Loup City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
The automobile with all Its perils
seems to be less fatal than the bath'
lug suit.
It took a genius like Kipling to see
in Joe Chamberlain a subject for poet
ic treatment.
Almost any flying machine can ac
complish wonderful feats in the in
ventor’s prospectus.
The woman who crossed Abyssinia
on a mule is receiving much credit.
But the mule did the work.
A German scientist has discovered
that the bite of the rattlesnake will
knock leprosy. So will a gun.
People who go away on a holiday
and get drowned And that it inter
feres seriously with their plans.
“Is American literature bourgeois.'”
asks Gertrude Atherton. Nay. sister.
Much of it is of a finer type than that.
At the prospect of a soap famine
that celebrated anti-bath doctor will
probably have one or two spasms of
joy.
A mountain of pure soap has been
discovered in Nevada. The tramp
problem in that state may be consid
ered solved.
Every little while somebody sug
gests that the United States annex
San Domingo. Would it not be pos
sible to sink it?
The young woman who recently
coughed up a cent, swallowed twenty
years ago, is really entitled to some
interest on the money.
With something like 400,000.000 in
habitants to draw from, China antici
pates no trouble in filling the position
lately occupied by Mr. Wu.
It is not true that the baseball play
er who was hit by a train in New Jer
sey instantly put up his hand to claim
the judgment of the umpire.
Gentlemen who have ships afloat
with contraband cargoes for the Jap
anese will sit up and take notice when
you mention remedies for insomnia.
The British expedition to Lhasa
must wish devoutly that Col. Pope
had been more active in pushing the
movement for good roads in Thibet.
A goat in Delaware has partaken oi
a dynamite free lunch and now no
one dares to kick it. Here is a val
uable hint for the much-abused hobo.
Dr. Chalmers may be right in say
ing that defecfive sight makes men
drink; but it does not take a scientist
to prove that drink makes defective
sight.
What will the poor typesetter do
when the legions of General Takahara
kamaharahara begin to encounter
those of General Shootemoffskykillem
offaroff?
Gen. Jiminez is reported to have
returned to Santo Domingo. If this
is so it will be necessary to keep the
Santo Domingo telegraph office open
at nig-ht again.
Most of the girls will fail to see
wherein It is of any practical import
ance what Gov. Warfield or any other
man thinks as to the right : ge for
them to marry.
A typewriter girl in the patent of
fice has copied 22,000 words in seven
hours—a world’s record. All wise type
writer maids will admire her speed
and prefer their own.
Be careful where you throw your
matches. The wealth that was wiped
out last year in fires would have hired
the labor of half a million of men for
a year at $50 a month each.
A physician advises everybody to
spend all the time he can in the open
air. If rents and living expenses con
tinue to go up a good many of us will
have to spend all of our time there.
That ten-year-old boy who hanged
himself because he was compelled to
get up early in the morning might not
have been worth the piece of rope he
used had he lived a few years longer.
It IjB to be hoped that the bust that
the young Russian woman sculptor is
making of Mark Twain will be as ar
tistic in all respects as some of tht
other busts with which Mark has been
connected.
When the office boy learns that he
is expected to be diligent, neat, quiet,
unobtrusive, obliging, modest, accu
rate and attentive, he begins to think
$3 is not very big pay after all.—Bos
ton Home Journal.
It is pleasant to know that Colqm
bia is willing to enter into friendly
relations with the United States again.
It is depressing to live constantly in
fear of the beginning of a war that
wc might not know had begun against
us.
At a cost of more than $1,100,000.
the three miles of lofty sea wall that
is hereafter to keep destroying tidal
waves out of Galveston was completed
last week. And it is pluck that pays,
for Galveston’s ocean trade was never
so great as now.
Even the beef strike is no excuse
for a boarding house serving beans
four times a week, a boiled dinner
twice a week and fish balls on Friday.
—Worcester Telegram.
And now we presume the Telegram
editor will send a marked copy to his
landlady.
