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BAN DON RK( OHDKI FACTS IN FEW LINES Tokyo Is 100 yuan older tlmn St. Petersburg. Americans drank l,-1M.lfll.:52r. gnl Ions of Im'w last year. Jnjan has very fw miHiouairos and practically ho uniitimlllitHixiro. London's new county hall, on the banks of Tliames. will cover Jive and six-tenths acnes. Tho Ixmdon Tiroes say that the Russian govHruinent Is orderiug noth ing in England or America that can be obtained elsewhere. Hie cake used at a Portland (Mo.) weiKihig was ltakMl for a relative of the ltrhlegrtHmi on the ovaskn of his marriage forty years ago. A concrete chimney Hint has been coiunlobvl recently for a Taeoma ?mc!ter is 307 feet in height and is sait to be the highest In tlie world of it kind. The most costly picture frame iu the world Is sait! to le that which Indoles the "Virgin and Child" to the Milan cathedral. It is matte of hammered gold :.! d is worth $12.V. Keeent traveler in 'I ;'et have no tieed that, while effects vf the rxrchtd air are severely felt at ah:t:des of be tween 14,tH ami 1.mi icvU on going yet bight r all diagtv able sensations pass o!T. Excitement has ieen created at Mombasa, east Africa, by the discov ery of tbe west Afrit an ruliber tri' (Funtumia etastiest In tlie forests of tlie protectorate. Lou-bui syndicates are competing for large tracts of for est hi ml. The large; bequest ever made by a negro to Tnsfcegee institute at Tusfco- gee, Ala., was recorded recently when tlie will of Mary K. Shaw of Philadel phia was probated. It bequeathed s:..n00 to the institution of which Hooker T. Washington is president- At a meetiugoftht' Amalgamated Society of Tailorsln i London a member fitatetl tliat sue knew of a woman who had made a cloth sklt - plaited, tabbed, trimmed with bands and but tonsfor iiineiMace. the said skirt le Ing ticketeil in the sh ip wind ;w. "The Best Euglish Tailor Made." One of the siioe dealers in Lmteville. Ky.. is buildiutr up a nice latlc trade in wooden shoes. He has three lots sent to him from Holland er. It year - ami sells thein to ;b :-r:u.:.:t umiea ors who live near Lou5s :ik n . j find thorn of great value for we:r when working in tlwir garden. The British museom. I.mdi.;, b.-ts v elded t eolkvt and k-'p gramophone record, of the voices of tbe mt emi nent singers and publicists. They w.ll be for the use of posterity. Tie tl:as tur records" will lo of nickel and prac tically Indestructible. From the 4ay Ing record can be stauiid at will. Skyseraiier are forbidden in Berlin, hut tlie architect. Professor Siesmnad Muller. after his recent trip io Amer ica delivered a lecture in Berlin in which lie spoke strongly in their favor, declaring tliat they offered great lusi " ness advantages and were safer in ease of ilre than any other buildings. Swordsmanship in one or other of Its forms is making niarkd progress iu England. New saile- darmes are be ing oHni and fresh elu'w fiwiued your by year in Ioadon and the prov inces, ami international lantehes have lioen arranged In wbMs ilje English toaaus have at least h ruc themselves , .we. I The Manchester Fnio'j wonders when in the laist half century that city has had the nuiuWr of j--..p!e witliin its ifiuits that attended : .itfr Cultural fair In The drawing a-I of t!i fair w.i; Iauiel Wch-tcr. nnd over q0.4KNi ptp were on l.ai.d t- we!c;me the zr it vtat-iuan when li- ;:nfe to rnake hS addre.!. The swre of Tewksbur.v 4V ii: ;. moud at Kauioij.li Yt.. i adn:-. with riiilior unusual reile In the sign hue. The sisn a .sent from Bos ion tc i:ando!ih M?veutj-six years ago by Amos Tewksbury and was onee the common tLinir aiaoi:c a la- of trad ors loi sinc. jased away. Tbe sljrn roads. "'ash and P.arter St or.-." TIk first apie trees tbnt were ?r:aft ed In Hover. X. II. . were in orchards on Dover neck. The work w done in 1741 by Major Samuel Hul who was then a booiteaeJher. The major praduatetl fnnu Harvard college iu 1740 and went there t teach iu the fall of that yesr. Tlie following win tor he cut sc;ns from choi" frr.lt trees In P.ton :iih! In the spring CTaft ed them Into tree. K. II. PayiK. a well to no resicut vi Williazn;ort. Pa., was on a visit to New York witli hlf: duughter Florence, wlio is not yet out .f her teens. A fellow guevt at tbe Waldorf -Astoria gave MK-; Payn a hint as to th st ck market. Sl. acunl promptly. Invested her own frtnne on the information ami returned !wme richer by $Sn.fKXl. nil made Ius.de of a week i.yliig n :ri..