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BOOKS
AND MEN.
How closely men resemble books!
For instance, when one merely looks
At covers dull, or bright with sheen,
He ne'er can tell what is between,
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until ne reaas. i\ giiuay urcss
May be the cloak of emptiness,While
bindings, plain and poor and thin,
May hold a wealth of thought within.
Men are like books! Made page by page
To count the records of their age?
Telling a story all may read,
Trving to sow achievement's seed,
Delving in mysteries of the deep.
The open plain, the mountain steep,
Spreading the wisdom of the world.
And keeping freedom's flag unfurled.
Like books, some men are good, some bad,
( Some humorous, some dull and sad,
* Some shallow, others strong and deep;
Some swiftly move, while others creep,
Some are but fiction, others, truth,
Some reach old age, some die in youth;
But just a few can dimly see
The Koal of immortality! > "
?James Courtney Challiss, in Success.
TT MOXG the 400 American
/ \ teachers who went to Manila
on the transport Thomas
(were two Chicago women,
sisters and teachers of the public
schools of the city, who had sucessfully
passed the high-grade examination
demanded by Processor Atkinson,
and were very happy to be en route
to the Philippines.
But their reasons for going to the
new American colonics were neither
educational nor patriotic, as I happened
to know. This is one of the
tragedies of life involving an ordinary
private soldier which is not written in
army records, but the srory engraven
on the hearts of two women needs no
embellishment. The young soldier had
served his country and was,rewarded
with a, hospital stewardship in Manila.
The two young women were his
cousins. He was engaged in a way to
both, but he could only marry one. It
was a toss up?heads to win?and
Georgia won. There was so little difference
in their size and appearance
hat the two sisters were often t:iken
for twins. Both were small and quiet,
limited by the narrow entourage of a
teacher's life, to which they had been
born and bred. Their soldier cousin,
who had been reared in their family,
was the idol of their hearts. That he
could only marry one made the tragedy
of their lives, but if indeed he was
"L. marry Georgia, which was not absolutely
settled in their love-deluded
Grinds, whv then Julia would still be a
sharer of their home and happiness;
Qither one "was ready to welcome sacrifice
because of Tom.
Tom. the scapegrace, the ne'er-dowell.
who had kept them all on the
anxious bench until he enlisted, when
r Uncle Sam took him by the scruff of
, the neck, shook bim up. and gave him
such a taste of army discipline that
the young man pulled himself together
and made a very fair soldier, with occasional
doses of guardhouse medicine.
It was after one of those riotous relapses
that in a spirit of penitence
Tom had -written to his cousins suggesting
that they come to Manila at
the expense of the Government, and.
incidentally, that he wanted a wife to
keep him in order, addressing the letter
to Georgia.
It was ? memorable voyage for those
two, who had never in their lives before
seen the world outside of the
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State of Illioois. They were surrounded
by a remarkable company of teachers,
"who had b^en chosen from the
many normal universities of the country,
all of whom were strangers to
them and to each other before meeting
on the transport at San Francisco.
Yet it is a mater of history that thirty
Couples became acquainted, engaged
UilU Siuppru Ul nuuuiuiu IV uc uiuiutu
within a period of ten days. The diversion
of these hurried courtships re*
lieved the tedium of the voyage for the
the little sisters.
When the transport was anchored
off the mouth of the Pasig River awaiting
the visit of the American sanitary
inspector before steaming up to the
wharf in Manila town, the two girlsshy
and brown as quails?sat with
Tom's last letter open before them
reading directions and laughing over
his promise for their future comfort.
"We're to have gowns of 'pina'
Cloth," said Georgia, reading aloud
with reservation, "and we will ride
in a tram car Avhere the conductor
blows a horn that sounds like the wail
of lost souls."
"And he will take us to ride on a
'quilez,' in which the soldiers go on
larks."
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said Georgia with decision. "We
must make his life so happy that he
will find his best entertainment with
ns."
"O." said Julia, referring again :o
the letter, "he says here that lie has
engaged a Filipino girl to wait on us.
'She wears a short,'picturesque gown,
and has a braid of lustrous black hair
hanging down her back, and can say a
few American words. She is very
pretty, but a half-caste.' We must
have her picture taken and seud it
home. 1 hope she likes Americanos."
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"I wonder if Tom is as anxious to I
see us as we are to see him," said |
Georgia.
