WORST OF BEING POOR. T IS THE FEAR OF WANT WHICH TROUBLES MOST. .r« *Ke.|» V* Company Iioin Kaclnnlnc *•’ ••‘e Knd of IJfo'a JuorMoy — (luanl Asnluat It.

*0 or th

«r gave a IcctU! 1 the evil* of i

illug largely

1 bf poverty. He men-

^oned several of them, ami among the rest he dwelt upon that anxiety 'or the future which never leaves the jeor man except when he Is dreaming jr when he is drinking. We put In terms oi our own the fact of that fear »f want which Is far the worst of be

:ng poor, though ahetber Dr. Adlei

20L

None of ua are quite free of the

K care s from

'as probably rorlil. Rich 01

black cere whose nume has come down

rom the classic agea. I

1 earlier

young, man

;eops us com-

to the end

t always le blanc

iltey-brown

1 when she is s

but which

much

poor, old «

or woman, atra cure ki pony from the beginning 1 of the Journey. So is not very black; at times she to something K»e a whlti ind there are times when

useful In reminding u* of the dain ind rights of others that she whitens to the candor of a celestial angel. But ordinarily she Is of the sad complexion attributed to her by the ancients, and she can wear no other to the poor, who. when not In want, are in the fear, of It Except the very richest, Indeed, we are all in the fear of want, and

the prosperous ms

the Image of adversity before him thinking of some less prosperous man

who has, say, been ge week, and has been

laid ol

the German empire, apd the Belgian kingdom, they are trying old age pen s'.one for working men as a means of keeping tne poor from the fear of want The anomalous common wealths of Australasia go much far tber. and help a steady man to a house and farm, and provide him with the means of securing himself against the fear of want: thoae states forget him at no moment of hla honorable career. All such efforts seem good and desirable to the poet and philosopher ‘whom the economist Uae been getting to be; and it would be well for us to take them, all Ipto the conalilcratJon. now while the fat klnc are feeding fatter, and the hour seem* Impossibly far when the lean klne shall come up to dine from their succulent steaks. Yet they always come, and the lean klne never find their feast any better than their fast, and are apt to be unruly after the fat klne haye been altogether consumed. The first thing we know we shall have prophets again proposing to abolish want Itself unless we abolish the fear of It. As poverty Is one of the bulwarks of the constitution cannot guard It too carefully.

ant. 1

easily bring ifore him by

s prosperous man ettlng $8 or 810 a 1 what they call

1, say, b

ind has been what they ci :. or has. as they say, lost t

laid off. or ha

fCu. If It Is a prosperous woman who is willing to do this thinking, she can imagine a fellow woman who has been earning $4 or $5 a week, and Is laid up. rather than off. by sickness, with four or five children hungering and shivering round her bed. If it comes to asking us whether wc consider this a useful or edifying exercise of the imagination, we own

n explicit

We can only say that the a sort so very akin

.th th

take It into account, want which is the

>vety. and want Itself, when

ipthlng like a relief.

Then charity steps in. first in the of the poor neighbors who are

too vigilantly o

y echome tend-

opposc any eel

ing to undermine It. But we may a fitly Join In trying to lessen the u

Join In trying to 1<

apprehension

Harper’s Weekly.

which It inspires.—

WORKSHOP OF HUMOR.

JOKE MANUFACTURE AN INDUSTRY OF GENEROUS PROPORTIONS. • TIia Output of Comte fqotb. In the Culled Statae It Knorraou. — Method, of Composition Adopted by the frotee- • lonut Joke Writer*—Mellius ihr Output. To the general public the fine art of Joke writing Is a mystery. Yet it

prominent, if some-

what over worked, feature of literature, and the manufacture of Jokes is in Itself an induatry of quite generous proportions. Some unknown but

observant individual has said humor of todaH&fcsnsists chi

has come to t

TIMBER OF HAWAII. laHon Kou and Other Wood. 00 the I.loud of Knout. Territorial Forrester David Haughs nd expert Forrester Griffiths from Washington are expected back from Molokai, on the Lehua, on Saturday. Mr. Griffiths la nearing the end of the time allotted for these islands before

trip 1

•loaves the Islands.

soil on Kauai being probably

i that tl chiefly 1

WHY BOILERS EXPLODE.

