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One Niewiedomskl, a Polish revolu tionist, has been apprehended in War saw. It Is understood that the door slammed on ills name while he was dragging it out the back way. Dr. Shrady gives out the opinion that the number ot suicides Increases with advancing civilization. One wonders if tills would be so were the civiliza tion really what it purports to be. When the eminent Western men of the next generation sit down to make up a list of "Books That Have Helped Me" they will surely mention the check-books of Rockefeller and Tear sons. A Chicago justice of the peace has sentenced a young man to save SIOO. The youth was arrested for playing base ball in the public street and l'or the added misdemeanor of advising a police officer who objected to go and jump in the river. As the lad was playing during business hours the magistrate shrewdly opined that he was an idler, and licnee the sentence. The culprit is to report at stated in tervals and exhibit his savings hank account, sentence to be suspended as long as he shows reasonable progress toward the accumulation of SIOO. The sentence is a novelty in petty criminal Jurisprudence, liut it may ho the sal vation of tho young man. It will he better for him than a workhouse sen tence, at least, comments the Minneap olis Times. "Graduated, but not present," was the suggestive announcement made concerning the class of 1001 at a well known institution of higher learning. A majority of the class did not appear at commencement, though their names were called and their degrees were conferred. The ease was extraordi nary, hut the explanation was simple and satisfactory. The services of the young men had been sought and en gaged by business men so urgently that the president of tho Institution had given the students permission to leave school and go to work in ad vance of actual graduation. Their courses of study were satisfactorily completed and their examinations passed, and it was thought to be not Worth while to keep them away from the industries which needed them for so long as even the few dnys yet re maining before the formal close of the .'.eademic year. Professor Rice nml His Obliging Guest. Professor Rice is a leading chemist of Sydney, New South Wales. One day lie was visited by a frieud, who found him examining n dark brown substance spread on paper. "1 say, would you kindly let me place a lilt of this on your tongue? My taste lias become so vitiated by tasting all sorts of tlings." "Certainly," responded tho overnc commodatiiig visitor, holding out his tongue. The professor took up a little of (ho substance under analysis and placed it on the other's tongue. The latter worked it around for fully a minute, tasting it much as lie would a fine con fection. "Note any effect?" inquired the pro fessor. "No, none." "It doesn't paralyze or prick your tongue?" "Not that I can detect." "I thought not. There are no alka loids in it, then. llow docs it taste?" "Bitter as the dickens." "Hcm-m; all right." "What is It?" Inquired the visitor. "I don't know. That's what I'U trying to find out. Some one has heel! poisoning horses with it." "IHSTIAICI .Cqjomij,—•SujuujN.iq .up HIOJJ XUA\ .up |(U sn papilla suq oq.\i mi;l hi iiJiunj .up jo pipiumioj Su|AOJ [ITIu III|B.I U1! ipun sltuuiq jsad aqt JOJ ..pippaia .up , A'|.)B)|din■> JO |.;U.I U K| poj) j.i ii. ii,..>.; .up jo tiuuiAujiAioti.iJv r [ laith Jk °ffy e Child + z^r~ x^ >k f-/ * * \ - . - Little one, my little one, When first you walked alone, With eager trust you kept your hands fly? Held out to grasp my own— *>^o3Sbjjjr Toward me was bent each step vou * 4 *jwjE&7 And by your anxious, pleading look T////CS^ Your faith was sweetly s&own. IIJn Little one, my little one, Since you are larger grown, Yfet when your little troubles rise " Ah, you return with tearful eves, ,/^ And my protection own. // Little one, my little one, In weakness I am prone / To crave His guidance, to depend ) Upon His love alone— pIK ' But when my step grows firm I let C/ My faith lie sleeping and forget All glory save my own. * \ Little one, my little one, I Your childish ways have shown v l\* That I am weak, that I am still ' h A child, though larger grown; CNTJ In weal I boldly cope with men, " \fo In woe I turn to Him again, Jz?s£f Afraid to walk alone. Journal Gf a Contented Woman. BY SARAH ROGERS. (Copyright, 1901, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) November I—l1 —I have decided today to become contented, whatever my earth ly lot. I have been so discontented lately that any change