BHB OLD GATE MADE OF PICKETS There was moonlight In the garden and the chirr and chirp of crickets : There was scent of pink and peony and deep syringe thickets, When a-down the pathway wbitely, Where the firefly glimmered brightly, She came stepping, oh, so lightly I To the old gate made of pickets. Thar vtrt Aear and musk and murmur, and a voice that hummed low snatches ' Of a song, while there she hurried, throueh the moonlight's silvery patches, To the rose-grown gate, above her And her softly singing lover, With Its blossom-tangled cover And Its weight and wooden latches. Whom she met there, whom she kissed there, 'mid the moonlight and the roses. With his arms who there enclosed her, as a tiger lily closes Borne white moth tlhat frailly settles On Its gold and crimson petals, Where the garden runs to nettles No one knows now or supposes. tmrm have nassed since that last meet ing? lnvPH have come and loves , - - -denarted. Still the garden blooms unchanging, there is nothing broken-theartea Tn lt heaiitv. where the hours Lounge with sun and moon and show ' ers, Mid the perfume and the Bowers, As in days when these two parted. ttt the garden and the flowers and the cheerily chirping crickets And the moonlight and the fragrance, and the wind that waves the thickets They remember what was spoken. And the rose that was a token, And the gentle heart there broken By the old gate, made of pickets. fc-Smart Set. r?r?ririi idv i j $ $nHfr Harry opened his eyes and looked around him like one awaking from a muddled dream. He was lying on a oft bed of lone, serrated leaves that bad been stripped from great tree ferns that grew near at hand. An old, withered, bright-eyed Indian woman, who snt beside him, placed a leuther bottie to his lips, from which he drnnk eagerly of pineapple chlca. The wine stimulated him and cleared his head, and he sat up and looked around him Inquiringly. A short dis tance from him his burro was brows ing among the shrubbery and under a feather palm lay his pack saddle and outfit As he looked westward he saw that the sun was halfway down the slope of the sky, and, lowering his eyes, he aw the burning, shimmering desert, and shuddered as he remembered ali that remained In his consciousness of the terrible Journey he hnd made across It Addressing the old woman In Spanish, ho asked : "Will the senorn kindly tell me where I am?" "She will," was the reply. "The enor Is nt the foot of the western lope of 'El Trcs Dlablos.' " Then she proceeded to tell him that In ft dream sho had been apprised of his coming and wos there at the edgp of the desert to roeelve him, and that bo, and also the burro, had fnllen help less at her feet when they arrived. "You are seeking the lost mine near the little lake in the heart of 101 Tres Dlablos," sho said, "but I do not think you will find It. But this I will tell you: If you can draw the water from the small, deep basin that contains the lake, you will find on Its rocky floor more wealth than was ever possessed by the Montezunms. "Tons of blocks of gold belonging to the people who owned the mine were cast Into the lake by them bofore they were slaughtered by the Spaniards, ' and there It 1ms remained undisturbed nntll this day. I will conduct you to the lake whon you are stronger. Nay, do not ask me how I know tills, for I may not tell you, but here I declare to you that I spenk the truth." Thirty days after crossing that val ley of death Harry had sun-eyed and mapped the little lake and so much of Its environs as he cared to possess, and then took his departure for Mex ico City. When Harry arrived at El Tres Dlabloe on his return from the capital, he had with him a number of peons and a dozen mules well laden with equipment and supplies, and soon thoso mountains were echoing sounds not be fore heard there sluce the Spanish conquest. . In due time his friend Frank arriv ed, and after a hearty greeting Har ry's first question was: "What news have you of Ferruby?" "Have you not heard V asked Frank, excitedly. "Tell me tell me quickly. What has happened to FerrubyT" Frank struggled vainly to control his emotion, replied: "Shortly after your departure from Eufaula the general, with Ferruby, left for an extended tour of Europe, Six months later, In formation was received that that "What what Information was re ceived T" cried Harry. "Is Ferruby .married?" "No she 1 dead. Killed In an automobile accident near Florence, Italy," said Frank. Whtte os marble, Harry stood for a moment like one turned to stone. Then he reeled and would have fallen, but Frank put his strong arms about him and laid him down tenderly upon a puma'a skin. The old woman hovered evur him, weeping and