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BAEDOX RECORDER. FACTS IN FEW LINES Cotton is the principal lino of manu facture in Mexico. It is said that l.noo Creeks arrive at New York each mouth. This year Tasmania will export l.ruO,000 bushel eases of apples. Most of them will go to England and Aus tralia. The exports of Australia in 1904 were $2S0.arJ.0.';, an Increase of $.TS,19r,fl3G over those of 1901, the banner year pre viously. Professor John C. Olsen of the Brook lyn Polytechnic institute reports 4,000, 000 bacteria In one sample of milk bought in P.rooklyn. Japan has one of the largest steam ship companies in the world, with serv ice to the United States and to Eng land by way of Suez. The house of the Capulets, where Ju liet lived in Verona, has been offered for sale ami the municipality intends to buy it and convert it into a museum. The ljondnu Academy tells of an old woman who walked Into a shop and asked to buy a "circulating library." Inquiry revealed that she wanted a re volving bookcase. The first bulllight In Madrid after the repeal of the Sunday law was wit nesed by -i,0iK) persons, and SO.OOO more waited outside the ring to get prompt news of the result. So fashionable is appendicitis in British society circles that, says Lon don Opinion, many women would rath er have It "than a three-quarter length photo.craph in a magazine." An institute for the treatment of suf ferers from chest complaints, neural gia, catarrh and other maladies by means of opium smoking has been opened by Loudon physicians. The Hawaiian legislature has. passed over the governor's veto a law allow ing baseball and similar amusements on Sunday and permitting cigar and many other stores to remain open on that day. The superior board of health of Mex ico Informs dealers in food products, especially milk dealers, that the use of preservatives in food Is prohibited and punishable by the board as food adul teration. A recently discovered manuscript written by a schoolmate indicates that Napoleon I. knew so little of the French language when he was sent tc the military school nt Brienne that a private teacher was engaged for him. A psalter which belonged to Boswell was sold at Sotheby's. In London, re cently for 1.". It contained the in scription: "James P.oswell, 1703. 1 bought this for 2d at Greenwich, when I was working there with Mr. Samuel Johnson." The value of shells, tortoise and oth ers, gathered in Cuba last year amount ed to about $7.",000 and of sponges STiOO.UOu. Of the latter the United States received about o3 per cent and Europe the remainder, France being the principal buyer. Dr. A. P. Nash of Townshend. Vt.. has a pair of shears which were hand ed down from his great-grandfather. They were made by a blacksmith and used in the war of 1S12 to cut the hair of soldiers. They are much larger and heavier than those in use nowadays. Captain Freeman II. Murray of Lynn has an old cent which he found some years ago while digging in his garden. It is an Irish coin, dated 1723. On its face it bears the likeness of King George I., while on the reverse side Hi bernia is seen with her harp and dis taff. Sam White of Riverside. Cal., has a boy born on Feb. 20, and in addition has one who was born on Washington's birthday, one on inauguration day and two on All Fools day, April 1: one on Thanksgiving day and one on Feb. 2. ground hog day; also three more boys born on other dates. Golf is greatly indulged in by the naval officer and European residents in China. In consequence the Chinese boys have grasped some idea of the game, and they are frequently seen amusing themselves with an old stick converted into a club and a real golf ball which some golfer has lost A hotel which cost the builder $13, 000 six years ago at Kettle Fills, Wash., lias been sold for $200, and a number of town lots were sold at from 5 cents to $2o each. The sale was made by the county commissioners on foreclosure for delinquent taxes and marked the end of a boom town. Thomaston. Me., is probably one of the towns that will not be asking for a new depot The one there Is the old General Knox mansion. 112 years old. and Is the only building left of the once great Knox estate. For that rea son It Is a memorial that the town will probably be glad to h.vi'e preserved. London will soon put on Its streets a motor .street cleaning machine that will do the "work of 500 men. It oper ates rakes for caked mud, "squeegees" for wet weather, a revolving brush and a set of overlapping scrapers to com plete the cleaning operation. All the refuse goes into a box. it wonts at the rate of eight miles an hour. The most voluminous report ever filed with the United Stntes supremo court is that of Frank S. Bright, com missioner appointed to take testimony in the suit Instituted by Missouri to enjoin Illinois from emptying the Chi cago drainage canal into the