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7 THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH - FRTDAY, JANUARY 28. 1902. CURIOUS LEGENDS OF THE WINTER SOLSTICE •autiful a: t rulin'! t le- md in; l “till for a mi* liim he lmed flrs standstill an tf ill of thc legends n coa sed hC SO! ig‘ chan ted Kirunge grnds that enl-tiee I( veil" are i mighty mii moment, .t fnrn hr s f a path? I "the solst ic »un" ? The verj tells how the winds o their breathing to iis’ ot the angels. and wh "Peace on Earth’ tile mighty seas be- rarr.r placid and th'-ir waves so gentle tv,.-:• t).e halcyon bird- bullded their n..sirs thereon and reared their little ritics without thought of danger. In jungle, forest .anti mysterious prairie haunts the fierce bear’.* grew kind and were, for once, at peace with all the weriri. The simple fish in the streams rr*J'• iced.’* says a devout old writer: ••the l.e's sane in the hlv long.” At midnight *“ in their stall! wise and the : quietly aln g.” That night the creatu talked with their brethrt "Oh. little town of Bethlehem,^ cr I that of his friend— I It came upon the midnight clear, I That glorious song of old. Many another familiar song, or poem, or story, will . otne to mind to gladden you. ami the Christinas spirit will fill l your heart. And may It be said of you I —what the great mauler of Christmas literature .-aid of the reformed Scrooge. "No man on earth knew how to keep i Christmas so heartily and well."—E. A. j Matthews in St. Louis Globe-Demo- I crat. I ind talked Ir ■tp In process ail night tie knelt human n went and never convert o e dm. "Chi cock, "WTie 1 v. -This havf the fort o tli gt is ’born.’ ?" asked th light.” of the air f the field, otten that c present owed the en, hoarse- the cow. •Where?" belie "In Be ?e ox in his b.a lehem.’ bleaied the And ever since that first Christmas night the creatures have kepi watch and good children can hf or them talking, if they but lis ten aright. Have we not nil seen the beautiful, world-beloved picture called "Holy Night.” where the wise cow looks down on the Blessed Babe, and the oilier animals watch Ihe happy mother at* she shows him to the wise men ? The Worship of Odin. Many of our Christmas observances r.tbe traced back to the old worship or Odin, the names being changed and turned to a purer faith. In early days ihe jovial Yuletlde was a season long- dr.iwn-out. and the revel lasted from Christmas evo to Twelfth Night. Fes tivities began with the gathering of the Christmas greens, evergreen boughs and bay leaves, the holly, with its f Mining leaves and bright red berries: fie mistletoe, or "golden-rayed plant,” which promised so much bliss.to senti mental or fun-loving youth, caught un- ’he witchery of its kissing charm. Bringing in the Yule log was a Joy ful ceremony. Amid shouting and laughter, the huge log was drawn through the foroct,- saluted by every wayfarer io insure good fortune, and, after a rollicking Yule song and a toast to merry Christmas, the massive wood blazed merrily in the great fireplace, tvhlle the happy crowd danced about end watched it burn away all dissen sions, wrongs and hoart aches. 1 The wassail eup was another prec ious offering. We read of It first when Bowens, daughter of King Hengist. knelt down before the eonquorer. King Yartlgern, and, presenting a mighty < up of wine, cried out. “Wassheli, O king!” The Christmas tree came to us from the north of Europe- Once it was the symbol of spring—now it typifies the new life. L.iden with golden fruit and radiant with light, the tree of childhood has taken-'root, and now lifts Its gay branches tinder every sky. flourishing alike amid Norwegian snows and beneath Ttnlinn suns. In Ger- m.in fatherland and American new homes. One legend of Christmas eve warns thn-e who have not a good conscience to stay Indoors that night, for wild hunters are then abroad who turn into fierce wolves and devour had folks. On Pi Stephen’s day. December 2(5, a ■ 'range custom was once popular. Tt was called "the burial of the wren”— n irties of boys, singing a mteer rhyme, '••'■led contributions from door to door. Tho lender carried a small evergreen tree with a dead bird fastened to It, and this was the rhyme: T''i> wren, the wren, the king of birds. Was caught on St. Stephen’s day in ‘ the fire. Tp with tlie kettle and down with the pan, A penny or two to bury the wren. Your pocket full of money, your cellar full of beer. I w'sh you a Merry Christmas and Tlappv New Tear. Day After Christmas. Tin- fu t week day after Christmas 1s a legal holiday in ICngland. It is known as Boxing day. and is reallv more enjoyed than the more sacred <'nv itself. Another singular custom was celebrated early on the morning of December 23 by a. wholesale spanking of the children. It was called Childer mas to make them remember the sad story of the slaughter of the inno cents. I lately heard a pale-faced little girl env: "I don’t believe in Santa Claus any more, and I know who tills mv stockings." Oh. what a sad confes sion for such a tiny child. When chil dren have lost faith in a real flosh- and-blood Jolly Santa Claus, who rides ! k ever roof tops, hitches his reindeer to ■k the chimney, and descends with over- K* flowing pack to (111 the gaping stoek- R- ings. they should be told the story of Ip their patron saint and the origin of the * many wonderful myths they have heard t about him. 1 . A child's disappointment might not 1 be so keen if ii knew that a St. Nich- I oUis really lived once upon a time; I that he was a bishop of the early church: that he loved children, and I the fame of his wondrous goodness to them was known far and wide. ITe not only did good by stealth and blushed : > find it fame, but positively hated to be found out and thanked. This is wlty. it Is said, he never can be seen, no matter how you watch on Christ mas eve His practice or entering old my tli of Hertha, a goddess of the north. When feasts were hold in her honor tin altar of stones was erected m tlie family hall, and on it were piled great evergreen boughs. Through the dense smoke of the burning branches ’.he goddess would descend and irtflu- ■ rcc the fortunes of her worshipers bv .im*, ting the flames From this altar, or "Bertha's stone." wc ly wotd. "hearthstone." Other Beautiful Legends. Many more and beautiful legends wc ic,aM as :i,c blessed day draws near. 