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' We pay .")0O,00O a day to foreign
eliip owners for carrying the goods
sold of purchased.
Russia has 41,800 public schools,
while Germany, with only half the
population, has 59,000 schools, with
nparly three times as many pupils as
the Russian.
, ' A prominent Javanese newspaper
ndvocatos the giving of a Government
subsidy to the Salvation Army, assert
ing that the work of the Army in Java
is too important to pass without rec
ognition. During nine months ended March
81, the total exports of breadstnffs,
cotton and provisions from the United
States amounted to nearly $475,000,-
000, compared with 383 millions one
year ago and 278 millions two years
go. '
" Mexico has adopted the theory that
every citizen is bound to defend the
noil, the interests and the honor of his
country as a soldier. Thus in future
a wealthy Mexican will have to serve
in the army, at least in case of war, as
well as a poor one. The constitution
lias to be amended for this purpose,
'but there is litllo doubt that all the
Stato.8 of the great Central American
federation will give their consent.
More sweets are sold in New York,
Philadelphia and Chicago than in the
whole of Franco. In each of these
v cities the delicacies oro turned out by
-the ton. Tho United States contains
more than 2000 manufacturers of con
fectionery, whose combined capital
amounts to over $10,000,000, and who
employ 16,000 hands. The amount
paid in wages and for materials is close
upon $30,000,000 per annum, while
the yearly value of the products is half
as much ngaiu.
According to the last regular census
taken by the Government, the gain in
wealth mado by the North Atlantic
States, including Maine, New Hanip
1 shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode
Ialand, Connecticut, New Jersey, New
York and Pennsylvania, amounted to
less than two per cent, for the entire
decade preceding. Against this show
ing, however, says the Atlanta Consti
tution, the former slave-holding States
of the Union disclosed a gain of twenty-seven
per cent, during the same
longth of time.
1 The immense importance of the
newly-invented telegraphy by which
8000 words a minute can be sent con
tinuously can best be appreciated by
noting what it could accomplish in a
Bingloexample of business. Between
Now tt- and Chicago, where about
40,000 letters are carried daily, it
, would require but two lines in contin
uous operation to handle the entire
business. At present it takes three
days to receive a business reply be
tween New York and Chicago. This
transmission by machine telegraphy
could be accomplished easily the same
day.
The London World thinks reading
Scott's novels is what makes Ameri
cans so title crazy. It says: The de
basing effect of Scott's lords and ladies
is nowhere stronger than in young la
dies' colleges in the United States.
Girls there imagine that persons who
live in old castles and sleep in rooms
hung for hundreds of years with tap
estry must be far above the ordinary
level. Their dream is to become,
through dollars and feminine charm,
mistresses of these imposing abodes,
and bear the titles connected with
them. An American lady married to a
prosaio British nobleman with a eu
phonious title had filled her imagiu
nflon with thoughts of Eeuilworth.
She was more than disappointed to
li ml that earls were not belted, and
that a Howard could be a matter-of-fact
burly person, fond of plain food,
and pluin in all his ways.
IT On -the authority of one of the lead
ing statisticians of Europe, Dr. Lip
sins, of Berlin, it is stated that the
Turks have massacred 100,000 Ar
menians, destroyed 2500 Armenian
towns and villages, sacked 568 churches
und compelled 282 towms to embrace
Mohammedanism within the last two
years. Dr. Lipsius, says the New
York Mail and Express, is a fair wit
ti098l and has made a careful inquiry.
He began it with a serious conviction
that the Turks had been maligned and
misrepresented, but as he went on
with the work he discovered that the
story of their infamies had been only
half told, and that the full truth of
their butcheries would not bear repeti
tion to the ears of the Christian world.
His dreadful statistics of the devasta
tion of Armenia shed a vivid light
upon the character and purpose of the
nation whose hands the European
countries are now supporting in a war
pf subjugation against Greece.
"I DIDN'T
If all the troubles In tho world
Were traced hack to their start,
We'd And not ono In ten begun
From want of willing heart.
But there's a sly woo-worklng elf
Who lurks about youth's brink.
