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! TYriCAL CENTRAL INDIAN SCENER.Y i .-.. ■ ■ -- ■ . -.. . 1 ALL SOMEWHAT OUT OF PLACE. Mrs. Goodheart’s Strange Comment on Husband’s Plan. When Mr. Goodheart came Urea to eupper he found Mr3. Goodheart in a state akin to despondency, which was quite unusual with her. “Why, my dear, what is the mat ter?” he anxiously inquired. “Matter enough," said she. “Our servant has left us, and here is a let ter from Sarah Armatige saying she will be here to-morrow, and expects to slay over Sunday with us. What an earth is to be done?” “Oh, that will be all right,” said Mr. Goodheart. “Harold can act as dining room waiter, Millie can be maid of all work, and you can be rook. You know you are a good one. We shall get along swimmingly.” “And what will you do?” inquired Mrs. Goodheart. “Me? Oh, I’ll be a gentleman,” he replied. “Very well, we will try your plan, Edmund,” said she, cheerfully; “but I am afraid we shall all feel rather *wkward in our unaccustomed roles." Mr. Goodheart says she was as cheerful as a lark all the remainder of the evening. AGED MEMBERS OF SOCIETY. Remarkable List Riad at Meeting in New York. The most remarkable list of old members of the New York Historical society who have died within the last three months was r^nl at the regular meeting of the society last week. Eleven names comprise the necrology and the average age was over 76 years. The oldest member was Ran Adolph \V. Townsend, who was 91 years of age, and had been a life member since 1850. Another nonogenarian was William Miles, 90 years old. who had been a life member since 1S45. The Rev. Dr. Thomas Gallaudet, who was 81 years old, had also been a member since 1845. No members are now liv ing who joined previous to that year, and there is now but, one 1845 sur vivor. He is Paul N. Spofford, and he has the honor of being the oldest liv ing member in the society. He is about 90 years old and 13 too feeble to attend any of the meetings. The other deceased members were Luther R. Marsh, 89; Samuel D. Babcock, 82; William Allen Butler. 78; Eugene A. Hoffman. 74; Henry W. Bilby, 69; Isaac Myer, 66; James Benkard, 63, and Nicholas Fish, 57.—New York Times. FAME—AND THE BUTLER. Senator Dolliver Tells Incident of His Early Life. Senator Dolliver of Iowa tells of an embarrassing incident which once oc curred to him. It is supposed to il lustrate the difficulty a man of small means finds in getting along at the national capital. “On one occasion I was Invited to attend a social function given by a high official. I went and had a most delightful time, concluding that Wash ing social life was not a thing to bt in the least afraid of. This conclusion was reached, by the way, just as 1 was taking leave of the host. “A liveried servant approached m« and asked if my carriage was in wait ing and whether it was a single ot double conveyance. Out of consider ation for a lean pocketbook I had or dered a cab rather than a two-horse carriage. I had the pleasure of hear ing the servant shouting to the car riage driver: "‘Senator Dolliver’s one-horse hack! Senator Dolliver's one-horse hack!’ “The man then came to me, and with his head high in the air. an nounced: ‘Your hack s waitin , Sena tor Dolliver.’ ”—The Pilgrim. Disbelieves in Vegetarianism. “My experience in dieting,” write? Dr. Yorke Davies, “teaches me that those people who eat a proper amount of meat, fish, and animal food gener ally are stronger and In every way physically and mentally superior to vegetarians, and I speak from a very large experience in the matter.” Fine Collection of Pioneer Relics. Elwell Hoyt, a Eau Claire, Mich, has the most complete collection oi pioneer relics in the Central States, and keeps them in a log cabin built at his home for that purpose. Railroad Building in Japan. In the past thirty years Japan haf built 4,000 miles of railways. Land in JVeto Yor% at $450 a Square Foot. [Figures in mi? from Tala Review show values per square foot) _,_,_- . ~ The congestion of business at the ,ower end of Manhattan Island has lot only elevated office buildings .wenty and more stories into the air, out has cent the price of land up to til almost incredible height. Richard M. Hurd, writing in the Yale Review, gives figures that would seem to show that we come near to having ‘‘golden streets'' in a locality that in some other respects is not so suggestive of the better land. He gives the follow ing interesting figures in regard to New York: “The hanking district appears to include the most valuable land in the world, the financial section in London being the only competitor. The two corners of Wall street and Broad street were sold about thirty years ago at $350 per square foot, and $150 has been offered for the corner of Wall street and Broadway, by contrast with which the Statist says that £62 (or $300/ e. square foot. Including a fairly euuscantlal building. Is the highest yrlce known In London. ‘‘The average price of land in the financial district varies from $150 to 3c* # •Vi#^' ' , • — ■« **•' $200 per square loot. Next in the scale comes the women's shopping district on Sixth avenue, from Four- i teenth to Twenty-third street; also on Twenty-third, Thirty-fourth and Forty second streets, and on Broadway, from Ninth to Twenty-third street, with an average scale of $60 to $100, and an occasional sale such as that at Sixth avenue and Twenty-second street, at $180, and the northwest corner of Broadway and Thirty-fourth street (having an area of less that. 2,000 square feet) at $350.” Any one who can