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VOL. 18. NO. 23
NUISANCE SUPPRESSED.
THE SALVATION ARMY.
Its Work Has -Grown Into Proportions
of Surprising Magnitude.
Tlie work oo. the Salvation Army In
the United States may be a surprise to
those who have 'little 'khowIeclgeTdf
their projects nor realized what bene
fit is given by the hard-working ex
horters who are seen of an evening
preaching in the streets to the casual
listeners. Small enough seems the re
ward in contrast to their labors, but
the following statistics will show the
importance and extension of their in
fluence: Seven hundred and thirty
two corps and outposts, 45,000 annual
conversions, 2,800 officers* 93,000 week
ly circulation War Cry, in English,
German, Scandinavian and Chinese, 190
social relief institutions, 545 officers
and employes in charge, $250,000 an
nually spent in poor relief, 7,200 night
ly accommodations for poor, 2,500,000
beds annual accommodation, 66 work
ingmen's hotels, 6 women's hotels, 24
food depots, 24 industrial homes for
the unemployed, 3 farm colonies, 1,800
acres colonized, 240 colonists, 5 employ
ment bureaus, 13 second-hand stores,
19 rescue homes for fallen women, 450
accommodation, 1,000 fallen women
cared for each year, 24 slum settle
ments, 80 officers in charge.Detroit
Free Press.
Lands Where Women Drudge.
Neither women nor dogs are allowed
to loaf in Austria and Hungary. The
latter are Employed to haul delivery
wagons from the shops and markets.
Sometimes they are assisted by a
woman or a boy, seldom by a grown
man. You never see dogs capering
about the streets. They are not often
so high spirited. Hard work takes
the ginger out of them, and when you
see a dog without a harness he is gen
erally walking along as solemnly as
a tired man going home from his work.
The sphere of woman's usefulness has
been extended to include hod-carrying,
ditch-digging, shoveling gravel on rail
roads and other heavy labor. I have
seen her making mortar and assisting
to lay pavings stones in the street, but
she is not yet trusted with a trowel.
She carries bricks and mortar up a
ladder four stories, but the man at
the top -does all the work.Corre
spondence Chicago Record-Herald.
Flowers and Gardens In Alaska.
Very encouraging reports have been
received from Prof. C. C. Georgeson,
.in charge of the agricultural experi
ment stations in Alaska. On a trip
into the interior and down the Yukon
early in August he found new pota
toes, cabbages, cauliflowers and other
vegetables ready for the table, and
gardens blooming with a variety of
animal flowers. At Rampart rye and
barley were ripened this year, and
there was a fair prospect for oats and
wheat. On the lower Yukpn extensive
tracts were found covered with lux
uriant grasses, often six feet in height,
and apparently well suited to agricul
tural purposes.-Youth's Companion.
Value BecelTed In Family Pride,
"What did your son's course in that
eastern college cost you, Mr. Rock
Ingham?" "About $11,000, as near as
I can recollect." "Do you think he got
the worth of the money?" "Oh, yes.
He learned to say "ah" for "r," and
his mother, gets more than $11,000
worth of'enjoyment out of that alone
evefy time she hears him talk in com-
pany."
Jk Patient Man Rebukes a Know All at
Theater.
The theater nuisance presents him
self in various annoying phases. The
late-comer and the man with the un-*
quenchable thirst who doesn't make
any effort to secure an end seat have
come to be regarded as irresponsible
subjects of toleration. They are mild
inflictions compared with the "soft"
couple that insist on holding an audi
ble tete-a-tete during the progress of
the play, regardless of the annoyance
they may be causing thbse near them,
and possibly the players also. These
conscienceless prattlers seemingly
care not whether they break into an
important denouement or climax in
the stage proceedings, and how often
have we been irritated almost beyond-.-^tP^S^^MSa^-O^tltexulg^.gajig,,.to
control by the ill-timed senseless tit
ter of the uncultured (during the action
of a pretty love scene. Then there is
the fellow who has seen the play be
fore, and who insists on taking his
neighbor into his confidence and out
lining its movements and incidents
between the acts during its presenta
tion. And more intolerable than all
is the insufferable individual who pro
fesses to know the family history of
every member of the cast, their little
eccentricities and fads. He will tell
you (while the performance is going
on) that Mile. Hoopla was formerly
the wife of the dude son of old Joshua
Moneybags that Horatio Haggard is
the husband of Tilie Fewclothes, the
soubrette that Flossie Dareall, the
trapeze performer, wears her ow dia
monds, and that Charley Cheerup, tho
bird imitator, was once a lowly sewer
digger. That is, if it happens to be
a vaudeville performance, as it was in
this instance. A certain man who goes
to the theater to be amused and not
annoyed was unfortunately placed
next to one of these bores the other
night. The bore had given a running
biography of each performer as he or
she came on, and the sufferer stood
the persecution to the limit of unusual
good nature and patience. Finally he
turned full upon the offender with the
annihilating observation: "Say, my
friend, what do you take me fora
census enumerator?" The bore looked
grieved for a moment, but he was ef
fectually suppressed.Detroit Free,
Press.
