OPINIONS OF GREAT
Gty Mm Wko Woadd a firmer Be.
AN agricultural newspaper Chicago, bavins; an
nounced that It will publish free all advertisements
of city persons wanting work In the country, la fair
ly twunped with aiipUeatiooa. W letters are In
teresting, as indicating a general dlr to escape the
crowded, narrow and coofluing routine of city life, and get
Into the open air. Bat what la at til more Interesting and
won by of attention la the fact that aunoat without excep
tion the would be farmers display a decided lata of will
ingness to become actual farm laborers.
f title the real need of the farmer la for men to do the
round work of agriculture, tnoat of those who offer
to go the country want to be specialist. They want to
belp gather the fruit of California, round op toe cattle on
the plains, do dairy work, or raise chickens. The far
West has cast Its glamour over most of tbe applicants. Dis
tance lends enchantment to rural life. There are hardly
any who are wlUlifV to go to work on the farms of Illi
nois, Iowa or Kansas. California, Montana or Colorado are
the favorites.
Tbe letters so far received are typical, not ao much of
a genuine desire on the part of poor families to establish
homes lu tlie country, as of the yearning of men of tbe
middle class for a change, or for adventure.
There Is room In the country for millions of poopto, and
there will be more and more room, as the Irrigation of tbe
West progress-. Tbe hoftfliwa, Incompetent, struggling
people who encumber the great cities, might And compar
ative freedom In agriculture, but for a poor city man to
establish a horns In the country moans grit, hard work,
and perhaps Intelligent assistance from without. The spirit
of our pioneer ancestors has fallen olT sadly In these day
of city civilisation. Chicago Journal
Women Gamblers.
PROPLH who have made tlie matter a study contend
that when the get-rich-qulek microbe attacks women
It Is not easily exterminated or made harmless. The
phantom pictures which rise and fall with the click
of the ticker fascinate them, and tbey
chance with the recklessness of veteran
dreds of women give their orders clandestinely, and tbe
fact that they have an Interest In tbe
their dally examination of the market reports Is prompted
by anything beyond a desire to bo Informed, Is not known
to any one save their brokers. These are good customers
for brokers. A sigh over a statement showing a balance on
the wror.g side, a vow "never to do so any more" or an
order given "Juet to get even" Is the usual sequence.
There is another class of women stock gamblers In
which the bad loner Is largely represented. Tbls class sup
ports bucket shop In the residence parts of the city, like
the one which was raided a few days ago. When these
women win they are happy, but when fortune frowns on
them they are "horrid." Tbey want their money back from
the bucket shop proprietors. Tbey cry, scold, and Anally
threaten to "tell on tbe mean things" who took fbelr mar
gins. In order to shield themselves the threat Is not often
carried Into execution, and tho bucket shop continues to do
business at tbe old stand, taking money from the women
who succumb to the temptations of the tape. It Is refresh
lug to know that once In a while a woman gets so thor
oughly angry because of her losses that she does her share
toward breaking up the bucket shop business.- She would
never do such a thing If her speculations were successful -hence
all good citizens should rejoice when she loses. New
York Tributw.
Tbe Jews in Russia.
IT Is true that the Russian Jews do not engage In agri
culture nor work In the field. They are not allowed to
do so. They are not permitted to own or even to rent
land, and are confined, pausing their lives within allot
ted "pales of settlement" lying almost wholly In the cities.
They art restricted by arbitrary laws to certain trades.
Five-sixths of all the Jews in Russia never leave the pales,
and have no ebaiK-e to see, much less to overpower and
destroy, the peasant by whose fancied sufferings the am
bassador Is bo moved. As a simple matter of fact, the
Jews of Russia, as a class, are abjectly poor, and the few
of them who are wealthy enough to have money to lend
REALLY FINE PANAMA8.
Hata that Can He Kntlrelr Hidden In
tha t'laaed Hand.
