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A SONG FOR THE WEARY.
Life is but a world of battles;
You must fight them would you win;
With the idleness that prattles,
Victory has never been;
Then why should you be complaining
If in one attempt you fail?
Each endeavor gives you training,
' Till at last you shall prevail.
Nuggets of success are lying
Underneath life's rugged road;
Dig and dig, and keep on trying
, Till you strike the precious lode.
Skies above you will be bluer
As along the way you tread.
Friends around you will be truer,
So be brave and go ahead.
Time is fleeting, so be doing
Any task there is for you;
You are stronger, while accruing
Gain of good and wisdom, too.
Be not with the drones and shirkers,
As through life they idly stroll;
Victory belongs fo workers,
Strive and you will reach the goal.
t Chicago Inter Ocean.
BT'was all so absurdly trivial. In
fact, she bad almost forgotten what
it was about.
.They had quarreled before, lots of
times, and over more serious matters,
Jjut they had always made it up again
' directly afterward until now.
Now she came to think of it, it was
always she who had begun the quarrel
and he who had begun the making up.
And quite right, too, she said to her
self. When lie proposed to her he had
told her that he worshiped her; that he
was her slave till death; that for her
sake he was ready to go through fire
and water.- She had only to command,
and he would obey.
Very well, then; she had taken him at
his word. She bad commanded and be
had obeyed until now.
She had never asked him to go
through fire and water for her. No, she
was much too reasonable for that. She
had never demanded the Impossible.
The things she had expected him to do
were all quite simple and easy.
"I wouldn't order George about quite
so much If I were you, Kate," her . sister
had said to her the other day.
"What do you mean?" she asked In
amazement.
"Well, I don't exactly know how to
explain it," said Em. "Yon know you're
quite a pleasant, easy-going sort of per
son, generally speaking, but with
Geosge you're a perfect tyrant. I some
times wonder why he puts up with
you."
"You ; don't understand," returned
Kate, loftily. . "When a man Is in love
with his wife It Is the greatest pleasure
and privilege In the world for himto do
her bidding." . . '
"Even if it makes him look like a
fool?" asked Em, whereupon Kate pre
served a dignified silence.
Of course, Em had never been mar
ried, never been engaged even, and
consequently -knew nothing about the
feelings of people In love.
Yet, somehow, those words of Em's
rankled. 1 , J.
She thought of them now, as she stole
Into the garden where George had
taken refuge after dinner.
She knew where she could find him.
He was sitting in his favorite place,
under the oid apple tree at the back of
the lawn, unconscious of her presence.
Noiselessly she stole up behind him,
and stood watching him, as he moodily
puffed at his pipe.
A ladybird had dropped from some
overhanging bough, and was crawling
slowly up his back In the direction of
his collar.
Had she really made George look like
a fool ? And did he mind looking a fool
for her sake? , Surely the ideal, the
perfect husband should shrink from
nothing, not even ridicule, Incurred in
his wife's service. And yet and yet
no man likes to be made to look like a
fool. It isn't In human nature. -
Thoughtfully she stared at the lady
bird, as it made Its slow, laborious jour
ney across George's light coat.
After all, perhaps she had expected
him to do a little too much fetching
and carrying,, and all that sort of thing.
Of course, man should wait on wom
an. That was perfectly right and
proper, but there are limits to every
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thing.
Was George beginning to recognize
this? Was that the reason why he had
not been as ready as usual to patch up
their last little squabble?
Now she came to think of It, she re
' membered how the squabble had origln-
ated. '; . '.
She bad commissioned him to get a
HAVE A LOOK!
six-Inch gun the Iowa scored 30 hits
certain back number of an Illustrated
paper that contained a portrait which
she bad admired.
The offices of the paper were In Fleet
street, and George had an office in Hol
born, so that it would have been the
easiest thing in the world for him to get
that paper. But no, he had simply for
gotten all about it. He had had a busy,
harassing day, he said. He was awful
ly sorry, and he would be sure to re
member to-morrow.
