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WALLOWA CHIEFTAIN. BOCII ROI, Pmbllskan. ENTERPRISE. OREGON. .1 in i i i - r-Mu-: be says till' t! :i' s. 1'. 1 . Mill i. in- Imll. y,, unless t i i -'"1 P to" ! m Tli.' tines Aral's I'tiil.i! ? is inn, 1, III". i- tilings t.iK a. r 1 : 1 tfti u- supii,,-: TL. r 1 , ci i I : I . S; "! : i 1. lu- buildings All women are says a New Y i.'., unkind. ;m,!. we s Strain plows .r. In.- !.n!-M'. t, only u-o a !iorc , total him to war. pllli ;atc. :.-jpe T!,:s Is tin:: u. . ,1 r, ape i- t .r. m an iTiHVtl- If tl.C in In' put to n w is to Mr. Ilrailloy Martin has 1 1 .-: It -il not to wear a coronet iit Kin;: lalward's coronation. This will g!-:iie!y detract Iron, tiir gayoty of tin- event. Tin- tn'w i tho patient i to give tin' ot to kill off tin :istunp:ioii cure requires sl -ep oil' of il'"i; s. ,i as ,o'.' Ilii'Iobes a fair cil.lllcv tubercular variety. Then- is a boy :u Iowa who gets up in his sj, ,.p .i:ul litisks corn. Tiia; boy should have !i:;li' trou'u.i- in ur.ding farmers who arv wiliiug to hire Uim. With American marines guarding the lino of the Panama ltailroad there will In- tiio In'st of assurance that there will lr no :nii'i-riipt.on of coiniuunloat.o.:. Pretty soon tho sworil will become obsolete everywhere savf in tho swashbuckler drama, a lot more mili tary experts ha v iu- do dated against i;. A sur-i'-a! sowing tiiaoiiiuo l:as ln on iiivi'iiteil in I'arls for oiihr.'i'iu'y uf upon injiutil pt rons. lltir who wouhl want to o about with a cheap uiaciiiue-si-wwl Mar: King Edward has given Sousa a medal for playing his marches at the royal paiaee. The King will be sorry for t his when every band in England gets to playing those pieces. The credit men of the world are put ting tunny marks opposite the name of the Si. k Man of Turkey. He is so ut terly bankrupt that if he were an ordm ury merchant he would le closed out. Two rhiladelphia giris have gone over into Mareihmja to get a mime by being raptured i.j brigands. It is safe to say thai no I nited Slates warships will climb the lluig.inaii nmiiiiiaiiis to look for them. Tile fear lilii: tile i'oiesls try will be. on;,' destroyed I ied by some appi'ehe:i:oi, ; phone poles j, .s ;: t' the Collll a eompati ,a: t.le teie- il.eollle So Illlek t:. to hl.IZe : p-'ie-ti-.an.s wia lie v. a v. uin. Emperor V.'illlan. knows mu.-li uiopj nbotll siiii-l.tilnhi ;i:.ui any of Us." (iivs l-i'ot. en ll.il,,.. Anil still tlie woiiilef go.-, and still the wonder grous that one u..ill le ad ean carry all Emi.H'i'ur W'iili.m, i;nou. In a r m .ii estuiiiUe on the I r:clies of ti Morgau .s u ' Uiillloliiiiies .1. rierpo-.it il:ii is plneed at SP hhh. i '. Tills m-'r b- .Sb '.' . m uv or ! less tll.lii Wlia: iie is ;c what's. SIM i. iiiiii (, ;u;il!y worth, but MorganV The uuiortunate juror who bh'W out the gas and was found dead in his room was iu,t really dilleivm from cry ui. an other lie-sons who are s.-i-eted to de cide nut stums in the courts aft'eeting the lives and pfoiwrty of litigants. The poor fellow siinpiy got found out. A good pun is rathe uncommon, but a Joke that may be s., described was luade recently by Andrew Carnegie, to whom sola.- advocates of an Anglo American alliance had appealed for an emblematic i!.,-,ver. Mr. Carnegie promptly suggested the dandelion, urg ing tiiiit tlie American "dandy," in the shrewd. Yankee, business sense of the term, joined with the l'.ritish "lion." would icstilt in a blossom which must rule the world. lie was evidently not thinking of Yankee I'oodl,. Dandy, whose sentiments in the olden time were not in agreement with those of John Hull. Should one have a vision of a public library with dishes of disiniceiants at the door, and the sign, "(b-riiis checked here," he would be sure that It was a dream. Vet when the number of un clean hands of those who use the books und papers is taken into the account, the sanitary vision might almost be considered prophetic. The danger to the health of the community caused by offensive visitors to libraries is real, if not measurable. A free library should not be open to persons whose hick of cleanliness makes tln-m centers of in fection. Pneumonia is the cause of 40 per cent of the deaths occurring in the fall, dur ing the winter and throughout the spring in our climate. The danger of exposure from which colds may be con tracted cannot be exaggerated. Not withstanding many denials there is no doubt that U rover Cleveland was re cently in serious peril from this cause. The death of young George M. Pullman bum imcumonin in California Is not i perhaps an instance that can !x cited J in sneaking tif th:it disease In the lake belt o !!!;!' !.!:: along tin- seashore. .Hut it is an re illustrating the tact that in the a well as in tin' central anil pans .if tin- continent consti- :'. debility from any cause invites ..i s of pneumonia a:nl tliat svsti-ins oiilv can rein-l lis at- . 