Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1897, Page 14

bj THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL “What were known as coal oil accidents seldom o-cur any more,” remarked an up- town grocer to a Star reporter, “for the | Treason th here is no oil sold now which } will not stand standard fire test. There | has been a Steady improvement also, in the H make of lamps, and even the commonest | Jamps ys have a center tube whica | as which may have been gen- ape and thus prevents the ex- } ch were so frequent and dis- only a few years ago. It has been demonstrated that coal oil is by no means if any care at all is trade is confined to the poorer classes, who seldom buy over 5 * worth allows erated of oil at one time. Indeed many of my customers only buy a penny’s worth of on at a time. The majority of ‘olored folks who live in alleys. | rse they have learned a great deal | by experience in handling the oil and such @ thing as an explosion rarely takes piace. ‘The ventilation ef the lamp has done even mere to stop these explosions, I think, than the con: nt improvement in the manufac- ture of the oil.” ek te artments gain a great deal by 1 fever,” observed a depart- | Star reporter, “and though vaste considerable time dur- in talking base ball come of the season in the league again, t ng during “Th the ment ba. some ours able ov > various when an mak y hur} their de 9 difficul ne clock j e game. 1| er on in the} and so do ail other t this will be a ba ent all = probably m other departm pung men me of the are men who are middle age.” eee article of com: id Judge Christiane + to a Star reporter, * and a grest al | who have not had the | enormous, xamine into it idea of. I don't desi: but my the 2 to deluge | examination | » had be ha | Georgetown 1 | new | Standards o years ago there are over thirty ‘Snow. The various car lines now of- fer rapid transportation and increased fa- | cilities for travel. “Of the bridges the Chain bridge above the oldest, having been erected In 1791. The Benning bridge over the Eastern branch was next built, and, like the Chain bridge, was for many years a toll bridge. The Chain bridge was made a free bridge in 1833, Congress appro- priating $150,000 for the construction of a bridge there, the old bridge having en burned, on condition that the cor- poration of Georgetown built a road lead- ing to it and kept it in repair. In 1840 a freshet carried the bridge away. The bridge that came next was carried away in 1852. In 1872 the present Chain bridge was erected. It was built 2% feet higher than the prevtous bridges, and will prob- Aqueduct though ably last unti. it wears out. bridge was constructed in 1830, it was not fully completed until 1843. present bridge, on the original pier: modern structure, and is but seven old. The Long bridge, originally known as the Potomac br.dge, was finished in 1832, and, though never fully swept away at one time, has suffered very severely on a number of occasions from_freshets, notably in 1856, '6), °63, ‘67, ‘77 and in ISS1, the latter’ probably being the most extensive. Though the Cabin John bridge was opened to the public in 1953, water was not carried through the conduit for which the bridge was built until 186: x eK KOK “The National Theater in this city has been destroyed by fire but four times,” olmerved an old citizen to a Star reporter, “though I have frequently seen it stated that it burned five times. The burnings of | this theater always occurred just previous to or close after the inauguration of a President. The first time it was burned was the night after the inauguration of President Polk, in 1845. The inauguration ball was held there, and all the decorations of the building, and they were very hand- some for that day, for we had no electric light effects to make things beautiful then, were destroyed. The next time it burned was in February, 1857, just before was inaugurated. . Grant was inaugur: t date being January 28, the third time. The land fire in 1885. Twice puilding was burned in the day time, nd third times, the others be- the the second ing at night. >— New and Novel Inventions. From the Philadelphia Press, Albert Swindler has invented a “puncto- sraph," or point-writer, for the use ef the bl it being designed to use either the ew York or Braille system. The mat | rectangular supporting frame has a pair of carriage track rods secured to the upper ends of the standards, a rectangular car- riage frame with two pairs of rollers recip- rocally adapted to travel longitudinaliy on the track-ri a rear frame piece pro- vided with thé system point-changer, a bell nism fixed between the rear supporting frame, a front ith a goos projection secured between the front elevations of the stpporting frame, anf a signal rod rigidly festened in the supporting frame for the purpose of forming an oscillation shaft or is for the feed, space and key levers. = 1 and line-spacing mechan- an actuating feed roller, an ocating roller and a line- ng lever. The puncturing 1 comprises key levers and punc- turing rods, which pierce the paper, form- Ing raised characters which will be easily frame piece * | understood by the sensitive fingers of the n | signific: yack and forth every week He has travel- | thousand | to reach