Mr. W. K. Clifford's next book will
be a book for children.
"Can any good come out of Nazar
eth? Come, and see," 1 the quotation
en the title page of a new book tailed
"Out of .Nazareth," by Mlnot J. Sav
age. Sin Eliuor Glyn, who wrote "The
Visits of Elizabeth" and "The 1U
flectlous of Ambrohlue," baa finished
new book entitled "The Datnsel and
the Sa,"
W. G. Colllngwood, who was Inti
mately associated with Ruskln nud
who haa published a "life" of the
famous art critic us well as edited an
rxlitiou of bis poems, lias Just com
vdeted a new Look which will bear
the title "Ruskln Relies."
Georges Ohnet, who probably makes
lucre by hi pen than any other French
fovelifit, bag purchased for 2.5o0,i0
rancs the historical Chaleaa Iiois I a
irolx, which Incidentally contained on?
f the finest pilvute collections of
mediaeval aims In France.
"The Header" give out this anec
dote: Publisher (to popular and busy
rtist) I called to see If you would
Jo a dozen illustrations for Mr.
Jiuhbe's new novel. Mr. II d
i'.U , C y (without I'sikiug up)
All rlfil't- Help yourself to a dozen
Mit of that barrel In the corner. Take
the to) ones. They're the freshest.
At the age of (iO Mr. Ilowella la still
an exceedingly active man and an In
defatigable worker. Ills eye la dear
timl atendy, h Is voice well modulated
land decisive, lie daily produce an
iiiiiiuiit of work that would tax nn or
dinary man In Uie full vigor of bis
jirlme, while bin writings never fail to
Miow the highest artistic finish. Be
sides IiIh lmok and magazine writing
ic baa charge of the Easy Chair He
partment In Harper's Magazine and
frequently contributes to Harper's
Weekly. Ills latest volume Issued by
(Harper & Brothers Is entitled "gui-s-llonable
Shape." and 1st n delightful
colli-ction of analytical stories of psy
chic phenomena.
The new novel upr.n which the au
thor of Horotliy Vernon of Ilnddon
Hull bn biH-ii at work since before
Ihe publication of that book, - enter
an uitinly new field. "The Forest
Hearth" is a story of Indiana life
during the thirties: Indiana was fet
tled by a curious mixture of races,
Including men from the South, East
and North: Englishmen. Irishmen and
Frenchmen. Tbey differed In culture
as much ns In origin; not a few of the
Englishmen were university grad
uate. The tlienie of thin story Is very
iwsir the author's heart: lis style,
method and atmosphere are best de
scribed as "sunny realism." This 1st
the strongest and mont bumnn bind;
which Mr. Major has written. It deals
with modern human beings' of whom
the author knows from having talked
with them and their descendants In
bis youth, and with a region which he
knows from having lived In It all his
life.
THE WEATHER OF OREGON.
Wondere Produced from the Soil of
the Far Nontweit.
There Is probably no country In the
world ho rich In natural resources that
la at the same time so sparsely set
tled. The diversity of agricultural
possibilities Is continually being
shown by successful experiments and
the richness of the river valley beg
gars description.
The Northwest is pre-eminently the
wonderland of production on the con
tinent. William Macleod Balne In
Pearson's tells how a farmer In the
Hood . Klrer country raised on four
acres 800 bushels of potatoes that
nearly all ran from three to eight
pounds nplece. There was not In the
dot one that weighed less than a
pound. Squashes weighing ss much
as a large man, pumpkins tipping the
scales at the hundredweight, water
melons larger than the Southern pick
aninnies, whose eyes would hulge at
'seeing them; turnips larger than one's
;head, js-ars and apples with a clreum
'eroiiee of a half-yard nrc to ho seen
at the annual fairs of Salem and The
Dalles.
