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IMPROVE THE NEGRO'S CONDITION. By Cx-Presldent Srover Cleveland. It U foolish for us to blind our eyes to the fact that more should be done to Improve the condition of our negro population. And It should be entirely plain to all of us that the sooner this Is undertaken the sooner will a serious duty be discharged and the more surely will we guard ourselves against future trouble and danger. If we are to be just and fair toward our colored fellow oiioveb Cleveland citizens, and If they are to be more completely made self respecting, useful and safe members of our body politic, they must be taught to do something more than to hew wood and draw water. The way must toe opened for them to engage In something better than menial service, and their Interests' must be aroused to rewards of Intelligent occupation and careful thrift. I believe that the exigency can only be adequately met through the Instrumentality of well equipped manual train ing and industrial schools, conducted either Independently or in connection with ordinary educational Institutions. I am convinced that good citizenship, an orderly, contented life and a proper conception of chic virtue and obligations are almost certain to grow out of a fair chance to earn an honest, hopeful livelihood and a satisfied sense of secure protection and considerate treatment. WORK OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. By David S. J or Ian, President ot Leland (J The twentieth century will be strenuous, com ' Bn P'ex an( democratlc- Strenuous it must be, as 1,1 1 we can all see. Our century has a host of things to do bold things, noble things, tedious things, difficult things, enduring things. More than any of the others, the twentieth century will be democratic. The greatest dis covery of the nineteenth century was that of the reality of external things. That of the twen tieth century will be this axiom In' geometry: "The stralghtest line Is the shortest distance between two ; points." If something needs doing, do it; the more plain ly, directly, honestly, the better. Democracy does not mean equality just the reverse of this. It means Individual responsibility, equality be fore the law, of course, equality of opportunity, but no other equality save that won by faithful service. The ; social system that bids men rise must also let them fall ; If they cannot mantaln themselves. To become the right . man means the dismissal of the wrong. The weak, the incompetent, the untrained, the dlssl- pated And no growing welcome in the century which is coming. It will have no place for the unskilled laborer. A bucket of water and a basket of coal will do all that the dnskillcd laborer can do if we have skilled men for their - direction. The unskilled laborer is no product of democ : racy." He exists iu spite of democracy. The lawyers -of the future will not be pleaders before .Juries. They will save their clients from need of a judge or jury. In every civilized nation the lawyers must be ;the lawgivers. The sword has given place to the green I bag. The demand of the twentieth century will be that the : INSECT THAP FOR NIGHT USE. .An Inexpensive Method for Killing Insects That Fly. The Government Bureau of Statistics '.is authority for a statement containing figures reaching Into the hundreds of millions of dollars as Indicating the ex penditure applied directly to fighting the insects and worms which damage vthe cotton, wheat, corn and other crops which form such a substantial part of rour revenues. A large p5rtlon of this FLAME ATTRACTS PESTS. amount, no doubt, goes for the lntro--ductiou of new ideas which have been -devised to aid In the work of destroy ing these pests, and perhaps this latest trap, the Invention of a Kentucklan, will receive a share of attention and serve its purpose in many a field. The Inventor takes advantage of the well fknown propensity of insects to fly to 'ward a light, the flame In this instance being mounted within a metallic cas ing, to which entrance Is gained .through four funnels pointing In differ ent directions. Once within the hood, the insect soon falls to the reservoir beneath, wherein a quantity of lnsectl clde has been placed to complete the destruction of those which escape the actual contact with the flame Men tlon ls.also made of the fumes rising irom the liquid and Impregnating the atmosphere around the flame to over come the Insects and cause them to fall Into the liquid. i Xw Cnre for Kleotomania,. A few years back a West End shop keeper, prompted by some remarks In Truth as to the best punishment for kleptomaniac woman shoplifters, wrote to