————_—- THE WORLD TO-DAY IS BETTER. (By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.) Oh, the earth is full of sinning And of trouble and of woe, But the devil makes an inning Every tlme you say it's so; And the way to set him scowling, And to put him back a pace, Is to stop this stupid growling, And to look things in the face, If you glance at history's pages, In all lands and eras known, You will find the vanished ages Far more wicked than our own, As you sean each word and letter, You will realize it more, That the world to-day is better Than it ever was before, @ : There is much that needs amending In the present time, no doubt, There is right that needs defending, There Is wrong needs crushing out; And we hear the groans and curses Of the poor who starve and die, While the men with swollen purses In the place of hearts, go by. But in spite of all the trouble That obscures the sun to-day, Just remember it was double In the ages pased away, And these wrongs shall all be righted, Good shal dominate the land, For the darkness now is lighted Jy the torch in Science's hand, Forth from little motes in chaos We have come to what we are, And no evil force can stay us, We shall mount from star to star; We shall break away each fetter That has bound us heretofore, And the world to-day is better Than it ever was before, LITTLE WILLIE. “How 1 wish we could have a ripple of incident In our daily life!” said Millicent More, closing her book with a sigh. “Nothing ever happens to us” her cousin Catherine, witl she bent forward to pick leaf off her pet geranium, Millicent and Catherin girls of 22 and 25—“old maids,” the 17-year-olders called them—who taught school and supported themsslves com fortably by their own unaided efforts. Millicent was pretty, with red lips, a clear, bright complexion and hair touched with the warm auburn gold that artists copy and rave of, and Millicent had not quite given up her little dream of love and matrimo- ny, but Catherine never spoke of such things. Catherine was not absolutely a fright, but Catherine was small and plain, with ordinary gray hair like everybody else's, and not the slightest beauty. But the two cousins were very hap- py together after their own unpreten- tious fashion, Millicent supplying the sentimental and poetical element and Catherine contentedly devoting her self out of school hours to the house keeping. And upon this particular December afternoon, just as the girls were de- ploring the monotony of their life, the postman tapped at the with a letter. “A letter!” cried Millicent “For me? echoed Catherine. And the cousins read it, with arms twined about another and their heads very together. “Uncle George is dead in Australia.’ gasped Millicent, “Oh, Milly—and he has left an or- phan boy!” added Catherine, the tears brimming into her eyes. “We must adopt him, Milly—we must bring him up.” Millicent drew back “I don't see why,” she said, what coldly. “Uncle George never did anything for us.” “We never asked him to, Milly.” “But he knew we were forced support ourselves.” “Perhaps, dear, do sald a smile, as up a dead More were poets eyes, pretensions to thelr one close ’ a little, KOMI to . he was even poorer than we. At all events, he is dead now-—and this child left alone in the world. I'll sit down and write to the lawyer this minute.” “Stop!” sald Millleent, compressing her lips. “Do you mean that you real Iy intend taking a great, rough, half- civilized boy into this house?” “Certainly 1 do,” said earnestly. “Oh, Milly—a child!” “In that cage,” said Millicent, “I shall not remain here. If you open a gratis orphan asylum it is no is choose be squandered to feed your fancies!” “But, Milly, your salary than mine!” “And 1 do not mean to scatter It for a mere chimera, Thie child has no sort of claim upon either of us, Let the Australian authorities provide for him.” And Millicent More could not be per. sunded to take any other view of the question than this. The next day she told her cousin that she had made ar- rangements to secure a home with Miss Keturah Bayley, who took “a few select boarders,” in the next street And then Catherine sat down to con pider ways and means, She had taken the house for a year-—-there was no re ceding from the rent question, “I'll let the lower tory tos Mrs. Hop per, the milliner,” said she to herself, “I never used to like the Idea of living in half a house, but all pride must be laid aside now, 1 will take the back bedroom myself and little Willie shall have the front room that looks out on the street. 