Topics of
the Times
Whnt'you Pro? 'or J0" 0USut to bo
willing to pay for.
RnmoMmro it la difficult to cjlnttn-
gulsh between contentment and lazi
ncu.
Agriculture In Arizona ! now a mat
ter of dates. They nro raising them
there.
A woman usually begins her life
work when she marries a man to re
form him.
It's useless for some women to deny
that they married for money after you
ee their husbands.
No doubt Mr. Rockefeller regards
the man who "retires with a fortuno"
as a sickening degenerate.
It's the toughest kind of tough luck
to have your watch stolen when you
arp on your way to pawn It
Every time a revolver Is sold over
a counter thero Is the possibility of an
Increase In the bandit population.
With Carrie Nation as an actress In
"Ten Nights In a Barroom." the bar
room Is likely to suffer from nervous
breakdown.
Manifest Destiny may have freed
Panama, but the American residents
of the Isthmus are sure to be accused
of having put her up to it
"There Is plenty of money In the
market." Yes, of course, but It Is
harder to find than an active baby
flea on a trick dog turning somersaults.
An Englishman criticizes the Ameri
can girl's nose, but admits that she
has beautiful eyes. Once more the
eyes have It, being In the majority.
The Vanderbllts and a few western
families are forming a new smart set
In New York. Western families who
wish to get In will have to apply early,
though.
While she docs not say so In that
many words. Miss Ida Tarbell prac
tically Admits that she does not ex
pect to be remembered In Mr. Rocke
feller's will.
An aeronaut promises to tako a
party to the St. Louis Fair at a speed
of 180 miles an hour. Applicants for
seats are advised to come early and
avoid the rush.
It Is reported that the people of Eng
land now regard J. Plerpont Morgan
as an ordinary mortal, In spite of the
fart that he has eaten In the presence
of King Edward. Such are the sor
rows of adversity. I
- The servant girl who. committed sui
cide because she was a few minutes
late in securing a position must have
been Insane to begin with. These are
the days for mistresses to commit sui
cide, not servant girls.
Paralysis of the throat and tongue
is the latest phase of cigarette-smoking
carried to excess. Death ensues
When the paralyzed tissue begins to
mortify. The trouble with the cigar
ette is that few are able to resist Its
tendency to excess.
A now disease has been coined In
England called "brain fag." The re
cipe for getting It Is this: Worry a
llttlo, hurry a little, get Irritated easily
and often, think all the time about
your body and how it Is working, take
anxious thought for the morrow and
despise your neighbor. Within sixty
days a "specialist" will be pasturing
on your bank account
For moral, ethical and legal consider
ations one should resist the temptation
to traffic in public offices. If be be
a dispenser of patronage it Is bis re
ligious duty to make recommendations
with due consideration for the public
service as well as with the object in
view of rewarding a faithful partisan.
To exact pay for such appointments
Is a crime against the government
though there are those who seem to
think that governments among men
are maintained for boodllng purposes
only.
Canadian discussion of the award
of the Alaskan boundary tribunal has
dealt with the strategic Islands owned
by the United States on the Canadian
frontier. These are Isle Royal, in Lake
Superior, opposite Fort Arthur, and
Ban Juan, opposite the city of Victoria,
which commands the Canadian outlet
to the Pacific The tribunal has con
firmed the ownership of the United
States in two Islands at the mouth of
the Portland Channel, near enough to
the proposed railway terminus at Port
Simpson to oversee everything that
goes on there. It Is not likely that
for years to come, If ever, there will
be occasion to test the strategic value
of any of these Islands, as the United
States intends to live In peace and
amity with Its northern neighbor.
Every one knows that It Is necessary
to use diplomacy In dealing with a sub
ject of the toothache, but It has re
mained for an American dentist to
make the toothache the subject of In
ternational diplomatic negotiations. He
cured the pain In the teeth of a brother
of the Shah of Persia by pulling them.
Ills patient was so well pleased that
be appointed Uie American as bis den
tist In ordinary, with a fixed salary. It
is reported that the salary has not been
paid for eight years, and that the
dentist has asked the United States
consul general at Teheran to suggest
that the contract be kept Although It
might be poetically Just for the "dogs
of war" to show their teeth, It Is not
likely that there will be such a display,
ren If the salary should be unpaid for
several years longer.
