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~A66 A E,%,rABLLSIIED'1865. NEBRYIF . US' ) A V,_JA \UAIRY 8, 1901.4_TIEAWE,$.0 P ___ I WISE MRS. HARMSWORTH. ENGLI811EIron WiFE 'TLL4 H1OW TO ISE IIAPPY IN MARRIAoE. study Your i,nsbanld'As WayP-111, Ilim WiWen Ile Is In Need of I1elp, and Leave Hilm Alono whoin lIa iuiness Ambition Controls imn. (Philadelphia Record.) New York, December 30.-Alfred C. Harmsworth, editor and owner of the London Daily Mail and various other newspapers and magazines, has made fame and millions at the age of 35. His chief factor in gaining that success has been his wife, whom he married eleven years ago, when she was a slip of a girl. She is now a tall, typical English beauty and an ox ponent of "how-to-be.happy-though. married" theory. "Everyone ought to marry," said Mrs. Harmsworth today. "I don't believe single men ever attain the best that is in them, because their natures are incomplete without the softening, tempering 1nfluence Of women. "In the first place," continued Mrs. Harmswortb, "it is necessary to know yourself. We must recognize our short suits as well as our long ones. Then all that remains is to find some one who will fill up the suits. "That sounds simple. It is sim ple. The trouble 'is girls 'do not think of these things. They don't realize the possibilities of marriage. They don't realize how large a factor they are to be, for good or bad, not only in a man's home life and social life, but in his business life, too, and in the development of his private character. How many girls, contem plating marriage, sit down and weigh the qualities of their future husband as against their own to ascertain whether or not it is possible for two people, such as they are, to live to gether perhaps fifty years wiiout friction ? MOST GURLS DO NOT THINK. "Half the girls don't know until they are married whether a nian dis likes reading or has a decided lit erary bent; whether he prefers to dine at night or midday; whether he's a believer or an atheist; whether he's horsey or a prude; whether he wants to live in town or the country, or 'whether he detests the prattle of children or looks forward to the joys of parenthood. All they know is he has or has not a great deal of aoney, or-a title, or good social po ,sition, or a certain fascinating man ner that leads them to believe they are 'in love.' So they are married. The consequence of such marriages you see about you everywhere. They are the majority, and they are what convmnce the cynic, who looks to ef fects and overlooks causes, that mar riage is a failure. "Of course, if a girl's tempera ment is such that it requires money and material things to satisfy it, then it is well that she should marry mo ney. For my part, I require some thing more, and I knew 1 had found it in the vigorous mentality, the wholdome simplicity and the determ ined ambition of Mr. Harmsworth. "When we were married we began at the beginning.. I shall always be grateful for that. From the time I was old enough to read or to realize I hoped it might be my lot to be a part of my husband's success. I be lieve that that wish has been fulfilled. At leaist he says so. THEIR TASTES sIMILAR. "In the beginning we bad not much except hopes and ambition. Bat they were th.. same hopes and ambitions, and we worked toward them together. We were happily mated. Our tastes were similar and we had taken the pains to discover the aalnity in our dispositions before marriage. "Mr. Hlarmsworth was inclined to be moody -most men are-and I was versatile. At times he was all busi ness, his head and heart filled.with schemes and projects, and- I was all business, too. -"I listened to the schemes and projects as they were unftolded to me; I saw them from a woman's point of vietv and criticised them accordingly, whiob Mr. Harmsworth could not do, and so it was a help. At other times be was wearied of business. A word of it would have irritated him. Then I was wearied of business, too. le wanted music-wo went to the opera or to green fields. We drove into the country. He longed to anglo for trout; we followed the stream. Or he wanted to got gut of England any way, so we travelled a bit, with a sure relapse of the business fever, and home we came, and glad of it. "Then there wore times-they camto o all of them-when he wanted the society. of men-just men -and by a strange coincidence I re alized I craved the society of girls just girls. So we have kept the hosts of our friends who were friends before marriage, and so we are both ready to aver that marriage is not a failure, unless the carelessness of one's choice may make it so. "Every woman ought to figure for herself matrimony and get married, for if she doesn't some worthy man may miss being great through the want of her infloence. HER INFLUENCE FOR CONTROL. "Now I don't mean by that that a man's genius is his wife. Concern ing the vital, fundamental qualities which make his success, he must pos s5s them and he succeeds entirely on his own metits. Some times a genius lacks