TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER
ESTING ITEMS.
Con meat and Criticisms Based Upon
the Happening of the Day Hla tori"
cal aad News Notaa.
Most writers -who drop into poetry
manage to drop clear through.
Eventually Professor Langley may
bring the art of diving to a high state
of perfection.
' Herbert Spencer was one of the
wisest men that ever lived, and be
never married.
When we get to raising seals in Lake
Superior fur coats will likely be cheas-
r. It looks like a fish story, bow-
ever. .
It beats the Dutch how many ru
mors there are constantly floating
about concerning possible war with
Germany.
Ladrones who recently looted the
municipal treasury at Bosoboso, Lu
zon, left the place In a "Woozy
Woozy" condition.
Sir Thomas Llpton is accused of
failing to live up to his financial ob
ligations. Still, thaf s a common fail
ing for jolly good fellows.
Mr. Rockefeller has aided one of his
boyhood friends. It Is altogether
likely that be will now bear from the
rest of the people who used to go
swimming with him.
The Historical and Genealogical
Society says that many expensive
American family trees are impostures.
We have noticed that a man with an
elaborate family tree usually smokes
a cigarette.
The statisticians tell us that 80.000,-
000 people are living In prohibition
territory In the United States now.
This sounds very encouraging, until
you see the statistics of the sale of
liquor for the last year.
Four-year-old John Nicholas Brown,
Of Rhode Island, with $7,000,000 of
tils own, ranks as the richest young
ster in the country. He wasn't born
with a silver spoon In his mouth it
was a complete gold table service.
The truth about Waterloo has seem
ed to the Impartial student about this:
If Blucher had not arrived Welling
ton would have been licked, and if
Wellington hadn't been there when
Blucher arrived. Blucher would have
been licked. But as they managed to
get together It was up to Napoleon,
and they made another map of Eu
rope, and we have troubles enough
Dow without digging up any old ones.
noted American reached London
when the English newspapers were
charging American women with vul
garity because a large crowd of dress
makers and their assistants filled the
treets about the church ' where an
cllah rill lr a nwAnt7v man-bad an
American flrL The visitor was asked
by a reporter .what he had to say on
the subject. "Ycu have to be three
thousand miles away before you can
even suspect American women of vul
garity," was the quick response.
It is not often that a monument is
erected In honor of the tactfulness of
a hostess In a trying situation. One
of the few such, if not the only one,
Is a boulder from the battlefield of
Harlem Heights, removed to Park
avenue In New York, to mark the site
of the home of Mrs. Robert Murray,
who entertained and so detained the
British officers under General Howe
while the American troops under Gen
eral Putnam were escaping from the
city. The monument, which bears an
Inscription on brass Betting forth Mrs.
Murray's achievement, was dedicated
recently. What a difference there
might have been in American history
bad Mrs. Murray been a less capable
hostess!
Big headlines in the newspapers told
of the killing of eight persons and the
injury of more than a score of others
In a recent wreck. The blame for the
catastrophe was charged against a
brakeman of a freight train who, it
was alleged, had failed to flag the
passenger train. The brakeman had
been on continuous duty for twenty
two hours, according to his state
ment. If that was the case who will
say that the brakeman was at fault
and not the management of the rail
road which had kept him at his post
beyond the period of physical endur
ance? It is a criminal practice, almost
Inconceivable, that railroads will en
danger the lives of hundreds of pas
sengers by trusting their safety to em
ployes whom they have worked to the
point of exhaustion.
Patriotism, like charity, begins at
home, provided it begin at all, and it
does not He In protestation, but In
service. The man who neglects his
political duties on election day is
merely so much social lumber. He
.Is of little value, even for ballast.
Patriotism works from the center to
ward the periphery. It has its be
ginning In the home. If normal and
healthy in Its growth. It gradually em
braces larger interests, the good name
and general welfare of the commu
nity, the town, the city, the State and
then the nation. Patriotism cannot be
developed along any other lines and
be natural and genuine. The politi
cal shirk may be moved out of his
apathy by event accompanied by
great public excitement, but he Is like
the man swept into a general mael
strom of contention by some strong
revival, but who usually recovers in
a few weeks or months, to be farther
away from the Instrumentalities of
grace than be was before.
