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Tlie ohief Samoan question at pres
ent seems to be whether
wants to bay ont the others or to sell
oat her own holdings.
The South African Dutch are said
to object very much to the term
Boer; they prefer to be called Dutch,
as they do not like to be confounded
with the English expression boor.
It is said Austria intends to have e
navy modeled after that of the
United States. Considering the rapid
improvements in the navy of the
United States, Austria will be kept
busy in looking after her models.
A Russian nobleman has just erect
ed a jmper house, containing sixteen
rooms, ou his country estate, uud likes j
It so well thiv he has ordered papei |
furniture. The Slav gets ahead of the j
American sometimes, but not often. (
The administration in Mexico ol
President Diaz has been marked by i
an industrial and general progress l
which can only be traced to nis gen
erous recognition of industries from
abroad. Under the influences which
he has set in motion, Mexico has
evolved from lsing a laud of feiuls
and revolutions, to be a respected
government both on this continent
and in Europe. With the Mexicans
our relntious should be of the kindli
est and closest business character
fully recoguiziug all of their good
qualities, and feeling sure that we
will be so treated in turn.
There is a reality in the friendships
of families who for two or three gen
erations have lived in the quiet inti
macy which has deepened by years of
helpful svuiputhy in varying joys and
sorrows; each is to the other a certain
resource in times of trouble and be
reavement, over-full homes overflow
into each other at weddings and festi I
vals, and the bride of one household j
ifl the jnide of all. Friend in this
flense is a very real and assuring re
lation, and means that in al vitally
important junctures the resources oJ
two families will be actively co-opwra
tive for offence and defence.
With the sordid details of human j
frailty and depravity which the news
paper must give in its faithful picture '
of daily life are recorded deeds of 1
heroism and self sacrifice that stir the
pulse and uplift the soul. The eight j
Boers who, courting certain death,
rushed out from the ranks of the fight
ing fellows to divert the British fire,
an 1 thus enable their distressed com
pany to successfully change a | ositiou
which meant extermination, gave
their lives as nobly as any heroes of
history. The shepherds who die! foi
their flocks iu the dreadful blizzard
in the West were also martyrs to what
they felt to be their duty. When their
dead bodies were fouud, guarded by
their frozen flocks, it was seen that
they had made 110 effort to escape,but
had striven to the last to save their
Ranking with these in cour
age is the matron who in a burning
bouse sat calmly beside the bed of a
woman so ill that shock or re
moval would mean her death. 'MI
there wore auy danger do you think
L'd bo sitting here?" she said to reas
sure the invalid, and remained while
the lire destroyed the rooms directly
under them before it. was put out. The
news columns are not all filled with
crimes, venalties and casualties, aud
human nature is glorious after all,
says the New V<>' U 11 c :tl
Sharp hctort o! Gus Thomas.
Maurice Barrymore's wit is far
famed, but a neat little witticism at bis
expense, hitherto unrecorded, was Au
gustus Thomas' laconic criticism of
on* of Barrymorc's plays, says the New
York "World."
The celebrated playwright had been
mercilessly picking flaws in the actor's
drama until the good-natured "Barry"
winced.
"Oh, conic. Gus!" lie interrupted,
"don't be quite so hard if it's not an
'Alabama.' Just remember that I wrote
it in a week."
"Did you, Barry?" retorted Thomas.
<4rr hen you must have loafed."
At Wheeling, W. Va., 2,500 tons of
coal per day and 2,000 tons of coke, are
handled.
CUPID'S REVENGE.
"Your wife, Thornton? Why, It
■eems only yesterday you were carry
ing my books to school. What do boys
know of love?"
And Nellie Rivers glanced innocently
up into the face of him she addressed
—as innocently as though she had not
known for many a month the question
Just put to her had been trembling on
his eager lips.
A hot flush dyed Thornton May's
cheeks at her words. A flash of anger
leaped into the dark eyes, a moment
before so tenderly passionate.
"Flirt! Heartless!" burst in a mut
tered whisper from the young man's
white lips. Then he -ose with a dig
nity which seemed suddenly to have
sprung into life. Without even ex
tending his hand, with simply a low
bow of courtesy, he left her, she sitting
motionless, the echo of the closing of
the outside door ringing in her ears
strangely like a knell.
"They say Thornton May Is engaged.
What wonderful strides he has made
In his art!"
"Wonderful, indeed. But who is the
fortunate winner of such a prize?"
