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L — S ‘ A N NI Y SN ey SEOINOTES 2w COMMENES /% “ N\ sl « Zx,:itj(tj 1 } S p— 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, ™ A 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. e e = 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. ‘ | — 4 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