We have fallen under a universal
witchcraft. A sense of the power and
luxury in money beyond all the wonder
tales has suddenly come to us. It has
turned our fashionable society Into a
materialism which la no longer asham
ed of its poverty of ideals. It is hard
and merciless of heart; It Is skeptical
of unworldly motives; its smartest rel
ish Is for the strokes and ruses of the
manipulator of finance. In times like
these it Is good to remember Agasslz,
who refused to lecture at $500 a night
because he was too busy to make
money; Charles Sumner, who declined
to lecture at a price because, he said,
as senator, all his time belong to
Massachusetts; Spurgeon, who refus
ed to come to America to deliver fifty
lectures at $1,000 a night, saying that
he could do better he could stay In
London and try to save fifty souls, and
Emerson, who steadfastly declined to
Increase his Income beyond $1,200, be
cause be wanted his time to think.
Such stories of fine haughtiness 'did
not seem quixotic to the young men
in college thirty years ago. A gen
erous Idealism was abroad and it was
unashamed.
"Ton wouldn't want to tell me the
secret of your success, I suppose,'
said a young woman to a teacher
whose Influence and position had been
secured by years of work. "I have no
secret," she replied, "except that I
have always been ready to pay the
price for what you call success. Some
times it has come high; It always de
mands 'cash down. " Women, from
the very fact that most of them live
outside the business world, like to be
lieve that there is some escape from
the price named by life for many of
its prizes. The bargain-counter ; at
tracts them, in society as in the depart
ment store. In point of fact, how
ever, the principal of a great school
who succeeds must pay the price of
getting up at six o'clock in the morn
ing Instead of sleeping till eight; of
laboring with a refractory girl Instead
of reading a novel; of plodding through
examination papers Instead of driving
over pleasant country roads in short,
of giving up the little things that she
likes as the price of her larger desire.
So the mother who wishes her chil
dren to be loving and well-bred must
pay the exacting due of patience by
day and by night, of cheerful sym
pathy even In weariness and Illness,
and of unflagging devotion to the de
tails of household life. The girl who
resolves to become a pianist must pay
the price of long days of drudgery,
spent In compelling reluctant muscles
to do the bidding of the will and
that without hope that the discipline
may ever be relaxed. Lowell, in a
charming piece of verse, after warning
us that the "Earth gets Its price for
what Earth give us," assures his read
er: 'TIs Heaven alone that is given away,
Tis only God may be had for the ask
ing. Lowell to the contrary, however,
this is not the plain, hard , truth.
Heaven itself descends only Into the
heart made ready for it by the stern
expulsion of all that is common and
unclean, and by the steady, painful
search for whatsoever things are lovely
and of good report.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, in
a recent address to students, admirably
epitomized an Important secret to suc
cess: "If you take my advice," he
said, "you will never work for hire.
If you work for hire, life will have
little else for you but drudgery, and
eight hours per day ten hours per day j
at the most Is all that you can stand
and keep your health. But if you work
for the accomplishment of the thing
you are employed to do, you can work
sixteen or eighteen hours a day, and
life will be full of sunshine and song.
God Implanted in the human mind the
desire to do things." In other words,
real success lies not so much in what
we can get out of our work as what we
can put into it. If we love our work.
we have taken a long stride not only
toward happiness, but toward accom
plishment that is worth while. The
man who gets no more out of his work
than mere support, though he may be
enabled to live in most lavish style,
is no more than an animal. The hog
works only for a living, and that is all
he gets or cares for. But man, with
his emotions, sensibilities and aspira
tions, requires more. With man, work
is not merely a means, but an end.
He must work that he may live, but
he also lives that he may work. It
is a melancholy fact that millions of
men are forced to devote nearly all
their lives to sustaining life. It seems
a slavery. Yet the drudgery is due,
not to the incessant work, but to the
dislike of it While one man bitterly
laments the cruelty of his fate, an
other working at his elbow finds his
labors sweet. The difference lies
within the men. The immortal things
in this world have been wrought for
the things themselves. With the most
of us, satisfaction Is found in the
things we do rather than In great re
wards or in the plaudits of the world.
