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Great interest is manifesto ay all
patriotic societies ia the surrender by
the city of New York to the Daughters
of the American Revolution of the
Jumel aiassioB.
Desaltory attempts have beea made
for aiany years to preserve to posteri
ty this historic place, and at last the
deed is done. The beautiful' home of
the late Gen. Ferdinand Phinney Earle,
which was recently purchased by the
city, is boob to pass into the care of
the general committee of the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution, to
whom belongs the credit of having
brought about its acquisition. As
soon as these ladies become incorpo
rated, and thus enabled to hold prop
erty, the transfer will be made to
them. The mansion will be conducted
as a free historical museum.
This house, historically known as
the Morris house, was the military
headquarters of Washington and his
staff on Harlem Heights. Here he
first met General, then Captain, Alex
ander Hamilton, whom he loved as a
son. Here Washington received the
unannounced visits of Indian chiefs,
not knowing whether their intent was
friendly or warlike.. From the oppo
site shore he wept like a child when
he saw the Hessians slaughter his
troops. From this house be was
driven by Lord Howe, and he never
returned to it until after he was presi
dent of the United States.
There is much of historical nation
al romance connected with the Morris
house, later known as the Jumel man
sion. Col. Roger Morris, the ancient mili
tary companion of Washington In that
fateful and awful Braddock campaign,
built this mansion, which he intended
to be the home of his bride, Miss Mary
Pbilipse, whom Washington had also
loved and wished to wed, but was re
fused. Col. Morris remained true to the
royalist cause, and after the breaking
out of the war he took his family to
England. His property was confis
cated by the colonial government, but
ere is Where
Washitoii
Flsjhatfl the
after peace was declared the crowm
made good all Col. Morris' losses as a
reward for his loyalty. By an ante
nuptial agreement this property, cad
been settled upon Mrs. Morris. After
her death the claim of ner heirs was
bought by John Jacob Astor. The
proflt of this transaction in real es
tate is said to have netted the old man
the snug sum of 1500.000.
Subsequentlr the mansion was
bought by Stephen Jumel, a wealthy
French wine merchant, whose widow,
at the age of sixty, married Aaron
Burr, who was at that time a marked
and ruined old man of seventy-eight
Ultimately the property reverted to a
lineal descendant of Col. Morris, the
late Gen. Ferdinand Phinney Earle,
whose widow lived in the Jumel man
sion until it was acquired by the city.
The ancients represented Time as a
monster devouring his children. The
march of time and the wonderful in
crease of property values are devour
ing every landmark of the struggle
that made us a nation. Parcel after
parcel of this old property that once
belonged to Col.. Morris has been sold,
cat up into city lots and built upon.
But the Jumel mansion, in the midst
of nearly thirty lots, and the sycamore
trees that M. Jumel brought from
France and planted there the only
trees of. the kind in the country have
mot been disturbed.
If caution and modest deference to
the opinions of others are faults in
the character of a military man Wash
ington possessed these faults to a
marked degree, and it is perhaps due
to those same faults more than to
any other cause that our struggle in
the war for Independence ended in
giving us national birth. A bold dash
for freedom would have ended In
prison or worse for all the leaders, but
the patient policy of worrying the
enemy to death won.
There was little of the frivolous In
Washington's nature. From early boy
hood he was orderly, methodical. He
appreciated the praise of people per
haps as much as any man that ever
lived, but the weakness that marks
the "poser" was kept in careful rein
by his scrupulous honesty and relig-
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iocs fervor. At' no time la all the
dark days of the revelation was Us
spirit more overcast than when the
Morris house, on Harlem Heights, was
his military headquarters.
Every school boy knows that Wash
ington served his country without
compensation, that he kept an account
of his actual expenses, which the gov
erament was to pay; but few know
that the Father of his Country was
one of the richest, if not the richest,
president we have ever had. Wash
ington was a millionaire in his' own
time, which is equivalent to being a
multimillionaire at the present day.