courage; sometimes he lacks faith in himself; sometimues he is so diffident that the world never heara of him, and sometimes he is so bold and frank he would show his whole hand before the tine is ripe. "While a man may posse.is all the elements of greatness in hinself he needs a wife, for it is in the unture of things that nothing in itself should be complete or perfect. A great mill will be perfectly constructed, but it needs the pressure of water before it turns out .ork. An ocean liner is a wonderful piece of construction. We know that it is as nearly perfect as a vessel can be, that all the parts are tliere, accurately weighed, measured and fitted, but it does not begin to break records until the fuel is piled on. And when it gets to shallow water, when there's a rocky basin or a harbor lined with mines, it's per fectly helpless without the little bit of a pilot boat that guides it safely over rocks and tactfully avoids the explosives. ENCOURAGEMENT HER FORTE. "A woman may be any one of these necessary adjuncts in a man's life. For my own part, I have en deavored to be an unceasing encour agement to my husband and any sort of a complimentary adjunct he need ed at the time. I could never have edlited his papers. I could not even have written for them. I have none of the qualifications for a genius. I am not clever." "WVhat about your home ?" "It is in Surrey, one of the oldest places in England Its gardens and conservatories are beautiful. I am a great gardener, and have studied horticulture as an art." "And housekeeping ?" "Not as an art, but a real profes sion. Next to the study of human nature-a particular mtale human na ture, I moan-housekeeping is the best paying profession a wife can fellow." Boaru the - l|18 Kind Youi lave Always Beu; Bignature The practical joke is a remnant or barbarism. iH ant.ed back to its origin i 'is a survival of the methods of torture in vogue with savages the world over. The idea behind every pratical joke is the-infliction of pain, shame, fear or ridicule upon the vie tim. It is niot often that t ragic of feeLs follow a joke, repeating the news chronicles of the daily. press, but when one reflects tbat the real object of every alleged 'joke" of the practical kind is simply to inflict physical or mental pain upon some one it seems aseif it must be time, by the clockt of the ages, for the pract Lice to end -at least among civilized and half-civilized people -Woman's Hoe Companion. RISE %NI, F 1.1. 1OF lit, ItICycl.rC Tho Wheel vio Linger n actor in Politic* IFrom the Philadelphia Lodger.] It cannot IaVO OSCtl)Od thO notiC<! of the least observant that the bicy clo is rapidly disappearing from the stroot and] park drives. It was at the zonith of its popularity about three yoars ago, when every class or citizen rodo the weie(l, from tho millionaire to the street cleaner. Th1o army of cyclors became so great that it wielded a political powor and dictated municipal and State legisla tion. Laws were stretched to t heir utmost limit in the offort io gi-o t ho man, woman or child on the wheel the right of way in crowded streets, regardless of timid pedcstrians or thoir own safety. Now a person won ders what has become of the fresh young girls whose forms must be do veloped, the sturdy matrons whose superfluous adiposo must be reduced, the young men and maidens whose longing for country air and scenery enlivened the park drives and dotted the turnpikes leading into the city, all spinning through the streets on their wheols from early dawn to late bedtime. That they havo gono from thi streets there is no question. The stamp of business is apparent on the small minority of wheelmen now seen on the highways. The district messeng r, the butcher's boy, the gas man, the woman with a bundle, the clerk hurrying to the ollice and the machinist to his work, these form the great majority of those who rido the wheel to-day; the others men tioned are conspicuous by their ab) sence. "It is just because it became a fad," said Secretary Collins, of the Pomnsylvania League of American Wheelmon, in reply to the Ledger man's question.as to the cause of the decline in bicycling. "It's rapid rise to popularity was what brought on its downfall. When a good wheel cost all the way from $75 to $150 the general public could not afford to own one. The-introduction of the low wheel, a dozen or more yearn ago, and its adaptation for lady riders added a now class of devotees to the pleasures of bicycling. The wealthy took it up as a now and healthful amusement. Clubs of gen tlemen were formed, regular meets were held, long trips were made, friendships were established and the subject became one of absorbing in tereat. The addition of the feminine element gave a new zest to the sport and a powerful impetus to what had become an undoubted fad. "The demand for bicycles ran ahead of the supply and the mann facture of wheels which had up to that time been carried on in a small way, was taken up all over ihe coun try by every establishmen' having machinery suited