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JOAYY, FEBRUARY 26, 1907. THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH FOREIGN NOTES ^TT^rc^ir tt^ A new issue of Italian money, in gold, silver, bronze, and nickel. will soon be ready for circulation. Lead ing Italian designers have been at work on the drawings, and much Is hoped for in the finished resuIL The other day it was announced that Great Britain. France and Ger- BACHELOR REFLECTIONS From the New York Press. It’s cheaper to have bad habits than an automobile. Everybody is always trying to make money without earning it. Men are ashamed to have a lot of children and women not to. A man could afford to buy jewels tell me th or Inclder or of som brings up old, or is memory?” •If cour; tion. .Me men have goc men. lucky fe men grow ol< needed, and I How many January?" performance or to * large cities that I canr have r -r the ques- hi devised rerreml th; but a a test i me. er "Who; end thei her it ftener Thirty or forty years ago wasn’t a bc-y in Macon, in Coo; even In the South, who did n •'whoa. January” many times The exclamation was as comn pig-tracks, and some how or o fit everything. You could us- it and It carne in handier than any let of words ever strung together ex cept "all right,” and, by the way. these two words were made popular' by a little'almond-eyed Jap. who cut up shines at the end of .1 long ■d on the feet of his big I .-uppose you can remero- mnn> V,. wl!I ’’Member the visit of ' Va f d „ with flis panorama hir- S 'tho. La " e , clty ' Do you remem- . tha -,. s,ock Joke, altered to suit l-canty, of how he apologized for rdiness, saying that he had at- , I . e . funeral of his mother-in i' ' that day and he never had so mnen real pleasure in his life? And ' , cou.d not sing because he was -aaoest when he sang, and that to sing would be to live in vain, and he ’•* ouid rather live in Fort Valley than live in vain? many had agreed on their respective j for a wife if he wasn’t married, shares of Lake Tchad, Central Africa, j The way to convince a man is to Before many years the shares of water make him think he is convincing you. surface will be shares of swamp land. ‘ if there isn’t any reason for a girl as the lake is drying up. In fifty j to fall in love with a man. it’s a sign years its area ha* diminished by j she will. 1,000,000 acres, and it is now very shal- j a woman always speaks of her serv- low throug .out. jant in the plural, even when she hasn’t of local news the Hong a single one. No woman ever thinks her dress is less Servant Problem Vexed Wives in Colonial Days Same as Now monke pole baianc Jap father, her him. When the gieat stars. Forrest, Booth. McCulloch. Davenport. Wal- , ,ack - Jefferson and those of that mag- ue are going back now to the days nit,ld e came to Macon there was never of the one-ring circus, and. after all. a spare chair. Of course there are no of circuses. In these days of such stArs now. at least not many of •*ou lose nearly all the j iji e m, but there are good shows, and re so many things going i there are plenty of empty scats. Now the best three rings show. There on at one time that you see a little Jn this ring, a little in the other, and unless you keep shifting your eyes nothing in the third. But with the one-ring you saw it all, and in the old days there was plenty to see. There was one good clown, and if you old people will think about it, you never saw a roor clown in the circuses of long go. Don l you remember Johnny Lowlow! Ha was a Savannah boy, and he made more children laugh than all tile modern would-be clowns with their fantastic dress. Don’t you remember the clown with his chalked face and sugar-loaf hat and how he talked sassy to the ringmaster! Of course you da. and then the trick mule January! Wonderful mule that! Never a mule had as much sense ns January. Don’t you remember how many smart Aleck men and boys .thought they could ride January around the ring, and couldn’t? The clown had only to shuot "whoa January.’’ and off they tumbled. Kong South China Post announces: “As the body of the mother of Rail way Director Chen To Chai (who died at the beginning of this year) has not yet been buried, the director insists upon resigning in order that he may engage a geomancer to look for a piece of lucky ground for the inter ment of the remains.” A notification has been issued by the Government of British India to the effect that no license will be Sometimes t < ; granted for the Importation of any ,w.^n v, o„a h l n 1 ‘ heat ' r I tWes of .303 bore or rifles or .150 bore najr-niied houses. | by sea or river or land into British India. It is made an offense for per sons to be found in possession of such firearms or of bore ammunition which can be fired from such rifles. Great printing works are establish ed at Nartang, in Thibet. A traveler says; "There are thousands and thousands of blocks at Nartang. com prising matter in type equivalent to numerous different volumes. Each wooden block is about 24 Inches long by 12 inches wide, one face having carved upon it a complete page of let tering. The method of printing is primitive in the extreme and consist of laying the papc-r on a flat surface and levering the block upon It with a long handle, much as the village black smith works his bellows.” ■adays and and think of the population being four times greater than in the old days I wonder if it is because the stage' is I r ss attractive, or because there are many other diversions. It was sel dom in the old days that the house was not full. Old showmen used to say that they were sure of full houses in the South, and especially in Macon. and then a show fills the house, but it is seldom. But looking backward, thinking it I all over - simmering it down and I drawing comparisons. I am inclined to think that while the stage has pro gressed in proportioh to all else, espe cially as to scenic effects, the old shows were better than those of today. Seems to me we were moved to tears more easily by the melodrama, and that we laughed more at the fun- makers. and that we shuddered more at the tragic than in these days. But this may be because we are growing old. Heigho, I’d give a fortune to see old John Lowlow in his clown suit and hear him once more shout “Whoa, January!” TOPICS OF THE TIMES Now then, if you can remember '’Whoa. January,” you must be travel ing somewhere in the neighborhood of the fiftieth mile-post, nnd It depends on the state of your liver, and memory, whether you are growing old. ■ Railroads are becoming the prime j factor in American race suicide.