THE STAR RKYNOhnSVUJ.K I'KNNA. It's wonderful, to the New Tor PreBs, how much blgser a dollar looks to a man when ho spends it upon his wife at home than when he thrown It away upon friends downtown. "People don't alius like to abide by the consequences of deir own ac tions," said Uncle Eben, In the Wash ington Star. "De felter dat rocked de boat is likely to holler de loudes' fob help." The New York Custom House has seized $20,000 worth of antique Span, ten jewelry, but the dispatch does not ay, regrets the Detroit Journal, whether it Is of Chicago or Massachu setts wake. Wl - Chicago has cut Its high school course to two years, in order to in duce pupils to abandon the habit of quitting school at the end of the grade courses. If the Windy City would double the length of the vaca tion, thinks the St. Paul Pioneer Press, it might also reduce truancy. Remarks theWashlngton Post: The Asiatios, roused at last to a proper sense of their commercial opportuni ties and latent military power, are making strides which in time must profoundly affect American progress. Unless we quickly come to realize the true situation and adopt adequate measures to retain our foothold in the Far East nothing worth while will be left of our vanishing export trade. On the contrary, we will be facing an Invasion of cheap products which our manufacturers will find it difficult to compete with. With the co-operation of many civic, social and health organizations, thousands of men and women started In a concerted movement to further the suppression of spitting anywhere and everywhere. The first step was taken, observes the Chicago Record Herald, when cards warning against the dangers of expectorating and the penalties by law attached thereto were issued by Frank E. Wing, super intendent of the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, to a large number of peo ple working in the interests of the "anti-spitting cause." Those "work ers" went about their business in the usual way, but whenever they saw any one spitting would hand a card to the offender, with the polite re quest that he or she read it. Referring to journalism and office, Henry Watterson in the Atlantic re marks: Disinterestedness, unselfish devotion to the public interest, is the sonl of true journalism as of true statesmanship, and this is as likely to proceed from the counting-room as from the editorial room. The Jour nalism of Paris is personal, the jour nalism of London is impersonal that is to say, the one illustrates the self-exploiting, individualized star system, the other the more sedate and orderly yet not less responsible com mercial system and it must be al lowed that In both dignity and use fulness the English is to be preferred to the French Journnlism. It is true that English publishers are sometimes elevated to the peerage. But this is nowise worse than French and Ameri can editors becoming candidates for oQce. In cither case the public and the press are losers in the matter of the service rendered, because journal lam end office are so antipathetic that their union must be destructive to both. When Mrs. Elizabeth Kerns was a little girl she planted In a field close y her home near Winchester, Va., a walnut. That was nearly a century ago, narrates the New York Mail. The walnut sprouted and began to grow into a splendid tree. It and the little girl grew up together, and it Is easy to imagine that they became friends and' companions, bound to gether by an attachment quite beyond the power of words to describe. .Al ways within sight of the beloved tree, tie child grew to girlhood and with the flight of time passed to wifehood, then to widowhood. And the tree, past which the red tide of the great war had swept with its drift of death, the tree whose generous shades had sheltered its owner from infancy to old age, finally withered and died. But at the order of Mrs. Kerns the trunk of the tree was sawed into boards and carefully stored away. Tien, a few days ago, when the nged woman realized that death was near, she gave instructions that her coffin skould be made of those walnut hoards. And It was dona. BLACK TORCHES. (la Remambmnce of a Comedtsnn.) The 'celllnt keys hla strings, A vagrant scale Is run. Tap, tap; the baton swings The play's begun. Out where tlx nlRht winds sweet The strangling mourners thread; Only a few to weep That columbine Is dead. Btllled are the dancing- feet. Hushed Is the merry song; Only the wind and sleet Know she has passed along. Give her a moment's pause, Thank her with Just a sigh Too, with your loud npplause; You who must come to die. Tbe wood-wind pipes Its close, THie drums and viols blend; Only one dancer knows The play's at end. Chicago Tribune. hrr wfr "w I IN PASSING. f By Miss Laura Emerson. Vau Dlek sat in his study writing when the sounds of distress arose out side the door. At first he paid no special atteution sounds of distress were nothing to him. But as they grew louder they resolved themselves Into shrilly distinct words. "Let me see the master," were the words re peated many times in a much frighten ed feminine voice. Van Diek heard the butler answer that the master could not be disturb ed. Then he rose with some annoy ance and opened the study door. He looked curiously at the group before him. The centre of it was a girl whom Van Dlek had noticed some days before employed at housework about the rooms upstairs. He had no ticed her because she was a particular