GIVE ME CONTENT.
Cur tWA", to Hire my knee it bent,
Give mo content
Full pleasured -with wht comes to me
Whate'er ft b;
'An humble roof a frugal lxard,
And simple hoard :
The wintry fagot piled betide
The chimney wide,
iWhile the enwreatlung flame up sprout
And twine about
The brazen don that guard my hearth
And household worth :
Tinge with the ember's ruddy glow
The rafter low;
And let the spark snip with delight,
Aa fingers might
That mark doft measures of tome tune
The rhildren croon;
Then,, with good frienda, the rarett few
Thoo boldest true,
linngod round about the hlaze, to share
My comfort there.
Oivo me to claim the aervieo meet
That make each aeat
A place of honor, and each gncat
Loved aa the rcat.
James Whitcomb Riley, in the Ilome
Magazine.
THE wjj-jJjg5j"Fffl M
Pujol was n shepherd, of the Bls
cayan breed, and as honest a dog
in the beginning aa ever was born.
Also, he loved the little Joao with a
dog's alnglenesi of devotion. Pnjol
was anarly, aa shepherd-dogs some
timea are, but aa gentle aa the mother
ewe with lambs. Lambkins are gen
tle, and gentleness brings forth after
Ita kind. It was wonderful, when the
little Joae began to creep about the
dirt floor of the herder'a adobe hut
on the San Mlguellto mesa, to aee
how patiently the surly dog endured
the potty tyranny of the Infant. Jose
.would fasten his little fat brown An
gers In Pujol's long hair and wool
him with Buch baby might that tears
.would come Into the great brown
eyea, but these would be no resent
ment. The dog would merely sigh
patiently, and would go away when
the pain became too great to be
borne. Moreover, Pujol was a digni
fied dog, and it did not beseem him
to bo wooled which made the thing
all the more remarkable. The herd
er'a wife, Anita, respecting the dog's
dignity, would take tho child, fre
quently, to save Pujol, whereat the
dog would thank her with his eyes,
and with two thumbs of his great tall
on the dirt flooV and presently
would go off to aleep In the sun, and
the child, creeping to him, would
sleep also, with his little black head
on the red dog'a shaggy breast. Not
the south wind of summer breathed
more gently than Pujol, that the
little Jose might not be disturbed.
As the child grew in strength and
In waywardness, the dog took him in
particular charge and the mother,
going to gossip with her fi lends at
the Mission, knew that the boy was
in safe care. Pujol was of the Bls
cayan breed,, and could be trusted.
The boy and tho dog were Insepar
able so far, at least, as Pujol could
spare time from the care of the sheep.
Later, when Jose was blfr enough to
go with hlB father to tht high hills,
the sheep were still no neglrtrfd,
though the boy and -.b tunted
the cottontails fetjHL tjii, cactus and
chased the ground-squirrels In panic
flight across the breezy uplands. Al
ways the dog felt the responsibility
Of the sheep, but was tireless, as dogs
seem to be, and always, also, he
found time to play with the boy. It
Was perfect companionship because it
Was perfect equality.
Then, when the dark days came,
Pujol was faithful. That Is the dis
tinction in favor of a dog friend. It
was In the rains, when the sky wept
Into the sea that rolls forever at the
foot of tho mesa, that tho smallpox
came to the little adobe hut and left
the herder and his wife dead on the
dirt floor. Little Jose, a boy of ten
then, sat in the doorway with the
still rain beating ceaselessly upon
his bare head and an old red dog
laid Its head in the boy's lap, pressed
close to his legs, and looked up whin
ing as tho lad's tears fell.
Neighbors came fronf tho Mission,
presently, missing the herder, and
then the priest came also, and there
were muttered prayers and smoking
caudles, and tho dead were taken
away. Hut nobody minded the little
Joae. Tho priest. It Is true, put a
kindly hand upon the black head,
pitying the boy, and spoke to some of
the women. But the good Padro was
old, and a priest has so many cares.
A woman took Jose home wjth her
that night; a loud-voiced, shrewish
woman, but of kindly heartbut she
had no uso for Pujol, and told him so,
'driving him off with gestures and
coarse words and thrown sticks. He
was an old dog, and his strength and
his fleetness of foot were going. The
new shepherd, who came with the
burying party, had young dogs of his
own, and these fell upon Pujol, driv
ing him from the sheep and tousling
hlni. The dog's world and the boy's
world had gone to pieces under their
feet. And so Pujol sneaked away
toward the Mission, tall and ears
down, following Jose, but at a dis
tance, to avoid the tongue of tho
shrew. He became, after a little
time, a hunted vagabond of the In
dian rancherla, but every day he
mauagea to keep the little Jose In
sight.
