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o 0 o ------ BANIM1N lli:< ORIH’.R. HUNTING FOR TALISMANS. An Amerleaa'n <•’(•* E»pe«tH*®" *" East •udlsn Temple. M l«n the Lite Prof’ " T Seiumervllle of the University of I’emisylvunln, the learned collector of gems, charm* nnd maacot*. had *et Ida mind on some curio heard of in one of his meeting* with orientals, nothing could bar the way. Were it in tlie center of the desert of Sahara or on the topmost pinnacle of the Himalaya mountain*, be would go after It and keep up the search until the treasure was found, purchased and placed on exhibition at the university museum. American gold was Professor Som- mervllle's magnet wherever he went, lie thus descrilHsl its effect on one of bls expeditions: "On one occasion we desired to visit the famous Dllwarra temples In India, and for '(*«( purpose engaged two Jin rtkisluis ami a number of natives to draw them, about twelve in all. The temples, us you know, are set in a mag- nilicent grove of mango trees on a mountain top nnd suri»umled by great hills. With a fair measure of tact and money I hoped to secure from the pi’O- ple of the vicinity some of their odd talismans and rings. I sahl to the chief rickshaw man: 'Now, I.ala, what will you do for me it I double your pay? I want to make this Journey in half time, nnd If you accomplish it you shall be doubly paid.' "He went to bls helpers at once and Informed them that I was a prince. We started out under the contract. lie run ahead of the convoy, raising both hands In the air and crying to the as tounded people: ‘Here copies a prince. Down with you. Here comes a prince.' “And during the entire twelve miles ride I was treated to the un-American experience of seeing the people cover their faces nnd drop abjectly to the ground in obeisnnee ami salutation, on ly dnringtolookatme through tlieir part ed fingers. But my amusement at thus being treated ns a prince was nothing to the gratification I experienced in se curing from this people who did not dare to refuse so nugtist a personage ns I some of the most interesting in scribed talismans that I have in my collection.”- Booklovers’ Magazine. A NATURAL WONDER. HlniginK Iltickk That Sound I.Ike Bell When Struck. With nil manner of legends duster Ing around their history and various reasons given by geologists for tlieir presence, the Ringing rocks, two miles north of I’ottstown. l'n., are the great est natural wonders of Montgomery county. Although these rocks and bowlders are scattered over n large ex tent of territory, there Is one place, covering over two acres, where they lie Bo closely together as to suggest that that particular spot was the center of a volcanic disturbance that rent the enrth and piled the rocks ns they nre today. It is the general opinion that the spot was once tlie crater of a vol cano. A rich, bell-like tone, produced by striking some of the stones with a ham mer. explains in part why the name of "Ringing rocks" was given them. Vis itors cnrrled off some of the smaller stones of unusual musical quality, but this practice has been stopped. Located some distance away from the main deposit of rocks are grotesque formations like the Haystack rock, liMiklng like a petrified haystack, tint rent from top to bottom by a convul slon of nature which probably also made It n "leaning tower.” In the Bullfrog rock a company of soldiers could stand, the Umbrella rock could shelter twenty or thirty, and tin’ Stone House and Cave, rising thirty feet in height and covering half an acre of ground, suggests some of the wonders of the Yosemite. A cnve under the rocks was pene trated several years ago by Dr. W. It. Shaner and J. S. Bahr, who upon throwing a stone Into an opening could hear It reverberating for a great dis tance and then fall into a body of wa ter, This is surrounded by many leg ends. One Is that robbers made It their rendezvous and Into it carried nil tlieir plunder, defying pursuers to fol- low. Beeause of the danger of nccl- dents to venturesome boys the en trance to tlie c.-ivi* Ims been dosed.— New York Telegram. THE WILLOW TREE. Jnhn I’nrkc Cnstls I’lnntcd (hr Firs! One In This < ountry. When the south -< :i bubble In Eng land collapsed one of the speculators went to Smyrna to repair his fortune. He was a friend of Alexander Pope and sent Idin a box of fig* in which had Is’en placed a twig of n tree. Pope planted the twig on his grounds on the shore of the Thames, not knowing of what tree it was. It grew nnd was a weeping willow. In 1775, when the tree was over fifty years old. one of the young British officers who came to Boston with the British army brought a twig from the tree, which he Intend ed to plant on his lands after the re hellion had been crushed. .1 bn Parke Custi*. son of Mrs. Washington, g ing on errands to the British camp tinder IsoJtaX -Of. tr.m.e. l.'C’ j.’ ■ .... • ' with the owner of the willow twig, which was draped in tilled silk, nnd ob tained ft from him. which he planted near his homo nt Abingdon. Vn„ where It liecame the progenitor of all Die weeping willows In America. Whrn Tea M hm Mrw. "I »ent for a cup of ten. a Chinese drink, of which I had never drunk.” wrote the lmniortnl I’epys, who felt In duty hound to sample every new thing that came along. And nliout tlie same time another Englishman was extolling the new importation In the following terms: "It enseth the brain of heavy damps. Present* the dropsle. Con •nroes Rnwnesse. Vanquishes superflu ou* sleep. Purifleth humors nnd hot liver. Htrengthen« the use of due be- nevolence Mahla» ■ ««re Thin» of If, "What in tiie name of Jupiter have you s vel up all the pockets of my •verooat for’’ ’ »«k«! Mr. Wilson. “My d*ar." aald Mrs Wilson, "I hare • a Important letter to my milliner that, I want y'At to post " hack tlieaoQy tl:<>i-s and see the lal»>r of years go up in smoke and possibly i^itli not a cent of money to make a1 new start that the rebuilding of new homes, I>* iih , fences, etc., would neces sarily requir® Tlie future is black enough for them, for everything has been swept away, even to their stock. 1 often think bow much we are like Maiy times they have Is-e* fortunate all abused violin. What a tci^ion we in having saved tlieir families from the are on, at least the most of us. In fact, fiery furnace. no one is exempt from this fault until •After one of these scathing tires the they have learned to master, them picture of dévolution is overw helfiiilig. selves, obtain complete control of tlieir Like grim sentinels the blackened mind and the will-power tliat quivers trunks of once magnificent trees tower and rel«,'s from the demand made by heavenward as if calling down ven our over-wrought nerves. The would- geance for this un warranted ruin and be musician turns the key to his violin havoc. Trees smoulder for weeks on strings a little more in his effort to the parched, blackeiusl ground, and tiring forth the harmony he craves. every particle of vegetation is gone. If Just so much will the strings, only tile note of a bird crying to its mute, awaiting tlie touch of the master-hand who will not respond again, is heard, to vibrate with melody stand, and the it sounds strangely mournful. Then ominous snap is heard and the useful- comes a fieriod of suffering, not only for new is gone forever. Wekeepon turn tlie farmers ami stockmen, but for the ing tlie keys to our nerves. We fear wild animals who have lieen driven we won’t catch a train; round goes the out of tlieir native heath. How any key in our feverish haste and we allow one guilty of starting a forest fire by ourselves hi lieconie wrought up to a carelessness cun rest in jieace and with tension tliat is cruel. Tlie household out bis conscience troubling him both or business machinery ol life is not asleep and awake, is a mystery to Pol running smoothly, and we proceed to ly. His dreams should lie troubled tune up on our over-wrought nerves and nightmare carry him into the and need not be surprised when there desolate scenes of his own carelessness. is u lack of harmony resulting from Thousands and- thousands of dollars our effort*. We are sinarling under are lost every year to the country in some injustice or fancied wrong and this way, and campers and hunters can only find minor chords, and they cannot be too careful. are out of tune. Around go tiie little keys again and the tension is fearful. BRIEF REVIEW. We lose those who are nearest and dearest to us, and we play on tlie Best Selling Books. strings that firing tears and anguish, The Bible is the best selling Issik in regrets and luqs-lessness until they are worm out. tin we go through life tun the world, whites Henry Rutherford ing up the musical strings of our frail Elliott in the Century. It leads, and bodies, but not in the right way, and by a long interval, all other publica there will come a day when, like the tions in copies purchased in tlie ordi old violin without strings, we are ready nary channels of trade, without regard to what may be called tiie official dis to lie laid away. tribution. Every bookstore which un Every ennobling thought, every just dertakes to carry a full line of stock endeavor to better ourselves and lift us sells the Bible. Several important <x>r- out of tlie common-place; every effort porations confine themselves to the we make to better ourselves mentally manufacture and sale of Bibles, and morally ami physically, strengthen the others find in the