BANDON KECOUMR. ORIENTAL JEWELRY. PERSONAL ORNAMENTS MIXED WITH ODD SUPERSTITIONS. Necklace Thnt Avert the Evil Eye and Bendu That Are l'otent Clmrm For Kellclty I.oKend of the Knnlm Stone The Snored SlKiiet ItliiK. The oriental's love of luxury, splen dor of attire ami personal adornment nets as a strong Incentive to the eastern jeweler in the production of those ex quisitely carved and multicolored crea tions over which the modern world raves and marvels. Nor are such deco rations mere ornaments without other use or meaning. The oriental jeweler, seated upon the floor of his little shop, inhaling the fra grant odors of his pipe and coffee, con ceives bis design and jealously envel ops It with mysticism, adding to it the quaint charm of symbol and supersti tion. The bracelet, the earrings, the necklace, the clasp, the buckle ami the button grw step by step into a special ornament according to the rank, means, tastes and wants of the wearer, an evidence of class and dignity. Bracelets are by orientals worn in pairs. Kach hand is provided with one, us otherwise jealousy will spring up between the manual members and evil deeds will follow. Earrings are popu lar among both sexes in certain parts of the orient. The ears are pierced at birth. The perforations are made un necessarily large so as not to permit a residue of gossip. Then ornaments are offered the ears as consolation. Neck laces are worn most conspicuously to avert the evil eye and to denote dig nlty and distinction. Festoon neck laces seem to have been in vogue from time Immemorial, and not infrequently do they adorn the whole chest of the wearer. In India the men often bor row their wives' necklaces to decorate themselves with. Masculine vanity of certain sects of the Persians far ex ceeds that of women, and, aside from wearing earrings and necklaces, they almost monopolize the tiny seed pearls by stringing them in their beards, each hair being literally covered with a lus trous pearl. Beads are among the earliest forms of ornaments and are considered po tent charms for felicity, as these are often cut and sold by priests or sheiks, who maintain themselves solely by this means. The pear .haped drop so much In vogue in Europe and America is of decidedly oriental origin and has at tached to It a quaint myth. The Kaa ba stone In Mecca has this peculiar shape, and, according to the theory of the Mohammedans, this stone was the actual guardian angel who was sent to watch over Adam In Kden and was present at his fall. As a punishment for not having more vigilantly exe cuted his trust the angel was changed Into a stone and hurled from paradise. Most Mohammedans wear pearl .-haped pendants made of wood or some pre cious stone as a reminder of Allah's wrath, and these are held among them in the same esteem as is the cross auciug the "hrisiiuns. Armlets are regarded as caste marks and are worn only by women. Anklets have a healing power and so. are worn not as ornaments only. Little tinkling bells are often attached to these, which lend a pleasing sound to an approach ing step and serve to denote the su periority and rank of the wearer and thus In passing render due h image. An Arabian poet describes these as "the awakeners of dormant scn-e." Kings are worn in ureal profusion and are made of all sorts of metals. However, they invariably have ex quisitely carved or openwork --hanks. Even the stones have their symbols and are worn accordingly. In the orient no prejudice exists against opals. Signet rings were of great importance among the earlier orientals, and even to the present day letters are rarely otherwise signed by those who send them. Thus the authenticity of all orders and communications. even merchants' bills, depends wholly upon an impression of a signet ring. The occupation of the seal cutter is tegard ed as one of great trust and danger. Such a person Is obliged to keep a reg ister of every ring seal he makes, and If one be lost or stolen from the party for whom it was cut his life would answer for making another just like it. The loss of a signet ring is regarded as a disastrous calamity, and the alarm which an oriental exhibits at the loss of the signet can only be understood by a reference to these circumstances, as the seal cutter Is always obliged to alter the real date at which the seal was cut. The only resource of a per son who has lost his seal is to have another made with new date and to write to his correspondents to inform them that all accounts, contracts and communications to which his former signet is affix etl are null from the day on which it was lost.