“I am an entire stranger in New York,'’ | Wells. A stout, amiable-lookiog gentle-
began the young woman in a low, sweet, | man stood before them and held out bis
An Inscription Famed for Beauty of
Expression on a Soldier's Monument. |
The North Pole.
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Bellefonte, Pa. August 24, 1906.
GOD KEEP
God keep you deareast, all this lovely night,
The winds are still—
The moon drops down behind the western
hill,
God keep you, dearest, till the light.
You.
God keep you there when slumbers melt
away
And care and strife
Take up new arms to fret our waking life,
And keep you through the battle of the day.
God keep you my beloved soul,
How vain, how poor is prayer—
1 can but say again and yet again
God keep you every time and every where.
IDENTIFYING ANNE.
Anne made another hasty search shrough
ber traveling-bag, spilling out a band-
a clean collar, and two or three other
things in the process. The two women in
the opposite section looked with cold cari.
osity at this impetuous young person. An-
ne did not notice them. She scrambled
the things together, crammed them into the
bag, and soapped it shat. Then she lean-
ed back with a baffled expression.
A well-dressed young man at the further
end of the car looked up from his book and
watched her also, idly, but with vague dis-
approbation. A girl traveling alone ought
to preserve a sedate and reserved demean-
or. This girl, with her repeated aud fran-
tic overhauling of her traveling-bag was at-
tracting the attention of the people in the
car. The traveling salesman in the next
section was keeping an eager eye upon her.
Anne did not notice the traveling sales-
man. Neither had she observed the well.
dressed young man at the further end. She
was engaged in wratbfal cogitations.
*‘Mary’s hashan © will never be able to
find me now,’’ she thought. “Why did I
say a navy-blue dress and a red necktie?
All the world is traveling in navy-blue,
and I've lost my red necktie. I'm sure I
put it into the bag.’”’ She made a tenta-
tive reach for the , but thought better of
it. ‘Somebody took it out, of course. I
wish the whole family wouldn’s insist up-
on doing my packing for me when I travel.
It was perfectly silly of Mary anyway to
marry a man nobody had ever seen. Por-
ter!” A small whiteband and a large
black one approached and the porter for
the second time that afternoon bent him-
sell prostrate and gazed lingeringly under
the seats, while Miss Anne Edgerly stood
in the aisle and cheered him to renewed
endeavors whenever he essayed to rise.
““Tain’t thabh miss,’’ he declared finally,
getting to his feet apologetically bus deter-
minedly. ‘‘It suttenly ain’t.
Again Anoe leaned back in herseat and
reviewed the situation. She did not know
New York. Mary's bashand was coming
in from their eounotry-place to meet her
and take her ont.
‘‘And how shall I feel going out there
alone, even if I could find the way—
which I am sure I couldo’t—after putting
Mr. Robinson to all that tronble—""thus
ran her unhappy thoughts. ‘And, of
course, he is very conventional and digoi-
fied. It would be just like Mary to marry
that kind of a man.'’ Ar this farther lack
of consideration on Mary's part her feelings
grew lower. Still her «yes, vaguely hope-
ful that something might tarn up, wander.
ed about the car. They flitted lightly hy
the traveling man who wore a pleasing
smile to greet them, they brightened mo-
mentarily at a scarlet rihhon on a hahy's
bonuet, they scanned exp-ctauntly the fam-
ily of children that dodged in and oat of
the state-room ; and coming back discour-
aged by way of the old laily and her daugh-
ter in somber black, thev came =addenly
to an amazed and joyfal stop. The younog
man next wore a red necktie !
Not a line of flashing scarlet like the rib-
bon she bad lost. His was a dull and uo-
obtrusive red, but is was red. Fascinated,
she continued to stare, until lifting her
eyes a little higher, it was apparent even
to ber absorbed mind, that the owner of
the uecktie was disapprovingly conscious
of her gaze. Then she dropped her eyes,
but her thonghts refased to leave the neok-
tie. He had another—she remembered
now noticing him when he got into the car
at Chicago. If only—she glanced fartive-
ly at him from under her lashes. His face
was turned away, but the profile looked
severe. Oonce more she reached for her
traveling-bag. This time she took oat a
red silk dressing sacque and eyed is specu-
latively. And the two women opposite
and the traveling gentleman and she young
mao, whose eyes had hy this time return-
ed to ber, wondered what this absorbed
sa evave young woman was going to do
next.
