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When IV ^ How Are We to Hat H. i Increasing Populatu V ^ By George Harvey, Edit T is a very interestin Hp t * population upon the j H S 1 J which is discussed ii Hr + fessor N. S. Shaler, 1 I h+H+t+A the chair of geoIo?^ I number of the earth's f **$$$$$$$ ?00, 411(1 U Is llk*ly t0 ination of pestilence a greater than the ave during the last three centuries. It is ce tity of tillable soil upon the earth, as v w?4 j tvi iucMi?outu an 1 iuu, fnruu ^ _ eralsr?is far from boundless. When w "amy/y? Professor Shaler calculates that, j sources, the soli, which, without any cot be put under the plough, would suppor COO human beings. He further estimate systematic and scientific plan which h add to the tillable area of the United ? miles. What we are to do eventually for less easily answered. We are remind* average annual output of iron is estima an and child, whereas four centuries aj ly civilized country were satisfied with If the consumption of iron goes on inc As for coal, the exhausting of the minei tricts of Pennsylvania is within measui of the bituminous combustible in the would it meet the wants of 4,000,000,000 of the recent output of petroleum, the <3 as Indispensable. If we may judge f any of the oil-yielding districts alread ' u Russia will be pjnkictlve at the close The It \ rn i i ? ' usomanr ? By Ella Whe AAA EAUTY seems to hive iSk dXlr pfc Venus of Milo or any < immobility, and come woul i be more critici Whether she posi 8UPP?6ed to typify lig fact?and angels are they dwell in Realms force?and we naturally associate . the than with blondes. A blonde may be an intellectual g pronounced weakness in his character than his swarthier brother. My ideal of a beautiful woman, th tract me were I a mat;, is one not unde over five feet five, in her walking shoe Her "net" weight is between 135 i light lustrous brown to sliver blonde crushed violets, with slight shadows u to a Grecian nose?jurt enough to save a rounded chin, full lips, with upturne amiable and intelligent, but not intelle Let the intellect! be discovered?it background for this picture must * suggestive of refined care as the teeth The whole personality must radfate shine a good, loving and sympathetic I well-graven imtge. not a beautiful worn \vm? inis 18 my lae&i, yet 1 kqu> quite dissimilar, as I know scores of tK nation pink or the rosi .?New York Air A 0 0 . \ ;; Secrets of People May Control The But Not the Expi By Helen HE hmdshake of som< 2 i ? X and sudden death. C r 1^ quick, skillful, quiet hi ^-2 I 5 affection because she * ' have clasped the han and toil not, and yet i J smooth roundness whi tttltlllll ^rAll this Is my pr ^^F I tell your fortune it i ^F "witchcraft, but by natural, explicable r V ^ your hand. Not only is the hand as reveals its secrets more openly and unc< tcnances, but the hand is under no sui listless when the spirit is low and dej mind is excited or the heart glad; and it all the time. As there are many beauties of the many. Touch has its ecstacies. The 1 Ity and sensitiveness are wonderfully m they express many shades of thought fol, supple-wristed hand which spells * that you must see in the handwriting wish you could see how prettily little i wild flowers of humanity, and their finj The Century. ..Th j Glory of the L By Jinatole Lei . .1 O my view, what make I j I among the nations is 1 t S I ment lhaa its political ^ libert} in every field r* | ' to saying that what H country itself than the gTeat expanse of its t ? soil and of wealth un< 1... energies of the people plains and fhe beautiful mountains of ] Natur^ had provided between the two o nation. But for this empire to be bom ; and prosper. It was necessary that it si of exploiting and binding together thes might say that It Is the American who the Atlantic and the Pacific, as elsewh * men on the land, and the land on men. first seems to have been even more po\ which from my point of view, bring abo of the United States- ? The causes of its success and of it causes due to the generosity of nature 1 moral causes, due to the character, the e . enterprise of Americana Sheep are going to the slaughter more rapidly than they are bred In this ^ country. says the Cincinnati Commer- j dal Tribune. If the reduction going on j proceeds much longer the country will , realize that it is up against short home wool crops as well as sh*ep supply. In 1 the of August, lt#03. the hum- i ber of sneep sold for slaughter at Chi- 0 cago was 134,676, whereas for August k of this year it was 224,019. With in- r creasing loss at like- rates at other, n though lesser markets, it is readily ^ seen tbat^^.:e losing sheep a good r. deal growing them. n an^^^^^HL011 tae supply and tj ar Ceases ^ idle the Enormously n j m Thap Will Result. 