—New j York American. It was not long after the war when two circuses met here in Macon on the same day. There were not ns many towns in Georgia, then as there ore now. and railroad accommodations were not near so good. These circuses did not want to come together, but there was no getting around It. Dan Gastello had on.- and Levi J. North had the other. They pitched tents at the foot of Mulberry street, with Cas- tello on the side where the jail now stands. There was only the width of a narrow roadway between the two tents. Small as the population, there ■were big crowds. In tho afternoon Castello had the crowds and at night North had them. Those were the days of Jim Robin son and Robert Stlekney. rival bare- back riders. No such riding is seen these days. But it Is the circus alone, non the performers, that I am calling to mind. There were no dips of death, no loop the loops, and all such me chanical contrivances that look danger ous enoui^i to raise the hair, and yet are as safe as fnlling off a log. It was skill and merit that told in thoee days. There were artists, nnd we look ed forward to their coming ns we did to the coming of Edwin Forrest or McCullough. Everybody knew of Rob inson and Stlekney. In these days of three-ring circuses, do you know of a star performer? There is not a name in the world of today that you can call to mind except that of tho owner. • • • It’s different in the minstrel busi ness. You can’t bury a star performer in minstrelsy. The star shines out. and in these days it is often that the name is nil. A star with a big repu tation can gather up n lot of hnm-fat- ters and travel as So-and-So’s min strels and draw a crowd. Thirty or forty years ago the people wouldn't stand for fakes of this kind. Not only the star had to be there, but till the other stars. There were some good minstrels in tho old days. The first I can remember before the war were Matt Fee] and Pendettjrast. Then came afterward . Charlie White, Dan Emmett, Shift' & V Gaylord. Birch. Wnmbold & Radius, /followed by Jack Haverly. Cal Wagner. Milt Barlow, and later came Primrose nnd West, George Wilson and others. In the old days everybody blacked up, and there were no whit •’ faces on the stage. The musicians sat in the semi circle with the vocalists, and the entire evening was minstrel, not vaudeville business as it is now. How many will remember the Swiss Bell Ringers? Do yon remember the Berger f.p'i'v. I'. ,\; a • and No'!, and Sol S:t ith Hass 11. \v : h IPs song of " 1 loose and Son- .m.i logons?" There was no sweeter music than the nmslc of those beds When thev played "The Blue Bells of Scotland” the music eniered the soul of the hardened sinner just as the singing of "Asleep in Je sus" by Mrs. Schofield does. Philadelphia’s independence was a yawn, not an awakening. The nap is resumed.—New York Mail. % A Boston fisherman caught a lob ster which weighed 25 pounds. With or without its spectacles?—New York Herald. A woman likes to visit her relatives so she can let them know how much better things she has at home.—New York Press. We cannot get good government in this country except we go to the polls nnd push it into the ballot boxes.— ! Philadelphia Record. There is talk of another State in the Northwest. More Senatorial -material found in the timber belt, perhaps— Philadelphia Ledger. “Twenty-two for mine.” said G. W. ! "Twenty-three for yours,” he added ! later, as his eagle eye swept the long line of British redcoats.—New York ! Herald. j Railroad wrecks have become so numerous that people are beginning to look upon them as something like what i General Sherman said war was.—Phil adelphia Press. Some English statesmen are worried ! fit the mere prospect of a written con- ; stitution: yet this country has one, and it does not seem to worry some Anier- \ lean statesmen a bit.—Philadelphia Ledger. As Harry Thaw is only paying the ! experts for proving that he was in sane at the time he shot Stanford ; White, those gentlemen should re- I frain from making him any crazier than the contract calls for.—Washing ton Post. There is nothing new under the sun. A Baltimore scientist now claims to have discovered that natural gas was used on the altars of many primitive temples. The vestal virgin will have to go to join the vast company of ex ploded celebrities.—New York Tribune. Right Honorable James Bryce says he is glad he is here. Same to him! — New York Herald. Count that day lost whose low, de scending sun views from thy hand no Finley Peter Dunne.—Life. In view of the many serious wrecks, even Mr. Bryan ought to feel glad that the Government does not own the rail- ! roads.—Philadelphia Press. Senator Knox is demanding another dam in Ohio. Did the Senator hear the remarks of certain pious ladies when he made his speech in defense of Smoot?