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VOL. 59. WHOLE No- 2245. fldisceUaujeous. ItfuiieiT&^Yearieyr 343 N. GAT STREET, Ss"A™'si" Baltimore, Md. Our line this season surpasses all previous ef forts. It comprises all the Newest and Best Features in HORSE CLOTHING. We have everything in BLANKETS, from a CHEAP BURLAP to the FINEST ALL WOOL. Chase Lap Robes Are here in Great Variety of Color and Pleasing Patterns. —OUR PRICES — Just the same pleasing low tone that always prevails at The Harness Store of Baltimore. Sept.2liMay2s ESTABLISHED 1870. MAIER’S PREFABED PAINTS ABE BTRICTLY PUBE LEAD AND ZINC PAINTS. Guaranteed Equal to the Best. -MANUFACTURED BY JOHN G. MAIER’S SONS, 153-155 N. GAT STREET, Cor Frederick Street, BALTIMOBB, Md. Both Phones. I July 6—ly EDWARD B. BURNS. FRANK BURNS. JOHN BURNS’ SONS, ' Funeral # Directors, TOWSON, Md. C. & P. Phone-TOWSON, 77-F. Feb. 83—ly Dr. A. 0. McOURDY & CO., TOWSON, Md. Orders received for— ALL KINDS_OF SLATE. Peach Bottom Roofing Slate, W L Slabs foT Walks, JSS. Chimney Tops, MjT Burial Cases, XiX T Cemetery Slabs, * Imposing Stones, Ac., Ac. GVCall on or address as above. C. A P. Phone—Towson23R. [June 29—ly STEVENSON’S COAL YARDS RIDER, N. C. R. R. COAL of ALL KINDS For sale at Lowest Market Bates. W Orders filled promptly. A share of patron age solicited. Address. ALLEN BTEVESON, Rider P. 0., Baltimore county. Md. Nov. H-ly ESTABLISHED 1876. BOTH PHONES. DANIEL RIDER, 1001 GREENMOUNT AVENUE, BALTIMORE, Md., COMMISSION * MERCHANT For the Sale of Hay, Grain and Straw. Orders for Mill Feed, Gluten Feed, Cotton Seed Meal, Oil Cake Meat, Salt, &c., will receive prompt attention. [Mch. 30—ly .Stock partus. ST® MU Oakleigh Station, Md. & Pa. R. R., 3J4 Milks from Towson. Constantly on hand A LARGE STOCK OF MULES, TO SUIT ALL PURPOSES. 'VR Efc -D. Caach, Driving, : nHTI OTlfl Saddle and : : : K\H \ general Purpose IIUIIU U U FOR SALE OB EXCHANGE. WHORBEBBOARDEDW C. & P. TELEPHONE. DUANE H. RICE, Prop’r, TOWSON, Md. Oot.l9—ly GROVE FARM FALLS ROAD, North of Brooklandvllle, Md PRIZE WINNING— Guernsey Cattle, Berkshire Hogs, Shropshire Sheep, Colored Muscovy Ducks, TOR SALE BOLL CALF, out of Imp. Lady Simon by Milford Lassie 2d Anchor, Dropped April 20th, 1907. Also. 3 GRADE GUERNSEY SPRINGERS, inoalf to Milford Lassie 2d Anchor, THE BULL THAT WINS. Apply to JAS. McK. MERRTMAN, R. F. D. Lutherville, Md. C. A P. Telephone—Towson 42. Oct. 19—y Fob “The Union.” MY BOAT. BY EDWIN HIGGINS. I launch my boat on a mountain stream The sunbeams through the shadows gleam; No need for an oar. I simply glide Down through the alders on either side. Mid ferns and osiers I kneel to drink The crystal from its mossy brink. Gladly would I my all forego To live again where fountains flow. My boat descends Time’s restless river; Ne’er to return ? no, never, never. Farewell, dear haunts of bird and song. For me the sweetest memories throng. Lo, wharves and towns apd clustered spires. The marts of men and household fires. Gladly would I them, all forego To live again where fountains flow. My boat sails o’er a sliver bay Mid splendors of a summer’s day; My little boat dips with the tide Where ships and navies proudly ride The fragrant shores their hands extend, — The blue of sky and waters blend. Gladly would I them, all forego j To live again where fountains flow. ' My boat Is far away at sea Riding the waves, rejoicing, free; Now noon tide sun ; now shine the stars; There’s glint and dent and honor's scars; Its course is true and brave and strong To music of tbe fountain's song;— Gladly would I all tiling* foro#ro To live again where fountains flow. My boat is nearing another shore To plashing of my Pilot’s oar; It bears me up a tranquil stream; The real and pure, of which I dream Till sails are reafed, forever furled In the haven of the better world. Gladly will I my all forego To live where living waters flow. A STRANGE STORY. Many years ago I knew of a wo man whose life was as improbable as tbe plot of a dime romance. Her story was whispered about until it came to tbe ears of Mrs. Olipbant who promptly made a novel —one of her best —out of it. The village where she lived was a community of scholarly folk who bad gathered around a small sectarian col lege. There was little wealth and no display among these kindly lazy folk. Their dingy old houses had stood apart for nearly a century, each medi tating among its trees and gardens of vegetables and roses. The work of the town was done by a few slow going negroes. When, therefore, an old Scotchman rented one of Colonel Weems’s houses and hung outside of the Kitchen a sign stating that "Alex ander McGinn, Hauler and Jobber, Would Repair Houses, Set Out Gar dens, Dig Wells and Train Dogs at the Lowest Rates,” and that "Han nah McGinn Would Go Out to Sew by the Day, Dye Old Clothes and Weave Rag Carpets on Reasonable Terms,” the village stared, laughed and promptly gave the new-comers work enough to fill their days and their pockets. It was soon discovered that the Mc- Ginns had a mystery in their house. The two old people lived in the kitchen and the room above it. The rest of the dwelling was occupied by a young girl, a