; x 4M “rr . ee rr Bn ¥ PR nt hs ane EC SNL : Sort Fa Sor ¥ 25. AA am a——— SA "hi, 4 Ea i 3 X re A ; Ph, Ah a " £ ¥ 3 & 2 ¥ 3 Re a be ag A Bares Pa 3 a | | ! NI Rn HE 5 57 ike INTERESTING COMMENTS BY AN 08- ' SERVING TRAVELER. _ "Phe Past and Future of a Great Country and Remarkable People—-Made Poor by the Spoliation of Foreigners -- English Language Coming Into General Use. Wo have traveled more than 2 500 miles in India, have seen its grandest soencry, its largest and most interest ing cities, ‘ita most fertile and some of its ‘desert regions. We have found in Delhi, Agra, Benares, Ambar and Ah- madabad the best examples of Hindoo and Mohammedan architecture. of ".. oourse there is much we have not seen. The Dravidical temples of the south of India, remarkable for their size and elaborate decorations, best illustrated at Tanjore and Madura, we can only judge . by small specimens seen at Madras and Pondicherry. - The wonderful cave tem- ples at Eliora, Ajunta and many other places we have got a fair conception of from that of Elephanta. One conld spend years exploring India without ex- hausting its Javers of civilization. We have endeavored to intelligently study, . by otwervation and reading en route, the ethnology, sociology and theology "of the conntry. We have missed no op- portunity to talk with British officials and educated natives. We have looked into the work of the missionaries and care to the conclusion that they are do- ing a great deal of good, though not ex- ‘ectly in the way it is popularly under- stood at home, I think [ may say that our travels in India have materially broadened our views of Asiatic history. Especially have we been impressed with the spectacle of an empire of 240,000, - 000 people of different races and reli- gions, governed by a handful of Euaro- ptans, and in the main well governed, with a large measure of liberty, as per fect protection of life and property, as is provided in the most civilized countries of Europe and increasing means of ed- geation. The universities and colleges ‘scattered over India are turning out an- nually thousands of edneated natives It is a curious fact that the Indian who speaks English speaks it without accent and rather better than the average of. English or Americans. Nearly all of the ~ mhools above the primary grade teach English, and in the majority of them it is the medium of education. More than half of the native newspapers and peri- odicals, which are mmmerous and well émducted, are printed in English. ~~ Idonot think it a wild prediction that English will be essentially the lan- guage of India a hundred years hence. Jt is cnrions to contemplate what will be the political result of the education of the Indian people. Will they be con tent, especially those of the Aryan race, capable of high development, with the . shadow of a government which is some- times driven to its wits’ ends with its | the earth to the music of the sun can tionist, resting upon ono kw on the own demcstic problems, in a group of Yittle islands 5,000 miles away? For the present 1 can scarcely comceive of a greater calamity for India than the fail- | | Another case occurred in a house in a tone too low to be heard Ly the by- ure of Great Britain to hold and govern the country. It would be the signal for anarchy, which wonld entail the destruc-. tion of the people and seriously obstruct the cnward march of human progress. India is a poor country. Hs fabnlons wealth has been carried off by conquer- ors or gathered into colossal fortunes by the few rich. The great body of the people are miserably poor. They barely. ‘keep body and soul together and do not store up any vital foroe to resist disease. The failure of one crop entails wide spread distress. The failare of two in .guecession means famine for millions The government is doing something to improve the conditions. In the last five years canals have been built, increasing the area under irrigation about 25 per cent. How much advantage the tiller of the soil gets from these improvements I do not know. The government costs too much, and the people are taxed to the limit of endnrance. The British India civil service is called the best in the world. It is undoubtedly the most ex- pensive. It costs £11,000,000 ($55,- 000,000) a year. The civil servant serves in various - capacities, from a clerk to a lieutenant governor, for 26 years, four of which ave given for holi- days, and retires with a minimom pen- gion of £1,000 per annum. The cost of all this comes out of the Indian