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BAN DON RKCORDER. FELTER'S VACATION. The Story if n A lt to tlcrnmny IVIth Illicit lliinnm. Once upon a time tin' senate restau rant at Washington was managed by a German-American named Felter. who was a renowned caterer to senatorial appetites and of course was popular. In one of the nine months' eongres slonal vacations Felter concluded to visit his old home In Germany, so he applied to Jim Christy, deputy scr geant at arms, for ocean transportation which In due time was produced, am Felter started in high glee, lie did not know how Christy procured the passes nor did he care. When he embarked the captain of Uie German line received him cordial I3-. but with great dignity to one of the best staterooms am nilnrnetl his cabin wit" timers. lie had the post of honor at table and was treated as a hen or as a great person nge might be treated Felter the cook could not understand but he took all that was offered and made the best of the situation. When the vessel finally reached her destlna tlon and the passengers were landed the captain of the ship Introduced Fel ter to the mayor, who awaited his com ing and Insisted that he make his home In the. mayor's residence during his vis it. Ills astonishment increased, but lie accepted all of these attentions with out asking any questions. The following day he was banqueted as the guest of the city and was eallei: upon for a speech. To the best of Ids ability he complied and explained the complex workings of the great repub lic of which he was a naturalized part, and every utterance was applauded. But Felter was unhappy, anxious to cet awav and find some old friends who might explain the reason for all this adulation. When the banquet was over an old schoolmate managed to get bold of his hand and begged him to go to his house for the night. This Felter irladlv did. although the mayor gave reluctant permission, indicating that it was the next thing to discourteous for Felter to abandon the mayor's home while he was the guest of the city. As soon as they were alone the friend Inquired in German. "Felter. what sort of a game is this you have eonie over here to play on the folks of the father land':" "I don't understand the came myself, und 1 wish that you could explain it to me. L am the keeper of the restaurant of the senate and am earning a good living at it- in fact, saving money. But that is no jxisitlou of high honor, and 1 don't know what these people are doing all this entertaining for. It is away beyond me." "Why, the steamship people issued your pass for Senator Felter and an nounced the coming of the senator on their line, and that's the reason you are thus received in honor of your alleged rank and station." "Let's look at the passes." said Felter. And there, sure enough, although he had not noticed it before, Jim Christy had secured passes for ''Senator Felior," be cause In no other way could he have Becured them. Felter left the town early the next day and never re-entered it until he had concluded his visit to relatives. and then he came back Just in time to POLLY IMii'i Speaker Procott's bill for free liooks for school children which was carried overwhelmingly in the Senate wil striken harnioniouscliord in the hearts of parents and children, it means a higher and more extended education for scores of pupils who heretofore have Ikhmi compelled when they got into the more advanced grades to leave schoo for the simple reason that the parents could not allbrd to buy the costly books that were required of them. It is safe to say, too, that when this bill is en forced that there will be no changing of school hooks every year, and in some eases every six months, that drnine not only the pock-el books but the patience of the long; sullering parents who were compelled to submit to the unjust demands in order to enrich the publishers and sellers of the books. child would frequently never get half through the hooks when thev were called upon to purchase others. The txKiks were as good as new, but when the lint went forth, they were hence forth a dead letter. At one time the school books were only changed every four vears, conseoiientlv the other children in the family, a they ad vattced, could u.-e them, and that in it.