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Ererr Firmer I Protected. The editor of nn Indian Territory paper cannot see how the tariff protects the farmer. He is very probably honest in his position, though he is puttins charity to somewhat of a strain when he declares "that a farmer can be a Republican is one of the curiosities
of the political situation.
rr. 11 ways. IUit the Caucasian world nas gTOWii too small for civilization to wait
for any people to get into Its proces
sion In that antique way.
The fact that Cuba Is where it is
and is what It Is Imposes upon tins nution the duty of petting Cuba 'nto
the procession of modern civilization
and of , pro vi dins that Cuba shall not
That a farmer who votes in accord- jit 0r disturb its orderly march. This
ance with his own so-called class interests can be anything but a Republican would be still more curious. There are lots of fanners who are Democrats, and sincerely so, but we venture the assertion that their political - creed is not based upon a careful study of their own interests. They are Democrats for other reasons. It Is argued tLat "the prices of nearly all the necessities he buys are protected at the average rate of CO per
cent, while the prices of the commodi
ties be produces are made In competi tion with the world.
Those who argue that way are not
fools. But in our opinion they are
lv mistaken. If the
farmers"who are directly protected by
the tariff against Mexican cattle, or those who are directly protected against Canadian wheat, should sud
denly find the bars let down, those farmers at least would soon see where
they are protected, lwt this Is only a very small degree of the protection
which the farmer receives.
The greatest decree of protection is
o willen hf rtopives indlr-ctly. The
tariff provides him with a market for
his products at home by putting wage
into the pockets of workmgiuen ana uy
enabling the vast and varied commer
cial enterprises of the country to flour
ish. It is superficial to say that Liver
dooI fixes the price of the American
farmer's wheat and com. It must not be forgotten that the farmer more than any other producer is the victim of the
uttra nmrker. with which file
rix. v. iA4A ii v. - v tariff has nothing whatever to do. But
aside from this disturbing and extraneous influence, which is itself intimately
fTect ei bv fluctuating crops, the price
which the farmer receives for his prod
net is determined entirely by supply
and demand. The supply may be limit
ed by poor crops and the demand may
be increased by prosperous times, con
versely the supply may be abundant
and the demand small In times of com
mercial depression.
As a producer of hard times nothing
has ever been so successfully tried In
this country as a substantial reduction practIcallv impossible for any other dl-
di tv cannot le evaded, save by our con
fessing national Impotence. It Is there
a "necessity fronts the universe with
A a Invincible gesture." It can only be deferred.
Why seek to defer It when to do so
Is but to engage in" the task of Sisy
phus? Why prop up the falling. Cuban
fl.-.g with American bayonets when we know' that whenever our support is
withdrawn the flag will bet In to flutter down again?
Why not do our plain and inevitable
duty to civilization, the Cubans, and
ourselves? Why keep on rolling the stone up the hill? .
Shall We Have o More "Hard
Tlaie V The Hon. James Wilson, after an ex
tensive tour of the country, predicts
not only that the American farmer s prosperity this year will break all records, but also that it will be a perma
nent prosperity, contluulng year after year. In a word. Secretary Wilson be
lieves that our farmers have learned
and are learning their business so v?ll
that the old dangers of soil exhaustion, general crop failure, and widespread agricultural depression are practically vanishing.
If Mr. Wilson were the ordinär)' public man, having his roots on the orn mercial substructure or in the professional accessories of our national life, he might le suspected of speaking for political effect. But his roots are In the foundation of that life. He was, before he entered public olliee, and h still Is, a practical and successful farm er. If his farming were not steadilj prosperous he could hardly have re nialued for 'so many years in what is probably the worst paid of our great public posts, considering the value of the service he has rendered in lt. His words carry especial weight tecause he speaks not only as a public official, but
also as a farmer not only from the
mind of a statesman and with his reasoning, but from the heart of a" farmer and with his feelings. Ami his predic
tion means , in effect since when the farmers are uniformly prosperous it is
in the tariff. When the factories are
idle and commercial industries lan
milsh. the farmer finds his most profit
able and extensive market cut off. The severest blow which the agricultural Interests could sustain would '.be the enactment of legislation at all approaching . free trade. In protecting Industries which furnish buyers for what the farmer raises
vision of the people to suffer great ad-
virsltv that we shall have no more
"hard times"!
Such a prediction Is too good to be
readily credited. It seems not to make sufficient allowance for the forces of
unreason and folly, which so long as men are men must occasionally triumph
for a time over those of sobriety and
wisdom, let if our farmers, on the
WHY VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS?
