fruDdle bed "here 1 'P' pUsd Wt might not mi EL'S ph th,t lumb,r 0 D artclous rest in the born" coocb hlM" ClM of delight, from tht foot to ...JLr little, desr Utile, old truu jjt bed. o-j trundle bed where 1 wonder- Jjf.Xougb the window, .ud ll.t- J ,j with owe JVtb Of th winds M they trom Jf S where the rob.o. .o Jl beard the lov. murmurous cblrp of toe wreBi the ketiliJ liitlessly chirrup sgain. ,be umre of tae dreams of Ibe "Tl modi u-d. M , old tnin.lle bed! Oh. the old traodle bed! ,j a plump litHe Pillow and old-fash- joartl pred; oor white h"'1 "1 lh hUaktti iliore. .(rj Jotd and tucked around with ttf tNCbCf of lore; jj, wire of my mother to lull me to rjthToM fairy stories my memories Mat (b a the Ullles that bloom o'er the bead M bowed o'er roy own la the.old trun- die bed. jum wBlteomb Riley. I Htfffftsrtn-gggs- gf n-et ! nis RimV HAY I W ;rtljtsjcf f i-gf f f g-f g:-t IT WAS my busy day. A pile of correspondence as d.-i unt tof to a man's ambition a Pike's jaiortbc F.lffel Tower burdened niy jakud there was a kink In ray tetn wfTbich 1 bad calculated would re nin i dinner at Martin's, tete-o-tpto siti Marguerite, to effectunlly straight en ooL Martin's chef makes a certain pite that puts a man at peace with all t: world, while Marguerite is at once nothing and stimulating, ltko cbam jmse. it till point my refiectlona were In ternpted by Forsythe, the best fellow b the world, out wltn an unlucky bablt of turning up at the wrong moment I didn't give blm the glad nand exact ly, for wblcb I was sorry enough nfter tird, but he was too preoccupied to : ' f. Ob, Pre aometblng to say to you. iatln," he said after a few prelitn! arttt, with the effeci of nawiug Just SBfmbered something. -All right," I replied, taking- my feet til chair to ibore :t toward bdiu, "but uit It twenty words if you ran. I'm Hi roth to-day." "I cm do It quick enough," he went on, vlthan uneasy Laugh. "I Juki wr,.U tout yon If you've any Intentions of t matrimonial sort, you know, toward liirfwrlte." "Tbtdevll you do!" I exclaimed. "It trUnme that's my business." "fwhaps It is," be said, with an all ef wlahlna; to do me every Justice, "por hapi H la, hut It's mine, too." "Indeed," I remarked, feeling that I u taaaswerabla, "Voo see, Austin," cried Forsytbe. "when you Introduced DUlard and me to Marguerite we both thought you were a trifle gene tn tint direction, and wjea I found I thought aucb a lot of aer i couiun t Uve without her felt tilt I had no right to ask for her until I found out whether you wanted her pnnelf." "Deuced good of yon," I commented, Wffly, seeing he bad paused for a re ft "It only seemed fair to give you the M chance," he finished, looking nt me la a hurt sort of a way that mode ae ithamed of myself. "Tou're all right, old boy," I hastened tony. "Forgive me; you took me by larprlaa. But since you ask me don't Bind laying I never bad a thought of Birrylng Marguerite'- (which was true enough, and I'd never thought of any oneelie marrying her either). "I'm mighty glad of that," cried Kor Jthe, Joyfully. "No doubt," I said, a trifle dryly; but ce hutened on: "I'm going to tnke to a picture exhibit thla morning, ud thought I'd like to ask her then. Jou usurod me the field was clear. hope I have your good wishes, Aus tin." "Certainly," I Bald. "Go ahead and "I for ber, and good luck go with you. old man." Painful memory of the grip he lemy hand on leaving still lingered th me when Ulllard dropped In an J Iter. 1 gave DUlard the other hud. "Usllo," he cried. "Busy, Austlnr "itaer," I returned, shortly. Dll M a only occupation in life Is spend n Income of forty thousand a year. a It's hard to be glad to see a man J that when you've got your own wen on the grindstone. "iUlt a word In your ear and I'm "It's about ujb," ue announced. -"Werlte. vou know." "Marguerite!" I exclaimed, "then ""e beard " "Beard What." ho prlo ttrrd to her?' OMtamlw oaiH; "what mpiria mm think .1, va. i thniw. . . - ...USuk juu raioer iancieu to a tremendously glad to hear 2 n t Pare abo"t her." (I wasn't J '.hat rd 8al(l that, but I lot It n "She and her aunt are going to e bnc0 with Forsytbe and me to-J-iad I thought I might get a chance Ion, my luck wlth her then- Hut M 0 ' yu Introduced us I thought I Wt to Kive y0U tne flrlt chlnce ... 'in sounded famlllar-too familiar. W. don't mln m T i. 5?"?