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Stately Mexican City;
(Special Correspondence.)
Puebla. Mexico, ancient and noble
city, sometimes called “the Boston of
Mexico,” by reason of its solidity, ■
grandeur and opulence, is almost a
century older than the other Boston
far away in the north, by the shores !
of, Massachusetts bay. It was founded
in April, 1532, by the order of the
Audiencia Real, which had been so
petitioned by the Franciscans, that
early missionary'society in New Spain.
\ You can come to Puebla in five or
six hours from the City of Mexico,
either over the Mexican railway or
via. the Interoceanic; but on this oc
casion, though I had made the direct
trip several times. I chose to take a
roundabout way, stopping at several
towns on the journey. Hence I left
the San Lazara station in Mexico City i
and went first to the sleepy, languid,
hoteountry little city of Cuautla, the ;
winter home of many fashionable folk j
from the federal capital, and delighted |
in by European diplomats resident
there.
Ride Through Hot Country.
But I wanted a warmer place than
Cuautla; so, after a few days I took j
train down the Interoceanic to the re- j
gfou roundabout Ateneingo ana Mata
Pyramid of Chciula.
moros. We passed over, in a few
miles, to the old Matamoros Izucar
railway, now belonging to the Inter
oeeaiiie. and came to the center of a
famous sugar region at Matamoros, a !
town as hot, as sleepy in the siesta j
hours, as anything in Africa. High j
rose the ancient towers and domes of
churches resembling mosques, and
great palms stood in streets, plazas i
and courtyards. The air was very 1
warm, and the people walked slowly. ;
Yet all about were signs of the sugar- |
making industry, for which the region j
is notable. Matamoros is famous for j
heat, sugar, insects, lovely palms and |
square miles of cane. It is well to go ■
on artd up the road, which has now i
made a complete bend, and on to 1
Puebla, a few hours away. But I
wished to see ancient Atlixco, the
• place above the waters,” in the tierra !
templada. or temperate country, and 1
so arranged to remain there several
days.
The enormous plain of Atlixco, !
abounding in water and with a rich !
soil, was soon reached, it is as pro- I
ductive as any valley in Mexico, and.
one notes signs of opulence in the vast ■
hacienda houses, for ail the world :
like feudal castles, the seats of fafni- I
lies grown rich in growing corn and
wheat. Miles on miles of well irri
gated land, milpas of Indian corn ex
tending almost as far as the eye can
eel up the road to Puebla, making only
a low whistle and without any bell
ringing.
One of the pleasures fc.ere is to take
horse and ride through the suburban
lanes, and I was surprised to find in
the finquitas of the Indians the orange,
the lime and coffee trees, a proof pal
pable of the mildness of the climate
at this elevation of some 5,500 feet
above sea level.
I was glad to tarry in Atlixco, so
kindly were its people, so delicious
was the air. and so agreeable the tone
of the place. And when I left for
Puebla I went around to say “adios”
to new-made friends.
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Stately City of Puebla.
It is only two hours up to Puebla,
and, if you ever make the journey,
take the morning train, leaving at
<5:45, and enjoy the scenery as you
climb up some 2,000 feet to the great
valley of Puebla, where you come to
the ancient town of Cholula, about
which, and the terrible massacre there
of the Indians by the conquistadores,
consult your Prescott. Cholula, with
its many great churches and ancient
convents, and its real pyramid topped
by a fine church, is well worth a day.
From Cholula the city of Puebla,
capital of the great and fertile state
of the same name, is soon reached,
and it is a fair sight to see the hard
some and stately city in the early
light, the towers of its great cathedral
rising from among the mass of fiat
roofs. In this valley are some 3G5
churches and domed chapels, one for
every day in the year. It is a very
clerical city, and, therefore, good man
nered. and. also, another clerical city
characteristic, abounding in street
stalis. or “puestos,” for the sale of
swe. i meats. Piety and sweets go
hand in hand in Mexico.