Jose was set to keoplng Bwlne. The
shrew was no drone, and tolerated
no drones about her. There were
more cuffs than caresses in the boy's
life, of course. It was not that the
woman was actually unkind. But
sho knew little of childhood, and
Jose grieved for tho love that is child
hood's right. More than once his
little heart swelled almost to burst
ing under his calico shirt, and more
than once he was sent to keep the
swine without his dinner, deprived
for some petty fault.
Upon such a day, hurt and hungry,
he threw himself upon the sand in
the river-bed, while the swine wal
lowed among the willows, and wept
for that he was so alone and so deso
late. And as he wept a cold muzzle
was thrust against his cbesjk. Pujol
had understood. Looking up quickly,
Jose saw the brown eyes In whloh
faith lay like an Inspiration. With
one long wall he threw his arms
about Pujol's i',liaggy neck. Pujol
whined, and the great tall wagged,
but tho dog Btood still otherwise until
the storm had spent Itself.
Jose arose from the sand, and In
his eyes was the light of a new reso
lution. His mother had told him
once, long ago, that far nhova the
bills that towered over the mesa of
Ban Mlguolito, there were other little
kills, golden and glorious, where
flwelt a Man who loved children, and
look them to Him when they sor
rowed mill were wearied and friend
less. How the sight of Pujol's hen
's! face brought It all back, tfeat day
when she told him the story and
pointed to the far hills of the Santa
Ynez, where the snow lay white and
still In winter! He had not cared
then. He had his mother, and he did
not need the Man. But he had told
the tale to Pujol, In turn, and he had
remembered. Surely he was sorrow
ful enough now, and he had no
friends. Even the MlsBlon Indian
children looked down upon and de
spised the swineherd, and the Padre
had forgotten him altogether. Now
he would seek the Man. Who knows?
Perhaps Pujol had remembered also,
and would lead him. Pujol knew all
the hills. The dog must have reached
the Qoldnn Mountains In his wander
ings with the sheep.
And so. In the hot afternoon sun
shine, the boy abnndoned the swine
in the river-bed and tolled across the
mesa, Pujol at his heels, and on up
the steep peaks whero tho grass lies
only in those spots sheltered from
ta sea wiritl. They reached the sum
mit at last, and Jose saw before him
other hills, rolling away to tho north
ward Infinitely, and the highest of
them shone white in the sun. Be
hind him the mesa ran into the broad
valley of the river, going down to
meet the white line of the surf, and
out In the sea blue Islands gleamed.
But Jose looked not backward. There
on the high white hills, reaching Into
the sky, must bo where the Man
lived the compassionate Man. It
was In December, the soft winter of
that land, and snow lay on the
mountain tops, but snow was In no
part of Jose's small life. He pressed
onward toward the white hills, cross
ing deep canons and climbing many
high ridges. Pujol, faithful always,
kept at his heels. But the dog would
look at tho boy and whine, now and
again. Pujol had forgotten the Man
long ago, In ttrt) press of more Imme
diate duties, and did not understand
this quest. . '
For thro days the boy climbed,
the white hills gleaming distant as
ever, and Pujol followed on. Once,
In obedience to an order but against
his better instinct, the dog crouched
cloBe behind a clump of sage-brush,
lest a shepherd on a distant hill
should sight the fugitives ant', turn
them back. Still they went on, and
still the white hills seemed farther
away. Pujol, guided by instinct, led
past all the water-holes, but neither
boy nor dog had eaten since leaving
the Mission. On the fourth day Pujol
caught first a rabbit and then a
ground-squirrel, and laid them at the
boy's feet. Jose did not know that
the dog sought to have, him eat, and
the game was untouched by either.
On the fourth day, at sunset, as the
boy sank, utterly exhausted, at the
foot of a great live-oak, the dog lay
at his fete for a moment and, looking
up, seemed to study the child's face
Intently. Presently Jose slept, the
sleep of exhaustion, and then Pujol
arose and galloped swiftly back over
the hills toward tho adobe hut on the
mesa. When Jose awoke In the gray
of the morning, Bhlvering, a little
lamb lay dead at his feet, and there
was blood on Pujol's muzzle. The
clog looked and felt guilty yet was
strange) self-complacent. It had
gone to the dog's heart to murder
one of the lambs ho had cared for,
but the necessity of tho master salved
conscience. Yet the sacrifice of Pu
jol's honor was without avail. The
boy was fuint with hunger, too faint
to care whether he lived or not.
