THB TWO HIQHWATMEJf.
I long have had a quarrel Mt with Time,
Because lie robbed ma. Every day of Ufa
Waa wrested from ma after bitter atrlfaj
I never yet could aee the aim go down
Bat 1 was anpry In my heart, nor hear
The leaves fall in the wind without a tear
Over the dying aummer. I have known
K truce wilh Time nor Tlme'a accom
plice, Death.
The fair world in the witness of a crime
Repeated every hour. For life and breath
Are sweet to all who live; and bitterly
The voices of these robbers of the heath
Sound in each ear and chill the passer-by,
What have we done to thee, thou mon
strous Time?
What have we dona to Death, that we
must die?
Humble Beginnings
Not long ago a grizzled millionaire
miner from the far West dropped Into
own. lie occupied a superb suite In
ne of Washington's most luxurious ho
tels during his stay here. Among his
allers was a young man from his own
state. This young man married, not
long ago, a young woman "out home."
They got along all right, tidily on his
1 1,000 a year, earned as a government
clerk. The old miner had not only
known the young man from his boy
hood, but he had ridden the young
nan's wife on his knee all the way to
Banbury Cross, when she was a little
girl In pigtails.
"Sou," aa!d the grizzled miner to the
young man from his home state, when
the latter was making his call at the
Una hotel suite, "you and Aggie are
keeping house here, aren't you?" s z
"Well, we're living In a little flat, If
that's keeping house," the young man
replied.
"Well," said the wealthy old miner.
"I sure do take It powerful hard that
you and Aggie don't Invite me up to
your place and give me something to
at I sure do."
The young man started to make some
reply, but the old man wasn't through.
1 "I'm getting mighty tired of hotel and
restaurant grub," he went on. "I can't
get any taste or good out of It It all
TIIE TWO SAT PEN81VU AND SAD.
tastes alike. If you and Aggie only
knew how I've been sort o' hankering
lor a good, big flllln' layout of shoulder
tnd greens, I'll bet a box of matches
mat you'd have taken pity on me and
taked me to your place to have some.
Bver have shoulder and greens? Noth
ing on earth like shoulder and greens,
Ifrir all, Is there?"
; The young man looked a bit embar
ftiped. -Well," he said. "Aggie and I have
talked time and again about asking
ro-u to take dinner with us since you
awe on here this time. But you know
rUat these dinky little three-rooms-tnj-n-bath
flats are or do you? And
i(Xle and I had sort of nn Idea that
maybe well, to be frank, that after all
tus splendlferoiisness thnt you're used
to, why. It might make yon feel sort
f uneomfort oh. ours Is Just a plnln
Ittte dump, you know, and we thought
niybe It would er "
"Look n-here, boy," Interrupted the
fid miner, "will you and Aggie give me
toine shoulder nnd greens to-morrow
rrening. sny at 6 o'clock?"
"You know very well that we'll he
leitphted to have you," replied the
rating man.
All right." said the old man. "Write
n down the address. I'll be there."
"And, Joe." he added, as the youn.4
pan prepared to take his leave, "you'd
tetter warn Aggie about the low-down,
ornery, simmering habits of greens. It
takes a lot of greens to make a proper
pew of 'em. A pretty whopping bas
ket ' greens well, I've seen a bushel
p greens, almost, boll down to 'most
iothlng," and then the two laughed
ind the young man went away.
On the following evening the bluff,
ruddy, fine-looking old mining man ar
rived at the little flat on the minute.
It was a neat and tastefully furnished
flat, but small, of course.
"Sure you've got plenty of greens?"
the old gentleman Inquired, with mock
anxiety, when he was greeted by the
pretty young matron, whom he had
known as a child. "I've been worrying
a good deal over that to-day."
"Oh, starks nnd stacks of greens,"
she replied, adding, "but If there
shouldn't be enough I could eke out
by boiling down the rubber plant, you
know," and so J:be little dinner began
merrily enough.
The shoulder waa a sweet piece of
mast-fed meat from Virginia, and after
the old miner hud tucked bis napkin
under tin chin In the old-fashioned
way and gone nt It, he came pretty
Close to looking like a thoroughly sat
isfied elderly man.
