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. SELF-RELIANCE. i Byself did make my vesterdays, And this T truly know, , : g To all my morrows I shall bring Their store of joy or woe. Each cup these lips of mine shall duink, 1t shall be filled by me; For E\’el‘f' door that I -vould pass. These hands must mouti the key. ; If e'en on vonder shining height V A larger life T own, Thougfh ;hrob my brain, though achie my ee ’ -s, o Its slope I climb alone, ‘*a*-‘fl oA No more along a darkened way, @1 T, doubting, blindly grope; No more I shame my soul with fear, Nor yet with yearning hope, : But knowing this that Tdo know, & And seeing what I see, Kl I rest in this great certainty— : All may be well with me. ' —Janet Yale, in Harper’s Bazar, = A PAYMASTER'S FLIGHT, B ' fi ‘ o n Lé By ALEXANER ELY. y} LQEEEEsE'EESE‘EEESU " When I was a sergeant in the Uni ted States cavalry in the Far West I was detailed one day to command eight men acting as a guard to Major 8., who had paid off the force at our post and was going to pay those at j:he next. He was a small, baldhead ‘ed, lean man, except a round stomach, wvhich begins to protrude upon some beople after they pass forty, with a crafty eyve and a silent tongue. The only words he spoke were directions as to handling his safe, a small af fair that could easily be lifted by two men and for which a place was ar ranged on a buckboard wagon which the major always used to transport the treasure. His clerk drove the horse, while the paymaster sat be side him, the safe between his legs. The country through which we es corted the paymaster contained a wild and lawless people. I thought at the time that eight men, though drilled soldiers and well armed, were a small guard for such a purpose, Whether the major thought so or not I .didn’t know at the time, for he said nothing about it. I learned af terward that the colonel commanding wouldn’t give him any more, and the paymaster entered on the trip under brotest. We were crossing a part of what is called the Great American desert or alkali plains, with nothing there higher than a man’s waist. I rode a couple of hundred yards in advance, keeping a sharp lookout in every di rection. For more than half a day not a living thing except the mem bers of our party and gophers was in sight. But suddenly in turning to look to our right and rear I saw on a rise far in the distance a mounted figure looking at us. I judged from the general outline of horse and man that he was an Indian. After what appeared to be a careful survey of us he disappeared on the other side of the rise. ; I felt a bit uneasy. Turning, I di rected each man to see that his arms and ammunition were in order and notified the paymaster of what I had seen, It didn’t seem to trouble him much. We jogged on for a few miles and when emerging from low ground suddenly heard a mingling of yells and saw on our right a motiey crew several times as large as our own coming down on us. They were evi dently a mixture of road agents and cowboys, with a sprinkling of Indi ans. Their leader rode in advance, a revolver in each hand, the only one of the lot who was not velling. I had just time to draw my men up in line between the orcomers and the buckboard before they came within close range, and I told nach man to pick one in front of him as nearly as he could estimate, My men were armed with repeating rifles, while the attacking party had some guns, but mostly revolvers. I waited till they came within 300 yards before I gave the order to fire. Nearly every one of my troops brought down his man. The gang hesitated, and I gave a sec ond order to fire. This halted them; | but rallied by their leader, they came! on, bringing us within range of their revolvers, and my men began to get hurt. TFor some minutes there was a continued firing on both sides, several of my men being put out of the fight, though but one was killed. My ef fective force was reduced to four men besides myself, Major 8., and his clerk, It began to look as though the robbers were going to get the safe. Suddenly I was astonished to see Major 8., who had stood in the buck board using a rifle, jump down from the wagon, cut the traces, spring on the horse’s back, and away he went like an arrow, The act demoralized my force so that they broke. 