'HAS THE WORLD
H the world gone wrong? X bew
' " child , .' " -r r
SVTto is 9lagtog ft happy song,
i And across: Uie' -way an anvil rings,
And yonder, a maiden hurries along ,
JJVith a look that only gladness brings. -;
Has the world gone wrong? I, see the
-Cl loma lover's eyes, .
And yonder upon the wooden gate;
SVbere lovers have gazed at the starry
1 A aparrow cheeps to its little mate. '
OM: CLAFLIN "was sixteen
years old when his family
moved from Chicago to San
Diego, Cal. His father, a
i consumptive, .w,as no longer able to
-work. His mother, a tiny, cheerful,
3ttsy woman, with ttiree small chll
rea besides Tom, had her hands full
w$h nursing her husband, making,
mending, cooking and caring for the
family. They had been in their new
liome for three months, living away
their small capital, "tind with no pros
pect of earning a dollar. s The boom
-was over. The town wan overrun with
Easterners, men "and women in frail
health, willing to worlf for small pay
at anything that' would yield them sus
tenance. And so Tomi the hope of his
courageous little .mother, had 'tried
cprything and. failed to get work.
It was then that he hit upon the Idea
-of becoming afisherman. For a week
before he broached the subject at home
ie had patrolled the shore from Point
. Lorn a to the Coronando beach in
search of a. boat He had only $15,
and of the scores of small craft that
could be bought -at all there was but
one within his means. A leaky lugger,
with frayed old sails and an impossi
ble Spanish name, stinking of fish and
-with a dirty black hull, lay moored ofT
he Portuguese village on the north
"hore of the bay, and thither day after
.tay.po.or Tom trudged, big with his se
cret. One Saturday night he startled the
lamily with:
"Well, people, I'm a sea captain, at
last and no joke. Mother, behold your
con, Captain Thomas Claflin, of the
good'ship 'Little Mother.' "
- The little woman's blue eyes were
tilled with tears when her boy showed
them the bill of sale to the effect that
.lie had bought a vessel for $12.50,. and
t
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TROLLING FOR
thus, like a true-blue Chicagoan, risked
Ills all In the only ' business venture in
lght
"I named her for you, mother, and
3-ou must christen her and take a sail
an her to-morrow."
With a basket of luncheon and a pall
and shovel for clams, the Claflin fam
ily, with Tom proudly leading the way,
:went down to the beach In the morn
ing. Sure enough, there lay the "Lit
tle Mother," swinging ... gracefully1 at
her ; moorings, no longer dingy and
Irtack, but raidiant in a coat of fresh
twhite paint, her sails mended and ship
shape, the Stars and Stripes fluttering
rOm her peak and her name in bold
blue letters across her bows. Tom's
little- brother and sisters danced with
delight; new light came into :hls fath
ers eyes, and as for "Little Mother,?
the patron' saint of that first voyage.
lang Ke1 hdCTied by; turns as she
ax m the -stern of the boat and
'watched: Tom, ' the captain, and little
vnarieyrrtHa. '."firsts mate both bub-
wing Qyer with excitement and nauti
-terms tugging "at ropes, "running
aDout litce regular jack-tars and mak
. ready "to put to sea," as Tom
aid. ::V'.:: - ..-.
As the boat, driven bv a cnnl
freeze, stood out across the bay for the
? oma ugntnouse, Tom showed : them
vaP- the new hand-piimD he had rWprt
lfto his.; little '"shio he
HcentreDoard, pointed out the imaginary
CONE WRONG?
Ha . thaJ,worid gohr wrong?
' v- . anting a
I hear the
That men wfio are; busy make.
I hear the engines buff away.
And, strong
In be
ndvl I ro to take
The little part
that X nave to piay.
Has the world gone wrong? There a many
a man, - -Ci,
When, his work is done to-night,. .
Who will . hurry ' away from care to
' see p--A :;;:,:-..-.- 1 -'r-':;
Glad faces glow where hearts are light
Oh, the world is good to them and me.
