TO AN OLD it Jims JcmiT Hocus. Old clock, if you've eome hew to giva ad vice . . i About Time's flight. And think to scare ua with your whoels think twice Go low to-night. Dntl preacher of on dreary, weary creed By Death inspired. The limit of our patience you exceed And make u tired. No need for vou to tell Hie 1P" of l'fe With tick and chime. Who made, you Umpire, bidding us to strife, .... ..y calling "Time?" You stand there, "ike a Pharisee of yore, Proclaiming grace, With two admonitory hands before Your amug, flat face. Although you know the time of day at borne, A r lKLINU LliNhi M YiSlEKY tf-a-S ' v ff Life Socretof Young Bond, Whoso Lips a Bullet Sealed. j m 1 m T I Ti? T.tinti.ia mull lin.1 (iiH'Viiil I T I f 11U .klllirn ii,,,., .....a . I ' with Fnnston Ill the Philip- I - i.... , oni,.i I illli'n, mm ii-mim-i, nniij, liml been n town hero for ft .1. 1 l... . .1 ,t. I IllOIILU Ol , llllu Uli-H m'llL wu n,i: 1 stump In the campaign. Several or tlm efimnnli'ii iirntnl'H Itwt fill' n Klin tiny In u Western hotel where their roads crossed In their Journeys to as signments, anil wire comparing notes. The man who had served with Funs toil gradually assumed coininaiul of the conversation, und the tnlk driftetl from a discussion of the quest Inn why men rushed to serve In the Philippine camnaiirn to one of the problems why men, In ninny rases, unexpectedly, ulutiv ii.it utilv tvivii I ii-n t-i.rir tint ilriwn. I ........ ...... ...... . . .l,.l.l ......LI.... .......... In 1. Tli.. I.'.,,,. I llfelll in HIV.i(.lir.-.n in aniim. .im. i.hii- sas man, tor wnom the name .Max- well will do so far as this nrllcle Is .........,1 u.il.l. I villi, ui iii-ii, ruin. "As I was saying, we found men out there who bad been wild, und whose parents were it'i'l to see them enter the army; we found men who had lll.,ll ..fnuon.l 1m 1...... -n.n 'ni.n.l wi-i-i, i i'..jin ill iinr, 1,17 11,11111, iiiirii i who had been n failure In life, even If I they were mere youths; we found I many daredevils. and, curiously enough, most of them were cautious 1-1 tlia fli'liiiF tln. r.. iiii.l un.n.i bnd pasts that they wanted forgotten; wc found some under assumed names, for one reason or another; we found the usual number of bullies, brnggnrtR and bluffers, and being once under flr ivniz tlm iilli'u fni- ttmni Tint- nil ... - ' --- ." .... .... .... ...ii. ...a these made up a very small number in comparison with those who had enlist- iur uive oi couniry, wan jieruaps you sum anouc not Knowing that soiue ft desire fou adventure thrown In. thing was so powerful when you saw "But of nil the curious characters I anu across the strangest was a man :i allied Bond. lie was silent as to his past; he made few friends; there wag a glitter in his eye if wo were In dnu ger which was positively magnetic, and wc came gradually to respect bis reserve and to be proud of him. There was one man In our company,, bow iver, whose propensity for nosing Into others' affairs was especially marked, and who, It was plain to be seen, was offensive to Bond. The name of Pe ters will do' for this Inquisitive num. He was a good fellow, and meant uoth lug more than friendly Interest when he was poking around to find out nil ubout bis companions, and we learned nt last to overlook his weakness all but Bond. It was evident that Bond was desirous of curing Peters or of punishing him for his offensive beha vior. Bond gradually became reckless on the tiring line. Any one could Bee It was not assumed, but was genuine, and this conduct deepened the mys tery as to his past and made Peters the more zealous to find out all about him. "One day Bund fell with a wound, reterg carried him to the rear, cared for him, stayed by him as long as ho could, did everything that could be done under the clrcumstanccH, like of fering to write home, and all thut sort of thing. Ho was apparently Bluing up his chances of living, lie was also thinking whether It was worth while to forgive reters for the past or to give hi in a thrust he would never for get. It was about midnight that Pe ters returned to his pluco with us, and the next morning ho had a story to tell to three of us in whom he con fided," Maxwell paused and, Just as his learers were br coming uneasy, he said this was the Btory Peters had related: 'Boys, -we've gut a murderer among us, not only a. murderer, but the worst kind of a one, a man who killed his father, and who. If it were proved ngaiUBt him, would, up to thts time, have pretended that It whb aa acci dent. He's Bond. It explains why he has been so reckless lately; ho wanted to be killc.1. Matter of conscience, yon eo. He whispered It all to me, asked uie to writo home, saying thut he was dead and h. J passed away forgiving every one and revealing the secret. Ills name Isn't Bond, but I'm under pledge not to tell what It Is. He asked me to writo without waiting for him to die actually, and he wanted me to - 7 B-it him reported dead bo that It would he cnlil.i1 liii.n. ..i,l i,i. -i i.. i.i be cabled home; said big friends would recognize him under the assumed name. It's a mighty sad Btory. "Bond told ino that he came from Uhlo. His father whb n lmnk m-nul ii,.i.t i - ----- - - i"'- acnt and was fouud murdered In the vauit two years ngo. Bobbers had killed him und tnaiio their escape, lit- had evidently surprised them. Young B,,na Wa tho real murderer. He was Just under twenty-one. He had been stealing from bis father's ...... iiu i. sineta ror more than a year - mi. luuu n juiir i o its to keen on in nihil,,. in. ., ant if . , i, " " UBl li or young fellowa whom a sharper dniinTi '."f ''fBu!,rly nna " P'l'- iv ?t , f ,nl"UK' " Bona' twen" tfB L . l ? there haa t0 08 n Bt- S . ok8' for hls fatue' ,n- I""?'" khm ,ut0 liuesg part- ti..,, ir'iw. . l!ai t0 