7T failed to rally them, and we were all soon tumbling after the paymaster. His clerk mounted the horse of the man who had been killed and joined in the flight, Never have I been so incensed in my life. The paymaster, a commis sioned officer, by his cowardly act had cast discredit on me and my men, 1 had the mortification to uee the ban dits ride down on the safe and caper joyfully about it. All I could do was to help the wounded men of my com mand along, supporting them by turn in their saddles. But what surprised me was the fleetness of the major's horse. | am no judge of horseflesh, and 1 had mis taken the animal that drew the buck board for a mere beast of hurden. Looking ahead, I could see the pay master miles in advance, fleeing as for dear life, and in time he disap peared altogether. For once in my life I placed money bhefore human life and wished he were in the safe and the funds were on his lorse, | thought with some satisfaction how I would prefer charges of cowardice against him as soon as we reached the post we were making for. The bandits, having secured the safe, paid no further attention to u', and we rode on to our destination What was my astonishment on riding into the garrison to see Major B. sits ting coolly smoking hefore an extem porized desk with heaps of bills be fore him paying off the enlisted men. His belly was gone. It was plain that he had tdken it off and placed it—a heap of money—on his desk. “Thanks, sergeant,” he said, ‘‘for your fine defense. I have reported you for gallantry, and you’ll hear from it. The robbers got the safe with nothing in it. I'd rather rely any time on that mare of mine than a safe. Sorry any of your men got hurt. Next!” And, having paid off the man before him, he devoted him self to the next in line.—New Haven Register, 2000 ACRES OF FLOWER GARDEN Something About the Town Which Ships Beans to Bosten, Writing from Weimar, Consul Wil liam L. Lowrie says that Erfurt, a thriving commercial city of Southern Prussia, with more than 100,000 in habitants, is known throughout Ger many ‘as the “flower city.” It has a world-wide reputation for flower and farm seeds and plants, the trade in which the Consul portrays as fol lows: . “The declared exports of these pro ducts to the United States in the last ten years amounted to $561,741, last year's shipments being worth $53,- 888. “The origin of the industry dates from the tenth century, and it was developed by the monks of the Peters monastery. The growth to the pres ent large proportions is of mtch more recent date. Since 1880 the business of raising flowers and garden seeds and plants in Erfurt has increased rapidly, until it is now five times as large axit was a quarter of a century ago. YWhen the land failed to pro duce good wine grapes the people turned their attention to the seed in dustry as a mean of saving their waning fortunes. In former years the hills about Erfurt and Jena were famous for their vineyards. The wine was sold mostly at Weimar, about half way of the distance be tween those two cities, giving this place its original name of Wein markt, which was changed later to Weimar. “The soil about Erfurt is especially adapted to the culture of vegetables and plants. It is deep, rich and well watered. The annual rainfall is heavy, and the surrounding hills afford good protection from the cool winds which sometimes sweep down from the Thuringerwald. . There are 108 concerns engaged in the seed in dustry, also thirty-five seed exporters and twenty-four florists. An idea of the extent of this business may be gained from the area of, glass em ployed. The total is 113,735 square Ireters (square meter equals 10.764 Yquare feet), of which 30,867 square meters cover propagating houses, and 82,858 square meters are used over specially - fertilized beds. Nearly 3000 people are employed in various capacities. s ‘“While there are no statistics available in regard to the total an nual output of the Erfurt® seed and plant concerns, a single firm produces each year 70,000 to 80,000 cyclamen, 400,000 lilies of the valley, 60,000 apple sprouts (in pots), 20,000 pear sprouts, 10,000 plum, apricot, peach and quince sprouts, 30,000 straw berry plants, 300,000 short stemmed and 40,000 long stemmed roses. “About 2000 acres of land in the city and the immediate vicinity are devoted to gardens. This land is owned by the Crown, the city and private individuals. It is leased to the various concerns at rentals de pending on the location and on the productiveness of the soil. . Owing to the rapid growth of the city, which rivals the percentage of a Western boom town in the United States, quite an area of the best garden land has been plotted into city lots and is fast ‘being covered with fine villas and houses. } “The cultivation of the gilly lower in ¥rfurt dates from 1810. 