Hecause Democracy and It Leaders Fly the Hauner of Destruction. Within less than a month the American people will be called upon to decide what men, guided by what prlnclplesj shall be chosen to provide in matters of government for their welfare, local and national, for a given time in the future. In making this decision there Is one unavoidable and eternal fact which, for his own welfare and that of those dearest to him, every vot
er is vitally concerned to remember and act upon. This fact is that no public official can be mu- h better, stronger or purer than his habitual associates In public life can be much alove the forces that make his public career possible and that, no matter how well Intentioned the candidate, it is, after all, the successful party which must rule. In local affairs considerations of personality may sometimes outweigh the force of party principles. But wheu it comes to the national field the acruge man can find assured safety only by considering, not so much the personality of the candidate of which he can really know little as tve principles of the party which he represents and for which he stands. In the present situa
tion of public affairs it is difficult to
understand how any hian, who really
thinks along normal American lines, can vote for any save the Republican
candidates for Congress. The Repub
lican party stands for success, for
achievement, for stability in govern
ment, and for prosperity as does no
other party. No other party has its
record of attainment of these aims. No
other party gives such promise, on Its
record, of steadfastness in the pursuit and achievement of them.
It may seem suierfluous to be al
ways directing attention io iaci w
obvious. It may seem self-evident that
the Ideals and achievements of the Republican party ought to be those of
every party which aspires to the re
sponsibilities of the great business of
government. Y-t, In a frequent recurrence to first principles Is the safety
of the people. We must come back to
the fundamental purposes of govern
ment, and point out which party has
steadfastly pursued and attained them and which party only as long as the
Democratic party and its leaders per
sistently array themselves under the
banner of destruction. Chicago Inter Ocean.
The National Income. Much of the prosperity of the Areas-
ury must unaouuieuiy ue iiH-im i the steadiness of the policy pursued
ince 1895. If the country had hau a
change of tariff every four years, or even a series of attacks on the tariff, during this period, as It had during the
preceding" decade, the tables of Income would have made n far less favorable showing. Business depends largely
uion settled ..conditions and freedom from change. There are doubtless Iniquities in the present tariff that need reforming no tariff the country
has ever had was free from some In
justice but these inequities arrect
trade less on the whole than a shift
ing national policy that wobbles back and forth between high protection and
free trade. The amount of tariff taxa
tlon Is important, but not so Important
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Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects
protection protects every farmer In the average share the confidence of "Uncle as that this amourtbe kept as nearly
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land. The farmer s reai compeuior is not the grower of wheat In Canada or Areentina. It Is not the
raiser of cattle and bogs in Meiico or South America. It is the manufacturer across the sea, whose products are excluded by tariffs that keep American factories running and furnish American worklngmen and allied consumers with tjae means of buying what the farmer has to sell. Kansas . City Journal. The Traiti and the Democracy. The Herald Is much exercised over . the trusts, charges them all to the tar'PT. even ftandard Oil, and closes with a dire tareat or prediction that the ItepublicuL party, which made the trusts possible, will be hurled from power" by an outraged people: Incidentally It delivers a panegyric on Mr. Lincoln, the only trouble being that the great man was obliged to die be
fore any Democrat discovered either
rrontnAss or common honesty in the
glorified man. 1
But the writer In the Herald forgot
one thing. When the people over
throw the Republican party, into what
hands will It commit the destinies of
the country' Will It be the Democ
racy? That Is rather a momentous
nuestion. Will the 1892 trick be tried
airain? In that year the Democracy
Jini" In their country and Its future, and their faith shall be Justified by a
growing Intelligence In their works, it
is evident that we shall as a nation
gradually draw nearer toward the hap
py condition predicted.
We shall probably never quite reach
it, since the millennium would appear
to be as far before us as the mythical
golden ase Is behind us at an Infinite
distance. Yet an Ideal may Inspire,
though we know we can never perfect
ly attain It. And, since all men live
by the fruits of the earth, a growing
and Intelligent conviction of success in
those who deal directly with the earth
plainly Increases the stability of human
welfare as no other Influence can.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Why We Should Be Grateful.
It Is a well-known saying in the
business world that the Iron market is
the barometer of trade conditions, and
by this token the country was never
more prosperous. Steel and Iron mills are flooded with orders. The Iron men
of the South declare they are sold up
to the middle of next year, and they
are doing their utmost to increase production.