Inform me that he had adopted the plan of giving every woman detected In purloining articles In his shop the option of being summarily birched by the manageress or prosecuted by the ordinary process of law. The same correspondent now writes to report the result of his operations in this direc tion up to the present time. In all, he says, twenty women have accepted the ordeal of the birch, In addition to two young girls of foreign nationality, who, in consideration of their tender years, were treated to a milder form of chastisement. I am not, of course, in a position to guarantee the accuracy of this Information; I own, Indeed, to statutes coincide lawyers can bring In politics the As w hnve tn An men liiRtPnrl of vnt mn. th nPd fnr who can lead In action, but men who can prevent unwise action. Often the policy which seems most attractive to the majority is full of danger for the future. We need men who can face popular opinion and If need be to face it down. Thft, xipprl rtt tlio tpnrrtpr will ntt rrrnw lpca fia thA cen- tury goes on. The history of the future is written in the favorable for the capture of the wal schools of to-day. and the reform which gives us better,- th? ' inS " winfter schools Is the greatest of reforms. Free should the schol- ,had, hindered the taking of seal, the tieth century will bring the reward of the scholar. The twentieth century will mark an epoch In the his tory of religion. Some say Idly that religion Is losing her hold In these strenuous days. But she Is not. She Is simply changing her grip. The religion of this century will be more practical, more real. It will deal with the days of the week as well as with the Sabbath. It will be ua ruttant In tha m n . ti r 9 tpniti, an In t.rt walla a " uukvuv .it io int.. tiT ji . cathedral, for man's life, not of life In some future world, but of life right here i to-day, the only day STRIKES HELP WORKINGMAN'S CONDITION. Stanford University. BISHOP POTTER, to those over whom DEMOCRACY OF THE By Jacob bould we see that it Is folly to blame the schools for defects of blood, lapses of virtue and blight of character, which neither our laws nor our policy requires the schools to combat. You must blame the church, you must blame the offenders, you must blame yourselves, when your children become the victims of intemperance, vice or Impiety. THREE MEN WHO HAVE WEALTHY AT FARMING IN THE SOUTHWEST. 0: NE of the most successful millionaire farmers In the West Is David Rankin, of Tarkio, Mo who has made $1,000,000 in farming, and who actually owns the largest farm in under his personal supervision, began farming with a colt which his father gave him when a lad. He traded the colt for a pair of oxen and with them tilled eighty acres of rented land, until he had accumulated enough to buy a small tract. He had been living in Illinois, but thought better of Missouri as a farming country. So for $8 an acre he bought great tracts of ground, adding to his fields as the income of the other fields would permit, until he had surrounded himself in thirty years with 23,000 acres, all of which Is sown to crops every year. He employs 200 men on the farm. He has 700 teams, and in good seasons he makes $100,000 clear money. He buys 8,000 to 10,000 head of steers every year and feeds them. He keeps these cattle, not in pastures, but in clean stables and lots, where they are fed from the products of his fields until he Is ready to ship to the markets. Take the Forsha ranch, In Kansas, for instance, where another system Is carried on entirely, Mr. Forsha Is a believer In the raising of alfalfa, and he has 15,000 acres sown to that. He also raises and feeds cattle for the markets, but he never raises cereals. He has a mill on his ranch, and he buys the wheat from other farmers, makes It Into flour, but he raises little wheat himself. He makes from $10 to $100 net profit an acre from the alfalfa, and the fields In the fall and winter furnish pasture for his herds. Forsha began ranching and farming In Kansas only a few years ago. To day he Is worth several hundred thousand dollars. John Stewart began farming In Kansas without a dollar. He was work ing in a real estate office as a salesman. He bought some homesteaders' rights to deserted quarter sections for a mere pittance. A boom came, and in three years he was worth $8,000. Then be went to- Sumner County, Kansas, and began ranching and raising wheat. To-day Sumner County produces 8,000,000 bushels of wheat annually, and holds the world's record in quantity for its size. Stewart bought additional land every year there was a drouth, thereby getting it at a reduction. He has made a large fortune In