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TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER-'
ESTINQ ITEMS.
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Com meats and Criticisms Baaed TJpoat
fa Happening of tha Da J Histort-
V cal aad Mwi Notes,
Some men trust to luck in this world,
and some others are lucky to get
trusted. '
Some men are like pins; they nave
their good points, yet they are apt to
tick you.
Speaking of airships we do not care
to soar on anything unless it is a
feather bed.
It Isn't the shortcomings of a young
man that the girl's father objects to;
It's his long stayings.
Even the rich have their sorrows.
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller are
grieved because their new billion-dollar
baby isn't a boy.
A fashion note by wireless teleg
raphy from Bogota is that Panama
hats will not be extensively worn in
Colombia next season.
The man who tried to shoot the sec
retary of the Bank of England Is said
to hold peculiar views on the distribu
tion of wealth. This is obvious.
By dint of unceasing activity Mr.
Rockefeller Is able to keep ahead of
Miss Ida Tarbell to the extent of one
or two magazine articles all the time.
Information comes from scientific
sources that a number of "extinct ani
mals are still living." The wonders of
science grow more and more marvel
ous. China's empress dowager Is going to
spend $8,000,000 in building temples to
the gods of peace. Captain Hobson
will regard this as a shameful waste of
money.
Mr. Rockefeller will give $10,000,
000 to aid the search for microbes.
Peary should contrive some way to
convince Mr. Rockefeller that the
north pole is a microbe.
It is a wonder that no great financier
has thought of the possibility of organ
izing the eligible noblemen of Europe
into a trust and forcing American
heiresses to get their coronets at mo
nopoly, prices.
' There is a strong suspicion that
Japan is behind China, pushing her
forward to slap her great and good
friend, the Czar. If she does, the
boundary line will gallop south a few
thousand more miles.
Edward Atkinson says mud will be
the substitute for coal, which will en
able the consumer to Issue a new Dec
laration of Independence. If that is
the case, we shall all be ready to cele
brate two Fourths of July.
A member of the English com mis
sion which is now investigating Amer
ican educational conditions has public
ly expressed the wish that in the next
few decades we give our attention to
turning out "two or three Miltons, one
or two Dantes and one or two Shak
epeares." We are disposed to be oblig
ing, but Is not the demand rather large?
One-twelfth of the estimated wealth
of the United States is represented at
the meeting of the board of directors
of the United States Steel Corporation
when all the directors are present.
They also represent 200 other compan
ies, operating one-half of the railroad
mileage' in the country, and control cor
porations whose aggregate capitaliza
tion is $9,000,000.
The Duke of Roxburghe is said to be
so hugely disgusted with Americans
that he has no desire to return to this
country. Of course the Duke reserves
an exception in the case of one fair
American. But he may dismiss from
his mind any fear that a naval expe
dition will be sent to bring him back
to America, deeply as his absence may
lc i! vlored. So long as he keeps on
tin- ilsht side of extradition laws, he
Is juite safe.
It is at once interesting and pathetic
to see how completely helpless, in the
grasp of the bureaucracy, is the nom
inal "autocrat of all the Russias." He
has managed to make it manifest that
he is a perfectly well-meaning man;
that he desires peace with all . the
world, and particularly that he desires
the advancement in civilization, includ
ing political civilization, of his own
people. The more his good intentions
re manifested the more it Is manifest
how absolutely he is without power to
give affect to them.
"The American people don't mind
grafting," remarked an experienced
Philadelphia politician, "but they hate
scandals. They don't kick so much on
a jiggered public contract for a boule
vard, but they want the boulevard and
mo fuss and no dust" Unfortunately,
(this politician wasn't far from the
truth. The experience of almost every
American city will bear him out. This
peculiar attitude of honest Americans
toward dishonest politicians Is some
times attributed to Indifference toward
public affairs. The voters are "too
imsy," It la said, to pay proper atten
tion to their municipal government.
