Ligonier Banner., Volume 39, Number 7, Ligonier, Noble County, 12 May 1904 — Page 7

The Importance of Colors

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HE question of color is a very important one, and ot to which I think the ) £rl of to-day does mnot égj give sufficient atténtion. & Continually ¢o I warn the fafr-hai'qeq girl against the folly of wearing pale blue, which makes her appearance quite insipid and detracts from the beauty of any golden tones she may have in her hair. Palest yellow and pale.greens are her shades. Indeed I have known her to look beautiful in orange and in emerald green. Black, of course, is an admirable contrast to a fair skin and general beauty of complexion. White, too, is becoming as a rule—very often a blue-white “in preference to cream. A rather crude, bright shade of blue, almost a, Rickett’s, is often perfectly beadtif&l\with golden hair, but it must be a ruddy gold—not a yellow gold. Of course,.in choosing colors, the eyes ought to receive a fair share of consideration, and these are often in variance with the tone of the hair. But I do emphatically say that the fairhaired girl should avoid pale blue. Turquoise blue is the color par excellence for the blue-eyed, dark-haired woman: As for the red-haired person who chooses pale blue; well, all I can say about it is if she could see herself as others see her blue would be about the last color she would wear. I advise the red-haired girl, especially in the evening, to wear brown in preference to: black; the former is more uncommon and more becoming to /her. I have known a flaxen-haired girl to look quite adorable in scarlet, but this is perhaps somewhat old for a girl. Some dark people should wear pale mauves or purples, and I "have also known fair-haired women look well in

THE MODES OF PARIS

- ARIS.—It lis curious how x ‘F‘p \ many toilettes de reception ~4/ @ are being made up in brown |92 - over here, not, however, as much for Parisians as for S . Americans and English women. We have worn brown all the winter, and look for lighter things for summer wear; there has ‘also been a perfect rage for brown taffeta and spotted silks, as well as for brown chiffon, chiffon-voile, and soie de chine, for evening wear; these are mostly trimmed with beautiful embroideries, verging from deepest brown to palest yellow. : The lemon .tone, though lovely in itself, is rarely becoming; mnevertheless, this particular. shade intermingled with a tender green will be a feature of the toilette de ville.

White, of course, maintains its popularity, and will gain further success,

for white does, duty on so many occa-

sions, and mearly always looks well. /Tt is the favorite frock in cloth for the races, and in souple fabrics it is the most popular for the toilette de diner and the demi-toilette. .. Parisian coutourieres never seem to tire of the mixture of soft soie de chine in white or cream and coarse makes of lace. ‘A fine needlework lace is also much used on thin muslins and chiffons. - : Silver gray and lace are very chic, and crepon de soie, in palest pinks, blues and mauves, is in fequest £sr the toilette de jeune fille. Some of the new coarse linen embroideries (and here white is very popular) will be an important feature of the early-summer frocks for the Bois. ‘We are promised some coarse canvases, very like linen, with little patterns woven therein. In most cases these frocks are for the stréet or the /Bois in the morning, and, therefore, will be simple to a degree, made with very high collars, bolero bodice and the full Kkilted s%®:cts that: clear the ground. : y The real trottéuse, namely, the skirt above the ankles, is only worn in the country. The skirt for town wear just clears the ground, and the toilette de reception falls in heavy folds all round the feet, and is gauged, gathered, tucked, frilled and flounced in every possble way. All the Pompadour silks and taffetas must :Pa_turall'y be made up lin this wise to suit the period in which they were originated. Every form of ruching may be used and fantastic oldworld trimmings.. Some are pinked ‘out, some are doubled and arranged in - patterns., o . Many of the best toilettes for elderly

