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lost Northern Railroad A- I Yrk Sun. . t: litroad from Lu!ea, near . tv JuIf of Bothnia, to j. n the Atlantic, has ; t. . :ntalns between Sweden . . A I now completed In . n.nl in the way. i n fifteen yean trains ; .inp fro:n Lulea to the :-r.e at OJelllvare. forty- Tth of the Artie Circle. I to the head of the n r S. on the Atlantic, the :; i tu- Polar Circle Is about . ; i !:. xth and penetrates 130 tr.- Arctic regions. . : ,? serve Important In . .f , r:rr.rc. but also be a , - . to tourists. Un- : r : y jiimmer visitors who -..i-i r th Norway coast to nee , : Sua at North Cape will try the trip an their way ; . N :- g the steamers at the : !. taking this railroad ,': ;.- rio'Tttalns to Gelllvare and ... .',::.t.tr.l to Stockholm, seeing I i ;:l'-.:I scenery and savins r f :r Uy$ o:i the Jourr.cy back : . . or l'.iri. -ncer are carried on this .-i. :Ml. they will see their -v.tr. up at a little station and .. . , ,ti 0f tj, bracman "Polar T!v station house has been .- .!! on th Arctic Circle and t? - ! :w of -Po!nr Circle." Here '. :?!' for telegraphing and the t hkiy to make use of them J v r -. hs friends of his unusual po- famous geographical line. i : In iron ore that are found . -v are the sole cause of the . c out of this KTCit enterprise. r. !. as Intimated above, will ?l r rurp-ss. but It would - tnf tea bjt!t if It wenv not - :iormou5 bed of Iron ore at . ir thl for years past have been .. th- mineral industries of Kng- ; ! tlrrmmv. r incs yielded S'WCOO tons of l''. tons In 1&X and the - tv ui!! r.o-.r l larcrelv nuzment- lr. rri?j and Improved faclli- " . k . I . W til- ll.liil .... WUL ..rs th? railroad between GeUl ...... 1 1- . Via h - A . . - .-M ' fr''t-s completely over In wln th.st. In that far northern Iitl :re nre only four or five months r-.iflv h.-iRirrrl shlDnients. tt .'.-! ld t extend the line from -re to f.ten Fiord, wher there n:iter for the largest essels. it' t - tl-nt! rwkrta rf Vrtru'lV n K:- r t t Ue fre all the year and or- villi - forwardel In every ?h frm th? new AtUntlc iort t r i.1. 11 ivn to th? blast furnctH :. : 1 nr.. I ;rmnny. -Ilnaf l a rr.inlnic town with S.f an oil little i-lace wl'.n h and a thatre. the los ctb th miners prIomlnatlnir. -r rr.fn satterel here and thte i th nlure. for though the place . Arctic settlement It is a gmf-s v .:-timbered region. There is a t.lly for the accommodation ot .... - K . l.,lni. ih. n-nr. In iirc numtvers to see the mldntsnt from the point of vantage afTordrd k m I W-V. ... t about the middle of July the -: v m.i' mrk- sn In all Its red j . an l a tall tower trrected on th :: :;t rs'rnl the view for about flf- . . - .v.... I.. f. 1 tier-day cult of sun worship . and the champagne botts c:t J around the top of Dmulrel show rrd.r.ary mKiern inttho-l of c-?le- l"s the suns nocturnal appetr- 1 t!rr.e xas when Iron ores contain fho'phorus were regarded n fh"?: j rlcs. The Swedish ore. - re !;:"cult to reduce than many ' t acfount of the phosphoruj In r 1 Swe-!en has no coal wrii to .-m!t th"m. so she sells rro.-t . . i and st "e!. for she can'buy ';r;pr.?rfo..u-tnfwyp fhrdlcmfwy -! of Germany chnper than she k It hrse!f. This is the rca- it v.is thought necessary to of th country. 1 the mln-s rf Ge!IIare dwell r-.r-rs and their families. T!e - n r"lve rrcm jl.li to a ! .ir" c omparatl"ely well-to-lo. r. -irntn's. took stores anrt s.op quite atlsom In Gel- i. nonevr. 1701ns; 10 oe wn- . . . 1 ... n WI. 1 1 Tr-.s N at Klrunavaara. and nn f ori the roi-I. loolnsc out of the i-r. rr. see m of the moAt sjirhts of It kir.d In the spread Its US-fulness far and x-ide. A town of from 10.CCO to 10.000 p-opie T.aste fronting this hill of iron, and for vrmury or two this town will teem with industry while Its laborer ore "arm the hill to pieces, gradually re- ---ft. 10 me level of the plain. It is believed that about 2.OCO.C0O tons of ore. win be taken annually from thl ncn source of supply. -orway has borne about one-fourth and Sweden three-fourths of th cost 01 Duiidlns the road to the Atlantic The engineering difficulties were not prcat. though several tunnels of con- sioerable length were required. a he rart that lies In Norway has a lerr.perate winter climate, while every thinC tit f V10 a-mm . . c .v, me mountains is In the grap of the frost king. There Is a greater array of snowsheds on the awetiish portion of the road than' is