assassinations qfr » f o w f . \ W 4 • ' Kin* Edmund ot England. M&rcji 36, 940 jfju Kin* Edward th« Mart.ir of En*- jg m ■ King Edward t l . Or E King Edward II. of Ei IDEAS ON GOVERNMENT. B y Oor. Char l a Hag bas. - There la nothing tjiat 1 dealre more than to see our Institution* work as they were Intended to work, with every department o f government per­ forming Its function* to the highest degree o f efficiency, -with every u»an true to hi* oath o f office, and the en­ tire administration revealing no Im­ perfections except those that are the Invariable result o f our fallible hu­ man mind. *In other words, free. In­ stitutions for the benefit o f all. with .1 majority In control, aud energetic effort on the part o f all to make that majority Intelligent and expressive of uov hi cu ts. **>« rw*1 Pr°Sre*"*v* sentiment o f the * American nation. And so it la that underlying all we think or do is the determination that there shall be uo alleu hand placed upon the administra­ tion of government ; that there shall be no perversion o f its administration, which shall be Impartial to the serv­ ice of any particular Interest ; that there should be equal justice, ability and Intelligent desire to serve the Interests o f all. and tbatr.ln all our complications of policy we should be swayed by no dealre' to win the favor o f the moment, but by a constant dealre to build an en­ during structure in which our people can live happy.' useful lives. GOOD HUMOR THE SAVING GRACE OF LIFE. B y Camille Melllsnd. The benefits Of good humor cannot be ex- aggerated. The ideal would be always to be in good humor, or, at least, to be able to put fj one's self In It i t w ill; to have only to press K * button In order to see everything roee-col- Y ored. This Is an Invention which would sur- ^ .peas In utility all the others; unhappily, the inventor la still to come. I, do not fear to proclaim that good humor m u te s good humor. It Is a {ruth o f the beet evldfcncd. Have you not noticed that In your days o f'g o o d humor fortune was mysteriously favorable? Those are the days when all succeed, when we all smile, all our wishes are "*• | Kj PI gratitled; onr affair*, albeit the moat embroiled, dleeo- tangle and clarify aa If by m agic; the people we meet have only amiable thing* to tell u s; the letters we A s­ pect arrive, charged with everything we desire; It tS on these days that we should ask. for we are' sure to Re­ ceive, to seek, because In seeking we are sure to And. Good humor is often nothing but the consciousness o f being loved. When we are In a position where we feel ourselves loved we know that all are pleased and 4re are in a Joyous humor. As a general rule, order produce# good humor, disorder embitters us. Make every day what It ought to b e ; do not rem it; do not let accumulate the neceasary obligations. In order to be In a good hu­ mor It is -necessary and It Is enough that we do our duty. I JURIST SEES A REAL "YELLOW PERIL.” B y Justice Harlaa e t V. S. Supreme Court. " 1 . j I f I had the opportunity I would vote far mj an appropriation o f fSOjOOO.OOO a year fo r a period of ten years for a larger nary. The rj great Importance of a navy Is shown la the constitution, which restricts the approprta- Y tlons for the army, but seta no limit for those JL for the navy. There is no such thing aa friendship between . nations as between men. Nations make no sacrifice to preserve friendships and do not forbear to do certain things became they do not meet with the ap­ proval o f another nation. The trend o f the Immigration o f the white people in the past, baa been from the Bast to the West. There lias been none from the W est Just across the water there Is a country with an im­ mense population whose commerce we are seeking. There are 400,000,000 Chinese, as strong physically and man- tally as we are. There la over there another nation whose people ace progressive and ambitious. W e may PI PI ! ’ King Henry II. of France.. Ang. 3, 1580 •¡Feodor 1., last of the House' of Iturik. which had governed* Ruesia for 700 year*...............*T............... 1598 King Henry IV. of France.May 14, 1610 George Villiers, Duke of Bucking­ ham ................ Aug. 23, 1628 Piter III. of Russia, dethroned and | murdered; succeeded by Catharine, I hjs wife ...................... 1762 Ivan IV. of Russia, murdered in prison .................. . 1764 King Guatavua III. of Sweden........ .........................................March 16, 1792 Marat, by Charlott* Corday.July 13, 1793 Csar Paul of Russia.. . .March 24, 1801 Abraham Lincoln, President of the i I nked S ta te s ................ April 14,'1803 Abdul Asia, Sultan of Turkey,\. . . . ............................*............«June A 18(6 Alexander II. of R ussia.. March 13, 1881 James A. Garfield, President of the United States.....................July 2, 1881 Sadi Carnot, President of France.. r .............. .........................June 24, 1804 Stambouloff, Premier of Bulgaria,.. \ .......................................... June 15, 1805 Elisabeth, Empress of Austria........ ...................... ...< ............. 8ept. 10, 1808 King Humbert of Ita ly .. . . .July 20, 1000 William McKinley, President of the 1 United 8tatee.....................Sept. 8, 1901 King Alexander and Queen Drags of Servia................................ June 10, 1903 Grand Duke Sergius of Russia........ 1905 King and Crown Prince of Portugal, .............................................. Feb. 1,1908 A CANAL TO CH0SS THE ALPS. “A rcai The* B M S ttfa lt” A lc x u ir * . A a lu Queen Alexandra is having much amusement with the Imitation rubles which she. possessing some of the most magnificent Jewels in Europe, can dare to wear. Her majesty rarely wore any­ thing but pearls and diamonds former­ ly, so the rubles attract the more at­ tention i n ^ i r o u i e admiration, which the queen perfectly understands, Is not provoked utterly by their beauty. When any one praises the rubies her majesty says, as If much gratified: “ Do you like them? Y es; they are very fine, aren’t they^ B eautiful!” But -hen she adds, smiling: “ Between yon and me, they are Imi­ tation.” ' 1 The rubles are snch astonishingly good counterfeits that only an expert (n gems can discover that they are false. • i T h f Duchess o f Roxbnrghe. the queen's dose friend, bought some of the rubles from a foreign peddler for a Joke, and'then Alexandra first saw them. 8he purchased some, too.—The Record. . P r in t W h o W u M u r d e r * -# W h i l e A d m la la fr r in K H o i y C o o o a a t o a . Father Heinrichs, who was murdered by Gulaeppe Guarnaeclo, an avowed an­ archist. while administering the holy communion In St. Elizabeth’s Roman Catholic church In Denver, waa a Fran­ ciscan and popular In Denver, though be had lived there only since last Sep­ tember. In preparing his body for burial It wqs found that he wore a steel chain with sharp points adjusted to pierce bis flesh constantly. He came from Paterson, N. J«, to which city the remains were sent for Interment In Paterson Father Heinrichs bad charge for three years o f SL Bonaven'tura’s church. Previously be bad been In charge o f an Italian congregation at Crogan. N. Y. He was born to Koeln. Germany. Aug. 15. 1867, entered the Franciscan order la 1886 and was or- falned in 1901. A M N M B lr m l M r th o lo s r •« t t o tr a il« « B » * « k fe llo w . , Immediately below the lower stars o f the group which form# the Southern Crons there 1» a black patch la the sky. dark, «act-khiiped and mysterious, •ays Macmillan’s Magazine. Sclent!flo- PROPOSED $300.000,000 W ATER LADDER. The scheme is the invention o f Signor Caminada, and It has won the support o f the famous engineer, Senator C<6umbo. President o f the Polytechnic o f Lombardy.. He proposes to connect Genoa with Lake Constance and to float barges over the Apennines and the Alps. In the space between his lock* will be inclined tubular canals. There aré two parallel tubes; the water de­ scends them both, but cromes each line alternately, so that while the vessel descends with the slaking water ta a section o f one line, another vessel Is rising with the rising water in a lower section o f the other. The tabular canals will be constructed o f masonry closed with irón gates. As the water will” be in constant motion the canal will not be easily frozen.