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Talk about sending coal to New Castle! American milliners are now exporting their goods to Paris. It .is estimated that the cost of crime in the United States amounts to $5.50 per capita of the population annually. Insurance actuaries agree that the expectancy of life is on the increase. Of course, the next move will be to make the people pay for it. Uncle Sam has certainly "spread some" when 20,000 miles is the short est route by which he can tow a dry dock from one of his island ports to another. The dirigible balloon has been in vented by a Brazilian living in France. Now what benefactor of the race will invent an automobile which will al ways be safely and securely dirigible? The Memphis Commercial-Appeal says that to solve the servant girl problem domestic service must be made more attractive. It must be elevated. The foolish prejudice that debases it should be destroyed. The gulf between mistress and maid must be closed or bridged. The Boston Herald remarks that there never was a time wheh the na tion was so actively engaged in carry ing out the earnest counsel of Wash ington in the Farewell address: "Pro mote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the gener al diffusion of knowledge." A London paper described a chil dren's excursion as a "long, white scream of joy," and was called to ac count by a correspondent, who said that a scream could be long, but not white. Whereupon the editor justi fied himself by urging that "a hue is often associated with a cry." The United States is the greatest food-producing country of the world. Although this country represents but one-fifth of the total civilized popula tion of the world, it produces more than one-fourth of all foodstuffs. The United States produces 74,000,000 tons of grain of a total of 229,000,000, and 4,500,000 tons of meat of a total of 15,- 200,000 tons. The Americans also pro duce a large percentage of the dairy and fishery production of the world. There is talic of the establishment of a women's college of matrimony to be located in Chelsea, England, where the duties of a wife will become the sub ject of a two-year course of study. The curriculum will embrace not only the usual branches of housewifery, such as cooking, serving and laundry work, but is intended to deal with physiol ogy and medicine as well, so that the students will receive mental discipline in connection with the manual train ing. Hawaii's Lawmaker. The Hawaiian legislature is an in teresting set of men to behold. Though the majority have the rich, dear brown skin of the native, with large lustrous black eyes, there are those of the light skin and blue eyes of the Anglo-Saxon. In two prom inent members already mentioned, tlie oriental strain shows plainly. The brown skins range from the deep chocolate of the pure Hawaiian, and some are almost as light as their white brethren beside them. The na tives are dignified and carry them selves with a grace pleasant to see. As I watch them walking the streets in earnest converse, they seem like So lans indeed, with grave responsibili ties on their shoulders. As they as cend the capital steps wreathed in leis of flowers, the picturesqueness of it all comes to us-, and we feel that they are quite in harmony with the bright sunshine and the tropical sur roundings. A Hawaiian is never with out his wreath of brilliant flowers for a hatband, and this Is one of the charms of the country to a newcomer. Express trains lu Russia do noi rue ©vr 2- miles an hour. NOBILITY. It 1B not that the mountains make the men, In solitary grandeur, but apart— The towering hilltops can but serve to start A sleeping nobleness to life again. The groat-Bouled natures find their province when They join the toilers in the street, the mart, Tneir honest, rugged sturdiness of heart Kindling responsiveness unstirred till then. For such is not the narrow, binding creed, Nor struggle to excel at others' cost— The bickeriug selllsh strife to win who can. On them the Pharisaic oult is lost: Theirs is to seek and help the crying need, To stir in all the majesty of man. —Frederick W illiain Memmott, in the Sprlnglleld Republican. jiraLoSiwiij ! Miss Harlowe's LITE Story. | John Armstrong took Miss Harlowe out to dinner, and neither the dinner nor the diners received any ot his at tention, tor it was entirely occupied by Miss Harlowe. He could not have told what was the first course, nor what was the last, nor what had been said by the lion of the evening, Lieut. Barnum of Cuban fame; but he knew at just what droop Miss Harlowe's curling lashes looked prettiest, he knew every de tail of her gown, he knew just how her brown