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MEN WIN BY DIRECTING THEIR YOUTH.
By John A. llowland.
Ask most men of ripened worldly experience
the one thing In their lives which they regret.
Somewhere you will discover that most or
thctu are nursing consciousness that they diJ
not "tlnd themselves" soon enough us young
men. They let too niiuiy young years run
nwny from them.
Youth Is disposed to have Its fling. It would
need another estate wholly to 'csenpe the
promptings which come to the young head on the young
shoulders. But lu these Inter, years especially, when no
much of the world's work Is In the hands of the young
mnn, It Is more than ever devolving upon him to get a
line on himself. So many of the world s ways nnd means
arc new-so many of the world s arts are to be learned
iu the scientific nnd technological schools--that the
young man must be both student and worker.
The young man cannot be too alert to the sjRnlfleanc?
of nil that he comes in touch with In the life of the
outside world. There Is no phase of life whlc'ft may not
yield to him under observation, something by which his
after course may be directed nnd shaped. Ho cannot too
oon learn the face of Opportunity, lie cannot too quick
ly cast off the non-essentials which would clog his prog
MODERN MOTHER MERELY A HOUSEWIFE.
By Lady Mac Laren.
A Greek philosopher has advised that "If
r.ny man has two loaves, let him sell one and
buy lilies, for the soul hns Its needs as well
ns the body." This Is the kind of catering
for the housewives of the future, to collect
the flowers of heart, and mind, and soul to
deck Hie board, sv that the breadwinner, worn
with the tolls of the day, will find more ro
fresluuent than iu the present monotony of
.... t,l,,ii n ru
mutton. It is m sucu an buiiwiiuhk
,tu,.,i nnrt noble Qualities find favorable son.
wimt elements In the home as It exists to-day enn be
dispensed with? The departments sentenced to disappear
are many.
Tlx. h.-.semont would be gone, with its scullery, its
eellnr and its dust bin. The pantry would be gone,
i.h its redundant knives and forks, napery nnd plate
i-h ervnts' hall would disappear, and, greatest ,change
of all, the troops of servants would be gone. Upstairs
the dining room would be gone, aim wie uianiug iuuiu
also. Alt the spare bedrooms would be gone, and most
thB servants' bedrooms. What, then, wouui remain
Fnther's sitting room would be left. Mothers sitting
room would be left And. best of all. the children would
remain taking their right phice In the house, the first
,ro end. with a private room always well warmed
and lighted, and designed for rest, meditation or private
work pluces where young minus wouiu unve unit (space,
iur nd solitude which induce true growth.
v,, most move the public mind. They must sit
on public governing board. They must lay their hanai
on the governing machinery of the country, which Is the
true way, the legitimate way, indeed, mo oniy enccue
way of getting anything properly done, eveni, for the
home.
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PAST AGES NOT WITHOUT VIRTUES.
By Walter Bagehot.
Nation making the occupation of men in
the early ages. And It Is war that makes
nations. Nation changing conies afterward,
nnd is mostly effected by peaceful revolution,
though even theu war, too, plays Its part.
The idea of an indestructible nation Is a mod
ern Idea: in early ages nil nations were de
structible, and the further we go back th
more incessant was- the work of destruction.
Mauy sorts of primitive Improvement nre pcrnicio.n
to war; an exquisite sense of beauty, n love of medita
tion, a tendency to cultivate the force of the mind at
the expense of the force of the body, help In their re
spective degrees to make men less warlike than they
would otherwise be. Hut these nre me virtue i
..troa. The first work of the first ages is to bind men to
gether In the strong bond of a rough, coarse, harsh eus
. m l I V....ea 1 1 1 a
torn. And the incessant eonnict or nnuous ru-
In the best way.
Long ages of dreary monotony are the first Tacts in
the hist.irv of human communities, but those ages we
not lost to mankind, for It was then that was formed the
comparatively gentle nnd guldabie thing which we now
call human nature.
CHARACTER MAIN FACTOR IN SUCCESS.
By William E. H. Lecky.
