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ST JKJcy The Empress Dowager of China has demonstrated that the woman in poli tics can command unlimited considera tion under certain conditions. Six of tho foremost colleges report that their freshmen classes this term are the largest they have ever received. There is undoubtedly a boom in edit cation as well as in business. Thirty-threo sohools have been opened in Santiago De Cuba and these are to be conducted on American lines. The pupils will be instructed in the English language and American his tory. " - Broadminded educators are striving to establish special classes for deficient shidren. Tho idea deserves careful consideration. Tbe pitiful sight is aften witnessed in our publio schools af the teacher who never looks below the snrfaoe of things holding up to admiration the bright 'pupil at the ex pense of the child whose dormant faoultios, if properly developed, might in the end win the race of life. Means taken by the Maryland Doard of Health to insure a good water supply at places of publio resort In that State would be very effloient if the majority of people had learned to take seriously the warnings of sanitary icienoein this respect. It has ordered that examinations be made from time to time by the chemist and the biolo gist of the Board of the water sup plies of such resorts, and that the re mits be reported to the owners of the resorts and be made publio. This is not altogether a new line of sanitary work in Marylaud. The Health Board has the power to inspect water louroes, and has done so, reporting the condition to the owner, and if tho louroe was found to be faulty has suggested that it be abandoned. It has no farther power in the matter, however, except in the preseuco of epidemic disease, and ai its sugges tions have been disregarded in soma lustauoes, it has adopted the plan of publicity. This may influence the proprietors of publio resorts, 'and thus the people may be proteoted against the consequenoes of their own care lessness. Manchester, England, is now con fronted with a serious problem in con nection with its ship canal, says Brad street's. When that undertaking was begun, twelve or fifteen years ago, provision was made in the construc tion of the canal for steamships draw ing about twonty-two feet of water and of a capacity of not over 3000 tons. Sinoe then there has been a steady increase in the capacity and draught of ocean-going steamers, and the canal, owing to the lack of foresight of its projectors, is nnable to accommodate the new class of ocean tramps, to say nothing of the liners which the san guine do not despair of seeing totting forth from Manchester on transatlan tic voyages. It is also pointed out that if Manchester is to succeed in building np a direct trade in cotton with American ports there must be more dock and warehouse accommoda tions. It cannot supersede Liverpool as a cotton port when there is no ade quate provision for storing the staple as it arrives, It would seem that this 'ack of capacity in the canal itself and the want of warehouse facilities are affecting the growth of the caual busi ness. In the" first half of 1898 its rev ennes increased about $15,000, but in the corresponding half year of . 1897 the increase was $80,000, and, in 1996, 190,000. What is probably the most radical departure from the old system of trial by jury is under test in Louisiana. -The change is by authority'of the re cent Constitutional Convention in the State. That body, in addition to othei remarkable acts, provided that in criminal cases where the punishment may not be imprisonment at hard laboi the trial may be by the judge, without a jury; if the punishment may be im prisonment at bard labor, the case must be tried by a jury of five; and if the punishment must be hard labor then the jury shall consist of twelve, the concurrence of nine of whom is sufficient for a verdict. As explained by aLouisiana paper, the purpose of the enactment was to get rid of the delay and expense of long jury trials and of disagreeing juries. In this re spect it is a success. The courts hav been able to dispose of much mort business, and at lessened cost, the re duction in expense at a single term o one court being (2000. It remains t be seen, however, how the change wil affect the prisoner. On this point the framers of the consiitutional clause ap peared to entertain doubts. Thej made its place in the constitution tena tire, by a provision that the Legisla ture may change it after 1904, and re turn to the old system if the new on is found not to work well. i r .