EXPLOSION OF SUBMARINE MINE.
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LITTLE STORIES
AND INCIDENTS
( RoldUr Ileetlc.
There are belles tu England (of tin
family known to scientists Tele
phorlado) that are popularly railed sol
dlers anil sailors, tlia red specie being
ml I i-d by the former name and tho
blue apevlca by ttm latter. Theso bee
tles are among the most quarre!onit
of Inserts and fight to the death on
the least provocation. It ha long
been the eualoin among Engllnb boy
to catch and net them fighting with
web. other. They are aa ready fur
tmttle aa game rock, and the victor
will both kill and eat bis autagonlat
Nicholas.
Frank Lowell' kefcrence.
Aunt Martha, young Dr. Snow's
maiden sister, aat by the north whi
tlow knitting and watching the boy
4-oinn and go. Dr. Snow had advertised
for an offieo boy a lioy "honest, kind
mid capable." A rior.cn or more boya
lind ronio and gone, but at laat one
anii, smaller thun any of tho other.
Ill blue eye were frank, hi face
lulling, hi whole air hopeful; but be,
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too, waa rejected. He was too small,
and had no reference. Aunt Martha
stropped her knitting and started to
Iter feet when she saw him go out. .
"Call that boy back, Arthur!"
Her brother went to the door obedi
ently, and whistled, for he did not
know the boy's name. When the latter
turned his pale, dlanppolnted fuce Dr.
Know beckoned to him.
"Come In," ho said, shortly; "my
lster wants you."
"Sit down, my dear," she aald kind
ly. He ant down near her. "What Is
your mi me?" she asked.
"Frank Ixwell."
"Well," she continued, "I was nt tb''J
. Any boy of to-dny who labors under
the Impression that his life Is a hard
one should make It his business to
luTn something about the methods
Kiictlsed in the schools of long ago.
As late as 1831 "the pupils of the
Rto-.it schools of Eton and Winches
ter were forced to rise at five In the
inornlug, to make their own beds and
to wash nt tho pump In the courtyard.
They bad nothing to eat until nine
o'clock. Their chief diet consisted of
poor mutton, potatoes and beer.
Htnrvlng, freezing and flogging were
nn expected pnrt of the dully routine,
with tho additional miseries rutnllod
by the fugging system. Sidney Smith
nays that he suffered so many years
of starvation and misery at Winches
ter that be never could blot out tho
memory. Hnrslier still was the treat
ment in the mora ancient schools, u'd
cd by the stern homo discipline.
Peter, the son of the worshipful Sir
Willnm Cnrew, was sont to lodge
with onp Iluito while he attended a
grammnr-Bchool at some dlstnnce from
Ids home. A servant brought tho Ind
nnC delivered lilm to his host us 'If
be were a criminal.
"My master says, 'Keep a sharp
eye on him, und flog lihn If he does
wronjr.' M
Freer, the schoolmaster, was n' hard
man. Daily he showered the boy with
rnH blows. No marvel that Peter
Hied the safe retreat of the woods
better than the schoolroom. In vain
Hulte lectured, and in vain Freer
flogscd. Tbe boy constantly played
truant und would not learn. Once
IIulte bunting for him, found him
established by a buttress of the city
wiill, rondlng.
"0 varlet I have caught you!" he
exclaimed. But Peter bounded up and
climbed to tho top of the wall.
"Let me ber be cried. "If you
rres me I shall surely enst myself
headlong over the wall, and then
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Arlington a few ilaya ago waiting for
a friend. Aa I looked out of the win
dow I bow my friend Her lianda
were ao full of package that h
dropped one, and w ith It herpur. Shu
uld not know It, but a boy picked up
tho package and purse and gave thein
to liur. She wanted to reward him,
but ho wouldn't acept anything. Did
you know that loy. Frank Y' Aunt
Martha continued
"Yea," ho aald, bla face fluahlng with
embarrassment
"lie waa honeat, waan't be7" she
questioned.
"All boya ought to be," aald Frank,
meekly. ,
"Hut all boy are not," she answer
ed. "That 1 what my brother wants
an honeat boy."
