jjygBWBWWW " Hi Ate".V4lstlMW"l,wwww'w!w ri"" "" mum moMm' wwMw tflalnSWWWWW ds ifrifr ifctftrifrifr ifetSit&iTkvpViifcj J TOPICS OF THE TIMES t t A balloon race teems to nave alt tan xxcltement o( waiting for a tratn. DWt bo afraid of critic lam. Wo all BfM calling down as well as boosting tip. Enough people ara criticising Dr. Eliot's new religion to make a success of It. hill no lu Journey. Toward the end of the evening every car was so crowd ed that It wm Impossible to rolled tares. Each car as U went off serv ice was greeted with "Auld Lang Byne," sung by the bystanders, led by a man playing a cornet. Men ami women fought to get on the last car. and most of them wero provided with colored lights, firecrackers and sticks, which they used to Increase the bolt taxousness of the demonstration. It seems to have been an occasion not so much of rejoicing that a better system of transportation was to he establish ed as of a sentimental leave-taking of an old friend. , Spain wants the Moors to pay a war indemnity of 130,000.000. It seem to rott money to be a fllfflan. Many a football player outgrows It. A former star of the gridiron has been appointed treasurer of the United States. Will Mrs. Besant kindly clear up another mystery by telling the world who Kaspar Itauser was, what he was. nd why he wast Booth Tarklngton announces that tie Is going to quit writing novels. As a man gets older, he longs to do some thing useful with his hands. Lives of aviators ahow us. On one thing, tf we're Intent. We can do It, even flying. And In falling make a dent. It is estimated that the meeting of Presidents Taft and Dlas will cost J70. 000. May King Edward and Emperor "William never meet at a greater ex pense than that I Miss Marjorle Gould blushlngly ad mits that she has a Russian grand duke for a sweetheart, it has hereto fore been supposed that the Russian grand dukes were all very rich. "Wives would not be suspicious." pays one of the philosophettcs. "If their husbands would always tell them the truth." They might not be suspi cious, but would they be happy? Japan's friendly feeling toward this country Is officially and poetically ex pressed in the gift by the Mikado of several thousand Japanese cherry-trees for the public park of Washington and New York. There has been a reunion of the ad mirers of James Whltcomb Riley, th poet. In his old home county down In Indiana. One of the remarkable things about It was that the poet's friends were all able to crowd Inside of the county limits. A new postal card, lighter In weight, smoother of surface, more tasteful in design. Is promised by the Postofflce Department Incidentally, It Is added that the new cards can be furnished to the government for less money than it has paid for those now In use. Ev erybody ought to be pleasedexcept. pernaps, the people who have been manufacturing the old cards. Theorlstn have often proposed extrv taxation on the bachelor, and lesclsla. tures have even considered, more or less seriously, bills Imposing heavier burdens on the unmarried men. Hut, thus far, the hard-hearts have oscapod such a fate. Vet. In England, whero the search for new sorts of taxes la un remitting, the plan Is once tuoro seri ously broached. The argument in fa vor of a bachelor tax Is Irrcproacha' bio. Here Is a man who Is dodging his duties to the stale; who Is living In happy but selfish singleness. The life and hralth of a nation depends In greater degree upon Its birthrate than upon any other one thing. If the birth rate is declining, the nation la looked upon as decadent and dying. The mar ried man Is the solid citizen. Ho Is settled In life and has a rerlous stake In the community. He has a family for which to labor, and la imbued with ambitions that are of the greatest Im portance, In the aggregate, to the state and to the nation. Hut the bachelor is a shirk, a mere lodger. He glvoa to the state no progeny; he develops no home; he does not become a tax payer He Is the man-about-town. Of course, there are individual exceptions the bachelor who Is supporting moth er or sisters, the bachelor who Is phy sicaJly unfitted to marry, and the bach elor who cannot find a woman who will wed him. But In the mass, the bachelor Is not a productive, taxpaylng citizen. He Is shirking part of the whole duty of man. An obvious device to drive the bachelor Into matrimony Is to make him pay for the privilege of shirking. But there are difficulties In the way. Would It bo constitutional to tax him because he did not care to commit