N
WAR AGAINST MOSQUITOES.
Campaign: Conducted by Private Enter
prise In Sierra Lvooe.
The campaign against mosquitoes in
Sierra Leone, as set forth by Major
Ross in the progress report of the Liv
erpool School of Tropical Science, will
be instructive to all interested in the
public health. The campaign is the
first ever carried out on a large scale
with the object of ridding an entire
town in the tropics of mosquitoes.
Moreover, it is probably the' first in
stance of public sanitary measures be
ing undertaken by private agency and
by private funds. Despairing of se
curing help from the authorities, Major
Ro3s set about the work of extirpat
ing malaria in Sierra Leone by private
enterprise. His forces were divided
collect from private houses all broken
bottles, empty tin cans, and old cala
bashes, in which mosquitoes of the
genuses stegpmyia and culex breed.
The .duty of the anopheles gang was to
drain the pools and puddles in the
streets and back yards of the houses
in which anopheles breed. The .culex
gang removed more than a thousand
cart loads of rubbish. The anopheles
gang had a more difficult job, owing
chiefly to the large rainfall, 160 inches
annually, but in a few weeks it made
great progress in attacking the pools
and puddles, by filling them, draining,
sweeping.them/out,1
treating them with
petroleum, creosote, etc. The results
are described as "unexpectedly en
couraging." It is too soon to formu
late the statistics of reduction in the
number of cases of the disease. As to
yellow lever Major Ross expects
speedy results because it is not a lin
gering disease, but as regards the
other two mosquito-borne diseases,
malaria and filariasis, the good results
will not be so immediately manifest.
Major Ross does not think there is
much evidence that the mosquitoes
are .carried far iby the winds, and
hence .the utility of destroying the
local hreeding places. He commends
the Americans "for the common sense
and energy with which they have at
tacked this question, so different from
the hesitation and apathy generally
shown by the British." A forthcom
ing work is promised, called, "Mos
quito Brigades and How to Organize
Them."American Medicine.
LIKED IN BROOKLYN.
Seat
Story t fifbw Dr. Bethnne Got
in a Ferryboat.
The Rev. Dr. Cuyler of Brooklyn
tells a story, the authenticity of which
Jje. vouches.for, about Dr. Bethune, who
had a successful' pastorate, reaching
over many years, in one of the Dutch
Reformed churches of Brooklyn. Late
in his life a flattering offer was made
him to take a New York church. Af
ter mature reflection Dr. Bethune de
cided to remain in Brooklyn, and de
clined the offer, to the great satisfac
tion of his own parishioners. Some
weeks later Dr. Bethune had occasion
to cross the East River ferry. It was
during the early morning rush hours.
There was a great crowd on the boat,
and he was obliged to stand up. Pres
ently one of the passengers got up
and began to signal to the doctor, by
a remarkable set of gesticulations, to
come and take his seat. As he noticed
that the man was considerably under
the influence of liquor, and wished to
avoid attracting attention, he took the
proffered seat. But the donor was not
satisfied then. He put his1
hand heav
ily on the doctor's shoulder, and said
in a maudlin tone: "I say, 'Doc,' yer
don't know how much we think of. yer
in Brooklyn ever since yer told that
New York congregation that offered
yer a big salary ter come over to New
York and save ther souls, that you'd
see 'em damned first.*'New York
Tribune.