bave 110 k'gi 'ri.. Ti 9 g00d h,B '""lugs, than ta !L".u0tlle,i W"y left t0 l,lm thT ill 7, kuew u 8b0Ut lock. conll,iu'tln to the all that .., .y, .tba watehln "d out dro2 it" wl "lU'lled Up knod- bad bee , doetnr f m,' li4,Uor t"8t watchman ,Tl!U ?n'" ,or tl,e man's went, .. ? knowing the onsy iu ei ? i " rB"t V'H'1 leal- ,J. hi", ' , ' th b,,1,,U trom .euithlly, huv.nif umdu sure that 1 CLOCK. Beware mistakes: It'a yesterday in China now. In Rome To-morrow breaks. And somewhere off In Mara or Mercury, no donht, If it could speak For i to hear, some cluck to-night bawla out, "'Tia Tuesday week!" While one on t'other aide of apace (may ba You'll call it alow) la marking time ut "half-past twenty three Six weeka ago!" So don't get gay with humble aona of men, Aa aotne clocks do; One tiay your wheela will alacken up, and then Cood-Night (o you! Saturday 'Kvening Tout. ill,, wnlnlimnn .tn a .... ..!.... 1. .1 ...w ,. ,. ,i ,, u , . 1 1, ,, II 1 1 1 l 1 1 qij , M. P, Ulttl just got Into the Inner vault, when he i.,.,.h,i t.. , -. ,, , . i iiriiiu u inner null lilivi It UIIU llglll in thu outer room. Hp knew It could not tw. l. ...,..l - . ill: Hit: t II It'll Ilia II, I1 1111 II L OllCe rniSCII his revolver for action and crouched to one side. Then he heard a voice, saying: 'My Cod, I must have killed him. I didn't know it was so power ful. Wake up, Mike!" "There was no response, and Bund says he recognized the voice as that or his father Just In time, for be Intended to shoot and escape In n rush If possi ble. Then Boud became conscious of his own danger. His father might shoot him The father soon saw the rinun ilnnro rtf llm -m,l ill'l.., .1...... ........ . .linn. ,,iii inii-n tl.lu ... ...., l. ....t.l mil... ii ,... lino lliv.1111 lit! HltlU. .11IKI'. JOll Ultlll I no una; you roulilnt! Who is there? Speak, or Pll shoot. Quick!" Then It ..-.. !.... 1... 1 I 1 was that Bond saw he hail no show and he Hhouted to his father not to shoot, and revealed his own Identity. "Then there followed a strange scene In that bank vnult. There were the father, the sou and the unconscious aui,,,,, iiiu r,iiu itiui nit- Illlt'OUSeiOU watchman tocretlier In thn onrtv ln.u.- of the morning-. 'What does this mean, Ron?' said the fulher, sternly. 'Has it come to tills mv nun n imnir .! . tin-.) vnnnn u i 1.1 i ber?' Youne Bond said he WHS irjimii and he replied: 'What are you doing here? Are you n bauk robber your self? Who put Miko In this condi tion?' You see he had overheard his father make that exclamation about Mike, ami he took chances. 'Explain -'1 lui'll l llllllirrD. J-..T.pitt ill your position ou the inside of thut vault,' said the father. 'Explain what Mike,' said the sou. And then the father broke down comnlntelv nml tin. son went to pieces, and each, thinking that Mike was about to die, confessed to the other. The father had been speculating In the Eastern mnrkets, had used up n lot of trust funds In his charge, and the only way for him to get out wus to rob his own bank. He had ulso left some knock-out drops for the watchman, and It was tho com bined dose that made father nud Ron think that the man would die. The son owned up to tho father, and then followed a discussion as to what was best to be dime. "They agreed that the bank must be robbed; that was their only salvation. They agreed also that it would be best for one of thorn to appear to be de fending tlie bank's treasure. It was finally decided that It would bo host for the son to wound the father slight ly In the side, take enough money to suit their purposes and leave his fath er there to he discovered In tho morn ing. The o!d man said he wus so des perate that he would take elmuees, nud he would tell a story about feeling uneasy In his dreams as to the condi tion of uffairs at the bauk and of get ting up In tho night and going down there to see If all was right, of en countering a robber or set of roobers, of having n mighty struggle with them, ending, bo for as ho could recol lect, with a revolver shot which made hlin unconscious, no bad no fear as to Miko. If Mike recovered ho would be so ashamed of being drunk that he would Invent Borne story of being gagged, especially as father and sou had arranged to bind blm with a gag and tie his bauds. "Then father and son planned the details of tho shooting, disarranged the furniture, bounti and gagged the wutchman, took tho money and broke the locks, and tho father lay down after tearing bis clothing and had the son give blm whnt he supposed was only u Blight flesh wound in tho side. The old man was full of nerve, and after tho gbuotlng was over hurried the Bon away and told him how to act when tho discovery wag made lu the morning. They bud wounded the watchman, also. "Bond iiaya ho went homo and to bed and acted his part thoroughly when they roused him to tell blm of the dreadful accident to his father. It turned out reully to be a dreadful af- inir. lor notn the father and the watchman were found dead and tho - lounu oeau and tho bank robbed. Vounit Bond .v i,n Jluuu -"-J8 e made good bis camlilln IT dulitu anil .in listed In tho army so us to get away from tueitorm that arose when It was loiuiu mat Ills father was Insolvent. It goon became the general theory In - ww general tneory In the town thut tho elder Bund had gone there to rob the bank. killed by real bank robber, nud there were those who thought they could remember the exact look of certain mysterious strangers that hud beeu seen about town. A.uiiu i-uiiBi-icuco could Btand ii nr i,i,n. i, a.i ,. . " "Bond' cousclenco could stand it no "-. .iiiu nt) went to KB7T- sub ami enlisted and. came out here ul,l ecretly that o would bo" kllle(1' for Ub httJ uot V courage to comn" suicide. Ha wukted me to ytrUlt t0 hl ''dative clcarine; up