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Some farmers are smaller potatoes
than they mine.
When money beglus to talk people
It up and take notice.
With the numerous courts In session
these are trying times.
The multiplication table doesn't sat
isfy a small boy's hunger.
Jealousy Is the trading stamp given
With each case of true love.
(Mankind Is divided Into happy peo
ple, unhappy people, and the Gould fam
ily.
To choose friends for their appear
ance is no worse than to Judge books
by the cover.
By writing the story of his life and
Bufferings himself, Mr. Rockefeller
cleverly forestalls Murat Halstead.
Dr. Koch's cure for the "sleeping
sickness" Is good medicine to "try on"
the boy whose Job Is the early chorea..
These "mysterious" mnriW which
are startling Paris would be easy to un
derstand If they were not done In
French.
The Japanese government denies that
It Is In sore need of money. This muy
make It easier for Japanese tax-dodgers
to sleep well.
"The nation," says John O. Woolley,
"Is awake." Yes. It Is even sitting up
and noticing things, as old man Castro
has found out
Houston, Texas, has a woman who
declares that she wouldn't marry the
best man living. Perhaps he ought to
be congratulated.
King Alfonso may as well give up
the hope that he and Queen Victoria
will ever be permitted to move Into a
ashIonable flat
According to Mark Twain, "a mine is
a hole In tho ground owned by a liar."
Mnrk also has evidence that other busi
ness enterprises are owned by the same
party.
Human nature Is a funny thing, and
after Anna Gould has had her second
bitter lesson with fake "noblemen,"
there will be plenty of her country
people sorry for her.
It is mortifying to learn that Aunt
Carrie Nation was fined $23 and costs
a day or two ago for scolding. Things
have come to a pretty pass If Aunt Car
rie can't express herself In her custom
ary voice and manner without being
ouulsbed for it
Many of the colleges and universities
are in no-license towns. Lei ami Stan
ford is the largest non-sectarian Insti
tution to enforce prohibition within the
university domain. Intoxicants are for
bidden In boarding houses and fratern
ity buildings. Similar restriction has
long obtained at several colleges which
ore under the control of Influence of
lie churches.
The feeling of China for this coun
try Is unusually friendly, and it is for
Btatesmen to maintain and promote the
sentiment. How far the ancient Kast
can ever be nu' extension of the course
of empire that for ages has taken Its
way westward is a problem that time
alone can settle. But America and Asia
can bo friends and commercially Intl
inate without trenching too far on race
and social traditions, habits, tastes and
endencles.
The statue of Gen. Francis E. Spin
ner, mode under the direction of an as
sociation of . women employes of the
government, is to be erected opposite
the Spinner home in Herkimer, New
York. General Spinner was treasurer
of the United States from 1SC1 to 1875,
and when the clerks of the Treasury
Department resigned, during the Civil
War. to enlist In the army, he recom
mended that their places be tilled by
women. He carried his point against
considerable opposition, and thus
opened the door to self-support for
many women. He was notable also as
the inventor of a peculiar signature
which appeared on all the national pa
per currency, nnd was the butt of the
newspnper humorists for years. But
lie will be remembered longest as the
niRn who called on the women to take
the places left vacant by the men who
went to the front to fight
Baron von Sternhurg, Germnn am
bassador to the United States, In an
address at the University of Illinois,
once showed that all the great leaders
of nations, such as Frederick the Great
and K'ang-Hl, the greatest Chinese
emperor, have taught the same prin
ciples of citizenship. He drew an In
teresting parallel between the teaoV
lng f K'ang-Hl in the "Holy Ed!-"
and lie public utterances of Presidimt
Hoosevelt. It Is a truth familiar to all
students of comparative literature that
under similar conditions men of moral
purpose have much the same Ideas.
Devout scholars have always delighted
In the fact that the noblest sentiments
of Greek philosophy are not unlike
those of the Bible. That a modern
man should preach what was preached
by the ancients only bears out Lowell's
epigram that the best things obligingly
got themselves said several thousand
years ago.
