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1 WHERE BROOW Crop For 1905 Estimated ^ $15,000,000 ? Industry Franklln==How It S ^ Oklahoma ? Ar Corn Centre .Ci ?1 .0. ?1 Ivi Jvl ; F it really is true, and Ion? jjj * Jf it has been asserted, as '? T O fact, that a new broom !i( J5 sweeps clean, what can be *0>T expected of 42,000.000 new brooms? Forty-two millions is tlie harvest of iOOT?. says an Areola. 111., correspondent of the Indianapolis News. That S1C>,000,<H)0 worth of brooms File " * 4 ' !? Si.mAiit unrl til A V /tophi into cars iui duj^uiciib?uuu ? pack about 4000 to the car?and j*.ou have 10,000 carloads of brooms. Ten thousand cars means 200 long, fifty car freight trains, and 200 such trains, pulled by 200 big mogul engines, means Htmost 100 miles of brooms ?a string of trains reaching from Indianapolis far east or west over the Ohio or Illinois State line. Lay those 42,000.000 end to end and the broom trail would be 40,000 miles long?would reach one and a half times around the world. The broom harvest is just over. It *ouuds like talking Greek, perhaps, to speak literally of a broom harvest. The broom stand back in the corner behind trie door, and it has been a member of your family for a long time, and still you are not on social terms with it. Uood, faithful, old servant?a little r,run down at the heel, perhaps, and the stick worn too shiny, but still faithful HiKl constant ? what man's dog could be more faithful to him than his wife's i>room is to her? And the chances are that she knows less about it than hhe does about her neighbors. It is, indeed, time to cultivate the interesting ~ 1 J ide of tile Drooni, anu TO remize tuiii, like Topsy, it "just growed;" to know that, like your corn (maize), it is harvested, and that it is a crop, and that there is always a possibility that you are going to be np against a short broom crop. And then, too, your friend?your broom?has an interesting and historical past. Perhaps its pedigree is mora interesting even than 7?ur own. The nation's broom harvest is just orer and it has been a great sight to see 15,000,000 new brooms growing and harvested over in this part of Illinois, which is the home of the fine broom? ,' that is, the aristocratic broom that you do not buy unless you pay a quarter or more. * Another 21,000,000?cheaper ??tes?have just been fa ken out of the September weather down in Oklahoma. Those gathering in the sheaves over in Kansas have plucked about 4,000,000 more brooms from nature and another million or two Lave been gathered in Missouri. Tenness-ee, Arkansas arid from scattering broom corn fields over the country. There in a nutshell is the Mimmary of the source of supply. The big brooms come from Illinois, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee. Arkansas and from Kansas; the whiskbrooms come from Kansas. While the broom grew, yet it didn't.1 Mature does not make brooms with hard pine" handles and with straws bound with trust wire and decorated with combine tin and monopoly velvet, but nature does grow beautiful brooms. They are raised like great plumes into the scenery of the broom corn country In August and September, and these plumes are borne ten, twelve and even fifteen feet into the air by graceful efollro Tho nll1TTU?? tllpni caiu UWUUV O IU1UO. .m. i.% v. ?-v ? wolves are heavily laden with a beautiful golden seed that bends them more gracefully and adds beauty to the majestic plant. It is indeed unfortunate that the man thinks he must improve .' n nature's bloom, for he los?s much beauty in the process. He strips the stalk of its graceful plume; casts aside the beautiful seed tassels and, with his beut of genius, he applies machinery, and the result is the broom that we find standing in the grocery ready for our money. The broom is a corn crop?its stalk, though slighter, more graceful and taller. greatly resembles that of the Indian maize. It tassels out in the summer like the maize; it is cultivated much like corn, and though it bears no cars?nothing but its two foot long graceful plumes?it has come to be called corn?broom corn. Just exactly where it came from no t one really seems to know; but it is in teresting to find that the oroom?the g kind of broom that we Americans " know and have? is an American institution, though broom corn came to us from India. Older people in the country remember when their brooms were made out of twigs anil bristles, as are most of the brooms used in this day in European countries by the common people. It was during the life of Benjamin Franklin that a crude whisk> brooin was brought into his home, and .while he was admiring it ho noticed a few seeds clinging to the fibres or straws. It is recorded that he had the '.remarkable foresight to see that here was the seed for a new industry in the Colonies. lie plucked the seeds from the fibres and carefully