One of the most Important lessons that ex
perience teaches Is that on the whole nnd in
the great majority of enses success In life de
pends more on character than on either In
tellect or fortune. Temperance, industry. In
tegrity, frugality, self-reliance nnd self fe
stralnt are the means by which the great
masses of men vise from penury to comfort,
and It is the nations In which these qualities
. .i in ,1, o Inni, run nre the most DrOS-
are most aiuuacu iu"
Cardinal Newman has painted tha character of the per
fect geutleman :
He is one who never inflicts pain. He carefully avoids
whatever may cause a jar or a Jolt in the minds of thoso
with whom he la cast. He Is tender toward the bashful,
gentle toward the distant, nnd merciful toward the ab
surd He makes light of favors while he does them, and
seems to be receiving when he Is conferring. He never
speaks of himself except when compelled. He has no
ears for slander or gossip. He has too much good sense
to be affronted by an insult. He la too clear-beaded to
be unjust. He la as simple as he Is forcible and as brief
as be Is decisive. Nowhere shall we find greater candor,
consideration. Indulgence.
Bid S'.Vr"T POTATO YIELD.
foils Farmer" Produces llunhrU
on fine Acre of Lund.
Two hundred ami twenty-Ike bushel
Of v.c:-t potMttxn l t'.i acre Is the
yle'd produced on the little farm of
8. 'J. Miiddox lu I lie southeast suburbs
of Weathorford. Texas, sa.vs the New
York Herald.
Troin less than one-fifth acre Mr.
Mvldox die; forty-live full-measured
bushels and the potatoes are as fine
and smooth as one ever saw. They
are of the bunch yam variety, not tha
regular old pumpkin yam. but of a
lighter nnd brighter color, nnd grow
long and smooth.
Out of ov.e hill Mr. Maddux took
sixteen i.ot:i!(MS. the average weight
of each being it little more than half a
pouna; out of another hill be took
seven potatoes, the co:nbl.M weight of
which was flltien ami one-third
pounds .
Mr. MtuM'X ''orn ii'-t lay claim to
be a funnel Till I the first crop of
polittoivi he ever tried t raise and is,
of course, pruui of the success of his
first effort.
Another pint of bis crop ut which.
Mr. MaiMit.v l proud Is his cotton. Out
of l.:i'i'l pounds or lint cotton he ginned
a bale that weighed ?.: jHiunds nnd
out of 1.4 in pounds of lint cotton lu
aot it bale that .weighed ."10 pounds.
While Mr. Maddox was telling of
this cotton to a party of friends nn
oilier totlon trowcr remarked that he
had some cotton on bis place that
would c'liml If ,"'"t Ue wns
.1 M. I'lillllps. whose farm Is two nnd
a half miles c:ist of the town. Ha
showed n sample of cotton, of a very
fine uru-lo. which had just been ginned
and which gave him a 4!0 -pound bale
out of l.:S1U pounds of seed cotton.
Mr. Phillips states that he has eight
acres of t'tis cotton and that be will
get twelve bales from it, that In some
places it will produce as much ns two
bales to the ncre and that the land wn
flowed a half dozen times Inst
spring
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The Goal
The studio was in darkness. By the
window one spot of red light showed
Itself In the Intense gloom ; It was the
lighted end of Ralph I'aterson's cigar.
t, mu n r-boon fiinr. nnrlIts rank
flavor struck unpleasantly upon his question of to-morrow's rulln
dividing them from one another, and
yet to him. how great!
lie was thinking of one woman.
He wondered. But
no, it was Inconceivable she could have
waited for him! Walled, too, for
what?
He said aloud. "But there Is one,
this last chance, to sink or swim. To
morrow !"
Yes, he had come to this that he hnd
staked his nil on one last throw; his
future ns nn artist, the wooer of for
tune, fame, applause, rested upon n
palate; but Ralph Patersou continued
to smoke It "For my sins," he said
lo hlmseir, "and they are ninny
against art and against my fellow
nrtists If I am to believe what the
world sa.vs of me."