matrimony T How could the exceptional coses be taken care of? Porhaps a better way of encouraging enatrtraonlal enterprise would be to fa vor the married man In various ways. This Is already done In many cases. If work Is scarce, the city gives the preference to the married man. Many business establishments give a similar preference. In France, there are some privileges enjoyed by the man who hss a large family. If men of family were favored by the remission of cer tain taxes, or given privileges, it would be tantamount to taxation of thoe without family, but the taxation would be Indirect and, therefore, easy. AllH NORTHERN TINE. A lonely pine on n northern shores The blue sky laving the 'winds be low; The homeland breezes Mowing o'er, And the whlte-wlnged s4hku1Is cir cling slow. A yard where the as and the mlll ring Through the busy course of the sum mer days; A stately ship, like a living thing, That Imps to the oornn down ths WS)S. A shadow of black on the ocenn path; A tirnten cast In the tropic sky: A typhoon loosing Its awful wroth; A ship that Is shattered while brave men die ILLIOn DOLLAR FUNERAL rftF- DOWVGEI? EMPRESS by the current A bettered spar, spurned. Which has flouted far on the surg ing main; A sandy brauh where the tide ha a turned, And the northern pine Is at home again. Youth's Companion. r The Glaim Jumpers Notwithstanding the fact that he lias succeeded In making several mil lion dollars during the few months that have elapsed since he was releas ed on ball from prison, ex-Banker Morse may have to serve the term to which be was sentenced when he was found guilty of violating the banking laws. There are ever Increasing signs that the ability to make money Is not to be permitted to serve as an excuse 'n this country for being a swindler. The pole la nothing. It is a nega tion. It is a geographical paradox and absurdity. Whether It be land buried under perpetual snow or water covered deep with never-melting Ice, It Is the one place on earth where there U bo north or east or west, but all di rections alike are south. It Is the place where one day Is a year long, sad the year Is a day. The familiar constellations of the stars of our hem isphere sweep round It In altered gulsea and relations, never varying In height above the horizon. Nothing in nature marks the passage of time ex cept the slow coming and withdrawal of the sun. The compass needle still points to a north, which there Is south to a long-ago discovered point in our hemisphere which moves westward at known and predictable pace. lipton's prnjucrry methods. .ay There I Much Virtue In Ailt'f UlnK and llnlrk Anion. "I dare say I owe a great deal of my success to advertising," says Sir Thomas Upton In the Strand. "I at ways tried .to get bold of some new method. To attract attention I used to post cartoons In my shop window In later years, when my business had spread on one occasion I engaged an aeronaut to throw out from bis car 10.000 telegraph messages addressed to one of my shops. I offered prizes to the first twenty people who arrived with a message, and, the Anders com ing from all parts of the city, much popular Interest resulted. "Advertisement sometimes, as I have found, results most unexpectedly and from untoward conditions. About 4 I was awakened by the telephone bell ringing In my bedroom. Springing out of bed, I soon learned that a Ore had broken out at my Newry branch. On arrival at the scene of the Ore I found nothing could be saved, so I Immedi ately telegraphed to my Dublin and Belfast stores and ordered a fresh stock of provisions to be sent by pas senger trains. Meanwhile I found an other shop close by, and at the usual hour the following morning I had the new premises In full working order. And there was more business done at the second shop than at the first The fire, it appeared, bad drawn public at tention to us, and our smartness In opening another shop so quickly war practically appreciated." Ben Hallowell was returning to his claim. He had been to Frisco for a month trying to Induce some one with means to "grubstake" htm, but had failed. This was not because he did not have a good claim, hut becaune the capitalists he rat did not rare to look Into It. Ben was very gloomy A year before he had married the girl of bis choice In the East and a week after his marriage had returned to his mining operations. He had hoped be fore this to bring his Susie to him, hut the fates had been against him And now his failure to secure means with whloh to prosecute his work made