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HINFCf-IW I A N«W J» LITTLE THINGS. A cood-by kiss Is a little thing, With your hand on the door to go, But It takes the venom out of the sting •IOf a thoughtless word of a cruel fling (that you made an hour ago. A kiss of greeting is sweet and rare After the toll of the day And it smooths the furrows plowed by care, The lines on the forehead you once called fair In the years that have flown away. t**' *Tis a little thing to say, "You are kind I love you, my dear," each night But it sends a thrill, through the heart, 1 And— For Love is tender and Love is blind- As we climb life's rugged height We starve each other for love's caress We take, but we do not give It seems so easy some soul' to bless* But we dol§ the love grudgingly, less and i§fS,' and hud tolir.. —AndAj,yW». -jfo IfllM IB' The girl broke the silence ibat had fallen upon the two persons In the rather formal room known as the "psr Ujor." & J.' "I wnnt so much to. read your palm," M«sbe snld. "I've been studying palm istry for nenrly a week and I know Just lots. Of course I'm not like a pro fesslonal, but, anyhow, I think It's fun You won't mind, will you?" The young man, who seemed rather anxious than otherwise to submit his fate to her Judgment, yielded hlB palm. "My, what a nice big hand!" she cried admiringly. "It's better to have big bonds than little—or Is It little than big? Anyhow, you have a splendid line of llfa It looks as though you night live to be 90. Aren't you glad?" "That depends," the young man said "Is yours a long one?" "You'll bo very successful In the law," she went on. "And even make money In It" "Look here!" broke In the young man- "You're reading from what you know. I've been a. lawyer for a long while." "Yes, but look at this line!" she cried triumphantly. "That means the law." "That Isn't a line. That's where I cut myself on thfe sardine can last month at the picnic,'1 ho-said. "I near ly had blood poisoning and nobody paid -Siany attention to it Wasn't there a lovely moon, though?" ft "Looks as If you were going to have lots of trouble," she murmured. "Here's a line of Influence that's awfully strong, -•w&slmt I don't see any divorce or any thing." "I don't see any wife yet" he said, gloomily. "IIow's anybody to get a divorce If he hasn't even got a wife?" "Oh, but you're going to get mar ried," she assured him. "But of course, a palmist'can't tell what she's like." "If you can't nobody can." "Please don't Interrupt You have MUSIC AS A DIVOECE CTTKI. VlittST THM6 too THI» KNOW \4H»te «A«e YOO BttH onicht DAMBOSCH SAYS MUSIC TAKES THOUGHTS AWAY FBOM THE PAICE OF BACON AND EOOS. "You've .'had lots of flirtations." "There you know you're wrong." "Well," she hesitated, "I'm not sure whether they're flirtations or only wor ries, but, anyhow, there they are." "A flirtation Is a worry." "How do you know?" she asked. "Here's a thing that looks like a readi er duster. I wonder what that means?" "A clean sweep," he said. "The world 1» mine." "Well, maybe,u-sha went on. "Jupi ter, Mercury and the. sun are all nice and big." "I seem to possess all the planets. I suppose you think I want the earth?" "You can make speeches and you are golug to die a long way from your birthplace." "And all alone? Is thcre.no one who will throw out the life line' to me?" "Don't be foolish, for this Is serious. I wish I could remember whether or not it {s a good thing to have sticking, out lines on the line .of head." "Give me the beneat of the doubt Now, tell me more aibout the heart." "I never go back,""she said definite ly. "I've finished with your heart" •^Really?" be-mked, drawing away his band. "What are. you going to ilo with It—chuck It?" "Pleas# give me your hand again." -12?o, I'd rather have yours." he said. "I know I could read you a first-rate fortune. Let's see It" v- Reluctantly she bald her palm, out and be took It In his own. "These wlggly lines under your mid dle finger show you are going to marry "OIVK tlx voua a hollow hand and that means dlsappolnt p£~ment, but you have a perfectly lovely ssfeiate line, and that means you're never ^.v-jolng to be disappointed. You'll never asocial success." "I am crushed to learn It" be said dolefully. "Can't I take a course of ^^.