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Loop City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, - . NEBRASKA. Beef, It is said, “commands fabu ous prices at Port Arthur.” Same lere. Never borrow trouble. Hit your friend for the cash and let him keep the trouble. Some people are so economical when it comes to truth as to be posi tively parsimonious. A Kentuckian died recently from a rattlesnake bite. The only known remedy has failed at last. Charlie Schwab has sailed for Eu rope and the fur of the Monte Carlo tiger is again standing on end. You dreamed last night that Pres ident Baer had recommended a re duction in the price of coal, did you? Huh! A Pennsylvania man claims to have found the ideal woman. Let him re main single and preserve his pleas ant delusion. The fashion news about the start ling new styles in bathing suits in spires in many a worthy man n long ng for old ocean. No matter how Jovial a bachelor nay seem, a woman always believes !n her secret heart that his alleged sappiness is hollew. ■ - " 1 .. . f Any one who coaid be so irreverent is to eat goobers at an Ibsen play probably deserves the severest rebuke that could be administered. King Edward and Waldorf Astor pave become reconciled. Waldorf held out until he realized that the further humiliation of the king would be useless. A London firm has decided to make war on the Standard Oil company. One needn't be much of a prophet to predict what will happen to the London firm. Physicians are again advising against drinking water while eating. Many men carry the advice to the ex treme of refusing to drink water while drinking. When you don’t get quick attention in a place, just make a noise like a piece of money. Jingle a coin on the counter and see how quick the boss will come to you. Rev. Dr. Hillis declares his belief that in the next generation it will be vulgar to be rieh, vulgar to spend money lavishly. Rev. Dr. Hillis must be very credulous. It is reported that immigration in spectors have detained an Italian dam sel for "flirting on the voyage.” Let her pass, gentlemen, let her pass, and give others a chance!! No doubt it may be true that if a man loves his wife he will eat her cooking, but the wise wife will strive to arrange it so that' he will love both her and the cooking. A famous dealer in sporting goods says fishermen are invariably honest. So after this you must accept the whole story about the numhar, weight and fighting qualities of the catch. Great Britain is trying to digest the pleasant information that the cost of the expedition into Tibet will hence forth be $1,500,000 a month. The British taxpayer, of course, is good for It. A church in Pennsylvania is almost disrupted because the women of the congregation proposed serving deviled eggs and angel cake at a sociable. Ihere's something, after all, in a name. Now that Golfer Travis has taken the championship away from Eng land it will be harder than ever to convince the average Briton that the American invasion is not a terrible reality. 4 1 This new doctrine that children Might to be taught to bawl in unison will meet with stiff opposition from unsentimental persons who have lis tened to cats howling in unison on the back yard fence. Evidently Mrs. Ballington Booth unaccountably omitted tor take her tact with her when she went to Sing Sing. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have asked the prisoners to sing “Sweet Land of Liberty.” Tbe Wight brothers announce glee fully that they made their flying ma chine go thirty feet the other day be fore something broke. As flying machine inventors look at things, this is Encouraging Success. A New York society woman an nounces that she is going to Ekirope “on a business trip.” The nature of the business may be Inferred from the fact that she is going to take her 19-year-old daughter and $1,000,000 along with her. Just what he is going to do with the Chilian cruisers, Esmeralda and Chacabuco, the purchase price of which he has deposited in Paris, Mr. Charles R. Flint declines to say. In the meantime he is probably the most heavily armed American citizen. A woman who was dressed In bloomers tramped from Buenos Ayres to Orange, N. J. She reports that she encountered many dangers upon : the way. Bet the dangers probably i galloped back Into the woods as soon 1 as they got near enough to see the i bloomers. Mr. Timothy P. Nelson, star board er in a Boston eatinghouse, struck bis \ landlady the other day because she Wve him nothing but pork and beans. It to perfectly evident that Mr. Mel lon is not lit to Ure in Boston. BUTLER AIDED CUPID STORY WITHOUT THE SEM