"D'ye children know," he said, as he
passed L!s plate over for the third
helping, "that I've been In training for
this ever since yesterday? Fact. I've
tiardly eaten a mouthful since you In
Tlted nie ir, better, since I Invited
myself. And It's worth the fasting."
After the dinner the old boy fixed
himself In big rattan chair in the
ttny cozy turner near a window and
Cot a well -Masoned briar pipe belong
Jag to ols youug host agoing.
"A cigar after shoulder and greens I"
flOBBOWINO anff IMDINO es&sl
Quoth Poor Klchard: "He who goes a-borrowlng goes n-sorrowlng," but
really, Isn't It usually the lender who docs the Borrowing?
Some people seem to have the borrowing habit. They're always "Jus'
out of something, and Instead of doing without, or supplying their own need,
they ask a loan. It's a postage stamp or a little change for the laundry boy.
car fare or a quarter for the contribution box. and a treacherous memory Is
a convenient excuse for forgetting the small obligation.
There is a saying, "The way to lose a friend Is to lend him money."
This Is certainly true If the friend doesn't or cannot repay, because he has u
sense of guilt or discomfort over an undischarged obligation, and the lender
has a sense of Injury over being kept out of what belongs to him. He who
Is refused a loan feels hurt and affronted, and he who refuses feels uncom
fortable in denying. Moreover, If borrowed capital Is the beginning of a
business success, no matter how scrupulously the loan hns been repaid, tin
one who furnished the capital regards himself as In a way the source of his
friend's prosperity.
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be," Is a good working rule. Rut If
occasion comes when a temporary accommodation seems neceRsnry, muke it
a point to repay promptly. And the smaller or more trivial the sum or the
article borrowed, the more carefully should we charge memory with It. It
Is little things we are apt to overlook, but It Is not safe to predicate on the
forgetfulness of those who have obliged us. One of the most awkward of
situations is reminding a friend of n forgotten obligation of this kind, and
the curious thing Is that the neglectful one always feels a little affronted at
having beeii reminded. "Couldn't she have waited a little? I was Just golnn
to return It!"
he exclaimed, reprovingly, when the
young man offered hlra a cigar.
"Mighty tidy place you've got here," he
said, after a pause, waving his pipe
around. "Slick as a crick ell, I'd call
It. Plumb luxurious, In fact," and a
sort of misty light of recollection ap
peared In the gray old eyes of the man.
"I suppose Mary and I wouldn't have
looked upon this as a sort of heaven
away back yonder In the tangle of
years when we were struggling along
the best way 'we knew how."
The young matron had been picking
out soft little chords on the piano, but
she crossed over and sat down by her
husband.
"Didn't have any such things as cozy
corners when Mary and I made our
start at housekeeping," the old boy
went on, crossing his legs and leaning
back and puffing away at his pipe. "Not
many scrumtiferous fl. tin's of any kind,
for the matter of thnt.
'Tact is, It was a shack. And, on top
of that, a one-room shack. Built It
myself after working hours. Cut the
scrub spruce and fir to build It, too.
"I was a timberman then In a new
sliver mine sixty miles from a railroad.
Got $25 a week, which wasn't much,
counting how costly it was to live.
"Well, after I got the shack built I
Trent down to Boise and asked Mary
she was teaching school there. Mary
was agreeable about It we'd been
beaus since we'd met a year before, al
though after I went to work In the
new mine I didn't have much chance to
see her.
"But Mary was ready, and we got
married In Boise City, and I took her
to the shack I'd built Marvelous days,
those both of us young, you see, and
not bothering much about anything nor
minding any sort of Inconvenience, so
long as we were close enough to each
other so's I could holler across the
gulch on my way to work and on my
way home. And It was a home, plumb
and proper never had any such home
since.
"I mnde the stove myself, too, out of
an old rusty two-horse-power boiler
that I cribbed from the engine bouse.
Made mo6t of the furniture, too, Includ
ing the bed, spare times.' Wagon
freighting wns costly, and beds and
gear like that ready made, cost a heap
of money out there those days any
how, they were beyond me.
"Had a rag carpet on the floor of the
shack thnt Mary'd been making herself,
after school hours, for a year. Dishes
were mostly wooden I was pretty
handy with a Jnckknlfe those days.