people, and - their superstitions and customs rob them of a part of what is left. There are grave problems in India and more to come, and to solve them will require all the talent which can be secured. It is doubtful whether the mer- chants of London, the manufacturers of ‘* Manchester or the hereditary aristocrats who are sent to hold vice regal courts in “Calontta will solve them in the interest of the people of India, who are today about the poorest fed, clothed and housed peopls on earth. Yet I cannot but think that these people are capable of great things in the future they can be properly nourished and edneated. - Their bright, distinctly Aryan faces look out appealingly through surroundings of squalor and superstition and give promise of high development under fa- vorable conditions. Indeed wo see splendid specimens of manhood among them today, and their graceful courtesy shames our ruder mangers, —Cor. Bos- ton Herald. Serving Toast, : Dry toast should be served directly from the toaster. When this is not prac- tical, pile it on a heated bread plate, cover it with a napkin and put it on the hearth orin the oven. Toast is given in all slight attacks of sickness because §t ix =o easily digested. - The more thor- ough the conversion of the starch the more easily and perfectly the system will manage it, for the change of starch into dextrine by the action of heat is -gimply doing outside of the Ix «iy vihat takes place in it, in the ordinary course of digestion, by the action of the di- gestive fluids Therefore when this is "accomplished by artificial means nature _ is spared so much energy. —Philadel- vhia Times Ea EMPIRE. ™ mer ums. Things » Voyage to the | Am Incident That Caused the Geners to Be : Gigantic World Would Disclose. If Uranus, which is a star of about the sixth magnitude, were a planet like those little ones called asteroids, which { are being discovered by the dosen every | year, it could not have much claim upon popular attention. But Uranus is really ia gigantic world, more than 60 times | as large as ours. Its vast distance, now ' about - 1,700,000,000 miles from the parth, is what causes it to look so small Uranns has four moons, whick revolve | backward in their orbits—that is to say, { they revolve from east to west around | Uranus, while Uranus goes, like all the | other planets, from west to east around | the sun. It is believed that Uranus ro- | tates backward on its axis also. More- ‘over, the axis of that great, strange globe lies in such a direction that in the course of its year, which is equal to 84 of our years, the san shines almost | perpendicularly first upon one pole and then npon the other. Measured by our | time standard, there are 40 years of con- gtant daylight, followed by 40 years of unbroken night, around the poles of | Uranus. And the sun rises in the west | and sets in the east there. But the sun looks very small when viewed from Uranus—only one four-hundredth as large as it appears to us. Still it sheds upon that planet 1,500 times as much light as. the full moon sends to the ‘earth, so that daylight upon Uranus, | while faint compared with the blaze of a terrestrial noonday, is nevertheless a very respectable kind of illumination. | Tt is a pity that the telescope is able ‘to show us very little of the detail of the surface of Uranus. Some faint bands | or belts, just visible with the most pow. erful instruments, are all that can be made ont. If we could visit Uranus, we ghould probably be greatly surprised, if not greatly disappointed. Its average density is but a trifle nn excess of that of water, and of course its surface den- sity is far less. | A voyager from the earth landing on | Uranus would probably sink almost as | papidly as if he had leaped upon one of those round white thunderclouds which, piled high in air, look so solid and snowy cool on a: July afternoon. ‘He sonld no more walk on the surface of that world than he conld walk on water. “It has generally been assumed that { the meaning of the slight density of ' Uranus is that that planet is still in a vaporons or liquid condition and ex- ceedingly hot perhaps. If so, it may in | the course of future ages contract and | condense and cool until it comes into a condition resembling the earth's Will vital foroes then become active upon it | and produce a long succession of living species, brightening its dim daylight | with the color of flowers and the cease- | Jems activity of animate existence? It is ‘not likely that man will ever be able to i | How amar secawe “My father,”’ said Colonel Grant, “tried to smoke while at West Point, but only becanse it was against the reg-- _plations, and then he didn’t succeed ‘very well at it. He really got the habit from smoking light cigars and cigarettes during the Mexican war, but it wasn't a fixed habit. When he loft the army : and lived in the country, he smoked a * pipe—not incessantly. 