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to the brat Inheritances and instinct
of Americana.
"You have no leisure class In
America," an Englishman sold once
to an American girl.
'Yes," she said, "we hare, but w
call them tramps."
Leisure there ought to bo. Men
and women there must be who are
froe from the strain and strenuons
ness of Incessant occupation, but it
ought to be a leisure tor Intellectual
cultivation, for philanthropic Interest,
for the storing of energ, physical,
mental and spiritual, witch shall
berefU mankind.
"Awake '.hoo thai steapest and
arts a from the dead!'' This Is the
Erster caK, the Easter err.
Hiring even one talent In the nap
kin of refined Indolence or self In
dulgence or burying tt In the dirt of
sensuality and sin, either one make
an "unprofitable servant" and lay
bp against the second coming of the
Lord an account of wasted powers
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On the Whole His Lot
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Jhl Charles Mnrrnu Harder.
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Euloglos and laudatory paragraphs.
Alternating with sneers, ridicule and
deprecations, long have been the lot
of the country editor. Pictured In
the comic papers as an egotistic
clown, exalted by the politicians as a
mighty "molder of public opinion,"
occasionally chastised by angry pa
trons and sometimes remombered by
delighted subscribers, he has put his
errors where they could be read of all
men and has modestly sought a fair
credit for his merits.
At times he has rebelled not at
'.reatment from his constituency, but
and lost opportunities which will j 8t It"nlilng remarks of the city
then be beyond recall.
e HEN the modorn mind stag
vJkf Bers before the story of
the resurrection of Jesus
i f Christ from the dead It
i-rft" fails to realize what Its
only actual difficulty is. St. Paul s
question, "Why should it be thought
a thing Incredible with you that Ood
should raise the dead?" still has but
one answer namejy, that there is
no reason why it should be thought
Incredible; because raising the dead,
as the Apostle Illustrates It in his
Epistle to the Corlnthlahs, Is the
most natural and useful thing In the
world under certain conditions.
"That which men sow Is not quick
ened except .it die."
Life not only after, but through
and by means of death, is the uni
versal law and the universal event.
Only there must come first the un
doing by decay of the bondage with
in which the living principle of the
seed is held. So long as it Is I mi pr la-
First of all, of course, It means
that all the dead shall rise and live
again. "If we believe that Jesus died
and rose again, even so they also
that sleep In Jesus will Qod bring
with Him." The corollary to the
article In the Creed, "the third day
He rose again," Is the article "I be
lieve in the resurrection of the body,
I look for the resurrection of the
dead or from the dead." One does
not need, one would not dare, to draw
away the hearts and hopes of men
from this great and blessed revela
tion of Holy Scripture, this strong
and positive assertion of the Chris
tian faith. But It Is wrong to post
pone the meaning of our Lord's res
urrection to this final point of hu
man history. It has a clear and more
Immediate application of what thi
Apostle calls "the power of His res
urrection," "dead indeed unto sin,
but alive unto Ood, through JesuB
Christ our Lord." This must be
It Is Interesting to note that peopta
In general are inclining more and more
to tbe celebration of church festivals
which were formerly observed by but
one or two divisions of the Christian
body. It is not so long ago that the
celebration of Easter was looked upon
somewhat askance by many denomina
tions, nnd yet to-day these denomina
tion give Easter and Easter services
a prominent place In their church cal
endar. The movement is certainly in
the right direction; laying aside all
prejudices of denomination or creed, It
Is well that the whole Christian body
enn find common ground on certain
days. It Is well that they should cele
brate not only spiritually, but out-
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wardly, this great day In the Christian
year. Even those who profess to be
among the faithless may meet, too, on
tbe same ground at this springtime
festival, and observe and be thankful
for the reawakening of the year the
symbol of new life which one finds In
all nature. Whatever ills belief or non-
Christ's Entry Into Jerusalem.
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oned in the shell it is "bare grain,"
but when Its outer covering is dead
in the cocoon, or broken in the egg,
or rotted in the grain, then the latent
life comes forth and Ood gives it a
body, and "to every seed its own
body." So after death and burial,
when the wrappings of this earthly
flesh are dissolved and done away,
"the body that shall be," "the body
of glory," shall emerge In tbe fullness
of lime.
The miracle or marvel of the res
urrection of Jesus Christ, like other
miracles, lies In the fact that It dis
regarded the element of time and also
did away with the coudltlon of de
cay. "He saw no corruption."
