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about sixty acres in extent. Here the
farmer of the college grows hay and
| corn for nearly score of cows and
keeps a walled garden in which are
| grown fresh vegetables for The table
| The whole arrangement smacks of the
medieval monastery, says the New
| York Times, only the clergy do not
work the glebe. Nevertheless ST
Johns is the only college in New York
city that in part supplies It's own table
from its own land. The score of cows
do not give enough milk for the needs
of the college and the products of the
garden must be supplemented from
the markets, but the whole situation
serves to recall time when st. Johns
was really in the country, when the
great, ugly town had not penetrated
the grounds and the smiling glebe
lands actually produced enough to feed
both teachers and pupils.
The long row of farm buildings and
especially the old-fashioned barn with
its dependent cowsheds bespeak the
earlier conditions. A long, narrow farm
lane lined with giant elms leads east
ward to the rear fields of the glebe and
still looks as it must have looked when
all the region round was yet unspoiled
country. The farmer lives in one of
the row of farm buildings, and the
strange impertinence of child's cart
in the college garden indicates the
presence of the lay element
Oddly mixed with farming nipple
ments are old desks and chairs from
the school-room, and ola furniture of
various kinds from the lodgings Of
the teachers and students, while
priests in long robe and biretta coca
sionally take their constitutional along
the farm lane in the wake of the farm
er and his laborers.
How long st. Johns can maintain its
old farming traditions nobody can tell.
but the time must come when it will
no longer be profitable to keep the
glebe under cultivation. The yearly
growing beauty of Bronx park is con-
stantly adding to the value of the
glebe, and the development of the
whole region round about ii is contrib
uting to the same thing. Already the
extension of the elevated railroad to
the entrance OF the park has taken
considerable slice off the fine old col
lege campus, and some years ago the
college authorities leveled a bit OF the
ground to the north of the campus
proper, as if IN anticipation of a time
when the campus might be extended in
that direction. The time will surely
come when the glebe will be further
narrowed by the sale of portions not
needed for ordinary college purposes,
and the farm will be merely a ira
dition.
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1t is Jackson's purpose to provide
the home with an Industrial feature.
and he wiz find work for the men.
women and children that enter his
home. He is considering opening
restaurant 10 increase his funds. When
it is finished he will seek for sinners
who want to quit the world for time
and live in peace and a religious en-
yironment.
1t is Jackson who has as protege the
notorious "Sparkles' Hiser. "Sparkles"
is little denizen of lowem Indiana
aver lie and was called terror by the
police. He has been arrested time
and again. Recently he appeared be-
fore Judge Stubs in the Juvenile
Court and Jackson was the prosecut-
ing witness. After Judge Stubs had
made up his mind to send "Sparkles"
to the reform school at PlainfieId
Jackson, his accuser, arose in court
and pleaded to have the little colored
boy given into his keeping Jackson
said he would make minister of him.
Judge Stubs heard the plea, and to-
day "Sparkles' is under the eye of
the man that prosecuted him. Hiser
is working, but he reports daily to
his benefaetor. indianapolis News.
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AMONG THE RED MEN.
A Woman Who Travels Fearlessly
and All Alone.

