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About The Eugene weekly guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1899-1904 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1900)
tUROPE COMES TO THIS COUN TRY FOR FUEL. The Inadequate Sapplj Abroad Pro motes Our Foreign Trede-Lleet Coal for Fighting Ship. Now Comes from tbe United Htst*«. Mine operators from the United States and their agents are all over the European Continent iu the Interest of American coal aud almost every day vessels loaded with tbe product of American mines are clearing tor Euro pean ports, where they are to lay daw u bituminous coal at English prices. Great Britain, with an estimated coal supply for only 200 years, bus been ex porting 55,UCU,uw tous annually. Tbe British public has been looking upon this with disfavor. Au export tax upon the product ia anticipated, and in the «vent of it the Mediterranean ports must draw upon tbe Vnited States fur their fuel. Already tlie United States has been supplying the best coal fur use in naval vessels. In Europe coal deposits cover 27,000 square miles In Russia, V.OtXj in Great Britain. 3,000 in Germany, 1,800 in France, aud in all the rest of Europe are only 1,400 square miles. In Great Britain. Fram e, and Germany especial ly these fields have been drawn upon for hundrds of years. Every square nille of resource has beeu sounded. Some of the English veins are worked to a depth of 3.887 feet. I burg district, closely centering about the metropolis of the western portion of the State. Some coal from the eastern portion of thia district reaches tide- w ater by rail over tbe Pennsylvania, but the hopes of those who expect an export business In Ptttsourg coal are based upon Lh« faci that during certahi portions of tbe year cheap transporta tion to the port of New Orleans may be liy way of tbe Ohio and Mississippi Rivera, In Maryland the famous Cumber land coal Is produced, but thia Is de cidedly soft, breaking luto small pieces rather thau crumbling, yet not In favor with foreign consumers notwithstand ing its richness in fuel proi>erties. The foreign trade demands a lumpy coal, aud for that reason the Cumberland can be left out of calculations concerning export trade. In West Vlrgfula three Important rail road Hues baudle the products of tbe Elk Garden and Fairmont region*—In which Senators Davis aud Elkins are widely interested tbe New River and Kanaw ha districts, ami tlie Pocahontas regions. Of these sections the New River, the Fairmont, and the Elk Gar den mines promise to contribute the greater share of the State's coal for ex port. The l'ocaliontas coal, however. will be In limited but strong demand for naval steaming. In Alabama the coal fields lie In the northern part of tbe State, near Birmingham, and the way of outlet will be through Mobile or Pensacola. With these coals from these States, and paying even $5 a ton for ocean freights, the American shipper may have a margin of $1.56 profit at Gib- Insurance. $875: interest on cost |*W>; I depreciation. $<725. crew, $580: pro visions. $168: port charges. $184; pilot age. $33u. fuel. $2.025, allowing full sell- tng price for company's coal used for HUMOROUS SAYINGS ANO DO* steam. This, with »100 for incidentals INGS HERE ANO THERE. gives a total of $5.637. making 80.4 cents a ton the actual transportation cost on the coal. Vessel owners like to Jokes sod Joketets that Ar«9uppoaed So Have Beea Receully Horn-baxiuga secure auu count upon a return cargo, aud Uoinga that Are old, Cwrious aud and coal men owning such a vessel Laughable The W eek’a Humor, would get more or less freight destined for the Vnited States. But suppose that practically nothing could be se Ned ne looks miserable, doesn't be? cured and that the freight charge would Bess—Yew; what's the matter with be $1.50. it will lie seeu that American him? coal can be laid dow n Iu Cardiff, in the Ned- Disappointed in love. seat and center of the greatest coal In Bess—Why, he married the g'.rl ho dustry in the world, at $4 a ton. $3 tie- wanted. low the selling price of the Welsh coaL Ned—I know. That's just It—Phila Lead. in Production. delphia Press. As an Index to what the Vnited States Forced to t-.spres. Herself. may fall into in case the British coal Mr. Teletiiachus Smith Della, I trade may be encroached ou to any great extent by Atnericau trade, the didn't know your parrot could swear. Mrs. Teletiiachus Smith -Poor Polly. following tables are reproduced from the British official reports ending Dee. I didn't thiuk she knew it, either, until 31, 189.