The biggest apples, the biggest pears
and biggest cherries at the Chicago ex
Jposltion were from Oregon and the
.charge cannot be made against them
rtbat what they gain In size they lose
hu flavor. The I'omologlcal Society,
which Is the highest authority on
.fruits' In the country, awarded to the
estate of Oregon the Wilder medal for
the horticulture exhibit at the Pan
American. The "Webfoot State"
stands first In the production of hops,
raising about one-third of the coun
try' total production. So far as Is
known there I no spot on earth, with
the exception of Eastern Oregon and
.Washington and the adjoining valleys
,of ldabo, where three or four crops
vf wheat may be harvested from one
Mowing. Yet since the first settlement
of the country these "volunteer" crops
Jjavij been reaped. A second crop
from a single seeding Is officially re
ported to hare yielded thirty bushels
to the acre.
Average lucth of Journey.
The average railway Journey In the
tinltcd States la twenty-eight and a
'ialf miles.
You should never punish a child
bruen yon sre angry; and, by-tbe-way.
tiever scold a man for getting drunk
.util after be la sober.
fcience
The electric washing machine of
Josef Nagy, of Szegedin, Is claimed to
cleanse clothes from grease, stains,
etc., without soap or rubbing.
The images preceding sleep sre found
by M. Ueiige to be retinal; they per
sist as relnutl "glimmers" after the
eyes are closi-d, ami pass to the cere
brum only when sleep begins.
The foresls of Nicaragua are found
by Prof. F. I). Baker to contain three
hundred di.-tinct varieties of tre. A
bark that has been brought to the Unit
ed Slates as a substitute for cork,
proves to be from the roots of the
anoua, a tit-e of the lowland-i resem
bling the ordinary cotton wood of the
Cubed Stales.
In a paper read before the Anthrop
ological Society of Washington on
"Popular Sayings," A. It. SpoCTord
called attention to the wealth of such
s.iyings In English and Irish, and re
marked that theve had a distinct elh
hul value in that they are ulmust lu
varlably optimistic. Professor Mc
(.'ee said we may almost predicate the
stage of development of a people by
.lieir use of provet bs. Proverbs pre
uil In lower culture. Walter Hough
pointed out the debt of language and
literature to popular sayings, and
Miss Fletcher said that among In
dians ethical proverbs, such as "Stolen
food doe not satisfy hunger," are
used In teaching.
Sir William Willcocks, late director
general of the irrigation works of
Egjpt, draws a brilliant picture of the
possible future of the ancient land
of Chaldea, once one of the most fer
tile and populous In the world, but
now a desert. The Tigris, he says,
once jierformed, and can again per
form, for Chaldea the same functions
as the Nile for Egypt. Opts, at one
time the wealthiest mart of the East,
but at present a mound of ruins, bears
to the Tigris delta very much the same
relation ss that of Cairo to the delta
of the Nile. At nn expense of about
$!0,Kt,M the ancient irrigation sys
tem could lie ic-tored, and Chaldea
would become as rich a country os
J';gPt, which, TpO years hence, he pri--dlets,
will attain a height of splen
dor and magnilleence surpassiug Its
greatness In the' days of the Pharaohs.
In the pathological laboratories of
A.w I'uiversity of Pennsylvania an In
vestigation, designed to discover anti
dotes for nil kinds of snake poison. Is
conducted along lines suggested by
l)r. S. Weir Mitchell, and Hie Carnegie
Institute has gniiitiil an appropriation
to assist the work. Many experiments
are made with rattb snakes, cobras,
and other poisonous reptiles, and tho
effects of their venom upon animals
are studied. The physicians regard al
cohol, taken internally, as a valuable
stimulant, but not as an antidote.
The most valuable remedial agent is
the Int rmitb nt 1 gature n band alsiut
tie wounded limb, which Is loosened
for an Instant at stated Intervals, thus
allowing the poison to enter the sys
tem In very small quantities. In this
manner the patient Is enabled grad
ually to overcome the effects of the
poison.
TREE ASHES YIELD GOLD.
Timber Near the Mine In Valuable
Metal in DUaolved Form.