Mississip pi river. The report contains 4.480.000 words and covers 7.07."i pages. A bell has been Imported by the Swedish Lutheran church av New Brit am. Conn. The bell Is inscribed as follows: "Maria Swedish EvangeMcal Lutheran church. New Britain, Conn., from the congregation's Sunday school. The first Swedish church bell in Amor lea, cast in the year 100.1 at Gothen burg, mechanical factory In Sweden Bell weight 1.120 kilograms." "Smart" London Mannem. A fashionable crowd Is almost in variably bad tempered. People jostle each other vindictively and preserve a stony, icy glare the whole time. A man at a dance seeking his partner in the crush will not hesitate to push f ast women in a way that would prob ably shock his barbarian ancestors. Loudon Lad 3. iMlil v. ... . it " Where are all the people going, Polly? " asked a little friend the other day, jls we seated ourselves in one of the comfortable coaches on the line of the California Northwestern Hailwny. It looked like everybody in ttm Fran cisco v:is going out of town on this road to escape tile Fourth of July noise ami confusion. I expected a crowd, but nothing like this, for 1 naturally .supposed u large number of people would go south, as Ls their custom year in ami year out JJut it looks as if they had at last discovered the fact that they get all the comforts in trav eling, all the beautiful and picturesque scenery on this line, as well as the glory of a perfect and healthful cli mate, where you can lie in a hammock enjoying your ever pleasant companion a good book or weave air-castles sis light and tliinsy as a child's card house, or lose yourself in your own happy thoughts and cheerful memo ries of the days gone by ; daj's that can never come again, but that still leave a glow in the heart that can never become dimmed with the hoar frost of old Father Time's reckless ami relentless advance into our lives. The people have at last, fouud out that the part of the country which is traversed 1)3' this road is the mecca for sight seers, for those in search of health, where they win drink health in the crystal water that bubbles and splashes as it pours from the rocks, or from crevice and fissure where the ferns love to dwell. Here is where the ang ler loves to east his silken lly that woos the shy trout from the Itussinu river ami the many tributaries and brooks that are teeming with the shy little fish. They are game, and give no end of sport to the anglers, who find it'one of the pleasures both in anticipation and realization in enticing the tinny tribe from their own element. One of the great advantages, however, for the pleasure-seeker is its convenience and nearness to San Francisco. Thousands of people went over this line during their vacation, and as train after train thundered by, every car loaded to its fullest capacity with happy people, it w:is natural for the thought or query to come into one's mind where are they all going? But from Sherwood valley and Willetts down the line, and branching oil on the various side lines to (Jreeneville, Camp vacation, etc., r ght in the heart of nature, ideal spots are found for summer sojourners, be it for day, week or month. It is up in this direction where the .Bohemians gather annually to bury business cares and revel in their own unique way, throwing dull care to the winds. If that is too fur branch oil" from the main road at Ignacio, farther down the line, and pitch your tents or stop at the resorts at pretty Glenn ICllen, or go on to Napa and stage it to some Mimnier resort. Crowds ujon crowds went out, but there was a place for every one of the pleasure seekers. "Listen at this, Polly," said the grumpy old bachelor who manages to get himself in this column occasionally by some or his timely, and many times oftener, his untimely remarks., "Six teen thousand people immigrants, mind you have landed in New York in three da3's, and reports sa3' that still there's more to follow. There is a mad rush for our open door while it is yet swinging wide open to receive the foreigners. '1 he majority of these im migrants are steerage passengers, too, coining here without a dollar to bless themselves and scores of them illiter ate, even in their own languages; who have lceii glad in their mother coun tries to work for what we would eon Mder a trille, but which was all they could expect to receive, but let them remain here a Tew weeks or months, r, at the very outside, long enough for the men to become naturalized, then they are dictating to you, telling you you can't do this and you can't do that in your own business. Where they were satisfied with a few pencein their own country, and were com pelled to work early and late ror this meager pittance, here they demand in solently that you pay them the highest wages, whether they are competent or not. They crowd out our American boys and girls this raft or foreign