hair turned to gold where the rays of the electric globes fell upon it. Miss Harlowe held out a twin nut in her pretty palm. "Will you eat a phllopena with me, Mr. Armstrong?" she said. It was marvellous what a softening effect those lashes had on her brilliant eyes, one felt the difference when she looked straight at one and when she looked up from under their silken fringe. Some people said she had hard eyes. Armstrong did not think so. He bent over the small hand and took up the nut as if it were a jewel. "I will do anything that you ask me to do," he said. "But what happens when one eats a philopena?" "Oh, you cannot accept anything from me and I cannot accept anything from you. If one of us does and the other cries 'philopena!' the unfortu nate is obliged to give a pawn." "Those are very hard conditions, altogether unfair," said Armstrong. "Eat it!" Miss Harlowe commanded, imperiously. Then she looked down at her plate. "There is always away to get around the hardest conditions," she said, softly. "Phillipa carried on as usual this evening," remarked the hostess to her husband when the last guest had gone. "I declare, that girl is simply dreadful. She is the dearest, prettiest thing, but she seems to think that all men were created solely for her amusement." ' Mrs. West had a tender heart, and all the evening she had carried with her the recollection of the pathetic gratitude in John Armstrong's eyes when she told him that ho was as signed to Miss Harlowe. She gave an unoffending yellow soft pillow a vicious dig, which might have led one to sup pose that for a moment she had trans formed it Into Miss Harlowe's golden head. Then she gave her husband a hug and a kiss as if to atone to all men for the cruelty of all women. "My dear." said he, "John Arm strong is able to take care of him self." But Mrs. West knew he wasn't. • Phillipa was sleeping the sleep of the just. Probably it was the sleep lessness of the unjust that John Arm strong was experiencing. He had been warned. Other moths who had fluttered about the flame ex hibited their singed wings, or expati ated on the altogether wingless con dition of still more unfortunate vic tims. But where is the moth that was ever saved by good advice? "She Is as beautiful as a picture, and with about as much heart," said Travers. "She is beautiful, and she has a heart to match her face," replied Armstrong. "You fellows have never been able to reach it, that's all. She isn't a woman to be lightly won, and I like her for it." "Lightly won! Good heavens! That's just it; she doesn't want to be won; she only wants to be wooed; John, my boy, I admire your delicious self-conceit and your stubbornness, but I tell you she is just playing with you." "I do not care to discuss Miss Har lowe any further," said Armstrong coldly. And Travers knew that he had said as much as he dared. Phillipa sat in her drawing room, waiting for John Armstrong. She was smiling to herself as she remembered that she had told three men that she would not be at home tonight. "He comes out of his shell when there is no one else here," she said to herself. "What a great, noble head he had! And what a will! I will toll him about the other men." He caftie directly, and she wel comed him very sweetly; but as she looked in his face she saw a certain firmness about the lips and a steady light of purpose burning in his eyes, and she shivered a little. Like Tra vers, she knew that she had gone as far as she dared. She became desperately gay, but Armstrong was In no mood for rail lery. He sat silent and watched the play of the light on her hair, the deli cate rose color that burned in her cheeks, the quick drooping and curv ing of her lips. 'inen he leaned suddenly over her. He was tremendously in earnest, his straightforward nature could brook no preamble. She certainly under stood him by this time. "P'lillipa," he cried, "you know that you are dearer than life to me! Do not put me off any longer. I cannot bear it! You are very beautiful, dear, like some exquisite flower, with all your gifts and graces, and I am only an awkward, abrupt fellow. I have nothing much to offer you, I know I am not wprthy of you, but I can give you a heart that is all yours and a lifetime of love and devotion. Will you accept It, Phillipa?" Phillipa laughed nervously. Then she furled and unfurled her fan and looked up archly. "Accept anything from you? Why, you must think I have forgotten our philopena! Besides, If I did accept, you know, I shouldn't have a thing to give you for a pawn." "Phillipa, do not trifle with mo." "You are very unreasonable!" Phillipa cried, conscious, however, that her eyelashes were falling her for the first time. "You