to the purp'ose. Sewing machine - and ty pewriting machine makers, turned out wheels in great numbers. The prices drop pad gradually, until every stratum of society was able to supply itself with what had hitherto been a luxury. ''As the 'hoi polloi' swelled the ranks ot the wheelmen and filled the streets the more select classes com' menced to drop out long before the epidemic had reached its height. As a society fad bicycling had its day, but the ground swell continued to rise, ar.d probably reuached its height b)etween three and four years ago. The great bicycle meet in this city in: 1897, the most successful ever held, will never be equalled in any city. The last national meet, at Milwaukee, was hardly a shadow of it. There were not as many people there as were often seen at an ordi nary club race meet. The faashion for race meets has gone out. There were not half a dozen last stimmer. 'The fashion' for bicycling was set at Newport several years ago, when on r,ome special occasion many of the residents of that aristocratic rm .mer re.<tort rode in procession. The event marked its adoption by society people all over the country. The decline in the use of the wheel in this city was noted by the park corn mission, which keeps a record of ovry clnas of vehicle ente.ing te park, long befole t was inlarked b) the public generally. The) rapid do eline during tlho phst yeaij has bou phonomenal. No pedestrian to-dty sandti in four of whellmon-in fact thoro aro not enough of thom on the streots to call t liem to miind. "Tho clubs, too, have disappemred. In the hoyday of tho whoolmn there were moro than forty prosproruw clubs in this city; now t! ro arv only half i doz,n 11and only three of them i aro prosporouts. I nloticod th1e d-line of applications for member thir, in "!! -fb a ter tho nitioinal me%t ii ihit i in 1897, ot tho oc casion of the *eyeln e:<h1bil. Tb": is thu titio whon appl'caitons wero usually tihe greatest. Now thero are none. Thoso who principally usv the wheol nlow do so for motives of economy or convonienco in business There is, however, a pretty large class who, like Imlyself, will still ri(i for ploasuro and health, but there is no likolihood of iny incroaso in thiat class. Bicycling has found its lON I in the uses to which it is now put." CY .A. M!i T CO XL. X. a Boars tho Ihe Kind You Ilain Always Bought Sigiature of IlMing thWe Nm In I r i".Il y. (J. I. Mowbray, in the World's Work for January.) To work a small farm to a profit within easy reach of railrold com munication is simply a matter of some capital, a decided preference for the work, averago intelligence, persistent and patient industry and good, health. There are thousands of small farm within a radiis of one hundred miles from Now York whose owners hve abandoned other pursuits an( taken to tillin the land, and who could not, e induced to - back to their former occupa TI o farms for thn most d ught by part pay balance remaining on t Li and mortgage. Twenty per cent. of these farms have boon re deemed in five years, and as a rule the debt was paid by the thrift, sielf sacrifice and co operativo determina tion of the man and his wife. One typical example comes to mind. It is of a coach painter. He had worked ten years at his trade for $12 a week, and saved $100 a year. In the elev enth year there was a strike of his guild and he had to face the pros pect of being out of work for some time, by no choice of his own. He went down into Jersey, bought ten acres of land at $100 an acre, paying $5~00 cash and giving his bond for the remainder. With the balance he bought a horse and cow, a second hand wagon, and settled himself to earn a new living. lHe and his wife, with a five-year-old child, lived for two years in a shanty. Bunt this man had the tenacity of a bulldog, the self- reliance of a drummer, and the patience of a trained nurse. WVhen he had been on his place eight years I paid him a visit. His wife met me at the depot, three miles from her home, with a two-seated rig and a lively team. I found the couple living in a now cottage that had been built by day labor and which tihe owner had painted himself. It was a very tasteful structure anid was al ready prettily shaded by the trees that ho had set out. In reply to my queustions, he said that he calcula-ed to make about $1,800 .a year clear. HIe had bought the adjoining twenty acres on easy termIs and had put most of it into good growing shape. CASTOR IA. For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought ,Bears the - 8ignature of "What's .t'is?" exclaimed the Boer.general, i a tone of annoyance. "More prisoners" "Dear me! I wish they w.mild show dome consideration for the fact that we are tr.ving to conduct a war in stead of .running a boardIing bou-e." ..Wnnhinginn Star. 1HOW Till' J1UE)(4 WAS CONVINUM). Tha t a iatma Main t Might es1y b sent to this lintis o At4ylt,v .Nw iork Trihine. ) NI. Lt. Chotwynd of Ph1iladolphia, yesterday, in commonting on at recent cas where a sano person ava released by the courts from an asylum where ho had been illegally confim'd, (o1 tho folloing story: "About, 21 years ago i lawyer of proinmno got into a controversy on this very point with an' equally well.knowi judgo. The lawyer maintained thmt it wis the easiest thing in the world to get a sm; persoa encd in an asylum. The Judge, while admit. ting that it might b) possible, held that tlh' diieulties would incroeaso in proportion to the position in society of the intended victim. 