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444M M M OLD I FAVORITES I The American Flas. When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurl'd her tamliird to the air, . She tore the azure robe of night, And net the stars of glory there; She mingled with it h Korgeoua dyed The railkr baldric of the skies, "And striped its pure celestial white With streaking of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the auu She call'd her eagle-ben rcr down, And gave into li in mighty hand 3'he symbol of her chosen land. Majestic monarch of the cloud! Who rcur'st aloft thy regal form, To hear the tempest trumpings loud. And see the lightning lances driven, When strive the warriors of the storm. And roll the thunder-drum of heaven Child of the sun! to thee 'tis given To guard the banner of the free, To hover in the sulphur smoke, To ward away the battle-stroke. And bid it blending shine afar, Like rainbow on the cloud of war, The harbingers of victory! Flag of the brave! thy folds shall fly, The sign of hope and triumph high, When speak the signal trumpet tone. And the long line cornea gleaming on; Ere yet the life-blood, warm and wet, lias dimmed the glistening bayonet, .Kach soldier eye fhall brightly turn To where thy sky-born glories burn, And as his springing steps advance Catch war and vengeance from the glance. And when the cannon mouthings loud Heave In wild wreaths the battle-shroud. And gory sabres rise und fall Like shots of flame on midnight's pall Then shall thy meteor glances glow, And cowering foes shall sink lieneatu Kach gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave; When death, careering on the gale. Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Itpf'iro the tirtitTuln'a reeling rack. Kach dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee. And smile to see thy splendor fly In triumph o'er his cloning eye. Flag of the fn-e heart's hope and home! I'y angel hands to valor given; Thy stars have lit thp welkin dome, 4 And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls be fore us, With freedom's soil beneath our feet, - And freedom's banner streaming o'er u? Joseph Hodman Drake. MONEY IN GOAT RAISING. An Iadotry in Which There Are No Unsalable Kemnant. "Tou can sell every part of a gout tjut bis scent," said Jobu Collins In the -course of an Interview recently on tne eubject of his Arizona gout farm. "There ore thousands of goats, on the arm," be said, "but whether there are ,10,000, 20,000 or 30,000 I couldn't tell you for the life of tne. ' "1 can tell you, however, something about the way In which our goat In dustry was started. By the death of a grand-uncle, my uncle, Harry Mc Corinlek and I Inherited I he Gricbe St. A i) n silver mines, which are two days and a night of steady burro travel south of Tucson. There was silver In the mines, but by the time we got It out and got It to Tin-eon we were pay lug for It at tilxut the rate of li to 1. Hut It wasn't a case of free silver, by any means. It'wn the most expensive money 1 ever got hold of. Finding the venture a losing one, we took lessons from the 'greasers' and bought from them 1.10 common gouts. "There Is nothing but sagebrush and cactus out there for those animals to feed on, but no man ever saw a dead goat, unless be had come to some vio lent end. They live and thrive where nearly every other living thing starves to dentil. "We started out wllh lot) gouts, de riving our protl in from the sale of the lildi-s. In IN'.i'J we decided to mix them -with Angora goats. .After two yenis the cross disappears and you g-t a per fect Angora goat. It Is a valuable thins to have. The long hair Is sold to the umnufaeiurers of plush for furni ture, sleeping ears and such things. The hair next to the skin can be made tip Into valuable shuwls. The meat of the kids Is delightful when fresh and Is sent In Its canned shape to Culm, the Philippines, other parts of the United States, to China and to many other foreign countries as canned lamb. Ho'rlen Is goat's milk that one tea apoonful of it Is equal to three table spoonfuls of the purest cream, lint the best part about the milk Is that It Is a deadly foe to tubercubi, and con sumptives who drink It are often ;ured of 1 lie disease. We are planning to condense the niHk and sell It for medicinal a well as family use. If there Is any other dumb animal with more valuable qualities than the goat, then 1 don't know It. "No siabbs have to be provld d for the keeping and six rancher ate -.if flelejit for herding up those we v.ui.t to ell.' Once In fl while the greasers and Indian get nway with n few, but where you've got some scrappy ranch era they are Hot likely to repeat the inrforniniiee often. "At rule now, we sell the