TUE CANDLE. Nor do men light a camlle and put it Under a bushel" Matt. 5:13. Sfour candle in ao small, so small, It ma ken scarce nny light; "The feeble word you nmy let fall, Haa neither strength nor minhtf And there he many greater one Who outshine you by far. As do the sky-illuming sunn Outgrow the farthest slur? -IJnt of all good sounds ever heard There is none half so fair ifts one uncalculnted word That soothes some dim despair, JAnJ what a dull sky it would be If all the jMiints of light 'HVere gone, ami we illicit only seo The suns of wondrous might. He who holds up his little flame Knows not what straining eye Hay find it guiding them trout vhama Into a paradise; -All mav not climb the lofty steep, . All may not lend the throng. Hut each may shelter and may keep Aglow some word or song. HVe know not how our candle gleams, It may be sconced in gold. Or it may send its cheering gleams From some nip worn and old, And that, which fate has held apart From pathways wide and grand, Slay glow with light which liuda a heart Attuned to understand. 'The little word, the little smile, The little song you know These make the camlle all the while That we must keep ludow. And we may think its trembling light Unnoticed by all eyes J5nt there is greater dark of night When that lone candle dies. V. V. Xesbit, in St. Louis Republic. . Cy HERBERT COOLIDCE. To the east of Mount Shasta lies the country that was once Lanook's. There in the days of his youth he chased deer and antelope and led his people against the marauding Mo docs. The valleys are all fenced and (armed now, and Lanook ia many respects is "all same white man." But he loves the old wild Indian flays, loves to roam again in the land of youth and strength and achieve ment. The old man wa3 a dally vis itor when I lived in the country that once was his, and time and time again he would bare his forearm and tcnee, show me the deep, livid scars of a grizzly's teeth, and tell me the .following story. Long before the whites came ho nd Nlshka, now many years dead, were returning from Pitt River with big catch of salmon strung on a pole carried on their shoulders. Nlshka walked ahead. Defore them Tan Lanook's little dog, clearing the tath of chipmunks and squirrels. As they descended a slope which overlooks Fall Valley, they heard the little dog yelp aa it in great fear, mni saw him burst from a manzanlta thicket. He was pursued by a giant grizzly bear. Nlshka fled. Lanook scrambled up the nearest tree, a scrubby Juniper. The bear followed the dog straight for the master's perch, until, catch ' Ing sight of Nishka's buckskin gar ments flitting through the brush, he turned and gave him chaso. Lanook, with breath held and eyes Imlging, watched his friend's flight. He was- racing like the wind, but it -was as if a toddling baby should at tempt to outrun his father. The great slouching brute gained as if the fleet Indian had been hobbled; in al most no time he was close upon him. The poor fellow, in despair, dodged, arely escaped the beast's claws, and made a dive into a laurel thicket. The bear crashed after then all was -silent. The" silence awoke Lanook. He "leaped from his tree, gathered uy 'the bow he had thrown asido before 'Climbing, and ran to Nishka's rescue. Th bear must have heard the rush tf moccasins on the trail, for as JLanook drew within cloa arrow raage, the grizzly emerged from the tMckrt and reared on his haunches, rcg teeth that were dripping Jbloqd. iLanook greeted him with two ar- Tows, then fled for his tree. The boar, wounded nnd furlou3, chased falm as he had chased his friend, with the fearful speed uo man could equal. Nevertheless, the Indian reached his Juniper and ran up it 31ke a chipmunk, this time retaining tiJs hold on bis bow. In a pouch, hung from his neck lanook carried poison made from Idack spiders, the fang-sacs of a rat tlesnake and Juice of wild parsnips; nd while the grizzly pursued the tiowling cur round the trap, he tipped three arrows with this death-dealing lntment. .The Juniper which Lanook hal climbed was the first treet at hat.d not at all the one he would have hosen to escape a grizzly. Stout tranches projected from the very aground; besides, the tree tapered ab ruptly, and was not very tall. Round tand round it raced the dog. Finally Ihe made a quick dash, darted into big patch of deer brush, and there succeeded in eluding tils pursuer. Soon trie grizzly came back to the tme. squatted on his haunches, and wtBorcely watchingthelndlan. Then, fcis breath recovered, he stood up-a-lgfct on his bind legs, and stretched u terrible, claw-horned paw upward. And how he did stretch! Lanook eaid It was aa if the animal's limbs gulled out a hand's length at each Joint. He climbed till be feared the tapering treetop would break. The bear toon g:ive tip the reach ing Idea and began to climb. In thl3 be was as awkward as he had been tvgile In the chase; but with the lower .ranches affording support for hind .nd forepaw, it seemed like!' that The great weight of the brute made the little tree