- vrm Sj.ginI 'I if QFTH& Big RuMpmrjt OM MATTHEWS and his sister Josie were walkincr leis- nrulv alnnrv 1 1 a m " ''if lane which led from latel th6 lower raHturo- Wffmfc up through the cornfield, to the house. They wore walking slowly and talking. Torn was sixteen years old a slim, light-haired boy, with an interesting face. Josie was two years younger, and being much like Tom, and a girl, was of course, pretty. It was Tom who was talking. "I am going away," he was saying, "and I am going to be extinguished. I am not 'going to stay on a farm all my life. I can draw letters now as good as those on some of the signs in town, and I am going to be an artist, and extinguished." The two had by this time entered the cornfield. It was autumn, and the cornstalks had all been cut away, leav ing scores of great, yellow pumpkins that, in places, seemed to lie so thick ly that one could hardly pass between them, A little later they would be gathered and shipped to New York QoH.'i ov cfplenty overflow With Cfoclous gifts for nwn Ills loving bounty lie bestows In ways beyond our ken, City, some eighty miles away. The Mathews place was famous for its big pumpkins, and tho amount received enoh year for this crop was no small addition to the income of tho little Connecticut farm. Sometimes during corn cutting Tom had amused himself by scratching sen tences on the big yellow rinds with his thumb nail, giving play both to his imagination and talent for lettering. besides feeling that these words would go soon to the great city and be read by people there who were really apart oi us bustle, and who saw every day the wonderful sights of which he had only read and dreamed. These letters, etched lightly on the ripening pump kins, hardened over with a white crnst in a few days, and became very dis tinct and easily read. On one he had inscribed, "What Do You Think of Me?" on another, "This is My First V lsit, and so on. i many, tbe desire to behold for himself the sights of New York, and to seek his fortune like Dick Whittington, and others of whom he had read, had become a resolve. He had revolved his plan over in his mind nntil it seemed perfect, and fame and fortune already withiu his grasp. TOM LEAVES TBE FARM. He had spoken of it to Josie now for the first time, and charged her to say nothing as yet to their mother, who was a widow, and who, with the help of Tom and the hired man, ran the place. Josie felt the weight of the secret, but she believed in her brother. She leaned her elbows now on one of the big pumpkins half as tall as herself, resting her chin on her hands thought fully. Tom, meanwhile was laboring at something ou the other side. "It's a good time to go," he was saying to her, "the fall work will soon be done, and by spring I will be mak ing enough to pay for the oxtra help mother will need, and I will send you nice dresses and presents, and every thing, liko thoso New York ladies wear." Josie's eyes brightened, and then grew dreamy. She wished almost that she might go with Tom. How nice it was to be a boy. Then she walked aronnd to see what it was that Tom was doing so industriously. With a final flourish at the end he arose, and the brother and sister, standing side by side in tho October afternoon sunlight, read: "I Will be Extinguished." Tom landed in New York about the middle of Ootober. I am quite sure there were tears in his eyes, however, when he at last said goodby to his mother and sister; and Josie, I know, wept bitterly, though perhaps her grief was not altogether hopeless as she remembered the silk dresses thut Tom was to seud. Mrs, Mathews kissed him tenderly, though she said but little she had grown ac customed to parting. Tom's first day or two in the city were spent in looking abont. As a matter of fact he did get lost a good many times, as Josie had prophesied, and would probably nevor had reached his boarding house tho first day at all, And o beyond cerulean Bltlea, To lila great throne above The thank of grateful million) rlsa For His unchanging love. without the aid of numerous policemen. The address of this boarding