BLANCE OF A MORAL. Faithful Retainer's Lapse from the Path of Sobriety Responsible for the Union of Two Fond Hearts— Brother-In-Law Was Hasty. A city clergyman tells this story of a marriage in his church which happened through a misunderstand ing. According to him there was a bachelor whose affections seemed to be centered in his sister’s young sons and daughters. There was an inter esting young woman of another city who rarely came to New York, and he was such a very busy man that he seldom got out of town to see her. As a result, the sister’s children were enough to make him dally in his courtship. It happened that the brother-in-law in the case, who sometimes envied the bachelor—because he could stay out late—heard dreadful noises in the house early one morning. It could not be a burglar, because they do not fall down stairs and disturb the house with hiccoughs. Distressed at his brother^n-law’s condition, but hopeful that he would break his neck, the master of the house went to sleep again. In the morning he entered the room of his brother-in-law in order to berate him. The astonishment of the bach elor was great, and his anger was greater. He had come home early and sober. It seemed to him that he could not live in the house any long er under the circumstances, and he left, too mad to talk to his relatives. After breakfast at a restaurant he went to the hotel where the young woman from out-of-town happened to be. He was so impetuous in his woo ing that they were married that day. Among those who were at the cere mony were the sister and brother-in law. The latter was very humble, and explained that on going down to his breakfast he had been confronted by the butler, who had been many years in the family, but who was dropping the plates, singing in a maudlin way and acting in any way but that of a model butler. When the brother-in law asked the butler for an explana tion of his condition, he confessed that on his evening off he had seen friends so many and so often that he had come home in such a condition that he bad fallen down stairs several times on his way to his room. The brother-in-law has employed the discharged butler. A Doubtful Compliment. Ponltney Bigelow, who has accept ed the chair of foreign relations at Boston university, had completed an address before the Twentieth Cen tury club of Chicago. A young man congratulated Mr. Bigelow rather awkwardly on this address, and the learned traveler replied: ‘This is a doubtful compliment. It reminds me of a remark that a friend of the groom’s made at a New Hamp shire wedding. “This friend, an observant chap, watched the groom closely during the ceremony, and at the end bore down on the happy man, shook him warmly by the hand, and said: “ ‘Bill, ye done good. I had an idee ye would be skittish while ye wuz be bein’ tied up, but, begosh, ye looked as bold as a sheep.’ ”—Washington Post. First Printing Office in America. There is among compositors and other employes of printing offices in the city of Mexico a project to place a big marble slab at the corner of Mone da and Cerrada de Santa Teresa streets (opposite the postoffice), with an insertion in gold letters reading that it was in this house where the first printing office in America was established. A commission will soon request the city council to^ive this ceremony an official character. Delegations of com positors are now inviting all members of the fraternity to contribute for the expense to be incurred. If money enough is raised, in addition to the plate a marble or bronze bust of Gut tenberg will be placed at the corner. —Mexican Herald. The Misanthrope. He neither Joys nor grieves, But cavils and mistrusts; His hopes are like the wizened leaves, Swirled down the autumn gusts. He looks askance at Life, If so be Mirth lurk near; He has ill humored Doubt to wife, And is the slave of Sneer. He make.3 a mock of Love, And all that on her wait; Yet. howsoe’er desire may move, He cannot rise to Hate. Crimea of a former birth Must wreak on him their spell. Else why, while yet upon this earth Must he abide in hell? —Clinton Bcollard, in Smart Set. To Increase Pay of Police. The Canadian government has de cided to increase the pay of the Do minion police. The only question is as to the amount of the Increase, whether it shall be 15 cents all around or a graded increase of 15, 10 and 5 cents, according to the length of serv ice. Novelist's Fortunes. Mr. Barrie’s “Little Minister" has been a veritable gold mine to its author, for, as novel and play, it has brought him in some $800,000. This will make many less fortunate mouths water, yet it is not an isolat ed