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WHISTLE AWAY. JACK JOLETT’S HIDE. One day the sigh, dear, aud one day the song : Th nt is rhe way. dear, we worry aluug; That is the way, From the winter to May; But kiss hunda to sorrow and whistle away! YOUNG INNKEEPER’S WARNING TO THOMAS JEFr ERoON. Another Like Thick on the highwsy the dark shadows throng; In dust and in daisies we worry along; That is the way, Though we weep—though we pray; But kiss hands to sorrow aud whistle away! Hero Revere, Rode Long Who, and Hard to Warn American Patriot« of the Approach of the British. Living or dying, we’re one with the sod; Hinging or sighing, the way must be trod; That is the way. From the dark to the day— But kiss hands to sorrow and whistle away! —Atlanta Constitution. .S’ HAT <lo you think of that?” asked Harrison Compton, plac For years there has been standing in but the clothes on his back, a rugged ing before Ills friend. Myles the Pierce family cemetery, in Mata frame, lots of energy and t determina Barrington, a picture, evidently the gorda County, Texas, a magnificent mon tion to succeed. Cattlemen, as a rule, product of an amateur kodak fiend. ument erected by A. II. Pierce to bis are profligate. The tall young Y’ankee The picture in question represented a own memory. Pierce now sleeps in the was provident. While other cattlemen of the stately memorial, having spent their money in gambling awl riot young girl scarcely out of her teens, shadow died last week. His was a strange ca ous living young Pierce attended strictly standing straight, without tlie thought reer. to business. He rounded up his bunch of posing, in tile midst of trees and Abel II. Pierce, better known in Texas at the proper time, overlooked no mav shrubbery. Her hands, clasped loosely as Shanghai, was the richest of Texas ericks, kept his branding irons hot and liefore tier, held n single rose; her head cattlemen. He was as well known in always took good cattle to market. was slightly raisiMl. evidently in the banking circles in New York as on the A few years ago when an inventory net of listening, while her eyes looked prairies of Texas, and the big moneyed of Mr. Pierce’s property was made it steadily, clearly up Into the blue orbs men of Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas showed that he was worth in excess of of Myles Barrington and held them City knew him almost as well as did the $8,000,000. That was before the big people of the larger towns of Texas, advance in cattle and before the land ^fascinated. Nothing was too big for Shanghai to was considered of any value except for "Who Is she?" he asked, without lift take a hand in, from a poker game to grazing. Now the appraisement of the ing ids eyes. Indeed, lie seemed ill a blind pool in Wall street, but the only same property would probably double the ei.pahle of removing his gaze from the thing he prided himself on was his figures. picture. knowledge of cattle. It was a chance But Shanghai Pierce had not become “Her name Is Rose Parker.” was tin* meeting with Shanghai that led Charles a millionaire without many thrilling ad reply. “She is staying witli my cousin II. Hoyt to write “The Texas Steer.” ventures. find he declared that the mak Allee, and last night they were looking They met ou a railroad train, and Hoyt ing of a fortune is simple and easy com over their snapshots, ami 1 confiscated conceived the idea of writing a play pared with the task of keeping it. Many around the cattle king, says the New a night lie slept on the prairie only to tills one.” York Press. find that a rattlesnake had crept into "Rose,” Pierce was born in Rhode Island sixty- his blankets in the night to get warm. held tlie picture from lilm a little, “it six years ago and went to Texas when Many a time he faced death at a pistol just stilts her.” a Isiy. On account of his extreme height point, but he seems to have borne a “How do you know?” was tlie jesting —he was 11 feet I—he got th** soubriquet charmed life, and although he had been answer. “You never saw her, did you?” of “Shanghai,” and it clung to him so whot at frequently and desperate men well that few persons knew his Christian have followed him with the intention of “No; lint I wish I could meet her, name, and referred to him as “Khang.” murdering him, he escaped all the bullets was tlie answer. Wheu he got to Texas he had nothing that were intended for him. “Thanks for the hint. Come over with me to-morrow night aud we'll together wliat you have been doing shoes at $2,000,000; the spring window take the girls to tlie opera." roller pays $100,000 a year, the needle The Invitation wrh gladly accepted alone. Will you consent?” For answer she held out to hitn with threader $10,000 a year; from the drive by Mr. Barrington. They drove to Miss Compton's home, a smile that was more sweet than well $3,000,000 have been realized; the and while they paused for a moment in words the single rose she wore In her stylographic pen Is credited with $100,- the lull! a delightful ringing laugh fell coat, and he was satisfied.