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I TUB TIMES.
Don't shoot the Holstelns. They are
doing the best they can.
The Macedonian life insurance com
panies must feel like a fried egg.
Perhaps we may have to dig the
canal first and ask permission of Co
lombia afterward.
We don't need an elastic currency
as much as one with a little glue on
each side of every dollar.
The pension rolls have passed the
great divide. It will be a gradual de
scent from now on to the end.
At the exact moment the proposal is
.made a young man actually believes
that he isn't worthy of the girl.
Live shells were fired at a French
warship without any apparent effect
upon it However, Dewey's men were
not behind the guns.
A branch of Yale University in
China would at least determine to
what extent the pigtail can be taught
to handle the pigskin.
When Charlie Schwab gets his tai
loring trust In operation he should
make a specialty of boiler-plate vests
for kings and emperors.
The servant problem is a simple mat
ter, according to Mrs. Russell Sage.
Just do without any servants and you
will never have any trouble.
Now the farmers want a trust The
best trust is trust In elbow grease. It
is the man who works his muscles
and not his politics who gets ahead in
this country.
We presume that the women persist
in wearing high-heeled shoes for some
such reason as the men persist in
wearing those bob-tailed coats and cir
cus tent trousers.:
Poultney Bigelow declares that there
are several millions of Americans who
would like to see this country annexed
to Canada. Poultney evidently , makes
the mistake of believing himself to be
several millions of Americans.
Eupatorlum Bebandium is the name
of the new plant that is to supersede
sugar cane and the sugar beet, being
twenty or thirty times as sweet as
either. When used in connection with
tabloid coffee and condensed milk It
ought to be a great thing for picnics.
Cheap funerals are the fashion in
England just now Lord Salisbury's
having cost only $70. This will cause
a large mortality among impecunious
noblemen, it being a well-known fact
that many of them have been keeping
alive through family pride because
they didn't have enough for a decent
burial.
An insolvent woman has applied for
relief from her debts in one of the
United States courts. Her appeal, so
unusual as to excite general comment,
speaks well for the fair sex and its
keen understanding of financial obli
gations. As a rule in insolvency pro
ceedings woman is generally the cause
of man's predicament; but is kept dis
creetly in the background.
The weird rumors which the Eskimo
have repeatedly published about the
existence of strange men and beasts,
which walk abroad only during the
sunless days in the hyperborean re-
.gions, may after all be founded upon
truth. However, until positive proof
vis famished, Professor Frazzle's state-
. ment about the live mammoth must
be taken as a traveler's highly colored
JtaU.
A study of newspapers east and
west, north and south, may possibly
Indicate a growing sentiment that,
v. hi.e this republic holds out hands
of welcome to every useful and valu
able element among Immigrants, it
may be compelled in self-defense at
-some time in the future to consider
soberly whether it will be helped or
hurt by the tremendous inrush of un
skilled laborers who have no intention
of taking out naturalization papers
And becoming American citizens at
any time.
One consideration that is making
-our people Impatient of hard work is
he example of riches quickly made
through the semi-gambling activities.
iMen whose fathers would have died
rather than live on bread they had
not earned find themselves willing to
be taken care of, by the government
perhaps, or by "the party," or by
their more fortunate, or Industrious
relatives. Such drones know nothing
of the satisfaction of him who "scorns
delights and lives laborious days,"
who can hold his head high and say
' he has earned his right to live, and
-whose death is thus not a debt paid to
nature, for he owes her nothing.
