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A Michigan man climbed to the top j
of a tall tree to shoot himself. After
taking all that trouble he might have
jumped and saved his ammunition.
It has been said that King Edward
looks perfectly at home in whatever
he wears. This is a glad assurance
that h?3 crown will be quite becom
ing.
In English insane asylums forty
seven per 100 of the inmates are men
and fifty-three are women. In Ire
land the proportion is reversed—fifty
two are men and forty-eight are
women.
The Indianapolis Journal thinks that
the transportation problem, already a
serious one, is likely to become far
more so in the near future. Consider
ing its relation to the prosperity of the
country and the price of products,
there is no vuore important problem
for American statesmanship and en
terprise to solve.
Even worse than usual must have
been the "music" rendered by 'hat
barn-storming theatrical company's
brass band on the streets of Clinton,
Mo., the other day. Scarcely had the
discordant notes of the first "tune" be
gun to be audible, when a country
horse hitched near by reared up in
agony and fell dead on the pavement.
A marked increase In pauperism is
reported in London. Last year nearly
4500 more than usual received aid at
the almshouses. Xo cause is assigned
for it. Perhaps we do not have to look
beyond the South African war for it,
because war always brings poverty
and destitution in their most aggra
vated form to the thresholds of the
poor.
Experiments are being made in Eu
rope with alcohol which have been so
successful that certain enthusiasts de
clare that it will lie the fuel of the fu
ture. There is no doubt that means
will be discovered to make a better
use of the heat-generating properties
of alcohol than hitherto. If so, we shall
have no cause for complaint, as we
have the power to produce an almost
illimitable supply of tlic liuid.
The average increase in the length of
railways tliorughout the world is about
11,000 miles per annum, equal to near
ly -Mi per cent, of the total lines ex
isting, which at the beginning of this
century embraced nearly -ISO,OOO miles.
Of the increase during the recent years
*•100 miles per annum are added to the
European system, 3500 miles per an
num to the American system, while
the addition in Asia is at the rate of
250 miles, in Africa 1100 miles, and in
Australia IGO miles per annum.
The annual mortality lists of men
rhot by careless hunters in the Maine
boods are getting very tire.\o..:.. This
season twelve men were sir . and live
of them died. In the Adirondacks the
case is very much the same. One
trouble is that the invading army of
city sportsmen include many persons
who are not fit to be trusted with any
firearm. Another is that the rifles
commonly used carry much too far.
There is a new law in Maine under
which sportsmen who shoot men may
be prosecuted, but it is not enforced.
Why not make every sportsman from
outside the State put up a bond of
SSOOO, to be forfeited if be hits any
thing human? queries Life.
The London postofflce handled
89,576,061 messages in the last 12
jncuUhs. Twenty thousand women are
employed in this service.
I
The average height of the soldiers
In the Civil War was 5 feet BV6
inches.
The first automobile ever seen in
Porto Rico has made its appearance
In San Juan.
JUST LIVE THY LIFE.
Just live thy life In full content,
l)o all thy best with what is sent,
Thou but rm-oivoot what wus meant,
Just live thy life.
Just live thy life. Bo not In fpar.
The strength of wrong shall disappear,
Ami the right is ever drawing near.
Just live thy liie.
Just live thy life. Seem what thou art-,
Nor from simplicity depart,
Ami pence shall eucio upon thy heart.
Just live thy life.
—Jaiuos Lenox Stockton, in Boston Tran
script.
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After having alternately teased and
petted his neighbor Peggy since the
days of their mutual babyhood, Jack
Barstow awoke one evening in Mrs.
Rheinhart's conservatory to the as
tounding fact that she bad grown up,
and that he was head over heels in love
with her; and, manlike, he made ail
immediate mess of tilings. Hence the
little note in Peggy's handwriting
which he had read until he could al
most repeat its contents backward.
"Dear Jack," it said, "please forgive
me for being angry with you last night.
1 think the music and my new dress —
it was a dear, wasn't it? —must have
turned your head a little. You are not
in the least in love with me—that is,
not in the way you think; the idea of
suddenly falling in love with your old
comrade whom you have known ever
since she wore short clothes is posi
tively too funny.
"Don't get grumpy now, because I
won't be absurd enough to think you
are really serious; but when you have
sinokedyour after dinner cigar, aiul
become my usually serene-minded Jack
again, come over tonight and take me
to hear Sembrich. I've got tickets.
"P. S. —Of course I like you, but not
in the way you mean; for Jack —now,
don't get wrathy—it's all very well
for one's dear old chum to golf and
yacht and play at being a lawyer, but
my husband must do different things
than those—things for which I shall
reverence him as I do those knights
who were always ready to strike a
blow for the weak and helpless without
thought of self. We have robbed too
many orchards together for me to see
any halo of romance encircling your
head, you old goose."
