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CAUSES OF HARD TIMES few days made necessary by the low
price of plug totoacco and so the dance
There was a time when with a much goes ou But it is all rIgnt tlie pe0plc
smaller population and much less 15ke them they read in some Trust-sub-wealth
than avc hove now we had no sidized paper that trusts are a good
difficulties Ir the treasury no j thing and that settles it Higher
cy of revenue and what was of much prices for nailSj steel coal crackers
more consequence no distress among on wall paperj tobacco and countless
the people If the causes which pro
duce the present difficulties with the
people can be removed we certainly
wall return to the old condition of pros
perity and happiness It would seem
that there should be no difficulty in
finding out what changes have occur
red and in ascertaining beyond ques
tion the cause of our present troubles
There must be something radically
wrong somewhere if the richest and
freest nation on the globe is in such a
condition of absolute helplessness and
dependence as the President of the Uni
ted States seems to consider us now
In this country the people are the
source not only of power but also of all
wealth and prosperity When they are
prosperous business will flourish all
branches of commerce will be active
and no financial difficulties will come
to the treasury except as the result of
insufficient revenue laws but no rev
enue system no matter how wisely or
judiciously formed can provide reve
nue unless there is commerce and active
business A time of industrial depres
ztmLXt -
What Is Money
Money is as necessary to the masses
as blood is to the human system With
a full supply of money to transact the
legitimate business of the nation the
prosperity of the people is assured
Then comes up the question what is
money All civilized nations establish
their own standards of money While
England has her pounds shillings and
pence France has her franc Avhile we
adopted the standard of the British sys
tem Since tlie establishment of this
republic all our money has been repre
sented by the dollar be the transaction
great or small In no case is the eagle
mentioned The silver dollar is our
standard and shall remain so
On the Defensive
Republican orators have settled down
to the work of defending the adminis
tration It is not so much a campaign
of apology for tlie corruption and favor
itism of the administration as it is one
of justification but which needs an im
mense amount of explaining and de
fending This means that the policy of
the administration is not to be changed
an any way but tlie people are to be
made to believe that the aifhiinistration
knows better than they what is good
for the country Kansas City Times
The Trusts Arc Prosperous
It is a poor sort of a day that does not
witness the formation of a trust of
huge proportions Among tlie late born
into the family is the wall paper trust
thirty live or forty millions dollars cap
ital and it is boldly stated that prices
of wall paper will advance 25 to 50 per
cent The plug tobacco trust is now
xuceied to make its appearance in a
other things count for nothing when
considered alongside the virtues of
trusts and the blessings they shower
upon the people It is a pleasure to be
robbed by such sweet mild mannered
villains and it is better to let them se
lect elect and control all public offi
cers for they are in the business of
governing and know how to do it
Farm Stock and Home
Protection an Incubus
The American manufacturer not only
has natural resources at his command
but also possesses skilled labor and su
perior machinery and in the combina
tion of these two factors he can control
the worlds markets In view of such
conditions how absurd to keep up the
cry of protection to home industries
We have but to throw off the incum
brance of high tariff in order to go forth
and conquer the whole commercial
world Even with this handicap the
vigorous young giant of American in
dustry is making rapid headway The
policy of protection is fast becoming an
sion and commercial stagnation must j anomaly for this commercially expand-
be and ought to be a time of embar 1 s nation Our erstwhile infant in-
rassment
fm- nin rimwriiiioiif Tip uustnes nave outgrown tneir swim-
laws wc now have on the statute books
will with the revival of business pro
vide ample revenue The change need
ed is not in the revenue laws but in
the financial condition of the people at
large Whatever embarrassments the
Government may now have to encoun
ter are the result of the depressed con
dition of all branches of business and
the unsatisfactory condition of the peo
ple generally If we can devise a
means of relieving these there will be
no difficulty about the conditionof the
Government or of the revenues From
James K Tones speech in the United
States Senate
I Supply and Demand
We all recognize the principle of sup
ply and demand when it is applied to
the commodities Then why should we
not recognize it when applied to gold
and silver There existed for centu
ries at least in some nations the right
of any person to take gold and silver