- "My Intentional toward "nerlte are wholly Innocuous. Wish uccesa, DUUrd." aaged to evade his parting hand cm.!,' wvlng my fingers a second hlng. aad be dt.p4rteU hlppy A . - W IUI1LU IUU umu ume anajyt mr . , . . .... , fiied being forced Into posing as ft sort of trouaered fairy godmother to Marguerite. Of course as long as I had no Inten tions whatever of asking ber to marry me 1 could hardly be so absurd as to resent some one else doing so. And certainly Forsythe and DUlard bad be haved handsomely no one could have done more. But to be asked for my consent to Marguerite's nuptials as though I were ber elderly uncle or bentvoleut maiden aunt was a trifle trying. At 5 o'clock I was on my way to see ber. I felt that however unpleasant my new attitude toward ber might be. It at least gave me a right to know which one of my friends she nad accept ed. By the time I reached the car 1 waa aura It waa Foraythe; when I alighted at the corner my mind waa made up to accept DUlard as her fu lure husband, and when 1 entered the door I had cfcme to the conclusion that whichever she took she was undoubt edly doing well for herself. "What. It is you?" cried Marguerite, when 1 found her In the library. "Did you exptct some ons else? I asked, scanning ber closely. She un doubtedly looked happy. "You wore here yesterday." she re plied. "One good turn deserves another." I said. "Itosldes I've come to congratu late you." "Well'" she asked and settled down comfortanly to listen. Marguerite Is very provoking sometimes. She kuew I was all at sea. "DUlard !s a man to be proud of," I hazarded, watching her face. "Are you proud of him?" she In quired, looking up at me with big qoeg Honing pyes. After all the role of fairy godmother to Marguerite wasn't so bad I reflected, that Is, If one couldu't Do anything else. "And bis fortune " 1 went on. Ig noring ber question. "Ah, his fortuue are you proud of that, too?" sb- asked. Perhaps It wasn't DUlard after all. "But Forsytbe," I said, shifting my ground, "he Is a man in a million." "Yet, be Is," said Marguerite reflect ively. "See here," I cried desperately, "which are you going to marry?" "The man in a million or the man with a million?" she cried wltb a sauci ly lifted chin. "Yes, which Is It to be?" I repented eagerly. "Suppose," she snld, slowly, "suppose I asked your cuudld. unprejudiced hon est ftdrlcaT "Oh. then I suppose I should have to advise you to tnke them both." "Yes, 1 suppose you would," she as tented thoughtfully. "Or else u refuse them both." I add ed. "Ah, suppose I bad already done that." she snld softly. I felt my breath fall me suddenly. "Marguerite!" I cried, and a moment lui"r fouuci myself nn engnged man. "Hy the way," 1 remarked as we sat waiting for the pate at Martin's that evening, "bow were the pictures?" "Iieally I've forgotten." said Mar guerite with a happy little sigh. "This bes beeu such a busy day.' "Come to think of !t." i i plied, "I've had rather r busy day m.solf." hl caj(0 Times-IIerald. School Io h llaromct' rs. It looked like rulu, ami naturally be bud ou u pulr of light shoes and cuirled uo umbrella. The car slopped ou the fur Bide of (Jlrnrd avenue uud a youug lady got lu. She bowed, uud sat dowu beside the Snuuterer. who recognized lu ber a school teucber friend. "What do you tbiuk of Ibis beustly weather?" queried be, dlsgiuueedly. "U It going to rain, or Uu't It?" "I cunt tell you today," answered the youug Indy, smlliug uu acceptance of whatever uilght come. "If it were a school day. uud you were willing to come to school wltb me, 1 could tell you In a very few mluuies with absolute certainty. It'll ouud funny to you, but It's true. 1 have noticed that you can always tell what the weather Is golug to do by tbo children. They're r.gulnr barometers. If there's go.n,' to be a storm they get restless, and I nave the hardest klud of work to con uol them, l'anlcularly the boys. The girls ar'cu't so bad, but there seems to be some mysterious quality about ap proaching rnln that always affects the former. I've got so now 1 don't blame them, because I dou't believe they can help it So you see," she concluded, as she got out at Chestnut street, "cbildrcu have their uses, after all. "-l'biladel pbla Inquirer. Great Pest In South Africa. One of the greatest pests of south Af ri,. la the locusts, which descend In swarms each year upon the farms of Natal and the Trunsvnal. 1 hey some time flv In such numbers that railroad trains are blocked and are forced to wait until the bodies of the Insects are hamlad from the tracks. 