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LABOR WORLD. Cincinnati school-teachers arc to or ganize a union. A light against tho Garment Makers' Union has been tartod in Chicago by locking out 500 workers. Engineers at the electric power plant in Tcrro Haute,lud., quit work out of sympathy with the striking street car men. The new scale adopted by minors iu convention at Pittsburg embraces an increase of ten cents a ton in th price of mining. Six hundred striking woodworkers have returned to duty in the American Car and Foundry Company's plant at Jeffersonville, Ind. The first break among independent glassmakers is tho Marion Glass Com pany, Marion, lnd., which has signet. the inion wage scale. Doylcstown (Penn.) mechanics de mand an increase of twenty-live cents per day in wages, lifty-uiue hours to constitute a week's work. A petition from the trolley employes to the West Jersey & Seashore Rail road Company, which operates the road, for an increase of wages from sixteen and two-thirds cents to twen ty cents an aour, has been refused. The Houscsmiths and Hridgemen's Union, of New York City, which has a membership of 3000, has reported that it is prepared to enforce its new de mands, which go into effect on May 1. The demands are $-1 a day for eight hours, .SI an hour for overtime, and the Saturday half-holiday. It was definitely decided by the Unit ed Mine Workers, in session at In dianapolis, lud., to demand a ten per cent, incre .se and an absolute run of the bduos, and to tlx the differential at ten per cent. he-.ween pick and ma chine mining. In addition to this a uriform scale for till outside day labor will be demanded. Two years ago an •yn roase of 22 21-100 cents was secured by the liiiue workers. SPORTING BREVITIES. Jockey Spencer will ride for J. R. Keenc in Knglaud next season. Horace Fogel has been engaged tc manage the New York Baseball Club next season. It seems that Louisville wants an American team now, and has a good I cuance of getting it. Philadelphia racquet players have defeated New York players in two matches at Philadelphia. Radical changes in the management of the United States Golf Association are demanded by members. New York City will have a trottiug meeting next summer at the Brighton Beach track on August 11. Harvard graduates are to bo called upon to assist in raising a fund of $20,- 000 to defray the expense of a college golf course at Waltham, Mass. A new world's record for trotting on the ice has been made by Royal Vic tor, of Carthage, N. \ T ., covering the mile iu 2:10. The former record was 2.18 The California Jockey Club, of which Thomas Williams is the President, is seriously considering the advisability of adopting the English Jockey Club's scale of weights. Ferry Hale, the noted Yale full hack in 1000, who coached Exeter Academy last year, has just been engaged to <x)ach the football eleven of Ohio State University at Columbus. Harry Hess, who made an excellent record as a pitcher for Buckuell Col lege, Ims been added to the ranks of the Philadelphia Nationals, He is rated as another Mathewsou. Sir Thomas Lipton is to he invited to the Olympian games, which will he held in Chicago in 1904. A special in vitation will be sent to liim, not ouly because he stands so high in the world of sport, but also because yachting events, in which he has been so promi nent, will be made a feature of the con tests. Sewing Machines as Loot. Above all things Tommy Atkins' heart loves a sewing machine. Al though he must know that he can never succeed in getting it homo 10 England, yet if he finds one in a Boer farm he will tow it along with him, overburdened as he already is, upon the mach. For miles he will martyr his existence with some obsolete and cumbrous machine until such time as sheer physical exhaustion or an irate company officer prohibits further pain ful possession of the prize. Wherein the exact fascination lies is a mystery, but grizzled reservist and callow re cruit alike cannot resist this house wife's help. The largest order of merit in the world is the F.rench Legion of Honor, which now has reached half a million members. RTisions, visions of the night, Wherefore are ye given? Tempting is your fleeting light As a glimpse of heaven; Tempting, your but too brief smile Angels of my vision; Linger, linger, then awhile, Make my heart elysian. jjj Spirits, in your silent flight, Tell what are ye teaching? Priesthood of the starry night Say what are ye preaching? Why this music? Who are these Looming now before me. Born upon the wandering breeze, Whispering softly o'er mt? / —> TJNDAY morning, while Mrs. ( WllUins was at eliurch with iGj Tommy. Mr. Wilkln9, iu flefl nnce of the social otbics of Lake Hill, put on his overalls, and, rake in hand, attacked the carpet of dead leaves that covered bis lawn. Ho knew that his wife would make a scene if alio caught Idm, and he know that his Sabbath-brcaklng would fur nish another argument against subur ban life, and he anticipated considera ble guying from his male neighbors, and yet, in spite of all these misgiv ings, he raked the leaves into rustling piles and watched with dogged