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Food for thought l to be found In
empty cupboard.
No woman look at good to other
a she does to herself.
It la easier , to touch the average
man's heart than It is to touch hts
pocket book.
When a girl stops trying to make a
young man jealous he may as well pull
cut of the game.
and that ha points of respectability
that the "hlveree lack Is the bur
lesque serenade. Thl occur early in
the evening, the midnight hour being
left for repose, All kinds of Instru
ments are permitted In this band, and
facility In tone production la all that
is necessary to the performer. Nailing
ribbons and shoes to the baggage Is
no longer an fait, nor Is It absolutely
necessary to waste A half bar: -! of
rice on the depot floor. To tip over the
house, knock the steeple ofT the church
rnd pry up a rail so a to wreck the
train are no longer practiced. The
burlesque serenade Is really not so bad,
and It serve to show the appreciation
In which the bridegroom Is held by his
fellows.
Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
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The Russian people are said to be
Tery fond of the czar and rarely ever
try to wreck his train when the track
Is well guarded.
Less than half of the Russian popu
lation can read and wrtte. But think
of the technical difficulties to be over
come In learning Russian.
The Princess of Wales could earn
her living as a stenographer If neces
sary. All stenogs are princesses, but
all princesses are not stenogs.
Why is It that every successful test
of. a flying machine ends with some
disablement of the machinery that
prevents further experimenting?
It Is thought that the title of the
ranaraa route has been transferred In
a manner that will give the lawyers of
the future very little encouragement
The savage Filipinos at St Louis
look upon the bright new $10 bills as
ornaments. The savages are not alone I presidents was recently married to a
It never rains but It pours." and
the action of the Presbyterian general
Assembly, forbidding the remarriage
of divorced persons by Presbyterian
ministers seems to have been re-echoed
all around the horlson. The Baptist
Home Mission Society has adopted
resolutions condemning all divorces ei-
cept for the scriptural cause and all
tvmarriage of divorced persons except
the Innocent parties to scriptural di
vorces. The committee of the Metno
dlst General Conference to which the
matter was referred has discussed and
rejected all grounds for divorce except
the scriptural ground. Bishop McLaren
In his opening address to the Illinois
Diocesan Convention made a feeling
allusion to the divorce evil, and the
subject forced itself in a meeting of
the peace and arbitration committee of
the W. C T. U. with the same effect
The most noteworthy action of all.
however, was taken by the Federation
of Women' Club. The by-lawa of
this organisation make all of the wom
en who have served two years as pres
ident honary presidents. It hap
pened that one of these honorary
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In the possession of that kind of artis
tic taste.
Women as Wage tamers,
T bas never been determined to the swtlsfac
tion of the men workers that It la a good or a
fair thing for the women workers to compete
with them In the omu lalor market. The men
oateiid that the women, by accept'11 lower
wage, decrease- the average wege paid to a!l.
The unmarried women who havo no one to
wvrk for them maintain that the woman who has a hus
band for her bread-winner Is an unfair competitor. Then,
again, there are those, generally old fashioned folk tlmt
have, like Webster's veterans, comedown to us from former
generations, who devoutly believe that the woman's sphere
of labor, as wife and mother. Is In her own home, where
useful, helpful work for the world may be found to en
gage much of her time, energy and Intelligence. These
ancient people contend that the miring aright of children,
the making of good men and noble women. Is the very
best and the moat profitable work to which married wom
en can put their hands or minds.
Respecting the merit or demerits of any of these three
contentions we do not pretend to decide, as we are pa
masters in neither political economy nor sociology. What
we do know on the subject pretty thoroughly l that the
right kind of lalwr Is a good and benoflcewt thing for wom
en as well as for men, and that day by day recognition of
that fact is becoming more general. What else, is being
recognised is that the wxman who works for a wage or
salary loses no dignity nor prestige, but rather gains both
by her willingness and ability either h work and support
herself In womanly Independence or to assist In the sup
port of her family who need her assistance. Philadelphia
Ledger.
FIFTY YEARS OF KANSAS.