1-ast year the government of Cupe Colony paid out $S.MX for locusts eggs, ai me mie e 19 epnta a nouud. As It takes 40.1KSJ eggs to weigh a pound nn Idea of the enormous number destroy eu m uiw way may be gathered. But the locusts are not an unmixed curse. They are enten by tho natives, who soy mej w. Heiielmis food, and all animals Including horses, are said to be fond of them. H.1..1.1 Tree In the World. The town of Kos, the capital of the ..n Turkish island of that uame lying off the coast of Asia Minor, possesses the oldest tree In the world. Under Its shade Hlppocratei luculcateu nis u s clples in bis methods and views con i ttia haadlnai art 'J.wO years ago ...n.ir, eurrles the age of the tree back to the time of Aesculapius (of ..... .... in, ...unites was a llneul de HVW iaiyY" ... . scendanti, which would add some 4ij yeara to lu age. A great pan nt trunk It built round, and there Is u fountain known as mm- i The circumference of tn I ii UaJ we ftftBM trunk la 30 feet and tbeie are two main lower branches, wuicn an. ported by masonry columna. People tpeak of tht havoc mine pie can work on the ttomacu. um .i -peaceful at gruel compared with auet pudding. When men have more money than .. . j .,., f I.U.Lr 1LV ftU Uioie iney nwu iuw tbftB they hftve. A PECULIAR DISASTER. Part of a PUtureujue Italian City Slid Into lb tea. In a peculiar manner death came to a number of people nt the famoua tout- lat retort of Amnlfl. nn Italian city sit uated on the 'iulf of Salerno, southeast of Naples. Owing to th action of lb water uudermlulug the rock upon which Aiualfi ktundt a portlou of the placa slipped Into the sea. taking with It two hotels, a Capuchin mounstery and several villa, and crushlug oadof its enormous weight four vessels, the crews of which fortunately escaped. The number of dead was at first bellev ed to be very lurge. but. marvelous as It may seem, only ten persons lost their lives. The monastery contained mauv mouks sua the hotels uiutiy guests, aud all of these, together wltb the 0000- pants of the villas, were at tlrst sup posed to be lost. The mass of earth and rock which slipped Into the sea Is estimated at 50,000 cubic yards and the shock of Its reudlug and crashing into the water shook the principality for miles aroimd The hotels destroyed are the Cappuclnul and the Sunta Calerlu. A malll. the scene of this disaster, is city of 7,000 souls and has a great antiquity. It took Its origin lu the fourth century, though Its uame did not merit the historian's notice until '.'00 ye-irs nfterwnrd. It then became an independent republic, with a vast trade with the east, and at the xenltu of Its power and fame It numbered "I though' t' - t rl all nnnnon and i threw tbviu may." TBI Juggler seemed borrifled "Do you think 1 do this by myseir r l said, und packing j up bo departed. The well was carefully dragged and st last the lady's rlug was brought to the surface. That ring, ut least, had certainly been In the water Hut bad the tlrst nug been as faithfully con signed to the depths? Experts will he of various opinions as to that -yet the hypothesis of confederacy and of a duplicate key to the d sp it, h box it difficult. - Longman's Magazine. I'owrr of Iim toil. .n. .ii BrtryoM knows that the ImagtnftrJofl la frequently utcd by phyaleUMM lu effecting cures of pailcuia who are suffering from meiiinl mid phyalcnl dlaordtra. The most raccestfol pruc- tltloiier Is be w bo pnss. vs. M the faculty of Inspiring confidence lu hltuelf to begin with and thru In the treatment be advises. recent DUOIDcf of u psy etiological lourual lelntes an Interpol lug OZporlmMI made by Mr. Kloou with the view of demonstrating how ensily this facility cau be , ailed Into play. In the course of a popular lector he preOMtOd to bis audience a bottle con taining distilled water, which he un corked with elaborate precautions, and then, watch In band, be a-ke,l thus present to In lh ale the exact moment at w h.ch the peculiar odor was per- SPE.NDS LIFE KILLING WOLVES Ncbraaka Mao Who Has a IJuaii Oc cupation. Peter A. Watson f Wolf Watson"! of Omaha. Neb. draws a salary from the Nebraska Live Stock association to par blm for puttlug in bis entire time killing wolves. He bus reduced UM wolf census of the stale so that be can kill but '.'iJ a year BOW, W beu be b fan be killed Sou a J car. Watson's father, a famou hunter, who shot buffalo with Buffalo Bill ou a contract to supply the l uion Pavinc railroad builders with meat, was killed lu ft wolf chase. The sou Is now us stis ghl as an Indian aud a famous rider, lie goes from point to point where eomplalut Is made of wolves' tleprcdatlous, riding a superb burse and acootnpftQlfd by six of hla flue stagboundo. I. and burses run dowu the wolves lu tue open prairie. Then the truiulng shows. A wolf could kill one of Watson s dogs, hut the IX show- team work, and so divide the tnlmftl'l attention thut they are seldom 1 1 J u red. Upon