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THE LIGHT ON THE HILL

By ANNA COSULICH

. (Copyright, 194, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) "ARGARET stepped out of the litM tle station for a moment’s breath af the cool, starlit night. She gazed curiously at the familiar surroundings. All the village was asleep. From the cabins along the mountain side, the lights had long been extinguished. All save one—on the adjoiring hill. She smiled faintly. He was not like the other inhabitants of Coalton, at; any rate. Yo

After the day’s work there was reading and studying for the young magistrate of the district.. Idly she wondered- which book held him at that moment, and, recalling what he had.said to her one night, she smiled faintly and-a bit wistfully.

“I am not good enough for you now, I know. But some day, when I am a successful lawyer in the city, I'll come back to ask you the same question—unless there’s some one else—even now—" :

“There is no one else,” she had assured him. “Only, I—l cannot marry. I wart my freedom—l want to work. I think a great deal of you, Howard, but I'm not in love with #ny one.” . She had sent him away as gently as she knew how. The friendship she wished to retain he denied her. He avoided her, and, indeed Coalton saw but-little of him. She heard he was working hard. Her respect for him increased, but so did her loneliness. " The faint twinkle of light on the hilltop was friendlier and more comforting to her than all the galaxy of shining stars in the purple Virginia night. Why could Re not have remained a friend? With a little sigh she returned to her work. She made the-door fast and sat at the instrument: which ticked away at a great rate. It was midnight—an unconscionable hour for a girl to be at work. But Margaret was telegraph operater, station master and express' agent at the tiny settlement. As such, her position was of the utmost importance. . Each train found her faithfully at her post. , That night she was to deliver a fat money parcel to old Barker, the expressman on No. 23. No. 23 was an hour late. She must wait patiently. -

The man on the hillside had entreated her to take no risks. In fact, in the old days, he had insisted on remaining with her during the Ilate watches. Margaret had objected. She knew everyone in Coalton. What danger could there be? Besides, gossip might find apt material in the young magistrate’s presence in the station at all hours. He had sulked a bit, but finally submitted. :

Nevertheless, he put something in her table drawer which might mean defense. :

“You know how to> use it, don’t you?” :

“Of course,” she had replied, laughingly. ‘“But what foolishness! You are simply trying to frighten me, and I refuse to be frightened. There could be no danger.”

“One can never tell,” he merely said, a rertain gravity‘in his tone. ! That was when they were good friends. - . '

Now—he would not care—she tore her thoughts away from him, and began telegraph communication to Tarville, ten miles away. The operator there was her cousin and a merry chap, who found Margaret great company by wire.

She was laughing softly at some quirp he was ticking to her, wheh a loud knock startied her. She arose and stood facing the door, her heart beating fearfully. A gruff .voice outside bade her open. She made no answer, nor-a single move.

- Then there came a violent banging. The intruder burst open the door. He was a tall, heavy man, his face evil with insolence and determination,

Margaret shuddered. It was ]?iék Gray, the terror of the county, fearless and most feared. He came {rom the wilderness west of Coalton, safe in his mountain fastnesses as outlaw well can be. ;

He paid no heed to the white-faced girl, going straight to the little safe which contained the package for No- 23 - .

A quiver ran through her as her hand stole to the drawer beside her and swiftly found hiding in the folds of her dres=. :

She went forward and faced him bravely. = :

“Get out of here!” she commanded, in the sternest of voices. :

He sneered. “Humph! Yes, just as soon as I'm through with this.” She managed to slip between the safe and the robber.

“Look ’ere, gal, I'll hurt you, ef you don’ look out,” he muttered menacingly. He thrust her aside, but she resisted with all her might. “I’ll give you ten seconds to leave _this place!” She was in deadly earnest.

THAT TALL GLASS JAR.

