THE STAR RI5VNOIi)fMUJB I'KNNA. Pate, defines the Boston Post, Is a Ockle goddess who laughs at mortals for believing In her. i 1 It seems quite nntural that most of the pork should come fiom Chic-hog-o, puns the Philadelphia Record. 'Ktcldn'," said Uncle Ebon, In the Washington Blar, "Is like pepppr. It may help In de right plnce, hut dar In' no sense In spllltn' It around." "Imitation may he de slnccrlst lint, tery," said Uncle Kben, In the Wash ington Star, "rmt dnt doesn' make counterfeit money any mo' accepta ble." War customs, states the Detroit Free Press, are not the only habits ol mankind that are In danger of belns revolutionised by this ambitious hu manity. The difficulty of controlling amateur wireless telegraphers Is be coming pointed, and many other aitf of peace are In the way to a revision of their fundamental rules. Yei there are those who complain n?a.lnst the narrowing tendencies of the time, and lament that the door of opportun ity Is closed against the average man. (toys the Baltimore American: It is no longer In point to speak of an awakening Orient. The great yel low race Is already alert to the trend of Western movements and Is utilis ing the machinery, the methods and the mastery that they have learned from the West. The progress of In dustrialism in the countries of the Bast and the ability being displayed to meet the needs of their own popu lations produce a feeling of solicitude far the scope of the Western Indus try in the Eastern market. There were introductions all round The big man stared in a puzzled way t the club guest. "You look like a 31 as I've seen somewhere, Mr. Blink er," toe said. "Your face seems fa miliar. I fancy you have a double, aid a funny thing about It Is that I remember I formed a strong preju dice against the man who looks like ton although, I'm quite sure, we never met." The little guesi softly laughed, relates the A.-gonaut. "I'm the man," he answered, "and I know why you formed the prejudice. 1 passed .the contribution plate for two years in the church you attended." On the banks of the 'river Ya, de clares a writer In the Wide World Magazine, we saw many Chinese cor morant fishers with their birds, which are very tame and Intelligent, When Ashing a piece of grass Is first tied around their throats, to prevent them from swallowing the fish, and they re afterward turned Into the water. The small fish they can easily manage to bring back to the boat, but when they find a large specimen It some times needs the co-operation of two er three of the birds to land It safely oi their master's boat. Id this river the fishermen often catch the great salamander, a huge newt or water lizard, which sometimes reaches a length of ten .to twelve feet, and whose flesh Is aiuch appreciated by the Chinese. Blackstone in his famous "Com' xnentarles" submits as a sound rule of action that the first duty of a legislative body Is not to legislate, trat seriously to consider whether any legislation la necessary. That prin ciple, remarks the New York Mall, way have struck our English ances tors as wise and proper, but It Is perfectly clear that the United States Congress takes no stock in It Con-aider- the record of the recent ses sion. In the House nearly, if not quite, 28,000 bills were Introduced, And more than 9000 were presented In the Senate, and these figures make Ao account of the large number of resolutions offered In both branches. Of course the great majority of that Tast number of bills went into pigeon boles, where they are slumbering peacefully, but more than 10,000 srere reported npon by the commit tees, most of them unfavorably. The bills adopted by the House, a large proportion of them private bills, num bear nearly 6000, perhaps 6000 of them relating to pensions. So far as the number of bills introduced is con. earned the late session was a record Vaker. Oar statesmen evidently felt obliged to do something to show that thejr were earning their salaries Records begin to show thai people do get rid of disease by fasting, admits the Philadelphia Ledger, although 1 death as a cure la too severe to be- THE MILL O' DREAMS. My Brief! for the days by an' done, When I win a young girl straight an' tall, Comin' alone at act o' aim Up tf hizh hill-road from fnshendall. I thought Urn miles no hardxliip then, Kor the Suite road weary to my feet For th thlUNlien miiiR ill t lie rotil deep iilcn An' the evenin' air was cool on' aueet. My head with many a tltouplil was throng An' many a Hi vain a I never tolrt; My heart would lift nl a wee bird'a simc. ur at seem a whin-bush crowned with . An always I'd look back at the say Or the turn o' the road