'ltwure of pneumonia. l!uild sjs'ciu by tnitr.tii'Us t'lxnls re- V, h innocent tonics. Keep tin' : t!..ni chiliim: tin- respiratory U, ran . ..gal. ..h.'Ui. tit.na hiit.iisoine iii il.o nature of a i , i . : 1 . - tost in,oii..i:. to wl.h'li all tin" s,'i:s;i.;,. people of tl.e i-oiintry wouUl be prAil ' ii to i-i '.itrli't'.te. sliouhl be eoiiicrre.'. upon the menilx'rs of tin r.i:l jury of V.'asliuvton County. Maryland. That ImxIv has iMnUiiriMl it : self to most men ami women by return it. an iinlletmeiit for maiislati;:liier siuaitist a boii: r eki-r. (:her i;faml Ju r.es in oilier parts of the laiul. by the ilo.en, by the seoie. ami by the liun th'eil. have liatl ehiiliees lo ilistin-uiMh tneiiiselves in this partieula". but it re mained for tlie irratid jury of Washin j ton t'oimty. Maryland, to demonstrate ' that tlie iniluenee of a lwat riK'ker"s ' friends was not sutlteieut to stay the , hiinds of mitraetl .tustiee. The eir j eumstiitiees in tlie ease are not pecu j liar. The eire tiiustaiiivs In a ease of boat rix'kin never are. Last summer ii party of voting jxuple were rowing ; for pleasure on l.;ike Keyor. In the ! State iiiinied. In the party was the in- evitahlc smart yoiin- niiin, whose pres ence lia bli-hted many a summery out ; in- that would have bis;'n made joyous by his absence. This smart young man ; found that he could amuso himself l greatly by ro'king the lat. and lie iix ked it violently. Tlie girls screamed, I and this intensities tlie smart young man's enjoyment. lie rocki-d the boat all the more violently, ami it finally tipped ovr. rive of the o- i'tipaiits were thrown inti) the water, and one of the vming ladies was drowned. Nobody will be surprised to learn that when the boat c;ipsi.Hl the boat rocker swam valiantly for the shore and left his com panions to their fate. As startling a case of duplicity as has ever been exposed is reported from New York. Joseph (ioldmau. good hus band, fond father, reputable business man. was also leader of a baud of thieves and receiver of stolen goods. For many years he had led these twu 'ivos without detection. Suddenly two of his accomplices, under fear of pun ishment, turned uiion him. and, in or der to lighten their own sentences, gave evidence that left no doubt of his guilt. He was proved to be implicated in a dozen clever robberies which were carried out under his direction. In tiicr. he seems to have devised tlie vil lainies which his confederates execut ed, lie was contriver and manager. The others simply carried out his in structioiis. it was not that he v as expose I to sudden temptation and yielded. His guilt was darker than that. Tor years lie had conducted a systematic robbing business, lie had a large loft in Water street where he sioi'ed stolen articles, and from that "fetiee" he distributed his plunder through the city. It was necessary, therefore, thai lie should live a contin mil lie. ami that he should have hen able to do so for so long a time shows either a remarkable steadiness of will or el-e a total want of those moral principles which, when they are violat ed, lead to uneasiness and remorse. He was tried, found guilty, ami sent to the penitentiary. His lawyer pleaded for leniency on the ground that his life as a bns;m-s man had been irreproach able. The judge rejected the ilea con temptuously. He refused to admit that the man who is a burglar by night I should be given a lighter sentence be j cause he is a hypocrite during the day. ! He thought such a man deserved a ; heavier sentence than one who did not lead a dual lift I Fuels About Boiling Water. : It may seem presumptuous to suggest that few t opic know how u boil wa j ter. but such is tin- case. The boiling point, under ordinary atmospheric pres sure i sea level r.is 21- degrees Fahren heit; this point changes according lo i the altitude. When bubbles form on the bottom of the keitie. come clear to tic ; surface and rupture quietly, without making an ebullition, we have simuier ' ing. At this point the thermometer should register 1mi degrees Fahrenheit, ami it is at this leincrature that we i cook meats and make soups. When the j bubbles