So mucb for tbe marvel of it. Now
for the meaning of It.
recognized and realized as the Imme
diate practical purpose and result of
the great fact of Easter Day.
What Is its message to men and
women?
It Is easy to dream a dream of
hope and delight about the far fu
ture; easy to have a sentiment and
emotion that enable us to face physi
cal death with an outlook beyond the
grave and console us In the hour of
bereavement. Ood forbid that there
should be any shadowing of this
hope. But the practical question
concerns our daily life now.
Humanity stands to-day, as It has
stood for all thoso ceuturles, facing
the fact of the wonderful life that
our Lord lived here on earth, with
the strange and Inexplicable combina
tion of fleshy reality without the re
straints and hindrances of the flesh.
And that meana, in the first place,
the pattern set, aud In the next place
the power given to us to live our
lives on higher llneu.
Translated Into plain EugllHh, the
great Easter thought Is that we may
not be absorbed and immersed in
merely earthly, temporal, carnal
thoughts and things. Llfo, never
more than In our day, Is crowded
with business, with pleasure, even
where It is not choked with indulg
ence and success.
The Idlers and loungers, with no
'thought but amusement, are far too
many.
The craze for accumulation of ma
terial wealth , Is wearing out the
strength and dulling all the finer
faculties of men and women. And
tbe carelessness and Idleness of peo
ple who, with opportunities of service
to society and the demands of home
duties, waste daylight hours and turn
night Into day with games of chance,
accentuated too often with the covet
ousness of gambling, are a reproach
belief, no one should be unmoved or
unresponsive to the new season, to the
promise of life which be sees every
year renewed and reiterated In nature,
as well as finds In the tenets of bis
faith. The Euster-tlmo should be a
season of joy, of fresh hope, of new eu
deavor, of practical faith In humaulty
and In God. Woman's Homo Companion.
FwbOmKB ft? . mSBUma
The Resurrection Morning.
The Kaster Chick's Km.-.
"Peep! Peep!" said tha chick as tie turned
about, - .
A little fat Soil of bright yellow
"If I hml been late but a week and a day,
I'd tm an unfortunate fellow.
An Enetei vug is an excellent fcutur,
II you're not the egg,
ture.
eail the silly crea-
lournalist who sits at a mahogany
lesk and dictates able articles for the
eighteen-page dally, Instead of writ
ing local Items at a pine table In the
jfflce of a four-page weekly. Thus
lid one voice his protest: "When you
consider that the country weekly Is
iwned by Its editor and that the man
who writes the funny things about
country papers In the city journals is
jwned by the corporation for which
he writes, it doesn't seem so sad.
When you see an Item In the city
papers poking fun at the country ed
itor for printing news about John
lones' new barn you laugh and laugh
for you know that on one of the
pages of that same city dally Is a two
column, story In regard to the trim
mings on the gowns of the Duchess
of Wheelbarrow. And It is all the
more amusing because you know that
the duchess does not even know of
tbe existence of the aforesaid city
paper, while John Jones and many of
bis neighbors take and pay for the
paper which mentioned his new barn
Don't waste your pity on the country
newspaper worker. Ho will get
along."
After all, no one man In the com
munlty has so large an opportunity
to assist the town In advancement as
the editor. It Is not because he la
smarter than others, not because he
Is wealthy but because he Is the
spokesman to the outside world.
He is eager to print all the news In
his own paper. Does he do It? Hard
ly. "This would be a very newsy
paper, explained a frank country ed
itor to his subscribers, "were It not
for the fact that each of the four men
who work on It has many friends. By
the time all the items that might In
jure some of their friends are omitted
very little Is left."
"I wish you would print a piece
about our schoolteacher," said a far
mer's wife to me one afternoon. "Say
that she Is the best teacher In the
county."
"But I can't do that 200 other
teachers would be angry. You write
the piece, sign It and I'll print It."
"What are you running a newspa
per for If you can't please your sub
scribers?" she demanded and can
celled her subscription.
So the country editor leaves out
certain good things and certain bad
thlngB for the very simple reason
that the persons most Interested are
close at hand and can find the Indi
vidual responsible for the statements.
