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Andrew Carnegie got quick returns
from liis endowment o£ the Scotch uni
versities. No wonder he calls his
helps to education "the best invest
ment" he ever made.
The Director-General of the French
Elementary Schools has sent a cir
cular to all the schoolmasters under
his authority forbidding them to al
low their pupils to play at leap-frog,
football, rounders, tops, hop-scotch and
other games.
Negus Menclik of Abyssinia is
building telephone lilies between the
capital and the Italian settlements in
Erythrea. Italy furnishes the wire
and Menclik the poles. Anyone caught
cutting wires will have his right ear
cut off and his property confiscated to
pay for the damage.
A European town has adopted an
ordinance requiring all husbands with
in its borders to be at home by eleven
o'clock at night, or to pay a prescribed
fine. This appears on tiie face of it
to he a pernicious scheme for the dis
couragement of matrimony and the
enlargement of the ranks of roving
bachelors. If the heads of house
holds are compelled to seek the refuge
of their domestic firesides au hour
before midnight, the unattached and
irresponsible beings without wives
should be rounded up and driven
under cover at ten o'clock or earlier.
The case recently reported in the
public prints of a serious attack of
blood poisoning, the source of which
was traced to verdigris found on a
metal door-knob, is one more warning j
for eternal vigilance in the way of
cleanliness in every part of the house.
The particular door-knob in the in
stance referred to was in a public
building, and was probably in no
body's care. The illness resulting from
it is an alarming warning to house
keepers to watch for similar dangerous
possibilities in their own domain. It
also empbsizes the fact that a cut or
abratiou of any kind on the skin
means that the greatest care should
be exercised as to what comes in con
tact with it, until the place is healed.
Not long ago a easo of blood poison- |
ing at a hospital followed the wearing i
on a scratched linger of a common •
brass thimble that had spots of vor- j
digris on the inside. 1
Justico Field and tha llook Agent. i
Several Senators were discussing In I
the cloakroom their experiences in gi
ting rid of objectionable visitors. The
talk recalled an episode in the life of
llie late Justice Field of the Supreme
Court, whose temper was of the most
irascible kind. He had given Instruc
tions to his servant on a certain morn
ing that he was not to be disturbed.
Presently there came a ring at the
door bell and an aggressive book agent
appeared.
"I want to see Justice Field," he
said.
"You canuot see him,'" was the re
ply.
' I must see him."
"Impossible."
The conversation grew move em
phatic, until finally the persistent book
t gent's demands echoed through the
house. At that moment Justice Field,
who had been attracted by the alter
cation, appeared at the head of the
stairs..
"William," lie said, in a fiercely an
gry tone, "show the brazen, infernal
scoundrel up to me, if you cannot han
dle him, I will."
The book agent made no further ef
fort to break into the Justice's pres
ence.—Washington Tost.
W. C. Arnett, of Sissons, Cal., is try-
Ilg to cure himself of gout by fasting.
For 31 days he took no nourishment
nit that got from sucking a pipe, and
reduced his weight from 259 to 210
pounds. He has now aded an orange
to his daily diet.
Dueling among the students of Jena
has been forbidden by the Vice Chan
cellor of the university, who has also
broken up the college fencing club.
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! < HOZART AND THE HAJOR. >
Copyright, 1002, II |L
j J By Daily Story Publishing Company. £
i Music and liquor! The Major loved
i them both; was something of a con
• noisseur in both; and was keenly sus-
I ceptible to the influence of both. So.
when he actually reaolveu to adopt a
small colored boy, his friends were
j outraged, but not surprised; they only
I felt unable to decide whether the
; proceeding was to be attributed to the
Major's pocketflask or to the boy's
banjo, while the Major cursed the
whole neighborhood in good, set terms,
and went after his protege.
"What's the boy's name?" he de
manded when all other particulars had
been settled to the mutual satisfaction
of himself and the child's father.
"Wei!, Majah," was the somewhat
astonishing response, "I don' jes
'zackly know."
