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v j,,, I The Sew Umbrella. - Oh, Ella! With her first umbrella! She walked ubroad Jika any queen, She held it proudly for display. Admired its handle, stroked Its sheen; Was ever little girl more gay? Dear Ella! Such a small umbrella! Once In the rain-swept raarket-placo I met her. Dripping were her curb. She looked, descita her sunny face, The mobt forlorn of little girls. "Why, Ella! Where's your new umbrella?" Said I: " The storm has drenched your hair. J ust se your f tock ! Just see your hat ! And what is this you hug with care, A broom, a lidalo, or a eat?" Oh, Ella! ith her first umbrella ! She looked at mo, and shyiy spoko, The raindrops peitku; on" her yet: "I have it here beneath my cloak. Because, you see, it iniht get wet." Christian Kegister. Hilly and Billy. Our Milly has a very curious pet to ride, and I think you will hardly guess "what it is. It is not a pony nor a donkey; it is a large black and white billy goat, with a tremendous beard. Billy looks very fierce, but he is not so bad as he looks. On the whole, he is gentle and good tempered, and does not mind how much Milly and her lit tle brother and sister push him about. But he has a little bit of a will of his own; and, when they tease him too much, he gives them a butt, just to remind them that they must not go too far. But he does not butt hard, for he does not want to hurt them. So they all take turns to ride the dear old goat; and they all enjoy it very much, or at least they say they do. Cassell's Little Folks. Our Liberty Bell. The Prince of Wales during his vis- it to Philadelphia in 1860 rescued the raised it to that position which it now occupies in the American people's hearts. The prince saw the portraits of the men who stirred up the Revolution, and made complimentary comments upon them. He looked with interest on the manuscript of the Declaration of Inde- f pendence, and he did not flinch when he had placed in his hands the swords of men who hewed down the flower of his royal progenitor's army. Finally, he came to a garret. This was where the bell was rung when the Declaration was read, he was told. Then he wanted to know what hau become of the bell. They found it for him with the aid of their canes. It was hidden away beneath a mass of waste paper and other debris. No one seemed to mind what had ; been discovered except the Prince of Wales. He was apparently appalled. For the moment ho forgot he was a Briton. He gazed upon the poor cracked bell that had rung at a na tion's birth, and then he spoke the words that made the American people Bee that they were neglectful. , "This old bell," he said, "is the greatest relic thivj republic has today. It should occupy the chief place of t honor in this Hall of Independence. It h to you what the Magna Charta is to England. It is cracked, but it is an Inspiration. Believe me, my friends, It affects me more than anything I - '- have been shown." v That was the' renaissance of the Liberty Bell. No more dirt was thrown upon it. During the civil war its name . was used to stir the Union soldiery; and then, when the Chicago World's , lair began, it was taken there, so that ; .men and women from all parts of the world might see it. Today the Liberty Bell is America's greatest relic; and the Prince of Wales, now King Ed ward VII., made it so. Philadelphia J Press. '0 - " The Missin-r Five Cents. Holding out his hand fcr the change, John's employer said, "Where my boy, did you get what I sent you for?" "Yes, sir," said John; "and here is (,?the change, but I don't understand it. 'The lemons cost twenty-eight cents, and there ought to be twenty-two change, and there's only seventeen ac cording to my count." "Perhaps I made a mistake in giv ing your the money." "No, sir; I counted it over in the hall, ijto be sure it was all right." "Then perhaps the clerk made a mistake in giving you the change." But John shook his head. "No, sir; I counted that, too. Father said we must always count our change before leaving a store." f "Then how in the world do you ac count for the missing five cents? How do you expect me to believe such a queer story as that?" John's cheeks grew red. but his voice was firm. 'I don't acount for it, sir; I can't. All I know it that it is go." "Well, it is worth a good deal In this world to be sure of that. How do you account for that five-cent piece that is hidden Inside your coat sleeve?" John looked down quickly, and caught the gleaming bit with a cry of pleasure. 