France is the only European country
which has to-day fewer able men than
4t had thirty years ago.
There have been no train or stage
gobberies in California since that State
@colared those offenses to be capital.
The San Francisco Examiner thinks
that the tendency of the ministers of
the Gospel to find their text in the
daily paper is not to be censured.
A correspondent who has made a
study of the subject, says there are |
$1,000 breweriesin the world, and that
Germany heads the list with 26,240.
In India the work of Christian En
deavor is being vigorously pushed and |
the constitution, which is now trans
lated into six of the languages of In- | ve )
| quest and colonization savage Africa
dia, is being largely circulated.
The New York Observer remarkss |
It is a well known fact that child life | is rounded out.
fn the city is at a disadvantage as com-
pared with a rural environment, but
ment that ‘‘the ‘expectation of life’ at
the birth of a child in central Man-
chaster is twelve years less than that
of a child in the whole of England and
Wales.” The statement is appalling.
The late Lucy Stone was the eighth
of nine children, and the night before
her birth her milked eight
When she learned the child's
“Oh, dear, I'm sorry
mother
COWS.
sex she said:
it's a girl—a woman's life is so hard!”
Lucy, even when yet a child, adds the
Detroit Free Press, became indignant
at the injustice done to women by the
world
spirit to remedy the matter when sho
and resolved with infantile
grew up.
The opening of the Manchester ship
canal, which has been arranged for
the 1st of January, is a very important
matter in the South, declares the At
lanta Constitution. Three-fourths of
the cotton consumed in Great Britain
is taken in the Manchester district,
and of the
The cotton spin-
within carting distance
Manchester docks.
ners of thet
are signing, a circular informing the
district have signed, or
growers and shippers of the Unite
Btates that in purchasing they
give to
direct to Manchester.
i
will
i
preference cotton shippe
In addition to
this the saving in charges, as com-
pared with Liverpool, wili amount to
thirty cents a bale. Two steamships
have already been placed to sail from
New
making for a steamship to leave Gal
Orleans and arrangements are
veston. Later there will be steam.
ships placed at Savannah and Charles
ton for the shipment of cotton direct
to Manchester.
Mr. O. Chanute, formerly President
of the American Society of Civil En-
gineers, who has devoted much stten-
thinks that
the chief problem that still remains to
ion to arial navigation,
be solved is the mastery of the practical
the
art of starting, balancing, navigating
and alighting, There is much reason in
this view, comments the Ban Francisco
art of managing flying machines
Examiner. If nobody in the world
had ever sailed even a canoe, and an
inventor, by native ingenuity and the
spplieation of
sound mathematical
principles, should design a fali-rigged
ship he might have trouble the first
time he put to sea in her,
situation would be less precarious than
that of the first adventurer to lavnch
Prob-
ably the labors of the engineers will
himself into the uncertain air,
have to be supplemented by a good
many broken necks of practical navi.
gators before we sail the bine as com
fortably as the birds,
Bays the Washington Star: War |
! and the most
burton Pike, an Englishman and an
explorer, has just returned to civiliza-
tion after a lengthy sojourn in Central
Alaska, which, by the way, is more of
on the dark continent
satisfied that except as agame preserve
the interior of Alaska is worthless,
and at present anything like a dispute
over that allegation is not possible be-
cause there is no one who can argue
with Mr. Pike, but it will be well to
remember that English opinion as to a
country's value is not always reliable,
Grent Britain might still bave pos.
sessed much of the northwestern terri.
tory now belonging to the United
States —the Btates of Washington,
Idaho snd Montans—had not the
brother of the then Premier of Eng.
land been traveling in the disputed
region. He was a sportsman, snd be-
cause the salmon in the Columbia
River would not rise to a fly he said
that the country was not worth quar-
weling over. His testimony waa mo-
but in view of lster develop-
: seemed to be rather ridiculous.
| a single potato
| eould raise 10,000,000,000 tubers with- |
| in a period of ten years.
| Bun asserts that
we were hardly prepared for the state- |
Yet his |
| produces a greater amount
| material than any other.
an uncertain land then was Central
Afriea prior to the advent of Stanley |
Mr. Pike is |
The public and private indebtednesd
of the world is estimated to be $100,-
000,000,000,
The Swiss Government has ordered
that hereafter nll slanghtered cattle
must be made insensible before
knife is used,
A sage complains that while it is
| true that “man wants but little here |
| below,” the trouble is that that little |
| is usually in someone élse's possession.
