THE COMING MAN. A pair of very chubby legs lucaHed in scarlet hose; A pair of little »tubby boots With rather doubtful toes; A little kilt, a little coat, Cut as a mother can — And Io! before us strides in state The future’» “coming ruun.” Il is eyes, perchance. will rend the stars, And search their unknown ways; J’ercbanre tin* human heart and soul Will open to their gaze; 1‘vrcbame their keen and flashing glance Will I t* a nation s light Those eyes that now are wistful bent Ou some “big fellow’s’’ kite. Th .'it brow where mighty thought will dwell In solemn, secret state; Where fierce ambition’s restless strength Khali war with future fate; Where s< ience from now hidden caves New treasures shall outpour— *To knit now with a troubled doubt, Are two, or three cent», more? Those lips that in the coming years Will plead, or pray, or teach; W heir whispered worlds on lightning flash From world to world may reach; rJ hut. sternly grave, may speak command, <>r, smiling win control— Are coaxing now for gingerbread With all a baby’s soul! Those hands those little busy hands— Ko sticky, small and brown; Those hands whose only mission seems Jo pull all order down — AV ho knows what hidden strength may lie Within their future grasp. Though now ’tis but a taffy stick in sturdy hold they clasp? /.i, blessings on those little hands Whose work is yet undone! Ami blessings on those little feet Whose rare is yet unrun! /.ml blesings on the little brain That has not learned to plan* V Late’er the future holds in store, God bless the “coming man.” — Elmira Telegram. PERCY. wnx nt work. We hail been furnishing—my wife and I. We thought we had done it chenply. but a few eliarmlng things in lhe brie a-brnc line, added at the last moment, had so overbalanced our ac­ count that I felt It imperative to make lip a better check than usual that week on the dally paper upon which I earned my dally bread. So I was hard at work. But my wife had been hard at work, too. She Imd been to I'niil Jones' sale— it was "remnant day"-and site had got a few little things which dear baity ab­ solutely bad to have, besides a few more quite Indispensable trifles for her­ self—al) of them "dirt cheap." Site had been fori-vd to confess, however, that the week's housekeeping money had been severely encroached upon, and I mu afraid I was uot enthusiastic over the Joins sale. In fact 1 took some credit to myself for uiy silence both over the Interrup­ tion anil over the advisability of the purchases; I did not even endeavor to stop her when she hud quickly gather- TH jjGA» —«MtLK-w CORshtAL H'JJ« W4TM JUCAK —- MILK ~ Japan'« Attitude Toward China. The racial differences that exist be­ tween Japan and China have probably led some observers to believe that the two peoples are naturally antipathetic. The war of 1S94 has been cited as proof of this, and in the present crisis in tlie Far East it appears to be taken for granted bv many that the Japanese people will regard China’s misfortune as tlieir opportunity. That there is no valid reason for thinking that this is Japan’s attitude, and that those who are most prominent in guiding Japan's public ixilicy sincerely desire to estab­ lish and foster ’riendlv feelings with China, is ably shown by Durham White Stevens, Esq., counsel lor of the Japanese legation, iu his article, “Ja- pan’s Attitude Toward China,” which anpears in lhe current issueof Collier s Weekly. y j Bare I* Il i I i ppi lie Jewel«. University of Chicago economists wiio have figured that a man and bis vflfe can live with great frugality on $Uoo a year are distanced by the record of eK-Judge William Cole Talcot, of Valparaiso, lud. That aged jurist lias for sevsral years lived with bis wife at » total expense for both of them for Jood of not more than $1 a week, or $52 for the year. And in spite of this both are now lu the best of health, declare that they never felt better nor could work better in their lives, and believe that they have solved the problem of happiness and health lu resorting to the plainest of plain living. Though nearly 85 years ohl Judge Talcot works daily in a garden near Ills house or about the house itself, is never ill. and is apparently as strong as most men who are uot within a score of years of Ills age. And Mrs. Talcot. not quite ten years his junior, though snowy white of hair, has as fresh a color lu lier cheeks ax a girl of 15, and does every day all the housework about their home. Though the diet on which this is ac­ complished will appear to many people barren of everything that makes the table attractive, yet the two who have long made it their own declared that