It is difficult to purchase structural
iron for stated delivery. We have a
practical Illustration of conditions at
fixed as may be consistent with equal-
nrwi pmnomv. Bv such a course
J " business men ar enabled to know
what to depend on and to adjust their contracts accordingly. This Is a fact which the tariff reformers ignore iu
their eagerness for lower rates and their disregard of the disastrous effects
f Biiblen changes in schedules. If the
tariff is a burden on enterprise, as they
declare. It Is far less Injurious than a
policy of frequent and radical change. , Tacoma Ledger.
BUCKET-SHOPS.
iY the recent failure of a firm of "brokers
and bankers" during a rising market, the public, especially those persons who lost money, were enabled to get a momentary glimpse into the workings of a "bucketshop." A bucket-shop Is an establislunent ostensibly engaged in buying and selling
stocks, bonds and other securities for customers. It differs from a legitimate brokerage establishment in that It has no membership In any reputable stock exchange nor any valid correspondence with any member of such an exchange. In Its transactions no stock certificate or any equivalent changes hands. The customer who "buys" merely bets that a stock will rise; the customer who "sells" merely bets that a stock will drop. Most customers of bucket shops, being ignorantly optimistic, are "bulls;" they believe In a rising market, and therefore "buy." A quiet or a sinking market wipes out most of their bets, to the profit of tlte broker. A rising market presses the broker; he convenient goes Into bankruptcy, the customer does not get his money, and the swindler goes Into business again in another town or under another name." The secretary of any great exchange will Inform anyone who asks, by letter or otherwise, whether a "broker"
If legitimately connected. Transactions with legitimate
brokers, although they are always dangerous for Ignor
ant Investors, are nevertheless safeguarded against dis
honesty by the records of the exchange, which can be brought Into court to show in each case who bought and who sold, and what brokers were agents. Trading with
a bucket shop is foolish from a business standpoint, and if engaged in with full understanding, it Is an offense
against public morality. Youth's Companion. CHANCES AT HOME.
NCE upon a time the ambitious boy wLo
lived in a small town had but one great aim
in life--to get to the city as soon as possi
ble. He had to do It; it was the only way he could hope to win place and wealth In the world. The small town that he called
home held nothing for him. The town law
yer had a waiting list a yard long for young men who
sought the coveted position of reading law in his ofiice, the bank could have the pick and flower of a dozen high
school graduates when It came to selecting a bookkeeper
or clerk, the stores were . mouse-eaten and dead. He simply had to go to the cUy if he wanted a chance to
show what was in him. And go he did, for a majority
of the business population of our cities halls from the small town and the country.; The young man who stayed in a small toxn In the old days was regarded as a fellow
who had no ambition, little capacity, and a great lazi
ness.
But now things are different A young man Is not a
candidate for the loafer's bench on market square be
cause he stays in the old home town after he Is old pnnnjrh to have started his climb to the top. In fact
the chances are that he is a wise boy, that he has weighed
the advantages of city and town life, thejr respective opportunities and rewards, well and carefully, and has chosen his way deliberately and In full consclouluess of
what he does. And It Is to be said that there Is no reason In the wide world why he Is not wiser, why his choice is not better than the fellow who has packed up.
bade the old folks good-by and cast his lot In the realm
of hall bedrooms and killing competition.
The small town of the Middle West, the progressive
small town, and most of them are progressive nowadays, offers the ambitious young man of wide open eyes and
unremitting energy probably as good a chance to win place, if not better, than the great cities. The world moves, and in the future biographies of great men there will have to be room for that of the "son of poor, but
respectable parents" who did not "betake himself to the
city at an early age," but who, on the contrary, loosea
about him where he stood, saw he was well located, and
proceeded to make the most of surrounding opportunities
with a profitable result Even now there are several captains of finance who never had to go to the city to get their millions, who never went 100 miles from the spot.
of their birth to find the field of their operations, and who
are thanking their stars that they didn't Utlca Globe.
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THE LANGUAGE AGAIN.
It ROOSEVELT'S convershun to the fonetlc
methud ov speling is sumwhat surprlzing. The Prezldent duz not luk like a man that wud make a stab at a fad like that but it seeing yu never can tel. But now that he has taken up the new Idea, what Is going to result? Nothing, absolutely. How could
It, when about all the advocates of the spelling reform are people who can't spell anyway? Catch the average seeker for light on orthography, ant you'll catch a person
who understands that "cat" begins with a "k" and that
It may end with one or two "t's," at the option of the
speller.