the same shades. As I say, you should not judge only by the hair; complexiou .and health have a great deal to do with the matter. . It is a mistake to think that black i 3 universally becoming; it is, however, for the debutante—very often the most effective thing she could wear. Older women look quite charming in silver gray and white. I do not think black for ordinary wear is becoming to the woman whose hair is turning gray, though, of course, a stately dame with snow-white tresses, dressed in the evening in black velvet, looks perfectly charming. But then, as I always say, black at its best is beautiful, while black from the ‘“‘useful” aspect is seldom really nice. The empire sleeve isivery effective with long hanging strands of chiffon from the puff, caught up in fantastic fashion at the wrist. Believe me, strands of chiffon, plain or accordionplaited, or hanging stoles of lace, are, in nearly every case, an improvement to a picture frock or tea gown. I cannot lay too much stress upon thess points, for the picture frock of to-day and the revival of these old-world modes can give many a plain woman an “opportunity of becoming almos: beautiful in the evening. So- many women are picturesque, though not in the least good-looking. In a tailormade frock they can never. achieve more than tidiness and suitability. but in the_evening, clad in masses of lace and chiffon, they can look ethereal, interesting, and almost beautiful. Consequently, it behoves every woman of this tyge to study carefully r_eally artistic dressing, and to blend fashions of all periods until she arrives at what suits her individual style. : : ELLEN OSMONDE.

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THE WORLD'S PETROLEUM.

Production of the Various Oil Fields of the United States in the Year 1902.

In Mr. F. H. Oliphant’s report en the production: of petroieum in 1902, published by the United btates geological survey, as an extract trom its annual volume of mineral resources, a comprehensive account is given of the progress made in 1902 1n all the cil fields of the United States, and alsc of the year’s deyelopment in all the other known fields of the world. This means a statement' of the «.scoveries of oil and prospects for its development in Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Trinidad, the West Indies, the Central American states, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuels, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Roumania, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, New South Wales, New Zealand, Algeria, Persia, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippine islands; Japan, India, China, Hawaii and’Korea.

The world’s production of petroleum in 1902 amounted to 185,151,089 barrels. Of this the United States and Russia produced 91.44 per cent. For years Russia has led in point of production, but an increase of )19,377,722 barrels in the production of the United States in 1902 and a decrease amounting to 4,628,515 barrels in the production of Russia caused these two countries to change places, and put the United States at the:head of the list. Qur country has, however, a still more important advantage over its foremost petroleum rival. More than double the quantity of the higher grades: of refined products is obtained from the average crude petroleum produced in the United States than is chtained from Russian oil. - The United States procuced nearly 2.6 barrels of refined products in 1902 for every barrel produced by the rest of the world. The purest and most valuable grades of crude petroleum in the; world ar2 from the Appalachianand Lima-Indiana fields in the United States. A very fair grade of oil is also produced in a comparatively small way in - Sumatra, Java, Galicia, Rouraania and India. - :

- Within recent years crude petroleum of inferior quality has been largely consumed as fuel oil. In Russia petroleum has been distilled only sufficiently to meet the government requirements as to the flash test, and the remainder is marketed as fuel petroleum, under the head of residuum. This is also true, to a certain extent, in our newly-developed fields in Texas, Louisjana and California. Cheap transportation by pipe lines and tank ships has made this variety of fuel marketable in distant quarters of the globe that are destitute of coal.

BARITE IN ' PENNSYLVANIA.

Small Deposits Found in Great Num--1 ker in Southern Part of : the State.

Nfimerous scattered and little-de-veloped deposits of barite that occur on the.eastern side ¢f the Cumberland valley .in southern Pennsylvania have béen described in a brief paper by Mr. George W. Stoss, included in a bulletin (No. 225) published by the United States geological survey, and entitled “Contributions to Economic Geology, 1903.” . This region, which is near the city of Waynesboro, is extensively folded, and these folds have important relations to the deposits, The barite occurs in the folded and brecciated portions of the limestone, and, in one case at least, in the arch of a plunging anticline associated with the hard sandstone at the top of the lower division,. a favorable position for the brecciation of the limestone. Barite was deposited in the crevices of the breccia, and has cemented it together. The deposit appears to bé due to local segregation of disseminated barite from the adjacent limestone. The barite deposits are usually associated with the limestone and sandy Jayers of the lower division of the limestone series, and are more frequently found in the red clay residuum. Such deposits are discovered in plowing, and after the available material has been removed the hole is filled and farmed over. Several tons have been shipped from each of the openings which were visited, but no extensive deposits were seen. In the residual deposits the masses average six to eight inches in diameter, are rough in outline, ‘and considerably weathered. Two of the openings visited are in bed rock.: Here the barite is chiefly massive, banded, ecrystalline or granular, and ' milky, resembling chert, but is in part clear and crystalline. It occurs as a vein filling in the brecciated limestone. Such deposits are not profitable, as the ore must be crushed and separated from the rock; consequently they have been but little developed. . i .