William A1W Whit ItoiUr tke
Mill lias OmI to Hlesd.
I'nder the tills of "Fifty Year of
Kansas" William Allen Whit tell In
tha World' Work a significant story
of itatt lulldiug. Fifty year ago,
he say. Kaunas wa marked on the
mapa a desert and for th most part
It wa a desert Indeed. It Is an up
land country i-hlotly, a vast plateau
veined sparsely with a few river that
wore swollen with the flood of spring
and, through the sea sou of growing
crops, oozed sluggishly In pool on tho
parching white ssnd. Before civilized
man came to grapple It this desert lay
green and tempting In May and June,
and brown and dreary the rest of tha
year.
And uow that Kansas has con-
ly young teacher named Kate 8. Murphy, who fell a tie
Um h Cupid's wiles, determined to make a test ease in
belsilf of herself as well of her suffering ulsters, and she
brought artlou against tho superintendent for the pun"
of preventing the enforcement of tho by-law providing that
"No woman principle, dead of department or memHT of quered the soil, getting crop from It
the teaching or smvorvUIng staff ohall marry while in the with bouutlful regularity, she Is
employ of the Board of Kduentlon. delving Into tho ground. Iu tho
The case was carried to the Court of Appeals, where southeastern triangle of I ha state the
a victory was won for the matrimonial HU-rtv of the fe- ten years Inst past ha brouglil im
mate teacher. Following this defeat the New York Board portunt discoveries of oval ami on ana
of Bduentloti has now amended lis hv-htws bv stilklnir gas and nine and lend. The Iron
out tho clause which permit charge to be made against mountains of Missouri aro near by and
a teacher-bride, hut It minlns the i.mhlMtlv.. feature, mere- smelter and louudrlca ana nuien in
ly to demonstrate Its continued Mlof that fcnwtle teacher dustrle that need clienp fuel aro flit
ought not to wed ami still retain their oltlous. " ! soutneastern Kansas, maun
In tho iiiLtlm lv.it S Mnmli lui. trnn victor 1K economic SllllU rrom aglliui
in imhnir r w ..t in niii.-t.nii u-lrti ii... tinhiio wIwuiIm tural to uinnufacturlng. Hie gas and
icoiu ami tnx vvii in pu'luuk .urmrr
is uii4iii nitviitii'ij 17 fiij'i'ii mini t t imaiinn i -
.i.k,m -...w-.. k., .. . k.i-.... .... .ui ii, auu isriuer ones uiio too iic. i
she will continue to teach in gay Gotham even though she
has fallen a victim to clever Cupid. Burlington Free Proas.
The latest fad among Yale students
Is going barefooted through the streets
of New Haven. It la supposed to have
been started by some young gentleman
whose father could not be reached by
telegraph.
"Some day," an Ohio editor remarks.
"Congress will acquire the courage to
take a humbug by the neck." That's
true as shootin'; but It will still make
a difference whose humbug it 1 that
Invites strangling.
The Spinsters' Club of Philadelphia,
organized for the purpose of abolish
ing men and marriage, should have
begun operations by wiping out mice.
From this they might have worked up
to the point of tackling man.
Wire rope has been considered a
modern invention, but recent excava
tion at Pompeii has unearthed a piece
i of wire rope an inch In diameter and
about fifteen feet long. The rope 1
made of strands, each containing fif
teen wires twisted together, and the
strand are twisted upon one another
exactly a in modern cordage.
gome one has pointed out in a so
ciety column" that the woman of to
day needs, to dress properly, three
times a much money as her grand
mother, who in 1850 dressed well on
1200 a year. This leaves out of con
sideration the great majority of neatly
and prettily dressed women our
wives, sisters and mothers, who have
but a few dollars to spend for clothes.