A Danish scientist has discovered a
new electric wave by means of which
he can ihake a typewrites work in
another room. No more novel reading
by the typewriter when the boss is
shut up in his private office.
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LABORS
INDUSTRY
Green Fields Wait for Me.
I must away to wooded hills and vales.
Where broad, slow streams flow cool
and silently.
And Idle barges flap their listless sails—
For me the summer sunset rlows and
pales.
And green fields wait for me.
I long for shadowy forests, where the
birds
Twitter and chirp at noon from every
tree.
I long for blossomed leaves and lowing
nerds;
And Nature’s voices say, in mystic
words,
"The green fields wait for thee.”
I dream of uplands, where the primrose
shines
And waves her yellow lamps above the
lea;
Of tangled copses, swung with trailing
vines;
Of open vistas, skirted with tall pines.
Where green fields wait for me.
I think of long, sweet afternoons when I
May lie and listen to the distant sea.
Or hear the breezes in the reeds that
sigh
Or Insect-voiceB chirping shrill and dry.
In fields that wait for me.
These dreams of summer come to bid
me find
The forest’s shade, the wild bird’s mel
ody.
While summer’s rosy wreaths for me are
twined.
While summer’s fragrance lingers on the
wind.
And green fields wait for me.
—George Arnold.
NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of Interest Gathered from Many
Sources.
Work has been resumed upoa Mi
nook (Ind.) coal mines after three
years of idleness.
The district convention of united
mine workers promulgated an official
strike order effecting about 6,000 men.
The hdpdquarters of the Western
Federation of Miners, now in Denver,
are to be removed to Lead, S. D., ac
cording to information from the west
A resolution providing for the regis
tration of union labels has been in
troduced in the Canadian parliament
at Ottawa.
The International Slate and Tile
Roofers’ Union of America will meet
in second annual convention in St.
Louis Sept. 12.
In New Zealand last year 12,481 per
sons drew old age pensions, amount
ing to $1,657,670. The total cost of ad
ministering the act was $19,000.
The striking glove workers at
Gloversville, N. Y., are still without
hope of immediate peace. The fourth
month of the big strike is growing to
a close.
In ray judgment, the extension of
the use of the injunction is the most
disturbing factor in our national life,
the darkest cloud upon our horizon.—
John Mitchell.
The wage scale of the bar iron and
steel mills of the Republic Iron and
Steel Company will not be settled by
a board of arbitration because of the
refusal of men to serve.
Secretary Draper of the Trade and
Labor Congress of Canada has sent a
circular letter to all local labor unions
in Canada urging their affiliation with
the Canadian parent body.
Five hundred and fifty operatives
struck at the United States Cotton
company’s mills at Central Falls, R.
I., against the 12*4 per cent cut in
wages.. The mills shut down.
The tin plate scale has been settled
and the gre&t Shenango tin plant will
start up full turn, orders to that effect
having been issued, and the Greer
mill will resume within a few days.
The Massachusetts State Federa
tion affiliated sixty-five additional
trade unions during the past twelve
months, its membership now includ
inj nearly every large union in me
Bay state.
Dispatches from Pennsylvania mine
centers report that the conciliation
board is unable to meet the situation,
and that both miners and operators
are preparing for another great indus
trial struggle.
The American Sheet and Tin Plate
Company and the Amalgamated Asso
ciation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
ers have agreed upon a wage scale for
tin workers. The union grants a re
bate of 12% per cent on foreign or
ders.
President Mackey of the Interna
tional Paper Makers’ Union is report
ed to have declared that unless the
Fox river valley paper manufacturers
settle the strike at once he will call
out every union paper maker in the
country.
The reports of the officers of the In
ternational Typographical Union to
the forthcoming convention of the or
ganization at St. Louis have been is
sued in book form and show a splen
did progress made by the printers in
the past year.
The Painters’ Union ir. Deadwood,
S. D., has increased the mimimum
wage scale from $3 to $3.50 per day
and reduced the working day froiii ten
to nine hours.* Paper hangers are paid
11% cents, 15 cents and 16 2-3 cents
'an hour and 10 cents a yard for bur
lap.
