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MllltMMMMMtHHHI KING Kin Queen and Princess of Wales in HE WHO KNOWS A BOOK. With staff in hand and dusty shoon, I walked from morning till high noon; Then rested for a little while Upon the green grass by a brook, And with a morsel and a book Forgot me many a mile. And then upon my way I strode With bending back beneath the load, Until the night beset my way With cheerful thought on song and tale, And so I fare by hill and Tale, Contented day by day. For he who knows a book to read May travel lightly without steed And find sweet comfort on the road. He shall forget the rugged way. Nor sigh for kindly company, Nor faint beneath his load. Leslie's Monthly. I THE EVOCATION. l iE had been talking of spirit ualism, telepathy and black magic: the conversation turned to apparitions and mediums. Among ua all, men and women, assem bled 'In the drawing-room after a long and formal dinner, there were several who were skeptical, two or three vague ly credulous, without certainty one way or the other, and my friend Francois, who was an ardent believer in what we not of the faith agreed to call spirit ualism. In his mind there were vast differences In the meanings of terms, but for me spiritualism covered them all. One of the young women, making allusion to the recent experiences of an English medium, asked: "Is It true that M. Crooks has seen and touched the spirits, or, rather, the material forms of the dead?" M. Crooks is a very learned man, they say. If he has not been the victim of an il lusion or an imposture, I must confess that his testimony would have great influence on my own faith." "It is certainly a mystery," said Francois, thoughtfully, "and a mystery which those who have never had any experience are willing to deny exist ence to. But if this man has not been mistaken or deceived; If he can, as he says, prove scientifically that souls sur vive bodies, preserve their identity, their personality, their memory, and have the power to become material and visible to living people, what a rev olution it will make In philosophy!" "Oh, how I wish I might have some experience of the kind," sighed a young girl. "Well, I don't," responded one of the men. "I would fear for my reason if I should see the phantom of my mother come at the call of a medium. And, on the other hand, I resent the idea that my own soul, when it Is freed from my body, must be obliged to clothe it self In visibility at the command of a living person." "One of my friends," said Francois, "tried the experiment, and it cost him dear." "Tell us about It," cried the women. drawn by the Instinctive delight in the supernatural. Francois responded: "It Is not a very happy story, but It may be interesting. It shows that It Is not always safe to interfere with those powers which gov ern the unseen. Here is the story," and he related the following: Pierre Franckel was one of the best friends of my childhood. I saw him again when he was 20 years old, a pale young man with blonde hair, eyes as blue as the sea, singular eyes, large and fixed, lit as by an interior light, the eyes of a girl, somewhat unusual in the face of a man. With a delicacy of col oring, a slightness of build and a soft sweetness of voice the beautiful eyes gave to my poor friend a charm almost effeminate. But he was a manly rel low and had a great many friends. He was 23 years old when he met Madeline Meurlce at a ball given in the chateau of Chaugkv This young girl was poor but brilliant and well born, beautiful, vivacious and gracious. Her great black eyes spoke eloquently to the blue eyes of Pierre, and he was fired with an enthusiastic and sincere love for her. He had been a skeptic OB Um subject of love, so that it came Mttttttt t ttttt 1 1 1 ttf tf " EDWARD AND HIS FAMILY. the first row; Prince of Wales and Princess Victoria in the second row. The cnnaren are me nine naiEa. to him with all the force of a new ex perience, and she had nothing to lose by being compared to former objects of adoration. She was the first to enter his heart, and she took entire posses sion. She returned his love and accept ed his proposal of marriage. It took Pierre some time to talk his family into consenting to the match, but after they had seen and talked with Madeline they succumbed to the charm of her personality. They were married and he took her away immediately to a house he owned in the country, where they lived alone and reveled in the pure and happy love they had found in each other. Then, suddenly, death broke the dream, lime. Franckel died without any preparation