'I here was a famous hawthorn bush in ■* :l cid Rr.glish churchyard tlint always bloomed or. Christmas day. It was tile Hart' eit St. Joseph, and every year a branch of the snowy blossoms' rented to the King in honor o sen. In Poland peasants still believe ‘hat on Christmas night the heavens ate opened, and if you are only good enough you can see angels ascending and descending thereon. In Sweden tile children scatter crumbs for a < kriMir.as least for the birds, and it is ! sani that the feathered folk assemble ■ lrom all over the country as a token oi their thanksgiving in classic Oxford, these ceremonies, grave and gay, are strietlv observed in this dawn of the twentieth centurv. just as when they had their origin hundreds of years age. Then y onle !o the great town of London and go about with Dickens to see Sc-ooge and the ghosts of Christmas pa*;, * and to come—see the Christmas markets •with the enticing viands, look in a- the humble home of the Crairhitt familv see their roast goose and smell -heir plum pudding, and smile wr'r Ti"-- Tim when lie prays. "Good bless us every one." Then cross the wild At lantic and listen to "The Bird'- Christ l mas Carol" to the poem of good Phil- Ma lips Brooks. A Missouri Woman on Probationary Marriage It would be interesting to know how tin- swift. sweeping, denunciatory pro test against the "damnable heresy” of ! her book, which advocates probationary [marriage, has affected Mrs. KIsie I Clews Parsons. If she sough; notorie- I ty she achieved her purpose. And to j achieve a purpose takes courage. Even I a moral degenerate, that has been ha bitually hedged by tile compelling ways of gentle living, upheld by educa tional forces and surrounded by the I conventions of a respectable society, I must realize that it takes courage to I promulgate measures so radically at variance with the established order of centuries. Or it may be that Mrs. I Parsons is simply a searcher after truth. In which case she Is at least entitled to respect, for it does not ap- j pear that the lady is an exponent of j her theory. That is where her courage would probably fail her. Truth is of a variable quality. ! Sometimes it shines with the radiance of a brilliant star, and the ways of life flow toward it in a perfect and un shaken comprehension. Even though I clouds Intervene, the knowledge that it is thero reigns supreme. It shines alike for the brilliant and the simple. And again, truth Is hidden under lay- | ers of moral dogmas, and there are I myrind conceptions as to its nature. Ethical surmises present it first in' this ‘ guise and then in that. The clever logician establishes his premises, the seer rends the veil, the astrologer scans the stars, the geologist^ reads strange things In the rocks, the prophet walks i with God. the moralist deals dead plat- ' itudes. and the divine quickens them with the spirit of-the Lord Jesus. The metaphysician analyzes the mind, the physician disSccts the organism, the scientist hunts for first principles, and the naturalist attunes his ear and understanding to the divine harmony of nature, and all, all. work with cease less activity that each may add his little molecule to the sum total of the truth of the ages. The wise and the brilliant are active agents in elucidating, exemplifying and making luminous the truth. The world’s greatest majority are passive, acquies cent" followers. They bow their heads to llie oracle. Established truth, cus toms, conventions are accepted by weak and strong alike. And the mar* riage custom, though there is recogni tion of Its flaws, of its limitations, is the dlvinest thing that man has evolv ed. The decalogue, the new command ment. all the cardinal virtues, the po tential possibilities of spiritual devel opment are wrapped up in the consum mation and the prosecution of the marriage vows. A few have made the married state a prototype of heaven, the majority are relatively happy, many are indifferent, questioning, and some fail lamentably. The failure of men and women to veri fy the purposes and promises of mar riage has led to a protest by some against the supposed inefficiency of the institution itself. The great and ingenious mind of man has never been able to present any feasible plan to usurp it. And Mrs. Parsons’ immoral suggestion brings a blush to the cheek of a modest womanhood and fills the spirit of matrimony with unspeakable Indignation. “One Heart for Mine.” The tone of the nation and the great throbbing .heart of humanity will be kept sweet and pure by the old senti ment “By God's road, one heart for mine, one woman for me.” God made. Adam his Eve. But the monogamous. Intention was perverted by lust and ig norance. by lust and refinement, by barbaric tribes and by cultured and polished nations. Enlightenment was slow, but little by little, age by age. morality spread, the spirit of the gen tle Naznrene was provided, truth struggled to be free, and to-day God’s first Intention is the prevailing custom. And this custom rests solidly on the geat integral human demand for clean ness and purity, for virtue and respect ability. on the sweet and holy belief in a. chaste love. The stamp of divinity is upon the unshakable edifice. The fanciful vagaries of reformers and rev- olutiolsts fall about it like dead and parched leaves, and they no more jar the structure than paper pellets could have kept the Japanese out of Mukden. By the longing for the high and the good, for something beyond this life, we recognize the existence of the soul. The longing of the heart for its mate is the instinctive idea that demonstrates that somewhere in the universe there is somewhat to satisfy that demand. It corroborates God’s plan as instituted in the Garden of Eden. It is the buoy ant hope of finding its other half that illuminates the face' of youth and makes all the days of their wait ing. Many Marry Without Love. It is true that many people do not