utteruia- w4rd incantations. Presently, when he be gan breathing, she gave him some chica, and shortly afterward he open ed his eyes, sighed slowly and deeply, and then, in a weak voice, tremulous with a never-to-be-spoken misery, he said: "I thank you, my dear friends." That was all. There was a point on the rim of the little lake where its dark, deep wa ters were confined by a mighty wall of rock. It spanned a chasm a hundred feet wide, and from Its top one looked down into a ravine that lost itself in darkness, and at the bottom of which two of the slopes of El Tres Dlablos came together and found a common base. For weeks a huge drill had been bor ing Its way down through that wall of rock to the level of the bottom of the lake. Two days after the drill had been finally withdrawn the peons were directed to gather up the mules and drive thom Into the corral at the camp, and to remain there until further or ders. When all had reached the camp, Harry, with pale face and set features, with Frank at his side, uncovered an electric battery and pressed a button. A terrific explosion followed. A column of fire and smoke shot toward the zen- 1th. A sound like a crash of many thunders rent the shuddering air. . The mountains rocked and trembled os though smitten by a mighty cata clysm. Wild beasts forsook their cav- eras and ran aimlessly through the brakes and Jungles. The peons and the mules In the corral staggered and trem bled with fear. The old Indian wom an turned her face to the sun and threw herself upon the earth with ab ject terror. Harry hastened to her side, and, raising her up tenderly, said: "It is all over. There is no danger ; come with me and see the cat aract that is rushing down the gorge." The following morning disclosed an empty basin where the water had beeu, and now It Is known among the In dians as "the place of the lake of gold." In ndditlon to clearing the lake of water, the explosion had opened a pas sage in the rock that led to a system of galleries that extended far back into "Frank," said Harry, as he saw the look of amazement in the face of his friend, "we are standing in the midst of the lost mine, with wealth enough In sight to enrich a nation." When Frank and the old Indian woman were leaving El Tres Dlablos furnished apartment A valet entered and offered his services and .stated that a conch would be sounded for break- fast in half an hour - "Will you kindly inform me where I am?" Inquired the gentleman. "You are at the bungalow," replied the valet "What bungalow?" "It Is called the Eufaula," answered the valet After a short silence the gentleman asked : "To whom does it belong?" "To Master Harry," was the reply. "And where Is it located?" was the next question. "On tne isle of Los Palmos," was the answer. "Pardon me," said the gentleman, "but could you tell me to whom the island belongs?" "To Master Harry," the patient valet replied. "One more question: Can you tell me In what part of the Carrlbean the island is located?" "Not many miles off the coast of Colombia, near the mouth of the Ris del Hache," replied the valet. Just then the soft note of the conch was heard, and the guests assembled on a broad veranda, facing the sea. They had barely time to observe that the most beautiful bungalow they had ever beheld was constructed mainly pf bamboo and palm, when the butler ap peared and conducted them Into the breakfast room. 4 They were received by an aged In dlan woman, who, if lightly, was ele gantly gowned, and who carried her self with great dignity. While they were still standing, a tall, broad-shouldered young man In spotless white en tered the room, and without a word bowed low to his guests. Gen. Ewlng uttered no sound, but stood looking at his host like one hypnotized. Ferruby would have fallen, but the clergyman sustained her, until she rested in the strong arms of Harry Delmar. New Orleans Times-Democrat WHAT NEWS HAVE YOU OF FERRUBY ? I forever Frank received a sealed packet from his friend, to be opened later. In It he found the concession which his friend had secured from the Mexi can government, duly transferred. which made him sole owner of the lost mine, that for three centuries hud been hidden from the world. "Keep steam up on the yacht to night, dipt. Burton, for this Is a gen uine norther, and should the wind shift suddenly eastward, you mny have to put to sea, for Manatee bay will hardly prove a safe harbor under such condi tions," said Harry Delmar. "Before doing so, however, ' notify me at the bungalow, for If the Ferruby goes to soa in a storm, I go with her." The wind held true from the north, however, and the yacht remained at an chor. At 2 o'clock the captain reported a