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GO0D INV THE N A TION Divine Blessings Showered Upon the American PeopOe. OUR COUNTRY AND OTHERS. Dr. Tam'ge D-zw' c=mparisons Between Them. Our Duty to Extend These Blessings to the World. Dr. Talmage preaches a discourse of Christian patriotism and shows the re souroes of our country and predicts the time when all the world will have the same blessings. His two texts are Revelation xxi, 11, 'n the south three gates;' Psalm exvii, le hath not dealt so with any nation Among the greatest needs of our country is more gratitude to God for the unparaled rrosperity bestowed upon us. One of my texts clls us to inter national comparison. WXhat nation on all the planet has of late had such en largement of comm.ercial opportunity as is now opening before this Dation? Cuba and Porto R co and the Philip pine Islands brought into close conts: with us, and through steamship subsidy and Nicaragua catal, which will sur, l be afforded by congress. atd the reruh lies of South America will be brought into most active trade with the United States. "On the south three gates." While our next door neighbors, the southern republics and neighboring colonies, imported from Eurmcan eoun tries 3,000 mile, away $675 000 000 worth of goods ia. s year, only $126, 000,000 worth -vent from the Uwmd Slates-$126,000.000 out of $675,000, 000, only one-fifth of the trade ours. European nations taking the four ingers and leaving us the -poor thumb Now all this is to be changed. There is nothing but a comparatively ferry be tween the islands which have recently come under our protection, ani only a ferry between us and Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, Vent zuc la. Sdva dor, Nicaragua, Colombia, Costa Rics, Equador, B:azil, while there are raging seas and long voyage between them and Europe. By the mandate of the Uaitea States all that will be changed through new facilities of transportation. The Hispano American congress just closed at Madrid will fail in its attempt to divert all the trade of South America from us to Europe. What encouraging symptoms that our trade wit.<Cuba and Porto Rico has been quadrupled! But that is only a prophecy. ' On the south three gates"-yea, a hundred gates! In anticipation of what is sure to come, I nail on the front door of this nation an advertisemont: Wanted.-One hundred thousand men to build railroads through South America and the islands of the sea under our protection. Wanted.-A thousand telegraph oper ators. Wanted.-One hundred million dol lars' worth of dry goods from the great aities of the United States. Wanted.-All the clocks you can make at New H aven and all the brains you can spare from Bos.ton and all the bells you can mold at Troy and all the McCormic reapers you can fashion at Chicago and all the hams you can turn out at Cincinnati -and all the rr~ilroad iron you can send from Pittsburg and all the statesmen that you can spare from Washing'oo. Wanted.-Riight away, wanted by new and swifter steamers, wanted by railtrain, lawyers to plead our causes. Wanted.-Doctors to cure or" - Wanted.-Mlinisters to evan.gelize out population. Wanted.-Professors to establish our universites. "On the south three gates," yea, a thousand gates. South America and all the islands of the sea approx mate are rightifully our commercial domain, and the oongre's of the United States will see to it that we get what belongs to us. And then tides of travel will be some what diverted from Euarope to our is lands at the south and to the land of the Aztecs. Much of the $125 000, 000 yearly ex;>ended by American, in Europe will be expended in southern exploration, in looking at some of the ruins of the 47 cities which 8:ephen. found only a little way apart and in walking through the great doorways and over the miracles of mosaic and along by the monumental glories of another civilisation, ana ancient America wili with cold lips of stone kiss the warm lips of modern An- rica, and. to han seen the Andes ana P. p.ecsepetl will be deemed as 1 aport ant as to have seen the Aipine at~d Baikan ratges, and there will be fewer peo*ple spoiled by foreign travel, and in our mioet less of the poor and nauseat'ng imn:tiorn of the French shrug and tfle i'mentiona hesitancy of a brainless foreign s."ell The fant is that many are made vain t3 European travel, and, thougth sensible when they embarked, they retu:n with a collar and cravat and a shoe and a coat and a pronunciation and a con tempt for American instuutions and a bend of the elbow that mike one be lieve in evolution bachward from man to ape. Of the many thousands who now cross the sea annually thousands will, on pleasure and turiness, visi. mouthern lands, and so toirists atu merchants and scieniists and espitaliass will all help in this nati i'nl devel.>p mont. "On the s~uth three gates." And what other nauien has sush open ings for commercial enlargement as ours.", Again, in this international compar Ison notice the happy condition of our sountry as compared with most coon tries: Russia under the shadow of the dreadful illness of har great and good emperor, wno now, more than any man inall the world represents- "peace on earth, good will to met." and whose em press, near the most solemn hour that over comes to a woman's soul, is anxiou for him to whem she has given her hand and heart, not for political reasons, but thoughold fashioned love such aa bless os our humbler dwellings; India under the a.gonies of a famine which, thaough sombwhat lifted, has filled hundrecs of thousands of graves and thrown mill ions into orphanage: Austris only waiting for her genial Francis Jeseph to die so as to let Hungary rise in re bellion and make the palace of Vienna quake with insurrectiont: Spain in Carlist revolu tion and pauperized as seldom as any nation has been pauperized: Italy un der the horrora of he'r kia:'s assasnina tion: China shudders with a fear of disemberment, her capital in po-sesio~n of foreign rations A':er a review of the condition in other lands can you knd a more .ippropriate urtersnee i~ re gard to our cunity than the ex taa tion of the t-xt, "H hath not dealt so with any nat~on' Compare