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Helieoland D,sappearIne.

The island Of Heligoland, which tho
British Government bartered away to
purchase the recognition OF its territor-
ial claims in Western Africa, may be a
thing OF beauty to the eye OF rock-ad-
miring travellers and German strate-
gists, but can hardly be hoped to prove a
JOY forever Two centuries ago the I'm.
terland, or coast plain below the rock,
comprised % square miles, and there
are history records in support of tho
tradition that A. D. $50 the island con-
tanned three cities and several dozen
villages, with an aggregate population
of 100000 Its present population ha
dwindled to less than 1900, and the no
naming portions Of the old table-lant
crumble away at rate that makes ii
safe to predict that within another
century the German Gibraltar Will
have shrunk to small reef with q
scant fringe Of sand bars -Phrenolog-
icat journal.
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"a LITTLE NONSENSE.

Some men buy umbrellas, some men
achieve them, and some get wet and
wear.-Texas Siftings
1t seems now to be very certain that
William Tell did not refuse to bow to
Gessler's hat. What Mr.. Tell really did
was to ask Mr.. Gessler whore he got It
Louisville Courfor-Journal.
How Should He Know Harry
''Does your girl blush very much when
you say sweet things to her?' Tom
"Do you think / have eyes like cat and
can SEQ in the dark. ~ Boston Herald.
"A Trife Hard. Sergeant at the
morning parade Recruit Meyer, the
next me you appear to me in my dream
n such a disagreeable way as you did
asst night I'll give you three days In
he Acknowledgements Batter.
-Daughter-"Rn pa, all the people
whom Mr. Nicefello has dealings with
speak Of him as perfect gentleman. !"
Practical Pa-"Thats because the young
fellowis such fool that he never knows
when he's being swindled. Good News.
why arey You crying, Frank?" sBe-
cause John got slice Of bread and but
ter. John, why are you crying?' Be
cause Frank didn't get any bread and
butter" John, give your bread and
butter to Frankw - Humoristische
Blatter.
"A three-year-old girl was heard
whispering to herself though quite in
audibly at the table. What were you
saying. Gertrude?" her father asked.
II was just saying: If no one was taxi
ing care Of me- should help myself to
those preserves p Boston Transcripts
Young Wife (after the dinner par
ty). -'srhere was a young man here that
we mustn't forget to invite again He
was a perfect gentleman Husband
who is hep "Mr, Martur.n "Oh,
yes, remember him. Noticed he was
the only one who ate any Of that pud.
ding you made Yankee Blade.
They were talking Of bowling.
Aren't you afraid, Henry, dear. she
said softly, that such excessive exercise
will make your right arm larger than
your left?" II never thought OF II in
that light" he replied thoughtfuliy.
Perhaps you had better change around
on the other side. IN. X. Sun.
"A new street in Dorchester between
Bluehill avenue and Canterbury street.
is named ANGEL. "A woman In search
Ing for the street asked horse car con-
ductor to direct her to Salvation street
lie said he did not know Of any such
sieet, but there was an Angel street
She replied: That's It; knew it was
something about Heaven. s." Boston
Traveller
III children could have the revampl
ing OF the English language II would 30
. great deal more analogical and c0n-
sistent than tits. A little girl n New
Haven primary school wa told By the
music teacher what was meant ~ s'the
space below" Then pointing - 10
space above above the stan the t>&cher
asked what that WAS called, and ~
pupil replied, "The spaos belly -
Springfield Union.
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A ROYAL PHtLANTnRopisf.