the entire mystery, and telling them that he had Plnted his crime. The one thing I cau't understand." said Poteri ln tMin' the "tory- "ls wauta me t0 w,lta u before he dies. He must hare a dreadful conscience. He eald to me: 'I am wouuded exactly In ttje tac la '"y wag '0U""-'1 "hen I ghot him. I kjiow I c"' Just to11 ' ine, and muke sure that tho boys will ' "I'lae me too much. I have done y U,"J l,y "'' d by tho flag.' suy ho. I trjie down aud wept, I'll iilmit, and I'm prepared to say there's no living soul but ling gome good In them. And then there's tho duty of deciding what's to be done If Bond recovers. Ought we to give him away? I Bfty no. ' According to Maxwell the bugles Just then blew for n forward movement, aud soon all were lying on the firing line shooting nt the Filipinos. Max well mnde another awkward puuso, and one of bis auditors said: "Well, I suppose Bond really died and yon fellows did the right thing by him even ln death." "Die?" said Maxwell. "Ureat Scott, no! At least, not then. Ixss than two hours after Peters had told that story Bond came stealing tip to the firing line, and there he lay next to mo all day working like a demon. 'I thought you were dying,' I snld to him. 'Thunder, no,' he replied. 'It was only a little wound. Kcnrcely bled nt all. When Peters wasn't around the doc tor told me It amounted to nothing, but urged me to stay In the rear for tho night. This morning he put a lit tlo plaster on the broken skin, aud here I nm again. Did Peters tell you a long story about my mysterious past? Did. r-h? I thought to. I told him that yarn purposely. I thought It about time to call him off ami make hlui a laughing stock. Pretty good story, wasn't It? Any truth In it. Thunder, no. I knew I was not hurt. Even If Boud shouldn't happen to be my real name, there's no occasion for getting up such a yarn as that. What's that? Am I hurt? Yes, old mau, I guess I am.' "I saw Hint he had been wounded seriously this time. I supported his head on my knee, gave him a drink of water, his eyes became fixed und be tween bis gasps he said to me: "'Maxwell, I guess you had better tell Peters to write that story home, after all. Just as I told It to him. I thought I was dying or near to It last night when I talked to blm. I'm going now. Be sure to tell him to wil ' " "Was he really a murderer and bank robber':" usked one of Maxwell's lis teners. "The army records do not show that ho was,"' wits the response. New York Sun. Mil-king- to the Itulea. When n whole strcet-cur load of pas sengers pat a conductor on the buck aud tell him In vurlous styles of speech that he Is a brick, it Is very conclusive proof of universal approval. As the car was passing a cross street up Woodward It was balled by a loud and commanding voice a third of a block uwny. The owner of the voice was evident ly dressed for some social function and lu a hurry. "Stop that car," he repeat ed ln sterner tones, while the con ductor simply looked and grinned, as did the other occupants of the rear platform. The would-be passenger pulled hie silk hat down tight and again ordered a halt as he sprinted. The talis of his dress coat fluttered from beneath the short box garment on the ontside, and several sporting experts commented upon his wonderful knee action as be made a wide curve ou to the asphalt and gamely continued to chate, yelling at every jump for the cur to stop. Even after it was evident he was going out of his class he knuckled down and did his level best, at the same time saying things that are barred from n famllj' newspaper. At last he was so winded that he sat down on the win dow sill of a grocery store to gasp and shake his list nt the vanishing car. "Don't you know that bo's one of the officers of tho road?" asked a passen ger. "Of course, I do. I wouldn't care If It was old man Wilson himself. There nro no exceptions to tho rules. I've run by my own mother undue like cir cumstances and I'd have given that duffer a race to the end of the road If his wind bad held." Detroit Free Press. XiiEliBhinen and tlia Queen. Curiously enough tho great mass of Englishmen knew llttlo or nothing of the sovereign as their ruler. They bad only the vaguest ltleu of the part she took lu thu government of . ber realm and her people; they knew prac tically nothing of the controlling und dominant force she exercised in inter national und domestic politics. But about this they cured nothing. It wau sulllclent for them to know that she was u goud woman, a woman whose heart always went out to her people, who shared with them their Joys as well as their sorrows, who was keenly interested lu everything that could make them better uud happier. And perhaps more than anything else was the knowledge that she was a woman who had suffered much, whose heart bad been sorely wrenched, and whose spirit often tried, and yet through it all alio had remained serene, hopeful, al ways an example for right living, al ways an Inspiration to the weary and the uilllctcd. ' Perhaps that wag the real secret of tho devotion which eho Inspired In Englishmen the world over. A. Maurlco Low, In Harper's Week ly. 8ektnc Indian Brltlwa. Letters from points beyond the In dian Territory from partlea seeking ludlua brides contlnuo to be received by the officials at Muskegec, I ml. Ter. 