SEVEN AGES OF WHEELS.
A wicker carriage we provide
In which the baby tirst may ride.
With kilts, a yellow cart nrrlves,
W doubtful billy-goat ho drives.
Jn knickerbockers, down the p!l:e
'He circuses upon his bike.
,The bk of love and Basolene
Demands a slxty-hoiso machine
The years advance; he rides afar
Sin his palatial private car.
Old, feeble, if the vy be fair,
211s valet wheels him in his clinlr.
Then one last trip ho takes on wheels,
Uis head no higher than his heels.
Frank Roe Batchcldor, In ruck.
"If It's any consolation to either of
8," Harley said, with a glance at the
girl beside him, "I hear we've behaved
splendidly."
The girl poked the gravel with the
point of her parasol, and avoided his
eye.
"I wonder," she reflected, slowly,
"whether you find It a consolation."
- "I'm wondering," he retorted,
"whether you do."
"But what else," she questioned with
a touch of contempt, "could we have
done?'
It was Harley's turn to poke the
gravel.
"Well, the chief point In our favor,"
lie explained, "seems to be that we
didn't mope In the middle of the sea
Bon, with so many anxious hostesses
depending upon the support of our bril
liant and successful presence. We
showed pluck. We dldn'.t wear our
mangled and bleeding hearts upon our
sleeves, and retire into a corner to be
wail our forsaken lot. Every one ad
mits, with extraordinary generosity,
that w had every right to do so but
Sve didn't. No, we said In effect
jHang the faithless pair! They're not
worth our tears' and society is grate
Iful to us accordingly."
He paused and looked at her wth in
terest. She continued to poke the
gravel.
"After all," she answered, "moping
wasn't much good, under the circum
stances. They were married. And
supposing things hadn't gone so far as
that they didn't want us.- They took
their own way out of the difficulty
jwithout consulting us. I think it
.would have been better If they had
'given us a chance of surrendering our
tights to them willingly, but that's a
mere detail."
She fell upon the gravel with re
newed vigor. Harley watched her.
"Would you," ho said at last, "have
surrendered your rights In such a
spirit of self-sacrificing readiness?"
i "I wasn't Archie Loveil's jailer,"
she retorted, a little haughtily. "I was
merely the girl he was engaged to."
"Exactly," ho rejoined with warmth.
"That's what I told Angela Coventry
I mean, of course, Mrs. Lovell. They
might at least have given us the chance
of being generous."
"They chose," she said coldly, "to
consider us their Jailers. They chose
to make a violent escape from our
fliir mmtndv. Thnv flssllrr.rtil holts and
bars. I always used to think elop
mnnta so romantic In honks. That
was because I never considered the
feelings of the people left behind.
Now," she added, with a laugh, "I've
been, left behind myself I know what
it feels like."
It Isn't," Harley suggested, "the
most gratifying of sensations."
'It Isn't And our only consolation,"
she declared with Irony, "is to be told
that we've behaved splendidly we
haven't moped!"
The gravel flew before the tip of
Iier parasol, Harley looked thoughtful
ly at the ruin she was making.
"It hasn't," he admitted presentely, '
"'been my only consolation. I had an
other consolation, too."
"What was that?" she inquired with
Interest.
"Well If you want to know it was
the fact that you were taking It so
pluckily. If it hadn't been for your
example" there was the ghost o? c
twinkle In his eye "I almost think I
should have been tempted to mope.
Think of that!"
"My example!"
"Precisely. You carried It off so
well that I had to play up. We were
both In the same dilemma we were
both cast for the ignominous role of
The Forsaken. And I imagined, natu
rally, that It would be worse for you."
He cast a sharp glance at her. She
looked fixedly at the gravel.
"It was worse for you naturally,"
lie repeated, with emphasis.
"I don't see exactly why," she said,
In a low voice. "Go on."
"And I felt myself responsible, too,
In a way. I felt that If I had been able
ito hold Angela, you wouldn't have lost
'Archie. But I wasn't able. If she
ever cared for me, I wasn't able to
jmake her keep on caring. . . Thee
I was something wrong somewhere,
.wasn't there?"
1 He paused for an answer. She shook
her head.