It is a good thing to be a good speller. Bad orthography Is a detriment to many a man's business and a handicap In more ways than one. But the English language as constructed at the present time, though It have its peculiarities and Its Idiosyncrasies, is a pretty good old language, and any attempts to mate radical changes In the method of putting it together are practically certain to fall. What we want more than spelling reform is a closer study of words in their present construction. That there are absurdities which might be eliminated with profit is true, but scholars Insist that the language as a whole Is good enough ; and that ought to "go. Williamsport (Pa.) Grit,
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Lea din c Authority "Mister," said the sad-faced Individual who had sneaked In the big skyscraper, "can I sell you the great 'Encyclopaedia of Sporting Events?'" "Nope," replied the busy man. "We have one encyclopaedia of f porting events already." "That 60? Where do you keep It?" "Why, we try to keep him onthat stool over there addressing envelopes. I mean the ofiice boy, and he Is an encyclopaedia on everything from a game of skiddoo to the Olympian games." Chicago News.
.' A Blotter of Figure. "Yes," said Farmer Corntossel." "long about July the population of this 'ere taown just doubles up." "Summer boarders or green apples?" asked the new arrival. Innocently. Boston Transcript
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BUSSIA'S IirFAMY. LL riots lead to the Jews in Russia. At
Siedlce, according to the Associated Press dispatches, there was first an attack on the police- by terrorists. Then the troops came into action and the LIbau regiment left Its barracks in a fury and made not for the terrorists but for the Jewish quarters. It
went shooting right ar.d left and was followed by a sympathetic Crowd that helped In the pillage and slaughter. The soldiers themselves sold their plunder openly under the eyes of their officers. Such tales of bloodshed are repeated again and again. They elicit Indignant protests all over the civilized world, but governors and military officers encourage the massacres just the same. They bring such infamy upon their country that public sentiment everywhere is turning strongly against it as though it were a land of barbarians. Chicago Itecord-Herald.
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our very doors, in the inability of the
nut in Its plank a furious arraignment contractors for the Secor to get steel
of the Republican party's trust rec- euough to carry out their program for
ord, demanded that it should be utterly overthrown, and then the trusts chipped in and elected their President
and both houses of Congress.
The results were somewhat dlsap-
nolntlnc. The traditional bull In the
rhin.i shon was but a sucking ,calf in
comparison. '
Th. country had four years of it, and when it had run a course, had trusts been for sale at two-bits aplec?. they
would have gone begging; there was
the year. The contractors of the Ohio
building have been delayed by the slow delivery of the beams for the skeleton
of that structure, and other cities are
suffering In like manner.
The railroads, too, are flooding the
mills with orders. Thousands of tons
of steel rails have been contracted for,
while two companies, one of which Is
the New York Central, have placed or
ders for 3.000 steel cars. The superi
ority of this equipment over the old
Th President' Speech. President Roosevelt's speech at liar
rlsburg, Pa., was remarkable ror tue amount of homely advice It contained for the average American. ' The keynote of it all was the injunction not to let the government degenerate Into a government of the mob, nor yet Into a government of plutocracy, ,but to maintain It as a government of the plain people, "where each
man zealously guards his own rights
and no less -scrupulously regards the
rights of others; a government whose guiding principle is that every man is
to be judged solely on his merit as a
man."
Tiiat counsel is esjecially wholesome
just now, when In various parts of the
country we see dangerous demagogues
attempting to inflame ignorance Into
passion and to upset If not to overthrow the government that has served us hitherto. It' Is no doubt true that their appeals have found listening ears.
but we have confidence that they are . a A.. - A.
not many. It is wen, However, tnai
such sound doctrine as the President
uttered should be put forth, that the people may be reminded o? fielr duties
and their privileges.
'Of all men," says the President,
"distrust most the man who tries to
set one set of Americans against an
other." Let this be remembered when
X THE EEIGN OF KEASON. H- t"M"t V l ! 1 ! --4-4-HH Although the son of the house had seen something of life, he was impressed by the fine raiment and languid grace of the summer boarder at Willowbrook Farm. But his father had seen more of life. "I had thought she was some older than she says," remarked the son meditatively one rainy morning as be and his father were at work rubbing up harnesses. "How old does she allow she is?" Inquired the owner of Wlllowbrook Farm,
no name being mentioned. ,
"Well, last night as we sat out on the
porch," said the young man, with a
dreamy, reminiscent air, "she said she
wished I could 'see spring steal over the land down In the Evangeline country. She said, I've seen it nine times ;
I have never missed It since 1 was a
girl In my teens.' "
"Well," said the father, after a quick
glance at the unconscious face opposite
his own, "how old do you make her by that?"