his hunting trip Watson carries inly a revolver, and seldom needs to use even that. When hp needs It, he Bl e.i It badly, for thou attack a man so I a hard pressed wolf will sometimes sell his life dearly. Ouce a big gray wolf Jumped nl Wat son. clawlug the flanks of his BONO and the rider's right leg and hand Watsou reached over with his left band, drew his nlstol and tired four shots at the wolf, but didn't barm the brute much, as his horse danced shout so as to spoil his aim. Watson bsd but one shot left. He put hit pistol lu the wolf's mouth und. at the risk of blow ing off his own IliiEPrs. tired, 'flint shot finished the animal, aftpr which the bleeding man and horse bad ten weary miles to travel to the nearest town. Itut. weok as lliey were from loss of blood, lliey took Ibe wolf wltb them. i lie petal It. ne iikims igb n wolf will nej.r OBg at be might run. CAPUCHIN MONASTERY. WHICH SLID INTO THE SEA. 60,000 souls, wltb a contrlbutary popu lation la dependent territory of 000.000. During the crusade Its Inhabitants founded the hospital of St. John of lriiKnleni from which the Knights of Malta derived their uame. Toward thp twelfth century Its decline began, part ly Hup to wars with the I'lsaus and partly to the encroachments of the aea. In 1342 Its quays aud pumic worKs h ere destroyed by storms aud luunda tlOUB. A malt) Is now only a shadow of its former self. Itt chief Industries are Hia making nf paper, soap and maca roni. Amalfl It picturesquely situated mm . A, ML and Is surrounneu oy nwunisiui. iuc Capuchin monastery dettroyed dates bacr. to 11H2. MARVELS OF INDIAN MAOICIANS Wonderful Feat of Which Lord Lytton Waa a Witneaa. The following story of Indian magic waa told me by the person to whom it tnid hv the late I,ord Lytton. I gave It In my own worda, for the ex OftllODt though humiliating reason that I have mislaid the M8S. Wheu In in.lin Lord Lytton often Bought out conjurers, but never saw any but tho usual feats, such aB the mango tree trick and the tiaskei trick, i ue dmumn lu each case is known, or. at all events, plausible explanations have been given k. Mr Mnskelvne and other experts. On one oeciilson I-ord Lytton liked something In the looks of the conjurer who was performing In the open space before bis house. After the ordinary exhibition bis lordship asked the magl can If be could not do something more out of the common way. The mnn said he would try. and ask od for a ring, which Ixrd Lytton gave him. He then requeBted nn officer to take In either hand a handful of seeds - one sort was sesame. The name of thp other sort my Informant did not know. Holding these seeds, and buv Ing the rlug between bis linger and bumb, the officer was to go to a well In the corner nf the compound. He was to dispose of the seeds In a certain tray 1 think on the low wall around the well. Into the depths of which he was to throw the ring. All tble wns done, and then the mage asked I-ord Lyt'on where be would like the ring to reappear. He answered "In bis dis patch box." of which the key was at tacbed to his watch chain, or at all events he had It wltb him on the spot. The dispatch box wat brought out, Lord Lytton opened it aud there was the ring. This trick would be easy If the British officer was a confederate of the Juggler's, and If be possessed a duplicate key to the dispatch box. In that case he would not throw the ring Into the well, but would take It Into the house, open the box aud Insert the ring. Hut tlils explanation luvolves enormous lmprobabllltlet. while It Is unlikely, again, that the conjurer managed to insert a duplicate ring Into the dispatch Ihox befoieband. Lord Lytton then asked the Juggler If he could repeat the trick. He answered In the affirmative, and a lady lent another ring. Another officer took It with the aeeda, as before, and dropped the ring Into the well. The countenance of the Juggler abend In the pauee which followed. Something, be aald, had gone wrong, and be teemed agitated. Turning to the tecond oftteer. he asked: "Did you arrange the eeedt u 1 bade our "No," aald the officer, celved by them. Within fifteen aecOBda those Immediately In front of him held up their bauds, and withlu forty Bee oiids those at the other end of the room declared that they distinctly perceived the odor. There was nn obstinate minority, largely composed of nun. who stoutly declared their Inability to detect any odor, but Mr. Slosson be lieves that many more would have given In had he not been compelled to bring the experiment to a close within a minute of opeulug the bottle, eeverr.l persons in the front rank finding