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Battle Hymn of the Hepublic.
Mine eye bare en the glory of the
coining of the Lord,
He ia tramping out the vintage where the
grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of
bin terrible, swift sword;
Hi truth in marchiug ou.
I hare s him in the watch-fin s of a
hundred circling ramps;
They bare biiilded him an altar iu the
evening dews and damps;
I can read his righteous sentence ly the
dim and flaring lamps.
His day is marching on.
I have read a fiery gospel, writ in bur
nished rows of steel;
As you deal with my contemners, so with
you my grace shall deal;
Let the hero, horn of woman, cru-di the
serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet Unit
shall never call retreat;
He la sifting out the hearts of meu he
fore his judgment sent;
O, be swift, my soul, to auswer bim! he
Jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was
born across the sea,
With a glory In His bosom, that trans
figures you and me;
As he died to make men holy, let us die
to make men free,
While God is marching on.
Julia Ward Howe.
HilClilund Mary.
Te banks, and braes, and streams around
The castle o' Montgomery,
Green be your woods, and fair your Row
ers, Your waters never drumlie!
There gimmer first unfauld her robea,
And there the langest tarry!
For there I took the last fareweel
O my sweet Highland Mary.
How sweetly bloomed the gay green Idrk,
J low rich the hawthorn's blossom,
As underneath their fragrant shade
I clasped her to my bosom!
.The golden hours on angel wings
Flew o'er me and my dearie:
For dear to me as light and life
Was my sweet Highland Mary.
Wi' monie a vow and locked embrace
Our parting was fu' tender;
And, pledging aft to meet again,
We tore ourselves asunder;
But 0! fell death's untimely frost.
That nipped my (lower sae early!
Now green's the sod, and eauld's the clay,
That wraps my Highland Mary.
O vale, pale now those rosy lips
I aft line kissed sae fondly!
And closed fur aye the sparkling gl.;n e
That dwelt ou me sae kindly!
And mould'ring now In silent dust
That heart that lo'ed me dearly!
But still within my bosom's core
Shall live my Highland Mary.
Robert Hums.
$ TRAINING COLLEGE CREWS.
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"A fellow doesn't care to do much
but lie ii round and rest when he rows
sixteen uiIIph every day," said the
oarsman. "You see, the 'varsity rows
eight miles In the morning and eight
miles in the afternoon. I fu pretty bard
work. When the morning work Is over
we are glad to loaf a while, and after
the row at night we are ready to
Nevertheless, every precaution was
taken that there he no violation of dis
cipline. After "taps" the captain reg
ularly made the roundH of the bed
rooms lo we that all his men were
there. It wan well understood that If
man broke training be would bo tak
en from the crew, reduced from a po
sition which he had worked hard to
attain, be forever disgraced, and an
other man put In bis place. But the
college pride of the men, their loyalty
to their friends, their determination to
win, were stronger forces than all the
threats In the world In urging them
to do tbelr best.
"I give them all they want to cat,"
ssld Ellis Ward, the famous old coach
of Pennsylvania. "They get plain, sub
stantial food meat three times a day
If they want It chops, steak, roast
beef, and plenty of good vegetables,
but no pastry, pies, or the like, and not
too much sweet stuff. We aren't trou
bled with sickness. Last year one of
our boys bad a sprained ankle. He was
In too much of a burry, and Jumped
out of the wagon before It stopped
when we reached training quarters.
But he rowed In the race Just tbe same,
and did bis work. Tbe best way to
keep them from breaking training Is to
give them plenty to do." Leslie's
weekly.
6RITI8H INDU8TRIE3 DECLINE.
Trad Victories of Americana Due to
Hlowcioaa of the Kngllah.
It hi shown by Col. M. B. JeflPerds In
the London Flnnnelsl News that from
J870 to 1W) the New York Central
Railroad reduced Its working expem.es
per ton mile by more than D2 per cent,
while wages were Increasing, and since
IKK) by 40 per cent, while the English
companies have made practically no re
duction In the thirty years.