-Jewelers' Circular-Weekly. SPIDER SILK. Ita Wonderful Strength, Eln.stlclti and l.nNtlns; Quality. The astronomer after the experience of many years has found that the spi der furnishes the only thread which can be successfully used in carrying on his work, writes Ambrose Swazey In the Scientific American. The spider lines mostly used are from one-fifth to one-seventh of a thousandth of an Inch In diameter, and. in addition to their strength and elasticity, they have the peculiar property of with standing great changes of temperature, and often when measuring the sun pots, although the heat is so intense as to crack the lenses of the microme ter eyepiece, yet the spider lines are not In the least injured. The threads of the silkworm, al though of great value as a commercial product, are so coarse and rough com pared with the silk of the spider that they cannot be used in such Instru ments. Spider lines, although but a fraction of a thousandth of an inch in diameter. are made up of several thousands of j microscopic streams of lluid. which j unite and form a single line, and it is t because of this that they remain true and round under the highest magnify ing power. POLL! LARKINj While reports were Hashing over the wires telling of the havoc, wrought in theorange groves of sunny Florida, and the ruin and loss to theorange growers, the frost king having not only blighted the fruit for this season, but destroyetl the trees in many places as well, I'lov erdale, one of the prettiest little towns on the line of the California North western Railway, and the very heart of the citrus belt, was putting on its gain attire and getting ready to cele brate the advent of its thirteenth an nual Citrus Fair, and to welcome the thousands of visitors that annually pour into the town to enjoy the exhi bition. When the doors were thrown open on the night of February 21st, a scene from fairy land dazzled you for the moment. Beautiful beyond de scription was the pavilion in its be wildering maze of white and green and gold the ollicial colors with hun dredsof electric lights Hashing amid the decorations. Never have the decor ations or display, etc. been surpassed. Hunting in delicate tints of white and green and gold had been carried from the ceiling, and so gracefully and ar tistically arranged with its myriads of lights, etc., and yards ami yards of ivy, that it added much to the charm ing picture. Thousands of oranges and lemons were used in decorations and beautiful eloigns, in fact, plain figures give the number of oranges used as be tween Uo, 000 ami 7o, 000, and the lemons between 75,000 and 100,000. An accur ate estimate of the fruit used would be the modest sum of $2500. One of the many beautiful designs was a wind mill, the artistic creation of Mrs. I. 1C. .Shaw, which alone contained more than 5000 lemons. Then there was an automobile, perfect in its construction and of full size, made of oranges and lemons with the purple cast of the olive giving the finishing touches, and this was the work of Mr?. Carl Yordi. There was the old Russian Kiver bridge in lemons and oranges and a "lluer de lis" wrought in lemons in the center by Mrs. William Caldwell and Mis F.tbel Caldwell. One of the most grace ful and artistu designs was a beautiful swan in oranges tloatiug in a pond overhanging with vines, ferns, etc., the work of Will Furber. Another very artistic exhibit was a full rigged craft made of oranges ami giving one the idea that it was snowbound. This :is -Mrs. Fred Connors entry, and it was IkiiIi unique and pretty. The elec tric fountain scintillated through vari ous colored electric globes under its arches of oranges and called forth words of praise and admiration. Fred Bru-h was the designer of this attrac tion. The mirror maze with its re volving mirrors by A. Cooley was a very original design. Kvery turn it made was another revelation of Clover dale's chief production citrus fruits. The girls of St. Catherine's Guild con tributed a very ellective exhibit in the shape of a large cross of oranges sur mounted with a crown of lemons and entered in Henry J. t'rpcker's display. Mrs. John Field had a graceful exhibit in the shape of an Eastern Star that certainly attracted the members of that order. There were beautiful pyramids of oranges and lemons by Mrs. Whit taker and others, and a "Horn of Plenty" that was overflowing with the golden fruit ; M aster Mar kell Baer and Muster Harold Smith sending in this pretty conceit. It is impossible to tell you all of the beautiful exhibits in this column that graced the pavilion, and I could not U'gin to picture them to you, for neither pen nor words can do them justice. I 'oily did not envy the judges, for their task was indeed a hard one. President Arthur W. Foster of the California Northwestern Ilailway, who has always taken a great interest in the Cloverdale Citrus Fairs, offered to donate the amount of the first two prizes, and it awakened the keenest ami most friendly rivalry among the resi dents and orange growers. Oranges ami lemons were not the only exhibit by a great deal, for there was a miniature hop yard, ami the en tire outfit from the hop poles up, ami Cloverdale W. C. T. I. w:is in evidence with a log cabin ami a pretty rural scene. Olives and olive oil, as line as any imported, and Dr. Conines' exhibit in this line goes to the Portland Fair to show what this part of the