"She can't be more'n twenty-eight at
that rate," said the young man, hU
eyes apparently, fixed on a pitchfork.
"I guess you haven't considered how
backward some springs are," remarked
his father, dryly, after a short pause, "and how there's some of em that don't do any 'stealing' to speak of, on account
of being behindhand.
"I'm a-golng to let you be the one to
go down to the village for the mall the
rest o' these summer evenings. The ride will kind of air you out and there
Isn't going to be much more moon for
one spell, now she's quartering In this
rain."
comic, and yet everybody always craved an invitation to a ball at Beechwood. Her dinner companies were usually given for some distinguished personality, perhaps a prince, a dufce, or maybe a count She always had every foreign notability In town on her list for each Invariably brought credentials to her from some, friend at court Thus Mrs. Astor has been a sort of social censor. She was the best known
MRS. WILLIAM ASTOR.
no money left In the land! to make the ,.tye car jus beeU demonstrated so con- attempts are made to rouse class feel
purchase?.
Since then the people have fought a
little shy of putting their trust in a
party so filled with promises before
election, so Impotent in performances
after election. The Republicans bad passed an anti-trust law Just prior to the zreat Democratic victory, but Mr.
Cleveland's attorney general could see nnthlnz In it The trusts were mind
readers that year. They knew in ad
vance that, no matter who Mr. Cleve
land might appoint attorney general, he
.1 rolor blind and would see
Tvvusv w- - compelling In the law Salt
Lake City Telegram. SUyphn I Cuba.
' "In re-establishing the Cuban gov
eminent," said Senator Beveridge at Des Moines, "all the world knows that
we are doing the work of blsyphu:
rolling a stone to the top of a hill only
co if roll back again. In the end
destiny will have her way. We may lay down the task civilization bids us to V. but to-morrow "that task will reappear, and the inevitable will command us to do our deferred duty." The Cubans have had their opportunity of Independent self-government .ind have thrown It away. They have failed, as all knew they would fall. They have failed because they have not had as a people the stern discipline of necessity' in learning the art of selfgovernment , In that experience they are nearly a thousand years behind us. They are about where our ancestors were when ;V" ililam the Norman came to England. "Set them on their feet and let Ihem alone, and after a while they will learn to stand," Is the theory and the argument on which they are now dealt with. Perhaps, In a thousand years or so, and If there were no steamships and
cluslvely that It Is believed all trunk
lines will be forced to replace their rolling stock as rapidly as the builders
c:in furnish the new cars. This de
mand Is unerpected and finds the mills
unprepared to meet It, but It promises
to stimulate the Iron market to a point
never before reached, and guarantees
work for every man who is willing to
work.
Other Industries are quickened by
the strength of the iron market, and, th the unprecedented crops that have been garnered by the American
farmer, there is every reason why we
should approach the season of Thanks
giving with hearts filled with gratitude
tnwnnl the (liver of all good. Toledo
Blade. The It rally Profitable Trade.
The bureau of statistics of the Department of Commerce iolnts out that
if the trade of Porto Rico and Hawaii, which formerly were foreign countries.
were added to that recorded during the
fiscal years Just closed our total for
eign trade would have passed the $3.-
ftm rtftn.noo mark. This reference to
V ' T ' - - - . f:ict that the trade of Porto Rico
and Hawaii Is now statistically regard
ed as purely domestic is a reminder of the curious hallucination which once
prevailed that all trade between our
selves was a mere swapping of Jack-
knlves and that the only really profit
able trade was that between peoples
living under different flags. . The Man
ehester school of economists was re
sponsible for this extraordinary delu
sion, as It treated domestic trade as of little or no consequence. Protection
ists and experience are teaching the truth namely, that domestic trade Is the really profitable trade and external
trade merely the slop over. San r ran-
clsco Chronicle.
lng In this country. Chicago Journal.
Oat of Joint.
The South Is rapidly developing Into
one of the richest manufacturing sec
tions of our country, and Its manufac
turers, investors and business men are
coming more and more to realize the
value of protection to them and to the
men they emploi'. The Democratic
spellbinder who travels through the
South this fall brandishing the free
trade hatchet will not meet with so
cordial a welcome as he anticipates.