A “norther" had blown up from the
Guif of Mexico, bringing a fine chilly
rain, but within the cathedral the ah
was soi: and warm, a temperature of
its own. I could have passed days in
the cathedral, and other clays in view
ing the marvels and exquisite beauty
of the famous chapel of the Rosario in
the old church of Santa Domingo, a
chapel which foreign artists say i?
unsurpassed for richness and splendor
in all Europe, and surely it is divine!
That is the only word. The Church
of I.a Con.pania is notable, and some
great paintings are there to be ob
served. In the Church of San Jose is
the image ol that saint, who protect?
the city from lightning stroke, all
carved from the wood of a riven tree.
Santa Clara church has a shrine foi
some thorns from the crown of Christ.
The Catholic American will find in
Puebla endless delight, so grand are
the churches, and so notable the an
cient edifices, built when the church
was in the prime cf its splendor in this
country. Here the ancient faith is
strongly held, and it is charming tc
see the devotion of the people even on
weekdays, when they throng the old
churches, ard, amid the glories of the
past, under roofs of gold, say their
prayers before many an ancient altar.
Miss not Puebla when you make the
adventure of Mexico; it is worth a
long journey to see its marvels and its
ancient churches.
Raising Tea in ihe South.
Dr. Charles A. Shepard of South
Carolina has proved on his own plan
tation £t Summerville, twenty miles
out of Charleston, that the growing of
tea can be carried on successfully and
Mexican Women and Children.
•4ach; everywhere signs of agricul
tural wealth and a high degree of
irosperity. Cue German settled hare
some thirty years row owns three
treat liactendas. Other men have
great estates and their families have
>^en educated in France and Germany,
jr in the City of Mexico.
It is the feudal system—the great
nouse of the master, the huts of the
laborers, a rigid caste system, and
general contentment. The brown
pdons in the fields are gravely polite,
and their faces show no signs of worry
or anxiety. So closely is the land- of
'his great valley held that you can't
■>$y enough of it to plant a see 1 of
OQrn in. The irrigation system is
:$nturies old. for this reason has
seerf cultivated by white men nearly
M0 years. At present a federal gov
ernment hydrographic commission is
Undying the system with* a view to
lefining water rights and preventing
waste.
AtMxco’s People and Buildings.
The sun was fast declining, when,
to the left, rose more domes and tow
ers and a great hill shaped much like
H pyramid, the "cerrito,” or hill, of
San Miguel, with a chapel dedicated
fo that saint on its very top. a place
for pious pilgrimage. Atlixco is as
picturesque as any old Italian town
In the Appenines. and when we had
i alighted at the little station and could
I lodk ud into the town it seemed cen
ftbirles old. It is all on a hill, and the
mUets slope down to the station. Our
rain, in modern fashion, 110,1 depart
profitably. He has been doing this for
twelve years with such good results
that the secretary of agriculture and
the congresu of the United States
highly approve his deeds and both are
extending h',n liberal assistance.
“My idea from the start,” said Dr.
Shepard, “was to add an additional
crop to the farm products cf the coun
try. The road to agricultural su
premacy is through diversifying. My
friends seem to thing I have been suc
cessful, and I have every reason to be
gratified with wnat has been accom
plished.
“Tea-raising in the United States is
certainly practicable. It is no new
thing in this country, for in the old
days a French priest planted tea on
the banks of the Ashley river. But
owing to the difference in the cost of
labor the United States can not com
pete with the orient in iow-grade or
cheap teas. It will pay us to produce
only that of the highest quality, which
brings a high price in market. The
tea grown on my place in South Car
olina compares with the best that is
impoited from eastern lands.”
Not on Exhibition.
He—I don’t think Miss Singleton
shows her age, do you?
She—Of course not. She scratched
it out of the family Bible years ago.
Consolation.
Hetty—It takes all sorts of women
to make u world.
Netty—That must be a comforting
thought to your husband.
I
Rules Little Kingdom
(Special Correspondence.)
ahe is a gentle and venerable po
tentate, and her little kingdom, In
ishkea, lies out in the stormy ocean
off the remote western coast of Ire
land.
In olden times that wild western
district had some notable female
rulers of the amazon type, who helped
to make some lurid Irish history.