An European mathematician
world-wide celebrity claims that from
a careful cultivator
The San Francisco Chronicle esti-
mates that at the present rate of con-
| will be a thing of the past before the
first quarter of the twentieth century
A correspondent of the Baltimore
‘there h
thing in all this world as sewer gas,
and, further, that ‘‘there is no evi-
dence whatever in fact and no ground
is no su
"
for believing in the theory that the
emanations from a sewer are in anv
wise unwholesome."”
Many lakes have been formed alo
the banks of the South Canadian Hive
of
which are many
They
caused, explains the New York Pos
in Oklahoma, some
square miles in extent.
by the sand blowing out of the rive
until a high embankment is for:
along the shores, and behind the ban
are formed the lakes,
An elderly gentleman of wide travel
and close observation remarked r
cently, after reading the story in the
New York Times of a cruel ler,
that he had long been of the opini
that the greatest calamity that has be
mur
fallen the human soe in modern Simes
was the invention of the revolver. Ii
is too easily carried, and too handy.
The repert from South Africe tha!
the British recently slaughtered the
Matabeles like sheep is probably wel
founded, says the San Francisco Chr
The
noted for their tender regard of the
of Soutl
[3
jeal, English have never
aborigine. The pioneers
Africa, like those of Australia, regar
the natives as hindrance to the develop
ment of the country, snd any pretexi
which ean be used to justify killing o
driving them out of a district is eagerly
welcomed,
The Bt. Louis Btar-Sayings thmgs
that of most
signs of the times is the operation of
“one the gratifying
the law requiring sll navy ships to be
built
domestic production; American shi
at home, from materials of
pe
American bottoms and the estab
of
turning out vessels of war of the high
in
lishment ship yards capable of
est speed and capacity, It is a grow
ing enverprise and gives employment
to
nd soon we may anticipate that in
thousands
stead of going to other countries for
ideas and methods in ship armor and |
gun construction we shall have the
"w
foreighers coming to us to learn.
America holds the record in many
natural wonders and artificial
triumphs, boasts the Washington Star,
The
perior),
the largest
finest
largest lake in the world (Sa-
river (Missouri),
the
the
and the
the longest
park (Yellowstone),
the
greatest waterfall
cave Mammoth),
Niagara)
only natural bridge [in Virginia) are
all to be found within the borders of
the United States, and here the big
gest fortunes are made, the most ener
getic commercial enterprises under
taken, the largest deals are effected,
wonderful
while the
are perfected,
The zone
which is so successfully operated in
Kystom
Hungary, has made a deep impression
| apon James L. Cowles, well known in
| railroad eircles
“Distance
in the
transportation of freight or of pas
sengers,
He sayw:
costs practieally nothing
distance
in the dis
The rate now
charged for the shortest distance for
any particular service is the rate that
should be adopted for all distances.
When onee a train starts from Boston
to Ban Francisco, there isn't 8 man
living that osn tell the difference in
cost of ranning that train, whether a
passenger leaves the train wt the first
station out of Bodon or goes through
from the Atlantis to the Pacific Const.”
that there is
and, therefore,
should be disregarded
erimination of rates
rupning a tra
York, full of praseugers or empty,
tho |
of American laborers, |
| got in the world
| teen months, too, pappy,"’
inventions
i
country |
of raw | he bi .
| lost their pinkness suddeniy, and her
| was not particularly observant,
{ how.
