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A widow of Manistique, Mich, in
1891 invested $8 in Copper Knob, and
now she is worth $50,000. The funny
part of it gs that she ig still a widow.
The Corn Exchange Bank of Chi
cago gives notice that none of its em
ployes receiving less than $l,OOO per
annum shall marry without the con
sent of the bank’s officers. Suppose,
however, the employe is already mar
ried—what then? Will his salary be
increased? It would hardly be right
to either sgeparate husband and wife
or discharge the former.
In the following words President
Roosevelt points out that the great
ness of a nation depends upon the
character of its people. He says: “It
is character that counts in a nation,
as in a man. It 1s a good thing to
have a clean, fine, intellectual devel
opment in a nation, to produce ora
tors, artists, successful business men;
but it is an infinitely greater thing to
have those solid qualities which we
group together under the name of
character—sobriety, steadfastness the
sense of obligation towards one’s
neighbor and one’s God, hard common
sense, and combined with it the gift
of generous enthusiasm toward what
ever is right. These are the qualities
which go to make up true national
greatness.”
After all, silver may supersede gold
in the matter of surgery, announces
the St. Louis Star. According to the
Paris papers, the physicians have hit
upon a new method of treating
wounds. A sheet of silver or silver
leaf is all that is necessary. The sil
ver is simply placed on the wound or
ulcer, and as it sticks closely to the
surface a little cotton soaked in collo
dion is sufficient to keep it in place.
The effects of the sheet of silver are
very remarkable Where the wound
is a recent one and not contaminated
with microbes, it quickly heals under
the influence of the silver, without
inflammation or suppuration and with
out presenting the slightest bad symp
toms. Conditions are just as favorable
in cases of ulcers, chronic ulcer of the
leg, for example, in which case the
suppuration decreases little by little,
while the ulcerated surface gradually
becomes covered with healthy skin,
which soon produces a good cicatrice
in place of the ulcer. This is said to
be due to the remarkable antiseptic
qualities of the metal. Possibly the
Almighty never created anything with.-
out a purpose,
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Much of Alaska remains unexplor
ed and its resources are conjectured
rather than known. Much of explor
ed and partly understood Alaska is
inaccessible because of insufficient
means of transportation. But rail
roads are projected to reach the sec
tions where development has begun,
and when these are constructed and
the river fleets are extended and sup
plied with better and more abundant
fuel, they will carry in great numbers
of persons eager to build up the terri
tory. Once it is demonstrated that
Alaska can economically produce
grain, vegetables, horses, and cattle
sufficient to sustain its population, it
must make prodigious strides toward
prosperity. The expectation that it
may yet export wheat may be but an
“iridescent dream,” but it is not un
reasonable to hope that before anoth
er census is taken Alaska will have
become largely independent of the
States for its subsistence, and will
offer substantial rewards to the enter
prising and hardy homeseeker in re
turn for the exercise of those sturdy
qualities so necessary to the realiza
tion of the growing National expecta
tion regarding this infant empire of
the Far Northwest.
The laborer is worthy of his hire,
and every man naturally desires to
receive as much eompersation for the
work which he does, says the
Richmond Times-Dispatch. But 1o
man who has a proper conception of
his duty works simply for a wage.
The man who does this is a hireling.
The man who has the highest concep
tion of work and duty does the best
that he can, no matter what his pay
may be. He gets his higher remuner
ation in the satisfaction which he de
rives from the consciousness of a
faithful discharge of duty. With
every such worker the wage is an in
cident and mot the chief aim of his
endeavor. Such a man realizes that
his work is the expression of his char
acter; that his character will be judg
ed by his work; and, therefore, he
makes his work as good as possible,
even though the pay be small
But there is also a practical side of
the question. The man who works in
this way will surely attract the at
tention of his employer, and will &
evitably rise to the highest positiom
he is capable of filling. That sort of
faithfulness in any worker is a most
valuable asset, and commands the
highest price in the labor market.
HISTORY OF THE COACH.
First of These Vehicles Built in 1457.
As popular as coaching is in some
parts of the country but little reliable
information has ever appeared in the
public press respecting its history
and development. At the town of
Kotze in Hungary, in 1457, the first
coach was constructed. This was
soon afterward presented to Charles
VII, at Paris. The first authentic rec
ord of a stage coach in England
shows that six of such vehicles were
in use there in 1662. So popular did
they become in that country that a
few years later they were in general
use on all the principal roads of the
kingdom.
