of Ihe scheme Is to spend a few mm-utea mm-utea In speculating on what mlgnt appen It It were possible for any .set of men to get tontrol of the "tuff wh Ich I Iho only absolute necessity of life This sort of speculation. It may be re-nuked re-nuked I- the. only kind which may be Indulge 1 In without the possibility of loss Harper g Weekly. How the Coal Miner Progresses. Iin J2 car old Boln' on.1'","1 the bos to tho boss breaker He d dn t look more than 10 und he was onl 9, but tho law wild ho must btfilooU Job He was one of n multitude of the 16 000 soungstera of tho mines, whobc-tiuiBC whobc-tiuiBC mlnera famlllca aro large ntid their pav coinparutlvtly small, start III tho breaker before many boja have passed their prlmurs schooling From the time he enters the breiker there s a ruin of progreat that Is almost nl-wa nl-wa followed Onco u miner and twke a breaktr bo, the upward growth of bo to man, brenker-boj to miner, the descent fiom manhood to old uge, from miner to breaker-boy, that la the rule Ho tho nlne-vcnr-old boy who Is li, goln on 13 ' nurta In the bienker ltev John McDowell, In the Worlds W ork New Light on drafting. M Daniel of tho faculty of sciences of ltennea has shown It appears, that grafting Is more wldelv opi llcable than I commonly supposed III fict, It Is loselble, ho states, not only lei giaft a 1 1 mt on another closely allied to It, but It Is ' possible to graft together two I Inula chosen nenrlj at random, the result depending chleflj on the skill of the opeiator Two specie of the same fimllj or even two of widely different fnmJlles ma be united Herbaceous Hants, too aie i easllj giattid aa I ices New tvpes cm he obtained by glutting dNtlnct plnnt Different tvpes of tomatoes for exumple tho round stllnw the large red nnd the red dwarf may b united with the result of producing combinations of these tvpes The large red tomato has been gritted on Ihe eggplant and Ihe latter on Ihe foimcr vvllh dlfferet and useful use-ful results The linpoitant principle Is established that the stock modifies the haratler of the plant or tree grafted on It The curloua Instance Is cited of h medlar tree over 100 yean old grafted on u hawthorn The hawthorn has put out a branch of medlar that his thorns mid produces twelve, white Mowers w here tin re should be but one The fi tilt la inedlnr but vir small nnd flat The question whether tho modifications produced u grafting ure heredltorj Is not ver clearlj answered Poinetlmes, It Is staled they appear to be permanent perma-nent while at other tlmea they ore fu (.Itlve 'Ihe useful fict brought out bv M Daniel s experiments Is that Kraft-Ing Kraft-Ing la practicable within much wider limits than aie usually supposed to be Insslble und produces sometimes use ful niodlllcitlons Ilnltlinore bun Women In Colorado Helen Marsh Nixon pleids valiantly nnd effective! for woman suffrage In an article In the Kra Magazine She concludes with It la Just beginning to divn on the political managers that there Ie a wo-man wo-man oto In this country with which they must reckon In former jeurs the devoted their energies to captur Ing the different forign votes now the must look nfier a new element in American politics -the woman vote To Hum up the net result of suffrage In l olorado It mi be said that Ihe pes-Imlst pes-Imlst has failed In his prediction for the hullo l In the hands of woman has neither unsexecl her nor degenerated th world An for the woman who neg lecu hir home for political worh would she be less llkel to do so were politics (limine d l.et us nat take the ex Hemes inr Ihe Isolamd cases to base I an opinion upon but rather take the Inge class of women who have awak ned-thinuMi ihelr civic rlghia to i Bi iter practical Interest In the i -ob lain of aoeial life, and who are learning ihat patriotism Include the small ihingH of life aa well us Its tragedlea and that It not only expresses iser inn a ta as well -nut patriotism U not politics ' nnd lady from Ohio on a brief visit to Colorado said It Is Just that nnl the women of the State hav-ing hav-ing taken It so, have worked to make political methods better nnd candidates cleaner The women of Colorado nre voting at every election, they are not confounding confound-ing liberty with license the nre doing their ilut from the standpoint not of the eternal feminine but of cltl-zns cltl-zns The man who gets n rafe distance