—New York 000 a year; aud the egg-beater, the rub upon their ears. The door opened, and Evening World. ber stamp, and the markiug-peu for u young lady clad in white, the train of shading different colors, with large PROFITABLE PATENTS. her gown flung over her arm, ran out sums. These are only a few examples of the drawing room almost into the among hundreds that might be cited. About One Invention in Twenty-five arms of Myles Barrington. No wonder Inventors are hopeful when Pays Expense of Patenting It. A moment of awkward silence, and An article by the late E. V. Smalley, they reflect that comfort for' life and then Harrison Compton Introduced her In the Century, tells how patents are fortune for their children may come aa Miss Parker. from a single fortunate idea. To Myles Barrington Hint evening taken out at Washington, what they The Verdict. was a glimpse of paradise. He remem cost, and what some of them yield to The Green Bag tells the following bered for dliys aflerwiyd bow white the Inventors. The progressive development of in story. The most popular man In a her shoulders were when lie put her heavy cloak over them, how golden her ventive genius in this country, as in Western town once got into difficulty hair was, ami how dark tier eyes, lie dicated by tlie number of patents Issued with a disreputable tough who was the also discovered a little dimple near the each year, has been by successive waves terror of tlie place and did him up In a left corner of tier mouth wlieu »he rather than by a regular and continu manner highly satisfactory to the en ous advance. Taking the first year of tire community. It was necessary, laughed, which she did often. One day Myles Barrington went to each decennial period, we find that in however, to vindicate the majesty of one Of tlie poorest parts of the city to 18<X) the number of patents granted was the law, and the offender was brought Interview a witness in one of his cases, 41; lu 1810, 223; In 1820, 155; in 1830, up for trial on a charge of assault with for Mr. Barrington was a lawyer of no 554; lu 1840. 473; in 1850, 0115; In 1800, Intent to kill. The jury took the case small practice, lie found the house 4.538. The great increase In inventions and were out about two minutes, when anil went up the rickety stairs. On Hie during the decennial period 1850-00 is a they returned. “Well.” said the judge. In an offhand second flight he was met by a youug remarkable feature In Patent Office his Indy wbo appeared to be lu a great tory. This period was one of rapid na manner, "what have the jury to say?” tional development, and was charac "May it please the court,” responded burry. “Mr. Harrington," she said, and lie terized by tlie great extension of steam the foreman, “we. the Jury. tlu*d the recognized Rose 'Parker; "you're Just transportation. the general Introduction prisoner Is not guilty of hlttln’ with In In time. Little John tins cut his arm of the telegraph, ami the perfection of tent to kill, but simply to paralyze, and dreadfully, and you must go for the the sewing-machine, the reaper, the he done It.” The verdict was received with ap doctor. There Is one lit No. 43. Tell mower, and many other valuable de him Miss Parker wants him. Hurry," vices. During the Civil War the pro plause and the prisoner was given an and In her exeltenint she gnve him a duction of patents fell off. but no sooner ovation. little push and ran quickly up the had the volunteer troops returned to The Nearest Way. their homes than a wonderful fertility stairs. The crooked streets of Boston are a The doctor was found, and In a few of Invention was displayed. Ideas that minutes they were back again Into the had been developing in the minds of source of wouder to many visitors. A miserable room, Mlsa Parker, with a the soldiers during their life in the Boston dally paper tells of a Western large gingham apron over her neat camps were put into models by the man who was a guest at the Parker tailor-made suit, sat In a ris king chair thousand and sent to Washington. In House, and went out for walk. He had several hours at his disposal, with a young child In her arms. On a 18(15 tlie number of patents granted mean pallet on tile side of the room was (5,616, and In 1867 it had run up to and wandered almut leisurely but aim lay a woman evidently In the hist 13,026. It remained for a time at about lessly until he was tired with his long stages of consumption, mid witli her that annual figure, being, in 1870, 13,- walk. He supposed that he must have lay th** boy. John. Myles noticed how »47; but In 1876, the year of the Cen walked over six miles, aud dreaded the well Ills little arai had b<*en bandaged, tennial Exposition, which powerfully long walk back to the hotel. Stepping ami bow familiar Miss Parker seemed stimulated inventive genius. It reached up to a policeman on a corner, he asked tin* highest number yet attained. 