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ness, has to be answered. Meanwhile
the objector is standing around in
front Of things which are wanted 10 he
packed
It is this type Of person who. when
a child asks to 90 on picnic. brings
up dozen different reasons WHY il
ought TO stay at home. while intending
al the time to yield the point This
gives the child good training as a tease
- II is this type Of person who is
never quite satisfied with any plan
gift. undertaking. entertainment or
scheme Of life: who is never able 70
suggest any practical Improvement
but always equal to the task Of seeing
where change might be made And as
at the lowest computation. there are sly
teen different ways Of doing anv Darrf.,,-
lar thing in the world, It viii be seen thar
the obstructionist's material for corva--
sation is practically unlimited. evoe,+
as the dialogue is abruptly closed nv
strong language
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WHO'S PAWN FOR IT ,"

Most every day we hear about some
rich chap with daughter
Or mebJy an ambitious wife to take
across the water:
He buys yacht that costs a lot. and
hires crews and cooks,
and loads his women folks with gems
supposed 70 help their looks,
And meb5y he may think the price the
splUrgeJI cost is small,
But still I cant help wonderin' who's
payin' for II all
The man who heads the steamship
trust or some big corporation.
Has planned to blow a million in to see
the coronation
He'll be away all summer long and tTav-
el like king.
While I'll be wOTkin' on the crops !
planted in the spring;
He'll rent castle from some lord that's
crowded TO the wall
And I can't keep from wondeTiu' who S
payin' for it all
The man whose mines are closed to
bring the miners TO submission
VIII 90 on buyin' everything for which
his heart keeps wishin';
He'll take his women folks TO court, and.
Moses, how they'll blaze
With dimunds strung across their shapes
in forJy-scVen ways,
They re goIu' in their costly yachts, they
wont come back till fall.
And I can't keep away the thought.
Who's payin for it all2'
5. E Kiser, in the Chicago Record
Herald
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WAYS OF WOMAN.

The other day" said a Chicago wo-
man who keeps well up with the course
Of literary events. = read an article al
tacking women noveIists who write
problem novels. The writer Of the ar
ticle is himself a novelist Of consider
able fame, but ! shan't advertise him
by mentioning his name. He seems. TO
think that men should have the monop-
oily OF dealing with all questions reIat-
ing to the heart and its passions. and
that for woman, who. be it remem-
beTed. writes chiefly for her own sex.
TO reveal the views, opinions. aspira-
tions. disappointments. disfIlusfons that
they hold and feel on the subject which
is. after all. woman's whole existence.
IS something rather Ike an impcrti-
nence
No one can be more unwilling than
7 TO accept as types the unwholesome-
minded, discOntented neurotic treasures
which have been drawn for US by some
women writer's Of fiction. but as women
must presumably best understand how
women view matters relating to the
sexes. and as they are unquestionabIy
best qualified to set forth the paramount
Importance Of love and domestic happi-
ness 70 woman. it is surely neither
unsuitable nor immoral that, when a
writer Of fiction sees in a situation a
strong motive for a story. or conceives
a series Of situations and circumstances
which would have certain effects on the
character Of a woman who felt thus or
thus about the duties and relationships
of men to women and women TO men.
she should take the material to her
hand. Happily for all readers. the ma
jority Of women fctionfsts avoid the
really serious problems of life in their
stories. They write OF love, Of marriage.
Of maternity. in what may be called the
conventional manner Il is pIeasauter.
easier. and more popular TO do so, and
assuredIy few have the desire or ambi-
tion 70 lay open the hearts Of their sex
to the world; but it really is not to be
for a moment maintained that those who
do so are less justified in so doing be
cause they are women. or that women
noveIists are less pure than male fc-
because few have chosen to deal
more or less audaciousIy with so-caIled
problems Chicago Chronicle.
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EFFECTS OF ARTILLERY.

