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The new wolf scalp bounty law ol
Kausuß is giving the clerks of the va
rious counties considerable trouble on
account of its ambiguity. The new
law offers a bounty of SI for all wolf
scalps, except those of the 4 Tobo"
species, the scalps of which are worth
$5 each. The county clerks don't
know wlint a "lobo" is, and have been
nnuble to obtain any information which
would enable them to distinguish the
$5 scalps from those of the ordinary
wolt.
The fact that oue can travel hun
dreds of miles by trolley cars without
n break is an interesting thing to con
template, but it is not likely that the
trolley system, at least as it is now
known, will ever become jHipulnr for
iong-distauce traveling. As a meaus
of transporting light freight, how
ever, there seems to be a vast held
open to it. Still, it would be rash to
predict a definite future for the trolley
system. The latter is still in its in
fancy, and no oue can say what im
provements in it may be iu store.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine's model school
will be erected in Chicago during the
coming year in the vicinity of Hull
house. While the two institutions
will have the common purpose iu view
of elevating mankind, they will be
different in that the model school will
endeavor to occupy the same relation
toward the children of the crowded
district that Hull house has taken
toward their parents. One hundred
thousand dollars will be devoted by
Mrs. Blaine to the founding of this
school as a sort of adjunct to the col
lege for teachers which her philan
thropy has assured for Chicago in the
near future.
Some interesting figures as to the
proportion of farmers' boys among
college students have been gathered
by the American Agriculturist. It has
returns from 178 universities and col
leges, reporting an attendance of 02,-
000 students, out of a total of 97,000
in all the higher educational institu
tions in the country. In its analysis
of the figures the Agriculturist re
duces the number of students con
sidered to a little under 52,000, for
some unexplained reason, excluding,
it says, "a few city colleges, like
Harvard, Pratt Institute, University
of Rochester, Fisk University and
others. Out of this total of about
52,000 it finds that nearly 21,000 are
from the agricultural classes, or a per
centage of 10 2 from the farm. This
percentage varies largely in different
sections of the country. It is 50.9 in
the South, 45.8 in the far West, 40.1
iu the central West, 29.4 in the Mid
dle States, and 29.1 in New England.
"In no other nation will any such
condition be found," comments the
Agriculturist.
The government has been fully re
imbursed for the outlay made to aid
in the construction of the Union Pa
cific railroad. r J he government is
sued what are commonly referred to
as subsidy bonds, which the railroad
company disposed of to provide funds
for the construction of the line. The
last installment of these bonds fell
due Jan. lof this year. In antici
pation of the Union Pacific defaulting
in repayment the government took
steps to dispose of its property at
public auction, but settlement was fi
nally arranged, and the principal of
the loan amounting to $27,226,512,
was refunded to the government with
$'11,211,711.75 which represented
the interest in full. The total indebt
edness has been repaid and the gov
ernment did not lose a dollar by the
transaction. Of the total amount of
Union Pacific bonds issued all have
oeen redeemed by tho government
except*, SBB,OOO, which are still out
standing and have never been present
ed for payment. As soon as they are
presented they will lie canceled and
destroyed.
An uncommon disease caused the
death of Mrs. Rose Funk, a resident ol
Bloomlngton, 111. Portions of hei
flesh had become as dry and bard ai
bona.
I HOW MOTHER DUFFIELD GOT 8
THE BETTER OF THE BOOM. 1
fHE town mast
be burnin' up;
I wisht now
that I bad staid
a little longer.
It's drefful,
though—d re f
ful to thiuk on.
Mother, I'm go
t ing up to the
hill field to get
a better sight."
The glory of
the September
sunset, which
Squire Duffield
had not noticed, had scarcely faded
when another light, which he at once
perceived, filled the heavens in the
direction of Swanton, a sleepy old
county seat with a population of
about 5000 souls.
