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V Sgf^ffifi* -*£• ' ^ .r^ t / - * V " A ' • • • -vr % " ^ ^,V ^ * i,t »,* M3 Sent Miss Roosevelt ?" f% *.. n> > t,H Pi, > >.' V?; * ^•n \Cs : W£:^ £#&,?.';; ,v-' l-;v-5 . r^ *-». ,/i * * \lffi '• *"< V. "if-,. . / ^joioao jBvur iM« immmvus* or aum OF COAC r&OM. Some of the presents sent Miss Roosevelt.--Marvelous stories are wafting around the White House as to the value of the gifts which are coming. It is said that only com­ paratively unimportant gifts have al­ ready been received to make a foot MAIL MATTER MOVES RAPIDLY. is- ,v Prom End to End of Continent In Forty-Eight Hour*. When rocks and hills divide Pacific coast dwellers from Atlantic coast dwellers and they each other no long­ er see they can take pen and paper and write a few lines that will fly from one end of the continent to the other in forty-eight hours. In 1906 it first has been made possible to mail a letter in New York city and receive a reply from San Francisco within a week. The fast mail train leaving New York on Monday at 2:45 a. m., is due at San Francisco Thursday noon. A, reply mailed before 6 p. m.. Is due to reach New York at 9:30 a. m. on the following Monday. The number of passengers who benefit by extraordi­ narily high railway speed is a trifle compared with the public advantage represented by a saving of BIX hours In the time of transit of perhaps a million letters and other mail matter carried every trip by the fast trains. Became Senator Despite Boss* The announcement made by Senator Pettns of Alabama, who is now in his eighty-fourth year and is the oldest man In the senate, that he is a candi­ date for re-election revived the story at the capital of how he came to the senate the first time. Ex-Senator Pugh was the Democratic boss of the state. When Pugh was conducting his can­ vass for re-election to the senate Pet- tus went to him and asked for bis in­ dorsement for a local judgeship. "Non­ sense," said Pugh, arrogantly, "you are too old to be a judge." "Well, by gum," shouted Pettus, "I may be too old to be a judge; I aint too old to be a senator." And he wasn't, as Pugh found out when the canvass was over and Pettus was elected! ' t i-'i ' •'Stateliness" Has Returned. ' ^fce social trend of the times ttt London Is toward a return to old- fashioned stateliness. During last year girls were given the same good time that they had in the '60's and "70*8, smart women no longer rule the world and "new rich" entertainers have given place to hostesses of the aristocracy. The return of the chap­ eron means the disappearance of "hooligan" girlhood. There has been a falling off in the matter of private concerts and the craze for fancy balls seems to be a thing of the past. high stack which is now in that my» terious chamber in the White House attic, under which there is at night the steady tramp of an officer, and the nearby snores of the servants, who in­ habit the same floor. There is little danger of loss by theft. PRACTICE HAD MADE PERFECT. Redwood James "Sp'ilqh" Chinamen, But He Waa Proficient. Miss Bret Harte, with the. aid of a number of her father's English friends, has opened a typewriting of­ fice in London. She is a proficient typewriter and an American journalist calling to have some copying done complimented her on her skill. "My skill, such as it is, is due to prac­ tice," said Miss Bret Harte. "It was acquired very painfully, like the mark- manship of one of my father's west­ ern friends. My father used to tell of a man called Redwood James, a character of California. James in a bar one night drew a revolver and shot the ashes from the cigar of a friend on the other side of the room. The friend laughed and calmly drank off the remainder of his cocktail. My father said to Redwood James: 'That must have required considerable prac­ tice.' 'Practice,' Redwood James re­ plied. 