THE MOON-SABY.
There's e. beautiful golden cradle,
That rocks in the rose-red sky;
1' lime seen it there iu the evcuiii air,
When the bats and beetles By;
With little white clouds for cur tains.
And pillows of fleecy wool,
-Ami a dear little bed for the Moon
Baby's head,
So tiny and beautiful.
There are tender young stars around it.
inat wait for their bath of dew
In the purple tints that the suns warm
prints
Huvt' on the mountain blue;
J hero are good little gentle planets,
1 hut want to be nursed and kissed,
Ami laid to sleep in the oceau deep,
I'udor silvery folds of mist.
Hut the Moon-Baby must slumber,
tor he is their proud yuuug kins;;
hand iu hand, round his bed they
stand.
And lullabies low they sing.
And the beautiful golden cradle
Is rocked by the winds that strnv.
With pinions soft, from the halls aloft,
here the Moon-Baby lives by day.
- Pull Mall Gazette.
4 J
HEARf OF PEARLS.
LOUD burst of applause c-.vetcd
fhe famous singer Olympia us
she finished the miKOIl's Muni' ut
. the Gaiety Theater. ',
Of Olympiad origin nothing was
fcnmvrt t-lmt.f-1, i.,v,.n ..... .
ncuiaring about her. The one wh'eh
Kuinetl most general credence portray-
net- as a great lady who had been
diawu irresistibly from
iiositlou to the stage, and thereupon
dlsowued by her family. The only cer
tainty felt about her was that he!- wn.
itiition was Irreproachable and that she
Kept the scores of adorers constantly
rotating about her at a respectful dis
til uce.
.When the song ended the oueen re-
lived to a throne to receive the homage
y. the subjects In the play. It was a
timpf nous procession which passed be
rore her in gorgeous costume. Each
Khbject as he passed bis queen stopped,
bowed and then moved ou to make
room for the next. Oue among the
number had excited her Interest and
Jier sympathy. He seemed different
from the others; his bearlriir was. die-
Jilticd. bis manners perfect. That he
had suffered some misfortune she felt
sis sure as that he was worthy of some
thing better than a humble part Iu a
firiry opera.
When the play was over she pointed
Xii in out to the manager.
"Who Is that man?" she asked.
"A poor devil named Chntelain," re
plied the manager. "There are hun
dreds like him, doing this kind of work
for 3 francs a day."
The "manager was mistaken. Ills
"poor devil Cbatelaln" was In reality a
Hpanlsh gentleman named Juan Rodri
guez de I'en'aflor. Born In Madrid,
raised In the midst of luxury, he had
Inherited at his parents' death an enor
mous fortune.
Througn bad management and ex
travagance this had gradually been re
duced until only a small part remalu
'(I. This Juan thought to use in the
only way he knew as a means of re
.leemlug the whole, at the gaming
table, and here he lost all that was left
to him..
It was at Ibis time and under these
flrcumstances thrft he fell In love with
Olympln. The very hopelessness of his
passion deepened It, and he worshiped
Iter as a Greek might have worshiped
u goddess. It was through his love
I hat the greatest temptation of his life
iiuue to,hIiu.
I)n one of the most frequented bonle
viirds In a jeweler's window he had
noticed an exquisite piece of Jewelry
a heart of ienrls and from the mo
ment his eyes fell upon It he had longed
to possess it In order to present It to his
queen as a token of his adoration.
One day the heart was gone from the
window, and Juan could see It Inside
lh shop, lying with many other pieces,
on (he counter. He stepped inside,
where several people stood looking at
all sorts of beautiful things displayed
by the jeweler.
The heart of pearls was pushed a
liltlc away from the others; the iHHiple
were not looking his way; his hand
while out and slowly moved toward the
cherished object. He turned cautiously
to make sure he was unobserved and
locked straight Into the face of Olyiu
piu. the singer, who was standing Just
br-hlnd him.
"I saw you nnd followed you In," she
continued. "I have wanted to sieak
to you for a very long time. I am sure
i hat you can find something better than
your prespnt position at the Gaiety. If
.Mm will take my card to Roberts, the
llu-.itrlcal agent, I am sure he can find
yon something more suited to you,"
and she drew a card from her ioeket
I nok and wrote an address on It with
n little gold iiencll and handed It to
.hui a.
He managed to stammer his thanks,
n lid she left him without knowing
what she had saved him from.
Sleet did not come to Juan that
nit-lit Looking over his next morning
ITALY'S NEW MONARCH.
King Victor, in his military character riding at the head of his troops.
paper his eyes fell upon the following
announcement:
"Don Jaime de Penaflor, who died re
cently at Madrid, has left his entire
fortune to his nephew, Juan Rodrlgiiez
de remittor, who left Spain some years
ago. Every effort Is being made to find
him." .'