Dr. Know realized that after all hta
alater waa not crazy. Hut by tula time
alio was telling another atory.
"It waa laat week, one windy day,"
alio waa anylng, "und I had Jnat
atepped out of a ator., when I anw mi
old womnu standing on tho corner.
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Just then there appeared the boy who
had picked up my friend's purse. V
heard him say, 'I'll help you acroaa the
street, ma'am,' and he did."
Frank rose as If to go, but Aunt
Martha aald:
"Just wait a minute. I've found out
that the boy has been taking care of
Ms mother, who la a widow, and Is
sick. He haa kept the wolf from the
door for two yenrs."
"Well, luddle," aald the doctor, srall
lng down into the small race, "my
(rood sister Is your reference, I see, and
could not nuk n better one. If you'll
stny with me, consider yourself cn
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shall break my neck, and thou slialt
bo hanged!"
Reports were sent to Sir William of
his son's wilfulness. The father came
it once, accompanied by a servant
having n -o!lar and chain. No word
passed between the father nnd son.
The collar was put about the boy's
neck, and be was led by the servant
Hko a dog through the streets. When
home wns reached he was not allowed
to enter tho house, but was chained
In n kennel with a hound, and kept
theie for days and nights. What
wonder be was "still more desirous of
liberty than of learning!"
It is pleasant to know that the next
master in wnoso cnarge retcr was
placed wns a sensible and kindly man.
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who kept tho boy so busily and hap
p'.ly engaged that he became a docilo
lad, nnd grew up to be a line man
in after years ho was Sir Peter
CYrew, a gentleman of worth und
mink, n friend of King Henry III
Not Whnt She Einected.
An English lord was recently dining
with a family In New York. The host-
ess' little girl sat opposite the lord and
stared solemnly.
"Are you au English lord, really and
truly, sir?" she said at last
"Yes." he answered, lauehlncr. "real-
ly and truly."
"I never saw an English lord be
fore," she said. "I've always wanted
to.
"And now you're satisfied, aren't
you?" Bald the yuong man, gayly.
"No, I'm not. satisfied," responded
the little girl. "I'm disappointed."
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Town Topics.
When the leap-year girl achieves a
husband she seldom achieves anything
great .
When a man la In the right he can
afford to remain silent.
PRJSiOtNT KOOSCV.ELT,
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In all the annul of conflict between nation there la recorded no more
deadly or Inhuman Instrument of warfare than tbe aubmarine mine such ea
blew up the Ituaalan flagahlp Fetropavlovsk and the Japanese battleship
IlatauM.
The submarine mines In the Tort
If placed there by the Russia na to prevent Ingress of the enemy's ahlpa to
their harbor have proved a dangerous preservative. That the late Admiral
Malta ro ft realized this Is Indlc nted by the thorough examinations of the har
bor which he caused to be tnde shortly before the terrible fatality which
befell him and the crew of bla flagship.
certain of tbe location of mines placed
Neither the Russians nor tue Japanese feel secure in the movements of
their ships In and about tbe fateful locality of the submerged mlnea in the
roadstead before Tort Arthur and that part of the Yellow Sea contiguous to
it The danger to merchantmen sailing
seems not to have been considered by
When hostilities between Rnssla
made undoubtedly to clear the mine
can never be accomplished with any
do tbe mines extend that It may not
and those that have gone adrift will
an Indefinite time.
NEW WAY TO TELL TIME.
This Clock Will Show the Exact Hour
and Minute In Klg-nres.
With all the modern products of the
twentieth century clockmakers before
the world and clocks and watches no
longer a luxury, It seems somewhat
surprising, aa well aa audacious, for
any one to declare that he will pro
nounce all clocks "back numbers" and
revolutionize all systems of recording
the hours, minutes and seconds as they
go fleeting past
Yet a man from Connecticut the
home of the clockmakers and, the land
of clocks, has the precocity to make
such an announcement He is not a
clockmaker, but Just a plain Yankee
genius.