house had been given him by a neighbor who had onoo visited the city, and Tom found, by counting the money, and making a mental calculation, that he had barely enough to keep him there three weeks. He must there fore set about securing a position at once. Artists and their studios were quite different from what he had imagined, and no one seemed anxious to engago an assistant. One man with a French accent offered to take him as a pupil at a 'rate of tuition that would have used ap Tom's capital in a few days, to say nothing of board. Most of them hardly noticed him at all. At the end of a week he grew dis heartened by h,is unsuccessful efforts to become an artist and had modified his plans. He would be a sign painter. But somehow his efforts in this direc tion were equally disheartening, and three days later he desoended still further the sliding scale of art. He oould make letters so well, he would secure a placo as box-marker in some mercantile bonse. "Let's see how you can mark," said one man in the shipping room of a big house on Peorl street. Eager to try, Tom took the brush and dipped it into the marking-pot. Then he made a few letters on the smooth board placed be fore him. The brush was big and mushy, and different from any he had used. He was took anxious to succeed. His letters were ragged and stiff. The man beside him took the brush. "This is the way to mark," he said. As Tom watched the ease and rapidity with which t be graceful letters seemed to fairly flow from the soft brash, he turned sick. "Yoa will make a marker some time, but yoa need practice." His artistic dreams bad vanished. He simply wanted work any kind that would bring money. The next morning he got his break fast at a cheap littlo place on Fulton street, where there were always a lot of big yellow pumpkins out in front to serve as a sigu. tIIe came here as often as he could, because the pumpkins re minded him of home. It was on the following Saturday that he earned his first money. A snow had fallen during the night, and a saloon-keeper gave him twenty-five cents to shovel away the slush from the pavement in front of his door. The next week ho earned fifty cents in a ! similar manner. His capital was re duoed to two dollars now, and he was eating barely enough to keep him alive. He continnod to go to the sign of tho big pumpkins for his meagre lunches, as being the one place in all the vast city that had for him a flavor of his home. Finally, when he had but a dollar left, te spent more than half of it for a shoe blacking outfit, and mingled with the throng of street boys around Printing House Square. This was a sad end to his dreams. Instead of painting pictures or beauti ful signs, or even marking boxes, he was painting boots. He was able, how ever, to earn enough to pay for a cheap lodging, and be able to eat as high as three ten cent meals a day at the sign of the big pumpkins. Thanksgiving camo lato that year. The day before was cold and sloppy, and no one wauted a shine. Tom crept disconsolately down Fulton street to his supper. He had a little money. By dint of economy ho had accumulated nearly two dollars as a sinking f and. Perhaps unconsciously he had saved it for a purpose which he did not confess even to himself. As he drew near the cheap little eating house with the big golden pump kins in front, his eyes suddenly grow dim and he trembled all over. Tho light streamed out on the pavement, and in its radiance, ho read on ono of tho great yellow rinds tho fatal words he had himself wrought threo months before on that beautiful October after noon, with sweet sister Josie looking on. "I Will be Extinguished." He had learned long sinoe his wrong use of the word. In fact he had mis givings and looked it up before ho left home. But it did not seem to him now to be so wrong cither. The tears streamed out of his eyes so ho could not see. "It was a true prophecy after all," he thought bitterly. "I am extinguished, euro enough." lie wiped the tears away and looked among the pumpkins for others with his work on them. He found two more. He would like to have fallon down and kissed them as Columbus did the ground at San Salvador. But he was too hungry for sentiment. While he waited for his supper within, a boy that he did not know sat near him laboriously reading a lettor. Tom ordered pork and beans, because