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BBOHfiON ft CAKE, PuUiihew.
MANCHESTER, IOWA.
Iirls easy to induce the floating voter
mnke schooner trips.
The man who kicks himself for hav
ing made a fool of himself only adds
insult to injury.
Clothes do not make the man, but his
tailor frequently gives him nn expen
sive appearance.
Nobody can blame Gen. Miles for
.wanting to have a chance occasionally
to do something to earn his salary.
The youngerJ£rs. Vanderbilt has not
-as yet been deprived of the privilege of
empk3*lng her uiother-lu-law's dress
maker.
Those who are satisfied with what
they have accomplished will never be
come famous for what they might ac
complish.
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Under the new code of railway 'eti
quette It will, of course, be improper
for the conductor to punch a passen
ger's ticket.
J. Pierpont Morgau has tuken a $12,
'500,000 mortgage on Chill. There are
only a few back couutles left for Mr.
..Morgan to acquire.
The man who wears on chip on his
shoulder and the woman 'who wears
song-bird feathers in ber bat both lack
something of good taste in dress.
Bishow Fowler says there is no life
so conducive to laziness as the minis
try. Still, most of the ministers seem
to overcome the tired feeling sufficient
ly to write books betweeu times.
The distressing news comes from At
lanta that a youugster of that city
swallowed a ping-pong ball and the
physicians had to work several hours
before the game could be resumed.
Secretary llay has recently Induced
a man not to publish a book on the
Boer war. It has heretofore been sup
liosed thut nothiug could arrest that
disease once It got into a man's sys
tem.
Tlie Boston llerald thinks that Peter
Power 1b the partner of the person who
picked a peck of pickled' peppers. A
reporter called at the Tower house to
ask about this but was unable to tlnd
Mr. Power lu.
A newspaper man who saw a good
deal of Prince Henry of Prussia puts
the cap-sbeaf on all the eulogies by
suylng that the prince Is the kind of
follow with whom one could very
pleasantly spend six months alone on
a desert Island. That is the supreme
and final aest of character for prince
or peasant, whether a man "wears
well."
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Pneumonia claimed ten thousand
..four hundred and eighty victims in
New York City last year, yet pneumo
nia is classed as preventable dis
ease. It is to prevention that modern
sanitary science now devotes iteslf. If
Havana can be purified from the seeds
of yellow fever by evterinlnatlng the
mosquitoes, why cannot New York
uud the other great cities be swept
clean of pneumonia germs?
Nearly twenty-live hundred studentB
assisted In a single year la the record
of Andrew Carnegie's noble gift to the
Scotch universities, as given In the
llrst annual report of the trustees of the
fund. One who knows the privations
wltlch poor Scottish students will en
dure for the snke of an education will
be prepared to accept the statement of
the trustees that the remission of fees
has proved to be the greatest boon to a
long list of deserving students.
It seems Impossible for the average
'American to Indulge In any sport In
moderation. Excess or nothing seems
to bo the rule. It was so with roller
skating and 'will be so with other
forms of amusement. Wheeling may
come In again after many years, but
It will never rage again. Most of those
ho use the wheel now do It os a mat
ter of convenience In business and not
'for pleasure. People of means are tak
ing up the automobile, and soou racing
11 be the madness of thousands for
fa time. When the health of the driv
ers shall be affected and the cost and
annoyance of accidents shall become
serious that sport will In Its turn de
dine.
It Is said that the Influence of the
—-s cooking scbooh Is already being felt
In domestic life, aud that the standard
of living, or at least of cooking, Is
,much higher bccause of these modern
Institutions. Formerly the school girl
ate, or was told to eat, what was set
before her, and grumblings of gas
tronomlcal nature were uot tolerated.
But now the young girl looks with a
critical eye upon the cook's prepara*
f'" tlous, and she known the reason why
when these do not turn out well.
.Through her the family lias lost much
oC
"s pathetic dependence upon the
lirofessionai cook, and a eooklcss con
I dltion Is robbed of half Its terrors
wlleu
there Is an amateur of no mean
I ability within the family circle. And
the effect upon the pupil herself Is
most beneficial, for only one wlio has
grown bruin-weary of figures and
dates knows the delight of mixing up
actual ingredients and awaiting ma
^^.terlal results. It Is also much to be
hoped tlint the training of amateur
^i&'cooks will cause those who consider
themselves professionals to look to
Jfy. their laurels and to give over tlio hit
|"|or miss methods of cooking, which—
tv* «,8o often decide If our day
be fretful and anxious or joyous and
With higher culluary ideals the men
tal and spiritual development of man
a bought to be assured.
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Speaking of the disturbance the Rus
sian students are making, the Pall
Mall Gazette remarks: "After all, it is
the younger generation knocking at
the door, and if the door is not opened
it stands a good chance of being
kicked In." The Russian police, In
•JJ' .other words, are wrestling with the
incorrigible. fco doubt the police
^ould sooner deal with Anarchists or
Nihilists, whose heads they could bat
ter and whose lives they could shorten
(^ithout
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exciting the unimosity of auy
one except the professional King-kill
er but the gentlemen at St. Peters
^burg say to the police: "Go ahead! Put
^down that rebellion!" aud the police
fejrby-must either obey or resign. The sever-
Jty of their task may be understood
by Imagining the police of Cambridge
and of New Haveu trying to suppress
?&• indignation of the studeuts at Yale
......
and Harvard—and at Kadcllffe, in ad
dition. For we read that the young
women of the Russian universities are
as eager for reform as are the young
meu, and that they suffer just as much
in their eagerness. Now it Is an ex
traordinarily serious thing for any
government to be openly at war with
Its young men and young woineu—
with the younger generation. In a
spirit of fun or in a moment of reck
less enthusiasm our own college stu
dents may lightly mock some munici
pal ordinance but as for defying the
police, and through them the officials
of the government, and as for being
flogged into submission aud bundled
Into Jail by the score—that's a matter
of darker hue. It seems that all those
who represent Kussiau youth in the
arts and the sciences are in a state of
sedition. We fancy that Nicholas and
his coadjutors are not giving all their
attention to the Manchurlau question.