Certain of Chicago's citizens bars
recently written a page In criminal
annals exceptional In the ferocity and
boldness of their deed But the out
burst Is exceptional, and Its sequel has
strengthened tho hand of law every
where. The dally press has told tho
story of tho brief but murderous career
of four young bandits, whose record of
slain has been seven In six months;
and the type of youth these despera
does are Is generally appreciated. It
Is a typo that breeds under laxity of
law, amid corresponding temptations
to wrong-doing, and Is nurtured on tho
fiction of a sensational literature. An
over-grown city, where criminal dis
cipline Is defective, where rights are
not Jealously guarded, and where de
linquencies In official life are endured
becauso correction Is a trouble, Is a
favorablo hot-bed for the culture of th
ultra-vlclous type of lawbreaker. Theso
boys, of course, are not sul generis,
nor arc their deeds uncommon; but the
desperate nature of their last stand
against law Is extraordinary, at least,
when such resistance Is made within
sight of the glow of tho lights of a
metropolis of 2,000,000 people. Rut as
their stand was desperate so was the
force of the law that moved against
them resolute and overwhelming. Law
moved at once law In execution Is
not like Justice passionless. It had
the deaths of houest men to avenge,
and one of them had worn tho blue
coat of a policeman. So law, aided
by volunteers of kindred mind. In tho
face of great danger, grappled with
tho beast at bay. It may all seem
a semi-savage episode perhaps It Is
such. It certainly has no urban ameni
ties about It. But the climax Is satis
factory. Let any boy who Is shaping
a career after dlmo novel lines pause
and reflect. lie may thrill over the
perilous defense of the dug-out In the
Indiana sand dunes, but he will hesi
tate over the causeless murder of the
brakeman, and his blood will chill at
four figures on a scaffold.
The conviction seems to be general,
and Justified, that this Is soon to be
come a world of machinery. Indeed, It
has become such, to a marvelous ex
tent already, as regards all essential
affairs, from the manipulation of poli
tics down to the sewing on of buttons.
If the progress of Invention In the last
100 years be any Indication, no strained
Imagination Is required to sea that fly
ing machines will some day be as com
mon as cabs are now; that books and
newspapers will be superseded by ma
chines of the telephonic and phono
graphic species, and that the human
anatomy, by disuse of the physical and
development of the mental, will evolve
into a mere brain-box. It Is to be sup
posed that It will be a world In which
everything will be so perfectly ordered
that It will run like a well-oiled ma
chine. There will, of course, be no
poverty and no crime, and everybody
will be supremely comfortable and
unspeakably bored. Strang Isn't It
bow we madly strive for mechanical
Inventions to secure us further ease.
and then, for our happiness, revel In
the memories of our early days, when
these things were unknown and life
was sweetened and given meaning by
hardships and privations. What
prince of wealth, with all the, new
fangled machine comforts that money
can command, does not look back to
his- boyhood days on the farm, with the
same worm corner by the kitchen stove
In the fall, as the only time of genu
ine, soul-satlsfylng comfort In all his
successful life? For romance that ap
peals to the heart do we n6t turn to
the rich old days of stage coaches and
tallow candles, of the spinning wheel
and the hoe and the sickle? There is
little doubt that the man who can
Imagine the machlne-mado world of
the future would rather die than live
In It A world where everything Is
combined and used for some coldly
practical end, where the stimulus of
want and ambition does not exist;
where pleasure, not being productive,
Is of course unknown, and where sci
ence has totally eclipsed romance
would not such a world be very soon
peopled exclusively by lunatics?
The advertising story of State street,
Chicago, can not be told In a few
words. From Randolph street on the
north to Harrison street on the south,
comprising seven blocks on State
street, the principal dry goods, cloth
ing, shoe. Jewelry and department
stores are now located. Less than
thirty years ago the largest space used
by any merchant In Chicago, In any
of our dally papers, was one-half of a
single column; and the largest amount
paid by any merchant or firm to any
one paper for a year's advertising did
not exceed $1,600. During the past
year a number of State street mer
chants have each paid rrom $50,000 to
$100,000 for advertising used In single
dallies, and a careful, conservative
estimate of the aggregate amount paid
for advertising In Chicago dallies dur
ing tho past year, by merchants in the
seven blocks named, reaches the grand
total of over $2,000,000. Full ninety
Ave per cent of this amount was borno
by fourteen leading advertisers. This
Immense volume of advertising In Chi
cago dallies has been built up practi
cally since 1883, a period of but twenty
years. Mahln's Magazine.
