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Voyager upon life's sea,
To yourself be true,
And whether your lot may be.
Paddle your own canoe.
Never, though the winds may rave.
Falter nor look bark;
Bat upon tke darkest wave
Leave a shining track.
ffobly dare the wildest atom,
Stem 'the hardest gale.
Brave of heart and strong ef arm.
You will never fait
When the world la cold and dark,
Keep an aim In view;
And toward the beacon-mark
Paddle your owa canoe.
Every wave that bears you oo
To the silent shore.
From the sunny source has goe
To return no more.
Then let not an hour's delay
Cheat ion of your due;
Bat, while it is railed to-day,
Paddle your own canoe.
It yoor birth denies yoa wealth,
Lofty State and power.
Honest fame and hardy health
Are a better dower.
Bat if these will not suffice,
Golden gain pursue;
And to gain the glittering prise,
i'.tddie our-own canoe.
Would jrou wrest the wreath of fame
from the lund of fstsT
Would jou write s deathless same
With the good sod great?
Would you Mens yoor fellow-men T
Heart sod soul imbue
With the holy task, and then
Paddle your own canoe.
Would you crush the tyrant wrong
In the world's free fight?
With a spirit brave aud strong
Battle for the right.
And to break the chains that bind
The many to the few
To enfranchise slavish mind
Paddle your own rsnoe.
Nothing grrat is lightly won.
Nothing won in lost;
Every good dcd, nobly done,
Will repay the cent.
Leave to henviu, in humble traat.
All you will to do;
atut If you succeed, you mast
Paddle your own canoe.
" Sarah K. Bolton.
Blow, Hlow, Thou Winter Wind.
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not mo unkind
As man'a ingratitude;
Tby tooth Is not so keen.
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be nide.
Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
Thou dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot;
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As friend remember'd not.
William ShakNpeare.
CIO DRUM IN THE ORCHESTRA.
it Is Una of the Moat Important
Featnrea of Known.
"Few persons realize It but the man
who beats the big drum In the orches
tra Is one of the most important mem
bers of the musical aggregation," said
an attache of one of the local theaters
to a writer in the New Orleans Times
Democrat "and as a matter of fact we
could not get along without him at
jmls day and time. While the drum is
one of the most ancient of musical in
struments, being positively primitive,
ft Is yet even in this advanced age,
one of the most useful. Men were
beating on the tightly stretched hides
of wild animals and getting a sort of
.music out of It long before they had
learned bow to blow the simpler mel
odies out of hollow reeds. The drum
Idea came into existence before men
ever dreamed of tooting horns. Thump
ing on a coon skin, or a skin of some
other kind, was the only music of a
great many primitive people, and
even now this kind of music is played
while some of the Island tribes go
through their ceremonial dances.
''But I was thi&kJss of the great
use to which the drum Is put nowa
days In theatricals. We could not get
long without ii aiid as a result the
drummer Is paid a salary next in
amount to that of the leader. He Is
well paid aud earns his money. You
have no doubt observed that In per
formances of a certain kind the drum
mer Is very much In evidence. Take
the special stunt of the sort we Cud In
vaudeville, comical stage falls, acro
batics, dunces, any kind of turn where
there Is a violent and sudden change,
and you will find that the drummer
will play au Important part. He Is the
man who marks the time of the
.change. He always lilts the drum at
the rlgl't time. He Is In perfect accord
iwlth the performer. It takes a man
of some talent to do this. You have
no Idea the trouble we have In finding
nieu who can do this work as we
would have It. It has developed into
quite an art, this business of tapping
the drum at the right time, and hence
we experience some trouble In getting
men to do the work Just as we would
kave It done.
'That's why we are forced to pay
the drummer a good salary. He Is an
Important person In the orchestra, and
don't you make any mistake about It.
'And I may say that ho knows It. The
public may overlook him, but you can
not say ss much of the theatrical man
agers, for he Is a man they have to
reckon with."
Tbey say there are all kinds of men
In the world, but we never yet saw
the kind that In proud of the prises his
wife wis at card clubs.
GERMANS IN SOUTH AMERICA.