The fashion for Panama liaU of the
last two or three years has made po
ple commonly acquainted with the fact
that the tuts are not made In Pana
ma, that the term Panama hat 1s only
a trade name, and that the beet of
these hats cum from Jlpljapa, In
Ecuador, suys the New Vork Sun.
But there are other lntermtiiig things
not generally known about Panama
huts.
Thus Seimr Franco, who was a can
didate for president ut the last ela
tion In Ecuador, bad presented to him
not long ago by bis friends a hat sold
to be the nnct of Its kind In the
world. It to to b on exhibition at the
St. Uiiila World's Fair with other
products of Ecuador.
The whole hat, says the owner's
sou. who is at Columbia 1'iilversUy,
can be pressed so small that It can Is'
hidden entirely In tbe closed band.
When the hind Is opened the bat will
sprii.g buck Into perfect shape Just
as If It bad never been touched hh vi
lli the most careful manner.
In Its making particular care was
used Is-cause of the great desire of
Heiior Franco"! friends to give him a
bat Hint had no equal. It Is ery rare
that a hat such as Honor Franco's is
see;i In the Culled Suites, and when
one Is broiviit here It la not In a reg
ular shipment meant to he sold, but
In the possesion of some man who
bus Just visited Ecuador or wbo bas
n-celvcd It as a gift from a native of
tbe country.
Ernesto Franco, the Columbia stu
dent, has one which, though not so
fine as his father's Is of a quality not
to be Umglit In this country. It came
lo him by way of Hie minister In
Washington, enclosed In a IKtle cylin
drical boa no more than aa Inch In
diameter.
Whu bU fraternity ma tea at Oolutn
Ida were told that there wma a bat
In tbe long box they refused to believe
It. llut when tbe box, looking Jut
.i,ut iika a naatlr wrapped newspa
per, wm opeuad the laoniaJMi ato-
PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
are In ao position to practice extortion. On the face of It,
to plead the wrongs of the people of Russia at the hands of
a small clss, oppressed, corralled and kept under every
specie of civil and legal disability- political, social and
barbaric persecution of the most detestable character as
the Justification for a wholesale butchery, Is absurd. And,
of course, they were not peasants they were cltlsens of a
capital city, populated by 120,000 people who fell upon
the Jews of KlsbenelT and smote them with slaughter,
wMle official eyes looked on. Can such a nation claim tbe
decent respect of mankind, or Is It entitled to be regarded
as a civilized country ? Philadelphia Ledger.
Juvenile Suicides.
THE Chicago Tribune, which keeps careful records
of many classes of abnormal happenings, calls atten
tion to the Increasing frequency of suicides of young
persons. Suicides In general are Increasing in the
country at an extraordinary rate, the number In 1002 being
8,245, which la 1,000 more than In the previous year. At
the ratio of Increase for the first three months of tbe cur
rent year, the total will be much larger than for 1002. In
the latter year the suicides of women were three times as
many ad In 1001, and the ratio of increase continues In the
current year. Regarding the suicides of young persons, the
following Is given as an incomplete record for the last two
weeks: A boy of 13 at Marine City, Mich., shot himself
rather than go to church; a young married woman only 10
drowned herself at Port Jervls, N. Y., because ber husband
of 18 would not give her an Easter bonnet; a boy of 15
at Baltimore shot himself because he bad to work; a boy of
18 at Hamilton, Ohio, banged himself because he wag
cheated In a borso trade; a girl of 17 In Chicago poisoned
herself because her mother forgot to deliver a message
to ber boy lover, and a young man of 18 poisoned himself
In Chicago because be failed to find bis sweetheart at home
when he called. What Is the matter with our civilization
that such a shocking record can be made? Surely, some
thing Is wrong. It U a subject that demands the attention
of every sorlors student of social conditions. During the
last ten years In Europe more than 400 persons under 10
years of age committed suicide. The United States Is likely
to surpass this awful record. Boston Herald.
play the game of
gamblers. Hun
stock market, that
Speculation.
