THE SUNSET CITY.
IWa'i a city that Ilea In tht Kingdom
of Clouds,
In the glorious country on high,
Which an azurs and silvery curtain en
shrouds, To screen it from mortal eye;
A city of temples and turrets of gold,
That gleam by a sapphire sea,
Like jewels mora splendid than earth may
behold,
Or are dreamed of by you and by me.
And about it are highlands of amber that
reach
Far away till tbey meet In ths gloam ;
And waters that hem an immaculate
beach
With fringes of luminous foam.
Aerial bridges of foam thers are,
And belfries of marvelous shapes.
And lighthouses lit by the evening star,
That sparkle on violet capes ; '
And hanging gardens that far away
Enchantedly float aloof;
Rainbow pavilions in avenues gay,
And banners of glorious woofi
When the summer sunset's crimsoning
fires
Ars aglow in the western sky,
Ths pilgrim discovers ths domes arid
spires
Of this wonderful city on high ;
And gazing enrapt as the gathering shade
Creeps over the twilight lea,
Bees palace and pinnacle totter and fade,
And sink in the sapphire sea,
Till the vision loses by slow degrees
The magical splendor it wore;
The silvery curtain is drawn, and he sees
The beautiful city no more!
Henry Sylvester Cornwell.
Three Girls
and a Man
Mrs. Seton-IIall had three pretty
girls stopping with her.
Mujorie Wake, tall and fair, with
lovely wide eyes and ail indescribable
way of wearing her clothes.
Eunice Adair, sallow and ollve
kinned, with glorious dark eyes aud
Vps like crushed cherries.
Lastly, Anlce Hart, gray-eyed, with
brown hair; not so beautiful as the
other two, but more distinguished-looking
and a genius for selecting the right
thing In frocks. -
Mrs. Seton-IIall was proud of her
young guests.
'Bob will have to lose his heart to
one of them," she confided to renelope
Chalmers.
Penelope agreed with her. She al
ways did agree with Mrs. Seton-IIall,
which was why the older woman liked
her so well.
"Is Mr. Waldersea very handsome?"
Inquired Penelope.
"You have seen his portrait, and ho
Is my brother," snld Mrs. Seton-IIall.
Penelope blushed.
"But I do not know whether he Is
tall or medium, or indifferent or mas
terful," she hasteued to explain, apolo
getically. "You romantic little goose," said
Mrs. Seton-IIall. "To me Bob is Just a
nice, pleasant fellow, who would make
any girl a good husband. I wish you
would observe him well this evening,
and let me know how he looks to you.
After all, my dear, you have consider
able sense, even If you are stupid about
some things. Run and dress now ; you
have admired mo long enough, and,
Penelope, do put on something becom
ing, I want everyone to look their best
'Bob is so critical."
"As If it mado any difference how I
looked," thought Penelope, but, never
theless, she donned a roHC-colored crepe,
the only nice frock In her wardrobe,
and went downstairs looking like a
wild rose.
Mrs. Seton-IIall sent her brother In
with a girl on either arm, selecting
Majorle Blake, the blonde, and Eunice
Adair, the brunette.
Anlce Hart sat directly opposite the
young man, where her superb figure
and magnificent frock showed to the
lent advantage.
Bob Waldersea was not easily Im
pressed, being something of a man of
the world, and much traveled. A pret
ty girl more or less did not make his
pulse tremble. He was quite a his
ase, and In a most entertaining mood.
Penelope Chalmers, tucked away at
the far end of the table, watched him
In fascinated admiration, and wondered
how those other girls could laugh and
chat with him so calmly.
Majorle Blake and Mr. Waldersea
had been engaging In a merry war of
words when Miss Adair protested. "I
claim Mr. Waldersea's attention," she
pouted. "It Is as much as five minutes
since he has given me a glance."
"Impossible!" exclaimed the young
man, In mock horror. "Think what Joy
I have been missing all that time. Tell
Die something, quick, quick, or someone
else will speak and I shall have to
look away again," he said, In a half
whisper.
"What shall 1 tell you?"
"Tell me who the tall girl ts with
green eyes at the other end of the ta
ble." "Why, that Is Penelope Chalmers."
"Indeed! Well, Penelope Is a Tery
quaint name for a very odd-looking
girl. Who Is Miss Chalmers, anyway?
Where does she come from?"