Steam railways have, to a large ex
tent, done away with the use of the
coach as a link in the commercial
chain, but as a means of furnishing
the highest type of recreation, the
coach and four is as popular to-day in
the British Empire and France as it
was when this was practically the only
means of locomotion in those coun
tries.
Stage coaching in America was al
most co-extensive with the settlement
of the colonies, and in the early his
tory of the country there were few
if any places, of any importance, that
did not welcome the sound of the
coachman’s horn as one of the fas
cinating incidents of pioneer life. As
civilization pushed itself westward,
the stage coach was ever in the lead
of those agencies which blazed its
pathway. These vehicles, as well as
their equipments, were comparatively
crude in their construction, and un
pretentious in their appointments, but
they admirably served the purpose for
which they were intended and laid the
foundation for the popularity of coach
ing as a pleasurable pastime devel
oped in later years. '
Coaching parties had been popular
in England and France for several gen
erations before they were introduced
in this country yet the sport is so
wholesome and enjoyable that it can
not be doubted that in time it will be
come as popular here as it is across
the Atlantic. — Illustrated Sporting
News.
Cliinese Inns.
In China there are many inns where
there is shelter for man and beast ia
very truth; and without regard to
whether you are a man or bea:.. Ani
mals belonging to the pack trains,
men who drive them, and any trav
eler who may chance upon one of
these democratic inns, lie down—not
in peace, but in confusion—together.
The braying of asses, bellowing of ox
en, bleating of camels and snores .of
exl"e'tsted mankind all rise together.
An Aamerican traveler may indeed be
thankful rthat railroads are doing
away with pack trains, and that soon
these queer inns wiil have no reason
for existence.
CLERK WORRIED FOR A YEAR.
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Then Discovered Depositor Didn’t
Know Certificate Was for $lBOO
Too Much.
An. ex-bank official said that during
hig career in the banking business he
had known more than one employee of
a bank to get into trouble on account
of carelessness in handling money.
‘One' collector, who was a light
hearted fellow, was going along the
street in high-water season, flipping up
a 20 dollar piece with his thumb and
finger, and catching it as it came
down. Finally it slipped and fell
through a grating on the sidewalk into
about two feet of water. He made
some efforts to recover it, but finally
decided to wait till the water was
gone, and then it was found that the
coin was also gone. Another time the
same fellow was coming up the street
with $lO,OOO in 20 dollar pieces on his
shoulder. In some way he lost hold
on the sack, and in striking the side
walk it burst and the coins rolled in
all directions. A number of people
rushed to his assistance, but he de
scribed a large circle around the sack,
and, waving his arms wildly, ordered
everybody to ‘“stand back.” He recov
ered most of the coin, but decided to
get out of the banking business.
Another time a Chinaman came into
the bank and deposited $2OO and took
a certificate of deposit. The clerk
who made out the certificate was pre
occupied and wrote $2OOO on it and on
the stub. When he made up his cash
at night he was $lBOO short. He
knew where the mistake was, and tried
to hunt up the Chinaman, but, al
though he got a clue, he could never
find him, and he remained $lBOO short
on the books. He had a notice of the
date of the certificate, amount, etc,,
pasted in his desk, and was always on
the lookout to catchrthe certificate as
it came in. Just a year from the day
the deposit was made the Chinaman
walked into the bank and presented
the certificate to be cashed. When
asked how much he wanted he said all
—s2oo. He had never noticed the mis
take in the amount of the certificate,
and he has never found it out, and the
clerk suffered the worry of being short,
in his mind, for a whole year, for
nothing.—Portland Oregonian.
THE SHYING HORSE.
A Vice That Generally Originates from
Fear of Certain Sights.
The dangerous vice of shying in
horses« almost invariably originates
with genuine fear of certain sights or
sounds, and it can be cured usually
by carefully acquainting the horses
with the objects that they fear,
writes David Buffum in the Youth’s
Companion. But there are two classes
of horses that shy for no apparent
reason, and unusual means must be
taken to effect their cure. ;
In the first class are those which,
having once obtained some advantage
over the driver by shying, repeat the
performance from pure mischief. It
requires some experience to distin
guish this affected fear from the real;
but when there is no doubt of his
“making believe,” coercive measures
are necessary.