It has long been a commonplace that
the effects Of artillery are mainly
moral" but for all that the introdge-
tion Of new exDIosIves-Iyddfte. esDe-
cially-and Of quick-frfag guns had in
sensiby revived the belief in the great
material value Of artillery. It would be
gratuitous to say that artillery has had
d great downfall in general estimation
among those who have always taken =
sane view Of its uses We do not think
il has-but we may fairly say that re
lauvely to artillery the rifle has gained
IN reputation. We know now that
Iyddite. although it may make short
work Of z Mahdi's tomb, is Of little use
against carthworks, especially when it
falls on very soft ground, and that the
stories Of men whose senses left them
aEd whose teeth shook in their heads
because they happened to be within a
quarter OF a mile Of an explosion Of
Iyddite we're mere moonshine.-The
Spectator.
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E VILLAIN BRENDISH, lately re-
NM tired from the Indian tele-
' ' graph service, is the only Iiv-
ing man whose name is con
nected with one of the notable incidents
Of the Indian mutiny. Many Sepoys in
terruDed teIegraphtc communication be-
tween Delhi and MeeTut. On the after
noon Of sunday, May Il, the telegraph
Office in the former city was in charge
of a man named Todd, assisted by Brend-
fsh and another youth named Pukington.
says the st. Louis Star"
On Monday Todd was killed while try
ing TO effect repairs in the line and the
care Of the Office devoIved upon Brend-
ish. who remained at his post until .
O'Clock in the afternoon. when the in
creasing disorder in the city made il ad-
visabie for him 10 take refuge with other
Europeans in the Flagstaff Tower
But before seeking that asylum Brend-
ish. without any authority from military
OF city officers, had sent TO UmbaIIa the
fuH details Of what was taking place IN
the old Moc-I capital, and it was this
information. which enable the authorities
throughout The Punjab to disarm the Sc
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the natives IN small holdings, 1t, nev-
erjhelesS, has also been his judgment
to continue in power the regime that
has always opposed such policy
It has been my endeavor while II
Washington, to do something for my
constituents IN this matter; but to the
present tine the results Of my efforts
have not been all that I have reason
ably hoped for. thrust, however. that
it vii not be long before some Iczis-
lalion, which VIII mark at least
beginning Of that great and good
work for my people, VIII be had
Give . man opportunity to work
ont his own independence, no matter
how modestly, and you give him op-
portunitv 10 demonstrate his title to
good citizenship. The Hawaiian Is
now an American, and / do not know
how we can better raise the standard
of his citizenship than by giving him
the same opportunities for usefulness
that other Americans possess.
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THE BEAUTY Of MARTINIQUE

90 as much in day as a gang Of them
can do in week
Like mcst CT the Islands CT that sec
tion. Martinique has no docks in its
harbors. The waters in all the inlets
OF that section are deep right W to the
shore and are very often we'll protected
from the elements After you get in
a little inland lake
Most Of the buildings were Of one
story, built CT clay and in the Spanish
style. but there we're q number OF beau
tifuI residences inland The island IS
slightly hiIly and gives the appearance
of being much larger than It really IS.
In the distance yCu can see the noun
tains. and they are not unlike the noun
tains around Butte. only that they are
clad with a perpetual garment CT me
most refreshing green foliage all the
year round Up in the mountains there
are monkeys and parrots in abundance.
That's where the sailors get many Of
the monkeys and parrots that you ind
aboard ship
There was magnificent statue q
Empress Josephine OF France in St.
Pierre. which was the birthplace Of that
famous woman"
Ohcer Ruth Is surprised that the cas-
uaI5ies among the shipping in the waters
adjoining St Pierre was not muoh
greater, as he says all the harbors and
little ports n that vicinity are almost
continually filed with craft Of every
lescription.
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SALT USED AS A LIFE-SAVER

q CORES Of lives are saved every
year by the use Of salt water.
- Progressive doctors who resort 10
the use Of normal salt solution in
cases where life is almost extinct re-
port wonderful success The effect OF
the solution upon the heart is so mark
ed as to produce almost instantaneous
results. even in cases where half the
blood Is lost, a condition which former
y proved fatal
Nowadays few operations are per-
formed without giving the patient an
injection Of salt solution either before,
during or after the operation, accord
ing TO conditions This fortifes the
system against loss Of blood and shock.
often the most serious consideration in
operating.
At first surgeons thought It neces-
sary to put the solution directly into
the veins. but experiment proves that
to place it beneath the skin is suffi-
Cient. as the tissue absorbs il rapidly
Valuable as normal serum is for a
stimuIant its antiseptic Qualities are
scarcely less So Surgeons use it for
washing their hands, to remove blood
stains. for soaking internal pads and
bandages, and for surgical bathing.
\ hru in Paris puts normal serum
into blown glass bottles. Theoretically
sealed and germ proof. With a rubber
tube and hyPodermic needle they are
ready for use. The bottle is hung on
the wall beside the patients bed. high
enough to give the force necessary for
injection The purchaser pays 81. get
ting s. back for the empty bottle. IN
America the solution is prepared in the
home OF hospital at need. TWO and
oue-half teaspoonfuIs of common salt.
well baked, are dissolved in a quart of
boiled water and the two boiled to-
gether. This is placed in a vessel and
when needed is heated to blood tenn
perature or above. elevated or forced
with d surgical pump or aspirator-
The sharp prick Of the needle, some
times deadened by auesthetizing with
cold. is the only pain suffered by the
patient On the operating table he, Of
course, knows nothing. but may be
slightly nervous during the process. If
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DOMESTIC OBSTRUCTIONISTS