the odor to powerful that they basil y quitted the lecture-room. It would have been Interesting to know the at titude of the audience on learning the liberty that bad been taken with their Imaginations, but on this point, unfor tunately, the report it silent MEN OF MIQHTY EfcT. If Not Glunts TkOf Were at fceaat t .. commonly l.arice. Was the gient west Inhabited by a race of giants In prehistoric days? It R. Laird, who was In Kanas City re ceutly, claims to have new evldenci that It was, says the Kansas City Jour oat. He Is a New- Kuglaml geologist who has spent ninny mouths In making Investigations In the canyons, table lands and gorges of Arizona. He left for the east with bis evidence, in the shape of a voluminous typewritten manuscript, carefully put away In hand bag. He declined to make public the full purtmrt of the document. Mr. Laird makes no boast at having had a band In the Investigation, but savs the discoveries were made by a guide who has been a resident of Wll Hams. A. T., for many years and who has been In every nook and cranny of the mountains In that district. I he claim that there existed In prehistoric times a race of giants Is old. but proofs are not found every day. lu this case they were found In the shape of Im meuse footprints, which have become bardeued In the llmestoue format out of the district. To substnutlute his statements Mr Laird carries with blm several photo graphs, showing by comparison wlib the foot of a miner the relative size of the giant's foot. Some Idea of Its great site can be gulned when It, Is seen that the depression In the rock strata caused by the greut toe Is more than twice at large at the miner's foot. The fact that animals lu prehistoric periods were of such Immense sl.e Is advanced as sn argument that man was also abnormal ly large. Uilrd Is a firm believer lo this theory. PHOTOGRAPHY IN LAWSUITS. Difficulties In I'rrsrnllnw BetdoaOO Ma trrlnllj l. - I 17 t'uiiirru. "Photography has reduced the dlf Acuities lu lawsuits and triuls to a min imum," remarked a member of the bar. "lu times past It was the universal custom lu murder trials to laku the Juries to the Bcenes of the crime, to that they could get a better understand ing of the testimony aud the facts In the case. Besides the time Involved, there was consldehable expense in this, there was considerable expense in tills, grams, drawings and sketches cODttaBt ly used lu lmiortnnt trials. All this is now done away by the photograph, which Is always accurate. In making copies of exhibits In civil causes, BOtBB. deeds, wills mid the like tbo blue print has done away entirely with the ser vices of the draughtsmen w ho were em ployed to reproduce the same. "I remember well the celebrated trial of General Daniel Blcklta, then a re presentative from New York, for the murder of Philip Marlon Key, who was the United States dlstrlctnttoruey. The pictorial exhibits In this trial almost filled one of the walls of the courthouse. The clubhouse In the frout of which the shooting occurred, now the Bite of the Lafayette Square oppra-houae, was. of course, the principal picture. Then then was a drawing of Lafayette square, showing how Key signaled over to Mrs. Sickles, who resided on the op posite side of that square, and a big drawing of the house on Fifteenth street, between K aud L streets, where the meetings between Colonel Key and Mrs. Sickles took place, as well as the signals which were displayed on the house Indicating to Key whether or not Mrs. Sickles had arrived there. Be- tldei thete, there were other plcturet and diagrams which wpre prepared ny William Forsvth. the city surveyor. Tbey cost considerable money, but the whole thing could now he oeller re presented at the expeuse of a couple of dollars and ten minutes use of a kodak. I have known of hundreds of dollars being expend. ! In the preparation of facsimiles of exhiblte, forgeries, etc., all of which can now be reproduced In a half hour by the blue print process and at a very trifling expense compar atively." Washington star. When women tike their trouble! to the Lord, their husbands should do the same. Id order that Ue may bear both bidet of tne story. Ilonapartlet Nnhllltr. The Bonapartlst nobility have a tnl out for gilding their coronets through marriage. A Nay In 1890 secured the heiress of Latlttp, the banker. His nephew married the adopted daughter of Mine. Heine. The Due de Rlvoll married thp latter when she was Dowager Duehosse d'Elchlngen. He and she are now Prince aud Princess of Essllng. Moat of the Murals have married great heirs SS OS, The Prince de Wagram Is husband