- se
IN THE VALLEY,
a
To-day, when the sun was lighting my house
on the pine-clad hill,
“You fool
which Seth Simpson sat. She reared
quickly and violently,
of a horse!” said her
driver good-humoredly, ‘‘Keep in the
The breast of a bird was ruffled as it pershed | road 1"
on my window sil},
And a leaf was chased by the kitten on the
breege-swept garden walk,
And the dainty head
Of a dahlia red
Was stirred on its slender stalk,
Oh, bappy the bird at the ruse tree, unheed-
ing the threatening storm !
And happy theblithe leaf-chaser, rejoicing
in sunshine warm !
| Thee take no thought for the morrow—they |
of |
know 0 cares to-day ,
And the thousand things
That the future brings
Aro a blank to such as they,
But I, by the household ingle, can interpret
the looming clouds,
For the wind “soo-hoos’
hole, and
shrouds ;
And I know I must quit my
go down to the vale below
For my house fs chill
On the windy hill,
through the key-
a shadow the housy en-
yantain, and
When the autumn tempests blow,
My mind is forever drawing an instructive
parallel
"Twixt temporal things that perish an 1 etor.
nal things that dwell
When billows and waves surround me, and
waters my soul o'rflow,
I descon
From the n
eltering vale below
nto the Valley
I know there Is “bain
for oyes that with tears ¢
And I
find, It
hasubers's Journal
HINCKLEY'S OBJECTIONS,
WOULDN'T hav
X thing to do
with Andrew
Wilkerson,”
Mr
suid
Hinckley
more'n 1
with =a
4 t rattler!
(Md VD was wash
ing his hands at the
son, his niece,
of the bluing wa
“What sit n
ing straight at him,
kle in her big, brown
Her cheeks we as pink as
wild roses “It's h new thrashing
machine, ain't it? Wal, I
"twas a regular daisy
Jean disapproved of
Kansas
the enltivation of it
“I don
thrashing
I knew Andrew Wilkerson, when
livin" in ith part o' Indisx
twenty ve ago, and
have nothing st all to
that was o
try for being »
principled, no-aces
“Well,” said Jean, squeezing out a
tablecloth, ‘you've b'en saying that,
Peppy,
snd I hain't even disp
He was all the
ever known.
“I won't neighbor with "em!
“Wal, you needn't. Only, seems to
me you have these spells of swearing
you won't have nothing to do with
him just when he's got something new,
er be'n elected town trustee, er raised
an extra big crop of something. I be-
live it riles you to think he's getting
along so good,” a mischievions dimple
developing itself at the corner of her
ripe mouth. ‘I really believe, pap
DY
Mr. Hinckly rattled the wash-basin
He could Id Jean, however
groat her gay impertinence. But he
spoke with sternness
“or dos t= 3 4
he repeated. ‘‘Ner I don’t want yon
to have! There's a young feller in the
family; I've seen him once or twice
I wouldn't have you have no truck
with him, ner know him, not fer all 1
not the son of a»
man like Andrew Wilkerson, Blood
tells. If you ever see him, to any of
the corn-huskings er merry-makings,
you give him the solid-goby. Now, 1
mean it!”
“You've b'en saying that for thir-
said Jean,
Jean Car
ag clothes out
asked, look
a keen twin
heavy-fringed
eyes,
have heard
ranch is a favorable place for
maciing
the s
ar
y With #
the coun
lebrated all over
cheating, iving,
unt = AiAWAg M
ever since they
never se
ant nothin'to do with "em
laughing.
But her laugh was odd. She faced |
her nnele bravely, but her cheeks had
breath came for a moment in little |
: Rasps.
of railroad rates |
3
Mr. Hinckley wore spectacles, and |
any-
When Jean carried a baskeful of |
olothes out 10 the line, he gazed after
her, proudly and securely,
“The smartest gal in the country
and the handsomast!” he reflected,
with commendable moderation, *‘It's |
got 10 be a fine feller that gits her away
:
LR] !
from ‘pappy !
Mr. Hinckley had to drive to the
| village that afternoon, Lo try and scare
{up a decenter hired
wan than Hi |
Adams, whose laziness appeared to ve |
a positive disease,
He was thinking absorbed!” of many
things as he drove along-—-Androw
Wilkerson's heinous failings being for
the moment wholly out of his mind.