'Here you are! Now it is all right. I couldn't imagine what had become of that five-cent piece. I was certain I had it when I started from the store to return." "There arc two or three things that I know now," 1.1 r. Brown said with a satisfied air. "I know you have been taught to count your money in corn ing and going and to tell the exact truth, whether it sounds well or not two important things for an errand boy. I think I'll try you, young man, without looking farther." At this John's cheeks grew redder than ever. He looked down and up; and finally he said, in a low voice, "I think I ought to tell you that I wanted the place so badly I almost made up my mind to say nothing about the change, if you didn't ask me." "Exactly," said Mr. Brown; "and, if you would have clone it. you would have lost the situation, that's all. I need a boy about me who can be hon est over so small a sum as five cents, whether ho is asked questions or not." Pansy. Te:l Hinl Carlo. Little Fred Keith had no brother nor sister to play with; and, when com pany came, he was very selfish with his playthings. One day his father brought home a beautiful collie. "Now, Fred," he said, "Carlo is to be your pet; but you must treat him kindly, and not be selfish." They had grand frolics when they went for a walk together. If Fred threw a stick into the pond, Carlo would always swim out and bring it back. One bright morning in July, Fred went out into the pasture to pick ber ries. He carried two small pails in one of which mother had packed a nice luncheon. Carlo trotted along, carry ing the empty pail in his mouth. The blueberries hung in clusters, and, before one pail was filled, Fred deciued that it was surely dinner time. He sat down in the shade of a tall laurel bush, and began to eat a sand wich. Carlo smelled the meat, and begged for a piece; but, though his bing brown eyes were wistful and he help up both paws, Fred took no no tice. "I'm real hungry, and I want it all myself. You can catch a suirrel," he said at last. The second sandwich was half gone, and Carlo's eyes looked sad. "Carlo has been chasing a rabbit all the morn ing. P'rhaps he is as hungry as I am. I guess maybe he can have this ham and cake and I'll eat the pie." Carlo barked a joyous "Thank you" and, somehow, Fred's pie tasted twice as good as usual. Then they ran down to the spring, and drank some of the clear water. When both pails were full, they started for home. Faithful Carlo car ried one pail so carefully that not a berry was spilled. The next afternoon Fred took Carlo for a walk in the fields. Grandfather's barn, where he kept his salt hay, stood all by itself in the pasture; and near by was an old cellar. Fred went to the edge to look over, a stone loosened, and he fell in. He tried for a long while to climb out, but each time he fell back. Carlo ran round the edge, barking. Then he jumped in. Fred was glad that he did not leave him alone. He called for help until he was tired. The sun went down, and a few stars began to peep out. Then he called with all his might, but the only answer was an echo from the old barn. By and by he lay down beside Carlo, and cried him self to sleep. When he awake, the moon was shin ing brightly. He remembered a ginger snap that was in his pocket. "I'll give Carlo half, the dear doggy!" he thought Out came the cooky, and his little blank book with it. Fred shouted with delight as he emptied his pocket It was full, like all boy's pockets; and, sure enough, there was a stubby pencil and some string. He tore a page from the book and wrote, "Dear Mother. I'm in the old cellar, and can't get out. FRED." He tied the paper round Carlo's neck. Then he piled up all the rocks until he could reach high enough to help Carlo out. "Go home quickly, Carlo," he said; and the dog leaped away. Lanterns were flashing into dark corners, and all the neighbors were hunting for Fred. Mrs. Keith ran to the door when she heard Carlo's bark. How she did hug him after she had read the note! "Mother," exclaimed Fred, when he had eaten supper and finished telling the story of his adventure, "I'm glad that I gave Carlo some dinner yester day. If he had not helped me, I'd be in the old cellar now." "Yes," said his mother, 'Carlo is a true friend. I should be very sorry if my little boy were selfish to such a good dog." Fay Stuart, in the Morn ing Star. The Good Poj, There are bad boys and less bad boys, but there never yet was a good boy that was well nd heart". New York Press. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD WHAT THIS OLD SI AT OF LEARN ING IS LIKE. Cecil Ithocles's Hold Plan of Furnishing; hclioliirsli ip lo Students from tha Uni ted State, the British. Colonies and Germany Makes This Article Timely, Cecil Rhodes' bold plan provided for in his will, as recently chronicled to send each year to Oxford Univer sity a number of select students from the United States, the British colon ies and Germany, with a scholarship provision qf $1500 each for expenses this far-reaching benevolence has nat urally called forth much discussion; and the occasion is rips tor asking what one of these scholarships at illus trious Oxford is to mean. First then, the details as to how the candidates are to be chosen, what is to be required of them, etc. all this is sm . unfe veined. The mat ter -will be cut with delibera tion by beards e: administrators yet to be ehesen. r.'