EVERYBODY knows the obstruc-
zionist as he appears in Con
IL gress- He has his uses. But for
the common. OF garden, kind Of
obsTuctionist there IS very little more
use than for Digweed il a garden-that
IS, SO fs~ his salient quality IS con
&C. may have other and re-
alities, but in his capacity
Onist he is simply and mere
e.
affairs q conservative spirit
even in the provoking
chronic objector- Il IS not
isIate in q hurry. and one
at all phases OF q state
efore decision is reached.
-e affairs of the private individual
are different in some respects. and this
Is one Of them The domestic obstruc-
Zionist IS a person with whom most Of
Us are familiar. though for obvious
reasons, we may not wish 10 point out
examples. He-or she. for il IS quite
likely 70 be woman who PLAYS this
Tole-never by any chance aUDroves
unqualifedIy Of anything that ANYBODY
may be doing: not because there IS anv
great sin in the action under congidera-
tion, but just-because- This is the
style Of the obstrUctIonlsts objections.
What are you putting all those books
into that trunk fer? Aren't you afraid
it VIII be too much?''
..yrlr7 q ,r--r1 --r-- s- -
tn downstairs"
hink there viii be room in
your things? J should be
would crush"
tier put the trunk key where
.Ose it."
aD isn't long enough 10 90
trunk"
think they viii carry that
lstairs without charging ez-
you got anything in there that
viii break"
1T looks Ike rain. DO you think your
things VIII get wet If you pack them on
TOP that way"
BE sure you don't pack your umbrel-
Ia and rubbers-"
Pave ycu got your ticket where you
know where it is2'
-.r'- you take ycur purse out Of that
before you packed the coat2''
you sure that lock viii hold?'
forget 10 have the ezpressman
trap around st."
ere are thirteen suggestions.
which would be necessary to
Of average intelligence. and
Of which, in ordinary polite
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THE PSALM OF THE OLD SOLDIER

BY " D. NESBTT, in the Baltimore American.
The blue is fading into gray,
Just as when sunset comes
With bUgIe calls that die away
And softly throbbing drums:
The shadows reach across the slzv
And hush the cares Of day:
The bugIe call and drum beat die
The blue fades into gray
The gray is blending into blue
A sunrise glad and fair.
When, in the richness Of the dew.
The roses riot there.
The bitterness of Yesterday
Is lost to me- and you;
The blue is fading into gray
The gray blends into blue
They're sleeping now the long. long
sleep
The boys who wore the blue.
Above the gray the grasses creep
And both We're good and true;
And in the twilight Of our life
The ending of the way
There comes fOrgctfuIness Of strife
The blue fades into gray.
Above each mound the lily gICws,
And hum mble daisies nod.
The ruby glory Of the rose
Sheds lUster on the sod.
The tears-the tears-thcy are the dew
That greets the coming day.
The gray is blending into blue
The blue fades into gray.
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FACTS ABOUT MEN m PUBLIC LIFE

IT. HE Congressional Directory brings
out two rather striking facts
! about men in public life. The
first is the comparatively large
number with more than a common school
educa ton; the second, the predominance
o. lawyers among them
With Delaware's two seats vacant the
Senate nss efgthy-eight members Forty
six o. these. or more than half. are
college graduates. others had an aca-
denic training and only wenty-a5out
p per ceut-had the advantage CT the
common schools alone. One hundred ard
dfty-niue OF the representatives were
educated at colleges and II9 more Al
academies. while only seventy-niEe re
port merely the common school educa-
ton. The President and Secretary
Moody are both Harvard men Secetary
Hay is q graduate OF Brown. Secretary
Root of Hamilton. Attorney General
Knox OF Mount Union, and Secretary
Shaw of Cornell College. Iowa. Post
master General Payne, Secretary Hitch
cock and Secretary Wilson received an
academic education Seven CT the nine
Supreme Court Justices are college
graduates. Brewer, Brown and Shiras
are from Yale, Gray from Harvard,
Fuller from Bowdoin, White from
Georgetown. and Harlan from Centre
College Peckham and McKenna studied
in academies.
OF the members Of Congress. the Su-
preme Court and the Cabinet about 70
per cent have received an academic
training Forty-seyen per cent went TO
college This is an astonishing showing
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ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENTS.

