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F-MH-4~H-t-S->+-H-+++->++++->-++++h+++++t-+++++++++++-» + 4- THE DAWSON TRAIL. ll/nDV WUnK Get down to your work, you dog slave dog! down to your work. 1 say! a tough, hard trail we've come. dog. And the camp is far awav. Pull for the life of us both. dog. For dark is the eud of day! + W<,il "len’°r»<s J + Heavily Taxed. t + + +4-4-4-4-4-+++4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-++4HHHH-4~F Get down to your work, you dog of dog! Get down to your work, I say! Red is the sun in the southern sky; Red is the trail behind the sleigh; lied is the foot of the sled-dog gray; Cold is the end of day. Get down to your work! Shall a man for a dog Throw a man's life away? The trail grows dim, and the tree trunks In the northern sky the maidens play; The goblins dance in the Milky Way; Black is the end of day! —Harper's Magaxine. PRIVATE LANGFIELD HEN the men of the service left Vahlez to build tbe mili tary lines through tbe interior of Alaska, Laugfield went with them. He was undeniably plain, uuderslzed and over sensitive, and that was why he felt certain that Dolly could never love him. To be sure, he bad bad no intention of loviug her. but when six feet two of well-developed manhood, Iu the person of Tom Perry, came down I from Circle City prospecting. Langfield found ¡mentions aud love had nothing to do with each other. Tom and Dolly ha 1 known each other In the States, and Laugtleld watched with hopeless pain the renewal of tlielr friendship. She bad grown shy with him since Perry came, and there could be but one reason, he argued. He did not blame her; there was nothing In him to inspire a woman's love, aud Turn-----. So he packed his flute aud Ills knapsack aud left with scarcely a farewell. The men were not fond of Langfield. He had a way of shrinking into him self that only Shivers, the camp mas cot, a lank, mongrel Slwash with the stump of a tail, understood. Langfiehl seldom Joined the camp fires, but when tbe fever broke out Langfield was the first to offer his ser vices. He was not afraid of contagion, he told the sergeant, and anyway there was no oue at home who needed him. After that he and Shivers took up their quarters Iu the hospital tent. The fever had Its run. but only one. thanks to the nursiug, was borne up the trail and laid away under the snow. Langlield planed a piece of spruce scantling and drove It In by the mound, but his hand was unsteady, and his eyes were heavy and dull. The top sergeant, on his rounds the next morning, found him sitting up In his blankets. His face was swollen and discolored, and he was talking ex- . cltedly to Shivers. I “You mustn't let Dolly get the fever," he said, “she's so little. Nor Toni— promise me you won’t let Tom." Shiv ers whined ami thrust his muzzle Into his master's palm. "She couldn’t help loving him." Langlield continued de fensively. “Yot! know she couldu't yourself!” He fell back on the pillow and tossed restlessly for a moment. ‘Tt’ll be cool up there under the snow,” he began again, "and I won't be heavy to pack. And say----- ” He sat up, pull ing the dog close to him, “maybe she’ll forget—that my balr was—red." The men were very tender to Lang field after that, and Shivers seldom left his bedside. When, some weeks later, he became convalescent, lie seemed smaller and slighter than ever, and his liair shone more vividly red against the pinched, white face. They carried him out Into the sunshine, but Ills eyes wandered regretfully up to the snow. In a month he was at his post again, doing the work of two men. w itti scarcely the strength of one. He went down the mountain one I night an hour liehlml time. The trail ■ was slushy, and the early gray twi- light lent a soft Indistinctness every- Kwhere. Suddenly he paused. From s. unewliere there came a faint cry. pweak and Indistinct, but undeniably I human. Langfield made a trumpet of his I liands. “Hel-lo!” lie shouted, and i strained his ears for the reply. Some ten feet down the trail a gla- I cler stream had gullied out the bank. I Its Icy. slate-colored waters fell almost I perpendicularly over the rocks. Creep- I ing to the slippery edge, he peered over ■ and called again. A faint voice no- I swered. A steep, shelving path was Just vls- | Ible. and he clambered down to It, Scratched and torn by the brambles at every step. A little further on a roll of blankets Impeded bls way. and he knew that somewhere In the ravine be low he would find a prospector. The man proved to be a big fellow, but the light was too dim to see his face. The force of his fall had wedged one leg tietween the crevices of rock, and It took Langfleld's entire strength to extricate him. He pressed bls can- teen to he stranger's