Many an enthusiastic botanist will
tell you that certain of his specimens
are worth their weight In gold Of
course, he had In mind the extreme
rarity of the plant or root. Very dif
ferent, however, Is the moaning of I)r.
E. E. Lungewltz, a well-known metal
lurgical chemist, when he states the
proposition that certain trees are worth
a proportionate part of their weight
In gold; for after conducting many ex
periments on certain classes of trees
he has come to ILe conclusion that
such trei-s actually contain pure gold
in a diluted form.
Chemists have long suspected, that
gold might slowly dissolve In surface
water, and have disposed of the ob
jection that that proposition has never
b('ti established by nnalysls by con
tending that the solution Is Inliniiely
weak. After giving tiic subject con
siderable study and thought, Ir. Lun
gewltz came to the conclusion that If
the surface water contained dissolved
gold at all, however small the quanti
ty, It should naturally Is? drawn up
by the roots of ':1m trees In the near
vicinity, and would there appear In
more substantial form.
Accordingly, be seles-ted a number
of trees growing In the nelghlsirhood
of lodes and placers, had them felled
and cut them Into pieces of convenient
size. After the bark had lecn removed,
with about one Inch of the outside
wood, the pieces were placed upon a
ck-an sheet of corrugated Iron and
flred. The ashes, which yet contained
grains of charcoal, were then collected
and assayed. The experiment was not
a distinct success. While gold was un
doubtedly present. Its quantity was so
Infinitely small that an accurate esti
mation of It amount or fineness was
out of the question. As these trees
were of the soft wood variety, It was
thought that better results might per
haps be obtained by experimenting up
on tree of a different kind. And that
la Juet what happpened The ashes of
some o -called Iron wood trves yielded
between 10 and 40 cent' worth of gold
to the ton.
In all of these experiments only the
tmnka of the tree n sir he roots had
been used, and It was determined, !
therefore, to ascertain whether more I
satisfactory results tould not be ob
taiaed by reducing Um opyer branches I
to abe& The branches proved te be
richer iu gold than any other part oi
the tree bretofore tested. Ia one In
stance V-e ashes yielded no less than
$;.17 worth of goid to the ton, while
In many caas the assay showed a re
turn of over $1 a ton. The signify
canee of these experiments lies in the"
fact that they established beyond all
doubt that gold is dissolved by the sup
face waters traversing and peicolat
lng gold formations. Tbey give rise,
likewise to the interesting question it
to which component of these surface
waters possesses this gold-dissolving1
property. Ir. Eungewitz has not at
tempted to answer It, but has left it
for further investigation. He advances
the theory, however, that this peculiar
action must have a disastrous effect
upon gold deposits in the course of
time.
As to the business opportunities In
volved in the discovery. It is perhaps
surlicieiit to say that the lovers of
trees need feel no apprehension as to
any wholesale destruction of them, for
the gold yielded Is loo little to warrant
the expense.
COAL IN THE NORTHWEST.
Mlnlnc Induatrj Increasing Tearl
in the (Mate af aahinicton.
At the World's Fair In Chicago tht
State of Washington exhibited a chunk
of coal weighing tweuty-tive tons. It
excited considerable interest bocaus
those were the young days of ImjMirt
ant mining in that State; and the Pa
cific coast Is not able to boast of such
enormous coal resources as are found
farther east
The geological survey of Washing
ton has Just published a map showim
Ibe distribution of the coal fields Is
the State. One may see at a glance
that nil the coal fields yet discovered
tre situated quite conveniently to the
sea.
They extend In a broken line froir
tho Canadian boundary to the Colum
bia Iliver. One group Is situated on
or near the sea, a little above the
northern end of Puget Sound; a not net
group lies to the east of Seattle and
Tacoma, and still other fields are south
of Puget Sound.
Altogether tlnTe are seventeen fields
which are contributing more or less to
the coal supplies. Some of them ai
entirely within .he Puget Sound basin,
and others lie between It and the foot
hills of the Cascades. It Is fortunatt
for Washington, v Inch Is not overbur
dened with railroads, "hat her coal
fields are so conveniently situated fot
tne water transportation of the fuel.