ly haudsome girl. Now she stood looking up with appealing, terror driven eyes. The butler had her by the arm. Tbe cook, red faced and excited, leaned from the hall doorway. At the very moment Van Diek's wife and his 10-year old "daughter entered Hie ball by the street door. The noise of the gathering had died as Us two factions looked a. each other. "Mrs. Van Dlek lost a ring this morning, sir," the butler replied to the master's question as to the cause of the late tumult. He 'went on to explain that the girl was the only person who had been in Mrs. Van Diek's room after she had left the ring on the table, until the time she discovered .her loss. The girl broke in half a dozen times while the butler was talking to say "I never took it I never took it." She looked all Che while appealingly at Van Diek and her gaze arrested his strangely. It was not only her eyes which were large and very blue at which he looked. It was something in their depths which surprised him. There was an expression of veneration there which in all the pairs of eyes he had met in bis life up to this time he had never seen before. She dis tinctly was looking up to him not trying by her beauty to charm him, but in a way allotting him a very high place he. Van Diek, set on high it startled him and stirred a strange feeling in his breast. "I never took it," the girl pleaded again. "She's a sly one, sir," murmured the butler to Van Diek. "She ain't new to this business by any means, and she's got that ring as sure as can be." The girl in a hysteria of despair flung herself at Van Diek's feet. She raised her face from the lowly posi tion and she begged Van Diek still with that new expression. She flung herself upon his mercy and her at titude said that she knew him to be merciful. "1 don't think the girl is guilty of theft," he said. "You may go," he added to the surrouudir.g group, lie looked carefully into t'heir laces and saw what be was used to seeing. Aid the servants wore a carefully cloaked expression of disapprobation. Ills wife swept by Van Diek, her usual in difference touched lightly with con tempt. She looked down at the kneel ing maid a little scornfully as she passed. The daughter of the house was more Innocent, did not look at the maid, but at her father, and in her face he read a great surprise surprise that he bad shown mercy. He raised the girl to tier feet and put money Into her hands. "You must leave here at once," he said very kindly. They stood looking at each other rather awkwardly for a moment. Van Diek's new curios ity got the better of him. "wnat maae you oring your troume to me?" he asked. "Because," she answered nervously, "you are good. I knew you were good the first time I saw you. I I thought you'd be easy with me I thought you'd be easy with anyone so I came." He voice shook. Her eyes wander ed uneasily. He felt a great pity for her nervousness. "Good-by, child," he said. He held out ills hand. As she half reluctantly put hers into it she shed the same beauty of the 'uplifting look upon him. It came into Van Diek's mind that be ought to tell her that he was not good. He stood hesitating. It almost seem ed as It words hung upon her lips also. But In the end they parted silently. Van Dlek sat in his study all the afternoon allv the evening all night thinking of that look. Very early In tbe morning when the stars were faint in the sky be went to his win dow and looked up at them and at something beyond them of which lie bad sever thought before. . "Great God," promised Van Dlek, solemnly, "It isn't too late if you give me another chance, I'll begin now to eara that took on every face that hereafter meets mine." A year after the office boy brought a note to Van Dlek which, when be read it .caused him to call for his hat and coat and leave the office at tbe busiest hour of his busy day. He went down into a poor quarter of the city and peered up at a succession of dingy doorways until he found the number that corresponded to the one In the note which he still held in his hand. An old woman admitted him when he knocked and led bim through a hallway into an ill-lighted wlndowless room. In the gloom Van Dlek went close to a poor kind of sofa In a corner, and stood looking down. "Master " said the maid timidly He sat down beside her. There was a quantity of golden hair lying over her pillows, and out of it looked her pale face with its pair of worship ping eyes. "I'm pretty near through," she said simply, "and I sent for you to give you this." She opened his hand and laid something in it. When he could see it he found it was the ring. "My poor child " She cried as she put up her hand to stop him. "What that man said was true," she said. "I was a bad one, and had been for a long time. I was playing off Innocence that time. I had this In my pocket then, and I was scared for fear you have them search me. But I wanted to tell you," she went on brokenly, "that you was the first per son that ever thought that I might 'be speaking the truth or that I might be good; and I tried then to tell you, after the rest had gone, ami to give you back the ring, and then I couldn't, because it would have been to take away our trust In me the only trust I'd ever had." "And I tried to tell you then," said Van Dlek, gently, "that you were the first fellow being I had ever met who had thought me worthy of trust of any kind. I had always been expected to be harsh and selfish and cruel and morally