ahut out the aiplit Of the long waves curlin' into the ba.i , An' lireakiu' in foam where the samla is white. I was married young on a dacent man, A many would rail a iirudent choice, But he never could hear now the river ran Singin' a eons: in a rhangiu' voice. Kor thonuht to see on the bay's blue wather A ship with yellow anils unfurled, Bearin' away a kinp'a young daughter Over tlui lirioi of the heuvin' world. The hills aeeni weary now to my feet, The milea be'a ninny, anil dreams be'a few, The evenm' air'a not naar no sweet. The birds don't sing as they used to do. An' I'm that tired at the top of the hill That 1 haven't the heart to turn at all, To watch the curlin' breakers fill The wee round bay at Cuiliendall. "Helen Lunyoii, in New Ireland Review. TlMTOL Of VIOLETS. By Annah N. True. 'There was no system of weights or measures that could determine Worthing's contempt for David Rid ley. David had worked for the Pennl nian company for fifteen yenrs and had never risen beyond the task of emptying waste-baskets. To be Btirc. there was an art in the way David emptied them, but to Worthing, who possessed the ability to amass a for tune In a decade, nothing wan ap parent but the whole miserable fail ure. Worthing had been in control of the company but a few weeks when every clerk In the office was of the opinion that he couldn't be suited, and hnd given up trying. That Is, all but David. He worked harder than ever, looking wistfully forward to the time when he would get the coveted "raise" should the "boss" notice his faithfulness. Had he known that Worthing had already de eld? to put a boy In his place and was only waiting for c cbsrie to pre sent itself before he discharged him his heart would have been like lead. Worthing had one strange hobby which caused considerable comment among the office force. They laughed abont it more or less, hut that was be cause they did not know that once, long ago, Worthing had loved a girl and meant to make her his wife, but before he could call her his own death intervened. It was because she loved everything that bloomed that Worth ing hnd sent hlra every morning from the florist's the choicest of the sea son's blosfcoms. In memory of her. One evening Worthing was late In leaving the office. David, whose duty It was to see that everything was te cure for the night, came Into the of fnee for a final survey. He did not see his chief in the corner, but Worth ing saw him and marked him well. He waB about to Bpeak and tell him that he need not come in the morn ing, but hesitated a moment. In that moment he saw David's hand go to the cut-glass vase on the desk and come away with a handful of vio lets. Worthing said nothing after' all. He let David lock up and then fol lowed him quietly down the street. He liked method In everything and reason, and he was glad of the fact that he had discovered his Janitor in the act of taking the flowers. He would go to his house and dismiss him there. An employe of Penni man's must be above purloining even pin. David walked a long way across town to a section where the houses were small and shabby. Into the very shabbiest of them all ha disappeared. Worthing stepped up to the window and looked In. He wauted to make his entrance when it would be most effective. The room be saw was scantily fur nished and unoccupied, he thought, nntll he heard a voice cry, "David!" A girl with a plain, white face started out of the shadow, but she did not ad vance to meet the man who held out his hands to her, and now Worthing ay why she was blind. ., The man who only knew enough to empty waste-baskets for Pennlmau company held her close In Ms arms for a minute, and then she spoke. "Has It been a hard day? You are Ter late. What kept you?" "Mr. Worthing was late in leaving and I had to lock up. No, !t hasn't been a hard day. Never had an easier." Worthing felt a. guilty feeling at his heart. He had annoyed David continually and purposely all day long. But before he could still the consciousness of his littleness, David went on: "Guess what the boss has sent you to-night." "Has be sent me something again to-night?" cried the blind girl. "How lovely of him! With all his care to think of me! What is It roses, or lilies, or oh, David, I smell them. He has sent me violets." Worthing saw the flowers trans ferred to the fragile hand held out Jfor them, and a ray of light struck the girl's face as she held them to bar lips. What was there in the look that reminded him of that dear. dad gill for whom the flowers vera bought? Barely the faces were fay different and the blind girl's was Dot nearly so beautiful. "I hope yon never forget to thank