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LOVES OFFERING
if life were A rosebud
Bedighted with dew
i would pluck it my darling
And give it to you
If love were a jewel
That money could buy
I would give thee a casket
No queen could defy
But love is not purchased
In whole or in part
So Ive nothing to give thee
But love and my heart
But rosebuds may wither
And jewels are vain
But on to eternity
Love shall remain
b FJiilndclpliia Bulletin
A SPECIAL ENVOY
When Pepworth Tring the well
known South African millionaire sent
for me and after inquiring if I was at
liberty for a few weeks said that he
was about to commission me to take a
small map to his Johannesburg repre
sentatives I was rather surprised that
he should go to the expense of a special
messenger when the postal service was
available
It seems a very simple undertak
ing I said
But he speedily enlightened me
Ah thats where you are wrong
he replied giving me a shrewd glance
In this case the post is not to be trust
ed aud an unscrupulous enemy will
strain every nerve to defeat my inten
tion
lou anticipate there will be an at
tempt to rob me during the journey
I am quite sure of it The matter
on the face of it is simple enough This
anap he held up a small piece of
Iparchment a few square inches in size
dt appeared to represent the course of a
river for some red crosses were marked
pn one portion and some lines of writ
ing ran along the bottom has to be
igiven to Mr Howard of Fox street
Johannesburg There your mission
ends But whether you will be able to
accomplish it is another matter Gib
eon my old partner is determined to
obtain possession of this map by some
pneans He is rich unscrupulous and
lean command the services of men even
imore unscrupulous than himself This
is the reason I do not trust the post
The corruption prevalent among all
SBoer officials extends to the postofflce
my letters have been opened He has
creatures there in his employ You
Wist trust no one and conceal the paper
an such a manner that it cannot be
found
But while on shipboard it would
surely be better to intrust it to the cap
rtain or purser
That would be risky and only post
pone their attack on you If you re
ceived the map back safely you would
without doubt be robbed of it between
Cape Town and Johannesburg No
reaches J3ape Town they
must be under the impression mat you
tore not the bearer
When am I to leave London
The Roman leaves the docks
and Plymouth on Saturday Your
tberth is booked Gibson is also a pas
senger and several of his following
But perhaps I had better explain why
jthis map is so important
I Gibson like myself is an old Kim
jkerley man We both did very well
there and lately like me he has been
dealing in Transvaal mining property
We have often gone partners in various
undertakings In the autumn of 1894
being then in Johannesburg about six
months ago and feeling the want of a
holiday I determined to go on a shoot
ing expedition through the Transvaal
toward the sea Accompanied by two
Zulus I carried out my intention and
after some weeks of traveling we found
ourselves in the low country bordering
on Swaziland Here quite by chance
I made a remarkable discovery In the
dried up channel of what had been a
river I came upon traces of diamonds
JThe find to my eyes was most promis
ing but before I could pursue my in
vestigations further one of my Zulus
dispatched to get food from a neighbor
ing kraal came hot foot with the news
that the Swazis were up in arms Irri
tated by some act of Boer oppression
they seemed inclined to wreak their
vengeance on me aud so we fled forth
with for our very lives Before leaving
I drew up a plan of the place so that it
could be found again
After various adventures I reached
Durban and took ship for England
Meeting Gibson in London I acquainted
him in general terms with my discov
ery stating that in the course of iny
journeying I had found diamonds I
had intended to take him into partner
ship in this affair but the knowledge
which I gained immediately afterward
that he had swindled me in the matter
of some gold mines changed my pur
pose and I broke with him for good
Now the value of my find Is prob
lematical Diamonds have not yet
vbeen found in paying quantity in the
Transvaal This place may be a second
Kimberley and shake the De Beers
monopoly It is quite possible There
fore I want the ground pegged out in
the usual way and to register myself
as the owner but if Gibson could get
hold of the map he would forestall me
It is not convenient for me to go my
self just now as I have some important
business in hand so not to delay ob
taining the claims I have ordered How
ard to peg them out and register in my
name but he can do nothing until he
has the particulars contained in this
iNow do you understand
Yes but how far is Gibson cognizant
of your plans
He has found out that I intend send
ing the map immediately to Johannes
burg This office is watched You will
toe shadowed on leaving and when they
find tfiat you are a passenger on the
Roman they will conclude that you axe
my aessenger It will be your busi
ness to nullify that belief
I see
You had better pretend to be a new
sub manager sent out by me to repre
