* INNftKb TUU raon MOW. Whan a look olind ikowi you aottog bit Ik* thick?t sort of gloom Who? you're worried to the coativ of Mw wH, Wkeo jroor pluo have oil miscarried im prorod coatlee io tk*?ir And jtob'w nothing in your pocket* bat t hole, Tken'e tho tiM to mow tknswioo: " What'* the we to nuke o tow? Who coo tell o oit of dif ronco in o hundred years from now?" When the pathway stretching endwiee tow'r. 11I0I. The will was not drawn by nn at torney. but was written by a neigh* bor of Mr. Morgan, as the latter wa* on Ills deathbed. Mr. Morgan was a well-known farmer living in the north* west part of Wyandotte County. Durability of l.lquld Air. An experiment for testing the dura bility of liquid air lias been made he tween Berlin and Clcneva. One morn ing two quarts of liquid air were de? llvered to the railroad at Berlin, packed In a manner specially adapted for this purpose, for transportation to (leneva. The shipment arrived Id tJeneva In five days, and after an ad? ditlonal delay of half a day It was de llvered to the chemical laboratory of the University of (Jeneva. The gloat vessel la which the liquid air wan sent still contalued one-fourth of a quart thereof, tvlilch was at once ex perimented with. A Curlou* A. peculiar business transaction was recorded at Lebanon. Pa., when Grocer John Light transferred to Baker Will lam A. Oarrett a fifteen acre farm In Berks County for a consideration of 7000 loaves of bread, the bread to be dellevered in quantities such as might be needed to supply the daily demand of patrons at (irocer Light's store.? Philadelphia Hecord. - ? HONOR ON.THE WANE? AN ENGLISH WRITER ON THE DECADENCE AMONG MEN AND THE DUTY OF WOMEN Ctiil tkwa mi PraMty?9!kl?Uflt7 ?< tk? WmM-W Wit T?i4i ilak High Mtral Mau?Palltlci U TalaU4?Lylaf i?rti Hat Art?-A* Apytal to Wtaca to Stop th? awari T?ai?acj aad RMtort OU Caafliti s A RAH GRAND. In an Ar ticle printed In the London Chronlde. aaya: It has b^en suics?atcd that man'a honor l? a myth. And appearaucea seen* to fa Tor the >U|cm tlon. But It may be that here again appearances are misleading, because *o much more appeara now than of ?Id. Few escape from those amateur public prosecutors, not of the press but of our acquaintances, who come Into our bouse under various pretext a. take all that we bare to ahare with them, and. in turn, sap our credit by a system of petty criticism of every act and word, from which the Lord Himself would not hare escaped un* scathed. They find what they seek Jn human nature, theae people, nothing but blemishes. There are undealrable accretions on most characters thst can be sloughed at will, tearing the charac ter as it should be; but It Is the aloughed accretions which the scaven ger critic rake* out of the duat heaps of our dead selves. to which they be long. and would fain readjust to prove his point. Certainly honor Is not very conspicuous at the present time in the hablta of meu. whatever It may still be lu their estimation. Some say that It never was at so low an ebb: but that can only be said In Ignorance. Take the Creevy papers, for Instance, to go no further back. Prom the prince in power to the struggling party politic ian, what a picture we have there of sordid self-seeking, of motives so mean that a man must have extingulshd In himself the most rudimentary sense of honor* before he eould have acted upon them. Still, the fact that the existence of liouor lu man has come to be called in question contains a threat which is sig nificant. Our national honor has been little vaunted of late. Otr commercial honor is a sore subject. Our profes sional honor stands highest, but even it has been assailed. And as to honor In iK>litics, no one expects it of us. Lately a politician in high repute, an ex-member of many governments, the hero of many u hard won debate, was describing to me some electioneering ilutlcs iu which lie had been engaged, and iu the enjoyment of his subject he hurst out with the assurance that of course he had lied; he had to lie. or he never would have carried his point. It is not man's honor but his dishonor that calls for comment every day. The early life of a woman of my time, cast out Into the world, as was the custom, without preparation, her faith in man full fledged, and