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T HMIHMIMMMtfMIIMM ! FAVORITES mm n 1 1 1 1 1 1 n Tbe Old Oaken Bucket. How dear to thi heart are the acenaa of my childhood, When fond recollection present them view! The orchard, the meadow, the deep tan gled wild wood, And every loved apot which my In fancy knew; - The wide-spreading pond, the mill which stood by it. The bridge, and the rook where the cataract fell; The cot of my father, the dairy-house nigh it, And e'en the rude bucket which hung iu the well The old oakeu bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The mosit-covered bucket which hong In the well. That moan-covered vessel I hail as a treasure; For often, at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the aource of an exquisite pleasure, The pureft and aweetest that nature can yield. How ardent I seized it, with hands that were glowing! And quick to the white-pebbled bottom it fell; Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket. The moss-covered bucket arose from the well. How aweet from the green, mossy brim to receive it, As, poised on the curb, it inclined to my lips! Jot a full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it. Though filled with the nectar that Jupiter sipH. And, now far removed from the loved situation. The tear of regret will intrusively well. As fancy reverts to my father's planta tion. And sighs for the bucket which hangs In the well The old oaken bucket, the iron-bonnd bucket. The moss-covered bucket which hangs In the well. Samuel Wood worth. LIGHT-H0U8E KEEPER AT 70. BemarkabU ilecord of Mrs, Nancy Hom, of Htoay Poiat, N. T. The caretaker of a light-house for fifty years la the remarkable record of Mrs. Nancy Boso, one of the oldest lighthouse keeper in the government jwservice, who la sta- ., . ... .... , uoiicti on toe uuu son river, of Stony Point, N. Y. Mrs. Rose flrwt did the work for her hus band, who was ap pointed In 1S52. Upon the death of Mr. Kane, In 1857, mhs. hancy kohk. Mr. I tone was ap pointed his successor. Inn In reality -she was but continuing her work. She Is now in the neighborhood of "!), but looks and nets like a woman younger ty 15 yours. Mrs. Koso Is still active, "which she must lie to perform her -duties; her eyes and bearing remain good, nud die looks after the lights end the great fog hell with as much -enthusiasm as she showed years ago. It must not be supposed that llviug at Stony Point makes Mrs. Hose's life lonesome. She has a pretty little cot tage and with her are n daughter and son, the latter lielug supervisor of the village of .Stony Point. To the north of the cottage, but a few steps away, on slightly higher ground, stands the larger light house of the two. whi'o nttd sl!d. ou the bill top. Au eighth of a mile away, rising from the edge of the water. Is another tower, containing n red Is-n-con light, ami n fog bell. Itoth lights must burn nil night anil every night, until the lee gets so thick that eveu the big river rruft that buck through eight-inch Ice have to tie up for the winter. That happens In January us ually, sometimes in February, and once In a long time the season Is so mild that Mrs. Hose's lights shine every night all winter long. Aud It Is In the winter that the work Is the hardest At midnight the lamps In the big light house must he changed. If the weather he thick the keeper must go down to the lower tower at least once In three and three-quarter hours to wind the elock that every fifteen econds rings the fog bell. Tbe Polut lu winter Is swept with the cold wind which follow, unob structed, the path of the river. The height of the upper tower exposes It to the full sweep of the gale. Then the walk down to the water front is Icy r4 blocked with snow, and to descend , as unpleasant feat for a younger Israeli In the dead of night; anil Is a ded almost heroic when nccowp I li d by a woman whose years are almost a And on ocrualonal winter nights ev u must be done. The winds carry and the beat wlthlu the light- causea frost to form on the wtadowa and dim the lights. On, many sock Bights baa Mrs. Hose gone out And braved tbe atorm while she rub bed tb glass wltb glycerine until the Mfbt shone clear again, and' often, "too, nntll ber bands became numb with cold. ' Ho much for tbe work at night. Hy day there art tba lamps to he cleaned and Blled, the wicks to be trimmed, and most of all the big, ehlmneyllke, refracting lenses, which give the light it brilliancy, must be polished until they shine wltb tbe blue and white prismatic sparkle of the cut glass on a dinner table. No fault could be found nor has any ever been found with tbe condition In which Mrs. Rose keeps tbe government property. Inspectors come unherald ed and unexpected, but