Latterly a new influence had mani
fested itself in Swanton. The young
people had surrendered themselves to
it completely, and evon their elders,
bred to slow thought and action and
to a distrust of innovations, were
weakening under it. I had all hap
pened within a few months. One
day a well-dressed, smooth-spoken
Btranger had put up at the Swan
House, and had hired a horse and
buggy and had driven about the coun
try asking mysterious questions of
the farmers. Then he disappeared,
but shortly returned with n man whom
he introduced as a capitalist. That
Bort of personage was unfamiliar to
the Swautonians, and they spent
much time in speculating upon his
probable past and possible future.
There was a lurking suspicion that
the presence of the strangers boded
no good, whroh became active when
they were joined by an engineer and
showed a disposition to prowl about
other people's property. But this
being followed by proposals to pur
chase land at liberal figures, the re
sentment died out. It was only an
acre here and another there, with an
option on larger tracts, but S2OO an
aero for SSO laud was an effective an
tidote to distrust. The cupidity of
the firmer was quite as well under
stood by the keen city men as his hes
itation and suspicion, and they had
no difficulty in getting what they
wanted.
Natural gas was the ostensible ob
ject of their search, and Swanton was
in two minds about the desirability of
discovering such a commodity. That
it was not a familiar agricultural pro
duot was to its discredit, but there
were those who were sanguine over
the easy acquisition of fortune and
the establishment of a prosperous
and populous city. The editor of the
Weekly Banner, after a talk with the
capitalist, unhesitatingly said that
Swanton's golden opportunity was at
hand.
The madness began to get in its
work when the Buckeye Improvement
and Development Company opened
spacious offices on Jefferson street
and the sound of drills woke the
echoes through the peaceful country
side. Deals were made, openly and
surreptitiously, and enterprises and
rumors of enterpsises quickened the
sluggish blood of even the most con
servative.
Already gas had been found in small
quantities in several wells, but the
excited community would be satisfied
with nothing less than a "gusher."
Ono was expected in the big well on
old man Hartman's place at the edge
of town. There has been difficulties
from salt water and fx-om the breaking
of machinery, but the experts were
sure that gas wduld be found in im
mense quantities. Indeed, it had
been making considerable commotion
for several days. Squire Duffield said
he was "mighty glad that ho didn't
live near the pesky thing; ho didn't
want it on his farm; he preferred a
good crop of wheat."
This light, which seemed to indi
cate a tremendous fire, confirmed his
previous judgment. "Some fool has
dropped a light cigar and started the
thing off," he argued, "and if's spread
to the hull town. I declare ef I
wasn't so beat out, I'll drive in an'
see what's liappenin'.
"By gracious, maybe it'll burn the
bank up—l'm goin'.
"Jake, Jake, hitch up Jinny quick's
ever you can! I'm goin' to town,"
! Hhouted the Squire; and five minutes
i later he and his hired man wei-e urg
ing the unwilling "Jinny" toward
Swanton. The distance was five
miles, but "Jinny" could be counted
upon to cover it in an hour and to get
back in half that time.
The country grew brighter and the
roaring increased as the mare trotted
briskly over the smooth pike. It's
queer," muttered the Squire; "the
fire don't seem to change. We see it
better 'cause we're gettin' closer, but
it don't get bigger nor act like an
ordinary fire."
Every time the Squire thought of
his S3OOO he touched "Jinny" with
the whip.
"It don't seem to be spreadin'
much; they're keepiu' it well toward
Ifartman's place," he said, as they got
near town; but Jake couldn't hear him
for the fierce roaring of the flame.
The mare was so frightened by the
time they had come within a half mile
of the well that her master determined
to put tier up and to proceed on foot.
"How far has the firs spread?" he
shouted in the ear of the hostler who
came out to take her.
"No further'n Hartman's well,"
screamed the man grinning.
Squire Duffield couldn't believe
that. Accompanied by Jake he went
to see for himself. It was true. A
mighty column of flame shot up into
the air. the earth trembled and Deo
ple looked weird and ghastly in" the
uncanny light as they read one an
other's lips, for no voice could be
heard; but there was no conflagra
tion.
"How'll they ever put it out?"
Jake's lips asked.