'J ue latest was received by Postmaster II. T. Ustes, from Oaks, N. D., and was accompanied by a photograph. It said: "The inclosed photograph Is one of a locomotive engine man, bachelor, thirty-four years, weight 100 pounds. Physical condition perfect. Will go before any board of medical examin ers. At present employed on one of the largest systems ln the Northwest. Have been through the country gome years ago. Can you put ine ln com munication with bouio good Indian girl? One with some education pre ferred." Dallas (Tex.) News. "I.Ull Lord Faantleroy" a lteporter. A Washington special to the New York Times says the original "Llttlo Lord Fauntleroy" la now a Congres sional newspaper reporter. Ho is Lionel, the oldest son of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Buruett. As a member of the staff of a Washington paper be n)tde bis Hppenruuce in the press gal leryof the henutc, seeking Items. He looksVjtlnln uud businesslike, aud not at all nL It would guem Llttlo Lord Farntleroynight look as a youug uiuu of twenty prVibeieubouU, PROGRESS OF THE HEN DEVELOPMENT OF THE POULTRY BUSINESS IN THIS COUNTRY it Wealth rrodnrar ttie American Tien la a Marrnt The Htandanl of Per feclloa The Oreen Dark Bnalneee I rronpuroae The Pigeon Fanclera. Official census figures will show Ihut as n wenlth-producer the Ameri can hen Is a mnrvel, snya the Chicago Uecord. As an illustration of the earning power of this autocrat of tho barnyard It will be well to quote from Missouri, tho foremost. State In the In dustry. Tho report of the Bureau of Statistics for the last fiscal year shows that the total number of pounds of poultry, live and dressed, shipped from the 114 counties of that State were 10tJ,088,71 pounds, nn increase of 3(1. At7,443 pounds over the preceding year. The total number of doxens of eggs shipped from there last year were 34,875,040, making an aggregate value to the producers of poultry and eggs or ?12,001,08.54. The relative Impor tance of the poultry Industry of that State, as compared with the other In dustries, will be better understood when It is shown that the totnl value of all corn, wheat, oats, flax, timothy seed, clover seed, millet seed, cane seed, castor beans, cotton seed, to- uucco, broom corn, bay and straw. which was shipped by all the counties In that State last year did not equal me values or. mo poultry una eggs shipped during the same time by over 517.000. The American Slnndard of Perfec tion, as drafted and copyrighted by the American Poultry Association, contains the names of 115 various fowls, 114 of which are duo to the de velopment of man. Nature mnde one a comely, wild thing which made Its home In the jungle along with the rest of primeval creation. It Is a long can rrom this ancient fowl of ungainly proportions to the lordly Langshau or the massive Cochin of the present day, but the ancestry Is certain. The rela tion can be traced back further than the' time of Christian era. Europe. Asia and America have all contributed to tho development of the poultry and the many and varied strains that now exist are tho result of centuries of improvement. Enc laud and America have been foremost In the work, however, and the results accomplished by the fanciers of these two countries in recent years have been nothing short of remarkable, By intelligent breeding these fanciers have produced fowls of all sizes from the diminutive bantam to the mam moth bronze turkey; one a tiny bit of leathered vanity weighing only a few ounces so small, ln fact, that It can be entirely covered by a pint cup and the other a bulky fowl weighing from forty to sixty pounds as much as a half-grown boy. Itesults equally as wontterrul buvc been accomplished In color effects. We have fowls feathered In every natural color. There are va rieties ln red, black, brown and while, with nearly all possible combinations, besides bult and Anduluslan blue. Not content with this the fanciers have hhown that they cun lace, at ripe, spun gh.' or bar the feathers of their birds lu any way to satisfy their individual fancy, lu fact, It seems that about all there Is left for them to do along this Hue is to put their Initials on the feathers of their birds. The successful fancier breeds for baauty nud utility combined. If be de sires to create a new strain he must be an Imaginative soul. lie must erect lu bis maid's eye an Ideal fowl and theu persevere ln his endeavor to pro duce one like it. He Jots down n de scription of this visionary bird from beak to toe jiall. If he prefers to go by the standard he will tint that very exacting; every detail Is looked to scrupulously; length nud color of cjuib, urch of neck, length und breadth of back, length and color of legs, design and color of plumage, etc. Having decided upon au Ideal be mutes his birds and starts bis strain, picking from each brood the most per fect specimens und gradually working toward this Ideul through generation after generation. It Is u sort of part nership arrangement with nature, as it were. It requires much time and patience to breed a Hue up to anything nu proachlng perfection, but once attained tho reward is well worthy of the effort. Single birds have sold lu this country for as much as $500, whllo in England $1000 has beeu paid for gluglo speci mens. The breeder does not depend altogether upon fancy prices for Indi vidual birds, however, for his returns. He profits by tho Increased produc tiveness of his flocks. For Instance, ln tho matter of egg luying. It may be cited that the averugo American hen lays about 100 eggs per year. The practical poultrymau gocg in for bet ter results and gets them. Numerous Instnnceg show wholo flocks with an average of 200 to tho hen per year uu Increase, of 100 per cent. Tho "green-duck" Industry formg an other Important branch of the poultry business. "Oreen ducks" mean Impe rial PckiiiB, which were originally Im ported from China, and they are raised by tho thousands and tens of thousauds by artificial meaiiB, fed KclenlllienUy and marketed when they are from eight to ten weckB old. This ls Just before they molt their first, coat of feuthers, at which time they weigh from eight to ten pounds per pair. Bonio of them are feu upon celery seed to giva their meat the