.ie ' never concerned . hirns rK with ways; all he did was to supply tee vzzzzz of doing things. His scholarship endowment plan in volves many difiicuities in practice and it ,vv ill take time to assimilate a scheme of procedure. The University of Oxford differs from any educational institution in this country. It is not a single, com pact university, like Harvard or Yale, but a collection of independent col leges under a form of confederacy somewhat analogous to that by which the various states of the Union are bound. It is a sort of e pluribus anum. But in Oxford the power and influence of the colleges predominate over the university. Cambridge University, in England, is the only other school that is like Oxford. The other English universi ties and the German and French uni versities are more like ours, though there are of course radical differences between such institutions in the differ ent countries. It would take years of residence at the university to understand the pecu liar relations which exist at Oxford. The Institution is the growth of six or eight centuries of time, and its his tory is as complicated as that of a nation. Yet a little inquiry will show us its distinctive characteristics lit tle understood as they generally are by the average American. Oxford University was not turned cut virtually complete at one opera tion like Stanford. From the earliest times the place was a seat of learning. There was a nunnery there as early as the eighth century, and Pope Mar tin II in S02 spoke of the town as an educational center. Vacarius lectured there in Latin, on law, in 1149. There were by that time a number of mon asteries and other religious houses there, to some of which schools were attached, where students were bred up for the church. In course of time the teachers of the various schools came to meet to gether in a sort of "institute," to dis cuss methods and adopt general rules. From this association, distinct from and of higher authority than any par ticular school, the University of Ox ford sprang. The word "university" (universitas) was first applied in a statute of King John, in 1201. Walter de Merton, in 1264, first gave the institution the character it was destined to develop. He founded Mer ton college; and from time to time during 400 years other similar colleges were founded until there were 21 in all. These exist today, and beside them there are some collateral schools also, sustaining special relations to the university. The original purpose in founding the separate colleges was to give the friends and townspeople of the found er a place to live and study together. The various colleges are by no means uniform. Each has Its own character, it own customs and rules, its own sup porters. Originally the students lived where they pleased in the town of Oxford, but under the college system they were required to take up their resi dence in the college buildings called inn's, hotels or halls somewhat as our college fraternities have their own quarters where they lived in common the meals and the rooms being called "commons." Out of the college funds certain sums were laid aside to pay for the support of a limited number of poor er undergraduate students, and these provisions were called scholarships. Then other funds were established for the support of post-graduate stu dents, called fellowships, and the pos sessor of one of them yas a "fellow." There are now not including the Rhodes scholarships several hun dred scholarships, worth $400 to $600 each, and about 30 fellowships worth about $1500 each. The bequests of $1500 a year each will therefore put the Rhodes scholars on a footing, fi nancially, with the most honored class of residents at the university. When a young man goes to Oxford he is not ,as at our American colleges, assigned to classes where he has to study text-books, recite, listen to lec tures, and take frequent examinations. There is no university examination at entrane, but all the best colleges have an entrance examination, varying in standard with the college. The colleges do the teaching, what there Is of it, but always with a view to the honors and degrees conferred by the university. The university it self provides certain lectures, notably in science, law and theology though science is not