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---------------------------------------------------- r— Topics of the Tim es One tallow (lip la worth a buabal of dead lampa. A rough remedy la better than the moat elaborate regreta. Most o f our time la spent In getting used to the things we didn’t expect M;in, unlike other objects o f nature, decreases In size the closer you get to him. __________ _ " A bank cashier loses $30.000 and Bees.” Cun this be considered a double loss ? I f genius and egotism always went together there would be a lot more genius. __ Those who try to make the best of everything generally get the best of everything. _____ Other States may boast o f their cap tains o f industry, but Kentucky has her colonels. By common consent the new battle ship New Jersey will be assigned to the Mosquito fleet. The world could worry along with a good deal less smartness In stock If only it might carry a heavier line of syuiputhy and a simple nelghborlluess. Those Russian editors who are re joicing in the liberties they now enjoy should try a few months of editing In America to get a grasp of what free dom of the press really means. A Baltimore street car conductor who found $2,000 in his car wus given a reward of 25 cents when he returned the money to Its owner. Hetty Green wusu’t in Baltimore at the time, either. Prof. Ross o f the Nebraska Univer sity says every family should have four children. Parents who have al ready exceeded the limit mny adopt their own plans for getting rid of the surplus. _____ A man with a turn for practical Jok ing undertook to hold up a friend at a secluded spot under cover of darkness. It proved to be a huge Joke, all right, but the undertaker is about the only man who is in position to appreciate the humor of the situation. The latest achievement o f the Jocu lar friends o f a newly married couple was to slip a pair of handcuffs on the groom's wrists at the beginning o f the wedding Jorney. Some time a complete triumph is going to be achieved by cleverly poisoning both bride and groom at the wedding supper. The greatest hoard o f the yellow metal ever gathered In any country could not buy one year’s harvest of the American corn and w heat To buy one season’s corn crop would take all the gold minted In this country In six years. In the laat seven years all the gold mines have produced only enough to buy one year’s yield of our six leading cereals. It Is a matter o f common observation that at the passing of the great men o f each generation there is a pessimis tic feeling prevalent that ‘‘there were giants In those days.’’ But the feeling has never had any warrant In the actual deficiencies of the oncoming generations. Orators have come and gone and statesmen have come and gone, and sometimes their immediate successors have not been discernible. But In time the men have emerged who have taken their places and who have Improved upon the patterns they left. Business Is becoming more and more exacting, and all the time additional guunls are being put up against Indul gences that tap tlie responsibility, re liability ami strength o f men gathered for the care and conduct o f business. The hum of machinery hH8 broken the quiet of Sunday; there are many work ers and there Is much of distraction. The pity Is, to tie sure, that there Is so much of foolishness, so much of weak ness and so much o f sin given the company of a day of rest— as to that matter, o f any day. Only this we know, that the law has not saved Sun day; out of our experience we may well question whether It can. There has existed, and still exists to some extent, a false sentiment that labor Is degrading or belittling. The contrary Is true. An Ideal condition of society can come only when every member o f It recognizes that he Is bound to exercise whatever skill or strength or faculty he possesses to Its full capacity, not selfishly or for the sake o f gain merely, but for the benefit o f all. And there should be no restric tion on anyone, either legal or social or through association, In regard to his labor or Its fruits. I f by patient application or natural endowment a man possesses more skill than bis fel low or If he chooses to be more indus trious he Is entitled to the full benefit of It The latest report of the Department o f lA bor and Commerce Is Interesting as showing the growth o f manufactur ing In the country and the Increased domestic consumption o f hreadstuffs. For the first time In our history we are exporting more products from our fac tories than from our farms. While the shipments o f our farm products have gained by 80 per cent In the last de cade, the exports from our factories have mounted up to 140 per cent. The H U N T IN G change In our economic position has doubtless come to stay. Our Improved machines and superior skill are begin ning to tell. London