Now, she had particularly wanted the
paper that very day, but what upset
her most was not so much the want of
the paper, as the fact that he should
have forgotten to fulfill a wish of hers.
His business worries had, for the
time, obliterated the remembrance of
her! v The thought was unendurable.
She had told him so, and that is how
the squabble had begun.
The ladybird had by this time reached
the rim of George's coat collar.
Well, certainly he had been looking
rather worried lately. Perhaps it was
a little unfair to .expect him to devote
his entire thoughts to her and and her
wishes.
She began to remember a hundred
petty tyrannies which she had exercised
and to which he bad submitted pa
tiently. Harmless little tyrannies, most of
them but quite unnecessary, too tyr
annies she had practiced simply be
cause she loved to see him at her feet.
She remembered reading somewhere
once that the true secret of married
happiness was the principle of "give
and take." - -
The woman, as well as the man, must
be prepared to give and take. Up to the
present he had done all the giving, she
all the taking.
How blind, how selfish she bad been!
She saw it all now.
Why, why should the man be always
on his knees to the woman Why
should she be the queen, and he the
slave? She had never questioned her
right until now, and she could find no
reasonable title to the claim.
Surely the woman who loves her hus
band should be as ready to serve as to
be served. There could be no question
of commanding or obeying on either
side.
The ladybird was balancing itself In
a reckless manner on the edge of
George's white collar. If he' moved his
head ever so slightly, the tiny thing
would Inevitably be crushed.
In the midst of her remorse she was
seized with a sudden solicitude for the
ladybird.
Stepping up behind George, she flick
ed It lightly and dexterously from his
collar. " - '
He felt the gentle touch and turned
his head In surprise.
An otherwise careful worker will not reap the full benefit of his care
unless he sees that "his graduates,- trays, -stirring rods, bottles, benches and
dark room are scrupulously clean. It pays to be oldmaidlsh In matters of
this kind. When you get through developing, fixing, washing, toning, inten
sifying or reducing, pour the solutions back into their respective bottles and
thoroughly wash all trays, etc., before putting them away for future use.
This is the proper time to do. these things when you get through using
them. If you put fresh developer in a tray or graduate still uncleansed
from old or different solutions, the new bath will contain chemicals of
a nature or in a condition which will materially change its composition.
This is directly opposed to the very point I am trying to Impress upon
you, to wit, the need of knowing just what your developer contains. An
other thing, I have found that you cannot wash your hands too often when
handling photographic solutions. Every time my nngers touch a solution, no
.matter if this occurs fifty times in an hour, I -have formed the habit of
dipping them in clean water and wiping them on a towel which I keep
handy for the purpose. This is nothing but a habit, but it is certainly 'a
good one. Camera and Dark Room.
Painting photographs with a glossy surface, such as albumen or ordi
nary gelatlno-chloride prints, is a matter of some difficulty; if water colors
be used, the difficulty may be overcome by wetting the brush, instead . of
with water, with the following solution: Albumen, 6 drams; water and
glycerine, iya drams each; ammonium carbonate, 15 grains; ammonia, 1 drop.
If oil colors are to be used, it is a good plan to coat the print with a mixture
of gelatine and gum arable before applying the colors. . Many use weak fish
glue, solution also, preserved with formalin. Phdto-American.
Yellow fog appears frequently if pyrogallic acid Is used as a developer,
particularly with underexposed or forced development. To avoid the same,
put the negative, after development, but before fixing, in a bath consisting of
6 grams citric acid, 12 grams chrome-alum, to 1 liter of water; wash well,
and fix as usual. If the yellow fog is not observed cntil after . fixing, wet
the negative, and pour some sulpho-bydrate of ammonium over It, until
the yellow fog has disappeared, The only disagreeable part of the latter
manipulation is the bad odor of the liquid. Photographic Time.
and no misses. " News Item.