It has ttc u said that the coal of tin
Pacific: coast Is not of a superior qual
ity, and this Is true. Hut Washington
mines a gr at d al of coal of the mosl
useful kin Is.
East year Wnshln-rton produced tht
largest quantity of coal ever mincij
there. There was no ery Important
production before is.'-iii, but nearly ev
ery year since then the quantity mined
has Increased. It amounted last yeai
to 2,C),7'9 shori tons.
The larger part Is consumed In tht
State, and as time goes on and th
population Increases the home market
will require much great e supplies
The largest use to which coal Is pul
Is in the making of steam for locomo
lives, steamboats and stationary boll
crs.
Wood Is extensively used as fuel I
western Washington, but In thetlmben
loss region of the eastern port of th
State coal is used for all purposes, anl
Is chiefly supplied by the Koslyn dis
trict, which furnishes nearly half tht
c al mints, and Is conveniently situ
a ted In respect of the transtportatioF
facilities afforded by the railroads an
shipping of Tacoma.
The great bulk of the coal shlppoi
from Seattle and Tacoma goes to Sal
Francisco, but a number of corgoel
were sent In I!S)1 to Hawaii, as wel
as to Alaskan p rts. P.i ltlsh Columbii
competes with Washington In supply
ing Alaska, but that Territory hai
coal of her own and is likely In a fen
years to become an exporter Instead o
an importer.
California buys alxint one-third ot
the coal produced; the railroads oj
Washington and the nd olnlng Statei
are a No large purclnseis. and abom
:ion.Oi)0 tons h year are consumed bj
steamers In tho foreign and domes! h
trade. New York Sun.
A Trick with Cnnls.
Have somebody F.elect a card fron
an ordinary pack, ami after looking a
It place It on top of the pack. Placi
the pack In a pasteboard box Just law
enough to hold It, putting the cove
over It. A few moments later the bo
Is opened, the pack Is taken out ant
laid aside; a sealed envelope Is showr-t
to the audience, and, when opened
the card selected by the partner L
pulled out of It.
The small pasteboard box must b
made In such a way that It can Jus
hold the whole pack of cards, Insld
the cover paste a small piece of wax
to which the uppermost card will sib-l
when the cover Is put on the box
When Ihe box Is opened agnln thl
card must be removed secretly an,
hidden In the palm of the band.
Tho envelope Is empty. Place th.
card behind It, while you cut the en
velope open and pretend yon pull th-
card out. This trick, If well done, V
very deceptive.
What He Thought.
First Boy Do you want to go te
heaven when yer die, like de Sunday
school ma'am tell yer?
Second Hoy Nit! Dere'a no fun goto
ter places whero a woman wants ye
to go.-Judge.
The worst feeling In the world I
the homesickness (hat comet over on
occasionally when be la at home.
How many thlnga go on that jro,
don't know about!
t
Opinions of
Egotism an Efficient of Worldly
X egotist, as ail students of wordbooks know,
is one who puts himself forward constantly
and talks too much about himself. Cardinal
Wolsey is a celebrated example of the egotist,
for it was he that said, "Ego et rex me us" I
ind my King; for which sentence he has been
.um.. u uy some one was it Bacon or Addison? as a
iood Latinist but a bad courtier. An egotist is one that
upprsises all things only in reference to his own interests;
in other words, a selfish person. Egotism is opposed to
modesty and self-effacement; egoism to altruism.
A thorough egoist Is usually too worldly wise to be an
egotist. He Is aware that the egotist is mocked and de
rided, at least behind his Imck. Egotism is a weakness;
egoism a source of strength. Egotism Is exterior; egoism
interior. One is an outward and visible sign; the other a
habit of mind.