desire for other tilings quickly disap­ peared when they resorted to It, and that they neither want nor need addi­ tions to it. The rule of their table pro­ vides in general that their meals shall consist chiefly of cereal products with milk and sugar. They eat generally for breakfast oatmeal mush and milk and sugar For dinner bread I and milk and sugar, and for supper cornmeal inush and sugar. They vary this slightly from time to time with other cereal foods, and when they feel a taste for it add a bit of meat, for neith­ er Is a strict vegetarian. For two-thirds of a century William Cole Talcot has been known as a lead­ er In social reforms In Northern In­ diana. He came from the East in 1835 on au excursion trip around the great lakes on one of the earliest steamers, The vessel ran up to the Sault Ste. Marie, then in the midst of the great Northwestern wilderness. From there it went Into Green Bay, and Its pas­ sengers beheld along the shores of that beautiful water the virgin forest. In which lived Indians almost unacquaint­ ed with white men. save as they met Toe rarest corals in I lie world are to be fourni in the Philippines. As precious as this jewel is. there is still a rarer one. and I liar is health. Il may be possessed by any one who will use Hostetler’s Stomach Biller- for indigestion, ill sja-psia, belching, heartburn or sleeplessness. Try it. Southern Moonshiner«. AT DINNEFL, the descendants of the early French pioneers or the few Americans who had penetrated thus far into the wilderness for furs. Out through Death’s Door they came, and up the lake to Chicago, and from this «draggling hamlet across the lake to Michigan City. There where a great city was expected to grow Judge Talcot left the boat and soon after settled in St. Joseph County. He has lived in that vicinity nearly ever since, and most of the time at Valparaiso. Even in bis youth he was a thinker along original lines. Having when a boy been given a scholarship in college by a church educational society, he be­ came convinced during his freshman year that the creed of the church which was supporting him was narrow and was founded on myths and traditions. He therefore resigned the scholarship and proceeded to study by himself. After he came to Indiana the Brook Farm communistic experiment was made and co-operation and socialistic colonies became much talked about. The young Talcot took the lead in Northern Indiana—In which there were scattered farming settlements and small towns—and In 1844 started the Philadelphia Industrial Association. Land was secured near South Bend, about two miles from the original town site, on the river, and a house and oth­ er buildings put up. There were nine families of seventy persons In the com­ munity, numbering cobblers, carpen­ ters, farmers and men of other trades, and the plan was strictly a Common­ wealth. All went well for a time. The land, however, bad been secured from two different parties, who were at swords' points, and the troubles be­ tween these two soon destroyed any no­ tion of "brotherly love” in the Philadel­ phie community. A big common house had been built for a starter, having a separate entrance aud room for each family and a common dining-room In the center, and there were outbuildings and plans for larger houses, but after two aud a half years of existence the colony finally disbanded. After that Mr. Talcot was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, with jurisdiction over six counties. He held this office fifteen years. He had beeu before this owner and editor of the local paper—the Valparaiso Vidette —and after resigning from the bench again took charge of the paper and con­ ducted it for thirty yeats. In the early years he found it necessary often to »et and print as well as write the paper. Having been thus in the public eye for three score years. Judge Talcot has come to have great influence among the people of Porter County. He has kept to his free thought, ami is now leader lu the Dr. Thomas branch of the Peo­ ple’s Church in that city. Judge Talcot is as keen in putting forth his reform ideas to-day as at any time in his earlier life, and in them he has the un­ qualified support of his wife. The lat­ ter was for many years a teacher of penmanship in the "Collegiate Insti­ tute” of Valparaiso, and was a close friend of Judge Talcot and his first wife. “There are two things for people to do to be happy and be healthy.” says Mrs. Talcot. "They must live plainly and they must sleep at night instead of half the daytime. Early to bed and early to rise is a wise motto and plain living is another. In our opinion an