Bible their leading strings just that much, and constant feature. Of no other Issik can this be practice soon leads us to forget, or at said. S|>eaking some time ago of the least pass over as unworthy of our no insatiable demand for the Bible as an tice tlie trivial tilings that a weak article of merchandise, an officer of tlie mind magnifies into such serious dis Methodist Book Concern said: “Like cords, destroying not only tlieir own all publishers, we have to keep watch |s*aeeof mind but tliat of others w«o of the sale of ixsiks in general, even the unfortunately must live in tlieir vicin most popular, so as not to get over ity. Tune up every string that vi stocked. But this never occurs in print brates witli happiness—every string ing the Bible. We just keep the presses that will help you to look on tlie bright steadily at work, and if we happen to side; every' string tremulous under the find tliat we have40,060 or50,006 eojiies desire to create harmony out of discord on hand, it gives us nouneasincss. We ami awaken a song of Joy in place of a are sure to sell them, and wegu straight dirge. Turn slowly and surely on the ahead printing.” 0 • key tliat awakens tlie right kind of ambition and ennobling thoughts tliat help you to cultivate your will-power until you have it under control and are not prone to vascillate and turn like a weather-vane in a capricious wind. Don’t allow this string to slack en too much until it loses its strength. There is another delicate key that needs attention. It vibrates with fatli, bo|s’ and charity and awakens a new song in your life and keeps the heart young. We can keep all these keys in har mony and yet not make the tension so great that the strings will tremble and strain under tlie tension we bring to bear on them until they quiver and break, ami if death is not kind and ends tlie struggle, it leaves us mere nervous wrecks, and then, not only for ourselves, but for tliesake of our friends, we hail better be dead than alive. Our petty’ ailments and vast amount of self- pity make us anything but agreeable companions. I have seen others who have been martyrs to pain and anguish all tlieir lives who were heroes and had more control over their frail bodies than those who had never an ache or a pain lull every trial, trouble ami tribulation was imaginary. In the darkest hour, when tlie isslies of tile former were racked with agony that would have made the strongest of us quiver under, they would smile lietween tlie parox ysms and tell some cheerful story to encourage those around them. You do not have to go into the midst of tlie liattletields to discover tlie heroes, for we find them in every-day life fighting their own little battle witli no excite ment of martial music ami the rush of lira vs comrades by their side to encour age them. They are fighting alone and gaining the victory with no mail rush but by inches. Brave soldiers are they, to Polly’s thinking. Campers are abroad in tlie land, and from now on we can look for destruc tive forest fires if we judge from the exponent ’ oi thepast few years. When you stop to think that all this destruc tion to timber, the loss of animal life nnd vegetation is simply the result o’ •puce ■ a-jek--' arid l-ndUSis’etiee of hunters and cani|>en<, it is deplorable. Few who are out on a pleasure jaunt of this kind stop to think when they are ready to break camp that it is necessary to put out the camptire. In their hurry to load everything in the wagons, pull ing up tents, etc., the camptire is tlie last tiling to be thought of. Sparks or cinders may lie carried by the wii d and falling amid the dry grass and buslies, presently a lively little blaze is being fanned into existence, and in a few’ hours' time it is roaring up the mountain sides, baring like a fiery fur nace <iown into tiie canyons teeming with verdure and laying waste luxu riant valleys. The frightened animals ami birds Hying before the fire fiend, fences and Imrns and frequently tRe homes of nfcn w ho hav£ struggled hard t.