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. j^aU »he prn. me by the sweet-
Brt. of her way.-
B11e ba» »•> haaitatio* to embrace me or
Wmv’*lip» « hundred timea-am I
“wrong
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slwavs says that she
.
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AN ARCTIC JOURNEY.
SWEDE'S SUCCESSFUL VOYAGE
TO ICE-BOUND REGIONS.
Naturali» « V|ake a Northern Trip of
L uusual Length
po
Fiulan Archip la
Never liictore Explore.
Summer
OU the l.ast Cou.l of l.rerul ni l.
A [tarty of Swedish naturalists under
the lead of Gustave Kollbotf made a
northern voyage of more than usual
length last summer for the purpose of
’but for me.
studying the tauua iu arctic waters I
, ,ht to fall 1“ ,OTe with k*”’1 *“J 1 “*
aud lauds. They started in a little ves
lH*£iu that 1 would
sei from the uorthern coast of Norway
wert. but as honest and as true blue
on June 4. aud four days later they ar
If I
u» she's good;
rived at tlie icy coast of Spitsbergen,
true enough she is to me my only
where they visited some of the deep
fur
bright suashin«—
fiords aud clusters of Islands.
Then
The
Danish
West
Indies,
which
Den
sweetheart W no other than that gen-
neers who so long Infested anil ravaged
they steamed far northeast to the wa
mark
has
been
notided
must
not
be
sold
the Spanish Maia.
Before steamships
w tle wife of mine.
to any other power but the United States, were invented St. Thomas was more than ters between Spllzbergeu and I rilllZ
^Denver .News.
are three little islands lying immediately it is to-day. a roadhouse of the seas, a Josef Land, where they reached the
of ocean halt-way house between the southwest coast of l’riuce Charles is
♦
.......... •••••! east of Porto Rico at the gateway of the sort
Caribbean Sea. Santa Cruz is the larg continents. Into Its great harbor Span land, which, it will be remembered,
ish galleons and heavily laden slave ships was visited for the first time two years
Sentimental Journey, t est of the three, and contains seventy- ran for shelter, an l the buccaneers bang ago. They found there an archipelago
four square miles of territory, more than
ing close about were certain of good pick of considerable extent which had never
five-sixth* of which is under cultivation. ing.
Sometimes the pirate ships even
Its total population is 2t).00U, most of pursued their prey into the land-locked been explored They procured a great
which is of negro descent. St. Thomas is harbor, and under the eye» of the towu deal of Information al>out this almost
unknown region, ami tbe amount of it
the second in size, and is the tirst in im captured it.
portance because of its situation and tine
All three of the islands are thought to w hich they will publish is ex[>eet<al to
harbor. St. Thomas also coutaius the be the tops of w hat were once volcanic l>e very interesting. They were disale
commercial metropolis of the islands, the mountains. Iu appearance they are typi pointed, however, in not finding any
town of Charlotte Amelia, which is bet cally tropical. When a ship sails into more relies of the lost arctic aeronaUL
ter known as St. Thomas.
Charlotte the harbor of Charlotte Amelia, for in Andree. One of his buoys had lieen
Amelia is a town of 12,000 inhabitants, stance. the passenger sees a fringe of low- picked up 111 tlie neighborlmod of King
and the total population of the island is white bouses along the shore, shining
Charles island, and this was believed
only a few hundreds larger. St. Thomas against a background of glossy green,
to be the likeliest place to find other ole
contains but thirty-three square miles of while behind and above towers a line of
territory, most of it too rocky for culti stately hills, covered for most of their Jeets that might throw light U| k > u the
vation. The third island in the bunch height with thick, tropical foliage. Al fate of the explorer.
Then tbe party steamed on their way
for which the United States now proposes most all the houses have bright red roofs,
to pay $3,240,0000, is St. John, a little and the whole landscape is a riot of vivid to tbe coast of East Greenland along
rocky islet on which less than a thousand color.
Charlotte Amelia is remarkable tae edge of the ladar lee. They found
people live.
Altogether the purchase among tropical cities in that it is ex the great ice pack impenetrable, but
would add but 34,000 people ami less than tremely clean—a fact which must be laid they kept on westward, close to the Ice
to see her face again w as lrre-
110 square miles of territory to the Unit to the credit of the Danes. Its straight edge, as far as the island of Jan Mayen.
