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3fl EUDHTTdDM ALS lP OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Beggars and Charity. n CLERGYMAN In n Iowa town tried an experiment not long ago. returning from hi summer vaea- I I Hon be determined that, before M which formed an effectunl disguise, for h!a .features, be would further disguise himself and go calling as tramp. He put on suit of very old and ragged clothes and went from one bouse to another era, asking for food. The results were he went home, shaved himself, put on and preached a sermon on the lack of Ills congregation. There was a time when the wayside reason to accuse those who refused true to the name of Christian citir.eus. five years ago, In this country, the jHior and helpless bad do way to save themselves from starvation but by begging. If they wanted to go from one place to another they bad to walk, and depend for food on the charity of people who lived along the road. This charity could be dispensed wltb little tax on the giver, because the farms, and could often give work as well as food. The modem tramp Is too often a deliberate parasite, with no excuse for his vagabondage. Times have (to changed that It Is easy for the undeserving to prey on so ciety. It is true that In a Christian community It should be Impossible for any worthy person to suffer from want of the necessaries of life, and even the undeserving ought to be taken care of somehow, but private charity Is not equal to the task. At any rate, the way to extend private charity Is not to give Indiscriminately to anybody who comes by and neglect (hone whom One knows to be really helpless, and most people have not money enough to minister to both elfies of dependents. Washington Times. Canada Very Much Alive. THK Canadians would make very good Americans If they were not so obstinately Canadian. This Is shown by the present wonderful prosperity of the Dominion. In ten years her trade has Increased by nearly 1200,000,000. In a single year the Increase is HO,000,000. Exports of manufactures are $18,500,000 In MK, against $7,000,000 In 1803. In the same period agri cultural exports have doubled. The tremendous energy and success of the Canadian workers are Indicated In the fact thut deposits In savings banks have doubled In four years. Assets of Canadian banks grew In that time from $24.1, 400,000 to $MS,.')00,00, the note circulation showing a like Increase. Six years ago Canada was thought to bo losing population by emigration to the United States. Massachu setts was complaining of the Influx of peasants from Can ada, and all along the line to Oregon there was said to be an Incoming current. Now this Is all changed. Immigrants are flocking Into Canada from the United States farmers, ranchmen, miiierg and other active classes. From 11,000 In 1SU7 the immigrants have Increased to 75,0X) In 1002, one-third of these being active workers from the United States. As respects the creation of needed railways across the continent and In the far Northwest, Canada Is very progressive, as also In establishing transoceanic steamship lines and submarine cables to connect with Europe on one side and Asia and Australia on the other. Our Northern neighbor seems to be very much alive. Baltimore Sun. Monotony and Work. T Is only natural in the busiest age seen that there should 1 murmuring of discontent at the burdens of life, and that, while all the world Is at work, the workers should find occasionally their un varying toll In fixed occupations In some degree monot onous. The complaint of monotony Is not confined to the workers In any craft, profession or pursuit. The lawyer, the doctor, the mechanic, the fuctory worker, the farmer, the housewife, the day laborer, are at times disturbed by the questioning whether, after all, they arc getting ade quate return, not merely in money, but In happiness and human satisfaction, from their endeavors. Mere task work Is harder to do than that which Is undertaken with enthusiasm, and this enthusiasm comes ONt Or ETHAN ALLEN'S EXPLOITS j Eihan Allen will always be remem bered as the man who took Fort Tl condoroga, though he did other notable things during the Revolution. Pro fessor Justin II. Smith, In an article lu the Century Magazine "The Prologue of ihe American Revolution," tells of a less familiar adventure of Allen's. Ethan Allen was a large specimen of a man, with u big heart. He was a pa triot, a fighter, rash, given to swagger, but very far Indeed from witless. After the Tlcoudcroga affair be was ousted from bis command by bis enemies, and was therefore eager to make good his brilliant reputation. He planned an attack on Montreal In the fall of 1775. Through the fallsre of bis fellow