“THE EARTH AND MAN.
A Nttle sun, a ttle rain,
A soft wind blowing from the west,
And woods and fields are sweet again,
And warmth within the mountain's
. breast.
So simple is the earth we tread,
~ So quick with love and life
frame,
Ten thousand years have dawned and
' fled
And still her magic
her
\
Is the same,
A little love, a little trust,
A soft impulse, a sudden dream,
Aud life as dry as desert dust
Is fresher than a mountain stream.
So simple is the heart of man,
So ready for new hope and joy,
Ten thousand years since it began
Have deft It younger than a boy,
Philadelphia Record.
A Western Girl's Story.
“Afraid!” cried out 1 with a laugh
“Why on earth should I be afrald?”
And I suppose my face
mirrored forth the careless
of my spirit, for my
rugged countenance brighte
I spoke.
We lived
miles away from any
place, in of
ended farm-houses which
turesque to an artist’
wer time amd =o
late when
ing around the chh
ter snows are Le
ery pearl upon
that the old bed-ridden
brother Robert and myself. As for
ant girl, dear me, when 1 bec
rheumatic orlost the use
I might need one, not
“Well mind you
unless jt is a
toning up
lowering his
mi Should
Aunt Jemima {
with fits of nervous apt
most inconvenient
You Know,
You,
0
must
inde pen-
broth
ned
dence
as
up
road
human dwelling
gable.
alone upon a solitary
those antique,
look
the
ane
8) pic
eve SH
= in
des
‘hably deso
in
November gales are howl
or
feath
We
aunty, my
Hey
up
tops win
aping their
the tone
doors
is,
i seers oe
don’t anyone
¥
nel "sald Bob,
his shaggy
voloe so
not Iw
there are
and
along
of
don’t talk
alr of digni
able to take
your advic
a week,
going to beg
“The loa«
shelf next
paper
“and the
“I'l take
you don't clear
Bob
trotted away
We had just
lars from the
year's wood
and bauled t«
dollars, all in
and Bob and 1
H agreed
ws
and
3
a
ont.”
and La mounte
welved «
tens and Aunt .
3
for once entirely
mous-—-that so much ought
to remain over ni
“Suppose there
gaid 1.
Suppose a gang of masked burglars
should break Aunt
Jemima, who had been reading the pa
pers,
“Suppose
gnaw their way
r ng said Bob.
Bob was taking
ba to the
money
ght in the |}
should be
ii. suggested
and mice should
into the old hal
the rats
the hundred dol
Ottarsfield Bank, twenty
miles away, over a rough and uneven
bridle road! And I and Aunt Jemima
were left all alone.
“Pear me,” sald Aunt Jemima,
“that’s twice my needles dropped, and
stuck in the We're to
have company!”
“I hope not,”
oor. going
said I, “with nothing
and dried applesauce.”
candle,”
who was addicted
superstitions,
die.”
“1 think it's extremely likely,”
served, with philosophy.
“I've had a creepy feeling down my
back all day,” said Aunt Jemima, “just
to harmless
“Romebody's going to
ob-
my shroud! Are you sure
fare all bolted Gertrude?’
“Quite certain, aunt. I bolted them
myself,
“And nails over all the windows?’
“Every one of them. Come now,
aunty, dear, let me fix your hot drink,
and tie on your nightcap nicely. We're
Just as safe as if there was a hollow
square of soldiery all around us.”
But in spite of my reassurance, Aunt
Jemima persisted in going to sleep
with a flat-iron and two pokers under
her pillow.
And then, mercy on me, how she did
gnore, to be sure,
I sat before the fire until past nine
o'clock, finishing a pair 0. gray mixed
stockings that 1 was knitting for Bob.
And then, rising with a yawn, 1 looked
ont of the windows, It was ralning,
and
Merciful heaven! 1 started back with
a low ery, ns I saw a white, wild face
pressed suddenly against the outer
side of the pane—a face made paler
still by the contrast of a heavy black
mustache, and hair the most raven jet
1 ever saw,
My first impulse was to run and hide,
my second to face the matter out.
“What do you want?’ I asked, open
Ing the dow a little way, “Who
a Dalatad traveler. 1 need
; to bind up my hurt
the
foot. Bee!” And then I saw that one
of his feet was bleeding.
1 hesitated an instant,
my doubt,
“You are afraid to
in,” he sald, bitterly.
wonder much,
Let me In, as you have n
or brother of your own,
un crust of bread, a drink
will go on my way with
dawn of morning.”