He would not seek an oppor-
ed States.
streets, lined on either side with two- This is the bleak arctie land that will
of speaking with
her—the
In 1867 Secretary of State Seward story wootlen houses, are paved with as
on which their lives had been made an attempt to buy these islands for phalt, with wide gutters on either side. always !«■ famous as the place where
________________________________________________________
out made this Impossible. He $7,500,000.
The Danish government When rain falls on the hills swift cur in tbe seventeenth century a large
agreed to make the sale, provided the rents of water rush down through these party of whalers spending the polar
people of the islands were agreeable to it. streets, washing out the gutters and mak winter perished to a man of »curvy.
The Rev. Dr. Hawley, pastor of the ing it easier to keep the town clean. The record they left of the tragedy was
church which the Secretary attended at Almost every house has a balcony across nearly complete, for it was brought
Auburn, N. Y„ was sent to St. Thomas the front of its second story.
down to within a day or two of the
to supervise an election held to give tie-
One of the most picturesque sights to time when the last survivor proliably
people a chance to express their views. be seen at St. Thomas is the procession died.
On all three islands but twenty-two votes of coal carriers, which is ceaselessly-
Here the explorers found the pack
were cast against the proposed union passing from the docks down into the Ice stretching away to the west as
with the United States, several thousand holds of vessels lying alongside.
The
well as to tbe north. They were able,
being recorded in its favor. The senti coal carriers are all stalwart negro wom
ment of the people was almost unani en, who carry great baskets tilled with however, to push Into It and slowly
mous. But the plan had many opponents coal on their heads. They work in day pick their w as west ward. Here and there
in Congress.
Chief among these was and night shifts, and after darkness falls were great hills of Ice. w here tlie pres
Senator Sumner, then the head of the they sing weird songs as they work. In sure had piled the pieces high. The ice
committee on foreign relations.
He spite of the fact that the introduction of was everywhere covered with a thick
pigeonholed the treaty and prevented its steam lias taken much business away layer of snow, and their description of
consideration for a long time.
from St. Thomas, it is still a busy place, it shows that it was old polar ice that
A good many years later another at and as a result its people have little of perhaps had been slowly drifting south
tempt was.made* to buy out Denmark's the tropical lassitude and laziness about
w ard for many months.
possessions in the Caribbean. This time them. They do not even stop work to
The ex|>edltion finally reaelied the
the price was tixed at less than $5,000.- take a siesta in the middle of the day.
000, but, in spite of the reduction, it
Prior to 1848 both St. Thomas and the East Greenland coast at Mackenzie bay
came to nothing. Meanwhile King Chris larger Island of Santa Cruz produced on July 31. They found the ground en
tian and the Danish government have large quantities of sugar. In that year tlrely free from snow, and under the
been growing increasingly anxious to Denmark freed all the slaves, and as a summer sun a go<*l deni of vegetation
sell. Denmark is not and is not likely to result most of the negroes left the plan had developed. On Aug. 14. after
become a great naval power, and the tations and gathered into the tow ns. The studying animal life on sen and land
chief value of the islands lies in the fact sugar planters could not get sufficient la for some days, the vessel entered Franz
that St. Thomas has a good harbor and bor to work their plantations, and the Josef fiord, though seven days before
commands the gateway to the Caribbean industry almost disappeared. More re
it lmd been completely blocked by lee.
Sea. Besides, the islands are not self- cently it bus been resumed on a consid
erable scale, particularly on Santa Cruz, In a week all the Ice bad entirely dis
supporting.
Whatever the islands may lack in any where there is a great quantity of fertile uppeared. They remained In the fiord
rich ?”
other direction they are strong in his land. On this island many of the former I until Aug. 23. and secured the unusual
a day or so ago.” The toric and romantic interest. They were slaves have set up as the proprietors of prize of two young musk oxen, w hiclt
bis voice.
Ilippesley discovered by Columbus on his second small plantations, and Its annual produc they took Imine with them to Sweden.
¡This Is probably the first time that live
straining for the next voyage to America, in 1493. Hilt Colum tion of sugar is now 12,000 tone, a sup-
I ply sufficient to supply the wants of the 1 specimens of the musk ox have been
,.'A
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i» in bus was not looking for a few little scat
tered islands, and when he found how i United States for two days.
