"ONE OF THE BOYS.'
H la 'way beyond fifty, his hair's turning gny,
But still hs can laugh in the jollisst way:
Hi haa'n't forgotten the fan in a jest; . .
He tell the old atoriea with heartiest teat.
He knows all the new ones: he likes lots of nntsfr
Somehow he has managed to atay with the boye.
Why, he can get up In the gray of the dawn.
Ana be out on the road ere the others have gone,
With hia pole and his line- and he laughs long and deep
At the ones who say moming'a the best time to sleep.
He is out with the boys, ana noi one ot them peers
Tinkles and crow s teet that tell of his yea
At the wrink
years.
He it ready to romp, or to hunt, or to ride
He has never sat silent and moody, and sighed
Over vanishing youth or the days of his past,
For he saya that the days of the beytime can last
Just as long as we will, that we never need part
With the wonderful thrill that they give to the heart.
He will lie on his back in the shade of the trees
And declare that he knowa what is sung by the bees,
And he mimics the whistles and calls of the birds,
Which, he saya, if he liked, he could put into words.
He would rather spend hours 6n the banka of the brook
Where the berries are red, than lie reading a book.
He is 'way beyond fifty, and folka think that he ought
To devote lots of time to more serious thought
But they wonder at him, and they envy him, too,
For he's living to-day ail the days they once knew;
He haa never Tost heart with the chiefest of joys.
He has kept a young heart he is one of the boys.
, Wilbur D. Nesbit, in the Chicago Evening Post.
Sarah Brown's Effort.
By ELIZABETH I. SAMUfl.,
"Present," said Sarah Brown. Then
under her breath she whispered,
"Six!" Only six more days to hear
that name called first. How Bhe hated
It! Every time that the roll had been
read since the spring vacation she
had counted off one. Six days more,
and then? She could not. get beyond
the Interrogation point and the
"then."
The other girls there were five
girls and Dick Thurston In the class
knew what they could do. Helen
Burton was to teach school; Marga
ret Harvey was going to college;
Mary Davidson planned to study kin
dergarten, and pretty Gertrude Hall
was to be a milliner.
Dick Thurston had refused to go
to college, so he knew what he would
not do.
For Sarah Brown there seemed to
be neither could nor would. The sit
uation was as hopeless as her name.
She had time to think this over be
fore the roll was finished. Then she
shook herself free from her reflec
tions aud banished her name to the
background of consciousness, while
she plunged Into the last oration of
Cicero To-day was the day for spe
cial examinations by Mr. Thatcher.
The minister was always the exam
iner; that was a tradition ot the
school.
It was over at last. Sarah held
up her' head with pride as she went
out Into the yard. Never had she
done so well In Latin as, she had done
that afternoon.
Suddenly she remembered that she
cad left her algebra In the dressing
room and went back to get It. She
bad put It on top of the wardrobe for
safe keeping, and as she stepped up
on a chair to get it she heard Mr.
Thatcher say, "What do you think of
Sarah Brown?"
She heard, too, Mr. Raymond's an
swer: "I'm afraid she tries to get a
little more out of life than she Is will
ing to put in."
The color mounted to her forehead,
her blue eyes flashed and she almost
jumped from the chair. The she
stepped down, rushed out of the
door, and did not stop until she
reached the top of the hill behind her
father's house.
"I'm discouraged," she said, "ab
solutely, completely, entirely!" Then
her vocabulary and her breath both
failed, and she threw herself down
under the old pine, that always stood
ready to give her the consolation of
its shelter.
"Willing to put in!" Wus that not
the very thing that she wus so un
happy about?
Just give her a chance!
After a little she straightened her
self and reviewed the situation. It
did not Improve on review. Never
bad the sum total of her discourage
ments seemed so great. There was
only the old housekeeper at home
of course her father would not under
stand. "I'll go to see AuntPrue," she said.
Having reached thlB conclusion she
went in to supper.
Prudence Hathaway was confl
dante-in-general to the village. She
said there were two reasons why
everybody came to her house; one
was because of the .position of her
house, and the other was because Bhe
was almost always at home.
Her cottage stood between the
church and the academy, and she was
alwaya at home because she could
move about only In her wheel chair.