steamer throwing up distress rockets about a mile off the western shore of the island. Half iin hour later the Ferruby was standing by, head to the gale, to lee ward of the helpless steamer, thai proved to be the old Brlghtwater, from Central American ports to New Or leans, with a cargo of fruit and three passengers. Two of these had come down from Southampton on the Royal Mall steamer Don, and had connected with the fruiter at Greytown. Before daybreak the rescued passengers were resting in elegant apartments in the bungalow, and the crew were cared for on board the Ferruby, which lay at anchor In Manatee bay. The passengers consisted of a woman and two men, one of whom was a cler gyman. The other, when safe on board the yacht, became anxious as he ob served the marvelous richness of Its ap pointments. "Who is the owner of this elegant vessel?" he inqurled of the steward. "Master Harry," was the answer. "Master Harry what?" he asked. "Just Master Harry that's all' an swered the steward. "Well, about the yacht baa that a name?" "It la the Ferruby," replied the stew ard. "The whatr almost shouted the gentleman. . "The Ferruby," repeated the steward. "Strange," muttered the gentleman, aud lapsed into silence. When be awoke, late in the morn lug, the , suullght was glinting In through the split bamboo screens that haded the windows of his elegantly WOMAN'S ATTRACTIVE AGE. Is the Maid of Sixteen Outrivaled by the Young- Woman f "When we speak of the attractive ness of woman, we really mean the at tractiveness of woman to man. "With men the question of when a woman is most attractive Is doubly complicated, because it depends not only on the woman, but on the taste of the man himself. Not many years ago, if this question had been osked, the answer would have been unhesitatingly made that a woman is most attractive between the ages of 16 and 20. Most of the heroines of classical fiction are mere children. "It must be confessed that with rare exceptions, the modern man prefers something more sophisticated than sweet 16, though It Is undeniable that the intelligent woman is at her best when she is in her teens. This is easily understood. 'lAlmost all young creatures are beau tiful, and heaven elves to even the homeliest women a day of grave be tween 16 and 18, when she Is pretty with the prettlness of fresh cheeks and dewy eyes and glossy hair. "Twenty-three Is an ideal time of the clock for the woman of average intel ligence and pulchritude, unless she happens to be college bred. If she has had the misfortune of acquiring the higher education she is still top-heavy with learning and self-esteem over hav ing discovered the ancient Greeks and Romans, and it requires ten years more for her to find out taut, for a woman to be thoroughly charming she should have had a good education and forgot ten it "For the woman, however, who Is meant to be human nature's dally food, no ago Is more attractive than 23. She Is in the first flush of having Just ar rived. The slim promises of girlhood have been realized in the full beauty of womanhood. Sue still has Illusions, but they ore not delusions. She still is In nocent but no longer ignorant. ''Her intercourse with the opposite sex has a certain frankness and com radeship that is not the least of her charms. She seems ao safe that she is deadly dangerous. Statistics show that more women marry at 23 than at any other age. "The bachelor woman Is at her best at 80, because she Is consciously charm ing. She has all the advantages with which nature originally equipped her, and she has added to them the frills and furbelows of art She has learned to enhance her good looks by better dressing and to put a red shade on the lamp and sit with her back to the light She has also learned how to talk, and, better still, bow to be a fascinating list ener." iSan Francisco Call. PHE WEEKLY ORIAJN pa 1 Slightly Mtaonderatood. "Mr. Wblffer can't break himself of the habit of tergiversation," said the village preacher. "Weill welll" exclaimed old Mrs. Snackletree. "Ain't there some rem edy his wife can pot in his coffee to cure him? I knew a lady once who cured her husband of the drink habit that way." Birmingham Age-Herald. The Safe Side. "What are you trying to do for your country?" "My friend," answered Senator Sorg hum, "I am keeping on the safe side. Some statesmen try to do ao much for their country that people get the im pression that they are getting pre sumptuous and domineering." Wash ington Star. A man is entitled to his share, but he baa no right to try to separate another nuuj from hto. 1607 Hudson sailed on his first voyage of discovery. 