-correspondence school lessons on 'How 'isSSto Be Liked?' Don't you have .to hold ha to re ad It A "It Isn't necessary." "It keeps slipping off the chair arm," he said. "Besides, when you take It ^JTthe psychic circuit or something like ,sA'that seems more complete, more satls factory." "You have lots of humos In your hand," she went on, unheeding. "It looks as If those that ought to be large are small and those that ought to be smflll are largg, but I'm-not sure. You in going abroad." "Ask fate'to make lt the wedding trip," he said. "Go on." "One Journey ends' In a disappoint inent and on one you'are going to be :?111." "I'm always seasick. Qo on." "You've always been strong, but your nails seem to Indicate heart trouble and nervousness." •••, "That's right" he, confessed,. "One causes the other, but neither Is lncur ald* If given Draper cars." r\ COFFU IS FIT TO DRINK HAND AGAIN. a lawyer," he said. "And your fate line says there's no use your squirm ing, for I'm going to keep this hand, no matter what you do. May 1?" "I—I don't seem able to help If.' she faltered. "I can't get It away." "And don't want to?" "Not—not awfully much." "Come on, let's go out on the porch," be said softly. "I can tell fortunes better out there."—Chicago News. A Substitute. Irish wit Is as excellent as It Is pro verbial. A wrltef" In the Mariner's Ad vocate tells the story of a ship doctor on an. English liner who notified the death watch steward a Hibernian, that a man had died In" stateroom 45. The usual Instructions to bury the body were given'^Some hours later the doc tor peeped1"into the room and found that the "body was still there. He called the matter to the attention of the Irishman, yvho replied: "I thought you Said room 48. I wlnt In there and seen wan of tblm In a bunk. 'Are ye dead?' says I. ^.'o,' says be, 'but I'm pretty near dead.' So 1 was getting ready to bury him." A Lwioi ol Defeat, Ob, the way. won't be so gloomy when you've learned to say good-by— To take' your leave of buried hopes with clear, undaunted eye To stand beside the grave of dreai where sorrow laid your heart, Determined, though -the heavens fall, to make another start! —Birmingham Age-Herald. There is entirely too much remedy In this country that Is not applied. AURICKT cut wirn T»e VEDDiw GIFTS AS TH6Y OUCHT TO BE cut cuw m-iA-u NIC STORIES OF STATESMEN "Uncle Joe" Cannon was discussing Jocularly our society leader's claim that too many statesmen appear to rely on their un couthness—on the absence of socks, y^vjetc., for their fame. "I would point lout" said he, "that neither Cae sar nor' Alexan der wore socks, and If I attacked Jos. p. caknoit. New York society as frankly as this person has attacked public life, I might—but, after all, per fect frankness Is Invariably a bad. thing. You have heard, perbape, of the young man who admitted perfect frank ness? Calling on a pretty girt, he said: "-'If there Is one thing that I rever ence In this world, perfect franknessJs that thing.' ",'Yes?V sald .t^fi. ilrl,, .,Then I'll at once grasp the opportunity to urge you to shave off your mustache before you eat another soft-boiled egg.'" Senator Tillman, discussing Interna tional marriages the other day, said pertinently: "What are we coming to? A friend of mine, an arrant foe to monarchies, roared out In a speech last week: as they are abroad, I still fall to under stand how they can endure to be taxed to support Idle, ex travagant and dis solute royal fam ilies.' "Then my friend wiped his- heated "brow, and hurrying home, sent In a a. a. tillman. stock assessment of $10,000 In order to help the president of the Dash Hall road purchase a titled son-in-law." Cheating the Telephone. It has Just been discovered that a new kind of free toll service graft has been worked on the telephone compa nies of LanBlng, Mich. A few days ago the traveling representative of The next day he departed for p&t ures new, and the telephone company was none the wiser. Bat the hems* bad received a correct iwport otlfte. business done by the fllummer 'lis? day, and the toll was saved for him self or the house. The brother's name stood for the amount of his sales and the sister's for the character of the or der.—American Telephone Journal. Not on the Program. Two stout old Germans were enjoy ing their pipes and .placidly listening to the strains of the summer garden orchestra. One of them in tipping his chair back stepped on a parlor match, which exploded with a bang. "Dot was not on the program," he said, turning to his companion. "Vat vas not?" "Vy, dot match." "Vat match?'! "De match I valk«l on." "Veil, I didn't see. no match. Vat aboud It?" "Vy, valked .oni match, and it went bahg, and I tatff It vas not on the program.". The other picked up Ills program and read It through very carefuliy, "l don't see It en the program," he said. "Veil, I said It vas not on the pro gram, didn't I?" "Veil, vat has it got to do mlt the program- anyway? Egspialn yourself." —Ladles' Home Journal No man likes the idea that when bis wife prays for .greater patience she la thinking of him. Fay-folk. Some nights I try to keep awake To see bow falrieB really look You have to watch so sharp and still— So says my mamma's Fairy Book. I squint my eyes a liny space And then I see them, one 'by one, Come trooping In from iFalryland With funny little hop and run. They nod and whisper to themselves. Then scamper off across the floor, If they'd never, never seen A little boy like lpe