They make their own garments, and
with skillful fingers and good taste
supply for themselves that for which
dressmakers would charge many hun
dred dollars.
man who had been divorced only two
weeks before. In order to express ft
disapproval of her course the federa
tion changed the by-law and made all
who had served as presidents merely
'eligible" as honorary presidents, the
Intention being to elect all of them ex
cept this obnoxious woman. From
these almost simultaneous incidents it
appears that the church and society,
the two agencies that have more pow
er to purify the marital relation than
the law itself, are now fairly awake
to the necessity of declaring them
selves In the most unmistakable terms
and of exerting all the disciplinary
power they possess over their own
members to extirpate the social cancer
of the present day. In both of these
movements It will be observed woman
is the mainspring, for the church Is
almost much a woman' Institution
as the woman's clubs, and who should
originate this reaction if woman
should not? Woman 1 the almost in
variable victim of divorce, and never
more so than when she is bribed or
abused into seeking a divorce. Woman,
home and childhood are what 1s
crushed in the modern divorce mill,
and it la no wonder that woman'
voice should be first lifted for deliver
ance. I all this parliamentary activity
mere "sound and fnry, signifying noth
ing, or is it to bear fruit in a deter
mined onslaught on the evil? If any
thing ia to be accomplished it will be
through these religious and social or
ganizatlons. That they are almost om
nipotent in this field is unquestionable.
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Saving Niagara.
OVERNOU ODKLIS veto has, for the time
being, saved Niagara Fulls from spoliation by
utilitarian enterprise. He rightly considers
that sentiment a love for the grand and beau
tiful In nature has claims upon the law-making
power which cannot wisely he Ignored In
behalf of money-making propositions, it will
be easy to find elsewhere the power uccossnry to run the
machinery of a population five or ten times as great as
that of the United States to-day. But we ranuot find an
other Niagara. So the New York statesman has the ap
proval of the nation at large, whatever the disappointed
Niagara corporation and its tools in the State legislature
may tbiuk of his veto.
But Governors and legislatures come and go, and If
Niagara is to flow on forever It Is not well that the fate of
the Falls should depend on the bargainings of lobbyists and
politicians. Neither should it depend on the chance that
there may never be a Governor of New York to whom
sentiment may be mere silliness, and Niagara a mere waste
of water which should be set to turning mill-wheels. The
Jurisdiction of New York State over a river which forms
part of an international boundary is-subject to the treaty
making power of the Federal Government That govern
ment in conjunction with Canada, can make the destruction
of the cataract forever impossible through a treaty prohib
iting any further diversion of the waters of the river. As
both countries are now using the water In about equal quan
titles the prohibition would be fair to both, and would pre
serve to Canada and New York the glorious central attrac
tion about which each has created, at vast expense, a mag
nlflcent riverside park. St. Taul Pioneer Press.
EXCITING BUFFALO HUNT.
The Michigan physician who pnts
the annual money loss to the United
States from typhoid fever at $50,000,
000 is far from setting forth the full
truth. He reaches his estimate by
assuming $1,000 as the average value
of the lives sacrificed and he omits all
account of the money spent in the care
of non-fatal cases. The real value of
the lives lost so far as such value can
be expressed in money might proper
ly be rated at $5,000, and at least $100
on the average must be spent on vic
tims who recover. On this calculation,
assuming that the Michigan physician
is correct in his number of cases, the
annual loss to the country from ty
phoid Is nearly $300,000,000.
The Animal Drag a Tawl Acroaa the
Prairie.
A yawlful of men wrecked by a buf
falo Is among the exciting reminis
cences told by the author of "Steam
boat Navigation on the Missouri Riv
er," according to a story in the Phila
delphia Ledger. The fare provided for
the crews in early days was extremely
plain and scanty. One of the boafs
commanded by a Capt La Barge was
going through the buffalo country wiui
only a poor supply of salt pork and dry
bread. Every eye was alert for a meal
of fresh meat if such should appear on
four feet anywhere in the vicinity. At
last "ear Handy's Post four huge
bulls were sighted, swimming the riv
er. Capt La Barge' 8 first mate was a
greenhorn, named John Durack, and
the captain thought this a fine oppor
tunity to break him in to some of the
experiences of the wild and woolly
west He gave orders to the men on
the boat to shoot the buffaloes and he
and John would lasso them when
either wounded or dead and tow them
back to the hungry crew. But John,
it seems, did not quite understand the
program. About midstream he sud
denly flung the noose over the head of
the foremost buffalo, which was nat
urally the strongest of the swimming
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Cupid in the School House.