Is perplexed over the unusu ally large number o f unemployed found on her hands. Each year the question comes up In London how to care for the idle and the hungry, but this year the case Is serious and will be met with more than ordinary diffi culty. Meanwhile France Is shown to be on the way to race suicide; that Is, the number o f births Is decreasing, al though the population a little more than holds Its own because sanitary conditions prevail more than formerly, and the number o f deaths among chil dren is decidedly fewer. Desirable as a good number o f .births may be, It Is far more Important that those who are born should be well born and with an ability to secure a livelihood. In France there Is not the extreme pov erty found In England. Paris is not disturbed by the hordes o f unemployed and needy that throng the streets of I»ndon. The French are by nature more economical, more skillful In get ting a living and making both ends meet than are the English. They can make an attractive, palatable meal of what the Englishman would throw away. They understand the art of simple, Inexpensive but wholesome liv ing. Where this Is the case It becomes a question whether the situation In England, so tar as number o f births go, Is better than in France. It Is true the world Is wide and capable o f sustain ing a population not dreamed o f to day, but there is no immediate need of densely populating the earth, and there Is great need that those who are born should be born tvlth a capacity o f earn ing a livelihood. So long as the life limit Is being lengthened at the rate It has been in the last twenty years there need be little anxiety over race suicide. Even In France, the country held up as an example to avoid, there Is progress rather than retrogression, while In England there Is good cause for serious apprehension. Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. Fewer Men Teachers. T T E N T IO N has been called to the fact that the re port of the United States Commissioner of Educa tion regarding common schools shows that there has been a marked diminution in the proportion of male teachers In those Institutions. It Is asserted while the masculine Instructors formed more than forty-two per cent o f the whole In 1880, they now number only about twenty-six per cent. Roughly speaking, there are three female teachers for every male teacher In the common schools throughout the country. It Is not especially difficult to understand the probable causes for this change. One o f them is undoubtedly the rapid industrial growth o f the nation, making it fur more profitable for young men of Intelligence and ambition to seek fields of employment in which compensation was not only greater, but where there was a prospect that it would Increase as the worker proved his worth and acquired more skill. A question less easily answered is whether it Is better for children of both sexes to be taught, us a rule, by wom en. Rome o f the British investigators who have visited this country within the past year, have expressed the opinion that there was some danger that American boys might become "fem inized” by instruction of this sort. Home ob servers of the average male youngster are not likely to think that such a process has gone very far as yet what ever more or less direful possibilities the future may have In store. In any event, there are no signs that the tendency of women to fill a growing proportion of teachers’ positions has any present probability of reversal. Women are enter ing the gainful occupations in greater relative numbers each year. So far as teaching in the common schools is concerned, it looks as if they might eventually have pratty nearly the whole field to themselves.— Philadelphia Bul letin. A makes a newly married couple yearn for a home of their own like life In the average boarding house. And then they get home, There Isn't much money. They realize that they 6pent more than they should on wedding fixings, and Charley discovers that he must give more attention to business and less to household matters if he Is to continue that to draw his weekly stipend. The girl who doesn’t know how to cook and dust and sweep, and make beds and run a home, Is miles deep In a hole. She Is going to realize It sixty-three times a day and hnve a little weep every time the awful fact comes home to her. She Is going to read a cook book and feel more hopeless every time she goes over a recipe. She Is going to lose some of her pretty looks and a good deal of her sweetness while experimenting In the kitchen over a hot stove, and unless she has the disposition of an angel, and her husband is ripe for a halo, the first quarrel will occur at mealtime with poorly cooked “ grub” for Its foun dation. There should be no necessity of a school for brides. There should be no marriages without the borne education necessary to make them successful and happy. But things are not what they should be. In this world, and so let's hope that the Philadelphia experiment will prove a success and that a host of girls w ill be graduated Into useful wives.