1775 Eight thousand persons attended a meeting at Philadelphia and voted to resist Great Britain with force of arms. 1781 Gen. Greene surprised and defeat ed by the British near Camden, S. 0. 1782 Holland acknowledged the inde pendence of the United States. 1802 Georgia ceded her western terri tory to the United States. 1831 Imprisonment for debt abolished in the State of New York. 1838 Large section of Charleston, S. C, destroyed by fire. 1845 China issued an edict permitting foreigners to teach the Christian re ligion. 1855 Riots in Chicago over the license question. 1859 First issue of the Rocky Mountain News at Denver, 1861 Arkansas troops seized the arsenal at Napoleon and lort Smith. 186G Remains of Abraham Lincoln re moved from the White House to the capitol. 1875 Mofor General Sir Edward Silby- Smyth appointed to command the ' militia of Canada. 1876 Queen Victoria declared Empress of India. 1877 War began between Russia and Turkey. 1889 Oklahoma lands opened to settle ment by President's proclamation. 1891 Czar proclaimed the expulsion of the Jews from Moscow. 1892 Behrlng Sea modus vivendi adopt ed in United States Senate. 1894 South Carolina Supreme Court de cided the dispensary liquor law to be unconstitutional. . . . Strike of 130,000 miners inaugurated in the bitumi nous coal region. 1896 International Arbitration Congress met at Washington. 1901 The Boers evacuated their position near Dewetsdorp. i 1903 United States Supreme Court sus tained the clause in the Alabama A constitution disfranchising' negroes. 1903 Andred Carnegie donated $600,000 to the Tuskegee Institute. 1904 Fire in Toronto destroyed $10,000,. 000 worth of property. 1905 Cretan Assembly proclaimed a un ion of Crete and Greece. 1905 Andrew Carnegie gave 510,000,000 as a pension 'fund for college profes sors in the United States and Can ada. , 1906 The remains of John Paul Jones were reinterred at Annapolis. 1908 Thirty persons killed by a land slide at Notre Dame de Salette, Que bec. . QjlOOLS (OLLEGES President Eliot of Harvard University, Is to be decorated by the mikado of Japan with the Order of the Rising Sun, first class. The Minnesota College of Agriculture granted diplomas to 108 students. James J. Hill delivered the commencement ad dress. Minneapolis is to have a university club, to be open to regular graduates of all recognized universities. The mem bership will be about 400. The new board of trustees of the North Dakota Agricultural College held its first meeting at Fargo and re-elected George II. Hollister president. Lieut. Burnett, of Fort Snelllng, has1 proposed that military drill be estab lished in the St. Paul public schools. The school board is considering the mat ter. Miss Frances Renning, a Junior at the Minnesota State University, has mysteri ously disappeared and the Minneapolis police are co-operating with the young women's parents in r t effort to locate her. University of Michigan students are circulating among themselves a subscrip tion list for the purpose of raising SI, 000 with which to purchase a loving cup for retiring President James B, An gell. . In a notable address Robert C. Or den of New York opened the twelfth an nual conference for education in the South at Atlanta, Gov. Smith welcoming the visitors. President Ogden said that during the life of the conference, educa tion in America had begun to be critical of itself as well as appreciative, be advocated the creation of a federal de partment of education, or at least of a bureau of investigation, and criticised Congress for its failure to spend money more liberally lu this cause. Rev. Dr. Marion Le Roy Burton of the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, has been chosen president of Smith Col lege for women at Northampton, Mass to take effect the coming school year. There are now about 1,600 women stu dents at Smith. The relay team of the Wisconsin Uni versity will surely participate in the ath letic games in Pennsylvania, and Osthoff, Wisconsin's famous weight man, also may make the trip to win honors for the car dinal. To the surprise of the stndent body the athletic council voted J 100 te ward the expense. MOST TRAVELED WOMAX Who Has Been "On the Wins" Con. tlanonaly for 27 Yean. Probably the most traveled woman in the world is Miss Celeste J. Miller, of Chicago. For twenty-seven years continuously she has been "on the wing" and here is a partial record of her most remarkable travel achieve ments : Five times has she circled the globe completely, in addition to almost in numerable briefer European and Asi atic journeys that would seem long to a less traveled person. She has visited every known country and capital in the world, with prac tically every group of islands, however remote, and this, whenever