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When I How Are We to l Increasing Populb By George Harvey, k +++++++ T is a very interE + + population upon t which is discusse ,+, fessor N. S. Shal the chair of geol - number of the ea: +++ ++ 000, and it is likel ination of pestilen ........ greater than the during the last three centuries. It tity of tillable soil upon the earth, sary for man-sucr as iron, coal, p erals-is far from boundless. Whe supply? Professor Shaler calculates th; sources, the soil, which, without an3 be put under the plough, would su, 000 human beings. He further esti systematic and scientific plan whii odd to the tillable area of the Unait miles. What we are to do eventually less easily answered. We are ren average annual outpat of iron is es an and child, whereas four centuriE ly civilized country were satisfied If the consumnptioa of iron goes on As for coal, the exhausting of the n tricts of Pennsylvania is within me of the bituminous combustible in would it meet ta-c wants of 4,000,001 of the recent output of petro! 3um, t as indispensable. If we may judl any of the coil-yielding districts al Russia will be 0micti;e at the < The. Womar By Ella U EAUTY seems to I Venus of Milo or i immobility, and < would be more ci Pers4ally I - Whether she supposed to typif fact-and angels they dwell in Rea force-and we zaturally associate than with blonAes. A blonde may be an intellectu pronounced weakness in his chara than his swartber brother. My Ideal of :a beautiful womat tnt me were I a ma4, is one not ever five feet ive, in her walking Her "net" weight is between light lustrous brown to sliver b< crushed violets, with slight shadoi to a Grecian nose-just enough to a rounded chin, full lips, with upt amiable and intelligent, but not in1 Let the intellect be discovere The backgrmund for this picture n suggestive elf -noined care as the te The whole personality must rai shine a good, loving and sympathe well-graven .Imsge, not a beautiful WhiDe this ~Is my ideal, yet I quite dissimilar, as 4 know scores nation pink or the rose.-New Yor] ~.- - :: Secrets o~ People May Control '] But Not the E By He *99999 HE handshake of. I : and sudden deat! quick, skillful, qu: affection because have clasped the *ppp-p,~p*and toil not, and L~J smooth roundness AJl this is m, .I tell your fortunt witchcraft, but bhy natural, explical in your hand. Not only is the han~ :reveals .its secrets .more openly and tenances, btrt the hand is under n1 listless when the -spirit is low and mind is excited or the heart glad; it .all the time. As - ere are mnany beauties of many. .ouch has its ecstacies. ' ity and sensitiveness -are wonderful .they -exnress many shades of thoug ful, supple-wrtsted hand which spe that you must see in the handwri wish you could see how prettily 1I1 wild flowers of .b.nmanity, and thei1 The Century.. e SGlory of the By Anatole - 3 my -view, what:i among the -nations ment than its poli liberty in -every f __ to saying that w country itself thai great expanse of soil and of wealt] ...energies ,of the pe plains and the beautiful umour-tains Nature had provrided between the t ration. But for ithis empbre to be I ad prosper, it was necessar that ot exploi.ting and binding together might say that it iis the Amnerican the Atlantic and thie Pacifle :as elh men on the land, and the land on *ist seems to have been evei morn which from my point of view, bring ,t the United States. The causes of its success :and -causes due to* the geunerosity of nat moral. causes, due to the character,1 enterprise of Ameieans. - Sheep are going to the slaught more rapidly than they are bred in th country, says the Cincinnati Comme cial Trii>une. If the reduction going I proceeds much longer the country wi realize that it is up against short hot wool crops as well as sheep supply. the month of August, 1903. the nur ber of sheep sold for slaughter at Ch cago was 134.676, whereas for Augu of this year it was 224.019. With i creasing loss at like rates at othe though lesser, markets, it is readi: seen that we are losing sheep a go< deal faster than we are growing ther and it must soon tell on the supply ar Var Ceases 1 fandle the Enormously tion That Will Result. ditor of Harper's Weekly. g sting subject-the increasing pressure of he earth's capacity for supporting it 4 in the International Quarterly by Pro er, who, it may be remembered, occupies >gy in Harvard University. The present rth's inhabitants is computed at 1,600,000, iy to increase hereafter, owing to the elim ce and chronic war, at a rate considerably average rate at which it has increased is certain, on the other hand, that the quan. as well as the stock of other things neces etroleum, copper and other metals or min n will the demand threaten to exceed the t, as regards the earth's agricultural re considerable engineering work, could now port in tolerable comfort abuot 4,000,000, mates that by drainage, carried out on the :h has been applied to Holland, we could ed States rather more than 100,000 square for coal, petroleum and iron is a question inded that in the United Stats today the imated at 400 pounds for every man, wom ,s ago the needs of men in the most high with about four pounds a year per capita. increasing; where are we to find the ore? ines in England and in the anthracite dis asurable distance, and vast as is the stock the United States and China, how long ),000 human beings? For the maintenance he discovery of new deposits is recognized ,e from experince, it is improbable that ready drawn upon in North America and lose of the 20th century. Ideal of dy -Beauty . 