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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.
|
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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.
York, the largest in the world. |
i Prices
|
Daie & Patterson,
: , moderate. nia
PATTON, PA.| ALICE A. SAC
A Modern Time Piece
fo San [< a necessary companion. There
are Watches and Watches; but the Watches that ob
JAS. W. HOY,
Hiithing.
Hore iy y FT
ist Nat’: Bank RO .
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sells vou will run and keep time with the sun. A full line of Wathes and Clocks w—y :
at lowest prices. ; ; :
Repairing land Engraving = ®
a Specialty. All repair work Guarrpnteed. Full line of Spectacles. Yours eyes
fited accurately. : ih :
Good Building, Patton, Pa.
$3 SHOE wi
"WELT.
re ke 4. Dotom Waternrao?, Pet Shr wld at the prive,
$5.94 and $3.30 Dress Shos.
3.53.50 Polico Shoe, 3 Soles. {
$2.50, and $2 Shoes,
{Loren i
Shed at the pf
The Best Shoes for
ihe Least Money.
oh, Boys 82 & $1.78 school Shoes =
LADIES’
$3, $2.60 $2, $1.78
Best Dongola, Stylish, Perfect
Fitting and serviceable, Best -
in the world. AN
Tusist upon having
Douginw shoes, Numba
|
DEALERS who push the sale pf W. L. Douglas Shoes gain customers,
which helps to increase the salps on their full line of goods. They cam
afford to sell at nn less profit, and we helleve | can save money by buying ull your
foot wear of the dealer advertised below. Catalogue free upoa spplicstion. - i
For Sale by MIRKIN & KUSNER.
FEverbody 1s cordially invited to call and see our large stock
of goods which are offered for sale at our store
IT A REASONABLE PRICE,
+ our constant effprt to supply the wants of all our
CARIN ERY
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It will
customers and keep al good class of goods to select
"from. We |have a full line of
ORY 6000S, BOOTS AND SHOES, GRGERIES,
And everything kept in a prst<lass general store. We make
specialty of the best grades of
FLOUR, - FEED, -|HAY, - GRAIN, - ETC.
A large assortment of CARPETS, OIL CLOTH, MAT:
« TING, Etc. kept on hand. Also QUEENS.
i WARE, DISHES and TINWARE-
"All kinds of Shelf Hardware kept on hand. i
No trouble to show goods. Come in and look around. : 5
Respectfully. : 4
GEO. S. GOOD,
| Patton, Pa.
!
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F INTEREST TO
EVERYBODY.
__The fact that vor can buy economical of the—
Dry Rix Store Co. |
4
wig gp’
interest voit. They [have a complete lime bf choice, sea-
: A : = 5 * vl 3 |
everything in the general
. we WF oo 1° loa mest ; :
hey are offering to the public at the
ii : Yow .
$n - « Nn gman pee *y vivre?
! thle goods embracinik ainost
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ave handise hing, wilicit' |
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Hard Times Prices!
Right Goods Atthe Right Prices,
Is the Text of Their Story.
Cc runer Magee and Fifth{Avenues. = : a
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