bullion to the mint or mill of the gov
ernment and have it coined into legal
tender money Would not the taking
a way of that right as to one metal af
fect not only its value but also that of
the other Suppose the nations of the
world were to conclude from a scien
tific inquiry that it was unhealthy to
eat wheat bread and that as a sanitary
measure they should pass laws that
millers should no longer grind wheat
If that law could be enforced what
effect would it have upon the price of
wheat Every one knows that the
minute that law took effect wheat
would sink lower and lower in value
until it reached a price equal to what
it would be worth to feed to animals
Why Because the very demand for
which wheat had been raised was de
stroyed and consequently its value
must be fixed by the next thing for
which it is demanded What effect
would ihis same law have imon the
price of corn You know that the
minute that law took effect corn would
begin to rise rapidly and go higher and
higher in price until it reached double
its former value Why life cause the
enormous demand which existed for
wheat and corn had been transferred to
corn alone and as the demand for corn
had been doubled it must of necessity
double the value thereof Gold and
silver are metals that are subject to
the same law of supply and demand
and consequently must yield in jtrice
as the demand is removed from one and
shifted to the other
dliug clothes Detroit Free Press
Why Not
Here is a subject for farmers to dis
cuss at the institutes this winter There
is no class more interested in the cur
rency question than the farmers You
are told that money is plenty in fact
lying idle in the banks who are anxious
to loan it to you in their paper prom
ises but you must engage to pay it back
in gold You cant object as your
sanction is necessary to their existence
and the national treasury sets them
the example by locking up such vast
amounts of gold silver and greenbacks
representing money in the treasury
Why not coin all the gold and silver as
fast as it comes from the mines and
pay the soldiers and thus put it in cir
culation
Possible Renewal of the War
Vexatious delays indicate that Spain
is not prepared to yield all that is de
manded of her and that she is playing
for delay in the vain hope that some
thing may happen such as a general
upheaval or the assistance of another
power which might save to her some
of her dependencies The reluctance
to abandon Cuba is particularly mark
ed and the fact that there are still fully
130000 Spanish trtfops in that island
makes it barely possible that further
resistance there might be tried While
hoping for the best it would be a mis
take for the administration not to pre
pare for the worst New Orleans Pica
yune
Day of Reckoning Coming
Among other things that the present
administration will have to stand in
quiry into sooner or later is the cause
of the receiut Indian outbreak in Min
nesota We pretty well know the cause
of tihe outbreak of corruption in the
War Department Perhaps there may
have been some sound business meth
ods in the Interior Department that
would repay investigation Hitherto
peaceable Chippewa Indians would not
be liable to insurrection without some
reason that it behooves the country to
know about What a winter of scandal
and wrecked reputations we are mov
ing toward Washington Times
Characteristically Erratic
Col Roosevelt with immaculate
gravity warned the audience he ad
dressed in Xew York City the other
night that the United States in contin
uing to act on the advice of George
Washington as regards the expansion
of its territory were in danger of
lapsing into the condition of China We
are inclined to wonder if the Colonel
thinks he makes votes by this kind of
talk or if it is only the exhibition of
that erratic quality in -him as a man of
judgment which has contributed to lose
him public confidence in his previous
career Boston Herald
Why Restricted Free Trade
At a banquet recently given by the
Illinois Manufacturers Association
resolutions were adopted in which the
national government is asked to estab
lish free trade between this country
and Cuba the Philippine islands and
rorto Rico It is not explained why
the Illinois Manufacturers Association
drew the line there Surely if free
trade is a good thing ifshould not be
confined to a few islands where our
trade relations can at best be but small
Denver Tost
KfFcet on Labor of Restoring Silver
Let us have all the silver we can pos
sibly get conveited into money It will
not lie idle It will be used to buy
lands buy labor build houses build
factories build railroads and carry on
business It will be that much new
blood and will give us an activity and
a prosperity bettor than Ave have yet
seen The laborer will be the first to
feel its benefits for there will be an im
mediate demand for his services not
only will all be employed but wages
will go up
Arrest of Quay
Tlie lapse of a man in high station
whom everybody has considered above
suspicion is deplorable and sometimes
tragic but it is inevitable that such in
dividual lapses shall occasionally oc
cur and they arc not a disgrace to the