■ In the

krfct above toil freely.

to probability with the poor th have always to take It Into a

r of 1

It is the fear v.orat of ■pov.

it comes, is som(

which like tlme~'To A ascertain met in the case of destltahon, and which are not to blame for not knowing what the poor neighbors know. Want can be very easily confronted and overcome. The community has amply the wealth and the will for thaL It Is the fear of want, the lurking fear, the hidden fear, which cannot always be met,, and which remains through all the struggle of life, to harass • and r the 1

Pb

of the old-fashioned economists, and got Itself recognized as one of the highest Incentives to Industry. It Is considered almost sacred, and worth? ef at least as much veneration as capital punlshmenL To many It still seems the corner stone of civilization, the foundation of liberty itself. We have been so anxious to keep it that when a few years ago there was talk of abolishing poverty, casuists and Vronomlsts rose together to frustrate the scheme, as If some attack upon tht fear of want had been threatened. Yet it might be shown that the fear of want Is not essential to the development of the Individual or the growth of the commumlty. ft might be not Impossible to prove it the prime blunder of -human progress, the stumbling blocV which humanity Is .always reaching and always falling back from

Into real adversity. It lies at the heart of prosperity, it Is

An Old EaslBMi-CIvM th* IU.nl; of Bl>

Kxpnrl.nc.

"Why do boilers burst?" repeated an old engineer, of whom the question was asked. "Well, boilers are like people, in that when they are 111-tveat-ed they get red-hot and explode. "The principal cause of explosions Is

because of Insufficient holler. The water trust

the tubes, so thAt It iray boil freely. When It .falls telow the tubes, the boiler becomes red-hot, the steel plndes soften, expand and crack, and. swish, she goes, and all else In the Imtne-

vicinlty.

"The number ot boiler erplVonA In different parts o' the count rv lately calls to mind the constant menace to human life and property existing literally under our very feel, as H is in basements and under the sldewa'ks. where most of the boilers are situated. The great wonder Is that more do not go up In the air, incidentally carryii the building and Its contefcts of

1 saw the wreck-

The hulldlollshed. anl

the bui-d-

up si dlate

rying 1 the

air, and

It!

age caused t slon In Pittsburg recent *ng was completily d the ruins looked as though ings had been blowy to pieces, and the

ground leveled by lynamite. "Boilers also burst where they have flaws and unseen defects in *eh metal which will not stand the strain of tne pressure of the steam, and tbcp laces part at tills particular spot Inspections often fall to reveal these laws, with terrible reanlts. Cold water lei into the boiler when it Is hot and wh<*c there is no water or Insufficient water inside often means an explosion. The steam U generated so rapidly., and its force Is so terrific that the plates part like pieces of paper. In the Iron region the sulphur In the water uned has eaten the bolts off boilers I have attended inside of three months, and great care ss to their repair In season had to be exorcised. Scale* will also form on the tubas, and when thickened so that the steel becomes red hot at this point, but the water cannot get to the metal becaus eof the scale, these ‘blisters’ part and an explosion re-

sults.

"In some of the big department building* in Wa^fMngton the boilers are fired to only about one-sixth of their tensile strength, and boilers with a licensed capacity ot withstanding 1] pounds of steam pressure to the squsi

» very

>f prosperity, it Is the cloud

trkens

ramini

advancing to devour the year of plenty. As long as the poor suffer from this worst evil of poverty the state Is sick with a dlc-n-der which sooner or later must declare Itself. It Is Idle to pretend otherwise; one feels it ba-

nal to affirm a fact bo plain.

How, then, shall we try to cure the

poor of It? We should

all. except the 1. be glad to do ’

that, to have h awky._os.ee and for- ; but'when It comes to the ques-

clearly understood that. It is not to be done at our cost In conveniences or luxuries, or In-sny of those social form* which we find *0 comfortable, so flattering. Most of the specifics which have been suggested involve something of the kind, and we. have therefore had no patience with them; we have denounced them as failure* without trying them. We are still seeking a •clenee which shall secure our superfluities to ns white adding to the scant necessittes. always threaten ln< to become the deflcteafctes of the YMTPOOg. . Borne ot ae have hopes, not well fie fined, of electricity, and caaaot help kPhy *CXA

Inch, carry only from 90 to 100 pounds, the safety valves being set at the 1st Igure. When the safety valves ; all right a vent for the danger mre Is permitted, but when they don’t, as 1c sometimes the case—wqU.

learn al about it when you up the next minute In the other

rorld.