'I should say so, young man. I guess I sp'iled more'n three dozen Chinamen a-learnin' that there trick.'" "Bulls" of Parliamentarians. * vSir Harry Samuel, a unionist candi­ date for parliament, is the author of this bull: "The legislative garden of the liberals," he said, "is an arid swamp." If such a parliamentary au­ thority as Mr. Gladstone said "It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words" lesser lights who blunder in the political arena have no reason to be ashamed. Mr. Balfour once spoke of "an empty theater of un­ sympathetic auditors" and Lord Cur- zon congratulated his party on the circumstances that, "though not out of the wood, we have a good ship.1 Carrying Out Fate's Decrees. Tfcere is a story of an English judge wlto, when a thief arralnged before i>«»^» pleaded that he could not help stealing when he' had an opportunity, replied: "That is just the way with us; for we can't help hanging a thief when we get hold of him." Zeno, the philosopher, who believed in the Stoic doctrine of fate, made a similar reply to a light-fingered slave who excused himself for his theft by saying that he was fated to steal** "***4© ba whip- ted, too." Bank Account for Each Baby. Thomas Dlnsmore. a well-to-do resi­ dent of Palermo, Me., gives $5 to everybody born in that place. The money is deposited in a bank to the c&ild's credit and remains there until the recipient reaches legal majority. Mr. Dinsmore was born in Palermo eighty-three years ago. He went to California in 1848, sailing around Cape Horn, and accumulated a fortune dur­ ing the gold-hunting craze. In later years he traveled a great deal, finally settling down in the place fcls birth. Insist on Free Rolls. 'Restaurant keepers of Berlin are Is the midst of a war with their guests as to whether "broedchen" shall be free with meals or be charged for in the bill. From time immemorial Berliners have eaten as many rolls as they desired, but the restauranteurs determined to put the bread into the reckoning. They hung up notices to that effect in their dining rooms, bat their guests tore down the placards and refused to pair tor titoir "bras#, chen." JENNY LIND'S GREAT TRIUMPH. Won Jealous Rival by Simple Song. A beautiful iittie incident is told concerning Jenny Lind and Grlsi, when they were rivals for popular favor in London. Both were invited to sing the same night at a court con­ cert before the queen. Jenny Und, being the younger, sang first, and was so disturbed by the fierce, scornful look of Grisi that she was at the point of failure, when suddenly an inspira­ tion came to her. The accompanist was striking his final chords. She asked him to rise and took the vacant seat. Her fingers wandered over the keys In a loving prelude, and then She sang a little prayer which she had loved as a child. She hadn't sung it for years. 4s she sang she was no longer in the presence of roy­ alty, but singing to loving friends in her fatherland. Softly at first the plaintive notes floated on the air, swelling louder and richer every moment. The singer seemed to throw her whole soul into that weird, thrilling, plaintive "pray­ er." Gradually the song died away and ended in a sob. There was sil­ ence--the silence of admiring wonder. The audience sat spell-bound. Jenny Lind lifted Ijjer sweet eyes to look Into the scornful face that had so dis­ concerted her. There was no fierce expression now; instead, a tear-drop glistened on the long, black lashes. &nd after a moment, with the im­ pulsiveness of a child of the tropics, Grisi crossed to Jenny Lind's side, placed her arms about her, and kissed her, utterly regardless of the audience. --Exchange. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS DEVLIN BANK PAYS A DIVIDEND BAD VERSES SIGN OF INSANITY Rockefeller Institute in New York Is Finished WHERE AUTOMATON WAS "OFF." Ne Satisfaction on Wreaking Ven­ geance on Machine. A certain western railroad wjilch has not yet been "reorganized" by Wall street is still owned and oper­ ated by the blunt-spoken old lumber­ man who built it. Last year, after a particularly severe accident upon It, the agent of an automatic block sig­ nal system called and tried to get a contract for installation. The old lumberman examined the device attentively and seemed much Interested. "Your chief engineer recommends it highly," said the agent. "He told me to use his name with you, and he would see you later." "Wall," said the lumberman, "I reckon It is a pretty machine. I like to sit here and see it work myself, It's so all-fired sure. But come to using It upon my road--now, young feller, I've been running a railroad some longer'n you, and I'll tell you something. "Accidents Is bound to happen about, once In so often, no matter what you do. I've got three brakemen In jail now, and I've vowed to hang the next one, and the public Is pretty well satisfied. But what satisfaction Is It going to be for any one if I go to work and hang an old automatic machine?" --Youth's Companion. Told By a Stage Coach Driver. Joseph