Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 44, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 August 1895 — Page 8

RAILROAD MILEAGE.

MOST STUPENDOUS INVESTMENT IN THE WORLD. The Condition, Propre and Prospect of the Koads of the United StatcsKecent Statistics nml Calculations Bewildering Figures of Cost. Aa Interesting Stnd.T. A study of the condition, progress and prospects of the ra'lroads of the world reveals! facts and tendencies of interest not only to those engaged in transportation, but to all students of economic science. Our country now possesses nearly half the railway mileage of the world, ar.1 it is a fair estimate that 6,OK) miles a year of new road can be added to this mileage for the next twenty years. The population of this country to-day is 7n,ia;o,OW, and its .wealth is about $l.oo for each person of the population, or $70,X0,000,000, and this wealth is increasing at the rate of :. a .5 urn a day. The railway capital of Iii; country is now about $11,ßOO.OOO.OW. or one-sixth of the total .valuation of the property of the country. Tho capital stock of the railroads is now a U huk.mj (it was $4.8154.00O,fK a year ago, and of this ;?7ö.000,000 Is preferred stock. The funded debts amount to .".Jw.m-..000, of which bonds constitute $4,!Hw).0oO. A year ago the miscellaneous obligations amounted t. $ ir.s w ,tX ; income bonds, $-J4'?.mmm and equipment trust obligations to $U 0,000. while the amount of current liabilities was $00.".OUUX)0. The obligations of to-day differ but little from tho.?e of a year ago. The railway securities held by the best roads as investments amount today to $l.rV0.()0. Sixty-three per cent, or more than three-fifths of the :whole amount of railroad stock, paid no dividends during the year ending July 1. 1S91. Of the stock which did pay dividends, the average rate was only live and four-tenths per cent. Ten per cent of this stock paid dividends ranging from to 0 per cent. The amount of bonds paying no interest was $;." l, o,(X0. The miscellaneous obligations paying no interest amounted to .'s.Vi.öXHMKM, and the amount of income bonds which paid no interest was $211,00.0(o. The railroads of the .whole world have cost about $.'."i.0O0.000.000, and their gross receipts last year were S'J.OOO.iltHUAiO, and their expenditures were !l,tStii.iiO!i.iM, leaving $1, 000,000.1 H) to be applied to the payment of debts and dividends. learnings and F.xpcnscs, During the year ending July 1, 1S04. the gross earnings of the railroads of the United States wore reported at $1,07..,00UV0. a decrease of $130,000,000 from those of the preceding year. This is accounted for by the panic and the partial stagnation of business. PasBoVger traffic fell off over ." per cent, end freiglit tralüo nearly 10 per cent, though this period includes much of the travel to r.nd from the World's Fair. The depressing effect of the panic Is seen in the decrease in operating expenses over the preceding year of $90,-&00,M-. The largest decrease in these operatius expenses was iu the matter of keeping tracks and station houses In repair and in permitting railroad equipment to run down. The decrease for the year in the expense of keeping rolling stock in repair was nearly IS per cent. The net earnings of the roads were $:S4iU0O.iM., a decrease of $51,000,000 over the preceding year. The Income derived from sources outside of operating the roads was $143,000,000. After paying fixed charges of $129,000,000 there remained $00.000, 0 for dividends, a decrease of ÖO per cent from the amount available for that purpose at the close of the preceding, year. The fact that $00.O(o.oo was paid in dividends shows that there was a delicit from the operations of the year of $40,OOO.OOO. The money derived from carrying passengers was $2S.",000,( K)0, or nearly a million dollars a day, and for carrying freight $70O,0i Oajo, or about two million dollars a day. Ifailroufl riitcawc of Hie World. From the best authorities accessible, we lind that the railroads of the world, July 1, 1)T. are 4."VJ7l miles long. Adding the length of second, third and fourth tracks, and the length of sidings, turnouts, shop tracks and all yard tracks, which aggregate 1110,000 miles, we have a total length of all tracks today of r,2' miles. This distance la twenty-two and three-fourths that of the circumference of the earth, and s'.xfy million tons of iron ami steel have been used for the rails alone. The following tabular statement exhibits by continents the present railroad mileage of the world at this time, and also the mileage, inclusive of all kinds of tracks: length of Continents. Mileage. track. In the Unit States and Territories lSljoo 2:i;,X-0 la other portion of North A merit ;: L.7."i0 D'J.IOO In South America !Slö L'S.nift In Kurope ir.0,:i.S0 LUV-Dt In Asia :i:yj7 In Africa 8,212 10,170 In Australasia IM.CSÖ 17,100 4:50,271 5l".o(U; Of all railroads July 1. lSbT.. An inspection of this table shows that the United States has more miles of railroad than all Europe, and that It has nearly half the mileage of the world. Our country now has 1,920 railroad corporations, but forty of this number, each controlling 1,000 miles of road and over, are operating threefifths of the total mileage, and ninety corporations operate throe-fourtha of all our mileage. The tendency of the great roads is to absorb the smaller ones. tscrvice Rendered. The railroads of our country, during the year ending July 1, 1S9-1, carried

