Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, August 24, 1899, Image 2
Freeiand Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. FREELAND, I'A. SL'BaCHl*"noN KATES: Ono Year $1.50 Six Mouttii 73 Four .Month. 50 Two Months 25 The itiite which the subscription is paid to Is on tne address label of each paper, tile change ot which to a subsequent date be comes a reueipt for remittance. Keep the figures in advance of the present date. He port promptly to this office whenever paper Is not received. Arrearages must be puid when subscription is discontinued. Ma:eat! nun y orderl, check*, etc.,payable to the Tribune Printinj Company, Limited. Naturally, tbe Bicycle Trust will be the model of 18J9. It is argued that the trolley tends to repress crime by distributing the population of cities over a larger area, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Electricity as a moral agent is au iu teiesting field of study. The rapid destruction of the spruce forests cf the Eastern States may be realized wheu it is understood that one daily paper used the growth on twenty-two acres in two days, the wood having been reduced to pulp aud turned into paper. A class for the instruction of hospi tal-corps men in preparing food for the sick has been organized at the Washington Arsenal. The work is to be carried on under military regula tions, and the aim is to provide a corps of men who can provide for the sick such food as is available. The plan involves also the establishment of a school or schools for army cooks to be conducted by regular officers at some convenient reoruiting station. The Australians have set up re sponsible parliamentary government on the British plan, and have limited it by a second elective house and a supreme court on the American plan. How they are going to make this work no one can guess;but there is general confidence that, as Anglo Saxons,they will make it work somehow. A race that turned the monarchy of George 111. into the republic of Victoria and the Achaian League of the Bevolutionary colonies into the American nation of to-day by mere quiet political growth, Without violent revolution, can make liny political institutions work. The average man has no ambition to make a otir in the world, but is con tent with food aud raiment, philoso phizes tho Observer. Ambition to push on, to pass one's fellows in (the race of life, is by no means universal. The majority of men are not dazzled by the prizes of success, and it is well that they are not, for if all men were animated by desire to possess them, the competition would be too terrible for the race to bear. The minority who contend for them are endowed by nature with a surplus of energy which must find outlet, and so is directed toward objects which, in the general desire for them, are objects of competition. These are the prizes of life, be they fame, or wealth, or power, aud those who attain them are called successful men. Decidedly interesting possibilities are opened up by the happy thought which somebody in the Department of Agriculture has had of turning tho cinematograph machine from rapidly moving objects to those so nearly mo tionless as a growing oak. By taking one picture every hour of the seed ling tree, nud continuing this for some weeks, a series of photographs will be produced wbicb, when pre sented on a screen in the usual way, will illustrate the process of develop ment as it was never done before. The idea is equally applicable to a child or even to a city. With pictures enough, taken at intervals sufficiently short, one could after a while, exhibit with in the space of ten minutes of half an hour, every change that takes place as a baby becomes an old man ready to die. Whence Came the Jipnne*e. The people of Japan have shown sucxi adaptability to European ideas that particular interest attaches to the conclusion of a writer in the "Transac tions" of the Japan Society that the ancestors of the present inhabitants of Japan built tile sepulchral chambers /ailed dolmens in that couutry. No similar dolmens are found anywhere in Asia until the search comes westward to the shores of the Caspian sea, "and for more closely allied forms It is nec issary to go yet farther to Western Europe." It is shown that the orig inal inhabitants of Japan, the Ainos. were driven out by invaders from whom the present inhabitants are de scended. FIREFLIES, . When the clovor folds its leaves, Shows Its silver lining; When the night-wind softly grieve*, And tho stars are shining; When the clouds still faintly hold ilints of sunset ended, And within my garden old Day and dusk are blended; Then tlie llre-tlles glimmor. Then the flre-flies shimmer. Quiver through the misty veil that night has wrought with care, Tremble through the shadows In the drowsy uir. When the prlmose is alight. Like the stars above it. And on heavy wings of white Fills the moths that love it; When, without a moment's rest, Bounds the crickets' whirring, And within the robin's nest Not a bird is stirring; While