tbey never find her unprepared, because a be takes pride In ber charge. The lights re ceive all the care a woman can give them, and, at such sort of work, a woman can do ber duty much more efficiently lhaa a man. RUNNING A LIE TO EARTH. It la neaBeUaaea a Bard Task, bat It Pays Wheal uccaaaful. Probably the most Impossible, hope less task on earth la to overtake a lie. The other day ex-8peaker John O. Carlisle, now a successful lawyer for great corporations, with an old fasbloned home In North Washington square, passed along Pine street with the easy gait of a plow horse. Two citizens saluted him and when he had passed on one remarked; "TheTe used to be the making of a President hi that man. The entire country look ed upon him. If It had not been for his Cynthlana speech the Northern Democracy would have been solid for blm and, of course, he owned the Southern wing. The apeeeh ruined him. He retired from polities with a broken heart and settled In New York to make a Utile money." Here Is an extract from that famous, heartrending speech: "I deny that the United State Is a nation! It l a vicious system that has destroyed sovereign States and op pressed nine millions of people in the South, If a State has no right of se cession she certainly has no right of revolution. The moat Infamous order ever Issued was that of tbe attorney general only a few days ago, which caused sixty companies of soldiers to march to South Carolina to take charge of the ballot box and overawe the vot ers of that P"or, downtrodden State, tbe paradise of earTM-t-bnggers and scalawag. II tit the day will come when South Carolina will rid herself Of the barbarous political buzzards of the North that huve fed on her car cass for the last eleven years and rob bed white and black without discrim ination." For ten years Mr. Carlisle tried to run down that report of his Cynthlana speech, but It had too big a lead. At one time he thought It overtaken and sidetracked, but several years later the Tribune of this city resurrected it in the original form. Mr. Carlisle ex plained; "I did not say that the gov ernment Is a 'vicious system,' but that at that time tbe policy of the ndmtn tratlon was vicious; I always held that the constitutional right to secede did not exist; there was no verbatim re port of the speech, for no resirter was present; an opposition paper picked up from the audience a few stray recollec tions of what I said, strung them to gether and published them." Rut the He never was milled and Carlisle's hopes wore dashed. -New York Frewa. Naliunal Illiteracy. The three Slav countries Kusula, Roumania ami Servia with ) p, r cent of their population unable to read and write, are at I he Imttom of the lht In respect to education. The Latin countries, especially France and BH glum, do better, but Ignorance Is pretty general. ' In Spain tbe Illiterates num ber 115 per cent; Italy, 48; Austria, .10; Frunce and Belgium, H. In Ireland 21 per cent are Illiterate; England, M s-r cent.; Scotland, 7 per cent; llcl lund, 10 iht ci nt. In northern Europe we II nd that lu cati'm Is piaetlcally universal. In normany only 1 per cent of the piple are lllltiralc. while In some parts of Germany (Bavaria, Haderi and Wurt embergi as well as in Scatnlina via, practically all the people can read and write. In the United States 8 per cent of the while population can neither read nor write. This is due In gn-at measure to the large yearly Immigra tion of Illiterates. Illiteracy Hitiong tbe negroes of the Southern United states la declining. In IMS) the percentage of Illiteracy svas 57.1 and In l!Hl -II..". The negroi are waking up to the advantages of educa tion. Two of 7 hem. A man who had Just llnished a com fortable meal at a restaurant, the other evening suddenly rose up from Ida chair, caught up his hat and an umbrella Hint stood against the wall, and rushed out of the building. "Stop him!" exclaimed the proprie tor. "That fellow went out without paying!" "I'll stop him," said a determined looking man, who rose up hastily from a table near where the other had sat. '"He took my gold headed umbrella! I'll stop him, and I'll bring him back In charge of a police officer, the scoun drel!" Without a moment's pause he dashed out of the house In hot pursuit of the conscienceless vllllan. And I he proprie tor, a cold, hard, unsympathetic kind i f man, has somehow begun to suspect ibut neither of them frill ever come h.ick. Only a Pair or Hulls. "Who lives lu that big house on the comer. Desiuls?" "The Wlddy O'Malley, sor, who Is dead." "Indeed! When did she dleT "If she had lived till next Sunday she would have boon dead a year." Kansas City Star, Art la long-especially Ibe klud used in tbe production of panoramas. The