The Japanese National Anthem. The Russian national hymn is quite a modern production, while the Japanesea is, on the contrary, the oldest existing, and it may be also the shortest. It is known ag “Kimigayo,” and when translated means somewhat @as- follows: May the:reign of our sovereign endure for a thousand years, and for eight thousand more beyond that, until stones are not rocks any more, nor moss any longer grows thickly.” Although it is of immense antiquity, it has only been the official national anthem of Japan since that country first began to occidentalize itself.—St. James’ Gazette.

i Benevolent Railway Schemes. A plan of distributing old magazines and papers to employes and residenis along the lines in Texas was recently adopted by the Southern Pacific. During the first week 1,500 papers wers turned over to 32 section foremen, and in this.way 376 families were reached. Traffic on Siberian Railway. The tracks of the Siberian railway are laid on the ice across Lake Baikal. During the month of March there were carried over the temporary line 1,693 freight cars, 673 cars of soldiers, 25 cars of officers, and 65 engines. ‘ Carnegie’s Autographs. Andrew Carnegie has the best ¢ollection of autographs of crowned heads arid famous persons in contemporg history. There are frequently not oaly signatures, but also letters written vo him on various subjects. 3 :

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FIFTY - EIGHTH CONGRESS.

It Has Made Enormous Appropriations, But Has Passed No Useful Legislation.

The Fifty-eighth congress has been remarkable for what it has not cone, and for the extraordinarily early date of adjournment. This anxiety on'the part of the republicans to ‘“‘go home,” without attempting to legislate on matters other than appropriation bills, shows how feeble the g. 0. p. has become under the present leadership. The democratic leaders in the house of representatives have made the most of their opportunities, and the reépublicans are like a lot of game chickens that have been thoroughly trounced and are quite willing to seek the seclusion .of their districts, instead of still courageously facing the gaffs of their opponents. The republican leaders fear the people. They are bound to their trust’and corporation idols, knowing they would be helpless without the material aid the monopolists furnish, but still they dread the virtuous indignation of the many whno are suffering from trust extortion.

A large number of republican congressmen were pledged to reform those schedules of the tariff that fostered the trusts, others had engaged to urge reciprocity, but when they met in Washington some occult influence overshadowed them, and the promises to their constituents have gone for naught. The word came forth from the white house to pass. the appropriation bills, confirm Crum, and adjourn. as quickly as possible.

These republican congressmen have nothing to point,to with pride. No statehood for the territories; no river and harbor bill; no public buildings bill; no investigation of post office or other scandals; the Smoot case hung up until after election; the Swayne impeachment postponed; the labor bills laid aside; important public land bills deferred; procrastination and political cowardice the order of the day—how can they ex-plain-this to their constituents? A cowardly policy has never been approved by the people of America, nor, it is te be hoped, ever will be. All these great questions that the republican leaders have postponed “until after election,” have two sides fhat cannot be compromised, but the republicans feared to face them.

The democrats are on the popular side, and the republicans are committed, to the cause of the few, and yet have not dared to record their votes for the trusts and corporations. Indirectly the republicans have taken action against the people by not passing upon those matters that would have lightened their burdens, as reforming the tariff and reducing trust high prices would have ‘done. The whole country favors a vigorous and far-reaching investigation of the scandals in the departments, but the republicans have unanimously voted against it. A committee of congress has reported that Judgé Swayne, of the United States court, has committed acts that deserve impeachment, but to stir up that scandal before election would ‘“hurt the party,” and the people of his distriect must, therefore, be left to his tender mercy. The remaining matters left undone may be characterized in the same manner. '

When it comes to relating what this congress has done, the acts passed of a public nature are of but little advantage, if not detrimental to the people. The appropriations made are nearly $BOO,000,000, which will certainly make the total for the congress the greatest ever appropriated in a time of peace. Provision was made for the extension of the coastwise ghipping laws of the United States to the Philippine islands, which is virtually a subsidy to the ship trust, as it allows the ship owners to charge “all the traffic will bear,” and will result in increasing the cost of binding twine to the farmers and of other Philippine products to those who purchase them. The other few public bills are of semi-local or restricted interest. v That is the record of the republicans, and each voter must answer at the polls next November, if he is satisfied with their stewardship, or vote to “turn the rascals out.” ) Chance for Mr. Littlefield. : “As to the question of selling abroad for a less price than an American manufacturer sells at home,” said Mr. Littlefield in the house the other day, “I firmly believe in and advocate a change in the tariff whenever and wherever, by reason of the tariff, an American manufacturer is able to sell abroad cheaper than he sells at home. And I do not know any true republican who does not believe this.” Then why has not Mr. Littlefield or some other “true republican” introduced in the house a bill to provide for the repeal of the duties on canned beef products, on manufactured products of iron, of steel, of wood and of wool?—Rochester (N. Y.) Herald. :

THE. DUTY OF DEMOCRACY.