A Glimpse of Senator Hanna.
Senator Hanna personally sees from
fifty to three hundred people a day
when he is in his office in Cleveland,
and he is said to have the faculty of
seeming-
interested in the little affairs
of the caller even when his great po
litical and business interests are de
manding his attention. He almost al
ways has a cigar between his teeth,
and one who knows him well says:
"If the Senator lets his cigar go out
while you are presenting your case
you can make up your mind that he
is interested. If he pulls away at it
in short, quick puffs, you are wast
ing your eloquence and breath, and if
.he turns to his desk to relight it or
light another, you may conclude the
interview is terminated."
Hadn't Borrowed Trouble.
Many diffident persons* find the be
ginning of a conversation awkward,
especially on ceremonious occasions,
and with strangers. Sometimes, how
ever, the beginning is not half so
awkward as what comes afterward.
A bashful young man on being intro
duced to a lady at a dinner party said
you know. Everyone me
ver clever." The youngt lady waAs answered: "Well, do~ you know,
thought you weren't!"London Tit
Bits.
Keen Observation.
"Do you know anything about thd
people who nave mqved next door?*
she inquired. "Not much," he an
swered "except that their honeymoon
is not yet over." "How did you find
that, out?" "By -observing, it wad
raining when he came home this even-1
ing, hut she did not make him stop!
at the front door to wipe his feet,"1
Washington Star.,
a. J. i J. JI i* Hem. oui, wnen the
"I've got to take you in to dinner, Miss Egyptians came along it was in the
Travers and I'm rathertells afraid oyou're
1rt/\ir A 4-fille TAII*M
simplicity "Ho absurd I" she
claimed. "I'm not a bit clever." The
PHOTOGRAPHING A QUEEN,
Her Royal and Ordinary smilesWhy
One Ukenexs Was Spoiled.
A London photographer who has
probably taken more photographs of
kings and queens than any other man
in the world has been confiding to the
public, under a discreet but not wholly
blind incognito, his professional ex
periences with royalty. "The Queen
of Holland," he says, "is, with King
Edward, one of the most charmingly
easy sitters I ever took. She does not
mind to what trouble she puts herself
so long as she can please you and
look, as her majesty once said to me,
'as a queen should look.' Shortly be
fore her marriage I was summoned to
Amsterdam to take the young queen.
was somewhat nervous at first in the
J'^l^resjn _an^
quickly noticed this. 'Now I want to
look very nice indeed in this photo
graph,' said her majesty, smiling, 'and
if you feel ill at ease I am sure you
will not be able to do justice to your
self or to me.' After that I soon lo3t
all my nervousness. I thought her
majesty looked rattier too dignified and
stately, so I said: 'Will your majesty
please smile a little? I am sure the
photograph will come out much better
then.' The queen laughed and said:
'Certainly. But how ought I to smile?
Like a queen or like an ordinary mor-
tal.' The photograph proved to be a
fine one and Queen Wilhelmina was
delighted with it. 'Oh, you have in
deed taken me nicelv this time' sh
said some time afterward to me as
she examined the picture. 'Why, this
photograph is far better than the other
one you took of me! But then you
were not 10 blame. I remember I had
tight boots on at the time, and oh,
how they pinched me! How can one
look happy or cheerful with tight
boots York Sun.
THE RED SEA PASSAGE.
Booker Washington's Story o* an Old
Colored Preacher.
I remember that in one of his taiks
Mr. Washington, referring to his be
lief that the most profitable education
of the people of his race required va
rious methods, according to the needs
of the people under different condi
tions, told a story of an old colored
preacher who was endeavoring to ex
plain to his congregation how it was
that the children, of Israel passed over
the Red sea safely, while the Egyp
tians, who came after them, were
drowned. The old man'said: "My
brethren, it was this way: When the
Israelites passed over it was early in
the morning, while it was cold, and
the ice was strong enough so that they
went over all right but, when the
you middle of the day,
naturally amused by this display of At this a young man in the conirreea
simplicity. "How absurd!" she ex- tfn. wh h** ho, *._.,
young man heaved a sigh of relief and' don't see how that explanation can be
andt thte Tune
hadu
thawed the Ic so tha i way
unde* wcui, aud uiey were arownea..
them,
anu
they were drowned
tion who had been away to school and
had come home, rose^and said.: "I
^right, parson. The geography that I've
been studying tells us that ice never
forms under the equator and the Red
sea is nearly under the equator."