from Colorado and proclaims from the house toe that Woman suffrage Is ii falliiif Is piolnbl the man who will not allow his vvlft to vote and who forgets to register before an important election An Impnrtlal examination will prove that surrrnl e has accomplished gooi In I olniado through the quickening of the civic conscience among women which mean a distinct pmgies toward higher high-er civic lift Ilecognlzed the Resemblance Not long ago s youth lesldlng In the elt of churches had adopted the pom-pa pom-pa lour method or combing his hair nnd his father dldn t like It The latter had nn Idea that there was nnl one sensible sensi-ble and manly wny to comb the hair nnd (hit wis to pirt it on the slde-elther slde-elther side liver thing else vv is dudlsh nnd affected In his opinion On! a woman wo-man vvnn privileged to take liberties with old established methods nung mnn he said us he lookel the outh over ou look like n fool ' There wns no discussion nnd shortly thcrcnfler nn old friend of the fnmll came In Its s'artllng," he said by way of pi -is ml romn-ent 'how much ou re-nemble re-nemble your rather ' So he Just been telling me" answered an-swered the outh The old gentleman looked hard at his eon for a moment Well he conceded nt list. ' I guesa jour hruln hnsn t been affected b our fool notions of halrdrcising na yet ' Chicago Chronicle Of llliyme. Not for mine ear 1h rlgll rhyme austere, Ilut that which swings and swas with mellow heat And soft recurrence of alluring feetl Not for mine eve The nalel sculptured line. Hut that which hath the shimmer and the Of skvej metaphor the rolddiv d Of gollen simile snd clearl shows Imaginations emerald snd rose Ulrd hrook and wind call, tho wild pulne of storm. All life unnumbered colors sweet and warm Hapture anl sorrow the swift flux of These would I have both sing and glow In rhvme' Clinton Scollard in the lira Mag nine Jeffersoninn Simplicity In Dinger. Taking a report on education In the united Btates as a text Punch of London Lon-don nddresses to us nn exnortntlon to avoid titles nnd stick tn Jeffersonlan slmpllclt The fact that 10 714 men ind 42'3 women were graduated it our universities In Ihe last academic ear suggest to lint htimorou periodical the danger that lurks In the distinction conferred b Institutions of learning When ever Janes nn I I, D When ever kte s a proctor, hcn every Mnr t n II Sc , And ever Anne s a doctor, When ever body's somebody. Then who Is anyhnd When titles grow In ever spot Anl when vou re safe lo wager That every Dick and Tom who s not A Colonel Is a Major. W hen plain esquire Is rare to see And ' General ' sounds like shodd W hen everybody somebody, Then who Is anybodi? O thrice and four times wise who sees Ills brother or his sister Still clutch at tlllts vain while he s Content with slmpll "Mr ' This wa distinction lies If he Will trend the pith untrod, he Will certainly he somebod. Not t elng nil) body If university degrees most of which Involve no handle to the name were the only distinctions borne by Titled Demociacy' nil would bo well A for the ' Colonels nnd ' Generals ' It Is absurd ab-surd to overlook the fact that In certain cer-tain parts of tho country these designation desig-nation belong to everybody by courtesyNew cour-tesyNew lork Kv thing Sun Who Supported A tins? Dr. IMunrd Uiooks superintendent of public schools was asked by one of his little friend In Ovcrbrook to listen tn the hitter's rehearsal of n lesson In which there was a reference to Atlas, si a the Philadelphia Ledger Do ou know who Atlas was?' asked Dr Brooks ' cs, sir He was n giant who supported sup-ported the world " 'Ah! Supported the world, did he'" went on the superintendent 'Well, tell me who supported Atlas" The little fellow looked a though he had not given the subject uny parttcu-lir parttcu-lir nttentlon, but showed Immediate willingness to think It over. The doctor doc-tor stood looking on, trying hard to keep back n smile but the youncstcr tlnnll brightened up and answered. ' Well 1 guees he must hive married a rich wife ' A Question of Hair. Tho holy snod of the Onek Patriarchate Patri-archate has had a curious question to settle. A certain priest In Oreece sud-denl sud-denl discovered that the hair on one side of his beard was fnlllne rapid!, and, on consulting u doctor, he was told that the only cure was shaving Hut no drcek priest 1 