HOMILIES on the evils of speculation are as old as
tbe practice of gambling In futures, and evidently
are regarded as belonging to that species of "good
advice" which nobody ever thinks of accepting.
Koine mull who speculate lu stocks or grain or cotton are
made of such stern stuff that no matter how unkind for
tune may be to them tbey are never driven to despera
tion. Tbey are philosophers as well as lighters, and are
willing to bide the
wheel may restore
dalliance with the
rare. Many men who are ruined by speculation have
neither the means nor the courage to renew tbe fight
against ill fortune, while some are utterly crushed and find
life no longer worth living. There Is a great deal of pathos
In the case of a man who fliuh the wealth which It had
taken him years to accumulate swept away In a das
through the manlpulatiou of markets by aggressive and
resourceful speculators. Baltimore Sun.
Apply tbe Golden Rule.
ONE of the most distressing and bodeful phenomena
of tbe passing years, and especially of recent months,
Is the unrest of labor tho frequent and sometimes,
at least, seemingly unreasonable Interruption of ac
tivity, with the many concurrent evllR. The sovereign
remedy for these and similar diseases of the social body
was stated very clearly about nineteen centuries ago, but
has been persistently
self-seeking men. The broad man, the great engineer, has
laid upon him a large measure of the responsibility for the
ebilmrutlon of the details of the practical application to
present day relations of man to man. of the principle of
doing to others as one would have others do. Neither
the narrow-minded
man can put himself
other side of the question. The Engineering Record.
dents were treated to a performance
something like that of a Jumping Jack.
for tbey sew In-fore them u perfectly
forowd Panama but.
Soon after he got It Mr. Franco
earriud It to oik of tho bt known
lmtters In the United Stati-s to have
a leather band put around the Inside
After the expert Imd looked at the bat
fur a f-w Mwvnds he said:
"I'll give you J inn for that bat."
The offer was refused. Mr. Franco
still has the beautiful white straw hut,
ami be expects to have It for many
more years, lie lives not very far from
'be cities in Ecuador', where the only
MTfoet 1'a unman are made, tind Is la
uillbir with the process of weaving
them.
All tlie work Is done under v.if:
From the time when the two first
straws are Joined together to the time
when the entire work' Is done the hut
never comes lo tbe surface. More
over, mrtxNly but the half-brerd In
(liens living near the west const of
Ecuador has the art down fo the liinwt
point. They have practically a monop
oly In tin- manufacture of the very
lii-st. bats.
EeuiitUir Is the only place wh'-re the
proper kind of straw grows. .Varie
ty's much like It can bo found else
wiiere, but tbey si) differ II little from
the grass of Ecuador. '
In bis country. Mr. Franco says, h.H
that are considered very good here
and cost anywhere from 15 to ?:M
Irting only r cents. They are not
valued so highly, even, as the Ameri
ca n flat straw hats. But the bet,
even In Eetialor. will sell at big
prices, such as f.V) or $iH. Hut when
yon once get one anything like Sciior
Franco's you are fixed In the way of
headgear for a score of years.
NEWSPAPERS AND HI TORY.
PallUaWIII lie of Vain la the Ilia
tnrlan of tha Falar-.
