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About Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1904)
OPINIONS OF GREAT, .PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Awakco, f the Yellow Ratev ""ITHKHTO the white race from the reinotfst fcjj Ihiitorlc times to tbe present baa been praetical- I If alone Id Its position of dominance. So far 4 concerns the evolution of civilized man. It rOj . klmifbt almost be aald that there bat bwn tut c in the world. ih most momentous or ibe developments f the present war la that for the first time a white nation Inula Itself not only chackrd lu Ita ouward inarch by i aatlon of yellow men but beaten by tfcat nation on land ind aea. It Is too early to say that this situation my not t reversed before the war la ended, out there are not bcklug signs that the races of which the Japanese are Aie foremost fxeniplars have been wakened already to s tense of their latent power. China and India hsTe been itlrred by the deed of tbe Japanese. Not only the peoples pf these great countries but many others of railed Mongol. Hindoo and Malay descent are wondering why thry. too, taay not adopt the arms and implements of Occidental eivlllzation and deal with the white races jon an equal footing. 4 " "' -" Some of the ultimate possibilities of rhis vast stirring'' f the yellow racis may be gathered from tbe fact that f the 1.500,000,000 or l.fWO.OW.OOO people in the world Asia alone lias S'TJ.W.eno, or whom more than 4JO,OOO,00 ire In the Chinese empire. 55.000,000 are Japanese and Koreans, 20t,310,000 are Hindoos, 3').000.000 Maylaysiana nd IR.000,000 Indo-Chlii'se. To group nil the Asiatic peo lles by religions, there are about 773,000,000 Buddhists, Confucians, fchtntolsts and Mohammedans, s against about 12,500,000 Christian. That these people, aroused to a sense of their racial and religious solidarity and equipped with the tools of Western tlvlllsation, may bring new problems into existence In the world's economy Is clear. Will the two races live side ky side, rylng with each othor In advancement toward higher civilization or will one strive to exploit the other? A rsntury or more may elapse before the result Is known, so trrreschlng may be the eons, quonoei of the present great rtruggle Chicago Newii. His Lat Wiil MAN. either throuch ambition. sense of rtniv lor In self -defense against boredom, works bunl I accumulates property. ' Should he mHrry, ut- ia v"-v.n:u to MVJlur IMMTHIiy lor U1S to carry a life insurance for her benefit, to ,-lve his children every- advantage of education as It Is now understood or misunderstood. ' H1 Works cheerfully, rinds little pleasure outside of his dully routine, Is prematurely old lie dies. He may l.e a wld wer; be may leave behind hi; a second wife; or lie may leave his ouly wife, the mother of hir. children. Ills will Is open!, and read. H has made a i 'ssoii.'tble provision for those near him. Hut he took tbe liberty before his death of bequeathing certain sums of money, throiiL-h r feeling of sentiment or duty to others, sums that will len hi comparatively slight degree the money which would etherwls be distributed among those already In pecuniary comfort. The poor wretch thought he had this right. At .ice there Is strife. The lawyers are consulted and en listed. There Is n trial. The character of the dead man Is dragged from his colfin. Was he nurr-r? Was he not Insane? Foibles and harmless eccentricities are paraded for scorn aod mockery. There was a time when the Initial phrase, "In the Name of God. Amen," was of solemn and kblding force. Tbe dead mail spoke. Who can use the hrase to-day with any assurance that It will be regarded after he Is cold and voiceless? Boston Herald. linf nished Education. ll"TKK reiirw niri flier, n-u Imnllr a Irtwn In TfT I Western Kansas which did not show many B I foundations on which no superstructures had I ........ ......... fl.- .I-.!..... 