t J WE KICK THE CHAP THAT'S DOWN w Xhil in a queer old world of ours, juit aa it'a always been, It ia made up of hilla and dale), of women and of men; 'And while a host ia ever near tlie one that wina tlie crown. A goodly number are pbout to kirk tlie chnp thnt'f down. Whoever atrivea in any line and meets with great iiceeH The world will ait up half tlie night to flatter to exccwi; But woe to him who trie and faila lie get n chilling frown. IieoiiHO ao nmny still delight to kick the - . chop that down. And ho T fancy 'twill remain down to the end of time Since human nature's 'bout t!iu anme in every ago and clime: A man hna nlwaya been a mnn, a clown hat been a clown, o there will alwaya lie a crowd to kick tlie chap tli.it down. Mont on Globe. ljin,ee's Temptation ft flll(UU U I bill fJ lU fclUl if. i lly Clio Stanley. y- OW nnd muiicnl sounded the I n ripple of the tiny brook ns It I V run rlverward. past the vino, wreuthed door where Victor Poty's young wife out, with lior brown bnlred baby In her onus. A Ion? hour nlie bnd wit there, with the child on her knee, crooning old songs, which she hud loved to sing when n gay-henrtod girl. In her fat tt cr's bouse, but whleh she had almost forgotten In tlio work-day life which bad been hers for the, last two years. She had been very happy, though. In her wild Western home. It bild grown to be for her the centre for nil happy visions, all pleasant dreams, nil peace ful days. By her cheery fireside In the long winter evenings and by the sweet climbing rosis out on her little poreti on the bright summer nights. bIio had learned contentment: and she often asked herself, In the quiet autumn dnys which were sprendlng n golden (.dory over the Mirth, what there hud been in those old days half as satisfying as tin- dimple joys of their bonie-llfe. And then sue would go In, nnd lay (he bnby down Is Ills cradle-bed, nnd go about on light, quick feet, to pre pare their evening meal. But on this brightest of bright day, when she had been thinking with u half-longing of the forms and faces nt home, there? had dashed down the road a gny cavalcade fair ladles nnd brave gentlemen, in holiday nttlre and foremost nmong them was Madge AY'lUlur, n careless, happy rider, Intent, on the double duty of managing her liery pony and of seeing every beauti ful thing on either title of the road. She "was the first one to catch h glimpse of the cottage stnuding back among the trees, and of the sweet picture framed In by the scarlet bloom of the nutumn lenves. "Oh, Clara:" she said, wheeling her pony so as to bring her to the side of Miss ltodelle's horse, "do you si thnt exquisite picture In there? It's n poem without words, nnd isn't It beautiful?" "Don't you know the face, Madge?" "Surely It can be no one we know, living here In Ibis wilderness?" "It Is Almec Dane." With a cry of surprise, Madge Wild er turned her pony's hend, nnd beck oning to Ray Ilareourr, the gentleman nearest her, she rode directly toward the cottage. Almee bnd come out on the steps and watched them as they dismounted; but only their side faces were toward her, and the low branches of the trees swept down between thein, nnd so sho really had no Idea of meeting oid friends, until Madge's clear voice rang across the Intervening space: "Almee Dane, Is It truly you?" And then, like a lire that springs suddenly Into blaze, up leaped the old love and friendship Into vivid being again. "Oh, Madge!" she cried. And the two friends bnd met, and their arms were round each other, nnd for one moment even baby was for gotten. But Madge introduced Mr. Ilareourr, and that reminded Aimce that she too, bad a young gentleman to Introduce; and the brown-haired boy, so like his father, with his big blue eyes and smiling mouth, was brought out and held up with a mother's proud delight. Before they were half through ad miring blm, Victor Doty came In, and when he found that her friends had gone ou, and -that Madge wns intend ing to spend two or three mouths with u relative only five miles distant, be said at once, with a genial smile: "Why not stay with us a Httla while. Miss Wilder? Our cottage is a small one, but we nlwnyB have room for a friend; and I nm sure your pres ence would cheer Almee." Almee looked her entreaty, and Vic tor promised to send for Madge's trunk tho next morning. "I cannot resist so warm an invita tion; so if you will give me a nook at your fireside for nvo or six days, X will stay," said Madge. Mr. Mnrcourt agreed to take a note for her, that her truuk might bo ready in the morning, and galloped awty with a little look of regret at leaving her behind. "You won't need much hero, Madge, In tho way of dress," said Almee, laughing. "Wo never sea company, and the dress you have ou will do for all occasions."