On the Alaskan railway now pro jected the Cliilkoot Pass will probably be the only one recognized by the conductors. The adoption in Mexico of American styles in clothing has been very marked In recent years. Well-to-do Mexicans are discarding the old "eharro" suits, high sombreros, and pointed shoes for American style clothing, hats and shoes. The Gloucester. Mass., fishermen re gard Kipling as a hoodoo, as every one of the twenty fishing boats belonging to their fleet named by him in "Cap tains Courageous" have gone down at sea, the last two of the 111-fated boats foundering in the recent big storm off the Massachusetts coast. Fate is against Russia, at least in the matter of securlug and holding a deepwater port. The harbor of Kras novodsk had been improved and made the starting point for the Central Asiatic Railway, and just at the time when everything looked the brightest, along came the earthquake, which de stroyed thousands of lives at Shamaka and elevated the bottoms of the Black Sea and the Caspian almost to a level of the surface, thus barring all en trance of heavy vessels. According to statistics collected by the Municipal Journal, Chicago, with a death rate of only 13.8 a thousand, is the healthiest city of its approximate size in the world. Milwaukee's rate is lower still. It is only 13.01, hut the city Is only one-sixth the size of the .Windy City. New York's death rate last year was 17.2, Boston's 20.3, aud Philadelphia's 18.4. Pulmonary tuber culosis is one of the most dangerous foes that the health authorities have to fight. In Milwaukee it Is the most frequent cause of death. In Chicago pneumonia causes twice as mauy deaths as any other disease. Charles F. Thwing. President of the .Western Reserve University, of Cleve land, Ohio, has been investigating the amount of the salary received by grad uates of the regular colleges and the scientific schools. His investigations have been concerned with the years Immediately following graduation. President Thwing finds that the sal aries received by the graduates of the regular colleges are scarcely lower than those received by graduates of the scientific schools in the years Im mediately after graduation. "In fact," says Dr. Thwing, "the graduates of regular colleges frequently receive larger salaries tliau the graduates of scientific schools.. After a few years, however, the increase in favor of the regular college is marked." Dr. Thwing concludes that the value of a liberal training rather than a narrow train ing shows itself more clearly as the years go on. The following summary is interest ing, especially as it shows that lyneh ings are diminishing in number of re cent years. In 1892 there were 235 lynehings in the United States aud in ISO 3 there were more than 290. In 1898, 127; in 1899, 107; in 1990, 115; in 1901, 135; of the latter number there were 15 in Alabama, 14 in Geor gia, 15 in Louisiana, 10 in Mississippi, 12 in Tennessee, 11 in Texas. The Southern States counted 121 in all, the Northern hut 14. Negroes were the victims in 107 cases, whites in 20. One victim was Chinese, one Indian. The violent deaths (excluding lynehings, suicides and executions) were 5275 in 1900 and 7552 in 1901. The principal causes were: Quarrels, 4010; unknown, 1291; alcoholism, 820; jealousy, 254; assassination, 193; lunacy, 174; Infanti cide, 149; resistance to armed force, 134; strikes, 20; mobs, 30. Seldom does It happen that the lines of a tramp fall in such pleasant places as those of a wandering beggar who told a farmer's wife in an Eastern State the other day that he wanted something to eat "right away." The woman let him into the house, and got him down cellar by a trap-door, by telling him that food was down there. Then she slammed the door and fastened it, and told him that if he tried to break out she would shoot him. She sat down then, and waited for assistance to come. Two neigh bors arrived in about half an hour; they let out the tramp, looking the picture of content. He had helped himself to all he wanted to eat, and Was amiable, as a man usually is after a good meal. When the woman wanted to have him arrested, her neighbors told her that as he had her permission to go down cellar and eat, there was no charge on which a justice would hold him. The tramp pursued his jour ney, willing again to he made a pris oner it the same way. ONLY ONE WAY IS RICHT. "My boy," said Uncle Hiram once, while giving rae advice, "The saw that doesn't wobble is the one that cuts the ice. * The saw that close applies itself, within its narrow groove, Will soon or late fulfill its work bv keeping on the move. When half way through, temptation may beset it, like as not, To leave the place that seemoth hard and seek a thinner spot; But shifting saws will learn at length, when failure they invite: There's mauy away o' doiu' things, but only one way's right! "And bear in mind, my boy, through life, if tempted tasks to shirk. Success is but a second crop, the aftermath of work. A lubricator tried and true is perseverance oil, And fortune's smile is rarely won except by honest toil, A safe