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Make all money orders, clerks. etc. to the Tribune Fr tilling Company, Limited, j The Paris exposition was cheap at a Bet cost of $400,000. Leborgy, a French authority on fashions for men, declares that the Prince of Wales dresses badly. And ; Americans have been copying him all ' these years! Excelsior is not only the American motto, but thousands of tons of excel sior itself are exported every year to Central America, the West Indies, England and other foreign countries. It is proposed to place in Winchester cathedral a stained glass window to the memory of Izauk Walton. If fish have memories, possibly they will ap-! prove the memorial, for while Izaak fooled many of them, he was yet their j friend. Strange to say, the experiment of starting Chinese laundries in London has encountered grievous reverses. Clothing intrusted to the slant eyed polishers of purified linen disappeared and the wielders of the sadiron in the British metropolis have been scattered ( in flight. The automobile is likely to be util-1 ized for more purposes than simple transportation. An ingenious indivi-1 dual of Wnloughby, Ohio, has rigged' up a connection between his barn and \ residence by means of which he can. I immediately the power is turned off at the trolley station for the night, switch his automobile storage battery in use. thus furnishing a current for lighting purposes for the remainder of the night. "A handicap i: a burden laid upon one who is swift or strong to reduce 1 any advantage which he may have! over the slow and the weak. By curi-1 0r,.-; usage the meaning of the word is ' reversed in common speech" says the j < kristian Register. We speak as if, it was a burden laid upon the weak, and was the cause of their failure. The sentiment of generosity is tho han dicap laid upon the strong, that they may be helpful and not harmful in their relations with the weak. Lesc-majeste has discovered a new form of offense in Germany. Let all be warned when they are in Germany to get up on their feet In a hurry whenever anyone "hochs dor kaiser." It will not do to believe that the indivi dual that hochs has been drinking too much, because that allows no excuse for remaining seated when his maj esty's name is spoken. The courts have decided that. A town councillor has lately been tried and sentenced for forgetting his duty to the crown's might. It is not impossible that the predic tion that the day of tho sailing vessel has passed will be falsified by the event. It is beginning to be seen by some shrewd men that the essteutial thing in some classes of transportation is to get the articles transported to their destination as cheaply as possi ble, and that the factor of time is only one of many that must be considered in order to achieve profitable results. Hence it may happen that a half a century from now such commodities as coal and pig iron will scarcely ever he shipped in steam vessels. Indeed, the proposition to build huge sailing colliers is already mooted in the United States, and is likely to be car ried out by some of the big railroad companies whose roads tap American coal .nines convenient to deep water. According to a report just issued by the Slate mine inspector of Montana, mat State produces 2.1 1 per cent, of the world's copper output and 61 per cent, of the output of this country. These industries hardly existed in Mon tana 25 years ago. Tinware was first made in this coun try in 17/0. A PKTITION. IIer am one your poppy liclda. Idleness, I pray you. Let u.e wander lazy-eyed. Slow of thought and pace; Empty-haaded, light of heart. Eager to obey you. To loaf and tnake a madrigal Tuned to fit your face. Sick am I of strife and toll, would seek your daisies. Count the clouds and doze and dream Through drowsy afternoons. Prithee, take me by the hand- Show mo where the way is— I.et me change the clink of gold For your linnets' tunes. Idleness! Oh, Idleness. Smile a welcome for me. Here's a minstrel out of voice, A weary heart to rest. Soothe me with the pipes of Pan, Hum his music o'er me. Rock me like a tired child Sleepy on your breast. —Theodosla Pickering Garrison. Blunders of John Garster. BY GASTON HARVEY. (Copyright, 1900, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) "Well, 1 suppose this is the end of It." John Carsten heaved a heavy sigh, and strode along moodily. Helen looked at him curiously and then asked: "The end of what?" "You know as well as I do what I refer to. To be perfectly plain, I hear it reported on very good authority that you are to marry this Monte G'risto. And that is what I mean when I say that I suppose we will not take many more walks together." He looked at her keenly. "I suppose it is but a further ex emplification of the doctrine an nounced by the Bible, where it says "To him who hath, it shall be given, and to him who liatn not it shall be taken away,' and I want to add to that, 'even that which he may seem to have.' I suppose that if I was on the upward tide, everything would be coming my way, but as I seem to be stationary, notwithstanding my fran tic efforts to swim, everything appears to pass me, just out of reach." 