1heeler Wilcox. have no established standards. Were the mny other classic Venus to drop her marble :ome to life today, I have no doubt she iticised than admired. admire dark men and fair women. possesses the qualities or not, woman is y light and hope-to suggest the angel, in are always represented as fair, because lms of Light. Man typifies power, strength,. these attributes with dark men, rather al giant, but thee is almost invariably a cter which makes him less a manly man i, the type of woman who would most at ander five feet four and a half inches, not shoes. L35 and 140 pounds; hair any shade from de-the latter preferable. Eyes like rs underneath; a mere suspicion of a tilt save it from severity of line; a low brow, rned corners, and an expression at once tellectuai. IC-it must not be aggressively asser'ive. iust beLa skin of delicate quality and as th and hair. ite health, and through the features must tic heart, or else the possessor is only a woman. know scores of beautiful women who are f beautiful flowers which are not the car cAmericana. F The Hand'-: "eir Countenances, xpressionz of Their Hands. -len 1Ce1ler. some people makes you think of accident L. Cantrast this ill-boding hand with 'he et hand of a nurse whom I remember with she took the .hest care of my teacher. I hnds of some !rich people that spin not yet are not .beautiful. Beneath their roft, what a chaos of irndeveloped character! y prvate science of palmistry, and wvhen it is by .no mysterious intuition or gypsy yle recognition -af the embossed character d as easy to recognize as the face, but it unconsciously. People control @ieir 'coun such restraint. It relaxes and becomes dejected; the muscles tighten whren the and permanent .qualities stand written on the face, so the beauties of the hand are Se hands of people of strong individual ly mobile. In a glance -of their finger-tips ht Now and again I touch a fine, grace Is with the -same beauty and distinction ting of some highly -cultivated pecople. I ttle children spell in my hand. They are fifger motionls wild .flowers of speech. United States if LeryBeaulieu. nakes the greatness of the United States is less its'tremendous economic develop tical institutions and its consciousness of teld of action a:nd life. This comes back hat has made its greatness is less the the men who inhabit it. It Is less the its territory and its natuTal resources of underground than the qualities and the ople who have cnltivated the magniilcene of North America, and made them pay. wo oceans for a gneat empire and a '-eat orn and for this nation to take form, jive it should be ihabited by people capable these vast expanses. In this sense one who has made America, although between ~ewhere, there was a mutual inSuence of men. But as great as this last was, the powerful, and this is one of the causes, about the originality and the superiority of its greatness are net merely material ure toward it. They are, above all others :he education, the energy and the spirit of er Of the sum which had been invested 1 in the world's railroads at the close of r- 1902 it is estimated, according to the > English Railway Magazine, that more lthan ?3,760,000,000 has been spent on n 184,000 miles of European railroad and a- E?3.232,000,000 on the 337,000 miles i- owned by the rest of the world. On this st basis it is found the roar'. of Europe - represent an investment of ?222.952 a r, mile, while those of the rest of the y world average ?11,402. Great Britain's d railroads represent the highest cost per - mile, figures standing at E51.368, while d those of Belgium come next with I ?30,048. RAILWAY STRIKE FAILS. Workmen Who Went Out Were Ordered Back to Work. New York, Special.-The most in teresting development in the sub-way and elevated railway strike situation in New York was the stand taken by some of the national labor leaders in repudiating the action of the local leaders who ordered and are conduct ing the strike. The first intimation the public had that the strike was not endorsed by the national unions, came in a statement from Grand Chief War ren S. Stone, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, to which the motormen belong. Mr. Stone insisted that the strike was a violation of the laws of the national union, the men having broken their contract with the inter-borough Company. He ordered the men to report for duty, failing which, expulsion from the organiza tion is threatened. Although the local leaders are con tinuing the fight, despite the fact that the national leaders have repudiated their action in calling the men out, the strike on the subway and elevated railway systems has passed the acute stage, and trains are run with little delay, the strike-breakers quickly learning their new duties, while many of the old men were back in the posi tions which they left on Tuesday morning. There was no general rush back of the old employes, but the men slowly weakened, and there was a steady stream passing into the com pany's offices all day. Things More Quiet. St. Petersburg. By Cable.