1 \ ^ or &f Harper's Weekly. ^ ^ g -subject?the increasing pressure of Sf iorth'c Aanof?itv fnr cllDDOrtine it? i *" i the International Quarterly by Pro- le *'ho, it may be remembered, occupies in in Harvard University. The present tt i inhabitants is computed at 1,600,000,- CI > increase hereafter, owing to the elimmd chronic war, at a rate considerably rt rage rate at which: it has increased rtain, on the other hapd, that the quan-! fell as the stock of other things neces- j m leum, copper and other metals or min- j tt ill the demand threaten to exceed the la hi is regards the earth's agricultural re- jn isiderable engineering work, could now t in tolerable comfort abuot 4,000,000,- w es that by drainage, carried out bn the ti( las been applied to Holland, we could States rather more than 100,000 square tt tt coal, petroleum and iron is a question tt id that in the United Stats today the ^ ted at 400 pounds for every man, worn- rE 50 the needs of men in the most high1 about four pounds a year per capita. j reasing, where are we to find the ore? 0j 5 in England and in the anthracite dis- tj able distance, and vast as is the stock m United States and China, ho^long bi 1 human beings? For the maintenance si liscovery of new deposits is recog^ed ?t rom experince, it is improbable PJ y drawn upon in North America and of the 20th century. ^ ei iealof * *>?: T% 1. . T n y neauiy * * i ? eler Wilcox. ? i no established standards. Were the ? [>ther classic Venus to drop her marble jjj ? to life today, I have no doubt she sed than admired. of lire dark men and fair women. in sesses the qualities or not, woman is p' ;ht and hope?to suggest the angel, m always represented as fair, because j; of Light. Man typifies power, strength, til se attributes with dark men, rather b< ai iant, but there is almost invariably a ^ which makes him less a manly man ,l! w e type of woman who would most at- j." t five feet four and a half inches, not m s. m md 140 pounds; hair any shade from ei ?'the latter preferable. Eyes like nderneath; a mere suspicion of a tilt M > it from severity of line; a low brow, d corners, and an expression at once p< ctual. cc . must not 'be aggressively assertive, is be a skin of delicate quality and as n< and hair. ^ health, and.through the features must ieert, or else the possessor is only a an. 0 v scores of beautiful women who are Fl sautiful flowefs which are not the car- ^ lerican. The Hand: * ar er ir Countenances, n( t h ression of Their Hands. Keller. V nonnlfl mol-M T?rm think nf nnridprit i th ? J/VVJ/JV atuavu J w? kuiuo ? , ? ? ontrast this ill-boding hand with 'he ! at infl of a nurse whom I remember with ! took the best care cf my teacher. I of ds of some rich people that spin not in are not beautiful. Beneath their toft, at a chaos of undeveloped character! t0 ivate science of palmistry, and when ar c hy no mysterious intuition or gypsy fir ecognition of the embossed character ag easy to recognize as the face, but It msciously. People control <heir coun- pc ch restraint It relaxes and becomes Hi ected; the muscles tighten when the permanent qualities stand written on ja pi face, so the beauties of the hand are en hands of people of strong individual- th ?bile. In a glance of their finger-tips Now and again I touch a fine, grace- ti< rith 'the same beauty and distinction s>" 6f some highly cultivated people. I ; ev ihildren spell in my hand. They are jer motions wild flowers of speech.? ^ ar th ^ ^ m e.. United States j ? 'oyBeaulieu. va gti s the greatness of the United States ofl ess Its tremendous economic develop- w< institutions and its consciousness of of action and life. This comes back . has made Its greatness is less the men who inhabit it It is less the erritory and its natural resources of lerground than the qualities and the *} who have cultivated the magnificent yi Morth America, and made them pay. ^ ceans for a great empire and a great and for this nation to take form, live lould be inhabited by people capable ae e vast expanses. In this sense one pi has made America, although between pre there was a mutual influence of M But as great as this last was, the th verful, and this is one of the cause*, ch ut the originality and the superiority to s greatness are not merely material ;oward it. They are, above all others P1 ducation, the energy and the spirit of ^ sb Of the sum which had been Invested a the world's railroads at the close of br 902 it is estimated, according to the c0 Inglish Railway Magazine, that more co han ?3,760,000,000 has been spent on g0 84,000 miles of European railroad and Ge 2 3,232,000,000 on the 337,000 miles Sn wned by the rest of the world. On this asis it is found the roads of Europe epresent an investment of ?22,952 a Lc lile, while those of the rest of the $6, rorld average ?11,402, Great Britain's