Also, the sight of the blood sickened
him, and he was sleepy. He arose,
staggered a few paces from the dead
lamb, and fell down fainting. Pujol
dragged the dead lamb to where the
boy lay and licked his hand. Jose,
revived, drew his hand away quickly.
Ho arose again, and ngaln staggered
a little distance before falling.
"Wicked Pujol," he said, "you have
killed the lamb. There Is blood upon
you.
The dog looked at him and whined.
It crept closer, but the boy motioned
It away. Then Pujol lay down also,
at a little dlstauce, and with the
body of the murdered lamb between
them, these two, a had boen
friends, abandoned tnemselves each
to bitter grief.
As the sun went down and the long
shadows crept across the canons, Pu
jol arose, sniffed at the dead lamb,
and ventured a step toward his mas
ter. There was a faint repelling ges
ture, but the dog crept closer. Closer
and closer, and his cold muzzle
touched a colder hand and If Pujol
had remembered tho Man he would
have known that Josu's auest was
ended. The dog did not remember,
and It filled the canyon with bitter
howling.
For (Jay's the dog watched beside
the boy'B body, scaring away the vul
tures and fighting vagrant coyotes.
Then, one day, Indiana came and
bore the body away to tho Mission,
driving off the dog with stones when
It would have stopped them. For
days after that the dog mourned
a. one under the live-cak. Then one
day the old wild blood that la In all
tho Blscayan breed, away back
rushed to Pujol's head, and that
night the shepherd In the adobe hut
on the mesa heard dogs fighting
among the sheep. In the morniug he
touud that six sheep had been killed.
and their throats torn for blood. His
two dogs were badly crippled by the
marauder. ujol was a powerful
brute, although In his twelfth vear.
That was the first of the wild dogs
of the San Miguellto. Pujol grew
more cunning as he grew older, but
also he grew weaker, and, after
long time, feeling that the day would
come when he could not hold his own
with the sheep-dogs, he went down
into the Mission and enticed from lt
home a foolish pnppy Into the wild
life of the hills. The old dog was
seen to do this. That was the sec
ond of the wild dogs. It was easy
sith one recruit to get others, and
so there came to be a band. For
many years Pujol lod them. After
wards tho other dogs cared for him.
A shepherd on San Miguellto, search
ing In the hills for stray lambs, once
saw two young dogs apparently lead
ing an old one. nearly blind, to the
carcass of a sheep Just slain. Ha
drove them away, but that night the
dogs broke Into the corral again, and
In the morning he found the body of
an old red dog upon his door-step.
Pujol had come home to die. The
shepherd did not know that at the
last tho old dog had turned, In de
fence of the sheep, upon the wild
companions he had led so long.
From Harper's Weekly.
Ther are said to be fifty varieties
of maples growing In North America,
Europe, Asia and Japan.
Paper or wood pulp has been UBed
for wheels, rails, cannon, paving
bricks, wnter pipes, telegraph poles,
lanterns, leather, textile fabrics, cof
fins, barrels, milk bottles, straw hats,
sponges, thread, porcelain, bullets,
shoes, building boards, paint, entire
houses and even stoves, that stood
fire well.
Mlddleton, an English engineer,
who thinks he has solved the prob
lem of propelling and steering large
vessels under water, believes that
Great Britain's food supplies In fu
ture times of war will be brought
here by large submarines, which his
Invention makes possible. He Is try
ing to get tho Admiralty to test his
invention, which Is kept secret.
In order to determine the points
of fusion or refractory substances,
Mr. W. C. Heraeus has constructed
at Hanau a new electric furnace, the
essential part of which consists of a
tube of Iridium, 20 millimetres thick
and 40 millimetres In diameter, and
In which temperatures between 1500
and 2000 degrees C. may be main
tained for any desired length of time.
At a certain temperature the sub
stance under examination begins to
soften, and at a temperature of five
to fifteen degrees higher, depending
upon the nature of the substance,
complete fusion occurs.
While cancer mortality Is increas
ing still in England and Wales, it is
at a diminishing rate. In the five
years ending with 1905, the death
rate for both sexes showed an in
crease of eight per cent., which was
about half as great as tho Increase
for the five years ending with 1890.
The deaths in 1904 were 741 per
1,000,000 among males of all ageB,
and 10ft6 among females. In nearly
all comparable cases the rate Is
greater among females. A remark
able oxceptlon 1b cancer of the mouth,
for In the four years ending with
1904 this caused the death of 7246
males and only 16G7 females.