sent my interests in Johannesburg
Now can you do you think conceal
the map in such a way that these
thieves cannot get hold of it
I will do my best I said at length
Trust no one concluded my em
ployer giving me money for my jour
ney and the boat ticket Rely on your
self alone Put the map in your breast
pocket for the present but find a se
curer hiding place before you go on
board Good by and good luck to
you
My preparations were soon made and
the following morning found me on
board the Roman I had reduced my
luggage to as small a compass as possi
ble It consisted of two small port
manteaus which would go under my
bunk some wraps and a few novels
with Lock on Gold the latter ob
tained from my employer to sustain my
character as a mining manager and
with its covers incased in gray calico
I had joined the ship at the docks to
avoid the crush at Waterloo aud to see
the mouth of the Thames There were
two other men in my cabin for the ship
was full every berth being taken but
they had not yet come on board so I
arranged my belongings at leisure and
then went on deck as Ave left the dock
to smoke and view the river and the
miles of wharves and shipping as we
slowly and majestically steamed out to
sea The ship was nearly empty and I
passed a quiet twenty four hours an
ticipating the coming duel which was
to take place and wondering if my
simple scheme would be successful
The mailbags and passengers came
on board at Plymouth and a scene of
animation and confusion followed but
a rough sea and head wind calmed the
exuberance of many of the company
and the dinner tables in the saloon that
evening showed an abundance of emp
ty seats Both my cabin mates suc
cumbed and I left them white and
groaning Fortunately I was a good
sailor and having enjoyed my dinner
later in the evening found inyself in
the smoking room smoking one of
Jim Gibsons cigars and engaged in a
chat with that worthy who was most
friendly and evinced some curiosity
about inyself
I told my tale which he accepted
with perhaps suspicions readiness
Employed by Tring are you Pep
pery fellow I know him well We used
to be friends now he hates me like poi
son
He introduced me to his friends
Spellman Dunbarton and Vandermit
who severally expressed themselves de
lighted to make my acquaintance
The first two or three days my ad
versaries only skirmished tried to
pump me and dropped broad hints as
to the advantages which would follow
if I joined them hints I ignored
As however they felt pretty sure
that I was the bearer of the coveted
map my portmanteaus were searched
more than once and my spare clothes
when I was absent from my cabin It
was Spellman who was told off for his
portion of the quest finding I was not
very cordial toward him he struck up a
friendship for one of my cabin mates
which gave him an excuse for entering
at all hours I did not think it advisa
ble to enlighten the latter as my atti
tude was to blandly ignore my
saries behavior
Spellmans researches proving of no
avail the great endeavor to discover if
I had the paper took place about a
week after Madeira was passed I
was playing in a whist toutnamenjt and
noticed that Dunbarton and Vandermit
were playing nap with the two men
Who shared my cabin I guessed that
Spellman was making a thorough
search and as soon as I was at liberty
I hurried there
It had indeed been thorough Every
article had been taken out of the port
manteaus and examined and the port
manteaus themselves cut and hacked
in search of a secret hiding place Ev
erything had been scrutinized even the
gray calico cover pulled off Lock to
make sure that nothing was between it
and the bindiug Nor was this all for
while I surveyed the wreck I berime
conscious of an overpowering feeling
of drowsiness and knowledge came to
me that I had been drugged Too late
I remembar irt having just aceep ed a
drink from Gibson but I had only
sense enough left to tumble into my
bunk before falling into a heavy sleep
They no doubt searched me to the
skin that night for I slept as the dead
but though I woke next morning with a
bad headache I felt well pleased for no
result had rewarded their toil Of
course I made a fuss as to the conduct
of some mysterious thieves who had
not even spared the lining of my boots
and certain inquiries were Instituted
which came to nothing I innocently
complained to Gibson as to the bad
quality of his whisky and there appar
ently the matter ended for I was mo
lested no more
Gibson continued good friends with
me and often came and chatted as I
languidly studied Lock on Gold in
my deck chair As a practical mineral
ogist he pointed out the best parts to
study and I imbibed much information
valuable enough had I designed to turn
miner He was an amusing man his
creed simple enough Get money hon
estly if jou can but get money A
more efficient auctioneer for selling the
numbers of the ships run in the daily
sweeps it would be impossible to find
and I enjoyed the privilege of acting
auctioneers clerk with Lock for a
desk on my knee
It was 4 oclock on a Tuesday after
noon when we reached Cape Town and
Gibson managed to get away by that
evenings train leaving two of his fol
lowers to bring his luggage on next
day when the rest of the passengers
