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Mi" iiiii 1111 i^l I LITTLE WOMEN | I. ARE I MIGHTY ATOMS | i I Ji %?a amr; fev , the tall young woman. ; t?- jl entered the dining room I / I ? ?+>> Im- 'rirtnil o littlp ! I # n 1 Li- UVl A.1AV.14V4, M 4*V??W L ^ woman who was one of a party at a table near the :uoor cai;eu out admiringly: "Oh. Miss Prinder. every time I see yo , come in- ! I to the room I wish I wore tall. I do so envy you your he\jbt!" The tall young woman acknowledged the tribute gracefully, then sighed as she settled into a chair at her own table. "Do you know." she i,aid to her ' friend, "that that little woman over there is one of my greatest grievances." "Why, I thought sh* seemed very , pleasant!" replied the friend. "I suppose you thought she really meant what she said just now, and that she showed a sweet, generous nature in making that remark. Well, she didn't mean it at all. She merely .wanted to call attention again to her own diminutiveness. which she con- , siders much more fetching than my height." "Oh. is that the trouble?" laughed , the friend. "Well,-she is a dainty little thing." ?</-?# ~v- : ?-Krv +r.11 v/i. out: 10, oaiu mc iaw young woman, whose tone now borHfev dered upon asperity, "but she need pV Hot make invidious comparisons at my expense in order to call the fact to people's attention." "This isn't lier tirst offence, then?" "No, indeed: it's a habit of hers, pv . Nature provides all small women tV with this method of attack to enable & them to get the better of their larger sisters. They usually pretend to ad- : Ip 'mire, in order to emphasize by con- ; |T,. trast the more attractive quality they themselves possess. ["That is their indirect method. The direct is more effective and usually consists in calling attention to their shoes. Sometimes it is gloves and belts, but usually it is shoes. Just this morning, when we were all out on the piazza, and there were enough men around to be worth the effort, that same little Mrs. Grimston over Bp;' there, apparently casually regarded ll^v iter feet, and then suddenly laughed | her pretty little laugh. "'What do you think of these new ||i . shoes of mine?" she demanded enH? gagingly. 'Aren't they perfectly ?1^C, huge? But you know I thought that - tor once* I would get shoes that f\ wouldn't scuff out the first time I wore them, so I bought them in the boys' deSg|-j partment* The stout neat little shoes i|L7 she displayed were at most No. 2s and i as i:\rettr No. 5}-. and bad on a short ekirt you may imagine bow pleased I felt. "You know I am five feet eight and 1 (weigh 150, and my waist measures : twenty-five. I bad never oeen sensi- 1 tive about any of' these statistics, or < given them any particular thought tin- ; HI Mrs. Grimston began to emphasize them. Nearly every day now she says something like' this. 'Do you know that I have gained ten pounds since I eame to this hotel? I got on the scales 1 to-daj; and was perfectly amazed to see them go up to 115 for I have never weighed more than 104 before! And, ' my dear, I am ashamed to confess it, but I bought a new belt to-day and hau to ask for size twenty-two!' "Another universal trick of little y.*)men is to assume the helpless, dependent role, which, of course, appeals to all mankind. They have to have someone check their baggage and buy :their tickets for them. They continually find it necessary to be helped down from high places or up steep places or across mud puddles, over which you have stepped without stopping to consider. Thoy never fail to call attention to this by saying, as they smile gratefully up at their protecting male escort. 'How I do wish I were as self-reliant and independent as you are. Miss Prinder! It's dreadful always to be a trouble to one's friends". , This causes the protecting male escort to reflect with gratification what a fine thing it is to aid her with his manly strength. "Invariably, tco, the smaller the woman the greater is her social as surance. ah icy mc 1 nave wcnueringly watched little women, who, with ; the most serene composure and selfeonfidencc, preside over women's , clubs, star in amateur theatricals, or y respond to dinner toasts. As for me, if I am conscious than more than three persons are listening I am overcome with trepidation at the sound of my own voice, so I never even think of at: tempting platform efforts. "Of course no little woman wi'l over admit a lack of timidity. Ob no. in^lce.d!. I have watched them . or form with the r.icst amazing coolness and ; self-possession and actual enjoyment cf the centre of the stage, receiving the plaudits of an audience with sweet composure, and then have heard them cny in private, 'Ch, my dear, I had such a dreadful stage fright that I was simply ilL . I would give anything to i- have your self confidence!' " pL The tail young woman sighed again before she proceeded with her dinner. . "There's a good deal of stuff written nowadays,"; she concluded, "about the tall woman's reign and the- advantages of inches, but there's nothing in it. ^he little women have the better of u? every time."