It Is only necessary to think of this
and the comforts his wealth would
have given him in England, or even
in France, to realize the sacrifice he
made. Add to this that all his tastes
led him to the life of the aristocrat,
and you will get a still keener percep
tion. If Washington made no com
ment upon the fact that one of the
captains of his company, acting in the
capacity of a barber, shaved the sol
diers in front of the house in which
he had his headquarters, it was be
cause his mind was occupied by more
weighty and important matters rather
than that he approved of such a
breach of military caste and disci
pline. When he walked on the lawn he
had in his mind a picture of the half
starved, half-naked soldiers all over
the country. For them he thought and
worked and' prayed the democratic
captain, strapping his razor, was a
trifle. Washington rode about the
place giving directions that the -approaches
to his camp should be. forti
fied by redoubts, abatis and deep in
trenchments. During these rides he saw some
work that instantly attracted his at
tention. Upon inquiry, he was told
that they were constructed by Capt
Alexander Hamilton. This young
man's talents in the military line had
been previously spoken of to Washing
ton by Gen. Greene. Hamilton was
scarcely in his twenties at that time.
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but Washington made him a member
of his military family, learned to love
him as a son, and this love and confi
dence lasted through life.
One of the rooms on the west side
of the Jumel mansion is to this day
covered with an antique wall paper,
which, it is claimed. General Wash
ington and his staff hung, Washington
himself mixing the paste. On the
wall of this same room, when Gen.
Earle's famLy occupied the house,
hung thirteen large ears of ordinary
field corn, no doubt from some near
by farm. Tradition says that Wash
ington hung up this corn to typify
the thirteen original states. Whether
or not Washington placed them there,
it is certain that they have been on
that same wall for more than a hun
dred years, and are to this day nearly
perfect only a few of the grains hav
ing fallen off.
Gen. Earle once gathered up those
fallen grains of corn and planted them,
but not one grain sprouted into life.
The general said that he did not know
whether this fact indicated that the
life germs of the corn were dead or
that his knowledge of farming was de
fective Councils of war were held in this
house by Washington and his staff.
In its rooms he gave a welcome to
Gen. Lee upon whom at the time
the hopes of the nation were placed
on -account of his successes in the
south.
Washington loved the place and he
hoped that if the enemy attacked him
there an American victory would re
sult A surprise not altogether welcome
was given to Washington one day
when his orderly announced that some
Indian chiefs waited without having
sent in a request for a talk with the
"great father." The experience of
Washington's early life had taught
him that the Indian is an exceedingly
unreliable commodity. As these
braves were self-invited guests, there
was a more than strong suspicion that
they might mean treachery. However,
the red men had their talk In peace,
took their departure, and no harm
came of 'it
The British soldiers, were near them,
and am attack might be expected at
almost amy moasent On the morning
of Sept If. 177C, word was brought to
Washiagtoa at headquarters that the
enemy was advancing, In tare large'
columns. Than had been so many
false reports of am attack before this'
that Adit Gem. Reed galaed' permit
skm from Washiagtoa to ride forth
amd ascertaia for a certainty what
the tremble was.
The trims continued brisk, and
Washington mounted mis morse and.
rode toward the outposts. He -was
met by Reed returning, who told
Washington the advanced post, which
had been situated cm the mill skirted
by the wood, had been attacked by a
strong detachment of the enemy. Our
own troops a company of continental
rangers were commanded by Lieut
CoL Knowlton, who had distinguished
himself at Bunker -Hill. Gen. Leslie,
the British commander, had under
him three companies of Hessian rife
mem, one of Royal Highlanders," and
his forces so outnumbered the conti
nental boys that he had succeeded In
capturing the outposts.
Reed was earnest In his appeal to
Washington that reinforcements be
fought so nobly. While he was still
sent to the continental boys who
speaking, the British soldiers came
in sight and sounded their bugles,
after the manner of those calling In
to witness the death at a fox chase.
Both Washington and Reed were stung
to the quick by this taunting, derisive
bugle call, amd three companies were
ordered out from Col. Weedon's Vir
ginia regiment commanded by Major
Leitch. A sharp contest took place,
in which the Virginia boys vied with
one another-in bravery. Major Leitch
received three bullets in his side and
was carried off the field. He died of
these wounds about two weeks later,
but not without the happiness of
knowing that he had assisted at about
the first victory of the Americans and
with the praises of his beloved Wash
ington to soothe his last moments.
