Spain has for years wrung tribute to the amount of $20,000,000 annually from the people of the Philippines. Is it a step toward an English al liance that the Geographical Board has dropped the "h" iu Bering's Strait? History will record it r.s a melan choly fact that poor old Spain weut into the present war with r.n over stock of naval tactics aud au undcr supply of naval ships. A State law of New Hampshire, en acted a few years ago, reqaires the trustees of ravings banks and savings institutions to call iu the books of de positors every third year for examina tion and verification by some person or persons other than the bank's treas urer or bis clerk. Spain furnishes a peculiarly tragic illustration of the awful possibilities of national illiteracy. Sixty-eight per cent, of ,lier population conio within this category. This sixty eight per eeut. have been willfully misled, through their blind enthus iasm, as to the country's resources, preparations nnd European support. America has had bicycle weddings, but that does not beat the Dutch. According to foreign advices, a wealthy young widow of Holland asked as a dying request that her favorite bicycle should be draped in mourning nnd be trundled by a ser vant behind tho hearse in which her body was conveyed to the grave. She was explicit in stipulating that the bi cycle should precede the coach con taining the chief mourners. There is a new field for the amateur photographer. A Rio do Janeiro in ventor has devised a submarine photo graphic apparatus for use by divers. The operator has an incandescent electric lamp with a reflector fixed on bis head-piece, and is provided with an ordinary camera, inclosed iu a rubber envelope having a glass front. Current for the lamp is supplied from 'he boat above, and pictures are taken by pressing buttons through the rub ber covering. It is stated that objects iu Rio ile Janeiro Bay have been photographed under water by tbis means at a distance of ten or twelve feet ns easily as iu full daylight. fence does not produce Deweys or •Grants, and war did not produce Dewey, comments the New Y'ork Com mercial Advertiser. His country, bis blood, his training, his discipline, aud the traditions and atmosphere of the service produced him. Neither in army nor navy will the country ever again be without ample supply of officers who are masters of their profession. A thousand forces are at work iu the service hardening the fibres, ripening tho intellect, steeling the courage of the men who are yet to fight our battles. Bat war is not needed to develop them. Conflict can only discover them. Dewey is not the only one who can gather up all the scattered ends of precaution aud preparation, weld them into a thunderbolt and with one daring and terrible blow smite the enemy aud destroy him. There are many officers whose photographs are not known to newspaper readers now, but whose names will be familiar if the war lasts long enough. Soldiers in camp must be as grate ful to tho being who first invented canned goods as Sancho Panza was to the man who first invented sleep. There seems to be no limit to the possibilities of the canning factory. Everything that grows, everything that can be produced iu laboratory— essences, extracts, condensations—all are ranged on the shelves of tho com missary, and iu cans. There are canned fruits of course. The rural housewives of an earlier generation gave capitalists the hint for that, But there are also canned vegetables, canned fish, canned fried bacou and canned roast beef. One may have choice of vegetables and choice of meat while eating at an army table. On a march, when the column stops at night in the hill country of Cuba or ou the fair plains of Torto Rico, the first sergeant will send a detail to the commissary wagon, and all the Ameri can boys may have American fruits aud meats and "garden truck." Instead of being rednccd to a diet of salt pork and indestructible crackers, the soldier may have a substantial dinner of acceptable and varied food. And whether frowning at Spain from a camp of mobilization or rushing at her batteries in the hour of strife he will certainly be a better soldier for (he better food. No other nation in the world can feed its armies in so r.dmirable a manner, because no other cation has so nearly perfected tho business of preserving substvutial foods. OPTIMISM. There's a wor.! nf gentle meaning "Afterwhlle." It's tho sesame of dreaming, "Aftorwhlle." VThen our fortunes halt and vary, It's the watchword of the fairy, Prom hope's sweet vocabulary, "Afterwhlle." tVe will hear no sounds of battlo, "Aftorwhlle." We will miss the cannon's rattle, "Afterwhlle." Men will put away the saber And together they will labor Each to help a helping neighbor, "Aftorwhlle." This old earth will cease its sorrow, "Afterwhlle." There will dawa a peaceful morrow, "Afterwhlle." When all grief is but tradition, Giving ('tis Us