lips, and rubbel him vigorously. “It’s no use.” said the man at last. "I can’t make It!” and he sank limply on the bank. The night wore on. Slowly the gray skirts,of dawn «wept across the east ern sky. The prospector could not see ljingfield's face, but the slight, droop ing shoulders seemed familiar. The main was growing unbearable, and he ¡groaned. J I-angtiold started. “Yes yes," he an »were«l abaently. “I'd forgotten," and jump«*! to his feet. > Tbe morning light was flooding ev erything. and it fell upon the two men. as they l<e»ked into each other's eyea. Langfield drew in bls breath with aud den sharpness. The other muttered an oath and leaned weakly back to ward him. “You!” Tbe man n-sided. The lines on l*angfiell'a face were tense and drawn, and he steaui«*«! him self with an effort. “Well." be said at U«t. "It « three mile« to camp, and we'd better be moving.” There were a few drops left in bia RAILWAY POSTAL CLERKS UNDER EXAMINATION OF SCHEMES. CrjO HINGS that a railw ay postal fersons, and so on. In some Instances jL clerk must remember have In there is a postotlice of the same name crensad in such volume that one In each of the seven States. As one may would tliliik every cell of his brain Imagine, this only tends to coufuse the would be til l'd with the name of a average mind. I’eriodlcnlly the clerks are examined postoffiee or railway connection, and the wouder s that the clerk's mind at railway mall headquarters. Packs of does not falter under the pressure. De cards, each card bearing the name of spite these acts, cases of Insanity a postoffice, are furnished a candidate among this cli«« of public servants are for examination. He takes a position rare, one CMcaga postal clerk main- In front of a case of pigeon boles label taineil for siveral years a record of ed with tbe names of different railway 21.00U cards which take the place of postoffices throughout the country. He letters fn exam Illations) with an aver j "throws” the cards, distributing them age per cent jf correct distribution of to proper routes, just as he would pack a fraction over 09 per cent, lie knew ages in a postal car. After he finishes how to reach that many offices iu sev the examiner goes over the cards and eral States )y the shortest, quickest charges up tbe errors the clerk has route, and beknew the correct location made and give« him his percentage of correct distribution. Tbe clerk also is of each office In its State. A clerk on tie New Y'ork and Chicago examined on general and "standpoint” railway p<tet'ffiee must know the cor or station scheme« at different times. There are some features about the rect location of every postoffice In a think would ren- group of Writes made up of Illinois, work that one would a clerk to main- der it impossible for Wisk-ctsln. Indiana, Minnesota. Iowa, States, which be South Hakk.t, and Nebraska. In these tain his "lay” of the is expected to work, lie may have a seven Stattet there are 12,317 postof- run which lands him In Chicago to con NLtonfly Is the clerk required flees, nect three leading railway postoffices to be “u|a” >n the general scheme, running between Chicago and New which mean the correct location of the poetoScesf 1 each State, but lie must York. With but little notice he may be taken off the run and be brought to know hov o reach tbe whole 12,000 Chicago In the afternoon Instead of post < iffices torn one or more stations, 2:20 a. tn. Notwithstanding this inter A clerk ■lining between Chicago and ruption, he goes on with his work with Mlnneapo li underwent no fewer than but few errors. seventy-el gt examinations In fifteen It is asserted at railway mail service years, lea ring 13,306 offices in fifteen headquarters that there are clerks who different fietlons of the United States. have reached the capacity of their In some j.f hese examinations he was minds In the matter of remembering < k 11 fl ko n a Chiunpn required 1r io nake Chicago citv city distri- distri names. They now remember so many bution, wit'll means that while run that it would be absolutely impossible ning over t e country at the rate of a to learn another State or part of a mile a mlmte he must distribute letters State. It would seem that of the mill to the carrbrs of the Chicago delivery. ions of cells In their brain machinery He must kiow not only where every none are left to fill, all having been public bribing and leading mercantile taken up ill the prosecution of the ex house is oezted, but also how to divide acting duties imposed by their occupa the numteis on a particular street so tion. that he an “tie out" his letters to the Another queer phase of the work Is correct unier. according to the route I that not always do the clerks xvho of the later. This same clerk made i stand the best examinations and make thirteen examinations in ten months, | the best averages show the best rec- with an ve-age correct distribution of I ords in the car. A man may have a 99.88 peicent. Jn twenty examinations State in the most exact manner, but he cam- out of nine of them with a lack ability In remembering railway clear 1<M per cent each. connections or something else which be Tbinkif such a task, taking into con- Is required to remember. sideratin the puzzling similarity of The evidence of wonderfully reten names tint an- used to designate post- tive memories Is found in the general offices. 