"How?" the Squire's lips repeated
as ho shook his head.
Up to that night Squire Duffield
had ranked as an ultra conservative
among the boomers, but the sight of
that tremendous manifestation of
power had shaken liirn out of his old
ideas and habits. He felt dazed and
uncertain for several days, when he
became restless and had an irrepress
ible desire to go to town and hear
more of the wonders that were com
ing to pass. All of the farmers near
town were planning to plot their land
for house lots or factory sites and the
Squire sighed, reflecting that his land
was too far from town for any such
purpose.
There was to be a shoe faceory, a
plate-glass factory, an optical glass
factory and ever so many othey works
that would employ hundreds of men
and bring in thousands of dollars.
The greatest enterprise of all was to
be the rolling mill whioh (he Buave
and imposing Major Gloss was ex
ploiting. It was reported that the
compauy which he said be had formed
represented a capital of half a million
dollars. A billion could scarcely have
impressed the Swantouians more.
Squire Duffield's brother-in-law had
sold bis farm at u fancy price for the
site of the new mill, and massive
buildings were being erected for the
accommodation of (he machinery, the
largest and heaviest of its kiuil in the
world, which was being brought from
Furuacetown, Major Gloss assuring
the Swnntonians that he could not
think of remaining in a place where
there were only 40,000 people when
he saw opportunities presented by a
city with such a future as Swanton.
The rolling mill and the Buckeye De
velopment and Improvement Com
pany were tho biggest things in sight,
and some people intimated that tho
two were one; that is, that the same
men were promoting both.
"Well, what of it?" returned the
boom-mad speculators. "Ain't they
prominent men and capitalists? Of
course, they wont to be on the inside
wherever there are millions to be made,
and they're lucky who can get in
with 'em."
There was a wild scramble for this
privilege—it was the stock exchange
transferred to a virgin field. Swanton
never had seen oo much cash or
dreamed of so many notes, deeds and
legal documents of various sorts as
floated about in these days. The
County Recorder had to hire extra
deputies and clerks, notaries and real
estate dealers sprang up on every cor
ner. A pawnshop was started to en
able the boomers to turn their last
possession into cash. Loutish coun
try boys and commonplace town clerks
were alike stung with the mad desire
for speculation, and older heads were
lost with equal precipitation. "Paper"
was indorsed readily and unquestion
ably, and promptly discounted by the
bank, which had hired an extra room
and threo times as many employes as
ever had been required before.
Ready-made houses were brought
to town in sections and set up like
ridiculous toys on twenty-live foot
lots in Snyder's subdivision, a worth
less piece of swampy land between
tho creek and tho canal which the
Buckeye Development and Improve
ment Compauy had bought anil plot
ted, theirs also being tho ready-made
houses. Mass meetiugs were held in
the town hall and in the publio square
and enthusiasm was without bounds.
Squiro Duffield could withstaud the
allurements of the craze no longer.
His hoarded S3OOO and all the money
that he could raise by mortgaging the
land, including what be hud acquired
through frugality and industry and
the homestead that had come to him
from his father, were invested in the
rolling mill and in allied enterprises
promising a speedy return of dollars
for cents. Farm work was neglected
for the first time ill his life—it .was
not worth while to grub a living la
boriously from the soil when a for
tune was to bo bad by such facile
means.
The Squire's sons were swept off
their feet, and from steady, hard
working young fellows, took to driv
ing recklessly about the country at all
hours of the day and night, drinking
and gambling nud pursuing a general
mode of life detrimental to their man
ners, morals and finances. Miss Fan
nie, the Squire's only daughter, saw
at last the coveted avenue of escape
from social isolation and household
drudgery and ndopted lute rising and
dawdling over her toilet as the first
requisites for a life of refined and ele
gant leisure.
Only Mrs. Dnflield, untiring in her
industiy, frugal in her habits and
homely in her disposition, took no
pleasure in her changed prospects.