The cost for Instance, of moving a
ton of freight one mile on the London
and Northwestern Bond Is 1.3N cents
as agslnst .236 of a cent on the New
York Ontral. and only Am of n cent
on U) Great Northern Itoad, which
runs through the thinly settled North
west Tbe New York Central freight
charge per ton mils In 1870 was 1.88
cents, and In 1000 only .70 ofa cent
In other words, the rate to the public
M tat New York Central Is only about
half the cost to the English company
moving a ton one mile. The rate
charged on the London and Northwest
ern In 10U0 was 2.34 cents per ton per
mile.
Inasmuch as the wages are much
higher on the American roads, the com
parative charges and expenses are a
significant commentary on the differ
ence In effectiveness of management
This condition la duplicated to greater
or lens extent In a very large number
of KngliHh manufacturing Industries.
There are many morals to a tale ol
this kind, nays Guntou'g Magazine, but
the present purpose Ih to Huggest only
one. It 111 becomes Kngllsh manufac
turers and theoretical economists to
charge upon trade unions a decline
which Is so obviously the result of an
tiquated industrial management The
trade union movement In almost :t
thoroughly established In the United
States as In England, yet we Hre out
stripping them at nearly every point
The trouble Is iu the failure of English
manufacturers and Industrial mana
gers to keep up with the march ot
economic progress. No sympathy need
be wasted on their complaints of trade
union hampering until British capital
ists can do something better to justify
their own economic function In the
community.
ART OF KEEPING COOL.
Common Sense Gives Immunity from
lleut Exhaustion.
With the summer comes the annual
ly recurring warning from health
bourds, cold-blooded scientific societies
and Independent order of never-sweata
against the folly of courting heat pros
tration. Ueduced to Its elements, the
udvlce of these wise men as to the con
duct of life during the heated term
Is simple and Intelligible. Keep cool;
don't get excited; don't eat anything
that Is heating; don't drink anything
that Is cooling; wear chiefly a broad
smile and a wet sponge on the head;
don't move nor breathe except when
absolutely necessary such are a few of
the minor muxiuis of hot air philosophy
dished up from year to year for the
consumption of sweltering masses In
the great fitly. Of nil cants that are
entiled during the silly season, surely
tbe cunt of keeping cool Is the most ag
gravating. There Is really no mystery In the mat
ter, little occasion for promulgation of
wise saws und modem Instances, no
consuming public desire for dependence
upon anything but native horse sense
for Immunity from heat exhaustion and
sunstroke. A reasonable degree of pre
caution, such as would occur naturally
to every citizen oppressed by undue ex
cess of temperature, may be depended
upon to tide over the brief emergency
without Intermission of accustomed
physical nourishment and solace. The
life-giving sun Is humanity's greatest
boon and most faithful sustalner, even
when iMJtirlng a superabundance of heat
rnys from the zenith.
Dealing with estlval temperature Is,
after all, largely an affair of temper
ament and locality, to be adjusted from
day to day In accordance with ever
chnnglng and rarely repeated condi
tions. A simple and sane philosophy of
common sense is the surest refuge
when the mercury mounts Into the
nineties, no less than in graver exigen
cies on this mundane sphere. Philadel
phia Keeonl.
Sin; Knew He Iter.
"Here Is a man," said the defend
ant's counsel, with a tremulous voice,
"here Is a mun handicapped at the very
beginning of his life. From the time he
iuy a ueipiess infant in the cradie to
this day, when he sits helpless under
the pressure of years and affliction, he
has labored under the name of Isbmael
Ablnndab Watts."
lie was about to say more when the
plaintiff rose from her seat and shook a
work-worn linger In his direction.
"I expected I was going to hear
strange things In this courtroom," she
cried, with shrill Indignation, "but I
didn't cal'late on si-ch foolish talk as
that! There never's been a day In his
life that Ablnadab's labored, nor
thought of laborln'. He's the most
shlf'less, lazy"
But here she resumed her sent, owing
to sudden pressure from her relatives
In the rear, and the counsel, a little
flushed, went on In a somewhat differ
ent strain. Youth's Companion.