pr< ailroads represent the highest cost per Sti lile, flguies.standing at ?51,368, while all aose of Belgium come next with Po J 30,048. Ms 1 W 4. "railway strike fails. Workmen Who Went Out Were Ordered Back to Work. New York, Special.?The most inresting development in the sub-way id elevated railway strike situation . New York was the stand taken by >me of the national labor leaders in >pudiating the action of the local aders who ordered and are conductig the strike. The first intimation le public had that the strike was not idorsed by the national unions, came : a statement from Grand Chief War:n S. Stone, of the Brotherhood of ocomotive Engineers, to which the nformen helonir. Mr. Stone insisted lat the strike was a violation of the ws of the national union, the men iving broken their contract with the ter-borough Company. He ordered le men to report for duty, failing hich, expulsion from the organiza n is threatened. Although the local leaders are eonnuing the fight, despite the fact that ie national leaders have repudiated icir action in calling the men out, ie strike on the subway and elevated tilway systems has passed the acute age. and trains are run with little ?lay, the strike-breakers quickly arning their new duties, while many ' the old men were back in the posions which they left on Tuesday orning. There was no general rush ick of the old employes, but the men owly weakened, and there was a eady stream passing into the com:ny's offices all day. ??? ? | Things More Quiet. St. Petersburg, By Cable.?The gen al staff has received the following spatch from General Sakaharoff, eneral Kuronatkin's chief of staff, ited today: "Several fierce attacks on tr north front were made during the ight. They were all repulsed. In her directions the night was quiet." Forbidden to Enter Mukden. Tokio, By Cable.?Field Marshal yama. in an order directing the purlit of the retreating Russians, profited his troops from entering Muksn, in order to preserve the respects ' the tombs and sacred places of the iperial Chinese household, and to rotect the welfare of the inhabitnats. Mukden, Thursday. Bv Cable.?The ipanese last night pushed up from ie south across the abandoned plain ;iweeu lay dhua:iu uiiq mm rivers id are, as this dispatch is iiied, about ire miles south of the latter, and from ie Hun opposite Machiapu and northard. Japanese batteries are pouring a ceaseless fire. The Japanese suc>eded in emplacing siege guns and ortars at Dieushantun. about six iles west of this city, whence the opling fire began at d^vn. Many young men want to attend thP ediral College of South Carolina. Gov. eyward has at his disposal the ap>intment of one beneficiary from each| ingressional district. Already there on file at least one application from *arly every county in the State. Gov. eyward will not announce his s-'lecon for some time. Tokio, By Cable?Field Marshal yama telegraphs as follows under ridav's date: 'We occupied Mukden one o'clock this morning. Our sur unding movement, in which we ive been engaged for some days past, is now completely succeeded. "The fiercest fighting continues at veral places in the vicinity of Muk;n. We captured a great number ' prisoners, enormous quantities of ms, ammunition, provisions and othwar supplies. There is at present ) time to investigate the number of. ese." Telegraphic Briefs. The Russians have fallen back from e Shakhe river along the whole line, id are in full retreat. Japanese forces have been seen north Mukden, and the battle is now ragg around the imperial tombs. t?u ^ tr,u?,l A IIC JL/UtL'U ISiauu ui vuiamv io aaiu be the home of two generals who e watching to avail themselves of the st opportunity to start a revolution ;ainst President Castro. Winston Churchill attacked the fiscal ?licy of Joseph Chamberlain in the ouse of Commons, and was defeated. The strike at Warsaw, Russian Pond, is reported to be over, but the emoyers now find that the concessions to id the strike will impose a tax which ey cannot stand. In order to maintain friendly relajns with its employes the Frisco ' stem intends to provide a nume iur eryone of them.. The Colorado Legislature received e reports of the contest committee id it soon became apparent that neier of these documents could comand a majority of votes. The Mayoralty fight in Chicago is r.tering around the question of munipal ownership of the street railways, id the value of $105,000,000 in stocks id bonds is thus affected. The strike on the subway and eleted railroads in New York failed to op traffic on those lines, and railway ficials say they have the situation ;11 in hand. Four miners were killed by the eaking of a cable at a mine near larleston, W. Va. Rev. Dr. Leighton fcarks, reetor of . Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal lurch. New York, gave out an inter ew scoring social leaders ior not ecking the divorce evil. The case of the Government against rs. Cassie L. Chadwick for her conction with the Oberlin bank was cometed at Cleveland. The police of Honolulu say that if rs. Jane L. Stanford was poisoned e guilty persons are in San Fran5CO. Capt. George W. Byron, of Washlngn. is inventing an airship which, he >*s. will discount that of Santos Duont. He will shortly make an ascent Washington. He will employ nine parate gas bags to make the aerial ip for loitfpistance traffic. A. little rMre than half the goods ought inj? the Dutch West Indies mes IvqM the United States. The untrie^fcext in order as to value of ods i^w-tcd are the Netherlands, rmany^kngland, France and Italy, lall occasional invoices are received )m other comitries. The California commission to the St. iuis Exposition returned to the State ,000, unexpended, of the $130,000 apopriation made by the Legislature for ite advertising purposes. Practically the exhibit has been sfent to the rtland Fair, which is to open next ?y. i ??1 " HIS H I j2? i By GRAi <MOMS* ELL, good-by, old boy!" said St'TTrrfc Tom Thorpe, gently. "I'll O 1/1/ O be around again to-morrow, if vou care to have me." "WO The big young fellow in the hospital bed stared back for a moment into the eyes of the other big young fellow who stood looking down at him. Then he put out one hand?the left one?and evidently tried to say something in reply, which did not, however, become audible. But his friend understood. He grasped the thin left hand with his own, said cheerily: "All right; there's nothing I'd rather do." and hurried away. When he had closed the door pf the men's surgical ward he gave his broad shoulders a shake, and shut his lips firmly together a moment. As he went down the corridor lie was saying to himself: "Oh. that's tough, tough! I don't blame the poor fellow for going blue like that. I believe he'd get well faster if he could have a bit of hope put back into him." As be reached the hospital entrance he met one of the surgeons coming in, a lid ventured to delay him a moment. "Would you mind telling me, Doctor l^^iart," he ashed, "if you think deJrspondency has anything to do with keeping my friend Caldwell down? Kirke Caldwell, in Ward F. The nurse told me you were seeing him now and then. Is there anythin, I can do " "Despondency has much to do with " nn.,.nA/i tho ?jiir;rpon. nromDtlv. "Cheer him up all you eau. He's shown ! great courage and endurance all though i this siege, but it's told on him. I sup' pose he thinks his ambitions are all ] thwarted, and that's enough to make [ him blue. Get him t> believe there's something left for him to do in life." "Yes, that's it," mused Tom Thorpe, as he went on his way. "I've got to do something for Kirke?something positive, that will put hipi on his feet." He thought about it all the way to the great manufactory where he held the post of electrical engineer. It was a fine position for a young man but two years out of a technical school. Kirke Caldwell had held an equally good position in a neighboring city. The two had been classmates, even rivals within the bounds of a sturdy friendship. Three months before. Caldwell, superintending the installation of newelectrical machinery, had seen one of his workmen accidentally short-circuit a powerful current with a pair of pliers, had pulled the man away somehow, but in wrenching his hand away from the pliers, had taken the deadly I current himself. He had been so burned that amputation of one hand and one foot had been necessary to save his life. The man to whose rescue he had sprung, died, and there bad been weeks during which it seemed that Caldwell must follow. That danger was past for him now; he had bis life, but it was a life seemingly so handicapped that it was small wonder if the splendid courage he had | shown .all through, had at last failed him. Alone In the world and dependent upon his own resources for if living, he felt that there was little use In trying to get well. But Tom Thorpe knew better; and after thinking about his friend's ease J all day, he went to his father to ask I his co-operation in a plan he had formed. Tom Thorpe and his father lived toI getlier in a little flat, which was as i homelike as a place with no wife and mother in it can be. "He's a magnificent fellow!" Tom i declared to his father, walking the | floor, his face full of eagerness. "If j wo could just have him here for a ! mAnth till he cot enough strength, and j then take him to see Wentwortb, I believe the thing would be done. I don't know myself what he could do with his handicap in electrical engineering, but I believe he could be his own salvation if he got his brain working at j It. You don't know what's in that boy, I father. He's twice as clever as I< am, 1 and he must be made to show it." Mr. Thorpe smiled. He had his own opinion of his son's cleverness. He let Tom's modest estimate of himself pass, however, and agreed heartily that a month with themselves and a trip of a hundred and twenty miles to see a certain man In a university town might be the tonic Caldwell needed. Therefore Tom went to bed and to sleep with an easier mind. 