rightful mission) Contrast to life's blest condition, "Afterwhlle." • THE 111 OF A Ml CHARACTERS. Margot Carrcntcr A young lady Reginald Oldercheek. .Ayoung gentleman Grimes A tramp Scene —Margot'a boudoir, afterwards Woodchester High Road, uud afterwards Murgot's bedroom. I. had no rL very particular II reason for re | "Vwi B) fusing the § .7 V v young gentle- V (mu man who was so very desir ous b e ' n S McdfeiySprJ her Reggie. Yet had she l\ spoken that M/\ fatal mouosyl f / N lable which has r) ' struck cold to the hearts of suitors since the days of the stone age. Margot looked at her rings, and her face assumed nn expression that was meant to represent a compassionate negative. The shake of her head was intended to imply sympathy with Mr. Oldereheek's feelings; the tap of her little foot gave him to understand that no amount of imploring on his part would affect her decision. It was not her first refusnl. Already she had said a fat one of forty "nay;" already she had turned her lieel on the obese man's thousands, his dog-eart, his high-stepping horse, and his unlim ited expectations. So, in a manner, she was an experienced maiden, aud so when Reginald proposed to her she did not flutter and blush to any great extent, although she did flutter and blush a little. Reginald Oldercheek was not wise to propose at 10.30 in the morning. I do not intend to discuss the hour at which a man may most prudenfly suggest matrimony to the lady of his choice; I will limit myself to the statement that 10.30 a. m. is certainly not that hour. With considerable trepidation, cleanly shaved, irreproachably clad, but, ns regards bis inner man, very vacant (for be bad eaten no break fast), Mr. Oldercheek was shown into the drawing-room, where, being too nervous to sit down, he toured the apartment, gazing at tho pictures (but not taking in their merits to any ap preciable extent) and looking out of the windows (without observing any thing therefrom), nmtil indications of Miss Carpenter's approach fell on his ear. For Margot collected new three penny bits bearing interesting initials, and wore them on a silver bangle, anil these in their jingling generally heralded her advent. When she entered, looking, as Reginald could not fail to observe, very fresh and nice, Mr. Oldercheek, Fcorniug prefatory remnrks relating to nothing, intimated that he would like to marry her. He said it stam meringly, workiug a button off his waistcoat in his agitation, and then stared intently at a cameo near by. "I am very sorry," began Margot. "Yes," said Reginald, "I know you don't—perhaps in time " This was an indiscreet interruption on Reginald's part, for it mado Mar got's task the easier. "Yes, perhaps in time," she re turned, playing with the bangle, "but not now." "Do you like me?" demnnded Reg inald, letting bis eyes steal up her form until tliey reached her neck, but not daring to look her in the face. "Ob, yes—l like you," she replied in a tone that Reginald didn't at all relish, "but nothing more—at pres ent." "Thank you," said Reginald. "Er —good-by! "Good-by, Mr. Oldercheek." Aud so Reginald went out into the morning breeze, feeling that at any rate he had broken the ice. Six months passed away. During that period Mr. Oldercheek proposed five more times to Miss Carpenter, but, to quote a common phrase, to no avail, for on each occasion he suffered what amounted to rejection. Miss Carpenter did not summarily say "No." As Reginald put it to a friend: "She seems to play about with a chap—doesn't send me olenn away, and yet won't have me. I can't make her out, old man." "Ah!" responded the old man, a sage youth of something under twenty, "women are qncer cattle." The fact was that while she was de cidedly partial to Reginald's society, Margot (although she tried hard, ever so hard) eonldn't bring herself to feel any particular longing for that society as a fixture rather than as a movable. For that, after all, is what marriage means. Men who make extremely nice movables often fail altogether as fixtures. So Margot dilly-dallied with Reg inold, and Reginald had not sense enough to demand r, plain reply. Had he done so, there is little reason to suppose that it would linve been oilier than another hesitating negative. Miss Carpenter generally went rid ing on that dreadful invention of mod ern times, a "bike," on most line afternoons between two and four of the elock. I should like to say, as the late G. I\ It. James so often said, that my heroine might have been ob served galloping over the moor on a beautiful coal-blaek steed of rave blood and mettle—but I can not. The age of romance lias been shabbily buried. I should like to say that her tight-fitting habit showed off the curves of her superb figure to perfec tion—but again I onu not. X am obliged to limit myself to the prosaic statement that Miss Carpenter gen erally look a spiu along the Wood chester high road on