.. "I don't believe," she said, with
sudden frankness, "that she was half
good enough for you I never did."
. "That's odd," he said with a laugh;
leoauae I've, always doubted' whether
'Archie was half good enough for you."
"The point 1b," the girl said seri
ously, "not that a person's good
enough for you, but that you want him
or her. Isnt that It?"
"The point la," he returned, "that
as yon said just now they didn't want
a"
I "But you wanted her," she persisted.
He reflected for a moment
; CONSOLATION. ;
By Nellie K. Bllsse'.t.
"At any rate," ho admitted ctiutl
ously, "I thought I did. I don't know
whether I ought to ask, but you-'- you
really did him the honor to want
him?"
"I oh, I thought I did, too," she
answered, "if it comes to that.
There was a brief silence.
"I wonder." he remarked suddenly,
"why we're not both heartbroken?
We ousht to be, you know. Hasn't It
occurred to you a3 odd that we're
not?"
"Aren't we?" she said, with rather
elaborate Indifference.
"Personally, I'm not not a bit I
was at first. For 24 hours I was aw
fully h3rd hit It isn't a nice trick to
play a man, you know, to bolt with his
best friend a fortnight before the wed
ding?" "It was, perhaps, better," she sag-
gested, "than bolting a fortnight after
the wedding."
"You couldn't expect me," he pro
tested, "to see It in that cold blooded
and philosophical light. No, I don't
mind admitting that at first I was
awfully hard hit Then I thought of
you."
"Th2ok3." Her fane was dry. "Did
the thought of me comfort you?"
"Well I thought you'd bo awfully
hard hit, too," he explained rather
lamely.
"So I was at first," she admitted In
cautiously. There was a pause. She forgot to
torture the gravel.
"How long," he inquired delicately,
"did it l:t?"
"It?"
"The first agony," he said, with sol
emnity.
A smile crept into her eyes.
"About about 24 hours and half a
minute," she confessed.
"I told you," he said triumphantly,
"that It was worse for you than it was
for me!"
"By half a minute," she retorted
"Then"
"Well?" he murmured.
"Oh, then I remembered you. But
that didn't," she added hastily, "con
sole me In the least It made me
worse."
"Worse!"
,"I had to be sorry for you, as well
as for myself. Don't you see?"
Her tone was a Bhade Impatient. He
reflected for a moment or two.
"If I'd known that," he Bald at last,
"it would have made my recovery
much mere rapid. I should have felt
it my duty," there was a touch of
laughter In his tone "to avoid giving
you .more cause for distress than you
had already. I should have felt that
24 hours of despair were exactly 23
hours and 69 minutes too long. . . I
suppose," he hinted, "that we must
concede the other minute to blighted
affection."
"Wouldn't it be more truthful," she
suggested, "if we conceded it to pro
priety?" "I shouldn't have dared to mention
propriety," he replied gayly, "but I
can't deny that I thought of It . .
After all, they didn't want us. Why
in the world should we pay them the
undeserved compliment of continuing,
under such unpromising circumstances
to want them?"
"I shouldn't have been practical
enough to put such an admirably sen
sible idea Into words," she returned,
smiling at the handle of her parasol,
but I must admit that it did occur
to me."
"It would have helped me enor
mously," he declared, "If I could have
supposed It possible that you might
think like that."
"It seems to me," she returned, not
without an attempt at condemnation,
that you really weren't In need of
any help. Your recovery was quite
rapid1 enough as it was. . . If it Isn't
the direst heresy to say so, I'm begin
ning to wonder whether you whether
you ever cared for Angela at all."
"If it isn't the most confounded Im
pertinence on my part to hint at such
a possibility," he confessed softly, "I'm
on the point of asking myself whether
we were perhaps not absolutely des
olated by the fact that they didn't
want us."
.Her head drooped a little. There was
laughter In her eyes.
'It's quite too extraordinary," she
said, "but the possibility Is in the act
of occurring to me, too."
He moved a shade nearer to her on
the garden seat.
'There was something wrong some
where," he reminded her. "What was
it? We weren't able to hold them, you
know. We didn't know the reason at
the time, or we should of course, have
set the poor things free. We didn't
realize, either of us, that we couldn t
hold them because we ourselves cared
for well, say, other people."