-Tel ami brk :i amid the bushes an I brambles at the e.sge of tlie farm of .foes E. Uuodwiu In FHot. Mc. Is nv slate slab which lears this inscription: "Here lye ye lb-mains of Simon Frost Fsq'r late fir-t ju-ti. -of ye fouri of Common Please and Ib-g Ister of Probate for ye County of York, lie depart mI this life ye .'id diy of Feb'ry. 17' age 00." Often the Japanese imitator produce laughable labels tliat are worthy of noting as specimens of "English as Fhe is .Tapancsed." Take, for Instance, a label on a bottle of wine produced at a native hotel In southern Japan The label on the bottle he brought read. "Foirron Connty Wines Utile Seal St .Tulifti Iwutlfd by IIrdeaux." A label pisx-ed on some a!! p- I Eng lish Incr declared: The cflleaey 0f this Beer Is to give the health and special ly the strength for stomach. The flavor Is so sweet and simple that nt injure for much drink." i.eonomy. The following letter was received from his sister by .1 New Yorker who was away from home on a visit: I am sradiKs ly racJi a parol contain ing the koU, coat you wsuitr-4 As the brass baUoss ar hravy I hav cut item ofT to save imw;(co. Yeur lo ins sister. j. P. S. You w!H fr tbe buttons to tbe right hand iwckct f Ue coat. ARK A man who had pushed the ninety- third mile-stone of his life and looked as youiifr, hale and hearty as many men of sixty, and even les, in .speak ing of his young and sprightly aj- pesiranee, said: "There is no need br any one to become old and decrepid, ami announce to the world by their appearance that they are ready to give up and tep out of t ho world to make room for son iclody else as soon :is their summon come, and in the meantime they goon going down the hill of life and tand idly, miserably waiting at the brink of the grave to respond. 1 iiere is no use iu this- giving up sim ply because a younger generation ex- pi eNyou to vacate and make room for them. It all lays with the person tliemelves. As long :m they keep the heart young they will be young ami take an active interest in the things about them. There is no need to wan dcr in the avenues of the past, living among bygone memories that is just id nit a.- satisfactory as wandering among the tombstones of an old ceme tery that is hoary with lichens and ioim, where tney must needs scrape away the mo-s to read that some good man had passed out into the great un known before you had made your initial Ikiw into this world of trials and tribulation-, as it appears to you a- you jH-cr through your blue and musty gla.-Ms. If you want to wring every drop of brightness out of your life that i- a good way to do it. You decide suddenly that you have reached the Amwniii stage of your existanee and oiu heart may at tir-t become mel low ami beautiful, as you look upon the different phases of your existence failing away and taking on the beauti ful tint-of forgivene-s, repentance and regret for things undone, that you would have accomplished had you . .1. vii vour wav clearer; mere are me n- ' on-s too, that vtu would banish for ever from your life. The little world around vou has doubtles- forgotten ilu in lomr, long ago, but with you they are ever pi e-ent. I here are some lH'au- tiful, happy thoughts weaving them- m Ivc- into the gray shaddows, to light en them like a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. Your life now, with it fitctsaml fancies, is typical of the beau tifully tinted Autumn leaves, but watch out for the exquisite coloring that Mfieiis the decay of the leaves of the :: they are turning sear and ye low a they prepare to Jioat -ilently to the arms of old mother earth, all their Iteautv gone and trodden under foot. f you muM advance into the Autumn o, life, don't get any farther than the tag- when they are lighting up the 'rcst with the glory of 1 heir existence, fhe Autumn of life can W beautiful. out it lie- with you alone. You must keep your heart young and take an in- l crest in the affairs of tlie day, and not allow you r-elvea to become'old fos.-il that i-all that i- iieces-arv. Keep in 'uch with tiie merry, joyou- side o nature, and don't become a sere fade baf ihnt i- ready to drop off at the ftr-t touch of frost or unfriendly greet ing of the wind I am ninetv-three ami con-ider niv- s.e!f ju-t in the prime of life. Th men v old world look- bright and good U 1 He, and I believe I shall live to be at lea-t one hundred and twenty year old, and if it ir- a pos-ible thing, I don't intend to allow mv-elf to become a decrepid old fellow, helple and com plaining, and a burden to tho-e around me. I low am I going to accomplish tin-, you a.-k. I am not going io worry and cro-s bridges before I get to them: I am not going to sit down iu the chimney corner and -iglt dolefully over the pa-t that ha- fled with my youthful ideal- and bright ncs- of other day- trooping after it ; I am not going to worry because I have not been able to lay up the wealth that 1 pictured would be mine. After all, what is therein it? I did no) bring anything into tlii- world, ami ecii if I had it when I go out 1 can take nothing with me. What is llieodds? I haveenough to live comfortably, ami what more can I n-k. I haven't the botheraud worry of riches, wondering how I am going to di-poe of it. If it hud been or dained that I should he a two or three times over millionaire, then a pretty big jk-rcentage of the world would look sit me in horror and claim that I was pos-e.