LABRADOR FISHERMEN ARE IN SORRY PLIGHT belief Ship Sent North With Food For Starving Population— War Cut Off Market For Their Fish and Crops Failed. Hundreds In Desperate Plight. St. Johns. N. P. Special: Relief for Che destitute Inhabitants of the barren SsLbrador region has been undertaken by the New Poundland government and the steamer, Kyle, Is now ploughing her way through the Ice laden waters off the Laborador coast. The Kyle la carrying a cargo of provlsons to Sand wich bay which Is about 100 miles north St Battle Harbor, where Dr. Wilfrid T. Irenfell maintains hls mission sta tion and hospital. The Kyle was chartered by the gov •ernment after word had been received from Dr. Grenfell and others of the aerlous conditions prevailing In Labra dor. Because the coast was choked with tee as late as August 1, with resultant low temperatures on land, the cod and ether large fish were too torpid to mesh In the nets or take halt, the smaller fish held far off shore, potato plants did not appear above the ground and the berry crop was practically a fail ure. The people had nothing to live en but bread and tea. There was a r444444444444444444 4 4 ♦ 44 » JELLICOE IS ENGLAND; 4 ALL DEPENDS ON HIM 4 44444 +444+++44444444444444 Harold Begble In London Chronicle. There Is no figure In the world at the present moment so dramatlto ns that of Sir John Jelllcoo. A British admiral Is always a solitary man; but ta war, and such a war as this, hls aolltude Is appalling. When tie stands en the bridge there is no one at hls aide to consult with; he looks over the aeo. and on every battleship, cruiser, destroyer and torpedo boat swarming around him a man with a spyglass watches hls face; If he were to be men, like a general, consulting with a Siff, the whole fleet would curl Its and feel a sinking of Its heart; no, stands alone, and In an instant he must make up hls mind, In a flash hls orders must be given to every ship under hls command, in the twinkling ef an eye he must decide for every •ahlp at sea. It is a one-man Job; the Whole Issues of the British empire bang upon that single brain; Sir John Jelllcoe Is England as Nelson was Hugland, and he Is Europe and the world as no other man that ever lived was Europe and the world. Call Tor American Horace. From the Philadelphia Ledger. England la In the American market for 10,000 horses. Dealers as a result of the war demand are reaping a big profit. More than 6,000 head have been purchased In Pennsylvania and adjoin ing states, and the prices the foreign 'buyers are paying ranges from 1100 to MOO a head. Shipments are made to London for delivery. The last ship ment, comprising 70 horses, manifested at $36,000, was shipped on the Atlantic Transport company’s liner Minnehaha. Which cleared from New York last Wreck for London. The demand for American horses caused by the war, according to a note Issued by the department of ag riculture at Washington, may continue a decade or longer, as when peace Is restored, more horses will be needed for agriculture. It Is conservatively esti mated that 1,000,000 horses are now en gaged In the war. A special train of 27 cars filled with horses bought in the west for French cavalry purposes Is on the way from (It. Louis to New Yofk over the Van dalla and connecting Pennsylvania lines. Pennsylvania railroad officials here refused to give any details of the ^shipment of horses, and would not say when the special train would arrive In New Y'ork. It is known, however, that the train left the National stock yards, St. Louis, onTuesday night and that each car •contained an average number of 25 horses, which would make the total •shipment more than 676 horses. Upon •arrival at New York the horBes will be transferred to a transport and, under •convoy of a French cruiser, will be con veyed to France. A shipment of 1,000 horses originally planned to be sent to New Y'ork was forwarded to Now Or • teans lest Sunday over the Illinois Cen 'trol. From New Orleans the horses will be sent to France by transport un ■dar convoy of a cruiser. LaBt week there were some 700 horses shipped to Montreal from St. Louis for British cavalry purposes. The Serfdom of the Greek Bootblack. Edward Alswocth Rosa, In the Century Magazine. The ugliest thistle patch we owe to -eld world seed Is the serfdom of thous ands of Greek boys In the shoeshlnnlng parlors that have sprung up every where. In some parts of Greece the peasant gets his children early to work In order that their earnings may leave him free to loaf the livelong day tn a coffee house. Upon them, too. ho saddles tho •burden of providing dowries for thotr sisters. Accordingly, In certain districts the poor Bend away their boys to the cities of Greece and Turkey, where they are hired out to peddlers, grocers and restaurant keepers, who treat them badly and work them unconscionably king hours. From such parents the Ureek In America has no difficulty In recruiting hoys, whom ho exploits un Jer conditions that savor of slavery. In thousands of Greek shosshinlng shops aro working bound boys who are miserably fed and lodged by their mus lers. paid from $3 to $4 a week and re quired to turn over all tips. Often tho tips alone cover the boy's wages and keep, so that his labor costs the master tothlng. Seeing that from each boy tho padrone makes $100 to $200 a year, a jhaln of such establishments yields him «. princely Income. No wonder the ne .gro and Italian bootblacks have been forced to the wall. The bound boys are on duty 15 or 46 hours a day, and work every day In the year. They get In tholr eating and looping as best they can. They know T» recreation. Bate at night, completely ashausted, they drop, with their clothes on. Into a bed that must suffice for four •r five. Boya who have been In a city (Several years may learn nothing of It save the shop, their living quarters and street between. Since the padrone's lms la to keep hts boys dumb and Jlitd, they are not allowed to talk freo it with Greek customers. The moment • customer talks with a boy, “trust leo" crowd around to listen. No truth Cam he gotten from the boys concerning flkelr age. their work or their pay. To Avoid tho arm of the truant officer, no QTeek bound boy confesses to fewer lAsn 17 years. They are Ignorant of the rfchts and rewards of tabor In this Thun try, and are told that, If they leave ■sir work, they will be arrested, liven their letters home are read and cen sored. The effects of this servitude on •the boys are shocking. They miss all ■schooling, and years may elapse before • they get their eyes open. The study of F.ngllsh is the first step •Aoward er-rrelpetlon, but where work month of good fishing; then winter set in again. With the outbreak of the war In Eu rope. the market for Labrador fish was almost completely cut off and there < was a rise in the price of foodstuffs j which made the cost of flour, sugar, meat and butter prohibitive to the im proverished fishermen. The war also led to the suspension of operations in rail way construction in New Foundland and the closing of mines at Sydney and Belle Isle, where many of the Lab orador men have gone in recent years for winter employment. The big fur companies are hesitating to buy pelts in the present condition of the market. Labrador thus was left without any source of lneomo and Its Inhabitants faced starvation. To add to the suf fering, a severe epidemic of Influenza is raging. The relief measures in stituted by the New Foundland gov ernment will ease the situation some what and will tide the people over un til next summer. Is constant they miss even this chance, and young men will be found who have been shining shoes for years and feel no ambition for anything else. The • physical ravages of such work and con finement are appalling. Through this peephole wo glimpse one secret of tho immigrant’s skyrock et commercial rise. Behold Stephanos, who landed 10 years ago without a drachma, and now draws a cool thous and a month from his business and Is one of our solid men. "Wonderful!” exclaims tho Innocent American. “What stuff there must bo In him! Shows, too, that tho country I Is still full of good chances.” The fact Is. the wmrthy Stephanos lolls on the . backs of a hundred unseen bootblacks, I who are being ruined that he may pros- | per. When one considers how merciless ly the Immigrant landlord, banker, sa loon keeper, contractor, or employment agent hoodwinks and fleeces his help less fellow countrymen, certain of the “successes” one hears of do not seem so remarkable, after all. 4 4 SCISSORED RICE. 4 4 4 444444444444444444 44444444 . (By Grantland Rice.) Percy Haughton, the czar, emperor, mandarin, and kaiser of Harvard’s foot hall fortunes, has shown again the value of systems over Individuals. In the six years before Haughton came to Harvard, Tale had rolled up 74 points against Harvard’s abject 0. In the first six years after Haughton arrived, Harvard had scored 39 points against Yale’s 9—not Including the 1914 battle. Which Is quite a shift. Before Haughton landed with his system. Harvard had won but three games from Princeton out of IB starts. After the landing Harvard won three out