-elf was a great saviog. This quest ion of furnishing hooks for the children has been a problem to the parents for many a year, and it hsis taken away the desire to proceed of many children, who, under oilier circumstances, would have been glad to continue their studies, for they realize the hardship to their parents to furnish the money to purchase the school books. Teachers, particularly in the city schools, have had no conscience whatever when it came to giving orders to the children that would increase the drain 011 the purses of the parents. They demand that the children shall have new blank hooks at the beginning of a term, when many times they have books that have had I os than a dozen pages used, and which would answer every purpose to -cribble on, and that is only one of the many little things that the parents and children must put up with, if they wish to attend school. Thev talk alnnit onipulsory education, and it is a good thing if thev reniow the evil of eostlv Hid ever changing -school lnioks and give parents 111 moderate circumstances md their children half a chance. The high price of school liooks and the coustautlv chamriug method that las leen in force for several years is responsible in a great measure for so many girls and lvovs hardlv 111 their teens being employed in factories and anneries to such an extent as it is here. Watch the doors of these faetor- io, etc., swing open when the noon hour or the closing hour bell chimes, and you will see a (multitude of tired looking iHiys and gills, many of them time enough to learn the unpleasant art of rushing through life at break neck speed without commencing it in their very infancy. However, 1 have drifted from my subject of school books; just put in a word now and then about free school liooks, Polly, and oblige not only one parent but many." While we are on the subject pertain ing to education, 1 want to say in re sponse to a certain person's question as to whether the salary of the school teachers should not be cut down, most emphatically NO. Teaching is not only hard work, but very wearing, and the conscientious teachers, man or woman, who have given their best ellbrts in the school room studying this child or that one (for there are no two children alike in disposition, etc.,) and aiming to gel the very best results in their system of training these young minds to receive the work that their studies must unfold, have well earned their salaries. In many cases a coach man is better paid than a school teacher. In the State of Indiana twelve thousand teachers receive less than live hundred dollars per year each, and Iowa is even worse. 1 11 California the wages on an average are very good, but Folly iloes not know a single instance where it is too much, for it requires not only the knowledge to teach, but tact, patience and the ability to get along and face the worries and obstacles that they will meet with among thirty or fortv rotless scholars. BRIEF REVIEW. catch the returning steamer before she oM lon- ,,efortt lhdr lime' Uy lht'"1- left her dock. When he returned to ev-aiit drudgery, pouring into the Washington the things that he said to streets with their little dinner bucket Jim Christ were too numerous and too Nine out of ten should be at school, but strenuous for publlcatiou.- publlc. -St. Louis Ile- THE TERM "IDIOT." if you should ask them why they were not attending school, theanswer would be because they couldn't allord it. A gentleman speaking on this very In the Orficlnnl firrfk It Simply Meant h I'rlvutc IVrxoit. The word idiot Is itself .,f intiToMne u,jit-t recently, said: "It would be a history. Its primary Greek significance blessing to parents and children both was that of a private as distinguished if this Proeott amendment could be from a public person. Our words carried. You will understand mv feel- Idiom, idiosyncrasy, etc.. are from the h,, :LS Wl.j as hosts of others parents, immir .uuu -Le m,oi in uu t. as sun- f(r j . ,)M,y ()m. ()f ;l vasl mj()ritv ()f rr," , s , - , , ., , dissatisfied people, over the present the word are shown in its annlIcationr'hu'1 ,:nvs relating " ie. My Boon to the common people as distin al:iry is only seven 'y-live dollars per guished from the upper classes. It was month. My oldot .-hild's books last then applied to unprofessional and lay term cost me twelve 'dollars, and from people and soon became the slurring that on df.wn to thVee dollars for the title of the unskillful and awkward, youngest. 1 1 took an even twentv dol- By slow degrees It became applicable ,.irri , . II1V i l.ihlren for school in 10 me siupm anu at nisi 10 tne mine- . . , , . , . t . , . .1 iKM)ks and materials, hverv vear 1 111 Pile : mil iflior An l;lte ns tile lvfienth I nnd cmnt.,.1h ...o,;. ,1..". ,.-r.r,l l'st of tlleSC hooks liaVe to bciUs- was still used in its earlier senses. ThishankM, :lM(1 ,1,e" JUV "ot worth, new long sad history speaks indirectly of though they selling to the secon li the pathetic history of the Imbecile. If hand lunik dealers. It has been on i She Got Her Dinner. Mrs. Mary K. Yancey, an old colored woman who lives at 1Mb (! rove street, Kansas City, Mo., received a very handsome valentine in the form of a money order for .2". When she pre sented "n for payment at the posloflice the conversation which ensued revealed the following facts: " Who sent you this?" the clerk in quired. ''Deed I don' know," replied the ue- gress, grinning, "muiic oi iio.