The Major's temper uncertain, and
his vocabulary ready.
"Then you're a durn fool," he replied
with promptness and irritation.
"Well, Majah, you see, 'twuz 'is way.
W'en dat chile wuz bawn, me 'n M'rier
'lowed we wuz gwine to call him fo'
you; an' we wuz gwine to hab a great
big crussenin', soon's it got so's he
cud war a frock 'dout enny naik er
sleeves, dat yo' ma gin him. But
w'lle we wuz a-waitin', M'rier, she up j
an' jino de Baptis', an' one day, w'en
I sez, 'M'rier, aln' it mos' warm 'nuff
fo' de crussenin'?' M'rier, she say, i
sorter short-lak, dat 'dee ain' gwine be j
no crussenin'. Dat crussenin's infuin I
baptizzum, 'll dee ain' no sccli t'ing
ez infum baptizzum.' 'Dee ain',' sez I; j
'how'n the name o' Gord dat chile
gwine to get named, den?' An M'rier
say, 'We jess gwine call him Moses
right erlong. Dat bein's how he'd bin
kinder drawed out'n de water by belli'
kep' fum infum babtizzura, de preacher
'lowed he nius' be call Moses.' Well,
suh, I jess pintedly rah'd'n pitched. I
sutney skecred M'rier. I 'lowed dat
boy wuzn't gwine to be named no sech
t'ing; an' he ain', mun, he ain'. M'rier,
she call him Mose, jess fo' pure owda
ciousness; but me an' de res' jess call
him sonny. An' dat's hucconie I don'
jess 'zackly know his name."
At the termination of this remark
able narrative, the man stolidly await
ed the usual string of expletives. But
the Major stood silent, deep in medi
tation. A liappy conceit had occurred
to him and he waa lost in admiration
of its neatness and his cleverness.
"The boy's name shall be Mozart
Mendelssohn," he said, with an unc
tuous relish of his own good thing;
"Moz-art Mendels-sohn," he repeated,
adapting the pronunciation to the slow
mind of his hearer; "then Maria can
keep on calling him Mose, and you
can keep on calling him sonny, and by
the Lord Harry! Adam himself couldn't
do better than that."
So Mozart Mendelssohn it was; and
if ever a small boy deserved a great
name, this one did. Pitiably crippled
and misshapen the little follow was;
but genius loolceu out of his dark,
bright eyes, and spoke through his
slender, ebony fingers. After a few
preliminary trials, ho could handle any
Instrument with a skill and expression
rarely attained by months of practice;
and, along this line, the limit of the
Major's generosity was the limit of his
purse.
Seated on the wide stone step of the
west veranda, while the Major rocked
to and fro above him, with a mint
julep or a toddy at his side, Mozart
would fill the air with soothing melo
dy, until his watchful eye took note
that the last drop had disappeared
down the Major's capacious throat.
Then, and not till then, with clasped
hands around his crooked knee, and
eyes fixed firmly on the distant land
scape, would Mozart say, "I b'leve I
cud play a fiddle."
"Well, blank my eyes!" the Major
! would roar, "a fiddle! and it's just like
; your derned impudence to think I
; ought to get you one. A fiddle! Get
up oft' that rock and go to the kitchen
I before I break every bone in your
I body." And the Major would stalk in
j the house, raging; while Mozart would
iSpirii
"His name shall he Mozart Mendels
sohn." he said,
walk off around the corner. "I b'leve
I cud play it," he would say as he
disappeared. And, in less than a
• month, ho would be playing thereon,-
■ to the Major's intense delight and the
neighborhood's intense disapproval.