expenditure of $300 a year for two peo­ ple would be great extravagance. To be sure, we have no rent to pay and we have milk sent to us by Mr. Taicot's son. but even if we had these things to pay for we would not need to spend $300 a year. We do not stint ourselves, but we follow a wise creed by living plainly when we are at home or when on the railroad.” This is the age of things artificial. A palm manufactory has recently opened a salesroom on Upper Broadway, and a huge sign lower dowu on the same thoroughfare notifies the mob that an other store of the same sort will soon be ready for business. The artifldal tree industry Is comparatively new and It must be profitable. All over town one secs counterfeits. Many of the large stoics, and most of the more prominent hotels of this city, includ­ URBANITY A PAYING QUALITY. oral dozen cats found refuge during yond measure. I have known men to ing some of those that are most taste­ the Ottawa fire in a wooden house commit suicide for less disgrace, but ful In their decorations, now have huge Instances in Which Courteous Men which, although the buildings on each palms In their halls or entrances, and he never so much as blinked. He Have Found 1'oliteneaa Profitable, even in private houses It is not uncom­ Many years ago the late Dr. Nnippen, side were burning down, refused to heard me through blandly, made no mon to find plants with removable of Philadelphia, left Ills house in early catch tire and remained intact. Cats I comment and began to talk about lea ves. morning and was hurrying dowu the have a peculiar gift in this direction, j something else. He had told a lie, was The prepared palms, such as are used street when he noticed a singular and since, in additiou to their reputed nine Caught and regarded the episode as to-day. are infinitely more real In ap­ ferocious-looking man, whose gaze was lives, there Is a popular superstition closed.” pearance than the old artificial plants fastened upon him. With instinctive that they will only eat what is good An Odorless Onion. of a few years ago. Many are so close politeness and bonhommie lie smiled, for them. The latest product of scientific propa­ This may or may not be a fallacy, In their resemblance to the live plant raised his lint and pasxisl on. when sud­ that It is hard to detect them as Imita­ denly lie heard a shot. Turning lie but the Instinct of self-preservation, gation is tlie odorless onion. Just how tions without close scrutiny. The leaves found that the stranger had Just left which is common to all animals, ex­ an onion can be odorless and still re­ are real leaves, and not constructed out his home with the insane intention of cept. perhaps, horses (who, being very main an onion Is not explained. To of enameled till, like the old kind, and killing tlie first man he met. He was bugs of nerves, will during a tire be­ most people the odor is all there is of tlie fiber on the trunk is real liber. It the first man: but his absolute fearless­ have witli suicidal obstinacy), has an onion and that is enough. The elim­ Is only on approaching them and ex ness and constitutional as well us culti­ been proved time and agaiu. The rats ination of tlie characteristic feature of amlnlng them that the leaves are seen vated courtesy had put the man off his which, in practice as well as In theory, a vegetable of such long aud strong to be painted ami lhe stalks Inserted guard, and the next passer-by had desert the ship which is no longer sea- | standing in natural history ought to be Into, but uot growing out of. the stem. caught the bullet intended for him. worthy, are a notable example of it; reckoned among the proudest achieve­ The price of the manufactured article That smile and bow had saved bls life. and there are many animal lovers who ments of man. But an onion deprived When the country was a century would not consider it any way extrav­ of that delicious tang and the pene­ varies from 50 cents to $25 for the or binary specimens, but some of the younger ami the Indian was yet in the agant to suggest that the quacking of trating scent which goes with it. can larger ami liner ones amount lo $50. land, a gentleman upon tlie then fron­ the geese in the capitol was due to a hardly be an onion. Tlie palate which or even $100. A small fern palm sprig tier was hunting with friends, got sep­ knowledge on their part of the facts loves onions will not recognize It: call­ of some fifteen inches high Is sold al arated from them, and completely lost that the entry of tne enemy would ing a whitened. Innocuous, insipid, half a dollar; a tree, such as those that bis way Every