next volume to appear in the American Sportsman's Library, which Caspar Whitney la editing, will le "Baaa, Pike, Perch and Others," by Dr. James A. Ilenshall. Hall Calne has taken a new bouse at Wimbledon. Hitherto he occupied the cottage there In which Mrs. Ollphant died. Henceforth be will divide hi time between this residence and the Isle of Man. Maurice Hewlett has Just finished a novel upon which he had been engages! for the past two years. It concerns a love story of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Is based upon recent historical lights. They regroup some Incidents in tbe life of the queen, so Hewlett bus an old theme with new variations. In "Old Testament Criticism aud the Christian Church" Professor McFad yen deals with the whole question of the higher criticism In n singularly lucid and Impartial fashion and from tbe point of view of the latest develop ment of the subject. Ills book is said to be the higher criticism in a nut shell. According to a Chicago professor the four leading literary men of the coun try are William Dean Howells, Thomas Bailey Aldrlcb, Edmund Clarence Sted man and Henry Van Dyke three New Yorkers and one Bostotiian, Yet we had beeu led to believe that the liter ary center has gravitated to Indiana. Boston Transcript. Elizabeth Blsland, author of A Fly ing Trip Around the World, has writ ten a love story of Mississippi and New York, beginning Just after the war and carried on ten years later. It is a story of parted hero and hero ine, who come together again in the last chapter. The novel will be called From Generation to Generation. Mrs. Wlggs is a isrsonage that will live as many of Dickens' people have lived. She will go on down to poster ity and among our children and our children's children will Inspire the same whole-souled sympathy and healthful, cheerful optimistic spirit. And with Mrs. Wlggs will go "Lovcy Mary," for she, too, Is- an Individual to win her way Into countless hearts. In Capt'n Slmeou'8 Store, by George S. Wasson, the title Is taken from the favorite haunt of the ancient sea cap tains, who sit around "Cap'n Simeon's" hospitable fire and spin their yarns of life and death on the great deep, and of the witchcraft and other strange happenings on shore. It is a lsso-k soaked wltb salt water and full of startling truth to human na ture. Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller has been for a long time an earnest student of birds, both In their native haunts and In her own house, where she has kept many species, making them, In fart, her best friends. She has an enviable reputation as a close and sympathetic observer of their most intimate habits, au Interpreter of bird character, and a writer of entertaining accounts of what she has seen. It seems that (Miss Annie Flint, the author of "A Girl of Ideas," which was recently published by Charles Serib ner's Sons, Is the daughter of Dr. Aus tin Flint. Evidently taking as her model De Maupassant, to whom Flau liert for many years proved a relent less literary censor, she has worked diligently for some time without aspir ing to have her work published. She therefore enters the field with her first book enjoying more or less literary training In which public criticism has. until now,kplayed no part. Old-Tinm Architect lire. At StrslfiutlH.il Avon, while thi stucco was beli.g removed fr.nn a house In High sired, a fine example of Tudor architecture was discovertd. says tbe Illustratid London News. The house had ix-eti originally three gabled, and In tbe two upsr stories, which are of the usual magpie type, I he design of the woodwork is both beautiful and unique. The stories are overhanging and are supported by onk story poa 8 curved lu the early renaissance style. The molding above the milled head, which Is probably a crest, Is early Tudor, and beneath It appear Tudor roses. The pilasters of the other story posts are carved with acanthus leaves and roses. Under the ground floor some carved stones, evidently parts of win dow tract ry, were brought to light. They are In the thlrtetrnth century style and were probably taken from the remains of the old Church of the Holy Cross, which was pulled down about the end of the fifteenth century. Early In the nineteenth century the h nise was "beautified" by the stucco covering, which has now happily dis appeared. The entire building Is being restored by an anonymous benefactor. It. Was Not the Hioek Market. Morgan, lu the Civil War, was plan ning his famous raid. "You see," he explained to his fol lowers, "folks will mistake me for J. P. and offer no resistance." However, finding lie was neither a bull nor a War, but simply a guerrilla, the opposition was amply able to cop with him. New York