quiet, delicate little body, who, the village decided, gave in looks, manner and voice incontestable proof of high breeding. She was treated by the McGinns as a much loved mistress would be by faithful ser vants. She lived wholly apart from them. Her chamber and little draw ing room were simply furnished but kept in dainty order by the old wo man, who waited on her, and no mat ter how tired she might be never sat down in the girl’s presence. McGinn treated her with profound respect; but he never spoke of her, and was angry and swore hotly when the trades people showed their curi osity. His wife, on the contrary, was anxious to talk of her, and told her story whenever she could find a listener. She said that she and Mc- Ginn, before emigrating to the United States, had lived in a lonely coast vil lage in the north of Scotland. There a young Englishman named Saltere and his wife had appeared, twenty years before, and had taken boarding with them, intending to stay for a few days stretched into weeks, and weeks into months. Captain Saltere, who stated that he was an officer in the English navy on leave, came and went. After some months their child was born. The mother lingered for a few weeks and then died. Captain Sal tere was broken down by grief. He buried her in the little graveyard by the kirk and erected a costly monu ment over her ; but, to the wonder of the village, had only a single word carved on it —"Ellen.” The child Jane was given into the care of the McGinns, and a large sum reached them quarterly direct from a London bank. The Captain came once or twice each year to see her, always saying that he was just at home from a voyage. As the child grew she was sent to a private school in Edinburgh and later to a convent in France. When Jane, then aged sixteen,came back from France having finished the school course, the payments suddenly stopped. Captain Saltere did not re turn that fall. He wrote to Jane once or twice during the next year. But he never came back, and for three years no word had come from him. After a time the McGinns made in quiry, and found that there was not now and never had been a Captain in the English navy named Reginald Saltere. But it came to light that Haunah McGinn’s sharp eyes had seen a crest stamped on some of the Saltere books. They at once decided that the Captain was the heir of a noble house and had been under a cloud while living. He was dead now without doubt and his rank and fortune were waiting for his daughter. The McGinns then advertised, they consulted lawyers, they poured out their little hoard like water. Four years crept by in this doubt. The poor couple tried to support Jane in the old luxury, but they steadily grew poorer. At last they were con vinced that there was no chance for them but in emigration. So here they were with their mys tery, working steadily for her, jealous ly keeping her idle, paying her the homage that a Chinaman does to his i joss. The village received them aud their idol with enthusiasm. They : saw in Jane the high bred, wronged heroine of the old romances long so dear to them, and the fidelity of her guardian was only a reproduction of the story of Scott’s ideal clansmen. Once, it is true, Doctor Weems did TOWSON, MD., SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1908. venture to hint to Mrs. McGinn that Jane could get a fair price for her pretty little sketches of the old mill and the river, if she would sell them. But she flamed into a sudden fury. "Do you know who Miss Saltere is ? We expect to hear from her kin any day. They’ll come claiming her. We left tne case in the hands of an agent in Edinburgh. And there’s a standing advertisement in the London Times. Her kin might be here to morrow or today. Every time the stage comes down that street I’m lookin’ for them. They may be bar row-knights or dukes. And are they to find her working to earn her liv ing?” So Jane’s white palms never were stained by money which she had earned. She was welcomed with enthusiasm into the little social world of the country. It never had known such a heroine. She was a grave, slow moving girl, with no sense of humor whatever. She had absolute faith in her own high birth ; but having also warm kindly blood, she met the rest of us, black and white —less lucky folk than herself —with friendly tol erence. Two or three of the students in the academy, sons of good families promptly fell madly in love with her but were dismissed with pitying sur prise. "What would my family think if I should make such a mesalliance ?’ ’ she said gravely. After a year or two, however, Wal ter Gardette (one of the Louisianian Gardettes, not the Canadian) was taken into partnership by Dr. Weems. There was little sickness in the coun try that year ; so the young man had plenty of time to assist Miss Saltere in her search for orchids. She was really almost a fanatic in her devo tion to botany that summer. Jane was not a zealous scholar. Hitherto her studies had been limited to two or three volumes of poems and some large books which lay on her parlor table and which had been bought by the McGinns years ago. They were "The Baronetage of England,” "Burke’s Peerage,” and "The Coun try Families of Great Britain.” She never opened these books now, so ab sorbing was her botanic zeal. Young Gardette was frankly madly in love. The whole village took a keen interest in the affair, and re joiced when, late in the fall, the en gagement was announced. Curiously enough, from that day the interest of the doctor and Jane in botany was absolutely dead. A little incident which happened on the day of her betrothal made the people of the village feel that they never had known Jane before. Many of her friends, old people as well as young, gathered ia her parlor in the evening, "that the child might riot feel lonely, as if shd stood alone in the world.” Doctor Gardette, flushed with his triumph and joy, said, "I have tele graphed for my father and mother. They will soon be here to welcome Jane, with her noble kinsfolk. She laughed with the others, and then looked at him thoughtfully for a moment. Then she opened the door into the kitchen where old Sandy Mc- Ginn was sitting by the fire, and Hannah was busy with her knitting. “Walter,” she said, "It is very well for me to look for my family among the peerage. It’s like a pretty fairy story. But there are my real father and mother. They have given their lives to me. And I never will go into a family which dfees not receive and honor them. I —l never will marry a man,” here she began to sob, "who will not love them as Ido !” On which there was much crying among the women and many promi ses and protestations from Walter. Old Sandy McGinn was annoyed by "the fuss.” But it seems to me through the years to come the old woman’s face must have been happier because of those words of Jane’s. I am sorry—but that is the end of my story. There was no dramatic denouement. No peer nor prince ever appeared to place a coronet on Jane’s brow. She became the mother and grandmother of a large family of capable, energetic men and women, who now are scattered through many states. In each family there is a le gend, more or less definite, of noble ancestry. Some of the younger peo ple have a crest and coat of arms, and are ready to claim their progenitors among the great heroes in English or French history. But Jane died with her riddle unsolved. TROUBLE FOR THE EDITOR. "I can’t keep the visitors from com ing up,” said the office boy, dejected ly. "When I say you’re out they don’t believe me. They say they must see you.” "Well,” said the editor, "just tell them that’s what they all say. I don’t care if you check them, but I must have quietness.” That afternoon there called at the 1 office a lady with hard features and : an acrid expression. She wanted to see the editor, and the boy assured 1 her it was impossible. "But I must see him !” she pro tested. "I’m his wife I” l "That’s what they all say,” replied the boy. That is why he found himself on the floor, with the lady sitting on his neck and smacking his head with a ; ruler, and that is why there is a new office boy wanted there. — Answers. r • Prisoner —Mandy, Ah doan un ' derstan’ how you got de nerve ter stan’ thar an’ tell de jedge that I - didn’t suppo’t yo.’ Mandy—G’oge, in what perticku i lar did yo’ ever suppo’t me? Tell me > dat. I Prisoner —Well, Mandy, didn’t I r alius go an’ get de washing fo’ yo’ 1 ter do, an’ didn’t I alius deliver it > ter de white folks after yo’ got it r done ? — Detroit Free Press. f - A woman never pretends to be i young until she begins to feel old. RECEIVE BIG SALARIEB. Whatever may be the final form of the readjustment of the social organi zations, for which the Twentieth cen tury is getting ready, the present time will go down in history as the age of the world’s greatest salaries, says the New York Tribune. The men of intellect and education, those who are superior in developed capacity, in industry and morality, those who are most important to so ciety, work for pay which the masters of modern finance would consider in sufficient for the expenses of running their automobiles. The pay of col lege professors average about 82,000 a year. Civil service commissioners of the United States, doing work of great responsibility, draw 83,500 a year. The biologist of the govern ment, with an international reputa tion, receives $2,700. The experts who codify the federal penal laws are paid only 85,000. The pay of United States cabinet officers is only 88,000 a year, and it is interesting to note that to accept such a position the present secretary of state, Mr. Root, gave up a law prac tice estimated as worth 8100.000 yearly. On the other hand, Paul Morton resigned as secretary of the navy in order to accept a $60,000 salary in New York. It probably is a safe statement that the average yearly income of lawyers in New York city does not exceed 82,000 a year. Yet the income of not a few runs as high as 8100,000, ud in some cases more. One of the largest single fees ever paid to a law yer was 81,000,000 which James B. Dill of New York, received for set tling the dispute which arose between Andrew Carnegie and Henry C. Frick over the transfer of the properties merged in the United States Steel corporation. A fee only 820,000 less than Mr. Dili’s was paid to