six hundred d3 twenty million passengers (620,000,000), a cumber nearly equal to half the preseat population of the world. This vas 2o,Y00,000 more than were carried during the preceding year, the Incre&se being largely due to the World's Fair. These passengers traveled 14SO,440T miles, or an average of twenty-tbm miles for each ride. This travel is equivalent to a ride of 201 miles for every man, woman and child of oar population, or eight rides of twenty-fire miles each for every person. The average number of persons to a passenger train was fortyfour. A good idea of the density of the passenger trafiie is seen in the fact that there were passengers for the year per mile of line, or as many persons as could stand comfortably on a right of way 1C0 feet wide and a mile long. The railroads of the whole world carried 2,000,000,000 passengers last year; GTO,C0O.00O tons of freight were carried by the railroads of the United State daring the year ending July 1, 1SU3, and GSS.000,000 for the preceding year, and 743,(KH,000 tons for ISOa, and this freight carriage was equivalent to carrying one ton 1.20O miles for every man, woman and clr.ld of our population, or five tons that distance for every family. The magnitude of this freight service may be illustrated by saying that it is equivalent to carrying 208.000,000 tons one mile a day. or 2G,S00,000 tons ten miles a day. Fifty strong men serving as porters are needed to carry one ton of freight ten nv.los a day; hence, to do by human strength alone the work of transportation performed by our freight trains last year would require the constant service for a year of a number of porters nearly annil t r 4hn nnvunt .-w,ti1i ti.it of lite

earth, or about five times the present number of theadr.lt males in the world. The average haul of each ton of freight was 120 miles, and the average number tons carried by a freight train was ISO. All the railroads of the world carried 1,000.000,000 tons of freight last year. The remarkable ccononrc feature in the evolution of the railroad is the decline In the rates charged for carrying freight. Thirty years ago it cost $.".r0 to carry a barrel of Hour from Chicago to New York. We have a rate for May. 1S95, which quotes $0.40 as the price of the earae serviee. Kailway statistics for the year ending June, ISO."., show that &5.r.SS,lll.SC0 tons of freight were carried one mile by the railroads and at .S7S of a cent per mile. The rate for 1SÜ4 was .SCO of a cent per mile, and the freight rates for Ohio, Indiana and Michigan were only .GS2 of a cent for carrying a ton one mile. Ten years ago the railroads carried only half the amount of freight per year that they are now carrying. The entire transportation effected by the railroads of the country during the ten years ending June SO, 1SK:. was 113,170.72:5.020 passengers one mile and CSl.o00.4ir,2S2 tons of freight one mile, and had the average charges of 1S&1 been maintained through the ilecade In question, the rublic would have paid $201.031,813 for passengers and $1,797,078,221 for freight transportation more than was actually received by the railroads for the service. The total sum gaiued by the public on account of these reduced charges was, therefore, $2,049,000,034. How can the inestimable value of the railroads to the people be better illustrated than by these astonishing facts and figures? Number of Persons Killed and Injr.rcd During the year ending July 1st, 1S94, 1,823 railway employes were killed and 23.122 were injured. Two thousand seven hundred and twentyseven were killed during 1S93, and ,'U,720 were Injured. This increase is doubtless owing to the fact that not so many persons were employed in 1594, and that the men in service -are growing more careful and efiieLrnt. Iess business, too. was transacted, and Unproved appliances for safetj in handling cars are continually Increasing. Only Z2i passengers were killed and 3,30-1 injured. One passcngci is killed and 10 injured every day in the year, but these numbers arc small compared with the number who travel. One passenger is killed for every 2,X0,t00 who travel, and for 4-l,U0O.W0 miles of travel, and one is hurt for every 20O,(X) who travel, or for every 4,750,000 miles of travel- One-fourth of the railway employes titled lose their lives by filing from trains, and cue-seventh of them by coupling cars. One is killed each week by some overhead obstruction, and three a week in collisions. That train ferrice is dangerous and attended with many risks Is seen in the statement that one out of every 1ÖG in this service was killed daring the year, and one out of every twelve was Injured. In the operation of roads one employe out of every 428 was killed, and one' out of every thirty-three injured. These casualties extending over a whole year attract little attention, but a like number killed and wounded In a battle would attract the attention of the whole world. Many persons, not passengers or employes, are killed and Injured bj cars, especially In cities, at crossings, but the number is not reported by the railroads. Officer nut! IlmptoycM. Eight hundred thousand persons are now in the employ of the railroads of our country, against 779,008 July 1st, 1891, and 873,012 July 1st, 1893. Tho decrease from liOCi has been caused by the lessened traffic and by the necessity for economy. Directly and Indirectly one-eighth of our population Is largely dependent upon the railroads for a livelihood. Forty thousand less men were employed this year than in 1893, in the maintenance of tracks and structures, and 24,000 less In the railroad car shops. The average daily pay in the several departments for-1801 was as follows: For general officers $9.71 Other officers 5.73