allowed to cut hi hull or nhae. If he doe he Is punished pun-ished h being suspended from hi priestly functions In hi dllemm.i the priest applied lo the hoi snod of Oreece whhh declired that It was Impossible Im-possible for him to shive nnd teniiln u priest He thereupon iippealel to Ihe ho! nol of Constantinople which Is the highest iiuthorlt In eccleslaHtl-cal eccleslaHtl-cal matters In the tlreek church and got a favorable dccMon on the ground that althouth it wis against the rules the hoi noI eould give permission In exceptional cases London Telegraph Tele-graph Shot Through the Heart nnd Lives. Curea b suture of wounds of the heart are becoming more and more common Hitherto however all the case reported have been wounds that vveie canted by knife or sword but M Launi i oung surgeon nttnehed to the Paris hosfltals has Just related to the Academ of Medicine the details of a cae In which the heart was pierced thiough by u revolver bullet During tho operation tho bullet was found lying ly-ing In the perlcardlil cavil There were two wound of the ventricle on the anterior an-terior surface and the other on the pos terlor surface these were sutured with catgut The pericardium was then sutured su-tured In Us turn and the Hip of the thoracic wall was fastened In pi ice No drainage won empIo)ed and Ihe pitlrnt recovered without a single bad mp-torn- The Lancet Debt of tho United States The October number of the North merlcan Ilevlevv contalni the first part of in article by O P Austin, chief of the bureiu of statistics In this instill-ment instill-ment Mr Austin traces the course of the deft from the Revolution to the Inauguration In-auguration of 1 Incoln Contrasting our national debt with the debt of othei nation na-tion Mr Austin as It u worth while before entering up. on a ills usslon of Uils debt and Its hi-tor hi-tor lo compare brief! pre-icnt tondl Hon with thoiie of former periods and ilso wilh those in other countries On August 31 U65 when thf national debt made lis hWh-wnter mark the total ln-Interest ln-Interest bearing debt stood nt JS3S1-5JOS04 JS3S1-5JOS04 the per capltu at J78 2S nnd the per capita Interest charge at II 23 Thus the d(bt lesa cash In the tre.isur, Is now about two fifths what It was at the close of the Civil war, the annual Inter est charge les than one fifth the rer capita debt about one sixth and the per capita Interest about one twelfth of that of 1SC5 Comparing our debt with that of other countries It ma be said In general gen-eral terms that the Interest-bearing debt of the United States I less than that of Austrla-IIungar Australia ln die or Spain, about half that of Italy, one-thlrd that of ltusla oi the United Klngdorpi one-fifth that of I runce while the per capita Interest charge against Ihe United Stnte national debt Is below that of on of the pilnclpol countries of the world except Oermui China nnd India hi Ing one third that of Itustla one-sixth that of the United Kingdom one ninth that of Itnl and one sixteenth that nf trance No othei countrj floats n .' per lent bond while practically one half of the Interest bearing deht of the t nlted States now stands nt i per eent and these securities securi-ties nie selling In the oi en market nt a premium nf pr tent Securities of the principal Kuropean nations arc in mot cases, Issued nt from 3 to 10 per cent below par, while those of the United Slates are Invurinbl issued at or ibove par." Price Was a. Kiss. A handsome bachelor of Hilllmore well known In edueitlnnal and social circle acknowledges the truth of the following story He wa driving with a very prett nnd uttrnrtlve oung woman when on the outskirts of the city they met a Ind about 12 ears of age leading by a chain a slngulirly ugl, but finely bied hull terrier The pnptt fclrl went Into rapture over the dog, nnd her escort determined the animal ani-mal should be hers 'Say, sonny, he called, 'what will ou take for jour dog7' 'Nan thins ' replied the Ind ' Nonsense " cried Mr lllank Here 15 for him " ' No I won t This here dog aln t for sale " ' Ten " enld .Mr DIank, and then growing desperate fifteen, tvvent Hut the owner still refused All the time the conversation was going on tho youth, although talking lo the man In the bugg, kept his ejes fixed on the other occupant of the vehicle, and at last he said, very gravely 'I don t want jcr money, but If joull Just give that lady