another New York lawyer, William D. Guthrie, who re ceived 8800,000 for breaking the will of Henry B. Plant, owner of the Plant system of steamships, railways and hotels. Joseph H. Choate, before his ap pointment as Ambassador to Great Britain, received 8200,000 for a single argument before the United States supreme court, the effect of which was that the income tax law was declared unconstitutional. As Ambassador at London Mr. Choate’s salary was 817,500. The fee of 830,000 and traveling expenses which were paid to Dr. Adolph Lorenz of Vienna, to treat Lolita Armour for congenital hip dis location, were much less than have frequently been paid abroad by roy alty for various ailments. King Ed ward, when Prince of Wales, once paid a physician fui lour weeks’ services. The fee of 81,000 which a New York dentist charged Prince Louis of Battenberg when the latter visited this country with his fleet a year ago was much commented upon. For a dentist’s fee the sum was undoubted ly large, but as compared with some physicians’ fees it looks insignificant. In New York city there probably are four or five physicians whose practice, mostly with the wealthy, represents an annual income of SIOO,- 000 or more. Five or six others earn from 850,000 to 860,000, and about 200 make from 810,000 to 840,000. The average doctor gets from 82 to 84 for a visit out of his office, and charges from 81 to 82 tor writing a prescription in his office. THE PORTER HOUSE STEAK. On almost every bill of fare are seen the words * * porter- house steak. ’ ’ Now, most people know what a por ter-house steak is, having on some occasion eaten one, or at least a piece of beef that went by that name, but few people know how the name itself originated. Years ago there was a hostelry near Harvard University kept by a man named Pojter. Soon this tavern became famous for its viands, especially for its cuts of meats. The stranger stopping there for a meal and not knowing exactly what to order would be advised by hisjgeni al host, Mr. Porter, to order a steak. So good were his steaks that travel lers spoke of them, and gradually be gan referring to them as the "steak you get at Porter’s house.” From that it was but a short time before they were referred to as the "Porter house steak.” Since then butchers all over the country have found out the way in which Mr. Porter cut his famous steak, and have been making the same cuts themselves, hence the porter-house steak has been served the country over. Only a month or so ago the old Porter House was moved back to make room for aro w of tenement houses that are now be ing built in front of it. HIS SYMPATHY. In the criminal court in Baltimore a darky was on trial for stealing a watch, which he had pawned. He was identified by the owner as the person who grabbed the watch out of his pocket, yet the darkey claimed to be innocent. When asked how he came in possession of the watch he said: "I was standing on the corner when a m?~i comes up to me and says he is hard u„ and hasn’t a cent to buy food with, an wants to sell me this watch fo 83. I knew I could get $4 on it in piSm, and I felt sorry for him and bought the watch for 83 and pawned it for 84. That’s bow I got the watch.” The prosecutor then asked, if he had bought the watch for $3, know ing he could pawn it for 84, simply to help the man along because he felt sorry for him, why he did not advise him to pawn it himself, and then he would have had 84 instead of 83. "Well, you see,” said the priso ner, "I didn’t have the presence of mind to do dat."—Judges' Library. : Old bachelors are as hard to be understood as widows are easy. WHAT THEY DO WITH THE GOLD PROM EUROPE. BY GEOBGE W. MABLOB, CABHIEB OF THE U. 8. BUB-TREASURY. Buying 810,000,000 worth of gold from the Bank of England is no more complex a transaction than buying a piece of real estate. Whatever dif ference there is in the two is in favor of the gold purchase. In it you are pretty sure to get the value of your money. 1 Much of the gold bought by the large banking houses of New York End other American cities is purchased from the Bank of England or the Bank of France. Its purchase is ar ranged for by the English or French agents of the bank that wishes to se cure the gold. The price that will have to be paid depends largely upon the demand. At the present time, when every dollar of gold that can be secured is being eagerly sought by bankers here, the price is as high as 5 and 6 per cent. The shipment of the gold is accom panied by comparatively few extra precautions. An extra detective or two from Scotland Yard, perhaps, and as many oiher private detectives employed by the Bank of England furnish all the protection needed. All gold imported into this country comes in one of two forms. It is either in gold bars or in coin. If in coin it is usually American money that has been sent abroad in some previous year, for a comparatively small amount of foreign gold coin is brought here. Whether in bar or coin, how ever, it is all shipped in small steel cases. The bars are of an exact length, so as to permit them being packed tightly in the cases, while the coins are in bags, irrespective of de