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AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN. Greater Community of Interests Than lu Auy Other Country. America ia the land of homes, and taking into account tho number of in habitants, no larger proportion of its inhabitants live in boarding houses and hotels than do those of England. It is also to a much greater extent than any other country of the world the land of equality and community of interests between men and women. If one takes the typical American husband and wife one will certainly And that their common interests are many; that tho wife is a companion to her husband, and that, knowing she is his intellectual equal, the American man discusses freely and confidentially with his wife his professional and business relations to a far greater ey tent than does the typical English.; man. Club life among married men '/s not nearly so common in America as in England. Throughout the length and breadth of the United States thou sands upon thousands of husbands and wives spend their evenings reading to gether the books and magazines, or the wife doing a bit of fancy work or mending while the husband reads aloud from the newspapers. Many American husbands and wives have taken up what is known as the "Chautauqua course"; many a western farmer and his wife thus spend their winter eve nings. Then let us take the young unmarried men and women of my country. Surely they do not lead very separate lives, and their interests in common are many. Who takes the American girl to tho museums of art, to the theater, to the concert? Who sends her presents of bonbons, books, and flowers, all for the pleasure of her society and companionship? It is the American young man. He can do it, too, without feeling that his attentions will be misunderstood, for America is the land of good comradeship between men and women. There friendship, deep and lasting, without any thought of love making, or marriage, may ex ist between the unmarried of the two sexes, and it seems to be the only country in the world where it can ex ist. Certainly such a state of things between the young men and the young women of a country points not to a separation, but to a community of in terests.—Elizabeth L. Banks in Lon don Mail. EDUCATING WITHOUT BOOK 3. Children May He Taught Rudiments of Sciences While Playing. No one doubts the tax that the care of a child is to her mother. Every mother knows there is no release, the strain is wearing, and children should not be continually with their mother. But when they are with her every mo ment should be valuable, mentally and morally. How many women devote their lives to the study of music, or preparing for the stage. They give up social life, pleasure and amusement and spend enthusiastic years in study. An interest like that In the training of a child brings sure results of good. Ella Wheeler Wilcox in speaking of the education of children says wo might call "reason, judgment, intelli gence and fimness tho walls of a room while love and sympathy represent the atmosphere within these walls. Then there should be a roof of patience and a spire of faith to make this building worthy the name of home." Children may be taught through their plays the rudiments of the sciences. A Noah's ark with 10 minutes time each day from father, or older playmate, will educate a child in the habits and ap pearance of every animal existing, and the child will never know he Is being taught. A friend being skilful with shears and needle says she learned the art. when a child by being taught to make her doll's garments. Her moth er showed her how to work carefully and always spoke as if the doll's ward robe was of as much Importance as her own. Even taking the trouble to rip one of her own seams when she saw the child was doing poor work, saying, how necessary it was to do a thing right. Geography may be taught by pretended trips to various countries found in different corners of the room, telling of the different natives, animals and foliage found there. Natural his tory Is taught during every walk the parent takes with the children. The ant in its hill, the bird and bee and flower. These true and useful tales are no more tax to the parent than Mother Goose rhymes, and they make the foundation of the child's education and future. SPEAK IT OUT. If you've anything to offer that will aid the cause of right, .Speak it out. If you've any truth within you that will lend the world a light, Speak it out. If the fire is in your spirit and the passion to create, You will feel it, you will know it. Then to labor. Do not wait. Go about it with a pufpose that will con quer time and fate. Speak it out. Should your heart contain a message, make it terse and make it clear. Speak it out. If it's new and