Tribune, A llace of Mmokers. Nearky everybody smokes In Japan. The girls lieglh when '-bey are ten years of, age aud the boys a year rl- ller. ml OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Let Reason Prevail. ACROSS the country strikes are In prospect or under way; and mingled wltb the reports la the announce ment that the employers have united to resist the de sired advance in pay and what they are pleased to term the unreaaooabl demand of unionized workers. Thla clashing of Interests Is most unfortunate. Its pro longation means the postponement of the erection of numer ous buildings and the abandonment altogether of many more. Perhaps 1,000,000 men are idle because of the strikes in the building trades, and this entails a loss of $:s,000,000 a day In wages to the tollers, much of which can never lie regained even with the resumption of work. These disturbances are the Invariable accompaniment of prosperity, the only regrettable feature of an otherwise 'most satisfactory condition. As business increases the cost of living goes up, and then the wage earner,, desiring to participate in the improvement, asks an equitable share of the returns of capital. Sometimes this Is fully met; again only partly so; In Instances ignored completely. Out of the dissatisfaction come strikes and occasionally lockouts. This In turn breeds hatred between the employer and em ploye where before amicable relations existed. From every point of view the. situation ia deplorable. Employers are organizing to au extent never before known. The workingmen are powerful and confident of carrying to a successful Issue anything they wage battle for. With both sides well equipped and determined a des perate struggle Is ahead and can only be avoided by treat ing the questions leading up to It with calmness, with fair ness, with the 'idea uppermost that exact Justice must be done to both parties. With this spirit dominating capitalist and workingman a way out of the difficulty can be found honorable alike to each. Let. reason prevail and the strikes and lockouts will be a thing of the paHt. L'tica Globe. The Successful Man. THE real successful man must combine in himself giod stock, physical health, education, mental pene tration and concentration, persistency, energy, enthus iasm, cheerfulness of disposition and politeness of demeanor. Moral qualities are Indispensable to true success. They are important In securing merely earthly advancement. There is a tendency in virtue to temporal prosperity. Not all good people prosper, but the rule Is that virtue has an earthly reward. The healthiest, wealthiest and wisest nations of the earth are the ones where the standard of morals Is the highest. Benevolence Is an element of success. There Is a law of benevolence Which seems to run through all human endeavor. , The man who tills the farm that his fellows may have food and raiment, who builds a house where a home Ms en shrined and a family raised, who founds a business where Just wages are paid, who makes at any trade a needed article, who contributes to the natural welfare of men, is a real benefactor. Thero Is not a learned profession which does not express a benevolent spirit. Generosity pays; there Is a giving which gets, a throwing away of seed on the ground which comes back In an increased harvest. In the arithmetic of life, subtraction ia often addition and division Is multiplication. He who most faithfully serves his customers, clients, patients, scholars, purchasers, employes, employer, will, as a rule, have the largest tem poral success. He only is fit for mastery In any calling who serves best. Tbe leader of a nation can have no royalty like that of serving the humblest subjects of his realm. New York American. Where Theory Fails, THE Collegiate Alumnae Association having "discov ered" how a. family of four persons can live on .19.78 cents a day for food, we are once more brought to the oft-discussed question of how little money a human being can exist upon. The boasted discovery, however, Is not a discovery after nil. for there are in Chicago to-day a great many thousand families who discovered It for themselves long before the Collegiate Association thought of It. There are countless families that discovered, from sheer force of necessity, that a family can Isvc on much less than ten cents a day, per capita. It as an unpleasant reflection that In this land of plenty so many persons should be compelled to exist on a bndv Btarving, Roul-slarvlng scale of life, but that such shou'iil 'p U li r $ Many persons Drop fromSightJ "The most remnrkaMe Instance of disappearance ever kuown," were the words used by a detective a few dajs flu when speaking of a case be was employed upon. It was