There was but one drawback to the
Major's enjoyment; Mozart could not
play before strangers. In vain was he
brought before expectant guests; flute,
I violin, cornet or banjo, It was all the
' same; bis trembling fingers refused
' their office, and his frightened appeal,
"I cyarn't play, Majah; I'se skeered,"
never failed to bring a speedy release,
i But be could always play for the
• Major. And, as the years went by, the
> bond of protection and of loyalty, of
care and fidelity, of mutual love and
t.nderncss, cemented these hearts In
a friendship that was unalterable. And
when, at last, the shadow of disgrace
ful poverty fell across the Major's life;
when, leaving home and friends, he
wandered, a degraded man, from place
to place; when time, and name, and
life's best gifts were sacrificed to his
shameful, all-absorbing appetite; he
was never friendless or alone, for there
was always Mozart. The Major's stal
wart form was no better known In bis
favorite haunts than was the distorted
figure of the little negro. Awaiting
the end of the Major's carousals,
watching over lii 3 drunsen slumbers,
hungry and cold unless supplied with
food and warmth by bar-room chari
ty; his love and patience were sublime.
If only he could have played for the
crowds who, fired by the Major's
boasts, made nightly requests for an
"Out into the raging night."
exhibition of his skill, money and
plenty would be his; his and the
Major's. So, night after night, he
tried; hilt night after night he fulled,
until, one bleak December evening,
the boisterous crowd, moved by a
common impulse of compassion and
disappointment, called out to • the
Major, after one of Mozart's ineffectual
attempts:
"Dicker the nigger up, Major; licker
him up."
It was done, and then he played.
How he played as the subtle glow flew
from mouth to brain, and waked his
heart and lingers to a new, strange
power!
It was only £ second-rate violin,
pia.ved by a huttch-hack negro; but
the scent of the harvest field blew over
the hot, close room, and a stream
plashed gently under bending trees.
Only a second-rate violin, hut its spell
was mighty. Men saw afresh life's
beauty and Its gladness. Old dreams
awakened, of fame and love; and hope
began to sing of what might be. He
was only a hunch-back negro, but men
dropped their heads and forgot their
glasses on the bar as they listened.
Within their hearts there stole sweet
thoughts; within their eyes there crept
hot tears; anil no man smiled as the
Major walked unsteadily down the
room, until he stood before the player.
"he's go home, Mozart," he cried,
with trembling lips; "le's go home.
We'll keep our Christmas there, please
God! You and I—at1 —at home."
Out into the night, through a raging
blizzard; buffeted by angry gusts ot
wind and volleys of snowflakes that
obliterated the way; but the Major
knew it not, until, at ills feet, his com
panion stumbled and fell, exhausted
with cold and weariness. But he knew
it well, when, with Mozart in his arms,
he plodded along over the road whose
stretching white miles seemed endless
to his tired feet. Dissipation had
weakened the Major's frame, and Mo
zart's inert form was heavy, but still
he walked, fighting against the fate
that threatened them, until his eyes
discovered, through the snow-lit dark
ness, a well-known gate. And then
he paused.
"We'll got a little rest here, Mozart,"
he said, with a thick and halting ut
terance; "we'll rest a bit, and then
we'll go on in; we'll both go in—we'll
both go home together."
And when the sun climbed the gold
en ladder of morning, and lighted up
the snoiv-clad earth, it seemed as It
the mantle of heavenly charity was
cast on two recumbent, half-hidden
figures that had gone home together.
Clioico Lumb and l-'isli.
Senator Foster of Washington, anl
Mr. Loud of California, live under the
same hotel roof. A few weks ago
when one of his constituents had for
warded him a line lamb, which was
served on the Californian's table, he
sent a choice cut over to the senator.
"Give him my compliments," quoth
Mr. Loud to tile waiter, "and tell the
senator tnat this lamb never tasted
anything but milk."
The days of the session flew by and
not long ago a waiter appeared at
Mr. Loud's elbow one evening, bear
ing a cut of magnificent salmon. It
was sent by Senator Foster.
"But I want to know whether this
salmon came from Washington 01
Oregon," asserted Mr. Loud with the
bearing of a conniosseur.
Soon the waiter returned with the
reply: "The senator says it is a Pu
get Sound salmon, and it has never
tasted anything but cream."
This satisfied the legislative epicure
from California.—Washington Post.
What peculiar dishes we partake ol
under the inspiration of good fellow
-1 ship?