‘‘Have yon any scissors ?’' said Aone.
She was addressing the two women.
‘‘We have not,’’ they answered as one
person, with the glibness of those who
thankfolly escape responsibility.
“Ob, dear !"” murmered Anne. ‘‘Bat
then if I bad scissors | shouldn’t have any
needle and thread. I remember mother
told me to take needle and thread. Maybe
she put them in.’’ She opened the bag.
‘‘But what use would needle and thread
be,” she continued. I haven't any scis-
sors.” New York was barely an hour
away. She put the bag back with a firm
sib ig I a
supe y grave, . $
she could see the gleam of his white teeth
as he bent confidentially over the y
map. Her ears sharpened by Bir Bd
embarrassment, could all but hear the
words :
*‘The lady wants to know, sah, if yeu'll
please and sell youh necktie ?*’
One glimpse of the shocked astonishment
on the teatures of the listening young man
—then she turned her unbappy gaze ous of
She window. Uncounted ages passed
I
‘‘He says, miss,’”’ the porter’s hushed
voice sounded in ber ear. ‘‘He says, miss,
as how he don’t caab to sell none of his
ry."
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erly, ‘‘and tell him that I wish to
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lay voice, and with the proud air of ope | hand. The train had come to a standstill.
who tells her tale, indifferent to the listen-
er's attitude.
tion by a man whom I have never seen
and who has never seen me.’’
‘“‘His misfortune!” the young man
would bave murmured but dared not.
““The arrangement was,’’ she continued,
“‘that I should wear a blue dress and a red
necktie.”
“And I have lost the tie,”’ ended Miss
Edgerly, as ove might s with calm of
a fallen city or a vanished estate. She
lifted her eyes to his. And then, bad she
told hinvshe was going to China and needed
his head for the Dowager Empress, it would
bave been at her service. The thought
that it was nos his mission in life to su
ply traveliog young women with red neck-
ties was forever fled. In its place rankled
the reflection that he had all but thrown
away a heaven-sent uppettunity to do
something, however slight, for a giil like
this. Her face—a water-color face, with
charcoal effects in hair and eyes ; her voice,
low, sweet, with the cold music of a moun-
tain brook, convicted him of intolerable
radeness. His offense loomed big belore
bim and be wondered at this thing that he
had done.
“I do not deserve,’’ he began, ‘‘to be al-
lowed to give you this necktie—I never
saw sach dark-blue eyes,”’ he thought.
“I wish to buy the tie,’”’ she corrected,
still very cold and gentle.
He fairly stammered in bis baste to
amend his speech. “‘I mean, I do not de-
serve to be allowed to sell yon this dark-
blue necktie—at least I would say this—
Miss Edgerly’s eyes darkened with stern
inquiry. ‘‘They are black,”” be thought.
“I donot wish a blue necktie,” said
Anne.
*‘No, black, I mean——Jove! they are
blue after all,’’ his thoughts ran. “I am
very anxious to sell you anything—any-
thing—oh, fool ! what are you sayiog?
Her expression was growing icier. Mr.
John Harrington Wells pulled himself to-
gether.
“I assure you I am anxious to make all
amends,” be said. ‘I realize what uon-
pardonable annoyance I have caused you-"'
Miss Edgerly, from the lofty position of
the one in she right. looked down upon
the penitent.
“Then you will sell me the necktie,”
she said.
Mr. John Harrington Wells proceeded
to get into more trouble. ‘‘Won’t you let
me give it to you ?’’ he begged.
“Certainly not,’ said Anne.
“Bat—-"
*“That is simply to refuse,’’ she inter-
rupted. ‘‘We will let it go.”