a ladies* wheel (geaied up to 57), dressed in n sailor hat, neat blouse, blue skirt and brown shoes. Well. Master Oldercheek was well nware that Margot went cycling in the afttrnoon, and often did he lounge about the turnpike iu hopes of meeting her. And meet her he often did, for Margot had no particular objection to being accompanied by a squire well calved and clad, as cycling squires should ever be. Had Margot been of a romantic disposition she might, now and again, have uttered a sigh for the gone cavalier of old times—that one with tho handsome, melancholy face, the long love locks, tho aristocratic stock, the frilled shirt front, the top boots, and the pantaloons fitting close to show off the symmetry of his noble leg. But Margot was practical and up to date, and never lingered to gaze on old-time love scenes in print shops. One afternoon Master Oldercheek was lingering near n spot where four crossrouds met, when along came the worst-looking ruffian of atramphehnd ever set eyes on. This gentleman was tall and brondly built, with a four days' beard and a scowl that was brigandish. Xlis toes were peeping out of his elastic-sided boots, and his back was covered by a ruin of a frock coat. His head was protected by a decayed bowler, and his neck by a greasy red handkerchief, while his shirt was so loosely fastened that here and there you might catch glimpses of of his bare chest. Xlad you sought for a week you could not have found a greater contrast than was presented by the Bpiek and span young cyclist and this ferocious waif of the highway. A thought flashed through Reginald's brain: "Suppose this brute were to attack a defenseless girl—driven to it by lack of pence and a gnawing pain iu his stomach!" Then another thought—"Suppose I were to bribe him to!" ".Hi!" he shouted after .the slouch ing figure. The tramp looked round. Reginald wheeled up to him. "Do you want to earn a sovereign?" "Juss try me!" "Very well, then; here is how yon may cam it. Go a little way farther on toward Woodchester and wait until a young lady in a sailor hat comes by on a bicycle. As she is passing by you must spring out and clutch her handle bar." "And wot then?" "Leave the rest to me." "Oh, yes, and git chokey fur six months? Not dis chile!" "Here's something on account," said Reginald, giving him half n sovereign. Upon this the tramp took up his position as directed, while Re ginald retired out of sight round the corner. " 'Ere's a Kevismas tree!" chuckled the hired ruffian, who was known to various policemen as William Grimes, XI, of no occupation. "A bloomin' 'nrf-qnid nn' nnnuvver to fuller. Oh, crimey, this is an adwentur! This is awl Sirifhrnet!" Xleginald meanwhile was cogitating in his way. "That's it," he exclaimed. "I must play the role of hero before her. I must be her knight—her king. Rescue her from the grasp of that ogre, and her gratitude will soon ripen into love." "It's no 'fair er in ne wot 'is game is," muttered Mr. Grimes. "No, not a tall, 'Spec it's lav or eummat." "This is a flash of inspiration," breathed Reginald, waiting round the corner. "Upon my word, I'm grate ful to that tramp. Oh, Margot, my sweet, my darling, is the time at bar., 1 .?" It was, for that moment Grimes descried in the distance an approach ! > U S object, which gradually shaped itself into a lady cyclist, pedalling I briskly. Nearer and nearer she came, and soon Mr. Grimes could see that she answered to tho description of ' young lady. | "Yuss, she's a well-tnrnad-nht 'nn," jhe muttered. "Spec it's luv. Null for it!" The tramp arose from liis crouching position under the hedge, and ad vanced into the middle of the road. Miss Carpenter—for it was she, sure enough—divining the vagabond's in tention, for his nttitude was the re verso to friendly, she Htcered to the extreme left, increasing her speed as she did so. But Mr. Grimes, thinking of the half sovereign to come, like a gaunt grayliound was across tho way in two bounds, and in another mo ment he was hoarsely calling upon Miss Carpenter to yield up her purse. Margot screamed. She was only a girl, so she screamed. Mr. Grimes was villainy personified—a dreadful presentment of all unholiness—so Margot screamed her best. Ah! help was at hand! Round out of a liye-road carae a splendid and gallant young Englishman, spurring —alas, no!