1 | PEARLS Or THOUGHT.
i True boldness never blusters.
> The wrost getting is that which
hinders giving.
Most men may be known by the way
they use money.
Fleeing from responsibility is hid
ing from reward.
Coinon sense is often but common
sympathy with all.
Suffering fails when it does not
teach us long-suffering.
To get accustomed to evil is to be
come assimilated to it.
Crystalized virtues are apt to be
cuting rather than kind.
The frivolity of fashion is the soil
in which corruption flourishes.
When a man wears his success with
pride it is often made of paste.
When prosperity falls on the evil
heart it but nourishes its weeds.
Time will not make the great man,
but he cannot be made without it.
You may know a man's principles
by tile tilings he has an interest in.
Not pain hut right pleasures is the
best cure for the love of wrong one 3.
j Put your stumbling block where it
belongs -and it will become-a stepping
stone.
When your kindness is only intend
ed for coals of fire it will certainly
burn your own fingers.—Ram's Horn
Japiineiie Taint ISritfthu*.
The Japanese artist has made a most
careful study of how to convey truths
in the most pleasurable way; how to
make his lines most beautiful, as
though a speaker would use but words
of most exquisite sound. To do this
he has cultivated his "touch" until it
is but mockery to compare with that
of his European brother. He hru
learned to handle his brush with a di
rectness and precision which is
a thing of wonder, and he has
studied with a patience be
yond compare the possibilities
of each particular kind of brush. He
knows, for instance, that one kind of
I brush may be used to express a bam
boo stem and that another brush will
be less efficacious. He knows how to
fill each particular part of that brush
with a certain amount of color or of
water, so that a single movement of
' the hand over the paper will paint the
! stem, its light and shade, its peculiar
' characteristics, complete. And to the
perfecting of that single movement of
the hand over the paper he and his an
cestors have given years of study.
Listen to a description by a Japan
ese. He is not an artist himself, but ;
| is explaining how artists use a certain j
brush:
"The brush with color is passed ovci
a piece of paper with a heavy stroke
that spreads the bristles ot" the brush,
at the same time bending them at the
tip. The brush is then turned so that
the bristles curve toward the artist,
and a light stroke will produce' the
hair like lines. This is one of the
ways of painting the hair or fur of
animals." —The Independent.
Russian Method#.
Persistance may be a good quality,
but judgment is a better one,
and tbe young American in uie follow
ing story, told by Frederick Palmer,
evidently became convinced of it:
An American drummer, fresh from
our direct methods of business, called
on Monsieur de Witte, the Russian
minister of finance, to get certain in
formation necessary for the sale of
his goods. The minister refused it.
The young man persisted. The minis
ter still refused. Then the young
man declared:
"You are the only man that can give
me what I want. I'm not going back
to my folks and tell them that 1
couldn't do any business. I've got to
know. I could get the same thing in
two minutes in America, and I'm not
going to leave the room until —"
The minister pressed an electric lmt
lon. In walked two guards. The min
ister spoke to them in Russian, and
directly the young man found himself
walking down the Neve-sky Prospect
with an uncongenial escort.
As he thought the mater over in jail,
ho concluded that his hand was not
strong enough, as he put it, to bluff the
whole Russian empire. Within an
hour he was led back into the presence
of De Witte, who told him that a de
cent apology would save further trou
ble. After the young man made it, De.
Witte gave liini the information, and
i with it a reminder that it was not wise
to he rude, even to ministers of state.
Mill -IVlii.llr. Useless.
The largest whistle in the state, it
is said, is to be placed in an Indian
' apolis manufactory. It is to be so big
as to lie easily heard all over the city,
a tliree-inoh steam pipe furnishing the
noise making power. Why? Why
should it all be so? Why should there
he a whistle of this size or any size in
this factory or in any other? There was
a time when whistles were as nec
. essary as a hell on the farm is today.
But today it is a poor man indeed that
. has not some sort of timepiece. Theie
j are a dozen ways in which the sup
posed need of a whistle in an indus-
I trial establishment can be supplied.