In the other class are the most dan
gerous shyers. I refer to those horses
which have been accustomed to the
objects they once feared, so that they
will usually pass them quietly, and
vet will sometimes suddenly evince
the original fear, and perhaps do con
siderable damage in their struggles
to get away.
That tne fear is real is evident to
any experienced nhorséman, but why
the horse should sometimes fear what
he usually ignores is not so clear.
The vice is particularly dangerous be
cause the driver never knows when
to expect its manifestation.
I have invariably found that the
horses with this vice were nervous. I
do not mean necessarily high-strung
or high-spirited, although the vice is
more frequent in well-bred horses than
in those of colder blood.
After his outbursts of terror the
nervous shyer usually gquiets. down
promptly to his normal self. Such
horses know the unreasonableness
of their cond’st. ' They simply los&
their self-contih]. |
The cure f!%r n%ervous shyers Is
good, generous|feed, accompanied by
daily, unremitting work—the medi--
cine which, time and again, has taken
the nonsense oyt of men and women
as well as horsls, and which has cast.
out more devil{than any other known:
agency in the World.
Ido not mean gverwork. But I have
not known a nervous shyer that could
not be controllqd by giving him aIF
the work that h«f could perform with
out injury to his health. And the
cure is permane\t.
A most inter¥sting case was fur
nished by a youlig mare, called Alice,
that I owned sdime years- ago. She
was 6 years old when I bhought her,
and very well sfi:d, although not
thoroughbred. was a fine, high
spirited roadster, and ordinarily was:
well behaved, but she was subject to
unaccountable fits of nervousness.
Sometimes, when standing in her Owar
box stall, sae wquld get uneasy, and
move and paw and scrape till sweat
ran off her in streams.
The mare was at 'first desperately
afraid of electric (cars; but with care
and patience I sopn had her entirely
accustomed to thenm, so that she
would meet them uietly. But several
times, when I lepst expected it, all
her former fear |su(denly returned,
and on one of tlhes: occasions she
broke the wagon janl came SO near
to getting away fjrgg me that I de
cided upon the trfefaent I have in
dicated—plenty of }k.
It was 20 miles @ oo where I lived
to the city, and I "n to drive there
with Alice harnes# b a light road
wagon, instead off§ king the train,
as had been my w@@*® This, with the
return trip, made B miles a day,
which Alice easil ,ccomplished in
two hours and a hi@@&ach way.
I made this trjp gith her three
times a week, on the 'average, mean
while feeding her generously, so that
she did not fall away ‘n flesh or con
dition. )
The result was a complete and per
manent cure of her )‘.ervous shying
and nervous excitemeni in the stable.
When®l believed t[“ne sure complete,
I stopped driving her to the city, and
used her as formerly, without recur
rence of her trouble. 1n prescribing
this treatment for |nerwus shyers, I
cannot urge too stronglf that the ob
ject is not to punisjh tHe horse or to
tire him out or tOJ bréak his spirit,
but simply to benefit hif nervous sys
tem and to get it into ajgood, healthy
and normal condition.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
Kilkenny castle is| onj of the oldest
inhabited houses in} thd world, ‘many
of the rooms being {lucl as they were
800 years ago. '
In pulling down the did cathedral of
Metz a strong box ljas been found con
taining coins and ‘vatches valued at.
120,000 pounds.
A Russian peasant alvertised in an
Irkutsk journal thkat he wanted tc
sell his wife and t,vo young pigs for
25 rubles the lot. ,
Inmates of St. A:aph workhouse, in
Wales, possess a pcny and phaeton, a
piano and a librar; of more than 600
volumes. All are >rovided by gener
ously disposed pi ons in the district.
The town cou; ! of Htldersheim,
Hanover, has d; ed to preserve the
ancient appeard of its streets by or
dering that all' W private buildings
must be in the th century German
style. ‘ |
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Male “housemaic 're the most re
cent contribution PP solving of the
servant problem | reat Britain, it
seems. Several t:‘wo“@.nds' of foreigh
young men have 'ecéntly been trans
ported to London ‘0 engage in general
domestic work in British househclds.
During the last six months Ireland
sent to Great Britiin 148,101 more cat
tle, 108,160 more’sheep and only 742,
fewer horses thar were received fron”
all the rest of thy world. i