1 t .... -ru n i-vit-ii. i uv louuuii i nan rciiiiiuieu mi overcd bivause of the collapse of the boom Some of them were small and shallow. Other were la hi broad and deep. The elements as sailed them nil alike. The rain washed the mortar fron. between their bricks and stones. The frosts disintegrated t! bricks and stones themselves. Foundations which, If built upon lu the ordinary way would have endured fo fenerations, fell, in a few years, Into such utter ruin that when "xood time" n turnea to Kansas it was lu all cases unsafe and. In many impossible, to erect buildings Upon them. Only small portions of the material they contained could be utilized In the construction of other foundations. Not unlike the fate which th'se abandoned foundations suffered Is that which overtakes the educations which many men acquire in the schools. Schools and cuiirg lay but the foundation of fdueatlon. They may lay it broad and sleep, but if no superstructure is later erected over It th foundation will quickly fall to pieces. Aaso clstion, the mortar that binds the bricks and stones of the mind together, will be washed away lu time. Ideas, which sre the mind's bricks and stones, will crumbis and fall apart. A foundation without a superstructure Is worth less, it has no adaptation to Its environment. Nature will not let It long exist. There are thousands of men and women who have a smaller sura total of knowledge and reajioning power at 30 or 40 than they had when they threw aside their school teit books. They have erected for them selves no lnt'llectual superstructure, and their Intellectual foundation. eiug unprotected, has fallen into decay. Chi ctfgo'Trlliune. ' ' Lhjna as a Great Power. K have witnessed with aiDuzement and ad A T Imlrutiou the advent of Japan among the rF I world's great powers. Is It possible that st no significant that tie one Ejropean who knows the Chinese better than any other, and has long sustained ofllcial relations with them, has full faith in this possibility. Kir Hobert Hart, to whom we refer, . has lately presented to the Dowager Empress a scheme for array and naval organization which has not only engaged the attention of the court but commands the warm approvslof so much of public sentiment as finds expres slon In the native newspapers. Briefly, Sir Robert Hart estimates that a reorganisa tion of the land taxes may be made to yield a revenue of WO.000,000 taels (about f-'75,iOO,000 without pressing se( verely upon the people. Out of this revenue he propose.-, financing a reconstruction of the land forces on the bash of four army corps of 50,000 regular troeps each; the con strucflon of three fleets, each composed of ten ,large an;' ten smaller warships, ten first-clans' torpedo iMsis and tei smaller one; the building of arsenals, the maintenance o ' naval academies, the establishment of modern schools, snc the cTeatlou of nu adequate salary list for the civil admin Istratlon. and figures upon a sufficient tralance to provide i sinking fund. This Rje:ns ambitious, and It may be lmpoWible. Bu Sir Hobert Hart Is no dreamer, and be knows the Chlnesi ' as we liave said, better than any other Ivnropean. If tli Chinese have It In them to rise to the opportunity which h points out to them, tbe future dismemberment of the Ch uese empire will not be the e'nsy task that some diplomatist have Imagined. Boston Journal. Relative to Slang. t'ltlSTS seldom will excuse slang, and alway- I will Insist that a better phraxe-or word algl; J liakve been substituted for its use, until th -tiinT Wrtril nr oVni'OCuinii KAfmAa rrrn ft ,wl unn ;he language. Even then there will be man. not tolerant of Its use at first, but opposltlo becomes less and less in evidence as time aeeu touis tbe ear to, receive gratefully that which once seemec harsh, crude and Inelegant. It Is true, too, that much of the slang of one age fall Into disuse the next, so that the language suffers but litth If any, from its temporary acceptance, while such words a may have Incorporated themselves permanently into th general structure fit so well that no one Is tearfully so Heltons to have them removed A Western minister recently said: "Slang is largely the result of Indolence and lack o self-respect. While In the origin of some terms common! jsed as slang there may be wit and n measure of original t.v. yet no person can Indulge in the use of these barbarism vlthout serious loss ' "I have heard men use slang in most earnest prayet If a tmtn dfes not wish to use slang on his death bed or ! 