-sod of tainted money, and ask that they be spared f mm coming in contact with -o great and crying an evil. It wa- never intended that I should die in my youth, if it had I would have passed over the river Styx long ago. Feel that depression in the side of my head?" he asked,'as Hie lnrted his iron-gray loeks amlipointed ton depre ion iu the side of his head. "A iniuna hall struck 1110 there during the Civil War. and all afternoon ami night I lay there on Imard ;the ship without aid, because they thought my hours were uumltcrcd and tliey had uch rafts of moaning, helpless and terribly wounded soldiers writhing on the decks in their misery as they waited jmtieiitly for assistance. The physician- were working like Trojans, bul in -pileof their ellbrts, many a poor fellow pa ed away before the assist ance could be rendered that, would have saved their lives. Our soldiers had been mowed down like grain be fore the 1 caper and they lay piled upon meh other on the deck. Three times did they stop and turn me over and size up my injuries, only to say, 1 there i- no hope for him, poor fellow.' 1 dis-! appointed them all, for the next morn ing when 1 wa- supposed to be dead, my Captain passed. We had been old friends in our boyhood days. He gave a cry wlie! he saw me laying there, and ii wasn't, many minutes until I was in the hands of a surgeon and my wounds dressed. liven then they said that I could not gel well but I felt from the very lirst that my life was not ended, that I had a mission, to per form. The experience of Unit awful night left 1113' hair, which was jet black before the battle, as snow-white as you see it to-day. There wasn't a black hair left in my head. It wasn't fright that did it but just pain. My, but what agony we endured, the hopelessly wounded that were left without even a drop of water to cool their parched lips. Some of the brave soldier laddic in their delirium called for their moth ers, sisters and sweethearts; some of them prattled away like they were children again, while others shrieked in their agony, and hosts of others lay with white, set faces ami starring eyes turned toward the stars that shone calmly, brightly down upon the scene of carnage that covered the decks. If ever my heart came near becoming a -ere gray leaf, it was that night when all the courage and hope seemed to be ebbing away with my life blo id. The light had not all been taken out of me, by any means, and while I thought of my loved ones at home, still the main thought was that I wished they would do something quickly and give nua chance to once more shoulder my gun. I wanted to make some of the enemy bite the dust to avenge the death of my biave comrades. That is nil gone, however, and 1 am at peace with all the world, but just remember my heart is young and I intend io live to be one hundred and twenty years old." BRIEF REVIEW. Speech Again After Twenty Years. I'nable to speak above an unintelligi ble whisper for twenty years, Miss .Ma bel Penny has, by a cure remarkable for its simplicity, entirely regained her poweisof speech. The cure consisted of nothing more than persistent endea vor to sing and laugh. At the age of six Miss Penny, as a result of scarlet fever, lost her voice. Many physicians ind throat specialists who were con sulted told her that her vocal muscle. were atrophied, and the girl became reconciled to a life of silence. During her subsequent years at school in Hrooklyn all her recitations had to be conducted in writing. Knowing that her speech los-iiess would proven great handicap, she learned stenography, and for ten years she endeavored to pass her time iu business pursuits. Two weeks ago wishing to have her life insured, Mi-s Penny went to the offices of one of the local companies, and .vas refered to its physician for ex amination Dr. Richard Kllis assured the girl that her vocal chord.-were iu perfect condition; that there was no sign of aphonia, and that the chord were .-imply dormant from lack of ex ercise, ".lust practice tlie scales every day and laugh a lot," he advised her, "and you will be well in two weeks.-" Greatly encouraged, Mi.- Penny daily took long walks in Central park, near her home, all the while trying to sing and laugh. Improvement was rapid and sure ami a few days ago her voice was wholly restored. She is now able to speak clearly, in any register she chooses, and, with no effort. At lir-t her ellbrts to sing the scales re.-u!ted iu only inarticulate gurgles, which, how ever soon gave way to clear tone.-. Polar Ice Melting Away Physical geographer.- are a.-Uing whether we are now witnessing the gradual disappearance of a glacial pe riod. It has been known for sonic time that the ice is dwiudiingiu the Arctic, and it ha.