begin lo form on the sides and j surface of the vessel ami come toward the top of the water, there is a motion in the Witter, but It has not really reached the boiling point. It is only when the thermometer reaches J12 de I grees Fahrenheit ami the water is in j rapid motion that it can be said to boll: iii.d the atmospheric gases still con I (nine to be given off with the steam for a considerable time after the water has commenced to boil rapidly; in fact. :t is dilliciilt to determine when the last traces have Immui expelled. It is safe to suppose, however, that ten minutes' boiling will free the water from its gases, make It tasteless, and render it unlit for the making of tea, coffee or other light infusions of delicate ma terials. Ladies' Home Journal. Not Possible. Visitor Your dollie seems to be very happy. A Tiny Cirl of To-day Well, nuntie, I'm sun- she isn't. In-causo she has only one dress, and that isn't stylish. Town and Country. Kaiu and Snow. An inch of rainfall, the drops frozen as they form into delicate crystals, will make ten inches of snow. Ladis Home Journal. The World's Population. Ther has been .in enormous in iv:ie in the popu lation of European ...mitries an, I of peoples of Euro pean origin during the hist century. The growth nil round was from 1 7 0.0 00,000 to llMllt olO.IHHI.OIHI.- ihmi, while the -row th of the I'tiit , il States was from jo to Mi.Km.Hnl. au.l of the E:ig pulutiou o: ill,' Hritish Empire lish p. froai 1. "i.i 'in i.ik m to i'.inl Iiussia also ..-(.ooo.OuO. Certiiaiiy showed remarkable growth from IXOoo.imki to .",". mo.000, and f mm 40.0no.in hi to 13."i.0O0.tKM). re spectively, while France had only grown troai fJ.-..o( HJ.000 to 4U.(KIO.OOO. The first effect necessarily is to assure the pre pon lermiiv of white peoples among the races of the world. In the I'niteil States, which has im mensely greater virgin resources with which to supply its population, it has been noticed that the town population is increasing disproportionately. hi the 1'uited States, in spite of the magnitude of increase of population, recent growth i has not been so fast as earlier in the nine teenth century. I'ntil IS'10 the growth in each census period ranged between iUi and oil per cent. Since then it has been ; o" per cent to ISSo. and is now about 1 per cent. The obvious suggestion, that posibly immigration has fallen off. as ' compared' with what it used to be. would , not account for the diminished rate of ; increase of the population generally. Turning to Australasia, the decline in i tiie rate of increase is great and palpa ' hie. hut there the perturbations due to ! immigration have been greater than in ' the case of the Timed States, because 1 the country settled mainly iretween lSoO i and ISTo. In England there is a similar j though not so marked a decrease. The rate of growth of population of the j communities might still bo considerable, i even if r.o higher than in the last few j years. An addition of even 10 per cent j only as the average every ten years would far more than douhie the ii n i.oou.i M H .1 in ' a century, and leave the white popuhi 1 tion at this century's end at H.ooo.imhi. j Oho. Secondly, some of the rates of in crease mentioned, such as that in Austra lasia and the United States at certain I periods, are tpiite abnormal, and due largely to exceptional immigration, j Finally, there is the ipiestion which many people have rushed in to discuss i namely, whether the reproductive tower i of the populations in question is as great , now as fifty or sixty years ago. It is a question which cannot h,. rushed, and 1 ; am unable to commit myself to the belief, j heard from some quarters, that the rate of increase in these populations is, as in , France, coming nearly to an end. The gravity of the stationariness of pnpuia ; tion in France lay in tlie fact that the death rate there remained high, while tile birth rate fell. SIi: ItOItEUT (JUIFITN. Ex-l'resident of the l'.ritish Statistical Society. Why There Are Fewer Ministers. Jo those interested in theolog ical education the statistics of the seminaries for the iast six years have jtiven ground for se rious thought. Tiles,, statistics indicate a steady deciiiie in at tendance, amounting, in some cases, t from 40 to 4." per cent. The anxiety thus awakened is not allayed when one turns from the seminary stage if education lo the collegiate and academ ic situations as regards preparations for the ministry. In all colleges and schools u decreased number of students is report ed similar to the falling off at the semi naries. It appears, therefore, that the lowest point m tlie ebb has not yet been reached. 