Unless the operatives agree to com*
into the Fall River mills and work un
der the proposed 12% per cent reduc
tion, it is doubtful if any attempt will
be made by the cotton manufacturers
to run the mills before October, was a
statement made by a prominent mill
treasurer.
Labor unions must live ilp to their
principles if they expect to be re
ceived upon the basis of their procla
mations. But all this is equally true
of the other side. If employers want
the confidence and support of the
public they, too, must live up to their
professions-*—The Tobacco Worker.
The Stationary Firemen’s Union of
Chicago will erect a monument in
memory of its dead and Labor day
has been chosen as the most fitting
day on which to dedicate the granite
shaft. The union htrs purchased a
burial lot for its dead, 400 feet in Oak
Ridge cemetery and a smaller plot in
Mt. Carmel.
A recently enacted state law in
New York requiring journeymen
horseshoers to be registered has been
declared unconstitutional by the ap
pellate division of the Supreme Court
Justice Hatch, writing the unanimous
opinion of the court, said he failed to
see how the regulation of shoeing
horses has any tendency to promote
the health, comfort, safety and wel
fare of society.
All the mills but two closed by the
paper strike begun nine weeks ago
have resumed operations in part. The
Howard mill at Menasha is the only
one, however, where union men will
return, the others being manned with
imported non-union help. Union men
of the Fox river valley are still de
termined and declare the non-union
men are not capable of turning out a
profitable product.
It is said that if the members of the
unions who are held responsible for
the strike in the New York subway
do not adjust matters promptly a gen
eral lockout may be ordered by the
Building Trades’ Employers’ associa
tion, to be followed by an attempt to
establish an open shop. If a general
lockout is ordered between 25,000 and
30,000 men in greater New York will
be affected.
Frank Buchanan of Chicago, presi
dent of the International Association
of Bridge and Structural Iron Work
ers, announced that he would retire in
September, at the convention of the
international union in Toronto, Onta
rio. “I intend to see that a good man,
strong in his convictions but conser
vative in action, and above all honest,
gets the presidency,” he said. “I will
run again myself unless such a man is
proposed.”
Although the report has been cir
culated that the temporary closing of
the plants of the International Harves
ter company signifies at least a par
tial permanent shut down or removal,
C. S. Funk, general manager of the
company, declares that the works will
be closed for two wreeks only in order
that a complete inventory of the stock
may be made and improvements in
stalled. The company in all its plants
employs over* 15,000 men.
The Cripple Creek district is again
being ruled by civil authorities, al
though the order suspending martial
law, is not met with great favor, as
many fear that violence of a most ag
gravated form will quickly follow. In
fact when the order was being pre
pared at the capitol a meeting of citi
zens to protest against any change
was in session, and was abruptly ad
journed when it was learned that it
was too late for them to do anything.
The forthcoming report of the
United States geological survey will
show’ that the United States exceeded
all previous records in the production
of coal in 1903. The total amount of
the output of the coal mines of the
country during that year was 359,421,
311 tons, an increase of nearly 58,000.
000 tons or 19 per cent over the pre
ceding year. The value of the product
of 1903 is given as 504,190,733, an in
crease in value of 38 per cent over
the preceding year.
iweniy-iour negroes ana one wmte
man are at work on the bricklaying
for the government on the war col
lege at the Washington barracks.
From present indications this part of
the work will be finished exclusively
by negro labor. Two weeks ago twen
ty-eight bricklayers struck and
stopped work because George Taylor,
a negro, was taken on the work. The
union has practically given up the
struggle in this particular case, and
the strike is broken.
J. W. Johnson, international secre
tary-treasurer of the Bridge Workers’
Union, reports that the recent vote
for affiliation with the proposed
Structural Building Trades’ Alliance
was 6,135, of which 3,527 were in fa
vor of the affiliation and 2,608 against.
He announces that the final vote will
show the affiliation carried by a vote
of four to one, because “many local
unions took no action on this vital
question, and as their failure to con
sider the same records their vote in
the affirmative, the official vote will be
announced later.”