thc autumal re-port of iFar. vests in Ameri. a this year and the har vests abroad. Last summr~er I crossed saw no such harvests as are spoken of in this statement. Hear it, all you men and women who want everybody to have enough to eat and wear. I have to tell you that the corn crop of our country this year is one of the largest crops on record-2,105,000,000 bushels! The crop. though smaller than at some times, will on that account bring bigger priccs, and so cotton planters of the south are prosperous. The wheatfields have pro vided bread enough and to spare. The potato crop, one of the five largest crops on record- 211,000,00 bushels! Twen ty-two miillon two hundred thousand swine slain, And yet so many hogs left. Arain. in this international compar ;onthere is not a land whose wages and salaries are so large for the great Ias cf people. In India 4 cents a day aid find y urself in good wages; in Ire land, in s-%me parts, 8 cents a day for wages: in England, $1 a day, good wag es, vast populations not getting as much as that; in other lands, 50 cents a day and 25 cents a day, clear on down to sturvt ion and squalor! Look at the great popuia-ions coming out of the factories of other lands and accompany them to their homes and see what pri vations the hardworking c!asses on the other side of the sea suffer. The labor ing classes in America are 10 per cent better cif than those in any other coun try under the sun, 20 per cent 40 per eent, 50 per cent. The toilers of band and foot have better homes and better furnished. "How much wages do you act?" is a qnestion I have asked in Cal cutta, in St. Petersburg, in B-rlin, in Stockholm, in London, in Paris, in Auckland, New Zealand, in Sydney, in Aus:ralia, in Samoa, in the Sandwich slands, so I am not talking an abstrac tion. The stonemasona and carpenters and plumbers and mechanics and artis ans of all kinds in America have finer residences than the majority of profes onal men in Europe. You enter the loborer's hou-e on our side of the sea and you fnid upholstiry and pictures and instruments of music. His chil dr-n are educated at the best schools His life is insured, so that in case of sudden demise his family shall not be homeless. Let all American workmen know that while their wages are not as high as they would like to have them. America is the paralise of indas ry. Again, there is no land on earth where the political condition is so sat isfactory as ours. Every two years in the state and every four years in the na tion we clean houie. After a vehem ent expression of the people at the bal lot be x in the autumnal election they all se im satisfied, and if they are not satisfie- at any rate they smile. An English-uan asked me in an English rail train this qnestion: "How do you people stacd it in America with a rev olution every four years? Would it not be better, like us, to have a queen for a lifetime and everything settled?" But England changes government just as certainly as we do. At some adverse vote in parliment out goes one party and in comes another. Administrations change there, but not as advantageous ly as with us, for there they may change almost any day, while with us a party in power continues in power at least four years. It is said that in our country we have more dishonesty in the use of public funds than in other lands. The differ enc is that in our country almost every official has a chance to steal, while in -other lands a few people absorb so much that the others have no chance at ap propriation. The reason they do not steal is because they cannot get their ands on it. The governments of Eu rope are so expensive- that after the royal families are paid there is not much left to misappropriate. Tne emper i-r of Russia has a nice little salary of $8 210,000. The emneror of Austria ta' a yearly salary of $4,000,000 Vic t-ria. the queen, has a salary of $2 200, 000. The royal pla e of St. James pal ace is worth $10,000,000. There is a host of attendants, all on salarieq. some of them $5,000 a year, some $6 000 a yar. Comptroller of the honsqhold, mistress of the robes, captain of gold .tick, lieutenant of silver suick. clerk of the powder closet, pages of the bank stairs, master of the horse, ehie' eq2erry, equerries in ordinary equerry, neditary grand falconer, vice chiam oerlain, clerk of the kitchen, gruoms in waiting, grooms of the court chain bers, strgeant at arms, barge master and waterman, eight bedchamnber wom en, eight ladies of the bedoaiamber anl so on andi 80 on. All this is only a type of the fabulous expense of foreign gov erments. All this is paid out of the -wat and blood of the people. Are te people satisfied? Bowever much te Germans like William, and Austria lkes Francis Josneph, and Eigland akes her glorious queen, these stupen dous govercinntal e xpenses are built on a groan of dis-atisfaction as wide as Euope. if it were lefL to the peop e : End1and or Austria or Germany or Risia whether these expensilve estab tahments bhould be kept up d- yvu -1ot what the vote would be? Now, i it inoi ttetter tuat we be overtax. ad the surplus be distributed all ov'er tne land than, to have it buitt up and pied up inarde of palaceb? Couninuing~ this international corn parion, I have to say to you that we ave a better ciimste than is to be ound in any other nation. We do not suffkr from anything like the scotch mists or the Eaglish fogs or the Rtus iau ice blasts or the ty phus of southe-rn Europe or the Asiatic cholera Epi emes in America are exceptional, very exceptional.