of a Frankfort Rothschild. Fouche, Due d'Otrante. Is settled In Sweden, and Iihs had matrl mnnlal fortunp therp. The Due de Tarente has Just married thp widow o M. Cameacassp, who was sn emlnen barrister, prefect of police, deputy and one of the most amiable French men I ever knpw. The new Ducbpsse de Tarente is "Ikss" of the (ieneral Company of Omnibuses and has for tune from other sources. She has twe daughter nearly grown up who attend ed the wedding. They give promise o beauty. The wedding took place a Doual. Marshal Macdonald, first Due de Tarente, was not Scotch by birth but the grandson of a Scotchman who was driven by the defeat nf the second pretender to take refuge In France. ID BPttled at AuiPire. The Marshal wa not Bonapartlst lr fppllng. Hut he wa ao cold-shouldered by restored royalty at to be glad of Its d Isa DDM ranee lu 1830.- Loudon Truth. For motor cart there should be a large field for aluminum. A further de mand for the metal- will be brought about by Ita Introduction Into tbo mili tary servlcoe. All parts of the soldier's equipments' hsvp practically been made lu aluminum, such as mess tins, water bottles, buttons, helmets, parts of rifles, typographical statistics show that flf- cartridge cases, flttlugs for gunt. tentt, ty tw j volcanic Islands have risen out I horseshoes, portable bridges, etc.. ana of the tea since the beglnulng of the It It well known that coorlneuUI ceutury. Nineteen of that number have armlet, notably the German army, are eluce disappeared, and ten are now In- i employing aluminum ou a large scale, habited. ! Caasler s Magazine. The fruit of the nutmeg tree Is ppar- thaped. It consists of four parts, a fleshy outer part, a red network within this, known to commerce as mace, the shell covered by the mace, and the kernel, or nutmeg proper. It Is well known that anesthetics, ca peclally chloroform and ether, are fatal to living beings, acting slowly when bey are used In small qiiautltles for a long time, and rapidly when they are given In large doses. This Is true both for animal and for vegetable life. Fat or UM materials dlssolvpd from a feeding stuff by ether, Is a substance of mixed character, and may Include. besides real fats, wax, the green col orlng matter of plants, etc. The fat of food Is either stored up tn the body as fat or burued. to furnish beat aud energy. Powdered sugar Is said to possess de cided Inferior sweeteulng properties to those of the coarsely crystallized arti cle. In the process of pulverization It Is claimed that the bent and electricity produced transform a certain proiwir- tlon of the sugar Into glucose, whose sweetening powers are two and a half timet less than tboee of saccharose. The lung differs from all other struc ture! In having two separate clrcula tlont, the nutrltlvp. aupplled by the left aide of the heart through the bronchial arterlea; and the functional, supplied by the right side of the heart through the pulmonary artery. This double clr dilation underlies all the phenomena nf pueumoulB. and must be recognized In any definition of the disease, as with out It the disease Itself cannot exist. Our new Isliiud of Porto Rico, nc cording to Murk W. Hnrrlugton. It "the most densely populated rural coin muulty proper In Amerlct." It has about Inhabitants to the square mile. Wheu the Spaniards first occu pied It. It was as densely populated as it la now. Before Columbus discovered America two successive races bad oc cupied the Island; one seems to have been of northern orlglu and the other was of Carlb stock. Every tillable part of the laud baa been culilvuted agulu and again. Among the flint, quartz and Jasper ar row heads frequently found lu this country are certain forms known to archaeologists at "war points." For arrows they were mnde small, some times not more than three fifths of an Inch long. They are triangular In out Hue, and were Intended to stick fast In a wound. Prof. W. K. Moorehead says that war poluts are found abundantly s. altered In certain locnlltlea where there are no Indications of vlllngea hav ing existed, aud the Inference Is Unit such places were battle grounds, where 'he red men fougnt In ancient days. ' For many years efforts have been made from time to time to measure the heat radiated from some of the bright est stars. The most successful attempt appears to be that of Professor Nichols at the Yerkes Observatory. Wltb the aid of an apparatus recalling the prin ciple of the Crookes radiometer, he has ascertained that the star Vega, which sldi.es very brilliantly near the-zenith In midsummer evenings, tends to the earth an amount