case. Literature is a poorly-paying profession for the rank and file, but for the fortunate few, who really suc ceed the prizes are large. Mr. Seton Merriman, the novelist, left a fortune of over $250,000, the fruits of a dozen years’ fiction writing. Dickens left $500,000 and Lord Lytton’s literary efforts produced $400,000. Among single books that have yielded large sums is "Adam Bede," for which, It is stated, George Eliot received $200, 000. _ Lamb and Mutton Imports. The number of carcasses of frozen lamb and mutton landed in the port of London during 1903 was 5,665,351. In 1880 only 400 carcasses were im ported. Pilgrims Visit Rome. Over 10,000 pilgrims from all parts of Italy have been visiting! Rome. GOOD WORK OF FILIPINO*. Faithful and Industrious in an Unac customed Climate. Sixty Filipinos on the United States cable ship Burnside did excellent work on the rough seas off the coast of Alaska last year. Twenty of them were detailed for laying and repair ing cables. They were thus engaged for three months, during which time they experienced a great deal of rough weather, one voyage having been so trying that the Burnside nar rowily escaped destruction. The Fili pinos, however, in spite of the severe climate and the difficult nature of the work, proved so efficient and trust worthy that Lieut.-Col. Allen of the United States signal corps says in his official report: “The work was al ways cheerfully performed by them, and in no case during the entire trip was any sort of punishment adminis tered to these men. They continually grew in strengtah, and with the ex ception of slight colds from exposure they were in excellent health through out. The point desired to be made prominent is that these men taken from the Philippine islands and sent directly into the cold of Alaska were able to perform all the duties re quired of them in the most satisfac tory manner.’’ Gen. Greely says: “The marked success of the past year has caused the chief signal offic er of the army to engage a Filipino crew for the operations in Alaskan waters for the coming summer.” — SHE GOT THEM MIXED. Explanation Dawned Rapidly on Mind of Housewife. A lady walked into a grocer’s shop one day with her sleeves turned up to her elbows and a fighting light in her eyes. “This ..ere,” she observed with a sniff, as she banged a piece of yel lowy substance on the counter, “is the soap- that does the washin’ of itself: the soap what makes ev’ry washin’ day a kind of glorified bean feast: the soap what gits all the linen as white as snow and as sweet as a hazlenut by dinner time, and lets the happy housewife spend the rest of the day playin’ with the children, and here am I been scrubbin’ three mor tal hours with that lump, and ain’t got so much lather out of it as I could git from a brickbat.” “I beg your pardon,” remarked the grocer, “but it isn’t the soap. Your little boy came in here yesterday for half a pound of both soap and cheese; that’s the cheese.” ’’The cheese!” gasped the lady. “That accounts for the other thing, then.” "The other thing?” queried the gro cer. “Yes, the other thing,” came the reply, “I was layin’ awake half the night wonderin’ what it was made the Welsh rabbit we had for supper taste so funny.”—Kansas City Independent. Kate Sanborn Queries. After speaking of vast piles of de caying carcasses of the herons, slain for their plumes and the thousands of young birds left to starve, all for the sake of securing the plumes for wom en’s hats, Mr. Scott says: ”1 wish clearly to emphasize the fact that I do not blame the women who use these decorations, for men are the responsible parties. No woman ever wore a decoration of any kind, much less the feather of a bird, for her own pleasure, or to attract the attention of other women. The object for which women/ wear decorations is to en hance their attractiveness and beauty to men, not to themselves, or to each other. And as long as men care to have women’s hats decorated with feathers and express their approval by admiration bestowed, just so long wttl the custom endure.” Does Mr. bcott know women as well as he does birds?