goats on the hoof," continued Mr. Collins, ac cording to tne Washington War. "In order to do so we have to drive them Into Tucson. - And a tough Job It Is. Of course, horses are not much good "tbeti, as It la so hard to get provender and w titer, but there Is a species of broncho which the natives call 'loco poka,' which Is aa hardy as a goat. The koo poka Is the erssiwrt thing be tween Arizona and the next hottest country. As long as the notion doesn't strike 'em they're all right, but If ever they make up their minds to stop noth ing on earth can start 'em. Whenever one goes, the rqst go. A stampeding loco poka might go through a town where a score of his kind are hitched, and every blessed one of tnem would break loose In some way and go gal loping after hlin. They run till they get good and ready to stop. If you happen to hang on that long you can turn your loco poka around and the rest will follow. "We use the loco pokas for packing the kid meat to Tucson and, barring this one accomplishment, they are all right" FLANNEL SHOULD BE WORN. This Fabric la Modi More Healthful Than Other Woolen. In England one sees much of the hy gienic underwear which Is so strongly urged for gncrul adoption, but in this country It Is less common. From a sanitary point of view, this is a pity, since physicians regard It as a preven tive of many forms of disease. It af fords the body the greatest protection against cold, hent and dampness with the least obstruction to the body's ex halation. These conditions are instinc tively felt to be better fulfilled by woolen than by linen or cotton fabrics. Hence the very general use of flannel garments by athletes and by members of cricket, boating and other sporting clubs, who are called upon to engage lu vigorous physical exercise likely to cause profuse perspiration. As formerly woven, woolen fabrics were objectionable to many, because they Irritated the skin and caused dis comfort by preventing the proper es cape of Its exudations. Moreover, they were as a rule so heavy as to be Intol erable for summer wear. These objec tionable features have now been re moved, and to make woolen clothing truly sanitary and suitable for all sea sons the usual process of weaving woolen fabrics has been materially modified by adopting a method which produces a much. less closely woven texture than the ordinary flannel. The feeling Is Instinctive, too, that woolen clothing Is "hot" In warm weather; that If we wear wool In win ter to keep us warm we must wear something different In summer to keep us cool, or be Inconsistent In theory and practice lint this Is a mistake It is obvious to nil how a mui-cuii- ductor of heat a woolen garment, for instance prevents the escape of the heat of the laxly to a colder atnios phere, or the Ingress of heat to the body from a warmer atmosphere; a familiar Illustration of which Is found lu the practice of wrapping ourselves In blankets to keep us warm and of wrapping Ice In a blanket to keep It cpld to keep the heat In In one case, and not In the other. It may not be so easy to UliuriSiiiFiu Why We SoOtilu clothe a warm body In u blanket to cool It off or keep It cool when the temperature of the surrounding air Is In or near equilibrium wiih It. The explanation lies In the nature and condition of the body, the woolen fabric's two-fold property of non-conductivity to bent and permeability to moisture and the evaporation of the moisture at the fabric's outer surface. This evaporation disperses the heat, thus lowering the temperature. This is the reason the soldier keeps bis wool en-covered canteen wet lu hot weather. A wet woolen garment disposes of the surplus beat and leaves the Ixsly cool. Hartford Times. VuiTf Food Plants. Ill the department of agriculture at Washington, hidden nway in an ob scure corner, is an odd sort of exhibit of queer foods eaten by out of the way people. There Is a loaf of bread made from the roasted leaves of a plant allied on the century plant. Another 1.1:. d of bn-ad Is from dough of Juniper bcr rl. s. These are relished by some tribe of Indiana, while others maun facture cakes out of dlirereut kinds of bulbs. The prairie Indians relish a dis'.i of wild turnips, which civilized piopie would not be likely to enjoy nt all. In the great American desert the beans which grow on mesquite bushes are utilized for food. Soup berries furnish an agreeable diet for some savages lu this counlry. while In California the copper colored aborigines do not disdain the seeds of sail grass. Ao tn California the Iilgger In dians collect pine mils, sonn-tlmeis calb d pliiom , by kindling fires against the trees, thus causing the mils to fall out of the cones. At the same time it sweet guru exudes from the bark, serving