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r-f FOR BH7AEL DECLARATION OF GOLDEN RULE JONES OP TOLEDO. is against Mckinley In a Lettor to the Public He Cannot Indorse the Policy of Empire With the Philippines. Chicago, III. (Special.) Samuel M. Jones, mayor of Toledo, O., and known as "Golden Rule" Jones, has made public a letter In which he announces his determination to vote for William J. Bryan. Mayor Jones wu the Inde pendent candidate for governor of Ohio last year and received more than 100,000 votes. He has a very strong personal following, and It Is generally believed that his declaration Insures Ohio for the Bryan column. Mr. Jones' letter follows: "During the past six week's a few petitions have been In, circulation In ilfferent parts of the Ninth congression al district of Ohio, asking me to be come a nonpartisan candidate for con gress. I had nothing to do with Insti gating or aiding this matter, directly or Indirectly. I am a nonpartisan and have passed beyond the party machine Idea and believe In the new politics, where candidates will be nominated by direct petition of the people without the party machinery of caucuses, pri maries, conventions, delegated authority or other paraphernalia of bosstsm. As best as I know how I have been stead fastly true to the nonpartisan Idea with respect to this movement. Ienlrlng no; to influence the signing of the petitions, I have carefully refrained from saying whom I am for in the Interesting na tional campaign now on. At the same time I have never fated to say what I am for. Althotiith no "(systematic work' has been done to secure names to these petitions, several thouHand voters have ilgne-3 them, many, times more than a sufficient number to warrant the belief that under ordinary circum stances It would be my duty to stand as a candidate and furnish a practical example of the workings of the new po litical system that is destined to deliver tj from the slavery of partylsm and make every voter always free to vote as a patriot according to the dictates ot an enlightened conscience, rather than as a partisan according to the crack of the party whip. Patriotism and partylsm cannot abide together.- MUST BK SINCERE. "Under existing circumstances I do not think the demand so pronounced rs to make it my duty to become a candidate, but I believe the time has arrived when it is my duty to state my position with respect to the Issues of the national campaign so clearly that none who care to know may have any doubt as to 'Where Jones stands.' If I do this as a candidate the purity and sincerity of my purposes may be ques tioned; therefore. In order to remove ail doubt as to my motives. I must decline to serve as a candidate in this cam paign, that by so doing the personal el ement may be removed and my efforts and influence- be taken at their true value In behalf of a principle. "Lincoln said that our government was "conceived In liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all tnen are cre ated equal.' In every liber of my be ing I believe In equality, and I believe that any social or political structure, to be enduring, must be built with a strict regard for this principle, so funda mental to a race of beings who are the children of one common father. , "'1 have no fear that our republic will be converted Into an empire. My faltn In the integrity and patriotism at the heart of the nation Is too well founded ti harbor such a dread. I believe that !.T.pcrl2!!rrr? ' logical sequence of militarism and partylsm. and tins m gotten trio Is the legitimate fruit of the spilt of bossiBm that has been so dominant In our political history dur ing the last twenty-five years, and all thee partylsm, bosstsm, militarism, and Imperialism are a flat-f loted de nlal of the principal of equality and an assertion of the right of the 'self styled' superior classes V) govern the rest; this Is an ancient heresy of the 'divine right of kings' in another form. WRONG PRINCIPLES. ' "I believe the position of the admin istration with respect to the Philippine war Is a denial of equality and a con tradiction of the principles of human liberty set forth In the preamble of the declaration of Independence. I have turned the subject over In my mind Ut months; 1 have studied every phase of It to the extent of my ability, and with all due respect for the men who are doing the governing and fr many friends who are In sympathy with them, ardor compel m il mV ,hnt 1 ean dr.. nothing but danger and disaster that are certain to overwhelm Ihf re public if this pulley is continued. 1 cannot see how we can be a republic of novcrelgn equals while holding colonial dependencies after subjugating them bv force of arms. '"My hope for the future of America nn-i the race Is found In my faith In the ym4 (the God) In my fellow human be. Ing-!n the palilotlsm of the whole, This faith Is Justified by all history and a lilVt'ine of experience, and nothing will ever swerve me from it. The spoil. tan.