- Madge smiled, but evidently thought differently, for when her trunk cane, there was an array of dainty dresses spread out for inspection that made Aiuiee's brown eyes envious. That night Madge put on a soft-tinted silk, the hue of wood-vlolots, and with a delicate scarf dropping from her shoulders, and a white lily (which Almee bad broken for her from a little vase In the window), fulling from her shining hulr, she looked like a queen beside Almee, in a plain chlnta dress d hair banded plaluly buck, Almee felt the difference, and wns um Victor noticed It, too; and wheu Madge, with an exquisite voice, begau to lng, sho did uot wonder that be Was enUanes-d. "Don't you slug, Almee?" Madge asked, when she had sung a dozeu songs for thent, each one. thrilling And sweet. "No," said Almee. softly. "I ran only make music with my fingers." "Well, then, you surely ought to have n good piano." Almee sighed a soft bit of a sigh thnt somehow found its wny to her husband's heart but she mnuaged to answer gaily: "I am waiting till ot;r ship come? in." The piano was hardly missed, though, while Mndge entertained them every evening with her churmlt'g voice. As the girl's visit drew near a close, Almee begnn to feel a sorrowful kind of satisfaction. . Though she had never betrnyed her feelings, she wns grow lug jealous ol Mndge. Robed In her silks and soft face every night, wllli the lustre of Jewel nt the fair thront, ttha girl would sll In a glamour of light nnd an ntmos phcre of sweet sounds, nnd wns even to Almee's clouded eyes a mirror ol lovelluoi-s. There wns a glow of wnrmth about her, too, which nppenled strongly tc the senses; nnd while Almee mourned Victor's defection, she scarcely won dered nt It. When Madge first came Almee, tht kind, thoughtful hostess. Insisted thai Victor should take the girl to rldt often, while she remained nt hoin to look after bnby; but now lmhy'i face could no longer charm her, ,'ot she was In the chill mist of distrust. That morning she had heard, through the half-open door, Victor say, softly: "If Almee was only out of the way!'' "What a wish for a devoted husband to express!" Madge had replied, laugh ing. "It is your "fault only, Madge," ii? bad said. In an eloquent voice. And Just then their horses were ill the door, and they had ridden away, Victor forgetting the good-by until Madge reminded him of It. The pound of the horses' hoofs hid died away, nnd ft 111 Almee sat, with her head bent down and her eyes full of tears. "I could not have dreamed It," she whispered to herself. "No! He really wished me out of the wny. And shall I not go. if It will make him happier?" And the light of the perished happi ness made her pnle face bright. She took bnby In her arms nnd kissed him a hundred times; llugering with a wistful tenderness over the smiling lips and tlie sleepy blue eyes, and then she put blm down In his cradle, pulled the dainty curtains, together to keep out the light, and wrapping her waterproof around her, went out from the little paradise which had been borne. A mile away, as she was hurry hi;; along the road, in au opposite direction to thnt in which her husbnnd and Madge had gone, she heard their voices borne along ou the wind in '.Ight Inughter. She bowed her head nnd went swift ly by, but uot before both of them had recognized her. "Almee!" they exclaimed. In one breath, and Madge held still her Im patient horse, while Victor sprung to the ground and caught In his arms the flying figure. "Almee, darling, what are you doing here, and whore Is baby?" At that question she burttt into loud cr sobs, which shook her frame, then, losing suddenly her fictitious strength, she fainted away. Somehow they got her home; nnd there, by the time they hud coaxed the roses back into her chocks, tlie secret wag told which had so nearly caused Victor Doty to lose his wife. For a lumbering wagon was driven to the door, nnd out of it live men lifted Almee's new piano, which Victor had ordered, u week before, nt Madge's loving Instigation. Madge stayed long enough to henr Almee wnko tho old music again wllli skillful fingers; nnd wheu, a weelc later, she b.ido them good-by, Almee whispered, with n happy smile: "Ah, Mndge, I do not believe I shall ever bo Jealous again!" "And if you, are," laughed Madge, "don't be tempted to run away and kave that bnby!" Saturday Night. OrniBuy ltrJectW Pulry IteciulU. The Cerman (iovernincnt Is very careful indeed in its selection of Men for service for China, sayi a Berlin correspondent. Of those who pre sented themselves as volunteers only ten to fifteen per cent, were passed as medically fit. All desirous of be ing selected for service there must be able to prove that there Is no truce of hereditary tuberculosis or madness in their system. They must not be of choleric or melancholy disposition. Their si; In n.ust bo elastic, und not In the least puffy or bloated, nnd they themselves neither excessively thin nor excessively fat. Their