Yet one cannot, from the standpoint
of future history writing, reckon the
value of the newsp-pe of today in
term! of tlie unwieldy bulk of Its ma
lertali. And de-jil-.e garish coloring
and dlatorted pipci,v tbe daily
time when another turn of fortune's
to them what they lost in previous
"tickle Jade." Such men, however, are
adulterated or rejected by selfish and
nor the Ignorant, nor the small-souled
at the view point of the man on the
tiowspaix'r does reflect life find make
history In a sense that Is true of It
alone; nil the more, perhaps, for tbe
exaggerated emphasis It puts upon
news as news and for the often ab
surd category of Its classification. Part
!y because of lis success and partly be
cause of its Imperfections, Its method)
have mint to obsess the periodical
piers to a surprising extent, writes a
contractor to Seribiier's. Evident
wP.ukss of this Is given by the cure-
fully prepared paragraphs of news
summary, a now familiar feature of
the weekly paper largely displacing the
editorial In Importance. These news
summary paragraphs are extended to
the occasional monthly, while the ordi
nary monthly magazine of mlsiclla
neons aim surrenders im Increasing
space to conteiiiHir:iueous subji-cts and
to tbe reports and comments of men
who have seen imiiortaiit happenings
or who have been themselves a part of
tin-in. Novel and highly useful as all
tbls "materlnl" will prove to tin- bis
torlan of the future, embarrassing In
Its riches and long accessible (since
the periodical press, weekly and
monthly. Is printed on durable paper)
It yet cannot take tbe place of the
dally new spaper's llrst band linprcs
slous. These have n characteristic
freshness, crude but realistic, that tin
other mnst lack, a unl!ty that counts
for much In determining values In n
picture. As the historian of to-day,
seeking what Is vital In the past, turns
from records, document! and slate mi
pers to gossipy letters and diaries
even though biased and malicious so
the historian of tbe future might turn
from the most Judicial of chronicle
mid the most painstaking of recollec
Hons to the aplcy flrst reports as thej
nppenred on the yellowest page of a
"yellow" Journal.
Haloona la Ohio.
Ohio collect! over $4,000,000 In II
ctinw-s from 10,730 saloons.
We have found that, aa a rule, when
n girl eotera thla office looking like
a
princess, it ia to aareraae a oew
sale.
for
OLD-FAVORITES
The Ballad of ferjeiut Boas.
The flames of the sentry fires bright.
Ablaze on the prairie's pale
Where sixty men of tlie Frontier Corps
Are guarding the government trail.
A rattle of hoofs from fhe northern bllte.
A steed with a sweat-wrung hide,
And Oluf Draim, of the Peska claim.
Swings off at the captain's side.
"Chief Black Bear's out from the Crew
Creek lands,
The buzzards his track have showed;
Last eve he pillaged at Old Fort Jeanea,
To-day on the Fire-Steel road. r
And Corporal Stowe, of the Frontier
Corps,
On furlough to reap his grain.
At the I'eeka stage house lieth dead,
With his wife and his children twain."
Then up and spoke First Sergeant Roes,
Who had bunked with Corporal Stowe;
"By the glory of God, they shall pay In
blood
The debt of that dastard blow."
They ride till the crickets have sought
the shade;
They ride till the sun-motes glance.
And they have espied on a far hillside
The whirl of the Sioux scalp dance.
Then it's up pa the smouldering stago-
house barn,
And out by the well-curb's marge;
The Sioux are a-leap for the tether-ropes;
"Revolvers! Guide center', Chargel
Ross set his pace for the chief, Black
Bear,
Who shrinks from a strong man's
strife,
But flaunts in the air the long, brown
hair
Of the aealp of the Corporal's wife.
The Sergeant rides with a loose-thrown
rein.
Nor sabre nor shoot will he,
Till the pony has pitched at a gopher
mound
And flung her rider free.
And Rons has wrenched the knife from
his hand
And smitten him to the ground.
Iid ye think to win to the Bijou ILills
Yo whelp of a Blackfoot hound?"
And they swung him at dawn from a
scaffold stout,
As n warning to all his kind,
To fatten the birds and to scare tha
herds.
And to sport with the prnirie wind.
Coddle Honn.
The bnirnies cuddle doon at nicht
Wi' muckle f audit an' din;
"O, try and sleep, ye waukrife rogues,
Your" fsilher's cumin' in."
They never heed a word I speak;
1 try to gkj a frown,
But aye I hnp them up and cry,
"O, bairnies, cuddle doon."
Wee Jisaile wi' the curly head
lie aye sleeps next the wa'
Hangs up and cries, "I want a piece"
The rascal starts them a'.
I rin and fetch them pieces, drink.
They stop awee the soun',
Then draw the blankets up an' cry,
"Noo, weanie, cuddle doon."