bend a'armlngly, and when he wriggled and hitched, both of which he did very violently, Lanook felt like an nut on a spear of gra33 whipped by the wind. Hope left the Indian; in its place came des perate resolution. Ha descended as far as he dared, fitted one of the poisoned arrow to his bow, and waited. The bear ceased his struggles a moment, nnd threw back his head to look upward. Quick as the snake strikes, Lanook buried one arrow, then another, in his shaggy breast. The tree lurched so then from the bear's furious climbing that the third arrow flew wide of the mark, and splintered itself on the stony ground. Lanook dropped his bow, gave a flying leap, and ran, still without hope, for his life. He surprised himself with his run ning, and the bear surprised him with hl3 awkwardness In getting disen tangled from the tree. Lanook was a long way down the slope and buoy ant with hope before the chase be gan. Filled with new strength, he sped onward like a bird. The ravine he had chosen for a runway was smooth-bottomed and clear of brush; the descent was gentle Just right for a long, sweep ing stride. And yet the grizzly gained, at first by leaps and bounds, aa a rolling rock bears down on one embedded; then he came on with lessened speed, but still gaining. When he was close behind, Lanook's second wind came, and he began to pull away from the bear rapidly. He knew then that the poison from bis arrow-tips was working in the blood of his enemy, and hope grew strong within him. Had his runway remained ciear, Lanook could have escaped easily, but fortune favored the bear. For the ravine suddenly became blocked with brush, an'd the Indian narrowly escaped being caught in a corner. As it was, the bear was" crowding him close before he could get out of the gully. Here the brush was , thinner, but he had to take a winding course to avoid bushes and thickets, while his pursuer crashed straight through or over everything. The bear was at his heels in no time, and Lanook, to pro tect his head and chest from the beast's claws, threw himself on his back and kicked out with both feet. The grizzly seemed stupid and sluggish, but nevertheless made a savage dive at the Indian, and burled his teeth in his leg Just above the knee. Lanook began throwing dirt into the eiiemy's face, whereupon the grizzly released his leg and caught him by the forearm. Still undaunted, the Indian sent a handful of dust and fine gravel fairly iuto the brute's eyes. Half-blinded, the bear backed away, pawing his eyes furiously. Lanook filled his fist with dirt, and lay motionless, waiting. But the bear never returned to hlra. He continued backing about and rubbing his eyes, and finally retreated Into the thick brush, scratched a shallow hole there, and lay down. There he was found the next day by Lanook's tribesmen, stone-dead. Lanook managed to drag himself back to the trail, where he wan short ly discovered by another party of fishermen, and carried home. Nlshka was found and cared for also. He had feigned death throughout the bear's attack, and although crippled, lived to tell his children's children of Lnnook, his friend and rescuer, and of his battle with the giant grizzly bear. From Youth's Companion. - HE'S THE WHOLE CREW. Skipper Hall the Cook end the Mate mid the Eo's'n IloM oi the Angler. Captain Parker J. Hall, of Nan tucket, skipper of the two masted schooner Angler, is his own 'mate, steward and crew. His stated rea Eons for it are not that be is moody or fond of his own company, or that it is more economical, but simply that, because of an impediment in his speech, he feels that he can think out and execute his own orders more rapidly than any crew could under stand him if he tried to talk. , Captain Hull Is a native of Dux bury, Mass., but his home is his schooner, and on board her his young wife goes about her housekeeping duties just the same as she would were it an ivy grown cottage. The Angler uerself Is no chicken, says the Eoston Herald. Sue was built in 1S54 and her owner found her an abandoned hulk, halt buried in the sand. He bought her for next to nothing, fitted her with second hand spars and began to make a liv ing and a name for himself In the coastwise trade. His brother mariners find fault with him for recklessness, on the ground that his holding Irons are not big enough. Skipper Hall is forced to put up with auchors much lighter than those of the average craft of the Angler's build carries, because it would be impossible for any one man to raise the heavy kind unaided. Ha recently made a record run across the Sound under full sail and came up into anchorage in fin3 shape, before the admiring gaze of half the town. To enter the harbor tiklpper Kail had to make a run through the heavy ice between the Jetties at the bar. The drift of open water was very narrow, and the revenue cutter Greshnni ran down to fee If she could be of any possible assistance. The crow of the Gresham are talk ing yet of the surprise tb ,ir captain ?;ot,whon he saw one man bringing a tY.Otr.iasted schooner