hearts must not be Affected by bill climbing or run ning, the beat having to renin in under 120 during such exercise, and no one liable to colds In the head or in tlie lungs, or anyone suffering from mdl gestlon or rheumatism would nave a chance of being accepted by tho medi cal board. Scientific French Berber. The crusade against microbes and bacilli has now extended to the bar bers' shop In 1'urla. In front of each chair thero is a gas burner. Bone or celluloid combs are used Instead. The burner turns on the gas, uud before he commcuccs operations be slowly pusses his metallic comb several times through the flames. Ills scissors and razor are likewise thus purified by fire and his customer Is reassured by wit nessing this burning up of all tho mi crobes before his hair is touched with the instruments. The risk from the brush Is 'mitigated by the constant uso of antiseptic hull-wash, in which thy mol, ou account of Its pleasunt odor, ia the favorite lugrcdlcnt. London Lancet. A Cat Ooea Mad. Cats are subject to maduess as well as dogs, as a French woman found to her cost the other day, when her feline pet attacked her and her child, biting them severely. The cat was killed by a gendarme uud mother and daughter Bent to the Pasteur Iuslllute. i STORY OF THE CENTURY AN OUTLINE IN BRIEF OF ITS CLO. RIOUS TRIUMPHS. In Political llevolntlnn nnd Moi-IkI Kto l.tlnn It Ilaa Keen a Tltnntle Perlo.l Called Both tha" Wonderful Century" and "the Teople'a t'eirtnry." Alfred Riifsel Wallace calls It "the Wonderful Century." I fall Oaino call It "tho People's Century." CuntlHe Flammnrlon calls It "Ihe Kra of As tronomical Discovery," because of file f.pectroscopc, which ban brought with in the range of human vision 4H.(KKi.' 1)00 new world. Sir Norman Lock yer calls It "the Scientific Century." Olher eminent authorities have vari ously thnrncterized It. as the Century of Discovery nnd Kxplornllon. the Century of Mechanical Invention, tiie Century of Commercial Expansion, tht Century of Stenm nnd Electricity and the Century of Social Progress nnd Rel'orin. In truth, II. has been nil these things, nnd more. In polltlcnl revolutions nnd social evolutions It has been a Titanic cen tury. At Its opening nil the world excepting the United Stntcs wns Im perially governed. At Its close all 1he Americas and France nre demo cratically governed both in fact and In name, nnd the British monarchy has become a republic In all but name. There Is In fact in 1000 no absolute ruler left nmong civilized men, If we except the Czar of nil the Russia, who remains to remind us of Na poleon's prophecy that the world will some day be "nil Cossack or all re publican." The extinction of slavery and the African slave-trade Is pet-hap.-" the greatest single Item In the account of the century's political nnd social reformations. Rut the emancipation of while labor from the twelve and fourteen hotir day that was universal In lNtxi. and the establishment In its place of the day of veil, nine nnd olht hours, the restriction of women's uud children's labor, the general and great rise. In wages, and, nbovp nil, the creation in nearly every civilized country of n free-coinnien-school sys tem, which n hundred years ago ex isted in this country only, nre steps forward of broader scope nnd vnlue thnn the disappearance of African slavery. The Vnlied States, wllli the majestic total or 17,000,000 pupils in Its public and private schools, graphi cally described by the Tnlted State Commissioner of Education, William T. Harris, leads the march of popular education In looo ns It did hi 1800, but the whole world Is now keeping step to the music of the school bell, (rent Britain since 1S70 and all her colonies have free common schools. And all Kurope saving Russia is in the crucible of universal enlighten ment. In the domain of science, ns Sir Norman Loikyer remark. It Is the century that 1ms "entirely changed, and for the 'better, the conditions of human life." It has given us the steam-engine, the steam railroad, the steamship, the telegraph, the ocean cable, the storm-signal service, the geological map, the sewing machine, the renpiug and threshing machines, the printing press, the typewriter, stenography, photography, the tele phone, the oil lamp, the gas Jet, the are light, the electric power house draw ing its herculenu strength from wnt erfulls hundreds of miles away, the Roentgen X rnys, the glnnt telescopes and a host of subsidiary applications of these notable Inventions. Considered as a century of discovery It has given us the great biologic reve lation of Dnrwln, shedding more light ou the origin of life, huninn and ani mal, than nil the previous centuries combined. In medicine, ns Professor Mazzoul says, It has "worked mira cles In tho conquest of pHin and the reduction of tlie perils of Infection." The name of Jenner, Pasteur, Lister