"There, now," said the old preacher,
"thafs all right Fse been 'spectin'
some of yew smart Alecka would be
askin' some such fool question. The
tima I was talkin' about was before
they had any jogaffies or "quators
either." "That good old man," said
Mr. Washington, "was just trying in
his simple manner to brush away the
cobwebs which stood in the way of his
tog*?,.. By some such method the mis-
ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MJJ# SATURDAY.JULY 12, 1902,
conceptions wnicn flfemper the course
Of education for the colored people
must be removed before^ the besti re
suits can be attained."Outlook.
The Two B^lnd Chaplains.
Across the broad plaza in front of
the Capitol the other- day walked two
blind men. They Were the chaplains
of the House and Senate. These two
blind men are among the most pictur
esque personalities in Congress. The
Rev. Dh MHburn, With his long gray
whiskers and' his bl^ck slouch hat, is
a familiar figure, He walks upon the
arm of his daughter, gently feeling
his way with a cane, and is always in
his appointed place, at the hour of
noon, no matter whether it rains, or
snows or blows.': ..His prayers are
models of exquisite ^Kpression, and are
uttered in a dee^^jBisical, impressive
yoice. The newspapers are read to
him every morning %efore he goes to
the Capitol, so that if there is any
great event which needs to be men
tioned in his prayer it is not over
looked. The Rev. Mr. Couden, the
chaplain of the House, hides his eyes
beneath dark blue glasses. He is tall
and dignified, and, like his colleague
in the Senate, is very eloquent.
Washington Post.
The Actor Scored.
Some years ago an actor now famous
made his,first appearance on the stage
in a provincial town where the thea
ter-goers were accustomed to make
WATTERSON: "GET BACK INSIDE!
their .disapproval reit wnen an enter
tainer did not succeed in pleasing
them. He was young and nervous and
failed dismally in the part he was
endeavoring to present, and soon
found himself the target for an as
sortment of missiles. When the up
roar was at its height one of his dis
gusted auditors flung a! cabbage-head
at him. A it Jell on the stage the
actor picked it up and stepped forward
to the footlights. He raised his hand
to command silence, and when his tor
mentors paused to hear what he had
to say, exclaimed, pointing to the cab
bage-head: "Ladies and gentlemen, I
expected to please you with my acting,
but I confess I did not expect that
anyone in the audience Would lose his
head over it." He was allowed to pro
ceed without further molestation.
Toronto News.
OLD-TIME STATESMAN FORGOTTEN
fet Oliver Ellsworth Rendered ValapMs)
Service* to the Nation.
Why is it that Oliver Ellsworth has
received so little attention from biog
raphers and historians? asks .Frank
Gaylord Cook in the April Atlantic
He was not born in Massachusetts or
Virginia. In Connecticut, like Penn
sylvania, the historic field has been
meagerly tilled. Moreover, the dra
matic and opportune quality of his
work has been perceived only through
the .perspective of subsequent, years.
Tb'^fegptiate an unpopulr contention
for at^prty jnsf retiring from office In
defeat ^nd ignominy is not conducive
to immediate fame. Nevertheless he
has not been wholly overlooked by
subsequent statesmen. Webster said
of him: "For strength of wisdom, for
sagacity, wisdom and sound good
sense in the conduct of affairs, for
moderation of temper, and general
ability, it may be doubted if New Eng
land has yet produced his superior."
What he said, as chief justice of the
United States, to the. r~and jury at
Savannah, in 1796, was the aim of hie
life: "So let us rear "an empire sacred
to the rights of men ani commend a
government of reason to the nations -of
.the eartlroh
CRYSTAL GAZING.
them.1
a New
Andrew Lang- Recommends It as
Diversion for I^ondoners.