satis faction tlie columns of blue smoke that rose among the oaks from his unholy tires. Wilkins had employed seven different "hired men" since spring. None had stayed more than a month, ami none had carried away either the esteem or good will of Mrs. Wilkins. Most of them wore worthless, some dishonest, some lazy and some lacked that regard for the proprieties which the woman of tho house insisted upon. So it came to pass that Wilkins had a hard time get ting, to say nothing of keeping, u ser viceable hired man, and when the leaves began to fall his lawns, gardens, vines and orchard were in sad case, his chicken-house needed repairs, his coal cellar was empty, his winter kindling was unchopped, and Ills loyalty to su burban life was tottering. Therefore he had defied all precedent and 011 Sunday morning attacked the work with his own hands. W I W"■ • -liVjipif c// .CyAt; ■ i . * v'j 1)i m PPM mET p \/> i.H, ■ [{ j® pli ') 1 7' | 7/ I( I I >' /> V k '// WATCHED THE COLUM NS OF BLUE SMOKE. While he was bending over a russet I mound of leaves he heard a voice: "Mister, I'll clean up that lawn for ft meal." Xt was a low, strong voice, musical of tone aucl so opportune that Wilkins let his rako fall and looked about. The stranger was a tall, lean young man, dusty from a long walk, but trim and clean as to clothes and person. "I'll Just go you," said Wllttins, open ing the gate. The big fellow walked In, dropped his coat on the ground, and fell to work without, a word. After getting back into his Sunday garments tho man of the house watched Ills res cuer. The latter had laid aside his round, felt hat, disclosing n bullet head, closely shaved. The worker's clothes, new, cheap and coarse, ill lit the wearer, and as Wilkins watched him swiftly and silently clearing away the dead grass, weeds and leaves, liis heart misgave him, and he murmured to himself: "An px-conviet, I'll bet." Mrs. Wilkins soon came home with Tommy and eyed the stranger askance. When she had noticed liim eating heartily but decorously, and had ob served that he know the purposes of knife, fork and spoon, she darkly hinted to her husband that there was "something mysterious" about the new comer. When Wilkins felt sure that his wife hadn't guessed the probable truth he resolved to offer the man a Job, and as the latter passed out the walk toward the road, ho stopped htm with: ".My friend, I like the way you work, ami I like your looks, and if you'll stay I'll give you $4 a week and your board, Just to keep up the place, tend tho chickens and the furnace." "Thank you, sir, I'll try it," was the answer. "You don't keep a horse, and I won't have to go to town!"- MADELINE. Know ye little Madtiine, My sweet, my brown-eyed daughter? Sines she now the songs divine, 0 er the living water Where the bright birds stoop to lavs In the crystal river— In the iris-crested wave Flowing on and ever? Visions, visions of the night, 1 would hear her story- Bring her in your silent flight. Bring her back in glory; Bring her with her songs divine, Though the angels sought her — Little, laughing Madeline, My sweet, my brown-eyed daughter. —llobert Mackay, in the Home Magazine. "No. Just stuy here on the place, and do whatever you see necessary," explained Wllkins, fully understand ing the man's dislike to going into town. "All right, sir. My name is James Green." Wilkins showed the tall, gaunt fellow over the place and pointed out the room over the carriage house where he was to sleep. Tommy, who was ten years old, trotted after them, deep ly interested in the stranger. Of course Mrs. Wilkins didn't approve of her husband's choice. She "felt sure that there was something wrong" about Green and as days went by he proved himself a splendid gardener and a most useful person in divers unex pected ways, she was grieviously dis appointed. What enraged her most was Green's taciturnity. Every effort of the cook aud house girl, prompted and encouraged by Mrs. Wilkins, failed to elicit a hint about himself. At meals he was as silent as the tomb. During the day he kept busy at the back of. the two-acre lot. at night he sat in the barn doorway, telling stories to Tommy and smoking his pipe. Between him and the boy there sprang up an extraordinary companion ship. The man. silent with all others, began to tell his little comrade the rarest and most extraordinary stories of shipwreck, of battle, of wild beasts, birds aud adventures of all kinds, lie knew (lie habits of birds aud in sects, of reptiles and fishes, aud these he explained to Tommy with infinite care until tlie boy came to (lop lilt footsteps autl sit beside liiru at all liours. Tile carved wooden toys, plaited whips of horse liuir and leather and deftly fashioned bows and arrows thnt Green made for Tommy were the won der and envy of the boys of the neigh borhood, but they convinced Wilkins that his hired man had spent much time in some penitentiary. Mean while, as day by day she failed to penetrate the atmosphere of mystery which surrounded him, Mrs. Winkins grow more suspicions. When she found out. thnt lie didn't want to go to the village during the day, she con trived errands that