no sus picion In her soul, was apt to be dark ened by disillusion. I know not how It may affect a boy. but the first shock of proof that a man can lie Is a thing from whiclt a girl never recovers?I mean a girl who lias been brought up in the tradition of honor. There are still some such. In the case of the boy. It may be that the system of edu cation at our public schools, by which a hatred of learning Is lmplauted for life in the breasts of the majority of the pupils, may be subtly calculated to destroy all Inconvenient sensitive ness on the subjert of honor, as a practical means of lilting boyw for sue. cess in any career by robbing thein at the outset of an old-fashioned in cumbrance. To hear meu talk is to think so sometimes. Levity is the pos'e of the would-be wit of to-day. and the tone or the subject of honor tends to sink low enough to he tainted by lev ity. In modern fiction heroes and he roines are often made to lie as a mat ter of course, and the reader is not ex pected to think any the worse of them. In tiie days of IMckens the badge of honor was the unsullied word of hero and heroine. Kven in conversation men may lie heard nowadays taking credit to themselves for having lied successfully on occasion, a thing that would not have been tolerated in gen eral society barely a century ago. Doubtless In those days there were iiipii enough who dishonored their word, but when they did so they held It a lapse, not an evidciic of smartness, and kept the matter to themselves. There was still |u them at that lime tlie saving grace of shame. An evi dence of the change of tone in this re spect came to me tlrst from a man of tuark in his own time, a Homan Cat ho* lie convert, ardent iu his devotional exercises, devouring to the full, with keen aesthetic fervor, the emotional possibilities of Ids religion. We were discussing a point of honor, and he argued hotly that a man is not dishon ored by a lie so long as he does not bear false witness. When a word falls into disuse, the HUallty of which It Is the symbol is apt to atrophy. In Kngland the word honor is becoming antiquated, if not obsolete. No one now Is expected to talk of Ills honor, and the subject in the abstract is only tolerated in the official utterances of preachers in their pulpits, orators on their platforms, or an editor in a leading article. The man who should venture to discuss honor iu a fashionable drawing-room to-day would be <|iicucbed with the silence which signifies that he had committed a solecism. The ebb of honor corresponds to the rise of the parvenu in our midst, and the spread of the commercial spirit among the decadent nobility, whose sense of honor ?? notoriously anaemic. By the commercial spirit I mean the spirit which never given, but always barters; which calculates upon a re turn of Its offeriugs with interest; nnd tends to make a cutlet for a cutlet the highest hope of our modern hospitali ty. Honor is of slow growth; It is said tlmt It does not nppear lu the par venu family until the third generation ?which I should accept as an indica tion of the place these people have wou for themselves in the estimation of the public, rather than as a state ment of the exact truth, although It did happen to ine owe to be asked In ?vufidence by oue of them, "What oo earth doM tt mean, this noblesse oblige yon are always talking aboutr In all this thsrs la an Indication of danger, yet such statements make for misrepresents tion when unqualified, being true of indlvldnala only, not of the nation st large. There are dlsbon est polltlctsns. dishonest capltsllsts dishonest tradesmen.snd s smaUcliqnrt of smart rogues of bota sexes conspic nons In society: bnt these people sre the scum of their various classes, wbc have risen like scum to the surface and there become conspicuous, attain Ing an unenvisble notoriety, not bj reason of their merits, but for want of tbe solid qualities which might hav# secured fame for them In more deslr able places. The nation Is not to b? tried by the standard of decaden* peers and unscrupulous capitalists The parvenu, on bis promotion, hit wealth made by methods which wIP not bear investigstion. is not our typ ical self-made man. We have still out hereditary gentleineu. in whose faml lies the