) carried to civilized lands, though the at
The temperature of the Island of Santa
small they were he hoisted sail ami went
tempt has several time» been made.
away after naming them the Virgin Isl Cruz ranges from 66 to 82 degrees. It
Mr.Kolthoff says that last season was
ands. Then for more than 150 years has many magnificent driveways, leading
a bud ice year In the nelghborbisxl of
they lay unvisited by white men. In 1657 through avenues of palms, tamarinds, ami
some adventurous Dutchmen sailed into bananas. There are two towns on the Spitzbergen and Baer islands. On the
the splendid harbor of St. Thomas and i island—Fredericksted and Christiansted. other hand, th«' east coast of Greenland,
started a little settlement there. That Neither is of any importance from a com which is frequently locked with Ice all
lasted for ten years. Then the Dutch | mercial standpoint. Practically all of the through tlie summer, was almost free
gave up the attempt, and a few years ' 20,000 inhabitants of the island speak from this impediment to exploration.
later the Danes took their place. Since i English, and the only sign of their alle
then the English, French and Spanish I giance to Denmark is the Hag ami a lit
VALUABLE SECRET.
have alternated in the control of one or tle garrison of about H*> Danish soldiers
Fredericksted
is
a
tumble-down
town
of
more of the islands, which finally passed
One Family Ila. Fiirnl .tied Stamp Can-
under the permanent control of Denmark stucco-covered, two-storied buildings, the
celers for Sixtv-live Years.
fissures
in
the
walls
ami
the
tumbling
in 1815.
Since 1835 all tlie machines by which
But the chief romantic interest which walls being a result of the sack of the
postage stamps are cancelled ami enve
attaches to St. Thomas lies in the fact city in 1878, when the negroes on the
her.
that it was for years one of the headquar island revolted against the Danish gov lopes marked with the name of tbe post
pas- ters of the famous pirates aud bucca- ernment.
office, thy date, etc., have been made by
mll-
one family. In the year liatm-d the
Postmaster General entered into a con
to face with her at last, and the blood a something that sent lilin trembling
tract with Benjamin ClJhmla-rs, a citi
and.
from
head
to
foot.
went throbbing through bls veins.
Baking his way round
"My God. Eame!” he cried.
“If—If zen of Washington, to furnish a device
“Yes-Just Ralph!” be said mechani
by which postage stamps might lie can
auk into a seat.
He
you were not tlie Princess Zandra!”
cally.
lear no more. It wa*
He saw her eyes suddenly shine, the celed so that they could not be used
She held out her band, and be took It
again, ami, although there have been a
n «tartllngly strange,
color rush to her cheeks.
awk wardly.
multitude of competitors on several oc
he girl he had left living
"Remember only that I am a poor
"And to think It is you after all these
casions, that contract Ims been renew
hther on the outskirts
woman again!" she whispered. “That
years!" slie said softly.
ed year after year for sixty live years
English country town should have de
I’ve never forgotten, never could lor
Ilippesley
did
not
speak.
His
with Mr. Chambers, hl* son, ami his
veloped into this wonderful Princess
get----- ” Her voice died away.
grandson. Who have n secret process by
Eatidra. whose beauty was known thoughts had flown back a dozen years
His brain was in a whirl—it seemed
which the dies lire made of malleable
hroughout Europe. Ami they had to the night when he had left her. An hardly possible.
Indefinable idea came to him that she,
iron and carbonized into steel at a cost
hved one another! He had gone abroad
“But the life!” lie cried. “Think, af
too. was thinking of the same thing.
of from 50 cents to $2.75 each. It Is
kith the hope of making a name for
“I won't lie!4 he said, abruptly. "I ter all. you’ve------ ”
certainly the only government contract,
ilmself, of lielng able to claim her. But
”1 only loved once—It was you I
ami probably the only contract In the
ll-'.nck had dogged him. aud the time am not here by cliance. I heard you thought bail forgotten----- ’’
were on the Riviera, and. after all these
United States, that has bedn renewed
lad never come when he could write
The low. soft voice came to a stop.
so often and continued so long The de
years, 1 wanted to see you agaln-Just
h her. He had left her free, and as the
They stood looking Into one another’s
partment buy* about $25,ta*l worth of
to see you. I bad no notion of speak
lews went by, bringing nothing but
eyes.
new eancelers every year. Bids are ad
ing."
krsfstent failure, be knew that It was
“Don’t send me back to the old life
She gazed at hint steadily, as If try again. Ralph." she murmured.—Gilbert vertised for annually, ami every now
kit for bitn to possess the only thing
and then some ambitious manufacturer
Is counted worth having. Occasionally ing to rend his thoughts.