«. They show the long tous of you fed her that Ice creaiu. Puck. 2.240 pounds and show comparisons with the years 1898 aud 1897. The tig tires are as nearly accurate as such fig urea can be. | R usr !« .......... 14? t2J’l.\»N25 X196.U67 3,397.791 3.460.974 1.S79.1S2 5.«M2.7M1 947.235 5,627.292 3.61X445 4.493.5M ♦ . 5.0f»9.6tW 1.277,79'; 6.MÍ3.6ÍSI 6*3.002 Spain and (’a naries ........... X 237,30« Italy ................... 4.M4JC4 Turkey .............. 5.M.353 Ezypt ................ 1.960,723 741,623 T35.36B 1.7W.K66 4.663.160 5KI.6K3 1,907 ’4X3 2.21*2,393 5.51.V 432 Sw t den and Norway .... Denmark .... Germany .... H lllrtlld ........... France .............. Port UK a!, the A ac res aud 4.711.370 981,134 5.710,113 - AMERICA IS SUPPLYING EUROPE WITH COAE 3 9 099999^9 V 8 I 0 « s «• X * •• O * <ta <9 99 9 9 9 9 A £ 9 41 4 4 4 4 4 4 » ♦ « : I <• 4 9 4 * 9 9 with 4,000 the estimated maximum pos sible. Russia, of all these countries, may develop unexpected deposits. British India shows only 35.000 square miles of coal beds, and the total of all these la only 77.so<> for Europe and India. As against this are tlie Vnited States deposits of l'.M.OOO square miles, with thousands of possible miles unex plored and undeveloped. To tins Alas ka is promising inexhaustible deposits of anthracite, which at least must re place the English coal that is now sup plying the l’acltic slope of the I uiteil States. Aside from the Vnited States in this coming world supply of fuel, only China aud Japan can lie looked to. These countries have deposits about ns large ss those of the Vnited States, but are larking iu means of development. Their poslt'yns upon tlie map. too are not fa vorable to the European trade. World's 4 ield of Coat. As to bow tbe base beeu drawn 1898 are accurate •un. They »bow pounds: mines of tbe world upon, tbe figures for euougli for rompa ri iu luug ions of 2,240 Tou«. ....... 20L’,<'42.000 Great Britain......... United States ......... . ............. ........ l'.Mi.M’.MW ....... 91.U.M.U00 Germany................ ..........3Ü.337.0UU France..................... - Belgium.................. î». 229.1 ;0O Rusaia......................... .............. ....... ....... 5.UNO.OUO Japan ..................... . • • . • .. •. India....................... . • • .... « ....... 4.<MM',000 ....... 3,7«”iO.OOO New South Wales . . ....... 3 . ■ Canada ................... ] • Spain ............................ ............. ....... it will b« seen from this that Great ¡Britain, with only 9JM«o square miles Of coal beds, already han from long [mining, is draw ing more heavily on her Besourees than is tlie United State«, with more than twenty times the de posits, and they scarcely sounded in comparison. The exports of coal front the United B'ates within the seven months eudllig W'lly 31, aggregated 992.4x1 ton* «if an- k'.iraclte ami 3.tk*9.274 tous of bituuilu- bus coal. The total exports showed au Incriase of 1.5KU'4k3 tons over tbe cor responding period of 1899. I iii« In gress« was largely in shipments of bltu- ■tinons coal. Export shlpmenta of UmericaD coke «luring tlie seven pontba ending July 31. amounted to ■4«* 253 ton«, an increase of atxiut '•»*.- lb’ tons over tbe Mine period in 1*4X0. No Demand for Anthrac fr I Th* United States coal which .« to re bls « the product of England nn«! Rkaies in th* market* of tbe world la ki.e »oft coal of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, ami Alabama. Antbra te F"sl has practically no opportunity for ■"re.gn exploitation at the present t.me br in tbe near future. It 1« a fxi»’l »•> m b different from the ■ "al that for bin consumers have l>*en «■ d I" using that fl art to take f *•. th* 11»* ft"'«» «nd en ff firing Only the several > i f ft coal n>>w find.ng a mark*-! b- I be couaideresl I in Pennsylvania there !