1. has Peon alleged that the church has lost its hold upon th immunity; that it has It-en invaded by the spirit of worldlhiess, commercialism and material ism, demoralizing the religious life of young men ami rendering them unwilling to take up the trials of ministerial life. I: has even been questioned whether the church coul, 1 survive Christian civiliza tion, lint why this commercialism, ehar acteristic of the past half centnrv l,ni,i hav made itself felt in the theological seminarics only luring the last five r six years is hard to see, I, is further alleged that heresy trials, agitations for the revision r abolition of creeds, discussions regarding the origin and Iit.-rary form of the books of the l'dhle (commonly known under the head SWIFTEST OF QUADRUPEDS. Greyhound. Hold the Kecard for Get tine Over the Ground Kaiiteat. Three men in a carriage, followed by four dogs, alighted at one of the road houses just beyond Kingsbridge while I was restiug there last Friday, and proved to be so interesting lu their con versation that I lingered many minutes beyond my time to listen to them and to learn .something that I ditl not know before. When the dogs took me Into their confidence their owners did the same. It appears that they hail been out in Westchester County, running the dogs and making a record for their perform ances. "There Is the fastest animal that runs on four legs," said one of the men. as he pointed at a loug. lank, sinewy En glish greyhound that turned toward us a countenance fairly beaming with in telligence. "I don't menu that partic ular dog," he continued, "but I do mean his variety, and he is not the slowest member of It by any means. We have just been trying him under careful tim ing, and found that he went, when on full gallop, twenty yards a second. That means a mile in a minute anil twenty-eight seconds a speed that comes very near that of a carrier pig eon and would leave far behind any ,.o, s ,.1 y 7 of the higher criticism! have had the ef fect or repelling men from the ministry of at least some Christian churches. On the contrary, however, it would be nat ural for young and vigorous men. as in the last, to lie attracted by trials and discussions as affording a field fur accom plishment. Other authorities tell us that the recent financial crisis mid the revival of busi ness which has followed it are the chief causes of the trouble. It is true, no doubt, that when the panic of 1V.K5 came many young men just enteriug on their studies preparatory to n theological edu cation found it impossible to continue. These probably would have been entering the seminaries within the last two or three years. It is true also that with the return of prosperity these and others, who would have looked toward the minis try under normal conditions, have been attracted into business by the opportuni ties offered in that sphere. These expla nations are but partial ones. Over against these conjectural and un satisfactory quests for the reason of de creased numbers in the seminaries may be advanced the theory that the supply for several years past has been linger than the demand. If we take the Presby terian Church as typical we shall find that for twenty-live years, ending with IS! lo. the number of churches grew more rapidly than the number uf ministers. Hut during the six years since lMlo the num ber of ministers has increased so much faster than the churches that at the present day there are more ministers on the rolls in proportion to the number of churches than at any time in history. The curious feature of the case is that this extraordinary increase in the number of ministers came precisely during the years which show the steadily diminishing num ber of students in the seminaries. The conclusion cannot be avoided, therefore, that the condition in the theological semi naries is due to the conviction that there are too many ministers already. If this be the correct diagnosis of the case, it follows that there is no serious ground for alarm to the Christian Church. Whenever in the providence of tiod a larger number of ministers shall be need ed, the church may be trusted to furnish, them. ANDUEW C. ZEN (IS. I. 1 I'rofessnr in MeComiiek Thiological Sem inary. The North American Indians. It a people in vades a strange country in . which a n o t h e r people, with its peculiar civilization, has liv ed for a long hue, one of two things