marry for love. Martin Luther con fessed that ho married to tease the Pope. Reasons of State and of con venience, confounding passion with love, error in judgment, sentimental ,1 emotions of the human heart—anger, affection, distrust. Justice. surprise hate, resentment, jov. gladness and turning them ail into the gold of pure love. The most beautiful thing on earth is a Christian home presided over by a symmetrically disciplined man and wo man. And still we may be—only at "the cock crowing and morning star" of this prototype of heaven. And yet. says that same old sophist, how about the scores of men and wo men whose instinct of natural selec tion has failed them? Ought they embrace tile means of escape in some manner akin to Mrs. Parson’s plan or shall they remain in legalized sin and rest under God's condemnation This introduces introspection and ha bankrupted many marriages that would have otherwise been happy and God-like. But if the insidious foe con- quors is self-effacement and self- abnegation to count for nothing? Is the nobility that hides an empty heart under weli-wrought deeds of duty to count for nothing? Do moral excellen ey and Christian character and ex alted fortitude go unnoticed? May this not be the straight and narrow way that leads to the foot of- God's throne? The old-fashioned way of living and loving and giving in marriage is not to be improved upon. It is not the institution, but the constituency, that is at fault.—Lily Herald Frost in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. PNEUMONIA SCOURGE NEVADA GOLD HUNTERS. THE CONCORDAT OF 1901 The text of the Concordat of 1801 between the Pope and the French Re public, a short document, considering the issues involved, is as follows: The Government of the republic ac knowledges that the Catholic, Apostol leal, and Roman religion is the religion of the great majority of French citi zens. His holiness, in like manner, ac knowledges that this same religion has derived, and is likely to derive, the greatest splendor from the establish ment of the Catholic worship France, and from its being openly pro fessed by the consuls of the republic. This mutual acknowledment being made, in consequence, as well for the good of religion as for the maintenance of interior tranquillity, they have agreed as follows: 1. The Roman Catholic Apostolical religion shall be freely exercised in France. Its service shall be publicly- performed, conformably to the regula tions of police which the Government shall judge necessary for the public tranquillity. 2. There shall be made by- the Holy- See. in concert with the Government, a new division of French dioceses. 3. His holiness shall declare to the titular French bishops that he expects from them, with the firmest confidence, every sacrifice for the sake of peace and unity-—even that of their sees. After this exhortation, if they should refuse the sacrifice commanded for the good of the church (a refusal, never theless. which his holiness by no means expects), the sees of the new division? shall be governed by bishops appointed as follows: 4. Within three months after pub lication of his holiness’, bull, the chief consul shall nominate to the archbish oprics and bishoprics of the new di vision. His holiness shall confer can onical institution, according to the forms established for France before the change of Government (i. e., the revo lution). 6. The nomination of the bishoprics which become vacant in future shall likewise belong to the chief consul, and canonical institutions shall be admin istered by the Holy See, conformably to the preceding article. 6. The bishops, before they enter upon their functions, shall take, before the chief consul, the oath of fidelity which was in use before the revolu tion. expressed in the following words: "I swear and promise to God, upon the holy- evangelists, to preserve obedience and fidelity to the Government estab lished Constitution of the French Re public. I likewise promise to carry on no correspondence, to be present at no conversation, to form no connection, whether within the territories of the republic or without, which may in any degree disturb the jiublic tranquillity: and if in my diocese or elsewhere I discover that anything is going for ward to the prejudice of the State. I will immediately communicate to the Government all the information I pos sess.” 7. Ecclesiastics of the second order shall take the same oath before' the civil authorities appointed by the Gov ernment. 8. The following formula of prayer shall he recited at the end of divine service in all the Catholic churches of France: "Domine. salvam fac repub licans. Domine. salvost. fac .Consules.” 3. The bishops shall make a new di vision of the parishes in their dmca^es. which, however, shall not take effect till after it is ratified by the Govern ment. 10. The bishops shall have the ap pointment of the vicars-general. Their choice shall only fall on persons ap proved by the Government. 11. The bishops may have a chapter in their cathedral and a seminary for the diocese, without the Government being obliged to-endow them. 12. All the metropolitan, cathedral, parochial and other churches, which have not been alienated, necessary to public worship, shall be placed at the disnosal of the bishops. 