ask me to accept a—a gift just as If there never was such a thing as a philopena." Armstrong rose. His lips were white, his eyes full of pain. He looked down on her a moment, then he said, quietly: "Goodby, Phillipa," and strode from the room. He took his overcoat from the hall tree and dragged it on deliberately. "Like many another poor fool, I see that I have endowed a beautiful doll with a soul." he said to himself with a bitter smile. He jammed his hat down over his head and slid back the chain of the door, then he felt the touch of a hand, and he turned and saw what no one had ever seen before —Phillipa's bril liant eyes all soft and misty with tears. She laid her cheek against his sleeve. , "John, dear John, forgive me!" she cried with a little sob. "I do ac cept, and here, I will give you the pawn in advance." She drew his head down and kissed him, and Armstrong folded her in his arms without a word. "You see, dear," whispered Phillipa, "I couldn't give you my heart for a pawn, because you already had it, long ago."—Venita Seibert in the Chi cago Record-Herald. FISSURES IN VESUVIUS, HuHpicions That Another Rig Eruption la 1 m pending. Professor Matteucci, the careful stu dent of Mount Vesuvius's vagaries, predicts that a new eruption will take place in a short time, and from vari ous indications he feels satisfied It will be no slight one. He has considered it well to utter a timely warning, as eperience has shown that Vesuvius, when it vents its wrath unexpectjpy, does a great deal of damage to persons and prop erty in the vicinity. Professor Matteucci is no alarmist, but bases his prediction on the fact, which he has noticed, that various new fissures are now being formed near the summit"of the mountain, and this in his opinion is an unquestion able proof that masses of lava and other matter soon will be again belched forth. His close study of the volcano dur ing the recent eruption confirms him in this opinion. Day after day he continued his in vestigations, often at the peril of his life, and as a result the account of his work, which he has just forwarded to the French Academy of Sciences, con tains more facts about Vesuvius than were ever known before. He looted the daily changes that took place in the crater during the eruption, and he even measured the height which was attained by the great masses of igneous matter after the mountain had vomited them forth. The largest of these masses ascend ed to a height of 537 metres, and when it fell It occupied a space of 12 cubic metres, and was found to weigh 30,000 kilogrammes. It traveled through the air at the rate of 80 metres a second, and it is estimated that a force equivalent to 000,000 horse power must have been required to send it on its skyward career. This enormous mass fell dangerous ly near the professor. This was not the only occasion, however, on which he almost lost his life, and his friends are still wondering how he managed to escape the constant shower of fiery rocks that threatened him during the entire eruption. At one time it was rumored that he had been killed, but happily this proved to be false, and now many are congratulating him. not only on his good fortune, but also on the skill and forethought which have enabled him to ascertain the time when the next eruption may be expected.—London Mail. All Old Soa-l>oir on lawyer*. There is a passage of curious inter est in the will of the late admiral of the fleet, Sir john Commerell. He wrote: "Having had fatal experience of the iniquity of the law in certain cases, when decisions have been given against common sense and justice, it is my directions that my two nieces who are intended to benefit by the death of my child or children mean the the two eldest children of my sister at the time this will was made, name ly, Edith Bloomfleld and Kate Bloom field, and I entreat the parties inter ested in my will not to appeal to the law if any difficulty may arise, but to arbitration. Having been swindled myself by every lawyer that I ever had anything to do with makes me offer this advice to my heirs, cxocu tors and assigns."