That Bhe was not a passive receiver
of confidences might have been in
ferred from a look at her strong,
beautiful face, and evidence of this
was not wanting, for Dick Thurston
motherless Dick said, "Sometimes
ahe'a a regular bar of Justice; some
times she preaches you a sermon.
You never know which is coming."
Sarah's face was bo rueful when
she entered the little sitting room
that no preliminaries were needed.
"All the rest of the girls are going to
do Bomething after they leave school,
and I've nothing to do but settle down
and stay at home. And I wish my
name wasn't Sarah Brown!"
"Do you think that you would be
different girl if you had a different
name?"
"Yes, I do."
"Why not choose one?" atiked
Aunt Prue.
"Choose a name?"
Yea. Fathers and mothers give
their children names just to get them
started, but we all choose our own
names In the end."
, "Tell me. Aunt Prue."
"If 1 had a name that I didn't like
S should establish a synonym."
"I'm sure I ahouldn't know where
to start to establish a synonym tor
Sarah Brown."
i "You might start almost anywhero,
Barah Brown might be somebody's
word for cheerfulness, for lnstuuce
,., "Oh! 1 see."
' "You can't be uure yourself what
your synonym will be, but Sarah
Brown will stand for something to
everybody that knows you."
"I think Dick would say that I'm
in for the sermon, don't you, nunty?"
"What was my text?"
"Putting In. I must go now. Good
night, Aunt Prue!"
A weary head lay on Sarah's pil
low that night. The weariness of
eighteen may bo as the weariness of
eighty, for the tide of life ia greater.
Sarah had not been comforted, and
she was hardly ready to be urged on.
But morning brought courage, and
a resolution shaped itself.
"I'll try," she said. Then her eye
fell on the journal that she had be
gun at New Year's.
"Make a record of your efforts, Sa
rah Brown!" she exclaimed. "If you
can't stand for anything else you can
stand for effort. Go on, Sarah
Brown!"
"I wonder what Mrs. Wilson would
give as my synonym," Bhe said to her
self as she went down stairs. "I
think I'll start her on cheerfulness."
She smiled rather grimly at the
thought. But her smile was pleasant
when she went Into the dining room,
and she talked to her father a little
more than usual.
Having made this effort she found
horself looking for another, and the
result of her search appeared when
she told Mrs. Wilson that she would
dust the parlor every day.
'Now I'll go over to see Margaret,"
she said when the last chair was
dusted.
As she was starting, Mrs. Wilson
asked her to do an errand for hor.
For a moment Sarah rebelled at tho
hindrance to her plan, but she re
membered her determination, and an
swered with at least a degree of wil
lingness. "Looks as If you would have to
keep this thing up, Sarah Brown;
There's some kind of a law about
bodies that can't stop if they once
get started. Good use to make of my
training in physics, so long as I can't
make any other use of It."
There were days, however, when
she seemed almost to stop, but the
record of her efforts served to steady
her purpose.
One night, as she wrote In her jour
nal, "Took cure of the little children
at the picnic while Aunt Prue read
to the rest," obeying a sudden Im
pulse she signed her name, "Sarah
Brown." The name seemed to mean
something.
Margaret asked her once In a letter
filled with an account of her own
work at college, what she was doing
to keep up her English, and she
wrote, smiling over It, "I'm doing
special work in synonyms."
Her chief "effort" during the win
tor was an old woman who lived a
mile from the village, and whoso un
happy disposition offered a special op
portunity for conquest. Sarah hud
determined to make her smile.
Late one afternoon, when she was
hurrying home from a visit to this
woman, she heard a call for help.
Looking toward the river she saw
that some one had broken through
the Ice. She ran down the bank, and
found that It was Dick Thurston.
"Help a fellew out, can't you, Sa
rah? I'm caught here. Get a fenco
rail or something, quick."
bhe found a rail, nnd Boon Dick
was safe. "How long had you been
there?" she asked.
"Seems as If I'd been there half an
hour," answered Dick, "but I sun-
poso I hadn't. I can tell you one
thing. Surah Brown, it you hadn't
come along I should never had got
out alive! "
Everybody talked about how Sa
rah Brown had saved Dick Thurston
from drowning, but Sarah wrote In
her Journal ' that night, "Went out
and spent the afternoon with old
Mrs. Davis. Made her Bmlle."