“Hi, there!” a toamster shouted.
"Tum ont, ean't JO n Sikugaon
“Turn out yoarself, Set ibd
said Mr. H
They were old “riends, and th
at each other y
He jerked her back, but she jumped
| again.
Mr, Hinckley was bending forward,
with a strong grasp upon the lines, and
one of the protruding poles of the rack
struck him forcibly on the forehead.
The lines fell from his hands, and he
felt of his head in a daze of pain and
alarm, and fell forward just as Beth
| Simpson reached and caugh® him,
A voluminous voice was sounding in
HET DIA DAS Sen 7 I ee EonotE Ti
turned to him.
“No, sir; get Doctor Collins,” it
said, decisively. ““He's the only feller
around here that knows the difference
between a toothache and a of
cholery morbus.”
“Goodness, Andrew, quit your jok-
ing!" a woman's pleasdnt voice be
seeched. *““Tain’t no time for jokes.
But you had better get Doctor Collins,
| Mr. Simpson. Andrew, here, put an
other pillow under his head. He's
| coming to."
Mr Hinckley felt the breeze pro-
| daced by a palm-leaf fan; he smelled
arnics and eamphor and ammonia
He was on a lounge, with his collar
loosened and his face and hands
Canoe
wel.
A big heavy bearded man stood over |
him-—Andrew Wilkerson,
“Wal, you're a master-hand, Sary !"
he ejnculated “bringing him ‘round
| like that. I don’t believe we'll need
Collins when he here, 1 gues
it's jest a big bump that he'll get over
without"
CUAndrews,” said his
can't talk any lower, you'll have to go
out in the kitchen. He ain't jest the
man to have round anybody that's sick,
| Mr. Hinckley,” iferer,
| ““but he means
Thereupon
laugh.
Mr
gets
wife, “if yon
she said to the s
yo"
well,
Andrew
FAVE
nt up for your mi
: Mrs. Wilker
didn't know just when you
nd we thought she
n ine knew
p in Indiany, haiu't you?
Wilkerson
Lh §
Oh,
“Indiany?" Andrew
pested, in heart nes
re
yes
yes, i
“You're thicker
“Wal,
ing your year
splendid
“Better lay d
id his wife.
“I guess |
I've tried
f{
thbors here
jut 1 can’t
we've boon
to ferget it
:
reecly
hundr
and a hal
cing cheated ff a
twenty-one doll
money.”
“Wa'nt it
Wilkerson
fifty-one cents?’ Mr
led, bursting into a
great roar of laughter “See here, 1
wanter know what you're driving at
I thought you was loony
head -—-when you begun, but I sce yon
ain't. What are vou trying to get at?
I never see you before I came here, in
all my born days ™
“Ain't you Andrew Wilkerson, of
Indiany ?”
“I'm Andrew Wilkerson, but I ain't
of Indiany, by » long shot! i
from Michigan-—always lived ther’
per I ain't ashamed of 18.”
“Andrew.” his wife remonstrated,
“if you get him excited
“1 ain't exolle
deman
ont of your
come
ad ' sasd My Hinckley,
lying down, weakly. “1 felt, minute
I laid eyes on you, that I'd b’en mak-
ing » miztake all this time got
consider’ ble f £8) apologize Mr
Wilkerson. 1 ain't ever had a good
square look at and 1
thought the hmll time you was a feller
that wa'nt much better 'n a—'o a"
“Coyote,” maid Mr. Wilkerson,
“Wal. seeing I ain't that feller, I ain't
going to worry about it. Ner yon
needn't apologize none. IfI'd thought
a feller 'd clean me out of a hundred
I've
for,
you [IY fore,
! and twenty dollars and fifty-one cents
wa'nt it ?2--1'd b'en mad. Wal, now,
we bain't b'en very neighborly, bat 1}
| kind o' think your gal and my boy "vo |
made up for it pretty much"
“Andrew 1" said Mrs. Wilkerson,
But a sudden rush and flutter of a |
| blue gown and incoherent little mur- |
murings interrupted the talk.