1 here was a silence for a few moments. Helen reached in a fence corner and pulled a great glittering spray of golden rod. She did not look at him. After a few moments she said in a low voice: "You arc getting bitter, Jonn. Don't do it. It does not help you." "Don't you think I have cause to be bitter? A man can smile and stand a great deal; he can stand a great deal mure without giving evidence of his suffering, and there is still another degree of pain, which turns every thiug to gall. I have suffered that." "You are very wrong to look at things that way," replied the woman. "What have you to be bitter over? You possess youth, and health, and strength, and ability--all those are priceless gifts. You are well thought of by everyone, and I see no cause for you to think your lot is hard. "Yes, what you say is true, but I have not the great essential —money. I might be a paralytic, and just have enough sense to keep out of a lunatic asylum, and enough morals to keep from beiug locked up as a menace to society, but if i had money, all that would be overlooked, and I would be better thought of than 1 am now. As it is, I am not considered at all." "Not considered by whom?" "Everybody. And someone in par ticular whom I wish to consider me. and who has refused. 1 have tried everything else; 1 have placed myself at her feet. Love docs not count." Her face was crimson. She looked far away over the sere, brown fields, and at last said: "Then what am I to deduce from that assertion—it isn't clear." "You are not to deduce anything— I state it as my positive conviction that, given on the one hand a man with everything to make him desir able in the eyes of a woman, but with no money, and on the other hand a "You are getting better, John—Don't do it." man with nothing to recommend him but money, as between the two a woman will choose the man with the money ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. That's what I mean." "Why John, why John!" There was an infinity of reproach in those words. "Yes, I mean it!" ho added. "I mean every word of it. Women are essen tially selfish, and they love the soft side of life. They know that money will make a soft side to anything, and therefore, they are on the side of money." "1 am sorry for you," she sa!d simply. "I thought that you had a higher idea of women." "Haven't I a right to be bitter?" he continued. "Haven't I every right to such ideas? If it has not been dem onstrated to me, nothing has. There is nothing so convincing as personal experience, and it is from that 1 speak." "I have known you a long time, John, and 1 know of no such instance In your career that .•*--• ueaic of When wao it?" "You know very won mi—, • allude to. You know that I have loved you for all these years/since we were little more than children. You know that there has not been a day that the in cense of my soul was not offered to you. I have loved you truly, faith fully, unwaveringly. You know that my highest dream of earthly happi ness was to some day make a homo for you, where I could have you with me always. You know that my wak ing thoughts are all of you;-that I dream of you at night; that not a plan I have made has not had you for its inspiration, with the hope that it would conduce toward the end I wished. There has not been an ambi tion in my brain that was not caused by my wish to excel and make you proud of me. ' The rest of the world can go hang —you are my world, the all in all for me. And now. after all these years, all that counts for naught. There comes into your life a great big, beefy man—you know little about him ex cept that he is very wealthy, and in the course of two months he undoes Then, taking her hands, looked her full in the face. what I have done, or rather in that time accomplishes what I could not ac complish in six times as many years. Is not that evidence enough? What is to he deduced from that except what I have stated?" "I ought to be very angry with you, John. You have accused me of a wretched thing—that I would sell ray life, my love, my soul, merely to pro vide myself with creature comforts. I don't know why I don't make you leave me, and never permit you to speak to mo again, except that I'd realize that your anger has carried you off your feet. I realize what you say, that such a state of things is an awful blow to a man. But I do not grant that any such state exists —that is—l mean—" "You mean what, that you are not going to marry him?" There was light and life and hope in the questioner's eyes now. "Yes, 1 mean that; and that I have not intended to do so. And now let me do a little preaching to you—you have had your say, and you have said things you ought not to have said. I will say what you left unsaid, and what you should know. It is, that with a true woman, and with true love, all the gold In tho universe could not outweigh her love. If on the one side is a man a woman loves, who is as poor as poverty itself, and on the other a man offering himself, a millionaire, the man and his money would not for an instant be considered as a possibility. "It is a mistaken notion men have, that a woman wants to receive all and give nothing. True love is self efface ment, and hearing the burdens of those whom we do love, and nothing gives a woman so much pleasure as to suffer for the man she really care 3 for." "Do you really moan that?" There was wonderment upou the face of the questioner. "Yes. And there would be more women who would be glad to accept even the little in the way of wealth their sweethearts possess, if they were given the chunco. Instead of going bravely to her and saying 'I have little or nothiug, but I love you. 1 eau pro vide enough to keep us from starving, and enough to furnish us with clothes. More than that I do not care