the } the department, } \ H leaves ts to Baltimore he has in a stre: t miles a to ride ear to in twenty years, | i miles, which makes | thousand | that would | ps across the ocean, | S our continent. | » has never been over | en ance ng a couple of . however, there or so wrt= 2 on ge, though of c this time on comm trip to and an trom aK eK Started out with one of the wick- hat if this was true been cowhided by his 1, and vaid have be > million and a half pers er the bridges | d Virginia into the Di explained a g: ns annually from Mary trict of Co- tleman who has ion of the | able | and head. blind. Campbell has invented a novel fire extinguisher in the shape of a gun, with hich he proposes to shoot out a fire. The to resist the strain, has a thin barrel, be- je which the blunderbuss sinks into in- , and the breech, which is hol- low down to the water-proof cartridge, is filled with water, which also fills a portion of the barrel. The water is poured into its chamber by a funnel in the breech, and the which may be mounted or not, is ex- d io be very serviceable at fires, espe- cially in si.all towns, as by its use water can be pr 1 acciirately to a consider- » in nearly solid form. A device for heightening the backs of pews when the same are too low has been patented by Isaac H. Webb. It consists of brackets fixed at the ends of the pews, svch brackets being grooved to receive the end of a panel and having a recess in the sides of the upper part of the bracket to receive the top rail. Clamps in the center ngthen the attachment, dered as ornamental as cyclist will be interested in a ovement, designed by Lena L. im Hirsh, which is intended to combine skirt appearances with bloomer advantages. A divided dress skirt is provided near its lower edge with a sort of bloomer attach- ent, or skirt-closing sections, the attach- ment improving the hang of the skirt, ren. dering it impossible for the skirt to be- come inflated or raised by the wind, and affording protection to the person, without the necessity of using a separate bloomer costume or equestrian tights. Mr. McKinley Helps Along a Love Affair. From the Chicago Record. The President has a good deal of senti- mest in dis composition. He has shown great intgrest in the love. affairs of a young man from Ohio, and has taken a@ role in a romance which does credit both to his heart he young man referred to may be called Jones for purposes of identification, and he may be located at Cincinnatt, although he ent name and lives in another place. before inauguration Jones called upon the President at Canton to pay his. re: s, and to his embarrassment McKinley inquired how he was get- with his love affair. Jones dodged ion, but the major pinned him down, and finally extracted frem his re- luc ss a confession that he had not yet persuaded the young lady in the case to pt his heart and hand, although he hoped to be able to do so. Jones explained that his prospects were not very alluring, nt | and that love in a cottage had no attrac- tions for the young lady he di wife : “Do you think she would like to live abroad @ licile while?” aSked the President. oo sald Jones, “al- thougn { have never discussed that subject with her. I imagine she is like most youag hat she would enjoy seeing for- red for his the President, “if you think it wili do any good, tell her that I will give you @ consular appointment as a wedding °K out eight or ten places in < you think would suit her, and I take up consular matters I’ will you for one of them Jones thanked the President warmly, and as since notified him that he would be narried early in June. ———— It matters Httle what ft is that you want whether a situation or a servant—a want” ad. in The Star will reach the person who can fill your need. Art Note. From Harper's Weekly. subject, t ‘and the num- ber is ine sh In 1870 Gen, O. E. . then the superintendent of pubil: nd grounds, had a count made, and he estimated that eight hundred thovsand persons crossed the bridges that year. Though practically the same per- sons are crossing ali of the time, the in- crease has been by the increase of popula- tion and the tmprovement of the surround- ing country. Where there was one house the breech of which is of thick metal | “FOR fHE BADDEST ONE” At the close of business recently in the Probate Court, just as Judge Cox, who was presiding in the absence of Judge Hagner, was about to leave the bench, a Uttle tot of a girl stepped from her mother’s side, and raising herself on her tiny toes before the railing in front of the judge’s chair, timidly inquired: ‘Please, judge, may I see the prisoners?” “Certainly, my child,” smilingly replied the judge, “but we have none in this court. Perhaps, though, Mr. McGill will take you to see them.” “Oh, thank you, judge,” the little one said, “for I do want to see the poor prison- ers so much,” turning to Register of Wills McGill, as he stepped up to her to act upon the judge's suggestion. Mr. McGill led the child to the cage in the basement of the city hall buildin, where prisoners are locked up while await- ing their appearance in the Criminal Court. That day the cage was crowded with men and boys severally accused of about all the crimes known to the law. The ma- jority of them were hardened criminals, and