usually happens; either the absorb or nate the after a i-until of tli-'v are invaders certain time, or absorlied 0 till- e Unmans llilliier.ui gin. ii lnuahilants. Thus the i ancient times absorbed Un peoples which inhabited tic Italian peninsula mid brought tln-m into the fold of Latin ivili.aiiou. (in the other hand, the Indian qf .Mexico an i South America to a great extern absorbed th conquering Spaniards and Portu guese and lowered their level of civiliza tion. In the case of the Indians of North America, however, neither of the two things happened. It has always been a wise rule with the English people in its colonial invasions all over the world nev er to mix with the inferior races of the invaded countries. That is probably one of the reasons of the invariable success of England's colonial policy. The inva sion of North America offers one of tin best examples of that policy, if strictly adhered to. The white invaders have fought bloody wars with the Indians, who desperately resisted the forward march of civilization. Periods of bitter strife have alternated with periods of peace and friendly commercial relations. In spite of all that the invaders have not absorb ed any considerable number of the In dians. There was no danger at any time that the blood of the millions of white invaders would become debased by the in- quadruped that we kuow of. "This is a matter that I have studied and know something about. There are few thoroughbred horses that can ex ceed nineteen yards a second, and I have known greyhounds to better that by four yards. Foxhounds have a rec ord of four miles in six and a half min utes, or nearly eighteen yards a second. That is fast going, and as good as the most rapid of the hare family can do. "This speed is to some exient an In herited gift from away back, for I have beeu Informed that wolves can run all night at the rate of a mile in three minutes. N'anscn says that Siberian dogs can travel forty-live miles on the ice in five hours. 'This is fast going, but these grey hounds hold the record." UNCLE SAM'S POISONER Not Generally Known that Thla Gov ernment Maintains One. In a little house in South Washington is located a Federal institution without which the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum could not exist. It is the department of the chief poisoner, Joseph Farmer. The office of chief poisoner was not unusual In countries rilled by despots, but It may be a sur prise to many to learn that such an I I mmrn . - . , ,i .1 I,.,!, .i niilliiill of n ol tile moon , l:i,li:ins. ibovever. the Indians have no. , bee, line assilllillltcl. l.ilie the other four rare live within the territory i can repiibii,'. hut their life 111. it of tin' other ric es. Tl pletely isolated and liv,, l.e-iiiise the while invader: tirely exterminated tlieiu. traveling tliroiih tin- full s tl,,. lu liana ,f th,' Aiiwn is apart frein ,,. stall 1 i'om te say. merely ; have n"t " A f..i'1'igner e,l Stales will ; lin, I it rather dilliciilt I" colivilii himself : of the existence of Indians en th icin continent. Th" Indians ar Anier- e I here, govcru- nevertheless. The I'liito,! 'Sfati nient si-ends nearly Slo.oon.OUO year I (or their support and education. I Scarcely a century ago the Indians tw j cupied practically the entire territory ; of North America excepting the Atlantic i coast ami part of the coast of j the Culf of Mexico. Nearly three I millions of square miles of a total of 1 o.illio.iKKl were occupied by the Indians, who never miml-ered more than uuo.UOO. Now there are but JUb.OOO Indians left, 1 the majority of whom live upon rcserva ' Hons. A century ago they were the ac i tual owners of three millions of square miles of territory, while now they are confined to an area of "Ho.oou square miles. Tlie number of Indians in the United States is steadily decreasing. The last census shows that it has diminished by 40.0OO since ISTO. Thus it seems that the Indians are destined to share the fate of the-liuffalo. Iieprived of their hunting tigrounds and confined to a quiet agricultural life within the narrow limits of their reservations, the Indians live a miserable life like a wild bird in a cage. The lack of proper food and hardening exorcise makes them easy victims to tu berculosis and other diseases, and whisky causes their rapid degeneration. There is hut one logical linale to the struggle be tween the whites and the Indians (he complete extermination of tlie latter. FELICE FEltUEIil . Italian Anthropologist. Wonnin's Fashionable Clothes. I