‘Indeed, no !"’ he cried, shocked at the
awful thought.
‘“T'hen ?'’ she suggested, coldly patient.
“I do not remember what it cost,”’ he
temporized.
‘It cost seventy-five cents,’’ said Anne.
“I have ope like it.”
‘‘But you bought yours at a department
store, and they charged you more. I am
nite sure it was a quarter I paid for this.
ides,” as she prepared to speak, ‘‘it is
second-band and you never ges more than
half value for second-hand things.’
‘I shall pay you seventy-five cents for
it,”’ said Apne.
‘Really I conld not take that’’’ he pro-
tested. ‘‘Imagine my feelings after a rob-
bery like that. I tell you,” with another
conrageocs impulse, ‘I will rent it to
you.”
“How absurd I”
{‘Not at all. Youn do not want the tie—
you want only the use of it.”
“Very well, I will rent it for seventy-
five cents.”
“Then you will feel no obligation about
returning it, and [ want it back. I was
always fond of this necktie,’’ he hastened
| to add, warned by ber expression. ‘It
was given to me."
Miss Edgerly raised her straight brows
the merest fraction : “If you will let the
porter bring it to me,’’ she said, “I will
give him the money.”’ She did not pick
up the hook that lay beside her ; she did
not even turn her eyes away to sigmly
that the last word bad been spoken ; but
the youug mau found himself rising from
the seat opposite her and taking leave with
a bow of grave respect.
Presently the porter delivered a listle
package to Anne and returned with the
silver. The transaction was ended. Miss
Edgerly bad the tie, M:. Harrington Wells
bad seventy-five cents, and the porter bad
a dollar. He was content ; so was Miss
Edgerly ; Mr. Wells was not.
Anne, secure in the certainty that Mary's
husband could not fail to find ber, leaned
back in her seat and allowed all avnoying
thoughts to slip away, soothed by the
knowledge that it was now Mr. Wells
whose eyes roamed the car in the hope
that subetbiog might taro up, on that
poiot her mind was firm. She would not
drop ber handkerchief nor leave her um-
brella, both of which acts were customary
with her ; there would be no possible
Shance {af ny one to hasten after her with
assistance. It was right that she |i
should be unhappy, as she koew he was
without looking at bim. She would mail
the tie to the address on his card. Then
she would forget him entirely.
And Mr. Jobn Harrington
wondering what god of
him to enclose his card in the package,
thas cutting off his one excose ap:
Jroathing er. There, the was
hing her bat and coat umbrella
and bag. Now, she was standing in the
aisle, t and graceful, turning slowly
about while every speck of dust was being
removed from her hlue dress. Her slow
revolution brought her face toward bim,
but her gaze was over his head. Now she
wae putting on her bat, bending forward
in her seat to look into the little mirror;
now she was calmly tening the red
tie, and now she was lean: back in her
seat, buttoning her gloves ready to leave
the train.
“In five minutes, sab,’’ said the porter.
Mr. Wells submitted absent-mindedly to
the porter’s brush, his mind evolving
and rejecting schemes. He walked delib-
erately down to the end seat and addressed
hi to the statue-like young woman
who sat there.
“Will you not allow me to with
you uotil you are sure your fri finds
you?" he said.
It was not what he meant to say. He had
forgotten what that was.
“It is guite unoecessary,’’ her tone was
frigid. ly the consciousness of the red
tie she wore ber from summarily dis.
missing bim. Just because she did not
want to, she put up a nervous band to it.
Then she lifted an Volunbiry giause $6 bia
face. His expression bespoke his anxious
assurance that he was not aware of her
having on a red tie. :
“I shall nos need any "said
with it
Mary's h
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“You are Miss Edgerly, I know. [saw
“I am to be met at the sta- | tke name on your bag the first thing.
Locky,”” continued Mr. Robinson with a
smile that included Mr. Wells, ‘as I'd for-
ten ull about how Mary said you would
dressed. All I remambered was that
she said you were uncommonly pretry”’
he langhed joyously, and glanced inquir-
ingly at Anne's companion.