There was the celebrated Queen
Meva. her heart hot with passion and
her person flashing with gold and
steel, who led the forces of Connaught
against the northerns in the quarrel,
in the first century, about the covet
ed White Bull of Cooley. And there
was the famous sea-queen Grana
O’Malley, who in the sixteenth cen
tury levied what she delicately called
her “trade of maintenance” on mer
chant ships sailing these waters and
with her war galleys visited Queen
Elizabeth at Hampton court. But of
a different type to these warlike Cel
tic heroines of the past is the kindly
snowj’-haired old lady who now holds
the title of Queen of Inishkea.
A few miles out from the Irish
mainland lie the two islets of Inish
kea, both together about three miles
long, a narrow strait separating
them. More desolate little islands it
would bo hard to find. They are ledgy
extremities of the oldest geological
Barren and Bleak Shore.
formation in Europe, inhabited by a
scanty remnant of the most ancient
race. There is nothing but the heav
ing ocean between them and America,
and the sea breeze sweeps in over
3,(!00 sheer miles of brine.
A few miles north of Inishkca is
the Islet of Inishglcry, whence in the
sixth century St. Brendan the Navi
gator. the Celtic discoverer of Amer
ica, sailed with h.s monks on his cel
ebrated voyage. Not far away, behind
a long and low peninsula, lies the
magnificent harbor of Blacksod, where
the whole British fleet might ride
safely at anchor and which has been
repeatedly proposed as a port for
transatlantic liners, to sherten tlie
journey between the New and Old
worlds.
Island Cut Cff by Storms.
For days and weeks at a time, es
pecially in the winter season. Inish
kca is cut off from the world by the
raging sea, which prevents the ap
proach of any craft to its poor harbor.
In long lost ages its remote and inac
cessible character made it an ideal
place of retreat not only for Christian
anchorites, but for their little-known
predecessors, the ministers of the pa
gan cults. The relics of the latter are
| mists of history. Most gentle and
Jemocratic of sovereigns is that dear
; old Irish mother, her diadem the
starched and snowy cap that cover*
her silvery hair, her only robe of
state her plaid woolen kerchief aDd
matronly apron. She has a large and
healthy progeny, splendid of physique
; and sound of morals. Lavelle is the
' family name of the dynasty of Inish
| kea. the members of which compare
! favorably in many respects with those
| of any other royal family of Europe.
The functions of the hereditary ruler
of Inishkea lay chiefly in adjusting
| disputes between the inhabitants as
to the boundaries of their tiny farms,
arranging as to tillage and pasture
j rights, partnership in fishing beats
and other matters of local interest.
Delightful Climate.
i The climate of Inishkea is delight
ful, this being due to the neighbor
hood of the gulf stream, which here
; goes sweeping northward, its warm
j waters tempering the atmosphere and
occasionally bearing some valuable
flotsam and jetsam to those remote
shores. Occasionally piles of valu
i able lumber are washed in by the bil
lows. Even hogsheads of rum have
been borne hither by the strange mid
ocean river, possibly rolled all the j
way from tlic scene of some wreck |
in the Gulf of Mexico.
Inishkea was once noted for the j
manufacture of “poteen,'* or Irish
moonshine whisky, for the ostensible j
purpose of stopping which a police i
j station was established on the island j
Naturally it is not an envied station
, with members of the royal Irish coa- :
stabulary, who feel a chill at the pros- j
pect of a sojourn on spray-swept In
i ishkea.
And so. far from the madding crowd, l
the last Irish queen maintains her j
gentle rule, while the wild gusts;
! shake the little windows of the
thatched palace and the white billows i
chafe around the gray shore of lonely*
Inishkea.
—
Slightly Mixed.
j An author who was his own publish
or advertised a bock of his as follows: !
' “Send $1 for my new book, with i
; autograph.”
Shortly afterward he received this j
order from a rural reader:
“I inclose $1. If the autograph i?
j one of them talkin’ machines send it |
i on by freight. I don’t, want the book.'
1 and 1 Is 2, and 1 to Carry Is 3.
“Gimme one of those self lighting i
• gas burners that you pull up and down j
with a chain," said a Jersey Centra!
commuter, stopping at' a hardware
i stall ifi Vesoy street.