One of the bravest and best work
ers for the civilizing of the Indians
on the reservations is a white woman.
Her name is Estelle Reel, she halls
from Wyoming and she holds the I'M
portant position of superintendent OF
Indian schools for the United States.
Miss Reel is a young woman of at
tractive personality and great cour-
age. She travels alone among the
Indians in the remotest and widest
parts of the country. The fiarcest
looking brave has no power to fright
en- her. and her dauntless pluck has
naturally won the Indians respect and
esteem as nothing else would have
done.
The young superintendent is per-
forming her work in a manner which
reflects credit on womanhood. AS a
result a marked improvement is no.
ticeable in the education of the In
dian all over the country. Each year
Miss Reel travels from coast to
coast to study the various needs of
the reservation schools, and compare
their results with other schools In
more settled districts. During her
first year of office she travelled seven
months. becoming acquainted with
the various tribes and the methods
used in civi1izing them Much of the
distance was covered by stage and wag-
on. 1t is largely due to her personal
observation that the schools show
greater efficiency than at any other
time during their history.
Congress has a faculty of appro-
priating money for Indian schools
without a definite idea of where they
are to be located. The representative
in Washington knows little or moth
ing of the wilds of Arizona. Another
reason for the inaccessability of the
schools is that they are frequently
established near reservations for
which the Indians purposely chose re-
mote locations. Miss Reel often trav-
els through parts of the country
where there is not even a wagon road.
Her most perilous journey is VI
the Colorado River. She is obliged to
board a barge and take a two days
Journey on the river, accompanied
only by two Indians. Teachers who
have come a long distance from the
East protest that they cannot go when
they get this far. but Miss Reel is
confident the Indians are her friends,
and never feels the slightest fear of
them.
Isolation from railroads makes Miss
Reels visit an event in any Indial
school. especially as she carries with
her a whole pharmasopoeia of medi-
cine. This is intended for the teach
ers and scholars. to whom she is doc
tor and nurse--Washingto Star.
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UNCLE SAM, scHioLMAsTER.
Evidence that the Day of "Infiuence"
in Army Has Passed.

Evidence that the Day of "Infiuence"
in Army Has Passed.
Much fun has been poked at the
military schools which have been es-
tablished recently for the benefit Of
the officers of the army. The criticism
has always come from people who
frown upon all army reforms and in
noyations because they have a tenden-
cy to destroy Anticipated methods
which, despite their uselessness, are
looked upon as sacred by the critics
because of their antiquity. Among the
things said of the schools was that
they would be schools in name only,
ana that no real work would be re-
quired of the men who attended them.
The contrary was demonstrated re-
Gently when six army officers were or
dered before a court-martlal at the
Fort Leavenworth school because they
had neglected their studies and had
in consequence been found deficient
ON examination. This action, which
was approved by the War Department,
shows that the schools are not play
places. and that officers who look upon
them as such are liable to be brought
up on the charge of conduct prejudi-
ciaI to military discipline and good
order.
The action on the part OF the War
Department also shows what Mr.. Root
has taken pains to demonstrate on sew
eraI occasions-that there Is 10 longer
such thing as influence in the
army. The good old times when Off
GERS could loaf along and be advanced
as their seniors retired, died. or re-
signed have passed away with other
things. tangible and otherwise. An
officer under the new regulations must
keep up his studies If he hopes to be
promoted Unless he does so he viii
soon be elbowed out of the service,
no matter how much influence" he
may have or how far-reaching his
pull may be.
The War Department has taken
pains on several occasions to make its
policy on that point clear, but there
are still some officers who ale skep-
teal on the subject and seem 10 think
that the show OF severity is simply a
show. They VIII discover that it is
real at their next examination IL they
should not reach the required stand
ard-New York Tribune.
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HER SHOES ARE LARGER.
The Athletic Girl is Buying Bigger
Gloves, Too