- now been shown that the ice is melting faster than it forms iu a part of the Atlantic and perhaps in all of it, says the New York Sun. Among the observations that have led to this conclusion concerning Arctic ice phe nomena are the statements of Professor ('arwood that the line of perpetual snow in Spitsbergen is now L'.OUii feet above the sea: of Vou Drygalski that the (Ireenlaiid ice is receding ami that it would require a more humid climate to advance the glaciers in 7:2 degrees north latitude wheie he observed them to their former extent, and of Dr. Schei, who has taken photographs in Cirin- nell Land of rook waste that had been borne along by glaciers, this waste be ing ol) feet higher than the present 1 level of the glaciers. The Antarctic explorers rewrt that the ice is retreat ing there. Mr. Ferrar, of the British xpedition, says that the Boss ice sheet on Victoria .Laud has retreated, on an iverage, br miles since Boss saw it, " years ago. Let me say it again a love of poetry will polish, ennoble, sweeten and ex- and the lifeof anyone. We wTiuld not part with the music of poetry that sings 10 us in (inn uours lor all our worldly wealth. Longfellow's "Bridge' wrings eomiori wucn uie nori.on is dark ami dreary. Tell your children some historical exploit in which a boy is the hero and give them the book containing the nar rative. Begin this character building tairly in life. Our mothers can do great work in this way. An image of the Virgin Mary in a church ut Autopolo, in the Philippine islatplti, 1ms jewels valued at $1,501 ),()()(), which have been given it by the devout women natives. A perdoti deeply read iu pure litera ture liua companions with him con stantly that the unread person knows nothing of. A few dollars are poor pay to get for a clear conscience. Never make the tratle, To-morrow is not a good day in which to do anything. THE HEROISM OF AUTHORS How Brave Battles are Some times Waged Against the Agony of Disease. Literature is Indebted to Pain and Worry and Suflering for Some oi Its Choicest Gems. 'lucre are heroes of the pen as we! B ; of tiie sword, and the victories of th,- fsudy are quite as affecting and mcni rable as those of the battlefield. If ! evnplefe list of the line exam- pits of heroism of authors were com piled it would reach well out into the thousands and include a large number of illustrious names. In fact, it is said that few authors have done reallv great work except under adverse cireum- stances. Literature, as well as science. art and history, is indebted to pain and worry and suffering for some of its choicest gems. There are few liner examples of the heroism of the study than that present ed by Professor Finsen, the discoverer of tiie light cure for lupus. For the last twenty years of his too short life he suffered from painful diseases of the heart and liver, to which dropsy was superadded, and It was only by daily self denial and the strictest diet ing tiiat he was able to live at all. Yet for all these years, lived in tbe very siiatlow of deatli and In constaut suffering, he stuck bravely to his great life work, even studying his own dis eases with the keenest attention and writing articles on them for medical Journals. The last two or three years of his life were spent lying on his back. unable even to be carried to his be loved institute a few yards away, and yet the lion hearted scientist never re laxed for a single day his gallant light for his fellow men against disease. The lieroNin of the Danish profess or suggests a similar brave battle waged by an English professor. .T. I: (treen. the historian, against diseasi- and pain. It was in lSOO, when the disease which had assailed him for many years finally prostrated him and when the doctors gave him no hope of living more than six months, that Green set to work to write his famous "Short History of the English Peo ple." Day after day he toiled nt his task, holding desperately on to life and in a state of ceaseless pain and ex haustion, and so brave was the man's spirit that he actually prolonged his life for five years. Even he was bound to confess. "I wonder how In those years of physical pain and despond ency I could ever have written tlTe book at all." General Grant's memoirs, which brought his widow the enormous sum of $."sj0.0o, were written under even more trying conditions than Green's history. In 1SS4. the year before his death, the ex-president found himself bankrupt through the failure of the Marine bank and face to face with tho prospect of (Kin? penniless and leav ing his wife destitute. It was at this terrible crisis that he began to write tlie story of his stirring career. But the cup of his misfortune was not yet full. A -cancer formed at the root of his tongue, and the gallant soldier was compelled to write day after day. suf fering constant and severe agony. Mrs. Browning, too. wrote most of her beautiful poems confined to a darkened chamber, to which only her own family and n few devoted friends could be admitted, in great weakness and almost unintcnnlttent suffering, with her favorite spaniel as her com panion. The Gorman poet Heine was another