But this explanation reduces simply to
the Philadelphia boss' statement that
'the people "don't mind grafting."
For years public-spirited people
foave been preaching about the benefits
of soap. Some men have even gone so
far as to say that soap Is the real
mblem of civilization. Whether this
Is so or not, it is well known that in
countries where the people are savage
.there is no soap. It has been difficult,
fcowever, to get some people to accept
eoap as a blessing or as a bulwark of
the home. In spite of the good work
the magazines have been doing by way
of disseminating soap advertisements
there are many Inhabitants of our
splendid country who continue to re
gard soap with suspicion if not with
downright abhorrence. But something
nappened at Lancaster. Pa, the other
day that Is likely to bring so an to VJf beauty wepe taxable the fair sex
i many a man who has heretofore pre
ferred to be soapless. Mr. James Wil-
son, a burglar gentleman who had
! been shnt up In the Lancaster jail, sue-
j ceeded, after stripping and thoroughly
soaping himself, in squeezing through
a hole which had been supposed to be
so small that no man could possibly
escape by it- It must have made the
burglar shiver with horror to think of
putting soap upon himself, but there
was nothing else for him to do If he
was to gain his liberty. How can the
people who have In the past shrunk
from soap continue to regard with It
fear or contempt? The experience of
the Lancaster burglar should serve to
make soap precious to most of those
who have been spurning it The man
who Is an enemy of soap never can
tell how soon he may be shut In behind
bars. In fact he usually gets there,
sooner or later, and always deserves
to. He should therefore gradually ac
custom himself to soap before the
crisis comes. If Burglar Wilson's ex
perlence serves to Increase the- popu-
larity of soap his escape will have been minds are allowed to tarry ror a penoa unaer tne ronu
far from a public misfortune. ,ence of the ideal, and of the aesthetic family. Idealism. Is
. j at the foundation of all true practicality. Every grand
The time is not very far distant doer has been at first a great 'dreamer.
when this country will have to deal : But just as surely as the ideal is preparatory for high
with congestion of population in the er living, and study the foundation of success, so surely
cities and consequent Inadequacy of must the type of cloistral life which characterizes the col
the rural population. Indeed, the prob- lege give place sooner or later to the serious workaday spirit
lem even now presents itself urgently which enters the arena of social, commercial, or perhaps
every summer when farmers vainly political life to accept the tasks and fulfill the duties of
seek help to harvest the crops, though patriotic citizenship. The -use of education Is not meant
thousands of men are idle in the cities, to be a purely selfish use. Culture should not terminate in
The tendency is more and more toward the personal experience of the educated man, .'
the cities. Farmers' sons no longer be- i It remains for the young graduates to put that creed
come farmers. They disdain the slow into practice. Knowledge is power, and knowledge is a
and uneventful routine of life on the aacred trust It Is perfectly true that this Idea is being
farm and as soon as they become their abused in some of the Industrial excesses of the day where
own masters they are off to the nearest men are taught to become nothing but expert machines,
city or large town to make their for- capable of turning out so much work, or of earning in-
tunes. In a large majority of cases
they fare far worse in the city than
they would have fared on the farm,
but their ill success does not deter oth-
era. The tide flows all one way. The
country boy comes to the city, but the in the sense of money-making or comfort-bringing, all cul
city boy never goes to the country, ture of the mind should have a distinct relation to the
Fortunately for the nation the agricul- bettering of human life and the elevation of the masses
tural population is considerably, r mankind. New York Observer,
though Inadequately, recruited from i '
abroad. A large proportion of the im
migrants from northern Europe, to-1
gether with some Germans and Irish,
enter upon farming either for them
selves or for others immediately upon
their arrival in this country. Most of
the Scandinavians become tillers of
the soiL In this wav the growing dis
position of Americans to forsake agri-j
culture for urban pursuits is rendered ufntrf or Mbon. at "d -f " 1f"anCf f rom !