him, David," went on the sweet voice. "I wish I might do it myself. Don't you think I might?" "No." David's voice was harsh and stern; then he went on more quietly: "Men like him don't want to bp thanked when they do little things like that. If you could see the way he slips them Into my hand and mut ters something about giving them to you, you would never dare to mention it again. You see, most of the fel lows think he Is cranky. But that's because they don't understand hlra. He's got lots on his mind lots to make him cranky about. He means nil right, I say. And, Beth, I think I'm going to get a raise at last. 1 must be, because he baa hired on a boy and I am teaching hlra my work." In the look on the two faces Worth ing could see what a "rnlsp" would mean to them. Long after the shab by figures had passed into the other room be stood staring into the dark ness. That night he dreamed of the girl in whose memory he had bought the flowers. The blind girl was with her and her bands were full of flowers. As they walked between the fragrant blooms, the girl with the beautiful face, Worthing's denr, lost love, kept adding to the fragrant burden of the other. And Worthing could -tee that the faces, one beautiful nnd the other plain, were alight with the same joy In the delight over the blossoms. When David came Into Worthing's office the next morning he found hi "boss" sterner and gruffer than ever. His voice had never been more harsh thnn when he told him he had de cided to "move him up a notch" and when the janitor would hnve thanked him almost brokenly he thrust a bunch of roses into his hand and mo tioned him away. "Take these home to your wife and have a little boll day together," he said. "Go up Into the country where there are flowers all In bloom. Women like holidays and flowers, and and I don't want yon here to-day; I'm I prefer to be alone." Boston Post. THE CHRIST OP TUB ANDES. Unique I'eme Monument Oast From the Cannon of Two Countries. On the mountain frontier between tho Argentine Republic and Chile, nearly 13,000 feet above the level of the sea, at Cumbre Pass, Is a piece of statuary absolutely unique In his tory, "The Christ of the Andes." Cast in the bronze from the cannon of opposing Chileans and Argentines, It was placed on the boundary line of the two nations in March, 1904. says the Bulletin of the American Repub lics, be a symbol of the perpetual peace which should thenceforth ob tain between them. It stands a colossal figure, twenty six feet in height, placed on a gigan tic column surmounted by a globe on which the configuration of the earth Is outlined. One hand holds a cross and the other Is extended in blessing. At the base are two tablets, one Inscribed with tbe history of the monument: and the other bearing in Spanish the following legend: "Sooner shall these mountains crumble Into dust than the people of Argentina and Chile break the peace to which they have pledged them selves at the feet of Christ the Re deemer." The Infallible Lady. John Corbtn, author and play wright, said recently that he bad re signed the post of literary director of the New Theatre because he dis liked the superior air that such offices carry with them. "You decline play after play," he said. "You make enemy after enemy. You proU'ad to be Infallible, and tbe pose of infallibility is an ugly and unpopular one. "Nobody, you know, wants to be like Blynn's wife. " That wife of yours,' said a friend of Blynn's sympathetically, 'never ad mits making a mistake, does she?' : "'Oh!' said Blynn, with a bitter smile, 'she occasionally allows that she made one mistake when she mar ried me, but Bhe won't admit even that outside the family circle.' " Washington Star. Are Signals Observed? Efficiency tests are conducted by officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who, at unusual times and places, set signals of caution or danger, dis play fusees, or place torpedoes on tbe track, with a view to keeping all employes constantly on the alert for signals. During the tests for 1909, the following records were made by the men: Block signal rules, 47,384, of which 99.6 per cent, showed per fect observance on the part of em ployes; 4C.887 tests of rules govern ing flagmen, use of fusees, torpedoes and other signals, 99.6 per cent per fect. Altogether, some 300,000 ef ficiency tests showed a practically per fect record for tbe employes. Scien tific American. Rosebush 1000 Tears Old. The recent rose show given in Par's by the French Horticultural Society recalled the fact that the oldest rose tree in the world Is believed to be one which grows on a wall of the cathe dral at Hlldeshelm, Germany. Elev enth centnry records make mention of expenses incurred by caretakers of the cathedral' in maintaining this tree, which covers tbe wan to a height of twenty-five feet and is twen ty inches thick at the root. mm AlWENTURh. BLACK HAWK. "It Is one of the most pathetic horse stories of the war," declared the col onel. Then, when the veterans of the bine pressed him, the old Confederate soldier closed bis eyes and began to tell of the incident he referred to, which happened at the Battle of Shl loh. "General B. Hate, who died a United States Senator from Tennes see, was colonel of the Second Tennessee.