of four starts, and only a costly fumble kept it from being four straight. Yale ruled In the old days through Camn’s fine system—a system continued from year to year. When Camp drop ped out the old Yale system fluttered and shifted and lost 1st organized ef ficiency. Princeton has enjoyed neither a Camp system nor a Haughton system, and so has been forced to depend upon Tiger courago, alertness, and Individual skill, which Is something to have, but which Is under a heavy handicap when thrust against the same virtues or ganized and directed In the proper way Yale this season secured Hinkey to give the Haughton system battle. But for the warfare between the Crimson and the Blue to be waged upon equal terms. Hinkey must be given his chance to build up and to perfect what he has only had a chance to start. Fo- no system Is established in a year—which In a football way em braces but two months’ work and play. And only a select few from the big muss are capable of installing a system w'orth while. Camp, Yost, Haughton, Sharpe, and Stagg are leading examples —where to win there must be a com bination of highly developed football Intelligence and a capacity for or ganization and magnetic leadership— which possibly 10 of our 100,000,000 na tive possess. Memphis Leads in Murders. From the New York World. Frederick L. Hoffman has compiled for tho Spectator an arry of murder figures, of Interest to Insurance men, which show that 6,500 persons, more than 1,500 of whom were women, met death at the hands of their fellow hu man beings In 1913 In this country. This is almost our highest murder rate of record: the 10-year average of 1904 1913 is 7.9 per 100,000, against 4.9 In 1S84 189.3. Chime statistics are, as the Spectator says, notoriously misleading, and they are rather more so In this country than in western Europe. Still, for some of tho larger cities the figures are fairly complete. It will certainly please and probably surprise most New York peo ple to know that their city had, both in 1913 and in a period of years pre ceding, a rate considerably lower than the general average. The recent rate in London has been 0.9 per 100,000, lower than any American city: in Berlin 2, a trifle less than Mil waukee, at the honor end of our list; in Paris 3.5, about like Minneapolis or Hartford. Then comes Now York, 6.5; but beyond that. Cincinnati, 10.7; St. Louis, 12.9; Charleston. 30.6; Memphis, 58.3. Indeed, for 1913 the Memphis raje rose to 6S—34 times that of Berlin, 12 times that of New York and eight times tie general average of Ameri can cities. Our rate Is greatest in cities with a large negro population. But it Is every where disgracefully high. If Newark, Rochester and Milwaukee can get along with a homicide rate like that of Paris or Berlin, why cannot Boston and New York? Unfailing punishment might help Inculcate respect for the law. Things Hardly Won. It is to be noticed that these things so hardly won. these virtues for which we pay the price, form not only the marked traits in our character, but in the trying • • • periods of our life it is only those things that are ours be cause we have paid for them that we can depend on. Pittsburg still has a horsecar on the Sarah street line on the south side. The preservation of the railway company's right to the tracks is the cause for keeping the car In operation. Many days it passes back and forth on its trips without a passenger. Francis B. Campbell, driver, says he is the oldest employe of the Pittsburg Railway com pany, both in age and length of serv ice. He is more than 70 years old, and has worked for the company for about 45 years. CLAIM HEAVY RAINSTORMS ARE j INVOKED BY THE BIG BATTLES History Proves Clashes of Armies Brings on Miseries of Great Downpours—Field of Waterloo Was Too Slip pery For Cavalry Maneuvers—Siege of Sebasto pol Was Long Damp Spell. From Pearson’s Weekly, London. It Is one of the extraordinary things of warfare that a big battle Invariably produces rain. History contains Innumerable In stances, both on land and sea, and on more than one occasion the storm or showers that followed an engagement had no small influence upon the life of nations. We can hardly have a better example than that recorded In 1588, when Eng land was threatened by the great Spanish armada. After Its encounter with our own fleet it was, as we all know, struck by a heavy storm, which completed the work of our own gallant seamen. The soldiers who fought so bravely under the leadership of Marlborough at Blenheim In 1704 had to suffer the misery of successive downpours after