Robert E. Peary is about to make
another dash for the pole. During the
last twelve years Commodore Perry
has made six voyages to the frozen
north. It is a life of hustle the minute
the far north is reached. There is no
time, nor is It safe to sit down and
think of the work that lies beyond,
These men, like the "Wandering Jew,"
must keep going on and on, because
rest means danger from the apathy en
gendered by the awful cold. In this
land of Ice and snow and desolation,
there Is another element, almost ap
palling, and this Is the Intensity of the
fearsome . silence, which seems like
some gruesome specter phantom, white
and ghostly, which hovers over the
vast expanse of lifeless, colorless sur
roundings. A trip to the north pole
Is an outing that takes a man of abso
lute nerve and freedom from fear to
contemplate. He who ventures into
this dangerous country takes his life
In his hands. And yet men have for
gotten all trials, have put aside every
human attachment, and, leaving the
land of eoaifort and nlssjrure, have
sailed away to a region that Is fraught
with danger and death. And all this
that science may benefit from their
dreadful experience and at the ex
pense of illness, cold, hunger and lone
liness. Science and scientists are, of
course, duly grateful, and they have,
without a question, been lmmeasure
ably benefited from these arctic ex
plorations, but once-in a while some
one is bold enough to say: "Is it worth
whller And is it?
A complete explanation of the out
rages In Macedonia is not easy to
frame,, because there are so many rea
sons for the. conditions in European
Turkey. In the first place, it should
be noted that the district is Inhabited
by hostile and Jealous races. Turks,
Albanians, Servians, Bulgarians.
Greeks, and a few others live side by
side, each with peculiar customs, and
each dissatisfied with -the role of the
Sultan. Then they have not the same
religion. The Mohammedan looks
down on the Christian and the Jew;
the Greek Christian cannot tolerate
the Protestant, and the Catholic re
gards the Armenian as a heretic The
task of governing a population of hos
tile races, with differing religions, all
within a comparatively narrow area,
is difficult at best But Turkish gov
ernment Is bad. The administration
of justice Is so uncertain that the for
eign powers have insisted that their
citizens accused of crime shall be tried
in consular "courts. But the Turkish
subject must submit to' the Judicial
imperfections of the native courts.
Consequently justice, as the American
understands it is unknown , to the av
erage subject of the Sultan. Along
with the corrupt and procrastinating
courts the people have to endure the
extortion of the tax-gatherers, who
levy what taxes they choose without
interference from any superior so long
as the required sum is sent to Con
stantinople. Out of the uncertainties
of the financial administration have
developed the complications arising
from an unpaid and dissatisfied army.
to say nothing of unpaid officials in
all other departments. Then, to cap
the pyramid of folly, the Sultan at
tempts to look after all the details of
administration, a task beyond the
physical power of any man. Impor
tant matters are delayed, and the Im
patient people take things into their
own hands. On this fertile field of
discontent the political agitator sows
his seed of Insurrection. It was the
Macedonian revolutionary committee
which held Miss Stone, the mission
ary, for a ransom, that it might get
money to carry on Its work. The pa
triots on occasion pose as brigands,
and - brigands, when it - serves their
purpose, call themselves patriots. In
the hope of bettering matters, Austria
and Russia prepared a plan last win
ter for improving the financial, judi
cial and civil administration of the
district, and the Sultan accepted it
So far as the plan, was applied It fail
ed to pacify the discontented, and seri
ous insurrection began in August
What the outcome will be is useless
to prophesy. We know only that trou
ble will continue until the district is
governed by a strong man .who does
justly and loves mercy.'
BEING RAISED TO TOP
OF HILL 130 FEET HIGH
Foot by foot the old Brown home
stead, for many years a landmark on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at
Brown Station, Pa., is being raised to
the top of a bluff, a distance of 150
feet The lot on which the house stood
OLD BROW? HOMESTEAD.
was recently purchased by the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad from Samuel
Brown. To preserve this home of three
generations Mr. Brown had this gigan
tic task started, which is. considered
one of the most remarkable engineer
ing feats ever undertaken by local
contractor!. The amount of money
and labor Involved In raising the struc
ture would build two modern houses.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
He Detested a Cannibal. '
A fat man walked into the restau
rant and, after knocking down a few
hats while banging up his own, sat
as much of himself down as the only
vacant seat in the room would hold.
He grabbed a piece of the bread.that
had come with his right-hand neigh
bor's order and began to munch on it.
Then be looked for the bill of fare.
The mlnjsterial-looking man on his left
was reading It The fat man leaned
over on him and began to read it too.