13. His holiness, for the sake of peace and the hannv re-establishment There's a terrible little fellow who seems to have been appointed by the Spirits of the Desert to keep ward and watch over the golden treasure burned in the barren hills of bleak Nevada, says a Goldfield letter in the New York Sun. He is the Pneumococcus. The treasure hunters are slowly- best ing him. but the little demon is exact ing a heavy payment for the gold they take away. Pneumonia is the scourge of Gold field. Deaths in the mining camp run into the washerwoman's shanty. "What’d you do with those shares I gave you a year ago?" he asked. “Oh, I dunno." she answered, be tween strokes of the iron. "I fink they're up there in that see-gar box on the shelf, but I ain’t sure.” The former owner of the shares reached up and drugged the box down. There they were, sure enough, stuffed in between half a dozen candle ends, a ball of string and a rusty case knife. The washerwoman’s debtor counted them out. Then he grinned. “The Joke’s on me,” he said. "They are worth $12,130 this minute.” And they were. There was a young fellow who used The World’s Tiniest Republic Facts About San Marino. Ten miles inland from the atic seacoast of Italy, and entire! THE REAL RAISULI. from sixty to one hundred a month, to clean out cuspidors and sweep up Call it an average of eighty and you at the Montezuma Club. He saved have a yearly death rate of 6 per cent, t what he earned and bought minin A very large majority of these deaths I shares. He's said to are due to pneumonia, a few to ty- [ phoid. Thq outside world hears little of it j save when some well known man passes away, such as ex-Governor I Hunt, of Idaho, who succumbed here to the scourge of the camp. Most of the victims are homeless and friend less adventurers.-. No fuss Is made over theVti. They are simply taken out and buried in the most Godforsaken | cemetery in all the world. In most of tho victims life goes out like a snuffed candle. So swiftly death rides on the wings of the Pneumococ cus that they call it black pneumonia down here. But it’s only old fash ioned pneumonia working the more swiftly that it has such fertile soil in which to plant its seeds. It is inten sive farming. Death the farmer. The hardships of this coaliess, over crowded mining camp weaken consti tutions so that when disease comes it meets little resistance. In four sa loons late last nig'nt the Sun corre spondent counted sixty-eight men asleep on the floor. Some were drunk and some were merely exhausted with toil and had no other place where they could sleep. Out of tiie kindness of their hearts the bartenders let them sleep where they lay. Occasionally a man with a mop would approach one of the sleep ers and poke him into semi-wakeful ness. "Hey. Bill.” he would say, "roll over till I mop beneath yc.” The sleeper would obey orders, re turning to' slumber the next instant, ,while the mop continued its work un der the next man and the whirl of the roulette ball, the popping of many corks and tlje volleys of profanity in many tongues blended for the sium- bercr's lullaby. It is men of this sort that are dying like sheep in Goldfield. They are shipping two or three of them out on every, train, others they bury in nameless graves, the hospital is fuii and the undertaker cheerful. The newcomer wonders why there is a graveyard so near the middle of the town. This is the story of how it hap pened, related by one of the oldest in habitants of the Goldfield settlement: "When I first blew in here nobody had ever cashed in A few days later some fellow croaked- He'd no money, no friends, no name that anybody knew of. "So a few of us thought it was up to us to plant him.. I was on the com mittee to pick out a cemetery site. We found a place out .on the desert about a mile from town. Then we gave a man $5 to dig the grave. ‘‘Jake Murnan was the fellow wc picked for the job. Jake was drunk and broke. He hated to let his jag die, so a five-spot looked big to him. "I took him out and showed,him the place and Jake came back to get a shovel and a pick. On the way back he comes on a hole, 6 by S foot, that some prospector had made and bein’ some tired he figures that this is just as sightly a place for a grave as the one we picked out. so he digs it right there in that prospector's excavation. "•When we come to bury the stranger we sees Jake has made a break, but we was too busy to bother about it.. So we plants him right there. “Course, the next one was put right next to him and so it grew up into a fine young cemetery. Pretty soon we gets 200 bodies planted there. So we calls a halt and starts an other cemetery further out. But Jake is responsible for the first one.” But it’s little Goldfield cares for the man who fails. They are rushing in every day to take-his place. -There's gold out there in the desert and the lucky ones will g'et it. If you live, you live: if you die, you die, says fatalistic Goldfield. If a man were to recount all the tales he hears down here- of men who go to bed thousands the possessor of a.singularly active im agination. But a great many of these yarns are true and capable of demon stration. For example: Walter Williams and Charles D. Taylor, the men who located the Red •XpP and the Jumbo mines, were so strapped a few months ago that when they sat down in a Goldfield saloon to play slough they had to use beans for chips and the bank had to cash in to furnish them with supper. Now Taylor is worth toward half a million and has gone back to Nova Scotia to see his old folks, for the first time in ten years. Henry Weber, who has just sold his interest in the Grand Bend Extension for $1,250,000. came to Tonopab not long ago on the soft side of a freight car truck. From Tonopah he walked to Goldfield. He’s now interested in the Wonder district, and has just ordered an au tomobile. specially designed to* make Ixty miles an hour over the desert. ost republic and what is claimed to be the oldest State in the world—'t/he Republic of San Marino. Its area is but thirty-eight square miles and its population at the last census was but 11,002. yet its history dates dimly back tu its founding in the third century after Christ by a Dalmatian monk named Martinus. Somehow—by a mir acle it would seem—the little republic has escaped the stress and turmoil of the succeeding centuries, escaped even the hand of Napoleon in the years when he made and remade the map of be worth $50,000 | Er0 P® at his imperial will. Yet per- todav. haps strangest of all is that it should You may hear these tales all night j have retained its separate identity de- long this bitter weather around the i spite the movement for national unity Mulai Ahmed ben Mohammed er- , . . Raisuli is a man of about 10 years of Acirt- a „ e He j 0 p v pirth sprung from one rounded by Italian soil, lies the small! t „ h , e most aristocratic families in Ma- , [ rocco and is a shereef. or direct de scendant of the prophet, through Mu- hotel stoves of Goldfield