— Cincinnati Post. T IM E . They’re cornin' from the city to the coun try russet brown, With their rifles and their shotguns to hunt the farmer down. The law la off the squirrel, an’ now I'm tellin’ you. Them city hunters 'pear to think It’s off the farmer, too. Soon the landscape will be punctured with a lot of bullet holes. An’ everybody will be dodgin' to save their precious souls. For when them city fellers go cavortin’ with a gun, An’ plug somebody full o’ lend, they call it “ havin’ fun.” An’ then somehow it seems to me they alters ’pear to fail To1 make a fair discrimination 'twixt a farmer and a quail. For anythin’ that rustles, if it shows a tail or head, An' isn’t plainly labelled, they’ll pump it full o’ lead. An* when n charge o’ double-B has taken off the crown O f your old hat, they'll calmly swear they didn’t know you’re roun’. An’ sometimes when you are absorbed in the Held a-pulliu’ beans. You’ll be mightily surprised with a bullet in your jeans. They’ll come an’ board with you, then some mornin’ 'fore you’re up. When they’re out a-huntin' lious, they’ll shoot the brindle pup. Oh, it’s strenuous times we’ re havin’ in the country jes’ ’bout now, An’ if 'twan’t for new inventions we’d be hidin’ in the mow. But don't you for a minnit think the farmer Unin't progressed, An’ traveled 'long in the procession with the spirit of the rest. Dolls in Heaven? A country store these later days is fairly out o’ date. IT T L E JESSIE B A Y F IE L D ,o f Kausas City,blind and still In babyhood, was dying. The mother stood by her Unless it keeps upon its shelves suits lined with armor plate. bedside speaking cheerfully while the tears that ran down her face welled up from a broken heart. An’ now we’re all a-waitin’ , really want ’’.Mamma, when I am gone,” said the child, groping In to get a chance her poor blind way to touch her mother’s face, “ I To demonstrate the quality of our anti ballet pants. want you to bury my dolly with me. When I get to heaven then I can see her and, oh, mamma, next to you I So come along, you city dudes, with your goggles au’ your gun. love her so.” The poor mother, almost fainting In her grief, promised the child. “ I love my dolly, mamma, and W e’ve got on our iron trousers, an’ we're ready for the fun. though I hate to leave you I am glad to die, because I can Why Russia Occupied Manchuria. Don’t hesitate a second, but come out an’ Some things are fixed. The multi see what my dolly looks like. She and I have been play help us laugh, R IT lffll opinion on the whole seems to take the plication table, for example, has not mates a long time.” While you ponder on the diff'rence 'twixt view that the Russian occupation of Manchuria, and been revised since It was made, and Treading softly, the mother took the doll and put 1 J a farmer and a calf. of Port Arthur In particular, was au act o f wanton no education reformer, however rad aggression, principally the work of prancing pro Into the arms o f the dying child. Fondling dolly with her — Cleveland Leader. ical, proposes to amend It. But the weak arms, she spoke words o f love and tenderness. And consuls and ambitious generals, whose proceedings geography o f 1890 Is not the geography then— that "old, old fashion, death,” touched the girl and N AB JAPANESE BIRD SLAYERS. have been reluctantly endorsed by a government too taught In school nor that which Is she slept. U n ite d S ta te s A u t h o r it ie s A rrest studied In the office to-day. There far removed from them to arrest the execution of S e v e n ty -S e v e n P lu m o s e H u n te rs . And afterwards as she lay In her little white coffin In have been many changes In the politi their projects, and that now the same government would her simple white dress, the doll, dressed In the same pure The United States revenue cutter cal and physical divisions of the earth be only too glud to be quit of the whole entanglement. white, was laid upon her breast and her wasted arms Thetis put in at Honolulu a while ago This, we believe to be a common notion in France, but it In the past fourteen years. It has been folded over It. And those who came and looked upon the with seventy-seven prisoners, nil Jap suggested in one city that the study of Is deduced from inaccurate premises. The expansion of child could scarce see her for the rain of tears. anese plumage hunters, who had been Russia in the direction of China has not been the handi Manchuria be postponed till the pres And look you; Who will say the child will be disap captured on an American island while ent unsettled state there Is cleared up. work of