"How's them pork chops and apple
sauce?" he mumbled between mouth
fuls of bread. ,
The ministerial-looking man said
nothing. and edged his chair a little
farther away.
Just then the waiter appeared with
a bowl of bean soup for a patron on
the other side of the table.
"Hey, waiter," bawled the fat man,
"bring me one o' them soups and hurry
up about it, will yer?"
The ministerial-looking man heaved
a sigh of relief.
"Thank goodness, sir!" he said, turn
ing to the fat man. "I was so afraid
you were going to order pork. I de
test a cannibal." New York Sun.
i The Worm Turns.
"You're forever trying to give the
impression that you're a martyr,"
snapped Mrs. Henpeck. "I suppose
you want everybody to think that you
suffer in silence."
"No," replied Mr. Henpeck, "I suffer
in the perpetual absence of silence. A
little silence would be a positive pleas
ure to. me." Philadelphia Press. -
Wise is the . man who can recall a
previous engagement when re receives
a disagreeable Invitation. "
Si EMT)I1IIALS 131
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
A Practical Good Roads
PRACTICAL good roads
r
inaugurated In Venango County, Pennsylvania.
Judge Orlswell called the attention of the con
stables to the poor condition of the roads and
Instructed them to return the road commis
sioners If they did not comply with the law in
regain 10 seeping them in repair. This
fall upon deaf ears, and as a result the road commissioners
of four townships were returned as negligent in their duty.
Following these returns indictments have been prepared
against these township road commissioners. At the same
time the district attorney has prepared an Indictment
against the county commissioners for negligence in making
repairs upon a county road. -
Here is an excellent precedent which can well be fol
lowed generally in other counties. It is a practical good
roads movement which is sure to produce excellent results.
The township road commissioners or supervisors and the
county commissioners are charged with the duty of seeing
that the roads are in good condition. .They are liable to
punishment if they fail in their duty. When a number of
them have felt the hand of the law because of their neglect
of duty, their fellows everywhere are likely to make haste
to avoid a similar fate. The importance of good roads can
not be over-estimated, Those who voluntarily assume the
office of securing them and then fail to properly fulfill their
duties are entitled to no consideration. They are guilty of
an injury to the public of no light character, and their mal
feasance richly deserves punishment Pittsburg Press.
' Labor and Capital.
T goes without saying that
labor can be turned to any practical or lasting
good unless there Is co-operation. One cannot
be successful without the help of the other, but
labor has regarded Itself as "ground down" for
so many years that many workmen have been
educated to the belief that the employer is the arch enemy
of the laboring man. This belief is due largely to the fact
that capital has been wise, while labor has been Ignorant
Capital has grasped opportunities and strengthened Its posi
tion, while labor, through poor advice and narrow-minded
antipathy, has spent its best efforts in' glorifying a martyr
dom which is mostly of its own making.
Capital Is stronger to-day than It has been for some' time,
because It has combined Its strength, end worked toward
a common end. Labor has combined and has worked at
cross purposes with its own best interests. An evidence of
this is the silly, expensive and disastrous sympathetic strike
system. If labor has profited in a small way through this
system, It has" lost In a large way by it because the prin
ciple which denies one man the right to earn a living be
cause another man thinks he has a grievance, is utterly
wrong. " v
Money is a very important factor in the world, and the
possession of great wealth is what gives the employer class
its influence, but labor does not seem to realize that it
possesses a capital which is quite as important as money.
The capital of labor is skill in the trades which make the
industries of the country. But the strength f this capital
has been scattered, through improper organization. Brook
lyn Times.
Common Sense in the Ministry.
G' Iconference af South Bend., Ind.: "I do not
I wish to be put down as against the theological
S i i i . r i . . .
sciioois, uui l uu wisu luose acnoois wouia in
troduce a new chair and call it the chair of
common sense. It is neded in the training of
young men for the ministry."
Standing alone, this seems harsh. But Bishop Joyce
went on to explain that sontething more than a theological
education was needed to make a good preacher. He con
tended that in a good many cases too much book learning
eliminated the traits of character that made the eld-fashioned
preachers of the Methodist Church strong in the
pulpit and a power outside.