17,026. to be directed the nearest way to the to be witli Ills family. "Rhe's our Rose,” announced John, Then there was a steady recession, and Parker House. "Well, sir." said the policeman, cour "our beautiful Rose,” lie said as she by 1880 the patent crop had fallen back smoothed back his hair. “Mother here to 13,947. Since 1883 the number of teously, "you might cut across the street ■ays she's an angel,” but Rose quietly patents annually Issued has exceeded to the front door, but If I were you. I’d laid her hand u|sm her lipa and he said 20,<XX). During the calendar year I8U9 walk over on the crossing.” there were issued 25.527 patents. He was nearly opposite the hotel. uo more. One of the old examiners In tlie Pat “Now I am going home." she said, The King and the Poet. brightly, “and John Is going to be good ent Office estimates that about oue in A certain poet was accused of a crime and not worry mother about going to vention In twenty-five repays the cost work to-morrow. I'll sis* about your of taking out a patent. Yet inventors and sentenced to be executed. The kind ordered that the execution place," she said, as she went out, fol as a class are sanguine men. and no knowledge of the enormous percentage should take place in his presence. When lowed by Mr. Barrington. . Once, outside "he was again the soci of chances agnlnst them will deter them the moment arrived the poet was seized ety bud. She talked of the last tiall. from multiplying Ingenious devices. with a violeut trembling of the body. A friend standing near by said: “Is Every one expects a fortune from his the next dinner, etc. "Why so silent?" she asked presently, particular piece of mechanism. Ev it cowardice which causes you thus to ery one has beard not only of the enor tremble? Only cowards at sveb a time glancing up at her tall companion. "I waa thinking Miss Parker, how mous sums realized from the great In exhibit fear.” The poet answered: "Oh. friend. If ventions of the last half-century, but good you have been to these people." “Good," site said, looking at hltu In also of the large returns yielded by thou wishest to make an exhibition of surprise. "I am not good to them, it things apparently trifling which have courage, and to show how a courageous is but Justice. I have more money than struck the public fancy or met the pub man should die, sit thou down in my I could ever spend myself, and these lic need. The toy called the return place, anil I will rise up and go away." The king was pleased with this an people have mmo. What should I do ball. a small ball attached to an elastic lint give them a mite? Besides. 1 love strlug. is said to have produ ed a profit swer and granted him forgiveness for to do It. and It is In a way selfishness of $50.000 a year; the rubber tip on his crime.—Short Tales from the Per lead-pencils has yielded a competence sian In Century Magazine. thst prompts me.’ "You selfish." said the man. '"They to the Inventor: more than $1,000,000 When a customer looks longingly at rnlled you their Rose. Do you know has lieen earned by the gimlet-pointed that you have Is-en to me something •crew, the Inventor of which was so the apple barrel, a good groceryman of a revelation? I formed. perbain poor that he trudged on foot from Phil will turn his back. hastily, an opinion of women long ago» adelphia to Washington to get bls pat Only a few drink themselves to I deemed them selfish. Imre-brained ent; the roller-skate has yielded $1,- death, but thousands eat themselves to creatures, and until I met you I thought 000.000 after the patentee spent $125,000 death. 1 was right. Now I know that I am in England fighting Infringements; the No craiy person la sent to the aayitUD wrong at least about one woman Rose. dancing Jim Crow la set down for $75,- I want you for my wife, and wo will do I 000. and the copper tip for children'! soon enough. i W Revolutionary Paul Paul Revere was not the only man who rode long aud hard to warn patri ots that the British were coming, in the days when the present entente be tween Englund and America was a thing undreamed of. Worthy to rank with it was the adventure of Jack Jouett, a young Charlottesville inn keeper, who rode thirty miles to save Thomas Jefferson from capture, The story is told in the St. Nicholas by R. T. W. Duke, Jr. Jack shrewdly guessed that Tarleton would follow the highway into the main road that led by the country