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THE PITY OF IT.


~ UT Il mas be done, William,
IS said his wife, her head slightly
g. raised and her gray eyes sharp
with suppressed excitement.
II should be dreadfully mortified not
to do as much for Elise as Charles
does for his children. Well, not ex-
actly as much in every way, no, of
course we really couldn't expect her to
have so much jewelry and as many
new frocks. But to have Elise look
old-fashioned and not have suitable
things for her little parties-why it
is positively embarrassing to her and
humiliates me-"
William Soliday avoided his wife's
gaze, and methodically arranged his
necktie. He was plain man, with a
kindly smile when he was not dis
turbed by his ambitious wife and
daughter.
well, William, can't you tell me
whether you can let me have $500 or
not this weekF
II don't see how l can, Eliza. I've
had a hard winter at the store and a
good many accounts overdue. l wish
could make as much money as Charles,
but l can't seem TO do it, anyway. He
Is a good talker and smart. You know,
Eliza, that I've worked hard for the
last twenty-five years. early and late"
"Oh, 1 don't accuse you of being
lazy" remarked Mrs. Soliday, tartly;
what 1 would like to see is something
to show for all your work. Charles
doesn't get to his office till and is al
ways through at 3. and makes at least
500 a week in salary and commits
sions"
I'll tell you right now. Eliza, that
even though Charles Is my cousin, l
would not be in his line of business
for a thousand a week It's no use
TO continue this talk any longer, Eliza.
l hope to be able TO supply you and
Elise with all the necessaries of life,
and a little more, but as for fitting
out Elise so she can run around with
the set that her cousins belong to, l
cannot even attempt it"
This closed the conversation for that
morning, and while Mrs. Solid sat
in her room finishing her dauE ters
graduating gown, her mind dwelt bit
terly on her cramped life with its pet
ty economies.
She had really loved William Soliday
thirty years ago. He was a clerk
then, in her fathers store. and a genial,
honest young fellow. But when the
business was his. he did not seem to
know just how to make it pay. He
bought a good line of stock, and he
had to sell at a close margin TO com
pete with the cheap articles displayed
by his rivals. Then he paid his help
fair price, and his roomy, well-venti-
lated store cut still deeper into his
profits. She suspected that some of
his old customers had not paid their
bills for long time, in fact. when a
man was out Of work, or there was
sickness, William never would push
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perate just as Charles has done" and
she began to sob with renewed vio-
lence.
Now, Eliza. just listen a minute"
said William Soliday. II had chance
to make $50 to-day, that is. l received
it on an old account that l never eX-
pected to be paid. If you want it to
buy some pretty things for the little
20, William. it's more than enough"
returned his wife. "She will only need
a part of it. and l want you to have
some for yourself l can't have my
good man looking shabby" she ended
with a slight smile around her mouth
and her husband was too wise to OBJ
ject.
Among the lovely young girls who
were graduated there was none more
bewitching than Elise Soiday, in her
simple gown and without any jingling
trinkets. The Soliday twins were not
there, and with their withdrawal from
the class, the element of extravaganza
which threatened to be the dominant
feature was elimin, ted In girlish
fashion the swing of the pendulum was
toward extreme simplicity of dress, to
the relief of those whose means were
limited to small outlay.
"Our Elise was the prettiest girl in
the class" said Mrs. Soliday to her
husband that night.
How could she help it-with such
a mother" he replied without a mo-
ment's hesitation.-American Cultiva-
tor
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On EpNeEGftRk,O g

