.7 BAN DON JtECORDKK. T11K T1JIKI) COWWRI) DOWNRIGHT LAZY IS THIS BLACK HOBO OF THE ORIOLE TRIBE. It ItiiiMn No X'l of It Own. lint l.n lt V.KK" 1" N'" of Other Hi rl imil ever Trouble ltNolf Alioul llonrinjr It lounic. Thi' cowhird was bom so tired that if lio could compel any othor bird to gather his food for him hi' would do so. Imii )i. cautot. so hi' scratches about all tiny among tli' herds of cattle and sheep ami uoi's to roost at night in gri-at bands of hundreds of his relative-, always selecting a bushy tret', such as a cypress, for a night's porch. AH up and down tho Mississippi river valley Is i ho conunon summer home of lli-so birds, for only in tho depth of wim.-r do they iviroat to tlie warmer uwsas of Mexico, whither most of the oiUor birds have proceeded them, in t!ho spring following such n winter sIm'.v are the first to return, tilling all the how year air with their chatter and lining the b-irnyard trees. Yni must not think that the glossy Mtu'k and brown birds so plontiful around southern California ha my :mls during tho winter months are row trials, for they are not. They are call ed "graokles" and seem to bo more like crows than blackbirds. You can find their nests, big. bu!ky aiYairs. in the orange and cypress trees of almost any of your ranch homes. There are many, ninny members so the blackbird family, the sweet voiced meadow larks and the gorgeous golden orioles as well as the more sober colored blackbirds and crackles, and of all these but one forces the hatching of her eggs and tho feeding of her young on to another bird mother. In England the cuckoo has this same hnblt. but tho American cuckoo builds her nest and siis on her eggs as nicely as any robin or dove could do. Some times our road runner so far forgets herself as to lay her ecus in the nest of a quail or a meadow lark, but not often, but when she docs tho bird upon whom Mrs. Komi Kunnor trios to Im pose generally breaks the strange egg r else goes away and leaves the nest aJoitc. Then the Hold mice and the wood rats have a feast, to which some times the road runner comes herself, for she is very f'nd of eggs as long as they are not her own. J tin the cowhird never makes any such poor job as that. She always se lects the nest of some smaller bird in regions where warblers are plentiful tin Itome of one of those little si Hirers is most frequently chosen and there as many eggs as she thinks the owner of the nost will submit to are laid. Sometimes the warbler trees riirht on incubating the intruder, but now and iheti she two old birds cot together aiMl dump the egg out on she ground. Nests have been found in which she warblers pus a mud llo" over She lirst nest and built another one on top of it. leaving their own eggs to spoil because they knew no other way to rid them selves of she enwbird. If She cowhird comes back by Stic repaired not sm will pui another egg in is. and gener ally Shis Tg is Itasched and raised by she foster pair on whom It has been forced. It requires about ten or eleven day for the young oowbird to break the shell, while most other birds of it sine are two or three days longer, am thus he has a irood start on the othe; nestlings In point of growth. Whei hatched the cowhird is hirtrer than sin sparrow or the warbler and fuiisc queittiy gradually crowds thorn int Qhe baekgrounM. taking ail the f.vM that should belong to them. As they grow wiaker from this he grow.-, stroll ger, and it is not long until he ii thont out of the nest and is side ma: ter of the tvtrdd birds, who wort ceaselessly to sati-fy his awful appo tiie. In a very few days he gets tM large for the little nest and toes out into the bran iii s. whore the old birds still continue so feiil him in a way they never do their own youmr aster thev have left tic n.-st. Ijj Mexico ami South Amerh-a there !s a eowbln that sometimes builds a nest of her own and sits upon and hatches her own ecys. but no such thing over hap pens among tho black hob.es of the orloie family found farther north. now many eggs a oowbird lays no one knows, but as many as seven have boon found in one nest of the oven bird, a kind of thrush found in the eastern states. Csually, however, only one egg i- laid in each nest, es pecially if the birds to whom the nest belongs are small and the nest too Utile to hold more than one of the cow birds young iii comfort. I he parent oowbird never disturbs the eggs of any of the birds in whose nests she leaves her own. knowimr full well that If she did so the nest builder would in all probability desert her home or throw the strange egg out. Oftentimes more than one cowbird lays In the saim nest. and. as no two ogL.s of these birds are ever exactly alike In color, you may h sure that no cowbird knows her own egg half a minute aft er she has laid it. Los Angeles Times. Vlij- S(, i,,. I'H;n Io to 12 n rope. When New York society doesn't know what else to do it goes abroad. An ambitious woman gets wind of some rival's intended function. Not to be invited or not to be seen among the guest