there a kiss j ou may have the dog Mr DIank was speechless He stared at the boy an Instant and then put the whip to his horse, stnrtlng him off at a run The story goes that a mile was gone over without a word being spoken vv hen as the horse s rarld gait became slower as It turned down a country lane, the prett girl turned ever so slightly nnd said shjlj 'Oh! Mr. Hlank why dldn t jou buy that dog?" Btltlmore Sun Cute foi SciVlet Fever. The conference nf Oermnn doctor now In session at Cirlsbad has announced an-nounced the discover of a new cure for scnrlet fever, which haB repeatedly proved to be successful Dr Moser, the assistant phlc!nn at St Ann a Hospltil for Children nt Vienna, Is the discoverer of the new serum During the last two jears he has tried It on 400 patients with the result that the mortality has decreased to between 8 and 9 per cent The rate at the other hospitals Is double this The congress has been Informed that the Government will vote a consldei-able consldei-able sum of monc In ordei that the serum may be made In Iirge quantities and distributed tn all the children a hospitals In Vienna Trusts nnd Labor Unions Mr. J P. Morgan Is reported to have said, on his recent icturn from Hurope, that we had harcll begun the consolidation consoli-dation of Industry, nnd that greater ag-gregatlons ag-gregatlons than wo have dreamed of will be made. Suih a remark Implies a belief In an Indefinite period of money-making. Whether or not Mr. Morgan mude as specific a declatutlon as this the general gen-eral expectation I of continued prosperity pros-perity and of the continued larger organization or-ganization of Industry for some time to come. Our foreign trade Increases our clops are abundant, our rullroad aie exceptionally prosperous, our lrn and steel trade Is fabulous! profitable, we are not likely to Again have au unsettling unset-tling agltutlon of our currenc all the outward and visible sign nf continued prospcrlt are favorable The one subject sub-ject of doubt la the stability of the great Industrial combinations some of which rest on u speculative busts If any of them have too hcnvll discounted discount-ed tho expected prosperity of the future?, fu-ture?, the falling of their scaffolding will cause fright and tlmldlt. let all the essential elements of prosperity now seem secure for nn Indefinite period Yet In a time like this the wisest men ntt with reasonable conservutlsm mindful that rapid as the organization of world rommerco has been we have not yet reduced Indefinite prosperity to determinable liws Hamshackle trust and Ill-led labor unions In .these there lurks certain dunger World Work The Passing ot the Antelope Tho antelope Is doomed to destruction within the coming ten enrs according to the naturalist In charge of the Colorado Colo-rado museum of national hlstor Antelope," An-telope," eos this authority, 'positively will not breed In cnptlvlt), hento the parka can hope for no lnciease among their pretty captives At the present rate of destruction I do not believe tho wild unteloje will suivlve another de-cide de-cide A the tame ones vvil inot multiply. multi-ply. It seems to me that the Inevitable lesult will be the unnihllitlnn of the antelope an-telope even hefore the buffalo have disappeared dis-appeared Of course, there nre many more antelope than buffaloes now in existence ex-istence but the buffalo doe bleed In captivity and mi survive the restraint of pastures nnd coral forty or fifty jears. Then he too, will be but a mem-or, mem-or, except wliero tho museum have preserved his Imposing bulk for futuio ages Hut long hi foro the buffalo Is ex tlnct, the gnteloie will bo gone How to Sell It. A Scotch fanner whose land had never nev-er been drained made up his mind to look about for another farm Meeting hi landlord he sas. I m gaun to Bin up this farm niebody cu i grow onj thing on t Landlord I am sorry to hear It if I take rive shilling off the acre will jou storon" Farmer' Deed no, Iind like that shud never be let by the nere but by the gallon' Scottish American Conditions ot Sleep In sleep the breathing Is slower In An adult one counts at least one fourth fewer respiration and natural! there Is less Interchange between the lungs and the heart, anl consequent! except In abnonnal conditions grent repose of rpli Unrj organs Of course tho heart beats slowly The nerv iu organism li