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Good for Spain! The old kingdom j is taking a step ahead of all the other Powers. She announces that begin ning with January 1, 1001, the hours will be counted from one to twenty four, instead of in two divisions of twelve hours. It is the simple and sensible plan and ought to be adopted by all sensible nations. Recent inquiries among circulating libraries in England show that Dick ens continues in as great demand as ever. Thackeray's fame, it is said, is extending more broadly among the lit erary classes, but Dickens retains the heart of the general public. The writ- ; ers of the day come ar.il go, hut year in and year out Dickons is the stand-by. Samuel J. Tildcn, who was always a keen observer, once made a predic tion that early in the twentieth cen tury the corn product of this country would run up to 3,000,1300,000 bushels a year. At that time the crop aver aged less than one-third that much. This famous prophesy seems likely of fulfillment in the next few years. The new outlet for American corn abroad is going to advance that cereal im measurably. Corn will be king, Olive Sckrcinor says that the chil dren of the Doers carry away all the intellectual honors in South Africa. They fill the schools and bear off the prizes. They are the lawgivers, the magistrates, the successful barristers, the able doctors, and she attributes It to the fact that th.se Dutch Africans come of an exceptionally able stock, which for several generations lay fal low. drawing strength from the soil, and not exposed to the devitalizing in liuenee of cities. Three liunurod plans were submitted In an architects' competition in New York City for model tenement houses, and the first prize plan is to be practi cally used at once. The new build ings will be fire-proof throughout and will occupy seventy per cent, of the ground space, leaving thirty per cent, for light and air. In each room a win dow will open into the outer air, and each apartment will be connected with private hall and baths, play-grounds, clothes-drying chambers and storage rooms. It is calculated that a rental of a week per room will give satis factory profit. Recent statistics show that the ma chinery in the mills and factories of Great Britain is capable of doing the work of 700,000,000 men—more than all the adult population of the world. The machinery in the United States does the work of a billion hands. The single State of Massachusetts has ma chinery enough to do the work of 50,- 000,000 men. On an average 500,000 men, with the aid of machinery, now do the work which required 1(5,(too, 000 men under the old system of universal hand work. The increased output has been absorbed by the vastly increased consumption of all kinds of manufac tured products consequent on the great reduction in cost. "When you come to think of It the shirt waist—that supposedly newest of new things—ls not essentially novel, states the Dry Goods Economist. Garibaldi, the Italian liberator, won fame as much by discarding the coat as by his military achievements. In the OO's, when swallow-tail coats and high stocks still formed part of the universal garb of a gentleman, no man in civic life dreamed of following the example set, hut the famous red shirt, modified into a garment closely resem bling the flannel shirt waist of to-day, was taken up by the women with avid ity. Indeed, the "Garibaldi" became the rage, and thousands learned the name from the garment who knew nothing of the mau. WHEN THE CIRCUIT RIDER CAME to the backwoods of Ohio, In the days of lonff ago. When religion was religion, not a dressy fashion show. When the spirit of the Master fell as flames of living fire. And the people did the tinging, not a trained artistic choir, There was scarcely seen a ripple in life's gently flowing tide. No events to draw the people from their daily toil aside. Naught to set the pious spirit of the pion eers aflame Save upon the rare occasions when the circuit rider came. He was usually mounted on the sorriest of nags, All his outflt for the Journey packed In leather saddle bags. And he'd travel with the Bible or the hymn book in his hand Rending sacred word or singing of the happy Promised Land. llow the toiling wives would glory In the dinners they would spread. And how many a hapless chicken or a turkey lost its head By tho gleaming chopper wielded by the hand of sturdy dame, For it wasn't very often that tho circuit rider came. | [~T I Alt Of MISTRESS MMW ] -Tho young forget their fancies, the old forget their cares, When pretty Mistress Marget comes smiling down the stairs." Nobody who once looked upon Mis tress Marget—pretty Mistress Marget almost everybody called her—could help loving her. I, Thomas Dawtry, a plain and simple squire