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third quarter more than they We're
at home. But today he can get but little
more for dollar on his letter OF credit in
Italy than he can in Germany or England.
and an Italian Ira is good as French
franc.
Ii is OF consequence as wei as of interest
to understand the feeling of this progress
siye and prosperous people for our own
country. | have made inquiries of those
best fitted to know the state of public opin-
lon. and in every quarter | assured
that il is most friendly: that Italy and the
Italians have only kindly feelings for
America and the Americans.
Likes Uncle Sam.
If Italy is not counting Uncle Sam with
the same assiduous attentions bestowed
upon him by some of the northern nations
(attentions, by the way, which are enough
to turn the head of the old gentleman IL
he were not wise enough to know what
they all meant), it Is because she does not
need to do so, and is involved in no inter-
national imbroglio which makes her de-
eirous of flirting with the great nation
across the seas.
In the early days of the Spanish war ra-
ciaf feeling naturally led the Italians to
side more or less with their Latin cousins
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taxed fully one-third Of their visible in
come. these twenty-five or thirty millions
of dollars are very considerable item.
Even If there was any real race enmity
or international hatred they would scarce
ly care to kill the goose that lays this
extremely large golden egg. Many Of tfe
hotels and boarding houses of Florence
and Rome and Venice would be depopu-
lated if Americans took it into their heads
to visit Italy no longer, and the cafe and
curio shops would be lonely and deserted
indeed
Find Work and Wages.
Moreover America furnishes work and
wages for tens Of thousands of poor Ital-
ians. Every year they flock to her shores
in increasing numbers 1t Is surplus pop
ulation that Italy can very well spare and
the best part of which America for the
present needs. These peasants almost in
variably send back glowing accounts. as
| have said In previous article. Ct the
Eldorado which they have found, and
though they cannot rake golden Nuggets
from the streets pick first water dia-
monds from the trees. they can for the
most part earn two good broad dollars
every day, on one of which they can live
far better than they were ever able to in
their native cline; while they can save the
other one for a rainy day. or, with It. help
fulfill the dream of every Italian of COM
ing back to the vineyards and olive or
chards Of his own sunny cline.
Most Of them become thorough Americans
at heart. however. and settle down for
good and all in their adopted country
Every Italian is republican at bottom
said a longtime American resident in Italy
to me. and he finds it no wrench or strain
to accept republican institutions and tradi-
tions."
To be sure, when an unfortunate Italian
is lynched in New Orleans a momentary fit
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English Free School Rules. 1874.

From Notes ana queries.
Imprims, Whatsoever Boy comes to
School past o tn Clock In the Morning
In Summer time and past O. tn Clock In
We Winter time without Showing good rea-
SOM Shall receive 3 Lashes
Item Whosoever absents himself from
School. Either by Truantry, by trying to
stay al home otherwise: Shall incurr
his Masters high displeasure. Suffer the
kissing and Soothing of we whole School,
Tarry behind the Rest one hour al Night
for week, and besides Gas a suitable Re-
ward for his - shall suffer II Lashes.
Item, Whatsoever Boy shall at any time
Curse, Swear take the Lords Name in
vain, Shall assuredly suffer for such Of
fense, Il I4ashes.
Item. What Boy soever addicts himself
to Obscene Talking foolish Jesting shall
Suffer for each such Transgression.
ltem What Boy soever absents himself
from the Service of Almighty God on the
Sabbath day, and spends that Day In
wicked name In playing & running about,
Shall receive - Lashes.
Item. Whosoever steals from or defrauds
his School-feliow of Ink, Pens, Paper
Quills any Other Thing Whatsoever,
Shall certainly. when found out and de-
tected, receive D Lashes.
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Yankee Like.
From the Boston Record.