Prrrrntag Not Lirgi Knoagb to War
rant Fear t laapcrlal (vnqacst.
German migration to South America,
aud especially to some of the Southern
States of Brazil, is periodically a causa
of comment aud concern to some who
think they see therein a sinister
scheme of imperial conquest For two
or three strong reasons such fears
seem to us to be not well founded.
One such reason is that the number
of Germans lu Brazil Is not after all.
ominously large. The total population
of Brazil, according to the census of
1890, was 14,333.915. No later census
returns are available, but careful esti
mates now place the total at more
than 17,000,000, of which number less
than 3,000,000 are Indians and negroes,
leaving certainly more than 14,000,000
whites. Of these, In 1901, only 2.700.000
were Immigrants, and of the latter
number only 300,000 were Germans.
The latest and highest estimate of
the number of Germans In Brazil Is
only 450,000, or a little over 3 per cent
of the whole. Really, we cannot re
gard that as a dangerous percentage.
Nor does it represent the largest for
eign element by sny means. I'ortu
guese immigrants Into Brazil are twice
as numerous, and Italians three times
as numerous, as the Germans. Nor
yet are these Germans so massed in
certain States as to form a majority
of their population, as some have Im
agined. Germans are most numerous
In Rio Grande do Sul, where there are
200,000 of them, but the whole popula
tion of that State Is 900,000, so that
the Germans are less than one-fourth.
In Santa Catharine the Germans are
100.OX) In a total of 300,000, or one
third, the largest proportion In any
State. In Parana they are 47,000 in
280,000, and In Sao Faulo 30,000 In
1,430.000.
It Is pointed out as ominous that
these Germans counue to use their
own language, to publish newspapers
in German and to demand the official
use of that language in courts and
schools. Well, the same may be said
of the Germans in New York, and in
Milwaukee, and lu many other parts
of the United States.
The conquest which Germany hopes
for In Brazil is not political, but com
mercial, The profit she looks for In
this migration of her subjects Is to be
found In Increased commerce. In that
Germany reckons shrewdly. Every
shipload of Germans landed In Brazil
creates a demand for many shiploads
of German manufactured goods. Ev
ery so-called German colony in Brazil
means a market for German trade.
Upon this feature of the case too much
stress cannot easily be laid. New
Y'ork Tribune.
Ho Kent All I lie News.
Knowing the aversion of her hus
band to letter writing, the wife of a
Cblcagoan thus admolshed him In his
departure on a recent easteru trip:
"Now, John, as neither I nor the
children can accompany you, you must
be eyes aud ears for us, and drop us
an occasional postal card, telling us
anything of Interest you may see and
bear. Don't forget will you?"
The husband promised aud took his
departure. The next morning but one
bis wife received a postal card con
taining the following message: "Dear
wife; 1 reached Pittsburg all right.
Yours aff." y
Though disappointed, she excused
the brevity of the communication on
the ground that her husband was
doubtless pressed for time. Two days
later, however, another card arrived,
bearing the startling announcement:
"Here I am In New York. Yours ever."
Still later came another: "I am indeed
In New York. Y'ours "
The wife swallowed her disappoint
ment and, being good at retaliation,
seized her pen and wrote: "Dear hus
band, the children and I are In Chi
cago. Yours "
A few days later she wrote again:
"We are still In Chicago."
In her next communication she grew
a little more enthusiastic. She wrote:
"Dear husband: Here we are In Chi
cago. I repeat it sir. We are In
Chicago.
"P. S. We are, Indeed."
In due time John reached home, and
fearing pcrhap t ' t" his poor wife was
afflicted with some sort of dementia,
hastened to axk the meaning of her
strange uimMgfii. For answer he
slipped Into his hand his own three
postal cards. Chicago Tribune.
Japanese Wives.
The position of the Japanese wife
Is not that of equality with her hus
band. He Is the liege lord, to be obey
ed by her In the most servile manner.