The engineers employed on the New
York, New Haven and Hartford sys
tem are fighting an order reducing the
rata of wages. These men are said to
be the highest paid railroad engineers
in the country, receiving $35 to $45
per week. The company has demand
ed that the men accept the standard
rate of wages paid in the east. The
committee from the Brotherhood of
Engineers will visit President Mellin
this week and will also protest against
the changes in the time table, which
dropped numerous trains and threw
many engineers out of work.
Patrick McCarvel, one of the men
who were deported over the Kansas
line by the military early in June, re
turned to Victor, where he owns prop
erty, including a large hall and a busi
ness block valued at $25,000. When
McCarvel stepped from the train he
was taken in charge by Major H. A.
Naylor, acting city marshal. McCar
vel was allowed to attend to some
business affairs, when he was placed
on board the first outgoing train, with
a warning that in future police pro
tection would not be afforded him
should he again return. McCarvel
originally was deported for openly ex
pressing sympathy with the miners’
union and denouncing acts of Gov.
Peabody and his military subordi
nates.
Daniel L. Keefe, in his annual ad
dress at the recent convention of the
International Longshoremen’s and Ma
rine Transport Workers’ Association,
declared that a labor union has no spe
cial mission as a social organization
and said: "A labor union is simply a
partnership, wherein each and every
member is an integral part, and a
partner of the firm—so to speak. Each
and every member should have the
same mutual interest and desire that
ihe business of the union be conducted
on strict business principles. The
function of the organization is purely
the selling of its labor at the best
market price; the same as corn or
any other commodity; with no senti
ment or other consideration calculat
ed in any way to interfere with its
business. All we ask is justice and
an equitable proportion of the wealth
our labor creates; the enjoyment of
humane conditions and treatment ns
hums* beings.”
EX-CONFEDERATES AT BOSTON
Men Who Wore the Gray Fraternize With
Those Who Wore the Blue—Points of
Historic Interest in the City.
The unique feature, and in some re
spects the most important feature of
G. A. R. week was the reception ten
dered twenty-five distinguished ex
Confederate soldiers by Edward W.
Kinsley post 113 in Faneuil hall on
Monday evening, Aug. 15.
Beneath the roof-tree of one of the
country’s historic public buildings,
consecrated to the cause of American
liberty in its broadest sense, these
oldtime antagonists, the men of the
Grand Army and the defenders of the
Confederacy, sat at table. Incidental
ly, the members of the noted Lafay
ette post, G. A. R., of New York were
also the guests of their Boston com
rades.
The Southerners who accepted the
Kinsley post invitation are Gen. Fitz
hugh Lee, Gen. Theodore S. Garnett,
Col. William F. Cameron and Capt.
Benjamin C. Wherry of Virginia;
Capt. Thomas C. Timberlake of Ken
tucky, Judge Jacob S. Galloway of
Tennessee; Col. .John Wilder Atkin
son. Col. Wilson G. Lamb, Maj. B. F.
Dixon and Cyrus B. Watson of North
Carolina; Col. Edward Cox, Col. Wil
liam M. Crumley and Capt. Edward S.
Gay of Georgia; Gen. Julian W. Whit
ing of Alabama; Col. Luke W. Fin
lay of Mississippi; Gen. William J.
Behan, Col. Benjamin F. Eshelman,
Col. William G. Vincent and Col. An
drew R. Blakeley of Louisiana; Col.
J. N. Simpson, Col. James B. Simp
son, Judge George Clark, Col. J. T.
Trerevant and E. W. Taylor of Texas;
Edward Clifford Brush of Florida
(now of Boston).
The formalities incident to the re
ception of the Southerners com
menced at 1 p. m. Monday, Aug. 15,
at which hour a luncheon was given
and the placards placed upon them
Is about as follows:
Old State House.
“The first building was erected
1658.
“Destroyed by fire 1711.
“Present building erected 1713.
Old South Meeting House.
“The oldest church building in Bos
ton, built 1730.'
Southeast Corner of Tremont and
Court sts.