Golden State can do. There were oranges only to be looked at and oranges for sale, and they were being carried oil' in baskets and bunches, fitting momcntocs of a day delightfully spent. Polly was indebted to Mr. Tom Wilson for a basket of the beautiful golden fruit sur mounted by their own glossy leaves, a gift that 1 was proud to carry away with me. After leaving the pavilion the thousands of people that had been arriving all day on the various excur sion trains that the California North western had run to accomodate the crowds, wandered alnnit the town and visited the orange orchards. Nature had also put on her gala attire of green and gold, and the ollicial colors were everywhere in evi dence. The hills clad in their velvety green mantles and decked with yellow butter-cups and poppies and the lirsl little white Howers of the Spring time. The accacia trees plumed with their golden blossoms mingled their fra grance with the orange trees, while the sun shown from a clear and cloud less sky, making the day one long to be remembered. The Cloverdale people are to be congratulated on their suc cess, they are enterprising and pro gressive and every year adds to their laurels. Next year they will double the space in their pavilion ami lhey will then not have any too much room. Mrs. .1. It. (Jill, who is superintend ent of the Orphan Asylum at Rich mond, Virginia, is a great lover of Howers, ami whose special hobby is calla lilies, has finally brought them ton place where she is able to grow two lilies on a single stem, and she terms it the "wedding of the lilies." Other llowcr lovers call it a freak, but Mrs. (Jill is happy over the result of her work, which is her pet hobby. I wonder what she would think of our golden calla lily V The llorists here have had quite a number not only on exhibit this Spring, but the bulbs for sale as well. They are beautiful and satiny in in their golden dress which is really a perfect canary color, but some way or other, (hey don't appeal to you as much as the spotless purity of our old-fashioned calla lilies. They are a new departure and we will have to be come used to this infringement of the color line of the calla family ; California is a land of calla lilies, and I have counted in a single bed where they have been allowed to spread over three hundred, and then stopped because I became weary of counting the stately lilies that reared their heads from their beds of lovely green leaves. In fact, they are so common that we don't half appreciate them. Let a person who resides in the Fastern States and who struggles hard to save the calla lily bulb from the cold weather catch a glimpse of our calla lily beds that we never give a second thought to, and hear their words of admiration and de light, and we find that there is some thing else to praise our own Golden State for beside her climate and lus cious fruits. While speaking of plant life I want to tell you the experiments of tree planting at night by the French expert, Mr. Rene llounault, who has been so successful with tree-planting at night, that now he will not consider any other time for such work. It appeals to me from the fact that a few years ago, a neighUirof mine had to saerifieea very line rose in order to build an addition to her house. The bush was immense and an old one at that, and everyone laughed at the idea of attempting to transplant it. It was worth the effort however, so I hired a Chinaman to dig an immense hole about three feet deep, and the same in diameter. Into this he turned at least three buckets of water. At dusk he dug up the rose hush very carefully, so as not to break the roots, and it required our united efforts to carry my prize home. Before filling in the earth he poured another bucket of water altottt the roots, then covered it up, packing the dirt around it firmly, then besprinkled the bush thoroughly for ulxmt an hour. It was covered with buds ami blossoms at the time; yet none of them wilted and the buh never knew it bad beun moved, it really seemed to grow nioreiuxinafni: and appreciate the change in soil, etc: A number of times after that I moved plants at night, and I never lost one of them ; those that I moved in the day time it was always a dubious ques tion as to whether they would survive or not. Now it is time for gardening, try it. BRIEF REVIEW. Scene Painter an Artist. The last quarter of the nineteenth century h:u- witnessed such a d illusion of artistic taste and the love of luxury as has never 'been known before in the history of civilization; and nowhere has the change been more thorough and more obvious than on the stage. The scene painter of old, who was a touch above the sign painter, has de veloped into an artist who takes him self quite seriously, ami who deserves to be so taken. The scenic aspect of the drama, which Aristotle reckoned the least important, and which Shake speare, Moliere and their followers largely ignored, has become a factor of prime importance. Put what of the passion