of the realm, loved her better than all the world. But pretty Mistress Marget was not for me, or so, at least, her father had Informed me. As for me, I had long since decided to abide by this decision only so long as circumstances com pelled me. Whenever fate offered me tho shadow of an opportunity I meant to steal Mistress Marget and run away with her. Mistress Marget, as I had oery reason —save spoken words—to believe, would be by uo means unwil ling. The opportunity came when my sweet lady's father was called away to fight for his king and country, King Charles and Bonnie England. I, who longed to fight lor king and country also, dared the laughter and the Jeers of my comrades to stay behind a little and steal my lovely lady, if It so pleased fate. And no sooner had her father ridden away, at tho head of his men, then I made for the hall and sought out old Simeon, the gardener. ■.' . : Mm I * " v '*l Sir Reginald had never forbidden my visits —ho was too wise a man to tempt fate in such a manner; he had merely taken care that I had no chance of solitary Bpeech with my dear lady. I knew now that the Lady Eleanor Blewett, who filled, as best she might, the place of the dead lady of the man or to her daughter, Mistress Marget, favored not my suit, so I sought not to have speech with her or with my lady. 6IJ Simeon I had been friends with ever since, as a child, I had played In the gardens with sweet Mis tress Marget. I knew he was my friend and would help me. I knew also that he might speak with his lady when I might not unwatehed and un guarded. To old Simeon I told my story, and trusted him for his aid. And there was the chink of gold between us when we parted, albeit my laok of gold was the reason why Sir Reginald had said me nay, upon my asking for his daughter's hand. And for gold—next to his love for pretty Mistress Marget—old Simeon would do more than most of us would do for the sake of life. That evening I happened to be walking In the lane just as old Simeon also came out to tako the air. And a note passed between us. Old Simeon also Instructed me as to where I could find certain implements and tools—a ladder and a slout stave among them —which I might need later on, per chance. And I gave to Simeon the package of a certain drug, which my friend, the chirugeon, had given me. Mistress Marget was to sec that this drug was dropped into the flagon of ale sent up for the Lady Eleanor's supper. Then, later, she was to lean out of her casement and signal to me, waiting outside In the lane. And lat er still Parson Dabney, who loved us both and sympathised with us rather than with Sir Reginald, was to make pretty Mistress Marget my wife. And so it all happened, without let or hindrance, save when my body ser vant's horse was mired In the slough back of the lane. He should havo waited in the lane proper, but he thought he heard voices and sounds of horses' hoofs coming, and, knowing that he must not be found there, he leaped his own steed over the hedge and into the slough. We had to wait All the settlement around us would be ringing with the news That there'd bo a meetin' Sunday, and we'd "taller" up our shoes, And we'd brush our homespun dress sult9, pride of every country youth. And we'd grense our hair with marrow till it shone like golden truth. And the frocks of linsey-woolsey would be donned by all the girls, And with heated old fire pokers they would make their corkscrew curls: They were scarcely queens of fashion, but were lovely Just the same. And they always looked their sweetest when the circuit rider came. As a preacher, holy Moses! how ho'd swing the living word. How he'd draw the pious "bretherln' " yet closer to the Lord, And he'd raise the hair of sinners sitting on the backmost seat With his fiery, lurid pictures of the ever lusting heat! We have sat in grand cathedrals, tri umphs of the builder's skill. And in great palatial churches 'ncath the organ's mellow thrill. But they never roused within us such a reverential flame As would burn in that old schoolhouse when the circuit rider came. •—James Barton Adams in Denver Post. some minutes for him, when we would fain have hurried onward. But this was after I had placed the ladder underneath my lady's window, mount ed it, pried off the guarding bars with the stout stave which old Simeon had furnished me, and received my darling in my arms. My heart beat so in go ing down the ladder that I feared she would hear it and think me timid. Yet had I courage to claim a kiss as we ncared the bottom, insisting that she pay it me before I set her dowu; and I do not think she noticed the rapid beating of my heart after that, even had she noticed it before. Her own heart beat rapidly then, as the bright color coming and going in the face which looked so fair