nt rist and there I noth Ing In the world to hurrj the he nit so that this wonderful organ I utile to do It duty more leisurely If piovld-d with the proper amount of repose rven the tomperatuie of the body differ nnl people are often unnecessarily alaimed because when taking the lempernlure of u cilld or adult the record reids i degieo or more bejond the normal This l s'tiply natute way of liking life e Secretions nre diminished and a i fectly healthy person shoul 1 nver be obliged during the night to nrlte for the discharge of mine or defecation and any one who is called upon several tlmea to relieve Ihe blai der during the time of steep should certainly consult n phjslclm and a certain what Is the cause of such unusual un-usual activity Digestion Is mccssail-ly mccssail-ly slow during the hours of sleep and of course the assimilation mil nutil tlon of the body are equally languid I This makes a strong argument In favor of the light breakfast of cereals and fruits, avoiding heav meats and fried potatoes batter cakes and such stun, so Ihat the bodily functions may have a chance to accomplish their necessary service during the waking hours Julia Holmes Smith. M P. In The Pilgrim A Woman With a Will. A few jears ago. Mis Hosa Weiss was poor, but also ambitious, now, she I is an M D, and has n lucrative practice prac-tice She asked her brother to send her to college Ho told her thit ho I could not nfford to do tint, but, giving her five cent. Jetlngl said to her, Go on thatl She tw wonderful legibilities In that nickel ANith It she bought a jard of calico from which she made a sunbonnet Selling the I eunbonnet for tnenty-flve cents she bought material for bonnet nnd np-lon np-lon In thl way several dollar were reallred Her brother, pleistd with . her thrlftlness give her some land, which hc plinted to weet potatoes, I cultlnting It with the assistance of a small bo The product of her first yenl brought her forty dollars Later, Blie entered n Stole educational institution insti-tution where she remained until she graduated with honor During the course she received some assistance from an aid society, all of which was repaid Mis W els entered the medical medi-cal tollec,e at lliltlmore Mnrjland, where he paid her tuition by nursing, and was graduated from there with honor Sho is now n practicing phsl-cian phsl-cian In Meridian Mississippi near her former home and her Income Is a good one Success. Indian Summer. These are the hours that bring the vanished van-ished June Hark to my heart, to warm It as of These are the dis, with all the hush of noon. That bring remembered sweetness to my door Would thit her fice, now drlfled from m sight Ry some great miracle might come to me Out nf the dark autumn and the night Out of the Muttered frame of Memor ' Charles Hanson Towne In Alnslee s Kaiser Wllhelm's Epigrams Most people know that the Germin Hmperor la given to epigram, but few persons know Just how far this ten-denc ten-denc has developed An enterprising Hrltlsh Journillst has collected the following aphorisms from the Kaisers stock A liw Is the expression of the accumulated ac-cumulated experience of centuries Commerce his become a passion, Just as much a passion as love Never forget that the amenities of life are the life of the amenities A crown vvhether or no it I a divine di-vine right, is nt any rate a divine rc-sponslbllit rc-sponslbllit A good memory I Ihe second requisite requi-site of one who governs, a good conscience con-science Is the first The nav) Is no longer the wooden walls of a countr, rather It is n country s Iron shield When a man censes to remember his honor it Is time that hi fellow men should ceise to remember him The sword of Justice is double edged, nnd when one edge grows duller than Its fellow the sword has lost Its usefulness use-fulness The heilth of the soldier Is the health of the army, and the health of the army Is the health of the nation Taxes In Crimson Gulch. ' You say that the taxes are light ln Crimson Gulch?' said the stranger. ' Practically nothln' at all, ' answered Three-Finger Sum. ' Uut what do you do for public Improvements? Im-provements? ' "Faro Hill 'tend to 'em He did hint that the boys ought to chip In and buy a new roulette wheel, but they stood firm on tho proposition that If Hill wanted any public iiporovcments he'd have o make 'em nlmself." Washington Star. Why Some