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I 11167-Indep'end( &. * ^?JA 0 liEiiiiiSgg BY DAVH What an amazing difference there is between our home Independence Day celebrations this year and that never to' be forgotten day 133 years ago. Now we are /comfortable, at peace with the world, with no danger of a foreign soldiery driving us from home and destroying all we have. , Those who, waiting in their homes July 4, 1776, heard the triumphant boom of Independence Bell, knew the signal of 'approaching homelessness and privation for many of them was sounding. They had comfortable homes in what many persons were pleased to call "the struggling colonies," just as comfortable .to their occupants as ours are to us. It was harder to make a home then than now, and to be obliged to give one up was, therefore, the greater sacrifice. From the very beginning of things in these United States the home has been the bulwark of the Nation. Other things have been called by that name, but the home is really the bulwark that has kept overwhelming waves.' of disaster from coming aboard the good Ship of State. Historians only tell of formal actions and . incidents, and other matters connecting them. If, however, we lift the curtain and look at the many facts all unwittingly hidden, then we begin to appreciat e the American home, to understand why it is an integral feature of Independence Day. < - , In This Mansion at Cambridge, Mass. and Nine Months Afterward. tiful Homes of The very first name signed to the Declaration of Independence, which g^ve Independence Day its name, was home-loving John Hancock, whom the English tried to have sent to England to be tried for alleged treason. The people who knew him so well in Massachusetts countenanced nothing of the sort. "All you nave to ao, tney saia, is to visu the Governor's home to find out what a fine man he is." In one of his addresses Governor Hancock declared the colonists were "not only fighting for their liberty, but for their very homes." This great American, whose nam? is to-day a synonym for a fine, bold signature, had no hesitation in giving the home the prominence it deserved in the content that resulted in American Independence. It is a great pity the Massachusetts Legislature refused to purchase the old Hancock home on Beacon Hill, in Boston, and that its destruction followed such refusal. When 1783 came and with it the end of the war, the poor, feeble little Nation hurrahed with all the strength it had, and celebrated the next Independence Day with just as much pomp and satisfaction as formerly distinguished the militia "training days." It is just as well to remember, by the way, that the processions of soldiers we sometimes sea July 4 are the outgrowth of those same train. ing days when the Colonial militia was seen in all its glory. It was one of these days the author of Yankee Doodle had in mind when he wrote: "An' there was Gen'r'l Washington, With Gentlefolks about him. They sav he's got so tarnal proud He will not ride without 'em." Withal there were home celebrations in plenty everywhere, but they took on a little of the nature of Thanksgiving, for there were dinners . such as the old colonials thought delightful, although their food capacity and digestive powers must have ex celled ours of to-day by considerable. wmmmBmimmmm mcc Day?190# Dntras^'^.^^|v ?HUNTER. I fancy that when a celebrant had manfully made his way through the courses of an old-fashioned Independence Day dinner, he felt it was most fortunate the event was annual. When 1812 came we celebrated Independence Day by taking up cudgels against the British again and soon arter sintnng six 01 me enemy s vessels without loss to ourselves. There was nothing secert about this celebration, for the mythological eagle's wings had grown, and his scream was heard throughout the civilized world. When peace was declared, or rather as late as 1818, the Nation really began to celebrate its birthday in something the same fashion as to-day, although the methods have altered with conditions. All this time the Stars and Stripes had played a growing part in Independence Day events. They were first hoisted in the form of a flag made of scraps of a blue jacket, a white shirt and red flannel, during the siege of the American garrison of Fort Stanwix, afterward Rome, New York, August 6, 1777. The first disnlafT mount thnf- the flap1 ripsiernpd hv jftUJ ~ ?