But ere five minutes gnng, wc-e Rab
Cries out fra' neatli the claes,
"Mither, miik' Tain gie o'er at once,
lie's kittlin' wi' his tiles."
The mischief's in that Tarn for tricks,
He'd bother half the toon;
But aye I Imp them up an' cry,
"O, bairnies, cuddle doon."
At length they hear their faither's fit,
An' as he stukes the door
They turn their faces to the wa',
While Tain pretends to snore.
"Ila, a' the weens been guile?" he aks,
Ah It,. oilH nff his tdioon.
"The bairnies, .John, are in their bods,
An lfliw since cuddled uooii.
An' jiint fore we bed oursels
We look at our wee bindm;
Tarn hns his airui roun' wee Hub's neck
An' Rab his a inn roun' Tain's.
I lift wee Jamie up the bed,
An' as 1 straik each croon
I whirpcr till my heart fills tip,
"(), bairnies, cuddle doon."
The bairnies cuddle doon nt nicht
Wi' mirth that's dear to me;
But ooii lie- biir warl's cark an ctre
Will qilufcn doon their glee;
Yet, come what will to ilka nne,
May he who sits abooti
Aye whisper, ihoiiuh their pows be bauld,
' O, bairnies, cuddle doon."
Anonymous.
THE DISCIPLINE BROKE DOWN.
An Iiiperimcnt That Wa Not an Un
it mil tiled HncceK.
Malimoud Pasha was a progressive
Turk of the new school. He was sent
to St. Petersburg on n special mission,
where, owing to bis good manners and
childlike Ingeiiuiousness, lie soon be
came popular In diplomatic circles. Ho
caught eagerly at new Ideas, ami was
always discussing the possibility of In
troducing reform Into Turkey.
One day the Turk was at luncheon
at tho quarters of n Russian olllcer
named Blrnedoff. Tbe conversation
had turned on the splendid discipline
to Is- found In every branch of the
Russian service. Birnedoft suddenly
rang a bell.
"I am going to show you bow me
thodical my orderly Is," said he to
Mahmoud Pasba.
A trim-looking young officer entered
the room, saluted, and waited. Blrne
doff gave til ni a key and told him to
go to his office and get a certain bunch
of papers.
The man saluted and loft the room.
Blrnedoff took out bis watch. Keep.
ng hi! eyes tlxed on the dial, he said:
He Is going down the stairs; be Is In
he street" And then, after a lon
pausu, "He lias reached tho war oflice;
he is going upstairs; he has entered
my room; he has tbe pa pore and lias
started to come back; he has reached
the street." Another long pause: "He
is down at the door; be lu mounting
the stalr', be la here." At this mo
ment the door opened, and the orderly
reappeared and placed the required
parcel In his superior's hands.
Die Turk returned home and at once
began to Institute reforms. A year or
more passed, and the Russian officer
Klraedoff was In his turn scut to Con
stantinople, and became tbe guest of
Malimoud Pasha.
Count RlrnedoSf," said tbe pasha, at
an opportune moment, "I want to show
yon what I have accomplished In the
way of discipline during the past year,
thanks to your teaching. I want to
prove to yon that the Turk is aa ca
pable of methodical training as the
Russian."
At the sound of a bell a ft verted ser
vant appeared. The paaha spoke to
him In Turkish, When tbe man had
left the room the pasha took his
watch In hand, and said:
"Now lie la going downstairs; he Is
In the street" A long pause: "He
has readied the building where my of-fli-e
Is; be Is going upstairs; be Is In
my room; be bas tbe papers; he Is
coming back "
At this moment the door o;ned
suddenly and the heavy Kurd reap
peared. "Effendlm," said he, with a
low salaam, "I can't find my shoes."
NEW PRE8IDENT OF LIBERIA.
Something About the Black Republic
on the Weat Coaat of Africa.