adventurous spirits, whose proceedings could have pointed In her wish? Who would put his cruel fingers upon engaged In their illegal operations, I f one began to postpone study for been easily disavowed If unsuccessful. It Is, on the con those sightless eyes to keep them forever from "seeing says a writer in Field and Stream. trary, a deliberate and well-thought-out scheme of compen such reasons. It would be difficult to de what dolly looks like?” They must be as kind where she Is These men were sent out ns hunters by cide where to stop, for overnight the sation for checks In Europe. It Is recognized by Russian going as they are here. Can they refuse her pleadings for a Tokyo firm and their destination latest and most accurate geographical statesmen, if not openly avowed, that projects o f develop dolly?— Des Moines News. was Llnlasky Island, known in many knowledge may become out o f date. ment in the Near East are not likely to prove remunera regions as a wonderful nesting place tive for some time to conie, if ever, and that China offers That hnppened a year ago, when the for plumage birds. How to Live. republic of Panama was set up. Ten- a far more favorable field for their energy. I f this be the This islnnd is in mld-Paciflc not far T is well to live many years if we can, provided we try year-old maps of Africa are out of case, it is easy to account for the immense efforts made at least to make the years useful. Each year means from Midway Island. The fact that date. The Dutch republics have be and expense incurred In civilizing Manchuria, in building three hundred and sixty-five more days of possible effort; it belongs to the United States did not come British colonies, and mnny other towns and railways, which the last few years have seen. each day has Its twenty-four hours In which a good seem to deter these oriental plumage changes have taken place. Maps of The British people had indeed spent a great deal less in thought or a noble ambition may be born. But we de hunters. They had, besides the hunt the W est Indies and o f Asia, that are money and labor In the development of South Africa before not yet old, need revision, as Cuba and the Boer war than Russia had spent in Manchuria before vote altogether too much time to this mere thought of ers, a corps of skinners and taxider Porto Rico have ceased to belong to the outbreak of war with Japan. Why should Russia, then, long life aud good health. We should adopt some defi mists. They went to work last Janu Rpaln, and the Philippine Islands have be any the more ready to retire from Manchuria, even if nite plan o f self-control aud self-denial with the hope of ary and collected a great mnny thou sands of skins. Late In the same become American. To come to the Kuropatkin be more decisively defeated than he has been living to be old. But the plan thus adopted should become a matter of month an ocean gale destroyed their United States Itself, Oklahoma did not at present, than the British were to give up the struggle constant habit, working without any thought or effort on schooner, drowned some o f the men appear on any map until 1890, and the after Colenso?— The Saturday Review. our part, as the heart works In Its lifelong pumping. Once and left the rest marooned upon the maps made next year may show A ri our physical plan of life Is mapped out, our thoughts should island. zona and New Mexico ns one State A School for Brides. A second Japanese vessel brought be diverted from It. From that moment every particle of Instead o f two territories. But the T Is lu Philadelphia that a school for brides Is to be energy we possess should be devoted to the task of making about forty more hunters, who were changes are not all political. The shape opened. The prospectus isn't out, but the supposition Is ourselves useful. W e should concentrate our lives upon left to Join the others, the ship leaving of Mont Pelee In Martinique has been that the Institution will fill a long-felt want In the lives some form or upon many forms o f mental activity. We word that she would presently return. affected by a volcanic eruption. The of young women who simply couldn’t wait to be mar should compel ourselves to know the Important work that She did not return. Meantime the war course o f the Yazoo river has been shifted to give Vicksburg a water front , ried, and who had neglected most o f the preparatory steps. Is being done around us, as well as the great things that with Russia broke out, o f which the plumage hunters heard nothing. In to take the place o f that which It lost | There are some such. They look mighty sweet clad have been done In the past. We should resolve to add something, no matter how any case they were very hungry when when the Mississippi left the city two In white, smiling divinely and saying “ I w ill” In a trem miles Inland. Only a