they were cheap and filling, then suddenly remembering and growing reckless, he added a piece of pumpkin pie. Whilo he waited he glanced side wise at his neighbor and unconsciously read the first lines of the soiled letter: "Dear Son: I hope you ore well " Again the tears filled Tom's eyes nntil he could not see. Just then the waiter brought their suppers. Ex perience on the street had long since made Tom'friendly with other boys of his class. When ho had eaten a little he said to the boy beside him: "Is your home outside of the city?" "Yes ten miles out beyond Ho boken." "Anybody besides besides your mother?" "Yes, I got a father what's sick, and two little twin sisters. Mother goes out washing, and I sell papers over here so's to help along." "Do you go homo often?" "Not very. It costs fifty cents every time, but I go once a mouth, mostly. I couldn't go last month 'cause I saved my extra fifty cents fcr a present to tako to tho twins to morrow." Tom motioned to tho waiter. "Bring another piece of that pump kin pie," ho said, with almost a ring of triumph in his voice. "The pump kins that pie is mado of came off my mother's farm," he added, turning to the boy. "I want you to try a piece of it. And did you say it costs fifty cents to take you home ami back?" "Yes." The boy looked up at Tom curiously. "Fifty cents the round trip." "Well," said Tom, his thin face suddenly glowing with the light of a new resolvo, "it costs nearly two dol lars just to go to where I live but I'm going there to-night." I oooooooooco . . . u UAKVlJNtfA TURKEY. DIBECTIOXS FOR TH OKI.T PERrECT SD FBOPER WAT TO BO IT. ooooooooooooooooooooooooco y ) N every State in r the Union the national bird for this one day is not the eagle, but the turkey. Dedicatodby the first Pilgrim and Puritan settlers of New England as the bird of grateful signifi cance, many generations of American oook ery have made the proud gob bier the symbol of what has become a thorough na tional festival, proclaimed by tho President and all the Governors of the States. The long sermons and the long faces of the colonial days have disappeared. But the turkey re mains- -a toolhsomo and triumphant survival, full of a savory satisfaction and a juicy joy, whereof the popular palate promises never to grow tired, Next to the art of cooking this glori ons bird stands the art of carving it, ana mo amateur who is this year called upon for the first time to ollioi ate over the Thanksgiving pieco de resistance may do bo with great sue cess if he follows tho directions as given here: wo, 1 removing: toe left wino, Placo the fork in the breast of tho turkey as shown in cut, having ono prong on eachsido of the breast bone, Grasp the handlo of tho fork in the left hand and, laying the flat of the knife parallel with and close to the neck, just above where the left wing joins the body, cut downward, catch ing the joint. A slight pressuro severs the cartilage, and a single sweep of the knife removes the wing. NO. 2. REMOVING LEO AND SECOND JOINT. Put the point of the knife into the flesh which holds tho second joint to tho carcass, and cut downward to whero tho second joint s bone joins with the carcass. NO, tf. SLICING) OFF THE BREAST, The breast may be sliced off in two ways. That shown in the illustration removes it in slices parallel to tho breast bono, as indicated by the dotted lines. It may also bo romoved in slices by cutting crossways. NO. i. BKMOVINO THE OT8TEB BONE. Place tho flat of the knife against the vertebrio connecting the pope's noso with the carcass and press tho edge in the direction of the neck of the bird. When the knife reaches the place indicated by the dottod line turn tho blade, and tbe leverage causes the oyster bone to fall into the plate. After removing the oyster bono turn the platter and remove from the right side the wing, the leg, tho breast and the oyster bono in tho tame manner as ou the left sido. KO. 5 REMOVING THE WISHBONE. Place the flat of the knifo against the breast bone, next tho wishbone, and, keeping it pressed against tho carcass, sweep it toward the neck. This removes the wishbone. tar NO, C SEPARATING THE OTHER BONES. The dotted lines show how to re move the pope's noso, the two bones to which the wings are articulated and the breast bone. The latter is re moved last of all becaaso tho fork is never