Samuel Powers Thrasher, of New
Haven, Conn., has an invention that
bids fair to make Yankee clockmakers
CLOCK SHOWS TIME IH FIOURKB.
creen wlt Ty.' J.n t&1' M' T1,ra8h,er
proposes 10 ieu uiuc iu uguiva
same as we read on the time tables of
every road In the country. No long?r
would he have us say It Is "quarter of
8" or "half-past 2." but as we look at
hl9 Invention he proposes and insists
that we must say 2:45 or 2:30. In the
twentieth century bustle and bustle
this proposal seems likely to meet with
more than mere approval. Mr. 'inrnsu-
er proposes to reconstruct the familiar
face with which Father 'lime has weeu
wont to remind us of tho passing
hours and do away entirely with the
cualnt old dial with its Roman numer
als in use from the middle nges, and
likewise take away the old clock s
hands. Instead of pointing the way
and letting us figure out the time foi"
ourselves, Mr. Thrasher's new tlmi
I piece will tell'us in plain figures at a
glance Just what time it Is. It will
be no more trouble to tell the hour, th
minute and the second than to read
the A, B. C's or see at a glance In tho
time tables the hour and the minute.
Any one with eyes and the ability to
use them can tell time, and a mere
comparison wlth'a time table and a
knowledge of figures and the ability to
read them will be the only essential
to know the precise moment when a
train is supposed to arrive or depart
or any event is to take place.
Three seta, of figures, one each for
the hours, the tens and the units of
minutes, revolving on separate rolls
with measured accuracy and appear
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by his own order.
In tbe Yellow Sea is obvious, but
the combatants.
and Japan are over an effort will be
from tbe paths of navigation, but this
guarantee of security to vessels. So far
be possible to account for all of them,
remain as a menace to navigation for
lng in a given space at the proper time,
give us the hours and minutes on this
wonderful new clock. A pointer con
stantly traveling in a half -graduated
circle tells the exact seconds. The
pointer and the rolls Interlock and the
whole Is Impelled by a device which Is
simpler than the simplest clock mech
anism ever made, which seems Impos
sible to get out of order and never
needs-winding.
. Handicapped by Ignorance.
Andrew Lang has read a book by
George Ade, which, he says, was given
him by a scholar of more than Euro
pean reputation to fill a gap In hla
philological knowledge. He complains
about It In the London News, assum
lng that some of the language in the
book does not convey Ideas to him.
The book Is "Fables In Slang." Mr.
Lang professes not to know what a
steamer rug" Is, nor what Mr. Ade's
young man meant when be warned a
waitress in a restaurant that unless
she was careful "some one would sign
her as a spotted girl." Why are spotted
girls signed? asks Mr. Lang. Among
other words and phrases that perplex
him he mentions "Josher." "craft"
cinch," "a one-night stand," " rube
town," "a four-fiu9h drummer," "a root
er from the days of underhand pitch
lng." In the last expression he sus
pects an ingredient of baseball, and
professes to wonder if a "rooter" is
equivalent to a "daisy-cropper." He
quotes from Mr. Ade: "She could get
away with any topic that was batted
up to her, and then slam It over to sec
ond In time to head off the runner,"
and makes surmises about what Is
meant Reading of a lad who learned
to shoot craps, he balks at "craps," and
wants to know- what they are. So he
oes along, and finally declines to ad
in it that Mr. Ade's deliverances have
amused him. But by his own admls
slon they were given to him to Increase
his learning rather than his Joy.
An Organ Without Stops.
There is a man living in an Eleventh
street flat who has no music in his
soul, and there Is a man on the lower
floor whose soul is full of it The lower
floor man not long ago added a four
lung parlor organ to his lares and
penates, and two healthy daughters of
Ids began to practice on it. Several
nights later a friend paid a visit to the
first man, and as soon as he got lnstdo
the apartment he htard the parlor
organ on the lower floor.
"Fine-toned Instrument that," he
(-aid, because he, too, had some music
in his soul.
The uiuslcless man grunted.
"W:hose make is It?" the visitor
nBked.
"Don't know," was the ungracious
answer.
"How many stops has It?"