nnd Koch would alone make It a cen tury of marvelous memory. Unques tionably, as Sir William MaeCur mac, the eminent British surgeon, vemarks, "tho greatest boons con ferred ou humanity during the hun dred years now ending are the dis covery of anaesthesia, the introduction of antiseptic methods of wound treat ment uud the progress made in tne prevention nnd cure of disease by vac cination nnd Inoculation." e The common assumption that It has been mainly a century of material growth nnd commercial extension may be doubted, In view of the enormous strides thnt have been made sluco 1H00 in populnr education, the improvement l)f labor conditions and the elevation of the masses to u plane of comfort able living unknown even to the well-to-do classes of the eighteenth century. And yet no estimate of It would be Just that left out of account the huge expansion It has witnessed In the population, wealth and commerce of all civilized nut Ions. When tho cen tury began, the annual value of the commerce of the world, covering the interchanges of commodities between all Us people, Is expertly estimated to have been $1,500,000,000. In 1000 It Is fully $J0,000,OO0,000. During thi same period the earth's population in creased from 040,000,000 to about 1. 500,000,000. Thanks to steam power ou laud and sea, overland telegraphs and submarine cables, while the nine teenth century hns seen nu increase l:i the world's population of 135 per cent, it has witnessed at the same time an Increase of U33 per cent, in its com inerce. Until 1S2.-I In England nnd unlll lS.'lo in the United States there were no steam railways. In tho last-named year there were about 200 miles of railway In tho whole world. To-duy there are about 450,000 miles. In 181!) the first steumshlp crossed the ocean, and lu 1820 the totul steam tonnage ii float was about 20,000 tons and of sail tounuge about 6,81-1,000 tons. To-day tho steara tonuage of the world con siderably exceeds lil,000,',)OO and tho sail tonnage is over 11,000,000. Re duced to n common standard of meas urement, tho currying power of vessels on the ocean has Increased from 4, 000,000 tous In 1800 to Coooo,0oo loux iu 1000. Since 18-14, wheu the llrst telegraph line was cousKJeted, about l.WO.LHHI miles of wires have been strung. The first twenty-five miles of ocean cable were laid across the Kngllsh Channel In IH.'l. nnd since then 170,000 niilcn more have been laid. Concurrently there bus been a steady advance In the lime-saving' and distance-destroying speed alike of the railroad train on laud nnd the steamship on sen. Tip 100-mllc-nn-liour railroad train Is n demonstrated possibility, and, of course, will come. Five days from New York to Liverpool is nlmosi a iiincteenlh-century achievement. When we recall thnt in 1800 the fastest time to Kurope wns over a month, thnt It took thirty days In 181S to bring lo New York the news of the gront Wear. Indian hurricane of that year, and that (he first Voyage of on American vessel from New York to Chlnn oc cupied fifteen mouths on its round trip, we can understand why tho steam-driven ship of steel, with elec tric couriers to announce its nrrlvals and departures, has added $1S.50(), 000,000 to the annual value of Inter national exchanges within the cycle New York World. CURIOUS FACTS. Women wtio live In flats In London are finding it almost impossible to em ploy servants, because they are o completely Isolated from the outsld't world. One of the most frequent uses to which the telephone Is put. by French country subscriber!! Is that of nu nlarm to wake them In the moriiln;r. Those who wish to be aroused nt a given hour have only to advise the telephone administration the night be fore of the hour at which they wish to 'ho rung up. The Land That Swings Like a Ham mock Is the name given by Indians lo the territory about San Salvador, Central America. That city was ut terly destroyed by an earthquake on March lit, 1S7, but. the people had grown rlarmed and had deserted It, so only five hundred were killed. It flourishes to-day. The "towers of silence" are two tail towers In Persia, so called by the Par sees. They never bury the dend, but leave the body exposed on the top of one of these towers until the sun and the rain and the fowls of the air have e'eaned the bones of all flesh. Then the bones are collected und placed !li the other towers. There is no doubt the llrst Idea of a suspension bridge wns suggested to primitive man by the Interlacing of tree brunches ana parasitical plants across rivers. Probably monkeys used them before men did. In very moun tainous countries, such as Thibet and Peru, they hnve apparently been used since the dawn of history, possibly earlier. It Is a well knowu fact that the en tire Atlantic seaboard Is sinking at I he rate of two feet a century from Cape Cod to Cnpe Hntterns. If it can sink Dint fast, It