"A Spanish girl whom he met abroad.
His last picture, about which every one
is raving, is said to be her counter
part."
Such was the idle conversation at an
evening party which fell upon Nellie
Rivers' listening ear.
And this was the meaning of his in
MAY I NOT HAVE THIS WALTZ.
difference, when she would have made !
atonement for the past—for the folly
of a girl, who did not know herself,
and who had learned the lesson only
through four years of bitter suffering,
of which this was the end.
"Dreaming. Miss Nellie, and alone?
What does this mean?"
It was his voice which broke upon
her reverie, his eyes resting on her,
from whom, at any cost, she must hide
the truth.
"I am growing old," she answered,
lightly. "Like yourself I have put
away childish thing, though, unlike
you, I have not assumed fresh re
sponsibilties, upon which, by the way,
I believe you are to be congratulated,
although you hardly deserve it for
keeping such a secret from your
friends."
"You speak in enigmas. Of what do
you speak?"
"If so, it is a Spanish enigma, and
painted In lovely characters, however
cabalistic they may be."
"O," a sudden light breaking in upon
him, "you speak of my picture. And
does rumor give her to me as my
bride? lam Indeed, then, open :o your
congratulations. But come, as I am
not yet a Benedict, may I not have this
waltz?"
"And this is my revenge?" thought
Thornton May, as a few hours later
he sat alone in his bachelor apart
ments moodily surveying the dying
embers in the grate. "I, who fancied
her voice could no longer thrill or her
beauty move me, have but riveted the
chains 1 thought struck off from me
forever. Tonight how indifferently
she congratulated me upon my sup
posed engagement! Had things been
different how charmingly my pretty
model might have helped out my plan!
I will put the ocean between us ere, in
my weakness, I once more give her the
right to mock me."
"Going away, Mr. May? Have you
tired so soon of your old friends that
you must desert them? But I forget—
some one is waiting for you."
"Yes," he answered, "I must once
more say good-by, but this time. Miss
Nellie, I hope you will add godspeed.
I have not forgotten our last parting,
though I hope my folly has long
ceased to be remembered. You were
right. It was a boy's presumption, and
I must thank you for my lesson."
This was almost more than she
could bear. For the moment tears
shimmered in the dark eyes, a sob rose
In her throat, but she answered brave
ly:
"It was I who should rather ask your
pardon for the idle vanity of a girl
who knew not the meaning of her own
words, but who through them haß been
the only sufferer. Good-by, Mr. May,
and godspeed!"
She the only sufferer? What couhl
she mean?
For a moment a wild hope crossed
his mind, to be extinguished the next
as he glanced into the calm face and
the eyes whence all trace of tears had
fled, but at the hall door a moment
later he paused.
He would return to disabuse her
mind of this idle folly as to his en
gagement. So. again crossing the hall
and mounting the stairs, he stood upon
the threshold of the room he had left
so short a time before. But, O, how
changed!
Down upon her face lay the figure of
the girl who had haunted him all these
years, while sob after sob racked her
frame.
His revenge was in his hand at last.
The moment had come to mock her as
she had mocked him; but surely the
light growing in his eyes had no mock
ing ray, as he clasped the sobbing girl
close to his heart.
"Is this true, my darling?" he said.
"And has our game been cross-pur
poses all this weary time? O, Nellie,
my pride would have kept me silent
had you not shown me your secret. 1
had meant, darling, to teach you, if I
could, to love me, but I forgot I had
learned the lesson long ago—a lesson
whose sweet teachings will guard all
my future life."
Thus, with lip pressed to lip, and
heart to heart, her sobs now sobs of
happiness, Thornton May wreaked his
revenge.—Spare Moments.
EARNINGS OF PLAYWRIGHTS.
More Thnn One Drama Han Coined Its '
Author Over SIOO,OOO.
Dramatists of established reputation j
write plays only upon order. Their 1
ordinary pre-payments are five hun-1
dred dollars upon the delivery of a
scenario, and five hundred dollars raoro ■
upon the completion of a play. "If the
finished work docs not realize expec
tations," writes Franklin Fyles, of
"The Theater aud Its People," in the ;
November Ladies' Home Journal, "or
if the manager for any other reason !
does not desire to put it on the stage, !
the money paid Is forfeited after acer- ;
tain lapse of time, and the ownership '
reverts to the author. But if the man- j
ager decides to produce the piece the
author receives a percentage of the
gross receipts, usually five per cent, |
payable weekly, after the amount pre-'
viously advanced has been deducted. '
Ordinarily it increases with the
amount of money taken in. More than
one native drama has earned one hun
dred thousand dollars for its author.