bound for the Rand traveled
V hjLiT
The third morning after landing
found me in Fox street Johannesburg
seeking Howards office I had just
seen the name in the window and had
ascended the steps to the door of the
building when a passer by pulled up on
recognizing me It was Gibson
Hullo he said where are you off
to now
The time for caution was passed v
tory was mine and I could safely en
joy my triumph I surveyed the baf
fled financier with a smile of infinite
satisfaction and replied
I am the bearer of a certain docu
ment from Mr Tring to Mr Howard1
From the expression on my face and
the accent on my words he read the
truth and knew that I bad baffled him
and his face changed Words failed
him for he was taken quite by surprise
and bewilderment rendered him speech
less
Enjoying his discomfiture a few sec
onds I turned and went in leaving him
on the pavement below the most un
happy man in Johannesburg
Having entered the outer office and
given my name to a clerk I was speed
ily shown into Mr Howards private
room He greeted me warmly and in
the same breath inquired if I had been
successful
I said I had
Thats good news Ive just got my
mail and heard of your coming Look
you see the envelope has been tam
pered with You are sure Gibson hasnt
set eyes on the map
Absolutely I replied then gave
him a short account of the efforts to
secure it
Ay ay they wouldnt stick at much
Youre fortunate to get here with a
whole skin But where is it after all
In answer I produced Lock on Gold
and taking my penknife cut off the
gray calico cover which I had put on
again after it had been pulled off Then
inserting the point into the cover itself
I cut it open There snugly concealed
lay the precious map I had before
leaving London cut the cover open
with a sharp knife and placing the
map in between glued up the edges
with great care Being unable to abso
lutely conceal the fact that the cover
had been cut I had put the calico cov
er over and when it had been torn off
by the eager searcher he had never
noticed that the binding itself had been
cut
Thus safely and securely the map
had traveled unseen by any eye un-
touched by any hand and now having j
placed it in the possession of Mr How-
ard my mission as a special envoy was I
over
With the knowledge gained by the
map Howard took steps which very
shortly made the land where Pepworth
Tring found diamonds the property of
that worthy and I knew no more as
nothing further has been heard of the
discovery no company has been pub
licly formed to work it But I have a
strong suspicion that the find turned up
trumps and that the reason of the si
lence is that it is too good a thing for
the public to be admitted Chambers
Journal
Our Smaller Colleges
There are a few striking facts aoout
the small American college writes
Edward W Bok in the Ladies Home
Journal One striking fact is that
sixty per cent of the brainiest Ameri
cans who have risejl to prominence and
Succggg graduates of colleges whose
hanies are scarcely known outside of
their own States It is a fact also that
during the past ten years the majority
of the new and best methods of learn
ing have emanated from the smaller
colleges and have been adopted later
by the larger ones Because a college
happens to be unknown two hundred
miles from the place of its location
does not alwas mean that the college is
not worthy of wider repute The fact
cannot be disputed that the most direct
teaching and necessarily the teaching
most productive of good results Is be
ing done in the smaller American col
leges The names of these colleges may
not be familiar to the majority of peo
ple but that makes them none the less
worthy places of learning The larger
colleges are unquestionably good But
there are smaller colleges just as good
and in some respects better Some of
the finest educators we have are at
tached to the faculties of the smaller
institutions of learning Young girls j
or young men who are being educated I
at one of the smaller colleges need nev
er feel that the fact of the college being
a small one places them at a
tage in comparison with the friend or
companion wTho has been sent to a
larger and better known college It is
not the college it is the student
Unworthy Books
A healthy body undoubtedly con
duces to a healthy condition of the
mind but it does not produce intellect
ual activity The only way to accom
plish intellectual results is to work the
mind Hard work of any kind is never
easy it may be satisfying and exhilar
ating but not easy When yon really
work your brain you know it even to
concentrate your attention to begin a
task is a serious effort Many wise
workers say that when you have
learned the power of concentration you
have solved the problem of effective in- J
tellectual work That is the first ij
bling block that the person who does j
not naDLtuaiiy reao oooks evea lor
recreation encounters It is so difficult
to pin your attention to the printed
page for you think of things neartr at
hand with which you are familiar But
a sensational novel captures the uneasy
attention sooner than more thoughSfuJ
books therefore people of untraiUed
minds are the greatest devourers of un
worthy books Ladies Home Journal