Wby It Passed By.
"Did Opportunity never knock at
your door, my good man?" asked the
kindly lady,
"I dunno, ma'am," replied Beery
Bill; "mebbe so but I never pay no
attention to knockers." Cincinnati
Times-Star.
rotating Oat the Difference.
Son of Successful Editor Papa.
what Is a Journalist?
The Father A journalist ray son,
is a newspaper man out of a Job.
Washington Post
Trsfflo of the Sues Const.
The civilian passengers through the
Suez canal last year numbered 02,000,
and the pilgrims, emigrants and con
victs 40,000.
Pokef Is not a game of chance
or at least, the novlco has no chance.
ML
1 lmuKwwvjnsk-Bl's&
Oninions of
4,
Tho Utilizing cf Education.
F It bo admitted, as Indeed It must, that edu
cation like everything else should have an end,
It should be admitted also that that end must
be a useful one, In some real and practical
sense. It Is true that the tendency of much of
education Is to take the student ott Into a
land of dreams aud to detach him from the
scenes of active life. Hut that need not be so. or If so,
need only be so for a while. It Is not lost time If young
minds are allowed to tarry for a period under the Influ
ence of the Ideal, and of the aesthetic family. Idealism Is
at tho foundation of all true practicality. Every grand
doer has been at first a great dreamer.
But Just as surely as tho Ideal Is preparatory for high
er living, and study the foundation of success, so surely
must the type of cloistral life which characterizes the col
lege give place sooner or later to the serious workaday spirit
which enters the orena of social, commercial, or perhaps
political life to accept the tasks and fulfill the duties of
patriotic citizenship. The use of education Is not meant
to be a purely seltlsh use. Culture should not terminate In
the personal experience of the educated man.
It remains for the young graduates to put that creed
Into practice. Knowledge Is power, and knowledge Is n
sacred trust. It is perfectly true that this Idea Is bclug
abused in some of the Industrial excesses of the day where
men are taught to become nothing but expert machines,
capable of turning out so much work, or of earning In
creased dllvdcnds for somebody else, at tlie expense of the
training of tho mind and the development of the religious
nature. But such over-cmphasls upon tho Industrial Idea
In education does not militate against a proper amount of
militarism, and while not all knowledge can be practical.
In the sense of money-making or comfort-bringing, all cul
ture of the mind should have a distinct relation to the
bettering of human life and the elevation of the masses
of mankind. New York Observer.
The Trolley-House.
OW that parlor cars and sleeping cars on trol
ley lines are established we may be privileged
to speculate a bit as to what will como next
as an nnnex of the broomstick train. Suppose
we hazard the guess that It will be tho trolley
house first cousin to the bouse boat. By the build
Ingof spursand sidetracks In delightful spots at
country or seashore at a fair and far distance from the
main Hues resting places for these movable dwellings could
be comfortably managed. At one of them a trolley house
might remain for as long a time as contentment was the
staying power, and when this burned out the trolley pole
might be put In contact with the wire and tho trolley
house trundled away to pastures new. Of course this Is
merely the roughest outline of a possible development
of the electric car, but It Is the pleasantest part upon which
the lay mind can dwell. Details of It, like the securing of
suitable drinking water and the training of every tenant
of one of these dwellings to be his own motorman may
as well be left to the consideration of those whose business
It would be to perfect them. Boston Transcript
American Girls and Foreign
HERE ponld be no ereater
" I assertion that ihe marriages
1 I with foreigners of rank are
I rnj.tiil ITn tn ntmrtT
there were at least three such International
marriages In France for one In England. Doz
ens of American girls have married French
nobles of the ancient regime, to say nothing of those who
obtained their titles from Napoleon, like Prince Murat.