Austrian Throne.
It's, perhaps, not generally known
that the Crown Prince Of Austria Is one
Of the greatest phiIanthropists of the
age During the life Of the late Cr0Rn
Prince Rudolf he was a persoraee Of
very little IMPORTANCE even III his own
Country His immense wealth. how
ever, gave him certain social pres
tige, whilst his refined taste and general
culture, rendered him an authority
rpon ffiefatnifie anu art
As time passed he began to realize
that he could better organize his work
In the capital than elsewhere He there.
fore established himself in Vienna,
where he soon began to be regarded as
a general benefactor. He at once took
the lead in every movement for improt-
ing the condition OF the working classes
/ His energy was turned chiefly in the
direction Of establishing technical
schools, and hospitals. He also contrib
uted largely to all existing charities.
Perhaps the unhappiness of his life
has had much to do with the softening
Of his character. He has had more than
his fair share Of sorrow When in 1858
he was appointed viceroy of 'Tyrol, and
brought with him his bride, Saxon
Princess, the Tyrolese population united
in giving them welcome such as no
sovereign had received there for centu-
ries.
Within a year this young bride--a
giff Of seventeen summers-died sud-
denly. In the morning the young Arch
duchess was seemingly in perfect health;
before nightfall she had passed away
So passionately attached to his young
wife was he that when she died fears
were entertained lest his intense grief
should affect his reason.
Sorrow has undoubtedly left its mark
upon the man. lie is now fifty-seyen
years ofeage, bntloolSs much older, ow-
ing mainly tofthe expression of sadness
which, it is said, never leaves his face.
In 1862, at the urgent entreaty Of the
Emperor, he married q second time.
His bride was the Princess Annunciata,
Of Naples, who also died. leaving him
two sons and a daughter. = London
Queen.
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GOD SAVE THE KING.
Something About Henry Carey, the Co
pOeer of the Anthem.

Something About Henry Carey, the Conn
poser of the Anthem.
Henry Carey, the musician and COM
poser, who died In London October 4
1913. is now very generally credited with
being the author. Of the English royal
anthem. The composition has been at
tributed by some to DIR. Richard Bull,
who lived in the reign of James l., but
there is in reality no evidence that the
words or mir existed before 1740 In 1904
gentleman named Townsend was able
to report that his father had dined with
party which met in tavern in Corn
hill in 1740 to celebrate the capture Of
Portobollo, when he heard Henry Carey
sing the song as his own composition.
with great applause from the company.
About the same time DR. Harrington,
the celebrated physician and amateur
musician OF Bath, took down from the
lips Of John Christopher Smith, who had
composed an opera for which Carey fur
nished the libretto, q statement which
DR. Harrington had often heard from
the old gentleman before-that Henry
Carey came to him with the words and
music Of God Save the King with a
i request to correct the base-a request
which Mr. Smith complied with by writ
ing another base in correct harmony.
The anthem does not seem to have come
into general use until the anti-Popish
agitation in 1745, when it was sung in
the covent Garden and Drury lane
Theaters with great success. 1t was
published in the Gentleman's Magazine
in October of that year. Chicago News
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n
who so far had taken no apparent inter-
--est-4H-the stories told by the boys. -
quit several years ago, after some years
! Of hard work, for / was firing, and you
nil know that's no childas play. amt
ashamed to say that our trip took all
the ambition out of me. ] was on the
Santa Fe road, running between Las
Vegas and Wallace, and part of our run
was over the Glorietta mountain, the
: pass by which the road crosses the
Rocky mountains. From the top of the
PASS -te-AanaF junction forty 1--WE
miles, gnd the grade 1s5 feet to the mile.
The road is carried through canyons
and along the mountain side, and in no
place is there a quarter of a mile Of
straight track until you get down to
Canyon siding. From there to the
junction is six miles of pretty straight
track, but the same heavy grade. There
was no air.brake on freight cars in them
days, and the boys used to have=tos set
'em pretty tight to keep from going
down too fast. Any of You been over
that part of the road p and the speaker
looked inquiringly at his audience.
81 have" said a tall, powerful-1ook-
ing brakeman, ''and would not care to
twist on that mountain. 1t BEATS any
thing Lever worked on. and I've been
on some tough mountain roads
1T was in the winter" said the
stranger resuming his, story. II was
firing for George Young. Our engine
was heavy twelve wheeler, and to her
great weight alone l attribute our es-
cape. Freight traffic was very heavy
on the road at this time and nearly
every train was in two sections. We
would run two sections to the topof the
hill, and then one engine would take
both sections down the mountain. On
the day'of which ! speak we left Las
Vegas before daylight, pulling the first
seton of heavy train, and made it all
right to the head Of the pass. We were
the first train over the road that day and
about two inches of snow had fallen, SO
the track was pretty slippery. When
the other train had arrived we made the
two sections in one and were ready for
our trip down the mountain. The other
engine helped us over tho pitch of the
fHll and then ran back to Los Vegas.
We had hardly got over the hill
when the train began. running
pretty fast and George whistled
for brakes while | set the tank brake
as hard as | could. We could see the
three brakemen doing their best to
check the train, but their efforts were
Of no avail, for when three miles from
the top Of the hill we were running
forty miles an hour and could do
nothing-'to check our headlong speed.
just below the Wyhe bridge is curve
and then wersaw that the caboose was
gone. Seeing they could not check the
train the brakemen had crawled back
. 10 the caboose and pulled the pin, thus
seyering their connection with the
: train, knowing. that they could soon
. Stop the CHOOSE with the powerful
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Didn't wait For II.

