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Uses of Pulp. It almost as if the oid saying, “cot¬ | ton is king,” might be revised to apply to woodpulp. Woodpulp has been used as a substitute for iron, ivory and In¬ numerable kinds of animal and vege¬ I table fibre. As a material for car- ! wheels the manufacturers have found ! it superior to any kind of metal, being about three times as durable as steel and much more elastic. It has been found available as a material for pav¬ ing bricks, drain tiling and conduits for lecetric cables. For ivory, which Is becoming scarcer every day, cel lulose is the best substitute that has yet been found. When properly treat¬ ed it is practlvally proof against heat and moisture, hence it has been found superior to timber as a material for telegraph poles and screws. Cannon, too, and bicycles are made out of woodpulp in Germany and Chicago re¬ spectively; while a Frenchman has Succeeded in producing a thread from the substance, which he declares can be worked into all sorts of fabrics. A Vienna inventor declares that his woodpulp leather is superior to ani¬ mal leather in fineness and durability. Among other articles made of wood pulp are boats, canoes, cuspidors, palls, fiower-pots, tables, chairs, bu¬ reaus, barrels, wagons, horseshoes, and imitation porcelain ware, The manufacture of silk irbm woodpulp is now an important industry in England and France.—Inventive Age. Wild* Rush of Diamond Miners. A wild rush of excited miners is reported at Nullagine. Western Australia, where dia¬ monds have been discovered in large quan¬ tities, and it is feared that many will lose their lives in the mad struggle for riches. In this country the rush for gain Is causing many other men to break down in health and strength. Nervousness, sleeplessness, loss of flesh and appetite and general debility are the common symptoms. Hostetter’s Stom¬ ach Bitters will cure them all. A coal mine which caught fire at Daily, Scotland, 50 years ago, has at last gone out. 44 Durability is Better Than Show.” The <lvealth of the multi millionsdres is not equal to good health. Riches without health are a curse f and yet the rich, the middle classes and the poor alike have, in Hood's Sarsaparilla, a valuable as¬ sistant in getting and main¬ taining perfect health. It never disappoints. Scrofula-” Three years ago our son, now eleven, had a serious case of scrofula and’erysipelas with dreadful sores, discharg¬ ing and itching constantly. He could not walk. Several physicians did not help for sixteen months. Three months’ treatment with Hood’s Sarsaparilla made him per¬ it.” fectly well. We are glad to tell others of Mrs. David Laird, Ottawa, Kansas. NauseaVomiting troubled spells, dizziness and prostration me for years. Had neuralgia, grew weak and could not sleep. My age was against me, but Hood’s Sarsaparilla cured me thoroughly. My weight increased from 125 to 143 pounds. I am the mother of nine children. Never felt so well and strong since I was married as I do now.” Mrs. M. A. Waters, 1529 33d St., Washington, D. C. Eczema-” We had to tie the hands of our two year old son on account of eczema on face and limbs. No medicine even helped until we used Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which soon cured.” Mrs. A. Van Wyck, 123 Montgomery Street, Paterson, N. J. 'f Never Disappoint ^Hood’s Pllla cure liver ills; non-irritating and only cathardc to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla^ Society Women and, fact.nearly all < in women who undergo a neTvous strain, are fully compelled to the regret¬ / watch grow¬ ing palloT of their ss cheeks, the coming 23r wrinkles and thinness * that become more u&ML '‘distressing tvery eveTy day. Vi woman iknows that ill-health /i is a fatal enemy to beauty and that good V / health gives to the plainest face an en¬ during PuTe blood attractiveness. and strong ?! V: neTves —these &Te the s\ secret of health and beauty. Dr.Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People build up and purify the blooet and. * strengthen the neTves. To the young girl they are invalu¬ able. to the mother they aTt a necessity, to the woman approaching fifty they aTe the best remedy that science has devised for this crisis of her life. Mrs. Jacob Weaver, of Buahnell, Ill., is fifty-six years old. She say9 . “I suffered for five or six years with the trouble that comes to women at this time of life, I was much weak-ened, was unable, much of the time, to do my own work, and suffered beyond my power to describe. I was down¬ hearted and melancholy. Nothing seemed to do me any good. Then I made up my mind to try Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. I bought the first box in March, 1897, and was benefited from the start. A box and a half cured me completely, and I am now rugged and strong." — Bus/me 11 {III.) Record. The genuine package always bears the full name all druggists or sent postpaid on receipt of price 50* per bo*b_ the 0t. Williams Hedging Co,'bcheneuady.N.V- s ITUATI0NS SECURED bv THE NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT liUHEAU, W. H. Bettie, Manager, 115 J^ Decatur street, Atlanta. Ga. Write at once stating kind of employment desired. 1 LO mu ■JsHTffio-*.... LS. MSI 25 u CTS to Id t 6old br <1 % rq ON distance makes no difference Te our customer* who live in every corner of the globe. All our Catalogues prove t he truth of our assertion —toe can save you money, no matter where you live. Ciothing Catalogue : Our samples Spring of doth attached with immensevarietyof made shows an all of which ill to-your-measurc suits, Suitsaslow are guaranteed and to high lit. $15. We as $5.75 as as station. pay expressage to your We issuca 16 color Lithograph¬ ed book showing Carpets, Rugs, Art Squares, Lace Curtains and Portieres in their natural colors. We pay freight, sew carpets free, ♦ and furnish wadded lining free. . ^ A good Solid Oak Buffet with beveled ■ *;• plate glass for $7.85 is but one of thousands of bargains contained in 'M on r Big General Cata logue of Furniture, Bedding, pr: Mattings, Silverware, Crockery, Machine, ns Sewing Clocks, Upholstery Goods, Baby Carriages, Pic¬ Refrigerators, Mirrors, Tin tures, Ware, Stoves, etc., all SI at 40 to 60 per cent, lower than retail stores. '“‘Today weare saving moneyfor pleased over 1,500,000 Why for ? All customers. not you catalogues are mailed free. Whicn do you want ? Address this way, JULIUS NINES & SON, Baltimore, Md. Dept.301 Teaching the Landsman. Breaking the landsman in to sea duty on a receiving ship of the navy is not a disagreeable business on either side. The men as a rule, are enthusiastic about the service, and though the old timers may guy them a little, no hazing is permitted. The fare they got is quite good—better, in fact, than they can expect to get when they are away from land. The raw re¬ cruit has to earn this food and his $16 a month pay by cleaning the decks, polishing the brasses and doing other plain work about the ship, and by practicing the infantry drill and the setting-up drill every day. But for the most part, >tihe period just after enlistment is a period of idleness. The landsman learns to sling his hammock and is educated in the language of the bells, the boatswain’s whistle and the bugle; but beyond that, be is not kept very busy. If he is an enthusi¬ ast, though, ns most raw recruits are, he welcomes the day when he is as signed to duty, and, slinging toi3 “dit¬ ty” bag over bis shoulder, he starts away, with a squad of bluejackets, to take the train for Norfolk or wherever the point may be at which bis ship Is waiting. There lie goes aboard, re¬ ports and is entered on the list of the ship's crew.—New York News. Begjinj in Various Countries. In Loudon begging is a pastime, in Fiji it is a necessity, in Genoa it is a pleasure, and in Shanghai it is a crime but in Ceylon it has achieved the most glorious acme that the combined forces of science and art can possibly reach. Begging is not practiced in Ceylon, it lias reached the great stage of perfection. Rich and poor alike beg with equal facility. The first thina that the wee, bronze babies are taught is to hold out their hands for the cop¬ pers of the kind-hearted traveler, and even the gray-haired, yellow-gowned priests of Buddah will appeal for a pittance with a look of remorse that would stagger the starved denizens ol the Bowery. The Ceylonese will beg for anything from a rupee to a red-hot stove. He will leave a square meal tc beg for an old coat, and the more one refuses him the more; persistent be coine bis efforts. Nearly a quarter of all cases of In¬ sanity are