'he pulpit or the schoolroom, office or social circle, It won! lie well not to use It anywhere." New Y ei; T '..-.,.., A DLLIGlliriL CAUSIKOPilL After the terrible steamship nd railway accidents which made the past season memorable. It Is pleasant to rend of an affair so delightful for its victims as the recent sinking of the M;ssb-Hi,pl lilver steamer Chaliuette proved to be. The Chalmettc was the last of the old-time cotton packets on the MlssUsiiid. There are many big stern-wheel coit(m-e:irriers, and sever al sidcwlK-el passenger bouts, but the Cialmi-tte was a re.lc of the old St. l-oyis-Xew (ifU'.iiis trade. .She was the City tf VleksiMirg ot the Anchor line, but whs rebuilt tnue. yenr.i 4io to curry cotton to the port of Chaliuette. below New Oiie.iiis. She could stow five thousand live hundrej bales ou Let- spacious cici U, and with tier guards awash and the cotton stacked high above her cabin deck, was spectacle once common, henceforth to be un known, on the river. Vi lien the Loii.M biih Purchase Exposition opened she was .put on as n through boat from New Orleans to the fair, anil thus opened a trade .which had been dead for some years. On a Saturday In July she started North .with about forty passemeers end a lot of freight. Late Tuesday afternoon she was within thirty-five Uiiles.of Natchez when, lu backing out froui.B landing, she struck a snag and knocked a hole In the stem. Hhe swung' round with both ends resting on tiie bank in a little eddy, but with seventy feet of water under her nmid ahiHMrtAiid began to till. 'I tie passengers were quickly noti fied, the gang plank was run ashore, and everybody walked out and found a seat on the (.cully sloping, grassy levec.lo watch the spectacular de.nli of the last of the packets. The crew hastily In ought the passengers' bag gage ashore, then brought the fur naces front the valley and lill the pro rlslons from the ptmtry, and tbe ta ble from the saloon. In half an hour the steamer broke In two and sank. Then as darkness set tled over the river the passengers on the levee began a picnic supper, pre pared by the darky cooks over the res cued furnaces. There was no lack of supplies; the evetiihg "was gloriously cool and still. A more beautiful locu-. lion for a picnic could hardly have been selecteE. '.A skiff 'hitfl c?m sent up to Natchez for help, oini until an other steamer came to get tbeui the irlrls of the party, grouped on the levee,- man the ild Fungs; and listened In turn to the roustabouts and the cook-rootn daik'os singing not the old plantation melodies, for few of the river IihuiIs know tlie;ii, bnt the mod ern "nig-tlnic" songs which come South to them from the vaudeville' state. "Under the B.uuboo- Tree" and all the rem of them in'ide the bight melodious, and at last, when the pic-,! nlc was beginning to pull, the rescuing steamer ciime ami 'took all op imard for Nntcht whence- they went on their way by rail to their domination. each racc i ra oooa. Orientals ld fb Object Htroniily to Western 1 tuples on Itaut Score. li e.Hijrii nations, with their usual cou vit, Imagine that they are supcr.iijr iu every .respect to the races of. another color and consequently' to Uioso'oC- the Far East. One of tin charges wluVh H'hlto uieu -bring against. t!w nero -4s th.it the- odor o.iiaiuitlg;froni liim' Is the reverse of pleasant and occasion ally, -In hot weather, is alui(t uubcitf- ahic. , -.- ' . - ' ' The Caucasian never 'pauses to think tlut possibly the odor of his sititi J by no tu nils plo. slng-to tl ji-.tase A smHI'ofeiift ftfgrij' or the lnd!.tri.: 'Ni-v-ertltclesV it Is slated -that the RracU'pf, the wBitn'tiian Is'uot so rwgraW. to bie negro as It Is imagined, but Is, In fact, objectionable to a decree. ', AceordiUg to a nceut Isstle df the New York Times, a Japanese hn-dlfal man has published a trea tan crtfrcerll Ing the odor of the Occidental races, declaring Uiut it takes souie time for the' Oriental to bucome accustom ! to it ; ; , The writer advances . the theory' which has been discussed before that each race has Its peculiar odor, that ft is partly radical, but Is' In' a measure Influenced by dietary ehd other condl-' tions. . ' .'"".'