with which the elder play wright illumited his three boards? Most of all, what of the resulting play ? Future Source ol Fuel. When our coal fields are exhausted of their stored carbon, science will con vert water into light and heat, and the sun's rays into power; but in the pro cess of harnessing tides, wind ami light rays, we are coming back to the simple methods of the aiicieuls in their etl'ort to make available the surrounding agencies: of nature. It may be said that nearly all permanently Useful progress is towaid simplicity; but the human mind is so constituted that it likes to wander afield, ami reaches results of tentimes by the most indirect route. Roses Old as The World. Hose culture's beginning goes back beyond records. The Hower is men tioned in the earliest Coptic manu scripts. India's traditions take the rose to the times of the gods on earth, Hgypt had roses, wild and tame, before the Human occupation made il, in a way, Rome's commercial rose garden; yet, curiously enough, there is no ref erence to the Hower in painting, sctili ture or hieroglyphics. Japan, in our time, parallels Kgypt. J loses Hourish there, but do not serve as a motif for artists. There is this further likeness neither Egypt nor Japan has a rose song or a love song proper. Credit as a Plodder. Just before his death, William Cary, the great shoemaker, missionary and noted linguist, said about his bio grapher: " If he gives me credit for be ing a plodder, he will do me justice. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. To this 1 owe everything. " SPENDTHRIFT BALZAC. KitruviiKHiice of the .Mini Who Had a .Mountain of Dehl. "With Balzac's rising fame rises tht mountain of his debts," writes a critic. "These, starting from his two disas trous years of printing and publishing hi Paris, accumulated until at the top of his literary renown he had to hide from his creditors in a garret under tin! name of his landlady or his washer woman. In lfvlT Balzac, at that date the best known and the most debated novelist in France, owed 102,000 francs, about ?:i2.noo. Then he must needs buy a cane which was the talk of Paris, Borne gold buttons for a new coat, a divine opera glass' and a dressing gown beyond words and give a dinner to the dandies of the opera respecting which Rossini said that 'he had not seen more magnificence when ho dined at royal tables.' "Balzac three times a millionaire would still have buried himself in debt, for the mental exaltation of his crea tive hours was reproduced when he broke loose from the galley bench. lie lavished In anticipation the wealth he had Urea mod would be his. This gone he borrowed anew or devised another of those schemes thnt were to enrich him beyond the possibilities of litera ture. His schemes were essentially il part of Balzac, the sovereign, uncon querable visionary. "He would transport oaks from Po land to France: nothing like oaks from Poland to make your fortune three times over! Behold him again gravely working out his plan to make a corner In all the arts and putting up the Apol lo Belvedere for competition among the nations to act as auctioneer to Europe--the 'child man,' as his devoted sister. Mine. Survillc, used to call him." A NEW FIELD IN SCIENCE. Ornlny Men's Clnim to New Process of Cheap Gold .Miinuljii-turc. The possibility of making gold out of cheap substances is being exten sively discussed by scientists at Paris. The topic would have been discussed a few years ago as a crazy revival of media.'val alchemy, but sUw the re nowued Chemist Bert helot's discoveries and remarkable assertion that gold in robahly a compound substance in Head of being a simple metal an lm portant school of scientists has pre dieted that gold will be manufactured as cheaply as butter some day. Mean while the French Society of ..Modem Alchemy claims that three of it.- mem hers -Jolli vet. De I.ussus and lleoghe nil chemists of reputation have just completed a successful synthesis o! pild. About half an ounce was pio liuced. and it took six months to do it. Professor Bert helot Is uuwillh.g to give an opinion about It without know ing the details of the process and ex amining the product obtained, but he says: "Fntil now chemistry has been a study of only immediate reactions, yet -.low reactions by which I mean those taking from a month to two or three years- arc suspected, and this will open quite a new field in science. Possibly metals might be decomposed into sev eral elements. If they can be so treat ed, they likewise can be recombined." Camllle VnKr.. CIon- ,0 'l,om was given an opiwrtiMity to examine the nrtiliclal gold, says: "It presents nil the outward characteristics of real gold. I shall never pronounce any thing impossible In science unless it Is o mathematically." I.nniluiiirUN Crowded Out. Two of New York city's most fa mous landmarks are about to be crowd ed out by skyscrapers. The old Tab ernacle church at Thirty-fourth street and Broadway is to give way to a ho tel that will eclipse the