-Boilers are better made now than wmerly. and are constructed of steel 12teed of iron, as long ago. The holler steel is testsd to withstand n tensile strain of 70.000 pounds to tie squat* Inch, as against 30,000 pounds of* s generation ago. Boiler explosions while frequent enough now, do not compare In number as at that period. There 1* a more perfect system of -inspec tl on and a better class of men In charge, who are required to pass an examination and roceive licenses before' they are allowed tc run stationary engines. ss my remarks do not apply to the boilers of locomotives."—Washli ton Star.

isb questions are propounded and finally answered with more or less sotlEfacUot to all concerned. This Is caustic, but a cursory examination of humorous periodicals will Conclusively (ifiinoiistrate that it is accurate. The pages of such publications are filled with these conversations, by courtesy called Jokes, which are tpe finished product of the fin de siocle Joke factory; and It la the apparent demand for this ton of entertainment that ha* brought the business to Its pres

ent prosperous condition.

The output of Jokes In the United States Is enormous. In fact, so large is the nuinoer appearing weekiy lit the various publications that the reader is prone to wonder how It U possible to evolve so many Ideas akrag similar lines. And It must be remembered. too. that those printed represent but a small percentage of the total number written, thousands of which are doomed to eternal oblivion. The parents of these peculiar brain children are scattered over the eatlre country. In almost every city or large town there are one or two persons who occasionally turn out a batch of jokes, and nearly all of them succeed In selling a small quantity of their wares. But It Is in the eastern cities, notably New York, that the business centres add flourishes, and consequently it is here that the professional joke writer may be found in all his prittlnc glory. There Is a coterie of 50 or 60 men and -several young women who do nothing but writs Jokes and verses. They make their whole living In this way. and with many 'of them a very good living it Is. Upon these people the comic papers depend lor their material, and the result is that the average earnings of the members of this clique are not less than 325 per week, while a dozen of them make from |50 to 875. their capacity running from 60 to 200 Jokes a week. A few of the most successful squib producers ha vs become well known to the humor loving public by the frequent appearance of their names un-

der verses and shori sketches.

The modus operand! of the professional Joke writer is not without interest to ths uninitiated layman. He dees hot wait for a happy Inspiration, often sitting down at his desk without a-humorous idea in his head, bet makes the Inspiration come to him, whenever he desires to turn out » batch of Jokes. By diligently cudgeling his 'brain he will finally think of some turn of speech,

Ightway works up of a Joke; this

ught

Joki for

some

which he s trail Into the form

will start a train of thought which soon results In tne evolution of more ikes, sad by continuing th* process two or three hours a batch of 20

10 jokes 1

ranted brant

dates. Each Joke is written on a separate slip of paper cut to fit nicely in an envelope. Then comes the mechanical part of the business, comprising the recording and mailing. The joke Writer enter* the heading of each Joke In a book, together

with the name of. the publli which the batch Is sent,

addresses an envelope to himself.

rhole In another en ;

startes his Jokes on their

cation to

stamps and

and

finally places the jrb

vc-lope and startes his jokes on 1 Jocrney around the world of humor. Ths first place to which he sends

rally tl

pays the. highest price. Upon their arrival In the sanctum of this periodical the editor proceeds to examine each one, selects such as he

"worth the mom

dr four oul and sends

the money." probably three rat ftf the 25 or 30 submitted. Is the remalndel back to the

then goes over his list and checks off those accepted, making a note of

whether or not they have been after which he sends the ones left to the publication paying the

for, are

paid that

next highest price. This prdcses repeated until the batch has been the

Grnt seidier ramiiiM. round* of the Joke buying papers, those

DaplU lb. bardiblpa bt « boUton "■•“•PI* 4 ^ “• l“ l «"«» b.lbp 111., lb*, la aa labanat Ion la aoia. ' tor poaa.bla aa. la iba tafamllt*«a for «ma. la Iba ana. *• i:™- *■« ■» tbU soaaUT aboal his four sons have also served. 8er- fctI,ln * »«*rly «he entire batch. The grant Taylor, now nt Cdehsrtsr. te £*5? ^ r “*** fn '“ 16 <**»•

on* of eight brothers, all soldier*, five . of whom have fallen in South Africa. J* 1 ® pro *“ lo '“ 1