- Plenty of wood and coal :o make a roaring fire midwinter, easy access to sea beachi or mountn op when the ardors of summer come d wn, Michigzan wheat for the bread Long Island crai for the meal, Carolina rice for tne q-aeen of pudding-t, Louis ana sugar to sweeten our beverages, Georgia cotton to keep us warm. In ur land all products and all climates. Are your nerves weak? Go north. Is your throat delicate? Go south. Do ou feel crowded and want more room? Go west. I declare is: This is the -iest country in the world to live in. Hw do I know it? I have 650,000 ueff reasons for saying it. Six hun dred and fifty thousand people in one year came from the other side of the Atlantic to live in America, and they came because it is the very best coun try to live in. While making this international comparison let us look forward to the :iue which will surely come when all nations will have as great advantages as our own. As surely as-the Bible is true the whole earth is to be gardenised and set free. Even the climates will change and the heats be cooled and the frigidity warmed. Many years ago in this city I gazed upon a scene which for calamity and grandeur one seldom sees equaled. I mean the burning of the 8mithsonian in~tiuion. It was the pride of our1 outry. In it art had gathered rarest ~pecimens fr'm all land and countries. h was one of those bandings which t:z3 you with enchantment as you in ter, and all the rest of your life holds oi with a charm. I happened to see ~h first glow of thbe fires which on that cold day looked out from the windows1 of the cost ly pile. I saw the angry elc righted workmen and the assault of ire engines only seemed to madden the -age of the monsters that rose up to do ;our all that came witbin reach of their chain. Up along the walls and thromgh he doors were pushed hands that snatched down all they couli reach and burled it into the abyss of flame be neath. The windows of the tower would light up for a minute with a ild glare and then darken, as though Betds with streaming locks of fire bad Dome to gaze on in laughing mockbrv at all human attempts and then sunk gain into their native darkness. \t h rsckle and roar and crash the fijcr; tumbled. The roofs began here and there to blossom in wreaths and vines of flame. Up and down the pillars ran serpents of fire. Oat from the windows great arms and fingers of flame were ex tended, a% though destroyed spirts were begging for deliverance The tower put on a coronetof flames ana staggered and fell, sparks flying, the firemen es caping, the terror accumulating B 'oks, maps, rare currespondence, autographs of kings, costly diair.,ms burned to cinder or scattered for many a rood upon the wild wind, to be picked up by the excited multitude. Ot, it seemed like some great funeral pile in which the wealth and glory of our land bad leaped to burn with it consuming treas ures. The heavens were blackened with whirlwinds of smoke, through which shot the long red shafts of calamity. Destruction waved its fiery banner from the remaining towers, and in the thunder of fabing beams and in the roar.ng surge of billowing fire I heard the spirits of ruin and desolation and woe clapping their hands and shout ing, "Ahal ahal ' I turned and looked upon the white dome of yonder capitol, which rose r.rouzh the frosty air as inp.)sing as though all the white marble of the earth had come to re-urrection and stood before us, reminding one of 'tne great white throne of heaven. There it stood, unmoved by the terrors which that day had been kindled before it No tremor in its majestic columns, no frown on its manifieent sculpture,no fluah of excitement in its veins of marble. Column and capital and dome, built to endure until the world itself shatters in coavulsions of the last earsi q'iake Oh, what a contrast between the smor ing ruin on the one hand and that gorge ous dream of architecture ontheother! Well, the day speeds on when the grandest achievemcnt of man will be nonsumed and the world will blaze Dawn will go galleries of art and ashes of consumed greatness and glory. Not one tower left not one city unct.n saumed, not one scene of grandeur to re lieve the desolation. Forests dii mated, seas licked up. continents sunk hemispheres annihilated. Oh, the roar and thundering crash of that last con flagration! But from that ruin of a blazing earth we shall look up to see the temple of liberty and justice rising through the ages, white and pure and grand, unscarred and unshaken Found, on the eternal rock and swelling into domes of infinitude and glory, in which the halleluiahs of heaven have their reverberation. No flame of human hate shall blacken its walls. No thunder of infernal wrath shall rock it foundations. By the upheld torches of burning worlds we shall read it on column and arhitrave and throne of eternal domin ion, "Hleaven and earth shall pass away, but truth and liberty and justice shall never nas wa7 To Improve the Staple. The Boston Journal cf Commerce is authority for the statement that the United States der ariment of .agri cultre is now engaged in a series ,f experi-ents with a view to producir g a specie of hybrid cotton that will have a etaple of a finer quality and greater length. The exceriments are b' g carried on at Unarieston, S C. Tne oojct of the tests is to produce a cot ton that will have a s'ap.e as long and firm as Sea Ibland and oc e that ein be growd in the corroI b-'lt. L'es; are a being made with all varieties of Eg p t an cotton. Tae d- partiment is ve y recent in regard to tne success of the eperiments, but it is rumored, wi~h how much truth we cannot say, that the tots are meecing with I'.ir suecess and snould thsey be a, snacessful as is hoped will be the the case, our southe n planters will be able to produce a co - ton that wili have a staple tule equar of any now being grown in E.:ypt or in any foreign count y. Fioci what we have be--n able to learo, say s cfbe Jiur nal of Commerce, we a-certain that the nw variery of hy brid e atton wiil not only have a longer and finer grads sta ple than our uptaud co:.ton. but iha:. it will also possess several othier advanta ges over our pre.-eat siapie. It is r ported that these p aits passe-s mu:h wore vigor than co the pree-nt otnes. Inat the bolts have much m're cot ton in tb. m, and tast these bois are mueni ca to pick. Alt of these advan a e5. if correct, should make the co)tt'*n be superior of tie pre~ent Esyptian variees Tnie nece~sity anuh .ia, ted to he-em xperioucats is the aii'gd fact tr our tapisad cojtton is ef sucn sho t staple th.&t t canno) b-- succsf l-, used in m..kiug te finest liaes of otton g.