less than thirty years. a suspicion I hope unfounded that my correspondent is "getting at me" with a view of inspiring wholesome terror In the hearts of women of dis honest proclivities who do their shop ping in the West End. But as that is a desirable end, I have no objection to co-operating In It to this extent. It may perhaps be useful if I mention at the same time that, according to my shopkeeptng friend, his manageress Is a very muscular woman and her weap on a formidable one. Perhaps some of the .shopkeepers of Selby may feel inclined to give a trial to this castlga tory cure for kleptomania. MEXICAN ARMY. Will eoon Number 200,000 Perfectly Equipped Soldiers. Mexico, which next to the United States, is the most orderly and stable of all the American republic, Is pur suing a policy of military expansion which seems likely to develop a highly efficient system of national defense. It is the desire ot President Diaz that within two years the Mexican govern ment shall be able on short notice to mobilize an army of 200,000 thor oughly trained and perfectly equipped soldiers. To make this result possi ble more than 300,000 boys and young men are now receiving regular daily military Instruction In 11,000 public schools of Mexico, and the army will be recruited from their number. This nmTm for the creation of a This condition educated about. demand for serious service must grow. with wIhp mpn and clean men. States mnnlnnlntors w shall feel more and thpnv Wo Rhnll rtonianrl not only men ll iv i .3 ul uauc r in t. i-n. nana w l m. . ... . . . ... , religion is his working hypothesis of , ' we have in which to build a life. By Bishop Potter, ot New York. I believe in strikes, shocking as the statement may seem. I believe In the conservative value of the organizations from which the strikes come. The con dition of the working man was never improved until 1 reply to the demands of a labor organization itself or by the Interposition of persons not Interested as capitalists or laborers. The real value of the labor organization Is that It appears to be the only method by which the great Interests which serve themselves best by exacting most can be obliged to yield some consideration they have control PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Schurman, President ot Cornell University. with equity; State schools are, so far as mental training and the acquisition of knowledge go, vastly su perior to either church schools or private schools. Private and church schools tend to breed caste and division among the children of the com munity. The public school, on the other hand, is the mirror of the republic. In the public schools of a town you have the purest democ racy in the world. When we look at hard facts, MADE THEMSELVES the world. Rankin has 23,000 acres nil of which Is under cultivation. He greater Mexican army is supplemented wun pians Tor a larger naval estab lishment, two vessels for which are now under construction nt the Cres cent shipyard, Ellzabethtown, N. J. In this development of her military re sources Mexico is following the natur- ui poncy ot enlightened nations. It la believed in some quarters that the in-1 Song's staff, was on a mission to lam tegrlty of Mexican institutions will ; poon and on return shot dead by some be severely tested Vhen President I miscreants. Scoundrels. Oh! Uu Diaz retires from office, and that a timely death! Oh! fearful. Oh! Hell, strong government, including an effec-1 Friends expressed their morne. The tive military establishment, will be cowardice d8 Ig a IarSe- 81x so' needed to protect the republic against dlerg and P"cemen were at once dls serlous Internal disorder. It Is pos- patched." sibly with a view of providing for 1 Tbe seare head ,n P'eon English ap- sucn an emergency that the present movement for a large and trustworthy army has been Instituted.-Army and Navy Journal. Municipal Ownership In England. A comprehensive return of the finan cial workings of the "public utilities" undertakings In British towns and cit ies has Just been given to the public through a government board, ir ers the four years ended March. 