' . The country store I used to know comes back to me to-day [ In rising tides of memory that sweep the years away. I see its weather-beaten front, the dingy window panes, The sugar scale, the letter box, the floor's tobacco stains. i The jumbied stock of groceries in package, pail and bar, And, best of all, I see once more a tall glass jar, : This jar was filled with candy sticks, a goodly sight to see, And better still to nibble at—that joy still ; stays with me. Sweet peppermint and wintergreen, hoarhound and cinnamon, Vanilla sticks like barbers' poles—l loved thewr every one. SR Molasses, too, and chocolate, and tooth- | —~—/ Sakae peanut bar; i.see tnem all in my mind’s eye in that tall . gda33 jar, ¢ Life’'s brought me many plieasures as the veats have slipped along; e Far more of sun than shadow, little sighing, much of song, 2

Meanwhile her fluttering leart prayed that the late train might make up time and that the light on the hill might avail her. She thought of escape, but there was. the money. With an eath he flung her to the other end of the room. “Gol darn yoam, I want no interference,” he drawled, trying the safe once more. - . ' > ‘ Margaret steadied herself in a last effort. . The man on the hillside had said: *‘One can never tell.” Was this the time? She was the guardian ({,f the safe this outlaw was rifling. Thus in all her strength she cried gut: . 3 “Get out this minute, or I'll shoot!” A revolver was leveled at him. He rushed forward to disarm her, so sure of his strength was he. But he fell in a heap at her feet. She remembered four shots and a groan. ‘She looked queerly at the weapon in her hand, then at the bleeding thing on the flocr. ‘With a scream she dashed out of the door into the darkness. A strange fear clutching at her heart and her brain in a terrible tumult; she ran on and on. The night suddenly seemed full of dangers. Would she never reach the little house on the hillside?

. The sharp ascent drove her breathless to his door. She paused a moment. She could hear him pacing up and down the room. So he was not studying after all. She gave 'a low knock. - .

“Margaret!” he exclaimed, seeing her flushed face and disheveled hair.

- She could not speak, but she managed to gasp out: “I've come to give myself up. I— Dick Gray—is shot—down at the depot. Your revolver—did it!” : He gazed at her wonderingly. ‘“You, you shot that terror?” he asked incredulously. “I—l couldn’t let him get away with that money—and you gave me the pistol, Howard, you remember?” Howard was not listening to her foolish guestioning. “And now you've got to arrest me,” she ended, passively. Her face was growing pale and her voice low. He led her to an arm chair and put

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“Never mind, dear. I'm going for you, instead of with you, this time.” Then he called his sister. “Take care of her, Kate. Dick Gray’s in Coalton. I won’t be gone very long.” He left the house and walked quickly to Margaret’s station. He arrived there in time to meet No. 23 with the precious parcel. The incoming train made a longer stop than usual. Coalton does not hold a dead Dick Gray often. The trainmen heard the news with eyes wide opened. And that little A Miss Margaret, too! Who would have ‘thought it?

. So the girl’s heroism flashed up and down the road. All the world knew it the following day. A mere slip of a girl had ended the career of a most dangerous character, for whose capture, dead or alive, a big reward had been offered long since. Howard entered his little house on tiptoe. Kate met him smilingly, saying, “No, she’s not asleep. She’s in your sitting room waiting. She thinks she ought to go to jail or something, silly child. I had to laugh at her, Howard.” ; -

He went to Margaret and found her huddled in his big chair. He bent over it slowly, calling her name very softly. _She looked up, startled. “Oh, I'm afraid of you!” she cried. Her nerves were strung to the utmost, that he saw readily. He knelt beside the chair and folded her in his arms. ; =

~ “Afraid?” he queried gently. She met his eyes wonderingly. Then the tension snapped. Her haggard little face was buried in his neck and she wept like a desolate child. ‘“‘My Margaret, my Margaret!”’ he repeated again and again, stroking her bright halr in infinite tenderness. Something in his voice destroyed forever her want of girlish freedom. Here was her rest and mayhap her work. All of which accounts for the presence of the stubby little old man now master at Coalton stop. :

I've seen the sunlight splendor on the lordly hills of Rome, Had luck in love and business when I've stayed right here at home, But never felt an ecstasy as great as when my ma Would pass me out a nickel for-that tall glass jar,

' . I'd give ten thousand dollars just to be a boy again One single day, and paddie, barefoot, in the summer rain; Just to run my mother’s errands to that little dingy store, With glad anticipation tingling to my being’s core. ’ No cloud on the horizon my sheer happiness to ‘mar, : : Munching sticks of striped candy from that tall glass jar, —Charles Ear]l Walters, in Chicago RecordHerald,

Taking Advantage of Hiwm.

. Kate—Why did she insist on a church wedding?

Nell—Well, she said she was going to have him go to church with her for once.—Somerville Journal,

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PRAISE FOR THE JAPANESE

Famous English Writer Is of the Opinion That They Are a Valuable Race.