cross-cut to frme or wealth hue never yet been found, The men upon the heights to-day are those who've gone around The longest way, inspired by the sayin', somewhat trite: There's many away o' doin things, but only one way's right." I knew my Uncle Hiram had achievement's summit reached; I knew him as an honest man who practiced what he preached— And so I paid the lesson heed, and rapt attention gave, When, in an added afterthought, he said: "My boy, be brave! Act well your part; tenuciously to one straight course adhere; Though men declare you're in a rut—work on, and never fear; a You'll realize, when you, at length, have reached achievement's height: There's many away o' doiu' things, but only one way's right!" —Roy Farrell Green, in Success, HE title of his ► paper was ferocious, but not he ' ° f ®ll the editors JtfSU §|ro that pushed Mf west of tho i'r Ibid River in i&Y'v the "boom" W days, he was tbu mUdest and most se- L/ J) ) v date in ap f pearance. He sometimes looked twenty-one; no one took him for twenty-five, and in truth he was twenty-eight. Raised aud educated in an lowa printing office, a "touring" typesetter for a number of years, he suddenly desired a paper of his own. A clean name with his fellows, joined to the few hundred dollars he had saved, secured for him a plant, and he transported this by rail and wagon Into the grass country, and because where he located the Sioux had once ruled he called his paper the Toma hawk. It was a good newspaper. Typographically it could not have been Improved upon; every local doing was to he found In its columns, and the editorial page was fresh with homely BARRICADED HIMSELF. and cleanly comments on the news of tho day. He set no moral standard for the community in which he lived; he indulged In no lengthy dissertations as to what the people should or should not do. lie conducted his paper for the news, and if through his retiring disposition he did not make warm friends he nevertheless held the re spect of everybody. That ho would fight, resent au attack, make trouble If trod upon, 110 one ever dreamed. He was too quiet. One day in his search for news lie chanced to learn that the Washing ton Merchandise Company was quietly selling liquor to the Indians. The knowledge aggravated him. The com pany was the one big trading concern of the region. It hud a main store and twenty or thirty branches scattered over 300 miles of country. It was owned by Eastern speculators and managed by local agents. The mem bers of the corporation had wealth and intelligence. That they should permit whisky to be sold to the abo rigines seemed extraordinarily out rageous to the editor. He thought it over, and then wrote a letter to the President of the com pany briefly reciting what he knew, and suggesting ihat a stop be put to the sale; that it might precipitate on Indian outbreak, and, anyway, it was i a Tlolation of a national law which i the corporation ought not to permit. He received in reply a curt letter re questing him in so many words to mind his own affairs. The next issue 1 of his paper bristled with an exposure ■ of what the merchandise company was doing. He investigated so thoroughly 1 that the Government finally acted, and ! in the end the company ceased the sale of whisky altogether. It was a signal victory for the Tomahawk. But the same day that the company i surrendered its manager at Sand Bluff ; wrote to the editor of the Tomahawk: "I shall reach your town Monday. : If you are still in the country I shall i kill you." The editor opened the letter, read it most carefully, laid it down and said half to himself and half to the press beside him: "It's two days from Monday." • * * • * Then he picked up another letter, for got the first, and eagerly read: "You wish me to come West and take up life with you. I agree with you that wo have waited long enough. I am tired working for others, hut am ready to work for and with you. By the time this reaches you I shall be on the way. I will reach you Monday noon, if tile stage is on tlmo. I under stand I have to take stage from Sand Bluff, but shall enjoy the experience. It is agreeable to rae that we should he married as soon as I arrive." The editor smiled from ear to ear. He walked to the rear of bis shack and looked at a room be had been pre paring for mouths for this very com ing of his girl. The only carpet in the town was on the tloor of this room; her picture was over the dresser; white curtains bid the windows; little knick-knacks had been placed just about as the average man would locate them. "Well," said the editor, "X may be dead Monday, but she's coming and this is her room." He was most quiet the rest of the day aud the day following. He told no one of the contents of the two letters he had received. Only he satisfied himself that if the Band Bluff stage was on time that it would reach his town Monday at 12.30. "No reason, either," said the post master, "why it shouldn't be on time." Sunday without attracting anyone's particular attcutiou, the editor barri caded his windows and two doors. He constructed something like breastworks