From the Boston Record.
Clerk Newton Of the Parker House is
telling good story at his own exepnse.
When a small boy on the farm his folks
often sent him to the neighbors to buy
dozen eggs when their hens failed to lay
enough.
He noticed. that. the old farmer always
held each egg before a lighted candle and
examined II carefully. In his innocence Of
Yankee shredwness Newton supposed that
this was prompted more by honesty and
Intention to detect whether the eggs were
bad or not.
'One day, however. when he counted bis
eggs. according to custom. there We're only
eleven In the basket.
with q determination not to be cheared
the -lud tfudgeds proudly back to the house
and quickly made known hn oiscovery.
right, my boy; one Of them has q double
y0lk -
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cluded in the Spanish War Veterans serv-
ices. The Maine section is just north OF
the Spanish war section proper.
The War Department records show that
there are twenty-four members of the 1st
District OF Columbia Volunteer Regiment
buried at Arlington. In addition to these.
however, there are q number Of District
soldiers who served in other regiments and
organizations during the Spanish war be-
meath the mounds at Arlington. There were
many District men In the 4th lmmunes the
Engineer and Signal Corps. the navy and
regular regiments: besides those who served
as officers In other organizations. In fact.
the District Of Columbia furnished soldiers
for the war far beyond the actual quota.
The Honored Dead.
The members Of the District regiment
buried at Arlington are: Lieutenant Rich
ard ]. Harden and Private William T. Mel
son OF Company A; Thomas c. s. Maddux.
Company B: Isadore B. Belmont and Henry
F. Putsche. Company c; Sergeant A. Dob
son and Corporal Ausburn s. Towner, Com
pany d; Henry Jacobson, George N. Hodge
and Joseph D. Rupert. Company E; Frank
E. Barrows. Milton I. Hilton and Frederick
T. Harrington. Company F: Corporal George
F. Schfiling and Socrates Maupin, Company
G; William E. Stearns, Company II: George
Gaskell, Frank r. Griffith. Sergeant Henry
Jost, William A. TAFT and Edmond F.
Burke, Company I: Sergeant Newton H.
Ferree. Lee Huntington and Warren s.
Reed. Company X.
The total number Of soldiers buried in the
Spanish war section. exclusive Of the vic
tins of the Maine. is 957. Each of these
graves will be marked by a white marble
headstone. similar to those In the civil
war section, as soon an appropriation for
that purpose Is made by Congress.
Corps Commander Lipscomb is endeavor-
ing to have as full complement of uni
formed men as possible participate in the
two events-the dedication of the monu-
lnent and the memorial day services. With
that end in view an order has been issued
calling upon the Spanish War Veterans
of the District to, as far as possible, pro-
vide themselves with the distinctive blue
and gray uniform. Each of the commands
VIII also carry the national colors.
The woman's auxilliaries are arrang-
ing for a joint meeting. at which arrange
fnents will be made for providing flowers
and other suitable decorations for the
graves of the Spanish war heroes.
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Sun and Skin.
From the Buenos Ayres Herald.


A. physician has been investigating some
of the effects Of direct sunlight on the skin.
Painting a band on his arm with India ink,
he exposed the member to scorching sun.
The usual painful effects followed, except
beneath the band. where the skin remained
white and unaffected. He suggests that the
tan which continued exposure produces
'uron the skin is protective effect. If
further experiments establish this inter-
ference, further hypothesis will be
rendered probable, namely. that the power
acquired by the human skin In the tropics
Of secreting a pigment Is really protective
of its lower and functtonally active layers.
Offhand one would be apt to conclude that
a black skin ought to increase the heat eff
fects Of the solar radiance. We are re-
quired now to learn whether the harm is
really done by the heat rays for conceiva-
bly, 1t may be due to any other of the di-
verse sorts of vibration Of which that ra-
dance is now known to be highly COM
plex phenomenon.
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-fr-
VALUE OF AN IDEA.
One Bright Young Man Got a High
Price for His.


Price for His.
An elderly gentleman. whose appearance
correctly indica ted him to be a man OF
wealth. handed young man a check few
afternoons ago In the lobby Of an uptown
hotel Observing that 1t was drawn for
81. 600. a friend remarked that the young
man must havessrendered some important
service to the benevolent gentleman
.He has, replied the latter. He put
81. 600, 600 into my pocket"
why didn't he keep 1t himself?" asked
the friend, enviously, as such examples Of
generosity are rare
Because he could not use it; the $1,000
will be more available to him. / will ex-
plain as neither of US were actuated by
motives of generosity, but cold business.
LAS you ,knowfF1 am the president of
corporations, which some people call a
trust. that is one Of the largest advertisers
in the world we spend thousa ands-yes,
hundreds of thousands-of dollars a year
in letting THE people know that our ar
ticles are just what they must have, what
ever else they don't have.
I'VE believe in advertising, and this
young man knows it, and has profited ac-
cordingly. He came to me today, as We are
utter strangers. and asked me- II would
pay him 81 ,OOO for an idea on advertising
our goods. I did not try to beat him down
to $780, a good figure for an idea, but
promptly told him that l would gladly pay
his price if, upon communicating to me the
idea, l considered 1t worth what he de-
manded. Otherwise l would pay him what
,, i, and not he considered 1t worth
ITO this he readily assented. and in an
hours talk he explained to me the brightest
idea on advertising / have ever received
out Of thousands of suggestions. We will
make over 81 100000 profit inside of year
on increased sales and permanent business
retained So, you see, his price was cheap.
Fortunes have been made In business by
the advertising Of single suggestion In
such a manner that the public see 1t out
Of the great mass of printed matter going
vertisement flows so rapidly that there
must be something above another which at
tracts public attention. This something
was what that bright young man gave to
me, and am very much obliged to him"
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Used to Carrying q Load.