There cannot be a near woman In
fact, but imagination draws the pic
ture of one for us now and then when
a scientist or philosopher undertakes
to tell woman-' what will happen If
she keeps doing things said to have
been unknown to her grandmother. A
woman is always a woman, although
she may not choose to hew to the line
fixed by ancient custom. All men are
men, even though some of them may
be called mollycoddles. Women are
taking away men's Jobs, and It is said
by observers that they are going to
keep doing so and enlarge their hold
ings In that line. The president of
Bryn Mawr college for women Bays
that women "are steadily taking pos
session and driving men before them,"
and. furthermore, they "will be com
pelled by ecvuouiic i-uusca bc-youd their
control to stay in them after mar
riage." Our grandmothers in their red
cheeked days milked the cows, and no
one would have dared to hint' that a
milkmaid was unwomanly because of
her skill. They husked corn, too, and
when the good man was away fed the
stock. American women have always
taken up man's work from thne to
time and put it aside when the need
was over. If for economic reasons
they are better at typewriting, tele
phoning, telegraphing nnd bookkeep
ing than men, they are none the less
true women when they do this work.
Professor Boss gives the most star
tling picture of the near woman when
he dips into the future and sees whai
Industrial occupations will do for wom
en. He says "there will be a rever
sion to the type of masculine women,
squat, flat chested, brond backed, low
browed creatures, working In the
fields and factories side by side with
men." We shall be compelled to admit
that such "creatures" would be "near
women," according to our modern
ideals. On the other hand, President
Ellott says, "The higher education
ought to fit women for the single oc
cupation of bearing nnd educating chil
dren, and it is the most Intellectual
occupation In the world." So the true
woman has a chance to remain herself
In spite of the education which makes
her man's dangerous competitor. Per
haps the industrial woman of Pro
fessor Ross and of the president of
Rryn Mawr will emulate the educated
woman In the matter of attention
sometimes to the benring nnd educat
ing of children. In that case the jewel
of womanhood need not depart from
women who work, and the talked of
"reversion to the type of masculine
women" Is only a bogy.
A Good Old World.
When the sun comes out,
An' the clouds go 'way,
An' the little children ,
Come out to play,
An' the grass looks green,
An' the cat sits curled
On the gate post, ain't it
A good old world?
When the mocking bird .
Sings a lilting tuna,
An' the air is liker
The first o' June
Than midwinter air,
Ain't your griefs all furled,
An, honest, ain't it
A good old world?
When sorrow comes,
An' your head droops low,
An' you've come to know
All a chap can know
Of grief, nn' your hopes
Are In darkness hurled,
An' a friend comes, ain't it
A good old world?
It's a good old world
It's a good world, yes!
For the hope an' love
An' the tenderness
That comes when a chap
By rough fate Is hurled
In a hopeless heap
It's a good old world 1
For the little babies
That laugh nnd run,
For the cat a-nappin'
' Out in the sun
On the high gatepost
In a soft heap curled,
For the slngln' bird,
It's a good Old world!
Judd Mortimer Lewis.
No Share In the Fan.
"What are you crying for, my little
boy?"
"Boo-hoot Pa fell downstairs!"
"Don't take on bo. He'll get. better
soon.
"Sister saw him fall all the way. I
never saw nufflu' I" Answers.
Perhaps the most superstitious class
of people In tho United States are the
otherwise hard-headed, keen-witted
railroad men. They are fatalists by
circumstances of a life of constant dan
ger. Death Is a commonplace; acci
dent and hi jury all in the day's work
aud Hue of duty. Contempt of death,
akin to that of the fanatic Mussulman,
but without the allurement of the
black-eyed hourl paradise, Is bred by
familiarity, the never-ending risk of
life and limb, as told in the grim sta
tistics of railroad fatalities. Many
bloody caniDalens of
fower casualties than the annual death
and accident report of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. This makes
life cheap and Its risk and sacrifice
for so much per diem an Incident. The
railroad man lives In an atmosphere of
the fatal chance and nerve-teasing un
certainty. Death may be speeding to
ward him and around the curve ahead;
the next pounding of the massive driv
ers may strike a broken rail; the
tower signal man makes his awful er
rors in an almost unvarying avernge;
the landslide aiid the tampered switch
are entirely beyond prevision. And it
is this domitinncy of chance, of the un
prevised, the unexpected, the unfore
seen, utterly baffling human ingenuity,
that makes the average railroad man
as superstitlously fatalistic as a whirl
ing dervish or a warrior of the Mad
Mullah.
