! ALL HAD SEEN GOLDEN IMAGES t
V
woodpecker. family, the flicker and the
.redhead, frequently make their- homes.
burrowing into the wood. In tne masts
of abandoned vessels they also rear their
young. .
English sparrows freonentiv. built in
: 1 " ".""'"V1 -.r?1" , I habitants are some times taken across
svn tells an amusing story of nego by a. vivid description of the mag. the conthlCnt: Mr. Frank C. - rkwood,
n' csiienfiiiT iu utgiu ouuuuj- .,, un.amc i tiiuco. Kp0retavv of the Gimp .ami Fish sso-
I'
FTM 1 A 1 ,t -
. u uu i.iui me airenuon ot (.jation tolls,of n.fiml hp niado jn fl Jnrge
as taugnt a zoinaay scnooi ciass iu me men tree on Keut isifind. In the top was
:s. and. lu-.iiu usid to colored of imposing names and the fiery fur- fh Iltst f fish-r.,W- f.,,fW. ,Wn
was a fishhawkV, iu the sticks of which
were five purple grackles, with young
, t?:)tftrpil iiorself that she 1111- nace.
. ,,f7lie negro temperament. So, i Her reasoning was good, but her
:, Washington friend who taught , k 110 "ledge of pickaninny nature was de-
... u' negro children in the poorer- Active. he began her-,: description of
,f ihc, town was taken ill and the times. Rapt attention. Then, an fo
:: miss her Sunday school class, j tunately, "she moved to talk of gj!:t-
woman of experience blithe- n images and she asked a question
red as substitute. Tue teach-.LoibtfuL-
:v. awfully ignorant littlo dar-
'Did
ones, and four English sparrow s" nests.
Farther down : "flicker's nest and three
more grackles arid:, the -nest oi one wren.
Mr. William II. Fisher, a well-known
ornithologist of this city, has in his col-
any of you ever see a golden ; k.otion a double ne.st of a chipping spar-
image? she asked
Of course,' she said to herself, no one
could have seen a golden image, but the
interrogative form chains childish atten
tion. She reckoned without her andi-
row. it was found near Baltimore ana
contained one egg in one apartment and
three in the other.
In the glass globes of the arc electric
lights of the city English sparrows and
purple grackles sonnet im-cs buim.
Barn-owls, despite the noise around j
the grain elevators, have been krownj
to rear, their young 111 the buildings. !
. ourse
'hov don't always beuave well.'1" ,
v don't ' worry for a minute. I ence. The question had hardly left her
I . an manage a roomful of pick- lips before a fat little darky on the
' -front seat held up his hand and tum-
matter was arranged. Then bled breathlessly into speech.
, 1 1 1 T.l ,1 -.-... .. .. , ""f 1
h-nrine teacher tetooK nerseit to-' w iimij. uone seen goiuen image, Mn Kirkwood last vear' found vow in -,r
thought. Mie wanted to make big as do doh. I timate relations existing -iKtwceii the
i-h the children, and she didn't l 1 he hoy next to 61m gave a vicious fa4rijIi(,s of ;J rt.d-tail hawk and a gray
,,, . tied down to any biblical mUe. . ' squirrel. The hawk's nest was bmlfup-
., sequence. She would pick out U way. you mggah. I seen imaso mi tht, squirrels', and IwSth of them Svrra
. whenever she could find one to biggah n dis room," said the second by. ! inhabited. In the sails of boats which
, om.rgency. I Th'.y were off- Every child in the he(.'n jaid '1v for he summer tree-
problem was the choosing of class room had lived a life of golden im- j 5u;1l!ows have' been known to' build
that would prove most thrill- ages. Each image mentioned was bipr-! their. iicFis.
-ii.' nppeal most strongly , to the Ppr tnan the, last; eacn voice was louder
; darky. The teacher-elect went h" the last.
qu'tion intelligently. What did The teacher gasped and tried to still
, like most? she asked herself, the tumult; but she was helpless against
mtditntt'd a long time 'and went the storm she had raised. The air was
,v, r her experiences. Finally she , full of golden images.