Girls should disabuse their minds ol
the idea that their husbands will lick
any man who speaks disagreeably to
them
The Depth of Sun Spots
Within a few years the question has
been raised whether sun spots are real
ly depressions or holes in the suns
surface as they have generally been
considvd to be by astronomers Prof
flicco of Catania concludes as the re
sult of a long series of observations
not only that the spots are cavities in
the sun but that their depth can be
approximately measured Ho states
that the average depth of twenty three
sun spots measured by him was about
G40 miles
Americas Many IJansrnaires
Dr D G Brinton the archaeologist
said in a recent lecture that in North
and South America no less than 120 or
130 absolutely distinct languages exist
As the growth of language is very slow
he thinks the fact of the existence of
so great a variety of speech on the
western continents proves that the native-red
men have inhabited them for
many thousands of years Another
proof of the antiquity of the American
Indians according to Doctor Brinton
is the fact that they represent a distinct
human ty pe and the formation of such
a type requires thousands of years
The Diamond Beetle
One of the most beautiful of insects
Is the diamond beetle of Brazil Ac
cording to the recent investigations of
Doctor Garbasso the sparkling colors
of this beetle which blazes with extra
ordinary brilliancy in the sunshine
originate in an entirely different way
from the hues of butterflies The scales
of the diamond beetle appear to con
sist of two layers separated by an ex
ceedingly thin interspace and the light
falling upon them experiences the effect
of interference so that the resulting
colors conespond with those of thin
plates or of the soap bubble
Murderous Babootm
A species of baboon inhabiting the
colony of the Cape of Good Hope has
become a pest to the farmers by de
stroying their lambs The baboons
haunt the clumps of cactus scattered
through the fields and exhibit much
cunning in keeping out of the reach of
their human enemies It is asserted
that they have taken note of the fact
that women do not cany firearms and
therefore need not be feared But when
a man appears the baboons instantly
iake to their heels On this account
the farmers have lately devised the
plan of dressing in womens apparel
when they set out to shoot baboons
An Appeal for the Elephant
Monsieur Foa a French explorer of
Africa has recently made a strong ap
peal fo the protection of the elephants
Remaining on that continent He de
clares that the great beasts should be
preserved not merely as curiosities but
as animals which might become very
useful inder domestication Former
ly as he points out elephants were do
mesticated in Africa and he believes
the same thing could be done again to
day and that it would well pay to do
it But unless protected against slaugh
ter the elephant will have disappeared
from Africa before civilization has
reached the heart of the dark continent
Golilfisb Farmincr
The raising of goldfish is a special in
dustry and one of the largest goldfish
farms is at Spring Lake Indiana
When young the goldfish is said to re
semble in color and general appearance
an ordinary minnow After a while
they turn dark becoming occasionally
almost black Then a reddish hue be
glne to appear the true golden color
being developed at the average age of
one year or less A few individuals
however never change their original
s lver color and sometimes the red and
fjold hues make their appearance only
In patches Not infrequently goldfish
develop two or more tails
Pine Baric Boat
Everybody is familiar with the birch
bark boats or canoes of the American
Indians but the fact is not so well
known that some of the aboriginal in
habitants of the western shore of this
continent were accustomed to make
boats of pine bark A model of one of
these in the Smithsonian museum serv
ed recently as a text for a talk by Prof
Otis T Mason on the evolution of boats
The boat in question was he said an
exact representation of those in use
along certain parts of the Columbia
river It is made of the whole skin of
a pine tree which is turned inside out
the ends being cut obliquely and drawn
together in such a manner that the ves
sel has a pointed ram under water at
each end Directly across the Pacific
ocean from the Columbia is the River
Amur in Asia Prof Mason thinks the
fact that similar boats are found on the
Amur may have a bearing on the prob
lem of former emigration from Asia to
North America
A Substitute lor Amputation
A new and simple mode of treat
ment has been introduced in France
says the Medical Times by which it
is claimed a large proportion of injured
limbs now usually amputated can be
saved The method which is due to
Dr Reclus was recently described be
fore the French Congress or Surgery
and is thus explained
r
Whatever the extent or gravity ot
the lesions he never under any circum
stances amputates the injured limb
but merely wraps it in antiseptic sub
stances by a veritable embalming pro
cess leaving nature to separate the
dead from the living tissues This
method of treatment possesses the dou
ble advantage of being much less fatal