Kulned by Aeronautics.
Count Von Zeppelin, who has tbe
distinction of having built the largest
of all airships, bas been financially
ruined by bis aeronautical experiments.
Unable to obtain means for carrying
out bis new projects, he Is now break
ing up the old framework of his air
ships In order to sell tbe aluminum of
which they are composed. Zeppelin Is
07 years of age. He was a military at
tache of the German embassy In tbe
United States during tbe civil war, and
made several balloon ascensions from
battlefields of the Houth In 18413. He
was the leader of the famous cavalry
raid In France in 1870 which marked
the commencement of hostilities of tbe
great Franco-Prussian war.
The Helton's 11" tort.
The village sexton, In addition to be
ing grave-digger, acted as a stone-cutter,
house-repairer, and furniture re
mover. The local doctor, having ob
tained a more lucrative appointment In
another county, employed the sexton
to assist In his removal. When It came
to settling up accounts, the doctor de
ducted on old contra account due by
the sexton. He wrote at tbe same time,
objecting to the charge made for re
moving his furniture "If this was
steady, It would pay much better than
grave digging?" Tbe sexton replied:
"Indade, 01 wud be glad ave a steady
Job; grave-dlggln' Is very alack since
too left!"
I-4-4-4-4-4-
The Fam. Hand
Is Disappearing.
The farm hand's finish Is In plain
sight and the farm horse Is headed
down the same pike, says a man who
has Just returned from the West. In
their stead Is coming the traction en
gine. Out In the prairie region the tendency
Is all toward big farms. The agricul
tural unit out there has been the quar
ter section,, or 100 acres.
Few of tfte farmers are satisfied now
with such a small bunch of land, and
they are reaching out all the time for
more. Wheat and corn have been top
ping the market at such prices that
nearly every fellow Is crazy to go Into
raising them on a big scale. And they
have the money and the Intelligence to
do It, and do It profitably.
Right here Is where Invention comes
In. On the ordinary farm, where two
or three men with the same number of
teams of horses can do all the work, It
Isn't really necessary to call on the ma
chine man for artificial aid, but when
the farming is done on a big scale It
pays better to buy a traction engine.
These are not the ordinary big, clumsy
attachments to thrashing outfits, but
compactly built little fellows, with gas
oline as the motive power.
With them there Is no need of getting
out at ungodly hours In the morning to
feed and water a lot of animals. Five
minutes' work fills the tank and makes
the machine ready to do your plowing,
harrowing, or cultivating.
The first cost of these engines It
pretty steep, from $1,000 up, but H
costs less to run them than It does to
feed horses, and they never get balky.
They last longer than the average work
horse and they do ten times as much
work In a day.
Out In Nebraska I ran across a fellow
with a gang plow, five In a row, hitched
to one of these little englues, and It was
steadily moving across the 100-acre
field and tearing up tbe sod at a lively
rate. This same man told me that
when It came to harrowing he tacked
on two or three big ones and did the
Job in a fourth of the former time.
Potatoes are planted and dug up with
these engines. In planting a large drop
per Is used, and In digging Ihern a spe
cial kind of plow Is employed.
When It comes time In the fall to
thresh, the engine Is coupled to a sep
arator and the Job is done In short
order. If It Is necessary during the
winter to grind feed for the cattle It Is
the work of but a few minutes to fire It
up and start the mill. When grain ia
to be hauled to market several farm
wagons are attached and the procession
moves ofT.
There Is scarcely a thing about farm
work that these machines will not do,
and they are growing more popular ev
ery year. The average farmer thought
the acme of comfort and perfection had
been reached in the sulky plow and the
riding cultivator, which saved him
many weary steps, and It has not been
without considerable trouble that he
has been Induced to take up the trac
tion engine. Hundreds of these are
now being manufactured and sold ev
ery year.