“Mr. Wells, Mr. Robinson,” murmured
Anuve. It was all she could do,but she did
not turn her eves again in Mr. John Har-
rington Wells's direction. Not so Mr.
Robinson. He greeted the young man
with the greatest cordialisy.
“Live in New York, Mr. Wells *"’ Le
inquired. “Then yon must run out aad
see us while Miss Edgerly is with ns.”’ He
entered into details of the easiest way to
get there, while Anoe stood in stony si-
lence, and Mr. Wells, after vainly endeav-
oring to catch her eye, thanked him with
graceful ease and said he would be de-
lighted.
Anne «at under a tree in Mary's Euglsh |
garden and read aloud to her hostess. Two
weeks bad passed since her arrival, two
weeks undisturbed by any intrudiog
stranger. As she read ‘‘Geraiot and Enid”
in her clear, low voice, her mind wandered
from the poem to the fact.
Mr. Robinson, bearing cold drinks on a
tray, appeared from the house.
“Come, girls,” be said briskly, ‘you've
bad enough of that staff. Now a little
ginger ale—Hello! who's this?” A
young man was being directed across the
lawn with the absence of ceremony char
acteristic of the Robinson household. Mr.
Robinson gave an exclamation of pleasure.
“Why, it's Mr. Wells !I'” hesct the tray
down hastily on his wife's embroidery, and
went forward with outstretched hand. ‘It
has taken you a long time to look ns up.
Mary. my dear, Mr. Harrington Wells,
Anne's friend. Have a glass of ginger ale,
Wells 2"
Anne's friend shook hands with Mrs.
Robinson, and then tarned to Anve. She
gave him a chilly little hand which he
took in a generous grasp, the while he
looked deprecatingly into her indignant
eyes.
“I'm going to get some more of this ale,”
said M:. Robinson. *‘I'll be back imme.
diately.”
As he trotted away, a maid looked out
of the door : ‘*Mrs. Robinsoa, nurse says—"'
Mrs. Robinson dropped her embroidery
and a rose.
“You will excuse me a moment,’ she
said sweetly, bat abstractedly ; when the
baby was in question the rest of the world
counted not. She also vanished.
“I stayed away two weeks,’’ said Mr.
Jobn Harrington Wells. “Do I deserve
nothing for that ?’
Miss Edgerly looked over the young
man’s head at the climbing roses on the
garden wall. ‘‘I seot you the tie,”’ she
said.
“I got it, thank you.
after the tie.”
‘You had no right to come at all.”
*‘Ab, but yon could not expect me to
make no effort to see you.”
**You took advantage.”’
“A man would be a fool not to take ad-
vantage of a chance to know you.”
She did not reply to this.
“I have been very busy for the past two
weeks,’ he continued slowly.
‘Is that an apology for not caliiog
sooner ?"’
He smiled.
‘No,’ he said, ‘I was busy getting an
excuse for calling at all.”” He got ap from
the low seat and went across to lay a letter
in ber lap. ‘It is from Mrs. Blaisdell.”
Mrs. Blaisdell’s was a name to conjure
with in Chicago society. Moreover, she
was a dear friend of Anne's mother. Un-
willingly she opened the letter. A long
and very informal letter of introduction it
was, and it endowed the bearer, Mr. John
Harrington Wells, with all desirable qual-
ities.
**You will find him useful, Anve,ae well
as enjoyable,” it ended. ‘‘He is delight-
tally obliging.”
This sentence threatened Anne's gravity.
Moreover, she did not know what to say,
80 she went back to the heginning and read
it over. ‘‘Mrs. Blaisdell’s writing seems
to trouble you,’’ he suggested. ‘‘Can I be
of any help ? She let me read it.”
“I think you dictated it,’’ said Anne.
He laughed out. ‘‘Really, I didn’s,”
be assured ber, ‘‘hut I went back to Chi-
cago to ges it lest she might have forgotten
some of my good qualities.” He watched
with enjoyment the curve in Miss Edger-
ly’s red lips. *‘The whole incident would
bave heen so without point if we had never
met again,” he said.
