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audience to one of enthusiastic appre-
citation and sympathy. The rally was
a success and Lacey was the cause Of
it.
The next day Jim is showered with
kilograms and letters of congratula-
ton. The papers of the minority, in
loud and enthusiastic notes, sing his
praises; the papers OF the opposition,
though admitting the fallacy of his
premises. cannot deny a need of
praise to his ability as an orator.
But for all these felicitous com
ments he cared but little as compared
with a letter received in the morning 5
first mail
The letter reads thus:
James Lacey-Dear Sir: My daugh-
ter and | would be greatly pleased if
you would honor our house by attend
ing dinner on the evening of the Both.
Yours most cordially,
RICHARD MERRIFIELD.
T, S.-Accept my sincere congratu-
lations for your most able speech of
last night. +. NJ
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
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the amount received for the whole year
of 1904 brings out clearly the remark
able Increase In grain traffic. Chicago,
the greatest primary grain market.
received 220,759,215 bushels in 1901.
During the first eleven months of 1905
The receipts were 239, 133, 362 bushels
Louisvflle's record for 1904 was 3,555,-
61S bushels, while up to Dec 1, 1905,
e3,916,310 bushels had been received
The receipts at Kansas City for 1901
were 5S,S30,900 bushels; for the eleven
months of 1905 they were 60,121, TOO
bushels.
On the Pacific coast, where fifty
years ago. a few gold-mad prospectors.
acting as an advance guard for eastern
civilization, carried on desultory
warfare with Indians, there are to-day
thriving, hustliIg towns and thickly
settled farming communities. One Of
the most important factors In this
prosperity Is the huge lumber traffic
that originates in the vast forests OF
northern California, Oregon and Wash
ington. Annually for the last three
years more than 1000,OOO,OO0 feet of
redwood, pine and fir have been taken
from these almost inexhaustible timber
tracts and shipped to California coast
points. During the year just past the
arrivals at these same points averaged
1eore than 100,000,O00 feet a month, a
record that no former year can surpass.
In 1904 lumber shipments from Wasn-
ington to Oregon reached a total of
606,000,000 feet, 1915, 100000 feet of
which went to foreign markets. The
completed figures for the lumber trade
Of 1905 from these two States have not
been Issued as yet, but as more than
j0O.000,000 feet passed into domestic
and foreign trade from Tacoma alone
il is taken for granted that IA this
Industry, as in all the Others there has
been the same astound' gain.
Not only do the United States CON
tribute more than their share Of food
stuffs to the world, but they furnish a
large percentage of the coal to co1k it
with. Americas coal resources, an
thracite and bituminous, are among her
greatest assets and have contributed
more than any other single pro luct to
make the United States the leading in
dustrial nation of the world. It needed
el,000,000 tons of anthracite to keep
tie wheels of American commerce sp.i-
nlpg in 1905, while only 57,5OO,000 tons
IN org modal in 1904
For many years raw cotton has play
cd a leading part in American indus
trial affairs. Indeed, the interegt in
this important crop is worldwide Gnd
on it depends the welfare of the cot
ten manufacturers of England and
Germany. Formerly the commercial
distribution of this staple was along
fixed lines from the cotton fields in the
south, north to the Atlantic coast
Within comparatively few years, how
ever, the southern business men have
aw akened to the fact that cotton can
be manufactured in the south as profit
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According to the Letter.

There are some literal-minded per-
sons who are never satisfied with
the spirit of the law, but who con-
slider it necessary to enter into COM
promises with the letter. OF such was
an old citizen of HOpkinton, n. H.,
Il good many years ago. and his jug
Cling with his conscience is recorded
by Mr.. Lord in the records of the
town.
The old man used to boast that he
never went back on his exact word,
but had no compunctions in going
round it. Once he wished to buy a
certain tract of land. and when the
owner named the price he exclaimed;
Il won't give it! l tell you 1 will
never give it"'
The owner did not yield, neverthe-
less \ few days afterward the old
man called again. He said nothing
about the land, but stepped into the
owners barn and picked up a fail
whats that" he asked
THAT? Oh, that's a fail"
$50 you call that a fail, do youi
Well, what would you take for it,"
The owner named a very small
sum.
Now, I'll tell you what I'll do
continued the old man. IN give yoC
the price you mentioned for your land
and this hail. And you mustn't for
get the fail. 1t must be included il
the deed"
SO the legal instrument was duly
made out signed and delivered, re
cording the purchase of certain tract
of land situated thus and so, and
bounded as follows, and also a certain
| fail
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Mexican Indians.

