TWO POOR BOYS WHO MADE THEIR MARKS IN THE WORLD. JUST COMMON FOLKS, If only sweetest bells were rung How we should miss the minor chimes l'f only grandest poets sung, There'd be no simple little rhymes; The modest clinging vine adds grace To all the forest's giant oaks. And 'mid earth's mighty is a place To people with just common folks. CALIFORNIA GIANTS ARE RUTH­ LESSLY CUT DOWN. Necessary Waste of Lumbering Mam­ moths Over Fifty Per Cent—Forestry Department Deman I 'Ihut Efforts Be Made to have Few Remaining Groves. Not they the warriors who shall win Upon the battlefield a name To sound the awful din; Not theirs the painter’s deathless fame; Not theirs the poet's muse that rings The rhythmic gift his soul invokes; Theirs but to do the simple things That duty gives just common folks. Fate has not lifted them above The level of the human plane; They share with men a fellow love In touch with pleasure and with pain. One great, far-reaching brotherhood, With common burdens, common yokes, And common wrongs and common good— God's army of just common folks. MARtUS DALY’S MONEY. HENRY VILLARD’S DEEDS. Reported the Lincoln-Douglas debates Capital represented by him. .$100,000,000 Reported the first Lincoln campaign. Ills personal wealth............. 22,000,000$ War correspondent, the Civil War. Copper interests represented 75,000,000 > Foreign correspondent of American First price paid for his cop- S newspapers. In 1801 owned New York Evening O tell me, old fellow, how on per mine................................ 35,000 ) Post and Nation. earth it is possible for such a His annual wage roll paid.. 8,000,000^ In 1875 president Oregon Steamship metamorphosis to have taken His horses cost ........................ 1,000,000' Company. place. Not a month ago we sat here, Receiver of Kansas Pacific Railroad 300,000? Company. two hnrdened bachelors, determined to His works of art cost............. remain so to the end of our days, and His private car cost............... 40,000 ? Completed in 1883 the Northern Pacific now 1 find you transformed into a most His hotel coat.......................... 200,000? Railroad. President Northern Pacific Railroad devoted husband.” Company. A hearty laugh was the Immediate His personal living cost per annum .................................... 5,000) President Edison General Electric Com­ answer to this outburst, and Dr. Tre»- pany. ton, to whom It was addressed, took a His annual income was ap­ Chairman in 1889 of the Northern Pa­ puff at his pli>e before replying. proximately .......................... 2,500,000) cific directory. “Well, you sw, Jim,” he said, “I Marcus Daly graduated from digging potatoes to digging copper and accumu­ thought It would be fun to surprise you lated a fortune of $50,000,000. Henry Villard rose from reporter to railroad thoroughly for once. But Della shall president, became a Napoleon of finance, lost two enormous fortunes, and died tell you the story, and you may be sur­ a millionaire. prised to learn that you yourself, un­ * An Unconscious Matchmaker. DESTROY BIG TREES. * Gifford Plnchot, United States fores­ ter, has issued a pamphlet coueeruiug the big trees of California which has created no little comment through its endeavors to state clearly aud emphat­ ically the necessity for the preservation of the California mammoths. The writer protests against the rate at which the big trees are being destroyed by private owners, pointing out clearly that the chances of a renewal of the wonder growths are to be little consid­ ered. "Most of the scattered groves of big trees are privately owned and, there­ fore, In danger of destruction," he • • ••«••••••••••••♦••••♦••••S ® consciously, I admit, made up the leave you to lunch alone and shall find match.” "1 suppose it Is for penance. Will, a home elsewhere.’ “While puzzling about what this that I am to uarrate my own mistakes and misdeeds to Mr. Allison. Two might mean, I heard a terrific yell from months ugo I was a stupid little coun­ Della, my parrot; I opened the store­ try girl. My eldest brother had sent room door and Della, my wife, fell into for me to keep bis house. Our parents my arms. “After explanations had been made have been dead many years anil I had lived with an aunt. Henry, my brother, I restored her to brother Henry as had written me that ft would be impos­ housekeeper, but claimed her In five sible for him to meet me at the depot, weeks for my own. Now do you be­ and that I should drive to the Tudor lieve that you are a matchmaker?”