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FOR RENT.

Groom cottage, Roanoke street, near
in, $500.
0-room house with modern conveniences
on Patterson avenue; stable, etc $1G. OC.
lO-room. house with modern convent
ences on Patterson avenue, near in,
$1,000
room house on Shenandoah avenue
IL. w, $500.
Small Office room near Watt, Rettew =,
C.ay's, $500.
Two store rooms with dwelling rooms
above, corner Park street and Loudon
avenue N. w. Will rent separately. Sec
ond fioor arranged for boarding hunse
purposes. Rent moderate.
See
IL. H.. Ii. HARTSOON AZ, On
THERENTERs, Market Square.
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woman herself to help herself No one else
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Swoinnnly self; if she will use the right rem
ffdy for weakness and disease of the organs
4 thet bear the burdens of maternity, she
will soon be healthy, vigorous and amiablc.
i She will be able to help baby instead of
I leaving baby to try and help her.
a wonderful remedy for weakness and
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Mrs. Joseph Simmons, OF IIazclgrccn, Grant
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postage stamps. for which please send me the
Medical Adviser i'll cloth cover, have used
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have received great deal of benefit from them"
When story writer puts i'll doctor lie is
always said to Look wise" Over one
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Wisely They have bought DR.. Pierce's
wise folks, 6So,ooo OF them paid 81 so copy
for the book. Ii was cheap at that. 1t is a
book of 1908 pages, with 800 illustrations.
Think ofthat. A medical book too. Every
body knows how expensive medical cdil.
s cation is. Now there is Il great edition of
this huok, that is being given away. You
pay tn cost of mailing, that's all. You send
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a british Atrocity.

Motto for Uncle Sam-Whcrc there's
n Will there's Hawaii. Pick Mo Up.
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LOT s..

One good lot on Shenandoah avenue N.
W.. $3.50.
The best lot in the Lewis addition 5Ox
i3J feet, $40.
Two of the best lots on Dale avenue 5.
e. Price $50.
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Even baby uu-
a. "a

ueTStuNUS tnat IL
is not right that
rnotl.c: should he
a always sick'y.
nervous, fIe full
and cross. Baby
wonders what is
the matter. Baby
would willingly
help if lie could.
II I;pa wifi, tl,p
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+ single line in order to make the connec-