—Philadelphia North Amer ican. I The Thaw trial is attracting so ! much attention all over the world that President Castro can die in six differ ent languages every other day with out being noticed.—Washington Post. Governor Hughes sums up the Kel sey case by saying that “he conspicu ously failed to perform obvious duties.” ; The (governor would make a good par- i.agrapher. He has a fine trait of ver- | bal double-distillation.—New York Mail. j FACTS IN FIGURES. United States Consul Milner reports that 473 tons of laces of the value of $5,806,193 were sent to the United States from Calais. France, in 1905. and 6.274 tons of lumber and 4,951 tons of petroleum were imported from the United States. For 1906. the official figures of the political repressions in Russia are: Persons executed. 1.252: sent into penal servitude in the mines. 2,029; exiled to Siberia for life, 186; im prisoned, 5.945; newspapers suspend ed. 562; editors prosecuted, 732. Recent British statistics show the rapid disappearance of illiteracy among those entitled to suffrage in the United Kingdom. Of the 5,500,000 votes cast in the recent election, only 34.309 were by illiterates; 19.75S of these being in England and Wales; 12.510 in Ireland, and 3,041 in Scot land. Late figures place the Roman Cath olic population of the United States at 13.0S9.353, an increase of 437,308 over 1905. There are 15,093 clergymen. 12,148 church, (an increase of 334) S6 ecclesiastical seminaries, with 5.697 students, and 4,364 parochical schools with 1.09G.842 pupils, 255 orphan asylums, with 40.5SS inmates. In Ro man Catholic population, New Y"ork stands first, Chicago second, and Bos ton third. The hierarchy now con sists of a papal delegate, a cardinal, 14 archbishop, 90 bishops, IS abbots, 11,- 138 secular priests and 3.95S in the 45 different orders. The acreage and live stock returns of the United Kingdom for 1906. issued by the British board of agriculture show a small increase in arable land and a decrease in grass land. Oats continue to be the principal crop, with barley second and wheat third. There are not changes of note in the number of horses (used for agricultu ral purposes), or cattle, sheep and pigs. In England the average size of holding is 66.2 acres: in Wales. 46.2 acres, and in Scotland, 67.7 acres. In Great Britain 12% per cent of the land under cultivation and grass is culti vated by owners, and 87% per cent by tenant occupiers. becoming if she knows it costs than her next-door neighbor's. A woman likes to visit her relatives so. she can let them know how much better things she has at home. The reason a bachelor never enjoys having a good time Is because he can have it whenever he wants to. A woman takes her religion as se riously as a man his politics, but she doesn’t get black in the face about it. A man .never gets much fun out of showing his wife how to fix her sewing machine unless he knows how to cuss. A women is so proud to have her husband in public life that she is wil ling to have him called a scoundrel for it. ITEMS OF INTEREST PROVERBS AND PHRASES Prudence supplies the want of every good.—-Juvenal. It is less to suffer punishment that to deserve it.—Ovid. Providence for the most part sets us on a level.—Spectator. It is the quiet people who are dan gerous.—La Fontaine. When one hits you with a stone, hit him with a piece of cotton.—Turkish. By far the most valuable possession of all to all men for life is skill.—Hip parchus. Blessed is he whom the Muses love! Sweetly do his words flow from his lips.—Herod. We ought to lead our child in the right path, not by severity, but by per suasion.—Menander. No longer let us be talking here, nor put off the work which God has trusted to your hands.—Homer. Remember that men are dependent on circumstances, and not circum stances on men.—Herodotus. A nail secures the horseshoe, the shoe the horse, the horse the man. the man the castle and the castle the; whole land.—German. THE PESSIMIST. And, going long ago. how the 1] while crude then, titan this . trther back into the many will remember t. the slight-of-band man. j charming little daughter sang 1 tixty-two?” Ev rett was th.- j his kind. This was long before j vs . f Herman tnd Keller, and t Everett’s tricks would appear ! today, they were marvelous His mesmeric feats w^re better be hypnotic performances of For a long tinie Mac Do ’n reveled the ne member ■st. livt A lie he And Nowa lays shows a we. or forty yea show, during Ralston Hall nest. woman of her day and people went wild over Chapman Sisters? re do not average three In those days, thirty ,1 night without a ason. was a rarity not something at old te people were lonesome, ry few one-night stands, t would stay a week at th man in town who was humming or ~p:r could "carry n tu Heat JIv Proven " Then name th- "White Pawn" and many others, hut the "Black Crook” with i:s Junoesque girls and colored tights, took the peo ples breath. It was a decided shock to the t >wn that had never seen any thing of th-- kind before. The audience gasped at first, and it was a question AS SEEN IN ATCHISON. Atchson Globe. The really popular boy always has a "nickname." Very few men are sufficiently vain to have much use for a pocket mirror. Unpleasant truths always please a lot of people whom they do not con cern. • The. man who is only agreeable when he wants a favor doesn’t get a great many. The practical joker always believes his angry victim has no sense of humor. Some people imagine they are cul tured because they prefer tragedy to comedy. It is no: enough to disapprove of gossip: you. yourself, must keep from gossiping. Most of the sure schemes for making big money nay all the dividends to the promoters. People who attempt to quote poetry rarely get it right, but none of their listeners know the difference. The woman