"Don't you know? She Is Mrs. Seton
Hall's companion and secretary ; comes
of some very old and poverty-stricken
family, I believe. Awfully sweet girl ;
y are tremendously fond of her, and
( so srry for her, yon know. It Is too
bad she Is not pretty, don't you think?
She might marry well If she had more
style."
When Bob Waldersea had been at
Dream Vale, his sister's country home,
for three weeks, he discovered that
Penelope Chalmers was the power be
hind the throne. It was Penelope who
was always ready to Join In a game of
tennis when necessary, and she excelled
at the sport. It was Penelope who read
aloud, while the women embroidered
and the men smoked lazily on the
broad veranda. It was Penelope who
went up to town on the warmest day
of the season to execute commissions
for everybody.
One day Bob came across the useful
young woman outstretched In a ham
mock. He stood for a moment staring
down at her, and she seemed to feel his
gaze and looked up.
"Miss Chalmers in a new role," he
said, lightly; "laziness personified."
Her serious eyes sparkled, and a dim
ple dented her cheek. "I will confess
something," she whispered; "I am the
laziest person you ever met."
"What airs you do put on, then ; why,
sometimes you have pretended to be al
most energetic."
"It is all pretense, I Just hate to
move. I should like to have a little
slave boy follow me around to move
things out of my way and pick up arti
cles I might drop."
"Lazy people are usually sympa
thetic," said Bob. "I wonder If you
are."
"You might try and see," she suggested.
Bob scat down on a long chair beside
the hammock.
"Do you know why my devoted sister
Invited me down here?" he said.
Penelope flushed.
"I suppose I can guess the reason,"
she said.
"Well, do you know, I have made up
my mlud to behave myself and please
al! my relatives at last."
"Really !"
Penelope sat up in her excitement.
"Which one is it?"
"Guess."
Penelope thought for a minute. He
had carefully spent more time with
Marjorle than with either of the other
girls. "Miss Blake," she said.
Bob Waldersea threw back his head
and laughed.
"I would as soon marry an Iceberg.
Blondes are good to look at, but the
Sphinx would be more companionable
In daily life."
Then Penelope recalled that although
they had not gone about so much to-
"laziness personified."
gether, she had often seen Mr. Walder
sea and Eunice Adair In earnest conver
sation. She remembered the latter's
quick sympathy and wild, emotional
beauty.
"Oh, It Is Eunice!" she exclaimed.
"Pshaw!" said Bob, "you are not a
bit clever. I would Just as soon live In
the houso with a hurrlcance."
'Tenelope! renelope!" called Mrs.
Seton-IIall's well-trained voice.
"Coming!" answered the girl.
"I've been searching everywhere for
you," snld Mrs. Seton-IIall.
"Ssh! He's made his choice," said
Peuelope, "and Just gave me to under
stand It wns Anlce Hart!"
"It Is Just like a man to pick out the
plainest-looking girl. I suppose her
dignity appeals to him. There Is a reg
istered letter at the post-ofHce, and you
are the only one who can sign for me.
Would you mind walking over all the
horses are out or disabled?"
Penelope tied up a broad sun hat.
"By the way, dear, after I get this
affair of Bob's off my mind, I mean to
tnke a bit of a holiday a little trip
abroad, and, of course, I shall not need
a companion, so you might be on the
lookout for some other position. I am
sure 1 shall miss you terribly; but
one's expenses do mount up so these
days."
"Of course," said renelope. "Is there
anything else I can do for you In the
village?"
"Xo, thank you."
Tenelope started off. and Mrs. Seton
IIall sighed resentfully. "She has no
feellugs, that girl. I have become quite
attached to her, but she Is altogether
matter-of-fact"
Meauwhlle, Bob Waldersea, from his
corner of the verdunda, was also watch
Inf Penelope, and suddenly he started
up and followed her.
"Where are you going now?" he
asked, as he caught up with her.
There was no answer.
Then he peered benuth the big hat
The lovely eyes were dewy with tears,
and the long lashes glistened.
Toor child, what Is the matter?"
Penelope's pitiful attempt at calm
nos was scatered, and she broke down
and sobbed.
"Mrs. Mrs. Seton-IIall la going
away, and and "
"And she will not want you?" he
asked.
Fenelope sobbed harder than ever, so
that he knew his surmise was correct
"What are you going to do?"
"I I don't know."
"Where are you going now?
"To the postofflce."
"She has sent you to the village this
broiling day?"
"I I don't mind that; only after
wards I have no place to go to. Oh !"
"Yes you have, Penelope ; I want you
to come and live with me."