"That's just like Peggy," said Jack,
contemplating his office table dejected
ly. "Kxpects a fellow to he a sort of
modern Sir Galahad, rushing around
slaying impossible dragons. It isn't
my fault that I'm not a wonder. I
pulled every wire I knew to get out
of Chickamauga and go to the front,
but I couldn't work it, and I can't
..rag people in here to be clients. What
can I do? "
The empty office offering no sugges
tion, Jack grasped his hat. and light
ing the considerately suggested cigar,
departed, tilled with gloom.
His quick, athletic stride carried
him swiftly up Washington street, and,
heedless of his course, he turned in
stinctively into Temple place, prelim
inary to the shortest cut across the
Common that led to Beacon street —
and Peggy. He would not wait until
evening.
As he rounded the corner he collid
ed sharply with a small newsboy rush
ing in the opposite direction, who,
yielding to superior force, shot head
long into the gutter, his papers flying
broadcast over the muddy street.
With a quick swoop Jack seized his
luckless victim and set him on his
feet. "Excuse me," he said gravely,
to the small boy, "1 am very sorry."
The diminutive boy dug his grimy
fists into his eyes to conceal the tears
anu said, with a gulp: "I'd ortcr seen
yer coming."
Jack stared down at the much he
treckled face. He had expected a vol
ley of recrimination such as he had
heard from small newsboys before;
then, perhaps on the principle that
misery loves company, Jack's heart
warmed to the smail hoy.
"Look here youngster," he said sud
denly, "did you ever have a real hang
up dinner—turkey and cranberry sauce
and fixings? No? Well', come along;
you're going to have one now. Never
mind the papers; I'll buy 'era. And
by the by, chappie, since we are going
to dine together, what's your name?"
"Mike," answered the boy—"Michael
Sweeny."
The head waiter started forward
with a frown at the muddy and dilap
idated figure of a small gamin who,
with much are air of a suddenly
trapped young l'ox, was preceding Mr.
Jack Barstow into this world of pro
prieties and appetizing odors, of spot
less linen and shining silver.
"It's all right, Barnes,." said Jack,
'the boy is with me."
"Turkey," said Jack to the Impas
sive faced waiter; "much turkey, and
cranberry sauce, and pie—unlimited
pie."
Jack stopped abruptly, a flicker of
red creeping into his cheek.
From the table behind had arisen the
murmur of feminine voices, ending in
a perfectly audible exclamation:
"Positively indecent," said the voice,
"to allow that dirty little street arab
in here; there are places, I should sup
pose, more fitting than this for prac
ticing that sort of charity. I really
believe I shall speak to Barnes and
have him sent out."
Jack's jaw set grimly. He hoped
the object of It would not understand,
but the boy rose hurriedly and reached
for his cap. Street life sharpens youth
ful eyes and wits.
"Sit down, youngster," Jack com
manded; "nobody's going to hurt you."
and rla'ng, he turned toward the oc
cupants of the table.
"Madam," he said, with grave delib
eration —Jack Barstow was famed for
his manner—"l beg you will accept my
assurance that this young man, whoso
unfortunate appearance is due in part
to my carelessness, has shown by his
demeanor that he has the soul of a
gentleman; also, madam, he is my
guest."
"Mr. Barstow," oho said, charmingly,
calmly turned to resume his seat, just
in time to confront a young lady with
flaming cheeks and bright eyes. A
young lady who, at the first sound of
his voice, had risen from a seat at a
far table and come swiftly forward.
"Mr. Barstow," she said, charminly
persuasive, "will you not introduce
me to your friend?"
"Peggy!" said Jack softly. Then Mr.
Barstow rose to the situation. "Miss
Cunningham," said he, "allow me Jo
present my friend, Mr. Michael Swee
ny; Mr. Sweeny, Miss Margaret Cun
ningham."
Mr. Sweeny made a wild clutch at
his head, forgetting that his cap was
no longer there, 111s expression a cu
rious conflict between awe and ad
miration as the lady bent toward him
with a winning smile.
'I am glad to wnow you," she said.
"Mr. Barstow is a very old friend of
mine; in l'aet"—Miss Cunningham's
cheeks were crimson, but her head was
bravely erect —"he has asked me to be
his wife, and I am going to say yes.
Will you not be the first to congratu
late me?"
Mr. Sweeny was struggling with
emotions for which he could evident
ly find no words. He was a small boy
and this a large occasion. Mr. Swee
ny swallowed hard, then he spoke.