for death, without suf fering, while she was seated at the piano playing a sonata of Mozart's, on a beautiful moonlight evening of sum mer. Her husband stood leaning against the window listening to the music and breathing the fragrance of the night. The music stopped at the precise moment that the soul left the lady, and Pierre, surprised at the pause, turned to find his wife dead, a smile on her lips, her head resting against the back of her chair and her fingers still touching the keys of the piano. For several years the poor man shut himself up and would see no one, hid ing his suffering from the world as he had hidden his joy. One dayI called to see him, and on account of our old friendship I was admitted. I found but a shadow of the young man I had known. His hair was gray, and his movements betrayed him to be suffer ing from a nervous disease. He soon spoke of his sorrow and gradually opened his whole heart to me. 'The question of immortality Is con stantly in my thoughts," he said. "For five years I have searched philosophy, studied hypotheses and questioned reli gion, and I am still divided between faith and doubt, which Is killing me. If Madeline's soul exists it will mani fest itself to me. I look for her con stantly, waking and sleeping, and I feel that she must come. I would give all the years of life that remain to me to see her for one instant in all the sweet ness of her youth and beauty." I, tried to turn my friend's thoughts from' this idea, for I feared his reason would give way. But he persisted in his hope. One day he asked me if I knew a certain Claymore, a Scotch man, who had made quite a stir In Paris as a medium. He was a peculiar man, undoubtedly sincere, and I had enjoyed meeting him several times. "You must introduce me to him," said Pierre. "He has evoked spirits Into material form, and if he can bring Mad eline's to me I will owe him more than my life." I used all my power of persuasion against this decision, but he was firm, and finally I gave In. I first went to Claymore, however, and told him my friend's history and begged him not to abuse a credulity brought about by ex treme suffering. "I can give him what he wants," re plied the Scotchman. "Take me to him. You may trust me." "Will you permit the presence of a witness?" "Certainly." The next day Claymore, accompanied by a medium, entered the house where Mme. Franckel had died five years be fore. It was in June. The villa, with Its closed windows, seemed to desire to keep out the soft, beauty and warmth of the night air. Iuside the house all was dark and chilly. As Pierre met us he shivered. "If her soul lives," he said, "it is in this room." His voice shook with min gled joy and fear. "For the last time," said I, "do not commit an act at once sacrilegious and dangerous." But he did not even hear me. The medium was a young woman, pale and slender, who fixed her idol izing looks on Claymore's face. The light in the room was very dim, coming from a single candle, which stood above the fireplace. The window had been opened wide and the moonlight came faintly in. The- spiritualist put out the caudle and led the young wom an into a dark corner of the room. Then in a low. solemn voice he abjured tiiHHittll ! the spirit of the dead woman to mani fest Itself. . "Oh, my sister," said he, "my un known sister, departed from this earth, come back for one instant in the ma terial form you once took on. Appear, evoked by faith and love. Come! Mad eline!" His voice rose and grew ar dent, while the medium became con vulsed with trembling movements. AH at once Pierre cried, "Listen! Listen! The sonata of Mozart!" A harmony, light and soft as a sigh, floated from the motionless keys of the piano, which stood just within the pale stream of moonlight. "She Is coming," said Claymore, sol emnly, stretching out his hand. "Madeline! Madeline!" cried Pierre, falling on his knees. I am telling you what I saw or thought I saw. The room was dark save for the one thread of moonlight which touched the piano and traced a line upon the floor. Suddenly the mys terious music ceased and in the moot- light, before the piano, the -whiteness seemed to thicken and slowly to forn itself into the contours of the human body. More distince It grew until i' saw sitting there a woman dressed lit a long, flowing gown of white, her head back against her chair and a smile on her pale lips. Pierre had sprung to his feet "It Is yon, my beloved!" he cried, and with outstretched arms he moved to ward the white figure and fell at its feet At the sound of the fall I threw off with a great