their brilliant victory. Marlborough was anxious to follow up his victory without delay, but his men were so worn by the fatigue of the battle and the discomforts caused by heavy rains and the contingencies of warfare that he was unable to push •on for several days. June 16, 1815, the British defeated the French at Quatre Bras, and Na poleon worsted the wily Blucher at Llgny, both within measurable dis tance of Waterloo. The heavy rains which followed these engagements made the clayey soil almost Impassable for cavalry maneuvers at Waterloo (fought on June 18), and so crippled the tactics of Napoleon and greatly assisted those of the Duke of Welling ton. The victory would have been HOW NEWS OF WAR REACHES AMERICA Three Great Associations Ex tended Throughout Europe Serve Associated Press. The war news of Europe Is furnished to the American press, largely by the three agencies, the Wolff of Germany, the Havas of France, and Reuter’s Telegram company of London (pro nounced Royter). Reuter’s is a general news bureau, and extends over all Europe. It Is regarded as the most re liable agency in Europe and has the confidence of the readers, the censors and the government heads alike. Reuter's Telegram company was founded by Paul Julius Reuter. From a mere twoloffice bureau—one operated by his wife, the other by himself, with the only means of communication be tween them furnished by carrier pig eons—the news service has expanded until now it Is regarded as the most comprehensive and the most accurate in all Europe. Beqan With Pigeons. Early In life, Reuter formed a child ish affection for a professor who was much Interested In the development of the telegraph. Out of that friendship grew a deep interest in electricity and Reuter under his friend's guidance, ac quired more than an ordinary knowl edge of the telegraph. With that knowl edge came the dream, and in 1849. when telegraph lines had been built in Germany and France, he saw his opportunity In the gap that lay be tween Alx-la-Chapelle and Berlin. Himself a German, he organized a news bureau, and stationed himself In Ber lin. his wife at Alx-la-Chapelle. Carr ier pigeons were used as a means of communication. Later when the carrier pigeons were supplanted by the telegraph and the gap between the two countries bridged, he tried to establish an international bureau, but was discouraged by Ger many and repulsed by France. He went to London In 1851 and established Reuter's office. He later became a naturalized Englishman and centered his entire organization in London. Ths First Hit. lur cuuuussiuus wiiub ueiii£ constantly repulsed by the press marked his early London experiences, but like Franklin, he received inspira tion from rebuke. A few private dis patches. scattered commercial com munications and meager news sales limited the scope of his bureau, until the London Times, in a rash piece of extravagance according to the view point of that date, printed the Reuter conveyed speech of Napoleon III in 1858. This speech scored a success and marked the real birth of the agency. In 1866. Reuter secured a concession from France to join with the Anglo American News company and build a cable between France and the United States. Before the completion of this cable Reuter built a line from Cork to Crookhaven, getting the civil war news from incoming vessels and telegraph ing it over to Europe hours In advance of the docking of the steamer. Queen Victoria made Reuter a baron In 1871 and further declared that his title should pass to his heirs and bo granted perpetual succession. He died I in Nice, February 26, 1S99. His son, I August Julius Clement Herbert Baron De Reuter, succeeded his father as managing director of the company. j Reuter’s Telegram company, made a limited liability company in 1865, is now in its 011h year and is the great- j est news bureau in Europe. It conducts ; an interchangeable service with the Associated Press of America and with all reliable news agencies the world over. The Havas of France and the Wolff of Germany are reliable bureaus oper ating wholly within their respective do- , mains. Each of these, in times of war. is regarded as a government mouth piece. Each is subsized, each is un der government control. It was recently urged of Reuter’s that they accept the Wolff bureau as the authentic source of German news. The reliability of the service and the accuracy of its Information makes Reuter’s the absolute spokesman for war-torn Europe. As evidence of its accuracy, Reuter's first gave informa tion to the American press that Eng land and Germany were In a state of war and prophesied that at 6 o'clock on that day the declaration would be made. Promptly at 6 the declaration was made. While Reuter’s Telegram company Is represented by correspondents at every news source and at every bureau, it is absolutely independent of affiliation or control. No news bureau is In posses sion of more confidential or official In formation and no bureau In Europe is more accurate, more conservative than Reuter’s. To the present Baron De Reuter's only son. Herbert Julius, ulti mately will fall the supervision of the groat news agency founded by his grandfather. 