tradition of honor has been banded down unsullied to the present time: and we have our great represen tatives of honorable commerce, whose careers are proudly quoted in evidence of what a man may rise to, by honest means, in a free country. Titles orig iually indicated what was expected of the bearer, and with us honorable and right honorable are the most ordiuarj titles. Honor is the health of a na tion. and honor is still our national ideal. It has been no vain boast froui of old that an Englishman's word It his bond, and English women will see to it that it does not cease to be sc i BRAVE MAMMA HIPPOPOTAMUS. I An Ineldnnt Showing That Sointwherr In ' ">? Hag* Animal Ll?i m Brain. The hippomotamua Is not generally 1 credited with great Intellectual power j I but It seems from the following Inci dent. taken from the Popular Science Mouthly. that somewhere In that mas* ! of flesh and fat resides a brain prompt to act when necessity demands. Fot several weeks tbe wonder an delight of an English zoological park was a baby hippopotamus, which was uainetl Guy Fawkes because its birthday fell upon the 5th of November. The youug hippopotamus was about the size of a bacon pig. of a pinkish-1 slate color, and as playful as a kitten. It was ouly three days old wheu. as the superintendent of the aoo was watching the little fellow's antics, it dived to the bottom and did not rise. The grown animals never remaiu un der water much longer than three min utes; so as the time went on and no baby reappeared, the superintendent became alarmed. Wheu twenty minutes had elapsed be gave orders that the water be drawn from the tank to recover the body of what be felt sure was a dead baby hippopotamus. As the plug was being removed young <;uy Fawkes ap peared. shaking his funny little horse like ears, and wearing a hlppopotninic grin, which seemed to say. "Don't be frightened: I'm all right. You don't know all about me yet." The young a ni inn Is have a great power of re maining under !?????, which they Jose as they Increase in years. The next time baby went to the hot loin, however, was not so much of n Joke. He tried to climb up tbe side of I he tank in which there were no steps. He fell back again aud again, until be sank exhausted. The keepers were gathered about the tank in great nni lety, but unable to help. The mother however, hurried to her baby with al? her clumsy baste. She dived, put lier broad nose under (Juy Fawkes. shay eled him up. aud held him above flic surface until he had recovered his breath and was rested. It was nearly half an hour before the I little fellow was able to make another 1 attempt. Then he made a huge effort Maiuuia Hippopotamus gave a big shove with her bead, and Master tiny Fawkes clambered triumphantly up the side of the tank. Anglo-Saxon Kngllfli. Thorp is aii old fallacy that Anglo Saxon words are best, 'flip fallacy is based on tlie belief tliat words of An glo-Saxon origin arc more simple and vigorous than those derived from Lat in. In point of fact, some Anglo-Sax* on words are obscure and long, uud many of otir commonest, most simple words are from the Latin. The I^oli* iIoii News tells a story in point. A barrister more remarkable for the vigor of his address to Juries than fot his learning was commenting on the proceeding of the other party in a case under trial. "I do not know what gloss mj learned friend is going to put upon thi? matter, but I will not mince my words I denounce it in plain, downright An glo-Saxon English as a nefarious transaction. Nee* Kvll* In Overntmly. Henry It. Kdmunds, President of the Philadelphia Board of Education says half the public school nuplls ot that city are suffering front lib brought on by over stud.v. The princi pal evils resulting, he says, are nervout affections and defective eyesight, both largely traceable to excessive home study and the crowding of too man) branches into the elementary grades. He champlous the abolition of after tioou classes aud the wiping out of r home study. Mythical Creatute* of Japan. Japanese believe In more mythical creatures than any other people on the globe, civilised or savage. Among these are serpents 800 feet long and large enough t? swallow an elephant; foxes with eight legs, monkeys with four ears and fishes with ten heads at. tached to one body. They also believe in the existence of a crane which, af ter It has lived 000 years, has no need i of any sustenance except water. UNIQUE hotel nut KHDtrtMt Vkkk AM to U* ?f life In A flat to City. Atlantic Citj Las a number of bote!