And sure dismay he brings away
Tho elf "I dldu't think."
He soems so sorry when ho's caught,
His mien Is all contrite,
lie so regrets the woo he's wrought,
And wants to make things right.
Kut wishes do not henl a wound,
Or weld a broken link,
The heart aches on, tho link Is gone
AM through "I didn't think."
IIER
By JENNY
r, FflliAwavn a
daughter of mine,
fe$S2 I would disown
her! If I thought
a daughter o f
:IAy!wKwfcS! mine would s o
swear she had been chauged in her
cradle. Wait a little while till wo teach
their arrogant, pretonsion how France
resents it; and then such women will
lament the treachery they dare call
love."
So spokePierre Duval in hot breath,
just before the siege of Faris had be
gunbreath kindled by the news
brought him by the fair girl shrinking
before his anger the news that one of
her schoolmates, the daughter of an
old neighbor, had been married, the
day previous, to a young Prussian offi
cer, bearing active arms against the
country of his newly-mado wife; and
he had left her side twenty-four hours
after the completion of the ceremony,
to rejoin his regiment.
All through the day, old Fierre kept
muttering to himself; at nightfall, he
called his little Marie to him.
"Women are strange beings," he be
gan, as if to relieve his mind of n load
which was weighing upon it; "and per
haps I've no right to bolieve you of dif
ferent stuff from the rest. These are
uncertain times we're in, too. The
Prussians are proving stronger than we
thought, and it behooves every mou
who can carry a musket to stand ready.
But, Marie, girl, if your old father
marches after the drum and fife with
the rest and uo young legs of them
all will march more willingly I waut
you to make me a solemn promise; nay,
more, to kneel beside me and make me
a solemn oath. Kueel, my girl kneel!"
Pale and terrified, the girl knelt.
"You frighten me, papa," she said.
"It's naught to frighten you," he
answered; "but it's one thing to march
out to the field and another to march
back. They may leave me cold and
stiff behind them on their return the
gallant sons of France; but I'll rest
easier in my grave, though that grave
be a trench filled with the bones of my
comrades, if I know my child never
will dishonor her raoe.. Now raise
your hand, Marie, and swear that you
will never marry a man who oaunot
boast French blood in his veius!"
Holemnly the girl swore.
The old man smiled triumphantly as
he bent and kissed the long, ilaxen
braid wound about the little head.
"J'm ready now," he said.
Within a week the siege of Paris
had begun. Within a month Pierre
Duval s daughter was orphaned. A
Prussiau bullet had stilled forever the
heart so loyal to France.
For a time Marie was stunned. No
one found opportunity to sympathize
with her grief, for around aud about
her every one was nursing some misery
of their own. Every house bore somo
badge of mourning. Every heart
carried, its own burden.
But sorrier days were in store for
Paris -days when the Prussians
marched untroubled through its
streets, aud spoke their hated language
in loud, triumphal accents.
On a party of these Mario stumbled
one evening as she hastened home.
Her pretty face, from which she had
thrown back her heavy veil of crepe,
attracted them.
Instantly two of them approached
her, addressing her in her own tongue.
one nastily drew down her veil, but
one bolder than the rest raised his
hand to again uplift it. Scarcely had
he done so than it was struck down by
a sharp, quick blow from behind.
Mane turned, to see the French
man who had befriended her; but. lo!
a young officer, in full Prussiau uni
form, stood before her, respectfully
touching his hat.
A few swift words of command to
the men sent them, ubushed. awav.
Then, w ith an accent almost as pure as
her own, he begged that she would
allow hiiu to escort her to her home.
Such outrages in time of war are
difficult always to prevent," he said;
"but you risk much by appearing un
attended in the street. Always your
fttther-your brother"
An! she interrupted, "do von
leave us our fathers and our brothers?
No! I have been to the hospital, caring
for the poor lueu who may be spared
to their daughters aud their sisters.
As for me, you have alreudy taken
from me my all."
Aud she moved quickly away, as if
the conversation were at au end; but
the young officer kept pace beside her.
mm
MM
Pardon me, she fcuid, "but you
THiNK."