The younger generation Is iuflamma
ble, and Russia is foolish to be Indif
ferent to that fact.
The congestion of population In cities
is uot peculiar to this country alone,
though It Is probably more marked
here than elsewhere. It has prevailed
in Great Britain, but has been less no
ticeable on the continent. It is Inter
esting to observe that it is most preva
lent, generally speukiug, where com
mercial and industrial activity pre
vails. The growth of the German capi
tal, Berlin, for one example, has been
exceptionally rapid—for the continent
—since German industrial activity set
In within recent years. Until a dozen
or fiftceu years ago it was rather a
sleepy city, even after the consolida
tion of the empire, but by 1000 it had
advanced to 1,843,000 population and
stood fourth nmoug the world's cities,
Loudon, New York and Paris outrank
ing it and Chicago pressing close be
hind it. Recently a new census has
been taken and it now numbers 1,901,
507, showing growth at the "rate of
about 30,000 per year. This rate has
been surpassed In Chicago aud no
doubt this city now ranks fourth in
the world. It Is a curious fuct that
of the four cities of the world the pop
ulation In each of which exceeds 2,
000,000 two are in the United States,
the youngest In the list of considera
ble nations. One might think it ucci
dentul in some way, but it is also true
that the United States are the only one
of the world's nations that has more
than one city of more tlrnu 1,000,000
population. The last census gave us
three und In equity should have given
us four, for the populous suburbs clus
tered closely about Boston are as truly
Boston as the Back Rny and Beacon
street regions themselves. Withiu a
radius of twenty-five miles around the
capitol on Beacon hill there must be
considerably more than 2,000,000. The
development of street railway lines
has checked the congestion or rather
spread It over wider spaed for each
city, and ffi&t, together with the "good
roads" movement, will tend to send a
return flow from the urban Into the
rural regions, but It will remaiu that
urban growth will attend industrial
activity and the grave aud abiding
problem will continue to be how to
keep it as nearly healthful as possible.
MILK-CAN LOADING DEVICE.
A valuable Improvement In the milk
shipping Industry has just been erected
at Lonelyhurst, acordlng to the artist,
but the farmer is evidently not entire
ly pleased with the prospect, as It
intended to reduce the time necessary
to load the cans into the car, which, o£
course, will lessen the time for eyeing
the train and its passengers. It ha9
hitherto been common to accumulate
the cans of milk on the platform to
await the arrival of*the milk train, and
then the cans are lifted and dragged
into the car by four or five men, the
train meanwhile bloclnkg the main line
REDUCES DELAY AT MILK STATIONS.
and preventing its use by other train
The milk trains arc proverbially slow
because of the delay incidental to this
labor.
Frederick E. Ticheuor, of Mukowon
ago. Wis., has conceived the idea of a
slanting platform, which shall feed the
cans automatically toward the car door
as soon as the train arrives, he details
of construction are not shown I** ^»e
illustration, there being a locking gate
across the lower edge of the platform,
which serves to keep the cans back
from the exit. When the trair arrives
this gate is tilted down Into he door
way, being provided with a guide to
feed the cans from the platform into
the car without handling, the angle and
height of the platform being such that
a sufficient grade cau be attained to
slide the cans In their guides. Each
guide has a lock at the lower ml. and
as soon as a row of cans is released
they slide down t' grade and into the
car.
How She Raised the Fee.
A poor couple living tu the Emerald
Islp weut to the priest for marriage
and were met with a demand for the
marriage fee. It was not forthcoming.
Both the consenting parties were rich
in love and In their prospects, but des
titute of financial resources. The fath
er was obdurate. "No money no mar
riage."
"Give me lave, your rlverence," said
the blushing bride, "to go and get the
money."
It was given, and she stepped forth
on the delicate mission of raising a
marriage fee out of pure nothing. After
a short interval she returned with t^be
sum of money aud the ceremony was
completed to the satisfaction of all.
When the parting was taking place the
newly made wife seemed a little un
easy.
"Anything ou your miud, Catheriue?"
said the father.
"Well, your rlverence, 1 would like
to know If this marriage could not be
spoiled now?"
"Certainly not, Catherine. No man
can put you asuuder."
"Could you not do it yerself, father?
Could you not spoil the marriage?"
"No, no, Catherine. You are past me
now. I have nothing more to do with
your marriage."
"That alses me mind," said Cather
iue, "and God bless your rlverence.
There's the ticket for your hnt. I picked
It up in the lobby aud pawned it"—
London Tit-BIfs.
VALUE OF A VACATION.
By Hon. J. B. Formkcr.
We hear a great
deal of talk about
the value of a va
cation —"vacatiou"
beiug used in the
sou so of "doing
nothing." I don't
believe in that kind
of vacation. 1
think thut the
great majority of
business and pro
fessional men de
lio.N.
J.