for, with you at my side. Will you accept that?' the men stand off and snivel about woman wanting wealth. It makes me weary. It's weakness." There was a long pause. Tho sun had sunk below the horizon, and the west was gorgeous with the opaline tints of the dying day. In the dying grasses the crickets chirped a requi em for the sweet summer. A few dead leaves floated through the branches and rustled gently to their last resting place. The air had a tinge of the coming chill of winter, and na ture seemed saddened and dreary. The couple stood a moment looking at the sunset. Perhaps it was tho glory of the ruddy rays upon her face, or the reflection from the golden gates of the west that shone in her eyes. He paused, for a moment irresolute, and theu taking her hand, looked her full in the eyes. She looked down and her face flushed. "Helen," he said very gently, "I have almost nothing in the way of goods or wealth, but I have a love for you that the wealth of Midas could not buy. Will you accept what I have?" She looked up and smiled softly. "Why didn't you say that a vear or so ago? Yes. 1 will." When a minister preacnes about so cial extravagance half the women in the congregation bite their lips and try to look mortifled.-New York Press. SHOPPING IN CHINA. IT TAKES TIME AND MUCH CEREMONY. Bricks Mario of Hard Dried Tea Used as Money—Sliver Currency Cut OfT a Chinese Slio* Called "Svcco" —Solemn Anctionfe y When a man or woman goes Into a shop in China a clerk, with much cere j mony, brings fragrant tea, which is [ served in fine style. The compliments j ot the season are exchanged, the topics I of the times are discussed, there are talks about the weather —in fact, every j kind of evasion is employed to keep j away from the real reason of the visit, i which is to buy something. The pro ; prietor silently watches these proceed j ings from afar. The style of compli j ment Is of this order; "In what celes tial country did your exalted excellence purchase the superfine garments upon which I feast my eyes? Surely in no miserable and unworthy land like our own." When tea and talk are ex hausted the little pipe-bearer, who al ways attends his master or mistress j out of doors, lights a pipe for his em- I ployer. There are only a few whiffs In each pipeful, so the process has to be frequently repeated. Then business begins. The shopper asks the price of the required article, and makes an offer for it that is much lower. This is promptly refused in language that is courteous and polite beyond descrip tion. Then the possible purchaser de parts with great dignity and elegance. The same scene is renewed day after day, sometimes for three weeks run ning. In the course of time the pro prietor himself sends the article to the house of his haggling customer. Again and again it Is returned. The price is too high. When a bargain is Complet ed the purchaser never pays for it him , self. The chief steward is called, noti- Bird Birds Express Alarm, iij , Love, Jealousy, Pain Language and Pleasure. The Oriental stories of the wise men who understood the language of birds are a type or prefiguring of certain in vestigations which are now being car ried on by men of science in the United States and elsewhere. Prof. Nelson R. Wood, of the National Museum at Washington, has made an informal re port on this subject which is inter esting. He declares that researches are in progress which, in the near future, will greatly enlarge our knowledge of the language of birds, and will pre sent proof of the remarkable elabora tion and detail of some of these bird "languages." These are not "lan guages" in the ordinary humau sense that they are developed into words more or less monotonously spoken, and depending on the alternation of conso nants and vowels for their definition; but by a great many and various sounds the birds express a considerable number of different feelings, and their calls and cries are always understood, and if there is occasion, heeded by other birds. These feelings include alarm, love, jealousy, contentment, pain and pleasure. Prof. Wood asserts that the common crow has a vocabu lary more expressive and of a wider range than that of many of the finest song birds. And tile American wild turkey affords one of the best illustra tions of the versatility of bird lan guage. The turkey has a perfectly dis tinguishable vocabulary of at least a dozen words. Its constant peril from half a dozen sources, overhead and underfoot, has rendered it necessary that it shall possess a special call or alarm for each of these perils. For danger from overhead, as from a hawk or an eagle, the turkey has a low note, well drawn out, which cautions every member of a flock. For immediate danger it gives an entirely different Prince Victor Was a Fighter. The grandson of Queen Victoria, I Prince Christian Victor, who died of fever in South Africa a few weeks ago, | was a soldier born, who owed nothing to rank, hut obtained his advance in recognition of his military ability. He j knew everything about Tommy Atkins. I from the existing fees down to th • canteen extortions, which he labored to abolish. In his room at Wincheste j might be found nearly double the num- J ber of hooks on tactics and drill usu- i ally found in an officer's quarters, and NOT RESTFUL. Uermnn Professor Say. Groen Irrllate. tin) Optic Norv.n. It seems as though cherished na tions were no sooner on an apparently I firm foundation than some Inconsider- : ate iconoclast comes