Lady las tho tramp came into the
sard)-I suppose you want something
70 eat, do you? Well, you'll get the cold
shoulder from me.
Tramp-Cold shoulder? All! II there
IS any one kind of meat which am par
til nlarly fond Of, 1t is the cold shoulder,
madam. Now, II you will also kindly
supply me with a little bread and but
ter and a piece Of apple pie, | should
But just then the servant girl who
had heard the conversation, came out
of the back door with a pail Of hot suds,
and the tramp nearly broke the gate in
his haste to get out of the yard. Mum
say's Weekly.
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THE MANUAL OF ARMS.
General Sherman Compares the Tactics
OF 1907 With Those of To-Day.

General Sherman Compares the Tactics
of 1107 With Those of To-Day.
| Tho manual for loading and firing
the musKet in 1907 was:
Join your right hands to your mus
kets; handle your matches; blow your
| matches; try your matches; guard your
pans; blow your matches; present; give
fire; recover your arms; return your
matches; blow your. pans; handle your
primers; prime; shut your pans; blow
your pans; cast about to charge; handle
| your charges; open them with your
teeth; charge with powder; charge with
bullet; the wads from your hats; draw
forth your hammers; hold them up;
shorten them against your breast; put
them in the barrels; ram down your
charges; withdraw your rammers; hold
them up; shorten them against your
breasts; return your hammers; your
right hand under the pan; poise your
muskets; shoulder your muskets; rest
your muskets; order your muskets; lay
down your muskets; take up your mus
kets; rest your musl1ets; club your mus
kets; rest your muskets; shoulder your
muskets; make ready; present; give
fire."
In ITO was published in America the
volume of Baron Steubens tactics
which contains the manual of arms for
our revolutionary army. The musket
was then flint-lock muzzle-loader, with
single ball or ball and buckshot, effective
at about one hundred yards with re-
90 n 70 ~ IL.
object aimed at. For firing and loading
tho commands we're, the musket being
loaded and at the shoulder: SRoise fire.
lock. Cock firelock Take aim. Fire. .
half cock firelock. Handle cartridges;
prime; shut pan; charge with cartridge;
draw hammer; ram down cartridge; re-
turn hammer; shoulder frelock."
Up to 1910 we had the same old flint
lock, smooth bore musket with pa per
cartridges, and loaded by twelve COM
mands: Load; open pan; handle
cartridge; tear cartridge; prime; shut
pan; cast about; charge cartridge; draw
ram-rod; ram cartridge; return@ram4
rod; shoulder arms"
About ls45 the. percussion cap, pre-
yiously used by sportsmen, was adapted
to the smooth-bore muzztesfoader, and
1t was loaded in ten times, or motions,
gradually reduced to four motions, and
finally to one, LOAD at will"
Now, in 1890, every recruit knows that
he can load his rife and fire it from i've
to twenty times minute, thereby ex-
hausting his supply offsixty rounds in a
few minutes, whereas as late as. our civil
war forty rounds in the cartridge box
and twenty in the hayersack were full
allowance for aday's fighting. General
sherman, in North American Review
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Tho Latest Dog Known.

There is dog in Chester, Pa, which
will never walk when there is chance
to jump on street-car and ride. He is
black Newfoundland Much of his
time is spent at the stables. Although
his home is only two squares away, he
never walks to it, but waits for car
going that way, on which he jumps. He
often goes off on o pleasure trip riding
to the different sections of the city on
different cars, always sitting on the
curbstone till the car he wants comes
along, showing remarka BILE intelligence
in allowing to pass him those cars which
branch off in directions contrary to the
one he wishes to take.- Pittsburgh Dis
patch.
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An Universal wish.