planted them in the spring in his garden and they were the parents of the broom industry in this country. He raised two or three beautiful stalks of broom plant from them and he gathered the seed and gave it to friends the next year. It was the beginning. Inasmuch as a bushel of broom corn seed is about enough to plant a Congressic-al township it was not lomg until the crop of seed was .sufficient to establish the broom making imlnstrv in this country. A The Quakers anil the Shakers took it up and the lirst extensive cultivation of broom corn was in the Mouawk Valley, whore thu lirst broom factories in this country were opened, possibly by the Shakers. The brooms made a great hit, and there was a scramble for them, and the broom corn raisers received as high as Sr>iX) or $000 a tori for their crops. With the opening of the Western country tiia seed was brought out in the new country by settlers, and the lirst extensive cultivation in the West was in Ohio, somewhere near Columbus, and in the South it was in Tennessee. In the early 00s a Coi. John Cofer, an !. 1"-iois farmer, living n ;-r /.: >* >, brought some of the seed into this IS COME FROM. at 42,000,000, and Worth y Started by Benjamin preadto Illinois and cola, 111., Broom ==?Rich Town. country from Tennessee ami planted it near the Coles-Douglas county line. Oofer found a spot peculiarly adapted to t!ie cultivation of the crop, and within a feu- year Illinois beame the broom corn State of the Union. Though at this time it is second in tonnage to Oklahoma, it is rightfully still regarded as the national source of our broom supply, - for from a limited region extending in a radius of thirty miles around Areola, which is the b:'oom corn centre of the country and practically of the world, is grown the corn from which practically all of the high class and bost brooms of the world are made. The cultivation was taken up around Uaiesimx'g, in., ana a coiony 01 oweues there made some success of it. This colony threw off .1 branch to Kansas and that branch look the seed into that State, and from there the cultivation lias extended down into Oklahoma within the last four or live years. While it is a fact that broom corn can be raised with some success in almost every part of the country in which good Indian corn can be raised, and while also it is pretty generally denied that there is any peculiar quality in the soil of the Illinois, Oklahoma and Kansas broom corn districts, which, after all, are mere pockets, the fact remains that the production of the corn is limited to these fields and they are closely defined and are the national sourcus of supply. Attempts to engage in broom corn raising liave been made in Indiana and other bis corn Stateseven in other icarts of Illinois?but without any success. The secret may, indeed, be found in the fact that the cost of preparing to engage in the cultivation on a good basis-is heavy- I? order to raise and market broom corn of the first grade it is quite as necessary to build large drying sheds as it is to build similar sheds in the tobacco countries in which to dry the tobacco crop. Peculiar thrashing outfits have to be bought. The crop is cultivated much the same as corn, except that it Is a much faster crop than is corn. It is planted immediately after the Indian corn crop is planted and is harvested in early September. In fact, it is a ninety day crop. The fields in Illinois are from ten to 100 acreas in area, and are very beautiful. The annual acreage in Illinois runs from 30,000 to 50,000. acres. The harvest is picturesque. Unlike most other crops, broom corn must be harvested just at a certain time in the growth of the pjant ? just when the seed is in a milk state. The corn still is green ? so is the broom fiber, and it contains a certain percentage of oil and moisture and is very tough and flexible. When properly harvested and dried slowly in the shade, it retains these qualities to a great extent and the fiber remains so flexible that it can be twisted and tied into knots without breaking. It also retains its beautiful green color, and it is this green color wlitph thp> PYnpriennpfl housewife seeks. She knows that such a broom will wear much longer than the yellow, light or red strawed brooms and that the straws will wear down to a stub and will not break off. Practically all of the green straw brooms are Illinois straw brooms. The Oklahoma broom is less flexible and most cheap brooms are made of it Such brooms shed a great many of their straws. Kansas raises some good broom corn, but the bulk of her crop consists of UWUS l UlOUlll WIU?lt?iil.U JJilllil brushes, which are made tip into wliiskbrooms. In fact, practically all of our wliiskbrooms are grown in Kan. sas. The production of broom corn runs abcut one ion to every two or two and a half or three acres. The market prices in Illinois this