—pedalling, for all he was worth. Determined not to do the thing by halves—as Mr. Oldercheek afterward explained to his blase friend of under twenty—Reginald charged fall tilt into the tramp and sent him flying. Then, springing off his machine, Reginald let the thing fall, and Hew at Margot's assailant with the conrago and energy of a mastiff. After roll ing firimes over and over, Reginald finally gave him a final shove into the ditch (despito a low '' 'Old 'ard 'guv nor!") and then went back to Margot. "Oh, thank yon, so much, Mr. Oldercheek; how lucky you were so near! That horrid man!" "I'll lay intohim again if yon like!" was Reginald's chivalrous offer. "Oh, 110, you have punished him enough, I think. Let us go back. Stay with me, won't you." "Of course 1 will!" exclaimed Reginald, and so, wheeling his own machine, he began to accompany Mar got back toward Woodchcster at a sloy pace. For some little time the tramp lay quite still where Reginnld had de posited him. Presently, lsowever, he looked up, and, seeing that his em ployer was fast disappearing, he got up and gave chase. So softly did he run that Reginald and Margot were not aware of his proximity until he was close upon them. Then Margot gave a half scream and clutched her knight's arm. Reginnld, with certain vague misgivings, faced round on the man. "Storp—'ere—where's that other 'arfqnid?" gasped Grimes, hoarsely. "What do you mean?" demanded Reginnld, bound to keep his cud up before Miss Carpenter. "The other 'arf-quid you said you'd give mo for nttackic' this yer young gell!" was Grimes's explanatory re joinder. Margot gazed wonderingly at Reg inald, whose faeo told her that the tramp was attempting no illegal ex tortion. Reginald saw a smile creep ing round her lips. Silently he hand ed Grimes the coin. The tramp pocketed it, and then departed, giv ing vent to what sounded in Reginald's oars like n satirical chuckle. When he had gone Margot and Reg inald wheeled silently back to Wood eliester, parting, with some littlo em barrassment, at Margot's gate. m. Margot was undressing. Every body knows that a girl's undressing takes much longer than her dressing. To-night Margot was longer than usual; that is to say, about two hours. She combed her tresses in an absent minded way for a full forty minutes. At the end of fhat period (by which timo tho air round her comb must have been charged with a great quan tity of electricity) she sat down 011 tho side of her bed and decided to accept Reginald. Hhe arrived at this decision by the appended route of reasons: "It was nil a plot—fancy! He bribed the tramp to attack me so that 110 might rescue me, and—and make me like him." She then turned to the left, thus: "But I have liked him all along, ever so." And to the right as follows: "It was n deceitful thing to do; most girls would have nothing more to say to him." She then recollected that Reginald had often informed her that she was quite different to other girls. Margot did not bear in mind that every cub in love tells his sweet one this. Hav ing been informed of tho fnct by such an excellent judge of character as Reginald, she now believed herself to be an exceptional girl, quite out of tho common ruck. Therefore she went straight ahead in this Pharisaio fashion. "So, as I am not like most girls, I shall accept Reginald. I believe him to be an honorable boy, the soul of truth and the embodiment of integrity, so that he must be very, very fond of me to have stooped so low as to league with a horrid tramp against me. lam fortunate to be so beloved." And with this Margot 6aid her prayers and got into bed.—London Weekly Sun. Her Ancc*tor. An Australian woman of great charm and taot tells many amusing stories of the strange questions put to her by people with a thirst for information about her native land. "It is a very common thing for me to be asked if the bushes are still thick where I -live, or whether our house is in the 'clearing,'" she says, plaintively; "and I know they often regard my veracity as a doubtful quantity when I tell them Australia is not all 'bush' by any menns. But an old lady asked me a new question one day. She evidently supposed that all the dwellers in Australia wore descendants of the criminals trans ported to Botany Bay. " 'ls it possible for convicts to edu cate their children so well, ordinar ily?' this terrible old Englishwoman asked me, surveying mo through her lorgnette as I finished telling one of her friends about my school dvys. " 'But my father was not a convict, uindnm,' I said, with natural sur prise. " 'Ah,' she said, meditatively, 'then I suppose it was your grand father who was sent there. Of course much can be done in the third genera tion.' "I should have been angry [if it had been worth while," the Australian adds, with admirable wisdom. "But she surveyed me so impersonally that I didn't even tell her there was actu ally a part of the population of my country which did not come from convict stock."—Youth's Companion. An Old Family. The eighteen-year-old lad who is heir to the throne of Japan seems to hold the world's record in the matter of pedigree. He is the last male de scendant in the order of primogeniture of a dynasty which has reigned 2600 years. To Grow Wild Flowers. I Most wild flowers may be made to prow in gardens if provided with an environment sufficiently like their natural one. Select a shady place, fertilize it with leaf mold, water freely aud protect the plants from the sun for about a week. Iu removing them from the woods be careful to get all the roots and to leave as much soil arouud them as possible. To Prevent Egg K.iiinj;, Egg eating is generally iuduccd by the hen st l atching in the nests until the eggs strike against the sides of the box and break the hen afterwards eating them. This has been my ex perience. I bnve watched them do it. The best remedy seems to be to BO construct the nest boxes that the nests will be in the dark as much as possible. I Lave not had any trouble when so doing.