Americans Stay Abroad. What charm, one asks one's self In wonder, makes people remain for long curs wandering llresldeless from Caito to Cornhlll? It cannot be the cliniite, for our own la quite as good Historical His-torical associations, we are assured, tompensite many of those people for tho ubsence of kith and kin Lxperl-ence, Lxperl-ence, however, has tuught me that the I majority of them are ns splendidly In-I In-I different to history and art, too, for the matter of that, unless It Is applied to the dctorutlon ot the human form u they are to the Ilosctta Sione Iho families that one finds residing In Itulj, foi Instance, long since nbin-cloned nbin-cloned such foolishness n sight-seeing That useless fatigue Is left lo tho newcomers new-comers the habitues I have met no mora dream of visiting the Vatican galleries or of reading In the library of Lore he Magnificent than they do of i down seriously to stud Italian One he. , especially In the less expensive ex-pensive II c cities some twaddle about culture, b t you may take my word for It In nine cases out of ten. the real attraction of the place lies In the fact that a victoria can be had for eighty dollar a month and a gool cook for one tenth that sum Lllot Gregory In Ccutur. Tho Negro Business League I think that the meeting of the Na-llonal Na-llonal Negro nusiness league at Richmond Rich-mond una a surprise to Richmond Just as Richmond was u surprise to some of Iho Northern nnd Hustern members of tho league On the third day of the session two prominent white citizen ot Richmond wcio overheard dluilrg the league In a surprised and gratlflni, manner It Just beats me ' one man sil 1 It dlffeient from any nekin con ventlon 1 iver knew before A a t,en-ernl t,en-ernl thing the ncgine who come lo convention wenr tall hats and long rout nnd gold spectacles nnd carry rancs nnd stand op the sdewilk These fellow go along about their business "oitis of tin in aie mighty well elresstd but I haven t seen a tall hut on one of them What this man said reminds me of the recent public stnlcmcnt of the ( hlef of Police of Atlunla Just aflu rood negroe met In that city lo intend the Young Negro Peoples Christian eongre earl In August A 1 lemem bi r It he aald that ho never knew so luige a ronipan of people to assemble in Atlanta nnd require ro little intention inten-tion from Ihe force of which ho la the head -Hooker T. Washington In the World sW oik Is Living ln Tlats Demoralizing? Tho Hat dwellers na a class hnve woirled the social phllowphcr a greit deal The scheme or dally existence which they have, adopted Is a griat change from that according to vhl h the American people lived for 200 or tw ear When a family occupy a, vvhnl, house nmons; other whole houses tin ma he sal I to live with their slui out and their Hag Iljlng The conditions under which people Ihe thus housed and surroun led are an equivalent nf the 1 rerun ctnt civil though we do not u i-mally i-mally require our citizens to live un le r that soil nf official certificate or Iden 11 and respectability Ihe Aim rh an Hit dweller la subject neither to the ollUlal Inquisition nor lo the llerre light Ihat beat on the detached villi No-hod No-hod observe his comings Hid golngB ll'iZJV?',1 '"n,ct n freest man luhiVh'i. ld u onl tuunrde to which he la suhjecird being ihe Janl tor hard hearted denial of steam lien t Jus when sienm heut Is most desper nt.l needed and the tendeno of the e.pie in the flat above to tramp about at the very moment when one I irjlng ,ora fo'r.P Jh" "" "'trlnl not a?In , r.m" of It'Mure The flat-nl,!!1,1 flat-nl,!!1,1 '.'' "?' """''Hy alone inder no ncighboihood superintendence Ho ", re nit" "? a" "" Mr'1' Wh " !" re ult? Has any one dlscomcd that the life Is essentially demoralizing? Unless Un-less some one Is able to supply evidence not now at hand to prove that It Is, vvc shall have to conclude that the fact that the domestic virtues continue to flourish among our present Immense ptpulatlon of American flat-dwellers Is Just so much new support for our national na-tional theor th it the citizen does not need the attendance of a policeman or detective to make him good Publlclt) may b desirable for corporations slnco the have no souls. It Is not especially necessary for the free and well-taught citizen became he has a soul, nnd hla oul regulates hi body the better for being subject to no