?Chicago News. THE MODERN GENTLEMAN. Ele ia, After All, Not Modern, Cut Ffas Always Existed. In some of our earliest immigration ! re'rords the more favored arrivals ; wore designated as "gentlemen." l-'or j instance, one oar so of colonists com- ; prised a score of "gentlemen" and j several hundred laboring men and ! handicraftsmen. It is true that his- j torijjns have added a descriptive word ; to the selected class and called them "gentlemen adventurers." but the J idea of superiority still endures; and ; in this age of genealogical research a familiar tragedy is the experience of a proud son or a haughty dame going ; back through- the centuries and strik- \ ing as a lineal ancestor a plain haudi- 1 craftsman instead of a duly authenti cated "gentleman." There is no cover : for that kind of disappointment except a eoat of arms?which need not be historical if it he safe. In these days the designation of ; "gentleman" "Is formally used in Great j Britain, but in America there has ; been a gradual disappearance of its ancient employment. The "other day the scion of a family that had won ; wealth and kept it was 0:1 the witness | stand. He gave his occupation as gentleman." It was understood, of . course, hut the attorney for the other side was 110 respecter of terms or of persons. He asked bluntly what the witness meant by "gentleman." There was an awkward quarter of an hour and in the end the witness, by that time red with discomfiture, declared that a gentleman was a person of education who did not have to work for a living. Nothing kills so swiftly as ridicule or absurdity. This accounts for the gradual elimination of "gentleman" as a definition for directories or official certificates. And?shall we call it the .sarcasm of fate??the word that 1 takes the place of "gentleman" in ; these practical but unromantic chronicles is "capitalist." * i But while we smile let ns remember that we have not removed the gentle- \ man from our social category. Rather have we given to the word a better significance. We ean even surmise that there were more real gentlemen ' among the handicraftsmen than among the favored twenty who .alone bore the appellation. Certainly history has shown who became the freemen and who did the great work of liberty and nation building. . j After all, there is really no new , idea of the gentleman. It is as an- j cient as the hills. '"Though all the j honors of thy line bedeck thy hails, j believe me. virtue alone is true nobility." said old Juvenal. "Oh, give ' me inborn worth! If thou really merit the character of blameless integrity. of stanch love, of .iustice, ' both in words and deeds, then I recognize thy right to be esteemed a gentleman."?Philadelphia Post. Pet Bear Joined in the Ceremony. Bruinski. the pet bear of the Columbia's jackies, was not sent to ihe "Zoo" because he tried to eat the captain's dog, says an officer of the ship, but because he turned a solemn cere- ' mony into a farce. Every day after dinner, Bruinski and his particular friends indulged in a nap. Bruinski j stretched himself out on the deck, and his chums spread themselves around him, using him as a pillow. Just after Captain Wilde came to take command of the yard he sent word that he was j going to visit; the ship at a certain hdur. ; The men were mustered as quickly as possible, to receive him with all the honors. Bruinski's friends with the others responded to the bo's'n's cali, , but Bruinski .slumbered on, until after the men were all lined up on deck. Then he roused, and, missing his friends, went to seek them. He mounted to the deck where the men were lined up and, erect vpn his hind feet, 1 passed slowly down the long line until he came to the grcup of his associates. Then he turned, and, backing slowly, j wedged liimseif into tbe line. His sol- j emn visage and pendulous paws were J too much for the commandant as well ! as the other officers. The ceremony 1 was cut short and Bruinski hustled below. The captain of the ship thought the presence of the bear could be dis- j pensed with after that, and he was 1 given permanent shore leave.?PhHn- j delphia Press. Misrht Have Been Twins. "I was trying to impress on one of my classes the other day the greatness of the Southern Confederacy, and at the same time to let it know how won- ! derful a man was George Washington," said J. L. Pembroke, a professor in a primary school in Taducah, Ky., ' at Seelbach's last night. " 'If the Confederacy had succeeded,' I asked, 'what would Washington have been the father of?' " 'Twins,' was the prompt reply cf j one of the beys. "At another time," said Mr. Tern- j broke, "I was trying to impress on my I class the fact that Anthony Wayne j had led the charge up Stony Point." ! "'Who led the charge up Stony ! Point?' I asked. 