— Flats, where he was living on the Boston Post fourth floor. My poor brain was cer­ tainly In a whirl after my loug drive RUSHING INTO THE CITIES. through the noisy streets. When 1 ar­ rived at the Tudor b'lats I walked Young Men Invite Fuilure by Essay­ ing lintriel Fields. bravely up the stairs. Some published fragments of the new "I know you will laugh at me dread­ fully, Mr. Allison, but you must remem­ census statistics are very depressing to ber that I had never before seen so the old fashioned, yet very sensible, many stairs. In m.v Ignorance I was people who have been hoping that the unaware that the entresol does not movement of villagers and country peo­ count; therefore, when I arrived at a ple to the large cities had been cheeked. What is the meaning of the continu­ landing where a door was ajar and an old man servant replying to an inquirer ous rush to the cities? The old expla­ the the doctor would uot be home until nation was’ that farmers’ sons' and 2 o’clock, I naturally concluded that I daughters wearied of work that was had reached m.v journey's end, for my never finished; they had heard of city brother also bears the title doctor. To demands for labor and of city wages, old James' astonishment 1 walked payable always In cash and at stated dates. They had also heard of city calmly In, saying: pleasures, some of which were said to “ 'The doctor expects me. Please have cost nothing, while others were very my luggage seen to.’ cheap. But young people do not con­ “ 'But, miss, I don’t know,’ he ven­ tured, 'I have the strictest orders never stitute the whole body of people who to allow any one to enter my master's are crowding into the cities, for me­ chanics and artisans of all kinds are in study during his absence.’ the throng, for In the villages and coun­ “ ‘I am the doctor's sister, ami he him­ self arranged my coming,' I answered, try districts employment Is Irregular and pay uncertain. The more aspir­ condescendingly. "With that he admitted me, mutter­ ing of them hope for the larger oppor­ ing: 'Never heard about a sister.' Into tunities ami recognition that the coun­ the smoky, dusty apartments, which 1 try dares uot promise; they know, too, that such of their children as incline to assumed to be my brother’s. “Much to James’ consternation, I set study may become fairly, even highly, to work and dusted furniture and educated lu the city without s|>eclal books, spread a clean doth on the table, cost to their parents. Of the “seamy” and prepared a lunch (though James In­ side of city life they know nothing, formed me 'Master never «situ at home') for their acquaintances who "went to of fresh butter, home-made bread, town” have not returned to tell of It; cheese, luim ami npples; then decorated few of them could return if they would. the room with roses and honeysuckle The few who go back to the old home­ steads are the men who have succeed­ brought from home. “To pass away the time, I took up a ed, and in any village such a man In book and began to read. A note fell out effect resembles a gold Inden miner of this Issik. My eyes fell on the first from Cape Nome or the Klondike—bls words ami my attention was Instantly example threatens to depopulate the attracted. It was signed Charlie Alli ; town. Nevertheless the rural districts are son, and read: | not going to be depopulated, except “ 'Dear Old Man: So you have decided | when their soil Is very poor and their to Install that awful creature in your | malaria overrlch. A countryward house, though you acknowledge that all - movement started In some cities a few hopes of pence and comfort of your life years ago and ft has l»een Increasing In will tie gone. My dear fellow, do be ad­ volume. It may l»e almost Invisible In vised amt give up this preposterous some localities, for 3,erfect drainage, high farming, high grade schools, free libraries and laughing; “It was quite ¡»ossible- in­ | many other ameliorations of old-time deed, natural I should assume that those words referred to me. 1 was at conditions. Yet In one respect the city first highly Indignant and then began man In the country Is a disappointment to cry. My resolution was «mm formed; j to all classes of the dissatisfied, for I would go away at once and not ever : when they talk of going to the city he see the heartless brother who had dis­ J persistently says. "Don't." and lie sup- cussed me In such a manner before my 1 ports his advice with a dismal array . of facts and figures.—Saturday Even­ rival. ing Post. “While repacking my bag I came upon a photograph of myself. A sudden Ini Th«« American Is Vulgar. pulse made me write a few words on “We must all agree that the American the back of It and leave It on the table. has beyon«l other men an Innate rv«pect Then I heard steps outside. It was for women ami for helpless things," Henry. I thought. He should not tlml writes "An American Mother" In the me there. Seeing the door of a small Ladies' Home Journal. "He has usu­ room open. I sllp|ied In ami close-1 It ally. too. a w hie acquaintance with the world which hinders him from intoler­ behind me.” “Let me tell the rest,” Interrupted the ance and vanity. He has also a tact doctor; "I fancied I was dreaming as too fine to blurt out unpleasant facts to I tws ame aware of the iur Itlnglv spr> a I his companions, as do«-« the English­ table; then I noted two covers laid as man. w lio. quite unprovoked, hurls dis If for a delightful tetea tele, and upon agreeable truths at you with a ferocity iny napkin a photograph of the sweet- and a gusto that Is Indecent. A week e-t face I had ever seen. Listen to what with your dearest English friend« Is enough to make you in love with lying was written under It: “'As I am so ugly; as I destroy your I he dearer you are to them the more peace and drive away your friends, I I likely are they tv talk lucess.rutly of the mole on your nose, or