wrong. When I saw myself in your eyes I saw for the first time what I might be. If I live better now it is because you and I passed that day on the road of life." She looked at him radiantly. "I ain't never taken anything since that day," she said. "I've lived straight and honest ever since maybe we was meant to pass and help each other " She was so weak, that as he held her up her bright head fell back over his arm. By and by her lids fell, shut ting in the worshipping eyes. Boston Post. PROVIDENT AMERICA. Average Savings Six Times Greater Here Than In Europe. Advocates of the postal savings bank bill that has passed the United States senate and is now under con sideration by the house committee have laid great stress on what they term the success of this system of savings banks In foreign countries, and the pending bill is modeled large ly on the Canadian law; the argu ment is that if the system is a suc cess In other countries it ought to be in this no matter whether it is needl ed here or not as it the United States should have and must have every "good thing" that is going around. But do we need such a sys tem here when we already have a sav ings bank system of another sort that is highly satisfactory? The average deposit in American savings banks, all of which are priv ate institutions In no wise connect ed with the federal government, is aV most four times as large as the aver age deposit for Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, Canada and so on, and the average deposit per capita of the pop ulation is nearly six tlnws greater here in the United States than in the other areas of the world Just men tioned. This doesn't look as If we were lacking in savings bank facilities or as if the people in this country need to be taught thrift through a borrow ed system. It is significant, too, that of the $16,389,672,014 of savings bank deposits in the whole world $5,078, 735,379 belongs to Americans con siderably" more than one-third. These figures are from a recent compilation made from official reports by the secretary of the savings bank section of the American Bankers"As soclatlon, and in this is disclosed something even more significant, namely: That of the more than $15, 000,000,000 of savings ' deposits throughout the world about $13,000, 000,000 is deposit with private sav ings banks; that is, approximately 87 percent Is In private bands and un der private mantfgementt, while only 13 percent Is .intrusted to the care of ' governments. Furthermore, toe average deposit in the private saris gs banks of foreign countries is $140, while in their postal banks it is only $49.33; here in the United States the averaee deooslt is $381.28. If any ex tension of savlngB bank facilities to' needed here we surely are not obliged to call on the government to supply it. New York Commercial. Angel of the Honk. Sixty million dollars is the annual total expenditure of the Slate treas uries in the good roads movement. The automobile, which some consider the principal destructive agent of bad roads, has rapidly spread tbe demand for good ones. Its wide extension of public and private traffic and convey ance, as well as the injuries which ft works to highways of inferior con struction, necessitates superior road building, from which everybody bene fits. The farmer has been entertain ing an angel unawares. E(oaloa Glebe. ' AN UNUSUAL I . 1 1 JlL4 Si ry- 'Y i X i L, Y, K re ' i Mr. John D. Rockefeller and his v t 1 r Via v. Li'Tk-lB Sf if m II i k ml Ji tin H recently come before the American people as the principals in the proposed devotion of Mr. Rockefellers wealth to the welfare of humanity. The de tailed plans of Mr. Rockefeller in relation to this gift havo not been pub lished. Mr. Rockefeller, Jr., it is understood, Is purposing to devote himself to administering this Foundation. From The World To-Day. Support For Lawn Sprinkler. Take a piece of wood one and one- half feet long, three and one-half feet wide. In top of wood bore a hole size of hose used and one and one half inch from top. Take a large wire nail or spike about seven inches long, drive into wood at bottom two and one-half inches; cut off the head and file to a point. First take off nozzle of hose put it through the hole and screw on nozzle to secure It. This makes one of the finest sprinklers, because one can move It anywhere you want to without shutting off the water. Bos ton Post. Ministers Try Different Devices. To Batlsfy the Government at home, as well as to take advantage of the popular outburst In favor of the black coat, and at the same time avoid tho ridicule certain to follow an appear ance In common dress at court, some of our ministers resorted to humiliat ing devices. Mr. Soule adopted the shad-bellied black velvet embroidered coat and smallclothes of the Munici pal Court of Paris, said aleo to have been worn by Dr. Frauklln. Mr. Buchanan wore a black or blue coat, white waistcoat, smallclothes, silk stockings, a sword and chapeau bias. Mr. Dallas adopted the same costume. In the northern courts of Europe simple black was forthwith adopted, and it had come into general use by the time of President Lincoln. The Consul at Alexandria, who was cer tainly original, at one time wore a blue coat, with thirty-one stars wrought in gold on the collar, and this wns suggested as a fitting Amer ican diplomatic costume, since court dress made It necessary. Tip, In the New York Press. GOOD EXAMPLES. r Parson "The pigs do you credit, eaodltlon." Mike "Sure, sir, if we was all of do." The Tatler. PHOTOGRAPH. s. ) i tW . 