flavor of the famous Southern cauvashacks, and bo successfully that tha din'ercnco can uot bu detected. Separate duck ranches on Loug Island, Harrlsburg, Penu.j Trenton, N. J.; Dallas, I'otiu., and elsewhere produce annually from March 1 to August 1 from 20,000 to 30,000 "green ducks," murketlng them prluclpuliy In New York and Boston. This Industry Is also well developed lu New England, particularly In East ern Massachusetts, wbero there are several ranches that produce from 20, 000 to 25,000 duckg annually; two of the largest being located at South Bos ton and Wrcnlham. But Long Island leads, Spoeuk being the centre of the greatest uunutil production. Kully 100,000 "gre.u ducks" aro grown each season wllblu a few miles of this little village. The three most prominent members of the large poultry family lu this country are the Leghorns, thu Wyan iloltes aud the Plymouth Kodoi. The Leghorns are the eggtype. They aro long ln body, light in weight and very active. Their average frequently rung as high as 200 eggs per year to tho hen. The Wyondottcs are strictly on American production. They are abort ln body, plump, round and heavier than Leghorns. Tiiey have full breast development, have yellow legs and fkln and consequently show up well when dressed. Their ment Is tender, has fine grain nnd good flavor, and they ore tho Ideal tablo fowl, either as broilers, weighing from one-half pound to a pound and a half, or as roasters, weighing from three to live pounds. The Plymouth Hocks are very similar to the Wyondottcs except their bodies are longer and they will weigh a pound more at maturity. The Barred Plymouth Bock la the great American all-purpose bird; the kind the farmer, thn fancier and all swear by. The Wyandotte Is a later breed, nnd 1 fast growing In popularity, es pecially wltli breeders, but the old stand-byes, the Bnrred Hocks, will doubtless hold their supremacy for many years. The pigeon fanciers have kept pace with the poultrymen. aud the results they have met with ore wonderful. They have given us the gorgeous fan tall, a little bird with a tall big enough to almost tilt Its little body out of kil ter. In thn case of the fantall the fauelers have pimply bred to a deform ity. The Improved strain Is simply a line-bred monstrosity. Some fellow found n pigeon ln his flock Willi a tail feather turned the wrong way. He got the Idea that n bird with all Its tall feathers turned tho wrong way would be n good thing, po he sought a mate for his freak, paired them, and the fantall was soon with us. Along comes another fellow who thought he would liku to see a pair with two lows of feathers turned the wrong way. We now have them with three rows, aud the end seems nfar oft. These fantails have all the vanity of Solo mon. In their coops they droop about with very little show of life, but when taken out they Immediately spread their ample fans and strut about as pompous as yon please. When placed In front of a mirror the big show takes place. They try to outdo the Image In the glass, and the competition ls some thing laughable. As n close second to the fantall lu the way of a wonder conies tho tum bler. There are two kinds, Indoor aud outdoor tumblers. The parlor per formers will turn somersaults for you In the most artistic manner possible. The outdoor species will sail up In the nir several hundred feet and then fall suddenly downward, turning over and over as they come down. They right themselves before they reach the ground, soar skyward again and perform the same astonishing gy rations until you tire of the perform ance. The explanation of the tumbler ls simple. The breeder found n crazy bird, a little fowl with an insane de sire to turn over continuously. He bred the freak and brought forth the clever tumbler. CURiOUS FACTS. A sign of politeness lu Thibet ou meeting a person Is to hold up tho clasped hand and stick out the tongue. Rosewood and mahogany ure so plentiful in Mexico thut some of the copper mines there nru timbered with rosewood, whllu mahogany ls used as fuel for the engines. Trofessor Young estimates that a train running from the earth to the sun at forty miles au hour would lake about 205 years for the trip, aud thu fare would bo over $1,000,000. A large and brilliant meteorite fell ln an English Held the other day, nnd shortly afterward a mau who had beeu passlug by the field at the time was found unconscious ou the road side. The Indiana State prison has three electric buttons, by pressing one of which the gallows-trap is sprung. At the signal three sheriffs will simulta neously press the three buttons, hut not one of them will know who actual ly contributed to the hunting. Live bees ore sometimes shipped on ice so as to keep dormant during tho Journey. This Is particularly tho case with bumble-bees, which have been taken to New calami, where they aro useful lu fertilizing the red clover that has been Introduced Into that colony. Harvey Lynn, a former United Slates cavalryman, of nttslou, Petin., has undcrgoue an operation for tho removal of a piece of ox bone from bis akull and the Insertion of a silver plate. While serving in Cuba over a year ago Lynn was shot lu the head. At the hospital a piece of ox bone was grafted Into his skull, but tho opera tion wag not entirely successful, and Lynu wag glveu a disability discharge. He has since been afflicted with par alysis, resulting from the bone press ing the brain, and went to a hospital to have tho ox bone removed. Teeth Ctme Oat Flmt. "I I think I must have made a mis take," said the man who stood in the door of the dental parlors uud looked about him. "Perhaps bo," replied the dentist, who was sharpening up a guui-culllus lancet. "My wife, you know, has been teas- lug me for the laBt five yeaj-g to get my photogruph taken, and this morning I finally set out to have it done." 