He becomes wise In bis generation
and avoids chastisements and llbal
suits. He finds that there is no last
ing regard In a sneer, no satisfaction
in gratifying the Impulse to say
things that bring tears to women's
eyes, nothing to gloat over In opening
a wound In a man's heart. If he does
not learn this as he grows older' In
the service he is a poor couutry edi
tor. "The power of the country press In
Washington surprises me," said a
Middle West Congressman last win
ter. "During my two terms I have
been Impressed with It constantly. I
doubt If there Is a single calm utter
ance In any paper In the United States
that does not carry some weight In
Washington among the members of
Congress. You might think that
what some little country editor says
does not amount to anything, but it
meanB a great deal more than most
people realize. When the country ed
itor who is looking after nothing but
the county printing gives expression
to some rational idea about a national
question, the man off here In Con
gress knows that It comes from the
grass-roots. The lobby, the big rail
road lawyers and that class of people
realize the power of the press, but
they hate It. I have heard them talk
about It and shake their heada, and
say, 'Too much power there!' The
press Is more powerful than money."
This was not said In flattery, but
because he had seen on Congress
men's desks the heaps of country
weeklies, and he knew how closely
they were read. The smallest edito
rial paragraph tells the politician of
the condition In that paper's commu
nity, for he knows that it is put there
because the editor has gathered tbe
idea from Borne one whom he trusts
as a leader, and the politician knows
approximately who that leader is. So
the country editor often exerts a pow
er of which he knows little.
But politics Is only a part of the
country editor's life. The social ar
falrs of the community are nearest to
him. The proud father who brings
in a cigar with a notice of the seventh
baby'B arrival (why cigars and babies
Bhould be associated in men's minds
I never understood), the fruit farmer
who presents some flue Ben Davis ap
ples In the expectation that he will
get a notice, are but typos. The edi
tor may have some doubts concerning
the need of a seventh child in the
family of the proud father, and he
may not be particularly fond of Ben
Davis tipples, but he gives geuerouB
notices because he knows that the
gifts wero prompted by kind hearts
aud that the giverB are bis frleuds
When joy conies to the household
It Is but the working: of the heart's
best Impulses to daaire that all should
share it. The news that the princess
of the family has, after many years
of waiting, wedded a prosperous mer
chant of the neighboring county
brlugs tbe family Into prominence
lu the home paper. Seldom in these
busy times does the editor get a piece
of wedding cake, but nevertheless he
fulls not to say that the bride is ' one
of our loveliest young ladies and the
groom Is worthy of the prise he has
won." The city paper does not do
that. Here and there a country
editor tries to put on city airs and
give the bare facts of "social func
tions" without a personal touch to
the lines. But unfrequently does he
succeed in reaching the hearts of
his readers, and somehow he flnds
that his contemporary across the
street, badly printed, sprinkled with
typographical errors and halting
In Its grammar, but profuse In Its
laudations, Is getting an unusual
number of new subscribers. Even
you, though you may pretend to be
unmindful, are not displeased when
on the day after your party you read
that the guests "went home feeling
that a good time had been had."
And when sorrow comes! Into the
home of a city friend of mine death
entered, taking the wife and mother.
The family had been prominent In
social circles, and columns were
printed In the city papers, columns
of cold, biographical facts born,
married, died. But the news went
back to the small country town
where In their early married life the
husband and wife had spent many
happy years, nnd In the little country
weekly was quite another sort of
story, it told how much her friends
loved her. how saddened they were
by her passing away, how sweet and
womanly had been her character.
The husband did not send the city
papers to distant acquaintances: he
sent copy after copy of the little
country weekly, the only place where,
despite his prominence In the world,
appeared a sympathetic relation of
the loss that had come to hi in.
Atlantic Monthly.
Because air Is elastic and water is
not, a German aeronaut declares that
the form of propeller best adapted to
the navigation of the latter element
would not yield equally happy re
sults In the former.
The connection between sun spot
and meteorological disturbances os)
the earth Is a well-established fact,
but astronomers only know that It Is
electrical and they can not tell In
any case what the particular result
will be.
An earthquako Is, as a rule, a very
harmless thing. Professor Milne,
who Is one of the greatest authorities
In the world on the subject, says that
30,000 shocks a year are now record
ed. According to Dr. Charles Davi
son, the British Isles have one earth
quake recorded- every month.
According to the results of recent
experiments the flame of acetylene Is
perhaps the hottest known except
that of the electric arc. The follow
ing figures have been given by Mr.
