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Koine farmers are smaller potatoes
than they raise.
When money begins to tnlk p‘Ople
• It up ami take notice.
With the numerous courts in session
these are trying times.
The multiplication tnble doesn't sat­
isfy a small boy’s hunger.
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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 bls life and
Bufferings himself, Mr. Rockefeller
cleverly forestalls Murat Halstead.
Dr. itoch’s cure for the “sleeping
sickness” is good medicine to “try on"
the boy whose Job is the early chores.
These “mysterious” murders 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 may
make It easier for Japanese tax-dodgers
to Bleep well.
“The nation,” says John G. Woolley,
"is awake.” Y’es. 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
fashionable flat.
According to Mark Twain, "a mine Is
a hole In the ground owned by a liar.”
Mark also has evidence that other busi­
ness enterprises are owned by the same
party.
Human nature is a funny thing, and
after Anna Gould lias had her second
bitter lesson with fake “noblemen.”
there will be plenty of her country
neople sorry for her.
There canuot be a near woman in
fact, bpt 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
tie called mollycoddles, Women are
taking away men's Jobs, and it is saldt
by observers that they are going to I
keep doing so and enlarge their hold- j
Ings in that line. The president of
Bryn Mawr college for women says
that women “are steadily taking pos­
session and driving men before them, it”
and. furthermore, they “will be com-
pelled by economic causes beyond their
control to stay in them after mar- j
rlage." 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 time to
time and put it aside when the need
was over. If for economic reasons
they are better at typewriting, tele­
phoning, telegraphing and bookkeep­
ing than men, they are none the less
true women when they do this work.
Professor Ross gives the most star
tling picture of the near woman when
he dips into the future and sees what
industrial occupations will do for wom­
en. He says “there will be a rever­
sion to the type of masculine women,
squat, flat chested, broad backed, low
browed creatures, working In the
fields and factories side by side with
men.” We shall be compelled to admit
that such “creatures' i” would be “near
women,” according to our modern
ideals. On the other linnd, President
Eliott says, “The higher education
ought to tit women for the single oc­
cupation of bearing and 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
Bryn Mawr will emulate the educated
woman In the matter of attention
sometimes to the bearing and 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.,
The statue of Gen. Francis E. Spin­
ner, made 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, (¡eneral Spinner was treasurer
of the United States from ISlil 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 filled by
women. IL* carried his point against
coiiRldwrable opposition, and thus
opened the door to self support for
many women. He was notable also ns
the Inventor of a peculiar signature
which appenn <1 on all the national I pa-
per currency, and was the butt of ’ the
newspaper humorists for years, But
he will be remembered longest as the
man who called on the women to t take
the places left vacant by the men ' who
went to the front to fight.
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Baron von Sternburg, German am-
bassador to the United Stntes, In an
address nt the University of Illinois,
once showed that nil the great lenders
of nations, such as Frederick the Great
and K’ang Hl. the grenteat Chinese
eiii|s*ror, have taught the same prin­
ciple« of citizenship. He drew an in­
teresting parallel lietween the teach­
ings of K’ang III in the “Holy Edict”
ntnl the public utterances of President
Roosevelt. It is n truth familiar to all
students of comparative literature that
under similar conditions men of moral
purimae have much the same Ideas.
Devout scholars have always delighted
in the fai t that the noblest sentiments
of Greek |>liil«'- phy »ire not unlike
those of tile Bilile. That a modern
num should preach what was preached
iu 'a» niielents o«ily bear« out Lowell's
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When sorrow comes,
An' your head droops low,
All' you’ve cotne to know
All a chap can know
Of grief, an’ 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 r. hopeless heap
It’s a good old world !
For the little bnbies
That laugh and run.
For the cat a-nappin’
Out in the sun
On file high gato[>ost
In a soft heap curled,
For the wingin’ bird.
It's a good old world!
—Judd Mortimer Lewis.
He Forestalled Fate.
Josiah Quincy, assistant secretary of
state under Cleveland, was famed for
the energy he showed in getting Jobs
for Ills constituents.
One day a laborer In the employ of
tho Department of the Interior was
drowned while bathing In the Potomac.
A congressman who happened to be
near when the body was taken from
the water, hearing that the dead man
worked for the government, rushed eff
to the Department of the Interior to
secure the Job for one of bls followers.
When he reached the department,
however, Hoke Smith, who was Secre­
tary of the Interior, told him that the
IMisitlon had already lieen filled.
“Filled!’’ cried tlie congressman,
“Why, the man hasn't been dead half
an hour."
