Since the disastrous "war with the j United States the navy has been ex- ; ceedingly unpopular in Spain, and has j been the subject of all kinds of at- ; tacks in the press and in parliament. | The Legislature of Newfoundland j has made a liberal appropriation for ; the installation of a cold storage sys- j tern for the fisheries of the colony. By j this means it is hoped to open up new j markets for cod fish, salmon and ; lobsters. Turbaned Sikhs in khaki have come ! to the United States to look after the I selection and shipment of American I mules for British military uses. The North American mule with the broad arrow on his left hip goes on conquer ing and to conquer. Mr. Estruye is known as the Bis marck of Denmark. Cecil Uhodes was sometimes called the Bismarck of {South Africa, and Li lluug Chang was called the Bismarck of China. How would J Pierpont Morgan do for a Bismarck of business? Russians have a project of creating In Central Asia a vast inland sea which would increase the area of Lake Aral some six or seven times, and at the same time double the area of the Caspian, while joining the two seas by a navigable channel. The town authorities of Genoa and Bologna have decided to raze the au cient walls surrounding them to permit expansion, but archaeologists are loud ly protesting against the act, partly because they say it is unnecessary, but cliicily because it will remove one of the most interesting landmarks of an tiquity. Judge Chytraus, of Chicago, lias or dered two lawyers of that city to pay a client sll3B and interest at live per cent, since December, 1890, and has disallowed SIOO attorney's fees claimed by tlie lawyers. He ruled that where a lawyer has collected money belong ing to a client and does not account for It, be loses all claim to compensation. • Recently, at a dinner given in New York City, there was one toast re sponded to by a man in Chicago. The table had been wired so that each guest was supplied with a telephone receiver. When the toastmaster pro posed the Chicago mau's toast, all tht receivers went up to the banqueters' ears, and a man over a thousand miles away raised his gluss as they raised theirs and regaled them with pleas ant rics. A writer in the New York Sun thiuks that Cecil Rhodes scholarships are more likely to Americanize Oxford than Oxfordize America. The "su perior" Oxford spirit was ouce deliucd as follows: "Au Oxford man looks as if he owned the world, but a Cam bridge man looks as if he didn't care who owned the world." It will be in teresting to see how our boys affect Oriel and Christ Church and those who belong to these very stuck-up seats of learning, says this same writer. Adua F. Webber, Chief Statistician of the New York State Department of Labor, in an address on public policy In relation to industrial accidents, picked ilaws in the common law rules as to employers' liability. He said that this Government is twenty years behind England and seventy years behind Germany in legislation on in dustrial accidents. He urged that ev ery State have incorporated in every contract for public works a provision that all artisans and laborers employed on public works should receive not only medical care in case of injury, but also a weekly beuetlt during dis- | ableinent, and in the event of death | from such injury, au indemnity to the family of an amount equivalent to ut 1 least five years' wages. The typical university President to day should be at once a scholar but no pedant, and a man of affairs but no bald utilitarian, observes the Now York Independent, lie should be a disciplinarian but no martinet, and re sourceful in tact and diplomacy with out being a mere politician. He should combiue the humility of the scholar who realizes his ignorance with the assured authority f the natural leader of men. As much as any man in the world, and more than most others, he needs to embody within himself nil high, eflieient and noble qualities of mind and heart. If it be said that to say these things is to paint an uuat tainable ideal, the answer is that an ideal is something which may not be realized, but which at least is to be sought and striven for at every oppor tuity and with all the energy at our command. THE WASHERWOMAN'S SONC. In a very humble cot, in a rather quiet spot, In the suds and in the soap, Worked a woman full of hope; Working, singing, all alone. In a sort of undertone, "With a Saviour for a friend, lie will keep me to the end." Sometimes happening along, i bad heard the semi-song. And I often Used to smile. More in sympathy than guile, Bui 1 never said a word In regard to what I heard, As she sang about her friend \\ ho would keep her to the end - Not in sorrow nor in glee Working all day long was she. As her children, three or four, Played around her on the floor; But in monotones the song She was humming all day long, "With a Saviour /or a friend, He will keep me to the end." Tt's a song 1 do not sing. For I -earee believe a tiling Of t lie stories that are told Of the miracles of old: But I know that her belief is the anodyne of grief. And will always be a friend That will keep her to the end. Just a trifle lonesome she. Just as poor as poor could be; But her soil-its always rose. Like the bubbles in the clothes, And though widowed and alone, Cheered her with the monotone, Of a Saviour and a rriend Who would keep her to the end. I have seen her rub and scrub, On the washboard in the tub. Wlii'e the baby sopped in suds, Rolled and tumbled in the duds; Or was paddling in the pools. With old scissors stuck in spools: She still humming of her friend Who would keep lier to the end. Human hopes and human creeds Have their root in human needs, And I would not wish to strip From that washerwoman's lip Any song that sin* can sing. Any hone that songs can bring; For the woman lias a friend Who will keep her to the end. -From "The Rhyme.