who cries easily comes nearer having her own way than the woman who tights for her rights. A girl is sure to be interested in a man who pays her attention, if her father finds the man objectionable. Occasionally a man is so lazy his chief regret is that he is not so con stituted that he can hibernate all winter. It is a good thing for most of us that our mistakes receive less attention than is given those of railway tele- gra phers. When a woman raises her son in what she considers the right way. it is never with a view to making good hus bands of them. I like not winter with his ghostly laughs. His icy fingers clutching at my throat. He stands before me in my path, defeats Me in my pumoses. and stands to gloat At my discomfiture. He lays me low I like not winter with his arms of snow. I like not spring, her rule of rain and sleet: Her scolding mutters from the thunder cloud: The flashing of her angry eye. I loath The boisterous winds, their whistles shrill and loud. Among the plunder which burglars carried off recently from a San Fran cisco house were two donkeys, or bur ros, as they call them out there. The long tails of the Shah of Persia’s horses are deyd crimson for six inches at their tips—a jealously-guarded privilege of the ruler and his sons. The co-eds of the University of Ne vada have been forbidden to skate as contrary to good morals. The male students are expecting a similar order. Should a bill now before the Cali fornia Legislature’ pass, it will be un lawful for any California hunter to kill more than thirty-five wild ducks in any one day. Among the many curious and unu sual animals which have been found by Sir Harry Johnston, the African ex plorer in the Uganda Protectorate is the whale-headed stork. Director Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, of New York Museum of Art. thinks that Pierpont Morgan's great collection now at South - Kensington may be brought over here eventually. He speaks of a celebrated Eros, a bronze Cupid of large size and one of the most beautiful examples of antique bronze known said to have cost $30,000. - Mr. Ball, the Canadian Government agent in Birmingham, has had any number of letters asking him to. find wives for lonely men in Canada, says publication called Canada. At first Mr. Ball took the rriatteer rather as a joke but the number of them impressed him with the seriousness of this emi nently humane requirement and in several instances he has been able to introduce marriageable ladies. Herr Ilg. the Emperor Menelik’s man of affairs, who has just left Switz erland to return to-Abyssinia, has made one or two interesting statements as to the prospects of railway enterprise in the country. He represents the Ne lls as full of impatience to see the line reach Harrar and has paid for the preparation of the tracks over- forty miles of country out of his own pocket. He also offered to provide 50,000 men for navy work. The first practical use ever made of aluminum was in fitting a cap on the peak of the Washington monument in 1SS4. Although aluminum was discov ered in 1S27 by Professor Wohler of Gottingen University. Germany, at that time it was practically an unknown metal, the cost and difficulty of its production having prevented its devel opment until the general use of elec tricity made it easy and economical, says Wm. E. Curtis in the Chicago Re cord Herald. The cap on the top of the monument is a square pyramid in shape, weigh ing 100 ounces and is S.9 inches in height and 5.6 inches in width at the base. General George W. Davis, now on the retired list, • and residing - in Washington, was in immediate charge of the completion of the monument un der General Casey, and has the dis tinction of being the first man to han dle aluminum in a practical way. Until that time it had been used only for toys, for “freak” purposes, and small samples had been utilized in making models for the patent office. In 1905, however, the production of aluminum was 11,347.000 pounds, val- .ued.at $3,246,300: in 1904 the produc tion was 8,600.000 pounds, valued at $2,477,000. The total for 1906 will be very much larger. The development of the industry is rapid. J. R. McKee of the peneral Electric Company told me the other day that they were now engaged in filling orders‘for 75,000 horse power machinery for the manu facture of aluminum. The Pittsburg Production Company, which now holds a monopoly of the manufacture of aluminum, has recently changed its name to the Aluminum Company of America and is controlled by the Mel- lins. of Pittsburg, who operate pipe lines for oil to New York and Phila delphia.' General Davis says that when the monument was finished in December, 1SS4. the upper extremities of the four hollow, wrought-iron columns, which form the well in the shaft, support the elevator machinery and guide the car, were covered in by the marble apex, or pyramidion. Four copper rods, three-quarters of an inch in diameter, were run, one from each column, to the top stone, and there united in a copper rod one and one-half inches al: the of wages, and the housewives to have ter their own way a well trained dont as good and much On the other ham sert that the help they s ed: that servants dent wages: that they canno ties, for if an Inch is gi- illegal withholding tendency of most all things done af- when the way of 'Mie might be just -osier. mployers as- ls untrain- i too high tllow liber- tn ell will j The great problems revolving -.