The next moment a pair of soft arms
were flung about his neck, a hot cheek
laid caressingly against his own.
"George, I want to make it up," she
whispered, "and and there's such a lot
I want to say to you."
When she had said It, with her pretty
head very close to his, he turned to beqj
with a glad smile.
"I'm the proudest, happiest man In
the world to-day," he said. "I didn't
realize until this moment what a sen
sible little woman I had married. Don't
think, dearest," he added, hastily, "that
I ever regretted the vows I made to you
"when I asked you to be my wife. There
is nothing I wouldn't willingly do for
you. It was only when I found that my
love was in danger of spoiling you that
I began to resent the the "
"The horrible tyrannies I practiced
upon you," she interrupted quickly.
"George, what a selfish little wretch
I've been!" Indianapolis Sun.
NO DOGS FOR LIBERIA.
Emicrants Failed to Secure Govern
ment Perm its 4n Time.
Great was the sorrow of a p " of
negroes from Irwin County, Georgia,
when they had to part from their dogs
the other day. The White Star pier
resounded with their waitings. The
howls of the dogs added to the out
burst.
''How can we get along without dogs
in Liberia?" was the ' plaintive query
of one of the men. There were fifty
four person" In the party thirty-two
men, twelve wcnen and ten children
bound for the African Ian ' of prom
ise. They, had two bloodhounds and
two "powerful fine coon dogs." But
when they trooped aboard the Teu
tonic the man at the head of the gang
plank said "Get' out!" to the dogs.
"They're ours," said the leader of
the emigrants. He was pained to
learn that his ticket didn't Include
dogs, says the New York Press. He
w told he must get a government
permit before the dogs could be re
ceived at an English port He com
municated that fact to his compan
ions and then-the sounds of sorrow
arose.
"Them bloodhounds has followed a
scent fifty miles," moaned George
Scott. But, under orders, he tied the
dogs in the waiting-room. Wrhen the
Tuetonic left, her pier the animals
strainedat their ropes, but couldn't
break them, and their masters and
mistresses soon were far away. x
"Pity they couldn't take the coon
dogs with, them," said a pier hand.
"There'll be great sport in Liberia. 1
hear It's full of coons."
Truth fears nothing so much as sol
itary confinement.
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SOME STORIES OF RUSKlM.
He Still Feared HU Parents When He
Was Forty Years Old.
One gets the impression from reading
f Ruskin's early years that be missed
many of the privileges of healthy boy
hood. When be was a man, he and a
companion were out one day upon the
mountainside. They passed a group of
men, says, a writer In the Strand Mag
azine, who-were engaged In rough
work with pickaxes.
"How I wish," said Ruskin, "I could
do what those men are doing! I was
never allowed to do any work which
would have strengthened my back.
I wasn't allowed to ride, for fear of .
being thrown off; nor to row, for fear
of being drowned; nor to box, because -It
was vulgar. I was allowed to fence, j
because that was genteel."
Sometimes, when he was living with ,
bis parents at Denmark Hill, he would
enjoy a surreptitious row on the river, j
"I used to be told," says the same com- f
panion, "not to let his father and moth- J
er know where he had gone." Ruskin
was then in the forties.
It Is easy io read here a woman's
fears and prejudice and domination.
Ruskin was always, quite properly, '
under his mother's control; but it Is
possible that if be had had the outlet
of reasonable athletics his destructive
moods would have been less marked.
It was during his residence at Den
mark Httl that he was anathematizing
something or somebody most unrea
sonably. "John," said his mother, "you talk
too much and you talk nonsense."
"Yes, mother," Ruskin replied, as
humble as a little boy, and changed
the subject.