before. Yet, If you ask me how they look, Somehow I cannot seem to tell For pretty soon they're slipped away. And then—I hear the breakfast bell: —Laura Simmons, in Ltpplncott's. LTTTU5 HLiAtCKlB BEAR. Not so very long ago Little Blackie Bear lived in the Great Woods with his mother. Their home waa in the big cave near the old cheBtnut-tree, and here they were very cosey to gether. One day Mother dear said to Little Blackie, "You are old enough now. to go out into the Great Woods and: And your own food." "Very well, mother," said Blackie. "But first ""tell me, please, what Is good to eat." "Rabbits, wrens, muskrats, and men will do to begin with," answed Moth er Bear. So little Blackie kissed his mother good-bye and started out Into the Great Woods. He had not gone very- far when he met a rabbit. "Ho!" said Blaokle, "I believe you are good to -eat!" "Oh, no!" said the rabbit, "I am not at all good, to eat until I have rumrmile." "Well, start off then," said Blackie: "it Is growing late. I have had no breakfast this morning and am get ting pretty hungry." So the rabbit started off and Blackie after him, and they ran and they ran until they came to a little hole under a big stump, and then, quicker than you could wink, the rabbit slid into it and was gone. And, although Lit tle Blackie waited a long time, he did not come back again. But after a while a little wren haipped almost under his nose. "Ho!" said Blackie, "I believe you are good to eat!" "Oh, no," said the wren, "I am not at all good to eat until I have flown to the top-of that tall tree." "Very well, then," said Blackie, "hurry up and fly there. It Is grow ing late, and I am very hungry, for 1 bad no breakfast this morning."' So the wren flew over the tree-tops and was gone, and although Little Blackie Sear waited a long time, she did not come back again. But pres ently he saw a muskrat on-the edge of a near-by stream, and he ran over to him and exclaimed:— .. "•I believe, sir, you are good to eat!" "Oh, no!" ssld the muskrat. '1 am not alt-good to eat until I have had a swim." And he slid into the water, and In a few moments climbed up on the top "Of his house In midstream' and-sat there. After a while Blackie called out to him:— "Well, Mr. Muskrat, .aren't you good to eat yet?" "Oh, yes," said the muskrat. "I am good enough norw, 'but It would spoil me to swim hack." "Dear me," sighed Blaokle, "here it is 'way past dinner-time, and I have had no breakfast yet!" And he turn ed away-from the stream feeling very sad. But he had not gone very far when he saw a man with a gun over his shoulder, for he was a great hun ter. "Ho!" said Blackie, and It sounded very much like a growl when he said It. "Ho, I believe you are good to eat!" "Oh, no," said the man. "I am not at all good to eat until I have run a long way." So he threw down his gun. for he was a great hunter and knew juBt a business concern,Jocated in* a distant city came Into town, canvassed the trade Industriously and landed several orders of good size. After his day's work was done he went to the telephone and asked for "Long distance." After the usual pre liminaries he called for his brother in the distant city. The brother could not be located. Well, then, perhnps the operator could get his*sister. No, bis sister also was out. He waB sorry, but would call again later, and left the booth, with out hating to pay toll, of course, as he did not get his party. what to do, and started to run, and Blackie after Mm and they ran and they ran until they came to a little house beside a road. The door was open, so the man ran right In, and by the time Blackie got there he had climbed up a ladder and through a hole In the celling and pulled the ladder up aifter him. "Ho," said Blackie, "come down here! You are good to eat now!" "Yes," said the man, "I believe I am very good to eat, but I don't care about being eaten. However, if you are hungry, just step into the pan try and help yourself to whatever you find there. The door, you will find Is open." So Blackie ran into the pantry, and there he found pies and Vakes and bread and meat and Jam, and lots of good things, and he began to eat at once for lie had had no breakfast and was neatly starved. Tben the man sent his wife down stairs .(for he was a great hunter, you will remember, and knew Just what do), and she shit and lock ed tkf pantrjr door so quickly that Black# was a prisoner before he knew It. But he-did not mind at all. for he was very busy eating up the pies and cakes and all the good things he had foipid in .the pantry. When he could eat no more, he stretched out on the floor and was very soon fast asleep. In the morning he was awako bright and early, but abt before the great hunter for, when he opened his eyes, thete he stood looking through the little pantry window at him. "Hoi" said Blackie, "shall I eat you thlB morning?" "Oh, no!" said the hunter. "And you need never trouble yourself again about looking for food In the Great Woods, tfor I am going to put you In a cage and sell you to the circus man, and he will feed you every day!" So he put little Blackie Bear into a cage and sold him to the circus man. And now, whenever you go' to het circus you may see him there: and possibly some day you may feet there in time to see the circus man feed him.