certainly has no very solid underpinning, and tome day thu prop.i may let go all at once, and where will New York City be? Vast trncts of Ilollund are already far be low the surface of the sen, und the waves are kept out with the great dikes, anil science says thnt Holland, Belgium. Denmark and all tho south ern coast of the Baltic Sea are sinking steadily. The entire continent of At lantu bus gone down under the waves. Why should not other continents fol low ? The I'umlne of Conlmjn, The day of the cowboy Is drawing to a close. Civilization with Its rail roads. Its steam and electrically pro pelled vehicles nnd, worst of all, Its barb-wire fences. Is slowly and sure ly eallng up the great cuttle ranges of the West and ' crowding the cow punchers out of business. Iu some parts of Arizona nnd In New Mexico Ihe "round up" of the cutilo Is still the principal event of the year. On tho plains of those Territories the cow punchers nnd broncho busters, wlh their gully comparlsoned sombreros and huge spurs, still live the. wild, free life of the prairie, but even for them the end Is coming, nnd soon, like the buffalo, they will be things of the past. The cowboys realize this, ami are drifting grudually Into other busi ness. Hume have enlisted in the cav alry regiments of the army and others hnve given up their horses nud gone Into some humdrum business of city life. Some of the more famous of them have placed a market value on their skill and hired themselves to Buffalo Bill or some circus company and puss their lives In giving imita tions of life lu the "wild and woolly West," within the confines of an areua on a campus of tan bark. It is only a question of a very few years now till tho cowboy will be heard of only In histories of the Western Territories. Folklore or Ihe l int Century. Ill 1805 the trustees of tho British Museum purchased a fine papyrus roll, written ou both f-;-Jcs, the obverse bear lug a series of revenue returns, dated in the "7" year of the F.mperor Clau dius, B. C. 40-47, and the reverse a aeries of mnglc tales written lu !) motlc. An Kngllsh translation of the letter has Just appeared iu England. The stories are part of a series which centre lu a hero named Khamtiu. High Priest of Memphis, thu historical original being the Prince Regent Kh-i-lil-uas, the son of Rameses II. The writer of these stories ha collected a great quantity of folk legends, which were curreut In Egypt at the tluej when this manuscript was written, a I to ut A. I). 70-80; aud the pnpyrus may certainly be described as one, of tho richest collections of first century tales ever discovered. Emperor's Ftellns Wheo Febln Fell. According to the North China Her ald, after the fall ol Peklu the Km peror of China Issued the following proclamation: "Tho pictures of my an cestors have beeu burned. I shall re fiiho to hour nuy music for a month, schools shall shut down, and uffulrs of stnto niny go to thunder; the question with ma is my ancestors. New pic tures must be made, many sucrilk-c o llu red aud grea uttcnUou (iveti." PROGRESS EPITOMIZED PARAGRAPHS SHOWINC A CENTURY'S CROWTH OF OUR COUNTRY. Facta aa to rnpulallon. Commerce, Agri culture, Communication, Transporta tion, Social ProgreM and Literature There Were No "Store Clothe" In 1S00 The New York World publishes the following remarkable compilation showing In a nutshell the great for ward strides thnt were made In tho nineteenth century: PorutATio. In 1800 New York. Philadelphia. Bal timore and Boston contained fewer people than the present population of Rochester, N. Y. There are sixty-two cities to-day larger thnn New York was a hundred years ago. In 1830 Chicago was nu unsurvcyed swamp. Wheu the century begnn the centre of population was eighteen miles west of Baltimore. Greater New York contains four fifths as ninny people ns composed the whole republic In 1800. In 1800 thero were four large cities; to-dny there nro 15II. Number of Immigrants In 1S00, SooO; number in 1800, 311,715. Total number of Immigrants during the century, 18.500,000. Total number of Indians who hnve survived until the new century, 2.), 000. Chicago In 1S:14, n village In a wil derness; Chicago In 1S01, the World's Fair. Three times as ninny people cross Brooklyn Bridge every day us there were In the city of New York in 1800. President Jefferson presided over n country of 000,000 square miles; Presi dent McKlnley presides over a couu try of a,(i02,!)!HJ square miles. PERSONAL. George Washington died before the nineteenth ceutury wus boru Decem ber 14, 1700. Benjamin D. Sllliman, of New York, is the oldest living graduate of Yale; born 1800. ' Sole survivor of the wnr of 1812, III- riini Crouk, of New York, aged 100 years. - - .J...--... COMMERCE. New York's exports In 1S00, $11,. 