**No one was to make a story
of it,” returned Aone. ‘‘And, anyway,
that would have been a much more original
ending. Even now, if we never saw each
other again—"'
“I am not willing to go any such lengths
as that just for the sake of a he
nterposed.
“Besides, I should feel that we were
tamely copying Henry James.”
“It I were going to write the story,”
said Anue reflectively, ‘I should bave the
obliging young man turn out to be Mary's
h 1”
“No, thank you,” be said bastily.
‘“That would be very hackneyed.’
“Well, it 1 oe soe b write the
stor repea gerly, rising to
ber feet and roppi the letter and the
‘‘Idyils of the Kiog,’’ and ber bandker-
chief, “I should end it one of those two
ways.
e bent one knee to pick ap her scat
tered progeny.
“And if I write the story,’ he said, and
paused a moment looking up at her form
where he knelt, ‘‘il I write the story it
shail bave a very different ending.”’—By
James Hopper, in MeClure's Magazine.
a ——
Whe Should Write Our Stories?
Is is Life that asks ‘“Who should write
our stories ?’’ and then answers the ques-
tion after this fashion :
The love story—Twain.
The English story— London.
The tearful Story Pade.
—kope.
storyo owells.
The new y-ved story —Batcheller.
I did not come
the sample
" ¢ bim)—“How do
istinguish your clam chowder from
a
Waiter—'‘We bave different labels on
the kettles, sir. Wish any coffee?’
For the past year puhlic interest has | —What is the north pole? And in doing | vot wish to be, deciares Prof. Metcbuikoff,
been directed to memorial monuments as,
in additioe to our own, adjacent towns
bave recently erected memorials to their
dead heroes and it is natural that each
should think its own hest. However that
may be, there is one in Colambia, South
Carolina that, perbaps, surpasses thew all
in its beautifully expressed sentiment.
Because of the universal admiration ex.
cited it is worth the attention of any who
may not have seen is before.
The following is the inscription on the | (wo steps only separate astronomical noou |
Confederate Monument, *‘Erected by the
Women of South Carvlina,” **To South
Carolina's dead of the Confederate Army
1861.-1865."" Unveiled May 13¢h, 1879.
s » 2 ® *
THIS MONUMENT
PERPETUATES THE MEMORY
Of those who,
True to the instincts of their birth,
Faithful tothe teachings of their fathers,
Constant in their love for the State,
Died in the performance
Of their duty ;
Who
Have glorified a rallen cause
By the simple manhood of their lives,
The patient endurance of suffering,
Aud the heroism of death ;
And who
In the dark hours of imprisonment,
In the hopelessness of the hospital,
In the short, sharp agony of the field,
Found
Support and consolation
In the belief
That at home they would not be forgotten.
Let the stranger
Who may in future times
Read this inscription
Recoguize that these were men
Whom power could not corrupt,
Whom death could not terrify.
Whom defeat could not dishonor.
And let their virtue plead for just
judgment
Of the cause in which they perished.
Let the South Carolinians
Of another generation
Remember
That the State taught them
How to live and bow to die
And that from her broken fortunes
She has preserved for ber children
The priceless treasure of their memories,
Teaching all who may
Claim the same birthright
That
Truth, Courage, and Patriotism
Endure for ever.
By W, H. Nescorr.
Old Testament Statistics.
Here are some facts about the Old Testa-
ment that is took one man three years’
time to figure out :
There are 39 hooks, 929 chapters, 23,214
verses, 590,439 words and 2,728,100 let-
ters.
The middle book is Proverbs.
The middle chapter is Job xxix.
The middie verse wonld be II Chronicles
xx, 18,if rhere were a verse more; and verse
17 if there were a verse less.
The word ‘‘and’’ occurs 35,543 times.
The word ““‘Jehovah’’ occurs 6,855 times.
The shortest verse is I Chronicle 1:25.