martyr and hero of the study. The last seven years of his life were spent on his "mattress grave." racked witii such excruciating pain that he had to tike doses of opium large enough to have killed several men in order to give him a few biessed hours of free dom from it Through all these years of torture he not only bore himself with a noble resignation and cheerful ness, but produced many of his finest and most finished works, including his "L.it Poems and Thoughts" and lii "Confe-dons." Sir Walter Scott's heroic struggle with misfortune and failing health dur ing the closing years of his life is per haps too well known to call for more than mention. Afb'r the commercial crash came which left him crushed with debt and with shattered health he set to work "with wearied eyes and worn brain" and toiled for years, often as much as fourteen hours a day. until the end came and witii it the lifting of all burdens, including tliat of his debts, every penny of which his monumental toil had paid. In the list are also Frank Smedley, who wrote his book on "a bed of an guish;" Edna Lyull, who kept death at bay by her brave spirit and busy pen. and Clark Russell, who set n magnif icent example of patience by his In dustry when racked with rheumatism. It is also said that much of Sir Arthur Sullivan's sweetest music was distilled from pain. New York Herald. A St rnlKiit Tip. A congressman was lunching alone In a Cincinnati cafe. Near by sat a dignified gentleman, who casually ask ed his waiter. "How is business?" The man said he was not doing well, upon which the dignified Individual express ed regret, saying. "Personally I have always treated your craft iu this house generously." The waiter was assidu ous in his attentions and helped the guest on with his coat. The dignified man laid his hand on the waiter's arm and said: "Young man, you seem to be discontented with your lot, and I am going to give you the best tip you ever received. Get into some other business." And he strolled away, leaving the waiter speechless. How Could She DonMT "Oh, mamma," she cried, rushing in to her mother's room and flinging her arms around the parental neck, "he loves meh! He loves mehl" "My dear child. I'm so gladl Ilns he told you? Has he nsked you to be his wife?" "No, but lie's down in the library learning to play chess with papa." Chicago Record. KINLEY o ULAi H. ! Aaorlutftl Press Worked to l. ft at ft (iivv Hit? Xcivm. tin the afternoon of Sept. 0. 11)01. ; tii out by a long period of exacting I !.'!. I set out for Philadelphia with ti e purpose of spending n few days at Atlantic City. When I reached the Ilroad street station in the Quaker City I was startled by n number of po-li'-enien crying my 11.11110. I stepped up to one. who pointed to a boy with an urgent message for me. President McKinley had been shot nt Buffalo, and my presence was required nt our Philadelphia oflice at once. A mes sage had been sent to me nt Trenton, but my train had left the station pre cisely tAvo minutes ahead of its ar rival. Handing my baggage to n hotel porter. I jumped into a cab and dash ed away to our otllce. I remained (here until dawn of the following lll)i',,m-- T,,e "Peniag pages of the story of t,ic assassination were badly written, ;U,(1 1 ordered a substitute prepared, A inexperienced reporter stood beside President McKinley in the Music hall at Buffalo when Czolgosz fired the fa tal shot. He seized a neighboring tele phone and notified our Buffalo corre- snoni enr anrl then nnllerl our the wire?; in order to render the telephone a wreck, so that It was n full half hour before any additional details could be secured. I ordered competent men and expert telegraph operators from Washington, Albany, New York and Boston to hur ry to Hufialo by tlie fastest trains. All that nigl t the Buffalo office was pmring forth a hastily written but faithful and complete account of the tragedy, and by daybreak n relief force was on the ground. Day by day through the long vigil while the presi dent's life hung in tlie balance each incident was truthfully and graphical ly reported. In the closing hours of the great tragedy false reports of the president's oath were circulated for the purpose of influencing the stock market, and to counteract them Sec retary C'ortelyou wrote frequent sign ed statements giving the facts to the Ass iciated Press. Melville E. Stone In BUTTER WEIGHT. i inn imio imsprvcr i,cnrnt-u i mm n VKIi to u llroeery. Live and learn. I heard a respect able looking, motherly soul, making purchases tor the family, say to the groeei "Be sure to give me butter weijrht, now, for I've been a long time customer of yours." "Certainly. Mrs. MaeLaren." he replied cheerily, "vou are entitled to it if any one is." Yet she b..ugbt no butter. "What i butter weight?" I inquired when she had gone. "Why, that's Just a little soil we hand out to some of our old customers." said tlie salesman 'I n.