—John Hagglund, iu Wallace's Farm. Early Thinning of Grape*. So soon as the grape buds burst into shoots the buds for blossoms and fruit will plainly show themselves. There will usually be three buds on each shoot, aud on the Delaware, which is especially liable to overbear, there are often four clusters, which if left would all be late-ripeniug and poorly-perfected fruit. It is easy to see, even before the buds have blos somed, which will make the largest and best clusters, and, of ccurse, only such should bo left to fruit. Two well-ripened, large clusters of grapes are enough for auy shoot to bear. With the late-ripeuing varieties this early thinuiug is often the only way to secure a crop of well-ripened grapes. By practising this method grapes may be grown where without it no crop worth anything cnu be pro duced. I.ftto Vge table Sd-Sowing. There is much to be done in the way of sowing vegetable 6eeds in many temperate localities. Such as beans, corn, cucumbers, okrn, salsify, melons, squash, pumpkins and cante'loupes are best deferred until the soil is thor oughly warmed. Many of the earlier sowings should be repeated to furnish crops in suc cession. Most all gardeners keep this in mind respecting peas and overlook others equally desirable. Cucumbers for pickling may be brought in as a late crop. It may seem n consideration of little moment to those who have but small gardens, but to keep the soil up to the highest condition pay attention to the location of certain things. Put deep rooted plants where shallow-rooted ones have been previously.—Meehau's Monthly. Ilulpft For Batter-Making. The practical part of cream-ripen- | ing is this: Keep your vessel so that j it may all ripen evenly, and thus j avoid loss iu churning. Raise the temperature to sixty-two or sixty- i eight degrees and keep it as near that temperature as possible until ripe, ; and then cool before churning. Well-ripened cream should be coagu- ! luted or thickened. It should run . from a height in a smooth stream, like j oil. When a paddle is dipped into it I and held in the hand, it should stick ; all over in a thick, even coat, not run- j ning off in streaks and showing the surface of the paddle. When the last drops run off the paddle back into the ; vat they should leave little dents or depressions on the surface which do not close up for an instant. The cream should have a satiu gloss or fresh surface. Churn until the granules are the size of wheat kernels, then draw off the buttermilk and wash through two or three waters, whirling the churn a few times around. Use from a pint to a quart of water per pound of but ter. Have the water at a temperature of forty to forty-five degrees in hot weather and from fifty to sixty-two de grees in winter, always depending upon season, solidity of the butter, warmth of the room and size of the granules. If you do uot care about feeding tho washings I would put some salt in my first wash water. It will help to float the granules better j and perhaps dissolve out the casein to ; somo extent. I would generally salt ! the butter in the churn. —Cornell Agricultural College Bulletin. Picking Ducks. Ruck feathers alway bring a fail price, especially white ones, anil should l>e saved when dressing the ducks, if they are sold dressed; if not sold dressed do not pick just before selliug. The amount received fcr the feathers ought to pay for the dressing. The breeding ducks may be picked several times a year, generally four to six. Do not pick until the feathers are "ripe," which can be told by pull ing a few- from different parts of the bodies of several birds. If they come out easily, without any bloody fluid iu the quill, they are all right and should be "picked" or many will be lost. In pieking pull only a few feathers at a time by taking between the thumb and forefinger and giving a quick, downward jerk. Do not pull the bunch of long, coarse feathers under each wiug. Before you begin picking, tie the duck's legß together with a bit of list ing or other soft cloth and if the dnck is inclined to object to the picking by thrusts with the bill, slip an old | stocking or something of the sort over , its licnii. Use no unnecessary harsh | ness with any of the birds and be es i peeially careful with laying ducks. Hitting ducks and those that ore soon to be set should not be rucked. In hot weather ranch of the down may be taken from the drakes. Do not take any iu cold weather. In;handling ducks do not lift or cnrry them by the legs, l'oung duck lings should be kept out of the direct I rays of the sun. Whether turned ofl young or when mature, ducks will ! yield a good profit if rightly managed, j and the number raised need be limited ; only by the capacity of the premises | and of the man; the latter has much ; more than the former to do with the I success of the undertaking. Ducks usually lay early iu the morning, but are inclined to drop their eggs any. where, so it is best to keep them shul up until ten o'clock.