-.round family j the tariff and State rights and the in- • come tax may be appalling and portea- ; tons, but to the average American wo- ' man they are not a patch to the ser- : vant question. Before the all absorb- ! ing anxiety as to whether Mary Jane will stay or whether Susan can ever ! be persuaded to come back, other : earthly things fade Into insignificance. From North . on East and West I comes the plaintive plea: “Send us a competent, reliable, well-trained ser vant." There are 10,000,000 American women doing their own work in their own homes without pay* while a. million and a half servants and waiters look after the wants of the remaining six mil lion families in this country. This is an arithmetical problem that cannot possibly, work out to the satisfaction .. of all, and so a goodly percentage of I “'5? the six million families are driven into ^J" e ‘ asaaclate ® £ ^ a«iv a domestic she becomes merged hotels and boarding houses. With onl> erre^t irmv nf m \ n n< one servant to every four families. “*„^,, ,„ ar m ’ „ ml conditions cannot be idyllic, because sma 11 ^ocialastions Th the heads of these families must be her sma11 - socla ‘ aspirations. Th ever on the strain to find, capture and domesticate that rara avis “a good plain cook.” Take up any daily paper and see just how many weary housewives are beseeching the cooks, maids and laun dresses of-the land to look with favor upon them. This is not a new ques tion in this country. It began with the making of its history. Even the Winth- rops, the powerful family of Massachu setts’ colonial Governor, had their troubles. Whenever ships landed ser vants in New England the Governor naturally had the pick of the lot; yet j in the early days of Boston history we find John Winthrop vfriting despairing ly to his father of the “lying, ungrate ful servants” he had. In those days it was a toss up whether a housewife, be she New Englander or Virginian, should buy a black slave from a slave ship and train him, get an Indian fresh from the forest who might tomahawk be demanded: that if too much liberty outside the house is given it is iikelv to encourage a tendency toward im morality; that a great many servants are dishonest and will speedily de plete the family larder if not watched: and the universal finality is. "I can't get the right sort of girl: the best members of the working class will not enter domestic service at- all. prefer ring the mills and factories instead." In this statement there is much ex planation and no little pathos. As a factory hand a girl loses no social caste. She is always entitled to the distinction of "Miss” or "Mrs.” and may As into and :r to erage working girl t.4 a gregarious crea ture. She likes to flock with the men and women of her class as much as do her more fortunate . brothers and sisters of the upper ten. and when de nied this privilege and right as a ser vant are denied her loneliness drives her to the factories,, where she can be free. "But I can’t entertain my servant. I can't .take time to amuse her,” cries a horrified housewife to the sugges.- tion that her maid needs a little hit of company and more cheerful sur rounding. Possibly not, but she might devise some way of making ha- i life a little more livable. When s 11 I puts her advertisement in the p iper j for help it should bear a. promise pro- ' portlonate to the demand. L should say: "We want a good girl who is j reliable and who will do her work well. 1 We will give her a comfortable room. ; an opportunity and a piaco to' see imr j friends, an occasional chance the job herself. | No wonder a slave ship was often i received with tears of thankfulness. I The in diameter, which passes vertically to through the stone. It then became necessary to find a metalie cap for the apex which would be a perfect con ductor of electricity, which would be the same color as the marble, which j would not rust or stain or drip. I They talked of nickel, silver, cop per. zinc and various plated metals, I but there seemed to be objections to all of them until General Casey her.vd j of a new metal called “aluminium.” I Since that time the “I” in the last syl- I lable has been dropped oct. Ordnance j officers at the navy yard were experl- 1 menting with it for gun sights. It was j believed to be specially adapted for such a purpose, because it was so I light that tho sight of a gun would j not be dislocated by the recoil after it had been fired. The navy people got their material front a German j chemist named Fresehniutli. who had I a little laboratory at Frankford, one I , . , , „ 1 : iiicuup, au uiLusriiiai ultuil'C fin iilt.ll- £5 ?ny minute, or go to work and do j ta , anQ , mprovomont . reason.-,hi. hours of service, and we will treat her like a human being.” It is a s td fact that the mistress of many an At POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE I like not summer. In her arms she bears The curse of Eden to destroy all life. The flames of fever as a garment wears., And in her trail is every illness rife. A fee to beauty and its everv trace. I like not summer and her burning face. I like not autumn, fickle-hearted inde. A yearly symbol of returning death. Hers to seek out what summer inav have lefr. And blight is surely with her poisoned breattt • She stirs the laws of nature Into strife. I like not autumn, and I like not life. —Josephine Page Wright in the Feb ruary Bohemian. Proof Positive. From the Chicteo News. Mrs. Oidwed—Sc- you consider your hus band a man of rare good taste and supe rior judgment, do you? Mrs Newed—Certainly. Otherwise he wouldn't have married me. Addled Adages. Delays are dangerous, except in mat rimony. A cat-may look at a king but it pre fers a mouse. A cook is known by the company she doesn't keep. A miss is as good as a mile of old maids.