- lie had two horses, one an ordinary horse which he used on the march and for other rough service, the other, Black Hawk, a thorough bred, black as a crow and of great beauty and stamina, "The night before the battle the commoner horse was stolen, and the next morning at daylight I well re member what a sunerb picture our colonel ninde on Black Hawk, who looked fit to race for a kingdom. "The tiRiinl position of a colonel Is thirty feet to the retir of his regiment, and it wbs In that position that Colo nel Bate first went Into the B;;ht. "At the Bern?H st:im! pnd I want to see no st'iliborner fight than we had down there anil.l the woods, round that little church on the banks of the Tennessee the Federals gave It to us hot, and It was here our lines were nearly hrokeni It was here also that Colonel Bate had to put. himself In front of his regiment before they would charge with enough determina tion to drive the buys In blue again. All this time the battle was raging everywhere. "Time nnd asnln Colonel Bate led tis against Shertnnn's brave boys that thoroughbred horse and rider al ways In front. Once he made us a Short speech just before we had to charge auain, having been repulsed at the first ntte-npt. lie said he wanted us only to follow him, that he would not take us where be would not go himself, and we believed him. "This last flaht was terrible. Be fore we struck the enemy Colonel Bate was shot out of the saddle, the men dropped round us riht nnd left, but we charged on, leaving all as they fell. "When Colonel Bate dropped. Black TTawk seemed to be at a loss what to do, but as the reelnient swept on he quickly fell Into his place just In the rear of the regiment and followed us on Into battle. We must have fought on for a half-mile after that, and It was a strange sight to see that horse following the regiment as stately as if on dress parade, and It touched every man to see him riderless. "At the first opportunity en ambu lance was sent back to find the colonel ! and take him to the field hospital, Bome three miles In the rear. In the confusion no one thought of Black Hawk, but he had not forgotten his brave rider, for he actually followed the path of those who carried the col onel to the hospital straight up to the hospital tent. Then, to the surprise of Colonel Bate, who had been badly but not fatally wounded In two places, one ball passing through his shoulder, Black Hawk poked his head In at the tent door and affectionately whinnied to his master, who was then In the hands of the surgeon. "The next Instant he turned, walked a few paces in tbe woods, staggered and fell down dead. "An examination showed what no one had noticed, that he hod several bad wounds, one of wblch proved fa tal. "As long as General Bate lived," concluded the colonel, "he used to say that he could still see the almost hu man look Blaok Hawk gave him as he turned away, with thHt Inst gentle whinny, to die." AMOK! On every side of me the violent closing of doors and shutters resem bled a rapid-fire volley from machine guns. The Parapalang was deserted and not a thing stirred in any direc tion. Not a sound was heard except the repeated: "Rap Rap Rap rap!" It was the amok signal! It had started at some place In the city where an agent of police or possi bly a citizen had first taken from its book a Btout, solid wooden club and had struck a long, also solid beam that hung suspended from an adja cent portico. It had been taken up Instantly at many different points in Weltevreden by citizens, and police agents, so that the amok signal was flashed ail over Weltevreden as quickly' as if a central telephone or telegraph operator had flashed it over European wires. The signal meant that some unfortunate little brown Javanese had gone suddenly mad mad as only a Malay can become. Tbe repeated signals warned all who valued their lives to escape the man iacal rush of the dreaded amok run ner! Around the corner I came upon a native, stretched out stark, and then upon a dog that was limping along with frightful