Among these may be mentioned the Due de la Rochefou
cauld, the Due de DIno, and the Due de Dccazes. Many
an Italian noble, from Prince Colonna down, has married
an American young woman. There are examples of such
marriages In the Spanish peerage also; the Duchesse
d'Arcos Is an American. Many American girls have mar
ried German nobles, and one of them. Miss Lee, of New
ERRORS ABOUT MAD DOGS.
Popular Hellefe Concerning Them
that Are Deeply Rooted,
There are some popular beliefs not
quite classable as superstitions which
seem too deeply rooted for universal
education to destroy. Several of these
concern mad dogs. The Idea that a
healthy dog which bites a person must
be killed because If It should at some
future time go mad the person bitten
would have hydrophobia Is reluctantly
given up, even by some persons of ed
ucation. Even more strange Is the be
lief In "madstones" about which much
has been printed of late. There are
many "madstones" in this country and
the believers In their efficacy always
know where the nearest one Is kept
In a sense these porous stones are pub
lic Institutions. Some of them have
curious histories.
One was the property of an Ohio
negro named Depp, and on his death
was placed In the State library at Co
lumbus, from which, according to re
ports. It was recently taken and ap
plied to the wound of a woman bitten
by a supposedly rabid dog. The same
report stated that the dog was not
mad after ail, but that the woman re
ceived blood poison from the stone
and died. That stone's career of heal
ing should be ended by now.
A Virginia newspaper recalls that
another "madstone" was kept at the
State penitentiary for many years and
was free for the use of any person
who wanted It applied to a bite or
other wound. Later a "madstone"
which may perhaps have been the
same specimen was sold at auction In
the country for f39.
Perhaps the stone having the most
remarkable history Is In St Louis, and
one of Its "cures" has recently been
exploited In the newspapers. It was
brought to this country In 188T by a
Russian physician who settled In Ne
vada. He said that the stone bad been
used In Russia for 150 years, In proof
of which fact be submitted documents
written on parchment In Russian,
which the people In Nevada bad to
take on faith, as they could not read
the language. He offered the stone
for salo at $l,t00, and a farmer who
had seen a similar stone elsewhere
and had faith In It agitated the forma
tion of a stock company to buy tho
stone. About a thousand stockholders
paid $1 each and the remaining sum
necessary was contributed by tho pres
ent owner. Tho stone was used on all
the animals and most persons that
were bitten by dogs. In at least one
case, the owner says, the dog was not
shot on the spot, but kept until It died
of unmistakable rabies. So celebrated
are the virtues of this stone that the
neighbors aro willing to believe that
Great Paners on Important Subjects. f
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I farmers
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mrvrarai states,
acifc-lliK'lc of
south of
Husband's.
mistake than the
of American glrlp
mainly confined to
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deafening noises,
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THE LATEST TRICK CYCLING FEAT.
To a German, Paul Munder, belongs tho dubious honor or being the
latest claimant to fame ns a daredevil blcyclo rider. Until recently Munder
was an amateur bicyclist, but his bold spirit refused to bo confined by tho
feats performed by his brethren, and ho has blossomed out as a circus per
former with an act that takes one's breath nway. Dashing down a steep
Incline from a height of fifty feet, ho and his bicycle leap through the air
for a distance of nearly forty feet, landing on a mattress. At present Mr.
Munder Is trying to amuso tho pcopio of Berlin with this exhibition of
foolhardlness, and It Is said that ho will soon put himself on exhibition
before American audiences.
an offer of 3,000 for It has been re
fused. New York Evening Post
CURIOUS SENSE8 OF REPTILE8.
Their BnrprUlnir Power to Divine the
Presence of Far Dletant Water,
Prof. Werner, of Vienna, a natural
ist of note, has reported tho results of
observations be has been making for
some time on the senses of Inferior ver
tebrates, and be bns reached some cu
rious and surprising conclusions.
The professor took all posslblo pre
cautions not to let the creatures know
that they were watched. One general
fact Is very evident, that reptiles and
amphibians are strongly attracted by
water. They go straight toward it,
oven when they are at distances so
great that they could not divine Its
presence by any of the senses known
to us. It seems really that a sense of
which we havo no knowledge Informs
them of the direction In which water
may be found. Tbero seems to bo a
sort of chemical attraction, says M.