the purpose of sugar. The smls of gourds arc consumed by Indians In Arizona. Light-weight Hooks. Many book buyers, says a writer lu the Youth's Companion, must have notice the remarkable lightness of some of the volumes recently Issued, especially from Kngllslt presses. The paperv although of normal thickness. ,i singularly lacking In weight. Nome j America n books iiImi begin to show this i Inirai-tcrlstle, In some eases Hie rela tive loss of weight, as compared w h older volumes of equal size, amounts to thirty or forty per cent, 'llie cause Is the recent adoption for book-work of paper made of esparto-grass fiber. This paptr 'neks the smooth surface of the older k.nds, but the relief afforded by the loss of weight In bulky books Is very agreeable. The world is but a ring on which men cut their eye teeth. LINCOLN'S COUSIN LIVES IN AN INDIANA VHUGt Elijah Lincoln, a first cousin of Abraham Lincoln, lives In the town of Fort Branch, near Kvansvllle, Iud. As a mau of broad character and ami able disposition, he Is quite similar to his Immortal rela tive. Mr. Lincoln was born iu Muskingum County. Ohio. Sept. 17. !:;. When he was. l!) ytiiis ,.oiL he moved with h s parents to Fort ELIJAH LINCOI.K. j,,,.,, Mh f ther lived but a short time after his arrival there. The family was in p.,i.r circumstances and young Elijah was started out at the age of FJ to make his way In the world. He first v;-nl to New Orleans, but, as he proudly says; "I was like Abe. I could not stand that lufein.-il slavery." Leaving New (Irhnns, Kl jah went to Itobinson, III., where his mother and brothers had moved during his absence in the South. It was hen; that he learned he had a cousin prac ticing law iu Springfield. 111., the lirst time the family had beard of Abe since he left his Indiana home at Lin coln City. Mr. Lincoln had stalled to visit his cousin at Springfield, but met a party going to Colorado, and being informed there were riches In gold and silver, decided to Join the party. They made the trip od horseback, and when they reached Colorado several In the party were sick. They had not been there long when they heard the Southern States bad left the Union, and that Indiana would probably be a battle-ground in the coming struggle, Lincoln slarted back to Indiana, and when he arrived at Princeton, de elded to enlist in the Union army. He Joined the Fifty-eighth Indiana regl nfent. His comrades say there never was a harder fighter than Elijah Lin coln. He served in the army three years. daring cmFsTmsKS DEATH TO AMUSE CROWD The latest sensation in the cycling world Is the dare-devil flight of Cyclist Schreyer, who, after a swift run down a lattice-work chute, disengages him self from the machine and, like a bolt, shoots Into space and dives Into a tank of three feet of water a terrible dis tance below. The turn of an Inch, or the fraction of one, and be would be dashed to pieces. Yet he asserts that the attempt Is made under the most pleasant of conditions and that be remains perfectly cool-herided. It Is said the performance has never been equaled, and Schreyer, to prove his ti tle to the distinction, has a standing offer of $1,000 to the wheelman who will successfully duplicate it. When the trip Is lo be made the wheelman mounts his bicycle at the top' of the Incline. Once started, ho shoots through space at a terriilc speed, mid when the end of the chute Is reached the man Is going at the breath-taking pace of two miles a min ute. It Is at this time that the driver must do rapid calculation, for In less than a half-second he will have reach ed the chute's end. To control his wheel; to be alert; to Jump at the mo ment the brink is opening beneath l.lm these are the requirements. So fur be has not failed to render them. I'lnnting Seeds by Cannon. Nasniy.th, a landscape painter of re pute, was held lu great esteem as a landscape gardener, and 1n this capa city helped to compose some of the finest park and forest scenery. The estate of the tben duke of Athol was disligured by an unsightly crag, the rocks of which were Inaccessible to climbers, By a happy thought Nasniyth determined to make a bold bid for success with a cannon, which was at hand. By lils advice tin canisters were prepared, and loaded with tree seeds. Fired from the cannon's mouth, these novel shells burst against the face of the crag, and scattered their fruitful contents among the rocky crevices. Nature carried on the work so clever ly begun, and In the course of years those barren heights were clothed and crowned wllh trees of luxuriant growth. Nasmj-fh's son, James, the Scottish astronomer. Is said to have repented the experiment wllh equal success. Women Are Forbidden. Ily order of the city authorities the practice Of