back of them. He made also several ingenious peepholes. He knew the Band Bluff store mauager, knew the rage he had felt over the whisky ex posure, know tlie wild band of frontlet spirits that usually journeyed with him when he was "out on business." He had no reason to doubt but that the manager would arrive in town Monday and would immediately search for him. "I may die," he muttered, "but she's coming." His last act Sunday before he went to bed was to saw off the barrel of a shotgun and load the weapon with a curious mixture of slugs. He was not an expert with firearms; he never car ried a "gun," and on a test shot he probably would have missed the side of a barn as quickly as the next man, but he kept thinking of the girl, and the more he thought the more method ical his preparations. He awoke the next morning to find himself besieged. The store manager from and Bluff had arrived with half a dozen cowboys prepared for any kind of ruthless sport. They shot the upper half of his shack full of holes without arousing the editor to a reply, and then they announced that they intended to hold him a prisoner there until 12.30, at which time they would rush the shack, set it on fire and shoot him down when he came out. He heard the declaration. He could see them, could sweep with his eye the entire street. He sat behind a barricade with the shotgun across his lap. He was most carefully dressed and extraordinarily calm for a man wiio had been under Are for an hour or more. He drew at his pipe with great composure, and studied the time on the face of the little alarm clock that stcod on a table near him. The cowboys left two of their number on guard, and rode up the street after liquor. No one inter fered with them. The fact that they were from Sand Bluff made their word law in the lesser communities. Many a grim jest they passed on the final fate of the editor, and many an assur ance did the store manager give that no "blasted friend of the Indian could live here." Still, the editor held the fort through the morning, and the cowboys toyed with him as a terrier sometimes fools with the mouse it means to kill. At noon a big cloud of dust rose on the trail from Sand Bluff. It was the stage coming in. One of the editor's peepholes gave him such command of the street that ho cculd see the ap proach of the stage. He noted that as it was traveling it should reach the postofiice in about fifteen minutes, real ly ahead of time. He got up, shook himself, walked to the back roam, looked at "her" picture once, and then carefully loosened the fastenings of his front door. lie left the door so that It could lie Instantly swung back. Another glance out of the peephole showed him the stage was entering the town. It banged and rattled down the way to the postofiice, halted, and tlie first passenger out was a tall, lithe young woman of twenly-three or four. The editor saw her ask questions of bystanders, noticed their curious ges tures toward his place, saw her start for It. The cowboys, headed by the store manager, were in front of his ofilcc, preparing for their final charge. He swung back his door quickly, stepped out into the sunshine, swung up his gun, and before Ills foes realized what he was doing, so suddenly had he acted, gave the store manager and one of his companions the charges of his weapon. 'l'll y fell from their saddles, the others fled with a volley of shots for parting. The editor staggered a little, then made for the girl. She held out her arms to him, he his hands to her. "That's all yours Kate," he said, with a little gasp in his throat. "I waited f-f-or you, Kate." And then he was dead at her feet.— 11. It Cleveland, in the Chicago Record- Herald. A MoTiiiß Mountain. Most people forget that geology is not altogether a history of the past. The forces that made the mountains are still going on. Some mountains are growing, some are wearing down. Becausa these processes take a long time to accomplish visible results, one is apt to form the erroneous idea that they have ceased, and that the face of the earth is fixed once for all. A case of geological action so rapid as to be easily observed is the moving mountain in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. This "mountain" is a knob or mound, which is sliding down the side of a full sized mountain. It has obliterated old turnpikes and roadways, and threatens to slide sud denly aud do great damage. The land slide already covers twenty-five acres of one farm, and has destroyed the boundaries of another. At the polut where the mound has torn away from the mountain is a deep gulch, in which have been found many Indian relics. The place is so danger ous from ledges and banks which threaten to fall that nobody has dared explore the cleft thoroughly. This geological movement has beeD so rapid that a new map of the county may be necessary. Heavy rains, says the Detroit Free Tress, stir the entire valley to fear lest the whole hill tum ble aud destroy everything in its path. Old Mexican Mlnef. Spanish annals declare that between 1003 and 1700 the Tapaya mines In Mexico produced ¥80,000,000, and that after that the Indian slaves employed in them murdered the Spanish owners and the mines were lost. On old Span ish maps they appear in Northwestern Mexico, about fifty leagues from the sea. and near the town of Dos Dilates. They have now been rediscovered neat Ciauteguita. FACTS The Lion Bridge, near Sangang, in China, is the longest in tlie world, be ing five aud one-quarter miles from end to end. The roadway is seventy feet übvoe water. The deepest Atlantic soundings ever made were about ninety miles north of the Island of St. Thomas, in 3875 fathoms. The pressure was so great at this immense depth, that the bulbs of the thermometer, made to stand a pressure of three tons, broke. There are one thousand halls and corridors in the Vatican, and eleven thousand rooms, counting everything, the quarters for the Swiss guards, the stables for the horses, the storehouses for gardeners' tools, the mosaic fac tory and other workshops, and it is said that an average of 2200 ppople are employed under tlie roof, most of them being lodged there. This in cludes the Swiss guard, A statistican has been working pen cil and imagination, with this result: If all the petroleum produced last year in the United States was put in standard barrels in a row touching each other the line would completely belt the earth. Enough coal was pro duced to give three and one-half tons to every one of the 70,000,000 persons in the United States and enough gold to give every American a gold dollar. A duck belonging to a resident of Sklnningrove, England, has just pro duced an egg weighing exactly half a pound. Its circumference measured lengthwise was ten and one-half inches, and round the width elghl inches. Apart from its unusual weight and measurement it proved, when broken, to be an egg within an egg. The outer shell contained all the usual substance, and imbedded therein was another egg, perfect and complete, in a fii-ni, thick shell. A very curioua result of recent op erations by the Trigonometrical Sur vey in India is the conclusion, stated by Major Burrard, that there is, in the middle of India, an underground, or buried mountain range, a thousand miles in length, and lying about paral lel with the chain of the Himalayas. This conclusion is based on the sin gularities of tlie local attraction of gravitation in central India, the plumb line being deflected southward on the north side of tlie supposed sub terranean chain and northward on the south side, leading to tlie Inference that a great elongated mass of rock of excessive density underlies tlie sur face of the eartli between the two sets of observing stations. Legend of Westminster Abbey. To Sebert, who ruled the East Six ons in tlie seventh century as their first Christian King, is attributed the foundation of tlie Westminster, so called to distinguish it from the east- j era cathedral, St. Paul's. According to an eleventh century legend, the j church had been prepared in 010 for consecration, by Mellitus, Bishop ol ' Loudon; hut a storm broke out on the eve of the day appointed, so that ihe j River Thames rose and flooded the sandy site called Thorncy Island. Ed- j lie, the fisher, casting his nets, was; hailed from the Lambeth side by a stranger, who offered a rich reward to j he rowed over the ferry to Tliorney. Then lights streamed from the Abbey j windows, heavenly voices were heard, angels were seen ascending and de- J sceuding. To tlie astonished fisherman the stranger, returning, then revealed , himself as St. Peter, keeper of the j keys, who had come down to dedicate! the church which was to he specially j his own; In witness whereof tlie fisher- I man took a miraculous haul of salmon. The Bishop, who came next day with the King, found his work done; bul ! the fisherman's gift of a titho of the : salmon he took became a precedent. [ and was followed by other fishers. I even after the confessor's church had superseded the earlier building.—Lon don Illustrated News. Canada's Buffaloes Increasing; Rapidly, The buffaloes are increasing In such proportions in Canada that they prom ise in the course of a few years to be come fairly abundant again, says a Quebec dispatch to the Chicago Inter- Ocean. Some time ago they threatened to become extinct. The herd of wood buffaloes in the Peace River District has trebled In size undet tlie protection afforded It liy the Northwest mounted police. Five years ago It was estimated that there were not more than eighty buffaloes in tlie herd; now there are more than -100. In appearance there is little differ ence between the woods buffalo and the plains buffalo. Tlie former is mere ly a larger, richer-coated animal. It differs materially, however, In its hab its from the subspecies which inhab ited the plains, and which has undoubt edly passed away, except for the pres ence of a few animals in captivity and in the Yellowstone National Park. General Hampton's East Wish. General Wade Hampton expressed the wish that Ills people be allowed to look on his face, and that he be buried in a plain pine coifin. The feeling of friendship for the negro, deep in tlie heart of the old slave-bolder, was strik ingly Illustrated in the dying words of the great Carolinian: "God bless my people, all—white and black."