'lien, too, must be considered run of examinations made at beadquar the fac" that there are hundreds of ters. In one year at the offices of the cases were in each State Is a postoffiee sixth division of the railway mall ser of the sme name. For Instance, in the vice In Chicago 2,427 examinations States a med above there are five post were made. Cards to the numlier of office« named Hamilton, six Grants, nearly 3,500,000 were "thrown” and the four (irfields, four Genevas, four average per cent of correct distribution Smithvles, four Sparta« and five Jef- reached 98.48—Chicago Record Herald. canteel He offered them to his com panion converted himself into a prop for th« wounded side, and the slow, painfuijourney down tbe trail began. Neitflr of them talked much. The mist ling midway on the mountain, aud weu they emerged from it the compay's quarters lay ou the ledge be low. Iready the camp was astir. Thijwo men upon the path paused, exhal led. Langlield eased the sick man liwn and threw himself beside him. ^le had not eaten since the day befoj and was weak and giddy. For the I st time Perry's helplessness ternd I him. Why should this man havd erything which be had becu de- niedi L:i htletd mechanically slipped his ha ml Io tjlie sheath in his belt, stole a glanl I Ut his companion, and saw that his J bs were ^losed. He drew out the knlfl ■ m li«*ld it behind him. Jul Ithi'n Perry gave a stifled moan. The] Lund brought Langlield to his senJ iVliat was this he had Intend- ! A tit of trembling seized e I I him I |Ho rose to his feet, though he reel I las he did so. There was a swift moi I tient of his right arm. and sotne- [lauced in the light and fell tar them in the brush. ueeds me," be thought, “aud he said aloud. • we must get for your wife’s sake." T I man did not reply at tirst. When be d his voice was a trifle husky, have none.” he said. I igfleld stared at him. "Why—Hol ” be blurted out. "She----- ” He beffi ) and stoppi-d again, but Perry uu- dexood. I—®*” be replied, with an effort. I didn't want me.” He turned fils I and laokad un-e. :n.-ly MtMg ' ■ t>y. “There was someone else." he M. •omerme else?" Langfield stupidly rwated. Yaa," answered the other, "and It sms the fool couldn't understand!” T-re vra« a moment's silence. "Hhe's siting till the company's ordered tk." ba added. angfleld drew bls hand across bls The snow, high up on the fehand •untalBe. ■eemed a swimming sea of site; the little stream t>eside them «red like a cataract In bls ears. 'erry made an effort to rise, but tell ck It a spasm of pain. She love« my God. man!" be cried hemes'ly. “are yon an idiot? She v«»-yo«i!"—Ladies' World. RECENT CAPTIRE MADE Of A RARE WILD BIRD. IT WAS HER FAULT. Lwc> of a Necessary “II" Made Girl's Remark 8oun<t Peculiar. Charles Wliym|ier. the painter of ani mals aud engraver, once had qn arnus lug experience w bleb has found its w ay into print in Chambers's Journal. He was visiting a gentleman at Higbgatw and. as a mark of bouor, bis host's eld i est daughter was assigned to him to lhe World's Population take in to dinner. She was an agree There has able girl, and the conversation flour an enormous ished briskly until Just liefore it was crease in the popu time for the ladies to retire to the draw lation of European countries aud of ing room. peoples of Euro "1 was talking about the beautiful pean origiu during scenery near the house." relates the the last century. guest, "the views from the windows Th» growth all and the fine air, when suddenly Miss round was from Blank said: I 7U.0UU.U00 to " T think 1 get prettier every day, about 510.tmU.UU0.- don’t you?’ 000, while the grow th of the Unit "What could she mean? 1 didn't dark ed States was from to answer her. so 1 said. '1 beg your 5.UU0.UUU to 80.tXMl.lMR». and of the Eng pardon. What did you say'-' ' I said I think 1 get prettier every Hah population of the British Empire from 15.0tXl.0tal to 55,000,tXX). Germany y.’ ” nnd Russia also showed remarkable 1'here was no mistaking her words, growth from 20.1MM1.000 to 55.tXRl.OUO. so Mr. Whynqwr answered: and from 40.000.tXXl to 135,000.000, re- "Yes. Indeed you get prettier: and no snectively. while France had only grown from 25.00O.tMHl to 40.000.1RMI. The first wonder In such fresh air. and---- " Just then she caught her mother's effect necessarily is to assure the pre eye, and with the other ladies she left ponderance of white peoples among the the room. As she went out. she looked race« of the world. Iu the United States, which has im- over her shoulder at her late table com ■tensely greater virgiu resources with panion with withering scorn. Then It which to supply its population, it ha« flashed upon him that he had misunder beeu noticed that the town population is stood her; she had dropped an h! What increasing disproportionately. In the she had said was not a silly compli United States, in spite of the magnitude ment to herself; the seutence really of ln< rense of population, recent growth has not l>een so fast as earlier iu the niue- was: "1 think Highgate prettier every teeuth century. Until I860 the grow th in each census period ranged Iwtweeu 33 day.” aud 36 per cent. Since then it has been The story stops there, at the critical 30 per cent to 1880, aud is now about 21 moment, as stories have a little way per cent. The obvious suggestion, that of doing, and we are left to wonder possibly immigration has fallen off. as how. under the circumstance«. Mr. compared with what it used to be, would Whymper «ucceeded In apologizing to not account for the diminished rate of the irate young lady without impugn- increase of the population generally. Turning to Australasia, the decline in Illg her English. Perhaps he allowed the rate of iucrease is great and palpa her to think his own ear for h's was ble. but there the perturbations due to defective! immigration have been greater than in BANK BILLS IN CAR WHEELS. Currency Macerated at the Treasury la I aed by the Car Builder«, It is the commonly accepted belief that the old currency redeemed at the Treasury Department Is absolutely de stroyed. Such, however. Is not ths case. A single w heel of a locomotive represents many millions of what was once good paper currency. From a bank note to a car wheel is quite a rad ical transformation, but it happens ev ery day, and to tiecome a supporting atom In the revolving mass Is the ulti mate fate of every soiled $1, $10 or $1,IMX) bill. Between $50.000,000 and $500,000.000 worth of paper money is cancelled ev ery year in the Treasury Department in Washington, and after being mac erated is converted into filling for rail road car wheels. Tills pulp makes the best kind of wheels and the Govern ment gets $4o a ton for It from the man ufacturers. The destruction of soiled paper cut* rency goes on daily and is in charge of three treasury employes, who represent respectively the Secretary of the Treas ury. the Treasurer of the United States and the Comptroller of the Currency, Bundles of the canceled notes are dumped Into the big macerntors and crushed into a putty-like inass. The pulp is then treated with an alkali, which extracts the Ink; tho stuff Is dried, shipped in bales and forwarded to the car-wheel manufacturers, For every note so destroyed, unless it has come from a national bank I d liquidation, a new one of the same do nomination Is printed at the bureau of printing and engraving. All tills work costs the Government nothing The na tional banks pay the expenses, rl though the Treasury Department has full control of the redemption division. Wu > h an Art Critic. Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese minister, was exploring the Corcoran art gallery one day last spring, evidently with the Idea of impressing on bln mind the fun- da mental difference between the Dri- ental and Occidental brands of art. Hubert Vos. the noted Hutch painter, happened to have on exhibition In the Hemicycle a number of portraits of rep resentative types of various races. Mr. \'os had strayed far afield In collecting his gems, nnd the display Included the presentments of Tibetan Lumas. In dian rajahs, Arabian chiefs, Japanese nobles, and Chinese mandarins. Among the latter were the portraits of Prince Ching ami Li Hung Chang. The artist, with the diplomat In tow, paused before these canvases. "Who is that?” asked Mr. Wu, point ing toward the picture of Ching. "That Is Prince Ching.” replied Vos. “It don't look like him," was Ills only comment, and tbe party passed on to Earl Li. “Who’s that?” “That is Li Hung Chang." “It don’t look like him," said the min ister again. "But It's only a three quarters view, you know." said the artist, apologeti cally. ■ “It don't look three quarters like him.” said Wu. And later, when the remark hit the chorus of sweet girl art students who had Iteen forming an animated back ground. they retired without and gig glial.