He urged that there be a cultivation of the spirit that
would make the preacher in fact the shepherd of his
WANTED TO SELL HIS CROWN.
King- of Hawaiian Islands Was Tired
of Being; a Sovereign.
Half a century ago the sovereignty of
the Hawaiian islands came near be
ing disposed of to the highest bidder
among the powers of the world, his
majesty, Kamehameha III., having set
his heart on getting rid of a crown
which, to him, was one of thorns, and
to give the islands into the bargain,
says the Honolulu Commercial Adver
tiser.
Tills interesting statement was made
at the annual meeting of the Hawaiian
Historical Society, when Prof. W. D.
Alexander read a hitherto unpublished
portion of the dairy of Mrs. Laura
Fish Judd, wife of the late Dr. Judd
and grandmother of Albert F. Judd.
The matter read by Prof. Alexander
was clearly within the intimate knowl
edge of the writer and was to have
been published in her book, printed
in the '80s, but for some reason was
withheld from its pages at the last mo
ment Prof. Alexander read directly from
the manuscript of Mrs. Judd, about as
follows:
"Kamehameha III. set his heart on
disposing of the islands. 'He wanted
to sell his crown to the highest bid
der in the world, no matter who of
fered. When he sent his commission
to France he furnished Dr. Judd with
power to make the best bargain pos
sible for the disposal of the group. She
saw with her own eyes "the documents
which the king had drawn up and she
'felt that the strongest proof of the
king's trust in Dr. Judd was in this
strange , proceeding. Mrs. Judd says
that she was very glad Dr. Judd had
no occasion to make use of the docu
ments in the manner intended. She
added that under the administration
of President Pierce the. Hawaiian
kingdom was looked upon with favor
and the road to Washington was very
short"
The following were his majesty's
reasons for selling the islands: First
His subjects were decreasing in num
bers. Second.' The superior civiliza
tion was bringing in foreigners who
would soon displace the natives. Third,
be did not desire a repetition of such
treatment as he received from Lord
George Paulet Queen Pomare, hav
ing lost her possessions to aworld
power, the king felt that he would
meet the same fate, and that, he es
caped such a fate was only through
the good offices of the United States.
Fourth, the foreign element was in
creasing and became more difficult to
control, and the government would
eventually be controlled by foreigners.
' The king expected liberal terms at
his auction sale, and the monetary re
iattarsement expected was t be mat-
Move.
movement has been
instruction did not
Itistlcs
I years
neither capital nor
O the
T
petent
ficlent to recompense the young princes
and other members of the royal fami
lies for their loss of titles, enabling
them, however, to travel and obtain
educations abroad and to place them
beyond want. The king became so im
portunate that he wanted Dr. Judd to
charter a certain schooner and go to
Panama and thus across to Wash
ington as soon as possible, to com
mence bartering . the islands. Mrs.
Judd remarks that it was not strange
that the young prince, heir apparent
to the throne, was opposed to the meas
ure. - The document needed the signa
ture of the young princes. His majes
ty was determined upon obtaining their
signatures, when he suddenly became
111 and died soon after. At the request
of his successor, Kamehameha IV., the
document held by Dr. Judd was nulli
fied, and reciprocity negotiations were
entered Into in 1855, which, however,
did not materialize until about twenty
two years later.
HOW EAGLES FIGHT.
A Firmer Describes a Furious Fcrap
He Saw in Virginia.
On a recent evening a small party
of gentlemen, most all of whom had
tinges of sporting proclivities in their
blood, were discussing the subject of
chicken fighting and generally regret
ting Its decadence as a bright feature
In the realm of sport An old farmer
from Rappahannock County, Virginia,
broke into the conversation.
"Gentlemen," said he, "in my time
I have seen some bang-up chicken
fights, some be-yu-ti-ful ones, but the
greatest fight I ever saw ., between
birds in all my born days was a con
test between a bald eagle and a gray
eagle near my place in Rappahannock.