Sixty-cent wheat and 50-cent corn
are maklug western farmers, where 3C
bushels of wheat and GO of corn is an
average yield, independently rich. A
hundred acres of wheat Is an ordinary
yield, and this alone Is enough to net a
good Income on the Investment.
A bunch of cattle will pay the ex
penses, and his otfier crops are velvet
Tliu result bus breD to ruu up tiie prict
of land. Tracts that sold for $25 two
years ago bring $10 and $45, and $30
land of past years Is easily marketa
ble at $50 and $00. The life Is much
easier, the work is not nearly so hard,
nor the hours so long.
This has tbe good effect of making
the farmers' sons more content with
life on the farm, and many of them go
down to tbe State Agricultural Schooli
and take a course In scientific agricul
ture, returning better farmers and bet
ter citizens.
A Gastronomic Peat.
At a little achoolhouse In the north
of Scotland the schoolmaster keeps bit
boys grinding steadily at their desks,
but give them permission to nlbblt
from their lunch baskets sometimes aj
they work.
One day, while tbe master waa In
structing a class In tbe rule of three,
he noticed that one of his pupils was
paying more attention to a email tart
than to bis lesson.
"Tom Bain," said the schoolmaster,
"listen to the lesson, will ye?"
"I'm listening, sir," said the boy.
"Listening, are ye?" exclaimed th
master; "then ye're listening wl' on
ear an eating pie wl' the other!" Loiir
don Tld-Blts.
Commonplace Nantes.
It Is not uncommon for a Japanese
girl to bear the name of a flower. On
tbe other band, however, many girls lo
Japan bear the name ot some domestic
utensIL as frying pan, or dust brush
This results probably from the custom
common among some people of nam
ing a child from the first object that
strikes the eye after the little one bat
."ome Into the world.
Not Original.
"I auppose you have selected an orig
inal subject for your graduating ad
Jress," said the father.
"Not exactly original," replied the
member of the high school class, "but
very Interesting."
"What Is Itr
'"Abraham Lincoln.'" Ohio State
fournal.
When a man goes at things bead Aral
'be often gets tbere wltb both feet.
Scottish and York
Rites of Masonry
The following will explain to many
members of the symbolic lodges the
distinction between the York and Scot
tish rites: The York rite consisted of
but three degrees, Entered Apprentice,
Fellow Craft, and Muster Mason. The
rite was practised until the latter part
of the eighteenth century, wheu, ac
cording to Mackay, Dunckerlay dis
membered the third degree by elimin
ating the secrets of the Royal Arch.
There is not now lu existence any
where any such rite as the York rite.
The usually denominated such in this
country is sometimes styled the
"American rite," a name given to It by
Muckey In all his writings. The Amer
ican modification of the York rite con
sists of nine degrees, namely: 1, En
tered Apprentice; 2, Fellow Craft; 3,
Master Mason, given in symbolic lodg
es and under the control of Grand
lodges; 4, Mark Masters; 5, Past Mas
ter; 0, Most Excellent Master; 7, Holy
Koyal Arch, given iu chapters and un
der control of Grand chapters; 8, Koy
al Master; 9, Select Master, given In
Councils, and under control of Grand
councils. A tenth degree, called Super
Exalted Master, is conferred In some
councils as honorary rather than as a
regular degree; but even as such it is
repudiated by many Grand councils.
The degrees of the Commandery,
which are known also as the Degree
of Chivalry, can hardly be called a
part of the American York rite. The
possession of the eighth and ninth de
grees Is not considered a necessary
qualification for receiving them. The
true American York rite consists only
of the nine degrees above enumerated.
The Ancient and Accepted Scottish rite
Is the youngest of the Masonic rites,
but is the most widely diffused and
popular of all rites. Governing bodies
of this rite, called Supreme Councils,
are to be found In almost all civilized
countries, and In many of them It is
the only Masonry that Is known.