Chicago .Kecora-neraio.
beauties rnd qualities of the ' "Little
Mother," boasted of what he meant to
accomplish as a prof essiohal Sher
man, and made everybody; so s happy
that It seemed no time at allftlll the
sun was dipping into the sea and-the
first cruise of the "Little Mother Hvas
over. . :v. ;' v? 1
And the boy made good money with
his modest venture. Hb would rise
with the sun each morning, and with
his dinner pall and coarse tackle make
for the boat that .had become to him
both sweetheart and provider His
greatest difficulty was his need of an
assistant, and many was the barracu
da and giant jewflsh that escaped him
In his lonely, all-day cruises up and
down that matchless summer sea;
Sometimes he would induce some lazy
wharf Idler to accompany him,, some
times old Pedro, the retired Portu
guese from whom he had bought the
boat would hail him as he stood out to
sea and help him with the work.
Sometimes, when the sea was like a
floor of gleaming onyr, his father
would sit in the stern sheets, and little
Charley would "man the jib" or troll
a line for small fish, but alone or with
"a crew" Tom never failed to bring
home at night enough fish so that his
earnings at the end of the week were
almost enough to pay the running ex
penses of the frugal little family.
It was in the end of August that the
Monterey, the monster coast defense
monitor, returned from her first cruise.
She had been in South American
waters for four months, and the crew
got its first shore leave on American
soil at San Diego. The big war vessel
was thrown open to visitors one Sun
day morning, and all that day Tom
Cllflin carried sightseers from the
Santa Fe pier to the Monterey. Good
seaman that he was, he was fascin-
LARGE FISH.
ated with thp dazzling spotlessness of
tho monitor, and every night while she
lay in port Tom came aboard to revel
in the ship-talk and yarns of officers
aud men. Ko soon knew all' the offi
cers by name, and had formed a close
friendship with a seaman named Han
sen, who had I lived In Chicago and was
hail fellow with every man in the crew.
Hansen was killed the night before
the Monterey sailed for i 'Frisco. He
had goneN ashore with a guard to ar
rest a half-bread Mexican; stoker who
had overstayed his leave.: The guard
separated to
deserter, and
scour the town for the
Hansen, alone, had : the
misfortune io corner him in a'Chlnese
aive . at the, lower : end., of . town. A
kniferln the dark as he was ( dragging
bis prisoner through an alleyway.
panicf of chattering - Chinamen,7 who
quenched their; lamps and bolted their
ddorsjand poor Hansen was left dying
in ,the . mirei It is but four, miles to. the
Mexican' border f rom San Diego,- and
thltherlt was supp;ose-,rthe murderer
had ,fled. . .". : ,c :; : l -
1 The. Mayor of San Diego offered ?200
reward for the; capture of Hansen's
slayer, the little: police" ; force was
thrown in a fever of activity the Mon
terey delayed her sailing for-three days
ana then the crime began to be for
gotten. Tom sailed out to the fishing
grounds, every morning with whomever
ne could pick up. ; It was nearly, a
month after tho monitor had gone
when a lone fisherman sitting, at the
end of. the jetties that reach from me
crescent end of " "Coronado I- Island;
hailed -hlml Young aafiln' stood 'ln
fori the landing; and invited the atran-
ger aboard. : He "wanted something to
eat. and ;the boy," with a sudden gut
ter in his heart, opened his pail and
bade the stranger; make himself com
fortable. They fished all f that day
with' rare"luckr; anct? at - sundown the
"LlttlerJIother' was 'deep with "her;
cargo barracuda. - Once undtr the
lee of1 Point Lozna on the homeward,
trip the breeze died out and the boat
went f drifting -with the tide. Tbi
southern reaches of "the entrance" to
San D lego harbor are r covered vvlth
sandbars and shallows that extend two
m lies along the Inner; side of Coronado.
" The tide ran out while "Little Moth
er" was drifting, about these bars,, and
.when 1 darkness fell she went hard
aground A dense fog came with the
night. Tho channel btioys disappeared.
The distant lights of the city were
blurred and quenched . .in the- thick
haze, and by the time flood tide came
again it was impossible to steer the
boat with certainty pq safety.
"we'd better anchor tin tne; rog
lifts,'! said Tom. wondering what his
mother, would think if ?he stayed out
"all night. ,
His comrade sullenly agreed, and so
they dropped anchor, and lay rocking
In the calm - cloud of mist for hours.
