liANlKlN RECORRER. COLOR IN FIREWORKS HOW THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAZZLING HUES ARE PRODUCED. It I* All ■ Matter of I'beaMrr, tba Reaalt of «*'• Couiburlloa of th« Balta of I ertaia Metals — The Me- eAaalee of Hotatlna Firework«. The chief beauty of fireworks la their range of resplendent colors— ru by. sapphire, emerald, topax, amethyst, aquauuiriue aud scores of tints uuJ shades between, liow Is ull this evan­ escent glory of color obtained? The se­ cret Iles In directed chemical com bus tlou by means of cases and composi­ tions. the results of murvelous calcula­ tion and skill. The matter Is simple enough to those who know. It Is attained by the com­ bustion of the salts of certain metals. In other words, the burning metah have each their characteristic color. Sodium gives off* yellow flame; cal­ cium, orange; barium, green; stronti­ um, red; copper, green or blue, accord­ ing to circumstances, and so on. Other familiar metals. Iron, steel and xinc, give their tribute of colors. Iron filings give bright red and white sparks; cop­ per tilings, a green tint; xinc, a fine blue; steel tilings and cast Iron borings, a brilliant tire with wavy radiations. Every one is familiar with the color­ ed fires, but who would suppose that lycopodium, the delicate pollen of cer­ tain mosses, so tine that It is used to powder baby’s skin, furnishes u rose colored fire with a magnificent flame? These colored tires are called tn tech­ nical language "fixed tires" and con­ sist of slow compositions that may be piled in little cones ou a flagstone and lighted at the top. They burn slowly ami there is no explosion. These com­ positions are made In many colors. Homan candles belong to the fixed Are class and are also called fusees. We all know the straight, slender cyl­ inder or cartridge of the ordinary ro­ man candle. Lt Is packed as follows: First there is put tn It a charge of fine gunpowder, and above this is placed a "star.” These are simply balls of some special composition containing metallic tilings, according to the color desired, made up with gum and spirits of wine. Stars and charges alternate until the cylinder fs full. Each star ball Is dried and dusted with gunpowder before pncklng. The first charge of gunpow­ der In esploding starts the stellar pro­ cession until one after another they blaze Individually and vanish like fall­ ing stars. Next In order to the fixed Ores come rotating fireworks—namely, wheels. Are wheels, bisecting wheels, plural wheels, caprice wheels and spiral wheels, all more or less com­ plex. The colors of fireworks are a matter of chenflstry; the no less important mo­ tions that display the beauty of these colors to the beBt advantage are a mat­ ter of mechanics. The man who Is a first class pyrotechnist Is versed In both Sciences. The ordinary pinwheel is a simple ex­ ample of rotating fireworks. It Is a long ease pncki-d wftli a tire conq>osl- tlon and wound round a disk of wood. Tlie outer end of the spiral Is primed with an explosive material. When It Is lighted It "kicks,” just as a gun does when the powder explodes in the car­ tridge. and round and round tiles the wheel, sending out flashes and showers of colored or golden Are. Some of the most dazzling and glori­ ous effects In pyrotechnical displays are produced by rotating fireworks, for there «irius to l>e no limit to the va­ riety of arrangement of cast's and com­ positions to produce multiple motions and transformation scenes in color In this class of flreworks. A third class comprises the ascending fireworks. Skyrockets belong to tills class and may be simple or very elab­ orate. according to their garniture of stars, sparks, spirals, serpents or show­ ers of gold or silver rain. A skyrocket consists of two (Mirts—a body and a head made separately and afterwurd attached to the body. The body Is n straight cylinder of heavy pasted pnper dust'd at the lower end so ns to leave only a very narrow open­ ing for the escape of the Are. A cen­ tral hollow bore exft-nds three-quarters of the way up the body, and all about this is packed the special explosive composition, the downward recoil of which sends the rocket rushing swift­ ly upward, guided and balanced by the light stick of willow wood. The head, a pnper cylinder with a conical top, holds the special composition which Is to form stars, serpents, spirals or what not A fuse In the top of the body ex­ plodes when the rocket reaches Its ut­ most height aud sets off this composi­ tion, the vnrying color, form and mo­ tion of which excite the “Ohs!" and "Ahs!” of the admiring crowds. The great spectacular displays com­ bine the several classes—flxed, rotat­ ing and ascending flreworks. Temples, trees, ships, portraits, fig­ ures vf men, beusts mid b!id.