Te.
ECONOMICS,
The guestion burns with financlers
Of high and great degree
They do not seem to know at all
What may net income be,
Red Washington, though wisdom
blest,
Can tell no more than all the rest.
Some tell you it is what is left
Of all that you have made
When Intorest, operating cost,
And taxes all are paid,
hough how a tax may levied be
Bafore an income is, none see).
But after I have done all that
i find to my dismay
Yhe only things which 1 have left
Are dobts In great array
And I deliove since times are vexed,
The Government will tax them next.
—=MecLandburgh Wilson.
wYerTerTerTe Vey WarTasTasTes’e
The Best
Laid Plans
CARLOTTA BENDII A.
EPL RL LENA DA LIN DSR
Mrs. Tommy Terrell, who gave the
dinner for a bevy of debutantes, al-
wags claims she had nothing at all
to do with the matter; that it all
happened so quickly that even had
she wished to interfere, and she was
Py mo means sure that she wanted
#6, any intervention on her part
would have been impossible.
Dinner was over and Reta Bennl-
son sat in a cosey nook adjoining
the drawing room and idly watched
black-frocked men stroll in
her half-hidden position she
see Richard Cardwell, 40 and
nervously flitting from group
to gromp, unmistakably in search of
Rerself. Cardwell at length caught
sight of her, and in a few strides
would have been at her side, when
suddenly, with an impatient grunt,
he turned, and walked away in the
direction of the billiard room. Mrs.
Terrell, her hostess, had borne down
en the girl, one hand resting super
finously in the arm of a tall, bored-
looking young man, rushing along In
the lead and almost dragging her
escort, who followed helplessly in
her wake.
“For heaven's sake” she cried,
"take this Britisher off my hands and
find Rim a wife. I've had an accl
dent and must run. You may safely
present him to all the kiddies, they've
all got money,” she added, and with
a malicious little grimace at him, off
she dashed.
The two young people stared al
teraately at the precipitate flight of
their bostesg and at each other.
Reither spoke for a moment, while
the amused look on the man's face
gave way to one of intent wonder-
ment at the exquisite beauty of his
ecompanjon. His gaze heightened for
ber the embarrassment of an already
impossible situation. Finally he man-
aged to blurt out, “Charming woman,
Mrs. Tom, what?”
“Yery,” she replied, somewhat at
8 loss for words herself, “She evl-
dently thinks we have met”
"We have,” he mumbled, “at last.
May 1 sit down?" She made room
himself beside her, lapsing again into
8 gilence that made her feel young-
fish and him rather foolish. Now as
all this commenced to savor a little
of a flirtation he became more at
ease and sald, “And so you are to
find me a wife?
"I Believe Mrs. Tom tendered me
the dellcate commission. A rich girl
ff presume you—ab—require” she re
plied, laughingly using the pointed
verb.
“I'm a fourth som and a fifth
wheel,” he replied, deprecatingly.
“And youn couldn't love a poor
girl?™ ashe asked, banteringly.
*“I—don’t—know,” he replied hesl
tatingly, with a look at her so sin.
cere in ita honest admiration that
the lzht in his eyes almost brought
fis complement to her own. “You
don't happen to be rich?” he added,
in a Hghter vein.
“No, 1 am very poor,” she replied,
mefully. “So poor that, while I eat
at recurring Intervals,
when some good, kind fairy like Mrs.
Tom asks me out. Men invite me to
public restaurants, but, somehow, 1
sever seem to go. Do you under
stand? she added, wistfully.
“You,” he repilef, “I understand,
and I am very, very glad. From
your remarks I infer you are neither
married nor engaged,” he added, the
inflection in his tones indicat
ing a question. “Believe me,” he went
en, “I do not ask through idle curios.
> and his earnest manner contrast.
ing Sroagly with his former badinage,
a Why do you ask?’ And she
fenced, wondering at her readiness
in what her reason
told her could be nothing but a flirta-
“Do you believe in love at first
sight * he asked.
“Neo,” sho replied In & too evident
attempt to ward off his insistent at
tack.
“And vet I loved the sight of you
from the first” he sald, vainly at
ment with his own.