Ruskin was not afraid to admit to :
others besides his mother that he. was'
wrong. In a lecture at Oxford when;
he was a Slade professor, Sir William
Richmond defended the fame - which
the world had accorded to Michelan-j
gelo and Rafael. Formely Ruskin had
denounced Michelangelo and was hot
very well pleased with Sir William '
for presenting the other side. When
Ruskin recovered from the Illness j
which bad cause him to give up the
Slade t)rofeflsorship, Sir William re-'
tired, that he might fill It againJ
Touched by this, Ruskin sent, asking
if he might come down and dine with
his former pupil, who was delighted
to have him. At the close of a pleas-,
ant evening, Ruskin said: j
"Willy, why did you make that vio
lent attack upon me about Michelan
gelo?" "Mr. Ruskin, because you talked
nonsense," replied Sir William.
Meanwhile Mr. Ruskin rose to go.
"You are quite right, Willy," he said,
in his candid way. "It was nonsense."
Sweden is said to have the lowest
death rate of any civilized nation. Dur
ing the last ten years the annual aver
age has been only 10.49 per thousand.
A fence nearly two hundred feet long
at Livingston, Mont., is made entirely
of horns of the elk more properly call
ed wapiti. These animals, tike the oth
ers of the deer family, shed their horns
once a year and grow new ones. The old
horns are found In large numbers in the
forests, and are used for various com
mercial purposes.
The old notions of phrenology have
been dispelled and a new system of lo
calization has been established. The
localities in certain parts of the brain
mean leg, arm, speech, and so definite
are they that a skillful expert can often
times get at, and by trepanning, remove
the cause of paralysis of one or another
of the muscles or faculties.
There Is an extraordinary old man
at present living in Russia, In the vil
lage of Marewka, In the government of
Smolensk, known as "Swet" Sinip. He
was born In May, 1775, and Is, there
fore, 127 years old. He has never been
ill, and Is able to walk each Sunday two
versts to the village church. He also
does work at the Schloos, knits stock
ings and weaves sandals.
American tourists abroad often com
ment upon the literal translation into
English of notices in foreign languages.
The well-meant efforts of landlords and
others to convey, In the language of the
visitor, the meaning of the native, often
produce laughable results. A Washing
ton citizen found this notice posted in
his room in an Alpine hotel: "Misters,
the venerable voyagers are earnestly re
quested not to take clothes of the bed
to see the sun rise for the color
changes."
The fifteen principal causes of death,
with the rate per one thousand, as made
public by the census bureau, is as fol
lows: Pneumonia, 191.9; consumption,
191.5; heart disease, 134; diarrheal dis
eases, 85.1; kidney diseases, 88.7; apo
plexy, 66.6; cancer, 60; old age, 54; bron
chitis, 48.3; cholera infantum, 47.8; de
bility, 45.5; inflammation of brain and
menlnge, 41.8; diphtheria, 34.4; typhoid,
33.8, and premature birth, 33.7. Death
from ail principal causes shows a de
crease since 1890, the most notable being
consumption, which shows a decrease
of 54.9 per one hundred thousand.
Much interest has been awakened by
the alleged discovery of small squids,
miniature representatives of the terri
ble devil-fish of the ocean, in Onondaga
Lake, near Syracuse, N. Y. Prof. John
D: Wilson and others have pronounced
the specimens to be genuine squids, and
the discovery has brought out accounts
of previous finds of the same kind in
the lake. Prof. John M. Clarke suggests
that the. animals may be descended
from ancestors" which entered the lake
when It was in communication with the
sea by way of the St. Lawrence valley,
and that their kind has been enabled
to survive amid such strange surround
ings on account of the salinity of the
bottom waters of the lake,; which are
In contact with the rocks from which
the Syracuse salt works derive their
supply. -
When a man returns from a visit, all
the Information his women folks can
get out of him is by applying ques-,
tiens that are answered with a "yes" or
"no."' j
In novels the hero sometimes marries j
money, but in real life a man marries
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AUTHOR OF "LITTLE DROPS OF WATER,
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Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean
And the pleasant land.