to be found even on the Canadian Pa- cinc m the llockles and elklrks. Ait the exposed parts of the line are thus protected and the snow-plough will be reued upon to keep the rest of the track clear. TV. Koernmerit having built the road will not turn It over to the com pany that owns the iron mines. This company Is. to pay all the running ex penses and repairs and turn over an nually to the two governments a per- it-mage on the amounts expended In building the line. Victoria Haven has been fitted with thorough up-to-date harbor appllan ces. The one dock, it is said, will com pare favorably with those of Lake Su perior In size and convenience. The frains laden with ore will be run out upon, the quays, the bottom of. the carswill be opened and the ore will be discharged Into great pockets on'tlr floor belo:. The Steamships tied up at th quays will be loaded in the'same way, the floors of the ore pockets slop ing at such an angle that when the doors are oien the ore will be carried by gravitation Into the holds of the vessels. They .will be loaded at the rate of ,l.Xfl tons an'hour, and a com paratively small number of men will be able to handle all the output of the mine snt here for shipment. It Is expected also that Russia will derive much advantage from the road. because she buys a great deal of fish from the Lofoten fisheries not far from Victoria Haven; and several days' transit will be saved by taking the fish on this railroad across the Scandl navlan peninsula whence It will be sent across the narrow Baltic to Ilussla. THE MORNING POST; WEDNESDAY." DECEMBER 31 1902 i'HE MAN IN THE CHAIR aggeratlons andl aggravations of th' mam factor, the agrarian stagnation wne of my friends residing for a tinv n the interior asked an official how many beggars he was feeding. He re Plied. 18.000. "These." he explained are all tenant farmers from the north t ew people who entirely own their lam are so miserably poor." Thus at even Point the agricultural question recurs In the province of Wuhu last year large relief work was intimated by for eigners. Here also the starving suffer ers were chiefly of that same larg class in China, the tenant farmer? Many of them were from the Immens estates of the late LI Hung Chang Where a man gives half he raises to a landlord he can, even in a good year save little or nothing, and a poor yea: means famin?. Whether the great llin system of in terior taxation can speedily be extir pated, as some seem to expect it wil now be, is very douotful. One of tht chief producing causes of distressing Poverty lies Just here. A cow crossln. the river at Nankin is taxed 60 cents a pig about li per cent., a chicken 2i per cent., etc. This is the climax, for all along the road before nearing the great city they have been taxed at various points, and they will be taxec again when entering the city gate. When a boatman earns a few for row ing people across a river he must paj 40 per cent. tax. Imagine what an English workman would think and say If compelled to pay in one tax 40 per cent, of his wages! Some of the cus toms stations on the great roads ot travel and trade are exceedingly lucra tive, but the mischief of the system lies in the fact that none of the re ceipts go Into the official treasury, for as a rule the collector has to buy his position. He hefs to let the offlcials and their runners go through free. The rest is prflt for himself. WHY CHINA IS F00R irr'At ridce. about "CO feet In -.I s'tra! mil long, of solid or. prhaps th larg?t ni;d '' -n-vi-l rras of this sujv i ,f ji the wor!J. The bras ! Jtt !- ti disturbed rxcrt by - r.-! drill, which has plcd .rh ml proved the continuity ..t:::r ro-k to Its mosrt hldlrn !ih r.fflners estinvtt th-it ronm from rw.tvw.f to ' tons o f re. Ifore very long t'Zn:. workmen will be cut s' way through this rigc of " i" ! h L-s probably preserve a Its : I -':. i:tt charged by th? i r. -ts of nature for .:inty ' ' of j.r. :' 1 t:ne1 gradually to dls- -:'?; in the fry furn ce.i of . ad r-aprartng In :nn;r r-ihtvid trs 'r r I nry ot (Pall Mall Gazette.) One of the greatest disabilities under which China labors as a nation Is as slrr.pl- as It I sad. An Immense pro portion of Its population very rarely gea, a meal uffielent either In quan tity or In nutritive power. Hundreds or oenevo;ent foreigners. Doth or tr.e mercantile and missionary orders, are constantly seeking In scattered spots throughout the