“Site of United States custom
house, 1759.
“Washington lodged here, 1789.
“Daniel Webster’s law office here.”
Hanover st. American House.
“Gen. Joseph Warren’s house stood
here. He was killed at the battle
of Bunker hill, 1775.”
Nos. 80 to 86 Union-st.
“Site of the Green Dragon tavern
—The Sons of Liberty met here; it
was styled by the British and the
Tories, ‘a hotbed of sedition.' ”
Hanover st., Just South of Cockerel
Hall.
“Here was shed the first blood of
the Revolution; Christopher Snyder
killed here by an informer to the (
crown, Feb. 22, 1770.”
16 Hull st.
“Built 1724—Staff headquarters of
Gen. Gage during the battle of Bunker
Hill.”
Christ Church, Salem st.
“The Christ church or Old North
church, from which w^as hung the
celebrated signal lanterns on the
eventful night of April 18, 1775—The
chime of bells is the oldest in Amer
ica.”
130 Prince st.
“British Major Pitcairn wounded at
Bunker Hill, died here. He was
FANEUIL HALL DECORATED.
the visitors at the New Algonquin
club. This was exclusively for the
guests and their accompanying ladies.
At 2 o’clock the members of Kinsley
post, in uniform, arrived at the club
house and were introduced to the
guests. At 3 o’clock the post re
formed and marched to the South
terminal to receive the members of
Lafayette post of New York. The
latter were escorted to their hotel.
Promptly at 6 o’clock the company
sat down at round tables in Faneuil
hall, each of these accommodating
seven persons. Some sixteen of the
more distinguished guests, with the
commander of Kinsley post and the
toastmaster, occupied seats at a long
table on the platform. Covers were
laid for about 300 in all. Young wom
en waiters in special uniform served
the food.
The speaking was done on a novel
plan. Commander Graves gave the
address of welcome before dinner was
served and between the courses the
commander of Lafayette post and
such of the other Northern guests as
were invited to speak were intro
duced.
For the remainder of the evening
the Southerners had the right of way,
and some notable addresses were
made.
The event eclipsed in interest and
significance any reunion between
Northern and Southern participants
jn the civil war that has ever been
held.
MANY PLACES OF INTEREST
Historic Spots in Boston Pointed Out
to Visitors.
All of the places of historic interest
in the city proper were specially
placarded during encampment week
so that the visiting thousands could
not fail to see them in their walks
about the city. A list of these places
prominent at the battles of Lexington
and Concord. This house built prior
to 1723.”
Flag Sign for North Sq.
"In this square the British troops
assembled on the night of the ISth of
April, 1775, previous to their march
to Lexington and Concord.”
Dock Sq. Opposite Brattle St.
"Dock sq—The mob which figured
in the Boston massacre gathered in
this square before going to State
street.”
Brattle St., One-Quarter Way From
Washington St. to Brattle Sq.
“Here stood the British barracks
where the outbreak started which led
to the Boston massacre, March 5,
1770.”
Faneuil Hall.
“A gift of Peter Feneuil to the town
of Boston.
“The Cradle of Liberty.
“Opened for the first time March 4.
1743.
“Burned 1761—rebuilt 1763.”
Northeast Corner Kilby St. and Lib
erty Sq.
“Site of the stamp office destroyed
by the mob during Stamp Act riot,
1765.”
South Corner Washington and Es
sex Sts.
“Site of the Liberty Tree, so named,
in 1763; destroyed by British, 1775.”
Cemetery in Boston Common.
“The British soldiers killed at Bunk
er Hill lie buried here.”
Washington St., Just South Clifton PI.
“The line of Colonial entrenchments
stood here during the siege of Boston,
1775.”
Atlantic Av., Corner of Pearl St.
Boston Tea Party tablet decorated
with flags. No further wording con
sidered necessary.
Battery Wharf.
“From this wharf the British em
barked for the battle of Bunker Hill
June 17, 1775.”
Polish Novelist’s Hobbies.
