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STRIFE AMONG THE Dissatisfaction With Whom Serions Cta o! Newspapers in til By Rev. IR/ in the Broc . Brvl Ona ?-\f tK a nAtohlo th incc l T1 g ? ... life of Jerusalem of to-day is the crrase of newspapers since the ad tion of the constitution. These fo page papers, partly printed and pa ly mimeographed, are A1 Kouds s A1 Insaf, in Arabic, appearing tw a week; A1 Ahlan and Mounabl Amouat, in Arabic, issued once week; and two Jewish dailies cal Pardes and Aherout. A1 Kouds, Jerusalem, is the best; A1 Insaf issued by Greek Church layn against the clergy; A1 Ahlan, Dreamers. comeB out on Sunday a: sort of "'s'curflng" paper against i Greek clergy; the paper with 1 longest name is a weekly insult to 1 Latin clergy, and translated its na reads "'Waker of the Dead Ones." daily telegraph bulletin in Ara and French is also published. For years there has been a Jew daily called Hazevir. The gove ment has printed a weekly bulle half in Arabic and half in Turki For some time the Greek clergy pi lished a paper against the laymen their church with the title Bac Philistine. It was recently disci tinued when the editor's life v sought. ! Like many another novelty 1 new papers tend to be overdone. Th criticisms have been so severe a .their ability to report matters of pi lie concern with exactness, so inci siderable, now and then, that it rumored that a censor is to be i pointed, whose business it shall not as of yore to suppress news, 1 to see that facts are not misrepori and matters or personages not rr represented. One matter of grave importai Is the constant strife between I clergy and the laity of the Orthoc Church, as distinguished from 1 Russian Church. There is incre ing dissatisfaction with the ar gance. the ignorance, and the financ mismanagement of the Greek cler This dissatisfaction publicly expresi not two months ago cost the lives several men. For several days a termined mob of Greeks laid siege the ecclesiastical authorities a filled all Jerusalem with fear. 1 quarrel was temporarily terminal , by orders from Constantinople, 1 the main issues yet remain as poi of rabid and personal discussion. 1 charge is openly made by the layn of the. Greek connection that th priests are too fond of wine a women. They insist that it is hi time that the clergy secured bet education for themselves, demanc larger intellectual qualifications fr the candidates for the priesthood e provided proper mental developmi for the children of the fold. T1 demand that the money sent in en inous amounts from Greece 3.nd R sia and other lands to Jerusalem the generous faithful be spent renovate dilapidated Greek church erect hospitals and schools and be voted to a wider charity than tl which, in the case of the Gre clergy, naively begins at home, this last is meant that it is genera reported that the clergy use tie < nations aforementioned for the j vate advantage of their own imr diate families. It is simply nec sary to talk five minutes with an dinarily intelligent communicant the Orthodox Greek Church in ori to understand that these questi< will not be settled until they i settled right. By way of passing comment, may be said that the Russians b: the finest and cleanest churches a equipment in Jefusalem; that i Germans .excel all the other nati< in the magnificence of their color ing and Protestant ecclesiastical stitutions, possessing the one o standing Protestant church build in Jerusalem; that the work by Je among Jews is as marvelous as , Jewish quarter in Jerusalem is dir that the hospices of Palestine, whe er Russian or Latin, are models comfort and order; that the child differences existing between the v ious divisions of the body of Chi are as well qualified to make a M lem disgusted as they are to mak Christian with the Soirit of Jesus his heart to be ashamed. The cle: of all faiths present the finest col! tion of elongated hair and whisk to be seen anywhere in the woi The Russian priests particularly as handso-me and well groomed the Franciscans are courteous ? cordial. It is difficult to understand that sort of men one meets privately \ be so very vulgarly insistent o inconsequential matters of place < preferment and procedure in th official capacities as representati of their respective churches. C wonders what would happen were doorman at the entrance to FOREST AREAE A Section Which is 1 Virgin Woodls The South, with twenty-seven cent, of the total area of the Uni OUtiea, tuuiaiuo auu u i. iviij-mu cent, of the total forest area of country. The forest area by Sta is as follows: Alabama. 