My decision was taken at once,
pale face, his blood-stained foot,
piteous voice, unlike the
sional whine of the regular mendicant,
all appealed to my womanly
He
perceived
let the vagrant
“Well, 1 don’t
dear father
of
the
milk, 1
his
“0 profes
remembered my brother's caution, but
1 also remembered that there an
one-story wing, on the north
the house, fitted up in a rude
way for the occasional sleep
wis
end
Ol
we in the of the
needed helehit
“Go around to the father door.”
“1 will let you in.”
I admitted him
pale and limping,
“There Is a bed,”
is food. While
and a bandage
When I r
greedily
accordingly,
he came in
said 1. “And
I will get salve
foot."
cal
here
you eat
for your
eturnsd he
if he had
and drinking long drau
ine
ing
food
ghis
Wis
as
as not tasted
a week,
off ee,
“You are
to my task
“}
of
hungry said 1,
ver may be as near
as | have been this day.”
in low, thrilling
you, woman the
hope You no
he
vole,
foot
responded, a
“Thank
feels easier
So 1 left
I had
the
young
now.”
him,
ant t
outside
bolt
ied to
but 1
that
have
me
oan
the other portion of the house;
for » first
not there, Bob must
now
the
perceived,
bolt w
tithe,
as
in the stables
apprehen
ftuken it
sion passed
as if there
door
MDT i i
I did not stop at
easure
gals squeach
threats
nt an iron band was up
eveballs seemed
and a hor.
3
jon seemed clos
d 80 recet
doorw:
3
pistol being
wns that
thr
Oat, or
through
and instantaneous
then, get ont of
everything. Quick
It corries charges
everyone of
quicker than
brace
. hs
was free “Now,
Drop
this pistol?
enough to
send a of bullets your
shouted
iy
this
Jou see
send
His eloquence
ine
was of a most persua-
nature of men dropped
a red leather pocketbook of papers that
[ recognized as another let fall
Aunt Jemima's
and all
the door hot
examined
sive the
obi's:
a calico bag containing
six silver
tumbled of
My unknown friend
he fastenings,
teaspoons three
out in haste
calmly
“The bolt has been pried back,” said
he, “but 1 can fix it in a minute, And
even if I did not 1 hardly think they
will be likely ain after the
lesson 1 have read them.”
“How can I ever thank you!”
to come a
i cried,
iu my mingled ter-
“I was thinking tonight as 1 watched
said in
Good
he
“and 1 have done it,
do something for you”
a low tone,
night.”
Early the next morning I carried
tray of breakfast in te him, but Im
wis gone, From that time to this 1
cept that, once in an illustrated news-
paper, I saw his portrait, as the de-
tected murderer of half a dozen travel
ers on the Omaha plains—an accom
plished villiap-—a cold-blooded wretch,
who thought no more of extinguishing
the spark of human life than others
do of killing a fiy—so read his blo:
graphy—and 1 shuddered to recollect
how utterly we poor women Were at
his mercy on that December night, and
of how he spared and shielded us!
Bob never know of that night's ad.
venture. Aunt Jemima never knew,
It is 5 secret thit 1 keep to myself.
A AM A PA
Some Ready Made Law.
Burke Cockran studied law under
Judge Theodore L. Dwight. One day
the professor asked a question which
seemed easy, but which was really dif.
fleult. With his magnificent voles
Cockran answered the best he could,
adding as a saving clause, “Such, 1
take it, Is the common law.” The good
old doctor gleamed benignantly
through his spectacles. “That would
be mil right, sir, if you had made it
uncommon Inw.”~ Philadelphia Bator
day Evening Post, .
: THE ORANGE FREE STATI.
Stirring History of the Little Country
a Fighting the British,
Though only 50,000 square miles Iv
aren, the size of an American State,
thé Orange Free State has had a stir
ring history since the first white men
These settlers were refuges from Cape
hunting for a quiet, peacefu)
north of the Orange River,
emigrants founded the
Republic or Transvaal
farmers found only
Bushmen amd Koran.
They organ:
band
Br
Pio lal
home
these
African
pioneer
South
These
bands of
the
sort COmmumty
wmppl. In 1847, the
of Cape Colony med
Vaal and the
country. A
nt
sovereign
that Ne
the Basu
the English
all of the
Itiver, By
signed
of
save
Hew
0!
nas in conntey
or
4tish
ized a
mantis!
all te
Orange
between the
as British
wag then
rritory
Rivers
agent
i
resident pliced
al
ln
This «ini
until 1854.