000.000; in 1000, ?4tl0,O00.000. First coal mine, 1800: first Iron fac tory, 1812; first cotton mill, 1812; first stereotyping, 1813: first gas, ISKi; llrst savings bank. 1.810; first sewing ma chine, 18i8; llrst steam-power press. 1823; first matches, 180; first revolver, 1835; first gold from California, 18-18. In 1800 the llrst patent ever issued to a woman was granted for straw weaving. No pins were made until 1811 $ I a paper. Total number of patents granted In the last sixty-two years, 1,013,050. There are more people engaged In manufactures alone than there were In the entire country In 1800. Sugar consumed In 1800, none; lu 1000, 05 pounds annually per capita. Coffee Imported in 1800, none; coffee Imported lu 1000, 000,000,000 pounds. Business offices hnve grown from two to thirty stories. AOllICLLTURR. A hundred years ago there were no farms west of the Mississippi; to-day the Western wheat crop Is 000,OXK),000 bushels, or one-quarter that of tho world. In 1800 domestic animals were few; to-day there nro 14,000,000 horses, 2,200,000 mules; 44.000.0(H) cattle, 40, 000,000 sheep aud 30,000,000 swine. Tho early American settlers nte their bread with lard or gravy; butter wus rare; last yenr America produced one third of all tho butter iu the world. In 1820 our cotton crop wns 870,415 bales; In 1800 It had grown to 11,235, 383 bales, or ninety per cent, of the tolnl crop grown in the world. ' A century ago farmers reaped their grain with sickles, two iicres being a good day's work. The plow of 1800 was a "crotch drag;" the plow of the Western bo uouza farms is run by steam ami turns eight furrows at once. COMMl'NIOATIOV. First Atlantic cable, 1S58. There have been 21.000 patents grunted for carriages umj wagons iu the last century. The distance from Paris to Moscow is less thun that between New York and Wyoming. In 1800, 003 postoffleos; ill 191X1, 75, 000 postoliices. When Erie Cnnal was opened the news of it wus carried 550 miles In eighty-one minutes by the firing of cannon ten miles apurt. To-day the news would come lu one second by tel egraph. Number of telephones lu 18C0, none; number of telephones In 1800, 1,124,840. In 1800, one mail a week; iu 1000, one mull un hour. TRANSPORTATION. In 1800. twelve weeks to Europe; Iu 1000, five and a half days to Europe. In 1800, six weeks to California; In 1000, five days to California. New York and San Francisco nre nearer by telegraph thnn the Buttery uud Harlem were by stugo coach. First cunul, 1804; first steamboat, 1811; first carriages, 1814; first rail road. 1820; first street railway, City Hall to Fourteenth street, 1832; first steamboat crossed Atlantic, 1.838. A steamboat to-duy reaches Austra lia lu less time than It required to reach Englund iu 1800. Present vnluo of all American ships, 1215,000,000. Fifty years ago the tonnuga of Uni ted States merchant marine was 3,485, J2tlO; to day It Is 5,000,000. To carry a lone of wheat from Buf falo to New York in 1800 cost flOO; to-day It costs $1.50. The railroads to-day employ as ninny men ns America contalued Iu 1800 1X10,000. t In 1800, corduroy roads nnd cow pnths; In 1000, surface, elevated and underground railways. In 1800, Fulton Ferry, fare four cents; In 1000, Brooklyn Bridge, free. nln In fen weeks; to-dny you may go In a palace car In four and a halt days. SOCIAtj PROOIIRSS. A hundred years ago the pillory was still In use. No labor organizations were formed until 1805. I,abor has advanced from two shil lings a day to two shillings an hour.. This century begnn with 000,000 slnves; it closes without any. The first lectures ever given by a w.iinnn were delivered by Funny Wright In 1828. When this country begnn wllhcrnft wns n very prevalent belief. In 1800 there were neither trusts nor millionaires. Fifty-two years ago was held the first womuij's rights convention In his tory. First Woman Suffrage law in Wyo ming In 1870. One hundred yenrs ngo the archives nnd general offices of the Federal Gov ernment were removed to Washington, D. C. Estimated nntiounl wealth nt begin ning of twentieth century, $100,000, 000,000. Amount pnld for pensions since 1801, 12.423,502,488. In 1800 the public debt wns ?S2,070, 204; In 1800, the public debt was $2, 002,08(1,024. The New York police force in J 800 consisted on four officers und seventy two men. In 1800 there were thirty American colleges; to-day there nre 410 Ameri can colleges. The first woman's club, Sorols. was organized in 1808. Tlie first woman's hospital In the world was built In New York in 185-1. There were no "store clothes" In 1800; the men wore "butternut" suits nnd the women wore "linsey-woolsey" dresses, LITERATURE, First religious newspaper, 1S1 1. Congress had no llbrnry when the century begau; to-duy It has the best In the world. From 200 newspapers lu 180 to 21, 100 newspapers In 1000. In 1820 Sydney Smith asked. "Who reads an American book?" To-dny America publishes 5000 books a year, hundreds of which have an interna