-us impose of the people of America to the appeals In b-hulf of the stricken citizens of lialve.iton Is the latest demonstration of the divine lin pul t the heart of humanity that only waits the opportunity to find ex-pr-sslon to sweep away all lines of di vision wipe out all marks of political, soda! or religious distinction and uc rept all humanity Into one common '""Our n'lK'rennlal el"''"""" should he considered as occasions for silently reg Isterlng the public M; they are, Indeed, a time when we make a sort of Barom etrical reading of the public conscience, t think It Is both misleading snd mis chievous to refer to our elections ss political battles.' BUT AN 18 RIGHT. "Great fights and warlike terms of that class. I regard the ballot as a 'sacrament rather than as an Implement of wrfsre, and when I enter the booth to administer the sacrament of my bal lot 1 shall use my best endeavor to r. Eord my conscience In favor of equality and sealnst -var. In favor of love and reason rather than war snd revenge, snd 1 shi.1l vols for William J Iiryan ts the best fsr 1 know of giving ex Drsslon to these sentiments, believing him to be the csndldste who most nearly represents, not the high Idesls 1 ' . .....i. hn hivn a clear vision of Tim perfected social state, but the subtle conscience of America to day. As he la against the war we are making on the Filipinos. I believe this is the one step toward the putting an end to all wars, the dally warfare of the competitive strife Included. If I cannot get the whole socialistic pro gram at one step I am wiling to take one step toward It. My hope Is not In any party or man, but In the triumph of a principle. To the extent of my. auinty i stum make use or tne oppor tunities afforded by the campaign to aid In crystallizing the public sentiment on the question now before the people, and will accept invitations to speak for these principles from now to the end of the campaign. "I will endeavor to make no discrim inations as to my audiences, but will hold mysel In readiness to talk to people wherever they can be reached. My faith Is in the people. What other or better hope have we In the world? FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. "I believe with Charles Sumner that 'anything for human rights la constitu tional.' No learning In books, no skill acquired In court, no snarpness of fo rensic dialect, no cutting and splitting of hairs Impair the vigor thereof. This is the supreme law of the land, any thing in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding. I can see no safe basis upon which we can hope to build up a governmental structure other than the consent of the governed. I do not want to govern a person simply because he is weaker than I and I am very sure that I can never consent to let another govern me because he has superior strength. To do so would be slavery and not equal ity. "Ours Is a government of sovereign equals a democracy and I believe It Is the destiny of this nation to lead the nations of the world forward Into some thing higher and nobler than even a democracy. I believe that here on this continent and under our flag la to be set up the co-operative commonwealth of equals, a government on which the good of all will be the Inspiration that will sing the peoples to their work. I believe that here Is to be Inaugurated' that era of peace and good will than Tennyson saw: " 'Then I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see. Saw th vision of the world and all the wonder that would be, Till the war drum throbbed no longer and the battle flags were furled In the parliament of man, the federa tion of the world.' "But this cannot be brought uhout by he ihelp of galling guns, with squadrons and grat standing armies. The glorious destiny of Ih'ja nation can only be wrought an the social conscience is awakened and as we phall make a practical application of the golden rule to all the affairs of life and to every phase of government municipal, state, national ana international. 