through the harrow drift How Chicago is Solving Municipal Ownership of Transportation Facilities. By A. FREDERICK COLLINS. Chicago is the second city In the L'nion, jet for the past decade it has had the most abominable transporta tion facilities of any city In the Uni ted States. This untoward condition is chiefly duo to the fact, that the principal franchises under which the various street railway companies op erate have expired, and the city, heeding the cry of the radicals for municipal ownership, would not re new thelrcorporateprlvlleges. Hence, under these unstable circumstances, the corporations could not see their way clear to rehabilitate their run down lines. The problem of serving the popu lation of Chicago has always been an aggravating one, for the transpor tation system has been necessarily laid out and developed on what is termed the "radiating plan," since the city embraces a territory having on one side a water front. In this respect it is not unlike St. Louis, Boston and Brooklyn. The shore line of Chicago Is, however, much longer than that of the cities just cited, being about twenty-six miles, while the limits extend Inward for a distance of ten miles. This great area is divided by the confluence of the two branches of the Chicago Riv er into three portions, commonly known as the north, south nnd west sides, with the heart of the business district on the extreme northern part of the south side. To this centre all the various lines converge. This seg regation of the city has resulted in numerous lines operated by a num ber of companies; so that Chicago, from its transportation viewpoint as well as in some other things, is really to be regarded as three cities instead of one, and as a consequence a pas senger often finds that he cannot be carried over the most direct route be tween the two point within the city limits for a single fare. The traction question has been a political football for many years; the citizens and the companies here looked askance at each other, and municipal ownership seemed to many to be the only hope; while the more conservative believed there were other and bettor solutions of the problem. This, in brief, was the status of affairs when the City Council em ployed Bion J. Arnold, the noted elec trical engineer, as the man best suited for impartially investigating the situation and recommending measures for relief. Mr. Arnold was engaged to procure Information and to furnish estimates and opinions re lating to the cost of operation and the earnings of tie companies, their capitalization, their valuation and cost, together with estimates of a new system, and all other details of a scientific and financial nature. Among the most important recom mendations proposed by Mr. Arnold were the "one-clty-one-fare" propo sal, with all divisional lines as far as possible obliterated, so that a passen ger could be carried over the most direct route between two points for a single fare. Of the three plans sub mitted, the best one, though not the easiest to execute, contemplated the complete unification of ownership and management. The through route principle was strongly advo cated, which means that routes through the business district should be substituted for down-town termin als, wherever possible, while outside the business district better results would follow by connecting the de tached lines and operating cars over such lines from end to end. The scheme includes a system of subways to accommodate the street car traffic and relieve the street surface conges tion in the business district, with gal leries for the accommodation of pres ent and future underground utilities. The plan calls for three north-aud-south subways from Fourteenth street on the south to Indiana street on tho north. These are high-level subways throughout, with no dips. In combination with the above sys tem there will be three or more low level subways from the west side, passing under tho north-and-south subways at right angles to them, and extending to Michigan avenue. Should future developments warrant It these may be extended under the lake front district, now known as Grant Park. These latter low-level subways would require the use of elevators or esca lators. Under this plan there will be a surface system and eventually a subway system connecting all the de pots and the entire system designed to accommodate the short-haul traffic in the business district. This plan for a new, reorganized and unified combined surface and street railway system would com prise the lines of the City Railway Company, the Union Traction Com pany, tho Chicago General Railway Company and the Chicago Consoli dated Traction Company within the city limits and new lines necessary to properly connect the disconnected parts of the system. The total single track mileage as outlined above would be about 745 miles, and its estimated cost, if con structed new, with everything first class throughout, but exclusive of the subways, would be $70,000,000, add ing $20,000,000 for the cost of the subways