>ods The tendency of corron ma accuring is towar a finer .zrades. nid it is stated by the Journal of Commerce that "we have not got a single truly American~ co t in that can be used to spin good yarus above 80 s Sea Island cotton can be a-.ed for yarns as fine as 400's; and .Egyptian can easily be spun to 18S ; but when we come to the best grade of what is classed as true American cotton it is h ird : or the pinner to go over 75 s to 80 s." The Augusta Chronicle says the desire f r fzer good4 nas made the demand for a otton of fi .er fiore, and mrurtactur ers it is claimed, lock to S-.a Ibland otton or to Egyptian cotton to get the staple that is needed. -It is in the ef custural department is no w experiment ig. It is very certain that the vast buik of cotton in the world is cur &merican cotton, and it is used not ynly in this country, but in all cmun :ries where cotton manufacturing is known. Caa it be possible that it is sot suited for t be finer ades of cloth? Distance and Dancing A physician witu a mind for statis rics nas been estimating the distance overed by a woman in dancing through :he ordinary programme, sa s an x cange. An average waltz the doctor estiaas, takes one ove r thrce quarters >a nmile. A square dance makes y. u over haif a mite, tue same distance i, overed by the polka, whi~e a raspiu g s! op wili oblige you to traverse j et ibout a mile. Say there are tw~ I e alzes wh ch is a fair average-t bese ione make nine miles. Three galops. added to this nmake the distance twebee nil< s, while from three to five dance, it a hlf miie each, briog up tre tota? .o rom thirteen to fifteen mit s, this, Ao, without reckoning the promenade indthe et:as. "As a m ans of ex ree," says the phyrie a, 'it wilI hus tne seen that dancing stands at che id of the list. In g alt, for instance, :he major part of the e(xercisc crsls n waiog around the tinks, follo'ving tp the ball, arnd yet even in goif not so cuch ground is covered as in an eve REMARKABLE RECORDS. Quick Time in Getting Married and Divorced. In the cream colored city of Mil waukee, where the best families speak the language in which Heine once ;fgl and S:openhaucr sighed. Louis llir-eh, one fiae July day, fixed a new criterion on the perilous side of mairi meny by wedding his mother-in-law, Mri. Albertina Abrahams. It was said that he had learned to love her cooking before he proposed and she accepted him. Many of the wise and learned have married their cooks, but Hirsch, waiving disparity in age, outdid the old time philosophers and soived the mother-in law problem by one bold stroke of genius. The bridegroom was 30 aid the bride 60. In Miinneapolis, the other day, Ed ward Ratn shattered conventional ideas by marrying his stepdaughter, who is 18, this proceeding having transposed his for mer wife, from whom he was di vorced, into his mother-in-law. The latter is said to have been as indifferent to the change as if she had never mat her son in-law. From Chicago, lopg noted for its sur prising statistics in marriage and di vorce, comes the record for the swiftest courtship of the year, though not the sptediest divorce. One cold, inhospi table February day Charles K)rpes stepped into a Chicago rakoe in search of a drink to warm the innerman. Now it happened that the owner of this par ticular bar was a buxom widow. Korpes bought a drink-a long one-and while slowly si'ping it like a true connois seui sized of the comfortable surround ings After fifteen minutes of wooing he proposed and was accepted. The sc quel was told in court one month lattr, when the erstw hue buxum widow was ceekiug relief from her nusband s extrav.,gance and his habit of drawing a revoiver on her to enforce his de mands. More marriage licenses were issued in Chicago in June, 1900, than in any preYius month of Cook county's his tory, 2,15U couples obtaiuing permits to wed. Unicago a Gretna Green is St. Joseph, Mich., across the lake. All Sunday matrimonial records were brok en there on August 12, when 78 couples were joined together for better or for worse-mostly worse probably. The blue ribbon for sundering the greatest number of tangled hymeneal ties in a single day was proudly taken by St. Louis. Yet people sometimes will sneer at St. Louis as a slow town. Poor little overworked Cupid was bat tered and hammered and twisted out of all recognition, on Nov. 2, when four circuit court judges took off their coats figuratively speaking, and after hear iog the total of 100 aiyorce cases grant ed 50 decrees. San Francisco contributes the record for the speediest divorce, and a neat and workmanlike j.b it seems to have been. Edwin W. Evans, a wlde-awake commecial traveler, with the timely aid of a swift California court got his decree of legal separation from an in compatible partner of the maiden name of 0 Brien in precisely 20 minutes. At 10 o'clock on the morning of July 21 he filed his complaint; 10) minutes later a law'yer submitted th~e wife's answer; at 10 20 the jauge signed the decree and the liberated husband bolted from tile c urt room to catch a train. Bat Mr. Evans. it is proper to add, brought to his aid in preparing the case the knowledge of a professional. He was no amateur. He had every thing cut and dried. He had been in the divorce mill before and had carefully written out a copy of an old decree, which the j aago obiigirigly signed so that he snouldn't me-s his train. Sama North and South. The Savaunah New thinks - it rather remiarkatee, tnat the northern papers ~ae so litle space to the lyuening wniahea ccurred at R ackport, 1ii., lasL duuday. 1i. naa someI ratner dramatic eatures. If a lssnwg like tOat nad ocurred in the soudi, particutarly if the~ victim ha-i been a negro, there wouizd nave Deen eusationai neadlines in LIIe tame papers, anid the aocouut of the affer wousi nave beenl given in a caiuama or more. And tocwre was an or..OC iyncnius at tee sams piac3 onl AJ.tday, Two iynonins in oLne town within st o asois soiaetauu tnat rarely ocuro il tile squen~. hue vicuims in Line Roeapoxt aftiair were negroes. It is douttul i1 tue alieged gur.lty parties hau oeen white nmen there wouid nave Deen a ?yecaitag Aua ere wa ~e s muju race reehus, b.oa'jly mare, sinown in enese. Itcaport innrisa as inre ever 13 in a bunling ul a negro cruutuali Lunte nosa. le may Ce taat te reasou the noi Linern papers said so indle at.,ut tae dloe&port attair is Laa tuey are Degirnn6 to uinastanu LaaSL a negro ano cevttS a heinouo off noe inl Lue iiortfl'itauds ia just as maUn anger of berns Ie noeie as a negro wao comuulits a sniuiar uf,..nae in Like rodtik. As imr as I., n.niug is csoucerued the yieo -'. 