Heard from His Note in a Bottle.
Platt Correspondence to the Minneapolis
Journal.
While on his way to Germany about
a year ago Edward Reese wrote Ills
name and address on a card, which
he placed in a bottle, and after care
fully sealing threw the bottle Into the
ocean about midway between the two
continents. A day or two ago he re
ceived a letter from Theodore Schultz,
dated at Hrooklngs. S. D., In which
Schultz Informed him that he was the
finder of the bottle. Schultz before
coming to America resided on the coast
of Denmark, and one day while stroll
ing along the coast of that country
discovered and took possession of the
bottle, which had floated ashore from
fnldocean.
To the Blush of Edna’s Cheek.
Thou lucky blush! Let me repeat
With warm and firm Insistence,
I envy thee thy short and fleet
Yet happiest existence!
Thy life Is briefer than the rose;
And yet, could I but live It,
Were every treasure that man knows
Mine own, I’d gladly give It.
But since there’s not for me the bliss,
Thou crlmBon blush to be thee,
I can at least bestow a ltlss.
And then. In rapture, see thee!
—Charles Hanson Towns.
According to Hoyle.
Miss Pert—I believe In calling a
spade a spade.
Chappelgh—Sure. It would we wl
dlculous, you know, to call It a heart,
a club or a diamond.
The customs service of China esti
mates the total population of that
country at 438,214,000.
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A Village Utopia.
From the London Globe.
An agricultural village in which half
the houses are on the telephone, where
the cottages can ring up the shop
keepers in the neighboring towns and
order their stores without taking the
journey, where the village school has
been transformed Into a paradise which
Is to the children a perpetual joy,
where there are motor cars for the
teachers and a motor launch for the
youngsters—it sounds like “News from
Nowhere," and yet it really is In the
very heart of England. The village
Utopia Is, says "Progress," Bredon’a
Norton, In Worcestershire, five miles
from Tewkesbury. The village until
the advent of the present owner was in
the tumbledown condition which Is
typical of so many decaying agricultu
ral villages in England today. The vil
lage school was managed In the bad,
old, inefficient style, and the villagers
were as much cut off from communica
tion with the outside world as If they
had been In the center of the African
continent. The first step was to cut
sip the estate into small holdings of
ifrom five to 26 acres; the next to re
store and beautify the old manor house
and establish there a woman’s agricul
tural club, where now about 30 women
(are studying agriculture under com
petent toachers. This club is now self
■MUppoi'ting. The next attack was on
fall
'and factories to shut down. The de
gression, the suffering and the excite
ment far overshadowed the crisis last
tj-tr, because the country has grown
enormously In wealth and our banking
system and currency have improved.
The worst panic we ever have had, in
my opinion, was that of 1873.”
Regarding the rapid recovery from
the panic of 1857, Mr. Wlndmuller said:
'"All the banks in the country outside of
Js’ew York suspended, as 1 recollect,
\vith the exception of the banks in Sam
Francisco.
1 But it was late in the summer, and
that year we had unprecedentedly
large crops. These saved the day, and
soon gold began to come In from
Europe and from San Francisco. In
the early winter that year business be
gan to struggle to Its feet, and condi
tions were normal by the spring of 1858.
This year we are promised a bumper
crop, and I believe the effects of the
recent depression will be virtually
wiped out as a result.”
Th« First Day of School.
The first day of school is the best flay of
• -
.'You feel so importajit and happy ana tall!
lYou have some new dresses, and m your
new books,
!New studies with lovely queer Jumble aind.
e rooks*
And teacher looks fresh and a little bit
fat,
And wears the most flummery, summery
fSTou wonder how some day ’twill feel to
be old.
And never bo scolded, and never ba
“toUt”
The blackboard is painted ail shiny and!
black-“
And somehow, it really is good to be bw(;lt.
There's Amy and Harriet, Mary and
Gwen,
And Maribei Mathers, who has the goMt
pen.
And Maribel's doing her hair a new way.
And has a new bracelet that's locked on ,
to stay.
lYou wish that mama woven t so strict
about things—
tThat you could wear brooches ana brace
lets und rings,
,We don't have to study the first day, at
a".
And teacher, quite often, goes out In the
hall; _ , ,
We whisper, but teacher comes back with
a smile—
[We'll have to behave better after a while.
jOh, summer vacation is splendid, of
course,
(With the lake, and the farm, and the
boat, and the horse;
But truly I love the first uay. in the fall.
When school seems real fun—'tis the best
day of all!
—Edna Kingsley Wallace In September St.
Nicholas.
The Key to Real Success.
W. D. Howells, In Harper's Magazine for
September.
A prime qualification for success In any
art, trade, or profession is the love of It,
though love alone will by no means bring
success In it. The love must be reciprocal;
that Is, the vocation must desire Its fol
lower, for reasons which there Is no find
ing out, and which must remain as much
a mystery to him as to any of his wit
nesses. "She was love-worthy," says
Heine, in treating of a more passional
case, "and he loved her; but he was not
love-worthy, and she loved him not." The
fond youth, university-bred or self-made,
may have ever so great a desire for jour
nalism, but journalism will have no de
sire for him, unless he lias the peculiar
charm for it which commands affection in
all cases. He can only prove the fact by
trying, and by longing to try with a long
ing that excludes the hope of every other
reward beside the favor of the art he
wishes to espouse. Riches, fame, power
may be In the event, but they are not to
he In the quest. The w-lsh to succeed In
It for its own sake must be his first mo
tive, and the sense of success In It must
be his first reward; those other things
must be left to add themselves, without
his striving for them. So far as lie strives
for them, they will alloy und dilute his
journalistic success.
Competition.
Front the Nashville American.
“Mrs. Jones had a most delicious bit
of scandal to tell Mrs. Brown, and
the latter wouldn’t give her a chance
to let go of It."
"I thought she reveled In such
things."
'She does."
“Why wouldn't she hear It?”
“The lime was short and she had
some scandal that sha wanted to tell
herself.”
[
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The Story of Starlight.
From the New York Sun.
August Belmont, president of the
Jockey club, at a dinner In New York
said of racing:
“Racing fs honestlv conduced In the
main. The stories that one hears about
ft are rather absurd. They axe’ like
the story of Starlight.
"Once there was a group of sports
men who were all quite broke. They
must, however, get Into the races. And
one at a time they presented them
selves at the paddock gate:
" ‘I am the owner of Starlight.’ th«
first said. He was well dressed and
Imposing. They believed and passed
him In.
“"I am Starlight’s trainer,' said: th«
second. His red face and bluff man
ner bore out his story and they ad
mitted him.
“The third man. small and thin, next
appeared:
“ ‘Starlight’s Jockey,’ he said short
ly, and hurried through the gate.
“The fourth and last man of the
group was very shabby Indeed.
“‘Welt who are you?’ they saldi
impatiently, when he presented him
self.
‘ I am Starlight,’ was the meek, re
ply." _t _
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How He Explained.
From Lippincott's.
The dissatisfied voter had dropped out
of his regular party and tried some
thing else at the previous election.
When he appeared to register for th»
next primary there was some hitch
In the proceedings.
"Didn’t you vote the prohibition
ticket last time?" inquired the-clerk.
"Yes," responded the voter un
abashed.
"How do you explain thait?"
“Well, you see,” he explained with
charming frankness, “I was drunk at
the time and didn’t know what I wa*
doing.”
The clerk accepted the explanation as
quite satisfactory and took him back
into the fold again.
Heard in the Capital.
The Congressman—You have had a
great many epochs in yaur career.
The Senator—Yes; sometimes I feet
as though I have had more epochs than
career.
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