nominations, that hold just 500 ounces. The arrival of a gold-laden ship at her pier in the North River is not dif ferent, so far as precautions for the gold itself is concerned, from that of any other vessel. There are always government officials, city officials and private detectives to meet each ship and the arrival of a boat with 8 10,- 000,000 of gold aboard will result in no more than one of two extra men being present to ride on the wagons carrying the gold away from the pier. The steel boxes, with their precious contents, as they are carted down from the ship to the wharfs, might from their appearance contain only ordinary merchandise. If unusual precautions be taken, however, it is during the brief moments that the boxes with their millions are lying on the pier waiting to be lifted into the wagons and carted away. Then they are watched by a good many pairs of eyes, and not a stranger is allowed to approach anywhere near them. tEc Huai *ati "6Y TK ~pu l- a-Usss "t~ gold differs in times of panic and at ordinary times. At the present time, when the necessity for gold is so great that every moment is precious, its real value in relieving a situation, such as we have been going through recently comes only when it is piled high on the counters of the banks and trust companies awaiting the demands of the creditors of those institutions. The gold that arrives in bars goes direct to the Assay office. Before any attempt is made to analyze it and ascertain its real value the purchaser receives a certified check from the Assayer for 98 per cent, of the value supposed to be contained in the bars. The check can be converted into cash immediately and the delay of two or three days necessary to make a com plete assay of the shipment is avoided. Whatever additional sum is due the purchaser after the Assayer’s report is made, he receives in a day or two. Much the same process, so far as expediency is concerned, is gone through with the gold coins. They, instead of going to the Assay office, go direct to the Sub-Treasury. Each bag is weighed unopened, and if found to tip the scales of 500 ounces 89,300 in cash is immediately advanc ed. That process saves many hours, for each bag has to be opened, the coins assorted into their several de nominations, counted and weighed for loss from abrasions. After that is done the money is returned to bags containing $5,000 each and the bal ance due the purchaser, whatever it may be, is forwarded to him. The only other class of gold ship ment that has to he handled is that of foreign gold coins. They are not even counted but are placed immedi ately in a crucible, melted and then sent to the Assay office, where they are treated as were the gold bars. The extra time necessary to secure actual American money for the gold of foreign nations is the chief reason . for the small amount of gold imported ! in that form. As between shipping gold in coin or bars there is little preference. It is said that the motion of the ships causes a loss of about S2OO in every shipment of 81,000,000. It is a fact, ; however, that the coins do lose con -1 siderably more in weight than the ! bars. — New York Sunday World. HOW TO DO IT. : An Irishman out of work applied ! to the "boss” of a large repair shop in Detroit. When the Celt had sta ted his sundr}’ and divers qualifica ; tions for a "job,” the superintendent began quizzing him a bit. Starting ; quite at random, he asked : [ "Do you know anything about car r pentry?” [ "Shure!” "Do you know how to make a Ve netian blind?” . "Shure!” . "How would you do it?” - "Shure, I’d poke me finger in his eye !” — Philadelphia Ledger. ■ . — - Gilmore —How did you begin your downward course? De Witte—l began at the top, of f course. Did you think I began at the bottom? s No man is totally bad and no wo man is totally good. PRESIDENTS WHO MADE PRESIDENTS. In our brief history, two Presidents, and only two, stand out as makers of Presidents. There was no one in all the land whom Thomas Jefferson trusted as he trusted James Madison. Back in the days of the Revolution Madison had been his lieutenant, and had aided him in breaking down the aristocratic features of the Virginia code. During his sojourn in France, Madison had been his hope whenever he thought of political conflicts in the new republic. Ma lison, so Jefferson thought, was able to refute the papers of Hamilton, and, though Madison was quite willing to desist from so ar duous a task, he was grateful to Jef ferson for the compliment. During his two terms as President, Jeffer son found comfort and support in the true friend, the learned lawyer, the loyal follower who stood by him through the strife with Barbary, the Burr incident, the impressment con troversy, and the Embargo. It was Jefferson’s will that his secretary of state should become President, and when Jefferson spoke his party obeyed. The eight years of Madison passed away, but Jefferson was still powerful, powerful enough to secure eight years more of Virginia administration. James Monroe, a man trained in the Jefferson school, Jefferson’s agent in the Louisiana purchase, Jefferson’s minister to Great Britain, was the next President, and