> make a little luadway in pnviding a home for their Himilies and a place where they can r®-t when old age has put a stop their busy career, must stand asiA’ after hopelewdy >»*t«ig 0 o o° ° o o I Locate the Ravine of Curtis' Leap. Some of the newspajiers, says a cable from Rome, announce the discovery of the actual ravine in the Forum into which Marcus Curtis leaped as a sacri fice to tlie gods B. U. 862. How the spot lias been Identified is not ex plained. MarcusCurtius was a Roman legendary hero. A chasm having been formed in the Forum by an earthquake tlie soothsayers announced that it could be closed only by the sacrifice of Rome’s greatest treasure. Marcus Curtius, a noble youth, stepjicd forward, ami, de claring that the state possessed no greater treasure than a brave citizen in arms, lea|M-d, mounted on his steed and in full armor, into the chasm, which closed after him. Famous Castle to Be Sold. Dunstanburg castle is alsiut to be of fered for sale by auction. It was first a British stronghold, then a Roman fort ress and at a much later |>eriod it was garrisoned for Queen Margaret, after tlie battle of Hexham, when it was Is - siegtsl ami taken after nil assault last- three days. Tlie legend of “Sir Guy, tlie Seeker,” told in a ballad by M. G. Lewis, is connected with the castle. “Dunstan diamonds” arecrystals found in the neighlHirhiKNl. A deep chasm in the roek at the east of tlie castle is known as tlie “Rumble churn.” Practice oi Piety Made Easy in Japan. It is said that there are no fewer than eight millions of gods worship'll by the Japanese. Praying is made very easy. In the streets are tall pists with prayers printed on them and with a small wheel attached. Anyone passing by can give the wheel a turn, and tliat counts as a prayer. The people in the second larg est of tlie 3,850 islands of which tlieem- pire is eomjiosed worship tlie bear and reverence the sun, moon, fire, wind and water. Puzzled the Doctor. There is a little story told of Doctor YVinnergton-lngrain that is very like that of a mythical bishop and the cat erpillar. Having invited any boy or girl ill an audience at Stepney to ask iiii.cii qdcMion, he w*» met Lj lirts: “Please, sir, why did the angels walk up and down Jacob's Ladder when they had wings?” It is said that Dr. Ingram escaped by saying: “What lit tle boy or girl would like to answer this?” A Remarkable Kill. I * Skillful taxidermy has preserved a grouse, at the throat of which hung a weasel In a death grip, when shot while on the wing by C. K. Sober of Ix-wis- burg, Pa., during a hunting trip in the White Deer mountains of tlie Blue Ridge, says Field and ¡Stream. The lay who lives in a cottage house just outside the city lias discovered that the dull, rusty looking thing he saw' in the cellar last winter is an instrument of torture called the lawn mower. Some people hurry so that they over take misfortunes that rightfully lielot£ to a i^|iiii?g generation. O o O 0 cFACXS 1N PtW UWE» GLW SWOIJT STO&4L» • ——— The horse spur is said to have t>O> used since 3(M> It. C. The number of miners employed in Gi*it Britain Is 871.888° , „ Prussia has 2.(133 associations of ste- noBrapt^rs, wi^h 51.291 m? tubers. Germany's chief exports to her A(ri- . ... llq can commies coi^ist of spirituous • uors. The prevailing religion of Korea Is a general and deep seated belief In evil •pirita. An Austrian «statistician linda that the average lease of life of a medical practltiouer is sixty years. The population of Kqrea Is 17,000.- 00O, Including 25,(MX) Japanese, who control the country’s activities. A Russian medical Journal says Jap- : ' ■ 1 by i la:.« are almost Invariably well educated and conacientloua. Edinburgh i>roiH>ses holding an inter national exhibition In 1907 to celebrate the bicentenary of the union of Scot land and England. More than three-fourths of the pub lic school teachers of Utah are zealous Mormons of tlie strictest sect of the Latter Day Saints. When Queen Alexandra heard how the moles were destroying crops In Wales site ordered a moleskin muff. They became the rage, and the moles are nearly exterminated. A large number of people In the capital of Kohipur, India, on seeing a motor car for the first time prostrated themselves before it, declaring that It was moved by an Invisible god. There are over 30,000 Canadian born residents In Detroit, and, with their children, they make up about 60,000. Buffalo census shows a Canadian born population of 18.000, Cleveland 10,(XX) and Chicago figures up 35,000 or more. Holland lias no patent system or trade mark laws. Certificates of origin are not required there. An exception, however, Is presently to be enforced with respect to Importations of sugar, since Russia has not subscribed to the Brussels convention. Barbados business men have offered to supply 30,000 negroes for labor in the Transvaal and to agree to deliver them at Lourenco Marques withlu twelve months at $100 per bend, pro vided the wages should be not less than $12.50 per month, with board and lodging. According to the European Journals of science, the great storm of red dust which swept up from Africa over Europe some time ago is doing a go<sl service to science in making the strata in tlie Alpine glaziers so that they can be studied with greater accuracy In the future. Napoleon is an unusual, If not un preeedented, Christian name to be borne by the presiding officer of a British parliament. But