there was little in their appearance to arouse sympathy in any one. But as the child peered through the bars at them, her little eyes filling with tears, she whis- pered to Mr. McGill: “Oh, isn’t there some- thing I can do for them, I feel so sorry for them?” The child’s words of sympathy and sor- row were the first many of the wretched beings had heard addressed to them for years, the first, perhaps, some had heard since childhood, and their hardened faces softened, not a few eyes moistened, and more than one murmured, ‘‘God bless you, little one,” as their little visitor followed her guide out of the gloomy prison wails. The little girl, after thanking Mr. McGill, left with her mother, and the incident was several days old when one morning there came in the registers of wills’ mail a box addressed in a childish hand. Opening it, Mr. McGill found that it contained several bunches of fragrant arbutus. Among the flowers was a note from the little tot, ask- ing him to distribute the flowers among the prisoners that day in the cage, with the injunction that he should give the largest bunch to “the baddest one.” The cage was again crowded that day, several of the prisoners being those who were there the day the child called. After learn- ing that the one charged with the gravest crime was a young negro man, brought up for trial that morning for murder, Mr. Mc- Gill distributed the flowers among the prisoners, giving the alleged murderer the largest bunch. As he distributed the flowers, he explain- ed to the prisoners by whom they had been sent, and that their little friend wished them to know that she felt sorry for them and hoped that they would hereafter Le good. Each prisoner carefully pinned his nch of the sweet little flowers in the his coat, and as the one to be life was led upstairs to face the ordeal, he remarked gratefully: “Teil that little girl, mister, that I'm powerful glad to know ¢ I've got one friend left me. Gawd knows dat I isn't guilty, an’ I bilieve dat He has done sent me dese flowers to tell me dat it’s all gwine to be right wid me jo it was that every prisoner who ap- peared that day in the two Criminal Courts wore a bunch of arbutus, and those who looked curiously at him accused of killing his fellow man with premeditated malice saw the mo , fragrant flowers ned upon his breast, they concluded the were hardly consistent with guilt. And they were not. For on the second day of the trial the jury in whose keeping the prison- sr’s Hfe was declared after a short de- liberation that he had only taken life in defense of his own, and therefore they acquitted him. O% course, Mr. MeGill wrote to his little friend, telling her of all this, and a day or two later another package came to him with a note from her. The package con- tained a dsome copy of “the book of all books,” and in the note she requested him to hand it to the young negro. Mr. McGill sent for him, and when he came handed it to him, explaining that it nad been sent to him ‘by his little friend, who wrote that she wished him to read it that he might know God and keep His com- mandments. The man, who had never be- fore been charged with crime, was very much touched, and after asking Mr. Mc- Gill to tell the child how much he appre- ciated her gifts to him, said it had all been a lesson to him which he would strive to never forget, and he left pro’ ing that he would try to be at all times hereafter all that his little friend would have him be. _- AFTER TH BATTLE. A Domestic Infelicity and What Hap- pened to the Aggressor. A Washington lawyer's life is not en- tirely without agreeable features, although possibly the first syllable of that word is not always spelled f-e-e. Recently one had as a client a very quiet, unobirusive young marketman who owned and conducted a market garden somewhere beyond the city limits. It seems that the young fellow had some trouble with his father-in-law, a meddlesome old man wno had always imposed on the husbands of his daughters, and after it was over he came to consult the attorney, whom he had known for a long time. “Um-um,” said the attorney thought- fully, after hearing part of the story, “your father-in-law charged you with treating your wife harshly?” “Yes, sir,” was the brief answer. “What did you do?’ “To her?”* “No; to him.” “I denied the charges from start to finish and so did she.” “What did he do then?” “Called me a Mar.” “What did you do?” “Hit him one—just one, sir.”” “What did he do then?” i sir. The doctors dono the — New York's Great Parks. From Harper's Round Tuble. An Englishman was showing his friend, an American, through the houses of parlia- ment, in London, the meanwhile comment- ing in a somewhat arrogant tone upon what he pleased to term the superiority of the English public buildings and parks. “There,” he exclaimed, “is our magniti- cent Thames embankment, a delightful spot! Why, you have nothing in your coun- try to compare with it, especially in that great New York city; then, again, every gentleman here owns an estate, and, let me aswure you, sir, such estates are no small bits of property.” This went on for a considerable time, un- til the American, growing tired, sald: “But, Lord de T., you have traveled in our coun- try, have you not? “Oh, yes, my dear sir; right across