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MR. FRED METZ.
MISS BESSIK BRADY.
Carpenter's Letter
(Continued from Paga Twelve.)
tines of Hamlet. Copenhagen lies on lilt:
narrow strait leading from tho B.uile s.'a
out through the Kattegat and Skaga.rak to
the German ocean. It has a tine hir.or,
anil this has made It one of th- mo.-il Im
portant cllina of northern Europe. It com
munda the straits, and has always b. rn a
great meeting; place. Thrte yearn lie. ore
Columbus dlmovcieJ America Rlshop Ab
ealon built a catle here and lived off the
trade. Since then the harbor has bis n
widened and deepened, and 1 now ono i
the best In Europe. The city haa estab
lished a free port at a ret of W.Ww.uoo, un I
thero are two nil lea of quays, at which tha
largest ocean steamers can land. Th.rty
five thousand saijng vessels and steamers
come and go out of Copenlug n every
year, and Ita trade extenus to all pail of
the world.
The Dane are noted aa Bailors. They
command ships almoat everywhere, and
you will seldom strike a harbor without
finding one or more Danish captain in
charge of the larger Vtavcla tht-re.
I drove out to the free p rl the ol hut
day. It has enormous cranes and all facili
ties for haiid.ing g ods. I not.c d sever,) 1
American producta among the th nga load
ing and unloading. American cotton,
petroleum and Indlitn corn were, being
taken out of vessels from New York, and
also Minneapolis flour and Chicago p.uk.
There were many ateamers In the hirbor;
several from Itusaia, two from Norway and
Sweden, three from England and an equal -number
from Germany. There were ships
from thi West Indies and South America "
and alto one at. out starting out (or Green
land, f
There Is considerable trade between
Greenland and Denmark. Greenland Is to
a large extent a Danish colony, and there
are many Danes In Iceland and the Faroe
Inlands. The Greenland colonies are chiefly -on
the west coast, extending through a4out
13 degrees of latitude, or something like
700- miles. They have there also a mission'
and trading station, and do a considerable
export business.
The trade Is largely In the hands of the
Danish Royal Greenland company. It la
monopolized by the state, and only govern
ment vci-cl." are allowed to sail In Green
land wuteis. According to Denmark's treat
lex with us the British and other people,
theae waters are closed to all vessels whjch
have not the permission of the Danish gov
ernment, and it Is also necessary for trav--elers
who wish to go to that part of the
country to get such permission. Without a
traveler has such permission he cannot
enter, and this permission la not' granted
without the pel non who asks, for it la
hacked by his own government.
This Is done In order to protect the na
tives from unscrupulous traders. The gov
ernment will not allow the natives to sell
Inore than they can dispense with lest they
le starved In the winter. They will not
sell them Intoxicating liquors, and they are
really doing what thewan to elevate their
condition.
The exports from Denmark to Greenland
are chiefly provisions, firearms, dry goods,
hardware, tools and Implements. They lend
' soma tobacco, ropo and wooden' goods. Their
Imports are seal oil, sealskin,' bear and fox
Bklns and eiderdown. About 30.0(0 seal
skins are sent from that island li Denmark
every year, and' also those of the pnlar
bear and of the blue and white fox. The
eiderdown la brought as it cc-nies from the
nests of the ieder duck.. It is here cleansed
and prepared for the market.
" . . FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Dying in Paris
"It la cheaper to live than to die in
Paris," says a member of the American
' colony "in the City of IJglil. now visiting
.i New York. "However dear the living raiy
be to thtir friends, the dead are sure to be
dearer for a short period, at all events.
.. For a stranger in a furnished apartment
the affair is still worse. The landlord
claims the right to refurnish and relit the
chamber at the expense of the deceased.
In the case of an American who recently
died, leaving two young daughters, as It
were, unprotected, the landlord brought in
an exorbitant bill for new furniture, paper,
paint,' and seized the corpse for payment
- as it was leaving the house for the ceme
tery. It Is advisable In :i lease to have the
expense of dying agreed upon." If it were
not for the natural sentiment of respect
for the dead It would be a j'lly retribution
to leave the corpse in the h:indu of such a
. harpy to be gotten rid at his own expense,
New York Press.
Poor Richard Junior
The receiver of flattery Is usually sincere.
Caution is often another name for hon
esty. Chirlty covers a multitude of sinners;
and It feeds them, too.
An apology is hard to make, harder to
take, and hardert to shake.
. A self-made man botches the job when he
thinks he has finished the work.
Ability never amounts to much until it
acquires two more letters stability.
The value of life used to depend on the
liver; now It Is the vermiform appendix.
Wall Street Is a very small thoroughfare,
but it is not a strai3ht and narrow path.
Matil.mony may be speculation, but It la
well for the girls not to stay too long on
the market.
It is easy for a man to be willing to put
himself In another's place when the place
pays 110,000 a year. Saturday Evening Post.
Why He Was Glad
It was in one of the prisons not a thou
pand miles from Philadelphia. The story
Is told that the other Sunday the chap
lain of the institution, after delivering a
sermon to the prisoners, spoke privately to
as many as time would permit.
To a rather mild looking man he said:
"My friend aren't you sorry you are in
here?"
"Not on your life," said the man.
"Not sorry? How can that be? What
are you here for?"
"I'm here for having three wlvcV said
the prisoner. Philadelphia Press.
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