Conscious egoism is rare. The perfect egoist is ia most
cases quite unsuspecting of his egoism. Not infrequently
he thinks himself rather a model of unselfishness and
philanthropy. Sometimes he Is an extreme pietist in re
ligion. Sometimes an extreme libertine In morals. He
may be an anchorite In the desert, living on locusts and
wild honey, and subordinating all the duties and interests
if human fellowship to the thought of bis own soul's wel
fare, lie may be a politician wading through slaughter
to a throne. He may be a captain of industry, grinding
the poor for superfluous profits. He may be a man about
own, seeking pleasure nt whatever cost to others. The
goUt may be a woman of fashion, marrying some man
;or weald and posltloi.. Egoism is found in all states
iiid I rofesslona. In both sexes, In persons of all ages, and
..' diverse characters, In the saturnine aud the cheerful,
In luisanthiopes and foix! fellows.
Ego!m Is a very ellieicnt factor of worldly success. The
egoi.t always looks out for himself. He Las the wisdom
'( the serp"tit. Even wher. he makes a sacrifice it is done
'hat be may serve himself better in the long run. And
he egoist Is usually cheerful, as well as successful. He
lever permits the troubles of others to worry him. He Is
Ihe center of his universe. San Francisco Bulletin.
Dabbling in Stocks.
OES it pay to dabble in stocks? That is a ques
tion that a good many can answer. The man
nor of answering, however, depends on which
side of the fence the man jumps off. Some
are losers and some are winners. A man can
not win all the time unless he Is an extraor-
D
.ou.uo Keen man. anu mere are nut lew or tnese. Hit
tost, of financiers in the country have their tips and downs,
mil you can count on your lingers the really successful
; ulatots, L e., men who are In the game all the time.
When you see the men who put their money Into stocks,
u a speculative sen-e. yon cannot but have a pity for them.
;i'l tliis especially so the case with the man who has
i.i:l the spis-nl.itive fever and who is over it. We have one
u mind at the present time, and when he sees the mnr
iianl, the professional man or the mechanic placing his
money In the hands of the mob down there In Wall street
to eat up and gloat over, he says, "Poor fools!"
He reasons this way, and It will be fnund true in the
majority of cases. There is a greater inequality of the
i mounts won or lost, figuring winnings and losses the same,
to begin with. This Is clearly proven by the following:
A buys 100 shares of stocks. 6ay at 70, carries It for
thirty days and then seils It at 72. Ills gross profit Is $200.
take from this his commission of $25 and-the Interest on
the $10,000 at. a dollar a day, and he bas a pet profit oi
flto. Taking the very same proposition, ehnnsre the two
point profit to a loss and see. His gross loss Is $200, which
uilh tin? commission and interest would make a net loss
of $2.Vi. Here Is a difference of $110 against the loser on
a proposition apparently the same. Admitting that he
makes six turns always the same and breaks even, that Is.
makes three winnings and three losings, hjls account will
faml as follows: Three losings at $255, $70,"; three win
nings at $145, $4.",5. Therefore, he Is out of pocket SvS.'tO.
Now In order lo avoid losing at all, he must win sixteen
NO BREAKFAST THEIR CREED.
Colour of Weaternen Who Starve and
l'on't l.ove Tlietr Wlvea.
Edgar Wallace Conable, founder of a
strange health colony In Colorado sev
eral years ago, has abandoned the high
altitude of the Rockies and has bought
S.iSM) aires of land in northern Arkan
sas and colonized it with several hun
dred followers, all of whom believe
in his manner of living.
The colonists eat no breakfast. Tho
men do not love their wives, nor do
the wives love their husbands. Living
in family groups Is a mere matter of
form. It Is contended, although there
have been family squabbles caused by
jiiilous husbands and wives In this
colony.
The settlement lies along the 'Frisco
system, and Is to be made into one
ast orchard and vineyard. No form
of animal life must be killed on the
premises, but It Is the endeavor of the
colonists to drive away all kinds of
Insects and pests.
The land, which was bought only a
few weeks ago, Is now being planted
In fruit trees, and settlers arc build
ing their ho in c on the wide stretch
of the mountain country. By next
summer they expect to have every
thing In flrst-clasti working order.