It was some time before Dick was
out again. Then he went to see Aunt
Prue. He talked to her a few min
utes, then went to the window, bo
that she could not see his face. "I
told father this morning that I would
go to college," he said.
"How did you happen to change
your mind?"
"Another result of being nearly
drowned. The fact Is, Aunt Prue,
that when a fallow 1b up to his neck
in cold water, with a prospect ot go
ing under, be Is likely to change his
mind about many things. They look
different."
"I'm ever so glad that you are go
lug, Dick."
But Diok, suspecting that the con
veraatlou might become personal, re
membered his appointment with the
doctor, but he added as ho went:
"When you have a fellow that you
can't manage, Aunt Prue, just d.own
him temporarily. He'll change his
point of view.
In the spring vacation Margaret
called a class meeting. The glrU
were surprised when Dick appeared
"Heard you were going to talk over
experiences," he said, "bo I've come.
for I've had an experience."
As Barah listened to the other
girls she felt that she had little to
say, and a touch ot her old discour
agement came over her.
When her turn came she said, "I've
done a little of everything "
"Such as saving a fellow from
drowning," cried Dick, springing to
his feet. "Allow me, ladles, to in
troduce Sarah Bro.wn, heroine."
"But I never bellbved that you
would have drowned, Dick," Bald Sa
rah. "It's very humiliating, girls. Sa
rah never did make anything of sav
ing me from a watery grave. Per
haps when I'm on the Supreme bench
he'll point to me with pride, and
ay, 'I saved the judge from drown
ing.' Anyway, I'm going to college,
and the cold water and Sarah Brown
did It."
"See here, Sarah Brown," said
Mary Davidson, "I've an account to
settle with you. I thought people
were going to miss us girls when we
went away, but wten I asked mother
who took my place in the library, she
said, 'Sarah Brown.' I haven't asked
about anything else that wo girls
used to do that she hasn't answered,
'Sarah Brown.' "
"That's so," said Margaret. "I
can't see that we've any of us been
been missed."
"I've only done things as they
came along," said Sarah, half In apol
ogy, but down In her heart she was
glad.
Just before commencement Judge
Thurston sent for Mr. Thatcher and
Mr. Raymond.
"I'm getting to be an old man," he
said, "and I want to Invest my prop
erty In something that will bring re
turns after I'm gone. I want to In
vest It In lives," he went on
Animals Tried For Crime
the old academy, and I've decided to
establish a fund to send one graduato
of the school to college every four
years. It seems to me that I should
like tho first one to be a member of
my grandson's cIubb" the Judge had
been watching Sarah Brown "and I
want you to advise with me as to
who shall be sent."
Mr. Raymond looked at the minis
ter. The minister said, "There's Sarah
Brown."
"Yes," said Mr. Raymond, "I don't
know anybody who would make a
greater effort or do the academy
greater credit."
"I am glad you both agree with
me," said the judge. Youth's Companion.
By COUNTESS MAHTINKNGO-CES.
AREHCO.
The earliest allusions to such trials
belong to the ninth century. One
trial took place In 824 A. D. The
Council of Worms decided In 888
that If a man has been killed by
bees they ought to suffer death, "but
It will be permissible to eat their
honey."
A relic of the same order of Ideas
lingers In the habit some people have
of shooting a horse which has caused
a fatal accident.
A good, characteristic instance be
gan on September 6, 1370. The
young son of a Burgundlan swine
herd had been killed by throe sows.
All members of the herd wore ar
rested as accomplices, which was a
serious matter to the owners, the In
mates of a neighboring convent, as
the animals, If convicted, would be
burnt and their ashes burled.
Justice did not move quickly In
tbose times; It was on September 12,
1379. that the Duke of Burgundy de
livered Judgment; only the three
guilty sows and one young pig (what
had it done?) were to be executed;
the others were set at liberty, "not
withstanding that they had seen the
death of the boy without defending
him." Were they all alive after nine
years?
An important trial took place In
Savoy In the year 1587. The accused
was a certain fly. Two suitable ad
vocates were assigned to the Insects,
who argued that these creatures had
"I love i boon blessed by God who gave them
the right to feed on grass, and were?
in their right when they occupied
I the vineyards of the Commune; they
availed themselves of a legitimate
privilege conformable to divine and
I natural law.