effort the spell which held me and ran to him. The figure van ished and I raised my friend, to find that he had breathed his last at the feet of his dead wife. He had paid the price for the vision. On his face was an expression of purest ecstasy. There was a long pause when Fran cois finished his story, which told the deep effect he had produced upon his hearers. Finally the young woman who had been most eager in her request to hear the tale said, in a low voice: "Please let's talk of something else." Translated from the French of "Gil bert Dore." MORGAN BUYS VALUABLE PORCELAINS FROM THE GARLAND COLLECTION. J. P. Morgan purchased the Garland collection of oriental porcelains, the finest collection in -the world, which has been on exhibition at the Metro politan Museum of Art In New York for. many years. It. was announced that a London dealer had purchased the collection from the Garland estate for $600,000 and would take it to Eu rope. Morgan decided that the collec tion should remain In America. What he paid is not known, but It is sup posed that he gave considerable more than the amount offered by the Lon don dealers. Particularly Out. An acquaintance called on some la dies who had been much wearied by an endless succession of callers. The door was opened to her by Pompey, the faithful old servant "Are the ladies in, Pompey?" said the young lady. "No, ma'am, they'se all out ma'am,' responded the old retainer. "I'm so sorry, I missed them," replied the visitor, handing in her cards. " particularly wanted to see Mrs. Bell.' "Yes, ma'am, thank ye, ma'am. They'se ail out ma'am, and Mrs. Bell is particularly out ma'am. was the reply that greeted her hearing as the visitor opened' the gate and the front door closed. "' : Short on Houses. The Brazilian coast city of Bahia has about 200,000 inhabitants, who live in 17.000 houses. LOTS OF ROUTES TO HEAVEN. More than Stx Score of Them in Oa el : " ": the Canadiaa Provincea. It may be that Chicagoans can find as many roads t heaven as are at the disposal of residents in Ontario, and If they can there's a-plenty. An author ity in a city ever there says there are no fewer than 127. aceorded shades of religious belief in that section or tne new dominion.- These are among the many: - Adventists, Agnostics, Almighty. Am manites (Amish). Anglicans (Church of England), Angelicans, Apostles' Asso ciation, Ark of the Covenant. Atheists, Baptists, Free Will Baptists. Believers. Bethelites, Bible Students, Brethren, Buddhists, Broad Church of Calvinists. Carmelites, Catholic Apostolic (Irvlng ltes). Children of Christ Children of God. Chrlstadelphlans, Christian Asso ciation, Christian Brethren, Christian Catholic, Christians, Christian Scien tists, Christian Workers, Church of Christ, Church of the Firstborn, Church of God. Confucians. Congregational ists. Covenanters. Daniel's Band, Deists, Disciples of Christ, Divine Sci ence, Divine Sect, Dutcn Reformed, Elzeans, Evangelists, Evolutionists, Faith Healers, Farringlouites, Flths, Followers of Christ Free Church, Free thinkers, French Church, Friends (Quakers), Gathered Out Gentiles, Ger man CatholicsGerman Reformed, God in Christ Gospel Brethren, Greek Cath olics, Helpers, Hittites, Holiness Move ment (Hornerites), Huguenots, Human itarians, Infidels, Jews, Jude's Church, Latter Day Saints (Mormons), Liberal Christian, Lord's Religion, Lutherans, Materialists, Marshallites, Mennonites, Messiahites, . Metaphysicians, . Metho dists, Miciats, Millennial Dawnites. Missloners, Mohammedans, Monice, Nazarenes, New Church (Swedenbor- gians), New Era, New and Later House of Israel, New Theology, Nonsectarian, One Body, Orthodox, Pagans, Panthe ists, Philosophists, Pilgrims, Plymouth Brethren, Presbyterians, Primitive Brethren, Protestants, Rationalists, Re formed Episcopalians, Reincarnation ists, Religion of Love, River Brethren, Roman Catholics, S. Temple, Sabbatar ians, Saints of God, Santarians, Sal vation Army, St. John, Skeptics, Sec tarians. Secularists, Socialists, Spirit ualists, Syenicals, Theosophists, Tun kers, Truth Seekers, Unionists, Unita rian, United . Brethren . (Moravians), Unlversalists, i Unspecified, Watch Xower, Y. M. C. A., Zionists (Dowie- ites). Chicago Chronicle. - VISITING KING MENELEK. Unler Who Knows and Can Conceive Nothing; Outside His Own Country. Oscar T. Crcsby gives in the Century Magazine his "Personal Impressions of Menelek," the King of Abyssinia, a ruler who, Mr. Crosby says, has never been out of his owr kingdom, speaks no European language, and must de vote most of his time to internal af fairs. But in spite of