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FORAKER.
r'Ve
their greatest
pleasure from
keeping busy. If a rann is in good health
the keynote of a vacation should ecnter
around the mind. The ideal vacation is
the one that r«»au aud improves the mind
at the same time.
Now the best thing for meutsl rest I*
a change of scene.
1
speak, of (SJUMO, of
myself now, hut every man must choose
for himself his own plan of recreation.
What would be a very agreeable occupa
tion for one might prove very stupid and
fatiguing to another of opposite tempera
ment and tastes.
The successful or hopeful man who is
Interested in his busiuess gets real stim
ulus from that business. He gets real
enjoyment from it. Obviously, uuless he
runs his system down, ail he needs is a
change of scene. The man who takes
good care of himself, has the proper
amount of sleep and is not run down,
has no special need for physical recupera
tion. A change of scene and air will
freshen him and have the effect of muk
ing him see life from a new viewpoint.
COURTS LIKE SLOT MACHINES.
By Ctarence S. Darrow.
There ore a good many tricks
in the legal profession. Some
people imagine that the law was
made by wise men for the pur
pose of dealing out justice to
all men alike, but there never
was a greater mistake. The
law furnishes no remedy for the poor.
You cannot get into court in the first
place without money, and once you get
lu, you certainly won't get out with auy
money. The lawyer will see to that, but
you'll get justice if you pay euough for it.
There Is no coiiRoudlty that 1 know of
that is regulated so much by what you
pay for it as justice. I don't mean by
that that you can get a great deal of
justice for a great deal of money, but
you will get very little justice for a little
money.
The courts are like a niekel-iu-the-slot
machine—you put your uiiouey in and
await results. Suppose a poor man gets
his legs out off by a street ear. The rich
never get their legs cut off, because they
can afford to wait and let the car get
out of the way. The first thing the poor
man has to do is to hunt up a lawyer
who will take his case for one leg, or
half a leg, according to agreement. Then
the money is dropped'in the slot and the
man sits down to wait.
If ho Is lucky his case may come up in
two years. It may take three or four,
but 1 have known instances when it did
not require more than two years. The
case is tried in the Circuit or Superior
Court, aud, if the plaintiff recovers the
price of his legs, the mutter goes to the
Appellate Court. The functiou of thut
court Is to pass judgraeut on what the
other court has done, aud the poor mau's
case may be reached iu two years. Of
course it will then go to the Supreme
Court, unless the man loses, and it will
take another year there. If everything is
HE WROTE BET BOLT.
Dr. English Wan Poet, Ductor, Law*
yer aud LeitUlator.
Dr. Thomas Dunn English, who died
at his home in Newark, N. J., recently,
led a versatile career, being a poet,
physician, lawyer,
editor and legisla
tor. He was of
Quaker ancestry—
the family name
originally being
Augelos—and be
was born in Phil
adelphia In 1810.
lie began his liter
ary career as a
writer for the Phil
ad el a
wheu he was only
DK. T. D. ENGLISH.
17 years old. In 1830 he was gradu
ated In medicine at the University of
Pennsylvania, but after a short prac
tice he turned his attention to law, aud
wus udmlttcd to the bar in 1842. In
the following year be wrote the fa
mous song, Ben Bolt, which enjoyed
animmensepopulurity,aud which came
ftgaiu into vogue a few yeurs ago, when
De Maurler revived It in his Trilby,
wrongfully using is as an old English
poem. Slugulur to say, Dr. English re
garded it as a scrappy piece of work,
and we believe at one time regretted
buviug written It.
For a time Dr. English was connect
ed with a New York paper, and then
launched the Arlstedeau in Philadel
phia. It was short-lived, and Dr. Eng
lish went to VIrgiula, where he lived
five years, und where he wrote a novel
depicting southern life. In 1850 he
settled in New Jersey and began the
practice of medicine. He also entered
Into politics, and sat in the New Jer
sey Legislature iu 1803-04. Tliose
among whom he dwelt thought so
much of him that they sent him to
Congress two terms.
Meanwhile Dr. Euglish kept his pen
busy, and turned out several volumes,
besides writing pamphlets and essays.
It Is safe to say that of all he wrote
Ben Bolt will be the longest remem
bered.
COST OF ROYAL VISITS.
King of Italy and Emperor William
LeuHt Expensive of Guest*.
The ^ilg reception given to Prince
Henry of Prussia by the United States
makes it interesting to learn that the
most economical royal visit a country
can have is the King of Italy. The
German Emperor is also an economical
guest, as he does uot care much for
mere show. Give him some soldiers
to look at and a review aud it Is all he
wnuts. It has been estimated that a
private host cau entertain the Emperor
for a week In the very best style for
the trifling sum of £1,000. Leopold of
Belgium is an expensive visitor. To
entertain him and his suite for a week
costs no less than £4.000. The lust time
the Shah came to England It cost
£20,000 to euterlain him for a week,
and there was uot "much doiug" at
thut.
The little visit of the Czar of Frauce
cost the republic a pretty penny. Spe
cial messengers were sent to invite
him at a cost of £1,000, and £10,000 was
expended In cleaning up Duukirk,
where he was to laud, aud putting it
In a presentable shape. The govern
ment erected triumphal arches at a
cost of £10,000, and spent £1,000 for
flags. Then there were 5,000 picked
troops to be got ready, besides the reg
ular review troops. These picked
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running smoothly the man stands a
chance of recovering for his legs lu about
five years, if he is not dead before that
time. Then, when he divides with his
lawyer, after having existed five years
without being able to work, I want to
know where he comes In, in the matter of
justice.