tional circulation. Seventy years ago there were no pub lic libraries lu America. CITY. GROWTH. Of the 124 cities of 1S00 only 34 ex isted as villages in 181)0. Five began in 1810, thirteen in 1820, seven In 18.10, fifteen In 1840. twenty-four In '1850, seventeen In 1800 und six in 1870. The most remarkable growth per haps is that of Chicago, from 4470 In 1840 to 1,00.8,575. Seattle, from 3533 lu 1880 to 80,070, Is not so rapid. It would have to be 100,000 to equal tho former. Tacoma, from 73 lu 1870 to 30.000 In 1800, gave brilliant promise, but In 1000 It hud only added 1708. Of the large cities St. Louis first ap pears lu the census of 1820. San Fran cisco in 1850, Cleveland (00(5) In 1820, Buffulo (2005) In 1820. Detroit (1422) In 1820, Milwnukee (1712) In 1840, New ark (0507) In 1820. Minneapolis (2504) in lSOO.Omnha (1833) in 1880, Kansas City (4418) In 1800. Dftiver (4740) In 1800, Jersey City (3072) lu 1840, Roch ester (1112) in 1850, and Indianapolis (2002) lu 1840. Of the cities having over 100,000 population only thirteen hail a post office lu 1800. Now postottlce free delivery Is being extended to the furiu. Many of the most promising towns of 1800 failed to muke performunce. Taunton, Muss., seventeenth In the list of 1800, with 38fiO, is now 131 on the list, with 31,030, while Siileni, with 0457 In 1800, has now but 35,950. Nor folk has done n little better, rising In 100 years from 0020 to 40,024. Of the l."9 cities of 1000, .8!) nre In the Unllcd States of 1800 nnd 70 are in (he territory acquired after that dule. Disappearing Watcra. Father Daull, n French missionary In the heart of the Dark Continent, writes from Kareraa Hint, since 1870, the surface of Lake Tanganyika has fallen twenty-fl' e feet; with the re sult that nloug the shore of the lnko there Is a belt of cultivated ground, over hulf a mile In width, between the present water's edge nnd that of twen ty yenrs ngo. The level now seems to be permanently fixed. Father Dnull does not think that there lias been n shrinkage of the lake, but that tho present is lis normal level, nnd that the previous higher level was owing to oue of tho outlets being clogged up. His opinion Is, however, not shared by many travelers. Scott Elliot, who made a careful Investigation of the Inke, found evidences thut at it fond er period the level wns much higher than even iu 1870, aud thinks that there has been a great shrinkage. Be sides, this latter Idea is only in keep ing with the general tendency of Afri can lakes. The Rltwa Luke, which is still fifty miles long and from twelve to twenty miles broad. Is known to bo drying up. Dr. Kandt, a celebruted Gorman African traveler, has recently reported that during his trnvels h. discovered the dry bed of what wiw formerly a large lake between Lakes Albert Edwurd and Klwu. The I-adleV Cabin. An obvious mlsconier, the above stgu Is conspicuously posted on the cablu which lu most of our ferries is sup posed to be set npait for women. In tho rush hours of morning nnd even ing, women, being the weaker, are el bowed usido und pushed back by men of ull ages and degrees of prosperity. who muko a determined onset worth of the football field, thut they may seize and keep the seats. They hnve a cablu of their own, into which no woman steps. Neither the lady elud ' In furs and silks, nor the biundress carrying home her laden basket, no: the girl going to or from her duy's work ever so much us wishes to use the men's cabin. It being us privileged to the masculine element as the smoking car. It would seem that while uny women stood, men should refrain from vent lug themselves iu the lad lex' cablu. The contrary Is the rule. -Collier's Weekly, , FIGHT WITH LION. l'lir Cowboys la a WrratUng Mate with a Hug-a Beaat. Three Tonto basin cowboys had m wrestling contest with the largest mountain lion ever killed In Arizona, a few days uo. Tho men, George Hubbard, Hardy Schell, and A. C. Harer, were riding the range near Sa lome creek. Schell had the only fire arm In the party, a rlflo, and had "only one cartridge for It. Tho cowboys routed tho lion out of soma rocks and rode after It to rope It If possible. Schell tried a 200-yard shot and knocked the lion over, apparently kill ing it, with a bullet through its neok. The three then rode up and dismount ed, to find that the Hon had only been ' stunned by the shot. As they an proached it Jumped to Its feet and leaped at Schell, who knocked It aside with a blow from th.liUt of the rlflo. The enormous cat then Jumped upon Hubbard, crunching the man's left arm and badly lacerating his body with its claws. But Hubbord, who Is possess ed of exceptional strength, caught the beast by the throat and a front foot. Sohell, at the same time seized the hind feet, while Harer ran in and cut the lion's throat with a small knife. The Hon undoubtedly had been weakened by the bullet