-1 end of making an exact pound of antthiug they buy we make it a frac- t. .i 01 r, vhi h tickles them nearly Io death. Of course we are particular lo let them see they are getting more than their money's worth; hence we keep 1 heir tratle." I next asked how the store made up for this extra allowance. "That's dead ca-y' was the reply, "but us It is a trick of the trade I don't think we oiig it to tell everybody. Perhaps other cu-tomers receive short weight?" "If lb -v do. we don't let 'em know It." M.iCoe jour prices are just a frac tion ocr the market':" "Never! We sell cheaper than nnybodj" "Maybe :;.- g ods are inferior?" At tliat he eu.i.leil. Ib fei'ring to a dictionary, I learned ll..u butter weight Is an allusion to n custom of exacting seventeen or elght- ei-ii ounces or een more to the pound .f butter, po.-sihly on the ground that the water in it would soon evaporate and bring the pound down to sixteen ounces, in Scotland tron weight (twen ty-one to twenty-eight ounces to the j turiej was u-;ed in buying butter. Vjw York Press. THE WEARING OF BEARDS. At rime xi Tax Wns Kxnoted for the I'ri llcxe. Iii d.iy gone bj the wearing of a beard va- a priv.le'o that had to be paid lor, the tax on every beard of a fortnight's growth being Its. -Id. in the gr.ictoiis d.-iys ii tjucen l-Jiizanetn. For over b.i.f .-, tenturj the monnrchs ol Kus..ni nude thtir male subjects who wore boards pay into the national exchequer. This tax was Imposed by Peter the Great in 17i.", the nobles Inn ing to disburse lod rubles and the low er classes 1 kopeck. The tax on beards was kept up by Peter's four successors on l lie throne of -til the Itussias. and It wa- limsllj repe.iled In lTd'J by Cath erute 11. 1 ranee, too. at ouo tune Im po-ed a b-anl tax upon the clergj whi.-h wa- paid by those who could afford it. aithougli the large majority had to yield to the razor's onslaught. Iu the fourteenth ccnturv shavim: was popular with young men, while the old men were attached to forked beards. Tiie latter custom is referred to by Chaucer, who iu describing an assembly savs. "A merchant was there with a forked beard." Beards were worn in various shapes and forms dur ing the reigns ol Elizabeth. James I. and Charles I., a-: the poems, plaj's and oilier literary productions of those periods amply le-tifj. In his "Anato mic of Abuses" Stubbs alludes to the barber who was accustomed to ask his client whether he wished his beard "cut to look terrible to your enemy or amiable to your friends, grim and stern in countenance or pleasant and de mure." William Harrison, a clergyman from whom one gains nianj' peeps at the six teenth century, refers to some of the styles of beards at that period. If a face happened to be "platter-like." a long, slender board would make It seem the narrower. If It be weasel beaked, then "much hear left on the cheekes will make the owner looke like a bow died hod and so grim as a goose." London Standard. I.ovotl nnil I. out. Nell Love doesn't seem to agree with Maud. She is thinner by twenty pounds than she used to be. Belle She has loved and lost, eh? To every duty performed there Is at tached an inward satisfaction which deepeus with the difficulty of the task. -Scott. HENRY HUDSON. Born Xo One Known Where and Dtetl Sn One Known How. Hudson must have been at least forty when he died, but nothing is known of his life before the last four years of it. A certain Henry Ilerdson, or Hudson alderman of Loudon and one of the founders of the Muscovy compauj, has been suggested as his grandfather, and the relationship is the more likely be cause It is certain that some of his name and kin were interested iu the company. It may have been upon their recommendation that he was lirst np pointed to the command of a ship In the company's service in 1(K)7. Of his early training and previous voyages nothing Is known. The beginning of his history is as mysterious ns its end. He wus born no one knows where, and he died no one knows how. He comes into our knowledge on the quarter deck of a ship hound for the pole; he goes out of It in a crazj- boat tnnnncd by eight sick men, and so fades away into the dim haze that hangs about the desolate Ice floes. The four voyages of Hudson of which we have record were not directed to absolutely unknown waters, but tho observations made bj- his precursors were so untrustworthy that they were of little service except to mislead him. The object of his first voyage In the service of the Muscovy company was "to discover the pole and to sail across It to the Islands of Spicery or Cathay," and on April 10, 1G07, lie, with John Hudson, his son, sixteen years old, and the ten men who made up the crew of the Hopeful, took tlie sacrament to gether nt St. Ethelburga's, iu Bishops- gate, "purposing to go to sea four days after." In the following year Hudson sailed again, still In the serv ice of the company. They reached the Lofoden isles In a month and rounded tho North cape on