Usually, a large measure of the suc
cess which, in the popular conception,
means wealth or public honors, fol
lows as the result of devotion to the
appointed duty. Certain It is that
there 1b small hope for the success or
happiness of the man who does not
find work congenial and a pleasure In
itself. This is true whether we are
searching for new stars in the skies
or are engaged In the humblest every-,
day duty. Aside from moral and cor
rect living and the love of wife, fam
ily and kindred, there is nothing in
which a rational man should have
more real heart interest than in his
work. It Is a safe prediction that
failure will follow him who works
merely for his wage. He cannot ex
pect progress or advancement With
zeal and aspiration wanting, he Is
doomed to lifelong drudgery.
Useless Phrase.
Bobby had returned from his first
tea party, his round face wreathed in
smiles. "I hope you were polite, Bob
by," said his mother, "and remembered
your 'Yes, please,' and 'No, thank you,'
when things were passed to you.
"I remembered 'Yes, please, " said
Bobby, cheerfully, "but I didn't have
to say No, thank you. mother, because
I took everything every time It was
passed."
In Natuse's Kitchen.
A woman who teaches in a college
for girls vouches for the truth of this
story. She presides over one of the
college dining tables at which sit a
dozen students.
One day some curly lettuce was
brought on. A freshman looked at It
and exclaimed, "How clever of the
cook to crimp it that way! How does
she do itr
Vanity Is the only Intellectual enjoy
ment of some women.
FAMOUS SIOUX CHIEF.
PASSING OF RED CLOUD, TER
ROR OF THE PLAINS.
Notorious Old Ojrallalla Indian Who
Was tne leader In Many Maaaacree
He Is How Stricken with the In
firmities of
Once the recognized chief of a nu
merous tribe, now stricken with the
infirmities of his 85 years, broken In
health and spirit, scarcely able to see
or hear, Red Cloud, the famous Ogal
lalla Sioux Indian, is dying hi a tepee
in the corner of the yard surrounding
the little wooden house which the gov
ernment built for him many years ago
on the Pine Ridge agency near the
Black Hills In South Dakota.
His mind, once so powerful, has be
come greatly enfeebled with the
weight of his years. His speech,
which once rang through the council
house of his people, in impassioned ut
terances, inciting to action that horde
of dusky and bepainted braves whose
well planned attacks made . many a
soldier or hardy borderer tremble for
the safety of himself and the help
less ones entrusted to his charge, is
now but a hoarse, whisper scarcely
conveying to an attentive ear the na
ture of his simple wants. His sight,
once so keen that with piercing gaze
he detected from afar those who were
hot upon his trail, spurred to their ut
most by the grim purpose to avenge
some outrage, is now so clouded by
the mists of time that he recognizes
with difficulty those who attend at his
bedside. His sense of hearing, once
so quick -to note the stealthy approach
of his enemies when darkness hid
their movements from his vision, is
now dulled to all sounds except the
call of the Great Spirit
Gone is his strength! Those sinews
of steel, which once so easily bore his
powerful frame over rough mountain
trails where even the hardy Indian
pony could not pass and which gave
to him the victory when engaged In
deadly conflict with his foes, are
now shrunken with age. No more can
his once powerful arm deliver the
fatal knife-thrust or sever the much
coveted scalp lock from the head of
a quivering victim, no more can its
Important force send the tomahawk
BED CLOUD.
crashing through the skull of a foe.
With life's energies nearly spent the
old chieftain must await the final
struggle with a foe which knows not
a conqueror's power.
True to his name the famous chief
has been a red cloud of terror on the
western horizon, whose tornado-like
course has swept to destruction many
a person and devastated many a
hearth. Does he think of this now,
as the end draws nigh? With the
senility of age does his mind revert to
the stirring scenes of his earlier life?