than surgical exaresis and of preserv
ing for the use of the patient if not the
entire limb at any rate a much larger
part than would be left by amputation
He advocates this very conserva
tive treatment on account of the excel
lent effects of hot water which he uses
freely After the skin has been shaved
and cleansed from all fatty substances
by ether etc in the usual way a jet of
hot water CO to G2 degrees C 140 to 144
degrees but not higher is made to ir
ritate all the injured surfaces and to
penetrate into all the hollows and un
der the detached parts of the wound
wtihout exception This is the only
way of removing all clots and to wash
away all foreign bodies together with
the micro organisms they may contain
The advantages of hot water at this
high temperature are three fold First
hot water at this temperature is anti
septic heat greatly increases the po
tency of antiseptic substances second
it is hemostatic blood stanching third
it helps to compensate for the loss of
heat resulting from the bleeding and
especially from the traumatic shock
After the embalming process and
the dead tissue has been separated
from the living the surgeon has noth
ing to do except to divide the bone at a
suitable spot According to Iteclus the
results attained are remarkable
FOLLOW IN EACH OTHERS WAKE
rian to Si
ave the Motive
Steamers
It is a wise steamer master wno
knows how to handle his boat so that
she will get the benefit of the power
of a steamer in front of her In old
time races this was a favorite trick
and that it has not been forgotten even
in this late day was shown recently
The boat ahead was
faster in deep water
Power of
the larger and
She was going
at the usual rate of speed Another
steamer of light draft smaller and per
haps a trifle faster in shallow water
bound the same way came up on the
port quarter of the other just enough
out of the way to avoid the current
from the wheel of the other but still
close enough to get the benefit of the
suction caused by her displacement as
she moved through the water Finally
the run being all the time made in river
water the stern steamer gave a spurt
and slowly passed the other and beat
her a short distance to the dock
The danger of this close proximity of
the two is that should the boat ahead
part her wheel chains take a sheer to
port and drift across the bow of the
other the great speed of the stern
steamer would have sent her crashing
through the other with great loss of
life and property Still another objec
tion to speeding in competition is the
liability of the engineer in his excite
ment to forget all thoughts of care of
his boilers and to shove in coal until
the smokestack Is red hot from base to
top By intensely heating the boilers
and other parts of the plant are weak
ened and to that degree made unsafe
for further use Detroit Free Press
The Way He Proved It
A small boy cyclist had some fun
with a park official one evening recent
ly He was riding without a light and
was stopped by an officer who asked
him in gruff tones where his light was
says the New York Commercial Ad
vertiser
Why its here exclaimed the rider
in surprise
Yes but its out solemnly asserted
the patrolman
Well it was lighted at that last
turn
Sonny ifs cold couldnt have been
lighted this evening triumphantly an
nounced the officer
Huh That thin metal cools in a
minute Ill light that lamp and wait
until it gets red hot put it out then
ride to the next corner and back and
when I return itll be cold
All right try it assented the acuta
policeman
The boy lighted the lantern waited
until it grew red hot turned it out and
started and that kid is going yet foi
he rode right on and the wise officer
retired to think it over and incidental
ly to kick himself
An Eagle with a History
In no section of New York State are
eagles so numerous as among the high
lands along the Hudson River Dozens
of them can be seen daily circling
far up in the air or swooping down
after their prey Probably the pioneer
of them all certainly the most inter
esting is one which was wounded over
100 years ago His home is on Turks
Head above Garrisons His habit of
flying sideways and the peculiar droop
of his right wing makes him an easily
recognized object This droop was
caused by the shot of a British soldier
who while passing up the Hudson on
a man-of-war was ordered by his cap
tain to shoot the eagle as it soared1
quite a distance aloft The soldiers
markmanship was good but it cost
him his lif e A band of patriots hidden
in the rocks saw the deed and as the
ship lay well toward the shore their
volley killed the sharpshooter The
wounded eagle was cared for by the
patriots and the bird still flies over
Turks Head
A Dickens Memento
Charles Dickens Guild of Literature
and Art started enthusiastically in
1851 to assist and provide for authors
and artists in difficulties has just been
put an end to by a private act of Parli
ment Whatever property is left is
transf erred to the Royal Literary Fund
No nipns trouble is as great as his
sighs
EDUCATIONALCOLUMN
NOTES ABOUT SCHOOLS AND
THEIR MANAGEMENT
Thirty Tcr Cent of School
Children
J
in the United States Are jSelir
Sighted A Pree Public School Sys
tem Is Our Noblest Institutions