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This encounter, though unimportant
In itself, was the means of cheering
the disheartened troops. But Fort
Washington was a veritable Naboth's
vineyard to Lord Howe. He closed
in on It as much as possible. Wash
ington was of the opinion that the
Americans could not hold the fort
against such numbers of well fed, well
clothed, disciplined soldiers; but as
Greene differed with him In opinion,
and Greene was in actual command
Washington bavins sone over to the
Jersey shore he deferred to Greene.
Lord Howe's forces were encamped
on Fordham Heights, from which place
he sent to Gen. Greene a summons to
surrender. The demand was accom
panied with a threat of the extreme
measures to which the British officer
would resort If he were obliged to
take the fort by assault
An American is, and always was,
the poorest man om earth to swallow
a threat and Gen. Magnaw, who had
received the summons, returned the
reply: "Assure His Excellency that
actuated by the most glorious cause
that mankind ever fought In, I am de
termined to defend this fort to the
very last extremity."
Lord Howe had planned four simul
taneous attacks. The fort fell into
his hands, with a loss to our cause of
upward of two thousand men killed
and wounded. From that time until
evacuation day Fort Washington was
held by the British.
It was fourteen years later that Gen.
Washington next passed the portals
of the Morris house. He was then
president of the United States, and he
made a note of this visit in his diary,
under the date of July 10, 1790. In
the party that accompanied Washing-,
ton were the vice-president John Ad
ams, and his wife; Miss Smith, the
secretaries of state, treasury and war.
and the wives of the two latter; also
all the gentlemen of Washington's
family, Mrs. Lear and the two chil
dren. This party visited the places of the
surrounding country where Washing
ton had walked and ridden on his
horse when he was so weighted down
with the responsibilities of war.
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The secretary of the Uganda pro
tectorate, Mr. Cunningham, who has
Just arrived from TJganda, has givem
a representative of Renater's agency
the foUowins'interestins particulars
concerning the present condition of
the protectorate:
"The latest news that I give you of
Uganda," said Mr. Cunningham, "is
that there has been am extraordinary
development of tourist traflc om the
Ugaada railway. When I was at Mom
bassa it had been found accessary to
duplicate all the trains from the coast
to Lake Victoria Jh order to carry tou
rists and Intending settlers. I should
say 10,000 was a small estimate of the
number of tourists to be looked for
during the -coming season.
"The scenery Is unique amd there Is
about fifty miles of zoological gardens,
teeming with wild animals. On my
way down country at the Kaplti plains
we passed through a herd of fully 50,
000 zebras; we saw twenty ostriches,
some rhinoceroses and giraffes in the
distance and the plains simply swarm
ed with gazelles. Thezebras, whose
stripes shone in the bright sun, were
massed on the railway line ,and mere
ly divided to let the train pass, a few
scampering away for one hundred
yards or so. Nowhere else in the
world can such a sight be witnessed.
"And then to many people the na
tives are still more interesting than
the wild animals or the scenery. Here
in London you have the twentieth cen-
The Man
It happened in a Fulton street res
taurant that contains by actual count
seventy-two tables. At 3 o'clock last
Wednesday afternoon five of these ta
bles were occupied. That left sixty
seven for the accommodation of late
arrivals. At a few minutes past 3 a
man entered. He was thin, had short
gray hair, a stubby gray mustache
and stony, staring blue eyes. He
came In at the south end of the room,
walked stolidly past the sixty-seven
empty tables and the four that were
occupied by solitary diners and sat
down in the end chair of the seventy
second table, at which a man and a
woman were seated.
The couple were engaged in a con
versation which, to all appearances,
was tender as .well as, confidential.
They stopped talking when the man
sat down and looked at him and nt the
empty tables suggestively. ,But the
man's mind was not in a. receptive
state. Subtle hints were lost on him.