* glren ovw to "stags," and oue of these display* the following sign*: "Partiea contemplating suicide will be furnished with all nece*?ary faclll ties and the Intent Im pro red method*, with assistance free and funeral ex Penses defrayed. "Tflffraph aud telephone service free. nlsbed'f^y *nd P?"tafe *taD>P* I^Feuiale typewriters on every floor. T^be best and most courteous atten tion given to old maids (tbe older tbe better), and families witb small chil dren (tbe more the merrlen. tlX>l W*??UM- ambulances and cuablon-tired hearses on baud awaitiinr demand. " "Dog* allowed |n nny room lu tbe ..U*e< lnolml,tt* ?'?* family room. "Ceiitlemeu din drink, smoke swear cbew. gamble. tell shady storU^,. ?t?re at the new arrival* or ludulge iu out other amnsemeut common to tirst clssa hotelH iu any part of the country "Female bicycle messengers on ever* floor. "Couples desiring the services or a minister will kindly leave word at the olMoe. One of any denoiniuutlon will be furnished at short notice. We stand In with them all. "Parties desiring to leave bj tin window will notify the porter, mo tuat he can lend his assistance. "Hair dressing, chiropody and man! curing free of charge. "Don't blow out the gas. If you must commit sulfide, bud some otlict process. The clerkr. are college graduates carefully ?eloct(Hl to please evervhojy arfU eau lead in prayer, play draw p<> k?r.- lawn tenuis, croquet, shake the dice, dance a Jig. play billiards, take a Stitch In crochet work, lead the ger mau. spin a tough yarn, play on the cornet and plauo, put on the gloves work the growler, hold a baby, delivei a lecture and wait on forty gentlemen at once. They are authority on all sporting events throughout the conn try. can talk Dutch. French. Hebrew Kavajoe. Army .loe. Creek. Latin. Choctaw and How-de-do and whistle the balance."?Washington Star. Making Figure* I.I*. "Most of the figures handed out by these physical culture cranks on the subject of cheap living." said a house. keeper who does her own marketing "make women extremely weary. Out husbands aud sons read them, believe them, and then sniff significant I v at the weekly totals in the grocer s I was reading the other day au article by a well-known .New York physical culturlst who uudertook to show how he had lived fifteen day* on eighty four ceuts. He put down crushed oats at three cents a pound. Kiyht ccii..? i? the correct figure ir you want oats that have nny nourishment in them, lie mentioned watercress at flve cents a bunch. Well, one bunch lasts my hus band two uieals. it would look piet y thin strung out over fifteen days. He charges for three pounds of rice fif teen cents. It costs eleven cents a i pound if you want good rice. For ten apples he allows ten cents. Must be queer apples. For six Swede turnips lie puts down six cents. The grocers have been charging six cents for one nil winter. So use trying to fool wo men with figures like these. Tli ?v know better." Quick Work. At one tiine Bishop Williams Marquette, was university preacher :u Cornell for a few Wft-k*. aad during that time he not only gave fine sp inous. hut provided his friends at the university with rnnif good stories. One lie brought from Winnipeg where he had been attending the synod of the Canadian Church. He had seen there n missionary bishop who had come a long Journey, traveling for si.; weeks, most or the time b> canoe. I i his missionary had brought mes sages and excuses from a brother bishop, who was prevented from com |ng to ihe s.Yiiod bciause "his diocess had gone to the dogs." He proceeded to explain that the brother bishop was Inboiing aniomj the Ksklmos. north of Hudson Bin He had built them a church wi.h whales' ribs for rafters, covered wi. ? tanned walrus hide. "It held eighty persons." said tin missionary bishop, -and served h/ purpose well until in a bad tim. tin dogs grew famished and devoured lliu church!" Handlr** Kl' without hands. Mnny years ago hi wnH caught in n blizzard ntid his