It was the city salesman who said. re-
lates the New York Tines" If any
body with a few hours to throw away
viii devote his time to the study Of our
big Office buildings. he VIII find that
much Of the ornamental carving on pill
lars and cornices consists Of heads. 7
have been spending some Of my time in
this interesting examination. and have
found that out Of every hundred heads
that decorate the fronts Of our great
buildings. at least ninety-fve are lions
heads I have looked in the ZOOS and
Trenageries, but, as rule. the search
has been in vain. The face OF the tiger
ought TO make an artistic trimming.
and In sure nothing could be more
striking than an elephants head and
tusks, but, strange to say. these mighty
beasts have been ignomintously sighted
by the architects, as have most Of the
other denizens Of the Jungle
Now and then. 10 be sure. a dragon
is seen pe7ched up on the ledge Of a
tenth story window, and occasionally
horse or loEs-ea-ed hound is pressed
into service. but in the great majority
of cases the animal chosen fo= a model
is the lion Whether the prevalence Of
his countenance is q tribute to the ra-
tive majesty Of the beast, or IS merely
an accident. an not prepared 10 say,
but certain it Is that lions. rampant and
CDuchar7F z0f in ali haT<-u-av- -.re5-f0s-e
flourish as a5undantiy on the walls OF
New YCrk's downtown buildings as in
their tropical jungIcs-"
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when the fact is considered that an ex-
tremeIy small proportion of boys ever
get beycnd the common schools While
it does not prove that higher education
helps a man in public life. it certainly
is good proof that book learning does
not hinder him
An overwhelming proportion Of these
Federal officers are lawyers. Sixty Of the
lightweight Senator's have been called
to the bar. There are only eighteen busi-
ness men, five farmers. and one doctor
IN the upper house In the House $50
are lawyers. sixty-four business men.
and nine farmers The Cabinet shows
not SO large pTedominance Of the legal
profession The President. Root. Moody
and Shaw. as well as Knox, are lawyers,
Payne and Hitchcock are business men.
Wilson is a farmer. and Hay is a man
of letters.
The Senate is an elderly body. Pettus,
OF Alabama, its oldest member. is eighty
one, while Bailey, of Texas. at the other
extreme, is thi-ty-niae. Fifteen OF its
members served in the Confederate. and
nine in tie Union army Five are foreign
born The Oldest member Of the House.
Galusha Grow, is seveEty-nire years old
General Bingham. of Pennsylvania. has
the longest record OF continuous service
He is in mis- eleventh term. Nineteen
members served in the Confederate and
thirty-eight in the Union army Nine
were born abroad The Supreme Court
is the most venerable body OF all It's
Oldest member, Justice Gray. is seventy
four: its youngest. Justice White IS
hfty-Eaven- The average age of the
members is sixty y-six.-Kansas City Star.
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IRON his mode Of life, and the
fact tlat he can so arrange MS
crops as to be nearly, If not
quite independent Of his neighbor, the
intelligent, educated, and thrifty far
mer 1 believe to be of the highest
class of citizenship.
The homestead laws of the United
States have done much to create good
citizens; and the irrigation plan
which / hope viii be adopted at this
session Of Congress. viii assist greatly
IN settling our Western States with q
healthy. intelligent folk.
For years We have sought, in Ha-
wau, to induce the Government To
treat our people more fairly. and al
low them to settle on the public lands
But, as Is generally known. the Gov
crnmcnt preferred to rent the public
lands to the sugar interests on long
leases. While the President, IN his
message 20 Congress, strongly recon.
mends the allotment Of these lands e.
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Speaking Of Wars and Floods.

Major General Otis was present at
recent gathering where young man
who had seen some little service in
the Porto Rican skirmfshes Of 1898, was
Guttering the groundIings with tales of
horror and heroism in that campaign
which he pictured on a scale so large
that Wateyloo seemed a small affair by
comparison. The young man was fond
of an audi. nee and seemed to resent the
.iII-coneeaIed imPatience manifested by
the general during his descriptions.
Finally General Otis interrupted him.
Young man. you probably have not
heard the story OF the victim Of the
Johnstown food OF 1889, who. when he
reached paradise. ascended a cloud that
served within the pearIy gates as a
rcstrum, and undertook to thrill his
new made acqUaintances among the
shades with an account OF the disaster
through which he had passed. He was
interrupted by q gray-haired old man in
the group A mere bucketful-a mere
bucketful. the old fellow piped- Don't
waste 50 much time talking Of q small
affair like that,T The Johnstown man
resented this and hunted up St Peter.
Of whom he asked. Who is that old
codger who seems to think our flood
such a. trihing matter?' That said
St Peter. why, that's Noah ''-Phila-
deIphia Times.
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4 z ARTINIQUE was a beautiful
M island when I saw II seven
l Y ! years ago" said Warrant