means a slight easily endured if the world bo not cognizant of the fact, but intolerant if It is; therefore the ambitious woman sails away to Europe. She may not be gone six weeks, but her absence is thus to bo accounted for. In other eases It is known that society takes Shis absent treat men t to cure heart troubles, to es caj' social obligations that weigh too hi-avily on the Income or, again, from sheer ennui it departs. This restless ness of certain sets in society would be dangerous were it not for the safety valve which that really overworked Atlantic ocean has become of I. tie years. When all else fails, go to Ku rope. Koston Herald. When a Kick Help. When one lacks the courage boldly to advance along the perilous course his Intelligence counsels, he is lucky if he can and will goad some one into kick lug him along It past the joiiit where retreat Is impossible. Sueons.s. I POLLY LARKINl " For heaven sake, don't nag, 1 can stand anything, yes, everything else but that," remarked a man lo bis w ife the other day in the presence of two or throe friends who had called at their home to spend a pleasant evening. " 1 never felt m sorry for anyone in my life as I did for Mr. 11 said one of tin guests afterward, "and 1 don't blame him for speaking right out be fore us all, and saying M'or heaven sake don't nag." Why, she gave him no rest whatever, it was fnult-lindingovorv moment and not only that, but she was sarcastic, you could detect that disa greeable little ring that i-. so exasper ating, in everything she said- lie stood more than my John over did before ho retaliated. My, but she w as mad ami looked daggers at him from those steel blue eyes of hers that glitter like a ser pent's when she is angry. If I had said half the exasperating and humili ating things that she did, my husband would have simply taken his hat and left the house. There would have been no words over the matter and his actions would have sokeu louder than any bitter language lie could have used. 1 would have known he was hurt but he would have never mentioned the fact. Mr. I is a martyr, hut some how or other I cannot appreciate his martyrdom, why isn't he man enough to hold his own against his nagging wife. She spoiled the whole evening for every IhhIv. 1 havethought many times since of what their life must be every day in tin week ami when they are by themselves when Mrs. 1 could make such an exhibition before Us. I blame a man for living with a woman who i constantly nagging and making hi- life wretched and unhappy. Why, Mr. It hardly dares say his soul is hi- own for fear she will contradict him. I have no patience with her be cause -he i.- so .-elfish and unpleasant in her home when ho does so much to make her happy, and I haven't a grain of patience w ith him because ho -tands her tyranny aiol her unple:i.-aiit ways." Many women po-so.-s this unenviable trait and do mil realize to what extent tliey carry the habit of nagging unti they hoar some one else, and even then don't think for a moment that they ar quite as bad a- their nagging neighbor if they did they would endeavor ti turn over a new leaf and break up tin habit that cause.- so much bit term and genuine mi-imdcrsiaudmg m - many homo circle-. Naiririug wreck the peace o the home circle, and drive the ln:id of the hotl-o to the out.-idi world, and the children to t lie -t root for their aiiiu-cuieut. It is a habit that grow- upon one too, and causes no ein of uiihappiuoss ami remorse when it is too late. II vou are conscious of no-scs sing it in tliesiightest degreecomnieiiee at once to weed it out of vour life. It is a hard thing to get rid of, for it wil spring up as fast as thi-tlc-and weed- in a garden, crowding out all thcsweet lovable and woman I v thoughts. Nor arc women sole aggressor.-, for you liu homes where the men arc the nagger- and faultfinder.-; in fact, they arc about evenly divided. 1 have visited friend where the whole atmosphere of t lit homo changed 1 he minute the hiisbam steppi-d into the house. Instantly tin w ife became Hurried and waited for tin iiiiioouiimir, -arca.-tieaiid complaining remark- of the nagging man. w ho won the air of a much abused man. Th children were warned to keep quiet by their mother before he had hung ii his hat, and she would apologize for him by saying, "You know Jimi-s norvoii- that he cannot stand the noisi. of the children, and he think.- they an I . .l-A.I f II. me worst nine huks m town, when really then- i- no better." "I'a grum Ides all the time," -aid a little Utv on hearing hi- mother making e.cu-es l her vi-iior for her husband's cranki ness. Ho .-poke the truth, for hir father was a nagging faultfinder of the wor-t kind at home, and the most jovial, w liide-soiilcd man imagiiiahlt when he got on the outside among tin men, or in the company of ladies where he wanted to make a good impression. There i- no cause whatever for nagging on either side of the house. f thin ire going at cro-s-purposc.