your vulgar kinsfolk. The American has a vivacity almost French: he gives himself easily to the occasion: be is ready to weep and laugh with you. and is sincerely inter­ ested in your new bicycle or baby. At the same time he has something of the phlegm of the Asiatic, and seldom frets or grumbles. He sniffs the odors of foul drains, quaffs typhoid germs in his water, sits in overheated steam cars and stands In overcrowded street cars year afteryear with Imperturbable good humor. "Why, with all these qualities—why Is he not a more agreeable fellow? Why, with all the traits that go to make up a courtly gentleman—why is he vulgar? Simply because he is not certain of his own position. He asserts himself every moment lest you may mistake him for an inferior. This uneasy self-assertion is the explanation of all our bad man­ ners. 'I’m as good as you!’ is the secret thought with which too many of us meet every fellow-creature.” FELLING A BIG TREE. writes. “Lumbering is rapidly sweep­ ing them off; forty mills and logging companies are now at work wholly or lu part upon big tree timber. The southern groves show some reproduc­ tion, through which there Is hope of perpetuating these groves. In the northern groves the species hardly holds its owu.” Iu Introducing a history of the big trees, with facts concerning each of the groves now existing, the writer says: “At the present time the only grove thoroughly safe from destruction is the Mariposa and this is far from being the most Interesting. Most of the other groves are either in process of or In danger of being logged. The very finest of all, the Calaveras grove, with the biggest and tallest trees, the most un- contamluated surroundings and prac­ place, the enormous size and weight of the trees necessarily entails very con­ siderable breakage when one of them falls. Such a tree strikes the ground with a force of nany hundreds or even thousands of tons, so that even slight inequalities are sufficient to smash the brittle truuk at its upper extremity into almost useless fragments. The loss from this cause is great, but It Is ouly one of the sources of waste. The great diameter of the logs, and, in spite of the lightness of the wood, their enormous weight make It Impossible to handle them without breaklug them up. For this purpose gunpowder Is the most available means. The fragments of logs blown apart In this way are not ouly ofteu of wasteful shapes, but un­ less very nice Judgment Is exercised iu preparing the blast a great deal of wood Itself Is scattered in useless splin­ ters.” "At the mill, where waste Is the rule In the manufacture of lumber In the United States, the big tree makes no exception. This waste, added as it is to the other sources of loss already men­ tioned, makes a total probably often considerably in excess of half the total volume of the standing tree, and this Is only one side of the matter. “The big tree stands as a rule In a mixed forest, composed of many spe­ cies. The result of sequoia lumbering upon this forest is almost ruinous. The destruction caused by the fall of euor- mous trees is In itself great, but the principal sourse of damage Is the Im­ mense amount of debris left on the ground—the certain source of future fires. This mass of broken branches, trunks and bark. Is often five or six or more feet in thickness and necessarily gives rise to fires of great destructive power, even though the big tree wood is not specially inflammable. The devas­ tation which follows this lumbering is as complete and deplorable as the un­ touched forest Is unparalleled, beauti­ ful and worthy of preservation. As a rule it has not even had the advantage of being profitable. Very much of this appalling destruction has been done without leaving the owners of the big tree as well off as they were before It began." ' Series of Pamphlet, to Be Iestied. The pamphlet which was published by the forestry division of the Depart­ ment of Agriculture is one of a series which will be issued in behalf of the big trees. The report was prepared for the Information of the Senate Commit­ tee on Public Lands, which was at the An Epitaph lor Buskin. The London Academy lias awarded a prize of one guinea to J. R. Anderson, I-airbeek, Keswick, for the best in­ scription suitable for the proposed me­ dallion of John Ruskin In Westminster Abbey. Mr. Anderson's epitaph is as follows: y He Taught Us To Hold In Loving Reverence I’oor Men and Their Work Great Men and Their Work God and His Work. In connection with this competition It Is Interesting to quote what Ruskin himself said on epitaphs: “Take care that some memorial Is kept of men who deserve memory in a distinct statement on the stone or brass of their tombs, either that they were true men or ras­ cal»—wise men or fools. How beauti­ ful the variety of sepulchral architec­ ture might be. In any extensive place of burial, if the public would meet the small expense of thus expressing Its opinions In a verily instructive manner, and if some of the tombstones accord­ ingly terminated in fools’ caps, and oth­ ers, Instead of crosses and cherubs, latre engravings of cats-o’-nine-tails as typical of the probable methods of en­ tertainment in the next