—F. C. Bryant in the February Bohemian. Leroy Hillman, of Indianapolis, 27 years old. is the youngest captain in the United States Army. He is now on duty at the arsenal in Rock Island. Ill. Mrs. Hawfa Williams, who accom panies Countess Yarmouth to this country, is considered>.by King Edward to be the best dressed- woman in Eng land. Miss Lois Alden. of New York, is arranging to start a school outside of this city to reclaim city waifs by transplanting them from the vitiating atmosphere of the city streets into a farm school. Chief Appah, of the Utes. holds Com missioner Leupp responsible for every thing. Being told that Congress makes the laws. “If you Jet them make such a law you are no account in your job,” exclaimed, the old chief. The American Missionary Associa tion has requested the Congregational churches, Sunday schools and Christian Eendeavor societies to observe. Lincoln Sunday, February 10. as Lincoln Sun day, in commemoration of the career of Abraham Lincoln. A further proof of the Duke of Marl borough’s financial straits, since his wife’s purse strings have been closed to him. is an advertisement in a Lon don paper announcing that he will sell at auction at Blenheim his famous herd of pedigreed Jersey cattle. It is said that Rudyard Kipling was so dissatisfied with his “Recessional” that he threw it in the waste basket and that his wife fished it out and sent it to the London Times. William B'rown McKinley, of Illinois, is said to be the wealthiest member of that State’s delegation. He is a farmer as well as a banker, and has made his own way In the world. It is rumored that Hon. John G. Carlisle- former Secretary of the Treas ury, will soon wed Mrs. Gertrude Lo gan. of Winchester, Va.. a widowed daughter of Mrs. J. Randolph Tucker. Leopold, the King, of the Belgians, is still the richest monarch of . Europe after the Czar. With his extensive- business interests in the Congo, it is estimated that Leopold, the .“rubber king.” receives at least $5 000,000 an nually. Miss Lillian Tyson, proprietor and manager of the Bon Ton Theater, in Philadelphia, has inaugurated the cus tom of giving free tickets for matinee institutions, the messenger boyS and the school children. there were also some very strong thoughts in their minds about fire building and other domestic chores that the benighted heathen might con veniently lift from their shoulders in exchange for the said gospel dispensa tion. Ini the south, where the slaves used to be past masters in the different branches of domestic art, one would hardly expect to find a dearth of ser vants. yet the housewives of Memphis, which is located near the heart of the black belt, are writing to Ireland for servant girls. In reply a priest wrote that England had already drawn upon of the suburbs of Philadelphia. He I his surrounding parishes for ail had learned to make it in Germany and f available pirls. and that those who had was furnishing a little for experlmen- I best interests of Ins people at tal purposes to scientific men and j "’ ere unwilling to see them go model makers in Philadelphia. j lnto service in foreign lands Gen. Davis says that Gen. Casey | An<3 "'here is the fault. M hat sent him over to Frankford to make J inquiries about the Dew metal and find ! out if it would answer their purpose. - old elders of Newport were wont j ^oid is less mindKi, of the onm- gather themselves together aftei i fQrt d convenlonco of her servants the arrival of a Dutch or English ; . well .re ef her slaver, and piously .express gratitude ™ a " and hdrses that “a gracious Providence has been { c ‘ ' ' . , . , '& e an t other nB ciU hiS of and be°n 1 i^ i illustrate *the which heathen to enjoy the blessings of gos- | “^use of the-servant ffuestion lms pel dispensation.” At such times \ “J othels whlch show He had great difficulty in finding Fresclimuth. who was living in a very humble way and in great poverty. Gen. Davis found it necessary to ad vance him the money to pay for get ting aluminum out of the clay, and it was a long time before he got enough to answer the purpose. Finally a cast houses? the reason for this lack of hands to do honorable toil which so sorely needs j to be done? Is it because in this coun try “one whom you employ today may be* qour equal tomorrow?” Have we used the right kind of “hired girl” so badly that she won’t have anything more to do with us? Or is it due to the fact that women generally lack the executive ability to manage their was made, and the little aluminum pyramid about nine inches high and five and a half inches square at the base .was placed on the tip of the mon ument, where it still remains. It has answered the purpose perfectly. It is the exact color of the marble: it will not tarnish or oxidize or rust, and water dripping from it stain. Gen. Davis says he does not know what became of the old German chem ist. but he is probably dead long ago. He was undoubtedly the first man to manufacture aluminum in this coun try. although he.did it in a very small way and never made any money out of it. He probably died as he lived— , in poverty. A few years later immense sums of j money were being derived from its | manufacture under patents obtained ! by the man named Bradley. These patents were the subject of a very lively litigation between a Cleveland company controlled by the family of Edwin Cowles and a Pittsburg syndi cate. The Cowles company had their factory at Lockport, N. Y. The Pitts burg company went to Niagara Falls. In 1903 the two interests compromised the litigation that had been going on for eleven years, the Pittsburg Beduc- In a widespread investigation of the question the chief reasons given by employes for leaving their places were: Hours too long, hours too ir regular: too many restrictions placed on the personal liberty; too much iso lation from friends; too little time al lowed for visiting; poor sleeping ac- le-tves no ! commodations; poor food—often the cold and unpalatable remains of the 1903 1904 1905 7,500.000 8.600,000 11,347,000 Total 6S.409.779 It is estimated that the product for 19'OG will be about 15.500,000 pounds, worth more than $4,000,000. There are several by-produots, in cluding beauxite, which is the oxide of aluminum, used for dyes and paints; aluminum salts, sulphates, alum, alum cake, and other chemicals which are valued at more than $2.