JAPAN'S MERCANTILE MARINE
M. Duhu.ll, the French minister to
Japan, publishes some interesting de
tails in the Bulletin Economlque of
Indo-Chlna concerning the Japanese
mercantile marine. Tlfo statistics re
ferred to are taken from a report is
sued by the Japanese minister of com
munications, and they deal with the
steady Increase iu the number of
steamers and sailing vessels In the Jap
anese merchant service during the last
four years:
Steam- Ton- Sail'g Ton
ships, age. ships, age.
Jan., 1808.. 027 420,174 174 24,014
Jan., IS!)!). .070 470,534 1,45 105,710
Jan., 1000. .753 408.375 2,783 270.101
Sep. 10, '01. .042 557,100 3,410 315,570
Thus It will be seen that the Japan
ese mercantile marine bus increased In
three and a half years by 315 steamers
and 3,242 sailing vessels, the Increase
In tonnage lu each class being re
spectively 127.31)2 and 204,502 tons.
This Is a striking rate of progress and
one rarely met with In the case of
other countries, especially if the In
crease In the number of large steamers
Is taken Into account. In fact. In 1800
Japan possessed only one merchant
steamer of a tonnage exceeding 5,000
tons, but at this moment It possesses
twenty-one steamers whose Individual
tonnage Is above 5,000 tons.
In proportion as the volume of ship
ping has grown bo there bus been an
Increase In the number of seamen
available for manning the ships, and
It Is to be remarked that Japan can
provide its own skippers and naval en
gineers. At the end of last June, says
the London Globe, the number of ship's
officers with captain's certificates and
of engineers was 15,412, of whom
15,107 were Japanese and only 3(4
were foreigners. The number of en
gineers sewing lu the mercantile ma
rine of Japan was 2,701.
ANDREW D. WHITE.
Ambassador to Germany Who Leaves
the Diplomatic Hervice.
The American State Department
loses the services of a highly esteemed
diplomat by reason of the retirement
from official life of Andrew D. White,
ambassador to Berlin.
Dr. White has enjoyed the marked
esteem of the Gentian people, and has
thus been In a position to smooth away
many of the unpleasant controversies
that are constantly springing up be
tween the people of two great commer
cial nations. When he first went to
Germany ns minister In 1870 be bore
with hlin the prestige of his educational
work In the United States und the ex
perience of his labors as a member of
the New York Legislature. Ho reached
a congenial atmosphere at once, and,
while attending to the Interests of his
government, refreshed his memories of
student life In Germany and made the
acquaintance of many celebrities. Not
only was he personally acceptable to
the Germans, but his ministry fell ou n
time when fhe relations between the
United States and Germany were un
clouded. Nearly two decades jessed away, and
Dr. White returned to Berlin, this time
wltb tbe added privileges of an am
bassador. It was the year before the
Spanish war. The Berlin he knew wus
no more; the Berlin he found was far
larger, cleaner, better paved and more
vigorously policed. The greatest change
of all was the attitude of press and
public toward the United States. This
had become embittered through com
mercial rivalry and the war of tariffs,
and aggravated by a rlslug sympathy
between England and the United
States, so that the slightest pretext
was enough to bring into sharp relief
the underlying irritation. When the
trouble with Spain broke out It was in
the nature of things that the potent
official class In Germany should believe
In the people who had a large standing
army and a more than respectable
navy; it was expected that by land and
sea the United States would suffer at
first a number of serious disasters be
fore she could set enough experienced
soldiers and sailors on a war footing to
defeat the Spaniards. The situation
was one that required In the American
ambassador the greatest experience,
knowledge of the people and coolness.