of heat equal to that of an ordinary candle six miles distant. Arcturut, the star celebrated by Job, and which has a tomewbtt flery color, rtdlatcs about twice at much beat as Vega. Mrs. kruo-er. Everybody knows with what wifely care England's great leader was looked afterby Mrs. Gladstone. Africa's sturdy old patriot has also a devoted wife, who watches bis public utterances prehaps ns Jealously as Mm. Oladstoue did those of her husband. When tho Executive Council Is dis cussing state measures In the reception room Mrs. Kruger generafly sltt in a little room lust across the hall, and al though to an ordinary observer her mind seems to be entirely occupied with her knitting she knows pverythlng that is going on In the opposite room Mrs. Kruger Is a very Important per sonage In South Africa, even If She does look after her own cooking- and I've In the most unostentatious wsy She la a memlxir of the celebrated Duplessls family, wblcb la related to Cardinal Richelieu. Hbe Is the mother of fourteen children, seven of whom sre Hvtng. Her picture shows her as a stout old Dutch lady with a very plain race that has the attraction of greut klmlll i. .-ss and common Every time a man makes a fool of himself by sctlng conrrej-y to his own Judgment be gets mad. A remark csreloesly dropped doesn' aJwas fadl flat, CACTUS PLANTS THEIR USES. I'owrrful Alcoholic Drinks Are Ex tracted from Their Trunks. Cactus Is a genus of plants, the type of the natural order of caetascne. and comprises numerous species, all of Which are native to America. The Bamg wns originally given by Then phrastua to a spiny plant found In Si cily. The stems of the cactus are us ually leafless and fleshy, globular or columnar, ami are armed with spines and bristles. The structure of many of the species Is singular slid grotesque In the extreme, aud the roughness of the stalks and the beauty of the flow era make them otie of the most Inter Sating hotanic.il curiosities of our con tlnent They are found chiefly In the hot. stony places of tropical America, and their tough snd almost Impenetra ble skin Incloses abundant Juice. Which enables them to support a sluggish vital action without lucouveuleuce eeu In a parched soil. Some of the varieties of cactus are only a few Inches high, while others attain n height of forty feet. It la a curious fact that the cactus flourishes TOB nt the foot of Mount F.tna, In Si cily. The most splendid example of the cactus family Is the giant cactus, of which a line example Is still stand lug, although It Is slowly rotting and will soon fall. It waa found at a point eight mllca Booth of Phoeulx, Ariz., near the Pima reservation. It Is about forty feet high. What the date palm g to the African deserts the giant cac tus is to our own arid lauds. From It the Mexicans extract the drink called "mescal," and the Indians also obtain n beverage from It. on It -fruit the I 'a pa to Indians live fur wecks as a time Woodpeckers dig their nests In the trunks and branches, and even doves feed on the fruit. When the cactus of this kind dies Its usefulness Is not destroyed, for the tough ribs beneath the outer skin are used by the I'apago Indians for the foundation of their mud roofs nnd they also use It lu building chicken coops and even us a covering for their graves. It Is not this species of cactus from which traveleis are supposed to obtain a supply of water, but the small cactus, which contains a plentiful tup ply of tap. sSeteBtlae American. ALUMINIUM A USEFUL METAL. It It Available for Many I'urpoM In the Met-hanlc Aria. The principal uaes of aluminium are too many to be enumerated. The pro perties of tho metal ars so akin to those of copper and brass that, broadly speak ing, aluminium or one of Ita light alloys should, to ft large exteut replace both copper aud tin and alto nickel or Her man allver. Such a change would be followed by various advantages to all concerned. Not only would there be considerable reduction In the weight of the articles, but they would not tar nish or turn black ou exposure to sir. The cost should be the same. If not actually lower, luasmuch aa, bulk for bulk, aluminium Is already cheaper than copper or tin, aud Ita prlcu will continue to fall as tho demaud In creases. One field, however, remains which copper Is bound to maintain as Its own, namely, the construction of Isolated electrics! conductors. Experiments hsve alresdy been mnde on a large scale wltb bare conductors of alu minium for telephones, with perfectly satisfactory results, Its conductivity, weight for weight, being double thut of copper. Rut when the mains have to