"Want a nursery burner, eh?” re
j marked tl;e salesman.
The commuter looked up guiltily
and smiled as he handed over a quar
ter in payment.
“Easy enough to see what has hap
I pened in that h< usehold.’ said the ;
| salesman to another customer. “One !
! and one is two, and one to carry j
makes three. That young chap lias .
been calling here, off and on, for a
| year or more, buying screw drivers
paolocks, tacks and things of that, sort
handy to have about the house. But
up to this time lhe gas burners that I
were in his heme when he took it j
seem to have done well enough. Now !
he lias a nursery burner.
“They are no more self-lighting j
than any other burner. You have got
to get out of bed to reach them wher
baby cries in the night. But it is s
| mighty sight easier to pull a chair
i than to prowl around in the dark foi
Where Waves Dash High.
still to be seen there graven on slabs a match. That's why we call ’em
in strange curves and circles that nursery burners.”—New York Press.
vainly now try to convey the language --
and symbolism of some prehistoric An Enicyent Board of Health>
faith. To the pagan priests succeed- j «You must have a remarkably effi
i ed in the sixth century an establish- ; cient Board of Health in this town ”
ment of Christian nuns, presided over remarked the stronger. “Ccmposed of
by the abbess Saint Kca^ or Ce, from scientists, I presume?”
whom the island takes its name. In- ..^-0 sjr .»
isii-Koa, meaning the Island of Kea. “Physicians?”
She was a contemporary and friend .,Vni mil»u yvT„ .x ,, ,
ot the celebrated Saint ColumbMlle. or undt.rtakers on oul. Boar(1 ,
who converted the Piets ot Scotland ; xfealth ”
to the Christian religion and in whose ' „ , . .
memory there is a holy well named in ! awpo<nted?” -
Inishkea. Other contemporaries of ! ... _„
. ^ Lite insurance men.”
hers were the \ lrgins Carra and Der- ; . . ... ...
e v. i. -• . . ! Comemnttng on this interview
villa, for whom termons or ancient
. . , , . ., • j American Medicine savs:
church lands are named on the mam- ! ..
, , .. . i Who belter than life insurance
land. These three religious women i • . , , ^
did effective Christian pioneer work in ““■"""I8* llas, reaso”,tor takl"B a
those western wilds. 1°™"S P1"’1C sanlla,ion7
__ They profit by every advance in med
Palace of the Queen. ical difovery and pro«ress and <hey
At present these rocky and treeless reap 1 ie rao,st d!ret* advantage from
islets support several families, gentle, evcrj essGU ng 111 ttie death tate. ’
modest, hardy people, who supplement
the scanty harvest of their stony What He Would Do.
fields with the finny harvest of the ‘What^ would you do if you were
sea. They live in one-story stoutly- a asked the man of vaulting
built cottages and cabins, thatched ambition.
and whitewashed, the thatched roofs “1 don’t know,” answered the mat
being weighted down by lines of ter-of-fact person; “I suppose I’d fol
stones slung from ropes to prevent l°w fashion and wear a look of
their being blown away by the fre- worry and a bulletproof shirt.”—
quent fierce gales from the Atlantic. ' Washington Star.
One of those humble habitations -—
constitutes the palace of the aged Most Powerful Dredge,
queen of the island, widow of the late The most powerful dredge in the
King of Inishkea and successor of a world is that used by the Susquehanna
long and unrecorded line of female Iron Company at Buffalo to dig
potentates running far back into the through solid rock an inland harbor.
Luxury for Statesmen1
(Special Correspondence.)
a no annual nousecieamng at the
United States Capitol has been unusu
ally thorough this year, and it is not
'oo much to say that the great white
domed building at Washington is just
now & little cleaner and more attract
ive than it has been at any previous
time in history. The legislative head
quarters is more modern, too, for
many improvements have been made
in the big structure since the national
lawmakers went home last spring.