Does a tottering memory now recall
bis many triumphs on the gory field
or by the smouldering embers of some
stricken home and give to bis last
thoughts a sense of pleasure? Or
can It be that his departing soul, paus
ing upon the brink of that dread
chasm which separates the known
from the unknown before taking
flight, wavering between doubts and
fears, view with remorse any action
of the past wherein his hand was rais
ed In. Cain-like attitude?
It -would be more In accordance
with the traditions and teachings of
his race to believe that he will go
hence with a conscience free from
all self-accusation for wrongdoing.
No doubt he justifies all his acts of
violence by the same process of rea
soning that has served to pacify the
minds of thousands who in all ages
have ever deemed it Just and proper
to repel 1 with armed force any whom
they honestly considered as usurping
Invaders.
Bloody Deed Brought Fame.
As was the case with many before
him. Red Cloud secured fame by the
shedding of human blood. Prior to
the Fetterman or Fort Phil Kearney
massacre he x was but little known.
That dire tragedy, swift and terrible
In its execution, brought him into sud
den prominence; although for some
time previous he had been wining
for himself a name among the Ogai
Jalla Sioux, to which tribe be be
longed, for bravery and wise planning
when on the war path. The massa
cre at 'Fort Phil Kearney was one of
the principal events In a war which
broke out between the Indians of the
northwest and the government In
1863, and basted almost continuously
until 1868.
SORROWING FRIENDS SEARCHING THE CHICAGO MORGUES FOR
LOVED ONES LOST IN THE IROQUOIS THEATER HORROR
PLAN OF THE IROQUOIS THEATER.
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In the Iroquois ha dall exits either to the left or right, allowing freer move
ment In case of a panic. The architect declares that ordinarily the theater
could be cleared of its Inmates within five minutes without any rush or hurry.
The exits to the fire escapes lead from the north side of the theater Into the
alley, called Couch court There are fourteen of these exits. The largest
number of dead In one place was, odd as it may seem. In the southeastern
corner of the first balcony, directly In front of the broad doorway from
which the marble stairway leads down Into the foyer. Heaped up in front
of this doorway the one place in the theater which would be picked out as
a perfect point for the easy withdrawal of a large audience were probably
200 dead. The trouble here lay first in the darkness, and second In the fact
that three little steps downward lead from the balcony to the broad landing.
Few recalled these steps. The result was that, .while many stumbled and
recovered, the later ones to leave pitched forward on their faces. The pres
sure of the frantic crowd behind obstructed the. passageway.
Red Cloud took an active part In
this struggle, and, although not a
chief by hereditary' law his prowess
soon gained him that honor. One
may easily believe this if credence
is given , to the statement of the old
chief himself, who boasts that in his
warrior days he "counted coup" 80
times, and that any one of these deeds
of valor against the enemy entitled
him to some distinguishing badge of
honor. His most notable encounter
was an engagement with the Crows,
in which he is said to have killed 14
of the enemy.
The discovery of gold In Montana, In
the early '60s, created a demand for a
new route across the northwestern
plains; and it was In trying to open a
trail across the hunting grounds of the
Sioux In northwestern Wyoming that
the government had its greatest trou
ble with the Indians. In the summer
of 1866, Col. H. B. Carrington with
a force of troops began building Fort
Phil Kearney on . the headwaters of
Tongue river, near the Big Horn moun
tains, and on territory over which the
Sioux claimed jurisdiction, no treaty
for a right of way having yet been
completed. The soldiers were con
tinually harassed by the savages, but
not until December 21, 1866, did the
trouble culminate in one of the blood
iest massacres on record.
. About 11 o'clock that day a force of
some 90 men, who were two miles
away preparing pine timbers with
which to complete the fort, were at
tacked by a band of Indians. A look
out stationed on a hill near the fort
gave the alarm and a relief party was
at once started out in command of
Brevet Lieut. Col. William J, Fetter
man. The detachment numbered 84
men. Ignorant of the fact that 2.000
Indians were skulking in the ravines,
waiting for a favorable moment In
which to strike. Fetterman led his
men over a ridge, thinking to cut off
the retreat of the band which had at
tacked the party in the pine grove.