“I know that." replied Smith; “but
Josiah Quincy heard the man wns go­
ing in bathing, so he put In an applica­
tion for the Job by telephone."—Satur­
day Evening Post.
No Share In the Fun.
i« 1! they had
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Perhaps the most superstitious class j a woman Is the first to enter the train
of people in the. United States are the at the beginning of the trip. They will
otherwise hard headed, keen-witted resort to ruse or diplomacy to avert
such an Invitation of accident. They
railroad men. They are fatullsts by will stop a woman with slow Inquiries
circumstances of a life of constant dan­ about her ticket or destination fu order
ger, Death is a commonplace; acel­ that a masculine foot will tie the first
dent and Injury all in the day's work to ascend the steps. It is also consid­
and line of duty. Contempt of death, ered bad luck for the train to permit
a cripple or a hunchback to enter first.
akin to that of the fanatic Mussulman, A one-armed man among passengers
but without the allurement of the upon a train is also viewed with sus­
black-eyed lmuri paradise. Is bred by picion as an omen of accident.
Sometimes a careless fireman will let
familiarity, the never-ending risk of
life and limb, as told In the grim sta- the engine bell toll. Such an untoward
tlstics of railroad fatalities. Many accident means that some member of
bloody campaigns of great wars show the engineer's family will soon die. Old
fewer casualties than the annual deatii time engineers will not count the num­
and accident report of the Interstate ber of cars in a train as it rounds a
Commerce Commission. Tills makes curve. It Is considered bad luck.
As would naturally be expected from
life cheap and its risk and sacrifice
for so much per diem an incident. The the wide prevalence of the number 3
railroad man lives in an atmosphere of superstition, It occupies an important
the fatal chance mid nerve-teasing un­ place among railroad men's omens. It
certainty. Death may be speeding to­ Is the firm conviction of almost all
ward him and around the curve ahead ; railroad men that when one man is
the next pounding of the massive driv­ killed or Injured in railroad work two
ers may strike a broken rail; the other fatalities or accidents will follow
tower signal man makes his awful er­ in rapid succession. It is considered
rors In an almost unvarying average; unlucky, before two or three days have
the landslide and the tampered switch elapsed, for a railroad man to take the
are entirely beyond prevision. And It place of another who has been killed
Is this dominaney of chance, of the un- in an accident.
previsefl, the unexpected, the unfore­
Engineers see an omen of death upon
seen, utterly bathing human ingenuity, the trip if tile headlight of their en­
that makes the average railroad man gine accidentally goes out ns the en­
as supers!ltlously fatalistic as a whirl­ gine is leaving the roundhouse.
ing dervish or a warrior of the Mad
A left-handed engineer Is viewed ns
Mullah.
a hoodoo by many trainmen. It Is be­
This environment of the fatal lieved his presence in the cab invites
chance, emphasizing human futility and disaster, and old-time firemen and
powerlessness, creates a rich soil for brakemen seek transfer to other trains
omen, charm and fetich, ami few rail­ as soon as a left-handed engineer is put
road men can be found who are not In­ on their run.
oculated with the virus of protecting
Trainmen dislike the presence of a
superstition. Press them closely, and corpse in th“ baggage or express cars.
seven out of ten will confess it in a Just as sailors object to carrying a
half shame-faced, half defiant way.
corpse on board ship. But it is consid­
For Instance, it is considered most ered particularly threatening to load
unlucky among engineers to take an the coffin on a train with the feet of
engine out for its first run Friday or the dead person toward the engine. In
on that fatal day to put the finishing a recent wreck in North Carolina a
touches to it in the shop.
corpse was almost Incinerated and
Trainmen, particularly brakemen of many persons were killed. It Is the
the old school, believe it is bad link If firm belief of trainmen on the South-
MOUNTED NURSES.
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THE RENAISSANCE OF THE KNICKERBOCKER.
Army nursing may be revolutionized
as tile result of a course of training
instituted at the North London Riding
School, where the Islington Drill Bri­
gade Girls’ Yeomanry, twenty-five
strong, is showing what mounted horses
could do In the field.
The innovation will be brought uu-
officially to the notice of the British
military department at the next nnnual
show of the navy and army, and It Is
believed the army medical corps will
give the Idea more than passing con­
sideration. The work of the girls’ bri­
gade is a revelation to every army offi­
cer who witnesses it.
They are tr:
nursing before being advanced to the
brigade service In this their work is
to bind up the wounds of nny soldier
found helpless in the field, hoist him
The Glory of New York.
What other city Is there of like size
which matches New York in position.