vast reMm to mitigate the chronic chstress of the poorest sec tions. Especially has philanthropy been effective in relieving the abnor mal pressure consequent on drouth and floods, obviously, however, exter nal help can do next to nothing to meet a normal condition of Insufficient al iment extending over a very extensive land and Involving an enormous popu- .ation. One of the cause of chronic and massive Indigence In China throughout mot of the luterior Is the utter stag nation for ageV.of civilization. The de velopment of this mighty race was long since arrested, and though the .nation Is not decadent. Its conditions are ster eotyped, and China Is In a state of permanent .childhood. - Every linguist well understand that this accounts for that colossal philological curiosity, the Chinese language. It has never got beyond the monosyllabic stage, and Is a mere language of overgrown babies. This condition of arrested development lies nt the root of the appalling pov erty of ten masses In a country which nature designed to be incalculably wealthy. China Is not. like Central Af la, a land of savage, howling wasjes. It Is one of "the most fertile and flowery parts of the earth's surface almost throughout the entire area. And. more over. Its people are me most inausiri ous agriculturists In the world, and have been so for many centuries. Fruit a nf vegetables are much more abund ant and exlsfln much greater variety than we are favored with in our own country. Notwithstanding these magnificent natural endowments, what is the state of things In the "Flowery Kingdom?" From lack of anything like scientific cultivation the) quality of nearly all fruits Is exceedingly poor, and only the splri-!ld sunshine and the atmospheric cor.'.lt'ons compensate for the lack of skit!. Aprl. pears, apricots, peacnes. r-ctarlnes. plums, cherries, grapes and persimmons re aimosi every wnere jcrowtv In Immense abundance. Dut no native ever studies Improvement in their culture. Wheat, muiet. maize. sorghum, sweet potatoes. peanuts. In digo and a great variety of pea and bean crops are produced witn ease, while rice Is. of course, almost unlver- rally found In cultivation. Uut In near- v every proving the output, notwitn- Batfnx In Old Tlnti The Romans took their meals while lying upon very low couches, and not until the time of Charlemagne was a stand used around which guests were seated on cushions, while the table only mode Its appearance In the middle ages, bringing with it benches and backs. The Greeks and Romans ate from a kind of porringer. During a portion of the middle ages, however. slices of bread cut round took the place of plates. The spoon Is of great antiq uity, and many specimens are in ex istence that were used by the Egyp tians so early as the seventeenth cen tury B. C. The knife, though very old. did not come into common ure as a table utensil until after the tenth cen- tnry. The fork was absolutely un known to both Greeks and Romans, ap peared only as a curiosity In the mid dle ages and was first used upon the table by Henry III. Drinking cups in the middle ages made from metal. more or less copious, according to the owner s means naturally date from the remotest age. On a deserted beach in Cuba, not far from El Caney, some travelers, not ong ago, came upon a skeleton. Seat ed in a rough chair, it eat and gazed upon the sta. The gulls had roosted on the collar bones, and around the feet -ea wrack and dulse had formed a sort -f wreath. A tattered Spanish uniform till fluttered from the bones, and a bos et beside the chair held papers show Ingthat the man had been an officer of rank. One of these gave the password if the day when he had lost his life, and as the travelers gazed upon the bones a land crab peeped out of a hole Just underneath the chair. All up and down the coast were strewn the remnants of the pomp and circum stance of glorious war. Rifles with rusty barrels and the stocks set thick with barnacles, steel scabbards with bent swords wasted to scrap iron, frag ments of uniforms and belts, ends of brass chains, and -bones of horses, drawn from their wind-swept praries to undergo the agonies of transport in a ship packed close as sardines in a box, and then left to die, wounded, with the vultures picking out their eyes. All, all, was' there, fairly spread out as in the kindergarten, to point the lesson to the fools who write of courage, if they had wit to