f AN OLD-FASHIONED SOUL. Not hers the New Time's lofty lot To questions big replying; She only knows to keep the cot And soothe the cUildroa'i crying. Not hers to stand in temples bright. Sad stride for strife returning; She-only knows the lamp to light And keep the Dome tires burning. Not hers to more with ir:n will In piths of strnnge endeavor; She only knows that Home is still The sweetest name forever! There are her joys, and there her tears A life so sweetly human, The world shall whisper through the years: "God bless that little woman!" Atlanta Constitution. A BANK BURGLARY. IT was not, often that Mr. Butler, manager of the Cable street branch ot the London and South western Bunk, had occasion to visit his offices after business hours. But a banking business is like no other a bank manager Is a man upon whose shoulders rests much responsibility. Mr. Butler had been worried during the four hours which had elapsed since he put ou his coat and hat and left the building at 5 o'clock. It was a tricky calculation that worried him, and he was not quite certain, as he dallied over his coffee, whether or not he was on the eve of making a great mistake. That Is why, contrary to his custom, he ordered his electric brougham, drove to the city, and seated himself again In his office, with bis back to the safe and the big ledgers before him on the table. Ills brow was wrinkled In thought, and his keen, gray eyes rapidly flew over the bewildering mass of figures. He became absorbed In his work so much so, Indeed, thnt he did not hear the creak of the little door on his left, nor did there fall upon his ear the soft breathing of a man at tils side. A few moments later he was star tled by feeling something cold pressed HI BECAME ABSORBED IN HIS WORK. to his temple, 'i-e bewllderlug multl tude of figures which were simmering in his brain melted away for he was looking down the barrel of a revolver, then along the hand which held It, and the arm, until his gray eyes rested on the face of a man. The first glance had been to the revolver, and he In stantly recognized It as his own. In the face of the man who held the re volver he recognized the features of Georgo Carrington, lately one of Ills own clerks. He leaned back In his chair and sighed heavily, but said nothing. "You look surprised, Mr. Butler,' said the burglar, as he steallthiy crept round the table. "But don't be afraid lam not going to shoot you unless you make a row." "You have come to rob the office?" "Yes, sir; that is my intention. You have saved me a great deal of trouble, The safe Is open, there are aecuriti?, there la money there. I am going to have them, and I am going to secure you so that you cannot disturb me." "Indeed," said the banker, in a chil ly tone. "This Is a desperate enter prise of yours, Mr. Carrington." Mr. Carrington grinned. "Desperate ills require desperate remedies," he replied. "You sacked me, Mr. Butler." The bnnker pursed his lips. "Quite true," he said, "I sacked you." "For no fault of my own," said the burglar. "Exactly, Mr. Carrington, for no fault of your own. Matter of reduc tion of staff, that's all. Somebody bad to go, and it fell to your fate." "That was two mouths ago, Mr. But ler. Since then you haven't cared how I've lived, eh?" The other shrugged his shoulders somewhat impatiently. . "It is not my business," he said. Then, after a pause: "So you are go ing to rob the bank, eh?" "I'm going to ask you to hand out all tb money you've got In the safe. I'm going to gag you and bind you io A FONTGON BRIDGE iitliil t' : v. ') " ,' PERMANENT BOAT BRIDGE OVER THE INDUS AT KHUSHALGAR. The boat bridge at Khushalgar Is one of the most Important pontoon bridges over the Indus, on the northwest frontier of India. The Indus has always been difficult to bridge, owing to the rapidity of Its current, more especially during what" Is known as the rainy season, when It becomes much swollen. The picture represents a convoy on Its way between Kobat and Rawal Plndl crossing the river at Khushalgar. This bridge Is permanent, and not temporary as might be supposed, and It was over this bridge that the Tlrah expeditionary force advanced into the AfridI country In 1807, the rail way at that time only running from Rawal Plndl to Khushalgar, which lies on the left bank of the Indus. The simplest form of permanent ferry con sists of ropes stretched across the river by means of which rafts, similar to those depicted here, can be sheered or hauled backwards and forwards from bank to bank. The Khushalgar bridge Is, however, the ordinary float ing or pontoon bridge. It is capable of bearing any traffic with the excep tion of heavy siege artillery. The banks on both sides of the river are very steep, winding up the cliff at a steep angle as shown here. The surround ing country 'is rocky and barren. that you won't create a disturbance. I shan't hurt you, Mr. Butlor; don't fear that." Oh, no," said the banker quickly. "I don't fear that you will hurt ine; that Is, I don't think I shall sustain much physical damage at your hands. It Is the other thing I am thinking about the mental hurt" "They can't blame you," said the burglar. "I'm afraid they will," said the banker, dubiously. "Banks are robbed time and again. It is nobody's fault; but the manager doesn't get praised." "I suppose not," said the burglar re flectively. The banker looked up suddenly, and his clear, gray eyes rested upon the young man's face. "Now, then, George Carrington, what's your trouble? Out with it" The