1t first ’ax)peared in the window of a citizen, and from this one pot hundreds of thousands of these flowers have been promulgated. The estimated annual production is 680,000 plants. To the same extent, or nearly so, is the cul tivation of the calceolaria, verbena, petunia, gloxinia, zinnia, pansy, car nation, balsam, phlog, hollyhock, pe largenium, fuchsia, azalia, ete.,, in almost endless variety. It is esti mated that the annual output of flower seeds is not much under 1,000,000 marks ($238,000). ‘“Vegetable and farm sceds are cul tivated in large quantities and in lgreat variety, Among them are in cluded 101 kinds of peas, 16S of heans (700 bushels shipped this year to Boston to help make up the deficit in its staple food), 269 varieties of kitchen herbs, thirty-four of onions, |etc., sixty-five: of grass for fodder, thirty of clover, 320 species of pota | toes, There are 1542 varieties of | vegetable seed cultivated in Erfurt. |—Wasmngmn Correspondence Mil waukee Sentinel, T T Em————, Try Tt on the Dog, “Cultivate a pleasant tone of voice by practicing on the dog,” says a Kansas man. ‘“He doesn’t care so much what you say, but he is very particular how ,ou say it.”—Kansas City Journal, : A million gilverdollars weigh (wen ty-nine and three-seventh tons, (S R PARTHEST: RO RAATTEYA ) (A ‘»f&* A% ’P‘%‘\ o i R 4 AW R ~ 1“‘ 3 :"' ': R I"' .g'v‘ ': ’ > }?i/ 5 - ‘h;@«u ' Vst "tl.(“ BOBBY'S EXCHANGES. I wish I owned a motor-car—a slashing big red-dragon, Td swag it in a minute for a handsome horse and wagon. e And then I'd take that horse and Qrt,’d’e laying not a minute, And swap ’em for a new canoe with nice soft cushions in it. g And then T'd take that new canoe—l wouldn’t wait a minute, e And swap it for a puppy dog with man ners fine and sniffy. And then I'd take that sniffy dog for fear that Id be bitten, And swap it off with someone who pre ferred it to a kitten. And then T'd take that kitty-cat and sell it for a quarter, The which I'd swap for one big pail of fizzy soda water, ; —John Kendrick Bangs, in The House keeper. REAL BABES IN THE WOODS. They had not lived in the country long, the Browns had not. They had just moved into the pretty-farmhouse a few days before the things told of in this story happened. There were Papa Brown, Mamma Brown, Bulger Brown (a little boy) and Sis sy Brown (a little girl). Now, before I go any farther, I must tell you that Bulger’s real, sure enough name was not Bulger; it was Franklyn James. And Sissy Brown’s real sure-engugh name was not Sissy, but was Stella May. But as Papa' and Mamma Brown always called them Bulger and Sissy it is better for me to do the same. So, ¥t them be known in this story—which ig a very short one-—as Bulger and Sissy. Well, on the third day after the' Browns had moved into tgelr new country home Bulger and Cissy went out into the big yard to play. And after they had explored every inch of the yard they decided to investigate the barnyard. And it was snch loads of fun to chase the big rooster about the barnyard, and to hear the hens cackle as if they were quarreling with them for their mischief. Then they visited the pig pen. And such a fun ny lot of little piggies there were in | it, too, trottiné\gbout—tans twisted into knots over their backs—after a very fat mother had grunted, grunted, every minute, and who lookefl%; rd. Bulger and Sissy with a distrustful glance. ; S Then there was nothing neml-; Bulger and Sissy about thee, yvard and barnyard. And they stood looking at each other, wondering where they should go. s, Bulger, being five years old, spoke first. ‘“Let’s go down yonder.” An he pointed to a line of timber about a quarter of a mile from the house. Sissy, being four years old, trusted to her big brother’s judgment and said: ‘‘All wight, buver.” Then away the two totlings went, hand in hand, toward the dark woods. “It’s very big an’ dang’rous,” ex plained Bulger, pointing to the line of timber. ‘‘Maybe bears are there.” Sissy held tighter to Bulger’s hand, not fearing even bears while safely guarded by him. “But no bears will bover us—for I won't let ’em,” went on Bulger. And then they reached a few of | the outside, straggling trees. ‘‘Oh, it isn’t so very big an’ dark, is it?” asked Bulger. “No, it’s just bufi-ful,” said Sissy. But still she clung tightly to Bulger’s hand. And so they walked about and about, going a little deeper-and a little deeper into the woods. And then it became a little darker and they could not see so far about them, and Bulger decided they would better return to their home, *“I dess we’'d better do home, Bulver,” said Sissy, seeing the uncertainty in her broth er’s face, “Yes, it’s mos’ dinner time,” said Bulger, not wishing Sissy to know' that he was getting a bit afraid of the lonely woods. And so they started out to go home, but, having forgotten just which way they had come, they went in the wrong direction. And so they walked and walked, growing =o tired at last that Bulger said that he would have to sit down and rest a bit, And all the while they had been walking both Bulger and Sissy had been afraid, but neither owned it to | the other, ‘ While they sat on the mossy bank of a little brooklet Sissy fell asleep, her head in Bulger's lap. Then Bul ger's blue