taken ont of its original posi tion in the breast bone until that bono is separated from the carcass. A Terrible lilow. Just as J. Turk and family aro about to leave for Canada to cscapo the annual slaughter of their raco Papa Turk picks np a paper and reads that the Canadian Government has issued a proclamation calling npon its subjects to observo Thanksgiving Day iu the American way. The man who wants the earth prob ably never stopped to think what tho axes would bo. Puck. rvrma :. . t j1 i, mv, m IITE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNf MEN Or THE PRESS. Tlie Sea of Finance Financial Item A Flac to Vlalt A Great Discovery A Notable Success Kemlntscencos Mr. Quiverful's PostUre statement, Etc. 'Ob, never plunge, for yoa could not do worse," Tho youth exclaimed with an improsslvo fervor, 'Unless vour family has an ample purse To throw you when you nood a If fo pre server." Washington Star. A n ice to Vlalt. "Doesn't Miss Flimflam make de licious sandwiches?" "By George! yes; I wish she would marry some other inau and go to housekeeping." Financial Item. Short "I say. Long, lend me ten dollars until the fifteenth, will you?" Long "Sorry, old man, but I've got some heavy bills to meet ou the sixteenth." Life. A Great Discovery. Mrs. Real "Isn't it strange?" Mr. Bead "What, my dear?" Mrs. Bead "There never yet has been a strike iu an alarm clock fac tory." The Jewelers' Weekly. Mr, (Julverfur Positive Statement. Mrs. Quiverful "Do your know, dear, that I think the baby sometimes cries in her sleep." Mr. Quiverful (slyly) -"I don't know about that, but I know she often cries in mine." Wanted I'loiily of Room. 1t rah? Passenger "I'm not a bad fellow, but you want to give me a wide berth." Judge. Reiulnisci'iices, "I gave my husband a dose of sulphur aud molasses for his blood." "Was he willing to take it?" "Yes; but ho said it wasn't half as ood as that his mother used to make." Chicago Record. A Notable Success. Footelight "How did your friend play the part of Julius Cicssr?" Sue Brette "Great! I really thought the audience would assassinate him before Marc Anthony had a chance." Yonkers Statesman. 'Hough on Ue Dude. De Dude (who does not like a very high collar) "These collars are vory high. Show me something lower." Salesgirl (with dignity) "Those are the cheapest we have, sir. We don't keep slop-shop goods." In Forgiving Mood. 'Do you recognizome, sir?" "I do not." "I expected as much. I am the wretched man who eloped with your daughter live years ago. Take her back, sir, and all will be forgiven." Lifo, Base Ingratitude. Parrot (scornfully) "Aw what a hat! What a hat! What a hat!" Old Lady (indignantly) "The nu grateful beast! I'll resign from the Audubon Society at once and trim my bonnet with parrot wings." Harper's Bazar. Strong Healing Power. "Did that staff revive yon?" asked the attending physician of his im patient patient. "Revive me, Doc? Good heavens! Three doses of that medicine would resuscitate the dead languages." De troit Free Press. Hall Ills Own Troubles. His Confidential Mau "The mis sionary says he is ready to be a martyr." The Cannibal Chiof "Oh! it's easy enough for him to talk. Look at me! I am a martyr have been for years to dyspepsia." Puck. Her Wonderful Powers. ' "My wife," said the tall man, "is as womanly a woman as you could find, but she can hammer nails like lightning." "Wonderful!" sang the chorus. "Lightning," the tall man contin ued, "seldom strikes twice in the same place." Too Heavy For Comfort. McDermott "Sure it's aheavy man yez are. How much do yez weigh? ratmau "I suppose yon d like to see me weighed?" McDermott "Yis, I d like to sco yez wade ashore." The King's Jester. TO TrtAiw mm 7 ES;Wa?t IKS mm A MURMUR FROM MUOVILLE. There's been th tllngdest eartbquat to what's enllod our soolnl status; ail th gala we called "our owneat" now they sca'cely will look at us! W have plenty fnlth tn beauty, but we bare . no place to pin it, For tho khIs malt o no concert 1 meat of tbt fact that wo ain't la It Since them volunteers came home From Santiago! rbrou?h the spring and through th sam mnr days, we scarcely need to mention, (Ve took these gals to picnics, and we showed 'em much attention, Ind they cheerfully attended ev'ry danc held in their honor. Cut there's aomethiug seems to whisper to vkus each, "Oh! you're a gonerl" Since