Maffi: Bunsen burner, 1871 degrees;
acetylene flame, 2548 degrees; alco
hol flame, 1705 degrees; Denayrouze
burner half alcohol, half petroleum
2053 degrees; hydrogen flame, In
air, 1900 degrees; gas-jet flame, with
oxygen, 2200 degrees; oxy-hydrogen
flame, 2 4 20 degrees. These are all
Centigrade degrees.
WHY DO MEN MAHRY?
BEAUTIFYING THE HOMES.
School Children Taught to Mako
Flower Gardens.
A few years ago the Twentieth
Century Club started school gardens
and tried to get the children, as well
as their parents, interested In beauti
fying their homes and schools, with
the aim of training the young Ameri
cans to have an eye for the beautiful,
and to aid tho city In bettering Its
conditions wherever they could. Most
of the principal schools have their
gardens now where the scholars work
diligently, each room vying with tho
other in having tho prettiest bed.
Seeds are also sold by the club at a
very nominal prlco to the pupils to
take home and grow In their own
yards. Many of tho children have
beautiful beds laid out In artistic de
signs; others have their flowfcrs
planted almost any way, but each child
Is striving to win a button, which will
show they belong to the association.
Every child bringing In a collection
of flowers grown by these seeds to be
shown at the exhibit this week will bo
presented with a button showing the
possessor to be a member of tbe
Home Gardening Association.
Tho ladles of the clu'j, who call oc
casionally to Inspect these home gar
dens of the little folkB, say they find
most of the young gardeners to be
boys, and thoBe between the ageB of
seven and twelve years. One bright
little fellow has a large back yard
laid out in perfectly Bhaped beds, of
different designs, the flowers all
planted with the best taste so that
the colors and shapes blend grace
fully. In the centre Is a bower over
which vines are growing, and climb
ing flowers reach almost to the top.
In this place he has his tools and gar
den implements, and all his sparo
time Is spent there. The mothers say
It is a fine thing for the children,
keeping them off the streets, and giv
ing them a pleasant and helpful oc
cupation. Three years ago, when the work
began, just a few packages of seeds
wero sold, while this year's statistics
show 53,770 packages of seeds de
livered to children lu this city.
Sixty-seven schools have been sup
plied, and many out-of-town schools
have received seeds. The flowers
which seem to bo favorites, according
to the numbers used, are gladiolus,
8154 packages; asters, 7138 packages
with China pinks and nasturtiums
following closely. Detroit News-Tribune.
Gambling Raid in Blnondo.
An illustration of tho value of mil
itary training In civil pursuits is fur
nished in a raid on a Blnondo gamb
ling house a few evenings ago. Two
American plain-clothes men, for
monthB baffled In their efforts to raid
the game, hit upon a plan of scaling
a blank wall, forming the side of the
house In whose upper floor the game,
they were satisfied, was progressing.
Securing a short ladder, one Ameri
can mounted to Its topmost rung, Jhe
other scrambling to hla shoulders,
while tbe third detective, a Filipino,
was raised to the pinnacle of the hu
man tower, and bolstered into tho
window, surprising the gamblers, and
causing them to flee Into the hands of
the waiting police at the several ex
Its. Manila American.
Separated From His Mind.
RufuB Choate once tried to get a
Boston wltuess to give his Idea of absent-mindedness.
"Well," said the
witness, who was a typical New Eng
land Yankee, "I should say that a
man who thought he'd left his watch
to hum, and took it outen his pocket
to Bee it he'd time to go hum and get
It, was a leetlu absent-minded."
House Beautiful.
I'm--i.. n Income Taxes.
Since the Prussian Income tax was
applied, thirteen years ago, the num
ber of persons affected has Increased
from 2,440,000 to 4,680,000, and the
aggregate taxable Incomes have In
creased from 91, 445, 300, 000 to 92,
608,444,000. These taxes aim to
reach all Incomes abova 9200.
Svingfleld Republican.
By way of experiment, an Amer
ican, who Is mentioned as "a sport
and an acrobat," made a wager In
Vienna with an athlete that the lat
ter could not endure the falling of a
pint of water on his hand, drop by
drop, in one spot, from a height of
only three feet. The athlete had an
enormous hand, lined with skin al
most as thick and tough as cowhide.
But when about 300 drops had fallen
there was a change of opinion, and
at the 420th drop he gave up, de
claring that he could no longer en
dure the torture. Tid-Blts.