plotter to come to his assistance, Allen and bis handful of men were captured after a daring but futile resistance, and led before Gen eral Prescott In the barrack yard at Montreal. It was an extraordinary scene. On one side stood a British officer, hand somely uniformed, sword at side. On the other was Allen, a son of the for est. In deerskin Jacket, cowhide boots, a red woolen cap on bis unruly hair all stained with mire and smoke. "Who are you?" demanded Prescott, Iti a tone to make the most courageous (j H. i II. "My name Is Allen." "Are you the Alien who took Tlcon (lcroga '" "The very man." At this Prescott "put himself In a giMit fur)," as Allen said afterward, lrnndilicd his cane over the prisoner's bend, and loaded blm with bard lJiiuies. Allen shook his mighty flat at him. "Offer to strike, ond that's the beetle of Immortality for yout I'm' Dot used to being caned!" Pri-scott turned Ills eye upon the cap tured soldiers and ordered a guard to , bayonet them. Htcpplug between hla men and the British, Allen tore open hla waistcoat and shirt, and cried to Prescott. "I m the oo to blame, Dot tneyl Thrift shaving the beard among his parlsblon discouraging. Then bis proper raiment Christian 'charity In beggar had some him aid of beJng un Fifty or seventy- people lived on their New MONO the tries that are giving England and Germany. put an imiort duty from India Is, therefore, probable. 1 per cent. New T HE Argentine States that The law holds tlua when the opinion the world has ever costs $20 a month. year a bachelor may In $:i0 a month. times In one year Here, one would said to act like a your bayonet Into my breast. If any body's. They would have done noth ing but for me." The commandant hesitated, but final ly told the prisoners he would let them live to grace the halter nt Tyburn. Allen's courage saved 1 life and that of his men. It won the admiration even of Sir (iuy Curletou. the Governor of Quebec. MISSOURI IS ANCIENT. Alps Are Infunt Compared witti the Aite of Ihe Otcark. Meu speak lu wonderful words of the beauty of Jura, of the grandeur of Everest, of the awe-inspiring can yons of the West, of the Andes and the Alps; but no man has ever looked upon a scene more Incltlve to thought and profound meditative imagination than the rugged hills of the lower Oz arks. Ue who climbs the Jura stand. upon a pcaK or tne modern world, but the man who stands upon the highlands of Ozark county looks upon land so old that the bruin becomes weary In attempting to measure its ages, though measurement be umde In epochs not In thousands of years, says the St. Louis Republic. The Himalaya mountains have during some thousands or millions of years, poured their deposits Into that body of water which we know as China sea, and by filling the basin of that sea have detsiHited so much alluvium that the empire of China, wltb Its untold population, now occupies the space over which the water once flowed un restrained. Look to your maps and note bow large the lowlands of China are; conjecture the depth of the al luvium deposit In those lowlands mid then comprehend, If you can, the ages during, which the Himalaya moun tains have been busy filling up the basin of I ho sea, and by wash of ihe tides and overflow of the fivers build ing the land of China as we know It to-day. The brain wearies of the ef fort. We are Incapable of compre hending such nlmost Infinite time; and yet we do know that the moun ts Ins of Asia sre (he youngest moun tain ranges on earth, and that the lowlands of China belong to the last days. We may grasp suggestion of facts from Interest In the labor at hand. What is sheer drudgery to one man will be a delight to another; hard work in the form of recreation Is only play; and, therefore, the Im portance of choosing one's work wisely, so that It be In eopformify with one's tastes,. Inclination end. capacities, Is very great. But after every effort has been made to select a pursuit wisely, It still remains a fact that the man who has made the wisest ehollce will have to do much unpleas ant work; while for the vast majority freedom of choice is greatly restricted. Hard work must be done, and he who thinks or hopes that his days are to "flow on in ever-gentle current of enjoyment" Is generally doomed to disappoint ment. Even the Idle are disappointed In attaining that kind of happiness, because they are deprived of the chief Interest of life, which comes from the consciousness of work well done, and are beset by the weariness which Is called ennui. Happiness, in the modern view, does not consist in mere pleasure which the experience of the world teaches Is more elusive the more eagerly and sedulously It Is pursued, but lu the Improved circumstances, "In the