So the little moments,
Humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages
- Of eternity.
Mrs. Julia A. Fletcher Carney,
Things," recently celebrated her eightieth birthitey at her home In Galesburg,
I1L She wrote the poem In 1S45, when she was a school teacher In Boston,
and her object in writing it was to help her pupils understand the value
of little things. A few years later the poem had been translated Into many
languages, and generations have recited and sung it in all the civilized
countries of the world. Mrs. Carney's husband, who was a Universallst
minister, died at Galesburg in 1871.
POORHOUSE TO PARLIAMENT.
Labor Candidate Who Won a Notable
Victory in London.
Political preferment awaits the man
of ability in England as well as In
this country. This is shown by the
recent election in
the Woolwich divi
sion of London,
where William
Crooks, labor can
didate for Parlia
ment, defeated his
opponent, Geoffrey
Drage, Unionist,
by a majority of
over 3,000 although
the constituency
has for many years
William crooks, been regarded safe
ly Unionist by a majority of nearly
3,000. The election of Mr. Crooks is
a victory forjhe labor vote, which
has caused the London Times to say:
"The x election means that the specter
that has hypnotized the continental
governments has shown itself at last
among ourselves." .
Crooks was born in 1S52 and spent
a portion of the early years of his
life in the poorhouse at Poplar. After
leaving this institution he worked at
odd jobs until he was 14, when he
was apprenticed to a cooper. As late
as 1878 he tramped from London to
Liverpool in search of work. He was
then in the greatest poverty, but be
fore that had he engaged actively In
trade agitations. He worked hard for
the dockers in the great London dock
strike and became chairman of the
Poplar Board of Gardians and other
local bodies. - Subsequently he was
elected mayor of Poplar the first labor
mayor ever elected In England. He
then became a member of the London
County Council and has since been
supportedby his fellow workmen.
Mr. Crooks is a man of the John
Burns type. He Is a ready speaker,
a skilled politician and a well-posted
social economist He neither drinks
nor 'smokes, but devotes all his time
to his duties and to self Improvement.
His selection has greatly strengthened
the labor party In England, impress
ing upon it the value and necessity
of solidarity. During the South Afri
can war Mr. Crooks was an advocate
of the Boer side and strongly denounc
ed the action of the British govern
ment. .
RANK OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
In Point of Architecture It Is in a
Class by Itself.
One moonlight night In- June, 1902,
while strolling through the grounds
with Charles F. McKim, one of the
members of the Park Commission, we
seated ourselves on one of those mounds
which tradition ascribes to John Quin
cy Adams's taste in landscape architec
ture. That afternoon crowds of people
arrayed in joyous costumes befitting the
semi-tropics had come from the hot city
to rest under the trees and listen to the
Saturday concert of the Marine Band.
The musicians, clad in white duck,
were located, in a little depression, so
that the sound of the music rolled up
the slopes to the attentive audience.
A year before we had, observed
same effect at Versailles; and bott
similarities and the differences of
two pictures were being discusse'
we sat in the quiet night, behind
locked gates, where not a sound
the city streets broke the grateful i
of water splashing in the; fount
On the high portico the Presidenl
amid a group of dinner guests, and the
lights of their cigars were "echoed"
by the drowsy fireflies flitting about the
grounds, only the brilliantly lighted
windows of the secretary's office even
suggesting the workaday world. . The
moonlight, shining full on the White
House, revealed the harmonious lines
of its graceful shape. ' j
"Tell me," I asked the architect,
"among the great houses that pave
been built during recent years in the
CELEBRATES EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY
So our little errors
Lead the eoul away
From the path of virtue.
Far in sin to stay.
Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love,
Help to make earth happy
Like the heaven above.
author of tne famous poem.
"Little
general style of the White House
many of them larger and much more
costly Is there any that, in point of
architecture, surpasses it?"
"No; there is not one" In the same
class with it," he replied deliberately
a judgment confirmed later under the
noonday sun. Century.