'Will ccme of the I smaller boys answer?' "No reply came. " 'Can no one tell me?' I repeated, sternly. 'Little boy on that seat next to the aisle, who led the charge up j Stony Point?' " 'I?I dor.'t know,' replied the little j fellow, frightened. 'I?I don't know, i It wasn't me. I?I just corned here j last month from Texas.'Louisvilie i -.A.V--L li. t V* . . A French Bicycle Tax. According to an official statement just published, 1.310.223 bicycles were taxed in France in 1003, being 103,S41 more than in 1002. The Department of the Seine (Paris) had the largest number (244.3SG) and Corsica the smallest (337). The number of motor cycles was j 19.S16. and of automobiles 19.SS6. | IN THE PI ' GROVER CI CREEPERS FOR THE AUTO. ] Ssvice resigned to Prevent S.ipping of the Wheels. An account of the "side-slip" contest which was held a few weeks ago by the Automobile Club de Saine-et-Oise ^ as given in these columns, and we are enabled to present some views of the wfhning device. The "anti-skid ANTI-SUDDEB DETACHBD. / 3 der" whicli won the prize is known asLemperem*. As will be seen from the two illustrations it consists of a iluniber of steel plates, connected at their extrem.ities by two encircling chains. The jDlates are corrugated on their inner surfaces apparently with the object of preventing any "creeping* upon the cover. It ;is claimed for this device that it cannot leave the tire: that it - ^ ANTI-SXIDDER LN* PLACE. cannot licat, and may be removed or affixed in a few minutes. When not in use it can be rolled up into a very small compass, and'therefore takes up very little room on the car. It is said to add considerably to the life of the tires, and to constitute an absolute protection against puncture and sideslip. without reducing the resiliency of the tire. ; 4 : i \ ~ TI?ETA^ CAVAURY. . ITyo of the Fore: Which blocked I the bntish March to Lh2S>a.] JBLIC EYE LEVELAND. TO MINIMIZE FOREST FiRES. New Devi :es For Suppression of Smoke and Spark Nuisance. Among the numerous causes of forest fires probably the most prolific means of all is the shower of sparks which are thrown high in the air from locomotives. Various remedies for this danger have been suggested. Legal pressure has brought into the field numerous spark-arresters, notably in the Adirondacks; but groat damage was I done before these were finally put into anything like general use. Another arrester has recently been suggested, which is now in use on some of the Western railroads, although for a different purpose. This device is simple in construction, inexpensive and adaptable to any style of locomotive. It consists chiefly of a specially constructed hood, which is extended above the top of the stack, at the height of about two feet, and Interferes but little, if at all, with the draught. Its motive consists solely in deflecting the sparks downward, so that they fall harmlessly on the roadbed. Even in case of a high wind the cinders are so effectually deflected downward that ajUA SPARK DEFLECTORj F?R LOCPMOTlVey ^tliey will scatter only a very short ^distance. When not in iise this device is released from its upright position, ^wliere it is held by a spring, and then lit reclines to the side of the stack.? Philadelphia Record. Canadian Bison. The woods of northern British Amer. ica are still infested with a queer species of bison, known as the "woods buffalo." It is much larger than the bison of the plains. I- \ j^sSsSsSsBar *vSnSB[\ ^Jh JOSEPH F. SMITH, President of the Mormon Church. J A Curious Tropical Phenomenon. 