->, “ -wers. shields, and so forth, are represented by suitable frameworks of wood either wound with coarse cotton rovings rbout two Inches In diameter. Impreg noted wtth certain compositions and wet with spirits, or else they have at­ tached to them lances or cases of car­ tridge paper filled with various com positions, the whole placed In commu­ nication by conduits or small paper cartridge«.—Youth’s Companion. Ideatlfled. "What has become." asked the oc­ casional guest, “of the pretty black eyed girl who nsed to wait at that table over In the corner?" "What pretty black eyed girl?" frig­ idly Inquired the young woman with the snub nose and prominent chin. “If I remember rightly, she had a little bit of a mole on one clx*ek." “Oh. that girl with the blotch on her face? I think somebody married her." —New York Press. ’ . Ilna r DItttnrt Advantage. Addlpus—Don’t you hate to «be as lean as you are? Sklnnltwis No; some­ times I find It's a decided help. I can cross my legs a crowded car without taking up any mor* room that I did before.—Chien go Tribune. The noblest qnesttin In the W»'rld la, What gosfi i*iy 1 do In It?- Franklin. ■—............................ -.......................... .................................................. The Twelve Wild Geese By Seumss MicMinu« «upltngU. MM. bg Scunuu V'u SfunMa NCE upon a time there was a girl mimed Maura, who had had twelve brothers, but when each of her brothers readied twelve years of age he suddenly His- appeared, and no one knew whut be­ came of them. When Maura reached sixteen years of age and lar twelfth brother was just carried off she said she would not remain at home, but would travel away in search of her brothers and never stop until she should And them. So she started and traveled away be­ fore her far farther than I could tell you and twice as far as you could tell me. until she reached a strange coun­ try, and there at a wee house, in which there lived only one old woman, she put up one evening as night was com­ ing down. The old woman welcomed her and sat her down to u good supper. Maura saw there were preparations made for twelve others besides herself at the table, and just as she sat down she saw a flock of wild geese coming toward the house. They flew in at the door, and she counted twelve, and as they Ut on the floor every one of the wild geese turned into a young man. anil they were Maura's twelve broth­ ers. Maura, as you may be sure, was re­ joiced, and she said to them that they would all set out for home the next morning, but they told her they could never go home, that they were en­ chanted, but allowed to come to this housi* every night and enter into their own shape until cockcrow next morn­ ing. Poor Maura cried bitterly when she heard this. They sat up all night talk­ ing and talking, but the moment the cock crew In the morning the twelve brothers turned Into twelve wild geese again and flew out of the door aud away. Maura asked the old woman If there was no way at all of releasing her brothers, and tb<> old woman told her that she could release them In one way. "How is that?" said Maura. “It Is this.” said the old woman, "that for three years you neither laugh, cry nor speak, but spend all your time In spinning, weaving and making twelve shirts from the caena- vawn. (The caenavawn Is a flower that grows In the bogs. It has a per­ fectly whit«*, plumy bead.) Maura agreed to do this. And after she got her breakfast she went out Into O woman in that rustle who had vX|avt ed to marry the prince and who hated Maura bocauae she had married him. On the night this child was born abe bad It thrown lato the sea, and she stained Maura's bauds with blood aud put bloxl In the room. So when the prince came to l*k at his child be coul«l And num*, but saw the blo«Ml on Maura's hands and over the room, and the redheaded Woman said she bad murdered the child. A nA when Maura did not speak the prince went away In very great sorrow For the next twelve months