community Quay arraigned on a
criminal charge even though it is not
proved shows Pennsylvania up to the
world in an infinitely worse light than
would the actual conviction of a man in
whom the people had been deceived
The people of Pennsylvania have not
been deceived in Quay They have
known perfectly all along what kind
of a man he was Baltimore News
The Next Congress
The chances of Democratic control of
the next House of Representatives
seems to be growing as the date for the
Congressional elections draw near
Like the campaign of two years ago to
the middle West is to be left the final
decision The Democrats are claiming
things in that section with much more
confidence than the Republicans but
perhaps there it yet a chance for Han
nas barrel to get in its work It ap
pears to be conceded by Republicans
that their only chance is through the
use of a great corruption fund What a
travesty upon popular government-
Atlanta Constitution
Too Much Leniency Shown
We have yet to hear that responsibil
ity for the horrors of the transport
ships has been fixed upon anybody yet
to hear of any cashiering of officers
whose gross neglect of the rudiments
of sanitation made fever epidemics in
the camps inevitable yet to hear that
contractors have been heavily mulcted
for failure to furnish supplies of the
stipulated quality and quantity at tho
places and times agreed upon But
news has come not infrequently of men
in the ranks shot dead for breaches of
discipline The severity may have been
justifiable How about the leniency
Noav York Times
Infamy in tie Legislature
There has never been a more open
and notorious sale of privileges to mon
opolies and corporations in any Stale
than was exhibited by the Legislature
of Illinois in the passage of the
Yerkes bill And John
Riley Tanner approved of this shame
less prostitution by placing the sign
manual of his office upon the back of
these infamous violations of a peoples
trust St Louis Republic
Alger Making War on Miles
It is said that Alger loses no oppor
tunity to snub Gen Miles going so far
as ito not consult the la titer in the cam
paign against the Pillager Indians at
Bear Lake This is no surprise after
the petty malice exhibited by the pub
lication of a misrepresentative para
graph from a private letter as a means
of getting even with acourageous critic
of the War Department Pittsburg
Dispatch
Tariff and the Woolen Industry
The Republican papers are trying
hard to trace the stagnation in the
woolen industry to the AVilson tariff
Strange that the mills should have dono
a prosperous business while that tariff
was in force and that suspensions and
assignments should have begun just as
the Republican orators were beginning
to call attention to the splendid fruits
of Dingleyism Manchester X H
Union
Step Up and Settle
After surveying the field Mark Haiv
na concludes that it will cost 2000000
to save the next nouse of Congress to
the Republican party Order out the
fat fryers Boston Globe
Lay the Blame on Tanner
The Governors position as to import
ed miners may wear well in politics
but it will hardly be acceptable in
riots Peoria Journal
To him alone is due primarily all the
blame for a tragedy which every true
friend of labor will sincerely deplore
Xew York Mail and Express
If Tanner had responded to the ap
peal of the Sheriff he would probably
have prevented the bloodshed and forc
ed all concerned to remain within their
rights as citizens Sioux City Iowa
Tribune
The tragedy at Yirden 111 might
have been prevented had not Governor
Tanner tried to steer a middle course
between the dictates of the law and the
desire for popularity Boston Tran
script
The conclusion is unavoidable that if
Governor Tanner had anticipated the
trouble at Virden by supplying an ade
quate force for the protection of all life
and property threatened this clash
would not have occurred Buffalo Ex
press
It was his duty to preserve the peace
and let legislatures and courts attend
to the rights and wrongs of the ques
tion ne chose the demagogues part
and the results place him in no credit
able light Minneapolis Times
As long as it is possible to place a
John R Tanner in the Governors chair
of a great State the domestic problems
of this nation are not solved and there
is no civic patriotism and philanthropy
to spare in uplifting distant barbarians
Detroit Free Press
If a party of disorderly miners were
preparing to prevent these laborers
from working it was the duty of the
States executive to take all precau
tions against riot and anarchy Gov
ernor Tanner chose to ignore his duty
Indianapolis News
Governor Tanner of Illinois has es
tablished a unique method in dealing
with riots He Avails until the riot has
taken place and a number of men have
been killed then he makes a move to
send troops to disarm both sides and
restore peace Kansas City Star
The part taken by the Governor of
the State is not pleasant to contem
plate for those who like to think that
the Executive derives his authority
solely from the laA and has no right
to inject into it his personal prejudice
or ambitions Xew York Times
THE PRETTY SERGEANT