earthl supervision but his own Or, at any rate. It doe so unless we are running our countt y entire! on the wrong bisls and we do not think wo are Harpers Weekly. The Church ln America. Meanwhile, with us In the United States the religious situation is less unnatural than In Furopc We hnvo the free church in the free Stnte and that Is much nnd no one or two form of the manifold divisions of Christendom Christen-dom rre given nrtillcinl advantage American Christianity, moreover, wan founded In n tradition which it hns not forgotten of llbertj both spiritual nnd social, and howerver strongly the forces of lrrellglon are nt work nmong us, It mn well seem to the observer that wo ure a more religious people than can eisllj be found nmong the leading con tlnentil nitlons For rensnns nlo deeper deep-er thin nn of these, the church In our countr should escape the dangers of Ihe church ln Furope A long strain Is over the antagonism between her principles prin-ciples of equal fellowship among men nnd the principles of aristocratic atnto on which she depended need trouble her no longer. In the very theory of which our Nation wis founded she finds her most powerful nil The complex Interplay Inter-play of forces shown us ln history, wherein friends so often wounded friends In the dark yields to a blessed simplicity for the Ideal of democracy nnd that of Christianity on its human side nre one Vldi D Scudder ln Atlantic. At-lantic. On the Other Leg. A manufacturer not 100 miles from our clt tells a good Joke upon himself He Is credited with blng extremely disagreeable to his employees A man Just anlved In the country called on him one day to ask for work 'Have ou a recommendation or character? ' he asked the stranger ' No " he replied, ' but I have a friend In tbe village who will glvo me one" Putting his bundle on the lloor, he left In the course of halt an hour he returned, took up hi bundle nnd wns leaving the office without with-out a word ' Did ou not get jour character? char-acter? ' asked the manufacturer. The man wlthnupt halting n moment or raising his ees said 'No mister but I got thine" Phliadelphli Telegraph Thoroughbreds Are Improving, We constantly hear that our thoroughbred thor-oughbred are deteriorating nnd that Ihe race horse of toda Is Inferior to hi ancestor Thla statement Is made b two class's ot men, one which has grown too old to see any good In whatever what-ever exists, the other, a class who only know the older horses b tradition, and sc everything magnified b the purple distance of time I might ndd a third group those who are forever lamenting the want of class' In our greit races, but this amounts morel to an effecta-tlon effecta-tlon of blase nnd hardly merits notice, us It Is Insincere. Comparing the horses of today'wlth those of thirty or forty jears ago, I should say the superiority was all In favor of the former In old times horses ran seldom often not more than five or six rnc.es n year often less The races were over long distances, but they were specially prepared for them, and, aa handicap were few, tho best horse had a pretty easy time. Resides, the number of horses wns smill Tho return of ISiO showed 640 foals In 1900 as many as 3827 were reported to the Jockey club A good horse of today runs from firtecn to thirty ruces In a season meeting n large number of competitors, com-petitors, and Is asked to concede weight nnd Is kept In training fully nine months of the jenr. If time Is any criterion cri-terion there I no comparison between the horses of today and those of former years Outing The Choree of Tw o Evils An ominous silence greeted Hobhj's entrance There wa u wild look In hi ee, hi clothes were disarranged and there wa Just a suggestion of blood about hit mouth Mamma frowned e. verely, und pupi hid himself behind his paper "Ahem! ' began! mamma Hobby squared his shoulders and prep ired for the coming nttack "Ahem! Don t ou know, Hobby, that It very wrong of llttlo bos to light? ' Hobby pietinded to Iind a point of Interest In the pattern of the hearth tug Haven t I told ou Robh tlmt It's vcr wicked to fight?' demanded mam-ma, mam-ma, ln u tone that wns meant to be son ow ful Thu challenged Hobby fell hack on argument He hit mo first, mnmina," he pleaded "Ah, hut that dnesn t make an dlf-feience dlf-feience Nobody loves little boys who light Hobby pondeied for a few moment, and then