-e rieii folks down in New York." "Can't you think who would be ending you T-o '.' " "Not Mos it wah Mistah Waldorf," said lie woman. "There must be some mistake," be gan tiie clerk. " No, iudeedy," sheinterpoed,"doir you 'member the man what gave dat well diiiiiah to all dem rich folks? I see in de papers whah dey done gib his ball, an' I io' set down an' writ lini a letter a-tellin' him dat I war jo a po niggali woman an hko a good dinnah mahself. An' he done send i ne dis." Inspection of the order showed that it had been sent by .lames H. Hyde, the New York bachelor who recentlv tartled the -100 in that city with a Sl(M),0u0 ball. Preaches His Own Funeral. Jn order to make certain that his own funeral sermon may be what he desired, Benjamin F. ( loodsell of San dusky, ()., has hit upon a novel plan, lie has grown toward the three score and ten mark, always lighting on the side of the under dog, because he felt that the dog was right. Now he know.- that some time lie must siiutlle oil and a funeral service of some kind would b held by his friends. They would, for appearance's sake, have a minister, hu argues, and lie felt sure his belief would not make a good orthodox test No one knew Ben (Joodsell better than himself. With this idea he wrote an add ro which contains his beliefs and h final nio?age to his friends assembled to pay the last respect to the departed A GIFT FROM FRANCE. 71ie Kii.-t of Wiisliinirloii liy 1'lcrrr .lean Dat id. Ill the year ISS,', Pierre Jean Dayld, the great French sculptor of the early part of the nineteenth century, ex ecu t- iil a bust of George Washington which was presented to the Fnlted Suites in the nam' of the people of France. Thi was during the lifetime of the .Marquis vie Lafayette, anil he gave the sculptor the benefit of his intimate knowledge of the character of Washington. Tin work was paid for by subscriptions raised among the French people. Near ly thirty years after the bust had been placed In the capitol at Washington it uas destroyed in a fire which took place there. Not long since it was discovered that a plaster cast of the bust existed in the studio of the sculptor, and descendants of Lafayette took the initiative in liav ing a replica of the work which had perished presented to America. The otter was made through the American ambassador to France. General Horace Porter, and the American government having intimated- that a duplicate of the original bust would be accepted with pleasure a cast was made in i ii -i ii i i it.. r- mil. D'ANi.TKh lit Sf OP WYsIIIN'.H'N. brntize al.d pfev. r 1 1 -1 to the I'nited Suites through tin- French imbassa dor to l he I'tiited States. M. Juscrand. Washington's birthday was chosen bv Ambassador Jus.eraml as the occa sion for the presiMitaiion of Fringe's gift. The bust stands n a beautiful pedestal of Carrara marble. Havid was born at Angers, France, in J "Mi. and is sometimes ealhil David d' Angers. He dieil in is.";. He exe cuted statues :ind busts of many cele brated men and women, and his most Important work onsets in his splendid sculptures for the Pantheon. THE VALUE OF OPALS. (o!nra II rIn I it 1 IIim-iii1s mi tin1 ; limi ii In tin Stones. Veins f opals are usually met with ,n soft formations where nothing above t'ltotmd indicates their presence. The EDISON'S TRIUMPH. A: li-etilcnl In the Crcut Inventor Htnrt In Life. Dr. Norvin Green, for many years president of the Western Union Tele graph company, once said that but for the dullness of himself and his as sistants Thomas A. Edison might nev er have obtained the confidence and uipport ol the great corporation. Ed Ison had been trying for months to in mice tlie officials to take up some of his inventions until they began to re gard him as a bore. He went to the main ollice one day and was greeted by Dr. Norvin Green and the other officials with sneering smiles. Dr. Green said: ".Mr. Edison we are unable to get into communica tlon with Albany, and a large amount of Important business Is in peril. suppose ttiat since you know more about telegraphy than all of the rest of us combined you can locate the dif ficulty." Whether Edison noticed the sneering tone or not, lie quietly answered, "I can locate it inside of two or threi hours, sir." Dr. Green and the others laughed out right, one of them saying, "Edison, you have now fully demonstrated that you are a vrank." Edison never smiled or addressed a word to the speaker, but looked at Dr. Green ami said, "If I locate this dilli culty In two or three hours, will you take up my inventions and give them honest consideration?" "Ye. I will." said Dr. Green, "and 1 will do It If you succeed in two days." It was a very simple tiling, and