George Meredith, whose.commanding figure is almost the last survival of the 'litf,@ary giants of the Victorian age in the course of an interesting interview has given his views cn current topics of the day, reports the New York Sun. Speaking of the Japanese, he said: “They are a people capable of great ideas and exact mastery of detail. They have known what to do and have never botched or muddled. Besides, they are an artistic people, full of invention. The English people have little real love of nature. The highest English ideal of beauty in nature is a southerly wind and the cloudy sky that proclaim the hunting morning. In regard to the defeat of a European nation by Asiatics, that does ‘not trouble me in the leas:. Their natures will give free play for the best to win. : 4

“We think of the Russian chiefly as dogged, but Inkerman was always a mystery to me. If the Russians were really dogged and wanted to come on I cannot believe that the fellows of the foolish class our officers are drawn from could have defeated them. Of .course, it has been called especially a soldiers’ battle. All our battles are soldiers’ battles. Our army will remain in chaos so long as it is controlled by a singularly unintellectual, ill-educated, unbusinesslike cliss. With their Buddhism, self-devotion, restraint, feaclessness of death and artistic sense, it may well be that the Japanese are a more valuable race from nature’s point of view than the Russians.

Referring to the recent outery against pagan England and pagan London, Mr. Meredith says: “It is curious that 40 years ago I had to give up going to church because I could no longer listen to the nonsense I heard spoken there. The parsons were worse than the uneducated. The deadly monotony of a Sunday sermon is constant and should have episcopal supervision. The chureh, lika the army, is now a chaos of men without overseers. The clergy are drawn from the same narrow, incompetent class as the officers.” ’ .

Talking of foreign affairs, Mr. Meredith declared that in speaking of a foreign nation we always try to realize what it has done for the world.” “Take America,” he said. ‘“‘She has been the shrewdest leader of men. She has given.us Emerson, that very great writer. Americans have endowed the world with priceless inventions and a promise of great things to be expected from them, and they are a humane, large-hearted people, but are very young people still. Hitherto the country, perhaps, has been rather too large for them.”

PLUCK OF INDIAN BANDIT.

The Renowned Raisuli Once Proved - His Utter Indifference to Danger.

“At Tangier,” said a Chicagoan, according to an exchange. ‘I once saw Raisuli. . He ,looked‘.as mggniﬂcqpt ag an¥lndian Rajah, and a Frenchman told me that he had a foolhardy and reckless valor. ; ;

“This Frenchman said that Raisuli had entered the shooting gallery of Tangier one day while a Tunistan was trying a little pistol practice: . “The Tunistan was an excellent shot. He broke glass balls, rang bells, split pipe stems, and penetrated bull’s eyes without number. At each shot a polite murmur of ,applause arose. The man was all puffed up with triumph. “Raisuli looked on with a sneer, and finally he said in a loud voice: “ ‘ln a duel this gentleman wouldn’ shoot so well.’

“ ‘We’ll see about that,’ yelled the Tunistan, and he challenged Raisuli. and ten minutes later they were on the field. :

“They were to fight at 12 paces, each to fire one shot. Lots were drawn as {o who should shoot first and Raisuli lost. He took his stand before the Tunistan calmly, and the latter lifted up hiss weapon, took careful aim and missed. : “Raisuli smiled. ‘W\hat did 1 tell you?' he said. “And he thrust his pistol in his belt and strode away humming a French song:.”

Old Chapel’s Position.

The old chapel-of-ease at Tunbridge Wells stands partly in Kent and partly in Sussex; but, more than that, it also stands in three parishes. When the clergyman leaves the vestry lie comes out of the parish of Frant, in Sussex; and if he is going to officiate at the altar he walks into the parish of Tunbridge, in Kent. If, on the other hand, he is going to preach the sermon he walks from Frant into the parish of Speldhurst.— London Tit-Bits. California Beekeepers. The greatest beekeepers in the world are to be found in this country. There are men in California, for instance, who own from 2,000 to 12,000 swarms of bees each, and during the flowering season they farm out these swarms to the owners of orchards. What Beans and Peanuts Can-Do. One of the scientists has found that beans and peanuts constitute all the food a man needs for the hardest kind of work. He has probably been studying the cases of George Fred Williams and David Bennett Hill.—Chicago Rec-ord-Herald. .