—From her arti cle in National Magazine. Play you Are the Sunshine. You say you’re feeling blue, lad? That things are going wrong? If that's the case for true, lad. Cheer up and sing a song. You'll find ’twill always pay, lad, For all—for me and you To play we are the sunshine And let the skies be blue. When the skies are blue and clear, lad. The world is at Its best; Whene’er you drop a tear, lad, It saddens all tne rest. Smile on—don't mind the knocks, lad. Just keep your own heart true— Play you're the golden sunshine And let the sky be blue, When you are feeling blue, lad. And half Inclined to cry. You’re at the Job—'tis true, lad intended for the sky. The sunshine role sits bettter On husky chaps like you— Then be a human sunbeam, Let but the sky be blue. —Baltimore American. Geronimo in Old Age. Geronimo, the famous old Apache chief, is still in good health, although he is very aged. His home is ten miles from Lawton, O. T., yet he usually walks to and from the place to do his trading. He is often asked to give an exhibition of his skill as a marksman with bow and arrow. This he readily consents to do pro vided a nickel is made the target and it is to become his own in case he hits it. In a Profitless Chase. In regard to the British operations in Somaliland the London Telegraph said recently: “Our chase of the mad mullah has lasted longer than the chase of Dewet and we have not caught him yet. Our troops have done their best in a region which produces' nothing and has defied all attempts to make it grow laurels.” Resigns from Brown Faculty. Archibald Delaney, for nearly twen ty years steward of Brown university, has resigned, his resignation to tflte effect Aug. 1. Mr. Delaney has served the college in the capacity of steward since 1885 and is well known to Brown men throughout the country. He will be succeeded by B. A. Burlingame, a civil engineer of Providence. Long Term of Faithful 8ervice. ibn Tuesday, May 10, Prof. Charles Koetl completed his fiftieth year as organist of St. Mary's Catholic church in Ottumwa, Iowa. His compensation has always been small. He began with, a little melodeon and it is said that he; has never omitted a mass, vespers or, benediction at which he had promised to play. He is now 69 years of age. - ■ - ■ Friendship is one of the things that cannot be preserved in alcohol. ■ 'i EXTEND HONOR ROLL SUGGESTION FOR MORE GENERAL MEMORIAL DAY. Writer in Eastern Journal Urges Re membrance of the Heroes of Civil Life as Well as Those of the .Battle field. Every year, as Memorial day passes and the flowers are scattered and the little flags flatter on the soldiers' graves and the speeches are made set ting forth their claims to honor and the music wails loudly of our grief for them, the question recurs, “Were these fighting men our only heroes? Does the country hold only its soldiers worthy of remembrance?” The soldier is the only servant of his country who, while living, is pen sioned by her. If he carried a gun a certain number of months in her serv ice, though he never saw the face of battle lower, he is sure when he reaches a certain age of a comfortable support from her bounty. The civil servants of the state, no matter how long or hard their service, neither re ceive nor ask a pension, nor any rec ognition in money. But surely when they are dead we might spare them a flower and a bit of cotton bunting! Engineers who died to save the pas sengers they never saw, firemen who perished in the flames, scholars, in ventors, statesmen, who to uplift their fellow-men gave their lives of labor, of self-sacrifice—the men, in short, who made our nation what it is to day—sleep neglected under the weedy grass. The French have a better system than ours. On one day in the year all France honors her dead. To the graveyards all eyes and all hearts turn. The soldier has his chaplet and flag, but so has the dead scholar, the poet, the hero of each village, the beloved one in each house. Not only the great i general is honored, but the poor old mother who worked for her children until she dropped by the way. They do not forget to lay the wreath upon her grave. If the dead can look back and know —and what is the use of our flags and flowers and requiems if they do not know?—are they all except the fight ing men to count themselves forgot ten? We are not all fighting men. God forbid that we should be. Let us then, when another year comes around, put a new meaning into Decoration day, and let each town and village and family go out to pay love and honor to all the dead who lived nobly here among us.