“But you don’t even know my
TPIT ou ‘Ton It weakly.
you tell it me?’
ha waited a moment, and. then
JE
Reta—Reta Bennison. 1 am the
widow of John Hennison, the banker.
We were married two years ago. He
was mich older than 1, but, oh, so
rich—and all the little luxuries that
he could give me, and that had been
denied me all my. life, appealed to
me so strongly. 1 made no pretence
pf loving him and he could not have
loved me, for-—there was another
woman. I left him and he secured
a divorce on account of my deser-
tion. He died shortly afterward. Do
[ bore you?”
“No, no,” he replied, “and now?”
Now,” and she braced herself for
the effort, “I am sbout to aciept an-
other man, a rich man, who 1 be
lieve really does love me. But
do I tell you all this?”
“Because 1, too, love you,
he replied, huskily.
to me for a moment?”
waiting for her reply he
“I am Reginald Darrance;
ernor Is Lord Northwood
Reta,”
And without
went on:
the gov-
I'm beast
as things are reckoned
land of Pittsburgers, but with
vou
in the
quite comfort-
Mrs. Tom, who is a dear friend
wanted me to make a weal
thy alllance. Ridiculous, isn't
And for the moment he really for-
of his visit. “Will you marry me?”
ing Cardwell re-enter the room, sald
hurriedly, “Quick, here
other man.
carriage?’ He jumped up with alae-
rity as she rose, offered his arm,
she leading the way through the con-
servatory to the street, where her
hired coachman waited. Reta step
ped into the carriage and Darrance
longingly held her hand, loth to part
with her.
“Will you see me home?”
asked, tremulously.
“Will 1?" he replied, joyously, as
he jumped In after her.
she
all of her guests but Cardwell, who
lingered, hat in hand, an angry flush
deepening the natural red of his
countenance. “When did Reta leave?"
hé demanded.
“l don’t know,” came the perplex.
ed reply. “The last I saw of her
she was In the west alcove with"
At this juncture Mrs. Tom's mald en-
tered the rcom, holding up a dit of
filmy lace. “Pardon, madame,” she
sald. “After se ladies go I find zis
fishu.”
“Reta’s,” murmured Mrs. Tom.
“And, ma'am.” sald the butler, who
had also appeared on the scene car.
rying a gentleman's hat and topcoat,
“Mr. Darrance’s things, ma'am. What
shall 1 do with them, ma'am?
With a smothered remark
would not look well in print,
hasty goodnight, Cardwell took his
discomfited departure, while the ser
vants, with turned backs, joined Mra
Tom In a broad triangular grin.—
Boston Post.
that
and a
LESS PELLAGRA IN ITALY.
Government Measures Against the
Diseases Proving Successful.
Pellagra, the malady of misery, as
it is commonly called, and malaria,
the two endemic diseases of Italy,
are the scourge of the poor. The
Gener
ally where pellegra ends malaria be
Pellagra exists in forty-four of the
sixty-nine provinces of Italy. It ex-
tends from Piedmont to Rome, from
northern to central Italy. The Ital
ian Covernment has undertaken the
Iaria and has accomplished much in
this direction.
A special law. was passed by Par.
lament In 1002 to combat the mal
ady, several special hospitals known
as pellagrosar! and exclusively usad
for this disease have heen founded,
a large sum of money Is annually
contributed to provide pellagrine with
nourishing food and many other
measures have been taken with the
object of eradicating the scourge
The success of the campaign may be
seen in statistics which show that
pellagra is diminishing steadily. Be
tween 1881 and 1898 pellagra had 4!
minished by about one-third, while
minighed by half. Besides,
malady has almost entirely disappear.
ed from Pledmont and Liguria, and
it Is decreasing in Lombardy, Vene-
to and Emilia.
tirely due to the preventive measures
taken against pellagra and especial
ly. to the laws of 1902,
This law prohibited the sale ex
change and grinding of
corn, that is. either unripe or mouldy,
and consequently the sale of corn
flour. Every medical officer is bound
to report without delay each case of
pellagra and if the patient is poor be.
sides a free cure he ig entitled by
law to a free substantial meal pro
vided tyr the municipal or provincial
authorities during three months in
each year.