OUR NEGRO POPULATION.

Of the Nine Millions in the United States Nearly Half Are. . Illiterate.

As a resiit of requests for information from ail.over the country, the census office has issued a bulletin on ‘“Negroes in the United States,” containing statistics with regard to the extent, character and condition of the negro population in the several states of the union. The summary of results given in the bulletin isin part as follows:

“The number of negroes in the United States (including Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico) is 9,200,000, perhaps a larger number than is found inany other country ouside of Africa. Nearby nine-tenths of the negroes in continental United States are feund in the southern states. The largest number of negroes living in compact masses are found in certain urban counties, several of which lie outside of the great cotton growing states. The four, each having over 75,000, are the District of Columbia; Shelby county, Tenn., containipg Memphis; Baltimore City, Md., and Orleans par-. ish, La., coextensive with New Orleans.

“The district in which the proportion of negroes is greatest lies in the Mississippi alluvial region along both banks of the lower Mississippi, wher fiveeighths of the population is negro, the maximum being in Issaguena county, Miss., with more than .15 negroes to each white person. The center of the negro population is in DeKalb county, Ala., about four miles from the eastern boundary of Georgia and 35 miles south of the southern boundary of Tennessee.

“In the country districts as a whole the negro males outnumber the negro females slightly and in the cities the females outnumber the males decidedly. This disassociation of the sexes between city and country is far more marked among negroes than among whites and has increase_d since 1890. : “Among negroes 44.5 per cent. are illiterate. The percentage of illiteracy has decreased rapidly since 1890, when it was 57.1 per cent. Illiteracy among negroes is about seven times as common as among whites, and this ratio between ‘the races has not altered materially in the last ten years. Illiteracy among seuthern negroes is about four times that among southern whites. If the per: cent. of illiterates should fall in each succeeding ten years by as great an amount as it did between 1890 and 1900, an improbable assumption, it would reach zero about 1940. “There was a decided increase between 1890 and 1900 in the.proportion of marriages among young negroes. This increase of early marriages was yet more marked among southern whites of both sexes and was probably due to the great prosperity of the country just before 1900.

“There are nearly 4,000,000 negroes in the United States engaged in gainful occupations. Those persons, who may be called breadwinners, constitute 45.2 per cent. of the total negro population, while for the total white population the per cent. is 37.3 and for southern whites 34.3.”

NEWSPAPER FOR A KING.

Emperor of Austria First Monarch to ~ Introduce the Custom in ’ Europe.

The emperor of Austria was the first royal personage to have a newspaper published for his own private perusal. About 30 years ago he thought it would be a nice idea to have each important article condensed by a competent writer, and the results written out on small square sheets, which are then slipped into a binding cover and laid on his majesty’s breakfast table. Nothing that concerns him, agreeable or' disagreeable, is ever omitted, and to make certain nobody is fooling him he occasionally orders a fresh bundle-of papers to see if his orders are obeyed. True, the emperor loses a lot of amusing things, as everyone does who cannot read a newspaper for himself; but he is now an old man and doesn’t like to try his eyes tco long at a time. : .

His royal newspaper was likewise adopted by other European monarchs. until the more modern Kkingships found that they were neot getting all the news, and then they took to doing their own ‘“condensing” and skimming:. King Edward is an indefatigable newspaper -reader, despite his “busy day’’ programme.

Honor for a Bell.

The ship’s bell of the famous Britannia —which ship has been broken up—has been given a place of honor in the offices of the White Star line in Liverpool. - It is artistically mounted under a polished wood canopy, and bears on its surface a white star. During her 30 years’ career the Britannic traveled 2.232,999 miles.

Time to Learn.

Editor (to artist)—l refused this drawing a year ago. Why do you bring it here again? s Artist—l thought you would have had more experience by this time and know a good drawing when you see it.—London Tit-Bits. : : Use of Gas. Natural gas is used for cooking in niore than 500,000 homes and more than 4,500,000 persons use it as an illuminant, according to the report of the geological survey. It is the fuel in 8,000 factories and supplies the world with lampblack.

THE SUNDAY BIBLE SCHOOL

Lesson in the International Series for August 7, 1904—‘‘God Tak- ; ing Care of Elijah.”

(Prepared by the “Highway and By-

; way” Preacher.) (Copyright, 1904, by J. M. Edson.) LESSON TEXT.