less of a menace to our national fu- mIn llne Dlac" movable dwellings could
ture. It cannot but be regretted, how-j comfortably managed. At one of them a troUey house
ever, that the native American farmer ht "ln for " ' n'emen 7"
seems destined to disappear almost en-! "l' "d when, fUt th
tirely. leaving the cultivation of the !mJh J", ta lr. and th. trolley
soil entirely to Immigrants. There is;000" trundled away to pasture, new. Of course this Is
no life so independent and vigorous the leoghert outline , of a possible development
as that of the farmer and It Is upon the Ieee ut, " i the pleasante.t part upon which
the agricultural class that the prosper- tt "J" dwf1L Dta"8 of ,IUce ne of
ity of the nation depends. When the "KaNe drinking water and the training of every tenant
farmer Is prosperous we all flourish; of on J f"! 1Ungi! hi- fJ moorman ,may
when he falls upon evil days we suffer " bf left tolhe consideration of those whose business
win, him Th rendition nf the farm.
ing population Is an Index to the con
dition of the country In general, and
the higher the type of that population
the better the prospect for national
prosperity. It is. not impossible that
there may some day be a reversal of
the flow of population to the cities. We
are so rich in national domain in this
country that our native-born citizens
have not felt the land hunger which
impels the European Immigrant
to
gain possession of a farm as 'quickly
as he can manage it The time will
shortly come when people born in this
country will realize the desirability of
owning a portion of the soil, and when
that realization comes there will be a
reflux from the cities to the country.
In the meantime it is upon the agricul
tural immigrants that we must rely to
take the places of American farmers
who are deserting their plows for the
attractions of city life. It is evident
that the native-born youth of to-day
cannot be counted upon to follow the
furrow. Possibly his grandchildren
will be glad to do so.
OLDEST INDIAN IN THE STATES.
He Cherishes aa Intense Admiration
for Andrew Jackson.
Down in North Carolina among the
Great Smoky Mountains, lives an In
dian chief who is said to be the oldest ,
of his race in the United States. John
Kohlecostay is his name, and it was
110 years ago, according to the tradi- j
tion of his people when he firs saw .
the light More remarkable than his
age, however, is Kohlecostay's success
ful defiance of the American govern
ment Seventy years ago the sixteen moun
tain counties of North Carolina were
Inhabited exclusively by the Cherokee
tribe of Indians. For more centuries
than they could count the latter had
pitched their wigwams there, and
when the United States sent troops to
the mountains with orders to move the
tribe to the lands provided for them
in Indian Territory, they showed no
disposition to give up their ancestral
possessions.
Five hundred of the rebels, led by
Kohlecostay. refused to leave their
homes, declaring that the mountains
belonged to them and not to the
whites. For five years this handful of
braves defied the government hiding
in impenetrable forests from the sol
diers, until finally the United States,
recognizing their claim, allowed them
a reservation among the mountains
they loved so well, where their de
scendants, with the old patriarch,
Kohlecostay, still in their midst are
living to this day.
Kohleeostay, who boasts of the pur
est Indian blood, scorns the whites,
and has always refused to live with
or learn their language. He cherishes
an intense admiration for Andrew
Jackson, however, under whom he
once fought in an expedition against
the Creek Indians of Georgia a ser
vice for which, he claims, the United
States promised to pay him, but never
did. And that makes one more griev
ance the old man has against his pale
face neighbors. Kansas City Journal.
Hia Watering Place.
"I've been spending the summer at
a watering place."
"Why, Harry told me you were on
a farm."
"Yes, a dairy farm." Princeton
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Opinions of
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The Utilizing of Education. -
F it be admitted, as Indeed it must, that edu
cation like everything else should have an end,
it should be admitted also that that end must
be a useful one. In some' real and practical
GSEfTCOl ense 14 tra tDe
5SWaI education is to take the
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scenes of active life. But that need
need only be so for a while. It Is not
creased oiivaenas ror somebody else, at the expense or the
training of the mind and the development of the religious
nature. But such over-emphasis upon the industrial Idea
in education does not militate against a proper amount of
utilltarism, and while not all knowledge
The Trolley-House.