1 don’t think that he was very fond of tobacco then, and really there was always a popular misconception of the amount of his smoking. Put he went on as a light smoker, a casual smoker, until the day of the fall of Fort Donelson. Then the gunboats having been - worsted some- what, and Admiral Foote having been wounded, he sent ashore for my father to come and see him. Father went aboard, and the admiral, as is custom- ary, had his cigars passed. My father took one and was smoking it when he went ashore. There he was met by a " staff officer, who told him that there was a sortie, and the right wing had been struck and. smashed in Then my father started for the scene of opera tions. He let his cigar goont naturally, . bat held it between his fingers.” He rode ‘hither and yon, giving orders and direc- tions, still with the cigar stamp in his hand To bon “The result of his exertions was that Fort Donelson feli after he sent his mes- : sage of ‘anconditional surrender,’ and ‘1 propose to move immediately upon your works. With the message was gent all over the country the news that Grant was smoking throughout the bat- tle when he only had carried this stamp from Foote’'s flagship. But the cigars began to come in from all over the Un- jon. He had 11,000 cigars on hand in a very short time. He gave awny all he could, but he was so surroupsied with cigars that he got to smoking them reg- _ nlarly, but he never smoked as much as | he seemed to smoke. He would light a cigar after breakfast and let it go out, and then light it again, and then again let it go out and light it, so that the one cigar woald last until lunchtime —From an Interview With Colonel Frederick D. Grant Aboot His Father in McClure's Magazine. A Gotham Incident. A scene that attracted a crowd oc- curred. in the Bowery very oarly one | morning. A girl not over 20 wears oid, . many of whose nataral beautiss of face could be distinguished through her tears, sat on a doorstep of a saloon. She | was well dressed. A group stood watch- ing her, and while some of them in- | quirad sympathetically why she seerrred | go distressad a young miss wearing the | customary poke bonnet of the Salvation | Army edged her way throngh the answer thai question, bunt who that érowd, and catching sight of the way- looks upon Uranus keeping step with | ward girl went up to her. The Salva help asking it>—Garrett P. Serviss in New York Sun. ne - Jangling Piano String. where I was once stopping in Nova Scotia. A piano with a bad pote was fixed by simply opening an inside shut- | ter of a bay window at the opposite side ' of a parlor from the piano. The latch of ‘ one shuttér was lightly resting against ' the edge of another and caused the jan- | gle when one particular note was struck. | The lady player had previonaly declared that she would send for a tuner the next | day and laughed at my attempt to fix it . by hunting about the room while she 1 pounded. However, she did not concen) | her surprise when the trouble + ve moved and admitted that ( 6 ' something about this sonnd a | that she did not quite understa. In regard to locating these jangles ! however, I will say that it is not always | so easy. It requires some practice bofore | the ear becomes capable of locating with any degree of sucess the direction of sounds of this kind. This was my ex- perience with the first piano jangle, that of the cracked globe, which was quite difficult. That of the window | shutfer was easier as well as many oth- ers which § have located since. A cor-. rect musical ear is also an important adj th the case.