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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.
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.