would make the total cost of the new system complete $90,000, 000. Under the low-level subways will bo the freight subway, while the street surface will run elevated lines, making, in all, five' lines super-imposed at various street intersections. Altogether, It will foira tho most comprehensive city railway system la the world. Mr. Arnold's plnns further pro vide for the utilization of tho present river tunnels as parts of the future subway system. At tho time these plans were submitted cable power was employed, but on his recommen dation the cable systems were changed to overhead electric systems which are now in service. He stated that the electric underground con duit system, such as Is Installed In New York City, Is practicable and feasible from an engineering point of view and that the overhead trolley construction should eventually be prohibited In congested districts, but that outside of these districts the ob jections are entirely of an aesthetic nature, and It is for the city authori ties to say after balancing the finan cial against the aesthetic considera tions how much, if any, under ground conduit construction should be required. Although nt first hostile to the proposed improvement, the traction companies have since admitted the correctness of the conclusions, and these have been ndopted and form the basis of the principal physical el ements entering into the ordinances recently passed in Chicago. The principles above laid down were rati fied by a 33,000 majority of the citi zens of Chicago on a referendum vote of the entire city. The financial provisions or these ordinances ore precisely the same as they would be if the city of Chicago should purchnse tho entire property of the companies, undertake its re construction and rehabilitation, and then lease the lines for private oper ation, upon a division of the net re ceipts with the lessee company. These ordinances, in fact, give the people of Chicago to-day, in all the essential principles, municipal own ership of the city's street railways, and their operation by a lessee com pany, without saddling tho burden upon the city or raising the money necessary for the purchase, and with out the possibility of nny effect upon the financial credit of the city. To protect the city's share of the net receipts under its agreements with the companies, and to absolute ly assure the maintenance of the properties at the highest point of ef. flclency, the ordinances contain cer tain provisions never before included In any public utility grant, which are amply sufficient toprotect to the full est extent the city's Interest. For Instance, a commission hai been appointed In which three engi neers are appointed, one by the city, one by the railway companies and the third being Mr. Arnold, who is the chairman, and represents the city and the companies jointly. This commission has general supervision of all the principal street railway lines In the city of Chicago. Other provisions of the ordinances are, that the city should have fifty Ave per cent, of the net profits of the companies; that there must be dally deposits of the gross receipts to be used for the payment of mainten ance and repairs, and a separate spe cial fund of eight per cent, of the gross receipts for renewals and de preciation, and that the companies must Btipply whatever additional money may be required for these purposes. Any surplus remaining in either of these funds can, under no circumstances, revert to the com pa. nles, but becomes instead the prop erty of the city should it eventually purchase the lines. In turn the companies get forty five per cent, of the net profits, five per cent, for brokerage and ten per cent, as a construction profit upon the' new money actually advanced by them under tho provisions of the or dinances. The city is given the right upon six months' previous notice to the company to take over the entire properties upon payment of the agreed value of the present property and the additional capital invested. By this ingenious plan the resi dents of Chicago will have all the advantages of municipal ownership, secure fifty-five per cent, of the net profits of the companies, nnd, at the same time, the operation of the lines will be under tho management of practical street railway men. Scien tific American. Cencnlogicnl Wit nnd Wisdom. Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. Voltaire. He who boasts of his descent praises tho deeds of another. Seneca. The pride of ancestry Is a super structure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. Colton. I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees; It sufflcerh me if I know their virtues. Sir r. Sidney. Birth and ancestry and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. Ovid. Philosophy does not regard pedi gree; she did not receive Plato as a noble, but she made him so. Seneca. He that boasts of his ancestors, the founders and raisers of a family, doth confess that he hath less vir tue. Jeremy Taylor. Verily, I swear it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be parked up in a glistening grief and wear o golden sorrow. Shakespeare. It Is with antiquity as with ances tors, cations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but it they ore nothing in themselves that which is their pride ought to Le their humiliation. Selected, Fathers In llic Home. Uy ALTA. The mothers generally receive nil credit for the training of a child who makes himself a grer4. name. "I'm what my mother made me," is an oft quoted phrase which has much truth In it and we like to hear It from the lips of 'great men. But It Is Just as true and oh, how sadly true, on the lips of the glutton, the drunkard, the criminal. Her neglect may have caused the boy to choose evil asso ciates who dragged him down to the lower strata of society. Just here Is where the father's good work in the home comes in. They understand better to what evils a boy will be ex posed, they understand better, also, what kind of a young man should be accepted as his daughter's suitor. The mother's love Is beautiful but there is something peculiarly sacred, sweet and strong In a father's love. I often recall this story by an old soldier. He said: "I think one of the saddest incidents' of the war which came under my observation was Just after the battle of Gettys burg. Off on the outskirts, seated on the ground with his back against a tree, was a soldier, dead. His eyes were riveted on some object clasped tightly in his hands. As we drew near we saw that it was an ambro type of two small children. Man though I was, hardened through long years of carnage and bloodshed, the sight of that man who had looked on his children for the last time in this world, who, far away In a secluded spot, had rested himself against a tree, that he might feast his eyes on his little darlings, brought tears to my eyes which I could not restrain. There were six of us in the company, and we all found great lumps rising In our throats, and mists gathering before our eyes, which almost blind ed us. We stood looking at him for Borne time. I was thinking of the wife and baby I had left at home, and wondering, how soon In the mercy of God, she would be left a widow, and tny baby boy fatherless. We looked at each other and Instinctively seemed to understand. Not a word was spoken, but we dug a grave and laid the poor fellow to rest with his children's picture clasped over his heart. Over his grave, on the tree against which he had leaned, I inscribed the words: "Somebody's Father." July 3, 1863. From the Indiana Farmer. WORDS OF WISDOM. Some men are born great, but the majority don't even have greatness thrust upon them. It sometimes happens that when an actor finds things coming his way he tries to dodge them. There may be plenty of room at the top, but victims of that tired feeling never reach it. Men who boast of their virtues would probably have more to say if they enumerated their vices. And the :ore energy a man ex pends In talking the less he will have left to assist him in making good. Many a man would be unable to paddle bis own canoe if be couldn't borrow some other man's paddle. Genius is said to be a certain form of madness, but the madness of most people is more or less uncertain. It may not be your fault it you have never been in jail; more than likely it's due to your good fortune. A man's idea of good luck Is any old kind that leaves him a few dol lars ahead of the other fellow's game. Don't sit down and think about what you would do if you could live your life over. Get busy and im prove the rest of it. It's a waste of time to attempt to dodge a hypocrite. He knows more dodges in a minute than you will learn in a lifetime. And when you hear a man boast of his ancestors it's a safe bet that his descendants will have no occasion to boast of theirs. Bakers' Helper. . The Rook Thief's City. A Paris correspondent, writing to a paper in Eerlin, says: "Paris is the home of the great book thief. It is just sixty years since Count Libri, a librarian of the National Library, fled to England, taking with him books to the value of 2,000,000 francs, belonging to the library. He was sentenced 'In contumaciam' to ten years' Imprisonment, but never served a day and never returned a book. The directors had to purchase them from people to whom they had been sold, and paid large prices for them. A similar theft has recently been discovered in the library of the Ecole des -Beaux Arts. Here also the thief remains unpunished because he died before his crime became known. A good name covers much and the thief, who was M. Thomas, an officer of the Legion of Honor, architect of the Grand Palais and re cipient of the Roman prize, was at liberty to plunder the library at will. He was an enthusiast on the subject of old engravings and bibliographic curiosities, and could satisfy his de Bires in that direction without moles tation on the part of the custodians. Ills method was to tear engravings from books or to carry away the whole work. , In this manner he ac quired books and pictures to the value