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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)
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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
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$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. Va., a machine hand working
at. j. A. Holiday & Son's planing mill,
says: "I firmly btdievo had I not used
Doan’s Kidney Rills when 1 did I
would rot be alive now. 1 was In a
terrible condition, and although 1 took
quarts of medicine and was attended
by doctors, I got no bettor, but worse.
Friends spoke of my bad appearance,
and thousands knew about It. I could
hardly get around and felt and looked
like a dead man rather than a living
one. Doan’s Kidney Rills, procured
nt the Ixjgan Drug Co.’s store, were a
blessing to ine; half a box relieved
me; three boxes entirely cured me.’’
A free trial of this great kidney
medicine which cured Mr. McLaughlin
will be mailed on application to any
part of the United States. Address
Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
For sale by all druggists, price 60
cents per box.
1A. uil 11 ii ucl pt.’fi in uu ui
rank. It will call down anything.
THE BEST KESt/l.TS IN' STARCHING
can to obtained only by using Defiance
Starch, besides Kitting 4 o: more for
same money—;.o cooking required.
If a man had no curiosity private de
tective offices would shut up busi
ness.
How* T?i:»»
We offer One Hundred Dollars reward forany
rase of Catarrh that catuiot ba cured by Hall’ii
Catarrh Cure.
F. .t. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, a
We. the undersigned, have known F. J.
2beney for the last to years and believe him
perfectly honorable in ull business transaction*
>nd financially able to carry out any obliga
tions made by their firm.
West. & Truax. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
0. •• Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hail s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing direct, v upon the blood and mucous surfaces
if the system. Testimonials sent free. Frio*
ifto per bottle. Soli! by all druggist*
Hall s Family Fills are the bosk
I.augh. and the world laughs with
you; growl, and the world laughs at
you.
No matter how long you hove had the
cough; if It hasn't already developed into
consumption, Dr. Wood's Korwuy Fine
Syrup will cure it.
A strong man is weak if he has no
faith in himself.
Mother Gray's Sweet Powder* for Children
Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse
In the Children's Horne in New York. Cure*
Feverisbuess, Bad .Stomach, Toothing Dis
orders, move and regulate the Bowels and
Destroy Worms. Over 80,000 testimonials.
At all druggists. 2.*:. Sample FREE. Ad
dress Alien S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
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It is the polished villain who beats
the bootblack out of his fee.
Iowa Farms $4 Per Acre Cash,
balance % crop tilt paid. MUL11ALL, Sioux City, la.
If there is such a thiug as poetry
of motion the kangaroo must be in
tho spring-poem class.
Clear white clothes are a sign that ths
housekeeper u«es Red Cross Boil Blue,
Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents.
When a man is a failure he Is called
a fool. When he succeeds be is called
shrewd.
Opportunities and Business Chances
Never were greater or more attractivo
than now in the Great Southwest—
Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory,
Oklahoma and Texas.
If you're interested, write for par
ticulars. James Barker, Gen’l Pass..
& Tkt, Agt.. M . K. & T. Ity, 529 Wain
wrigbt Bldg., St. Louis.
Few women know how to grow old
gracefully—and even they do not
want to.
If you dou’t get the biggest and best
It’s your own fault. Defianco Starch
is for sale everywhere and there is
positively nothing to equal it in quality
or quantity.
Some women are so modest that
they won't even own up to the size ot
their faults.
To Cure a Cold in Or.e (lay.
Take I.uxative Brorao Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. Z&e
A good many inventors plainly show
that they are related to necessity.
Don’t you know that Defiance
Starch, besides being absolutely su
perior to any other, is put up 18
ounces In package and sells at saint
price as lz-ounce packages of otliei
kinds?
Some of the old-fashioned thing*
should never fall into disuse, and hon
csty is one of them.
Energy all gone? Headache? Rtomacl
out of order? Simply acaeeof torpid liver.
Burdock Blood Bitters will wake a new mu
or woman of you.
Massachusetts is the only state ol
mind—so Bostonians say.
SUPERB DINING CAR SERVICE.
Experienced travelers say that the
meals served in the Diuing Cars on
the New York Central are the best they
have ever found in the East or West
Our whole country is represented in
the menus. Oranges from Florida, shad
from North Carolina, breakfast food
from Minnesota, potatoes from Utah,
water from the Adirondack Moun
tains, wine from Missouri and Cali
fornia, in addition to the finest Im
ported wines and cigars from Cuba,
Porto Rico and Manila, representing
a variety and excellence of service
that compares favorably with that ol
the best hotels.
j If the wife is a slave to fashion th»
1 poor husband must of necessity be a
i slave to the almighty dollar.