A dozen have yielded fifty thousand
dollars each; three times as many,!
twenty-five thousand dollars, and a!
goodly number, ten thousand dollars."
Hints for Women Doctors.
A well-known physician in New
York city, who during a small lifetime
of work has accumulated a fortune,
attributes her success to "sick-room
manners." Her advice to young doc
tors is to maintain a cheerful and
sunny disposition, a hearty manner,
and bright, interesting conversation
when in the sick room. Also, that be
fore she leaves she must not fail to
return to the subject of the patient's
illness. People who are half sick—
and there are more of them than of
any other kind—are morbidly sensitive
about the condition of their ailment,
and the popularity of the physician de
pends greatly on her manner. Another
successful physician claims that an
important phase of the doctor's sick
room conduct is never to be in a hur
ry. No matter how great the provo
cation might be to hurry, she must
never appear to do so. The tiniest
appearance of neglect or indifference
will rufile the patient's temper, and
the physician is likely to lose.
Impolite Interruption.
New York World: Tramp—Lady,
I'm hungry, an' I'm lookin* fer a
chance to work Lady—Very well;
there's the woodpile. Tramp—Lady,
it ain't perlite to interrupt. I waa
Jest sayin' I'm lookin' fer a chance to
work somebody fer me breakfast
THE BRIDGE AT COLENSO.'
Colenso is on the line of the railroad running from' Lady smith to Pieter
mavitzburg uud Durban. The key to Ooleuso, and likewise one of the most
vulnerable points on the railroad, was the bridge orosuing the Tugela River,
upou which stream the city of Oolenso is situated. This bridge has been
the subject of much anxiety to the London War Office, owing to the depend
ence of the position upon its safety. The bridge is built of iron lattice work
and tubing, supported by piers of masonry. Oolenso is in Natal, seven
teen miles south of Ladysinitb.
OOOOOGOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOOg
Laha, payarite game §
of pilipino (7hildren. §
How It is Flayed. §
oooooooeocooooooooooooooo
Children are a happy lot almost
anywhere, and the Filipino picka
ninnies are no exception to the rule.
They laugh and shout just like other
children and play their games. Some
thing like "tag" is very popular, und
then there is a play nailed "laha" in
Tagalog, which is the language of the
country folk and the fishermen and
all the natives who are not living in
Spanish families.
Laha is the game some of my little
neighbors were playing Saturday after
school, writes Harry A. Armstrong,
the Manila correspondent of the Chi
cago Record. I went to take a piot
ure, and when they saw the camera
there was a scattering, and it ap
peared as if I had broken up the
game. Rut this was not so, for pres
ently the lively troop caine back. One
little girl, however, was very tardy
and the others waited for her. After
awhile she came, all dressed up in a
"husa" oloth gown, which trailed out
behind. Over her shoulders she had
thrown a piua shawl. She seemed
very proud of her finery audherposos
appeared very self-conscious, but per
haps that was due to the stiff gown,
which reached to the ground. The
accompanying picture shows her and
her gown as the children threw the
shoe to see who should "stand." The
toe of the shoe was to tell, and it fell
pointing to Euess, a graceful girl of
eight years, and full of life and sport
'+ •
PLAYING T*lE GAME OF LAHA.
Euess ran to the center of the square
and sung her challenge, which sound
ed very much like "Tobegoutobegon
fobegon," but when repeated slower
for my benefit it sounded like "to bo
gone," thrice repeated.
The square in which the game was
played was something like the accom
panying diagram, only it was in the
sand and the "laha" lines were made
by a bare foot. When the toe of the
shoe declared thatEness was "it" the
rest gathered about her—Bitruana
and Bralsidis and Olihay andVahedis.
Then llness shouted "Tobegontobo
gontobegon" and the other girls
darted away to their corners. The
game was for Eness to touch one of
the others as she passed over the
"laha" lines, and then that one should
be out of the game. The last one
caught should "stand" the next time.
And I want to say that it was just a
jolly play, and one out of which each
player got lots of exercise.
Eirst Bitruana sidled up to the lino
and Eness made a dash at her, and as
she did so Olihay skipped across on
her side, and when Eness darted back
that way, Vahedis and Bralsedis
crossed sidewise and Euess was where
she started. Each girl screamed with
excitement, but the hand of Euess did
not touch anyone, audall straightened
up to catch breath.
