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. .. . ' ” “AN EVERYDAY HEROINE. \ The Country Malden, the Wicked BCace Ctrmynjr BBd the Tailor Mxle Girl* Four reckless persons had clambered into the stage, an old man, h middle aged woman, a young man and a tailor made girl. At Fiftieth street a dress maker’s little girl struggled in with a huge box. Town life was evidently new to her Her rosy cheeks announced ormntry air to the least observing. She held her money in her hand. Looking dubiously about, she finally spied the money box and dropped in the coin. After this she waited expectantly. Nothing occurred, however, and she began flushing and paling with nervous indecision. At last she resolutely stood up, attracted the driver’s attention and called to him: “How do I get my change? I put a quarter in the box, ” she asked. “Yese oughter a-handed it up,” said the man. “Yese can’t git it now. ” “But it’s all I have,” protested the girL - “Git it off the new passengers, " yell ed the driver and turned away. It was all the money she had, but how could she “get it off the new pas sengers?” Every one in the stage had become interested, but no one volun teered any advice. Two tears rolled down the rosy cheeks The stage stopped, and an old lady scrambled in. As she took out her rpon ey, a 5 cent piece, the tailor made girl leaned over to her. “Willyou give me that for this little girl?’’ she asked. “She dropped in a quarter by mistake, and the driver said the new passengers might make it up to ■ her.” The old lady beamingly handed over the nickel. She felt that the stage com pany was being rigidly but justly dealt with at last Then a man got in. This was harder for the tailor made girl, but she made the request again and handed a second fare to the grateful young person from the country. The whole stageful was now interested watching for a new pas senger as a spider watches for a fly. A woman waved desperately from down a hide street for the stage to wait for her, but the driver passed on unheeding and exclamations of disgust arose. Another corner, and another smartly dressed girl got in. The new arrival did not seem at first to understand the request, and, flushing, the tailor made girl repeated it and secured one more of the precious 5 cent pieces. The little girl had reached her desti nation. ‘‘lam so much obliged, ’she murmur ed to the heroic maiden who had been taking up fares in her behalf. “I ought to get out here, so I guess I’ll let tho other go. ” “No, no, you must not, ” said the fair conductor, opening her purse. “Take this and I can get it from Jhe next one who gets in. ” “Yqu are awfully good,” murmured the unsuspicious little one with new tears in her eyes, and one of the men took the big box and handed it down to her when she had stepped out The stage rattled on and the tailor made girl looked unconcernedly out of the window. The next passenger was allowed to drop his fare unmolested into the box, unconscious of the little comedy that had brought the others to gether in a common interest for a mo ment, and the stage company was still ahead of the game.—New York Sun. AN EVENING WITH DICKENS. How the Great Author and His People Can Be Studied by Literary Club*. “For an evening with Dickens, ” ad-. vises Fannie Mack Lothrop, writing of “Evenings For Literary Clubs” in The Ladies’ Home Journal, “one of the items of the programme might be a sketch of his life condensed into about 200 words. The Dickens drawings by Charles Dana Gibson might be cut from The Journal and hung up before the au dience and the story of each character and incident illustrated told. The trial from ‘Pickwick’ could be arranged for individual reading or for a number to take part in it, A bright paper may be written on ‘The People of Dickens’ World.’ Iff Dickens’ works there are 1,550 separate characters, enough to peo ple a whole “Some of Dickens’ poems have been set to music—notably ‘The Ivy Green’ ■ —and would make a pleasant feature. Anecdotes of Dickens might be given by ten or » dozen members, each giving one. These might be interspersed through the programme. A member with any cleverness in photography might make a series of Dickens’ lantern slides from pictures in standard editions of the novelist’s works and give a magic lantern entertainment The death of Paul Dombey would make a pathetic reading from ‘Dombey and Son.' Mrs. Jarley’s waxworks, as described in ‘The Old Curiosity Shop,' could be given . with some .of the members grouped as characters in the famous show and des ignated, as Little Nell did, with a pointer. “ The “Gallery Gode." The frequenters of the lofty gallery of any theater have a good deal to do with the making or marring of any new play Yet that is not how they acquire their title of “gods. ” As a matter of fact, the origin of the expression is this: Years ago Drury Lane theater had its ceiling painted to resemble a blue sky with clouds, among which white Cupids were flying in every direction. This ceiling extended over the gallery, whose occupants thus appeared to be very near heaven. Hence the expression arose of “gallery gods. ” —London Answers. All Quiet There. “I’m glad to know, ” remarked Miss