Maura went on as tiefore, and at the end ot that time another child was born. The re«l to re­ main on for twelve hours. If neees sary, this operation Is repeated, and the polishing process is renewed, Arst with emery nnd then wtth tin aahei aud lampblack. As a finish wax dissolved In turpen tine Is spread over It and allowtxl to re main for some time before being ruts "It is this,” «slid t?u old woman. bed off with a linen rag and plenty ol the bogs and gathered up the full of elbow grease. Then the Imitation Is her arms with caenavawn and brought complete, nnd no one looking nt th« smooth black surface could guess that them home. Then the old woman gave her a silver it bid beneath it a slab of homely slate wheel, an ivory loom and a golden nee­ Considerable of a Place. dle and silk thread to spin and to A gentleman who had «H-casion to gc weave and to make the shirts. And every day Maura sat down with to nn inland New England village ten her wheel outside the little house spin­ miles from a railroail was met at the station by an okl fellow who looked as ning the caenavawn. Hut she had not tx'en many days at If he might have just awa kern'd after this when who should rid«* past but the a Rip Van Winkle sh'ep. Ills horse young prince of that «rountry, and nnd buggy were In keeping with tlieir when he saw Maura be fell In love owner’s ancient appearance. "Here we with her at once, she was so very, air at last," said the driver, when they finally cam«' to three houses and n very beautiful. lie pulh*d up his horse and aske«l for blacksmith's shop. "This isn’t much of a place, is It?” n drink, and Maura brought him a bowl of water. He said a lot of sweet snld the depressed stranger, looking things to Maura, but she made him no around. “Oh. you don’t see nil o’ It from reply. He gave her back the bowl, here,” was the reply. “Thnr’s two kiss«'«! h«'r hand and rode on. Next day he rode past the house more houses over liehlnd that hill thar, iiguin, and .tinura was without, work an’ a roopcr"» chop !«»♦. around tb«t Ing her silver wheal. lie stopped again bend In the road thar. Come to bunch anti naked for a drink of water, which 'em all together an’ It’s consld'able o’ Maura brought to him. He asked Mau­ a place—but. o' course. It ain’t New ra he- name and where she came from, York."—Woman’s Home Companion. but Maura only shook her head, and, The Mad Ambnnandnr. though he snl things to There was a tragic little scene Imme­ her. she would give him no answer, diately preceding the marrlnge of King and be rode away again. Edward VII. when he was the Prince On the day after he rode.past there of Wales. With several of Ids royal again and asked for a drink of water. relatives he was staying at the I’rus And as Maura reach«! him a bowl of slnn embassy In Rome, where bls host water he caught hold of her arm. drew was tlie German ambassador. Baron her up on the hors«' behind him am! von Kanitz. rode off. The responsibility of entertaining so And he ordered thoee that attended many august personages under his him to bring with them the silver roof was too much for the ambassador. wheel and the Ivory loom, the golden He appeared at dinner one night In his ne«xllc and th«» silk thread, and the dressing gown and slippers and to heap of «aienavawn at which Maura half the royalties of Europe exclaimed: wrought, and he rode away and away, "Is this to go on much longer? I am with Maura behind him, until he came heartily sick of It. and It must come to to his owu castle, and here he married an epd at once.” Maura. They carried him to his room and the He thought it very, very strange that next day removed him to an asylum, a Maura would not speak to him ami raving lunatic. ■ • that she would not laugh and would The Small ChlMrea. not cry, but spent all her days tn "I wonder what it Is," said the fami­ gathering and spinning and weaving the raenavawn and making it up Into ly man, “that makes landlords and Janitors dislike to have small children shirts. He tried everything he Bould try to In flats.” “The small children. I change her. He gave great feasts and guess," repll«xl the savage bachelor.