it.” “Well, then, you should have an idea of its size.” “Very big place, sir; very big.” “And you know New York city quite well; eh “Oh, yes—yes, indeed.” “Well, then, you see, we didn't want any- thing in the line of parks in New York, with, of course, the exception of a few squares; but outside of the city we wanted @ park, and so we decided to use the United States'as a park for New York city.” ‘Dear me, how extravagant!” “Not at all, sir; why, we even contem- plated floating the British Isles over and anchoring them a short distance outside the city’s harbor, as a sort of breakwater, you know.”” ———_+ e+ ___ Baby Has Gone to School. From an Exchange. ‘The baby has gone‘to school; ab, met What will the mother d With never a call to button or pin, Or tle a little shoe? Hor can she keup lerself busy all dag, With the little iindering thing away Another basket to fll with lunch, Another ‘‘good-bye"’ to say, Avd smother stands at the door to see Her buny march away ; And turns with a sigh that is half relief And half a something akin to grief. She thinks of a possible future mor oS pe. entire, one by ae All go from their homes to t tant worl: ‘To battle with life alone, And not even baby be jeft to cheer ‘The scuttered home of that future year. She picks up the ts i there, ‘Thrown down in careless hasten And trles to think how it would seem if the horse Ware ature ka will as this, e were al as How ‘could she bear the loneliness? < sein seats re It matters little what it is that you want —whether a situation or a servant—a “want” od. in ‘The Star will reach the person who can fill your need. PHILANDER JOHNSON» Written Exclusively for The Evening Stan Retrospect. A few days of spring that will hurry along, And once more ‘twill be time for the sum- mer girl song! When rich, regal June with her bounteous charm Fills the eye with delight and the heart with alarm, Nay; chide not his coldness in hours such as these, When the rose tells her heart to the wan- dering breeze, Since a whitening lock and a wrinkle or two Are the only old friends who are steadfast and true. For last summer’s hat in oblivion is laid And last summer's coat is forgotten and frayed; z Last summer's junior as seniors come back, And last summer's favorite is now off the track. The songs of last summer now sound but to vex; Last summer's officials are named with an e: But the most solemn thought that the sea- son can bring is that last summer's girl won't wear this summer's ring. * OK Not Wholly Irrevelant. They had been discussing the plans for a new house, and it frequently occurred that his suggestions did not strike her as apro- pos. “Hverything seems to be out of pro- portion,” she was saying. “Why,” he replied, “the picture that the architect drew looks first-rate. I was go- ing to frame it and hang it up, whether we build the house or not.” “That shows yoar idea of consistency. Of course, the house is very well. But you realize, don’t you, that it will have to stay exactly where we put it?” “Unless a cyclone comes along.” “Bui you must take the locality into con- sideration. What I have dovbts about is the propriety of putting a $15,000 house on a $4,000 lot.” “Well, we've got to do the best we can. It would be just as hard to move the lot before we build as it would be to move the house afterward.” “Of course; that's just like you. Nothing makes you so comfortable as to wear an overcoat that cdst $75 with a suit of clothes for which you paid S15." “Have I been doing anything like that?” he inquired, apprehensively. “Of course you have. And the arrange- you have-been. making for the stable property skqw precisely the same You know that our horse is a fine . and you have arranged the sheiter as ff he were the commonest sort cf a beast of burden. It does seem out of all reason to me to house an animal with a pedigree in a cheap stable of that sort.” “Maybe it little unusual.” “Yet it is nothing more than was to be expected from & man who put a $4 frame around a $2,000 oii painting, as you did.” He maintained a thoughiful silence for some time, and.she exclaimed ‘| hope you are not poutin so. I'm just holding my peace. I don't want to make any comments for fear you will think I am sarcast ; “You needn't) be -afraid of hurting my feclings. Of what were you thinking?” ¢ your new dress for which the ma- terial cost $8.50 and the lining $27.” * z OR The Advent of Reform. don’t deny it,” sald the expensively ed young man. like all the I want an ap- rest. pointment. I’ve come to claim my reward for the services I rendered in the elec- tion.”” “Did you help much?” inquired the man at the door of the Agricultural De- partment, in a doubt- . ful tone. “I contributed sev- en dollars to the campaign fund. I had been rejected by three or four clubs previously, and when a man came around and offered to propose me for the McKinley Club I gave him the seven dollars and told him to go ahead. That is how 1 came to be in politics.” “{ suppose that what you want is a place In the diplomatic service.” “No. I never studied up on diplomacy much. I think I shall go into the Agricul- tural Department. I know all about farm- ing. I have prepared myself especially for that branch of the government service.” “You don’t look it.” “When I made up my mind that