1902. The principal undertakings carried on by the 29U corporations were: Mar kets, 223; waterworks, 193; cemeteries, 143; baths, 138; electricity, 102; gas works, VI; tramways, 45; harbors, 43. The aggregate net profits were $23 417,522. Fresh men usually tell stale stories. - NQRTHERN HOSPITALITY. Eskimos Denied Themselves to Feed Shipwrecked Strangers. Late In the year 18GG the ship Japan, under command of Captain Barker, while trying to make her way out of the Arctic Ocean during a severe snow storm and gale, was driven ashore on the north side of Cape East. The officers and crew were rescued by the coast Eskimos, who at once distribut ed the shipwrecked persons among the villages along the coast, and kindly shared with them, during the long "'later, their huts, clothing and food. describing the good qualities of these people. Jliddleton Smith tells, in "Superstitions of the Eskimo," what this generous treatment meant in the way of self-sacrilice among the Eski mos. -As the summer of 1860 had not been usually small, and to take care of and feed a whole shipwrecked crew of thirty-two men, at a time when they could scarcely obtain provisions sufficient for their own families, was a heavy task. When probable starvation stared them in the face, a council of the little set tlements was called to see whether , , , . . . , , they should endeavor to keep these . ' ., ... . .,. irancpi'ia tlirnncrh Tlip wlllTPr. or SimnlV strangers through the winter, or simply to save their own people. It was decided by this council that as the strangers were thrown, by no fault of their own, upon their shores and, as it were, placed under their care, they should have an equal chance for life with themselves, Captain Barker, of the Japan, testi fies that the Eskimo women, in appor tioning the food among his men, fre quently shed tears on account of the smallness of the amount, and often would Increase the quantity by adding portions of their own shares. All through the long arctic winter the strangers, who were so helpless and entirely dependent upon these peo ple for the food, clothing and shelter which should enable them to survive the arctic frosts, were given the best food that was to be had, and the largest share. Those of the crew who were assigned to distant villages also testify to having been treated with the utmost kindness and consideration. Captain Barker did not learn until the plenty of the following spring made further fear unnecessary that there had been any council, or any question among the Eskimos in regard to supporting him and his crew during the winter. . MONKEY HAS MOTHERLOVE, Display of Almost Human Tenderness by a Simian at Bronx Park Zoo, The annals of the New York Zoo- logical park in the Broux, which are most like- folks just now are the long armed mother baboon and her baby. Mother and child hold the center of the stage in the primates' house and attract even a larger crowd to their cage than the uncanny bats that eat, sleep and fight with their heads hang ing down and their cluws gripped to the wires overhead. A monkey Is never more human than when she has an unweaned baby. The long-armed mother Is proud of her child, for she sits as close as she can get to the front of the stage so that all the visitors and the jenlous. child less, race-suicide monkeys across the way can see her baby. The infant has an excellent appe tite and after each nursing goes to sleep on -his mother's shoulder. The mother baboon's kisses are as human like as anything in the show and the baby hears all the "tootsey-wootsey" talk that is good for him from the wo men in front of the cage. The mother hasn't lost Interest in the social doings and quarrels of the primates' house as the result of ber domestic cares. There was a fight the other day between two noisy baboons In the next cage. Heads were out, tenement-house fashion, all along the line of cages. The long-armed baboon was sitting with he"r back to her quar relsome neighbors when the row be gan and the baby had just gone to sleep. She unwound the little fellow with her left arm, gripped the bar In front of her with her right hand and then stood up very slowly and care fully, faced about the other way and , sat down again where she could sue; the fight. The baby didn't even stir. New York Sun. English la Slam. A sample of dialect taken from a Siamese newspaper. "Siiootlng outrage. Oh, fearful! . ... aeonv: Khoon tong, one or rnya Prs to "e me reai iniiig, Never Kan Down. "What a close watch his wife keeps on him." "Yes, she's what I'd call a watch without a charm." Philadelphia Bul letin. Suspicious. "He thinks her heart Is as good as gold." "Yes, but it Isn't warranted." Phil- adelPnla Bulletin. Some people waste all their sympa thy on others Instead of reserving a few doses for their own trials and trib ulations. When a woman nudges you with her elbow It Is equivalent to saying, told you so." 'I"!"