@ Kings 17:1-16; Memory Verses, 13, 14.)

1. And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. - 2. And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying,

- 3. Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Che"rith, that is'before Jordan. “’4, And ‘it shall be that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there,

5. So he went and di@ according unto the word of the Lord; for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 6. And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of ‘the brook. -

7. And it came to pass after awhile that the brook drie® up, because there had been no rainh in the land. 8. And the word of the Lord came unto kim, saying, ) 9. Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman to sustain thee. g

10. So he arose and went to Zarephath, And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called@ to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. 11. And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand, 12. And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of ‘meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two . sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. 13. And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto nie, and after make for thee and for thy son.

14. For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth,

15. Ard she went and @did according to the saying of Elijah, and she and he, and her house, did eat many days. 16, And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah. : THE LESSON includes all of the seventeenth chapter, giving the closing incidents in the life of the widow and her son. There is no parallel in Chronicles. GOLDEN TEXT:—‘‘He careth for you.” -1 Peter 5:7. ! i

TlME.—Ahab reigned from 918t0 897 B. C., and Elijah, in the opinion of Sir George Grove, began his mission in Israel in the tenth year of Ahab, and -continued to prophesy for a period of 16 to 18 years.

PLACES.—Samaria, Ahab's capital; the brook Cherith, a small stream emptyihg into the Jordan from the east; Zarephath, a town between Tyre and Sidon. INTRODUCTORY NOTE.—The wicked Queen Jezebel had gained complete ascendency over Ahab, and Phoenician idolatry was rapidly displacing the worship of the true God, when Elijah makes his public protest and@ pronounces the Divine judgment of a long drought.

Compé.ring §criptﬁre with Scripture.

AFAITHFUL WITNESS.—“EIijah was (1) A Man of Prayer (Jas. 5:17-18), and hence A Prepared Man. He learned God's. will and he received God's message and the answer to his prayer. (1 John 5:14-15.) Jesus’ remarkable ministry was marked by much prayer, whole nights being thus spent. One reason why Christians are often so illy prepared to deliver God’s message is because they have failed to wait before God in prayer to learn His will and His message. |

(2) A Man Full of Faith.—“ According to my word;” that is God’s word as revealed by God to Elijah.—Matt. 17:20. (3) A Fearless Man.—He faced the wicked king boldly, and spoke his unwelcome message.—Acts 4:29; Matt. 10:28; Josh.l:9. : (4) A Plain-Spoken Man.—Without circumlocution or flowery introduction, Elijah went right to the heart of his message, and he declared ‘“the whole counsel of God.” (Acts 20:27.) As witnesses for God there is solemn obligation here.—Ezek. 33:7-9. (5) An Obedient Man.—Protection and food depended upon prompt obedience. Had Elijah delayed departure for the brook Cherith, he might have perished with the prophets slain by Jezebel. ‘Had he failed to go promptly to Zarephath he might have missed the widow at the gate. Do you realize how much our safety and welfare depend upon prompt obedience to God?—Jer. 42:6. A FAITHFUL GOD.—(I) In punishment of sin. Drought was the promised punishment for national idolatry.—See Deut. 11:16-17; 28:23. “These years,” Luke 4:25 and James 5:17, fixes definites ly the duration of this drough¢. (2) In Care of His Servants.—What s comfort the 23d Psalm must ‘have been to Elijah. Elijah was protected, Psalm 31:20; 34:7. Elijah was fed. The raven was an unclean bird, and yet under Divine dispensation’ it became the holy instrument of ministering to the needs of God’s servant. Faith, humility and submission made Elijah obedient to the Divine will. How this should teach us to receive at God’s hands His provision for us, whatever that may be. ‘“The Brook Dried Up.”—Here was encouragement to faith, in that Elijah saw that God’s word was being fulfilled, and also a fresh test of faith in that Elijah saw his water supply giving out. It the prophet had been like many Christians he would have been a nmervous wreck from worrying ere the last drop had bezsn drunk.—Phil. 4:6, 7, 19,

RAILWAY RUMOR.