and the per sons who tell them give every evidence that they are true. The day of the mining camp bad men is gone forever. Goldfield has them, it is true, but they are behaving themselves nowadays, for the man with a record is no longer a hero. On the contrary, he is shunned. There are a score of men now here who have got their men before now. but they say as little as possible about it and stick to faro dealing or barten- I ding. The bad men are no longer the bosses of a mining camp. I The powers that rule are now the men who own the big properties or who are putting through big enter prises or doing engineering work. These men you will find every morn ing at the well named Montezuma Club. The Montezuma Club is the most comfortable place in Goldfield. It has 350 members, a pool table, a billiard table, a bar, all the magazines and two stoves. Moreover, the stoves are al ways hot, which is something in Gold field. Here you will find of an evening a crowd of men who have done things all over the uninhabitable globe. Over there, playing bridge whist, is a man who made a fortune taking wood into Nome. His partner spent years diving for pearls in the- South Sea Islands. Play ing against them is a chap who was twenty years jn the diamond fields of the Transvaal. His partner used to be a Cuban filibuster. The grizzled veteran reading a maga zine by the long center table has laid thousands of miles of railroads tracks in Mexico. That pair hugging the nearest stove are swapping talcs about the old days In Cripple Creek,' while the slender young man just making a masse shot spent ten years sealing in Alaska. Over in the corner an ex-Governor of the State of Nevada and a former sheep herder, now worth $2,000,000, have their heads together. The man who just got up from the writing ta ble is a United States Senator. With one glance of your eye you may see thirty college graduates rep resenting every part of the country. Yesterday morning a graduate of Ox ford climbed upon a lunch counter stool at the Merchants’ Hotel along side a man whose last regular em ployment was driving an electric car in Denver. They both ordered ham and eggs. ■ As they sat there a chaffeur whose auto had broken down in the snow entered, bearing in his arms a huge can labelled "Gasolene” in letters six inches high. This he calmly deposited on ton of the red hot stove. All hands grabbed for their hats and edged hurriedly toward the door, while one braver than the rest grabbed it huge platter and advanced toward tn which swept over Italy in the last cen tury and which, guided by Cavour and VIctour Emmanuel, came at last to its day of triumph. San Marino is a contrast to Mon aco. the miniature principality where, two hundred and fifty miles away to the west as flies the crow, the gaming tables of Monte Carlo lure and ruin the gamblers of all the world mid n scene so graced by nature that it seems a paradise, not a hall. The lit tle republic has resisted rich offers for gambling concessions, the 'little prin cipality has not. The result Is that there go to Monaco more than one million visitors every year, while to San Marino, only nine miles from the famous Riviera and sixty miles from beauteous Florence, there go few visi ters or . none. In San Marino no one is permitted to play a game of chance either in public or in.private, and lock smiths. so ’t ! s said, are even forbidden to sell la-chkeys to young men lest they prove roisterers or gay Lotharios. It is a close oligarchy, with strange mediaeval laws and a constitution. Fines are prescribed for doctors, chem ists or bloodletters who reveal profes sional secrets, disturbers of Roman Catholic services (but not those of heretics) and for "usurpation of public esteem” by assuming titles. Imprison ment for f|fom one to three months is imposed for profanely using the name of the Deity or of the Holy Virgin or 1 cursing the founder of the re/mhlic. To write or speak in favor of dissolv ing the Council is punishable by ten years’ penal servitude. , Special li. censes are required for growing to bacco. keeping she goats, going up in balloons or climbing the town walls. A dozen republics the size of San Marino could' be mit in New York without crowding. The “capital." * the village of San Marino, is perched on a sheer rock more than two thousand feet above the sea level and the four or five other villages are built on the craggy sides of the mountain. One part of the town is wholly taken up by the residences of the nobles, the re mainder of the •capital being relegated to the burgesses and peasants. The principal public building is the Govern ment palace, which contains the throne of the. captains regent and among other pictures a portrait of George Washing ton with the inscription: In honor of the founder of the great est of republics this portrait was do nated by the citizens of the oldest of republics. . There are also several interesting old churches and a museum in the cityi Not the least interesting sight in San Marino is to see the national army on parade. The entire army consists of 124 men. Some of the uniforms, with cocked hats and plumes, are magnifi cent, and every man struts about with ( ns ferocious and self-satisfied an ex- ® pression as any Prussian veteran. Hon orary rank in this army, with the right stove with the evident intention of braining the chaffeur. The latter : wear the uniforfn. Is as easily oh- grinned. j tained, as are the titles of the nobility. ihe ‘It’s “Fergit it. gents.” said ho. cheerful accent of the Bowery, only water.” Probably the best known had man pow in Goldfield is Diamondfield Jack Davis. He has several killings to his credit. Up in Tdaho he was several times convicted of the murder of three sheep herders and was sentenced to be hanged. It's a coincidence that the man to whom he owes his life, ex- Governor Hunb of Idaho, died here the other day.