'Only the golden rule can bring the golden age. I am a socialist and be lieve the hope of this nation and the world lies In brotherhood socialism, not party socialism. According to the light I have and as best I know how I prac tice this belief. I believe that equality Is the only basis of our hope. I am unable to see how It ever can be real lied with a party program. I am for the socialist propaganda, but not for a socialist party. I know there are party socialists and party republicans who find no trouble In 'riddling' my argu ments; to them I simply desire to say that I do not seek to Impose my method of politics or religion or life on them or anyone. I merely want to be a free soul and be true to the highest and best that is In me. "Ir conclusion, I reiterate the declar ation 1 have often made that I. claim no privilege for myself or for my chil dren that I am not doing my utmost to secure for all others on equal terms, "SAMUEL E. JONES." INDIANA SURE FOR BRYAN. Even Ex-Prosldcnt HarrHon Has Given Up Hope for McKlnley. Omaha, Neb. (Special.) "Indiana la assured to the democrats beyond ths question of a doubL Ex-President Har rlson admitted to me personally that the state was no longer debatable ground." So last evening spoke' Mr. M. Wicker of St. Paul, Minn., member of the firm of Sharood & Crooks, one of the largest shoe manufacturing firms in the w.-st, who Is a guest of the Paxton house. Mr. Wicker Is making his first visit to Omaha for the purpose of opening up the state for regular travelers to work hereafter. While a thorough going business man, Mr. Wicker Is not so absorbed in his business as not to take any Interest In politics and neglect his duty as a citi zen. On the contrary he Is alive to the Issues of the day and believes It a sa cred duty, espe (ally now, for every citi zen to give earnest heed to the mo mentous questions before the jieople. Mr. Wicker has of late traveled ex tensively in both the east and west and wherever he has been he has made the political complexion of the stale he was In a matter of close Inquiry. As a result few commercial men are bet ter posted on probable results In the various states , he has visited. "The situation In New York," he sail last evening. In nn Interview with the World-IIcrald, "I m.Ht uncom-ning for the democrats. In short I believe wltb Mr. Croker, who now stands to win f-'CO.OOO, that it Is rood- gambling ground. My uncle, who la a standard republican of New York, randldly, but with deep regret admitted the other day that in bis -Judgment tha slate was loft to the democrats. INDIANA AND MINNESOTA. "There are two slates, however, that I feel I can speak about with pretty correct Information as to how the vote will stand In the aggregate, and those aie Indiana and Minnesota, my honr state. I have Just been through Indi ana with the best of opportunities to gain correct Information, and 1 say In all sincerity that Indiana is assured to the democrats beyond the question of a doubL Honest republicans no longer attempt to deny this. From no less a person than ex-President Harrison I got thla admission in these words, 'In diana In thla election Is no longer de. batable ground. It la aaaured to the democrats.' Generous people poured $3,00,000 Into the lap of wrecked Johnstown eleven years ago. Like generosity will ma terially brighten ths desolation at Gal vtston. i . t f " THE MAI WITH THE HOE " "VmigUt just as well resign ' once!" exclaimed' Mr. Dubley, ' J had so id-? a that joining a li'.era.-y cob meanit that out hud lo perform in public. I simply can't do ii" "VV.ua do they nviii yau to do, my dearV'.ajkd' Mr. Dcd.ey. "A to- g and crane or a cake walk? woulj'li t m,:Dta little tsing like ih.it. You ca pick it up in n j nine." "Jt's nolbir.g like that," sa.'d Mis Dobley, paE.-lng a typtmrit.eji duc.i ni"nit ope-r the breakfast tali.f. "And you needn't make any ,fua of liie ai..i ter, either, The fr.volous way in which you look at everything is lire some. Now wliat am 1 to do?" "I -am sure, my dear" 'began Dab Jey. "Just read it read it!" commanded Mrs. Doblcy, and her husband read: "Honora Coombs Dobiey, ""Dear Madam: At the next meeting of the Literary Club Uie topic of dis cussion will be Markhum's poem, "I'll e .Man With the Hoe.' As you have b en selected aa chief speaker of the even ing", you will kindly be prepared to r-ecite the poem, aid give a fchort sk-eitch of the author's career. Ais to give your opinions as to the idea eo-n'tained i.n the work, ax well as the general style and literary construction- of tiie poem." ''Well, my dear," ea.id Mr. Dobley, trying to conceal the fact that he tvas quiite as perturbed as bis wife by the letter, "Well?" "Well? Why d'idn't they select you? What did they send thai to me for? What do I know abjut farmiug?" "You forget, drat, thai this is not an agricultural clcb. but a literary fcociety. Of course, t'Uey refer to the fa-moua poem." "Whai poem?" "Js it possible that you haven't heard of :Markbani'g masterpiece, 'The -Man. With the floe?"' asked Dobley, with a reproachful look over the top o-f bis egg. "Why, I havcu't read anything but 'Quo Vudis' this sunrmer, -and 1 only lulf read that. YVu see it hurts my eyes and besides that I'm loo busy. Who was he?" " 'The Man Wit.h .the Hoe?" ,He has become one of tne most typical &" "What was the matter with him? WliJ dida't he hoe? Where did it hap pen?" "Jt beg-an with a picture, my dear. An artifat made a picture of a maa in a field with a hoe," "Hoeing corn, I suppose; well, what of It?" '"Well, it was a great picture filled with depth .and feeling and life"' "1 suppose it seemed' as though he were really hoeing, did it? I've seen a pie-ture like that a girl gathering rosea. You could just see the stems n-a p." "'No, it wasn't exactly . thaA. The man had stopped" "Stopped hoeing? What did he do that for?" 