According to their creed, people
should live In the highest form of phy
sical and mental Ufa This embraces
extended periods of fasting, for purifi
cation of the body and the elimination
of disease. It contemplates the non
use of meat, alcoholic stimulants and
tobacco.
Conable says that aa soon at his
crops begin to grow he will allow no
one on the premises, except aa a tem
porary guest, who lives on anything
but his sort of food. No morning meal
will be tolerated by the Conable col
ony, and no cook stoves will be found
In the kitchens. The housework of the
women will be limited, Inasmuch as
the only preparation of the food will
he to wash away the dirt
Fasting Is regarded aa a mean of
strengthening the body among these
people. Miss Reda Benjamin, a young
Great Papers on Important Subjects.
Success.
ample supply of
milrllt
children
Idustry
woman, has just completed a fast of
twenty-five days without any bad
effect to her body. She has muscles as
hard as nn athlete and is a perfect
specimen of physical womanhood.
No physicians are allowed in the col
ony. Whenever a person is ill he is
placed under the care of one of the
health teachers, who, by a system of
cereal and fruit products, as they say,
attempts to cure the pal lent.
Conable allows no horses on the
farm, and all the work Is done by hu
man hands or steam power. New
York Pun.
CYPRESS IS A USEFUL TREE.
Product of Sonthern Swimpi Can lie
CtiltKed in Manr ln(!ulrie.
A Mr. Tonney, writing In the St.
Louis Globe-I emoetat, says: "The
unman is fast destroying the melan
choly cypress and the enormous con
sumption of the imperishable wood
will soon clear the Southern swonips
of their noblest product. Mr. Tonney
says the best specimens are found in
Arkansas and Louisiana. The lumber
men class the timber ns red. yellow
and white, according to the tint of the
wood. In Southern Illinois some years
ago there were brakes of a white va
riety, but the trees were pygmies com
pared with the yellow cypress giants
of the Cache River country In Arkan
sas, and the mammoth red cypress
tree along the Ouachita River. The
slow growth and the uncertain method
of reproduction leads to the belief,
says Mr. Tonney, that before many
years the tree will -become extinct. The
great brakes are rapidly disappearing
before tho modern methods of lumber
ing and regions which heretofore were
regarded as Inaccessible because of the
swamp conditions are being rut over,
and the lumber going Into the mar
kets at a rate surprising even to those
who are intimately acquainted with
the Industry. The antiquated methods
of legging, so slow and cumbersome,
have been replaced by the up-to-date
ideas, and the new facilities and Im
provements have worked wonders in
the business.
r l
.el
times at $145, making a total of $2,320, against losing nine
times at $225, making a total of $2,295. So one can see that
in the end he will be $35 ahead. That is a good average,
too.
Now, take in consideration the wear and tear of nerves,
loss of sleep and the chance of losing your whole invest
ment, and the conclusion is arrived at that a job of carry
ing bricks at $2.50 a day is an easy thing in comparison.
Geneva Review.
Rearing Skilled Workmen.
l.-'i, W t V- , l , .
Gii.u.ia.i icaus me woria in its industrial eoa
I cation. The supremacy in the several Indus
tries for which she is so famous is directly
traceable to this educational development. Tbs
porcelain industries for which Germany Is
noted could hardly be carried on without an
artistically skilled workmen, and to assure
me continuance or the supply of operatives the Govern
ment conducts a porcelain factory at Missen. Pupils and
apprentices are taught drawing for two years. On th
completion of this course they spend an additional term
of two years on modelling and painting. Those who de
velop special skill are then sent to the fine art school of
Dresden, Berlin, and the other famous art centers to finish
their education. If a pupil perseveres to the end through
this long novitiate he Is practically guaranteed lifelong ser
vice in the Government porcelain factory.