1 shall have to do without | my new silk dress and to countermand my subscription to the ‘Illustrated En. eyclopedia,’ but I shall not mind that; 1'll discharge Hannah and engage little Dorcas Brown, who is so fond of chil ‘dren and has such a winning way with her. And I know we along splendidly—though, to be sure, I shall have to ask Lawyer Goodale for copying to do at home in the evenings, for 1 must be laying up a little some- thing against Willle's future educa. tion.” For It never occurred to Catherine More that she was doing a brave and herole thing in denying herself for the benefit of one whom she deemed yet poorer and more helpless than herself —~nor to Millicent that she was acting the part of a recreant, The little room in the cottage second story was prettily for the orphaned Australian boy-—Catherine had sold her cabinet organ to buy the furniture—and Dor- cas in a clean white apron and rib- bons was bustling around, while Mrs. | Hopper had already arranged her | stock of bonnet frames, ribbons and artificial flowers In the lower win- | dows. It was a lovely June day, with the | sky blue and clear as a baby’s eyes and | the air full of scents from the blossom- | ing buckwheat fields, Catherine More, having, not without difficulty, obtain. ed a temporary substitute in her { school, went to New York to meet her i new charge in the steamer Harvest | Lass, which had been telegraphed | from Sandy Hook the day before. | “Little Wille will know me" {sald to herself, “because I sent { photograph by the last mail. I wanted | my face to seem familiar to him, poor { lone lamb.” i She stood on the pier eagerly scan. ining the countenance of every child { that landed, her face brightening once {or twice as she saw a boy whom she thought might be Willie, when all of ia sudden a hand was laid lightly on | her arm and she found herself look- { ing up Into a handsome, bronzed face far above her. | “Sir!” she cried, starting back. “I beg your pardon,” sald a frank, | pleasant volce, “I did not mean to alarm you. But is this Miss More?” She inclined her head. “I am your cousin William." And this time Catherine started back in more surprise than ever. “Sir,” she said, "vou are William is a little boy.” “Hardly,” returned the tall stranger, “unless you would call me a little boy. Dear cousin Kitty, no ever told you I was a child or poor. It was your own inference. Thank heaven. I am independent and wealthy, and as I have come to man's estate, I think it is rather my duty to take care of you than to allow you to take care of me.” Catherine looked at her handsome cousin In mute amazement. This grand upsetting of all her theories amd ideas was than could comprehend just at once, “But, Wil “But, Catherine. Nay, my dear little gray-eyed cousin, the lawyers have told me how willing you were to adopt and care for the homeless orphan, and how my cousin Millicent shrank from the task. And from the bottom of my heart I thank you for what you are ready to do.” How what sort front of the fitted up she my mistaken, ane O more she Dorcas started when she saw of a fellow “little Willie” had proved to be. How Mrs. Hopper giggled behind her bonnet frames when she thought of the little child's crib and the picture books upstairs, “Of course, an elegant young gentleman as will to the ho tel,” said Mrs. Hopper. But he did not. He stayed at the cottage, sleeping on back parlor sofa until other ac. commodations could provided for nim. And when Millicent came over with her prettiest smile and outstreteh- ed hand the young Australian received her with an odd, curt that made her feel excessively uncomfort- able, “You see, Cousin Milly,” sald he, “you didn't want to be bothered with me; you thought the Australian aun thorities ought to be compelled to pro- vide for me.” And when Mrs. Hopper heard that little Catherine More was to marry her rich cousin she wasn't at all sur. | prised. “It's the most natural thing in the world,” sald she, “only it's a pity that Cathie isn't a little prettier.” | But Catherine More was satisfied with her lover's declaration that to him her plain face was the sweetest in all the world. such that go the be coldness A Japanese Geisha Cirl. A geisha must be highly accomplish. { ed, because her chief duty is to amuse, While not by any means a musician, she must be able to perform on the | samisen, koto, tzuzumi (a drum) and i other musical instruments, She | dances, sings, and talks on the light. { est sabjects, and always holds herself {in readiness to entertain her guests iaecording to their mood. A witty | geisha, one who Is a good talker, pret. ity and graceful, will not lack for em- ployment at any time, and generally makes a very good living. While it Is not at all necessary for her to arouse mirth, her object must be to beguile the time that is irksome to her guests, Thus it often happens that one feel ing depressed will send for a geisha girl. The geisha is a natural actress and her taste in dress exquisite, her movements incomparable in grace, Onoto Watanna in Woman's Home Companion, Wanted Short Measure, Boy-Please give me two-pennyworth of castor oll, and give me short meas. ure, too.” Chemist—8hort measure? Why? Boy-'Cos 1've got to take it myself, ~ Baptist Commonwealth, He Was Slightly Elevated. “I'm going to keep this up all day,” said the perseveping aeronaut, as he threw out another sandbag.