General office clerks 2.4 Station agents I.i7

Other station men. Locomotive engineers. 3.01 Locomotive firemen . . .2.-I Conductors 3.0 1 Other train men ; 1.S9 Carpenters 2.02 Machinists 2.21 Other car shop men 1.09 Section foremen 1.71 Other trackmen 1.1S Switchmen, llagmen und watchaien. . 1.7-" Telegraph operators and dispatchers. 1.93 Cars and Locomotives. Our railroads on July 1st, lS'.M, had 15,492 locomotive engines, having added 704 during the preceding year, and about ." have been added during the year ending July 1st, 1S95. Ten thousand of these are passenger engines, 20,000 are for freight trains, and ö.ooo are switching engines. The total number of railway locomotives to-day is 30.OOO. The number of passengers carried per passenger locomotive for the year was 53.oo, and the passenger miles per passenger locomotive were 1,144,400. Exclusive of freight and refrigerator cars owned by shippers, there are now in all 1.29S57S cars of all kinds. Of these. ."O.ooo are passenger, mail and baggage cars. 1.2."o.oso are in freight service, and the remainder are caboose, pay cars and other cars in ths service of the roads; 2.."ioo sleeping and parlor cars owned by the ruikiria Company, and JÖ0 such cars owned by the Wagner Company are not included in the above enumeration. Consider ing the profitable lire of a freight ar : twelve years, 1 00,000 such cars ih.mld I be built every year to keep the quota full and to take the places of worn out ones. This has not loon done of late. j In 1S92, 93. MfO freight cars were built; in 1893, 01,210, and in ltfH. only 19,. 029, and probably r.ot more than 20,'XW for the year ending July 1st, 1S9Ö. The revival of business indicates that the j railroads ought to provide for at least j 20O.C00 new freight cars during the year ending July 1st. Ls90. Tor the past four years only 103.000 freight cars have been built, but had it not been for the panic. 2Oi),0iX) more would have been needed and ordered. A thousand miles of side and yard tracks are now occupied by freight cars in nod of repairs, and with many cars which cannot be used again. The near future must bring a heavy demand for freight cars, a demand .which will tax the capacity of all freight car works to their utmost. The crops of this year arc simply enormous. The corn erp alone Is now estimated at 2.4oO.Oi'n,000 of bushels, or nearly double that of ISO 4. To move such a crop will require more additional cars than the car shops of this country can possibly turn out by tho close of the year Wvi. As yet, only 25 per cent, of cars and engines are fitted with train brakes and 27 per cent, with automatic couplers. The law requires that all cars shall be fitted with these safety appliances by Jan. 1st. 1S9S. and that grab irons shall be put upon freight cars, and that draw bars of freight cars shall be of a standard height. Every year brings marked improvements iu the constitution of cars. Dl ANi: DOTY. Friend or the Kiii. M. (Jodillot the founder of the great Paris factory which was recently destroyed by lire, did something more than give his name to the Kreuch soldier's boot. Once upon a time he played a humble part in history. hen Napoleon III. was kept a prisoner at Ham, (Jodillot I., a working mason, was employed in repairing tho mansion which served Louis Napoleon for a prison. And it was disguised in GodMot's blouse and trousers that the prince made his famous escape from Ham. The escape was not altogether dignified, and the heavy plank which he carried on his shoulder was doubtless irksome to Napoleon. Hut ( Jodillot had laid the foundation of a fortune, and the linen trousers vvo in a sense symbolic of his future greatness. Tor Napoleon never forgot a service, and once upon the throne he sent for (lodillot, rewarded hhn with an imperial gift of money, and permitted the mason, who once had trousered his emperor, to supply tho emperor's soldiers with boots and brooches. Philadelphia Telegram. How to Chooso 3Ie.it. Dccf, when 301mg, has a line open grain and a good red color, and t!: fat should be white, for when more or less yellow tho meat Is seldom of th b-sf. r.eef, of which the fat is hard and skinny, and the lean meat a deep red with coarse fibres, is of an inferior quality, and when the meat is old it can b- told by a line of horny texture running through the meat of the ribs. Mutton must be chosen by the firmness and fineness of tho grain, its color and the firm white fat. Lamb that has been killed too long can be discovered by examination of the veins in the neck. These are blelsh when th. meat is fresh, but green when it is stale. In the hindquarter, the point to examine Is the knuckle, which Is not firm when the meat is not perfectly fresh. Venison when young will have clear and bright fat which should be of considerable thickness. Tartridges have yellow legs and dark-colored bills wln-n young. Quail are greatly improved by wrapping them in very fat larding bacon before cooking. A Most Inclusive Institution. The swagger set at Newport will open Its new club house this month. The members of the so-called country club estimate their combined wealth at SCOO.OOO.W), and Intend to have this the most exclusive institution in America. If two 3011 ng men call on a girl at once, It Is no sign of popularity, but rather that the men are afraid to ire alone