—New York World. Springtime. You can not hear the waters for the wind; The brook that foams, and falls, ana bubbles by Hath lost Its voice—but ancient steeples sigh And belfries moan—and crazy ghosts con fined In dark courts weep, and shake the shuddering gates. And cry from points of windy pin nacles. Howl thro’ the bars, and plain among the bells And shriek and wail like voices of the Fates! And who is he that down the mountain side. Swift as a shadow flying from the sun. Between the wings of stormy winds doth run. With fierce bine eyes and eyebrows knit with pride; Tho’ now and then I see sweet laughters play Upon his lips, like moments of bright heaven Thrown twlxt tk« are el blasts of morn and even. And golden locks beneath his hood of gray? Sometimes he turns him back to wave farewell To his pale sire with icy beard and hair; Sometimes he sends before him thro’ the air A cry of welcome down a sunny dell; And while the echoes are around him ringing Sudden the angry wind breathes low and sweet; Young violets show their blue eyes at his feet. And the wild lark is heard above him singing! —Frederick Tennyson. Preserving Ancient Costume. The ancient Roman amphitheater of Arles recently witnessed a strange festival, quite Provencal and half Pa gan. Mistral, the poet of the Pro vence, lamenting the gradual disap pearance of the picturesque feminine costume of the region before irresist ible “Paris fashions,” has succeeded in organizing a provincial movement for its preservation. This was pub licly launched at a “maidens' festi val,” in which Mistral himself, as “Emperor of Provence,” publicly em braced every Provencal maid who, having completed eighteen years, had first signed a “vow” never to discard the traditional dress of her ancestors ior new-fangled notions from the cap ital. Sultan it a Carpenter. The sultan of Turkey, when a prince, learned carpentering himself, and has always continued to take great interest in It. One of his first acts when sovereign was to establish a complete joiner’s factory at Lildiz, in which he superintends the manu facture of all sorts of articles of fur niture, mostly of his own design. German Shipbuilding. During the year 1903 there were built in German shipyards 229 steam ships of 269,983 gross registered tons and 278 sailing vessels of 45,628 tons. Compared with the statistics for 1902 these figures show an increase of two steamers and 47,400 steamer tonnage, and a decrease of two sailing vessels and 13,000 tons in the tonnage of the latter. Passes the Century Mark. lffrs. Sophia Miller Grant celebrated her one hundredth birthday in May at Glen Falls, N. Y. She was married at the age of seventeen, and her eld est great-grandchild is now that aga She fras a half hundred descendants, and her mother lived to the age of 103. Candidates for Archbishop. The names of the Revs. D. Eden, bishop of Nakefield, England, and Bishop Mptheson of Winnipeg, Man., will go before the bouse of bishops of Ruperts Land when they meet ia Boston next October to elect a suc cessor to the late J^chblshop Mach ray. \ » WOMEN IN GORGEOUS DRESS. Costumes of Abyssinians During Times of Festival. “For downright gorgeousness there is little that can surpass a family party of Abyssinian women bound from one village to another in festi val time, notably about Easter, for the Abyssinians are Christians,” writes Mr. Broughton Brandenberg, describing the life of the women of Egypt In an article in the june Pear son’s—Daughters of the Nile. "A brilliant, bangle-adorned head dress is bound over the brow and drawn back to fall down the shoul ders. The upper part of the body is clad in a blouse of red and white literally covered with gold and silver ornaments, that are handed down from generation to generation. A short skirt in the same style comes below the knees, and the legs are encased in brilliant colored strips wound tightly about like putters, often bead ed and spangled. The feet, usually bare, are variously adorned with toe rings, ankle bracelets, and other orna ments.” Certain That He Would Win. “I once knew an old Irishman who would invest his last cent in any kind I of a gamble he happened up against,” said Magistrate Cunningham the other day. “One Christmas eve he came home with a ticket entitling him to a chance on a horse and sleigh that were to be raffled off. “ ‘We’ll be drivin’ out through Fair mount Park th’ morrow like th’ big guns, Mary,’ he announced with pride to his wife. “‘Oh, pop, won’t that be fine!’ chimed in his little son. ‘You an’ me can ride on the front seat, and mom and little Johanna can sit in the back.’ ‘“Ye’ll be doin’ no sich thing!’ as serted the old man. ‘ ’Twill be the back seat fer you, my lad. Yer moth er will be on front wit’ me.' ‘“I will so!’ whined the youngster. ‘I will so be ridin’ on the front!’ “The old man assumed a stern, parental air and took his pipe from his mouth to deliver his final decis ion. “ ‘Ye’ll not, I tell ye,’ he said. ‘I’ll be havin’ no back talk from ye. Git off the sleigh!’”