• r f*r th* «eaixMird trade what ’ km.-» a fcs Clearfield c>*l. or « Dating 11.“ line of tbe Pennsylvania P it also reaching tns'ket ove bdelpt a and ffenerai na me P«V“rai minor regions P‘t-- e trade term. | b xrtbar u, the westward I* the PH’» His Conittment, LONG FINGER NAILS Mrs. Rtarvem Will you have some (adicute Rank and Good Hreedlug in milk and sugar In your tea? Many Oriental Cuuatiirti Grinshaw—If you please, madam: The countric» where the lung flag r juat a little drop of water and a Ultle 9 most affected are Slam. Assam. grain of sand.—Town Topics. Cwliiu China and China, l'lie approved t*oet'« l.ove. length varies from three or tour to Tess—Young Aster, the poet, doesn't twenty three inches. A Siamese exqui seem so foud of Du.« »luce it« rnvl het site permits the nails ou his fingers to cousin May. grow to such un extent that ills hands Jews No. It'« much easier to writs ar« praetiiallly useless The aristo souuets to May; there are so rnauy crats who affect these ualls cau uot more rhymes for her name.- Pblludel write, dress themselves, or vveu fe«sl phla Press. themselves. The Siamese hold the long linger ti.ill Even In the l»*i>* of Yore. "Where is the electrician?" yelled in the same reverence we hold live Noah, as he groped his way towarh family tree. Many of them never have tbe engine-mom. Tlius. even Iu the had their nails eut from the day of th< ir days of yore, was there much commo birth. On the first tinger th« nail « of tlou when the are lights weut out.— moderate length three or four iuchtlw -While on the other lingers th • lUiiU Brooklyu Life. grow occasionally to two feet lì 8* As It I .««alls Happen*. thumb uall, which is also allowed to “I suppose you had careful rearing grow long, after rein lung a eeristn Mr. Courtney?'' length curves arouml like a corkscrew. "No; 1 dldu't have any rearing at «11 In both China and Slam the owners my parents exhausted ull their disci of long nails wear metal «uses ov<n- pliuary eutliuslasiu ou m> elder brother them to preserve them, made of gold B11L" or silver, and Jew elisi. While long nails are not reganhsl as »iugulai- in Too Much, How do I know that your love China, they are rarely met with ex eept on fanatics ami is dautlc scholars. tor me will last? Among tlx* fakirs In Hituioostan n She—What do you expect me to glvt ou a written recommendation from peculiar custom Is that of holding its hand tlghtl.v elenchisi and iu one posi the last I loved? tlou so long timi at last the nails grow through the palm, emerging at the ba. k No l.oss. “The boys are eating your gri-en ap of the hand, ami growing thence al most to the wrist. When th«> wastisi ples,” said oue of the guests. ■'That's all right,” replied the honest muscle* refuse to support th* arm any old farmer w ho was taking boarders for ■ longer It Is bound In position with the summer. "Let them eat all they cord». In Nubia the long nail is regarded a» want. It'll keep 'em away from the table tor the next two or three days, Indicative of good breeding. The arls and 1'11 charge their daddies for the ■ toerats constantly subject their tinger tips to cedar wood tii-e tu Insure a g«x>d apples besides."—Chicago Tribune. growth. Not So Funny. Tbe lnhabltuuU of the Marquesas “No, Harry. I ntn sure we could 1 Islands are among the most expert tat not lie liappy together; you know I tooer* on earth, and not even tlie crown always want uty own way In every of the head, tlie fingers and the toes are thing." exempt from tin* needle. Tlie bands “But, darling, you could go on want are ornamented with utmost cure, all Ing It after we were married."—Brook the fingers having their own pattern, I»olly—Mamma. lyn Life. so that tig* ha mt would look us though Auutie—Who next? Incased In a tight fittlg giovi* were It Dolly—You. Ruttk' ent Reason. not for the finger nails of enormous Auntie—Who next? Warwick Why Is It that there ni length which complete the hand adorn Dolly—Baby. meat of the wealthier native», t nica Father (from the background) And no real skyscrapers in 1-oiidou? Wickwire—There Is no sky.