Another remarkable instanc* was tbai | on A f t om _ lwo ,0 ,lx Batches during

tered tbs army again

Sted* r ria w* five la tba Bast

rt. in th* middle of the I * w#ek - ,h# r ~ ul1 ‘"‘“d ««t his Jokes c* fought as an ensign j arr ^ B * l ^ th *

? ** M W 1 M»a4fc«a»^.w, jsjsrir: 'irws “

ur^irss.' , .£s > “2 a.rs^- m y.r*. st- s . ... \

being proba est of the gr

auai, t ell on

practic Koa. t

Ing an

This woo

xsily, o

older than that of the rest of the group end Its position and latitude being also perhaps In' Its favor, there are several trees that grow easll

that have never flourishi other Islands. Among

Is the duraln, a tall elm like tree well known to travelers In the Ea*t Indies tor the delicious cuatard-llka pulp and Intolerable smell. Its seeds are eaten roasted like chestnuts. Mr. Griffiths will have a lengthy report to make on the Hawaiian forests, and his trip will have proved an interesting one, as several of the native woods are

new to the United States,

for example. Is little known as a wood superior to mahogany, and monkey-pod timber has never come

Into promlm

A proml

cr expressed a considerable curiosity about the snpply of a certain Hawaiian wood that was sent to him to bo made into trees.’ The wood was very light

extremely tough, as strong as

steel and. on inquiry, capable of last-

in indefinite number of years, d was the product of .the baa

tree and has been patronized quite extensively, for the manufacture of saddle trees. All these attributes of Hawaiian Umber, with the possibilities of sandal wood when the young trees which are now to be preserved spring up, will be taken cognlxance of by Mr. Griffiths In his report to Washington headquarters.—Honululu S**

6- OUAINT AND CURIOUS.

Professor Svybold of Stuttgart has discovered In the Tueblnger aniversity library an Arabian manuscript 600 years old, which Is probably the original of the -Arabian Nights." He has also found manuscript* describing the whole religious system of the Druses. The Paris Army museum has recently received a most Interesting and novel present In the shape of a unique collection of buttons, selected from the many varieUes of uniforms which been used from the days of the first republic Ull now. The collecUon numbers r of which an bought from the owner the cation by a generous donor who calls himself "Sabretache.” The singular power of divination that certain persons bars exhibited concerning their deaths was again illustrated at Morriavllie, N. J., the other day. Jamea A. White an elderly man In apparenUy good health said to his son-in-law at dinner, “I’m going to die tonight” The son-in-law laughed but called the family doctor, who found Mr.- White In exceUent Health. He died a natural death in bed that night, however. A novel plan Is designed to do away with the lighthouse for night navigation between Montreal and Quebe< to substitute an electric system. idea Is to sink a cable In the center of the natrlgable channel of the river for power transmitted from a power-house at Montreal. Lines of colored lights, supported.by cork buoys, will be placed at the water level on each side of the channel, the lights on one side beof a dlffei

A curious account has been published In Berlin of the average number of letters dally received by European sovereigns. The pope breaks the record. as his dally average of letters and papers reaches the enormous ni her of 22,000 to 23,000. Thirty-five secretaries are kept fnlly emplo; In his Holiness’s correspondet King Edward most find his daily quota 1000 letters and 3000 newspapers a tax on his attention. The Gear,

heavy

and the German emperor receii

ttr700 a

iror likes to

American continent treated tires as wild beasts of the forests, which hare no property in the forests through which they roam, and therefore planted the standard of their respective masters on the spot where they first landed, apd In their name* took possession of the country, which they claimed by right of discovery. Previous to any settlement In North America, many title* of this kind were acquired by ths English, Dutch.

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