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
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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
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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......
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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.