It Must Win This Year-and in Order to Win It Must Be United 4 Solidly. : ”

In order to live and endure a party must demonstrate its usefulness. Democracy must either prove itself the agent of the people or resign its title before the world. Eventually it must either secure a restoration of the people’s principles to governmental functions or relinquish its claim upon their allegiance and support. However virtuous may be the principles which it symbolizes, their mere excellence as abstractions -cannot guarantee permanent party life. Principles survive by application and test. Parties survive by their serviceability. In order to represent the people, in the true sense, democracy must control government. In the sense that it has been a powerful minority, a threatening opposition, it has served powerfully as a stimulus and as a check upon the majority party. But this is not the function which the people value, Nor in the past eight years have the check and stimulus been as potent for good as they would have been under normal conditions. A ‘despotic and extraordinarily developed republican machine has ignored the voice of the people as expressed in both parties. . 4

The St. Louis Republic aptly says that democracy must conform and adapt itself to’ the country’s demands, if it would continue as the great instrumentality of the people. It must sacrifice minor considerations, internal differences and questions of mere personality to the vital motive of practical serviceability. The great body of voters which represents political domination stands ready and eager to employ a democracy ordered upon the broad plan of national needs. The eye of the country is turned anxiously upon democracy. What will it do? Will it so solve its small internecine problems as to concentrate all its strength at the polls? Wil it lend itself to the plain demands of the people? Inevitably it will suffer if it does not. A great occasion is offered for.an exercise of the power of genuine democracy. The national government is in control of a political organization which is un-American and antagonistic to the organic principles upon which our institutions are formed and our social body rests. The republican machine is a perversion of politics and political crganization; an arrogation of power by corrupt means into the hands of an exclusive ring; its motive is perpetuation and further consolidation of control and its operation is palpably and directly inimical to rights in the most comprehensive sense. This centralization of power, as it may be called, is'corrupt to the heart, essentially, as its pursuits have glaringly exhibited to the people during the eight republican years past. The people are .manifestly growing keen to liberate themselves from the rule of the trust-tariff boodle organization which has been guilty of such dire and costly abuses in administration and such menacing encroachments upon individual liberty. The people fear to intrust the nation’s further keeping to the selfishness, recklessness, trust-imperi-alism and opportunism of the Roosevelt regime, the trend of which is toward certain perils, both internationally and internally. S

A safe, sane democracy never stood a better chance of winning., Let it proceed upon a common-sense basis with a view to present needs. Let it announce itself rationally both in its declarations and in its nomination of a candidate in whom all interests may repose confidence. Let it address itself to theissues so clearly and fixedly presented. The result cannot be otherwise than profitable. Eo ¢

Defeat surely awaits division. There is no hope for any other than a democratic party solidly united upon genuine, immediate, vital issues.

AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.

——With congress in vacation the United States treasury can afford to take a rest. It needs one.—Houston Post. - ——Some of the congressmen will spend the summer repairing their fences, while others will be busy presenting their defe_xises and trying to explain away their offenses.—Washington Post. ——According to the imperialists it is absolutely necessary to have a great navy in order to protect the Philippines and it is necessary to hold the Philippines in order to have a great navy.—Philadelphia Record, "——lt will require a good deal of congressional oratory to convince the American- people that $800,000,000 is not a large sum of money to pay for one year’s administration of the federal government.—Detroit Free Press. ; ——Unless a halt is called, the time is not far off when this country will set up to be a great military power, with-the president a “war lord” and each taxpayer carrying a soldier on his back.—Baltimorg Sun. -

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

Lesson in the International Series for May 15, 1904—The Prodi- . gal Son.

THE LESSON TEXT (Luke 15:11-24.) -

GOLDEN TEXT:.—Come, and let us return unto the Lord.—Hos. 6:1.