Take my advice, and don't try to get
justice: you are better off without it.
unless, of course, you have plenty of
money.
CUBAN GOVERNMENT'S OPPORTUNITY.
By 6en. Leonard Wood.
The Cuban gov
ernment will have
the finest opportu
nity to show what
they can do that
any people have
ever had before
them. They come
into a government
with $500,000 in its
treasury and with
its people loyal uiul
law abldlug, who
will do all they cau
to support Estrada
Palma and his cabinet.
GEN. WOOD.
The income of the island Is fully equal
to its financial demands at this, time,
and 1 believe the Cubans will keep it
so. 1 think they are capable of govern
ing themselves now, aud it Is a certainty
that if they fail it will not be because
they did uot have the opportunity to
show what they could do. The people
are depending upon the United States
giving them a market for their two prin
cipal crops, sugar and tobacco, and they
have every reasou to expect that this
government will give them the relief.
WIFE'S SHARE IN HUSBAND'S INCOME.
By Mrs. Wm. Toti Helmuttt.
The married woman has a
right to a certain proportion of
tier husbaud's money. When lie
gives it to her he is uot grant
ing her a privilege, but uckuo.vl
edging claim. The amount
that should come to the wife
must, of course, be decided by circum
stances.
Though the husband may pay the
butcher and grocer, the milliuer and the
dressmaker, he should not run into the
blunder of fancying thut his wife has
no call for any uioucy beyond the occa
sional dime or quarter he grants her.
There is convincing testimony that the
majority of women have to ask their
husbands for spending money, or hypoth
ecate their household accounts iu order
to get it.
I know one Ideal husband who has
never in a married life of thirty years
obliged his wife to go to him for money.
There is a certain drawer in her desk
where he places what he can afford to
let her have every week. The drawer
is never allowed to get empty. More
over, he never asks ber to account for a
cent of it. That inau should have a
halo for his daily wear.
Plenty of other husbands make a
household allowance, or even a dress al-
troops were specially trained, drilled
and quartered for .over six weeks at
cost of £20,000, and twenty-five mili
tary bands were put down in the esti
mate at a cost for food and extra ex
penses at £2,f»00. The naval review
held for the delectation of the Czar
cost £50,000, the Item for coal alone
being £20,000. lu saluting, powder to
the value of £5,000 was burned, and
the cost of guarding the Czar was es
timated at £10,000. On housing aud
feeding him and his suite the sum of
£15,000 was spent, and there was an
extra appropriation of £10,000 for "sun
dries."—M. A. P.
LEISURELY THEFT.
Tennessee Blockaiuitn'u Gradual Ac
quirement of un Eniflnc.
"Ours is a peaceful section," said
Col. Dan Turner, of Memphis, Tenn.,
to a group of Western men who had
been discussing robberies, hold-ups and
crime in general. "But when we do
thing down in Tennessee, we do it
right, and robbing people or corpora
tions Is done to the queen's taste, wheu
one of our citizens sets out to do it"
"Not long ago it became necessary
for oue of the railroads to build a small
branch line, and a traction englue was
sent down there with the first load of
road-building material to haul ties on
heavy trucks from a little mountain
hauilet near where the road was being
built. When the workmen had finished
hauling the ties the englue wus placed
alongside the road until It should be
convenient to haul It away. It remain
ed beside the road about six months,
and when the contractor came along to
clear up he was rather amazed to find
that nothing but the boiler of the trac
tion engine remained where lie had
placed it. To make matters worse,
every bolt and rivet that could be re
moved from the boiler was missing,
too. A search was instituted, but the
mlsslug purls of the machine could not
be found.
"Some time after the theft of bis en
gine the contractor had occasion to
drive through the country again, and
stopped at a negro's blacksmith shop
to have a shoe fastened on his horse.
While the smithy was ut work the con
tractor wulked arouud the shop, and to
his amazement found in one corner of
the place the missing purts Of his en
gine. He immediately charged the ne
gro with stealing it, nnd the man ad
mitted his guilt. When the contractor
had recovered from his surprise ut the
find he asked the smithy why he had
out taken the boiler, too, nnd the latter
replied that he was making tackle to
take to the roudside and lift the boiler
into bis wagon when the contractor
took the thing away.—Washington
Post.
IN HIS WOODEN LEG
Wus Found $15,000 After the Junk
JDeuler Died.
For twenty-five years Gideon Mason,
a junk dealer of Trenton, carried his
savings arouud iu his wooden leg, nnd
when he died he was worth $15,000 in
cash. Masou lost Ills leg In a railroad
accident years ago. He never would
tell whence he came. He had kuown
better days, he said, nnd rum had
caused his downfall. Wheu he wa*
able to get out on crutches he took the
pledge. Friends bought him a wooden
leg and a push cart, gave him a few
dollars, and he begun buying and sell
ing junk. Mason prospered. When Uie
•first wooden Ibg was worn out MasJpu
appeared with one of his own manu­
iKTiVefgiilgl unBvai
iowance, to xueir wives. But many more
dole out what they think will be needed,
and apparently imagine that their wives
can get what change they need in some
mysterious, unexplained fashion, with
out having resort to the ordinary mouey
making means.
If women were not long suffering crea
tures there would have been nn organized
revolt long ago. No man has a right to
submit his wife to the humiliation she
must often undergo when she Is obliged
to decline to make small contributions
in church or club, because she has not
the ready money. She may have an ne
couut in half a dozen shops. Her cloth
ing may be the euvy of her friends, her
house may be finely appointed, but when
it comes to a call for a chance quarter
or hulf dollar she has not the cush In
hnud.