would take hint there. At last lie quietly hut positively refused to do Iter bidding, explaining that Mr. Wilkins had absolved Uim from any duty but such as be could And on tlie place. He had been two months on tlie place before lie spoke more than a dozen words to ids employer. Ho had worked well, asked 110 favors, made no mis takes. Under tiis assiduous efforts tlie Wilkins place bad taken on new signs of prosperity and beauty. Then he came to Wilkins one evening and said that he'd like to spend one day in Chicago, lie wanted to buy some clothes, he said, and would like to have his pay. There was .sll.' due him, and Wilkins hail only a $-0 bill. "All right, Green," said the big hearted suburbanite, "here's a iwenty. Von can bring me back the ckahge; and. let's see, here's nty commutation ticket. It'll save you paying railroad fares." Mrs. Wilkins overheard this talk, and when Green was out of hearing proclaimed iter husband a fool, a waste ful. gullible, stupid fool. "Thnt man Green will never come back," she snapped. "See hint!" point- ing across the lawn. "He's not even going toward the depot. He's a tramp, maybe a murderer, and he's gone off with your money, and your ticket Wilkins, you're a simpleton." Willcins was a little doubtful when lie noticed the course taken by his "model hired man." The next evening added to his misgiving, for at sundown Green had not returned. Mrs. Wllkins began to gloat when the 8 o'clock train had passed, and there was no sign of the missing gardener. Then the doorbell rang, and the girl an nounced "a lady to see Mr. Wilkins." He found it youngish woman, with much jewelry and very pink cheeks, smirking at him as he entered the par lor. "Mister Wilkins," she began, "a lady fren' o' mine what lives out here tells me theys a man workin' for youse, an' if I ain't much mistaken he's my hus band. He's a tuljj sandy feller, don't talk much, and—he's done time at 1 Joliet, flud " Mrs. Wilkins entered here. "What do yon want with him?" asked the lady of the house. , The visitor wgs beginning to explain when Wilkins heard footsteps falling faintly on the walk outside. He slipped quietly out of the room and into the yard. Green was coming up the back steps Into the kitchen, when Wilkins stopped him with: "Well, I see you're back all right." "Yes, sir," said the gardener, pulling out the railway ticket and SB. "There's your change and the ticket." Wilkins noticed that the latter wasn't punched. "I walked," explained the man. "I don't, like trains." Wilkins led him across the lawn and told him that there was a woman in the parlor claiming to bo his wife. "A blonde, vulgar-looking woman?" said Green. "Yes. She's in there now, talking to my wife." "Well, sir, if you'll just let on that you didn't see me this evening, I'll be grateful. I'm tired now, and I don't want to see that woman, at least uot to-night. Please say that I'm not here, and won't he hack until to-mor row." So Green .slunk off to bed, and tho blonde woman was sent away, prom ising to call again. In the morning Wilkins found Green's bed unrumpled. On the coverlet was a new leather whip, with a card inscribed "For Tom my. Good-bye." The Wilkinses never saw or heard of him again, and Mrs. Wilkins never knew that he had come home that night with the change and the ticket. "I always know he was a scamp," she said, proudly. "I knew he'd run away and he did." "Well, I don't blame him," mused Wilkins, lighting his pipe and smiling at the memory of the blonde woman with tho brummagem jewelry. "I'd run away myself, under the same circum stances."—-John ID. Battery, in the Chicago Becord-Hernld. Tramps on the Cars. The box car is often entered by springing the door off its iron way at the side opposite the seal. A party go ing one way will do this for a party going the opposite direction, and then, when all are in, springing the door back again. Since everything exter nally is in 1 lie best of order, long trips may be made in this manner without disturbance or interruption. Now and then the prisoner is ex posed to danger of starvation. A case of this kind has been related to me. where only the accidental visit of a train hand saved a man from death. The brakeman inspected the intruder's papers, and, finding that they showed him to he in good standing in his union, took him out, fed him up, and then re placed him—to finish his journey in peace. The hero of the incident is a printer, who has been leading a settled life now for thirteen or fourteen years. Ilut lie says he still feels a longing to be off again whenever spring comes. A railway accident, whether by water or fire, is a very serious affair to passengers of this sort. Y'ou have doubtless read more than once, as I have, of tramps drowned like rats, or burned or crushed to death while stealing rides in this fashion. Biding the trucks is done in various ways. A locomotive engineer of my acquaint ance has shown me the precise spot from which he has taken out two men at one time. It was on the rear truck of tlie tender. They were rest ing, face downward, on the truck beam, with just eleven inches of ver tical space for their bodies, by actual measurement.