The Mayor of St. Jullen hastened
to propose a compromise; he offered
a pteco ot land where the flies might
find a safe retreat and live out their
days In peace aud plenty. The offer
was accepted.
Records ot 14 4 such trials have
come to light.
THE LAND-LOOKKKH METHOD.
THE ECLIPSE OF A LEGAL LIGHT
A Tragedy in Business Cards.
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(Yorvakd, '06)
COUNSELLOR AT LAW
9-11-1S-15 Toplofty Building
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Remember, people will work tho
better because they work from love,
not merely doing their duty and
obeying in a blind way. Miss
Mulock.
June
SPECIAL ATTENTION
UIVEN TO COLLECTIONS.
ALGERNON P. VAN NUYS LL.B.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
0-11-18 Toplofty Buildino
It is great folly not to part with
your faults, which is possible, but to
try to escape from other people's
faults, which is Impossible. Marcus
Aurellus.
Fidelity is the one quality in which
all the world rejoices, and the silent
fidelity of the children of God Is win
ning dally victories for His cause,
where knowledge, riches and elo
quence are lacking. Edgar W,
Work.
AUOUST
TVPEWRITINU.
PUULIC 'PHONE
IN OFFICE.
A. P. VAN NUYS
Law, Life Insurance and Real Estate
Notahy Punnc. tt-11 Toplofty Bldo.
Till tho mountains are worn out
and tho rlvors forget to flow, till tho
clouds are weary of replenishing
springs and the springs forget to'
gush, and the rills to sing, shall their
names be kept fresh with reverent
honor, which are inscribed upon the
book ot national remembrance!
Henry Ward Beecher.
OCTOBEll
MICHAEL HENNES8Y. AL. VANNESS
HENNESSY S VANNESS
MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS
AUBNTS FOR
TH "Uttlk Wosoku" Conuscmcw
Fizzlk Has Mantlss
Uautok'h Ualm run uuuisaa
9 Toplofty Buildino
Since work gives forgetfulness ot
self. It can be, and Is, an antidote to
I pain of heart. The very routine and
, drudgery nf daily work have often
saved a life from despair. Adherence
to duty is a way to attain some meas
I ure of peace. However great the sor
row, the needs f living and tho du-
ties of living press in, and demand
attention. The very necessity is a
lesson in faith. Hugh Black. .
December
-Fhom Fuck.
Game nnd Disease.
We remember the saying attrib
uted to Huxley that tho single ladies
ot. Old England are to be thanked
for tbu superiority of our beef, be
cause they keep cats to destroy the
mice that would otherwise extermin
ate the bumble-bees that fertilize thu
red clover on which our cattle feed.
Now some one Is writing to tho Spec
tator to propose the slaughtering of I
game In the Zambesi Valley in order
to prevent the spread ot sleeping
slckneBB. The proposal hinges on I
what we consider to be the mistaken I
statement by Mr. Austen, of the Brit
ish Museum, that the tsetse fly can
not exist long without mammalian
blood. The other step in the argu- i
ment Is no more sure namely, that
the tsetse fly Is lndlspeusuble to the
spread of Bleeping sickness.
The evidence Is not sufficient to
condemn the game ot even a portion
of the Zambesi Valley. The animal
that demnnds mammalian blood is,
we fancy, far greater than the tsetse
fly, and the fact that, unlike the deer,
he is capable of writing to the papers
must not be allowed to prevail.
London News.
Reform In Tennessee.
"A great wave of reform Is agitat
ing the people of Tennessee," said E.
E. Boyer, of that State.
"The sale of Intoxicating liquors
has been banished in all but a few
towns, aud it would not surprise mo
to see complete prohibition within
a few years. The reformers have
also been busy trying to eradicate
the gambling evil, and thoy were suc
cessful In having the legislature pass
a bill that strictly forbids any pool
selling or bookmaking on racing
events. It was thought that this law
sounded the knell of horse racing In
Tennessee, and so It may turn out,
for unless men arc allowed to back
their favorites there will be very lit
tle interest paid racing in the fut
ure. In fact, It Is not practicable to
maintain tho tracks unless betting is
tolerated."- Washington Herald.
The Greatest Indian Organizer.