Calmly he studied the bill of fare,
from which he finally selected a meal
of clam cocktail, sirloin steak and
coffee. The woman in the case looked
desperate.
"Is there no remedy?" she said.
"None short of actual murder," re
plied her companion.
"Under the circumstances we would
be justified in that," said she. "Any
jury in the land would acquit us."
tff
Chinr Pet of Whites
"Did you ever see a one-armed or
one-legged Chinaman?" asked George
m. Otterson, the hydraulic engineer
yesterday. Of course,' you nev
er did. They are rare. I have
lived in California, in the Hawaiian
Islands, and In China, in all of which
places there are some Chinese, but
I never saw a crippled Mongolian
until I went to Quesnelle, B. C, last
winter.
"There one of the chief characters
of the town is a one-armed and one
legged Chinaman, the pet of the town.
He is the Quesnelle city waterworks..
Being without a pipe line of any char
acter, the people of Quesnelle have to
draw their water by bucket from the
Fraser river. This old Chinaman has
built up a substantial trade drawing
and carrying water for them. His
regular customers number the inhabi
tants of nearly every house in town.
"There Is a quaint little story in
mis being there. As all who have
lived among the Chinese know, they
object strenuously to a crippled mem-
ber of their race being allowed to
Work of Sixty Years
The Electrical World and Engineer,
in an article on "Sixty Years of the
Telegraph," says: "The past week
has witnessed the sixtieth anniver
sary of the electromagnetic telegraph,
it being May 1, 1844, when Prof. Morse
was able to demonstrate the use of.
his invention in reporting at Washing
ton the proceedings of the Whig con
vention at Baltimore. Since that time
the history of the telegraph in this
country and elsewhere has been one of
universal benefit It is certainly a
moot question whether of late years
the telegraph has advanced as rapidly
as it might have done, and whether it
has not become more or less crystal-
Ized and fossilized in its apparatus and
methods. Yet even this statement
must be made guardedly, for, while
the great telegraph systems the world
over appear to look askance on auto
matic and machine methods, the wire
less telegraph inventions have been
generally taken up and pushed with
great success; and if there is anything
more wonderful and more stimulating
in the domain of electrical advance at
All day I have tolled In that busy mul
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tury,' but im Kavlromio it Is only the
amy after tarn creation, -with the dlfiter
eace that the Aamms sad Eves of Kmvt
rondo havaotytTOscbvered that
they are make, amd Instead of repos
ing in beatific leisure among apple
treesAdam amd Eve may be seem hoe-
1ms smrdema, along the railway or car
rying baskets of grain to the market
at Port Florence, the majority of them
without ma atom of clothing. But
there Is mothlmg to affect the suscepti
bilities of the European visitor. It is
mature. Ton might as well object to a
sycamore tree going without leaves as
object to a Kavirondo man or woman
going maked. At the railway .stations,
alas! they are gradually gettlag Adam
lato trousers; but a m rule Eve still
moves Im all her mative charms, wear
Ins mt most m tassel suspended from
a girdle
The cruise around Lake Victoria
occupies about a week, the steamer
touching at all the German and Brit
ish stations. The scenery at Entebbe
and Munyonyo (the port of Kampala)
Is very fine, and, as the course lies
among the most beautiful parts of the
Sose archipelago and the Buvuma
group, there Is an unending feast for
the eye of pretty creeks, bold head
lands and banks of graceful palms,
fringing broad slopes of turf. As to
the Ripon falls, they defy description.
I think 'it may safely be said that the
tour to Uganda outrivals In interest
anything to be found elsewhere in the
world." London News.
of Habit
"We might mre," she suggested a
moment later.
"No," said the man; "let's hang om
and see what he does."
"He" apparently had no intention
of moving. When his luncheon was
served he ate It slowly. Presently
the man and womaa went away. Af
ter their departure curiosity got the
better of the man at an adjoining ta
ble who had watched the proceeding
throughout
"I am going to find out" he said,
"what that white-livered pelican
meant by freezing that couple out"
In slightly modified terms he put
the question to the solemn diner.