the lack of ad vantages of travel and education, in the ordinary sense, Menelek is a power ful figure and has done more for his country than all of its previous rulers accomplished. Such an expansive body of water as uie ocean, says Mr. Crosby, he cannot conceive. The rotundity of the earth nas been explained to him, but was not grasped. He marveled when I told him of the difference in time between New York and Addis Abeba. Of New York he seemed not to have heard when I referred to it as the big city of my country. Pictures of great commercial buildings and views of clues made, I thought, rather a faint impression on him. The Brooklyn bridge was more effective, and he mar veled at Its height although just how the Interpreter translated figures and distances I do not know, since in my transactions with Abyssinians I did not discover any unit of length, al- inough such measures exist. The Cap itol at Washington, which was de scribed to him. as corresponding to his residence, made some Impression on him when its size was explained. When the baoks were put aside, a new magazine pistol which I had pick ed up in Paris came in for minute ex amination, and then took its place in his collection of small arms, which must now be well-nigh complete. Among the illustrations shown to the King were some of the big New En- eland cotton-mills. Ibese I tried to Identify to Menelek as the places in which were manufactured nearly all of the cotton goods which his subjects wore, a fact that I had learned with surprise and pleasure while on the coast In other ways also I tried to make clear my nationality; but in the end he dictated, or his secretary wrote: "Mr. Crosby, the Englishman, has permis sion to go down the Blue Nile." Revival of Croquet. Croquet in its Improved form, is more popular In England than ever it was. Tournaments take place in all parts of .the TJnited Kingdom,, , and wherever the English do congregate on the Continent while iron hoops once more adorn the"" lawns of country houses that were for years surrendered unconditionally to the lawn tennis net In the neighborhood of London cro quet Is all the go at Sheen House Club the headquarters of the association at Ranelagh, Hurlingham, and other fashionable resorts. The croquet championships will soon rival cricket and golf fixtures in populariis- and as the game has caught on at the 'var sities, it will, we suppose, take - its place among the hotly contested events In the annual baffle of the blues. Mr. Kipling will have to find a scornful phrase to describe the croquet players, for as ladies are among its most en thusiastic votaries, "flannelled fools" will not do. The Wrong Plaid. The Scotch gardener of a New York estate had vague notions of geography. One of his master's youngest sons was trying to explain to Tobias the extent of his country. Finally he ran Into the house and brought a many-colored map of the United States. Tobias bent over it a minute, then exclaimed: 'Hon, mon, 'tis no to be trustidt; 'tis laid out In the plaid o' thae lyin' MacFechlans." It behooves those high in political power to provide themselves with parachute. OPINIONS OE GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS. Changes of a Lifetime. It took the Roman republic some ages to pass from the simple poverty of its early days upon the seven hills to the age of Augustus, but the American re public has made that change in one gen eration. - ' In the second decade ef the nineteenth century the lives of the American people were severely simple and plain. Most ot the necessaries of life were raised on the farm by the people living on it Most of their trading was done by barter. The country people scarcely ever got in the eourse of a year more than enough money to pay their taxes. The farmers' houses were almost destitute of furniture. Ex cept a few school books and the family Bible, there was no reading matter, ex cept in favored neighborhoods where two or three families took a weekly newspa per together. Mails were infrequent and postage was almost prohibitory. The era of invention had not begun, lhe only means, of cooking was the open fire and the brick oven. Meat was roasted by suspending .from a cord attached to a hook in the ceiling.