year opened around $80 to $00, and in Oklahoma from $25 to $50. The source of supply is so limited that it has been possible in the last few years for men to corner the Illinois crop at least once. Then the price was sent up to $180 a ton. A ton of Illinois broom corn will make 1200 to 1500 brooms; a ton of Oklahoma broom corn from S00 to 1000. Because of the necessity of harvesting the crop while it is in its right stage of growth there is an unusually active demand for labor through the broom corn country the last two weeks in August and the first two weeks in September. The tramp fraternity lias learned this and th^ members of it begin to arrive in the broom corn section on August lii. They are there for two purposes?to got employment for SI.HO a day and board and to do as little work as possible?at least so the growers say. They are picturesquely termed "broom corn canaries." Whence they come no or.e knoweth; whither they go is as great a mystery. All are panhandlers and refrain from supporting railroads with their "substance." While many seem to be men of considerable capacity the large majority are said to be a very objectionable lot. Great swarms of these men are necessary to harvest, thresh and handle the crop in a hurry, and in the protest of the wives of the growers to cooking and caring for these men is said to be found the explanation of the decreasing acreage in Illinois. Many big growers have gone out of the business in recent years because of their wives, though the broom corn crops brought higher revenue an acre than any other crop grown. Tlie Bearing: ISein The Duke of Portland, who holds Hit' position of Master of the Horse a I the Court of Kins Edward, described the bearing roiii as vulgar at a reeer.i mec-ting of the English Society I'm tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animals "*?o my mind," declared his grace "tlie homing rein is vulgar, and it* effect is by no means beautiful. 1 i.? jgnorantiy supposed to be the c?.r red thing, however, among tin ; ? who know in better." The value of the Pennsylvania fpries j. ?i.*i?pn Jeivt-y City, Nf w i'ori : Brooklyn and tho Bionx is $:j,ty98.WJ THE ACcD IN FRANCE. Institutions Wlior? tlio Vpnerr.1?lc !)? pendent* Ar? ChipiI L or. l.'fi- ii??iru insl* ;l C'.MltU"V tltO French truvi'niiiwvit !i:'s li:>on experimenting wiili scariiii's for establishing old-age pulsions, llu* first act bavins been passed June IS, IS50. The plan then tried was not profiiabie, for the Government allowed investors live per cent., which was more than it could itself set, and the rate of interest, bad (o be reduced. Shortly after the war with Germany (in .187,' ) the number *.)f depositors had greatly increased, and in 1882 there was a deficit of $8,400,( 00. To make up this (Ik; Government in 18S4 maJe over to the Cais.se des Iletraites a sum of $."0,874,400 in Government stock, the interest on which ?with a small annual grant?amounting in all to $2,515,000. would, it wan calculated, meet past and future losses. In 1805 the act at present in force was passed, but the question is still one that gives the Minister-of Finance much anxiety, and it is not unlikely that some future changes will be made. At the present, time deposits are received from any person, regardless of age, but the amount may not excced tOO francs ($90.50) in the course of a year. An account may be opened for a child of three years of age, a married woman may deposit money without her husband's consent. At any age between fifty and sixty-five (or earlier in case of permanent disability to work) the depositor may claim ilia annuity, which is calculated according to tlie amount of his deposit and interest and the probabilities of life, but the annuity may not exceed 1200 francs (231.00). An annuity not exceeding 300 francs ($60.00) is not liable to seizure for debt. In rnral districts tbe taxgathcrer is empowered to receive deposits, and in many factories a certain percentage is deducted from tbe wage* and paid to the Caisse in the workman's name. A branch of the Caisse may be founded in any towu or village, with the permission of the prefect of the department, and there are about 2300 of such branches, with nearly 340,000 depositors. There are several large institutions for the- care of the indigent aged. Some of these are free, and at others a certain charge is made for board and lodging. The free ones are: Bicetre (for men only, including 040 lunatics 111(1 1U10L or Upiieput: uiiuunMi/, 2GG4 beds; Salpetriere (for -women), 3891 beds; incurables (men and -women), 2147 beds; Brevannes (incurables;, .100 beds; Hospice Lenoir (over seventy years of age or incurable), 142 beds; Brezin (a private foundation for persons in iron trade only), 331) beds. There is an institution known as the "Menages," at Issy, near Paris, for widowers, widows, or married couples of whom both