I half believe that ugly sprite,
Bold, wicked "I don't care,"
In life's long run less harm has douo V
Because he is so rare,
And one can be so stern with him,
Can mnke the monster shrink;
But laek-a-dav. what can we say
To whining "Didn't think."
This most unpleasant imp of strife
Pursues us everywhere.
There's scarcely one wholo day of life
Ho does not cause us eare;
Hmull woes and great he brings tho world
Wrong ships are forced to sink,
And. trains from iron tracks are hurled
By stupid "Didn't think."
When brain Is comrade to tho heart,
And heart from soul draws grace,
"1 didn't think" will quick depart
For lack of resting place.
If from that great unselllsh stream,
The Golden Hulo, wo drink,
We'll keep God's laws and have no causi
To sny, "I dldu't think."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
ENEMY. i
WHEN,
are too young and too pretty to pass
through Paris unmolested. You hate
mo as your foe, but you must let me
guard you to your home, even though
you bate me the more.
"There is no need," she replied.
go every day to the hospital, and every
day at tms hour, or very little earlier,
1 must return.
A shadow, and then a light, swept
over the young man s lace.
"I am stationed so near here that.
if you w ill permit me, every night I
will be your escort," he snub
"I would rather die thau accept a
kiudness from your bauds, or those of
nny of your blood!" she answered hot
ly "you, who are my dear old father's
murderers!
Aud as she spoke the last words she
paused before a gate, which the con
cierge hastily opened for her admis
sion, and which instantly swung to be-
luiKi ner.
But alone in her room, Mario paused
Singularly enough, she could recall
every feature of the oung officer's
lace a face which seemed to her to re
nlisse some dream of manly beauty: the
echo of his voice lingered iu her ear
a voice low, and rich, and musical
musical even when he had sternly ad-
uressea the soldiers in his own gutter
al tongue.
Her heart was beating high with fear
and excitement, and indignant auger,
but mingled with it was a strange
thrill of joy.
"It is because I proved my hate,"
she murmured to herself. "Yet he
was kind to me. But for him "
She would not continue her thought
to tne end. Kesolutely she put it from
tier.
All the next day she was busy again
among her wounded. Since her fath
er s death she had gone into the hos
pitnls.
Kitting, with folded hands, in the
midst of all the misery about her, with
her own wretchedness for montal food.
she had felt herself upon the verge of
madness, and so nnd oiltired her ser
vices, which only too gladly were ac
cepted, though there had been some
little demur about her youth.
AVhen evening fell she hastened
homeward, but with new dread, new
sinking, until, looking behind her, as
she turned the corner of a street, she
saw, following her, her protector of
the night before.
Until the gate again closed behind
her, he let but that little distanoe in
tervene between them.
Hot blood mounted to her face, aud
yet an instinctive sense of carj and
protection mingled with whr.t she
named his presumption.
tvery night afterward it was the
same. Earlier or later, as she might
chance to be, he was near her, nor left
her till safe within her own home.
One night he approached her.
"There will be fighting to-morrow,"
he said. I cannot be here to aid you.
You must not go out alone. Promise
me that you will not."
For a moment she was almost tempted
into forgetfulness thut he was a Prus
siuu. For a moment she was almost
tempted to answer, "I promise!" then
she recovered herself, and turned hotly
aud iudignautly upon him.
"Pass my word to you!" she said
"to you, my enemy the enemy whom
I hate!"
"And you, my enemy, are the enemy
I love!" he replied. "Why should I
love a woman to whom I have spoken
scarce twenty words iu my life, and
who has answered me with scorn and
contempt always? I kuow not. Some
strange freak of fate, perhaps; but so
it is. I may go out to-morrow to meet
my death. If I should, doubtless you
will never know that thus France has
avenged herself; but I should like to
feel you sometimes gave me one kindly
thought, even as my last thought, liv
ing or dying, w ill .Vie of the one woman
who gave me a stono for the heart I
offered her. But, for God's sake,
promise me you will not go alone to
morrow on the street! Do not let mo
have the added torture that you are in
peril."
They had reached the gate ere this.