—The Independent. Breastworks or Snow as a Defense. Recent experiments made in Norway have proved tlint snow Is a Rubstauce which offers a surprising resistance to penetration by a rifle bullet. Its re sistance lias been found to be far greater than wood, though not, of course, so great as earth. It was shown that a wall of snow, four feet thick, is absolutly proof against the Nortvei gan army rifle, which is an arm of great penetrative force. Volleys were fired at the snow breastworks, first at a distance of half a mile, and then gradually at decreasing distances, until the range was only fifty yards, and the white walls were not once penetrated. This suggests a new means of field defense In winter campaigning, snow being much more easily handled than earth or sand bags. Troops intrench ing themselves in snow banks would be a novel and picturesque sight. It is disputed whether or not Andrew Jackson made use of cotton bales in his defenses at the battle of New Orleans, though he got the credit for having done so. Whether ho did or not, he will have to give place in the matter of novel breastworks to the general who shall first use field forti fications of snow. The Hidden Smile. When Good Luck cornea, once in a while, Wc hold our hands up high and smile, And fancy, in our childish way, And in our self-important style, That she has come to stay. When 111 Luck coincs we go about With aching hearts and full of doubt, Forgetting as we tret and fuss That Good Luck, somewhere peeping out, Still lias a smile for us. —Chicago Rccord-llerald. In Pursuit of It. Smithe—"Hello! Flue day! Are you out Walking for your health?" Sttiythe—"Yes; I am going to the doc tor's."—lndianapolis News. With Years. Tommy—"Pop, if I grow six feet in twenty years, what will I grow iu sev enty years?" Tommy's Father "You may grow wise enough not to ask such fool ques tions."—Philadelphia Record. Collar Button History. Yeats—"What is the life of a collar button?" Crimsonbeak—"l don't know. But I see there is a new book just published called 'Lives of the Hunted:' perhaps that would throw some light on the subject."—Yonkers Statesman. Against All Precedent. Percy Vere—"l still think there is hope for me; although she said 'No,' she was very sympathetic." Jack Newitt—"My dear boy. that's the end of you. No woman ever mar ries the man whom she rejects sym pathetically."—Philadelphia Press. Au Up-to-Date Go-Cart. y. \j. | —Judge.' CarcleHH Man. Sir?. Figglt—'"My husband is a very reckless man about the house." Mrs. Dropin—"Too had!" Mrs. Figglt—"Yes; why, he even stepped on my Turkish rug yesterday. Just to think. I've had it seven years and it has never before been stepped on."—Boston Journal. The Delayed Verdict. Friend—"l was surprised that it took the jury ten hours to reach a verdict. The evidence seemed to me quite clear." Ex-Juryman "We agreed on the verdict at once, but some one com menced a discussion as to the literary merit of the Judge's charge."—Town and Country. A Patriotic Boost. "There is one tiling to he said in fa vor of our style of government," said the South American dictator. "What is that?" "It promotes veracity. When sonic one starts a rumor that a high official is going (o relinquish office, you eau pretty near depend on its coming true." —Washington Star. tlrlbeil in Advance. Briggs—"So you are going to have your fortune told by the new astrologer down town. Let me give you a point er. If you want him to predict that you will one day be rich, just give him a handsome tip." Griggs—"That's all right. I'll give him my note for a thousand or so. pay able when I become a millionarie."— Boston Transcript. A Friendly Tip. "Young man," said her father, "I don't want you to be too attentive to my daughter." "Why —er really," stammered the young man, "I had hoped to marry her some " "Exactly, and I'd like to have you marry her, hut if you're too attentive to her you won't have money enough to do it."—Philadelphia Press. Could Infer. The irritable master of the house, waking from a troubled nap and hear ing no noise down stairs, called out to his daughter: "Melissa, I wonder if that snobbish young squirt of a Caddlcigh, who comes here live or six evenings in the week knows what I think of him?" "Yes, sir," answered the cheerful voice of a young man in the hall below. "I think he does."—Chicago Tribune. How It Happened. "Yes," said the member of Congress, "I had been in Washington hut a short lime when I awoke one morning and found myself famous." "How did you manage it?" "Published my biography in the Con gressional directory without trying to conceal any facts or trying to assume a statesmanlike pose. It was an acci dent, hut it was effective."—Washing ton Star. All Tastfß Suited. The stranger had gone out in a rain coat and had come back shivering in a snowstorm. "Why is it," he asked disgustedly, "that you have so many different kinds of weather?" The Chieagoan looked at him in sur prise. "Wo aim to please," he replied, "and we have such a cosmopolitan popula tion to suit."