Of single line in order to make the connec-
ton.
Even more important than single line are
the stops and Stacks. A train in Brad
shaw" running without a STOP say from
London to Crewe. does in fact, run tho
New York and Albany 043 miles). on the
empire State express, there is booked
stop, but We Stacked down eight times,
ana this is fair sample of what American
engines have to contend with. l shall have
more to say on the question of level-cross-
ings presently, but here / will just note
tnat, When railways run, as American lines
mostly do, across and even along the prin-
clpaI streets of important towns, full speed
IS. even to the American mind, out OF the
question. Or, take another illustrations:
The best expresses of the New Haven road,
one OF the most go-ahead lines in the coun-
Try, are allowed one and one-half hour for
the seVenty-three miles between New York
and New Haven. Having seen with what
consummate ease this was accomplished. L
quicken your tming?. The ny a 1o y9u w nos
convincing; Because there are six draw
bridges en- route, any or all of which may
be open against the train, so that we are
pound to leave a good margin"
Yet another American disadvantage. To
say tnat their expresses are on the average
per cent. higher than ours would be, I
DeHeVe, TO understate the facts. Probably
the heaviest express in this country is the
z p. m corridor train from Euston to Scot
land. 1t weighs, | believe about on the
average go tons. For combination of speed
and weight know no American train that
cau Hdlcn ~, But LHlS train is exceptional,
and very frequently has two engines-a
thing unknown in America. Certainly, ex..
cept perhaps on the Northwestern. our
average express cannot be said to weigh
more than from 120 to $50, or, at the out
side, 200 tons. In America 270 tons is still
light train. The Pennsylvania limited
weighs fully $50. Travelled in one or two
trains, and | saw many more which GER
tainly weighed 400 tons and upwards I
have, for instance, a record of four runs
with trains averaging over 500 tons each,
the speed being fifty miles an hour from
start to stop. Now. 500 tons in England
would mean an ordinary coal train. On the
whole, then, / believe 1t is true to say not
only that American trains are punctual but
that they are punctual in spite of difficult
ties even greater than those our railways
have to contend with.
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than usually handsome tree whose blossoms
are more than two-thirds expanded.
Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits,
and it would be well If we accepted these
gifts with more joy and gratitude, and did
not think it enough simply to put a fresh
load of compost about the tree. Some old
English customs are suggestive, at least.
On Christmas eve the farmers and their
men in Devonshire take a large bowl of
cider, with a toast in it, and, carrying it in
state to the orchard, they salute the apple
trees with much ceremony in order to make
them bear well the next season. The salu-
tation consists Of throwing some Of the
cider about the root of the tree. placing bits
of the toast on the branches, and then en-
circling one of the best-bearing trees in the
orchard, they drink the following toast
three times:
Here's to thee. old apple tree!
Whence thou .n1ay'st bud, and whence thou
may'st blow,
And whence thou may'st bear apples enow.
Fats full, caps full
BuShel, buShel sacks full
And my pockets full, too! Hurrah!'
Also what was called apple bowling
used to be practiced in various counties on
New Years eve. A troop of boys visited
the different orchards, and, enc,rcIing the
different apple trees, repeated the following
words:
Stand fast root, Bear well, topi
Pray God send US a good bowling crop.
Every twig, apples big;
Every bough, apple enow!"
They then shout in chorus, one of the
boys accompanying them on cows horn.
During this ceremony they rap the trees
with their sticks This is called ''wapail-
ing the trees, and is thought by some to
be "a relic of the heather sacrifice to
Pomona"
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had owing to the kindness of American
friends, exceptional opportunities of seeing
what is being done and hearing what is
projected or expected, not, indeed, on the
railways of the United States as "a whole,
but on the important portion of them lying
between Boston, Washington, ST. Bpuis and
Chicago, may be allowed to attempt an out
line sketch of the present American rail-
way situation as compared and contrasted
with that with which we are familiar at
home.
There are, speaking generally fewer first
class expresses, unless it be between New
York and Philadelphia $50 mileS) than we
are accustomed to here, and not a few
trains are called express which only run at
some thirty-fve or thirty-eight miles an
hour. But the best expresses are very good.
Between New York and Washington, for in
stance, the Royal Blue Line does 228 miles
in five hours, including the steamboat tran an
New Haven Railroad covers the Z2 miles
between New York and Boston in five
hours with these 9 Two Perfo o f oroa may
220 miles, in four hours and flfty-tlve min,
utes; st. Pancras to Hellifeld 2S11a miles,
in four hours and fifty-eight minutes;
Kings Cross to Darlington, 232A miles, in
four hours and forty-four minutes; Carlisle
to Aberdeen. 240 miles, in four hours ana
fifty-eight minutes. Thus far England holds
it's own. But there are three trains IN
America against which none that we have
here can be fairly matched. Most wonder
full of all is the Atlantic City express OF the
Reading Company, which ran last summer,
during the holiday season, from Phladel-
phia to Atlantic city, on the New Jersey
coast. The distance is fifty-six and one-half
miles, including a mile of steamboat ferry
across the Delaware river to Camden;
whence the train starts. The time allowed
was one hour exactly, out of which eight
minutes were allotted to the ferry, leaving
fifty-two for the rail journey In fact, eight
minutes proved too short, the train never
got away on time and some days it was
almost four minutes late in leaving. Yet
in the whole two months that 1t ran the
train arrived punctual once and before time
on the remaining fifty-one occasions. The
fastest time for the 551a miles was 1878 min
utes, equal to 1.2 miles an hour; the SLOW
est 50 minutes, equal to $685. miles per hour;
the average time was AZ minutes 5212 Sec
onds, equal to- say, 691a miles an hour.
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A Song of Faith.