Hobbs, whose death occur­ red a few months ago at Exeter, N. H., was in his younger days the driver of a stage coach between Nashua and Lawrence. He was an Inveterate story-teller, and was always sure to have a large audience. The follow­ ing-was one he used to tell: "When I was driving coach from Nashua to Lawrence I used to always stop over night in a small town about half-way between the two cities. One day three or four of us got a large piece of cardboard and printed on it: 'The fellow who is courting a certain married young woman had better leave town, as the husband is on to him.' And, would you believe it, in less than two hours after that sign bad been posted cm a tree in tha vil­ lage every man in town had left, ex­ cept three old cripples and one man who had not read the sign." '.',4 . . -- , f Terms of Payment 8ulte». The late J. Warren Blgelow, for many years a prominent member of the Worcester (Mass.) county board of commissioners, was fond of relating this story: One winter day a man stood in front of a store where men's shirts were displayed. A few were flung outside, and one particularly took his faucy. Without waiting to inquire the price, he seized It and started down the street. The owner happened to see him, snd immediately gave chase. Seeing that the thief outran him, he cried out: "Well, If I don't get the pay In this world I shall in the world to come." "Oh," called back the man with the shirt, "if you want to wait till then I'll take another shirt." Easy. The professor of mathematics ex­ perienced quite a little difficulty in making one of his class comprehend the theory of limits. To make the theorem more intelligible, he resorted to the following illustration: "Now Mr. C.," he proposed, "sup­ pose you were 100 feet from a rabbit and you gave him chase, and in the first minute you gained one-half of the intervening distance, and likewise In the next, and in each succeeding minute; at last, if you were four inches from the rabbit, would you ev­ er catch him? Remember, you gain one-half of the intervening distance each minute." "If I was four inches from the rab­ bit," replied the student, "I would reach out and grab It." Th« Death of th« Rom. OH. Iff*! dear life, thy summer day* have fl°wn Swiftly, yet all too lat®, for they did wither; Joy should be Joy for one short hour alone. . ' Or it will lose Its loveliness fSrever. I did not spare to use the cruel knife. But cut the rose as Soon as it was day, And gave it to my love. Its little life Passed, like a sigh, from Nature's hreast away. Too happy flower, 1 toy lev6 had died At unawares, by such a death as thine. I should .have slain my love in its fun pride. v 8o had it lived and been forever mine. A treasure for all joy to ponder on. Laid up for age in old Time's palaces "A rhinic of beauty" which my soul had Aa*:fMitth had made undying with a --Wilfrid Sea wen Blunt. Twenty Per Cent for Depositors ef 8pring Valley National. Receiver Harvey M. Trimble of the defunct Spring Valley National bank, of which Charles J. Devlin was the president, Saturday afternoon began paying out the often-promised 20 per cent dividend to creditors of that In­ stitution, which closed its doors July 6, 1906, owing depositors $500,000. The latter, mostly laborers, will receive 185,000. These had on several occa­ sions gathered about the bank, but were disappointed. Among theBe de- ' posltors were some loud In their threats against those connected with the bank and it was believed cttminal measures might be used. PASTOR'S SON ATTACKS GIRL Tries to Stab Music Teacher In School Conducted by Father. Henry Fleetwood, 23 years old, son of Rev. F. B. Fleetwood, president of Waterman Hall, a young women's seminary at Sycamore, after attack­ ing Miss Jessie Bodman, a music teacher, with a knife in the music room of the institution, inflicting a slight wound, has been sent to the El­ gin asylum for the insane for treat­ ment. The young man has been suf fering from a nervous disorder for some time, and only two weeks ago re­ turned from the asylum, having been discharged as cured. He is said to be in a critical condition now. Alton Jury, After Reading Poetry, Up­ sets the Writer's Will. Bad poetry is a sure sign of insan­ ity, according to the decision of an Al­ ton jury, which ruled, after reading some of the verses written by J. B- Gould, that he was not competent to make a legal will. Consequently hi3 heirs-at-law will get the estate, which