'Other people?"
'Say you and me," he suggested,
vaguely, "I for you, and you for"
"But in that case," she said, with
delightful severity, "we're a pair of
hypocrites. We haven't behaved splen
didly at all and It's no credit to us
that we didn't mope. We we're hor
rid shams."
He captured the parasol and the
hand that held It
't can't permit you," he declared, "to
abuse either of us. Don't say we were
hypocrites. At the worst, we only
showed a natural talent for the ex
tremely useful art of consolation!"
The Sketch.
Fur Coats for Doge.
"Fur coats for dogs have entirely
gone out of fashion," says the Dally
MalL It Is, however, an exaggeration
say that, since the pronouncement,
. Bernards and Newfoundlands have
been rushing to barbers' shops in the
thousands. At the same time there is
doubt that many does who had al
most stopped moulting have now re
solved to keep It op. Punch.
Hisicry of llie Early Bays of tie
kmilm Seta.
. lj FREDEEIC I. EASKIN.
How many young Americans appre
ciate the full signlilcance of the com
memoration of the settling of James
town, celebrated by the exposition at
Norfolk? The manner In which the
cornerstone of this great nation was
laid In the Virginia wilderness Is one
of the most stirring tales iu the long
record of man's adventures. On board
the Susan Constant the Godspeed and
the Discovery, which were battered for
sixteen weeks between wind and wave,
were 105 soldiers of fortune, with not
a woman or child among them. They
were a turbulent, restless crowd, that
alternately diced and prayed, and
more than once threatened to throw
good Master Hunt overboard because
his petitions could not stop the storms
that sorely harassed them. Fresh
from the Continental wars, where they
had seen kingdoms rise and fall at the
whim of a leader, they grew suspic
ious of one of the number, Captain
John Smith, and had him imprison
ed under the charge of planning to
murder the other . leaders" and make
himself king of Virginia. Had they
not heard tales of hlin in London, as
they sat over their tankards of ale at
the Mermaid, or between acts when
they went to Black Friars' Theatre to
hear Master William Shakespeare in
his own tragedies? Had they not heard
how he left England an orphan youth,
unknown and unloved, to become a sol
dier In Flanders, how he served with
distinction under SIglsmund Bathorl
in the war against the Turks, how he
travelled In Russia, Germany, France,
Spain and Morocco, to return to Eng
land la 1604 a knight and a famous
man at the age of twenty-five? They
felt they must needs fear bo capable
and powerful a man.
When the sails of their storm tossed
ship finally beat their way between
two sheltering arms of land one spring
morning and passed a friendly place,
where the winds and the waves were
kind to them, they called the place
Point Comfort, and it la still so
named. One evening, some days later,
they swung forty miles up a strange
river and dropped anchor by a long
fiat Island that lay mid-stream. A few
adventurous souls sprang ashore to
see the wonderland whose breath of
spring flowers was wafted to them
through the evening shadows and
whose green trees they could see
crowding close to the river bank. The
men feasted their sea weary eyes on
the gorgeous spring blossoms along the
shore. The dogwood, honeysuckle and
Judas trees were In bloom. It was "the
Moon of Strawberries" and the hungry
adventurers found the luscious wild
fruit clustered thick on the river bank.
Captain Smith, in a glow of Joyous en
thusiasm, exclaimed: "Heaven and
earth have never agreed better In mak
ing a place for man's habitation."
The original landing place was about
fifteen hundred feet to the west of the
present wharf and was swept away by
the lapping waters of the river many
years ago. The rest of the island lies
today very much as It did then. Ac
cording to Ralph Hamor, an early sec
retary of the colony, it was two and
three-fourths miles long and from
three hundred yards to one nnd one-
fourth miles wide. A neck of land at
first connected it with the mainland.
but this was washed away In the suc
ceeding years and left "the island of
James Cltle" as we now see it. They
were religious these early settlers
and one of their first acts on landing
was to stretch an old sailcloth on a
tree and give thanks to God that they
bad at last reached this paradise of
their dreams. The company included
"fifty-four gentlemen, four carpenter
and twelve laborers."