foresee the move ments of population, business, and real estate values in New York, or anywhere else, has, it is needless to say, a lucrative gift. Mr. Hurd haz ards the following predictions: "It appears quite probable that th« greater part of the surface of Manhat tan island will be ultimately devotee to business* solely, the space above the ground floor, if not utilized foi business, being occupied by hotels apartment houses, flats and tene nients. Probably the only exclusive residence occupancy will be in tbe most fashionable localities in ane near Fifth avenue and Central park where the rich who desire to live it town, can afford to hold their propertj against the encroachments of bo*! ness. Even here restrictions running with the land may be necessary, <fh< weakness of their position being tha ono shop injures an entire block, whili onj residence may have but iitti« effect on a block of stores." » Philosophical Observations ? q By BYRON WILLIAMS Religion since the beginning has had many modes: varying greater even han the tribes. In ail religion, however, there are two elemental charac teristics, the mythical and the practical. The former. A Preachment buried in Grecian lore, often hears not the knock of Thfit Is the beggar as docs the practical religion. It Is well Hand Made. to be wise in Christian lore, but not to the blotting of the practical religion, the kind that stimulates the )ody as well as the soul. Myths, dogmas, conceptions, are all good enough in their way. but the >read-and-butter kind of religion, the live-and-let-live sort, is the religion that ■5t. Peter will ask you about when you rap at the Heavenly gate. He who did 'or his fellows will get a front seat near the big. white throne, where ho can lear the harp-music, entranced, while the mere bookish religionist will need in ear trumpet to hear the bass-drum. An elaborate doctrine is not religion; the crossing of one's self, the sprink 'ing of the holy water, arc mere forms, and unless they represent inward lonesty are no more symbols of Christianity than a mule's lusty kicks at a roublesome horse-fly. Dogma and ritual are only manifestations of religion, ind all signs fail In wet weather. There must be an inner conviction—a doing is well as seeming, a feeling as well as ostentation. Tree worship and stone worship were in vogue in ancient times. In the lays of our boasted civilization and enlightenment we worship the stone, as lid our forefathers, except that our stone must have yellow particles of gold therein to Influence our worship to become lovely. Too many peopl« who profess religion have the outer trappings in the stone worshiping age. The sanctimonious man, the kind of whom the Bible says it will be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for him to niter the kingdom of heaven, has much of the outward manifestation with little of the inner conviction. People need an every-day religion, a religion not if the Euphrates and the Jordan, but a religion of the babbling brook in the woodland, whose wraters are pure and blessed to him who drinks thereof—a religion that comes right home and by exemplification lightens the burden and gives real cause for faith in the better world to come. The name of one of the best known streams In the world is '‘Salt Creek.” Topographically no one knows where it winds and meanders, nobody hears it-J sudsy gurgle over the rocks of jagged form. Yet tilt. Discussion boulders are there. \Yo believe in the river's existence;* of we know the stones are sharp in contour. He whc S.-lt Creek. sails the stream meets distaster. It is as certain as that measles breaks out and thieves break in—incon •■rovertible. None voyages on the creek by choice, not one believes he is trim* mlng his sails for the voyage. Some saciifice themselves for party, hut each ! >n his heart believes and hopes that something may happen to keep him front vhe river of defeat. The best laid schemes of river rats go after clay, to para« phrase Burns, and that is why the creek called Salt has so many mariners. Strange to say, though the river has never been seen, it is known to be placid ind bright at its rise. A gushing, bubbling spring of clear, sweet watpr slidei} away through flower-laden banks. Its sands are white and cleanly and song. Virds sing their songs of love along its shore. Nature paints a panoramic pics lure of glory and peace along its happy way and blithely it carries its trav iers toward the mouth. But the rapids are below! Rumbling, torrentuous, tortuous rapids, that !ash and smash and crash to oblivion! This is Salt Creek at its mouth. Some men have lived through the passage; others have lost their force and their iesire in the jagged precipice. Innocent of it3 terrors, they have drifted into the vortex. Their conceptions of a river have been poor, their self opinions wanting, and Salt Creek hurls them to oblivion. Happy the man who never launches a boat on the mirrored bosom of the treacherous stream. The Harvest Home Supper! About it cling memories that make us remi niscent. The good old custom of celebrating it is observed in every country town. It is the event of the Fall season. The ladies Why Hearts of the Cemetery Association, or the Woman’s Guild, Touch or some other equally deserving organization, have the Kindred Hearts. celebration in charge. For days they canvass the town and invite the cooks to bake and stew, fry and fri cassee. The good things prepared for the supper are legion in quantity and quality. How the mouth moistens at the thought of such a banquet—and mourns