short time ago ulous whisper, while a tear slips down a pink cheek. For little, to the good work that men have done. I f we cannot finally discovered by the United States the Rio Grande left Brownsville, Tex., a little while they board. It Is unsatisfactory. There create we can at least spread knowledge. I f we cannot revenue steamer, rescued and Impris and returned to Its old bed. But the Isn’t much home to It, and It takes a lot of loving to cover do the great things, we can talk about them Intelligently, oned. Captain Hamlet o f the Thetis says Rlo Grande changes Its courso so often the coffee spots on the tablecloth and make the soggy In a way that will stir up ambition In the minds of those they bad wrought an appalling de that the United States and Mexico, biscuits seem like angel's food. There Is nothing that that are younger and abler.— New York Journal. struction. There were 335 cases o f finding it difficult to keep track o f the [ A girl's piggery Is a new avenue of T E L E G R A P H MANAGER A T shifting International boundary, have \ 14. plumage collected, and In all likelihood more than 300,000 plumage birds had opportunity, aud one that might be set up stones to mark the permanent J till us IH el, W h o s e P a r e n ts A r e E x been destroyed. It would seem that followed with more or less advantage border between the two countries. The p e r t O p e ra to rs , B e g in s Y o u n g , by almost any country girl. map-makers cannot prevent their maps Julius Diel, 14 years old, on Oct. 1 the records of the orient rival those of from getting out o f date In this way, became manager of the Western Union Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and GREAT ~ T O M B OF C O N F U C IU S . Six years ago a daughter of Dr. W. and they have to print new ones. telegraph office at Madison, N. J. This other parts o f the United States, Seward Webb begat) an experiment In B u ria l P la c e an d Ita A p p r o a c h e s A r e place requires an experienced opera- ! where the very acme o f thoughtless stock-breeding on Shelburne Farms. K i t t e n A r o u s e d D o g ’ s J e a lo u s y . S c e n e « o f R e m a r k a b le In te r e s t , tor, and one who Is well versed In all destruction would seem to have been A curious Instance of a dog’s Intelli Doctor Webb's countryseat on I,ake The city o f Chufuhsien, the Mecca the details o f an office, but Julius Is reached. She was sure she had of tilt believers of Confucianism, Is In well qualified for i t gent Jealousy Is reported from Llanl- Champlain. V iv is e c t io n la a S c ie n c e N o t to r M a n . some business atilllty, and could make the province of Shangtung, one of the shen. Born within sound of the telegraph, There Is a knowledge which Is A happy family there consisted of a money If her father would give her a most populous districts of the Orient. he says there never was a time when lady, n cat, a kitten and a Yorkshire chance, says a writer in Country Life Here Confucius was born, and here he did not know what the sounds of heavenly, a knowledge which Is hu man, and a knowledge which Is dia terrier. All four were on excellent In America. his sacred bones lie burled. The tomb, the instrument meant. He worked This her father agreed to do, and which is located in one of the largest the telegraph key as soon ns he was bolic; there Is a knowledge which Is terms until the terrier took umbrage at attentions which Its mistress be the young girl Invested twenty dollars cemeteries in the province, three miles able to spell. His mother and father blessed and a knowledge which Is ac cursed. The first Is ennobling and ele of her own money In a brood sow, and out from the city above mentioned, is were both telegraph operators. stowed upon the kitten. vating, and lifts man toward God. Ths The terrier straightway began to with her father's permission made ar one o f the most imposing in the whole Last spring Julius’ father disap second is debasing, degrading, and dig a hole In the garden, and finished rangements with the shepherd to care empire. peared, and Julius had to assist In drags men toward the pit. The knowl Its task to Its satisfaction In three for the sow and little pigs. As there The grave Itself is surmounted by an earning a living for his mother and a edge gained by rooting amid the groans was an abundance of skim milk, this earth mound 12 feet In height, the days. little baby brother. He became a mes Then the kitten disappeared. A was given to her without cost, but all whole surrounded by a cluster of senger at the Postal Telegraph Com and agonies o f living creatures, whom the grain was charged for at market search was made, and as the terrier j gnarled oaks and stately cypress trees. pany’s Morristown office. A few days their Maker and ours put Into our pow was seen putting down the earth over ; prices. From