- , . TJjft'.Titpancse do not smell each oth er, but the perfume, from thfir bodlos Is waf.:d by the breezes to -the Kus-slan.-i, - who can 'd'stlnguish the s nell of tlcilr C!iemi"S at a long distance. The writer, however; states tii.-it it Is noih- j inx like tlie pungent and penetrating icainnaUon proL'e.'a.ni from the West 'crn tinllons. In wlili'h tr.-ces of garlic and ancient cheese and the voia'.'zation of a cotir . and over-abundant dietary are s.ire to b found. There ore n-risins to tiiink tilat 'he '.Tapancse rtoetjr may be right mil per 'hr ps each race ha-s Its characteristic lodor. : Cert.iiti It Is that prlin'tlve races have a mneh keeti'r sense of siir-U thin the members of a higlilv civil 7.c,l rice. With clvlliznt'on and the rrt of living In an artificial manner, from iris-' u-c the senses of sight and smell bo eon." l"s Hfiito. The Japines'i buve not embraced clvillzatlot) for M.ioj!?. a period lis to losH the (jnalltlos of . a n-!e living In a 8t.'ti o( aturo.r In deed, rlie great nn.rHy. are tint civ ilized at all. Chicago Chronicle; 1 ' , . Gratitude, t . Mr. Sklnnlong 1 -hope,: detfr, -that you will lie happy now thiit-uiielo has, k'ft us a fortune. ' ' . '. 1 Mrs.' Kklnalo'ng Yes' but don't you sitppoxe we call break .the will? , Ha flias U-f $1,000,, to. charity. Detroit ,Pree Frees. ; ' Kxpert Ailvce. . ... "-Mrs. Roui'ly,' you've been married r Keveriil years,' nnd am about ( ttke njfi myself a hushniul. What ml 'v'li'yould you give iner, . t ;i.enru ;i.o piJ .ouiiiaiie. ivirom bii'f Psea.'...', A tiinn's 'ist coinpluliit Is that lie it sick and old. OLD- FAVORITES x ' Tubal Cin. Old Tubal Cain was a msu of miht In the days when Ewrth was young; 3 tbe tierce red light of hi furnace bright Th strokes of his bamnwr rung; ind be lifted high his brawny hind On the Iron glowing clear. fill the sparks rushed out in scari't hos-ers. As he fashioned tbe sword and spar, and he sang: "Hurrah for iuy handi work! Hurrah for the spear and the sword! '.lurrali tor the bund that shall wield tbein well! For he tbsU be king sod krd." To Tubal Cain came nisDy a one, As he wrought by bis roaring firs, lud each one prayed for a strong wteel blade As the crown of hi desire; lud he made them weapons sharp and strong. Till tliey shouted loud for glee, ind give him girts of peirl and gold, And spoils of the forest free, ind they sang: "Hurrah for Tubal Cain. Who hath given us strength anew! Hurrah for the smith, hurrah for the fire, Aud hurrah for the metal true!" But a sudden change came o'er his heart Ere the setting of the sun. And Tubal Cain was filled with pain For tli evil he had done; He saw that men, with rage and hate, Made war upon their kind; 1'hat the land was red with the blood they shed. In their lust for carnage blind, ttid he said: "Alas! that ever I made, Or that skill of mine should plan, The spear and the sword for men whose . 'i"y Is to slay their fellow man!" ind' for m:iny a day old Tubal Cain Sat brooding o'er his woe; ind his hand forbore to smite the ore. And hi- furnace smoldered low. 3 ut he rnp at last with a cheerful face, And s bright, courageous eye, ind bared bis strong right arm for worn, ' While the quick tiames mounted high, ind he sang: "Hurrah for my handi work!'' And the red sjmrks lit the nir: 'Not alone for t'le blade waa the bright steel made" And he fashioned the first plowshare. ind men, taught wisdom from the past, lu friendship Joined tlieir hands. Jung tile sword in the hall, the spear oa the wall. And plowed the willing lands; ind sani?: "Hurrnh for Tubal Cain! Our st inch g ol friend is he; And for the plowshare and the plow To him our praise shall be. But while oppression lifts Its head. Or a tyrant would be lord, ' Though we may thank bim for the plow, We'll not forget the sword!" Charles Mackay. QUiCK LUc-Crt RECORDS. Jueer Combinations Picked Out by home . of the J.utcm. The manager of the quick lunch nilace shuddered, although the day nas