- The host pulled himself up for a
powerful effort
"Well," he replied, "It's been in the
house for about a week now, and In
that time It hasn't had any that I have
been able to discover."
Girls, brace up and get busy; it's
long time between leap years.
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Woman In tbe Middle West.
The social picture of the mlddlo
West as a whole, however, presents
the kexes occupying different Intellect
ual and moral planes. There the worn-
bn Is Indisputably the mistress In all
that makes for culture culture In let
ters and In art; the man U king In his
own active realm. Fach Is moat def
erential to the other In that other's
sphere. The books on the shelves, the
picture on tbe wall, are of the worn
an's choice or selection. Tbe man
speak of her literary or artlatlc tastes,
tiaually of both combined, with tbe
reverence that Is due to her superior
Intellectual and spiritual gifts and ac
quirement. She Is tbe hostess, and
tbe host stands appropriately behind
her. She la the Instructed and leads
the Intellectual movements of her
town. Tbe book club, the Dante club,
the entertainer of the lecturing or the
traveling lion, la the woman. Often
tbe clergyman assists; but she, through
her Influence over the surrendered
man, has selected her clergyman, and
on her he must count for the success
of himself and of bis work. She is,
indeed, generous and gracious, and
welcomes with Joy every man who
strays from business Into the company
of books and plcturea, into homes
which she has made. They call their
houses homes, oftener than the East,
and these homes bespeak the finer
taste of the woman. Her education is
likely to be more virile than that of
her Eastern sisters, because It Is ac
quired at schools and colleges where
co-education of the sexes is the rule,
Her domination In the home and her
primacy In the higher life, aa we are
inclined to call It are seen not only in
the more obvious social affairs, but In
the element of seriousness which
marks most life In this midway of the
country.
As the man pays her high respect
by recognizing her superiority In the
kingdom of taste, of feeling, of tbe
imagination, of the knowledge which
comes from books, she returns his def
erence by venerating him as the active
ruler of the world of affairs. This atti
tude was well expressed by a young
woman student in one of the great edn
cation universities of the West She
was asked to write her view of Thomas
Jefferson, and this was her response:
Thomas Jefferson was timid and sly,
but lovely in his family." She could
judge him as one of the "world of
men," because she was not of his fam
ily; if she had been, the last part of
her description alcne would have suf
flced. Henry Loomls Nelson in Har
per's Magazine.
Collar and Cuff Bet.
A pretty collar and cuff , set, to be
worn with one's silk shirt waist suit
or dainty blouses, la made of filet net
similar to wash blond, or "footing."
Tbe filet net comes by the yard and
1 just the right width for turnovers.
Five-sixths of a yard is sufficient for
set The edges are bound with
COLLAB AND CUFF 6tT.
taffeta silk binding ribbon, of some
shade to harmonize with the suit
About an eighth of an inch above this
another row of the binding ribbon is
placed (both rows are machine-stitched
to the net), the two being connected by
fagoting In embroidery silk.
A Noble Woman.
An unusual ceremony took place In
New Orleans, when many thousand
persons from every walk of life gath
ered to do honor to a woman. A loving-cup
was presented to Miss Sophie
Wright whom her fellow townsmen
love to call "The First Citizen of New
Orleans," and the presentation was
made the occasion for a public demon
stration of affection.
Miss Wright is a little, crippled
woman, white-haired and sweet-faced.
All her life she had been struggling
against poverty and against the never
ceasing pain of a spinal trouble. Able
to go about only with the aid of a steel
harness and a cane, she still has the
strength of a multitude in doing good
works.
Twenty years ago she was but a
girl of eighteen, yet she had already
established a prosperous and growing
boarding school, and was beginning
to see ahead an end to poverty. One
day a young mechanic, nsked her to
teach him to read and write. Suddenly
brought face to face with the fact
that thousands of boys were growing
up in New Orleans untaught and with
out hope of advancement, she threw
her school open to them in the even
ing, and called for volunteer teachers
from among her girl pupils. Thus was
established a free night school to
which thousands of men to-day owe
all their education. This year it en
rolled fifteen hundred pupils, and three
hundred were turned away for lack
of room.