"This fight took place on the bank of
the river. I couldn't forget it if I lived
to be as old as Methusaleb. I was the
only spectator, and saw the struggle
from start to finish. The bald eagle
had caught a muskrat and was about
to eat It for breakfast when the gray
eagle soared down and attempted to
rob the other one of its prey. Then
commenced the combat and. Lord,
how the feathers flew! - They fought
with wings, beaks and talons, and I
couldT hear the talons crack when they
struck and tore each other. The sounds
made by their wings as they buffeted
one another were like explosions - ot
musketry, while their ... screams and
yells sounded demoniacal. The battle
lasted fully fifteen minutes and wound
up with a victory for old baldy, who
drove the gray eagle away and then
resumed bis Interrupted breakfast.
"Oh, yes, there are a great many
eagles up in my part of the State," said
the old agriculturist in reply to a ques
tion. "There are plenty of high rocks
sod lofty trees whereon they baild
their nests. We farmers do not give
flock; that would enable him to appreciate that those who
come to hear him have heartaches and are looking for con
solation, for comfort In affliction, for something to strength
en them in well-doing, as well as for a correct theological
presentation of church doctrines.
There Is force in this. Certainly the preacher should
have common sense, sympathy, and power to console as
well as to convince. The old-fashioned preachers were not
given to much tenderness in the treatment of transgres
sions, but they understood human nature, and they preached
the gospel in a way to be effective.
Their experience in life enabled them to take a common
sense view of conditions on the frontier. They were
preachers not always because of their educational equip
ment but because of their fitness for their work and their
zeal In it. Education makes .the preacher only in furnish
ing a better equipment to reach the hearts of men.
The old preachers were at a disadvantage through lack
of training. The preachers of the later day have what
was denied to the pioneer preachers, but they must have
also those traits of character and that zeal and common
sense that made the pioneer pulpit a power. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Longevity Is Increasing.
OTTTARTTCK mn nrhi malra mt-nA-w nt arts.
relating to life and death, say that man's
are gradually growing longer.
xoese actuaries or great insurance compan
ies should certainly know what they are talk
ing about They are not accustomed to deal in
generalizations. When they say a thing it has all the cer
tainty that figures can give It and figures, according to
the proverb, don't lie. Emory Mcdintock and others" of
these statisticians declare that a person now living may rea
sonably expect to have a longer period of life than those
of even a decade ago.
Better hygiene, more thorough knowledge of 'self -care,
purer water, more thorough drainage, less drinking of liquor
all these things and many others have combined to make
the twentieth century man a finer physical product than
existed a generation ago. The American people are be
coming more temperate and more Intelligent It is no
longer the fad for our women and girls to be puny and
delicate. Short skirts, wheeling, riding, golfing, walking,
swimming, fencing, even boxing, have contributed to make
the coming mothers of the race fit to bear strong sons
and daughters. Physical culture Is now a part of our
public school system and a part of the daily life of most
men and women of Europe and America. -
Hence, we are gradually beginning to live longer. IEe
may do even better, if we wilt New York Dally News.
Teach the 6Ms to Cook.
average woman a practical knowledge of
the art of cooking will be worth a dozen "olo
giea," Such an accomplishment will make her
the unquestioned mistress of her own house
hold, instead of the helpless servant of incom
servants, as many women are nowadays.
While it is true that mothers should teach their daughters
the mysteries of the culinary art as well as how to per
form other household duties. It Is unfortunately quite as
true that many mothers cannot do this because they do
not themselves know bow to cook, while others do not from
motives of false pride.
While in the interest of the better physical development
of the girls in the public schools, fewer rather than more
studies should be required, the study of cooking Is of so
practical a nature and its acquirement so necessary to their
own welfare and that of their future households, that it
deserves attention.