possible, before the ordinary "tourist route" has been worked out s The first woman to traverse South America alone, she crossed the Andes twice on this trip, covered the entire region, and made original discoveries and explorations. The first woman to go over the Trans- Siberian Railway, she traveled 500 miles in Manchuria in a mule palan quin, sleeping in Chinese hotels, visit ing the great Chinese wall, etc. Her first visit to Palestine and Syria was distinguished by a 500-mlle ride on an Arab horse. During this journey she bad no tent passing her nights in native huts, with sheep herd ers and so on. In Morocco she also traveled 500 miles on muleback. In Central, America, Newfoundland, etc., she lived with and studied all manner, of queer people such as the Chell Indians, Nubia negroes and Es kimos, it being one of her unbreak able "travel rules" to hobnob with the different races met, and to stay in each country long enough really to learn somthlng of Its ways and inhabi tants. She has made the "Mediterranean trip" four times, "done" Egypt and the Nile twice, visited Turkey twice, and run across" to the Eureopean conti nent so many times that she long since ceased to "keep track" of such comparatively insignificant Jaunts. She had been all over India, the East and West Indian Islands, Cuba, the Philippines, Corea and Hawaii long be fore it became usual to visit these places. She has visited 10,000 mosques, tem ples and churches. In addition to all this she knows Intimately every portion of America, and even when "not traveling," accord ing to ber own understanding of the term, thinks nothing of flying off to California, Alaska, the south, any where that her active fancy takes her. The further is remarkable because t She always travels alone. With the exception of a slight smat tering of French and German, she has, literally, "no tongue but her own" to help her about strange countries. She has realized her life ambition, though it has cost her, on an average, $10 per day for 27 years to do so. She has never been sick a day, away from home, with the exception of occa sional slight attacks of seasickness, though she has been through fifteen epidemics of the bubonic plague in In dia and China, visited the Indian burning ghats in places from which the American minister had fled in dis may. , Miss Miller enjoys traveling as much now as when she started and at pres ent having remained in America for some time, she is planning "the long est trip around the world" ever taken. BUmarck'a Wooing;. - The wooing of the great - German statesman, Bismarck, was character istic of the forceful nature of the man. He first met the Fraulein von Putt- kammer at a wedding, and was van quished at first sight. Hardly waiting to remove his wedding garments, he sat down and wrote to her parents, de manding her hand In marriage. As Bismarck's reputation was not above reproach, Herr von Puttkammer's sur prise was naturally not altogether pleasant. However, the bold suitor was invited to pay him a visit, and within a few hours Bismarck appeared. The object of his adoration and her parents were prepared to give him d formally polite welcome; but Bis marck's Intentions were far more cordial, for he Ignored utterly the ex tended hands of the parents, threw his arms around the daughter, and kissed her heartily. Before many minutes had elapsed the Impetuous lover was formally betrothed. Where They Came From. Scattered as is the sunflower "tawny and bronce and gold" all over the prairies of the west as well as the fields of the eastern states, yet few people know that it originally came from Peru. Incidentally here are the birthplaces of other popular plants: Celery came from Germany; chestnut from Italy; onion from Egypt; tobacco from Virginia ; nettle from Europe ; cit ron from Greece; oats from North Africa ; poppy from the east ; rye from Siberia I parsley from Sardinia; pear and apple from Europe; spinach from Arabia; mulberry tree from Persia; walnuts from Persia; peaches from Persia; cucumber from East Indies; quince) from Crete; radish from China and Japan; peas from Egypt; horse radish from southern Europe; horse chestnut from Tibet Bad Better Taete. Father1 How do you like your new mamma, Elsie? Daughter (turning up her nose) H'ra! Next time you better let me pick one out for you I SOMETHING FOB EVEKYBODY The diseases to which the silkworm is liable number 100. ; Living in London is 40 per cent cheaper than in the large cities of the United States. Out of every million letters that pass through the post office it Is cal culated that onlv one roes astrav. The cow tree of Venezuela Is a nat ural dairy. Its sap Is very similar to milk and Is