l 7 l years ago" said Warrant
Officer Fred Ruth. OF the
naval recruiting party. 10 representa-
tive Of the Butte Inter Mountain"
= was in St. Pierre HaTbor On the
cruiser New York, coming from Rio
Janeiro in 1850, and I remember dis
tinctIy how We admired the beautiful
green appearance Of the country ad-
Joining the cry
Somebody remarked at the time Of
our visit that the town was uncom-
fortabIy close TO the volcano Of Mont
PeIee. but the residents said it had been
on its good behavior for about 100 years.
and that it was guaranteed TO be sound.
Kind. and gentle It Ioomed Up above the
city as If 1t hung ever il, but we learned
that It was moro than five miles away.
There we're about 150, SEQ people on
the island, OF whom about Is. .000 were in
the city CT St. Pierre. The greater num-
Der CT the people we're either negroes
or half-Caste French, and as we'll as I
remember there were not more than 500
whites on the island. Most Of these
were engaged in mercantile life. in fact.
all the trade Of the island IS done by
Europeans
There is a wonderfully productive
soil on all those islands. and amcng the
products arc coffee. bananas and sugar.
"HaIf-castes do the greater part Of
the manual work of the islands They
are a lazy lot, and one white man could
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The discussion regarding what con-
stitutes ideal citizenship has been re
vived and many interesting opinions
are being expressed. BY ideal citizen
ship Is meant the best possible kind
under the limitations Of an imperfect
civilization. Some seem inclined to
believe that the virtue of being a good
citizen Is restricted TO certain classes
Of the body social. This, however, Is
as unreasonable as 1t Is un-Amercan.
The Declaration Of Independence con
veys q very different idea.
Any man who honestly performs
the useful and honorable task before
him and seeks to conduct himself ae-
cording to the rules set down for the
guidance of the intelligent, IS an ideal
citizen When man has done his
level best IN fulfilling his obligations
to himself, his kin, and his fellows. he
has approached as near to the ideal
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MEMORIAL DAY
By E GERTRUDE MITCHELL.

Nreothe tie laurel and the myrtle,
Blend the lily with the rose.
Lay them ON the grassy hillorks
Where our fallen braves repose.
Scatter DER our heroes, blossoms.
At their shrine our tribute lay,
Glory sheds her halo DER them
On tins bright Memorial Day.
Here a garland to the warrior,
Known to fame in every land.
There a aow'r for Just q soldier,
Gently placed by loving hand.
Strew the flower DER their bivouae,
Honor to their memory pay,
To our unretuning heroes,
Consecrate Memorial Day.
Proudly o'erfoats the emblem
Meath whose starry folds they fought.
For its honor and It's glory
BY their gallant lives were bought.
Streu. the grassy mounds with flowers.
Scatter there sweet blossoms Of Nav.
Tribute TO our fallen heroes
That we pay Memorial Day.
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BISMARCK.
By DON MARQUIS

He hated many words-detested sham,
And ripped it up with bayonet-pointed
Jest
ones wit may gain peculiar force and
zest
When Krupp-madc cannon back the cpl
gram
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Any who cannot buy the Morning, Afternoon Sunday
Edition Of The Times any stand Washington suburban
towns railroad tainS elsewhere, viii by
notifying the Publisher Of The Tines corner Tenth and S
Washington, D. c.
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as any other man. WelI-doing Is not
d question OF social geography OF oe-
cuPatIon. In the catalogue of eff
cheney and the record Of progress. he
who levels the hills for new railroad
Is entitled to as much credit as the
surveyor or the locomotive builder;
all, II the work Is well done, contrib
ute an essential to the perfect whole
"a great transportation system.
The biggest cog-wheeI IN a monster
machine is more conspicuous. but does
70 more nor better work than the tiny
one. Without the latter, the former
IS useless It Is an excellent thing.
however, to have the question of ideal
citizenship threShed over from time to
time. It casts new lights on q mat
ter Of the first importance ana Is ike
y to succeed III clearing up some Of
the shadows, 1t Is educational and
corrective
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OF PUBLIC LANDS
WOULD BENEFIT F1AWAIIANS

" ROBERT ", wEcoz, Delegate From Hawaii.