—A. A. Knudson in Popular Science Monthly. Birch Bark Shoes. : Shoes and other articles besides bas- kets and cabinets are manufactured from birch bark by the Russian peasantry. The bark from which these articles are made is from the inner skin of the Res- sian birch tree, common in almost all parts of the empire. It is gathered spring and fall, and the process is a very simple one. An incision is first made around the trunk of the tree, and the peasants have a knack of tearing or un winding the bark from the starting point, which gives them a strip of even width that they wind ints a ball and keep through the winter nntil it fs dry t enough to use. It is then made into _ shoes, baskets and other nseful articles The barks shoes are pniversally worn by the Russian peasantry. Other shoes ased in winter are made of sheeps’ wool. . These are manufactured by itinerant. cobblers who travel from house to house, pring the peasants” own materials. — Philadelphia Ledger. © Fhe Acme of Forensic Forer, “And now, gentlemen of the jury,’ shouted the young lawyer running his long fingers throngh his flowing locks, “now, gentle men of the jury, I ask yon as men and as eitizens of this great and glorious republic if the spotless char acter of my client is to be permitted to stiffer from the words uttered by that— by that—by that vermiform appendix who sits in the witness box with perjury stamped all over him! "Indianapolis Journal : [sed to It. The prophets tell us that we shall all travel by airship one of these days, but the expericnce will not be a novel cne to those who have lived on heirships all their lives. — Newport News, it don’t seem wuth while tryin ter im, | stone step, threw her right arm over the | shonlder of the weeping girl and tak. ! ing her by the hand drew her close to ! ber and began talking to her earnestly | Randiene The utmost quiet prevailed, { although the crowd soon numbered sev- | eral hugdred. After a little while the | girl was noticed to have ceased crying. moistare disappeared from her eyes. A smile took the place of the drawn look | on her face, and she clung closely to her | comforter. She finally arose embraced | the Salvationist warmly, and they both | started np toward Third avenue, the arm of the Salvation Army lass in- i i { | ently reclaimed sigter. The crowd si lently dispersed. —Kew York Sun English Homes and Amc rican. On entering an Englishman's house the first thing one notices is how well his house is adapted to him. On enter- ing an American's house the first thing { one notices is how well he adapts him- self to his house, In England the estab- lishment is carried on with a prime view the establishment is carried on with a prime view to the comfort of the wom- an. Men. are more selfish than women: consequently the English home is, as & rule, more comfortable than the Amen. can home. : : An Englishman is continually going homie: an American is éontinnally going to business. One is forever planning and scheming to get home, and to stay home, and to enjoy the privileges of home, while thé other is more apt to devote his energies to make his business a place to go to and in which to spend himsel? These minor details of domes- tic life pnt their impress upon larger matters of business and politics. —Price Collier in Forum. : . A Fable. A swallow flew down and plucked a _ small piece of wool from the back of a sheep. . The sheep was very indignant and denounced the swallow in scathing terms, : ’ “Why do you make such a fuss?’ asked the swallow. ‘You never say anything when the shepherd takes all the wool you have on your back.” “That's a different thing entirely,” pplied the sheep. “If you knew how to take anv wool withou! horting me as the shepherd does, I wonild not object so much.’ : ine This fable i merely intended to ex plain why millions can be stal=n with impunity, while the theft of a par of honts or a loaf of bread is punished. with such severity, —Texas Sifting Quick Transit. “Hd ver ever stop ter think,’ Meandering Mike, “bont this world's turning on its axis once every 24 hoars?”’ “Conres I have,” said Plodding Pete. “F's mighty fast travel, so fast thet prove ou it. Er feller that ain't content ed ter jes sit down an «Hide with the sarth at that rate of speed 130 dog- goned hard ter satisfy that his opinion ain't wath list'nin to nchow. "'—Wash- tngton Star, : She brightened up, and the blinding twined around the waist of her appar: to the comfort of the man. In America a | Money wins them chains to throw, Marches soldiers to and fro, Gaineth ladies with sweet eyes. These alone cali ne'er bestow Youth and hesfith and paradise. Money wins the priest his stall. Money mi‘ers boys, | trow, Red hata for the cardinal, Abbeys for the novice low Money maketh sin us snow, Place of penitence supplies. These alone can ne'er bestow Youth and health and paradise. — Andrew Lang in Public Opinion. Early Morning Ad The policeman, at 3 o'clock a m, had just turned the corner when he met a man who very evidently was not a suspicions character, yet who did not soem to be exactly where he ought to be The policeman, however, had no in- tention of stopping him, but the man, much to the officer's surprise, stopped the guardian of the peace. “Sense me,’ he said somewhat thick- “wy ly, “‘will yon tell me what time it is? “Ten minutes after 3," replied the officer curiously. ‘Thought so, or thereabouts,’ said the man, with some significances” “Are you a married man?’ : “1 am.’ said the officer as if he were prond of it. “Y'ought to be. I am, too: every . man ought to be,’ said the man “Is your ‘wife living?’ “Sore, or was when [ left home after supper. ”’ : “+ Ain't you been home since supper?’ No," and the officer smiled “What time d'von say it was?’ que ried tha man. : “After 8 o'clock.’ “Thought s0,’’ said the man, shaking his head sorrowfully. “Got a wife at home. Ain't been there since supper; ‘pow 3 o'clock in the morning, and you are still out. Sir, I'm ‘shamed of yon.” and bracing himself up, with rebuking digmity, the man walked away, leaving the officer almost prostrated —Detroi® Free Press What Did He Eat. There comes a good story from Monte Carlo. from that holy of holies, the sa- lor wherein are the trente eof qunarante tables Just as the cards werp being shuffled for the commencement of play a gentleman deliberately connted out 12 1,000 franc notes and placed them on the black without even taking the pre- eaation of insuring them. It was ‘play- ing the limit," and a bystander remark- | od: : “Rather a bold play, sir’ “Well, '" said the player, “1 dreams’ last night that I saw this table exactly ad it is now, and on the first coup black won.” The cards were dealt for the first coup, and black won. A suppressed “Oh!” from the bystanders greeted the an pouncement, *‘Red loses,’ and then from across the table came a woman's voice: “What did yon have for supper last night? De tell me! —Now York Her- ald ‘Not an Unusual “Lapse.” Certain physicians who are ardent specialists are accused by their hrethren, —-the general practitioners— with seeing everything through the eyes of their: specialty and of jumping to conclusions, This note from an altenist’s or ‘nervous specialist’'s’” diagnosis of a certain case is cited: : ; The patient @ is of unsound mind suffers singnlar lapses of the memory There is manifested, moreover, a can . ous correlation in these larses between ideas of persons and ideas of money. Thus it is noted that on several occa gions ho has totally failed to recogaize his creditors when he has met them on the street. — Youth's Companion. Twe Scenes, Scene One—Sedoolroom. Small Boy (as the rattan falls gently on his hands —Wow, wow, o-o-ongh! I'm killed! Boo-hoo! Me hands are tender, teacher! Boo-co-aoh’ Scene Two—A Field. Same Small Bey (same dayy--Scak der ball in harder, Chimmy' Why doncher put some speed inter it? Let ‘er go! It don’t hurt me hands a bit! Slug ‘er in'—Boston Trav-- eller. Legislation In Ohio, In Ohio a bill to enable women to vote at all school elections passed the senate on April 10 by a vote of 21 tod. As nc gimilar hill was defeated by only iu few: votes in the house, it may be called ap y again and passed. The Dayton Herald and Ironton Republican indorge the measure, Li ips rp During the summer season Krupp supplies his workmen with cold caffee and vinegur at intervals through the day, and such of the men em connection with the pnddling wirks ro- ple ed 54 1 seive one-vighth of a quart of brandy Corneille was a very stupid talker. Descart sr spoke when in eon pany. Addison conld- Hot converse at all: neither comld La Fontaine, while Drvden’s “conversation was siow and dull . The only half cent probably which Was ever coined was a plece Dow 11 pos- geseion of Jesse Rogers of Newbury, Mass It is an old Massachusetis coin. presumably cast as an experiment, Tricveles may be had for hire, like cabs, ™n Milan. An attendant goes with the machine to propel ito The fare de y prods on the distance traveled—not the time consumed. Many poems of Gray were lost: after | his death. They fell into the hands of careless persons who knew nothing of their vale "on Represents the follow! ROYAL, of Liverpool, "HOME, of New York, COB in frond A Few Facts Millinery Store, Lom | I have just returned from ‘the city with an elegant and _comiplete stock of ‘SPRING MILLINERY, ‘NOTIONS and ; Ladies Furnishings, ing old rehable Fire Insurance “companies: GERMAN, of Pittsburg. | | Also the Equitable Lift and will occupy one of the rooms up stairs in the Good : TL] ves > > ’ . te vy gn Insurance company, of New Building. Call and see me. 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