A Woman Who Served in the Napole
onic Armies
The stoiy of Virginia Ghesquiere the
French heroine Avho Avas decorated
AAith the order of the Legion of Honor
for distinguished bravery during one
of the campaigns of the French army
in Spain is graphically told by Emile
Cere in his history of the Madame
Sans Gene etLes Femmes Soldats
Ill the conscription of 1S06 a young
man by the name of Ghesquiere was
enlisted among the forced recruits of
the department of the Haut Rhiu The
beardless conscript Avas frail and deli
cate utterly unable to bear the fatigues
and hardships of Avar Realizing the
physical incapacity of her twin broth
er Avhom she Aery closely resembled
the brave and unselfish sister Virginia
decided to take his place in the ranks
Witn the courage of a high and noble
motive Virginia Ghesquiere begged her
parents to alloAv her to do for France
Avhat her brothers ill health rendered
it impossible for him to do and so earn
estly did the young patriot plead that
she avoii their consent
Donning her brothers apparel the
intrepid girl presented herself at the
department on the following day and
Avas assigned to the TAventy seventh
Regiment by the unsuspecting officer
Avhose duty it Avas to enroll the re
cruits
For six years the brave young avoui
an preserved her disguise and during
this period Avas several times reAvarded
for gallant conduct At Hagram the
pretty sergeant as the modest ef
feminate looking young soldier Avas
generally called had the honor of sav
ing the life of the colonel of the regi
ment Avho had fallen into the Danube
and Avould have perished but for her
efforts
On the second day of May 1S0S after
the Battle of Lisbon the pretty ser
geant performed a deed of valor that
won for her the decoration of tho Le
gion of Honor
The girl soldier Avho Avas now ser
geant of a company of riflemen per
ceived at a short distance from the field
pf battle the figure of the colonel of the
regiment lying under the body of his
dead horse Turning to tAAO comrades
he said The body of a colonel is a
Hag that belongs to the regiment and
the Twenty seAenth Avill retake it
As she spoke she advanced toAvard
the prostrate officer folloAved by tAvo
soldiers ner comrades both Aveak
from loss of blood Avere unable to
reach the goal so that the burden of
the affair fell upon her slender shoul
ders
On reaching the spot she found it
impossible to lift the heavy body of
the fallen officer tug and struggle as
she might She Avas uoaa moreover
beset by two straggling English sol
diers Seized by a sort of frenzy
at this cowardly interruption of a mer
ciful deed the little sergeant fired at
one of her assailants wounded him in
the shoulder and then disabled the
other by Aigorous Woavs from her gun
stock
Both Britons surrendered and assist
ed her in placing the officer who still
breathed upon a horse which had still
strayed near Compelling the English
men to alloAv themselves to be attached
to the horses tail the pretty ser
geant made a triumphal entry into
camp and soon after made a Chev
alier of the Legion
One of the most singular circum
stances of this curious history is that
after the Avars Avere oAer the Avoman
who had Avon renoAvn on the battlefield
and public recognition from the Em
pire chose to ire turn to her native prov
ince and resumed there the old simple
tranquil domestic life of her childhood
Virginia Ghesquiere died in 1835 but
her memory Avill ahvays live among
the inhabitants of Delemont avIio from
one generation to another Avill tell their
childrens children the story of the girl
soldier avIio served France so heroi
cally for her brothers sake
WSig
fit ffe AIT
EjgflisHK 3
One of the features of the new hos
Dital building in Berlin is to be a large
room in Avhich patients suffering from
lung diseases can breathe air artifi
cially impregnated Avith salt
It has been found in Japan that the
most effectiAe way to teach the natives
o take precautions against the spread
Df disease is to show them the liAing
organisms in polluted water by means
of microscopes placed in the temples
N It is said that the castor oil plant is
abhorred by nearly all members of the
animal AAorld that moles maybe driAen
from a lawn by planting a feAV castor
beans in it and that neither the terrible
army worm nor the all destroying
locust will eat it
The high quality of Swedish steel AAas
strikingly illustrated at a recent exhibi
tion A steel ribbon cold rolled Avas
twined like a silken band about one of
the pavilions the length of this mon
ster tape being 2345 feet its AA idth
eight inches and its Aveight 1140
pounds
The four inch rapid fire guns of the
American naAy are found to be highly
effective in action Four men handle
the ammunition and tAvo sight and fire
the piece The projectile is a 33 pound
shell AAith fourteen pounds of smoke
less poAvder and it perforates five
Inches of steel at 1500 yards Six shots
a minute are the average All the gun
boats are supplied with these formida
ble Aveapons for their main batteries
The speed of electricity is so great
that its passage from point to point
along a conducting wire may be regard
ed as practically instantaneous Va