hereditary. Ho-To-Bao for Fifty Cent8# Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak men strong, blood pure. 60 c. 91 . All druggists. Don’t build the ginger-bread house on the ten-cent foundation of experience. Commerce and Immigration. Commercially the United States has from earliest colonial times showed its importance to the world, and at pres¬ ent our combined imports and exports count up to 1800 millions a year. Out productions have always -been sought by other countries, and the United States lies on a new world-highway SEEKING THE TRUTH. METHODS APPLIED BY A GER¬ MAN THINKER. Maeterlinck's l'li ilosopliy—A Selection of Aphorisms from the Symbolic Poet's Essay Upon Wisdom anti Destiny. Maeterlinck, giving his attention to didactic literature, has chosen the method of “quickest approach” and 'we have in it the earnest endeavor of a thinker to discover the abode of truth. He himself describes the hook as a few interrupted thoughts that entwine themselves with more or less system around two or three subjects. He de¬ clares that there is nothing it under¬ takes to prove; that there are none whose mission it is to convince. It is, in short, a naive, outspoken descrip¬ tion of all that passes In his mind, and those who do not accept his the¬ ories will still admit that this mind is very beautiful. He says in his new book: We should live as though we were always on the eve of the great revela¬ tion; and we should be ready with welcome, with warmest, and keenest, and fullest, most-heartfelt and inti p ii'f K % to m § I 25 J wm & m m "i m » \ MAURICE MAETERLINCK, mate welcome. Let us always remem¬ ber that nothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves. As we be¬ come wiser we escape some of our instinctive destinies. Instinct and destiny are forever conferring to¬ gether; they support one another, and rove, hand in hand, round the man who is not on his guard. We are told that the famous tragedies show us the struggle of man against fate. I believe, on the contrary, that scarcely a drama exists wherein fatality truly does reign. Search as I may, I can¬ not find one which exhibits the hero in conflict with destiny pure and simple. For, indeed, it is never destiny that he attacks; it is with wisdom he is always at war. Fate exerts a more tyrannous power, by virtue of instinct, heredity and other laws more relent less still, mere profound and obscure; but even when we writhe beneath un¬ merited, crushing misfortune; even when fortune compels us to do the thing we should never have done, had our hands been free; even then, when the deed has been done, the misfor¬ tune has happened, it still rests with ourselves to deny her the least in¬ fluence on that which shall come to pass in our soul. Reason produces not wisdom, which is rather a craving of soul. It dwells up above, far high¬ er than reason; and thus is it of the nature of* veritable wisdom to do countless things whereof reason dis¬ approves, or shall but approve here¬ after. So was it that wisdom one day said to reason, “It were well to love one’s enemies and return good for evil.” Reason, that day, tiptoe on the loftiest peak in its kingdom, at last was fain to agree. The vase wherein we should tend the true wis¬ dom is love, and not reason. The in¬ ner life that is surest, most lasting, possessed of the uttermost beauty, must needs be the one that conscious¬ ness slowly erects in itself, with the aid of all that is purest in the soul. The inner life begins when the soul becomes good, and not when the in¬ tellect ripens. The striving intellect maj; well know happiness beyond the reach of the satisfied body; but the soul that grow# nobler has joys that are often denied to the striving intel¬ lect. Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts; and whence do our thoughts derive the weapons wherewith they attack or de¬ fend us? We suffer but little from suffering itself; but from the, manner wherein we accept it overwhelming sorrow may spring. It is wrong to think of destiny only in connection with death and disaster. When shall we cease to believe that death, and not life, is important; that misfortune is greater than happiness? Why, when we try to sum up a man’s destiny, keep our eyes fixed only on the tears that he shed, and never on the smiles of his joy? Where have we learned that death fixes the value of life, and not life that of death? For intellect may be of the loftiest, might¬ iest and yei perhaps never draw near unto joy; hut in the soul that is gentle, and pure, and good, sorrow cannot forever abide. We have only the right to scorn a joy when such scorn is wholly unconscious. Let us not look to renouncement of happi¬ ness till we have sought It elsewhere in vain. It is only one side of moral¬ ity that unhappiness throws into light; and the man whom sorrow has taught to be wise, is like one who has loved and never been loved in re¬ turn. It is only the little ephemeral pleasures that forever are smiling; and they die away as they smile. Those thinkers have learned to love wisdom with a far more intimate love whose lives have been happy, than those whose lives have been sad. There are some who are wholly un¬ able to support the burden of joy. There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow. It may even be true that permanent happi¬ ness calls for more strength in man than permanent sorrow; for the heart wherein wisdom is not delights more in the expectation of that which it has not yet than in the full possession of all it has ever desired. To know what happiness means is of far more im¬ portance to the soul of man than to enjoy it. Blit are we not saddening ourselves, and learning to sadden others, if we refuse to accept all the happiness offered to man? Thought is a solitary, wandering, fugitive force, which advances towards us to¬ day and, perhaps on the morrow will vanish; whereas every deed presup¬ poses a permanent army of ideas and desires which have, after lengthy ef¬ fort, secured foothold in reality. The truest morality tells us to cling, above all, to the duties that return every day, to acts of inexhaustible brotherly kindness. It is not by self-sacrifice that loftiness comes to the soul, but as the soul becomes loftier sacrifice fades out of sight, as the flowers in the valley disappear from the vision of him who toils up the mountain. Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns it¬ self. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention, and what we term justice is truly nothing but this equilibrium transformed, as honey is nothing but a transformation of the sweetness found in the flower. There is a cer¬ tain humility that ranks with par¬ asitic virtues, such as sterile self-sacri¬ fice, arbitrary chastity, blind submis¬ sion. fanatic renouncement, penitence, false shame and many others, which have from time immemorial turned aside from their course the waters of human morality and forced them into a- stagnant pool, around which our memory still lingers. For our conduct only to be honest we must have thoughts within us ten times loftier than our conduct. Even to keep some¬ what clear of evil bespeaks enormous craving for ^ood. Of all the forces in the world there is none melts so quickly away as the thought that has to descend Into every-day life. WOMAN IN MAN’S POSITION The first woman to hold the mascu¬ line position of circuit clerk of Ver¬ non county, Missouri, was recently ap¬ pointed by Governor Stephens. She is Mrs. Glessner Moore Brady, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Moore, and the niece of Thomas D. McKay, who was for severg.1 years general passenger agent of the Burlington road at San Francisco, and is now rep¬ resenting American railroads and steamship lines at Yokohama, Japan. Mrs. Brady was born in Nevada, Mo., about twenty-five years ago. She was educated in the school of her native city and at Mary institute, St. Louis. In 1895 she married Henry C. Brady, who was then circuit clerk of Vernon county, and entered his office as deputy clerk. The husband and wife tia A I I 2k Hi. W m i N Sfs 0^ V'; H MRS. G. M. BRADY, were popular in their office, and last summer, after Mr. Brady’s health had failed, he was again nominated for the position and elected. Dec. 2 he died. The following day the local bar of Nevada adopted resolutions urging the appointment of Mrs. Brady to the of¬ fice just made vacant by the death of her husband. Governor Stephens, familiar with the facts in the case, issued a commission to Mrs. Brady Dec. 5, and she was sword-in by Judge D. P. Stratton of the Vernon circuit court as circuit clerk of Vernon county. ’ Brought Down by Hail. The St. Petersburg Academy of Sci¬ ence was interested recently by a note from Prof. Karpinsky, describing some peculiar hail which fell in Russian Poland. The grains were pear shap¬ ed and contained black granules. Chemical analysis showed that they consisted of iron, nickel and cobalt, and this satisfied Prof. Karpinsky that they were of cosmic origin, The iron was magnetic, The grains, probably the debris of meteors that had been burned in the upper air, would have escaped detection had they not been inclosed in the transparent hail pel¬ lets, where the contrast of color quick¬ ly called attention to them. Heaviest Metal. The heaviest metal i s osmium, which has, bulk for bulk, very nearly tv/ice the weight of lead. The speci¬ fic gravity of gold is about 19%, while that of osmium is almost 22%. Os¬ mium is also the most infusible of metals, remaining unaffected by a de¬ gree of heat capable of causing plati¬ num to run like water. It even re¬ sists the inconceivable temperature the electric arc. IS A LIBERAL IMMENSE GIFTS OF CANADIAN MILLIONAIRE. W. C. McDonald Who Has Given More Than Two Million 3 >ollars to an Eklucatioijial Institution, About to Be Knighted by the British Queen. i I Rumor has it that Mr. William C. McDonald, the rilillionaire tobacco manufacturer, of Montreal, and the giver of Huge sums to McGill Uni¬ versity, is to be Knighted in recogni¬ tion of bis munificent contributions to the cause of education. Mr. McDonald Is the youngest son of the late Hon. Donald McDonald, sometime president of the Legislative Council of Prince Edward Island, and grandson of Cap¬ tain John McDonald, eighth chief of the Clan Macdonald of Glenaladale, who founded the Sottish settlements at Tracadie, Scotchfort, Glenfmnan and Fort Augustus in PriDce Edward Isl¬ and, and served during the American revolutionary war as a captain in the Eighty-fourth, or Royal Highland, Emigrant regiment. Mr. McDonald was born at Glenaladale, Tracadie P. E. I., and was educated at the Central Academy, Charlottetown. In 1854 he went to Montreal and became an im¬ porter and general commission mer¬ chant. Subsequently he embarked in business as a tobacco merchant and manufacturer, and now owns exten¬ sive works in Montreal. He is a vice-’ president of the Montreal branch of the St. John Ambulance Association, and honorary member of the Archi¬ tects’ Association, Quebec. Mr. Mc¬ Donald is widely known for his gifts to McGill. These consist of $20,000 to the Thomas Workman endowment for mechanical engineering; the erection of the W. C. McDonald engineering building, valued, with its equipment, at $350,000; the endowment of the chair of Metrical engineering with V V/s *U & III!Ill"' £ 1 |ijj 1 d W. C. M'DONALD. j the sum of $40,000; the erection and equipment of the physics building, valued at $300,000, and two chairs of physics, with endowments amounting to $90,000; the endowment of the Fac¬ ulty of Law with $150,000; a further sum of $150,000 for the maintenace of the engineering building; $50,000 for the endowment of the pension fund; the erection of a new building for the department of chemistry, mining and architecture, at a cost of $500,000; an observatory site, $70,000; and other endowments bringing his total contri¬ butions up to the magnificent amount of $2,300,000. Mr. McDonald is unmar¬ ried. THE BERNINI CROMWELL. The Leisure Hour gives a picture ipf the new-discovered bust of Cromwell by Bernini, which has recently been presented to the British House of Commons by Mr. Charles Wertheimer, who purchased it for £1,400. Crom¬ well's personal appearance, which has hitherto been known only through the portraits of the painters, is by this bust set in a new light. To quote the words of the writer, “The beautiful bust is in remarkable contrast to the sadness and the suggestion of coarse¬ ness .which marks most of the paint¬ ers’ portraits. The main features of the lion face are there, but the added look of refinement and alertness which Bernini has seized is nothing less than startling. Instead of the heavy eye¬ lids and the look of depression, the eyes are large, open and inquiring, i ( IkL v<- Vi % ! m *» Cl mi I € NEW BUST OF CROMWELL, wistfuiniss j with a singularly modern and humanity. The whole aspect of the countenance is keen, bright a nd