Fighting weakness and pain which
would render another a helpless bur-
den, she spends her days earning mon
ey to support herself and her charity.
and her evenings teaching her "boys."
Yet with it all she finds time for th
countless other demands on her. Ther
Is scarcely a charity In the city but
feels the inspiration of her aid. Last
winter she engineered the raising of
seventeen thousand dollars to build a
home for crippled children. Her re
ward Is In a love from the people of
New Orleans such as few have earned.
Her life 1 an example of what a noble
woman can accomplish. Youth's Com
panion. A'ROIITTOF
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The domestic subjects sub-depart
ment of tbe new London educational
authority does not mean to do things
by halves. If they teach young folks
how to manage a baby the lessons are
to be thorough. No dolls are going
tr be used, or picture Illustrations,
but a good, honest 3-month-oId Infant,
warranted to scream at pin pricks,
kick at bathing, and be sick when Im
properly fed. Attendance at these do
mestic Instruction classes Is compuls
ory on all girls of school age for one-
half day per week. Results of the
most encouraging description have
been noticed already from some of the
classes. A well-known doctor stated
the other day that a woman's life had
been saved by the skilled nursing of a
13-year-old danghter, who had been a
regular attendant at one of the board
school sick nursing classes.
Furnishing a Home.
It seems a pity that the young wo
man who Is about to establish a home
and has a sum of money to spend for
Its garnishing cannot be persuaded
from laying it out all at once. She
robs herself of so much future enjoy
ment Tbe spick and span sets of
furniture which are carelessly ordered
from an upholsterer, and carried home
and stood around her parlors by his
men, will never afford her half the
satisfaction she can get In a room for
which to-day she buys a chair, and
next week, seeing there must be a
table to accompany the chair, she
starts on a fresh shopping excursion,
and finds a table which Is exactly
what she was looking for; and in an
other month, discovering the need of
a bookcase or a screen, she has again
the delight of the hunt, and the grati
fication of obtaining the prettiest
screen and bookcase In the city.
Such a room is a growth, a gath
ering together,-of household treasures
little by little, and piece by piece. Each
article, bought only when the need
ariBes, or when something Is happily
found to Just meet the need, will have
family history which makes It an
entertaining as well as a valuable pos
session. Each couch and footstool la
an achievement; each rug and curtain
represents a triumph. Such a home,
built up gradually, with careful plan
ning In each part, with thought and
loving consideration In all Its details.
acquires a meaning far deeper than
could be purchased by the longest
purse from the most fashionable cabinet-maker.
Housewife.
Taking Life Too Seriously.
Taking life too seriously Is said to
be an especially American falling. This
may be true, but Judging from appear
ances, it would seem to be world wide.
for, go where one may, one will find ,
the proportion of serious, not to say
anxious, faces ten to.one as compared
with the merry or happy ones. If
"the outer is always the form and
shadow of the Inner," and If "the pres
ent Is the fullness of the past and the
herald of the future" (and how can wo
doubt it?) how many sad histories may
be read In the faces of those we meet
every day? The pity of It Is, too, that
the sadness Is a self-woven garment
even as Is the Joy with which It might
be replaced. Ruskln says, "Girls should
be sunbeams, not only to members of
their own circle, but to everybody with
whom they come In contact. Every
room they enter should be brighter for
their presence." Why shouldn't all of
us be sunbeams, boys as well as girls,
all along the way from twenty-five
years and under to eighty-five years
and over?
Home Life.
The home life may change, but it
will not be disrupted. Nothing can
destroy the home life. The more wo
men become the equals of men and
the more they are considered and treat
ed as equals the stronger will the
home life become. Women in the home
used to be considered as dependents;
I might say as incumbrances. Now,
with their increased education, ability
and opportunities, they are better abla
to make the home life1 what It should
be. It Is not simply breadmaklng,
mending and dishwashing that make,
the home, women of to-day are being
trained to preside In the home with
skill and science, and naturally they
are better able, to Improve the home
life, to raise Its standard, to make '
Ideal. Susan B. Anthony.
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