Werner. But how does this act, and
on what part of the creature? This re.
mains a mystery. Reptiles also seek
the light, but Independently of heat.
They often leave comfortable and
warm retreats to seek the sunlight.
Sight Is generally good with them. It
Is probably the finest sense that they
possess, but it would still appear to be
very limited. The caymans and the
York, at present tho wife of Count von WaUlcrsee, had
for her first husband a reigning prince, tho Duke of Au
gustenburg, who wan eligible for Intermarriage with any
Imperial fntnlly In Europe. Then have been fewer ex
amples of such marriages In Austru-llmigary. At this
moment we recull but two, that of Miss Carroll, who mar
ried 'Count Interims-, and who now lives In Washington,
and that of Miss "Mabel Wright, who first became Mrs.
YstiHgn, slstcr-ln-law of tho Dowager Duchess of Man
chester, and subsequently married a member of tho high
est Hungarian nrlstocracy. Whether tho rule about six
teen quarterlies, which Is so rigorously observed In tho
court circle at Vienna, has been relaxed In her favor wo
know not. The truth Is that the number of American
women who have married European nobles would be
found, upon n complete enumeration, to have exceeded con
siderably n hundred. We add that whllo there have been
flagrant exceptions, theso International marriages seem,
as a rule, to have brought, the average amount of happi
ness. Harper's Weekly.
Homesteaders Driven to Canada.
mli-nitlnn nf f hnitRnniln nf Amnrlnn
to the regions of Western Canada has
not uccn tnrougn any lack or opportunity, in
the .regions of Minnesota nud neighboring
created by natural causes, wnatcver
opportunity or room exists, anywhere
the boundary line, Is tho result of con
tlous wsolly artificial lu their origin- Chief among these Is
the tying up of largo bodies of the best hunts lu tho hands
of speculators who are holding them for a rise. Tako a
trip on almost any railroad leudlng out of St. Paul, and
all along Its lino will be found that the unimproved land
exceeds In acreage tho amount reduced to cultivation. In
great numbers of instances thero lias been no thought of
Improving It by Its present owners. They have bought It
ou speculation, and when they sell, It Is an even chance
that the transfer will bo to some other speculator. Drive
the speculator out of tho field, and tho vacant stretches
between villages will soon be occupied by farms. At pres.
ent, even In tho wonderfully fertile and productive region
of the Red River of tho North, a vast acreage is unoccu
pied held on speculation. St Paul Pioneer Press.
Causes of Failures.
NALYZINO the causes of failure In tho United
States lu 1002, American Industries finds that
of tho 0,071 failures 20 per cent were due to
incompetence. 30 per cent to lack of capital, IT
per cent to special clrcumstnnces beyond tho
business man's control, 10 per cent to fraud
and T per cent to Inexperience. Ijick of cap
ital. It appears, Is the most daugerous factor in tho busi
ness life, as It Is the greatest obstacle to getting Into busi
ness. Incompetence, together with Inexperience, which
amounts to Incompetence, accounts for a very largo per
centage of failures. If to lucompctcnco and Inexperience
wo add "unwise credits," we find that SO per cent of fail
ures are explained. It amounts to this. In brief, that nearly
a third of those who fall In business are. not well qualified
for It; another third try to do too large a business, and the
rest fall byirenson of fraud, competition, extravagance, neg
lect, failures of others, speculation and causes beyond the
wisest man's control. Baltimore Sun.
Noise!
HE modern world, having plunged Into n civ
ilization which, with Its factories and rail
roads, seems to promise a continual crescendo
of noise, has at last discovered a fact which
the mediaeval world was fortunately unable
to discover. Tills fact Is that piercing and
prolonged through the twenty-four hours,
are not only offensive to the ear, but Injurious to tht
health. It becomes necessary, therefore, for the modern
world to combat loud noise Just as It combats heavy smokt
and noisome odors.Chlcago Tribune,
crocodiles cannot distinguish a man at
a dlstanco of more than six times their
length, acordlng to Werner. In tho
water fishes ece only at very close
range about half their own length.