Cayenne, “that Mr. and Mrs. Jinkies are living far more happily than they were formerly." “Indeed?” “Yes. lam informed that they have not spoken to each other for weeks. London Tit-Bits. ■V. ■ . . - - - -OWb-- A WINTER’S TALE. Ab Individual Who-I* No* a Klondike* , Telia a Story. “I’ve been bearing a great deal about I the oold weather that will drop down on , Klondike mighty soon now,” remarked a western editor tn Washington on business of his own, “and I am sure they are going to have a dreadful time of it, some of ‘ them, before the spring freshets, but lam ’ Sure not a man among them will have a I sadder experience with the cold than I did > in the winter of 1870. I was a printer in St. Louis in tho spring of that year, with , a little experience in editing a paper, and there was a chance _for me to go to a new 1 mining town that started up about 60 miles from Denver and start a paper, or, rather, keep tbe one going that had been started there by the chap who wanted me to oome out and join him. “Thero was adventure in it, and I was younger then than lam now. So it was that in May I was the editor in chief of The Blue Guloh Gazette, a weekly journal of civilization, as we proudly announced in our motto line. We did nicely all that summer, and I enjoyed it, though I was told it wasn’t so pleasant climatically in winter. One of the attractions of tbe office was a ‘devil’ that we hdd got from the newsboy gang in St. Louis, and he was the sharpest and brightest little cuss in the state of Colorado. He was about 14 years old, and be wouldn’t weigh over 50 pounds, but he was all nerve and muscle. “Well, the first snowfall jvas in October early, and tbe weather whacked around to all points of tbe compass for the next six weeks. Then it settled steady, and the week before Christmas it looked as if we were going to have a nice holiday week, but we were doomed to disappointment, for three nights before the day the snow be gan falling and a terrific blizzard swept up through the high walled valley in which our town was located. Thirty-six hours later, when we got up in the morn ing, the town was snowed under, and there was no getting around at all. I sent Snips out to see if be could bore through, and he came back in half an hour with something hot for us to eat, Snips and I occupying a back room in the office and boarding around. He told me he had seen 1 two or three people at the restaurant who had burrowed through a block or two, as tbe snow was light, but how deep it was i none of them knew, as it was above the roofs of the two story houses, the highest we bad. “Then a brilliant idea came to Snips. “ ‘There’s our smokestack, major,’ he said. ‘lt’s 47 feet by the measure and just about the size for me to pull myself up through by them wires inside of it, just like I did when we fixed that guy. Let mo swarm up to the top of it and see where the snow comes to. I can do it easy. ’ “Well, gents," concluded the western editor, “I let him go, and he never came back. I guess be must have fallen off of the top some way and got smothered in the snow or frozen to death or something. Anyway, when the snow thawed down in a rain that followed in a couple of weeks, we found the poor little fellow in the pure white snow and as black as the ace of spades from the soot that he had got on himself climbing up in that smokestack." —Washington Star. Turkish Artillery. Artillery, which was very numerous, was excellently horsed and gunned, but poorly trained. Six cannon, 80 men and 60 horses were the complement of a bat tery. The guns were 7% centimeters (3 inch) Krupp-Mantel!, all in first class con dition, cased and clean, the limbers and gun carriages of the ordinary pattern. The shell weighed 12 and tbe shrapnel 14 pounds, fired by time or percussion fuses. The horses were Tor the most part from Russia or Hungary and ran bigger than those of the cavalry. The men, recruited from ail parts of the empire, did the man ual part of their work well, but there was ' very little technical skill, and a battery had rarely more than one trained artillery officer. Three batteries of horse artillery armed with nine pounders were attached to the cavalry division. These, however, were short of spare horses, so the gunners sat on the limbers and carriages. Accord ingly the speed Was not very great. There were also three batteries of mountain guns on first class weapons, but the gun ners very slow. Eighteen howitzers came up to Scrfije, but were never brought any farther, as tjiere was no need for them. Taking it all round, tbe artillery, un like the cavalry, was a very strong arm, but like the cavalry it was never made sufficient use of—the best work being done by the corps artillery, which acted unde® the orders of Rlza Pasha, who frequently used to borrow divisional batteries when he bad need of them.