'Kiri'e," said Tom Thorpe one morning. when Caldwell had been for three weeks a member of the Thorpe househq^l. "I'm going on a little trip down to Remsen, and I've a mind to take you with me." Caldwell, sitting in a big reclining chair by the v indow, looked round at Tom with an expression of languid surp- ise. "There's no reason in the world why you shouldn't have an outing," pursued Tom. briskly. "We're only a few blocks from the station. I can wheel you over in your chair, put you into a Pullman, send the chair in the baggage car. and take you round Iiemsen as easily as if I were a cash carrier in a d"partment store* We'll have a fine tine out of it." "It's good of you, Tom," said Caldwll, gratefully, "but?" "You're going, that's all," said Tom, f illy. "I know you don't want to, but \u.;'re going, jnst the same, and you're going now. The train leaves in fortyfive minutes?just time for me to put on your best coat and your handsomest cravat, and get you over to the station without running down any baby carriages on the way. Here you are?and you'll want your light overcoat; this J April air's a little sharp." He talked on busily, giving the invalid small chance to object, although he saw clearly enough that Caldwell dreaded the very idea of the trip. Until now he had ventured outdoors only for short rides round the little park on which the house fronted, and he bad chosen the hour for these when the fewest people were likely to be there. Tom could not wonder at this state of mind. lie appreciated too well what it must fellow who had been l*m AND1CAP. CE S. RICHMOND. a giant for physical strength to lie limply in a wheel chair, with a rug over his lap, li^s hat pulled over his hollow eyes, his pale face attracting the pitying gaze of every passer-by. But Tom felt strongly the need for Kirke to get used to that sort of thing, to take up life again as nearly as possible where he had left it off, and to mingle with men instead of trying to hide away from them. The beginning of the journey was accomplished with the ease Tom had prophesied, thanks to some previous planning. At the station Caldwell was brought by the most direct and least conspicuous route to the steps of the train, where Tom, assisted by a cheerful colored porter, conveyed him swiftly on board the Pullman, and established him, not in a private compartment?Tom had considered that idea and rejected it?but in a chair at the rear of the car, where he could observe everybody else and be himself unnoticed. As the train left the station, Tom was gratified to note that Kirke looked out of the window with more interest in his somber eyes than had been there in weeks. Kemsen was not a long distance away, but the luncheon hour arrived in the middle of the journey, and Tom ordered a lavish meal. Kirke, beginning languidly, was soon eating broiled bluefish and roast duck with his oldtime zest. Tom, on the other side of the table, talked and joked, and brought to his friend's face a frequent smile. At Remsen, Caldwell found himself being wheeled rapidly away through the wide, elm-hnrdered streets of the old university town. Several generations of Thorpes had been educated there, the succession being broken when Tom had insisted on going to a more famous centre of learning. "Still, I sometimes wish I'd stayed by the family traditions," Tom declared, turning from the side street which had brought them from the station into the broad avenue which led toward the group of college buildiugs 011 the hill. "Whenever I come here I get a new respect for the place. There's a certain atmosphere in which one seems to breathe the very spirit of learning?the real thing. They've got some of the finest men here I ever knew?Mcintosh, the mathematics instructor, and Bronson, in history, and Weutwortb, the crack-a-jack in chemistry. I want io see them all, and I hope we'll be in time to get into Wentworth's chemistry lecture. You'll enjoy it, I know; there's nobody like him. He'd make a long-haired musician throw down his score and take to the Bunsen burner and the retort." He was talking with a purpose?to keep Caldwell from refusing to go into the recitation rooms, as he feared he might do. But Caldwell, although he was dreading to be taken before the eyes of men of his own sort, had reached the point of understanding that Tom had a definite purpose in all this, which he did not mean to be coward enough to defeat. ' So