—Puck. go News. when does daddy come in? Dolly—About 2 o'clock in the morn The Reason. Horry He Learned ing: Sketch. Askington Why don't you get mar "Did you ever know the difference Tied, old fellow? Is it because you cau betw«-en a boy who ha« been brought A Good Scheme, up with girls and one who lias not? Tourist I»o those scarecrows •ave not afford it? Borrowby (frankly) No; it 1« because The oue whose a< qualuliinee with girl« your crops? Farmer- They work first-rate, You the girl's father cannot afford It. I’m k of Ills ow n age lias liecti slight is apt to b«> awkward and unobaervlng; w her,- •ee. every tramp that comes along as. the Ixiy who bus breathed uu at At t!ie Art I n«t: t n tr, crosses the field» to «ee If th' clothes Is mosplier* of feminine infiuence nmIces wu'tli stenlin', w eh they ain't, nu' that tlie occasions for the small polltenosws •cares th’ crows away.—New York of life. Weekly. Tlie speuker was a young woman Presence of Mind. who luid hail experleti«')'«, and alio pro- riiyslelnn— Now. sir. you must make ceeded to tmfold them. up your mind to smoke less. "I was thrown last suminer.” she 1’atlcnt- Why. I never smoke nt weut ou, “with a college boy who hail Physician (affecting to be annoyed)— no slstera, nor cousins, nor uunts, to Il'tu! Don't Interrupt me, sir! As 1 was polish him off. At Yule he had studied saying, you must make up your mind to hard, and had not 'wasted lila time,' ns smokeless |xiv der shells, a fow ling he would have «ailed It, on girls' af ple«-e and all tlmt sort of thing. In oth fairs, lie didn't know bow to do tlie er words, take a gunning trip. Plilla few tbouxund small services that delphla Pres«. women like, and as he was really clever and nice, 1 proceeded forthwith Two Form« of Abuse* to polish him. 1 uever weut for nuy “My wife contradicts me continual thing 1 wanted. He liud to go ou all b"' my er.-auds. 1 dropped my scissors, or "Well, my wife nets u If my Ideas book, or parasol, fifty times a day to weren't worth discussion."—Cblcagb teach him to pick them up. At first I Record. had to remind him, but after a while lie “Tni'le Eben, bave y<»u Prosaic Rearm. did It quite tintliraliy; nud nt the end of “So she has gone home to her mother, done In oil?" tbe season lie thanked me sincerely. "Wai, uot in oil, but I hev iu has she? Don't you know. It Is tlie -ml "The seijuel came a few days ugo, dcst tiling on eartli to thiuk of a trust bricks." when 1 received n letter from him re Ing. fond ivonutu awakening to find her proaching me ruefully for having madd II in Khofs Ideals have been shattered; that Hhe Officer (to »trngglerl Whnt are you him ridiculous. 'I'm always Jumping loves him no longer; that her Idol lias st a tiding I n *hliul that tree for? Tbe «round to help people when I'd better feet of elay let them alone,' he says. Th* fellow* enemy Is flying. “Oh. there waa nothing of that »ort Straggler—Hurrah! That's Just the can't drop a pencil In class but I find In It. She loves him as well as ever, opportunity I've b«*en wultlug for; I'm myself sprawling on the floor after It but she went back to ma because she n first-class wlug shot.—Richmond before 1 stop to think. It wlU take years to undo the direful work of last was hungry !"—Iudlanapolla Press. I lespateb. summer." New York Telegram, OUR BUDGET OF FUN. 1,010.109 raltar. $2.2tt at Marseilles, and $2.68 at I Brasil .., W«I7.7T1. .399,005 «2.-..S37 Naples, In addition to the profit In the I Gibraltar Malta . 462,143 41U.4.I1 Imine iirii-e of $2.50 a ton. Yet this Brillali East 5N9.016 Indies ........... «38.716 963,177 freight charge is vastly greater than Other coun would hold If colliers, especially cou- tries ................ 