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ADVICE FOR BACHELORS. Some Valuabje Suggestions About Calling on the Girls. Agree with the girl's father in pol itics and the mother in religion, says tte Chicago Journal. Don't put so much sweet stuff on paper. If you do you will hear it it after years when your wife has s6me especial purpose in inflictitig upon you the severest punishment known to a married man. Go home at a reasonable hour in the evening. Don't wait until a girl has to throw her soul into a yawn that -she can't cover with both hands. A:little thing like that might cause a cdolness at the very beginning of tie game. If, on the occasion of your first cail, the girl upon whom you have set your young affections looks like a iceberg and acts like a cold wave take your leave early and stay away. Woman in her hour of freeze is un certain, coy and hard to please. In cold weather finish saying good might in the house. Don't stretch it all the way to the front gate, and thus lay the foundation for future afthma, bronchitis, neuralgia and cfironic catarrh to help you to worry tb.e girl after she has married. Don't lie about financial conditions. It is very annoying to a bride who kes pictured a life of ease in her an cestral halls to learn too late that you efpect her to ask a baldheaded old parent who has been uniformly kind to her to take you both in out of the c4ld. c64. Had a Oure .gg 19t. Mrs. Cummings was bury at her 'dsk, says Lippincotts, when Ned, an 'ld time" darky who had been a servant in her family ever since "be fa' de wah" days, approached her and idth many apoligies for the interrup Ibon asked "Mis Sally can I git off two weeks from today? I has to go to town, ma'am." "Two weeks from today. Why, I think so, Ned. What are you going to do in town?" inquired Mrs. Cum mings, kindly. "I wans to go to a fun'al. Miss Sally; a fren' of mine's gwine to be buried den," he said. "You don't mean two weeks, then Med," returned Mrs. Cummings. "Yase,'i, Miss Sally, it's two weeks from today; hain't dat de twenty "Yes, two weeks from today will be the twenty-first, but you must be mistaken, they could not keep the body so long except in a vault." Mrs. Cummings was nowthoroughly puzzled by the old darky's request ad wondered what it could all mean. Ehe knew none of Ned's set could af ford to pay-for a vault and how could they be making arrangements for a funeral two weeks hence, with the prospective corpse, still alive? The thought made her,shudder. "rWel, 'in, dat de day," said Ned. "But how can you be so sure? Sup pose your friend is not dead by that time ?" "Oh, yase, 'in, he soly will be de twenty-fust; dat's de day he's gwine to be buried 'nless he git out befo,." "Ned, what do you mean? When did *- ke die?" asked Mrs. Cummings. "Oh. he ain't dead ye , Miss Sally, but he sholy will die, 'cagse he's gwine to be hung dat day snid dey'll bea fun'l all right." Don't Be Envious.. The men or women who envy -those who happen to he''able to dress well and to enjoy the' pleasures of life a little more than those who are com pelled to work continually will be miserable all their days, for, no matter how high they may get, they will find oThers still higher. The envious per son is never satisfied and never can be. Take the successful men of the etty, and you will find that the major ity of them began just where you did. 'Then why are you not in equally good circumstances? If you ran a race with a man and lost it, you would hardly blame your failure on the race course. You started even and ran together, and you lost be cause you couldn't run as fast as he or lacked the power of endurance. So your failure in the race of life is not due to the track, but to your lack of L ability as a ruunler. "A bad penny always come back." And so an unkind word wi!l retura Jail Life in Japan. Pall Mall Gazette. Imagine a park or garden in the Japanese style, with- dwarf trees, sur rounded by a hedge instead of a wall, in this park a group of Japanese houses, like those occupied by peas ants. The pri-ners are all at work proportioned to their physical ability. Some are threshing and grinding rice. others are weaving coarse cloth of a dark red color, of which the prison uniforms are made; the old and infirm are separating leaves of paper. All of them receive a percentage of their earnings. The younger prisoners are in school. The discipline is military in form, but in its spirt reformatory. There are few evasions notwith standing the ease with which they could be effected. One reason for is the effiiciency of the aJpanese po lice, which is said to be the best in the world. The prisoners are divided into three grades, and are differently fed according as they are idle, and refractory, amenable to discipline, or exceptionally well behaved. The only other punishment is solitary confine ment in a sort of dungeo- not exceed ig five days. No prisoner may be dis charged, however short his term of sentence, unless his family or friends assume responsibility for him. The result has been the organization of a large number of prisoners' aid socie ties. Six Saying to Remember. Out of a large number of quotations selected by its readers the Woman's Home Companion for January priats the following as the five most helpful mottoes for the New Year. They are worth remembering: "There is something better than making a living; making a life." "It is never too late to be what you might have been." "Great principles are in small ac tions. If we fail in our present cir cumstances to live nobly, we need not imagine we should have done better on a grander scale. Develop great character in simple duties and in in conspicuous trials." "To be of good cheer in case of disappointment; exercise greater carity toward the erring, and make more allowance for the opinions of people whose views differ from mine; to smile more and frown less." "To be honest; to be kind; to earfo a little, and to spend a little less; to make upon the whole a family hap pier for his presence; to renounce, when that shall be necessary, and not be embittered; to keep a: few friends, and these without capitulation; above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of forti tude and deliccy." Wilkie's Starting Point. A story which shows the great ef fect which an apparently trifiling thing will sometimes have upon a per son's after life is told in connection with Wilkie, the painter. One day, when Sir John Sinclair was dining in company with Mr. Wil kie, the artist was asked if any par ticular circumstances had led him to adopt his profession. "Had your father, mother or any of your relations a turn for painting?" inquired Sir John. "What led you to follow that art?" "The truth is. Sir John," replied Mr. Wilkie. "you made me a painter." "I!"