~ ? ? O ? * General Washington and made byMrs. Betsy Ross in her little Philadelphia home signalized the humbling of one great nation and the birth of another destined to become great. Nowadays, the display means that eighty millions of people rejoice at the marvelous results of the action r^.V. ,, Washington Spent July 4, 1776, It Was One of the Most BeauColonial Days. of the little company that met in Independence Hall, just 133 years ago. Great changes have taken place, while all the events noted were happening, in the American home. These may be largely attributed to altered methods of living. While from the first settlement up to 1800 there was a considerable difference, it is since 1S00 that the homes nave changed most. At mat lime mere were JIU i<uge cities. Philadelphia had a population of 42,000. Next came New York with 33,000. Then Boston with 18,000, and Baltimore with 13,000. The places named had not lost a rural appearance. In Boston, for example, the streets were unpaved, and the sidewalks unflagged. The better houses were usually built of brick, with little flower gardens in front, or lawns dotted with shrubbery. Furniture, silver and china were mostly imported from England, although we hnro email Inuo fnr tho mnf'hor cnim. try. There was no heating by furnaces or steam pipes, but there were large fireplaces with brass andirons holding stout logs of wood. A tall clock usually stood in the corner, and fairly good pictures, including portraits by Copley and historic scenes by Trumbull, hung upon the wall3. Of books there were very few by American authors. Milton and Bunyan, Pope and Young, the Spectator, the Letters of Junius and Rollin's Ancient History.were the books most often seen lying about. Most everyone dressed exactly as did the men and women of England if they sought to be fashionable, a fashion that has not altogether diec out in some American homes of to) day. Social life consisted largely ir ! dinners and teas and churchgoing Instead of the modern piano then were spinets and harpsichords?smal instruments something like a piano with thin metallic tones. Theatres ..... ! _>? -V I, ?From Collier's. were Just being established, althoug bitterly opposed. Country homes of that day wer often large and handsome houses, a many of them still standing, such a Longfellow's home at ' Cambridge Mass., and the Jumel mansion in Ne\ York City, show. These were buil of wood with very solid frames. Farmers usually iived in smalle ' homes, often with only a single floo /and a garret. In the centre rose a immense brick chimney, containing huge oven. Indeed, the most pleas ant room of the home of this descrii tion was the kitchen, with its hug fireplace, swinging crane and higt backed settle, its bunches of herbs of apples and of onions hanging fror the ceiling, the corner cupboar bright with pewter mugs and dishes and a cosy table to which buckwhea cakes might be handed from the grid die without opportunity to coo: Here was served the midday dinne of salt pork, beef or fish, with pots toes and brown bread. Of the fin J vnnrnfoKlno nnW m POTT ?UU UCailULUl fcgcbttuivo uw T. -w w ion the old-time home knew little. It was from homes such as thos described that the founders of tb Nation went forth to war. Whe Washington was asked the rock o which he considered his splendi career founded, he answered, simplj "My mother's teachings." Hundred of other mothers in later days, al though perhaps not so openly herald ed, have been the real causes of grea successes among men upon whom th cares of State and Nation have restec The modern home has much mor in the way of comfort, as we undei stand the word. Sometimes it is sai that the increase in comfort ha threatened our strength as a Natior and that the splendid achievement of the men of eaulier generation were the result of the sterner lif that was theirs. If there is any one who cherishe such a believe, it will be well for hir to observe closely what happens In dependence Day, to read some of th addresses, to watch the vigor wit which Young America celebrates, t note the power and strength visibl on every hand, to look on the me whom we call representative, an< then compare them with those wh have been held up to us as model of physical and intellectual vigor. I the American home of the presen needs vindication Independence Da; events furnish it. There is no more striking contras than between Independence Da: 1909, and that melancholy July * 1784, when it seemed as if instea of remaining a united and friendl people, Jhe American Nation was lik( ly to resolve itself into thirteen hof tile nations. Fortunately commo dense prevailed, and the scheme c government upou which the Nation' career was modeled came into being. Then there was really no one t celebrate the country's birthday. 