—New York Press. | DOCTORS OPIUM SLAVES, FEN PER CENT, OF OUR PHYSICIANS A Weakness of the Profession, Dr, Croth- er Declares - His Conclusions Based on Data Resulting from Extended Investigatien — Medical Vie- tims of Neediemania, lang in this country are victims of the morphine habit was the startling estimate made by Dr, T. D. of Hartford, Conn. in a paper read before the last session of the New York State Medical Association. titled clans, searches as chalrman of which has been collecting statistics on opium, morphia and alco- hol for nine years: “In a general history of 3,244 physi clans residing in the Eastern, Middle and some of the cities of the Western States, 21 per cent, were found using spirits or opium “Morphimsm Among Physi or a committee {0 eX0ess, spium prominently, Ten per cent. were using opium or other drugs se cretly outside of this number. At least 20 per cent, including this num- ber, used spirits in so-called modern tion. “In another study of 170 physicians, i per cent, used opium or morphia and i per cent. were secret drug takers, “From the personal observation of a number of physiclans who have a large acquaintance with medieal men, from 8S to 10 per cent. are either secret or open drug and morphia habitues, “These figures appear to be approxi mately correct, and show that at least from 6 to 10 per cent, all medical mien are opium Inebrd This is un. doubtedly a conservative statement, the fact that drug takers, in particular, are conceal thelr use of drugs, ¢ of nates, considering and eretive and particularly ness and reflects on ing. “There are many reasons the statement of Dr i physicians He where implies weak ir it thelr social stand for the Elain, of physici ths of They begin to use spirits, opium and other drugs for funct and transient and contract disease, 1 early drug-taking tributing cause, support of that a large § wreentag suffer and die from drug er treatment themselves, ional disturbances, inter wi - # $40 ho #OTI organic in having iis been a con “The physician who opium is always somnolent, serene and medita tive in his manner. Except an, In creasingly defective memory and de Hiaes generating ethical gense, and regulard with a certain lividity is little to indicate his ties of conduct, of face, condition. there ther hand, the great extremes oa } 8 oe morphino. of emo talka ndings; OWS At will be 2d and sensitive to hi im Yery | srr then silent, lent in his Imp nt times different, irritable or vio Izes and talk. He will very bri perform deliver The foal Bi80 i 53 GIASTNONIK, and a clear operation, even same | ap- with spirit i HON Re led ends toward acute the paired memor) © althoug! ro CONICeR “Morphinomania mania and suicide, pears, with same im- “A certain of morphinists wine, beer and spirit drink- the ef- number have been and while suffering ors, from Hef from morphia. Later they have, in part or altogether, given up spirits and used morphia, “There is a pleasing fascination in the rapid, complete change and transi tion which follows the use of the needle. To the paycopath, Inherited or acquired, this is a revelation, and no other form of administering morphia can compare with it. This actually all morphinists are hypodermatic drug maniacs. The withdrawal of the mor phia is unnoticed as long as the needle is used, “In a certain case a physician used the needle with water, supposing it to by morphia, for two years after the withdrawal of the drug, under the direction of his partner. It is the com. for its mental effect long Even the the needle after the morphia Is abandoned, then it is difficult to break up mania for this form of drug using. “It has been stated with some basis of fact that the constant tion of drugs to his patients by prominent symptom of a morphine. maniac physician, “The medical morphinist may soc ceed in concealing his use of morphia for a variable time, but its effects on be covered. He will early begin to emotional changes, appear a childish egotism and a dis position to criticise and to expose the weaknesses of others, “1 eannot stop without ealling atten. tion to the fact that morphinism is in. creasing among physicians. The re. ports from private asylums and public hospitals show that within five years medical men form a considerable part of thelr inmates, “1 conclude with a caution that