'And got ln the wrong shop," Raid the dentist. "I see this la uo photograph gallery .' "No." "But a dcutul parlor?" "Yes." "Well, I've made a mistake. Ui. I'm glad of It. Here, let mo sit down und have three teeth yanked out, uud I'll put the old photo off for another fivo years. "-Chicago News. , A Canadian Iran Field, A uow iron oru field has Just been opened at Mlchlpicoten.Outurlo, which it U thought may flood the lake mar ket next year. The ore la described aa a brown hematite, more like the Southern orea than the Lake Supoi-ior hematite. V Parla Bcaveiig-ore. rurlg haw MO brigades of gcavt uBeva lu till 2'XK) wen aud U00 women. THE PRINTED WORD. Dr. Tdlmnge Says Sacred 5 ItKiJity and Lazinsss is Rebuked by Christ. A Call lor a Warm Frlrndthip Between Tboat Wbo Preach the (ioap:l and Those Who Make Mcwtpapers. CoprrtcM Mct.i Washington. D. C In this dinnourM Dr. Jalmnne calls for a warm friendship between those who preach the goapej and those who make newspapers, the spoken word and the printed word to go side by aide; text Luke xvi, 8, "The children of tlua world are in their generation wiser than the children of lisrht. ' Sacred stupidity and solemn incompe tency and sanctified laeinesa are here re buked by Christ, He aaya worldlinga are wider awake for opportunities than are Christiana. Men of the world grab occa sions, while Christian people let the most valuable occasions drift by unimproved. That is the meaning of oiir Lofd when He aaya, "The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light." A marked illustration of the truth of that maxim is in the alownesa of the Christian religion to take possession of the secular press. The opportunity is open, and has been for some time open, but tb liinistera .of religion are for the most part allowing-the gulden opportunity to pass unimproved. That the opportu nity ia open I declare from the fact that all the secular newspapers are glad of any religious facts or statistics that you pre sent them. Any animated and atirriug article relating to religioue t homes they would gladly print. They thank you for any information in regard to churches. If a wrong has been done to any Christian church or Christian institution, you could go into any newspaper ofiice of the land and have the real truth stated. Dedica tion services, ministerial ordinations and pastoral installations, cornerstone laying of a church, anniversary of a charitable society will have reasonable space in any secular journal if it have previous notice given. If I had some great injustice done me, there is not an editorial or reportorial room in the United States into which I could not go and get myself set richt, and that is true of any well-known Christian mnn. . Wiy, then, does not our glorious Chris tianity embrace these magnificent oppor tunities? I have before me a subject of first and last importance: Uow shall we secure the secular press as a mightier re enforcement to religion and the pulpit! The first thing toward this result Is cessation of indiscriminate hostility against newspapcrdom. You might as well de nounce the legal profession because of the shysters or the medical profession because of the swindling bargain makers as to alambang newspapers because there are recreant editors and unfair reporters and unclean columns. Gutenberg, the inventor of the art of printing, was about to de stroy his types and extinguish the art be cause it was euggested to him that print ing might be suborned into the service of the devil, but afterward he bethought him self that the right use of the art might more than overcome the evil use of it, and ao he spared the type and the intelli gence of all following apes. But there are many to-day in the depressed mood of Gutenberg, with uplifted hammer, want ing to pound to nieces the type, who have not reached his better mood in which he aaw the art of printing to be the rising sun of the world a illumination. , If, instead of fighting newspapers, we spend the same length of time and the same vehemence in marshaling their help in religious directions, we would be as much wiser as the man who gets conaent of the railroad aupcrintendent to fasten a car to the end of a rail train shows better sense than he who runs his wheelbarrow up the track to meet and drive back the Chicago limited express. Tho silliest thing that a mnn ever does ia to fight a newspaper, for you may have the floor for utterance perhaps for one day in the week, while the newspaper has the floor every day in the week. I Napoleon, though a mighty man, had many weaknesses, and one of the weakest thiugs he ever did waa to threaten that if the English newspapers did not stop their adverse criticism of himself he would, with 400,000 bayonets, cross the channel for their chastisement. lion't light newspapers. Atlac-k pro vokes attack. Better wait until the ex citement blowa over, nnd then go in and get justice, for get it you will if you have patience und common sense and equipoise of disposition. i It ought to be a mighty sed.Uive that there is an enormous amount of common sense in the world, and you will eventually be taken for what you are really worth, and you cannot be pulled up, and you can not be written down, and if you are the enemy of good society that fact will come out, and if you are the friend of good so ciety that fact will be established. I I Know what 1 am talking about, for I can draw on my own experience. All the respectable newspapers, as far as I know, are my friends now. But many of you re member the time when I was the most continuously and meanly attacked man in this country. Uod gave me grace not to answer back, aud 1 kept silence for ten years, and much grace was required. What I said