are over sixty-five years of age and who have been married at least fifteen years. Single persons pay 250 francs ($48.25) a year for board and lodging; married couples 300 francs ($57.90) each, including separate bedrooms. There is accommodation for 14(51 inmates. At the La Rochefoucauld Hospital a charge is also made of 250 francs ($48.25) for old people who are in tolerably good health, and 312 francs ($0.22) for those who have lost the use of a limb. There are many small institutions founded by private persons for old officials,, at some of which the charge is as high as $250 a year. Some religious orders still shelter a few aged persons, oither gratuitously or at a small sum per annum. The aged are generally held in respect, but not more so than in the United States. Tho Flat: Fremont Unfurled. Loekcd up in the vault of one of the banks of Redding, Cal., is a flag that ia second in historic importance to Californians only to the Bear flag that is so jealously guarded by Pacific Coast piononrc Tim flnrr rAflWFfl to i.'l 4llO OUC that General Fremont unfurled from the summit of the Koclcy Mountains in 18-11, when he ami his small party were on their way to California before the Mexican War. The banner is the property of P. M. Iteardon, managing * director of 'the Bully Bill mine at Delamar. It was given to him a few yearo ago by Mrs. Fremont herself. It wa9 made by her own hands on the eve of her husband's path-finding expedition to the West. The flag differ* from the ordinary emblem only in the field, on which is wrought a large American eagle, done in embroidery o2 great delicacy and beauty. About the eagle are clustered the twenty-sis stars that in 1S-11 represented the States in the Union. On the reverse side of the flag is pinned a silk scarf bearing the inscription in golden letters: "Rocky Mountains, 1841." The banner is in a fairly good state of preservation, considering its age.?Seattle Times. Village Sijrns on Railways. 1C WOUia UC il guuu lueu iur city, town, village and liamlet' along the. lino of any railroad to put up ii sign or two somewhere in proximity to the railroad station setting forth the name of the town and wliatevei claJm it has for historic, residential and industrial interest. Travelers often wonder, when a train eoiv?s to v. stop, what the town is that Spreads out before them and wherein lies its excuse for being. True, the railroads are doing a great deal to exploit ant advertise the attractions, scenic am' commercial, of most of the more impor tant places, but it wouldn't be an al together bad idea for the towns* to dc a. little something themselves, if onlj to set up a bulletin of facts t,or the en lightenment <*f the passing traveler.1 Four Track News. He Got the I'lllK. i A druggest in northwest Ealtimori i thinks he has discovered among hi; customers one of the most penuriou: men in the city. The druggist sells 1(X quinine pills for twenty-five cents, ant the man in question was among thosi t who invested. Some time after he lia< I left the store the customer returnct l anil informed the druggist inat men were only ninety-six pills in tbe bottii . he bought. The druggist handed ou the four pills, but he is doubtful i they repaid the customer for the tim l and trouble he took to count the pill and walk several squares to the stor ' and back.?Baltimore Sun. lSu*y Nhelllelii. Sheffield probably employs nor .. i-.an in the steel industry thai any oUer city in Che world. raitaM (|j3r : ortpMgoyjios Dr. Leon S. Waters, expert in foo chemistry, recently says that hog! livers were dried, baked, powdered an mixed with chicory and sold as groun coffee, < Owing to constantly living in canoe a race of dwarfs in British Ne1 i Guinea are losing I he use of the legs, while their c?ests anil arras ;ir abnormally developed. The censorship is a very real thin in Ohina. There, anyone who write an objectionable book is punished wit 100 blows of a heavy bajnboo an , .banished for life. Any one who read it Is also punished. If you started in now to count 1,000 000,000 in figures, and kept it up coi tlnuously, day and night, without stoj ping to eat, sleep or think of anytliin else, counting two every second, yo would be finished in 1921. There is a society in Norway wliiol in order to increase the output of bu ter for the British market, offers a si months' course, with free board an tuition, to young country girls wh wish to learn how to take care of cow and make the best butter. What is supposed to be the large! pair of shoes ever made in this countr was turned out recently in a Nashu shoe factory. The size of these shot may well be imagined when it i known that the weight is .eightce pounds for the pair. CETTINC RID OF HIM: A Clever Base of One Fltzpatrlok ? Southern Fame. Speaking of Alabama always luring up a host of recollections and reminii cences. I heard a story while