'Jle'd slopped to rest and was lean ing on the hoe." -"Gracious! A hoc Isn't a bit com fortable to lean upon. "Why didn't be sit down?" C "Why er it was just the artist's idca, you see. The man. slopping to lean on his hoe the laborer in the field don't you see? typifying the workm'an of the ages the 'empty ages,' Markhani wrote." "Was it Markham bad the hoe?" "Oh, no! iMarkham was a poet, and lie saw the pioture and saw the poe try in it. Then he wrote the poem and -called it The lilan With the not."' "Was it pretty?" "It was a una gn?fi cent idea ibe fig ure cf that man s typical of the mnrUmnn the patient slave plowing the field "What did he have a 'hoe for if he was plowing?" "You do-n't understand. Don't you catch -ihe Ma? .Dabor the farmer at work plodding along wiihout aa klea sweating over hia work'' "'You jirtft said he'd stopped to rest." "'Er yes but. when you read it you'll see the rplendid picture -Mark-ham drew" "Excuse in-e, John," was Markham the antlst, or was he the uiau who had the hoe, or the man wno just wrote about it?" He was the poet, my . dear; he wrote the verse." "I suppose he was p-aid for it, rasa's 'he?" "I suppose ro, my dear." "Tlu'iv what 'was t lie trouble? He ally, John, I can't see in to under stand 'what all the fuss was absm." "Markhiam wanted to fc.nv i lie mis erable condition of the h-arfl working farmer the slavery of the toller the the Testers" "Why, John Dcbley, yen know you have often a!d you'd like lo be a I'.ii-iner because ihe.v have everything 'i ea.v. 'Hoeing and raking in child's p'ay, and as for plowing. It's jml like riding a thlryele nowaday. Von ;t in a s.rt o-f a aiiiky ai d tin- horses kiiiw j n't where to jco. I S14110SB they will Vive autoinobiif alter an bile" "He epol-.e," -went on Mr. DVoley, "of Ihe Vnipt!iM's of ages.' -1 here's a grand though!-. The ciupti" "What did he mean by in a; 7" "Why er o much oT thai U met iSiplior you see. The main iciea is I hat the lot of the working man is hopeltsi. 'The "Man. With the Hoe' was a poor wretch bent with toil a farmer whose life was" "Why didn't be get one of the farm hands to do the luring?" '"Jle prolmbly ivas a farm hand him self working" for a pittance" ''Well, he otjht to h-nve Iwen glad he was working, 1 think. The Idea! What did" he want? A ate am hoe?" "No, my dear; 1ut the idea Is what did life hold for him? Of what was he thinking as he ftund -there leaning on. the hoe -that humble Implement of toil?" "J'noba'bly ie thinking ot his diinner. I'm not a bit sorry for that man. lie bad nice oprn-air work, and he ootild stop to rest wn-cn Ire wanted to. and probably his wife brought him h'e dinner every noontime, and be had nothing to do but to hoe. And be wasn't eren dtolnf rhat!" "Ws.lt Bcytil you read tc poi Ho- ore. Markham calls him . 'brother so ihe ox.' " "What! "for?" 'The ox, you see, Is the beast oj burden. When the poet spoke of tha laborer a the broiher to the ox he placed him as low in- the intellectual tciie a it was possible to get him. He ask, 'Who blew out the'" "No no! ,'Who blew out the light within ihis brain?' asks Markuaai." "Well, who did?" "It was just a metaphor a figure Of speech" "Why didu't he say what iie Biean.t?" "I'oeis never do 'that, my dear." "'Well, -what d'id ho mean?" "That the workman was a misera ble creature, whose life was like an animal's a" "Don't be believe ia men woikiug?' "Yes but" ''1 suppose he likes tramps, then? Those men that sit around the parks? The Man With the Tomato Can' would be his idea, of the ideal man. ' "lVxus look at these things differ ently." ' "Well, I think H is silly to pity a man because he has a job. Think ct sll Hire men- th'a.t can't get wor. sup pose vou didtn't work? Where wouid be?" "It's the idea of maa earning hi bread by the weat of h's brow t-e curse of laborinjf for hire for" ''Why, this man with the hoe prob ably bud a good, steady place on tbe farm. Perhaps he owned it. He prob ably -had stopped to figure out .as crop. 