of about ' 200,000 francs." The Thomas theft3 brought to light the fact that no inventory bad ever been made of the 3eaux Arts Li brary, and that instead of a modern catalogue antique slips and memo randa furnished all the information as to the valuable collection. ' Portland cement is extensively used for the preservation from rust of the steel framework of modern Bkyscrapers. , The mandrill baboon has the most brilliant colorings of any quadruped. it shows blue, red and purple of vivid tints. A tin mine-In the extreme north of the nrovlnce of Kwanorsl. China. U operated on a small scale, its product Deing exported through the port of Wuchow. Another tin mine Is to be opened In the prefecture of Wuchow. The Michigan State Telephone Company has Installed, in the new. engineering building, a Western Electric central telephone station and plant. While this gives service to the university buildings, it is intend ed also for use in the special courses In telephone engineering. A permanent exhibition of safety appliances Is to be opened In New York City in September by the Amer ican Institute of Social Service, which has taken up the work of agitation for the prevention, of industrial acci dents. The institute's exhibit of safe ty appliances held in the Museum of Natural History last spring was suc cessful and well attended. Recent study of the structure of the celebrated cedar of Lebanon is regarded as proving that it has come from the same parental stock as the pines, and that it represents the most primitive form of the Abietlnaee sub group ot cone-bearing trees. The great geological age of the Cedrus family has long been known, and now It has been shown that the wood ot the cedar root possesses vestiges of the peripheral resin canals, which are a characteristic mark of the pines, whereas the cedars are characterized by a median canal. MIGHTY LONDON. Its Million Houses and Hundreds of Millions of Income. The six and a half million people in Greater London live In 923,008 houses. The population 100 years ago was just one-fifth what it is now. Though the number ot births was nearly double the number of deaths in 1904, the birth rate is steadily de clining. The postal figures show that in 1905 there were 1023 postoffices in London, and 2435 public telephones working. The total Imports at Lon don in 1904 amounted to $S49,086, 000, and the total exports $$4G2, 299,000. Some idea of London's wealth is shown by the assessed Income tax value In 1904 in the administrative county, houses representing $219, 264,000, trades and professions $364,045,000, profits of companies and other interests $698,511,000, salaries (corporate bodies) $115, 044,000, salaries (army and navy), $103,674,000. In 1905 there were 2993 motor cars and 1852 motor cycles In Lon don. Licenses to drive were granted to 8070 people, the fees received amounting to $36,800. Statistical Abstract. Looking Forward. "Frankly, no," replied the super intendent of the street railway, who had been summoned before the board of directors to explain certain irregu larities. "The service is not what it ought to be. But what am I to do? It is virtually impossible to get the public to complain when they are accommodated, and unless I find out about this by accident, I can take no steps to vindicate the rules of the company. Spotters are no great re liance. They will detect an occasional courtesy on the part of a conductor or motorman, if it is very flagrant, and that is all. If the men are not at all sly, they can, if they choose, be tolerably considerate of the com fort and convenience of patrons, with virtual Impunity, and they know it only too well. I see, nothing for it but to bide our time, until we shall have been able, by iaborous selec tion, to make up a force comprising only such persons as are naturally disposed to be disagreeable.' Perhaps I am too sanguine, but I believe that wltnln twenty years, or such a mat ter. It would be possible to gather together as many genuine brutes and boors as would be needed to man our cars. That, it is true, is looking rather far ahead, to a time when we shall all perhaps be dead, but as the servants of a perpetual corpora tion, are we not bound to do that very thing?" Puck. Wages In France. Mechanics of all classes in France, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, bricklayers, stonemasons, plasterers, etc., receive from $1 to $1.20 a day, and painters eighty cents to $1 a day. Common laborers receive from forty to fifty cents a day. The average price for dressmakers and milliners is forty cents a day. Servants are paitVfrom one-third to one-fourth as mil oft) as in the United States. Until the new ten-hour law w?nt into effect a few mouths ago the laboring men tt - France worked twelve hours a day. They began at 6 a. m. and quit at 7 p. m., with one hour at noon. Women are not al lowed to work at night, anf. child labor under fourteen years of sge :s prohibited.--From a Ovular Re-rort. be could wo: If Vl tar upwari.
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