"Why," said the "pelican," "I dldnt
mean anything by it This Is my ta
ble. I've eaten luncheon at this ta
ble every weekday for the last fifteen
years. Tou dont suppose, do you,
that I am going to be thrown out of
gear at this late day by a pair of sen
timental lallygaggers?"
"Good Lord," said the Inquisitive
man, "were you never mushy your
self? Couldn't you tell? Couldnt
you see?"
"I saw nothing," was the reply. "I
reiterate, this is my table and I am
a man of habit"
"May Heaven deliver me," groaned
the Inquisitive man, "from people who
have "habits'!" New York Press.
live. It is said they invariably jnake
away with a cripple, on the theory
that he Is taking the place In the
world of a better .Chinaman. This
'old fellow at Quesnelle was working
in a mine some years ago, when he
was blown up In an explosion of
dynamite. One leg and one arm were
so badly manglea that they were am
putated: Knowing the peculiarity of
the Chinese, and liking the old fel
low, the whites of the town served
notice on the Chinese colony that
if the man was molested in the slight
est there would be a general running
out of all the Chinese in the camp.
Then the whites took the man under
their protection and started him Im
the water business. He seems afraid
to go hear his own people, amd corn
sorts entirely with the whites.
"Last- winter he accidentally fell
into the river through the thin Ice
and came near drowning. The whites
heard his cries, formed a rescue party
and saved their waterworks. When 1
left there the old cripple was still
doing business, healthy and happy."
Seattle Post Intelligencer.
the present time than the wireless, we
do not know what it is. The amount
of service rendered to the public by
the telegraph sixty years after its
practical inception may be gauged
from the fact that in only four or five
of the leading countries 400,000,000 or
500,000,000 authentic messages are dis
patched annually, exclusive of those
handled by leased private wires. In
this country, the record is now prob
ably about 100,000,000 a year, while
Great Britain does not fall very far
behind that Germany and France
together are good for another 100,000,'
000, while Russia. Italy, Austria and
Spain will probably account for an
other batch of equal magnitude. The
telephone to-day has asserted for itself
the function of knitting closely to
gether the various communities in
which it is used, but it Is still the
proud boast of the telegraph and the
submarine cable that they have been
the great instrumentality In annihi
lating distance, promoting Intercourse
and commerce and bringing the na
tions together."
That btooawd by the path where a baby
trod:
And love's first roses, as white as aaow.
That are blossoming now at: the feet or
God.
Oh. stainless lilies, and roses white!
Oh. passion-flower, with yomrwpetals
red! .
You are mine once more for aa hear, te
nlsht. Tho' the heart be dumb and the years
be dead.
Oh. scented summer 'of lone
on, vanwBed day wiib y
sow:
Oh. blood-red lips and bosom of snow!
You are aiae once more as la days ef
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is not a. lottery.
80 far from it that a mam with m
statistical heat amd the ever ready
sources of comnlled iniormatim bit
take up the subject of marriage om a
piece of paper and with a pencil out
line its conditions, probabilities, amd
possibilities to a surprising finish.
For the average mam who has hopes
Im his amnity it would be a poser
under certain circumstances for him
to attempt to figure mis owm
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chance of .marriage at any age. With
the statistician, however, it becomes
easy, and, bunching men and women
In groups of thousands, he Is able' to
make the Individual age calculation
Im a moment 'Not only this, but he
may give the. best- of pointers on the
probable month for the marriage, how
long the married state will exist be
tween them, and just what percent
age of the future population will be
expected of the union.
There are figures in general . bear
ing upon several nations of Europe,
but those of the United States will be
given the first place. Here, perhaps,
one of the most striking first state
ments that can be made is that, In
taking up a section of the country hav
ing just 1,000 people in it of all ages
and all shades and nationalities as
they run, 579 of the individuals will
be unmarried, 365 will be living in a
state of wedlock, while 56, for one rea
son or another, will have been widow
ed. In the group of the widowed.