used as such by the na tives. The transient hotel population of New York is figured at 250,000 people a day. The hotel properties are valued at over $80,000,000. There Is a great demand In China for lead. It Is used In several Chinese manufactures, but chiefly for lining tea chests for export Caleb Watts, of Lily Pad, Pa., who raises frogs for the market, gets the best results by feeding them on liver, corn meal and flies. . Great Britain imports over $35,000,- 000 worth of eggs a year from Russia, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Canada and the United States. Mrs. A. B. Enrlght, of East Concord, Vt, is county supervisor of schools and said to be one of the busiest women in the State. Besides her school work she performs all the duties that fall to the lot of the wife of a Methodist pastor of two large parishes. Professor Jowett's comments on the y.oung men of Balliol, Oxford, often took the form of crushing sarcasms. "The college, Mr. X.,- thinks highly of you," be once said: "perhaps too high ly; but not half so highly, I am sure, as you think of yourself." China Is buying lumber from British Columbia. It Is largely needed for railway construction. American lumber Is shipped to Shanghai. On one day of his recent visit four full cargoes of Oregon pine arrived there, says the Canadian trade commissioner at Yoko hama. Miss Selma Lagerlof, besides belnj the most popular writer in Sweden, has Just received an honorary degree from the University of Upsala. She is the first woman in Sweden to receive this distinction, and it is said to be only a matter of time when she will get the Nobel prize. - Mrs. Emma Barry, of San Francisco, has Just returned from a trip to the Arctic Circle, durjng which, it is assert ed, she went farther north than any other white woman. She accompanied her husband prospecting for gold, and after she lays in certain supplies she will rejoin him In Alaska. . Mrs. G. Meyer Is responsible for the monument that has Just been erected at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to the memory of the horses that died during the Boer war. It cost upward of 5,000, and is in the shape of a stone water ing trough, on the top of which is the figure of a bronze cavalryman giving a drink to his horse. The State of North Carolina Is one of the most notable In the Union for the production of gems, particularly diamonds, emeralds, rubles, aquamar ines, beryls, hlddenlte, rhodolite, ameth ysts and remarkable rock crystals. These gems have been found mainly in the course of mining operations, al though a few systematic searches for them have been made and two com panies are now engaged exclusively In such work. A British lieutenant In the Second Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, who was lately called "Leo Quintus Tolle-mache-Tollemache de Oreilana Planta- genet Tollemache-Tollemache," gave no tice a short time ago by means of ad vertisement that he has renounced the names of Quintus Tollemache-Tollemache Plantagenet Tollemache, and in tends henceforth upon all occasions and at all times to sign and use and be called and known by the name of Leo de Oreilana Tollemache only. Count von Zeppelin, the aeronnnt. was born In 1838. and devoted whH are for most men the best years of life to military service. Retiring in 1880 with the rank of general, he turned with a boyish enthusiasm to the nnr. suit of his hobby, aerial navigation. To the solution of the problem which had baffled the Investigators of two cen turies he sacrificed his fortune, with little apparent progress toward tho goal. Poverty spurred him .to greater exertion, in ne made a success ful balloon Journey from Benin oerne, but his work was lightly esteem ed until 1900, when the surprising suc cess or tne nrst airigiDie caused a een- uln sensation. Since that time his progress has been easier. As long ago as 1795 a LelDsic hons. published a German novel illustrated oy something closely resemblini a Roentgen picture. The story tells of the Countess Abilllnla. who aave her heart to the knight Glbello. The knight ly lover was thoughtless enough to kill his lady love's father, her affection turned to hatred, she vowed to kill him, In a dream she saw the man who had fascinated her, and she stood, ready to slay him, when suddenly the form changed, and before her stood a grin ning skeleton saying, "I have already been punished." This scene ia Ulna. f t f asv In trie, Kswitr and V .aj ... . Is not unlike a Roentgen photograph. When it was published no one Drobahir would have believed that science with in a comparatively short time wmiirt make it possible to produce this pic ture, which the author'a imagination invented. ,