- 000.000 a year. In addition to our own manufacture we import aluminum to the value of about $250,000 a year from France and Switzerland. The greatest demand now comes from the electricians. The use of the Let those who love her sing her endless j performances to the orphans in the citv pounds aluminum forms about praise. ' - — - like not spring with all her romping ways. _ . metal for uncovered overhead tele- tion ^/’IPany paying the Cowles com- | graph and telephone lines consumes pany $3,000,000, approximately, for the : four-fifths of the entire product. The exclusive use - of the Bradley patents ■ remainder is used for the manufacture until they expire in February. 1909. j 0 f toys, articles for use in the kitch- The attorneys of the company are now en . lithographic work, and for the getting ready to apply for a renewal. ; a ]j 0 y 0 f more Valuable metals. but >t will be little trouble for them I to retain the monopoly because they have patented various improvements upon the original Bradley process, which cannot be used by its rivals. Aluminum, as you known, is a me tallic element found in clay, and is the same material of which rubies, sap phires. emery and alum are made. It enters into the composition of a large number of other materials, and it is estimated that in -its various com- On the 5th of April. 18S5, and on the 8th of June following, during heavy thunderstorms, the Washington Monument was struck by lightning. Upon examination a crack was discov ered in the stone on the north face of the apex. A fragment of that stone was chipped off about three-quarters of an inch at the bottom. This acci dent caused Gen. Casey, then chief of engineers of the army, to seek the ad vice of a committee consisting of Prof. POINTED PARAGRAPHS twelfth of‘the crust of the earth, jj Rosviand, of Johns Hopkins Uni- LOSTED. I fee] go far from anywheres! f Perhaps my family Ha? go: so many other cares They've all forgotten me. I s'pose I'l] starve to skin an' bone If I stay Iosted here alone. My little dog be fv.-nb.ei me. An' wagged his tail an' whined. Bet he can't lead me home, for he Is taught to v%-aik benind. And so I'm crying yet. becuz I’m just as lcsted as I was. —Burges Johnson, in Harper's. Matrimonial. From the Detroit News. "Matrimony.” said I'ncle Josh this morning, “is suthin’ like trouble, becuz :: s so dadblamod easv t* git into, an' so gummed hard t' git out uv. b’ jinks:'' From the Chicago News. Some women seem to enjoy boasting of their troubles. It isn't pleasant to get called down— except to breakfast. Talk is cheap, vet some people use extravagant language. Lots of men have recovered from their annual swear-off. Getting busy often takes a hard fall out of a fit of the blues. Many a man’s "'popularity is due to the fact that he isn’t aware of it. The tramp avoids many of the walks of life by catching freight trains. Don’t try to do the things you can’t —and don’t do some of the things you can. In many a man’s life the turning point is reached just after a pretty girl passes. Any man can tell a lie. but it takes a born diplomat to induce people to believe it. A wise man flatters a woman by telling her that he is unable to under stand her. If a man is ignorant he may learn, but if he knows too mueh there is no hope for him. You will have smiling friends as long as you keep still and let your money talk for you. The man who Is always turning over | 1S93 a new leaf evidently believes that one , 1S94 good turn deserves another. j 1S95 Some people never stop to count the i 1S96 cost because they realize that they 1S97 haven’t got the price, anyway. 1898 It is simply impossible to convince 1899 the average man that water is the 1900 proper thing in which to drown his I 1901 troubles. J802 Every brick in every building is said to be- 30 per cent aluminum. It is produced by the decomposition of clay, which mineralogists will tell you is a salt composed of silicic acid combined with aluminum. The aluminum is separated from the silica by the ap plication of electricity. Sepration has versity; Prof. Simon Newcomb and Dr. t! C. Mendenhall, of Washington. These gentlemen were invited to in spect the monument and. recommend sfcte device by which it could be ef fectually protected from lightning. Af- tei<i careful examination they recom mended that the interior conductor. never been successfully done in any ! should be connected with a system of other way. It is produced in this : outside lightning rods and a greater country only at New Kens.ngton, Pa.; 1 number of points, to be exposed upon Niagara falls, N. Y.; East St. Louts. . ^jj e ex terior of the apex of the monu- Mo.; Bauxite. Ark., and Shawenegan I m p n t why people with common sense nnd some of the milk of human kindness in their getup manage to keep urood domestics when they get them. A New York woman who had applied to an in telligence office was furnished with a giantess who had just arrived from Finland. The mistress began asking the customary questions: "Can you cook?" “Nar." said Miss Finn. “Can you wash and iron?” ■'N T ar." “Can you sweep and dust?" "Nar. rhen in pity's name what can you do?" asked the lady in desperation. A gleam of pleasure passed over Miss Finn’s face at the thought of her one accomplishment, and she replied: “I can milka da reindeer.” A Southern housewife tells