ROM time Immemorial the school house ha
been a favorite resort for sly Cupid. Thou
sands of charming young women have found
the school house the threshold of matrimony,
and countless young men have met their fate
while eking out an educational existence by
teaching wlreters and "hoarding round." Under
these circumstances none but the most hard-hearted educa
tlonal autocrat would nave the temerity to seek. to banish
Cupid and to say that no female teacher could rise in love
and marry the man of her choice without losing her posl
non in the public schools.
The New York Board of Education sought to banish
all married women from wicked Gotham's public schools,
and forthwith an incipient revolution was started. A come-
A woman in New Jersey has been
convicted on her own admissions,
among other things of having killed
another woman of whom she was Jeal
ous by sticking a knife into her seven
teen times. The conviction was fol
lowed in dne and regular course by
sentence to death on the gallows, but quartet Capt La Barge's shout of dis
the execution of the sentence has been I may came too late.
delayed and the' chances are that the! "Isn't he as good as any?" called
murderess will never be hanged. The back the Innocent first mate, tugging
only reason for leniency, so far as we I hand over hand at the rope,
have heard, la that the murderess is I The buffalo "right about faced" and
not a murderer. In a country where swam like mad for the farther shore,
women had only their rights, of course, the yawlful of men helplessly in tow
there would be no hesitation, but here The rowers barked their oars, protest
eome of women's rights are withheld, lng volently to the obdurate John in
rery cruelly,, it Is asserted, and in com-1 the bow, but all to no purpose. Soon
pensation privileges are accorded to the buffalo's feet touch the, bottom
them. One of the privileges Is the al-1 and up the bank he scrambled, carry-
most certain avoidance of capital pun
ishment however horrible may be the
crimes they commit Whether there
is compensation in this or not la for
the woman to say.
There are some indications that the
good old charivari or "shiveree" of
the fathers is going out of use. Now
and then you hear of mobs assembling
during the night and making pande
monium for the newly married, but
as a rule this relic of early barbarism
and frontier humor is considered passe.
One modified form of the charivari
that seems to be growing la popularity
lng with him the stem of the yawl as
it struck the rocky shore. Terrified
and furious, the buffalo, lasso, boat
bow and all, went careening out of
sight across the prairie, and the sorry
yawl crew had to wait, hungry, angry
and disappointed on the further bank
until another crew came to take them
down the river beyond the warning bel
Iowa of the escaped- buffalo.
A girl trie to Judge the quality of
a man's love by the stone in the. en
gagement ring.
If a friend pulls his watch on your
funny story cut it short.
Brazil, Peru and Rubber. '
IIKN Bracll and Bolivia entered Into a treaty
concerning the territory of Acre last fall, It
wa thought that the long standing disputes
over the region had finally been brought to an
end. Now It appear, however, that Peru Is
still to be reckoned with. A battle has been
fought between Peruvian and Brazilian troops
on the River Crandless, the result tclng, according to Bra
zilian reports, a complete rout of the Peruvians.
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not unlikely that half the area or
Kansas may cover valuable fuel prod
ucts. Sluce 1S14 Kansas ha pulled
herself out of debt; her proportion of
rented farm 1 smaller than that of
any other state In tho traus-Mlssourl
country. Seven-tenth of the home
of the people are owned. The rail
road mileage of the state I larger
than thnt of any other American stuto
lu proportion to the population.
Tho per capita wealth of hansa
may not be larger than that of New
York, but Kansas' wealth I more
The Ministers of both countries at Washington have evenly distributed. There aro no rich
thought It important to hid for American sympathy by Issu- men not a dozen men In the state
lnir statements as to their respective claims and right, worth more thnu $1.0oo,hh); not '.HK
Formally considered, these statements have little In them
of Interest. They deal simply vvlth. yiigue treaties and
vaguer boundaries In an exceedingly-1' fffinly settled region.