1 pained In any case, but experts are of the opinion that the rain was an ally of some value. During the early weeks of the siege of Sebastopol, in 1854, the roar of can- j non and explosion of bombs was fol- ! lowed, day by day, by heavy down- i pours of rain, until, as we read, our men stood in the trenches knee deep in mud. A terrible gale broke over the j Black sea and caused great disaster to ' our transports, and on the heels of | this tempest came a heavy, steady downpour of rain that brought death to hundreds of our gallant fellows. In yet another instance the heavy cannonading of a siege brought in its train a disturbance of the elements. This was just prior to the fall of Plev na, in 1877, when the moisture of the clouds was turned to snow as it fell, and, by increasing the sufferings of the besieged, helped to make Osman come to the determination to try a last chance for freedom. The explanation of the rain is com- j paratlvely simple, and has been made use of for the benefit of agriculture in various parts of the world. The atmos phere is laden with moisture, a con cussion caused by loud reports or noises will often burst the clouds, with the natural result that the drops of water fall to the earth. This has been 1 practically tested when farmers have been groaning over the drought, and scientists have induced the desired rainfall by causing cannon to be dis charged at altitudes varying with the locality. When, however, the dis charge is continuous, as in battle. It la obviously more effective. Lonliness. It was a sad looking little town, like all the rest—just a main street set down In the midst of the illimitable 1 waste. Our train stopped there. I saw a man across the aisle look out 1 of the window, scowl, rise from his • rent, throw up his arms, and exclaim addressing no one in particular: “God! ; How can they stand living out liereT I’d rather bo dead!” My companion and I had been speak ing of the same thing, wondering how people could endure their lives in such ' a place. "Come on,” he said rising. 1 “This is the la3t stop before wo get to Colorado. Let’s get out and walk.” I followed him from the car and to the station platform. : Looking away from the station, we gazed upon a foreground the principal scenic grandeur of which was sup plied by a hitching post. Beyond lay the Inevitable main street and dismal buildings. One of them, as I recall it was painted sky blue, and bore the sim- i pie, unostentatious word, “Hotel." My companion gazed upon the scene ' for a time. He looked melancholy Finally, without turning his head, he spoke. How would you like to get off and spend a week here some day?" he asked me. “You mean get off some day and spend a week,” I corrected. “No, I mean get off and spend a week some day.” I was still cogitating over that when the train started. We scrambled aboard and, resuming our seats m the observa tion, car, looked back at the receding station. There, in strong black letters on a white sign, we saw, for the first time, the name of the town: Monotonyl The Fall of Tsing Tau. From the New York Commercial. If the sultan cannot secure the support of the Mohammedan tribes and states in a holy war it will mean that Great Brit ain is safe in India and that the Turks will no longer be regarded as leaders of the Mohammedan world of nearly 200,000, XX) believers. To deprive the sultan of Turkey of his Influence over the Moham medans of Asia and Africa would relieve Great Britain and France of the danger I that always lurks in the peculiar situation created by a religion that preaches salva tion by the sword. Japan’s victor^ will be felt in Persia, India, the Turkish domin ions in Asia and throughout North Africa. Wavering Arabs and other Musseimans will now feel that Turkey is on the losing Bide because Germany has lost in Asia. The fall of Tsing Tau is the great event of the war in the eyes of all orientals, who will now picture Japan smilingly In viting the white races