he set a grip on himself?easy enough in the old days, harder than could be believed now?and acquiesced pleasantly when Tom -whe'eled him down a long corridor of the Science Hall, and pausing at a certain door, whispered somewhat nervously: "You won't mind my taking you in? The door's at the back of the room, and Wentworth won't see you, anyhow." Caldwell's shaken spirit winced for an instant as he was drawn into the lecture room, and a hundred pairs of eyes looked curiously round at the unusual noise of a wheel chair bumping through the* doorway. Tom was too much wrought up to steer straight. But when the boys saw the pale face in the chair?o face which still showed both strength and charm?and took note of the feebleness of the tall figure resting in inert lines against the plainly needed support, they turned away again, and only a few fellows near the door gave attention to the newcomers. These men made them welcome with friendly nods. But after the first five minutes in the room, Kirke Caldwell needed nobody to divert his thoughts from himself. Tom Thorpe, breathing a little hard from mingled exertion and anxiety, might lean back in his seat and let his friend alone. Kirke had at last forgotten everything in the world but what he now saw before him. The lecturer's face, although tanned to a healthy color, was scarred with irregular, blanched furrows, and his eyes were hidden from sight behind black spectacles. His body was strong, magnificently * am* a # 1%ia Knnrlo no mini; iui* niuM-nifm m ui? uuuu^, .u' he talked, illustrating Jiis words with gestures, was vigorus and full of meaning; his voice was deep and rich; his inflections were full of vivacity and enthusiasm; but the man himself was disabled by the absolute loss of his sight. As Caldwell, watching him, thought back for an instant to all the blind people he had ever known, it occurred to him that although they had almost invariably been of kindly disposition, bearing their hard lot with patieuce and resignation, never once had be seen among them any one like this. And presently, as in the interest of the lecture itself he forgot to speculate or to compare, he became conscious that something he thought he had lost forever was returning to him?for the moment, at least?the old, keen joy in a scientific argument and demonstratiou, presented by a master of his subject. The lecture concluded amidst an outburst of enthusiastic applause, of the sort which means not only honest appreciation of the thing that has been done, but hearty love and admiration for the doer. The class poured hurriedly into the laboratory, where certain important tests were now to be made, supporting a new and singular theory which the lecturer had propounded. ' "Come down and see it, won't you?" a student urged Thorpe and .Caldwell. I ' ' . -J - A yon've never seenl^him In the lib ought not to miss it." "'How did he lose his sight?" Caldwell asked eagerly of the young fellow, who, with a hand on Kirke's chair, was-accompanying them down the sloping aisle. Tom rejoiced within himself that it was all happening so naturally. If a stranger told the stosy it would not look to Caldwell so much as if Tom had meant to read a moral to him. "Cot hurt in a lab explosion," the boy said. "Freshman making carbon mon oxid?sulphuric and oxalic acids in tiie generator, yon know. Chump left out the safety bottle?had the burner too high?opened a window. Wentworth came in and saw him with his head over the retort?flame blowing one side in the wind?January wind. He jumped to disconnect, gave the fellow a shove one side just quick enough to save him. and got that awful explosion i in his own face. Alkali, you see, drawn back into the acids by the generator cooling too quick in the zero wind. No safety bottle between." Caldwell nodded, his face full of intense interest. They were at the laboratory door. The student went on in a whisper. "I saw it all. I don't like to remember how he suffered? *ith the pluck of a bulldog all the time. Eyes blown full of glass as well as acid?face horribly burned. Never saw a ray of light again. Freshman wanted to die?to his credit. Wentworth made a chum of him. We'll have to hurry. He never loses a minute's time himself, or lets any one else lose it for him. This way." The next half-hour passed for Caldwell in a haze of delight. He was less conscious of his pleasure?although that was very great?in the somewhat remarkable experiments which were made under Professor Wentworth's direction, than in the recognition of the great and noble spirit of the man himself. Alert in every sense but one: eager as a boy to prove what he had asserted; intimately interested in the class itself, down to its individual members, with whom he showed perfect familiarity, calling upon one and another to note various steps