—Farm, Fielc and Fireside. The Advantages of Dairying. The business of dairying has manj advantages not always appreciated bj ! those engaged in it. They are in [ clined to take notice of the pleasing matters iu the experience of those en i gaged in other lines of agriculture 01 j other occupations and to dwell upot J the disadvantages of their own voca- I tion. J J. \Y. Newton, of Vermont, sumi | up the advantages of dairying as fol j lows: j 1. Tho fust advantage of dairying ii ! that it takes less fertility from the sol than other branches of farming. A tot of wheat takes 87 out of the farm anc sells for less than §1(1. A ton of but tor takes fifty cents' worth of planl food from tho farm and sells from 8100 to 8000. Comment is needless. 2. Butter is a condensed product. Nothing can be made or grown on the farm which brings as much per pound. Farmers remote from the market nnd communities far I from railroad] car j send butter from the farm or creamery i with the least possible expense. The [ dairyman can condense tons of foddei and crops grown on the farm into dairy products and send them to market in ■ compact and portable form. I 3. Butter is a finished product. It J is ready for the consumer either in the ; private dairy or local factory or ' creamery. The only exception is where cream is sent long distances tc a central station from skimming sta tions scattered over a large section ol country. But this exception only proves the rule. 4. Dairying brings in n constant in come. The man who sells crops ol any kind has to wait until he can mar | ket his product one year. There is little satisfaction in this, if is un businesslike to go without cash for weeks nnd then to have a lot of money come iu at one time. The dairyman j has an income nearly or quito fifty '■ two weeks in the year, j 5. Dairying gives constnut, remu nerative employment. The grain or potato grower must spend a large part of the year in enforced and deinoraliz : ing idleness, but the dairyman finds I profitable work through the year, and | his work is most profitable during tho wintertime. | (1. On the dairy farm the work is j better divided. The grain harvest j comes so close to haying that it often j gets mixed up with it, to tho detri | ment of both; but when corn is grown and put into silo for dairy feed, and not so much or no grain raised, the harvests are several weeks apart.— New York Witness. l'irm Notes. Turnips and beets are good for hogs, and are especir."y good for breeding sows, before an '. after farrowing. For I horses, carrots are prime. Always have something to make a variety in the feed. Most of the large western orchardists | are practicing close setting and cutting out afterward", planting the apple trees fifteen feet apart and removing I the alternate trees when they begin to j get crowded. j Farming is a science, and the farmer who expects to meet with success must j necessarily apply scientific principles and not think because he is the pos j sessor of some mother earth that he J knows it all. | Give changes of feed to the cows as often as you can without lessening the nutritive quality of the ration, as yon thus maintain a good nppttite and the better production which is sure to come from full feeding. With a well-stocked farm there is a ] home market for a good supply ol j roots, nnd if any are grown for market- J ing by the bushel, the home market may well take the place of any other j when the price is low. Whatever your breeding stock, se lect good heifers for the dairy, and then bring them up to the highest state of development possible in milking qualities as they come to take their places in the working dairy. If the farm is large enough to di vide, better share it with the children as they mature than to drive them ofl to other fields. A man can often do better on what he has left thnn he could upon the whole farm after the boys are gone. Artificial stable manure used to be a favorite compound for agricultural chemists. Here is one of the receipts: 2000 pounds muck, 200 pounds wood ashes, fifteen pounds dissolved bone. When this mixture is composted, it reduces to about a ton. WORDS OF WISDOM. A wise man is never les3 alone than when he is alone.—Swift-. Civility costs nothing and buys everything.—Lady Mary Montague. What do we live for, if not to mako life less difficult for each ether?