—Elizabeth Gale, In Good Housekeeping. MJBS ANT'S TOILET. insects aire usually connected with unoleanllness in the minds otf most persons, yet many Insects are IX- tremely neat in their penonal habits. The ant performs a scrupulous toilet every day. She uses brushes, combs. Sponges and other Implements in keeping herself tidy, and never fears misplacing them, since nature has conveniently attached them In perma nent positions on her body. A "hobo" ant was never seen, for the insect bstes dirt like a Dutch housewife. Working In the earth inevitably be fouls her person, but sbe takes a wash and a rubdown so often that few particles of foreign matter cling long to her hairy self, says Harper's. One of the ant's toilet Implements is the tongue. Around the sides of this organ curves a series of hard ridges which makes it suitable for use as both sponge and brush. Ants lick themselves clean with their tongues, like dogs and cats. The natural coub on the leg Is another important tolldl Implement. It is on the tibia, and has a short handle, a stiff back and 65 elastlq teeth. It is a fine-toothed comb, and there is a coarse-toothed comb of 45 teeth on the leg, right opposite. There are other combs in handy positions, as the serrated upper Jaws, through which the ant may draw her legs and so clean them. Also the mouth se cretes a liquid which might 'be com pared to hair tonic, and which is rubbed on the members drawn through the mandibles. Ants wash about the same as hu man beings, before beginning the day's work or retiring to sleep, or when the accumulation df dirt makes them uncomfortable. Sometimes an ant quits in the midst of a busy stunt of nest building, leaves her fel low-workers and goes off in a cor ner to clean herself. She combs and brushes diligently until she feels that sbe is in a decent state, and then re joins her laboring companions. A study of the toilet process In arti ficial nests with glass sides shows how thorough and conscientious the insect is In her personal care. There are numberless attitudes during the process. When cleaning the-head and fore parts of the body, the ant often sits upon the two hind legs and turns the head to one side. The fore leg Is raised and passed over the face, while the head Is slowly turned to expose both sides to treatment The opposite leg may be brought into use. For combing the back hair the head Is dropped low and the leg comb sweeps through the tufts of hair from the neck forward. At Intervals the leg Is drawn through the Jaws to moisten it or wipe off the comb.— New Haven Register. THE LADY'S SAIND. There is a small town called Sta voren on the coast of Holland. It was once a very important shipping town, but many, many years ago Its prosperity was destroyed. This Is how It happened: Many of the citizens were so wealthy that the floors of their pal-, aces were paved with gold. Again, some of the people were so poor that thy could barely earn enough to keep from starving. But the wealthy citi zens would do nothing to Improve their condition, and treated their de pendents like dogs. There was one -lady In Stavoren who was enormously wealthy. She owned many fine residences and hun dreds of ships. Her Income was so large that^she could not possibly spend It, but she would not give any aid to the people who begged It. One day she sent for one of her captains' and ordered him to take a vessel, and, returning within the year, bring back with hhn a cargo of the -Qost precious thing in the world. The captain thought this task a very dif ficult one, but finally he decided that, as life was the most precious pos session, the article that sustained It would be the most precious in the world. Accordingly, he brought a cargo_of the finest wheat money could buy, and returned to Stavoren. His employer came to the vessel, and when she learned what he had brought as cargo, she ordered him to throw it Into the sea. The captain cried, "Madam, IT there be Justice, you will some day beg tor bread." But the lady laughed scornfully and said. "When I see this ring which I cast into the sea I shall expect my punishment." Some time later, she was Invited to a grand banquet and in the frlendB, AJN APIPRDCI'ATrVIE AUDIENCE. Under an old piazza floor, the boards Iqosened by long usage, and the foundation dotted by years of ser vice, a family otf toads spend the summer months. Each evening after sunset, when the twilight shades are falling, I take my banjo