—Philadelphia Press. Nast During the Civil War. In the June Pearson’s Mr. Albert Bigelow Paine gives an account of the remarkable work done by Thomas Nast during the Civil war. His sketches were exaggerations of ex isting conditions, it is true, but sixty three was a poor time to investigate. Nast simply used the material that came to his hand, and each resulting picture brought volunteers to the Northern cause. They also brought scores of threatening letters to the Harper office from the infuriated South, and Nast might have been burned at the stake had he been captured during the occasional trips he made to the front. The influence oxerted by his pictures was tremen dous—President Lincoln himself said near the close of the war, “Thomas Nast was the best recruiting sergeant the Union ever had.” Mr. Paine has shown great tact in his handling in this article of what is even yet a sore subject with many of his readers. His Heart Upon His Sleeve. When on fair Maud I look, her eyes of gray] Her golden head, the thought comes to my mind. That might I walk beside her all the way. I would forsake the rest of womankind. Except, perhaps, sweet Phyllis. ’Twould be pain Never to see her sparkling smile again. t Phyllis has such a charm, somehow un like That of all others! When I hear her voice Strange thrills of rapture through my being strike. I really can't explain it. Yet, for choice. Gladys would take first place, for beauty, quite— No man could help but worship her, at eight! * She's not as clever as she might be, true! There Margaret queens It with her sweet disdain Of .common, worldly ways, compelling you To tread, at least In thought. Life’s loftiest plane. And yet. I question if she’d make a man As happy as would laughter-loving Nan. Dear Nan is lightsomness Itself. In sooth Our souls seem so atthned to one glad key I’ve really sometimes felt she is. In truth. The mate and comrade Nature meant for me; But these, and like reflections, are too late. Because—I’ve Just become engaged to Kate! —Town Topics. UVWI I tyiUt Murphy, a full private in the First Battalion Biankshire regiment, was being tried the other day for being drunk. The commanding officer knew the face too well, for Murphy had been brought up on the old charge times without number. Punishment did not cure him, so the C. O. had drawn vivid word pic tures of the horrible evils of the can teen. “Now. Murphy,” he said, "didn’t you promise me faithfully that you would act up to your uniform?” “I did, 6or,” replied the irrepressi ble one; "and, bedad, I did act up to it entoirely. Me uniforrum was toigbt!”—Spare Moments. To Protect the Harbor. Tho harbor of Valparaiso, the im portant port of Chile, is only an open roadstead in which 152 ships have been wrecked through storms causing them to drag their anchors. The wat er in the bay is very deep in most places, and it has been declared im practical to build a wall across the mouth of the bay. Therefore, a num ber of walls or breakwaters will be built at a oost of 110,950,000. Fauna of New England. The Boston Natural History So ciety is preparlag complete lists of the fauna of New England, of which the first part, containing the reptiles, has been ifasued in Occasional Papers. These lists are to prepare the way for a complete illustrated monograph of the fauna which the society pro poses to publish. Colorado Honey. Colorado produced 1,800.000 pounds of honey in 1903, and the output this year is expected to be considerably larger. Epicures declare that OoU> rade honey is the finest produced ftp any state of the unior « • toVTTH THE MOULD** I ^"BEST WBITECSi ABOUT “HIGH FINANCE.” Whatever tends to quiet the pub lic’s fears, or to sharpen the public’s appetite for investment, is “good,” from the point of view of the “high finance.” To use another metaphor, the public'6 money is grist to the financial mill. Thus, the public has always a rem edy in its own hands for grievances it may have against any financier or group of financiers. It has simply to refuse to buy the securities manufac tured by the offenders. It has simply to tighten its purse strings, and the game ceases. The one motto that it should keep before itself is “Caveat emptor.” Experience shows that very little is to be gained by throwing good money after bad, or unduly weeping over sjjilt milk. Nevertheless, ex perience is a good school, and money is not entirely lost if it pays for a les son.—Wall Street Journal. UNLIBERATED POWERS. From the latest measurements by Curie, it is estimated that the energy of fifteen pounds of radium, fully util ized, would run a one horse-power en gine many centuries. We are thus constantly being told of the latent powers stored away here and there which could be made to run the uni verse almost indefinitely if we could unlock them. But it happens that we only man age to liberate these latent, stored away powers gradually. Perhaps it is well, else some impetuous spirits might run away with the whole plan of creation and leave us high and dry.