'Maybe bia wife took boarders snd t.hey had plenty of money." "W'hen. you read it, my dear, you will be able to" "Oh, pshaw! I might just as weil start 1n to idealize the cook and call her The Girl With the Frying Pan" or 'The Woman With the Kolling Pin-.' " "Ue-a!!y, my dear, I "think you will be able to taik before the club if you keep on." "It's the very same thing. The cook, is a laboring woman, but she's a great deal freer than I aan. She aas no Mrci-al obligations and no calls to mti.e or to receive. She doesn't have to spend her time dressing and talk ing to folks when filie dioesu't want to. fcne has -a comfortable home and just a good things to eat a we nave, she ha' two days off every week. Sup pose I began to weep over her sad condition and called her 'sister to the ox.' Why, she'd Itave the very firs thing." "liut a poet would never write about1 a cook." "Well, a good cook ia a lot better than a farmer who only hoes and looks pathetic. Any one could hoe. Why, 1 almost believe you oould hoe." "I haven't a hoe, my dear." "That's another thing. Suppose the man didn't have a hoe? He'd have be-eu worse off, wouldn't he? A hoe represents capital. Do you know, John Dobley, it gets sillier every min ute to think of all the sympathy thai 'you're wasting on that man. It is The ,'Man Without the Hoc' you sholld be sorry for." "An are getting me Tound to your wayfOt thinking, Honora. I recall riovthe story of a rich man who said tii'if he started in business' pi-eking rags, but ifor a week or two he nearly starved because he had no money to buv a ragpick with." JjWhat did he d'o?" "He borrowed money enough," I be lieve, and 25 years after he told the story of the trouble he had getting Borne one to lend the money The funniest part of it was that he said hi had r.ever paid it back." "I wonder if that man really owned the hoe, or had borrowed it?" "Perhaps that" is what he was thinking of." "He was probabiy too mean to buy a hoe of his own! You know, John, 1 th'BK tirat iui &a good." "Honora, your logic is so convinc ing that f am beginning to agree with you that 'The Man Wl:h the Hoe' was considerable of a gold (brick." New York Sun. Greater Mill. At an agricultural show in Dublin a pompous member of parliament, who arrived lute, found himself on the oiikskirts of a large crowd. lleing anxious to obtain a good view for himi. If and some Iudy friends who accompanied him, and, preHiiniit.g that he wus well known to the spec tators, he tapped a burly coal portct on the shoulddtr and pcremtorily or dered: ' "Make way, there!" "Who are ye piihhin'?" was the un expected response. "Do you know who I am, sir?" cried the indignant M. P. '"I'm a repre.seti. tutive of the people!" "Yuli!" growled the porter, "hut we're the bloomin' people them ehes." Dublin Independent. Html It Meaii. Sixty miles nil hour is the mcrent :oiiiiooiij)liice lo the mind of the up-to-date vail mud man, but it niennrt other things besides those ili'Mcrilicd that are wonderful to the outsider. H i ins a steam pressure blow of twenty Ions on each piston liend every tenth of a second. It means that up In the cab the lireimm is throwing Into the furnace, two-thirds of n ton of coal every hour; one engine burns coiil faster than ten men can mini' it. 1 1 llliliim iv,o tuitim o mi i . j iiuiu to keep her journal boxes greased mid everything running smoothly. Phila delphia Public Ledger. Nome Bin Nalnrtr. fipenklng of big salaries the biggest on record was paid to George Gould For ten years' work his father guv him $.',0(io,()()0. The amount went down as "for services rendered." Thai was at the rate of IIOO.OOO a year The highest salary ever paid a rail road president was the $75,0(10 a yent that went to Sir Wlllinm C. Van Horn when he was president, of the Can' dlan Pacific -New York Kvening Sun. The grent difficulty in fretting changes made in theater is the feat of the owner that the alteration may affect the acoustic properties unfavorably. A TROPICAL CUBAN CAVE. A correspondent writing: from Ha vana says: "We who are here In Cuba for a short time feel that we wish to see all that'we can before returning to the states, and this all would scarcely ae complete without visiting Montserrat and the cava at Bellamar, at Matan zas, a natural formation, which the Cu bans consider one of the wonders of the Island. To spend only one day there Involves the loBS.of considerable Sleep, for the ferry connecting with the train leaves Havana at 6 o'clock In the morning-, and the train with which it connects leaves Regia at 6:20. It meana pretty early rising If one lives in Ha vana, but If one lives In the suburbs. as most of us army people do, it means rising at 2 or half past. On board we found a number ol American officers on their way to -Ma-tanzas. Indeed, one mght have almost thought one's Belf in the states, there were so many Americans on the train. As we neared Matanzas the country became much higher, and we had a near view of the mountains the first land one sees on approaching Havana from the United States. They are very high and stand out in bold relief fiom the surrounding country. We passed a number of cemeteries, in each of which was a little chapel, and a cor ner of each cemetery was a boneplt, or as the Cubans call It, an osario. Una village of considerable size was com posed entirely of stacks of