1 seemed as if there would be no roor birthdays. To-day ;the world cele brates it. Even the ruler of the Na tion whose defeat Independence Da practically signalizes pays gratefu tribute to American prowess throug the American Ambassador at th Court of St. James. In every capita of Europe Americans and friendl foreigners toast in elaborate banque halls the American Nation and it President. In our own country the Day ha taken on a wider significance tha any of the other anniversaries calle National celebrations. Indeed it i known as "The Day We Celebrate, and is unquestionably the leader c all festal occasions. Instead of dyin out, the enthusiasm of the celebrant , seems to increase with the years, an ^ within the last decade it has bee necessary to pass?at least in th larger towns and cities?local law | that regulate the fireworks display ; and the like.?American Horn Monthly. Fame. Scotland has a great reputation fo i learning in the United States, and i lady who came over from Boston re s cently expected to find the proverbia ; shepherd quoting Virgil and the .lat I orer who had Burns by heart. Sh i was disillusioned in Edinburgh. A( costing a policeman, she inquired a > to the whereabouts of Carlyle's houst "Which Carlyle?" he asked. l "Thomas Carlyle," said the lady. I "What does he do?" "He was a writer-*-but he's dead, i she faltered. "Well, madam," the big Scot ii ; tormed her, "if the man is dead ov< 1 { five years there's 'ittle chance of fine , ing out anything about him In a b| 3 city like this."?Olasgow News. \ - - ' - - - Ol ' Organized Charity Work. MIs3 Mary E. Richmond, genera J secretary of the Society for Organize< j Charity in Philadelphia, has beer j elected secretary of the Russell Sag< Foundation for the Improvement o : Social and. Living Conditions. Shi will write, teach and organize alonj the lines of social science, in whicl i she has been successful in Philadel phia during the last twenty years She will have charge of all the worl if the Foundation relating to the ex tensions of charity organizations.? tfew York Sun. Miss Wright to Teach. | Miss Katherine Wright, sister o I the two famous brothers who are re puted to be making fortunes in sell Ing rights for the use of their aero plane, wili not give up .teachini school. She was given leave of ab sence from the high school of Day ton, O., at the beginning of the yea to visit her brothers in France. I was thought after the success of Wil bur and Orville that Miss Wrigh would give up teaching, but she ha; just notified the Board of Educatioi that she will be ready to resume he; duties. Miss Longman's Task, j. j A great firm of seedsmen in Read j Ing, England, which is endeavoring t( e establish a strain of potatoes health: a enough to resist the attacks of .thi s j fungus which produces, the dry ro , I in these tubers, is employing a worn y J an botanist, Miss Sybil Longman, t< f conduct the investigations. Mis; ; Longman has won a reputation fo: r research work, and not^ long ago gavi r the results of her study of the potati n i fungus before the Linnaean Society a ' which has a good many well knowi j- j women in its ranks. So far, however ). Miss Longman has not discovered hov i to protect the potato from this fata l- tungus.?New York Tribune. >, . ' "Anti-Mashers' Society." d ) "Mashers" are,to be banished fron * State street, Chicago. The shop girli * have organized the "Anti-Mashers " Association," and they will wage wai ' on the street corner youth. Chie: L* > g, | \ Savory Liver.?If y e of have on hand, put the 1 as I I foiling water and boil ? ? | Allow the liver to cool, t ie o | ( or mince very fine. Ci "S o | brown in butter; add ti D ^2 > a little water, if it see jj oil serve on squares of toa r- 8hippy has approved the appointment E of a "mashers' squad" for*State street and the loop district. No more will the girls let .the mas L* culine flirt line up by the office 01 store door and ogle them as they pass ' I making comments on their beauty 6 ! Club women have been asked by th< ^ | shop girls to aid them in freeing th< \ streets 01 masutsrs, auu nave jjiulli 8 : ised assistance.. V Several arrests have been made. : Village Ruled by Women. In the village of Froissy, neai e Paris, nearly all the important post! are filled by women. Passenger; '| alighting at the railway station an e | met by a woman, who is stationmas b ! ter, while her husband is only ? 