Dayle. in Mainly About People.
who thinks he has a good thing offers a
“You have loved me all this time?”
paps of Intelligence as to the course
proposal, lint the CbntnlsTs family are
*r life had taken drifted to him. Her i she asked, slow ly.
EAGLE FIGHTS A MAN.
Invincible. They have Improved the de
He bowed his bead. She turned away
ather had died, and she bad gone to
vice until It la now alnnzst perfect
with
a
little
sob.
Fierce
Attack
on
a
Maine
Farmer
by
a
os with a wealthy aunt In Ixiudon.
The stamper 1* a circular cast steel
“And you never wrote!” she cried.
Nig Feathered bobber.
from «tray papers that reached him he
One of the fiercest battles between box (with a screw thread!, one end of
tamed that her beauty bad caused “Ob, why didn't you write?'
“1 was a failure—such an utter fail man aud bird of which there Is any re which is closed, ami Is provided on the
|ulte a sensation in society. Then at
outside with a square shank to secure
Bat came the news that she had mar ure I could not write to claim you." he cord in Maine took place the other day
l’d a foreigner of great position, said, hoarsely. "You did well; I wasn't In a Washington county barnyard It to the hsrdwood handle. The cover
worth waiting for.”
Rufua Berry, of East Machias, and an of the I m > x I s a disk of steel. A portion
rrtnee Zandra.
She looked at him. the tears glisten eagle of great size were the combat of Its thickness enter* the ls»x by tnias;*
He wondered if she ever thought of
of a »crew thresd around It* fieriphery
I ants.
U tn-remembered the night be bad Ing in her eyes.
of almost twenty thread» to the Inch.
"What a Jumble Fate made of our
The
eagle,
whose
wings
measured
nnfessed bis love to her. Not a day
Thi* IHTinlts of a space lietween the In
Ilves!
”
she
sighed.
I
eight
feet
from
tip
to
tip.
bad
previously
l*d passed in those long years of fail-
"It did not matter; you are the Prin I visited the barnyard and carried ofT one ner face of tbe die and the bottom of
F* but her image bad been liefore him.
I of the farmer’s sheep and bad returned the box. while the remalalng thickness
low, at length, when he bad achieved cess Zandra.”
"Ob. I am tired, tired to death of it for more mutton when Berry liappeneti of the disk forms n flange with the
r®* alight success, it was too late. All
edge, w bich 1* coarse milled, so that the
to be around with a gun bn tidy.
’■at was left for him was to take the all!” she cried In a tone of weariness.
disk may lie turnol with the band or
“To have to live In an artificial world,
Berry's first shot knocked the big
F*urd little Journey of sentiment.
a wrench. On the outer face of tbe
|E*rly next morning be traveled to among people who are not my people— bird over and thinking the eagle was disk are charscters of the Issly of tbe
dead
he
ran
to secure bls prize. That
there
1»
no
one
left
to
me
now-and
to
Fsanheu. He got out at the railway
cylindrical die. These combine the
Mtlou and. following the path that led have to begin It all over again." she was where Farmer Berry made a great marking and the cam eling devices, one
mistake. No sooner had be touched
fund to St. Jean, passed the fishing added In a half-sorrow ful, musing tone
lielng on one aide of the disk. Inclosing
He understood. He remembered the the bird than it rose upon him. clawing
r *•** and gained the point. There he
tlie name of the postoffice In a circle
and
pecking
fiercely
at
bis
eyes
and
face
words
he
had
overheard
at
the
cafe.