see. Gun carriages half silted up with sand, rusted and broken Maxims, gave an air of ruin, as is the case wherever Ti tan man has been at play, broken his toys and then set to kill brother fools. Withal, nothing of dignity about the scene; a stage unsuccessfully set out with properties all got very cheap; even the ribs and trucks of the decay ing ships of what once had been Admi ral Cervera's fleet stood roasting in the sun, their port holes just awash, as they once roasted in the flames which burned them and their crews. Nothing but desolation in the scene, and yet a desolation o fa paltry kind, not caused by time, by famine, pestilence or any thing which could Impart an air of tragedy, only the desolation caused by those who had respectively sent their poor helots out to flight, staying them selves smug and secure at home with in reach of the quotations of the Stock Exchange. So In the mouldering chair the Gen eral sat, his password antiquated and become as mucn the property of the first passer-by as an advertisement of "liver pills." His uniform, no doubt his pride, all rags; his sword long stolen away and sold for drink by him who filched It, butyet the sun-dried bones, which once had been a man, were themselves more Interesting than were hi3 living conquerors with their cheap air of insincere success. the fish cpring and fall back again v.iu a iOu splash in the still waters of the tropic beach. HOW BIRD CATCH FISH v. in4irifiP!ih mil of the stanoir.s - - t people I far short of what might bo attalnd under better management. hlie the nullity of the foodstuffs is delclent in nutritive power. Vast tracts Invratlgat First (From Joseph Nlmmo, Jrs address to the House Judiciary Committee, on Dec. 13th. This nation was consecrated by a liberty-loving people to liberty and the ends of liberty before the Contsltutlon was written. It was formed -on the idea of limiting the powers of this gov ernment to the purpose of enabling all men to live and labor in an open field and In a pure atmosphere. It was formed on the Idea that the govern ment should keep Its hands off of the struggles of men In commerce and In Industry- That doctrine was and is pe culiarly Americanism. It Is the most striking feature of the political organi zation of this country. Mr. Jefferson was. perhaps, the most conspicuous ad vocate of the doctrine because he was the most able advocate of that partic ular principle. The proposed legislation before you involves the great political error of revising the principle on which thl.3 government t first was founded ot leaving men In commerce and In manu factures and in industry to flght out .their own battles; and It Introduces the enormous political heresy of load ing upon this government of our re sponsibility for the success of the com merce and the transportation and the industries of this country. I firmly be lieve that any attempt of the sort ruin the industries of the country and endanger the perpetuity of the govern ment. In this view it involves a great political change a complete revolu tion In the policy of the government which might lead to fatal results. Will you Invade that princple of com mercial freedom which is guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, and will you abolish that policy of non-interference with commercial and industrial struggles which has safeguarded our government form the beginning? This is a subject worthy of your most careful consideration. The only object I have In view in bringing these constitutional questions and questions of governmental policy before you Is to emphasize my great desire for a thorough congressional In vestigation of this great political ques tion: for It Is a vast question. There Is still another feature of the anti-trust movement. It Is at the pres ent time a hypothetical Issue. It is based upon predictions as to what will come to pass, and not upon any lesson of experience. The prosperity of the country repels any srch speculative assumptions. The world goes out to greet the con queror with flowers and with shouts, but first he has to conquer, and so draw down upon him the acclamations of the crowd, who do not know that hundreds such as they stultify with noise have gloriously failed, and that the odium of success is hard enough to bear without the added Ignominy of popular applause. Who with a spark of humor in his soul can bear success without some irritation in his