im migrants. They demand certain and numerous privileges which they never dreamed of in their own country. .Just think of it! Seven thousand Rus sian Hebrews reaching New York in alxmt two weeks! They doubtless were a better class, but it isquito likely they are penniless and haven't twenty dollars to their names. In twenty two days over eighteen thousand Ital ians from sunny Ital3' poured into Ellis Island, with a goodly number of Hungarian", lieside a liberal sprinkling from other European sections. Don't you think it is about time to tack up a placard over New York harbor saying, 'No Admission,1 'Hands Off,' or some thing like that? Looking at this mat ter seriously and laying all joking ande, we know that it is the criminal class and the lowest scum of Europe that is pouring into this country. Men who are such born criminals and who are terrors in the place where they re side, have their passage paid to this country rather than fill their jails with this class of desperate criminals." A New York hostess recently gave a card party in honor of a bride-elect, and knowing her fondness for violets, made it a violet party, carrying out the color scheme in gowns, gloves, hats, wraps, shoes, laces, and in her sitting room, bedroom and bathroom. The parlors for the card party were decorated in lavender and green; dra peries or lavender illusion, held by huge bouqets or violets were used wherever available. Long festoons or smilax and lavender ribbons decorated the lace curtains and swung in the doorway, while loops or smilax caught by rosettes or violets made a garland round the walls. The score cards were works ol art, being painted by a friend with a design of violets tied with a true lover's knot in shades of violet, touched up with a delicate tracery of gold. The old-fashioned bouquet was surrounded by lace paper frills. (Sanies were counted with violets tied to the card with green riblions, and lone hands were green hearts tied with lav ender ribbon. On each card table were dainty lavender crepe paper bas kets tilled with crystallized violets and tiny pistache gum-drops. A quaint idea was given for finding the partners Tor the evening. The ladies went to the stair landing and round a imiss or wide violet satin ribbons, which ex tended through the bannisters to the hall below. Each lady took an end or ribbon. At a given signal the gentle men each took an end or the rihlton which hung in the hall below and fol lowed it to the lady at the upper end; she would then be his partner for the evening. For the first prizes or the evening she had selected a necklace or Amethysts and an exquisite white silk tie embroidered in voiletsand beautiful bunches of violets for the second prizes. The hostess, herself, I was attired in a beautiful violet crepe dress, with a corsage bouquet of violets and maiden-hair. BRIEF REVIEW. "Black Sickness" is Deadly. Interesting particulars or the mys terious and deadly disease or kala azar and its newly discovered but at present nameless parasite were given recently by Major W. B. Leishnian, M. B., pro lessor or pathology at the Royal Army Medical College, in an address delivered at the Hoyal Institute or Public Health Russell square, W. C. When epidemic and at its height the disease is more ratal than plague, the mortality reach ing to Js per cent. The name, "kala azar," signifies black sickness, and was given to it by the natives because or a darkening or the. -kin which it induces. The disease, said Major Leishnian, has been known in India since lsi!), but it was first met with in the epidemic form in lss2. The parsite has also been met with in Northern Africa, Tunis, Algiers and Arabia. The symtoms in clude an enlargement or the liver and spleen, a shriveling of the legs, a corpse like appearance of the kin, fever, an enormous reduction of the white cor puscles in the blood, and dysentery of an intractable kind. Women are as li able to attack as men, and the parjisite has leen found in a baby a 3ear old. For somtiinie white men were thought to iieinuntnU', but recently the parasite was discovered in a soldier at Net ley As to the treatment, Major Leishnian declared that every drug in the phar mocopeia had been tried without re sult, although it was still believed that the use or quinine was indicated. He said: " We do not know how the para site gets out ol the body or into the IkhIv, but we do know that infection runs along the trade routes and clings to a house in which patients have had the disease. It will probably be found that the para-ite lives in the soil through the aid of an intermediate host of cold-blooded habit such as a reptile." Drank Toast as He Died. CJeneral J)e Sonnaz, a leading mem her or the Italian Senate, who died in Rome the other day, w:is at his desire, dressed in his (Jeneral's uniform, with all his medals and decorations, just be fore he expired. He