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THE HAZING SEASON HAS OPENED. • m rn —Cincinnati Post. DAYB COME AND GO. Leaves fall and flowers fade. Days com* and go; Now is swt summer laid Low in her leafy glade. Low like a fragrant maid, Low, low, ah, low. Tears fall and eyelids ache, Hearts overflow; Here for our dead love’s sake Let us our farewells make — Will he again a waae? Ah, no, no, no. Winds sigh and skies are gray, Days come and go; Wild birds are flown away. Where are the blooms of May? Dead, dead, this many a day, Under the snow. Lips sigh and cheeks are pale, Hearts overflow; Will not some song or tale, Iviss, or a flower frail. With our dead love ava”? Ah, no, no, no. *—Century. DOLLY’S list-mil CrgjHEY’LL have to go house-hunt- II ing. now, and that's all there is to it,” said Mrs. Flynn, decided ly, as she opened the new lodger's door, and prepared to sweep the room. The new lodger, a worn young wom an, had passed away four days ago, And had left a baby girl of four years, but, unhappily, no money with which to care for it. It was this fact that cr.'ied forth remark quoted above from tall. stern Mrs. Flynn. Dolly, the lodger's little girl, was kneeling on a broken chair gazing wist fully out of the dusty window. Spot, 'her dog. and only companion, was icuried up on the floor asleep, j “Yes, they'll have to go house-hunt ting for sure,” repeated Mrs. Flynn. “I haven’t nothin’ to keep the dog on, much less the child.” Dolly looked up, Shearing the words. “Come, run out -with your dog while I sweep,” said the 'Jandlady, speaking to the child, who -dipped to the floor. “You can’t go into the kitchen 'cause Mary’s wasliin’ and she’ll bite your head off, like as not. 'and you can’t go into the parlor with that there dog. Sit yourself down on the stairs ’till I’m through. Run, now.” Dolly trudged patiently down the narrow winding stairs, and Spot pat tered beside her. “Look out for the torn place In the carpet, Dolly." she murmured to her self, repeating the phrase so often on mo‘i.' , r’B lips. As she paused on the second land ing a long mirror caught her eyes through the hnlf-opeu door, and, en tering the room, she went elosc to the glass. “You s'pose we look good ’nougb to go house huntin’. Spot?” she asked, af ter surveying the chubby little flgure for a few moments. “You s'pose we do? Mamma dressed me up when we earned here. Spot, but I can’t dress you up ‘cause you’re only a dog. Rut we’ll go house huntin’ just the same.” The two little friends continued their slow journey down stairs, and to Dol ly’s great delight the front door was open. Mary Stood on the steps with her sleeves rolled up, talking to the postman. “F'r'aps she won't see us,” mur mured tlm little girl, doubtfully. ’Cause I've got to go.” y.rry did not pay any attention to the child and dog as they slipped past her down to ’lie sidewalk, but as they were about to turn up the street, the postman put out a long arm and caught Dolly. • Where are you goin. miss?” he asked, laughing, as she struggled to free herself. ‘ You’re too little to go up-town alone.” “Holly Madison, just you take that j dog and trot into the house, where you belong,” cried the exasperated servant. ! “If you don’t move quick, now,” sue j added threatening, as the postman set ; the child on the lower step. Hut the mail carrier showed signs of ; continuing the conversation, and when Dolly pleaded eagerly to be allowed to j go Into the street, and Mary caught the name of her mistress, she relented, saying carelessly: -On; Mrs. Flynn said you could? I V,:?r. go along, for goodness’ sake!” Hotly darted eagerly to the sidewalk j again, followed l y S[ho and together ! they hurried up t e short street into a j more respectable, peopled one. As they turned Into the crowd. Dolly breathed more freely. She was half atraid that Mary would change her mind about granting this unusual freedom, aud send that awful postman after her. Oy and on they went, past great doors where throngs of people were entering and leaving, and past store windows full of toys which, another day, would have delighted her. No cue noticed the little runaway, or. if they did. t was oulv to smite, and remark how bright and earnest the brown eyes were, or how the low white socks bad slipped down so as to be almost in visible— for Mrs. Madison dressed her baby as well as she could afford, even neglecting her own dresa to do so. Dolly took no Interest la the gay throngs of people that she passed. She had f.n Indistinct idea of what she wanted to do, and she kept on. Soon the streets grew less noisy, and broader, there was an occasional tree, and the sidewalks were smoother. Houses took the place of stores, and the child began to realize how tired she was. Her little feet were burn ing, and seemed very hard to lift, and she sighed, a soft baby sigh. Then her face lit up. "Now we’ll look for the nicest, pret tiest house, Spot,” she said eagerly, “then we’ll ring the bell and they’ll say ‘come in.’ That's what mamma did.” In a well-furnished library, a gentle man was lying on a sofa, one foot, which was tightly bandaged, on a pil low. The doctor, who had just re moved his hand from the bandage, rose to gc. “It’s too bad, old man,” he said. “It’s a had sprain, and will take some time to cure. It was the first time you'd been out since Ethel’s death, wasn’t it?” The patient nodded and cleared his throgt at the mention of his 6-year-old girl, who had died two weeks before. Her mother was dead, also, and he was alone. His kind, genial nature had changed since the death of his child. The doctor took his leave, and Mr. Abbott was left to himself. He picked up a book, tried to read, threw it down, and picked up a magazine. But that soon followed the book, and he rang the bell impatiently. “Get me a cigar, will you, Thomas?’ he said to an old servant. Thomas did as he was told, eastin; a pitying look at his young master. “It’s too bad, sir,” he said. “It’s beastly slow,” grumbled Mr. Abbott, with a little kick at his wound ed foot. “Thomas, if auy one calls, show him In.” Half an hour later the doorbell rang, and as Thomas went along the hall, Mr. Abbott pulled the afghan more smoothly over his foot, saying half aloud: “Thank heaven, I need not spend the afternoon alone.” He looked expectantly towards the door as Thomas pushed it open, say ing, “A young lady to see you, sir,” and to his surprise, a child, L.-tless, and with faltering steps entered the room. “Thomas, what do you mean by this?” he asked sharply. “If you call this a joke it is a very poor one.” He was hurt, and a sharp pang went through his heart. Those brown eyes brought his Ethel back to him. What right had another child with brown eyes? and what Thomas, a very red Thomas, was about to explain, when the child spoke: “I came house-huntin’,” she said simply, but ” And a little sob rose in her throat —“if you're cross. I’ll go away.” Mr. Abbott looked at her In some surprise. “Who are you, child?” he asked. But instead of answering, the tired little creature suddenly covered her face with her hands and burst into tears. “Come here,” said the Invalid, kind ly, and he nut out his hand aud caught her dress. “Who are you, aud why did you come house-hunting? Wou’t you tell me all about it?” Thomas quietly withdrew and closed the door, but as he moved to and fro in the next room, he could hear the murmuring of the little girl's voice, and then his master’s, once more kind and tender, as he comforted the tired child. Presently the bell tinkled again, and Thomas opened the door into the li brary to be met with the words: “Hush! She's all tired out. poor child. Can you lay her ou the lounge without waking her. Thomas? She is an orphan, poor little mite.” Thomas lifted the sleeping child from the floor and laid her on the lounge. “She has a look like Ethel.” mur mured Mr. Abbott, softly. The house which Dolly, when a lit tle girl of four years, selected as “the nicest, prettiest house,” has been her home ever since.—Waverley. NEEDLE AND SPOOL OF THREAD, The Basis Upon Which Frank Parmtlec Built a Fortune. When Frank Parmelee, founder of a Chicago trans;*oriation line and a man of much wealth, died in Chicago the B pocket of the coat which be had last worn thread and a needle. He had car ful career and they RANK [..vumoix often attributed his success and ho never wearied of till ing the story of his “needle and thread capital.” Seventy-six years ago, when Farme lee was I’d years old aud iving with | hia parents at Byron, X. Y.. he decided Ito leave home. The family was poor ' and the boy considered himself old enough to make hia own livelihood, l Hir parents granted their consent re | luctantly. and the aon arranged for a “job" In a stage coach office at Erie, Pa. He was not concerned as to the manner in which he was to reach that point because his future employers were willing to transport him most of the way and he could walk if he had to. The day of hi3 departu-e his moth er bade him good-by in this fashion: “Franklin, I wish your father was able to give you a little money to start on, but you know he hasn't got it. Now then, Franklin, your mother, who thinks a good deal more of you than you ever imagined, is going to give you a bit of advice and something else with it, and she wants you to treasure both of them. “Above all things I want you to take a great deal of pride in yourself and just make up your mind that you are going to be successful. And you must always keep neat and clean and keep your clothes in good repair and don’t let the buttons come off or else you won’t respect yourself. Now then, I’m going to give you a reminder.” The mother held out her hand and young Parmelee reached for the “re minder. ’ It was a spool of black thread with a needle stuck through it crosswise. The boy ldss.ed his mother and put the thread and needle in his carpet bag. Then he started out for Erie. He afterward went to work on the lakes, saved money, started a street car line in Chicago and later engaged in the express business. STATISTICS OF THE NEGRO. Death Rate in This Country Nearly Twice that of the Whites. The Anal census bulletin on the ne ;ro population shows that there are J. 204,531 negroes in the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Ulco. Half of this great number are under 19 years of age and from 11 to 16 per cent of them have white blood in their veins. The center of this black population is De Kalb County, Alabama, it