Pontlac exemplified at once the
best and the worst traits of the Amer
ican Indian. He seems not to have
been bo great a warrior as Osceola,
nor as able a general In the field as
Cornstalk, nor so unselflshly a patriot
as Tecumseh. But as an organlzei
among a people with whom organiza
tion is almost impossible, and as a
master ot the treacherous state-craft
of his race, he probably surpassed
them all. As soon bb his death was
known, the French Governor at St.
Louis sent for his body and burled
it with full martial honors near the
fort. "For a mausoloum," Parkman
finely says, "a great city has arisen
above the forest hero; aud the race
whom bo bated with such burning
rancor, trample with unceasing foot
steps over hie forgotten grave."
From "The Conspiracy ot Pontlac,"
by Lynn Tew Sprague, In the Outing
Magazine.
- A
Puzzles For Postal Clerks.
ClevernesB Is one of the attributes
necessary for every man who is em
ployed in the postofllce sorting mall,
for he meets with all kinds ot freaks
In the shape of letters peculiarly ad
dressed. Some jokers appear to thiuk
; that all the poBtal clerk has to do Is
j to solve puzzles.
Recently at the Boston office a let
' ter was received addressou "Wood,
Mass.," with a line drawn under the
i "Wood" -and over the "Mass." The
j letter went out the name day It was
! received and reached Mark Under
wood, Andover, Mass., for whom It
j was intended, and the postal clerk
who Bolved the riddle did not think
! ho had one auythlng brilliant. It
was all In his day's work. Boston
Journal.
American Progress.
We are going fast upon our way,
we people of the United States. We
have built higher, deeper, faster tbau
ever nation built before. Yesterday
we were as a pauper amid ludustrial
magnates, calling upon the gold of
England for the opening of our
mines, our lands, our forests; to-day
the banners ot our commercial van
guards float above the anows of Si
beria, the Jungles of the AmazoD, the
forests ot the Congo. World's Work.
The Alamo.
While the Alamo is situated in the
The "Ins.
England's new armored cruiser, J, ot Antonio, It is the treas
the Indomitable, has been launched,
and soon the Inflexible and the Invin
cible are to bo given to the waves.
Tbu Impossible may be expected next.
If there Is anything in names Eug
laud is going to cleaTi up the other
1 navies of tho world. St. Louis Re
ured property of the people ot nil
Texas. There is no Texan who does
not posaeis It lu an Interest which
he has a sentimental and patriotic
right to assert. There will be u gen
eral protest and uprising against any
scheme to comuMiclalixe any part ot
It. Galveston Mews.
Every Man Has Ills Own Idea of the
Way to Report.
Among the mostplcturesque figures
of every part of the country In which
timber abounds are the tlmber-cruls-ers,
or land-lookers men whose pro
fession It is to inspect the standing
timber and report to their employers
the quantity and quality ot the mar
ketable wood upon a given tract of
land. Their methods vary In differ
ent regions. In fact, each man has
his own method; but the successful
cruiser employs generally some such
system as that reported In the Out
look as the work of a veteran of the
Lake Superior country.
When the party had made theii
camp, the veteran went out to locate
the quarter section post from which
he was to make his start. The tract
was to be "looked" by sections, and
each section by "forties." The post
for which ho was looking was in the
mlddlo of the south line of the first
section.
A short distance down the tote
road from the camp stood a tree on
which was a white, fairly recent
blaze, on which some one had pen
cilled, "140 paces west by south to
quarter section post."
Taking a compass from his pocket
the old man turned into the woods:
and with an eye to the needle rap
idly paced off the required distance
west by south. It brought him to a
fairly clear spot, on the edge ol
which stood a very aged beech tree
leauing toward tho north, and having
the scar of an ancient blaze on tho
sheltered side. The cedar post which
had onco marked the corner was
gone, but this tree was one of the
two "witness trees," one each side
of the line, with which the original
government surveyors had marked
the place.
The next morning the veteran with
his line runner returned to tho wit
ness tree to begin actual work. The
"forty" was, of course, a quarter of
a quarter section, and contained forty
acres.
The line runner, taking his start
from the witness tree, set out, com
pass in hand, straight to the north,
pacing his distance rapidly but accu
rately one hundred and twenty-five
paces, or, approximately, three hun
dred and thirty feet. Having gone
that far, ho made a right angle, to
the westward, and, followed by the
timber cruiser, set out straight to the
west, still pacing his way, and going
three hundred and seventy-five paces
in a line parallel with tho south boun
dary of the forty, and about three
hundred and thirty feot from it.