I would come here and get an office I went straight to see @ practical farmer whom I me: dur- ing my vacation last summer. He is a man of exceptional intelligence, and seemed to take great pleasure in ‘giving me information. I asked him to tell me all about farming, and he stopped in the mid- dle of his work and took an hour and 2 half explaining it to me. He made me tell him what I wanted the knowledge for, and he made some very valuable suggestions.” “So you're all prepared to start in to re- form the department, you?” “Not all at once. But one of the first things I will have to do is to call the at- tention of the etary of Agriculture to a mistake that he made. He said that the farmer of this country is ra corn. As a matter of fact, c still one of our coming industries, for the reason that smokers are beginning to get some idea of how to get the most enjoy- ment from the weed, and the manufacture of corn-ceb pipes is inevitably destined to be one of the greatest industries of our continent.” “You have a good memory, haven't you?” said his auditor, admiringly. “I seldom forget anything that is really useful,” was the response in a tone of pride. “One of the great faults of the Ag- ricultural Department, as previcusly con- ducted, is that it neglected to encourage the culture of egg-plants for the use of poultry farmers; and it was the most short- sighted indifference which now causes the bivalves in the Chogapeake to be starving for the lack ofa few oyster plants.” “Your friend-in the country didn’t call your attentionsto the fact that a good way to mend worn-out land is to sow a patch of rag-weed gn it, did he?’ queried the watchman. : “No; but that’s’a® good suggestion, and T'll make a note of4t. He laid great stress on the fact that. with all these new electric railroads coming into use, farmers are so lacking in enterprise as to totally neglect the cultivation of wire-grass. You have, of course, observed how often the farmer is depicted as going around with one or both of his suspenders loose. What is the reason of that? The simple circumstance that he has never been aroused to the im- portance of raising button-wsod trees. What he wants {s an administration that will stir him up to a realization that pa- tignce and precaution must be shown in agriculture, the same as in any other busi- ness. The day when a man could stick a few seeds in the ground and go away on a visit to his relations while they grew is past. The threatened disappearance of our forests is a warning that as civilization ad- vances the area in which things grew wild decreases, and they must be tended. The American farmer can never hope to suc- ceed if he goes on neglecting to -raise chick-weed for the chickens, milk-weed for the cows and burdock for the birds.” * * A Want of Precision. “I'm kind 0’ sorry,” said Derringer Dan, who was doing the honors of the town, 10, 1897-24 PAGES. “that you didn’t git around a little earlier. Things has kind 0’ slowed down sence last week.” “It seemed reasonably lively to me,” was the reply. “Still, I hate to have ye go away without seein’ all there is to be saw.” “I have enjoyed the scenery to the ut- most.” “Still ye missed it by not comin’ along a few days sooner. It was one o’ these little affairs which, in the nature of things, has to be impromptu “A social gathering?” “Wal, I must say as one o’ the party were rather distant. It war a lynchin’ “Ah, T see. I admire the simplicity with which the people here express themselves. There is no attempt at euphuistie circum- locution.”” “Not a bit; all we need is a tree an’ a rope an’ a wagon.” “What I mean is that you do always in- sist_on calling a spade a ‘spade.’ ” “Every time. An’ that feller knowed it as well as anybody, but he wouldn't pay no attention to our habits. He got into a game of poker weth Big-eye Dick, who labors under the disadvantage of bein’ near-sighted, an’ at the same time too proud ter own up ier it. An’ this feller that we give the surprise ta last week, he jes’ sot in that game an’ called a spade a ‘diamond,’ or a ‘heart,’ or most anything he happened to need to make up a flush, tell we concluded there wasn't any hope of a feller ez keerless ez him gittin’ ter be acc’rate, an’ we might as well put him out o’ the game fur keeps.” * * * Forbearance Apprecinted. “Talk about the way a woman changes her mind!" exciaimed Mrs. Corntossel, as she put breakfast on the table, “I'd like ter see one thet could beat you at it.” ‘Whut d'ye mean?” I hev reference ter yer politics. ‘Fore ‘lection ye wus hol- lerin’ fur free silver like yer heart ‘ud break ef ye didn't git it right away. An’ now ye wake me up in the dead o’ night sayin’ ‘hooray fur McKinley’ in yer sleep.”” “Well, Mandy, a feiler can’t help bein’ sorter influenced by his personal friend- ships. I never told ye ‘bout that little eppysody me an’ Mc- Kinley was concerned into while we were in Washington, did 1?” Jo. showed hisself a gentleman an’ goin’ back on him. I wouldn't have told this in Washington, even ter you, ‘cause its astonishin’ how things leak out v to this day I don't believe they y body knows a thing about it exceptin® me an’ McKinley. He wus standin’ up shakin’ hands an’ I waited in line tell my turn come. It wus all over before 1 knowed whut had happened