According to scientists, ptomaines
are poisonous products formed in
fish, meat, milk and other articles ot
food by a process of decomposition
that leaves little other trace of Its
action. Bacteria probably promote
their formation; but on that point
there remains some doubt. The taint
develops In consequence ot a failure
to cook food properly and, If to be
kept for some time, sealing air-tight.
Ptomaine poisoning Is quicker In Its
results, excruttatlng sickness and
often death following close after eat
ing foods Improperly cooked or
canned.
CALL FOR THE HOGS.
Cry Used in Chicago Stock Yards the
Same That Was Used by Greeks.
According to the Chicago Tribune
the stock yards men who are driving
hogs to the killing pens use the cry
of "sol, sol!" to urge on the unwilling
porkers. This very word, the paper
says, was once employed in the same
way and for the same purpose by the
swineherds of classic Greece.
From tho age and place of Perlclea
to present day Packlngtown, tho dis
tance both In time and space, would
seem to be Buch that nothing but a
miracle or a melodramatic coinci
dence could account for anything
found common to those extremes.
And yet the connection is a clear one
in this case, and one that need not
arouse much surprise.
in fact, the same cry Is found in
England and on the steppes of Rus
sia. There are a score of reasons why
It should be heard In Chicago, but the
one nearest at hand Is that Lithuan
ians, Slavonians and Poles are plenti
ful among the workers in the stock
yards. In all those languages the
words used to designate the hog are
closely related to the Latin and Greek
"8us" on oue side and to the English
and Scandinavian "swino" on tho
other.
And if sound, rather than spelling
he considered, It is well to remember
that the Dutch word for sow is
"zeug," while tbe same word In old
Irish Is "sulg." What the word "sol"
really means to a scholar happening1
to overhear It out In Packlngton la
that, no matter how far apart Anglo
Saxon and Slav, Teuton and Latin,
may feel themselves to be, they are all
close relatives members of one great
race, the Aryan, and heirs to Ian
guages that are so many branches of
one mother tongue, tho Indo-Euro-"an.
Why did I Wed my Josephine?
Inquire my utartled friends.
To her no smile, no Gibson waist,
The least enchantment lend.
She his a squint of giant sir.e
(Has had, I hear, from birth);
But what are captivating eyes
Compared with sterling worth?
Bhe ian't. very clever. (I
Have often told her sc.);
Her conversation' mainly "Yes,"
Varied sometimes by No."
Of knowledge on all subjects she
la hampered by a dearth;
But what are maaaive brains to me
Compared with sterling worth?
In form ahe'a rather ehort and stout;
Her eye are small and green;
But I shut my own, and set my teeth,
And married Josephine.
And oh, I value more, far more
Than anything on earth.
The pages of the pass-book which
Reveal her sterling worth.
London Glob.
Politician "We must stand pat."
Wlfe- ' Yes. but the question Is, wilt
Bridget stand us?" Harper's Baxar.
She ''Do you think my voice will
ever be suitable for opera?" He
"Stage or boxes?" YonkerB States
man. She (to fellow-listener at musl
cale) "What do you think of hla
execution?" He "I'm In favor of
It." Punch.
"Where are you going, my pretty maid?'
"I'm going a-jilting, sir," she naid.
Life.
Sidney "Miss Elsie Is a lovely
girl." Rodney "Yes; say, she's a
regular pink and white peril." Cin
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
Waitress (handing stodgy-looking
steak) "And what will you have to
follow, sir?" American Customer
"Indigestion, I guess!" Punch.
She "I saw you In the street car
the other evening, Mr. 8axby." He
"Did you? Why, I didn't see you."
She "I suppose not. I was standing
up." Somervllle Journal.
Mrs. Gramercy "I thought the
manufacturer guaranteed your auto
free of repairs for one year?" Mrs.
Park "But that doesn't cover tha
repairs to what we run Into." Puck.
Broadstreet "How's your com
pany getting on, old man prosper
ing?"' Nassau "Prospering! My,
boy, the term Is Inadequate. Why,
we're about to be Indicted In thirty
States!" Judge.
A widow, in half-mourning, y
Doth by that sign confess
That she is half a miud to Nsy,
it's up to you to guess.
Puck.
She "You'll be glad to learn,
dear, that I've gotten out of visiting
our relatives." He "Grand! Splen
did! It hung over me like a cloud.
How did you manage it?" She
"Oh, I asked them here!" Life.
Husband "You say this Is veni
son? What Induced you to buy It?"