put to the front at Ox ford. But as a rule the university lec turers talk to empty benches. The students i3 not really required to at tend any lectures, not even those giv en by his own college; but he may at tend any he likes, even those in other colleges. In recent years the lectures have taken a somewhat more practi cal and definite turn. Formerly the favorite colleges at Oxford were filled up several years in advance, but for the last generation students have been allowed to live in their own lodging;;, instead of in com mons, and now a student can enter any college en short notice. It is hard to say just how many students are in attendance, as such statistics are not made prominent by tho university. The number runs from 1600 to 2000 perhaps or much below that at a number of the Gorman, French and American universities. The colleges hold certain examina tions at intervals, and students are generally expected to pass these r,p within a stated time. Specially dim clt examinations are held for honors. Finally the university conducts the ex aminations leading to the degrees the main purpose being to make Mas ters of Arts. There are four terms each year: Michaelmas, from Oct. 10 to Dec. 17; Hilary, from Jan. 14 to Palm Sunday; Easter, from Wednesday of Easter week to Friday before Whitsunday; and Trinity, from Whitsunday to the first Saturday after the first Tuesday in July. The ordinary academic year is about 26 weeks. Twelve terms of residence are required as a minimum for the degree of B. A., and 27 terms for M. A. It is seen, therefore, that to be a "Master of Arts of Oxford" is something to be justly proud of, as it means at least about seven years faith ful work. It is customary for students to "read" with a private tutor, who helps them over the rough places. These tutors generally get about $50 a term, for three hours a week. They are usu ally upper classmen., or post-graduates working for higher degrees. The cost of tuition paid to the colleges aver ages about $325 for the whole three years not including tutors' fee's. About 200, or say $1000, a year is the amount generally accepted as a liberal allowance for all expenses of a young man studying at Oxford. The very minimum would be half this. The professors draw salaries up to $4500 a year, the average being hardly $2000. The official title of the university is: "The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford." The university is mostly self-governing, and is a republic in itself. There are four representative bodies that manage its affairs. There z tho Heb domadal Ctuucil cr weekly mestinr, which is a sort of ways and meaos committee; the Hous-3 of Congre.ca tion, a sort of upper house cr revis ory board, which grants degrees, etc.: the Convocation, consisting of all the Masters of Arts cr graduate alumni of the university, which elects the two members to parliament that a kvr of James I gives to the university; rrd the Congregation of the University, which passes lav, s for the govern ment of the university, etc. Two proc tors a sort of police have authority over the deportment of the students one of the university bug-bears, as will be recalled by those that have read "Tom Brown at Oxford." Tho town of Oxford has about 45.- 000 people. It is situated in a beauti ful rolling, pastoral country in one of the sweetest and most romantic sec tions of England about 55 miles up the Thames from London, though the little river here is known by its more classic name of Isis. The High street 01 principal thoroughfare of the town has often been called the, finest street in the world. This does not mean that any particular building is architecuir a!ly finer than those in any great city; but the vast number of massive, hoary and impressive structures mokes the whole sublime. Oxford stands for a hind of educa tion not much cultivated now in Amer ica, where everything takes a practi cal turn. But Rhodes was a practical man and he knew Oxford; and he w;? convinced that the influence of ihat great institution, operating cn young men of energy and resource, from newer countries, would be a powerful leaven for the betterment of the world. Men of broad culture such as Oxford can produce he knew would be in in creasing demand in th coming time. And it may be that these students from other lands will in turn be a powerful element in the evolution of a newer Oxford, which shall thus exert in creased influence on the progress of mankind. The Pathfinder. The Knack of ConceaUnt TliMr Knack. "Many women," said the philosopher, "can make their own clothes, but it is the exalted fer who can make them so that the others will not suspect it." Indianapolis News. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY". The last discovered and most distant of great planets, Neptune, extended the solar system more than one thousand million miles. Prof. George Forbes is seeking an even more distant planet, so confidently that he has actually named it Victoria, and he expects that it will be found about 10,000,0000 miles from the sun. 1 A new French refrigerator consists of closed metallic cylinders surrounded by a freezing mixture, being designed for keeping fruit at a fixed tsirpsrature with a restricted amount of air and an absence of light. Thawing must be gradual. After two months peaches were in perfect condition, and the methods adapted for transporting soft fruits including bananas. All the blood in the human body passesvthrough the heart in about three minutes. The heart beats seventy times a minute, 4200 times an hour, 100,800 times a clay, throwing out 2 ounces of blood a second, G5G pounds an hour, 1 tons a day. It is only when supplied with pure, rich blood that the heart, an organ six inches long by four inches wide, c&n accomplish this enormous amount of work and rebuild its own wasted tissues. In Brussels, Malines and other Bel gian towns, a novel method of not only getting rid of smoke, but turning it into use, has recently been employed. The smoke is driven by a ventilating fan into a filter with porous material, over which a continuous stream of pe troleum, benzine, alcohol or some liq uid hydrocarbon flows. The result is that the smoke is entirely suppressed, while the filter yields a gas of great calorific power, which can be used for heating purposes and for driving gns engines. The filtering material itself also becomes a good combustible. The available coal yet stored in the earth in Germany is estimated by Pro fessor Ferdinand Fischer of Gottingen at 160,000,000,000 tons; in England, only 81,500,000, tons; in Belgium, Austria-Hungary and France, about 17, 000,000,000 tens each. The store of Russia is but imperfectly known. North America can produce 684,000,000,000 tons, and Baron von RIcbthofen has stated that China has a supply nearly as great. Japan, Borneo and New South Wales have considerable coal; Africa, an unknown quantity. Ger many's coal should last another thou sand years, but Engalnd's supply will begin to show signs of exhaustion with in 50 years. In the United States the production has increased from about 6,200,000 tons in 1S91 ,to nearly 45,000, 000 in 1901. Novel Tent of Death. Horror of being buried alive Is common to the whole human race, and from time immemorial experi ments have been in progress with tie view of making such a terrible fate impossible. Some physicians main tain (hat catif -celery tests "nn a!: be made by tha use of Roentgen rays,, but it is not every one who has the? facilities for making such ' psts; whereas any one can make a test on the plan devised by Dr. Icard, a phy Eician of Marseilles, France. The , doctor uses fiuorescin. the well known coloring material, and his ex periments have proved so successful that they have won for him the ap proval of the French Academy of Sciences. Flucrcsein injected into the human body produces absolutely no effect if the body is dead, whereas it produces most surprising effect if the body is alive. Dr. Icard uses a solution of it which is so strong that a single gramme is able to color, 40, 000 quarts of water. If a little of this solution is injec ted under the skin of a living person in two minutes the skin, and especial ly the mucous membranes, will become much discolored, and the person will present the appearance of one suffering from an acute attack of jaundice. Moreover the eyes will become a greenish color and the pupils will almost become invisible. These symptoms will remain .for one or pos sibly two hours and then will gra dually disappear. Since fiuorescin produces this effect on a living body it naturally follows, accord ins to Dr. Icard, that any body on which it produces no effect must be dead.- Eoston Herald. Tho Anointing of WJIlbmi IV. At the ccrcnation of William IT. when the archbishop was about to anoint him on the chest, and opened his robes for that purpose, the King was discovered to be wearing under neath his mantle a tight admiral's uniform. A delay was caused by this, during which the King became impa tient, and showed frank indifference to strict adherence to the ritual part of the ceremonial. Irritability and im-? patience were marked characteristics of William IV., and there was, more over, a thin streak of .femoiyacy in the composition of the very ecclutric sailor king. ' ' The Brazilian coast city of B.iMa has about 200,000 inhabitants, who live in 17,000 houses. For each b'u'se 3 a month water rent is paid.
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