can- not be stated In words too strongly sever use morphin by the needle on yourself, and never use It except by the counsel of a trusted medical ad- viger. Never give morphine to a nenro. tic or peychopathic physician until you are satisfied that it ls the best remedy which ean be used. If you are using porphia, abandon it at once or wake every offort to do so at the earliest moment.” VULGARITY OF THE EXCLUSIVE, Simplicity and Cordiality Ara the Truest Signs of Cood Breeding. In a very candid and plain-spoken article on “The Graclousness of High Breeding In the Woman's Home Com- panion, Ella Morris Kretschmar makes these pertinent remarks: “Men and wo- men who by contact or travel know the world's best society need not be are the invariable characteristics of | the highest breeding. 1f this fact could only reach the minds of that class of people who talk of ‘exclusiveness' of | ‘four hundreds,’ of the ‘vulgarity of trade,” of not knowing any one outside of ‘our set, what a grateful social change would be wrought. That cold stare of the would-be elect Is but the expression of an under-bred, poverty- stricken soul. What is ‘exclusiveness? It is that human policy which shuts | Individuals off from the enjoyment of | thelr kind, by which soclety gains, { since an inharmonious element is there- by removed, How pathetic Is the iso- lation of the determined aristocrat, es- {| pecially In a small town where, other stirring interest lacking, human rela- tions mean so much. Could even a Di- vine microscope detect the difference | between the naked souls of a banker's {and a grocer's wife? How infinitely stupid it to draw in small places instead of honestly enjoying all there is to enjoy. If one has had su- perior advantages, is there no obliga. is lines tion to give pleasure, to make sunshine in lives because of that fortune? The time Is at hand when telligence will be too widespread, pro gress to a vig: thinking too real to admit of men and women looking askance at one another others’ good in ous of more plane to make mental involee of social, finan. Will it not brain ths rship are power cial or other probabilities? i the wenlth, rank or leads less ns shields against unhapping $ al ti soon penetrate dullest 5 £F oY 88. OF as props to men moral or physical deficiencies; that there is positively no or sensible for jndging individuals excepting individuality 7” honest basis Panther Is a Great Fighter. ix the bens he pneatest, clean that n traveler the other panther est fighter of any lives,’ know wa id well 3 “By nature } a a prowler, and a chip on his sho day. ¢ in isn't ea , but when ¢ shirk rrying der he time comes for figl Near Jubbulpoot of the foot h wo miles of open coun try and entered a yard in which wer As he was about of them an 1 wast entered a shed behind some won't anther came down out ¥ : ills, crossed t half a dozen goats to WAR raise and hid hin Six fers under arms happened be passing, and spring alar: barrels ' sald were called In Hey shoot the intr wr. They stationed themselves door and an open and threw stones at the bar indo, The 1 must fight wvintther realized at A with a n cut at the soldier i+ and two wad places He could made no effort fired ux ete, and soldiers a rT pi ened] the spr 1% i crushed him down, and back in a and then stood over the Ix rrowled It minutes he galloped off.” one he + ta should 4 5 2 1345 ore manner, 3 alone for and defiance a few Fashions in Overails, “All overalls look alike to chappies who pay $15 a pair for their trousers,” said a guest in the Grunewald lobby, “but you're badly mistaken if you imagine they offer no field for the ex ercise of taste, The average working man is very particular about the cnt, finish, trimmings and color of his over alls, and there are fashions in them the same as anything else, “The shade in overalls ‘golden hue. It comes in denim goods and shows a deep blue ground, with small vellow threads, There is a crimson blue and a blue white, but they are not so swell. To be strictly in style, your overalls should be golden Correct is also and a cavalry seat. The cavalry seat is a foible that comes out of the west, [good wined reinforcement, edged {around with a double row of nice yel. low thread. It is consaered very | ehie.”" New Orleans Times Democrat. italian Babies, j and one cannot but be struck by the | number of them. These bambinos are | often hung upon pegs in the front of | the house, where they loox out of their { little black, beady eyes like pappooses, ‘and held it awhile. Its back and lit tle feet were held tightly against a from its feet to its shoulders. not seem to object or to be at all un. comfortable, and as it only howled while I was holding it. I have an idea that, except when invagled by foreign. ers, the bambino's existence is quite happy.