this single Investment Before the mound Is a tablet 15 feet ago he told W. H. Under, manager er, to teach us mercy, as He gives the hole which It had refilled, the soil she cleared ninety dollars the first broad and 20 feet high, upon which o f the Western Union office here, thst mercy to us, Is such an accursed knowl was removed, and the kitten was year, two hundred dollars the second, are Inscribed the names and deeds of he was going to apply for a place as edge that" only demons could seek for and three hundred dollars the third. found to hnve been burled alive. the great founder of Confucianism, a operator. Mr. Linder knew that the It, and It can turn to no human good. The dog was punished, but It took I By this time the stock had so In religion adhered to by 400,900,000 hu place In Madison would become va “ Science” so gained Is not for men, the kitten to the grave again, and the creased in number as to outgrow Its man beings. The burden of this in cant, and wrote to the Western Union but for devils.— Bishop Hugh Miller following day took It to a ditch and quarters, and was proving so profitable scription, according to reliable transla urging them Do put Julius In there. A t Thompson In Sucess. that Doctor Webb thought It advisa tion, Is "P erfect One,” "Absolutely left It there.— London Dally Express. S p o ts o n th e F u r o f A n im a ls . first the New York office thought It ble to buy her uui. So at the end of Pure,” "P erfect Sage,” “ First Teach Although we are told that the leop was a Joke, and laughed about It over the fourth year he took over the stock T h e Y e l l o w P e r il. er," “ Great Philosopher,” etc. the wire, but when they found that ard can not change his spots, it Is cer Small Boy— Papa, what Is "the yel at market prices, and gave her a check The avenue which leads up to the the Joke was absolutely serious, they tain that the markings on the fur o f low peril” they are talking about so for seven hundred dollars, which rep philosopher's tomb is even more Inter were thunderstruck. The idea at put some animals do change. Especially resented the year's profits. much now? esting than the actual place o f burial ting a boy o f 14 In as manager o f an Is this true where the animal has a From this start the present piggery Father— I don't know, my eon, but Itself. On each side o f the avenue are office did not appeal to thorn They distinctive winter coat. This change It Isn't the sensational newspapers, ss on Shelburne Farms has been devel rows o f figures of huge animals cut In began telling Mr. Under various has been studied by Barrett Hamilton, one might have expected. They don't oped. It la the most profitable ilei>art- atone— lious. tigers, elephants and things over the wire. Julius v ia a British naturalist, who is of opinion ment o f the place. Tw o hundred or horses, besides numerous mythical there, and, hearing the conversation, that whitening o f tbe fur generally ac get enough war news to scream over, and what they do get Is second-hand. more pigs are sold yearly, averaging creatures, such as animals half dog concluded to take a hand In it himself companies development of fatty tis from two hundred and fifty to three and half frog, beasts with four legs — Detroit Free Frees. hundred pounds In weight, amt bring and twice as many wings, besides a and sat down at the key. In fifteen 1 sue, whlcb Is a manifestation o f in ing one-half cent per pound more than multitude o f unnamable monsters that minutes he convinced tha New York sufficient oxidation, and hence o f atro Bo T ir e s o m e . office o f his ability.— Letter to New phy. which shows Itself in a whitening ’’Bragley says when he went abroad the ruling market prices because o f never lived on earth. In the water or In York Tribune. o f the hair. In some animals— man, (he superior conditions under which he was sick going and coming back, tha air. Taken altogether, the burial for Instance— this atropuy Is manifest they are kept. The piggery Is a model B a y in g H T o o O fte n . too.” place o f Confucius la one o f the chief •T don’t tee why you call him stupid. ed by baldness. That fat men are “ Huh! It might console him to of Its kind. The building Is In keep spots o f Interest In the Orient He says a eleTer thing quite often.” often bald is thus something more than know that he wasn't as sick as the ing with the others on the place In ex I f a man can get Into a bank after "Exactly. He doesn't seem to realize k coincidence.—Success. people who have had to listen to him terior style, and the Interior Is finished talk about his trip.” — Philadelphia with hard pine, cement floors and iron banking hours, he considers himself a that It should be said only once.” — ! We must all have some one to blow troughs with fixtures. prominent citizen. Philadelphia P re s * Frees. our money oa. L B I I