along and throws j them down, says the New York Her ald. People have for many years sup posed that the color green was restful to human eyes and have been referred to the green grass and green foliage that nature has been so prodigal with for the benefit of wearied vision. Now according to a German professor of Berlin, nature wasn't thinking of hu man eyes when she made her profuse verdant display and that her colour scheme was carried out absolutely re gardless of the visual needs ot' human ity. He says that green does not pro tect the eye and he denies that it has fled that the article been accepted, and when the bill , .mes in the "boy" settles, giving an account quarterly to his master of money disbursed for the household. Money, as we have it, Is unknown in China. There are no sil ver dollars, no fractions of dollars, as quarters and 10-eent pieces; no paper bank-notes. There is a coin called "cash," with a hole punched in the mid dle, that is used for small transactions. "Cash" can be strung like beads on a string. It takes one hundred pieces to equal the value of one standard cent. Gold is only used for ornaments in China, never for current coin. The currency of China is virgin silver, made into the shape of a Chinese shoe. A servant carries this in a bag. When a bill is to be paid his master —usually the steward or "boy"—takes out a pair of pocket scales, cuts off a piece of the silver shoe, and weighs it carefully, adding or taking away a little to make the amount required. This silver shoe is called "Sycea." Another form of money is the tea-brick- hard, dried tea, compressed into brick form, from which pieces are chopped and weighed like the silver. Strands of stamped cloth, issued by local banks, also serve as money. Their value is stamped plainly upon the cloth. So many strands equal so much 3ilver. Strange land of "cash," tea-brick, cloth strands and sliver shoe! An auction In China is a grave, portentous afTair, held In perfect silence. A solemn stillness reigns. The auctioneer exhibits his wares, leaning over a counter slightly elevated. The bidder says not a word, but steps before him and runs his lin gers up his sleeve, making pressure on his arm that indicates what he wishes to pay. Then another, and another | does the same; sometimes a dozen or more. When the bidding is over the auctioneer signifies who the successful purchaser is. No one knows the price offered, or whether favoritism influ ences the award. But all is dignified, sedate, majestic. There is none of the bustle seen in Occidental bargaining. note, quick, sharp, tremulous, which i 3 instantly taken by the other tur keys to mean, "Hide! hide instantly! The enemy! the enemy!" When dancer threatens from a fox or a dog, a distinctly different signal must be used. It signifies, "take wing!" and the turkeys who hear it are instantly in the air. The same note is used when there is other danger on the ground, only the note is prolonged in stead of being quickly uttered, and in this case the turkeys do not at once take to flight; but the feeding ceases, and with necks stretched to their longest to enable the eye to see as far as possible, the flock circles around until it has covered an area great enough to show that the alarm was groundless. When feeding in a field where the food is plentiful and good, the turkey makes a sound expressive of contentment, varying at the differ ent stages, until the final word from the patriarch of the flock checks the meal, and away the birds go. The common hen is not far behind the tur key in her vocabulary. The hen, Pro fessor Wood says, is a much more flu ent talker than the rooster. Her cackle is used for three different pur poses, and each cackle is different from the other cackles. One she uses when seeking a nest, or when calling for her mate; one when she is frightened; and another, of a very triumphant sort, as she flics from the nest. The hen has songs of three distinct types—the love song, a happy response to her mate; the song of indifference, when idly hunting for food, indicating no certain purpose in her movements; and the lullaby song, a low, crooning, sooth ing note, hushing the young chickens to sleep. The variations of the notes of birds seem to be as endless as their needs. I the majority were well thumbed. But ' he was 110 prig. He enjoyed every hour | of his life, except that he was much : hampered by insufficient private i means, and his brother officers and his men simply idolized him. I He once told Lord Wolseley that the I only advantage he had ever derived from his royal rank was that it always got him accepted when he volunteered for active service. In the last 10 years Ihe served in six campaigns—a rare record—and he constantly obtained de served recognition for valor. any beneficial effect whatever. He de clares that green paper, green shades, green glasses, green decorations and green umbrellas are all a mistake and that by increasing the green light wo are simply provoking a nervous dis turbance. He says that each of the colors tires a different set of nerves of vision and therefore looking at one particular colour saves one set of nerves at the expense of another. The best method, he says, is to dim all the rays of light by smoked or grey glasses, which rest all of the optic nerves. Irish Rivers Diirk-Colored. The rivers of the Emerald Isle have generally a dark color, owing to the fact that most of them, at some point in their course, flow through peat marshes or beds, which impart a dark hue to the water. THE PAINT HABIT. So Iciai!