5.441, SOM 6.210,34» strueted. were to do the carrying. Totnl«. gross All of the possibilities leading to tills tons............. 3T,HtMl.yiS 3«.5<I2.’U6 43,103,568 tn addition. new exploiting of American coal have e o « I for found source in the high rates of Bteanv-ni In foreign trade lo.4,'>5,7.’yj 11.264.204 12.220,801 freight in Great Britain, the cost of Compare«! with these shipments are mining, and In the unmistakable limita tion of tlie coal supply. The foreign the 5.951.933 tons exported liy the produetion of coal Is not decreasing, of United States iu the year ending Jun* 30, 1899, and the 7,188,621 tons export course; It is Increasing steadily. ed in the twelve months ending Juue Freight Chief Factor, With freight rates from the United 30, 1900. States nt $5 a ton. some one lias tigured the comparative show ing that the Uni Curloun Cradles. A Poor Advertising Medium. ted States product can make with that Fool for I.nell. In the palm reglou of the Amazon of Great Britain iu continental ports. River there Is a tribe which cradle* Qulzzell—My wife's the luckiest Bituminous coal, with the mines' their infants Iu palm leaves. A single goose; found a dollar bill to day and profits already added. Is worth $2.50 a leaf, turne«! up around tile edges by ten cents last wwlt. ton. The freight to the Mediterranean some native process, makes an excel- Frlzzi'll Humph! Mine finds some is $5 a ton. making the cost, with only lent cradle, aud now aud then It Is made thing every «lay. i lo« al profit to the mine. $7.50 a ton at to do service as a bath tub. Strong Qulzzell Timt's so? What? the several jiorts on that sea. Frizzell Fault cords are formed from the Ubers of un Welsh coal Is worth $7 a ton at Car other species of pslui, and by these A Versione diff. and the freight to Gibraltar ia this natural cradle 1» swung alongside not surprised to find ninoDg $2.16, making It $!». 16 a ton. These a tree, aud the wind rocks the little simple pastoral people of the Ear freights vary until this Welsh coal one to sleep. Long ago the Amazonian East a beautiful poetic version of the brings $l>.70 a ton at Marseilles and mothers discovered that It was not wise story of tlie fall of man. $9.58 at Naples. Over this coal the to leave l>aby aud cradle under a cocoa Hr this It was related that when the American product lias a margin of palm, for the mischievous monkey de- Serpent saw Eve with her mouth full $1.50 a ton at Gibraltar. $2.21» at Mar llghted to drop nuts downward with of pin«, Utting herself to clothes, hl» seilles, and $2.ti8 at Naples, even after unerring precision, An older child Is the mine profit has been received on the stationed near by to watch the baby heart smote him. "('an 1 lie of any service?" he asked American «ide. during bls siesta, and the chatter of "Well. 1 don't know!" faltered Eve, These figure» are reached, too. with monkeys overhead Is enough to cause V > ami blushed violently. the Inadequate present means of trans a speedy migration porting coal a« ros« the Atlantic. Most Languid I.pule-Say. dis 1« a bum it wax In this way. they naively aald, of the vessels now carrying coal were Hew - pape o' yotim. 1 put «11« nd in for that the garter snake bad orlglu To Keep Cider Nwi-rt. designed for package freight and are Cider may be kept sweet Indefinitely a pardner wl«l tr<*e million dollar« four Puck. aliout as well adapted for the coal busi by bottling Boil the elder thirty mln days ago, an' I ain't got a blamed mi Just One's Luck. ness as 1» a box <-ar compared with one ute». then bottle; stand the bottle In hot ewer yet. 1 w isb 1 could stop playing Cobble of tlie modern 100.000 pound steel coal water (with a cloth at the bottom to Indignantly Resented. poker. cars. Collier» especially made for the prevent breaking!, and boll thirty mln “Tour milk neems to lie well wa Stone— Why don’t you swear off? coal trade will lie Indlsiiensable to utes longer: boll the corks also, to ster tered.” remarked the summer boarder, < 'ubbie I do. But every single time trans-atlnntlc busiue»«. It lias been llize. Cork tightly and keep in a cool facetiously. I swear off I begin to win. Ufa. calculated that the cost of operating a place. “ 'Taln’t no seech thing.” remarked 7.«»<0 ton »teamer to such an ai eesaiiile Coltrice Life. the farmer la milord; "we don’t use well port as Gibraltar, making tbe length If you once get Into the habit of tell water We've got a hydrant." I’blla First College Mau You «ay your ar of the voyage and time of unloading Ing the truth you will And It much rent was a case of mistaken Identity? delphla Record. easier than lying. fifteen days, will be as follows: Recon«! College Mau Yea The cop Brutal to Endure. bad ou citizen's clothes and I dldu't “Were you in good health while you know be belonged to the police In time PROBLEM OF CHICAGO MOLSH-SHIFTING were a broad Y' to get away.