Whether this Is an effect of nicotine
poisoning remains to be shown.
CONSUMPTION IS CURABLE.
It Will Soon Bo Class' ..-d Among
the Minor Diseases,
Consumption Is no longer regard
ed as a hopeless foo to life. It Is
treated successfully in the earlier
stages and some remarkable cures In
the later phases have been recorded.
Outdoor treatment Is regarded as
greatly helpful, and notable advances
have been made In the preventive
work through scientific sanitation.
At the present rate of progress,
through legislation, education and
the dispelling of the unwholesome at
titude of mind toward this disease,
it Is quite likely that a few decades
hence will find the world classifying
consumption with the minor serious
diseases, preventible and curable.
The malignant, epidemic fevers,
too, have succumbed In large meas
ure to the advances of science. The
germ theory of disease has worked
wonders in the classification and
study of specific organism and tho
discovery of their antidotal remedies.
Yellow fever, cholera, bubonic plague
and other pestilential allmentB of hu
manity have been at least placed in
the category of possible prevention
through the exercise of care In Iso
lation and the use of -disinfectants.
Smallpox is no longer rated high as
a menace to public health. Typhoid,
thanks to filtration and improved
sanitary supervision over the food
and milk supplies, is falling steadily
to a small percentage In the list of
causes of death.
The great advances which have
beeu made in a few years In the clas
sification and successful treatment of
these and other dangerous diseases
leave the single obstinate exception
of cancer the more emphatically a
menace. Occasionally a theory of
character, cause and method of
transmission Is advanced, to be ex
ploited for a time and then discredit
ed. Washington Star.
Old-Time 'Fvlsco Gone.
"San Francisco is going to get back
Its business and its population In
time, but. It will never be the same
joyous, free and easy, hurrah old
town that It wag in the days before
the earthquuko," said Mi. F. S. It.
Prentiss, of that ell y. to the Wash
ington Herald, "l.its of the old
timers, temporarily in other parts,
will return, but there will also be aa
influx of strangers and a general re
adjustment, which, 1 believe, will
change the whole complexion of
things and create au entirely different
atmosphere."
The Story of Malaria.
By M. L. YATCS.
Nobody knows the age of man on
earth. The tendency of opinion
among scholars is to the effect that
the human advent upon this planet
took place many tens of thousands of
years ago. John Flske, backed by
other high authorities, claims that
man lived on the earth as long ago
as half a million years.
The Story of Malaria, as told by
Major Ronald Ross, F. R. S., first to
an audlonce of the Royal Colonial
Institute of Great Britain, and later
In the pages of the National Review,
Is full of most Interesting facts that
are apt to pass the memory, unless
recalled from time to time. Our
present knowledge, as he reminds
us, Is the result of more than two
thousand years of patient study, and
It forms what might be called a gi
gantic epic of science. It tells of a
long and hard-fought battle between
man and nature, and It Is only to-day
that wo even begin to see the promise
of victory.
If we go bsck to tho writings of
Hippocrates and his successors, some
400 years B. C, we learn that the
Greeks and Romans were then study
ing tho character of malaria, nnd had
distinguished Its class by two Im
portant points; the first was that
malarial fever3 are not continuous In
type, but occur In periodical attacks,
and these attacks they classified as
quotidian, tertian, and quartan; that
Is, occurring every day, every alter
nate day and every third day. Al
though we now understand thnt at
tacks may, by overlapping, present
the appearance of a continuous fever.
this docs not contradict the ancient
classification. The second point found
.nit by them, and attested by succeed
lug experience, Is that there Is direct
connection between marshes and
swampy pools or soli and the preval
ence of this kind of disease. They
even went so far as to point to a
probability of the disease being dls
semlnated by a species of germ or
microbe to living man, thus approach
ing remarkably nenr to our nine
teenth century "discoveries!" In
deed, we seem not to have disproved
any of the theories of the ancients,
but rather to havo enlarged upon
them, added to their number, and
established their certainty. After
the ancients a very long time after
ward the next step forward was
taken in South America. To a vll-
lager of Malacotos, In Ecuador, we
owe the discovery of the efficiency of
Peruvian bark as a cure for malarial
fever or as we should more correct
ly term It, an antidote. This became
known in Europe about 1640, and
acquired fame after It had been used
to alleviate tho agues of Louis XIV.