mind? But for good luck he might have been one of the shouters who run sweating by his car; doubts must assail him, If success has not already made him pachydermatous to praise, that subli mate which wears away the angles of our self-respect and leaves us smooth to catch the mud our fellows fling at us in their fond adoration of aecomplisehd facts. Success is but the recognition (chiefly by yourself) that you are better than your fellows, a pal try feeling, nearly allied to the base scheme of punishments and of rewards which has made most faiths arid and rendered actions noble in themselves mere huckstering affairs of Are insur ance. An Experienced Hand A celebrated bishop, who was visjt Ing a health resort, sat down to rest ,i have ben impoverished through j one evening on a seat on the parade. 0f uninterrupted production When he wished to rise from the bench he found ll rainer uuucuii, uning 10 his age and infirmities. A little girl noticing his trouble, ran up to him, saying: "Oh, sir, let me help of so rnturl without any adequate compnsauon. Enriching material Is poor In quantity. Grating Is ur.knowru and In most of tl province the Una never lies fal low, the natives never having learned the secret of the rotation of crops. Yet the land is still forced to produce three crops two years without. Intermls- l2!w- ir-,n no vert r problem Is con- . I ! . , - " ' ? tJW tf- secoldary causes are rnan- ick. In t ar.no:!. plJrated. H r Xmv arm nniv -h-r thing, that ifcld but after all they are onl ex- you." The good bishop gove her one of 14 sweetest smiles and said: "You are a dear, good girl, but I am sure you are not strong enough." "Why, bless you. sir," was the reply, "I've often helped Daddy when he was a sight further gone than you are. If a man nut his life in peril for the Victroia Cross, or pass laboriously days In a baronet at last, a plague of courage and laborious days. Arts, science and literature, ith all the other trifles n which hard-working idle men make oceuprtions for themselves, when they leaad to material success, spoil their professor and degrade themselves to piecework at so many pounds an hour. Nothing can stand against suc cess and yet keep fresh . Nations as well as an individuals feel its vulgariz ing power. Throughout all Europe, Spain alone still rears its head, the unspoiled race, content in philosophic guise to fan in all she does, and thus preserve the individual independence of her sons. Successful nations have to be content with their success; their citizens cannot be Interesting, ho many, hundred feet of sanitary tubes a minute or an hour, so many men grow rich; fancy a poet rich through rhyming, or a philosopher choked in bank notes whilst writing his last scheme of wise philosophy! But those who fail, no matter how ingloriously, have their revenge on the successful few by having ept themeslves free from vulgarity or by having died unknown. A miner choked with firedamp in a pit, dead in the vain attempt to save some beer-mused comrade left behind entombed cannot be vulgar, even "if when alive he was a thief. Your mere successful man who has his statute set up in our streets (apparently to scare away the crowasj. ana wnen e uie, and his column and a half in penny cyclopedias turns interest-to ashes by his apotheosis In the vulgar eye. But the forgotten General, sitting in his chair, his fleahless feet just lapping In the waves, his whitening bones fast mouldering into dust nothing can vul garize him; no fool will crown him with a tin-foiled laurel wreath; no poetaster sing his praise in a maudlin ode or halting tnernody, for he has en tered into the realm of those who by misfortune claim the sympathy of the writers who are dumb. Ah archtype of those who fall, let him still it watching the gulls fly tcreamlng through the air and mark (From the Hartford Daily Times.) -v'ery many species of birds feed en tirely or almost entirely on fish, and among them they have as, many ways of capturing their prey as human fish ermen have. Some, with more patience than most men possess, stand silent ly on the shores, waiting for the fish to approach them; others put out to sea and capture their prey In deep wa ter. Of these feathered fishermen, none is more familiar than the belted king fisher, which may be seen in the East ern States at almost any time befween March and December. His favorite fishing grounds are wooded streams and