in Sa ' Antonio a few days ago about Coloni Joe Pitzpatrick, a brother of Governc Benjamin FItzpatrick. All of thn family of Fitzpatricks, true to the Celtic name and nature, were gres loveTS of fun and practical jokes. A one time Colonel Joe FItzpatrick ha an old bacl\elor neighbor who ha fallen into the habit of "happening in just about dinner time. He was n incessant, but very interesting talke and his patient host grew weary of hi Hniiv visits and devised a novel sclieni for putting a period to them. He sent his negro man, Jim, to neighboring mill pond to catch som .eels. About 10 o'clock Jim returne Avith a half dozen fine-, slick, slipper eels. They were turned over to the coo 1 with instructions to fry some, bro some nnd make a stew of the rest, bi to leave the skin on all of them. Tli tiresome neighbor came in at the tisui hour?just before noon. He was r< ceived with a great show of eordialit and asked in to dinner in a. most ho: pitable manner. There, in the centre f the table, were three platters of ee! "with their jackets on"?black an shining. The savory fish odor wa 1 very appetizing, however, and led tli 1 visitor to ask: "What kind of fish is this, Colonel: "Fish!" exclaimed Filzpatrick. "Th! fs not fish, but it is much better tha any fish you ever ale. This is blac 1 runner. Did you never eat any blac runner snake? No? Then you don know what a luxury you have missei , Jim had good luck to-ii?.y; he kille i three as fine snakes as I ever looke at?so fat and plump. I didn't kno1 * ?.-in/ifot< rnifr hlflpk rui i now you ttumu [iiciu ner served, so I had one fried, or , broiled and the other stewed. Whic do you prefer?" i By this time the visitor was aslie white. lie had that peculiarly palli< sickly white about the lips which ind cated extreme nausea* and he repjie ; hurriedly: "I beg you to excusa me, Colonel; am not well to-day." With that Colonel Fitzpatrick's vi . itor hjistily withdrew. On his wa home he dropped into ITollingshead ; blacksmith shop and told them that .Tc i Fitzpatrick had certainly gone eraz; , as he had begun to eat black snakes! ; The tiresome visitor never agai i called at the Fitzpatrick home. I A Clever Girl. i An extraordinary case is reported c a girl, born at Werthsim-on-tho-Maii in 1SS0, who, as the result of illnes i when six years old. lost the use c , every member except her tqngue. B dint of long practice she finaliy wc able to eat, write and oven sew b means of her tongue alone. She took up the end of cotton wit > her lips, and with a dexterous turn c x'-" knot in the Olid. Sll Ill t: tUllf,UU lUtiMV cut out tlolls* clothes, manipulated a 1 easy cutting pair of scissors with he ' lips, while to thread the needle sli 1 stuck it into the table with her lip; 5 and with'tongue and lips, passed th i thread through the eye with perfe< >' ease. In the course of years the tongr ! lost its original shape, becoming thi ! and pointed and of unusual length.1 Pearson's Weekly. I Lost Her Teeth. There was great commotion the othc j day in a train running from Live pool to London. The emergency bral; . was suddenly forced into action b . the rapid jerking of the communlc: tion cord. The conductor found i one compartment a fashionable lad who, while looking out of the windov J had dropped her false teeth. Sli * wanted the conductor to run tli > '.rain back, to enable her to find then J A Usofnl Liver. a A torpid liver is sometimes ver j valuable, if it happens to be the live ?1?1 ~ fhle nrrrn 1 o? a srisrm wmue. iium 3 comes ambergris, a waxy substanci n used largely in perfumery. The: t have been several instances when tL f ambergris from a single whale wa a sold for as much as $50,000. s g Japanese I'inance. Japan has now a national debt c $1,250,000,000?another evidence thr ' she has broken Into tho circle of worl e powers with recognlzod debt payln 3 capacity and an unquestioned right t mortgage the future. ! A STAMPEDE OF CAVALRY. ! Wild Destruction of Uea?t nnd Property Caused by ICmniing Hornet. A stampede among cavalry hr.tv.v is always a troublesome thing, and i^y easily become a terrible om?. The re* t cent stampede of oue thousand horses J neir Southampton, England, wA; 6in-' gularly exciting, and had serious ro, suits. Several soldiers were danger5 ously trampled, and two hussar regl^ ments were rendered unfit to participate in the Essex maneuvres, and had to be sent back to Alflersbot, where, too, a whole traiuload of wounded 31 horses was dispatched for surgical w j treatnieni. The stampede began at 2 in the 9 | morning. A horse, plunging about in the horse lines, was thrown and broke Its leg, and an officer shot it where it " lay. The sudden flash and report so !S terrified the neighboring animals that 1 they broke loose,'pulled np the pegs to which they were tethered, and 's .stampeded mo.ro and more of the other * horses as the sound of their thundering lioofs and excited neigbings rang through the camp. Straight through tlio nf Hie fileeninor trooners theV charged, overthrowing aud trampling ? everything before them, while the ironu shod picket-pegs, swinging free at the end of their loose ropes as they ran, c-ruelly wounded many, and goaded the horde to madness. From Baddesley Common, -where the x camp wus,. they dashed away in droves of fifties and hundreds in all directions. 