- and pulling thi- way and that, have a simple, straight-forward talk and straighten out the trouble, and vou will soon see your way clear. Such a cour-e will tvert maiiv a stormy day, many a scene that would later on be relllciu bered with pain. I have heard little children time and again playing at i t i .i. .. . nouseKccpiug, ami invariably tliov be tray tin character of their homo life in talking to their doll-. If they are used to hearing their mother or father nag ging or complaining, their way of nd drcssing their family of dolls betrays the whole unhappy way of living. I'hey are good imitators and at the same time u-uallv .-peak the truth a- well a- porlr:iy the scenes they are mo.-t familiar w it li. You may hang up your inotto.-, "Cod bless our home," ho Lord will provide," etc., but at thosame time have tbisoiieeinblaoiicil m an illuminated card so all may road ' I-'or heaven -ake don't nag." Aln-ady have our merchant.- placed their endless holiday stock of things suitable and appropriate for old and young, ri:h and poor on display. There - a ton cent article that will make some little child feci rich in the posses ion of the now toy brought by good m i.-s iMingle and the thirty-live dol- ar one for the more favored child of for tune, who will not be one w hit happier than the child living down in the qualid and poverty stricken quarters f some alley. I have stood in t he toy lepartmeiil.-of some of the big depart ment stores and watched the dear little folks as they crowded up and down tin aisles. Those that knew way down in their hearts that the merry old Sunt: t'laus would never be able to bring Un costly toys to their humble alxide, am that they were only intended for the children of tho rich, would admire them, then without a single sigh of re grot, turn like little philosophers am walk sturdily past the glittering show to those that were cheaper and in reach of the Santa t'laus in theiralley. I lappy little folks were they, and I ailniirei iiioin lor tiie matler-oj-tact way in which they took this distinguishing of the rich and the poor. No complaints no wishing for the costly autontobili designed for the juvenile who wa.- to act :is his own chand'ner. "That's swell," said one little ragged urchin "come on Jimmy, let's look at coas tors," sun! exclaimed with delight ovt the bright, red coaster, with "Con qtioror" written in big, black letter across it. " Cood name," said one of the Uv: 1 could slide down hill so fast on that that it would make the rest of the follows sick. It's got a goo brake too. Cood name, good brake giHid coaster." C-whizz, but I woult like to own the Conqueror.' I'm going to throw out hints and he good, better than I have been before. I won't sas anyone back, and run errands am bring in the kindling and coal without being asked, and I'm going to slccj every night saying 'Conqueror, Con queror, come to me,' That aint poetry but its good enough to keep everybody from forgetting that is what 1 want Don't want no knife, dominos, game o Pit or anything like that, but just the 'Conqueror'." The little fellows were .-till chatting about the bright, rc coaster when thev stopped into tin elevator. 1 .-aw other 1mvs, well dressed and witn money eiioiign m their pockets to have iMUight thecovetei coaster, but it was beneath their notice, they had dissatisfied fact's and lookoi only at the costlv toys, and disctissei i the price and merit.- ol the same. Happy little lads who lived in the alley, they may come out conquerors in tin race of life. BRIEF REVIEW. The Science of Flying. Profe.-.-or l.angle '-model thing ma chine, in the light it throws on tin phenomena of air pressure, i- a valuable contribution to cienc. Whether or not it will over teach men to tly is an other matter. Ho calls it an icidroine, which signifies air runner. It has four groat wings. 1'nliko those of tin birds, they are immovable wings. 'I'hey extend out from the side- of the ma chine, and as it travels aloft they cover an immense surface of air per second. The machine is driven forward by :i powerful motor operating a propeller. (nce in the air the machine will tly until the fuel in the engine gives out. It is necessary t give it a more or less violent start, and this has been juuuiiu pli-hed so far by literally shooting the machinefrom thetop of a houseboat. 1 1 is placed on a movable track on the roof of thclHat and projected suddenly out over the water.- of Chesapeake bay. In other words, Professor I.angloy -kints his Iwiat out above the water just as a Uiy skints an oyster shell. Tin faster it is .-hot away the hss power i iietdcil to maintain it, -o that tho mo tor and propeller arc all-sullieicnt to keep it in the air. The Oldest Herbarium. The oldot herbarium in the world is in the Kgyptologist Museum at Cairo, and coiisi.-ts of an inconspicuous collec tion of dried portions of plants taken from wreath.- and garlands found in coilius with mummies, and from edible plants which were set in earthen ves-els on the lloor of the sepulchre a.