OW that parlor cars and sleeping cars on trol
ley lines are established we may be privileged
to speculate a bit as to what will come next
as an annex of the broomstick train. Suppose
we hazard the guess that it will be the trolley
house first cousin to the house boat Bythebulld-
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lngof spurs and sidetracks
l" .ucui. UBivu
American Girls and Foreign
HERB could be no greater mistake than the
assertion that the marriages of American girls
with foreigners of rank are mainly confined to
England. Up to a quarter of a century ago
there were at least three such international
marriages In France for one in England. Doz
ens of American girls have married French
nrthlei of the ancient rezlme. to say nothing of those who
nhtalned their titles from Nanoleon.
Among these may be mentioned .the Due
ctLVi&, the Due de Dino, and the Due
an Italian noble, from Prince Colonna
an American young woman. There are examples of such
marriages in the Spanish peerage also; the Duchesse
d'Arcos is an American. Many American girls have mar
ried German nobles, and one of them. Miss Lee, of New
ERRORS ABOUT MAD DOGS.
Popular Beliefs . Concerning Them
that Are Deeply Booted.
There are some popular beliefs not
quite classable as superstitions which
seem too deeply rooted for universal
education to destroy. Several of these
concern mad dogs. The idea that a
healthy dog which bites a person must
be killed because if it should at some
future time go mad the person bitten
would have hydrophobia is reluctantly
given up, even by some persons of ed
ucation. Even more strange is -the be
lief in "madstones" about which much
has been printed of late. There are
many "madstones" in this country and
the believers in their efficacy always
know where the nearest one is kept
In a sense these porous stones are pub
lic Institutions. Some of them have
curious histories.
One was the property of an Ohio
negro named Depp, and on his death
was placed In the State library at Co
lumbus, from which, according to re
ports, it was recently taken and ap
plied to the wound of a woman bitten
by a supposedly rabid dog. The same
report stated that the dog was not
mad after all, but that the woman re
ceived blood poison from the stone
and died. That stone's career of heal
ing should be ended by now.
A Virginia newspaper recalls that
another "madstone" was kept at the
State penitentiary for many years and
was free for the use of any person
who wanted it applied to a bite or
other wound. Later a "madstone"
which may perhaps have been . the
same specimen was sold at auction In
the country for $39.
Perhaps the stone having the most
remarkable history is In St Louis, and
one of Its "cures" has recently been
exploited in the newspapers. It was
brought to this country In 1887 by a
Russian physician who settled In Ne
vada. He said that the stone had been
used In Russia for 150 years, in proof
of which fact he submitted documents
written on parchment in Russian,
which the people in Nevada had to
take on faith, as they could not read
the language. He offered the stone
for sale at $1,500, and a farmer who
had seen a similar stone elsewhere
and had faith in it agitated the forma
tion of a stock company to buy the
stone. About a thousand stockholders
paid $1 each and the remaining sum
necessary was contributed by the pres
ent owner. The stone was used on all
the animals and most persons that
were bitten by dogs. In at least one
case, the owner says, the dog was not
shot on the spot but kept until It died
of unmistakable rabies. So celebrated
are the vlrtnes of this stone that the
neighbors are willing to believe that
Great Papers on Important Subjects.
York, at present
gustenburg, who
imperial family in
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student off into a
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and that of Miss
not be so, or if so.
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know not The
siderably a hundred.
flagrant exceptions,
not been
south of
can be practical.
exceeds In acreage
the speculator out
between villages will
pied held on speculation. St Paul Pioneer Press.
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THE LATEST TRICK CYCLING FEAT.
To a German, Paul Munder, belongs the dubious honor of being the
latest claimant to fame as a daredevil bicycle rider.. Until recently Munder
was an amateur bicyclist but his bold spirit refused to be confined by the
feats performed by his brethren, and he has blossomed out as a circus per
former with an act that takes one's breath away. Dashing down a steep
incline from a height of fifty feet he and his bicycle leap through the air
for a distance of nearly forty feet landing on a mattress. At present Mr.