'A personl's stan11ding ill the community preksolnts n' obstacle, said the lawyer. , hy ,' tirning suddenly to his companion, 'I could oven ,ot you locked up in 111 insane asylum if I wanted to.' 'Nonsense,' answered the judge, and thon ho laughed aloud at the absurd it.y of the idea, and the discussion for the mloent wis dropped. "It occurred on a railroad train which stopped a short timo later at a station, tho lawyer suggested to the JIug that t hey stretch their logs on the platform. They had not got 10 foot from tho train when the lawyer suddenly hur;ed himself upon the judge, and at the sameo time cried aloud for holp. A. 1 half dozon by standers rushed to the lawyer's aid, and before the judge realized what had happened lie was hold by a dozen hands. 'All right; thank you,' said tho lawyer to the mon who had como to his aid. 'Tio his hands behind his back, for ho's dangerous.' This was too much for the judge. 'I am Judge So. and-1So,' he began with dignity, "and this outragd'-Juit then lie felt, a rope on his wrist, and his solf-possession deserted him, and he fairly raved at the indignitie3 that wore being heaped upon him. He resorted to language not usually hoard from the bench or employed by the judiciary. But the more lie said the less effect .it seemed to have on his captors. "Finally he paused for breath, and the lawyQr in a quiet voice said 'Are you satisflied now that I was right in the argument? 'Satisfied!' began the Judge hysterically. But he got no further. Yes, d-n you!' was the manner in which lie lowered his colors. "A few words and judiciously dis. tributed coins among his captors by the lawyer released the judge and enabled himl to get upon the train just as the condiuctor called 'All aboard!' "In the town where they had stopped was the State lunat ic asylum, and thoe advenit of lunatics was a part of the town's routino. Hence the agility with which- the judge waIs seized. 'But it was a pretty rough object lesson,' he complained, whenl lie had recovered sufficient equanim ity to enter into c.niversation wvith his companion. 'Perhaps, but it provedl what I said,' was the reply, 'and who~ knows but that some (lay it may prove of great value to you, and enable you from that experience to prevent or else right some great wrong.' rThe judge made no reply, he was lost in thought." somse Advataeges Which A Modern Man, Has Over Ills P'redecessor. One hundred years ago a manlf couldi not take a ride on a atnambiat. Hie could not go from Washington to Now' York in a few hours. HIe had never heardl of a Pullman palace car porter. lie had never seon an eloctri., light or direnmod of an electric car. He could not make a cake of ice as big as a lump of sugar. He could noet cool himself under an electric fan or warm hiimself at aI stnam radiator, He could not send, a tolegram. lie coulo't talk through th oe phone, andi ha had never heard of the hlello girl. Hei had nover seen a shirt waist or a rainy dav skirt le could not rido a bicycle. He could not call in a stoi.ograph or and dictato a lotter. Ie had never roceived a typo written comiunication. No inattor how gravo a crime ho !ommitted, he never could ho electro. cuted for it. Ito ha([ never heard of tho germ theory or worrio(l over bacilli and bacteria. li never loolm., plumant beforo it photographer or had his picturo taken. He would't have known ia Coiplex lons from a gin Rickoy. Ho had never hord of Neptuno aind Cuoo). Ito couldn't mea4uro tho distance botween tho stais. Ito know nothinig of tl'im 1lrmical com posit ion I ho st a,. Ho hnd heard of oxygon, but would not have iuderstood an allu sion to liquid air, Ito had never heard of the molo cular constitution of matter, or the conservation of nergy, and did not know t hat he was descendd(l from it monkey. lit could not predict a rain or an nounco the coming of a cold wavo or a cyclone. Ito was aware that there wats such a thing as electricity, Lut looked up an it as a germ. Ie never heard a phonograph talk or saw a kinotoscopo turn out a prize fight. He never saw through a WoLster's Unabridged Dictionary with the aid of a Roentgen ray. Ho had never taken a ride in an olevator. He had never niagined such a thing as a typesetting machino or a typo-writer. Ieo had nevor used any.hing but t wooden plow. Ito had never scon his wifo using it swing machine. He had never struck a match on his pants or on anything else. Hie had never hung up against a gaspost. Ho had never soon it searchlight or drunk a cocktail. He couldn't tako an annesthetic aind have his log cut ofT without feel. ing