an’ I didn’t realize Td shook hands weth the President any more’n nothin’. I got to wishin’ I hed gone at it more deliberate an’ slow, so’s ter git the geod of it; an’ then the mptation come an’ I yielded. I snuck around ter the end o’ the line an’ waited my turn all over agin, lookin’ around innocent-like so’s ter nake folks think I was a total stranger. When IJ got wethin a few feet o’ the Pres- ident, I comprehended what resks I was a-runnin’, but it was too late ter turn back. ‘Ther? was plenty of men standin’ around, an’ all McKinley would of had to do ter git me throwed out was to say three words an’ expose the swindle. But he onderstood the situation at a glance. He never give no sign thet he'd ever seen me before, but locked me in the eye and grabbed my hand ez if nothin’ had happened. From now on, my vote'’s his'n, fur I never saw anyth done more gentlemanly in my hull life!” * * * The First Endeavo Sing no song of distant glory, Where the battle emoke is curled; Linger not to hear the story Of a hero's flag unfurled; Let the pageantry go glezming; Let the veterans grimly stalk; Such things be of shallow seeming Since the baby tried to walk. First a smile, serene, confiding; Next a look of terror deep; Then a start; a timorous gliding; Now a wee pathev'c heap. Loving hands, outstretched, are near him, From his own shy, falicring talk, Loving words are culled to cheer him. So the baby learns to walk. How that smile of self-reliance Must grow faint in later years! How the glances of defian: Shall be dimmed again with tears! May there still be those beside him, Ready all mischance to balk, Genue presences to guide him As when first he learned to walk. * * x An Ideal Found. Willie Wishington had been indulging in another period of introspection. “I have been thinking a great deal, late- ly,” said he. “Yes?” said Miss Cayenne. “What a man wants in this life is poise. He goes too much to extremes; he wants equilibrium.” “I hope, Mr. Wishington, that you are not trying to lead the conversation around to the bicycle again.” “I refer to mental poise. People do not stop to think before they speak.” Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne, “and the consequence is that every now and then they say something interesting.” “But they lack consistency. Neither they themselves, nor their friends, can rely upon them for the same ideas of things for any length of time.” f your ideal man always says the same thing,” she replied, “I think you may look forward to a cheering amount of self-ap- preciation.”” “I don’t claim that he ought to say al- Ways the same thing,” protested Willie. “But he ought always say the right thing in the right place.” “I don’t think I should like such a per- sen.” ‘But consider the pleasure of knowing semebody who always says exactly what he means and no more, and who never in- a a suggestion except when it is called er, - It wouldn’t be any pleasure to know m.” “Why not?” “He would remind me too much of a dictionary.” ‘ x * Uafounded Fears, “One of the great evils of the present time,” said Mr. Blykins, as he settled him- self In his easy chair, “is the excess of frivolous literature which it is developing. The affairs of the day and the realities of life are lost sight of in a contemplation of imaginary events and impossibie ideals.” “Do you think it’s as bad as all that?” inquired his wife. “Of course it is. And the worst of it is that there is no way of keeping this kind of reading from circulating. It can be bought for a penny or so, and it passes from hand to hand till countless minds are saturated with its influence.” As he spoke he looked over into the cor- ner, where Johnny Blykins was reading with unusual diligence. “There!” he exclaimed, pointing to the N EVERY Re ceipt that calls for baking powder use the “Royal.” It will make the food lighter, sweeter, of finer flavor, more digestible and wholesome. “We recommend the Royal Baking Powder as superior to all others.” —United Cooks and Pastry Cooks’ Associ- ation of the United States. boy; “I do not doubt that we have an ex- HER SIMPLICITY. ample of the condition which I just de- scribed right here in our home. Johnny Blykins, come here to me, sir.” The lad reluctantly obeyed, holding a paper behind him as he advanced. ow, don’t try to tell me that you were studying your lessons, for I know better.”” “I wasn’t studying any lessons; I know Light Was Slow In Break! Brought Com! “Several years ago,” remarked a well- known inventor, “I was in the Ozark mountain country of Arkansas, and one a day when I was out on a hunting trip I “You were probably reading of how the | Stopped at a wayside cabin to cet a glass red-handed avenger slew forty Indians by | of milk from a spring house, which looked exploding a can of dynamite in their midst, | Very inviting from its site in 2 shady nook or how Dick, the train boy, rescued the | by the clear waters of the mountain daughter of ‘the president of the railway | stream. rom a road agen 2 See ts and then) “rhe woman of the house, a typical “I don't care for such things,” was the | ™ountain woman of that class, served me, answer, in a quiet, superior tone. “Iwas | and while I was drinking she was waiting reading of how Ted McManus, the short stop, skinned his nose and got his hand