not a hap hazard expression, nor was It original, for It has been used of many in the list of those who have mysteriously disappeared. A report of the Commis sioner of Police of London recently no ted that 17-1 men and women of Unit city had sunk out of sight of their friends In the year. Many persons dis appear every year In this city. One of the most remarkable cases of dis appearance was that of Lieutenant Ed ward W. keinoy of tbe navy, a brother of Judge Advocate General William B. Itetney and Hear Admiral George C. ltemey. The last seen of him was when he walked down the gangplank of the steamship Roanoke In this city on Feb. 1", 1NX7. Every effort was made to find him, but no trace was discovered. Had he been a man of Ir regular habits there might have been some suspicion as to the cause of his di)!iipeiirnnce, but he was a sober, straightforward officer, and no officer bad a better record, stisjd higher In the professliiii or was more greatly es teemed. Another naval ofllcer who disappear ed a few ye.irs ago was ex-Passed As HHimit Engineer Itlchard II. Buel, an oflicer wlm bad served In the civil war h IUi iIIhiIii 'tl"ii. He started fer Bos ti.ii on Dec 'Jo, 1H', after which no l.'iirs of It I mi could b discovered. Ills fir her was tho I!ev, Samuel Buel, at n time ib iin of be General Tbeologl mi JVmiuaiy of this city. LDDnidDMAILS The HTCY the writer said that There are many who will recall Still man S. Conant, one of the editors of Harper's Weekly, who started from his sanctum for his home in Brooklyn on Jan. Hi, 1SS.", and though search was made for blm In various parts of the United States and Europe, where be was reported to have been seen, nothing about li i tit has ever lieen learned. Thomas W. Fisher's disappearance more than ten years ago attracted a great deal of Interest. He was a. real estate broker In Washington, and, as was his usual custom, ho one evening went to Baltimore to visit the young woman to whom he was engaged. The couple became Involved In a dispute over a trivial matter, and the young woman declared their engagement off. Mr. Fisher left the house, and, after wandering nbout the streets for some time, left Baltimore for New York. He at once wrote to his former fiancee, apologizing for his rude conduct and begging her forgiveness, but she was bent upon punishing him and did not reply to his letter. Fisher then left New York and went to Albany, from which place he wrote again to the young woman, saying that he would not bur -len her again with his peti tions, and that he Intended to commit suicide. 'I be young woman then re plied to hs letter and nsked his for giveness, but the letter wns returned with the stamp upon It, "Not found," and nothing has been heard from tbe young man since that day. New York Tribune. Dragged Down by a tihlp. In tho Edinburgh Medical Journal James A. Lawson gives an Interest. tig description of his thrilling experience when bo was dragged under water by a sinking ship. When he was far down In tho swirling waters he struck out for the surface, but ouly went further dowu. Thin exertion was a serious MM be tbe fact Is a natural consequence of tbe Invasion of tbe great cities by people ill-prepared to earn a living In thef city. A poor man, with a family and without any speciab business or trade. Is more apt to find himself reduced to tbe 10-cents a-day table tban otherwise. There should be some means of helptng these thousands of ill-advised, incompetent, enslaved men to a more Inde pendent livelihood. The first thing that suggests itself lay farming. There are obstacles in the way, of course. Moat of the city poor are ignorant of agriculture, and contemptu ous of It. Tbe city has fascinations for them, even greater than its hardships. Kducatlou, both in the spirit and meth ods of cultivating the land. Is tbe prime requisite. How to bring about this education is the problem that has troubled many minds Interested In enticing the crowded poor into the country. But other forms of education are more easily available.; Every boy should be embarked upon some definite plan of, life. If lie is not to be a farmer, he should be taught a trade or business that will lie tolerably sure to command more than a 10-cents-a-day fare In after life, and not left to grow up a general roustabout. The time may come when the public scheme of education may embrace some such policy. Until then the fathers of the land are largely re sponsible for their sons' futures. Chicago Journal. American Railroad Rates. ONE by one the old Ultlander complaints against the Transvaal administration are being vindicated. The latest is that concerning railroad rates. It was said that the excessively high rates charged by the state railroads under