to cross swords with her samurai on the shores of ths . Yellow sea. London News Note. Not before in the history of the present war, and perhaps never before in its his tory. did the Bank of England report a weekly increase in gold holdings which matched the increase reported last Thurs day. The amount of that increase was $38,000,000; it brought total gold holdings to $347,000,000. The week after war broke out the bank’s gold holdings were $13S,- , 000,000. _ _ _ Civilization. By James A. Macdonald. Aro not nations uncivilized and pagan whose recourse for justice is to brute force and not to law? WINS IRON CROSS 'fHHMH i < 1 Captain Rutger von Bruning. Captain Rutger von Bruning, for merly military attache to the Ger man embassy in Washington, has been decorated with the iron cross of j Emperor William in recoeni'.'n of his bravery on the battlefield. He is ! now captain of a regiment of hu* J sari. 1 X THE STENOGRAPHER, j From Harper’s Weekly. A woman of much quiet charm and culture, who earns her living by swift and accurate stenography, has sent us a letter in which she points out th« frivolous treatment of the stenog rapher in popular literature. As to hei appearance, see O. Henry’s "The Ro mance of a Busy Broker:” "A high-rolled fringe of golden halt under a nodding canopy of velvet and ostrich tips, an imitation sealskin sack and a string of beads as large as hick ory nuts, ending near the floor with a silver heart.” As to her mentality, consult “Short Story Writings," by Professor Pitkin, Df Columbia university: “The gum-chewing stenographer, who devours the literary offspring of Mr. Chambers, may have her difficul ties with this.” Her conversation is described in a story in Red Book for November. “Believe me, when it comes to the real, thing, the blown-ln-the-bottle tind, our Bill’s got the best of ’em beat to a fadeaway.” Her equipment may be found de scribed in any of the alleged comic pa pers : “Have you done anything for spelling •eforrn? Yes, I fired my blond stenog 'apher.” Why is she so treated. We all know he facts. Among those earning their Ivlng in this way happen to be George Washington’s great grandniece, a rranddaughter of a governor of South Carolina, a great granddaughter of haurens of the first continental con rress and thousands of others of cul dvated ancestry. Many ar.e college rraduates. The truth is, the world oves familiar jokes and familiar ef 'ects, and if one stereotyped trick gets started and proves amusing to the tverage mind, it is hard to stop. Command of the Adriatic. From the Chicago Tribune. When a few days ago an Italian marine >ut his foot on the wharf of the small own of Avlona, In Albania, he may have :urned the scale In which the destiny of Surope is now trembling. A tremendous weight for the rough shod foot of an ob 'eure individual, and worthy perhaps !n listory to be celebrated with the nose of Ileopatra, of which the great Pascal says n one of his epigrams: "Had it been shorter the whole face of the earth would lave been changed.’’ For the landing of marines at Avlona, >r Valona, as the Italians call it, although j •escribed in diplomatic euphemism as “a ' irecautlonary measure in view of the dis urbed condition of Albania,” may draw taly Into the war, and Italy almost cer ainly would turn the scale for or against jermany. ” ■v iuu» auu nuy ; ihould its occupation suggest such all em- i >racing consequences? p Aviona is nearer the Italian shore than , 5t. Joseph is to Chicago. That is the Im jortant thing about Aviona. Also it is the ' >est harbor in Albania, but the fact that nakes it of especial consequence to any >ower that holds it is its command of the Straits of Otranto, the narrow neck of the 1 >ottle which is the Adriatic sea. From )tranto, on the heel of the Italian boot, 0 Aviona, on the Albanian coast, is little 1 nore than 40 miles. Avlona’s bay would larbor a squadron which would make the Adriatic a closed sea, a lake—Italian, Aus rian, Greek, according to the flag flying i 1 iver that squadron. What Italy now calls a “precaution” J nay become what statesmen call a fait , iccompli—an accomplished fact—which we iccept and dismiss from consideration. ?hat will depend upon the outcome of the \ ear and the part Italy plays, at least in he politics underlying it if not in the mill- . ary phase of the conflict. Study the map of the Adriatic and taly’s interest in the east shore becomes , apparent. Most of the good harbors are m the east coast, and, as has been said, | \ he command of the sea in war depends ipon a good base near the straits. With , Lvlona in Austrian hands or in hands too . veak to preserve neutrality Italy’s posi- j ion would be seriously weak. In Bern- ' 3 Lardi’s “Germany and the Next War” he ! .rgues that Italy would do well to relin- ; i [uish her interests in the Balkan region . 