— Ledger. grent balls and made Maura attend Philadelphia ** ------------- ----------------- them all, but she never altered. If you yf«h to see | eople you must After a year a young son was born to her. Now. there was a redheaded begin by uuderstaudiu/them Reade. THE SELFISH COUPLE. MEXICAN DRAWN WORK. Huabatnd» aud Hl«n Klei Hefaaa «« Mlnale In Soelelr. The Womea Who Make It Aecordlae to t'eou tuntrart. Selfishness is the bane of all life It cannot enter into life—Individual, family or s«x-ial without cursing it Therefore If any married pair find themselves inclined to confine them selves to one another’s society, India posed to go abroad aud mingle wit) the life around them, disturb'd ami ir ritated by the collection of felends lr their own dwelling or in any way mov ed to regard their social duties as dis­ agreeable, let them be alarmed at once It Is a bad symptom—an essentially morbid symptom. They should insti tute means at once for removing thlf feeling, and they «an only remove It by persistently going into society, persist­ ently gathering It into their own dwell Ing and persistently endeavoring to learn to love and feel an Interest tn all with whom they meet. The process of regeneration will not be a te«llous one, for the rewards of social life are lm mediate. The heart enlarges quickly with the practice of hospitality. The sympathies run and take root from point to point each root throwing up leaves and bear lug flowers and fruit like strawberry vines if they are ouly allowed to do so. It Is only sympathies and strawber­ ries that are cultivated in hills which do otherwise. The human face Is a thing which should be able to bring the heart Into blossom with a moment's shining, and will be such with you If you will meet It properly. The penalties of family Isolation will not, unhappily, fall entirely uion your­ selves. They will be visited with double force upon your children. Chil­ dren reared in the borne with few or no associations will grow up either boorish or sensitively timid. It is a cruel wrong to children to rear them without bringing them into con­ tinued contact with polite social life. The ord«*al through which children thus reared are obliged to pass in gain ing the ease and assurance which will make them at home elsewhere than un­ der the paternal roof Is one of the severest, while thoee who are constant- ly accustomed to a social life from their youth are educated in all Its forms and graces without knowing It. Great multitudes of men and women all over tlie country are now living se­ cluded from social contact simply from their sensitive «ronseiousness of igno­ rance of the forms of graceful inter­ course. They feel that they cannot break through their reserve. There is, doubt­ less, much that is morbid in this feel Ing, aud yet It Is nxilnly natural. From all this mortlflcathn and this depriva­ tion every soul might have been saved by education in a home where social life was properly lived. It is cruel to deny to children the opportunity not only to become accustomed from their first consciousness to tlie forms of so­ ciety, but to enjoy its Influence upon their developing life. Society Is food to children. Contact with other minds Is tlie means by which they are educated, and the dif­ ference In families of children will show at once to the accustomed eye the different social character of their par­ ents. But I have no space to follow this subject further, and I leave it with you, with the earn«*st wish that you will consider it and profit by the suggestions I have given you.—"Tim­ othy Titcomb’s Letters" In Boston Globe. The woman who makes drawn work on a Mexleua estate Is not an lndepend eut worker to whom comes the mone; for all the work her deft bands accom pllsh. She is a woman whose fatbet or brother or uncle or mother la tn debt to the “great don.” She can do th« drawn work, so the dor's agent sup­ plies her with linen or lawn, a frame (nd the requisite Implements and in dleates the design that she is to fol low, for. though you may not know it there are fashions in drawn work quit« as exclusive and quite as populur at there ar«' in women’s bats, for Instance When her work Is done that poor wo­ man cannot fare forth to market and offer It for sale. It is by the term ol her |x'uu contrast perhaps already sold to the "great don," whose tenant she is. Miguel, his agent, takes the work, by now ns grimy us the overalls of an engineer. He has kept account of th« time the woman has been engaged up on it, and for each of the many day» sh«' may have worked he gives her 7 8, li, at most* 12 cents, but uever the last amount unit's* she be