then called for a glass of champagne, and with his rela lives gathered around his bed drank a toast, "To the King's health and the prosperity or Italy. ' At the sitting of the Senate the ( JencraPs last patriotic toast formed the subject of a eulogistic speech made I13- the president. The Senate has decided to have this ad dress printed and to send copies of it to the various barracks to strengthen the spirit of patriotism among the soldiers Retired as Rear-Admirals. The following Captains or the United States Navy have been retired with rank ol Rear Admiral 13' President Roosevelt, upon their own application alter serving in the Na'3' forty years Rear-AdniiralsJ. V. B. Bleecker, Adam A. Duulap, F. H. Delano,.!. (J. Eaton and C. T. Hutchins. Admiral Bleecker has until recently been Captain or the Bremerton, Puget Sound Navy Yard Nature-Study Authority. Mrs. Anna Botsford Comstock, the j authoress, is one or the best known 11a lure-stucly authorities 111 tins country She is assistant professor of extension work in nature study at Cornell uni- versity, and lectures each 3'ear at lie- land Stanford university. Study this deeply for ten minutes: Our brains are composed of little bumps which feed and control our different faculties and emotions. Thinking draws blood to these bumps. If 3-011 are gay the bump of mirth will grow and you can't help but be gay all the time. I f you are sail long the bump o sadness will grow, ir you study wise books you will want to keep stinging and If you are mentally lazy the humps will shrink up. Is this clear? Try to make it. No life is sweet that lives only for itself. A world without struggles would be a world without heroes. Never confide anything to a man who peddles gossip like a woman. BIRTH OF THE DREAMY WALTZ The Popular Dance Had Its Or igin Either in France or Germany. ts Introduction Into England Caused Scandal and Put Society in a Great Uproar. .No exact dale ran be ascribed to the Ial.-..iin. tl;jn of tie waliz into England from Franer. In lsuii Gilray published a cari-aluic of a couple waltzing, !... ... r f.. .t w..s iuL-udcd far a qui, upon the then foreign dance, waltzing." Again hi 1SU) the same art ist published another sketch, entitled li Walse, I.e Bon Genre." with the nole, "Thevwalse was ait this time uew in Knland and just coming into fash ion." The fame. or. rather, notoriety, of the new dance had, however, reached i;iiul:i tut some years previously. Dr. r.urncy had seen it danced In Purls In ITso and was moved to write, "How uneasy an English mother would feel to see her daughter so unfanilllarly treated and still more to note the obliging manlier in which the free dom is returned by the females." liaikes in his journal declares that no event ever produced so great a sensation In English society as the in troduction of the German waltz," which he attributes to Baron Neu mann and other- about the year 1811. lie relates how the mornings, which had hitherto been dedicated to loung ing in the park, were now absorbed at home In practicing the figures of a French quadrille or whirling a chair round the room to learn the step and measure of the (Jcrman waltz. It was danced at Ahnaek's by a few very bold spirits, notably Lord Palmer ston. Mine, de Lieven, Princess Ester hazy and Baron Neumann, and thus became a matter of exhibition, the whole company standing on benches to lew the performance. However, the nntlwaltzlug party to tk the alarm and cried it down. Mothers forbade it. and every ballroom became a scene of feud and contention. How profound was its unpopularity in cer tain quarters is proved by the pasqui nades leveled against It The famous seven lines commencing "What: The irl I adore by another em braced!" are commonly attributed to Byron, though they were published anony mously In 1S1". and some authorities give Thomas Moore as the author. An impromptu purporting to be addressed by an indignant lover to his betrothed and her partner echoes Byron's feel ings: You've brushed the bloom from the Pnch, From the rose its soft hue; What you'vw touched you may take. Pretty waltzex, udleu. Another poet delivered himself of the following diatribe: How arts liniuov.