. ! that long names, gorgeousness Golden images as big as the White
. t were as dear to the darky House, as big as the Capitol, rained up-.-.
anything in the-world. 'on her. Verbal contest led to brute
.u fact being established" she ran force. The assertions of imce seers
pr ii eye over the chapters of the were emphasized by hair pulling and
At Shadrach, Meshach and Abed- slapping. Shadrach. Mcsiiacu and Abed
he stooped in triumph. There negO never had a chance to show their
i subject ready to hen hand long heads. The class broke lip in a row.
inii) and circumstance, fiery fur-j "AHien she saw most of her pupils en
uid all. gaged in a free for all ou the floor, amid
- studied diligently, andon Sunday a babel of image testimony, the teacher
:r.r sallied forth full of enthusiasm, gathered up her belongings and fled. As
THREE DEATH MASKS
, A COMEDIENNE.
She has given us youth for years;
She has brought us smiles with tears,
Laughter, light-hearted wiles.
Like an April wind that veers
Fr im wet to shiue were her Smiles,
Fore rer akin to tears.
O Time, with terrible truth ;
Koblihig the years of youth,
'Turn down your wrinkled glass.
Smills were ner prayers," in sooth,
Sol with a smile, let her pass
Froii age to immortal youth!
With
W
lie
THE FOOL. : '
whimsy bubble in his hand.
th quip grotesque, grimask bizarre.
had not made us understand. -
But Death shows uieu for what they
are. . .
Nevfr (as we rememberetl now)
That heart of lus could he disguise;
Xo
Ai
Thoie Great Markets of the Orient"
(From the ,;Xew York World.)
The London Times thinks that Mr.
McKinley's Southern utterances "might
be adopted with acclamation by the Cobf
den Club." Hut when they are closely
f&ad, and their relation to the great ex
pectations of increased trade with Asia
is Kept in mind, the I'resident s speecu
8 will hardly bear that construction;
At Memphis and other places he has
made siK'citic mention of 'the gieat mar
kets of the Orient'' as those we an
reaching out for. In the recently issued
annual review by the Tveasury Depart
inemVof the foreign commerce of the
iffy little room on a narrow allev she escaped tn rough the door she heard Tinted States the stress 'is laid on the
fo.nid fifteen preternaturally wd- a loud voice insisting: much greater .growth, of our exports to
little darkies waiting for her. They "I seen a gold'n image big enuf tuh Asia than to Europe; This is practically
ii their eyes at her arrival and look- put the Washntou monument in his
1 ihnde more solemn. The' teacher i pocket."
1 Thrill of pleasure at the thought "Yon don't want to get a negro Sun
h eoming triumph. She had decid-( day school class too much interested
hat since grandeur was beloved of j right .at the start," says the ambitious
. -lM-ed race she would preface the .teacher, sadly. Selected.
WILL OIL DEPOSE
KING COAL
(Philadelphia Record.)
Racine in a speculative madners
r- violent than -that. Which centres at
tiie Now York Stock Exchange, the
i coide of Texas believe that the sceptre
will so-m pass irom the hands of King
and that the fuel of the : ear fu
me will lie petroleum, the greater part
-rf rho world's supply to be drawn from
th I -uvels of the Lone Star State. Ad
th" vtdmnns of figures which have shown
h'.'.v In;ig''the world's supply of coal may
he exneeted to last; all the dire predic
tions om idle mills and of the intermit
tnr use of sun engines, and all the oth?r
!-2gfstions of universal melancholy from
it exhaustion of the mines have no
r.ie.ining to the people of Texas nor to
the capitalists who are covering waste
1 ,r. 1 there with gold to tempt the own
fr to sell. The coal barons of the an
ih in ire region of Pennsylvania are told
t i 1 n t their day of monopolistic splendor is
closing, and that the best suites of rooms
fu the metropolitan hotels will be re
Fi.Tved for the men from Texas, the oil
billionaires.
The mania of the Texan is not sur-ie-i--iii?
or unreasonable. That petroleum
is rhf ideal fuel of the time nas bet-n
'lemonstinted in Kussia, where nearly
1 si 1.1 m hi barrels a year has been used for
r. nkin- steam. It is affirmed that the 1 cultivate friendly rrtfftfons
manufacturer of its great st'aple. With
marvellous progress already made in this
direction., it ireeds only ample markets for
the coarser grades of cotton goods to
command a prosperity without a parallel.