Her bund was on the bell. She opened
her lips, meaning to scathingly utter
his deserved rebuki, but, lo! insiead
the two simple wo'ds, "I promise!"
alone issued from them in a low and
thrilling whisper.
Before she had divined his inten
tion, he had caught in his the little,
gloved fingers and ruised them to his
lips. The next moment the gate
swung to between them, and Marie,
flying to her own room, had flung her
self iu a burst of bitter sobbing ou the
bed.
He was a Prussian, and she hated
him.
Three days later she paused beside
two surgeons, in earnest conversation.
"There's but one way to save him,"
said one. "It's an ugly wound, but
he's sinking from loss of blood. If
wo could get some one to submit to
transfusion, I think he would recover.
"Impossible!" answered the other.
And Marie passed on to the room
where lay the sufferer. She paused
beside the cot. He wos lying, white
and insensible, upon the pillow, his
head bound in blood-fdnined bandages;
but, all changed as he was; she recog
nized him, and fell, with a low cry,
beside him.
To her-he was nameless, but he was
tho Prussian whom she hated, and
the man whom sho loved!
Ah, in that moment she knew the
truth, and then sho remembered the
surgeons' words. They were about
separating when she returned to
them,
"You said transfusion would save
him," she said. "I am strong and I
am ready."
And rolling back her sleeve, she dis
closed her bare, white arm, with its
dimly-outlined blue veins.
A little while the physicians de
murred, but in the end she had her
way.
She did not shudder ns the sharp
lancet penetrated her vein, aud the
faintness which crept over her the
deadly faintness as the blood poured
from her veins into hiB, was ecstasy;
for though to her it might mean death,
to hun it was life her life for his.
She swooned before the operation
was completed, and days had passed
before Bhe could rally even to know
that her sacrihee had not been in vain
days when Taris had been racked
by a bitterer foe than the hated Prus
sian, even her own inhnbitauts.
But the terrible days were over,
when Marie was allowed to once more
assume her role as nurse. Ernest
Haupfmnn was still in need of all her
care; but when she stood once again
beside him, ho looked at her with
wide-open, conscious eye , into which,
as he recognized her, there came a
look of ineffable happiness.
"My love!" he murmured, and then
he fell asleep, with her hand clasped
tight in his.
Through long weeks she nursed him
weeks which taught her that all her
future must be wretchedness, since
her promise to her dend father forbade
that she should share it.
How dared she tell Ernest of it until
he spoke the words which unsealed her
silence?
But one evening, ns they Bat to
gother in the twilight, he almost
wholly convalescent now, he spoke
them, as, in low, endearing accents,
he asked her to be his wife.
Amid bitter sobs, she told him all
then, and hid her face withiu her
hands. But ho gently drew them
dowu, nnd drew her head upon his
heart.
"My own," ho said, "your sacrifice
has borne its fruit. Your husband
must boast French blood in his veins.
forsooth! Have I, then, none in mine?
Did you not mingle yours with mine
the very blood of Pierre Duval himself?
Ah, Marie, keep your vow to your dead
father, and, keeping it, give yourself
to me!
In silent rapture Marie listened to
the words; but, as her arms close
clasped themselves about his neck, he
knew that he had won his cause, and
that she had gone over forever to the
enemy! Saturday Night.
A Coupon of 1T78.
Cornelius Holton, of 435 Fifth ave
due, this ' city, called upon Mayor
Strong in New York yesterday and pre
sented for payment a coupon clipped
from au old water bond issued by New
York City ou March 5, 1776. The
coupon called for the payment to bearer
of four shillings and was signed by
Benjamin Blagge as clerk. Mr. Hol
tou said that it was through his wife,
who was formerly the w idow of (Dr. A.
Barnes, of Greenwich, Conn., that he
got the coupon. She had received it
from her grandfather many years ago.
Mayor Strong said there wos no fund
from which the coupon could bo hon
orrd, so ho referred Mr. Holton to the
City Chamberlain. General MoCook
knew of no fund from w hich payment
could be made, so the holder was in
turn referred to Controller Fitch.