him doubly despondent Beforo him, coming on homeback. the broad brim of his felt bat flapping with each lope, was a man whom he recognized as Andy Kitchen, the owner of a claim not far from his own. "Howdy. Benr said Andy, grinning affably, and without lessening his pace added. "Yer claim's Jumped." "What's that to laugh air called Ben. sharply. "How many of 'emf Two. But one on em I reckon you can handle without trouble, lie's a little cuss. T'other may down you." Ben would have asked more ques tions, but Kltohen seemed to be In n nurry nnn roue on. Here was more trouble. Ben was a peaceful, plodding man. beloved by his neighbors,. and the last man In the world to fight ex cept for his rights. But he was not a W!wJ-'tiMiiiiiiniwjwjMawpiiiiiwiii ill miiiwwwwmiiiiiim wmmmmmmmmmmmmmin I -msnaaaaai nmtMmMunmrto'r'jv.YL w: " .-vs"-vx- svjl l?y N I v, sKi st.-jfi5osaHnsiWM9RBii& jmts mi.m. i -Yi . Hii mwFMammLsEaxmxasm. MAKINO A VWKI. OF SMOKE FOR A DEAD KMPHKHH. We here reproduce n photograph showing the burning of a gorgeous boat specially built, according to Chine custom lu royal funerals, to con vey the spirit of the lute Dowager Empress of China nrrots the mystic river beyond which Is believed to lie the heavenly Nlnnna The boat eotl about 110,000 On the bow stood a huge figure rvpresvtitlug the guiding spirit of Heaven, and Just Mi I ml It was the Imperial yellow chair On the deek were four pavilions, the first containing effigies of some twenty five eourt tndlos of her majesty's train, the second a number of rubrs actually worn by the Empress, th third effigies of priests and the fourth the Imperial throne. Tlio entire funeral expense was nearly 11,000.000 llltutralnl ten don News. fim m n trA tom. 14 M ETH JL MS F.rK.i 7 To -rTMySfc- o TUB TWO Of 'tU. the center of which was a bundle Ben eyed all this cautiously, listened till he was convinced that there was no one present, then boldly went forward. Curious to learn what wi In the ham mock, he pulled apart Its sides and revealed a roll of blankets. But as the blankets contained something he pulled us I ile a corner covering one end of the bundle and revealed Well, what Ben revealed as no more striking that the expression, of his face on seeing It The stern look he had worn up to this moment melted Into one aa kindly as, or more kindly than, had ever rested on his features. He looked down Into the face of a sleeping baby. For a time the diminutive creature slept on, then began to stretch Its lit tle legs and fling Its little fists about, at last opening a pair of blue eyes. which It fixed Intently on Ben. "Reckon you're the little Jumper,' Bald Ben, giving the b.tby his finger to clutch. "I hope the big one is no morn formidable. If your dad has taken my property I don't see how I can have the heart to dlpor him." By this time Ben was on his knees beside the baby, making all kinds of grimaces and saying all kinds of ridic ulous things to show his good will and attract the child's attention. Then a suddan thought struck him. He re membered Andy Kltrhrn's grin when he announced that the rliilm had been Jumped "By thunder!" he exclaimed. "Sup- Ben's claim turned out a bonanza in time be organltrd a company lc work It and he railed It the l.lttlf Jumper. flrlt MI1U8B OF WORDS. Who saya that the ordinary English man la not sentimental? In August th last cable street line was discontinued and the electric tram of the London County Council took Its place. The cable Una was also the first In Europe, for It wm opened In 1884, over Hlghgate Hill, In the extreme north erly suburbs of London. The occa sion of the discontinuance of the line mas marked by an astonishing dem onstration. Great crowds assembled along the line on the evonlng when the last cars were run, and each car was cheered as It left the foot of the man to suffer Imposition. Besides, he bad strong faith In his "hole In the ground," and relied upon It to unite him In time with his beloved wife. He rode on, considering what he should do. He had no faith In peaceful meas ures, for claim Jumpers were not re specters of Justlro and usually did not Jump a claim unless prepared to maintain their ground. Ho finally con cluded to reconnolter the Jumpers from a distance and watch for a good op portunity to catch them apart It was about 10 o'clock In the morn ing and a bright summer day when Ben left the road and struck a trail through a wood which led to his claim, now but half a mile distant The birds were singing In the trees and every thing about him was