spiked wh'le sliding to third bas: “I'll bet Teddy got there, though!” ex- and talking with me. Incidentally, im re- ply to some’ of my questions about what her husband did for a living, besides run- ning the little tarm they had, she said he claimed Mr. Biykins. hoped to make something on a door latch “Yes; tt was one of the prettiest steals | he had in wd. He had shown it to sev- made in a long time.” \eral men at the county seat, and they “That youngster is going to be one of had told him it w the best players we ever had.” ought to get it pa is, and he “And I had just finished reading about | ‘And why the? I asked. two horrible murders and a chicken fight Well,” she ied in a tone of great and a myterious disappearance, and about | disappointment, ‘he was agoin’ ter, and | how Foxy Joe got knocked out in three | rounds by a new light-weight.” j “You don’t mean to tell me that a Mght- weight knocked out Foxy Joe!” “Last night.” writ ter find out about it, but he got a let- ter from the ers yistiddy, and th s y told him :t would cost sixiy-tive dollars, and so he give it up.’ “What did he do tha for?’ I inquired. “Let me have the part of the aper that | “He ought to be able to raise that amount.’ tells about it. And by the way, my boy, | \“ ‘Yes. but you see, misier, the price of I'm sorry if I did you an injustice. It’s a | the latch wuz ter be only fifteen cents” great relief to find my fears that you were | “What of that? If it's a good one that Wasting your time wholly without reason.” | Price will only be to its advantage: BERGE ES, “She looked at me as if she didn't quite ind what I was trying to get at. She argued, “how's he goin’ ter any money ef he has to pay sixty- five dollars fer what he only gits fifteen cents for?” “This time I caught a glimmer of the situation and began to see whal was trou- bling the woman. HORSES SENT TO EUROPE. The War Cloud Causes a Great De- mand for American Equines. From the Baltimore Herald. The time-honcred phrase, “It an ill- wind that blows nobody good,” may be ou undersiand,’ I said, trying to very properly applied just now to the | from smii her ignorance, “that the threatened war in Europe. sixt xpense, he first bereficial results of the out- | and when that is paid t 0 more to break to the American farmer are appar- | P@) 77. vu mean,” she bega her eve: ent in the great demand for horses in the | gieamed full of hope, ‘that five European markets. It is making itself felt on this side already, and almost every steamer which left here for European ports during the past week carried an equine dollars pays fer all the patent Th only one,” I explained. covers the patent on one lock to | and ali that may be made off of t pattern afterward “That with same contingent. In Germany especially the de- “Without a word she turned and ran up mand for horses suited for cavalry and ar-| to the house, where she caugat up a lone tillery purposes is unusually great. tin dinner horn and began blowing with The North German Lloyd steamer | ail her at, fast and slow, and generally Muenchen, which will sail on Thursday } like a fire or riot alarm, and thon came next for Bremen, takes twenty horses and back to me. thirty mules, all consigned from Jasper, | * ‘That wuz to c; H up Ezry, she explain- Ind., by one dealer, who accompanies the | ed. “He'll be here in a few minu'es, and I animals to Germany, where he will put | want you ter til what you'v= been them on sale. The steamer Crefeld, which | tellin’ my ks, jist cz I done, arrived at Bremen yesterday, had forty | that tha dollars meant sixt ve horses on board for the German market. | doilars fer every jaich that he nade, and The American farmers do aot yet appear | We Knowed mw’ ,niy weil ther wa'u'c no to thoroughly appreciate the advantages | moncy makir fifteen-cent latches at them offered for the sale of horses in Europe, | Kind uv uggers.” but it is probable, should a European war “Then she fairly snout) or joy, and break out, they will speedily recognize the | told me wit a disappointment it ial been opportunities offered, and then immense | for them both, and when hus: shipments of equines may be looked for. | came runaing from the field ; to See what The average price for a good strong | the matter was, and 1 tohl him what horse, suited for military uses, in the west- | had told his wife, there was a reat meas ern states is about $20. The freight on the | Son of rejo and they insisced on my animals per head to Baltimore is something like $15. They can be shipped from here to Bremen for about $20, and a low price there is about $100. The freight to Liv pool much less, and in case England is embroiled in a European war, it is probable the market for horses there will be very high. To those not acquainted with the meth- od of embarking horses on a stean the process is a very interesting one, may be witnessed at the steamship pie at Locust Point any day henceforward, as horses are being shipped to Europ aimost daily. The stall in which the horse mukes his transatlantic journey is a port- able iron cage-like structure. This is NMft- ed from the ship by a crane, and while it rests on ine pier the equine is led into it and secured firmly. Then the stall is lift- ed back into the ship, and placed in the ion it will ‘occupy