was perverted and twisted into just the opposite of what I did say. There were millions of people who believed that there waa a large sofa in my pulpit, al though we never had anything but a chair,' and that during the singing by the con gregation I waa accustomed to lie down on that sofa and dangle my feet over the cud. Lying Mew ork correspondents for ten years misrepresented our church services. Hut we wuited, and people from every neighborhood of Christendom came there, to find the magnitude of the false hoods concerning the church and concern ing myself. A reaction set in, and soon we had justice, full justice, more than jus tice, ana as much overpraise aa once we had underappreciation, and no man that ever lived waa ao much indebted to the newspaper press for opporunity to preach the gospel aa I am. Young men in the ministry, young men In all professions and occupations, wait. You can afford to wait. Take rouh mis representation aa a Turkish towel to start up your languid circulation or a system of massaee or Swedish movement, whose pokes and pulls and twists and thrusts aro valutary treatment. i There ia only one person yon need to manage, and that is yourself. Keep your dispositions sweet bv confmunion with Christ, who anawered not again, get so ciety of seuial peonle and walk out in the aunshine with your hat off and you will come out all right. And don't join the crowd of people in our day who spend much of their time damning newspapers, i Again, in this effort to secure tha aecu lar press aa a mightier re-enforcement of religion, let ua make it the avenue of re ligious information. If you would aecure the press aa a mightier re-enforcement of religion and the pulpit extend widest and highest Christian courtesies to the renre. aentativea of journalism. Uive them easy chairs and plenty of room when they come cior uccasians. ror ine most part they are gentlemen of education and re finement, graduates of colleges, with fam- uea to aupport by their literary craft, manV of them wearv with the miali rhf buaineaa that ia precarioua and fluctuating, each one of them the avenue of infoniatiou to thousands of readers, their impression of the services to be the impression adopted by multitudea. They are connect ing liuke between a sermon or a song or a prayer, and this great population that tramp up and down the streets day by slay and year by year with their sorrows uncomforled and their sins unpardoned. Oh, tha hundreds of tbousanas of people in our cities who never attend churches! Our cities are not so muck preached to by' mlnlstera of religion aa by repnrtera. Put all journalists into our prayers and nor nions. Of all the hundred thousand ser mons preached to-day thera will not ba three preached to journalists am proba bly not one. Of all the prayers offered for classes of men innumerable the prayers of fered for the most potential class will be thought preacher's idiosyncrasy. There ' are many journalists in our church mem berships, but this world will never be brought to Cod until some revival of re ligion sweeps over the land and hikes into the kinvdoiu of (iod ull editors, rcoorters, coniioiti!ors, pressmen and newsVmys. I And if vou have not faith eniimfh to pray J for tlint und toil for thk vou Itsd bettor , Ut t out of our ranks aud ioiu the ulli'T s1o, Tor yon Ire he unbelievers wnl make the wheela of the Lord's chariot drag heavily. The great final battle be tween truth and error, the Armageddon, I think, will not be fought with swords and sheila and guns, but with pens -quill pens, eteel pene, gold pens, fountain pena and before that the pena must be converted. 'The most divinely honored weapon of tho past has been the pen, and the most di vinely honored weapon of the future will be the pen prophet's pen, and vangel iat'a pen and apostle's pen, followed bjr editor's pen and author'a pen and report er's pen. (od save the pen! The win of tho Apocalvptic angel will be tlw printed nans. 'I he printing press will roll ahead of Christ's cliriot to clear the way. "But," soma one might ask, "wouM yon make Sunday newspapers also a re-enforcement?" I have learned ta take things aa thev are. I would like to see the much icoffed at old Puritan Sabbaths eome back again. I do not think the modern Sunday will turn out liny better men and women than were your grandfathera and grand mothera under the old-fashioned Sunday. To say nothing of other result, Sunday newspapers are killing editors. reporer, compositors and pressmen. Every man, woman and child is entitled to twenty four hours of nothing to do. If the news papera put on another set of hands, thai doe not relieve the editorial and repor torial room of its cares and responsibili ties. Our literary men die fast enough without killing them with Sunday work. All things are possible with God, and mv faith is up until nothing in the way of religious victory would surprise me. All thn newspaper printing prcssea of the earth are going to be the Lord's, and tele graph and telephone and tyoe will yet an nounce nations born in a clnv. The first book ever printed was the Bible, bv Faust and his son-in-law, SchoefTer, in 1400, and that consecration of typo to the Holy Scriptures was a prophecy of the great mission of printing for the evangelization of all tho nations. The father of the American printing press was a clergyman, I!ev. Jesse Glover, and that was a pro phecy of the religious use that the gospel ministry in this country were to make of the types. The tendency of criticism in the theo logical seminaries is to file off from our young men all tho sharp points and make theiu too smooth for uiiy kind of execu tion. What we want, all of us, is more point, less humdrum. If we sav the right thing in the right way, the press will he g!nd nnd echo