the Kruger monopoly were a grave handi cap to nearly all industry and were absolutely prohibitive to many enterprises. Those railroada are now under British administration. It Is interesting to observe what action has been taken toward remedying the grievance of high, rates. Ixird Milner states that the reductions made will amount in gross to $3,750,000 a year. That Is a large sum to be saved to the industries of South 'Africa. It means a re duction of 40 per cent on freight rates on food and general supplies for workingmen, of 25 per cent on the great mass) of miscellaneous freight, and of from 10 to 15 per cent on cement, iron and steel and other heavy goods. Some re ductions in ocean freight rates have also been made by the steamship lines plying between England and the Cape.' These changes will all go into effect on July 1. It is authoritatively estimated that this reduction oC rates on supplies for the mines will make possible the profitable operations of no fewer than one hundred low grade mines, with an output of 160,000,000 a year. It will mean a proportionate Increase of profits to mines now in operation. It will also mean a marked development of! agricultural and other Industries, tending to make the Transvaal a country of varied and symmetrical growth. At the same time the volume of traffic will be so Increased that the railroads will actually be more profitable undee the lower than they were under the higher rates. Sucbi results will le a strong vindication of tbe new administra tion. New York Tribune. Extinction of Tuberculosis. world went vltit wfth nhiiainM - -- ' - ivu cuiuuamniu over the supposed discovery of a method of extinguish ing pulmonary tuberculosis by means of tubercu lin Injections, an unknown and now forirotton had Professor Koch succeeded in hta i It would have been the greatest curse Imaginable to the human race. The reason given for this seemingly extrav agant statement was that the moral and social origin of the disease would have been neglected, and the relation of moral and physical disease can never be safely Ignored; Malum and morbus are often the same, at least so Intimate ly connected that one cannot be eliminated from human life without the other. The most striking proof of this now conies out in the fact that Koch himself admits and eveu preaches that the great decrease in the death rate from tuberculosis has been and will still he due to sanitary and social betterment, "but chiefly to the improvement In the condition of the workingmen's lives through government insurance, etc. In other words, what may be called the morals of Infectious diseases are being recognized. The conditions that breed and scatter physical contagion are precisely those that degrade and morbldize the soul and character, tightness of physical living is necessary to righteousness, and vice versa. Koch, the author of tuber culin, forgot this truth; Koch, the sanitarian, now preaches it. American Medicine. waste of breath, and after what ap. peared to be ten or fifteen seconds the effort of Inspiration could no longer bi restrained, and pressure of the cheat began to develop. The most striking thing he remem liercd was the great pain in the chest, which increased at every effort of ex piration and inspiration. It seemed as if be were In a viae, which was grad ually being screwed up, until It felt as If the sternum and spinal column must break. The "gulping" process became more frequent for about tan efforts, and hope was then extlrajrolabed. The pressure after these gulps seem ed unbearable, but gradually the pain seemed to ease up, as the carbonic acid was accumulating In tbe blood. At the same time the efforts at In spiration, with their accompanying gulps of water, occurred at longer and longer Intervals. Tbe writer's mental condition was then such that he ap peared to Ik In a pleasant dream, but still had enough will power to think of friends at home, etc. Before finally los ing consciousness the chest pain bad, completely disappeared, and eensatlon wan actually pleasant. When con sciousness returned be found himself on the surface of the water (probably from the action of the life belt), and finally managed to reach shore. Lust Year's Immigration. In 1!H)2 more than 500,000 Immi grants arrived at New York, an in crease of l.'!8,000 over the previous year. This Is said fo be a record. De portations of Immigrants who did not come up to the requirements of tbe alien laws exceed those of previous) venrs by several thousand. Iurin the past yeur 5,610 Immigrants were sent hack to tneir nomes at tbe ex pense of tbe steamahlD eoninanlM. aa .compared with 3,W0 In 1001. A grain of sand la a maa's snake-. i. up Is worth two la tae sugar. 1 "'. .Mm.'---'--'-,.