of the work in confirmation or refutation of their personal notions concerning it?he was the genius of the place, a dominating personality, which it was an inspiration to each j mind within its influence to know. "Glad you enjoyed it," said the young man who had brought them in. "We're os proud of him here we never lose a chance to have others appreciate him. He never lets up on himself. Takes his cold tubs and his dumbbells just the same, and tramps miles with one or another of us every* day. We count it a treat to go. you know." Tom Thorpe kept Caldwell until the ?inoo hurl npnrlv ?ronp. and the professor was left with his assistants, making ready to go to the next duty. Then he wheeled his friend up to the blind man and made a blunt introduction which came from his heart: "Professor Wentworth, this is my friend, Kirke Caldwell, an electrical engineer, who was in my class. He can't give you his right hand, because he tried to save the life of one of his men last February, and lost a hand and foot and?some other things. I I want " The strong left hand of Maurice Wentworth had found Kirke's long before Tom had struggled thus far. His face had lightened instantly at Tom's description with a peculiar tenderness of sympathy which as long as he lived Kirke never forgot. "A handicap," he said, his fine lips i smiling. "Ah, then we shall see what * ? ? - PlAAfrlnfll An* you are reany umuc u>. , gineering?and your brains are left you. Let the other men put on the rubber gloves; it's you who can solve their problems for them." All the way home Caldwell sat staring out of ^he car window with eyes which took no note of the April landscape. just budding into beauty. Tom Thorpe sat and read a newspaper upside down, and hardly dared so much as glance at him. In the pale face grew and grew the thing Tom had longed to see there?courage.?Youth'? ' Companion. Watterion Surrender*. I am afraid that my friend the horse is destined to be in a little while a j back number. The automobile has arrived, and, not alone in France, it Is I come to stay. I attended the great j show while in Paris and carefully ex- j j amined the newest machines. Grad- : ually but surely they are being per- j fected. Gradually but surely tbesf ire adjusting themselves to modern ts and conditions. Mr. Dooley may continue to have his fling at the Purple Assassinandother Devils both Red and White, but I fancy when Mr. Peter Dunne visits Provence he will ride in a Mercedes or a Decauville. I myself, being both an American and a Kentuckian, held out for a long time. I put up as good a fight for the thoroughbred as ever I made for tariff\'n manner of use: I LU1 * CliUtVu?j . *?v ?? ? , antl now I experience that nasty but irresistible run-over feeling that Torn Taggart must have had the day after the late election, as I fold my arms and murmur "Let 'er go, Gallagher!"?Courier-Journal. Immigrant Steamship Companies. The average run of folk know tho names of possibly half a dozen steamship companies that are engaged in the commerce of this port. There are in reality twenty-geven popular lines. They dumped upon the backs of Manhattan in 1904 the enormous number of 735,187 persons. Of these at least half a million were immigrants coming to El Dorado America for a home. Of the total number 68,704 were flrst-cablu passengers, mostly Americans returning from European tours after burning up the effete monarchies of the Old Wotld. Included among these, It is conceded, were sundry titled derelicts in search of American millions, with an American girl thrown in for good measure here and there.?New York Press. Burmeae Mile. The Burmese mile, which is equal to two English miles, is described by a word meaning "to sit," being the distance a man walks before he considers It necessary to sit down. Oysters to the number o?Ml,190,137 were opened for pearls in the Ceylon gearj fisheries in 1903. ? I ^ 'Xnil Tax.'* >* AOK i we can say agrirfl( -__ Jf^Mis the great monarch, 5 I o Bits interests should be ^ ~ ^Hred in every possibly wMr B If any tax^Son this important inlustry can be !IKed without an impairment of governmental revenues it certainly should bi done, and if conthyL. y jous lines of imiroved interstate bigcy^ways, as alleged? will reduce the "nuS tax" and the cost of transportation of farm products from the farm to the market one-half or one-third, tbenf surely such improved roads ought to be given the agricultural interest with. 3ut argument or delay. We have no fault to find with vast appropriations for pensions, irrigati^gl^g schemes, waterways and railroaeaj-fjut ~ it is a crying shame that agt-icultnre, the monarch industry, has J scarcely been noticed, and when it demands of the National Government wkiat the individual communities arc iot able to give?continuous lines of improved highways?its