George S. Elgood, an English artist. is
said to be the greatest living painter Of
gardens.
The Duke of Oporto, brother of the
King of Portugal is one of the finest
flute players in the world.
George Meredith, the English novelist
cannot write effectively except in con-
ditions of absolute seclusion.
Tufnel Burchell, who holds the office
of under sheriff of the city of London.
is the fourth in line of succession.
President Loubet of France is satiated
with French politics and will not seek
reelection but may. go back to the SEN
ate.
Prof. Molisch of Prague says that pho
tographs can be taken by the light emit
ted by raw potatoes and hard boiled
eggs.
Jan Kubelik, the handsome violinist,
recently achieved a greater success in
Italy than any instrumentalist since Pag-
anini's time.
Maxine Gorky, when indicted for his
share in the protests to the Gar, was
labeled Alexis Maximoff Peschkof, art
isan, Nijni-Novgorod.
The Sultan Of Turkey is abstemious in
most things. He eats little, but smokes
much. He retires at midnight and is
generally up before ).
Prof. Balardi Of Turin has succeeded
in perfecting his invention of photograph
ing the eye, and has communicated his
results to the Physical Society of Rome.
He advocates its use in the diagnosis of
eye diseases.
Kaiser Wilhelm often notifies young
officers to leave the hall. as their dane
ing is not up to mark. The consequence
is that for some weeks previous to court
festivities every regimental casino IS
turned into an officers dancing academy.
The Hapsburgs, the royal house of
Austria, have an intense dislike for "a
vens, and the appearance of the bird is
said to have preceded many misfortunes
of members of the ill-starred family.
Sir George Turner, the treasurer of
the Australian commonwealth, is said
TO be the author of the shortest bill on
record. When premier Of Victoria he in
troduced the following: ''No person shall
smoke opium" 1t failed to pass.
Rider Haggard, the English novelist, is
impressed by the menace Of the yellow
man. He foresees 10000, 900 Cinnamon,
trained in the industries End with count
less warships, seeking home in the
United States regardless of our DroteStsS
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DARING LOST HIM A JOB.
Did Unnerving Acrobatic Stunts on
Top of Towering Structures.

Did Unnerving Acrobatic Stunts on
Top of Towering Structures.
A strong headed "steepIe-jack" Is
completing the job which Elmer Wake
field began Thursday.
The 'steepleiack" VINO is at work
now is no better as a ''steeplejack"
than is Wakefield, but he has more re-
gard for the sensibilities of the people
who crane their necks to watch him.
Wakefield is the man who did gym
nastic stunts at the top of the 200
foot smokestack of the Western Union
building, which he was sent up to put
a fresh coat of paint on.
He swung about gayly at his dizzy
height, "looped the loop" in his chair
like rigging, caught at supporting rods,
threatened to turn somersaults, warned
the shuddering crowd below to get
fell" and deied two policemen to
come up and arrest him."
After he got tired of his acrobatc
performance he lowered himself To the
ground. Then his friends took him
home.
The firm which has the contract for
painting the smokestack decided that
Wakefield was entirely too hazardous
a risk. They admitted that his per-
Torrance was thrilling, but offset that
point in his favor by saying they were
not giving a three-ring circus, but
they went into the Barnum business
and hired a big tent Wakefield would
be the first man they would look for.
But meantime, they said, they wanted
somebody more conservative.
And they got him. The young man
who went to work on Wakefield's I'M
completed job Friday morning attend
ed strictly to businesS.-St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
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GROWTH OF WAGES THE FASTER
Kansas Commissioner Compares Sti-
ponds and Cost of Living.

Kansas Commissioner Compares Sti-
ponds and Cost of Living.
Labor Commissioner Johnson of Kan
sas in his report just out compares retail
prices of food from 1900 to 1904 with the
rate of wages paid various kinds of la
Dor. The report was a surprise, as the
general supposition was that the price
of living-that is, the price of necessary
articles of food-had increased more than
the rate of wages. The contrary he finds
true. In an exhaustive recapitulation
Commissioner johnson gives these fig
ures:
Average per cent increase of retail
prices of 1901 with 1900, $50 per cent;
net decrease of labor rates for same pc
riod, SO per cent. Increase of prices
1902 with 1901, 4.33 per cent; increase
of rates of labor for same time, 1872
per cent. Increase in prices in 1903 COM
pared with 1902, 4.73 per cent; increase
in rates of labor in same time, 1901 per
cent. Increase in prices in 1904 COM
pared with 1903, 1913 per cent; increase
in the rates of labor in same period,
14.99 per cent"
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quaintance accentuaed interest other how
ever embarrasSments follow should they meet
again.
When you meet person whom you feel you should
make to remember catch the the
look at the hair consider the height and the carriage of
The person. but above all study the mouth chin and what
ever characteristic play of the features may mark the low
er part OF the face Connect the plainly with these
and then the topics spoken Of the objects the mme
date environments should be plainly the mind as
associated with the face and the scarcely
forget the face that is looked at with such
recognition of the features will suggest the rest
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CHAPTER XIV