Actually the dispute has great Importance to both coun
tries, because the prize at stuke Is the control of some of
the richest rubber forests In the world. Brazilian com
panies have begun to work the forests lu the course of their
progress up the tributaries of the Amazon, while Peruvian
companies have entered them since the denudation of the spent for schools In proportion to tho
worth :m),ooo, hut thousands worth
from $.',000 to $I0.kio, and scores
worth fioo.oiio. The money of tho
few Kansas rich men ha been earned
and saved.
Hut tho chief glory of Kansas U
not her material wealth, but her
schools. In the amount of money
forests In Montana, which Is recognized Peruvian territory.
It Is reported from Rio Janeiro that no war will result
from the frontier battle since both countries desire arbitra
tion. Brazil demands, however, that Peru withdraw all
her troops from the disputed country before arbitration be
gins, while Peru Insists that the presence of her troops I
not lu Ihe slightest degree derogntory of "good faun and
fraternal sentiment." Certainly If the desire for arbitration
Is genuine a provisional arrangement should be easy to
make. Chicago Record-Herald.
wealth and' population of the state.
Kansas ranks fourteenth. The most
considerable Item of the Kansiui'a
taxes are school taxes.
BAD MEN OF ARGENTINA.
The cowboys of tho pampas nn
thieving and murderous, and have lit
tle regard for human life. They tiso
their knlve on tho slightest provoca-
Industrial Changes in China.
LOW as Is the progress of civilization In China,
compared with Japan, which. In a period cov
ered by the memory of men now living, bad
sprung from a condition as barbarous as Persia
to her present place among nations, yet indus
trially at least the "Celestial" Empire does
move, and that In a manner which cannot be
neglected In any computation of future trade with thnt
country. The report of the Inspector General of Customs
of the empire shows thut China Is rapidly getting Into a
condition to supply herself with certain urtlcles for which
she has depended heretofore almost entirely upon other
countries. Those who have not kept themselves well In
formed In regard to tho Industrial changes which have
tieen taking place In the empire will be surprised to learn
from the report that the nntloii which for so miiny years
relied almost entirely upon England and the United States
for Its cotton goods, now manufactures 50 per cent of nil
the goods of this kind supplied to the home market. In a
year China's Imports of (lour have fallen off one-fourth.
not that the Chinese are eating less of It than formerly-
I ii fact the consumption of Hour is Increasing In the em
pire but because the deficiency In Imports was more than
made good by the recently established Chinese flour mills
grinding Chinese wheat
These would seem to he signs thnt, In spite of a cor
rupt ana Ir
awake from
BORDER Kt'FFtAIttt Of THE PAMPAS.
tion, and the rural police have lltt!
control of them. Whenever a crowd
of these border ruffians are assembled.
their faces, hands and bodies show n
collection of scar that is remarkable.
Keeping Ills Word.
Sandy Is the resident Janitor nt one-
of the smaller colleges. He Is a bit of
Incompetent Government, China Is beginning to a-cimrncter In his way. and makes an
m her sleep of centurles.-New York Press. effort not to be out(lone by , ,.
AVOID 8TRAY NICKELS.
DESTRUCTION OF DALNY'S DOCKS.
Small Coin Lost in Malta Worries
Clerk and Cost $18.43.
Ordinarily no man Is rich enough to
escape that certain sense of elation
which comes from picking up a nickel
on a sidewalk, but for a railway pos
tal clerk to find such a coin In a mall
pouch where it has' worked out from
insufficient wrappings, not only does
he miss this elation, but it may pro
voke profanity.
For a nickel lost In a pouch of mull
In transit becomes a matter for na
tional concern. It comes' to view, per
haps, Just as a pouch of mall Is emp
tied upon a sorting table, and when.