~ exclaimed the baronet. "Why, I never had the pleasure of meeting you before." "No," responded the painter, with a smile, "but when you were drawing up the statistical account of Scotland my father, who was a clergyman in Fife, had a good deal of correspondence with you concerning his parish, and in the course of it you sent him a color ed drawing of a soldier in the uniform of your Highland Fencible regiment. "I was so delighted with this picture that I was constantly drawing and trying to color copies of it, and it was in this way, to the best of my belief that my transformation inti a painter was gradutily effected." Far-Fetched Reasoning. "Why do you say that Gambley is no good simply because h.e wears a suit with large checks?" "Wat1 do you like the checks?" "Do you know anybody who does?". "No." "Well. don't you call a man 'a. THE TREE OF IMAGES. Legend of a Peculiar Plant That Grows in Tibet. There is a legend about a tree of Tibet, called the "tree of ro,ooo im ages," which reads like this: Far away in the dreary land of Am bo, in Tibet is a green valley in which, in a Tartar tent, was born a wonder ful boy named Tsong Kaba. From his birth he had a long white beard and flowing hair and could speak perfectly his native tongue. His manners were majestic, and his words were full of wisdom. When he was three years old he resolved to cut I off his hair and live a solitary life. So h-i mother shaved his head and threw 1 his long, flowing locks upon the ground outside teir tent door. From his hair sprang the wonderful tree. Tsong Kaba lived many years, did countless good deeds and at last died. But the tree which. had grown up from his hair lived, and they called it "the tree of io,ooo images." This was long before the christian era, but it is the testimony of the French mission aries that the tree lives yet. The leav es are always green. The wood is of a reddish tint and has an aroma as of cinnamon. The bark of the tree is marked with well known symbols in the Tibetan language. Alphabetic characters also appear in green on every leaf, some darker, some lighter than the leaf it self. The branches of the tree are de scribed as being spread out like plum es of feathers crowning a trung only eight -feet high, but of great girth. Two French missionaries who mw the tree were fully convinced that the marks upon it were of natural growth. Oil Locomotive to Halve Steam Cost A Denver (Col.) special to the New York Herald says: Local railroad men are awaiting with interest the advent of the new internal combus tion locomotive which the Southern Pacific company expects to install soon. It is said that this type of engine will be especially adapted to moun tain climbing, and will, therefore; be valuable in the Rocky mountain country. In theory the cost of operation will be less than half that of steam and a speed of ioo to i2o miles an hotir can be developeed. In fact the build ers say there is no limit to the speed, providing the track is in- suitable conditions. Enough oil fuel can be carried to run one of these locomo tives from New York to San Fran cisco, without stopping. The limit of speed and power in steam locomotives has apparently been reac.hed. Within the last five years locomotives have gained 100, ooo pounds in weight and can take on no more. It takes a pound in weight to carry a pound in weight, and every addi tion to the capacity mean greater weight in the tender and consequent ly more power to draw the tender. Driving wheels to produce high speed can be made just so large. The larger they are the more weight is concen trated in one place. This concentra tion cannot become too great because it would be an ubearable strain on the rails and bridges. To distribute the weight long driving rods are used. But the rods must be short enough to enable the engine to make curves without leaving the track. In the internal combustion locomo tives the power is so concentrated that almost all of it can be used. It can develop four times as much en ergy as is used in the ordinary en gne. The locomotive being constructed for the Southern Pacific is the only one of its kind. In action it is what is known~ as the four-stroke cycle. Prom a compressed air reservoir the power is obtained for starting. This gives the piston its first stroke when it takes the air alone at atmos pheric pressure and temperature. The second stroke compresses this air to a high pressure and to a tem perature of about 1.ooo degrees Fah renheit. The third stroke is what is known as the working stroke. At this point oil is sprayed into the air at x,oo degrees Fahrenheit. The amount of oi! sprayed is regulated by governors. During the first part of this stroke combustion of the oil is carried on at a sonstant pressure for a period reg-. .a by t+e amout of all serayed in. The second part of the stroke is practically an expansion without transference of heat. The fourth stroke exhausts the gases. The only fuel used is crude oil that cost 3 to 5 cents a gallon. Feeding Old Hens, Farmer's Home Journal. As long as the old hens will lay it is not wise to market them, but they must be closely watched in late summer and fall, especially after they go into winter quarters, so that if :hey stop laying they can be prepar !d for market as quickly as possible. [t has been found that old hens will ay into the winter for a considerable period if some pains are taken to feed :hem during late summer while they ire on the range. One of the best oods for this period is peas, using :he field peas and feeding them raw Lfter being cracked or cooking them ind feeding as a mash with bran. This feed incites egg production Lnd keeps the hens in good condition vithout making them over fat; at the ;ame time they are in such good con lition that should they stop laying :hey can be fattened for market at ;mall expense. The plan is worth :rying for one of the losses of the )oultry business comes from spend ng too much in fattening the hens or market after they have stopped aying. Puck. She-Jack played an awfuly heart less trick on Flossie. He-How's that? She--Why, they were engaged, you know, and last night, at the b;11 masque, Jack nade up so that Flos sie didn't know him. He proposed ind was accepted againi Mrs. Barganday-Will those socks wear well? Saleslady-They've been on this counter nearly two days and there is not a hole in them yet. COME SOC Whenever you start out on a * This plan will save you many 0time. 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