and sweet In the moonlight testified clearly. At the foot of the ladder I sot her down, and hand In hand we raced across the greensward, over the foot bridge old Simeon had managed to leave open and unguarded for us, and out Into the lane. There, lifting her dear form in my arms, I swung her up before me, and away wo galloped, after the short interval of waiting foi my servant, of which 1 have spoken.. Half an hour later we stood before Parson Dabnoy in the gray old vicar age, and a few moments afterward I had the right to call protty Mistress Marget my wife. Then, a Uurrted kiss, a tear or two on Mistress Marget's part, and we were on our way back to the hall, where Mistress Marget was to live on, the same as ever In all things save that slender gold band on her finger, until my return from the wars. And then—ah! sad for a man to leave his wife on the wedding eve —my body servant had summoned my vartets and they waited for me out side in the lane. I could but kiss my darling once more, ah me! but so ten derly and lovingly, see her safely up the ladder, withdraw It from beneath her window, wave her a last tender farewell— and now, beslirew mo! but mine own eyes were wet— and take my departure. But before I crossed the foot-bridge once more 1 threw the stout stave that had served our turn so well far from me into the thick of the hedge, and 1 once more clinked gold with old Simeon in order that he might be properly forgetful of all that had happened that night. Then the soft darkness of the lane, with the moon well under a kindly cloud a sharp command to the waiting varlets a tearing gallop until morning, and we were well up with Sir Reginald and his men, and nothing but wars and fighting before us for many long months. But my heart was brave and light some within me, even though I had left my dear wife of an hour behind me. For it Is easier, perhaps, to leave one's wife than one's sweetheart, espe cially when the sweetheart's father favors a richer man, and I knew, also, that I was a brave and skillful light er, and I hoped that before Sir Regi nald or I saw pretty Mistress Marget again his heart would have warmed toward me on this account. For Sir Reginald loves a brave man and a good fighter always. And in the end it all turned out even as 1 had hoped. —Chicago Tribune. On th* Writing of Comedy. Bouccicault, quite at the beginning of his career (and ho wrote plays al most as a body), used to get £3OO for a five-act comedy. He stated the fact on oath in a court, of justice, and the sum was considered so im mense that the counsel who was exam ining him exclaimed: "Do you mean to tell me, sir, that if I were to write a comedy for the Haymarket theater the manager would give me £3OO for it?" "I think it most improbable," re plied Bouccicault—From "Personal Recollections." by Sutherland Ed wards. Export. from I'lilt.-a Ktntrs. Exports from the United States dur ing the past fiscal year increased to every section of the globe. Next to European exports, the largest increase was In exports to other parts of North America. No Word for Patriotism. There is no word in the Chinese language that, conveys an intimation of what we term public opinion; nor Is there a synonym for patriotism. POPULAR SCIENCE. Amons some remarkable lunar pho tographs made by Messrs. Loewy and Fuiseaux, of the University of Fnris, is a stereoscopic image of the whole hcmisi>hcro of the moon, the direction of light giving relief and showing very strikingly the details of craters and mountainous regions. The picture was obtained by taking a plate of the moon fit ten days and another at twen ty days, enlarging these sixty times, and carefully placing side by side. The atmosphere is divided Into sharply marked layers, generally two, sometimes three, between the ground and 10,000 feet elevation, the layer potentially warmer than the lower. Two borders of these layers are marked by sudden changes in tem perature and moisture (absolute as well as relative), and in wind direc tion; they also indicate the places of maximum wind velocity, and are gen ernlly recognized by cloud formation. The Austro-Itnlian system of cannon firing for preventing hail was recently put to a severe test, with results that exceeded expectations. Threatening clouds collected in the neighborhood of Rogeno, in the province of Coma, three times in succession on one af ternoon, and each time they were bombarded by fourteen spocial can non. The clouds were scattered, only a little sleet, falling. In the vicinity of Alessandria groat damage was done by hail, which in some places piled up to a depth of twenty inches. In low-pressure areas the air of the upper layer is cold and very dry, while over high-pressure areas it is always warm and generally moist In one of the cyclones