Society, using the word in the fairly
common sense of people who, having
nothing else to do, take up a pastime
so thoroughly for a short time that it
is called a "craze," may follow Andrew
Lang's advice and go in for "crystal
gazing." Mr. Lang, in an article in
the Monthly Review, has been reeomfe
mending his readers to purchase crys
tal balls from the Psychical Research
Society, ipeer into them earnestly, and
see what they shall see, then send
along the result to him. In his in
structions to crystal-gazing novices
Mr. Lang says: "It is best to go alone
into a room, sit down with the back
to the light, place the ball at a just
focus in the lap on a dark dress, or a
dark piece of cloth, try to exclude re?
flections, think of anything you please,
and stare for, say, five minutes at the
ball. That is all." The crystal is a
spherical ball of solid glass, about two
inches in diameter. Mr. Lang has
known people who have seei^ in a
crystal things that were actually hap
pening miles away. More wonderful,
he has known two persons, gazing into
separate crystals at the same moment,
to see1
the same picture. Why can peo
ple see pictures of real persons and
real things in this way? Mr. Lang
hints that it may be "a rudimental
survival of some organ that was use
ful, to man when his ancestors were
Other kinds of animals." TThP aanvo-
tary of the Psychical Research Society
says that as a result of Mr. Lang's
article he has been having more or
ders for crystals than he can execute.
The only trouble is that Mr. Lang
held out the false hope that a crystal
cquld be bought for as little as, half
a crown, whereas the lowest price at
which they can be furnished is 4 shil
lings each.London .Correspondence
New York Sun.
DUTCH PROVERBS.
All clouds do not rain.
Death keeps no almanac.
Virtue consists in action.
Black hens lay white eggs.
Better be envied than pitied.
There is a fool at every feast.
Poverty is the reward of idleness.
A dog with a bone knows ho friend.
A threatened man lives seven years.
The most learned are not the wisest
Little is done where many- command.
Better lose the anchor than the whole
ship.
When cats are mousing they do not
mew.
Fools make
feast,s
and wise men eat
---._
The morning ^hour has gold in its
mouth.
Who serves the public serves a fickle
master.
Talk of the devil and you hear his
bones rattle.
A man without money is like a ship
without sails
Before you make a friend, eat a peck
of salt with him.
Nobility of soul is more honorable
than nobility of birth.V ff.
Deep swimmers and nigh! climbe
seldom die in their beds.
TO marry once is a duty twice,
\olly thrice is madness.
The devil's in the cards, said Sam
four aces and not a single trump
Oil
at the endI andV wine in th middle.
is best at the beginning, honey
r_
All beginnings are hard, said the
thief, and began by stealing an an-
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ENGINEERS' FALSE ALARMS.
On* Pooled by Bed Shirt and Another
by Kleotrlc Headlight.
"When a man's sitting in an engine
cab, looking up the track with a con
stant watch for danger a burden on
his mind," said an engineer, "things
sometimes look different from what
they really are. This is especially true
if after long service his eyes begin
to be a little affected^ I used to know
an old engineer who* was one of the
most careful men on the road. In fact,
he was always worried, and fear of an
accident got to be almost a mania
with him. One day he was pulling a
long freight down a pretty fair grade!
when he suddenly clapped on the air,
and gave the 'highball' with the whis
tle, sending the b'rakemen 'out over the
train setting the hand brakes as fast
as they could. Finally they brought
the train to a stpp, and everybody ran
up to see what was the matter. Among
the men who came up was a redshirt
ed section man. When the fellow got
close, Jack, the engineer, began to rip
out the biggest string of cusses I ever
heard. He damned up and (down any
man who wbtild wear a red shirt while
working on the section, for Jack had
seen that shirt and thought is was a
red flag and stopped his train.
"I had an experience myself not
long ago," spoke up another engineer.
"It was since the new electric head
lights were put in. You know how
they look coming up the track. They
are so bright you can't see anything
else, and its hard to tell whether they
are moving or not. 1 was running a
freight and had a pretty heavy train.
We were coming around a curve just
before makfaag a siding to pass an
other train, when one of those electric
headlights flashed on me. I thought
it was all over with me, but I stopped
to put on the brakes and reverse, and
hung on just a minute in the hope of
getting the train stopped before I
jumped. The grade wasn't very heavy
and I got the train stopped all right.