From Brooklyn Life. -
Papa-"Are you sure you can support my
daughter in the style 10 Wnicn she " eci
customed?" ri
The Suitor--"WelI. I will only say that
Yesterday I disposed OF my automobiles
which I kept In good repair for over two
years. 80
Papa tbrokenly}-"she is yours. my boy. &
I, too, once owned an auto" ~
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Their Arduous Task.
From Puck.

From PUCK.
First Lawyer-"The lawyers had hard
struggle over the Moneybags estate"
Second Lawyer-"Did they?"
First Lawyer-''Yes. They had all they
could do to keep the heirs from coming to
an agreement"
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of the Spanish peninsula. Moreover, the
European papers at that time were filled
with absurd accounts of the greed and
rapacity of the United States and of her
desire to wipe the Latin nations OF the
face of the earth. / was told by one
of our leading consuls that many of the
Italian papers were subsidized by Spain at
that time Every large city in Italy has
many daily papers which live from hand
to mouth. depending upon their subscribers
and their subsidies. their advertising
amounts to little or nothing. Thus they
are for the most part anything but free
their utterances are paid for by the high
est bidder. The United States never PAID
penny to control the European press.
and at first, of course, Spain had things
all her own way. But one story Is good
only until another is told, and after lit
tie the Italian people learned that there
were two sides to the first, that the United
States was not the vicious, pig-headed
bully which they had been taught to be-
lieve: that her ships of war were not old
tubs that would be sunk by the first ire
of the Spanish guns; that her soldiers were
not given to numbering helpless women
and children: and that her government did
not intend to make slaves of all the Gu
bans and Porto Ricans. AS soon as the
logic of events made this clear, the wealth
vane of Italian public opinion changed
from north to south. and once more blew
softly and balmily toward the United
States.
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Plausible Theory.

From the Chicago News.
Biggs-"I hear Cashley has left the ban1e
and gone abroad"
Dlggs-'Jndeed! Bank was too heavy g
take along. suppose a
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Chance.

Clinton Scollard In Munsey's Magazine.
A leafy lane. and at its foot a stile:
Beyond. u meadow where the irefes dance;
A lad and lass. their loving lips a-smife,
Together by the stlle. and this is-Chance!
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Contrary to Scripture.

CoHtfafy 60 ocr1PtuIe'
From the Chicago Tribune. at-.,-stf s<--, 4,
"You are in my pew. sir" said Mr.. Up
john. stiff1ly
''Then I am sitting in the seat Of the
scornful!" replied the stranger. getting out
Of It with alacrity and taking a seat fur
ther back in the church.
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Leave Millions Behind.

There are. indeed, very substantial rea-
sons why the Italians should have good
opinion of Yankees. The matter Of their
prosperity. even solvency. is very closely
concerned. Twenty-Five thousand Americans
visit Italy every year, l am told. and 1t
is estimated, conservatively, that they
leave behind them between twenty-five
and thirty millions of dollars To a ma
tion that is still poor, and struggling out
of the dire poverty of the past, nation
the interest on whose debt absorbs 4S per
cent of the revenue. and whose people are
Smyrna times., 1902-08-20
What pipe Smokers Have to Fear.