A trackless railway is soon to make its advent in Prussia. It will run ovér a good roadbed, 20 feet wide, and will obtain its power from overhead wires. Benjamin S. Moore, of Elizabeth, N. J., has just celebrated his fifty-fifth year of active service with the Central Railroad of New Jersey. For 53 years straight running he has been a locomotive engineer. The . city of Naples offers a charter for'a system of five different lines of railroads, of which three must be urderground. The central underground station, it is said, will be 314 feet below the surface. i

The state of New Jersey has an average of 30 miles of line to each 100 square miles of area, Massachusetts has 26 miles, Pennsylvania 23 miles, Ohio 22, Connecticut 21 and Rhode Island and Illinois 20 miles. . : The railroad commission of Texas has ordered the railroads of the state to make monthly reports of interlocking plants at railroad crossings, showing tﬁe condition of thé apparatus and the character and extent of accidents, if any. ;

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TWO TYPICAL AMERICANS.

National Pemocratic.Candidates Stand, for What Is Highestand Best - in Our Life.

The two national democratic candidateés represent two types of citizenship radically different and yet each characteristically American. . Judge Parker, like his colleague, began life as a.farmer’s boy. But his aspirations were all intellectual. He never thought of money-making except incidentally. He wanted to go to college, but gave up that ambition to help his father. He taught,school when 16 years old, worked his way through the state normal school at Cortland, studied’ law.and “hung out his shingle.” That used to be the main traveled road to statesmanship in this country.

.Though posiessed of a natural talent for political management, Judge Parker’s bent was judicial. The only offices he decired or could be persuaded to accept were judgeships. He began as surrogate, then advanced to the state supreme court, and then to the court of appeals. Gradually the power of his personality impressed itself upcn the men who were looking for a party leader. He was urged to be a candicate for governor, and for two years he has been looked upon as the probable candidate of the democracy in the presidentia’ campaign. | -

! Yet, says the New York World, his way of life has not been in the least disturbed. He remains a simple country gentleman, a neighbor among neighbors, @ leader in the little village activities, passing the ‘“contribution box” in church and showing strangers to their seats on the mornirg after his nomination to the highest office on earth—modest, unaffected—just the sort of figure we can imagine to have been at home in Washington when Jefferson was buying Louisiana. Thai is one kind of American career. Mr. Davis has pursued another kind—that of business. Starting, like Judge Parker, on a farm, he left it to go to work on ‘a railroad. It was a distinct upward step in life for him when he secured an opportunity to twist a brake, and when he was promoted to the positicn of a station agent no doubt he felt more pride than he fee!s now in a nromination to the vice presidency. He advanced step by step until he owned railroads instead of working upon them, owned banl's and mines, and accumulated more millions than Judge Parker has thousands. Incidentally he went to the senate.

A thoroughly American career, like the other. Both Judge Parker and Mr. Davis are self-made men. Each has made the best of himself with the material at hand. Each has been successful in his own way. Each has furnished an illustration of the truth of Garfield’s saying that' “the republic is opportunity-"

WHAT THE EDITORS THINK. ——With Cieveland and Bryan voting the ticket, the democracy is reunited. ——When Parker luck meets Roosevelt luck, then comes the tug of hcrseshoes and rabbit’s feet.—Anacornda Standard. ~——The pleasing announcement frcm Delaware is that for Roosevelt campaign purposes Addicks gas will flow without a meter.—Albany Argus. ——Lincoln’s ‘“‘common people—whom the Lord must love because He made so many of them’'—are for Parker and Davis.—Los Angeles Herald. ——The silly attempts to belittle Judge Parker and to impugn the integrity of his motives Go not confirm the announcement that the republican campaign was to- be conducted on a ‘“high, moral plane.”—N. Y. World. + ——Several republicans in Indiana have announced themselvesas candidates for Mr. Fairbanks’ seat in the senate. The failure of democrats to make similar announgements'may indicate a belief that Mr. Fairbanks will serve out his term.—N, Y. World. _

Deose of Our Own Nostrum.

New. Zealand takes a leaf out of our book by restricting participation “n her coasting trade, with the result that ships of the United States will not hereafter be permitted to carry freight from one New Zealand port to another unless congress opens our coasting trade to British ships. New Zealand’s new act is a step toward imperial feueration. It is taken in connection with the movement which gives a tariff preference to the products of countries within' the British empire. Nations which .open their coasting trade to British ships are not excluded, but all that obsérve a poliey of exclusion are given tit for tat. It is even provided that ships of nations that pursue an exclusive policy may not carry goodj between New Zealand and any other part of the British empire— Baltimore Sun. : ;

THE LAWLESS BEEF TRUST

.Protected by the Administration Be“cause It Contributes to Republican ' Campaign Fund.