* of Ironquill," by Eugene F. Ware aQOOOOGftOOOOOOOC'OQSOOCGQO 1 HIE ENGINEER jj | OF NO. 97. I o o 8 By Frederick F.. Dr.rnliam. § o o OOOaOOOOOOOCOv!OOOCOOGO!3C'4 f EOKGE FLAGG was engineer | f of the fast freight that pulled V T" out of Black Itiver .luuctiou at 4 o'clock every weekday after noon in the year. Men of less ambition than he would have been satisfied Willi the position, for it was a fairly lucra tive one, hut Flagg saw ahead of him the accommodation train, and ahead of that the express and fast mail. Usually In railroad life the more responsible positions are secured only after years of gradual promotion, hut sometimes the way is short, the engi neer of tlie freight to-day controlling the limited express to-morrow. A mo ment's quick wit and a few minutes of daring work counts more with the management than years of uneventful service, and the coveted position is forthcoming. Flngg's engine was standing on the main line at the Junction, one after noon late in th. fall, and Flagg was oiling it, preparatory to the regular trip north. It had been raining, and the engine was a gloomy, spluttering object, pleasant neither to tlie touch nor to the sight. Ahead were slippery rails that meant trouble for every engi neer on the road; tlie heavier tlie rain, the greater the trouble, and Flagg, with the certainty of fifty-four loaded ears, was not in the most cheerful frame of mind. He had just completed the oiliug of his engine when tlie operator at the Junction appeared 011 the scene. He was coatless and hatless, and it was with extreme difficulty that he gasped the message which he had received over the wires: "Get on to the siding, quick," he cried; "the 5 o'clock freight out of Vincent lias broken away, with nobody on hoard. It passed Harrisville five minutes ago and Is coming down 011 this track." Flagg was aboard of his engine while the operator was yet speaking, and before he had finished he had decided what to do. He might have taken the operator's advice and made his quickest time for the nearest siding, thus saving his engine and getting out of harm's way himself, hut he didn't. Instead, he threw open the throttle of ills engine and started it up the grade toward Harrisville and the on-coming freight. Tlie operator stood for a moment staring after the receding engine in a helpless sort of way, which, were it not for the seriousness of tlie situation, would have been ludicrous. "Gone crazy!" he muttered. Flagg opened the sand valve the in staut he started his engine, and as he sped over tlie rails, he left two white trails behind. Strange thoughts enter a man's mind at such a time; iders come quickly and oftentimes they are Incoherent. Flagg I wondered what the officials In the main office were thinking of Ids strange conduct, for he was confident tiiat the operator at the Junction had al ready wired the facts. He wondered why the gates were not down at the crossings and the flagmen at their posts, and had serious thoughts of ' making wholesale reports at head ! quarters, scoring them one and all, > for gross negligence. Onee he thought he was Insane; that was when a tiny black object appeared on the rails ' more than three miles away—an ob ject that increased in size as it drew > nearer. Flagg found himself staring . at it, the while wondering what it was. r When the light came, he realized his own danger, and for an iustant he wondered what lie was there for; then the thought which had actuated him at the start recurred. At once, he was j all alertness. He reversed his engine and put on the brakes, and though to him it seetned hours, it was a very few seconds before his engine was backing down the grade which he had just climbed, gaining speed with every rev olution of the wheel. The dot where the rails seemed to meet had rapidly assumed t lie form and proportions of an engine, and it was not long before Flagg could bear above the racket made by ills own engine the sound of escaping steam and the roar of the rapidly approaching runaway; it took very little imagina tion for him to feel the engine's hot breath. This was the plan by which he meant to catch the runaway. He had hastened up the track to meet it. Then, as it drew near, lie had started to run be fore It, gradually letting it gain on him. Now he proposed to make the engines come together, and then he would match the power of his own against the power of the other, thus getting both under control. Flagg's