Munder is trying to amuse the people of Berlin with this exhibition of
foolhardiness, and it is said that he will soon put himself on exhibition
before American audiences.
an offer of $3,000 for It has been re
fused. New York Evening Post
.CURIOUS SENSES OF REPTILES.
Their Bnrprisina Power to Divine the
Presence of Far Dlatant Water.
Prof. Werner, of Vienna, a natural
ist of note, has reported the results of
observations he. has been making for
some time on the senses of Inferior ver
tebrates, and he has reached some cu
rious and surprising conclusions.
The professor took all possible pre
cautions not to let the creatures know
that they were watched. One general
fact is very evident, that reptiles and
amphibians are strongly attracted by
water. They go straight toward it
even when they are at distances so
great that they could not divine Its
presence by any of the senses known
to us. It seems really that a sense of
which we have no knowledge Informs
them of the direction In which water
may be found. There seems to be a
sort of chemical attraction, says M.
Werner. But bow does this act, and
on what part of the creature? This re
mains a mystery. Reptiles also seek
the Ught, but independently" of heat
They, often leave comfortable and
warm retreats to seek the sunlight
Sight Is generally good with them. It
Is probably the finest sense that they
possess, burit would still appear to be
very limited - The caymans and the
the' wife of Count von Waldersee, had
for her first husband a reigning prince, the Duke of Au-
was eligible for intermarriage with any
Europe. .There have been . fewer ex
amples of jmch ' marriages In Austro-Hungary. At this
moment we'recall but two. that of Miss Carroll, who mar
ried Count Esterhazy, and who now lives in Washington,
Mabel Wright, who first became Mrs.
Ysnaga, sister-in-law of the Dowager Duchess 'of Man
chester, and subsequently married a member of the high
est Hungarian aristocracy. Whether the rule about six
teen quartering, which is so rigorously observed In the
court circle at Vienna, has been relaxed in her favor we
truth is that the number of American
women ..who have married European nobles would be
found, upon a complete enumeration, to have exceeded con
We add that while there have been
these International marriages seem.
as a rule, to have brought the average amount of happi
ness. -Harper's Weekly.
Homesteaders Driven to Canada. .
HE recent migration of thousands of American
farmers to the regions of Western Canada has
through any lack of opportunity, in
the regions of Minnesota and neighboring
States, created by natural causes. Whatever
lack of opportunity or room exists, anywhere
the boundary line, is the result of con-
tions wholly artificial In their origin. Chief among these Is
the tying up of large bodies of the best lands In the hands
of speculators who are holding them for a rise. Take a
trip on almost any railroad leading out of St Paul, and
all along its line will be found that the unimproved land
the amount reduced to cultivation. In
great numbers of instances there has been no thought of
Improving it by Its present ownefs. They have bought it
on speculation, and when they sell, it is an even chance
that the transfer will be to some other speculator. Drive
of the field, and the vacant stretches
soon be occupied by farms. At pres
ent even In the wonderfully fertile and productive region
of the Red River of the North, a vast acreage is unoccu
Causes of Failures.
NALYZING the causes of failure In the United
States In 1902, American Industries finds that
of the 9,971 failures 20 per cent were due to
Incompetence, 30 per cent to lack of capital, IT
per cent to special circumstances beyond the
man's control, 10 per cent to fraud
per cent to inexperience. Lack of cap
ital, it appears, is the most dangerous factor in the busi
ness life, aa it Is the greatest obstacle to getting into busi
ness. Incompetence, together with Inexperience, which
amounts to incompetence, accounts for a very large per
centage of failures. If to Incompetence and inexperience
we add "unwise credits," we find that 30 per cent of fail
ures are explained. It amounts to this, in brief, that nearly
a third of those who fall In business are not well qualified
for it; another third try to do too large a business, and the
rest fail by reason of fraud, competition, extravagance, neg
lect failures of others, speculation and causes beyond the
wisest man's control., Baltimore Sun.