—“ With the Turkish Army In Thessaly, n by Clive Bigham. Charles A. Dana. Charles A. Dana, the editor of the New York Sun, is on the high road to complete recovery from his recent severe illness, which was the result of overwork on hit return from Russia. He is now 78, and his father lived to tbe age of 87. All hit life Mr. Dana has taken intelligent care of his health, exercising and living well, but on plain and wholesome food. When he lived in New York, over 20 years ago, he used to visit an up town riding academy at very early hours, even before daylight in winter time, when he could have the arena altogether to himself, and ride furiously until he had tired three or four horses in succession. He would jump off a horse going at full speed, run alongside and leap into the saddle again like a circus per former, and could even stand upon tbe raddle while going at a gallop, and at that time be must have been at least 50 years old.—San Francisco Argonaut. His Answer. A New Orleans man who wanted to be a policeman and made preparation for the civil service examination found that he bad studied along the wrong lines. He determined to make use of his newly ac quired knowledge, however, when he came to a question that struck him as absurd. The question was, “If a bullet is dropped in a well and it takes five seconds for it to strike tbe water, how far is it fi om the top of tbe well to the surface of the water?” The candidate answered: • “Heathen mythology says that when Jupi ter kicked Vulcan out of heaven it took him 47 days and 9 nights to fall. It so, how far is heaven from Kosciusko, Miss.?” —Exchange. A Sensible Policeman. A St. Louis policeman, who had a War rant of arrest against a woman for alleged assault and battery, refused to imprison her when he found it was directed against a lady in the eighty-sixth year of her age. He took her to a friend's bouse and secured ball for her, and tbe prosecuting attorney, when told that she was too old and feeble to assault anj body, said be would revoke the warrant.- -Exchange. THE CZAR’S CURIOSITY. He Destroyed Hto Daughter** DoU to See How the Mechanism Worked. The heavy burden of autocracy has not destroyed all the boyish Instincts in Nich olas Il’s disposition, as the following an ecdote, hoard at a dinner party given in honor of a gentleman of M. Faure's escort in his late journey, proves: The president, after having searched all the best Parisian shops to find some toys worthy of the two little grand duchesse*' acceptance, and, having bought the everlasting golden rattle for Miss Tatiana, was in despair for some thing out of the common to give Mies Olga He at last chose two wonderful dolls, one got up as an elegant lady, the other as an overdressed little girl, and, after much difficulty a most complicated piece of machinery was inserted, thanks to which, when wound up, the lady and her daughter begin a ludicrous bit of con versation, which is finished by the little girl crying because she is not allowed to ride a donkey on account of her gauze dress. Tho baby grand duchess was delighted, but not more so than her father, who, tt appears, spent an hour on the floor with the child listening to the squeaky dia logue between the dolls. But tho thne came when the princess had to go to bed, which she did very reluctantly. As for the emperor, he remained an instant in the boudoir after her departure with the two clever artificial ladies who had takfcn his fancy, while the empress, M. Faure and some ladies and gentlemen of the court were talking in the next room. Sud denly a strange noise like that of an infer nal machine was heard, followed by a loud cry of dismay, and everybody rushed to see what it was. There was tho emperor safe nnd sound, but with a dismal face, looking at the dolls, which he had partly undressed to find out the secret hidden in their bosoms, while tbe dolls were chattering away as if they would never stop. The empress, un able to restrain her temper, snatched up tho carpeted board on which were stand ing and shaking the ttvo proclous ladles, and after having crushed her husband with a withering eye she said to a gentle man near her: “Please send this away. It is too bad indeed. Tho emperor spoils everything he touches." But Nicholas looked so penltent.and the mishap was so funny that she could not help laughing.— Philadelphia Times. When Was the Bible Completed? Scholars differ in opinion os to the date at which the books now found in the New Testament were completed, but it is prob able that this was accomplished not later than 130. Many centuries had passed in the formation of tho Old Testament, but the New was all written within a single 100 years. The decision as to which books should be received into the new canon was not so quickly reached, for the earliest fa thers of the church frequently quote from other gospels, such as one “according to the Egyptians,” or “according to the He brews, ” and the Syrian church accepted some books not received by that of north Africa or the western church and vice versa. There is a legend that at tho first ecumencial council of Nicsea, 825, copies of all the Christian literature then current were laid beneath the altar and the gen uine books leaped out of the mass and ranged themselves on the altar. It prob ably contains a germ of the truth—that at this convocation it was decided that tho books now received were apostolic or writ-* ten under apostolic direction, and tho oth ers were spurious. Be this as it may, the judgment of several generations of Chris tians certainly decided upon the value of these books as distinguished from many others written at about that time or later, and the council of Carthage (897) is said to have fixed the canon. Tho word “can on” was first used by Athanasius, in the fourth century, in the sense of “accepted" or “authorized,” and Jerome and Augus tine held the present Now Testament as canonical.