-The gen eral staff has received the following dispatch from General Sakaharoff, General Kuropatkin's chief of staff, dated today: "Several fierce attacks on our north front were made during the night. They were all repulsed. In other directions the night was quiet." Forbidden to Enter Mukden. Tokio, 'By Cable.-Field Marshal Oyama, in an order directing the pur suit of the retreating Russians, pro hibited his troops from entbring Muk den, in order to preserve the respects of the tombs and sacred places of the imperial Chinese household, and to protect the welfare of the inhabitnats. Mukden, Thursday, By Cable.-The Japanese last night pushed up from the south across the abandoned plain between the Shakhe and Hun rivers and are, as this dispatch is filed, about five miles south of the latter, and from the Hun opposite Machiapu and north ward. Japanese batteries are pouring in a ceaseless fire. The Japanese suc ceeded in emplacing siege guns and mortars at Dieushantun, about six miles west of this city, whence the op ening fire began at dawn. Many young men want to attend the Medical College of South Carolina. Gov. Heyward has at his disposal the ap pointment of one beneficiary from each congressional district. Already ther is on file at least one appli,ation from nearly every county in the State. Gov. Heyward will not announce his s-lPc tion for some time. Tokio, By Cable-Field Maishal Oyama telegraphs as follows under Friday's date: 'We occupied Mukden at one o'clock this morning. Our sur rounding movement, in which we have been engaged for some days past, has now completely succeeded. "The fiercest fighting continues at several places in the vicinity of Muk den. We captured a great number of prisoners,' enormous quantities of arms, ammunition, provisions and oth er war supplies. There Is at present no time to mnvestigate the number of these." Telegraphic Briefs. The Russians have fallen back from the Shakhe river along the whole line, and are in full retreat. Japanese forces have been seen north of Mukden, and the battle is now rag ing around the imperial tombs. The Dutch Island of Curacao is said to be the home of two generals who are watching to avail themselves of the first opportunity to start a revolution against President Castro. Winston Churchill attacked the fiscal policy of Joseph Chamberlain in the House of Commons, and was defeated. The strike at Warsaw, Russian Po land, is reported to be over, but the em ployers now find that the concessions to end the strike will impose a tax which they cannot stand. In order to maintain friendly rela tions with its employes the Frisco system intends to provide a home for everyone of them. The Colorado Legislature received the reports of the contest committee and it soon became apparent that nei ther of these documents could com mand a majority of votes. The Mayoralty fight in Chicago is centering around the question of muni cipal ownership of the street railways, and the value of $105.000,000 in stocks and bonds is thus affected. The strikee on the subway and ele ated railroads in New York failed to stop traffic on those lines, and railway officials say they have the situation well in hand. Four miners were killed by the breaking of a cable at a mine near Charleston, W. Va. Re-v. Dr. Leighton Parks, rector of St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church, New York. gave out an inter view scoring social leaders for not checking the divorce evil. The case of the Government against Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick for her con nection with the Oberlin bank was com pleted at Cleveland. The police of Honolulu say that if Mrs. Jane L. Stanford was poisoned the guilty persons are in San Fran cisco. Capt George W. Byron. of Washing ton, is inventing an airship whi'ch, he say". will discount that of Santos Du mot. He will shortly make an ascent in Washington. He will employ nine separate gas bags to make the aerial ship for long distance traffic. A little more than half the goods brought into the Dutch West Indies comes from the United States. The countries next in order as to value of goods imported are the Netherlands, Germany, England, France and Italy. Small occasional invoices are received from other countries. The California commission to the St. Louis Exposition returned to the State $6000. unexpended, of the $130,000 ap propriation made by the Legislature for State advertising purposes. Practically all the