—Westminster Ga zette. In Algiers a motor vehicle transport now makes a daily run of 106 miles between two towns where vehicular traffic of no kind has ever before been possible. I A -i j In spite of its enormous size the cathedral of Notre Dame, in Paris, has hitherto been simply lighted by wax candles, as gas, It was thought, would damage the walls and valu able paintings. Now. It is about to be electrically illuminated. The cost of Installing the electric light is esti mated at SIIO,OOO. The English are building a railroad In the African Gold Coast colony from the sea at Sckondl inland toward Kumnssl, and have laid thirty-nine and one-half miles of track, to Tark wn. One of the difficulties in holding these African tropical colonies is to keep the troops alive long enough to get over the lowlands near the coast. Remarkable results have been re ported from a change of natural to forced draught on a steamship. Two Scotch boilers arc now doing the work that formerly required four; the sav ing of coal is four tons per day, al though the average revolutions have Increased three per minute, and con siderable space has beeil gained for frolght. M. Flnmmarion, the well-known as tronomer, Ims been studying the effect of various spectral lights on the growth and habits of silk worms. Re cently he published his observations. He found tl)at white light is the most favorable to the production of silt, and blue light the least favorable. Speaking geneijplly, the warm end of the spectrum is more favorable to the silk worms than is the cold end. Egg shells may be used to ndvanlnge In starting delicate plants for trans planting. The half shells are filled with earth and set in a box also con taining dampened earth. A hole is made in the point of the shell to al low drainage. A single seed Is then planted in each shell, which Is easily broken when transplanting is done, without the slightest disturbance of roots. Tills use of egg-shells Is the discovery of a French gardener, who claims that tney are vastly superior to the little pots generally used for the purpose by florists. There are many gravelly channels of old streams in California in which gold is found in paying quantities. The miners call them "dead rivers." They ran, as a rule, from north to south, and some of the beds are more than two miles in width. The gold was brought down by tlmm from the mountain "ledges. In some eases, the channel, nfter the water had disap peared, served as a course for lava, which hardened over and concealed the gold-bearing gravel. In prospect ing these beds, "melon-seeds" of gold are found, varying in size from small grains to a quarter of an inch in di ameter. - I . The construction of cement houses is under consideration In Pittsburg, Peun., where the millions of tons of furnace slag produced every year could thus be utilized. It has been shown that this slag can be converted Into cement, by known processes, at' a less cost than the one dollar a barrel suggested by Mr. Edison as the result of an invention on which lie is ex perimenting. This cement, it is claimed, can be made fully equal to the best that Is known as Portland, although a lower and a cheaper grade would suffice for house const ruction. Pulverized nnd mixed with lime, the slag has been converted into a su perior plaster,. showing a tensile strength greater than the ordinary sand nnd lime. Cement made from the slag would not only be economical for house construction, but would make practically fireproof buildings. Such use of a product now wasted or used only to fill ravines would also be preservative of the forests. Stammering. C. Blaggl holds that stammering is a degeneration of speech, resulting from an arrest of development in the powers of co-ordination of the move ments essential to speech. Children who stammer usually exhibit other signs of nervous taint. The remedy consists in gradual, patient training of the Individual muscular movements producing speech. By degrees they can be co-ordinated nnd combined. At the same time the pupil should bo taught to control the bodily contor tions and facial grimaces which arc so apt to accompany their efforts to speak. In tills systematic method of exercise, comparable to the patient and constantly repeated efforts neces sary for the learning of the scales nnd exercises on the piano, the child will gradually acquire control of his speech Instrument and become perfect in its technique.—La Tribuua Medico. An Animal Anecdote. A gentleman, while huntihg near a river one winter's day, saw a fox run out on tlie lee and make at full speed for an opening in the ice where the rushing water of the river couhl be plainly seen from the hank. At the edge he stopped, turned, followed his tracks back to the bank and then ran for some distance down tlie stream nnd sat down. Soon a dog came crashing outvqif the woods, baying finely, hot en the fox's trail. Now, dogs when on a chase of tills kind, trust almost entirely to their noses. Tills one was 110 exception. He ran nlong the ice, head uowu, and when he reached the hole he could not stop, but plunged into the water and dis appeared forever. Then the fox trotted sway with every sign of satisfaction. -New York Herald, nULES ACAINST HAZING. Regulations Froraulcateil For the Writ Point