—Boston Globe. BOYS AND GIRLS. ✓ - $1 In the May Delineator there is "a paper by Lillie Hamilton French which contains much sensible advice to mothers of marriageable 90ns, and to mothers-in-la-w. The following par agraph on the antagonism that is fos tered between boys and girls in child hood is worth quoting: “ ‘Just like a boy,’ or ‘Just like a girl/ one or the other ia perpetually told, and always in the way of re proach. When the boy displays an un due feeling someone says to him: ‘Your mother ought to put' you in pet ticoats.’ When the little girl tries to throw a ball she is told that the boys will laugh at her. The war of the sexes begins then and goes ceaseless ly on. Why should these things be so? Boys and girls are in this world to grow up together, to live together, to take their places side by side, as parents and as guides to the genera tions coming after them. You, per haps, are afraid to «ay so to your children, afraid ‘of putting ideas into their heads.’ You find it easier to leave them to be taken unawares by newly awakened emotions, which plunge them into matrimony before they even knowT what its responsibili ties entail, leaving them, as unhappy married people, to flounder away, as best they can, out of their own mis takes.” NEWSPAPERS FOR WOMEN. Mr. Harmsworth, the English news paper man, says: “I had for many years a theory that a daily newspaper for women was in urgent request, and I started one. The belief cost me $100,000. I found out that I was beat en. Women don’t waat a daily news paper of their own.” After leaving college, men and women prefer co education. They are influenced by the same events, suffer from the same disasters, sympathize with the same movements and want the same news. Harmsworth's daily news paper was killed by the nickname. His Daily Mail made his fortune, so the English wits named his new venture the ‘‘Daily Female.”—Louisville Post. PRESERVING THE DEAD. In order to preserve the features of those who have died it is proposed by a Russian to embalm corpses by casting around them a solid mass of glass. This would be perfectly trans parent, and as no air could get in the features would be preserved indefi nitely. Of course, it is not possible to pour molten glass directly on the tyody, so it is first coated with a thin coating of so-called “liquid glass,” or sodium salicate. This is allowed to harden and forms a protective coat ing. The body is then put in a mold and melted glass poured around it. When this is hardened we have a solid, transparent mass inclosing the body. The inventor of this process hopes that some day we will have a large museum filled with the perfectly preserved bodies of the groat men of their times for future generations to gaze upon.—Collier’s Weekly. STILL MANY OPPORTUNITIES. Young men nowadays are inclined to the opinion that the opportunities for making fortunes are not as great as they were a half or even a quarter of a century ago. As a matter ef fact there Is plenty of evidence that the avenues to fortunes are as unobstruct ed now as they ever were. Indeed, the demand for men who are capable and reliable is now greater than ever before and where there Is anch a de mand there are opportunities (hr mak ing fortunes.—ftavsnnsh, Oa., News. LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE. The lesson which I have learned In ' life, which la Impressed on me dally ' and more deeply as I grow old. is the leaaoa of Good Will and Good Hope. 1 believe that to-day is better than j yesterday, end that to-morrow will be 1 better than to-day. I believe that, In • spite of so many creeds and wrongs, and even crimes, my countrymen, of all classes, desire what is good and not what^ is evil.—f-Yom Senator ^ Hoar’s *‘A«ta*>ibgrai*y." PROSPERITY ON THE FARM. The extent to which the prosperity of the country depends upon that ol the farmer is shown impressively ift the estimate of the value of surplus farm products made by the Depart ment of Agriculture. A farm yield of $4,500,000,000 above the value of the product fed to live stock is a preb ty solid basis for industrial good times. In these figures is to be found the reason why the financial strin gency that affected the east last year did not upset the business of the coun try. The real and substantial pros perity of the farmer was not to be disturbed by the stock speculation eP Wall street.