20,000,* uicres: Arkansas. 24,200,000; Flori .20,000,000: Georgia, 22,300,0 Kentucky. 10,000,000; Louisia 26,500,000; Maryland, 2,200,0 Mississippi, 17,500,000; North Ca Una, 19.600,000; South Carolina, ] 000,000; Tennessee, 15,000,0 Texas. 30,000,000; Virginia, 14.0( <)00, and West Virginia, 9,100,0 The South, it will be seen, has s much of .the virgin forest of country. This forest mu3t be us of course, in order to meet the ste ily expanding wants of this secti It must be used, however, in sue! manner that the very most may CHURCHES IN PALESTINE; the Greek Clergy Against Lrges Are Bade?Influence e Lile ot Jerusalem To-day. ======== l W. HENDERSON. >klyn Daily Eagle. ? i I ! the Church of the Holy Sepulchre a Chris- ' . in- tian, rather than a Mohammedan. A i op- thoughtful man might regard it even | ur- as a blessing that in the present state j irt- of religious unregenerateness the . md Holy Land is in the hands of the ice Turk. hil But there are other things than j a church feuds and church edifices in led Palestine. Jerusalem has donkeys or that run you down if you do not is hustle out of their way. hardly any ien that hasten out of yours and others or that sleep unconcernedly upon the 3 a sidewalk, just outside the Jaffa gate, the Damascus has a trolley system that j the is a great convenience, if you know j the how Co use it. It is easy to learn. ! me It doesn't go to either railroad sta- j A tion. and you change cars and pay bic another fare in the middle. It ap- ! proaches annoyingly near the station ; ish of the Turkish Railroad to Haifa and j rn- cheerfully neglects the French sta- j tin tion. whence you leave for Beyrouth. | sh. Beirut has one line in operation, the ; tib- tracks without wires for another'and | of the wires without tracks for a third, hir Some day there will be a system, and j * an- maybe some watered stock. (The j ras Moslems have learned to drink Chris- j i tian beverages, containing one-nan ot i * ;he one per cent, or more of alcohol, and " eir they are in a way .to acquire other | ind Occidental habits.) It Is said that an ! ab- application Is being considered to per- j c 3n- mit the erection and operation of a i 1 is trolley road from Jerusalem to Beth-'s ap. lehem, and that another beseeching j 1 be, permission to put up telephones in ( jut Jerusalem may be granted. A motor ; i ted stage line, in competition with the ! , iie- railroad, which runs twice a day each ; way from Jaffa to Jerusalem, is 1 jce rumored. Its predecessors are the ! 1 the motor from Damascus to Palmyra, , lox and the two cars that have been mak- , i the iQg daily trips from Beirut to Sidon j as- and return. The success of two Eng- j ro- lishmen, who went recently from j :ial Damascus to Bagdad in a motor car, gy, has stimulated much favorable cornier ment anent the possibility of a mail of route between those points. The auto de- does in six days what it takes the 1 to camel twenty-one to do. ind The railway service of the country : ^he is better than one would suppose, ted The road from Jaffa to Jerusalem is ( aut narrow gauge and the poorest of the j nts lot, but its first class accommoda- j 'he tions are by no means uncomfortable | ien for a four-hour ride and the scenery j eir is magnificent. The road from Haifa 1 lQ(j to Damascus along the foot of Holy , \ [gh Mt. Carmel, across the battle wprn i ter plain of Esdraelon, through the val- j led ley of Jezreel of Bible story, along i om the Jordan, skirting the Galilean i ind Lake upon its southern shore, climb- i ent inS the rugged sides of the' indescrib- ] iey able beautiful valley of the Yarmuk j or. River, racing across the fertile fields | us. of the Hauran to the oasis of the j by Damascus, is provived with strictly i to first class equipment in every depart- j es> ment, and, though it is narrow gauge de_ and owned by the Turkish Govern- I hat ment?as is the road from Jaffa to ! jek El-Kuds?is a delight to the traveler j By and a welcome relief to the tourist j LUy who has known only carriages and 1 do- horses and donkeys for many days, i )ri_\The French road from Damascus to ' n8_ Beriut offers a majestic ride and aces ceptable accommodations, though not or- so new as those provided on the road of just named. The line from Reyak, on the main division from Damascus I 5ns to Beirut, to Baalbek is apparently j (' are