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.