OUTLINE OF SCRIPTURE SECTION. Parable of Barren Fig Tree..... Luke 13:1-9 Healing Infirm Woman........ Luke 13:10-21 Teaching About the Kingdom. Luke 13322—30 Warned Against Herod........ Luke 13131-35 Disccurse at Pharisee’s Table.. Luke 14:1-24 Discourse on Counting the C05t....... VEbeR bvs s tise i e o T ke 14:255-35 Parables, Lost Sheep and Leost Coin.. tevesssetecsiciessannsssnneasssse. LUKe 15:1-10 Parable. Lost SON:.ceceves...:.b . Luke 15:11-32 -TlME.—January, A. D. 20. PLACE.—Peraea; the same as the last lesson, . i NOTES AND COMMENTS. Jesus has so far (vs. 1-11) illustrated from things lost; now it is a persgn, a somn, and it is a.father’s heart that bleeds for him. In this, the greatest of all parables, Jesus comes back to His own illustration of the relation between Ged ind man, and pictures it in the simplest and most beautiful and most. winring way possible.. Most cf us are not and need not be theologians in the ordinary sense, hut we may all master the theology of the parable of the Prodigal Son, and with that we have the essence of the theology of Jesus. There are several varieties of theolecgy to be found in the 66 books that we call the Bible, but whether they took shape before the birth of Jesus, or after His death, they must square with His own teaching with regard to God and man and salvation or we cannot accept them for ourselves. “A certain man had two sons:” The whole point of the parable is in the re lationship; father and son. “The younger of them:” He was inexperienced and headstrong. It is the old story of a boy with a hankering, in itself natural and right, to see the world and a broader life than that of the home of his childhood; he supposed he knew the world—had probably bragged of it; distance had lent enchantment and he was wild to enter its varied and fascinating life. “The portion of thy substance that falleth to me:” "One-third of the property would be the “portion” of the younger son; two-thirds that of the elder. A boy’s desire to realize the freedom and activities of manhood becomes wrong the moment it forgets to have consideration for the rights and feeling of others, and the restraints existing because of his relationship to home or society or God. “He divided unto them his living:” Not because he had to; not be¢ause he was convinced that his boy would use the money wisely; but perhaps Ltecause he saw that a time had come in the boy’s life when he must be thrown on his own responsibility. Men are creatures of free will, and this boy was become a man. “Took his journey into a far country:” He wanted to get away from all who had ever seen or ‘known him, from the restraint that their presence would be to him. “Riotous living:” Perhaps he had meant only to see it; perhaps ‘“seeing life” to him meant seeing low, immoral, abnormal life, as it dces to so many; per"“haps he thought he could play with fire ‘and not be burned, or perhaps it was a case of the candle and the moth—the life of gay revelry had an almecest irresistible rattraction for him, and he flew to it the moment he was free.

“When he had spent all:” That he spent all indicates the sheer madness of his course. He ignored almcst every consideraticn that should influence a young man beginning life. “There arose a mighty famine:” The “fdmine” usually comes to the one who has thrown away his opportunities. 1t is neither good economy nor gocd morals to learn wisdom only from the bitter éxperiences ,of fcolishness and sin. This young man had not sense enough to learn it in any other way. He did not begin to see the point till he was “in want.” Then, when the terrißleness of his mistake came to him, what did he do? Did he say: “I will arise and go to my father?” Did he admit that he had been wrong and go back? Not yet. It is hard to do that. He became a swineherd. “Husks:” The nutritious pods of the carob tree; somewhat like locust pods. The lastresort of starving Syrians even to-day. > ‘“YWhen he came to himself:” Cne of the most significant sentences in the whole parable; Jesus did not assume that man is naturally depraved—a child of wrath, but the reverse,, The far country, with its drunkenness and misery, he is in, to be sure, but it is not his hceme and that life is not his life. It is unnatural, abnormal and insane. When the prodigal came to his senses, to himself, his real self, he realized it, too—that though he was with the swine 2e was not one of them—that he wasthe ¢hild of his noble father, that “his better zelf” was his true self and that in leav{ng that nightmare land he was returning home. In calling men to follow Him Jesus is not calling them to leave their own life to live one that is not their own, but from an a.qnormal and unsatisfactory life of wrong and unrest back to the wholesome, natural life of children of God. He only wants us to come to ourselves, for that will mean coming to Him. -

NOTES FOR NATURALISTS.