so peaceful that he approached the encounter before him with still greater reluctance. His young wife was ever present In his thoughts, and he could not dismiss a picture of her angu sh If It war Girt In Gaaferaal. None of the maidens In Guatemala ere allowed to go abroad from their homes without the company of a chap eron, and a lover Is only allowed to1 come and court blssweetbeart through "" 1Jmt ahe ,''--d' hear that he had the heavily barred windows of her fa-,"""1 k,l,f(l b tne Jumpers. After ga ther's home. After they are married ' n' 'ar on horseback as he dared, they pass along the streets In Indian ,Mt ne attract attention, he dismount file, the woman marching ahead, so d ftn( proceeded on foot, pausing be that the husband can be In a position n,n( a tree In sight of his claim and to prevent any flirtations. I his cabin beside It mere was no one about, but the When a barber cuts you, be usually cabin door stood open, and smoke Is- says It was the result of your shaving ued from the stovepipe chimney, Be- yourself the day before with a safety, tween two fires swung a hammock, In pose the big Jumper Is a woman! For a moment his fare fell. If this were so, what an uncomfortable situa tion! Even the shooting ha had ex pected was not so bad as that. He was so engrossed with this thought and the baby, In whoie face he fancied he could see trace of some thing plemantly familiar, that ho did not hear a footstep approaching. Then he felt a light touch on his shoulder. Instinctively his hand flew to his re volver as he turned. He looked Into the smiling face of his wife. There are curtain scenes as well as emotion that are Indescribable. Nei ther the scene nor the emotions In this case can be painted In words. Never was man more completely turned from the passion of strlfo to that of love. There was one long embrace that It seemed would never end, then a grad ual relinquishment, after that explana tions. Bunlo had prevailed upon a relative to furnish means with which to prose cute Ben's claim, besides funds to en able her to take them to him herself. A letter telling hltn of her Intended Journoy had arrived the day after his departure for 'Frisco, Susie on her arrival, finding him gone, quietly took possession of his cabin and waited bis return, When he came she had gone for water, rurrvrtloH or Wttnlun Abb ahaalil Hraln In Urnntmar HrKmli, Those who find a never-ending pleasure In reading the works of Goldsmith, Addison. "Rollicking Dlek" Steele and our own genial Irving must suffer something like literary nausea iu lurniDg over tne wge of sotnr modern newspapers In quest of news, the Buffalo Commercial says. Why snouid the sooioty editor Insist that a wedding "occurred." Instead of taking place? But' this nbuso of the word n.nin venial when we turn to the sporting page and find that every event recorded from a dog fight to a running race Is "cdassy" R- may be assumed by some critics that this word (lashed upon the sporting fratornlty at a great prize through the revival ol the Olympic games. Greek authors vrote books now known as cla-wlcs. and by the same token thlr athletic games obtained n like designation But why should a prize fight be called "classy"? Probably the word Is a slangy equivalent of "high class." At any rate, It Is Illegitimate and of fenslve as "brainy." But ths offending Is not confined to the editors of sporting mgM, To Ko through the rataloKue of misused words would far exceed the limits of any editorial article. Vet one can hardly leave the subject without re cording a solemn protest against the phrase "armed with a warrant," or the aeronaut who "negotiates a trip" around the aerodrome. And one would like to add that "inaugurate," which means lo Induct In office, does not happily characterize (he running ol a new railroad train or the opening sale of autumn millinery. Tho colleges of America are dnln good work In their ileivnrtiin.nl. i English literature to prevent the wan ton misuse and abuse of our magnlfl rent language, but the lncAitn,. should lxgln In our grammar schools, wnoro mo grsai majority of our oli uron receive tnoir only education. RlMlrln lruepla. A sclentlflo man In Buffalo proclaim! mat ne nas discovered that working about high voltage electric npparr.tus result In "grave disturbances of the digestive organs, loss of nppotllo, dis tress after eating" and a whole train of dyspeptic symptoms, at4sstt. 3 8N0W 8TATUK8, j lf ( tf (. si Ail Interesting account of the now tnluei made by the )uuug art tu dents of llruiwieis, and rdiltilul m th Royal Park annually, when the wr-.th. er conditions are favorable, U gha by a writer In the Htntnd MsksbJu., An Aitiiilutiin of 1 wittily flm .