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" JIY FRIEND, MY BROTHER. My friend, my brother, whoso'er thftu be, Cait down by suffering, still keep heart of grace! Though wrong and falsehood lord it far and free Across the tear-drenched lands, Though guiltless blood be shed, and from •thesr place Our fair ideals \)y sacrilegious hands Are rent, oh j et believe that Baal shall be hurled From off his thrcne, and Love renew the world! But not in fetters comes he, crowned with thorn, The victim's cross upon his shoulders borne, But girt with power and with glorv dight, The torch of joy in outstretched, hands alight! And then shall be no tears on earth, no hate. No gibbets and no tortures more, no slaves, No livid want, implacable as fate, No swords, no crossless graves! O friend, and this is not a dream! ’Tis no Delusive hope! For look around thee, mark And answer me—can evil fiercer grow, The night more dark? Earth, slaked with streams of blood, enough has aeen Of senseless wars that fill her ears with cries, And now to Love, the gentle and serene, She lifts imploring eyes! —-Simon Yakovlevich Nadson. The Kidnaping of Araminta Amelia. By EFPIB 3TEVEK3. '/ Patty walked slowly down the front walk with Araminta Amelia, carefully wrapped up in grandma’s gray knit shawl, in her arms. Araminta Amelia was just recover ing from an attack of the measles, and one could not be too careful, Patty thought. Usually Araminta Amelia indulged In the mumps—the measles were something new in her somewhat varied experience of diseases. When Patty reached the big maple tree next to the street, she placed Araminta Amelia upon the bench that w.as built around its trunk. “The sun is considered good for sick people,” Patty said to herself, unconsciously imitating Aunt Kate’s decided tones. Then Patty ran over to the other side of the yard to see how r her flower garden was growing. Alas! it was not growing very well. Patty was such a little girl that she often for got to take proper care of it. While she was mourning, the minister came along. He lived near by, and was Patty’s very good friend. “Hello! Who is this young lady?” he cried, picking Araminta Amelia up. Patty came running to the spot. VOh, you mustn’t!” she exclaimed, “That's Araminta Amelia, and she's got the measles. You might catch them.” The minister laid Araminta Amelia <iown upon the bench very suddenly, and pretended to look very much alarmed. The minister was splendid at make-believes, almost as good as Patty herself. That was one reason why they were such good friends. ( “Why didn’t you tell me before?” he asked. “I haven’t had the measles since I was two years, three months, and two weeks, to say nothing of days, hours, minutes and seconds, younger than you are, Miss Patty, and sometimes people do have the measles twice, you know.” Patty nodded her head wisely. She knew all about it. “Araminta Amelia has had the measles four times since laat Friday,” she remarked, gravely. Friday was the day on which Patty had learned that there was sueh a disease as the measles. “You don’t say so!” cried the min ister in well simulated astonishment. “Well, if you leave her out here all alone I am afraid some one may kid nap her.” ' Then the minister hurried away, and Patty sat down beside Araminta Amelia with a perplexed frown upon her chubby face. Patty was just beginning to dis cover how many new things, especial ly words, a very little girl has to learn about. She puckered up her tiny brows and pursed her rosy lips, as she had seen grandma do when she was in doubt about anything, but it did not help her to understand the meaning of the funny word. “Kid-nap,” she said slowly to her self. “Kid-nap. I know what a nap is. Araminta and I take a nap every afternoon. But kid —kid—” “Mamma wears kid gloves,” she re membered after a moment. “Gloves and going to sleep. Oh, dear, that doesn’t mean anything at all! This is a bad something that might happen to Araminta Ameria. I’ll run and ask mamma.” So the little girl, forgetful of the possible danger that might befall her beloved doliy, left her on the bench alone, and ran Into the house. “O mamma!” Patty cried, “what is a kid?” Mamma was busy, but she stopped a minute to answer her little daugh ter’s question. “What is it about a kid?” she asked, wonderingly. “What is a kid?” Patty repeated eagerly, an idea coming to her sud denly. “What animal is a kid?” “Oh,” replied mamma, “a kid is a baby goat. We saw one in the park a while ago, you know.” “I remember,” replied Patty, her face fairly beaming with smiles. “Thank