Let the husband, at any rate, give the
wife a chnifre to prove whether or not
she is to be trusted with money. There
are few women wl» are unworthy of
hnving the charge of their own spending
money. As a rule, they are quite as
careful as their husbands iu the inattor
of Hinnll expenses, and have a horror of
bills that is oftcu unknown to the lords
of creation.
NEEDS OF THE NEGRO.^
liy Booker T. Wmshington.
Negroes should be taught that
their salvation Is in learning to
own and cultivate intelligently
md skillfully the soil. Agricul
ture will prove our salvation,
and the race should be slow to
abandon the farm. Just now
a In rge proportion of the race needs that
education which will make the youth re
turn to the farm and produce fifty bush
els of corn where ouly twenty-five grew
before, rather than yield to the tempta
tion to go to the city and attempt to live
by their wits. For 250 years the negro
was worked. What lie wants to learn
now is to work. For one to learn that
work Is honorable and to be Idle is dis
honorable is at the foundation of civil
ization.
It Is not the negro who has been prop
erly trained in hand, head aud heart
who commits crimes. It is the ignorant,
shiftless negro who has no regular occu
pation, who has not learned to love labor
and who does not own a home who Is
usually the criuilual. When a man be
comes the owner of a piece of land and
a decent house and has a bank account,
he becomes, I notice, at ouce a conserva
tive. law-abiding citlzeu.
GREAT COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION.
By W. Bourke Cockrmn.
The modern uewspaper In col
lecting the news assembles the
civilized world in mass meeting
every day to consider the eveuts
of unusual importance that have
occurred lu the preceding twen
ty-four hours. When the uews
paper undertakes to do more than collect
thi uews. It becomes intrusive. When It
misrepresents the news, It is disloyal.
When it falls short of collecting the
news, It Is inefficient. The great court
of public opinion, with all the facts be
fore it, Is abundantly able to reach its
own conclusions, and its judgments are
irrevocable and Irresistible.
The newspaper that attempts to fore
stall them or control them fails, and
brings discredit uion itself. The news
paper that records them becomes au
effective instrument in enforcing them.
The moral of all this is' that the news
paper that collects the news assiduously
and publishes it faithfully is performing
a function of the highest importance to
civilization.
facture. It was very clumsy, bulging
at the top. During the past six years
Mason was accompanied un his rounds
by a dog that was equipped with a
wooden leg made by Mason to take the
place of one It had lost. The dog aud
the man were Inseparable. Mason was
found stretched ou his bed. dead, the
other day. The county physician found
a cavity in Mason's wooden leg, in
which were concealed a will, $15,000
In bills, and the pledge he had taken
and kept for twenty-five years. The
will was heliographic It set aside
certain amount to pay the expense of
a burial, and provided for the care of
the dog as long as he should live, gave
55,000 to a friend, and the residue to be
spent in buying artificial lluibs for
worthy cripples in Mercer County. Two
days after the death of Mason the dog
was found dead ou the grave of its
master. In accordance with Mason's
wish, expressed in his will, the dog was
buried at his feet.—Newark News.
Worship by Machinery.
A story is told of one of the old-time
pillars of a New England church who
held out firmly for a long time against
the Innovation of an orgnu, but when
he fiuully yielded did so without rei
serve. From violent opposition he be
came the most strenuous of all the
congregation us to the fiueness of the
instrument to be purchased.
"Seems to me you aren't consistent,'1
said one economical brother, re
proachfully. "Here a month ago you
couldn't speak hard enough about"or
guns, and now you go to advocating
extra expense In getting the best that's
to be had."
"SefiTjere," said the deacon, grimly,
"if we're going to wordshlp the Lord
by machinery. I don't want to putter
around with any second-rate running
gear."—Youth's Companion.
Put to Base Uses.
Autograph letters of Wagner have
been discovered In use as jam pot cov
ers. A German journalist found them
at the house of two maiden ladles, sis
ters of a musiciau long since deceased,'
who had formerly been in intimate cor
respondnce with the author of "Parsi
fal." The ladles were exhltiblng to
him with much pride their cupboards
full of jam, when the journalist saw
some writing on the covers, which he
recognized us that of Wagner. The su
perior thickness of the paper, which
almost resembles parchment, had sup
plied the reason for its application to
domestic use.
Million* Live on the Ocean.
The population of the ocean is esti
mated at 3,000,000. That is to say, the
number of sailors and others whose
business is on the high seas equals the
inhabitants of the thirteen original col
onies. Lust year more than one-sixth
of tills ocean population, or to be mor«
exact, 550,000, ofilcers aud men, of 4,343
vessels, entered the port of New York.
Where Sho Was Trained ''"t
"She is great talker." -vv.•
"Yes her father hnH uhvays had
theater box, you kuow."—Detroit Free
Press.
Trees ou Western Prairies.
In some of the Western prairies trees
are now being planted for shade, pro
tection and beauty, in areas of various
sizes up to hundreds of acres.
Idleness Is such a slow traveler that
poverty soon overtakes it :vT^
Talent Is of no use to the mari^who
hasn't th? courage to use it.
Hanria's Star is Rising.
Directly following the death of the
lameutedMcKluley It looked very tnucn
as though President ltoosevelt would
have a walkover for the nouiluation.
He was the beloved of the nutiou at
large, and only his tactless doings of
the last three or four months have hurt
his chances materially. But since Mr.