— George Eliot. An extraordinary haste 'o discharge an obligation is a sort of ingratitude. —F.ochefoucauld, Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct he wishes to be valued.—Brnyere. It is wonderful to think what tho presenoe of one human being can do for another—change everything iu the world.—George 8. Merriam. Contentment is a pearl cf great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires, make a wise and happy purchase.— T. Balgny. We are wont to look forward to troubles with fears cf what they will inflict, but back on them with wonder at what they have saved us from. Samuel Johnson. Ul-pature is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.—Goethe. We do not shake off our yesterdays and sustain no further relation to them; they follow r.s, they constitute our life, and they give accent and force and meaning to our present deeds.—Joseph Tarker. Take time, and go apart for a sea son; withdraw into thyself, and dis co\er the evolution.", of thine own thought. Thou must take thy stand on principles, as perceived within thee.— Trinities and Hauctitics. It is to self-government, the groat principle of popular representation— the system that lets in all to j artici pate in the counsels that are to assign the good or evil to all—that we owe what we are and what we hope to be. —Daniel Webster. The Inaccuracy of lVlni>f. So many maps of the world, on Merestor's projection, are being sold iu these days when interest in the war implies more attention than the aver age American ever before gave to the geography of Cuba and the West In dies generally, the Philippine Islands, Spain, nnd other places near or re mote, that a w-ord of caution may not be amiss regarding the apparent com parative size of countries shown on such maps. It is easy to forget that when the world is represented as a reetnugular map, as wide at the top and bottom as it is in the middle, the poles are really made to appear equal in width to the equator's length of 2D,00t) miles. Obviously, all countries far from tho equator are unduly magnified and those about the ceuter of the map, north and south, nre represented un duly small by comparison, because they are drawn nearest the true scale. Thus Australia, lying nearer the equa tor than Canada or the United States, is made far from equal to either of those countries in area, though there is really little difference. Greenland is swollen out of all proportion, and India relatively dwarfed in comparison with the countries of Europe. Spain is made smaller in proportion to the British Isles than it ought to be, and both Cuba and the Philippine Islands are cut down tar below the size they should have in comparison with New Foundland or Japan, for instance, the latter countries being grossly enlarged. —Cleveland Leader. Schley's Tribute to Lieutenant llolison. Commodore Schley has paid the following tribute to the valor of Lieu tenant Hobson and the crew of the collier Merrimac: "History does not record an act of finer heroism. I watched the Merrimac as she made her way to the entrance of the harbor, and my heart sank as I saw the perfect hell of fire that fell upon those de voted men. I did not think it possi ble one cf thera could have gone through it alive. They went into the jaws of death. It was llalaklava over again, without the means of defense which the Light Brigade had. Hob son led a forlorn hope without the power to cut his way out. But for tune once more favored the brave, and I hopehe will have the recognition and promotion he deserves. His name will live as long as the heroes of the world are remembered." —New York Com mercial Advertiser. William Tell or Tnklo. There is a story of a heroic Japan ese woman of the olden time, whose husband, an archer, had the grievous fault of not being able to hold his arrow until he wa3 entirely ready, letting it go prematurely. One day, as the archer was practising, trying hard to remedy his shortcoming, his determined wife, with their precious child in her arms, stood up directly in front of his arrow, and forced him to hold it in. This man lived to be a famous archer. If the country shall ever be in danger, the women will bo found as determined as the men New York Journal. Koynl Family of Boxers. Boxing is ft favorite sport of the Danish royal family, Prince Valilemar being the best boxer among them. When he challenged the late Emperor Alexander 111. of Russia, however, he met more than his match. King George of Greece is also skilled with the gloves. The present Emperor of Rus sia, on his travels around the world, used to have a bout with Prince George of Greece every morning on the bridge of the steamer. Butter a a Stimulant. It is said that one pound of butter gives a working force equal to that of five pounds of beef, nine pounds of potatoes or twelve pounds of milk.
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