seats, tlie homes of tlie gentry. Jack knew a shorter route, an old disused road that would lead him to the river, thence to Monticello, and then to Char lottesville—not a pleasant road to ride or drive, though as picturesque a route as one often sees; for on either side grew great pine trees here, and mas- sive oaks there, while dogwood and sassafras and sumac tilled in spaces, '1 he road had once been a buffalo track and then an Indian trail, then a wagon road for a while; but as no one ever Worked it or changed the grade, it rapidly washed into a succession of red gullies and became well-nigh im passable. So it had been abandoned many years, and nature had covered up the scars made by the animals and men, and only in a few places could one have known that it had ever been used as a highway. Broom-sedge grew wherever there was an open space: ferns of a hundred varieties clustered In every hollow where water ran; and the wild bramble ran riot everywhere in the shade. Into this old road Jack pushed his horse, and soon was dash ing at full speed over hill and dale. It was a dangerous ride, even at a slow gait. Deep gullies lay concealed under treacherously smiling wild flowers. Gn iiml-hi g holes offered pitfalls liable to break the leg of his steed; overhang ing limbs swept 1dm in the face, and the wild brier ever and anon caught him in a painful and harassing em brace. Ills face bore for many years the scars left on it by this brier, which, you know, climbs up trees and seems to throw Itself from one to an other. But Jack had no time to con sider these things. He knew that In a few hours the enemy would be in Char lottesville. and make the Governor and Legislature prisoners, unless he could give them warning. His mare was sure of foot, sound of wind, and no other fox-hunter ever got the brush when Jack and she were in the hunt. “So away he went, touching her lightly with the spur now and then, but ofteuer cheering her in the race with a merry whistle or encouraging word. He had thirty miles to make. He could have as easily made fifty on a good road as thirty through this wilderness. At one point the disused road entered a field in sight of the high way along which Tarleton’s legion was passing, and a few stragglers saw Jack when he dashed Into the open. They followed him with loud shouts and a pistol-shot or two, but when he dashed Into the woods they abandoned the pursuit. Once his bay mare fell, her foot having caught in a mass of brush and brier and half-rotten logs; but up she scrambled, and away she went, as If she knew that the fate of a common wealth depended upon her. In two hours Jack rode his thirty miles, and paused In the ford just opposite the lit tle hamlet of Milton, two miles from Monticello. Only a mouthful of water did lie allow his gallant bay to sip, and then he dashed up the river bank and on through the streets of the village, stopping not at anxious halls of men and women, but merely shouting: ‘The British are coming! The British are coming!’ In ten minutes he drew rein In front of a quaint brick house on top of the now famous mountain. ‘He was a sight, too,' the darkies said. His face was torn and bleeding from the wild brier thorns, his gay blue suit covered with mud and dirt, his mare covered witli sweat and foam and panting as If Iter heart would bursfvthrough her sides. Down from the porch in front bf which Jack had halted came a tall. thin man. dressed In a suit of nan- keen, laee at his wrists and shirt-front, and with a little sword-cane in his hand. This man had clear, sparkling blue eyes; a thin skin under which the blood almost seemed starting. His hair was thin and curly, and covered with white powder. For a moment he did not recognize the rider. Then, as he drew nearer. ‘Why, Mr. Jouett,’ he said, ‘what brings you here, and with your good horse so well-nigh spent?* “Jack could only gasp. ‘The British, Governor! Tarleton and his men passed Cuckoo Tavern at six o'clock this morning.* ” ART STUDENTS OF NEW YORK. They Live in n Manner Very Unlike That of P«ria Students» The art schools of New York and the life of the students in them is handled In an interesting manner In the Wom an's Home Companion In an article en titled “The Girls’ Art Schools of New York.’’ As to how the young women students live the author writes as fol lows: "There Is no absurd dressing among the art students In New York—at least not after they have attended the classes for a day or two; and the popular no tion that all art students live In dingy, tuirren garrets, cook their own meals by means of their oil-lamps, and Uva gen- t erally upon the outer ragged edges, has no ground in fact, so far us the stu dents in New York are concerned. There are some such cases, but they aré extremely rare. In the great ma jority of eases the students. If they can not afford to pay for the necessities from their own pocketbook, stay away from the city until they can borrow suf ficient funds. Many girls with thin purses attend only half-day classes, aud work at some commercial occupation the rest of the day. I know of several girls who do enough type-writing in the mornings to pay for their afternoon art lessons and their board besides, while numbers of students work for a salary In the daytime aud attend art classes at night only. “The art students of New York do not seek living-places lu any one particular part of the town, as do the students of Paris. The various art schools are in widely separate sections of the city, aud as living near to tlieir schools means so ntuch saved in car-fare, the girl stu dents usually live within easy walking distance of their respective class rooms. Possibly 95 per cent of the stu dents board with private families or Uve in ordinary boarding-houses, where they can secure fair board and room as low as four dollars a week; but seven dollars a week is the average amount charged. The other 5 per cent of the students rent studios of their own. or more ofteu meagerly furnished bedrooms, and take their meals in res taurants; or else three to a dozen of them club together, refit a flat, and hire a servant to cook their meals.” CHILI HAS WOMEN CONDUCTORS Valparaiso Street Cars Ruled by Fair Girls of Complacent Nature. The most startling feature of life In the Chilian metropolis that strikes the foreigner is the street-car service. The conductors on the ears are all women, and that in a country where woman has by no means reached the high standing In social and public life of her sisters in the United States. The girls who run the cars are, with few exceptions, very pretty, and there VALPARAISO WOMAJ COXDUCTORS. Paris trademarks are placed on New York sweat-shop work. The miners of the Yukon district, Alaska, employ 5,28» men. who receive an average of-4*1 an hour. The National Secretary of the Amal gamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners in his last report shows a cash balance of $1,044.005. Tlie Chicago Federation of Labor has taken an Important step toward class solidarity by inviting colored workmen to join the trades unions. Tlie average daily compensation for the general officers of the various rail ways in the United States is $7.47, while the average for the working em ployes is $1.00. In the time that the Cigarmakers’ International I'uioli has been estab lished $4.000.000 In benefits have been disbursed to the members through the international organization. A 55-hour-a-week bill will be Intro duced In the Pennsylvania Legislature by the Central Textile Council of Phil adelphia. to apply to women and chil dren employed in industrial establish ments. With tlie termination of the trouble on tlie Canadian Pacific Railway came an advance of wages of 20 cents a day to 200 machinists. This means that each Individual’s Income is increased by $02.40 per annum, or $12,480 In the aggregate. Three of the largest cloak-making Arms in New York, employing In all 2.000 hands, have vole itarily retired from business. Tlie reason assigned is that tlie competition of small manufac turers and sweat shops Is stronger than they can withstand profitably. Electric coal-cutting machinery rapidly displacing hand-work and oth er varieties of mechanical mining ap pliances In the collieries of Great Brit ain and the United States. The coal thus mined is cleaner, the waste less and the effect of pie machine on the ventilation and temperature of the mine Is less than with any other meelr- anism. A noiseless street-car wheel has been invented, and it is now In use on the Chicago street railroads. The wheel is made of chilled steel. The tire is, how ever. adjusted to the main part of the wheel and a layer of paper is Inserted between it and the wheel proper, which absorbs the sound. Whenever a tire wears out it is a simple matter to sub stitute a new one. Tlie Dominion of Canada has enacted a conciliation and arbitration law sim ilar to the English act in 181X5. At the same time it established a department of labor and authorized the publication of a monthly Labor Gazette. The Province of Ontario has nlso estab lished a distinct bureau of labor to con tinue and develop the work heretofore done by the Bureau of Industries. Union labor is building a handsome structure at Moline. Ill., out of fund*» " raised at annual fairs and Labor Day celebrations. During the last six years $8,1X10 has been thus collected. Of this sum $3,(XX) was spent for a desirable site and $15,000 was raised by loan, which leaves $20,000 to be spent on a building. This will be two stories high throughout, with a three-story front. Hon. Carroll D. Wright, the United States