between narrow and broad gauge. | ( Its accommodations are entirely satis- ! | it factory, while the landscapes to be J i lve viewed maintain the extremely high j ind average that is characteristic of the I the railroads of the Lebanon district in Dns particular and of the whole of Pales\iz tine in general. It simply remains tc in- connect Haifa with the Holy City to < ut- reconstruct in its entirety the prob- \ ing lem of tourist travel in the Holy i :ws Land. the must not be thought, however J ,ty; that invention and reform are having I th- all a bed of roses. The railroad ] of through Moab southward to Mecca | ish Is having constructive troubles with i ar. the Bedouins, who persist in tearing i riet UP a track that here, as well as every- j os- where in Palestine, is laid in the j e a finest sort of easily obtained rock in ballast, and it is only a week ago that : rgy troops had to be sent from Jerusaleir j lec- to Nablus to preserve order and tc ! erg prevent further outrages by the con?ld. servatives in that town upon the rad- i are icals who compose the organisation J as of the Young Turks, tnd the For Summer. Boarders. vill Scott spent a part of one summei ver in the country, and hence was an auind thority on agricultural matters. : leir "In milking a cow," he wrote hi? ; ves friends, "always sit on the side fur j )ne thest from the critter, and nearest j | the 1 the sort spot in tbe pasture."?sue- ! j the cess Magazine. j . 5 IN THE SOUTH Blessed With Most ofjthej and of the Country. per made from its annual cut, while al ted the same time this cut is being re- i per placed by a new growth. In this wa> i the its timber will remain a source oi ! LLC5> ptfi ptJLUctl Weill LU. 1 lie lUipUl UUllUe Ul , | 300 forest conservation to Southern in- i ida, terests is clearly understood by the , 00; people of the South. The future ol .na, the South is more nearly bound up j 00; in the plan of forest preservation ir?- than is anything now before the | L2,- people of this part of the | 00; country. Not only is the pro j )0,- tection of the watersheds, which will j 00. some day furnish the power to run j itill all manufacturing establishments in the the entire South, an important mattei ted, to the South, but the industries de ad- pending upon the forest products will on. also be benefited by the protection h a thrown about the remaining Umbered be area.?Science A CONINC The Squire?"Well, Thomas, I 1 >ort of woman is your wife?" Thomas (who has married for tl ng widow at that)?"Well, zur, she t :ay as she be 'iz masterpiece."?Froi Stoopless Dustpan. 1 Women are generally agreed that >ne o? the most serious features of ; lousehold work is the incessant looping which seems to be necessary n the performance of the daily rou The Stoopless Dust Pan. , ;ine of the household work. Doc;ors claim that it is this alone which s in a large measure responsible for :he many ills and ailments which women are afflicted with and which ;he men are free from. So many of ler daily tasks require that she should lean or stoop over that it is lot long before this unnatural atti;ude is responsible for some serious md chronic illness which often Bakes her an invalid for the rest of ler life. The stoopless dustpan which has leen recently invented enables her to lo the work of gathering up the ac;umulations on the floor without the east inclination of her body. The lew implement*has a long handle by which it is carried conveniently, and it the same time the handle controls :he operation of a lid which opens for ;he reception of the dust when the lan is placed on the floor, and as it s raised after gathering up the accumulations the lid closes, hiding the contents from view and preventing ;heir being scattered by the wind or oy accident.?Washington Star. IRONICAL MR Mr. Suburbs?"Do you expect a Mrs. Suburbs?"Well, considerii lie's got the measles, the cellar is fl for two days?yes, I do."