arm* frozen ' , his lingeries* arms, Dawson manage? to play his old thue selections will* nearly as much skill as lie formerly did. M**to?lon Tooth In A magnitlcent and perfect inastoilot tooth was uneartheil at the Teitnessci Marble Company's property near Con cord n few days a no, and was brough to Knoxvllle. where It has created con slderahle curiosity. The tooth wa> found In making a dam for the opera tion of a hydraulic ram. The tooth P a fossil, but identically like the orlg inal tooth. It shows every indenture and surface condition of a real tooth It is about seven inches In lenutli across the crown ami about fou: Inches wide. The roots are perfect, except where broken off near tli# points. The broken places show th? hollow part of the tooth. It is thought that the tooth is the only part of tli# mastodon to be found at the place, tlif tooth being probably carried to tti< plo?* by water.--Knoxvllle (Ti-oo.) ? ?tuxal, Humor of Tbxl&y Tk? New Vtnioa. ? A uldirr of the Kumian* Lay japann?sl at Tschrisvkjekivitch, There waa lack of woman's nutata* And other comforts which Might add to hia last moment*. And smooth the final way: But a comrade stood beside aim To bear what he might say. The japanned Kutsian faltered Aa he took that comrade's hand. And he said: "I never more shall aea My own. my native land; Take a message and a token To some distant friends of mine. _ ^ For I was born at Sninlxxrskmrrski. Fair Smnlxxrakgqrxski on the Irkztrv? klmnov." ?W. J. L., in New York Sua. Rs|S|*smsI Time. He?"At wha. time In a girl's Iff* ?houUl she be eng?s?l?" She- -' Just before she Is married."? Y outers Statesman. Ths Other Fellows. Turtle Willi*?"Say. pa. what kind of modesty la false modesty'." Pa?"False modesty i the hind other people liave, my son." Satuasd. Salesman?"Are those shoes targe enough for yon?" Pretty (iirl?"No. but they, match my suit."? Hetroit Free Press. The Two Kinds. ?*The great art of conversation Is to tempt ether people to t?lk." "Yes. but some people nee*', to be headed off."?Cincinnati Tribune. Hardljr. "Did you take In the Louisiana Pur chase Imposition?" "Well." said the man. jingling three pennies ami a souvenir medal. "I doubt if the exposition was taken iu." Kaonnh. ?'Geewliiliklns. what's the matter with Bittlns? Has he lost his inouey in speculations?" "Oh. no. Bittlns Is all right. That is merely his housecleaning time face." Maklnn Himself Agieenbli*. "Uncle George Rays 1 was born with a silver spoon iu my mouth." "A spoon in that little mouth! Obi I see?It was one of those after-dinner coffee spoons."?Cleveland Plain Deal Keciproclty. She?"But if you say yon can'I bear the girl, why ever did you propose?" He?"Well, her people have always been awfully gootl to tne. and it's the only way 1 could return their hospital* lty."?Punch. The Only Hop*. "Of course, she's got a pretty baby now: our only hope is that as she gets older she'll grow handsomer." "Yes. I guess there's nothing t'or you to do but believe in 'age before beauty.' "?Philadelphia Press. Changed His Hoarding House. "Is your dog trained?" asked the new boarder. "Oh, luy. ye:," replied the boarding house lady; "he goes down to the butcher's every day and brings homo the meat for dinner iu his mouth." His One Accomplishment. "But." she protested, "you should be ambitious to make a name or a for tune for yourself. You can't mako anything by sitting still." "I can make love." he replied, with j soulful simper.?Chicago Tribune. Lurk jr. "There goes the luckiest man In St. Louis." remarked the old resident of the exposition city. "Lucky! lie don't look it." "Well, he is. lie hasn't got n rela tion iu the world outside of St. Louis." Next (test. "Ah!" she sighed, "now that you have rejected uiy proffered ban.!, I have nothing more to live for." "Oh, 1 don't know." he replied. "There are two full-page bargain ad vertisemei.t* iu this evening's p ip -r." ?Chicago News. Km*v> Teacher?"Williams, this Is an ex ample in subtraction. Seven boys went down t<> a poml to bathe, but two of them hail been toiil not to go into the water. Now. can you tell mo bow many went iu?" Williams?1"Yes. sir. seven." Went lligli?*r l'|?. "He Isn't in our hocial set any more." "So I understand." "Yes, lie dropped out some tirao ag