0 I guard. e A barber shop bears the notice .tha' q 'Mile. Jeanne" will "henceforth shav< 1 her customers only on Tuesday anc o ' Fridays, as she has undertaken othei a j work." At the postofflce the loca t | telegraph messenger and postman t I "Mile. Lesobre," is met. She walki y i on an average twenty miles a day i The municipal drummer is a woman jt ' ;n her ninetieth yeaifc.?London Stand r, 1 ard. I, d j Make Home a Happy Place. s j We spend much of our time a | nome, or at least we should do so J" | Let it be our aim, then, to make i ? j as delightful a place as possible, say: , I a writer in The Lutheran. It nee< 8 | not be a grand place, nor be furnishei j with extravagance; it is the spiri t j that pervades, and the harmony ant ' i happiness found there, and the com mon interests, that make home : happy place. How memory clings to home scene; ^ j and home experien<^! Let us prepari h I pleasure and pastimes for the littli ones. Let us give them happy hour: around the parental hearth. The; will npvor fnre'pl' frhesp things T,a ? i us make our homes so dear to all con s cerned that our boys and girls wil 1 not be in haste to get away into thi a i world.?Detroit News-Tribune. n ; 'I ?? ! Mistress and Maid. g "Have you ever noticed," asked th< ? society woman, "that a lady's mai< if always acquires the same voice, ove: e the telephone at least, that her mis 3 tress has? I don't know whether it i: 4 unconscious or deliberate, but I havi a noticed for a long time that wheneve e I ring up a friend I am answered b; s what I think is her own voice; bu a whon T vpnHirji tn snv 'OVi mm e ! morning, Gertrude,' behold it isn' Gertrude at all, nor Grace no Beatrice, but her respective maid. If on the other hand, I say 'I should liki to speak to Miss Millions,' then i a proves to be my dearest friend, whi is, of course, chilly because I hav \ mistaken her melodious voice for tha of the maid. "Yes, they even change their voice with a change of mistresses. No, 's don't know how they do it. I suppose j it is the habit of being so adaptable I should think some of them migh even graduate'on to the stage and di character work."?New Haven Reg " ister. i- * A Good Mixture. :r Aa ?. recipe for a happy home then ** is none better than brains and goo< ^ housekeeping. The more a womai knows the more early she achieves 9 ? Housework undirected by brain 1 spells drudgery. 1 The housewife with brains know i the value of system, of disregardin a traditions if they mean a waste c E higher powers, of making life mor a simple if following the fashion mean r cramped nerves and strained pirse. i The brain shows the futility c . scrubbing, stitching and dusting a home making qualities; white th c other half will never let culture ru . rampant while stockings are ui . darned and meals are helter skelter. A woman ^as once asked to defln her ideal housekeeping. "It is that, she said, "where the woman keej j the house and not the house th woman." Houses having a way c not only " 'keeping", the woman, bi J! 1 Ul. J uiuuiiig xici w i til cuaiua imyussiuj to break unless brains form mor _ than half the mixture used in ths house's running.?New, Haven Res r ister. "Sensible" Women. " Some women love to be "sensible; they make a business of it, in fac B and incidentally they make the wor 1 one of the most frequently misapplie r in the English language, says a write in the Ladies' Home Journal. Wit them it is made to cover the narrov cold-hearted, unsympathetic doings c " women who are pious but not rellf 3 ious, and often stands as the scape f goat for envious feelings and the bu - wark of the unappreciative. Let t woman of this type fall to understan " a book, picture or poem, and she in 3 mediately says it is because thes 3 things are not "sensible."