Tranquility is the wish of all; the
good, while pursuing the track of yir-
tue, the great, while following the star
of glory, and the little, while, creeping
in the styes of dissipation, sigh for
tranquility, and make it tho great OBJ
ject which they ultimately hope to at
tain. How anxiously does the sailor,
when tossed on tempestuous seas, cast
his eyes over the foaming pillows, and
anticipate the calm security he hopes to
enjoy when he reaches the wished-for
shore Even kings growsweary Of their
splendid slavery, and mobiles sicken UNI
der Increasing dignities. All, In fact,
feel less. delight in the actual enjoy
ment of worldly pursuits. however great
and honorable they may be, than in the
idea Of their being able to relinquish
them and retire to
"---Some calm, sequestered spot,
The wcgld forgetting by the world forgot"
Y IN. Y. Ledger. s
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AMONG sraAn6ERsy

What the Exper.snced Traveller Gains ~
Contact with People.
TO corfectiy sstifnsts The roai worth
there i nothing like getting aEa, rem
home, and being thrown upon ones own
Resources among entire strangers
The friends among whom man has
beefi feared are rarely ever capable OF
Judging him fairly They either critic
Csc him dnjustly. or 6yefestimate his
worth. The stranger views him with UNI
prejudiced eyes; he perceives bis foibles
HiaHcegn OF his faultssA and has no
knowledge of latentvirtue, which might
make him slow tocondemn-a and ready TO-
excuse. 9 The wise traveller comprehends
this and. not BECAUSE iie is hypocrite,
but because II is required OF him, ID IN
his good behavior He s.minds his man
ners" and his speech. He is courteous
to his fellow travellers, and his self
conceit diminishes rapidly. He real
ICES that he Is not so perfect as his in
judicious friends have led him to Inn
agine. He becomes aware Of his limit
atoms, and, instead Of an indispensable
member Of society, realizes that he Is
only small fraction thereof. Perhaps
this is the reason such delightful people
are to be found Upon cars and boats and
in hotels, and wherever else tourists
most do congregate.
They may be divided into two general
classes-those who have travelled little,
and those who have travelled good
deal. Unless he is a hopeless cynic and
~, oioootau+ tba +ro val,d ,xaro1y, 10 III, q
those little pebbles which are to be
found upon the seashore. They have
been tossed about, to and fro, back and
forth, until all their angularities have
been worn away, and If not br lliantly
polished. a good deal of smoothing
down has been accomplished. He has
learned to be affable patient and for
bearing. Tho model traveller Is the
product Of time and experience. He
has had to serve long and exacting APP
premiership When be has spent GER
tain number of years deploring the
trains he has missed, anethamatiz ng
the trunks that will get lost, the boats
that are delayed-an evolutionary peri
cd marked by much whining and groan-
ing and scolding-he at last ach ewes
resignation.
He has learned that these are una
yoijable incidents, the bitter to be
swallowed with the sweet The unp,eas-
ant things attendant upon trip-taking
are finally expected, as a. matter of
course and the good fortune is received
as a special manifestation Of Providence.
There are, perhaps, a few who can
never be improved, at least in the brief
span OF this mortal existence. The ex-
perienced know them at glance. They
go with limp, detected gait; their
eyes are dull and languid, their voice Is
fretful and nothing p.eases or interests
Good" as Tennyson wrote in his
optimistic days, is really to be the
final goal Of i'll, !" then tho poor souls
have many leagues to journey before
they reach that blissful destination. =
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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fEATs or HoRsEMANsHlP.