When children sing, then 1 believe in heaven,
And my soul, clasping death,
Is born again, while every doubt is driven
From me by conquering faith
Not of this earth is little children's singing,
But sounding clear and far,
Their Ginning voices set the sweet bells ringing
Beyond white gates ajar
So while sit and with my whole heart listen
My eyes, mist-dimmed with tears,
Behold the true faith like Gods sunlight glisten
Through coud-doubts gray with years.
I see above them wondrous halos glowing
kissing their shining hair
Through roof and walls the lamps of God are
showing,
And all the listening air
Is fragrant with a thousand blossoms blowing
From Paradise through space
And even the dew which drops from these Is
flowing
In rain upon my face.
And il / dream like one that sights green
meadows
In barren wastes of sand
Such dreams are true; the deserts are the
shadows
Real is the Better land!
o patient Lord, when deaf and blind in folly,
in mercy bring
Ny doubling soul into Thy mansion holy
When little children sing.
Henry Walker.
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New York Commercial Advertiser.
good story, of which Mr. John KEN
drick Bangs, the humorist, is the hero, has
lately leaked out. Some time ago Mr.. Bangs
received the following letter from city in
one OF the Pacific States:
MIR. John K. Bangs:
Dear Sir-I have been asked to respond
to a toast at our Board of Trades annual
dinner next month, and l write to inquire
what would be your lowest terms for pre-
pairing good rafting funny speech for
me to deliver on that occasion. prompt
reply will oblige, Yours very truly,
To which Mr.. Bangs Immediately sat
down and penned the following answer:
Dear Sir--I am in receipt of your es-
teemed favor of the inst and in reply
would say that my regular rate for after
dinner speeches Is $500 per speech i have
not as yet, however, opened up this line OF
goods i'm the West, and as | am anxious to
secure custom in that part of the country.
/ will offer you special terms, namely, $3.50
for such an address as you describe the
amount TO be sent as soon as shipment Is
made. If the terms proposed are satisfac-
tory, kindly let me know at once, but in
that case / would request you not to mem
ton the matter to Chauncey Depew or Gen.
Horace Porter as / should not like them
to know that / am cutting rates Truly
yours, JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
This letter was duly sent, and on the day
when il reached its destination, Mr.. Bangs
received the following telegram:
Your letter just received. il Chauncey
Depew's speeches are written by you, then
l don't want one" sa
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the Battery at noon every day, Sundays
excepted, with passengers for New Bruins
wick and Philadelphia. Passengers We're
many as many people went down to New
Brunswick and back by boat for the pleas
ure of the trip New Brunswick's hotel, or
halfway house, was dirty and ill-kept. Mrs.
Vanderbilt saw her opportunity She sug-
gested to her husband that they should take
the hotel, refit it, and run it in style that
well of it, and, after leasing the hotei, he
took his family from his fathers little house
at Stapleton to live in New Brunswick. AS
Mrs. Vanderbilt had suggested the scheme,
her husband told her that she might run
the hotel herself and have the profits.
Mrs Vanderbilt was strong, industri-
hotel upside down, cleaned it, and made it
fit for guests. She named it Bellona Hall,
after the steamship Bellona, which her
husband then commanded and in a very
short time the fame of it had spread to
New York, and parties were made up to
visit it because of the excellent fare TO be
to the line for which Captain Vanderbilt
worked, and his salary was increased to
$2OOo per year. For twelve years MIS-
profit to herself, and pleasure to her guests
During these years Captain Vanderbilt
had been studying steamships and inyesti-
eating the chances for profit in traffic on
the Hudson and along the sound. He
wanted to be one of the transportation
magnates of this city. and although. his
fortune was small, he had valuable ideas,
gained from years of practical experience
as a steamboat captain, and he felt sure
that if he could get the right opening he
need not fear the greater wealth of his
rivals. He had never questioned Mrs. Van
derbilt's management of the hotel, but he
knew that she had saved some money. In
1929 his opportunity came. He had chance
to get a controlling interest in a steam
ship for $4,000. He had 5000 in cash which
he had saved, but he didn't know where
to raise the balance. He told his wife about
the steamship which he wanted and ex-
planned to her his plans for making money
if he could get the ship
L need $4,000 more said the captain,
and I don't know where can get it,
81 will give it to you said Mrs Van
derbilt, and to her husbands surprise she
pulled the money out from under the bed.
She had saved it from the profits of the
hotel. Captain Vanderbilt bought his boat
and then he bought many others, but his
first ship he owed to his wife,
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no which Mr. Bangs immediatelx SAD