He exacts from her the little atten
tions that an American woman ex
pects, and usually gets, from her hus
band. Without so much as a murmur
of complaint from bis spouse, who
must always receive him with bows
and smiles and ever have her mind
and eyes on his comfort he goes and
comes when he pleases. When he
fares forth socially, be does not take
her with him; when he receives gen
tlemen In his own house; a rare thing,
by the way ma da me seldom presents
herself, unless In some menial capa
city. And while such a thing as con
jugal love must exist In Japan, It usu
ally escapes the notice of the foreign
sojourner, the people considering It
vulgar to exhibit emotion of any kind
In public. The wife as a social unit
being completely submerged, it fol
lows that others of her sex must take
her place socially, and In this office
toe gelsba girls play an Important role.
A cure for old age would sell readi
ly. People are always willing to "try"
experiments. And a cure for old age
would not be any more ridiculous than
the medicine lately advertised for
making short men tall.
Edward W. Townsend's new book,
"Sure," containing "Chininjie Fadden"
material, will be published by Dodd,
Mead & Co. In an attractive form.
McClure, Phillips & Co. report that
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's new book.
"The Home; Its Work and Its Influ
ences," has gone into a second edition.
Mrs. Burnham's first Christian Sci
ence novel, "The Blgbt Princess," pub
lished by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., is
now reported in its twenty-fourth
thouxand.
"Moonlight and Six Feet of Ro
mance," by Dan Beard, the famous
Illustrator, is announced for Immediate
publication by Albert Brandt publish
er, Trenton, N. J.
Probably no cover was ever put on
a work of fiction that received so much
favorable comment as has the cover of
"The Fortunes of Flfl." Molly Elliott
Sea well's new novel.
Jules Verne declares that among
boys' books bis favorite Is the "Swiss
Family Bobinson," while among ip
grown" authors Dickens and Scott af
ford him the most inexhaustible pleas
ure. Of all our humorists, alive or dead,
Mark Twain is the most widely pop
ular and the most typically American.
It ia not too much to say that be
Is the most popular because he Is the
most typically American.
One of Mrs. Humphrey Ward's
daughters. Miss Janet Ward, has late
ly translated a work of Prof. A, Ju
Ucher, entitled "Introduction to the
New Testament" It will be published
by Smith, Elder & Co., who are Mrs.
Humphrey Ward's English publishers.
Mrs. Ward has contributed a preface
to her daughter's work.
Edmund Gosse, Joint author with
Dr. Garnett of the monumental "Illus
trated History of English Literature,"
that has recently appeared in four
large volumes, occupies the position
of translator to the Board of Trade,
having held the post ever since 1875.
He was bora in London in 1849, the
oldest son of the lute P. II. Gosse, F.
B. S., the eminent zoologist
W. H. Mallock's new volume will be
issued here by G. P. Putnam's Sons.
It is entitled "The Veil of the Tem
ple." Mr. Mullock Is the author of
several volumes on religion and sci
ence, economic and social science,
verses and novels. The chief aim of
his writings has been to expose the
fallacies of radicalism and socialism
and to show that science taken by it
self can supply man with no basis for
religion.
The Century Company publishes
Helen B. Martin's "Tillie, a Mennonite
Maid," In unusually tempting form.
The cover of green cloth bs a charm
ing medallion head In tint of Tillle,
framed In a conventionalized scroll de
sign, and the numerous full page illus
trations, by Florence Scovel Shlnn, are
printed In brown tones on deep cream
paper, the tinted Insets helping to
make an exceedingly attractive book.
The story deals with life among the
Pennsylvania Dutch.
Samuel Merwln, co-author with Hen
ry K. Webster of "The Short Line
War" and "Calumet K.," has sent to
the Macmillan Company a new story
entitled "The Merry Anne." nils is
described as a vigorous smuggling
story a conspiracy of smugglers to
bring contraband whisky from Cana
da across the great lakes. One of the
chief characters Is a United States
revenue agent, who goes on the trail
of the conspiracy. Interwoven Is a
love Btory. The book will have colored
Illustrations and decorations by Thom
as Fogarty.
Gas Burning In Dwelling Houses.