One of the most popular theories
with respect to the North American In
dams IS that they are the lost tribes
Of Israel who wandered across Asia
and encered America by Boring straits.
But now a new idea has just been put
forward. for it appears that a Turk
who is living in Mexico was very much
surprised, when out walking in the
country near the capital, to hear the
native speaking in a language which
greatly resembled his own, He spoke
to them in'Turkish and found that they
understood him perfectly and that he
could make out what they said.
The case has been submitted to an
American professor of philology, and
his report Is awaited with some inter-
est. as it will be curious, to say the
least of il, if he can establish an anal
ogy between the dialects of the Mexican
Indian and the Turks-The Sketch.
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THE LITTLE BOYS DRUM.

All day lory he beat the drum
And MAJ he'd with steady tread,
Till twilight fell, and mothers voice
Had call'd him off to bed;
Then he laid it down with a tender kiss,
And a shake of his golden head
an teep my drum and go to war
En- l diets big" he said.
He loved to watch the shadows creep
Across the silent hill;
Tie dreamed that they were soldiers brave
Who came to fight and kill:
And loud he clapped his chubby hands
When in the sun they died;
81 won't be 'fwaid to fight and die
En- l diets big" he cried.
Alas, for us we blamed the child
Because he made such noise;
We wondered why he chose his drum
From all the other toys
So once at night, when the little boy
Had answered mothers Come "
We searched among his treasures rare,
And hid away his drum.
When morning came, the big brown eyes
Were bright with fcver's pain
Outside no shadow soldiers played,
The Gay was dull with rain;
A silerce lay upon the house,
Unbroken by the drum;
At night there were no marching feet
To answer mothers Come !"
There came a day, in after years,
When the little boy was Dead
That we took the drum from its hiding
place,
And not a word was said;
But silently, and tearfully,
We breathed a childish prayer,
Then laid it away with tender kiss
And a curl of golden hair
H. Graham Du Bots.
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The final trade statistics for the
year 1905 confirm the figures of the
preliminary forecasts and show a phe-
nomenal degree of prosperity through
out the country. So enormous was the
product of farm, mine and factory that
had it been moved at one time it would
have filed 33, 184.S57 freight cars. L.
100000 more than would have been
required In the prosperous year oS
1904. Thlrty-three million freight cars,
II made up into one train of fabulous
length, would extend for a distance of
224,4OO miles, or would girdle The
earth about nine times at the equator
II this mythical train, with the $4,000
locomotives which would be required
to haul it, had Travelled out into space
on a trip to the moon, the leading mo-
guls would have been putting through
the valleys Of earth's satellite before
the conductors buggy had rumbled out
of the freight yards at the starting
point. Merely to store the cars and
engines in such train would require
the use of nearly all the railway mile
age in the United States
One of the most striking examples
of the vast increase in the volume Of
business for the year is to be found in
the western livestock industry. During
the summer and in the fall of 1906 the
tourist on any Of the big western srunk
lines caught flying glimpses of stock
pens filled with long horned, ferocious-
looking steers, fiocks of huddled sheep
and carloads of horses ana mules. All
these pens were filed and emptied
many times during the year, each con
tributing its quota to the enormous
total of livestock that was ship
ped from the trans Mississippi ter
ritory to the markets of Chicago Kan
sas City, Omaha, and ST. Joseph, a
total that Appropriated 3S,000,OOO
head. This multitude of animals con
stituted 67S,3 carloads, 10000 more
than were required in 1904 and 10000
more than in 1902.
In the grain trade the American
farmers are still increasing their out
put and adding to the strength Of our
claim to be called the granary of the
world. The reports for 1905 from
twelve private primary grain markets
show that there has been poured into
them from their tributary territory the
enormous quantity of 10000 600
bushels of grain, to be distributed from
these primary markets to all corners
Of the globe. American grain to-day
Is fighting to supplant rice among the
Asiatics and has already partly dis
placed rye rs the food staple OF the
peasantry of Europe. Within a few
years, at the rate our crop Is lncreas,
Ing and with the extremely low rates
the railroads give on grain for export.
American loaves will be, indeed. the
staff of life in every country of Europe
A comparison Of the amount of grain
received during eleven months of 1905
at a few of the primary markets with
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of money in the election of the upper
house. Its members are chosen not di-
rectly by the voters at large but by
county and city authorities. The cleo
ton of these county and city officials
is conducted according to graded suf-
frage laws" based upon value of prop.
erty or size of income.
BY means of this arrangement many
thousands of voters are in the hands of
wealthy men and business corporations
in a single community. A few rich men
or a couple Of corporations can thus
entirely control the situation in mum
Der of communities and decide the cleo
ton of county officials wholly after
their own will, in spite of the opposing
votes of the rest of the population.
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WON BY HIS ORATORY
~ONN.~N0N~~~~N~O~
N%-NN%-~~NN~