It
Pnk down on the ground, and gave
There are three slots for removable
and finally sinking Its talons deep into
U/"l! ”P ’o bis reflections. It was a was ail true then She looked up at him
ty|»e. for months, date*, hour, snd half
i the flesh of his arm. so that, although
Fr'P,f morning, a cloudless sky. the quickly with a smile.
hour. I>lametric»lly opimsite the dr
more
than
willing
to
call
It
a
draw,
be
“But you. Ralph-what have you
gth^' *D'1 pr*gnant wl’b the perfume
cle 1» the cam eling device, the side of
1 could not get out of the -ing
which Is jMirallel with the edge of the
L u* ro*** that gr-w right to the edge done?” she asked, gently.
For half an hour Berry stood the
••Eor years nothing. Now. at last. I ve
F the tiny Cliff. Some thirty feet bc-
disk
Any required number or letter
r* him was the sea. not a ripple cu Its got a small estate In Ceylon It a a fair pecking and clawing and gouging and is cut In relief In the center, while three
the
fearful
beating
of
the
eagle
s
wing,
F®00
surface, the clear blue Huts living whilst I worked bard not a bad
groove* are cut Intaglio
Tlie retnov-
. fin the
Framing ¡a the sunshine.
life. too. for a man who has lost bls am and then barking upto a feme be man
aged to get bold of a club with which
'............................................... ............
ends Opposite their, faces projections
bitions.”
I 1 esently he was aware of a w >man
“No. not a bad life." she repeated be killed tbe bird.
from their outer edge*, no that «lien
The eagle waa mounted by a Bangor
Inserted In the slot» the projections can
L~J* pur;ously at him. The next mo- , “A lonely one. though ” She gave a
taxidermist and sold to a Mils nuke«
they had rrcogulted one another. little laugh; there was an Infinite note
be ctam|>ed and held In place.
man. who pla<-ed It In a museum
Until I***» Captain Chamber» mann
U* *en’ suddenly pale and her lipa of sadness in it ' As lonely as mine has
Eagles are common In th. eastern and
fa«-tnred the < ancelers here In Wasb-
P*'1 n »on-ter.
I tx-en!"
northern
parts
of
Maine
and
when
at
Jaipur- she gasped
ngton, aud be Is «till required to main
RM llfied her bead. BBd their eye«
I • looked at ucr mutely. He was face met Ue read wuietblog in her gaxe- tacked are very fiene.
.
Late
DENMARK'S THREE LITTLE ISLANDS.
¡ a
tain a repair shop In the neighborhood
of the 1'is.totfice Department, but he
moved lil* factory to Northumtierland
county. \ irgiuia. on a leg of land at the
mouth of the Potomac, where he ba*
a little village composed exclusively of
employi-s ami their families
No one
can enter his ground* without la-ruiis
slou. ami those who have lieeu there
say It Is quite an ideal little village,
safe from spies of competitors who
would like to get the contract away
from him Washington Corresjiond
cine New York Tribune.
THOMAS KEARNS.
The Late«t st ver King to Enter the
Initc-d state* SWuate.
Though lie represents a comparative
ly unimportant state. Thoma* Kearns,
the new Senator from Utah, will tie one
of the most conspicuous figures in the
up|>er house of the Fifty seventh Con
gross. HI great wealth Is responsible
for his election to the Senate. Like his
colleague, Clark, of Montana, he lias
wrested a fabulous fortune from the
mines of the \\ eat. after tasting the bit-
ter cup of toll and prlvatlou tor many
years.
Born tn New York III 1S62 he went to
Nebraska as a young man ami worked
ou a farm, He ilug potatoes ami drove
a freight wagon, It occurred to him
that In tlie Blai k Illlls of Dakota lie
CHAT ACROSS OCEAN.
did not meet the requirements of th*
*< > e. So sue. cssful ha* tbe signal
corps lieen that now all tbe forts
around New York are connected with
AN ITALIAN ELECTRICIAN'S WON
each other by a wireless system, which
DERFUL INVENTION.
Is constantly being experimented with
and Improved. Tbe weather bureau,
also recognizing the advantages which
Will Make It 1'ov.ih'e for I a to Have
would result to navigation by the es-
Conversation with Our Kin Heron t
ment of a wir’-lej* electric com
the Kea
Without the Medium of
munication between vessel* at sea and
Cables.
exposed points ou our lakes and sea
coasts, and also la-tween Island* along
Great things an- promised for the
the coasts and the malulatid. has made
new century by G. Marconi, the author
a systematic Investigation of the vari
of wireless telegraphy, savs the New
ous systems of wireless telegraphy.
