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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
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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.