-Washington Times. The lammergeyer Is a species of the vulture of which little has been written, or, indeed, known, but one of which was i recently cap- til red. It la found chiefly In Southern Europe and Asia, in in o u n t ainous re- gions. Neither fitted nor inclined to lead a life of sanguinary warfare, It b a n ■ quets on cnrrloti. Its powers are adapted to Its instincts. Its beak Is feeble compared with that of the eagle. The to«*« are longer, feebler, with huge hooked claws, ami Incapable of grasping a heavy weight during flight. Where he finds bls food, there he ban quets. never attempting to carry It to his haunts. Of a powerful and robust build, be has neither the bill nor the talons of the eagle, the former being elongated nnd hooked only at the top and the latter comparatively small and feeble. Nor has he an exclusive appe tite for blood, carrion and putrid ani mals being greedily devoured by it. This rare bird attacks lambs, kids and the weak and sickly of the flock. The strong limbed chamois is not secure, nor. when rendered desperate by hun ger, will the ravenous bird forebear nn Every F'orcst an Oxygen Factory. attack on man. Children are said to It has Iw-en claimed that forests exert have often fallen a sacrifice to Its ra an Important Influence In behalf of pacity. human health. Soil conditions In the <«ave Him an Idea. woods are unfavorable to disease pro "Well, of all things!" exclaimed Mrs. ducing germs, specially those of cholera Henry Peck. "This paper tells of a man and yellow fever Every forest Is an who was declared insane and tils wife oxygen factory, ami It Is declared that got a divorce and now he gets the Its pristuctlon of that life giving gas is courts to d«*clare him sane again. Now, of sanitary Importance. Oxone Is also what do you-----" a forest product. The forest may be re But Mr. Peck was out of the room garded as a blanket with which nature and walking swiftly through the ball. covers the earth for Its protection. murmuring: This blanket, says Prof. Mary W. Har "I wonder where they give short time rington, ‘ determines many of the fea rates on paddl'd cells.”—Baltimore tures of climate." American. Our t oal-l’r'slui lng Lungs, The volume of CBrt*ot.ic acid exhaled by a healthy person in twenty four hours la atwiut fifteen thousand cpblc , containing about all ounces of solid carbon. This is at the rate of 137 avoIrduiHiis per annum; and, taking the p<>l>ulatIon of the world at a thousand millions, this means that the human race breathe out every year sixty one million tons of solid carbon. A Half-Mllllon Dollar Poem. It la stated that "The Absent Minded Beggar." by Rudyard Kipling, baa real ized In various ways about $485.600 tor tbe famllle« of the British soldier« who have fought In South Africa, or somewhat more than $lu,<ia> for eacb line. Ladies' Home «Jotiriijsl. I There la only one thing a fortutx teller knows; that all her cuatuiuera will die la great misery. I the case of the United States, because the country settled mainly between 1850 and 1870. In England there is a similar though not so marked a decrease. The rate of growth of population of the communities might still lie considerable, even if no higher than in the last few years. An addition of even 10 per cent only as the average every ten years would far more than double the 5tMl.0UU.0UU iu a century, aud leave the white popula tion at this century's end at 2,UU0,tMXl,- IMMI. Secondly, some of the rates of in crease mentioned, such as that in Austra lasia and the United States at certain periods, are quite abnormal, aud duy largely to exceptional immigration. Finally, there is the question which many people have rushed in to discuss namely, whether the reproductive power of the populations in question is as great now as fifty or sixty years ago. It is a question which cannot he rushed, and I am unable to commit myself to the belief, heard from some quarters, that the rate of increase in these populations is, as iu France, coming nearly to an end. The gravity of the stationariness of popula tion in France lay in the fact that the death rate there remained high, while the birth rate fell. SIR ROBERT GRIFFIN. Ex President of the British Statistical Society. Why There Are fewer Ministers. To those interested in theolog icnl education the statistics of the seminaries for the last six years have given ground for se rious thought. These statistics indicate a steady decline iu at tendance, amounting, in some case«, to from 49 to 45 per cent. The anxiety thus awakened is not allnyed when one turns from the seminary stage of education to the collegiate and acidem ic situations as regards preparations for the ministry. In all colleges and schools a decreased numlier of students Is report ed