the winds are blowing, Swift the flre-flies, glowing, Flash across the silence whero the rod roso droops in sleep, Brighten, fade and vanish In the darkness deep. Where the spider's thread is spun Down among the grasses; Where tho dewdrops sparkling run As the light breeze passes; Where the branches, moving slow. Sot their leaves a-chiming, Till the music ripples low, Like a poet's rhyming; There the flre-flies glitter, High and low they flicker, Flutter like the thoughts of youth ere youth has flown away, Like tho hopes elusive That we fain would stay. When tho red rose opens wide In the sunny morning, And the bobolink with pride Sleep, and the night is scorning; We may search with eager care For tho fairy glimmer. Vainly seeking here and there, Not a light will shimmer. Transient as our dreaming Is tho flre-flies gleaming; Transient as remembered smiles on faces seen no more; Eerie lights that waver When the day is o'er. -Angelina W. Wray, in Harper's Bazar. nooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO § n Subbed" for the Editor! § i By Barry Pain. § (5 Q U0300003000000000000000000 fHE editor o£ the Inner Cir cle, Matthew half a hour Champ ni es, reigned tem porarily in his stead. On every occasion when Elder was ab sent, whether he had gone out to get his hair out (at the restaurant oppo site), or was away on a two months' holiday, or had taken a week off be cause he felt far from well, J. Graham Champnies reigned in his stoad, en dowed with plenary powers. He was ambitious, and intelligent, and hard working, and trustworthy; Matthew Elder, brilliant and lazy, had long since recognized that. Elder thought of things to do -Champnies did them. A clerk just laid on Champnies' desk the form which a visitor had filled up. ; Name—Miss Cynthia Rage. • ; To See—The Editor. ; : Business—Private. ; Date—3-5-99. "Well, I'll seo her," said Champ nies. He had seen the name Cynthia Page, in good magazines, appended to curious and interesting stories. He was not ill-pleased, when the clerk showed her in, to find that she had youth and beauty on pale and mystical Hues. Her long, raised lashes and the lingering glnuee of hor gray eyes seemed to say, "You do in terest me." J. Graham Champnies found himself licqiing that Matthew Elder, after synchronizing his watch, would lind it necessary to go and see a man about a dog—or, at any rate, would delay his return. In the mean while he was anxious to know what he could do for Miss Page. "I am speaking to tho editor?" saiil Miss Page, a little doubtfully. "The actual editor, Mr. Elder, is not in at present, but I have full powers to act for him." "I see." She was still in" doubt. "Pray be assured of it. I can make contracts with you, accept stories from you, sign checks for you, so if you have anything to propose—" "Oh, it's not that; in fact, I came in consequence of a proposition which he had already made to me." "Well, I shall bo very glad to carry on anything that he has begun. As a rule he mentions these things to me, but this time I am in the dark." She smiled mysteriously. "But you can't be sure that you would wish to carry on what he has begun." "As Mr. Elder is the supreme au thority heve, I should have no choice. But oven if I had, what you suggest is extremely unlikely." "Why unlikely? No two men can have minds exactly alike. It's a fanny arrangement you have here." "It works well enough in practice. We both kuow the character of our paper and what our public wants. I soy that it is unlikely that I should be unwilling to carry on whatever Mr. Elder has begun for this reason and also because I know and admire your work." "O, do you think it's any good?" "Of course I do." "Speaking frankly?" "Speaking frankly it's full enough of faults, some of it seems to have run away with you and got all over the j place. But it's horribly interesting ■ all the same. You see it's original." "O, yes!" she assented. "I am original. If I were not, I shouldn't be here." "That sounds cryptic," he said. "Possibly I shall understand it when I know the nature of Mr. Elder's pro posal. He wants some stories from yon?" "No, no." "Then what is it?" "Do you know that I'm afraid I can't tell you." "Very well, then; there's nothing more to be said. Mr. Elder is out at present. You'd better call again. I suppose yon think it would make some difference whether Mr. Elder went ou with this business, or I did?" "I'm suro it would—tho greatest difference." "You think I shouldn't do as well?" "Not as well. You'd do better, in finitely better. O, I must go," she blushed, rose, good-byed, and faded out of the office. Ten minutes later Sir. Matthew El der, middle-aged, bald, and oheerfnl, sauntered into the room with his hands in his pockets. "Well, Bill! Everything all right?" Mr. Elder had not found in the as sortment of names provided for Champ nies in the accident of his birth and the guesswork of his christening any thing which took his fancy. "No," said Champnies shortly, still irritated by his interview with Cynthia Page. "Quart into a pint pot. Plugged up with ads., and Bowse has just sent up that he'll want another half-page. We shall have to leave over everything that'll wait, and some things that won't." "Ah! you don't keep a tight enough hand on Bowse." "Step in and tackle him yourself. Here, this woman called to see you— wouldn't tell me her business." Matthew Elder took the paper slip ami sank down in a ohair. "Bill, this is rather bad. I ought to have been iu. What with my un fortunate enthusiasm and my wretched memory I shall get myself into trou ble. Listen: I met this girl two cr three times a year ago; never gave her another thought till I came on a story by her that was perfectly magnificent —O, horribly good!