This environment of the fatal
chance, emphasizing humnn futility and
powerlessness, creates a rich soil for
omen, charm and fetich, nnd few rail
road men can be found who are not in
oculated with the virus of protecting
superstition. Press them closely, and
seven out of ten will confess It In a
half shame-faced, half defiant way.
For Instance, It is considered most
unlucky among engineers to take an
engine out for Its first run Friday or
on that fatal day to put the finishing
touches to it In the shop.
Trainmen, particularly brakemen of
the old school, believe it is bad luck if
Gneat, Though ' Forewarned, Pota
IIoNlena n a Predicament.
An amusing anecdote was told by a
young matron the other day apropos of
absent-minded persons. She hnd been
married only a short time nnd was giv
ing a luncheon to some of her mother's
friends. She was particularly anxious
to have everything go off well, thnt her
reputation as a housekeeper might be
established,-The little menu was made
out after much consultation with the
new French cook. She hnd trimmed
the table with her own hands and all
was in charming readiness, when at the
eleventh hour an old school friend ar
rived from out of town and asked if
she could stay for luncheon. It was
most - Inconvenient but the warm
hearted bride welcomed her.
"Stny, by all means, dear Amy," she
snld. "But there is one condition.
I'leaBe do not take any chnudfrolds.
There was not enough chicken and the
cook has only Just told me. These
French people are bo economical. But,
after all, If you and I both Bay 'No' to
them, they are sure to go around.
Don't forget, dear."
Amy promised faithfully and went
upstairs to prepare for the party. The
guests arrived promptly and the lunch
eon began with an excellent melon for
each. The hostess, having been warn
ed against too much food, especially as
there was to be bridge afterwards, had
cut out all the extras and limited her
dishes to tlie melons, a cheese souflle
and the chnudfrolds. Tho last she re
fused when they came her way and
trembled at the small amount on the
dish. There was not even any extra
aspic Jelly, but she reflected with re
lief thnt there would be Just enough
when Amy refusal. Then, to her hor
ror, sho saw her absent-minded friend
sot only take one, but two, upon her
SOME Or THE BELIEFcf
F IRMLY ADHERED TO BY
THE MOTI
TRAIN
a woman is the first to enter the train
at the beginning of the trip. They will
resort to ruse or diplomacy to avert
such an invitation of accident. They
will stop a woman with slow inquiries
about her ticket or destination in order
that a mascuilue foot will be the first
to nWnd the steps. It Is also consid
ered bad luck for the train to permit
a cripple or a hunchback to enter first.
A one-armed man among passengers
upon a train is also viewed with sus
picion as an omen of accident.
Sometimes a careless fireman will let
the engine bell toll. Such an untoward
accident means that some member of
the engineer's family will soon die. Old
time engineers will not count the num
ber of cars in a train as It rounds a
curve. It Is considered bad luck.
As would naturally be expected from
the wide prevalence of the number 8
superstition, it occupies an important
place among railroad men's omens. It
is the firm conviction of almost all
railroad men that when one man is
killed or injured in railroad work two
other fatalities or accidents will follow
in rapid succession. It is oonsi.Wort
unlucky, before two or three days have
elapsed, for a railroad man to take the
place of nnother who has been killed
In an accident.
Engineers Beo an omen of death upon
the trip If the headlight of their en
gine accidentally goes out hb the en
gine is leaving the roundhouse.
A left-handed engineer la viewed n
a hoodoo by ninny trainmen. It Is be-
nevea nis presence in" the cab Invites
disaster, and old-time firemen and
brakemen seek transfer to other trains
as soon as a left-handed engineer Is put
on their run.
Trainmen dislike the presence nf n
corpse In the bnggnge or exnress enr
Just as sailors object to carrying a
corpse on ward ship. But It Is consid
ered particularly threatening to load
me conin on a train with the feet of
the dead person toward the engine. In
a recent wreck in North Carolina a
corpse was almost Inclnerntei nr.
many persons were killed. It Is the
firm belief of trainmen on the South
THE RENAISSANCE Ot
plate. The waitress had not sufficient
presence of mind to halve the remaind
er, so two women went without any.
"And I am sure," added the narrator,
in conclusion, "that they all went home
hungry. Why, I blush even now when
I think of that luncheon." New York
Tribune.