Although the solid Grips might now
be supposed by other people to have
baftled all his enemies, in his own mind
there was no sense of triumph, but much
of wonder. The first thing he did when
all danger was past, and Dobbin was
pedalling his old tune-'three- happence
and tuppence, three-happence and tup-
pence; a good horse knows what his s.oes
are worth"-was to tie up Grace in a
pair of sacks. He thumped them well on
the foot-bOard first, to shake all the
mC7liness out of them; and then. with
perm. Ssion. he spread one over the deli
cate shoulders, and the other in front
across the trembling heart and throat.
Then, y some hereditary art, he. fast
ened them together, so that the night air
could not creep between.
Grips, you are too good" said Grace
But now, miss, not another word Won
say. Inside of them sacks you 20 TO
sleep. Scratched you be to that extreme
in getting out of Satan's den. that tallow
candles dropped in water is what | must
see to. None on 'em knows it. no not
one on 'em. Man or horse. II cometb oil
the same. 1t taketh a man to do If
though.
II should like to see horse do II -
said Grace; and her sleepy smile passed
into sleep. Eager as she was to be IN
her fathers arms, the excitement and
the exertion and the unwonted shaking
and passage through the air began to
tell their usual tale.
This was the very thing the crafty
Carrier longed TO bring about. 1t left
him time to consider how to meet two
difficulties. The first was to get her
through Beckley without any uproar of
the natives; the second. to place her in
her fathers arms without dangerous emo
ton. The former point he compassed
well, by taking advantage of the many
ms and outs of the leiSurely lanes of
Beckley, so that he drew up at the back
door of the Barton, without a single sapi-
ent villager being one bit the wiser.
The young lady by this time was wide
awake, and stirred with such violent
throbbings of heart, at the view of divine
and desirable Beckley sleeping in the
moonlight, and at the breath of her own
home-door. and haunt of her darling
fathers steps, that Grips had to hold
her down by her sacks, and wished that
he could strap er so. do ZEE zit still.
miss; do ZEE zit still" he kept on saying.
till he was afraid of being rude.
You are a tyrant, Grips; a perfect
tyrant. Because you have picked me up.
and been so good, have you any right to
keep me from my father?'
Them rasonings," said Grips in a de-
cided tone, lis good; but comes TO moth
ing. Either you do as l begs of you,
missy, or l turns Dobbin's head, and
back you so. 1t is for the Squire's sake
I spake so harsh to zee. Supposin' you
was TO kill him, missy, what would you
say afterwards"
ooh. is he so dreadfully i'll as that? 1
will do everything exactly as you tell
me-"
Then get down very softly, miss, and
run and hide in that old doorway, quite
out of the moonshine, and stay there till
I come 10 fetch 'ee."
Still covered with the sacks, the maid
en- did as she was told: while the Carrier,
with ungainly skill. and needless eau
lions to his horse descended. Then he
walked into the Squire's kitchen. with
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preached to as educated refined and cultured that
1t may, am positive that the poor do enjoy being
addressed the believe there prejudice
on the part of those whom the poor against
those whom the world calls rich than vice versa But
believe this prejudice is only heightened by continually
talking about it.
This country of has got along pretty well thus far
without class distinctions and God grant that every
church designed preach the gospel without dis
tncton as to social financial moral conditions may see
to it that within its borders there neither rich nor
poor high low, bond nor free.
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OTHER FRIENDS AROUND THEE.