01 Lt ltnrLL have no reason to trunh incy s.aud 00 nisner grotind than Lene peo).e vi Lt. titn. if the pereutage 01 tfne negro papuladio was as iarge in e north as in tue rotaf there woui ve jurst as many lyncninss teere as nere. * We otiieVe Winat the News says 1s true, In iact, we believe ihat ten negro on tme WnoIe is treated with more cosderationa unaer all circumistanes in the South thlan cc is in tne .North. The Simple Crutli The Besoa ider~au nas reached the conclusion that tnlere are inferior races and mne~t tucy amust ve or will cc treat eas inlerior, aan actually admits teat ii Nev Eungiand had to at~ai directly wita the negro pro uiem, that nas cau~ed so muon uiuu1e in tne acutn, New dagiaud woa dountiess hannie it very much as it has been harnled in the duen. Speahing of the Iudian and ne gro pro Wems it says: "I we nan 100., 00liatuwi~a or 7Uo.000 or 800O,u00 ne r.e:pn New Eugiand w e shuusa hold re peetung tio mon the bame views tat are held Dy our Western and South ern feiio w c-ouumry uen."~ Our Nea Eng land friends are good because they dO not ikave to Oe Cad, Dut ii. is something to Cave an admission Iromn one of their iepesentatuve newspapers zcnat at bot toni tney are just as' wicked as their fel low-coutr.,men of the South, whom tey have spent so much time in hoid ig up to puibac repronation. T'he aove from the News and Courier hits the nail en the head. The Wages of Sin. After kxadiog a double life for months, A. C .1etzger. a wealhby New Ak manufacmnrar, anot and killed the leading lady of the D..vidson Comedy company at Hopewell, Ps., and then nooting himaecf witb the same pistol, fell dead anros her body. A poor woman carrying a basket of apple. met three boys. Tne first bought haf her apples and gave back ten, the second botuzht one third of what re mained and give back two, the third boght half of what he had 1-ft and gave her back Oo which made her welve. How m~a had she at fiest? Remaina of Tudor Palace in Lo=dom. Enfield post office, which is shortly to be removed to a new site, at pres ent occupies a building which pos sesses some remarkable traditions. It was Queen Elizabeth's palace. A por tion of the center and south wing of the Tudor structure still remains, and within there are richly ornamented ceilings, oak paneled wails and a mas sive chimney piece, standing on 'ionic and Corinthian columns; and here are seen the letters "E. R.," with the arms of England and France quar tered, the rose and portcullis, the lion and the gryphon. and the motto, "Sola salus servire Deo, aunt alterae fraudes." At the back is a gigantic cedar, which is regarded as the first of these trees ever grown in England, as unquestionably it Is the largest. The story runs that it was reared from a seed brought over from Mount Libanus.-London Telegraph. England Venerates the Oak. It is only too true to say that our state forests have been neglected and mismanaged in the near past.. Alice Holt and the New forest are instances in point. Then there is Windsor forest, which has also suffered in the same way. In many places oaks were being grown where there was no prospect of their ever becoming good trees. The soil was unsuited to these trees, though capable of growing excellent Scotch pines. There are plenty of goods in the south of England, the prop erty of private individuals, where the ground is oak-sick, yet the owners make no attempt to permit any other sort of tree. A tree which is now very common throughout Surrey and other .counties is the locust tree, or acacia. London Express. Klondike's Equable Climate. An illusion in the minds of the ill informed is that the climate of the Klondike is such as to make life un endurable. The fact is that the win ter from November to March is no harder than in the northern part of New York, Minnesota or Wisconsin, and better than the blizzard-stricken states further west, on account of the small snowfall. While it is true that the ther mometer will go as low as 40 degrees below zero for four or five days dur ing the winter, the weather is uniform ly comfortable enough to allow out door mining operations during the en tire winter season. The spring, sum mer and fall are distinct, with an ideal climate.-N. Y. Herald. Memory of a Benefactor Toasted. Toasting Sir Francis Drake is an interesting ceremony. The town of Plymouth consumes 8,000,000 gallons of water per day, and its first reg ular supply was given to the town during Sir Francis Drake's mayoral ty. Annually the town indulges in the quaint ceremony of toasting his memory, which is done In this way: The pious memory of Sir Francis is drunk in water at the head weir. But then the company drinks in wine, to the sentiment: "May the descend ants of him who brought us water never want for wine."-Pearson's Weekly. His Glorious Record. "Let me see, colonel." she said in her sweetest manner, "where was It you won your spurs?" "A t Cape May," he replied. "Cape May?" she echoed. "Why, there never has been a battle at Cape May:" "No," he admitted. "but there were three grass widows in the house where I stayed, there, last summer, and I got away from the whole crowd." Thlen, with her nose pointed in the direction that all good people hope some day to go, she left him alone in the corner.-Chica~go Times-Herald. What Baby Saw in the Woods. A four-year-Old girl wandered away from home near the Bonanza mine re ently and was lost in the mountains 43 bhours. When recovered she was quite unharmed. She told of having seen a big black dog with two puppies, which she tried to catch, "but they ran away a fter their "mamma." The "dog" was a bear, and the "puppies" were her cubs.-Portland Oregonian. Religion In BusIness. A firm of cocoa manufacturers in Birmingham, England, had declined to bid for a contract of 30 tons of cocoa for the British troops in South Africa. This action was taken from religious motives, the members of the firm being Friends, who do not coun tenance war.