Jean bent over her uncle, her arms |
around him,
“Oh, pappy,” she eried, "yon ain't
killed? Ob, pappy, 1 was soared to
death when Wilbur come snd told
me!"
“Told you I guessed he wan't hurt
much,”
her.
Upon this young man Mr. Hinek-
loy's eyos were fixed. He was a fine
looking fellow, and Jean had ealled
him Wilbur,
Mr. Hinckley felt that some expla-
nation was due him from somebody, |
but he made his own explanation first.
s¥ean * he said, ‘he ain't the man,
Ho ain't from Iodiany, Jean. I've
wro him."
y on Ey a sobbed. Hor
n't eo right ‘vo
known Wilbur almost i I he's
been here, We got acquainted at the
Fisk girls’ dance, and we've seen ench
other lots since, and and, ”
waid a tall young man behind |
comm— a A wr
| fore next spring, I reckon,” said Wil
"bur, with a flush of pride and content.
His father gave a rolling laugh.
“What, you minx,” he eried—‘'yon
agreed marry a son of Andrew Wilk.
| erson, of Indiany?”
| “Yes, I did,” said Jean, her bright
| face hidden on her uncle's arm. “I
thought till this minute that you was
the man pappy thought you was. But
[1 liked Wilbur so, and 1 trusted
him, and I didn’t eare who Lis father |
was, and I wouldn't ask him about it,
either, and make him think I cared if |
his father was a rascal.”
“You're the right kind!” said An-
Avaw Willarean shout,
almost in a
‘““You're the gal for me—and for my
boy {
+‘She’s the gal for the best man on
top of the enrth,” said Mr, Hinckley,
stroking her hair, ‘No, no, Jean, 1
ain't hurt much. I'll dance at
it and leave your pappy. 1 can’t spare
vou. I guess there's plenty of room
on my ranch for you and the man that
can meke you happy, both of you
“I'm so glad of that, pappy!” Jean
whispered, joyfully.
And Mrs. Wilkerson wiped her eyes,
Wilbur looked out of the window,
Andrew Wilkerson
hands with Mr,
wife stopped him.
and
went and shook
Hinckley until his
Baturday Night,
cet
Plenty of Food in Sight,
According to Mr, Urquhart's figures
the §, 000, 000 1 ys of cotton seed pro-
duced by this country Uy, after
vielding an unlimited LAE O8
would wield 1,500,000 tous of
No attempt to utilize this fl
for the human
except exp
4 18
rugent
known !
tho
mouths fre
newsl
br 80 Ra
at we
go hungry, for we can still
fields We n
nt that gives us el
ol wl for man and
York Mail and Express
The Standing Silones of
If we run short of wha need 1¢
fall back
lerfa
thing
N¢
1%
beast w
Pern,
Near the |
Pern, on ti
of Lake Titicacs
" ell
1ttic
MAY OF ANY ¢
in the ave three large pills
they not
height they would reses
rj
stone wore
L331
far 3
erected
Peruvians they
3 of ene
features of
been deeply
gides of each |
ms of
These carved
YAIOus khinpes,
sZOw symbo
supposed to have some reference to sun
worship, which the ancient Peruvians
are known to practiced. Al
thongh the ancient inhabitants of that
country highly civilized, snd
probably had many mechanical appli
ances, it is believed that they were un-
equal to the task of placing these gi-
gantic monoliths in their present posi
tion. The evidence rather points to
their having originally been wandering
or erratic bowlders deposited by some
Detroit Free Presse
ce ——
Ways of a Captive Wildeat,
have
were
melting glacier
iv has he Ar i of Nie Arend’s
wildoat The eat was given Nie some
months ago, and ever vince has been
living on the fat of the land. The
cook, a colored woman, at Nic's place
feeds the eat, which has manifested a
great fondness for her. When she ap-
proaches the cage he purrs in the most
pleasant manner, but if anybody else
comes about him he immediately
growls and shows his wicked looking
fangs. The cat is perfectly satisfied
with his home. Two or three times
his cage door has been accidentally
left open, but he never even walked
outside to see what the rest
world looked like, However, whenever
Evervh
| open, Nic always missed a chicken.