development of new capacities of enjoyment and In the pleasure which active existence naturally gives." If this discontent takes the form of pessimism and unbridled ambition, It means mis ery; but the aim should be to attain reasoned and regulated discontent, which is the spur to endeavor, together with a due realization of the reasons which we have to be content and nappy. Philadelphia Public ledger. Wheat and Cotton Fields most remarkable movements of our time on the part of the principal Industrial and commer cial nations of Europe are their efforts to free them selves from dependence on outsiders for their food supplies and the raw materials for manufacturing Chief among these are wheat and cotton, and the two coun the most attention to the subject are For Borne time India afforded a respectable supply of cotton. To increase the revenue the Indian government of 5 per cent on manufactured cotton, but the outcry raised in Lancashire brought pressure from Mie British government, and a 5 per cent export duty was Imposed on Indian made cotton, with disastrous results to the Indian cotton-mill owners, many of whom have bad to go Into liquidation. The Increase of raw cotton exports The British Colonial OfhVe has been turning its attention to cotton growing In Its east and west African crown colo nies, In all of which the conditions for the production of that staple are eminently favorable.. Then, on the Nile. great expectations are formed from the exploitation of the new territory to be brought under Irrigation through the new dam at Assouan, and to assure that the output of raw cotton from Egypt shall not be diverted, an export duty of H per cent on manufactured cottons has been Imposed by the British-Egyptian administration, the duty on Imported cottons being the same. The export duty on raw cotton is York Sun. No Use for Bachelors. Republic, or, rather, one of the small compose It, has no use for bachelors. that a man is marriageable In Argen he is 20. The Exchequer gives point to by. taxing all bachelors of between 20 and 80 $5 a month. After 30, and up to 35, the tax In creases 100 per cent. Between 35 and 50 single blessedness From his fiftieth to his seventy-fifth follow his own wild road by paying After that comes relief. The vicious ex ample of an unmarried iniiii of between 75 and 80 Is con sidered to be neutralized by a payment of only $20 a year, and when the eightieth birthday Is passed, the treasury finally ceases from worrying. A widower is given three years In which to mourn ami choose a successor, but a man who can prove that he has proposed and been refused three Is considered to have earned Immunity think, Is an easy loophole, but the law Is charm. Iondon Chronicle. by comparison, sometimes. If the Himalayas are the youngest the Oz I arks are the oldest of the mountain I ranges, and between the dates which 'gave them birth the Rocky moun tains, Ihe Appalachians, the A pen I u.'is, me Circassians, mo uaucusus, the great) mountain ranges of Australia and Africa had birth. Yet these weru not reared suddenly by " some conti nent creating explosion, but slowly, surely, tenderly, as It becomes mother earth to develop her giant children. Juvenile Gallantry. He was a tiny little fellow, sure!) not more than 5 years old, and as h called for bis afternoon papers at the corner of 12th and Market streets many people gazed at him with min gled amusement and pity. Ho had long brown curls, wet with the drench lug ruin, and his shrill Utile voice hud a baby lisp. A very stout, elderly woman, apparently weighing close to 200 pounds, paused at the south side of Market street and looked nslutnco ot the miniature river of slush and water and at the passing procession of wagons and trolley cars. The little newsboy was quick to size up the situ ation. Running up to her be exclaim ed: "Don't be afraid, lady, I'll help you across." Reaching up his ilny . little hand he clutched -her by tbo-'arm, and together." the ridiculous - pair threaded their way to the opposite curb. , Then tho stout woman opened her purse, gravely handed, the little fellow ii'colu and disappears) Into the Heading Terminal. Itoyal l'd. "The papers say that Queen Alexan dra's hobby Is clocks." "Yes, and I noticed the other day that one of her royal sisters Is very fond of flue poultry." "Well, I fancy It requires n much higher degree of Intelligence to set a hen than to set a clock." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "(Jetting married," the women say, "mesns so much to a girl;" Intimating In a slde swlplng sort of a way that It doesn't mean mora to a man than get ting shaved. -OLD FAVORITES Woodman, Ppure that Tree, Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand Thut placed it near his cot; There,- woodman,- let it stand, Thy ax shall harm it not! That old familiar rre.', Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea, And wouldst thou hack it down? Woodman, forbear thy stroke! Cut not its earth-bound ties; O, spare that aged oak, Now towering to the skies! When but an idle boy, I sought its grateful shade; In all their gushing joy, Here, too, my sisters played. My mother kissed me here, My father pressed my hand Forgive tliis foolish tide, But let the'old onk stand! My heart-strings round thee cling, Clone as thy bark, old friend! Here shnll the wild bird sing, And still thy branches bend. Old tree, the storm still brave! And, woodman, leave the spot; While I've a hand to save, Thy ox shall harm It not. I Want to He an Angel. I want to be nn angel, And with the angels stand, A crown upon ray forehead, A lmrp within my band. There, right before my Savior, So glucioiis and so bright, I'd wake the sweetest music, And praise Him day and night. I never should be weary, Nor ever shed a tear, Nor ever know a sorrow, Nor ever feel e fear. But blessed, pure and holy, I'd dwell in Jesus' sight; And, with ten thousand thousand, Praise him both day and night. I know I'm weak and sinful, But Jesus will forgive; For ninny little children Have gone to heaven to live. Dear Savior, when I languish, And lny me down to die, Oh! send a shining angel To bear me to the sky! Oli! there I'll be an angel, And with the angels stand, A crown upon my forehead, A harp within my hand; And there, ljcfore my Savior, So glorious and bright, I'll join the heavenly music, And praise Him day and night. END OF BORNHOLM INDUSTRY. Last of Famons Watchmakers Makes Final Timepiece. The clock and watch Industry of Bornbolm, once famous all over Europe for Its excellence of workmanship and for over a century the mainstay of the Island's village population, has died out. Ilerr H. P. Dam, the lust of the old Bornholmlnn masters, who elevated their trade to the dignity of a fine art, as did Benvenuto Cellini of old, and whose nimble hands made watches and clocks for princes of the blood, has Just completed his last work a watch for the American merchant In Copen hagen, Victor Ilol;nes. This watch, 'entirely hand made, shows both seconds and minutes, It cost Is J!0O kroner (about $80;, and It Is said to be In every way a flno spec imen of the best work of the old mas ters. Now, however, the art Is dead. Modern machinery and the cheapen ing process which to-day enables any one to possess a timepiece, have forced the hand-made watches to the wall and their expert makers have turned to their old vocation of fishing. Probably few readers have heard of Bornbolm before. It is a small Island fur out In the Baltic sea, with a super ficial areii of 220 square miles and a population estimated to be close to 40,- OIK). The Island belongs to Denmark and fishing was for ages the chief vo cation of the population. But ono dark night In the middle of the eighteenth century an English ves sel went ashore and broke to pieces near the township of limine. There was nothing really unusual In that. Bornholm's coast is bfgh and rocky and full of dangerous reefs and shoals and annually hundred of ships had found a tragic ending there. But this particular vessel happened to have on board a cargo of Geneva watches. (In those days Switzerland was the Mecca of the art of clock making.) Some of these clocks and watches were rescued and greatly sur prised the Ignorant natives. Clocks were rarities In those days, and the good Bornbolmluns bad probably never even beard of them before. They therefore feared at f.rst that the devil bad something to do with this nefarious work and were for tearing the things to pieces. But the winter nights being long and dull on Born holm, a more scientific Investigation of the "Infernal things" was begun, ami 'soon the Inquisitive minds were bent upon emulation rather limit destruc tion. And this was the beginning of the famous Uornholmlan clock Industry, says the New York Times. In a few yean the Ignorant fishermen became so Expert In making clocks that the trade from Switzerland fell off per ceptibly and soon the colony around Roone was supplying the aristocracy of Scandinavia wltb timepieces of all sorts. Napoleon was presented with one by Bernadotte when that famous ME Gascon led an army Into Scandinavia and the kings of Denmark became pa trons of the art, so that many of the first master! waxed both opulent and famous. 