Before I started to jump I looked
again. I discovered then that the light
didn't seem to be any nearer. I in
vestigated and found that the other
train was at a standstill and wait
ing for me at the switch."Salt Lake
Herald.
HOW HE TIPPED THE PORTER.
An American Who Got Even with
French Hotel Tricksters.
"Powelson, the pioneer of American
photography in a business sense, was
a born humorist," said W. A. Cooper,
the photographer, the other day. "I
belieye^he might have been a rival of
Mark Twain if "he had turned' his at
tention that way. Many years ago I
went over to Europe with him on a
business trip, which turned out to be
one of the pleasantest jaunts I ever
had. They have a customor had
in the French hotels of sticking a
number of candles in *jrour room and
charging you one franc each for them,
whether you light them or not. Powel
son never got reconciled to that. One
day just before we left a certain ho
tel he said to me, looking round our
room, 'Cooper, do we have to pay" a
franc each for all these candles?'
"I said that was the usual charge.
'And all those posters and waiters
down-stairs will expect to be tipped,
too?'
'I believe they will,' I said.
'How much?'
'Oh, about a franc, I suppose.'
'All right, then.'
"He didn't say any more at the time.
But next morning, when we were get
ting ready to start, I saw him taking
the candles out of the candlesticks and
putting them in his pocket. When he
got down-stairs Powelson pulled one
of those candles out of his pocket and
handed it to a porter who was wait
ing for a tip from him. 'Here's a
franc for you. You can cash it in the
office.' "New York Times.
Wall Street's "Kangaroos."
There is a new class of operators in
Wall street. They are known as "Kan
garoos." What is a Kangaroo? Well,
a Kangaroo is a man who jumps in
and out of the market, fearful lest he
has made a mistake in going in and
equally distrustful as to his judgment
in selling out He has all the char
acteristics of a kangarooa quick
jumper either way. Meantime, he ex
hausts his wind, his legs, and not least
of all, his margin. From time im
memorial there have been bulls and
bears and lambs in Wall street, but
only recently has Wall street observed
this new class of operators, the Kan
garoos. The Kangaroo is without
nerve in any direction. He is flighty,
erratic, and of no use to himself or
his friends, but then it must be said
in justice to the Kangaroo that only
in times like those of the last few
weeks have there been opportunities
to display kangaroo characteristics.
Chicago Journal.
Classified.
Stories of Father Taylor, tne sailors'
friend, are perennial in their warm
human interest He was a man who
at all times spoke with- an engaging
frankness which sometimes became
mor brusque than was desirable. A
banke
fro
8P*ch
.*.*_e
a aha/tr
aske
^n West End of Boston
once visited Father Taylor's church
during a fervid revival, and varied
the usual character of the meeting by
a rather pompous address. Its pur
port was that the merchant princes of
Boston were a very beneficent set of
men,, whose wealth and enterprise gave
a employment to thousands of sailors,
and that it was, above all, the duty
of seamen to show their gratitude to
the merchants. At the close of his
the banker was somewhat taken
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fro
smne
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Tnr/ ros ^_J
abaclk whe Fathe Taylo and
s^P
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P*ow mid like to
word?"Youth's X-ipanion
&
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O-It Is the organ of ALL Afee-^^r'.-rrr
6Itis not controlled by any ring rir'onqiit
O-It asks no support but the people's.
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NOT A EAD GUESS.
A Mistake of Nature Revealed by the
Telegraph.
A woman's Morse is as feminine as
her voice or her handwriting. I have
often put to the test my ability to
distinguish between the Morse of a
man and that of a woman, and only
once have I been' deceived, says L.