—Kansas City Times THE NEW CONGRESSMAN. Every member of congress, when first elected, is faced with the neces sity of outlining his program for a public career, and must stand or fall upon the wisdom of his decision and his success in realizing his ambitions. He must decide whether he shall en ter into competition with the men with records of long and honorable service behind them in seeking his share of the credit and plaudits for honors in the forum of debate and the contest for general legislation, or whether he shall devote his time to the interests of the particular con stituency he may represent. If he represents a district in the house or a state in the senate in which the party majorities are strong and fixed, and his tenure of office assuredly long, he may with safety elect to devote hi3 efforts to a specialty, to stamping his impress upon legislation on sub jects to which he has devoted much thought and-attention. In that event hie first influence must be exerted to secure assignment to the committees that furnish the field for the exercise of his efforts, and after that every thing depends upon the man and his willingness to work. Most of the leg islation of congress, in fact, is the work of specialists.—From “Silent Forces in Congress,” in Leslie's Monthly. NOT FOR THE PRESENT DAY. Perhaps, under some halcyon dis pensation—say, the millennium, of which we have heard so much—there may be an arrangement whereby uni versal health, happiness and prosper ity will follow on the heels of univer sal education, apathy and indolence. But, taking humanity as it is, and measuring prospects by the actual ma terial at our present disposal, is it wise to depopulate the fields, the fac tories and the mines by preaching the multitude into a state of scorn for simple toil? What are all these mil lions to do when they shall have ex alted above the spade, the pitchfork and the ax? A world composed of millionaires, barbers, school teachers, orators and pawnbrokers would not be able to defend itself for any great length of time from the savage and the anarchist.—Washington Post. WHAT PEARY HOPES. The approach of summer brines in to the public eye once more the in defatigable Commander Peary and his plans for reaching the North Pole. Already he is preparing for his trip from Sydney, which will begin July 1. and is for the purpose of carrying a reserve coal supply to the Greenland shore to be used in connection with his greatest and perhaps final dash northward in 1905. For this supreme effort of Peary’s life only a part of the necessary $200,000 has been se cured, but the explorer is confident that by means of small subscriptions he will find ample means before next year. eary will enter upon the gigantic task of reaching the goal of so many ambitions admirably equipped by rea son of his former attempts. Each fail ure has added much to his store of knowledge, has taught him where and how victory is possible. With a stronger vessel than ever before he hopes to reach a point in Greenland 83 degrees north before taking to the sledges. He will then be but 420 miles from the pole—a distance he has cov ered in four previous sledge Journeys, each one, of course, begun from a more southern latitude. With a per fection of dog outfits and personnel of his little party be counts upon do ing his outlined work between Feb ruary and the end of May. Some day or other, as surely as the earth revolves upon its axis, human hands are going to plant a flag upon the spot called the North Pole. Since this is to be done, however useless the labor and the pouring out of money may seem, let us hope that the Stars and Stripes may first float over the center of the frozen North. —Boston Post. —. . . ■■ CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA. To-day Russia’s 140,000,000 and more of people are comparatively se cure and content under despotism. Why? Because, while they are illit erate, ignorant, degraded, as a rule they have enough to eat and drink. They are superstitious, it is true, but religious superstition is not sufficient to make millions of people submit to t government tnat engenders starva tion through taxation. Russia’s rulers have been shrewd; they have not tried to make their Ignorant, illiter ate people intelligent, but they have yen careful so to govern that the peo ple would not rebel yelling: “Bread w blood.” Nobody becomes a nihil st in Rusaia save an educated man. vho is a political enthusiast or is a neraber of the nobility who has be rome through disappointed offlcitl am >ition in the army or navy or civil lervice, a bitter, vindictive malcon ent.—Portland Oregonian. We are so much accustomed to dis ruise ourseives to others that at last re disguise ourselves to euqgelvea.