The beautiful singer'OlympIa had
Just returned to Tarla from a success
ful tour through Europe and every seat
in the house was sold for the opening
night.
When the actress opened her dress-lug-room
on the table lay a large bunch
of lilies of the valley, and beside them
a small jeweler's box. She opened it
and saw lying on white velvet a beau
tiful heart of pearls of exquisite work
manship. The name on the card was
strange to her "Don Juan de Pena
flor." After her last triumphant appearance
that evening a card was brought to her
bearing the same name.
"I will see him," she said to the boy.
When he came she recognized him
Instantly and it was her turn to be con
fused. "You are not M. Chatelalu?" she said.
"So, mademoiselle; I have come to
my own again," he replied, simply;
"but I have never forgotten your kind
ness.'' "I must thank you for your gifts,"
said Olympia. "The flowers I will keep,
but the pearls I must ask you to take,
as I cannot acecpt them. They are
much too precious for a singer who
thinks only of her art."
"If Olympia cannot accept them as a
singer, can she not do so as the prom
ised wife of the Marquis de Penaflor?"
At the close of Olympla's Paris en
gagement a simple wedding took place
at a little suburban chapel, covered
Ivy. The bride carried lilies of the
valley and her only ornament was a
hea ft of pearls. From the French.
KANSAS' FIRST CAPITOL.
It Was Erected in 1855, and Has an In-
terestlng History.
In the State of Kansas there are
seven capitol buildings, including the
present handsome structure at Topeka,
not yet completed, but none has a more
romantic history than the Statehouse
which was first erected In Pawnee
Township. Efforts are now being made
by the people of Kansas to preserve
from the ravages of time this ancient
KANSAS FIRST CAPITOL BUILDING.
relic. It is one of few reminders of
early days left standing there and It
was built when the settlement of the
West was Just beginning. It stands
near Fort Riley in the central nart of
the State, and is all that Is left of the
town of Tawnee, the first capital of the
State. The town was started bv boom-
ers Who "StOOd In" With the terrltnrlnl
Governor, A. II. Reder, who owned land
there and was a good deal of a specu
lator. The town association built the capl
. lu
V Z ?C, turtW, V.01"168 h,ga
and 40x80 feet In outside d menuinna
and 40x80 feet In outside dimensions
It laid out the streets and board In c-
houses were made ready for the first
meeting of the Legislature. Then, In
1855, the Governor called the Legisla
ture to meet there, and the solons de
cided that they would' not assist hliu.
ihey went from Eastern Kansas In
prairie schoouers, a long procession
that wound its way 150 miles out on
the prairie, the travelers growing more
angry that the Governor had selected
so distant a place. They had provisions
for the trip, and when thev reached
Pawnee not one of them went to the
boarding-houses as had been expected,
but they cooked In their wagons and
lived ou the edge of the town site.
On the day for the opening of the
Legislature they went to the new stone
bulldiug and held a session, which con
sisted of organizing and adjourning to
Shawnee Mission in the eastern part of
the State, where, despite all the efforts
of the Governor, the remainder of the
session was held.
Pawnee did not make a town. The
cholera broke out the next year at Fort
Riley and the people tied. The State
house stands out ou the plain, deserted,
the roof gone and the interior a place
for the hiding of coyotes and sandhill
owls. The State has been asked to pur
chase the old ruin nnd preserve It for
future generations, who will doubtless
appreciate It as a reminder of the ef
forts of the first-corners to make this a
great city, and for a time it seemed
likely that they wotild succeed.
MEN THE CHEAPEST.
Animal Hire in Huasla Exceeds That
Paid for Hum a ii Labor.
In Russia the wages of a horse are
higher than those of a man, and hence,
of course, very much higher than the
wages of women. Thus, In the Nlshnl
Volga section, we find the average pay
of man and horse to be about 72 cents
per day; of man alone, 34 cents; that Is,
118 cents for a horse, and 34 cents for
man. The women receive from 10 to
20 cents. In the central agricultural
region the averuge Is: Horse, 23 cents;
man, 21) cents; woman, 13 cents. In the
southern steppe: Horse, 3(1 cents; man,
25 cents; woman, 10 cents.
This Is an Interesting commentary on
the standard of living of Russian agri
cultural luborers. Its meaning Is sim
ply that human beings are cheaper than
draught animals. In 'other words, It
costs less to keep them alive. In the
southern steppe five women can be em
ployed more cheaply than two horses.
Is It difficult to Imagine the condition
of home life, the dearth of refining In
fluences, the sodden, hopeless stagna
tion that such a state of affairs reflects?