"Thank you, leddy," said Mr. Sweeny.
He was bewildered, but Mr. Barstow
understood.
"But, Peggy,"- said Jack, a little lat
er, while "Mr. Sweeny" ate turkey—
much turkey and unlimited pie—"you
said in the letter—l thought "
"Well," said Peggy airily, though
the eyes that looked up at Jaelc were
very soft and shining, "I can change
my mind, 1 suppose? I said that my—
er-r—you must do something grand
and noble; Mr. Sweeny and I think
you have."—The Household.
ANOTHER ARTIFICIAL SILK.
This Made of Cotton Fibre Suitably Treat
ed Willi < lleinli-ala.
Several imitations of silk are already '
known to the dry goods trade. One
of the first to bo invented was pro
duced by spinning a soft gummy sub
stance obtained from collodion, or gun
cotton dissolved in alcohol. The
mechanism for drawing this material
out into a spider's web was designed
by a Frenchman, Chardonnet. His
product never had any extensive use,
lor some reason, though it had a beau
tiful lustre. The most satisfactory re
sults have been secured by subjecting
cotton thread to a soaking in alkali,
while under strain. The inventor of
the system was a Mr. Mercer, and the
process is called mercerizing. A great
deal of mercerized cotton is now sold
as such, and a great deal more is mar
keted under names which do not'afford
to the uninitiated an idea of its real
character. In any case, though, it is a
poor imitation of silk, but an excellent
tiling in itself.
Within the last few weeks still an
other plan has been reported from
Germany. As is common in such
cases, the preliminary announcement
is made in a sensational way, and it
probably exaggerates the facts. Still,
it is evident that the process is •iffer
ont from Mercer's, and the claim is
made that the goods are superior to
tuose which are now so well known.
The Wool and Cotton Reporter has
found a description of the new method,
which seems to resemble Chardonnct's
in at least one particular. The cotton
fibre is dissolved completely, but the
chemicals employed are different from
those used by Chardonnet. Our con
temporary says:
A German chemist and an Austrian
mechanical engineer invented the pro
cess. They have obtained letters pat
ent for it in all countries. They mix
copper, ammonia and coiton waste in
a large vat. in about six hours a liquid
of a dark blue color is formed, which
passes into a large filter press, and
then out of small glass tubes into a
mild sulphuric acid hath. It is then
of a gelatinous consistency, and is
caught by a email glass rod, in the
hand of a boy or girl, and reeled onto
a largo spool as it passes through the
liath. The copper and ammonia, to
gether with other chemicals, are de
posited as a sediment, and are used
again. As the threads are reeled, they
receive a bath of cold water from a
siphon. The numerous spools centre
on one large spool, and are then reeled
onto another, and so on, always under
cold water, until all chemicals and
acids are removed. This stage of the
process ore upies about four hours, and
afterward the thread is taken to a dry
ing room.
It is stated thatdhe product is bril
liant in color and finish, and of con
siderable textile strength. The thread
is said to consist e.f 10 or 20 fibres
twisted into one, but it can he made
to any thickness required. The pres
ent price of the product is about 60
percent of real silk. The machines are
small and compact, and are operated
by ingeniously applied electric power:
each machine can be started or stopped
without interference with the others.
The labor, too, is nearly all unskilled,
and the patent is the property of a
corr oration.
ConniHtent.
"Will you have some horseradish?"
said Mrs. Small to her new boarder.
"Thank you, no," replied the latter,
i "I'm a vegetarian."—Philadelphia
I North American.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Little love, little trust; but a great
love brings a great confidence.—Rob
ert Leightcn.
There is only one person you need
to manage, and that is yourself.—T. De
Witt Talmage
The things in life that are worth
obtaining must bo secured with effort.
—Rev. O. S. Kriebel.
Do what you can. give what you
have. Only stop not with feelings;
carry your charity into deeds; do and
give what costs you something.—J. H.
Thorn.
Fatienee and strength are what we
need; an earnest use of what we know
now; and all the time an earnest dis
content until we come to what we
ought to he.—Phillips Brooks.
At the bottom of a good deal of
bravery that appears in the
world there lurks a miserable
cowardice. Men will face pow
der and steel because they cannot
face public opinion.—E. H. Chapin.
The only real relief is in absolute
conquest; and, the earlier the battle
begins, the easier and the shorter it
will be. If one can keep irritability
under, one may escape a struggle to
the death with passion.—Juliana H.
Ewing.
Not till we are ready to throw our
very life's love into the troublesome
little things can we be really faithful
in that which is least and faithful
also in much. Every day that dawns
brings something to do, which can
never bo done as well again.—James
Reed.