— London Graphie. ally accurate astronomers explain that It Is not a patch but rather something which becomes visible by reason of the anomaly that It contains nothing that Is visible. The lay mind, preferring bald reality to abstract truth, Is some­ what startled to learn that an object Is seen because there Is nothing In It to see, but no one can dispute the f a c t ; the coal sack Is visible because It inn- tains nothing that is visible. In other words. It Is a vast hole In the stellar system In which' there - Is not even a pinch o f stellar dust to shed a flicker of luminosity. It |e typically and ab­ solutely the quintessence o f blackness. Because It Is so, and In contradiction o f all preconceived notions, the human eye can see It without the aid o f tele­ scope or other Instrument. Between the stars o f the Milky Way there are 'many little bole» In the stellar system —little by comparison, that Is to say— but one must have telescopes and pa­ tience to find them. One need Only cross the line to the.southern hemis­ phere end locate the Southern Cross In order to see the coal sack. With the wealth o f legendary tale and faibe woven around the northern stars by the highly gifted races gazing on then» through the ages that are gone, one It tempted to speculate what tales would not have been constructed around that fathomless mystery bad It appeared north Instead o f south or the equator. When It rouses the poetl- When a man otto be has to go up to the roof and slowly journey over It till he can clamhér down to the flat again and squeeze* through, once more a man. The coal sack Is the, boté "fie goes tflrouah tirket onto the roof, and to gkt up t o 'I t Ik a very long climb. The Jotir^ky over the toot I« giro very long; and It In. hard to ggneeze tlarAugh when be reaches the flat again. So long does it take that by the time a- man has completed the Journey not only his hair but the skin has grown white with age. Wherefore the black- fellow who has made the journey re­ joins bis tribe as a whttefellow. Thm it was that when the white man first came to the land the aboriginals re­ garded him aa a long-lost comrade. Tfc» W U A a b •< E x p e r lr a c * . There was no doubt In the mlnf the animals, that the nearest one* are really either tatyer than those that follow or fully equal to them In sise. The reasin that the latter look so much larger than they really are Is because they do nof grow smaller In the same proportion as do their sur­ roundings, which are drawn according to the rules o f perpectlve. For you will notice that the Hues o f the roof, floor and sides o f the building grow closer together as they vaulah in the distance. Tbs Illusion Is further emphasized by the threeemen on the platform! These also are drawn in accordance with the laws o f perspective—that Is. they appear larger or smaller according to their distance from the eye of the observer. Sir Blrrell Barnes, president o f the Divorce Court, In London granted the Countess o f Yarmouth, who was Miss Alice Thaw o f Pittsburg, a decree nul­ lifying her marriage to the Earl o f Yarmouth. It haa been known for two years that the domestic affairs o f the Yarmouth» were unhappy. The earl’s companion» and his manner of living, it was said, were such that he could not give his THOUSANDS LIKE H DL wife the place in society which she bad a right to expect. She paid large sum» to defray her husband’s extrava­ An American so Characteristic o f Ufe gances, nnd her friends say she con­ n the United Staten that he might ducted herself with dignity through­ »ave come fçom any part o f the country out the troubles resulting from this un- s amusingly described In “ Dally Notes >t a Trip Around the W orld,” a recent » o k by E. W. Howe, the editor o f the Uchison Globe. Here at the King Edward Hotel lu Hongkong, writes Mr. Howe, I am nuch Interested In a M t . Richardson of Iowa. I don’t know that his » m e Is Richardson, or that he is from Iowa, out be is an elderly American, aud I tnow his history as well as I know my »wn. I see him In the halls and In the llnlng-room, bis little fat wife patter­ ing round after him. Richardson Is not having a good time, and he wants to go home, but Martha, hla wife, wants to continue the Jour uey, and Martha will have her way. I know her name la Martha because Richardson calls her that. “ Martha,” I have heard him say. “let’s cut out the