DIED IN THE FLAMES.

HORRID FATE OF MANY HOTEL FIRE. IN A Gumry House at Denver Wrecked by an Explosion ot Midnight Gueeta Caught la the liu ins Fire Drcaka Out and Firemen Forced to Ketreat. j An Awful Tale. Tho (J'.imry Hotel, at Denver, Colo., was wrecked by a terrific explosion at 12:10 a. m. Monday. Tho rear half of the building, a live story brick and stone structure, went down with a crash. The hotel was crowded with guests and be-j tween forty and fifty of them were killed,

as well aa the entire fore of hotel em- j Here in this room, in which vou proploye3, who were sleepiug ia the pcrtion j d ani, , , , , , ; t so rf tin li;.i,l n. füll L

No meals wore served in the hotel and ! Cuet entered on the register oecuevery pied a room in the hotel Sunday, most of them late at ni;;Lit, the list being as follows: Mrs. O. II. Knight, Lake City. Mrs. Knight's sons. J. I. Kirk, Oinahu. J. C. Brown, Omaha. Hud Buren, Colorado Springs. J. W. Roberts and wife, Colorado Springs. Miss Jennie Ilaword, Boston. Mrs. C. W. William. Boulder. Miss Ilnttie II. Williams, Boulder, W. C. McClain, Huron, Kan. Mrs. McClain and child, Huron, Kan Henry Sloan, Huron, Kan. Mrs. Henry .Sloan, Huron, Kan. George. Burle, Colorado Springs. E. T. McClosky, Cripple Creek, Colo.. F. French, Central City, Culo. B. Lorah, Central City, Culo. W. J. Corson, Pueblo. M. E. Letson, Denver. Probably Sixty Killed. At 3 a. m. Monday only fifteen person, who are known to have been in the building at the time of the explosion are accounted for. This leaves sixty supposed to be dead. Henry Sloan and wife, of Huron, Kan., and W. C. McClain, cashier of the Huron State Ba.uk, are among those taken down by ladders, and are nil more or less injured. On both sides of Lawrence, from 17th tj ISth street, and on Larimer, directly back of the Gumry, the plate-glas3 windows of the business houses were blown ia and a number of pedestrians were in jured by fallin 1; eluss. The fronts of many buildings in the vicinity were badly wrecked. The hotel structure, for 1X) feet nlonjf the alley and extending 70 feet townrd the r i- .1 Y i- 11 iroui. u mass oi ueon. xir.cK ci u plaster piled in heaps twenty feet high, and from this mass of wreckage could be heard the mouns of the injured and dying. The cause of the explosion is uncertain, but it is supposed that the battery of boilers in the hotel basement must have exploded. The sound of the explosion was heard throughout the city, awakening c m ueu u u.i.e iiom i it- bceue a cloud 01 dust was thrown a thousand feet . !. 1 1 . : ..:t.. r.. .t... in the air, and, as there was not a breath of wind, it hung in the air like a huge column. Minute atoms of powdered brick and v.orMr descended like gentle snow. At 12:50 the ruins began burning fiercely and the firemen were obliged to retreat from the work of rescue. Every engine " " . . """",7'' ouu wie names couiu noi OO possiOiy got under control before the injured were cremated. As their chances of escape lessened the cries of the itnprisoni'd people were In creased, heartrending shrieks rising from ! every portion of the great mass of wreck age. Daring the height of the excitement a team ran awny on ISlh street, stanipedins tho sreat crowd of spectators. A number of people were more or less injured by being trampled upon and falling in tho broken glass which covered tho Bt reels and sidewalks ia every direction. Electric-light wires dangling from broken poles in the alley added fresh peril to the firemen. One horse was burned by coming in contact with a live wire. Two injured women had been almost extricated frwn the ruins when the names approached so close that the rescuers had to abandon them for safety. The bodies of tlkreo women were also to bo seen in the back part of the building, but could not be reached. Hardly had the firemen got fairly at work when they were forced to reti-eut. Proprietors of the Hotel Killed. Among the dead are Peter Gumry and II. C. Givnier, the pr;ii it-tors of the hotel, the day clerk ami the night clerk, none of whoso bodies have Ik-.