too, there will be twice as many
women as men, due to the fact that
the women marry much earlier in life
amd lead a much less hazardous ex
istence. The figures on how much earlier In
life women marry than do men may
surprise the reader. Considering the
ages from 19 years to 54 years, In
periods of ten years each, one may
get an idea of the chances of the
two sexes in the United States to find
partners, early and late. Out of the
1,000 weddings,. representing a thou
sand men and a thousand women, 109
women have been married at 19
years, while only ten young men will
have found the heart and the means
to accomplish the evident wish. This
will mean that at the least ninety
nine young women at this age will
have married men older than them
selves. Indeed, it may be taken lor
granted that 100 of them did so, for
at the age of 19 years and under the
young man's fancy always runs to
ward a woman much older than him
self. Even at 29 years old the .women
lead the men in marriage, the record
showing 580 to 515 in comparison. At
44 years, however, the chances of
the man improve materially in bis
showing of 255 to 208, while at 54
years he has 220 chances of finding a
bride where the woman has only 103
chances of some husband taking her.
In contrast to these figures are
those of Great Britain, from which
there has been so much emigration of
the males in years past. At 20 years
old 149 women and thirty-five men
will have married; at thirty years the
figures will be 680 women and 731
men; at 40 years the chances are for
111 women and 114 men; at 50 years
they are 41 women and 52 men; while
at 60 years they are only nineteen
A Clever Minister.
"To the town of Norridgewock, in
Maine," said the Rev. Minot J. Sav
age, "a strange minister once came
to preach. He preached duly, and,
after the sermon was over, he ming
led with the congregation, expecting
that someone would invite him to
dinner.
"One by one, however; the comgre
Sation departed, offering the hungry
minister no hospitality, and he began
to feel anxious. Where was he to
eat?
"As the last deacon was leaving
the church, the minister rushed up
to him and shook him warmly by the
-1 want you to come home amd
Hae with me,' the minister said.
"Why,' where do -you live?' said
the deacom.
"'About thirty miles from here.
"The deacom- reddened. 'Oh, yom
amd dime with me Imstead, he
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cal! attention to the chief fact
that a few miore womem amd meariy
four timemmere mem' marry fern their
'teens. in Great Britain than marry so
earlyfimigMpj eountry.
BmClmutever the comparative
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for mvarriage, H tejcamsldered every
where that the woman will name trnrn
day for the ceremony, amd that hi
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of her own. For instance, few corn
firmed bachelors having the poetical
ideas that go with spring would make
a guess so seemingly wild that May
is the poorest of ail the months for
wedding festivities. But. grouping
the thousands again, the figures are
conclusive that the slowest month and
the gayest month of the year are side
by side om the calendar.
"Marry in May and repent for aye,"
may be an old couplet that has in
fluenced Cupid, but in 1,000 weddings
only forty-one have been celebrated
in May, as compared to the 145 to the
credit of June, the month of roses.
July, with its summer resort oppor
tunities and its outings and picnics,
cuts a considerable figure in the ac
companying chart, while December,
with 119 weddings, and January, with
139, rank next to June.
Once married, the prospects for
married life of long duration are good,
taking the 1,000 representative group.
In the United States the average
term of wedded life is a little more
than twenty-eight years. Counting the
differences in the ages at which wom
en and men marry, the proportion of
the life period for the married may
be approximated in the United States
as at least half of the Individual life
period.
How this compares with the wed
ded periods in other countries may
be shown in the figures from Holland
and Belgium, giving only twenty
three years as the period of married
life, twenty-six years in France,
twenty-seven years in Great Britain,
and thirty years in Russia. In this
respect the dominion or the czar
shows a longer wedded period for its
subjects than does any other Euro
pean country, accountable to the fact
that marriages are made earlier there
than in any of the other countries
quoted.
As to married life In the United
States, more than one economist has
made his observations upon the de
creasing number of children in the
homes of the nation. In the last ten
years, despite the increase in the im
migration to this country, the birth
rate has dwindled distinctly. Taking
the occupants of homes, the enumera
tors of the last census found only
4.7 persons to a home. Accounting
for the loss of father or mother in a
home, this probably would give to
the United States an added popula
tion of 3,000 for each 1,000 couples
married.