will be wel come. And has not Shakespeare said: My crown is in my heart, not on my head: Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen—my crown is call'd con tent: A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. So I am going to be contented and wear my unseen crown upon my heart, knowing that few kings enjoy a like p/ivilege. Fute has made me th£ only relative A well-groomed, ordinary business ■an. of a business brother. Now at the very start In order to explain, if not justify my discontent, this is not in tho least what I should have apportioned for fiyself. I am not even determined that I should have selected a brother oa a solitary relative, but if I had, he ,hould have been a distinguished, uni versity bred person, cultured to his finger-tips and president of Harvard, 110 lees, and given to entertaining tho greatest litterateurs of the day. What Destiny has chosen for me in the shape of Tom IB a handsome, well-groomed, ordinary business man, devoted to tho manufacture of silver-plated table ware. The Crelghton knives and spoons and forks are the best In the market, as Tom is certainly the very dearest fellow in the world, even though I say I should not have selected him for a brother if I were ordering one. Nor would I have chosen Orton as a place of residence, preferring rather to reside at Cambridge with my presidential brother. Orton is a mass of factory chimneys which spell out the word commerce every day in the week except Sunday. I have never seen Cambridge, but 1 imagine it a cloistered, ivy-clad colony of ancient buildings faithfully guard ing all the traditions of culture. And so here is the problem which Destiny has set me, and which I can solve only by putting my invisible crown firmly on my heart. Orton has one salient advantage; be ing given over to commerce, it is com mercially situated; it is a seaport town. There is a distinct profit for a person who loves sunsets and moon-rises; for a bit out of the town where the fac tories have not yet penetrated there is a superb stretch between the salt meadows and the sea. One can walk directly into the very heart of the sun set —the changing, mysterious heart of the sunset which has always had a strange fascination for mo. What a wonderful picture 1 saw there the other evening as I took my solitary stroll along the "loud-sounding" sea! It was extreme low tide, and the sand fiats lay in long, dark-brown reaches amidst tranquil pools of water which reflected faithfully the thousand brilliant colors of the west. Far out at sea the wave 3 were breaking in a white line against the dark, sharp linos of the sand. A wholesomo tang of salt was in the air, which blew in freshly across the wide expanse of delicate sapphire-tinted sea. The sun had disappeared behind a bank or rose-colored cloud, and no words of mine can express the glori ous symphony of golds and purples and scarlets and pale-green and radiant blues, which changed and deepened and brightened in the sky, and threw itself deep down into the peaceful beauty of the salt pools, among the long stretches of black sand. Such things must be seen to be appreciated, but no one can look upon such divine loveli ness without becoming a better man, I felt as if I had been in church and had heard the angels singing. When the last triumphant note of color had died away in the deep sky and night was settling down trunquilly over the sea and the meadows. I turned back agnin toward Orton with a feeling that my crown was very firmly lodged upon my heart, and that all Orton couldn't chak* It oft. All Orton was probably too busy to try. The factory chimneys were all standing thick and tall and black agalnßt the opal sky exactly as I had last seen them when I turned my back upon them for the sunset and forgot them. Little golden talis of Ore were flickering and darting from their mouths, and I felt a great and sudden compassion for the thousand tolling men and women who were there at work In those grim, gaunt buildings, so far away from the glories of the sun set I felt all the sorrier because 1, knew If by some sudden caprice on thd part of the boss a holiday might be) theirs, they would not waste It In tame ly walking along the meadows by the sea at sunset, but would fly to the bar gain-counter among the haunts of men. What would they do with my leisure, my well-to-doness, my certainty of an excellent dinner at the end of my long walk, my solitude, my books, my The "loud-sounding sea." thoughts? Not one of my beloved Ideas would they adopt, and as I looked at the thousand dancing little tongues of flame