-u found. Immediately after the explosion occurred a baby was heard wailing in the corner of a room which had nearly all fallen away. Its parents had gone uown with the first crash. Afterward tho little one's cries became weaker and weaker, and when the Cames shot up into ti e skeleton of the building it became silenced. The firemen made a brave effort to save a woman f. tight in the debris of the north corner of the hotel, but were forecd to abandon the attempt. The Gumry Hotel was a five-story brick with stone front, and was built about six years ago. It was of the better Lind of second-class hotels, catering largely to transient family patronage. Thus many Women and children were among the guests. The building was put up as tho Eden Mu see by the widow of (Jen. Tom Thumb, and was so occupied for several years, later being remodeled for use as a hotel. Gumry and Grenier have owned the hotel for several years. Mr. Gumry was a prominent contractor and had done much of the work during the building of the State capitol. Mr. Grenier acted iu the capacity of manager. Told 1m a Pew Linea. Htty Green announces-that she will upend the summer in prayer. It is cheaper than spending the summer in Kurope. John L. Sullivan's benefit performance iu Xew York the other nigh netted him about ?0,(X)0. This ought to last him at least two weeks. A thoughtless visitor began humming "Every Day'll l?e Sunday 15y and P.y" in New York tho other day and a mob chased him nine miles. Gen. Campoa has ordered 1,200 pounds of quinine from Spain. It's no use; quinine will not stop the Spaniards from shaking in their boots. Several days ago Gen. Campos took complete control of the Cuban cuble and announced that no news except reports of Spanish victories would be sent out henceforth. We haven't heard from Cub tlnco then.

MECHANICAL EVIDENCE.

The Wise Girl and the Success of Her Scheine. "George," 6ald the young wom.n regretfully, but with determination, "your remarks pain me, but I am no weak creature who gives way to her feelings upon slight provocation. That is not the modern girl's method; she is trained in a different school. As I undorstand it, you have decided to break the engagement He bowed his head to signify that she was right. "All is over between us. according to your statement. We can never be to each other what we had hoped. There are obstacles and all that." "Yes," he readied, slowlv, "that Is It. ,an MP.v hours, you tell me that, she said in a bsiness-bke way. "Have you thought of the possible cost? " '"e, snruggeu n.s snomuers. 'Suppose I should sue for breach of promise?" she suggested. He laughed at that. T T , , . 1 . "ou haven t a word in my handwriting." he said. "Possibly not." she replied, with a glance toward tho corner of the. room; but I have something better than " thatShe took him by the hand and led him to the corner. Will vou listen if I start it:" she asked. "Has it a a" he began. "It has been here all the time,' said. cold!v. she I or a moment ho hesitated. Then he , A , , , . turned to her ana exclaimed fervently: "Marv. forget what I have just said. I was thoughtless, foolish! I would not icse you for tho world! Be mine'." he left that evening she