rious attempts haA e been made lo measi
ure the rate at Avhich it travels ana
observers with delicate instruments
have affirmed that it AAas not less than
114000 miles per second and in one or
tAvo places its speed Avas as high mi
240000 miles
Miss Elizabeth Taylor Avritiug in
Popular Science Noavs of the plants and
flowers of Iceland describes a curious
sight AAhich she Avitnessed in the lava
fields near Reykjahlid Xoticing
wreaths of steam issuing from the sum
mit of a small Aolcano she climbed up
there and found a band about tAvo feet
Avide of beautiful plants bearing large1 1
flowers encircling the interior line oft
the crater The steam warmed the
floAvers and the rim of rocks protected
them from the cold Avinds Avithout
It is said that lightning may be recogr
nized at a distance of 200 miles Avhen
clouds among AAhich it plays are at a
high altitude but that thunder can sel
dom be heard at a greater distance than
ten miles The sound of thunder is
also subject to retraction by layers of
different density in the atmosphere as
well as to the effects of sound shad
ows produced by hills and other inter
posed objects These are among the
reasons for the existence of the so-called
sheet or summer lightning
AAhich seems to be unattended by thun
der
Remarkable photographs of the ring
nebula in the constellation Lyra have
recently been made at the Meiidon Ob
servatory near Paris These pictures
sIioav a great deal of diffused nebulous
matter inside the ring but none outside
Avhile in the center appears the image
of a star This star can also be seen
AAith a telescope But the drawings of
the ring nebula made by Ilerschel in
1833 by Lord Rosse in 1S44 and by
Trouvelot in 1S73 show no star there
and Monsieur Rabourdan thinus this
may indicate that changes are going on
in the nebula such for instance as the
formation of a solar body Avithin the
ring
HER LITTLE JOKE
The Ungband Not the Only Ilimioriat
in tlie Family
A Washington man connected AAith
the publishing business is fond of a
practical joke and has likoAvie a con
stant and unchangeable ambition to
sIioaa off in the presence of his Avife
Recently he AAas at a gathering of men
where a Avell knoAvn specimen of his
favorite kind of humor AAas employed
to aid in the merrymaking The next
morning at breakfast he said very
graAcly
Susan it has been a long time since
I gave you anything as a token of my
affectionate esteem
I need a Avinter wrap she suggest
ed gentlj
We AAill think of that later What I
mean to give you iioav is diamond
ring
Right now she exclaimed
Yes he answered as he dived into
his pocket Heres a dime and here
touching the servants bell is the ring
There you haAe a dime and ring
Then he said Ha ha at the top of
his Aoice many times
He was rather tired Avhen he got
home that eAening
Is there any dessert he inquired
after he had eaten all that had been
placed before him
Yes she answered It is some
thing that I am sure you ought to ap
preciate I Avent out and had it espe
cially prepared for you
She took from the sideboard and
placed before him a small card upon
AAhich AAas printed
MC1NE
Whats this he inquired as he
held it off and started at it
That she replied sweetly i minco
pi Washington Star
Limits to Marriageable Age
It makes considerable difference in
the matrimonial advantages of a per
son AAhere he may have been born or is
a citizen This remark applies Avith
peculiar force to the minimum age
Avhich renders a union legal It in a
measure implies the consent of parents
or guardians in all the instances cited
although once united the law sustains
the marriage maugre dissent of the j
parents etc In Austria fourteen years
are looked upon as sufficient to entitle
a person of either sex to take on the
burdens of matrimony Germany re
quires the male to be 18 and the female
10 In France and Belgium the man
must be 10 and the woman lo In Spain
the intended husband must have pass
ed his fourteenth year and the AAoman
her tAvelfth The hiAV in Hungary for
Roman Catholics is that the man must
be 14 years old and the Avoman 12 for
Protestants the man must be 18 and
the Avoman 15 In Greece the man
must have seen at least fourteen sum
mers and the woman tAvelve In Rus
sia and Saxony they are more sensible
and a youth must refrain from matri
mony till he can count fourteen years
and a Avoman until she can count six
teen In- SAvitzerland men from the
age of 15 and Avomen from the age of
12 are alloAved to marry The Turkish
law provides that any youth and maid
avIio can Avalk properly and can under
stand the necessary religious service
are alloAved to be united for life
Electric Cars for Spain
Spain may be in the throes of politi
cal disorganization and financial ruin
but she cannot do without the ubiqui
tous trolley Extensive systems are
uoav to be put in at Madrid and Barce
lona The total amount of the contract
is nearly Sl000000 and the equipment
or rolling stock AAill include 100 mo
tors The money engaged in the en
terprise is British
The trouble with too many children
is that the education of their parents
has been sadly neglected
Any man may grow richer but no
man may grow younger