this was not ef fected without resentment in other states. So long a period of state as cendancy would now be impossible. No President since Jefferson has at tempted it. But Jefferson was unique. He was a party manager and organiz er whose like the country has nevei seen. Andrew Jackson set his heart on the choice of Martin Van Buren as his successor, and he gained his point. The attraction of the opposite bound the stern Indian fighter and the adroit civilian in a close friendship. Van Buren admired Jackson’s]force; Jack son admired Van Buren’stact. Van* Buren was polite to Mrs. Eaton, and this won Jackson’s chivalrous heart. Van Buren had been antagonized by the leading Whigs, and Jackson con sidered him a martyr. Without un derrating Van Buren’s talents, it is clear that he owed the Presidency in no slight degree to Jackson’s desire that he should win it. Presidents have come and gone, but, as a rule, the out-going chief magis trate exercised comparatively little in fluence on the course of public affairs. Of Jackson’s sucessors, Van Buren failed of re-election ; Harrison died in office ; Tyler saw his party defeated ; Polk met a similar fate ; Taylor died in office; Fillmore saw that dead of his party; Pierce was followed by Mwa BnahUTiim by Liiwuln.- Three presidents have been assassina ted. Not one stands forth as a pres ident-maker. But the quiet student of Mouticello made two Presidents, and the grim warrior of the Hermi tage elected a friend and forced the election of two Presidents of the oppo sition. — Living Church. WE MAKE MUSIC FOR MEXICO. According to the American Consul at Monterey, Mexico, everybody in that sunny land has a love of music. The common laborer who works all day paving the streets may be found in the evening taking a leading part in an orchestra playing classic music. It is a poor house indeed that has not some sort of musical instrument. But with all their love of music they almost never make a musical instru ment. Cotton goods, nails, steel rails and various other articles of commerce are manufactured in Monterey, but as yet the Consul is quoted by Musical America as saying that nobody has ever made a guitar here except per haps, some lone genius who manufac tured one for his own use. Guitars and mandolins are almost exclusively imported from the United States, though some come from France and Spain. Germany is supposed to be the home of the violin, and nearly all of these instruments used in this part of Mexico come from that coun try, though an insignificant number come from the United States. In pianos, of which quite a number are sold there, the United States has the best of the trade, the balance go ing to Germany. In organs the United States is practically unrivalled in this country, very few of these in struments in any grade coming from Europe. But there is one general class of in struments in which the United States might do a good business, but as yet does practically none, and that is the instruments which go to the furnish ings of a brass band. As yet not much has been done in this country in the way of printing sheet music. Most of the danzas, songs, etc., composed by Mexican au thors are sent abroad to be printed, and the German music publishers get the most of this. Music houses in Monterey have sent some manuscript to American publish ers, hoping to get their work returned more speedily, but they complain that it takes about as long to get it from the United States as it does to get it from Germany. Little Tommy wrote an essay on bees as follows : "The bees is a queer sort of an insect; and gives people a few points they do not appreciate. The queen be bosses the hive, just like ma bosses our hosue. The drone bee is like pa,he don’t care much about work. There are ocher kinds of bees includ ing political bees and husking bees and quilting bees. The best of all are the i kissing bees. There is a kissing bee in our parlor every Sunday night and I get a nickel not to tell about it. When it comes to a choice of bees, give me kissing bee every time.” Boarder —You can divide a chick en with mathematical accuracy, Mrs. Hashington. Mrs. Hashington—Di - viding it is easy enough. I wish I could multiply it. ESTABLISHED 1850. THE TOSS OP A COIN. A famous mathematician, Profes sor Karl Pearson, once spent the j greater part of his vacation deliber- 1 ately tossing a shilling and making 1 careful notes of how it fell. He spun 1 the shilling 25,000 times, and a pupil 5 of his, working separately, spun a i penny 8,200 times and also tested the 1 drawing of 9,000 tickets from a bag. j It may seem strange that a learned £ professor should put himself to such an amount of trouble to demonstrate i what every schoolboy who had ever t tossed a coin already knew. Yet, as 1 a matter of fact, few really do grasp 1 the laws which govern such an ap- \ parently straightforward matter as i the tossing of a coin. In the words 1 of the arithmetician, the theory of ] "runs” —that is, heads turning up t repeatedly or tails turning up repeat- j edly—is precisely as follows: f The chance of a head is one-half; of two heads following, is one-half < multiplied by one-half —that is, 1 quarter; of three heads in succes- < sion, one-half multiplied by one-half 1 multiplied by one-half —that is, one- j eighth. Now, what do you suppose ( is the chance of a run of eleven heads ? ; It is safe to say that not many per- £ sons, however accustomed to tossing e coins, have reasoned this out. The f fact is that one "run” of eleven heads t is on the average only to be expected t in 2,048 sets of coin tossing. < Although the man in the street f may not have reckoned this, he is t always quite positive that if, say, a c coin has fallen ten times head upward 1 he is safe to start backing tails. He 1 puts his money on tails turning up 1 because, he says, it stands to sense 1 that the run of heads can’t continue. 