similar to the falling off at the seiui- naries. It appears, therefore, that the lowest point in the ebb has not yet been reached. It has been alleged thnt the church has lost its hold upon the community; that it has been invaded by the spirit of worldliness, commercialism und material ism, demoralizing the religion« life of young men and rendering them unwilling to take up the trials of ministerial life. It has even been questioned whether the church could survive Christian civiliza tion. But why this commercialism, char acteristic of the past half century, should bare made itself felt in the theological seminaries only during the last five or six years is hard to see. It is further alleged that heresy trials, agitations for the revision or abolition of creeds, discussions regarding the origin and literary form of the books of the Bible (commonly known under the head 1 SWIFTEST OF QUADRUPEDS. Greyhound« Hold the Wec«rd for Get ting Over the Ground Fastest. Three men In a carriage, followtsl by four dogs, alighted at one of the road houses Just beyond Kingsbridge while I wax resting there last Friday, and proved to be so Interesting in tlielr con versatlon that I lingered many minute« beyond my time to listen to them and to learn something that 1 did not know Is-fore. When the dogs took me into their confidence their owners did the same. it appears that they hail bent out In Westchester County, running the dogs and making a record for tlielr perform ances. “There Is tlie fastest animal that runs on four legs," said one of the men, as be pointed at a long, lank, sinewy En glish greyhound that turned toward us a countenance fairly beaming with in telligence. “I don't mean that partic ular dog.' he continued, "but I do mean bls variety, nnd he in not the slowest member of It by any means. We have Just been trying him under careful tint Ing. ami found that he went, when on full gallop, twenty yards a ««Sind, That means a mile In a minute and twenty-eight second»-a speed that comes very near that of a carrier pig eon and would leave far behind any quadruped that we know of. “This is a matter that I have studied ami know something about. There are few thoroughbred horses that can ex ceed nineteen yards a second, ami I have known greyhounds to la-tler that by four yards Foxhounds have a rec ord of four miles In six ami a half mln u'<«. or nearly eighteen yards a .m l That is fast going, ami as good as the moat rapid of the hare family can do. "This spessi Is to some extent an In her 1 ted gift from away back, for I have been lufurmed that wolves can run all Bight at the rate of a mile in three fusion of the blood of half a million of Indiana. However, tho Indiana have not become assimilated. Like the other four race«, the In liana live within the territory of the Ameri can republic, but their life la apart from that of the other races. They stand com pletely isolated and live, so to say, merely Iss a use the w hite invaders have not en tirely exterminated them. A foreigner traveling through the United States will find it rather difficult to convince himself of the existence of Indians on the Amer ican continent. The Indians are there, nevertheless. The United States govern ment spends nearly $10.000.000 a year for their support and education. Scarcely a century ago the Indiana oc cupied practically the entire territory of North America excepting the Atlantic coast and part of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Nearly three millions of square miles of a total of 3.000,000 were occupied by the Indians, who never numbered more than SOO.OOO. Now there are but 236,000 Indians left, the majority of whom live upon reserva tions. A century ago they were the ac tual owners of three millions of square miles of territory, while now they are con tilled to an area of 220,000 square miles. The number of Indians in the United States is steadily decreasing. The last census shows that it has diminished by 40.000 since 1870. Thus it seems that the Iudians are destined to share the fate of the buffalo. Deprived of their hunting tigrounds and confined to u quiet agricultural life within the narrow limits of their reservations, the Indians live a miserable life like a wild bird in a cage. The lack of proper food umi hardening exercise makes them easy victims to tu- lierculosis aud other diseases, and whisky causes their rapid degeneration. There is but one logical finale to the struggle be tween ths whites and the Indians—the complete extermination of the latter. FELICE FERRERO. Italian Anthropologist. J/ of the higher criticism I have had the ef fect or repelling men from the ministry of at least some Christian churches. On the contrary, however, it would is- uat- ural for young and