- It was with great difficulty that fires were started or kept going. Tools and food and the labor of men and animals were freely borrowed and lent Farming tools were rude and deficient. The poverty of farms in re spect to tools made it impossible for farm ers to prosper except by cattle raising and the cultivation of the small grains. Heating stoves or furnaces were un known. Communication between dis tant parts of the country was practically non-existent and transportation was of the crudest sort. Men were narrow and bigoted. Civilization was stationary. There was a prejudice against innova tion and change, a belief that all wisdom was in the fathers. Contrast this simple, narrow life with the complex and broad life of the poorest farmer of our times. Think of the tools and horses, the machinery and the im proved methods he has. Think of the comforts and luxuries that are his. Think how farming has ' been changed from slavery to inspiring work. Then contrast- the picture of the past with the general wealth, progress in education, dif fusion of knowledge, opportunities and hopefulness of our own times. Only the beginnings of ' the great power of the people are so far seen. As a matter of fact the tremendous changes wrought by improvement of communication and transportation have .made it possible for great free governments to exist perma nently. . It is now and ever .will be the fashion to talk of the good old times, but in America the old times are not to be com pared with ours. Our wealth has not spoiled the nation, though it has ruined some classes. At the core the nation is sounder now than formerly because it is wiser and better trained and equipped. Minneapolis Journal. feminine Overwork. Now and then one hears the comment that women never know when to stop and take a rest but persist in going on and on until they are exhausted. The. explana AN ECCENTRIC FIGURE. Henry Labanchere an Eccentric Char acter in bngland. Probably there Is no one in the pub lic eye in either Europe or America who has as- many eccentricities as v 1 Henry LaDoucnere, the Anglic ized Frenchman who i has for so long 'been conspicuous in the journalism - f T .1 " n-nA tha Britain. He has many imitators, but no equals. "Lab- by," as he is fainil- iarly called, does not n. labotjchkbe. care a fig for pub lic opinion or for the good, will of any creature under the sun, yet in some re spects he is immensely popular. Mr. Labouchere is no longer young. He passed the. seventy-five-mile post on life's journey some months ago. He is an omnivorous reader, but a small eat- ... . 3 er. Except at tne stern commauu ui his physician he has not touched wine tor years, and then the order was lim ited to one glass of claret daily. He is equally indifferent to eating and to his surroundings and would dine as will ingly in the cheapest restaurant as in a fashionable hotel and sleep as com fortably in an attic as in a palace. He Is a radical of the radicals and represents Northampton in Parliament. He has been involved In many libel suits, and at one time Sir Charles Rus sell accused him of wearing shabby clothes In order to reduce the damages in such cases of litigation. At 23 years "Labby" was an attache of the British legation at Washington, where he is dimly remembered as a rather "fresh" youngster, fond of play tog Mr; SelfifflTottantrRfTS made second secretary of Constantino ple, but failed to assume his duties. Formal Inquiry was made as to the reason for his delay, and in due course a letter arrived at the Foreign Office stating that as Inadequate provision had been made for his traveling ex penses and that as his private means were limited the attache was waiting and would in due time reach the shores f the BosDhorus. In the following year he left the diplomatic service. - "PEARL OF MADRID." This Endearing Title la Bestowed Upon a Former American Girl. The most popular among the foreign ladies resident in Madrid is a former American girl, Mme. Patenotre, wife T.,-orir'V Am' - - ' bassador to the Z court of Alfonso i XIII. During the i recent coronation .festivities in the i Spanish capital Mme. Patenotre was praised and flattered and court ed as was no other woman in the king dom. She is a fa M21E. PATENOTEE. vorite of the Queen Regent for whom she has a special fondness, and on many occasions she has had the King as her guest She is s jp-yk - fc tion, when one comes to think of it, is a simple one. Women have for innum erable generations been engaged in work which does not admit of vacations, while man's work does. Hence a public opin ion has grown up in the one case which does not exist in the other. The type of woman who is. liable to overwork is conscientious. - If she goes away for an absolute rest of a month or three months, or a year; she hears a chorus of voices denouncing her as idle, incompetent or neglectful of duty. This is especially the case if she be the mother of a family. She never gets away from the