—Clifton Harby Lovy in Ameri can Monthly Review of Roviews. The Evil of Trade Unionism. We are not disputing hero the right of workmen to combine for the advancement and protection of their craft. Nor is it to be denied that such right carries with it the right for each trade union to make such rules and regulations as it deems fit for Its own members. Where the mischief begins is when trade unions seek to make rules which fetter other -orkmen and which tie the hands of employers. And where trade unionism begins to be abso lutely destructive in Its effects on industry Is where, on the one hand, it endeavors to make a close corporation by limiting the number and restricting the employment of apprentices, and where, on the other hand, it restricts the labor of the moat competent to the capacity of the most idle and least efficient. AU this trade unionism does. Overtime is objected to because, it is alleged, It di minishes the number that may be employ ed. But if overtime is not worked orders cannot be executed within tbe time in which they are required. Therefore, the orders will cease to come, and because Bill was not allowed to work extra hours Jack, Tom and Jim will not bo able to get work at all.—Benjamin Taylor In Gassier’s Magazine. Rothschild’* Error. It may require as much imagination to draw pleasun out of an unspent dollar as It does to get it from an unsmelled flower, oh an unkissed love, or any of the unoxist- Ing realities that poets deal in. Many a laborious and ascetic financier must live in a world of imagination, a commercial dream, as little tangible as that of the poet. “My food and lodging are all I get for my wealth,” said tbe elder Rothschild. He was mistaken; he forgot his dream of wealth. He, too, was one of the poets of a financial age. Nor, lastly, can it be that tbe delight of giving one self up to an impassioned thought, of which one is as sure as death and for which one is willing to die, is not still, as it always has been, the ktonest pleas ure of a human soul.—H. G. Chapman in Atlantic. St. Paul and Minneapolis. Fifteen years ago Chicago was the great central wheat market of the west. Even a* late as four years ago its wheat receipts were over 50,000,000 bushels, but in 1896 they had declined to 19,101,152 bushels, while tbe wheat receipts of Minneapolis were 69,568,870 bushels and those of Du luth and Superior 56,607,397 —the total of the two cities being 126,176,267 bushels, or six times and a half the Chicago receipts. These figures tell their own story of tho shifting of the trade currents of tbe north west to their natural channels and go far to explain the ro tuar hable growth of St- Paul and Minneapolis from a population of 83,000 in 1870 to more than ten thnes that number in 1897.—“ The New North west,’* by J. A. Wheelock, in Harper’s Magazine. ~ Il • FW' The Classic* anil bcianoee. It U ca-y t>r thoso w fao huve never had a true university training, who have had their ideas of culture shaped by the oom mercial fashion of this jmrticular country end the whirl of turmoil in which our peo ple ore carried along, to persuade them selves that wo are now quite beyond tho need of Latin and Greek; that tho place* of tho classic languages can be and ought to be supplied by the more practical study of French and German. Th!* demand for practical and useful things is just as erroneous as the one previously mention ed. It loses sight of tho fundamental principle tn education—viz, that the solo purpose of education is discipline in think ing and the cultivation t>f attachment to the noble and the ideal. That tbe classic languages afford a better discipline to tho mind than any other is generally conceded by tho best authorities and proved by tho experience of every ago. In our own time we find the most einl Dent savans of Germany of this opinion, and in England Lord Kelvin, tho ox-pres ident of the Royal society, who for 50 years has engaged in physical research and is easily the greatest man of science since Laplace, comes out squarely against the making of Greek optional in the Universi ty of Cambridge, and tho proposition is voted down in tho senate by an over whelming majority. Is it likely that on tills great question such mature and intel ligent judgment can be wrong and that of the inexperienced and the unclassio teacher right? Training In tho classic languages affords the desired mental dis cipline and stimulates a careful and ac curate use of language and of thought, which, as has been said liefore, is tWb es sential condition of scientific progress. I advocate therefore a return to th6 study of the classics as the best and safest basis for the advancement of science; be sides, tho ideals and the philosophy and the poetry of the ancients, far removed from the corrupting clamors at our time, exert tho most noble influence upon the mind, and from that point of view alone Latin aud Greek should bo maintained os tbe basis of linguistic study.