having moved from Din widdle County, Virginia, northeast 476 miles, since 1790. Thus the uegro population consti tutes about one-fifteenth of the city population and one-seventh of the country population of continental Uni ted States. This proportion, although still large, is the result of a steady de cline during the nineteenth century. The death rate of negroes approxi mates 30 per cent, while that of the whites Is 17 per cent. At present fully 90 per cent of the negroes live in the Southern States and 77 per cent of them reside upon farms. But the northern migration to the big cities has been noticeable during the last two decades and is in a large measure responsible for the excessive death rate among them. Bad habits, poverty and disease make terrible in roads upon negroes living in the big cities. The largest number of negroes living in compact masses are found in cer tain urban counties, several of which lie outside the great cotton-growing States. The four each having 75,000 negroes are District of Columbia, co extensive with Washington; Shelby County, Tennessee, containing Mem phis; Baltimore City, Md., and Orleans parish, Louisiana, co-extensive with New Orleans. The negroes form one third of the population of the entire South and 48.6 per cent of them are reckoned among bread winners, as against 40.9 per cent of the Southern whites, but these figures apparently in favor of the Southern black men are accounted for by the prevalance of fe male labor among the negroes.—Kan sas City Journal. Water a Plant Copiously. Improper watering is often the cause of failure with plants. The usual plan is to sprinkle a small quantity of water daily in each pot containing a plant. If those who water plants in this manner, as most beginners do, could see the florist water his plants they might fear the plants were being drowned, but they would learn a les son in plant culture that would be of much benefit. The florist waters his plants (with few exceptions) either daily, every other day or twice a week, according to the weather, and when the watering is done the soil about the plant is completely saturated. The pot being well provided at the bottom with drainage material—usually broken pieces of pots—the surplus water passes off. yet the soil is so wet that the roots can absorb from it all the moisture req jlred for the best develop ment of tjp growth. One wateimg of this kind e week will do vastly more good to the plants than the Qi'tv sprinkling so generally ptacticed. ~ Hie Position. Mifkins —What position does young "s‘jboy play on the village football team —quarter-back, half-back, or full back? Bifkins —The only time I ever saw him in a game he was the draw back. Gift or Zola's Manuscript. Mm*. Zola has presented her taus band's manuscripts to the national library of France. It is almost impossible to believe there was once a day when Father thought so much of Mother be didn't care a rap if sh* could cook or not. A SWEDISH CITY IN PAWN. IT BECOMES GERMAN AFTER BE NG MORTGAGED A CENTURY. The Odd Taste of Wismar, a Pert of of 18,000 on the Baltic—lt Was Pledged by King Gustav IV. for a Lean cf $1,000,000. Wismar, a port of 18,000 people on the Baltic, situated in the German Duchy of Mecklenburg-Sehwerin, but belonging legally to Sweden, has re cently become a German city. It was pledged by King Gustav IV. for a loan of $1,000,000, and the King cf Sweden having failed to redeem it within the century, it has passed to the Duke of Mecklenburg-Sehwerin, from whose ancestor the money was borrowed. Wismar is a very ancient town. Ac cording to one legend it was 300 years old at the beginning of the Christian era. Another tradition says it was built early in the fourth century by Wismarus, King of the Vandals. It grew in power and in the European struggle frequently changed hands, for it was a strong ally and a for midable enemy. In the early part of the eighteenth century. Denmark, the most powerful enemy of Sweden, after Hie destruc tion of the Hanseatic League (a kind of trade union established by certain German cities for safety and commer cial purposes), captured Wismar and razed the fortifications. Afterward peace was declared and the city re verted to Sweden, but with the pro vision that she should not rebuild the fortifications. The place thus lost its strength and importance and became instead an element of weakness to the Swedes. Its great sea trade was ruin ed and its inland trade lost. Under these circumstances it was not surprising that the Swedes tired at last of their white elephant. So in the reign of the incompetent and ex travagant Gustavus IV., with territory lo't to 'he French in ore war, with Fin and lost to Ruosia, with defeat in a war against Norway, the Swedes reized an opportunity to relieve them selves of the burden of possession. The direct opportunity was given by the cancellation by Gustavus oT his engagement to the daughter of Duke Frederick Franz I. That person not unnaturally resented the insult and threatened dire things. Finally, his threats crystalized into a demand for an enormous indemnity. The fsoney tad to be raised at once, Duchy of Mecklenburg advanced 1,258,000 reichsthaler and took Wismar, Neuk ioster and the