exhibit has been sent to the Portland Fair, which is to open next Ma3 A HIS H AA By GRA ( , ELL, good-by, old boy!" said W Tom Thorpe. gently. "I'll O J{ be around again to-morrow if you care to have me." 1171 The big young fellow ir the hospital bed stared bacla for a moment into the eyes of the othet Dig 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, sain cheerily: "All right; there's nothing I'd rather do." and hurried away. When he had closed the door of the men's surgical ward he gave his broad shoulders a shake, and shut his lip: firmly together a moment. As he weni down the corridor he was saying tc 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 he reached the hospital entrance he met one of the surgeons coming in, and ventured to delay him a moment, "Would you mind telling me, Doctoi Stuart," he ask-ed, "ii you think de spondency has anything to do with keeping my friend Caldwell down1 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 it," agreed the surgeon, promptly "Cheer him up all you can. He's showri great courage and endurance all thoug this siege, but it's told on him. I sup pose he thinks his ambitions are al: thwarted, and that's cnough to make him blue. Get him t* believe there'i 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 dc something for Kirke-something posi tive, that will put him on his feet." He thought about it all the way t< the great manufactory where he held the post of electrical engineer. It wa: a fine position for a young man but tw< years out of a technical school. Kirke Caldwell had held an equally good po sition in a neighboring city. The twc had been classmates, even rivals withir the bounds of a sturdy friendship. Three months before, Caldwell, su perintending the installation of ne, electrical machinery, had seen one o1 his workmen accidentally short-clrcuil a powerful current with a pair eo pliers, had pulled the man away some how, but In wrenching his hand away from the pliers, had taken the deadl3 current himself. He had been s< burned that amputation of one hand and one foot had been necessary tc save his life. The man to whose rescue he had sprung, died, and there had been weeks during which It seemed that Caldwell must follow. That danger was past for him now he had his life, but It was a !ife seem ingly so handicapped that it was smnaI wonder if the splendid courage he had shown all through, had at last failed him. Alone In the world and depend ent upon his own resources for a living he felt that there was little use 11 trying to get well. But Tom Thorpe knew better; and after thinking about his friend's cast all day, he went to his father to asli his co-operation In a plan he ha( formed. Tom Thorpe and his father lived to gether In a little fiat, which was as homelike as a place with no wife and mother in it can be. "He's a magnificent fellow!" Tonr declared to his father, walking the floor, his face full of eagerness. "If we could just have him here for month, till he got enough strength, and then take him to see Wentworth, I be lee the thing would be done. I don'1 know myself what he could do witl his handicap In electrical engineering but I believe he could be his own sal vation if he got his brain working al it. You don't know what's in that boy father. He's twice as clever as I am and he must be made to show it." Mr. Thorpe smiled. He had his owi epinion of his sons cleverness. H( let Tom's modest estimate of himsell pass, however, and agreed heartil: that a month with themselves and trip of a hundred and twenty miles t< see a certain man in a university toWr might be the tonic Caldwell needed Therefore Tom went to bed and t< sleep with an easier mind. . * * * * * * 'Kiri-c," said Tom Thorpe one morn ing, when Caldwell had been for three weeks a member of the Thorpe house hold. "I'm going on a little trip down t< Remen, and I've a mind1 to take yo1 with me." Cadwell, sitting in a big reclinin; chair by the window, looked round a Tom with an expression of languit surpr se. "I .ere's no reason in the world wh: yoi houldn't have an outing," pursuer Ton. briskly. "We're only a f'em blocks from the station. I can whee you over In your chair. put you into Pullman, send the chair in tihe baggagi car. and take you round Remsen at easily as if I were a cash carrier in: 'department store. We'll have a fini tir:e out of it." . it's good of you, Tom,'' said Cald w"l, gratefully, "but--" "You're going, that's all," said Tom f roly. "I know you don't want to, bu .u're going, just the same, and you'r going now. The train leaves In forty five minutes-just time for me to pu on your best coat and your handsomes cravat, and get you over to the statiot without running down any baby car riages on the way. Here you arean< you'll want your light overcoat; th3i April air's a little sharp." He talked on busily, giving the in valid small chance to object, althoug. he saw clearly enough that Caldwel dreaded the very idea of the trip. Un til now he had ventured outdoors onl; for short rides round the little park of