Had calico curtains In the one window
Mary had an nrtlstlc eye, and the
way she draped those curtains sure was
something dainty.
'I got the water from the crick,
about 400 yards bnck of the shack.
Used to fill up the three big barrels
once a week, and let the water settle.
"Didn't have any fresh meat, unless
I shot It o' Sundays freighters used
to fetch In the salt meat once a week,
over th trail. Canned vegetables, too,
and scandalously high they were.
"I'd started a truck patch, but the
soil wasn't adapted to truck raising.
All right for flowers, though. Mary
got hold of some flower seeds sub
scribed to a dollar-a-year weekly, I be
lieve, and got the seeds as a subscrip
tion prize and she had the prettiest
little garden of flowers In front of the
shack you ever saw; sweet William and
pantiles and bachelors' buttons and
china asters and marigolds and old
things like those.
"She used to sit In that teenchy
flower garden of glimmer evenings and
play on the little old ten-stringed
either, fixed out with numbers for each
string, that I got for her down at Boise,
Mighty fetching and sweet the music
from the cither sounded, too, out there
In the open air, with the wind stirring
through the branches overhead, and
Mary with her pretty head, and a flow
er In her dark hair, tilted back against
a tree, humming the tunes she played.
"Our first born arrived In that shack
The medical man who officiated on that
occasion was a fellow who'd been ar
rested and locked up for horse stealing.
They allowed him to come to our shack
la company with a deputy marshal, and
then tbey took him back to the lockup
again.
"Well, Mary and I and, later, the
first one kept bouse In that little, old
band-made shack, squatting at the base
of the mountain, for three year.
Speaking for myself and If Mary wns
on earth she'd Join me In saying It
those were far and away the happiest
years of our lives, they sure were."
After some music the old man took
his leave, with cheery praises for the
young wife's dinner of shoulder nnd
Creens. The two vounir rumnla ant rum i
slvc and silent, for quite a while after !
the old gentleman had gone. j
"I guess our little flat Isn't so dinkv. i
after all, eh, little woman?" said the
young husbnnd then, pinching his wife's
cneeit. Washington Star.
DR. D. D. THOMPSON.
Editor of CIiIporo Hello-loan Paper
Killed by an Automobile.
Dr. Davis D. Thompson, editor of
the Northwestern Christian Advocate
of Chicago, wns run over by an auto
mobile in St. Louis as he attempted to
cross the street and died from the In
Juries.
Dr. Thompson wns one of the lending
religious paper editors In the country
nnd wits In St. Louis attending the
conference of Bishops of the Methodist
Episcopnl Missionary Board.
Dr. Thompson was born In Cincin
nati flfty-slx years ago. He wns grad
uated from the Ohio Wesleynn Univer
sity and the Northwestern University,
receiving in 11HI3 the degree of LL. D..
from McKendree College. He was
editor of the Northwestern Christian
Advocate for the past seven years.
Too Much (or Undo Joe.
By the side of a certain Illinois su
burban railway stands a fertilizer fac
tory, which gives out a particularly
offensive smell. A Indy who frequently
has occasion to travel on this Hue, al
ways carries with her a bottle of lav
ender smelling salts. One morning
Spenker Cannon took the seat beside
her. As the train neared the factory,
the lady opened her bottle of salts.
Soon the car was tilled with the horri
ble odor of the fertilizer. The speaker
stood It as long as he could, then nd
dressing himself to the lady, whom
he saw holding the bottle to her nose,
be said: "Madam, would you uiliu
putting the cork In that bottle?"
Not So Resourceful aa Moat Clrla.
Evelyn Some of our proverbs are so
ridiculous. For Instance, "Where Ig
tioranee Is bliss "
Ethel What's the matter now?
Evelyn Why, you know, Fred gave
me my engagement ring last week, and
I simply can't find out how much It cost
him. Judge's Library.
Mlndlrected Charity.
She Papa has given $50,000 to estab
lish a home for old men. Wasn't that
awfully good of him?
He Yes. But It would have been a
whole lot better If he'd given half that
sum to vstabllsh a home for you and a
certain young man I could name.
When a man takes off bis socks, you
can see a scar on bio toe where be cut
it as a boy.
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TO MAS ESTRADA PAL MA.
Checkered Career at frc Caba's
rirat Prealdrat.