Island of Poel as secur ity. Under the conditions of the loan the fity of Wismar and the two govern nent districts were to remain in pledge for 100 years. At the end of Ihe 100 years Sweden could claim and Dbtain the pledged ci4y and land by paying back the original loan with three per cent, compound int<orest. A further provision, however, of the loaD was that should Sweden fail to take anw notice whatever of the expira tion of the time, the contract would become renewed automatically for an other 100 years. The sum which Sweden would have had to pay if she wished to claim Wismar and the two government districts is figured as amounting to $27/)0<X000, and this alone, quite apart from considerations of policy, operated doubtless as a bar against the assertion of her rights. Thus we see that while the immed iate business transaction dates back but abcut 100 years, any diplomatic squabbles over the city now would have to revert to the surrenders and armistices o' the thirty years’ war (1618-1648). And the fact that Wis mar heretofore really was Swedish territory explains why Germany has not fortified the port, which is con sidered the finest harbor site of the entire Baltic coast. Under tne Swed ish-Danish treaty fortifications were not to he built and when the Duchy of Mecklenburg took over the plice the stipulation was renewed. Among the beautiful buildings that date back to Wismar’s glorious past are the Archdeacon’s house, erected in 1450. and the old schoolhouse, dat ing back to about 1300. A Mild Question That Soothed. In one of the parlor cars of a train wending its way to this city a man who looked the typical “sport” was making himself obnoxious, and all the other passengers uncomfortable by the continuity and senselessness of his “kicks.” He had .the porter in every few minutes to complain about something. That was bad enough, but at length he grew profane. It seemed as if any attempt to check the flow of his evil language must lead to a fight. A benevolent-look ing old man who sat next to him proved, however, that a mild ques tion as well as a mild answer will turn away wrath. Just after the “sport” had indulged himself in an other violent outburst of profanity the old man bestowed upon him a gentle glance through his gold rimmed spectacles, and with the ut most gravity drawled out the inno cent query: “Say, my brother, where do you preach tomorrow ?” A roar of laughter went up frem the car, the “sport” himself had to grin, and the rest cf the journey to the city was made in peace and quiet.—New York Press. Keeping Time by Radium. The radium clock of Harrison Mar tindale practically gives perpetual motion through the dissipation of negatively charged rays. A small quantity of radium, supported in an exhausted glass vessel by a quartz rod, is plated in a small tube, to the lower end of which is attached an electroscope of two leng strips of silver. The activity of the radium causes an electric current minus beta rays to be transmitted to the silver strips, wbicn expand until they touch the sides of the vessel, when earthed conducting wires in stantly discharge them and they fall together. This is repeated every two minutes, making time in beats of that duration, and theoretically the action will continue until exhaus tion cf the radium —in this case computed to be 30,000 years in the future— Philadelphia Ledger. Her Instructions to the Dentist. A K3 ngnß woman wanted a set of false teeth and wrote to a Topeka dentists thus: “My mouth is three inches acrost, five-eighths thru the jowL Some hummocky on the aige, shaped somethin' like a boss shoe, toe ferard. If you want me to be more particular m haTe to com* up thar.” —Topeka Capital NAVAJO BLANKET WEAVERS. Tribe Has 25.000 People, and Most of Them are Polygamists. Navajo blanket weaving was studied at close range by P. D. Tull on his recent six months’ tour to Arizona for his heafth, says the Spokane Spokesman-Review. Mr. Tull, who is much improved in health, is back to Spokane with some fine specimens of blankets which he personally picked up while in the south. He said: “These Navajos are one of the largest tribes in the country, num bering over 25,000 Indians. Their reservation is equally large, and is situated in northwestern New Mex ico and northeastern Arizona. Out side of the reservation proper the government has granted them an ad ditional strip of forty miles wide, known as ‘grazing strip.’ The tribe is self-supporting, and while they know little of agriculture, they own immense herds of cattle, horses and sheep. It is from the latter that the women spin the wool and weave the blankets and rugs. “The Navajos are a roviug tribe — when they settle for any t.me at one place they live in a dome-shaped building called a ‘hogan.’ This is a form of adobe construction, made with poles am} sticks and covered with mud. When on the move they live in the regulation tepees. Their nearest neighbors are the Apaches, with whom, in the old days, they were often engaged in war. The Navajos are polygamists, sometimes having four or five wives. These they buy, or trade, as they would any other piece of property. The squaws do most of the wo: k. They wash, spin and dye the wool, and weave it on primitive looms into quejint and artistic They never use figures of people, animals, or birds, as do the basket weavers, tnu their designs are largely geomet rical. Red, black, orange, white and gray are the predominating colors. “While some squaws may use and repeat some characteristic design, it is a noteworthy fact that no two rugs are ever alike. This is almost in credible. when we consider the hum dreds of rugs that have been made by them. “To say nothing of the time it takes to wash, dye and spin their wool, it requires about a month of steady w'ork to weave a rug four by six feet. These ar eeasily recognized by the smaller patterns and smooth, close weave. While the Navajos have never been Christianized, it is a fact of interest that the design of the cross is seen in much of their work. As types they are fine look ing Indians—strong, tall and well featured, largely due to their life in the saddle.’’ CURFEW FOR DOGS. Bill in English Parliament to Cur tail the Canine’s Time. It is said that every dog has his day. Many of them have nothing else. However that may be, the day of all dogs in England is soon to be much shorter. It once consisted of twenty-four hours, but a bill has been introduced in parliament which calls for the ringing of a dog cur few, so to say, says the Boston Transcript. This dog bill is designed to lessen the damage done by dogs in the wor rying of cattle, and this. it is pro posed to do by instituting a kind of curfew for dogs and robbing them of the time-honored privilege of “first bite.” Hitherto, in order to be successful in an action for damages don' - by a dog, it has been necessary to prove a previous mischevlous propensity in the animal. The first clause of the new bill recites that “the owner of the dog shall be liable in damages for injuries done to any cattle by that dog; and it shall not be neces sary to show a previous mischevious propensity in the dog, or the owner’s knowledge of such propensity, or to show that the injury was attribu table to neglect on the part of the owner.” If it can be proved that any dog has chased or injured cattle that dog is banned as dangerous and may be proceeded against according to the provisions of a rigorous law. As for the curfew regulation, it empow ers the Board of Agriculture to make orders “for preventing dogs from starving all or any of the hoars be tween sunset and sunrise.” Stray dogs may be impounded at the ex pense of the owner, and if not claim ed within five clear days may be de stroyed. A New Preparation. Anew method of employing ra dium in medicine has recently been discovered by a Russian physician, Dr. E. S. London, and consists of usiDg ©otten wool which has been submitted to the action of the ra- d f um emanation. Dr. London, as the result of the series of experiments, has reached the conclusion that the effects of the radium emanation and of the direct action of .the radium are the same, consisting of an in flammation on the skin and the de struction of life. He subjected a number of substances, including cork, paraffin, paper and fcotton wood, to radium emanation, and found that they would produce inflammatory effects on the skin. The wool, owing to its spongy nature, seemed to ab sorb the largest quantity of the ra dium emanation, and consequently was the most radioactive. Accord ingly, Dr. London carried on further experiments with wool so treated, which he found was most convenient for easy distribution over the body and ready application at any desired point. The “emanated” wool, when packed in hermetically sealed jars or other containing vessels, loses its radioactivity very slowly, and can be sent to any distance desired. — Har per’s Weekly. A Mutual Mistake. Little Willie toid his mother thaS a lion was on the front porch, but when an investigation was made. It was found to be the Newfoundland deg. which had been newly sheared. ; “Now, Willie," said hts mother, “you have told a very naughty story, and you must go to your room and pray for forgiveness and remain there until the Lord does forgive yon.” Willie promptly obeyed, but he was | gone only a few minutes before he came tripping back. “Did the Lord forgive yon?” asked i his mother. “Yes," was the reply, “and He said I He didn’t blame me mnch, either, | ’cause when He first sew it He sortar I thought it vu a lion himself' Is Love to be Dethroned ? By H. B. \4arriott-Wfiton. HE monuaine York and Newport will run after new dukes ■j farmer will sit under new pastors and buy new drugs. and buy new jewels. The sober wife of the sober New England The American woman has perfected the cult of pleasure as jffipSESffSj no living being in all the history of the world. A certain eom mm3 mon bond unites the drab woman on her farm and the belle of Fifth avenue. spirit is visible in all classes of real Americanized women, whether in me daughter of the millionaire or in the factory hand. It is the spirit of independence which finds its logical issue in cold' selfishness. The factory girls refuse to be married and take up the burdens of maternity; they piu ‘heir savings upon their backs and “have a good time” The typical American woman is proverbially careless of the male of her. race. We Europeans see it every day in the case of our American visitors.