Liberia, the only republic in Africa,
recently elected a President who Is to
serve for a period of two years. Tbe
new executive, Ar
thur Barclay,
comes of pure ne
gro stock and was
born In Jamaica, In
the West Indies.
While young his
parents moved to
Liberia, and be
was educated in
the schools of the
bluck republic. He
bas been postmast-
aktih h baocxav. er general and sec
retary of the treasury and Is a man of
liberal views, whose purpose It is to
develop tbe trade of the republic and
open up the country to the foreigner.
Ho will tie tbe 13th President since
1847, when Liberia declared ber in
dependence. The republic of LUs-rla, which Is on
tlie went coast of Africa and has an
area of 30,XiO square miles, with a
population of over 2,(K)0,000, was
founded In 1820 by the American Col
onization Society. Tbls society was
formed In 181d for the purpose of
transporting negroes from the United
States to Africa. Among the found
ers were Charles F. Mercer, of Vir
ginia; Rev. Ir. Flnley, of New Jersey,
and Bishop Meade, whllo Henry Clay
was Its president for many years. In
1S20 the society sent out a company of
8 colonists to Liberia, the United
States Government co-operating with
It Afterward 10,000 colonists were
sent to the country, which. In 1847, tie
came Independent and elected its first
President, Joseph Jenkins Roberts.
The constitution Is modeled upon
that of the United States. Every black
male citizen who possess real estate
lias the right of suffrage, but no white
man can be admitted to citizenship.
Tbe lnliabitants are made up of vari
ous trllx-s, for Libera has expanded,
chiefly by the purchase of adjoining
territory, since its establishment.
Some of the natives are pagans, some
Mohuniniedans, while among them va
rious missionary societies are actively
engaged.
The climate of Liberia Is dejidly to
the white man, who falls a victim to
what Is called African fever. Even
negroes, born and roared In another
climate, suffer on their first lauding
from the dangerous miasma. They
ssn lieoome acclimated, however; but
the white man never. On the other
hand the natives are robust, healthy
and long-lived.'
A Tuuxh Proposition.
"You say," she murmured ns she
watched the moonlight on the sen,
"that I am an angel."
"Yen." !
She was silent for a long time.
"Why so pensive?" he Inquired
slckishly.
"I was wondering whether, some
day when the thermometer was up In
the vicinity of a hundred, and the
Ice man forgot us and the cream Is
sour, and yon have a headache lo
calise you have been working hard
I was wondering whether you would
call ine an angel then. Don't answer
right away," she added In that cold
business-like tone that women are
learning to assume. 'Take your time
and think it over."
Franco llehlnd In the- Knee.
Plt'ty yours ago France was the most
populous country In Europe, next to
Russia. Now she Is pluced last but
oim on the list of the great powers,
with Italy, which Is still behind, nip
idly gaining upon her. In the past
half century, whlle'Franep has hardly
moved, Germany has added 21,nio,nm
to her population. Great Britain II,
OOO.Ofio, Austria-Hungary about as
many. The excess of births over
deaths annually Is well over three
quarter! of a million In Germany, over
half a million In Austria, and 422,(si
In Great Britain. In France It Is only
31,000. The new lives added to the
nation barely make up for those that
pass away.
The man who says he will give his
Inst dollar to a friend, seldom baa a
cent
1 " -ic33&''
IL h. Wilson's novel, "The Spend
ers," published by the Lothrop Pub
lirfhlug Company of Boston, bas been
dramatleed by Edward Hose for Wil
liam H, Crane.
Apropos the present absorbing Car
lyle discussion 'The Letters of Thomas
Carlyle to His Youngest Sister," con
tain many revelations of the great
writer's domestic life.
G. P. Putnam's Sons announce the
publication of the authorized Ameri
can edition of Professor Ielitzsch'B
famous lectures, "Babel and Bible,"
which explain tbe relation between tbe
Ilebrew scriptures and recent cunei
form research.