eyes grew heavy, and he, too, fell into slumber, forgetting where he was and that there might be bears in the woods. And there is no krowing how long the two little Browns might have slept in the woods or whether or not they might have come to harm, or have been forever lost, or whether at night the birds might have felt pity for them and covered them with leaves; but about half an hour after they had fallen asleep their own dear mother found them, and, lifting Sissy in her arms and calling gently to Bul ger to wake, she kissed each and' said: “Thank God, I found my dear | little babes safe in the wood.” And | Bulger and Sissy were thankful to be | found, too, and promised never to go away from home again without their mamma’s consent.—~Washington Star. ! '‘NELSEON AND TRHR COXSWAIN, Just before the battle of Trafalgap a mall was sent from the English flest, and word was passed that it might be the last chance to write he foro the expected engagement, 7The letters had been collected from the ships, the letter bags were on the yess sel which was to take them, and she had gone some distance on her way, under full sail, when Lord Nelson saw a midshipman approach and speak to Pasco, the signal officer, Then Nelson showed the side of his nature which so often won the sail ors’ hearts. o Pasco uttered an exclamation of @isgust and stamped his foot in evi dent vexation. The Admiral called him and asked him what was the matter, “Nothing which need trouble your lordship,” was the reply. “You are not the man to lose your temper for nothing,” rejoined Nel son. ‘“What was it?” “Well, if you must know, my lord, I will tell you. You see that coxs wain?” peinting to one of the most active of the petty officers. ‘“We have not a better man on the Victory, and the message which put me out was this: I was told that he was so busy receiving and getting off his mail bags that he forgot to put his own letter to his wife into one of them, and he has just discovered it in his pocket.” “Hoist a signal to bring her back!” was Nelson's instant command. “Who knows that he may not fall in action to-morrow? His letter shall go with the rest.” ~ That was Nelson all over,—Wash ington Star. i | BMART GIRLS, = 7 The boys of this country must not get the idea that tley are the only smart things in it. There is a girl in Mississippi. who lost both hands three years ago, but has learned to do good typewriting with her toes. There is a girl in Ohio with a wooden foot who plays football and runs races and beats all the boys. In Wisconsin a girl of twelve years of age swam a horse across a river and saved a passenger train from disaster. Michigan has a girl of fourteen who can do any sum in mathematics you give her and not be over ten seconds gbout it. Penn @uqia‘ghg@ one of eleven years who can learn and repeat any chapter in |the Bible in twenty minutes, - Delaware has a miss, now sixteen | years old, who went into the grocery business when she was only ten, and at the present date she is making S2OOO a year, and Connecticut has one of fifteen who has traded horses and got the best of it over forty times. The American boy is pretty cute, but the American girl isn't going to be left very far behind in the race.,— New Haven Register. 119 A LITTLE GIRL'S FEAT. Little Miss Evelyn Albee, of Alna Centre, may deservedly be called a heroine. A few days ago, while play ing near an open well, she accident ally stepped in. The well was eigh teen feet deep, with six feet of water, Her playmate heard the splash, but was too frightened to call for assist ance. Miss Evelyn, who is not six years old yet, was equal to the occa sion and clambered to the top, unaid ed and unharmed. “How did she do it?’”’ is the general question asked, but no one but the lady herself knows, and she wishes to forget it, That she wasn't hurt in some way, was truly remarkable., — Kenncheg Journzl, . A NEW GAME. The youngsters of Harlem evolved recenily a game that is enjoying great popularity among thein, A coin is placed on a crack in the side walk and the two players stand op posite each other and at an equal dis tance from the crack, usually upon the next one. A rubber ball is then aimed and thrown at the coin and caught on the bounce by the oppos ing player. The coin, or its equiva lent, becomes the possession of the player hitting it. It is a gambling game, of course, but that is probably what gives it the vogue it enjoys,— New York Sun, THE COMPOSITION OF A ROCKET. The ordinary skyrocket is made of various compositions packed in tubes round a cylindrical core. The mateh by which the rocket is explod ed is placed in a cavity at the hot tom. The movement of the rocket wonld be irregular if it were not for the guide stick, which is made very light, €0 that it does not retard the flight of the rocket when the gases come out and hit the ground with all their might and send the rocket up Into the air for all that it is worth, —American Press. . In the sandy deserts of Arabia, ‘whirling winds gomretimes excavate pits 200 feet in depth and extending ‘down to the harder stratum on which Lthe bed reste. f' The British salmon is said to be worth $550 a ton, - ' PRI e . <. LSR adhad v ) : 3 RNt = (7 X 3 5 _ v ’ » ", v A {3 CA - (."9 fsel a 2 = ‘-.’ ¢ % y ,": \ g \3"4" 3 : . D a 4 £ y §/8 Reiat e o . PRMYEL fae 9y L) o Ry = LR ¥ AVE gy e L e e it LA A & Oppose Fancy Dress Weddings., The English papers are beginningl to remonstrate because of the “fancy dress nuptials,” in which women wear | directorie gowns and the children in attendance are dressed ‘in any fear ful and degrading fashion’” that may suggest itself to those having charge of the wedding preparations. The bridegroom is the only person con nected with the wedding party who does not make himself ridiculous in some of these weddings.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Pocketbook Atomizers, For the woman who travels or who shops in the city on a dusty, warm day there is a pocket atomizer, which | she -can carry around with her. It has a screw arrangement which keeps the perfume securely inside, no mat ter how much the rubber bulb may be pressed. | Women who are taking long motor ridg are carrying these filled with pungent cologne. Nothing so re freshes the face and wrists after a dusty ride as a spray of aromatic cologne that is not too sweet.—Pub lic Ledger. —_— o e Scolding. Perhaps most of the scolding done in the world is between husbands and wives or between parents and chil dren. Parents must instruct their children; they must sometimes re prove them. They must often coun sel them. But they are in great dan ger of “‘provoking them to wrath'— in the wise Biblical phrase. Children have the keenest possible sense of justice; they are also very easily hurt; and when their minds are bruised the result is estrangement, and that is as sad a thing as can ever be. An imperious, scolding father or mother frightens the children away, drives them into all manner of eva sions ‘and subterfrges, and brands their minds forever with the memory of ecruel and blistering words.— Claudius Clear. Demand for False Hair. The demand for women's hair in Europe has never been greater than Our Cut-put Recipe. Pasie in Your Scrap-Book. Sunshine Cake.—For sunshine cake sift the flour and sugar the same as for angel cake, only lessening the flour to three-fourths of a cup. Add a pinch of salt to the whites of seven eggs, and beat until stiff and dry. Beat the yolks of five eggs until lemon colored and thick, add the sugar and flour to the yolks, stir in lightly the whites of the eggs and half a- teaspoonful of cream of tartar, flavor with orange extract and bake the same as angel cake. Frost with yellow icing. flavored with orange, and decorate with bits of candied orange peel and leaves cut from angelica. it is now. Men are going from town to town in France, Germany, Swit zerland and Russia buying all they can get. The finest hair in Europe is furnished by women in Brittany, for the Breton women have luxuriant tresses, which never fail to bring a high price. Most of these women are poor, and are quite willing to sacri fice their hair, especially as they wear bonnets which completely cover their heads, and thus effectively hide them when shorn, France furnishes more black and brown hair than any other country, The women of Germany and the north of Europe, as a rule, furnish fair and golden hair. Gray and white hair is always in demand, and if of good quality commands a high price.—<New York Tribune, The Coat Gown, o Two real French “gowns which are coats,” as Miss Elizabeth White put it, caused several hundred women and three men to gasp as with one throat at a session of the Dress makers’ Protective Association of America, at the Masonic Temple, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue, The gowns were digplayed on living models. Economical mothers make their children slips that look like those gowns, only the gowns have more artistic lines over .he hips. It was easy to believe Miss \White's statement that there was no under wear beneath, Miss White was attired in a gorg eous trained creation of yellow silk, which, though she insists that the sheath gown was “dead when it was born,” certainly had a slit in the skirt, filled in with lace, which coyly revealed the fact that the wearer was French enough to discard petticoats, One of the ‘‘gowns which are coats” was of black velvel, heavily braided. It followed the lines of the fizure ab golutely, and the gkirt is what might be called “skimpy.” llf it becomes the fashion, makers of dress materialg