>u Vice 1 hut Alte'ibi *n<S Then Controls Men. Of all the vices to which the head of a family can be addicted, the paint craze is probably the most devastat ing in effect upon tue mind, clothing, and purse. Unlike drunkenness and playing on brass instruments, it is a vice which can be practiced without publicity, and this is doubtless one reason why it is so awfully prevalent. There seems to be something won derfully fascinating in the private paint brush and the cans of prepared paint that are extensively advertised as combining the twofold mission of preserving and beautifying objects upon whch they are applied. The man who has once allowed him self to paint the kitchen chairs or tho dog kennel takes a step which he can rarely retrace. His thirst for paint ~4\ grows with indulgence, and ho soon comes to feel wretched unless ho has a brush in his hand. Among private painters there exists a strange and morbid unwillingness to , allow a particle of paint be wasted. The man wno buys a pound can of blue paint with which to paint a table, and finds that after the work is done he has a quarter of a pound of paint left, instantly tries to find some other article of furniture on which to use it. Thus he is constantly led on from one article to anotner, and reduces himself to poverty, madness, and despair. The story of a man who was once a respectable nnd worthy ratepayer of an adjoinjng municipality presents a fearful illustration of the misery caused by private painting. The man In question was induced by an indis creet friend to buy a pound of red paint with which to paint a small dog kennel. Without reflecting upon the danger to which every one exposes himself who takes the unhallowed brush in his hand, this man painted the dog kennel, and with the quarter of a pound that was left undertook to paint the bathtub —in order, as he told himself, that the paint should not be wasted. .1 He found that when the bathtub was not more than half painted his supply of paint was exhausted, and he tliere ore bought another can. With this he finished the bathtub, and had this time three-quarters of a pound left. It was. of course, impossible for him to allow so much paint be wasted, and accordingly he began to paint the six kitchen chairs. There was enough paint for five chairs only, and tho wretched man saw that he could not help buying a third pound, nearly all of which was left after the sixth chair Was finished. With hungry eyes and an excited air he now roamed through the house seeking what he might paint, and finally decided to paint the woodwork of his study. Two additional pounds wore used before the woodwork was finished, but he found that in his anx iety to finish the work without buying a sixth can of red paint he had laid on the paint so lightly in some places that the result dissatisfied him. As a remedy, he resolved to run a narrow bar of black paint around each panel, and, therefore, bought a pound of the best prepared ivory black. Not more than half of it had been used when the work was finished, and it be came necessary to find something on which to use the remainder. The unhappy man now realized when it was too late to save himself that he was a confirmed painter, and that he had not sufficient strength of will to cast the accursed paint brush from him, no matter if he did thereby wasto nearly a pound of ivory black. He pur sued his downward course with great rapidity. Heedless of the tears of his wife and the entreaties of his daugh ters, he painted everything in the house on which a paint brush could bo laid. His wife and daughters could not go into the street without showing, by their involuntary patches of black paint, that the head of the house was a private painter. His money gradual ly found its way into the pocket of the storekeeper who sold the paint, and his health eventually gave way under the influence of painter's colic.—Mon treal Gazette. liosun Hindi of Incas. If any stranger offers to sell you un canny-looking objects nnd tciis you that they are heads of Incas, v. 10 were great warriors long ago, says the New York Journal, beware of him and hand not over your good dollars, for the chances are a thousand to one that the man is an impostor and that the so called heads aro really the product of some factory. Genuine mummified heads of Incas there are, but they are rare and costly. The warlike Incas, it appears, wpre accustomed to suspend from their sad dles the heads of their conquered en emies, but before doing so they sub- t jecter them to a certain process with the object of rendering them as light as possiblq. First, the bones of the skull were re moved, after which the head was soaked in a certain hot liquid, the re sult being that finally there remained nothing but a very small yet wonder fully lifelike countenance, of leathern consistency and of merely nominal weight. A few such heads may bo found in Ecuador. How old these heads are no one knows, but many centuries have cer tainly passed away since their owners flourished. The price of such a curi osity varies from $250 to SIOOO. The demand, however, has always been greater than the supply, and this fact recently emboldened some enter prising but unscrupulous gentlemen in Ecuador to open a factory for the purpose of supplying enthusiastic col lectors with all the mummified heads that they might need.
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