~ all! rah! rah! Three cheers for
IN Mortified! Tiger!" Thus the
SS cheers rang out on the calm night
air, for the strenuous citizens of Vale
green were passing through an exciting
political campaign. fractional disagree
ment in the dominant party had pre-
sented to the minority rare opportu-
nity for success. And opportunity new
er knocks too softly at the politicians
doors-sometimes they think it is CD
portunity when it is only the political
embalmer.
But the face of Merriteld, the gray
haired, silk-tiled chairman of the mi
uority party-whose barouehe had the
right of line in the parade now tri-
umphantly vending its way prepare
tory to the beginning of a rally-did
not light up with that beaming appre-
citation that is the wont-nay the pre-
requisite-of our political leaders
Neither did the face of James Lacey
the broad-shouldered young man who
also occupied a seat in the barouchI
of honor. And thereby hangs our tale
1t was but a decade and a half pre-
vious to the beginning Of our nara
tive that Lacey had graduated from
the Valegreen academy. but alas! no
with valedictorian honorS-as natu
rally a hero should, but, as his broa(
shoulders would indicate, magma cum
laude in athletics.
During Lacey's matriculatiOn at thu
academy, ut that overworked psyche!
ogieal moment, he became interested il
one of the most enthusiastic rooter
of the gentler sex. who had Otter
spurred the Valegreen team on to vic
tory. This fascinating young lady wa
no other than Alice, the daughter o
Richard Merrifeld, though not unit
after Lacey's graduation did it becom
manifest to Alice's father that tn
seed of interest had brought forth tn
fruit Of love.
And then the city chairman lost n
time In indicating his feelings in tn
matter. for he had a deep-rooted dis
Hike for what he termed modern B. A
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MOVING a Block of Brick Houses.

In order to secure a site for an an
mex to the 18th Regiment armory in
Brooklyn. two rows of brick resi-
dences near it had 70 be destroyed or
removed. They were in too good a
condition to make destruction advis-
able. and the other alternative was
resorted to. Each row contained Eve
houses. but was shifted to a new site
without damage. Small brick build
ings have been moveG before, of
course, but TO handle block of fine
residences is a bigger undertaking.
The Engineering Record describes
the operation, says that l. was sue
cessful in one instance, and expects
that it will prove so in the other.
Great care was taken, of course, TO
keep the buildings level and make
all movements with great accuracy
and uniformity, and no cracks nave
vet developed or any serious injury
been sustained by the buildings. 1t
is expected that they will require
only minor repairs after being seated
on their new foundations.
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SINGULAR Effect of Water Pressure.