It is n seaside city; the salt water
laves its feet. As the traveler ap­
proaches it he thinks of Venice rising
from the sea or Is perhaps reminded of
ancient Tyre, which “stood out In the
sen ns a hand front a wrist,” and of
which the houses were impressively
tall. “Impressive” is not too indulgent
a word for the skyscrapers of New
York dean faced, simple, original and
audacious, they nre characteristic of
the land ami of the people. They are.
not ugly concessions to utility, but a
rather grand adaptation of architecture
to circumstances. The ancients, har­
assed with dread of piracy, would not
have dared to build a city like New
York on the edge of a great harlsir
open to the sen. It is something which
the modern world alone could have
given us.—Tamdon Spectator.
ern that the body was loaded lu th»
fate defying way.
But the railroad man is not alone
In his belief in omens and charms. The
passenger also has a i»et lot of siqier-
stitions that defy logic and the persua­
sion of common sense. The belief that
the wearing of a white flower or a white
ribbon protects travelers from accident
Is fairly widespread. Some believe that
I timing coffee Just before leaving on a
journey is better than an accident 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 the 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 of 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,
it is the sign that he soon Is to come
Into possession of hidden wealth. To
see a crow feeding on a carcass Is an­
other lucky omen for a traveler.
If dust blows In a person's eye whils
on his way 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 a train to meet a spectacle­
wearing negro. It Is nlso unlucky for
a traveler to cut bls finger nails Just
before starting on a Journey; disgrace
will overtake him, and if a trawler
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 fu his handker­
chief, but if he loses the knotted piece
of linen he had better end his misery
by Immediate suicide.
Here is an incantation which Pullman
conductors declare will Insure slumtier •
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 Bleeper the sleeper carries the sleep­
er over the sleeper Into the sleeper
which carries the sleeper, and Jumps
off the sleeper by striking the sleeper
in the sleeper, and there Is no sleeper
In the sleeper.”
They May Become a Feature of the
Enidlah Army.
would lie invaluable If they could lie
equipped and so maintained.
Admittedly it would be out of the
question to have such a mounted nurse
corps In desert fighting, such as Eng­
lish troops nre frequently required to
engage in, but on European battlefields
there Is no reason why they could not
be used to distinct advantage.
The Islington brigade has been of­
ficially invited to attend the next mili­
tary tournament, and ft Is by no means
Improbable that they may ultimately be
the nucleus of similar corps throughout
the army.
COAST ABOUNDS IN FISH.
■ ■nelHc Kewlon Will In Time Supply
the Whole Country.
,\NI> WotMU.ll BOl.liILR.
“Too many words are wearisome."
said Kwoter. “Brevity is the soul of
wit.”
“Not always,” replied the observer;
‘but, in any event, it Is always com­
mendable."- -Philadelphia Press
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PASSING OF AFRICAN GAME.
Add
ZOME or THE BELIEET
FIRMLY ADHERED TO BY
TEE MQH COURAGEOUS
MEN AND
RAVELERZ
r.p n tie ir horses and ride with him to
ill ' ti bl hospital. All t! is they do in
ti •ir nguhir drills with surprising pro-
Hcieu.-y.
A rmy olii ers are already discussing
the | s tii-ah'lit.v of the plan. The
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Worry Regnrded • • n l>l«eaaó.
pi: « l :i of I i<i> j able to mount nurses
. Physicians- are beginning to remg- where ev< IT a
iu. ih« nize » Try a« a disrase, to.Jie
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«iij other an lady.
uiliccre admit that
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Conceit
blinds
many a
the truth.
Fulfil is reason
resting on revela-
tioiL
Ever y insister
must ever be a
pupil.
If a godless
man got into heaven, he would be glad
to get out.
God not only pardons, He forgives.
The works of God’s machines are all
hidden.
Christian fellowship is through the
Father.
The richer the Jewel, the harder the
cutting.
Death is a river to some and a ferry
to others.
Men need new’ forces, rather than
new forms.
The Holy
Is the best teacher
of theology.
The man who wavers cannot expect
God's favors.
Atheism dethrones reason and exalts
folly as king.
Paul said nothing about the number
of his converts.
Faith and zeal always outstrip rea­
son and eloquence.
A religion without the Holy Ghost
is not Christianity.
The more godly men are, the more 1
human they will lie.
More depends on your inletting than •
on God’s outpouring.
The early preachers never belonged
to the “aristocracy.”
“Exalting human nature” Is what
Satan did to tempt Eve.
The Bible answers the question,
why? and science, how?
The unmarked providences of God
are the most remarkable.
If the saloon exists in your city, it
1 b too close to your home.
Expression is the breath of love ;
withdraw it, and love soon dies.