Is it any wonder that the products of
such a wage status as this are Individ
ual degradation, social barrenness.
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meager education, political despotism,
religious Intolerance, and. eenernllv. n
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ijpe oi civilization scarcely above bar.
barlanlsm?
Criminal Lawyer's Advice.
Noted criminal lawyers are less im
pressed than most other people by the
detective work which supplies the evi
dence that convicts murderers whose
crimes are plotted and performed in se
cret. "If I had to advise a man how
to commit murder with a certainty of
conflicting testimony which would in
sure his acquittal," said an ex-dlstrlct
attorney once, "I should tell him to
shoot his man at tl.j corner of Fifth
avenue and Broadway In the crush
hours. Then I would be sure to have
all the honest witnesses I needed who
believed they saw the victim assault
the accused." New York World.
Average Man at Social Functions.
The nverntro limn Kelilmn attanrla m
: social function beyond acting as a pall,
: bearer when a friend dies, and when
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his wife finally coaxes him to attend a
party he acts very much as he acts at
a funeral, where his only experlenci
was ncqulred. Atchison Globe.
The rain falls, but It gets up again in
dew time.
BRITISH ROYALTY.
funny Incidents in Which Some of Itt
Members Participated.
Not so very long ago the Prince of
Wales was present at the opening of a
large charitable institution. Iu the
course of the ceremony the President
chanced to raise his hat to salute the
Prince, when to the crowd's amuse
ment his wig came off at the same time,
leaving a perfectly bald head. That
the Prince had taken due note of the
mishap was evident several hours latei
at dinner. When proiwslng the Presi
dent's health he lifted his glass.
"To the worthy president, who ap
pears to grow younger, Instead of older,
every hour."
English people avow that the
Duchess of York is the stlffest of all
royalty. They do admit that she once
thawed out, for when visiting Ireland
her highness was graciousness nnd be.
ulgnity personified. Shortly before the
Duchess of Teck's death she and her
daughter were attending a charity ba
zaar opening, when the provincial
chairman took the floor aud commenced
to eulogize on the merits of their dis
tinguished patroness. After he had ex
hausted his eloquence on "the great
charity aud large aud liberal views"
of the Duchess, his attention was di
rected to the slender lady at her side,
aud Princess May had a turn. Remem
bering the late Duchess of Teck's sub
stantial proportions the ludlcrousness
of his remark is apparent when he
wound up a flowery sentence by hoping
that the Duchess of York would "de
velop on the same broad lines as her
motiier."
The Duchess of Teck. who never
failed to see a joke, was. Immensely
amused, and joined the audience In
hearty laugh. London Correspondent
Columbus Dispatch.
REWARDS WITH KISSES.
Kansas Schoolteacher's Novel Means
of he warding Pupils.
Miss Millie Daniels teaches school In
Nemaha. County, Kansas, and has set
the whoie State to talking by dlstrlb
uting kisses to proficient pupils. Miss
Daniels, whenever a student attends
school one whole weel: without being
MISHMILMC DAMKI.S.
tardy or absent, kisses that student,
whether male or female. If the stu
dent Is tardy only otice she allows that
student to kiss her. All students who
disobey this standard are ruled out of
the kissing match. The kisses are
given and taken every Friday after
noon. Needless to say the young men
do not play "hooky" on that day.
There are sixty-five pupils at the Wil
son district school. Four years ago
Miss Daniels went there from Illinois.
She was a good teacher, but the stu
dents, mostly boys, were hopeless vic
tims of the "hooky" habit. Try as she
would the pretty schooluia'am could
not keep them In school regularly. She
arra'nged a list of prizes to those who
attended regularly, but they held no
attractions for the country boys.
Then she consulted with the school
board ou the kissing question. They
were willing If she enred to experiment
that way. Some of the school board
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said among themselves if she did adopt
the nlnn tlmv iiiwi ti. Ill- Ufklllll Cltlll't
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to school again. So two years ago she
adopted the scheme, and It has worked
well ever since.
Deceived by Appearance.
"A stout woman uetver looks so stout
on a bicycle."
"That's right. A reckless fellow,
full of strong waters, saw a moderate
ly large woman approaching him on a
wheel. He made no effort to get out
of the way and she ran over him. That
woman weighed 240 pounds, and his
last words to the hospital doctor were,
'I didn't know It was loaded.' "Cy
cling Gazette.
How Hlie Foresaw.
He You say you kuew I wiw coming
I to-night. How did you know It? Are
' you gifted with second sight?
She No; but I broke a mirror this
niorning, ami uiais niways a sign or
ad luck.-Cleveland Leader,
Giving Them a Chance.