Cadets. The War Department has promul gated the regulations prohibiting haz ing at the West Point Military Acad emy, as prepared and submitted by Colonel Mills, the Superintendent of the institution. The regulations are more stringent than any heretofore is sued, and in them hazing is thus de fined: "Any cadet who shall strike, lay hands upon, treat with violence, dis turb in his room or tent or offer bodHy harm to a new cadet or candidate with intent to punish, injure, annoy, molest or harass the same, or who shall with the same intent invite, order, compel or permit a new cadet or candidate to sweep his room or tent, make his bed, bring water, clean his arms, equip ment oraceoutrcmcnts or perform any other menial service for him, or to as sume any constrained position or to engage in any form of physical exer cise, or who shall with the same in tent, Invite, order or compel any new cadet or candidate to eat or drink any article of food or to take into his mouth any article whatever, or to do for him anything incompatible with the position of a cadet and gentleman, or any cadet whose duty it is to en force camp, barrack or mess regula tions who shall permit any new cadet or candidate to eat or drink any article of food or to take Into his mouth any article whatever in violation of said regulations shall be summarily dis missed from the Military Academy." Hazing also Includes any other treatment of a "harassing, tyrannical, abusive, shameful, insulting or humil iating character." Dismissal is the penalty of violation of these regula tions. The practice of duel or person al combat is also prohibited, and the principals and other persons involved or any cadet abusing or condemning another for declining to accept a chal lenge will be dismissed. The regulations are considered very sweeping in their character and such m to cover without question all acts of hazing committed by the cadets.— Washington Times. , > f Getting Rlograph Pictures. "Br-r-r-r-ring! Br-r-r-r-ring! Br-r-r --r-ring!" a quick connection with the desk 'phone of the city manager, and in another moment it is known at bio graph headquarters that a fierce fire and a series of explosions have devas- down-town business black, and tlifit the" loss of life Is estimated at 300. The camera operator and his assist ants receive word; there is a scamper for fire badges, and two minutes later the biograph outfit, which takes 2000 pictures a minute, is handed into the emergency wagon, which has been waiting all day for just such a call. The city manager tu'rives pn the scone to arrange'with fire chiefs and police sergeants for a favorable posi tion for the picture-taking apparatus. The camera is set up on Its tripod, the film-boxes attached, the lens focussed, and Jhe. operator begins turning the cfank. Three iulnujes, Gjo mTrmfrX the" fifwemimt of the exciting scene is faithfully re corded. The film, which may be from 100 to 300 feet in length, is then car ried to the biograph factory, where it is developed in its entirety on reels that carry It through developing solu tions, dried by power-fans, and a "pos itive" is printed from It by electric light. The process takes from two to four hours. That night the catnstrophe of the af ternoon, projected on a screen, seems almost as real to the theatregoer as the actual occurrence was to those who witnessed it—Everybody's Mag azine. A Tcrrlblo Grind. Phe was old and gray and presented a most pathetic picture, sitting within the shadow of the church on the cor ner and bending wearily over her wheezy little handorgan. In the damp ness of the night she shivered and drew her worn and faded shawl more closely about her shrunken shoulders. The tall, fashionably dressed man, standing at the curb waiting for a cab, glanced over at the melancholy figure, and for a moment forgot about his cab. She was somebody's poor old mother, he thought, and maybe she had seen better days. He had a mother once. Fumbling in his pocket, he walked quickly over to the little old woman and dropped some coins into her rusty tin cup. "You must find this very hard, my poor woman," he remarked to her kindly. The dull, tired eyes were raised to his for a moment gratefully, and then the old gray head was bowed again wearily over the little organ "Yes," she said, softly and in a tone of profound sadness, "yes, it is a terrible grind."—New York Times. Tea Growing in the United States. As soon as American inventive ge nius and the adaptation of machinery render it practicable to perform by machinery such share of ihe lnbor now done by hand in China, Japan and Ceylon as to render competition with them practicable, the United States may produce all of its own tea, and much more. The tests hnve been conducted for several years and through several trying winters, and show that the plnnts thrive In our cli mate, while the quality of the tea and the quantity per acre compare favor ably with the highest average in the Orient.