-N{. Y. Sun. ReverseL. hMr. Simpkins-Give me a kiss, Bob by, and run up and tell your sistr Jen ny I have brought her a box of choeo late. Bobby-Oh! When Dr. Dashing calls he always gives the candy to me and the kiss to Jenny.-N. Y. World. Proof Against Perturbation. "Who were the Stoics, pa?" "Oh, the Stoics were a queer ancient people who didn't brag of their all ments and wouldn't stand and listen to any brag about other folks' ailment.." -Indianapolis JournaL Contingens. Dobson-If you marry my daughter how long will it be before you call on me for aid? Hobson-That depends on how long it is before she strikes me for cash. Denver News. An Anxious Inquirr. He-Why does your father keep that bulldog? She-Oh, for company, I suppose. He (anxiously)-His or-or yours? -Answers. Like a Railway SwItch. Conscience Is like a railway switeh. If it is carefully tended it will keep you on the right track.-Chicago Daily News. Touch of Blurnt Cork. Endman - What am de' dif'rence 'tween er board bill an'er billboard? 3fiddleman-Dunno. W~hat am de dif'rence tween er board bill an' er bill bord ? "Yo' all can't jump er billboard." Chicago Daily News. Horrors!I Sister (after reading of the ship wreck)-Oh, my! They aay it was the most awful disaster of recent years Only one man survived to tell the story. Isn't that terrible! He-Frightful! What a horrible bore that man will be.-Philadelphia Press. Locating the Responsibility. Have you any definite outline for con versation, Clementine?" "Yes; whier people call on me I exert myself; when I call on them I don't."-Indianapolis Journal. Snre to Be Discontented. The man who prefers other work instead of the work allotted to him is apt to dislike any kind of work.-Ch~i American Students in ingland. The number of American historical research students who have visited the archives of this country during the present year ;s stated to be exception ally large. nrd the subjects upon which ".ey have been engaged are, as usual, senarkab'e for their originality and Interest. Indeed, American historical professors who cultivate the "seminar" vstem with such admirable resultsap pear to have a positive genius for select ing subjects which lend themselves to further e;ucidntion from unedited MSS. At the present moment the subject most in favor Is the development of exceptional jurisdictions, such as the palatinate of Durham and the star chamber, together with the great eco nomical problems connected with the inclosure of commons, the survival of bondage, the history of great trading companies and the emancipation of colonial trade. On all these and other Important questions much good, work has appeared or may be expected Such exemplary labors furnish a still further indication of the activify and success of the new school of American history, which bids fair to rival the schools of France and Germany in its scientific methods. while retaining Anglo-Saxon individruality of its own. -Athenaeum. Industry of Ants. In the matter of industry, ants can compare, and not unfavorably, with bees of the proverbial sort. Indeed, there seems no end to their ability, for in South America some of these cu rious little creatures were lately dis covered to have burrowed a tunnel no less than three miles long. In India there is a red species so small that a dozen of them have to band together in order to carry a grain of wheat. In spite of this, however, they will take grains a thousand yards to their nests. Another interesting instance of an ant's industry was the result of a re cent experiment. An ant was placed in a saucer with some larvae. So anx ious was the little creature to carry them to the nest that it worked with out pause from six o'clock in the morn ing until ten at night, and as the re sult no fewer than 180 of the larvae were so conveyed.-London Express. Meaning of Canard. The word canard does not only mean the water fowl beloved by gourmets; it also signifies a little lump of sugar dipped in brandy and often taken by the fair sex with their after dinner cof fee. Journalistically It implies a bit of pseudo news, which owes more to the imagination than to the sense of verac ity of the author. The accounts of the distortion of the original sense of the word into it. journalistio meanings are many. One thing is, however, cer tain. Three etnturies and three-quar ters ago the news criers of Flanders shouted In the streets: "The canard of the battle of Pavia," where Francois I. at the head of his Frenchmen were defeated by the Connetable de Bour bon.-N. Y. Times. Sunshine and Sugar. The experiments of the French grape growers in Algeria have shown that too much sunshine is unfavorable for the making of good wine. In the more temperate climate of France grapes possess a proper proportion of sugar to acid for winemaking, but the hot Algerian sunshine in.uces so ac tive an assimilation by the vines that the quantity of acid is reduced and that of sugar Is Increased. In conse quence, the winemakers of Algeria are driven to many devices for improving the flavor and lasting quality of their wines.-London 3iail. Mastodons in Death Valley. The bones of three mastodons have been discovered In Death valley, Cal ifornia, and their discoverer, a miner, has taken out a claim for the purpose of excavating them. Another indica tion of the popular appreciameon of the money value of the remains of prehis toric animals is the fact that a mining claim has been filed in southern Cal fornia to recover the excavation of a fossil whale of the Pliocene epoch. Youth's Companion. WThere to Put His Arm. "She's teaching me to dance," he explained. "And how far have you pro gressed ?" "I have learned where to put my arm." "How long has she been giving you lessons?" "Oh a little over six weeks."-Chi cago Post. His One Request. Agitated Father-You have rescued my daughter, sir, from an awful death by drowning. Ask me anything! Brave Young Man-Do you really mean that? "I do, I do." "Then don't oompel me to marry her."-Detroit Tree Press. To Kill by Suffocation. The Japanese government Is con sidering the advisability of inflicting capital punishment by means of suf focation-placing the subject in an air-tight chamber and then exhaust ing the air from the chamber by means of a pump.