other mumbled. "I was hardly done," he said In n sullen tone. "I ought not to have been sacked. I was In debt. My house was cleared of Its furniture, and my wife, myself and my child were left to starve. I had been sacked from a bank, and when I want another post tlon nobody would give It to me. I never robbed a man of a farthing In my life. I was driven to desperation." "That's hard," said the banker. "But realize, George Carrington, what you are going to do. Yoa are going to rob this bank. At present the matter rests lightly upon your mind. You w!Il probably get away safely. You will tlee to America or somewhere. You may set up In business and become a successful man. But have you ever thought of what will come after, when you get, say, my age? Then will be the time for you to repent and to shun the light of every honest man your soul blackened and your mind uneasy forevermore." The other was silent. "I have in my pocket," continued ttaft banker, "the sum of 50 pounds In Bank of England notes. I om going to give you these notes so thot you can make a fresh start In life. I have also In my pockethook a letter from a good friend of mine in the Argentine Republic, who requires an under manager In his bank, The salary is $150 a month with rooms over the bank. I am going to write a letter to my friend suggesting you as a most likely canuidate f6r the posi tion. There Is no necessity to wait for the reply, as I have been asked to send out the man whom I think best by a boat which leaves Albert Docks on Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock." The burglar's Jaw had dropped, nis eyes were staring wildly into those of the banker. "You don't mean " he commenced, "I never say anything that I don't mean." said the banker. lie drew ON THE INDUS. ."3 if-. forth his pocketbook, took out soma notes, then calmly wrote a short letter. The burglar grasped the notes. He looked with swimming eyes at the let ter which had been written. But he was not fool enough to let the point of the revolver drop. He crushed the notes and the letter Into his pocket Then, with a burst of feeling, he flung the revolver from him. "By the way, Mr. oarrington." said the calm, imperturbable banker, "don't make a scene. You had better go now." He got ud and held out hln white hand to the burglar. But before you go there's one little Ml i Tl T T U'onf an t mu - vol"ver w'hloh you took" my inner office was not loaded, and during the i uur uuuversuuon you nave been sitting In a chair which contains patent electrical device. It would have electrocuted you In the briefest !? C0"LelVabl?.had I mere- L 7 T ,? 18 on lDe leg of the chair at my side." Good-by and good luck."-lndlan- npolls Sun. Has to Work In Holland. The man who is too lazy to work keeps out of Holland if he is wise or grat that began to pour into Can makes his escape as soon as he dls- ada ia jooj hs settled in three of covers that there, at least a means has these territories. The tide of pioneers ueeu iouuu to make mm work. When a prisoner or pauper refuses to work he Is lowered Into a cistern, which is provided with a pump at the bottom. A stream of water Is turned Tt' ldlt'r 'u19"1"8 0W" stories, and the country will keep fill h ,? . Jh6 ?PaCUy f .th PTP 18 to with people for years to come, for but slightly in excess of the stream flowing into the tank and to keep his head above water he must keep pumo- tag. As a rule, he spends some little 7Ve "e ,1,ms u,ut lue water 18 slowly creeping upon him. He la not urged to go to work, but presently he takes his place at the handle and begins the task. By work- lng quickly he Is able to Clear out the water after a short time, but he has ij m-i-p m worn u ne wisnes to Keep his feet dry. seoinu Things Mr. Crimsonbeak Wife, we'll have to get rid of some of those hatracks In we uaa- Mrs. Crimsonbeak What on earth are you xaiKing aDoutf we're only got one natrack In the hall! "Why, when I came In last night, I thought I saw six or seren." Yonkers sstatesmon. in m taie, ror instance. . lummy-rapa, is a man. wiie ms better half? Papa Sometimes, Tommy. And suuieumes sue a nis lour-muis. do- iron inuune. TWO NEW CANADIAN PROVINCE8 With Saskatch-waa and Alberta the Dominion Will Have Nine "ota.es." The word province in Canada has the same significance as the word State In our country. When we say. therefore, that the Dominion has or ganized and Is about to take In two new provinces It means that the seven States are about to be increased to nine. The seven provinces are Que bes, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Prince Ed ward Island, New Brunswick, Manito ba and British Columbia. The two new provinces are Alberta and Sas katchewan. The Interior department at Ottawa has Issued a map showing the boundaries of these two enormous new provinces, and the map printed here has been made from It It la thirty-eight years since the Do minion of Canada was formed by the confederation of the provinces then ex isting. That was the birth of Canada as a nation. Two years later the Brit ish Parliament passed the Rupert's land act, which provided for the ac quisition by the Dominion of the vast prairies of the West, which were call ed the Northwest Territories. It had already been discovered that wheat was a wonderful crop In the southeast part of this region, and so many set tlers flocked into the little corner call ed Manitoba that in 1870 this territory was admitted into the confederation as a province. As a State of the Do minion, Manitoba is