Simple gongs in every department, to
. he touched by electricity, would sup
, ply the place. Whistling by railroad
j locomotives is forbidden in the city.
Whistling by factories ought likewise
, to be forbidden. —Indianapolis News.
f Tliey Must 150 Fancy Free.
An Atchison business man refuses
j to keep an engaged girl in his employ;
as soon as she begins to display en
gagement symptoms by doing care-
I less, absent-minded work, he gives her
. a wedding present and pays her off.—
Atchison (Kan.) Globe.
THE ENVY OF COLLECTORS.
Specimens of the Animal Kingdom That Are
Not in Captivity.
Like Individual collectors of stamps
seasliells, firearms and other things of
human interest, zoological societies or
menageries are at all times ready to
beg, borrow, purchase or exchange any
animal not already in their possession.
There are, however, many beasts and
birds that such bodies have never yet
, managed to obtain. One of these is the
proboscis monkey of Borneo. Although
known to European science more than
a century, even the enterprising zoo
logical society of London has not been
able to obtain a specimen. In appear
ance the proboscis monkey is one of
the queerest and quaintest of the mon
key family. Its forehead is as low as
an ape's, its hair is chestnut in color
and neatly parted in the middle, and
its face is adorned with bu3hy mutton
chop whiskers. Its eyes are far apart,
its mouth is wide, and its cheeks and
chin are tinged with blue, giving the
face the appearance of having just (
been shaved. But the most remark
able feature of all is the nose. Mon
keys as a rule have no noses at all,
some of them having muzzles like
or fiQTIALILAJta
dogs, but the proboscis monkey has
a nose several inches long. Besides
being long, It Is pointed and slightly
tilted up, and oddest of all, it grows
and grows all through the life of the
monkey. Another strange thing in
connection with tills monkey is Its
three stomachs. When food Is scarce
it can carry its three meals and digest
them at leisure. The age of the pro
boscis monkey is reckoned by the
length of Its nose.
Another monkey which museums and
zoos would like to obtain is the guer
ezai This animal is a study in black
and white. It has the appearance of
wearing a white fur mantle over a 1
coat of black velveteen. Its sides are
fringed with thick masses of snowy
hair, while its back, legs and lower
body are as black as coal. The face,
too, is black, while the whiskers, '
beard and eyebrows are white and tbe '
mi Hsn-cnouii imi or rartrr
long black tall has a thick white
plume at its tip. Altogether the
guereza is an odd-looking monkey.
Why it is never 3een In zoos or mena- |
gcries Is a mystery, for it is not un
common along the mountains of inte- '
rior Somaliland and in Abyssinia.
Bears are not at all uncommon, even
In New Englund, but there is one bear
which the managers of game gardens !
and menageries have never been able 1
to secure. It is called the parti-eol
ored bear, and lives in the most inac
cessible parts of eastern Thibet; so
that It is almost as hard to obtain as
a Mahatma. We know what it is like
—white with black eyes, black ears,
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Jr N * . .rwAU riAJ-irtAi.
,PRV HALT URNS.
black legs, and a black ring round its
neck in the form of a horse collar.
But no one has the least idea of what
its habits may he, either in freedom
or captivity. And no one Is at all
likely to know till the good people of
Thibet are a little more friendly to
strangers.
Nature seems to resent the introduc
tion of the duckbill to zoos or menag
eries, for tuey die as soon as taken
Into captivity. This Is a pity, for the
duckbill is one of the most extraor
dinary of all living animals. It is a
connecting link between the animals
and the birds. On the one hand It
lias four legs, and Is clothed with fur,
and suckles its young; on the other
hand, it has a beak like that of a
duck, and a bird's shoulderbones,
while it also lays eggs like a bird. In
Australia, where it is not very un
common, it spends half its time in the
water, and the other half in holes in
the bank. As its toes are webbed,
they are very useful for swimming;
while, as they arc furnished with stout,
sharp claws, they are equally good for
digging. And it gets its food just as
a duck does, by poking about in soft
mud with its beak in search of worms
and crustaceans. To add to its pe
culiarities, it has cheek pouches like
those of a monkey, in which it can
store up a supply of food for the lit
tle ones in the nursery at the end of
its burrow.