"No. the dear fellow, it would not |
be natural. We have not been in any |
noc?- throf> rears. I have I
heard teachers are a favorable risk
for life insurance, so few of them die."
"Oh, do you think Tom will come on
hoard with the inspector?" Georgia
was .netting very nervous.
The boat came out with the inspector,
but no Tom. He had been ordered
on duty, they said to each other, but
it was two lonely little schoolma'ams
that were finally landed in Manila
and found no one waiting for them.
No. Yes. a young man in a uniform of
the U. S. A. came running forward
looking from one group to another.
When he saw the two little women he
took his hat off.
"You are expecting to meet Tom Dewar?"
he said, haltingly.
"Yes: he is our cousin,'' answered
Julia, who. though the youngest, was
the bravest, "and he knows we are
coming on this steamer. Oh, do you
know him?"
"We belong to the same company,
fought side by side and drank from
the same canteen. He was my best
friend," said tne young soiuier solemnly.
"Was?" Georgia caught at his use
of the pnst tense. "Has something
happened to him? Is he?"
"How can I tell you? Oh. why was
this cruel duty put upon me? May I
ask which of you was?was?engaged
to marry Tom?"
"Both of us," said Georgia, who did
not know in the least what she was
saying.
"Neither," responded Julia, drawing
herself very erect.
"That Is well," the young soldier
gave a sigh of relief at Julia's stiff denial;
"then you -will not be shocked to
hear that Tom Dewar is "
"Dead?" Both girls spoke as if one
voice and gasped for breath.
"No. Married! To a native Filipino
girl, who has taken him home to her
people. I'm awfully glad you don't
mind it, and since I was Tom's friend
I hope you will let me be yours, and
be of some service to you in his absence."
It was manfully spoken, and the two
little, lonely, crushed women followed
him mechanically into the new,
strange world of the Philippines, from
which the enchantment of romance,
beauty and love had dropped forever,
leaving an arid desert of duty?because
of Tom.?M. L. Rayne, ,'n the Chicago
Record-Herald.
The Basle Clock.
In the accounts of journeys in Switzerland
of the last century it is often
remarked that the clocks of Basle
were an hour too fast, says La Federation
Horiogere Suisse. Tradition reveals
to us the origin of this custom.
When, five centuries ago, the city was
besieged, the enemy designed to make
a surprise when the main clock should
strike one. The clockmaker who had
loomorl in
cuitrge ui iufcf J.HUIJ1V. nuiuu Kumvu ?
time the signal of the attack, and set;
the aparatus so that it should strike"
2 o'clock Uistead of 1 o'clock. The enemy
were disconcerted and abandoned
the assault. Iu memory of this happy
deliverance of the city the clock was
still allowed to strike an hour fn advance.
and the other clocks were regulated
by this one. So, for centuries,
the time of Basle was one hour in advance
of that of the rest of the country.
'
The elockmaker, who by this ruse
; prevented the anticipated attack, and
who was venerated to the end of his
days, made as a souvenir of this event
a mechanical chef d'oeuvre in the form
of a human head, which he placed at
tho cirio nf thp clock in suc-h a way
that it looked in the direction whence
the attack was to proceed. Every
minute this head stuck out its tongue,
as if to mock the enemy.
3Ienelik'g Remedy Against Lightning.
A most interesting medical report
has come from Abyssinia. Dr. Mazzetti,
who has been studying tuberculosis
for the American Medical Association.
says Ethiopia is especially
free from the disease. The doctor
thinks that in time to come, when
Ethiopia is somewhat more civilized
and the means of communication are
better, it will be an ideal place for
those suffering from consumption, and
may become most popular on that account.
Speaking wnn .ueneuii 01 ueam me
Italian physicians found that he greatly
feared lightning. He has always
ready sulphuric ether and a syringe.
He saw one day an Italian doctor inject
ether into a man unconscious from
a shock of lightning, and has sinee considered
it an infallible remedy. His
bottle bears the inscription: "Remedy
against lightning." In the beginning
of 1897 Menelik commissioned some
Italian doctors to set up a model pharmacy
at Addis-Abeba, which was soon
done, but its contents now require renewing.
Each bottle and drawer
bears the name of its contents in Italian
and Abyssinian, while the illnesses
for which each may be used are named
in a large book kept personally by
ths Negus.?Pall Mall Gazette.
Raised by Discs.