engine aud the freight were well matched, and as they tore through Porter's Station, the loue engine was a short distance in front of the freight, it was then that Flagg gently applied the brakes and brought the two en gines together. lie felt the jar as they touched, and at once bore down on tlie brakes, presently reversing bis eugine. The long freight rebelled. Tlie long string of cars shook and jangled at their couplings as they felt the re straining hand of the engineer. As sisted by the sand which he had turned on the rails, Flagg's heavy engine grudgingly yielded every length of rail, and finally, less than an eighth of a mile from the Junction depot, brought the runaway to a standstill. At 4..'0 Flagg started north with his regular train, half an hour late. At M.vrieks, the agent tiagged liis train, and as it came to a stop, a fellow-engi neer joined the operator at the side of the engine. "Flag No. !>7 and tell Flagg that the superintendent wishes to see him this evening. Get Mac Arthurs to finish his trip." was the dispatch which the agent thrust into Flagg's hand. Flagg read it. and mechanically stepped down from the cab, yielding his place to Mac Arthurs. Somehow a strange weakness seemed to come over him as lie touched the ground, and he said something about the superintend ent being a pretty shrewd man to guesa so correctly as to his condition. The superintendent of the road was in his ofiice when Flagg entered late that evening, and as he noticed the en gineer's haggard face, lie quickly mo tioned hi 111 to he seated. "We are going to lay you oil for a mouth." said the superintendent brisk iy. Flagg's jaw dropped as he looked at tlie ollicinl quest ioningly, wondering whether lie had heard aright. He was thinking of the payment on a home mortgage that was due a month later. "Yes," continued the superintend ent. "we want you to go off into the country for a month's outing on full pay. and when you get hack there will be a train put 011 which we have had under advisement for some time— the Northern Limited: consider your self engineer of that train." "I—l guess the rest would do me good." said Flagg, at last realizing how much that afternoon's trip had weak ened him. "and the promotion, sir, I can only lliank you tor it, and do my best as an engineer." "And that's enough," said the super intendent.—Forward. The Kducuttoii of the Parrot. To teacli a parrot to talk it is never necessary to place the poor bird in a darkened room or to starve him. Com mon sense would suggest that he should be made as happy as possible in his surroundings. Give him good food—hemp, maize, oats, biscuit. As a slice of fruit is always beneficial, a hit of apple, of pear, of banana, or of car rot will do very well. Also see that your pet has pure drinking water, a large cage, some soft wood to gnaw, with plenty of coarse grit 011 the floor of the cage, for he needs the small stones to aid his digestion. A parrot in these comfortable circumstances may then be left alone lu a room while his teacher conceals himself in another. The teacher, who should be heard, but i not seen, should repent, with infinite patience, over and over again, the word or word lie wishes his pet to learn. The female parrots do not talk —the female of the song birds, it should he remembered, is not a singer—so that efforts of education in that line are quite thrown away.—Our Animal Friends. The American Indian. An article by Charles Hallock. on the American Indigenes, has been printed in the American Antiquarian, hut some misapprehension has been created as to his conclusions; in order to correct any errors, the following syllabus of bis article lias been printed: The Indians, or Indigenes, of both North and South America, originated from a civilization of high degree which occupied the subequatorial belt some 10.000 years ago, while the gla cial sheet was still on. Population spread northward as the Ice receded. Routes of exodus diverging from the central point of departure are plainly marked by ruins and litble records. The subsequent settlements in Arizona, Mexico, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and California indicate the successive stages of advance, as well as the per sistent struggle to maintain the ancient civilization against reversion and the catastrophes of nature.—New York News, The Little Children In Japan. The little children in Japan Don't think of being rude, "O noble dear mamma," they say. "We trust we don't intrude," Instead of rushing in to where All day their mother combs her hair. Tlie little children in Japan Wear mittens on their feet; They have 110 proper hats to go A-walking on the street; And wootlen stilts for overshoes They don't object at all to use. The little children in Japan With toys of paper play, And carry paper parasols To keep the rain away; And, when you go to see, you'll find Its paper walls they live behind. —Caroline MacCorrnack, in Harper's Mag azine. (•enerul Jackson. Old Hickory was a sobriquet con ferred upon General Andrew Jackson in 3813 by the soldiers under his com mand. The name was not an instan taneous inspiration, but a growth. First of