Irritated because In many respects our
tariff works to the disadvantage of
German exports, and enraged because
German colonies remain uncolonlzed
and emigration to America continues,
the press and public of the fatherland
seized on the Spanish war as the oeca-
ANDREW D. WHITE.
slon to ventilate Its spite and soothe Its
spleen. Ambassador White had hardly
been a year In his place before he found
himself confronted by Germany pre
dicting the success of the Spanish arms
and making no pretense of wishing the
United States well. It was not a grate
ful office to stand between two nations
apparently distrusting and disliking
each other to the top of their bent. For
tunately he has been aided by the
German government, which has always
preserved a friendly attitude toward us.
In 1809 he was appointed one of the
delegates to represent the United States
in the international disarmament con
ference at The Hague.
Side-saddles were first introduced in
1388.
Lifeboats were Invented by Lionel
Lakin, a London couch builder.
There is a demand for gutta percha
000 times greater than the supply.
Accumulating snow upon the top of a
balloon in England forced the aeronauts
to throw out ballast.
An admiral displays his flag at the
main truck, a vice admiral at the rear
truck, a rear admiral at the uiizzen
truck.
Camel teams are now being used for
the carriage and distribution of mining
machinery on the North Coolgardie
gold fields, Western Australia.
The census of the sexes In Canada
shows that there are: Single males,
1,747,842; females, 1,5(53,450; married
males, 020,1)15; females, 1)05,031.
The Lion bridge, uear Sangang, In
China, Is the longest iu the world, belug
5',4 miles from end to end. The road
way is seventy feet above water.
Among a baud of revolutionists which
recently fought with Turkish troops
near Monastlr was a woman dressed as
a man. She was killed In tbe fighting.
The urban council and school board
of Kettering, England, being unable to
agree upon a site for a building, played
a game of golf to decide It. The coun
cilors won.
Lightning statistics In the United
States last year showed that nine-sixteenths
of the persons struck recovered.
Less 'than one-fourth were struck in
open ground.
With the money they earned them
selves two brothers, Jung-John and
Jung-Fine, Chinese, have paid for a
course of Instruction In the Academy of
Fine Arts In Philadelphia. They pre
sented themselves for enrollment In the
class formed February 3, and since then
have applied themselves diligently to
tbelr studies, making rapid progress.
The "Mandolin Quartet."
A Northern woman who has a winter
home In one of the Southern States tells
many amusing stories of her experi
ences with the negroes of that region.
Not long ago she wished to give a lit
tle entertainment to some New England
guests, and bethought her of a mando
lin quartette of which one of her serv
ants had talked to her on many occa
sions. She therefore commissioned the
maid to ask the quartette to come to
the house and piny for her guests.
The next evening three coal-black
men bearing banjos appeared at her pi
azza, and one of them announced him
self solemnly as "de lender oh de ninn
d'lln quartette."
"But where Is the fourth musician?"
asked the lady.
"We's nil dere Is," said the lender,
with pride. "We's de mand'lln quar
tette." "But aren't those banjos you have In
your hands?" feebly Inquired the lady.
"Yas'm," said the man, patiently,
"ynsm. Here's three ob us, an' wo pluy
de banjo, lint we's de mand'lln quar
t ot te." Yout h's Compa n Ion.
Great Britain's Weather Bureau.
Great Britain la now running a weath
er bureau ou American Usee.
PER JMWEJ
The Happy Long Ago.
They tell us of the good old tim
The happy long ago
Alas! the world to-day is filled
With nothing much but wot!
Back in the blissful, lovely days.
When all things were so nice,
No icemen's wagons rumbled, and
The people had no ice.
Back in the happy, hapy days
When people were so blest,
When life was worth the living, M
The world was at its best,
Men didn't turn the faucets on
When they went home at night
And plunge as we plunge into tubs
Ail smooth and clean and white.
The good old days, the fair old days,
Ere awnings had been made,
How sweet it must have been, when If
Was ninety in the shade,
To sit beside a window where
The sun was shining through
While from unsprinkled streets the dual
In choking volumes blew!
How glad they must have been who lives'
In those old, happy days,
When everything was done by hand
In good old-fashioned ways.
When smoky candles pierced the gloom
And babies yelled at night
Because there were no safety pins
To give their souls delight.