In 1820 two French chemists sep
arated from Peruvian bark Its essen
tial alkaloid, quinino. Still, after
tho lapso of two and a half ccnturleB,
the bark or Its alkaloid are tho ac
cepted specifics against malarial fe
vers. By experimenting with the use
of these drugs, It was found possible
to separate with greater precision the
different types of fever and determine
the periods of attack.
To the story of malaria another
chapter was soon after this contrib
uted by the British military and naval
surgeons, at a time when British
ships were exploiting all waters.
These found malarial fever to be com
mon In all tropical and sub-troplaal
countries that It was an enemy like
ly to be encountered almost any
where. They added their affirmation
to tho theory that soil as well as
water held tho fever poison. About
the middle of last century, however,
when biology became a favorite study
and the microscope a more perfected
Instrument, the granules of what is
now called malarial pigment were
found in the blood, and these pigment
granules were found to be tho re
fuse matter of Innumerable little
parasites, which, living within the
blood, caused disease. Almost at the
same time that this discovery was
made, Pasteur, Koch, Lister nnd oth
ers were discovering that bacteria
were the cause of anthrax, tubercu
losis, cholera, typhoid and leprosy.
The two great discoveries mark to
gether an epoch In history. The es
sential difference between them,
briefly stnted, Is that malarial germs
nro protozoa, or the lowest form of
animal life, while tho bacteria repre
sent tho lowcBt form of vegetable life.
By close study of the processes fol
lowed by the parasites of malaria. It
was found that their capacity to re
produce themselves was almost un
ending, but that it kept to the order
of successive generations; and just
as all the stalks of corn In a field
which was sown at one time reach
maturity together, so did the mem
bers of tho same generation of ma
laria parasites. The shell of tho
blood corpuscle which has held the
growing parasite bursts whon It
reaches maturity, and allows Its
spores to fall Into the fluid of the
blood, and these again fasten them
selves on other corpuscles and begin
to germinate In their turn. Millions
of parasites will liberate their spores
nt the same time, and It will bo pre
cisely ut this time that the patient
will be attacked with the ague fit,
followed by fever. As some of the
spores tako seventy-two hours to
reach full development, the next at
tack of fever will not take place until
the third day; as another type devel
ops within forty-eight hours, tho at
tacks occur every other day; and
those which sporulate every twenty
four hours produce the quotidian fe
ver. It Is possible, though perhaps
not usual, for one patient to harbor
all three varieties at one and the
same time.
At tho tlmo that tho malarial para
sites scatter their spores In the blood,
the patient 1b seized with chill, nau
sea, shivering and fever; very soon,
however, the wonderful antitoxic
mechanism of the body begins to
assert Itself, tho poison Is acted upon,
neutralized, and In a large measure
eliminated by the sweating which en
sues, and the patient hi relieved. But
another generation is developing
meanwhile, and when it reaches ma
turity another attack is caused, and
not until their power of reproduction
is weakened, nd finally overcome,
will recovery be permanent. Even
then, undue fatigue, chill or great
heat may cause a relapse by favoring
the parasites and their development.
The cattle must be Incessantly waged
between the conflicting parties,
poison on the one hand, antl-toxln
on the other. A startling discovery,
made in quite recent times, Is that
native children in tropical countries,
although apparently healthy, otlou
carry theso parasites nlmost constant
ly In their blood. As the children
reach maturity, If they have not suc
cumbed to the poison before then,
this early Inoculation seems to pro
cure them immunity as adults, for
very few adult natives are subject to
malarial fevers In the way that Eu
ropeans are. While they are young,
however, the disease decimates them
In large numbers.
The next chapter In the story of
malaria had to reveal where these
protozoan parasites live In external
nature, and how and by what agency
they effect their entrance Into the
human body. The older theories as
sumed that stagnant water made a
home for them, and that they were
Inhaled In the mists and vapors
which rose from the marsh, and pos
sibly by the drinking of foul water.