Napoleon An toine Belcourt, who lias been elected speaker of the Canadian house of com- mens, can address- meeting or court in fluent and excellent English. Smyrna, the commercial capital of Asia Minor, 200 miles south of Con stantinople, is located at the far east ern end of Smyrna bay, an arm of tlie Mediterranean extending forty miles lnluud. Mountains, almost bare of foliage, tower above the city on the northern, eastern and southern sides. To prevent the manufacture of bogus recommendations of servants In Ger many every servant Is obliged to keep a character book, in which necessary entries of dates and character descrip tions are made by the mistress or mas ter. The servant must then take the book to the nearest police station and have the record dated with the official stamp. At a recent meeting of the French Society of Authors a member suggest- ed that the adult sons and daughters of the authors ought to be received after the regular meetings and given a chance to fall in love with each other. He held that from such marriages, with a literary parentage on both sides, a superior race of authors would result. His suggestion was not adopted. A new cavern rivaling in beauty the one at Luray, and Wier’s Cave nnd the Cave of Fountains, nt Shendun, Va.. has been discovered In Shenandoah county, Va., near Woodstock. The dis covery was made by accident. Work men were taking limestone from a quarry at Tom Brook, and in blast ing the stone the entrance to the cave was opened. As yet the cavern has only been explored for about 175 feet, but the portion that has been visited Is filled with the most beautiful lime stone formations and contains large chambers. Erroneous Impressions are in circu- lation as regards the leading bor»€ raising states. One is Impressed that Kentucky is entitled to the lead from the frequency that the horses of the Blue Grass State are eulogized. Yet there are fifteen states that surpass Kentucky In the number of their horses, whil“ the average value in twenty-three state» rates higher than tlie horses of the Blue Grass State. The horses of New Jersey average $0V28 a head and of New Mexico $17.52. the extremes of average prices In the dif ferent states and territories. In the destruction by fire of tlie em peror's palace In Seoul there vanished that wonderful hall of audience or cv„Tg-.wtulnt'.o-..» wfcfelt' w«-«KK!w-*By- other hall In the world. It is said that the Jnpanese in 1805 wished to remove It to Japan because of the beauty of Its columns. Each of these columns was formed from the trunk of a tree. Each was over 40 feet In height and all were molded to the same exact size. No paint or varnish ever touched them. They wore kept washed with clean water and then polished merely by much rubbing with soft, clean pads They shone like metal and yet showed all the beautiful grain of the timber. i o o Q • ° o « Û o Au Error Fn Diagnosis. S:ori<-s o^raik ’id,.h!s were liE told ut Tuxedo. %eucer Trask, bunker uml author of New York. *uld: •In a <rtaln rai^vuy colliHou oujj of the vlctlftis lay for u long tlmJ on hi* back a<«o*» Die thu. Finally two men picked Aim up. carried him to the sta tion uiMl placed him on the tl*or. " ’He’ll lie easier lien’.' tliey said, ‘tllk the doctor comes.’ "The doctor came a little later. •’ ’This poor chap Is done for, I’m ANXIETY. EKeeta or TMe Foriu of Meatal tad 3’b>al«-al Uerati»eme><. hi a pajier read before the congress of 1 a neb0 alienists at Grenoble Dr. ■ >af*>n <4.¡da line |>olnted out that •uxii ty Is aalisturbance which Is ex prest At & the entire being. The ex citing cause» are aometlBiea physical and« sometimes p^cbical, and the symptoms inaiiifesttxl are both phys ical and mental. The physical symp toms comprise cold feelings and chills of the scalp and body, general lassi tude, Incoordination of voluntary movements far more apparent than real emotional coloring of speech, and vertigo, which Is dependent upon vaso motor cerebral disturbances or upon digestive troubles. In the anxious states there are always circulatory troubles, such as accelerated heart beat, irregularity of the heart's action, heightened arterial tension and cold ness of the extremities. Respiratory disturbances are also present The psychical symptoms of anxiety include various degrees of vague dread and apprehensiveness, often taking definite forms. In which case they ure designated as "phobias” or "obessions of fear.” weakening the capacity of at tention and of memory, nnd a tend ency to confusion of Ideas. Halluci nations of the senses are prone to oc- CHOICE MISCELLANY The < mtrunry of m Duel. One hundred years ago the llth of July occurred the historic duci liy which Alexander Hamilton, thè bril liant