York Press Before tlie first Christmas
The progress made has been eminently
iu the twentieth century lie will, tie de
satisfactory New appliance* have been
clares, have England ami America ou
devised by the bureau expert» for tbe
*l>eaklug terms without the alii of sub
transmission of signals and receivers
marine cables One big |*>le elected at
have lieen constructed that are prob
Southampton and another at Montauk
ably more delicate than any heretofore
I'oiut will, he says. Is- all that Is need
made
Messages have already been
ed. The cables which now connect Eu-
sent and reeelveii over fifty miles of
nq>e with America will, if Marconi ful
land which presented a rough and hilly
tills his promise, become ns obsolete a*
surface condition* most unfavorable
the stage
line when the rail
to tlie transmission of eleetro-tnagnetic
road eaim
optimistic eleetri-
wave».
Marconi also promises that before
long ships at sea will be able by the
use of his system to communicate with
the short- Navies are now experiment
ing with his system and considerable
success lias been obtained. Meantime
in England they are trying to telegraph
without the use of wire from Dover to
Belgium
It looks ns If In a short time
a message might be sent around the
world without the use of wires, and
that all the parts of the earth aud the
sea would be in telegraphic communi
cation with each other. Deserts, moun
tains, oceans, time and space all seem
to be dissolving before the advance of
science The world <-ould not desire a
better Christmas present for 1!*H than
the fulfillment of Marconi's promise.
A LAND OF MILK
AND HONEY.
Some of the Reason* XV hy Oklahoma'*
Claim for Statehood I* Valid,
might find a fortune aud thither lie
went. But lie failed to strike It rich
ami went to Utah in 1883. In the fa
mous Ontario mine In Park City he
went to i work with pick and shovel.
out of Ills weekly
From the ' savings
wages lie ■ aci-umulatisl enough to buy
himself a i copartnership, with several
others, In a claim near the Ontario
mine. They met with success, Other
claims on adjoining land was purchased
ami the whole combined Into the Silver
King mine. Its product of silver, gold,
copper and lend last year ainountisl to
an even $1 .uiMl.ctai, of which one fourth
went to Senator Kearns. He Is now
worth about $5.<MM>.(MMi.
Kearns Is exceedingly geenrous. Not
long ago he gave $."iO.iMH) for the estab
Bailment of an orphanage in Salt Lake
City and be also gave $IO,(MX) toward
the building of a new Catholic ca
thedral in the same city, lle Is now
building a marble palace In Salt Lake
City, which will be one of the finest In
the country. In marked contrast to the
dugout which was hl* first Nebraska
home and the humble cabin which shel
tered him during his early career in
Utah.
GUIDE TO A BLIND MOOSE.
One of III* Fellows Guards IIIm Against
Attack and l*-adv Him to Food.
A good animal story comes from the
region north of Minneapolis. It is that
of >| blind moose caret I for by one of hl*
mates and taken by him to feeding
grounds, kept from wolves and cared
for ns tenderly ns a baby.
Last fall some hunter shot this big
bull moose and Instead of killing him
succeeded only In putting Ills charge
where It put out the sight of both eyes,
lie was seen shortly after by woods
men who have Imd opportunity to
watch the animal more or less during
the winter, and they have lieen much
Interested In 111* career. The moose
iloes not ap|H-ar to have suffered great
ly from the loss of hi* eyes, and Is sleek
and fat. He I* n magnificent specimen,
with antler* that branch full six feet,
standing higher than a horse and
weighing probably not less than 1.3’*’
pound*.