But experiments made In trying to
develop the parasites from stagnant
water failed to give the supposed re
sults. Then the mosquito theory,
existent and In vogue for some cen
turies, was revived, and trials which
were made. Independently of each
other, added strength to the belief
that Infection came from the bites of
tho Insect. In 1894 Major Ross was
told by Dr. Manson (now Sir Patrick
Manson) of his own theory concern
ing the ability of parasites to trans
fer themselves from ono species of
animal to another, and he commenced
to make critical examination for him
self. When, after two and a half
years of experimenting, he was on
the point of giving up In despair, he
was startled on examining a new
species of mosquito to discover In Its
tissues the very bodies he was In
search of. Before he could obtain
formal proof his researches were In
terfered with by his being ordered to
a place where there were little or no
malaria. The following year the
Government of India placed him on
special duty for the continuance of
his study, and then In a few months
he was able to establish his conclu
slons, which were to the effect that
when mosquitoes of a particular spe
cies suck tho blood of Infected men,
animals or birds, they draw in with it
the parasites of malaria, and these,
living and growing in them, produco
spores which find their way down tho
proboscis Into the blood of their next
victim, Infecting him. Thus the mos
quito takes the parasite from one in
fected person, and after a week or
more conveys it Into the blood of
another, probably qulto healthy, In
dividual. After this discovery had boen mnde
public, Bchools of tropical medicine
and societies took it up, books and
pamphletB innumerable were written
upon the subject, and healthy persons
volunteered themselves to to be act
ed upon by the experimentalists, so
tho new study waa prosecuted with
all vigor. One of the things it is
most curious to note Is that the re
sults of all this combined working
merely developed and added to tho
conjectures and theories of the an
cients. For example, the mosquitoes
which carry human malaria belong
to a species called the Anophelrnes,
which breed mostly In terrestrial wa
ters, that Is, In marshes, which ex
plains the connection between marshes
and malarial fever. But it Is not
the parasite causing the fever which
lives and breeds in tho ronrsh, but
the gnat or mosquito which Is the
carrier of the parasitic poison. Where
appropriate marshes exist, these in
sects abound and infect everyone
within their reach by inoculating
them with the poison they carry from
one to the other. It Is argued that
mosquitoes also exist and abound
where there is no malaria, and this
Is true, the difference being that they
are not Anophellne mosquitoes. Hap
pily for us, the Anophellne is a com
paratively rare kind.
Tho remedy which Major Ross ad
vocates most strongly is the tracking
and drainage of waters and swamps
which favor the breeding of the ma
laria type; to carry out sanitation In
this way is not merely to get rid of
the mosquito itself, but of pests of
files and other Insects.
His plans are now being Included
in all the schemes of tropical sanita
tion, and with the Improvement in
land, air and water, cleanliness and
better housing come as a natural re
sult, so that tho local authority fol
lows hard upon the heels of the Im
perial ofllcor, and tho efforts of both
are fast making habitable for man
the long untenanted regions of the
globe, giving him, in fine, through
the destruction of unwholesome con
ditions, tho gift of a now world.
Scientific American.
OUR NAYY FIFTY YEARS AGO
By Cant. A. T. Mahan.
Between the day of my entrance
into the service, fifty years ago, and
the present nowhere Is change more
notable than In the national attitude
toward the navy and the comprehen
sion of its office. Then the navy was
accepted without much question as
part of the necessary lumber which
every adequately organised maritime
State carried, along with the rest of
a national establishment. Of what
use It was, or might be, few cared
much to Inquire. There was not suf
ficient Interest even to dispute the
nocesslty of Its existence; although,
It Is true, as late as 1875 an old-time
Jeffersonlan Democrat repeated to me
with conviction the master's dictum,
that the navy was a useless appond
age a statement which the work of
the War of Secession, as well on the
Confederate as on tho Union side,
might seem to have refuted sufficient
ly and with abundant Illustration. To
such doubters before the war there
was always ready the routine reply
that a navy protected commerce; and
American shipping, then the second
In the world, literally whitened every
Bea with Its snowy Balls. In my first
long voyage, In 1859. from Philadel
phia to Brazil, it was no rare occur
rence to be becalmed In the doldrums
In company with two or three of these
beautiful scml-cllpper vessels, their
low black hulls contrasting vividly
with the tall pyramids of dazzling
canvas which rose above them; a
distinctive mark at that time of
American merchant shipping. They
needed no protection then, and none
loresaw that within a decade, by the
peratlons of a few small steam cruls
srs, they would be swept from tho
seas, never to return. Everything
was taken for granted, and not least
that war was a barbarism of tho past.
From 1815 to 1850, the lifetime of a
generation. International peace had
prevailed substantially unbroken,
despite numerous revolutionary
movements internal to the States
concerned, and it had been lightly
assumed that these conditions would
thenceforth continue, crowned as they
had been by the great sacrament of
peace, when the nations for the first
time gathered under a common roof
the fruits of their several Industries
In the World's Exposition of 1851.
The shadows of disunion were Indeed
gathering over our own land, but for
the most of us they carried with them
no fear of war.