- The American woman is set on getting the best she can for her money, or her father s money, or it may be her husband’s. She rides over man roughshod. It is the era of the woman’s revenge, and apparently she is getting it. But in the result it's achieved by a demoralization of sex, even by a debauch of sex. The doctrine of the superiority of woman, or its analogue, the dominance of woman, has resulted in a breach of the laws of maternity. Evasion of child birth follows, and will follow, the passage of woman’s rights and the higher feminism. Even on the threshold of this great and delicate question is one stayed by the consciousness that the American woman has aimed the first great blow at the reign of Love. Sq far as the eye of man can carry now, American civilization, by the overthrow of Love and its potency, will have inaugurated anew era fraught with portentious issues. Having emerged from mere barbarism into an age of sentiment, are we to complete the cycle by passing into a stage where considerations of personal ambition, or vanity, or greed, or something material, rule the sexual i-elations? We are, it would appear, on the threshold of the third era, in which love is to be faded into a sentiment so thin that it would not be recognizable of our sturdy fathers. That stage of the cycle surely must spell decline, diminution • * * death. Woman's taste has been perverted by her appreciation of the g fts of man as tributes to her beautv. A man will take a thing to eat or wear 01 use some how, because, whether it is bad or good. be likes it. A woman s possessions are rather the fruit of her vanity than her taste. She acquires things not because she likes them or needs them, but because they represent self esteem, gratification, the humiliation of rivals. The Lesson of Life. Agnes Repplier. IS to be hoped that all American boys and girls read the Sunday newspapers. How else can they learn the really important things of life, the things which it is wise and well for them know? Where else will they be told that little William Vincent 1&I’ Astor, aged thirteen, eats oatmeal every morning for his break- fast, and meat and vegetables “in sparing quantities” for Ills dinner? That he ias a tutor, a valet, a groom, a chauffeur and “a special body guard”—whatever that may be—all engaged in looking after him. That there is an “automatic street-sprinkier’’ among his toys. That his automobile cost twelve thousand dollars. That he is tall for his age, and that his “chin is a special heritage from his father.” How. save through a Sunday paper, are young Americans to know that little Margaret Carnegie, aged four, has her own private kitchen, “which is said to excel that of any other residence in the world,” and that in it are prepared' “splendid banquets” for the Carnegie dolls? That she has ten rooms of her own, where as Willie Astor has only five, and that she believes her father to be “the rich est of mankind.” Whether she, too, has inherited a chin is not mentioned. We can but hope that one may be found among her assets. Here is food for thought. Let every little American boy say solemnly to himself, -when he eats his morning oatmeal: “Willie Astor eat3 oatmeal, too.” Let every little American girl remember, when she gives her dolls a tea-party, that Margaret Carnegie’s dolls sit down to “banquets,” cooked In the most splendid kitchen in the world. Above adl, let both boys and girls ponder deeply over the sentence which describes young Astor s tutor, groom, and valet as “subjects of the embryonic monarch.” It is well that they should realize early in life that a rich little hoy is an embryonic monarch whose tutor is his subject, not his master. Thus will our children preserve those ideals and that scorn of ignoble things wb'ch make the greatness of a nation. Thtts will we foster that sturdy spirit of Independence which gave us national life, and those civic virtues which alone can save us from decay.—Life. Stanley’s Qualities as a Leader By A. J. Mounteney-Jephaon. DO not intend to eulogize my old' chief, for eulogies are seldom SsL¥ ▼ convincing. He had many faults, and some of them even were tsß>| ¥ grave ones, but they were, I think, chiefly the faults of his qualities, and without those faults he would not probably have (fbeen possessed of some of the great qualities which made him so successful in almost everything that he undertook. His faults were never of a mean or petty kind, and were easily forgiven when one saw the true greatness and nobility of his nature beyond. That untiring energy and indomitable resolve to overcome all difficulties; that ap parently ruthless determination to sweep away all opposition; his seeming hardness and callousness in working to achieve what, he had undertaken, if he felt that the end wa§>a good one; the curiously hard and unsympathetic attitude he had toward failure of any kind, no matter how blameless the fail ure might be; all these and many others are not qualities that are usually found in gentle and amiable natures, and they do not as a rule attract sym pathy and affection. But they saved the whole expedition from annihilation many a time, they dragged us out of difficulties