cuts across its body. A hundred feet further I saw the first signs of life since the dreaded signal had first been sounded. Almost at the same moment that I saw a small group of police agents, natives, and a few Europeans gathered on a lawn down the street there came the "fin ish" signal of three short raps re peated In rapid succession. This sig nal, lake tbe first which gave the alarm; concerned the amok runner, oaly the signal now meant that the isadinaa bad beta eaaght r des patched. R was taken' np In alt di rections. People emerged from their houses and soon the little group on the lawn had grown Into a veritable surging mob. When I came npon this scene I found a small, wiry Javanese stretched out on the lawn. He had evidently been stunned by a blow from a club In the hands of a police agent. Near him lay a knife, and the knife showed that it had been put to awful use very recently. The warning amok signals had been altogether In vain in the case of one European, for near by, In the entrance to his house, lay a promin ent planter, the victim of the mad Javanese. He had been stabbed to the heart. Before the dead planter reached the bed that was to be his last the little Javanese outside had recovered from the amok fever, was wondering what had happened to him, and still more so at what lie had done and was led away for his ex ecution. Emlle W. Voute, In Har per's Weekly, THE BRAVEST ACT. Colonel William F.. Cody declares that one of the bravest acts he has ver seen was at the battle of New Hope Church, Georgia, ou May 27, 1864. Major John M. Farquhar was the man whose 'act Conolel Cody deems worthy to he set down beside any that history has ever recorded. The story of the brave deed Is printed In the Washington Times. At that time Major Farquhar was provost marshal of the third division of the Fourth Army Corps of the Army of the Cumberland. He was detailed by General Thomas J. Wood, commanding the third division, to carry an order to the coloi-el of the Thirty-second Indiana Volunteer In fantry. He started to execute the order, but found the way so obstructed by Confederate forces that he could not. get through except by making a wide detour. To do this meant defeating tbe plan of the commanding general. There was little time for hlrn to think. The despatch was In his hands; he was responsible for its safe delivery. Failure meant defeat. Major Farquhar realized these things as only a soldier can. In front of him stretched the wall of the Confederate breastworks. Without an Instant's hesitation he u reed his horse up the side of the breastworks, and under the fire of ten thousand muskets used the top for a bridle-path for a distance of abont one hundred and fifty yards, until he found a place where he could continue his journey without danger of being again halted or hindered. Mental, moral, nnd physical bravery were required to accomplish what Major Farquhar did. He never lot his mental balance, else he would not have been so quick to think of a way out of the difficulty. The knowledge of the responsibility placed on hi shoulders made him morally brave. As for the physical danger, no man could dare more than riding a hun dred yards under fire on t..e top of the enemy's breastworks. AN INDESTRUCTIBLE SNAKE. Snakes on the pampas of South America have many enemies. Bur rowing owls feed on them, and so do herons and storks, which kill them with a blow of their javelin beaks. The tyrant bird picks np the young snake by the tail, and flying to a branch or stone, uses tbe rej tile as a flail until Its HTe Is battered out. The large lizard of tbe pampas, the Iguana, Is a famous snakr-lclller. It smites the snake to death with Its powerful tail. Mr. Hudson, In his "Naturalist In La Plata," tells this story : One day ft friend of mine was rid ing out, looking after his cattle. One end of his lasso was attached to his saddle, and the remainder of the forty-foot line was allowed to trail on the ground. The rider noticed a large iguana lying apparently asleep, and although he rode within a few inches it did not stir. But no sooner had the rider passed than the trailing lasso at tracted the lizard's attention. It dashed after the slowly moving rope and dealt It a success! on of vio lent blows with its tall. When the whole of the lasso, sev eral yards of which had been pounded in vain, had passed by, the iguana, with uplifted head, gazed after it with astonishment. Never bad such a won derful snake crossed its path before. CHINESE BURGLAR WHO IS UP-TO-DATE. The first Chinese aeronaut has made his appearance and probably It will not be long before others at tempt to excel tbe feat of tbe