at the passing away of a once immeasurable appetite. As a lad, the Harvest Home Supper appealed with overpowering force—a time when turkey and ''stuffing” were as plentiful ns ozone. As a young man, what men of you cannot recall how you have participated with the pretty maidens of the village? Mayhap you remained after the feast to help them get the dishes together and act as willing pack horses to tote the table service homeward. Wasn't it a night? And the money raised from the great supper in which all participated— not alone from a love of appetite and pleasure, but from a sense of charity—to what good use was it put for the poor and needy! The Harvest Home Supper! Long may it continue in its annual plenty! The individual who has lived to grow so hardened and preoccupied as to forget the holy associations of that feast is lost to self, indeed. Some curious scouter asks derisively, "What is Hell for, anyhow?” It might be a storehouse in which stovepipes that won't fit are kept. And then. again, it might not. Hell, as painted by the old hard Use and Abuse shell circuit riders, was anything but desirable as a of place in which to take up a claim. It may he con Hell and Inferno. sidered as the opposite of what this country might have been along about Jan. 13, provided the coal strike had not been settled. Some people don't believe in Hell, but we will wager our imitation panamahatma that when they die they will think a moment or two about buying an excursion ticket in a circuitous route around Hell. Notice we speak of Hell with a capital "H.” It is Just as well to be respectful in such matters. Dante had a few words to say about Hell that make a man’s hail essume erectness. In a casual sort of way, it might be just as wp)1 to Iiva within speaking distance of the better place. The pictures of St. Peter and ills golden gate have a more reassuring color than those of the Inferno. Somehow we like the look3 of an angel, picking the strings of a coral harp better than the chromo of Mephistopheles with a slit in his tail. What if you are lonesome trying to be good; isn't it better to miss a few of the red lights of this earth than to straddle a red-hot barbed-wire fence in Hell? Well, we would enunciate! Did you ever hitch the town cow to the rope of the Curfew bell? Of course, you need not incriminate yourself thoughtlessly, but really have you not been guilty of placing the village dray on the peak Hallowe'en of the school house? You need not answer. Make a When sign. That will do as well. It would be presump Spirito Stalk. tuous to assume that you have tied a can to the city marshal or tipped over ten or eleven—uni, summer smoke-houses? We mean on Hallowe’en night, certainly! Oh, you have! Well, that’s just what we thought. Hallowe’en Is a great night, isnT it? It Is a night when sidewalks have a way of walking, and corn rattles on the window-pane as rice on a newly married couple's band boxes. The ordinary boy is bitten by a dog, runs into a clothes-line, loses his hat, get3 arrested and says prayers In the woodshed with pa next morning—and all because he has celebrated a time-honored custom of breaking loose on this night of nights. A father who will so far forget his own youthful escapades, as to spank a son for falling Into a coal hole on Hallowe’en night, deserves to have dyspepsia. That is what we started out to say. Success comes occasionally from cleverness but more often from hard work well applied. The few may dream dreams that point them to the desired end, but the rule is a general one, that he who succeed! Success Waits must do so by persistent, careful effort. In the striv Not ing we all have our blue days when the mind is On Grim Despair. depressed and the imagination a hobgoblin that ridef rough-shod over our sensitiveness. The friendly word or appreciative look is oftentimes balm to a dethroned spirit. Unfortunately, the help is not often in evidence and we must lift ourselves from the Slough of Despond to the plane of hopefulness and cheerfulness. “Never give up.' is a motto of great worth. Despair is the most foolish of mental hallucina tions. Be brave, be sweet, be above your own dark thoughts. The sunshlns is only a few hours distant and success slumbers but to be awakened. Have you wandered in a country cemetery in the Autumn time? Tfca leaves have fallen to the scar grass. They are varl-eolored and rustle as you desecrate their death-bed. All about, the headstones Here Lies rise upward to a golden tinted sky, fit symbols of the Our higher life. The ilowers mourning ones have trained Honored Dead. all Summer long are wilted now, turning to tinder-like lichens in the evolution of disintegration. But the memory does not disintegrate. The pain may lessen, the grief may become a benediction, but the thought of loved ones gone, remains always. This is why, wandering in a country churchyard, one is awed by the holy associations. What a great love is wrapped about a city of the dead! And what triumphs and failures slumber there with the resting dead! SAVED A LIFE. Gratitude promotes publicity, and Its no wonder people testify when life is saved.. Every reader with a bad back Is in danger, for bad backs are but kidney ills and neglect may prove fatal. Neglected backache is quickly fol lowed by too frequent urinary dis charges, retention of the urine, pain ful urination. Diabetes, Bright's dis ease. Read how all such troubles can be cured. Case No. 34,520— Mr. Walter Mc Laughlin of 3022 Jacob street. Wheel ing, W. 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