yet Edison was the only one who had the comprehensive mind to think of it In stantly. He did not tell them for many years afterward how he accomplished the feat, but he did It inside of one hour. Edison went to the main offices, where he was known as an expert op erator, and called up Pittsburg. He nsked for the best operator there, nam ing him, and then told the Pittsburg man to call up the best man at Albany and direct him to telegraph down the line towaixl New York as far as he could and report back to Edison as soon as possible. Inside of an hour Edison had this telegram: "I can telegraph all right down to within two miles of Poughkeepsie. and there is trouble with the wire there." Edison went back to the office of the president and gravely announced that if a train should be sent to Poughkeep sie with materials for the work they wo lid find a break in the line jut two milts on the other side of Poughkeep sie and could repair It that afternoon. They begged him to tell how lie had found It out. and he replied: "P.t knowing more about telegraph ing than all of you put together, as Dr. Gn en has said." They located the break, repaired it. and Dr. Green took up Ellison's inven- ti ;:-. and that was Edison's great start in life. Youth's Companion. FACTS IN FEW LINES UNFINISHED NOVELS. HOMES OF THE SWISS. lint be was not killed or starved to death by neglect, etc., he was usually lviluei-d to the condition of. a beast eithi r about the house or fields or was actually driven into the woods and forced to live in caves, among wild animals, etc. In 1700 Hard took a "wild iniv" found in the forests of Aveyroii teach him. The ability to give our eliil- ami ami wish hi ui dreii at least a good, common school education, but my oldot son never finished going through the high school, mil as the schools ale conducted now- a-days, I suppose it is just jus well to md tried to tkc up the practical side of life, unless of the wild thev are destined for professional work boys and wolf children to live and the of some kind. The teachers will give number that did so shows that idiocy. ti,eni a smatterinir in nhvsioloL'v .-md as we have laler learned, is of all de ,iml. ,, i.ildr,.., ,.,wi iw.oV. ;., grees and that a mind mav be various- , -, , . . t I t I'MliCMPilmitr i ikuml ill flu. j.jOi.l. defective In some ways, even idiotic, , ... ' ... ... but In others with capabilities well pre- Kvl ,mo ,,am J'-Sh un served. Blind Tom. the pianist, and une in otlier important studies. An- the large number of mathematlc Idiots other thing I object to is the children are examples that show how far we being given such long lessons that they are from understanding the real nature have no time to stuv them at school. of Idiocy, and thev more than suggest I Km n,n.t not in ,, ,.r ii. i , put every uiglil to gt l tfieir lessons. The brain- of the cliildrn need rest, and there is no occa-ion lor this cramming and hurry that Undermines their with them and to normality. The court health and graduates tliem pliysicial fools and jesters of the olden times wrecks as it does many times. It must were often such partial idiots and de- be a strong and very robust child to fectives, and they truly lived upon stand the cranmiimr tht .mmils mcivo wits," which were often better ,,...,.(l..v ;u.,o ...n;.-;..., n,,,, ....... m luiwiti .-?uui.1IIIq Hit I.WM" the partial retention of sound mentality of the defective, the possibility of seiz Ing upon the one or few normal or even highly developed faculties and per haps bringing others Into co-ordination Not caring to intrust this message to j any one, he spoke it into a phonograph The record has been placed in a vault, not to be used until after he is dead. Clock Runs for 2000 Years ilichard Strutt, a son of Lord llay- leigh, has invented a clock that will run for "ODD year.-. The motive power is a small piece of gold leaf, which is electrified by means of a very small quantity of radium salt bends away from the metal substance and keeps moving under this influence until it touches the side of the contain ing vessel. At the moment of contact it Ioes its electrical charge and then springs back and is again electrified, J A t . It ami me process is repealed. n is thought that a thoroughly reliable clock could be made with the use of radium salt for $1000. Bobby Burns' Relics. .Scotland is becoming alarmed at the increase in the number of " Ihirns relics." Chairs enough are now known to have furnished a do.en Uurns cot tages. Six of them were at the .St. Louis exposition alone; and even the well-known habits of the poel will not account for the array of Burns cups and mugs that are scattered around the world. their than those of their masters. American Medicine. . sequences. I have seen many not overly strong children who were ner