until the steamer es at Its desunation. Then it is taken out by the same process, and the expa- triated equine is permitted to prance about on foreign scil. ——_—__-+e+ —____ Wilkie Collins to an Editor. From The Academy. No artist at any time has taken his work more seriously. A bundle of letters ad- dressed by Collins to a London editor, which now lies before us, abundantly il- lustrates this point. From the careful cor- rections in his proofs, and his alarm lest any alteration should be made by another taking all + cosi me a he i wanted, and it didn't eni. = ae How Me Amended It. From the Chix co Post Contemporaneous Y'erature is soon to be enriched by a beautiiul poem from one of Chicago's greatest masters of versification, We are told that ths poem would have ap- peared in a March magazine had it not been for a slight hitch in the preparation of copy. It appears that the poet had in- cluded these stirring lines: “Her lily hand I wis Uplifted for the winds to kiss,” The supervising editor pointed oat to the poet that the word “wis” was used in @ wrong tense and an improper signitication, Thereupon the poet, with ur hicago en- ergy and y;rompiness, acknowledging his erro-, submitted this correction: Her lily hand 1 wot Uplifted for the winds to swat.” The editor has taken the amendment un- der consideration. We cannot commend too zealously the vigor of the corrected lines and 3t8 departure trom the shallow school of poetic mysticism. see A Queer Egg Story. om the Philadclphia Record. An ostrich egg with a romantic history is the curiosity owned by Miss Marie Lo- hand, we learn how thoroughly considered | Pe% Of No. 415 South 40th strect. The eee was every line of his steries and how sig- | WS presented to Miss Lopez by Joseph nificant every syllable. The following pas- | Pulsiver, to whom it was sent by his sege (which has not hitherto segn the | brother, who is superintendent of an os- light) on a subject near the heart of all | ttich farm in South Africa. Accompany- «ng the egg was the following letter from the sender: “I send the osirich egg, and editors who cater for the family ticularly interesting: is par- “The other alteration,” wrote Collins, “I | know your longing for peculiar curiosities cannot consent to make. ‘The ‘damns’ (we | will reveive a boom when you learn its his- ‘damns’ only. observe, in the whole story) | tory. We had a man on the farm namei mark the characters at very important | (213° Vino ‘as noted for hic ckill Ia beeen in the narrative. The ‘compromise’ | (27? ; whos “Sin had token Sn os Z and raising ostriches. He had raised you suggest is simply what they | the mother of the egg I send, and she had would not say. 1 know of no instances of | jen one of his ehatest mtn, ‘This wad a writer with any respect for his art or for himself who has ever made the con- cession which your friends ask of me. My story is not addressed to young people ex- thought she was known to be a savage bird, and would allow no one but Carr to go near her. Breeding time came, clusively—it is addressed to readers in gen- | 204, the ostrich was soen watching over @ eral. I do not accept young people as the | FU he cess being remoned from the ultimate court of appeal In English litera- | Tone: Ue Pee ved in an imcubarne ture. Mr. Turlington (the character in the | HOUCE, Sth, Placed | ited to seeure the story in question) must taik like Mr. Tur- ington—even though the terrible conse- avence may be that a boy or two may cry ‘damn’ in infitation of him. I refer your friends to Scott and Dickens—writers con- sidered immaculate in the matter of pro- priety. They will find damn where damn ought to be in the pages of both those faasters. In short, I am damned if I take out damn!” —__+ e+. — The New Coachman, From the Toledo Blade. This is the sort of an interview which may be expected when motor carriages come into use: “You advertised for a coachman, sir?” sald the applicant. “I did,” replied the merchant. want the place?” “Yes, sir.” “Have you had aay experience?” “I have been in the business all my life.” “You are used to handling gasoline, then?” “And you are well up in electricity?” : RBOrOnE Ey, eee Of course, you are a machinist, “Certainly.” “Then I presume you have an eggs, on account of his great command over the bird. He entered the pen and be- gan picking up the eggs. In an instant the treacherous pet became furious and started to strike him with her powerful feet. We had to shoot the mother before we could get her away, and then found we were too late, Carr's skull having been battered in, In the struggle all the eggs were broken, with the one exception, which I send to yor sess If you went anything, try an ed. in The Star. If anybody has what you wish, you will get “n answer. Saeet naan Up in Sports, Not From Leslie's Weekly. History, “Do you engineer's certificate?” “Of course.” “Very well. You may go around to the outhouse and get the motorcycle gor My wife tells me she wishes to Go a Ii shepping. ee was the hero of New Or- ae wes leans’ It matters little what it is that you want] Thomas—“Corbet! yywhether a situation or a servant—a| Teacher—“No, no; Jackson.” “want” ad. in The Star will reach the} Thomas— , Jackson wuz afraid to person who can fill your need. fight in New Orleans, ma’am.”