2 "km! iVH-.w son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who have Balaam's Hebrnylst. Congressman McCall, of Massachu setts, tells a story of a Sunday-school superintendent in Boston, who was questioning the pupils concerning Balaam's ass; and he asked them what language was used, whether or not it was necessarily Hebrew, in order that Balaam might understand it; and a bright boy gave answer: "Of course it was Hebrew; for the ass must have been a Hebraylst." Washington Herald. Georgia Humor. The humorous editor of the Upson, County (Ga.) Parrot grinds out tbe following: "His horse went dead and his mule went lame, and he lost sit cows in a poker game; then a hurri cane came on a summer's day and blew the house where he lived away, and the earthquake came when that was gone and swallowed the land that the house was on; then the tax col lector came 'round and charged him up with the hole In the ground." A New Umbrella. A French inventor, with a tender heart for bicyclists, chauffeurs, fish ermen and wandering artists, has con trived a form of umbrella for proteo- tion against sun or rain which can be easily and solidly attached to the shoulders so as lo leave the arms and hands absolutely free. When not In use It folds up in a conveniently port able form. Youth's Companion. Michael; I never saw any in better us only as fit to die as they h ws'j PIMP $10 Down, $10 Per Month, $350 VALUE Shipped urwbere on 10 Atjtl YRF. TRIAI Wbj pay bl( prollla lo arilrra nd genu! Writ TO DAY for DIRECT SALE PLAN. F. J. HAGGERTY CO., WARRCN, PA. Simplon Tunnel Fortifications. Both Italy and Switzerland are for tifying the entrances of the Simplon Tunnel, while In the tunnel itself en gineers are engaged In constructing mines and strengthening those already in place in order to blow up the tun nel at a moment's notice in the event of war. Near the middle of the tun nel, a fow yards from the Swiss fron tier, Italian engineers have put in a double iron door which can resist th rush of an express train traveling at 60 miles an hour. The iron door is worked by electricity from Iselle, th Station nt the Italian end of the tun nel, nnd under ordinary conditions it is- bidden in the rocky side of the tunnel. The door is carefully tested once a week. The mines are connect ed with Brlgue and Iselle by electric ity also, and by simply pressing a but ton tbe Simplon Tunnel would be de stroyed in a second. London Globe. A POLICEMAN'S EXPERIENCE. Buffered For Tears From Chronlo i Kidney Trouble. Walter J. Stanton, 1139 Pear SU Camden, N. J., says:1 "Kidney troubls bothered me for fifteen years. If I stooped, sharp twinges shot through my back and it was bard for me to arise. I was treated by sev eral doctors, one a specialist, but did not receive relief. Finally I 'began us ing Doan's Kidney Pills and soon no ticed an improve ment. I continued until tbe trouble dis appeared." ' Remember the name DcauV For sale by all dealers. 60 cents a box. Fos ter Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Uses of Paper, Paper Is entering Into some of the important arts of Europe. The most novel use of it Is in the manufacture of false teeth by the Germans, who say of the product that it is keeping Its color, well and is decidedly strong er than the porcelain imitation. When the wine makers of Greese found the lumber too costly with which to make wine casks, the manufacturers substi tuted paper pu.'p and have found it most satisfactory. A recent novelty is the work of an Austrian subscriber to a newspaper, sheets of which he preserved as material for a sailboat. The boat is 20 feet long, and for each, paper board entering into it 2,500 cop ies of the paper were used and soften ed for final molding under bydraulio pressure. Several countries have ex perimented in making paving of waste paper, but the cost so far is prohibi tive. England's Radium King. Harry March, the British engineer, who was recently made a knight by King Manuel In recognition of his dis covery of valuable radium mines in Portugal, is popularly known In scien tific circles as the radium king. Mr. March has mined in almost every cor ner of the earth. In the Guarda belt mountains, 4,000 feet above the level of the sen. he Buffered terrible priva tions. When hungry he woud have to trust to his gun for a meal. Sour wino was the only drink procurable, and even that difficult to obtain. For nearly three years this brilliant young engineer endurod great hardships, till his perseverances was rewarded by tho discovery of the world's richest radium mines. Mr. March is taking a great interest in the now National Radium Bank. Tit-Bits. It hasn't been so long since few houses anywhere had bathrooms. Six hundred small dwellings for workmen , are being erected in Frankfort, Ger many, with a bathroom for every house having more than one room. There's vitality; snap and la a. breakfast of, , Grape-Nuts and cream Why? ' ' . Because natura stores up In wheat and barley The Potassium Phosphate. In such form as to Nourish brain and nerves; The food expert who originated GrapeNuts Retained this valuably Element in the food. There's a Reason"' Read the famous little bookj, "ThcRoadtoWellville' Found in packages. Sssasassssss TO STUM CEREAL COMPAKY73m& , ... . .. " 1 1
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