Turning then straight to the north,
he paced two hundred and fifty paces
that way, and then, turning east
ward, paced three hundred and seventy-five.
This brought htm back
again to the east line, up which ho
had started from the witness tree.
It will be seen that, aB the quarter
section was approximately five hun
dred paces on a side, ho had come
within three hundred and thirty feet
of every tree In It a fact any one
who will drnw a map of it can verify.
Behind him all tho way walked the
veteran cruiser, "relieved of the bur
den of finding his way, surveying In
tently the trees by which ho passed,
and making uotos of what the forty
would cut.
Twenty thousand feet of beech,
forty-five thousand of maple, fifty
thousand ot hemlock, seventeen thou
sand of birch, and one lone pino tree
were in the tract.
The next forty had a corner run
ning down Into a swamp, and there
the cruiser found n quantity ot ccdur
ties and posts and a handful of tele
graph poles, besides some fifty cords
of spruce and balsam wood pulp. The
third was all hardwood and ran heav
ily to in nil a valuable forty.
Thus It went on through forty af
ter forty. Tho cruiser went over a
dozen or more of them every day,
and their contents, estimated with
acute judgment, wont down in hi?
note book, to be reported to t.ie i r
pecttve buyer.
It la stated that 231 municipal
acetylene gas plants are now In use
,n the United States.
Astronomers are trying to photo
graph the sun's corona without an
eclipse, from the Janssen observatory
Dn the summit of Mont Blanc.
fcWORTH KJOWIN
A New York man fell 130 feet and
sustained no worse Injuries than to
catch a cold.
Professor Richard Lull, of Yale
College, has published a new geneal
ogy ot the horBe. He bas traced tho
ancestry of the animal back 2,000,
000 years. He says that while the
horse originated in Europe, North
America was the theatro for its development.
The oldest royal house in Europe
is that of Mecklenburg. They traos
their descent from Genserlc, who
sacked Rome In A. D. 466.
The "leafless acacia" Is a peculiar
tree that forms forests In Australia.
The tree has no leaves, but respires
through a little stem answering the
purpose of a leaf.
The wireless telegraph of the Oer
man army can be transported and set
up by eight or ten men, and two men
operate the station. The apparatus
consists of a sixty-foot steel pole In
eight sections, with steel guy ropes,
a complete Bending and receiving out
fit, folding tables and chairs, and a
bicycle dynamo that can bo worked
by one man.
A Washington poultry dealer has
made the discovery that It Is a dan
gerous practice to carry eggs Intend
ed for hatching on electric oars with
out taking precautions to prevent tho
electric current from killing the
germs. Experience has shown that
where tho receptacle Is allowed to
rest on tho floor of the car eighty per
cent, of the eggs oro "killed." Moral:
Carry the basket on your lap.
The gentle retrain of the accordion
ot Phoebe Stannard, of Great Bar
rlngton, Mass., calls her cows home,
no matter how far on the mountain
side they have wandered.
Oddest of Maine's animals is the
porcupine, and Llnwood Flint, of
Waterford, has made them the sub
ject of an Interesting nature study.
He has twenty or more of them.
Thero are some monstrous stonea
In the temple of Baalbec, Syria; and
the Peruvians had a method of trans
porting Immense stones, which nowa
days would, If known, moan, a for
tune to engineers.
An expedition headed by Professor
Thomas A. Jaggnr, of the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology, will
soon go to study the geological for
mation of the Aleutian Islands, oft
the Alaska coast. The party will
Include noted geologists. It Is ex
pected that there will be plenty of
work, for the Aleutian Islands from
a geological point are marvels of pos
sibility. The expedition, which is
financed by Boston men, la purely a
private enterprise.
A new alloy, called McAdamlte
metal, has recently been put on the
market, with the Idea that it may
largely take the place of brass in
machine-making. Its base Is alum
inium, but the exact composition la
kept secret. It resembles aluminium
only in lightness and non-corroBlve-ness.
It la about one-third the weight
of brass, but about twice the tensile
strength, and Its resistance to com
pression Is nearly four times that of
brass. It takes a high polish, and
does not tarnish. It Is sonorous, an'
bells are now made of It.