Hoemfontel
ty continued ii
tos and Griquas caused
nt
north of
to relinguish
the
Bloemfontein,
Country range
the convention of
1854, the
nown as the Orang
country nort the
I
ritory. recognized wldeg
dent This freed
farmers from alle
1
Eng
lish Government
alli:
wis
Ninte, convention
iance to the
Crown; the
of the
River
the
ew
ith
Or
{0 have no inees Ww any
nge
with the Sam Kok
CXOeDi i
chief of the (
fHent guarit
and
rover
persons props rt
| in that
Extradil
Coy
Hieets 1s sident
established, and
allowed
1
During
paramo
unanne xe
ish ters
ory
od
hich
¢
rule of
of Queen Victoria annexed Griguais
viamond Fields, w
minally under the
the
was the
of Grigua
The Free State «
emanded this country,
having i
acquired it by cession and pur.
the
To settle
of this
this Sapute Great Bri
tain agreed to pay to Free State
£450,000 for a clear title to this land
In 1800 the Orange Free State formed
its union with « Colony,
In the rallway union the Caw
nilway
chase from predecessor
the
Rl
customs ‘ape
{;overn
through
the its own expense and
risk at a sum per mils The
tariilf of passengers and goods over this
be mutually
The Orange Free State had the
taking over this railroad if it liked
its completion at a stated sum pet
The « Gavernment in
worked the line and equally
Free State at
certain
wis to
of
mile, ape
seven yeams, This road
1802
annual
profit of $800,000,
to the developnent of the gold mines in
the South African Republic. This line
of Cape Colony with 'retoria and the
rich gold mines of Johannesburg which
glisten go much in the British eye, and
which are the incentive for the present
war In South Africa. There gr two
short lines in the Free State in addition
to this trunk line. One of these runs
from the Orange River at Bethulie to
the main Hoe at Springfontein. It cons
nects the port of Bast London with the
Central Hine. The other short line con
nects the Natdl line, from Durban over
Ladysmith with Harrismith,
The people of the Free State, like
those of the Transvaal, are very simple
and sincere in thir dealings, In the
country districts this simplicity is of so
innocent a character that a stranger,
even, who is trusted and accepted as
worthy to be a guest, may even be al
lowed to sleep in the same room with
the family. For any violation of the
sanctity or hospitality of the Boer
home the culprit will barely escape
with his life. While under welcome the
visitor ia treated lke a son or a dangh-
ter, The Boers are not an immoral
people, They sre a plain, simple, se
vere but kind and hardy race. An in
fusion of Hugenot blood In the burgh:
ern of the Free State makes them ap
active and enterprilng community of
sturdy yeomen,
To patent an invention all over the
world costa about 15.000, This means
in sixty-four coun
SOME CLEVER WOMEN.
Seventy-five Per Cent of the Patents
Taken Outby Women in the Last
Five Years Have Been Profitas .
ble—Range of Improvements,
Men acquainted with the field say
that fully seventy-five per cens,
patents taken by
Inst five years vielding
returns, The woman
satechel-bottomed paper bags, for in
was offered $20,000 for the pat
she left Washington A
buttoner bringing
inventor income of
A wonu in a de
invented par
#1
women in
profitable
invented
ott
ire
wi
stance,
ont
simple
the woman
S5H.0060 nn
before
glove Is
an
in clerk
lately a
year,
parle store
which netted
irns Our New England
self an Inventor,
several
lelivery system
tantial ret
milliner, her
the
rose * ingenuity
{ee
CHjoVs
that
women in
with
right to patents
of the
Bhe shares profits
ane of the
in this
year.
:
rej
her employ
the Inve and
put |
Hors,
Hirst n fact
bi
operation ory
ings in over $20,000 a
It
ployee 1
oft woman em-
th
ethods in
and labor
thie
departinent
that a
Ww
11 happens
ron the ma
familiarity
business m
chinery
thinks
or 186,
sone time aN
att
ing scheme. She shows model
the
inform
Bi¢
nd
the
The
her
p abil
manager of her
« the employer
they arrange with the
of its merits
suploye for
exclusive thie
ition
employee witle
work in The
hears f{ r, hb success has
never
been a st fae
lookout
testsitny
Lunity
Much of
¢ keeps on
Lions
Many
ted to
:
by elal
wou
the ent 1CCOmpaie
4 oddols RO
Iackig in
be nu
wil on the
wirate but COnEpi
vital principle
many
tihinels ¥ As
fo
red
acording to offici
men ants
men in this respect
Hi ay
good fre
of
navailing
SCO
inl testimony, the
do not differ from the
Many wome
absurdi
Wo
Aspir
n sub
puratos, fac Alitles for aniation, gar
ment bindings, shields, fastenings and
New England
suddlies, harnesses and vehicles; also
the needs of barn and garden,
have Invented butter workers, plumb
applinneces, brushes for cleaning
and firekindling compositions, toys
the fakirs' goods, novelties and trick
goOte not from lack of origi
nality, but the inventor
ignorant of previous pat
the same point. No matter bow bril
lant an inventor's idea may seem,
is advised to search thoroughly the pat
ent-office records before making a
model. women have taken out
five and six patents for widely differ
purposes. A California woman
first invention, in early youth,
has ately patented sex
relating to
KUOCORE,
because
sli
Some
w hose
eral inventions
and irrigation.