June l. A fortnight later they encountered one of those wonders of the deep which the seamen of that time were so often privileged to witness and describe on June lo. "One of our companj, looking over board, saw a menuaid. Calling up some of the companj to see her, one more came up. and by that time she was close to the ship's side, looking earnestly on the men. A little after n sea came up and overturned her. From the navel upward her back and breasts were like a woman (as they say that saw her); her botlj- wns ns big ns one of us; her skin very white, and long hair hanging down behind, of color, black. In her going down they saw her tail, which was like the tall of a porpoise and speckled like a mack erel. Their names that saw her were Th nuns I lilies and Itobert Bayuer." The only really incredible part of the story Is that no more than two men thought it worth while to go on deck to look at her.- ' METAL PENS. Ono ol Ancient Koittiui Mnkc I!n the Distinctive slit. Si .. . curious one has collected a mass of interesting facts eonterniug metallic pens. Some of these refer ent c run back as far as the four teenth and even the thirteenth cen tury, ami. curiously enough, iu the c.; e of the manuscript of Boliert d'Ar toi j. the forger scribe, is said to have used a bronze pen in order to disguise his writing and make his deception mo.v safe. A Roman metal pen is said to have been found at Aosta. not a mere stylus, but a bronze pen slit, and there is some evidence of a pen or iced of bronze nearly as earlj" as the invention of printing in the t:f-to-mb centurj'. .More than a hun dred years ago some steel pens wen made iu Birmingham for Ir. Priestly and some ot these placed into tin hands of Sir Josiah Mason in his early days with Mr. Harrison, but all seem to have been lost. The first pen of meta of a detiuite date, bej-ond ail question is one in a I Hitch patent book of 1717 At about the same time a poiite otb of Pope's refers to a "steel ami golden pen." but these were evidently lux uries only, and It was not until about the end of the first quarter of the last ccnturv that metallic pens became more generally iu use. Iu the "Local Notes an1 Queries" In the Birming ham Weekiv Post definite evidence has been given of steel pens as earlj- a. lhuti and more commonly in 1S17. but It was about S'2'.i and lSiM that tin great revolution came by winch pens were made bj a cheaper process the hand screw press which pierced the pens from steel rolled into tube fash Ion and the joint formed the slit, but those required considerable labor to shape them Into pen form. The use of the screw press belongs to the pe riod of John .Mitchell. Joseph Gillot and Josiah .Mason, but on a careful review of the facts it seems to be clear that John Mitchell has the bes claim to be considered as the original introducer of press made pens. BufTa Io Times. LITERARY DRUDGERY. Froude passed seven years in collect ing materials and writing his "History of England." Nearby five years of Irving's time wore consumed in writing "The Lifeof George Washington." Gibbon devoted over twentj' years of his life to the labor of reading for and writing the "Decline and Fall." Dickens says Iu tlie introduction to "David Copperfield" that he spent two j'ears In the composition of that novel. Bancroft devoted nearly thirty years to his "History of the United States," which is not n history of the country at all, since It ends where the hlstorj of the country propcrlj- begins. Cruden labored nineteen years on his Concordance to the Bible and imme diately afte.' Its publication was sent to a lunatic asylum. He never fully recovered from the mental disease brought on by this gigantic undertak ing. The nenlt. Friend What was the result of tho consultation of doctors? Invalid (glancing at the receipted bill) It left me in a very poor condition. Hla Debts. "Well, my friend, I never p.y old debts. I forget them." "And your new ones?" "Oh, I let them get old." my PEONS OF OLD fir. Indian Farm Laborer ; . . Ite.-tlly Oca.MtM of Ilurttf-.t. Tlie Mexican peon is the hiciSaji.e v.' th.- republic. Without him th. greac lauded estates, or haciendas, w uld l ; in idleness, while agricultural and ccu mt i-cial interests would stagnav. Of a cast iron constitution, he can ensure, apparently without effort, the hardest fort of drudgery. His energj- comes from a diet that consists chlelly of ground poppers, beans or frljoles and a large quantity of tortillas. He works from G to 0, enjoying In the meantime his two simple meals. In general, the Indian farm laborers are of a submis sive and respectful disposition. Like the negroes of the south, they are not far from the main building, so as to be on hand whenever their services are required. They usually Insist, how ever, on celebrating their holidays, which lessens their real usefulness about 'St per cent. The holidays are numerous and afford the laborer manj opportunities to quaff from