He will be reminded by 'many a hardheaded laboring man that be Is out of
joint with the times. Des Moines Cap
ital.
Water in which vegetables have been
boiled should never be poured down a
sink, for It causes a very lingering and
disagreeable odor to permeate the whole house; such liquids are best thrown out upon the eurth. where the
niell will evaporate without being un
pleasant.
Dou't try to be anything else but a
gentlewoman or gentleman, and that
means one who has consideration for the whole world, and whose life is gov
erned by the golden rule: "Do unto
others as you would be done by."
Christian World.
When King Victor Emmanuel visit
ed Ancona recently to lay the corner
stone of a hospital he was attended
by 2S0 detectives, 500 policemen, 800 carabineers and 9,000 soldiers.
The Jews have a greater number of
religious papers, proportionately, than any Christian denomination, and their papers are the best supported.
Tatlence is the armor and conquest of the godly. Charlotte Yonge.
Richards, is composed entirely of slaves, as the law forbids members of the Imperial family from marrying into the great houses of the realm, lest the latter be made too powerful."
The Turkish woman, Mrs. Richards
found. Is quite satisfied with her lot, while that of the European woman Is
regarded with horror by the most en
lightened Turks.
"It Is true,", said a Turkish official
of high rank and much culture, "that
we marry our daughters to men whom they never see until their wadding day.
but we do not have the awful European spectacle of angling for men.
We do not bring them Into the open market and sell them to the highest bidder."
Ahead la Postofiiee. The United States has more postoffices than .England and France combined. There are 71.131 postofllcea in the United States. France has 11,282; Germany C8.C10; and England and Ireland together have 22,0TiO. The aggregate annual number of letters transmitted through the iostotnees of the world Is estimated at twenty million. About twelve and one-half million newspapers also pass through the world's postofilces. World' Finest Harbor. From the capital of Brazil, half the land and half the people" of South America are governed. It Is the chief financial and Industrial city of the "-rontfst rr,iivplorPtl OlUDire on
rr - ' " earth. , Rio Janeiro la, a fast growing town. It had just crossed the half million mark la 1S90. In 1900 It reached three-quarters of a million, and today it ha at least 100.000 more. It Is bigger than any town ia the United States excepting Philadelphia, Chicago or New York, and It Is only 150,000 less than Buenos Ayres, which has now just l.XX).OO0. To my mind Rio de Janeiro is ote
of the most beautiful cities or tnoworld, writes Frank G. Carpenter. The harbor is surrounded by great mountains with their tops In the clouds. The mountains are covered with a tropical vegetation from base to summit and they are of most' curious shapes. One rises out of the sea like a sugar loaf to a bight of more than twice that of the Washington monument; another Is a mighty
hunchback, and others are great forts and massive battlements. The harlor itself Is shaped just like a pear, but It Is so large that all the ships of all the world could anchor there and have room to spare. It Is 100 miles around it, and the water Is almost everywhere over CO feet deep. The bay Is dotted with Islands which appear to Coat a It were, upon its diamond-studded sur-
INTERESTING CONTEST.
contests
PATTERX NO. 153S.
MBS. WILLIAM ASTOR.
American woman In all the courts of En rone, and foreigners coming over
without letters to her were utterly
without the slightest means of social
entree. Utlca Globe.
POLYGAMY RARE IN TURKEY.
Her Lo-g ad Honorable Social Ca
reer Is Ended.
The long and honorable social career
of Mrs. William Astor Is practically
ended, by the laws of nature. She Is
falling- physically and mentally and
while she , may be spared a few more
years, they will be spent in travel and
rest and she will not again resume that leadership of New York and Newport, which will probably never be duplicated.
Mrs. Astor earned her right to the
position of social leader long before Ward McAllister, the epicure, recog
nized her as such. It was she who
gave the first grand private dinners, which are. now quite common, and It was through these entertainments that
Mrs. Astor became better known than anv woman of the time. Mrs. Astor's
dinners were formal affairs, but they were net stiff and irritating. They were. In fact, stately to a charming degree, and her guests, though tbey were always made at ease, even felt that they were participating in a function and not a romp. It was through these affairs that Mrs. Astor, though she never sought
for anything but the pleasure of her friends, earnd her right to social leadership. Nowadays such dinners as Mrs. Astor astonished society with are
duplicated at Newport often five and
six times In an evening, but it was Mrs. Astor who gave the first, and It was she who was alone In thus entertaining for some years. Mrs. Astor's formal balls were much like her dinners, In that they were delightfully formal without being cold and repelling. There were always indications of lavish expenditure, but there was never any such vulgar features as often characterize entertainments of today. She could entertain without the use of the negro minstrel and the ragtime. Her cotillon favors were always
cScsant rather than grotesiut and;
,a.r Allows Four Wive, bat More
than One I Dad Form.