The athletic girl of today is sur
prise to people who have not been
noting her developments. She has
grown beyond all recognized stand
ards to classical dimensions.
The bootmaker still calls B shoe
his model, exhibits it in his window.
and it is pretty little thing to see.
But the athletic girl who has been
brought up in a family where she has
had an opportunity to live a healthful
natural life, with plenty of outdoor
exercise. laughs at such tiny things.
The athletic girl has brought about
an entire change in the hosiery de-
partments of the shops. There was
never a time when there were pref
tier or more extragavant things for
women in the cobweb varieties of fine
Isle thread and silk. Women wear
these expensive things for outdoor
sports as well as for dress occasions,
but the sizes have developed with the
women who wear them. Where 8.
S1a and 8 were five years ago, the
girl of today wears 912, 10. 101s, and
she would often wear II, if she could
get it.
In the shoe shops there is the same
fashionable shoe store spring heel
shoes there is the same noticeable
change The boots are made to go
over the 10 and 101a silk stockings.
In the misses department." of the
fashionable shoe store spring heel
shoes range from children's sizes up
to boots so big that they might be-
long to young giantesses. They are
for athletic girls who are kept chill
dren as long as pc ssible and wear the
spring heel boots until they are
ready to make their bow to society
Gloves have changed with, other nc
cessories of the feminine wardrobe.
and the well-built girl wears 61s, Z
and ~ in place Of 51a, ga and 6 that
have been worn. For one thing, her
hands are not only large, but she no
longer stops the circulation by squeez-
ing her hands into a glove a size too
small for her She cannot tool
coach or handle an automobile with
hands in wise, so she wears some
thing that is an easy fit.-Washing-
ton Star
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His Holiness retires to robe himself
in the Pontifcial Testments.
On his return the fisherman's ring
is placed on his finger by the Cardinal
Camerlingo. and the new Vicar of
Christ gives his first solemn benedic-
ton to the members OF the Sacred
College from the steps of the altar
Then, taking his seat on the sedia
gestatoria, the Pope receives the
homage of Their Eminences and
again communicates the name which
it is his pleasure to assume as Pom
tiff.
The people then flock into ST. Pc
ter's to see the Pope and receive his
blessing. and a stirring scene which
presents itself
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He wasn't purty-nary bit; the wrinklin'
hand O. Time
Had written strange devices in the tan
and powder CRIME;
But prospectin his character. there
crop out everywhere
Rich streaks O. golden placer that yoV'd
never dreamed was there.
And, spite of all his LONELINESS, some
how his rugged face
Jest seemed to brace Teller up and
give i'm sayin' grace,
When times was hard and grub was high
an the cOlors far between.
And into the starving miners life there
widened the streak o lean
There widened the streak O. poverty
when all O. the world was blue;
When shovel aa' pan were red with rust,
with nothing at all to do;
don't jest savoy the why of it-and
reckon L never will
That | somehow failed to appreciate the
worth of my pardner, Bill.
It's shorely hard TO understand the ways
o the human mind.
For we grow indifferent-like to gold, the
more o the stuff we find.
Twas so with me; I'd lived so long with
cid Bill at my side
That l never Jest knew the worth of
him I'LL my pardner up an died.
GoOd-by. old man." he says. says he,
a-lookin' toward the skies
The light O new discovery a.shi2in' in
his eyes
Il see across the great divide. an like a
golden flame,
l catch the CLEAN an glitter of my ever
lasting claim
An then he died-my pardner Bill.
There warn't no better Bills
An l know he washes gravel on the
everlastin' hills
The golden sand in the Stream o. Life
hundred to the pan.
For the Lord won't play him low down,
cause my pardner was a man.
For fifty year O. storm an sun Bills
blanket has been mine;
And his friendship never broke a strand,
though it stretched from 40.
He loved me! which the same is mighty
comfortin' to me,
For | know my pardner's grub-staked
for long eternity
San Francisco Bulletin.
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AN or

How much do you love me?'
II love you" exclaimed the young
and ardent admirer, as much as j.
Z. Morgan is worth. Nay, / will add
10 this the United States Sub-Treas-
ury"
THAT is not enough" she observed
coldly.
He did not dispair
Il love you" he continued. "as much
as Hetty Green's millions added to
those Of Russell Sage. Nay, as much
as Carnegie and Sehwab combined
But she shook her head. She was
playing for larger stakes. Her lover,
however. did not despair.
Il love you much more than all
these" he continued Il love as much
as the Chemical Bank and the Stand
ard Oil, What do you say to that?g
Then it was her turn 10 look pleas
ant.
do you she observed carelessIy,
as II it were the easiest thing in the
world. love me as much as the En-
peror Of Germany thinks OF himselff"
And her lover murmmed abjectedly.
Alas, you ask the impOssible."-Life
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Darkroom WindowA coating glass
do of
daylight iluminan
coong
strong daylight Tor months With
my correspondent coat each side of
coors
The gane films should be
negatives be utilized
staining the film with solution
importance of MargnsOne
the specimens of those
when is either the
arrangement
III he OF
instnctyey determines himself portrait
short to of
printed OF the biggest
were allowed
" De short squat dwarf and the holds
head
aness
this We the
In
above the hat But
the although
things
portrait Of
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American Fruits Abroad.