vous wrecks upon leaving school and were years recuperating. In fact, we IMcIc tilt; AVI imer. Once on a time two youths were suit ors for the hand of a good, beautiful, are rushing through this gloriously sensible, origin, tactiui. candid, soul- beautiful world entirely too fast : it seems to he a mad rush lo see how fast f ul, womanly girl One j'outh made love. The other made money. Puzzle. Which youth married the good, beautiful, sensible, bright, tact ful, candid, soulful, womanly girl? After the Defalcation. Junior Partner- I never suspected him at-all. Senior Partner- Neither did I, although It did seem a little singular to me that he should be able to r;y $2,000 a year rent out of a salary of jl,500. New York Press. we can get through it, and we never stop to enjoy the many blessings and take the necessary rest that should be the portion of every man, woman and eiiini. noes ii pay r i sane ikmsoii can answer that question except in the negative. We have only one life to I live, then why don't we look at the matter in that light a ml enjoy ourselves Rents From School Lands. In IS'.il Oklahoma received from her . t .. -in . i..i . sc.iiooi lami i,o..". rem. i ins was the rent from os.1 quarters. In liflll there were about. S(HM) quarters of school land rented ami the total rent was ?:!Gl,!).S7.7i', or alMut H)U() per day. The total rents received from isiil to ijjii;, js the magnificent, sum of .llil, l.'U.ss. Small Living Expenses. -Millions of Hindoos live, marry ami rear familieson an income which rarely exceeds fifty cents h week. They never eat meat and need little clothing. :.ti'. ii fur litem, therefore, often re- ijtuivs considerable time. But it is not extremely difficult, for opals are gener ally found ..car the surface. Indeed. It was thought for a long time that they weie not lo be found as deep as twelve feet below the surface. This opinion iits. however, given way in the lieht of evidence, because opals of great value hs.ve been discovered at a depth of fifty feet. The value of opals depends upon sev eral considerations, of which the prin cipal one is the color. It is important that they should be hritrht and not pre sent streaks or spots alternating with uncut ired suhstanoc. The most valua ble are thoe which have red fires or mixtures of red ami yellow, blue and The gold leaf l:n'''n- "P'Us 't :t single lint are of ht- iie vaice umess i ne um h particularly striking and the titrure beautiful. In- ueen one oi ine essemiai ouaiitlcs of the opal Is the arrangement of the fig ure, which sets oil strikingly the hue of the stone. When the furore is quite regular and distinct it is the more valuable, much less so when the grain is quite small and irieular. .Sometimes the color ap pears as a simrle blaze or with figures regularly spaced. It may then be of a line ruby red and is much sought after, but oftenest the uniform tint is only green or reddish and has but little brilliancy. The cutting is very important for the opal. Thus a thick stone will be much less beautiful than a thin stone, which. on losing part of its volume. loses also the figure. The foundation tint contrib utes much to the beauty. It omrht to be transparent, siiuhtlv milky and har monize fully with the different reflec tions of the opal, which, when it Is real ly beautiful, presents a variety of hues Infinitely pleasing to the eye. Jewelers' Circular- Week I v. .rettv ami Distinct In Style, Mate it Lonely A iipen imiiicc. Swiss houses impress one almost in variably with a sense of loneliness. Probably this may be attributed to the .ontrast they pte-ciit to their surround ings. They are commonly dwarfed in to insignificance by the gigantic scen ery in which they have been placed. But near at hand they are decidedly pretty, although their architectural Style Is distinct from anv other. They are rarely painted and seldom ornamented or embellished, save that the boards and shingles are not infre quently cut and scalloped into odd Bhapes. Sometimes the front of a chalet bears the owner's or builder's name in large letters, followed by a sentiment, a benediction or a prayer. These chalets are provided with over hanging rod's, on which fiat stones have been laid to keep the fierce winds from tearing them off and not be cause as an animated tailor's sign, with a tnoiiitele, ,,nee informed an old lady in my presence - the natives wish ed to effect a saing in nulls. Various fruits ami vegetables are hung under the projecting caves for shelter, and the firewood is piled high wil bout for future use. The ground floor is generally given up to a stable, where the entile are h.ued in the win ter. In delightful proximity to the fam ily overhead. The household treasures are contain ed in the lhlng room, or gute stube. Here, too, you will find the large porce- One