recently observed there wore three different systems of wind circulation. The surface cyclone luid a height of but 2000 feet, over which was a cyclone with a warm centre GoOO feet high, accompanied by- clouds and rain, and above this another mov ing about an area of low pressure with a cold centre. When the wind In the middle cyclone was north that in the upper was south. . c ..... . . It has been seriously asserted by many people that we are naturally lighter after a meal, and they have even gone the length of explaining this by the amouut of gas that is devel oped from the food. Average observa tions, however, show that we lose three pounds six ouuees between night, and morning; that we gain one pound twelve ounces by breakfast; that we again lose about fourteen ouyees be fore lunch; that lunch puts on an av erage of one pound; that we again lose du'.'iug the afternoon an average of ten ounces, but that an ordinary dinner tg healthy pdl'sons adds two pounds two ounces to their weight. La Naturo reports the following cu rious origin of an epidemic of tuber culosis at Karkow, a city in Russia; an unusual number of cases of cjn sumption were noticed among the municipal officers and cierks. Sjme accidental suggestion finally led to a bacteriological examination of the li brary where the city records were kept. It was found that the depart mental archives were literally covered with tubercle bacilli. Further investi gation traced them to a consumptive employe, whose work led him to con sult the archives very frequently, and who had the common habit of wetting his fingers with saliva to facilitate the turning of the pages, on each one of which he thus deposited a colony of bacilli. Oklahoma a Modern Eden. There is no need to go to Europe for cheap living while Oklahoma exists, says Helen Churchill Cnndec In the Atlantic. Distance fsorn the large markets makes it the Ideal place for housekeepers with a slender purse. All home-grown foods of a perishable nature can he had for rpfresliingly low prices. Soifle of these I quote that I may make heads of Eastern families groan with envy. Watermelons, not withstanding that several hundred freight cars of this juicy fruit roll northward to Kansas City, can be bought at any time from July to cold weather for live cents each, and these of a size and sweetness unsurpassed. Xlnskmelons, delicious as nectar, are live cents a dozen, although these, too, are sent away liberally in carloads. Spring chickens are twenty-five cents a pair;, sweetbreads, ten and fifteen cents; beef and lamb fifteen cents a pound. Grapes—alas,this luscious crop Is nearly given away—one cent a pound for the host. Tlio reason for this humble price attached to so fine a fruit is that the crop matures nnd is in its prime shape during the heat of August, and shipment is impossible except in refrigerator cars which are too expensive. And so the whole pop ulation revels In delicious juice. A Lone DIM unco Gift. "I say, Dusty, where are you going wit,h those ejubs? Have you forsnken the fraternity and ttiken to be a foot pad ?" "No. Weary, those are merely golf sticks." "Worse, worse. Dusty. I never ex pected that you would desert us for the blooming aristocrats." "Never would I (hi such. Weary. You see I met a chap down the road whom I watched trying to hit a little hall. Never touched it. And when 1 offered to advise him to give me those, nervously, one at a time from a dis tance of fifty feet."—Boston Courier. Untimely. An Atchison woman is such a crank on the manner in which the English language is handled that she recently Interrupted her preacher while he was saying grace to question his use of a verb.—Atchison Globe. ACT OF A JAPANESE HERO WONDERFUL DEED OF COURAGE AND SELF-SACRIFICE. Gave XIIn Life to Open a Way For the Al lies Into Tlcn-Tsln—Awlnl Scenes at tho Capture of tlie City Terrible KlTects of L.y<ltllte. Tlie most realistic description of the horrors attending the battle of Tien- Tsin, and tlie only account so far pub lished of the heroism of the Japanese soldier who blew up the wall of tho city and blew himself up at the same time, comes in a letter-from Corporal John E. White, of the Ninth United States Infantry, written from Tien- Tsin on July 20, when lie was aeting sergeant-major of the Third Batalllon, says the Atlanta Journal. After tlie awful experience of tho battle in which Colonel Liscum and Captain Austin Davis were killed, this regiment moved on Peldn with Gen eral Clial'fce and participated in the brilliant forced march through ex treme heat and the subsequent storm ing of the gate and the reduction of the city. His letter was written to his brother, Mr. Lewis White, of Atlanta, Go. The letter follows: "Tien-Tsin, China. July 20, 1900. "Mr. Lewis White, Atlanta, Ga.: "Dear Brother—l