employing women to sift refuse nt the corporation's depot, Letts Wharf, Iiiubeth. I,ondon, Is to be gradually discontinued. The fool shows bis folly and krfbw It not, but the wise guy knows bla folly and shows It not TUB CYCLIST'S DAH1N0 LEAP. OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Great Number of Divorcees. . A STATISTICAL paragraph iu a paper which is care ful with its figures offers the rather remarkable Information that there are ; uoiv 51,538 divorced peo ple In the United Slates, of Thorn over two-thirds Ire women, 'itiis naturally rouses interest In the fate of the men who were divorced, as originally there must have been an equal number with the women. Hid the husbands lade and die under the blight of divorce? Are they more fugitive than the wives and unable to thrive when the hinging vines are forcibly torn away by the county court? hi- did the majority rush off and marry again, thus taking Ihemselves out of the lists of the divorced? But does larriage really lake one out of such list? When a man divorced Is he not always divorced, though he marry g;iin7 Ir not, ami a second marriage wipes ine cuny iia;iimonial record quite off the slate, why is it that women Ho not seek the same way of escape? Why do more of them not marry and cease to be divorcees? Why but What profits it to ask questions at random? The problem Is a fascinating one and worthy of serious investigation by llaiistleal experts. Why, oh, why, out of 51,000 divorced l-ersous are 34.000 of them women? Where are the miss ing ex-husbands of 17,000 of these sisters? The mystery leepcns the more It Is considered. Indianapolis Journal. , The Get-Rich-Quick Victims. NO community is immune from the blandishments of the "get-rlch-quiek" swindlers. All that Is required to make a victim Is, indeed, a willingness to believe that men having an unusually good thing are in a lever to give It away, and a little of the blind boldness which leads certain people to try such a hazard and see what comes of it. The truth cannot be too often stated that when a man discovers a sure way of getting rich quick, the last thing lie does with It is to tell strangers about It. He wants all there is In It for hlmself-and possibly for his close friends, lie communicates the discovery In a whisper; and never, never seeks partners In the odd corners of the counlry. But sometimes people are caught by the plausible though cheap pretense that he needs money to carry through his Idea that he has the scheme but has not the money, and Bo Is seeking the contributions of small capitalists every where. If he. cannot get capital from looking for money-making opportunities, It is because they do not believe there is anything In bis little plan; and they are men of shrewdness and experience who are infinitely betler judges of any such plan than can possibly be. When they shy at other people to take to cover. A good rule for the average man Is up tight when the .insinuating stranger the story that. If he will only let the his money for a little while, he will get quadrupled. And it is just as good a tinting stranger approaches one through the s'reet -Montreal Star. The Bacillus of Suicide. I HE prevalence of suicidal mania 1 accounted for by a hitherto unknown scientist, who has studied the subject deeply and trailed the microbe of suicide to -its native lair, in the unseasonable strawberry. Clifford Howard Is the name of the discoverer of the bacillus of self-destruction. He is au assistant Sec retary to the District Commissioners. Mr. Howard's methods of scientific less unique than his conclusions, and his process of rea soning Is admirably simple. Suicides are most frequent In the spring. Strawberries are out of season In the lati tude of Washington In early spring. Unseasonable straw berries are eaten In Washington. Strawberries eaten out of season Invariably produce mental depression. (Proof of fact not given.) Mental depression causes suicidal thoughts. Therefore the bacillus of suicide Is tracked to his lair In the strawberry. Most remarkable, however, Is Scientist Clifford How ard's discovery that the deadly microbe enters or develops In the strawberry only when the fruit Is transported from lis proper habitat to a blghor latitude. The April straw berry is innocuous in Georgia, but may not be eaten In Parent and Child Before the Law. J A very Interesting paper on I lie above topic was given In a number of Harper's Bazar, which sets forth Rome little known points of ftiw, re lating to the obligations of father and mother to a child. The father of an Infant Is bound to provide him with necessaries. In cluding food, clothing and medical at tendance. If he does not provide such necessaries, n stranger who furnishes theiii