world of the (tersons not, It Is to be hoped, reposing below. Key Io the Working-Girl’s Success. "Whatever vocation the girl wage­ worker settles upon she may as well accept the fact, first as last, that slip­ shod performance and Inadequate equipment will win no favor, will not even secure a foothold," writes Marga­ ret E. Sangster iu the Ladies' Home Journal. "The ranks are everywhere crowded, and the second-rate work must go to the wall. Iu moat flehle the supply la well lu excess of the demand, and only the capable, the efficient. the competent and the trustworthy may hope to fin«! tlieir niche. As a grain of satisfaction let it be addv«l that those possessed of these desirable qualities, those who are ready for service and are responsible In their work, are sure to be appreciated aud will never cease to be wante«L" Barter. "I should like to subscribe to your paper. Would you be willing to take it out in trade?" Country Editor—Guess so; what’s your business? "I’m the undertaker."—Brooklyn Life tliisnl« on European Royalty. Every royal palace in Europe has Its s|HH-lal private police, who. iu oue guise or another, are always on the lookout for suspicious persons. English Public lluil.lings. Th«> public buildings of England alone are salut'd at a sum approaching $l.20D.2uo.<y voluntarily asks for a fork with which to eat bis pie. LOGGING RATLROAD INA BIG TREE FOREST. tically all the literary and scientific as­ sociations of the species connected with It, has been purchased recently by a lumberman, who came Into full posses­ sion on the 1st of April, 1900. “The Sequoia and General Grant Na­ tional parks, which are supposed to em­ brace and give security to a large part of the remaining big trees, are eaten Into by a sawmill each and by private timbering claims amounting to a total of 1,172,870 acres. The rest of the scanty patches of big trees are In a fair way to disappear—In Calaveras, Tuo­ lumne, Fresno and Tulare counties, they are now disappearing—by the ax. In brief, the majority of the big trees of California, certainly the best of them, are owned by people who have every right and In many cases every intention, to cut them into lumber.” ' cientitlc Value of Big Trees, Further along these same lines the value of the big tree is thus considered: "The big trees are unique In the world the graudest, the oldest, the most ma­ jestically graceful trees and If it were not enough to be all this, they are among the scarcest of known tree spe­ cies and have the extreme scientific val­ ue of being the best living representa­ tives of a former geologic age. They are trees which have come down to us through the vicissitudes of many cen­ turies solely because of their superb qualifications. The bark of the big tree Is often two feet thick and almost non- combustible. The oldest specimens felled are still sound at the heart aud fungus Is an enemy unknown to it. Yet with all these means of maintenance the big trees have apparently not ln- creased tlieir range since the glacial epoch. They have only just managed to bold their owu ou a little strip of country where the climate is locally fa­ vorable." Everyone who is Interested In the big trees, as everyone must be either from curiosity, a natural love of the forest or for scientific reasons, must deplore the destruction of these forests. Every­ one who has visited a forest In any part of the world will regret the destruction of these Jungles of beauty. Every thoughtful American Is waking to a realisation of the criminal carelessness with which the forests of this country have tx’en wiped out. The lumbering of the big trees, with Its accompanying waste an«! devastation, seems a partic­ ularly unnecessary aud almost immoral pro.'eeding. Forester Plnchot says of It: "The lumbering of the big tree Is destructive to a most unusual Jegree. Ln the first time considering the preservation of the Calaveras and Stanislaus big tree groves. It is the first document on the subject which has ever been published by the government, strange as the fact may seem. Prof. W. R. Dudley, of Stanford University, who aided with the work, is now preparing a more de­ tailed account of the big trees and the big tree groves, which will be published by the government forestry office. The pamphlet now out contains an excellent map of the forests of California, con­ taining big trees, together with a de­ tailed account of each of the larger groves. King Oscar Was His Host. A story illustrating the simple bon­ homie of the King of Sweden and Nor­ way is told by M. Gaston Bonnier, the botanist. M. Bonnier was botanizing near Stockholm, when be met a stranger similarly occupied. The two botanists fraternized, and M. Bonnier suggested that they should '.unch to­ gether at an Inn. “No; come borne and lunch with me instead,” said the stranger; and he Ld the way to the palace and opened the gate. a M. Bonnier was naturally astonished, but bls new acquaintance was most apologetic. “I’m sorry.” he said, “but I happen to be the king of this country, and this is the only place I’ve got to entertain anybody in." So they went in and lunched, and talked botany together all the afternoon. Florida Tobacco. HE DIDN’T BUY A SAW. It Sounded