—probably the best story that has been written this century. I dashed off a letter to her at once, and so worked myself up about it that I said, to show my sin cerity, that if she liked I'd marry her, and she could call at the office this morning with her answer. She'd have refused me, of course, as they all do, aud perhaps I'm better single; but, none the less, it would have been more civil not to have forgotten tho appointment." "Beally," said Champnies, "you must be a little mad." "Undoubtedly," answered Elder, cheerfully. "It's the price one pays for being so excessively intelligent." Champnies stared at the desk, trying to recall the exact words of his conversation with Cynthia Page. "Look here, Bill," said Elder, "write and say you want to seo her about a story; then when she comes do tho explaining for me. Say I was called away by telegram. Say it was from motives of delicacy. Say any thing." The following is from a subsequent issuo of tho Tea-Cup, a journal con ducted by ladies for ladies: "Ono of tho most brilliant of our lady writers, Miss Cynthia Page, is, it is whispered, shortly to be led to the hymeneal altar. The fortunate partner of hor future joys and sorrows is J. Graham Champnies, a young journalist of great promise. Our heartiest felicitations. Speaking of weddings, liavo you seen the really beautiful designs in pearlettes—indis tinguishable from real pearls—now being shown in the windows of ?" The .Jersey Cow. It was not without reason that the Greeks called a beautiful womaii "cow-eyed"; but though many a fa mous Jersey cow has borne a Greek name, Hollas never saw cows compar ing in beauty with the modern Jersey —so fine and trim in shape and so dainty iq color aud shading, or with eyes so large and liquid. For many years it was disputed whether the breed were not a cross between the cow and deer. The Jersey as much surpasses her ancient x'rogenitors in the richness and abnndance of her milk and cream as iu beauty. At the World's Fair at Chicago, in 1893, the Jersey, putting aside all question of beauty, challenged all other breeds for quantity.and quality of the butter, and was a triumphant wiuner over all competitors. For some years there has been a re action from tho extravagant prices which prevailed iu the eighties for Jerseys, says Harper's Bazar. Dur ing tho height of that craze, it is said that §20,000 was paid for tho bull Prince of Pogis, and that famous cows brought from §OOOO to §IO,OOO. Pedro, sire of the great bull Pedro Boyal Marjoram, won first prize at the World's Fair in 1893, and originally ccst his owner §IO,OOO. Pedro's dam was Eurotas, by many considered the greatest of Jersey cows. Sho pro duced 778 pounds aud ouo ounce of butter in one year. Pedro Boyal Mar joram was himself a winner at the World's Fair, but his chief distinction has been in the extraordinary uni formity and extraordinary merit of bis daughters. It Sounded Horrible. Mary Allien bad lived all her fifteen years in the country, far removed frcftn railroads, and when her father accept ed a position in the machine shops of the great railroad corporation at G., aud settled his family iu a house over looking the switch-yards, hor life was filled with terror. On the first occasion of her crossing the yards, a long train of cars was be ing disconnected and distributed. To her horror, she heard a mau at one md shout to another, "Never mind that jumper! You can't wait. Cut | her in two, and throw the head end I down here." i Mary fainted,—Youth's Companion. PRESIDENTIAL TRAVELS. RAILROAD ARRANGEMENTS WHEN A CHIEF EXECUTIVE TRAVELS. Lincoln tlio Only President Who Hucl a Private Car Proposed Special Tralu for Presidents The Matter of Pitying Fare Arranging Time Table. It is only iu recent years that presi dential journeying has been made spectacular. The early presidents could travel about without being mollbed. Jackson and Taylor walked the streets of Washington aud stopped to chat with a friend like any other citizen, and when they traveled no one thought of stauding and gazing at them or of forcing himself upon them for a haudshake. Then the president of the United Sta+es could travel as simply aud unostentatiously as he pleased. Now he goes in a special train and the band at every cross roads station plays "Hail to the