wrote you about the 18th of May from Conception, P. I. Sinee then a great many tilings have transpired that have been very interesting and exciting to me. My regiment received an order about June 20 to proceed to China. We went to Manila and from there to Nagasaki, Japan, and reached China July 10. "Tien-Tsin is a large city, a million and a half population. It is divided into several parts, according to the creed of the inhabitants. "Tho foreign population have a con cession and live apart from the Chi namen. There are some magnificent buildings in this part of the city. "The main part of Tien-Tsin has a huge wall around it, thirty feet thick and fifty feet high. This wall is built iu tho form of a square, and is about two.miles long on each side. Quite a Wnli, isn't It? —- "The Chinese Bombarded the foreign part of tlie city from these walls, and most of tlie fine buildings are in ruins. "The big battle occurred on tho 13th, and - it did look silly to run infantry up against those walls, hut it was done and at a frightful cost. "Tlie British used their forty-five pound Lyddite gun with terrible effect In fact I don't think wo could have run them out of there without that gun. "The Japs were next to us, and they fight like demodns and can outdrill afty troops I ever saw. There is not two inches difference in tho height of any of them. They lost heavily and stood it bravely. One of them volun teered to blow up a part of the wall with gun cotton," and blow himself up with the wall (it could not be done otherwise), and he was nllowcd to try it, so that tho troops could get into (lie elty. How lie ever got to the wall nobody knows, but a few minutes af ter he left an awful explosion occurred, a big part of the wall was down, and the brave little Jap went with it. How is that for heroism? "Tho Hussions also lost heavily, and they are a class of men who have my deepest sympathy. Some of them could speak German, and as we had a good many Germans in our regiment, we learned n great deal about them. "Their salary amounts to about thir ty-five cents in our money per month, and It was disgusting as well as piti ful to see soldiers of a great nation like Itnssia walking around picking up little scraps of hardtack that we had thrown away. We fed quite a lot of them, and a more grateful set of men you never saw. I don't mean by this that they had no rations. Oh, no! But you should see their bread. It is cooked in large round loaves, looks like burnt gingerbread and cannot be broken in your hand. And just think of it—we were the first to tell them of tlie Spanish-American war and the Filipino insurrection, as they were just from Siberia, where no newspapers or anything to read is allowed! "We went into the walled <-..y on the 14tli, and the sights then were sickening. Without any exnggeri.i: n, there must have been anywhere from ten to fifteen thousand dead Chinamen all over the city. Most of the place is in ruins from the bombarding and is on fire, and thousands of bodies are burned. "The Chinamen never touched their dead and wounded, and no matter where you look it is nothing but dead bodies in all stages of decomposition, and a common occurrence to see a dog chewing on one. It was awful! Horrible! AYe had to stay In there two days, and I had charge of a fatigue detail who were forcing tho Chinamen at the point of the bayonet to bury their dead. I had two severe vomiting spells before I go through with that job. "I helped to pick up eleven of our own men the day before who had lain on the field all night. Our regiment got into a tight place, had to lie there all day and wait for night to escape, as the instant you raised your guii yon would get the stock sliot off or the gun shot out of your hands be fore you could raise yourself up to tire! This may sound like an 'Arabian Nights' sgpry, but it is an honest one, and wllTbe sworn to by most any American soldier here, and there are plenty of guns to show for it that have bullets In tlie stock. I was right be tween two men that got shot 'ln the rifle,' and the splinters from one of them struck me. "The Chinamen are certainly dead shots, and there were fully 100,000 of them making targets of us, but we i ivere too well Intrenched for them. Our loss In the replment was ninoty-eiplit A raen and eight officers killed and wounded. "You could toll a Lyftdite victim as soon as you saw him, and there wore •thousands of them. They were black in the face and splotches of green were on their bodies, with long strips of skin torn off and bleeding at the mouth, nose and ears. "The women and children did not escape. Mothers with babes in their arms and children of all ages were scattered all around. The stench from the bodies in the burning buildings was simply unendurable. "There was