hot, and bestowed a gaze of niln led wonder and reproach upon tho iroud back of the man who had just licked up a number of dishes of food 'rom the counter and was weaving Is way through the crowd wllh them il.illfully balanced in two hands like l vaudeville Juggler picking his wny htoss ft stage tilled with tosscd-up jiiraphemalia, according to the Wusli !i gton Star. "Say," hoarsely Inquired the mana ger, "d'je see what that man took .villi him to cat?" The man to whom the question was iddressed had not noticed. ' 'A l.owl of ml.k, a di-h of sliced cu 'Uiubersr two deviled crabs and a Veep of'.rliubnrb pie," groan d the Kai'nug'-r, fiel.ng tentatively i.f the 'ourth button of his waistcoat. "Just try and figure that out," lie vent on. "How would yoti like to try i combination 'like- that m.lX ciicutn .crs, crybs and pie? Wlie:i that man irst came lu her ' It was dtir tig tin list bud hot spell of the summer -nnd elected thai iissoitai nt of dainties, i.tM'd hi. n try Montaiemiey smi:e. " Tot :' said I. "lie looked me over without a "iii HryV mil 1 he. ou bet tne man, I suppose.' said , Mliat you could Ik at him over '.be inks by two mil tlr.e? to p ay and ru didn't li ake j.o d .' lie rented bis crabs and cucumbers i ml , bis bowl of milk and his pie on He counti r and look' d me over. "'Say. what's ihp matter? b fl mi y nked me, with' ft ir.y-t fieii look. ."Then I to!d 'him bow weird that (iinbinatl n of bis looi el. r .."'Oil, Unit's it. Is it V said he, sm!l-tvu-. 'Oou t you let a li tli thing tuo h'ut bother you. Y'ought t'e .-ecu i' grandfather. He used to smoke a lay pipe and cat butte.ed gl.igei bread ud green api 1 s at tie same time, aid whistle "( Id Zip C in" without Hissing a tio c.' ami be walked over o 1.1s srdt and began bis dainty ttnch on. . ' I kept an eye on bin. n 'Vrthe es, and lno!;ed up Ihe te'eph ne tuim r r of the -'r."'t nmbiil ri'-e l os-dtai. ?ut tie jtlst v. enl right ah ud as he's fiTlncr lion'. -" ," "While I was st 11 studying h'm I nuld pot keei my rje ofT of Iiltn i" walked .tip to the count r rnd s ecfd a pie p of (old m ii"r rle and ta'll glas of bed tea to top off with.- ' Hi' s been back every we k day inee. nnd lint's about bl retjiair icondny ration. Ile'e got to lie one of my sbw piece, lie's figure A In the axbtbltion. "Hut there sre 4bers. Pee that litilp man over yond-T with the white siders and tbe pink cherks the one off there in tbe c rnT? What do you suppose bis regular winter and t-uni-nier high noon refectory Is, and lit tweri for years past? A plate of bread and butter, two large dill pickles and a cup of cocoa. Every week-d iy of the year that old boy with the white things at the sides of his countenance commits that kind of an assault and battery on his diaphragm, and, say. just look at him cheeks pink and healthy, eyes as clear as filtered well water, and more hair on the top of bis bead than I've yot although he's CO, if he's a day. "He told me the other day that he hadn't had a sick minute lu sixteen years. That by the way, is how it i-i with most of tbe cormorants. The tougher the kind of conglomerations they habitually get away with tb- healthier tbey look. But they're prob ably born that way. And as a matter of fact, the majority of the men who come In here for lunch seem to Just try to loop-the loop with their di gestive apparatus." SURPRISE FOR BIG GRIZZLY. Took a l'hotouraph of Himaelf While KxuminiiiK a Camera. Hert (iibbs is tbe amateur photog rapher lear hunter of all Round valley, ltut be doesn't bunt that class of sub jects since a big Mendocino grizzly took bis camera away from him. He had shot everything in his neighbor hood, and to his prized collection of snaps of living birds, squirrels and deer he longed to add the photograph of a live bear one with a fierce, whis kered phiz, with tonjeue lolling out and eyes gleaming In all tbe savage fire of lowest brutedoru. He was brave, was Hert, aud hlled with the enthusiasm of the true "fiend" took his solitary way Into tbe far woods nrined with his loaded picture box. While cautiously beating up a huckleberry patch, trying to flush bis bear, he fell over a bank and badly