he devised to Edward Beall, the "stork" mayor, and his son James. Mayor Beall made his hit with Mr. Gould by opposing race suicide. Some time ago, when certain flat owners in Alton refused io rent to families with children, Mr. Beall erected a row -.f fiats au'i •would not, rent to families without babies. In addition he pre­ sented a baby buggy to the parents of every child bom in his building. Be­ fore he had given away half a dozen buggies he was elected mayor. Mr. Gould heard about it, considered Mr. Beall was doing a good work, and made a will in his favor. His relatives did not like this, and when Mr. Gould died brought stilt to break the will. Their strongest evidence was the po­ etry. - ' ' KILLS HIMSELF AND HIS WIFE Domestic Troubles Lead to m Double Tragedy at Kewanee. After killing his wife by shooting her twice through the heart, Michael Nolan placed her body In a corner of the basement of their residence at Ke­ wanee and wrote a note telling of do­ mestic troubles and indicating his wishes as to the disposal of his ex­ tensive property interests. He then shot himself through the brain, his body falling across that of his wife. The bodies were cold when found by a boarder, who was the third occupant of the house. Nolan was a city police­ man many years and was highly re­ garded. He was 38 years old. #^lip|vestock Breedera Elect. The meeting of the Illinois Live­ stock Breeders' association at the Uni­ versity of Illinois closed Wednesday afternoon. The following officers were elected: President, A. P. Grout, Winchester; first vice president, John H. Kincald, Athens; second vice pres­ ident, L. H. Kerrick, Bloomington; third vice president, Frank H. Whit­ ney, Athens; secretary, Fred H. Ran­ kin, Urbana; treasurer, S. Noble King, Bloomington; executive committee, A. P. Grout, Winchester; S. Noble King, Bloomington; Fred H. Rankin, Ur­ bana; George Williams, Athens; Charles F. Mills, Springfield; Frank S. Springer, Springfield; Frank H. Whitney, Athens; Jerome K. Leland, Springfield; L. H. Kerrick, Blooming­ ton; O. H. Swigert, Whlteheath; Eu­ gene Funk, Shirley. Illinois Bars Chicago Boy. The university council at Cham­ paign has barred Joe Taylor of Chi­ cago, member of the varsity baseball team, from further participation in athletics on account of deficiencies In studies. Taylor was regarded as one of the mainstays of the nine. He sue* ceeded in making up his deficiencies last year, but the council decreed against him this time. He will return to his home. Carnegie to Aid Lombard. 2' Dr. Lewis B. Fisher, president of Lombard college, at Galesburg, read a letter from Andrew Carnegie in the college chapel in which Carnegie said he would be glad to contribute the last $25,000 to a $100,000 fund for the college. Dr. Fisher announced steps to secure the needed $75,000 would be immediately taken and that $25,- 000 of It is already In sight Oregon Dam Is Carried Out The high waters In Rock river, Illi­ nois, for the past month have caused enormous loss to* manufactures. A section of the Oregon dam has been taken oat by the flood Breach of Promise Suit. Suit for $25,000 has been filed by Miss Maggie Haggerty of Peoria against Thomas Bruce Holmes of that city, the plaintiff alleging breach of promise. Farmer Fatally Kicked by Herat., • While hitching up to go to. a party Samuel Corwin, a prominent farmer of Kewanee, was kicked in the head by his horse. He died m few hours }*<**• ( - Handbill Startles City. Springfield churchgoers were -as­ tounded Sunday morning to find the streets littered with advertisements announcing the opening of a local gambling house and stating that the proprietor had made satisfactory ar­ rangements with the state's attorney's office and was prepared to offer pro­ tection to all players. No one has been able to ascertain the source of the advertisement. Some attribute it to a gambler whose place was recent­ ly raided.. b Train Kills One. , Mrs. August Luebbers was killed and her husband fatally injured at the railroad crossing west of Itasca. They were returning to their home near Bloomlngdale, when their carriage waa struck by the St. Paul Limited. Traveling Bandit Is Indicted, •dam Pigg, who held up and robbed numerous hotels in the vicinity of Sterling recently, was Indicted by the Knox county gra» * restaurant. , .