The political condition and balance
of the world now Is very different
from that of the period of which I
have been writing. Of this universal
change and displacement the moBt
significant factor at least In our
Western civilization has been tho
establishment of the German Empire,
with Its ensuing commercial, mari
time and naval development. To It
certainly we owe the military Impulse
which has been transmitted every
where to the forces of sea and land
an Impulse for which, In my Judg
ment, too great gratitude cannot be
felt. It has braced and organized
Western civilization for an ordeal as
yet dimly perceived. Harper's Magazine.
ONCE OX A TIME.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Midair Photogruphy.
Cameras on the wing are flying
through Germany. A projectile to
take photographs and claimed to
have been successful at heights of
half a mile is the Idea of Herr Marie,
a German photographer.
A camera having the form of the
usual kind of conical shell Is thrown
Into the air by means of a kind of
trap. At a predetermined angle, as
the camera turns to make Its descent
and Is pointed Blightly downward,
the shutter Is automatically released
and a picture Is taken of a broad
expanse of country. In bMU air the
flight and spot at which the aerial
camera will fall can be calculated
with much precision.
Precautions are taken to avoid
damage by concussion, and the re
sults are expected to be of grcai pos
sible value In military operations.
Chicago Tribune.
Everything comes to the man who
pays spot cash.
Clothes do not make the man
3r the chorus girl.
Cupid sometimes grafts a peach
Dn an old shrub.
One of the things you can't buy on
credit is experience.
Other people's happiness gives a
pessimist a headache.
Lots of folks do a thing twice In
Jrder to get it done once.
How the henpecked man does crow
tvhen he Is away from home!
Many a girl who has mischief In
aer eye has goodness In her heart.
It's easy to laugh at misfortune
when It visits the other fellow.
Success spells failure for some and
failure spells success for others.
When the lid Is on tight Borne men
have an excuse for being sober.
A fool may know when to quit, but
a wise man knows when not to be
gin, Matrimony Is a kind of dynamite
used to explode the theories of bach
elors. Were It Impossible to speak any
thing but the truth we would have
few friends.
It sometimes happens that a wise
man has occasion to marvol at his
ignorance.
Every hatchet-faced gossip Is In
her glory when it comes to wielding
a hammer.
After choosing his own boss many
a man Is dissatisfied so It's him for
the divorce court.
Oyster stews served in some res
taurants prove that the proprietors
belong to a society for the prevention
of cruelty to bivalves. From "Point
ed Paragraphs," In the Chicago News.
Disease of Olass Vessels.
Ttin unthnrlllaa nt tha Hoval Mu
seum nt in,- .h n have discovered a
glass vase In one of their showcases,
dating from tne eignteentn century.
wnicn snows every sign ui uunering
from a wasting disease, and not only
is It wasting away, but the authori
ties declare it has infected the other
glass vessels tn Its Immediate netgh-
Dornoou. i no vase nas been care
fully examined by experts, and va
rious medicines, externallv annlled.
have been prescribed to stay the
progress of the malady, but all to no
purpose. London, Globe.
A New Revenue Cutter.
A new revenue cutter Is under
process of design at Washington
whose main duty shall be to soek and
destroy derelicts upon the Atlantic
coast. This will fill a long-felt need,
and will render more safe the paths
of ocean commerce, particularly those
In the vicinity of Cape Hatteras,
where many of these craft have been
abandoned by virtue of stress of
wcither. This vessel, says Interna
11001.' Man.io Engineering, will be
proved with all necessary appli
ances for disrupting theBe vossels by
means of dynamite or guncottou, and
will be continually employed In this
service.
Wrong Diagnosis.
King George 111 had just been In
formed that his American colonies
had rebelled.
"I'll not believe It!" he exclaimed.
"It's nothing but a brain storm of an
unusually wide area."
Acting on this supposition, he sent
oier. a few regiments of experts, some
of whom he picked up in Germany,
and the failure of the treatment they
applied to the patients Is now a mat
ter of history. Chicago Tribune.
Once on n time, there lived n man,
A man, and lover, who naked the fair
Ami dear OHO, who held his heart in thrall.
To go with him, out no matter where.
And history ha it, thin maid replied
And told the man, she had "nothing te)
wear! "
I
But now--when a woman ia naked to go
She anya to the man: "How nice! why,
yea!
And I'll wear my yellow lace gown , . ,
perhaps
The black one i prettier or I guess
I'll wear your favorite blue come, please.
Do try and help mc to chooae a draaa!