?Ally Slop Shoes on the Piano. ; A sliding shoe has been invented to take the place of the caster on heavy pieces of furniture, and it is I y I > I Skoe For. Heavy Furniture. DISSEUR^fji hear you are married again. What le fifth time, and a very plain-look e the Lard's 'andiwork, but I can't , m the London Telegraph. , Centre Lid For Stove. An invention of especial interest and convenience to housekeepers is j the auxiliary stove lid plate designed j by a Delaware man. By means of j this it is possible to have a lid over I the centre of the stove, where the i fire is hottest. j The old style stove plates are ob- ! long with rounded ends and a piece j set in the middle which leaves a circular opening at each end. While it ' Is possible by this arrangement to re- ; move, either or both lids and the { bridge plate, it i3 not possible to so | dispose them as to have one opening ! in the centre. ( The new stove plate overcomes this disadvantage by providing a stove top with supplemental plates which may be fitted in the ends and leave a circular opening in the centre, on which one of the ordinary lids will fit. When the fire is low, as in the morning, it is desired to set the coffee : pot, for instance, over the hottest | , part of the fire, which is the middle ! ffil o r? '?? i??J part. Heretofore, It has been necessary to remove all the plates and sel ' the kettle on the coals, thus stopping j the draft, or to rake the fire over ta I ' one side.?Boston Post. J 1 The largest pontoon bridge in 1 the world connects Calcutta with ' Howrali. S. SUBURBS. II 1 MMJ ny visitors to-night, my dear?" j lg that Bridget's going to leave. Wil- j , ooded, and the grocer hasn't called I i er's Half-Holiday. ' j | i ; said It may be used with the advantage that it does not mar the floor : or its covering, whatever its character may be. It is especially recommended for polished floors. The device consists of a rounded button of 1 porcelain or glass fitted with a split spring stem, which prevents it from dropping out when the piece of fur niture is lifted from the floor. The two parts are joined by a ball and i socket joint by means of which the 1 portion coming in contact with the( floor is permitted to adjust itself to any irregularities of the surface over which it may be passing. These shoes were originally made for use on pianos, so that the instruments i might be moved around at will, but it has been found necessary to make I them in a number of different sizes ; for different articles of furniture.? , I Washington Star. Where All Are Agreed. I will do human nature the justice to say that we are all prone to make other people do their duty.? i Sydney Smith. A combined Danish and French scientific expedition will visit the Danish West Indies in an endeavor to determine the part played by blood-sucking insects in the spreading of leprosy. A Swedish geologist has explained to his government the reason for his prediction that all the world's supply of iron will be exhausted in fifty years. Little more than one-tenth of the deposits, he says, are in the United States. A remarkable operation on a dog was made the subject of a scientific demonstration at a meeting of the Berlin Medical Society last week. Dr. Unger, a Berlin surgeon, showed how ten days before he had removed the dog's kidneys, substituting those of another dog. The dog seemed to have completely recovered. ?5 J ~ wnai is saiu iu ue uu mi|jui win discovery In the glais industry has been made by Mr. Litte, which will tend to revolutionize the art of grinding glass. The grinder which he has discovered is made from one-half best Portland cement and one-half silica sand. In this stone there are no soft or hard spots and it will grind glass without scratching. The cost of the grindstone is about ten per cent, thsjt of the common grindstone. In a recent paper W. E. Gray states that the manufacture of tin plates originated in Bohemia, hammered iron plates having been coated with' tin in that country some time before the year 1600. Tin plate making was introduced into England from Saxony in 1665, and the first tin plate factory in France was established in 1714. Tin plates were first made on a commercial basis in the United States at Pittsburg in 1872. The notable success of wiroless telegraphy in procuring speedy assistance for ships in distress at sea in spite of fog and distauce, best exemplified by the cases of the Republic and the Ivernia, caused an application for lower insurance rates for vessels equipped with wireless apparatus to be proposed for the international marine insurance congress at Baden. Success of the application should be mutually beneficial, both effecting a saving in insurance cost to chipowners and extending the use of the latter. I PEPPER DUELS, j * a A certain literary and diplomatic friend of ours took part in a pepper duel at a foreign restaurant. He was provoked to the contention by the quantity of stimulating condiment that a stranger across the table indulged in. The stranger sprinkled an