Zestful Frankness.
Unexpected frankness now and then
gives a special zest to the humor of
a situation in Congress. When "Gabe"
Bouck was the representative from the
Oshkosh district of Wisconsin, a pen
sion bill came before the House, to
his great Texation of spirit; for, while
his personal convictions were directly
opposed to It, his political interests
were strong enough to whip him into
line. On the day the bill came up for
final disposal a fellow-member met
Bouck in the space behind the last
row of seats, walking back and forth
and gesticulating excitedly, bringing
his clenched right first down into the
hollow of his left hand, to the accom
paniment of expletives which would
hardly look well In print
""What's the trouble, Gabe?" inquired
his friend. "Why all this excitement?"
"Trouble?", snorted the Irate law
maker. "Trouble enough! That pen
sion bill is up, and "all the cowardly
nincompoops In the House are going
to vote for it It's sure to pass sure
to pass." ' 1
"But why don't you get the floor and
speak against It try to stop It", sug
gested the other. .
"Try to stop it?" echoed Bouck. "Try
to stop it? Why, I'm one of. the
cowardly nincompoops myself!" Cen
tury. .
Sudden Death Forbidden.
The sultan" of Turkey- Insists that
every ruler or person of high political
importance should die a natural death.
The Stampa, of Turin, says that other
manners of death are not officially rec
ognized by Nischan Effendi, the censor.
When King Humbert was assassi
nated at Monza, the Turkish news
papers announced . ie sad event in this
way:
"King Humbert left the hall amid
the frenetic cheers of the people. The
king, much affected, bowed several
times, and to all appearances was Im
mediately dead." . ,
When the Shah of Persia was assas
sinated, the Turkish papers said: "In
the afternoon the shah drove to his
summer palace, and there complained
of illness. His corpse was sent to
Teheran."
One paper excelled all others by this
absurd piece euphemistic simplifi
cation: "The shah felt a little ill, but
finally his corpse returned . to the
palace."
This wds too much even for the
Turks, ho keep tbj phrase as one
of their proverbs.
Hon a Snake Moves.
Now any one who has looked at the
skeleton of a snake and it is really
a very beautiful object will have been
struck by the great number of ribs,
which may be as many as ten hundred
and fifty pairs. In these lies the secret
of the ability of the serpent to do some
of these wonderful thlno-g Jho Tnjgor
ne
pushed just .a little bit forward. Of!
rvmrao. Mch rib moves the bodv hut
a mere-trifle;, but where the ribs are
so many, and they are moved one after
another, the result Is that the snake
moves slowly but steadily ahead. St
Nicholas. -
When a: woman goes shopping, and
takes along some of her kin and a few1
friends to help her select, the clerki
soon acquire the harassed look a rabbil .
has when the dogs surround it.
ifeOcience
Ever since telescopes were Invented
astronomers have . been troubled in
their observations by the unsteadiness
of the air. Prof. S. P. Langley has
lately pointed out a surprising method
of getting round the difficulty. . He has
shown, experimentally, that If the air
in a long telescope tube Is vigorously
agitated, a quiet image of stars and
other objects will be produced. Photo-,
graphs of telescopic images taken In
this manner appear to Justify Prof.
Langley's conclusion.
In Brussels, Malines and other Bel
gian towns, a novel method of not
only getting rid of smoke, but turning
It into use, has recently been employ
ed. . The smoke Is driven by a ventil
ating fan into a filter filled with porous
material, over which a continuous
stream of petroleum, benzine, alcohol
or some liquid hydrocarbon flows. The
result Is that the smoke is entirely sup
pressed, while the filter yields a gas
of great calorific power, which can
be used for heating purposes and for
driving gas-engines. The filtering ma
terial Itself also becomes a good com
bustible. The members of the Royal V Society
of Edinburgh were Interested, at a
recent meeting. In the announcement
by Messrs. A. E. Shipley and Edwin
Wilson of the discovery of an appara
tus, heretofore overlooked or neglect
ed, at the base of the mosquito's
wings, whereby the characteristic
humming of that Insect may be pro
duced. The species examined was the
anopheles maculipennls, and the ap
paratus consists of a slightly movable
bar provided with a series of well
marked teeth, which, as the wings are
raised and lowered, rasp across a series
of ridges. The structure of the ap
paratus is descrihed as very complex,
but the music produced, as everybody
knows. Is extremely effective.