northwest, the miafdle and east
produced the most fac
The south has
but
i hig
tive women inventors,
yield the fewest number,
SUC
Two important aids to agricul.
woman. A working woman in North
Carolina succeeded with a culinary in-
vention A Florida matron patented
a useful car-heating apparatus. A Tex
invented a novel
tent and another southern
fingerexercising device of value
musicians, A western widow
ed a unique method of desulphurizing
ores, Another invented a composition
solder of use to metal workers,
Women inventors from the big cities
have almost invariably patented arti
cles pertaining to the elegance of
dress and bouse furnishings, Those
woman a
have been active in the way of dress
draughting patterns, novel devices for
patents useful in the manufacture of
artistic goods, Numerous facilities for
clerical use have been patented by city
women, such as safety envelopes, Im-
proved typewriting appliances, copy-
holders, letter openers, ete. Most of
these women were employed at some
time as clerks in business offices and
felt the lack of conveniences which
they afterward supplied.
A number of women school teachers
are successful inventors, and have pat.
ented educational systems and devices,
also kindergarten implements, erasers,
school bags and book rests. Women
from the small towns in Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Dokata and Illinois ‘have
been prolific in juventing household
nated by women,
right promptly to the proprietor
who include such small
and
gtationer confec
A fair
their
supplies,
“specialty”
Gre women,
registered
made
gear in
the
makers
marks are
fice
Many whose trade
the patent of
either throug!
thelr wares
of the article's
ms include sli
and wafers
and an
knick
nt
have fortunes,
shrewdness in putting on
irket, or because
worth, These invent m
cines, complexion soaps
restorers,
and tollet
drug store
and
ith
ointinents
of hea
ut the
an to take
Mrs, Mary
invented a process
r thread, During
years only fifteen
to
ive Years
infinity
knacks
The firs
America
1806,
found
wo ot
a patent
Kies, who
for
Wis
siraw 0
iy Iity-ive 3
gray ted women
thirty
it
that
in the
There
inventinng ox
wer
granted, and was not
Civil war ther
increase num
berof
35,0
women inventors
¢ of women's
Ail
patent
model
hibited
inta exposition
office has
had
t of
1
SHOWING UP A LAWYLR,
that He Was Nol ar
E cyclopedia
esman Proved
Here's
uning of the
fin easier one,
book. If 1
that fain
two of
y you, a cer
which
{ qual
their homolo
el. int would be
rod to your mind?
andid, I never looked into
ply.”
1 ou don’t wean to own up that you
wouldn't know it was a plain, every
ay prism:
“1 hadn't thought of It in that light.”
“That's all My boy. who isn't
school, could have ans
questions without stop
to think. 1 feel better. You were
sitting on a lot of airs yesterday, but
in't any encyclopaedia. 1 don’t
you are even a handy compen
Hum of useful knowledge, After this
lisplay of lamentable ignorance on
your part, 1 want to make just one sug:
If yon ever get me into court
don’t you swing at me with any
thi in ail
thelr parts, and
gous sides parall the
“To be «
des
those
you a
in,
En
got your and I'm iiable
to be just as supercilious as you are.”
measure,
Wars In Victoria's Reign.