Despite the querulous objections of
the family, she cluug to her accus
tomed routine of household duties,
made as many pounds of butter a week
as usual, looked after her garden,
sold eggs and poultry, and in all ways
conducted herself as if she never an
ticipated living upon a higher social
plane. It was a day of sore trial for her
when it was decided, in view of the
growing importance of the family, to
remove to town and occupy the man
sion of the late Judge Bigman. Rue
fully tho good woman went over and
over the place, doing last offices and
laying injunctions upon the tenant's
wife who was to succeed her, about
what to do and what not to omit. Her
lack of pride and of adaptation to her
bettered fortune disturbed the rest
of the fami y sadly, but their removal
was marred by a fur more ominous oc
currence.
There hi' 1 been for several days an
ugly rumor that the gas was giving
out. The Squire pooh-poohed the
report, but a week later it was not t6
be thrust aside by any such contempt
uous methods, and there was no deny
ing that the Hartman well was less
strong than formerly. But what did
that signify? It would be an easy
matter to 6ink more wells and find
more gas,
Before this could be done, however,
the capitalists back of the Buckeye
Development and Improvement Com
pany withdrew from the field, leaving
the Swantonians in a tangle whose
labyrinthine difficulties they could not
understand—except as to the depress
ing detail that'they were pledged for
more money than they could pay or
could earn in a lifetime. On the heels
of this calamity came an interruption
in the rolling-mill project. The build
ing was there and the machinery was
there, but the busiuess halted. Major
Gloss was absent in some vague local
ity on unknown business, and no one
else had authority, means or ability
to proceed. It did not become known
for some time that this rolling-mill
machiuery existed $ only for ef
fect in boom towns and that it
traveled from one to another in pur
suit of this end. Hince it left Swan
ton it had been in a dozen other booms,
but never had turned a wheel for
work.
The fabric which Squire Duffield
and his sons and daughter bad reared
in fond anticipation crumbled into
dust, and their consternation when an
appreciation of their predicament was
forced upon them was pitable.
"I am ruined, utterly," wailed the
old mail. "Not an acre of land, not a
dollar, can I call my own. I don't see
anything left for us but to go to live
in Snyder's subdivision, and I'll have
to try for day's work."
At this prospect Miss Fannie lifted
up her voico iu anguish, aud the boys,
having nothing to suggest but their
debts, went out to drown their troubles
iu drink while they still had a little
credit.
But Mrs. Duffield looked more cheer
ful than she had done since she left
the farm. "Oh, it ain't so bad but
that it might be worse," she remarked,
philosophically, as she went on with
her darning.
"How could it be worse?" the Squire
demanded, turning roughly upon her.
"Well, I've got a little money saved
up," she replied calmly. "I've been
married thirty year, almost, an' you
never interfered with my doin' as I
liked, father—leastways, not till we
come to town to be grand folks—so
I've saved up considerable. When
ever I had a hundred dollars, I've
given it to Brother Dan to invest for
me, knowin' him to be a careful and
an honest man, and I've got a matter
of 'most S7OOO out at interest, besides
nigh on to a hundred dollars in my
stockin' that I hadn't given him yet,
so I guess we might make some ar
rangement 'bDiit the mortgage an'
move back to the old place. We'll get
the rest of it paid off if we, leave gas
and improvements alone, I guess."
And perhaps there was u sparkle in
the old lady's eyes.
"But how did you get so much
money?"
"Butter an' eggs an' garden truck.
I wasn't never ambitious, you know."
Aud the Squire had the grace to say,
"Mother, you've saved the family, an'
I shan't never go against your advice
iu anything again."—New York Press,
limiting Pecmrlei in Texas.