- 1m this lnnplrtnc age! Peers mount the box, and horses tread the siatte. While waltzing females, with unblushing face. Disdain to dance but in a man's em brace. "The waltz, however," continues Uaikes. "struggled successfully through all its dillicultics. Flaurhault, who was la ileur du pols' in Paris, came over and with a host of others drove the prudes into their Intreuchmeuts. And when the Emperor Alexander was seen waltzing around the roof at Ahnaek's, with his tight uniform and numerous decorations, they surrendered at discre tion." It Is a moot point whether the waltz originated in France or Germany, whether It came from the French "I.a Volta" or the German national dance, the "Landler." According to French authorities, La Volta was simply the waltz a trois temps. Provence was Its birthplace, and It was tlrst introduced at the court of Henry II. at Fontaine bleau In l."r by the Comte de Saulte, who Is said to have Invented It, for many called It La Volta de Saulte, and the name l.s suitable both because of the etymology of the word uud the character of the dance. it enjoyed a great run throughout France and even penetrated to Scot land, where It met with furious opposi tion, one w riter averring that its Im portation into France had been effect ed by the power of witches. Mary Stu art once exhibited her agility In this dance, but she was careful not to re peat the experiment, and this was about the h.st heard of It. The case for Germany Is that the first waltz tune appeared In 1(570 In a popular song called "O du lleber Au gustin." From Germany the dance made Its way to Vienna and was intro duced Into the opera, while by and by it found Its way to France, whence It came to England "the Insidious waltz, this Imp of Germany, brought up In France." The waltz when first danced In Lon don was a slow movement a trois temps, and the early English waltz compositions were very poor. Strauss came to London in 1S37 to nlnv at ai macirs, and his waltz music created a perfect furore. It killed the old trois temps waltz, and the deux temps usurped Its place. Now that the fasci nation of the waltz Is all powerful, it ls ditlicult to realize the commotion Its In troduction caused. Loudon Globe. A Romnnnlnn Custom. A strange custom Is still observed In Roumania which reminds one strongly of Koblnsou t'rusoe. When a servant has displeased his or her master the offender takes his boots In his hands and places them before the bedroom door of his master. It Is a sign of great submission, and the boots are either kicked away as an intimation that the fault will not be forgiven or else the servant Is told to place them on his feet, which shows that he Is for given Inherited. Settlement Worker "What a well be haved little bov he is! The Burglar's Wife-And lie comes by it natural, mum. HI; poor father never failed to have a . r.;tenro reduced owing to good beh i i;r. -Puck. ELEPHANTS LUMBERING. They Were .Not Only DoinK Man' W'ork, but DoIiik It Man' Wny. The elephants round us were drag ging the logs to the mill to be sawed; They were harnessed for this with a broad breast band and heavy chains. A native looped the chains round the logs, and the elephant started off with them and deposited them on the trol ley. Others were picking up the sawed planks with their trunks and carrying them across the yard to be piled. A mahout sat on the neck of every elephant, and it the animal picked up too small a plank the mahout would hint, with his iron spike, that two might go to that load. Then, grunting, the elephant would pick up the sec ond with infinite delicacy of balance, turn, march over and deposit them be side the pile, always returning for an other load so long as there were any planks ready. When there were none he would take his ease In the sun and wait, or perhaps there were heavy logs to be pushed from one place to an other, and if pushing would do, with his trunk curled against the log. no elephant would give himself the trou ble of picking it up any more than a housemaid will pick up a chair on casters. More fascinating it was than I can tell to see the jungle patriarch kneel down to a heavy log, twist his trunk round it, place It on the top of the pile and then calculate its position and push and pull until It was square in its place. The oddest because the most reasonable thing was to see the elephant, pushing against the end of a very heavy log. stretch out one hind leg to give himself balance and pur chase. That seemed to bring hhn somehow very near to us. He was not only doing our work, but he was do 'ng it In nur way. Presently, with one accord, all the elephants dropped work and moved In the direction of the sheds. "That means it's 11 o'clock." said the foreman; "dinner hour. Not for himself could we get them to do a stroke of work from now till 'X It's their off time. At .' they begin again Htid work till dusk, and they start about (J in the morning, but they don't understand overtime." Pall Mall Ga zette. JAPANESE WHALERS. The Curious Way 'I hey Do Their Work ilh Vet nnil ICnlven. Whales are captured In nets by the Japanese. The whalers put off from the shore as quietly as possible, and when they come within the proper dis tance of their objective the boats, which have hitherto worked in collides, separate ami. dropping their nets as they go. work around to the-rear and Hank-; of their exported kill. The. nets are made In large squares, each side being about forty feet long. One net is composed of six squares In line, and llie squares are fastened to earh other lightly. When all is ready the