There the question of the city's lia
bility was raised. Deputy Controller
LVons said that the issue of bonds in
question was authorized by the com
mon council four months before the
Declaration of Independence was
signed. He expressed the opinion that
the successors of King George were
the responsible parties from whom in
terest should be collected. So Mr.
Holton returned to his home without
his four shillings. Brooklyn Eagle,
j I'rotvi-tlng Iroii'Atfalimt Kust.
A now procesB for the protection of
iron against the injurious action of rust
has been suggested by M. Deuinger, a
Dresden chemist. It consists of treat
ing the iron with a solution of ferro
cyanide, which forms a coating of
cyanide of iron, uniform and imper
meable to water, and of such a uuture
as to, protect effectively the iron cov
ered. The operation, applied ou a
large scale, has ulready given good re
sults. The following is the method
adopted in practice: The solution is
mixed with a flax-seed varnish, to
which bus been added a little turpen
tine or benzol, so us to cause a very
homogeneous emulsion, which can be
applied without difficulty. The evap
oration of the alcohol leaves the flux
seed varnish, which forms a cout pro
tecting the cyanide of iron which is do
posited upon the iron. There is no
uecesHity, says the Industrial World,
of previously preparing the iron be
yond the removiug of beds of rust too
thick to admit of the action of the ferro-cyanide.
TIIE MEKUY SIDE OF LIFE
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THI
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS,
A Notable IlinVrenre 111m GurMA
tRri.Knnril HI llluft We ailed
'linllpa llM-rrninpnt Near the Dan
ger I. hie Too Grliernii With It., Ktc
N'o-.v bluelilr 1 pipes his music mild;
We love libn to be frank
Because his notes are never filed
Against us In a bank.
Detroit Free Tress
llln Ghoim.
Papa " 'Sine qua non' means some
thing yon ran not do without."
Little Fratik "Oh! a whecl?"--Tuck.
A New HnfcKimrd.
"Why are they putting that glass
front in the savings bank?"
"So thnt tho depositors can see how
homely the President's typewriter is."
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
ICft'ertive Tt'.lKO
Man le "Wondor how it happened
that Mr. Hniarto proposed to Carrie?'
Edith "I understand she told him
that another man was trying to marry
her for her money." Boston Trans
script. Chollle. Didcernmoitt.
"I do believe that English valet of
Chollie's has not the slightest Bense
of humor.
"Of course he hasn't. That is how
he holds his job." Indianapolis
Journal.
III. HlufT Whs Called.
Reporter "That fellow who wanted
his name kept ont of tho paper called
in to-day. Oh, ho was mad!
Editor "What about?"
Reporter "It seems we kept it out.
lit-Kits.
Hear the Dnncer I.lno.
"The most curious thing in the
world began Bixley.
"Hush!" hoarsely whispered tho
horrified Junkins, with jesture toward
the door, she s iu the next room.
.Boston Traveler.
Their Status Quo,
Marie (the maid) "You look charm
ing, Miss Penelope; Icon toll you that
as well as the glass. Women were
made before mirrors, you know."
Penelope "Yes and they have been
before them ever since." Up-to-Date.
Combined.
Bobbie "A boy called me a liar to
day, but you told me never to fight and
so I ran away.
Bingo "That's right, Bobbie, but
are you sure tnat was the reason?
"Yes, sir. That aud the size of tho
boy. Life.
Too Generou. With It.
"Mr. Henpeek, ' said the doctor,
after examination, "I fear your wife's
mind is gone.
"That doesn't surprise me," soul the
poor man. "She has been giving me
a piece of it every day for ten years."
.Memphis Scimitar.
Preferred His I'rcaent State.
Visitor "I suppose, Bobbie, you
are looking forward to the day when
you will be a big man like your
father.
Bobbie "I don't know. I'm in no
hurry to being bulldozed all the time
by a woman. Life.
Ills Awful Condition.
Seldum Fedd "I'm afraid poor old
Wabbly ain't goin' to live much longer.
He's delirious all de time au' seein'
horrible things."
Bagged Huggard. "What sort er
horrible things snakes?"