The stranger fell asleep in the bottom
of the. boat, : but Tom, big-eyed now,
Jils heart beating with wild excite
ment, sat In the bow watching. It
must have been near midnight when
he crept down from the hull and un
shipped the little pump. The tide was
going out; again, andv as he droppedAthe
dismantled apparatus into the sea he
heard the watergurgling into the hold.
The stranger was yet sleeping when
Tom slipped over the rail, breast high
In the water and headed for shore.
It was 2 In the morning when he
reached the police station in San
Diego. He was bareheaded ana wet,
his bedraggled shirt and trousers were
clustered with burrs and thorns, his
feet were bleeding and he could hardly
speak the words:
"Captain, I've got the Mexican that
killed Hansen."
It was daylight when they surround
ed the scuttled lugger. The Mexican
was awake, clinging to the half sub
merged mainmast. The rickety fboat,
loaded with fish and bumped by the
now running seas, was going to pieces
plank by plank. Tom didn't waste 'a
thought over the captured murderer
after he saw the police lay hands on
him, but he shed a weak, unwilling
tear over the wreck of the "Little
Mother." - 1
"Why did you wreck your boat,
Tom?" asked his mother, that day
while the story of her boy's heroism
made'him the talk of the, town.
t uiuuiLuy , ue aiu, i. 1VU3
afraid the Mexican 'd get away to sea.
I wanted him, you know, but what I
wanted most was that two hundred
dollars reward. I can buy a new boat
for. half the money."--John H. Raf
tery, in the Chicago Record-Herald.
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It Was Reallj Clevr. k
The public "fondness for being hum
bugged seems to have reached its
third power this winter. Formerly,
people were; satisfied, on the vaude
ville stage and elsewhere, with imi
tations of things with which they
were familiar, goldfish, or crosscut
saws, or giraffes, or submarine boats.
In-a. store window a wax figure was
good enough to display garments on;
in fact, it Was considered an improve
ment on the old-fashioned wire frame.
Last winter an up:town store con
ceived the idea of maklntr an lmita-
lion of an imitation. Accordingly,
,the proprietor hired a man. to paint
his face Hke a wax figure, and, clad
in u rubber coat, to stand under a
shower bath aud move his eyes and
limbs as mechanically as possible.
The idea, proved successful ; the street
in front (of that window was all but
blockaded. This year, -half-a-dozen
other stores have tried the same de
vice. In one, a real man with a mask
is placed In the middle of a group of
mechanical wax figures. '' As might
be expected, his 'movements are more
lifelike than any of the others. "That's
the cleverest . piece of machinery xl
ever saw !" is a comment often heard.
Which, of course, is Very true.-New
York PostI . 1 i. - ?,v;; Vi
' Constantinople, Beggitra ITeastday.
One ax?in the 'year Constantinople
s free; from the beggar nulsance--on
November "25. This is the festival of
St. John -; the Almsglver, the- patron
saint of thue mendicant profession. No
beggar : of the Oreek faith ;. is on his
or her beat that day. In the forenoon'
all, or nearly all, orthodox mendicant's
attend' alspeclal service In" thefChurch;
of St, .Constantino, at which an Arch
bishop4 officiated It 'was arranged, by
! their corporation, for they are organ-
ized 4 into a guild like any other trade.
The churchy" spacious as It is ; was
nbne; too largo for the numerous :;cdh
sregation hot 's cadgers, manyjpfwhom
in their, holiday, garb looked like re-,
spectable "citizens. , The rest of the
day was spent" in festivities which
were apt to extend so far into f the
night that many pf the travelers were
unable .to attend to business on the
morrow.-The Constantinople , Ephi
meris. ;
' A New Solution, :
HB. world may become, Ipdebt-
It V V MUOmv .. .--
T of - overland ; transportation.
The device' In question is that
of. Prince Khilkqff, the Czar's Minister
bi Ways and Communication,, and Is
so simple that one Is inclined to won
der that it was not thought of before.
The plan contemplates the employment
of automobiles of ' from three to X six
horse power for hauling ordinary carts
over tramways 7 made of boards, sheet
Iron, cement or any material that may
be found readily at hand. Stone, Iron
and wooden tramways "have been used
for. transportatipn from time immemo
rial j traction road engines are not new.
nor can the Idea of drawing farmers
or carters wagons in trains from farm
to factory to the nearby market towns
or railway centres be regarded as a
novelty The traction engines hith
erto thought of in this connection,
however, are comparatively slow, ex
pensive and so heavy that a consider
able portion of ' the power generated
by them would be required to haul
their own weight. Moreover, a pre
requisite for their successful employ
ment is a hard, smooth and costiyTbad.