Turk. the pet fox terrier of L. A.
Mcintosh, superintendent Of the Mi
das mine at Harrison Gulch, met
death in a peculiar way. Mcintosh
had occasion to go to the penstock
above the mill. The dog accom-
panied him. From the penstock to
the mill is water-pipe 5000 feet
long carrying water at a pressure
of 147O feet. The outlet is nozzle
an inch and half in diameter.
Turk got frisky when he reached
the nenstock and fell in. He went
through the 5000 feet of pipe with
out a step. The dogs body meas
ured five and a half feet long by an
inch across when he left the nozzle.
The employees expected every min
ute the pipe system would burst and
we're hastily preparing feI the en-
ergency-San Francisco Call.
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PATRIOTISM AND CITIZENSHIP.
Lessons From Travels and Extrava-
gance Which Should be Better
Utilized.

Two hundred thousand Americans
Will visit Europe this year. They
viii spend on an average $1,000 each.
That means 100000, 900. That explains
the act that, while this country has
a large foreign balance of trade in
its favor, somehow the gold reserve
doesn't increase correspondingly. We
do not complain that Americans go
abroad. There is a great deal of edu-
cation to the thoughtful man or wo-
man In travels. To the thoughtful Am
erican who goes abroad it is term
IN the school of patriotism, for such
a one invariably returns better AM
erican than when he went away for
he does not fail to see that vast adj
yantages which our country possesses
over every other land on earth. and
he realizes why million people an
nually drift away from their native
homes in Great Britain and en- the
continent to come to our country.
And this impels the thought that
this difference between our own and
every other land should be more care
fully taught in our schools. The diff
ference between the principals that
govern should be impressed upon the
mind of every child, for that will
kindle patriotism in the hearts of the
people, and patriotism is the only real
salvation of nation.
Another thought should follow
that is, that while 100000 Americans
are able to go abroad, there are sew
eral millions left at home who are
not prospecting and against whom the
door of opportunity seems closed.
There are a thousand missionary or
CARNATIONS in the world, but how
many societies are working to move
the surplus population in some sec
tiOns out where they can find employ
ment and make homes? What would
not the $200,000,O0O carried abroad
this year, mostly by pleasure-seekers,
accomplish if used to make homes for
the very poor of the land for those
who have lost hope? The list of
crimes and suicides published every
morning in the daily papers are con-
vincing proof that all the people of
this country are not doing all they
can 10 make our country great and
its people better.
The chief place for work is in the
schools. If every child could go out
from the school with the belief that
ours is the very best government in
the world, and if their brains and
hands could have received TIE need
ed training to equip them for useful
work, there would be less crimes,
more happiness, and with the happi-
ness more patriotism than there is
now.
The strength of our country rests in
the quality of the citizenship of the
people. There should be a concerted
effort to exalt that citizenship
Goodwins Salt Lake Weekly.
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Comnared with other constltut.ona

Compared with other constitut;onalIy
governed countries, Sweden has the
most limited suffrage "a the world. Ac-
cording to Swedish statistics, only one.
fourth of the grown men who are per-
sonally qualified have political vote
The lower house of Parliament. which
should represent the great body Of the
people, in reality represents only a
small fraction, while the upper house
is exclusively in the hands of the
moneyed classes.
Nc one can become a member of the
upper house unless, first, he owns and
for three years previous to voting has
owned property to the tax value of
at least 10000 crowns roughly speak.
ing, S20,000) or. second. has for thrae
years paid taxes on an income of n,
least 5000 crowns. either from canitaI
or labor.
But this Is not all. A constitutions
law still further strengthens tlss powe,
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corporation rule the government be ruled by the
government?
The doing of this attempting to do has been the
primary work of the Bureau of Corporations. 1t is
going to be long road 1t is going to be difficult
road, and the work of the bureau will only be well
done if set our faces in the right direction at
the beginning We must not expect too much from the
efforts of the at the present time change
these Industrial evils. Our first steps be long
We cannot run when we attempting to solve such
problems these but as say, If get
Eaces set in the right direction, then may be
that in the years 20 will make the right kind
of progress. This again only be accomplished by
the heartest cooperation of engaged in business
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recognized real by the and which alone are
useful in social affairs Good travels the well
paths; genius And that is why the crowd
altogether without is ready to treat great
lunatics.
1t has again been objected to that studies of
genius deficient in utility To this might reply
with Tame that it is not always that the true
should be useful Yet practical applications
arise of these researches; they furnish with
plantations of those strange religious inSanes which
become the nucleus of historical events.
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Correct Car ,Tlme.