From Hindu Manners" The Able Dubois.
When the Brahmin cleans his teeth he
must use a small twig cut from one of
number of certain trees, and before he cuts
1T he must make his act known to the gods
of the woods He must not indulge IN this
clearly habit every day. He must abstain
on the 9th. the Sth. the 9Th, the 18th. the
18th and the last day of the moon. on the
days of new and full moon, on the Tuesday
ton under which he was born. on the day
of the week and on the day of the month
which correspond with those OF his birth
at an eclipse. at the conjunction OF the
planets, at the equinoxes and other m
lucky epochs. and also on the anniversary
of the death of his father or mother. Any
ore who cleans his teeth with his bit oe
stick on any OF the above mentioned days
will have hell as his portion.
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In Macmonnie.,s studio.
.etter in Boston Transcript.


One of the cleverest of all the girls now
working over here is Miss Ellen Emmett.
She has two sketches, one of little Italian
woman, posing in MacmonnieS's studio She
is a pupil of his and the only woman suf-
ficiently favored to have adnittance to the
great scupltor's studio. There are half a
dozen young men working there, but Miss
Gannett is the only girl whom he thinks
has talent enough to make 1t worth his
while to cultivate.
This studio of Macmonnies, on the Rue de
PArivee, OFF the Boulevard Montparnasse
is one of the most interesting of all of the
serious workshops OF Paris. 1t is fasci-
mating in its baroness and severity, as il is
like large, old barn. There is not even a
floor, as one stands on the bare uneven
ground. In one corner is a big cage, and
inside is a beautiful wild leopard, continu-
ally pacing up and down. Macmonnies is
so fond of animals that he keeps this beast
in his studio for the pleasure OF watching
the beauty of its stealthy movements. Scat
tered all around the building are numerous
old casts of finished work and also the un-
completed fragments he is now at work on
Among the former are the familiar Sir
Harry Vane and the beautiful but unfor-
tunate, Baechante, and among the latter
are parts for the colossal groups for the
gateway of the brooklyn Park to which
he is now devoting all OF his time.
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RAILROADS COMPARED.
Notes by an EngIishman Who Has
Travelled In This Country.
London Times.

London Times.
Admirable as these American trains are
on paper, they are yet more admirable in
almost absolute punctuality. Few English
railway men will be found to deny that
punctuality is the weak point in our serv-
ices. Everywhere in America 1 found that,
whether by officials, train staff or by the
travelling public, punctuality is taken for
granted. And, If l may judge by my own ex-
miles, it is so taken with good right We
are told that punctuality in England is more
difficult of attainment owing to the crowded
condition of our English main lines. With
all respect, think the facts are the other
way, and that on the whole the attainment
of punctuality is a greater feat in America
than it would be here. Granted that our
main lines have more trains on them than
the great American roads am sure they
have not more traffic. The Midland, for in
stance, probably brings, on an average, ten
thousand tons Of coal a day up to London
Under English methods this implies at least
twenty-five trains The Pennsylvania or the
New York Central would haul the same
load in six or seven trains On the Penn
sylvanla, for instance, l counted the cars
not our little trucks, but thirty-ton cars
on three trains which we passed in success
sion, each hauled by one engine. The first
train had seventy loaded cars, the second
sixty-seven while the third had ninety-one
empties. Yet l was told that. in order still
further to concentrate their traffic into few
units, the Pennsylvania have determined to
advance from thirty-ton to fifty-ton cars.
Our English railways have, therefore. the
natural remedy for conges ton of trains to
q considerable extent in their own hands.
And then it must be remembered that in
America the lines are almost always single,
IN fact, though the States have $4,000 miles
OF railway to cur q 600. we have actually
more miles of double line than they have.
OF course. the great trunk lines into New
York are double, or even in two or three ip-
stances quadruple. bat the trunk line is al-
ways fed by single lines. hundreds. or, it
may be, thousands of miles in length. Take
as a typical instance the run OF the Penn
sylvania Limited" between New York and
Chicago. In its direct route there are near
" $50 miles of single line, and besides that,
at Psttsburg, the east-bound train picks up
cars from st. Louis and from Cincinnati
which have travelled over hundreds of miles
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SOME FAST TRAINS.
The Flyers of England and the United
States Compared.