1 But does it? At the eleventh toss t the head of the coin is just as big as f it ever was. What mysterious in- 1 fluence can a past event, the tossing t of ten heads, have on a future one 1 which has no link with them —name- \ ly, the tossing of the coin the eleventh t time ? Surely each toss is an event by itself, as Sir Hiram Maxim said of a game at roulette at Monte Carlo : "It is a pure, unadulterated ques- \ tion of chance, and it is not influenced ( in the least by anything which has j ever taken place before or that ever c will take place in the future.” t A nasty piece of plain speaking ( this for the cranks who had published \ schemes for "breaking the bank” and t whose plans depended entirely on the t theory that if one game ended in a f win for "red” the chances against it ( ending "red’ ’ a second time were less, ( a third time less still, and so on. < This of course would be a sound , enough argument provided that you , regard some dozens of games of rou- | lette or tosses of a coin all as one con- j tinuous event. It is quite safe, for | - instance, to offer beforehandjbie odds u agaipst a coin turning up Heads ten . times running. But in practice the public house loafer does not do this. What he does is to bet on each sepa- ( rate toss by itself, thus defeating his 1 own aims. The odds against a coin , turning up heads eleven times are as | has been shown, something like 2,000 -to 1. But suppose you only start 1 betting at the tenth toss. What are ] the odds against the eleventh toss again being a head ? ( The odds, so far from being 3,000 ( to 1, are actually Ito 1 1 To use an , Irishism, the odds are even—that is , to say, if you split up the eleven tosses into eleven separate events to be bet on separately your bets should be "even money” all the time, how ever often heads turn up running. But if you view the eleven tosses as one combined event and you offer a preliminary bet against the whole eleven results being heads you will have to give gigantic odds. All this goes to prove the absolute uncertainty of gambling. The great est mathematicians of the day cannot be certain how a coin will fall, so that the man of merely average abilities who stakes anything important on the toss of a coin is allowing that part of his fortune to pass en -1 tirely outside his control. — Pearson's Weekly. NOT GOING HUNTING. A motor car dashed along the coun try road. Turning a curve it came suddenly upon a man with a gun on > his shoulder and a weak looking dog beside him. The dog was directly in : the path of the motor car. The chauffeur sounded his horn, but the dog did not move —until he was 1 struck. After that he did not move. The motor stopped and one of the men got out and came toward. He 1 had once paid a farmer for killing a : calf that belonged to another farmer. ! This time he was wary. "Was that your dog?” "Yes.” 1 "You own him ?” "Yes.” "Looks as if we’d killed him.” "Certainly looks so.” "Valuable dog ?” t "Well, not so very.” "Will a sovereign satisfy you?” t "Yes.” "Well, then, here you are.” He l handed a sovereign to the man with t the gun, and added, pleasantly : "I’m 1 sorry to have broken up your hunt.” t "I wasn’t going hunting,” replied the other as he pocketed the money. "Not going hunting? Then what 1 were you doing with the dog and the r gun?” 1 "Going down to the woods to shoot the dog.” PENCE 2,OOO*MILES LOHO. 5 In West Australia, after five years’ - work, the great transcontinental rab -1 bit-proof fence has been completed. 2 Its length is 2,036 miles and the cost s of its erection has been nearly sl,- i 215,000. . It is furnished at intervals of five , miles with systems of traps, in which hundreds of rabbits are captured and destroyed daily. On the eastern side of the fence the • animals are teeming and vegetation is - almost completely absent. Inside the I barrier there appears as yet no trace of their presence. HOSPITALITY IH THE FABXHOUBE. True hospitality seems to be ne glected in these days. The desire to keep up appearance has much to do with banishing the simpler and more kindly way of entertaining. Let us see that it does not go further, for it is woman’s high privilege to give hearty welcome to the guest and dis pense kindly hospitality to those who are beneath her roof. Every housekeeper, whether living in a cottage or a mansion, should try to have the home as bright and order ly as possible, so that a friend may be welcomed at any