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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.