"Hunters have been known to un
dertake the foolhardy task of hunting
peccaries on the plains of Texas,"
said an old ranchman in the New
York Sun, "by killing one in a drove
and getting to a safe place in a tree,
when the entire drove will at once
gather about the tree and wait, with
every eye fixed upon tlie hunter, for
the vengeance their instinct or reason
or whatever it is tells them is inev
itable. Well provided with ammuni
tion, hunters have been able to picx
off, one by oue, every member of a
drove, and then make an escape from
a tree, but it is a dangerous risk for a
hunter to run. Every peccary but
one in a drove may fall before the
hunter's bullets, but the solitary one
will remain on guard until he dies of
starvation. If the hunter has no
ammunition and one peccary is left
alive, it become a question of which
I has the more endurauce, the hunter
I or the peccary. Plainsmen are a fear
less and often reokless lot, but they
never hunt peccaries. There are too
many terrible stories as to how such
rash undertakings have terminated.
"'Physically as well as morally, 1
said Joe Parker, 'the peooary seems
to be an abnormal sort of creature. It
has the general appearance aud habits
of the hog, hut the iioofs and the
three stomachs of the cow. On its
hack it has a gland which secretes a
inuek, and three minutes after a pec
cary is killed its fiesk will be entirely
pregnated with the secretion. Just
what this composite construction of
the peccary is for—a reminiscence of
the hog, the cow and the muskrat—no
one seems to have exactly found out
yet. But one thiug is certain—it is
tough and absolutely without fear.
But they are harmless as doves if
you treat 'em right. You cau go out
any timo, over yonder in the Big Val
ley. and sit right down on the edge of
a feeding drove of peccaries and watch
'em all day, if you want to, and they
won't touch you or notice you so long
as you don't rile 'em.' "
The last mule-car has disappeared
from New Orleans.
MAXIMS MADE MILLIONS.
AMERICAN MAGNATES TELL HOW
THEY HAVE WON FORTUNES.
Ku**ell Sage, C. P. Huntington, Mrs.
Hetty Green and John D. Rockefeller
Reveal the Rules of Conduct on
Which Their Lives Are Based.
The Saturday Evening Post,
unique and popular paper which Mr.
Curtis, of the Ladies' Home Journal,
is now conducting, publishes the fol
lowing remarkable article made up of
contributions from the leading finan
ciers in the United States:
Formula* Worth Twenty Millions Each.
Russell Sage, the dean of American
financiers, set out in pursuit of his
present $100,000,000 as an errand boy
in a country grocery store. His
maxims are these:
1. Be temperate and you will be
happy.
2. Plain food, an easy mind and
sound sleep make a man young at
eighty-three.
3. Opportunities are disgusted with
men who don't recognize them.
4. Despair is the forerunner of
failure. Next to a fat purse is a "stiff
upper lip."
5. When a man "loses his head" he
mustn't complain about the other fel
low taking an advantage. Keep cool
and freeze out the enemy.
A Millionaire Who Never Borrows.
Mr. Charles Broadway Bouss, who
is worth $8,000,000, and who began
his business career as a clerk in a
small store, suggests the following
seven maxims as embracing the essen
tials of a successful business career.
1. The dignity of labor is the great
est of all dignities; the genius of work
is the greatest of all geniuses.
2. Industry, integrity, economy and
promptness are cardinal requisites to
certain and honorable success.
3. Merit is the trade mark of suc
cess; quality the true test of value.
4. Success is not in time, place or
circumstance, but in the man.
5. Credit and partnerships are the
scourge of commercial history and the
bane of commercial experience.
6. Beware of the gifts of the Greeks;
they allure that they may destroy;
oredit is tempting, but ruin sureiy
follows in its path.
7. Burn the ledger and learn to say
No; this is best for both buyer and
seller.
%•
Some Tools For Msklne Millions.
Henry Clews began life as a mes
senger boy in an English woolen fac
tory. He is now worth $8,000,000,
and attributes his rise in life to his
belief in these simple mottoes:
1. It requires other things than am
bition to become a millionaire; making
everything count for something is one
of the other thing 9.
2. Sobriety, honesty and industry
are the three graces of a snccessful
business career.
3. Save without parsimony; spend
without lavißhness.
4. Sound health, a clear head, wise
economy and work, work, work will
declare big dividends for any one who
looks well after the original invest
ment.
5. Shun wild speculations, and be
satisfied with slow but sure returns
for money invested.