a thorough mistress of her craft. once a year the Mexicans for whom th«* women do this work, somewhat as the sweatshop tollers of Chicago and New York drive their needles for n m ister, meet in solemn conference nn<) determine what the prices shall be. So great is the popularity of drawn work generally that the supply never equals the demand, and the proflts made by the Mexican masters of the drawn work trust, for it is really tliuL are enormous. The dealer pays these “op­ erators" what they demand, and they demand much. Therefore the buyer pays $40 for a “cloth" that costs the "manufacturer" 12 cents a day. labor hire, for, say. ninety days, to produce.— Pilgrim. THE RAILROAD FIREMAN. Building a Fire In a Locomotive la Not an Kan) Job. The average citizen manages to set the house in an uproar every time be has to make a fire In the beater, but his job is a trifle in comparison with what a railroad fireman faces when a new fire has to be built in a locomo­ tive. As a starter about 200 pounds of wood are necessary to Are up the or­ dinary engine. The wool used is old railroad ties cut Into convenient blocks. When the fire box has been lined with wood it Is drenched with oil, and the match is applied. As soon as the fire gains headway forced draft is applied, the operation necessary being performed In the roundhouse, where all apparatus for quickly producing high temperature Is at hand. When a good bed of blazing wood has been produced the fireman gets busy with his shovel, placing coal in even layers over the flames. This part of the work is hard on the back, and the aggrieved Individual whose woes are evident to the whole block when he labors with the heater would go down and out In the first minute at It. Under the forced draft It is only a few minutes before the coal has been reduced to a sheet of embers at white heat, and by this time there is enough steam pressure generated to permit of the locomotive tielng move,! urnler Its own power. Continuous resort to the shovel on the part of the fireman docs the rest. It Is only about once a month that a new fire Is built In a locomotive while in service The bn line«' of the time the fire Is kept alight by being banked when tlie Iron horse is not on the road. —Philadelphia Record. Plcwcr« rood Cheer. Although Dr. Oliver Wendell Holm«** never practiced medicine, those who knew him intimately say that he cht'ered more sinking invalids, cured more sick people nnd did more good, even from a medical standpoint, than many of his young physician friends The secret of his power lay In his over flowing chrerfulness and kindness of heart. He scattered "flowers of good cheer" wherever be went. With film optimism was a creed. "Mirth Is God's medicine,” he declared. "Everybody ought to bathe in It Grim care, mo roseness, anxiety—all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth." Japanese K«»ll«h. At a recent exhibition of pictures in Tokyo, Japan, the following uotlce was posted; “No visitor who Is mad or In­ toxicated N allowed to enter In. If any person found in shall be claims«! to re­ tire. No visitor la a flowed to carry In with himself any parcel, umbrella, (tick and the like kind, except his purse, and la strictly forbidden to take with In himself dog or the same kind of beasts. Visitor Is requested to take care of himself from thievly.” A StKsOICS PLEASURE but ll < ».al Ui. v Warnau lu I'rnce of >11 uJ aud Comfort. Mary Makepeace sat down In her fa­ vorite chair lu tier owu room aud threw her Lead buck, with a long sigh. “No words can tell Low glad I am that I've made my lust visit for th« summer,” she said. “Now I shall have some peace, uot to mention pleasure.” "My dear!” said her mother reproach-, fully. “I uieau It." returned Mary. “Of course I like change of scene, but I am tired of adaptiug my whole life to others, as I am expected to do as a Welcome guest.” “My dear!” said her mother again. "Think how kind everybody baa been to you.” “They meant to tie—they were kind,” Mary said wearily, “yet 1 feel as If 1 had barely escaixol with my life, an«! you will admit that Is not Just tlie right kind of after feeling. "Let me tell you, mother." Mary continued. "At th«- Fosters' 1 changed my hours for rising, for retiring aud for eating my meals. At the Lanes' I changed father’s politics for of «-ours« I haven't any of my own—to please Mr. Iaine, and I had all I