Germany is finally becoming &C
ouainted with American dried fruits,
which are gradually displacing the
product of France and Italy. It is as
serted that the California product is
not only cheaper than the European
article. but that the fruit is more
solid and the flesh brighter. One OF
the difficulties il the way of captur-
ing the European market IS the long
interval between placing orders and
the receipt OF the fruit Freight ship
ments are not very prompt, and as
all purchases are paid for in advance,
this makes the delay very annoying.
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POSTAGE in the slot.

The latest application OF the prin-
cipIe OF the penny in the slot is re-
ported from Australia In the posi-
ofhces OF the Commonwealth the per
son in a hurry win in future be able
to drop his letter into One orifce OF a
machine and his penny into the other.
and when this process is completed
.'one penny paid VIII be found i'm
pressed on the envelope as an equiv-
aIent to the orthodox stamp
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CANNON TELLS A STORY.
Congressman Has a Great Fund o
Anecdotes-His Tariff Views.


Anecdotes-His Tariff Views.
Congressman Taylor of Ohio. while
expressing his admiration for Con-
gresham Cannon of Illinois. who is to
become speaker of the new house of
representatives, said, the New York
Times writes:
Cannon has the greatest fund of
homely anecdotes to illustrate points of
any man | ever knew. At banquet
in Washington, where the contest for
the speakership was referred TO in a
humorous way by a number of the
speakers. Mr.. Cannon was called upon
10 speak.
81 must confess, he said. TO have
experienced considerable embarrass-
ment during the contest for the speak
ership. One of the Democratic papers
of Chicago. with the idea of stirring
up trouble, was demanding in its edi-
torial columns every day TO know what
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under way, ana most of the work he
has done himself. He has the knack
of carpenter and applies his spare
moments in putting on shingles,
Notwithstanding or ceiling plank.
Jackson started the building on money
earned as a bootblack.
He has run ont of funds and is now
soliciting subscriptions from the be-
neyolent folk of indianapolis. Money
is coming slowly, very slowly for Jack
son, but he has hopes of finishing the
home.
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of the Powerful with considerable diff

of the Powerful with considerable diff
ticulty
The Scorpion was built In England.
She carried four powerful guns in her
two turrets and it was the hope of the
Confederacy that she would wipe the
Northern navy from the seas and then
lombard Philadelphia, New York and
Boston. She arrived in Bermuda in
the latter part of 1864 to take coal
prior to beginning operations. but she
was seized by the British government.
The vessel had been lying off Bermuda
ever since, or until about three years
ago, when she was sunk off Fort Ham
iltOD
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P. A. ROCKEFELLER vast sums, not only
from his fathers estate-and his IA
ther is the second in the Standard OIL
Company-but through the Stillman
family on his wifes side. Mrs. Rock
efeller was Miss Isabel Goodrich Still
man, a distinguished beauty and p
member of the famous and wealthy
Stillman family.
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IN THE SPIRIT OF MRS. wees.
A Negro Studenf>F Work for a Home
in IndfauapoIis' Dumps"

A Negro Student>@ Work for a Home
in IndiauapoIiss Dumps"
As a benefacto- Of the weak and
downtrodden, Mrs. Wigs, OF the
Cabbage Pitch is not possessed of
a monopoly Louisville's famous sub
urb has a zlvaI in indianapolis less
famous Dumps"
James L. Jackson, q one-legged col
ored TenneSseean. who is studying for
The ministry in the African Metho-
dist Episcopal church. has the spirit Of
the adored Mrs Wigs. Her creed
is his TO try 10 make the sun shine on
10th sides Of everyhody's fence.
With that end in his heart, Jackson
has decided to build a home on the
~Dumpsr along Fall Greek The home
IL to be called The Christian Home
OF Rescue" and win be about two
blocks north OF the city hospital on
the west side OF the creek. A number
Of small cabins surround Jackson's
proposed home He has II already
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every aspect betokened the plowboy.
But in a short time he began to at
won three prizes and the Woolsey
scholarship, and has kept up his rec
ord. Pierce Is working his way
through college.
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BRITISH wARsHlP FOUNDERS.

Scorpion, Once Confederate Monitor,
Sinks, Almost Engulfing Crew.
The British tug Powerful, Captain
Russell, put into Boston recently,
while on passage from Bermuda for
st. John, N. b.. having lost the Brit
ish monitor Scorpion, formerly a Con
federate craft. which she was towing
eighty miles off Georges shoal. The
Scorpion foundered and her crew of
fifteen men was rescued by the crew
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FARM LAD TOOK HONORs AT YALE.