This will seem perhaps unlikely to
anglers, although some of them, can
clto instances showing that fish cannot
see far. Snakes seem to have a very
mediocre sense of sight. The boa, for
example, docs not see at more 'than a
quarter or a third of Its own length.
Different species aro limited to one-fifth
or one-olghth of their length. Frogs are
better off. They see at fifteen or twenty
times their length. Frog-catchers know
this from experience. Hearing Is much
poorer than sight, If possible. Most rep.
tiles are noticeably deaf, except cay.
mans nnd crocodiles. The boa appears
to bo absolutely co.
Clinnito f Name, Maybe.
Arthur What aro you going to do
when you get to heaven, you out-and-out
Baptists? How aro you going to
fellowship with tho Methodists and
tho Congrogatlonallsttt?
Undo Rufus In heaven, Arthur,
there will bo nobody but Baptists.
Arthur And they will continue to
call It hc.ivon? Boston Transcript
Probably no ono is Jumped on so
quickly or so hard as tho minister wlio
happens to stray from tho straight and
narrow path.
Science
vention
A "dying ground" of elephants, a re
sort where theso animals go to die, was
un Interesting discovery by Major
PowcllCottou lu eastern ICquatorliil
Africa.
A sand worm of tho northern and
western coasts of Franco sooms to
have a sense of time. It Is known ns
"convoluta," and M. Helm states that
It makes green spots on tho sand nt
low tldo and disappears as tho tide
rises, aud continued tlils course dur
ing fourteeu days lu on aquarium.
Flowers out of tho natural season
nro usually obtained by keeping tho
young plants In cold, dry houses, nnd
forcing them later by beat and mois
ture. It Is possible to gtvu young buds
prematura development by exposing
them to other, and A. Maumana clnlms
that such development Is not only more
rapid but more regular nnd complete.
A curious Investigation by Alfred
Bluet of tho laboratory of tho Bor
bonno has revealed differences In tho
handwriting of the sexes, Numerous
characteristics are traced such as
carelessness In the writing of women
and firmness and simplicity In that of
men and an export graphologist has
been ablo to glvo tho sex of tho writ
ers of 141 addresses out of 180. The
writing of old meu rescuiblos that of
women.
Tho latest addition to American or
nainentnl stqnes reported by Dr.
George F. lCunz has received tho nama
of Cnllfornlte. It was first found
about ninety miles from Yreka, Cal
where It outcrops for two hundred feet
ns a hard green stono of varying
shades, and taking a high polish. Tho
material, at first supposed to bo Jade,
proved on unalysls to bo a masslvo va
riety of vesuvtanlte. Flno slabs fivo
feet square and two feet thick have
been found, and the supply seems to
bo large. Similar massive vesuvlanlto
exists elsewhere In California and In
Europe.
Tho Department of Agriculture Is In
formed that tho cllmnto of Porto Rico
is favorablo for tho cultivation of
what has sometimes been called tho
finest of tropical fruits, tho mango.
But although mangoes abound In tho
island, they are seedling trees, and the
fruit Is Inferior to that of tho famous
Bombay mango, which is a grafted
tree. It Is believed that fine mangoes
could bo grown In abundanco In Porto
Rico by Importing tho best grafts, and
that tho Industry can bo dovelopod
Into an Important one as soon as tho
excellence of tho fruit becomes known
In the United States.
Tho Japaneso bava attracted so
much attention and admiration by their
remarkable progress In tho Ideas and
practice of western civilization, as welt
as by their native genius In art, that
tho results of an Investigation of the
brain weight of the Japaneso people
as compared with Europeans must In
terest everybody. For ten years Prof.
Tnguchl of Tokyo University has been
studying tho brains of his fellow coun
trymen. Ho shows that with adults
tho brain weight compares favorably
with that of Europeans of similar
stature, and may even bo slightly su
perior. Thero Is ono striking differ
ence, however, In the fact that the
Japaneso brain grows more slowly dur
ing Infancy and early youth than Is
tho caso with Europeans. In Japan,
as everywhere else, there Is found a
posltlvo relation between brain weight
and stature, that Is, tho larger brains,
generally speaking, go with tho larger
bodies.
FA8T BECOMING EXTINCT.
Ilald Kaajlee Hln Sacrificed to the
Mllllnereof the Country.
