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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."
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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
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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.