Consider the difference between im
pulse and action, between resolving
and doing. Many men are well-wish
ers, but who have no intention of
ever carrying out their better desires.
Few know how to convert impulse
into action and the finer aspirations
into habits and systematic activity.
How often do wc* stand beside men
who have broken the hearts of those
whom they loved.—Rev. Dr. liiilis.
Finish every day and be done with
It. You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no
doubt, crept in; forget them as soon as
you can. Tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, and with
too high J spirit to be cumbered with
your old nonsenco. This day Is all
that is good and lair. It is too dear,
with Its hopes and inldtntionsjo waste
a moment on the yesterdays.—Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
SPAIN'S IRON ORE.
Sim Soils Minion! or Tons to Otlior Lnudi
but ItH! to liny Steel.
The leading Industrial journal of
Spain, commenting on the fact that a
steamship had taken a load of iron ore
to the United States and had just re
turned with a cargo of steel rails, de
plores the almost entire lack of steel
works in Spain and the consequent
necessity of importing steel into a
country that is very rich in iron ore of
me best steel-making quality.
Spain lias been the classic land of
the mining industry since the time of
the Phoenicians, and yet the muin use
the country makes of its rich supply
of metals is to sell them to other coun
tries. The splendid iron ore among
the mountains of the north coast is
hematite of the best steel grade. There
Is plenty of coal with which to reduce
the iron ore, the coal output in some
years being worth as much as $30,000,-
00, but though Spain has every facil
ity for making all the iron and steel
the people need, most of the commodi
ties are imported.
In recent years, to be sure, consid
erable industrial activity has developed
in the Basque province among the
mountains where the iron ore is dug
out of the crust of the earth; and also
in Catalonia, in the extreme northeast
of the kingdom, mainly at the city of
Barcelona and around it. The chief in
dustry is the manufacture of iron and
machinery, but not nearly enough are
made to supply the demands of the
country. So Spain continues to ship
from Bay of Biscay ports thousands of
tons of her fine iron ore to Great Bri
tain, Germany, France and Belgium,
where it is used for steel-making.
Great Britain buys more than one-half
of the ore and most of it is smelted in
South Wales, the chief seat of the Bes
semer steel industry.
There i 3 only one o,iier country that
is a great producer of iron ore and yet
depenus upon other lands to turn this
raw material into pig iron and steel.
That country is Sweden, which how
ever, has a good excuse for selling its
ore instead of making iron and steel
of it. Sweden has practically no coal,
and therefore it is at a great disad
vantage, for it is without fuel to smelt
itß ores, while Spain has both ore and
fuel in abundance.
The Man Million! Renervft.
How quickly a man without reserves
goes to the wall, when anything unus
ual happens to him! Like a baby, he
is all right as long as nothing comes
in collision with him to expose his
weakness.
What a pitiable thing it is to see
bright, strong young men facing an
emergency or a crisis with no reserve
of education, character, or training.
How quickly they disappear! Like a
rowboat on the ocean, when run into
by an ocean liner, or like a frail bark
which strikes an iceberg, the weaker
vessel always founders in the collision.
"He had no reserve," might be writ
ten upon the tombstone of many a
man who has failed in business, in the
professions, or in the home.
One of the main objects of the Arctic
•xpedition to be sent from Norway is
to determine exactly the magnetic
J?rth Pole.
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Lillian Nordica, the famous singer,
ha 3 retained Thomas Brackett Reed,
formerly speaker of the house of rep
resentatives and now a distinguished
member of the New York bar, to han
dle a suit against the government,
whereby the diva expects to obtain a
fortune of $-1,000,000. Mme. Nordica
has just come from Sioux City, where
she met members of the Norton fam
ily, to whom she let out the secret of
her intended assault upon Uncle Sam's
treasury.
Ichabod Norton, of whom Mme. Nor
dica is a descendant, was a great sail
or in colonial day 3. Ho was of the
type of New Engiander now so fre
quently used in the latter-day ro
mance. Like the heroes in the books,
he sailed many seas, and, true to the
romantic notion, collected riches and
finery. About the time the Revolu
tionary war was begun the indomita
ble Ichabod risked every penny among
his numerous assets on a far eastern
journey. He stocked his ships with
the choicest gewgaws, jewels and silks,
and then turned the prows of his lit
tle fleet homeward.
Mme. Nordica would not now be
paying Mr. Reed a magnificent re
tainer's fee, nor would she be forget
ting to acquire a new coon song in
her dreams of new luxuries, if Captain
Norton had not fallen in with a col
lection of French privateers. But this
was Just his luck. The Frenchmen did
not know what the word "America"
meant, and, not knowing, they did not
think it exactly wrong to inspect
American barques.