statesman, lost lila life al Die hands of the erratic, ambii ione and designing Burr. One huudr<*d year* after that sad event. whlib America has never ceased to deplor*. it is Inter esting to find the city of New York buying the old Jiimei mansion, at which lsith Hamilton and Burr were favored guests, that It may lie pre served as one of the three pre-Revolu- tlonary landmarks remaining on Man hattan Island. At tills mansion, which stands in tsild prominence upon the heights overlook Ing tlie Harlem river at One Hundred and Sixtieth street. Burr lived after ho married Die Widow Jum.'l. His days there, however, were but another pa thetic chapter In the life of a brilliant num who permitted bis evil Instinct* to master and control his career. Tlie liundrtsl years tliat have Intervened since the Weehawken duel have only tended to quicken Die world's appreci ation of the abilities of the gifted West Indian, while time has not in any de gree dispsfled tlie <sllum which shroud ed the life and public services of Aaron Burr. Four Truck News. Microbe of Old Ase. COMEDIAN SAM VALE. He W ms the Original of Sam Welles of Plc-kwlek Fame. In a lecture on old age. delivered by Dr. Menchnlkoff. the speaker ex- premed the opinion that senility was produced by certain physiological states which cause the beneficent species of microbes called macroph ages to Increase too rapidly. Then in tlieir turn they become injurious. These parasites flourish in the largo Intestine which mammals possess, whereas in birds they are almost en tirely lacking. The result was shown In the person of tlie doctor’s own dog. which was decrepit at eighteen, while the doctor's parrot, aged seventy, «p- peered to the audience bale «nd lively. “It stands proved," said the doctor, "that senility Is an Infectious disease, and It should la* possible to treat it like other maladies, to cure it or pre vent It.” The hope was expressed by Dr. Menchnlhoff that a serum would short ly be discovered to counteract the macrophages and prolong human life; meantime, says the Figaro, he rec ommended the consumption of curdled milk.—Paris Dispatch to London Mail. The origlual of Sum Weller was Sam ale. an English low comedian, who, In the early part of the last century, was quite popular in the south of England. In the year 1811, and for a few years after, he made quite a reputation In the musical farce called "The Boarding House,” written by Beasley. In this lie played the part of Simon Spatter dash, a person who indulged in odd and "THAT WAS lit OLAHS EXE, XOU FOOL!" whimsical sayings. “Come’on, as the afraid,’ he said, glancing at the pros old man said to the tight boot;” “I am down on you. as tlie extinguisher said trate victim. “Then he knelt down, lifted one of to the candle;” “Let every one take the man's closed eyelids and peered care of himself, as the donkey said Into a dull, blank, unseeing, lifeless when dancing among the chickens,” nre fair illustrations of his witticisms eye. “’Yes; he's dead all right. Take him in the course of that play, the resent- blam-e between them and some of tlie away,’ said the doctor. "But the pale Ups of the Injured man sayings of Sam Weller being very moved slightly, and n feeble voice marked. In private life Vale was a wit. and many good things in bls own murmured: “ ‘That was my glass eye, you fool!’ ” time were credited to him. A man of excellent temper, he had no enemies, —New York Tribune. and the good humor which pervaded (lothinR hh Physical Herords. every saying, together with the droll They Sh«*»k Hands. An excellent Illustration of the value ery of Ills manner, gave his witticisms This story concerns John Scott, man unusual value. His sayings were called of records has been afforded lately re ager of the Uulon Iron works, and Sam Valerisms, and on the appearance garding the question of physical de Dave Barry, professional pugilist. of Pickwick in 1836 the character of generacy. A firm In the north of Eng Burry had obtained employment nt tlie Weller was generally recognized as a land has compared the measurements works, and one day he and two other portraiture of Vale. The comedian died for clothing made two generations ago employee* hid themselves behind an with those of today, the results going In 1848 at the age of flfty-one. outhouse to indulge in a quiet smoke. to show tliat chest and hip measure Just as the three were In the midst ments nre now three inches on the av Why Wi nd in 111 m Burned Down, of their enjoyment Scott came u|s>n Of the production of fire by the fric erage more than they were sixty years the scene, Tlie latter took in the sit- tion of wood against wood windmills ago. This same conclusion is reached uation at a glance and frowned per- of