be Insulated copper Is absolutely uu approachable, on account of Its greater conductivity, volume for volume, wblcb It 10 per OBBt of that of alu minium. Resldea the advantages set forth hove aluminium Is not poisonous and pre-eminently adapted for the man ufacture of cooking utensils. A steady demand fur aluminium Is springing up In various kinds of printing processes as well as In lithography. The metal appears to answer admirably fur the construction of tollers used lu calico printing, and when Its surface Is prop erly prepared It Is also capable of re placing the ordlunry lithographic stone. It can easily be Imagined that. Instead of having cumbrous nud heavy stones, which can be printed only on speclnl slow-running "lltlio" mschlnet. It Is fur oetter snd cheaper to use thin sheets of a metal wblcb can be bent Into s clr nlar form end prluted on rotary esset. Hlcyclet. electric light fittings, chains, a idles, stirrups, gurgtoaj Instruments, keys, cigar cases, pen snd pencil hold ers, toilet articles, plates aud dish, s, s is. f.uks, frames, name plates, door furniture, hot sud coat pegs, boot trees. Ore engine flttlugs, bualnesa aud visiting cards and photographic cam eras are a few of the things that are being dally mads la aluminum by vari ous Onus, LITTLE SURPRISE FOR HIM. The Kiperieiueof a Man the First Tims He PftOOSd the 1'lntr in Church. "The first time I ever passed the plate In church." said a reminiscent mail, "something very unexpected hap pened. 1 got half way up the aisle, uud was getting along as nicely aud smoothly as could be, wheu a man sit ting lu the end of one of the pews that 1 came to Indicated a desire to speak to me. "Now you know that was something I never dreamed of. It had always seemed to me that the man passing the plnte u ali.ed straight up the aisle In a solemn klud of way, while the whole church was still, never pausing ex cept to band the plate In the pew and get It back, and the Idea that anybody could ever speak to bim bud never oc curred to me, and so this man's Indica tion that be wanted to speak to me came ae a groat surprise and tome thing of a sho. k But I didn't drop the plate, and I had gumption enough to Incline my head to him to that he wouldn't have to thotit to make me hear, and what he tnid waa: M 'Can't you have thnt window over there clOBcd?' And he Indicated With a little nod a window high up In the side of the church where the wind was blowing In and making a draught "I straightened up and passed on. and when I bad finished my part of the collection and got back to the roar of the church I sent to the sex ton to close that window, and, as he saw It go up, the man thnt bad mods the request sent a friendly glance down the aisle to me. "Later, at one time and another In the course of my experience. I receiv ed various requests while passing the plate, and now and then a notice for the minister, but I was alwnys ready for them after that."--New York 8un. Old Map or the United Ntates. State Librarian Ualbreath has Just se cured another valuable addition to the collection of relics at tbe library, a map of tbe United States, made in tbe year 171)0. The map was fouud In an old book shop at Philadelphia, and was for merly the property of a gentleman who was for years lu the employ of tbe fed eral government. It Is made from cop per plates aud Is muuuted on heavy linen. Uu the chart Uhlo Is territory wltb rather vague outlines. Cleveland Is not to be found, and Cincinnati la designated as Fort Wusblugton. San dusky lathe only city of any great prom lueuce. Tbe eastern states are showu with substantially tbe same boundaries as they have to-day. Georgia exten s us far west as tba Mlsslsslpl river, and the southern portion of Florida la ap parently unknown. Lake Michigan is much too uarrow sud I ake Hurou Is far too broad. At the lower corner It a curious picture of Niagara Fulls. Mr. (lalbreath has discovered auother chart of the United States, drawu in 1774, and It will soon be sent to Columbus. Coluuibua Journal. Made Hill, Too. A small boy from the slums had been brought Into the mission acbool, and for a couple of Sundays be bad been Instructed lu the rudiments. On the third Sunday he brought wltb blm hit rothsr William. To tett hit memory the teacher began to go over the pre vious lessons. "Who made you?" shs asked. "Uod," he replied, promptly. "And what else did Uod maker The youngster studied for a moment and looked arouud hopeleasly till be noticed bis brother, then bis fsce brlgbtened. "He made Bill too, I guess," he answer ed, triumphantly. Ireland Is about the site of Missouri