Parlsisu earns a living by skim ruing greasei oft' the Seine. Licenses are required for babv car rlages in Berlin, and the vehicles are numbered. The new Japanese loan was the first international loan ever placed In Lon don. New York and San Francisco jointly. Salt Lake has planned for an ex ten- lion of its voter supply that will cost $1,000,000 ncd make the supply ample for a city of 7f.0,000 individuals. The I'nited States has the only gen uine horse marines. Twelve marines have been mounted at the navv vard. f.LS THAT WERE STOPPED BY THE HAND OF DEATH. ATntliitnlrl llaivt horne'H Foreliodlns: A limit "The Dnlliver Romance." The FruFTiniMit Thut StevenMon Left. Thnckeruy'it I.nitt Worlc. CJeorge Gissing's "Varanilda" Is a masterpiece that its author did not live to finish. One well known critic consid ers this tale of the Roman and the Goth the deceased writer's finest work, und, though many may question this Judgment, there can exist but universal Mare island. California, and regularly r,-"Srul thilt tl,e romance must forever patrol the island. remain incomplete. The Invasion of Tibet by a Britisli A K'eater work by a greater writer, force was a "mission." The army of "Weir of Ilermiston," by U. L. Steveu- 2.H0O men now being sent into the son, was left a mere fragment, of Nyam-Xyam country, central Africa. Is which the lurid grandeur proved that officially a "patrol." Its creator was taken from us in the The Wisbech Cemetery company was ''iiith of his power. Another romance, unable to pay a dividend last vear. "'St- Ivus" b-v tllL Juie pen, was run- "owing to the low death rate in the niu' 1,1 !t monthly magazine at the time town." Wisbech Is an English town 01 Ius me,n:um'e ueiUn- "ere, uowevur. of lL'.OOO population. The international committee of an archists, which recently met at Barce lona, decided to establish a new center of anarchists at Tangier, where the cause can be carried on openly readers were not balked of a satisfacto ry denouement, for the story was brought to a conclusion by Mr. Quiller Coiich, well known under the nom de plume of "Q." "I hardly know what to say to the- I m.l.l... .il..i.t- tltlf I liillintlill 'eimies are soon to be introduced Into !. . . ... - A uiou h I pretty well know what the.s lmiso will be. I shall never finish It,' . wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne with ref erence to "The Bolllver Romance," which he had undertaken to write for the Atlantic Monthly. This foreboding was but too soon verified, for the au thor had scarce time to do more than lav the groundwork of the story and write the initial chapters ere death struck him down. At his funeral at Concord the scarce ?ommenced manuscript lay upon his .Millin. Soon afterward the first chapter nppcarcd in the Atlantic, and subse quently the second chapter, which he had been unable to revise, was publish ed in the same periodical. Several years elapsed when a third fragment, revised South Africa. Heretofore the "tickey" lias been the smallest coin, and it is worth about U cents. The penny will be of copper and worth '2 cents. The music of the triumphal march ir. Handel's "Judas Maccabaeus" has been adopted by the Imperial College of Music at Tokyo as a Japanese air en titled "The Victory on the Yalu." The coal measures of Coahuila dis trict are being extensively developed They are the only extensive eoal mines in Mexico. The minimum daily output is ."..boo tons of coal and 1.."hmi tons of coke. It Is stated by the Frankfort Cazette that Ccneral Bobrikon. the murdered governor of Finland, after ordering the suppression of a newspaper published and copied by the novelist's wife, was in lornea. discovered that the town nlaced in the publisher's hands. The was in Sweden. It has been discovered that the wild silkworm produces a silk with inon luster than does the pampered worm of captiwty. Those who are up on silk culture claim that the tame worm has lost much of Its power because it is taken care of so well. A prisonr.' recently confined in W.ish ing county iVt.l jail soon returned for another term. On being questioned re gardii'g his anxiety to go back he siid. "Well, you see. I liked the board, and. besides. I got interested in a novel ti ey have at the Jail, and I wanted to tim-di it." A side light on Chinese immlgrati hi or importation into South Africa is cast by the following remark in the South African Press-Bullet in: "ijuarrels a ;d lights with drawn knives between Kaf firs and Chinese are of ahnot daily oc currence in Market square. Johannes burg." Tin' 70o shoemakers" shops at Canton China, employ s.ouo men and "iO.tHM women, who work from daylight fo dark. Kerosene lamps were recentlv introduced into the shops so the hours could be lengthened. The workers get from $".."0 to ?.l a month and rice and salt fish for food. The corporation of Birmingham. Eng land recently pulled down 1-1 1 working men's dwellings for street widening, forgetting the law that requires otlier dwellings to be provided before the old ones are demolished. So now it finds itself liable to a line of .?"J.."oo for each offense, a total of $:u;o.