It has broken away from the bunches
of letters, and cards, and circulars,
rolled to an open space on the table,
and there settled down, heads or tails,
with a noisy spinning dance, the clerk
who first sees it Is It
A necromancer could have no more
idea than the man In the moon as to
what particular package it rolled out
of, and If he had and should tell the
postal clerk, the clerk wouldn't dare
try to restore the coin to the original
package. That would be too easy al
together. No, it Is a lost nickel from the mo
ment the clerk has to see it spinning
there before his eyes and according to
the tender governmental conscience the
clerk has to get ready for the inaugu
ration of about $18.43 worth of fuss
over it
For himself he doesn't dare go to
bed for a short nap until he has got
rid of his 5 cents' worth of responsi
bility to the government for the action
of the fool person from whom the
nickel was parted. He digs up his
printed form for such occasions, print
ed and provided, and at once fills out a
long blank, describing the coin, tell
ing the circumstances of its being
found, and whether it landed heads or
ONE OF DALNY'S PRINCIPAL STREETS.
The necessities of war produce strange conditions. For five years the
Russians had been engaged in erecting the commercial port of Dalny, situ
ated on Talienwan Bay to the east and north of Port Arthur. It was to
be an open port without a custom house, and free to the commerce of the
world. Large government buildings were erected, streets were laid out
houses built and great docks constructed, the entire outlay being in the
nelghhorhood of . $25,000,000. Then came the war, with Russian unpre-
paredii(ss on land and sea. The defeat of the Russians at Kln-Chou com
pelled their evacuation of Dalny. Before abandoning the place, however,
they destroyed the larger docks and many of the utilities which Japan might
find useful, thus wiping out in a few hours works which in times of peace
they had created at large outlay of time and money.
tails on the table, naming the pouch
from which It was emptied, the num
ber of the train carrying it the date,
and a few other little details any one
of which in hot weather would have
cost a mug of beer.
This report with the nickel goes to
the headquarters of the postal division
in which the car was operated, and
from these bonded officials, by the
same general red tape route, the small
coin finds Its way to the seat of na
tional government and to the fund
representing' that great constituency of
the Fostofflce Department which per
sists In sending money In envelopes
through the unregistered malls of the
service.
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dents. The success Is sometimes on
one side, sometimes on the other.
Sandy owned a little mean-looking dog,
of which he was fond. He was treat
ed to much good-humored chaff about
the dog, but always replied in kind,
frequently asserting, "I wldnn tnk
twlnty dulthers for ma wee doggy."
A few of the more wngglsh fresh
men made up their minds to lct
Sandy's assertion. Between them they
made up twenty dollars, and ono of
their number was authorized on tho
first favorable opportunity to mako
Sandy an offer.
As was quite common with him.
Sandy happened Into toe cloakroom be
tween lectures. The dog soon been mo
a subject of debate, and out came
Sandy's statement, "I wldna tak twln
ty dulthers for ma wee doggy."
"Well, Sandy," said a young fresh
man, "I would like to have that dog,
and here's twenty dollars if you'll sell
him." He counted the money out on
the table near Sandy.
Without a smile Sandy gravely put
his hand In bis pocket, drew out a
fifty -cent piece,' and laid It on the table,
at the same time pocketing the twenty
dollars. "I dldna say I wldna - tak
nineteen fufty. The wee doggy's.
yourn."
Expansion.
"So you have quit selling gold bricks
and conducting bunko games," said
the old-time pal.
"Yes," answered Mr. Conne. "It ia
foolish to run around the streets plck-
The Way of Servant.
M . t 1 mi
oudduub i see uasnman nas an
nounced himself . as a candidate for ing up a thousand here or there. The
governor. . to q0 now j8 to open an office
unman xes, he declares it is his Und have people send you the money
-great ammnon to do tne servant of by mall." Washington Star,
me people."
Subbubs Servant? What! . Doesn't During the courtship a young couple
he mean to keep the place If he gets are apt to Bit around and hold hands In
it? Philadelphia Ledger.
' Some men belong to church and
some others seem to think the church
belongs to them.
silence, but after marriage well, that'a
another story.
An office holder needs little push if
be bus a pull.