which the house fronted, and he ha< chosen the hour for these when thi fewest people were likely to be there. Tom conJd not wonder at this stat' of mind. He appreciated too well wha must mann n a fellow who had bee: ANDICAP. CE S. RUCHMOND. t a giant for physical strength to lie limply in a wheel chair, with a rug over his lap, his 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 pos sible where he had left it off, and to l mingle with men instead of trying to I hide away from them. The beginning of the journey was l 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 t train, where Tom, assisted by a cheer ful colored porter, conveyed him swift ly on board the Pullman. and estab lished him, not in a private compart ment-Tom had considered that idea and rejected it-but in a chair at the rear of the car, where he could ob serve 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. Remsen was not a long distance away, but the luncheon hour arrived in the middle of the journey, and Tom ordered a lavish meal. Kirke, begin ning languidly, was soon eating broiled bluefish and roast duck with his old time 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-bordered streets of the old university town. Several genera tions 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 de clared, turning from the side street which had brought them from the sta tion into the broad avenue which led toward the group of college buildings on 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 In structor, and Bronson, in history, and Wentworth, the crack-a-jack in chem istry. I want to see them all, and I hope we'll be in time to get into Went worth'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 cow ard 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 wheeled 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 Wentworthi won't see you, any how." 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 bump ing through the doorway. Tom was too much wrought up to steer straight. But when the boys saw the pale face in the chair-a 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 thenm welcome with Lfriendly nods. >But after the first five minutes in the i room, Kirke Caldwell needed nobody . to divert his thoughts from himself. yTom 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 for gotten everything in the world but - what he nowv saw before him. yThe lecturer's face, although tanned ito a healthy color, was scarred with irregular, blanched furrows, and his eyes were hidden from sight behind tblack spectacles. 1His body was strong, magnificently built; the movement of his hands, as She talked, illustrating his words with Sgestures, was vigorus and full of mean Sing; his voice was deep and rich; his 1 inflections were full of vivacity and ienthusiasm; but the man himself was Sdisabled by the absolute loss of his Ssight. 1 As Caldwell, watching him, thought a 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 patience t and resignation, never once had he a seen among them any one like thIs. - And presently, as in the interest of the t lecture Itself he forgot to speculate or t to compare, he became conscious that 1 something he thought he had lost for - ever was returning to him-for the mo I ment, at least-the old, keen joy In a s scientific argument and demonstration, presented by a master of his subject. - The lecture concluded amidst an out I burst of enthusiastic applause, of the 1 sort which means not only honest ap - preciation of the thing that has been i done, but hearty love and admiration 1 for the doer. The class poured hurried I Iy into the laboratory, where certain a important tests were now to be made. supporting a new and singular theory ' which the lecturer had propounded. t "Come down and see it, won't you?" a steinnt urged Thorne and Caldwell. "If you've never seen him in the labI you ought not to miss it." "How did he lose his sight?" Cald well asked eagerly of the young fellow, who, with a hand on Kirke's chair, was accompanying them down the slop ing aisle. Tom rejoiced within him self that it was all happening so natur ally. If a stranger told the story it would not look to Caldwell so much as if Tom had meant to read a moral to him. "Got hurt In a lab explosion," the boy said. "Freshman making carbon mon oxid-sulphuric and oxalic acids in the generator, you know. Chump left out the safety bottle-had the burner too high-opened a window. Wentworth It came in and saw him with his head n over the retort-flame blowing one side in the wind-January wind. He jumped to disconnect, gave the fellow W a shove one side just quick enough to save him, and got that awful explosion in his own face. lkall, you see, drawn m back into the acids by the generator cooling too quick in the zero wind. No 01 safety bottle between." Caldwell nodded, his face full of in tense interest. They were at the lab oratory door. The student went on in X a whisper. it "I saw it all. I don't like to remem- t ber ho.v he suffered- .ith the pluck of b a bulldog all the. time. Eyes