On looking into the holds of the ves
sels they saw things that dazzled their
eyes. While bearing no ill will toward
Captain Norton or his countrymen,
the Frenchmen believed they could use
the fine things in the American's boats
Mme. 1.111 lit>i Nordica.
to much better advantage in Paris.
So tho privateers seized tile treasures
of the courageous salt and politely in
formed him that he might proceed
without fear of further harm.
Norton was ruined, and soon after
ward he saw an opportunity to re
trench when the new government at
Washington was formed. He placed
his case beforti the state department
and was gratified to hear steps would
be taken for indemnity from the
French government. This indemnity,
according to the tradition of the Nor
ton family, was paid to Uncle Sam,
and amounted to between $3,000,000
and $4,000,000.
But the money as far as the Nor
tons ever knew remained in the strong
box of the United States treasury. Tho
French spoliation claims have been be
fore Congress for a century, and some
of them have been adjusted, but the
one in which Mme. Nordica is inter
ested is still pending, owing to the
inability of the heirs to come to an un
derstanding as to the relative demand
of each individual claimant. For two
years past Mme. Nordica's sister, Mrs.
Walker, has been endeavoring to ad
just the differences of opinion among
the claimants, and they have at last
reached an agreement whereby the
claim when allowed will be distributed
among tho heirs on a basis already de
termined.
Within the last two weeks the heirs
held a meeting and employed counsel
to press the claim. Mme. Nordica ex
pressed confidence that the claim
would be allowed as soon as all the
facts are properly presented.
Speaking further, Mme. Nordica said
that she could trace her ancestry back
to Sir Peter Norton, who came to
this country in 1600, and that she
was also a descendant of the Aliens,
ono of whom had married a daughter
of Miles Standish. The Mortons and
the Aliens had frequently intermar
ried. George Allen was the first mis
sionary ever sent out of England and
was a man of good repute and great
influence iu the early days of this
country.
Fortune from Husband.
Mme. Nordica's fortune has twice
been increased by money from the es
tate of her former husband, Fred C.
Gower, to whom she was married in
Paris in 1882. He was reported to have
perished In an attempt to cross the
English channel in a balloon soon af
ter his wife had begun a suit for
separation in 1885. He was supposed
to have left a fortune of $500,000, but
was believed to have put most of it
out of the reach of his wife.
Mme. Nordica was reported in 1894
to have relinquished all claims to the
Gower estate in consideration of a
cash payment of $40,000 and in 1593
is said to have received $25,000 for
her signature releasing her dower
rights in an estate near Brooklino,
Mass., near the Country Club proper
ty there.
Fred C. Gower has since been re
ported as alive in India and elsewhere
and in 1894 he was reported to have
been seen in Boston.
A PAINTED DINNER.
Very Pretty Affair Devised by an Orig
inal Woman.
Apropos of dinners, a woman, noted
for her originality and the courage of
her convictions, gave what she called
a painted dinner the, other day. She
dubbed it a painted dinner because
the color scheme was so vivid and in
tense, like the hues of the painted lady
butterfly.
The table center was Parisian—bi
zarre in the extreme—square of thick
white silk crossed by wovenlines of
turquoise satin toward the middle, and
broad bars of black splashed with
silken flower petals, mauve, red and
tawny yellow. A great silver bowl,
raised on a stand of finely carved
ebony, held a mass of zinnias of every
shade possible of that gay flower,
toned by trails of maidenhair. Maid
enhair was laid here and there upon
the table.
Candle shades, like the silk center,
hailed from Paris. On each of these,
in a framed medallion, was painted a
dainty dancing lady, and each, when
lighted, changed from an etching to
a brightly colored vignette by some
trick of the shade makers. The menus,
too, were painted in trails of autumn
leaves, and the fruit, piled in high
silver dishes, was decorated with tint
ed Virginia creeper. Each Venetian
glass fingerbowl held a leaf of scented
verbena and one blossom of blood-red
canna. The silk doilies were painted
like the candle shades, while the bon
bons, specially made, were packed in
silver baskets, and repeated half the
colors of the table.
Kansas Has Woman Undertaker.
Kansas is one of several states that
boast of a woman undertaker. At a
recent undertakers' convention she
said that embalming was an especially
lucrative profession for women, and
that they would find co-operation from
the men of the union.
The cost of schools for Indian chil
dren to the government was $2,489,525
in 1900. The enrollment was 26,541.
Lucky is the girl who marries the
best man at the wedding. t