ponds, though he may often be seen in the vicinity of salt water. The kingfisher spends- much of his time watching for fish from some favorite perch, such as a stake in the river or an overhanging branch. From such a point he makes short journeys out over the water, sometimes returning at once, at other times flying to some other nearby perch. It is while on these lit tle trips that he does his fishing. As he catches sight of a fish near the sur face of teh water, he hang3 fluttering for a moment above it and then pitches down into the river or lake, often dis appearing from view in a jet of flying spray. If successful he soon arises with the struggling fish held safe in his stout two-inch bill, shakes the wa ter from his plumage and, rattlig proudly, flies to some convenient place to eat his Drey, Somewhat similar are the methods of the osprey. As he wings in wide circles through the clouds, hi3 wonder ful eye searches the water for some sign which may betray the presence of a fish. As he receives the sign, he stops sailing, and with flapping wings Iqe steadies himself for a plunge. Then downward he speeds, in meteoric flight, striing the water with such force that a fountain of spray shoots upward from the place where he disappears. For a moment he is lost, then up he rises in labored flight, lifting a shining captive, which he grapples In his eight black talons, and he tears it to pieces with his hooked bill. Quite different are the fishing meth ods adopted by the herons. With heads drawn, in between their shoulders, and often upon one leg, like statues they stand on the bank of a pond or stream, waiting for the fish to come within striking distance of their speir-like bills. At other times they wade cau tiously out into the water, lifting and placing their feet with extraordinary care, lest they alarm the fish they are approaching. When near enough, the long neck shoots out, and it is sud denly withdrawn, and, behold, the suc cessful heroon has a fish. If it is a small one, he gives it a shake, and swallows It, head first; if a large one, he may have to pound it a little on the bank, to make it more willing to be swallowed quietly. He will then re sume fishing as patiently as before Differently again is the method of the white pelican, who catches his pen while swimming. v A flock of pelicans will surround a school of small fish, and by beating the water with their long wings drive their victims toward the shore. As they proceed, each peli can is busy scooping up the fish into the big pouch with which his lower handlble is provided. After a sufficient number have been "netted," the birds go ashore for a fish dinner. Jaegers and skuas are sea pirates, and obtain their fish by robbing the gulls and terns. When one of the lat ter birds has captured a fish one of these pirates will pursue him and force him to disgorge his prey. This form of piracy is practiced by many other fish-eating birds, mo3t of which are skillful enough to catch the disgorged plunder in midair. Gulls obtain .their fish by taking it neatly from the surface of the water; terns plunge into the sea, remaining out of sight for several seconua be fore arising with their prey. . The skimmer has still another meth od. He flies rapidly along, close to the water, with his knifelike lower mandi ble carried just beneath the surface, and ready to catch up any prey which may cross his path. Gannets alter tely fly and sail above the water, and secure their fish by dropping from the air. Darters and cormorants dive from a low perch or from the surface and n-.irsue their' fish under water. The serrated bills of the former and the hooked bills of the latter are well adap ted for holding such slippery prey. Sheldrakes also capture their fish by pursuing them under water, and hold them easily in their saw-edged bills. The man-o'-war bird does his fish ing while on the wing, and in several different way3. He is extremely active, and sometimes catches his prey at the surface, sometimes as it leaps out of the water, and sometimes he pursues successful gulls and terns and forces them to disgorge the fish they have captured for their own use. there owing to the popular Indignation against the union. The son returned to this country in 1SC9 with his mother, after Burr's death. Crosby tells t strange story of the disappearance of Theodosia. Burr. He says he sailed from New York on the schooner Independence and