Eness was probably the most sup- j
pie one there and she danced out to
ward Olihay, crying defiantly, "To
begontobegontobegon!" but Olihay
took a backward step and was out of
barm's way—in the part marked
"safe" in the diagram. This gave
Bitruana a chance, and she flounced
her pretty skirts across the line juot
as Eneas reached the limit on that
aide, and she screamed at her narrow
escape, Eneßs was back again to the
center, and this time she caught
Bralsidis fair and square. There was
a slap on the Bhoulder and a cry of
delight from Eneßs as Bralsidis slowly
walked over to the shade of one of the
nipa huts. From here she joined the
shouting and jumped up and down in
TYTICAL QUARTERS OF UNCLE SAM'S FUTURE MILITARY OFFICERS.
excitement as one of the players
slipped past "laha." Shortly she was
joined by Olihay, and after awhile by
Vahedis, and Bitruana was darting
about to keep out of reach of Eness.
At last she was caught and it was a
panting pair of girls that sought the
shade. • #
After the photographs had been
taken Bitruana slipped into her house
and ohanged her stiff gown, and when
she CAtne out she wa* clad as the
others. It was with much vigor, and
little, if any, restraint that she danced
in the centre of the field and cried
"Tobegontobegontobegon," and then
sidled off to the right, while she kept
her eyes on the left line. • Suddenly
she whirled like a wink and caught
Olihay as she was crossing from right
to left, not knowing that Bituaua was
| looking. So the game went on, and
this time Vahedis was the last and by
and by she was caught.
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THE "LAHA" GROUND.
(The one who "stands" may run anywhere
ou the lark portion, but usually stands
In Ihe centre, ready to run in any direc
tion.)
The little girls named live in bamboo
huts with their parents, who are fisher
folk, and who, to be close to the bar,
have built their huts intho back yard
of some wealthier person. The little
girls often go out in the surf and enjoy
the sea to the fullest extent, for the
Filipino children learn to swim early
in life.
Wanted Kftort.
"When my wife gets to jawing,"
said the man with the frayed cufl's, "I
preserve a dignitied silence."
"Yes, I heard about it," said the
man with the blue overalls. "I heard
your hired girl tolling onr hired girl
that you was the best hand ut settin'
round an' sulkin' she ever seen."—
Indianapolis Journal.
§ Simplicity of GadetLifa i
I at West Point AGademyj!
Spartan simplicity is the predomin
ant feature of cadet rooms at West
Point. They are furnished alike.
There are no deoorations in one that
cannot be found in all the others. A
millionaire's son has no more privil
eges than the poorest lad whose brains
and physioal perfection seoured his
appointment.
No furniture or ornaments are al
lowed in rooms exoept those called for
by the regulations. Everything in a
cadet's room is purchasod out of the
pay he receives from the government.
No oruamentß are allowed on the
walls, but a few photographs may be
placed on the top shelf of the clothes
press. Each cadet must make up his
bed after reveille. Mattresses and
blankets are folded neatly and piled
against the head. Shoes are lined
parallel on the floor by the side of the
bed. An alcove furnished with hooks
provides a place for uniforms. The
hooks are numbered for eaoh garment.
Nigh clothes and one clothes bag for
each cadet hang on pegs next to the
bed. A small clothes press, having
four shelves, stands against the wall
near the door. This press holds the
remaining belongings of the ocou
pants.
The mantel ornaments consists of
a neat frame giving the hours of in
struction, copies of the army regula
tions, U. S. M. A. regulations, blue
book, and a small mirror. At the foot
of the bed is a waslistand, with two
bowls and a few toilet articles. On
the transom of the aloove is each
cadet's name, which must also appear
over his clothes press and pegs. Guns
have a separate rack.
Two cadets oocupy a room. Ths
selection of room mates is left to the
cadets themselves, the authorities
claiming no jurisdiction.
Each cadet takes his turn as room
orderly weekly. The orderly is re
sponsible for the general order and
cleanliness of the room. He must see
that the ventilation is perfect, that the
lights go out at taps. Upon him rests
the responsibility of dußt appearing
on the shelves. He must not allow
his room mate or any visitor to stand
at tho window in shirt sleeves, and
whatever is done in the room he
stands accountable for.