?. Her gayei 1 happier sisters are, also, not "sens 3 ble." Everybody whtf is worth coi 5 Biderin^ likes common sense. It ai ? peals alike to all classes of societ 1 and conditions of men, but not even > body is gifted with it, and strangel 1 enough many of the1 very people wh 1 are sure they have It are most d( flcient. We are very prone to believ that the "sensible" way is our wa: " that sensible people are of our way c l thinking; we never take account c 3 the "wisdom of cfools" or pause t ' remember that '^outh hath a wis r dom all its own." Consider how lovj f ble, how sweet and blessed young pec ou don't care to fry all the liver you bits into a stew pan, pour over the until tender, perhaps half an hour, ind then put it through the "grinder," it a small onion in tiny bits and fry ie minced liver, salt and pepper, and ms too dry. Cook two' minutes and st. ' ' . t pie are! We 'look at their rosy face t and bright eyes and stifle our env in our affection for them. Do w - love them because they are sensible P Movho cr\ TMavHn if 4a aanalVila f l/b UV< iUUJ A U UUUOiUlU V , take responsibility lightly, to trUs . the future and to look with passionat 2 eagerness for whatever treasure c 3 Joy the present holds. Yet the youn - are not methodical, nor dutiful, nc grave and quiet, nor any of the thins we popularly call "sensible." Is not possible that some women mali the same' mistake with the wor r "sensible" that other women mak j regarding the word "good?" , " t 3 ; , ' ?Tninos - . f 1 The new jacket is somewhat on th t Louis LVi. style, but is much smarte: 1 Taffeta silk is back again afts ? many months of enforced retiremen 3 Among the new shell hairpins, ou of the favorite styles is a broad trip] I loop. Designers are now doing their be: ,to get away from the familiar jumpe effect. . v .. Vital contrasts do not exist, excei when black and colors are put t< j gether. g Lace will be more than rivalled i i popularity by embroidery and brai 1 trimming. t The latest collar is of chiffon, ti 1 color of the bodice, surmounting - white yoke. 1 Chemisettes .of fine batiste at worked elaborately on soutache, wit 3 sleeves to match. 0 Linens are either very heavy, a g most like Russian crash, or they ar very thin and fine. t Most of the embroidered design . are large and sprawly, and are doa 1 in the same color as the material. 3 The prevailing long lines call int being a great many panels, and thes are variously finished at the edges. A novelty is a little bunch of fru 3 worn in front of the jacket an 1 matching the fruit worn on the hat. r A little piece of real lace introduce " upon the high-necked evening bodiq 3 is characteristic of the coming modi Long sleeves will be worn on a I* Kttf tho cnft fluff lanui eu nalato, uuu u.v ? afternoon frocks may have elbo1 j sleeves. t The correct silhoutte is attaine r where all the lines of the frock sus i gest ease and looseness without fu g ness. t Often the pocket3 of the ne1 a pongee suits have the monogram c 9 .the wearer embroidered in a contrasi t Ing color. Not all coats are lined with neutrc s colors, but the coat lining is made I feature of the costume, and is c s some Seautiful but of course harmoi !- izing color. t Color embroidery on white, blacl 3 cream aucl ecru will be much usee as well as white on color. Most c the embroidery seen now in the shot ii machine made. Au ivory white satin may have se^ s oral tunics in various pale shades c i gauzo, or in silver or gold tissue! i which will give to it the appearanc .of an entirely different sown. I ^ - i ii ? The Bald Spots. By PAUL THIEJUN. i Colonel Roosevelt's hunting trip | to Africa, the appeal of the Republic ! of Liberia for aid from the United States Government to save it from its dry rot and approaching extinction, the German enterprise of the reclamation of Mesopotamia, our own movement to fructify our vast "semiarid" and arid domain, the recrudescence of Cipriano Castro, now as a is "man without a country"?all these things,' though seemingly unrelated, s point to the> same final development g of the civilized world. >f Colonel Roosevelt will bring back e a story?challenging attention beis cause of its author's eminence? about the future of Africa being in >f the establishment of white civilizals tion on the high plateaux?the bald e spots?of the Dark Continent. Then n it may become, indeed, the planet's i. continent-in-chief. The mass of humid jungle is fit ie only for savages, barbarians and wild " beasts. Let them have it and rule is it. e But the great bald uplands, with if healthy climate, fertile soil, no unit solvable problem of insects and freee doin from the brooding spirit of trope ical fevers, are only sparsely occult pied by aborigines. It is not necessary to murder millions to civilize these mighty tablelands. ' - - Africa's bald spots are as open and ' rich for white occupation as our t. Western American uplands were d when the buffalo and mustang roved d over them in enormous herds, and n even the grizzly bears, now solitary b beasts, lived in large companies. 