believe the dress of women this year to be the ugliest the world has ever seen. How swift ly upon the heels of another doth each calamity tread! First in ugliness come the dragging, ill-conditioned skirts. Who fashioned and formed these ungodly garments'.' There they are, thousands and thousands of them, daily paraded up and down tile sidewalk, lop-sided, bedrag gled, inctlifii-ntly held up by clutching hands, stumbled over and stepped upon by scores of awkward feet. Those skirts whv was I born to see and wonder at the:...' .'cxi i" :!. abominable trailing street skirt, in ugliness at least, conies a certain cruelly common atrocity in the form of a lung cloth sack. A loose, bag gy, shapeless, bulging monstrosity which makes the woman who wears it look like an unmanageable, half-exhausted balloon. There must have been an over-production of sonic kinds of cloth last year, and the shrewd manufacturers have proba bly induced the mysterious beings who dictate the fashions to "work off" the superiluoiis material upon aa unhappy world. Would that the moths might get at these baggy horrors. All women do not wear the lop-sid-il, draggly skins, or tlie bulging sacks, hm there are dozens of thes,. tilings in sigh-. The hilts aren't so bad as they might If. but the hair is worn in sn banish all thought of hats of wearer and beholder strange fact that this h. .1 a way irom the dike. It i i 1 1 1 i i ! of as to head hair. dragged down over oat- side of the face, is always counterbalan 1 by tlie lop sided skirt. Every feminine creature seems to instinctively haul down her front hair on one side, and clutch at her dress skirt on tlie ihcr. The I'lt'.-et is nightmarish. AD.V C. SWEET. Poetry Out oF Date. There is no worthy eniotie re.it thought, no . which niav not he better expressed in pros,, than in verse to-day. Verse was tic arimitive expression of mans thought. Khytlim was the char acteristic of its first cruil.. lit. erary efforts. Homer. Haute and Siiaks peare cast the:.- thoughts and eniotioiw I m verse Decailse tile metrical form was sioti the only adequate method of invented in their dav. oxpre English prose has been developed to ine point. However, wiiere it is a more subtle instrument of wider than English verse, and poetry's excuse for being lias been destroyed liner, scope chief . Lit erary iruni is triltli to ll:itm Poetry is artificial and bears tin of insincerity in its form deadly brand ose.vi: i ti:k;i;s, Professor in Chicago Fiiiversitv office is maintained by (,ur own repub lican form of administration However. .Mr. Farmer, unliku his ,-im. temporaries in Turkey. ,sp:lill. Ar;ll) etc.. is not engaged in p,min, (jjm,v us and exuberant states,,,,.,; nn t I't,::;?', ,,:,,t 1,1 vuwiu ,,D , institution ami bovntol tl,.. .. . museum .. ie.icu or inieves cockroaches. nis;, am! Everything that is received by tw. institution, whether it is a rare 1 ool a Filipi,,o .o.orastuffl,,a,,I, m ! ed aunnal, is Seut to Mr. Fanner ,o be poisoned. He is an expert In ,,. " aration and use of preservative c , . nds. For stuffed aillllals 1 e-nd.,tl1atam.u.e.,le,,1pollli;i0S the best results. Every object of , "ii receives a coating f 8o,,-thi ' , .' prevent rust, while fabric, , ' ' ,. V -Jlk-. furs. etc.. are volZTi the same manner ns stuffo,i , Even the shelves and IfT" r,.. . wic,i theoi'ec;:; nave passed through Mr p., ., ' bands and been treated ,o a ! Urn causes a bug, moth. or K-kro. -t ? think thnr h t. i.-i. lKro.ich to , "an.lllg i iron the minute he strikes th "lrt By these means the "' freed from ver,in.Wasu;;!g1,rr:r It Is not only bad luck to km but they are terribly hy. a TOY OCEAN. Method of VnarinK Water Restate! VLT A quarter of century ago an rj gl'sh naval constructor. Dr. WUluJ I'toude. pertormeii n series of meiits with scale models design, prcdeterniini' the resistance u( t about to be bum tor me nary. . . - - maile small inotiem ot uic essvis tij 1 i constructed, giving great cure tot. . preservation ot tlie scwe; and tlu-1 models he then towed through the i tor under varying omulitions, by me,. aiiism extremely sensitive to variati lin the pull. The tension In each ca,. : was carefully recorded, and coneliiuio-. 1 drawn us to the lines uiost favoral.. ! for sliced. To verify his results a Br. I ish man or war was towea ny nnotH vessel, and the iictual pull on the tar. rope was carefully measured and oott pared with the results of exporim-.