care of that family, and she is al ways conscious of the fact that if any thing happens in her absence she will be condemned by a jury of her peers for having been away when it occurred. This sort of thing takes all the rest out of a vacation, and few people have the nerve to disregard it. This morbid conscientiousness, how ever, is not a thing to encourage. The thing- which every human being should do is to make sure, first that he or she has a fair amount of the work of the world to do, and second, to stop when that share is done, if a rest is necessary. Of course, most people who are worth anything in life do more than their share of-work. but they should not break them selves down in the process. Every sensi ble person should find out how far it is possible to go, with safety to health and usefulness, and stop there unless life and death are involved. In that way more will be accomplished for one's self and for others than by continual over work out of some notion of pride or duty which is not real conscientiousness at all. New York News. The Press and Crime. Much has been said and written upon the idea that the press, by the" publication of the details of crime, incites to the commission of other crimes. Because the details of a suicide or a murder are some times copied by other suicides or murderers- there are those who generalize from that fact that a curb should be put upon the press to restrain them-from giv ing the sensational incidents of such tra gedies. People who argue in that fashion to such conclusions understand human na ture imperfectly. They who know most of the psychology of the human animal understand that there is no rigid law of imitativeness that will explain incidental replications of example. The futility of appealing to any such law was evidenc ed in the cases of Cain and Abel. The law does not exist, else both those boys would have been righteous instead of but the one, and to-day we would be rejoiced by seeing only good boys and good girls in the families of which the parents are models of morality. Humanity is born croked twisted into a living interrogation point It wants to know all about things as soon as it finds out that there are things. It instinc tively wants to put this and that together and get at the ends of things and lhat is why the baby tries to put his toes in his mouth! That same inborn curiosity follows the human creature always and PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S OFFICIAL YACHT, THE MAYFLOWER. President Roosevelt's official yacht, the Mayflower, has been practically remade and more than $50,000 has been spent on fitting up her interior in a. style that rivals the royal and imperial yachts of European princes and potentates. Not the Hohenzollern itself can outdo the presidential yacht in splendor, luxury and beauty of appointments, upholstery and decoration. The President's personal apartments, in the aft of the vessel, are a dream of princely beauty and comfort. He has six state rooms for his own use and for the use of his family. Silk hang ings, soft carpets, the most expensive ot fancy wood, fine mosaics, luxurious easy chairs and lounging sofas, glittering art bedsteads and other equipments of this kind wait on the presidential pleasure when he sees fit to take the sea air. Sim ilarly with the culinary department. The kitchen and dining room staff can serve on short notice a feast fit for a king. The Mayflower was formerly the property of Mrs. Ogden Goelet. It was purchased by the government at the time of the Spanish war and had been lying idle since then. Recently the Presi dent decided to have it fitted for his personal use. The presidential yacht has a displacement of 2,690 tons, is equipped with twin screws and has a horse power of 4,700. It is one of the fastest steam yachts afloat. so popular among the elite of the king dom that she has been called the Pearl of Madrid. Mme. Patenotre's maiden name was Eleanor Elverson. Her father was the former publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and one of the millionaires of the Keystone State. She was edu cated in Europe and on her return home after a six-years' absence she was pronounced the most fascinating woman in the Quaker City. Her facil ity for acquiring languages was re markable. She is proficient In German, French and Russian, and had been liv ing in Madrid only six months, before she was able to speak the peculiar dia lect of that province with the ease and fluency of a native. In 1894 she became the wife of Jules Patenotre, then French Ambassador to Washing ton. In 1897 he was