The provincial anthorities are
bound to provide special machines to
dry corn artificially as well as build:
ings In which to store the corn own-
ed by poor people who live in damp
houses. The Home Office contributes
the sum of $20,000 yearly toward the
antipeliagra campaign, while the
Ministry of Agriculture contributes
an equal sum, which Is to be dis
tributed in prizes and subsidies to
encourage the antipaliagra a
~ apoly; | to all poor ¢ pollagrios and their
families, and the appointment of ex-
perts to analyze the corn used for
foed by the peasants. The authori.
faulty corn.
Other measures
Government agalnst
in the distribution among
of pamphlets containing advice,
ed by the {nhabitants of
stricken regions,
WHEN THE KING TRAVELS.
gilroad,
is a busy time to
prospective host and
who are
transportation,
A royal visit
more than the
for those
their safe
from the
the humblest have their
The royal special is a
sumptuous affair. The King's
dressing room,
room, and smok-
laborer,
and bathrooms, day
ing room, which are all
with electrical devices, from electric
heaters and fans to cigar
The Queen's car is daintiness itself,
and is furnished in satinwood,
rosewood. and mahogany. The dec
orations are so cxquisite that when
not in use the car is kept In a spe-
cial shed of even temperature, 80
heat or cold
spoiled by dampness,
the special for the various
ings which the royal
take,
There is a room at all the large
the use of the King and Queen, and
the time-tables of the royalscouple
are always printed in letters of gold.
The whole train is thoroughly exam-
ined an hour before they get aboard,
and a complete staff of telegraphers
under an electrical engineer is in-
stalled on it. This enables communi
cation to He established with th»
world about at any point that may be
Needless (oo say,
locomotive on the line is always se-
lected, and both the chief engineer
and permanent way engineer accom-
pany the train, which has as driver
the most trustworthy veteran in the
service. . For at least hal! an hour
before the special is due no train,
except a pilot, which has been sent
fifteen minutes ahead of it, is allow.
ed on or across the tracks, snd all
facing points are locked and stations
and crossings guarded. And then
there is spread along the whole way
every few hundred yards an army of
watchers, each of whom has a red
and green flag. —American Home
Monthly
SUBTERRANEAN ANIMAL
Resembles General Type of the
Country—Changes Animals Undergo.
The underiife of the caves has a
world of its own. Animals are born
in subterranean caverns hollowed out
by streams; develop, reproduce and
die while forever deprived of the
sunlight. There is no cave mammal
there a cave
There are no animals that re
quire much nourishment
Grottoeg with underground rivers
have the most life.
LIFE.
types of the country. It has entered
the cave and become acclimated
there, undergoing divers adaptive
modifications. So we generally find,
in modified forms, the life of our
time. But In some caverns there
geem to be the remains of an an
cient animal life that has everywhere
elge disappeared from terrestrial riv-
ers and lives only in certain
The creatures of modern species
that have adapted themselves to un-
arated from the light dwellers. Their
sk is whitish, or transparent. The
aye atrophies or disappears alto
gether. The optic nerve and the op
tic lobe disappear, leaving the brain
profoundiy modified Other organs
develop in proportion.
hearing, smell, tonech, become large
rsitive hairs, long and coarse, ap-
ir all over the body,
These changes are produced grad-
vall In animals kept In darkness
possible to see the re.
of the eye and the hyper.
the other sense organs.
it has been
gression
trevae of
light
arrest
determined a re
of growth
inches
their weight less than an ounce,
whereas similar flesh Kept in daylight
absence of
en-tentha ounces. Chicago Tribune.
———
Da Vinci Had the idea First.
Now that the
that the first man who
ory of the flying machine
no lesa a person than
Leonardo da Vinel
as heavier than alr, provided with
wings, and lifted, In @=pite of its
right was
a propeller. The difficulty was to
find a meang of mnling the pro
peller revolve with sufficient rapid.
fty In an age In which steam and
electricity, to say nothing of petrol,
was still unknown. Leonardo had
an {dea that it might be done hy
clockwork, or by setting a number
of laboring men to turn a handle;
but in that respect he was mistaken.