rest o f this trip and hftm* on the Minnesota. I’m tired A b a e a t -M la S e d r a t h e r r a i l s ta O r a « » H I« D a a f h M r ’ i I d e a l i t y . " It was La Fontaine, the fable writer, who, in his soa’a absence during sev­ eral years in pursuit o f an education, quite forgot him, and was not reminded o f his existence until a friend ar­ ranged a surprise meeting. The father was pleased with the manners and wit o f the young man pre­ sented to him, but failed to recognise him, and as soon as they parted prompt­ ly forgot him again. La Foots toe was a genius and a kindly m an; but one can hardly dis­ sever absent-mindedness o f such a sort from shallow-heartedneaa. Neverthe­ less. In the case o f Professor—lei ns say Jones—who failed to recognise his daughter after a year’s separation, the bond o f affection was both strong and deep. Mary, hi* only daughter, married, and went abroad with her bushai^L Their return waa a week or two be­ fore the date appointed, and owing to a series o f misunderstandings aud er­ rors the professor was not Informed, nnd met them first at the house o f a neighbor, where they bad gone to in­ quire about him. A reception waa In progress there, and he arrived some time after them, as a guest aud still unaware o f thetn return. Strolling Into bis friend’s li­ brary. away from the crowd, be became aware, as be Was Inspecting the books, o f some ladles in conversation on the other side o f a portlereTone o f whom displayed an astonishing amount o f knowledge o f his own particular bobby. He was surprised and delighted. “There’s a lady In the next room you must positively present me to,” he said, eagerly, to his bofe, who had Joined him. “ A most Intelligent w om an! She’s been talking o f the prehistoric races la a surprisingly discriminating manner Who is she?” * “ A Mrs. 8mltb. I believe,” replied the host, nineh amused, since be knew who the lady waa. “ Come—I will present you now.” They paseed the curtain, and the pro­ fessor, who had failed to connect the name .of Mrs. Bmlth with his Mary, was duly Introduced; for the ladles had overheard his Inquiry and the re­ ply, and ware disposed to keep up the Joke. Peering short-alghtedly through his big glasses, which, by his usual mis­ take. were hla reading glaaroa when they should have been hla object gin waa. he did not recognise Mary when be saw her, and the father and daughter actually opened a conversation on pro- historic man, and carried It on for sev­ eral minutes before the strain prorad too much. * Then the listeners broke« down in laughter, and Mary, with a cry that Mw could not keep It up any longer, caught the old gentlemgn round the neck and ktsaedhim. “ Blew my aotil, Mrs. Sm ith!” be gasped, bewildered. “ Why -M a r y !” — Youth’s Companion. the county seat and entered a store. Ho knew enough to be honest and Indus trlous, so he prospered slo w ly ; prosper­ ity Is always slow. ' , He knew enough to remain In one town, so when times became dull In Iowa, Instead o f running away to an­ other town, he picked up a little prop­ erty at low prices. When prosperity returned— and it always does, every- where— he told a little, and bought bank stock. In time be waa elected to a county office; then he got Into the bank aa a director. Later, be was made vice president o f the bank, and then presl dent He gradually accumulated farm lands, and these gradually Increased In value. v I am oof certain, but I think one of his daughters la married to a Congress­ man and another to the district Judge. He also has three or four good sons, who are prospering. \ j If Richardson la uot from.Iowa, then he Is from Illinois, or Ohio, or Indiana, or Wisconsin, or Minnesota, and bis history la about as I Have tfated. There are many Americans who are jnst' like him. The only remarkable Cmmrmm». , thing about Richardson Is that be bad “ Henry Is a brave man. The other sehse enough to .be honest and Indus­ night hla wife thought she heard a trious, and wait for prosperity in one burglar.” m t r. ■*-?** 1 “ And he went down?” “ No. He had the courage to tell her Mke “ Peter he was afraid.” —Circle. By the wa/T ate you acquainted with any man who flatter» his w lft? A horse Is still a horse, «ran wing turned Into a pasture.