transferred to Madrid. AN EMERGENCY FIRE ENGINE. A convenient emergency fire engine is shown In the acompanying illustra tion, which, Engineering says, has sev eral commendable features. It is man accounts for the enormous growth of newspapers and gives invincible support to the doctrine of the freedom of the press. One of the greatest laments of a read ing civilisation - is that the world's his tory begun before the printing press was inTAnfMl anil tha ronArtur wba interviews got on the scene. How reauy sausijius it would be even now to read the details rt fha mutinif KAf-waon Rntnn And IjVC s stenographic report of their conversa tion and graphic interviews wun Auam after he got fired from the Garden of Eden and with Noah after he ran -aground on Ararat! aWa. tmAwr human Till " do not find that news reports of crimes breed crimes any more than news reports of sermons breed conversions, or news reports of gifts to charity set everybody or many bodies crazy to make large dona tions and get their names printed. The real newspaper gives the news me sto ries of the daily life of the world the good, the evil, the wis and the silly, be cause the public want to Know ii in i ,.t;af;u1 .with nothing less. lhe n hi uc DwiM.M " " . newspaper is printed for the ninety-and- nine that are wide awase, iiu . the one who yearns for the millennial age! Atlanta Constitution. Playing with Moral fire. In various parts of the country there has been an extraordinary number of tragedies of late arising out ot the adven tures of unmarried women with married men. Morbid literature, chiefly of for eign birth or extraction, has been pro moting in this country the myth of pla tonic affection between men and women, married and single. Almost invariably the prismatic illusion is actualized in a somber ending. If crime does not smirch both the parties or annihilate either the reputation of both suffer, and it is the unwritten law that the woman in such a M suffers bevond repair, while the guil ty man escapes or endures with compla cency the stigma which cannot be ef faced from the future of his companion. There' is no prudence in mincing wards about these escapades. A married man or woman who seeks intimate and con stant companionship outside the family circle to which he or she belongs is eith er a libertine or a fooL No plea of extenuation can be set up for the moral laches of a married man or married woman. They know perfectly well that they are playing with fire or playing the trapper of inexperience. No family of intelligence or self-respect will tolerate social attentions from a married--man to an unmarried woman when those attentions transcend the bounds of abso lute decorum. Yet mothers who are am bitions or avaricious will let their inno cent daughters play with this moral fire with whose flame nine times in ten they are bound to be burnt. Many a blackened home is a grim monument to the satanic character of the myth of platonic love between married men and unmarried women and no less often between married women and un married men. Chicago Chronicle. ufactured by an English concern. It consists of a three cylinder pump, mounted on a truck and driven by a petroleum motor. In case of an emer gency, the pump is ready at once, with out loss of time in raising pressure with a steam engine. Its efficiency is assured through the numerous tests which have been made particularly against fires in highly Inflammable materials. Cuba's Fla Is Old. The flag of the Cuban republic ante dates the establishment of the republic itself by a good many years. It dates back to about 1850. It has a Masonic origin and hence the triangle. The red field is the emblem of war. The purpose of the movement here in the United States was to conquer the Isl and. Southern people, fighting Ma sons, were the leaders. The three stripes represented the three depart ments into which the island was then divided. The white stripes were put In merely to divide the blue. The star which appears In the red field was the lone star of Texas. In New Orleans there existed the Association of the Lone Star. They assisted Narcisco Lo pez with money and in other ways when he invaded Cuba In 1851 and adopted the flag of the association out of gratitude. When Cespedes began the revolutionary movement of 1868 he had another flag, but the people of Puerto Principe and of Santa Clara raised the present flag, which was adopted as the Cuban national flag when the first constituent assembly came together in 1869. Two-thirds of the letters written, even when they are not dangerous, d? not amount to anything.