Uoosevelt began to descend the scale
of national popularity. Mr. Hanna bus
been "doing things." He has suddenly
blossomed out as the violent friend of
labor, whereas three Or four years ago
he was the lutolerable employer who
"ground under the Iron heel of oppres
sion" his own people nnd those whom
he could'In auy way Influence. He has
suddenly become warm admirer and
the bosom friend, the earnest advocate,
the tearful defeudant of the concrete
worklngmnn of the United States.—
Denver Post.
Some of Our Own Medicinc*
We greatly injured the British tin
plate industry by our tariff and we
hailed the crippling of It as conclusive
proof of the wisdom of our policy. Yet
all the while we have had free access
Into British ports und Into the ports of
all the British dependencies nnd many
of the British colonies. We know that
if Great Britain acquires dominion over
any portion of the earth's surface she
will, unless she at once erects a self
governing colony, admit all the nations
of the earth to free access to the trade
of that territory. Therefore it would
be strange Indeed If we, who have nev
er hesitated to tax foreign trade even
to the point of destroying it, should
have the brazenness to object to any
taxes that Great Britain might see fit
to levy on our trade.—Indianapolis
News.
Crowninshicld nt the Coronation.
Crownlushleld will go. England will
see us at our best. We trust to the
stormy and remorseless sea of the
most beautiful nnd valued thing we
have. Hitherto we have guarded him
from peril of all kinds. Wrapped in
our tenderest solicitude, as some price
less bit of bric-a-brac is wrapped in
softest down, he has been kept safe and
warm, far from the devouring wave,
^ppond the reach of the impious and
cruel hurricane. England's attention
is respectfully but firmly called to the
sacrifice we now make to our ecstasy.
Had we sent the whole American fleet
nnd imperiled every man-Jack on the
active list we could uot have testified
more eloquently to our love aud rever
ence.—Washington Post.
Boosevelt Bound Hand and Foot
The Uoosevelt who was a terror to
bosses, a champlou of independence
and a defender of good government ex
ists no longer. The hope of a nomina
tion for the office which he at present
accidentally holds has been dangled
successfully before his eyes, aud the
Roosevelt of to-day Is as clay in the
potter's hands to the selfish, practical
politicians who infest the government
at Washington. Candidates for office
are oftentimes said to be "In the hands
of their friends." Mr. Uoosevelt has
placed himself in the hands of the self
ish and cold-blooded bosses, who plot
ted his undoing in 11)00, and who had
him shelved—but for the accident of
death.—Albany, N. Y„ Argus.
The English Tax on Bread
Whatever may be the ultimute pur
pose of Joseph Chamberlain iu revers
ing the trudltioiial policy of Great
Britain aud establishing protection in
place of free trade, the Immediate ef
fect of the scheme of taxation on
which the new budget Is based will be
to stir up the English people as they
have not beeu stirred In thiB gene-i
tlon. What the Chancellor of i.*e Ex
chequer proposes Is a revival of the
"corn laws" which provoked the politi
cal revolution in Cobden's day. Are
the English people more subservient
than when they arose against that im
position?—Boston Post.
Wasting the President's Ulme.
Nearly three-fourths of the Presi
dent's working time is worse than
wasted In reeclvlng people who have
no business with him, merely Idle In
truders, sightseers, Congressmen, Intro
ducing constituents and applicants for
petty places. Public affairs demand
ing the personal attention of the Presi
dent have so iucreased In number and
Importance as to require all the energy
of a robust man, and it is impossible
for any man to carry that burden and
devote many hours a day to the crowd
without breaking down.—Philadelphia
North American.
Roosevelt Is Losing Ground.
Mr. Uoosevelt Is dally losing party
friends. With a stubborn conceit un
warranted by any qualities of states
manship or calm judgment, he disdains
the aid of such ripe advisers as Mr. Mc
Klnley had about him. As things are
going, the President may have a bard
struggle for renomlnatlon, which Is
manifestly his sole present aim. Among
the intelligent and practical elements
of his party there Is strong nnd grow
ing doubt of the possibility of his elec
Uon if he is made the candidate in 1004.
Buffalo Courier.
6avlnir Time in the White House.
Uoosevelt has found it necessary to
reprimand so many officers of the army
ind the navy that, according to re
port in Washington, he has decided to
iave breath by Bhouting a reprimand
with strenuous eloquence luto a phono
pupil and then arrange it so he can
turn on the machinery whenever occa
sion needs by simply pressing a button.
The plan has the further advantage
that If an officer falls to call ut the
White House for his reprimand the ma
:hlne cau be scut to him.—San Fran
slsco Cull.
Our Policy Mwit Be Cbaugcd.
If tlie United States are ever to gain
the conlideucc of the Filipinos It must
be by a contrast with Spanish pro
:edure. It American generals and petty
»tHcers think that the new propaganda
:s to be exemplitled by cruelties aud
persecutions It is time for the Presl
ient halt. Extremist* uiay call
Dlu order "encouragement ene
ny." Fortunately, the great mass of
tlu American people think otherwise.—
St. Louis Hopubllc.
The Atrocitie. in the Philippine..
It Is time that Congress stripped the
mask of "benevolent assimilation"
[rota this administration. Let the peo
ple have all the facts
HO
3?
CJ
carefully con-
:ealed and so unblushlngly denied by
the War Department. Let them see
what really has been done lu their
name In the torture of non-combatants,
tbe murder of prisoners, the burulox
$
Indiscriminately of all dwellings In vil
lages where some few "Insurgents"
have been found. It Is a bad story, but
when the people And out how bad It Is
they will also And a remedy.—Boston
Post.