Anxious watchmen at the fort saw
Fetterman's command disappear over
the crest of the ridge and soon heard
the firing. It became more rapid, and
they grew fearful of results. Rein
forcements were sent out after a little
and the only story of the fight Is the
one which they read on the bloody
field and sadly reported on their re
turn to the fort, for not one of Fet
terman's men was left to tell the aw
ful tale. Clustered on a space less
than 40 feet square were found the
bodies of Oapt Brown, Col. Fetterman
and 65 of the men. A more horrible
sight could not be imagined. They
were stripped naked, scalped, and so
terribly gashed and mangled as to
be almost unrecognizable. Years af
terward the Sioux showed a rough
knotty war club of burr oak, driven
full of nails and spikes, which had
been used to beat their brains out.
It was still covered with brains and
hair, glued to It In clotted blood.
FLAK OF THE IBOQUOIS.
The ground-plan drawing represents
the general , arrangement of the 111-
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1 rated uoquoia j.ueaier, ui vmtaisw,
and Is by Benjamin H. Marshall, the
architect wno aesignea me mem-ci
building. It will be seen that audiences
No empty cartridge shells were
found around the bodies, and there
were no signs of a struggle. Instead
every bit of evidence seemed to show
that after their ammunition became
exhausted these men had started for
the fort, and been surrounded and
struck down on the way. It was also
evident that rather than endure tor
ture, Fetterman and Brown had each
used his last charge to end his own
Ufa.
The bodies of the others who made
up Fetterman's command were found
further on, and here the empty. shells
denoted that a last brave stand had
been made and' a strong effort on the
part of the heroic remnant of the force
to hold the savage foe at bay until
their friends could escape to the fort
The bodies here were shockingly mu
tilated. ' O,.; . :
The Indians say that Red Cloud was
not present at the Fetterman massa
cre. Be that as it may, he certainly
got the credit of having planned it
a circumstance which he did not hes
itate to fully make use of In gaining
absolute control over his tribe. He
continued fighting against the govern
ment until about 25 years ago, when
he signed a peace treaty.
He then buried his tomahawk and
has never since then broken his com
pact with the government When he
fought the whites he did so with ter
rible earnestness and ferocity. ' De
scending like a whirlwind of death
upon a settlement he always left a
gory path behind him; but when he
signed the treaty of peace he , did it
in good faith, and for 23 years he has
lived in amity with his white breth
ren. HEALTH AND LONGER LIFE,
The Falling Birth Bate Is Offset by
the Gain in Health. . . .
While statistics of this country and
of most of the countries of Europe re
port a falling off in the birth rate,
there is a marked Improvement in the
health rate and in longevity. Beyond
question, in spite of much that seems
to militate against progress in this di
rection, other factors are at work
which more than balance certain bane
ful influences of the times. ... -
Athletics deserve no small credit for
the new life in the community. Ath
letics may be shortlived, but their In
fluence in the country has been to
raise the standard of health and
strength and to promote the temper
ance and self-control which tend to
longer life. Much is due to medical
discoveries and to a better knowledge
of sanitary conditions. - Although the
germ theory of disease has been acted
upon scarcely more, than twenty years,
the results are beyond calculation,
both in saving life and warding off
sickness.
Perhaps the best showing in the" di
rection of health Is the great decrease
in infant mortality. It has been the
disgrace of civilization that the num-1-er
of deaths of children under 5
years of age was out of all propor
tion to the progress of the race. Last
year this proportion was greatly re
duced In Chicago, New York and Lon
don,' not to mention cities of lesser
size, and It Is one of the most hope
ful signs of the times.
Aside from any human and humane
sentiments, the enormous waste to a
country where years are spent In rear
tog and caring for children only to
have them die before making the
slightest economic return Is incalcu
lable Anything, then, which tends to In
crease health and longevity Is of vast
ly more Importance than a large birth
rate merely. The latter alone may
mean the poverty and weakness of a
country. : The former is the real
strength of a nation. Los Angeles
Times.
ICE AT THE EQUATOR.
It Is to Be Seen if One Will Risk the
. Ascent of Mountains.