Pall Mall Gazette.
An electric heater thawing ex.
plosives Is used at Ronevent
drainage tunnel in Cripple
Colo, It in in _Succesatul operation
COMMERCIAL
Weekly Review of Trade and | 3
Market Reports.
of Trade says:
Favorable industrial conditions re-
| rate. All through
and wealth created from
ments work unfavorably in others,
and this gives the superficial impres-
But the basic facts still point to a
remarkable industrial expansion.
Bradstreet's says:
i of the holiday season have continued
to stimulate retail trade and meas-
| urably improve reassorting trade
with jobbers, while rains or snows,
while temporarily retarding country
| trade by making the roads bad, have
checked excessive growth
| sect damage to winter wheat and
given a good quantity of moisture
to the growing plant, thus placing
| that crop in good shape to enter the
| winter.
In wholesale trade there are,
| ever, some intimations of cross cur-
rents tending to restrict fullest ao
| tivities,
Wholesale Markets.
New York.—~Wheat — Spot firm:
No. 2 red,
vator; No. 2 red, 1.26% nominal f.
o. b. afloat; No. 1 Northern Duluth,
1.18% nominal f. o. b. afloat: No.
2 hard winter, 1.21% nominal f. o.
b. afloat,
Corn—8pot steady; No. 2, 172e.
elevator domestic and 72% deliver-
ed nominal; No, 2, 68 £. 0. b. afloat;
No. 2 yellow nominal.
Onts—8pot steady;
32 Ibs, nominal; natural white, 26
@82 lbs, 44% @ 46¢.; clipped white,
34@42 lbs, 45% @48%: others
nominal, May, 47%.
Butter — Firm: receipts,
{ Pkgs.; creamery specials,
33¢.; extras, 31% @32
first, 27@ 31; state dairy,
to finest, 256 @ 31%
Eggs Firm; receipts, 6,788 cases:
state, Pennsylvania and nearby hen-
nery, white, 48@ 53c.; do., gathered,
white, 37@ 42; do., hennery, brown
and mixed fancy, 40@ 42; do., gath-
ered, fair to prime, 33@ 40; Western
extra first, 35@ 37 first, 31@ 34;
seconds, 276 30.
Philadelphia, — Wheat -
demand; contract grade,
114@ 116¢
Corn—Firm and December ec.
higher: December, 64@643%ec.; Jan-
usry, 63@ 63%
Onats—Firm; No. 2 white, natural,
46¢c
Butter —
creamery,
25.
Ezgs—Firm: Pennsylvania and
other nearby firsts, free cases, 36c.,
at mark: do., current receipts, in
returnable cases, 34, at mark: West.
ern firsts, free cases, 36, at mark:
do., current receipts, free cases, 30
& 32, at mark
Live Poultry-—Firm;
mand, fowls, 133% @ 15¢.;
ters, 10M @11.
! 15¢.; ducks, 14¢
19; geese, 136
Baltimore, «— w oe - Bales of
small lots, by sample, at" 106, 111
and*113c. per bush. Sales of a cargo
on grade at 116c. for No. 2 red,
1.12 for No. 3 red, 1.09 for steamer
No. 2 red, 1.056 for steamer No. 3
red, No. 4 red and stock rejected,
and 1.01 for “can't use” rejected.
Western opened firm. Spot,
5% @65%c.; November, 65% @
65%; year, S45 64% January,
637% @64%. The market was steady
and prices showed little change.
Sales car yellow, Hess dried (do-
mestic), 68¢.; 5,000 new November,
65% ; car new spot, 66%; car do.
658.
Oats—Quote: White-—-No, 2, as
to weight, 456% @ 46¢c.; No. 3, as to
weight, 43 @ 44%; No. 4, as to
weight, 42@ 42%. Mixed--No, 2,
436 43% 0c.; No. 3, 42@42%.