Waldorf-Astoria, and the National City bank pro poses to erect the handsomest struc ture of Its type In the world on the old custom house site. A twenty story ho tel, to cost Si.non.ono. will be built on the site of the Broadway Tabernacle. The last religious services in the fa mous old landmark will be held about May 1 next. Wreckers will then quick ly demolish the massive stone edifice, and a towering modern structure will arise simultaneously with the other great Improvements In that district. The hotel will have on the lower floors a bank, a trust company and safe de posit vault. An Aired Wiir Dehl. A singular discovery has Just boon made by a French Journal. When Na poleon I. was waging war against Prussia In 1S07. he exacted tribute from various towns, among them Ko nigsberg. This town now finds that the debt which should have been ex tingulshcd in ISM has been extended owing to "unforeseen circumstam'es." and its total abolition cannot take place until the first day of next year. Konigsbcrg is taking no steps to cele brate this final casting off of French thraldom. There are probably many such ragged ends of wars in Europe. For example, a year or two ago the little principality of Liechtenstein was still technically at war with Prussia, had been at war since 18(10, and very likely Is still at war. ThnddetiN Stevcim' Wit. When Thaddeiis Stevens had taken to his bed for the last time a visitor told him he was looking well. "Oh. John." was the quick reply, "it is not my appearance, but my disappearance, that troubles me!" One day a mem ber of the house of representatives who was noted for his uncertain course on all questions and who confessed that he never investigated a point under discussion without finding himself a neutral asked for leave of absence. "Mr. Speaker," said Stevens. "I do not rise to object, but to suggest that the honorable member need not ask this faor. fo4- he can easily pair off with himself!" A Memory Kill lure. A schoolteacher was trying to im press upon his scholar's mind that Co lumbus discovered America In 1-Hili, so he said: "Now, John, to make you re member the date when Columbus dis covered America 1 will make it in a rhyme so you won't forget It. 'In Ml Cohunbus sailed the ocean blue.' Now. can you remember that. John?" "Yes. sir," replied John. The next morning when he came to school his teacher said, "John, when did Columbus dis cover America V" "In 14!Ki Columbus sailed the dark blue sea." FREAKS OF SEA QUAKES,. One That Stranded Miir VchucI Hull a Mile I ii In ml. Sea quakes are mighty disturbances of the waters of the ocean, their cause or causes being Identical with the causes of earthquakes. In Major C. E. l.mtton's book, "Earthquakes," the author has some interesting facts re garding the ocean variety of qua He. From the entries in the logs of many ships be concludes that in rare cases the power of the sea quake shocks may be great enough to render .standing on deck as difficult as it sometimes is on land. It may even be great enough to cause the tear that the vessel is be ing shaken to pieces. Gigantic wavess in the ocean are, of course, a frequent accompaniment of the sea quake. On the west coast of South America, where these waves are frequent, they sometimes follow a quake having its center below the sea level that is also felt on land. But more often they come without warning. The most memorable sea quake of Oils locality occurred Aug. .'I, 1SGS. Major Button describes It as fol lows: "The coast of South America was shaken all the way from Guay aquil, in Ecuador, to Valdlvia. in Chile, the highest intensity being manifest ed in the neighborhood of Arica. The force of the quake In this town was very great, throwing down most of the structures and producing land siips. A few minutes later precisely how many minutes is not known the sea was observed to retire slowly from the shore', so that ships anchored in seven fathoms of water were left high and dry. "A few minutes later still it was seen returning in a great wall, or bore,' which caught up the ships in the roadstead and swept them inland as if they were mere chips of wood. Among them was the United States steamer Waterlce, one of the Improvis ed war vessels of the blockading fleet In the civil war. which was carried in land nearly half a mile and left with little injury on shore by the recession of the wave." SOOTHING A HORSE. Jhe Animal' Kn.iy Introduction to n Is ten in Street Holler. In one of the broad uptown thorough fares a few days ago a mounted pa trolman encountered a steam roller it) action, and the horse was terribly frightened. It reared and balked and then made angles across the street, first one way and then the other, until the policeman jumped off and tried toaxing. Leading Ids mount step by Ftep in the direction of the roller which had come to a standstill, he pet ted the animal and talked to it. urging it forward. "A fine horse like you to be afraid of a steam roller." said the policeman. The horse pricked up Its ears and veil tured ahead another step or two. "Come, now; come along. You can't be a policeman anil be afraid of a bit of iron. Now come on. good boy." The horse made a few more steps for ward. "Come on." continued the policeman. "Now. then, be good. The department can't afford to be giving .