you, mamma,” and away she trotted. “I suppose the minister meant that a kid might come and trouble Ara minta Amelia while she was taking a nap,” she mused, “though why he didn’t say so I can’t see.” When Patty reached the bench, she stopped and stared and stared. Araminta Amelia was gone! Patty looked on the ground; she looked up and down the street; she even looked up into the branches of the tree above her, although, of course, she knew better than to think Araminta Amelia had walked off or climbed a tree by herself; but no Araminta Amelia could she And. Patty began to cry as if her heart would break. Just then her big brother Tom came along. “Why, what's the matter here?” he asked, picking his small sister up in his strong arms. “A—a—kid’s carried off Araminta Amelia,” Patty sobbed despairingly. “Who was it?” inquired Tom, fiercely. “I’ll attend to any young ster who troubles my little sister.” “You’re my dearest brother!” Pat ty cried, hugging him ecstatically. “But it wasn’t any youngster, it was just a kid—a baby goat.” At that moment Rover, the dog, came running to meet them with something long and gray dragging behind him. “Why—why! ” said Patty in amaze ment, “that’s Araminta Amelia’s shawl.” “It looks very much like grandma’s shawl,” observed Tom, dryly, setting Patty down and unfastening the shawl, which had caught upon Rov er’s collar. “I borrowed it,” replied Patty. “Grandma said I might.” “All right,” said Tom. “Rover, old fellow,” addressing the puppy coaxingly, and showing him the shawl, “where did you get it? Show us, that’s a good dog.” But Rover only wagged his tail and barked joyously, as though he thought he had done something very smart indeed. By tills time the entire family, with the exception of papa and the baby, had arrived upon the scene. Finally, Rover, evidently tired of keeping his great secret to himself, ran into the vegetable garden, behind the house, and began digging down into the soft earth. The others fol lowed. All at once a bit of pink silk ap peared above ground. Patty did not wait any longer. She dropped down upon her knees beside Rover and be gan digging as hard as she could. Between them both it did not take very long to unearth poor, abused Araminta Amelia. “I guess your kid was only a puppy after all,” said Tom laughing. “Y r es,” replied Patty in a puzzled way, “the minister said a kid would do something bad to her while she was taking a nap if I didn’t take care. And I—-I—ran off and forgot her. I’ll never do it again. But I guess he meant Rover, thougn ft was funny for him to call a dog a kid.” Every one looked puzzled What could Patty mean? “Just what did the minister say, dearie? Tell mother,” said mamma, putting her arms around Patty, who was beginning to cry once more. “He didn’t say exactly those words,” sobbed Patty; “but he meant them. He said kid and nap, anyway.” Tom laughed. “Kidnap,” he shout ed, as soon as he could speak. At that the others laughed, too, and even Patty smiled through her tears, though she did not know what they were laughing about. Mamma, seeing her puzzled face, explained softly that, when the min ister said some one might kidnap Ara minta Amelia, he only meant that some one might carry her off. “And Rover did kidnap Araminta Amelia,” returned Patty. Thus Patty learned anew word.—The Congrega tionalism Lawsuit Over 22 Cents. In Judge Eberhard’s court in Chi cago on Tuesday a jury, two lawyers and half a dozen witnesses spent three hours on a case involving the sum of twenty-two cents. Court adjourned before the charge of the judge was given to the jury. William Hindley went to a department store to make a purchase for his wife. The article wanted was not in stock, but the clerk gave him something “Just as good,” for twenty-two cents, with the agree ment, he says, that it could be re turned if not satisfactory. He re turned with the goods and demanded his money, which in his complaint he says was refused, but that is a dis puted point. Before the trial was cosaQienced the manager of the store offered twenty-five cents in settle ment, but Mr. Hindley is a lawyer, and three cents’ premium is no in ducement for him to give up the chances for a bill of costs. —Utiea Press. “Orders by Pigeon Post.” Sir—“ Orders by pigeon post” is nothing new. Sixty 3’ears ago my father, a Lincolnshire clergyman, had a brother living in our market town of Boston (six miles from our parish) who kept a few carrier pigeons, and it was my father’s habit when he drove into town on market day to bring back a pair of pigeons. My mother being an invalid, the doctor w r as often wanted very quickly, and my father used to fasten his or ders to a bird, liberate it, and away it would go straight home, my fath er’s brother executing the instruc tions at once. All special wants were for years dispatched to town in this w r ay until my uncle died, when we lost our useful little messengers, who had saved us many a long, cold drive to our market town. —London Daily Mail. The chance of one finger mark be ing exactly like another is one in 64,000.000,000. Statistics and Comparisons of Nations of the World * * i _ * 1 ;• '*> • ’ ‘ " . . , _ . • , ‘ .