Owen Wieter, tlie author of "The
Virginian" and "Philosophy Four," la
still at work upon his long essay or
series of chaptecs upon the "Sheep and
Goat Family," wnlch will form part
of the next volume In the American
Sportsman's library.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., have Just
published the flrst three volumes of
their new and complete Centenary edi
tion of tbe "Writings of Ralph Waldo
Emerson," edited with "Notes and Bio
graphical Introduction" by Edward
Waldo Emerson. Nine more volumes
will follow within the present year.
At the urgent reguest of Myrtle
Reed G. P. Putnam's Sons, wbo will
bring out ber novel, will place upon
the title page thereof the colored em
blem of tbe City of Chicago, where la
the days of Fort Dearborn the scene
of her story is laid. The title haa
been Changod to "The Shadow of Vic
tory." Following W. B. Yeats' play,
"Where There Is Nothing," the Mac
millan Company will soon Issue two
more dramas by the same hand. They
are entitled "The Pot of Broth" and
"Catbleen-ni-IIolihan," and were re
cently performed at the Carnegie Ly
ceum In New York by the Irish Liter
ary society.
Lyrics of Ixive ami Laughter, is
the title of tlie latest volume of Paul
Iawrence Dunbar's voice. There are
verses in negro dialect and some in
tbo vernacular, In about equal propor
tion, and it is but natural that the
most attractive are those cast in the
form that this writer has before em
ployed with such conspicuous success.
The Cluttn of White Agates, is the
title of a new book by Amelia E.
Ban-, tbe well-known author of The
Bow of Orange Ribbon, The Maid of
Maiden Iine, A Song of a Single
Note, and so on. It Is a story of Bos
ton towns, opening in Lincolnshire, but
soon passing into Boston. It Is of
the time of the Mathers and about the
period of the witchcraft delusions. The
book will probably appear in the fall
with tlie imprint of Dodd, Mead &
Co.
Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller's account
of her ways while watching birds out
of doors suggests the reason for her
success. She says: "I always wear a
plain dark gown and try to become,
as you might soy, a part of the land
scape as much as possible." Ajid she
might have added that she carries the
same policy Into her writings, and that
It accounts for this superiority to those
written by certain ladles who have no
idea of following Jenny Wren's ex
ample, actually or figuratively.
Telling Trees' Ages.
The only accurate way to estimate
a tree's age Is by the measurement of
Its girth," said a botanist "The count
ing of tbe rings of oxogenous trees
can only be applied to such as are cut
down In their prime, for these trees,
when they begin to die, cease to add
their yearly rings. Girth measurement
In the only safe guide to tbe age of
trees.
"Hence, all over the world, botan
ists have row for some years been
measuring trees of known and un
known ae, compiling thus, a volume
of statistics that will become more and
more valuable as It Increases lu size.
"Tlie yew Is the longest-lived of
tre(s. Three feet a century, our sta
tistics show, Is Its normal growth. Ac
cording to this rule, the Fortlngal yew,
of Scotland, which was fid feet In
girth In 17'iO, must have lived over
1..HO0 ycairs. Tlie Tisbury yew, In Dor
setshire, l.s 37 feet In girth, and should
be, therefore, 1.2'Kl years old.
'There Is a table of the age of oaks
that differs from this. It Is uot a very
satisfactory table, but It was compiled
from trees of known age, mid, there
fore, It Is, statistically, very valuable.
According to It, a 40 year-old oak had
a circumference of eight f-et; 83 years,
Hi feet; 100 years, IN feet; 2IK) years,
20 feet; 250 years, 27 feet; 300 yenra,
,'5,"1 feet."-Philadelphia Record.
Mother's Hoy.
"Now then, young man," said Wil
lie's mother, "I won't let you play
baseball again In a hurry, and you'll
get no supper to-night."
"Why, Is supper nil over?"
"You know very well It Is. Yoo
saw me at the twek gate and heard
me calling an hour ago."
"Why er I thought yeh wui J eat
applaudln' de two-bagger 1 mad!."
Philadelphia Presa.
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