Tomas Estrada Pal ma, first presi
dent of Free Cuba, died In Santiago
province of pneumonia complicated
with other diseases. Ills death ends
a checkered career, du.lng which he
had been a wealthy land owner, sol
dler, exile, prisoner, teacher, diplomat
and president In fact, his career com
passed the most momentous period In
the history of Cuba, but It did more
than that In Its strange vicissitudes
of ftjrtune, Its vivid contrasts of ad
verrtty and prosperity, its consistent
-tory of self-denial, sacrifice and suf
faring In the cause of freedom, the per
"onal life of the first president of free
Cuba may fairly be said to have er
i-mplifled the history of the troubled
Island to whose welfare he dedicated
iiis all.
Tomas Estrada Palmn was born Jul
. 1835, on the largest of his father's
states, at Bayanio, eastern Cuba. HI
dither, who was one of the wealthiest
and most respected land owners le
''uba, died while Estrada was yet
oy. The lad had been sent to Seville.
Spain, to be educated as a lawyer, bm
n hit return to his widowed mother In
uba, he never practiced law to any
reat extent. The struggling condition
f the island engrossed his attention
md he devoted himself to a study oi
its Involved political and economic nf
'iilrs, together with the administration
of his family estate.
He became a leader in the party o"
evolution, freed his slaves and too!;
the field with the army of liberation
Me was elected a member of the Cuban
Assembly, by which body he was. in
1878, chosen president of the strut;
illng republic. Betrayed, he was
thrown Into a Spanish prison and
tempted by Spanish gold. He spurned
till bribes, and after his liberation, dit
to the surrender of the Cuban Insui
icents, forfeited all he bad In Cuba tin, I
found his way to Honduras, an exllt
There he married the daughter o
(iuardlola, president of the republic or
Honduras, after which he came to Cen
tral Valley, N. Y., where he opened n
private school.
When the last Cuban war for Inde
pendence got under way, Fnlnm
plunged Into the struggle. His tasl,
was performed with such signal su
eess that, when at last the struggle
TOMAS K8TBADA FALMA.
I'itd been ended and the victory won.
through American Intervention, it was
natural that bis grateful countrymen
should select Tomas Estrada Palms
to be their first president In fact, as
he had already been their president 3"
years before In name.
President Palma found high office no
ned of roses. His political opponents
accused him of undue ambition and of
isurpation of power. The sparks rf
Hostility and partisan rancor were
Tanned Into a blaze. That was a e
rlous crisis In the life of free Cuba
i lie first rigorous test of her capacity
for autonomy nnd self-government
Whnt happened Is too recent history
10 call for recapitulation. The Unlt-d
states was under moral and treaty oh
I Ration to preserve the pence. To pre
vent the effusion of blood In another
i evolution, President Pnlma realized
(hat his abdication wns the best course
nnd he gave way to an American gov
enior.
The veteran patriot retired to his
old estate on the Canto river, far from
i he turmoil of polities nnd Intrigue.
There be ended his dnys In the seelu
lon of a private life, erecting tin
i rude buildings of a new home on th
old domain and engaging In the breed
nig of cattle, even as his fnther hml
done before him In the golden rinys be
fore Cuba bnd become the Sxll of tin
tword and torch.
A Mlnplarrd Pin.
"I was in an uptown tea room where
the scenery Is all out of proportion to
the amount served you," said a New
York clubmnn. "I was dallying with
some Ice cream when my spoon struck
a common, every-day pin In the bottom
of the frozen stuff. I gave a little
wave, and a waiter slipped to my side
'See, a pin In this lee cream.' I s;iil
'Why, I might have swallowed that
He took the glass and disappeared
When he returned he reminded me of
nn undertaker, he was thnt solemn.
'Thnt pin h:is lost a man his Job, sir.'
he said. 'Well,' I replied. 'I am sorry
for thnt, but It might have cost me my
life, when you come to think of It
'Yes, sir,' said the waiter meekly. Then
'You see, sir, most of the folks thin
rats here Just sips their lee cream and
don't chew It.' " New York Times.
Gave No Warning.
On entering the stable suddenly the
head of the house lotind the hostler and
Ills own young son deeply engaged with
the broken tnll of a kite.