XVnrk Make. Wealth anil Gnotlne...
Darius O. Mills, financier and
philanthropist, started on his road to
fortune with nothing but a gbod
physique and a large determination.
He is now worth $25,000,000, and he
has acquired that amount of money by
observing these rules:
1. Work develops all the good there
is in a man; idleness all the evil;
therefore work if you would be good—
and successful.
2. Sleep eigbt hours, work twelve,
and pick your recreations with an eye
to their good results.
3. Save one dollar out of every five
yon earn. It is not alone the mere
saving of money that counts; it is the
intellectual and moral discipline the
saving habit enforces.
4. Be humble, not servile or undig
nified, but respectful in the presence
of superior knowledge, position or ex
perience.
5. Most projects fail owing to poor
business management, aud that means
a poor man at the helm.
6. Success is measured by the good
one does, not by the number of his
millions or the extent of his power.
Some Practical Peftftlinlfuim.
Joseph Downey, one of the wealth
iest contractors in Chicago, takes a
pessimistic view of every business
venture. He says that he is always
expecting the worst to happen, and is
agreeably surprised when the reverse
occurs. To his iutiniate friends he
often gives these ter3e bits of advice:
1. Never figure what your profits
avo going to be.
2. Calculate what your possible
losses will be on a venture.
3. Figure what the lowest return
will be iu a business proposition with
all things unfavorable. If matters
turn out favorably you cau stand the
prosperity that follows.
4. Buy all the property that you
cau, but never build to suit yourself.
Construct buildiugs to please others
and they will sell.
In Trftlse oT tli© Still Tongue.
Collis P. Huntington laid the
foundation of his fortune of $50,000,-
000 by peddling hardware in Cali
fornia during the feverish days of
1847. His business maxims are:
1. Don't talk too much during busi*
ness hours.
2. Listen attentively; answer cau
tiously; decide quickly.
3. Do what you think is right and
stand by your own judgment.
4. Teach others, by your conduct,
to trust you implicitly.
5. Never let your competitors know
what your next move will be: time
enough to talk after you have acted.
6. Have a definite aim, and keep
your eye on the objective point.
7. Be bold with caution, prudent
with boldness.
**
Mrs. Hetty Green'r ltecljw* For n Fortnne.
Mrs. Hetty Green is the wealthiest
woman in the world. Without capital,
friends or infiueuce she has built up a
fortune estimated at $60,000,000. The
maxims governing her business life
she has formulated as follows:
1. Invest in real estate; buy a house
for SSOOO that can be soon sold foi
S6OOO.
2. Be satisfied with a profit the
proportion of which corresponds with
the size of the investment.
3. Women are seldom successful in
commercial undertakings because they
do not appreciate the importance of
minding their own business.
4. Imitation may bo the sincerest
flattery, but the good of it all lies with
the things imitated. Success is a
stranger to imitation. People with
money to invest should pay no atten
tion to the doings of others, but look
on things from their own point of
view.
5. The goal of success is not always
reached by the roughest road; the
path is an easy one to tiud. That is
why so mauy people miss it.
Wherein Millionaire* Differ Prom Poet*.
George G. Williams, President of
the Chemical National Bank of New
York, who is worth $5,000,000, has
worked his way from a clerkship to
the head of one of the soundest finan
cial institutions iu the country by
conduct founded upon the principles
in his five favorite dictums:
1. There is no royal road to suc
cess. Work is the keynote.
2. Learn to do one thing well and
do it thoroughly.
3. Ambitiou and common sense will
win success for any ono along logiti
mate lines.
4. The really successful man is
made, not born.
5. Determination is the lever of the
great machine of life.
Practice Economy; Avoid Extravagance
Mr. D. K. Parsons, millionaire,
philanthropist and patron of colleges,
says that the rules of life can be
summed up as follows:
1. Practice steady economy. Do
not spend until you have it to spend.
Be strictly honest aua never take ad
vantage of men. Avoid show and ex
travagance. Use your money to edu
cate the poor.