during the voyage two shipwrecked sailors were picked up. , By chance h overheard a conversa tion between them in which they spoke remtoresfully of having recently forced a beautiful woman to walk the plank on a pirate ship. ' Crosby knew they were talking of his half sister, who disappeared the year before, and told Aaron Burr of his dis covery. Burr located the pirates and prosecuted tho muntU . thes were hanged, but never mentioned his dau ghter's naclo during the whole trial. Grgfea ITeddlns On t fit "For the altar, not the halter says the Youth's Companion, !s tbe follow ing story: Marriage might easily become more terrifying than it is to a timid man if j nft BeputlJcan nattloual convent!! iv were 10 oe gua.raea oy bucu conven tionalities as those which alarmed the Keepinx Ttoetr Hr uthtOrtaad (Washington Post.) AH factions of Republicans In th5 south ars keeping tholr ears to the ground for the rumbling sound. Lily whites and black and ttans are allk scared to death since Prsildent Roose velt turned his back square on MxJ Hahn, most sealous in -tha eaaie oC Black and Tan politics, and appointed Danlsl l'a-tr'fJc nnll.e ef thm Tu r.. llco, N. C district. Ths illy whites !a Alabama, who were recency given n, rude shock by the ('-V-"v- ternal Revenue Collector Bingham, don't know quite 3et what Interprets. tion to put upon such action. The op position to Senator Pritehard in Tar heeldom Is equally at sea. about what the future may have In stere r them. The Georgia Republicans &. About th only ones In tio t-4i...c .v , j tranquility prevails, but the Georgia Republicans, few as they may bew ar not much visited by political tempestsi For the federal office-holding contJn gent the last year an a half has ben filled with turbulence, arid tho end of it doee not promise to be in si if ht, cer talrvly not till after the deles-Us to tb young man in the southwest. Not long ago a large clothing house in New York received & letter from the remote southewst to this effect: "What is the proper dress for. a groom in the afternoon?" The clerk who opened the mall refer red the Inquiry to the livery depart ment and the head of that department dictated a brief reply: "Bottle green coat, fawn-colored trousers, with top boots, silk hat with cockade. We can make you prices." In about a week came a plaintive note: "I always knew it wTas expensive to get married, ,but can't you suggest something a little less elaborate?" Wmrn Dcn'tGttOld No broad line of demarcation now exists between dress for the young and dress for the older , generation, for the simple reason that nowadays no wo man allows herself to be old. For some years past there has been a growing revolt on the- part of our mothers against the black silk gown, so stiff that it "stands alone," the hideous stiff erections formerly called caps, the shapeless mantle;, and the barbaric or naments of Jet. Their emancipation is now complete. There is really and tru ly little difference between their dress and that o fthe younger women. The stiff, ungraceful black silk has given way to fine, soft materlols. The pretty white hair ' is dressed as carefully as in youth, with becoming waves which soften the lines engraved by the finger, of time The shapeless mantle has given way to the smart, well-cut wrap. A softening effect can be given to af ternoon dresses made of fine zibeline by the addition of plenty of fine lace. havs been choswi Elf '! real, life Is tamest, And the gravt Is not its goal! Its great aim, thou nadly leamest Is to get 5unlilnt coal. . Washington Star. Backlots You don't mean to say thll is the nrst you ve nearu or iw Subbubs Yes. Backlots Why, it's the talk of thT neighborhood. Subbubs Yes, but my wife Is awa on a visit. Philadelphia. Press. "Is Jinks successful as a chaufreurri "Well, I should say so. Why, heV been arrested eight times In the lasl! two weeks." Chicago Evening Post, j i inirei cnn dcivi on -ottn tliaonnAlt'jppi fSXhekurr iron itnr 'UJ, utf mwubty jrv J.,uprs)uil. tint rt-ni for (uij etiirr rmtri f'i-irtlid tht will rt'ltV ofc uDQ. !. J'l'Kft'O, k.) ' rikititiiS i, Mr), jib '-3 In Preparing For your Christmas' . festivities yon will1 ' want the Purest1 Liquors, Cigars, &c. , in the city, and theyj can only be f cOmd at R. W. YOUNGS, RedLifht, s 15 Exchange 5t. - Billlsn and Trillion There are two systems of numera tion in use at the present day, com monly called the English and the