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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.
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§ n Subbed" for the Editor!
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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.