"How Is It, William." he began, se
verely, "thnt I never find you at work
when I come out here?"
"I know," volunteered his son: "it's
on account of those rubber heels you're
wearing now."
Substantial Keallllea.
"roe anybody believe In pipe
dreams?"
"Well, I guess folks who have oil
stock do." Baltimore American.
At some time In the life of every
man ho tries poetry and the chicken
business.
Opinions of
PEACE AND HEALTH.
ERE Is some good advice
H tlful woman to a girl
I her for her recipe for
evergreen .
"Never work on till you are seemingly
at your last gasp, whether at your busi
ness or your pleasure, but rest as you go
along. If you forego rest until your work Is done, the
chances are that you will then be too tired to take It
Get all the beauty sleep you can. Remember that late
hours are fatal to good looks and health, and don't com
mit the folly of working far Into the night and then
wondering why your work Is not well done and you feel
o good for nothing the next day.
"Shield your nervea, and don't let them become too
sensitive. Make yourself take life calmly. If you lose
a train, don't pace a platform wildly, but Inquire when
the next train cornea la and alt down calmly to wait
for It That's Just what most women don't do; they
sit down, ptrrbapa, but they tap the floor wltk their feet
clinch and uncllnck their hands, and are apparently In
a fever heat of excitement over the arrival of every train
that comes In, even though they have been assured that
theirs Is not due for another half hour. The half hour
of waiting means to them a frightful wear and tear of
nerves, and they are practically weeks older for it Try
to cultivate calmness; but If you cannot do that all at
once, you cast keep your face still." London Family.
A &TDH COHTCIDEIICH.
ICKKD up by the police.
PI In the Desplalnes street station from ex
I posure aud starvation. In a hole In a hay
I atantr Mad rfi M n m 1 httnb- Sk fattiAt ntsttVt am
stiav. aV wit uiq va una vmia at iniuri uiviuoi
and two children were discovered, half
clad In dirty rags, absolutely without food,
and the father unconscious and delirious.
While all this was happening the lawyers In Judge Eb
erhardt's court were reading an Interesting letter from
Lord Curxon of Kedleston, whose wife was the daughter
of Levi Letter. The English nobleman and his two chil
dren receive 108,000 a year, besides the income from a
trust fund of (1,700,000.
When the Letter estate was settled op Carson was paid
more than his share through a bookkeeping error. A
little later he was Informed that the overpayment of
(10,700 would be deducted from his allowance. A let
ter from the nobleman to Hugh Crabbe was read In court
In It Curzon said:.
"1 was very muck horrified to receive your Intimation
that I was to be deprived of $10,700 on the ground of
an alleged mistake In the November audit"
This noble English dependent upon American charity
was "horrified." Note the word well. What would hap
pen If all the American millions deposited to the credit
of foreign noblemen should suddenly be withdrawn?
Lord Curzon spends $133,0X10 a year. Lady Suffolk and
Mrs. Colin Campbell, his sisters-in-law, spend 1 35,000 a
Handy Savlaars Baa It.
A handy little pocket savings bank
that Is sure to prove popular Is shown
in the Illustration below, the invention
of an Illinois man. At
one time the pocket
savings bank was in
great demand, but be
ing constructed of
metal, they were
weighty aud cumber
some In the pocket.
This objection la over
come In the one shown
here. Being made al
most entirely of leath
er, with the exception
rocKKT swiNoa
BAKU.
of the small metal slot for the recep
tion of the coin, they can readily be
carried without Inconvenience In any
pocket Being pliable and flexible, they
readily conform to the shnie of the
pocket The klea of the Inventor Is to
make these pocket savings banks ns
cheaply as possible, so that they muy
be destroyed to remove the contents. A
new one can then be purchased at an
outlay of a few cents.