could do to keep from changing my religion to please Mrs. Laue. "At the Jenkins' I changed all my views about wbat constitute-« dlicrslou to suit the family In gi'uer. I At the Pages' I entirely changed my point of view «•oiicerniug music and b >And ut the Nevins', where I was ill, 1 changed my doctor un.l t > tk stuff which I felt sure would |.oisou me just to please them. “1 ate dices«', which I abhor, and gave up fruit, which 1 like, at the Fisks'. I slept with cl ised windows at Great-aunt Maria's because she Is afraid of a breath of air. and I drank twenty-one pinta of hot water the four days I was at Cousin Thomas' to 'flush my system.' WEDDED TO A VASE. "No." sal I Mar,, in a firm voice. “I (Inaular Marriage Ceremony That pay no mure visits lor mouths to come. Was Wl«ne««ed In China. Home ke<«*-.i' ; yj it’.i may have homely One of the most extraordinary of wits, bet If I : •> about much more 1 Chinese customs to western minds is shall n t li iv«' any wits at all.”— the not infrequent practice of marry­ Youth's C ing celebrated widows to native vases. An American traveler witnessed aucli TRUSTING TO FATE. a ceremony, which was performed with great pomp. The widow was of high An Incident 'Flint GI tcm nn Inftiifht station. When the news of her hus­ Into HuMxlan Character. band's death reached her she was In­ A few years ago 1 was taking a consolable and wished to enter the country walk in Kovno. The road lay state of widowhood, but her father de through a dense forest, aud the day murred. Somebody suggesti-d that an was oppressi. ely Lot. I arrived at last ether husband might be forthcoming, at a crossroad and sat down under tlie aud, as may readily be surmised, at shade of the trees to rest. A signpost this stage of the proce«*diiigs the worn pointed its two arms «(own the «xiu- an was in despair. A wise teacher ol verging roads. Ou one of them was fu the Confucian philosophy wus consult scribed "14 versts to Janova,” ou the ed, and he recalled to mind tlie ancient other "17 versts to Shadows.’* Present­ ceremony of marriage to a flower vase ly the creukiug of wheels and the slow It was a rite of great antiquity, leg “clo(>, clop" of a horse’s hoofs on the end attributing its origin to an empress road behind roused me. A cart piled who ruled before the Christian era. It high with tinware was coming down was decided that the woman might the road, with tlie driver perched on "marry the red vase.” It was neces­ the top of tlie loud. sary. however, to procure the Imperial "Good day, brother,” I called out as sanction. This the great wealth of the cart, with its sorry horse, came her father obtained, and on May 1 tlx abreast of me. The man returned my wedding was solemnized. salute, und the horse, glad of any ex­ Ill th«» procession the vase was car cuse to rest bls weary legs, came to u rirel under n silken canopy on a palau standstill in the middle of th«? ro d. quin born«* by youths of noble birth, "Which way are you going?” I asked. "To Janova. There is a market there while the brhle followed In another pa­ lanquin guarded by twelve maidens tomorrow." "But ther* Is also a market In Sha- and twelve matrons. A military guard and a civic escort made up the parade dowit," I answered, "and It Is n more Iler bridegroom, the vase, is a sped Important place than Janova." “So It Is, so It Is,” the driver repllrsl. men of great value and antiquity; in deed It Is said to excel in delicacy of with perfect Indifference. "What have you for sale?" ornamentation anything of its kind in “Plenty of good tinware, as you can the Flowery Kingdom. see, brother. 1 have worked for six weeks to make this cartload.” FORMIDABLE GUNS. "Well, g«sxl luck to you atul your The Bombard* Iwed by the Turk« In tinware,” I said, pulling and eating the the Fifteenth Century. berries within reach. "Will yon take It In 1478 Mohammed II., in forming to Janova or Shadowa?" the siege of Scutari, in Albania, cm The man picked up the bit of cord ployed fourteen heavy bombards, the which served as reins nnd prepared to lightest of which threw a stone ¡(hot of go on. 370 pounds weight, two sent «Rots of "I shall leave that to my horse.” he 500 pounds, one of 750 pounds, two of answered callously. 850 pounds, one of 1.200 pounds, live The lumbering wagon inoveil off nnd of 1,500 and one of the enormous finally puss«*d out of sight down the weight of 1,040 pounds, enormous even Jnnova road, which the horse had elect­ In these days, for our 80 ton guns ed to take.