boats which have been worked around to the rear of the whale then commence to drive bun gently toward the nets. Mov ing along lazily at tirst. the whale soon realizes that something untoward ia happening and. hurrying forward, dashes on to one of the nets. This is the critical moment, and when the fisher men .ce that the whale is well in the center of one of the squares they raise a great shout and charge in upon him. When the whale is about spent a man fhoM'U for hi- strengih, activity, pluck, eoohie- and general titness for his work then leaps upon his back aud with a great triangular shaped knife proceeds to cut two great gashes in his body just back of his head. Through the underlying blubber and these two gashes he passes a rope and, knotting it. makes a loop of it. He then repeats the same operation as far back on his body as he can. When the light has been completely knocked out of the whale, boats range alongside of him, and by the help of the loops already mentioned the hapless cetacean is slung between them in such a manner as to minimize the danger of his ear cass sinking. Then the boats form in procession, and. making for the shore, there com mences the most curious part of the whole affair. The whalers, with real fervor and In the most solemn manner possible, begin a chanting prayer for the ease of the departing spirit by call ing out "Joiakii: Joraku! Jorakul" In low, deep tones. Fpon the third day after the kill a memorial service is held in the village temple, and prayers are offered for tiie repose of the dead whale's soul.- Chicago News. Tlic Huliv IIf(lc.t Cradle. If at almost any time of the vear we walk through the woods where the red scarlet, black or pin oaks are growing that is, where we find those that ripen their acorns in two seasons and there fore belong to the phi oak group--wo shall probably find on the ground fall en branches that vary In size from that of a lead pencil to that of one's thumb or even larger. These at the broken end appear as if cut away within the wood, so that only a thin portion is left under the bark. Within the rather uneven cut, generally near the center of the growth, is a small hole tightly plugged by the "powder post" of a beetle larva. Split open the branch or twig, when a burrow will be seen, aud the little, white, soft, hard jawed lar va that made it will be found or per haps the Inactive pupa. Why rrusxla In So Culled. The modern name of Prussia Is de rived from Borussi, or Porussi, who conquered the country about U-0 B. C. Little is known concerning Prussia and its people till the tenth century except that that portion of the Baltic shore which is now included in the kingdom of Prussia was fjrui :! i.. habited by Slavonic tribes akm in customs and languages to the Lithuanians. They came in occasional collision with wave after wave of the groat Teutonic race as it ilowed down from the ley north, receiving their first knowledge of Chris tianity from Bishop Adalbert of Prague, whom they martyred In 097. In the middle of the thirteenth century the Teutonic knights, on their return from the crusades, undertook the conquest and conversion of Prussia. The Borus sla element mingled with the followers of the Teutonic knights, and conse quently with the Poles. ALTERING A PICTURE. Why the' ChauKc Did Not Please the OrfRlnnl Artist. An artist was talking about the noted German painter Adolf von Menzel. "Von Menzel," he said, "painted the clearest and most distinct of pictures. Fvery thing with him was worked out to the last hair. Nothing was ever sug gested. With suggested, sketchy, im pressionistic pictures he had no sym pathy. He was called the Melssonler of Germany. "In a discussion of a certain impres sionist's vague, unintelligible work I once heard Von Menzel say: " 'This man Markhelm sold to the Countess X. two years ago one of his landscapes. The countess after she had had the landscape a few weeks tired of it. ami to another artist who dined with her one night she said: 1 think the uew picture that Herr Markhelm sold me lacks animation. It needs life in It. Would you be willing to paint for me a man or woman on that road that runs through the mid dle;" Why. surely, madam," said the second paint'T. And he took the pic ture home with him, made the addition and returned it the next morning. "'Later, meeting Markhelm, he said: I had the audacity to alter a landscape of yours the other day. It was the landscape you sold the Count er X. She wanted a figure in It, and to oblige her I painted an old peasant walking down the road." " 'MarUheiui frowned. I'he roadV" he said. "The road? I don't remember any road in that pic ture." oh. jrs. there Is a road," said the oilier. I can't recall it," said Markhoim. "'Finally, to settle the matter, they went to the house of the countess and stood before the picture. fhore." sald'Markheini's brother artist "there