THE SHADOW WOMAN.
Milling CasuAlttes.
The total deaths by accidents in
mines in the United Kingdom in 1906
were 1133, as against 1159 In the
previous year, belug a decrease of
twenty-six. Under the Metalliferous
Mines act tho total number of sep
arate fatal accidents dining the yeat
amounted to thirty-four, as against
forty-three in 1805, a decrease of
nine. The deaths caused by these ac
cidents number thirty-seven, ns com
pared with forty-six in 1905. Under
the Quarries act there were ninety
two separate fatal accidents during
1906, as against ninety-seven in
1905; these accidents caused ninety
seven deaths, to be compared with
ninety-njne in tho previous year.
Engineer.
Harking and lilting.
The once familiar practice of In
stalling a "barker" in front ot a store
to invite the patronage ot passers-by
has all but died out. The "barker's'
occupation's gone. He has been sup
planted by the newspaper advertise
ment, which addresses a thousand
people to every one upon whose ear
Ms solicitations fell, and command)
a more attentive hearing. Thero an
a few "barkers" left, to be sure, Jusl
as there are a few people who keep
their surplus money In an old sock
Instead of letting It draw Interest iu
a bank. But where the barking it
most in evidence there is generallj
very little biting on the part of the
public. Hamilton (Can.) Timos.
From Youth to Old Ago There Was
the Reflection of Life.
Once there was a woman who was
a shadow. She was colorless and
flat and uninteresting, but she was
glad to be a shadow.
He paid very little attention to his
shadow. When he first noticed her
he was quite Interested, and made
experiments to verify her attachment
to him, such as trying to get away
from her, stamping on her, making
extravagant gestures for her to fol
low, and the like. But when he had
satisfied himself that she could not
be other than constaut to him ho
ceased to notice her at all.
Sometimes on his way home at
sunset he would glance at her and
wonder why sho never seemed to ex
ist lu the middle of the day. Some
times, in the moonlight, after the
work aud pleasure of the day, he
would feel the company of her famil
iar presence, or In the firelight be
would smile at her fantastic evolu
tions with something of his old time
Interest. For it was by firelight that
the shadow was In her glory. When
he sat down to rest, before tho blaz
ing logs she would dance for joy,
throwing but all the fascinations of
her nature in quaint shapes and
! rhythms, waving, bending, flickering.
till ho covered the fire and sho
slipped upstairs after him by the pale
caudle light.
In public, of course, no one noticed
the shadow. She was contented that
she was his, and be was used to the
fuct that she would always be there,
aud society is not lighted with ref
erence to bringing out shadows.
Finally there came a last time for
golug upstairs behind him. He went
up weakly, like an old man, and as
he spied his shadow trembling be
hind him bo stopped to wonder what
would become ot her when he was
gone. But It was as he foresaw.
When bo was carried downstairs,
long and still, his shadow followed,
long and still, behind him. The Atlantic.
Germany's New Kailivay's Hates.
The new Gerniau railway passen
ger rate is 2.68 cents a mile, tirst
class, with no reduction for round
trip tickets and no free baggage. For
express trains the rates will be high
er, causing a substantial addition to
the cost of travel. The object is to
keep local passengers off tho long
distance trains. For second class
the rate Is 1.72 cents, with an addi
tional charge for baggage aud for ex
press trains. The density ot traffic
averagos much greater in Germany
than lu tho United States. Balti
more Sua.
'A London literary critic asks why
Cttn lgu$U mote than women.
Hot Potatoes as Hand Warmers.
Dr. Herbert Claiborne, of New
York, suffers from cold hands In win
ter. And nothing will warm his fin
gers except hot water, u hot fire or a
hot potato. He can be seen almost
any frosty morning marching along
at five miles an hour with a hot po
tato In each overcoat pocket and his
hands grasping the two big potatoes,
piping hot, wrapped in silk handker
chiefs, for this purpose. "They will
keep your hands warm tor hours un
less you happen to sit on 'em," he
says. "They are great for a football
match or when you go Blelghridlng."
Philadelphia Record.
That Would Bo Shocking.
Sam Bernard was strolling down
Broadway the other day, and stopped
to watch a derailed trolley. All the
passengers were on one side of the
track, with the exception of one lady,
who seemed to be afraid to cross the
rails.