!1 lMlMl,l"$',l"i,4"i"i",,$,r,t,$MH,JriMl5' OLD FAVORITES John Burns of Gettysburg;. Have you heard the story that gossips tell Of Bums of Gettysburg? No? Ah, well; Brief is the glory that hero earns, Briefer is the story of poor John Burns; He was the fellow who won renown The only man who didn't back down When the rebels rode through his native town; But held his own in the light next day. When all his townsfolk ran away. That was in July, sixty-three. The very day that General Lee, Flower of Southern chivalry, Battled and beaten, backward 'reeled From a stubborn Meade and a barren held. I might tell you how, but the day before, Johu Burns stood at hig cottage door, Looking down the village street, iVhei'i-, in the shade of his peaceful vine, He heard the low of his gathered kine, And felt their breath with incense sweet; Or 1 might say, when the sunset burned The old farm gable, he thought it turned The milk, that fell in a babbling flood Into the milk pail, red as blood, Or how he fancied the hum of bees Were bullets buzzing among the trees, But all such fanciful thoughts as these Were strange to a practical man like Bums, Who minded only his own concerns, Troubled uo more by fancies flue Thau one of bis calm-eyed, long-tailed kine Quite old-fashioned and matter-of-fact. Slow to argue, hut quick to act. That was the reason, as some folks say, He fought so well on that terrible day. And it was terrible. On the right Raged for hours the heady tight, Thundered the battery's double bass Difficult music for men to face; While on the left where now the graves Undulate like the living waves That all that day unceasing swept Up to the pits the rebels kept Hound-shot plowed the upland glades, Sown with bullets, reaped with blades; Shattered fences here and there Tossed their splinters in the air; The very trees were stripped and bare; The barns that once held yellow grain Were heaped with harvest of the slain; The cattle bellowed on the plain, The turkeys screamed with might and main, And brooding barn-fowl left their rest With strange shells bursting in each nest. Just where the tide of battle turns, Erect and lonely stood old John Burns. How do you think the man was dressed? He wore an ancient long buff vest. Yellow as saffron but his best; And, buttoned over his manly breast, Was a bright-blue coat, with a rolling collar, And large gilt buttons size of a dollar With tails that the country-folk called "swaller." He wore a broad-brimmed, bell-crowned hat, White as the locks on which It sat. Never had such a sight been seeu For forty years on the village green, Since old John Burns was a country beau, And- went to the "qiiiltings" long ago. Close at his elbows all that day Veterans of the Peninsula, Sunburnt and bearded, charged away; And striplings, downy of lip and chin Clerks that the Home Guard mustered in. Glanced, as they passed, at the hat he wore, , Then at the rifle his right hand bore; -And hailed him, from out their youthful lore, With scraps of a slangy repertoire: "How are you, White Hat?" 'Tut her through." "Your , head's level," and "Bully for you!" Called him "Daddy"; begged he'd dis close The name of the tailor who made bis clothes, And what was the value he set on those; While Burns, unmindful of jeer and scoff, Stood there picking the rebels off With his long brown rifle, and bell-crown hat, And the swallow tails they were laugh ing at. 'Twas but for a moment, for that re spect Which clothes all courage their voices checked, And something the wildest could under stand i Spake in the old man's strong right hand; And bis corded throat, and the lurking frown Of his eyebrows under his old bell-crown; Untili ag th(iy gBzeAi ,her9 crept n awe Through the ranks In whispers, and some men saw In the antique vestments ana long white nmr. ..... ....... The I nst oi me mauon in Diune mere; And some of the soldiers since declare That the gftam of his old white hat afar, Like the crested plume ot the brave Na- vorre, TUat A i v w a. th nrlnflmmA nf war. , u"1 '."..., . So ragod the battle. You know the rest: How the rebels, beaten and backward pressed, Broke at the final charge and ran. At which John Burns a practical man Shouldered his rifle, unbent his brows, And then went back to his bees and cows. This Is the story of old John Burns. This is the moral the reader learns: Iu fighting the battle, the question's whether You'll show a hat that's white, n feather! Bret Harte. TOBOGGANING INTO A BEAR. Dangers of Bear Hunting- on an Icy Northern Island. A member of tho, Wellraan polar ex pedltlop of 1898-9. Paul BJoervlg, Is described by Mr. Walter Wellman, In "A Tragedy of the Far North," as a man of superior courage, of unexam pled fortitude and of inspiring char acter. If there was a bit of danger ous work to do, he was sure to be the first to plunge In. He sang and laughed at his work. If he went down Into' a "porridge," half Ice and half salt water, and was pulled