Can't Wean the liubet*.
Tlie dlQlculty with the liabes whom
Congress has taken under Its protecting
cure Is that they never are weaned.
They suck eternally, no matter how
great their size. The steel tariff was
enacted to protect some infant a quar
ter of a century ngo In the Schuylkill
or Lehigh valley. We still have a high
tariff to protect the billlon dollar Uni
ted States Steel Corporation. There Is
no limit to the hungry thirst of an In
fant once It Is put to the mill .—Phila
delphia Times.
Doe. Not Concern I'olitICM.
There "an be no consideration of the
political standing of the trust at a time
liue this. The fact thut Hannn's cam
paign committee Is largely Indebted to
tbe beef trust, or that the Tammany or
ganization iu New York has begun ac
tive measures to suppress the monop
oly cannot be allowed to count. One
of the main articles of the food of the
people is being arbitrarily raised in
price, and that is something outside of
and far away from party politics.—Bos
ton Post.
Babcock HUM Been Muzzled.
Congressman Babcock, of Wisconsin,
lias been re-elected chairman of the
Itepubllcnn Congressional Campaign
Committee. Now the Diugleyites have
Mr. Bubcock where they want hlra.
lie must tish. cut bait or go ashore.
Ills arguments In favor of electing a
majority in the next Congress, which
will perpetuate the Injustices and ab
surdities of the existing tariff, will be
awaited with general, not to say fever
ish, impatience.—Albany Argus.
How to Put Ourselves Right.
We shall never put ourselves In the
way of winning the friendship aud con
fidence of the Filipinos until we make
them believe that we regard the illegal
and unauthorized killing of one of their
number as being quite as wrong as
such a killing of nn American soldier.
We can accomplish no good purpose by
killing Filipinos merely because they
are Filipinos or because some other
Filipinos have killed Borne Americans.
—Indianapolis News.
Militarism Must Be Curbed.
It would be more lu keeping with
democratic government to have the
army so organized that Its control and
direction cannot be divorced from con
gressional supervision. That Is the
reasou the old English organization has
been preserved In England and in the
United States, where In both countries
the people have some rights that kings
aud presidents are bouud to respect.—
Atlanta Constitution.
Cheap Labor and a 8ubsidy.
Some of the shipping compaules that
are stoutest lu asking for subsidies on
the plea that the higher wages paid to
American seamen puts It out of tbelr
power to compete In ocean-earrytag are
yet opposed to the proposed feature of
the Chinese exclusion act forbidding
the employment of Chinese sailors on
American vessels plying betweeu
China aud our Pacific ports.—Philadel
phia Itecord.
Corporations WillJSlect Them.
Should Senator Depew's Republican
confreres In the Senate stand by lilni
ns those In the committee did the ef
fort to secure the election of Senators
by the people will fall. The Senators
will still for a time be selected by the
corporations, not by the people. Which
would mean, of course, the election of
Senators of the Depew type.—New Or
leans Times-Democrat.
On a Perilous Voyage.
It Is quite evident, even to landsmen,
that the Republican Bhlp Is trying to
sail between Scylla ond Charybdls, In
stormy weather at that, 111 dealing with
the tariff question and Its relation to
Cuba. If captain nnd crew do some
thing for Cuba they will strike certain
American Interests In a fatal spot if
they do nothing for Cuba they will cre
ate oil embarrassing situation.—Cincin
nati Enquirer.
Profit* Not Philanthropy, the Object.
Trusts are run for the benefit of the
capitalists, not for the benefit of the
workliigmen. Senator Hanna to tha
contrary notwithstanding. Just as was
the case when the tariff shut out^pr
eign competition, so now when the gi
gantic combinations recently formed
have shut out domestic competition,
dividends Increase, not wages.—Hous
ton Post.
Breeding Trouble for Himself.
If the President persists lu the pur
pose which It Is announced he has of
immediately forcing Gen. Miles upon
the retired list he will, In our Judg
ment, commit an net which he and his
administration will In the future have
abundant cause to regret.—Boston
Transcript.
Issues that M'lll Bring Success.
Should the paramount Issue In tbe
next campaign be the control of the
trusts uud the related questions of the
tariff and the slilpplug subsidy steal
It will mean victory for tile Democrat
ic ticket.—Peoria Herald-Transcript.
The Bishop anil His Cigar.
Not long ngo a bishop of stately mien
and sunctiinoulous expression went
down to a small country town to lec
ture, arriving early Iu the afternoon,
and, of course, being at once spotted
by the Inhabitants as something par
ticularly great and saintly. He went
Into a chemist's shop, and In a tone
that froze the young blood of the as
sistant, said, "Young man, do you
smoke?" "Y-yes, sir!" replied the trem
bling youth. "I'm sorry but I learned
the habit young, nnd I haven't been
able lo get rid of it yet." "Then," said
the great divine, without the movement
of a muscle or the abatement of one
shade of the awful solemnity of his
voice, "can you tell me where I CAN
get good cigar?"
WORLD HIS PARISH.
•f \"'vV
rHE LATE REV. OR. TALMAQE
8POKE TO MILLIONS.
ftarly Life of the Fuiooui Divine
HS
A Questionable Proceed inn:.
While the report that the President
would not uccept the resignation of his
Pension Commissioner until a higher
post was ready for him did not deceive
anyone as to the real status of the case,
It did take ofT a little of the raw edge,
and It Is to be regretted that President
ltoosevelt's eagerness to "promote" a
faithful public servant, whose retire
ment from otiice was expedient for po
litical reasons, was not us strong as
his desire to curry favor with the fac
tion demanding the removal of the Pen
sion Commissioner.—Rochester Uerald.