I seemed to see the toil and sor row and loss of all those who were less fortunate than I, but who would never know it, and the lust for gold seemed to write itself all over the sky in those flickering flames, and to cry down the glorious wonder of the great sun which had set. I felt of my crown In order to make quite certain that It was still in my heart, and then I fell into line between the rows of prosaic houses and went prosaically home to dinner. It Is so much easier to be prosaic when the sun has gone down and darkness Is upon the land, so I was not so shocked as I might have been when Tom told me triumphantly that the silver business | was booming awfully, and that an or der for three thousand spoons had just come in from Chicago. Jnpn Find a New Inland. According to the Japan Times a new island has been discovered in the Sea of Japan. From a statement appearing in the Nichi Nichi it appears that the island is situated at a point between Ul-long-do Island, off Korea, and the Oki Archipelago, off tho coasts of the San-ln-do, the distance from either Si e being 30 miles. No maps ever pub lished contain any refernce to the isl and, which is reported to be about two miles in length and about tho same in breadth. It was about a year or two ago that tho island was first discovered | by a fisherman of Kyushu, who found the waters in its neighborhood full of sea horses. Now England Famon* for Tobacco. There are in tho United States 700,- 000 acres of land devoted to tobacco, of which 1,000 acres are in New England. The annual yield of all kinds in the country is about 500,000,000 pounds, of which New England raises 19,000,000. The average yield per acre throughout the country is 700 pounds, but in New England it is 1,700 pounds. It is inter esting that all tho tobacco raised in the country belongs to two or three botanical species, yet there are more than sixty varieties grown commercial ly—all of them quite distinct in shape, color and qaulity of leaf.—Harper's Weekly. The Cocoa Iloan. According to a government publica tion, the cocoa bean from which choc- j olate is manufactured is produced in [ Its finest form la the republic of Ven ezuela, though various othsr parts of Central and South America grow and export large quantities. Two crops of the bean are gathered each year, and the manufacture consists simply in grinding up the beans into a meal and then adding sugar and arrowroot, with | the necessary flavor —generally vanil la or cinnamon. The mass is then moistened until It Is in a semi-fluid state, after which it is run into molds of the proper shape. llallonn Goes Up 38,000 Foot. Teisserene de Bort, the French aero naut, has secured tho lowest tem perature mark on record —72 degrees centigrade, or 97.6 degrees Fahrenheit. The reading was registered on a ther mometer in a trial balloon sent up recently, which rose to a height of 38,000 feet. Hat Many Chrlntian Smo'. Tho Duchess of Cornwall is blessed with a liberal assortment of Christian names, eight In all. Should she eventu ally share the British throne she can select from the following: Augustine, Louise, Olga, Pauline, Claudine and Agnes. Mr. Reginald de Koven has complet ed the score for "The Daughters De lightful," a piece for which Mr. Oeorga V. Hobart has written the libretto. A LASTING CAME. I her watched 'em playin' checkers In th summer, fall an' spring, Bill Boggs. Wes. .Tones. Newt. Lane, Ili Smith, an' Jason Fox, I jing! I know 'em all jes' like a book, they're players good an' strong! On 'special 'casions they've been known t' play the whul night long. They gather at the grocery as regular as clocks On evenin's in winter, an' they pick 'em Out a box High enough t' lay the board on. Then wise-heads begin t' pore O'er the mystic game a' checkers there in Silas Johnson's store. The board they play on 's worn so that the squares are dim, I swan! And the checker-men, er pieces, all their varnished beauty's gone. Why, I'll bet a million games hev on that faded board been played! No cricket ever made the jumps them checker-men have made! Year in, year out, the same sized crowd's been gatherin' of nights, An' movin' some, an' studyin' more, till Si put out the lights. The youngsters follow in the path their fathers trod before, An' keep that game of checkers up in Si las Johnson's store. I've known o' folks movin' 'way, be gone may be fer years. An' when they'd come back visitin' they'd say t' me: "It 'jiears Like nothin' looks jes' nntural. All's changed 'at once we knew, Except the store —they're doin' there jes' what they used t' do!" You couldn't stop it if you'd try; it's jes' as much a part Of life 'roun' here as ealin', and lots closer €' the heart! I reckon Gabriel's trump, when blown, will catch at least a score C fellers playin* checkers there in Silas Johnson's store! —Roy Farrell Greene, in Puck. "The truth .should not be Spoken at nil times." Don't worry; it isn't"— Brooklyn Life. The smallest microbe has a tail— At least, so it is said; Let's hope he wags it gratefully Whenever lie is fed. —Chicago Record-Herald. Caller—"Now, my little man, what Is 3'our parents' genealogical chart for?" Bright Boy—"To hide a tear in the parlor paper, sir."