The other day he siw the cat oatch
ane,
the door and waited until the chicken,
chicken by the head.
and kills the fowl he picks all the
feathers off it almost as carefully as a
cook, and uses his mouth in the opers-
tion while holding the bird between
his paws, Florida Times-Union,
—— ——— 8
Honey in a Chimney,
| At Wabash, Ind, a fow days ago
when Trainmaster Courtwright, of the
| Michigan division of the Big Four
your
wedding, but yon don’t go ‘way after |
of the |
it occurred that the cage door was left |
| Absent-minded
He simply crouched down by |
oblivious of danger, came slong, and |
| then he shot out his paw and had the |
After be oatches |
“And we're going to get
be.
THE BILL WE NERY; THE MOST,
Folks at the legislature they coms from up
an’ down ;
From pid-time human nature, clear down to
Bill an’ Brown ;
An’ the last one's got his row to hoo ; but one
thing bothers still
The absences, 'mongst the bills they have ¢-
the old five-doliar MIL
There's bills for county bridges, an’ bills fos
new town sites |
| Au’ many bills for mountain stills, where
moonlight shines o' nights ;
| Put of all the bills we're after, the ons that
] bothers still,
Ta the bill that brings the laughter—the old
five-dollar bill!
Atlanta Constitution.
natal —— -
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Observed of all ol
ing-glass, — Hallo,
Struggles with the dentist generally
end in s draw. —Hallo,
““He is your closest frien jm ‘
he never lends a cent. Harvard Lam-
poon.
wervers——The look.
“WY. 8,
Fly paper is gradually being with-
drawn from circulat - Pittsburg
Chronicle.
Yachts take spins to show whether
they are tip-top or not Joston
Transcript.
N¢ arly oN
8 certain school
up. ~~ Atchison Glow
Belle
thirtieth
“1 can't bear
birthday
int happens
dear wl
4 think
the weather to talk about
When vou can
r XH ct
But vou
Dal KIWLYS
k | whe
arket fish
stand i'm red of ing business on
such a small se u Star.
Tis now the
With nes
Leaves or
That wil
A boarder has
peciing nm
pecting his
addition) ~—
and four
it make?”
ok
Longhead
New York Ji
foung Man-—*‘1
ring.” Jeweler
ut what sige?”
“Nightmare,
rus
AD enERge-
“Yes, sir,
“1 don't know ex-
, but she can twist me round her
r, if that's any guide.” —Tit-Bits,
“While the iamp t out tc
Which Hoe an old song J
un these slectric days should read
While yet the dynamo does spin.”
Buffalc Courier.
“What are yon erying for, Frita?™
“Because my brothers have a holiday
and I haven't.” “But = hy havent you
a holiday, too?’ “Because I'm not
old enough go to school yet. ''~Flie-
gende Blaetter,
Bright dividing ¥
tives into
a am
want
olde
burn,”
ws begin,
ur detee-
Suads
piish a great des: woiv
“What would I do that for?”
“S80 one-half could hunt clews while
the other went after criminals’ —
Yogui .
Tommy (who has been studying with
but poor success) ‘Top, my teacher
says history repeats itself ; does ite"
Tommy's Father — ‘Yes, my boy,
sometimes.” Tommy "Well, I wich
mine wonld repeat itself, 'osuse 1
can't.” ~Philadelphia Record.
The Professor's Daughter — “Oh,
papa, here is the sweetest little bird,
that one of the boys eaanght in the
yard. 1 would so like to keep it for a
pet, if 1 only knew what it eats.” The
Professor — “We oan
find that out easily enough. I'll cut
it open and examine its crop. "Indi
anapolis Journal.
——
A Pazzling Fact About Woods,
The problem has puzzled many why
| two pieces of wood sawn from the same
| section of tree shonld possess very va-
| ried characteristios when used in dif-
ferent positions, For exemple, a gate
| post will be found to decay much faster
| if the butt end of the tree is uppermost
will premeate the pores of the wood
much more rapidly the way the trees
£5. ¥
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i