* *. • QUESTION SCHOOL FUND LAW Jollet Will Te«t Measure Providing for Custody of Money. The city of Jollet will seek a ruling from the Illinois supreme court as to the constitutionality of the law gov­ erning the custody of school funds. A measure passed last year requires the city school funds to be kept by the town treasurer Instead of the city treasurer. The city treasurer at Jol let refuses to recognize the law. The town collector, who has funds to turn over, has appealed to the court. On an agreed statement of facts the court will render an opinion which will be taken to the state supreme court. The city treasurer declares that the title of the act is defective and that, there­ fore, the law is void. ;' " > ^ ^ v ">Jr « £ % r4j ; / 'i The $1,000,000 institute for medical research which John D. Rockefeller has erected in New York in memory of his grandson, "Jack" McCormick, is finished, and will be thrown open in the next few weeks. "Jack," who died}, in 1903, was the young son of Mr. an#| Mrs. Harold F. McCormick, of Chicaf go, and waa the oil king's favorite grandson: ' EXAMPLE OF CORPORATE GREED Schoolhouse Is BuntfaB, l The George P. Lord school at Elgin was destroyed by fire Wednesday. The building was valued at $50,000 and accommodated 500 pupils. The origin of' the blaze is unknown, but it Is believed to have been due to a de­ fective flue, the fire being first discov­ ered In the upper part of the build­ ing. Th* building occupied the site of a former building which was burned seventeen years ago. To Investigate Chicago Factories. The state board of labor statistics has directed two Inspectors to make an investigation of the shops and iac- torles of Chicago In which women are employed and submit a report to the board. It Is said rumors have been afloat in labor circles to the effect that the state laws are being violated. 1 he state board has not given out the names of men employed in the work for the methods to be adopted. Firtbugs at Work in Elgin. Fire practically destroyed the George P. Lord school building at El­ gin. It is supposed to have been of incendiary origin. The flames, which threatened surrounding property, were brought under control after a stub­ born light by the full strength of tho fire department The structure was valued at $25,000 and only recently was renamed In honor of Elgin's mil­ lionaire philanthropist. Betrays Crime in Dream. Mike Dugan, who has a penitentiary record, is a prisoner in the jail at Monmouth, held by orders of the chief c.r police of Minneapolis. Dugan in his Bleep prayed for forgiveness for set­ ting fire to the West hotel at Minneap­ olis. The officers believe they may have the man who set fire to the ho tel. Serious Charges Against Mayor. Charles E. Raines, mayor of Mil- ford. and Gilbert Vennum, a politician of Milford, are under arrest charged with enticing Myrtle Taylor, 16 years old, Into a room. Raines is also charged with enticing Essie Chllds, 18 years old. Both were bound over to await the action of a grand jury. Raines gave bonds of $2,000 and Ven­ num $1,000. i ?* ' Lumber Dealers' Potftlert. A number of lumber dealers of Illi­ nois have filed with the state board of railroad and warehouse commis­ sioners a petition asking for a reduc­ tion in freight rates on logs and lum­ ber In Illinois. The petitioners ask for the same rate as that which ob- K»?uck^80ttr1' tOW*' •s _ ummI ̂ ^ KTftotf tn a Runaway. Earl Rice, aged 14, was killed In a runaway accident near Savoy by being thrown out of a buggy in which he was riding. Double- Wreck on C. 41 E. Passenger train No. 4 on the Chi­ cago & Eastern Illinois road crashed into a freight at Wellington, five miles north of Hoopeston. The wrecking crew was clearing up a wreck that had occurred earlier In the night, and had set some cars on the main line. The passenger ran into them, the en­ gine, baggage and mall cars being sent into a ditch. Engineer Conner- ton and Fireman Boyd, both of Dan­ ville, were seriously injured, but the passengers escaped with u severe shaking up. Big Family Election Slogan. Because he has a family of sixteen children and is a believer of the Roosevelt theory against race suicide, George Cassens of Sterling Is making a hard fight for road commission, using that as his campaign cry. Four Held for Murder. In Justice S. J. Wise's court at Harrisburg Grant Burlison, John Bur- lison, wife of Sherman Burlison, were bound over to await the action of the grand jury, charged with the murder of Ralpfe "Willis. Rights of People Openly Disregarded by Pennsylvania Railroad. Gov. Dawson