Moose yard during the winter «eason
in place* where there la abundant brush
and when the feed of one yard is about
exbauHted they make another some dis
tanee uway and there they travel In
circle* a* before, eating the small tree*
and brunches clean of tip* and buds,
if alone and forced to shift for himself
a blind niiaiae would noon die from star
vatlon. But to thi* miHise there has
attached Itimself, not a cow. but a
younger bull, and the two are In con
stant company, say those who have
seen them nt various times and have
lieen able to compare not»*. The young
er moose I* the guide and friend of the
maimed one. One of tlie woialarnen
who watched them for hours one day.
when the wind serve«! ami the condi
tions were right, says that the younger
led tile old one to the best bustle* about
the yard. It had tln-n been eaten pretty
clean and was s<*>n to tie deserted, and
It was with some dlttlciilty that tlie
young animnl was able to lend the
other to cluni|i* of twigs. Tbe moose
•bowed tbe greatest sagacity In follow
Ing and was almost able, probably by
on abnormal development of the sense
of smell, to go without any a**lstance
Mltinea[Kills Journal.
Arizona’s Pine Forests.
Arizona 1« supposed to 1« almost an
unbroken desert, but in reality It has
the largest unbroken [>lne foreat In the
United States, covering an area of over
8,<asi square miles. 1 Ills tlnilier Is
usually found at an altitude of be
tween 5.5W0 and 7.5<«i feet. The total
quantity of pine tlmlier fit for sawing
purposes within the boundaries of tbe
territory amounts to lO.tssi <«»i <««> feet
which rati supply the needs of a popu
loua state for more than a century.
elan Is confident that he ean establish
telegraphic
communication between
the eastern and western worlds by his
system at a hundred thousandth part
of the cost of laying a cable and main |
taining It. Marconi says lie has discov >
ered a method of controlling the sound
waves so that the messages from coll
tlnent to continent will be flashed buck
ami forth close to the surface of tbe
ocean over the whole distance.
Heretofore the curvature of the
earth has presented a dreaded ditti-
eulty to be overcome In the transmis
sion of wireless messages over long
distances. Marconi's new control of
the sound waves. It Is asserted, has ob
viated the difficulty. How It Is done
Marconi does not explain that Is Ills
secret but lie says that lie Is confident
he has found a method of doing It. He
contends that the masts erected at
Montauk
I'oiut ami nt Southampton
need not be higher than a New York
"skyscraper" In order to make the
working of the system effective. He
Ims Invented a new appliance by which
he says he ean lengthen the air waves
to an almost unlimited extent.
A C.immerc a
Hr vo'litio-l.
If Mr. Marconi can fulfill Ills prom
ises. wlmt a revolution there will be
in the commercial world! The millions
Invested in cables would become lost
cnpltnl. for no one would use a cable
at the rates charged for messages w hen
for a fraction of the cost lie could tele-
grfiph by the wireless system.
It not only costs millions to manufac
ture and lay cables across the Allan
tic, but keeping them In repair costs
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Cable ships are kept in commission all
tbe time, and they liml continually
something to do In the way of repairs
on the great oceanic telegraph Hues.
Repairing a cable Is a work of skill,
science and money. A defect In the
cable having been located by means
known to the telegraph experts, the
cable ship steams away to the part of
the ocean where the difficulty la and
drags the cable with Its grappling
Oklahoma means Beautiful Land. It
I* enslly om- of the wonderful sections
of our wonderful country, only a doz
en years ago It was given up to the
Indian* ami formed a part of the In
dian Territory; but on Apri. 221 1889, It
w as opened to settlement by the procla-
mation of President Harrison, end Iu
one day 50,600 people rushi-d uimiu It.
The same day a national bank was
opened and It* imxlern history Itegin*.
Behold tin- contrast since that time!
The census of 1!M*> shows a [wipulatlon
of 398.245, and In addition there were
5.927 Indians not taxed. So here we
have a great state springing from prac
tically nothing to a population of over
4ts>.000 within one decade.
That does not begin to tell the story.
Tin- taxable value of the land 1» now
nearly $K*».O(MUMH>. Within two years
four great grain ami cotton crop* have
enriched the state, ami the de|Hi*its ill
the banks have increa*ed more than ltM)
per cent. The people have built 8tM)
churches ami established nearly 200
newspapers.
Tbe population Is described as a su
perior one, thoroughly American am!
progressive In Its enterprises. The
beauty of the country Is drawing more
and more people to It* cotines. It has
an average elevation of 1.500 feet; Its
climate Is delightful, and. to quote a re
cent w riter wlm visited the country, "It
Is not an unusual thing for a wheat
farmer In Oklahoma at the close of a
good season to realise enough money
from the sale of his product to more
than cover the entire value of hl* farm
and the Improvements upon it.”