blown i full of glass as well as acid-face hor ribly burned. Never saw a ray of light g again. Freshman wanted to die-to his h credit. Wentworth made a chum of 3 him. We'll have to hurry. He never loses a minute's time himself, or lets any one else lose it for him. This tl way.'' " The next half-hour passed for Cald well in a haze of delight. He was less a conscious of his pleasure-although - that was very great-in the somewhat remarkable experiments which were made under Professor Wentworth'st direction, than In the recognition of t 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; P intimately interested in the class itself, f down to its individual members, with f whom he showed perfect familiarity, r calling upon one and another to note t various steps of the work in confirma- r tion or refutation of their personal no tions concerning it-he was the genius of the place, a dominating personality, t which it was an inspiration to each s mind within its influence to know. I "Glad you enjoyed it," said the young 0 man who had brought them in. "We're b .os proud of him here we never lose a t chance to have others appreciate him. u He never lets up on himself. Takes t his cold tubs and his dumbbells just t the same, and tramps miles with one or another of us every day. We count t it a treat to go, you know." r Tom Thorpe kept Caldwell until the I class had nearly gone, and the professor t was left with his rssistants, making t ready to go to the next duty. Then he wheeled his friend up to the blind man V and made a blunt introduction which came from his heart: e "Professor Wentworth, this Is my c friend, Kirke Caldwell, an electricalC engineer, who was In my class. He I can't give you his right hand, because I he tried to save the life of one of his t 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 be- f fore Tom had struggled thus far. His f face had lightened instantly at Tom's 1 description with a peculiar tenderness of sympathy which as long as he livedC Kirke never forgot.t "A handicap," he said, his fine lips smiling. "Ah, then we shall see what I ou are really made of. Electrical en gineering-and your brains are left o. Let the other men put on thet rubber gloves; it's you who can solve their problems for them." t All the way home Caldwell sat star- t ing out of the car window with eyes r which took no note of the April land- I scape, just budding into beauty. Tom Thorpe sat and read a newspaper up- 1 side down, and hardly dared so- much ( as glance at him. In the pale face a grew and grew the thing Tom had g longed to see there-courage.-Youth's i Companion. ( Watterbon Surrenders. t I am afraid that my friend the hoi;se I is destined to be In a little while a a back number. The automobile,has ar rived, and, not alone In France, It Is come to stay. I attended the great r show while in Paris and carefully ex amined the newest machines. Grad- i ually but surely they are being per- a fected. Gradually but surely they are s adjusting themselves to modern wants ad conditions. Mr. Dooley may con- t tinue to have his fling at the PurpleC Assassin and other Devils both Red and White, but I fancy when Mr. Peter Dunne visits Provence he will ride in 1 a Mercedes or a Decauville. I myself, I being both an American and a Ken tuckian, held out for a long time. I a put up as good a fight for the thor- a oughbred as ever I made for tariff- lI for-revenue-only. No manner of use; I and now I experience that nasty but I irresistible run-over feeling that Tom ( Taggart must have had the day after " the late election, as I fold my arms and 5 murmur 'Let 'er go, Gallagher!"-Cou- I rierJournal. U t< Immigrant steamship Companief. g The a -erage run of folk know the o names of possibly half a dozen steam- b ship companies that are engaged in the d commerce of this port. There are In p reality twenty-seven popular lines. d They dumped upon the banks of Man- I; hattan in 1904 the enormous number t1 of 735,187 persons. Of these at least f< half a million were immigrants coming to El Dorado America for a home. Of e the total number 68,704 were first-cabin b passengers, mostly Americans return- tl ing from European tours after burning a up the effete monarchies of the Old ti World. Ii uuded among these, it is p conceded, were sundry titled derelicts c in search of American millions, wIth si an American girl thrown In for good C measure here and there.