When other friends are around thee,
And other hearts are thine;
When other bays have crowned thee,
More fresh, more green, than mine,
Then thinl, oh, think, how lonely,
This throbbing heart must be,
Which, while it beats, beats only,
Beloved one, for thee.
Yet do not think l doubt thee,
l know thy truth remains;
l would not live without thee,
For all the world contains.
Thou art the star that guides me
Across iife's troubled sea,
Aud whatever fate betides me,
This heart will turn to thee.
George p. Morris.
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first things and readily solves
All the time you doing work here solving
problems The old idea to solve problems in book.
to-day. All the country they
tablishing schools of agriculture
Agriculture is itself education which trains well
train. The best education is it? 1t is
which puts your hands and mind to work at the
time Agriculture think for himself;
him fit to take the problems of life We have lived in
of the building of large cities Boys have away
from farms and have built the cities. But who is
to furnish the cities with products with the things which
make up the things city? So people going
back to the countryto the farms With the proper app
cation OF science and business methods farms be
to pay well other businesses In the country
opportunities for every make
living This after all, is the life. And school of this
sort is the real place for you to live in. You put
touch with real problems of life You learning things
which going to be of some
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salary Of $3.50 month, with expenses.
MY mind has mechanical bent" she says. "Machin-
cry is magnet 1 could not resist It, Dirty as it is
like this work 1t always has something new, for in this
particular line of mechanics there mental DEVELOPMENT
because of the that through fingers The
field of the successful machine operator unlimited In
the larger cities there not be chance for women
the smaller towns where she unreservedly competes
with men, she easily holds her own"
The applied sciences do not ask of any any I'M
usual endowments The good Judgment that assists
the good cook to build cake and the good eamsress to
cut garment which gives the the ma tn
ematcal precision with which to place cenerpece the
middle of her dining room table will enable her to work
successfully along mechanical lines.
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GOVERNMENT SHOULD CHECK DECENTRALIZATION.
BY Governor Albert Cummins of Iowa

There are many things the govern
ment can do to check the rising tide Of
combination for the suppression of com
petition. 1t can so amend our laws that
the stocks and bonds of corpora tons
shall not exceed the capital invested in
the enterprise, and there will be instant
ly removed one of the most potential
motives for modern consolidation. If
this had been the law, Carnegie would
have endowed fewer libraries, but there
would have been less softening of the
moral tissue for educational processes
IN siren CITIZEN
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object of envy even
TO the vcnal mill
tary satraps who
make OfhcehOlding
in Russia the scOrn
of the civilized
world. The pres
ent disturbed CON
dition of the Po-
fish capital kes
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WEALTH DISTINCTIONS IN THE CHURCH.
BY Leslie N. Shaw. Seer

That there is IN this country a very
large number Of unchurched people is
apparent. Every convention, assembly,
synod and conference reiterates the
question, How shall the masses be
reached?' and they all adjourn without
satisfactorily answering the question.
1t will never be answered, and vet a
suggestion may be worthy of consid-
Grafton.
Possibly people Of wealth enjoy be-
ing preached to as the wealthy class.
Possibly the highly educated, the admit
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ton as a civil en-
gineer and in rail
way operation. His
first engineering
service of note was
in connection with
the City of Mime
apolis. Later he To-
Gated the Sabine
Pass and North
western, served in
the engineering de-
partments of the
Denver aud PiO
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GERS of the Equit-
able Life Assur-
ance Society, is
we'll known as a
manufacturer and
capitalist. He con-
trolls the H. c.
Frick Coke Com
pany, the largest
coke producing
C on C ern in the
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WUIIui Is NHdII IIItI4I "
of the board of directors of the Car
negie Steel Company, and in various
financial enterprises takes a leading
part. Mr.. Frick was born ut West
Oyerton, Pa, Dec. 10, 1S49. He began
life as a clerk, but after a few years
embarked in the coke business. Dur
ing the strike at Homestead, Pa, in
1892, he was shot by striker.
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l venture the assertion that had such law been in
force during the last quarter of century ninetenths
the consolidation which revouonzed would
not have occurred, and while would have fewer mag
mates, would have 1t is quite likely that
manufacturers would have gone down the rvares
of trade but it better die fighting than stfed in
the dust trudging along behind the chariot
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Grande, st. Paul, Canadian Pacific.
Duluth. South Shore and Atlantic, and
Spokane Falls and Northern. In 1889
he became chief engineer for the Great
Northern and served in that capacity
uutil he accepted the position of sec
ond Vice President of the Rock Island
System in charge OF operation.
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sian fleet his troops
practically are in
revolt, has been in
command of the
forces in Manehu-
ria since March 10
hast, when he sue
ceeded kuropatkin.
General Linevitch
was born in 1898,
and first saw mill
tary service in the
Caupa soc from 1870
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High Up in Tibet.