reedn't keep many looms running. “You'll take to it in time,” said Miss White. “If you don’t this win ter, you will next, American women would probably wear a little dress under that, for Americans do as they like; but for the French woman it is gown and coat, and she wears noth ing under it but combinations and a emall slip. With sleeves coming a little way below the elbow-—you won't see French women with sleeves down to their wrists—with a fur tip pet and muff and a large hat-—that’s the way the real French woman looks on the streets of Paris. You have to go to the real French houses to get those models,” Short skirts are the thing for next season, “I saw nine short skirts to one long one,”” said Miss White, de seribing her researches in Paris. “1 saw six handsome walking suits at Paquin’s, and every one short. And reason enough. When you hold up a skirt the style’'s gone. Women have known the comfort of walking in short skirts, and they'll not give them up. Girls wear them as short as they like; older women can have them short enough to escape the ground. “And it's a season for thin people. The models in the French houses,” sald Miss White impressively, ‘“‘are all thin girls, and the dresses are pulled in to make them look thinner. You see,” she added sadly, ‘“‘we must all get thin.” The hats accompanying the cos tumes at the demonstration were enormous. “It takes hair to support them,” said Miss White. ‘“The hair in Paris is like this,” and she pointed to her voluminous marcelled waves. “They have chignons, and I don't know what they don’t have.” The dresses shown were of mirage silk and of dull colorg, which are to be fashionable. All followed the lines of the figure closely. - “Fit your hips,” was Miss White’s pariing word to her followers. “If you" do that, you needn't think of much else.””—New York Tribune. High Honor ¥or Woman Doctor. It is a popular belief that in liberty loving America women have the wid est opportunities to place themselves on a common footing with - men. Women have been crowding the pro fessions. Only a few months’ ago two of our leading universities were agi tated in respect of admitting a woman as a speaker in the annual debate between the colleges. The champions of woman’s right point proudly to the fact that 5,000,000 women in the United States are self-supporting. But, far as women have advanced in this country, they seem in comparison to lag behind the women of Europe. This applies particularly to the higher callings. Finland has elected women to its Parliamen!; women physicians and professors compete successfully lwith men in Germany and France. A sign of the times now comes from Russia, where women are jubilant at the selection of Dr., Anna Dontcha kova to fill the chair of pathology in the University of Moscow. The radi cal nature of this step may be judged from the fact that the university bars women as students, so that Dr, Dont chakova has the distinction of being the only woman in the university. She was gelected in preference te more than 100 men candidates, She is looked upon as one of' the first pathologists in YWurope.—New York Press, ] —— "3‘ LB Fe oA o /?/%S) | L\ \FAS L] o] 5] QRPN Woven silk tights with feet come in pink, blue or brown. The intensely dark dyes of brown will achieve many of the fashionable street suits, A French jahot of hand embroidery and Irish lace comes in all white and white with colors. The excessiyely large crown and head size of the coming hats render them vractical whenwinds and storm# may be expecied, The new Shantung satin possesses all tne qualities of suppleness, sheen and “‘drapability’” that are so indig pensable for the newest of gowns. High-waigted effects are produced by broad sashes which start from the shoulders, cross a‘ the bust and fasten under huge buckles at the back, Those gowns are not frequent that display sleeves open up the ba‘k of the arm with a little frill of mousse line peeping out, but they are new and smart, Louble revers are a feature of some handsome coats, small ones of fancy silk or embroidery overlapping larger oncs of heavier and more som ber material, Tassels, balls, and braid ornaments, large and small, are dropped at every conceivable appropriate spot on wraps and gowns, and they are usual ly graceful and beautiful, The wide tuck running from shoul ders to walistline which is noted on many of the tailored waists at pres ent broadens the shoulders and glives a pretty line to the figure, Though the strong vogue for ere tonne was predicted to be of short duration, there seems to be no dimin ution of its popularity when dlm\er gowns of lovely supple satins, accom panied by’ pearls, are decorated with this same unpretentious stuff, richly cmbroidered, o~ ol . 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