Noise!
HE modern world, having plunged Into a civ
ilization which, . with its factories and rail
roads, seems to promise a continual crescendo
of noise, has at last discovered a fact which
the mediaeval world was fortunately unable
to discover. This fact Is that piercing and
deafening noises, prolonged through the twenty-four hours,
are not only offensive to ' the ear, but injurious to the
health. It becomes necessary, therefore, for the modern
world to combat loud noise just as it combats heavy smoke
and noisome odors. Chicago Tribune.
crocodiles cannot distinguish a man at
a distance of more than six times their
length, a cording to Werner. In the
water fishes see only at very close
range about half their own length.
This will seem perhaps unlikely to
anglers, although some of them can
cite Instances showing that fish cannot
see far. Snakes seem to have a very
mediocre sense of sight The boa. for
example, does not see at more than a
quarter or a third of its own length.
Different species aro limited to one-fifth
or one-eighth of their length. Frogs are
better off. Theysee at fifteen or twenty
times their length. Frog-catchers know
this from experience. Hearing is much
poorer than sight if possible. Most rep
tiles are noticeably deaf, except cay
mans and crocodiles. The boa appears
to be absolutely so.
Change of Name, Maybe.
Arthur What are you going to do
when you get to heaven, you out-and-out
Baptists? How are you going to
fellowship with the Methodists and
the Congregationallst?
Uncle Rufus In heaven, Arthur,
there will be nobody but Baptist. -
Arthur1 And they 1 will continue to
call It heaven? Boston Transcript
Probably no one is jumped on . so
quickly or so bard as the minister who
happens to stray from the straight and
I narrow path. -
A "LOST" CHRISTMAS GIFT.
MMMMt MOMM
At the approach of the first Christ
mas after the wedding, a - certain
bride, desirous of giving her best be
loved something made by her own
affectionate but inexperienced hands,
manufactured a truly wonderful night
shirt It was made of pink and white
outing flannel, trimmed with . lace
edged ruffles, and was further embel
lished with rows of elaborate feather
stitching. The surprised husband expressed a
proper amount of gratitude, and said
with truth that he had never be
held a garment to compare with it;
but when asked later why he did not
wear it he replied that It was
For too good
For human nature's daily food,
and that he was saving it for some
occasion that really demanded a night
shirt of more than ordinary gorgeous
ness. It was just the thbig, he aver
red, to wear if one happened to be
convalescing from a broken limb or a
long attack of fever.
But one day the husband telephoned
that he was unexpectedly .called out of
town on business, and requested his
wife to pack his valise and to have it
at, the station within the hour, all of
which she did. '
Feeling tired after a long day's ride,
and having nothing better to occupy
his time, the man went to his room at
9 o'clock that night intending to go at
once to bed. When he unpacked his
valise he discovered that the long
dreaded "special occasion" had ar
rived, for there, folded neatly in the
valise, was the. pink and white night
shirt, ribbons, ruffles and all.
The traveler was slightly bald, he
wore a sandy mustache, and when he
had tied the broad pink ribbons in a
bow under his decidedly masculine
chin, he made a picture never to be
forgotten. He was Just about to climb
into bed, hoping fervently that no sud
den alarm of fire would render it nec
essary for him to appear unexpected
ly In public, when he was startled by
a loud rapping at his door.
Supposing his visitor to be the bear
er of an expected telegram, he opened
the door to find himself confronted by
the last person he wanted to see or
to be seen by in the circumstances.
His caller, a man upon whom, for
business reasons, he was desirous of
making a favorable Impression, had
discovered his name on the hotel reg
ister. "Good gracious!" exclaimed the as
tonished visitor. "Are you on your
way to a fancy dres ball?"