2. Be your own executive. Trust
no man to administer upon your estate.
You caunot carry out of this world any
amount with your dead hands. There
is no use for money beyond the grave.
Entrapping Opportunity With Capital.
Jacob Franks, who is reputed to be
worth $2,000,000, went into business
in Chicago, when nineteen years of
age, with the determination to follow
the ru'e—save money. His lorinula
to-day is:
1. Good fortune cannot come un
less you aro provided with capital
with which to seize opportunity when
it appears.
2. Save money and be ready to in
vest.
3. Never borrow capital, and never
owe a dollar that you cauuot pay ou
demand.
Four I.aw* For a Lawyer.
A. S. Trade, oue of the wealthiest
attorneys in the West, has long fol
lowed these rules:
1. Get the confidence of clients and
keep it. Such confidence is accumu
lated capital.
2. Form a morganatio alliance with
clients.
3. Buy during panics when others
are frightened and expecting the bot
tom to drop oat of securities.
4. When the storm is raging and
forked lightning appears in the finan
cial sky, invest in property that
others fear will be injured.
Sir. Itockereller Drosik Debt.
John D. Rockefeller, thq "Oil
King," whose wealth touches the
§125,000,000 mark, won his first start
in a business way by working on a
New York farm twelve hour-3 out of
tbe twenty-four for twenty-five cents a
day. He baa earned his position as a
multi-millionaire by adhering to the
principles of the following maxims:
1. It should be every man's duty to
get all the money he can, keep all he
can and give away all he can.
2. Buy only what oan be paid for,
and look upon debt as ail ogre that
first paralyzes and then kills.
3. Live within your means, and
don't think too muoh of your neigh
bor's good fortune.
4. Keep a reoord of all expendi
tures and receipts so that at the end
of each year you cau tell whether you
are saving enough money to provide
against the inevitable rainy day. Any
one can make money; few ean save it.
5. Live as though every act of
yours was under the scrutiny of your
bitterest enemy,
A Very Busy Preacher.
The Rev. Dr. Frank Gansaulus,
pastor of tbe Central Church, Chi
cago, iB not altogether unoccupied.
In addition to his ministerial duties,
Dr. Gunsaulus finds time to act St
President of the Armour lustitnto of
Technology and to lecture, write
novels, biographies and poems. In
the course of a single day he will
prepare a sermon, oversee the insti
tute work, write a chapter in a new
book, and in the eveuing deliver a
lecture. He works with refreshing
ease, and is always.roady for a joke
or story in a spare moment.
A hymn-book once used by General
Gordon has been sold for $l5O for
the benefit of General Kitohen.r's
oolleae fund.
JIM CROW.
Oh, say, Jim Crow,
Why Is It you always go
With a gloomy coat of blflc
The year long on your bti-ic?
Why don't you change its uue.
At least for a day or two,
To red or green or blue?
And why do you always we.tr
Buoh a sober, somber air,
As glum as the face of Care?
1 wait for your reply,
And into the peaceful pauso
There comes your curious, croaking cry
"Oh, because! 'cause! 'cause!"
Oh, say, Jim Crow,
Why, when the farmers sow,
Ami the corn springs up in the row,
And the day 9 that once were brief
Grow long, and laugh into lear.
Do you play the rascally tliief?
I oan see by the look in your eye-
Wary and 3ly—
That you know the code in vogue;
Why will you then, ob, why
Persist in the path of the rogue?
I barken for your reply,
And into the empty pause
Tlioro rings your graceless, grating cry-*
"Oh, becausel 'causel 'cuusel"
And say, Jim Crow,
With all of the lore you know-
Lore of the wood and field.
Lore of the clouds, and the clear
Bepttas of the atmosphere,
To our duller ken concealed—
Why is it you ever speak
With a mingled squawk and a squeak?
You, with your taleut9 all.
Anil your knowledge of this and that.
Why must you sing like a squall,
And talk like a perfect "flat?"
I listen for your reply—
But in the lapse and the pnu9e
All I hear is your impudent cry—
"Oh, because! 'cause! 'cause!"