unconscionable quantity of red pepper upon his food, and proceeded to devour it, to the wonder and admiration of onlookers. Thereupon with studied nonchalance the American swallowed an immense piece of chili pepper. Then the stranger added more red pepper; then the American another larger slice, covered with cayenne, and so on, till it seemed as1 if both would explode, while the other diners looked on aghast?the American finally winning out with a prodigious dose defying an emulation. Some of the large nations of Eu rope seem to be engaged at tne present moment in a sort of pepper duel, each piling up Dreadnoughts and taxes to the utmost of endurance, while the rest of the world looks on, wondering which nation will be able to do itself the greatest internal injury before the duel ends in actual war or a genuine peace.?From an Editorial in the Century. Carrier Pigeons as Spies. Dr. J. Neubronner, of Cronberg, has had the ingenious idea of employing carrier pigeons to photograph country which they fly over and thereby collect topographical and other information which might prove of con* siderable use in war. A specially designed camera of microscopic proportions is fitted with an Ingenious mechanism for working it automatically. It is fixed to the bird's breast. At the Dresden photographic exhibition the whole process i3 shown. For practical use it is necessary that the pigeons should fly in more than Due direction. This to some extent is secured by keeping the birds in cotes on railway wuKons, to which, wherever they are shifted, the pigeons return as surely as to a stationary twv* ?Westminster Gazette. Fleased His Majesty. The dark monarch from su?ny Africa was being shown over an engineering place in Salford by the manager, who, in explaining the working of certain machinery, unfortunately got his coat tail3 caught in it, and in a moment was being whirled round at so many revolutions per minute. Luckily for the manager, his garments were unequal to the strain ot' more than a few revolutions, and he was hurled, disheveled and dazed, at the feet of the visitor. That exalted personage roared with laughter and said something to his interpreter. "Sah," said the functionary to the manager, "His Majesty say be am berry pleased with de trick, an' will you please do it again?"?Sk?'<'\y Bits. A* It Seemed. ' That man." said the court onlooker. "will be convicted surely. He's making a very poor impression on the witness stand." "That isn't the defendant." said a lawyer. "He's just one of the alienists undergoing cross-examination."? Detriyt. Free Press. A to Auenbrugger, the "father of ^rcussion," has recently been installed at Vieuna. I I !f 'WhiWGSJ! i jggWORTH KUOWINGa j W1 It.':: ; .New York City consumes more but- j j (.er than both Loudon and Paris. The j Pre i average daily consumption is 718,000 ! Tf. : pounds. I Ui i An| New York City has an extremely j sweet tooth, for its people consumed : i 280,000,000 pounds of sugar during ; An the last year. : [t'? The State of New Jersey has im- j I ported Ave stallions from Great | Brt : Britain to enable its farmers to pro- < [ 3uce a higher type of horses. | Gel By dropping a nickel in the slot of , i new machine a motor is started J which operates brushes to clean and ; It's polish its patrons' shoes. | ?? i W1 A single factory in the Black For- j Th< est makes over 6,000,000 mouth-or- I gans a year, a large percsntage of ! them being exported to this country. A new German corporation has ordered seven airships of the Zeppelin A model, to establish regular passenger \Si service among twenty-seven towns. A California company has secured ; 100 pounds of aus paddy rice from ! ^ Bengal and will try to raise the grain j on dry land which it owns. j yoi The Government Printing Office ' ^ employs more than 4000 persons. ( An The receipts of the New York post- . 