(oo. Mexico Is making big strides in the mauutacture ot goods tor home con sumption, such as shoes, cotton and woolen goods and dynamite. None of these are exported, as they bring bet ter prices at home and are inferior to the goods manufactured in the Failed States. Nearly all the belter class of Mexicans wear American shoes and clothing. Five pensioners are on the roll on ac count of the Revolution. 1.1 Hi on ac count of the war of IS 12. -J.riT 1 on ac count of the Indian wars and l."..S7I on account of the Mexican war. The great hulk of the roll Is as follows: Civil war. invalids. 70;t.l."it;: widows. 2-i.s.:t!io: Spanish Avar, invalids. P.200; widows. :Xi'2; regular establishment, invalids. 0.170: widows, 2.1CS. A Budapest scientist has made a cal culation of the energy expended bv lain stoc that is the center of the learihquakea. lie finds that an amount family gatherings on the long winter evenings. In the kitchen, of course, the furniture is of the plainest deserlp tlon. usually consisting of a rude loom, a huge fireplace, a table and a few chairs. Pilgrim. RUSES OF BANKERS. The Krn of .VoInc. What an age of noise this is! Do you know any single human being who Is capable of helm; silent for an hour at a stretch? I know two. and I value them according to their rarity. Not only does everybody talk, but almost everybody talks loud. I went into a shop the other day. and the clatter of conversation sounded as though the place were full of people. Yet all the noise was produced by three individ uals. Why should they shout ?--Lon don Truth. Yellow Haired People. Fair haired people have the best heads of hair, 1-10,000 to 1 (50.000 beinc wiuie we can, ami .at tiie same time unite an ordinary crooou the bend of . . . I,r M...I II..? ISIM.. r.ll,. I - I.. I lljoi ie,.,ie(I nn.i: iair man or woman. "f,ni,.v "What is the chief product of Un united States?" asknl the teacher in a European school. nd without hesitation the bright Washington Star. Devices l ucil to Kit her Cnln Tlmt or Inspire roiillilciicc. Some amusing anecdotes are told of the devices resorted to by bankers to gain time and inspire confidence. On one memorable occasion the excited subscribers, much to their Indignation, were only able fo enter the bank one by one except at the cost of spoiled coats, as the cute manager had caused the door posts to be freshly painted. Another bank prevented a crisis In its affairs by exhibiting q the win dows large tubs apparently brimful of sovereigns. These tubs, however, were ' simply upside down and a small quan- j tity of gold only piled up on their hot- ' toms. ; ''"t- thi st Ingenious dodge of all was successfully etirrii.il out in Buenos Ay res. There was a run on a large bank, and for several days subscribers besieged the premises, withdrawing money and placing it In another bank on the oppusite side of the road. It happened, however, that these two in stitutions had a private understanding, . and as fast as the "safe" bank receiv- ! ed the deposits they were returned to ' the unsafe" one by an underground passage, with the result that every one marveled at its continued ability to meet Its demands. London News." 4 .-. .......t. ..... . t . .i... t . in in iv u'u;ii io uie raising or me mass of the earth through a little less than one fiftieth of an inch was done by each of the 2U0 world sl uing earth quakes registered during the eight years from 1S0." to 11)02. The work done spasmodically by these earthquakes represents 7Ci.OO.U00 horsepower work ing continuully night and day. The pan-Celtic congress, in session at Carnarvon. Wales, recently, is a con glouten-.tioa of several gatherings, chief of which Is the great Welsh eis teddfod. InMand has two amn::l Celt i. i'.i t IiiiIt(t: ftm I M ni .l i f ' ..i..l tl... n..- .a.iiiiu.