out by nil " hair, be came up with a joke about the Ice-cream freezer. One day three men were out bear huuting on an Island. Two of them had rifles, the other had none. The last was BJoervlg. They found a bear, wounded him, and chased him to the top of a glacier. There bruin stood at bay. One of the hunters went to. the left, another to the right. BJoervlg laboriously mounted the Ice-pile to scare the beast down where the other might get a shot. But one of the hunters became impatient, and started to climb up also. On the way he lost his footing, fell, and slid forty or fifty feet into a pocket of soft snow. At that moment, unfortunately. BJoervlg frightened the bear. Leaving the summit of the lee-heap, the beast slipped and slid straight toward the helpless man, who was tlouuderlng up to bis armpits below. Apparently the man's life was not worth a half-kroner. In a few seconds the bear would be upon blm, and would tear him ta pieces. The brute was wounded, furi ous, desperate. BJoervlg saw what he had to do. He did not hesitate. He followed the bi ar. From his perch at the summit he threw himself down the precipitous slope. He rolled, fell, slipped straight down toward the big white bear. He had no weapon but an oaken skee staff, a mere cane; nevertheless be made straight for the bear. Down the hillock slope he came, bumping and leaping, and yelling at the top of his voice. His cries, the commotion which he raised, the vision the bear' saw of a man flying down at him, frightened the beast half out of his wits; diverted his attention from the imperiled hunter to the bold pur suer. This was what BJoervlg was working for. . The bear dug his mighty claws Into the Ice and stopped and looked at BJoervlg, but BJoervlg could not stop. The slope was too steep, his momentum too great. He dug his bands into the crust of the snow; be tried to thrust his skfe-staff deep Into the surface. It was In vain. Now be was almost upon the bear; the beast crouched to spring at him. Another second and it would all be over. Crack! the rifle spoke. The man down below bad had time to recover his equilibrium. An other shot and the battle was over. BJoervlg and the bear rolled down to gether. 'You saved my life," said the man with the gun, when BJoervlg had picked himself up. "No, no," responded BJoervlg, whip ping the snow out of his hair, "you saved mine." Moncjr in Kvllroading. A New York boulevard car wa going north one day recently when, with a sudden Jar, the current was ' thrown off and the passengers were bumped rudely together. The car came to a standstill. The motorman, says the New York Times, threw open tha front door and rail back to the con ductor on the rear platform. They exchanged a few words, then both ran through the car to the front platform. Every passenger sat mute with surprise. Suddenly the car start ed and then backed. Then It started again, and once more backed. Then it stopped. Off jumped motorman and conductor, and as the astonished pas sengers looked out of the windows they saw the two men down on tuelr bands and knees trying to crawl un der the car. Presently, with an excla mation of delight, the motorman, cov ered with mud and grime, slowly emerged. Entering the car and hold ing up for inspection a ten-dollar bill, he said: "Excuse me, passengers, for jarring you and keeping you waiting, but I came near running over this ten-dollar bill, and I bated to do It and leave It for tbe motorman on' the car behind me.' Changed His Mind. It Is a wise father who knows just which story to tell In regard to his own child. Jackson, like other men. has a horror of Infant prodigies as ex ploited by their proud papas. The New York Times tells of his meeting his friend Wilklns, who greeted blm wtib: "Hello, Jackson! What do you think my little girl said this morning? She's the brightest four-year-old in town. She said-" "Excuse me, old man!" exclaimed Jackson. "I'm on my way to keep ta engagement Some other time" "She said, 'Papa, that Mr. Jackson. is the handsomest man I know!' Haw! haw! How's that for precocity, eh? And Jackson replied, "Wilklns, I'm a little early for my engagement That youngster certainly Is a bright one. Come Into this toy store and help me select a few things that will please av girl of ber taste, and I'll send thorn to her, If you don't mind." The Autolst on Horseback. Automoblllst I wteh this confounded, thing would run out of gasoline. A Mean Man. "He's the meanest man In town. "What bns he done?" 1 Why, he permits his wife to accept alimony rora two of ber former hus bands." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. No woman should laugh at a "Joke" on ber husband