"Our white-beaded or bald eagle Is
becoming rarer every year, for our na
tional bird Is being sacrificed to milli
ner. Before long that may be Its only
habitat," said an attendant at the zoo
to a Washington Star man,
"When on some wild coait we see
one of these birds rise from a cliff and
begin to circle upward, then his mate,
larger even than himself, and finally
two full-sized brown-headed birds of
the year follow their parents, tho sight
Is worth waiting many years or going
n long distance to see. We follow them
with our eyes until they become tiny
motes, then Just the trace of one comes
to our straining sight, and they van
ish and are lost from view.
"In Washington, however, wo may
too tho 'courtship gallop of the bald
eagle, watch Its nest-bulidlng nnd ob
serve tho domestic economy of this bird
tho male on guard and the female
brooding her white eggs. The first yenr
In which the eagles nested In the zoo
logical park the female showed great
Inexperience tn her housekeeping. In
the large flying cage where they spend
the winter In company with crows and
magpies they collected a quantity of
sticks and grass around a small hollow
In the ground, and after lining tho
cavity with moss tbo nest was consid
ered finished.
"Both birds took part In Its construc
tion, and, from the continual chuckling
aud screaming, are presumed to have
thoroughly enjoyed their work. Eagles
often nert In trees, and these birds
placed tbo nesting material round the
roots of several saplings, tho stems of
which, protruding through the sticks
nnd moss, looked not uullko the top
branches of a tall tree. Naturally the
noxt thing to bo thought of was eggs,
but this pair of birds had original ideas
and Intended, for a time, at least, mere
ly to play at housekeeping. A gocd
slzed stone was brought In the talons
of the female from another part of tho
cago nnd placed In the nest and the
work of hatching began. Tho male and
femalo sat on the nest on nltcroato
days and tho bird not so engaged was
nlwayB perched on n log near by ou
guard. Tho following year two eggs
wero laid, blulsh-whlto In color and
about thrco Inches In length.
"The temperament of these btids un
dergoes a complete chango at the tlmo
of the nesting season. At other times
they aro easily caught In a net and aro
not dlfflcule to overpower, seizing every
opportunity of making their escape.
But when they begin to plan for their
nest ono cannot approach within twen-
I ty feet without being nttneked by on
or both eagles. When tl'V,1' f
ward, ono on each side, nnd strike with
'beak and uplifted feet, It Is no easy
matter to esenpo uninir, . - .
when trying to photograph them, thi'ir
talons reaching the skin every II" e,
Hothimr or shoes affording 1IUU or
protection."
HIS DEBET riNQ BIN.
How ItpU Was Cleared o the Cliaras
of Dentins'.
Ephralm was a man of Importance,
being an elder In tho Baptist church
and much given to exhortation, pray
er and song, says I.fpplncott's Maga
zlno. Ills ealiln was tho sceno or
many a "revival," and t"o powerful
prayers offered by Uphralm on these
occasions went the wonder and ad
miration of tho colored population.
With all his religious ardor, how
over, thoro wero times when tho pleas
ures of tho world appealed strongly
to him. Seeing him approach one
morning with downcast eyes and an
air of general dejection, Colonel Snead
accosted him thus:
"Hello, liphl You look as If you
were going to your own funeral.
What's tint matter?"
"Well, kuiiniO, I feels bad, sub,
milled Hph; "de 'caslon am a serN-na
one, suh. You know do young folks
douo liab a party nt Nick Finney's ds
udder night, an' as l's lieen n'wrastlln
In pray'r fcr do salvation ob Nick's
soul for n pow'ful long time. I don
thought I'd 'ccpt der Invertatlon an'
go, an' maybo I mout drap a word of
two dat would tech his heart. But
dey was mighty leotlo chaiico ter talk
tcr Nick 'bout 'llglon, fer dat nlggrr
will danco wheneber ho hcali a fiddle.
Well, atiti, I went, an' now dey claims
ns how I was ii-dancln'. an" l's ter bu
tried ter-day an' put outen de chu'eh,"
"Well, Kph. that's pretty hard luck,
but they ought to know that an elder
of your standing would not Indulge In
anything so worldly as dancing," tv
piled tho colonel with a twinkle In his
eye, well knowing that Kpli'a tieset
ting sin was not tripping the light fait'
tastlc.