Seldum Fedd "No; woodsaws an'
axes an' shovels." Judge.
Bho M ould Not Ktay.
"The situation of your house suits
me, mum," said Norah McCurty, who
had visited the home of Mrs. Tenspot
with a view of inspecting tho induce
ments offered for her to assume tho
position of help-ludy in tho house
hold. "I am glad you like it," replied
Mrs. Tenspot, w iih becoming humility.
"The pay you offer is satisfactory
too, aud the number of people iu the
family. The room your help-ludy
occupies is pretty good too, but I must
ask you a few more questions before I
make up my mind to remain iu your
service."
"Certainly," replied Mrs. Tenspot,
humbly. "Ask all you like."
"Do you ride a bicycle?"
"Yes."
"Mr. Tenspot too?"
"Yes."
"Do you provide a bicycle for your
cook?"
"Yes, certuinly. We have one for
her exclusive use."
"I am glad of that. Some people
seem to think that cooks ought not to
rido a wheel."
"Oh, we would' not think of de
priving our cook of that privilege."
"What muke is the wheel?"
"The same make as Mr. Tenspot 's
and my own tho Itipsnortcr."
"Then, ma'uin, I'm sorry, but I can't
come."
"Why not?"
"I don't know that make. I couldu't
think of ridiu' anything but the Jim
dandy inako of bicycle. Good-by,
ilium." Harper's Jtuzar.
Ilule'a Kilvt-r WV.IiIIuk Girt.
To celebrate his silver wedding the
Marquis of Bute has given S'lOIMI to
th.tt.iu n nf ('iirililT the income to I 1)
given to poor girls who need the money
i........;,l YVIiiiMt-pr tint ilnui V
is handed over, the Mayor of the town
must read to the bride and groom the
first eleven verses of the second chap
ter of the Gospel according to St. John
the description of the miracle ot
turning wuter into wine at C'uiia.
Any age can be recognized by the
men upon whom it confers fa ,ors,
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Ichthyol is recommended by Der
Stein der Weisen as a much better
remedy for insect bites than ammonia.
Astronomers say that 1,000,000
"shooting stars" fall into the sun for
everyone that comos iuto our atmos
phere. The Paris Fire Brigade authorities
are said to be quietly carrying out
some trinls with a hose van propelled
by means of a petroleum motor.
Aluminum helmets have not proved
entirely successful in the German
army, the saving in weight being more
than offset by tho metal's storing heat
even to blistering the foreheads of the
wearers.
A remarkable invention has just been
made public which promises to revolu
tionize the problem of rapid telegraphy.
It is called the synchronograph, and the
Inventors claim that a speed of 8000
words a minute can be attained. The
Inventors are Professor Crehore, of
Dartmouth College, and Lieutenant
Bquier, of the United States Army.
Java has thunderstorms, on an aver
age, ninety-seven days in the year;
Italy thirty-eight, Belgium twenty-one,
Holland eighteen, France, Austria and
South Russia sixteen, Spain and Port
ugal fifteen, England nnd the high
Swiss mountains seven, Norway four,
Cairo three. In East Turkestan, as
well ns in the extreme north, there are
scarcely any thunderstorms known.
In pressing woolen fobrics, iu order
to give them a smooth, even appear
ance, both a uniform pressure nnd uni
form heat are required. To attain this
snd recent experiments have been mode
ivith electric heating, which have been
markedly successful. The fabrics are
placed between metallic plates, through
tvhich sufficient current is passed while
under hydraulic pressure to heat them
slightly more thou the temperature of
boiling water.
Tho tuning fork, struck aud applied
to the crown of the head, has beeu
found by Dr. N. E. Malioutine, of
Moscow, Russia, to transmit its vibra
tions to the vocal chords, causing them
to vibrate in unison, In this way he
has cured, with vocal exercises, a case
pf hysterical loss of voice that had re
sisted all other treatment, including
suggestion. He believes that the pro
sess would aid in training and improv
ing the voices of singers.
Bacteria, as one might infer from
their simple structure, seem to have
appeared with the first life on earth.
Iu a study of the early rocks M. B.