The twenty-first verse of Ezra vii, con-
tains all the letters of the alphabet.
The nineteenth chapter of The Second
Book of Kings aud the thirty-seventh
chapter of Isaiah are practically the same.
In the New Testament there are 27
books, 160 chapters, 7,059 verses, 181,258
words and 380 letters.
The middle is II Thessalonians.
The middle chapter would be Romans
xiii, if there were a chapter more, and
Romans xiv, if ssiupte; less.
The middle verse is Acts xvii, 17.
The shortest verse is Jobn xi, 35.
The middle chapter of the entire Bible is
also the shortest—the 117th Psalm.
The middle verse is the eighth of the
118th Pealm.—Er.
Location of New Hospital for Criminal
Insane.
The State has been fortunate in the mat-
ter of the site for the new hospital for the
crimival insane. Fairview, the place se-
lected, is in Wayne county, than which
there in no more picturesqae county in
Pennsylvavia. The site lies two thonsand
feet above sea level, and contains six hun-
dred and twenty-five acres, and, let ns
record it to their credit, the officials of the
D. & H. company, from whom it was
bought, for once evinced a desire to act
generously, the cost of the tract being only
five dollars. Four bundred avd sixty-
eight acres are already clesred an! contain
a house and two barns, the rest being
woodland. The is somewhat remote,
but even that es it the more desirable.
The farther from the crowded centres the
criminal insane are taken the better it will
be for the majority of the people. Natural-
ly the D. & H. expects to get back more
what i gaveaway through its charges
for freight, express and and, as
it has deals generously with the State, we
ery a a ts
teris to harry ¢ or
building, eo that the criminal inmates of
the other asylums can be taken out, thus
relieving the disgracefally crowded condi-
tions of the latter.— Phila. Inquirer.
Just as He Thought.
A small boy was reciting in a geogra)
class. The teacher was BL fotnnty
the points of the compass. explained :
“On your right is the south, your left
the north, and in lsu ef you is the east.
is
trimmings.” oTyinadiage 3
Ten T pens $6.00 an auto of the
right tint to match
ition Stylish Lady—Ob, dear, I've
my
lish Lady—Dit it bave
money a were you just Ly
{soli
ne that I sball give some iofor-
mation that will be new, even to the old-
est and bess informed of my readers, writes
Commander Peary, in Youth's Companion.
| The north pole is the precise center of the
| northera hewisphere of land, of popula
i tion, of civilization. It i= the point where
| the axis of the earth cats its surface.
i It is the spos where there is no longitude,
no time, uo north, no rast, no west—aonls
‘south. It is the place where rvery wind
; that hlows is a south wind.
| Itis the place where there is but one
| night and ove day in every year, where
| from astrouomical midaight,
It i« the spot from which all the heaven. |
| Ig hodies appear to move in horizontal
| courses and a star just visible ahove the
horizoo never sets, hue circles forever, just
| gazing the borizon.
i More than this, the north pole is the last
| geographical prize which the world bas to
| offer to adventnrons men ; the prize for
| which the best men of the strongest, most
{enhgbtened, most adventurous uations of
| the varth have heen struggling uusuccess-
fully for nearly four centuries.
Perhaps I should say a word or two in
“xpianntion of my statement that there is
ue tine a* the north pole.
i What 1« the point from which we esti.
ware time here ? It is noon, that i+, the
woment when the san cro-ses the meridian
| where we are, or some fixed meridian that
| has been selected. At the pole there are
| no meridians, or, rather, all the wendiavs
of the globe are gathered in ove point, so
i there is no starting point for time as we es.
| timate it here.
{ Another point which should be made
| clear is one on which a great many people
| have an incorrect idea. That is, that the
| north pole—the geographical pole—i« an
| entirely different spot from the magnetic
pole—the center of the magnetic attraction,
where the compass is nseful. The latter is
| some 1,600 milew south of the true north
| pole, being located on or near the peninsn-
la of Bootha Felix, the most northerly
| mainland of North America, about on the
meridian of Galveston.