It was considered that cotton would
not grow north of Texas. During the
past year Oklahoma’s cotton crop
brought nearly $6.<MM),00l) to her people.
Saturday Evening Post.
A Ituile Prince.
It Ims not always ln-cti wise to look
to a royal court for the etiquette of po
lite society. Wltnes* thi* quotation
from the "Countess Potocka." a recol
lection of I'rlm-cH* Czartoryska. an In
cident of the court life of Joseph IL. at
Berlin.
tine day. at tbe end of dinner, she re
lated Hint she hml known Prince Kau-
lilts, w ho lmd a varied reputation, and
Incidentally one for Impudence. Hav
ing tine teeth, he attended to them
without the »lightest regard for bls
guest*. A* soon a* the table wus clear
ed Ids valet put n mirror, a basin and
brushes before him. ami then and then
the prince began hi* morning toilet
over again. Just ns If he hail I een alone
111 hl* dressing-room, while every one
wa* waiting for him to finish to get up
from the table.
"I could not NUppre*» my astonish
ment,” say* Countess Potocka. "and
a*ked the princess If *be, too, had wait
ed.
“ 'Yes, nlas!' she replied, ‘I was so
[tut out of countenance that I only re
covered my sense* at the foot of the
stairs; but later on It wa* different. I
complained of the heat, and left tlm
table at dessert.’ ”
The Hlrslght Ticket.
Irons.
When finally the cable Is
The professor's eyes twinkled above
picked up tbe repairs are made ami It hl* evening palter. "My dear,” he said
Is again deposited upon the oozy bed to tils w ife. "I fear that Imblt Is strong
of the sea. Tile Initial expense aud the er than priuclple with you suffragists. ’
cost of maintenance make it expensive
"What do you mean?" demanded Mrs.
to talk with Europe, but It does not Professor.
cost much to erect two poles and buy
"Why, here Is an Item from a West
a Marconi outfit. It Is obvious that if ern pn|ier which assert* that a recent
the great Italian keeps his promise the local election In Colorado, where, as
cost of talking with tbe obi world will you may know, equal suffrage right»
lie trifling compared with what It la prevail, the tellers found a dozen or
now.
more cookery recipes In a ballot-box.”
The United States Is now preparing
“They were voted by mistake, I'tn
to lay a cable across the I'acitlc Ocean sure!" returned Mrs. Professor, stoutly.
from the California <o.-i« to Manila. If "They ought to count Just the same.
Manunl i nn make his promise goorl of Tuesday Is an awfully busy day. any
telegraphing without wire across the way. And I am Just as sure as I care
Atlantic, then there would be no heed to be that when men first tiegau to go
for laying the cable Tbe wireless sys to the |iool» they made mistakes lu tbe
tem could lie used and all the tremen ticket, too!"
dous cost of establishing cable commu
The professor's eye* twinkled behind
nication obviated. The distance from his paper, hut he replied with the per
Montauk to Southampton Is over
fect gravity of one who has b«-en thrh-e
miles, From San Francisco to Ilono refined In domestic tires, “Without
lulu Is only 2.1KSI miles. From llono- doubt, my dear.”
lulu to Manila It Is alsiut 4.mai ml 1rs
A Philadelphia Charity.
If that la too great a distance over
In Philadelphia a charitable society
w hich to operate the wIrelea system
that ba* liven lu operation elgi-ty-tbree
thou a way station might la* establish
year* has given away every day for
ed on Wake island, a little piece of
fourteen weeks during each cold Sea
pro|ierty something more than half
son »eventy Ove gallons of soup and
way over to Manila from Hawaii,
three hundred loaves of bread. Tbe
which tbe United States owua.
• n[»-rlnten<lent ha* been connected with
In fact, tie- possIMUtlee of the sys
tbe work slxty-four years.
tem. If Marconi keeps hi« promise, are
Pre«-ant ton.
almost Infinite. The War Department
of tbe United States ha« lieen for some
“Wbat are you doing for that baby?”
"I’m simply avoiding all the advice
time experimenting w-ltb wireless tel
egraphy
Indejiendent
of
Marconi, my friend* have given me.Harper's
whose system, tbe otti- lals tbvugbt. Bazar.