Ralph ratcrson was engaged In that
dreariest of nil dreary tasks; he was
marshaling to nn undeslred goal nn
-unwilling conscience; he was explain
ing elaborately to himself why it(wns
that the fates had been unkind when
they had thrown him into the world
minus nn nrtistle love of or patient
under misfortune, plus the artistic
lellght lu painting pictures for his fel
low-beings, which the great public
would have none of, despite his per
latency. There was upon the easel by tin
window a canvas. Ralph In the dark
iiofcs could not see It; but ho was In
tensely conscious of Its presence with
him In the room. It was nn old can
vas, ten, fifteen years old; ono of the
last of thoso enrller paintings of Ills
which hnd won him In his youth a cer
tain fame with picture dealers of n
fifth-rate taste they were the expres
lon of the Ralph Patersou of fifteen
years ago, who had never dreamt any
but the most unexciting droams of
comfortable, homely fame. They had
Jeen the product of an artist who had
een no life outside the narrowing nr
ttstic conventions of an unnmbitlous
art school in a little manufacturing
town in the Midlands.
This one of these wns a terrible
thing, or so It seemed to Ralph rater
son as lie sat there in the black dark
ness and called It to mind but Its
kind had brought him In a livelihood!
There was merit lu It. merit because
It cave promise of lietter things; It
was that merit that twisted Ralph
Baterson's lips as be thought upon it
"What is merit, promise?" he said
aloud.
He rose and began to pace to and
fro lu the darkness. A simple enough
feat ; for the room was bare of aught
but tim necessities ; a bed. an easel.
ji cheap washstand tliruct Into a cor
Jier, a row of pegs behind the door.
And he had begun differently! He
laughed at tin; thought of the first few
years of comparative allluence, follow
ing the sale of several canvases, whim
he had, returning from a strenuous
apprenticeship to a new ideal In tlm
Latin ()u:irter.Ilved upon his small
oipita! and blli hopes. Those days
were far enough away now!
He tossed the end of Ills cigar away
with nn cX'-laiiiation. lie crossed to
the wliiibiw. and stood there looking
d iwii uMn the hurrying crowd below
The night was wet, and u sea of drip
ping umbrellas moved pa-t In nu end
less stream, their -owners unseen by
the watcher above.
NihiiIktIcss women! Women out on
such a night! One, another, and an
other, and uuother! A sea of women,
aud every one her own lisfnctlve self.
Ah. bow slight was tho difference
And the contingency was so remote;
the possibility that the picture he ha?
sent In might be hung lu the academ,'
for tills year. This was his vow, aftet
years of contemptuous ignoring of the
expert judgment thnt had In the past
thrown his out again, and yet again.
from among those whose work they
approved, nnd he condemned.
He was giving himself his last
chance! And, meantime!
IIu dropped the blind and walked to
the door. He took down from It his
cap. He went out mto tne wei nigni.
"It Is renlly remarkably like Selena
Selena ten, or fifteen years ngo.
What did you say was the name of the
for the man who had looked at her so
keenly. "His face Is familiar," she
said to herself. T dare say he knew
nie." She began to move enterprising
ly towards the doorway, where Ralph
l'nterson had come to a pause, his dark
face standing high above the sea of
men nnd women who drifted past ulm.
"lie is u head nbove any of them,"
she told herself with satlsfnction. "It
simplifies mntters when you are look
ing for a person In a crowd-like this.
In that way both he: nnd Selena nre
very obliging people indeed. He would
make a very good pair with Selena,
too; 1 wonder who he Is. He has an
air, though he Is shabby; but then an
artist can afford to do as he likes lu
the matter of dress, nnd he Vertalnly
can't be nn ordinary, everyday Indi
vidual with that head." Her Inconse
quent thoughts run on, nnd when she
cached Ralph Peterson she hnd de
f'ded that she must hnve met him at
fnis time or another, and have for
gotten. "Though he Is not the kind of
nwn one forgets," she added to her
self. She said now, at once holding out a
hand: "I can't remember for tho mo
ment where I have met you, but I feel
sure that wo have seen each other be
fore." And then, as he looked at her
with dawning comprehension, and u
certain amusement: "I am Marlon
Sertoli, of Sefton Park; perhaps we
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Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
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MOBMiMMaT
THE TKAGEDY OF VANISHING FORESTS.
11KRK are some men In public life who
profess to believe that, trees grow about
as fast as they nre used and that It Is fool
ish to worry about the future and try to
niske provisions for It. This opinion is
sometimes heard In the halls of Congress.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, who hns
given the subject much attention, says: "We nre now
using In one year ns much wood en grows in three,
with only twenty years of virgin growth lu sight." This
la an alarming prediction, but. Chief Forester linchot
thinks it Is too favorable, lie sa.vs the country is now
consuming 10O,(MiO,lOd.(HHi feet of lumber, bourd nieaa
nrt, annually, which will exhaust our supply of timber
in fourteen years. We cannot afford to run out of
American IuiuImt in fourteen, twenty, or thirty' years.
The waning aupply must lo replenished. Our bnre bills
must be reforested on n large scale. When the necessity
of thla la demonstrated no that the most Incredulous
must believe It, the Indifference, to reforestation will
g1e place to aeal, and Kpasmodlc efforts here and there
will be succeeded by a comprehensive and continuous
work of tree planting. Philadelphia Press.
SCHOOLS FOR MINERS.
10 HT hns dawned iu the minds of aome
ninnagers of the Pennsylvania anthracite
companies, aud they are said to be plan
ning to open schools In which operatives
can be taught by experts how to meet the
technical and forseenble exigencies of their
dangerous calling. Better lute than never.
No discipline, however strict, can defeat the psrfect
worksof Ignorance. An ounce of prevention in mining,
as In everything else, Is worth a pound of remedy. State
supervision of obedience to law Is nivessnry, but can b
diminished lu cost and severity by such action as is
now contemplated. Boston Herald.
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TUB.NKD AND LOOKKI) AT THE KPtARKR.
artist? Ralph l'nterson 5
Ralph Patersou why I remember him
quite well. lie painted very nicely
when he was a young man, before be
went to Purls or somewhere to gain
technique, or color, or something or
another he hadn't got. But whatever
be gained it was less than what be
lost and be couldn't Mud a public for
the wretched tilings hi' called portraits,
ami his sitters called libels when lie
came back. 1 have heard that he went
under, starved In u garret. We all
thought he had died Selena, too, for
she had a kind of liking for him.
Selena was always like that, always
looking after the lame dogs. "
The lame dogs! Ralph Patersoh
turned and looked at the speaker, nnd
she, surprised by Lis sudden uncoil
hcious movement, stared buck at him
it moment with some Interest. She
said to herself: 'i wonder If he Is the
author of some of the utrocltleu I have
been criticising freely fur the last hulf
hour? He' looks decidedly wolfish."
She watche.l him wllli undisguised
amusement as he moved away, then
she turned to her companion: "I wish
you would find Selena ; she would like
to he this 'rin sure. I believe she U
still iu the first room."
"This lame dog has done well for
himself, at auy rate," she thought
lo bus got a good show for bis work."
Her restless eyes still rated tho room graph.
inve met In Hampshire."
But that was Improbable, ns they
were both nwaro. None the less, Ralph
Pnterson's smile came, nnd with It a
certain reserve of manner. "We hnve
met yes. I nm Ralph Puterson."
His smile, she told herself, wns
charming, much more charming thnu
lu the days before he had gone away
to Turis to lose more than he had
gained. She said nt once, with ready
appreciation of the situation: "Then
you heard me call you a lame dog?"
"I wns that until today," he said.
She looked at him a moment keenly.
Then she said softly: "Here comes
Seleno. Need I Introduce you to her
it is fifteen years since she last saw
yon. "
He had turned ns hhe spoke, and his
eves followed the direct Ion of hers;
they rested upon Selena Scarsdule
with a certain fierce self-restraint In
them. "No, I think I should need no
help to remembrance," he said.
She glanced at him. "They are all
very cross with Selena; aho la thirty
three and unmarried still! The Scars-
dale women always marry In their
reenr; it Is nn unwritten law,"
added quiek'r. "T -picture '
It i Selena in her teens."
Her eyes asked him n question. ! o
said In answer to it: "She has nlways
been the one woman In the world to
me."
"And you with her the one num. be
lieve that and do not keep her wait
ing." The pair were close upon them, Se
lena nnd the other. He suld ubruptly:
"Thank you."
When lie turned Selena was holding
out her hands to liiin with n little ex
clamation of astoni.-iiuieiit and delight;
before the expression l-i her eyes, the
other woman looked away. Marlon
Scfton's voice was sharp us she Bald
quickly: ''He's qulto gray, nnd he has
had a bad time thnt'll mark him for
ever ; but I'm glad he has got Selenn
And Ralph Patersou was saying to
Selena: "It was an Inspiration stak
lng all ou you !" Philadelphia Tele-
There nre lu Glasgow 17,000 unlet
premises. Ul.lKH) being dwelling houses,
(Jiving evidence at nn Inquest
Lambeth, London, n woman said that
uh.i Im .1 bud twentv-one children, six
of whom were alive.
Word is being passed around among
the nluinnl of Harvard that a plan Is
on foot to raise a fund with which to
provide a memorial lu appreciation of
the services to the university or 1 res
ident Kliot. who is to relinquish his
position next spring, when his reslgna
tlon becomes effective.
Observes tho Loudon Chromic: "I
London the iihui who demands respect
has his clothes made for him. . But no
New York man who is not u millionaire
or near It buys anything but store
clothes. And tho ready-made clothe
are so standardized that you have but
to confess your Inches and you nr
clothed In America."
One of the steam shovels engaged In
work on the Panama cannl, In the oper
ntion of which more thnn 300 employe!
were emiazcd. recently lifted out a
(luantity of dynamite which Is describ
ed Iu :ui olllclal report ns being "mora
than a bushel." What would hnve hap-
rw,,,.wi if tin. shovel had struck the
dynamite Instead of the earth arouud
It is easy to Imagine.
Before the Royal Photographic Soci
ety of England a lecturer said recent
ly : "One or the reasons why Ameri
cans excel In certain branches of ath
letics Is that uthletlc clubs In the Unit
ed States use the focal-plane photo
graph and the cinematograph, to record
everv incident. of their practices. Aft.
t-rward faults are corrected by careful
study of what the camera shows.
Active road building lu Turkey and
the opening of a new field for the sale
of American nntoniobllcs are expected
to result from the imperial tlrndo thnt
permitted motoring in the Ottomnn em.
plre. American aulomoblllsts nnd mo
...iiutu nn already showing a do-
IVJll J .- - -
sire to tour b.V automobile through Lu-
ronean a ud Asiatic Turkey. On thi
Asiatic side of the Bosphorus nre long
stretches of good rends.
Harvard's new football captain, who
Is a son and namesake of Hamilton
Fish I'nlted States assistaut trensurei
nt New York and Congressman-elect, If
a young Uinnt. Although ouly twentj
vears old. lish is ti feet 3 Inches tall
and weighs l'.iS pounds. The Boston
tinners unite In saying thnt he will
make "a great Harvard captain." ID
all tho later games of the season Just
past, after Captain Burr was Injured,
Fish was ncting cnptain. una proveu
good leader.
END OF NIGHT RIDING.
T Is very natural for Kentucky to rejoice
over the sale of the Burley Tobacco
Society's holdings to the American Tobac
co Comnniiv. Farmers In the central and
eastern counties mny now go to bed with
out fenr of being roused to see their acres
scraped, their Imuucs burned, and them
selves assaulted. But there Is little reason and no wis
dora In the pleasant prophecy that night-riding will
never come Into vogue again. This mny prove true;
If It does, though. It will not he because the ontlnws
have been pacified by their share or tne h.'hhi.ikhi.
Unless the state has learned Its lesson, cheap tobacco
mav brine on another period of nnnrchy, nnd yet
another. To prevent this, the laws exempting farmers'
nools from the general restrictions upon iiionoKly must
be repeated; selling ngents must let independent manu
facturers bid for their bales; and independent planters
must be fuarnnteed every faaslble protection. A large
program, we admit, and one requiring the good will or
the whole population. But now that peace has come, it
will be all too easy to let bygones be bygones and ror-
get the deeper evils of which the past three years have
been but a passing display. New York Evening Post
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HISTORY WE OUGHT TO STUDY.
I8TORIANS give much importance to po
litical lines becauso they exlat, and not
enough to tho races and Incidents that pro
duced those lines. Rom Is the center of
all European history, and" In Its dominance
drew to Itself all the states of Europe J
but In Its decline these states were divided
Into smaller elates by the cohesion of racial bonds. Tho
wars of the past have been doe to radal ambitions
working In one form or another. History In Its telling
haa only recently been placed upon a scientific basis,
accepting the theory that aclence is without prejudice
and preconception; It hns done little for enlightenment
and much for that confuelon which results from perver
sion of fact and the glorification of aome particular
race. It Is men, not races, that have made history; and
only when we deal with men and their motives and
throw the light on all In a spirit of Justice and truth
that history Is worth while.
Racial history Is almost wholly neglected, and we hope
that some day a historian will devote himself to the
Important work of getting out a school history which
will enable the scholar to know what the races coming
to this country are and what they have been doing In
the past, which will dlaslpate many popular fallacies
and help greatly In the problem of assimilating these
old races ns they enter this new country. Boston Traveler.
SHRINKAGE IN INCOMES.
T Is said that there haa been a great shrink
age In the professional Income of the
physlciana throughout the United States
of late, and that It la not wholly attribut
able to business depression. An elaborate
statistical Investigation would be required
to tell whether the public Is spending more
money on more doctors, or whether the shrinkage la due
to other causes, as for Instance, a wider diffusion of
knowledge of tho laws of sanitation, etc! Tbyslclans
will differ In their diagnosis while recognlilng the fact.
One Boston physlclnn insists that there Is a combination
of causes at work, and enumerates among them the over
crowding of the profession and the high cost of living,
which be holds Is reducing the middle class classifying
by incomes on whom physicians and surgeons must
depend for more than a hand-to-mouth practice. An
other bluntly saya that people nowadays nre better
guarded by public sanitary agencies than their fathers
were, and that the general average of phslque Is corre
spondingly higher. Boston Transcript.
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THE NEWEST PHASE OF PARISIAN
The recent production of "Die Golterdummerung" with
out "cuts" at tho Paris opera caused tho management to
make provision for their patrons to the extent of ar
ranging that they could dlno In the theater during the
long Interval between the first and second acta. The Idea
met with the Immediate approval of fashionable Paris,
and became the rage. The hour's Interval has now been
LIFE: DINING BETWEEN THE ACTS.
douo away with, but the dining goes on, despite tho fact
that tho performance begins at 7:30, has but two
entr'actes of ten minutes each, and is over by midnight
It is now being asked In the English papers whether It
cannot be mado possible to dine at our own theaters.
Illustrated London News.
THE ACTOR AND III3 PART.
Her l-'rlend.
There is nothing like r. stnnch friend
At n "home" in the country which tht
children of the slums are allowed t4
visit for a short term lu the sumuiei
the following Incident occurred. A
party of a hundred of the youngster!
were on their way buck to the city,
The nlten Innt noticed that one of tin
girls, Rofie. was walking clumsily. A
writer li. tl)" New York Tribune tell!
the stor,-.
Whcr. the attendant heard a chorui
of gllics all iiinuMl ut little Rosle, sh
saw that the i:i was wealing ft pall
of slioes of l:ir:,'c sP'.e. Then the attend-
cut renii'iiilierci! that Rosle had had a
ww pair of ;i'.:ui's and the llttlo girl
vas :is;ed ulioiit It.
"Well," K'ld Riisle, "you see the shoej
ain't mine. I hoy re Katies. I miow
they're nwft'.l I but her liiauiiiiii nin
had any work hit. l.v. so she couldn't
buy her a i.ew p:ir. he just gave hei
own slu es to Katie.
"Katie Mt awful had about It nn
cried all the way to the station. Th
girls all lau:.iied at her, so I Just lenj
her my new ones anil took hers.
"You see, teacher," said Rosle, ralSi
ing her eyes to the attendant's face,
Katie's my friend.
Woman can diet ns easily as they
can ti t over a love nffalr; but men
c:iu't do it. '
Women talk too much about
rluge to suit the men.
Manx a Vlmr Owen ICverythlnn 10
the On i Who Ilo I.encllinr note.
The "star's" philosophy has generally
been that the public pays to see him or
her and not the play, says (leorge mm-
dleton, In tho Bookman. With the case
of some this Is true, and that accounts
for the large majority of monologues
foisted on a public which follows a
"star." This is no new development;
It lies Inherent In this historic tempera
ment and In the average desire to see
"fireworks." It has always existed nnd
will continue so. The absurd stage ver
sion of (Juy Maiiiierlng. for Instance,
owed Its half century of vitality sole
ly to tho great opportunities afforded
the actress In Meg Merrllles. i.nnr
lotto Cushmnn nnd Fanny .lanauschek
made their reputations In the part.
Rip Vnu Winkle Is an even greater ex
amide : Joseph Jefferson fell Hi love
with the character in Hi" tub? and en
deavored for years to obtain a play
which would sullleleiitly present Rips
many lovable weaknesses, liven with
all Boucleault's nnur.lng skill the play
can hardly be called a masterpiece
yet It served the venerable actor forty
years and will only survive because he
plaved It. The same may be said of
the draniatl.all f "The Cricket on
thu r.-arth;" It was the character or
Caleb liuinnier alone which made It
live. The fourteen versions of lion
Quixote, Including those tried by Irving
mid Sothcrn, owe their existence solely
to the whimsical, extravegaut acting
opportunities offered iu tho Hon yet
not ono has cut had the least success
as a piny. Of all the versions made of
"Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde," that made
by T. Russell Sullivan for Richard
Mansfield alone had success. This pluy,
which Incidentally brought nothing to
Roliert Iinls Stevenson, might have
been played year lu and year out by
the distinguished actor, for It never
fulled to pack the theater yet one
hardly realizes the entire performance
could have been given In fifty minutes,
so short and Inconsequential Is It as a
play.
SPARROWS AT SAME PRICE.
Same Old Sermon br Preacher Pus
sled Man Away Three Years.
The Rev. Simon Turple was an elo
quent speaker, but he seemed to have
ii list of sermons which, when he once
began, he went right through to the
end nnd then started nt the first ser
nion again, and so on, says Tit Bits.
A young man In the congregation was
about to leave for South Africa, but
the Sunday before he departed he at
tended the church service.
lu the course of his lecture the min
ister used nn Illustration In which
were the words "A man can easily pur
chase two sparrows for 3 pence."
The young man, after being nbsen
for about three years, returned aud
again on the first opportunity attended
divine service. Strange to say, he
heard the same narrative by the saino
minister, the phrase striking hliu uios
Ising the "two sparrows for 3 pence.
At llii' close of the service the mill-1
Isler In his courtesy, came and shook
hands with the youth, and, weli-oniing
him back to his home asked blni If he
i.otlced any fiiaugi-s about the place.
Jiu young until, evidently quite un
cfiicerned. replied: "Aye. man, there's
two or three changes, but there's yln
tiling I can see-the price u' sparrows
).- nye nt the same mild figgtsr"
MADRID CALLED FRIVOLOUS.
if n lioy Is healthy, he car, niako u
clean room look lu teu uiluutes as
though a cyclone had passed through '.t.
liver occur to you that you are wast
ing tluie when telling your troubles K
Spanish Capital Spendthrift Town
and Devoted to Gossip.
The note of Madrid Is frivolity, ac
cording to the London limes. It is A
spendthrift town. Nowhere do bo many
people of modest means keep carriages
or at least hire them. The automobile
has supplied a new outlet to an old.
passion.
Nowhere do so many people who
cannot afford to have a motor driver,
or to buy regular supplies of petrol
(which, to lie sure, Is both dear and
bad In Spain), keep an automobile.
Therefore they turu out now and agalu
for a short run at high speed to their
own glorification nnd the danger of th
public. As for thnt public, It lives la
the streets and In u perpetual state of
brisk talk.
What Indon or Paris news comes
through to Madrid, except telegrams.
Is mostly, gossip. Important' matter
appear to Interest the Madrlleno little.
Vhnt did Interest him was when a
young person apjienred on horseback
in Hyde Park In a dlrectolro costume.
Feather-headed nnd light-heeled, tho
Madrlleno Is, on the other hand, good-
natured and easy to live with.
Madrid women dress Well nnd the
harm of tho Spanish woman Is never
denied. Modern Madrid is sometimes
supposed to be modeled on modern
Purls, but the writer's view Is that
there Is nothing Parisian about Madrid
except the sklu.
Purls works desiorntely hard, la In
tensely Interested In serious things and
producers, thinkers and men of Intel
lectual and scientific eminence. Madrid
certaluly does not work hard, does not
uppenr to be much Interested la any
tblug but frivolity and few of ber
greatest men, even statesmen, are much
more thaa names.