It must be almost Inconceivable,
even to many people who have been
to the equator, that within the swel
tering barbarism of the tropics there
are places. where there is any quan
tity of ice and snow. Natural ice,
moreover, and not the dirty apology
for it which is manufactured, and re
garded now as a necessity by the
white people, who are gradually crowd
ing Into the languid warmth perennial
ly filling the equatorial portions of the
earth.
Right on the equator there are both
Ice and snow covering wide districts,
where, as in an English January mid
night "the air bites shrewdly and It
is very cold." The law that as we
ascend the air gets cooler and cooler
about a degree for every hundred feet
holds good In the tropics as well as in
temperate climates, and thus it 1
merely a question of the existence of
sufficient high land anywhere to insure
the presence of both frost and snow.
As a matter of act if we look at a
spherical map of the earth, or a globe,
the line where snow lies perpetually
rises in a great curve, which begins at
the sea level within the arctic circles
and rises and rises over the equator
to a height of between 13,000 and 14,
000 feet In the British Isles this line
passes but a few hundred feet above
the tops of the Scotch Mountains, and
it strikes the Alps about 7,000 feet
above the sea.
The Alps and the Caucausus, the
Pyrenees and the Himalayas and the
desolate arctic wastes are always cov
ered with Ice and snow above certain
heights and above certain latitudes;
but all in these extra tropical regions
the snow and the ice shrink and ex
pand as the seasons wax and wane,
the snow of the arctic extending the
winters over wide areas in the tem
perate regions, while from the high
mountains the snow fields invade the
deep forests and the cultivated areas
In the valleys every time the winter
sets in. Pearson's Magazine.
Painting on Cobwebs.
. Through the New York postofflce, the
other day, came a package of some
size, which, on being opened by the
customs officers in the presence of the
person addressed, was found to con
tain a picture set in a frame and
painted on a spider's web. It came
from Norway, where, as was ascer
tained, this peculiar art of making pic
tures on cobwebs is understood by a
few individuals who enjoy a monopoly
of it. The webs employed, which are
of a remarkably dense weave, occur
only in a few localities difficult of ac
cess, and the supply of them is very
limited.
Presumably the arachnid that spins
them is a species of ground spider.
There are plenty or ground spiders in
this country, of course, and on any
dewy morning early one may observe
their webs spread here and there like
tiny blankets on the grass. These
webs are of different construction from
ordinary "aerial" cobwebs, and dense
ly woven, but one would not like to
try to paint pictures on them.
Spider silk is the finest and most
beautiful in the world, and exquisite
fabrics have been spun from it. There
was a handkerchief made of it a while
ago In the museum of the Department
of Agriculture at Washington, but it
has disappeared. Unfortunately the
material cannot be obtained In large
quantities, because spiders, when kept
together in numbers (as has been found
by trial) eat each other up. So, pretty
soon, instead of a colony of spiders,
there is only one large, fat arichnid
left New York Post
Not the Gown, but
Tees I'm afraid this gown doesn't
become my complexion at all.
Jess Well, why don't you change
It?
Tesa How can I? It's made up now
and they won't exchange
Jess But you can wash it off and
make up differently. Philadelphia
Press.
Giving It a New Reading.
Greeorv Gizglesby I don't know
what the governor would say If I told
him I was going to get married.
Polly Parauette Why. let me see.
Couldn't you persuade him that two
can burn less money than one? Puck.
RJ1SIES
The full dress liveries of the British
royal footmen cost $550 apiece.
The famous Maelstrom whirlpool la
four geographical miles In diameter.
A plague of white ants Is devour
ing the wooden houses In New Or
leans. The profit to. the Government on
pennies pays the . entire expenses of
the mint
l Sheep used as beasts of burden In
North India carry twenty nonnds.
weight apiece.
I In nearly forty instances languages
have been first reduced-to writing bv
the British and Foreign, Bible Society
A waterspout spins with enormous.
speed. Its velocity at the sea level
has been estimated at six miles a min
ute. Eighteen observatories are at work
on chartering the stars. The finished,
map will contain thirteen million
stars. A man in Palmer, Mass., died re
cently of chronic poisoning from ar
senic in the colors upon the wall pa
per of his sitting-room.