The ordinary Idea of a harem prob
ably accords little with the picture of
life behind the cafesses or screens cov
erlng the windows of the seraglio pre
sented by Mrs. I Parks-Richards In a
lecture at the Waldorf-Astoria. In the first place, Mrs. Richards stated that
there was as a rule only one wife In the
harem.
'Tolygamy is practically non-existent
among the Turks," said Mrs. Richards,
"The law allows a man four wives, but
makes It so difficult for him to take a
second one by requiring him to provide
for her exactly as he did for the first
that it Is seldom done. Besides, among the upper classes polygamy Is not considered good form. I heard of half a
dozen Turks who had two wives while
I was In Constantinople, and of one who had four, but these are rare exceptions. "The crowd of women found In a Turkish harem Is made up of servants, slaves and female dependents. No Turk ever lets a relative suffer while he has a roof over his head and every great house has numbers of such dependents, both male and female." Neither Is the life of the harem dull, according to Mrs. Richards. ' No man
rver enters It except the husband, son, father or brother of the mistress, but she may receive women friends and go to see them.
The relation of the Inmates of the
harem to one another, Mrs. Richards
found very beautiful. Children were great pets,sbe said, and servants and
slaves were treated with great consideration. Slaves are often treated like
members of the family, may marry a
son of the house and are much sought in marriage by men for the purpose of
avoiding complications with mothers In-law.
"The Sultan's harem," said Mr.
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NOT BLAT.fF.LKSS. HERSELF.
2.
When the postman brought Mrs. Cum-
mings her weekly letter from her old
school friend, she held it, unopened, for
a moment, and addressed her husband, who would have preferred to finish his
morning paper In peace.
Thomas," said Mrs. Cummlngs,
"Thomas," you'll have to read It for me ; you know both pairs of my glasses
are at the optician's. You ought to be glad, when you dou't have to wear
them," she added, moved to reproach by
her husband's expression. "Oh, of course I am glad, delighted V
said Mr. Cummlngs, hastily; and he proceeded to read, with many Inter
ruptions, an account of the doings In Mrs. Lane's family, which might be supposed to Interest her friend. I thought so," said Mrs. Cummlngs, when the letter had been read, even to "Yours affectionately, Mary J. Lane." "She never mentions that green-gage plum receipt. I've asked her for it In every letter since April 12th, and here it Is June. Next time I shall write pretty severely. If she's losing her memory she might as well realize It and keep my letters at hand when she answers." "Hullo, there seems to be an extra slip in here," said Mr. Cummlngs, as something In the envelope Interfered with the return of the letter to Its covering. He took out the slip and read: "'When you send me Anna Conant's address, for which I've asked you In every letter since April 8th, I shall be glad to forward the green-gage recipe. Perhaps your husband will help 'er My dear, there's a most Interesting letter from Madrid in the paper. I think you'll enjoy reading It," said the merciful husband, as he returned Mrs. Cum
mlngs' letter to her lap.
quickly, that will make the small per
sonage comfortable and presentable la the meantime. This little kimono is just the thing for such use, and lawn, nainsook and muslins make very satisfactory and inexpensive wrappers. A bit of embroidery down the frcnU, around the uottow and on the short
full sleeves, relieves the pbilnness. Flannelette or cutting flannel may be substituted for Fronch flannel. If this
Is too expensive, or It may be made up In thin materials for hot mornings. The above pattern will be mailed to your address on receipt of 10 cents. Send all orders to the Pattern Department of t'iis paper. Be sure to givj both the number and sire of pattern wanted, and write, very plainly. For convenience, write your order on the following coupon: Order Coupon. No. ir3&
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Tbtn.a to Think Abonl. Do not wash the food down
liquids. Hay is the most profitable crop In England. . Pigs have been known to kl'l and devour sheep. " No Russian army officer can marry before the age of 23. Football was a crime In England during the reign of Henry VIII. Whalebone may be easily cut if it be
laid for a few minutes In hot water.
The liquor from oysters, being salt mafce m rpport hl 1)ractu.aiiy aii
Heavy Cot of Unpaid Poalae.