Formerly cadets were compelled to
scrub tho floors of their rooms, but
civilians are now employed for that
purpose. This is the only evidence
of luxury that has cropped up at West
Point during the century of its exist
ence.
Two StorieA of Lawyers.
The logic of wit is the most destruc
tive logic that is employed against er
ror. This was aptly illustrated at a
public reception given a few nights
ago, at which a learned lawyer, who
is slightly lame in his right foot, was
present. The advocate overheard a
lady say to her companion, "That is
Mr. C , the lame lawyer."
Turning around he replied, "No,
madam, I am a lame man, but not a
lame lawyer."
An amusing incident occurred in
one of the common pleas courts the
other day. The lawyer for the de
fense was making a very lengthy cross
examination of an old lady, when he
was interrupted by the judge with the
remark: "X think you have exhausted
this witness."
"Yes, judge," she exclaimed, "I do
feel very much exhausted."—Philadel
phia Call.
nrylna Clothe, bv Balloon.
One of the large laundries in the
suburbs of Paris has adopted this
means of hanging its clothes up to dry
above the contaminated atmosphere of
the French metropolis.
TO MULTIPLY WITH THE FINCERS.
An Ingenious System Used In the School
of Poland.
A Polish mathematician has invented
an ingenious system whereby large
sums may be multiplied on the fingers
with much less trouble thau wiUt pen
I 6 BYfe
or pencil. The system bears the name
of its inventor, Procopovitch, and has
been introduced into the sohools
throughout Poland. A little study of
the illustration will enable any one to
do sums. Children are required first
to mark the numerals on the ends of
their fingers that they may remember
them more readily, but adults can get
along without this aid by memorizing
the position of the numbers.
The system is not used for multi
plying numbers of less than six, since
such problems can readily be done
mentally. The fingers are numbered
as follows:
9 BY 8
The two thumbs represents 6, the
index fingers each represent 7, the
middle fingers 8, the riug fingers 9,
and the litle fingers 10.
To multiply any two of these num
bers the Angers representing the
multiplier and the multiplicand are
placed together. Beginning with the
fingers placed together, one counts
the number of fingers, including these
two and moving toward and including
the thumb. The sum will bo the num
ber of tens, or the first numeral of til#
product.
A certain number of finger® stil!
remain below the fingers which have
been joined. The fingerß remaining
on one hand multiplied by the num
ber remaining on the other will give
the number of units, or right-hand
unit of the product.
In multiplying 8 by 9, for instance,
the middle fiugei of the right hand is
placed against the ring finger of the
left hand, as shown in the illustration.
Counting the number of fingers above
I 8 BY 6
those placed together aud including
these, we obtain seven lingers, or 70.
There are now remaining two fingers
on the right hand and one on the left,
which when multiplied give two.
These two, added to the number of
tens, give 72, the product 8 by 9.
The New Government Printing Ofllce.
The new Government Printing Of
fice will cost about $2,000,000, and it
is snid that even after its completion
it will not be large enough to meet the
demands upon it. The new building
will be eight stories in height, aud its
floor space will be about nine acres.
The floors will sustain a load of 85,-
000,000 pounds. The building will
be constructed in such a substantial
manner that the entire space can be
filled with paper and books without
injuring its stabilility in any degree.
Access to the various floors will be ob
tained by twelve electric elvevators.
The building will be lighted with 7000
incandescent lights. A refrigerating
plant will furnish cold filtered water
on every floor for driking purposes.
A large crematory will destroy all the
refuse material, and this will aid in
heating water, etc. It is hoped in
time that Congress will appropriate
the money for modem typesetting ma
chines, but it is probable that when
the census is complete aud the reports
published, the equipment of the cen
sus printing office will revert to the
Government Printing Office.—Scien
tific American.
Ills Impartiality.
" Whatl want to see," remarked the
man of theories, "is an equal dis
tribution of wealth."
"That's exactly what I want to
see," answered the man with so much
money that ho could never find time
to count it. "Did you ever meet iry
partner in business? He's a fine mau.
I'd like to see all the wealth in ex
istence divided so that he'll have one
half aud I the other."
Tho Men Wlio Sliout.
Tbe men who are too anxious tc
fight before tbe battle opens are often
conveniently absent when tbe firing
begine. —The rathfinder.
In consequence of tbe law allowing
wild ducks to be killed nine months a
year, those birds are said to be on the
point of extermination in the marshes
of Michigan.