Penelope dropped her arms at her
side and stared at him.
"As companion to Arnice?" she ask
ed.
"Companion to nobody as my wife.'
"You you said it was Anlce. You
cannot care for me."
"I will show you whether I can or
not You are the most attractive, the
most graceful, the most accomplished,
and the most fascinating girl I have
ever seen in my life."
"Nobody has ever said such things
to me before," said Penelope.
"But many people will say them In
the future. You will create a sensation
In my world."
When they told Mrs. Seton-Hall she
said, coldly:
"I am very glad, I am sure ; but I
might have saved myself the trouble of
having all those silly girls around, and
now I suppose you will put on airs and
not be willing to wait on us any more."
Bob lifted his eyebrows.
"My wife will certainly never wait
on anybody not even herself," he said
decidedly. Spare Moments.
PASSING 07 THE DINOSAUR.
Giant Reptiles Exterminated When
Other Animals Ate Their Egn.
Never In the whole history of tht
world as we now know It have there
been such remarkable land scenes as
were presented when the reign of these
Titanic reptiles was at Its climax. It
was also the prevailing life picture of
England, Germany, South America and
India. We can imagine herds of these
creatures from fifty to eighty feet in
length, with limb and gait analogous
to those of gigantic elephants, but with
bodies - extending through the long,
flexible and tapering necks Into the
diminutive heads and reaching back
Into the equally long and still more
tapering tails. The four or five va
rieties which existed together were
each fitted for some special mode of
life, some living more exclusively on
land, others for longer periods In the
water.
The competition of existence was no
only with the great carnivorous dino
saurs, but with the other kinds of
herbivorous dinosaurs (the lguano-
donts), which had much smaller bodies
to sustain aud a much superior tooth
mechanism for the taking of food.
The cutting off of this giant dlno
saur dynasty was nearly, If not quite,
simultaneous the world over. The ex
planation which is deducable from sim
ilar catastrophes to other large types
of animals is that a very large frame
with a limited and specialized set of
teeth fitted only to certain special food
is a dangerous combination of charac
ters. Such a monster organism is no
longer adaptable; any serious change
of conditions which would tend to
eliminate these great animals as a nec
essary consequence..
There Is an entirely different class oi
explanations,, however, to be consid
ered, which are consistent both with
the continued fitness of structure of
the giant dinosaurs themselves and
with the survival of their especial
food ; such, for example, as the Intro
duction of a new enemy more deadly
even than the great carnevorous dino
saurs. Among such theories the most
Ingenious Is that of the late Professor
Cope, who suggested that some of the
small, Inoffensive and Inconspicuous
forms of Jurassic mammals of the size
of the shrew and the hedgehog con
tracted the habit of seeking out the
nests of these dinosaurs gnawing
through the-shells of their eggs and
thus destroying the young. The ap
pearance of evolution of any egg-de-stroylug
animals, whether reptiles or
mammals, which could attack this
great race at such a defenceless point
would be rapidly followed by Its extinction.
lie Has Two Signature.
There Is one New York business man
who Is reasonably proof against the
forger, as he has two signatures and
the forger must first get hold of one
of his bank checks to get any action.
Seeing the signature on a letter or ho
tel register would do the forger no
good. The bank would not recognize
It "I don't particularly fear the
forger," the business man admitted,
"but my two signatures make me feel
safer Just the same. I am surprised
that everybody doesn't hit on the same
plan. It's very easy after you get the
knack of signing your name two sep
arate and distinct ways." New York
Globe.
Description Not Flattering?.
An Irishman once described the hu-
nian head as "a bulbous excrescence, of
S(ectal use to many as a peg for hang
ing wigs as a target for shooting at
when rendered conspicuous by a shin
ing helmet as a snuffbox or a chatter
boxas a machine for fitting Into a
halter or guillotine as a receptacle for
freaks, fancies, follies, passions, preju
dices, predilections for anything, Id
short, but brains."
Bank Note.
First Director That new cashier
don't seem to take any Interest In the
business.
Second Director Heavens ; you don't
want him to clean up everything, do
you? We ought to be glad If he takes
nothing but the principal Toledo
Blade.
City people will feel awfully home
sick In heaven If the golden' street
art not torn up occasionally.
Old Favorites
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.
The Miller of the Dee.
There dwelt a miller, hale and bold,
Beside the River Dee;
He wrought and sang from morn til
night,
No lark more blithe than he ;
And this the burden of bis song
Forever used to be,
"I envy no man, no, not I,
And no one envies me!"