When they landed on the Island, May
13, 1G07, few knew how to work, nor
cared to, until Smith required that all
who ate must earn their food. Govern
ment was at first a difficult matter, for
King James, with ever a love of mys
tery, had put the names of the council
lors in a sealed box, which was not to
be opened until the new land was
reached. All those named proved fail
ures except Smith, and on the work
of this man and the charity of the lit
tle Indian princess, Pocahontas, the
cornerstone of this great nation may
be safely said to have been built
A triangular fort was built to guard
the approach over the neck of land
from the mainland, and a palisade fif
teen feet high protected the log cab
ins and church that made up the vil
lage. Over on the opposite bank a
glass factory was in operation as early
as 1C0S. That same year a few more
colonists came over, among them be
ing Mrs. Forrest and her little fourteen-year-old
maid, Annie Burrus. Wo
men were glorious beings to the home
less, wifeless men, and immediately one
John Laydon, proposed marriage to
little Anne. The wedding ta the old
log church was the first Episcopal mar
riage service in the New World. The
next year the first Episcopal baptismal '
service was said over little Virginia
Laydon. John Rolfe adopted the idea
of cultivating tobacco from the Indians,
and sold his first crop in London for
12.50 a pound. Shortly afterward it
became a form of currency in the col
ony, and before the century was out
the women went trading, followed by a
cart of green tobacco in charge of their
servants.
As the colony prospered better bouses
were built. A large church followed
the first one, and when my Lord Dela
ware came over in 1C10 to take the
governorship he came to church In
great state, attended by A red-coatod
guard of honor, and sat on a velvet
chair, with a. velvet cushion to kneel
upon. He had pews, pulpit and win'
dows of cedar, and every day fresh
flowers were placed on the altar. It
was here that Pocahontas was married
to John Rolfe, a proceeding that caused
King James some alarm, for as the
heiress of King Powhatan she and her
children might inherit the kingdom
of Virginia, und so Jeopardize the &ig
lish king's interests there. Penhaps
he was a far-seeing monarch, for
among the Randolphs, descendants ol
Pocahontas, the new nation found good
leaders in after years. ' One of this
American princess' descendants la
Harry St. George Tucker, president of
the Jamestown exposition.
In 1619 came those two great contra
dictory Influences into America, the
general assembly, by which the people
could be represented and introduction
of negro slaves. In the same year, al
so, came the shipload of maidens, who
were sent as wives for the settlers,
The price of each was 120 pounds of
tobacco, which was equivalent to SSO.
For awhile the good minister was kept
busy with marriage ceremonies, be
cause the maids were honorable and
attractive, and were quickly chosen
More girls came over after this, and
the stern governor had to make a law
that no maiden should be engaged to
more than one suitor at a time. With
the women came the love of home. The
men were allowed so many acres of
'land for homesteading, and soon the
colony spread out across the river into
the forests and plains beyond. Times
were so prosperous for awhile that It
is Bald the town cowkeeper was "ac
coutred in fresh flaming silk." Dale's
law required each man to labor from
6 to 10 in the morning, from 2 to 4 in
the afternoon, and to attend church
twice dally.
But the early colonists had much
.trouble. All the while the king and
the London Company complained be
cause greater returns were not com
ing In from the new dominions. Once,
while the crops wasted, the settlers
mined ,a shipload of yellow sand and
sent It to England, but they were
doomed to disappointment, for it was
worthless. In the spring of 1610 came
the Starving Time. Of the five hundred
that September had seen on the island,
May found only sixty felt Hunger and
fever had taken heavy toll, the Indians
had given trouble and thirty of the
colonists had stolen a ship and turned
buccaneers. Those left ate all the
animals, and even the skins of the
horses. The ship from England was
long overdue. How could they know
that it had gone ashore on the Ber
mudas and that the survivors were
building other vessels from the wreck
and still trying to reach them?
When they had eaten their last ra
tion the white sails of these two
roughly made ships showed in the riv
er, and the starving people crawled to
the landing to welcome them. But on
board the Patience and the Deliverance
there were only provisions enough to
last fourteen days bo it was agreed that
they all leave for England by way of
Newfoundland and the fishing fields.