"1 hopes so, kttnnrl, I hopes so," re
joined Hph In a tone of titter despair
as he trudged on toward tho town.
Ijito tho same afternoon Colonel
Knead heard n voice singing lustily
"I'so gwtno ter Jluo do band." and
recognizing Kph. h asked:
"How did tho trial go. Hph?"
"Dey cl'ar'd tnff, kunnel, bress do
Lawdl dey cl'ar'd ma"
"Cleared you, did they? that's good.
Then you proved you'd not been
dancing?" said the colonel.
"No, nth, kunnel. dey proved It on
mo all right, but dey 'lowed I was
drunk an' dldn' know what I was do
In', so rey cl'ar'd me, kunnel- -bress
de Lawdl"
COAL MINING IN BRITAIN,
Great Diniriiltlee Itnrnnntered In
Milking Home RhafU.
With Increased and Increasing de
mand for coal camo the necessity for
opening out lower seams, and deeper
shafts meant a heavier capital o'iiill
Hire In colliery enterprise, says llifl
Engineering Magazine. It Is worthy
of remark how little the outside public
reallzo of tho great difficulties that
often have to bo overcome In sinking -such
as passing through water-bearing
strata or running sands or of the
enormous cost entailed by some col
liery developments.
As early as the year 1820 John Bud
die, In giving evidence before the
Houio of Ijrils, declared that the cunt
of sinking, even then, was frequently
10,000 to X13.OU0; nnd J. T. Taylor
stated before a select committee on
rating of mines In lfV'T that at Has-
well collier)' In tho county of Durham,
10.000 was expended In contending
with a quicksand, and that the shaft
had ultimately to bo abandoned, At
Murton collleery, a few miles distant
from Haswell, 1300,000 was expended
In sinking, tho quantity of wabir
pumped during tho operation nf pass''
lug through the overlying magiieslan
limestone, bed amounted to an average
of 0,30(1 gallons per minute from a
depth of 040 feet; and tho three shafts
ultimately reached the 1 1 niton seam,
nt a depth of 1.48H feet from the sur
face. In April, 18 13. Many deep and
costly sinkings several much deeper
than In tho last Instance have been
put down since tho Murton Winning,
but none, I believe, at a greater ex
penditure of capital, owing doubtless
to tho greatly Improved methods now
employed In carrying out such opera
tions through watery strata notably
tho Klnd-Ohaiidron system whereby
tho shaft Is bored out and the s1Ih
protected by metal cylinders lowered
from the surface; and tho Poctsch or
Gohert methods, whereby tho water Is
frozen lu tho "running" sand, or other
water-bearing strata, and thu shaft
sunk through tho solid mass.
German Antl-Tlpplim League.
A movement has Just been started
In Berlin to abate. If possible, the prac
tice of tipping In cafes anil restaur
ants. An antl-tlpplng lenguo has been
founded In Berlin, with branches In
tho principal cities of Germany, Tho
members of tho lenguo sign n plrdgo
to frequent only thoso restaurants and
enfes In which tipping Is strictly pro
hibited. Tho proprietors of tho es
tablishments which nhollsh tho tipping
will bo supplied gratis with u big sign
bearing tho letters "O. T." (Ohno trlnk
gerd) meaning "no tips," pilntcd In
largo type, Tho waiters themselves
profess to be In favor of the Innova
tion as long as their employers pay
them a wage sufficiently largo to en
ablo them to dispense with tips. It
would bo a great relief to tho travel.
Ing public, and particularly to Ameri
can tourists, who nt homo iro not ac
customed to be taxed nt every turn, !(
uio lenguu biiuuiu uecumo n success,
Hut Ho Has a Full-Dress Hull
Ethel That young man that goes
around with Myrtlo Is qulto Impress.
.Ive-looklng.
Maude Yes, he works for a bank,
Ethel What Is ho paying teller or
cashier?
Maudo Well, I think ho only does
tho sweeping and tho errands now.
Somervlllo Journal,
A political demonstration by your
party Is synonymous with u street riot
when pulled off under tho uuspiccs of
tho othor party,
Jeffl
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