$.".00 apiece for horses that hiivefc'44Sr-"rT. Come on. now." Coaxing it along in this way with in finite patience, the officer after several minutes got the animal up to the roller. I'lie horse daintily put forward one foot and tapped the front of the Iron wheel waited a moment and. finding that the machine did not kick or run. reared contemptuously and tapped the object with both feet. then wheeled and walk ed quietly away. The policeman re mounted, and It is safe to say that horse will never bother about a steam roller again. New York Post. HUMAN JEALOUSY. The Difference Ilcteen the riiN.slin In a .11 n n nntl a Woman. The man's jc.ii-uy is a stormy sea flooding everything, tearing down and devouring everything in htm that is strong, filling his inuvrmost heart, ab sorbing all rivers or feeling and de stroying his mind. The woman's jeal ousy is a narrow, turbulent, treacherous torrent which hides its depth and high above which rise hard and silent banks; It heightens her sensibility and strengthens her mind. The jealous man Is a wrathful lion; he is noble, and hunger only forces him to tear his prey to pieces. The jcalous woman is an infuriated snake: she is vain, and passion only tempts her to sting. The auger of the jealous man is directed against the object of his love and interrupts his love, and that of the Jealous woman Is directed against her rivals, and her love Is intensified by it. Jealousy makes a fool of a man; it makes him ridiculous and lowers him in the love and esteem of the woman, but a woman gains in wit and charm by her jealousy, and it makes her more attrac tive to the man. Jealousy is a terrible, sharp weapon which a woman uses lightly in order to cut a few sweets on which to feed her vanity: often she even wounds with it the man she lows In order to enjoy I sis sufferings. The man disdains this cruel thing, though, did he use it, It would rarely miss Its object of awakening the dormant love of a woman, of bringing hidden love to the surface and of creating love where there was none. From "The German of Borne." The ijiwycr'H IlnJilt. The legal formality of addressing a court stick to many a lawyer of con gressional preferment. It Is nothing un usual to hear an impassioned orator in the house, pausing in his argument or breaking In upon the argument of an other, exclaim. "Now. if your honor please!" Of course the house always marks the slip with a burst of loud laughter. In the senate, where there are also many lawyers, it Is rarer to hear the familiar words because de bate there Is more sedate. Doir Announces frosMliiirw. A blind man and a spaniel dog lead ing him with the aid of chain furnished a curious sight on Chestnut street the other day. Pedestrians looked on in amazement, and many followed the blind man and his friend to see if any thing curious would happen when they reached a street crossing. Strange enough, the dug barked when the curb stone was readied and in that way In formed the blind man that he should he can-fill and step down. Philadelphia Press. THE OBSERVING ROBIN. How Dock the Hlrd Know Jun Where to Hore Kor fJriihwf I once observe-d a robin boring fot! grubs in a country dooryard. It is a common enough sight to witness one seize an angleworm and drag it from Its burrow in the turf, but 1 am not sure that I ever before saw one drill for grubs and bring the big white mor sel to the surface. The robin I am speaking of had a nest of young In a maple near by, and she workcel the neighborhood very industriously for food. She would run along over the short grass after the manner of robins, stopping every few feet, her form stiff and erect. Now and then she would suddenly bend her head toward the ground and bring eye or ear for a mo ment to bear intently upon it. Then she would spring to boring the turf vigorously with her bill, changing her attitude at each stroke, alert and watchful, throwing up the grass roots and little jets of soil, stabbing deeper and deeper, growing every moment more and more excited, till finally a fat grub was seized and brought forth. Time after time during several days I saw her mine for grubs in this way and drag them forth. How did she know where to drill? The insect was In every case sin Inch below the surface1. Did she hear It gnawing the roots of the grasses or did she see a movement in the turf beneath which the grub was at work? I know not. I only know that she struck her game unerringly each time. Only twice did I see her make a few thrusts and then desist, as if she had been for the moment deceived. John Burroughs In Outing. HISTORY OF SHOES. In Xo Article of Attire Hirre More Vnirnrlew Been Shown. Shoes or their equivalent are of a certainty even more