{ At the north poie the compass with the
proper correctness for variation is as trast.
worthy as io other portions of the earth’s
surface. The four things which, it may be
| said, go to form the conception of the arctic
| regions in the minds of most people, are
| the cold, the darkness, the silence and hun-
| ger. Almost invariably the first questions
| asked me by the strangers are in regard to
| those things, aod the questions are usually
| in the order given above.—Pitlshurg Post.
Japanese Tobacco.
Attention is called to Everybody's by
Charles Edward Russell, in an interesting
instalment of ‘‘Soldiers of the Common
i Good’’ to the recently established Japanese
tobacco monopoly. He says :
“These matters and the Japanese pur-
poses become clearer if we take concrete
| illustrations. Manufactured tobacco and
| cigarettes, for instance. Once we enjoyed
| au abundant trade with Japan in these
| things, for we bad tanght her to want
' them, and then joyously we supplied her
| want at high prices. Thus io the end Ja-
| pan served copiously to swell the hard-
enined treasuries of the Awerican tobacco
{ Truss, for the Japanese were industrious
| consamers and the trust could charge what
it pleased, having the trade hy the throat.
But when the truss bad establifhed hranch
houses and offices and works and invested
in them $12,000,000, the Japanese wovern-
ment concluded that it mightas well have
the goodly profits as let the Tru<t have
them, 20 it went into the tobacco husiness
on its own account. It hought factories
aod stores and passed a law establishing
itsell in a practical monopoly of the tohae-
co tride, for no makers of cigarettes, cigars
or tobacco were allowed toseil their pro-
ducts antil they bad been offered to, and
declined hy, an agent of the government—
a necessary provision, because in Japan
cigarette-making is largely a domiciliary
trade. Still there might have been left to
the American Trust a chance to compete in
nality of prodact or in some special lines
if is had nos been for one thing. The Gov-
ernment put an import duty of 250 per
cent. on cigarettes and tobacco. Therenp-
on the American cigarette vanished faster
than their own smoke, and the defeated
American Tobacco Trust was glad to sell
to the Government (for what it could get)
its business and branch houses.
‘Now in Japanese shops you will see on
shelves formerly loaded with American
Judas nothing bus the cigarettes and to-
of the Japanese government.
Nation of Coffee Drinkers.
Ascosding to the department of Com-
merce and labor, daring 1904 there were
1,053,000,000 pounds of coffee consumed
in the United States, valued at $81,000,
000. This is equivalent to about 13
pounds
forevery man, woman and child of the
Roe total production of the world dur-
ing the same year was 2,260,000.000
pounds, so that the United States consam-
ed nearly balf of the total supply.
TE i
4,000, were uring the same
. The imports of all tropical pro-
ucts daring the $465,
000,000, while the total imports of all
sorts the enormous sum of $1,036,-
000,000. — Phila. Record.
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Sued for Mixing Milk for Troops.
Food Commissioner Warren brought
suit at Gettysburg against the Hanover
Produce company, which furnished adul-
terated milk to the troops during the re-
cent encampment of the Naticoal Guard.
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Quazrain.
Who bath no need of pain
To chasten and control,
God pity him, for be must be
Dwarfed and infirm of soul.
C. L. Story, in Munsey's.
nted in her has! id
—— “Disa
“Why, before they were married she
used to tell me he was a Greek god.”
“So she did,” responded Mrs. Van Nobb,
“but he turned out to be a regular
Bacchus.”
py e=0b, yes. she's certainly get-
ott A beginning to complain
on
that the styles of bonaets aod gowns are
not as pretty as they used to be.
wEnid—My new bonnet attracted a
great deal of attention in church,
Edoa—Why, all the girls said it was
your new thoes.