French systems. In the former the billion la a million of millions; a tril lion a million of billons, and each de nomnation is a million times the one preceding. In the latter (which is the sytem used in the United States), the billion is a thousand millions, and each denomination is a thousand times the preceding. Therefore, according to the English notation, a trillion is the third power, or the number represented by a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed; according to the. French notation, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers attached. A billion, ac cording to the French method, is the number represented by a unit with nine ciphers, and according to the English method with twelve ciphers annexted. (Detroit Free Press.) More of this brand sold than any other, been nee of its uniformity in purity and' quality. ; - - OntrnKrir.n Aarn (Detroit; Mich., Dispatch.) Charles Henry Burr Crosby, now liv ing at 515 St. Antoine street, this city, with hi3 son. Is 108 years old. He has letters proving that he is tho son of Aaron Burr, vice-president of the Uni-j duced for contrast Wemsn'n Vi' hi Ills (New York Sun.) He was a tramp compositor down on. his luck, and he had not had a square meal for a fortnight. In desperation he applied for work on a fashion magazine, and-was taken on as a sud. 'i ne copy wim wnicn he was furnished read something like this: Terrapin green with garnitures of lemon white lace and champagne col ored velevt constituted the lovely gown on our cover page. Brown beard is a fashionable color in crepe, and harmonizes well with but ter colored lace. "A gown of tomato red was delight fully contrasted with lettuce green velvet and oyster white applique. Vegetable silk braid is one of the new trimming-?. A charming breakfast gown is shown in beef red cashmere. 'Egg blue and melon green are de lightful new tints. 'Claret silk makes a charming waist. 'All shades of brown are popular, In cluding chocolate, butternut, chestnut and hazel, and the biscuit shades are also prominent. A coffee colored dinner gown had sleeves of cream mousseline in 'souffle style. great run. Apricot, orange and banana are tho newest shades of yellow. "Almond white galloon appears on a wine Colored broadcloth gown, and motifs of pistache velvet were Intro- Crushed strawber- mi TNADC "!i PURE''i RYE SI 3 WHISKEYJ STRAUS GUMST &C0. ted States during the first term of Jef- fcraon. Crosby's ptory of Burr's last days is an interesting one and further con firms his claim. "When Burr came back to this coun try, after his duel with Hamilton, poor in health and with little left of his former vast fortune, he met a squaw of negro and Indian blood and fell in love with her. The squaw's father had been taken from Africa as a slave. She was a handsome woman and for her station in life fairly refined. The old man in Detroit says that he was itheii- only son. , He is well edu cated and can speak three different languages. Hie was born in England in 1791. Bun- having sent the woman , ry has given way to the grape shades, and mulberry to bon bon pink. "Tobacco is one of the most becom ing shades of brown." His fellow printers noticed that he acted strangely ad groaned at times. but before they became aware of the seriousness of the case he fell to tho floor and expired. The Coroner's Jury rendered a verdict of "Acute dyspep slo, superinduced by overeating." "You say that young man is an as tronomer?" said young Mrs. Torkins. "Yes. He can calculate the exact time that an eclipse, is due." "But what's the use, Charley, dear. when he can read the announcement in the rsper?" Washinon Star. See the largest barrel ever in Hale!? dow on tap ia A. O. Wa,l ford'a aaloaaj Uarett tieet. Raleigh. N. O. . . FAYETTEVILLE STREET RALEIGH, N. C. Fift Newlr FurniaheJ Rooms, all Modern Con yen- -. knees, European and Ameri can Plan. Two blocks from pott of Acs Tliree blocks from Opera Hones. Up-to-date Cafe for Ladies and Gentlemen. riUVATK lll.M.NW ROUAI3 FOR PARTIES. W. W. NEWMAN, Manager. W. L. DOUSKTT. Proprietor. , . . , . ; News and Opinions of National Importanos TfieSuit' ALONE CONTAINS BOTH. ' Daffy, by man .....$C a jea, Dally and Snnday. hy mall. a yar. The Sunday Sun is the greatest SuuUn .ewajyr - th World. Pr!c 3e a copy. B? mall. $2 a j ea& Adflreia THE 8UN. Ntir York.,
The Morning Post (Raleigh, N.C.)
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