time or meal without putting the entire household in an uproar. Of course, this means a bit more system, but no extra ex pense. If there are young folks in the home it is the parents’ duty to give their friends and companions a friendly welcome. Do not be extravagant in your food expenditure, but spend what you can * afford on the table service ; that is, the dishes, silver, etc. Don’t forget that a slice of bread and butter or a simple, plain sandwich, spread neatly and daintily cut, placed on a pretty plate, set on a clean linen tablecloth, will afford more enjoyment than more elaborate dishes served in careless fashion. A fresh appearance to the table means a little extra care but no extra cost. Have in everyday use dishes upon which you would serve a friend ; for if they are not fit for friends they are not fit for those nearest and dearest to us, the home folks. And how much more refined our children will appear at a nicely set table than where everything is in disorder! If we have pretty things let us use them while our children are with us, that they may not be mortified if a chance guest drops in at any time. Itjs not unusual to hear the housekeeper admit that her social life is a burden to her. What a wretched state of affairs ! Let us start a reform. — Mis. M. E.Dun ton, in the New York Tribune. THE FBICEOF EGOS. “When eggs get in the neighbor hood of forty cents a dozen and butter climbs to thirty-five and forty cents people always want to know what the cause is,” said a New Jersey farmer to a Dock street merchant the other day. “They think we are trying to bleed them, but if they really knew the truth, they wouldn’t have much to say, I don’t believe. Of course you fellows here on Dock street know the causes, but the ordinary person doesn’t. Do you know why eggs are scarce? It’s not because the hens are not working as hard as usual. Some may be taking a vacation, it’s true, but it’s because the farmers are sav ing their eggs for incubators. About this time of the year the poultry rais ers .collect allthefreaheggs thexcan and pile tnem into tne patent setting hens. You ask why they do this? Well, it’s a simple proposition. It takes three weeks to the day for eggs to hatch out. As soon as you get chickens you begin to feed them to beat everything. The brooders, in which they are kept in winter to keep them warm, are fairly alive with the little fellows, and by stuffing them with corn and wheat we soon have chickens as big as squabs and kill them for broilers. You know what they are —the highest kind of chicken meat. You can’t blame the farmers for hoarding their eggs when yon know the profit there is in broilers. Then you get as much per pound as you get for a dozen eggs at forty cents a dozen. It’s only the law of supply and demand which makes eggs high, as everything else. Let all the farm ers turn all their eggs into market, and you will see the price come down; let them hoard their eggs for hatch ing and up goes the price. It’s sim ple when you know the Iruth7 f^~ . * Philadelphia Record. EVIDENCES OF VULGABITY. Asking questions, private and per sonal, is one vulgar habit, and telling your own business, which no one wants to hear, is another. Asking the cost of a present that has been made to you, loud talking in public, insolent disrespect to husband, wife, sister or brother; showing temper in trifles and making scenes in public, showing an embarrassing amount of fondness and making love in public; covert sneer, of which people can see the animus if they do not always un derstand the drift; persistent egotism, which talks forever of itself, itself, itself, only itself, and cannot even feign the most passing interest in an other ; detraction of friends, and it may be of relations —a husband tell ing of his wife’s unpleasantness ; a wife complaining of her husband’s faults ; the old assumption of superiority, and the servile confession of infinite un worthiness. All these are signs and evidences of vulgarity —vulgarity of a I far worse type than that which eats I its fish with a steel knife, and says ft “you was,” “each of the men were.” jj In fact, true vulgarity resolves itself |' into that central point of evil —selfish- I ness. The unselfish can never be I really vulgar. They may be uncouth, I but they cannot be more, while the § best top-dresssing of manner to be fc found in the whole world cannot make I the substance refined where that one I foul canker of egotism and indifference E to others lies at the heart of things, id Ik a good piano receives proper I care its value increases with use. It fc becomes more mellow, more respon- I sive and richer even in appearance. I Avoid placing a piano near the win- I dow, as the varying temperatures B which necessarily exist in such a po- I sition are injurious to the strings. I Be careful too, that you do not have H one end of the instrument near a fire ■ and the other end near a window or I door. When a room has become very ■ cold do not heat it too quickly, but ■ increase the heat gradually. A nkwly married man protects his B wife by putting his armor round her. ■ It is when duty calls that we are ■ apt to send word that we are out.