"Thou'rt wrong, my friend," said old
King Hal,
"As wrong as wrong can be;
For could my heart be light as thine,
I'd gladly change with thee.
And tell me now what makes thee sing
With voice so loud and free,
While I am sad, though I'm the King,
Beside the River Dee?"
The miller smiled and doffed his cap ;
"I earn my bread," quote he;
"I love my wife, I love my friend,
I love my children three.
I owe no one I can not pay,
I thank the River Dee,
That turns the mill that grinds the corn
To feed my babes and me 1"
"Good friend," said Hal, and sighed ths
while,
"Farewell! and happy be!
But say no more, If thou'dst be trot,
That no one envies thee.
Thy mealy cap Is worth my crown ;
Thy mill my kingdom's fee!
Such men as thou are England's boast,
Oh, miller of the Dee I"
Charles Mackay.
The Spanish Cavalier.
A Spanish cavalier stood in his retreat,
And on his guitar played a tune dear;
The music so sweet they'd ofttimes re
peat,
The blessings of my country and you,
dear.
Chorus
Say, darling, say, when I'm far away,
Sometimes you may think of me, dear;
Bright, sunny days will soon fade away,
Remember what I say to be true, dear.
I'm off to the war, to the war I must go,
To fight for my country and you, dear;
But If I should fall, in vain I would call
The blessings of my country and you,
dear.
Chorus
And when the war is o'er, to you I'll re
turn ;
Back to my country and you, dear.
But should I be slain, you may seek in
vain
Upon the battle-field you will find me,
dear.
Press Agent to a River.
The editorial staff of one of the pop
ular magazines of New York were
gathered in the publisher's office one
day In December, discussing plans for
the new year.
"One thing we must have," said the
publisher, emphatically. "We must
have a lot of stuff about water pow
er, navigation everything about wa
ter."
"Well," said the editor, cautiously,
"of course a timely article on the sub
ject not too technical "
"Timely article nothing" Interrupted
the publisher. "If I had my way we'd
have a long article every number. Wa
must have at least six In the year.
It's the greatest subject going."
"Bill," said one of the staff, "who or
what set you crazy on water?"
The publisher looked at him and
laughed.
"I'll tell you what It was," he said.
"It was a long, lank Arkansas traveler
named John Fox. He came In here
one day, so quietly I hardly heard him
enter. Said he wanted to talk about
water, and especially about rivers. I
told him to run away, as I was busy.
He sat down by my desk and began to
talk. Well he's one of those South
erners you read about courteous, soft
voiced, the kind you can't shut up and
send away. In a few minutes I was
listening in spite of myself. He sat
there three hours, telling me things 1
had never dreamed of before about the
rivers and harbors of America. Then
he picked up his hat, and said he must
be going.
" 'For goodness sake don't go yet,'
I begged. 'I'm Just getting Interested,
Tell me the rest.' But he wouldn't
say another word. Out he went. 1
tell you he's a smooth one! He knows
Just when he has said enough. Ever
since then I have been plumb crazy
over waterways." Success Magazine.
Old Missouri State Road.
One of the oldest landmarks In this
part of Missouri is the old Bloomlng
ton road, also known as the old State
road. This road began in the eastern
part of North Missouri, running west
through Bloomlngton. It didn't run on
section lines as the roads now run, but
ran as the crow flies. The highway
was the main thoroughfare through
North Missouri long before and after
the Hannibal & St. Joseph railroad
was built and has a history not well
known to the younger generation. Over
this old time highway the early gold
seekers traveled In ox wagons with
their little earthly belongings, going to
California and Oregon. Brooklyn Ga
zette. Something; New.
Mr. Nurlch was In the Jewelry
8 tor. "Here are some new souvenir
spoons we have Just got In," said the
clerk, placing a tray for her Inspection.
"Oh, ain't those lovely !" she ex
claimed. "I must have some of those!
Our cook makes such lovely souvenir!"
Argonaut
Agree with people more. It ts a good
way to get rid of an argument. Be
sides, the people you agree with
always like you better.
Berlin has adopted luminous street
signs.
The pay roll of American railroads
amounts to a billion dollars a year.
If each individual In New York City
owned an equal portion of Its real es
tate he would be worth In land $1,'
520, according to the assessed valua
tlon.