Mathematics cannot determine the
difference between one man and two.
It is a ¡►oor preacher indeed who
can’t tell people more than they eau
practice.
It is often easier to be neighbor to
the stranger than to the man over your
back fence.
Brevity.
"What are you crying for, my little
boyF
“Boo-hoo! l’n fell downstairs!”
"Don't take on so. He’ll get better
soon."
• Sister saw him fall all the way. I
never saw nullin'!"—Answers.
The tnlk of a g «id tunny people
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W It-ked
For two centuries there has been lit­
tle let or hindranee to the slaughter of
animal life In southern Africa. But
now game laws exist and with their
enforcement it Is expected that the sup­
ply of game can be kept up and that
some of the old hunting grounds may
be restocked.
Lions are still plentiful over large
areas and even in the mining districts
of Rhodesia. Elephants are becoming
scarce, being practically extinct south
of the Zambesi, except on the east
coast and in a few parts of Rhodesia.
They are now strictly protected to
save them from extinction.
The rhinoceros is rare, except in the
Portuguese country south of the Zam­
besi. Tile hippopotamus is to be found
only in Orange river, the streams of
Zululand and in the Portuguese rivers.
One of the remarkable natives Is
King Kliama. The headquarters of Ills
tribe Is Serowe, a town of 20,000. Here
and in all his dominions lie has abol­
ished European liquors, and their in­
troduction or use Is followed by severe
punishment. He has suppressed witch­
craft and so encouraged education that
most of his people can read.
The Masbonaland plateau is begin­
ning to fill up with European farmers.
With Its perfect climate and fertile
land it grows every kind of crops of
tho temperate zone and the farmers
are already looking forward to raising
enough to supply the whole of Rho­
desia. Thus throughout the “dark con­
tinent" in whatever direction there are
evidences of a rapidly growing civiliza­
tion.—I ndianapol is News.
When the mocking bird
Sings a lilting tune.
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?
Many of the colleges and universities
are In no-llcense towns. Leland Stan­
ford Is the largest non-sectarlan insti­
tution to enforce prohibition within the
university domain. Intoxicants are for­
bidden in boarding houses and fratern­
ity buildings. Similar restriction Ims
long obtained at several colleges which
are under the control of influence of
the churches.
Warning Note* < ullinic the
to Keprntance.
Imminent Extinction of Mnny Spe­
cie« Lends to Protective Law«.
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?
It is mortifying to learn that Aunt
Carrie Nation was fined $25 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
punished for it.
The feeling of China for this conn
try Is unusually friendly, and it is for
Statesmen to maintain and promote the
sentiment, llow far the ancient East
can ever be an extension of the course
of empire that for ng s has taken Its
way westward Is n problem that time
alone can settle. But America and Asia
cun be friends and commercially inti­
mate without trenching too far on race
and siM'kil traditions, habits, tastes and
tendencies.
RAMS HORN BLASTS.
The extensive coast line of the terri­
tory seems everywhere abundant with
halibut, which has become almost a
luxury In the East. There the fishing
Is done at great hazard and at long
distances from markets, while In Alas­
ka the fisherman leaves his hoipe 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 very
few fish now taken on them ns com-
pnred-with the large numtiers taken on
the Atlantic It can readily be seen to
what an extent this fishery can nlso
lie expanded. Here also the element of
safety Is greatly In favor of the In­
dustry on the Pacific const. At present,
in. a small way, txitti halibut anti cod
an* slupped clear • across
th« coutlueut
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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 wholly
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 ami mild cured sal­
mon Is now living shipped all the way
to Germany for smoking. During the
last winter buyers from German
Imuses in Hamburg have appeared in
Alaska towns and eagerly taken all tho
product they could secure. This Is but
a beginning, ami development In time
In the way of improved means of trans­
portation will extend the shipping .if
salmon -fresh from the waters of
Alnska to all parts of the world.—Pa-
clflc Const Monthly.
All In One.
“You've read bls novel. Is It a love
story ?’’
“Yes, it’s intended to be. There’s a
young naval officer in It and a cad and
an idiotic chump----- ”
“But what's the hero like?”
“I’m telling you. The hero is all
throe of them.”—Philadelphia Ledger
Between the ages of twenty and thir­
ty, If a young man Is nice looking,
graceful and a good dresser, he is hi
the same danger of becoming a pro­
fessional groomsman at a wedding as a
man of forty Is of tiecoming a profes­
sional pallbearer.
Perhaps u few more people would try
to be good If they didn’t bump Into so
many others who overdo the thing.
Mnny men's goodness is due to the
fact that they are nut found out.