No other land under the sun is so bountifully provided
with the necessaries of good living as the United States,
yet It is probable that In no other country is there so much
waste as among ourselves; while bad cookery is responsi
ble for the existence of a host of dyspeptics. Good cooking
should mean not only a marked decrease in the expendi
ture of multitudes of homes, but an equally marked im
provement in the health and comfort of their Inhabitants.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
them any latitude, however. When
ever one of these big birds is seen soar
ing about the poultry yard, or, In fact,
anywhere on the farm, It's 'Johnnie
get your gun,' because it not Infre
quently happens that good-sized chick
ens, young lambs or little pigs are car
ried away by them, so they're very un
welcome visitors. I know a gentleman
whose little son, a boy about 6 years
of age, was attacked by an eagle, and
but for the promptness of some of the
farm hands in coming to his rescue the
child would have been carried away
beyond a doubt. Washington Evening
Star. '
Sugar as an Article of Diet,
As there is always a peculiar satis
faction in the consciousness that duty
agrees with inclination, and that the
action which is pleasurable is at the
same time advantageous, people with
a sweet tooth will be glad to learn of
the high rank in respect of its food
value which the modern physiologist
accords to sugar. For many years the
Idea prevailed that sugar was a lux
ury, serving no other purpose than to
please the palate, not supplying any
substantial nourishment to the body,
and more likely to impair than to pro
mote the health. Experiment and ob
servation have demonstrated the un
soundness of these opinions, and scien
tific physiology now teaches that su
gar is a substance whose nutritive
qualities are incomparable, and that it
is an indispensable aid to manual la
bor and one of the best agents for
maintaining the body In health and
vigor which a bountiful nature has
provided. -
This is the conclusion to which the
scientific investigator has been led by
much patient research, supplemented
by experimentation on men and ani
mals. Philadelphia Inquirer.
Engagement Bracelet.
Designers have been busy with love
affairs and their symbols. ' The en
gagement ring will probably never lose
its favor, but there' are now several
novelties in the way of engagement
gifts that vie with the ring for popu
larity. A pretty idea is the curb
bracelet with the heart clasp in which
reposes the portrait of the given.
Ill In fbrmed.
Mr.' Upjohn I wish you would tell
Kathleen that she cooks her steaks
too much.
Mrs. Upjohn You are three girls
late, John. The name of the present
one is Mollle. '
' What has become of the.old fashion
ed woman who referred to her enemy
as "an old gun.pT" .
When a mother lays down a rule, its
effect Is about as lasting as the curfew
law -
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FAVORITES
i"'M"i"i' i t i l l t i-i-i-
BilTor Threads Anions the Gold.
Darling, I am growing old
Silver threads among the gold
i Shine upon my brow to-day
Life is fading fast away;
But, my darling, you will be
Always young and fair to me!
CHORUS.
Darling, I am growing old
Silver threads among the gold
Shine upon my brow to-day-Life
is fading fast away.
When your hair is silver white
And your cheeks no longer bright
With the rose of the May
I will kiss your lips, and say:
Oh! my darling, mine alone.
You have never older grown.
Love'can never more grow old;
Locks may lose their brown and gold,
Cheeks may fade and hollow grow,
But the hearts that love will know
Never winter's frost and chill;
Summer warmth is In them still
Love is always young and fair,
What to us is silver hair,
Faded cheeks or steps grown slow,
To the heart that beats below?
Since I kissed you, mine alone.
You have never older grown.
Eben E. Rexford.
The Star.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder wfat you are!
Up above the world so high.
Like a diamond in the sky.
When the blazing son is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night
Then the traveler in the dark
Thanks you for your tiny spark
He co aid not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so.
In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
Foe yoa never shut your eye
Till the stb is in the sky.
As your bright and tiny spark
Lights the traveler in the dark,
Thoegh I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
Jane Taylor.
LIFE IN ENGLISH VILLAGES.
It Is Not the Idyllic Form that Po
ets Bingr Aboat.
"I know a village where there are
no fewer than thirty cottages with
but one bedroom apiece, and in each
of these single bedrooms six, seven and
more people are sleeping," says A.