one story each, and of probably not more than two rooms each. This village presented a very odd appearance. In Havana one can usually find a cab without any trouble, and we ex pected that It would be the same in Matanzas, but It was not, and we had to walk several blocks before finding one. The driver agreed to take us to the cave and back for the Bum of $3, American money. For the first part of the distance the road was excellent, leading along the bay, a broad drive not unlike the famous Ocean Drive at Newport. Then It turns and goes up a hill, rather gradual In slope at first,! but becoming steeper and steeper and very rocky. When the summit was reached a beautiful view greeted us acroBS'the harbor and out to the open' sea beyond two points of land, which, Beem to almost form a gate. The .entrance to the cave is reached through a little house of one room, perched on the summit of a bill. On the door of the house is a placard tell ing the rates of admission for soldiers, 50 cents; for officers and all other per sons, $1, all of which Is In American money. This placard Is printed in both SpanlBh and English. In the register we found the names of many Ameri cans from all sections of the states. A small boy of eleven was detailed to act as guide for us and several others who were waiting. We came to the con clusion that If this child could pilot us the cave could not be as extensive as had been said, and so we found it; Instead of being several miles In length it was not more than half a one. We entered the cave from the office by means of several flights of wooden steps, guided by the boy, who carried two long candles of wax, which, he told us, had come from America, In stead of finding cold air, as one does in Mammoth cave, we found the tem perature much higher within than without. Tbe formations are very much the same as in other caves. Names which imaginative minds have suggested cling to various parts; there are the "Robe of Columbus," the "Twelve Apostles," the "Ballroom," the "Organ," and half a dozen other names equally as appropriate i other wise. Our guide showed us the place where a Spanish captain had met death, whether by accident or other wise we could not make out; at all events he had gone over the cliff and his body had never been recovered. No one Is allowed to carry away any specimen from that cave, and for that very reason all of us were anxious to do bo;' the Uttle.boy had no objections; indeed, helped us by showing us where we could find the prettiest ones. The cave was discovered by a Chinese in searching for some stone for his house. Whether he owned the cave or not I do not know, but for a long time ho acted as guide. Later it was bought by an enterprising American, by whom It is still owned, If 1 mistake not. It takes only a short time to walk thro' It half an hour being ample unless one wishes to linger along the- way to study the foil-nations. All the rocks are not of pure white; In some places they are shell pink In others a delicate shade of yellow. There are two springs, but the waters from both are so warm that there Is no pleaoure in drlnkinjr them. The air Inside of the cave Is so warm that when one gets buck above ground once more Its seer.. very much as though it were a chungc to a colder zone. Several people were waiting In the oilice, and as we went down the hill we met others coming lip, and there 1 little doubt that the cave has Its full share of visitors. The trip to and from town, Including the time spent In the cave, took only about two hours, leav. Ing ample time to drlire to Montserrat and yet catch the truin back to Ha vana at 3:30. The Japanese are preparing to con vert their copper ore Into wire for do mestic and foreign use. Instead of ship ping It out of the country as before. The Furakawa Smelting V orks havt for some time employed electrollclt re fining, producing In the past year U tons, but they are now to be enlarced to four times their present size, and It In said that when the enlargement l completed their output will o fsr ex ceed the domestic demand as to permit a considerable export. As the govern, tnent uses several hundred tons of wire a year. It may be inferred that the new works will have a large cspadty OUT OF THE- ORDINAIIV. Germany brews one-third of all Oat beer consumed In the world. A London" priest named Buckley fonn In a dust heap a month ago a picture by Rubens. Within a. fortnight kai had been offered 14,000 for the canva. Like1 a true lover of art, however, bs refused the offers The kaiser - has three tailors for bis) civil costume one in Berlin and two in Vienna. He has aiso one in Lon don for his uniforms, which are all made in that capital. The cost of the kaiser's uniforms runs well Into four figures. The foreign uniforms alone Oil two large rooms. ' Charles E. Whlttemore, who owns