- the fur niture of the last rc-ting place of their beloved ones. Many of tln-se Moral re mains are so well pn-crved that, after being Healed with warm water, they can be handled like modern herbarium 1 iiuens. Tho colors, too, arc pre served in a remarkable wav. Red Blotch on Jupiter. In IsTs something happened on Jupi ter which caused a red blotch to appear in his southern hemisphere near one of the great belts that cross his disk like huge bands of colored clouds. It was '.o.lXiO miles long and .HUM) miles broad, yet, after all, only n little patch on the mighty disk! It has remained over since, sometimes brightening to almost the criiiison Inn of lire and sometimes ading nearly toinvisibility, yet always, vou when faintest, certifying its pres- uce ami its power by keeping the area originally covered by it dear of all other objects. The Empire ol Peace. The (' nost ics, a religious sect, has incorporated ami established what is to the "White City and Temple" in the Herinosa Tract, north of KVdondo, outherii California. Itiblical directions or the purchase were found in the iropheey of Zacharias. The plans of the society are given out in a booklet tit it Ifd "The Imperial Council of the Empire of Peace." Rogistered by Compass. A recent Kieneh invention is a ship's ompass so mounted that as it swings round with the variations in the point ing of the vessel it produces .nil toinati- ally, through electric connection, a hart on a sheet of paper, by consulting which the ship's otlicers can .sec what the course wa.- at any moment of the voyage. America is to manufacture typewrit ers for Syrio, the machines being fitted with a new alphabet of fifty characters, which was arranged recently by Selim Haddad, a Syrian artist and inventor. The actual Syrian alphabet contains t:0 characters. WAS K FN GTON LETTER! ISJiktIjiI Correspondence. Klliott Woods, the superintendent ot the eapitol. and .Mr. Collin, the mana ger of the house restaurant, are con duced that thoie will be no complaints this winter on the restaurant tioii. A great archway has I proposi-! icon cut' in the wall between what wore former ! ly the two separate dining rooms, and ii steam table in the center will afford excellent facilities for promptly feed ing the hungry in all parts of the res taurant. Pesides this, the bill of fare will be much less elaborate, and It is the present intention to have all the dishes enumerated on the bill of fare ready to serve immediately, beginning at noon, thus doing away with the long delays incident upon the preparation ! of special orders. Members of the h : iH;t notice other Improvements in their wing of the eapitol building, but it is safe to say thev will not be quite so pleased over any of them as they will be with the restaurant im provements. Capitol l'nivur I'lant. Work will not he begun until next fall on the new eapitol power plant, which', when completed, will furnish the power for heating, lighting and ( ventilating the eapitol building, the Congressional library and the senate i anil house oMico buildings now under course of construction. The appropri ation for the power plant, which will probably be the biggest of its kind in the country, was made at the last ses sion of congress, but work on the otllce buildings is not sutlleleutly under way to warrant an immediate beginning of the improvements in the eapitol engine room. Nurse to I' root a .Monument. Tho Spanish-American war nurses, whose annual convention war held re cently at St. Louis, decided Ly unani mous vote to erect a costly and hand some monument In the Arlington Na tional cemetery to the memory of those "humane and patriotic army nurses who died as a result of their exposure hi the enervating climate of the trop ics during the war with Spain and the insurrection in the Philippines." The design of the monument has not boon decided upon, but many members are said to favor a figure representing a nurse in her service uniform ready for duty. Civil .Service at l'aiiuiiin. President Roosevelt has signed an order completed by the civil service and Isthmian canal commissions, extending the civil service regulations over the employees of the canal commission. The order embraces all employees ex cept those appointed by the president and laborers .Wv Treaty With Crrmnii'. Negotiations have been initiated for a treaty of arbitration between Ger many and She Cuited States. Several days ago President Itoosovelt suggest ed to Ilaron Sternburg. the German ambassador, that a treaty of arbitra tion between the Cuited States and Germany would, in his Judgment, be very desirable. Ambassador Sternburg coincided in that view and told the president that he would Inquire of his government what steps If any it de sired to take In the matter. Soon after i......ar,sudor Sternburg culled upon President Itoo-cvclt and Informed him that the German government had ex piessed Itself as entirely agreeable to the president's proposition and that he had been directed to open formal nego tiations for such a treaty. Secretary Ilny'w JoUe. Diplomats stationed in Washington are gratified with the announcement by President