and, sitting In the big piazza chair, play softly to myself. iBy and by a head 4ops out of a crevice, two bright eyes look aTound, and a big awkward body follows: another and another soon Join the company, and there they sit in a sol emn row. winking their bead-like eyes at me. Night after night the performance lti repeated, and eaoh time the audi ence is forthcoming, and sits In si lent dignity to the end of my con cert—Our Four-footed Friends. A BOY'S HELP. "Now, boy, help me all you can to night," said mother, as she was pre paring to give the small boy his batn and put him to -bed. "Suppose you draw the water for me!" The little fellow started out of the door, and his mother called him back. "Where are you going, dear?" "Why, moth er," said he, "you asked me to draw the water for you, and I was going downstairs to get my pencil."—Chris tian. Register. -New York City has twice as many telephones as London, four times as many as Berlin and six times ai many as Paris. "Icebergs ahead!" The concerts stop In the liner's sumptuous music room. There Is a rush on deck to admire the group of crystal Islands. A ray catch es pinnacle and peak, piercing the mist and lighting the vast masses with shim mering hues—sky blue and emerald, dove gray and faint rose. Cascades flow down the thawing slopes, and slow green rollers break on mighty buttress es with gentle foam and rising sprsy. One berg follows another In stately march and form fantastic. Here Is a ruined Norman cathedral, choired and towered. Next follows an Arab tent pitched In limitless sea of green. Now a mosque of green marble with dia mond domes and minarets. Chinese pagodas and Nile pyramids, too with, great battle ships, sculptured by the sun out of Greenland's Ice cap of half million square miles. "Beautiful!" cry the women, waving handkerchiefs and turning to the cap tain for Information. He smiles a lit tle, recalling last night's terrible vigil In dense fog when these careless hun dreds were sleeping with no thought of the colossal specters of the sea. Such ponderous silent foes from the north— true Thor hammers, weighing a billion tons, before whose impact man's might iest fabric Is only an egg shell erratic In movement too, traveling south Into line even with Southern Spain and likely to split and explode, casting up waves that would engulf the greatest ship, stranding and blocking* harbors, because seven-eighths of their towering height Is beneath the sea! .And here Is sinister peril. A vessel may seem to be clearing the monster, when suddenly a submarine spur will tear a great hole In her and drag her within reach of great toppling Ice mass es weighing thousands of tons. Down the Labrador current come these mon strous bergs on an oceanic river 2,000 miles long and ninety wide—a girdle of death to a thousand ships, gemmed and studded, with crystal isles of de struction. Where They Come From. Whence have they come? They" are the broken off ends of long, sinuous glaciers that have worked their way down from Greenland's Icy mountains. Most North Atlantic bergs slip Into the sea from the nor$h part of Western Greenland,-and enter Baffin Bay above Dlsko Island. When they put to sea SXEBO'S LOVABLE HOSTESS. Bffra. Andrew Cuilsle Supervise. Every Detail ol Her Rome. One of the happiest women and most Ideal wives In the world Is Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, If one may believe the friends In this country and in Scot land who pay homage to her many lov able qualities. She is essentially a womanly woman, but for all that she follows a regimen as rigid .as any sol dier's In her home life at Skibo, as In New Yofk and Pittsburg. flBh- where she' was eating found the ring. Then her punishment began. Her ships were lost at sea, her crops de stroyed, her houses burned and at last she found herself penniless. She begged from her former but they scornfully refused aid, and the lady finally died In poverty and want Sut the evil sh had caused lived after her. As tlmo went on, the sailors and fishermen noticed that the entrance to the harbor was blocked by a huge sand bar, which was cov ered with a growth of wheat. The wheat wtilch had been thrown Into the sea had sprung up andTilooked the harbor. The poor people were In despair, as they gained their live lihood from their fine harbor, but nothing could be done. And then a still greater disaster occurred. One of the dikes sprank a leak, the water rushed In, and Stavoren and all Its inhabitants perished. And all this evil was caused by the "Lady's Sand." (An old legend.)