pioneer. This man had not made the Idea of t" e conquest of the air his hobby, but he had probably seen the descent of Ivy Baldwin's representative in a parachute, end had thus recognized another means of eluding tbe police. He gained entrance to tbe second floor of a house In Temple street, Yaumatl, and was engaged In gath ering all the valuables he could lay hands on when a woman entered the room. She screamed for help, but the thief did not wait for its arrival. Opening a large Chinese umbrella be leaped over the veranda and, ac cording to tbe woman, landed lightly on the ground, and jumped over the praya wall into the harbor. . The po lice were early on the scene, but the thief was not caught. Hongkong Correspondence Japan Advertiser. Of the 1,000,000 horsepower whtch the rivers of Minnesota are estimated to be capable of producing, less than tna-tbiri ha keen wade Mailable A POLICEMAN'S EXPERIENCE. buffered for Years From Chronlo KloV , ney Trouble. Walter J. Stanton, 1139 Pear St, Camden, N. J., says: "Kidney toouble- bothered me for fif teen years. If I stooped, sharp twlnv St'S shot through ray back and it ai hard for me to arise. I was treated by sevoral doc tors, one a specialist, but did not receive relief. Finally I 6e gen using Doan's Kidney 1'llla, and soon noticed an Im provement. I con tinued until the trou ble disappeared." Remember the name Doan's. For sale by all dealers. 60 cents a box. Foster-Mtlburn Go, Buffalo, N. Y. WELL QUALIFIED. Squllbob That fellow over there would make a splendid magazine poet. Squllllgan A genius, eh? Squlllbob No, but he has dyspepsia so bad that he wotild't get so bnngrjr Uvlng. SCRATCHED SO SHE COULD NOT SLEEP "I write to tell you how thankful 1 am for the wonderful Cutlcura Rem edies. My little niece bad eczema for five years and when ber mothdr died I took care of the child. It was an over her face and body, also on her head. She scratched so that she could not sleep nights. I used Cutlcura Soap to wash her with and then ap plied Cutlcura Ointment. I did not use quite half the Cutlcura Soap and Ointment, together with Cutlcura He solvent, when you. could see a change and they cured her nicely; Now she Is eleven years old and has never been bothered with eczema since. My friends think It is just great tbe way the baby was cured by Cutiouoa. I send you a picture taken when she was about 18 months old. "She was taken with the eczema when two years old. She was covered with big sores and her mother had all the best doctors and tried all kinds of salves and medicines without effect until we used Cutlcura Remedies. Mrs. H. Klernan, 663 Qulncy St. Brooklyn, N. Y, Sept 27, 1909." Yes, Indeed. Hostess (at party) Why, so silent, Miss De Muir? You've scarcely said a word since you came. Youthful guest Really, Mrs. Lead er, I am having a very enjoyable time, but my father has told me 100 time never to say anything unless I have something to say, and I suppose Hostess But my dear child, think what a stupid and tiresome thing so ciety would be if everybody followed that advice I A Simple Matter. "Charley, dear," sid Young Mrs, Torklns, "the paper says that the Pro hibitionists have trouble with boot leggers." "I believe so." "Men are so stupid! Why dont they put a stop to it by compelling everybody to wear low shoes?" Shake Into Your Slioea , Allen's Foot-Ease, the Antiaeptic Powder. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cur for sweating, callous and hot, tired, aching feet. Always use it t Break in new shoes. Sold by all DruggiaUu 2.1c. Trial package mailed FrtEI. Addreai Allen S. Olmated. Le Roy. N. Y. Undoubtedly Bad. Mary Mild Wouldn't you call her a ah, doubtful character? Carrie Caustlque Not unless yon wanted to give ber the benefit of the doubt Smart Set Red, Weak. Weary, Waterr Byca. Relieved By Murine Kye Remedy. Try Murine For Your-Eye Trouble. You Will Like Murine. It Booth e. 60c at Your Drug-gists. Write For Eye Book. Free, Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago. If black could not be made to took like white, toasted cheese would not have so much drawing power toward the mouse trap. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and boweia, Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take. Do not gripe. By a patient loving endurance) of annoyance are we ' preparing our selves gradually for the discipline of trials. E. M. Goulburn, Mrs.Winalow's Soothing Syrnp forChfldrea teething. aof tana theguma, reduces inflamna tion,allajfspain, cures mind colic, 25o a botM. Many a budding genius baa darts oped Into 'a blooming idiot tii ft popular.
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