the stupe fyiug pulque bowl. Their stock of sur plus change Is not upt to be excessive. It cannot be when most of them re ceive but little over 20 ceuts a day. Field hands In the states of Guanajua to. Miehnocan and Qucretaro receivo n euartlllo of corn In addition to their wages of 12 cents a daj. One baclen- dado who voluntarily raised the wages of his hands to IS cents a day found himself without laborers for two days ' the week. As the extra wnges sup- blied living moans for the entire week, uhat was the need of working? fhese laborers are of all sizes and ages; hut, whether young or old, all bear alike upon their brow the depress ing and degrading leathern thong that makes of them beasts of burden. The effect of this customary strap on the shape of the head Is seen In the fact that the peons the country over have peak shaped heads tending toward the shape of the pointed hot. The supply of laborers Is, so to speak, perennial. The young muchaeho receives his train ing in watching the sheep and. the goats, acting as messenger or prodding tho burros In the pack train. When he Is about sixteen years old he takes his place with the regular laborers and be gins to cast his eye about for a help mate. The wife may prove useful and enru a small wage at some such opera tion a3 sowing seed Her life will be a monotonous one. A strip of cloth serves as dress and skirt, a strip of leather provides a sandal, and in the hot re gions the clothing for the boys Is even as simple. AH that is required Is a Jorongo, which consists of a yard of cotton cloth with a hole for the head and two depending flaps to cover breast and back. There is no possibili ty of their clothing Impeding their movements, uhen the woman takes ler husband's meal to him far out in the fields, she takes the little toddler with her fastened securely In her re- )ozo. Pilgrim. NEW YORK MARLOK. Some of the Wonder tif TIiI.h Veel Crowded Port. To present to the mind an easily con jured picture of New York harbor one might make the comparison of the up- ....... 1 ..f . i t . . tutiieti riKoc iiniiii, wim ino" v straight forefinger for the lower stretch of the Hudson, with the thumb, joint turned out, standing for the bent East river and the palm of the hand repre 1 outing upper New York bay. The throe together mnke up the harbor of New York. As Hudson river shelters most of the north Atlantic liners while in port, so does East river harbor those that go to make up the truly foreign fleets. Here tl.ej are, pier after pier of them the steamers that go to the far tountries. Mind the roil Brazil, Ar gentina, Chile, Peru, west coast of Af-ri'-a. Australia. India, China, Japan! And hark again to the call of the ports --Kio Janeiro. Bueuos Ayres, Valpa raiso. St. Paul tie Loandn, Cape Town, Tamatave. Sydney. Singapore, Hong kong. Yokohama! And the strange stuff of their cargoes! Kubber from the Amazon swamps -see the naked In dians tapping the trees and the slimy reptiles iu the shadowy ooze; horn and tallow from the pampas -mark theceu-taur-Iike vnqiicro and his whirling riata; gold dust. Ivorj palm oil from the west coast. Dreams for j'ou there! Palm oil and gold dust and Ivorj-; ele phants ami sacrificial fires and trains of captive slaves; hemp, tea, silks and smuggled opium- and do not believe that opium Is not smuggled into New -York harbor to this day. You think of all that, and your imagination flumes. The gentlemen iu the pilot houses are not always in placid moods. Wild eyed men glare out from pilot houses aloft, like eagles from their ej'ries. and pass the time of day. Saj's one: "Where d y think you're going? Back, will yon?'' And the other: "Back? Me back? Me?" "You? Yes, j-ou. you slop eyed, slack mouthed, spine twisted fresli water goob, you square headed, fatherless" And so on, detailing irremediable flaws in the genealogj-, after which both back down and avert the impending colli sion. James B. Connolly In Harper's Magazine. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Lots of men recede from ultimatums. You might as well say a man steals ns to say he Is frightened. Any quarrel is unpleasant, but a do mestic difficulty is the worst. Haven't you said a thousand times j-ou wouldn't stand certain things and then stood them? Some people complain because they can't got Justice who should really be grateful because they don't get It. It doesn't require ns much patience to put a baby to sleep ns It does to fish, but the men can't see It that way. How often do you know vou are right, and yet the man j'ou are argu ing with Is convinced you are not! And he half convinces you that you are wrong. Atchison Globe. Imagination. "Mabel has a most wonderful nower of imagination." ,4Keally? That's the verv last thimr I should have given her credit for." Oh, its quite true. I assure vou. She actually fancies that she's good ooKing." It Is only a long time niter having earned it that we know anything well. Joubert 0