—Savan nah (Ga.) News, ELIZABETH'S HEART* Oh! I envy the burglar determined and I bold Who goes prowling about with a chisel that's cold, With u lantern that's dark and a "jim my" that's strong (Or I fancy he docs, though I'm possibly wrong). . And I'd gladly resort, with no pang of re morse, For I'm speaking in raataphor only, of course, A j To the wiles of his wicked, burglarious I In default of the key to Elizabeth'* heart. —Arthur Crawford, in Puck. ||BBlSl|sws "What do you mean by saying she just celebrated her wooden wedding?" I "She married a blockhead.Philadel- I phia Press. j Alice—"ls your uncle's case hope j less?" Alfred—"l'm afraid it is; lie's J begun adding codicils to his will."— | Brooklyn Life. j "Doesn't the soprano's voice sound I metallic to you?" "Yes; but then, you j know, there's money in it?"— Phil adelphia Bulletin. V | Visitor (at restaurant)—" This bill of ; fare is in French." Walter—"Yes, sab; | but the prices is in English, sab. Mos' folks goes by dem."—Chicago Tribune. "Another good man gone wrong," Folks say, but, 110 doubt, 'Tis only one more bad man Folks have just found out. —Chicago News. "Do you think that beautiful women are apt to be spoiled?" she murmured, with upturned eyes. "Your beauty will never spoil you, darling," he answered softly.—Tit-Bits. "But, my dear; don't you know that opals are awfuily unlucky?" "Well, Jack priced a lot of different stones and he says they're only about a fifth as unlucky as diamonds."—Brooklyn Life. Fussy Old Party (to party of sports) —"Here! Stop your noice. 1 can't - 4 read." Sporty Cent—"Who said you 1 could? But why den't you go to selicol and learn Low?"— Chicago Xews. The boy stood < on the burning deck lie did not dare to gj, Until the vitaseope .. houid take Tito picture for the snow. —Kansas City Star. Lieutenant Lovett (sentimentally)— "I've come to say 'good-by.' I've been ordered to tins Philippines." Miss Giddy—"How jolly! It'll be so inter esting r.ow to read the lists of tiio killed and wounded."—Philadelphia Press. "Aunt Mary seems almost like a mother to me," said little Bobbie, soberly. "Does she?" replied Bobbie's mother, very much pleased. "Yes, she licks me every time I ga to her house," • concluded Bobbie.—Columbus . Journal. JT Mrs. Xewliwcd—"l don't see why you want to raise the price of iee. There was a plentiful crop this win ter." Iceman—"Yes'm, the crop was plentiful enough, but the ica wasn't quite as cold us it oughter be, End it melts faster."—Philadelphia Press. "You have wounded me," he sadly said as he arose from his knees, "wounded me so deeply that I shall never " "Walt," she said, picking n book off the library table, "let mo see what 'First Aid to the Injured' says to do in such a ease as yours."— Chicago Tribune. "I've got the greatest idea you ever heard of for a strenuous play," de clares the young author. "What are you going to dramatize—the cook book?" we ask, with line sarcasm. "Dramatize nothing!" he retorts. "This is to be purely and entirely and . amazingly original. The heroine is to t| be a motlier-in-law and the hero a baseball umpire."—Judge. HiKließt Paid Mail Carrier. The bigness of our country is em phasized every now and then by some obscure governmental routine. Away off in the Philippines we are deliver ing mail in canoelike boats, and, on the other hand, a contract was let last week for carrying the mail in Alaska by dog-sleds. The successful bidder was Oscar Fish, and his route lies between Eagle and Valdez, a distance of ill miles. He makes two trips a month and receives nearly SISOO a trip, or $35,000 a year. Only 300 pounds are carried per trip, and this is usually made up of letters, few newspapers. Postofffce Department officials say that the sum paid to Fish is very reason able when it is considered that he makes the trip by dog-sledge, and that J he has the most dangerous route ot ( any mail carrier in the world. He has several times been given up for dead by residents of Valdez and Eagle, but so far he has always managed to reach the end of his journey, although some times overdue and occasionally very much battered up. He has fallen down precipices, got mixed up in ava lanches, and has been starved and frost-bitten, but is still happy in risk ing his lonely life—Harper's Weekly. The Plum. The original parent of most of our cultivated plums is a native of Asia and the southern parts of Europe, but it has become naturalized in this country and in many parts of it is produced in the greatest abundance. , The finer kinds of plums are beauti- J ful dessert fruits of rich and luscious flavor. They are not perhaps so en tirely wholesome as the peach and the pear, owing to their somewhat cloying and flatulent nature. Unless very per fectly ripe they are likely to disagree with weak stomachs. For the kitchen the plum is also very highly esteemed, being prized for tarts, pies, sweetmeats, etc.
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