- t • -V By P. B. VAN SYCKEL. From the Irvington (N.. Y.) Gazette. There are comparatives found, along certain lines, in studying differ ent nations of the world, which, to say the least, are interesting to pon der over. We are wont to claim that the United States surpasses all nations of the world in development and pro gress. While the United States is the youngest nation with which I propose to make certain comparisons, she has, by no means, therefore, followed her seniors in the examples they have set her along the lines which I shall pote. In some of tnese comparisons we should blush, in others the blush is on their side. The present population of the United States is between 85,000,000 and 95,000,000 people. The popula tion of England is 36,998,178. The population of Germany is 56,367,178. The population of Russia is 106,204,- 176. The population of Austria is 20,150,597. The population of Italy is 32,449,754. The population of Spain is 18,089,500. The population of France i5.38,641,333. The present wealth cf the United States is about $132,000,000,000. The wealth of the United States in 1897 was given as $1,750,000,000. The wealth of England at the same time was $59,030,000,000. The wealth of France at the same time was $47,- 950,000,000. The wealth of Ger many at the same time was $40,000,- 000,000. The wealth of Russia at the same time was $32,000,000,000. The wealth of Austria at the same time was $22,560,000,000. The wealth of Italy at the same time was $15,000,000,000. The wealth of Spain at the same time was $11,900,- 000,000. The salary of the President of the United States is $50,000. The salary of the President of Mexico, unless re cently changed, is $50,000. The sal ary of the Governor-General of Can- THE PART WATER PLAYS ON THE DESERT. It Is difficult to comprehend the part that water, or rather the lack of water, plays in shaping the life of the desert. Mice and other small rodents, native to arid regions, have been known to live on hard seeds without green food for periods of several months or even as long as two or three years, and nothing in their behavior indicated that they ever took liquid in any form. I have hunted deer and peccary in Sonora in regions in which the only source of water was to be found in the cac ti; even bands of domestic sheep reared in the arid regions, acquire a capacity for going without water for many weeks. Man, however, Is poorly armed against the rigors of the desert. A horseman may go from morning of one day until some hour of the next, in midsummer, and neither he nor his horse may incur serious danger, and experiences of this kind are nu merous. If the traveler is afoot, ab stinence from water from sunrise to sunset is a serious inconvenience to him, and if he continues his journey, the following morning his sufferings may so disturb his mental balance that he may be unable to follow a trail, and by evening of that day, if he has not come to something drink able, he may not recognize the friendly stream in his way, and In stances are not unknown in which sufferers from thirst, have forded streams waist deep to wander out on the dry plain to a grisly death. Some estimate may be made of the actual amount necessary from the fact that the writer during the course of an ordinary day in May at Tueson, consumed sixteen pints of water. A walk of three or four miles was tak en, but no especial muscular effort beyond this was involved. A march across the desert in fnidsummer would Rouble this quantity. Under such circumstances, a canteen of less capacity than a gallo%.As a toy, and one of real usefulness,*" should con tain at least twice that amount. The most notable example of endurance of thirst is that of a Mexican pros pector, hunting for a “lost mine” near the old Camino del Diablo, or trail from Altar to Yuma, who made camp safely after being out for eight days with a supply sufficient for one. This experience is not likely to be duplicated soon, although It is re ported that Indians often go as long as four days.without water. —From “A Voyage Below Sea Level,” by Dr. D. T. MacDougal, in The Outing Mag azine. Imaginary Holidays. I know a man who can not afford to travel, and yet has a delightful way of deceiving himself. He learn3 about the cost of traveling, the proper cloth ing to be worn, gets a time table and arranges excursions for himself to various places, and then reads about them in hooks of travel. To the man with imagination it is a captivating occupation.