—Dr. T. J. J. Lee in Popular Astronomy. Tactic* That Won. “I’ll never forget when we hade old Bluntly at the head of our campaign com mittee,” said the ex-congressman who re cently retired from politics, “All we put him there for was os a figurehead. He was honest, straightforward and univer sally trusted by tho people. We simply wanted the benefit of his reputation, In tending to make the fight without any of his help. “But tho old chap fooled us. He took the thing In deadly earnest and watched things with the care of a locomotive en gineer hauling a fast passenger train. He believed in doing everything aboveboard and was a bonanza to reporters. When a man of some prominence on the other side pretended to be converted to ours and made a dramatic demonstration at a big mass meeting of his change of heart, Bluntly gave it out that the fellow had been hired to play the part and was a rank hypocrite. When we had made terms with a lot of repeaters to come in and help us out, Bluntly exposed the scheme and call ed the attention of the authorities to it in away they could not Ignore. When we bought ui) the leaders of a certain organi sation, promising so much for each vote delivered from that source, Bluntly called attention to the conspiracy and declared that he would prosecute bribers and bribed if it were carried out.” ‘ ‘ Whew! Did the fellows on your ticket know they were running?" “Did they? We swept tho board. Not an office got away. Bluntly’s honesty was so novel and refreshing that the people were tickled beyond expression. They couldn’t believe that a man of his nerve and integrity could be indorsing the wrong ticket, and it went with a whoop.” —Detroit Free Bess. It Made All the Difference. “Oh!” exclaimed Mrs. Midgon. She had been shopping and visiting and had just arrived home when a thought struck her. She clasped her hands together in dismay, and in her agitation sat fiat down on the cat. “Whatever shall I do?” “I expect you will get over it.” said Mr. Mldgen testily. He was waiting for his tea. “What is it?” “I took my diary out with me instead of that little pricebook, and if I haven’t been and left it somewhere! Suppose somebody should get hold of it and read it?” “Ha, ha!” laughed her husband. “That will be fine sport. How I should like to seo them reading all tho rubbish you hnvo written in it! What's tbe good of going back? You’ll nover got it. ” “Oh, I remember now!” suddenly cried Mrs. Midgen. “It is my old one. So it doesn't matter at all. I fool quite re lieved.” “What was in it?” said he, feeling dis appointed. “I used to amuse myself by copying your love letters in it, and I imitated your signature at the bottom of them.” “What?” yelled Midgen, jumping to his feet and grabbing at his hair. “Do you want people to know what an idiot I am and make mo tho laughing stock of the parish just when I’m putting up for tho vestry? Go and look for it, quick! And offer £lO reward for it I” And if it hadn’t been found in Mrs. Midgen’s bag at that very moment there is no telling what would have happened to that household.—Pearson's Weekly. What Is Public Opinion? It Is obvious that there are two kinds of public opinion. One is tho popular belief in tho fitness or rightness of something, which Mr. Balfour calls “climate,” a be lief that certain lines of conduct should be followed or a certain belief held by good citizens or right thinking persons. Such tpbelief does not impose any duty on anybody beyond outward conformity to the received standards. The one I am now talking of is the public opinion, or con sensus of opinion among large bodies of persons, which acts as a political force, Imposing on those in authority certain en actments or certain lines of • policy. The first of these does not change and is not seriously modified in much less than 50 years. The second 'is being Incessantly modified by tho events of the day.—E. L. Godkin in Atlantic. Episcopal Church Statistic*. Whittaker’s “Protestant Episcopal Al manac” for 1898, which is out, is a care ful and comprehensive digest of Episcopal church statistics and growth. There are at present in that church 4,776 clergymen, an increase of 58 over the previous year; 6,882 churches, an increase of 46; 664,088 communicants, an Increase of 22,938, and 433,600 Sunday school scholars, an in crease of 12,077, Its contributions for all purposes daring the last year were 812,- 696,813.06, being an increase of fU|,M3.M over tbe previous year. .- AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA” AND “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” as our trade mark. 7, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator qf “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same that has borne and does now or * bear the facsimile signature of wrapper. This is the original “ PITCHER’S CASTO RIA,’ which has been used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the hind you have always bought jT" on and has the signature of wrap- per. 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