—Edna T. Rodenber ger, in the Brooklyn Eagle. There are many servants at Skibo Bssralif and In the Fifth avenue mansion, but every detail of the home comes under the direct supervision of the mistress. She has hours as rigidly kept as a fashionable practitioner's when sbe re ceives the butler, "the house mother," a sweet Highland way of talking of the prosaic office of housekeeper, and other heads of domestic departments, the grooms and the gardeners and the stewards. Mrs. Carnegie is fond of outdoor life and Intensely interested In all that means better health'for rich and poor. But she has never gone In for athletics nor anything which might be called fads. She Is devoted to music and, like her husband, she prefers organ music to any other variety. It has been observed that recently a large por tion of Mr. Carnegie's ben (factions are It may be for a Carnegie In the matter of supplying the deficiency at least In part I Journey of twenty-five hundred miles. One Ice field poured down by the mountnlns Into Dlsko Bay Is one thou sand feet thick and eighteen thousand brood. It flows forty-seven feet In a day, and, tbeiefore, In one year will throw off Into the sea the inconceivable quantity of three hundred thousand million cubic feet of Ice. And on the banish part of Greenland's west coast there are twenty fiords that give birth to bergs from an Ice-bound country one hundred and twenty thousand square miles In extent Thus one Is not sur prised to hear of a towering Ice Island stranded in Melville Bay, weighing two thousand million tona Think of These bergs, In procession or In lone ly grandeur, are the sea's worst terror and so far human science has devised no means of detecting them In fog and darkness. The Newfoundland fisher men say they are able to "smell" bergs, thereby saving craft and life alike. What they mean, of course, Is that the berg's approach Is marked by sudden cooling of the air. But there Is fame and fortune In store for the man who will Invent Borne contrivance to give timely warning of the proximity of this danger, which Is the most terrible known to navigation. No other agency can overwhelm the modern steel-built liner, with her many water-tight bulk heads. She defies the most furious storm the rlsk of Are Is Inconsider able and even after collision one or other of the participants may limp Into port But imagine a twenty-thousand ton ocean flyer hurling her vast bulk at twenty knots an hour against the mighty Ice ramparts looming through the fog athwart her racing bows. The first Impact is bad enough but Insidi ous sun action and corrosive salt water have rotted the lofty precipices, and from a height" of seven hundred feet crash thousands of tons of Ice, utterly overwhelming the grandest ship that ever left port taking the shape or fine pipe organs for poor churches. Mrs. Carnegie was his Inspiration. ?he frequently dwells on the divine property of music In soothing sorrow and uplifting the soul, and sbe has often remarked that she pities a congregation which Is. suffer ing from a wheezy organ from the bot tom of her heart Whenever she hears of an afflicted organ, she takes the mat ter lu band. She Investigates In a quiet systematic way the resources of the congregation, and when she finds that a good musical Instrument entails too heavy a demand, she Influences Mr. Absolutely Free. Angry Mother (suddenly entering parlor and catching young music teach er klBsIng her daughter)—Young man, Is this what I pay you for? Music Teacher—No, ma'am I make no charge fcr this.—Florida Times Union. Drtten to Drink* Artist—My next picture at the acad emy will be entitled "Driven to Drink." His FJlend—Ah, some powerful por trayal of baffled passion, I suppose? Artist—Oh, no It's a horse ap proaching a water trough! Everyone should like his kin, but everyone does not POLITICS i§ TH9 DXY. I I Bat Who Got tho MtiCff The President has denounced with even more than hla customary vigor two newspapers which hare Intimated there was something questionable In the government's purchase of the Panama canal property. It will be remembered that the Unl ted States paid $40,000,000 for the Panama property and plant The Uni ted States paid this sum to a French corporation which, though perhaps not technically "bankrupt," had come to standstill and had been put by the French courts In the hands of "liqul dator." The United States paid the money, not to the French "government" but to the "liquidator," who proceeded to distribute It among—whom? Among whom? That's the question. Incidents In connection with the sud den campaign by which the United States was Induced to abandon the Nicaragua route and take up the Pap am a raised some rather natural ques tions at the time of the change. These questions were rendered more pressing by the rather prevalent opin ion that we were paying for the French remains rather more than they were worth. Hence the questions, "Who got the money?" and "Did the prospect of get ting the mono unduly stimulate Inter est, activity, and Influence In favor of the Panama route?" any thing that floats at all being aground In water more than half a mile deep I On Its great fields and precipitous slopes were many polar bears and thousands of seals which had taken passage, so to speak, for Southern Lab rador. Tho question Is not one of middle men, or what they got or through whose hands tho money passed. It Is one of shareholders—the ownerd in fact of what the French corporation sold—who they were and what they got when the money was finally dis tributed. Undoubtedly this was a matter of record. Unfortunately the record has not been produced, perhaps cannot be now, and at any rate Is not. Hence, after all the outcry on all sides, there still remains unanswered the question, '.'Who got the money?"