if it's true, the world will listen, do not fear. Speak it out. In the realms of soul, expression is the dominating need, Tell your thought by art or music, by a word or by a deed. If there's light, or love, or beauty in the product, men will heed. Speak it out. Do you say there's nothin new? Some thoughts bear telling o'er and o'er. Speak them out. Just be sure you say them better than they e'er were said before. Speak them out. Do you make the weakling's plea that all the changes have been rung? Still we are but babes in progress, for the world as yet is young. On the future's lips are sweeter songs than ever have been sung. Speak them out. There are other means than tongue-or pen to tell the things you feel, Speak them out. There's the chisel, there's the brush, by which your dreams you may reveal, Speak them out. Should you have no gift for these, yet do not deem your quest in vain; Be a worker, for by actions men their ends may best attain. Let the deed be your interpreter to make your message plain. Speak it out. Do you thrill with God's great purpose, that impels you to aspire? Speak it out. Does the hope of something better burn within you like a fire? Speak it out. Never called the world for loaders, teach ers, prophets, as to-day. If you have, for love of humankind, a cheering word to say; If your brain contains a thought to help upon the upward way, Speak it out. —J. A. Edgerton, in Denver (Col.) News. 7T N Intel-family quarrel between / \ two houses up on Lynn street, with the consequent estrauge d ment between Conductors Grimes and O'Connor, fathers and hus bands of the wan-lug groups respec tively, were powerful factors in the lust chapter, hut Casey's sweetheart, with the sunlit hair, was the cause of the trouble. She was innocent of all evil Intent, hut between her comeliness and Casey's feelings, the most serious consequences nearly resulted to both parties, not to mention two train loads of Italian laborers and a hunch of the company's money. And If It had not been for that Lynn street feud and the fact that both train crews took sides therein—well, Casey and the girl would not have gone picnicking the next day. How the feud originated no one seemed to know, not even Casey, and afterward he was too glad to accept the hare fact to Inquire. But ufter the "kids" the mothers took It up, and the fathers had to follow suit to keep peace In their own families. It was serious by this time. Each of those two men had said things which had been passed along by mutual friends till neither would speak to the other. Oh, they were sore hearted. They met face to face that morning In the little booth next to the olilce where Casey the train dispatcher held the chair. One glared into space and the other scowled, and they passed. Casey saw them and laughed, and later in the day was thankful that It was so. Casey's division ran from Janesville up to Baraboo or thereabouts, and Grimes and O'Connor were in charge of the two gravel trains working the cut north of Janesville. Their trains loaded and shoveled off alternately at the cut and the till, as the case might be, and small were the civilities that passed between crews. Casey was rather a young man for so responsible a calling, hut there was one line besides train dispatching at which he was even less experienced, and he was lindiug constantly that his pathway was beset with new perplex ities and wonderments. This morning he was absent minded, subject to un wonted starts and other symptoms. Casey hardly knew what was w'roug. hut he suspected strongly, and so did Annie. It was hard to conllne his brain to the work In hand. Instead of train numbers and switches and sid ings and stations his mind was iillod with such irrelevant matters as the shape of a certain young woman's nose, and the way tno sun shone in her hall*. Hut he pulled himself to gether and got the hang of the day's work before things began to snarl up. The alternating gravel trains were attended to early. Conductor Grimes and Ills fifty Italian laborers were sent back to the cut to finish loading their train with gravel. O'Connor and his gang were put to work for a while at the fill, unloading the flat ears that had been filled the night before by the steam shovel. All this was easy. The passenger trains and the through uud the way freights were reported O. K., and Casey allowed his mind to wan der just a little, prospecting on the quality of picnic weather he and Annie would get to-morrow for their trip up the river. Then he was called hack to earth by a message from the opera tor at the cut five miles above. Grimes wanted to run up to the water tank, three miles further cn, to fill the tender. Casey gave the right of way. . About this time O'Connor had fin ished his unloading at the fill, and his long train