vigorous men. as iu the past, to t>e attracted by trials and discussions as affordmg a field for accom plishment. Other authorities tell us that the recent fitiaueial crisis and the revival of busi ness which has followed it are the chief causes of the trouble. It is true, no doubt, that when the pauie of 18113 came many young men just euteriug ou their studies preparatory to a theological edu cation found it impossible to continue. These probably would have lieen euteriug the seminaries within the last two or three years. It is true also that with the return of prosperity these and others, who would have looked toward the minis try under normal conditions, have been attracted into business by the opportuni ties offered in that sphere. These expla nations are but partial oues. Over against these conjectural aud un satisfactory quests for the reason of de creased numbers in the seminaries may he advanced the theory that the supply for several years past has been larger than the demand. If we take the Presby terian Church us typical we shall find that for twenty five years, ending with 18ft; the numlier of churches grew more rapidly than the number of ministers. But du ring the six years since 1805 the num her of ministers has increased so much faster than the churches that at the present day there are more ministers on the rolls in proportion to the number of churches than at any time iu history. The curious feature of the ease is that this extraordinary increase iu the numlier of ministers came precisely .luring the years which show the steadily diminishing num ber of students in the seminaries. Tho conclusion cannot be avoided, therefore, that the condition iu the theological semi naries is due to the conviction that there are too many ministers already. If this be the correct diagnosis of the case, it follows thnt there is no serious ground for alarm to the Christian Church. Whenever in the providence of God a larger number of ministers shall be need ed, the church may l>e trusted to furnish them. ANDREW C. ZENOS, D. D„ Professor in McCormick Theological Sem inary. Womdn\ fdshiondblc Clothes. I believe the dress of wotnes this year to be the ugliest the world has ever seen. How swift ly upon the heels of another doth each calamity tread! First in ugliness cotue the ________ drugging, ill-conditioned skirts. Who fashioned and formed these ungodly garments? There they are, thousands ami thousands of them, daily paraded up and down the sidewalk, lop sided, bedrag gled, inefficiently held up by clutching hands, stumbled over and stepped upon by scores of awkward feet. Those skirt« —why was I born to see and wonder at them? Next to the abominable trailing street skirt, in ugliness at least, comes a certain cruelly common atrocity in the form of a long cloth sack. A loose, bag gy, shapeless, bulging monstrosity which makes the woman who wears it look like an unmanageable, half exhausted balloon. There must have l>een an over-produc tion of some kinds of cloth last year, and tho shrewd manufacturers have proba bly induced the mysterious beings who dictate the fashions to “work off" the superfluous material upon an unhappy world, Would that the moths might get at these baggy horrors. All women do not wear the lop sided, drnggly skirts, or the bulging sacks, but there are dozens of these things Iu sight. The hats aren't so bad as they might be. but the hair is worn in such a way as to banish all thought of hats from the head of wearer and beholder alike. It is a strange fact that this handful of hair, dragged down over one side of the face, is always counterbalanced by the lop sided skirt. Every feminine creature si-i-ms to instinctively haul down her front hair on one side, and clutch at her dress skirt on the other. The effect is nightmarish.—Ada C. Sweet in Chicago American. 1 Ihe North Ameriton Indians. If a people fn- vades a strange country in which another people, with its peculiar civilization, has liv ed for n long time, one of two things happeua; usually either the invaders absorb or external- nate tlio invaded after a certain length of time, or they are absorbed by the original inhabitants. Thus the Romans in i ancient times absorbed th« numerous peoples which inhabited the Italian peninsula and brought them into the fold of Latin civilization. On the other hand, the Indiana of Mexico and South America to a great extent absorbed the conquering Spaniards and Portu guese aud lowered their level of civiliza tion. In the ease of the Indians of North America, however, neither of the two things happened. It lias always been a wise rule with the English pen[>le in its colonial invasions all over the world nev er to mix with the inferior races of the iuvaded countries. That is probably