Easy When His Wife Pro« posed It-Was Different in Shop. When the man with the red mustache started down the stalls his wife ran to the door and called him back. "Donald,” she said. "I want you to go into a hardware store to-day aud get a saw. Don't forget it, please. We need one badly.” Beiug uu accommodating person, the man with the red mustache said he'd get It. He chose the luncheon hour as the most opportune time for making his simple purchase. He was iu a good humor aud smiled blandly when be went bustling Into the store and said, “I want a saw, please.” The clerk who had come forward to wait on him had a merry twinkle lu his eye, aud the twinkle overflowed at the question aud spread all over bls face lu dimples. “What kind of a saw?” he asked. The prospective purchaser began to perceive what an intricate business the buyiug of a saw really is. "Why,” said be, “I don’t know. Just a saw. Any kind will do, I suppose." The clerk sighed. “If you only knew what you want to use it for, perhaps I could advise you,” he suggested. "What I want to use It for?” echoed the man with the red mustache. “Why, I want to saw, of course. At least, my folks do.’’ “Saw what?” asked the clerk. “I don’t know.” admitted the non­ plussed shopper. The clerk brightened up again and led the way to the rear of the store. “I will show you a few of the different varieties of saws we have on hand,” he said. “Observation and an explana­ tion of tlieir uses and prices may assist you in making a decision. Here's a metal saw. It is the hardest saw there is. It is made of highly tempered steel and will saw iron, copper, lead and all manner of metals. It is small in size amlsellsfor $2 to $2.50, according to the style of the handle, which comes in beechwood and oak, the latter being more expensive. Is that the kind of saw you want?” The man with the red mustache was sorely perplexed. “No,” said he, “I don’t think so. We have no metals at our house to work on. that I know of.” “Perhaps you would like a meat saw?” suggested the clerk. “Steel in those is of hardly so high a grade, and I could let you have a good one for a dollar. But you're not a butcher?” The man who wanted a saw shook his head mournfully and the clerk cou- tinued. “There is a regular kitchen saw for general utility purposes, which will cost you only 50 cents. How does that strike you? No? Then here's the cab­ inetmaker’s saw. I can give you a very good one for $3. Then I have over here plumbers’ saws, the fine delicate saws used by all manner of artificers, and the ordinary wood saws which will cost, you anywhere from 50 cents to $4. In that back room we have still other va­ rieties—the two-man ten foot saws, buzz saws and circular saws. If you want to pay a big price you’d better take one of the latter. I'll give you a good one for $50. Would you like to see them?" The man with the red mustache look- ed about him wonderingly. “No. thank you.” he said. "I never dreamed that thero were so many dif­ ferent kinds of saws. I guess I won't take any till I find out just what kind I want." The clerk bowed affably. “I regret being unable to make a sale,” he said, “but I really think that the wiser plan.”—New York Sun. Our Overfurnished Homes. “More simplicity in our homes would make our lives simpler,” writes Ed­ ward Bok, In a plea for the exercise of better taste lu furnishing our homes, In the Ladles’ Home Journal. “Many wom­ en would live fuller lives because they would have more time. As It Is. hun­ dreds of women of all positions in life are to-day the slaves of their homes and what they have crowded Into them. Comfort is essential to our happiness. But with comfort we should stop. Then we are on the safe side. But we get on and over the danger line when we go beyond. Not one-tenth of the things that we think are essential to our hap­ piest living are really so. In fact, we should be an infinitely happier and healthier people If the nine-tenths were taken out of our lives. It is astonishing how much we can do without, and be a thousand times the better for It. And It doesn’t require much to test this gos­ pel of wisdom. We need only to be nat­ ural—to get back to our real. Inner selves. Then we are simple. It Is only because we have got away from the simple and the natural that so many of our homes are cluttere«l up as they are, and our lives full of little things that are not worth the while. We have bent the knee to show, to display, and we have lowered ourselves with the trivial and the useless; and filling our lives with the poison of artificiality and the unnatural, we have pushed the Real, the Natural, the Simple, the Beautiful —the best and most lasting things out of our lives.” Florida, according to local papers. Is becoming one of the great tobacco-pro­ ducing States, and the product has been pronounced In some respects equal to that of Cuba. Sumatra wrapper tobac­ co raised In Florida recently took the prize at the Paris exposition over the Heavy Penalties for Helling Whisky. Charles Stelnbrink. who was convict­ world. ed at St. John. Kan., on forty-nine A Matter of Taste. counts of selliug whisky in violation of “Beg pardon.” said the postal clerk the prohibitory law, was fined $4.