Die old construction gave on a large by- the experience of the ready made ceptibly. scale some disastrous examples. When clothiers. These facts, whatever may bo Ba rry's companions were equal to the force of the wind Increased the their generality, do not quite dispose the emergency, and at once busied miller was obliged to bring each of the of till’ question of degeneracy. They themselves in carrying several pieces sails in succession to the ground in or are whnt we should expect from the of iron toward the main works. Barry, der to unclothe It, but when sudden more abundant and cheaper food of however, stood his ground, and Scott squalls came on this was impractica the people, their better housing and frowned all the more. ble, and the mill In extreme cases ran Improved sanitary surroundings, but "Well, young man.” said Scott, "why uwuy—that Is, could not be stopped. the testimony regarding the unfitness don't you go to work?” Everything was now done to Increase of recruits and progressive lack of "Oh. I will, soon,” replied Barry non the grip of the wooden brake round tlie stamina In town nnd especially manu chalantly. great wheel on tlie driving shaft, and facturing populations cannot be disre “Do you know who I am, sir? I'm water was poured copiously over them, garded. London Telegraph. John Scott.” but In spite of all this flames would "Is that so?” said Barry, extending sometimes burst out from the intense The Coat of Leap Yenr. his arm to shake hands. “I'm pleased friction and tlie mill be probably The fact that this is n leap yenr car to meet you. Mr. Scott. My name is burned down as the result. The beau ries with It an effect apt to be over Dave Barry.” tiful machinery of the modern wind looked, which Is that the annual ex They shook hands.—San Francisco mill, by which the miller controls the penses of governing the nations will Call. action of the sails from the interior of be considerably Increased by the In tlie building, has reduced this danger to clusion of the extra day. This comes Canceled the Order. home with tin’ greatest force to those a minimum.—Notes and Queries. governments which have the largest E. S. Lott, manager of the United armies to feed and provide for. The States Casualty company, relates the Memory, story of n telephone message to a New There are 100 different varieties ol French budget commission was met by Y’ork firm of horse dealers shortly be memory, and perhaps we cannot alto the fact that the one day will add to fore the return of the Sixty-ninth regi gether choose which we will possess, the expenses of the war office for limt ment from the Spanish American war. though every sort, when we have the n sum of nearly 800.000 francs, which The chairman of a committee of Irish- germs of It. may" be cultivated. To will be expended In rations for the American citizens who were preparing learn anything by heatt the best plan men and forage for the horses. When to entertain tlie regiment telephoned Is to read a sentence and repeat It all the various state departments lire asking for twenty-five pure white without a book, then rend the next separately considered the total sum horses. Mr. Doerr of tlie firm an- sentence and repeat the two, and so runs into several millions of francs.— swered that there were only fifteen on. Rc|>etltion Is of great Importance, Detroit Free Press. white horses in the establishment, but “lino upon line.” More is learned nnd A Mendelssohn l.odrlns Gone. that fifty green horses were expected remomliered by reading through one The house 1ms recently been torn the following week. Possibly some book twice than by reading two books could be selected from the latter to an once. After a thing has been learned down In which Mendelssohn lodged swer the purpose. The chairman of ft must tie recalled nnd gone over nt during his lirst visit to London in 1829 intervals, or the Impression will fade and on several subsequent occasions. the committee repill’d: The premises were occupied by a Mr. “Green horses, did you say? Cancel nwny. Ilelnke. an Ironmonger, whose wife’s the order for the white horses and Anemone Factn. English cooking greatly delighted the send us the fifty green horses.”