sprained an ankle. After lying all night disabled where be had fallen be concluded that he was doomed to re main there till be starved to death. He photographed in his mind his emaciat ed body found days hence, and the f ml Idea came to him to take a lust "shot" at himself. He bad heard that people In tbe last ditch always reserv ed last shots for their personal uses, lie would do this, and the faithful camera would give up a farewell view of him taken while dying. Then be fastened a string to the shutter of the machine, placed it on a log and was beginning to ' iOOu nat ural" before it when a huge grizzly lumbered out of the brush lanche. Gibbs heuved himself in one mighty spring. His ankle was disabled, but he found no didlculty in getting up a near-by tree. The bear paid no atten tion to hi in, but squatting on his haunches, proceeded to Instruct him self In camera craft He picked It up with bis forepaws and wag making a minute examination with eyes and nose when the shutter snapped. The sharp sound frightened him, and, drop ping the box, be galloped off Into tbe woods. Gibbs came down from the tree cured of the sprain, picked up his cam era and went home. Then he devel oped the photograph which tbe grizzly bud taken of Itself with the lust shot he bad reserved for himself. San I'Yuncisco Call. Cy's Choice. Cyrus I'ettingill made brooms for a living and Ezra Hoskins kept a store in the New Hampshire town. where both of them lived. One day, says the Columbia Record, Cy came in with a loud of brooms, and then dickering be guu. "Kzra, I 'want to sell you these brooms." "All right, Cy, I'll take them." "I don't want any store pay," con tinued Cy. "1 wuut cash for them." After a thoughtful pause Ezra said, "I tell you what I'll do, Cy. I'll give you half cash and half trade." Cy pulled a straw out of one of the brooms and looked at It, as If for inspiration. I guess that'll be all right," he said, at last. Alter Kzra had put the brooms in their place in the store, he said: "Here's jour money, Cy. Now, what do you want in trade?" Cy's shrewd, glance swept over the inlsi'cl'aiie is stock of the store. "VW'll. li.)-:.," said he, "If it's all the same to you, I'll take brooms." 1 1 cm in urn tiom Ice. I In .Montana, the experiment 1ms been j tried of freezing watir to be used for I Irrigation. As soon as the weather be j comes such as to melt the Ice It Is fit lor the operations requiring the. water. Tin! plan, which ro far Is In the na ture of an exp riment, consists In mak ing a series of shallow basins on the slope of a hill In such locations that, when water Is plentiful, they may be filled, each of those below tlie highest receiv'ng 'aueeesslvt ly the overflow from the one above It. Once frozen, the Ice In these shallow reservoirs Is there, until the thaw se:s In, when It melts so slowly as to k' ep up a supply of moisture sufllclent for the gcrmlii.itlan nnd growth of the early crops. This unique method has been tried so far only Id the vlcln'ty of Dillon, but !t appears to bo successful and Is to be given n trial In seviral other favorable lo"alItles. The last Federal census noted thirty million workers. The wife of a shoemaker at Moras. Bohemia, has given birth to four chil dren at the smif tiine. She was as ready the mother of sixteen. - The barbers in India are Raid, by those who have visited that country, to be so jikillful that they can shavf a sleeping man without waking hiui. A Western firm is now manufactur ing a new liquid fuel for gasoline automobiles, and it is said to propel a machine nearly as far again as a Ilk quantity of gasoline. It is easy to pray in Japan. Paint ed prayers are attached to posts, an4 small wheels are fastened to them. The passerby gives the wheel a whirl, and that counts as a prayer. A dentist comes forward with th suggestion that casts should be take of prisoners' mouths as a means of identification. He claims that th mouths of no two people are alike. A lake lias been discovered on Kildin Island, Lapland, which contains fresh witter on the top and salt water on th bottom. The lake rises and falls with the tide aud is evidently connected with