Roosevelt that Secretary Hay will remain in the cabinet for an other four years. This Is because the diplomats to a man esteem Secretary Hay ery highly. For the most part they know his views on leading ques tions. He is extremely practical, and he Is frank. Prom time to time there has been talk of Secretary Hay retiring because of 111 health. As a master of fact, al though he Is sixty-five years old. he Is In excellent condition physically. He has had his Joke about the frequent rti- mors of his poor health. To a friend i who once congratulated him upon his ! evcollent appearance he said with as- j sumed weariness. "Ah, yes. but I am .suffering from an Incurable disease." Tho friend, surprised, expressed dis belief, but Mr. Hay Insisted his mala dy was hopeless. The friend said per haps It was not really so bad. and what was the disease? "Old age." replied the secretary. The rresldeiif Son. Young Theodore Roosevelt, who has boon here for some weeks, having left school because of an atlliction of his eves, will not return to tiroton, out will remain In Washington for the rest of the session. He has a tutor from Host on, Matthew Lee, a nephew of the first Mrs. Roosevelt, who was Miss Al ice Lee of Itoston. IS ii nil I'ree Delivery. When congress created the rural free delivery branch of the postal service t did not realize that it was establish- n the greatest political machine of t sue i nucd Mates, q ne tact nas neon recently impressing Itself In a most se rious manner upon senators and rep resentatives, and thev have brought It o the attention of the president, who ins directed the civil service commis sion to make an Investigation with a view to shearing free delivery carriers of political endeavors. In the recent election the fact was developed that rural free delivery car riers filled certain congressional dis tricts with literature opposing the re jection of I'Mi't'iin 1 1 1 1 i 1 urj nf con gress. The president is said to realize the danger of such participation In politics by free delivery carriers and will frame additions to the civil service reg ulations that will prevent them from taking any obnoxious part In politics CARL SCHOFIELD. Cood Training. Miss Sightseer (in Egypt) Mr. New rich, you scale up these rocks as if you'd been climbing pyramids all your life! Were you bred In the mountains? Mr. New-rich Oh. no; but I carried n hod up a two story ladder for a good many years before I struck oil. De troit Free Press. (.ove. George Are you quite sure that you questions the manager said: "Rut, gen real ly love me? Ressie Oh. yes; cer-! tiemen, don't you see that their d!ct tain of It. I never know any one th.it Is evidence of my skill? I have con could make me ho furiously angry at verted them Into vegetarians." Flle tlmes! Exchange. ' geude Blatter. PIGEON COURTSHIP. It Sometimes I.eal to Unfile That ite.Hiilt In Dentil. On a south Jersey farm, which was the home of a thousand pigeons and which was conducted by a woman who I.... I 1 1:1 1 ""'"ei-iy neeu a uooicKeoper ui Cliihiib'lpliin. was found one particular ny and coop which was the abiding place of young doves that had reached I lie mating season. Purposely these young birds wore associated together go that they might select their life com panions. The interior of the walls of the coop were filled with boxes, and those pigeons which had mated would select one of these boxes for their home and nost. This period of courtship is one filled with excitement for the birds. Two young pigeon cocks, having selected the I ,w"1 "" " "ue, unu-umi Know u . .'d ii i it r.. ...... i. i ? o me ueain ui uiiar rivalry. J tie method of combat Is peculiar. The beak and wings alone are used, the combatants catching each other wlft? their beaks by the skin of the head and heating each other with their strong wings. Having once chosen his mate, the dove, with an occasional exception, re mains constant to her through life. The occasional Instances of infidelity cause discord In the coop, for when one pigeon tires of his mate and seeks an other he moots a vlgorosw protest from i the companion of the bird which he I covets. When they have agreed to spend their lives together Mr. and Mrs. Hove select a box and the laying be gins. The parent birds may then bo less than eight months old. lira Mag azine. GODPARENTS. An iieleiit Institution, Doulitlcnn ot JcwImIi Origin. Wo must doubtless look to the Jews for the origin of godfathers and god mothers. Tho use of them in the primi tive church is so early that it Is not easy to tlx a time for their beginning. Some of the most ancient fathers make mention of them, and through all the successive ages afterward we find the use of them continued without any In terruption. P.y a constitution of Ed mund, archbishop of Canterbury. 