What Pipe Smokers Have to Fear.
Those who use the pipe have to fear
epithelioma, otherwise called the can
Ger of the lips and of the tongue. The
first of these is particularly common
among those who smoke short clay
pipes. The cancer of smokers shows
itself generally at the point where the
stem of the heated pipe is carried upon
the lower lip. That of the tongue ap-
pears on the side where stream of
smoke is likely to strike the tongue at
each inhalation. These two forms of
a horrible disease are without doubt
the most serious that smokers can meet
with. 1t is the fear of these formida-
BILE accidents that has converted many.
The frequency of them, however,
should not be Overrated. Statistics
alone can give us an idea Of the truth.
Those Of the city of Paris show that
there are 155 cases each year of deaths
caused by cancer of the mouth, while
the number of smokers in Paris itself
estimate to be at least 355,OOO. Ad-
mitting that half of these make use of
the pipe and that all of the cases OF
cancer can be attributed to them, there
is but one victim to every thousand
pipe smokers. - Revue des Deu1
| MOndes.
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A DETERMINED
LOVER -.
By HARRISON NJ. GRANT
Copyright, 1901, by A. S. Richardson
By HARRISON NJ. GRANT

There wasn't doubt in the mind OF
Thomas Dingwell, bachelor and farm
er that he would ultimately marry
Lizzie Carter, schOOlteacher ana
daughter of Uncle Ben and Aunt Mary
Carter, his nearest neighbors. Al
though he had been counting her 1or
three long years and had never actual
" asked for her hand. there WASH
doubt in the mind of Lizzie Carter
that she would some day be his wlIe'
1t was what folks call slow court
ship, and, though Lizzie's mother
sometimes remarked that she would
never have wasted three years OF her
time on any man, there was no real
complaint until about the end OF the
third year. Then one evening as IN
Gle Ben was milking the cows Aunt
Mary wandered down to the barnyaru
and sat down beside him on an up
turned bushel measure and said:
benjamin, something's got to DC
donew
"Good Lord, Mary, but you don't say
sor' he gasped as he let up on the
milking.
Eyes, sir; something's got to b'
DONE" she continued, with a grin ol
her face. THAT Tom Dingwell hal
been hanging round here long enough
and our Lizzie has fooled away tim
enough, and now they've either got L
get married or break up"
''Why, ma, how you talk! What
come over you all to Once|
ITS come over me that / don't wan
no more nonsense. 1t didn't take u
but a year to get married, and why
should take Tom and Lizzie thre
times as long 1 can't make out. Nv
got a plan, and you've got to help NJ
with it."
"ShoO! Shoor'
"Never mind those flies. It's pla
to bring Tom to time or scare hi
away and let better man come alon
Now, Benjamin, you listen"
Uncle Ben leaned back on his mi
stool and listened, and he was so int
ested that even when the old COW 6
tired OF waiting and moved off
scarcely noticed her going. The ia
lasted a quarter of an hour, and VIII
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Nntnre nnd Poetry.

Environment aids poetry, but does
not create It. Nature is the grand
agent in making poetry. and poetry is
present wherever nature Is. 1t spar
kles on the sea, glows In the rainbow,
flashes from the lightning and the star,
peals in thunder, roars In the cataract
and sings on the winds. Poetry Is
Gods image reflected in nature, as In
a mirror, and nature is present wher-
ever man Is.
Smyrna times., 1902-08-20