—Hearth and Home. Although the population of Lon don’s metropolitan district is 2,000,- 000 larger than that of New York, the latter city does a restaurant busi ness one-fifth greater than the for mer. ada i3 $50,000. The salary of the King of Greece is $200,000. The sal ary of the President of France is $240,000. The salary of the King of England is $1,925,000. The sal ary of the Emperor of Germany is $3,852,370. The salary of the Czar of Russia is $12,000,000. The salaries of the Vice-President of the United States, the members of the Cabinet, ambassadors and minis ters abroad are not sufficient to pay their rent and living; in some cases not enough by one-half, leaving noth ing for their services. Judges of the Supreme Court in the County of New York receive a salary of $17,500, or S7OOO more than the Chief Justice of the United States. To make the briefest possible com ment on the above statistics, point ing to one particular only, allow me to compare the salaries paid to the executive heads of the six or eight leading nations of tho world here mentioned. While the population of the United States is greater than that of either of the above named nations, except Russia, and the wealth of the United States is far greater than that of any other, four times greater than the wealth of Russia, yet the salary paid to the executive head of the United States is less than that paid to the executive head of any of the other nations mentioned, except Mexico and Canada. The salary paid to the President of the United States is 240 times less than that paid to the Czar of Russia, nearly eighty-five times less than that paid to the Emperor of Germany, and nearly forty times less than that paid to the King of England. It is obvious that a man’s wage does not always compare equably with what he represents. Transplanted English j If language is a true measure of conquest, as has been contended, then Anglo-Saxon speech is rapidly conquering the European continent. It is a matter of interest to many to observe the increasing number of Englisl words incorporated into col loquial French. This new but mild and pacific form of English invasion has led to the publication in Paris of a list of words that have become more than ‘‘acclimated”, and natural ized by general use in France. Many refer to sports and sporting, and in of words adopted fiom the Englreh into French are turf, trot ting, Tattersall, racer, maiden, mi lord, carriage and gentleman rider. English drinks have no great vogue in France, but the French have adopted several of the English words that distinguish them: gin, punch and grog. They have also taken the following English words: Lightweight, lawn tennis, Irish stew, home, handicap, ale, ‘‘all right,” cocktail (which the French define as American, not English), bridge and bridge whist, bullfinch, block system, ballast, blackleg, event, dining car, destroyer, drag (mail coach), dandy, covert coat, commo dore, full hand (poker), flyer, feath erweight, 5 o’clock, fashion, hunter, jockey club, keepsake, knickerbock ers, lunch, macadam, mutton chop, outlaw, outrider, paefdoek, pedigree, pickles, porter, pudding, quick be ginner, race horse, raglan (overcoat), rocking chair, roast beef, sandwich, self-made man, shocking, sleep car, snob, team, tipster, toast, top weight, tramway, trolley, truck, tunnel, tub, walkover wharf, waterproof and whisky. In Italy, too, may be seen the in fluence o fthe English tongue. ' High life,” pronounced “hig leef,” ha3 long been in use in that country. ‘‘Lo sport” and “il yacht” are everyday matters in the Italian kingdom: the press talk casually of “il globe trot ter,” and “11 reporter,” and “meet ings” has usurped the place of all Latin synonyms, and in Italy gets its plural regularly—“meetingai,” like any other good Italian noun. An en terprising shop, calling itself “The Handy Things Company,” advertises an ice cream freezer, “The Easy.”