1 favor of Austria and take compensation 1 i rom France in north Africa, but the bar- j :ain does not strike the disinterested read- | 3 r as a safe one. Aside from the fact that , here are many Italians along the east hore and strong sentimental and historic onsiderations, the establishment of Aus rian power confronting her across the larrow sea could hardly be counter lalanced by colonial possessions across he Mediterranean, even without taking i nto account the price to be paid for the ] atter in the form of the lasting enmity f France and the jealous hostility of ireat Britain. Italy’s imperial tendencies, therefore, luite apart from her desire to regain the "rentino, seem to bring her into unescap- j ble conflict with Austrian ambitions and o compel her to cast her sword Into the cale' on the side of the allies. A RECEIPT FOR HAPPINESS. There are many practical means for de eloping happiness, but there are three equirements which are worthy of special mphasis. (1) Faith in God: We must have faith n God, cease worrying about what our leighbors think of our work or method f living and cease doing things or not do ng things from fear of what someone will hink or say. After seriously deciding irhat line of work is best for us to do, ! irhere it is best for us to work and live, i .ml what Is best for us to buy or sell, we j hould fearlessly act, and trust God for he result. To be happy, a man must lave that self-control which comes hrough faith and prayer. (2) Daily development: Our dally work nust be such as will develop us spiritual y, physically, mentally and materially, nd also provide proper reaction. Many ieople can never be happy so long as they ontinue in their present vocation; and he longer they so continue, the more dif Icult it will be to change. Such people hould at once change their vocation to ome useful work in a healthy place, it nakes little difference what we select, but j o be happy we must be of real service ,nd also strive to become specialists, try ng to do some one thing better than any ne else does it. (3) Contentment and ambition: We \ nust learn contentment, tempered with a ] •roper desire for progress, and appreciate ur blessings while they last. A great < .mount of unhappiness Is due to being t pread out too much, with too many dl- f erslfled and entangling interests. A t •eaceful mind < omes only through having \ , very few aims and always keeping these ^ learly in view and refusing to be side- ] racked to anything else. Above all, we s nust avoid covetousness. -■ » » ■ — ( An Editor Embarrassed. j If the woman who left a pair of shoos , n the editor's automobile will call at thi3 i ifflce she can have ’em. We have troubles l nought without having to be called on to xplaln how a woman's shots happened to >e In that car. And the fact of the mat er Is we’re somewhat curious ouself, to tnow how It happened. The car was loft tending In front of the the News office 1 ind at noon a pair of woman's shoes were ■ n the car. This story of the case may 1 tound like bunk, but it’s straight goods ind we’re not eager to have those shoes ' in our hands any longer. Shoes weren’t ' nade. In the first place, to be left on a | nan's hands._ _ _ I A Regular Customer. i A clergyman, having performed the 1 narrlage ceremony for a couple, un lertook to write out the usual certifi cate, but being In doubt as to the day >f the month, he asked: “This is the 9th. is it not?*’ "Whv, parson,” said the blushing jride, “you do all my marrying, and rou ought to remember that this Is mly the third.’’ Two bridges In a city of India, are •upportod on large metal tanks, which float f cast Iron frames, supporting tiers ol thelves, and rising nine stories up to the ■oof Itself. There are today upwards oi iO miles of this shelving In the hulldlng, tapable of holding 2,250,000 books. The final capacity of this shelving Is about 100 miles, md holding between 4,000,000 and 5,000,004 volumes. From the great reading room, :o which everybody Is welcome, and tc ook at any book desired, an endless cable ■uns down to the basement, and up hrough the stack to the top, and back tgaln. To It. are attached book carriers. When a book is called for at the desk, he slip Is sent by pneumatic tube to the ’lerk In the book stack; he puts the book n a receptacle, from which it Is taken au