COAST ABOUNDS IN FISH.
Pacific Iteirion Will in Time Snpplr
the Whole Country.
The extensive const line of the terri
tory seems everywhere abundant with
halibut, which has become almost a
luxury m the East. There the flshlug
is done at great hazard and at long
distances from markets, while in Alas
ka the fisherman leaves his home in
the morning and returns in the even
ing with the fruits of his labor.
A little off the coast of Alaska and
in many places among the numerous
islands along the shores there exists
great cod banks. These are little
known and while they are now fished
to some extent It might be said the in
dustry is wholly in its infancy. When
we consider the enormous extent of
these banks as compared with those off
the New England coast and the vei-v
few fish now taken on them as com
pared with the large numbers taken on
tne Atlantic it can readily be seen to
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COUFAGEOW
MEN AND
ern that the body was loaded In the
fate defying way.
But the railroad man is not alone
In his belief in omens and charms. The
passenger also has a pet lot of super
stitions that defy logic and the persua
sion of common sense. The belief thnt
tho wearing of a white flower or a white
ribbon protects travelers from accident
is fairly widespread. Some believe that
burning coffee Just before leaving on a
Journey is better than an accldeat pol
icy, and In certain sections of the South
some very pious people will not under
take a railroad trip without first tying
a copy of the sixteenth psalm under the
left armpit. Putting a wisp of straw
in the bottom of tlie trunk is believed
not only to protect the baggage from
loss, but also insure the safety of the
owner. Women sometimes pack their
stockings In the trunk in a mystic cir
cle, as a protection from accident.
There is a superstition that it is un
lucky to lock the trunk before It leaves
the house, and with more apparent rea
son, It is particularly portentous If the
trunk lid falls upon you while you are
packing.
If a traveler loses his hat out o a
car window there Is compensation in
the knowledge that it means good news
from home. If a passenger happens to
pass a derailed or wrecked locomotive,
(t is the sign that he soon Is to come
Into possession of hidden wealth. To
see a crow feeding on a carenss is an
other lucky omen for a traveler.
If dust blows In a person's eye while
on his wny to catch a train It Is a sign
of accident on the trip. It Is consid
ered an ominous encounter for a person
hurrying to n train to meet a spectacle
wearing negro. It Is also unlucky for
a traveler to cut his finger nails Just
before starting on a Journey; disgrace
will overtake him, and If a traveler
leaves home In a carriage for the station
it is simply Inviting disaster for his
family or friends to watch him out of
sight. To insure the safe return of a
nervous traveler It Is only, necessary
to tie an Irish knot In his handker
chief, but if he loses the knotted piece
of linen he hnd better end his misery
by Immediate suicide.
Here Is an Incantation which Pullman
conductors declare will Insure slumber
on a sleeping car to even chronic In
somniacs, If repeated several times with
the eyes focused on the tip of the nose :
"A sleeper is that on which the
sleeper which carries the sleeper runs;
therefore, while the sleeper sleeps In
the sleeper the sleeper carries the sleep
er over the sleeper into tlie sleeper
which carries the sleeper, and Jumps
off the sleepeT by striking the sleeper
iii the sleeper, and there is no sleeper
in the sleeper."
JTHE KNICKERBOCKER.
what an extent this fishery can also
be expanded. Here also the element of
safety is greatly in favor of the in
dustry on the Pacific coast. At present
in a small way, both halibut and cod
are shipped clear across the continent
to Boston and New York. With better
and cheaper facilities the markets of
the United States will soon be opening
up to the Pacific.
The salmon fishing is now whollj
done for canning and in a small way
salted. The extent to which this part
of the industry has grown is more fa
miliar to the. world than any other.
During the last few years the fresh
fish Industry has made inroads even on
the cannery supply and mild cured s-il-mon
is now being shipped all the way
to Germany for smoking. During the
last winter buyers from German
houses in Hamburg have appeared in
Alaska towns and eagerly taken all tho
product they could secure. This Is but
a beginning, and development in time
in the way of improved means of trans
portation will extend the shipping of
salmon fresh from the waters of
Alaska to all parts of the world. Pa
cific Coast Monthly.
Perhaps a feiw more people would try
to be good if they didn't bump into so
many others who overdo the thing.