No one can tell whether these things
be coincidence or Providence, but as
the four ships' with the disheartened
colonists left the abandoned settlement
and sailed down the river, they met
the vessels of Lord de la Ware coming
upstream and returning to "Jamas
Cittle" they disembarked and offered
a service of thanksgiving in the little
log church. And thus our nation was
saved.
The governors who came and went
through the little town left varying
imprints on history. There was the
stern Dale, who thrust bodkins
through the tongues of the profane
and set a poor devil to starve because
he had stolen a small bowl of oatmeal.
Captain John Smith stayed five years
to plant the colony, and then at thirty
returned to England, where he lived
twenty-two years. Lord Delaware was
a promoter of enterprises, and it was
he who set up a vlccroyal court in the
wilderness.
In 1676 Bacon and his people arose
against the too great tyranny of the
royal governor, foreshadowing the
Revolution by one hundred years. It
was Bacon who fired the town and de
stroyed almost all the buildings, in
cluding the church. After that the
council met Jn the taverns for ten
years until a new state house was
built After various vicissitudes the
capital was moved to the Middle Plant
ation, or Williamsburg, and Jamestown
went Into decline. Decay fell upon the
ruins of the village, and the settlers
gradually drifted to the higher and
healthier localities beyond the river
banks. Today there is only the brick
tower of the church, with its portholes,'
the graves of the dead, the foundations
of a few old houses, and the old pear
and mulberry trees to show where
Smith and his soldiers of fortune three
hundred years ago, amid much danger
and loneliness, laid the cornerstone of
the nation. From the New York Trib-
Pitiful Sight
One of the most pitiful sights in
London is the sale of thousands ol
birds of paradise, humming birds, pan
rots, owls, terns, kingfishers, finches,
swallows, crown-pigeons, tanlgers,
cardinals, golden 'orioles and other
bright tropical creatures besides hun
dreds of packages of the long, loose,
waving "osprey" plumes taken from
the backs of various species of small
whlto herons and egrets. Last year,
in London alone, to give only two
conspicuous Instances, the feathers ol
150,000 herons and egrets were sold
and over 40,000 birds of paradise.
New Haven Register.
- New Musician.
A big music store In Louisville, Ky
burned. At one time a dozen streami
were playing on the pianos. Denver
Post
T'L. - T
tie irrauonainess
of Surplus Wealth
ay rrojessor
3
BOVE all it Is the irratlonalness in the surplus wealth that
comes home to me. Men of the class we are considering
are sometimes described as vcrltn!ble ogres In human form.
In the case of some at least this Is a wholly perverted ac
count On nearer approach they turn out to be men of
simple ways, and of fine feeling In matters lying outside
of business relations. They have the stuff df humanity in
them, as you and I have, and sometimes, one Is led to
Infer, better stuff originally than that of most men, only
their development has been awry, the finer things have been, If not killed,
yet restricted In them within narrow llmite. Morally speaking, they are the
victims of what appears to be resplendent triumph. And what strikes me,
I repeat, as most strange and deplorable In their life is, Just the irratlonal
ness of it." If a person about to build a house were to collect a mountain of
bricks and stone far in excess of what he requires for the erection of the
house, should we not doubt his sanity? If a general preparing to throw a
bridge of pontoons across a stream were to choke up the river with a
thousand barges, or ten thousand barges of all sizes, irrespective of their
possible employment, would not his superior officers on being informed-of
his behavior at once relieve him of his command, on the suspicion that hU
brain had given way? When a thing is to be done, it Is sane to bring to
gether the means suitable to the doing of it, and It Is not sane, it is irrational,
to bring together an array of means far greater than necessary, yes, an array
of means which, because of their multiplication, are In the way of doing
the thing In the best possible manner. Now there Is a certain thing to be
done on this earth by every one of us; life is to be lived, the ends for which
we exist are to be achieved, and the means required for those ends are to
be obtained, and it is rational to get all the means that are necessary to that
end, but irrational to heap up, as an Insane person might heap up a mound
of sand on the seashore, means that are not needed for the end, yes, that
only stand In the way of It This is the blight that rests on the surplus
wealth, the hundred millions and the two hundred millions and the five
hundred millions; they resemble mounds of sand which an irrational child
or an Insane person might heap up on the seashore.