—Chicago Post. UNCLE SAM'S GREATEST SECRET. The Paper on W'lilcli One Money Notes Are Printed Guarded From Pulp to Press. If there is any secMt which Uncle Sam jealously guards It is the process of manufacturing the fibre paper upon which his money notes are printed. He pays a Massachusetts firm forty three ceuts a pound for it, and this firm does its work under the surveillance of a Government agent. The paper i# manufactured of the finest rags, cleaned, boiled and mashed into pulp. As it is rolled into thin sheets silk threads are Introduced into it by a secret process. These are t.c distin guishing marks making imitation of the paper well-nigh impossible. The sheets of paper, already counted twice, and placed in uniform packages at the paper mill, are stored in a Treasury vault and issued to the Bureau ofc Printing and Engraving as wanted. Before leaving the Treasury they are counted three times more, and the re ceiving official at the bureau must re ceipt for them. Then the bundles are unwrapped and the sheets are counted twenty-eight times by a corps of wom en. This is to insure that each printer- - gets the recorded number—no more. 110 less. If one sheet of this precious paper be lost the entire force of men and women having access to the room where the misplacement lias occurred arc kept in, like so many school chil dren, to find it. Each sheet is issued from the vault for the printing of a definite amount of money upon it. If the lost sheet were intended to ul timately represent S4OOO worth of notes, the group of employes to whom the responsibility of its misplacement has been traced must make good that amount if they cannot locate it withiu a reasonable time. The most expeu sive loss which has thus occurred was of a blank sheet issued for the printing of SBO upon its face. John Elfretb Watkins, Jr., in the Ladies' Home Journal. WORDS OF WISDOM. Where passions prevail, purposes perish.—Wcllspring. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.—Longinus. There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. Alexander Smith. A true and genuine impudence is ever the effect of ignorance, without the least seuse of it.—Steele. The shortest life is long enough if it lead to a better, and tin? longest life is too short if it do not.—Colton. The least error should humble, but we should never permit even the great est to discourage us. -Potter. Leisure for men of business, and business for men of leisure, would cure many complaints.- Mrs. Thralc. No abilities, however splendid, can command success without intense la bor and persevering application. A T. Stewart. At the bottom of a good deal of bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they can not face public opinion.—E. 11. Chopin. Life is a building. It rises slowly, day by day, through the years. Every new lesson we learn lays a block on the edifice which is rising silently with in us. Every influence that Impresses us, every book we read, every conver sation we have, every act of our com monest days, adds something to the in visible building.—J. K. Miller. True peace and rest lie not in out ward things. There liveth no man on earth who may always have rest and peace without troubles and crosses. Wherefore yield thyself willingly t-o them and seek only that true peace of the heart which none can take away from thee, that thou raayest overcome all assaults.—Tlieologia Gennanlcn. Greyhound the Fastest Four-Footev.' A correspondent says that as the re sult of experiments lie lias tnadc uuder careful timing he finds that the grey hound is the fastest of till four-footed animals. When going lull gallop it can cover twenty yards a second, or about a mile in a minute and twenty eight seconds—a speed that comes pretty near that of the carrier pigeon. There are few thoroughbred horses that can exceed nineteen yards a sec ond. Greyhounds have been known to better that by four yards. Foxhounds have a record of four miles in six and a half minutes, or nearly eighteen yards a second. This speed is to some extent an inherited gift, as wolves can run at the rate of a mile in three min utes. Nanscn says that Siberian dogs can travel forty-five miles on ice in live hours.—St. James' Gazette. A Survival In the Coronation Service. It is so long since we elected - nominal rulers that many of us forget ' that a King was ever 011 the footing of a Homan Consul or an American President. Yet a survival of that prac tice is still to be heard in the corona tion service. "Sirs," said the Arch bishop of Canterbury, after Queen Vic toria had entered the abbey and shown herself in tiic prescribed ritual to her people on all sides, "1 here present to you Queen Victoria, the undoubted Queen of this realm. Wherefore all you who come this day to do your homage, are you willing to do the same';" In this rite, now purely for mal, we see the remaining shadow of the old Teutonic custom ol' choosing the most capable or popular man in the nation to be its ruler.—Loudon Specta tor. Peasant Women as Doctors. Among the peasants of Turkey, al most all the doctoring is still done by ■ women. In Constantinople there ar J laws against these healers, but they flourish, nevertheless.
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