Renault has found indications of tho
presence of microbes in bones, teeth,
scales and coprolites, as well as an
abundance in vegetable tissue, espe
cially in the spores and sporanges of
ferns, The coceoid or globular form
appears to havo been earlier thau tho
bacillar or rod-shaped, the species, as
a rule, having been different from those
now living.
WARFARE OF BRAINS.
Guarding New York's Aniiroarlirt With
Klertrlclty.
During the post few years the United
States engineer corps at Fort Wads
worth have been engaged in accurately
plotting the approaches to New York
harbor, so that the positions of all
buoys and landmarks are accurately
known. The elevation of each gun re
quired to drop a projectile upon any
one of the plotted points would, there
fore, in the case of war be no longer a
matter of experiment, and doubtless
the same is true of other harbors
abroad.
With electro-magnetic sentinels ju
diciously placed iu the approaches to a
harbor at a distance too great for the
invader to reach the city with shells,
almost the exact position of an invad
ing vessel, the direction of its course
and its speed would be known during
the darkest night as well as iu the
brightest day.
With the iuoreased means of intelli
gently following the movements of the
enemy which electricity alone eau af
ford, future warfare will be less a con
test of brute force than one of brains.
Iu such a contest the United States
has little to fear.
In the next general war the most ef
fective forces will be braius and elec
tricity. Armor plate and projectiles
will be of secondary importance.
Electricity.
"- Cuntotn Prom the Compieat.
To-duy is the famous Puseo do las
Flores, a custom which is said to date
from before the conquest, lho iga
canal will this morning, from un early
hour, present an animated appearance.
It will be crowded with the canoes of
Indian women bringing in their (lowers
and vegetables. Each Indian woman
iu her canoe looks as if sealed iu a
flouting flower garden, aud all of them
are crowned with gur lands of poppies.
It is probable that this festival was
held in Azteo timcB iu order to cele
brate the return of spring, but the
Christian priests converted this day
nit a commemoration in honor of our
Lady of Sorrows, Nuestra Senora de
los Dolores.
To witness the animated scene ou
the Yiga canal and its banks ut its
height, it is well to go earlv, not later
than seven, and to stay about two
lours, i he scene is one of the most
picturesque that can be seen iu Mexico.
1 ho surface of the cunul is alive w ith
llower-ludeu canoes gliding swiftly
along. The bunks are crowded with
men on horseback, people in carriages
and pedestriuus. Indian women oc
cupy every avuilublo spot, where tin y
offer food, drink, or How era to the
passers-by. Of course, the ubiquitous
rutoro is there, and a careful vigilance
over one's wutch and pocketbook is iu
order. Mexican Heruld.
Not by Half.
Wutts "I saw you down town this
morning with your better half."
N. Peck "If you please, she is not
my better half. She is tho whole
thing. " Indiaiiupolis J ourual.
LIKE SHIPS AT SEA.
MV-e ships at sea. IVif side by slJa
With Idle sails at eventide
Vpon the unruni-'d water- tie,
H, for an instant, you and I
Drift here together on life's tide. '
Our port, our venture, and beside
(lu r con re, to each to m rvn as guide,
Acio.-s the nnrrow paee w? ,.ry.
Like ships at sea.
With swelling snlls wo swifter glide. .
And soon across the distance wide.
Cue scarcely hears the faint good-by;
And so, to meet no more for ave.
Upou life's main, our paths divide,
Like ships at rra.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
She "l'ou have broken the promise
fou made ine." He "Never mind,
ny dear; don't cry. I'll make you au
ither." Comic Cuts.
Smith "Is young Flyingwcdgo
practicing law?" William "I think
aot. He was called to tho bar, but I
think ho is practicing economy." Il
lustrated Bits.
"So, Dorothy is not going to marry
Mr. Scrymser?" "No; she kept talk
ing to him about books ho hadn't read,
ind he got irritated aud broke tho en
gagement." Puck.
"Don't cry!" ho entreated. Then
he perceived that her handkerchief was
ddged with the most exquisite lace.