of empty flats pulled up at the station for orders. The fifty "da goes" sat complacently in the sun, smoking their black pipes and saying nothing, like so many graven Images. Casey sent tlicm along the line to the cut for another load. Casey laughed again at the stolidity of the Italians, and wondered if they ever felt as he did. They did not seem to care wheth er school kept or not, but then, they didn't know the condition of the train' dispatcher's mind, although this ought to have been of vital Interest to them. Still, the passengers aud the through and way freights were doing nicely, and it was already 10 o'clock. Just then Aunie came by. She ought not to have done so in business hours, but she wanted to ask Casey what lunch to put up for to-morrow's picnic. The dispatcher couldn't resist. He stepped out for just a little "spiel," a very short one. Annie was such a good hand to "josh" with. Casey returned to his desk at last. Nothing hod happened and everything was all right. The operator at the *•' nE CAUGHT THE I,AST HANDRAIL OF THE CABOOSE. tank wanted Instructions. Grimes' en gineer was ready to go back, but re quested additional orders to take on his train at the cut, aud then go rolling down the lino to Janesville, without waiting for further tele graphed instructions. If Casey had been thoroughly him self he would not have granted it, because such a tiling is irregular in railroad practice, and two trains nearly always get into trouble when they try to pass on the same track. But for ten seconds it slipped his mind that he had given O'Connor the right of way. And In that ten seconds, hav ing Annie's smile before Ills oyi;s and being benevolently inclined to till, he told Grimes' engineer to go ahead. Then he looked out and saw Annie waving at him from across the track. She, too, had forgotten something. Did he prefer beef tongue or ham in his sandwiches? That was all, or nearly all, and it was quickly settled. He preferred ham. • *•*** • But when Casey got back and looked at his order book he turned white. According to the stories In the maga zines he should have drawn a gun on himself or died of heart disease. This is a true account, however, and Casey did nothing of the sort. He shut his lips tight and all the suushiue of the day turned black, and all the pretty things he had been thinking about the girl turned black with it. He Jumped to tho ticker and tried to rouse the operator at the cut. The brute was slow and when he did answer he said that Grimes' train had gone. Gone! Casey was almost reach ing for the gun In the top drawer. But he didn't. He worked the instrument again. "Chase It!" rattled Casey, and the operator chased. Iu the next ten minutes Casey got his first gray hair. Now, from the cut to Janesville It is down grade all the way. The gravel train had stood ou a siding, aud the hrukeman had to jump to catch the caboose after he had locked the switch. The track was bad and good sprint ing was out of the question. The op erator was a long-legged chap, how ever, and ho had a chance. Meanwhile Casey sat still and wait ed. He saw tho wreck, vividly—the steaming ruin of the engines, the heaped up train aud the bodies lying side by side under blankets. Then the inquest and all the rest of tho night mare. There was murder on his hands unless that train was stopped. And if it was stopped—well, there would he words of comment by trainmen, mes sages over tho wire to the division superintendent aud orders not ordered by Casey, aud it would he all over with Casey's railroad career, to say nothing of Aunie and the picnic. O'Connor had left Janesville long ago and now was plugging along up the grade, with numerous curves ahead and fifty dagoes behind. Grimes' train was rapidly gaining headway, string ing out ol' the siding and rattling onto the main track, going faster with every yard. The long-legged operator ran rapidly. Just as the train straightened out for the down grade of the main line he caught the last hand rail of the ca boose and was flung off his feet, hut hung on and climbed aboard. Aud there they stood, the engine puffing and blowing off, and Grimes talking very earnestly with his engi neer when the O'Connor trnlu pulled iu. It was the loug-legged operator who saved the trains—hut It was the backyard quarrel that saved Casey. Crimes scowled, O'Connor glowered, conversation was out of the question, and official Joint reports not to he thought of In the lend that had dis rupted tho neighborhood up ou Lynu street, the poor trnlu dispatcher who had nearly sent the two trains over the Great Divide was forgotten. So Casey and the little lady with tho sunlit hair went on their picnic up the river according to schedule.