it. He know nothing of geology because geolo'gy know nothing of itself. Ho had never visited a free library. le hadgiever purchased a ton cent magazine which would have been re garded as a miracle of art. He could not buy a paper- for a nickel and learn everything t hat hap pened( the (lay) before all over the wvorl d. Hie had never seen a McCormack reaper or a self binding harvester. Hie hand never crossed an iron b)ridlge or trav'eled in a public omnin bus. He had never sailed through the Suez canal. Hie hiad never used a deadly ex. plosive or tried smo kelesns powvder Ini short there were several things that he could not do) and several things he did rnot knoi'-Momnphia Comm rnercal - A ppeal. Juars (ho .:': J I. I ( A lb Vignat,o Conmuiru rms. What is the difference between a man looking upstairs arid .oe going upstairs?-Ono staires up steps and the other stops upstairs. -What is the longest word in the Eunglish languaige ?--Smiles, be cause there is a mile betwooai the first and( last letter, WVhat is the quest ion of thne ago? How old arc you? Whpt has a cat that no other ani mal has ?-Kittons. . W bhy are blushes like little girls? Be'cause they become wv .mon. Vi by is a room full of marrrio.l folks like an empty one?--Bocause there's not a single person in it. Why should a quill pen never be used for inditing secretsf--Because it is apt to split. THE NEW CENTURY, T11F. DEA11 OF 'I lElF OLD AND JEW. Theo 1v,nt I'roi,prly celebIrateel--Mr. Mark hil Re'itim ia li-m A lipropriate to th lirgitng ,f the Century. Now York, Jan. 2.---A dinner waH givon Monday night. at Arlington lbill, under tho anuspicos of tho work inginon of Now York, and was ealled "Laber's G1rooting to the Twentieth Century." It was projecte( by the couinitteo of one hundrvd which was organize(d to call ia convention on January 1 I next, in Cooper Union, to osttblish in Now York city a federa tion or council of delegates from labor an( reform iocieties which sliall denand that legislations frame the w.' of the people on matters of the toniinent, houso problem, sweat shop sytiteim, etc. The following namies of speakers and tou-ts were at each place. Ernest 11. Crosby, toast master. "The Triumph of Labor," John S 'uton; "'ho Now Fedora. tionl," A. J. Boulton; "Industrial Peaco," Bishop Potter; "The Hours of Lahor," Georgo E. McNeill; The Hight to Live," Itenry George, Jr.; "Tie Ideal of Citizofnship," R. Ful ton Cutting; "LAgislation," John Ford; "Tho 'ooplo's Unity," Jos. Burondoss; "The City of Now York," Bird S. Coler; "Labor's Need," Mich. al A. Fitzgerald: "A. Century Poom," by Edward Markha mii. Following is tile poem: "We stand here at the cnd of mighty years, And a great wyouder ruishes on the heart. While cities rose and blossomed Into dust, while ohadowy lines of Kings were blown to air W hat wits the purpose brooding on the world, Trhroigih the largc lcisuro of the centti ries? And what the end-failure or victory? "'Lo, man hats laid his Eceptre on the statrs, A nd sent his spell ipon the continents, The heavens confess their secrets, A nd the btOlleS Silent its God, publish their mystery, Man calls the lightnings from their se cret place, T'o crumple up the spaces of the world, A nd snatch the j wels from the flying 110111-ii, Tphio wild white simolutig horses of the sea Are startled by his thunders. The world-powers Crowd round to be the htckeys of the King. "'ills hand has torn the veil of te Great Law, The law that was matde before the worlds-before Tha~it far first whispler onl tihe ancient dleep: The law that swinags A returus on the And hurls tile.sotul of manif upan th:e way. "'lt, what, avail, () builders of the wor'ld, Unleoss ye build it safety for' the soul? Man has put harness oni [Leylathani A nd hooks in his incorrigible jaws; And yet thle perils of the street remair, Out, of tile whliriwind of the~ cities rise Lean Hlunger sad Wormn of Misery, l'he heart.'s break and the cry of mortal tears. "[lhlt hark, the bugics blowing on the peaks; And hark, a murmur as of many feet1 i he cry of captains, the divine alarm Look! the last son on Time comes hur rying on. T'he strong young Ti'tan of Democracy With swInging step 1h0 takes t,he open road, ini love with tihe winds that beat his hairy b)reast, Baring his sunburnt stren)gth to all the world, HIe casts Ilis eyes arondihjva glance; o dwthjva siearchles t,le tracks of old tradition; scans With rebel heart the books of pedigree; ieers inIto the face of Privilege and cries, why aro you halting in the pathl of many is it youir shoulder bears the human load? i)o 3ou draw down the rains of the sweet heaven And keel) the green things growing? 'Back to Hell.' "We know at last the future is secure; (God is descendinig from Eternity, And all 'hings, good and evil, build the road, YeP, down in the thick of things, the men of greed Are thumping the inlhotpltable clay, Bly wondlrousl tolls the mn without the dream, G, d onward by a something unaware, Are I tying the foundations of the dream, The Kingdom of fraternity foetold"