Few persons, not excepting the sen
ators and representatives themselves,
have any conception of what a her
culean task it is to put the capitol in
apple-pie order for a session of con
gress. The huge building has an area
of more than three and a half acres,
and inasmuch as it is three stories in
height there is an aggregate of more
than ten acres of floors to be scrubbed.
There are 430 separate rooms the walls
of which have to be cleaned and the
woodwork touched up. to say nothing
of the renovation of carpets and up
holstered furniture, and twenty-eight
apartments—all committee rooms of
good size—have been completely
transformed, the work embracing the
redecoration of walls and ceiling and
refurnishing with rew carpets and
new mahogany furniture.
Huge Housecleaning Task.
Let the average housewife try to
imagine what it would mean to wash
West Front of Capitol.
TOO windows each twice as large as
any window in an ordinary house, and ,
to clean the woodwork of 550 doors, i
and she may gain a slight conception
of the immensity of housecleaning at
the nation's capitol. And in addition
there is more than an acre of glass
skylights to be washed inside and out; ]
140 fireplaces to he set in order; 260
wash basins to be scoured, and an in- ,
finite number of- other tasks calcu
lated to keep a large force of work- ;
ers busy for weeks before the date
for the assembling of the legislators. ;
When the members of congress came
back to work, after their long vaca
tion, they found lhat electricity is, to
a greater extent than ever, king of the j
capitol. The magic current plays the
most important part in heating, light- ■
ing and ventilating the monster build
ing. ard has lately enabled marvelous
advances in the facilities for quick
communication between the various
parts of this official city under one
roof. Just a hint of the conveniences
afforded by the utilization of the
twentieth-century power is found in
the operation of the new electric hell !
system whfch has been installed
result of the recent election, come
back to congress after an absence of
some years, will be very likely to open
their eyes in amazement. The twen
tieth-century congressman sits in a
chair that cost $25; has his shoes
shined free of charge at a bootblack
stand that cost $55; and is served
with drink,ng water from coolers
which cost $26 apiece, and each of
which will hold $17 worth of min
eral water. The speaker of the house
of representatives has a new mahog
any desk that cost $120, and may rest
on a leather couch for which Uncle
Sam paid out $60. There are ninety
toilet rooms in the capitol, and four
teen bathtubs have been installed for
the use of congressmen. These tubs
are all cut from blocks of solid mar
ble, and are equipped with shower
apparatus and other up-to-date ad
juncts,
Capitol to Be Extended.
This session of congress will in all
probability authorize an extension of
the United States capitol which will
cost se\eral million dollan and in
crease the size of the builiing fully
one-third. Under the old conditions
such an expansion of the already spa
cious structure would probably have
appalled the men who are frequently
called upon to communicate with
widely-separated points in Uncle
Sam's biggest office building. Now
they can regard the growth with se
renity, for the capitol has. all its own,
as complete a telephone system as is
to be found in the average city of 10,
000 inhabitants, the exchange being
connected with more than 300 tele
phones throughout the building.
Steps are also to be taken to give
the capitol a more efficient system of
fire protection, for, whereas, the mass
ive structure is, in its construction,
well safeguarded against fire, its
rooms contain vast quantities of rec
ords, books and documents of value
which would be rapidly consumed
were not means at hand for quickly
extinguishing tlie flames. The provi
sion of a modern fire department is
all that is needed to make the con
gressional community a little city by
itself, for it already boasts a police
department that numbers more men
than are on the pay roll of the average
small city; a postoffice that does a
tremendous business, and an institu
tion—the office of the sergeant-at-arms
—which performs all the functions of
a bank. When the new office build
ings are completed, the capitol will
also have its own underground rail
way system.
Remember the Pleasant Things.
A cheerful face is as good for an in
valid as pleasant weather. Cheerful
ness is health, melancholy is disease.
.Cheerfulness is just as natural to the
heart of a man in sound moral and
physical health as color is to his
cheeks, and whenever we see habitual
gloom we may be sure there is some
thing radically wrong in the animal
economy, or the moral sense.
Sydney Smith once gave a lady two
and-twenty receipts against melan
choly. One was a bright fire, another
to remember a’l the pleasant things
said to her. another to keep a box of
sweets on the mantelpiece and a ket
tle simmering on the hob. These are
trivial things in themselves, but life
is made up of the little pleasures,
ahd none should be neglected because
cf their seemingly trifling nature.—
London Answers.