-N. Y. Sun. Wanted-A Man. Softleigh (after the rejection)-If I -aw-were only a rich man you wouldn't have wefused me. Miss Cutting-You might have left out the adjective without affecting the truthfulness of your remark. Chicago Daily News. A Wise Preicription. Doctor-How is your appetite? Patient-Fine! I can eat anything. "Well, don't for awhile and you will get better."-Puck. Value of Amusement. Amusement is to the mind what sun shine is to the flowers.-Chicago Daily News. Merciful on Both Sides. Dolly-Oh, dear! My summer can dy bill is $45! Polly-Goodnesal What will your father say? "Well, I'm going to tell it to him five dollars at a time."--Puck. Natural Disbelief. McJiggr-You hear people talking about the "fool-killer." I don't believe there is such a person. Thingumbob - Naturally, for, of course, you have never met him.-Phil adelphia Press. Couldn't Spare Any. First Tramp-Dat dog is hungry. He needs a bone. Second Tramp-Well, he can't have none of mine!I-Puck. Opportunities. Fools occasionally find opportun ities, but wise men make them.-Chi cago Daily News. Cities That Grow Most itapidly. The census bulletins confirm the truth of the statement that the grow ing American cities are those where manufacturing can be carried on eco ..omly.Chlag Chroniela. Pennsylvania........ .. ... 312 Delaware............. ....... 48 M1a yland........ 280 Distric to i>Bmbia ........ .... 24 Virginia......... ...... ...... 305 West Viri.ns.. 87 North Csrjlina ...... ... 285 Kentucky............. .. 398 Tennessee..................... 408 Alabama...................... 317 Mississippi...... ......... 358 Lnuisiana ............... 358 Texas.... .............1,021 Arkansas...................... 305 Montana... ............ 90 W yoming...................... 22 Colorado....... .......... 252 New Mexico.................... 58 Arizina....................... 43 Utah.. 57 Nevada................ ....... 39 Idaho...... .................. 27 Washington.. .............. 102 Oregon........................ 79 California ....... ..... 422 Broken Laws H. L. Scaife has given to the Union Progre-s thirteen laws, which the Chester Lantern reproduces, and to these we add another which has been over looked. The laws are as follows: "The whistle or bell of a locomo tive shall begin to sound at least 500 yards before reaching a public crossing and continue to ring until the same is passed. The sale of any adulterated, diseased, currupted, orunwhole some meat, vegetables, fruit, milk, or any other kind of food or drink is unlawful. Any person selling a minor, under the age of 18 years, ciga rettes, cigarette paper, or any substitute therefor is subject to a fine not exceeding one hun dred dollars It is unlawful for any person to carry any torch, chunk or coal of fire upon the lands of another without permission; it is also un lawful to set fire to any grass, fields, brush or other combus tible matter, whereby any woods, fields or, fences of an other are burned. Any one who cruelly drives or works, cruelly abandons, overloads overdrives, overworks tortures, torments, needlessly, mutilates, cruelly kills, ill treats, or deprives any animal of neces sary sustenance and shelter, sub jects himself to a fine not ex ceeding one hundred dollars. It is unlawful to buy or sell any cotton seed from sundown to sunrise. The law requires all persons or vehicles to travel on the right center of the road. It is unlawful to walk or drive outside of the road on the cul tivated lands of another. Selling merchandise or resort ing to sports or engaging in games on the Sabbath is pro hibited. In a limited mercantile part nership, in addition to the sign containing the name and style of the firm, the law requires that there shall be posted in its place of business the given and surname of each member of the firm. The penalty is fifty dollars for each month default is made. Any person who shall add to his name on a plate or signboard the word "company" or "Co," when there are no other persons in the business besides himself is subject to the same penalty. It is unlawful to drive across a bridge more than twelve feet long faster than in a walk. .I o teacher shall be employed by a board of trustees of .any school district who is related to a member of the board by con sanguinity or affinity within the second degree, without a writ ten approval of the County Board of Education, nor unless a majority of the parents . or guardians of the children at tending the school request in writing the employment of such a teacher. It is unlawful for any school truste to make any contract, or be pecuniarily interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract with any school district of which he is a trustee. Any person who shall be guilty of the violation of this provision shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500 or shall be imprisoned not less than three months nor more than twelve monthe, or both at the discre tion of the court, and he shall forfeit the amount of said claim or all his interest in the same." FORTY-THREE years .ago George Knight was convicted at Rockland, Mfe., of the murder of his wife and sentenced to prison for life. The evidence agaist him was wholly circum stantial. He always maintained his innocence. The other day he died. On his death bed he was urged to clear his conscience by confessing. With his minutes numbered and his breath fleet ing, he declared, "I never mur dered my wife, never." They were his words. Was the terri ble punishment of a lifetime in prison inflicted upon an inno cent man? MR. Harvie Jordan, president of the Interstate Cotton .Grow ers' Protective association, charges that the government agricultural department, mn stead of being operated ii the interests of farmers, is being used as a basis for the rankest kind of speculation, to their ser icus injury. He further avers that the sources from which the government secures its informa tion is no longer reliable, and - declares that the fact that this sesnscrop is short is too well known for attempts at decep tion on the part of speculators. THE Chicago Times-Herald having proclaimed the end of the