—Everybody's Magazine. The Lawyer's Dull Semon. Prosperity means less work for the lawyer. IVhen everybody is making money pieu come together on a friend ly footing and settle their disputes betwecm themselves. Attorneys who devote themselves to criminal practice arc also mlnua many regular clients in good times—Washington Post. Desperate. I'll get licked I'll bet a dollar I don't care Ain't goin' to hol'er, I'll take twenty, Ef I must, But I'll go swimmin' Ef I bust. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Time For Him to Look Out. "I tell you, sir, there Is danger in the higher education of women." "Yes—for the uneducated man."— Chicago Post A Sad Mistake, "He kissed her on the impulse of the moment" said Jaysmith, telling the story. "Why didn't he kiss her on the lips?" asked the Cheerful Idiot.—New York Times. r . Wise. *" "She called me 'pet'" said the wit ness. "Oh!" the lawyer returned, "and what else?" "I don't know. I ran then."—Chicago Record-Herald. Sure Enough. "You said that I was the first girl you ever courted." "Yes, dcareßt." "Well, what made you look under the sofa before we sat down?"— Ch icago Record-Herald. Twenty Years Ilonce. "Is he what you would call a self made man?" said one multimillion aire. "I should say so," answered the other. "Why, I can remember the day when he had scarcely n million dollars to his name."—Washington Star. ;: Jj . Tact In the Courtroom. The courtroom was hotter than the Soudan in a sandstorm. The Judge was a wreck, the jury had wilted. "Your Honor and gentlemen," said the attorney for the defense, "I will indulge in no heated argument, but proceed at ouee to marshal the cold facts." And he won his ease.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Thoughtless Woman. Mr. Krusty—"Well, it's too late now. Why didn't you come to my office when you were downtown to-day and tell me all this?" Mrs. Krusty—"Why, I didn't think to stop at your office." Mr. Krusty—"That's just like you. j If you'd only stop to think occasion ally, perhaps you would have thought to stop."—Philadelphia Press, ' 1 —— - - ' Help Wanted—Male. Mrs. Hauskeep—"Goodness! This meat is absolutely raw. This new I cook is wretched; she never cooks anything half enough." Mr. Hauskeep—"Don't blame lier. She's only a woman." Mrs. Hauskeep—"What has that to do with it?" Mr. Hauskeep—"Well, 'woman's work is never done,' you know."— Philadelphia Press. Proud of Her. "I want to get your wife interested in our new system of manual train ing," said the woman with a short skirt and a felt liat. "Well," answered Mr. Meekton, "you can come In. But If you are trying to teach Henrietta anything about training a man I'm thinking you are wasting your time. Henrietta can come pretty near giving lessons In inauunl training, Henrietta can."— i Washington Star. V Deserved Promotion. It was a sultry afternoon, and the teacher of a geography class was en deavoring to get u few good answers before the closing of the lesson. "Now,. boys, the word 'stan' at the end of a word means 'place of.' Thus we hnve Afghanistan, the place of the Afghans; also Hindustan, the place of the Hindus. Now, euu any one give an other example?" "Yes, sir," said the smallest boy, proudly; "I can. Umbrellastan, the place for umbrellas."—Tit-Bits. Entitled to Damaged. "But why," asked the lawyer. "ilq you wish to sue this critic for libel?" "Because of the irreparable damage he lias done to my reputation as a poet," replied the writer. "But in the line of criticism " > "Ah, but this wasn't criticism. I J could have stood fair, honest criticism, * even if unfavorable, but this was bitterly and unnecessarily cruel and damaging. Why, sir, lie said that my productions were excellent specimens of what are now known us literary magazine poems."—Chicago Post. AVbnt lie Sought. "Yes," said the architect, "I can build you a nice summer home for about 5800." | "That's whnt I want," returned the perspiring Individual, "and It's cheap enough, too." "Right out In the woods," went OD the architect. "Woods!" exclaimed the perspiring individual, "Woods!" "Oh, well, on the shore of the lake, then." "On the shore! A summer home on the shore!" "Certainly. Where would you have It?" "Under the water, sir; under tlie v waier," said the perspiring individual emphatically. "You don't seem to understand that this is a summer home that I want."—Chicago Post. r
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