A Strange Disappearance.
The German on his native heath
has some peculiar notions about wit
Senatorial Reading Room.
throughout the big building for the
benefit of members temporarily absent
from the floor while the legislative
body is in session. By means of one
or another of these 100 bells, a law
maker. no matter in what part of the
building he may be, is warned when
any important action is to be taken in
the legislative chamber, so that it is
his own fault if he does rot vote on
every measure which comes up.
Arrangements of the Eest.
The visitor to the capitol under this
new regime may be surprised to note
the total absence of lighting fixtures,
and yet at the first suggestion of dusk
the chambers of the senate and house
of representatives are flooded with
light. More than 25,000 incandescent
lamps, each of sixteen candle power,
tucked away in unobtrusive places,
give the illumination. Similarly, not
a single coil of steam pipe nor so
much as one radiator is visible, and
yet no person can ever complain of
cold so long as he is within the walls
of the huge pile on Capitol hill. Final
ly, 75,000 cubic feet of fresh air is
poured into the hall of the house, and
26,000 cubic feet of clean atmosphere
is forced into the senate chamber
each minute, and yet ^he novel task
is performed so scientifically that
there is not the suggestion of a
draught in any part of these vast
rooms.
In this betterment of things in gen
eral at the capitol, there has, as may
be imagined, been no special effort for
economy. The men in charge have
gone on the theory that there can be
nothing too good for a ‘‘billion-dollar
congress,” and the men who, as the
( and hnrnoY, some of them being droll
j anl others dreary. A tourist with his '
: bride asked a driver if there was any
! thii:g remarkable about the mountain
they : ascending and he an
swered:
“No nothing peculiar about the hill
I itself. but there is a queer story con
j nected with it.”
I "Please give us the legend.”
i “Well, onre upon a time a young !
j lady and gentleman went up this j
j mountain together, and hundreds of I
people saw them go higher and higher
I until they disappeared, and they never
! came back.”
j “What became of them?”
“They went down on the other
side."—Chicago Record-Herald Sunday
Magazine.
! _
Antarctic Exhibition.
Capt. Scott, R. N., and the officers
j of the Discovery Antarctic expedition !
were present at the opening of the
Antarctic exposition of water colors,
photographs ard other articles cf in
terest. used in the South Polar regions
during their recent expedition, which
took place at the Bruton Galleries.
Sir Clements Markham, president of
the Royal Geographical Society op
ened the exhibition.
Crafty Man.
“But,” protested Plioxy’s young
bride, “you promised me when we
were married you would give me any
thing I wanted.”
"No, dear,” replied Phoxy. “I was
careful to say ‘anything you were in
want of.’ You are not in want of a
sealskin sacque.”
BROWN GUN IS A WONDER.
Fighting Machine Said to Have a
Range of One Hundred Miles.
The inventor of the new American
guh is a man named J. Hamilton
Brown, though the work of construct
ing this particular six-inch experimen
tal piece is in charge of Col. John M.
Ingalls, retired U. S. A., an artillerist
of high standing and reputation. Des
pite the incredulity of contemporary
gun-bui’ders, says a writer in Every
body’s, Col. Ingalls and the officers
with him assert that this six-inch gun
will throw thirty miles a projectile
weighing 100 pounds which will pierce
a six-inch steel target.
A ten-inch gun of this construction,
with a powder chamber of 14,259 cubic
inches and using 360 pounds of smoke
powder, would hurl a COO-pound pro
jectile a distance af fifty-nine miles.
Increasing this ratio a 16-inch gun
would Lave an extreme range of more
than 100 miles and equipped with
such coast-defense rifles England and
France could shell each other across
the channel.
The important new principle in the
Brown gun is the winding of a tube
of involute steel plates with polished
steel wire, thus securing both longi
tudinal and circumferential strength.