C. Hall in McClure's Magazine. On
this same Washington "circuit" I one
day encountered a sender at the other
end, a stranger, who for hours "roast
ed" me as I seldom had been in my
telegraphic experience. The dots and
dashes poured from the. sounder in a
bewildering torrent, and I, had the
hardest kind of work to keep up in
copying. With all its fearful swift
ness the Morse was clean-clipped and
musical, tnough it had a harsh, stac
cato ring which indicated a lack of
sentiment and feeling in the trans
mitter. From this, and from a certain
dash and swagger .1 gathered, before
the day was out, a pretty distinct im
pression of the personality of the
transmitter, i conceived him to be of
a well-kept, aggressively clean appear
ance, with a shining red complexion
and close-cropped hair one, in brief,
whose whole manner and make-up be
spoke the self-satisfied sport. That
he wore a diamond in his loudly
striped shirt front I considered ex
tremely likely, and that he carried a
toothpick between his lips was morally
certain. Next clay I took occasion to
make some inquiries of my fellow-op
erator at Washington. "Oh, you mean
T. Y," he said, laughing. "Yes, for a
girl, she is a fly sender." It was mor
tifying to find that I had mistaken the
sex of the sender, but I waj consoled
when I met the young woman. The
high coloring was there, and the self
satisfied air so also were the mascu
line tie, the man's vest and the striped
shirt-front Nor were the diamond pin
and the toothpick wanting. When she
introduced herself by her sign, called
me "Cully" and said I was "a crack-a
jack receiver," I was convinced that
it was nature, and not I, that had
made the mistake as to her sex.
CHEAP LIVING IN MICHIGAN.
Its Beet Sugar Makers Appear to Lire
on $34.09 a Year.
We comply willingly' with the re
quest of Mr. Henry B. Joy of Detroit
to print a statement by him as to the
extent of the beet sugar industry in
Michigan, and the effect thereupon of
a reduction of the duties on Cuban
sugaT, or of free sugar from Cuba
through the annexation of the island.
Jt is quite fair that Mr." Joy's side of
"thef question should have a public
hearing. Mr. Joy estimates that about
132,000 men, women and children in
Michigan alone are dependent upon
adequate government protection to
beet sugar. He counts the families of
the farmers raising the beets, and the
families of the operators in the fac
tories making the sugar, allowing five
persons to a family. This is a some
what loose mathematical process, but
we suppose it will answer. At the
same time Mr. Joy predicts that Mich
igan will produce this year a tonnage
of beet sugar "approaching" 75,000.
That is to say, with sugar at 3 cents
a pound, 132.000 persons in Michigan
would depend for their living upon
the producers' share of the $4,500,008
representing the gross product. Yet if
the producers got every cent of it,
there would be only $34.09 a year for
every individual of the 132,000. But
the farmers and the factory people by
no means get every cent of it. On the
one hand or the other, there is ap
parently something wrong with Mr.
Joy's figures. We infer that the statis
tical part of his interesting argument
has not been prepared with the thor
oughness devoted to the politico-eco
nomical and the politico-emotionaj
parts.New \ork Sun.
Work the Secret of Success.
The more I learn concerning the
careers of great operatic artists, the
more I am convinced that their success
is due to the union of extraordinary
talent with extraordinary persever
,ance, says a writer in the Woman'*
Home Companion. Work, work, work!
In the gilded, brilliantly illuminated
realm of the stage, where everything
seems so easy to the listener and be
holder, work, unceasing work, is aa
necessary to success as in the most
prosaic of occupations. "I was never
idle," Mme. Nordica said to me, in
speaking of her early career. "Nor,"
she added, "have I ever been since. I
am always singing or studying." Only
two summers ago, after a strenuous
season in New York and another in
London, Mme. Nordica went to Zurich,
where Mme. Cosima, Wagner's widow,'
was stopping, and with her studied
Sieglinde, in "Die Walkure." I may
never sing it," were her words, in tell
ing me about it, "but I wanted to
study, and the experience was fine."
Boston Herald.
Xootlnc In Peking-.
Stories of looting in Peking continue
to filter,through, and a high official
of the Straits Settlements who hap
pened to be in Peking during the
troubles of last year tells of a Chinese
servant, a Christian convert who was
sent out, when the legations were re
lieved, with a mule cart to obtain pro
visions. He begged for an armed Sikh
as protection. The pair returned with
the provisions in a magnificent equi
page, Christian Chinaman and heathen
Sikh imperturbable as ever. Asked
how he nad come by so valuable a
vehicle, the Chinamen replied that he
bad met a countryman who had
"persuaded him to make the ex
change." From the sales of Chinese
Valuables at Covent Garden it may
be inferred that such 'suasion was ff
quently exercised by natives of gen
erous impulse London Chronicle.
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