effort to retrieve Ids mean the cutting of their throats, plated bulb an onion will not make it are seen in the halls of hotels, measur­ steps led him still further Into the wil­ while the rousing of the Romans would one. No true lover of onions will hall this ing. say, nine feet high, and with about derness, and night overtook him in a earn them a debt of gratitude and per­ elghte-m removable leaves, will cost dense forest. Overcome with fatigue, sonal Immunity from the poulterers new invasion of science. He eats his onion nt dead of night, in silence and $17. The sago palm Is a more expen­ he lay down under a tree and slept pro­ shop windows. solitude. He rejoices in It and sleeps sive variety, a tree of live feet selling foundly. In the morning he awoke upon it. The incense of his praise fills Was Just Corn ion Lying. for as much its $20. We may rail with a start, with that Indescribable "The cunning oi the Chim-.-e has the room and soothes him to delicious against humbug to our hearts' content, feeling that some one was looking at him. and. glancing up. he saw that lie beeu very much exaggerated," said a sleep. He rises in the morning after lull, somehow or other, the laugh is sei dolii on the fellow who fools us.—Pitts­ wax surrounded by hostile Indians, and .former sea captain in conversation the his sacrifice to pass the day in purifica­ that the leader of the band, in war paint other day. "I will never forget my tion. to see no one till the sun hath burg Dispatch. and feathers, was bending over him in own experience. We had arranged sunk with indigestible substances, its Work's Groat Work. no amiable mood. with a prominent Chinese merchant of rudiment vegetable can command such The movement In G. A. R. circles to He took tn the situation nt a glance— Hong-Kong for a quantity of tea. but devotion from Its votaries. It Is a lux­ erect a monument over the grave of knew his immediate danger, ami had ury and a worship. Shall he yield all Henry Clay Work, nt Hartford. Conn., no means of averting it; neither did he at the last minute there was a hitch about the delivery of the consignment. Uiis delight for an odorless bulb? I.et revives the fact that lbs father was understand a word of their language. He told me it had been temporarily others do as they will, he will not. An once confined In the Missouri peniten­ But he was -elf |s>sxesxed. knew tlie tied up by the officials on account of onion without its odor would be asham­ tiary on the charge of aiding slaves to universal language of nature, and be­ ed of itself.—Milwaukee Journal. ... ape from the State of Missouri to lieved that even under the war paint | some misunderstanding about the in- , ternal taxes. I discovered by accident Illinois. When the elder Work was re­ and feathers "a man's a man for a' ! I inter on that the lot hail been sold A Chinese Typewriter. leased, one of the conditions of his par­ that." He fixed Ills clear, bold eye M|>- 1 The Rev. ¿Sheffield, a Presbyterian don being that he should return to the on the Indian, ami smiled! Gradually over my bead to a chance customer minister at Tung Chow, has invented a Stale of Connecticut, whence he came the fierceness passisl away from the and the tax story was a mere pretext typewriter for the Chinese language. to gain time for the substitution of an originally, ami remain there for the eye alswr him. and at last au answer­ This machine is capable of writing rest of his natural life. Tills obliga­ ing smile eame over the face. Both | inferior grade. "The tea merchant was a sedate. 4,(1011 characters, which are carried tion he faithfully kept. The son, llen- xi ere men Ixitli were brothers and ’e \ C Work, was born at Middletown. was saved! The savage took him mid r I courtly old gentleman and he had told around the circumference of numer­ Colin., and saw the end of American liis protection, brought him to his wig­ me the outrageous He with perfeet ous type-wheels. It requires the de­ slavery vv Idle thousands of soldiers and wam. and after a few days restored calmness, looking me squarely in the pression of two keys in order to print citiieus sang "Nicodemus," "Ring the him to Ills friends. Courage, self-com­ face, without a quiver. It never oe- a simple character. Bell. Watchman.” and "Marching mand. and taet had gained the day.