Several years ago, says writer in
the Boston Herald, party of friends
travelling 10y trolley had occasion to
ask the starter on a certain line how
often The cars ran, to which question
he made the following reply:
Quarter arter, ha' arter, quartel
to, and at"
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standard of living the last probably the most import
ant symptom of all.
Among persons of average intelligence there is sure
y an indifference to the claims of religion except per-
haps on state occasions They willing that the
church should oficiate at weddings and funerals in
order that due formaity and propriety be observed
But the daily conversation of the average American
is untouched by religious conviction and shows his
thought fundamentals life totally differ
ent from the church. When he wishes to quote reg-
ious thought he the language of the churches
though he speaking foreign tongue. How much
more gIiby the phrases of the stock market the
sporting world the artistic circles! The vocabulary
the churches is like dead language to him, one that
he will use sparngy quotations from the classics
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He Did.

ave should always" said the Jail
evangelist, consider any circumstances
which add weight to the steps we
take"
II do murmured the convict, sadly,
as he east a casual glance at his ball
and chain. Baltimore American.
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PARIS "oUT OF DOORS"
Restaurateur Serves His Patrons
Even in Winter Al Fresco.

Restaurateur Serves HIS Patrons
Even in Winter Al Fresco.
Last year cafe manager in Paris
had a happy thought that will save
lives. Why, he asked himself, should
his patrons retreat indoors when cold
weather comes, to be stitied by close
air and tobacco smoke. All summer
they had eaten and drunk at peace
upon the wide space between his build
ing and the sidewalk, says the New
York World.
So he put a brazier of blazing Goals
on the pavement Merely that.
This year it is a fashion. The Lon
don Outlooks correspondent says peO-
Die throng outside the cafes as in
June. From the Madeleine to the
Bastile dozens of braziers are alight."
The correspondent adds:
1T is pleasant to see how much the
great fires are appreciated by the cab
drivers, policemen, artisans, dressmak-
ers, miIliners and apprentices, d flower
In their button-holes a ribbon in their
hair, who crowd around and enjoy their
pennyworth Of hot coffee. In the rich
er neighborhoods further refnements
are in vogue. At one place are to be
seen plates of sheet iron that draw
the heat upon the pavement; at another
glazed screens from a hot house and
soft carpets cover the damp and chilly
fagstones, or, again, the table legs are
followed and transformed into foot
warmers"
So Paris, Eau soleil' or Eau plein
air. even in December along every
boulevard SO Rome, al fresco' in the
Piazza Colona and Venice in the Piazza
San Marco. Here in America we have
not even name for this joyous, health
full open-air. breakfasting and dining.
"Out of DOORS" the nearest approach,
has an exclusive. melancholy sound.
New York's whole architectural ar
rangement is against it.
Health taps at the window, knocks
at the door, whistles its invitation at
the keyhole, but Ia this most shut-fn
nation only the few have ears to hear.
The rest close me windows and doors
and put ON weather strips to invite
pneumonia and consumption.
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Rensonnhle Asnumntion.

The investigating committee had
found that the life preservers were
stuffed with breakfast food instead
of cork
How do you explain this?" the
manufacturer was asked.
why" he said. its just as good
as cork until it gets soaked, and We
-er-fgure that some sort of relief
ought to arrive by that time.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
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SUPERVISION NOT PATERNALIsM
By James x. CARTEL

The government should not at
tempt to exercise a paternal control
over private business. That is not
it. That is the cry that those make
who are opposed to government SUI
pervision. 1t is not paternalism in
the old sense as we understand it.
1t is simply this: Who is to rule?
The corporation, by its power of
wealth, by the extent of territory
over which it does business, by the
political influence that it of neces-
sity exercises in the States and the
Federal government-shall such a
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by tie Legislatures be made the application of
the Legislatures of two+hirds of the States Without
sDecial effort in that direction many States have
-ady made the request. The General Assembly of
Missouri the last session. passed resolution to this
effect
favor the election of Senators by popular vote, and
that this system will demonstrate that the
chief repres, natives of the people in Congress viii
more clearly reflect the peoples will