Professors call Frederick Erastus
Pierce, of South Britain, Conn. the
most remarkable student Yale Univer-
sity ever had. He entered three years
ago from his fathers farm, where he
had been toiling in the fields. His
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here proposes to
make return for the
lavish hospitality
which has been ex
tended to him since
his arrival in this
country. He will
open the first full
fledged legation
which Persia has
ever maintained Mt
the American seat
Of government. In
order that his new
home may be as
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William Rockefel-
Ter, but, strange to
say, that youn &
man delights in la
Dor and works for
the sheer love OF
working. II e / S
scarcely % years
OF age. but has
much wealth in his
own right and is
likely to inherit
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EoRpAAM COLLEGE EARM.

sixty Acres on Which Are Crows
Vegetables for Establishment.
st. John college at Fordham. n. +.
is one Of the largest farmers Of the
Bronx. The gIebe lands OF the col
.aga, closely bordering Bronx park. are
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did you tell your father that
loved you for yourself aloneT'
"Yes; and he said you must be
smarter than you looked if you could
lie like that. Bits.
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Ponltrr and EGGS.

The last census gave the value of
poultry raised in the United States dur
ing the year 1899 as $136.S91 SIT; of
eggs yrodrred in the same year, $144,-
2S6. 15S.
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one of Them in Hard Luck.

Jones-This talk about Friday being
unlucky is all nonsense. My wife ac-
cepted me ON a Friday
Smlth-But how about your wife?-
Judge
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Censuses OF Scotland and ireland.
The recent censuses Of Scotland and
Ireland show them TO be almost equal
In population. each having but few
more people than the State Of Ohio.
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YOUNG AND WEALTHY.

This Rockefeller Scion Finds His
Greatest Pleasure in Hard Work.
If there is person in the United
States who could live in idleness it is
Percy Avery Rockefeller. the son OF
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What the boys seem to need most Is
to join a union that prohibits mem
bers from sleeping overtime.
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Our Engines 40 the Front.

OF 100 locomotives In use in Japan
600 are American made.
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unique as possible, the Persian diplomat
is importing a large number of rare and
costly oriental rugs and tapestries Gen.
Kahn who enjoys the distinction Of be-
ing general aid-de-camp to his imperial
majesty. the Shah, wears upon state oc-
casions the most gorgeous uniform ever
seen IN Washington.
49,
The Capitol at Washington contains
400 rooms now devoted to Office. commit
tee and storage uses. 60 windows, $50
eloorways. 40 freplaces, 90 toilets. 2gl
wash basins. IA bath tubs, Is yentilating
fans and Is motors, 2,o9S horse power
Of boilers for heating and lighting. eight
steam pumps for boiler and FIRE service
The lighting service Is equivalent TO -.
900 incandescen, lamps Of Is candle
power each. AID there ara 1913 square
feet Of skylights formed Of iron and glass.
-:-:-
There is pending before the Court of
Claims d suit, the decision Of which may
cost the government thousands Of dollars.
II involves the question Of the right to
deduct from the pay Of soldiers the
amount received from State authorities.
Two hundred thousand Spanish war vet
Grams will benefit if the government loses
the case.
.-.
Patrons Of rural free delivery routes
are 10 receive more consideration in the
matter Of the selection Of carriers pro-
vided the new rules which the Civil Ser
vice Commission are Dow completing are
put in force.
49,
Secretary Hay and Minister ATriaga
have exchanged Publications Of tine
Guatemalan extradition treaty, which
was signed some time ago. The treaty -
on modern lines.
Carrie Karney and Lucille Dunkley.
-. - .Ln..4 - 49, ~ are nera
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The flower of the family isn't always
college bred.
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Carrie Rarney and Lucille Dunkley
two girls about - yeafS OF age. wers
drowned while bathing in Ulah lake, neaf
American Fork, Ct&h.
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Con- Isaac Khan, the bachelor minister
from Persia has leased house in the
fashionable section Of Washington, and