—New Naturalists have duly recorded that composer. York Times. that if a sea anemone be divided in The effort* of a •'German” band out halves longitudinally a new animal will side the house were sometimes more Enough Said. William C. Bryant recently told the in time be reproduced by each half, as than .Mendelssohn could bear, and he suming the anemone Is kept In pure sea would have the performers dismissed story of two soldiers, one of bibulous water. An old zoologist relates how he with a benedictory shilling ami return habits and the other a steady and so watched an anemone which somehow to one of hfs grand pianos, of which ber man. says the New York Times. or other had contrived to half swallow there were two. The latter was promoted to be a ser one of the valves of an oyster shell. geant. Upon his promotion be con The Ciar'n Power. Practicnlly the shell struck In Its giz ceived a very exalted impression of his The very first thing the traveler zard nnd gradually cut Its way down rank and became quite offensive in through the soft tissues of the anem learns In St. Petersburg Is that In Rus- manner to his former associates. His one until It halved the animaJ ns by Bia the czar is everything—literally ev attitude caused great resentment in a partitlMi. Perfect reproduction of erything. His will Is law. conceded ns camp. One (lay the bibulous soldier two anemones through the division of such by his subjects, by heavenly in approached him and said, "What is tlie one was noted to be the result of this spired right; all the land and all hi* punishment if the private calls the ser accident. Even a fragment or two of subjects are absolutely his to dls]w>se geant a darned fool?” “He will be ar an anemone body left attached tn Its of wholly a* he chooses. The nopular rested nnd court martialed,' responded rock may in due season reproduce a 1 fancy pictures the czar ns one never the sergeant. "Suppose he simply new tiody.—London News. Been by his people save when imbed thinks he is a darned fool and does not ded In a phalanx of guards, thus pro say it?” "There is no punishment for Money Thrown Away. tected from the bullets of would bo that.” “-Well lot tt.pp j>t that.” replied "P-: that city- 4»t< r helped ye-rtgts-t regicide*.— - --------- ------ the private. smart, did he, Silas?” asked Mrs. Giles Tensas of an Ant Hill. on her husband's return from a week's Th« Bar t'nfnlr, A German naturalist recently made n visit to a specialist in a neighboring census of ants. He arranged an appli John W. Vrooman, former secretary town. of state of New York, tells the story of “Well. I guess be did! I'm feeling ance that permeated an ant hill with a clergyman who visited a hotel in fine as a fiddle now. an’ be says I sulphur vapors until all the Inmates w’estern New York and was nstonfshed won't likely have any return of it If I were dead. Then he carefully dug up the entire colony and put earth nnd all afterward to receive a visit from a del Just keep ter what he tells me.” egation of labor leaders, who asked “Whnt did he sny was the matter Into a bag, which he carried to his lab oratory. The sorting nnd counting of him to go to some other hotel because with ye?” Inquired the wife engerly, the Bartenders’ union bad ordered a "1 forglt now what be called It. the ants required more than a week of strike on that hotel and the hotel had but”— I steady work. He found 22,580 ants nnd been declared unfair. "Silas,” she cried, "ye don't really 13.500 larvae. Painless Spnnhln». mean ter say ye pnid out nil that Almoat Impossible. Tboar Sweet Girls. Fattier (cutting Die whip smartly money an’ didn’t git no good of it after Jack—Why wouldn’t she marry you? Drusilla—I did not see you at the all,'”—Exchange. through the air) See, Tommy, how I She loves you to distraction. I know It. Vanblunt reception last night, dear. make the horse go faster without strik because she told me so. George- She Dorothy—No. I hoped to be able to go Preferred ««Hird In the Hand. ing him at all. Tommy Papa, why Insisted on my proving that 1 am not up to the last moment, but was pre "Mr. Heavyweight,” said the minis don't you spnnk us children that way? already Aiinrrled, because she says there vented. Drusilla (sweetly>- )’e> I know Is a great deal of bigamy nowadays. the Invltntion« ver* limltal St I«ul* ter. "is willing to subscribe $10,000 for --Glasgow Tlqp’s. 1 n new church provided we can get otli- Well, It Is easy enough to prove that BepuMic.« • subscriptions making up the same Stlnar Steps. one Is married, but bow the dlckqps amount.” • , An old man was passing our house nm I going to prove tliat 1 am not? > "Do you conslde* Wliiflh« •• •<'•>( "Yet you seem disappointed.” said one afternoon, taking exceedingly short Aft orator or author Is never sm «’cas man. Kw?” « ,111« wife. stops. My little cousin watched him ful till he line learned to make fall "I kno« *• r’Vfai» Wat to ** "Yk*. I was in he ipes be would con- for several minutes and then said, word* smaller than bls ideas. - Einer- "fabutc* Mgul**!* «» «to «»MriaM» Wlbut» * hundred dollars In cash."— "Mamma, jpesn't he walk stingy?”-- •on. Exchange. • - o o ” o o o o 0° o oo o o °0 • • o °<b o o o ° 00 co o o o o O O O O O o o o O9>° • O o °8 O o O °°o o • •