cau hold the father liable. The obligation on t lie part of the parent maintain the child continues until l .if latter Is In a condition to provide for bis ewn maintenance generally speaking, as long as he remains a minor. But by the statute law of the country this obligation only ends with dentil In the case of children who are 4d:ud, lame or physically or morally Incapable of providing their own sup port. It Is the purpose of the law not to compel a father to main tain idle and hizy children In ease ami Indolence, but to provide the young and Inexperienced with the nur ture and sustenance to which they are properly entitled from those who brought them Into the world; this to cout lime until they have gained strength and ability to care for them selves. It Is doubtful to what extent a mother Is bound to support her child. In general, she would not be hound to do so during the life of Its father. Under some staiuies nn adult son Is compelled to support his mother. A fat.'ier cannot avoid hr resnms'lblllty for thi' support of ' bis, child, even though be may agree wllh the mother to do so; and lilt hough a wife, by her o-.vn fault may forfeit her own claim lo support she cannot forfeit that of the children. A stepfather Is not bound to support his sli-pclilld unlev he practically adopts lil t is by faking the child Imo his family and providing for hint, Washington on pain of Inevitable mental depression and probably suicide. When the Washington strawberry ripens, however, any old strawberry may be eaten by Washing tonlans with entire safety. -Scientist Howard's advice to those who would abstain from suicide is that they refrain from eating strawberries until the fruit is ripe at home. Wonderful are the discover ies of the amateur man of science. Philadelphia North American. T1110 story of one action for breach of promise of mar riage is the story of all. Acquaintance ripens into friendship and friendship into an engagement. The engagement comes to an end, whether from the fault of one of the however, the final lady she can if so money damages, the circumstances, apart other side of the picture Is far different. The man may be treated ever so heartlessly, he has not the same remedy. Any claim he might prefer would be laughed out of court The man who asked publicly for golden salve for Injuries done to bis heart would never survive the world's contempt., The question arises whether now that women are claim ing equality in so many respects they ought not to submit to equality in this. It may, of course, be urged that the custom of proposal involves an important distinction be tween the sexes, and that Is undeniably so. The woman who has been jilted cannot revenge herself by instantly offering her hand to tire false one's friend. But, on the other hand, it must not be forgotten the breach of promise action is the resort not of those who really suffer, but of those who, by the very fact of exposing their broken hearts for the gayety of nations, often suggest doubts as to wbeth er their sentiments are sincere. London Daily News. the men who are the average outsider It, it Is time for all to button his pocket comes to him with said stranger hold it back doubled or rule when the Insln the postoflice as on In Washington Is Investigation are no thus giving him the same status as a natural child. An adopted child and the person legally adopting have all the rights anil are subject to all the duties of the relation of parent and child, including the right of inherit ance. The duty of a child is, first of nil, honor and obedience. Failure to ren der these, or Ingratitude, may be pun ished by disinheritance. The father may cut his children off entirely, but he cannot leave more than half his property to charitable Institutions If he has a wife and children living. (This Is true In New York.) According to common law there is no legal obligation resting uprtu a child lo support a parent, In ease of either a minor or adult. In some States stat utes have been enacted to enforce this duty, wllh the result thnt the Stale lms been greatly relieved from the care of paupers. A father has n right to the services and earnings of the child while the child lives with him, and Is main tained by him a right resting on the parental duty of maintenance and fur nishing some compensation for the service he renders Hie child. How long this right continues Is open to question, but certainly until the child reaches the age of U, and usually dur ing the entire period of minority. But where a father refuses or neglects to support the child or compels him to support himself, the right to his earn ings ceases. At common law a mother has no Implied right to the service and earnings of a child, ns she was