"No," returned the embarrassed vic
tim." "I'm merely getting ready to go
to bed in the nightshirt that my wife
made me for Christmas."
The young wife subsequently con
sidered it strange that her husband
was never afterward able to recall the
name of the town in which be absent-mindedly
left that unexampled
nightshirt under the hotel pillow.
"There were seven yards of lace on
it too," she would sometimes sigh, re
gretfully, "and four yards of ribbon;
but never mind, dear, I'll make you
another some time."
A CARNEGIE STORY.
Hade a Millionaire of a Man Becanss
He was Born in the Same Town.
Mr. Carnegie once made a millionaire
of a man who, all unconscious of the
fact that his visitor was born in the
same town, happened to say, "I am
from Dunfermline,"
The' story goes back to the time
when Mr. Carnegie's fiance was pur
chasing a part of her trousseau in
Brooklyn. After she had been shop
ping for several days the clerk who
had been waiting on her told her in a
sudden burst of confidence that she,
too, was to be married, "but I'll not
hnve such nice things," she added, as
she fingered the delicate fabrics held
out before the customer.
The clerk's confession struck a sym
pathetic note in Mr. Carnegie's fiance.
She in turn told her who was to be her
husband and when, and then asked:
"And you will tell me whom you are
going to marry?"
"Mr. Peacock," was the reply. "He's
the floor manager here, and when we
are married I'm not going to be here
any more."
A few weeks later Mr. and Mrs.
Carnegie went abroad on their wed
ding trip and were gone several
months. When they returned Mrs.
Carnegie went to the store where she
had bought her trousseau to do some
shopping, and all unexpectedly she
ran across the clerk who had helped
her select her wedding finery.
"Why," she exclaimed, "how Is It
that you are still here? I thought you
were not going to stay after your
marriage. Didn't you tell me you were
to be married a few weeks after my
wedding?"
"Yes," was the reply, "but Mr.
Peacock became ill shortly after our
wedding, and I've taken my old posi
tion again and will keep It till he is
able to get back to work."
That evening, when she went home,
Mrs. Carnegie told her husband the
story of the clerk who had helped her
select her trousseau, and ended by
asking him to call with her at the
Peacock home.
A few days later when the Carnegiea
made the call they found Mr. Peacock
in bed, and while the two ladies chat-.
ted together in an adjoining room Mr.
Carnegie seated himself by the bed
side. He had been there but a short
time when he asked:
"Mr. Peacock, from your pronuncia
tion, I'd say you are from Scotland.
Are you?"
"Yes," was the reply, "I was born In
Dumferline."
"You don't say so!" exclaimed Mr.
Carnegie. "Why, that was my birth
place, also."
That settled it Before he left the
house .Mr. Carnegie had made it plain
to his fellow townsman that he was
to leave his all and follow him. A. G.
Peacock did as he was told, and to-day
he Is one of the millionaires of the
steel industry and a leading citizen of
Pittsburg.
Why It Is Silly.
She I think it's so silly of lovers to
quarreL -
He Yes, the making up is so expen
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I FAVORITES
Robert -of Lincoln.
Merrily swinging on brier and weed,
Near to the nest of his little dame.
Over the mountain side or mead,
Robert of Lincoln Is telling his name;.
Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,
Spink, spank, spink;
Snug and safe is that nest of ours,
Hidden "among the summer flowers. :
Chee, chee, chee.
Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest,
Wearing a bright black wedding coat;.
White are hia shoulders and white hia
crest
Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,
Spink, spank, spink;
Look, what a nice new coat is mine.
Sure there was never a bird so fine.
Chee, chee, chee.
Robert of Lincoln's Quaker wife,
Pretty and quiet with plain brown,
wings,
Passing at home a patient life,
Broods in the grass while her husband,
sings:
Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,
Spink, spank, spink;
Brood, kind creature; you need not feat
Thieves and robbers while I am here.
Chee, chee, chee.
Modest and shy as a nun is she;
One weak chirp is her only note.