A single burned will devitalize the
atmosphere by removing Its oxygen
and charging it with carbon dioxide
as much as four or five persons would
do. The dioxide of gas as an illumi
tiant has been enormously improved
by the use of the Incandescent mantle
the light is purer and the combustion
more complete. On one condition it is
superior to electric light, the condi
tion, namely, that it shall bo burned
In a chimney, and the products of com
bustion Instantly carried off into the
open. Then the flame becomes a ven
tilator; Instead of deteriorating it Is
constantly Improving the quality of (he
air by renewing it, and the more gas
is burned the better for the salubrity
of the apartment Unfortunately, not
one room In a thousand In which gas
is burned Is thus treated, and In every
otner the air Is contaminated, and
noxious products are breathed until
by accident rather than by design they
II nd an exit
Not In liove Because Nhe Blushes.
You may know If a girl likes yon
by the way she behaves when you
meet her. Don't be taken In by the
mere fact that she changes color. Girls
do that from a thousand different
causes, and there is no reason why
she should be In love with you merely
because she blushes, Health,
What Koyaity Coats Kngland.
Tbo executive office of the United
States calls for only $112,000 a year,
while England gives the royal family
IJ.OQO.OOU.
When a young man visits a strange
town, he always walks in a stilted,
unnatural, company way.
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
Fear of the Surgeon's
THE mUlionabre who killed himself rather than suffer
surgical operation for appendicitis la a type of
many Individuals who prefer death to the thought
of going under the acalpel. It la by a atrange men
al process that they come to such a choice. Often, aa In
his latest case, the pain to be endured la vastly exag
gerated by Imagination, while "the sense of death la most
n apprehension;" for the removal of the vermiform ap
tendix, aave in cases of acute development, la rarely deadly
towadays.
Perhaps this wretched man had such
then he waa ordered to the surgeon tbst his system was
itrung to the snapping point and only needed the sugges
lon of the knife to induce recourse to the revolver. Again,
lis may have been somewhat like the experience of the
irave snd gallant duelist of whom De Maupassant has
hen us such an Intense study the man of certain marks
nanshlp who pondered all night over the act of killing
lis man on the morrow until from certainty hla mind
Irlfted to doubt, from doubt to fear, from fear to panic
!nd inaanlty, until the pistol that was to kill hla adver
isry be turned on bis own brain.
It waa long contemplation of the
hat made death welcome to the man with the appendix.
!t was Fhakespeare's Brutus who truly said, "Cowards die
Jiany times before their deaths." This individual was
ifrald of pain, but of death he waa unafraid. It is a cu
1ou process of the mind that makes mere physical fear
lominate the moral courage It takes to blow out one'a
ralns. It Is a part of the dark, Impenetrable Mystery of
afe. New Tork Press.
Importance of Thibet.
WHILE the proposed expedition into Thibet has
sppealed to the general imagination chiefly In
point of its promise of revealing to general
knowledge an unknown land and a hidden city,
t has, in fact, great actual Importance as England's first
.ffort to check Russian Influence In possibly the most vital
wliit which it Is to-day essaying to conquer.
Tblbit Is not In itself a delectable land but It lies ad
jacent to India. Lbassa, for all its secret is known to
ip comparatively an Insignificant town but it is the seat
f the Dalai-Lama, Tope of the Buddhist world, the in
aniatlon of the All-Merciful God for five hundred millions
f human being. These form a large part of the popula
ilon of India, and they dominate China. It is by virtue of
he influence that lias gone forth from the sacred hill on
vhich rialnl-Uina dwells that the present Manchu dynasty
iiis been maintained In power in the Middle Kingdom and
hroughout the vast tributary realms which up to now
lave constituted the Chinese empire. What the Buddhist
)ontllT has done for Manchus he can do again for Museo
rltes. It was from Mukden that the Manchu lords ex
ended their sway over the kingdoms to the south of
Uanchurla; Russia is in that ancient capital now, and If
FIRST TORPEDO BOAT.
A Newadealer of Toronto Telia How
Ha Built It.