genial.” Steel Rails. Steel rails now figure as the cheup est finished product in wrought iron or 4t eel - A e° od lesson in the finance of modern industry is also afforded| by them- To establish a steel rail wc{~ks an expenditure of $3,009,000 is requi-ed 'Jut. before a single rail can be turned The steel is made to conform to an ac¬ curate chemical composition—the most accurate in the ordinary range of tech¬ nical operations. WINNER owns photograph. One of the queerest lawsuits ever placed on record is now being tried in New Haven, Conn. To recover a photograph of herself Miss Gertrude Mills is suing her aunt for its posses¬ sion, the aunt claiming in. her turn that it was freely given her and there¬ to 'e remains her property. To this sfc.tement Miss Mills has another word to say. “I want it distinctly stated th it I never gave her this picture and shs had no business with it. The suit I have begun is a replevin suit and damages are placed at $5. The pic¬ ture is worth possibly 50 cents, I have several times asked my aunt to give me the picture and she has as often refused. Now I propose to see if the law will not protect my inter¬ ests and give me this photograph.” mm 9 a j w. 1 V gri r~ Wlapi \ 1 - MISS GERTRUDE MILLS. Miss Mills is a bright, prepossessing young woman of 19 or 20 years of age. Her father, James Mills, is proprietor of a restaurant at 112 State street and her aunt runs a nival restaurant across the street. This is one of the oddest spits ever brought before a Connecti ei t short. Both sides have hired counsel and propose to fight the case to the bitter end. The trial will come up some time this week before Jus¬ tice A. C. McMathewson. Back of the siiit is a long story of family disagree¬ ments. Several times there have been suits for slander entered by the parties to this case, none of which, hits ever come to trial. A WOMAN WILL HOLD REINS. The many visitors to Colorado Springs who have enjoyed the delight fid experience of riding through the beautiful vicinity on the top of the coach driven and owned by Mrs. G. P. Greenfield, will doubtless be charm¬ ed to repeat the pleasurable excite¬ ment in Paris. One of the American attractions of the Paris exposition of 1900 will be Mrs. G. P. Greenfield’s driving of a genuine old-fashioned sK-in-hand stage coach about the grounds of the exposition. Her repu¬ tation for skill as a manipulator of the reins has brought her this con¬ tract, which will net her $5,000 for the season’s work. It is expected that there will be a tremendous rush to the exposition by residents of the United States, and particularly from the states east of the Mississippi river. The people of this section have read and been told all their lives of the thrilling adventures which fell to the pioneers who went west in ’40s and - r#" ':'A: MKgjga J 'WSM ■ m I & MRS. G. P. GREENFIELD. covered the vast e ;e of territory between the father of waters and the Rockies in a six-in-hand. They have dreamed of the experience, and have longed to realize it, but the stage lines of the country are becoming few, while in other countries the thrilling Experience of a ride behind six sturdy Beasts of the plain is still more diffl cult to obtain. Not a Safe Swimming Pool. An English officer whose ship was stationed off the coast of Ceylon went for a day’s shooting along the coast, accompanied by a native attendant well acquainted with the country. Com¬ ing to a particularly inviting river, the officer resolved to have a bath, and' asked the native to show him a place where there were no alligators. The native took him to a pool close to the estuary. The officer thoroughly enjoy¬ ed his dip, and while drying himself he asked his guide why there were never any alligators in that pool. “Be¬ cause, sar,” promptly replied the Cin¬ galese, “they plenty ’fraid of shark.’*' Splendid Piano tor the Czarina. Czar Alexander sent to Stuttgart for a suitable present for the empress on the occasion of her recent birthday ,-elebration. He selected an ornate upright piano for her boudoir, The case is in the richest Louis XVI. style, and the front hoard is jeweled with brilliant gems. The black keys are made of real ebony and the white ones are covered with mother of pearl. Ger¬ man experts say it is the most costly And exquisite instrument of its kind Aver made.