7, Liberia is hopeless because the >1 American negroes who established it ; have tried to live in the humid coast i- region instead of in the .high hinter1 land. a Modern Mesopotamia?a dreary d desert waste?is still seamed with i> the canals which were, the reason for le the civilization known by the still r. magic name of Babylonia. Put water i- in them, once more?the Euphrates i- and Tigris Rivers still flow with their h ancient vigor?and a new Babylonia y can rise on the ruins of cities five r- thousand and seven thousand years y old! i o Cipriano Castro once ruled because ; he was backed by the small but hardy e forces of the sparse population of the T, table land of Venezuela, which bears >1 the $ame relation to his country that >f the Rocky Mountain! region bears to o the United States. The men of the j. bald spot were better men than those i- of the luxurious coast country, for ). Nature at her own full swing is a ? handicap to man; The glories of Egypt and Babylonia are household words. They were bald, desert countries?regions of treeless and vegetationless sand, where man, armed with the waters of great rivers, could make Nature and Life do his bidding better than Nature can do her own bidding. Man-directed vegetation is superior is to' Nature-directed vegetation, ' and y therefore man is at his best, armed e with wfcter,; on. the. planet's bald ? spots. o And the same soil'as that of Egypt Jt and Babylonia exists on the back-:9 bones of the continents. Much or >f most of these empires of the lofty g altitudes' is desert now because bar?r baric man cannot command the ;s waters. But these bald spots are the , It future ideal centres of a civilization :e able to create reservoirs, whereas d the ancient man had to depend on e rivers. To make Egypt and Babylonia blossom as the rose was comparatively easy, for Nature provided the Nile and the Euphrates. But all these ages and centuries the finest parts ? of the planet have been bald spots, as It were, because there are no mighty rivers on the plateaux. e The rain is there, but it flows ofT. r Highly civilized man can prevent I it from flowing off uselessly. He can i ootoh onH at:'nr? it. and. with virgin t -? soil, equable and mild climate, 110 inl<? sect or animal pests, no malarial vae pors, thrive as man has never thrived before. Civilization's future is in the bald sr spots.-r-New York American. >t Jarrell and His House, j- Frank Jarrell is building himself a home in Holton. It must be quite n an architectural triumph?because a j good many people are handing him lemon punches concerning it. As a sample of what Frank endures, this ' will suffice: "I want to pay my subscription," said' T. J. Landon, of Mayetta, the "6 other day, when .he called on the b editor of the Signal. Frank raked in the shekels with 1- thanks. e "A man who builds as ugly a house as yours," Mr. Landon continued, IS "needs all the consolation he can e get."?Kansas City Journal. The Deserter. Ie "Do you desire to have it understood?" asked the Judge, addressing the lady who wanted the divorce, ^ "that your husband deserted you?" " "Yes, sir." "Please tell the court as concisely d as you can how he deserted you." 'e "Two months after we had com2 pleted our wedding trip he scolded 11 me because he thought I was extravy agant in the matter of getting clothes, tv and I went home to my people." "Yes. Proceed." d "Well, I waited and waited aud r. waited for him to come and beg me j. to return to him, and he never did." j ?Chicago Record-Herald. tv { ,{ j Chip Off the Old Block. t- I "Say, paw," said little Sammy i CUn?f CIltrnvMn folH mP tn-HaV Oil U1 If :ui. UII ? cx tuu Wiu wv tl that I was a second edition of you." a "That was nice of him," rejoined ,f old man Short. "How did he como to say it?" "I stvuck him for a quarter," answered Short, Jr.?Chicago News. J, (f Old Fort Xow Used as a Barn. is Fort Latham, built near Greeley, Col., in the early '60s for defense r. against the Indians, was not destroyed jf yaars ago, as has been supposed, but 5> Is still used as a barn on the ranch ? 3f 0. A. Gordan. It is built of sod and Is still In good condition. fc? ??