"I built the first torpedo boat that
ever worked," said James C. Cousins,
newsdealer, at tho corner of Queen
street and Spadina avenue, Toronto, to
the Globe, In discussing the use of tor
pedoes In the KusHO-Japanese war. "I
was a ship carpenter at Charleston, S.
C, when the Civil War began, and as
there were a lot of Yankee vessels
about there General Beauregard asked
me one day to see what I could do In
the ivay of a torpedo boat. I took some
one-inch boards and built a clgar
Kliaped boat thirty feet long. At the
bow we rigged a copper kettle, holding
about seventy-five pounds of powder.
1'lie kettle was fastened to a pole, so
that we could lift It out of the water
when the boat was going, and then
sink it about eight feet under water
when we got to close quarters. The
pole was at an angle of 45 degrees, so
that the kettle would strike the hull of
I be enemy below the water line. The
kettle bad some percussion caps on
the top, and the force of the collision
would make them explode like this,"
said Mr. Cousins, and, pulling out a
nencll, he drew this sketch:
"We rigged the boat in Captain
'1KST TORPEDO BOAT.
James Eastman's yurd, and culled it
the Little David. That was in 1302,
When it was finished we saw the big
Yankee wur vessel Ironsides just out
Kide of Charleston harbor, and sent the
Little David after her. The boat was
lu charge of Mr. Mills, who kept the
Mills House, and the crew were Llou
t"iiunt I.ascelle, Charles Hunce, who
acted as pilot, and a big Irishman; I
forget his name. The Little David
went straight for the Ironsides, the
torpedo was lowered and exploded
against tho hull. The water washed
over the Little David, and some of it
went down the smokestack and put out
the fire. Lascello and tho Irishman
lumped overboard, but Hance and
Mills managed to get the Little David
back Into the harbor, and she often did
good work after that The Ironsides
did not sink, but was so badly dam
aged tliar she bad to be towed away
by two other vessels."
Mr. Cousins, who was born in New-eastlu-on-Tyne,
England, has hod a
long ond varied career by sea and by
land. After a trip through the Baltic
he sailed for many years In the Med
iterranean, and In addition to the sea
ports has visited Jerusalem and othci
cities of the East, nud also Borne. He
was unfortunate enough to bo ship
wrecked live times. He worked in u
shipyard at Quebec about fifty years
go, but, becoming tired of the Job,
traveled through the Stntes and on to
Cuba. But yellow fever at Muntanzas
.MTTdDIlALS
Karfe.
a case of "nerves"
operation, no doubt.
CROSSING LAKE BAIKAL,
THE
The Transsiberian railway is not the complete piece of equipment which
it Is popularly supposed to be. It is not even actually continuous, for at Lake
Baikal passengers and goods must be transshipped across the lake. In winter
this, of course, has to be done on the ice. The illustration shows two officials
being hurried across Lake Baikal on the way to the East As soon as It be
came evident that war was inevitable the Russians put an enormous force of
men at work laying tracks across the lake. The thousands of men hare
labored night and day, and it is now officially announced that this link wiH
be ready for service In a very short time. If this should prove to be true,
it will greatly facilitate the transportation of men, horses and supplies front
Russia to the scene of conflict
stopped his Journeying for a while.
After some years In Europe he came
out to Charleston, S. C, at the opening
of the war, and joined the Charleston
Light Infantry under Captain T. G.
Simmons. He spent four months In
garrison ot Fort Humter after the sur
render of Major Anderson and after
wards took part in fourteen engage
ments. VERY FEW WOMEN STAMMER.
Why They Are Ho Seldom Afflicted
with Thia Dlieae.
How many women have you ever
known who stammered? A few of us,
if this question were put, could remem
ber one or possibly two, but the great
majority would have difficulty In re
calling a single c;se.
And bow many men?
Most persons at even a moment's no
tice can recall cases ranging in number
from one to five.
This divergence is due uot to any
trick of a defective memory, but to
one of the most curious of actual facts.
The truth is that the proportion of
those afflicted with stammering or
stuttering Is 100 men to 1 woiunn. It
is one of the most remarkable things
In the science of pathology. Even the
specialists In nervous diseases seem
utterly at a loss to account for rt.