wound, and the men con sider themselves fortunate to have es caped with their lives. The skin meas ures 9 feet 10 Inches from tip to tip. I.aLef Are Fait Drying I p. Lloutenant O. Olufsen of the Dutch army has recently completed his sec ond series of explorations in central Asia and particularly In the lofty Pa mir plateau, where he first began hl3 studios in 1890. He says that in the pojst few years the quantity of water In Turkestan and Bokhara has notably diminished. A number of oases that were cultivated with much success sev eral years ngo have now been aban doned because the streams that ren dered their Irrigation possible hava Jrled up. This phenomenon Is partic ularly prsmlnent along the little rivers that feed the Syr Darla and the Amu Darla, whose sources are among the highlands of the Pamirs. The quantity of snow on the Pamirs Is decreasing on account of the rapid erosion of the soft schistose rocks which form the ridges, the filling up of the valleys and the Increased average velocity of the wind. With high winds blowing over i surface that Is now more level than formerly, the snows which fed the lakes, the sourcps of these rivers, that helped to give fertility to Turkestan and Bokhara, blow away In large part nnd the result Is that the lakes are much smaller than formerly. He men tions In particular the Yechll Kul, or lake, which was formerly at least 200 kilometers about 120 miles, In circum ference. The lake Is now only about forty miles lh circumference. Parts of It, however, still exist as little lakes :ut off from the main lake In the lower parts of tho former bed occupied by Yechll Kul, when It was one unbroken heet of water. This lake, however. Is not one of the feeders of the river, for it Is a salt lake. A somewhat similar story conies from South Africa with regard to the famous Lake NgamI, dis covered by Livingstone more than SO years ago. The defalcation of Lake N garni has made extremely rapid prog ress in the past ten or twelve years. When Livingstone reached the lake In I84D he found a sheet of water with an area of about 800 square, kilome ters. The lake has now entirely disap peared. Its old bed is a low-lying plain covered with jungle, with small areas at boggy land here and there, but not it vestige of water surface to be seen. The Okawango river, once the outlet jf the lake, Is entirely dry for some twenty miles from NgamI, where It begins to gather water again. Former ly many natives lived around the edges of the lake and raised a great deal of grain there. But culture now Is Impossible, as there Is no water to irrigate the crops, and the result is that the numerous villages around the lake have been abandoned. Only a jomparatlvely f(w herders of cattle still live where lu the flourishing days of Lake NgamI there was a large popu lation. New York Sun. For Stealing Klcetrlo I.lghi. Ah Sin's propensity for walking lu ways that are dark has been demon strated in New York's Chinatown, where nine Mongolian merchants and restaurant keepers have been arrested tor stealing several thousand dollars' worth of electric light from the Edison company. The theft was accomplished through the use of an Ingenious devle arranged by an expert electrician, who farmed It out to the Chinese at $10 per month. MARKET QUOTATIONS. BALTIMORE. Fi.ois, Baltimore, Brat Patent, 4.75; High (Jrado Etro, 4.25. Wiikat, No. 2 Red, 75fc7c'. Cogs, No. 2 White, 43'44f. Oats, Southern and Pennsylvania, 2ti a28. Hi it, Nn. 2, oOtfM. lUv, Choice Timothy. 16.00 fclG.fH; Good to Prime, l.r).(X)'il&.fs. 8traw, Rye in carloads, 10. M'a 11.60; Wheat Blocks, 6.&0- 7.00; Oat Blocks, 7.fjO'8.00. Tomatoks, Stud. No. 3, .80; No. 8, .02. Pkas, Standards, 1.10-&1.4O; Seconds, .80. Cons, Dry Puck, .HO; Moist, .70. Hidks, Citv Steers, .llK .10X; City Cows, .OOa.tW. Potatoits, Burbauks, M)a.UU. Onions, .4')'. SO. Hoo Products, Hhnuldnrs, .07'i.07tf; Cleur ribsidea, .08V 00; llama, .ID .; Mess Pork, per barrel, 15.00. Lard, Crude, .0-1; Best refined, .OA'-j. Buttkr, Fine Creamery, .t 5J!i; Under Fine, ,a3.S4; Creamery Rolls, .24 a .25. Ciikksk, N. V. Fu'nev, .llu) PJ; N. Y. Flats, .ia.12V; Skim Chtwae, .0W'.Uo!i. Euos, Stute, .21 a-Jj North Carolina, .20-.21. Litk Poultry, Chickens, per lh., .08.0!l; Ducka, .09 Turkeys, .00'. 10. Tohaoco, MJ. Inferior, .UWi S.); Sound com mon, 8.50'a-4.50; Middling, G.007.00; 11) (KI.S. l'J.nO llmv. Ilut IliwrM. 5.40'n.83. Siikki-, 3.004.00. Hotis, 3.506.00. NEW YOUK.Fi.oun, Southern, S.HTt 4.10. Wiikat, No. ailed, .0'.a. Uvi, Western, ,B.V,r)0. Coits, Nu. a, ,4G.47. Oats, No. !l, .lW'tf.33. Hot. tub, State, .17'.25. Fans, State, .23. Ciikkhk, Stute, .lO&'ai.ll. PHILADELPHIA. Fi.oua, Soutli m, 3 c.W4.aO. Wiikat, No. a lied, .74 .75. Coua, No. 3, .4J'.4i. Oath, No. a .!U'.3:l. Huttuh, Statu .t) .4. Eucj, l'unu'a ft., .aa.a;i.
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