Instinet is defined as any action which the bird does when there is nc choice. *The inherited instincts are as necessary to life as the inherited structure. The instincts are all ready for them as soon as they are hatched. Many of the instincts come later. Birds that are fully clothed and have their eyes open have the instinct of fear as soon as hatched, but to others the instinct of fear does not come until they are able to fly.

Wasps have a great fondness for overripe fruit, especially pears, plums and sweet apples. The sugar of these fruits has a tendency to pass into a kind of alcohol in the ordinary process of rotting, and after imbibing large quantities of this liquid the wasps become outrageously intoxicated. They crawl away in the grass in a semisomnolent condition and remain till the effects have passed off, when they will go at it again. It is while in this condition that they doé their worst stinging. ‘A person }'eceiving a sting from one of these intoxicated wasps will suffer severely from nervé poisoning for days.

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THE LITTLE WORDS.

You'd be surprised, ’'m.sure, to know How far a little word can go, - = How many miles it runs away Up hill arnd down, a single day; How many angry hearts it wakes, How many pleasant friends it makes; What very wise things it can tell, ) What very simple ones, as well; How very busy, braveand true, How very false and lazy, too; . So, take good care before that word By anybody else is heard That it shall truly worthy bs - To join a happy company ‘ T Of helpful words, that march with grace, And bear sweet sunshine in the fdce. —Frank Walcott Hutt, in Youth's Companion. 2 ] o

PRANKS OF A MONKEY PET.

Acted as Laundress and -Perfqrmed ~ the Duties of Assistant to the Family Cook. - U

Monkeys are the most imitative of all the lower animals, and sometimes this propensity for imitating the doings of their betters gets them into rare mischief, as the following experierce of a London lad with-a pet mionkey, whose inquisitive and imitative nature madehim the pest of the neighborhood, bears amusing testimony. - ) One day this monkey observed the maid washing the lace of her mistress. He very obligingly offered to help her, but was angrily repulsed by the maid. The monkey stopped for a few minutes, at a safe distance, to give the maid a well deserved scolding for her rudeness, and then started out evidently intent on finding other laundry work to do. The result of his sudden intrusion into tha field of John Chinamar’s labors can best be told in the lady’s own werds: : “Unfortunately,” she says, “the windows of my room were invitingly open, and he entered with the idea of the washing still fresh in his head. Hesoon cdiscovered two small drawers containirg lace, ribbons-and handkerchiefs. Ah, here was the washing all ready to his kands! In a moment all of these articles were out of the drawers and into a foot pan, together with all the soap and water that happened to be in my room, and the laundering began. He must have washed away with great vigor, for when 1 returned, to my room after an absence of an hour or so, I found him busily spreading out to dry the torn and disfigured remnants of my lace, ribbons and handkerchiefs. - He was well aware that he had done wrong. Without my speaking to him he made off the moment he saw me, going very quickly and hiding himself in the case of the kitchen clock in his ©wn home.” ‘ - Another time this same monkey saw the cook at work preparing partridges for dinner. This looked like an amusing and interesting operation, and he determined forthwith to put it to the test. There were no more partridges; but ah, yes, his mistress had some pet Pantam fowls! ~ Doubtless one of them would do equally well. At the first-opportunity he hurried' out in the yard, seized one of the hens, quickly returned to the kitchen and then coolly began pulling out the feathers, just as he had seen the cook do, utterly - regardless of the squawking protests of the’poor bantam. The servants heard the noise and hurried to the kitchen, but they found the hen in such a pitiful condition that they were obliged to kill her.—N. Y. Herald.

What Makes Papa Cross?

A minister had been suffering from a severe attack of sciatica, which had worked upon his nerves, making him somewhat impatient and fretful. “What makes papa so cross?” wonderingly inquired his little daughter. Her mother explained the cause of the trouble, adding: “We must be very patient and kind with poor papa. He is suffering very much. with that sciatic nerve.” The little one was thoughtful- for a moment, then she solemnly remarked: “Mamma, when I grow up I will never marry a man with a sciatic nerve.”— Our Young People. b f

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* gy UAN and Martina de la Cruz, a J brother and sister, were-the second and third children in a Filipino family of eight. Their elder brother, living in Manila, is 36 years old, 6 feet 7 inches high, and weighs 138 pounds. Martina, the next eldest, is 31 years olu and 27 inches high. Juan, the next in age, is 2y years old and 29 inches high. Their parents and the five youngest children, all of whom are dead, were of average height. Brother and sister are respectively seven and nine inches smaller than Gen. Tom Thumb. Juan has been married and is the father of a boy, eight years old. He is as large as any child of that agei? the islands. His wife, who was a Filipino of normal size, died three years ago. The midget’s read and write and perform arithmetical prob-

ROMPED WITH HIS SHADOW.