— Harper’s Weekly. No Railroad There. There is but one county without railroad connection in the State of Colorado. Heretofore it has been considered quite a distinction out there to be outside the railroad belt, and Grand, Rio Blanco, Baca and Routt counties were in the list of exclusives; but one after the other has been annexed, so to speak, to the outside world. Routt being the lat est, until now little Baca County, away down in the southeast corner of the State, is left to enjoy the honor all by itself. In 1868 there wasn’t a foot of railroad track in the then territory. Those Long Earrings. According to the fashion hints, women will wear earrings this season so large they will have to be support ed on rollers on the ground.—Atchi son Globe. A cord of wood ordinarily yields about one ton of mechanical pulp or about one-half ton of chemical pulp. A shellfish in the Mediterranean spins a silk as fine as any from a co coon. The fish is the prima nobilis. The River Polk flows into a cave in the side of a mountain and completely disappears at Adelsberg, near Trieste. The electric furnace is capable of attaining a heat of 7200 degrees. This is a fearful temperature, and will melt almost everything solid known to man. In comparison with this heat a redhot iron bar would be called cold. Experiments conducted abroad have demonstrated that balloons trav eling at a height of from 600 to 2000 yards could be hit only once out of six shots, while they were absolutely safe at a height of 3000 yards. Even when struck, the damage to the gas bag was so small that the balloon was able to continue its journey for hours before the escaping gas made a landing necessary. The Argentine ant, which has worked great devastation among the sugar plantations of Louisiana, has made its appearance on the Pacific Coast, and active steps are being tak en to exterminate it. This insect is so pugnacious that it quickly drives out the cattle ant, which has some considerable economic value and which is not replaced by the intruder from Argentine. The latter is not only destructive in itself, but it pro tects stale growth and plant lice. The Argentine ant is regarded as one of the most injurious pests which was even brought into the United States. The forcing of wheat and other crops by electricity has been carried on at Bevington, England, for three years, under the direction of a son of Sir Oliver Lodge. A plot of nineteen and a half acres is covered by a net work formed of a number of lines of stout telegraph wire with thin galvan ized iron cross wires, the whole sup ported on twenty-two larch poles fifteen feet high, and a two horse power oil engine drives a dynamo generating current that is trans formed to about 100,000 volts, and is connected by the negative pole to earth and by the positive to the over head wires. A speciment crop is thir ty-five and a half bushels per acre of Canadian wheat from the electrified area and only twenty-five and a half from neighboring land—an increased yield of forty per cent, from the new methods CALIFORNIA BROWN PELICAN. Its Method of Fishing Attracts Atten tion at Southern Seaside Resorts. The pelican, familiar to the visitor at the seaside resorts of Southern California, is known as the California brown pelican. His length is from four to five feet, and his wings and tail are of silver gray, streaked w T ith seal brown. The breeding range of these inter esting birds is off the coast of M€;xico and Lower California. May and June are the nesting months. Occasionally they build their nests in low trees, but ordinarily it is on the ground. It is a loosely constructed affair, built of weed stalks and sticks and lined with grass. At the seaside the pelicans are seen lazily flying through the air. It is their fashion to fly one behind the other. Each following the signal from the leader, gives five or six strokes, and then all soar in unison. At feeding time their wont is to drive the fish by a noisy beating of the wings to a point close in shore, when the birds will dive from considerable heights. This performance is quite spectacular, as with closely folded wings the bird drops as a ball head foremost into the water. Under the water they evidently turn a somer sault, as the bird invariably emerges head first. The pouch or game bag of the pel ican will hold ten or fifteen pounds of fish, and as the bird is provided with no means of defense, he is the victim off sure thing operators and confidence workers in the form of the predatory gulls. Too lazy to dive for them selves, these thieves will pursue and attack the pelican, causing him to dive as a matter of self-protection. So closely are the pelicans pursued by their more agile enemies that final ly, half exhausted, they give up the trophies of their chase. This they do with a cynical smile as they see their hard earned gain gobbled by the gulls.