Ami wnen tie ieit that evening sne j , , - -, , , . ,. laughed softlv to herself and said: "I Iumbu aro n roa1dy Iub itold father Pd land him sure if he'd j tl0.n' U ls io. be Tü ia fUrtCC3

only buy me a phonograph."

Pretty Cheap Living. i uuu AU UJC -""'" A good deal has b-en written about j foiind one anJ seventy factbo cheapness of table d'hote in the 1 8imil I)latos of Columbia's autograph restaurants of Boston, but what shall j writings, both authentic and doubtful, be said of the country table d'hote that The author of an article in the iDdeis'tcld of by a Boston business man - pendent quotes Mr. Ituskin as deelar-

who recently returned from a vacation passed among the green hills of Verm.ont? I have found the cheapest place in which to live In this part of the country. It is iu Vermont." he said, with cnthuslastic gestures. "Voll talk about , , n j y ; ..... A ,, , 110m a cauuic 10 inose 1 11 ion you aoom. I went on a fishing trip to Lake Champlain and found a first-class place on one of the large islands North Hero. The j board was $1 a day a :ls "oo-I as anv man ind the food was need eat. After gtavh)g there a fortnight and gaining 1 , , .... 1 , 1 . eight pounds, I went down to a town. south of Ilutiihind, and at the best hotel In the town I bad a dinner for 25 cents which Included mutioH broth, tender roast beef, plenty of vegetal des, potato sala'd. apple fritters, cocoa nut pie. and frozen custard. There were 1 other merits and desserts, but think cf such a dinner served in fire-class country style, large portions, all you want of everything for "5 cents." Besron Commonwealth. Pi-oof Against Lightning. Each, day adds some new virtue.-, to the long list of those already credited ! to rhe pneumatic. The latest of these is that the wheels of-a bicycle being encircled by a band of India rubber and i dry air which is a perfect insulator the rider is completely insulated from j the earth, ami. consequently, is impervious to the attacks of the electric fluid. Thus, day by day. it hocwnios more and more a fact that life without a pn?umat!e tiro is neither safe nor worih having. Any one who sutTers from nervousness during a thunder shower has now only to go into a barn or the cellar and sent hbnself upon ihe saddle of a pneumatio-tlr.-d bicycle to be perfectly safe from lightning stroke. As the chances of n man on a bicycle being struck by lightning have been carefully calculated to be about one in a billion, the Wheel adds, there will of course b- some pos.-imists who will deny that this iiowly discovered virtue cd the pneumatic- as a lightning insulator amounts to very much. Scientific American. A Tire Potter than the Pneumatic. A bicycle rider was slowly wending his way out Arch s;eot toward l.road a few day ago when lie was hailed by a man of about years, who said be wanted to ask bis (the wheelman's) opinion of a bieycie tire which he had recently Invented. "The tire is solid, but it has just as much elasticity as this one. If not more," explaineil the man as he pressed the pneumatic tiro. You can put it on the wheel in an incredibly short time, and when it Is once on need never to be taken off, as it will never wear out. I have spoken to several bicycle dealers in regard to It, and they all assure me that it will be a success." "Your fortune is made," said the rider, "if it is as elastic as the pneumatic tire." When asked of what material It was composed the man only shook his head and declared that It was a better tire than the pneumatic. It is certain that such a tire as this would bo hailed with delight ly 'cyclers, as they would not then be in constant danger of a puncture, and would not have to pump air into It every few days. Philadelphia P.uIIetin. "ItcAMt ifying" in Paris. The women of Paris put starch In the water to soften it. It ls much cheaper than lnrax or toilet vinegars, and more reliable than ammonia, which undoubtedly stimulates the delicate growth of down, livery chamber, even tho smallest, has a fireplace and mantel and one of the ornaments ls a porcelain caddy or jar for the toilet starch Court Journal.