The ranks of British airshfp inventors
are swelling with new plans and
designs, the latest being that of Ed
ward Mote, of Islington.
This inventor has constructed a successful
model of a machine having an
entirely new. mode of propulsion. The
method employed is the use of discs
placed on each side of a platform,
which is suspended from and hanging
between two compound balloons.
These revolving discs are made with
a double action, which continues automatically
on an "interior" and "exterior"
plane, obtaining a level propulsion
on both sides of the platform.
The action of the discs is reversible,
and can be worked horizontally or
vertically, thus providing a lifting as
well as a driving power, notwithstanding
the weight of the machine.
Unsanitary Parisians.
j No fewer than 4000 landlords have
I refused to provide a proper drainage
| system to their houses, in accordance
witU TJLie new sanitary reguianou*.
The Municipal Council hqs now to decide
whether it shall undertake 4000
prosecutions, or do the work itself and
sue the landlords to recover the cost
afterward.
COST OF ? GREATER'
Increase in Prices of Food Products
Throughout the Country.
HIGH MEAT RATES TO CONTINUE
Farmers Find It More Profitable to Sell
Milk and Corn Than to Furnish Veaj
and Pork ? Price of Meat Highest in
Nine Years?The Grocery Trade Situation?Effect
of Corn Crop Failure.
I New York City.?Whatever may be
(the influences, natural or artificial, at
jwork, it can no longer be disputed that
,food products, not only in New York
(City but throughout the country, are
steadily rising in price. In groceries
this new and startling development
is not so marked and it is said by
many to be of only a temporary nature.
In meats the situation is one
to concern not only the housekeeper
but the meat trade itself.
One butcher said that the present
price of meats is the highest that he
has known in nine years; that is, the
highest price to be maintained for any
length of time. During the winter of
1SU5-90 prices were slightly higher"for
a brief period.
One wholesale dealer of this tradesman's
acquaintance, who, during his
forty years' experience in the wholesale
meat trade has traveled all over
the West, remarked to him recently
that there wouljl be no cheap beef for
a year or two to come. At the present
time, the butcher added, all meats,
with the exception of veal, cost the
consumer two cents more than in the
summer. Veal Itself is six cents
higher.
This increase came suddenly about
the tirst week in Septembei-, the dealer
explained, and there was no indication
of a return to former prices. Instead,
he predicted that the price of
meats will increase from a cent to a
cent and a half within the next three
weeks, and he is of the opinion that
these abnormal rates will continue for
three or four years.
Further, he said, the rise of six cents
a pound in veal was due to the good
prices obtainable at present for milk.
Farmers hud that they can get more
profit out of milk than out of veal, and
are allowing their calves to become
cows.
Many reasons are advanced for the
increase in cattle and hog products.
The principal oiie is the failure of the
corn crop. Farmers estimate that for
each bushel of corn eight pounds of
merchantable pork should accrue.
With a price of six and three-quarter
cents for pork, the farmer has a total
of fifty-four cents as returns from
his bushel of corn, to set against seventy-five
cents, which his corn commands.
This line of agricultural reasoning'
also applies to cattle, and during the
year thousands of acres which were
formerly devoted to grazing were
plowed aud planted for grain. The
"cornstalk disease" has also thinned
the ranks of the beef producers, and
the heavy losses on ranches in winter,
due to inadequate housing, have by no
means decreased. All these have combined
to make costs higher to the
consumer.
While systematic efforts will doubtless
be made to remedy this existing
shortage and farmers outside the great
cattle districts will probably turn their
attention to the business to ta^e advantage
of the present high prices, it
is generally conceded that those prices
cannot be materially altered for some
time to come.
Meanwhile, the cattlemen, with depleted
herds, are forced to raise their
prices, the wholesalers are compelled
to follow, and the retailers are in turn
laid under the necessity of levying
increased tribute upon the army of
consumers.
In the grocery trade the situation
is very different, and if any vegetables
or fruits have advanced in price
the increase has been directly traceable
to crop failures, as in apples and
potatoes. Fresh laid eggs and butter
are higher than usual, but this wa3
explained by one groceryman as merely
the annual winter increase in price.
The marked rise in cold storage eggs
was the work of "a combination,"
which, he said, cornered this section
of the market, as it had done last
winter f'ntiiip<I irnorls were hichcr.
owing to the nse in the price of tin,
but with the exception of oats, practically
everything else was on a normal
basis.