and re-echo it. Sunday Bchool teachers, reformers, young men and old men in the ministry, what we all want if wo are to make the'printing prom an ally in Christian work is that which the reporter spoken of suggested points, sharp points, memorable points. But if the thing be dead when uttered by living voice it will be a hundredfold more dead when it is lnid out in cold type. That Providence intends the profession of reporters to have a mighty share in the world's redemption is suggested by the fact that Paul and Christ took a reporter along with them, and he reported their addresses and their acts. Luke was a reporter, end he wrote not only the book of Luke, but the Acts of the Apostles, and without that reporter' work wo would have known nothing of tho Pentecost, and nothing of Stephen' martyrdom, and nothing of Tabitha e res urrection, and nothing of the jailing and unjailing of Paul and Silas, ond nothing of the shipwreck at Melita. " Strike out the reporter'a work from the Bible, and you kill a largo part of the New Testament. It makes me think that in the future of the kingdom of Uod U reporters are to bear a mighty part. About twenty-hve years ago a represen tative of an important New York news paper took his seat in my Brooklyn church, one Sunday night about live pews from, the front of the pulpit. He took out pen cil and reporter's pad, resolved to carica ture the whole scene. When the muaic be gan, he began, and with his pencil he de rided that, nnd then derided the prayer, ond then derided the reading of the Scriptures, and then began to deride the sermon. But, he says, for some reason his bond began to tremble, and he. rally ing himself, sharpened his pencil and started again, but broke down again and then put pencil and paper in his pocket and his head down on the front pev and began to pray. At the close of the service he came up ond asked for the prayers of others, and gave his heart to God. And, though atill engaged in newspaper work, he is an evangelist and hires a hall at his own expense nnd every Sunday afternoon preuencs ticsus lurist to the people. il'And the men of that profession are going to come in a body throughout the country. I know hundreds of them, and a more geni.tl or highly educated class of men it would be hard to lind, and, though the tenaency of their profession may be toward skepticism, an organized common sense gospel invitation would fetch them to the front of all Christian endeavor, i Men of the pencil and pen in all depart ments, you need the help of the Christian religion, ln the duy when people want to get their newspapers at two cents, and are hoping for the time when they can get any of them at one cent, and as a conse quence the attaches of the printing proas ore by the thousand ground under the cy linders, you want Cod to take care of you. and your families. Somo of your best work is as much utr- ' appreciated as was Milton'a "Paradise Lost," for which tho author received tUS, and the immortal poem "iiohenlinden of Thomas Campbell when he first offered it for publication, and in the column called "Notices to Correspondents" appeared the words: "To T. C The linea commencing 'On Linden when the sun waa low' are not up to our standard. Poetry is not T. C.'s forte." O men of the pencil and pen, amid your unappreciated work you need encourage ment, and you have it. Printers of all Christendom, editors, reporters, composi tors, pressmen, publishers and readers of that which is printed, resolve that you will not write, set up, edit, issue or read anything that debases body, mind or soul. In the name of Cud, by the laying on of tha hands of faith and prayer, ordain the printing press for righteousness and liberty and salvation. All of us with some influ ence that will help in the right direction, let us put our hands to the work, implor ing (lod to hasten the consummation. Ia a ship with hundreda of passengers ap proaching the South American coast the man on the lookout neglected his work, and in a few minutes the ship would have been dashed to ruin on the rocks. But cricket on board the vessel that had made no sound all the voyage set up a shrill . call at the smell of hind, and tha captain, knowing that habit of the insect, stopped the vessel in time to avoid an awful wreck. . And ao inaigniticant means may now do wonders, and the scratch of a pen may save the shipwreck of a soul. : Are you all ready for the signing of the contract, the league, the solemn treaty proposed between journalism and evan gelism? Let it be a Christian marriage of the pulpit and the priuting press. The ordination of the former on my head, the pen of the hitter in my hand, it ia appro priate that 1 publish the banna of such a marriage. I,et them from this day be one in the maguificeut work of tha world's re demotion. ' PROMINENT PEOPLE. King Charles of Porlugul weighs 300 pounds. Premier Wnhleck-Ttnitsseaii, of France, has recovered bis health. Marl Iioberts'g Is tho first name In King ICdwiird'g ucw visitors' book. Andrew Curnegle Is n Presbyterian and hu is opposed to the playhouse. Senator "Billy" Mason was a school mate of Senator W, A. Clark ut Beu toiiport, lovvo. Tho young Duke of Saxo-Coburg audi Collin has passed his eiayj.i.iiUoa ua military ensign. ., Senators Tullaferro. of Florida; LlnoS suy, of Kentucky, nnd llarriu, of Kan sas, were born In Virginia. "Joaquin Mill ir. fruit fanner." Is tue way the Suu Fruuclsco directory now lists the famous poet of tho Slerrua. tJovernor Dletlrlch. of Nebraska, a bachelor, bus raised a kIoiiii by pro posing the Kuic of the Executive Man stun. Cougrossiimn Ciitchlnss bus beeu glvru ti silver cup lu ivcojjiuiIou of Inn eiTurts to sccuro W UalsNlppl Uiver improvements.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers