OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
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mil
. The Marrying Mood.
T Is safe to sny thut if there were no love to
urge men snd women Into marriage there
would be very few wedding ami msnkiuu
would finally become as extinct a the dodo. If
maj-riaees should le made after mature ue-
liberatlon and careful reasoning one might
..it tlinun contracted 1)7 persons of
advanced age to bo the happiest. An yet that
to not the common experience. The common
perlence Is that the happiest marriages are those
which tike place early In life, and that when an
elderly man or woman gets married we are not speaking
of widows and widowers they more frequently make a
mess of It. The reason for this Is not hard to find. It is
absolutely essential to the happiness of wedded life that
there should be common concessions. Two minds cannot
always think alike; two ienplc cannot always desire the
name thing. One of them must, therefore, give way. Young
jeople can learn to do this more readily tlinn older ones.
As to the wisdom of getting married and marrying young,
there should not be two opinions. Home life Is the must
wholesome and the very best estate, and every woman
ahould be a homenmker. There are many things, as society
Is now organized, which militate against marriages except
mong the rich and the very ixx.r. Among the very poorest
Classes of the population poverty Is not considered a bar
to marriage. Hut there Is a great class In every community
which Is ambitious to "keep up appearances," nnd which
thinks it cannot afford to marry. The young woman has
fceen used to living with n certain amount of luxury, and
there Is a disinclination to fall lower In the social scale by
living in a cheaper neighborhood and with fewer of the
comforts and conveniences of life. Each one wishes to
begin where the parents left off. I'lain living and high
thinking are no longer the aspirations of the many. Haiti
more Snn.
conscious and -covered with bruises. This was the 'first
degree." A few days later the "second degree" was ad
ministered. The next morning, not unnaturally, the student
was dead. Ills chum, who had experienced a similar initia
tory ceremony, was dangerously ill
Doubtless this was an exceptional aud extraordinary
case, but It was not so much unlike some other recent col
lego festivities in chaiacter as not to give ground for
speculation regarding the standards of conduct toward
which the young American collegian Is tending. Much
has been said ami should be said In favor of athletics aud
robust physical development, but the recent "rushes" aud
the common charge of slugging In football matches Indi
cate that physical development Is leading not to the health.
strength and endur.ime of the athlete' but to mere rowdyism.
Hy dint of lignum ami prolonged effort most of the
ollege faculties or I lie i y ma united to suppress ha.lng
l few years ago. Hut I lie ' initial Ions," the rushes" aud
t lie football slugging show a resort to practice iUitc as
repugnant. Huh the striving after the strenuous life led
to a confusion between manly courage and the strong-arm
work of the back-lot bully? Chicago Daily News.
Unrest and Work.
HE remedv for unrest is to corn one's rest
w m I This implies not merely duty to one's calling,
I I but to one's self. Tho man who tries to get
Sk I aAiunH'liaii nnd fnnlu nf Ilia nml it tiha Veil r Hint
he Is farther on the road than he was at the
beginning of It, ts not pessimistic and downcast,
even though he Is still distant from the reall
satloa of hi hopes. We cannot restore the old conditions
of labor. We trnd evermore toward working with our
head and leaving the work that used to lie done with
lands to senseless machinery. Many of us, too, are afflict
ed with a fool notion that It Is beneath one's dignity to
work with the bands; that It Is better to be a apruee clerk
on ten dollars a week than a greasy mechanic at twenty.
But It Isn't.
If mauy of those who suffer from this unrest will take
tiD an occupation or a fad that calls for the use of the
muscle, we shall bear more whlBtllug and less sighing.
Our hands are made to use, and we grow Just a diseon
tented when we are forbidden to use them as if wo were
ordered not to use our feet, or our stomach. We have
outgrown tho occasion for the appendix vermiform!, but
It will not do to neglect our hands till they wizen to fringe
that cannot crush mosquitoes. The man who has no more
to do with bin bands than to fold them, or to rest them
on the top of a bar, 1 a man whoso unrest may become
dangerous. - Members of unions who used to work grow
so restless after a year of suppression by wholly senseless
bikes that they zo forth and destroy. Men who used to
be kept busy teaching school or practicing law grow so
restless under long vacation and perennial postponements
that they get up sociological theories and travel around
worrying everybody with them. Brooklyn Eagle.
Rowdyism In Colleges.
111.? Irani.' tiaa-a ratnnrta fm va.lniid ...ill,,....
I centers have been enlivened by mmio starfe
I I ling Accounts of student activity In the way
or cuuo rustics, - cuior rusnes nun similar
diversions, iu some cases the girl students
took a hand in the rough and tumble of physl
cat encounter. Now come the details as to the late case
of hazing' at a Baltimore college, where a student was
''ln.tla.ted" Into a Greek letter fraternity. After having
been undressed, blindfolded nnd laid on a cake of lee the
Student was taken npstalrs and thrown from a balcony
falling upon a blanket held by bis fellow students twenty
five feet below. lie was tossed In the blanket until un
TO 8T. VALENTINE.
Tslenttnel Bui lit Valentine)
A pilgrim to thy holy abrlnc,
Heboid I romp!
Footsore, Slid v-rjr heavy-laden ,
iierauae of love for one sum II muhlen.
My Hp ire dumb.
O Valentine! Saint Valentine!
Thou know'st Hi In little, maid of mine.
This dainty sweet.
So pore slid fair t tint when be pnme
Our ray "Id world grows green wltU
(raui-i
Beneath nr feet;
That everywhere her dear face abons
The Wilt wind take It for a rose
J lint newiy liorn.
0 grant, sweet Malnt, that to ber know
ing
But fragrance aoft and liloom be allowing,
Hire Die tbe tborut
Oh. t'hyllla fair! Oh. 1'b.rlll young!
1 would mine were poet 'a tongue
That I might sue;
That I might alng In golden uiiinhera
To wake your heart from out Ita aluiuberi
My lor for you.
Yet no. dear heart! The )ars will bring
A aweeter aong than I enuld ting;
So alnmliiT on.
Ton will awaken to discover
When he aliall rome- that happy lover.
And I am gone.
New Vork Independent.
"Government of the People, by the People, and For
the People Shall Not Perish from the Earth."
f Aunt Madeline's Valentine.
Grt-.ft a National Vice.
HAI TI NO Is ity no means confined t- . ,.c
petty and wholesale robbing of the community
by public officials. There Is the grafter who
Is false to the interests of his employer; '1"'
grafter who uses his position with corporal ion
or company Ut a dishonest end. In every
branch and rnmillcuilon of the business, finan
cial and Industrial world Is found the grafter, smug of
face, discreet of tongue a snake warmed in the bosom of
the one he systematically plunders. This spoliation has
become the besetting and shameful sin of the American
people.
There is hardly an occupation or profession which does
not aford opportunity for graft The time lias come
when graft Is a recognized ami conventional factor hi de
termining the Incomes of those who proilt thereby.
If the Henedict Arnolds of a city the size of New iorfc or
till leu go were to march in solid rank past the respective
city balls, it would take them long to pass, and It Is to be
feared that they would be greeted and applauded by throngs
of envious and ndnilrlng followers.
Wo may accept It as a self-evident proposition that the
man who buys his way inlo ollice Intends to steal his way
out of it. Those are the professional grafters; they make
no pretenses of a flue spun morality. Hut equally danger
ous and far more despicable are the grafters who pose as
respectable members of society. The grafter of the slums
has his counterpart In tbe genteel, educated character In
broadcloth, who prate of patriotism and asks the blessings
of Providence upon his pectUal Ions.
This 1m the ouly nation in the world where l lie holding
of a public office raises a suspicion as to the character of
the Incumbent We have not enough civic pride to wut-
welgh tho energy and the Influence of the grafter. Since
this astounding and deplorable, state or affairs obtains In
no other nation, the Inference Is clear that we have reached
a low moral plane.
The grafter Is an effect; not a cause, lie Is the retainer
of dishonest business Interests; the henchman of those so
carried away by the lust of greed that they do uot hesitate
to plund(r their fellow citizens through the bribed co-operation
of those who are elected to protect their interests.
Hrvsiklyn Eagle.
The Wife and the Criminal Law.
IIK law lags behind the advance of women, a
we are reminded by a case which was tried nt
Marylebone the other day, in which a young
woman and her husband were charged with
stealing and receiving. It Is Hot for us to
apportion the blame of a sin to which the hus
band has plcndcd guilty. Hut the magistrate fell back at
once on the old legal maxim that when husband aud wife
act In concert the wife Is not responsible, being under her
husband's control. Surely the whole world of modern
womanhood will rise In revolt against such an assumption.
Kven tho magistrate hinted that it ought to be "reviewed."
Under the present law the man was remanded and the
wife was discharged, to protest, as she surety must, against
tho lust remaining feminine wroug. No woman can sit
down calmly nt home and consent to esenpe remand on
the ground that she was under control of her husband.
London Chronicle.
CRACK SHOT OF REVOLUTION.
Ttxplolta of Timothy Mnrphy, One of
Morgan' Hharpahootera.
The battle of Saratoga, fought la Oe;
tober 1777, baa Its place In history at
one of tho fifteen decisive battles of the
world from Marathon to Waterloo, so
wrote the English historian, Creasy,
and thus far nearly half a century has
clasped, and Ills word Iws never been
questioned.
Let ua look at two characters who
shared In tills battle. Col Daniel Mor
gan, afterward general, ever tbe stanch
friend of Washington, and at the date
of which w write, the leader of 700
sharpshooters; and Timothy Murphy,
the crack shot of Morgan's corpax
Morgan waa a far-sighted and clear
headed soldier; ho had observed In tbe
action of Octoter 7, a noble looking
British officer, who, mounted on a mag
xilflclent charger, dashed from one end
of tbe line to the other. While this of
ficer lived, Morgan considered tbe lsmie
of the contest a doubtful one; he there
fore selected twelve of bis best marks
men, among whom was Timothy Mur
phy, and, leading them to a suitable
position, he pointed out to them the
doomed officer, who was d reused In full
uniform, and said to them: "That gal
lant officer yondT is Gen. Fraser. I ad
mire aud respect him, but It Is luves
nary for our good that be ahould die.
Take your station and do your duty."
.,- Within a few minutes a rifle ball cut
the crupper of Tracer's horse, a second
passed through bis horse's mane Call
ing his atteutlou to this, liU aide said
to him: "It is evident you are marked
out for particular aim; would it not be
prudent for you to retire from this
place'" Frar.er replied: "My duty fur-
fclds me to fly from danger." The third
tfhot was from the rifle of Murphy, aud
Frarer fell, mortally wounded.
ills death so disheartened the liiitish
that the moment he fell the tide of bat
tie turned against liurgoyuc. He had
lost his best subordinate, the only one
of his officers who bsd the slightest in
fluence with li tin.
At the close of the Kevolutlnu Mill'
pby married aud settled In Schoharie
as a' farmer, but his old habits still
clung to li I in.
To tits la t day lie maintained the rep
utation lie hud won a a slmrpnliooter
In Morgan's corps. It was a custom In
those days for riflemen to wboot for u
, prise. On one occasion a large oak tree
. had boen blazed uear the ground and
In tbe circle a small piece of white pti
per was fastened by a brass nail. The
distance to be tired was over 100 yard.
Several close shots had been made, aud
it became Murphy's turn to tire. Ho
lay down on the ground at full length,
resting his rifle on his hat, as the others
had done, and, after glancing over the
barrel, ho was heard to any: "Sure, and
I believe I can see that nalL" Agnln
he sighted his piece fired, and the pa
per felL An examination showed a
center shot; the ball had driven the
uail exactly In.
In person, Murphy was stout aud
well made, handsome In face, with Jet
black hair nnd an eye that would kin
dle and flash like the lightning when
excited; quick as a cat In all his move
ments aud possessing an iron frame
that nothing apparently could affect.
What, moreover, Is very remarkable, is
that In the most dangerous duty that
war could possibly entail upon him.
In which he passed seven years of army
life, his body was never wounded or
even scarred. United Service Kevlew.
den movement of determination, and
held out ber hands, pleadingly.
"Now you must marry me!" she said.
Smart Set.
RUSE OF THE REJECTED ONE.
How a Girl Who Had Promised to Ha a
Biater Was Hrouglit to Term a.
"I understood you to siy that you
reject me," ho wild.
"Your understanding Is correct," she
replied, "although somewhat blunt. 1
feel that 1 cannot marry you."
She took u step forward and gently
touched bis arm. A tear was in her eye.
"I'm so sorry," she said.
something In ber voice made him
straighten up. He bad not asked for
Kj-iujuithy. He resented it so suddenly
that it was as If some outside -power
had taken rossewlon of htm. He felt
mad right through.
"You needn't be," he replied. "Why
should you Ix'V If you "ntcrtuln the
slightest notion that I'm going to .lump
off the dock or ruin my life dismiss It
at once. Tin-re an', I can assure you,
worse things than being it bachelor. In
the first place, there are no enormous
bills to pay. Then, a man can go and
come as he pleases, without let or hind
rance. Intend of being Ismnd down to
one woman, subject to her whims, her
ilde tlani-les, he is free for nil. He can
pursue his cherished ambitious without
Interrupt ion. When lie Is let he cuu
secure proiK-r care without Indng nurs
ed by an amateur. He doesn't have to
utteud dinner jNirltes, or any other kind
of parties. If he doesn't want to. Ills
time Is bis own. He can smoke or
not, without (jueKtion, and ho Is abso
lutely free to pursue his own Ideals.
There are worse things than being sin
gle, 1 was willing to run the risk, with
you, but don't sympathize with me. 1
shall get along all right, thunk you.
I
8hs turned toward him w ith sad-
Kuakm as a Gardner.
I'omi as itusKin was or flowers, es
peciitlly wild ones, he had his own
Ideas us to what a garden ought to be.
ami in tils practical ganleuing was
ipilte a landscuplst. He liked making
paths and contriving pretty nooks.
When he llrst came to H rant wood ho
would have his coppice cut no more
It spindled up to great tall steps,
slender and slnous, promising no thn
ber, and past the age for all commer
cial use or time honored wont. Neigh
bors shook their heads, but they did
not kuow-the. pictures ..of Botticelli.
lino Ituskln bad made his coppice Into
an early Italian altar piece. Then he
bad bis espalier of apples and a little
gooseberry patch and a few standard
fruit trees and some strnwberrles
mixed wiui nowers. in one corner
there were beehives In the old fashion
ed pent house trailed oer with creep
ers. Here and there were little hum
mocks, each with Its especial Interest
of fern or flower.
(iovea lor Nausea.
"Cloves." said a physician, "make an
. M elleiit and htimly remedy for nausea,
for the headache due to train lidi
and lor slight at tacts of sea tdi kncss,
I went abroad last year aud on the
boat the first day out I lMgan to feel
the approaches of sciislcknct-H. I look
a clove every hour nil the rest uf tin
day and hy midnight attack had left
me and it did not return iiiralu. My
wife Is much given to Indigestion, nn
lli iilaiiy when she eats puslry but e
perlence has t.iught her Unit slit
may now -cut pastry wllh Impunity,
provided thai she swallows it
clove now aud then for sevi r.il hours
after the meal." '
NT) the girl clings to this silly no
tion? It's preposterous: If you
don't make her give up thnt poor
fellow nud accept Kufus Clark, I'll have
no more to do with sny of you. 1 go
to-night unless the girl gives in. She's
your daughter; make her obey!" And
Aunt Madeline walked out of the room,
lenvbig her niece gentle, helpless Mrs.
Trice in despair, for well she knew that
her persuasions were powerless with loy
al Kitty Trice.
Kitty, the eldest, of I lie widow's four
children, had been Aunt Madelines pro
tege for yenrs. Ever since her fathers
death the child had lieeuelotlied and edu
cated by this sunt of Mr. Trice's, n child
less widow, who, to be near her darling
Kitty, had for the last three years board
ed with Mrs. Trice, her liberal payment
and well-rhosen gifts helping out the
widow's straitened income in a way all
of them appreciated. That Aunt Made
line "should go" meant that Jack must
leave school ami go to business, thut the
little ones could have no new suits that
winter, that only bare necessities could
be bough t.t perhnps not even these. Yet
Mrs. Trice felt afraid to interfere fur
ther with Kitty's choice of a liusbnud.
It was true that the rich Kufus Clark
seemed to others fully us good a- man.
kind, steady aud devoted, as Herbert
Huntley, who had n small salary and no
bright prospects. Hut Kitty unfortu
nately loved Herbert before Kufus ap
peared on the field, and she did not be
lieve her mint Mndeline, who nssnred her
thnt Herbert would "take to drink," or
let her support herself and her family
after a few years.
Aunt Madeline had made a love match
herself, and it had not turned out well.
She, too, hod been loved by a rich man.
Sod by one who, if not poor, was not
blessed with much of this world's goods.
She persisted in marrying her choice, re
verses had come, and he, a weuk charac
ter, could not bear trials, resorted to
stimulants to cheer him up, aud at last
was for yenrs dependent upon his wife
for his home aud support. The rich lov
er never married, nnd just when Mrs.
Joyce (Aunt Madeline) was prepuriug to
go to work to enru her own support, he
died, leaving his oue love his large for
tune. Judging by her owu experience
Aunt Madeline hnd some excuse for ad
vocating marrying for money instend of
for love; but "nil lovers don't turn out
so," Kitty argued, nnd was sure thnt
manly Herbert, who had supported his
sister for yenrs nud was thoroughly tried
by repented disappointments nnd re
verses, was very different from weak
vacillating Henry Joyce.
I won't give him up. I ought not to.
I can't," the girl whs just repeating,
when her gentle mother knocked at her
door. Mrs. Trice whs one of those worn
en who never entered a child's room with
out knocking. She respectej each one's
privacy, nnd perhnps it was for that rea
son thnt her children confided so fully In
her, taking her ns their one confidant
Come in, Motherdy. I con see Aunt
Madeline has been tormenting yen ngain.
Why doesn't she come to me instead of
worrying you? 1 think it menu, aud I've
a good mind to tell her so.
You won't have n chance, my dear;
your aunt is going to leave to-night."
"Leave! for good? O mother! and
have done this when you need the help
shs gives so much! I wish ' and Kit
ty's voice sounded so hesitatingly thut
sirs. Trice ventured one Inst appeal.
Kitty, dear, it is a sacrifice, nnd one I
cannot nsk of you, hut if you make it of
our own free will you are doing a great
aud unselfish thing. Kufis Clark would
take Jim into his employ, your annt
would see Jack through college, Minnie
would have a luxurious home with you
moving in the best society, if anything
hnppeus to me and Itufua Is a good as
Herbert I cannot but think your liking
would soon grow as warm for him as for
your early love,
I lie girl a face wna white and fir,l
She loved her brothers and little sister
devotedly, and then, too, had not her dy
ing father begged her to be a true elder
sister to them? He might have fore
seen some trial like this, for only n day
or two before he died he shhI to Kittv
when she aat alone with liiui
My girl, you have a hard lot before
you tne eldest daughter or a Door
widow you may have to nai-rilics
bright future for the sake of your orphan
brothers and sister: but do it cheerfully
bravely, and unselfishly and liod will
1st
m'smsiE!
Born in Hardin County, Kentucky, February 12, 1809.
Died et Washington, D. C, April 15, IS65. '
not sort over her old mementoes of for-,
mer days; but there was one paper she
must get nt nnd tnke with her. As she
turned over a box full of papers she
enme ncross a pink envelope, worn nnd
faded, but one that lu its day was evi
dently chosen for its beauty to hold some
dHinty message.
"Harry's vnlentme! poor fellow, poor
fellow! My own loving Harry!" aud she
pened the faded envelope witu rast-
falling tenrs. It wns not Henry Joyce,
the drunknrd, of whom she thought; it
wns her bonuie lover of those long years
hnek. She seemed To be standmg agnln,
lovlne. trusting girl of eighteen, and to
see bin blue eyes so full of love, so beatf
tifnl and true to her. benmini: upon tier.
as he said:
"I wrote it myuelf, Tet. nnd I want
you to keep it alwnya from your af-
entiue.
"Always forever!" she had answered,
with a blush. Ah. there is nlwnys one
thnt gives, and one that takes, in love
nftairs. If she had been the giver, pour-
inir out her very life in devotion and
sacrifice for him. had she not found a
wonderful aeerct happiness, eien In her
pnln? Would she even now have her
past life different? She pressed the fad
ed valentiue to her lips.
"Aunt Madeline, I havs come to say
vou need not pack your things. Til give
up 1 11 mnrry Kufus i;inrk. nerDen
will understnnd. poor fellow. l)o stay,
Aunt Madeline!"
Slav! who tulked of going? What
nonsense! Just because 1 choose to look
over my things on a rainy afternoon" (it
wns perfectly dry outside, but tne old
lady was hnrd put to it, "to tnke it for
granted I nm going! Anil ns lor uurus
Clnrk. let him go, my child, let him go!
I suppose you want Herbert, for better,
for worse, nnd if it's for worse, deur,"
nnd the old lady's voice grew tender and
solemn. "God will help yon, as he has
helped many nuotlier. The happiest
mnrringes nre not always tne truest
some one must hear with nnd sustain
the feeble ones. Keep your Herbert, as
you love him, and Cod bless you."
The girl lotiKed to say, "Hut Herbert
Is not feeble, nnd there wont be any
worse.' but nil 'better, in our marriage."
but she wan wise, ami let the old lndy
have the floor.
There, this old valentine conquered
me mere doggerel, 1 suppose, the lines
seem to you;" and Aunt Madeline read
the verses to Kitty, wtueii were doggerel,
and orobably only slightly altered from
aoms old book, to suit the lover's pur
pose. "Mere doggerel; hut keep your
valentines, dear, when they come from
your true love; they may keep you from
being a heartless, meddlesome old
wretch, and separating two true hearts,
as I cams near doing."
Kitty's mother weut down to the tes
table with bread. It would be almost as
bad to learn that Aunt Madeline was to
stay sad dear Kitty sacrificed, as to bid
good by to their one well-to-do relation
To her surprise, Kitty and Aunty entertd
the dining room together, the young girl
beaming and blushing, the old lady with
a tender light in her eyes, aud a delicate
flush on her withered cheek,
"lt'a all right. Motherdy," said Kitty,
Joyously. "Aunty isn't going away, and
I needn't marry llufiia. He'll have to
wait for Minnie!"
"llut 1 " began Mrs. Trice, wonder-ingly.
"Mother, St. valentine shall be my
natron saint hereafter!"
At which speech Aunty's flush deepen
ed, though she tried to rotuo down gruce
fullv from her former attitude.
- "1 still think Kitty is foolish, but time
will teaih her her folly!" and no oue
LIC0LN'S LAW PARTNER.
Hiram W. lleckwith, from ISTiS l
1861 a partner of Abraham Lincoln, died
recently at St. Luke's hospital in Chi
cago, aged 2. Mr.
Beckwith's father
was one of the
pioneers of Illinois,
having helped to
found the town of
Danville in 1S1!.
X o u n g Lieckwith
studied Inw under
Ward II. Lamon,
who was mnrshal of
the District of Co
lumbia ilurine Lin
coln's administru-
li.
w. B.'K nil.
tion. Ua was a close friend of Lincolu
and later tiecame his resident partner at
Danville, While Lincoln waa a circuit
lawyer.
From 1887 to 1002 Mr. Beck with was
president of the State Historical Society.
He waa compelled to resign in the lntter
year on account of illness. He left a
widow and two sons.
STORIES OF LINCOLN.
A New York lndy has Just recovered
from the United States government a
sum of money that was claimed by hefe
ancestors lo." years ago.
Of the 270 members of the Massa
chusetts Legislature only seventy-si
are college men, twenty-nine of them
from Host oil. ,-University and twrnty
five from Harvard.
Tbe sum of $7,tHK) was paid at auc
tion lit London recently for a smalt Jug
of l'ulliiim ware, strapped with silver
bands. The Jug, which Is 9 lucnea
high, five inches in diameter and of
the date of 1581. wns discovered In
cupboard of a church at West Mailing,
Kent, a few years ago.
A German doctor, who has been col
lecting Information about the habits of
long lived persons, finds that the ma
jority of those who attained old age
Indulged in late hours. Light out oC
ten persons over eighty never went to
lled till well Into tbe small hours, and
did not get up again till late In the
day.
At Cherson, Hussla, lovers have been
forbidden to kiss In public. A kls
given in the-street Incurs 11 line, and
a lover who takes his sweetheart by
the waist Is fined, while the mere put
ting of a cross to signify a kiss 011 a
post enrd Is also against the law. At
Milan a kiss In public is puulshed by
a fine.
What is claimed to be one uf the
largest clocks in the world has 1 11
placed in a new tower ut Lliza belli,
N. J. It Is thirty-eight feet in diame
ter, with eighteen fot bands. The tow
ter, which Is .'l.'!0 feet high, was built
expressly for Hie clock which will be
Illuminated at night, nud will be visible
for many miles around.
Terhups the most remarkable bridges
in the world are tho kettle bridges la
Russia and Siberia, of which Cossack
soldiers are expert builders. They are
built up of the soldiers' lances and
cooking kettles. Seven or eight lances
are placed under the handles of a num
ber of kettles and fastened by means
of ropes to form a raft. Kueh of these
rafts will bear the weight of half ft
ton.
According to Secretary Moody's re
port, eight-nine per cent of the blue
jackets of our navy nre citizens of thft
United States nnd seventy-six per cent
are native born. A few yenrs ago t he
majority of them were foreigners-
principally Scandinavians. At the out
break of the war with Spain many con
tinental newspapers prophesied that
tbe aliens would desert, leaving the
ships dangerously short-handed, but
they proved loyal to a mnu.
Kastcrn railroads do not know, or
need, tbe rotary snow-plow, whoso
spectacular operations are best wit
nessed In the Kocky Mountain region.
This Invention, as a writer lu the
Scientific America 11 shows, la an effec
tive substitute for the old plan oi
charging Immense snow-drifts with a
huge plow driven at a speed of .sixty;
or seventy miles an hour by half 4
dozen uushiiu; locomotives. By' that
Anecdote Giving- a Pen Picture of the
Great President.
In Fairfield, Iowa, lives Mrs. William
Trewitt, who is a sister to Ann Kut
ledge, the early lovs of Abraham Lin
coln. In speaking recently of the youth ' p)an it was sometimes the plow and
of the great President, Mrs. Trewitt Le ,ocmnotlV(.g wliUU suffered the
v" 1 iV,"!.0,,1V wl'en1Im most damage. But the rotary plow,
died, but I rtniember seeing her and Mr. 1 "u"'" ' '
Lincoln together much of the time. She acting on the snow-banks like an
and Abe hud n crammar iu common and auger, with a swiftly revolving stcei
took turns In studying it. After Aun's
death he returned the book to our fa in
ly nud we Hill have it. Her death was
time nlone and when he came out of the
room 1 remember that he looked broken
hearted. At that time we never thought
of Abraham Lincolu as a lawyer, though
he may have been studying iu secret. He
was a great story teller, even then, and
was a universul favorite. '
When, ut the Hampton Uonds confer
ence, t ea. Z, IBiiO, .Mr. Hunter, tne von- 1 Troia
the correspondence between innrles 1. Cualllu Vul.ew himself into the work
and Tarlinment as a precedent for a ne- , . . , . ,..., wh ,., wbole
gotiation between a constitutional ruler , 1 . " ' , , , ...
and rehels. Liueola renlled: . ver spin ing ms n
Upon matters of history I must re- weaitu in me i...s
fer you to Mr. Seward, for he is posted science.
Itullet or Itope Always.
Stranger (in lror.cn Dog Is there
an opening here for a physician?
llriihcn Kill --Can't sny that lucre is.
Ycr see. it don't ieiiiiiv 110 specialist
lu this community to tell what folks
died of. Tuck.
Itrltlan's Population Varying.
Fifty years ugo the population of
Lnghiud and Wales was divided equal
ly between city and country; now 77
per cent of it Is tirbuu.
Some uien are constantly trying to
lower the record for men ones.
It Is excellent to appreciate Uow
w ho excuL
make such saerillee work out for you a ' nriiued to the contrary
far morn exceeding ami eternal weight
of glory."
These words seemed ringing in the
poor giii'a ears. She must not drive
Aunt Madeline from her mother. She
must not deprive her brothers of Kufus'
11 id, or Minnie of the sute refuge lie
could command for her if she gave up
Herbert. With pule lips, the k ii said:
"Wait a uiotnenl, mother; I'll pcuk to
Aunt Madeline; ouly let me sil itluue u
while."
The mother, frightened t the girl's
looks, yet knowing how good uiul true a
man Uiifu Clark was. left the room,
though longing to uphold her girl in her
first decision, and Kitty sat alone, uot
wavering now, only wuiliug until It
should grow dusk that her face might not
betray her.
Meanwhile Mrs. Joyce ws' packing
her trunks and boxes, for she was u de
termined woman, and meant to keep her
word. A friend hnd repeatedly urged her
to corns sad keep "old maids' hull" with
her, and sometimes when the boys were
particularly ipiurrelvoine nnd noisy Aunt
Madeline had felt inclined to accept, aud
had hinted as much to Miss Mills, who
Often auid she would expect her "at any
time." So now she telegraphed to Boa
tou that she was t- come by the night
train, aud went tt work at her pueking
to keep down the ffubug of regret and
lompimctiou thut theutened to over
whelm her. She derided she would not
pack all, but send oil come for the rest,
sad thought with rfUvt that bs nd
The weddiiiaT came off ou St. Vnlen
tine's dav. Kitty declaring: that the saint
would bring them luck. Minnie wore her
lirst "long dress." and Mr. Clark seemed
so much struck with her wonderful re
ihlance to the bride that Aunty may
still hove one of her nieces "married
we'd." Herbert in spile of Aunt Made
line's fears, seems altogether "for bet
ter" uml not "for worse." He may nev
er be rich, but he is loving aud honora
ble, and mi each wedding anniversary
he gies sis wife a valentiue, which is
ewrefuily treasured. Ititt Kitty begs in
vain for '.he faded pink envelope ami its
enclosure. 'Til leave it to you, dear,
sii id At'ilty, on the third anniversary of
Kitty's itiurriage, "but ns long as I live
Til keep my one valentine. May yours
have ouly sweet memories emdirined
them! Mme, though precious, tells
mixed tile of sorrow, hope, almost de
spair. Hut, through it all, hope tri
11 111 oh a."
And Kitty, remembering the dying
bed. where the poor weak mun had re
pented of his wasted life, felt that even
Aunt Madeline's choice hud not been so
utterly a mistake a some would iusiat
The Housewife.
The Urcat Northern Kailroud has
substituted ltalluu workmen for tho
Japanese. The Japanese work cheaper,
but they also work mucn more siowiy,
Tbe Italians are getting sixteen centa
a hour.
wheel, twelve feet in diameter, buving
blades resembling those of a ship's
nroDeller, cuts a pnssuge through solid
nused by brain fever aud I remember ! .inn t the rate of from two to twelve
the last time Mr. Lincoln saw her. She 1 ,.,. ...., is sllot f,ul
had been delirious, but toward the end 1 " . ' . , ... ,.,,.. . (lls..
heenme rational and asked to see her ,.'..1.1
lover. He talked with her lor a long . 01 n" ,M,C """"""
Koniaiice of An Kxplorcr.
When the w ill of Tuul H. Du Chulllu,
African explorer, was hied the inter
esting fact was revealed thnt It waa
! a dissjipoluluieiit iu love that led the
J wealthy and brilliant w riter to turn explorer.
the day that his sweetheart
the bride of another, Dll
of
in such things, and I don't profess to
be; but my only distinct recollection pf
the matter is that Charles lost his head."
A clergyman of some prominence was
one day presented to Lincoln, who gave
ths visitor a chair and said, with an air
of patient waiting:
I am now ready to bear what you
have to say."
Oh, bless you, sir," replied ths cler
gyman, "I have nothing special to say.
I merely called to pay ray respects."
My desr sir," said tbe Tresident, ris
ing promptly, his face showing instant
relief, and with both hands grasping that
of his visitor, "I am very glad to see
you, indeed. It is a relief to find a
clergyman, or any other man, for that
matter, who has nothing to say. I
thought you had come to preach to me."
On one tierce winter night during ths
war Mr. Lincoln emerged from the front
loor of the White House, Ids lunk figure
bent over as he drew tightly about his
lioulders the shawl which he employed
for such protection, for he was on his
wac- to the Wur Department ns the west
corner of the grounds, where in times of
battle he was wont to get the midnight
dispatches from the field. As the blast
struck him he thought of the numbness
of the pacing sentry and, turning to him,
said:
Young man, you've uot a cold Job to
night; step inside aud stand guard here."
Mv onlers keep tne out here, the
soldier replied.
"Yes," said the Tresident, in his ar
gumentative tone, "but your duty can be
performed just as well inside ns out here
uml you'll oblige me by going in."
I have been stationed outside." the
soldier answered, and resumed his beat.
"Hold on there!" said Mr. Lincoln', ua
he turned bark ugniu. "it ueeurs to tne
thnt 1 am cotumauder in-chief of the ar
my, and I order you to go inside."
Unnoticed.
"You say you saw my bister at
recent wedding?"
"Yes. It wasn't very loug ago."
"Hut I don't remember that
mentioned seeing you."
"Very likely. I was only
groom." Cleveland Tlaln Dealer,
she
ths
One Advantage.
"There's one good thing about being
sick," remarked the philosopher.
"What's that?" asked the cynic.
"A fellow feels so much better when
be gets over It," replied the philosoph
ical part.
His most notable performances were
the discovery of the gorilla and tho
pigmy mces In the heart of darkest
Africa. When he made the announce
ments of these dlstMveries In his lsok
they were received with derision, and
H was not uutil specimens of both,
gorillas and dwarfs were exhibited la
Kurops that his detractors were si
lenced. Du ChalUudled in St. Tetersburg. Ill
body was shipped to this country by;
the St. Tetersburg tieographlenl so
ciety. Henry It. Hoyt, a warm person
al friend of tbe decedent, was named
ss executor.
Although Du Chulllu spent a great
fortune In his explorations, bis will be
queath ouly $."ilK of personal property,
'nils Is accounted for by the fact that
he guve away all of his valuable speci
mens. His books. "The Land of the
Midnight Sun. liie country of the
Dwarfs." "Lost lu the Jungle," "My
Apingi Country, " "Stories of the tiorll
lu World" and "Wild Life Under the
Kquator," had it great circulation and
Du Challln might have been a very
wealthy man, but be preferred to de
vote himself entirely to scientific work.
New York World.
Malayan Tree llwellcrs.
The sakais, or tree dwellers, of the
Malay Tenlnsula build their bouses in
forked trees a dozen feet above ground,
and reach I hem by means of bamboo
ladders, which they draw up when
sal'iiy housed oiitV'f harm's way. The
house itself is iCnnle kind of shack,
made of bamboo, ami the flooring la
lashed together ph-ee by piece and
bound securely to the tree limbs by rat
tan. These curious people tiro rather
small nud lighter in complexion than
the Malays though much uglier. They
have no form of religion at all not
even Idols 110 written language aud
speak a corrupt form of Malay.
Japanese .Vela for Alaaka.
urders have recently been executed
in .la pun for 11 supply of fishing neta
for Alaska valued at $:10,S)0.
(Juullties thut make a muu feci su
perior are usually the ones that euussv
bis- acquaintances to rate him as la
for lor.