One of the most curious
ever before the public was conducted by many thousand persons under the offer of the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd- of Cattle Creek, Mich., for prizes of 31 boxes of gold and 300 greenbacks to those making the most words out of the letters Y-I-O-Grape-Nuts. The contest was started In February, 1900, and It w?.s arranged to have tha prizes awarded on April SO, lt)C& When the public announcement appeared many persons began to form the words from these letters, sometimes the whole family being occupied evenings, a combination of amusement and education. . After awhile the lists began to com3 In to the Postum Ofiice and before ions the volume grew until It required wagons to carry the mail. Many of the contestants were thoughtless enough to send their lists with Insufficient postage and for a period it cost the Company from twenty-five to fiftyeight and sixty dollars a day to pay the unpaid postage. Young ladies, generally those who had graduated from the high school, were employed to examine these lists and count the correct words. Webster's Dictionary was the standard and each list was very carefully corrected except those which fell below 8.000. for it soon became clear that nothing below that could win. Some of the I ist required the work of a young lady for a solid week on each individual list The work was done very carefully and accurately, but the Company had no Idea, at the time the offer was made, that the people would respond so generally and they were compelled to fill every available space in the otiiees with these young lady examiners, and notwithstanding they worked steadily. It was Impossible to complete the ex
amination until Sept. 20. over sir months after the prizes, should have been awarded. This delay caused a great many Inquiries and naturally created some dissatisfaction. It has been thooght !est
ind water simply, has no nurnine
value. Ecuador will have a world's fair as
Uoon as the Guayaquil railroad is fin
ished. The Teachers' College, In New York, will hereafter train teachers to teach
health.
uf the newspapers In the United States
and many of the magazine In order to make clear to the people the conditions of the contest Many lists contained enormous numbers of words which, tinder the rules, had to l eliminated "Pegger" would count "Peggers" would not. Some 1'sts
At Johns Hopkins Un'wrslty, Baltl- contained over 50.000 words, the great
One Cause of Eye Disease. A Scotch' surgeon recently called at
tention to the connection between an
uncared-for mouth with carious tooth
and a form of eye disease. He describes three cases In each of which the teeth wede in very bad condition.
The gums were soft and spongy, bleeding easily, while tiny drops of pus could be pressed out from their margins. The breath had a sour smell and the complexion was of a muddy, sallow tint In caring for these cases the first step was ty purify the mouth and put the teeth into good condition. Such procedure, together with suitable tonics and local eye treatment brought about a perfect recovery. This Is only one example of the serious nature of dental diseases.
Another thing that should be left unsaid : When a man Is saying unpleasant things, he should forget to add that he is saying them "for your own good,"
more, is a inermomeier wnicu is aiu to be the finest ever made. It cost ?10,000. One-twentieth of the wealth of the German nation Is Iu-G,900 share companies. The practice of fencing has bevn revived among Japanese young noblewomen. Jebel Naiba, a mountain near Bona. In Algiers," ia gradually Kinking. Around Us base a huge depression grows steadily deeper.
Bokhara, the most populous part cf rurkestanj Is gradually being changed into a desert by the incursions of the sand dunes. Australia is to have a transcontinental railway from Adelaide to Port Darwin. The River Orinoco bas more tributaries than any other river. The total
number is put at 2,500, including 430 large streams. The first word In a physician's prescription Is "a recipe," abbreviated to It, which is a relic of the astrological
symbol of Jupiter. More than nine-tenths of the S00.0O0 pounds of peppermint oil annually consumed by the world Is produced within ninety miles of Kalamazoo, Mich.
majority of which were cut out The largest list were checked over two and in some cases three times 'to insure accuracy. The $100.00 gold prize was won by L. D. Reese, 1227 1.1th St, Denver, Colo., with 9011 correct words. Tho highest $10.00 gold prize wont to S. TC Frascr, Lincoln, Pa., with 0021 correct words. A complete list of the 331 winners with their home aJdroxs will be sent to any contestant enquiring -on a postal card. Be sure and 'give name and address clearly. This contest has cct the Co. many thousand dollars, and probably has not been a profitable advertisement nevertheless perhaps some who . had never before tried Grape-Nuts food have been interested in the contest and from trial of the food have been shown its wonderful rebuilding powers. It teaches In a practical manner that scientifically gathered food elements can be selected from the field grain, which nature will use for rebuilding the nrrve centers and brain in a way that is unmistakable -to users of GrapeNuts. There's a reason." Tc:tua Cereal Co, Ltd., Citt!j Cr: V" :
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