one of the reasons of the Invariable success of England’s colonial policy. The Inva sion of North America offers one of the best examples of that policy, if strictly adhered to. The white iuvuders have fought bloody wars with the Indians, who desperately resisted the forward march of civilization. Periods of bitter strife have alternated with periods of peace und friendly commercial relations. In spite of all that the invaders have not absorb ed any considerable numlier of the In dians. There was no danger at any time that the blood of the millions of white invaders would become debased by the in- Poetry Out of Date. 0 I There is no great thought, no worthy emotion, which may not be better expressed In prose than in verse to-day. Verse was the ¡.rimitive expression of mans thought. Rhythm was the char- lacteristlc of its first crude lit erary efforts. Homer, Haute ami Shsk»- peare cast their thoughts and emotions in verse because the metrical form was the only adequate method of expression invented iu their day. English prose has been developed to the point, however, where it is a finer, more subtle instrument of wider scope than English verse, and poetry's chief excuse for being has been destroyed. Lit erary truth is truth to nature. Poetry is artificial and bears the deadly brand of insincerity In its form. OSCAR L. TRIGG8. Professor in Chicago University. minutes. Nansen says that Siberian I dogs can travel forty live miles on the Ice In live hours. “This Is fast going, but three grey hounds hold the record.” WHY THE NAVY LACKS MEN. Ns Chance for n Sailor to Reach on Officer’« Berth. The Navy Department la having nn exceedingly hard time In keeping the enlisted force up to within several thousand of the maximum allowed by law. says a Washington special to the Pittsburg Dispatch. Many officers are wondering why tills is so. The bright geniuses of the bureau of navigation, of which Admiral Crownlnshleld Is tbe head, appear to have come to the con elusion that the “paper” of tbe depart ment soliciting recruits is not alluring enough. So they have devised a new pattern of a poster Intended to wean the young man away from the plow to the forecastle. The first line consists of the words “Men Wanted!” followed by a large number of exclamation marks. This line Is set up In letters about six Inches high and of propor tlonate heaviness. Set up on shore it might well be used ns a landmark by tbe able mariners who designed It. Beneath the scare line Is a fine pho to-engraving of the new battle ship Wisconsin, the queen of the navy, both as to size and to «peed. Beneath the picture are set forth the terms in dol lars and cents upon which tbe young man who has forsaken the farm or the shop may win undying fame for him self in the naval service of bls country. The (Mister Is so unlike the Invitations to enlist heretofore Issued by the gov ernment that It Is likely to attract a good deal of attention among tbe class of men It Is de«lre<l to reach. But It Is not lack of good advertising that keeps Americans out of the navy. Ap parently It has never occurred to tbe officers who devised the poster that tho fact that a young men cannot rise from the ranks to a commission Is the bar that keeps ambitious young tneu from entering the service. They can never rise above the rank of a non-commissioned officer. No mat ter how deserving he may be, the bo, who enlists In the navy must always regard himself as socially and mental ly the inferior of the more fortunate bov who has been educated at govern ment expense at Annapolis. He must also be ready whenever one of the more fortunate souls so decrees to render almost any sort of menial service. Why the Snow Is Not Black or Bed. Why la the snow white is a question frequently Raked. Because black suowr would be dangerous, so would red or yellow. These are “warming up col ors,” and they change the sun's rays to heat. Such snow would soon melt Hgaln and prove a very poor protection. But white snow throws back the sun light In Just the form In which it re- ceivea it. and thus the enow can be long on the ground. Throw dirt on the snow, and Its dark color quickly makes It eat Its way fn whenever the sun shines on it After a snowstorm, once let the horses' feet mingle the dirt of the road with the snow and sleighing will soon tie over. latdles' Home Jour nal. The Dear Little Thing. "Oh, pshaw!” cried the fond young mother, who was writing to her dearest friend, “this dictionary Isn't complete at all.” “What's th« matter?" Inquired het ti us ba nd. “I want to And out how to spell 'oot- aumstootsuma.' "- Philadelphia Press. Old you ever have a person tell you a lie and you knew he was not telling the truth? Think of It the next time you start to tell a falsehood.