The gun is 313 inches long and weighs
20,000 pounds. On a forged-steel lin
ing tube thirty-four flat steel sheets,
one-seventh of an inch in thickness
and 308 inches in length, are laid in
the same fashion that shingles are put
on a roof, one under the other. But
in this case they curl around the lining
tube, fitting exactly and form the true
tapering cylinder. On the outside of
these plates is wound, back and forth,
just as thread is wound on a spool,
twenty-one miles of steel wire which
is so tightly stretched by a special ma
chine that every inch is tested to
stand 2,500 pounds of tension.
There are seven layers of wound
wire at the muzzle and twenty-one at
the breech. On the outside of the wire
for a distance of twelve feet from the
breech, is shrunk a forged steel jacket
to cover the power chamber. It is be
lieved that ro possible powder pres
sure in explosion could burst this gur.
HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING.
Sample of Tragedies Now Being
Enacted in the East.
It was 10 o'clock in the morning
when we sawT coming out from their
hiding places a small band of Russian
soldiers, w rites a Japanese Magazine.
That was the beginning of the fierce
onslaught. It was as if somebody had
revived in this civilized day of ours
the scenes from the old story books,
when swords, spears, hows >nd ar
rows wrere the only weapons of war,
and men slashed away at each other
It was just at this time that we saw a
Russian officer rise from the ranks,
and leaping over the dead bodies of
his men and comrades and putting
himself at the head of the ranks, try
by his daring example to revive the
spirits of his men. Against the lurid
background of blood and fire he made
a superb figure, always rushing in
front of his men, his sword gleaming
ever over the heads of the fighting
men.
At last this officer rushed out. call
ing always and loudly upon his men
to follow. When he was within a
few feet of our men he turned his
head to see whether his men were
obeying his order. Instead cf follow
ing at his heels his soldiers w-ere
trampling upon each other in the
mad effort to run away. The sight
broke his heart, evidently. He turned
the point of his sword he had held
against himself. An instaift later he
fell with his heart pierced through.
The Real Issue.
There are two Issues after all,
Above the ones that speech may call
Or wisdom utter;
Two issues that with me and you
Are most important—and the two
Are bread and butter.
Let patriotic banners wave.
Let economic speakers rave;
’Tis not potential
The Art proclaim or Music sing;
The Leal' is after all the thing
That's most essential.
Truth seeks some broader meeting place
For breed or clan or tribe or race
For saint and sinner;
Fait after all the noise and fuss
The issue paramount with us
Is—What for dinner?
New- theories we may evolve.
Old governments we may dissolve,
New flags float o'er us.
And Truth may search and Wisdom think.
Still these two planks of iniat arid drink
Are yet before us.
So let contention hotly wage.
And let the wars of logic rage
In discourse fretted;
When all the clamor is complete
The issue still is what to tat—•
And how to get it!
—New York Times.
Shares Over Half « Million Each.
The highest-prived shares of stock
in the world were the shares in the
New River company, recently taken
over by the municipality of London.
In 1690 the first sod of the “New
River’’ was turned, and stock in the
undertaking consisted of 72 shares,
divided into King’s and Adventurer's,
which originally brought only $25
apiece.
On July 17, 1899, an entire Adven
turer’s share was bought at auction
by the Prudential Assurance Company
for $614,000— Stray Stories.
Jury's Verdict Hard to Foresee.
When Joseph H. Choate, present am
bassador to Great Britain, was a yourg
man and during.his early legal experi
ence he was engaged as counsel for
the defense in a case where affairs
seemed very one sided, his being the
right side. The jury of good men and
true at the conclusion of the testi
mony took but a few minutes to come
to a decision. The evidence had been
so concusive and the decision so
quickly reached that Mr. Choate was
perfectly dumfounded to hear their
verdict, which was against him.
“Well,” said he, turning to his client,
“this proves it. If there be anything
in the world w'hich surpasses the
knowledge of the Almighty it is the
finding of a petit jury.”
Indian Priest.
The Rev. Father Albert Nechauquet
completed his four years' course In the
Propaganda at Rome this year. He
said his first mass in August in Okla
homa City, and is now assistant pas
tor Muskogee, I. T. He is a full
blooded IPottowatomie and the first In
dian priest.