ancient than gloves, for they were a necessity of lo comotion, uidie the other was but a luxury. Sometimes they were made of skins sometimes of papyrus, as in Egypt. Often they were gilded and decked with jewels, and the most ex pert artists of the day were employed to decorate the foot coverings of wealthy patricians, consuls, emperors and their fa-vorites. In no article of at tire have more vagaries been shown. Today a lady who desires to be consid ered in the height of fashion weare shoes pointed as much as possible, but in the time of Queen Mary the taste was all the other way, and it was found necessary to issue a royal procla mation prohibiting slices with toes wider than six inches. But perhaps the most extraordinary development in the way of footgear were the "chopines" in troduced by the ladles of Venice to make themselves taller than they really were. The articles were really a kind of stilts made of wood and leather and sometimes reached the absurd height of twelve Inches. Even a traine-d acro bat would have dilliculty in walking on such things, and ordinary women had such trouble with them that when they attempted a promenade they required the assistance of a servant at each side and another behind to keep them from falling. From Redfcrn's "Royal and Historic Shoes." TYPfCAL FRENCH CHILD. The Kveryilny Life of n Girl Eleven 1 earn of Aire. Let me take Felice Boulanger (which isn't her natnei as a typical French child of my experience, gained aftei nearly three years residence In France. She is one of five children ranging In age from her brother of sixtevu to the youngest girl of six. Felice has a skin like the sheen of a pearl iwhich 19 marvelous considering the amount ot Indigestible food she bolts five times a dayi; big. deerlike eyes, long lashed; daintily shaped but seldom clean hands; a thin, rasping and petulant voice even hlwr merries! mooil anil a nhvsinitp 'Yike that of a starved and homeless cat narrow chested, spider legged and statuinaless generally. Yet she seems full of vitality nervous, irritable vitality-cats as much food as an English navvy, and certainly has, as my Ameri can lady friend says, "heaps of sense." But to sec the child eating is painful, though interesting in a way. An English girl of eleven years of age, like Felice, would be sent to bed at. say. P o'clock. Felie'e ami her type and her younger sisters sit down to dinner at ':."" p. in. and stay up until 11 or later, listening to the conversa tion of their elders. Louis Becke in London Mail. CATERPILLARS AND LAW. Actions AK''iisi"t the IiiNcctM In the ConrtN of Krniice. In the year 1."I." the owners of the vineyards of St. Julian, Savoy. France, solemnly took action in the law courts against a host of hungry caterpillars which had played havoc with their vines. This grave matter was referred to arbitration and came in due course before the bishop as ecclesiastical Judge. Two lawyers were retained in the in terest of the insect ravagers, letters ad monishing them to discontinue their mischief were issued, and a commis sion sat to estimate the damage doue. The judge held that no hasty decision should be ghen. since it was possible that the caterpillars had not acteel ma liciously, but had been sent as a scourge. At the end of a year from the first proceedings it was held that the fann ers must submit to the infliction and pay all costs. After an Interval of forty-two years another army of caterpil lars Invaded the vineyards, another ac tion was brought, and it was decided that they were only exercising their le gal rights, while the owners were ad vised to provide a piece of land where they might range at will. Krllow Worm. Before Longfellow bought the house in Cambridge so associated with his memory it was owned and occupied by old Mrs. Cralgle. Mrs. Cralgie was a woman of many eccentricities. Moncure D. Conway says in his book of "Rem iniscences."' Some one once tried to persuade her to have her trees tarred to protect them from caterpillars, which also Invaded her neighbors" trees. She refused to be so cruel to the caterpillars. "They are our fellow worms," she said. WASHINGTON LETTER Special Correspondence. The president is going ahead with the plans for his southern trip and u month's hunt in the Rockies. The president Is due at San Antonio. Tex., on March III to attend the rough riders' reunion. He expects to leave Washington on March 'Si. He will make short stops on the way at Louis ville, Dallas. Fort Worth and Austin. After the reunion he will visit Hous ton. He will have a bear hunt and a jack rabbit hunt. Immediately after the reunion, as now planned, the president will go to Colorado, where he will disappear into the Rockies and hunt grizzlies and mountain lions for four or live weeks. His camp will be established in some remote canyon, and until he returns to civilization he will cemeern himself about only the most important affairs of state, though he will keep in close touch with the White House. The president's special