London Times.
In everything that makes railway travel
ing safe, rapid and convenient, America is
the only country which can seriously dis
pute our English primacy; while. for ex-
pliances have set the standard for the
world il is to America we owe automatic
brakes and sleeping and dining cars. Within
the last few years, moreover, there can be
no doubt that American railways have i'm
proved more and more rapidly than their
English rivals. Ten years ago comparison
speeds would have been out of the ques-
ton. But to-day, while the quantity of our
fast and very fast trains is still quite I'M
matched in the States, it must be confessed
that the quality OF the very fastest Ameri-
can trains Is such as we cannot pretend to
equal. Perhaps. therefore. writer who has
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HOW VANDERBILT STARTED.
The story of the MiIliOnaire's Debut
as Told by Mr.. Daniel Drew.

as Told by Mr.. Daniel Drew.
New York Sun.
zone story about Commodore Cornelius
Vanderbilt which have never seen in print
was told to me many years ago by Daniel
Drew, and / have no doubt but that 1t is
authentic" said a man who has known in
timately the men who have made New York
history during the last half century. va
rious stories have been printed about the
beginnings of Vanderbilt's fortune, and they
ali go 10 show that luck played very in
significant part in them. Vanderbilt made
money because of his energy and his
shrewdness; but / don't believe that it is
generally known that Mrs. Vanderbilt aided
him very materially at a time when he
thought a good investment was slipping
through his hands because he had not
enor IN money to take advantage OF his OPP
portu nifty.
Daniel Drew knew Vanderbilt we'll. and
before his dean he frequently entertained
his friends with stories about the eommo-
dores early life 1t was when Vanderbilt
was simply an energetic young captain con-
nected with the Union line for Philadelphia
and Baltimore. through to Philadelphia in
one day that the incident Of which Mr..
Drew delighted to tell occurred. In those
days the steamer Emerald, Capt C. Van
derbilt left her wharf. on the north side of
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ing retreated up the Neuse river and were
finally sent to their various stations
During the attack on the Underwater the
other Federal gunboats in the sound look
the alarm and ran off fast as steam
could carry them. In recognition of the dis
tinguished gallantry displayed by Colonel
Wood and his command in this, one OF the
most desperate and bloody exploits of the
war, the Conf derate Congress on Feb. To-
1854, gave them unanimous vote of thanks.
j THOMAS SCHARF.
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Vain Regrets.
Little boy

Little boy
On a chair;
Found the ink
Standin' there.
Pulled it down
On his head.
Father came:
Boy he fed.
But his father run an caught i'm,
An his wrath was sad to see.
But a lesson stern it taught i'm,
An he said: How glad I'd be
Eff I'd only stopped to think
Fore l went an spilled the ink!'
Boy grew up;
Turned out that
He was
Diplomat.
Talents rare"
So they'd say
Till they found
Out one day
That he wrote a careless letter
Flinging round his phrases free.
You'd have thought that he'd know better,
Now, says he, How glad I'd be
EFF I'd only stopped to think
Fore l went an split the ink!'
Washington Star.