— ■ I eurrevl to me to doubt bls word and A Northern Lighthouse. j but for chance we would have been Through Gtxvrgla.” Lipplm-ott'x Magaxlne. The most northern lighthouse in heavy losers. When 1 exposed him The t'aar'a Scepter. InsGnct of Cat*. indignantly before all his employes and Great Hrltaln. the northwest tower on Tlie Russian acepter Is of solid gold. The Instinct of animals In the mat­ several foreign residents I supposed tl,e coast of Shetland. Is built on a rock three fo-t long, and contains among Its ter of self preservation Is curiously II- | ■ he would t>e ashamed and disconcert- J«»! feet high, the summit of which ornaments 2(58 diamonds, 3G0 rubies lustrated, says the Nev Orleans i ed. An American of his standing would barely affords room for the necessa:y aud Ufteeu emeralds. T.aues Democrat, by the fact that Mt i have been humiliated aud crushed be building* The great majority of mooushiners are to be found in the mountain fast­ ness of Georgia, Alabama and Tennes­ see, and here they live in conditions of civilization ax crude as their ances­ tors, most of whom were English fugi­ tive» from justice who reached this country more than a century ago. In­ deed, in many respects these descend­ ante have retorgraded rather than ad­ vanced. Had thev been surrounded for a century by a Chinese wall they could not have been more destitute or ignorant of the modern conveniences. ALUM BAKING POWDERS. Congre«« 1« Acting to Suppre«« Their Sale. , The report of tlie senate committee on manufactures upou tlie subject of food adulterations and food fiauds lias created a sensation in congress and awakened great interest throughout the country. If there could be published a list of the names of all articles of food found by the committee to be adulterated or made from injurious ingredients, it would be of inestimable value to the public. The recommendations of the commit­ tee that tlie sale of alum baking pow­ ders lie prohibited by law, will make of special interest tlie following list of names of baking powders which chem­ ists have found to contain alum: Baking Powder« Containing Alum: K. C.............................................. Contains Alum Manf. by Jaques Mfg. Co., Chicago. CALUMET. . . .............. Contains Alum .Manf. hv Cuhuuei Baking Powder Co., Clccag». HOME................................ Contains Alum Mani by Home Baking Pow der l’o.. Sun FranelMX, WASHINGTON.............. Contains Alum Manf. by Pacific Chemical Works, Tacoma. CRESCENT.....................Contains Alum Manf. by Cresuent Mfg. Co., Seattle. WHITE LILY................ Contains Alum—♦ Manf. by D. Ferrera A Co., Tacoma. BEE-HIVE....................... Contains Alum Manf. by Washington Mfg. Co.. San Francisco. BON BON......................... Contains Alum Manf. by (Irani Chemical Co.. Chicag". DEFIANCE.................... Contains Alum Manf. by Portland Coffee A Spice Co.. Portland. PORTLAND................... Contains Alum fi Manf. by Beuo A Ballis, Portland. It is unfortunate that many manu­ facturers of alum baking powders state that their powders do not contain alum. It is only right that consumers should have correct information as to the character of every article of food offered to them. Superstition in Yucatan. ’’Aproposof the wonderful ancient ruins iu Yucatan,” Mid a New Orleans college professor, ‘‘there is ods very fortunate circumstance which has pro­ tectee them almost entirely from spoli­ ation by the Indians. It is cur~ently believed by the natives all through that part of tlie country that the ruins are haunted ami that devils will carry away auvbody who attempts to molest them. Tins superstition lias been en­ couraged by explorers, and is a better safeguard than a picket of soldiers.” Do Your Peet Aclie and Burn? Shake into vour shoes Allen’s Foot Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy; gives instant relief to Cornsand bunions. It’s the greatest com- r»>rt di>eovery of the age. Cures vwoileti feet, blisters anti callous spots. Alien s Foot-Ease is a certain cure for ingrow in»* nails, sweating, smarting, hot. aching feet. We have over 30.000 testimonials. It cures while you walk Ail druggists and shoe stores sell tr. 2. hi . 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Bend for circulars, free F J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O.K 9 Sold by Druggists. 75c Mali'» Family Pills are the best. Delilferate much before doing or sa v­ ing anything, for you ha\e not th© power of recalling wbat has been said or done. « All farmers are not good judges of butter and lose the advantage of high prices thereby. They keep cream too long or fail to use a thermometer when churning, making mistakes that might be avoided by taking precautions against selling an inferior article. Better make of every sorrow a step­ ping stone to higher, nobler thought and deed than to hang it against your heart to weigh you down into tbs slough of despondency.