Hay--We quote as follows, per
ton: No. 1 timothy, large bales,
$17.504 18; do., small blocks,
$17.50@ 18: No. 2 timothy, as to
location, $16. 50@17; No. 3, timo-
thy, $14.50@ 15.50; choice clover
mixed, $1 Tay 50; No. 1 clover
mixed, $16 S50@17; No. 2, de.
mixed, 26@
5,202
2% @
third to
common
Firm; fair
November,
Firm:
33%ec.;
extra Western
do., nearby prints,
good de-
old roost
Chickens, 13% @
Bd%; turkeys, 18
i @ 11.
Butter — Creamery
33%e¢.: creamery choice, 30@ 32;
creamery good, 28@ 30; creamery
imitation, 22@ 25; creamery prints,
33@ 35; creamery blocks, 32& 34.
fancy, 33 @
. We quote, jobbing prices, per 1b,
17% @18% ee,
Eggs—Market firm,
loss off: Maryland, Pennsvivania
and nearby firsts, 33c.; Western
firsts, 33: West Virginia first, 33:
Southern firsts, 32; guinea eggs, 16
Live Stock.
to a shade higher: steers, $5.60
9.25; cows, $3.50@ 05; heifers, $34
6; bulls, $3@ 4.75; calves, $3& 8.50;
stockers and feeders, $3.75 @ 5.25.
Hogs Market strong to 10c. h
er; . cholce leavy, $8. 15@8.
butchers, $8.15@ 8.25; light A
| $7.00@8; cholee light, $8@ 8.10,
packing, $8.05 8.20; pies. $70
7.60; bulk of sales, $508. 15
Sheep-Market 1064 250. higher:
theep, $4@ 56.256: lambs, $8500
7.65; yearlings, $6 @ 6.50,
Plttabuty saCastic «= Supply light
steady; cholee, $6 @.
Sheep—8upply fair, steady on
sheep, higher on lambs; culls and
common, $1.50@2;: lambs, $54
7.40: veal calves, $8.60 9.25.
+ Hogs active; LF in
heavicn, $8. NELLY mediums,
TN; orliere
Hise 100 aan Hohe oY $7. 900
Te od $7780 865; ough, io
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“NICK O' TIME“
pecting"”’
have become rich “beyond the
dreams of avarice” by some fortun-
ate decident. The following story,
which the reader may believe or not,
as it pleases him, of a miner's experi-
in that it permits
enriching the man,
A miner named Johan Quincy
tains. While trudging along, one hot
day, through a gulch where the sun
had a good chance at 4s back, he
suddenly smelled smoke. He glanced
tain the origin of the smoke:
seeing nothing, resumed his journey.
A moment later the
turned, stronger than ever,
and gave him to understand that his
haversack was on fire, Like all
miners, he carried a large lens for
meus and the sand in his pan, and
the truth flashed upon him.
the sun had been concentrated on
his Baversack, which was thus set on
twelve or fifteen pounds of powder,
ke lost no time in dropping the bur-
den and getting as far away as possi-
The bhaversack fell between two
tnge stones, out of sight. Adams
resshed a safe distance, and watched
the smoke rising from his worldly
possessions. Baddenly there was a
deafening report. The ground trem-
and Adams dodged behind a
hage stone.
Rising, he went to the spot to
gather up what he could find, when
his eyes almost started out of his
head at seeclag the quarts that had
been blown ap fairly glittering with
gold. His powder had done better
on its own wocount than it had ever
done on bis, and had lterally blown
open a gold-mine for his benefit. He
was made 4 rich man, and named
bis mine the “Nick ¢o' Time"
Her Usual Line of Talk,
A certain Louisville social leader,
whom wo will call Mrs. Fayette Coun
by her husband over the telephone
that he would bring a number of
guests home to dinner. The party
was altogether unexpected, and in ali
the house, which has become noted
spread in If, there was not
enough food.
Mrs. County got busy at onca and
little later Mrs.
County happened in the room where
lows:
“An Ah want six dizen sof’ shell
yo', ye low down--Who Is dis?— Dis
“Mandy,” eried the mistress, “what
do you mean? You must not.”
“Law'sy,” returned the cook,
“that's all right, Miss Fay, Ah talks
to "um like dat for yo’ all de time, "ee
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A British railway train is the safest
‘ince on earth, as passenger
in every 70,000,000 is killed, and one
in weary 2,300,000 injured. This de
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