"Mv laat two new ones but, never mind
You admire me in grey? I think, I seem
Too much like a nun ... I might
wear oh, no
Mauve makca me look old. I know
you 11 acream
If I mention acarlet! My white gowns?
well-
One of my white gowns ia juat a dr
"Hut white ia co common. The pink
foulard
Is s dear little beauty. Still, I don't
care
To wear it too often my nilc-green ia
sweet ! "
And the oor r.nn marvels, with won
dering stare.
If there ever lived, anywhere under the
sun,
A girl who had nothing to wear?
Madeline Dridges, in Life.
MRlPPLrTASfe)
- - r .' :
wnirtrni
"You seem to like his attentions.
Why don't you marry him?" "Be
cause I like his attentions." Town
and Country.
Prisoner "I'll reform. Judge. If
you'll give me time." Judge "All
right, 1 11 give you thirty days."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Wlgg "Skinnum says It costB him
$15,000 n year to live." Wagg
"Yon mean it costs his creditors that
much." Philadelphia Record.
"I hate to work," a loafer said,
"It uses up my breath,
And chewing worries me so much
I'd rather starve to death."
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Strnnger (to Individual who rath,
er fancies himself) "Have you got
a match?" Immaculate Individual
(blandly) "No, I shouldn't think
so." Judy.
"If she considers him such a para
gon, why won't she let hlni dance
with any other girl?" "She prob
ably thinks he Is too good to be
true." Judge.
"Do you walk to and from your
business for exorcise?" "No. I walk
for rest. When I want exercise, I
ride and hang onto the straps."'
Washington Star.
"Are you related to tho bride or
groom-elect?" Inquired the busy
usher. "No." "Then what interest
have you In the ceremony?" "I'm
the defeated candidate." Courier
Journal. Madame (to her newly arrived
maid servant) "What Is that you
are bringing In your hand?" Maid
"Oh, that Is nothing but a little
crockery cement." Meggendorfer
Blaetter.
"What a well Informed woman
that Mrs. Wadlelgh Is, Isn't she?"
"Why shouldn't she be.' Her cook
has worked for nearly everybody In
the neighborhood." Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Mon'a words to man are often flat,
Man's words to woman Hatter,
Two men may often stand nnd chat,
Two women stand nnd chatter.
Catholic Standard and Times.
Mistress (engaging new servant)
"And I hope you're not too friend,
ly with the policemen." Servant-
"Lor, no, ma'am. I 'ate 'om. My
father was a Hanarchlst, mum."
Plck-Me-Up.
"I never saw any one bo stuck up
is Markley," began Popley. "Last
night he " "Why," Interrupted
Goodart, "that's not liko Markley at
all. He's the best-natured fel
low " "Of course," continued
Popley, "but last night he came to
my house with molasses candy for
the children and let them sit on his
lap while they ate it." Philadelphia
Press.
Sleep nnd Old Age.
There Is no question that the
quantity of sleep required steadily
diminishes from Infancy to old ugo.
This Is a rather Interesting excep
tion to the general rule that, as In
so many matters, old ago returns to
tho needs of Infancy. As regards
sleep, old age Is more remote In its
needs from infancy than is any other
period of life. If elderly people ob
tain good sleep during the first few
hours, and if they have not lost that
delight In reading which we all had
In youth, but which so many of us
curiously lose, their case Is not to be
grieved over. The special valuo of
the earliest hours of sleep, by tho
way, has been proved by psycholog
ical experiment. The popular phrase
"beauty sleep" Is well warranted. It
is the early (tho deepest) hovrs of
sleep that make for health and
beauty. Pall Mall Gazette.
Drowning Struggles.
Recently at a dinner In Washing
ton a young novelist of Boston was
seated next to an effusive girl from
Indiana. At the first opportunity the
fair Indlanan turned to her neighbor
and gushingly exclaimed:)
Oh, I am bo glad to meet you!
To think I should meet an author!
It seems so wonderful that you
should have written that lovely
story!"
Whereupon, observing a strained
expression upon tho face of her
friend, the author, the girl from In
diana perceived her mistake and
hastened to add:
"Of course, you understand!"
(With an uncertain smile.) "it al
ways seems so perfectly wonderful
to me that anybody can Write any
thing,, no matter how poor it Is!"
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
No ( i. For Alarm.
Mrs. Naggs "I'm afraid your hus
band is inclined te-be a flatterer."
Mrs. Waggs "Why do you think
so?" . .
Mrs. Naggs "LaBt ulght at the re
ception he told me I was a peach."
Mrs. Waggs-"Oh, that wasn't
flattery. He detests any kind of
fruit." Chicago News.