Jack Had a Lot of Fun with a Strange Puppy Th&t Came Whenever ¥ the ‘Sun Shone.

Jack was a little white puppy; he had been carried away from his mother to serve as a playmate for_a little boy. The little boy was ai the seashore, so Jack was very lonesomg, “I wish I had some one to play with. Oh, Ldo wish somebody would ccme and play with me,” he said, as the maid put him out in the back yard for a run. It was a clear, sunny day, and Jack soon noticed a little black puppy capering along beside him. .It was really his shadow, but Jack thought it was another puppy. “Let’s’ run a race,” he barked, and the shadow boubed and. nodded. Off they went; "louné the garden and ’'round the garcen, but Jack could never get one step ahead of tle little black shadow puppy. 7hey tried digging in the flower bed to, sze if anybody had buried bones there. The little black puppy stood right bezide Jack and seemed to dig just as he cid. They didn’t find any bones, but they had a great deal of fun, and once when 3. LR & Ry | ..." - < e /., ,;)t,i . o - . f:.t i SRR EB T Y - Y 3. AR e T ) PR e A Ao 'F:—éé,':'ias’“i;a) VAL = e o . ‘;;iifbé,»,’z ’ 'A;%;,. I ‘ - . A Qe ((/'7;///& /g ' e *"\D Jalra Ty EE L e e | : 'é 3 i A‘ P ”'\\ | Voomr 4 sl ) IT WAS REALLY HIS SHADOW, they found a scrap of meat that cook had thrown out of the window the black puppy’s nose wert ccwn to it just the same as Snowbali, but Snowball was sure he never tooi a bite, for ‘it was all there for the little white dog to eat.- ¥ “When the play time was over John, who took care of the hories, came fo the door and whistled. The black puppy ran right beside Jack, as if he had been called, too. “Jure, your littia master has come,” John said, picking up the puppy and carrying him into the house. . Jack was glad to see the little boy to whom he was to belong, and you may be sure the little boy was glad to see him, but the puppy felt grieved when, he found that the little black dog had not come in the house. ‘'He did not come in that day, and he never came. Jack found that if “he wanted to have a romp with his shadow he must go .out into the sunlight. And so you will find it, too.— St. Louis Posi-Dispatch. ’ HAD SEEN 42 REVOLUTIONS Aged Patriarch of San Domingo, Witness of Many Revcits, Is Held ‘ in High Estecm.

“Thirty years'ago, visiting San Domingo in an official capacity, he was taken in hand by a newly aprointed minister, who. undertook to show him round, writes Henry Lucy, in the Cornhill. Coming to the courtway of a prominent building, the guide pointed to a coorway and ‘remarked, as complacently as if he were indicating the rame of a street: “That is where our last emperor was shot.” .

In-the course of his scjourn he came upon an aged man, keld in high esteem by the commusity, because herhad been witness of a quite exceptional number of revolutions and lived to tell the tale. . “How many Lave you seen?” the visitor asked.. SR

“Forty-two,” the pzitriarch modestly replied. - It appears that, when a boy, the old man had seen Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette carried to the guillotine. Emigrating to San Donfingo, the tale of revolutions rapidly ran up till it exceeded 40. ey

lems in the Visayan tongue, speak the !Tagalo'g lingo, besides Spanish and some knglisn. Even in their own country. they were regarded as “freaks,” in the showman’s parlance, and spent several years giving exhibitions of native and Spanish dances and /the acrobatic feats of tne southern tribes. <About a year ago they went to Manila, where they made their appearance at the American theaters before the soldiery of the United States. Soon after their arrival they were secured for the Philippine exhibit at the Sf. Louis world’s fair. They were ‘brought to the United States.a few weeks ago, in advance of the fair, that they might become acclimated and accustomed to the food and water of this country. They are spending the interval before the opening of the exposk tion in Cali_tornh:; . e