- Diamondfield Jack, like the rest of his kind, is living quietly these days. He lias shown only one flash of the old spirit that brought him so near the gallows. That was while the Various titles of nobility are conferred by the Government of the republic. A few American citizens have been given “handles to their names,” says the for eign correspondent of The Chicago Chronicle, among them being a den tist, who received his title of duke in this manner. The spirit of caste and other most undemocratic traditions prevail. The executive power is tn the hands of two captains regent, elected in April and October by the council of sixty. One of them must always be a nobleman and the other a burgess—a plain citi zen. All legislative power is vested in the council of sixty, which governs the State in truly paternal style. This u council of sixty is composed of twenty paupers' and”waJce^worth^tens of ! rniners were boycotting the Goldfield nobles, twenty burgesses and twenty sands he would be set down as i Su A n early last fall Peasants. Whenever a vacancy is caus- down the street and the lad ran into Diamondfield Jack’s brokerage office. The crowd followed, pell rnell. “Diamondfield Jack" grabbed an au tomatic gun in each hand and faced the mob. Get the out of here, you —!” ed by death the remaining councillors elect a successor.—Springfield Repub lican. Chronic Constipation Cured. One who suffers from chronic con stipation is in danger of many serious - . . ailments. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup he roared, “or I'll blow ye all to hell!”'! cures chronic constipation, as it aids The mob stood not upon the order j digestion and stimulates the liver and of its going. Its flight was panic- bowels, restoring the natural action of stricken. Probably, almost every man j these organs. Commence taking it to- in the crowd toted a gun, but they j day and you will feel better at once, all fled before the terror of the name [ Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup does not of Diamondfield Jack. i nauseat or gripe and is very pleasant For a quarter of an hour the old- I to take. Refuse substitutes. H. J. time bad- mad strode up and down the street, a gun in each hand, roaring like a wounded bull, and calling on the vanished jiiob to come back and get killed. But not a soul would oblige him. Yet, Lamar, near Exchange E'ank. Shakespeare Not Modern Enough. Frank T. Dowling, one of proud New York’s city fathers, recently gave his col leagues the benefit of his experience with x-ftt considering that there is no law the dramatic schools of the metropolis. ...j, ” /!?.. tncre i- no jaw j j t a jj (, ame a b ou t through an application Goldfield, Its a fairly orderly place. f r0 m the Board of Education for an ex it has two churches, a good school house and a Salvation Army post. There is also a Turkish bath house and perimental automobile truck. Dowling at once took issue against the innovation, declaring that the new-fangled ideas of •ur love- pre prow men who do not love your wives have broken the seventh command ment and all stand under condemna tion.” This minister I suppose, would see the light in Mrs. Parsons' proba tionary marriage scheme. If you failed this time, try again. Perhaps your judgment lias been disciplined, the senses fallen from your eyes. -Sup plant natural selection by worldly wis dom. some affinity by nicely adjusted tastes and harmonious sensibilities and perhaps in the eighth or twentieth trial you may fall upon that rightly anointed of your affections and thus escape the condemnation of God s law. Buot how about tile slaughter of the innocents, those born in sin? It is harrowing. It is revolting. Look or that picture and then on this: Two hearts titrobbing with a chaste and pure love. Tile winning of faith nobly as the thing is high, the high and hon est capitulation of the one to another. Tho sanctuary, the compelling sweet ness of a new home The dearness of personal experience. Tho patter of lit tle feet, little pink fingers holding in their fragie grasp a!! the multitudinous Tutt’sPills This popular remedy never (alls to effectually cure Dvspepsia, Constipation, Sick Headache, Biliousness And ALL DISEASES arising from a Torpid Liver and Bad Digestion The natural result is good appetite and solid flesh. Dose small: elegant ly sugarcoated and easy to swallow. Take No Substitute. shall belong forever to them, their heirs and assigns. 14. The Government shall grant a suitable emolument to bishops and par ish priests whose dioceses and parishes are comprised in the new division. 15. The Goveriiment shall likewise take measures to enable French Cath- olicfe who are so inclined to dispose of their property for the support of re ligion. 16. His holiness recognizes in the chief consul of the French Republic the same rights and prerogatives in religious matters which the ancient Government enjoyed. 17. It is agreed between the con tracting parties that in case any of the successors of the present chief consul should not be a Catholic, the rights and prerogatives mentioned in the forego ing articles, as well as the nomination to the bishops - sees, shall be regulated, with regard to him. by a new conven tion. Cured of Lung Trouble. "It is now eleven years since I had a narrow escape from consumption.” writes C. O. Floyd, a leading business man of Kershaw. S. C. "I had run down in weight to 135 pounds, and | coughing was constant, both by day and by night. Finally I began taking Dr. King's New Discovery, and con tinued :his for about six months, when my cough and lung trouble were entirely gone and I was restored to mv normal weight. 170 pounds.” Thou sands of persons are healed every year. Guaranteed at ail drug store-. 