— Paul It. Wright, in the Chicago Record- Herald. FICHTINC WITH CIANTS. Major Austin's Expedition Along til. Anglo-Abyssinian Frontier. Among the latest joys of empire building in Africa are week long fights with giant savages. In an extremely interesting account of his expedition along the Anglo-Abyssinian frontier, Major Austin tells, among other tilings, of an encounter with the Turkhana, a tribe of giants inhabiting the shores of Lake Rudolph. One night these tribesmen came upon some members of Major Austin's caravan and killed three Soudeneso soldiers. A second attempt to rush the camp was after some trouble beaten off, and when the expedition moved off these gigantic tribesmen hung on to its skirts. It took a month for the caravan to get clear of their country, and during that time thirty members of the expe dition died. The hostility of the Turkhana seems strange in the face of the entirely dif ferent demeanor observed In them by the late Cnptain Wellby, whose useful life was cut short in the unending war. When this gallant officer passed through the Turkhana country he found that the tribesmen fled nt his approach, leaving their villages entire ly deserted. Penetrating Into tho bush the cap tain and his party saw several Turk hana men moving through the forest. They appeared, said the captain, to be filled rather with fear and curios ity than with any intention of hostil ity- These warriors, who moved about the bush In little groups, were men of enormous stature, many of tliera per fect giants ill their build. They were i magnificent specimens of savage man j hood, and all were armed with spears of unusual length. The most curious feature of their personal adornment was their fashion of dressing their hair. It fell in thick, carefully woven masses right down to their waist, forming a sort of net, in which were primitive trinkets and other ornaments. As for the Turkhana women, tlicy were so deadly frightened when they saw Captain Wellby and Ills men, that It was plain they thought their last hour had como. But by his kindliness, and making some little present to thorn each time he encountered them, the captain eventually overcame their fears, and by degrees the Turkhana women, susceptible like nil their kind to the charms of the sons of Mars, lost tho despnlrlng look which had over spread their faces when they first saw the white man. Once, when the captain came upon a party of Turkhanas, the savage giants sprang to their feet and guzed at him iu profound astonishment, making no sign either of hostility or torror. Then, all of a sudden, without any visible cause, they turned and fled, leaving everything behind them but their spears. Somehow these gentle giants seem to have overcome their fear of white men. —London Star. Alligators llccoinliig Scarce. "In five or six years it will be hard to get alligator skins," said William Rnquet, "for the reason that they are all being killed off. Ten years ago It was no uncommon thing to get a skin from ten to twelve feet long, hut now it Is a rarity when we get one eight feet long. "This comes from the use of alliga tor leather in the making of valises. Formerly about the only demand for •the skins was for shoes, hut now there are very few shoemakers who use them. It was a fad, and the fail has gone out of date. But when valises of the skins came in the demand in creased by leaps and hounds. There ore hundreds of alligator hunters aloug the coast and their work is showing plainly. For a long time there were plenty of 'gators along the bayous aud the marshes close to town, but now we have to go to West Louisiana and Mis sissippi and elsewhere to find them." Mr. ltaquet then spoke of the dis covery that the hack of the alligator, long supposed to he useless for leather purposes, Is now used In the heavier valises. Formerly only the skin from the under side was considered of any account, but now all parts of It are of service.—New Orleans Times-Dem ocrat. Eiffel Tower a Meteorological Stn'.lon, The Eiffel Tower of Paris proves to he a meteorological station of unique Interest, owiug to the height of the top most platform above the surrounding country. The great wind velocity is the most striking feature of the rec ords. The normal velocity exceeds eighteen miles an hour, which is more than three times as great as at a height of seventy feet, aud rain gauges are practically useless, ou the top plat form, on account of the force of the wind.—Success. Fox Terrier Caught a Thief. M. Eugene Ditruud, a merchant nt Noisy le See, has a fox terrier for which he would refuse a high price. M. Duraud called on a customer and left his pony cart with the dog iu charge. Hearing a frantic growling, he rushed to the street and found a man in the cart endeavoring to drive off, while the dog had him by tho nape of the neck. The robber was promptly nr rested.