Braggart and prince of braggarts is he.
Pouring boasts from his little throatt
Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,
Spink, spank, spink;
Never was I afraid of man;
Catch me, cowardly knaves. If yoa cant
Chee, chee, chee.
Six white eggs on a bed of hay.
Flecked with purple, a pretty sight!
There as the mother sits all day,
Robert is singing with all his might
Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,
Spink, spank, spink;
Nice good wife that never goes out
Keeping house while I frolic about
Chee, chee, chee.
Soon as the little ones chip the shell.
Six wide mouths are open for food;
Robert of Lincoln bestirs him well.
Gathering seeds for the hungry brood.
Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,
Spink, spank, spink;
This new life Is likely to be
Hard for a gay young fellow like me.
Chee, chee, chee.
Robert of Lincoln at length is made
.Sober with work and silent with caret
Off is his holiday garment laid.
Half forgotten that merry air,
Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,
Spink, spank, spink;
Nobody knows but my mate and I
Where our nest and our nestlings He.
Chee, chee, chee.
Summer wanes; the children are grown;
Fun and frolic no more he knows;
Robert of Lincoln's a humdrum crone;
. Off he flies, and we sing as he goes,
Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,
Spink, spank, spink;
When you can pipe that merry old
strain,
Robert of Lincoln, come back again.
Chee, chee, chee.
W. C. Bryant.
Bonny Doon.
Ye banks and braes o' bonnle Doon,
How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?
How can ye chaunt ye little birds.
And I sae weary fu' of care?
Thou'lt break my heart, thou warbling
bird.
That wantons through the flow'ry
thorn.
Thou mind'st me o' departed Joys,
Departed never to return.
Oft hae I roved by bonnie Doon,
To see the rose and woodbine twine,
When ilka biid sang o' his love,
And fondly sae did I o' mine.
Wi' lightsome heart I pul'd a rose,
Fu' sweet upon its thorny tree,
But my fause lover stole my rose
And, ah, he left the thorn wi' me.
Robert Burns.
Three Years Jiate.
Persons who become fretful over the
delays of surface cars or the detention
of steam trains ought to sit up and
be cheerful when they read what the
New York Press has to say of a Texas
train. The Press declares that recently
a Gulf & Interstate Railway train ar
rived, in Beaumont nearly three years
late, and explains the matter as fol
lows: The train left Bolivar, just across
Galveston Bay from Galveston, on Sep
tember 8, 1900, and was caught In the
great storm which so nearly destroyed
Galveston. Bolivar Is seventy-five
miles from Beaumont Before the
I train had travelled far on its journey
it was caught in the stoiju. Thirty
miles of the track were washed away,
and the train was left stranded on a
sandy waste.
Dozens of persons who lived on Bol
ivar peninsula were saved from death
by taking refuge in. the train. After
the storm subsided they walked to Bol
ivar with the passengers. But the
abandoned train was left on the prai
rie. The storm bankrupted the railroad,
and no effort to rescue the engine and
cars was made until recently. Had the
road not suffered so seriously in that
storm the property would have proved
of great value a few months later,
when oil was struck at Beaumont
The road Is now undergoing repairs
and development, and a little- while
ago the train was drawn into Beau
mont where it was greeted by a cheer
ing multitude.
Funny Old Signs.
One of the most notable of old Lon
don signs, "The Dog's Head in the Iron
Pot," had its beginning in the early
years of the reign of bluff King Hal. It
stands out a lonely figure on Black
friars road at the corner of Charlotte
street, the sign of a wholesale iron
monger's establishment. The dog is in
the act of eating outpf three-legged
iron pot which it has overturned.
There were also "The Black Dog" and
"The Dog and Duck." "The White
Greyhound" was the sign of John Har
rison in St Paul's churchyard, a book
seller who published some of Shak
speare's early works. St Nicholas. ,
When you bear a married man say
be hasn't made up his mind about a
thing he means that he hasn't asked
bis wife about it '
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