request should be answered by large appropriations for such continuous lines of improved interstate roads. This Nation claims to lead in everything, and I think it does, for we have the biggest rivers, the biggest trusts and the poorest roads on earth. Surely the National Government should always do those things that make for the National welfare, and how could the National welfare be better promoted than by the National aid for continuous lines of improved interstate highways? ' By such highways not only will traps*' portation of farm products be greatly^ ^ facilitated, but such roads will make for a better education, more social and religious privileges, and in every way tend to elevate the character of our rural population, on whom we, as c Nation, so largely depend. < How absurd it seems when we are told that the National Government can spend *250,000,000 to build one canal In Panama, and New York State another *100,000,000 for canal purposes, but that no money can be appropriated ^ to aid the great industry?agriculture? upon which the prosperity of the en- x tire country and these special interests rests! Were It not for the agricultural In^ terests, canals, rivers, harbors and rail roaus wouia oe prututuui uocicoo, M without the products of agriculture there would be little or nothing for them to transport. ft?1 The National Government has ex* pended $400,000,000 in improving waterways, while in capital and interest it has aided railways to the extent of $138,000,000, and in addition-feoencourage railroad building, has given 196,0000,000 acres of the pabllc lafifc, making a grand total value given for these objects of not less than $1,500,000,000, besides appropriating for irrigation schemes that the desert may; blossom as the rose. x All these appropriations were made from the people's money. We find no ' fault because such appropriations have been made, for we approve of them all, but we do find fault because the common road, the most important factof among them all, which mokes for National prosperity, has been utterly, neglected. % ? Now abideth waterways, railways and highways, but the greatest of these is highways. Some would-be bright minds assume* CO.. ?h?t rVino-roca has Tint the DOtV^T iv/ oaj iuav vvuRiv?w ? -? - -?? ? ^ _ to authorize outlays for road improvement, because the Constitution does not allow such appropriations. In answer to that statement all we have to say is that fiwigres^M^ithe i Constitution were created bjTthe people and for the people, and that both Con-s ' gress and the Constituted are simply \ | instruments to do the work and bidding of the people. j All the money held or received by, the National Government is the people's money, and do we not insist that a man shall do what he wills with his own when free from incumbrances? Has the great sovereign people less rights than the individual? There are some timid pessimists who say the National Government is not I able to undertake this grand and necessary work of road improvement. History tells us that Moses sent spies to spy out the promised land, and because the people listened to the advice of timid and heartless leaders, they were doomed to suffer the privations, hardships and wanderings of the desert for forty long years. But as the brave, farseeing Joshua and Caleb affirmed that they were then able to go forward and possess the land promised to them and their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, so we affirm that our great Government, with the granary of the World in its possession, and with wealth of the ages in its grasp, is now fully capable of inaugurating meas- ures and providingtbe necessary money to aid the different communities in such a manner that continuous lines of improved interstate highways may be constructed and that it should be done at once, thereby saving the peonle from longer remaining in this wll derness, this slough of despond, thin liquid inorosg,-"of inud roads," with all their attendant evils, loss and dlscojnforts. . We demand that forthwith our lead-' ers take us over this Jordan which has been such a hard road to travel to the land flowing with milk and honey, a land of benefits, the land 4-education, the land of social and religions privileges, the promised land where continuous lines of improved interstate highways eiist.?From a Speech'. Quoted in the New York Tribune. A "1 ' Miuonrl Youth's Dilemma. A young man in Platte County is in a quandary. He lives on a farm, but has been courting a girl In town. Finally he asked her to marry him. She seemed willing, but said she cotild never live on a farm. He then proposed moving to town and engaging in some other business, and she said if be was fool enough to Jo that, she i wouldn't have him. He is still flgur- 1 Ing.?Smithviile (Mo.) Herald, ^ I