Is your road, and there Is my old peasant walking down it." Fool." Markhelm cried, "what have you done? That Is not a road in tin renter of my work. It Is a riv- THE GROUND CUCKOO. Ileiiinrkithlc CunnlnR It Dlwplnya lit CntchltiK Hnttler. One of the most Interesting zoological oddities is the California ground cuc koo, lie usually is from twenty to twnty-live inches long. Including his tail, which measures one-half of his whole length. On account of his small wings he l a poor filer, but what he larks in aerial dexterity he makes up .li pedestrian velocity. With his four yard jumps he can outrun the swiftest rate horse. His geographical range is confined to southern California. Mexico and some parts of Texas. As a bird of prey the ground cuckoo out wits his most avidious fellow crea tures. Snails and large worms consti tute his principal food, which lie is bus ..!1 day in digging out of the ground. But he does not hesitate to attack larger animals. It Is no trou ble for him to get the better of small suaki-s. and when domesticated he beat any cat or dog In the extermina tion of mice and small house pests. Mon curiously interesting Is the strategic sagacity he displays in the apt ure of large rattlesuakes. These he dare not meet In fair aud open combat. As soon as he espies a rattle snake sleeping In the sun near a cac tus hedge he surrounds his victim with a heap of the prickly leaves until he is well hemmed In. He then pricks at the reptile a w times with his sharp bill, which causes a sudden com moiiou in the cactus heap. In his at tempt to disentangle himself from the leaves lie wounds his tender flesh, and it takes but an hour or two for the average rattler to die of sheer ex haustlon and furnish a much coveted tidbit for the sly cuckoo. His meth od with his prey resembles that of the cat with the mouse. THE OLD SAILING SHIPS. Why the Wooden One Were Iletter Than Thone Dullt of Iron. The sailing ship when I knew her in the days of her perfection was a sens! ble creature. When I say her days of perfection I mean perfection of build gear, seaworthy qualities and ease of handling, not the perfection of speed That quality reached its highest ex cellence in the discovery of hollow lines and departed with the change of building material. None of the iron ships of yesterday ever attained the marvels of speed which the seamanship of men famous in their time had obtained from their wooden, copper sheeted predecessors. Fveryihing had been done to make the iron ship perfect, but no wit of man had managed to devise an eliicient coating composition to keep her hot tout clean with the smooth cleanness of yellow metal sheeting. After a spell of a few weeks at sea an iron ship begins to lag as If she had growt tired too soon. It is only her bottom that is getting foul. A very little affects the speed of a ship that Is not driven on by an untir ing propeller. Often It is Impossible to tell what inconsiderate trifle puts her off her stride. A certain mysterious ness hangs around the quality of speed as It was displayed by the old sailing ships commanded by competent sea men. In those days the speed was still a matter for the seaman's care. Therefore, apart from the laws, rules and regulations for the good preserva tion of his cargo, he was careful of his loading, of what Is technically called the trim of his ship. Some ships sailed best on an even keel, others had to be trimmed quite one foot by the stern, and I have heard of a ship that gave her be?t speed on a wind when so loaded as to float a couple of inche. by the head. Joseph Conrad In Har per's Weekly. Hatvk and Weanel. A New Zealand paper relates that a settler noticed a hawk flying about in a peculiar manner aud crying out as if In pain. The settler obtained u gun and I shot the bird, and Investigation showed the cause of Its distress was a weasel , which was perched on the hawk's back. with its teeth hurled In the bird's neck. Apparently the animal had pounced upon the hawk when it was on the ground and was carried skyward with the flight of Its Drey. A SYMBOL OF PEACE. The Dove Han Had Thl Distinction In AH Affes Since the Flood. The dove has been pictured as the bird of peace by writers and artists In all the ages since the time of the flood, for the dove has figured In the sym bolism of many races and of count less generations. According to the Centnry Dictionary, the dove is the bird of peace because of the incident recorded in the eighth chapter of Gen esis: "And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made, and he sent forth a raven which went to aud fro until the waters were dried up from off the earth. And he sent forth a dove from him to see If the waters were abated from off the face of the ground, but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him In the ark. And he stayed yet another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. and