. Prince Khilkoffs initial experiments
were conducted in the piirk, surround1
Ing his 'home. Ordinary sleepers we're
laid down, and upon these two lines
of planks were nailed, instead of rails,
at a distance apart corresponding to
that of the automobile wheels. Wood
en combings were placed' on the outer
sides of the planks asiguards, to pre
vent the machine fram leaving the
track. With an ordinary three and
one-half horse power carriage a cart
laden with bricks, and weighing with
Its contents nearly two tons, was
easily, hauled over the "vo odea tram
way at a speed of twelye versts an
hour. The estimated cost T of a tram-
way constructed like the
less than 2000 rubles per
foregoing is
verst, while
f
the cheapest macadamized road would
cost five times as much. The first prac
tical experiment of the new system is
to be made between Tsarkoe-Selo and
the new water works, whlth are being
built a few versts from that city. The
line' will be laid over swampy ground,
where an ordinary road rould not be
built Various substances will be tried
for the new automobile rails, such as
Iron, cement and different kinds of
wood., ; : '; , j ,'.:f;.S.-..f
In the event of the snccess of this
experiment, of which there is no rea
sonable doubt, the system is to be - ex
tended throughout the empire as a sup
plementary means of transportation
between points not reached by rail
ways.; Another consideration moving
the Russian Minister to extend the sys
tem is the impracticability of ordinary
Russian roads for carriages and carts
In the spring and autumn, when the
wheels are apt to sink hub deep into
mire. The considerations ate as valid
In the greater part of this country as
they are in Russia, and it is; quite pos
sible that the general adoption of
Prince KhilkofFs plan would be the
solution of the haulage problem in the
rural districts of the United States.
An automobile can be bought at a price
but little exceeding that of a team of
horses, and costs incomparably less to
keep. The cheapness of '" the timber
tramway would lay the road tax bogy,
which fills' farmers with apprehension
whenever improved roadways are
mentioned. The point which would
count, most heavily in favor of the
tramway principle is Its adaptability
to all .locations. On any sort ' of soil
the sleepers and board rails could be
aid with equal celerity and ease. No
clay would be too . soft, nor sand too
deep for it; the road could he made to
follow the rubble stone bank of dry
river, and it would not 'be necessary to
make long detours around marsh
lands. On grounds of economy and
general utility, the plan appeals to one
so strongly that it would be surprising
if some of the freeholders or! supervise
ors of our progressive rural communi
ties should not give It an early trial.--Philadelphia
Record. -n CA!.
2few Metbod of Boad ITaUdinff.
A novel system of road construction
has -been successfully reedr to "in
Mpnmouth;;illVThe - gronndWas pre
pared ; for it ;by grading and Ibelng al
lowed to remain so for two months,
Itwas treated to an occasional scrap
ing,so that it would pack evenly, be--ing
'thus rendered hard, and : even for
the flaying of a surface of brick, the
jchief constructive feature. The first
thing was-the r Setting of a! curbing,
made of two by six Inch plank's seven
if eet apart, held by oak'stakes eighteen-
j inches long and put down, every four
ieet.r: inside of this wns n. flvw!nrl
pea ot sand, all evened up, and a single
course of Jfo. 1, paving brick then put
uuwa, a nne -roaaoea being f thus s ob
tained, i Outside the curb, two. feet of
crushed rock were laid, graded up to
make an easy approach, this plan In-
f surmg a way of eleven feet in width,
ana, asr xne carta, on each side wa
TTT
craded and worked. th ,
gethsr a width : of some forty tm 1
fordirie tracks on ennh m
' WHO . !
dry weather. Such a brick roart
about ninety cents a running f00
- Handllnff Farm Prodtfeta.
Ah item In the report of the Ina
trial' Commission, at Washing
shows :that the cost of handling ffl
products, over, the country ronru 7
estimated; at' OO.ObdlOOO a year, j
more than the entire cost of operat.
all. the railroads of the United Stabl
which Is f placed at "$818,000,000,
seems , inconceivable,' but no doubt i
is approximately true, except in tI) j
fnrt thht the farmers flon'f
,;- - "j n'j
money for the use, ot their teams,
in unestimated labor; ' . f
WONDERFUL PLASTIC SURGERY, f
Complicated OpeTations Performed "Vitj
mo uu oi i aramne.