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. They had just ten cents, and they wanted a job as badly as it was ever wanted in these parts. The mine superintendents gave them tents and enough money to feed them and started them in to work. They worked until they had laid up $30 or. $40 apiece and they then disappeared. Two months ago they walked into Goldfield and sold their claims for $300,000. but they din’t get their mon ey until a frotnight or so ago. They are now trying to get rid of it as soon as the field will let them. And Gold field is very helpful to such as they. In fact, nine out of every ten men who have made much money overnight down here have spent it in gambling and drink, only less rapidly than they got it. One night last week an old fellow, gray And bent and marked by years of work and hardship, walked into the Monte Carlo saloon and gambling joint. He has been around the camp for more than a year and used to talk largely about a wonderful claim he had located, but his kind is plentiful here abouts and he earned a precarious livelihood by doing odd jobs. This time, however, he displayed a that he intends having his Northern saloon swept out next week. MY LETTERS. My letters! all dead paper, , . . mute and white! And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the string And let them drop down in my knee to night This said he wished to have me in his sight Once, as a friend; this fixed a day in spring To come and touch my hand ... a simple thing. Yet;, I wept for it! this. ... the paper's light . . . Said. “Dear. I love thee;” and I sank and quailed As if God's future thundered on my past. This said. “I am thine”—and so its ink has paled With lying at my heart that beat too fast. And this . . . O Love, thy words have ill availed, If what this said I dared repeat at last! —Elizabeth Barnett Browning. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on your pa per. It tells how you stand on the books. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and , also renew for the year 1907. Mixed Pickles. Procrastination and Sloth once ran a race. Procrstination never started and Sloth never got there, so the race was draft for $10,050, which he had received for his much talked of claim. He wanted it cashed. The bartender, rec- j declared a dead heat, ognizing the signature on the draft, looked up the owner of the joint, who • gave the prospector the money. The next morning the old fellow ’ came into the same place and begged the bartender to give him a drink. He had gambled away his $10,000 over- ! night. Or., year ago a Goidflelder went ! broke. Among his creditors was a j washerwoman to whom he owed $45. | Despite her protests that it was ail j right anyhow, lie insisted on giving i her a hunch of shares in a Goldfield i mine. As quotations then stood, they ' were next to worthies*. The other day this same man walked I Take the dramatic school, for instance, •where my girl is studying. I wasn’t In for the scheme at all. but my wife and daughter kept up such a stream of gib berish about art and temperament and all that kind of rot. that I finally con sented to let her make a trial till she .found that she couldn't get on the stage without a- pull, and if she did she would want to come back home in a short time anyway. I gave my promise. It was fool ish. but I couldn’t help it. Now I'm sorry. They’re teaching Shakespeare in these schools when they ought to have some thing modem, something Tip to date, in place of it. They fill young giris’ heads with the idea that they are going to fce great actresses, when they ought to be learning how to sew and cook. My own girl keeps me awake half of the night going through that rigmarole about JnUtf* Caesar, and sometimes when I’m asleep she will come into my room and say. ‘Here lies the dead body of Caesar, and I am Mark Twain!’ “ ‘Mark what?' ” the statesman was asked. “Well. Mark something.” he replied. “I don't know the man.” “And then again," said the Alderman, warming up to the subject stn he saw his auditors were interested to the point of i enthusiasm—"then again it teaches them j to say bad words. Why. one night Com i my daughter's room I heard tins: ‘Get | out. you damned spot.’ or something like l that. I ran in there and she was with her eyes shut. " ‘What's that you’re saying?' I asked. 1 " ‘Why. papa. I'm practicing Lady Mac- j heth's speech.’, she said. I told her ‘Lady' Macbeth, whoever she was. couldn't be | much of a lady if she used language like [ that. "Now, can you beat it? The plays on : Eighth avenue ain’t good enough foi- her. j She must go over to Broadway." Having tints relieved bis mind. Mr. I Dowling got back to the business in hand. —Billboard. i lai Idris, who founded the Mahomet; Empire of Morroeco and was the first sovereign of the Idrislte dynasty. Tho children of Mulai Abd-es-Salam, whoso i tomb in the Beni Afros tribe is a place of great sanctity, that the famous bri- | gand is directly descended, his family land he himself still holding a share in • the lands, the rights and privileges 1 which were enjoyed by their renowned, ancestor. \ branch of the family set- i tied in Tf tuan. where a fine mbsque forms a mausoleum for his more recent i ancestors and is venerated as a place of pilgrimage. Possibly it was this holy ancestry that turned Raisuli from the paths of virtue, for after having received an exceiient education in religion and re ligious law at Tetuan lie took to the adventurous, lucrative, and. in Mo rocco. by no means despised, profes sion of a cattle robber. It is a risky business and requires courage. You may just as likely be shot yourself as shobt any one else, but prestige toll -- in favor of the head of the band, and a reign of terror of the young Raisuli ensued. He became celebrated. Ho was a‘youth or great courage, of the most prepossessing looks, and he and his followers earned money easily anti fast, and spent it still faster. B"ut cat tle robberies led to other crimes. Mur ders followed, and it must Vo confessed that Raisuli’s hands are none too clean in that respect: hut murder in Mo rocco cannot be classed with murder In England. Life is cheap and the dead arc soon forgotten. By nature he was and is cruel, and tho profession he had adopted gave him unlimited scope to exhibit his cruelty. On one occasion a shereef who had married his sister proposed to tako a second wife. Rai suli’s sister, enraged, fled to her brother and complained. Notbtag occurred till N the night of the new marriage, when, at the height of the festivities. Raisuli and his men entered his brother-in- law's house and put to death the young * bride and her mother. At length his acts became intoler able. The whole country round lived in terror if his raids. The late Sultan ordered his arrest. His