—Paris Correspondence New York Herald. THE REWARD OF PATIENCE* Old Bill Jones, He used to kick An' never worked A single lick. An' Hiram .Smith Worked night an' day An' never had A word to say. When workin', Bill Seemed at a loss, An' so they had To make him bos 3. An' Hiram, he Works with a will A tryin' hard To please ol' Bill. —Washington Star* Freddie "What's a kleptomaniac, dad?" Cobwigger—"A person who has money enough to pay for what he steals."—Judge. The Bachelor—"Bah! You save money by stinting your wife." The Married Man—"And you save money by not having any." "Come over and play wid us, Jim my." "Oh, chee, I can't. Graudpa's vlsitin' us, and mamma sent me out to amuse him."—Life. Some people wed, I have been told, ..Because of animosity; But more for love, a lot for gold, A few from curiosity. —Philadelphia Record. "Don't you despise people who talk behind your hack?" "I should say so. Especially at a concert cr during an Interesting play."—Philadelphia Bulle tin. Old Annt (despondently) "Well, I shall not be a nuisance to you much longer." Nephew (reassuringly)— "Don't talk like that, Aunt. You know you will!" Punch. "Look here, boss," said the beggar, "you've given mo a counterfeit." "Is that so?" replied the good man. "Well, keep It for your honesty."— Philadelphia Press. You'll get more praise than you deserve. Though fellow mortals jeer and laugh. You know they will not have the nerve To acold you ia your epitaph. —Washington Star. "How do yon keep your treasurer honest?" "All his money Is marked, and if a dollar of it gets into circula tion we know it and promptly jump on his bondsmen."—Cleveland Plain-Deal er. Kate "Martha declares that the men are all alike." Edith—"Then you can't blame her if she takes the first one that comes aloug. You may de rend upon It, that's just what she will Co."—Boston Transcript. Bunker—"l used to get considerable amusement out of golf." Ascuin— "Ah! Then you don't piny any more?" Bunker—"Yes, Indeed. I was refer ring to the time before X began to play."—Philadelphia Press. "I throw myself upon your mercy," sobbed the 200-pound heroine. The villain sank beneath her weight. "I now realize," lie murmured, "what is meant by the power behind the thrown."—Philadelphia Press. Nervous Tourist—"Stop, driver, stop! There's something wrong! I am sure a wheel's coming off!" Driver—"Ar rnh, be aisy, then, yer honor. Sure, It's tho same one's been comin' off thin these three days back!"— Punch. Finnlck—"lf you'll notice the poets invariably refer to the earth as 'she.' Why should the earth he considered feminine, I'd like to know?" Slnnick —"Why not? Nobody knows just how old the earth is."—Catholic Standard. Tess—"l told Miss Sharpe what you said about her sewing-circle; that you would not join because it was too full cf stupid nobodies." Jess—"Did you? What did she say to that?" Tess— "She said you were mistaken; that there was always room for one more." —Philadelphia Press. Tho Henrih Cricket. Mr. James Helm, of the American Entomological Society, has made a special study of the cricket life of Philadelphia. As a result of his stud ies, he writes: "Most Americans were formerly fa miliar with no other cricket than the black field cricket, hut recently a light brown species with bars of dark brown on its head, has made Its way into our cities, aud this visitor is uoue other tho hearth cricket, the friend of Caleb Pluomer aud John Perrybingle. It cannot bo denied that we have always had, so far as we know, the little min strel; but recent years have seen a very great Increase In their numbers in and around Philadelphia. His chirp is quite different from that of our black crickets, and l:e shows a great preference for the vicinity of a stove, where ho soon lets himself he heard. "The hearth cricket Is found over the greater port of Europe, inhabiting dwellings and outbuildings, hut the insect particularly loves the vicinity of a fire, such a situation as Dickens graphically describes In his 'Christmas Htories.' "—Philadelphia Record. The Mystilleil Ermine. Many of the provident peeresses are already purchasing the ermine robes that they will be required to wear on the great occasion of the coronation, and no doubt their economical fore sight will be repaid, for there is no question but that the price of ermine must rise as a consequence cf the un usual demaiid. To the unfortunate ermine, hunted to death more zealous ly to supply the demand, the chain of onuses and effects must seem very mysterious.