Aunt Mary had said her last word, ac-
companied by thump of her fist and
a $50, there, nowr' Uncle Ben gazed at
her admiringly and exclaimed:
"By gum, Mary, but what a woman
you are to think up thingsv'
Two days later, as Tom Dingwell
came over to the potato field where
Uncle Ben was working and asked for
the loan of a saw, he thought he saw
a change in Lizzie's father. The greet
ing seemed cold and distant, and when
he was called Mr.. Dingwell instead of
Tom his knees began to quake. He
was too upset to ask for explanations
and as he went to the house to get the
saw Aunt Mary bowed to him stiffiy
and said:
sTts hanging in the woodshed, Mr..
Dingwell"
"W-whatY' gasped Tom as another
quake struck his knees.
."And it's pleasant weather, Mr.. Ding
well. and it looks as If all the crops
would turn out well"
"Mr. Dingwelr" swallowed a lump
in his throat and hurried away. He
had some queer thoughts as he crossed
the fields and climbed the rail fences.
1t took him two hours to arrange his
thoughts on a string and reach a con-
elusion. and that conclusion was:
sBv gum. but the old folks want LIZ
zie to throw me over and marry some
stuck up feller with curly hair!
The more he thought Of it the more
firm was his conviction, and he finally
became so upset over it that he had t
knock off work and sit on the fene'
and chew straws. He was hard nj
and full Of trouble, but he proposed e
die game. In other words, he proposes
to marry Lizzie If he had to walk oye
the dead bodies Of forty stuck y
young men and set barn or two o
fire to give Chemung county fair war;
ing. An hour after dark he appeare
at Uncle Bens with his Sunday clothe
sg>4e expected to find nzzie seate
piazza The she e. YETI 'ns''
ne over the town
A adly IN need ofrepair'
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ne over the town
adly IN need ofrepair'
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The mother had seen to that. There
was a young man there, however, and,
curiously enough, he had curly hair,
and he was stuck up. He smoked
cigarettes and spoke with 2 drawl.
"Ah, yas suppose you are the fell
low who has been hanging around
Miss Lizzie for the last three years.
You needn't mind hanging any longer, |
YOU knaw. 1t gives me pleasure to in |
form you that 1 have won the dear |
girls hand and heart and that we are !
to be welded next month. Charming
evening, I'm suah."
Tom stood there like a man turned
to stone, and for minute the quarrel
ing of the hens on their roOst sounded
in his ears like the thunder of Niagara.
He had lost Lizzie. She didn't want to
see him, even for a last goodby, and
Uncle Ben and Aunt Mary had no fur
ther use for him. AS it all surged up in
his soul he turned, walked down the
path and out of the gate and paused
not as the stuck up young man called
after him:
"Sorry, doncher knaw, but you were
too slow about it. I'll tell the deah girl
that you called"
Tom reached home intending to cut
his head off with the ak or choke him.
self to death ON an early turnip, but all
of a sudden ne began to get mad about
it. He had been thrown down, and
thrown hard, without notice, and he
wouldn't stand it. Lizzie and every
body else knew that he intended to
marry her after awhile-after the price
of corn got above 40 cents-and no
man should step in and take her from
him.
Hardly conscious of what he was do
ing, he went to the barn and hitched
> the old bay mare to the forty dollar
Ohio top carriage Then he brushed
the dust off his clothes, felt in his
pockets to see if his 50 was safe and
leaping into the vehicle, yelled
"G'langr' in a way that sent the staiC
I old mare forward ten feet. She was
5 on the gallop when she reached Uncle
I Ben's. and, without waiting to tie her
Tom sprang down and banged the gait
{ open. Four people were on the piazza
e and he came to the stuck up yOuni
man first, grabbed him by the legs AM
threw him into bed of pinks. Uncl
n Ben started up with whats this
m Tom?' but Tom pushed him over hi
chair and sternly exclaimed:
Don't dare to fool with desperat
lk man! Come on, LizZie!'
r "Oh, Tom. what is it," she asked.
OF "Come on. say! You'll marry me
nc I'll chuck you into WoOdchuck cree
Tx and drown your
en "But, Tom
I "COme on!
\ And Tom almost carried her to Il
4 carriage, and, climbing in after her,
4 gave the old mare a cut and sent h
| along to Squire JOslyn's at thr
a minute gait. The squire was at hon
MI Ten minutes later the knot was tie
N and Tom was saying to his bride:
NJ by gum. but I've got you. and v
can't get away! Now I'll take y
NJ home. and if your folks or that you
N squirt has got anything to say they
M find themselves locked in the smol
VI house, and I'll be saying, Sorry, dc
M cher knaw, but you were too sl'
Nj about it,"
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Gainsborough and His Carrier.

Gainsborough and His Carrier.
One of the earliest members of the
Royal academy, it was Gainsborough's
custom to have his pictures conveyed
to the metropolis by a prosperous Lon
don carrier, a Mr.. Wiltshire of Shock
erwick, near Bath. This man refused
to accept payment on the ground that
he loved pictures too well. He was
not, however, allowed to go unreward-
ed, for Gainsborough presented him
with six of his best works, and some
idea Of their ultimate value may be
gained from the fact that when at
length they were sold the National gal
lery secured two, "The Parish Clerk Of
Bradford-on-Avon," for 500 guineas,
and "The Harvest Wagon" for f2,5OO,
these prices being considered low.
Later "The Sisters" from another gal
lery realized close upon 10000.
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No Lion to Her.

Mrs. Muggins-That wOman's hus-
band is quite a literary lion.
Mrs. Buggins-W Why. she told me he
was a perfect bear.-Philadelphia Rec
ord.