-. .11111 nit; Feis Ceoil. The highlands of Scotland have a Mod. and Brittany also kcep.t Its Celticism aflame at an annual as sembly. Mauxland has no such as sembly, but the study of the Caelic Is being encouraged in various ways. Professor ('barbs Cay ley of the Fnl verslty of California says: "There are many employers in San Francisco who for the last fifteen years have com plained to me of the horrible English used by our graduates employed by them. They say there are very few in deed who can talk and write correctly. The main trouble lies In this- that the students are 'railroaded' through col lege In their study of the professions and very little if any of their time has been spent on the study of English ex pression and literature." original manuscript is now preserved in the Concord public library. "Wives and I laughters" was running in the Cornhill when the authoress. Mrs. Caskell. died. Fortunately the work was Hearing its completion, so that, although it was not actually fin ished by the gifted writer, the plot was sufficiently advanced to enable us to make more than a shrewd guess at the ultimate fate of the characters and to take leave of the hero fully assured of his ultimate happiness. Another serial that was being written for the same magazine when its author laid down pen foreer was "Henls Du val." Thackeray, indeed, was already in his grave when its publication com menced. Three parts and a portion of a fourth were all that appeared, and "the story," wrote the editor, "breaks off as his life ended full of vigor and blooming with new promise like the apple trees in this mouth of May." With the fourth part was given a set of notes, taken from Thackeray's own pa pers, elucidatory of the subsequent de velopment of the plot. Thackeray's great contemporary, Charles Dickens, died, too. In harness. For long his health had been but In different, but he stuck unflinchingly to the work he had In hand. On June S. lN7o, the end came. The morning and part of the afteruoo.i of that daj- were devoted to completing the sixth num ber of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," but scarcely had lie finished work and sat down to dinner ere he was seized with a fit. From this he never recov ered, but nfter lingering some hours, without regaining consciousness, died at ii the next dav. "I shall publish late in this year." wrote Laurence Sterne, "and the next I shall begin a new work In four vol umes, which, finished. I shall continue Tristram' with fresh spirit." This new work here referred to Is the "Senti mental Journey." one volume alone of which was ever given to the world, nor by reason of the author's death was the immortal "Tristram Shandy" ever continued. "Arcadia," the pastoral romance which Sir Philip Sidney composed at Wilion House, was never completed and ran no small danger of being entirely lost t.i future generations when its author, before his death, gave orders for its destruction. Only about 100 manuscript pages of Benjamin Disraeli's last novel, which brought the story up to the first dozen lines of chapter 10, was all that was written when the brilliant writer laid aside his pen forever. CIiimc to I'm. "What are the things that touch us most as we look back through the years?" asked a lecturer impressively. There was a moment's pause, and men a small boy in the audience ?wertil: "Our clothes." "When to Anchor. A minister lias given this well de fined exposition of the text, "And hav ing done all, to stand." On some body of water near his home there was one day a race between two boats. The captain of one saw that he was get , ting behind, but he also saw that at the particular point where they were j the current was stronger than Un wind and that the head boat though 1 apparently progressing, was really an- drifting backward. Quickly taking in I the situation, this captain of the rear ' boat cast anchor and won the race. I'nietlenl Jiken of it Crow. The crow has always loved mischief, but his pranks have not always been malicious, as were too many of the jokes of a bird that bore the name of Richie, which as a pe name for birds was surely not an Improvement upon time honored Dickie. This iw. which was kept by a lady in Ireland, used to be fed on biscuit and water from his mistress' window, and it wu n.t an uncommon thing for him to seize the tumbler in his bill and dash It to the ground. Sometimes he would enter a room on the sly and amuse himself by taking the corks out of bot tles and pouring their cou tents over the carpet or by scattering pl&s, pa pers, letters, ornaments and the like on the floor. One day he flew away with n pencil and perched on n tree close by. To punish him his mistress refused to know him and pushed him away from the window the next time he came for food. In a short time he returned. bearing the stolen pencil unharmed, except that the rubber end piece had vanished. Gravely laying It down on the window sill, lie bowed and cawed In his best style, as if to say, "Come, now, let us be friends again."--Irish Times. A Quick IVltteil "VVnlttT. A western congressman says that while he and certain friends were studying the bill of faro In a hotel on the New Jersey coast a mosquito alighted on the card. It instantly lost Its life by a quick blow from the man holding the card, Its little carcass re maining on the bill. With a smile the man pointed to the remains and said to the waiter: "Do you serve these on toast here?" "They're on the bill, sir!" was the witty retort of the waiter.