INTcWirERAfsCc IN HAVANA J
CnL ans Treat linpliiiK e Chief
Business of Life
Havana is the one place whore tho
chief occupation of the inhabitants
seems to consist df tippling said Wil
liam Ryan the well known Virginia
journalist at the Metropolian
It is the drinkers paradise and alo
the smokers for in these two habits
Everybody indulges with a freedom I
never saw elsewhere People get up
rather early in the Cuban capital to en
joy the cool morning air and scarcely
take anything except a coffee and roll
1--1 i a -I -1 1tvfri
ueiore uruuiviusuui at jl - -
that period the regulation amount of
tipple for a Cuban gentleman is six gin
cocktails Thus fortified he can make
put till the first meal of the day afc
which it is the proper and customary
act to drink a bottle of claret and like
Aviso a bottle of champagne The latter
costs just as much too let it not es
cape your mind asit does in the United
States
Noav having breakfasted our friend
is getting ready for the serious busi
ness of the day the consumption of
other spirituous drinks His fancy
turns to brandy and soda at this stage
and ere the dinner hour arrives he must
have SAAallowed no less than six b and
ss at least he is shy of the requisite
quota unless that many have followed
the gin cocktails There is no limit
though at the half dozen station but
it is regarded as a minimum Dinner
conies on and Avith it another bottle of
claret and ditto champagne just as at
breakfast in the evening there is no
regular program but mixed drinks are
Indulged in ad libitum I will say in
cidentally that payments for all drinks
ure on a cash basis
This is no fancy description but is
fust what the average individual Cuban
AAill regale himself Avith in
With it all it is the rarest thing
in the Avorld to see anyone intoxicated
The only drunken man I saAV down
there Avas an American As far as the
drinking goes nobody in IlaA ana con
siders that the custom of the island in
this respect is at all to be criticised as
excessive The climate is such that
men can stand a Aast amount of drink
ing Avithout apparent injury Wash
ington Post
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It is noAV said that the manuscripts
of The Heavenly Twins Ships That
Pass iu the Night and Robert Els
mere were all declined by one New
York publisher
Ethel YoA nich author of The Gad
fly is 33 years old and is Irish byxf
birth and English in ancestry being
the daughter of the logician Boole
ner husband is a Pole of quiet tastes
Avho has long lived in London
Jules Verne Aiio is in his 70th yeaiv
is living at Amiens France in robust
health and spirits He has Avrirtn
seventy six books and is still at work
His hardest AAork he says has been
to read up the stories of travelers in
order to Avrite his oavu stories for hfr
himself has traAeled very little
The family of Alma Tadema the
Royal Academical seems to be re
markably gifted His wife is a skill
ful painter His daughter Miss Ann
aaoh a medal at the last Paris exhibi
tion and the second daughter Miss
Laurence Alma Tadema is the author
of the novel The Wings of Icarus
Le Revue do Paris prints a letter
Avritten by Balzac in which he de
scribes a visit to George Sand at her
country chateau I found the cam
arade he said in her dressing gownr
smoking a cigar Avearing red trousers
and yellow slippers She had a double
chin like a monk He also states that
George Sand Avent to bed at 0 a m rose
at midday and smoked to excess Sher
dressed her daughter as a boy
GiAe me a nook and a book ry
And let the proud world spin round
Let it scramble by hook or hy crook
For Avealth or a name AAith a souj d
You are Avolcome to amble your Avays
Aspirers to place or to glory
May big bells jangle your praise --
And golden pens blazon your srryr
For me let me dwell in my nook
Here by i curve of this brook
That croons to the tune of my book
Whose melody wafts me forever
On the waves of an unseen river
Farm and Fireside
Mr ZangAvill tells me Avrites a corre
spondent of the Westminster Gazette
that many years ago he sent a short
poem to one of tlie best knoAvn of the
American monthly magazines The
poem came back by the first mail But
Mr ZangAvill kept it by him and quite
recently he sent it on again to the same
magazine This time immediately on
its receipt he received a cable from
the proprietors of the magazine ofterluic
to buy the world rights and almost
immediately they issued a large poster
intimating that their next issue a ouI1
contain a poem by I ZangAvill The
poem AAas the same Avord for Avord
but in the interim Mr Zangwill had
achieA ed fame and his signature war
Avorth money
Careful AVile
Now Henry dont forget I The ba nd
round your hat means rhar you must
order that medicine at the druggists
the string round your finger isxfortlm
theater tickets the Ijoav on your arm is
to remind 3 011 to post my letter to moth
er and knot in your handkerchief is
for that paper of needles and that
bean in your shoe will remind yon of
the corn plaster Good bye dear and
be careful of yourself Ex
If a Avoman has motherly instincts A
she particularly admires a boy WWS
looks as it his appetite miirht be s ood s