YOUNG JEKYLL-HYDE EXPOSED.
Was a Graveyard ltobber bj Night and a
Contractor by Day.
Chicago, 111.?A graveyard robber by
night and a prosperous contractor by
day, such is the strange dual life of
Charles Stark, now working out a line
at the Bridewell, vainly endeavoring
to conceal his identity from the young
woman who has promised to become
his bride.
Stark was captured while despoiling
graves in Graceland Cemetery of their
trained norai pieces. tie coniesseu
that for ten years he had systematically
robbed the different cemeteries,
stealing frames and selling them to
small florists. He says he was trained
by bis father and began looting cemeteries
when he was eleven years old.
Until his exposure Clark was accounted
one of the most prosperous
and honorable young contractors in
the community.
To Keduce Military Force in Cuba.
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Root, at Washington, have decided
upon another reduction of the military
forces in Cuba. This action was
taken after receiving a report from
General Wood at Havana that a reduction
could be made because of the
tranquil condition of Cuba.
An Armistice in South America.
A three weeks' armistice was arranged
between the opposing Colombian
and Venezuelan armies in South
America owing to the lieavy rains.
McKinley Deu'.h Mask Finished.
After two months' work a cast from
the death-mask of President McKinley
taken on the morning of his death has
been finished. It is the property of
the Federal Government, and is said
to be one of the most perfect ever
taken of a notable person.
Sheriff Killed by His Own Pistol.
John Hutchings, Sheriff of Polk
County, Ga., was accidentally killed by
his own pistol while stooping over to
get coal from his coal house. The ball
entered his throat and went through
the brain.
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A fierce battle was waged on Sunny
Slope avenue between an imported
bulldog and a dapple-gray' delivery
horse, driven by a feed merchant. The
merchant went out with a load of
feed. After unloading he was lifting
the wagon round to get out of cramped
quarters when the bulldog came up.
The dog was friendly with the man
and then passed on to the horse. The
horse kicked at the dog, and in less
than no time a sanguinary fight was
in progress. The horse was hampered
with harness and wagon shafts, but
used its front and hind legs with telling
effect. Time and again the dog
was, hurled for several feet by terrific
kicks from the horse, but each time
the dog came back to renew the battle.
The dog direct its whole attack
et the legs of the horse.
The di'iver was trying to hold the
frenzied horse by the head and could
do nothing to get the horse or the dog
out of danger. Blood was streaming
from dozens of wounds in the legs of
the horse, and the dog was continuing
the fight with three broken ribs, a
broken paw and one eye nearly out of
its socket, when some men on the
street ran to the rescue and by main
force pulled the infuriated dog away
from the horse. Both animals are so
badly hurt that they may die, blood
poisoning being likely. The dog was
sent here from San Fran&isco a few
days ago to be taken care of. ? San
Francisco Chronicle.
Thirty minutes is all the time required to
dve with Pctnam Fadeless Dyes. Sold by
all druggists.
There are 336 places of public entertainment
in London, with a combined seating
capacity for 400,000 people.
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the well known trade-mark of the
chocolate girl, nnd the place of manu- facture,
"Dorchester, Mass." House- J
keepers are advised to examine their purchases,
and make sure that other |
goods hare not been substituted. They
received three geld medals from the
Pan-American exposition. j
A Bucolic Monarch. ?
The King of Greece delights in tak- w
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plow, cut and bind corn, milk cows, ?
and in short could, at a pinch, keep a
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after first day's nee of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatir e free
Dr. R. H. Klise, Ltd., 581 Arch St.. Ph Ja. Pa. ^
The fellow who suffers from corns ought
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Capsicum Vaseline i
Put up in Collapsible Tubes. 1
A Substitute for and Superior to Mustard or any I
other plaster, and will not blister the most delicate
skin* The pain allayiny and curative qualities of
this arti le are wonderful. It wiU stop the t jothache
at once, and relieve headache and sciatica.
We recommend it as the best and safest external
counter-irritant known, hIso as an external remedy
for pains in the chest and stomach and all rheumatic,
neuralgic and gouty complaints.
A trial will prove what we claim for it, and it will
be found to be Invaluable in the household. Many
people say "It is the best of all your preparations."
Price, 15 cents, at all druggists, or other dealers,
or by sending1 this amount to us ia roslaKe stamps
we will send you a tube by maU.
No article should be accepted by the public unless
the same carries our label, as otherwise it is not
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