"Don't weep!" he said, correcting him
self. Detroit Journal,
f An old bachelor says: "It is all
nonsense to pretend that love is blind,
t never knew a man in -love who did
aot see ten times as much in his sweet
lieart as I did." Standard.
First Tramp (scanning paper)
"Here's a bloke wot says one of the
pictures nt the academy lacks repose."
Second Tramp "Well, Denny, he orter
oe here an' see ns. " Judge.
Mrs. Hornbeak "Ezry, why da
these city hotels have their bi'lls-o'-fnre
in French?" Fanner Hornbeak
"Because they wouldn't git their
warmed-over vittles eaten if they
lidn't." Puck.
Wiggins "I never argue with a
woman. In the first plnce it's a bore,
ind then, ngoin, it never does any
good." Mrs. Henpeek "Ah, but you
forgot how much joy it gives to tho
woman." Trnth.
Littlo Sister "Johnny Smith's
mother has nnd bad cough, a the doctor
'old her to go to Florida." Little
Brother (bitterly) "And when I had
i bod cough he told mama to send me
lo school!" Puck.
"I never go to a sad play," said the
roung woman who poses. "It is
ilmost sure to make me cry, and then
it is bud for my eyes." "Yes," replied
Miss Ciiyenne, "and sometimes for the
somplexiou." Washington Star.
Husband "l'ou don't try to make
iiauie attractive. Look at that table
aow; no luxuries to tempt tho ap
petite." Wife "Why, you provoking
ihiug! You told me only lust night
.hat you didn't have any appetite."
Boston Transcript.
Lawyer "Did you kill your
jousin only, and no other member of
your family?" Prisoner "Yes, only
my cousin." Lawyer "What a pity!
Had you but murdered your whole
.amily I might have got you off on a
plea of emotional insanity."
Robert "So you w ere not accepted
by Miss Vellum? What did she say?
Did she tell you how sudden it was?"
Uichard "Oh, dear, no. She's liter-
try, you kuow. Sho merely replied
thnt sho was very sorry, but I was not
ivnilnble. Boston Transcript.
Employer "John, you were drunk
last night. I have waited till you
were sober before inflicting the penalty
In order that you might know what you
were punished for. You are dis
charged." Servant "Don't you think
you are making a mistake, sir? It
deems to me that you ought to havo
discharged me when I was loaded."
Boston Cornier. ,.'
Last llmira of a lloiiama King. ' "
III a recent inquiry iu tho celebrated
Fair will cuse it transpired thut none
of the dying man's children was pres
ent ut his last agony. The only ones
about him were hired servants. A
physician testified that Fair's valet
was drunk and incapable of being of
any assistance. Fair's bookkeeper
mid collection agent stood outside tho
door, and seizing the drunken valet
whenever he emerged from the cham
ber exclaimed: "Is the old man dead'.'
How much longer will ho lust?"
When, ut length they learned that
the breath was departing from their
master's body, they rushed in, heed
less of the pitiful, dying creature, and
gathered up ull his papers and per
sonal belongings aud rushed out, even
currying off the physician's instru
ments in their rupucity. New Or
leuus Picavuue.
Kail I.a of an Kspvrt.
Philatelists will be both interested
aud Borry to hear that the well-known
stamp dealer and expert ou postugo
stumps, Decker, of Hanover, is reported
to have decamped. He was uu uu
knowledged'aiithority, both iu and out
of Germany, us regards the genuine
ness of postage stamps. Since his flight
accusutious are said to have been put
forward to the effect that in his exper
tises hu replaced genuine stumps with
counterfeit ones ami great uneasiness
iiid indignation are manifested by large
private collectors iu consequence.
New Orleans Picayune.
lug In llnrnewK.
Is it right to make a dog work iu
luruess? Belgium answers yes, F.ng
and uo, the United States is iudiffor
n , anil France is deliberating. Tna
French law ugaiust using dogs as beast
it burden is often violated in some of
lie province, and a movement has
jeen started for a repeal. Belgians
a,v their draught dogs are quite jolly;
:nit if the dogs could vote ou the sub
jet, they would be apt to approve the.
English view.
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