While the British send on an aver
age two telegrams a head each year,
according to government statistics, the
Americans send only one and one-tenth
and the Germans nine-tenths.
Money Is accumulating In New York
City more rapidly than at any time
In the last two years. Banks are re
ceiving much faster than they are pay
ing, and good investments are being
diligently sought In every direction.
The new catalogue of Columbia Uni
versity shows the total number of offi
cers of the administration and In
structors to be 670; the total number
of resident students 6,683, as against
5,159 last year. Since the last cata
logne was published eight special funds
have been created by special gift or
bequest.
Briquettes composed of calcium car
bide have been prepared by H. K. Kof
fer of Vienna, and are claimed to bo
non-hydroscoplc, keeping Indefinitely,
and do not continue to give off gas
after withdrawal of water. They are
made by Intimately mixing finely gran
ulated carbide with a binding material
and compressing In molds.
Dr. William S. Bigelow, who is re
sponsible for the cutting of the new
United States gold coins In intaglio
Instead of In relief, a new departure In
coinage, is neither a sculptor nor a
numismatist, but the author of the re
cent book on "Buddhism and Immor
tality." He has given years of study
to the literature of the Far East.
Discussion arose at a meeting of the
Ballycastle (County Antrim) Board of
Guardians on a letter from the local
government board asking what order
the guardians had made on a former
letter from the board requesting that
the paupers should be supplied with
forks at meals. It was decided to in
form the local government board that
the guardians did not consider forks
necessary. London Globe.
A counting machine that is reported
to be an improvement over anything
of the kind yet produced, the inven
tion of a Swedish engineer, was recent
ly supplied to the counting house of
the Bank of England for experimental
purposes, and Its performance was
highly successful In point of rapidity.
The machine Is operated by electrici
ty, and is capable of counting up and
sorting money Into paper bags or tubes
at the phenomenal rate of 72,000 coins
an hour. The coins are placed in a
receptacle at the back of the machine,
and are mechanically sorted, stacked
and inserted Into paper tubes.
TWo Russian sailors, wishing to de
sert from their ship lying in the Tyne,
England, took a boat and rowed for
the open sea. They took with them
food and clothing and $300 in cash.
The flood tide set them ashore again
and they tried to land, but the sea
was running too high. For many hours
they drifted helplessly about, and final
ly their tiny craft was pitched upon
the beach of Manhaven, near South
Shields. Here they took refuge In a
cave, where they lived four days and
nights, until their food became ex
hausted. Hunger drove them Into the
open, and eventually they, were arrested.
In times past a fashion lasted, with
slight modifications, for years. Much
the same fashion continued through the
long reign of Louis XIV., and another
through that of Louis XV., while the
ladies of the middle ages never thought
of varying their costumes. As for the
Greeks and the Romans, generation
succeeded generation with little change
in female dress; and yet all these la
dles of the past were more artistically
dressed than those of to-day. Many,
no doubt, spent more than they could
afford, but when they had a costly
dress they kept It and did not throw
it away to replace It with another.
Truth.
Some curious thermometers were
made. Otto de Guerlcke, burgomaster
of Magdeburg, made one which was
twenty feet long and gorgeous with
blue paint and gilt stars. It consisted
of a large globe fastened to a tube,
both of copper. The tube was bent
upon Itself Into the form of a very
narrow U, In which was placed the
requisite amount of alcohd. One arm
of the U was shorter than the other
and open at the top. On the liquid was
a float to which was attached a cord
passing over a pulley. At the other
end of this cord was hung a irilt an
gel, Its finger pointing to a scale on
which the degrees were painted.
Poseidon, the newest Australian irniri
field. Is producing some remarkable
nuggets. One, shaped exactly like a
cricket ball, was recently found ther?
lying on the surface, the finder at first
mistaking it for a mushroom. And
now, from the same place, comes news
of a nugget of 103 ounces closely re
sembling a nautilus shell. This was
found by an Irishman, and on the ad
Joining claim a Scotchman named Mv
Kenzle almost simultaneously Impaled
a thirty-eight-ounce nugget on the point
or his pics. Furthermore, a boy driv
ing a baker's cart over the Poseidon
field saw the gleam of gold In the
grass. He got down and nicked nn
a nice little nugget of four ounces.
Soldiers of Berlin built a pontoon
bridge across the river Spree In forty
minutes recently.
The most approved design of storm
door construction represents an Invest
ment of no less than $2,400.
The famous Lachlne rapids of the
St. Lawrence are to be spanned by a
bridge and the channel widened.