1 A curious phenomenon has been noticed in the tropics that can never be i seen at higher altitudes. A mining j shaft at Soniberete, Mex., is almost ex- 1 actly on the tropic of Cancer, and at i 110011 Oil JUIie me sun sumes iv mc i bovtom, lighting up tbe well for a ver- 1 tic.il depth of 1100 feet or more. t i , E. Phillips Oppenheim, a popular r f English novelist, is visiting this coun- < ' to. He is not a stranger here, as he j married a Boston "girl several years r ago. j PLAN TO UT!LfZ=r NOISES. ' ---) _ ? flave Tliern All I'roperly Attuned to Eatt*- * ., Other and Made Agreeable. The proposition of Mrs. Amelia Hoi* brook before the Professional Woman's League that children should be j j taught not to scream oft th?? key. but j that mothers should carry a tuning fork and give Aliem the proper note, or if there are several of them, they should he taught to cry in unison, is not. to acoustic experts, a preposterous propr sition. "We know little of the laws and Af cr.ii.nl inil rrVint - VI OX7V4A1VA. UiiVk ?. ? v ? be done witli discordant and unrelat- j ? ed noises," says Mr;-' Kitchfngs, who makes acoustic apparatus ror instrnction in physics. "Take x. tuning fork | of large size and set it vibrating, and j , one in the same key~across the room j vrill.soon give out the same sotrd. The , disagreeable noises of a city? tlie roar j of wagons, street cars, the 'L' road, ; the cries of peddlers? might, if prop- j , erly attuned to each other, be ren- ! j dered agreeable instead of discordant ! and ajtnuisance. A municipal league ! ^ of harmony, like ibe one for arr, i might in time bring it about. There j is considerable waste energy in noise i that might be utilized. For example, it J would be possible to arrange the com- i bination of a safe lock so as to open j it by singing a certain melody.- The j notes would set corresponding metals ' vibrating: these wouid communiea'te with electric power which, in turn! would move the tumbrils of the lock flir, KrkHc turn h:int. * *' . UliU 111V WHO u ?/u?? I "A set of whistles on board ship' might be. arranged to stand for the. different points of the compass. In a fog the whistle corresponding to the direction in whielh the vessel was sailing would be blown. On board other ships there would be a set of reverberators indicating in# the same way the points of the compass. "By running over i these the one in harmony with the j whistle would be picked out. and at | once inform the second vessel the di- I rection of the first and so a collision would be avoided. A warship might communicate with its consorts and th? enemy be unvote to read the si,g nals."?Chicago Tribune. WORDS OF -WISDOM. - ^ 7> In the good old times charity began j : at home. To avoid "this evil, modern aristocracy builds mansions and palaces, but not' homes. 1 Though we may-have worked hard \ to achieve any great* movement, we 1 may not always be 'fortunate enough * to reap the benefits "arising tbejrefrom. J Active love is attainable only for 1 him who doe: not place hfs happiness c ' ? I*1- lifa on/1 Tvbft olcrt j JU UIS 1UU1I lUUiii ?mr, uuu .. ~ gives free play to feeling of good will towards others. There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave, There are souls that are good and true; Then fcive to the world the best that you have. And the best will come back to you. When it is not one thing, it is another thing that breaks Into human calculations and bankrupts them. Blessed is the man who expecteth nothing but what happens, for he is j not sorely disappointed all the days he j ] liveth in the laud. "Never trouble trouble till trouble ] troubles you" has in it more of phiios- ? ophy than of poetry. Whenever possi- < ble, rest the hands, rest the head, rest 1 the heart. Never take up a burden that < is just as well off whexe it is.?Julia ! Thayer. .,*; *!,v ?.\< The man who has r.o enemies, nor 4 very warm friends, is like a blighted! i tree that bears indifferent fruit. Ac- j 4 tivity begets strife: firmness, rein- d forced by intelligence, brings victory. 4 "Every man's work shall be tried by J fire." and the good only remains. < There are acts in the lives of ail men < which are at variance with their other * acts; and we should net judge a man 4 by a single act any more than we * should judge a country by a particular x t ?">* <*11 4-1%/x a1aiy? an + c? f lUWli. iil'L U2> ill1 lilt: CiCUiCUio U1U? I make tlie man before judging bim. Fixing Atmospheric Nitrogen. Foreign investigators have been studying the methods proposed by a t company located at Niagara Falls for J the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by electrical discharges. As is weil known, nitr'ogen is one of the most j valuable elements utilized in the commercial arts and industries, especially in agriculture, and yet it is one of the most difficult to obtain. From time to time schemes have been proposed for utilizing bacteria, and chemical and electrical methods for fixing the atmospheric nitrogen, but the electrical process recently perfected appears to offer the most economical and practical means. The efficiency of the process has been greatly increased, the cost now being reduced to about 1.5 cents per pound. Success is entirely de- ( pendent on the cost of electric power, and probably current can be obtained as cheaply at Niagara Falls as at any place on the face of the