wonderfni Endurance Displayed bs tts
sultanvs Taxtar Coariers
During tas last century when long
journeys called riding posts. were
much in vogue in Europe among tho
aristoeraey and wealthy sporting men,
q hatch was made between MI. Shafts
and Mr.. MAXWELL for 200 guineas; Mfr:
Shafts TO find man who would ride lob
miles per day for tweAty-seven consecn-
tive days.
4hereewassa great =deafsef money bet
on this thing principally against it be-
ing done. II was we'll known, how.
ever that distances Of 500 to |, 200 OF
even 1,500 miles had frequently been
covered at the rate Of from 100 to 120
or even $50 miles per diem. but the
knowing ones thought that the enor-
nous distance OF s.T09 miles at 100 per
day would be likelyto brake any horse
man down. Nevertheless Mr.. John
Woodcock, who was selected to ride by
Mr.. Shafts, performed the feat without
any extra fatigue or punishment He
used thirty horses, and rode three or
four Of them each day.
In Turkey the Sultan's mails and dis
patches from outlying provinces used to
DO carried by Tartars riding post, with
relays of horses changed every twenty
or thirty miles, and are now in some
parts of the country where telegraph
mas not been established. The same
man In charge went the whole distance.
| These courfers would often perform
great featsof endurance. From Bagdad
10 Constantinople is 1000 miles, not
ever level or rolling prairie, but fre-
cuently crossing mountain ranges,
along precipices. across torrents. ETC.,
and there is not mile of made road
the whole way yet the ordinary time
tho Tartars took to perform the dis
lance was fortnight, and on urgent
occasions II has been done IN twelve
days, and even in eleven days
There is no doubt whatever about
this, because the route through Asia
Minor, from the Persian Gulf, was in
former days, before the Red Sea route
was established, often used by officers
and others who did not mind
rough travel and were in o hurry to get
home Or to get out to India, and they
often rode with the Tartars from end to
end, besides which the British Resident
at Bagdad. or rather the residency, was
for more than a century In the habit OF
transmitting-dispat from India to
Constantinople and Europe by these
same carriers AS much as $50 miles
per day has often been done for eight
or ten days by the Tartars. They only
rested four hours out Of twenty-four.
and pushed on the rest of the time at a
rate Of six to ten miles an hcur-Galyes
ton (Tex.) News.
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every moment. At Canyon siding was
gravel bank where the gravel train
used to load MP between trains, and IL
loading, the fiat cars stood on the main
track just below the switch What nv.
feelings were as we neared the end Of
the canyon and shot around the last
curve into the straight track can not
describe, for there ON the main line
stood the gravel train of seven cars and
the engine nowhere in sight We afteF-
wards learned she had gone back to
the junction for water while the cars
were being loaded. This they had
pientyof time TO do, according to The
time-card, but we were nearly an hour
ahead Of time. The flats were left in
charge OF young man named Weber,
a new arrival from the East AS soon
as he saw uscoming he jumped on the
cars and let of the brakes, and the cars
began to move at rate that soon un-
loaded what gravel they had on board.
On dashed the flying freight train, past
the gravel bank and the group Of fright
ened laborers, while half mile ahead
the flats were skipping along with the
speed of an-exprcss train Webber was.
holding on to d brake wheel, once in
awhile looking back at the train that
seemed to pursue him like fate.
THE six miles TO bamy junction
were covered Unless than as many min
utes, add we rushed like cyclone
through the yard and past the side track
where the work train engine had sought
safety not five seconds too soon. The
fats were now about one hundred yards
ahead About two miles below the
junction was-a rise in the grade OF
about eighty feet to the mile. The
length OF the grade was about three
miles, and we had strong hopes, II
nothing happened, of stopping her by
the time we got to tho top. It was CIV.
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The Kind He Liked.

Long-haired' Individual Invading
the sanctum). II have here, sir, some
poetry, which / can furnish you at
medium rates. 1t consists Of all kinds
lyrics, satires, humorous verses,
bucolics, epics, triolets and-what sort
do you preferf
Editor-In your case. think the
poetry OF motion would suit me most
Elevator to the left Light
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Lust tho Other yyaN

AdoIfis-There's one thing ] couldn'i
stand, and that's a wife who would
DO eternally putting her hair up ii
curl-papcrs.
Matronly Friend Have no fear, Mr..
Adonis. Girls don't 20 to any such
trouble aftor thoy get married IN. \
Weekly
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Abreast ar the Popular ia te.

First Visitor lin public hbrai W Ex-
cuse my curiosity, sir; but would you
mind telling me why you are reading
those copies of the "British Poersge"
and LANDED Gentry and the ..Al-
manach dc GothaP"
Second Visitor-Pm lookin' for some
high. toned foreign names for a row OF
fiat-houses I'm putin up over on the
East Side.