omatlcally by the book carrier, and car, led to the reading room, the whole pro :ess consuming but a few minutes. Royal Road to Learning. I stood the other day In one of the al coves of the gallery of the reading room, md looked down upon a great number oi roung men and women, seemingly Intent n study. I said to an attendant standing >y me, “What does ail that mean?” Said le, “they are students of schools and col* eges within a circuit of 50 miles around SVashington, and they are getting infor mation, sir.” It was on a Saturday, a loliday, and I counted 197 hard at worh >ver their books. There were black and vhite, rich and poor, all seeking knowl dge. Looking down from the wall* ibove were such quotations as these: “The history of the world Is the blog* aphy of great men.” “Books will speak plain when counselor* >laneh.” “The foundation of every state Is the duration of its youth.” Thus is seen one of the avenues In thl* latlon’s city, that our government is ipening up to those who seek for better md higher things. Wheat and Rye Shortage. From the New York Commercial. A world shortage of wheat and ry* vithin the next year, accompanied by un precedentedly high prices, is the predic ion by men in close touch with the grain md flour trades. One leader in the flour business says hat the experience of Europe and this ountry after the Franco-Prussian war lids fair to be repeated in the present ime. but in much sterner degree. It la ecalled that in the period between the nd of the Franco-Prussian war and 1873 he price of wheat went to $1.63 & busheL ?hen only two nations were directly con erned, but now almost the whole of Eu ope is Involved, and the effect will be nore far-reaching. Even the Increased planting of wheat nd other grains reported this year from Canada and the west of the United States vill not halt the rising of prices, grain .nd flour dealers believe. The United States had in the season’a irheat crop a surplus for export that vould permit an average dally shipment .broad of about 1,000,000 bushels. The hipment has been considerably more than his, In some days being 2,500,000. It is stimated that 760,000 bushels was sent out Saturday. It Is likewise estimated that in the last our months, including the three In which he war has been going on, at least half f the surplus wheat for export has been, ent abroad, leaving a shortage for tha ucceeding eight months of the year. What has been true of wheat has ap ilied more pertinently to rye. This is a. taple of Germany and Russia, also wlde y used In France. The price a barrel of ye flour has steadily climbed until it is* low within 40 cents of the price of wheat Lour, although the normal difference 1* nore than SI. The world supply of rye, it Is said, ia a danger of being much curtailed for next ear. Russia produced about 600,000,000 •ushels. Germany about 450,000,000, and! France about 300.000,000. Germany has been able to plant much, f its normal crop, it is thought, despite* he lack of men, because it Is free from rmy invasion. Russia may have been ble to sow a moderate sized crop. Int ioth countries, it is thought, the crop (rill be less than usual, however. Ta France, It is said, there will be pronounced hortage and want. All the European armies consume vast luantlties of rye flour. The shortage in Curope In the coming year cannot be met ty tne Increase in production of North unerica. Though it is thought that more ye is being planted, the Increase it Is bo lovpil win not hp Pfl 1 ml t O tha Cities With Nine Lives. From the London Chronicle. When the war Is over we may be sure hat most of tl^e towns and cities de troyed by the Germans will, like Phoenix ise from their ashes. The teaching of hie ory Is that a city Is hard to kill. For in tance, London has been decimated five lmes by plagues. In addition to visitations if typhus, cholera and other epidemics She has been burned more or less severely leveral times. Paris has gone through light sieges. 10 famines, two plagues and me Are which devastated It. Rome has >een swept by pestilence no fewer than 10 lmes. She has been twice burned and six lmes driven to submission by starvation. Constantinople has been burned out nlns lmes, and has suffered from four dagues and Ave sieges. Males greatly exceed females In lumber In Manila, there being at pres ent 149,397 males, as against 131.603 lour years ago, and 117,546 females, as igalnst 102,801 four years ago. There are about 32,000 more males than fe males In the city at present. There ars only 3,626 widowers In Manila, whU* the number of widows is 10,(80.