about her advertisement for a. maid of all work being answered by a negro girl who had j;ust enough education to spoil her taste for work. When asked what she could do she replied. “I can do quad- j ratic equations, and I have studied logarithms: also cooking, cleaning and serving." When serving time ar rived she was not on hand. After searching f-or her high and low she was discovered in the privacy of the pantry reading Laura Jean Libbey. ■An Illinois woman who had a good servant moved into a fashionable com munity and got talked about by her neighbors for a strange reason. The lawn was moistened by means of a circular sprinkler, which had to be moved occasionally. During the in tervals Mtry would sit on the front steps and read the evening paper, rn the course of time it came to the ears of the mistress that her neighbors were saying she certainly could not be “polite.” else she would not allow her servant so much liberty. When an acquaintance asked the newcomer- what she thought about the criticism she replied that after think ing the matter over she had decided tha-t “Mary wouldn’t hurt the steps.” This woman was a strict disciplina rian. but a just one. She was too fair- minded to hurt the feeling of her do- mestice over an inconsequential mat ter, even though she herself appear ed in a false fight in the eyes of her snobbish neighbors. She demanded faithful, conscientious service and in return gave good pay nnd considerate treatment. In all the years of her long life this old fashioned gentle-woman was never bothered with the servant question. I know this to be true, be cause she was my mother. The State of Nevada has only 4,93t servants, and the women in this, as well as many other Western States, are solving the question by doing most of their work -themselves. The West ern woman is an example of indepen dence and courage where the servant problem is concerne.d. She finds that in order to promote the general wel fare of her family she must depend upon her own efforts and the help of her daughters. She usually manages to have a most homelike home, a most attractive table, and a most cultured family. Miss Jane Aaddams of Hail house, Chicago, says that before the servant question can reach any kind of solution the housewives must themselves learn to do much of the light work in their homes, and put out most of the heavy tasks. Prof. Lucy Salmon of the fac ulty of Vassar College, who has made a deep study of the questions, say: “It is inevitable that eventually all articles of food will be prepared out side the house, except those requiring the last application of heat, and that scientific skill will reduce to a mini mum the labor and expense of this final stage of preparation.” Falls. Quebec. It is also produced in Scotland. Savoy. France, Neuhausen. Switzerland. Baben, Germany and Ealzburg. Austria. The demand is so great that the Pittsburg Reduction Company, which controls the patents in the United States, is now doubling its productive capacity. More than two-thirds of the entire world’s production is made in the United States, and the increase has been ten-fold in ten years. The following table will show the phenom enal growth of the industry 1883 1884 1SS5 18S6 1SS7 1SSS 1889 1S90 isai 1892 Pounds. S3 150 28? 3.000 18.000 19.000 47,463 61.2S1 150.000 259.SS5 333,623 550.4)00 920.000 1.300.000 4.000,000 5.200.000 6.300.000 7,150.000 7.150.000 7,300,000 , The plan, as devised by them, as j officially described by Gen. Casey in j his report for 1885, "consists of four and one-half copper rods, fastened by ■ a band to the aluminum cap and led ; down the corners to the base of the ; pyramidion: thence, passing through the masonry, they extend inward and | are joined to the iron columns that j furnish a shaft for the elevator. As | these exterior rods are each over sixty ; feet long, they are also connected at i two intermediate points of their length with the iron columns by means I of copper rods one-half and three- quarters of an inch in diameter, re spectively. furnishing sixteen rods in ail connecting the exterior system of conductors with the interior conduct ing columns. Where the exterior rods upon the corners cross the eleven highest horizontal joints of the ma sonry of the pyramidion they are con nected with each other all around by other cooper rods sunk into those joints. All of these exterior roils, couplings and fittings are plated with gold and are studded at every five feet of their length with copper points three inches in length, gold plated and tipped with platinum.” Since th-s 0 precautions have been taken several electrical storms have centered around the tin of the monu ment, but no damage has been done. MUSINGS OF THE CYNIC. New York Tribune. Even failure may be spoiled by suc cess. A new broom and a straight flush make a clean sweep. The man who kicks himself goes back on his best friend. Ignorance of the law excuses no one, not even the lawyer. Any fool can catch on, but it takes a wise man to let go. A good-hearted man carries part of it in his poc-ketbook. Perhaps the world Isn't as bad as the people who talk about It. Some self-made men give the im- p rPP? ion that they have cheated them selves. Strategy consists in finding the ene my's weakness before he finds yours. Most men of prominence are highly esteemed by those who don’t know them. If a man doesn't land in jail before he becomes a millionaire he is reas onably safe. You deny a woman one of the great est pleasures of life when you refuse to argue with her. The office th3t seeks the man isn’t nearly so persistent as the creditor on the same mission. The woman who looks as though she had a secret sorrow is always interest ing till she tries to tell it to you, . A.-