This may be compared to most of
ly dressed passenger effusively. The
greetings became more and more per
sonal, to the entertainment of the
other passengers. Casting envious
eyes on the other's raiment the seedy
one inquired in loud tones who his
tailor was, what haberdasher he pat
ronized, and who made his shoes. Fin
ally he asked:
"And how many collars do you wear
a week?"
His better dressed acquaintance
surveyed him critically for a moment.
Then:
"I don't know, I'm sure, he drawl
ed. "How many weeks do you wear
a collar?" New York Sum.
Give Up Getm.
It Is mow accounted a disgrace for
any Japaaese of amy class to retaia
amy articles of gold. All have beea
seat to the treasury to be converted
lato cola for tae emperor.
Canadian Railways.
The length of the railways Im Cam
ada om June 30, 1903, was 19,836 miles.
Of this 19,077 miles were operated by J
steam aad 759 by electricity.
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of America. Per instance, hi
these !, couples would add
to the population souls, la Scot
land there would me 4.090 children.
im England S,C99. and hi France only
S.799 children of the 1,999 marriages.'
Of the marriages 1m general in the
UmMed States it is discovered that
oat of the 1,009 considered 139 men
will have been married at least oBce -.
before the celebration under coasid-
eratlon, while the 861 will have made
the vows for the first time. Of the
1.000 women in the case only ninety-
eight will have worn widow's weeds
before the wedding. Thus out of the ,
2,000 Individuals parties to the 1.000
marriages 237 will have bought- or
have worn wedding rings before, leav
ing in the chart proportions the band : .
represented by 1,763 previously ring- :"
less fingers or undisturbed purses.
Illustrative of the married, the un-. :
married, and the widowed, we pre; .
sent some comparative apartment
buildings on a scale to house all that :
are considered. Ia the unmarried
figures of 579 ia 1,000 it must be re- '
membered that the young and old
"unmarried" of both sexes, from
babes to octogenarians, are there Included.
Her Little Aside.
She was an Intelligent, well-dressed,
sweet-faced, motherly woman, but
she looked in well simulated amaze
ment at a Madison avenue car con- ,
ductor when he handed her seventeen
cents in change for the quarter which
she tendered.
"Y's'm, one whole and one- half
fare," he explained.
"One half fare?" she murmured,
questioningly.
"That boy's more than seven years
old, isn't he, madam?"
"Why, sure. I'm eight," volunteer- "
ed the youngster in "question!
His mother flushed perceptibly, but. .
womanlike, she would have the 'last' ;
word. "I never paid for him before." " '
"Oh, yes, you have, ma." said the :
Jad. "Don't you remember?"
His mother settled back in her seat
her face the battleground of emotion.-
Presently the boy spoke again: -
"Quit mudgln' me, ma. I only told
the truth."
His mother leaned over and whis-
pered something in the boy's ear that
made him turn pale. But it quieted
him, too.
How $200 Became $40,000.
Fifty years ago Charles and Anna
H. Girding were married In New
York. They were poor but the groom
owned a small lot valued at $200 and
situated at what was then way eat la
the country, but which is now om
Third avenue and One Hundred and
Forty-seventh street. He gave the.
lot to his bride as a wedding gift "Dur
ing these fifty years she has paid the
taxes on It. This week she sold the
lot for $40,000.
Clothes Make the tarfv.
A certain well-known school teach
er who resides in this city, but who
i3 teaching in San Jose, is telliag a
good story on herself. It appears that
she comes up from the Garden City
every Friday night and remains over
until Monday morning. Because of
the shortness of the interval between
the hour when her school closes and
the time the train leaves for this city
she is compelled to don her best rai
ment Friday morning and prepare for
her trip before going to school. One
of her bright pupils, a little boy: ao
ticed that on Friday the teacher was
always dressed a la mode, aad it ap
parently bothered him a great deal,
particularly as om all other days she
appeared before her class clad la neat
but plain attire.
One Friday at moon this observing
little fellow walked up to the desk of
his teacher while she was eating her
lunch amd attracted her attention by
calling "teacher."
"What Is It, Willie?" said the teach-s
er.
"Why dem't yom always dress like m
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