the dove came to him In the evening, ami, lo, in her mouth was an oiive leaf plucked off; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth." Proper names derived from the dove have always been used in the orient as descriptive of loveliness and were especially applied to beautiful wo men. The dove was woven into the nairan worship of ancient northern L'urope, and it has a great place In early Christian life and symbolism. From immemorial time the dove has always been a type of innocence to the Jews. Elsewhere it has been as sociated since the Olympian age with the higher idea of onus as the sym bol of natural humnn affection the- love that goes with purity and slim ollrilv of heart. It had a part In mar riage scenes and was naturally intro duced by early Christian painters into pictures of the Madonna and child and of female saints. These qualities of entleness and affection combined with their mournful notes made doves equally appropriate to moods of sor row, and they were a part of the furni ture of most pagan funerals. This passed on into Christian usage and their likenesses, generally combined with the olive branch, were earved on the tombs in the catacombs be neath Koine and elsewhere, emblematic of eternal peace. In the Sporting Magazine for 1825 this appeared: "Pigeons are rarely seen at the table of the Russians, who entertain a superstitious veneration for these birds because the Iloly Ghost as sumed the form of a dove." Comment ing on this, a writer says, "This cus tom of the abstinence rroui the flesh of the dove is far older than Christian ity, being indeed in all probability con nected with the same class of feelings as those which marked it out as the Aryan death bird." Sir Uicliard F. Burton remarks: "Ev er since Noah's dove every religion -eeeis to consider the pigeon as the sacred bird. For example, every mosque swarms with pigeons, and the same exist in most Italian market places. The Hindoo pundits and the old Assyrian empire also have them." One Myatery Solved. nonruiug noose uaouues wuu uinc repeatedly complained of the dark, cheerless coloring of the wall paper in their rooms may find something to interest them in the information re rently elicited by a curious clerk in a department store. "I should like to know," said the clerk -"in fact, I have long wanted to know whv it is that von ladies who . I ' . , 1 1 . I I . 1. n n manage hoarding houses always choose such dark paper." "Well." said the prospective purchas er, "if that Is the only thing you want to know you might just as well have got wise long ago. We like dark pa per because with that on the walls the nails the boarders use to tack up their pictures don't leave such ghastly sears." New York Press. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. How many men work too hard? How many do you know? Every good husband is henpecked. That's all there Is to it. Classical music is like some people very hard to understand. It is said that a farmer gets the best work out of a farm hand who Is aspir ing to be his son-ln-Iaw. Perhaps one reason why a poor man lives longer than a rich one is that tho doctors don't take so much interest in him. When an economical man suffers a ten dollar loss he cuts off expenditures reaching to $f0 before he feels right about it. If you have faults the idea is not to humiliate yourself by acknowledging them to your enemies, but to get over them if possible for your own good. Atchison Globe. InUuence of Hetl llnlr. "There never has been .:;t important revolutionary movement without a red haired person intimately concerned. If not the leader," says a writer. "Nearly all the great reformers or founders of religions had red hair. History men tions that Mohammed was a red haired man. King David was ruddy. Louis XIV. was a sandy haired man, with many of the characteristic peculiarities of the type. Cleopatra is called 'the red haired Greek.' Mary, queen of Scots, had red hair, and Prince Charles resembled her In coloring. Lucrezia Borgia looks in her portraits somewhat auburn. Queen Elizabeth was of de cidedly red coloring, which will suit both her ndmlrers and her detractors." Leaping: Trcanon. King William III. of England was passionately fond of the chase anil made It a point never to be outdone lu any leap, however perilous. A Mr. Cherry, who wus devoted to the exiled fatnil-, took advantage of this to plan the most pardonable desim which was , ever formed against a king's life. He t reguiariy joineu the royal hounds, put himself foremost and took the most desperate leaps In the hope that Wil liam might break his neck in followlug mm. one day, however, he accom- pllshed one so Imminently daugerous that the king when he came to the spot shook his head and drew back. It is said that Mr. Cherry at length broke his own neck and thereby relieved the king from further hazard.