Monteflore-Bruce, writing In the Lon
don Mall about life in the average
English village. "In one of them,
father, mother and eight children hud
dled together. In another, father,
mother and six children three of
whom are grown up are sleeping. In
these cottages there la one living room
downstairs and no sanitary arrange
ment of any kind. At the back of the
cottages runs an open ditch. It is also
an open sewer.
"Here, In the very heart of the coun
try, I expect to find abundance , of
pure water, abundance of sweet . air.
Too often I find neither about the
cottages. Hundreds of villages have
no water supply, though a compara
tively small expenditure could provide
it I know a village it is typical of
hundreds where the cottagers have to
go half a mile to get water. A foul
ditch furnishes another village with
the whole of Its water supply. Offens
ive refuse heaps lie plied round the
crumbling walls of the cottages. The
wooden floors without are rotten with
sewage.
"Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex contain
many such villages, and other coun
ties such as Bedford, Cambridge
shire, Wiltshire. Dorset, Somerset
easily vie with them. I could write
of lonely cottages far across the fields,
with no water within a mile, whence
the children morning after morning
walk two miles to school, ' and drag
their tired limbs that distance back
again at night and this whatever the
weather; where the postal service
comes but once a week; where the
men and boys walk dally five or six.
miles to and from work; where of
drainage there is none; where of the
simplest sanitation there is none;
where the medical officer of health
comes not and where the inspector of
nuisances is unknown."
GLOVE8 MADE OF RAT SKIN.
Hide of Rodents Too Email for B-ren
th Child's Biz.
A report comes from Copenhagen
that a great rat hunt has been organized-there
and that the skins of many
thousands of the victims are to be
used in making gloves. If the rat
hunters in the Danish capital cherish
any such hopes they are doomed to
disappointment, says the Pall Mall Ga
zette. Rat skins cannot be made into
gloves fit for commerce. The belief
that a valuable raw material is being
neglected here survives only in the
minds of. the inexpert The glove
maker knows much better. A Norwe
gian merchant once came to England
and informed a well-known glove
maker that he had collected over 100,
000 rat skins and was prepared to re
ceive offers for them. He was fully
convinced that the skins were suitable
for glovemaking. But the manufact
urer found that the largest skin was
only some six inches long and he held
up a kid skin for the smallest size
of glove, a child's, which was eight
Inches long, and asked bow he was to
cut such a glove out of rat skin.
Then he took up the smallest kid
skin for a lady's glove, eleven Inches
long, and when he asked how that was
to be cut out of a rat skin the Norwe
gian merchant laughed at the idea and
went away disappointed. The best
offer he got for those skins, which he
had collected with so much care, was
5 shillings a hundredweight from a
man who was willing to boil them
down for glue.
A famous glovemaking firm has a
collection of curiosities relating to the
trade, and one of them is the largest
pair of , gloves ever made out of a
rat skis. The belief -that such skins
could be made' into gloves was laid
before the. managers so confidentially
that they resolved to put it to the trial,
and they ordered a number of the,
skins of the-largest rats which could
be found in Grimsby. But the rat is
a fighting animal, and bears the marks
of many battles on his body, and it
was found that the skins were so
scarred and torn that it was with the
utmost difficulty that perfect pieces
large enough for the purpose could be
obtained. In the end, after ten skins
had been used, a pair of gloves waa
cut and made, and they are retained
in the collection to this day. But they
are so small that they, would fit only
the smallest of small boys. Thus It
was shown that however cheaply rat
skins might be obtained they would
offer no advantages to the glovemaker.
The rabbit skin is equally useless for
this purpose, and humane people may.
also dismiss from their minds the fear
that the skins of pet dogs are made
into gloves. The dogskin glove of
which we used to hear Is made out of
the skin of the Cape goat
WIT BUBBLES IN TOASTS.
Some Hnmorons Sentiments Pithily
Kxpressed at Banquets.
. A publisher once gave the following:
"Woman, the fairest work in all crea
tion. The edition is large and no man
should be without a copy."
This is fairly seconded by a youth
who, giving his distant sweetheart,
said: "Delectable dear, so sweet that
honey would blush in her presence and
treacle stand appalled."