When Mr. Bernard drew near she
asked. In a timid voloe: "Would I
get a shock If I put my foot on that
rail?" pointing to the nearest one.
"No. madam," answered Mr. Ber
nard politely. "Not unless you put
your other foot on the trolley, .wlrs.".
Yuuus'b Mgaiue.
Among the feats performed by the
Egyptians was that of erecting obe
lisks weighing 400 tons or over. The
Romans were also eminent engineers.
Near the temple of Baalbec there
lies a stone ready quarried, which is
seventy feet long and fourteen feet
I squar. It weighs 1135 tons.
There is now a canal connection
between Milan and Pavla. about
twenty-five miles long, through an
ancient channel, which has been in
use for more than 600 years. Thou
sands of canal boats from the Po
go to Milan every year, pass through
the city's canal system, which Is
founded on the old defensive moats
of the Middle Ages, and proceed
northward to the Italian lakes, or
vice versa.
Every year from R00 to 1200 cou
ples go to England from the Conti
nent, mostly from Germany, to be
married. To comply with the con
ditions of the English law the bride
usually goeB over first, stays one
night In a hotel, and gives notice ot
the marriage on the following day.
Then tho man arrives and the cere
mony takes place. It Is generally by
license, as otherwise both would have
to stay in England for four weeks.
THE PATH OF AN INTERVIEW EK.
Cosmopolitan Virtues and Gifts of
Versatility Along Its Course.
Tho newspapers of Boston are not
the same as those of New York; there
is a greater difference between those
of Chicago and New Orleans; and
what Is a "first-page story" in Phila
delphia would be moved farther back
In San Francisco to make room for
another sort of sensation suited to
the peculiar taste of its readers. But
the subtle distinctions do not perplex
the resourceful newspaper reporter.
He comes from the Atlantic to the
Pacific Coast and In a week his
"stuff" is true In tone to the paper
that has engaged him. He goes to
the East from what is called the
"unconventional" West, and in a
month his work is in no wise to be
distinguished from that of men who
have begun and continued In the
service of New York dailies. For
proof, any important newspaper may
bo considered. In five years it prob
ably has had scores of reporters, may
have had two or three different city
editors, and perhaps as many man
aging editors, yet the tone of the
paper from first page to last Is un
changed. !n fact, that distinct, in
dividual flavor often persists In spite
of efforts to change It. It would be
easy to name a score ot papers in the
country that are identical In dominat
ing characteristics and tone with
their Issues of earlier years, in spit
of the fact that their owners and the
entire staff upon them have changed
more than once.
The true cosmopolitan is the news
paper reporter. It is easy enough to
appear content In any quarter of tha
globe, and In Rome to live as the
Romans do, but the reporter does
more. He Is Norwegian nnd Italian,
proletarian and palace-wlse, Repub
lican and Democrat, sevoral times
each day, aud the narrow provincial
ism of the metropolis is as much his
as the freedom and the long per
spective of the mining camp. It is
versatility, more of temperament
than of talent, that distinguishes him.
The citizen of the world, with a nose
tor news, a supernatural ingenuity
In obtaining It, a pretty knack
of description, and the ability to be
always In the mood for work, might
make un average roporter. The
good reporters who become editors
have additional faculties, not accu
mulated, but Indigenous. San Fran
cisco Argonaut.
The Stunts of the Agile Log-Man.
Skill of an individual sort is pre
supposed; Just as is skill lu horse
manship with a cowboy. Without It
a man Is absolutely useless. And
Just as cowboy likes to show off or
compete In a kind of horaemansHIp
which can have no practical applica
tion to his trade, so does the river
man do his tricks. A man In Mari
nette, whose name I have forgotten,
could turn a somersault on a log;
Innumerable others like to lie down
at length while floating with the
currant; Jack Boyd could "up-end" a
railroad tie without falling into the
water; and It 1b very cold water In
deed that can scare off an occasional
blrltng match. From "Jack Boyd:
Master Rlverman," by Stewart Bd
ward White, In the Outing Magaslne.
The Press Agent In Wyoming.
A gang ot Red Men, dressed as In
dians and cowboys, held up a stage la
the streets ot Cody last week. It
was done to advertise a dance given
by the Red i&tin. - Wyoming ls
chance.