Chief" horribly. There was only one president who hail a private car. That was Lin coln, the luaii of all others who was simple in his tastes. It was not a very fine affair. Today it would not be used for second-class traffic. All other presidents have traveled in pri vate cars offered for their use by rail road companies or sleeping-car com panies. Just after the election of President McKinley some railroad men got to gether and planned a special car for the president, which was to bo finer tbau Queen Victoria's, It was to be built throughout of native products, and the blending of native woods in its decoration was to suggest every purt of the country. All the material was to be contributed and the labor was to be done iu the railroad shops. This scheme was so attractive that presently it expanded into a plan for an entire train for the president's use, to be an uppanage of the executive office, not Mr. McKinley's private property. The elaborated plan pro vided for a baggage car to contain a dynamo for heating aud lighting the other cars, a sleeping coach for the president's secretary and clerks, and a special car for tho president and his guests. As planned, the president's car was to be 69 feet fl inches long, or 15 1-2 feet longer than Queen Vic toria's, while its width was to be 9 feet 8 inches. At one end was to be the kitchon, with quarters for cook and porter. A salon in the middle of the car, two bedrooms, a bathroom and an observation room were also in the plans. Nothing has been done toward building this train aud the project seems to have fallen through. So the president in his outings will use other persons' cars, as most of his predecessors have done. Sleeping-car companies put at the disposal of the president the finest cars, aud railroad officers tender the use of their private coaches, because as they go about the country they are a peripatetic advertisement for rail road and sleeping-car compauies, and either one would be very glad, if it were necessary, to pay something for the privilege of carayiug the chief magistrate. Only one railroad man disagrees with this proposition so far as known. He was tho general pas senger agent of a line running east from St. Louis when President Har rison visited that city. The railroad man who was managing the trips was allied with the same interests as the general passenger agent, though on a different line. He declined the invi tation of another road to take the president's train east through loyalty to his own people. And then the gen eral passenger agent made him pay the full first-class fare for hauling the president's special. It was repaid him later —and that is about as near as a president of the United States has come to paying fare in a long time. Wlieu President Cleveland made his first trip west he paid fare for him self and all the members of his party. The interstate commerce law had just gone iuto effect and he was afraid of being criticized for violating it. But tho five or • six first-class tickets which his private secretary bought did not pay for the fine special train that he used. Hauling the president's special is an expensive undertaking. On most roads it means side-tracking all other business for tho time. One of the big coal railroads once put every freight car on side tracks at night because the president was going over the liue. Another road side-tracked hundreds of cars of grain and live stock and left the track clear between the beginning aud end of the presi dent's journey. As an additional pre caution u pilot engine is sent ahead of tho president's train to see that the track is safe. To arrange the schedules for a presidential journey is no small un dertaking. George W. Boyd lias done more of this than any other railroad man, and he could arrange to take the president safely around the world on forty-eight hours' notice. When the president wants to make a long jour ney he usually calls Mr. Boyd in for consultation as au expert. Mr. Boyd looks up the regular schedules of all the roads to be covered and calculates the running time of their trains. He has to balance everything with great nicety so as not to briug the presi dent to a big city at 2 in the morning or land him at a terminal without pro vision for continuing the Journey on some other line. When mapped out the trips he telegraphs the offi cials of all the railroads to ask if they can pick the president's train up at this poiut at that time and take it through to the other station at such an hour. This schedule includes ail the important stops, with an allow ance of five or ten minutes for each daylight station on the route. When tha railroads agree to thjß schedule it is finally delivered to the president. Thus the president personally haj very little voice iu the matter. He must pass through eertuiu places eu route to his destination. Public sen timent demands that he stop for five minutes here and half an hour there. Between these stops the speed capa city of the railroad must be considered, and the