—Los Angeles Times. The Office Boy’s Big Pay. A certain prominent lawyer of To ronto is in the habit of lecturing his office staff, from the junior partner down, and Tommy, the office boy, comes in for his full share of the ad monition. That his words were ap preciated was made evident to the lawyer by a conversation between Tommy and another office boy on the same floor which he recently over heard. “Wotcher wages?” asked the other boy. “Ten thousand a year,” replied Tommy. “Aw, g’wan!” “Sure,” insisted Tommy, una bashed. “Four dollars a week in cash, an’ de rest in legal advice.”— Everybody's. N °‘ Wn ßl Ate Agreed With MRS. LINORA BODENHAMep i^ nora Bodenhamer. uTn J suffered with stomach troatiu indigestion for some time nA that I ate agreed mtbm ? d "S nervous and experienced I B " Ttr ? feeling ot uneasiness and fear i Died to no from the doctor, but it rid* no zood. ' 1 Ck! at “I found in one of your I'en.m book, description of my svmptoms IT 1 wrote to Dr. Hartman for advice [i 91 I had catarrh of the stomach, | I’eruna and Alanaliu and folloxveu hk 4 reetiona and can now sav that if > well . 1 ever did. > ,nal 1 W, “■ top* that all who are atHirted „ the same symptoms will take Peruna has certainly cured me.” The above is only one of hundreds, have written similar letters to Dr and! roan. Just one such case as this em u Peruna to the candid consideration of one similarly afflicted. If this Utm j the testimony of one person what ouebt J be the testimony of hundreds, yes tW sands, of honest, sincere people? \VeU in our files a great many other tea! monials. (<gLABBn^ cme fo iJAMPLE TREATMENT of uTdWS 0 and Fistula Cure and l>ook explaining pent free- REA CO..Pont..R-l.Minneapolis Faith may move mountains, but It won’t always do away with a bluff, Hicks’ Capudine Cures Nervousness, Whether tired out, worried, overworked,or what not. It refreshes the brain tni nerves. It's Liquid and pleasant to tiii 10c., 25c., and 5Gc., at drug stores. ANTS THAT GROW MUSHROOMS, Insects Make Excellent Gardentrt In South America. Professor J. R. Ainsworth Dan gives latest proofs of the ant's right to our applause. He &ay3: In tro> leal America the traveler in their native region often sees thousand! cf ants marching In coiumn of route, each holding in its powerful laws j piece of green leaf about the she of a sixpence. These they take to their nests. The material Is used as an elaborate sort of mushroom culture, requiring much more sMI and intelligence than that in human beings engage. The mush room flower sets spawn in the Wl be prepares, but the ant does w* need to do this. The desired soon makes its appearance in chewed leaf. But in its natural s it is inedible, and must udW careful treatment before it yields t mushroom which the ant desires, necessary work is done by a caste if gardener ants. These * out obnoxious germs, etc., and P ing off the tips of the threads, vent them from growing irwo - and producing useless toadstool*. - a result of this the threads into innumerable little rounded thickenings, each of which is one-fiftieth of an inch across. _ the which arc the m These curious bodies oonat 1 t sole food of the ant—or, at the chief food. EAGER TO WORK Health Regained by Right Food. The average healthy man or an is usually eager to be busy some useful task or employ me E But let dyspepsia or lDu § get hold of one, and all endear comes a burden. , rc3 “A year ago, after recover ng an operation,” writes a Mic • “my stomach and nerves bet, give me much trouble. ”At times my appetite was clous, but when indulged, ln followed. Other times Iha -j petite whatever. The food 1 not nourish me and I S IBW than ever, . . s! l “I lost Interest in everyth o * wanted to be alone. I ha had good nerves, but now t * | trifle would upset me and - 1 violent headache. Walking the room was an effort an . P 1 * exercise was out of the Q uesl “I had seen Grape-Nut? a ..j but did not believe what the time. At last when it # ' v if I were literally starving, ea* Grape-Nuts. for* “I had not been able to wo „ year, but now after two - 1 ‘ ffD f; Grape-Nuts lam eager to ) tr** again. My stomach gives m $ ble now, my nerves are ever, and interest in and 8 . tion have come back v to health.” “There’s a Reason. ” 0 Name given by Post ( u ™ Road f Creek, Mich. Read iDO Wellville,” in pkgs. * I Ever read the abov f t 0 newrone appears from . full 1 They are genuine, true, human interest.