~~Lilllan Bell in the Woman's Home Companion. Extraordinrry Flights of Birds. It is sald that the bobolinks which rear their young on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, Canada, and go to Cuba and Porto Rico to spend the winter, twice traverse a distance exceeding 2.800 miles, or more than a fifth of the circumference of our earth each year. The kingbird lays its eggs as far porth as the 67th degree of lati tude, and is found in the winter In South America. The biennial pilgrim. mages of the Hitle redstar excead 3,000 miles and the tiny hummingbird 2,000, om | SHE GOT HER MONEY. | Her Humor Was Unconscious, but She ! Was Conscisus of its Valus. i of a Journeyman humorist sat down In cold blood to bulld a joke, Her uncon- ' gelous humor had brought many | shekels Into the house, for she was a bright child, and her paps was too good a business manager to allow sale. able jokes to go unsold. This joke, however, was prepared by the humor | Ist's daughter with the idea of putting it on the market, and the humorist, recognizing in It a commercial value, | ticked it off on his | sent it to market, By great good fortune the joka found favor in the eves of the editor, who remitted two dollars in payment there. for, “Frances,” sald her father, whea the check came, “I | Here is half a dollar for youn,” Frances was happy. She told every. body of her literary success, Shs also told her mamma. “Frances,” sald mamma, “papa got more than fifty cents for your joke.” “Did he?” said Frances, “Papa, bow much did the editor pay yon for my joke?” she asked, “Two dollars." “And you gave me fifty cents of it, “Yes; but you see I had to do the work of typewriting it, and malling it, and paying and sending stamps for its return case wis not available.” “1 see.” Frances went returned. “Papa,” commission you?" Papa made no verbal reply. $1.50 from his pocket and handed it to her. Bhe put a J« ” posinge, in it away. Presently she sald, “yon charge for selling jokes, He took llar carefully in he tle purse, and banded fifty cenis to her papa. ¥ “I think that's about right,” she How Different Nationalities Eat, The En mitted by to lish and Americans are all Inost I's unprefudiced the Led eaters in To be 5 3 » wt se them go through dinners is art of graceful ing. Yery different is the behavior of the lowes disdain to lie ¥ vit Lies Russian, who « not use fare = considers than the na when the latter knife and The bread should 3 the other hand, his mouth in a The Swede ont "wi apons COnYe ork French will in near fige a aman Tryp orp ihe HUNnges is food into tiny pieces first hen, having laid tis 10 take fork. his plece by aside able practice, his food ti os Pi $ ial n aunner id prot ] half a pound aking very meat into of which in rapid sue wondered at in. sharp knife, he divides the four or sections. each he flings into his mouth cession, It to he that the Greeks suffer much from digestion five is not I— is— Caution in Introductions. Outside one's house one should be careful in the matter of making introductions, A lady at a friend's house may “safely introduce two persons whom she knows well, A man makes introductions more care- fully, and both men and women must first, If possible, get the consent of the persons to be introduced. An excep- tion to this rule, which hardly needs to be noted, comes when three or four persons are thrown together, some of whom are strangers to all but one of | the others. In this case to save awk: wardness a simple introduction should | be made, of own every | all ersons in. their immediate neigh- borhood at any social function. It is needless to say that this wholesale in- troducing is entirely a mistake, and that those who engage in it Gsually make themselves very obnoxious to {heir acquaintances. A woman has al- ways more freedom than a man in making introductions, and a man, for example, will hardly offer to introduce two ladles to each other unless he knows them both very well.—-Woman's Home Companion. Original Chimney Sweepers. and the greater part of chimney sweep the century were Bavoyards. One might see everywhere in the streets large groups of these boys, many not frocks, and who, when called upon, hazard of their lives, with thelr broams and other instruments, often through a narrow funnel fifty feei in length, filled with soot and smoke, and in which they could not breathe till they got to the top, and all in order to gain but five sous. The custom was Intro duced into Great Britain, but put down by an act of parliament in 1840, In con. sequence of the many serious accidents which attended the climbing of chim- neys; and, although the use of ma. chinery was substituted, it does not si i MS i perform the operation