^ , < ' ' v V M'tfW-'&S ==? pg|B $j){ :i The total seating capacity of the theaters and music halls of London / 'r Is 327,000. One-seventh of the foreign com- '.7merce of Great Britain passes tnrough the Suez canal. ? Berlin is said to have more trees ^ "j on the streets than any other city in the world. " y 9 Burmah is to have a Pasteur Institute. Germany's medical students number 7345. ; ? - "v 4'i Says the North China Daily News: . '-J "The (Chinese) government has announced to the Chinese residents abroad that their sons will be granted free tuition if they are sent back to China to government schools for education." In its mercantile marine Japan has, ' ' . J* 1618 steamships, of 1,153,340 aggregate tonnage; 4515 sailing vessels, of 372,319 aggregate tonnage, and 1390: Japanese "ships of the old style," of, r 511,452 aggregate tonnage; in' all,' 7523 ships, of 2,027,111 aggregate . tonnage. ; The operating cost of the Brook- '< -c lyn bridge is'found to be as high as $360,000 a year, according |q* an Investigation made by the controller %x<y- , of New York City. This flgnre is the average of- ten years' mAintenftnm and operating, costs, beginning with < um. . Battleship maintenance cost dur- ? ing the past year, found by averaging the cost of current repairs on seventeen United States battleshins during 1908, amounts to $110,000 per year per ship. This does not Include the more extensive repairs or overhaul^ The consumption of gold coins for )njj industrial purposes, in Germany is estimated at about 100,000,000 % marks annually. The recent saie of-Mrs.. Piozzl's diary in London for 91.0,260 must be nearly a record price,'., for diaries, ^ though last year Shelley's notebooks brought $15,000. The great interest ' ' in Mrs. Piozzl's diary lies, of course,' in its record ?of conversations, with Dr. Johnson. New Yorkers are now moving fast-v er fn the direction of owning their own homes than ever before. Inatal-; J ment buyers'are now paying on contracts calling'for $250,000,000. : All of the immigrants who come ? / r ^ to New Tork are not steerage passengers. The cabins brought 14-2,120 last year. . , , A man has been sentenced in' Prague, BohemU, to six months' imprisonment for harnessing his wife and dog to his vegetable cart. Tfie 7 > woman pleaded that she herself had ' suggested It, as she liked the work; but this did not alter the decision of the magistrate. WHAT NEWSPAPER MEN MUST CONTEND WITH. Some Questions and Suggestions by I Those Who "Know the Business." "Things People Say to Defenseloss1 - ' Newspaper Men" was the heading to . ' . the following list of remarks re- v. printed from an exchange in the Washington Star recently: "I've got a good scoop for you? ? our club's going to give a picnic." + / <, "You want to go easy on that; I'm a friend of yonr boss." - /j "Who writes the Items for you after you bring them in?" y?"If I was you I'd be going to somo show every ni?ht." "I don't see how you can make up so many lies-" "Be sure and send back this photo; it's the only one of me I have." ,m"' *? - ..ono.. fViof T'tro mnn 1 jrlj rill. XU ;uui pajit.1 vuu? A. v to New York. I ain't going, but I want a certain girl to see it." "Say, get me a pass to the ball game, will you?" -4$ "I'm going to Europe this summer.' Would your paper pay my expenses if I was to send letters every now and then telling about my trip?" "I wish you'd put a knock in your. flaper on a fellow I know." "Don't you have to vote the way your editor doss?" _ "What does the Sunday editor do on week days?' "If you print anything about thi? I'll quit taking your sheet." ' Both Were Surprised. A mission worker in New Orleans was visiting a reformatory near that city not long ago, whbn she observed *V.-> Inmotao a 71 flW I tiLLl Ulig 111C lutuaibo mm w. quaintance, a negro lad long thought to be a model of integrity. "Jim!" exclaimed the mission worker. "Is it possib'to I find you here?" "Yassum," blithely 'responded the backslider. *Ts charged with stealin' a barrel o* sweet pertaters." The visitor sighed. "You, Jim!" she repeated. "I am surpriseu: "Yassum," said Jim. "So was I, or [ wouldn't be here!"?San Francisco Argonaut. A Little Too Much. j The last Socialistic candidate lor Governor of Ohio thinks the doctrine is being carried too far when his wife handed him a few wallops for scorching the coffee. He is Socialist enough to get up and make the fires, but when it comes to taking a licking for I not doing the cooking to the queen's : taste he wants a divorce.?Washing| ton Times. 1 The latest Japanese bank notes are printed in English as well as Japanese characters. V j ~