-.mil,.... Is charged, and the money psld by tht ,normoui crowds which visit tho ,, lilbltloii goes toward the slipper' lha school from which the art (ludrtiu loiue. Ths Paro Itoyals belongs tu th ting, but the iifcesMry irinllon l rnslly forthcoming, by whlph th ,tl dents nrs allowed lo transform tin I park Into an MIr. Mulling out fj .three whole days the people ho m iminriiy in hit i'ni .iirir picaiuift ground No oil". In fact. aliod liuldn the gatM eirepl the atul. -, and their matter. These, it v, nz threo days, work isttolelj prr,.r Ing the nut ii for exhibition On ih fourth day the gates are thrown .,ti. and ever) body nunc lo see Tim students ar allowed to ! any subject Ihey like, and all th i friiMrt do during the first three dart Is In walk round, rrllleli and ki warm. The studul carry all Dm snow Mut of It Is obtained In lbs very nntural way of starting a snon bail, and rolling It until enough it collected The modeling I tlm roid rt part of the work, lml to w It th snow molded thsl the figures inmi tf they xere cut In ston. On the lait day of the preparation the watering t I lu grel dmm! The ui of water on th mow gt to the statue a glotty. adamant sir fare, which go far tonard winning a prize and preventing the work o' art from melting into nothingn The fctudrnls make a point of mU Ing nrar a lampi"'- twaut the igs t gltra additional attractiveness to M r nrk when night comet on and ' t park I full of v Wl tors Animal ubj-t are among I'm mott popular and sewn of IN a it are really ambitious Th art' create new groups, or ! top s group by Mm noted sculptor Ilk Thorwaldten Th elephant I th 'k vorlte animal, although I lout and bMr pre him very hsrd Nearly all th benrh In th part re utilized by th studnta for i rumbnt figure or for humorous to Jrctt. One of the liich, fur ample, contained an old Iwasant worn an ho hsd fallen asleep In on cor ner, while a dog crouching st hr feet, watched his mlstre fur a signal lo Irave. One winter on of III bt pln-rt ,,f sculpture n the butt of l,oM if King of ths llrlgiari Th Germs i Kmperor ha also l,n teen In lh park, at some distance. II It true frmu lllsmarrk, whose magnificent head ln' Itself flnrly to the inow smilptnr tools 1 1 n ml-rt of Italy, with hit wonderful iniuUrlir had a ptnr (f on recent eihlhlilon. DrATH I.V TERRIBLE SHAPE. Tcio Itloli. The Cannibal Chief This follow you're eating now, your excelloncy, was a Pittsburg millionaire. Tho Canni bal Chief-Well, J find him altogether too rich for roe. If you have a good friend don't spoil It all by Imposing on him. Oa af ( llurrlkla af All MarriM ImasiUlaa ar U!ar Allan !, The wife of one of the most reaped d citizens- a lawyer of emlnenc and a member of congrMs was seized by a suddn and unaccountable lltnett which completely baffled the skill of hr phyftclans After mmh suffering sh dlrfA, or was supposed to die. For thie days the body was pretsrvsd un burled, during which It acquired a stony rigidity. The funeral. In short, was hastened on account of the rapid advance of what was suppoatd to b deoum position. The lady was dK)tltnl In her fam lly vauh, which for three years at undisturbed At tho expiration of th's term It was opned for the reception of a Mroophagus. bul, alas' how fear ful a shock awaited th husband, who personally threw open th door At Rs portals swung outwardly lrk, some white appareled objm ftll rat til tig within his arms, It was lha skoleton of his wf In hsr yet unmolil red shroud A careful Investigation rendered It evident that she had revived within Iwo days of her entombment, that hr struggles within the coffin had caused It to fall from a ledge or shelf to the floor, where It was so broken aa to oormlt hsr to escape On the unper oioet slops whloh led down to the dread chamber wm a large fragment of cof fin, with wiiloh It seemed that she had endeavored to attraot attention by striking the Iron door. While thus oc tpied, she probably swooned or poosl Jly died through sheer lerrorj and In falling her shroud beoame entangled In some Iron work whloh projected In teriorly. Thua aha remained and thus she rotted. ereot.IMnar Allen poe Hreni HrnaiMinlit "Everybody feels thnt ha otmlit to see Shakespeare." "Thnt's one reason why they don't go, I reckon," romarked the thentrlcjil manager," Louisville Courier-Journal. Women are superior tcTracn because U7 always say they art.