'LIKE 30 CENTS.' How a Current 81a nn Phrase Started on It Travels. The origin of slang has always been a puzzle to philologists, but once In a while a current phrase can be traced to its source. The colloquialism "To feel like thirty cents" is apparently nonsensical, but it is certainly the most forceful expression of the day for denoting anything small,, mean and contemptible In one's own sight. Its origin la thus explained by a Philadel phia lawyer, who sometimes practices in New York: 'There Is a vagrant law In New York under which a person having no visible means of support may be plac ed in durance. It has also been de cided lu that State that a person hav ing so small a sum as thirty cents in his possession has 'visible means of support.' Now there is no law lu New York except the vagrant law under which pool sellers and gamblers may be held. Shortly after the decision Just mentioned was formulated two gam biers were captured In a raid und tak an to the Tenderloin station house. They sent for a lawyer, who came and had a talk with them. 'It will never do to make any show of money here, he said. 'Give me your rolls.' They handed their wads over to blm and he gave each of them a quarter and nickel, with instructions to produce the coins when he asked them to do so In court. "when their cases were called the lawyer got them off on the plea that they were not vagrants, each having the legal amount of funds in his pos session. Just as the decision was ren dered in favor of his clients a messen ger entered the court and required the lawyers presence at the Supreme Court. He left without seeing his cli ents, and they wended their way to the nearest saloon. "How do you feel?" said one. "'I feci like thirty cents,' said the other, 'and probably will until I get my roll back, or what's left of It.' "Anil that's how that phrase was started in Its travels." New York MaiJ and Express. BUCK AND DOGS FIGHT. Pack and Quarry Danhed to. Death and Swept Away. "Bill' Neuman, a veteran hunter of Susquehanna, Pa., while out on the mountains near Shohola, had his atten tion attracted by a deep baying, and recognizing the sounds as coming from savage dogs, he ran rapidly to the top of a neighboring hill, which commanded an excellent view of distant falls and also of the surrounding country. Bill had scarcely reached the top of the hill when he saw dashing along on a ridge a magnificent buck, chased by a dozen or more mountain dogs. The race had evidently been on for some time, for the buck appeared to be about exhausted and the dogs were not In the best condition. On swept the pursued and the pur suers, every bound bringing the dogs nearer the haunches of the tired buck. Suddenly the buck changed his course and plunged down the side of the ridge, making straight for the fulls. Overhanging the edge of the stream and towering directly above the pool nt the foot of the falls was a huge rock. To this rock the buck made his way and, planting himself within a few feet of the edge and with lower ing antlers, awaited the attack. He did not have to wait long. Tin dogs came with a rush and hurled themselves at their prey. First one and then another dog was caught In the buck's antlers and sent bowling Into the abyss below. Just when the fight was hottest, ac cording to a New York World special, the rock or ledge uon which tho bat tle was being fought suddenly gave way with a crash nnd the combatants were dropped Into the water and rocks at the foot of the falls and their bruis ed nud bleeding bodies were swept on down the rapid stream. Hiiufr-Taking. In 1712 the London Spectator com plained of snuff-taking as on imperti nent custom adopted by line women and equally disgusting whether prac ticed sedately or coquettlshly. Some used tho box only ns a means of dis playing their pretty bands; but the thoroughpaced woman of fashion pulled out her box In the middle of the sermon nud freely offered her best Brazilian to friends of either sex nnd asked tho church warden to take a Inch us she dropped her money Into the collecting pinto. Thus for a time the snuffbox was ns much a pnrt of the "fine lady's" toilet as the fan it self. More than once Ihe snufflKis has played an Important part In political life. After Ihe banishment of Napo leon to Elba, and while the Bnnnpnrt Ists were plotting for his return, they used to fill t lii-li boxes with snuff scented with violets his favorite (lower. When desirous of learning which side an Individual favored they would offer a pinch and significantly ask, "D you like this perfume'" Talleyrand always said that diplo matists ought to take snuff, ns It af fords a pretext for delaying a reply and gave opportunities for covering any Involuntary expression of emotion. J'lral. Hyiiipioin. Mr. Saphend (during tho honeymoon) When d,d my little dtickle darling first discover that she loved mo? Bride (sweetly) When I found my self getting mad every time anyone called you n fool. Spare