Cooklns In a Krg,
Wireless telegraphy lu not accom
plished entirely without wires, and tire
less cookery Is not arrived at without
fire. The advan
tage of the latter
system of cookery
Is that a little fire
goes a great way
lu that operation
of cooking having
been started lu the
regulation manner
either on a coal or
gas stove. It in con
tinued through tlit
niELESH LOOKUt.
entire process to the end In the Im
proved cooker without the further use
of fire. Viands In the course of treat
ment are thoroughly cooked without
the least danger of burning and de
mand no watchful care vif-h as Is re
quired when the articles are being
cooked lu the regulation maimer ou i
stove. The latest form of a fire leas
cooker Is that of a keg, as shown here
with. The Jacket of the cooker Is lu
the same manner as the best liquor
kegs of quartered white oak, with the
grain running crosswise, so that they
will not seep, soak or absorb. It has
a steel lid or top, which is fastened
securely by a single turn of the eccen
tric knuckle. The cooking receptacle
Is arranged to rest on a steel rlin, so
that the can does not come lu contact
with the Jacket, thus leaving a vacuum
chamber between the outer and Inner
wall. This affords an Insulator, and is
a non-conductor of beat or cold.
The cooking lu au apparatus of tills
kind Is done by schedule. The cook
knows which viands require the longest
treatment, and these are subjected to
the heat of tbe gas burner or stove for
a slightly longer period than others,
tad the schedule tells bow soon the
I cowman
TOR
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Great Papers on Important Subjects.
riven by a beau-
admirer who asked
remaining "such au
HERE
George Ferris died
PANAMA
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I flo has
f"K. I report
articles will be ready to be taken from
the conker, although no harm Is done
by leaving them In a longer period.
Good for Smalt Stove.
There has been invented recently an
economical and easily utilized appli
ance for use In connection with small
ranges or gas
stoves, and espe
cially useful for
single burner gas
stoves, for using
the heat of the
bnrner for rooking
purposes end at
tbe same time
hrajlng Irons. With
this arrangement
roa small stove, the nouseueeper is
enabled to continue tbe use of . the
burner for simultaneously beating tbe
Irons and cooking. It comprises an in
verted pan-shaped body adapted to be
set In the stove top or over the gtis
burner. On one side Is an opening for
the Insertion and withdrawal of the
Iron and a perforated top that forma a
rest and beating bnse for the cooking
utensil. Covering the opening Is a
hinged door, to prevent the heat from
escaping. The Irons, being encased, are
heated quickly, since the heat Is con
centrated and maintained within the
holder. To withdraw the lrous conven
lently, a bow-shuped wire handle Is em
ployed.
"Decoy" that Fold Up.
Every gunner knows that the "dij
coy" Is an Invaluable adjunct to his kit
when gunning for wild ducks, etc. Ills
only complaint Is
that the transpor
tation of a half
dozen or so en
tails considerable
labor, tbe decoys
being bulky arid
cumbersome. A
Chicago man O' er
comes this objec
tion In the Md
lug decoy sown
roLuiifu otcov. ,n tne ln.jmra
tlon, quite a number of which an be
carried handily lu a satchel. Tbi float,
the Imitation duck aud tbe ueeessary
keel are made In three sections, the last
two being hinged to the float. It will
be seen that they can be readily folded
together so as to lie practically fiat.
In this way tbey can be neatly packed
In a small space and easily carried.
An Athletla Performance.
"So you think that a man In public
life fight to devote some time to phys
ical -ulture?"
"Aasuredly. Otherwise he can't hope
to survive the handshaking." Wash
ington Star.
When a mau Is badly In need of a
shave, and bis beard Is of a sandy
color, he looks worse than It his bead
is of any other color.
3
year each. That means (383,000 a year of money taken
from Chicago to keep up the "dignity" of English aristo
crats. All this is from one Chicago family.
Yet men starve in Chicago streets, while women and
children seek shelter In haystacks. Chicago Journal
TWO GOLDEN SATS.
are two rfava In tha wwb mrvvn wM-h
I and about which I never worry. Two gold
I en days, kept sacredly free from fear and
ayyrrueuaiou.
One of these days Is yesterday. Testes-
day, with an Its cares and frets, with alt
its pains and sorrows, has passed forever
beyond the power of my control, beyond the reach of my
recall. I cannot undo an act that I wrought; I cannot
recall a word that I said ; cannot calm a storm that raged
on yesterday. All that it holds of my life, of regret or
sorrow, or wrong, is in the hands of the mighty love that
can bring oil out of the rock and sweet waters out of
the bitterest desert the love that can make the wrong
things right and tarn mourning Into laughter. Bare
for the beautiful memories, sweet and tender, that linger
like a perfume of dried roses la the heart of the day that
Is gone, I hay nothing to do with yesterday. It was
mine ; now it belongs to God.