century last year stands by it, and is no w trying to convine somebody else that we are about closing the first year of the 20th century. Wonder if it would have claimed that the first cen tury had only 99 years in it, and that the year 100 was the first year of the second century in stead of the lat earnof theafrst? A Curious Russian Trade. The Rostov police have just succeed ed In arresting a woman who has been wanted for the past two years for having driven a lucrative trade in artificial mutilations. After her hus band's death the widow continued the business, and by some want of caution aroused the attention of the police, but she has long managed to evade them, while continuing to perform her operations. By injecting under the skin at the joints some preparation of petroleum. she produces a very nat ural-looking contraction of the joint operated on. Her clients were those among the common people who de sired, at as small an expense as pos sible, to escape being taken for sol diers, and amcng less deserving and richer people, a certain number of clever swindlers, who defrauded ac cident insurance companies by affect ing the same kind of disfigurements. The last attempt, which led to the capture, was on a young man who had arranged to fall out of a train, and se account for his injuries to the insur ance company, besides the possibil ity of getting a sum of money from the railway company.-London Stand ard. Debts Inherited in India. It Is the universal custom all over India for a man whose monthly income is perhaps three dollars to spend as much as $300 on the marriage of hi: daughter. This sum he borrows fron the local money lender, a veritable blood-sucker, whose minimum rate of interest is 24 per cent., which is only accorded to thoroughly well-to-do peo ple. The ordinary peasant, small shop keeper or domestic servant pays one anna per rupee per mensem in the way of interest, and as 16 annas go to the rupee it will be seen that this works out to 75 per cent. per annum. As a rule, it is more than the borrower can do to pay off this interest, and so the debt goes on growing and is handed down from father to son, a terrible load which is never got rid of.-N. Y. Times. Reflections of a Bachelor. Love isn't quite as comfortable as laziness, but it's a lot cheaper. A woman's heaven would be a dead failure without it had a little fuzzy dog in it and a big garret. A woman gets most of her happiness out of remembering how miserable she was some particular time before. A woman is considered bright by the other women by the number of kinds of a fool she can make of a man in five minutes. Every time a woman sits up half the night acting sweet to a lot of men she wakes up the next morning and acts ugly to the one she is married to.-N. Y. Press. A Discovery. "It's very remarkable," said Mr. Meektown, pensively. "Very remark able, indeed. I really think the matter is worth bringing to the attention of science." "What are you talking about?" "Our six-year-old son, Telemachus. Henrietta and I were discussing him, and after ten minutes' conversation it was conclusively demonstrated that he inherits all his good qualities from his mother and all his bad ones from me.' -Washing on Star. Loyalty. "Loyalty," remarked Senator Sor ghum, "is one of my great character istics." "But you have been known to change your mind once or twice." "That is true. But my loyalty is tremendous while it lasts. When attach myself to a man's political ia terests I stick to him :ike a brothei until he gets defeated.-Washingtoi Star. Narrow Escape. Yunker-Did I ever tell you about that narrow escape I nd from a hotel fire while I was in New York? Eldster-Naw. "It was the narrowest escape I evei went through. The check from Uncle John arrived while the landlord wai talking of sending for a policeman." Indianapolis Press. She Hit It. "Ma'am," said the tramp, hoping to strike a sympathetic chord in the woman's breast, "I was bred in old Kentucky." "Bread!" snapped~ the busy house-. wife. "And loafed, I presume, in a good many other states."-Phlade3 phia Bulletin. BEl Theory. A novel exhibition of the cause of thundershowers was once given a so journer in a little Nova Scotia town by one of the inhabitante. "Do you know what makes thunder?" the Nova Seo tian inquired of his guest. "I've got a theory of my own, and I call it a pretty good one." "I should like to hear it," was the diplomatic reply. "Well," said the host, slowly, "my idea is this: You know we hear about the air circu lating and circulating all the time. My notion is that the pure air from above comes down here in summer and gets foul with all the smoke and dirt and grease; and then the heat drives it up again into the clouds; and when it gets up there it's pressed on all round by the clouds coming together, and it explodes! That's my theory; of course," he added, with becoming mod-. esty, "other people may have other." Youth's Companion. Bad Enough A table showing the number of murders by States has recent ly been published in which it is attempted to show that South Carolina heads the list, but there is some reason for this condition of J.fair that has not been explained in the editorial article that furnished the stat istics. We take pleasure -in publishing the table on which their results are based. The Chicago Times-Herald printed a few days ago, a table show ing the "average "number of murders per year" for each State during the last decade, as fol lows: South Carolina.. ....... . .. . 21 Georgia.......... ..... ...... 81 Florida................... 157 0 O1................... ... 332 Indiana........ ........... 228 Illinois.................... 315 Michigan.................. 2i5 Wisconin.... ..... ..... .. 154 M Iinnesota.... ...... .... ...-- 5 Iowa................... .. 202 Misuri............ ........362 North Dakota....... .........9 Suth Dakota....... .. .......4 N'-braska.... ................ 6 Knsas .................... 235 Maine.................. ..... 18 New Hampshire...............9 trmont.. .. ..... .. .... .......6 Massachusetts........ .........6 Rode Island............... 2 Uonnecticuzt.................7 New York................. 512 w.,we s........ . 120