Another feature of German industrial education which
might be adopted with advantage elsewhere Is the practice
of sending trade apprentices to some industrial school for
a portion of each year. Those who are indentured for a
four-year apprenticeship usually spend at least four months
a year In one of these schools, which are conveniently lo
cated In the manufacturing districts. Philadelphia Record,
A Disgrace to Civilization.
t tlhll lri,bd!o.n.1 ,1-. J
kT I !t tue better that, so far as we are concerned,
YY I we are prepared to recognize henceforward that
iiiuceiiouiu. is wiuiin me spnere or Hussion in
fluence, provided that she will put an end to the
horrors that are beine enacted In that pniintrr
lney are a disgrace to European civilization. It Is alwaya
the same story wherever the Turk exercises rule over
Christian races. The government is execrable. After being
patiently borne for a certain time, the oppressed race seek
to defend Itself. Then come savage brutalities on the part
of the rulers, which are met by as savage brutalities on the
part of the Insurgents. Reforms are announced which are
only to be granted when "order" is restored. Order, how
ever, means a recurrence of oppression. At present the civil
employes are not paid at all, and the soldiers sent there are
paid very sparingly If at all. The whole ruling race, there
fore, has to live on he subject race. That tricky scoundrel
the Sultan ban long succeeded In converting the fairest dis
tricts in the world into a hell by playing one European
country off against another. We are the only power on
which he can still count In this devil's game. Our MJty,
therefore, is to make it absolutely clear to him that come
what may he will get no aid from us. London Truth.
Love Is the Mainspring.
OEITICAL economists have told us that self.
nterest Is the mainspring of industry. It la
not true. Eove is the mainspring of Industry.
It is love for the home and the wife and tha
that keeps all the busv wheels of tn.-
revolving, that calls the fnetorxr hanil.
early to tne mm, tnat nerves the arm of the blacksmith
working at his forge, that inspires the farmer at hi
plough and the merchant at his desk, that gives courage te
the soldier and patience to the teacher.
Erskine was asked how he dared, as an unknown bar
rister, face a hostile court and insist on his right to be
heard. "I felt my children," he replied, "tugging at my
robe and saying, here Is your chance, father, to get u
bread." It is this vision of the children dependent on us
that inspires us all In the battle of life. Atlantic Monthly.
Mr. Tonney says further that Just
now cypress is the one kind of tbnbc
which has attained a prominent place
on the lumberman's list and the in
creasing demand and the advancing
price are attracting the attention of
every one who has in any way to deal
with building materials. The commer
cial value of a good cypress brake Is
almost beyond the belief of those who
are not familiar with the lumbering
industry. The merits of the timber as
adapted to n multiplicity of uses, are
without cuestion and it has taken rank
along with white pine and poplar. A
house may be built these days wholly
of cypress. The frame work, siding,
flooring, lath, shingles and even the
interior when finished in this remark
able product of the Southern swamps
gives satisfaction, which is shared
alike by the builder and owner.
Strength, durability and beauty of fin
ish combine to make it popular with
the woodworker. An instance may be
cited where cypress was substituted
for yellow pine In the construction of
the World's Fair buildings.
While it is true that the cypreso
brakes in Arkansas are being drawn
upon heavily, there is no danger of im
mediate depletion. And every cypress
tree felled means that in return ad
ditional wealth comes to swell tho
means whereby In other ways Ar
kansas Is undergoing splendid develop
ment. Little Rock Gazette.
Tender-Hearted Mike.
"A great big, able-bodied man Ilk
you ought to be ashamed to ask m
stranger for money," said the well-to-do
citizen. V
"I know I ought," answered Vleait
derlng Mike. . "But, mister, I'm JJer
tinrnMiMV wnn ar inn nan pran m vain as . i
I CI l (ii ixuj vrv sasuvar-aJsa iva. a isjty Un)
A .. an1 Ir v I aaa-aat 4k.M1
him." Washington 8tar. ' '
Where Onrs Go.
American telegraph instrument dJek.
In Siberia and In Italy, while oar tats
phones are "helloed" through by tta
Chinese, Bait IndJamea