I 'rrL J r& a I Few people who know Beant be-lieva that he can be 57 years old. His plump face and clear complexion, and his very th'Ck and very brown hair and beard, make hira look a much younger man. M. Sardou has written a novel, taking ' his play "Thennidor" for a theme. And j now the author fears to publish it, feelI ing doubtful concerning the reception I of this first effort in the writing of tales. Lord Kosebcry's mother the Duch ess of Cleveland, it writing the life of j LaJr St.mlj Lt,r aimtt v,i , bo.an Hfe fts the .,rivate secretary at HO private secretary ana confidant of William Pitt and for thir- , f n hn QWn esacl as a ; ArU) ghoIkh n 1 , , . ... ! , 7 !II,ne1f ohlfü ."i1" , I .... ... .... . i eru statesmen of the Old Keginie. ! The author is ProfessoV W. 1. Trent, the Southerner who wrote the biogra- . , .... ... , . ',,,....., . . , t : lished in the American Men of Ietiers 1 Series. ... ! u nat wim tnc uspapers and uia I newspaper syndicates onering prizes ! varying from ten thousand to live hunI dred dollars," exclaims the Critic, "that i author will be particularly unlucky Lwtio ilnr! not lin.-l 11 inc-oim for l.Sl).- . . , . , materially much larger than it was in j '; j Tho first threc volumes of an imniense Italian work dealing exhaustive7 VUl tüe voa 01 hristopner ' tovolumes, and the Italian government ls bearing the expent? of bringing it j ing that if he had followed the true bent of his mind lie should have been a civil engineer. "I should have found more pleasure," he added, "in planning bridges and sea breakwaters than in praising modern painters." And with a sigh, he raid. "Whether literature and art have been helped by me I know not, but this I do know, that England has lost in me a second Telford." Eider Haggard says that there is too much talk about a successful author what he makes or does not make by his pen. II? asks, mournfully: "Why can't authors and their earnings be left alone? Many men make their incomes on the stock exchange and at the bar without being prniscd by paragraphers. Why should a man who makes his living by his pen le pursued by paragraphs? I believe people often make more money by paragraphs than the authors about whom they write." Up to Pete. A story is going in England of a man who took a book manuscript to a publisher with the statement that it was the greatest novel of the century. "We want it, said the publisher. "Is it up to date?" "l.'p to date?" said the author, "I should rather think it is up to date; it contains two problems and a wife who confesses all on the day of her marriage." The publisher's eyes glistened, but a. he turned over the pages of the typo Hcrlpt his face lengthened. "Great heaveusl" he said, "it's writtei In English; there's not a Scotch phras In it! And you said It was up to date." "What do you mean:" asked the author. "What do I mean';" cried the publisher. "My dear sir, are you really serious in expecting ine to iublish a novel that's not written in a Scotch dialect: Take it away take it away." VeIJ, the author took It away, and was somewhat disheartened, until he suddenly recollected that he had an aunt who had lived in Scotland and had mastered the language so that she could go through Edinburgh without the aid of an interpreter, and could almost understand a Glasgow man when he spoke slowly. He hurried to her side, and with her assistance turned all the "i'roms" into "fraes," all the "longs" into "längs," all the "a ways" into "a was." the "friends" into "freens," and the "files" Into "llees." With tho aid of a few "hoot mons," "bonnies," and a judicious Ilavor of the luvse pot, the book was transformed, the publisher accepted it with enthusiasm, and its appearance is now expected every day. What He Should Wear. "I realize," paid the father of the bride-to-be, "that I haven't kept posted on the little ins and outs of good form, and as you are to 1h one of the family pretty soon. I want to take the liberty of asking you a question." "Anything you like." "What is the proper thing for a father-In law to wear at the wedding breakfast?" "The young man pondered deeply, and then replied: "Something in the way of a check." "A small check?" "Well -say about $10,000." A Reasonably (imkI IJeason. "Pa. why is it that the wind mos' always blows from the sea In the daytime in summer, 'u t'other way at night':" "Well, my son, that's-h'm! that's ah that's because the bicyclers use up fo much wind blowing up their tires tlwit It has to come in from the ocean to fill up the hole." We have never yet soon a leg that looked well In a white stocking.

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