Commissioner of Labor, believes that the golden age of labor is In the future, not in the past. In an address delivered in Boston a few nights ago he argued that with increasing proluc- tion and wages the workingman's de mands have increased. He must now have more than the mere means of sus taining life; he must have books, music and other comforts. Mr. Wright thinks this improvement In the condition of labor will continue Indefinitely. seems to be little objection to their novel occupation. The male passengers, of course, are pleased, and the few who are not are too polite ami gallant to give vent to their sentiments. The fe male passengers are proud of the fact that this Important occupation is In the hands of women. The fact is that Valparaiso’s female conductors are exceedingly courteous and obliging. They are usuully a strong and robust set, and they sympathize especially with women passengers ac companied by children, whom they help board and alight from the cars. The fair conductresses deserve every cent of their wages, which amounts to about 50 cents per dny in United States money. For this they collect all fares and name the streets crossed by the tramway. Nor do they mouth their phrases as do their brothers In New York and Chicago. On some of the lines leading Into the suburbs the conductresses have an easy time. Seats are provided for them in all the cars, and it is not an unsual thing during the dull hours to see them taking It easy, reading novels or the dally pajiers. They are neatly dressed in black, with white aprons, in the pockets of which they put their money and tickets. They wear broad-brimmed sailor hats. The bane of their existence are the I men inspectors who are detailed to Japanese Brides. count the pasesngers to see that they do not “knock down” fares. They have I The Japanese bride, dressed in a long white silk kimono and white veil, sits nicknamed these men "Judases.” upon the floor facing her future hus band. Two tables stand near, and upon An Amused Foe. The proprietor of a small store In one are two cups, a bottle of sakl and New York owns a black kitten that a kettle with two spouts. Upon the cultivates a habit of squatting on its other side a miniature plum tree, typi haunches, like a bear or a kangaroo, fying the beauty of the bride; a minia and then sparring with its forepaws as ture flr tree, which signifies the if it had taken lessons from a pugilist strength of the bridegroom, and a stork The telegram tells how the kitten con standing upon a tortoise, representing long life and happiness. The two- quered a big dog. A gentleman took into the store an spouted kettle Is put to the mouth of enormous black dog. half Newfound i the bride and bridegroom alternately, land. half collie, fat good-natured and signifying that they are to share each" Intelligent. The tiny kitten. Instead of other’s joys and sorrows. The bride bolting at once for shelter, retreated a keeps her veil and It Is used as a shroud few paces, sat erect on Its hind legs and when she dies. put its “fists” tn an attitude of defi Ideal Community In Russia. ance. One of the most interesting districts The contrast In size between the of Russia is the government of Vyatka, two was Intensely amusing. It remind which is very fertile. In It is a well- ed one of Jack the Giant Killer prepar built town of about 2.000 Inhabitants, ing to demolish a giant situated, so to speak, in the backwoods, Slowly and without a sign of excita and named Orloff. It knows neither big bility the huge dog walked as far as landlords nor nobles, and has not even his chain would allow him and gazed a governor. There are no factories and intently at the kitten and Its odd pos no rich philanthropic merchants. Yet ture. Then, as the comicality of the •here is established a high school for situation struck him. he turned his girls, and of the 200 who attend It 190 head and shoulders around to the spec are daughters of peasants. The fee Is tators, and If animal ever laughed In about $1.50 per year, and the board and the world that dog assuredly did so attendance cost only about 27 cents-per then and there. He neither barked nor month, the meals being prepared from growled, but Indulged In a low chuckle, provisions supplied by the parents. while mouth and eyes beamed with Identification by Finger Marks. merriment. In the organization of the police de Notice is served on the women that partment at Johannesburg the system no wrapper ever looks as If It had been of Identification by finger marks la be built according to the plana and speci ing Introduced, and In this way every native Is to be registered. fications In the fashion book.i How often people say, "I don't can^" An egg Is best when fresh, but tt*a when they do care. different with an office boy." M ai , i J