—Country Life. If^lSjXgS^B 1 ;| Kummel, a sweetened spit It import ed from Russia and Germany, derives its title from the German name of the herb cumin, with which it is flavored, though caraway seeds are also used | for the same purpose. | Professor Loeffler has suggested tho Inoculation of n cancerous patient with malaria as a means of cure of the ma lignant growth, lie thinks he has dis covered an antagonism between the two diseases, asserting that cancer is n rare disease in tropical countries where malaria is rife. "The spectrum of lighting has at last been photographed successfully. The fact is announced in a circular just sent out by Professor E. C. Pickering, of the Harvard Observatory. With I these spectra as data physicists have an opportunity to analyze tho elements that compose tho flash. It looks as if. the phrase, "quicker than the camera, would have to be substituted for the eld, familiar "quicker than lightning." Eight from decayed moat is one of tho latest discoveries of science. Pro fessor Gorhnm, of Brown University, has found that the phosphorescent glow comes from bacteria, and de pends upon tlie kind of food which the little organisms oat. They will live and grow on almost any kind of food, hut they will not produce light except on highly nitrogenous products. Pro fessor Gorhnm Is tryiug to discover what chemical changes produce this light, and hopes, with this knowledge, to And away to substitute chemicals for living bacteria. It took gunmnkers a long time to find out the right way to make n pro jectlle move in a straight line is to give T it a rotary motion by rifling the gun. It is odd that this principle is instinc tively followed by some of the minute organisms that live in water. There is tho spherlcni-shaped volvox, for ex ample, which always revolves about the axis of progression In moving through tlie water, this revolving mo tion overcoming, with the utmost nice ty, the tendency to deviate from a straight course. If It were not for this motion these little creatures would merely describe circles, making no for ward progress at all. Professor Eric Doolittle, of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, in a recent public lecture on "Double Star Astron omy" introduced a very clever and use ful representation of the comparative eize of our polar system. He said that If a globe two feet in diameter be taken to represent the sun the earth on the same scale would be represent ed by a very small pea, placed in a cir cular path 215 feet distant from it. • The moon would in the same miniature ' system be represented by a small shot moving about tho pea and six inches from it There would he seven other particles revolving about the large globe, the seven other planets, but these are not considered in the model. But, and then comes the inconceivable magnitude of the heavens, the near est fixed star would be represented by another large globe placed SUOO miles away. Dr. Lcborde has made an interesting communication to the French Acad emy of Medicine on ills success In awakening vitality by a method of rhythmical traction which he discov ered. The system has been tried with gratifying results in several cases of attempted suicide by hanging, drown ing and suffocation, rhythmical trac tion in each case being applied to the tongue. The successful experiments described to the Academy we're the cases of two apparently still-born iu- \ fonts. In one instance after operating for an hour the infant came to life as If awakening from slumber. Iu the other case alcoholic friction, flagella tion and artificial injection of air into the lungs were vainly tried before the traction system was employed. This, after prolonged effort, established res piration. Dr. Lahorde lias now con structed an electric motor, by means cf which rhythmical traction can he maintained for hours. Willing to Oblige. An Englishman at a dinner once told a tale of a tiger ho had shot which measured twenty-four feet from snout to tail-tip. Everyone Wa3 aston ished, but no one ventured to insinuate u doubt of the truth of the story. Presently a Scotchman told his tale. ■* 110 had once caught a fish which he said he was unable to pull iu alone, managing only to land it at last with the aid of six friends. "It was a skate uud it covered two acres." Silence followed this recital, during which tlie offended Englishman left the table. The host followed. After returning he said to the Scotchman: "Sir, you have insulted my friend. You must apologize." "I diuua iusoolt him," said the Soot. "Yes, you did, with your two-acre Csli story. You must apologize." "Well," said the offender, slowly, with tho air of one making a greut concession, "tell him if he will take ten feet off that tiger, I will see what I •an do with the fish."—Tit-Bits. Tho Cxvrat. The carat used in estimating the weight of gems is a grain of Indian wheat. The growing of rice is regarded as the safest and surciit cereal produe- , tion, as it is also the most profitable, J*--, rice having the largest use and mar- I ket of all the grains.
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