Just one year older than British Columbia. But none of the other fonr b'g ter ritories has ever had a government of its own, Asslnlbola, Alberta, Saskatche an, and Athabasca were simply lump- wan, and Athabasca were simply lumped together as the Northwest Ter ritorles. They had a common capital at Reglna, Asslnlbola, and have al ways been ruled, under the Dominion Parliament, by a Lieutenant Governor and an Executive Council Out of these four territories the two new States have been formed and the 1 ....... ui;T03 CANADA'S TWO NEW PROVINCES. In m'p tt?naSt.Poe.t,f Vhtef t&V b.VY Vr'm?i the dott Unti Northwest Territories will now disap pear from the maps. ment f them , n0 longer BultaWei because their interests are becoming .. mmri Tn 1001 thpIr nnn. ulatlon wag 158i94a No Mn8U8 hali been taken since, but the Candlan gov ernment estimates their population to day at about 500,000. Over three-fifths of the large Imml- pouring over these wheat and cat- tle lands of Canada, Tf h ' Tpt rPBh(H, AthflhBcn. but farmhouses and hamlets have been the lands still unoccupied are almost MM A(s yet, the newcomers have hardly more than touched the outsklrta of the wheat lands, Manitoba is only one-fourth as large ag fte old territories of Asslnlbola, SaBkatchewan and Alberta, but she had over 2,000,000 acres in wheat-last wnlle the territories gathered a ' hMf rnn from onlv 575.fin7 ncren Thlg acreage in the territories was n mere bagatelle compared with their enormous area of fine farm lands. The government, after careful lnves- tigatlons, has reached the conclusion that the amount of desirable farm Ian(ig gtm unappropriated In Asslnlbola is 19,000,000 acres; in Saskatchewan, 17,000,000, and in Alberta, 10,000,000 acres. It wm take hundreds of thousands 0f farmers to cut up all this land Into homesteads, but the process la going , on an(j hen these lands are all par- celed out settlers will begin to move , ,nt() Atnabasea, whose agricultural ca- pablllUe8 hare Just been inrestigated . oomnaratlrelv thorough 'manner. andi lt lg wltn astonishingly fa- Torable result rni buu creating the provinces pro- vide that each shall be represented In the Senate of Canada by four mem bers and In the House of Commons by five members, 'the number In the lower house being readjusted from time to time according to population. Each shall have a Lieutenant Governor and a Legislative Assembly, to be com posed at the outset of twenty-five members. The government of Canada Is to pay to each province the sum of $50,000 a year for tlfe support of its government and legislature. The Dominion lands will continue to be vested In tho crown, but the Canadian government will compensate the provinces for them by a series of annual payments. Thf present estimated value of the public lands is $1.50 an acre. The map shows that the two prov inces take In all the territory of the four territories excepting a little of the eastern parts of Athabasca and Sas katchewan. The time will probably come when it will be deemed best to divide theso provinces again Into smaller ones. Each of them Is about four times as large as New York State, and their total territory is about as large as Central Europe. This is a great region, which, with Manitoba, Is estimated by the Deputy Minister of Agriculture to be destined within ten years to produce annually 350,000,000 bushels of wheat 200,000, 000 bushels of oats, and 50,000,000 bushels of barley, and this without cropping more than about one-third of The two provinces divide the vast area nearly equally. Reglna will be the capital of Saskatchewan; the capi tal of Alberta will be temporarily at Edmonton until the Legislature of that province decides upon its permanent situation. Washington Post Little Lord's Plain Dreae. Both of the best-known American duchesses are becoming Increasingly economical In the selection of their children's frocks, says the New York Press. Time was when their graces of . Manchester and Marlborough thought the sheerest of fabrics not rood enough for their youngsters; when neither thought of paying less than $100 apiece for their infants' robes and wnen the rest of the baby attire car ried the total of every day-s apparel to an absurd figure. But the Princess of Wales, noticing a tendency on the part or wealthy women in England to overdress their young hopefuls, began putting the simplest of clothes on her own children and the Duchesses of Marlborough and Manchester were not slow to copy her sensible example. Any one seeing the Manchester and Marlborough Juniors in their wares abroad would hot dream they were the children of parents with duchies and ducats. Duchess Helena even goes to the extreme of putting her pets In ginghams o' mornings, and Duchess Consnelo hr.s been soon looking at or dinary prints in Ixmdon bazaars. Ho Fixed Him. In the course of an open-air revival meeting in a Georgln town a man in the audience interrupted the leader with the question: "Where would re-. Uglon be if you took the devil out of lt?" The leader looked the man over and replied: "Ask the devil yourself. I Judge, from your looks, you're on speakln' terms with him." Atlanta Constitu tion. Saved. "So your daughter graduated?" said Duddson. "I suppose she saved the country on commencement day?" "Yes," answered Mr. Briscoe, "she saved the country a great deal. She was taken 111 suddenly and couldn't read her essay." Detroit Tribune. To the man working In the sun: The man lying In the shade Isn't having as good a time aa yoa think he Is.