-,. made wilh a small model. The u sets of answers were so nearly alike to leave no doubt of the prncticubil; of actual experiments with reduce scale models. I At the Washington navy-yitrd a mail'. basin for experiments of this Liml bJ lieon constructed, nt a cost of one Iiu dretl thousand dollars. Within a building designed to protKf It from nil disturbing conditions of ti nt uiosphere is a 'tank of pure, fret; water, three hundred und seventy M long ami forty-three feet wide, with it uniform depth of fourteen feet. Spatl ning this narrow sheet of water Ii movable bridge, set upon steel raiisj which run parallel to. the length of th basin. Heavily built, and fastened at braced so rigidly us to avoid all uiiueotJ sary vibration, this bridge is providt-; with a powerful motor, which can tlri It along the rails, if need lie, at the rail of twenty knots an hour, The model of the proposed ship, erf from soft pine, conforming us neat' as pi-ssible to a uniform twenty-fit; iengih, und ballasted with the utiiic; care, is lirmly fastened to an arm wlilo projects from below the center of th bridge or towing carriage, as it is calle; On the carriage are placed all the del cute dynainoinetrical mechanism which record the "pull" of the molt as It glides through the water licneat the span of the bridge. This uiultiplir by the proMr ratio must establish i curately the power that will be m quired to overcome the resistance ol the I'm is lied vessel Thanks to tin almost llawloss electr. cal adjustment, the bridge moves f ward with nn even motion, without i trace of the rattle and Jounce of an elec tric car. I'.csidcs the niotormen, there are U'. persons on the carriage during an ei perimeiit. They watch the pens of uV recording cylinder of the dynumoiiiete: 1 hose pens, by means of eleetridtt register the actual distance traversed! together with the varying pull of M model as the speed changes. When nil is ready for an experiment! at the clang of a gong the bridge start' from the south toward the north end o tlie tniiK. while beneath it the twent; foot warship glides evenly through tl liltereti water. As the run nears it! j end ami the spetator wonders how M I great bridge with its precious freid: j of instruments is going to escape coll: i sum witn in,, wall ahead, two grea: ! hydraulic brakes operate automatical!?; ; and bring the mass to n gentle sto;, ' without j:ir or quiver. New I'se lor Cottonseed A few years ago cottonseed d W.15 !f use mad'! waste product, and the only ust ol ,t was to compost it ami, when ra ted, use it as a fertilizer. Its iudtistria uiiiizauoii iM-gan with the extraetio: of the nil it contains, und it lias now t.- conie tin- raw material of so many im portant industries that last snriu: whe 11 it became llcccssarv to reiilat: uisub-rablc areas of cotton loml hid. had icon Hooded bv the i-xceii! iiitlii spring freshets, it was found that th cleaning up had been so complete b! uio iiiiycr ot the cotton-oil nillls tlis: enougn seed f,- bet wcen-seasons plant-l mg was collected with ditliculty Hitherto the hull of the eottotisefJ has had no value, but this is uow to I' utilized in admixture with tlax tibeoia p-iper iiiiiiiuiactiire. a company on .iiiizci tor this purpose lias bougf- extensive paper-mill properties at agara. on the lauds of the Niagara Fall -ewer lompany. The collection an.! preparation of the cottonseed hulls W- paper stock will l, undertaken at mill conveniently located in the South. W material will be used in the mauufac turc of high-grade papers, and Is sal Jt -oeMeat strength with beautiful fl" ii. i. . ... uj vantage over other pof Mine paper-iuaking mnfjals is that is the by-product of otf.er industries. and is couseiiueiitly much cheuper tuaf one which has to .r,...., ..,i,.,ro,lE ... ... u, fctlllls.s- and prepared especially. Probably (he most useful steps in nie-t sii.iiucai progress, says the New Vorti l lines, are those along the line of util izmg (lie waste products of existing' industries. Aflectionate Geese. 1 rancis Stanler. of Penio. rinii mii -Market Drayton. ws a millionaire ami a well-known philanthropist. He 11 some favorite American and Jniwm Steese. which were kept on a pool neJt the hall. He died about a fortnight ago and, si range to relate, during the last '"urs of his iu8 those b , ". over loo. flew nronnd lll8 t " ;yuov,, heating their win? L: "Z ?e Kli,ss' "tiering a weird. oU, V- nolse- In lmost the las' moment, f the squire's life tho whole nock oS,rds disappeared, and not one - una been seen since.-Londot Nature Notes. If you WslUt to nl.. - ii..,- lrl toll i 'v.-mb a mue s duty to remind net tf--,' TTjTTl'r "er oi some brother.