KINDLY ACT APPRECIATED.
Courtesy Sliown a Poor Blind Colored
Mini in a Street Cur.
People are so busy nowadays they
have often not time to be polite, and a
considerate act at once attracts atten
tion. There was such an occurrence
a few days ago ih a 4th avenue car.
Among the passengers was a blind
negro. His clothes were the veriest
rags and were held to his emaciated
frame with pieces of wire and bits of
string. A broom handle served a3 a
cane. Over one shoulder was suspend
ed a gunny sack, giving him the ap
pearance of a cotton picker.
He continually picked at one hand
, with the fingers of the other, as
though he were playing the banjo,
humming softly to himself the while
and patting his foot. As his face was
wreathed in smiles—not a grin—all
eyes were turned in his direction.
Many of the passengers looked at him
regretfully when the car reached Stan
ton street and he arose and made his
way toward the door.
The hour was a busy one on the
Bowery. People wondered whether the
'old man would reach the sidewalk in
safety. A young man standing on the
rear platform did more than wonder,
however, for he alighted and guided
the negro safely to the sidewalk. He
then as rapidly as possible ran after
the car, which was disappearing down
the street.
Several of the passengers who had
noticed the incident called on the con
ductor to stop the car, but as he did
not do so one of them rang the bell
violently, and the motorman reversed
the lever and brought the car to a sud
den stop.
As the young man climbed on the
platform, says the New York Times,
many smiles of approbation were cast
in his direction. But he seemed to be
almost ashamed of what he had done,
and lie pulled his hat down over his
eyes and continued his ride in silence.
Didn't Know tlio Senator.
Some years ago Idaho sent a man to
the senate whose name was McCon
nell. He enjoyed a brief term of about
five or six weeks, and then he disap
peared. Recently Mr. McConnell visit
ed the senate chamber again. Very
few of the senators knew him.
His presence, however, recalled the
fact that when he was in the senate he
lifted up his voice and delivered a
speech. He was then an almost utter
stranger. Old Senator Edmunds look
ed at him in astonishment.
"Who is this man talking?" asked
Edmunds of a page.
"Senator McConnell of Idaho," re
sponded tho boy.
"Well," said Edmunds, "when it
comes to the point that in the United
States senate a man can make a -J
speech whom I never saw before, I
think it is time for me to leave."
And Mr. Edmunds, in disgust, re
tired to the cloakroom.
A Talented Woman.
Mme. Ceraski of the Moscow Obser
vatory has at various times contribut
ed valuable data to the science of as
tronomy. Two years ago she first dis
covered a variable star of the Algol
type, that is having its light dimin
ished at regular intervals by a dark
companion revolving around it, and
still more recently discovered a sec
ond Algol. No telescope, however, is
powerful enough to show the planet
which causes the alternating bright
ness and faintness of this star. Mme.
Ceraski has won a reputation in this
field, both for research and discovery
of which she may well be proud.
Clean Kaflir Boyd.
"The Kaffirs are the cleanest people
in the world in some respects," said a
lady just returned from South Africa.
"They are always scrubbing them
selves in hot water and anointing
themselves with oil afterward, but the
habit does not extend to their clothes.
They will take an elaborate bath and
then put on old clothes that never
saw the waslitub. 1 had all the house
boys dress in white duck, and then
they had to keep their clothes clean.
In the mines the boys wear only the
'moochie,' which is about a yard and
a half of blue cotton, wound about
their hips."
Good Tjpe of American Boy,
Daniel Hardy, the new general su
perintendent of the Missouri Pacific
railway, was thirty-five years ago a
water boy on the old single-track road
running through Frazeyville, O. A
No man in the world has a dignity A
that is superior to having his hat
blown ofT.