B big confectionery store in Wllllmantlc, Conn., was obliged no close it tbe other day because the honey bees cf the neighborhood, finding nothing: sweet in the surrounding country, ow ing to the warm and dry weather, bad swarmed Into his place and made neat ness impossible. I. F. Dickinson, a Chicago candr manufacturer, is said to be tbe young est warrior enlisted in the union army during the civil war. He shouldered s mustket and flew to the defense of the union when but 13 years and. 10 m ant he of age. During a year he was in the midst of flying bullets, but came Irons the army without a scratch. In India a curious railway accident occurred lately. While a train was In Ruxaul station a terrific storm began, and, though the brake was applied to the vans and on the engine, the tore of the wjnd was such that the train wa driven along the line. The engine dash ed through the buffer Btop at the end of the line and traveled along about six lengths of rail laid end to end with out fishplate fastenings. After leaving these rails the engine plowed along the embankment and then came to a stand still. The Rhode Island supreme court has rendered a decision that flowers form a necessary feature of a funeral. Tbe case under consideration was an action, brought by.a florist against the admin istrators of the estate of a deceased citizen who had refused to pay for flowers furnished on the credit of tbe estate. The court Justified tbe ex penditure, remarking that "the custom of having flowers at funerals is well nigh universal In this country, and that, when not abused by extrava gance or unseemly ostentation, it is) sertalnly to be commended as giving appropriate expression to our feelings of respect and love for the departed. LITERARY NEWS NOTES. "The Story of the Heavens," by Sir Robert Stawall Ball, LL. D., D. Sc., Lowndean professor of astronomy In. the University of Cambridge. Size, Wix 9. Cloth, $3.50. In this new and thor- ' oughly revised edition of "The Story" of the Heavens," Messrs, Cassell aV Co., Limited, New York, present a work which has been and is the recog nized authority on the subject of which It treats. The book contains 24 colore plates, with numerous text Illustrations, 600 pages, and is a faithful record of the recent discoveries and achievement in the world of astronomy. "The Story of the Heavens" is in as great deman' on the continent as among English speaking people, and has gone through several translations. We are glad to announce that the Midsummer number of Good Health Is having even a much wider circulation than we anticipated for It, and It is be ing -ia.t in th"rind of homes where the magazine has not entered before. """ It is evident that it contains the right sort of information to meet the demands . of the people at this season, and we are constantly receiving orders for more copies from people who invariably state that they have sold or loaned all coplea forwarded to them, and in many cases that one copy has been read by several families and still passed on to others. We also have evidence of thousands of copies being preserved as a "reference work," which clearly goes to show the Increasing Interest In the minds of the people concerning healthful living. We had an extra large edition printed, and are prepared to fill orders for lees than ten copies at 10 cents each; or more than ten copies, 5 cents each. There Is a thrilling story of danfrer and of lost love in the October number of the Delineator. It is dated back in the rom.ni'.tfc Acadian days by the master of Canadian fiction, Charles fl. D. Roberts. A waunded ensign belov ed by two girls Is saved by both, solely because of the self-renunciation of one, who goes back to die In order to delay his pursuers. It Is a skillful piece of heart anguish done into word's. The same number has a picturesque Chi nese article Illustrated by several gen uine photographs of Chinese women; a rare thing In the present men of Chi nese literature. The Delineator Is quite up-to-date In the eighty or more sketches of present-flay styles which I are shown In Its pages. For thirty years it has been trusted by American women for guidance In home dressmak ing and home management. . Frank G. Carpenter, who Is now lis ' the east, sent to the Saturday Evening . Post a long article about the Empress Dowager of China, his facts having been gathered only a few days before ;hc present troubles broke out. Two vears ago the. Empress Dowager set aside all precedents, and received the ladles of the foreign legation at Pekln. -One who was present told Mr. Carpen ter about it, and he Ui turn describes the historic event to the world. The true poet, I suppose, write ! etry because he simply can't half U." "Yes; and It seem to follow tfc nobody, else should writ poetry wk oaa help It"" i , ! '"V: Who does stand lor " -