all. the remark was made by some soldier, who was struck with his commander's pedestrian powers, that the general was "tough." Next it was observed that lie was "tough as hickory " Then he was called "Hick ory." Next the affectionate adjective "old" was prefixed, nml the general thenceforth rejoiced in tlie completed A Puzzle Picture For the Children. '■ i ■ -■' • - -A' "SOMEBODY HAS BEEN AT THOSE APPLES." WHERE IS HE? nickname, usually the first won honor of a great commander. Toad in a Fusaioii. In spite of the precious jewel which it wears in its head, the toad has few friends, although one which Professor Bell kept as a pet would sit on one of his hands while it fed out of the other. No doubt it is an ugly creature, but it cannot help that. Why, then, should it also posses a temper? A toad in a passion is really and truiy very angry indeed. One was once caught in a suure that had been laid for birds. The moment it found Itself a prisonei, its rage knew no bounds. It struggled furiously, and snapped at everything within Its reach. Nor does it spare its brother toad, but often goes for it on laud or water. Habita of the Wild-Cat. To say that a dog can "whip his weight in wild cats" is to pay about the highest tribute lo his strength, courage and activity, and there are very few dogs that would care to earn such a tribute if they understood all it implied. Not that a wild-cat is of a specially Hggresr.lve disposition; on the contrary he would sooner mind his own business any time than light. So anxious is he, as a rule, 10 keep out of trouble that he has often been ac cused of cowardice, but he has 011 so many occasions given evidence of the most desperate courage that it is doubtful if the accusation is a fair one. When wounded or at bay lie is, per haps as dangerous as any creature of bis size. Monument to tlie FiratAuierican Kaby. United States Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, wauts a monument erected to mark the place where the first English-speaking people landed and where the first Anglo-American woman was born —Virginia Dare. The historic spot is in Senator Siiumons's State. It is Koanoke Island. N. 0., and the date was 1584. The people who settled there had been sent over by Sir Walter Raleigh, and they wrote such glowing letters home and made such attractive maps that in 1585 and 1587 the colony largely increased. It was at Roanoke Island, in 1587., that Virginia Dare was born. She ought to have a monument, says Mr. Sim mons, and he wants Congress to ap propriate $25,000 for this purpose.— Patriotic Review. A Cat-aud-Dog Tale. Cats and dogs are supposed to hate *ach other, especially the cats. No doubt pussy has good reason to go In fear of the dog. Still, there are many cats and dogs that are not only civil to one another, but positively friendly. There was one tabby which was so fond of the dog of the family that she could not bear to be separated from It. She would mew in heart-rending fash ion to get into the room where was the dog, and if no heed were paid to her cries she scratched and scratched at the door, trying to scrape admit tance. When this failed it is said that she then raised herself up 011 her hind legs, turned llie handle of the door aud walked into the room. Her own ers were so enchanted with her skill, as well they might be, that they used to get pussy to repent the fea' A Squirrel Afloat. Thai gray squirrels arc fast and long-distance swimmers was proved one day last fall to tlu entire satis faction of a ferryman a Middle Had dam. Conn. He heard two gray squirrels scolding on a tree near the bank of the river Suddenly a tierce light began, which was terminated by tlie larger squirrel leaping from tlu* tree into the river. The ferryman saw the dive taken, and watched for the squirrel's reap pearance with great interest. The squirrel, instead of striking out for tlie near-by shore, started for the opposite side. A strong current was running, and, although the waves ran high, the little animal breasted them like a vet eran The man followed in his boar. When the. middle of the river was reached and lie had gained ou the squirrel, he quickened his stroke: but tlie squirrel forged ahead, and gained the shore fifteen or twenty feet ahead of his would-be captor.—Christian Register. The Broken Cord. Show the audience two pieces of cord and three lings. Then put the rings over the two pieces of cord, as shown in Fig. A, and give the two ends of the cord to somebody to hold.. Then cover the rings with your hands foi a moment, and, "presto," the rings are free, while the cords are intact. This surprising experiment is dors in the following way: Before your ex KJB 7,' Urn. c o liibition slice a tliiu fibre from one piece of cord aud tie (as sliowu in Fig. Hi the two pieces of cord, covering the place where the cords are tied with your hand until the rings are put over Iheui, hiding the place of connection. Then you give the cords with the rings to somebody to hold carefully (as shown in Fig. C), and remove the rings with one quick pull. To show that the cords are intact, slip your thumb be tween the two ends, as shown iu Fig. D.