Henri Sienkewicz, the Polish nov
elist, spent a year in wandering and
hunting after his student life at War
saw. His house is filled with trophies
of the chase and he is a collector of
all kinds of curiosities. The most
striking object in his study is a huge
carved chest with silver mountings,
which is filled with priceless his
torical relics, including among other
things, rings and jewels of famous
royal personages.
Mayor Jones’ Small Fortune.
The value of the estate of the late
Mayor Samuel M. Jones of Telodo is
roughly estimated by his son, Percy
Jones, in probate court, at $346,000, of
which $325,000 is personal property
and $21,000 real estate. The mayor
left no will.
W. S. Gilbert a Wealthy Man.
W. S. Gilbert, associated with Ar
thur Sullivan in the composing of
comic opera, is reputed to be enor
mously wealthy. The royalties from
his “Pygmalion and Galatea” alone
brought him in $200,000.
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Long in Political Harness.
Eight men who participated in the
Fremont campaign in 1856 were pres
ent at the state Republican commit
tee meeting in New York. They were:
Gen. Benjamin F. Tracy of New York,
Frederick W. Seward of Montrose!
William Barnes. Sr., of Albany, Ellis
H. Roberts of Washington (and Uti
ca), Theodore M. Pomeroy of Auburn,
William Bristol of Warsaw, J. Owen
Moore of Nyv York and Harrison C.
Gilson of New York. Mr. Bristol, the
eldest of the delegates, presided.
Those present, with others to be add
ed, were made a committee to get up
a celebration to be held at Saratoga
Springs on the night of Sept. 14. The
Republican state convention has been
called to meet there on that date.
As in His Boyhood.
Gov. Herrick of Ohio was the other
day interviewed by a reporter who
asked him: “Didn’t you saw wood for
a living when you were a boy?”
“Yes,” replied the governor, “and I
still think that it’s a good thing some
times to saw wood—and say noth
ing.”
WITH THE WORLD'S
WRITERS
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JEW THAT SHAKESPEARE DREW.
Most people appear to think that
Shylock must either be a demon or
a savior. He is, in truth, a mixture
of both—the man—the Jew! Once
more the poet shows the impartiality
of the judge in dealing with Shylock.
He presents in him the vices as well
as the virtues of his race. Domestic
ity is one of the Hebraic virtues. The
love of his daupghter commends him
to our sympathies—anon his vengeful
and cruel nature commands our cen
sure. It is, therefore, ridiculous to
present Shylock as a merely sympa
thetic character. Of course, the cul
mination of suffering creates sym
pathy with any man, and, while laugh
ing at his pretensions, we weep at
his griefs. There can be no doubt
that at the time Shakespeare wrote
“The Merchant of Venice” the Jews
were not regarded with high favor,
and Shylock’s first speech shows he
is informed by the spirit of revenge.
I do not deny that Shylock had just
cause to be angry, and it has been
said that revenge is a primitive form
•f justice. But just when we begin
to think that Shylock is becoming
the martyr-hero of the play, and that
all our sympathies are meant for him,
Shakespeare, the altruist, enters upon
the scene and gives us the immortal
speech on the quality of mercy, which,
bursting the walls of the narrow
court, preaches to humanity the eter
nal message of Christian forgiveness.
■—Herbert Beerbohm Tree in The
Fortnightly Review.
NAVAL GUNNERY RECORDS.
It appears from a tabulated state
ment of the results of the annual
target practice issued by the navy de
partment that the gunners of our fleet
have attained a very high degree of
accuracy. This is particularly true
with regard to gur.s of five-inch cali- j
her and upward. The north Atlantic
and the Asiatic battleship squadrons '
have distinguished themselves by rec- I
ords of 87.27 per cent and 82.84 per
cent, respectively. The cruisers have
not done so well as the battleships.
The explanation is simple enough.
The larger vessel constitutes a stead
ier gun platform in a seaway, and, its
guns being placed higher, a more per
fect range is secured. This conclu
sion is emphasized by the fact that the
gun practice of the torpedo flotillas
was very unequal.
WHAT THF COON’S EYES SAID.