globe. I . Various Features of Life. A new kind of school is about to be I ' started by the authorities of Chariot- j tenburg for the benefit of children I ^ who, though not exactly ill, are so j weakly that they are very liable to i l)e attacked by disease, more especially 8 tuberculosis. The school, which is to accommodate from 120 to 125 children, is to be built n the depth of the Junfernheide Woods, near Berlin, and the children tvill. remain there the whole day, specal arrangements being made to supply :hem with their meals. They are only , o receive from two to three hours' nstruction daily, and are to spend the ( est of the day in taking healthy excise in the forest. The experiment, f found successful, will result in a pernanent school being established.? London Standard. w ' TORTURING- PAIN. i EMST^hle Man'i aufferin*? WouH Here Killed Many m Parson, But Doea's # Cured Him. ? , 'J%. A. C. Sprague, -stock dealer, of Normal, III., writes: "For two whols years L was doinc nothing but buying medicines to ca^ j that any man i J ever suffered as iffBKMI did and lived. JgaKsMSMra' The pain in my a. c. spbaquk. not ride a horse, tnd sometimes was unable even to.ride * ; 1 in a car. My condition was critical ~ when I sent for Doan's Ividney Pilli. [ used three boxes and they cured me^ Now 1 can go anywhere and do as much as anybody. I sleep w??:dftnd feel no discomfort at all." ?/ A TRIAL FREE?Address FosterVlllburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y. For sale oy all dealers. Price, 50 cts. v * | A Cruel Creed. "Our Puritan anC83tors- had a rell- ^ gion," said an-artist, "that was black and crueL ' "In the garret of my farnfMast * * week* I found a lot of religious poetry *. that pfeased our ancestors 200 years age. i "Here from the collection is a sample, stanza of Michael Wiggleworth"s religious poem, 'The Day of Doom,' written in 1CG2," and the artist read: ^ They wring their hands, their catiff hands, v And gnash their teeth in terrour; \ They cry, they roar, in anguish sprej And gnaw their tongues fcr horror; .t * But get away, without delay, * , Christ pities not your cry; u Depart to Hell; there you may yell v And war eternally. AN EXCEPTION. "My son. don't forget that there is always room at the top." T^s; but think ot what lappens when there's a Are."?Chicago Jour-' eal. . ; J* One of the largest and inost noticeable >usinees signs seen anywhere is that of the { National Casket Co. on their mammoth new actory at Nashville, Tenn., made on a wire rame with ahiminum letters six feet high md one hundred feet long, which can be ead from a long distance by day, and > vhen reproduced in <l;ctric lights, can be ead even further at night. This is the concern that is called on lo furnish Caskets for ;he most prominent people everywhere, insluding among its recent orders. Caskets Or Presidents William McKinley, Benjamin ^ garrison and the late lamented Gen. John B. Gordon, and yet whose goods can be bad :hrongh the smallest undertaker in every *>wn. From the fact that they are'called m to furnish Caskets for the-best citizens + everywhere, there must be some merit in ;heir claim that their goods are the best, md the South should be proud to have a )ranch of such a high class establishment vithin her borders. % IN KENTUCKY. Friend?Have you called in Judge Bludso to iielp you? I hear he haa Deen talking. ? Attorney for the Defense?Called ^ ilm in? No, I have called him out j nnn boxaimic .. 1 DiDiDiBLOOD BALM ;; 1 The Great Tested Remedy for the speedy I and permanent cure of Scrofula, Rhcuma i -tism, Catarrh, Ulcers, Ec.'ema, bores, Jtrup- a# ! tioos, Weakness, Nervousness, and all t f BLOOD MO SKIN DISEASES. ' ![ > It is by faxthe ^est building up Tonic and , , l Blood Purifier ever offered to the world. It J , > makes new, rich blood, imparts renewed vi- . t t tality, and possesses almost miraculous ,. l healing properties. 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Selling Price tl.00. 915 Austell Building. f WORLD'S FAIR ST. LOUIS, ^onisTlUe and Nashville Railroad. > f * ' If you are going to the World's Fair yon rant the best route. The L. k N. is the hottest, quiokest and best line. Three rains daily. Through Pullman Sleeping /'ars and Dining Oars. Lew Bate Tioket* old daily. Get rates from your local agent ^ rnd ask for tiokets via the L. k N. All kinds of information furnished on ap> >lication to J. G. HOLLENBSCE, Dist. Pass. Agent, Atlanta, Ga. THE MACHINE'S CANDIDATE. ^ "Nuritch expects to get the nom [nation for Governor." "Indeed? What does he base his hope on? "Well, he's a self-made man, and"?' "But the successful Gubernatorial * nominee is usually machine-made."? Philadelphia Press. f