not bound like the father for Its malnte nac WHEHE UrT1FsTRENUOU3. Helnnntlon from Work Will Make a Man Injur I.ifc I, (inner. There are men, and plenty of them, who start the business of the di.y, or thinking about the btn-lness of the day, iilmort ns soon as they lire out of bed, and keep It up with scarcely nil Interval until they turn In at night, says the London Express. The bind-ii'-ss telegrams and letters brought lo Ibe bedroom III Ibe morning and the Breach of Promise. parties, or of the other, or of both. If, breach Is not clearly the fault of the disposed sue her late lover and obtain amount of which depends on many from the wrong she has suffered. The A Self-Made Man. THEKE are many men who are proud of being self made men. They carry their heads high and claim that they have made their own success by their own unaided efforts. They claim that no one can say that they were helped with loans of money, or that they were ever boosted into positions by the strength of others, yet this is all a mistake. No person ever made a success in life without being assisted by others. Think of the assist ance given by the mother when the self-made man was a helpless babe; think of the helpful advice of the father, mother, brothers and sisters, when the self-made man was Immature; think of the Inheritance from father, moth er, grandfather and ancestors back for a thousand years, all of whom have bequeathed to this so-called self-made man peculiarities which have aided him on the road to success. These ancestors have bequeathed health and vigor of body, strength of mind, common sense and the Inclina tion to virtue, but further than this, the self-made man has been assisted by those who have labored for bim. What manufacturer, farmer, nurseryman, editor, physician, law-, yer or minister has not been aided by others almost dally throughout his life? No, we may do much to improve our conditions in life, but we are never entirely Independent of the helpfulness of others. Green's Fruit Grower. Useless Polar Expeditions. THE promised submarine expedition to the North Pole Is surprisingly unscientific for Its German source. Sir Clements Markham has already laid clown the reasonable and accepted attitude on this matter. The tale of three centuries' effort is, as he says, complete. We already know all that is to be known about the Arctic re gions. No one Is more vigorous than Sir Clements in de nouncing those who question the utility of Polar eiplora-I tion. Since his voyage half a century ago he has xteadlly; supported the work and aided it by the soundness of bis theoretical advice. Now he declares that furthev expedi tions are useless. Any attempt to reach the pole Is now a foolhardy enterprise which is the personal affair of thsl explorer, and no more entitled to our support than the cross ing of the Atlantic In an open boat or the feats of a "fast ing man." London Chronicle. continuation of mental labor and wor ry into the small hours of the next morning, until sheer Inability to go on compels a reluctant halt for sleep, are evil modern phenomena that occur too often. And the hurried midday lunch, is not worse for the digestion than It is for the mind, which Is thus cheated of its due pause for rest This is certainly not the way to get most, work done In the long run. The men who have put most work into their lives and been able to keep on longest at It have been men, like Mr. Gladstone, who knew the full value of absolutely banishing work from their minds for some time every day. In tin? height of political excitement Mr. Gladstone could always contrive to shut, out politics and official business for an hour or two while he read Greek or n novel. One man may seek his relaxation with a tennis racket or a bicycle, an-' other with a book, another In talk (not about business); but complete relaxa tion in some form every man should have every day. And an entire and absolute holiday, long enough to count. Is no less Indispensable every year. The meaning of "rest" varies with the individual; to one It Is rest to Climb Alps or cycle fifty miles a day, to an other to lie under a tree or on the beach. But In some form the rest la Inevitable, unless the breakdown Is to come. The hours from which business Is entirely excluded every day, the weeks from which it Is entirely cxeltid pn st urea near them. The houses are by the man who means to Inst t III Chance. I'a ther Wouldn't It be funny If I should become a little boy again? Hobble Maybe It wouldn't be so fuo ny for yon, pa. If you wua to be littler 'n me I think I'd square up a tew things. Philadelphia Press. The Ksceptlon. The Englishman I understand yo Americans elect all your ruler by bal lot. The American Vet all but our wives.