—St. Janna«' Gazette. throw only a 1,700 pound projectile, our 100 ton throws one of 2,000 pounds, FOR THE BACHELOR. and the 110 tou throws an 1,800 pound A«lvi<»r Th*« M*z Help III. C«»*rse ot (hot with a high velocity. Love to Hull Smooth. The stone shot of Mohammed'« Agree with the girl's father in poll guns varied between twenty and tldr ty-two inches In diameter, aliout the tics and the mother In religion. If you have a rival, keep an eye ou height of a dining table, 2,534 of them fired on this occaslou weighing, ac­ him. If he is a widower. k«?ep two cording to a calculation of General eyes on him. Don't put too much sweet stuff ou pa­ Lefroy's, about 1,000 tons, and were cut out of the solid rock on the spot. per. If you do you will hear It in after Assuming twenty-four inches as the years when your wife has some espe­ average diameter of the shot fired at cial purpose in Inflicting upon you the the siege, the total area of the surface severest punislimeut kuown to a mar dressed was nearly 32,000 square feet. ried man. Go home at a reasonable hour lu the At this siege the weight of the powder fired Is ratlmated by General Lefroy evening. Don't wait until a girl has to have been 250 tons. At the siege of to throw her whole soul into u yawn Rhodes In 1480 Mohammed caused six­ that she can't cover with both hands. teen basilisks or double cannon to be A little thing like that might cause a cast on the spot, throwing balls two to coolness at tlie very beginning of the three feet In diameter.—Chambers' game. If, on tlie occasion of your first call, Journal. the girl upon whom you hav«» set your young affections lo-iks like an h c < r:: BLOWING OUT A CANDLE. and acts like a cold wave, take your The Effect n Puff nt llreaih Hun on leave early and stay away. Woman the Finnic. in her hour of fre«?ze Is uncertain, A burning candle is a gas manufac­ coy and hard to please. tory ou a small scale. The wax or In cold weather finish saying good tallow IF convert««! by -the heat H’o nipLt la tiz booax Don't stretch It all flame into gas. and in that form en­ the way to the gate and thus lay the ters into chemical combination with foundation for future asthma, bron­ the oxygen of the surrounding air. chitis, neuralgia and chronic catarrh This chemical union causes a very to help you to worry the girl after she high rise In temperature in the ele­ has married. Don’t lie about your ments concerned. In fact. It produces financial condition. It Is very annoy­ what we know ns flame of fire, which ing to a bride who has pictured a life Is simply the white hot molecules of of ease In her ancestral balls to learn carbon and oxygen. The gas making too late that you expect her to ask a process 1« started by the match in baldheaded old parent who has been lighting the candle and is ufterward uniformly kind to her to take you both continual by the flame Itself. in out of the cold.—Chicago Journal. Our breath acta fu three way: (D It carries away the particles of gas Irodi- Whale« o* Their Holiday«. ” Proffwsor Goldlob has been telling ly. (2) It lowers their temperature at the same time, so that they are no the Christiania Academy of Hclence tlie longer capable of entering Into chem­ results of bls Investigations Into the ical union with tlie oxygen. (3) The migrations of whales. These creatures breath contains carbonic acid gas. hang about the «roast of Norway and which Is Incapable of supporting com­ Flnlatxl until the spring Is well ad­ bustion and so helps to extinguish the vanced, and then they go away on flame. their travels. Some go to the Azores, others to Bernini« and the Antilles, Mr Coaataat t«e. “Yes. she's a woman of few words." and they «rover 'these enormous dis­ “And, mercy, how fray«] she keeps tances in an Incredibly short time them looking!"