Further, In regard to the fair sex.
we have: "Woman, she needs no eu
logy; she speaks for herself." "Wo
man, the bitter half of man."
In regard to matrimony some bache
lor once gave: "Marriage, the gate
through which the happy lover leaves
nis encnanxea ground ana returns to
earth." 1
At the marriage of a deaf and dumb
speakable bliss."
At a supper given to a writer of
comedies a wag said: "The writer's
very good health. May he live to be as
old as his Jokes."
From a law critic: "The bench and
the bar. If It were not for the bar
there would be little use for the bench."
A celebrated statesman, while din
ing with a duchess on her eightieth
birthday, In proposing her health, said:
"May you live, my lady duchess, un
til you begin to grow ugly."
"I thank you, sir," she said, "and
may you long continue your taste for
antiquities." London Tit Bits.
A Triple Tragedy.
An Indian from the, Flambeau reser
vation in northern Wisconsin recently
came Into the fishing resort of Squaw
Lake with a curiosity In the way of
deer horns he wished to sell. Falling
to make a sale, be took the horns back
to the reservation. The Montreal Wit
ness describes his treasure as three
sets of antlers Inextricably Interlocked.
Two sets of antlers so locked are rare,
but Qot unknown. It is believed that
the Flambeau Chippewa has the only
set of three-locked antlers In the world.
The accident could have happened
only in one way. Two bucks of equal
strength were fighting In the forest
and became locked. Then,, while they
were still struggling, a third buck ap
peared and charged them both, prob
ably repeatedly, until his own horns
became fastened.
The Indian says he found the horns
north of Flambeau Lake, about a mile
from the water. They were lying on
the side of a hill, and there were no
bones near them. The condition of the
horns proved that the fight occurred
not more than two years ago. The
antlers were all of full-grown bucks,
showing eight and ten points each.
The third pair had been driven into
the others Just above where they were
joined, and the branches of them were
about equally locked with the branches
of the others.
They were not broken or chipped In
any way, which seems to indicate that
when the third buck had made his last
charge he was fastened so firmly that
there was no room for any one of his
points to play in the forks of the oth
ers. Indeed, all the horns were so
stoutly Joined that they could not be
moved at alL They are as rigid as It
molded in that fashion from steel.
Roman Bricks.
The rebuilding of the campanile in.
Venice has begun. It is expected that
the structure will be finished by 1906.
Although the fall of the tower was a
deplorable loss, some good attended.
It in the opportunity it gave acheolo
gists to examine tbebricks.
It was found that" the bricks had
ben used m arches, fortifications, the
tops of walls and in other ways before
they were built into the campanile, and
that they are not Venetian but Roman
bricks.
The ancient bricks were made in
slices, for in many the layers could be
seen undisturbed. It Is said that
bricks made this way can bear a
wn rt-v, -ttiam mrwfo-n? ttrlrOrft.
1 tra ic vwe.v
The bricks examined were of the
first century. One of them bore the
imprint , of a horseshoe, which may
prove that the Romans used a horse
shoe like ours, although it is gener
ally believed that their horseshoes
were strapped on, not nailed.
The Art of Listening.
There is a grace of kind listening
as well as a grace of kind speaking.
Since men listen with an abstracted
air which shows that their thoughts
are elsewhere, or they seem to listen,
but by wide answers and irrelevant
questions show that they have been
occupied with their own thoughts as
being more interesting, at least in
their own estimation, than what you.
have been saying. Some interrupt and
will not hear you to the end. Some
hear you to the end, and forthwith be
gin to talk 'to you about a similar, ex
perience which has befallen them
selves, making your case only an illus
tration of their own. Some, mean
ing to be kind, listen 'with such a de
termined, lively, violent atentlon, that
you are at once made uncomfortable
and the charm of conversation is. at an
end. Many persons whose manners,
will stand the test of speaking break
down under the trial of listening. .
It will ruin any man to be hen
pecked. We never knew such a man,
to amount to anything.