IIEV.
BO
Hit Work an a Preacher and Author
—He Was Always Interesting, Al
though Sometimes Dramatic*
To the rank* of our great men death
huH paid another visit and on her som
bre pinions the soul of Uev. Dr. Thorn-
DeWItt Tnlmnpe has passed luto
eternity. Thu news of the death ot
this master preacher carried deep and
sincere sorrow to the entlrfe Christian
world.
The hea't of this einlueut clergyman
first throbbed with life ou January 7.
1S32, In Hound Brook, X. J. He re
ceived Ills education In the University
of the City ot New York aud the New
Brunswick Theological Seminary. ID
iS5G he was ordained pastor of the Re
formed Dutch Church of Bellevue, N.
J.*, und since that time had had charge
of congregations In Syrucuse, N. V..
Philadelphia, Pa., Brooklyn, N. Y., aud
Washington, D. C. Iu 1809 he was
made pastor of the Central Presbyter
ian Church of Brooklyn and it was
during his occupancy of that pulpit
that he delivered the wonderfully ve
hement and pointed sermons which
have found admirers In every part of
the world and have made his famous
as a preacher, lie addressed, his audi
ences In the large edifice known as
tbe Brooklyn Tabernacle, a building
T.
DE
WITT TALMAQE.
with a seating capacity of 3.000. Dur
ing his pastorate this building was
thrice destroyed by lire and as many
times rebuilt.
In 1802 the distinguished prelate was
given the degree of A. M. by the Uni
versity of the City of New York, and
In 1884 he received that of D. D. from
the University of Tennessee.
Author as Well as Preacher*
Bexldes his labors In the lecture field
he was the author of many religious
volumes and has. at various ttjnes.
performed editorial work of a re»lgl"bus
nature for publications In New York
and Chicago. Since 1804 he has made
Washington, D. C., his home aud al
though for the last few years he had
not been so active in religious exhor
tation as during" his stay In Brooklyn,
he has, nevertheless, doue much for the
cause by means of printed sermons*
editorials aud lectures.
Itcv. Dr. Taluiage was a thorough
student of human nature, a deep thluk
er and a mftn of convincing argument
With the possible exception of the late
Henry Ward Bcccher, uo delineator of
the doctrines of the gospel has ever
had such widespread attention. The
6orruons and lectures that he delivered
during the twenty-live years of his
spiritual jurisdiction in Brooklyn did
much toward uiuklng the man world
famous. Through a system of supply
ing various publications with his ser
mons ahead of time, they were copied
and recopled by the press of this coun
try aud Kurope until the lessons were
placed before the eag'U* eyes of mil
lions of readers on both sides of the
water.
His lectures were delivered In a
strikingly demonstrative and even sen
sational manner. There was no limit
to the means to which he might resort
lu order to keep his listeners on tha
alert regarding the subject lu hand. It
is told of hlui that upon oue occaslou
when he was about to address a con
course of some 5,000 people, he walked
to one end of the 50-foot platform up
on which he stood, buttoned his coat
and wheeling around dashed madly
across the platform, head thrown back,
arms swinging wildly, nnd bringing
up with a jump at the other end then
suddenly turning to his audience be
began his fc-crmou with the forcible ex^_
clamation, "Young man you're rush
ing to destruction!" This is only one
of the many instances in^hkh his
originality of manner was shown.
IIis world-wide reputation, however/
was not entirely due to the sensational
eccentricities of his prencblug. Tal
mage possessed a keen miud, superior
judguient^and great literary ability.
Ills addresses wheu In printed form,
deprived of the euilfclltsliuienhr of ora
tory, were In themselves Intensely In
teresting and bespoke the masterful
genius of their author.
The world has perhaps brought forth
more finished orators and greater theo
logians than Uev. Dr. Tal mage, but
few. If any, of them have enjoyed so
great a prestige while in the eye of the
public, nnd nt their departure left so
deep and lastiug au Impression.
SSglg-
NamtiiK the Chilli. ffiS.
Now. necessarily, when the new girl
lmby arrived there was much discus
sion among the members of the fam
ily as to what her name should be.
"We will call her '(Jcraldtuc,'" uald
the tlrst grandmother. "1 saw thut
name lu a story once, and always
wanted to try It on a baby."
"Oh," murmured the second grand
mother, "that would never do. Let
us call her 'Kanchou.'"
"But don't you think 'Eltessa' is a
pretty uaiiic, and so odd, too?" put In
one of the aunts.
"Excuse tue, ladles," ventured tile
poor father, who sat nearby, "but you
seem to forget that we are trying to
Und a name for a human being, and
not for a live-cent cigar."—Baltimore
American.
New Cannons of Paper.
ICru'pp. the great manufacturer of
cannon, lias lately completed a num
ber of paper field pieces for the use of
the German infuutry. Their caliber is
a little less than two inches, and the
pleceB are so light thut one soldier cuu
easily curry oue, but the resistance Is
greater than that of a field piece of
steel of the same caliber.
Wvt'-"
Benefit In Perfumes.
Tbe London Lancet says that tbe es
sential oil that forms the base of all
perfumes Is a powerful antiseptic, aud
possesses disinfecting properties equal
to those of carbolic acid. A perfumed
handkerchief, therefore, mny not only
please the sense of smell, but prove
guard against InfecJIon.