a mint here, containing million of dollars* worth of silver hull ion, and all troops were allowed to take all they wanted of it except the Americans. It finally caught fire and that stopped it. I stood guard there in charge of a. squad one night, and it was quite a job to protect it, as 1 there arc several fortunes there yet, and the bullion is plainly visible among the bricks of the fallen walls. "All troops except us were allowed to loot, and there was plenty of it. Magnificent furs and robes that would easily bring from $l5O to S3OO in the United States were plentiful. "The grandest sight was when their magazine was exploded by one of our shells. There was a cloud of smoke fully a mile thick that was blown two miles high in about a second. The explosion was terrific. It broke all the window panes In the new city (foreign) and killed over seven hun dred Chinamen. There are seven arse nals here valued at over $20,000,000, and the enemy left them behind. I haven't time to write more, as I am acting sergeant-major of the Third Batnliion. "When this reaches you write me, wherever I am, as you can find out whore I am by the papers. "JOHN E. WHITE, "Corporal Company L,Ninth Infantry." Quite Different. "An increase of salary!" exclaimed tlio pompous manager of a small omni bus company to a clerk who bad just made that request "I am afraid, sir, that you arc extravagant!" He toyed ■with his heavy watch chain and looked severely at tUe young man, who returned his stare boldly. It was the set phrase on such occasions, and the applicant had heard it all before. He meant to have that rise or—go somewhere else. - - ,j "Excuse me, sir," he replied re spectfully, "I haven't any chance to be extravagant on what I earn." "Young man," continued the pomp ous gentleman, "I have risen from the ranks. How? By being careful. When I was young I made money by saving bus fares." "Ah, that was in the old days," said the young man, with a knowing wink. "But with the bell punches and the present system of inspection, you • would find you couldn't save six pence without being collared, how ever careful you were." The manager nearly fainted, and the young man had to seek othc.' employment. Golf In Mexico. Golf has found a lodgment in Mexico City. It has been many years in iind iug its way from the United States to the republic in the south, as there has been n feeling that it was more of a fad than a serious and engaging occu pation. Besides, it hag in its practice a little more freedom than has boon considered consistent with social ideas in the semi-triopical city. Persons courageous enough to tell of the witcheries of the sport and to follow their convictions have been found, however, and after much trouble links have been laid out at San Pedro. Americans and English men resident in the city are the principal movers in a club that lias been formed, and they intend to put up a club house at San Pedro and make it rival the clubs in America. Mexicans did not take kindly to the idea nt once, but some of them have ventured to play, nud the game prom ises to take hold among them as it lias In the United States. There are now nine-hole links that are pronounced to bo very sporty. HI-MIT, J„.L,l. try of the Philippines. The i r ire hemp industry of the Philippines is still worked by primi tive methods nud with simple con trivances. The native, though unam bitious himself, is jealous of the Chi naman, and is averse to the Celestial getting control of the plantations or contracts, while scorning up-to-date methods himself. The "Cheno," how ever, has made inroads iu tills indus try, as well as in others in the Phil- *. Ippines. Had lie not, the development would' not have been as rapid ns it lins. The nntive is thoroughly capable and understands the treatment of tlie plant and its harvesting and could he lie in duced to work with regularity would be as good a laborer as the Chinaman, but. the Celestial usually controls the haling and local marketing of the hemp.—Edwin Wlldman, iu Harper's Weekly. Hurvr.tlng hy Moonlight. The London Mark I.auc Express re marks that the rather unusual sight of harvesting by moonlight lias been witnessed every night during the last week in South Lincolnshire. Labor is so scarce in the district that the men cannot be spared to secure their own allotment Crops, and some have conse quently gathered them by the light of the moon. Many men have been seen working In the Holds until nearly mid night. On some farms, too, harvesting has also boeu carried on at night; many of the crops are dead ripe, and there Is not much liability of the wheat shaking out when gathered gsvltli a dew upon it. This scarcity of labor is mainly duo to the draft of the military reserve force.
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