Certainly, the Boer war is rether a
grer business than any we have had
tut it’s not quite the
to tackle. Here is a lst or them:
Afghan war, 1838-40; first China war,
1841: Sikh war, 184046; Kafir wir,
1846; second war with China, second
war, 1840; second Rikh war,
IB4840: Burmese war, 1850; second
Kaflir war, 1851-52: second Burmese
war, IRH268: Crimea, 184; third war
with China, 1856-58; Indian mutiny,
ISG7: Maori war, 1860-61: more wars
with China, 1860-62; second Maori war,
186300; Ashantee war, 1834; war in
Bhootan, 1864; Abyssinian war, 1847-
Maori war, 1865.69; war with Loosnale,
IR71Y second Ashantee war, 1873.74;
70: third Afghan war, IRTRS0; war in
Basutoland, 1879.81; Transvaal war,
IRTO81; Egyptian war, 1882: Soudan,
1884-85-80; third Burma war, 18854;
Zanzibar, 1800; India, 1820; Matabeie
wars, 1804.06; Chitral campaign, 1805;
third Ashantee campaign, 1806; second
Soudan campaign, 1806; Indian cam.
palgn of 1897, and third Soudan war,
ending with fall of Khartoum, 1808
Answers,
Penhiolders can be held in position
for writing without gripping them with
the fingers, by the use of an Titoli
man’s attachment, consisting of a
plece of thin metal bent to At the por.
fon of he Dad eee, the bul of
thumb and the base of the first
Cw
THE JOKERS’ BUDGET.
In War Times’
Now that the dogs of war are Toon
Iu strange South Africa,
No doubt the nows of battles toughi
Will come from day to day
How Joubert charged at Ladysmith
At Tongue of Natal, too; ,
i How Buller met him at Mafeking,
At Clundy Clough passed through,
The Sght at Pietermaritzburg
Will ne doubt bring
Another in Bechuanaland,
Perhaps at Mittergrass,
! if the cables do not break
With breaking name,
No douin war will Ix
to pass
gO Jaw
to us the
A
An
wh
£3!
And
Of
interesting game
ich our knowledge will Increase
Bung and Bangaree,
all the Transvanl’s heavy
geography
store,
Lew
Crounds for Suspicion.
“What makes you so sure
a successful
“He hasn't
Frowst
Lie I¥ not
Chi
Ago
He Would Not Offend
Magistrate (to old offender
1
foetd fired giving
fectly el sieving
Y. a vr
Off ender WE
to In
Your
WO rude 1
Worship!
The Dissipation of a Fortune
The Elderly Lady -They say his wi
IAs money
“Well, that isn’t his fault, 7
hey ve
me," Life
A Unanimous Mpve.
up bills with
and
a
trust them,
paying
ar
lat beat
The C Crowing Yeustimony
PTY aid
» pretty
I wear
han play
Alien
10
Mr.
egotistic
capital 1
When he
he in
Had Observed
And so
She
have
Airideet
vin
marriage i»
been WAtOD
wif Somer
And Then He Snrunk,
“yes” she 4d. “Miss Willingtor
party yesterdas
Ka
raightening uj
things
always
a
Definition
what is a i
he is a gentleman who has
in ch line of his prac
iis mistakes are least likely to be
exposed.” — Washington
“Papa,
“My
discovered
ice 1
ound out
“On,
whi
and
Star,
Too Insignificant to Count
The Bird lover—I wear 9
hat trimmed with a bird's wings, Ix
vou %now that nearly two milliez
bi rds were slaughtered last year ts
ke adornments for women's hats?
The Sweet Young Thing Good gra
cious! Oh, il, anyway, among =
many my one little bird doesu’t count
indianapolis Journal.
se Vou
maa
We
As Decided Advantage
“Our wars,” said the South Ameri
can, “have distinct advantage
over the wars that are waged on other
parts of the globe.”
“What is that?’ he was asked.
“When you to war,” he replied
“you make it necessary for some othe
country to be at war, We don't
Chicago Times-Herald
one
20
An Obliging Girl
“What does this mean, Bridget? ex
claimed the lady of the bouse, return
ing from shopping: “the telephones
been taken out!”
“Rare, ma'am; the girl over the wa)
eame over and said ber missus woule
like to use it for § little while, and 2
sint it over to her; Bt I had a terribk
job gettin’ it unsereWed from the wall
ma'am.” Yonkers Statesman,
One of Many.
Quadds—Hello, old boy!
you doing now?
Spacer Writing for the press.
Quadds-Don’t you find it
thankless sort of work?
Spacer-On the contrary, nearly ev
erything 1 write is returned with
thanks,
What are
rathe:
Sr
Diplematic.
“f am sorry you asked me for that
small loan just now.” exclaimed the
friend. “it ix a coincidence that hm
developed annoying freqnence.”
“I'm sorry if 1 have troubled you,’
sald Mr. Focash,
“No trouble, except a sense of dis
appointment. You see my uncle is nl
ways writing me letters of advice. He
i= continually telling me to learn .
say ‘no’ and your
WAFR Seem " to come