so effectively as i the old mode, As long as chimneys were simply and widely built they were easily cleaned by servants with wisps of straw or brushwood fastened to a rope; but when, to save room, nar- row flues were made, the cleaning of them became so difficult that it was necessary to have small boys for that employment, The first who thus swept chimneys were the people in the northern part of Italy, more particular ly of Pledmont and Havoy. the inhabitants A Street Car Experience, It was a car packed to suffocation. As usual, a long line of women swayed to and fro helplessly, clinging to the few avallable straps. As usual, there was the long row of men peacefully seated and reading with absorbing in- terest the evening papers. Near me stood an old lady accompanied by two young girls. She was too short for the straps and found it almost Impossi- ble to preserve her equilibrium. Finals ly after an unusually convulsive plunge on her part a man arose and offered her his The old lady about to sink gratefully into it another man made a similar and both sat down seat, was when movement, gether! You to would have thought he would have arisen quickly, burning with shame. Not a bit it! He gave a final squirm, a twist of his elbow, and the old lady forced to her feet again, Then he produced a newspaper and The two girls of was volumin- be- urned Ous came absorbed, pale with indignation, and the taller of the two, with ber touched the Intruder's elbow. fire ay ire in ye, “Pardon me,” she observe “but my v The man kept right tones this gentle: at to mother on reading arose, and, loud a woman sented by his side a flushed face and in tones, could seat, 2 is i: $e ’ For a silence with so that ecevey one said, take my + block there ecard a pin drop. and, ked iat you could have h he next street the man arose, at Wxly, wa New looking anyt of the car. Beachcombers of the Azores # In nineteen cases out of twenty heacheomber of the Azores Is 1 : § said i a I § §! occupation is considered a and every man is in bu , and has so much territory s ean call his own, The rights are as well defined and protect- in a mining camp. Efforts have authorities to take it it mpt 3 10 but every atl The man may or as stirred up rebellion miles, or o trend of the coast, of Ar, shanty a of his 1 in i str red to start ase comber ikes + Most one » bod vw und ' aKes tween two desperate who survives takes the killed If a comi off ered are no pa average life of comber ix only a vear. If he doesn’t and retire that time, he is pretty sure to be done for by a jumper, or to meet his death in the surf, As in the cases of brigands, the native pop- ulation stands in with the shore hunt- ers, and whatever of value ashore finds a safe hiding place until can be realized on. The average beachcomber has neither honesty nor mercy in his heart, and to protect his salvage will not hesitate to commit murder. who is fc he one the authorities rich find b bre 8 3 highest bidder, i to the but there pers to be passed. The a $4 it hy Comes i# i Bringing Sea Water to London, An attempt is to be made to bring pure sea water within the reach of Londoners. It is proposed to tap the Channel at Lancing, in Sassex, whence the salt waves would be pumped to a level of nearly five hundred feet at the top of Steyning Hill. It will then flow by gravitation through a main and thence | across the Thames to Cromwell Road, South Kensington, whence branches | are to be Iald for service in Padding ton and Kensington, Mayfair, Mary- lebone and the Strand districts, and in Whitehall and Westminster, from a conduit at Charing Cross, It is also proposed to lay another branch main from Farington street to Shoreditch and along the Bethnal Green Road to Victoria Park. “The Builder” hopes that the main object of this is to pro- vide for sea water swimming baths in | London, which would undoubtedly be an immense boon to the community. — | London Telegraph. { aquedoet to Batiersea, Peppermint Farms Pay. For many years the farmers thought peppermint weeds obnoxious, and grubbed them out. Today there are | three big peppermint farms in Indiana. The largest is located at St. Joseph | County. Another is on the Michigan. Indiana line and is owned by some Poles, and the other is in Lake Coun ty. [Its uses are numerous, but the greatest demand comes from the man. ufracturers of print fabrics, who use it to make the colors more solid. The successful peppermint farmers can make from $75 to $150 an acre from his land, ABI SA SR Tartary Taste. In Tartary onions, leeks and garlie (are regarded as perfames, A Tartary Indy will make herself agreeable by rubbing a piece of freshly-cut onlon on her hands and over her countenance.
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