An eminent medical authority Is
quoted as saying that in all bis experi
ence he had known of only one woman
that stammered. When asked how he
accounted for the Immunity of the fair
sex from this uilllctiou he replied;
"Stammering Is an epileptic affec
tion of the organs of speech, and the
victim is usually a person of a high-
the Russians would wrest it from their predecessors the
would find it the greatest possible aid to have a friend la
the Grand Lama, before whom Asia bows as Europe never
bowed before a Pope of Rome. Philadelphia Ledger.
Japan's ladustries.
WHEN we Lake into consideration the fact that a
single generation ago trade in any shape
or form waa regarded by the Japanese
as one of the most degrading pursuits,
and that all those who followed commercial avoca
tions were classed in the lowest section of the social scale,
we cannot fall to appreciate the splendid national qualities
which In thirty years have transformed a primitive agricul
tural country Into an industrial nation. The silk trade con
tlnues to rank as the leading staple Industry, and year
after year the area of land planted with mulberry treea
increase. In 1902 the value of Japan's exports of raw
silk reached almost eight millions aterllng. Of late the
manufacture of cotton yarns has undergone material ex-!
panslon, and well-equipped mills have prang np in va-"
rioua parts of the country. The manufacture of matches id
also a thriving Industry, and It la worth noting that the
Jspsnese matches find their way aa far as British India.
Coal and copper mining are as yet not fully developed, but
it is the opinion of local British experts that, with better
methods of working the mines, the export trade in coal
could be brought np to between forty and fifty million'
tons per annum. London Graphic.
Longer life for Mankind.
ODERN sanitation and the improvement In taa
lYi practice of medicine are showing notable results
in the prevention and cure of diseases and lni
1 1 prolonging human life. The Chicago Health Da
pa rtment, for instance, finds that since 1872 the averaga
length of life has doubled in Chicago. In 1903 the aver-'
sge age at death was 42 per cent greater than In 1882, and
111 per cent greater than In 1872. The cause of this in
crease In vitality, according to the bulletin, is due to the
introduction of vaccination and the antitoxins, the discovery,
of antiseptics and methods of anaesthesia, and, most im
portant of all, "the recognition of the importance of clean
liness, personal and circumferential."
Statistics recently made public In Massachusetts show
that the number of deaths from consumption In that State
hss been reduced about one-half In a little oven ten years.
The death rate from this disease has been greatly decreased
in New York In the past decade by the use of sanitary
methods and the fresh-air cure. The gratifying resulta
from intelligent treatment and the enlightenment of the
people regarding the prevention and treatment of tuber
culosis lead to the hope that the doctors will in course
of time conquer even this great scourge of the human race.
Baltimore Sun.
ON
TRANSSIBERIAN RAILWAY
strung, excitable temperament. A
the last analysis the cause lies In ths
mind; that is, the stammerer stammers
because Le fears ho "!!! stammer aai
thus make himself ridiculous.
"Stammering is due to self-consciousness,
and it baa beeU iny experV
enee that women seldom suffer from
self-consciousness. Social success Is
more necessary to their happiness than
It Is to men's, and if as girls tbey have
a tendency to shyness or timidity they
set about overcoming it at an early
age, and concentrate their attentlos
upon doing so until they succeed.
"I do not mean to say that all wom
en are totally void of self-conscious,
ness. It is curious, however, that 11
they have a tendency to shyness oi
timidity that Is so deeply rooted as to
make it difficult to overcome, their cont
fusion most often manifests Itself la
blushing rather than stammering. I
have known girls who were victims o
the blushing habit and I discovered"
that they blushed for the same reasos
that I stammered fear of doing so.
Denver Post.
The Fool and Hie Money.
Towne Our friend Lenders must bf
the proverbial fool.
Browne Oh, come now; that's rati
er hard.
Towne Well, I heard Borroughs re
mark that ho was a "perfect gentle
man." Philadelphia Press.
When a woman has children of th
croupy age, she looks like gooef
grease from November till May.
Planets revolve, but shooting start
are not necessarily revolvers.