Blank verse was first introduced
into English poetry by Henry How
ard, Earl of Surrey, in a translation
of Virgil's "Aeueid," In 1547.
The number of stars visible to the
naked eye is fewer than six thousand.
The number of stars visible through,
the largest telescope is probably not
fewer than one hundred million.
So many rabbits and quail are kill
ed by house cats running loose in the
woods that the New Jersey hunters
want to have a law passed allowing
cats found in the woods to be shot
The present law provides that any
person allowing a dog to run wild
shall pay a fine of $20. Cats are said
to be more destructive of game than
dogs, foxes, minks or hawks.
A remnant of the Sevis tribe of In
dians inhabits the island of Tiburon,
in the Gulf of California, and is ruled
entirely by the women. Formally the
tribe numbered about five thousand,
but is now shrunk to a few hundred,
living a life of almost complete iso
lation, and refusing to intermarry with
any of the Indians of the mainland.
i The woman is master of the house
hold, and a council of matrons is at
the head of public affairs.
A boy who was killed in The Bronx
recently by lightning had the like
ness of a fern imprinted on his body
by the shock. A similar incident la
reported from Europe. During a
shooting competition at Pont in the
Canton Vaud, the other day, the grand
stand was struck by lightning and
twenty-five persons received shocks,
from which, however, they sustained
but little physical injury. One most
singular effect, however, remained.
Every person who had felt the elec
tric shock had photographically stamp
ed upon the back, the face or the arms
the reflection of the pine trees behind
the firing line.
Value of Appreciation. t
Many men and women underesti
mate the value of 'expression; they
take too many things for granted;
they assume that their affection, or
their gratitude, or their sense of ob
ligation, is understood without words.
Such people are often surrounded by
those who are craving some expres
sion of affection, some word of ap
proval, some kind of recognition. The
best work is sometimes done with shut
teeth and a fixed purpose, In dead si
lence, so far as the world is con
cerned, without a murmur of applause
or a word of thanks; but this is not
the way in which work ought to be
done among Intelligent men and wo
men, and it is not the way in which,
as a rule, the best work is evoked,
from the greatest number of people.
The majority of men and women get
the best out of themselves when they
are in a congenial atmosphere. This.
Is particularly true of those finer kinds
of work which express individuality,
quality and personal gift. St Louis
Republic.
Followed Directions.
A gentleman engaged a man to act
in the capacity of coachman and gar
dener. One day he bought a bottle of
horse liniment and told the man to ap
ply it to a lame horse according to the
directions on the bottle. About an hour
afterwards he went to the stable and.
found the man industriously dipping a
spike into the liniment and then rub
bing It against the horse's leg.
"What are you doing that for?" he
asked.
The man looked up with a smile of
assurance.
"Because," said he, "'twas what it
said in the directions on the bottle; but
It's slow work."
"You must have made a mistake,"
said the gentleman.
"I have not," answered the man, in
an aggrieved tone. "It says here on
the bottle, 'Apply with a large nail or
tooth brush,' and, as I had no tooth
brush, I thought I'd better use this
spike."
Brains and Money.
FrancisBellamy, in a magazine ar
ticle, declines to Indorse the view that
"while brains may be more important
than money, the best way to convince
the world that you have brains is to
make money." This idea was enun
ciated some months ago by a distin
guished lawyer, but Mr. Bellamy
points out that there has always been
a select few who put brains ahead
of money. For Instance, there was
Agassdz, who refused to lecture at S500
a night because he was too busy to
make money. Charles Sumner declin
ed to lecture at any price because, he
said, as Senator all his time belonged
to Massachusetts. Spurgeon refused
to come to America to. deliver fifty
lectures at $1,000 a night, saying he
could do better he could stay in Lon
don and try to save fifty souls. Emer
son steadfastly declined to increase
wanted his time to think.
Facts are stubborn things unless
they bump up against a shrewd la w
rer. " ' ' ' r
The experience a man buys is sel
dom up, to the sample submitted.
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