—New York Tribune, jm7INPVSTRJ^ Cumulus clouds vary enormously iu size, but so long as tlicy remain oC moderate dimensions in iiue weather, \ tlie.v indicate a continuance of bright- ness. But, when, iu liot weather, they grow exceptionally large, they give warning of storms, witli a high temper ature—and with great certainty when they assume it dome-like shape. Bananas are. as a rule, planted out systematically iu rows, the "suckers being placed at an average of ten feet apart. The banana plant bears only one bunch at a time, but it is a quick grower, yielding Its fruit in twelve to fourteen months. When the plant Is about six months old a sec ond "sucker" or shoot is allowed to spring from the root, a third after the ninth mouth, ami so on, so that after the first year there is a continu ous crop being reaped. A healthy plant will not only add to the purity of the air but will restore ™. life-giving properties to that which has become vitiated, for it will thrive, pro- Tided it has as much as seven lo eight per ceut. of carbonic acid gas. Too much carbonic acid gas, on the other hand, is injurious, even to plants. That which is called breathing, iu a plant. Is also a sort of digestion, the carbon being food that is built into vegetable tissue, and if too much is given the plant Is gorged and suffers from a surfeit, while on Hie other hand it, may be starved, and tne whole plant shows the effect of the indigestion by looking sickly, for it lias no stomach, but performs its digestion with its whole substance. The epoch of the beginning of life on the earth cannot be carried iiaek. according to the reasoning of !•'. J. , Allen, further than the date of the , appearance of water on the earth's surface. The powerful shocks of light ning which must have occurred con tinually in the damp, warm atmos phere then existing, led lo (lie produc tion of ammonia and the oxide ol nitrogen, as happens to-day. These sub stances were carried down in solution by the rains, and on tlie surface of the earth met solutions of carbonic acid ami the eiilprhls, sulphates, and phosphates of file alkalies and metals. This was then tlie first opportunity for tlie formation of varied nitrogenous combinations ami for the coming into being of the first living substance. Mr. Bovey lias recently described in the transactions of the lioynl Society of Canada, an extensometer for deter mining the longitudinal extension or compression of a horizontal beam to loaded transversely. It consists, in es- seueo, of two parallel overlapping steel bars, the opposite ends of which rest, by knife blades, agaiust two points of tlie specimen to be exam ined. Between tlie faces of the two bars is a small roller carrying a mir ror. Any extension or compression of the specimen causes the roller to ro tate through an angle and deflects a beam of light tnrown on tlie surface of the small mirror. The motion of the beam of light can lie read by a telescope of considerable magnifying power, and thus extremely small de flections can be accurately measured. The force of gravity over the land is determined by counting tlie number of swings of a pendulum of known leuglb that occur iu a known lapse of time. Dr. Heckcr, of I'otsdnui, has recently made an attempt to deter- j . mine tlie relative force of gravity over different parts of the Atluutie Ocean between Hamburg and Bahia by means of a barometer and a liypso meter (a boiling-point thermometer). The barometric formula contains a term depending on tlie intensity of gravity at tlie place of observation. The hysonieter is independent of this influence. A comparison of tlie results of simultaneous observations by the two methods affords a means of de termining the force of gravity ap proximately. The preliminary results Indicate that gravity of tlie deep ocean is nearly normal and they confirm Pratt's hypothesis in regard to tlie isostatic arrangement of the masses of the earth's crust. immunity of Window Giami. It was the man with the led mus tache who said: "One thing that I mar vel at dally is tlie rarity with which ' I) window glass is broken in moving fur- *%>. niture and other heavy articles along the outside walls of big buildings. Only this morning I saw two men hoisting great slabs of wood to the roof of a Nassau street office buildiug. At every twist of the rope tlie plank swung perilously ueur to the windows, but so nicely was each movement guarded that not ouee did the daugliug euds touch the glass. "I spoke to one of the workmen about the performance, and be assured me that not once in a hundred times is a window glass broken In the passage froui the ground to the top floor. This freedom from accident is of course due to the exceeding carefulness of the movers. In most cases they are held responsible for whatever damage they I may inflict, and as the windows that y light modern office buildings are very expensive it would be a costly day's work to smash one of them."—New York Times. Youngest British Monarch. The youngeßt monarch who ever as cended the British throne was Henry VI. He was eight months and tweuty flve days old at his accession.
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