which would have overcome an ordinary man, they drew us through places where there seemed to be omy death before us, and they gained for him the absolute trust and confidence of all those who followed him. _ . . In the early part of the expedition, we, Stanley s four officers, ( apta’n Stairs Captain Nelson, Dr. Parke, and myself, did not entirely understand his character and at first the things that he did seemed to us sometimes to be hard and unnecessary. But as the months went by, our estimate of his char acter changed, for we saw how absolutely right and necessary all that he had done had been, and we realized that sometimes- it was very necessary to do hard things for the safety and preservation of an expedition like ours. SUnlev has often been amused of cruelty, but I can only say that during the three years we four officers were with him in Africa we never once saw him do a cruel or wanton thing, or anything of which our consciences disap proveu —Scribner’s. American Wisdom Unripe. President William H. B. Faunce, of Brown University. American Nation i3 regarded by impartial observers as agile T rather than profound in intellect. Whatever the goal, we arrive there while other peoples are considering how tc 3tart. Vet we still stand outside the realm of ripened wisdom and assur -o?ance and stable conviction. The men of our time have mobility anding uuity rather than poise and dignity; they are more attached to expedients than to principles, preferring action to thought; and our generation, so full of life and movement, appears at time3 to be “bound nowhere under fu.l sail We areTiick to respond and adapt truths which others have discovered We have marvelous inventors, but few scientists of the first rank; excellent writers of school books, few authorities in education; admirable preachers, .v Jwiana whose voices are heard in Europe; skilful expositors of pkil- Ihv in thinkTrs who rank with those of lands where thought has time S bri’d and ripen before action begins. Our age is strenuous to the breaking point. _ LIONS AS DEER HUNTERS. More are Killed by These “Cats Than by Bullets. More deer are killed every year in Califoruia by the mountain lions man by the bullets of tne hunters. Next to the jaguar, the mountain lion is the largest cat in the two Ainei icas, and he is the champion deer slayer of the world. Within thirty or forty miles of lxw Angc.es he catches the A-et footed, gracefu. creatures and waxes fat on the bweet flesh. He knows no deer season other than all the time. Wherever there is good deer coun try in this or any other Southwest ern State there is the bt piace to look for lions, and that is one of the reasons why the large herds of deer are restless, seldom stay ng long fci one locality. There is nothing they fear more than the sight or smell of a mountain lion. Not e'en the sud den appearance of a hunter win so quickly drive them from a range of hills. ' The lion's method of hunting the deer is not unlike that of the big cats of Africa and India in the pursuit of the antelope and deer of those coun tries. Having found a spring or pcoi where the desired game comes to wateT nt nightfall, the lion aekets an overhanging limb or ledge of rock, whence one leap will carry him to the back or throat of his r-*y, and thereon he* lays himself in perfe stillness, fn the gathering dusk the imperfect eye of the tteer has little chance against the hidden terror, and tha wind, usually Ms faithful ally, can help him not at all, for the lion is far too old a campaigner not to lie up wind from the spring. The cb er comes. One leap from the limb or ledge, ana the ,narp teeth and powerful paws soon break the under neck. The stories that a California Hon can carry away a de?r have abundant proof. It was once the fortune of a hunter 'o follow the p ain, broad trail of the heavy pads for half a mile and the.i come suddenly on t*e place where the killer stopped to rest. There in plain outline was the im print of the dear's body; but for that whole distance the lion had carried it well up and clear of the ground.—New York Herald. Daniel Webster's Advice. Once when Daniel Webster vas riding along a New England road in ' a stage coach, he was annoyed by the jolting and poked bis head cut ©f the window to yell at the driver, says the Detroit News. “Hey, can't you drive- a little slow er?” “NO,” responded the coachman, “the horses are running away, sir.” “Ron ’em ini, a fence corner," ad vised DanieL “Can’t, sir." said the driver, re luctantly and despairingly. “They've eor. the bite • wf.ea tiv-.r ’ h, si-.” “Well, run them into debt, then,” thundered Daniel. “That'll stop any thing!” The total number < f B. itish troops in South Africa is 21,H0D and their annual cost amounts to £ 3,10b.000. Kuropatkin’s stand seems to hnvi been of the one-night variety.—Wash ington Post. The fellow who rocked the boat las summer is now hunting deer up in tin \dirondacks.—Washington Post. I be Japanese do not appear to ha v* been unnerved by General Kuropat kin’s great war speech.—Dallas News - v Wisconsin paper mentions ”voen instrumental music.” We presume p makes sweet discord. Montgomery Advertiser. The Chicagoan who was hurt in a bogus hold-up in Colorado might have won real glory if lie lmd stayed at home.—Chicago Post. About a thousand Russians and Japs in Manchuria are being converted daily to the argument of perpetual peaee.— New York Commercial. General Corbin might do the admin istration a good turn by requiring the army Cupid to take the test for color blimlness.—Washington Post. The charge of the six hundred at Ralaklava has been outclassed several times in the battle of Yental (if that’s its name). —Philadelphia Inquirer. The powerful whistles Secretary Morton will have placed on his war ships are to be used, perhaps, for scaring sea cows off the track. —Den- ver Post. A scientist says that one day we shall be able to do without sleep. That will probably be the day the election returns come In. —Washington Even ing Star. i Count Okunia says the war will cost oapan not less than $1,000,000,000. The Emperor will feel tills when he comes up for re-election.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. So long as they are righting ns fierce ly as they are in Manchuria It Is a good deal of a furce to talk about peace congresses. Spokane Spokes man Review. It is becoming Increasingly clear to the Russian mind that Kuropatkln’s latest defeat was due solely to the fact that he was not victorious.—Philadel phia North American. The men who make pictures for am paign banners are not always imbued with the spirit of reverence for great American statesmen that might be ex pected.—Washington Evening Star. A New York police Judge lias held that a street-car conductor lias no right to kick a passenger In the stomach. But what if the passenger falls to “step lively?”—Cincinnati Enquirer. “They who go down to the sea In ships and do business in great waters” escape the perils of those who Intrust their lives to the operators of Ameri can railway lines.—Kansas City Star. And now Great Britain asks a Tibet an indemnity of nearly $4,000,000. To pay a friendly visit to a neighbor and then send him a bill for traveling ex ponses Is rare insular thrift.—New York World. The Chicago judge who declared (hat the man who bequeathed Alexander Dowie $50,000 and cut his family off without a penny was insane is a bang up specimen of sanity. Richmond News-Leader. Tlie only work the ponce conferences may accomplish is to educate the peo ple against the barbarism of war. In ternational agreements will amount to nothing. Public sentiment controls.— Memphis Morning News. London’s County Court has put ptflm- Lstry under the ban of the old witch craft law. After all, it is only In a certain great American game that the faculty for reading the hand counts for much.—New York World. The selection of Richmond as the place for holding the next Episcopal convention is a further certHieatlon to the fact that there’s no Mason and Dixon’s Hue in that denomination. And there never was.—Boston Herald. The gentlemen who plead guilty to having loaded life-preserver cork with iron demur to the indictment because the stuff was sold in open market, not to the government. This is a glorious excuse, isn’t it?—New York World. The enthusiasm with which the Rus sians receive Emperor William’s hope for their success will be tempered by the remembrance of what happened to the Boers after they had received sim ilar recognition at his hands.—Detroit Free Press. A Boston Individual lias expressed his opinion of John 1). Rockefeller on a postal card, but Miss Ida M. Tarbell can’t for the life of her understand how an opinion of the distinguished money-accumulator can he compressed into less than 17 magazine articles.— New Orleans States. Over a score of deaths caused by whisky drinking in one locality in Manhattan! The announcement is news and causes a sensation liecaus? they were sudden deaths. Of the thou sands that die in the regular course from the same cause nothing much is said. —New York Commercial. Japan learned much about war from Germany, but now the teacher turns to the pupil. Germany lias condemned her quick-firing artillery a. obsolete, and adopted a style of gun like those In use In the Japanese army. The Ger man guns have only been in use six years.—New Orleans Tlmes-I>emocrat. It is a mistake to assume thnt Gen eral Apathy is an idle o'd gentleman who Is too lazy to take an Interest In politics. He is usually a busy man closely engaged in toe management of his own affairs. It Is the Idle ordin arily who become most aroused and prophetic in politics.—Nashville Ban ner. The new Chinese exclusion treaty now being framed by Secretary Hay and Minister Liang Cbeng will bear down hard on the iaundryman. but show more liberality to the gentleman and scholar from the Orient. This is as It should be. We have too often in sulted the high-class Chinaman.—Bos ton Journal. The Peace Congress has asked Ja pan and Russia to end the war. If the congress would devise means by which Japan could have Korea and Manchuria, while Russia had Man churia and Korea, perhaps the bellig erents might be willing to consider the matter of peace.— New York World. John Shannahan, an officer of the Knights of Pythias, shot and killed him self in the lodge roams in Wheeling. W. Ya. He left a letter for his wife, which is not made public. The cause for the tukad* is not known.