has addressed the na­ tional senate through Senator Till­ man in regard to the railway and coal trust that has West Virginia by the throat. The response of the interstate com­ merce commission to the Gillespie resolution showed that the Pennsyl­ vania railroad does not legally own a controlling part of the stock of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Chesapeake and Ohio, or the Norfolk and Western. Gov. Dawson is doubtless right in say­ ing that the Pennsylvania practically controls all these lines. This puts the coal Industry of West Virginia, which is one of the leading industries of the state, at its mercy, and here, as elsewhere, monopoly Is the parent of grave abuses. The Pennsylvania and its subsidiary lines are In the coal mining business. The three subsid­ iary lines are the only routes by which West Virginia coal can get to market In making rates the controll­ ing company naturally favors its own mines of the subsidiary lines as against those of independent opera­ tors. In both cases the best interests of the people of West Virginia are sacrificed to corporate greed. The disregard shown for the lawful rights of independent operators is illustrated by the Red Rock Fuel com­ pany matter. This company has 4,000 acres of valuable coal lands on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio. It charged that the road discriminated against It In favor of itself and other shippers and appealed to the Inter­ state commerce commission for re­ lief. The commission, after hearing, found that the Red Rock company's complaints were just, and ordered the Baltimore and Ohio to furnish the facilities needed for taking care of its business. The road refused, and. In consequence, the coal company has had to carry the case to the United States Circuit court. Meantime the railway is doubtless making enough money by its tyrannical course to more than pay Its share of the costs of the suit and the Red Rock com­ pany is losing more than proportion­ ately. The senate--and if not the senate, the house--should make a thorough Investigation of the relations between the Pennsylvania railroad and the os­ tensibly competing lines it is believed to control, and also of the alleged coinmunity of interests existing be­ tween the Pennsylvania system and the New York Central system. The public wishes to know how extensive and complete railway monopoly has become and to see the necessary steps taken speedily to break it up. Under modern conditions those who control the railway transportation facilities of a locality or a country control Its industrial commercial destiny.--Chi­ cago Tribune. New York's Lighting Plants. Municipal ownership in New York means public lighting plants. Mayor McClellan places at $7,567,000 the cost of the Initial plant for Manhattan and the Bronx. The fixed charges and op­ erating expenses will reach $1,269,000 a year, or an annual saving to the city of $434,000. The board of estimates has authorized the purchase of sites for the erection of electric lighting plants in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond. These sites have been bought and now belong to the city. Municipal fire alarms have also been discussed. The alderman have been asked for the Immediate installation of 500 new fire alarm boxes and for the erection of a building to be used exclusively tor a fire alarm central office. Henry G. Davis Visits Senate. Htnry Gassaway Davis, Democratic candidate for vice president at the last national election, was conducted through the senate the other day, chap­ eroned by his son-in-law. Senator El- kins. The old gentleman was cordially greeted on all sides and it was noticed that he cast more than one wistful glance at the presiding officer's chair, which under other circumstances he might have occupied. ^ He looked al­ most as young and spry as the senator who was showing him abf^ *he place. Make a Business of It. "I make a business of entertaining my husband when he is at home," said a happy-looking woman. "Before I married I was in business myseii, and I know how one feels when he comes home at night. So I put on my best gown and a smile, though cook has struck and the water pipes leak. He never knows what goes wrong about the house, because he attends to the other line, and the few precious hours that he is about we put iil|Tini good timea"--Exchange. SEES DOOM OF UNITED STATESr ri •m SSI •* v' 1 ' I ' • ^ Destined' to Perish aa