Recent travellers in Tibet have
noticed that while effects of the rare
fed air are severely felt at attitudes
of between 1900 and 10000 feet, on
going yet higher all disagreeable SEN
sations pass off.
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President Roose-
welt and the Gar,
with the object Of
effecting arrange
ments by which
Russia and Japan
might be brought
within reach of
peace negotiations,
is a distinguished
and wealthy citizen
of Massachusetts,.
He was appointed
-
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ca, Is one OF the pio-
neer church work
ers in the West.
This is the third
time he has been
elected to the office,
having been first
chosen in 1874 and
again in 1898. At
ter graduating from
the Capital Univer-
sity at Columbus,
Ohio. he was or
JoinaI - 1S-- orJ
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seven years later founded at st. Peter,
Mimi, the school which has developed
into Gustavus Adolphus College. In
1903 DR.. NOrelius was made a knight
of the Order of the North Star by tie
Swedish King.
-
John Kendrick Bangs, recently editor
of Puck, is preparing an adaptation of
The Tanning of the Shrew" for comic
opera purposes.
-
Lieutenant General Constantine
Maximovitch, recently appointed gov
ernOr of the city of Warsaw. is not an
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WOMAN CAN WIN AS A MECHANIC.
BY haude KiDifred Rogers,

Miss Helen ]. Clark employed In installing
typesetting machines and instructing operators
all over the country, frequently has been sent to
demonstrate machines work where some man
has failed out of his superior mechanical abil-
ity Compared with her fellow operators. she
has beaten the best records Of men, having set
and justified $500 ems of movable twelve point
type each hour for the eight hour day She makes
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MUST REMEMBER FACES.
BY MerWin Worcester,

There is no doubt that the increased lists of
acquaintance that come to the business man in
the great cities are having an effect upon the old
ability to remember faces. AS ones acquaint
ances grow in numbers the custom Of introduc
tons plays a prominent part A passing &C
quaintance meets the man who would remem-
Der and he introduces third person whom the
man probably never eXDpctS tn AGAIN ua
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THE FARM A GOOD SCHOOL.
BY Professor L. N. Bailey.

Even If farm boy has never, perhaps, had
much schooling he rises high for the farm is,
after ALL very good school. boy has to do
things there for himself. If anything breaks
down he doesn't need to call an expert to his
assistance He has learned to do actual things
to solve problem for himself He knows, there
fore, how to solve the next problem. And when
he goes out into the world and begins his life
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to 1864. Next he fought in the Turkish
war; and was made a colonel in 1885
while battling with the Turkomans in
North Persia In 1895 he was first
sent to Manchuria, and in the Boxer
outbreak in China in 1900 he partici-
pated in the march to Picking. When
the war with Japan opened Linevitch
was in command of the First Siberian
Army Corps. Twice he has received
the Cross of st. George for marked
personal valor.
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Rev. Dr. Eric Nore7fus. who has been
reelected President of the Swedish
Lutheran Augustana Synod of Ameri-
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George Won Lengerke Meyer, United
States Ambassador to Russia, who con-
Quoted the correspondence between
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have reported TO st. Petersburg that
owing to the destruction of the Rus
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Careless Pana.

Woody Tooke-Grace, are you GER
tain that your father is whistling out
there in the yard just because he's in
a good humor?
Grayce Cookie don't know-why
do you ask?
Woodby Tooke-Well, it's approach
ing the hour when l usually go home,
you know, and-well, I wish he
wouldn't whistle so loud-he'll arouse
that blamed dog the first thing you
know.-Cleveland Leader.
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the incumbency OF MAXINOEITCH-
one of the Oppressor's hated officials
a task involving many difficulties and
not a few positive dangers. The new
executive is reputed to be a genial and
fair minded man, and he is making a
great effort TO conciliate the discon.
tented and unruly industrial masses.