hi face brightened 1h that so?" he asked le my elear, nobody will love you If jou ntt always lighting And look lit your clot he i Well" hall Hobby, with slow deliberation delib-eration "then, mnmina, I link It' bet-tei bet-tei lo lie unloved! r-omethlng between n shriek nnd n lauph escnped fiom pupa a he lied from the room Judy Amending Child Labor Laws. If the various sorletl.s which aro about to enter Into conferenie on tho child labor question will deal with tho subject In ii compiehinslvei way. much good shoul 1 lesult from Ihelr Inborn The roiifen nee would do well to devole Itself for one thing lo nn effort In ascertain as-certain how fur II I poBslhlo lo check the evnslon of tho I ibor law b means of false aitlthn Its 1 hat children under 14 are fiiquently emplojed the em-plover em-plover being protected b sworn mJa-Hlalcinenla mJa-Hlalcinenla n, lo the children s nge. Is "";" ,,p ,n ",B P"""" " ha! t,JX .r,""'1 "7" Mdlnsiy ilimcult to, 'f, h' "aslnn though possibly a ?nn h2 ." .f "" ,'r'M,lt "tatute can he made to cover the point If he conference shall frame comprehensive compre-hensive nnd effective plans of lecis a. lion to submit to the m xt session o the O-neral Assembly It will elo n highly mpnrinnt ,,, Nu,m , orm tan than that tho child labor nvll Is njmlous not nlono lo the children but o societ) at large, and ultimately to ti ,V",r" r""n ttl,,ch """l "f the-jnuthlul the-jnuthlul tollers aie lecrulled .IiiloulTll1 o,".'!",, "Fn,l,,t 'h" "'"" i.- i . ' enr 'n enforcing exuding ex-uding law for the protection of chll drey In Illinois should he Zl n hi cnnfercmi When M, 1 lorence "eel leC sho ma'dr"'.',' "'," ""rk """ yp " Yachting Among the Clouds. We have nmong u many joung men or eisuie nnl mean und nerve who i',1 ,1 !'r,ol" wH'ftdlon In huzalil-Ing huzalil-Ing Ihelr live at (.rent expense of money Their name uie familial, lo ii of us None of them have ns yet k lle-d themselve, u I extremely un II lely hut any of iom Mill They me nil fellows of high Intelligence, quick wit nnd pie nt of open air livslral do. velopment 1 hu i cqulpp. d tin y run go hurling aiounl a bunked up truck on a snorting uiilomobllo with a much nnrely and more than our aforesaid gran Imnther tould fed on a city trolley trol-ley car, All tne dantcrs nnd compllcu- tlon which come vviih - -talnty. ,he ' the problem eon"' "'"' 5T L'r.rterJrrlch,:1tn.t"I,';t' and new privilege ,.teM exercising the eve, .V " excitement can be ffirTnt sonable risk In th. i?4 w ble balloon oi.1rn',!"te,1 mere matter of !noc,1.? . be brushed aside a, yJxt t must not be alio ",j?f"t summation ot th. id..illar4i New DeflnltkTotlv ,, Hello papa chm Vv Stt( the Well street JlM ,h fa-father fa-father reached 'his f!,0" ' out from the city o'nTJ""'' and seated his mf. ? "ubfb Uut. papa. Ivi,lSrt0,21H guess' B01 "e jt Can t gues ,.,, ,. "Another new Joke lh t "A good one loo rk.i. can t. Now ir a t,, " worm, what kind of a,';1" Well, that lsnhVlrri,' brotrgVwf,r York Tribune va"lh'ni What Would MTSoTgTnH., Jay Cooke one of ih. " American financier ." all ,"t the mm n, io?ri,"M ?.vu1v8r,a,XSiW- Morgans profits if th.i .ll cler had been eng "g S'L" J?" ment to float a series of i.h' IngtoJSOOOOOOoST'UhMtl1 that Mr MorgaVTWiiJS !' MJ00O for nnaVinTTbi'to Steel corporation th , ,. about 1 400 000 000 In inl.v'1 act on his profli on s KwmI action was estimated ,,? Fiber Mr Morgan has cVt, tounded nt Mr Cooke. 7T' Mr Cooke would beju"ffif Ing astonishment at the v,V ue which -Mr Morgan p,?,' services If Mr Morgan h.j, the Bteel company , : the JJ at which Mr Cooke hanau?n eminent s loans during JK he would have recelv eq I oil his hare In the transaS Sir Cooke as handsomely for vices ns Mr Morgan li ,,, Mr. Cooke wou d have uTiim 1160 000 000 -Italtlmor. g"M Why the Sewing Olrl Dots The sewing girl Is out ot th, getting a husband Shd,t In contact with men In hri other girls do nnd with m m for nn thing but her vvorkihis make the acquaintance of nun-men nun-men The very nature of ber ment excludes men from to during her working hours. H, elates, und even her emploxn most Invariably of her on i class of women arc more dtw good husband than are ttt who make their living with th' dies They lire usually modnt. nnd domestic. They do not hoi bands, nnd, being so nltUm tho dally live of mn huisudi usually hunt them because they usual! know of them.-Loulil rier-Jourml. |