-New York Press. Burmese Mile. a The Burmese mile, which is equal to h two English miles, is described by a a word meaning "to sit," being the dis- s< tance a man walks before he considers n it necessary to sit down. n were opened for pearls in the .Ceylon 1 earl 6charies in 1903. h -The "Mud Tax." AOM RUiLY we can say agricul ture is the great monarch, T 0ard its interests should be fostered in every possible way. d If any tax upon this important in istry Can be lifted without an impair ent of governmental revenues it cer inly should be dope, and if contin >us lines of improved interstate high ays, as alleged, will reduce the "mud x" and the cost of transportation of ,rm products from the farm to the arket one-half or one-third, then irely such improved roads ought to given the agricultural interest with it argument or delay. We have no fault to find with vast )propriations for pensions, irrigation hemes, waterways and railroads, but is a crying shame that agriculture, ie monarch industry, has scarcely. en noticed, And wiren it demands of e National Government what the in vidual communities are not able to ve-continuous lines of improved ghways-its request should be an vered by large appropriations for ich continuous lines of improved in rstate roads. This Nation claims to lead int every king, and I think it does, for we have .e biggest rivers, the biggest trusts ad the poorest roads on earth. Surely the National Government aould always do those things. that take for the National welfare, and w could the National welfare be bet r promoted than 4y the National aid )r continuous lined of Improved inter Late highways? By such highways not only will trans ortation of farm products be greatly eilitated, but such roads will make )r a better edueation,, more social and liglous privileges, and-In ever Way >nd to elevate the character-of. our - ural population, on whom we, as s fation, so largely depend. How absurd it seems when we are Ad that the National Government can pend $250,000,000 to build one canal i Panama, and New York State an ther $100,000,000 for canal purposes, ut that no money can be appropriated aid the great industry-agriculture pon which the prosperity of the en ire country and these special interests ests! Were It not for the agricultural In erests, canals, rivers, harbors and rail oads wguld be practically useless, for rithout the products of agriculture here would be little or nothing far hem to transport. The National Government has ex ended $400,000,000 in improving raterways, while in capital and inter st it has aided railways to the extent f $138,000,000, and In adhtion to en eurage railroad building, has given 6,0000,000 acres of the public land,. aking a grand total value given for ese objeets of not less than $1,500, 0,000, besides appropriating for irri aton schemes that the desert mnay lossom as the rose. All these appropriations were made oig the people's money. We find no aut because such ap'propriationis have meen made, for we approve of them 1, but we do find fault because the mmon road, the most important the r among them all, which makes for ational prosperity, has been utterlyj eglected. Now abideth waterways, railways .nd highways, but the greatest of hese is highways. Some would-be bright minds assume say that Congress has not the power authorize outlays for road improve lent, because the ConstitutIon does ot allow such appropriations. In answer to that statement all we ave to say is that Congress and the ~onstitution were created by the people., nd for the people, and that both Con ress and the Constitution are simply Istruments to d3 the work and bidding f the people. All the money held .or received by; e National Government Is the peO le's money, and do we not insist that man shall do what he wilis with his wn when free from incumbrances? Has the great sovereign people lesS ights than the Individual? There are some timid pessimists who y the National Government Is not ble to undertake this-granld and neces ary work of road improvement. History tells us that Moses sent spies > spy out the promised land, and be ause the people listened to the advice f timid and heartless leaders, they rere doomed to suffer the privations, ardships and wanderings of the desert or forty long years. But as the brave, farseeing Joshua d Caleb affirmed that th'ey were then ble to go forward and possess the md promised to them and their athers, a land flowing with milk and oney, so we affirm that our great ~overnment, with the granary of the orld in its possession, and with ealth of the ages in its grasp, is now. ully capable of Inaugurating meas res & :d providing the necessary money Said the different communities In ci a manner that continuous lines f mproved Interstate highways may e constructed and that It should be one at once, thereby saving the peo le from longer remaining in 'this wil erness, this slough of despond, this' uid morass, "of mud roads," with all ielr attendant evils, loss and discom We demand that forthwith our lead rs take us over this 'Jordan which as been such a hard road to travel to e land flowing with milk and honey,. land of benefits, the~ land of educa on, the land of social and religious rivileges, the promised 'and where mntinuous lines of improyed inter tate highways exist.-From a SpeeeN uoted In the New York Tribune._ Missouri Youth's Dilemma.I A young man in Platte County Is in quandary. He lives on a farm, but as been courting a girl in town. Fin ly he asked her to marry him. She emed willing, but said she could ever live on a farm. He then pro. osed moving to town and engaging in me other business, and she saild If e was fool enough to do that, she