We give below in negro dialect an
extract from Mrs. Sutherland’s drama
entitled “Po’ White Trash.” It rep
resents a negro in the act of killing
a coon. He has brought the poor
beast to bay and now has him at his
mercy. Jfist before firing the fatal
shot he catches the coon’s eye and is
stopped momentarily by the pathetic
appeal which he reads there. The ne
gro is giving an account to the doc
tor, and we will let him tell it in his
own way:
‘‘An’ then, Doctor, I saw. that coon’s
eyes—I saw that coon’s eyes. Doc
tor, I—I never saw a coon's eyes
befo\ I reckon—I reckon—there
wouldn’t be so much hurtin’ done in
this world ef jes' befo’ yo’ hurted yo’
saw the thing’s eyes! An’ I looked at
him—an’ he looked at me—an’ his
eyes said, ‘Be you goin’ to kill me?’
Thar wom’t no trees—no sky—no
nothin’—jes’ on’y that coon’s eyes. ‘It’s
on’y cowards kill what cant fight,’ they
says. ‘It’s on'y devils kill fo’ fun,’ they
says. Everythin’ thet bed ever been
’fraid—an’ I’ve been ’fraid!—looked
out o’ that coon’s eyes. Everythin’
thet ever been hurt—and, God-a
mighty! I’ve been hurt! looked out o’
that coon’s eyes. ‘Be yo’ goin’ to kill
me?’ they sez. 'Be yo’ goin’ to kill
me?’ An’ I flinged my gun’s far’s she’d
flew, au’ I sez, ‘No, yo’ mean, scared,
hunted critter, yo!”‘
WOMEN ON THE GOLF LINKS.
Golf is a grand old game, of course,
but its widespread popularity in this
country, its marvelous growth here in
the last few years, is largely due to
the interest that is taken in it by
young women. If it were not for their
presence in goodly numbers on the
links no such public favor as golf has
met with would have been recorded,
ft is a repetition of the old story of
the opera season; the presence of
pretty women in the boxes makes U
all pretend tp love music and crowds
the Metropolitan. yoanf? Ameri
tan girl who plays golf not only fills
jn the picture prettily, but plays a
tattling good game—as is evidenced
n the scores made in the women s
metropolitan championship games on
the Apawnmis grounds, which were
concluded in fine style recently.-wNew
York Herald.
DECIDE WHAT YOU WILL DO.
An engineer who starts to build a
bridge and then keeps finding better
places to put his piers, and wonder
ing whether he has selected the best
location or not, will never get the
bridge across the river. He must de
cide, then go ahead and build the
bridge, no matter what obstacle he
may strike. So it Is with the builder -
of character, he must decide finally
what he will do, and then make for
his goal, refusing to look back or be
moved from his course.—Orison Swett 1
Marden in Success.
SWEET TOOTH OF ANIMALS.
This love of sweets is very com- i
mon in our animal neighbors, from '•
'he bee to the horse. If you want to <
please a horse, try giving him two or <
three lumps of sugar. Not only the 1
bees, but the wasps, flies, butterflies
and indeed nearly all insects, are con
spicuously attracted *to sweets, and it
is this sweet tooth which leads the
inseot to visit flowers and thus help
thorn to produce seeds.—From Nature
and Science in August. St. Nicholas. 1
LIFE, death and love.
a woman lay jvith closed eves ar<i
shad™ >b» pr'f<'nc<' to over,
shadow the white-curtained room \
“k“? beside Wle hed. the worn
an s hand pressed close in Lis a«a r r
his cheek, while his lips rauvi.jg*'s ,
m prayer.
cues
Love tbe r°0m Were Life’ D,'alh an(I
“What have you given her'
tioned Death of Life.
1 brought her my best gifts,*’ an
swered Life; “youth, health, beaut-,
joy and Love.’’
Has Love brought her good gif 7
again asked Death.
Said Love with wistful eyes, 1
brought her brave, bright hours. . ir -
shine and laughter, happiness ,1
glory in living, and then a heavy cr<
The sunshine she shed all about her
even with the fading of Life’s glor> ,
the cross hidden deep in her soul cast
cut self and made a new radiance ar.d
beauty there.”