Country, Say*" Mexican Journal. To judge from present appearan the Unitea States Is not likely reach old age. Administrative immon* - allty, the eagerness to win wealth^ S name and power without regard t# the means; the relegation to oblivunl * of the democratic practices of othe| times and many other similar cause! \ are actively contributing to the diss# 1 lutlon of the United States as a tlon. Moreover, that nation, whlcli; ; f was born, and had the rapid growth dl a monster, Is bound also to come to sudden ending, and having now reaclil* ;" ed Its highest point, its course henc# v' forth must be downward until > reaches the lowest depths. By the enjf of the present century the United States, which will have caused days • of bitterness to the nations of AmeriM;' ca in general and to Mexico in paf» tlcular, will be split up Into several nations and probably they will nfr longer be republics, but will hav|: ^>1 some other form of government, pe#« haps a monarchy, for by degrees Yankees are becoming monarchic and they already regard many of th£ . | uses of institutions of democracy ai 1 ,-p. mere formulas.--Mexico City El Ttea* *•- V PO- .. J. • i -ji ATTAINING 8UCCE8S IN LIFE. ? • % , Have - • . ' W Object Clear, and Habitual Work Toward It. p Mi It has been said that success coi slsts in getting that at which on# alms, and being happy In it Each one should have an ideal of what Is tie be the expression of his or her life? If this is attained in some degree, suck a life may be called successful. HencSfc the successful man or woman is tha one who has succeeded fairly well til; shaping the actual life In accordance - ' -i with the Ideals of life. This require* " 4 }l a strength and persistence that ca# for continual struggle. It forms th§ , i'; highest achievement of life. Bulwer _ well says that the man who succeeds . above his fellows Is the one who early ,' „ In life clearly discerns his object, and . ,|i toward that object habitually direct* - his powers.--From Vital Question** S-v; V by Dr. Henry D. Chapln. Or ? One Reason for Marriage. 1 The new queen of Norway la Ml very well equipped with jewels--thssl: i Is, for a queen. As the youngest of three sisters her share of pretty things ? was naturally smaller than those at v the other two. The most Imposing of* nament of which she can boast 1s "<J diamond necklace^left her by her god- " ^ mother, the old Duchess of Inverness. ' A condition attached to the legacy w8*:..->^jVv;^ that on no account should it pass intfe her possession until her wedding day. It Is said that when at last she wail permitted to clasp it about her nec|t she said coquettlshly to her husbani that he must t^ot take too much credit to himself as her bridegroom, for shfc felt she must "make some sacrifice?* to gain possession of her godmotherV legacy. ~ T M s&SSMm mMv£i y, -- , . j V ' J Keeps In Touch with People. ,t Congressman Calder of Brooklyifc now serving his first term. Is successor of Mr. Baker, who refused to accept a : railroad pass. In order to learn how he might best please those who send . him to congress he mailed 40,000 let tt ; to his constituents asking for sua* > gestions. In a week he had received 1.400 replies, most of them urging hiip to stand by the president as regards^ leading measures proposed. Many ask for information or public documents,^ Mr. Calder is much pleased with th^* result of his experiment, which COD* vinces him that his constituents rea* the papers closely. ; ; •• • iV When Strong Words Come Handy. In America we will fight the swear* ing habit. We will admit that It is iia* moral and unwise to cguss, but there is a heap of comfort in the fact that when the jelly refuses to jell and the stepladder falls and the door closes, on two fingers and a boil finds It# resting place on the end of one's noa% there are words, oodles of them, in this good English language tha m!£kt be used if a victim was so mlndaA There Is nothing like having a UttHK. - v*:; handy, even if yon do not Mobile, Ala., Herald. . . I W , ' " The New-Made World. , ' * Perhaps we shouldn't call It O l d w o r l d . " f o r i t ' s n e w - a w i t W J . day in the year--new m*adto*g» Mf fields, new springs that bafefeta .-IK** sunlight, new hearts and saw tttaaift: And, for all we know, there mtst M new heavens a makihg for May ft us! Wherefore, let US take hope for the future, and, It join the singins at tfce of life, we can blessing of v«M balls are rlattaa;!---] 'M3