—Clinton Scollurd, in the Woman's Home
Companion.
PITH AND POINT.
Inquiring Boy (to his mother)—
"Ma, what did the moths eat before
Adam and Eve wore clothes?"— Ha
rper's Bazar.
Askington—"ls young Lanks, tho
poet, generally read?" Teller—"No;
he is generally blue because he is not
i read."—ruck.
! She—"No, I wouldn't marry the
I best man living." He—"Well, I'm
| not asking you to."—Columbus (Ohio)
State Journal.
"The prison brass band plays very
| well." "Yes; you see, the musicians
; all have a good idea of time."—Phila
; delphia Bulletin.
' She—"l don't think mother likes to
, have me sit alone with you." "Why
j not?" "Well, she is afraid you might
try to kiss me."—Life.
Bates—"ls your wife agood cook?"
Yates—"Not exactly that, perhaps,
but she is a good woman. She never
tries to cook."—Boston Transcript.
He wasn't superstitions,
Ne'er read between the lines;
But as a first-class lotterer,
He had great faith iu signs.
—Philadelphia North American.
"Clementine, what did you do with
that curtain goods you bought last
week?" "Weil, it was entirely too
loud for curtains, so I made a shirt
waist of it."—Chicago Record.
She—"lndeed, it's not an easy
thing for a girl to get a husband." He
"Why, a pretty girl can make her
choice of four out of every five men
she meets." She—"But it's the fifth
that she wants."—Harlem Life.
"Mamie," said her father, "I can't
tolerate that young man's presence iu
the houße after 11 o'clock." "Why,
you oughtn't to mind so much, pa,"
she answered; "I have to entertain
him."—Philadelphia North American,
Bill—"I met that fellow Boggs yes
terday." Jill—"Did he borrow any
| thing from you?" "Not 011 your life!
, Before he had a chance I asked him
to loan me a dollar." "I Hee; you
struck him in self-defense."—Youkers
Statesman.
Client—"That littlo house you sent
mo to see is in a most scandalous con
dition. It is so damp that moss posi
tively grows on the walls." House
Agent—"Well, isn't moss good enough
for you? What do you expect at the
rent—orchids?"—Tit-Bits.
Fuddy—"That was au odd predica
ment that Beu Thayer and Addio
Moore found themselves iu." Duddy
—"Tliey are deaf mutes, aren'tthoy?"
Fnddy—"Yes. They clasped each
other's hands at the critical momeut,
you kuow, so that he couldn't ask her
to marry him and she was unable to
reply if bo had."—Boston 'Transcript.
Alters the Portrait Annimll.r.
There is a peculiar portrait in Wash
ington which lias created much in
terest among those who kuow of its
existence. Its peculiarity is that every
year it has been changed to show the
changes whioh time would have made
in the original. The portrait is by a
Washington artist, and is that of his
wife, and was painted many years ago
when she was a young bride. A few
years after the portrait was painted
the young wife died, and so great was
the grief of the artist that he deter
mined to keep her likeness with him
all the time, and to do so he decided
'.hat year by year ho would change
:he portrait so as to make it grow old
vith him and thus keep her, as it
sere, ever with him. Kvery year, on
the anniversary of his weddiug day,
the artist locked himself in his stndio
and changed tho lines of the face of
the portrait, adding what he thought
would make the difference of one year.
There have been many anniversaries
of that marriage day, and consequently
tunny changes in the portrait. To-day
the picture is that of an old woman,
fhe hair turned gray, the face wrinkled
and pale, but still beneath the marks
of time, as mnde by the brush of the
artist, can be seen the early beauty of
tbe bride and the attractiveness of the
young woman.—New York Mail and
Express.
Antl-Klsslnc Myook ot llinnivza.
Two Bnrmans, one of whom is a lad
of seventeen, were sentenced to six
months and four montha'rigorous im
prisonment each by the Myoox of
Hmawza for attempting to kiss a
young Burmese girl Amrita Bazar
Pstrika.