president seldom travels at the highest rate for fear of accident. At the end of tne route the president has to go through a program of speech-making and dining aud sight seeing arranged for him by the local committee. President Harrison and President Cleveland always took newspaper cor respondents with them on their jour neys. President McKinley so far has refused to do so, and his secretaries have made up u report of the inci dents of the trips to be given to the press, with copies of the president's speeches where the president's train stops. The speeches are not prepared, except for important occasions. The president has his own stenographer take note of what he says in his im promptu speeches and then carefully revises the manuscript. All this busi ness is baud led for him by his private secretary, George B. Cortelyou, who always accompanies him. The president always chooses the members of his party. With the ex ception of the train crew, every man or woman aboard is his guest. One feature of the expense of the journey the president usually pays for. It is the provisioning of his car. It is no small part of the cost of a trip, for in much of the sparsely settled western country through which President Mc- Kinley must necessarily pass on his next trip he will breakfast and dine on the train. It is & matter of pride with the car cook to put elaborate meal before the president three times a day, so when the car is stocked the best of everything is taken aboard.— New York Sun. PLEA FOR FRUIT JUICES. Drinks That Are Wholesome as Well as Palatable. What shall we drink is a question asked and answered by E. H. Chase in the magazine, "What to Eat." He says: What shall we drink ? Not coffee, says the modern writer on health, for it works on the nerves and aids neu ralgia to hold its fearful carnival of pain through all the overwrought sys tem. Not tea, unless we want our stomachs poisoned with tannic acid, and our sleeping hours turned iuto a torture of wakefulness. Not water, for lo! it swarms with ten thousand living organisms that are there on purpose to prey upon the unsuspect ing imbiber of the unfiltered article. Not milk, for where water contains one microbe milk contains an army, and often they are of a more deadly nature. Therefore we who read as we run look about us for something to drink and are yet athirst. Boiling water takes from it the spar kle and leases it insipid. Boiling milk changes both its taste and its action. Fruit juices, when such can be obtained free from adulteration, are not only agreeable to most people, but are healthful as well. A home preparation of fruit juices, iu variety, may be had by every family willing to prepare them at a slight cost. They should be securely sealed in jars, wrapped in brown paper to ex clude the light, and labelled. In early spring both oranges and lemons are plentiful. These may be prepared as follows: OHANGE AND LEMON JUICE. Remove the rinds from a dozen oranges, slice and remove the seeds; cover with water and boil fifteen min utes, or until tender; strain through a flannel bag, and add a cup of sugar; return to the kettle and boil until the sugar is dissolved, stirring constantly; seal boiling hot and stand the jar on its head until cool. Lemons are prepared in the same way, except that more water may lie added, and two cups of sugar to the pint will not be too much. Strawberries, raspberries, plums and blackberries follow in their season, and should be pressed into service for this purpose. Berries need but little boiling, if stirred well, and a cup of sugar to two quarts of juice will be ample. Prunes, damsons aud grapes must be well washed, and the water in which they are to be boiled should come up well over them. They must boil until broken and tender throughout. To prunes but little sugar should be added, but to the damsons aud grapes at least two cups of sugar to two quarts of juice. The bag must hang and drain, and not be pressed, if one de sires the juice clear. A basket of grapes, which may be had for JO cents, will make several quarts of juice. TO PRESERVE SOUR-APPLE JUICE. Crabapples and sour apples of every kind make a very pleasant and health ful drink. These must be prepared with care, well washed, the stems, blossom ends and all specks and bruises removed, and allowed to boil until all flavor is extracted from them. If the parings are left on, the color will be brighter. Too much water can hardly be added at first, but when strained the juice should be boiled until of proper flavor for a beverage. These fruit juices can later be made into jellies or used to color gelatins, if this is desired, and, used as effer vescent drinks, they are far superior to the "pure fruit" juices of commerce. The call for grape juice for the hospi tals the last year speaks for itself as to the desirableness of keeping this beverage in the house for the sick, even if the well go on drinking adul erations and microbes. It cost Professor Dewar S3OOO to produce his first ounce of liauid air. FOR