—Philadelphia Record. Molly—"My little sister's got measles." Jimniie—"Oh! So lias mine." Molly—"Well, I'll bet you my little sister's got more measles than yours has."—Tit-Bits. "Wouldn't you like to be an author?" "Oh, it takes too long to become an author; but, say, I wouldn't mind be ing a literary fad for a while."—Chi cago Itocord-lloraid. "Well, what do you think of things?" asked one ily of another. "I," replied the other lly, "am in favor of the open door and the screenless window."— Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. An easy going fellow with plenty of cash, She found him a very good catch. Whenever she asks him lor pin-money He has to come up to the scratch. —Philadelphia Record. "Great Scott!" exclaimed Starboard, as they turned the corner; "the board- Inghouse is alire." "Let's hurry," sug gested Port; "maybe we'll get some thing warm."—Philadelphia Record. Weary Waggles—"Dey ain't no sick a t'iug es hydrophobia." Willie Wont work—"Aw, I'm on tor youse; youse wants me ter tackle dc houses where dey got dogs, don't yer?"—Ohio State Journal. Frank—"Hello, Charley! Wonder what Dick's doing nowadays?" Char ley—"Guess he's in the horticultural business; he's always talking about the daisies on his street."—Boston Transcript. Author—"l am troubled with insom nia. I lie awake at night, hour after hour, thinking about my literary work." Friend—"Why dou't you get up and read portions of it?"— Town and Country. It was 1 a. in. "Well, young man," said ids indignant mother, "what have you to say for yourself?" "Mother," he mildly replied, "as there is a great deal to be said, I think I'll let you say it for me."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Professor llice and If is Obliging Guest. Professor Rice Is a leadiug chemist of Sydney, New South Wales. Ono day he was visited by a friend, who found him examining a dark brown substance spread on paper. "I say, would you kindly let me place a hit of this on your tongue? My taste has become so vitiated by lasting all sorts of thngs." "Certainly," responded the ovcrac conimodating visitor, 'raiding out his tongue. The professor took up a little of the substance under analysis and placed it on the other's tongue. The latter worked it around for fully a minute, tasting it much as he would a fine con fection. "Note any effect?" inquired the pro fessor. "No, none." "It doesn't paralyze or prick your tongue?" "Not that I can detect." "I thought not. There are no alka loids In It, then. How does it taste?" "Bitter as the dickens." "Heui-m; all right." "What is It?" inquired the visitor. "I don't know. That's what I'm trying to find out Some one has been poisoning horses with It." Kail Time For Artists. Unless some very marked change comes soon in the position of affairs artists will have cause to remember the present season as one of the worst on record. Not for many years have the sales at the art galleries been so disappointing. A daub by a man who has been dead long enough will fetch hundreds or even thousands, while a better piece of work by a living artist will not find . bidder.—London Gloho. MEN WHO OPEN SAFES. They Ai. Not llnrglar., but No I.ock Tan Keep Them Out. "When any one of the manufac turers gets out a now type of safe," said a veteran agent, "he can always be certain of half a dozen customers who will fairly tumble over one an other In their eagerness to purchase. Strange to say, they are not men who are in need of safes; on the con trary, they have safes to burn. They are his business rivals, who are anx ious to lose no time in putting their skilled mechanics to work unravelling the secrets of the new mechanism. "You must understand," continued the veteran smiling, "that the strong est card of a safe agent is the point blank assertion that every lock except his own can be opened by an expert, and he must be prepared to make J good when the statement is ques- tior.ed. I don't think I exaggerate when I say that this one claim is the backbone of the safe business and brings about more sales than all other arguments put together. To Illustrate its effectiveness, suppose I am trying to persuade the officers of a country bank to put now doors in their vault. 