train will be sidetracked at the nearest railroad point, and Secretary I.oeb will have hi:s olllce there, with a direct wire to the White House'. He will be accompanied by several clerks and stenographers and will dispose of all routine matters without bothering the president. Im portant questions which must be de ckled by the president and which can not he "delayed will be taken to Mr. Roosevelt's camp by Secretary Loeb on horseback. There will be no other means of communication between the president's hunting headquarters and the temporary White House, and the trail will be guarded to keep out out siders. The president will return to Wash ington about May 3j. He will stay here a month and then go to Oyster Bay for the summer. Clcnnliipr the White Ilou.Me. The old style broom and the old sys tem of house cleaning have disap peared from the historic White House, and there has been Inaugurated si new system of. cleaning by means of suction through pipes. Every bit of dirt is drawn through tubes to the cellar of the White House, where it is deposited in receivers. Most of it is taken out of the receivers and burned, but the finest part goes into another receiver and is churned up with water, passing out into the sewer system of the city. It Is claimed that the machinery will do the work of three or four housemaids and a corresponding number of quickly wielded brooms, making everything' clean in a few minutes. It is put in operation as often as the White House rooms neetl deeming. Squtirltisr Account. Very little items sometimes get into the legislative hopper. A debt amount ing to a penny may be the srJjvt tif Just as much legislative routine as a debt for a million dollars. This was demonstrated a few days ago when Postmaster (Jeneral Wynne forwarded to the house twelve pages of deficiency estinKrtes of appropria tions aggregating $;:.3T5. A large por tion of the estimates were small amounts due certain postmasters. Among these were the following: Postmaster at Chicago. 1 cent: at Traverse City. Mich., 2 cents; St. Louis. 2 cents: Deerfield Center. X. IL. 4 cents. Others get as much as LMJ cents and one 42 cents. The Jeffernoii Blhle. Doorkeeper Lyon of the house has dis covered why there Is such a demand for the Jefferson Bible and why so many copies of it are stolen from the malls. Xo other government pub lication of recent years disappears so generally nnd fails to remch Its destina tion. The reason Mr. Lyon assigns for this is the attractive inscription printeel on the folding room wrapper. There are several qualifying sentences sandwlch itl In in fine print, but the following stands out in bold black type: "The teachings nnd morals of Jesus of Xaza retli free." In "St Hurry For Snlnry. That there Is a man on the govern ment payroll who elraws his salary but one'e every two years nnd has fol lowed that rule ever since he has been on the payroll will eloubtless appeal to most people as utterly incre'dible, but it Is a fact. There Is such a man, al though It Is said that there Is only one official eutitleel to that distinction. Representative E. Stevens Henry of Connecticut, when congress adjourns on March 4. will receive $10,000 from the United States treasurer, the sum representing his salary for the Fifty eighth congress. Since his election to the Fifty-fourth congress Mr. Henry has never drawn his salary save In $10,000 lumps. He doesn't need the money, and then In adopting this rule he has achieved distinction in a unique line that has never leen sought or rev ceivetl by any other government olli cial. An Election Souvenir. Senator Fryt. president pro tern, of the senate, who presided over the two branches of congress when the otllcial count of the electoral vote was made showing the election of the Republican candidates for president and vice presi dent, delivered to Secretary Loeb one of the credential boxes which contain ed the official returns to he presented to the president. This will be retain ed by the president as a souvenir of his election. The box Is made of mn hogany nnel Is ornamented with Inlaid work. Sent HI.i Reprnrdn. Representative Bowers of Mississippi recelvetl a letter the other day from one of his agricultural constituents which read something like this: "I have recelvetl the seed what you sent, and they Is great. I be,t they will grow the biggest squash and turnips In the county, thus making me feel that the district is safe In your hands. Give my regards to the house of representa tives." CARL SCLIOFIELD. Secret of l.lvlnsr. If we can only come back to nature together every year and consider the flowers and the birds and confess our faults and our mistakes under the si lent stars and hear the river murmur ing In absolution we shall die young. even though we live long, nnd .we shall have a treasure of memories which will he like the twin flower, n double blossom on a single stem, and carry with us Into the unseen word some thing which will make it worth while to be fmmortal. Henry Van Dyke.