BOYS AND GIRLS SOME COOD STORIES FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS. How Pompey Telegraphed—The Boys of Today—Kindergurteii Knowledge— Carrying Out Instructions —A Smart lloy. Little Children. "Of such Is the kingdom of heaven." And yet we check and chide The airy angels as they flout about us, With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow The same tame slaves to custom and tho world. And day by day the fresh frank soul that looked Out of those wistful eyes, and smiling played With the wild roses of that changing cheek. And modulated all those earnest tones. And danced In those light foot-falls to a tune Heart-heard by them. Inaudible to us, Folds closer its pure wings, whereon the hues They caught In heaven already pale and pine, And shrinks amazed and scareoT back from our gaze. And so tho evil grows. Tho graceful flower May have Its own sweet way In bud and bloom- May drink, and dare with upturned gaze the light Or nestle 'neath the guardian leaf, or wave Its fragrant bells to every roving breeze. Or wreathe with blushing grace the fra gile spray In bashful loveliness. The wild wood bird May plume at will his wings, and soar or sing; The mountain brook may wind where'er It would, Dash in wild music down the deep ravine, Or, rippling drowsily In forest haunts, Dream of tho floating cloud, the waving flower, And murmur to itself sweet lulling words In broken tones so like the faltering speech Of early childhood: but our human flow ers, Our soul-birds, caged and pining—they must sing And grow, not as their own but our ca price Suggests, and so the blossom and the lay Are but half bloom and music at the best. And If by chance some brave and buoy ant soul. More bold or less forgetful of the lessons God taught them first, disdain the rule— tho bar— And, wildly beautiful, rebellious rise, How the hard world, half startled from itself. Frowns the bright wanderer down, or turns away. And leaves her lonely In her upward path. Thank God! to such his smilo is not de nied. Kindergarten Knowledge. A settlement kindergarten teacher was trying to inspire her small charges with patriotism. "I know who made this country," said a little one, her eyes bright with the excitement of suppressed informa tion. "Who?" "George Washington." Another hand shot Into the air. The little girl was told to speak. He was a king, she said. "No; we don't have kings in this country. They have king 3 in other countries, but in the United States we call cur biggest man something else. Does any one know what George Washington was?" There was silence and the little faces were all wrinkled in thought. Then the little girl that had volun teered the information that Washing ton was a king, and whose father was a gambler, said decidedly: "Well, if he wasn't a king he was a Jack." The talk drifted to the recent war with Spain, Here, too, voluntary in formation of rather startling nature was not lacking. "I know who owns the war," de clared a 5-year-old boy, after he had been given permission to speak. "Who?" he was asked. "Dewey," came the reply. A protesting hand went up and waved entreatingly. "Don't you think that's right?" "No; Dewey don't own It all," she said, almost Indignantly. "I guess Sampson owns half of it. "Well, Dewey's the biggest man in the world, all the same," declared the little boy, looking at the girl with de fiance. "They ain't nobody any big ger'n Dewey." The girl was silenced for a minute, but not beaten. "I don't care If Dewey Is the big gest man in the world. I know who the next biggest is. Mr. Murphy, he's the next biggest." Mr. Murphy Is the policeman on the beat. How l s ompey Telegraphed. Hattie and her mamma were on their way to visit grandma, who lived over one hundred miles from their home. They had taken a train early in the evening, and would have reached grandma's long before bedtime if It bad not been for one thing—they had to change cars at a little station in the country and wait a whole hour before their train came. Before the hour was over, Hattle grew very tired and sleepy. She had tried each bench in the station, but had found each one equally hard; she had unpacked and packed over again the little valise which papa had given her for her very own Just the day before they started, and she had looked through the little window Into the of fice where a young man sat making a funny, ticking noise on a little Instru ment. "I guess it's a play piano," she said to mamma in a whisper, "but it doesn't make any music only tick, tick, tick." Mamma explained that It was a tele graph Instrument the young man was playing upon, and then for some time Hattie was interested In mamma's ex planation of how a message could be sent over the wires by means of those little ticks. But after a time all this lost Its In terest, too, and the noise of the little Instrument grew fainter and fainter In her ears. Mamma discovered this and saw the little head begin to droop, so she tried to interest Hattle once more in the contents of her