Ah! happy, happy days long past,
When all the world was gay,
Ere window screens had been devised
To keep the flies away,
When people slept on corded beds
And had their visions rare
While glad mosquitos took their fill
What happiness was there!
S. E. Riser, in Chicago Record-Herald,
CAVE DWELLERS IN CHINA.
A Large Number on Hill Slopes Along
the Yellow Hiver.
The fact has escaped attention until
recently that there are many cave
dwellers along a part of the Hoang Ha
or Yellow river. It happens that they
are found on that part, of the rivet
where the bridge on the railroad which
Is to connect Pekin with Hankow on
the Yantse Is to be built, and August
Slosse, a Belgian engiueer who lived
among them for six months while mak
ing studies for the railroad In that re
gion, has been telling some facts about
the troglodytes.
Along the banks of the river the peo
pie live in clay huts, but higher up,
among the hills, only a short distance
from the stream, they make for them
selves permanent habitations dug la
the hillsides. There are many villages
of these caves, not only the habitations,
but also the temples, the shops and
the storehouses for grain being noth
ing more than these dark artificial
caves. Many of the caves are nearly
as spacious as the smaller New York
flats. They are about nine feet high,
ten to twelve feet in width, and hava
a depth of fifty to sixty feet. They ar
dark and gloomy abodes, but the peo
ple who live in them think they ara
much preferable to the clay huts In
which their neighbors live on the rivet
bank. No adornment of the iuterior is
attempted, excepting in the temples,
whose walls are whitewashed and cov
ered with rude paintings in lively col
ors, that under the bright light which
Is constantly burning gives these sa
cred rooms quite a gaudy appearance.
The only particular advantage the un
derground rooms seem to have Is that
they are cool in summer and warm in
winter. The Inhabitants are gentle and
even timid, and Mr. Slosse said that, be
ing unaccustomed to seeing whites,
they almost invariably disappeared in
to their caves when they saw any of
his party approaching. It was curious
to see them at a distance working In
their little fields above or below theli
dwellings, only to find not a soul in
sight upon nearer approach. They
would all mysteriously sink into the
ground, and apparently there were no
human beings for a mile around, though
undoubtedly there were thousands of
the troglodytes In their burrows listen
ing at their doors for the footfalls of the
Intruding strangers. New York Sun.
The President's Church.
The head of 80,000,000 of people wor
ships in what Is probably tbe smallest
city church In the United States. The
dimensions of the little building are
20x51 feet. It Is a quaint miniature ot
a chapel, with a tiny, though orthodox,
steeple. Otherwise It Is bare of or
namentation, within or without. Save
for their pine board backs, Its cush
lonless pews are like the rough-hewn
benches of frontier schools.
No carriages roll up to the Presi
dent's church. He himself Invariably
walks. And there Is no hint of half
hcartedness nor backsliding in hia
tread, for his sturdy gait serves the
President In his Sunday pilgrimages as
well as his secular tramps to Cabin
John's bridge.
The little German Reformed church
has a membership of 200, with sittings
for only 175. Before 10 o'clock Sunday
mornings visitors begin to assemble
and form lu waiting line In front of
the church. By dint of much crowd
ing the regular congregation Js en
abled to give up one-third of tbe room.
In the meantime, about fifty of the
throng have been admitted to the
church. Now comes the president,
trailing no unnecessary glory, and hur
rying as If to keep a tardy appoint
ment. In reality be Is alwaya prompt
ly on time. Sometimes he Is accom
panied by Miss Alice, occasionally by
Mrs. Koosevelt, whose regular place of
worship Is St. John's, and almost al
ways by his side or close In tils wake
skips little Archibald or Kermlt, stur
dily Imitating bis father's Imperial
pace. Not Infrequently the President
Is accompanied by guests, and at tlmea
the eight places In bis pew bare been
tlllcM.
One Benevolent Man.
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oil Is a well wlsher.-Phlladelpbla Ree-
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