1 office to-day equal those of the entire i ttu country thirty years ago. j ? ! sta Lucerne is to be sole airship station j for Switzerland, and a station house ! is to.be erected at a cost of 700,000 ; ! francs. It is hoped soon to establish j j regular communication between that < i town and Friedrichshafen. I nu Th : The postal authorities of England on I paid a high compliment to the stamp ^e J collectors of the world when they proi vided a special canceling stamp for .. i use in Manchester on the three.days . f j of the stamp exposition in that city ! recently. I vai At the battle of Fleuris, June 26, i 1794, in the French revolutionary ; period, the balloon was for the first ^ ! time used in the service of the army. M* | The Austrians, stupefied, saw the m? ; captive airship Entreprenant above I their heads at a height of 300 metres. J th< th< A mortgage on a cat is not often an heard of. However, the other day ha i there was filed in the recorder's office j at Columbus, Ohio, a chattel mort- ga gage, the consideration of which was gu $20. The property on which the pr< ; money was secured was described as , "a cat called John." j ' i The biggest artificial hoi Be In the ! world is the famous White Horse of ' 6 Kilburn, near Thirsk, which was fei formed by a native of Kilburn fifty years ago, who cut away the turf in the correct form and then covered it with limestone?the whole covering : some two acres of the side of the hill, j The figure makes a conspicuous land- : mark for over twenty miles round, j i jl i A Wild Animal Farm, f i ^ : jm5 M. F. Kendrick, of Denver, Col- j lit" orado, has a farm equipped for the i sw i rearing and sale of wild beasts. The j "N j enterprise bears the title of the Ken- be1 i drick Pheasantries and Wild Game lnc j Association. It grew out of the nov- Pu I el exhibit at the City Park in Den- i ver, which Mr. Kendrick maintained syi : entirely at his own expense, because Sw of his love for wild game. Many hoi ' thousands of dollars yearly went to i a \ i the development of Mr. Kendrick's j An I hobby. What was a fancy has be- jot come a substantial business institu- BtJ ' tion. . J For the first few years only ani- j mals native to North America will | ' be reared, but eventually lions, ti- ( 8te | gers, and even elephants will be bred, trc I The farm is now stocked with deer, be< j elk. antelope, bears, mountain goat, cie I etc., and sixteen acres of ground are iCj( J utilized in the venture. hii Mr. Kendrick says that It does not j gai cost any more to produce a pound ait of buffalo or elk than it does of cat- hai tie or 3heep. Buffalo meat sells at ; tra from fifty cents to one dollar a j em pound, elk bringing nearly as much, j cot The association will not lack a mar- j "S< ket. at these prices if zoological parks j da] and game preserves do not take the ; tio j entire output. cla The United States Government is lea |. taking great interest in Mr. Ken- ize drick's farm. It will co-operate ren I with him by telling him how to cure orn or prevent any disease with which wit he is not familiar.?From Succese sor Magazine. Bei Alfred A. Pope's Life Story. Born in Boston, May 20, 1843. j 1 Went to work on a farm when nine ; yea years old. j Th: Employed in a shoe finding store i na( ! at $4 a week when fifteen years old. bin In 1882 he went to Civil War as j er i second lieutenant in Thirty-fifth Mas- j 3og sachusetts Regiment, in his nine- ; nes teenth year. j wh Served through war with distinc- j to tion and was brevetted lieutenant- ' his colonel of the Thirty-fifth Regiment j Th for gallant conduct at Fredericks- ! not burg, Knoxville and Petersburg. I hei Pioneer bicycle manufacturer in ; arc the United States in 1876, j ly Advocate of good roads system. j fur Had been in poor health since fail- I ter ure in business several years ago. I ?5 Founded Pope Memorial Church at | Wc Cohasset in memory of his son, | Charles Linder Pope. Director in several banks and finan- j 1 cial institutions and a member of ?>ul prominent Boston clubs and societies, pri Married Abbie D. Linder, of New- Ce( ton, September 20, 1871. They had Ea: four children, three boys and one do^ girl. Mrs. Pope and two of the sons pec and the daughter are still living. !>ul tor The longest pipeline in the world a is that which extends from the Okla- sa homa oil wells to New York harbor. .,oi / :" : >s^ I [E HUMOROUSNESS OF THINGS.' V. lat we call a sense of humor is a curjou* affair; ne say it's rather common; some consider it quite rare. i funny when somebody seats himself upon a pin, # w/.-C-S9a >vided it's somebody you're not interested in. i funny when the gold brick man deludes a trusting soul . ...st d leaves his crops in pawn and puts his family in a hole. i funny when small children eat green fruit and cakes and pie d suffer pain?though I could never see exactly why. i laughable to see a man in most things brave and strong !ak down and seem quite helpless when affection's hopes 'go'wrong. i funny when some man in whom the public placed its trust pa out ana makes a silly splurge with other people's dust. i funny when you stand for hours as on the cars you ride; i funny when big autos have explosions or collide. len you note the timely topic and the gay satiric fling, f ere's no doubt a sense of humor is s -f ; yery curious thing. ?Washington Star. ^ "Could you learn to love me?" rell, my teachers say I'm brighter inmost pupils."