0 One great squadron galloped wildly s through the streets of Southampton, and brought the sleeping citizens lialfclnd to their doors and windows. 5t Through the ancient Bargate the ^ horses dashed. Many were crushed a against the masonry of the narrow ?s. passage; others met death by crashing lff into trolley poles, against walls,b or . ni into a trench where the road was under repair. But the greater number kept on unhurt until they reached the harbor, and. never halting in their terror, ?f plunged straight into its waters. Many were drowned; many others wore res:s cued by men who put out in boats and i. rounded tliera up as they swam, driving n them ashore as soon as other men had >1 broken down the steep landing stages ir enough to permit them to scramble up. Lt The next day search parties of troopir ers went horse hunting over a radius of it twenty miles. They brought in their Lt mounts from field, farm and forest by d ones and twos and dozens--liinping, (1 weary, sorely battered beasts. Many i". could not be brought in; they were n found dead or hopelessly hurt by the r, roadside. is Some five years ago an American A nfnm'n TovnS I 'JilVilli,y vaiuj; nuai uati JHUVUIV, A?MM~T met with an experience similar to this, a although less disastrous. More than ie eight hundred horses, led by a beauttd ful wild dun raare, broke from their y corral at Fort Sain Houston. Part f were trained mounts, part unbroken k cow-ponies. As they dashed across il the parade ground, a bugle call rang it out from the officers' quarters, and the ie trained chargers slackened their pace i! immediately. Again the bugle sounded; the wild mare and a third of her y followers kept on; the other two-thirds 3- turned squarely at right angles. The >f bugle sounded once more, "Columns Is right!" and they turned still again at d right angles, and galloped back in the S direction whence they had come. At ie another calL the gallop slackened, and fell to a trot A last time it rang out "Hal^!" and the riderless squadron, is panting and trembling yet, but obedient u to the summons they knew, halted and k stood still. k As for the wild horses that kept on 't through the city of San Antonio, they killed no one, for a wonder; but the d property loss was great, and the trail <1 of the stampede was as plain as the path of a cyclone. l 1C Why Children Are "Bart." k Because they are hungry or thirsty. Because they have been allowed to n overeat. j Because they have been given perj' nicious cheap sweets. ^ Because they have not had proper Sleep. j Because their clothing is not comfortable. Because the room in which they sleep y or play is stuffy or ill-aired. i's Because their parents break promises )e to them and buy them off with bribes. Because they are brought up on a negative diet of continual "No, no, no," Q instead of an occasional good, hearty "Yes." Because -their activity is not directed into the right channel. Even ?rom f' babyhood a child must be doing some' j-t.t? ~--'i if s*- ia nnt- rtriaolv flirpr't'fVl Tiling, UUU. !?. 1L 113 .r.ov.j '' its energies will find outlet in "naughtijj ness."?Chicago News. y The Power of Priiyer. is Those who made a study of the uniy verse and realized the number of worlds scattered throughout space, h and that this world was but as a pin )f point in tho infinite creation, could not le take the view that man was the liigii11 est intelligent being in the universe, sr Once they stepped beyond man, and e said he was not the highest, they could s, not stop until they arrived at the Deity. ie They could not stop short at infinity, ;t and when they found that a simple reto quest to a fellow-man could produce n effect, how could they deny the power - of prayer??Sir Oliver Lodge, quoted in London Chronicle. The Dull German Army. ;r There is no gainsaying the fact that, r, the principal qualities which makes e for victory in the modern combat, y more than ever in the past?individj. ual resourcefulness and the capacity n to adapt one's nelf rapidly and without y assistance to the ever-varying condiv tions of a fight ?are not bred in the ^ t-T r\ Ar\r\cs riA f n0?C0C? 1(5 uermaii suiuici. ij.it h^.. l0 them. With a pcrfcct genius for soldiery anil method, he knows nothing about that individual elasticity ami resourcefulness which are the essony tial element of success in the warfare r of the present day.?Pall JIall Gazette. n KnbieR in Ma?8arhusetU. e' Dr. Austin