“Let her come to me.” said Death.
“Life had much to give, but peace and
rest are not for Life to bo-tow. Love
■fcould give all, but must reck, n with
the human heart. I will crown and
glorify and bless her.”
Life fled from the quiet room with
a sigh and one whispered, tender
w'ord; but Love lingered, brave even
in the full presence of Death.
“What of him?’’ said Love, pointing
to the kneeling figure.
“He made the cross?” Death asked.
“Yes,” said Love, weeping.
“We must teach him,’ said Death,
“what he could not learn from life.”—
L. M. S., in The Outlook.
HOW TO REACH A DECISION.
If indecision runs in the blood 7 u
inherit, arouse yourself and strangle
this insidious foe to your achievement
before it saps your energy and ruins
your life chance. Do not wait until
to-morrow, but begin to-day. Compel
yourself to develop the opposite qual
ity by the constant practice of firm
decision. No matter how simple the
thing you are called upon to decide,
be it the choice of a hat or the color
or style of a garment, do not vacil
late. Throw all the light possible on
whatever you have in hand for de
cision; weigh and consider it from
every point of view; call your com
mon sense and best judgment to your
aid before reaching a conclusion, and
then, when you have once made your
decision, let it be final. Let there be
no going back, no reconsidering, amt
no opening the matter up for further
discussion. Be firm and positive. De
clare the polls closed.—Orison Swett
Marden in Success.
TOADS, $20 EACH.
The wonderful insect-killing capac
ity of the toad is known in a general
way to the enlightened few. sa> a
Country Life in America. An im
ported colony of toads may be the
salvation of a flower garden. W®
now have some interesting figure*,
which show that every toad in the
garden may be worth $20 or more.
Many gardeners give their children
a cent apiece for every cutworm de
stroyed, considering this a low esti
mate of the damage caused by these
insects. From May 1st to August 1st,
a toad may destroy 2.160 cutworms,
which it would cost $21.60 to destroy
by hand. English gardners are said
to pay as much as $25 per hundred
for toads for colonizing purposes.
MAKE ONLY TO SPEND.
We make mere than others, but w®
spend both carelessly and for advan
tage. The American mechanic’s home
is brightened by pictures; well-mad®
furniture, carpets and tableware are
for his use; he has hooks on the
shelf; has a parlor organ, or even a
piano; he goes to the play once in
a while, and expects a few holidays in
the summer, when he can visit some
crowded seashore. The American pro
fessional man lives in his own house
or comfortable apartments, and
dresses and lives nearly up to his in
come, no matter what it is. He is
never averse to receiving large fees,
but he is averse to storing them away
in vaults. And this easy getting and
free spending give to us a larger view
of life than can obtain among peopl®
who are forever counting the pennies
and trying to minimize expenditures.
Such people will have few of th»
wholesome pleasures that we enjoy
and their lives will iack range and
variety. The individual who works
for $10 a week and saves $9 of it i«
your true type of money-maker, but
he is not an American.—Brooklyn
Ragle.
LABOR’S OPINION OF THE
CLERGY.
"In which public, that of the laborer
or of the employer, do the clergymen
stand?” I asked of Jane Addams, and
she replied:
"The working classes believe that
the clergyman is the employers’ re
tainer. Whether this belief be right
or wrong, it is universal and unmis
takable.”
I took this statement to a well
known labor leader. He at once en
dorsed it, and added: “I have yet to
hear a clergyman who preaches the
true social teachings of Christ. If h®
did he would condemn the big employ
ers who have taken millions for them
selves and yet keep factory girls at
starvation wages, so that tuousaads
ire ruined and become social out
lets. He can not condemn them for
their profits run his chnrch.”—Ernest
Poole in The World To-Day.
The joy that is-not Increased by
sharing it with another is not yet the
purest; the sorrow that Is diminished
by recounting it bo another la aot y*t
the truest.—Iran Panin.