One of the great wealth-getters of our time seems himself to realize this,
and has risen up to say that it Is the duty of all persons like himself to dis
embarrass themselves cf these mounds of gold, at least before they die.
But this very saying lets in light on the essential insanity of the situation;
for If it is so necessary to dispose ol the gold mounds, why accumulate them
in the first instance?
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I Popular "Delirium"
in Railroad
By Ex-President
HERE Is much of the nature of delirium In the popular out
cry against railroad corporations, for Instance. We shall
all be ashamed of it by and by. I dare say I have some
reason to know of the real iniquities of corporations, and I
do know them, but there is much that Is not only groundless,
but wrong, In the offhand attacks made on the railroads by
thoughtless people on all hands. What is well founded In
them will be cured, but the craze of denunciation will soon
pass. We shall reflect that railroads are vitally related to
our prosperity, and that to attack them needlessly Is to attack ourselves, it
Is not the stock of soulless ruililoualres, but the property of citizens, of wid
ows and orphans, whose savings are invested In railroads, that is being dam
aged. We shall recall what railroads have been and are still to be in the de
velopment of our country, and this craze will pass. Of course there must be
some form of governmental supervision, but It should be planned In a quiet
hour, not in one of angry excitement. Popular emotions follow peculiar laws.
The psychology of a craze is most interesting. The temptation is well-nigh
Irresistible to do what we observe our neighbors do. If they begin to throw
stones, we hunt for missiles ourselves. The railroads have had a bard time
lately. Every man's hand is against them. Wherever a railroad headi Is to
be seen it is safe and amusing to hit it; its owner has no friends. There are
some pretty big difficulties before railroad managers Just now. Before long
we shall have a crop to move, under perplexities greater than those of last
year. And the Increasing production of the country will Increasingly embar
rass the railroads. But I have faith to believe that whenever a thing must
be done, Yankee wit and pluck will find a way to do it
Wisdom
By IV.
1SDOM is a friendly
ii a
Winosi iorraiaauie weapon, remorse.
Wisdom Is acquired when we are too old to profit by it,
II fl n (1 (hnn wa nvn nntif In (So nrlmvr, itnnntmant
U1114 IU"U 110 VJll 1 J fli 1UC ucpm luicilb.
Wisdom and education are not related. Education may
be purchased like a commodity any at university. Wisdom
is not for sale.
There are shades of wisdom, Just as there are shades
and degrees of folly. Because a man is not always wise,
It does not follow necessarily that he
of us would be wearing cap and bells. Indeed, it Is a question whether the
benefits and results of wisdom are all that is claimed for it whether it
really Justifies Itself after all. For example, the wise man buys life in
surance at an early age and lives to pay bis rpemlums annually with weari
some regularity. That is because the company is a degree wiser than he.
Women are wiser than men. If you do not believe it ask one of them.
Infants are wiser than either. They are the personification of wisdom.
What a pity that they are not a little wiser wise enough to remain as they
and, with a small area to rule and a few slaves to fan and bathe them!
Life.
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useuiuiy usasningion
By Talcott
t F there was no envy
tion raised at tne way ne had risen from a comparatively
poor man, it was because in no step in the acquisition of
this fortune had any law been violated or any man's rights
disregarded. The people of this country have never object
ed to wealth. If a fortune is challenged it is because the
laws have been violated in the way it was made. If'there
is any question in our minds that there is a danger in the
growth of large fortunes we have only to return to this ex
I
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ample of Washington's to show that it is possible to get riches and yet retain
the respect of a nation. The business American as represented by him was
l man who felt that no man bad a right to place any boundaries to his acqui
sition of wealth, and that the only boundaries were the laws of the common
wealth. Ho never passed and he remains the guiding star of those Americans
Irfco believe every law should be enforced on rich end poor alike.
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Denunciation i
Grower Cleveland.
F. Rico.
"thief, often robbing experience of Its
is a fool. If it were so, the majority
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