That these markets may be found in
China and other Oriental countries, with
their teeming millions,. -who want what
Southern mills eau supply, is universally
conceded." The market theme is not less
popular with the country at large, whose
boundless resources and unexampled pros
perity have given it the lead of all ex
porting nations, with possibilities of fu
ture aggrandizement beyond calculation.
That is the true pojicy of the Fnited
States in China commercial expansion
with peace, not "imperialism" with war.
We have no other business there. We do
not seek self-aggrandizement nor want
any "sphere of influence." . The national
aim is markets, not politics. It is an
"open door" to China, which means for
us an open door to' prosperity.
To that end Mr.-McKinley and Secre
tary Hay have rightly shaped our diplo
macy. This has been directed against
dismenilwrment or spoliation of the Ce
lestial Empire, because, to say nothing
of its wrong aufl barbarism, that would
mean ruin. It lias been for "the terri
torial Integrity and administrative enti
ty" of China, because that is demanded
not only by common justice, but also
by the commercial iuterests of the world
as well as the Fnited States.
As Russia's policy has been similar, it
has been but natural and inevitable for
the two countries to stand shoulder to
shoulder in the Far Eastern crisis. More
over, there are special 'reasons why they
should continue to do.no and mutually
American
""lv obstacle in the way of the general
p: ef'.-reiii-e for oil as fuel has been the
liniiteil supply. Now there are ten
":r';aers" in Texas which have a pres-
in rapacity greater than that of any
r'thor developed oil field in the world.
The quality of the Texan product is as
t'id as that , of the output of the Kus
t: .. ,,-. .ii .. 'r u . 41... , .l
.-1. in ntir. .1 1 Aiis lias tut- enormous uxi
rnntasre of a port almost within sight
of the wfdls, while the Russian oil must
le transported across a high range of
mountains ar.d over long distances in
'! -I" to reach a port. We are told that
oil an be so.a at Port Arthur, on tne
'ulf of Mexico, at thirty-five cents for
wh three and a half uarrels (equal to
ton of -onI as fuel). Taat is to say,
t :ei wliicli now cots .3.oO or .-.TH.) can
b1 sold for thirty-live cents. .t is not a
crisp for wonder, therefore, that the
r-"culative Texan should foresee the
''eposition of the black diamond monarch
a complete revolution in the produc
of power, and. as a consequence, in
industrial conditions of the world,
11 wonder that "land upon which
even ;1 derrick has been hoisted"
1! sell for .$10,000 an acre because
supposed to be in the centre of the
l's oil supply! Small wonder, also.
the .Standard Oil Company should
i'onsrhf all the wharfage at Port
nnd
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exports are already finding their way in
no small volume to Siberian and ther
Russian points, with rich promise of
future development. This fact, coupled
with the stress laid on the value of Asi
atic markets, .gives far-reaching signifi
cance to Mr. McKinley's Memphis ref
erence to the Pacific'" Railway, when he
pointed out that ' more than half a cen
tury ago the building of this had been
urged by the State of Tennessee, in or
der to "connect the grrat North and
South with the Pacific ocean, thus lead
ing us out to the great markets of the
Orient." The marvelous tranformation
wrought by that transcontinental line,
since multiplied, is familiar to all. It
has done, more than 'open up the vast
West to civilization and provide an
outlet for American products to dis
tant markets. It has given .the world a
highway of trade and travel between its
two mighty oceans.
Now this is just what Russia is doing
in building her Siberian Railway. Like
our own Pacific roads, that great trans
continental artery will be a boon to man
kind. To the United States, seeking Asi
atic markets for its swelling volume of
exports, it will be n benefit of incalcula
ble value-. Hence, in guarding thLj road
in Manchuria; Russia is uot only protect
ing her own sovereign rights and inter
ests, bu-t rendering all nations a timely
1 X- 4 . ;
service. As we nave seen, me -American
an Administration document,-' and when
we find it "boasting 'that our exports to
Europe show an increase of only ill per
cent, in UMX) over 1809,. while to Asia
the increase is; 34 per cent., we may
know that it is not freer and larger
trade with Europe, but with the Orient,
that Mr. McKinley has most in mind
in his Southern talks.