the sea by an underground chan nel. Australia has no orphan asylums. Every child who is not supported by parents becomes a ward of the Stat and is paid a pension for support and placed in a private family, wher board and clothes are provided until the fourteenth birthday. Chinese styles come up from tbe South, Shanghai being the Paris that sets the fashions for all people sav tbe court Manchus. Just now th Worth and Ooucet of Shanghai hav trimmed the baggy, loose-sleeved Chi nese coat down to the scantiest line. Central Africans make a kind of sweet beer which Is effervescent and tastes a good deal like champagne. It is made by rifixing water and banana juice and allowing this to turn sour. It Is said to be wholesome, but It Is drunk only by women and children. An electric third rail system that Is claimed to be safe and trustworthy has been invented by a Chicago man. By means of his device. In which the third rail Is inverted and practically hidden from view, the inventor de clines It impossible for persons or ani mals to come in contact with th charged rail. A Minneapolis genius has invented a twenty-six inch umbrella which will fold up, frame and all, Into a little case to be carried In the pocket. Th handle and all the ribs consist of fin and very strong steel tubes In sec tions, which telescope one inside of th other. The covering of very fine silk, which takes up but little room. Th wooden handle of the umbrella la hol low, and receives trll the rest of. th telescoping umbrella rod when shot up. A small and light case, not too big for the pocket Is provided to con tain the whole, which is thtis secured from irregular borrowers and the peril of exposure which always attend It use. If It Is a toy which the Mlnnca-. polls mechanician Is giving us. It is an Ingenious one. if an article of real, utility, the generation of rainy daisifcs and nil wet went her adventurers ought to rise up nnd call liiiu blessed. The Barber Try some hair restorer?- The Philosopher Oh, no; I have long ceased to regard hair an one of the necessaries of life. Brooklyn Life. The. Wronif Point of View, v The New-Yorker In Chicago catches a whiff of certain strong odors that float over from the stockyards, wash ing impartially about the walls of hov els and palaces, and shudders with re pulsion, forgetful of all the good thing . that hang, as it were, upon that smell. Instead of accepting it with forti tude as merely another manifestation,' of that boundless enterprise that i sowing the tropical jungle and the arc tic ice-fields with the tin can of civili zation, he is conscious only of a smell a vile smell. All the fine, elusive significance of it escapes lilm. lie fails to discern tho romance that hangs about it, softening its aggressive actuality tis tlie blue mist does the outlines of the moun tains. He does not slop to reflect that tho tin can follows tlie smell, and civ ilization tho tin can. Never having in. all his elegant, punctilious existence been cast away ' in the white North, or lost in a tropical undergrowth, lie fails to realize Hint there are moments when tlio sight, even of one of those discarded cans might bo ns grateful t a man as It was erstwhile to' the Har lem goat. Four-Track News. Tlie Value oi Absence. . When Thomas Valentine Cooper was chairman of tlie Republican State com mittee In Pennsylvania be had consid erable difficulty in managing a certain candidate for Congress, who was a miserable talker, but thought that'll was gifted with the eloquence of De mosthenes. f . There- was one township in th county that seemed doubtful, nud tho candidate wits anxious to go there and air his oratory. "Mr. Chairman," he said to Cooper, "I should like to o down to .that township on Saturday night ami inak a speech. You know the vote will be close there. What do you say?" "No." ropl'od Cooper, with, great emphasis on the little word, "wc want to carry that town di I p. Stay away from there," He stayed nway, nnd was elected. One of the m. rvels of the ft go Is th little Indignation a girl will show nt her father's great wrongs, nnd th. great Indignation she will show at bcr lover's little one.