—Puck. “Oh, excellent: we couldn't drop out of uur personally conducted party a day, you know, without losing big money.'* Not Ma !e for 1 'ar. "Whst was tbe <*aua^ of the latest quarrel between Mr. •nd Sirs. Bl. k er«r "Mrs. Bicker« caught her husband lying on one of her soft cushions."— Harper s Bazar. low me to eatlon to lier to be c< for Ml y ¡I RBk I What Nile Wears. The famous woman, Annie R Peek, who has been noted as having »caled the Matterhorn ami broke the rerun! on Mount Orlaalm, going R.tlHO feet Into the Hotids, wore flannel umlergnr- nient«, a waist of serge, a Woolen sweater, knlckerbockora aud loggings of aage green duck canvas, which alio made herself. Rhe wore the heaviest kind of winter laiots, ami a shoemaker in Switzerland put an extra piece of heavy leather over the whole lower part of the shoes, toes and heel«, ami then nearly covered them with nail«. In many of her trl(r< she has worn fur- topped glove*. but for the Matterhorn «lie wore woolen mittens. A snlwtan- tlal cauva« bat, tlis! on with rtlrixm, and veil, as well as smoked glasacs. complete her misfit. Rhe takes the pre caution to [Hit. cold crentn on her fa«*« Ix-fore facing the severe weather. Th«* Cook <•«>< Even A i«>ok here who quaiTeled with the owner of tlie rextaurant got even In this «ray: After milking the soup lie Im imoved It by the lutroductlon of a«>vrral foreign fngrwllent». «m-h as a quantify of saml. half a cupful of red p*$>pcr, ■ pound of tack», a buiM'li of kindling wchm ) «-hopi««l tine and a couple of old kl«l glove* a la nigMlh-«. The feeders »at <lowu a< usual last evening bjit ns soon a* tln-y snAapled the soup they rone up again «n ma*«« siul almost mobbed th<* wind* sh<«Hiug inntcb. Ac curding to the evldv ncr prixlucsij at the preliminary hearing a more fearful brew than this roup wm never con rort«i. even by Maclmth's weird «1» tern. TIi* Kx>k .« no* In the roruomme. —New York «orreo|»»ml«-ut Pittsburg Dispatch. FISHING IN THE PHILIPPINES. ¿n^eiiion* Mechanism hy M hi ch Native« lake Piscatorial Catche«. The Malay race Is probably ths most sk ill ul in Ashing, aud the Philippine 1« aiders are uot behind the other Pi. ii< lies. Au illustration shows one >t their favorite ways of catching ti.-. « which ruu along the bottom of river«, bays aud arms of the sea. It insists of a long raft ranging from twenty to sixty feet in length, and from e glit to twenty feet 111 width. At the rear part or »tern there is a platform, aud ou it a little bouse. Iu which the tisliermeu doze during the heat of th« lay mid sleep at night In the middle Is .i small furnace In which they do their cooking, aud a Jar In which they put Hile fishes. and a tank through which the water moves where they store their catches. In the !>uw 1« a cumbrous but liigenloit« dre »p net mech anism It cons st« of two long and consists strong pole« pol fastened to the raft on axles and by a rope at tlie upper end of the two, which here touch each oilier, running dowu ilowu to a windlass In the stern sheets. To the top of tills Jury- mast are fastened two etiorniuu« bam- boon, crossed in the middle and bent so as to form semi circles. The four ends of tlie bamboos are connected by a great bag net rauglug from twelve feet to forty feet square. When used th« fishermen throw n lot of bait Into tiio lilg net. and lower the arrangement by) loosening the windlass and permitting tlie rope to unwind. The masts rotate forward upon their axles, and the uet «Inks until It lies upon the bottom of the water. The fish. attracted by the bait, are soon crowding around the cen ter of the net The windlass Is «lowly turned, w hich raises the bamboos, then tlie rope connecting tlie ends, and last of all the center of tlie net. By ths time the tish are alnrmed the ropes liave panaed the water's edge and «a- «■ape is Impossible. With tills Ingeni ous mechanism a fishing smack will often take 1,000 poutnls of tish iu a sin. glv east. France* Skinner has made a trnnala thin of a novel by Peter