—Chicago Inter Ocean (Republican). The "Treuljr" with Japan. Any discussion of the value of the new understanding between the United States and Japan is bound to lead to our fixed policy of diplomatic Isolation, by which Is meant freedom from en tangling alliances—that separation from the political systems of Europe which Washington urged so Impressive ly in his farewell address. There is no pretense or assumption that the documents mutually signed by Secretary Root and Baron TaKahlra are more than a reduction to written form of certain matters brought to agreement by verbal discussion. Tho attitude of the two nations Is merely defined for convenience and, perhaps, In recognition of the fact that officials and administrations change, and that such changes should not cause posslbls misunderstanding* The danger of the form of procedure seems to lie In a first encroachment on precedent, as a means of paving the way toward other and further en croachments with the ultimate passing of the line and a departure from estab lished policies. Freedom of action in world politic. Is what has given tills country Its power. It has been the on biased arbitrator. Committed to a democratic exploitation of the earth. Its unselfishness has given it pre-eminence. If that pre-eminence Is lost, we might as well become an Imperialistic nation at once, fo^the argument of selfish motives will apply to us as well as to any nation of Europe. Everybody knows that ths Senate would not ratify any such agreement as Secretary Root has made, and, de prived of that ratification, the Instru ment becomes a mere definition, unau thorised and without force. And that Is all It Is. And if It Is unauthorized and not binding as to the United States It Is without binding force as to Japan, for mutuality Is lacking. So what's the use of bothering about it?—8t Louis Republic. Turlflt Tftxlni the Famn. Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture says the value of United States farm crops for 1908 will exceed that of 1007, which was $7,440,000,000. A fair estimate of the wealth cre ated by the farmers this year Is eight billions of dollars. It Is real, not pa* per, wenlth. It Is tangible property that did not exist before. Corn, hay, wheat, cotton and other crops are among the necessaries of life. This $8,000,000,000 has been taken out of the soli by American farmers in return for their labor. It would be interesting to know how much of this vast wealth Is absorbed by tax gather ers, direct and Indirect It Is true that farmers are prosperous, In spite of tar iff taxes. But they would gain more real profits from their labor If tariff taxes were equalized. The farmer pays a tariff tax on hla implements, on the lumber for his buildings, on practically everything that he or hlB family consumes that Is not raised on his own farm. He pays a tax on his clothing and all the small luxuries he Is able to buy. Because the tariff tax Is Indirect It Is none the less onerous. Agriculture Is the chief basis of real wealth. Legitimate manufactures, com merce and mining Industries hold sec ondary place. The parasites of the wealth-producing classes are the finan cial wizards who Issue stocks and bonds as rapidly as future wealth can be dis counted. The tariff barons are not wealth creators, but wealth absorbers. How long will the farmers continue to play second fiddle In making the tar iff laws of this wealth-producing na tion? Not very long, If we Judge by recent election returns from some of the great est agricultural states In the.union. Dr. Matilda Evana of Columbia, S. C., Is the first negro woman to practice medicine In South Carolina. When IB she eutered the school for negro chil dren conducted by Miss Martha Scho fleld at Aiken, S. C. From there she went to Oberlin College and later to the Woman's Medical College In Phila delphia, where she graduated. For several weeks after the British steamer Sesostrls was stranded on the coast of Guatemala a near-by town was lighted with electricity from Its dyna mos, wires being strung from the ves sel over temporary poles. Emperor William, long a student of technical science, has Invented a hub brake for locomotives, railroad cars and automobiles which is said to be the jpwt effective yet devised.