"Then ypu don't believe In prestige
derived from ancestors?"
"Not a bit; I believe In fixing thine
bo my ancestors will derive prestige
vu. iuv. viwuo ikt-vuiu. i
INC
Report That Kvicieii- of Tlmlr
Harm-
fiilne la Ovt-rwli riming.
The committee on manufactures ol
the senate were some time ago directed
to investigate the food adulterations,
and accumulated a volume of testimony
upon the subject from the best inform
ed parties and highest scientific author
ities iu the country.
Oue of the greatest sources of danger
to our foods, the committee state in
their report, exists iu 1 slum baking
powders. The committee found the
testimony, they say, overwhelmingly
condemnatory of the use of alum in
baking powders, and recommended that
such use bo prohibited by law.
Senator Mason, discussing in the sen
ate the report of the committee and the
several bills introduced to carry the
recommendations of the committee in
to effect, said:
"When we made this report we made
it iiased on the evidence before us, and
the evidence is simply overwhelming.
1 do not care how big a lobby there
may be here for the alum baking pow
der, 1 do not care how many memorials
they publish, there is no place in the
human economy of human food for this
thing called alum. The overwhelming
evidence of the leading physicians and
scientists of this country is that it is
absolutely unfit to go into human food,
and that in many cases if the gentle
mau will read the evideuce, some ot
the physicians say they cau trace cases
in their own praotice theie are dis
eases of the kidney due to the perpetual
use of alum in their daily bread.
"VTlwu you mis a mineral poison, ai
they all say that alum is, it is impossi
ble to mix it always to such a degree
that there will not be a residuum left
of atom, which produces alumina, and
which contributes largely to the diseases
of the people in this country.
"I want to give the senate an idea
of the class of men we have called.
They are the leading scientists horn
every college of the United States that
we could get hold of."
Sentor Mason, from a long list of
scientists who had testified aa to the
hurtfulnesa of alum baking . powders,
and as to the healthfnlness of cream of
tartar powders, mentioned the follow
ing: ,
Appleton, John Howard, professor
of chemistry, Brown University, Prov
idence, It. I.
Arnold, J. V. S., professor, Univer
sity of New York.
Atwater, W. O., professor and direc
tor, government experimental station,
Washington, D. C.
Barker, George F., professor, Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
Caldwell, . 0., professor, Cornell
University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Chandler, C. F. professor, Columbia
University, New York.
Chittenden, Russell II., professor,
Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Cornwall, H. B.. professor. Univer
sity of Trincetou, New Jersey.
Crampton, C. A., professor, Division
of chemistry, Washington, D. C.
Frear. William, professor, State Col
lege, Pennsylvania.
Jenkins, Edward II., professor, de
partment of agriculture, state of Con
necticut.
Johnson, S. W., professor, Yale Col
lege, New Haven, Conn.
Mallet, John William, professor,
University of Virginia.
Mew, W. M., professor, Army and
Medical Department, United States
government.
Munrue, Charles Edward, professor
of chemistry, Columbian University,
Washington, D. C.
l'rescott, Albert B., professor, Uni
versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Price, A.'F., medical director, Unit
ed States Naval Hospital, Washington,
D. C
Wiley, Prof. II. W., Chief Chemist
department of agriculture, United
States, Washington, D. C.
Wyman, Walter, Surgoon-General,
United States Marine Hospital, Wash
ington, D. C.
Mr. Pettigrew Was there any testi
mony which showed that there were
cases of injury to health as a result of
constant use of alum?
Mr. Mason Yes; I can turn yon to
the testimony.
Mr. Pettigrew I do not care to have
the senator turn to it. I simply want
to emphasize the point. I agree with
the senator. It has always been my
own impression that alum baking pow
der is injurious, but I wanted to bring
it out and make it emphatic, if the
proof sustains that position.
Mr. Mason I quite agree with the
senator. It is claimed that there is
Hot a country in Europe that does not
prohibit the nse of alum. Certainly
three or four of the leading countries of
Europe to which I have had my atten
tion called prohibit the use of alum in
baking powder.
Mr. Pettiurew Did the chemists
who came before the committee, these
professots, generally teHtify was it the
result of their evidence that the
cream of tartar bakinn powder U--.
healthy aud does not leave a residuum
which is injurious to health?
Mr. Mason Yes; I say emphatic
ally, yes; that the weight of the evi
dence is, that whenever any of these
distinguished men, who have a nation
al reputation, the leading chemists of
the colleges, were interrogated upon
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the point, they stated that fact, every
one oi them, to my recollection.
ALUM BAKING POWDERS
CONGRESS.