1,10, and in a synod hold at Worcester, l''H. a pro isioii was made that there should be for every male child two godfathers and one godmother ami for eery female one godfather and two godmothers. King Henry VIII.. refer ring to the Princess Elizabeth, says: My lord of Canterbury. I half n salt which you must not dony mc - That l. a f;dr young maid that yet v.iiat.H ln;tiseii. You must he Kinlfathor nnd answer for her. "Henry VIII.." Act f.. Scene 3. A constitution of l'JSl makes provi sion for a Christian name being changed at confirmation. This Is prae t. .illy a !-!s::i.ing of tho child. The tr..:i:i.er in which it was done was for the hi-hop to use the name in the invo cation and afterward for him to sign a certificate that he had so confirmed a person by such new name. It Is possi ble that this practice might have been In Shakespeare's mind when he wrote: i ill in hat ". and I'll he now baptized. Menc forth 1 n vvr will bo Koaieo. "Ituntio ami Juliet." Act 2, Sccno 2. We iSminster Ueviow. BATHING AND HEALTH. lleiwtitN to He Deri veil From Colli WntiT mill Rubbing-. A cold bath wo might as well get at the straight of the thing Is not really a n atter of cleanliness so much as a matter of getting the skin livened up ."lid tho capillaries and veins next to the surface full of bloiKl. Ice cold water or scalding hot water will do that, but tepid water no. no! The skin is almost exactly the same kind of an excreting organ us the lungs. The same products seep through tho pop's as are carried off In tho breath, and the air purifies the blo.nl in the same way. Put the great er part of the skin is smothered tip In clothes day and night. What the cold water of the bath dissolves Is matter well away. And the rubbing dry Is pretty vigorous exorcise If you want to know. Any rubbing Is bound to push the blood along toward the heart and 1 eiji the circulation, because there arc valves in the veins which prevent the blood from going In any other di rection than toward the heart What ever loose Hakes of outer cuticle are rubbed off we needn't worry about; plenty more whore they came from. The extra food the Increased appetite demands will make good that trilling loss. Eugene Wood In Everybody's Magazine. The Spinning Wheel In Ireland. The spinning wheel and the llax wheel are still found in the Irish cot tages, where many a girl has her wed ding dowry of linen and homespun made at home. Although It is more the task of the older women, there are cfill '!rl u-lin ilit fln-lr k.iiltniln' stint ! , . , t . moin.t for their I wedding outfit. A pleasant sight It Is j to see the elderly women outside their cottage doors spinning the tlax or the wool. As long as the weather Is warm the sturdy Irishwoman, old or young, scorns a roof except to sleep under. The free air and sunshine are her choice, and the sweet sky is the fair est roof. t .v i.nril Mini into Slavery. Charles Reade found the hero of his novel, "The Wandering Heir." in the person of Lord Altham of Ireland, who was sold as a "redemptioner" at Phlla- uoipiua in ii's, and w ho served ror ; medical services of the town. The con twelve years In effect as a slave to one ! dltlons 0f the experiment are that each or Ilioro masters 111 Lancaster county. I la. i no young uoDlemaii was recog nized by two Irishmen who came by accident to the house where he lived, and Admiral Vernon afterward took i him back to Ireland. Reade laid the I scene of Lord Altham's servitude In northern Delaware, but it is pretty well established that this was an error. A Conversion. A country circus advertised that "at 112 o'clock tho cannibals will be fed." A largo crowd assembled, but to every body's disappointment the savages ato potatoes. In reply to some Indignant CHOICE MISCELLANY I'nssiiiL; of Spellbinder. The c.impa igiis of two candidates who won notable victories were marked by the liberal and novel use of adver tising. Mr. Cortelyou inserted pages of spe cial and costly advertising 'in high class magazines and periodicals and in se lected newspapers containing judicious lira iso of President Honsevelt. The ad vertisements were carefully and clev erly constructed. They contained a few Inspiring quotations from Mr. Roose velt's speeches and writings, a few praiseful opinions of Mr. Roosevelt's char.-u ter and career from rnon.-nf note and a brief sketch of the man and his deeds. The man was the theme. Some prominent Republicans made speeches and a few spellbinders were employed, but undoubtedly the largest single item In the bill of expenses was advertising. Governor Elect Douglas of Massa chusetts, who accomplished the re markable feat of getting elected gov ernor as n Democrat In a Republican landslide, announced that he would do his campaigning through the newspa pers aial periodicals. He advertised his political opinions and pledges Just as he advertised his shoes. That intelligent advertising of this kind Is potent cannot be gainsaid. The results indicate it. Hut do not these advertising experiments presage the pas-ing of the spellbinders? -St. Louis Post Dispatch. Ten (iroitinic In Mouth Cxirollnn. Dr. Charles A. Shepard of South Carolina has proved on his own plan tation at Summerville, twenty miles out of Charleston, that the growing of te.i can be carried on successfully and profitably. He