Peters, chief of the Masse achusetts cattle bureau, is quoted as ^ saying that rabies is epidemic .vnong * the dogs of the State to an extent not known since he became connected with the bureau nearl ten years ago. lie has record within the last two months of twenty-nine cases of hydrophobia?twenty-five dogs, one " cow, two calves and a pig. Inese ? cases appea. to be contined to the eastern part of the State.?Springfield Republican. V? I ROCKEFELLER'S RICHES GROW SO FAST THAT HIS INCOME HOW EXCEEDS $10,000 < UN HOUR. lIe Controls 125 Corporations and the Biggest Bank in (be NatiGii. N authoritative denial of the 4 a k published statement that O J\ b John D, Rockefeller now if X holds no securities outside ; of the Standard Oil certificates, is made by the Wall ^Street Journal. That publication ashevts that the .Standard Oil billionaire holds ko- many securities that he requires one of fche largest compartments of' the Stan.dara'l*Safe Deposit Company, and that even this compartment contains only a small percentage of Mr. Rockefeller's vast wealth. John D. Rockefelltr is the richcst man in the world. The value of the (securities ho holds is greater than the {holdings of any other individual in the world. He is represented on the boards of more than 123 corporations, and his income within the last eight years, according to the Wall Street Journal, has exceeded $200,000,000. Half of this vast sum he received in dividends from the Standard Oil Company. The rest came from other corporations in which he is interested. Every time John D. Rockefeller draws $1,000,000 of his income, which is something less than twice a month, it means that the reinvestment of that 3um will swell his income for the next month.- The most moderate estimate gives him an income of $23,000,000 a year, and this is constantly growing. The most extravagant man in the world could not spend such a sum every year. Mr. Rockefeller is frugal, not to say parsimonious, and he spends less each year than many men whose incomes are not very liigh up in the thousands. INCOME OF $10,015 AN HOUR. On this low estimate Mr. Rockefeller receives $480,750 a week. Every day his fortune is increased by $80,125. On the basis of an eight-hour day, which Mr. Rockefeller's employes do not get, by the way, he would receive $10,015 an hour.- But Mr. Rockefeller's money, as well as ljis employes, works overtime. It is never idle. It is constantly adding unto itself. The owner of this vast wealth could not impoverish himself. He is the modern Midas. Mr. Rockefeller lias virtually given up active participation in the business of all the great concerns in which he is interested except Standard Oil. That is his own creature, and he guides it still. His son represents him on many governing boards. But for the ilL health which has pursued John D. Rockefeller, Jr., for two years, he would have assumed still more of the burden of his father's fortune. The elder Rockefeller has reinvested his income as rapidly as he bas received it, and has elected his business associates to represent bim on boards where his interests needed watching. The following list of corporations that are dominated by the Standards Oil Company or have representatives, of ctoTKior-rJ. nil /in fhoir hnfirds rtf di rectors will give an idea^ of the Vast power of this one-man in*the business world. ROCKEFELLER CORPORATIONS. Railroad companies?Baltimore and Ohio, -Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, Missouri Pacific, Central New England, St. Paul, Michigan Central, New York Central, New York, New Haven and Hartford, New York, Ontario and Western, Northern Pacific, Pittsburg and Lake Erie, Chicago and Alton, Chicago and Northwestern, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific. Industrial companies, etc.?American Linseed, Colorado Fuel and Iron, Federal Mining and Smelting, United States Steel Corporation, Standard Oil Company, Amalgamated Copper Company, Anaconda Mining Company, Brooklyn Union Gas, Consolidated Gas Company, East River Gas Company, United Metals Selling Company, Allisfnmrwnv Thrtmnsnn-Starrett vuai iuci. o vviuj/uuj , 1 Company, Western Union Telegraph Company, Buffalo General Electric Company, Buffalo Natural Gas, Interrational Steam Pump Company, Niagara Falls Power Company, Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas Company, New York Glucose Company, U. S. Reaity and Improvement. Banks, trust companies, etc.?Columbia Bank. Hanover National Bank, Lincoln National Bank, Mechanics' National Bank, National City Bank. Mutual Life Insurance Co., United States Trust Co.. Bowery Savings Bank, Central Realty Bond and Trust, Citizens* Central National Bank, Columbia Bank, Farmers' Loan and Trust Co., National Butchers and Drovers'. New York Life Insurance Co., Title Guarantee and Trust, New York Trust Co., Rifrgs National Rank. Washington: Seaboard National Bank. Colonial Trust Co., People's Bank, Buffalo. COUNTRY IN HIS HANDS. The wealth of many of these may be reckoned as Rockefeller wealth. As much as any individual may ho con hr>ic rrnttod States Steel. The Na tiona 1 City Bank, with its $170,000,000 of deposits, is the Rockefeller bank. His holdings give him the direction of railroads. The industrial situation of the entire country Is in his hbnds. The man who owns this vast wealth and wields such terrible power is almost a recluse. He is accessible only to close friends, lie is hairless and dyspeptic. A short time ago he appeared in a blonde wig. It added only grotpsquenrss to his appearance. He holds the "good follow" in abhorrence, lie is austere, religious, abstemiuous, industrious, and? A billionaire. % Th? Last Gibbet. The last gibbet used in England is stored away in Leicester jail. The British Museum authorities have failed in their efforts to obtain possession of the relic, and to a newspaper correspondent who expressed a desire to photograph it, the Secretary of Stale has just replied regretting that he cannot accede to the application $sth the Funny | "a Mncli ? GItI. There was a young woman named Maggie* ij Who fondled a dos that was shaggie; Vg She couldn't stand men, / Especially when - jI The knees oi the trousers were baggie,; Imagination. "Who is the most imaginative poeft J you know?" "Skrauler. He refers to bis verses as poems."?Cleveland Leader. . . a Statu* of the Firm. < "Miss Oldthing and Mr. Gayboy ii? ?jj goilig to become partners for life." "If that's the case s&e'ii be tne se- ,a nior partner and he'll be the silent >$ one."?Dallas News. TUe Reason. "Blank is an extremely clean-mmcte<X , man." ^|B "Yes; he uses so much menta! soft soap!"?Detroit Free Press. Pique. JS Roubrette?"If I told you that a mill- j ionaire once said I was the apple of hi* eye what would you say?" Comedian?"I should say he was tt .M poor- judge of fruit "-^Columbus DUk patclt ( r 1 If Vanity. |;; "Bllggins cannot be called vain. H# :3| dislikes to have his picture taken." ' Vjfflj "He is ?o vain," said Mr. Knok, "that he has given up hope of getting a pic- , ' ture that will do him justice."?Wa?lt? M ington Ster. i 1 A Pleasant Vacation. , v - '? "Do you fttill take a cold bath, in th* # Sj morning?" r ^ "Not much, I don't. There's beea* something tie matter with our water ,|h pipes for two weeks, ha, ha, hat"1?. 7! Cleveland Plain Dealer. , .j ^ 'Che Trouble. v Lowe Comcrdy?"Yes, Starman, thfc tragedian, is hopelessly mad." 'ill Hi Tragerdy?"Overstudy?" JI Lowe Comerdy?"No, his understudy* He made a bigger hit in the part than. Starman."?Philadelphia Press* A Dm!red Change, j "How would you like to hear yotut children crying for bread, sir?" impor* tuned-the beggar. "I'd welcome the chapge," said tlit* ; man, hurrying oh; "they're forever erf- f:; ing for candy Dow!"?Yonkera States* .; inan. [ J: Reaumred. * ' ^ "You haven't married me just til spite somebody else,- have you?" shfr asked, looking anxiously up Into hi? % honest blue eyes. "No, dear," he absent mindedly re- *? plied. "I took you fop your moceyj * alone."?Chicago Record-Herajd. }$* Not Wbftt He Wanted. Customer (who lias been shown eve*JJ j roll of cloth in the shop)?"Can't yo? 48 show me anything else?" Tailor?"Yes, sir; your account."-'* London Telegraph. Soar. Edwin?"No, they never get on, noi* that they are married, and yet thejrj courted under the shade of tie old apple tree." Katharine?"Indeed! Well, it must liave been a crabapple tree.1"?Chicago* News. ' No Right to Kick. Customer (at C-cent lurfch counter)-* "Say, waiter, one of these eggs is from last year's crop." * Waiter?"Well, if you will look at your check you'll find I haven't charged* you anything for that one."?Chicag? Trlbiiiie. , 'Jffl : Letting Him Down. "I suppose," said tire timid snitor. "when you recall what a liandsomet man your first husband was yo? .wouldn't consider me for a minute." "Oh, yes. I would," replied the prettjrj widow, "but I wouldn't consider yo? for a second." ? Philadelphia PublicLedger. ___________ v The Truth. Mamma ? "Ethel, where have yo? been all this time?" Ethel?"Sitting with, a sick friend." 7 Mamma?"Nonsense. I believe you'v? bean in the parlor all the evening wltfc Mr. Softleigh." ^ Etnel?'"well, ma, lies love sick. I Chicago Journal. ' i V The Jolce Was on Htm. "Mother, who is that gay gentlema* across the car who looks so happy?* asked the inquisitive kid. . , "Reginald, dear, that is Mr. D* Wagg, the famous joke writer." "But, mother, I have always reafc that joke writers are very sad and soi* emu looking persons." "So they are, as a rule, my dear," paplied the parent, "but Mr. Do Wagff has just received word that his wif? has presented him with twin babies and he Is trying to play a joke on him* self by Looking happy."?Portland Or** ' gonlan. t 1 i