?Cleveland Leader. Lawyer?"After the defendant left a, what did you do in the interim?" itness?"Wasn't in any interim, 3 was in the stable."?Baltimore lerlcan. Tommy?"Pop, what 1b meant by ) mother tongue?" Tommy's Pop "Sh-h-h, my boy! Don<t get her I 1 rted."?Philadelphia Record. ' Two a. m. By the silent 'phone She waited with a frown. Suddenlv he called her up? And then she called him down. ?Harvard Lampoon. The Patrolman's Wife?"Does your sband eat fruit in the morning?" #3 e Roundsman's Wife?"No; he's ~ ' ly on duty in the evening."?Yon- M rs Statesman. Our Quizzing Friend?"Pinky, over. ;re, says he finds this a great place clean the cobwebs out of his lin." Our Pat Friend?"Sort of a ' V r ;uum cleaner."?Judge. Tommy?"Tell us a fairy tale.": ' est?"Once a man who had a baby it didn't cry and a dog that didn't . :'-l ;e went to live in a suburb without isquitoes."?Harper's Bazar. "Were you ever in love?" asfced , f } sweet young thing. "No," replied 3 bachelor, "but you can't mention i y other fashionable disease that I . ven't had."?Dtroit Free Press. "He says he's your friend for life. ys you loaned him $50." "So I did. it he's not my friend for life. I .,'v jpose to ask him for it next pay, . ' HSj y."?Louisville Courier-Journal. "ThAt ladv looked at vou as if she - < ew you." "Yes," replied the gen- " man who had been named as de? '> '>3 idant at Sioux Falls and Reno, "she my mother-in-law twice removed." Chicago Record-Herald. " 'Mid pleasures and palaces, i Though we may roam," . v/3 .When the stomach is empty, "There's no place like home." - ?Lite. He?"Do you remember the night proposed to you?" She ? "Yes, ' ar." He?"We sat for an hour, d you never opened your mouth." e?"Yee, I remember, de^." He ^ "Ah, that was the h&ppiest.hour of r life."?Philadelphia Inquirer. Mary Backstoop?"Did he tell you ) 9 with him would be one grand, eet song?" Maudie Sidestreet? 0; he said it would be one grand, 3 reled, sweet-toned, silver-coated, lestructible phonograph record."? ck. 1 "Haven't you a home?" asked the j npathetic citizen. "Yep," anered Plodding Pete. "I had a nice me, but de first t'ing I knew It had voodplie ana a garaen ana a puuip. d den it got 8o much. like a steady ) dat I resigned." ? Washington ir. > John Wesley. A fierce flame burned in a case of el. The apostle's zeal was conilled by a brain which might hare jn that of a great general or flnan- - ; r. Those who jeered at his fanatsm would have been no match for n in diplomacy or the work of or- x aization. In their directness of a at the very heart of the matter in ad some of his letters read like^xcts from Napoleon's correspond:e. He roused enthusiasm, but <- ;* ild not control it. He who said, ;ream no more on the pain of . nnation," was no spiritual-contoraist or lover of rant. He who ex- . imed, "Oh, what is so scarce as rning, save religion," did not idolvoluble ignorance. . He aiuds one of "General" Booth at > i time, only to recall "at another, h his hatred of "noisy thoughts," ae monk who.had walked witn sc. rnard.?Londoa Times. Dog Attacked by Birds. L?ouls Miller's fox terrier, two irs old, killed a baby sparrow at ird and Wabasha streets and then i to fight for his life against corned attacks of several hundred othjparrows thirsting for revenge. The ; accompanied Mr. Miller on a busiis trip to the neighborhood, and en he saw the birdling fluttering the sidewalk pouuced upon it with paws and teeth at the same time, a owner of the schnabel thought ;hing of the incident until he ird a vigorous twittering all *und and saw the terrier dash madup Wabasha street to escape the y of the vengeful sparrows. Tbe rior wa? e'ettin2 severely Dunished. 3t. Paul Dispatch to the New York >rld. Prison Window a Gate. [t is not ofton that a gate is made ; of a window, much less out of a sou window; but the gate of St. Id's churchyard, Canning Town, st London, was at one time a win,v in the old Newgate Prison. Many, >ple wonder at the size of the gate, : when they hear its curious hisy and the U3e to which It was put years gone by they understand the son of its massive dimensions.?. iidon Daily Graphic. .'-jt.vasss