has bei n doing this for the past twelve years, with such good results that the secretary of agricul ture and the congress of the United States highly approve his deeds, and both are extending him liberal assist ance. "My idea from the start." said Dr. Shepard, "was to add an additional crop t the farm products of the coun try. The road to agricultural supremacy is through diversifying. Tea raising In the Cuited States Is certainly practica ble. It is no new thing in this country, for In the old days a French priest pluiitcd tea on the banks of the Ashley river. Hut owing to the difference in the cost of labor the Cuited States can not compote with the orient In low grade of cheap teas. It will pay us to produce only that of the highest qual ity and which brings a high price In market. The tea grown on my place In South Carolina compares with the best that is imported from eastern lands." -Washington Post. Sugared Wood. Mr. Powell, u LiverjMtol merchant, has perfected a process for vulcaniz ing wood comparable In some respects with the P.esscuicr process .f convert Ing iron into steel. After a prolonged series of experiments he has discovered a method of so treating timber as M secure even from the soft wonls a largely lnereascd'"Toughnos.s and hard ness. The treatment to which thf timber is subjected is. roughly sM-al; lug. that uf saturation at iK.iling mini with a solution of sugar, the water be ing afterward evaporated at a high temperature. The result is to leave the pores and the Interstices of the wo. id filled in with solid matter, and tho tim ber vulcanized, preserved and season ed. The nature of moderately soft wood. St Is claimed. Is hi Shis way changed to a tough and hard sub stance without brittleness ami alsc without any tendency to spiit or break. It Is als rondenil remarkably imper vious t water. Hard wood .similarly treated dorhes similar boi.etit. It is claimed that the process may he com pleted and the timber turned out ntidy for use in a few days. Visitor In I'n rltn iiii-nt. The country cousin cares nothing for the commons, but H all eagerness to visit the house of lords. He persists In taking the clerks at the table for the prime minister and the leader of the opposition. He asks for Mr. Ial- f.ur. and on being shown a pair of boots on the table brutally demands the prime minister's head, which, no cording to Mr. Lloyd George, may he ativ whore but on the treasury bench. "Where does Mr. Hoaly sit:" is an in quiry neatly countered by the reply that It Is sometimes on Mr. Redmond, and the emlMKllmont of the law seated on the woolsack prompts tho query. "Is it alive?" a question to which Mr. Lloyd George's dissenting friends In Scotland would mournfully respond. "Very much so." London Outlook. Triumph For the I'iikIInIi Tiiukuc. An English speaking nation has grown up on the west hie of the At hint to w hich has done and is doing more than the parent country to give the t.wigue a world vogue. Two-thirds of the people who speak English live in the I'n. till States. The Industrial and commercial conquests which this coun try Is gaining tell In fa r of its peo- pie's tongue. A century ago French. Spanish and German were far ahead of English in the number of persons who Used them as a vehicle of speech. Put In the lapse of time English has passed all of thom and Is spoken by more peo ple today than Is any other civilized tongue. Chicago Journal. Mnulelpul .Medicine. Switzerland contemplates a curious object lesson In municipal socialism. The city of Zurich is making an ex periment in the coinmunlzlng of tho ti1l,lt..int nnvs n renr's tnr nf !! 7Mrd.. and that tho product of 20,ooo is (livioeii in salaries oi i.ioo a year : iiiuong forty medical men. who will at ' - i.. t . i ..a r tend the Inhabitants gratuitously. Superfluous Details. Caller (looking at picture) Does your mamma paint? Little Son Yes. but she's through with that an is puttlif on the powder now. She'll be down in n minute. Accepted. "Jackson tells nie the last thin he , wrote woe accepted, what It was?" "Yfi; his resignation, lion. Do you know 'London Mil- Rats and conquerors must expect no mercy In misfortune. Cotton. FACTS IN FEW LINES Korean girl over seven are all taught at homo by tutors. The pack horses of Nagasaki. Japan, wear shin's of straw. Motor cars intended for desert trav eling will arrive at Khartum sooti. At the close of l!M).'i the London po lice had a collection of 70,000 sets of linger prints of criminals. A motor cyclist in England was ar rested because his coat tails hid tho number of his machine from a police man's view. Rotsy Meagher of County Sllgo. who died the other day at the age of VIZ, used to rail at her seveiity-live-year-ohl daughter for keeping late hours. The Important question. When docs a bride cease to be a bride? is decided by the Loudon Queen, which says she becomes a "wife" at the expiration of six weeks after the wedding. The trade with Hrazil hist year luf? never been surpassed except in the throe record years of JSPO. lf'.H mid lV.rj. It was .?.",).