In the press of current events let us not overlook the fact that the beef trust, against which the recent stockyards strike was directed, is a wholly lawless and eriminal concern, the members of which, if the laws of this country were impartially enforced! would now be in prison. o ,

Almost 18 montfis ago, says the Chicago Examiner, a judge of a United States' court handed- down a decision explicitly definipg this organjzation as utterly illegal and improper and enjoining it from doing "business. He found it illegal under the Sherman antitrust law, and hefound it intolerable uncer the eccmmon law, and in the plainest possible words he deelared that its operation was inimical to public policy and ordered that operation to cease. ‘Q o , ,

Every cday since then the trust has continued to ignore and defy that injunction. It has defied it openly, it has mace no secret of its contempt. It has continued, day after day. to <€o the identical things the court forbade it to do, and for this violation of the injunc= tion not a hand has ever been raised l against it. . .

- Let us suppose that this same -beef trust should obtain froma federal court an injunction restraining strikers from coming within ‘a certain distance of its works, and let us suppose that some of the strikers should get over the dead line. Judging by past experience in such matters i§ it conceivable that the injunction would be a cead-letter against such law-breakers? .Or ‘that they would be ‘allowed to trample upon and defy the solemn authority of the courts? ‘

Why, then, is the beef trust immune? How does it happen to be outside cf the operation of the laws? - Why should there be justice for one class of offenders and not for another? What are injunctions worth if they are to be enforced upon one class in the community and not upon others? Here is the plain truth of the case. No one can deny it. For 18 months this injunction has been a dead letter; for 18 months 4hese men’ have trampled upon it while they have continued to violate the laws that the injuhction was issued to sustain. i

In the course of this violation they have robbed the consumer on the one haad and the producer on the other. They have forced every:household in the United States to pay more for meat; they have forced every cattleraiser to acceot less for his cattle. Holding absolute control of ‘both markets, they have plundered both impartially in the cause. of - “frenzied finance.” - 3 ) The whole western country has suffered from the blight of this lawless concern. In lowa the loss of the cat-tle-raisers in the last year has been estimated at 'sls for each head of cattle. In other western states -the operations of the trust have caused 15 bank failures and the, suicide of seven bank officials. -

All through the cattle-raising west ‘the trust has brought back the farm mortgage. ~More mortgages on western farms have been filed in the last nine months than in the four years preceding. . . - While in ‘three years the trust has reduced the price of cattle $3 a hundred pounds it has raised the price of meat to the consumer about 18 per cent. A

And for 18 months all of the operations of this iniquitous concern have been under the specific ban of a federal court, just as its existence has always been in violation of the nation’sglaw. . [ And nothing is done to bring it to an accounting for. its lawlessness, nothing to curb its monstrous and criminal rapacity. It lays its tribute upon every family, rich or poor. It is in all truthfulness just as much of . a criminal and thief as any highwayman or burglar. . It has not' one shadow of right to exist. It is absolutely revolutionary and a standing menace to the fundamental idea of free government. Bl ke

But nothing is done to suppress it or vindicate the law upon it. ; Why not? Other men are not allowed to violate with impunity the mandates of the courts. Why should these be independent of and superior to the laws of the land? ;

We know that-in 1896 one of the firms composing this piratical band contributed $400,000 to the republican campaign fund. Shall the ecountry understand that there is any connection between this subscription and the beef trust’s license to plunde:?

DOG WAS PRESS AGENT. Couldn’t Be Lost No Matter Where He Was Taken and Turned _ Loose. = A dog fancier who lately moved into & semi-residence, semi-busfness district of the upper west side advertised his advent by means of a remarkably well-trained press agent,from his own establishment, says the New York Times. The drummer was a large black and white dog that promenaded the boulevard and adjoining streets in lordly fashion, notwithstanding that the placards attached to his sides amnounced in conspicuous fashion that he was a “Lost Deg.” , To make the description on the card" appropriate the dog, of course, traveled alone, although the six-foot length of rope that cangled from his neck indicated that there might have been at one time.a man attached to the other end of the string. The dog was a fine-looking, and passers-by, seeing him thus accoutred, stopped to look at him. Many of them spoke. “Nice doggie,” said the womea. - “Bully fine' dog, that,” said the men," and “Gee, ain’t he a buster?” said-the boys. 7 s