Wife "Well, the butcher said It waa
cheap and " Husband "If ho
had told you It wasn't deer he would
have been nearer the truth." Phila
delphia Ledger.
Bum "Gimme a nickel, missus?"
Missus "I should think a big, strong
man like you would bo ashamed to
ask for money." Bum "I am, mis
sus, but I ain't got der nerve to take
It without askln'." Philadelphia
Record.
"You know," said Oaddle, "the
members of his church don't believe
in a hades at all." "How silly!" ex
claimed Know. "What comfort can
he possibly get out of that sort of
belief? Where does he expect hla
neighbors to spend their eternity?"
Philadelphia Press.
"I wiaht," said Hungry Hank, wist
fully, "that I wuz one o' dese here
FUllpecner fellers dat likes dog fer
dinner." "Wot fer?" inquired Fa
tigued Philip. "Jes' think o' bavin'
a good dinner Blckod onter yer every
day comln' right over de fence at
TMfV Cleveland Leader.
Bootleggers' Scheme.
Tho bootlegger usually gets hit
share of the blame In Indian Terri
tory, but now he Is accused of being
In part responsible for congestion of
trains on varlouB lines. The bootleg
ger may appear to be Ignorant, but a
a rule ho Is full of schemes and pla&s.
Since the airbrake has been u;plled
to freight cars, he, while riding he
rods, takes advantage ot the opportu
nity afforded and stops the train
where he pleases.
Tho man with a quantity of whisky
does not care to take chances on los
ing bis liquor by riding clear into the
town where he expecta to reap a good
profit from tho sale of the stuff. Con
sequently ho uses the airbrake for the
purpose for which It waa originally
intended. When the train comes to a
standstill, he, or they us the case
may be alight quickly and make for
cover. This practice Is usually re
sorted to at night time and the boot
legger has a sure thing on a good get
away. In cases where the train Is
stopped on a grade it Is sometime half
an hour before heavy trains can be
moved. Muskogee Correspondence
Kansas City Journal.
His Definitions.
"Faith," aald Brother Williams, ' i
de faculty what kin turn de song er a
sawmill into de hallalula er do angels.-"
"An' what la hope?"
"Hope ts de .'acuity what keeps you
lookln' tor somotbln' you never gita."
Atlanta Constitution.
No Child of Charity.
Tha home newspaper ts in no sense
a child of charity. It earns twice;
over every dollar it receives and is
second to no enterprise in contribut
ing to the upbuilding ot a community.
Its patrons reap fgr mure benefit
from tt pages than us publisher.
Nyack (N. Y.) 8tr
Queen Helena's Courage.
A little hunting Incident of which
Queen Helena of Italy was the hero
ine haa leaked out some days after
the event.
She accompnied the King to Castel
Porzlano to shoot. Tho weather waa
Intensely cold, so a big bonfire was
built, around which tho royal party
gathered.
Suddenly the Marquis Calabrlnl, a
royal equerry, as a joke jumped over
tbe flaming pile. His garments took
Are, and all present lost their heads
except the Queen, who threw herself
on the Marquis, tore the burning parta
of his clothes away, unheeding the
danger, and choked the flames with
her skirts.
By special order of the Queen this
was kept secret, but one person,
struck by her courage and coolness,
could not forbear expressing his ad
miration, and thus the "Incident got
out. Rome Correspondence London
Telegraph.
Florists' Frost Bells.
An electric bell tinkled sharply be
side the florist's desk.
"Frost!" he aald, and ran hatleaa
to the greenhouses.
"The fires had sunk," the florist ex
plained on his return. "Tho watch
mau had fallen asleep. But for my
frost bell I'd have lost hundreds of
dollars. ,
' Frost bells are now pretty gener
ally used by florUt3 and fruit grow
ers," he went on. "An electrical con
trivance Is connected with a ther
mometer and when the mercury falla
to a certain point you regulate thla
danger point to suit yourself a bell
rings a warning in your house or
office.
"Many a crop of winter fruit and
flowers have been saved in the last
year or two by the clever little frost
bell." Philadelphia Bulletin.
A Claaa Too Numerous.
There are too many men who ex
pect an editor to slave In defense ot
their pet notions and hobbles, advo
cate tjielr views against the strong
est opposition and then coolly with
hold the business support by which,
aloue a small uewspaper eaa live.
1 a i Hartford Uasette.