| the great Kussian biologist and embryolo-
| gist. Metchoikofl told his savants of the
| Academy of Medicine lately that gray bair
on the humao head is a kind of disease
| cansed hy the superactivity of a certain
| living cell inside each bair which feeds on
, the pigment. A comparatively low degree
| of beat is fatal to this cell, which shrivels
| and dies if one passes an iron heated to 60
| degrees centigrade (140 degrees Fabrenbeit)
| through his or ber locks
The learned Russian again states the
| face that great emotion will taro the bair
| gray in a night. But be bas a new reason
i for it. He says fear or sorrow has st
! power to stimulate the pigment-devouring
| hair cell, which literally fattens on humsn
| misery. Metchnikoff further told the aston-
ished »avants that the chameleon’s fre-
quent changes of color are dae to the same
singnlar organism which is made snperla-
tively active by the lizard.reptile’s intense
timidity.
~—‘*Whi ber away, little hoy?" io-
quired the well meaning stranger.
“I go to awim, sir,” replied the spec-
tacled infant.
**And where do you swim?'’' persisted
the stranger.
“I swim, #ir."’ the infant made answer,
i ‘Yin the shallower purliens of excessive
dampness.”’
—*Poor Mrs. Boozer suffers tentibly
from the liguor habit,” said Mi«. Gabb.
“How is that?’ inquired Mrs. Chinn,
scenting gossip.
“When her husband comes home at
night he is too far gone to pay attentien to
her remonstrances and the vext morning
be has such a headache he can’t listen to
er?
-—**That fishing song in the new opera
is clever, don’t yon think?’ asked the
eritic.
*‘No,"’ replied the bard luck angler; ‘it
isn’t at all natural.”’
“No?!
“*No; the lines are too catehy."”
“Grabem is suffering from a severe case
of yellow fever.”
‘Gracious; has the disease appeared in
our midst?"
‘Yes, bus he's had it for vears, Grabem
would rather bear the chink of gold than
the music of the best orchestra.’
——He—""1'd consider is a great pleas-
ure to talk to a woman like Miss Gassa-
way."
She—*‘What! Why she'd talk sou to
death.”
He—*'I said I'd consider it a pleasure to
talk to her, vot to listen to her.”
REFRIGERATOR RULES.
Use clean, flat dishes to hold what-
ever is on the lower shelves.
Buy your ice in pleces as large as
can be accommodated. This is much
more economical than to buy small
ones.
Be careful not to fill dishes too full
so that they will spill over. If any-
thing is spilled, don’t fail to wipe it up
immediately.
Pack the ice well together and do
not wrap it in paper or cloths; instead,
keep the door of the ice chamber shut
as much as possible.
Do not put food of any sort directly
on the ice. If it is absolutely neces-
sary to place iv near the ice, see that it
is In glass or porcelain.
Empty the refrigerator at least once
a week; scrub the interior thoroughly,
then scald the ice chamber and drain-
pipe with boiling water in which a
lump of soda has been dissolved; fol-
low this with clear boiling water; wipe
dry and let it air for twenty minutes.
Great Men’s Childhood.
“Many great men,” said a psycholo-
gist, “gave signs of greatness even in
their childhood. Mozart at the age of
five composed a plece of music so diffi-
cult that his father, a professional mu-
sician, had some trouble in playing it.
“Macaulay before he was eight
wrote the ‘Compendium of Universal
History, Being an Account of the Lead-
ing Events From the Creation Down
to the Present Century.’
“Hartley at seven wrote a long and
Among the sayings attributed to Doug-
las Jerrold is a very bitter one he ap-
lution, “Liberty, Equality and Frater-
nity,” declared that the real difference
between the French and the British lay
in the fact that the French were enam-
ored of equality and cared little for
liberty, while the British insisted on
liberty and never gave a thought to
equality. And when some one quoted
this to Rudyard Kipling he instantly
added his own comment to the effect
that what the American really pre-
ferred was fraternity. “He is a good
fellow himself, and he expects you to
be one.”
Convinced.
Mr. Spongely (slightly related)—
Splendid! Magnificent! Do you know,
Uncle El, I believe I shall never get
tired of seeing the sun set behind that
hill! Uncle Eli—That's what me an’
| mother’s beginnin’ to think.—Puck.