But the percentage method of measur
ing the value- of increased trade is very
delusive in this case. Europe's purchase,'
it is true, increased only 11 per cent,,
last year over the year before. lut it
was 11 per cent, on 93;.0:i,O93, or -an
actual increase of S103.5'.i,('70. Per
contra, the 34 per cent, gain .iu our ex
ports to "the great markets of the Ori
ent" was 34 per cent, on $48.31 50,'KVl, Or
an actual increase of but ?10,5")-'5,f40. In
short, we got six times as much new
export trade last year with -European
countries as we did with' Asiatic coun-r
tries, and yet our percentage of- gain
was three times as great , in Asia as in
Europe. . . .
There is no decejver like "percentage."
service. - e .-.hi, " -.m.i. .m 1 .t
people and government have good reason 1 of market twisting as staggciyng m th
to aonreciate this service and to condemn! boldness as the I nitcd States Stec! C
nnr. Texas, and all the land for nine the mischievous press misrepresentation
from the coat t a tremendous I of . Russia's purposes and motives insti
1 Ule. (. oa r, a - ' m.e , gated-by English jealousy alid suspi--.
thus naming absolute control oflf."'-. ' ..'
shipping privileges (Port Arthur be-
the only place where the oil can be
" ivi d and sent out.)
'Ir.'-at Rritain, like Russia, has had
eral war ships fitted with oil furnaces
has found the change of practical
'"Malice. Now, the Texan affirms, all
world will use oil for steam making
"!"-( s. To per cent, of the Texan
' i'i being adapted only to use as fuel,
"e is 110 reason for trying to limit te
r of speculation in Texas. Here oil
-nates must have their fling. But it
the history of oil development from
" beginning that th subterranean de
bits are readily exhausted if too -eav.-
orawn upon. We shall not expect to
cheaper coal this year nor the next
r refison of the cheapness of the Texas
"'roipnm. .
ciou.
Queer Site Tor Birds Nests
, (From the Baltimore Sun.)
The peculiar nesting sites of the birds
in the vicinity 6f Baltimore is-a most
interesting-study. Several days ago on
the old Liberty road the completed nest
of a bluebird was found in a letter box.
which w-as in constant use. When found
a letter was lying beside the nest and
'one of the birds was iif'the box.'
In Dulaney's valley a sparrow hawk
appeared at a -Karn and drove from a
box in which it had made its home a
wren. The hawk threw out the wren's
nest and soon completed one of its own,
and there reared its young.
Upon level tons of ;city houses bull
bats or, night -awks frequently lay their
eggs. . ' ; ' .
The cow bird deposits its eggs in the
nests of other and, weaker birds for thein
to incubate. Only one -egg is nsually
American Policy In ttas Far East
(New York Herald.)
""dr. .McKinley could not have .struck
' ' i-tmw... 1, j 1 C il , , . Vv
- than in declaring that the great aim deposited n the nest.... The u.swvery of
the United States in the far East a summer tanager a nesL a short time
- c-mimercial expansion and pointing ' ago, in which four cow bird eggs repos-
the benefit of Asiatic markets o the ed besides- one of the proprietor's, was
v''tth, with its yield of three-fourths considered a most nuusual ease by omi-
he world's cotton and its rising ;nanu- thologkts ' ' ' y ' : "'
: T; u.rill i',Hlnstr-V , ,. " 1U- I In t,e telegraph poles about the snb
lf i well known that the South, once' L" 1 5 -ft .mnpr, nf th
producer only, has now become also a urbs of the citj TtWo memDers of the
A A Cliinse frm Front
(From tfie Montreal (Can.) Herald.)
It is of the highest significance that
I'resident McKinley and Senator Lodge,
of Massachusetts, should have on the
same day foreshadowed a change in the
fiscal policy of the United States. At
Memphis on Wednesday President Mc
Kinley practically abandoned the hopie
market theory, the advocacy of which
brought his name into prominence and
ended in making- him master of the
White House. He told the people of the
South that the chief American concern
of to-day is to supply other markets with
American wares, and 'he read with ap
proval a resolution passed many years
ago by a Southern Legislature in which
sound free trade doctrines are admira
bly enunciated. It is a long step for
ward from the position Mr. McKlnlev
occupied when he argued in Congress
and oit the platform that America of
fered a profitable market for everything
that could be produced within its boun
daries; tliat the manufacturers would
sell all their wares to the farmers, the
fanners all their, products to thoH? en
gaged in industry and .commerce. That
dream is past and over with. The lavs
of trade and commerce are just what
they always were; notwithstanding that
American (and otfher) majorities have
several times vote'd them out of exist
ence. : :'
Tha Htocy ofth Lnt Few Iys
(From the New York Sun.)