Roseggor, the popular German novelist, entitled "Th« Forest Schoolmaster." "The Life of John Paul Jones,” t»y Augustus l'. Buell, represents the re suit of fourteen years' researches In England, Franc« and St. Petersburg, as well as in this country. Ln commenting on the fact that .lames Lane Allen's "The Choir Invisi ble'1 Is reported to have sold 2H0,UU0 ■oples, the London Academy makes the surprising statement that no book of equal merit ever recelveil half so warm a wileomc Iu England In the sain« time. More than 2lM),tMM) copies of “To Have and to Hold" have now been «old anil the demand for tlie book continue«. If the dramatization of the work proves mceesaful tlie story will doubtless have l fresh I mmiiu . The writing of tile stage verslvu lias been intrusted to Ernest lludilmgtuu, dramatic critic of the Brooklyu Eagle. Mrs. Schuyler Crow nliislilelil lias a book In press which, It Is «aid, will be published as soou us the author and publisher can agree upou a title. Thia la uot an uncommon stumbling btov'k to publication In these days, when the iiimki tnble value of a title 1s rei'og- ulze<l by both autlior aud publisher, OppOrtit« yfteu from diametrically lioluta of view. "Un tlie Wing of Occaalou,” by Joel Chandler Harris. Inclndea a novelette if nlioitt ItlliMHi lyords. entitled "The Kidnaping of President Lincoln," and three »toil.», entitled "Why V>e Con federacy Failed," "In tlie Order of Provlib’nee" imd "Tlie Troubles of Martin Coy," dealing with tlie uuwrlt- teu history of the civil war and with the elaborate aecret service then main tained. The editor of the Century 1« receiv ing Inquiries a I «mt the guthor of "The Helmet of Navarra," the historical ro mance. Miss Bertha Runkle Is the only ehlhl of Mrs. L. G Runkle, a well- known New Vork Journalist, and oue of tlie editors of th« “Library of the World's Best Literature." The pres ent work Is a maiden effort at fiction writing. She was l«>rn In New Jersey a few and tweuty years ago. never weut to kliolerg.irten as a child, nor to col lege as a young woman, has traveled little, ami has never Iwen In France- wblcli possibly accounts for her laying there the scene of her romance. Why the Bishop 1*1'1 N«>< Rcold. "A little boy In th« nelghlnwhood of Itlsliop Brooks' borne lu Boston was one «lay mischievously ringing door bells and running away before the d«x>ra were op« ned,” »ays a writer In the LiKlies Home Journal, "Iu pursuit of this aniiiM'inent he rau up the steps of the Bishop « residence and the Bish op. happening to I* In the hall ready to go out. opened the door quickly, be fore the boy liad turnes! to tle«x*end th* steps. The chlkl was »o startleil by the sml'leu appearance of the g«xxl man. wbu bad a kindly smile for all « hlldren. that b* ejamilatvd: 'Why, Pht'ps Brooks! Do you live hereY In When Y on Write to tile Queen. Tbe paper on wbi<*b letter* to Queen «pite of th" m!*deineanor th* Bishop Victoria ar« w rltt- n must not lie folded could not fimi It iu his heart to ss-ohl No coiiiifiiMil<atiou which tx-srs evi th*- little fellow. He, also, bail I h * vu a dence of having la-i-n rrxmaad will ever boy." fall Into her .Majesty's ow n band« The Longeât Plants. proper method 1« to write ou thick, The longest plant« In the world are glossy white l**p*T and to illspat«-h th« ml»slve In an envelope which fits it. seaweed in«« tropical and sub-tropical w u vbl ' w i,, u it Vny fohled coinmunh-atlon never reach « tlie Qiiw-o, foe the simple rra«>*n that reaches Its full development. Is at least «he uever looks at It. All such letters 4100 feet In length. Seaweeds do not are oprm-d by lie* Ml«tr*-sa of the receive any nourishment from th“ sedi Holies, ami as a rule their couteais m-v ment at the bottom or borders of the »r get beyond her. or. If the letter Is of sea. but only from air and mineral mat Importance, It H ret ar Bed to tbe writer terà held in solution in the sea water. with tbe dlrc tlous bow to forward IL— lake that Turned Red. Exchange. , I Aka Moral, In Rwltzerland. haa the curious property of turning red every ten years, owing to tbs presanca of car ta n aquatic plant« which are uot known La any other lake ia the workl