'But, my dear man,' they protest, "these doors we have now are nearly .new and are guaranteed burglar proof by & Co.' That gives me my cue. I glance at the vault, smile sarcastically and shrug my shoulders. 'Do you really believe that work Is the slightest protection against bur glars?' I inquire. 'Of course we do,' they chorus anxiously. 'Do you mean to intimate that it isn't?' I don't re ply Immediately, but affect reluc tance, and every director stares at me and breathes hard. 'Well, gentle men,' I say at last, 'I never like to run down a business rival, but since you ask me, I don't mind telling you that we have a man at our works who can oncn those doors any day in less than 15 minutes. That will give you an idea how long they would hold out • against a modern burglar.' Of course such a speech throws the whole crowd Into a cold sweat, but nevertheless they Indignantly scout my assertion, and I proceed to jar them again by calmly telegraphing for ray man. Next day. let us say. the expert ar rives. He is generally a very ordi nary looking fellow, which helps the game along, and I take him over to the bank and Introduce him to all hands as a workman fronj our shops. 'Now, then, gentlemen,' I chirp cheer fully, 'get out your watches and see how long our friend here will be in breaking into your burglar proof closet.' At that the expert walks over, lays his ear against the door and begins to manipulate the combi nation. The chances are he has been studying it for months' and months, and every faint click is like so much plain print. Generally it takes from four to six minutes to do the job, and when the door swings open the poor directors look at each other and groan. After that, it's dollars to "W doughnuts I close my contract. I have been through this little comedy so often." chuckled the veteran, "that I know it by heart; but you musn't suppose that every deal is as easy as the one I described. I selected a simple case as an Illustration, and often the work Is a great deal more complicated. But It all turns on open ing the other fellow's door, and what I wanted to make clear was the Im portance of the professional expert. The moment any novelty Is introduced ho makes it a study and keeps at it until he has devised some method of exhibiting It to its disadvantage. The touch and hearing of men of that class become so abnormally sensitive in time that they appear to be guided by Instinct, and they do things they can't explain themselves. No, I never heard of one turning crooked, and I doubt whether any burglar that ever lived equaled them in skill."—New Orleans Times-Democrat. llorr Atlltnilon Affect l'coplo. "Altitudes affect people In many ways," said a western railroad man. who nearly every day crosses a por tion of the line of that road in Wyom ing, where the altitude is over 8000 feet. "We seldom have any serious cases," he continued, "but we often have our hands full. Men and women faint on getting too high in the air, and wc have to work with them pret ty hard. They turn blue, bleed at the nose and gasp for breath. Our usual plan Is to dash cold water In the faces of the victims and rub their arms, feet and hands. Occasionally the altitude affects a man's mind. The other day we had a school teacher get on with us. As we climbed higher and high er he began to act strangely. Soon ho was in the baggage car talking strangely and declaring that a man was trying to kill him. We worked {v with him to the be3t of our ability, and thought he had partly recovered. At Green River, Wyo., he got off the train as if to got a breath of fresh air, but as he appeared to have returned to full possession of his mind the conduc tor and others of the train crew didn't watch him. They missed him when the train had gone eastward some distance and sent word back by wire to look out for the fellow. By the time the telegram reached the town, however, the man had gone off to Green river, jumped In and drowned himself. All this came about because tho altitude had made the man light headed, and ho was not responsible for his actions." —Washington Star. Not on tho Frogrnin. From Michigan comes the story of a man who stopped at a newspaper office on his way to a theatre and placed an advertisement for a boy. Half an hour later one fell from the V gallory Into his lap.—New York Mail V and Express.