Occasionally some one, growing overbold, assumed a familiar air and patted the dog’s head. Those simple evidences of affection tapped a vein of sentiment in the canine breast, and he squatted back-on his haunches and howled dismaHy._ Then people” wandered who had loSt aim and how tha owner could be found. At lengt!yjuite a crowd collected around the sorrowing animal and suggestions for restoration to his happy home were exchanged volubly. Presently the dog took the solution of the problem into his own paws. With & final prodigious how! he jumped up and went racing down the boulevard. He traveled at a rapid gait, but every man and boy in the crowd, and as many women as could keep the pace, pelted along.after him. After turning several corners the dog brought up betore the door of the newly arrived fancier. The man stood in the doorway to welcome him. VR

“Does that dog belonz to you?”’ asked the foremost runner. s

“Sure,” said the dealer. “You can’l lose him. - Turn him loose anywhere and he will be sure to come back and bring the crowd with.him. Walk right in, gentlemen. Here are a scote more of dogs inside that are equally intelligent and trustworthy.” About half of the crowd accepted the invitation. “Well,” said the foremos! runner, “if that isn't the slickest gams I've seen worked in.a long while.”

HAS TAME BUTTERFLIES.

California Genius® Has Succeeded inm _ Domesticating the Beautiful Creatures. e

Miss Mable Adams Ayer, a prominent Sunshine club wcrker-and a member of the Forum club, has succeeded in train“ing butterflies, repsrts the San Franeisco Post. ’ At first ithe idea seems almcst absurb, but if one can see ‘the way Miss Ayer | handles hér pets is seems the most natural thing in the world. In speakingof them to-day Miss Ayer said: 2 “Why, it doesn’t seem at all strange to me. They are just like any other trained pet. They have their likes and dislikes, and they are really lovable little things when you come to know them. “The first thing that started me to studying them was when [ was z:éed to deliver a lecture before the For club: I chose for my subject “Butterflies'and Rainbows.” and wistirg to give some-. thing more than cculd be learned from books, I went into the garden and captured one or two of the butterflies., The more [ studied them the more I loved them, and now they are almost like people to me. - “When I first get one I ugcoil his tongue and feed him .with sugar and water, and the rest—why, I don* know; ‘they just come to Lhnow me, that’s all. You know, the butterfly has six legs,;and _the two front ones he uses to wash his face and preen himself, much as a cat would. 2 “They.live on sugar ard water and. I always keep plenty of flowers in the room for them. One big fellow called a “Morning Cloak’ I was unable to do anything with. He seemed to have no affection. They aTe sensitive, and nervous temperaments affect them always. Some of them are quite playful, and two or three would run after and try to catch the end of a stickpin when I drew it in front-of them. L : “Oneevening I wcye several of them on my shoulder as an crnament. Of course, | it was in my own home, but they stayed on my gown all evening. “I have had in all over 40 butterfiies, but, you know, they live only three or four weeks, and most of them are dead now. : ’ : r “No, I do not use a net for catching them. I simply go out and pick them up. I always breathe on themand that seems to warm them, awrd they get so they will "fly all around me and bathe or eat from my hand.” - ) - e Tl e L - Boys and College. " When a boy tells me he just yearns for an education, that he longs to go to college, but that he has no.one to help‘him as other boys have; tpat if he had arick father to send him fo college he could make sométhing of himself, I know perfectly well that the lioy does not yearn for an education, but that he would simply like to have it if it could be gotten without much efforti When a boy today says that he cannot go to college, though -deaf, dumb and biind girls manage it; I know that he has such a knack of seeing difficulties that he will not only miss-college, but will probably also miss most of what is worth while in life —Suecess. Sy ! SE s o 5 , Really a Wonder. el © “Yes, Mr. Binkson is one af th: most wonderful men I ever knew. He is really a genius.” “I didn’t know he had ever written anything.” = “Oh, he hasn't, but he can take a railroad time table and tell just when a train will start, where it is going, and when it will get there.”—Chicago Record-Herald. = - Compulsory Trade. S Eda ~ The Spanish government, in order to ‘help the farmers who grow tobacco, has compelled the tébacco regie in Spain to take from the Canary islands eve! ry year for the next four years 220,000 pounds, .