valise. I think the young man must have heard mamma trying to keep Hattle awake till the train came, for pretty soon he came out from the little office and whistled. Then a little curly dog that Hattie had not seen at all before came out of the office, too, wagging his tail vigorously. Hattie opened her eyes wide at this. "Here, Pompey," said the young man, "show this little girl how you can telegraph." Hattie was very wide awake by this time and sat up quite straight, and what do you suppose the little dog did? Well, he laid down on his back on the bare floor and began to beat upon the boards with his tail, tap, tap, tap-tap-tap, just as the young man had been doing on his telegraph instru ment. How Hattie did laugh, and mamma, too; and then the little dog jumped up and wagged his tail, as much as to say, "Didn't I do that pretty well?" After that Hattie found Pompey so amusing that almost before she knew it the train came puffing into the sta tion, and she had to bid good night to the dog that could telegraph, and that had kept her from going to sleep before she reached grandma's.—Julia D Cow lis. The no/a of Today. The boys of today are the coming men of America. In a few years they must take up the thread where we leave off, and out of this number the leading men of America must be re cruited—presidents of the United States, legislators, professional men, artists. All vacancies must be prompt ly filled by them, so that Uncle Sam may continue to be a growing and pro gressive nation. They will reap both the fruits of our achievements and misdoings, and likewise it will fall to their lot to right our mistakes. When ne consider this from a patriotic standpoint, we feel a keen desire to place the affairs of our country in such a condition that will cast no reflection on the Uncle Sam of today. We are equally desirous of pointing them to the trust that is soon to be put in their hands, instead o utilizing them for mere pastimes by taunting and urging them to be quarrelsome, as some peo ple are wont to do. This so-called sport may seem innocent pastime to unthinking people, but it is at that stage of life when germs can be sown in boys that, when they grow to man hood, may develop to no good results. Of all the training boys get, peace and generosity should be their first mot toes. Then the reforms we now help to advocate may come through our children. Kvery voter, to the chief executive, should bear in mind that we are to a great exteut shaping the des tiny of our posterity. When we ob serve the unpatriotic actions of some of the leading men of today, and then see them fondle their children, it be comes evident that they do not see as far in the future as Louis XV. of France did, when he said: "The throne Is old, but It will last my time." This evil king knew his follies would bear like fruits, while some people today, with their short-sighted, selfish love, seemingly think their rascality will die out without more ado. History is proof that deeds and actions bring their fruits. Take, for instance, the patriots who fought and achieved the results of the American revolution. It required more than one generation to complete the work, for it is not com plete. But the great satisfaction was that the second generation had the honesty and Integrity of their heroic forefathers to build on, which mani fests that they builded for the future. We are also the victims of certain wrongs which are the products of small beginnings. Today everything is Judged according to the letter and our posterity can Judge our actions better than our fellow men of today. I have already wondered with what fa vor the coming generations will look on the great peace commission which is being held at The Hague. Let us build for the future, whither the world is drifting, and encourage the boys in their great undertaking. WILLIAM E. POET Yoe, Pa. Carrying Out Instructions. A German schoolmaster was in structing his pupils how to act when a certain grand duke should pass through on the railway, an event which was to occur the next day. "Remem ber, children," said the pedagogue, that as soon as the train arrives you are to shout as loud as you can, 'Long live the grand duke!' Until he leaves." I he next day, when the grand duke ar rived at the station and bowed gra ciously from the platform of the special carriage, the school children made the welkin ring with, "Long live the grand duke until he leaves!" A Smart Boy. New York Jeweler (to new boy)- Did you sell anything while I was out John? * New Boy-Yes. sir. I sold six plain gold rings. Jeweler (very much pleased)— Good my boy. We'll make a first-class Jew eler of you one of these days. You got the regular price, of course? New Boy—Why, yes, sir. The price was marked on the inside 18 c„ an' the gentleman took all there was left at that price, sir. The youngster had actually disposed of them at eighteen cents each. Reading at meals is objectionable on the ground of health, if nothing else. The habit is detrimental to the digestion.