Mr. Marjonl believes that at some
future time he will not fix a date for
It wireless telegraphy will become
available for domestic and office use,
thus performing the functions now al
lotted to the telephone. He has al
ready made experiments which con
vince him that it will be possible, with
the aid of small models, or miniatures,
of his sending apparatus, as now erect
ed on a gigantic scale at Poldhu and
elsewhere, to transmit messages from
the lnteror of rooms which can be
received In other rooms in the same
city, or In neighboring towns. The
walls of the houses will form no ob
stacle, but one of the chief problems
will be that of a proper attuning of the
Instruments to prevent Interference of
waves, and to secure privacy for tha
messages.
In the new Simplon tunnel under the
Alps, which will be by far. the great
est tunnel in the world, having a
length of fourteen miles, and which,
it is now reported, will be completed
In July, 1905, the quantity of water
flowing out of the southern end, from
the many veins encountered in the
heart of the mountain, amounts to
15,000 gallons per minute, and fur
nishes sufficient power to compress the
air by which the drills are worked,
and to refrigerate the tunnel. The
necessity of refrigeration may be Judg--d
from the fact that the beat in the
deeper parts of the tunnel rises as
high as 140 degree Fahrenheit when
not artificially reduced. Life would
be impossible in the . tunnel, where
4,000 workmen labor, if a successful
system of refrigeration had not been
devised. When a continuous hole
through the mountain has. been made,
the temperature can more easily be
kept down. Two-thirds of-the work
was completed last July, and the great
est obstacles have now been overcome.
Knew What Man Can Do.
A story of James B. Ends, the engi
neer of the great bridge at St. Louis,
points to the kind of spirit that was in
him, which did far more than his tech
nical skill to make him a great man.
The story Is told by Colonel Frank A.
Montgomery In "Reminiscences of a
Mississlppian.". .
When Eads was presenting to the
committee of the House ' the plans
which he had devised for rendering
permanent the channel of the Missis
sippi River, there was on the commit
tee a man named Jones, from a moun
tain district in Kentncky. .
This man, whose presence in Con
gress,; not to say in this committee,
was one of the many unexplained mys
teries of American politics, continual
ly interrupted Eads with foolish ques
tions, and annoyed a man who was
bent on giving to the committee the
best of his knowledge.
Presently he said, "Captain Eads, do
you believe it possible to control the
waters of the Mississippi River so as
to prevent overflows?"
Bads looked at him a moment and
then said: '
- "1 should have great contempt for
the human mind if I did not believe It
could do it."
That speech had In It much of the
American faith in the ability of man
to do what has not been done before,
a faith that in this case gave us a
great work by which all the people of
the Union have been benefited, for
prosperity to the delta of the Missis
sippi has meant prosperity to many
States.
Qua leer Para phrases.
A new book' tJn Aantucki-t contains
some stories that are well known to
lovers of the good old town, but may
not have been widely repeated. One
of them hangs on the Quaker custom
of numbering the months and the days
of the week instead of using the pro
fane mythological names. ... .' 1
A Quaker schoolmaster set this copy
on the blackboard for his writing
class:
"Beauty fadeth soon,
Like a rose in 6th month."
It was probably thesame man who
read to his scholars about Robinson
Crusoeand his good man "Sixth Day."
If a man is a church member, his rep
utation for sincerity is In Jeopardy ev
ery time the women members bold a
sal.
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