The Ace of Spectacles
We commonly call the period we lire
in the age of steam or the age of
electricity but it would perhaps be
more accurate to call it the age of
spectacles Look where we will in
the schools the churches the shops the
courts the marts of business or the re
sorts of pleasure we find a large pro
portion of the people using spectacles
in some form or other In the United
States at least 30 per cent of the school
children are mjopic or near sighted
and this is only one of the defects from
which eyesight suffers- As people grow
up and grow older the vision is affected
in other ways so that it is not unrea
sonable to say that the vast majority of
the people about us wear or ought to
wear spectacles
In the Review of Reviews Dr Allport
of Minnesota discusses the subject of
the detective eyesight of American
children He shows that human eye
sight is degenerating and that this de
generacy has become hereditary The
cause of the degeneration is the exces
sive strain upon the eye produced by in
tellectual pursuits In other Avords
the intellectual progress aud the ovu
lar degeneration of the human raceire
inseparable companions
This relationship is proved by the
fact that among savage races or those
which have made little or no intellect
ual progress the eyes are normal and
the percentage of defective sight very
small Among Indian children only 2
per cent are affected by myopia and
among negroes only 2 per cent Of
2000 Mexican children only S were
near sighted JO far sighted and 10 as
tigmatic In the United States 30 per
cent of the school children have defect
ive eyes while in Germany where all
sorts of intellectual pursuits abound
and the typography of books is of the
most execrable description 50 per cent
of the children are myopic
Dr Allport does not argue from
these statistics that we must abandon
study and revert to a state of nature
Nor does he conclude that we will
necessarily lose our eyesight altogether
and become permanently blind but he
urges the absolute necessity of watch
fulness over and care of the eyes of the
children School principals particular
ly should be trained in the detection of
the eye disorders and boards of educa
tion should skillful oculists to
examine the school children and also
to instruct the teachers
This system has been introduced m
Minneapolis with the most favorable
results Last year 23049 pupils in the
public schools were examined and 7
2oj about 2i Poi- pent were found
defective The percentage of defectives
in the different school buildings also
varied greatly ranging from 10 49j5v
per cent the maximum number being
discovered in a building of notoriously
poor and unhygienic character This
shows the necessity of healthful and
properly constructed school buildings
where the light may be unobstructed
Defective eyes cannot in all cases be
cured but they can be so alleviated by
the ise of glasses that no strain i
brought upon them and the defects are
not increased In the case of children
this practically saYCS tlifi vt 3
The Army of School Children
Statistics that cover a country as
large as the United States are usually
of such great magnitude and so compli
cated that they are not easily compre
hended but the figures presented to
the Commissioner of Education in his
report recently published tell their
story plainly and eloquently
The report covers the year ending
July 1 and shows a total enrollment
during that year in the schools and col
leges botli public and private of 15
997197 pupils an increase of 308975
Of this number 14405371 attendeu
public institutions Estimating the en
tire population of the country at about
70000000 it will be seen that one out
of every five persons attends the public
schools If the adult population com
prising those who have passed the
school age was dedxieted from the
total population of the country the pro A
portion of those attending school would
of course largely increase But with
out making this calculation the pro-
portion as it stands is creditable
Of all the free institutions of the land
the public school system is probably
the noblest Its successful institution
was the guarantee that this nation was
not born to die Its existence now is
the bulwark against both internal and
external attacks Other nations believe
an army of fighters is better than an
army of school children Their money
goes for the training and maintenance
of a host of fighters The United
States believes a mind taught to think
is better than a body taught to fight
Its money goes for the preservation of
the public school system The sudden
rise of this country among the nations
of the world and its prosperity to day
seem to indicate that the latter is the
best policy Philadelphia Times
Domino Combinations
One of the most wonderful examples
In mathematics is that relating to com
binations in dominoes It is calculated
that two persons may play the game
ten hours a day making four moves a
minute and that they could continue
so moving for 118000000 years without
exhausting all the combinations of the
game which are 24S528211840
The leaf of the
cocoanut tree is near
ly thirty feet long A single leaf of
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