them volunteers cam homo From auntlago! Of course wo don't l.elittle all tho yarm thnm lad! are tellin', low they stormi'd the hills of Cuba with t lie Spaniards round them yellln'; 3ut wbnt hurts us is to notice Sal and Jan and Sue and others ind a bugcin' them, doggone til just tho same as they were brothers Since them volunteers camo homo From Santiago! Course, our motives they is honest, and you mustn't misconstrue 'em; Let them fighters hare thu glory, let them have all that Is duo 'em Jut It does seem kind of meauisb, and it makes our voices husky n'hen we think the pils that loved us hurl should throw us down McCiusky, Since them volunteers camo homo From Santiago! -laUlmore American. HUMOR OF THE DAY. N. Peck "My wife hasn't spoken jross word to me for two- weeks." Uetserhaws "Wheu is Bhe coming back?" "How well you look, Dibbsl When lid yon get back?'- "Get hick? It vas my wife wh) went away." Chi iago Record. Professor "What happens to gold hen it is exposed to the air?" Stu ient (after long reflection) "it' itolen." Tit-Bits. She "You never see my husband augh at his own jokes," He "No; out you cau't blame him for that." Yonkers Statesman. "Ma, is there auy pie left in the pantry?" "There is one piece, but von can't have it." "".Ma, I've hodit," Cleveland Plain Dealer. Bowles "Did you cb'mb the Alps vhile you were abroad?" Cnpps 'No. Just rau up a bill, that was ill." Indianapolis Sentinel. "Do you have to treat your maid as if she were a member of the family?" "Mercy, no! We have to be very kind ind polite to her." Tid-Bits. "To snuff a candle out accidentally .s a sigu of marriage." "Yes, and to turn down a lamp intentionally is a jign of courtship." Chicago Record. It's the maid with ten diplomas Aud tbe quite superior CHrrlnge Who's uot smart enough to cunturo . One cortltlcate of marriage. -Life. , , "Don't you think a nice tramp gives )ne a good appotite?" "Well, I cau't lay that I think tramps are nice; but never saw one without the appe lite." R. E. Morse "Oh, you got a jewel s-hen you married me!" Mrs. R. E. Worse "Did I? Well. I'm sure I never got one afterwards 1" Jewelers' Weekly. Barnes Tormer "I moved the audi juce to tears in my death scene." Knight Stands "Yes, they knew you weren't really dead." Philadelphia Inquirer. The man who persistently takes no thought for to-morrow will awake some morning and fiud it is yesterday, and he won't be able to get over it. West Union Gazette, "The fight was all over in a min ote," said the witness. "W'y, it was all done as quick as a ole married man kissin' his wife good-bye." Indian apolis Journal. Old Lady "Where will the next car take me, sir?" Conductor -"It is likely to tako you most anywhere if you stand there in the middle of tho track." Boston Courier. Proprietor (to editor) "Well, tho first number of our new paper looks well, but hero is one thing I don't like." "What?" "Why, this com munication signed 'An Old Sub scriber." Tit-Bits. Mrs. Yauderbeek "This dress cost me many sleepless nights." Mrs. Dyer "How was that?" Mrs. Van derbeok "I had to wait until Henry was asleep before I could go through his pockets." Town Topics. Bilkins "Who was it wrote 'Ac tions speak louder than words?'" Harper "I don't know, but I'll bet the thought occurred to him while he was trying to sneak upstairs at 3 o'clock in tho morning." Chicago Daily News. The Coining ltn It ! I p. The achievement of the Oregon d ir ing tho recent war has demonstrated the fact that upon our battleships tud cruisers we must rely for onroffeusive and defensive conduct on Ue high seas. The Oregon and Brooklyn hav proven themselves ideai de'enlers. Tho little converted yacht the C'lou cester made short work of the tit'jr and Pluton, which rauked aiuoug tho very best of the destroyers, lae.o was a great hue aud cry abot't torpedo boats, destroyers and rams wiioii tho war began and everybody wa on the qni vivo to know just exactly whaf was likely to happen wheu this flotilla got iu line of battle. But for some reason or other they cams to grief quite early iu the action, and the smaller craft steamed about among them with as little fear for them as they had respect for the power that owned them. That they came to grief and Btruck a heavy blow at the future of bucIi craft will bo the verdict of history.
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