greatest friend betrayed him: he was seized and sent to prison in (he dreaded dungeons of Mogador. Two years later lie was re leased on the petition of Haj Moham med Torres, the Sultan’s representative at Tangier. He came back to his homo . meaning to live a quiet and peaceful life, but be found that his friend «in* had betrayed him had become Gover nor of Tangier, and confiscated @11 his property. He applied for its return, but could not obtain it. He threatened, but they laughed at. him, and then he took, to his old profession again and became a brigand. He surrounded the villa of Mr. Per- diearis at niglit and carried off both the proprietor and his son-in-law. The American Government sent a fleet to Tangier, and the whole world watched the ensuing negotiations. Mr. Perdi- earis and Mr. Varley were restored to liberty, but at what a price! Raisuli demanded and obtained from the Sul tan the following terms: That ho should be appointed Governor of all the districts in the neighborhood of Tangier: that the existing Governor—• his former friend, who had betrayed him—should be deposed: a ransom of $70,000, the imprisonment of all his enemies and the release from prison 'of- all his friends, and other concessions of less importance. The Sultan sur rendered. and the’ terms were carried out.. Raisuli found himself all-powerful —a hero in the eyes of the Moors, a menace in those of Europe. As his influence increased he became a dgspot. He’squeezed ’the people un der him and'extorted money from tho very poorest of the poor. The Magh- zen lived in terror of him, and let him know it, with the result that he ignored its orders and commands, and even tno treaties with Europe. At length the European representa tives could endure it no longer. They addressed, a fortnight ago, a collective note to the Moorish minister of foreign affairs at Fez. demanding that an end be made 'to the impos-ible state of af fairs existing in the Tangier districts. It was almost an ultimatum, for the bay was full of the warships of Franco and Spain, present to protect European interests until the introduction of tho new police. The Sultan and his viziers could not understand the purport of the note. The minister of war was ordered to proceed to Tangier with all available forces. In spite of his celebrity, very few people have ever seen Raisuli. ,,He has never been photographed or written his name in the autograph collector's album. He has been throughout a sort of mysterious personage, half saint, half blackguard, whom every, cour ageous male tourist has volunteered to capture and many a still more cour ageous female tourist to marry. Special Announcement Regarding the National Pure Feed and Drug Law. We are pleased to announce that Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs, colds and lung troubles is not affected by the National Pure Food and Drug law, as it contains no opiates or other harmful drugs, and we recommend it as a safe remedy for children and adults. H. J. Lamar, near Exchange Bank. upt k. The marriage of Loquacity to-Pre- occupation is ideally happy. She is never interrupted and he never hears. Flirtation pointed a gun. which was a coquette model, at a youth and pulled the trigger. "She didn’t know it was loaded.” Negligence left his coat on the front steps to find that Slovenliness had wiped ilia feet on it. Gossip picked the lock for Backbiting to go in and steal his neighbor's repu tation. Because Insincerity tried to vote for . , w all the candidal!••* at once, he was ar- ! the label.. Send in dues and asket tulT ror 3tufflIMr thc baIIOtb ° x; - c f' ' also renew for the year 1907. L&h Iau?hler NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on your pa per. It tells how you stand on the books. Due from date on NO MILLIONAIRES IN ALASKA. Washington Correspondent of the Boston Transcript. An interesting visitor in Washington at this time is Wilford B. Hoggctt. for 17 years an officer in the United States Navy, and since last spring Governor of Alaska. He is here to submit to'the Se< - retaries of War and Interior reports of the northernmost territory, and will lay before committee of Congress such infor mation about Alaska as they may wish.* Governor Hoggatt. while unwilling to dis cuss in advance thc recommendations contained in his reports, was willing to say something today about the weather of the territory he governs. "In all of Alaska.” he said, “there is not a million aire or a semi-millionaire: in faqt. I do not know of any man who is worth S230.- 000. The stories of fabulous sums made there in placer mining have been exag gerated. Money was made, to lie mire, but when they made it. most of them left the territory to invest or spend it in the United States. The Kiondyke region had 50,000 people in it.five years ago: to day it has only 7.000. In Alaska $20.01)0.- 000 in gold was taken out this year, as compared with $11,000,000 Inst year. R. t this does not moafi that any man is be coming a mining king. The territory a pleasant, healthful place to live, r,' n d’ it has opportunities; but it ha.-- no greater opportunities than arc to be found in tin- Stat's. “Though there are more than five men to every wottsin. as in all new countries, we have a social life which is up to thc average. Copper mining is being de veloped rapidly: last year we turned out $500,000 of it; this year. J2.v00.000. With the extension of railway lines up ioto-tbe copper territory, which is 400 miles long and 50 miles wide, the output will he enhanced, as the Alaska copper fields are said to be among the most valuable in the world. Coal mining is another indus try that is developing rapidly.” Ready to Address the Jury. George Small, of Norway. M painter, used occasionally to look “the ardent." At one time ho summoned to testify in a case in c Being somewhat under the infii of liquor, his speech was rath.-; t and, to make matters worse, Im fij ed his conversation to the attorney questioning hurt, so the jury ,>n>/vj not understand half of what he said Finally the judge turned to him atil said: “Mr. Witness, speak louder, and address t^e jury.” ‘Upon what subject Your Honor?"