-iO.OX higher than the average of the last ten years. Nelson's statue at the Ri3l Naval college, Greenwich, was found the oth er morning with its nose painted a bright red. The authorities are making' a determined attempt to find the guflty party. Dr. Thoiioy. a medical town coiincM or at P.olton. England, calls small bed rooms death traps, and the council iE seeking parliHineiitary powers to pre scribe a minimum cubic space for bed rooms. Shepherds started the fire which In the last week of August caused a dRiw age of S.non.ouO francs on the island of Corsh-a. It lasted three days and de stroyed many vineyards, orchards and other valuable grounds. Crowning the German system of In dustrial education stand the greiit ttndi. nical hinh schools. Their IKIIUO arid faino have gone out into every country where men are interested In the .Tfipff c.itioii of science in iihl'istry. The Canadian AssM-iatbni of Steam Engineers has decided to petit km lh Ontario legislature to puss an aet re quiring every man in elurge of a steam engine of over twenty-live horse power to have an engineer's ctTtitknte. .' The municipality of RelclM'iilierg. Hu hemia. intends to erect a large electric 'plant to supply light for neighburlng small towns and industrial establish ments and another phsitt to furmsii electric Ught to the sitlmrbs of tho city. P.y means an accidental short efr citit in one of the Junction t Mixes hi an -electric main in .Melbourne. AumuiiHii. an alarm was sent in to every lire de partment station, and l.roo estils wen? received at the same instant in the head telephone ollice. The French government has author ized the French West African lwfc U increase its capital and to open a branch in .Monrovia. Hitherto the nuances of Liberia have been itJmust wholly in Gorman hands. tletigh has been no bank in tho ropnlilk. The oldest children of two .lapeiwsN families cannot marry, for tin eklot child must always live at home ami so keep she family homo from imsstat; into strange hands. If a man marrlos a .Taiwinese heiress he has to take lier family name if he Is poor himself. The California grand lodge of Ma sons, which i mi itdos the subordinate lodges of Hawaii. Is planning to btirld In Si.n Francisco a temple lurge enough to accommodate H raml huiU hv of the craft within its jurisdiction. Tho present temple is about forty years old. A stool girder foil while being Iroisti.il to tie top of a San Francisco building and struck a house mover's wnidin roller, which rlcochettod across the street, passed through the window of a ertiekery store and swept a fifty foot counter completely clear of the brlu-a-brae. cut glass, dinner sots, vases, etc.. that were upon it. civet Is one of the essential ingredi ents of nearly all the high class per fumes made, so there is always a ready sale for it In the market. The Abyssiiiians put this civet in small cat tie horns, which arc packed in eases. It Is sold by the ounce, the juice rang ing from Sl.tSi to :t.Jt per ounce, ac cording to purity and color. The otlloers of the consolidated street car linos of Oakland. Cal.. have titled up a spacious ami thoroughly equipped athletic and social club for tlieir em ployees. Including billiard, pool and mrd rooms, rinding room, luncheon, gymnasium, bowling alley, shooting gallery and baths. The only expenses of she members will be for jaiiisor and other service. A French linn Is about to place on' the market a novelty In postal cards; To an ordinary pictorial card is atlix od a Very thin transparent gelatin disk, on which is Impressed a gramo phone musical record. A hole is plere ed through the center of the disk, awl the post card can be placed on .in or dinary "talking machine" and played In the usual way. Some boys nt Minneapolis wuw caught trying to rob a mail box hi a novel way she other day. They bad a big grasshopper tied to the end oil a bit of thread. They lowentl the imtvi Into the little 1mx. and It caught a let ter with Its claws and hung on to It while being drawn out. The lnys Iwul taken several letters from the box in this way before they were caught. The British admiralty is investigat ing a nice little naval scandal. It ap pears that the ship's police at the varf- ; ous naval schools have been allowing the names of men on furlough to ve main on the mess books and so draw rations, the value of the rathwis being appropriated by the men who made the false entries. This has Im'cii goiux on for years and has cost England a large sum of money. Snored Mountain,, In .I.nimu. Travelers In Japan are astonished to find the grandest shrines throughout the land situated on the tofs of hfcjh. precipitous mountains. This is became every mountain In that country is dedi cated to some deity who is believed to be its guardian. These temple grounds are covered with the oldest and largest forest trees, and to the eyes of the peo ple below the effect of the clouds which hover nround the peak has originated the belief that the gods hold the power over the clouds to give or withhold rain. V