—Cleveland Plain Deal­ *me of them bring back harpoous which bear the names of ships nnd er. other evMen«-es of where th*c mi­ Ix>ve Is only a woman's device for grants have been for their suiamcr hol­ idays. • wasting tlm<-J. M. Barrie. MASCULINE VANITY. Me* Mho Sl«»p to Atlmire Theiungivrt lu Show Wlatlaw«. "bpeakiug of the trifling affairs ot life." said a clerk In one of the big stores, “I’m not so sure that meu art so much when you couie to compart them with women, although they pre­ tend to rise su|H>rior on occasion* Fvt a notion that human uature Is about the same lu both sexes, after all, and it crops up in some way. You know there's a theory that a woman couldu't pass a mirror wlthoat giving a glanct ut herself If she were on her way tc rescue her only child from a burning accident. "it may not always be vanity, ot course, l'erbapa It's force of habit. Well, you’d be surpris«xl at the num l>er of meu who have that saute hublt I'm hen- at a counter in front, where 1 cun so»- some things, and it's lu-ttet than a poor play to watch the faces al that big show window. They nr« men's faces I'm talking about. Th* light strikes that window s«i that It makes a pretty good ksiklng glass ot It, and I'm truthful when I tell you that it holds up as many li«*s as it doe« shea In the coui'se of a day. The only difference is that the woman makes nc Is,nes of what she’s doing. She'll give a twirl to her front hair and a pull to her veil nnd make sure that her hat and nose are on straight, and she doesn't care whether passersby are on to lier game or not. But the man plays off. He wants you to suppose that It's the display of goods that's caught him. Yes, It is, I guess not lie's wrapped up tn velvets at $1 a yard and In silks cheap at 70 «•ents. he Is. You can tell from where I stand that he dn the nests, while the mail's stood up together, evidently near by. My dissections, however, showed that both sexes Incubate, while contin­ ued observation from the tent revealed tlie pr«*sence of only one bird of the pair in the rookery at tlie same time. The bird on tlie nest was relieved late In the afternoon and early In the morn­ ing. The one, therefore, which incu­ bated during tb«> day fed at night, and his or her place was taken by another which had bren fending during the day. or, ns I’eter put it, "I do fink, sir. dot when de lady flllymingo leave de nest den de gen’leman flllymingo take her place, sir; yes. sir." Morning and evening, then, there was much activity in tlie rookery. Single girds or files of us many ns fifty were almost constantly arriving and depart­ ing. coming from nnd radiating to ev­ ery point of the compass. Flamingoes In flight resemble no oth­ er bird known to me. With legs nnd nek fully outstretch«*«! nnd the com­ paratively small wings set halfway lie- tween bill and toes, they look as if they might fly backward or forward with equal ease. They progress more rapid ly than a heron and when hurried fly with n singular serpentine motion of the neck and body, as If they were crawling In the air.—Century. LIFE INSURANCE. Get Fully Ae«iualat«* on tlie fifteen year endowment plan. That Is, lie thought he had to make payments for fifteen years- which was true—and that at the end of that time he could get $10,- <100 in cash or taki* a part in cash and a part In paid up insurnix-e, which, as It turned out, was not true. Tlie rate he was paying was so very low for what he said he was getting tbnt I nsk«xl to see his policy, nnd when I lo k«*d at It I found. Just ns be might have found on a brief examination, that while lie was insured for life, with only fifteen yearly pajiíiout», ue cuuhl not get the $li>.ooo or any part of it for a go,«l many years more. No In­ surance company in the world will permit the fooling of a patron like this If It can help It, nnd yet to attribute such a mistaken idea to fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of an unworthy agent would not always lx? fair. Many men who take Insurance, and e-qieclally thou»* who do not decide to go In until they have look«*d at it a long time, go in finally with a rush. They don't give tlie agent time to tell them what they are getting, and often don’t find out for years afterward. Another thing that many Insured j>er sons do not know Is that a rebate on the first payment, arranged betw«*«?n the insured and the agent, sometimes renders the whole tranasetion Invalid." —Philadelphia Record. Perfeelly < oa*ealal. Naggsby When a man nnd his wife think the same thoughts simultunevus- ly It is a sign that they are exceedingly congenial Waggsby—So? "Well, then, my wife and I are congenial all right, for the other night when she said that she wonder«*«) why I'd ever lieen such a fool a* to marry her I bad b«*n sitting there in aileiW'e for half an hour won­ dering over the name identical thing.— Baltimore Amsrican.