A Viennese surgeon, M. Gersuny
has found that l;n a great number oi
plastic or autoplastic operations ex
cellent results may be "obtained t? ,
the use of, paraffin termed medicinal1
vasaline, writes Dr. R. Rommo in
Rome, Paris (the' translation from
which we quote being given by public
opinion).
To raise a nose deformed from birth
or Host in the battles of life, or sfta.
ply broken by a blow of the fist, h
delicate and complicated operatic ,
under the present procedure. It l
necessary to make, first, an appropj'..
ate nasal skeleton; then this skeleton.!
once established, with a thin piece of
bone tissue cut; from the 1 thickness or 1
the frontal bone, the question h to I
cover it with skin. 4 When the nos'
has -.thus, - With r great - difficulty, ben ("
re-established, it remains in place, and?
the final result leaves much to be de- -sired
from a plastic point of view at .
least ' .
M. Gersuny has changed all this. ifti. f
der the skin of the broken nose which i
needs to be raised, one simply injem i
cubic centimeters of vaseline-par-afflne.
first liquefied by heat, the in
jected, inass raising the skin of the
nose. AS the paratBne becomes solid
at thirty-seven degrees that is to
say the temperature of the body-it
has orilv to bp fashioned dnrin? thv
time it is cooling under the skin ta
give to the nose any desired form, j
Noses which are made In this way f
are absolutely perfect.
But what becomes of the vaseline- t
paranlne injected under the skin? Ex- i
periments made on aninials show that: !
It is not reabsorbed and that it re- 1
mains in place. And not only is it not
reabsorbed but it produces in tiie
neighborhood tissues an excellent re
active effect. There is formed a web
of connective tissues which unites anil
traverses all the parts of the injected S
vaseline. "When at the end of some f'
time the animals have been killed, at
the place- where the injection wa j,
made a hard body similar to cartilage .
is found, a sort of conjunctive web of V
whidh the links are filled with the
paralfine. ' j
The formation of these particular
tissues allows us to suppose that the
results obtained by the Gersuny
method are durable, perhaps conclu-
sive. Among the operations made in I
this way some, were made two years; I
ago, and the corrected deformity has I
not reappeared.
Papa's Arrival "Was Timely.
A little girl at East End, who is wont J.
te 4ake refuge in the protecting arms;
of her father when her mother's ire is
up and trouble is pending, almost
missed her haven the other night. Her
mother and she had gone up stairs for
the. night, leaving the father in the-
heading-room below. In the prepara
tions : f or retiring the little girl dis
obeyed her5 mother and trouble was im
minent" "IHl just switch you, little lady," re-
marked the mother.
In an instant the little, girl rushed to
the, door and screamed for .her -'father
to come up at once.
The obedient father got up; the stairs
in about three steps, and as he entered
the ' room the angered mother was
about to use the switch. V ;
"You just did get here in time, papa"
said I the little one,' as she. buried her
face under his arm, Memphis Scimi
tar. 4::t '? :
Curious Work With English SIQdalf.
'A veteran of Bridport has ; just re
ceived his, medal such is the indecent
hastft the War Office-for the, Cri
mean War, just as many Canadian
Volunteers about two years tgo;were
hurriedly presentedivith their-?niedal&
f or services of spme f ortyjyears brck.
This, however, is nothing to a naval
niedal, bearing ships. and;ialls, which
Cwas once accidentally struck and' dir
irlbuted i for k fr6ntler trdiible in ' the
Interior ff;iaT'The5;
TAghtijeseti for tb
flueireward,"bf such Important and
hazardous ' services as ' garrison work:
in Malta. ; The militia, who were dis-
patched 'there temporarily, are al .
ready going V to receive their Mwar'r
medals. London Chronicle. ,
Tall Hats and Iu sanity,
; A London authority says tall hat
cause insafcity' 'and blindness. Still
there 1 are men who I wear silk tiles-.
and black mustaches who can, see a
far into an ordinary game of chance
as any pf us. Minneapolis Times,
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