And the other day I do not worry over is to-morrow.
To-morrow, with all its possible cares, its burdens, its
sorrows, its perils, Its poor performlngs, and Its bitter
mistakes, is as far beyond my reach of mastership aa Its
dead sister, yesterday. The Banner of Gold.
CUT PROMISES PROFIT.
tha Sues canal, there also tha traf-
gone on Increasing, until last year's'
shows that the receipts amounted
to VTfr a,vw,wu, ui wutuu it ia aaia
more than three-fifths were a clear profit
Even if the Panama canal yield no profit
In cash, It will be of immense value In oth
er waya to this country, but as it will be, like the Buss
waterway, a highway of travel for the accommodatioa
of the entire world, there need be no doubt that it will
ultimately be a source of great revenue for the govern
ment Boston Courier,
POPULATION OF GEKMANT.
"""js"! HE statistical year book for the German
I empire. Just issued, shows Its present pop
I ulatlon to be 63,017,000. Tbo Increase with-
iu iuv Kini . u gxuu ivi Kium mis av
eraged a little less than a million. But
millions more have migrated to Aubtila.
to South America nnd to the United States.
They have relieved the nation of the necessity of break
lug its political bounds, and they have made a good im
pression of the German character abroad. Modern emi
gration prevents more wars than diplomacy. New York
Times.
BABGAIHS TS MUMMIES.
Gmriomi Objects that Tara Oaf t
Da Fake Para and Simple.
While riding among the old Egyp
tian tombs, writes a traveler in the De
troit News-Tribune, the tourist is usu
ally approached by the relic shark.
Ton repel them. Then comes a fellow
who acts mysteriously, looks about
suspiciously and talks to your cicerone
in an undertone. Your curiosity in
aroused and yon ask the guide for in
formation. It tarns out that the mam
lives In one of the forsaken tombs near
by and that several days ago he had
found a hitherto undiscovered gray
with a mummy In it front which he
bad disjointed several members and
taken some trinkets found in the ban-
dages. Tbe objects could be seen at
his lodging if the traveler would care-
to step that way.
They are grewsome objects that are
displayed a skull, two hands and two-
feet There are also some stone beads.
a small bronze statuette, a couple of
clay Images and the mummy wrap
pings. Yon pay, perhaps, little attention to
tbe latter objects on account of the
possibility of fraud, but you are at
tracted by the disjointed members that
belonged to a man who walked th
earth centuries before the Savior ap
peared on It True, they ere grew
some, but they are Just the things that
are more closely associated with th
name of Egypt than any other relic
could bo. There Is no chance for fraud
In an object of this kind. Tbey are nat
ural, shrunken and withered members,
black, parchmentlike and you even de
tect a Bplcy odor which you connect
with the embalming process of the an
cient Egyptians. Surely nothing mor
could be desired in the way of proofs.
At last you have acquired a real
curiosity, and you cannot help exhibit
ing your acquisition, on your return to
tlie hotel to the proprietor, without
however, disclosing Its source as prom
ised the poor Arab. The hotel man
smiles.
"Have you been caught 1 he says.
"Tbey are human remains sure enough.
but they never grow on an ancient
Egyptian. They belonged to some dark-
skinned Arab who was burled for a
few years lu the dry sand of tbe des
ert as an Investment It Is a common
trick; the condition of the ground and
the absolutely dry climate, which ex
clude decomposition and cause a nat
ural mummification, mnke the decep
tion possible."
A Steady Job.
The origin of "graft" is probably rn
the discovery that something easy
brings In a large reward. The only
problem, then, Is to And the easy thing.
Tastes differ. A writer lu Llpplncott'n
Magazine gives an example of a "graft
which most persons would not care to
cultivate.
An expert golfer bad the misfortune
to play a particularly vigorous stroke
at the moment that a seedy wayfarer
skulked across tbe edge of the course.
Tbe ball struck the trespasser and ren
dered him Insensible for a brief time.
When he recovered a five-dollar bUH
was pressed Into his hand by the re
gretful golfer.
Tbanky, sir," said tbe injured msn,
after a kindling glance at the money.
-An' when will you be playin' againv
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