A $40,000 wireless telegraph plant la
being erected "at Newport, which will
have a working radius of 1,250 miles.
An attempt to establish a municipal
brewery In Berlin resulted In a dismal
failure. It did plenty of business, but
lost money.
As a nroof of the lasting qualities of
cypress, a coffin recently was excavated
at New Orleans which had been burled
since 1803, yet the wood was as sound
as when new.
A new Ice cream freezer, by using a
glass can, claims to do away with the
arduous labor of turning a crank and
freezes its contents by packing in
crushed Ice and salt.
By placing small cylinders contain
ing compressed carbon dioxide, with
fuse plugs, melting at 200 degrees, In
coal bunkers, spontaneous combustion,
it Is said, will be prevented,
v In a once famous tea district of In
dia, the cultivation of rubber has driv
en the production of the former to sec
ond place, nearly 17,000 acres being
devoted to rubber plantations.
One of the greatest leather belts In
the world recently was completed at
a Philadelphia factory. Three-ply, it
was 150 feet long by five wide, and
required 300 hides in Its manufacture.
The foundation for the recently com
pleted harbor of refuge lighthouse,
Delaware bay, is a solid block of con
crete, 18 feet deep, 40 feet In diame
ter at the base and 30 feet at the top.
The unofficial and authorized Jury
of outsiders has decided that the award
for personal pulchritude among the
eleven governors and next governors
Is to be divided evenly between Draper,
of Massachusetts and Prouty, of Ver
mont. Boston Record.
W. B. Haggins, better known as Pea
nut Bill, has bought a lot In the Ponca
city cemetery and had erected thereon
a handsome marble monument to him
self. The only inscription on the monu
ment is this simple statement: "Bill
Haggins is gone." Ponca City (Okla.),
Courier.
After an active service of more than
twenty years, Bishop Cyrus D. Fobs
has resigned the presidency of the
Methodist Episcopal Board of Home
Missions and Church Extension, assign
ing as the reason his ill health of the
last year. Bishop "Luther B. Wilson
has been chosen to succeed him.
One hundred and fifty different lan
guages are spoken in India, most of
them unwritten, and this fact frequent
ly leads to trouble in the courts of that
Oriental country. Strangely enough,
Indians frequently drift Into that cap
ital who can find no one able to under
stand some of the litigants and wit-
court nor the court Interpreters under
stand some of the litigants and wit
nesses involved In some of the lawsuits.
One of the best of Arab characteris
tics is that of filial piety. Sons and
daughters of deceased parents take
upon themselves all sorts of irksome
tasks accounted as expiatory of the
minor faults committed by the departed
ones during their lifetime, and dis
charging faithfully every payment or
obligation left unfulfilled by dead pa
rents, for has not the prophet said
that martyrdom even will not atone for
an unpaid debt
There are several species of fish, rep
tiles and Insects that never sleep, dur
ing the whole of their existence.
Among fish It is positively known that
pike, salmon and goldfish at no time
sleep; also that there are other mem
bers of the fish family that sleep only
a few minutes during the course of a
month. There are various species of
flies that never Indulge In slumber,
and five species of serpents also that
do not sleep.
Parliament House, Melbourne, which
has been rushed by "the unemployed"
of the commonwealth capital, is the
costliest legislative palace in Greater
Britain. A million has been expended
on It, and It Is not yet completed. It
belongs to the Parliament of Victoria,
but since federation it has been the
meeting place of the Parliament of the
commonwealth, its owners moving to
a wing of the exhibition building close
by. London Chronicle.
At the recent meeting of the national
suffrage convention in Buffalo a let
ter was received from the Socialist
Woman's Society of New York urging
the convention . to give Its support to
socialism. The letter pointed out that
both the Democratic and the Republi
can parties had refused to put a suff
rage plank Into their platforms, while
the Socialist party had not only adopt
ed such a plank, but had appointed a
committee to work for it.
"At the sound of the shot" says a
writer in the Strand Magazine, describ
ing alligator hunting In Egypt, "the
whole of this bank of the river, over
the extent of at least a quarter of a
mile, sprang into hideous life, and my
companions and I saw hundreds of
crocodiles, of all sorts and sizes, rush
ing madly into the Nile, whose waters
along the line of the shore were lashed
Into white foam, exactly as If a heavy
wave had broken. It could be no ex
aggeration to say that at least a thou
sand of these saurlans had been dis
turbed at a single shot"