The fact is that as capital engaged in
legitimate business has iu recent tiniss
massed itself in colossal form ami power
it has come to be applied to speculation
on a like scale of magnitude. The great
speculator:; are operating with unheard
of resources and with commensurate dar
ing. They are venturing into schemes
their
or-
poration was among industrial enter
prises.' Their operation! are .unprece
dented in point of size only. They are
simply "up to date," with a blind and
prosperous public, plunging after, That
appears to be the story of the' last few
.days. , . 1 " "
Wall Street's record for that period in
dicates the simply Titanic power and
teirific intensity of the forces at play
there. They are more like the cenii
dwelling in the Caucasus - than things
human. Nothing like them has, bren
known before in the history of gambling.
This being the condition of affairs jn
the stock market, it is a good thing? for
ordinary men to let alone. However, the
craze for speculation of a minor sort
has received a tremendous check. It
can t last -through many such revelations
as that of yesterday. ..-"..'
Ho the poor in this country enjoy lux
uries.' Wen, beer and tobacco are not
usually classed as necessaries,- yet the I
tax piaceu on tnese articles
for war purposes 3r-.--.1t, tip -'tn March
31, a total of $150,965,168, or more than
balf of the total revenue from the war
tax. The rich did not pay alb of tnis
tax, nor even a "considerable portion of
t, since the yusually dring wine -' and
smoke imported . tobacco, neither of
which anj.eare in the figures oiiotwl
1 hiladelphia Public Ledger
altriness was 011 his brow;
d, oh, the sadness of his eyes!
The mocking measure of his choice
H id carried no unkindly slur;
'Twjis wisdom smote, with folly's voice;
And, oh, Lis eyes how sad they were!
Theji, that he wore the motley's role
W lreu life held higher state to give,
It vfas the armor of.a soul
T(o finely, wrought iind sensitive.
So, as we laid him to the earth,
Ti lis thouaht made bitterness -of dule;
Th:fl we who' hail not dreamed his worth.
Ills world not he had been the fool!
A TRAGEDY.
Iija cloistered calm, by a kneeling hill.
Where the wild wind hold their
J. breath, - ,
Ftuf dreamless ages the lake lay still
A who-sleep in the peace of death.
I . '
Fell into its breast, like a plummet-hue,
One quivering golden shaft.
Waiting its lifcwith a call divine
Till the soul of the waters laughed.
Thin that wanton beam danced, over the
J hill,
Wherever his sweet day led.
And the deep grew still as death is -still,
Kut not with the peace of the dead!
Marguerite . Meringtou. in Scribner's.
T-
(Snringfield' Republican.)
lie Hawaiian legislature may Vie in
hands of "niggers. " yet it nas.. none
good thing already in providing for
pstflhlishnieiit of municipal and local
self-rule. Under the monarchy and un
der j the sugar planters' republic the cen
tra government exercised all power, and
nil n-iimi.: wpw' niiid out of the central
government's treasury. Now each town
or city must snnt tor itseir, more or
lesJ: Honolulu may suffer by this new
law. for Honolulu always received more
in 4State funds than it contributed in
taxes. A city band was maintained at
the expense of all the people of the,
islands, and other luxuries were not un
kniwn which the country people had to
pa for. Honolulu must nOw pay for
its' j own music, if the bands be main
tained. '
1
(Little Jimmie Fisher Granpa. I'se got
tiree hooks on my line, an' yesterday I
caught two fish on each hook all at once,
aii' dey weighed six poun's apiece.
Granpa Tut, tut.
Little 'Jimmie-'-Oh, my! what'll I do?
Grandpa What the Let 'em go!
( I 'em go!
ti
nr.nn.ina Fifir.. .Timmie! Let dat. be a
lesson to yo' nebber to tell no mo' fish
tetones. " ' ;
l m
'I feel it In rriy bonea that I'm goimj to be Ha old maid.
"Not in ,yntr wishbone."
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