Moments. John Oliver Hobbes Is at work on a new novel to appear In the autumn. "I have bought the Idler," says Rob ert Barr, In the current number of, that Journal, "and I - hope-everyone, else In England will do the same. It will cost you a simple Cd. I paid a good deal more." A. J. George has undertaken the editorship of the Wordsworth volume In the Houghton, MilHiu & Co. series of "Cambridge Poets" which is now nearing completion under the general editorship of Bliss Perry. "Katherine Freudian" will be the name of the new book by Beatrice Harraden, author of "Ships that Pass iu the Night," to be issued shortly. This is the first book from the author's pen since the publication of "The Fowler." A new novel from Basil King, au thor of "Let Not Man Put Asunder," will shortly come from the press of Harper & Brothers under the title of "In the Garden of Charity." It is a simple love story, the scene of which is laid In Nova Scotia. Doubleday, Page & Co. are issuing a brochure describing the late Frank Norris' second volume, "The Pit," in hfs trilogy of "The Epic of the. Wheat." It is reported that 80,000 cobles of the book had been sold a month before publication. A medical book of considerable lit erary interest may be expected in Dr. George M. Gould's "Biographic Clin ics," to be Issued shortly by Blakls- ton's Son & Co. The volume is a con sideration and diagnosis of the ill health of five English men of letters of the last century De Quincey, Carlyle, Darwin, Huxley and Browning. The publishers of "Miss Petticoats" have at last revealed the Identity of the author of that sprightly romance. D wight Tilton, it appears, Is the pseu donym of George T. Richardson and Wilder D. Quint, two well-known Bos ton newspaper men. They have just completed another book and It will bo . immediately Issued under the title "On. Satan's Mount." There has been some discussion in literary circles as to whether Julie Le Breton, Mrs. Ward's mysterious and magnetic heroine in her "Lady Rose's Daughter," Is drawn from the Julie Da L'Espinasse of the French memoirs. Mile. De L'Espinasse was protege to Mine. Du Deffand. Like Mrs. Ward's Julie, she withdrew from " the elder woman's salon and set up one of her own. Also, like Julie Le Breton, she was of noble but not honorable birth. President Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton University, whose "History of the American People" was recently published by Harper & Brothers, Is at work on the development of a plan of his own which will be an Innovation in American universities. He intends to Introduce the tutorial system into Princeton, such as is used in Oxford, and by which tutors are available for every student In his Individual prep aration for classes. It will require $12,500,000 to Institute the change ef fectively. A Disappointed Dog. A young lady went Into a large dry goods store on a shopping expedition, having for a companion a big, hand some dog. He was a pointer, and the manner in which be trotted sedately along and kept out of everybody's way showed that he was as Intelligent as handsome. The young lady having made her 'purchase the shop-girl put the check and the money In a wooden ball nnd sent It along the "cash rail way." At the first "whiz" the dog pricked up bis cars, and the next instant he started after the ball as If he were morally sure it was some new kind of bird. Past the crowds of buyers. In and out and between hundreds of people, the pointer dashed until the ball disappeared from view. Then he looked puzzled and then humiliated, and was coming back to his Indignant mistress when the ball came whizzing on its return trip. This time, the dog expressed his feel ings by short yelps as he flew aster bis game, and this time be took the short route along the counter and fetched up In front of the shop g4rt. leaving behind him a trail of dlmnajred shoppers. Then the ball was glren him to Investigate, and a more 1bp polnted dog was never seen. Latest in Apartment flooaea. Shrewd New York business meu who are to erect a great apartment hense upon a conspicuous 5th avenue center impose to "solve the servant prob lem" by providing hot and cold "lifts which food and drink may be whisked from a central kitchen to the private dining rooms and Bcparate ele vators for waiters to serve and "clear sway' meals. Chambermaids and leaners will keep everything In order. and even valets and ladles' maids will appear upon call for those who require thorn. He lore anil After Marriage. "When a fellow Is In love with a girl," observes the cynical bachelor, "he says: 'I could listen to yon for ever.' After he marries her he has to." Philadelphia Record. However madly a woman may be ta love- she remembers her "rbjhta,"
