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COAL FEOM AMEHICA. EUROPE COMES TO THIS COUN TRY FOR FUEU The laadnjnata Sappl Abroad Pro , aotw Our rorelaja Trade-Beat Coal for Fiarhtloa; Ship Mow Cornea from . Ue United State. Mine operator! from the United States and their agents are all over lot fcuropoan continent In the Interest of American coal and almost every day vessels loaded with the product of American mines are clearing for Euro pean ports, where they are to lay down oiiuminoua coal at English prices. CJreat Britain, with an estimated coal supply for only 200 years, has been ex porting 50,000,000 tons annually. The antisn public has been looking upon this with disfavor. An export tax upon the product Is anticipated, and In the event of It the Mediterranean ports must draw upon the United States for their fuel. Already the United States has been supplying the best coal for use In naval vessels. In Europe coal deposits cover 27,000 square miles in Russia, 0.000 In Great Britain, 3.000 In Germany, 1.800 In France, and In all the rest of Europe are only 1,400 square miles. In Great Britain, Frauee, and Germany especial ly these fields have been drawn ujmn for hundrds of years. Every square mile of resource has been sounded. Some of " the English veins are worked to a depth of 8.SS7 feet. burg district, closely centering about the metropolis of the western portion or the State. Some coal from the eastern portion of this district reaches tide water by rail over the Pennsylvania, but the hopes of those -who expect an export business In Pittsburg coal are based upon the fact that during certain portions of the year cheap transporta tion to the port of New Orleans may be by way of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. In Maryland the famous Cumber land coal Is produced, but lhi is de cidedly soft, breaking Into small pieces rather than crumbling, yet not lu favor with foreign consumers notwithstand ing Its richness in fuel properties. The foreign trade demand a lumpy coal. and for that reason the Cumberland can be left out of calculations concerning export trade. In West Virginia three Important rail road lines handle the products of the Elk Garden and Fairmont reglous lu ! which h-enators Davis and Elkins are widely Interested the New River and Kanawha districts, and the 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 Pocahontas coal, however. will be In limited but strong demand for naval steaming. In Alabama the coal fields He In the northern part of the State, near Birmingham, and the way of outlet will be through Mobile or Pensacola. With these coals from these States. nd paying even ?5 a ton for ocean freights, the American shipper may have a margin of $1.50 nroflt at :ih- until aiK-r, f interest on COST, ,K rTT rv . depreciation. B5; crew. M0; p,' OUIl BUDGET OF FUN. visions, port charges, $1S4; pilot- i age, $C30; fuel, $i',02o, allowing full sell-; " iug price for company's coal used for ! HUMOROUS SAYINGS AND DO. steam. This, with $100 for incidentals. . JNGS HERE Ann thVpc gives a total of $5,637. making 80.4 I HEREAND THERE. cents a ton the actual transportation " cost on the coal. Vessel owners like to ! Jokclata that Ara Supposed secure and count upon a return cargo. and coal men owning such a vessel j would get more or less freight destined ' for the United States. But suppose I that practically nothing could be se- ' cured and that the freight charge would ! ie f It will be seeu that American ; coal can be laid down In Cardiff. In the j seat and center of the greatest coal In-' diiKtry In the world, at $t a ton, $3 be- j low the selling price of the Welsh coal. l.s1a in Production. As an Index to what the United States may fall Into in case the British coal trade may be encroached on to any i uroHl extent hr iiin..o,, .. i .i. 'itMn't " ' '"u.uau5l iuc , . i uu imir parrot could swear. following tables are reproduced from; Mrs. Telemachun Smm.-P, iu the British official, reports ending Dee. ! I didn't think she knew It. either until 51 IfcOfl Tl,- l.. .1... . . m ' "" v uun uie luug ions or jrou uu ner tnat Ice cream. Puck. -.i-t-j insulins auu snow comparisons ; with the years 1808 and 1897. The fig j ures are as nearly accurate as such fig-! ures can be: j to Have Been Recently Born-8ajrlna;a and Doings that Ara Old, Cariona and Langhablc-The Week'a Bun or. Ned He looks miserable, doesn't he? Bess-Yes; what's the matter tth him? Ned-Disappointed In love. Be?s-Why, he married the girl he wanted. Ned I know. That's Just It Pbila ueipuia I'ress. Mis Condiment. LONG FINGER NAILS FISHING IN THE PHILlPPi r.. iarvem-m you -j B.nk ,d Good Br.edlu. la ; InB.lo.MchBni.m byWh,c mil and sugar in your tea? ! " J! " ori.n..i Couatrl.a. I Make Factorial c.i. k1N,,i Just a little drop of water and a little grain of sand. Town Topics. Poet's Love. Teas Young Aster, the poet, doesn't seem so fond of Dora since he met hex cousin May. Jess No. It's much easier to write sonnets to May; there are so many more rhymes for her name. Philadel phia Press. crats write. themselves. Forced to Ezprew Heraelf. Mr. Telemaehus Smith rioiin The Serpent's Tooth. Rim. Is Sweden sad Norway .... Denmark .... (irnicnv .... Holland France Portugal, tbe A id re. and Maderla .... Spain and ta na riet Italy Turkey S.4W,97 1.S7R1S2 B.1HZ7S1 M7.235 1S1W. 2,115,007 8 61H4S 2.045.7HS 4.711.370 KU.m 5.710,113 1W. i I.3U7.791 4.4IH..WC j 2.03 1.4a ! 1.277,7ifi ! fc3,WJ 741,823 755.3.JD 2.237.30A 4. KM. 054 1.71,81 4,,.1 ftlo.Hha 2.2H2.3&: 6.51X4 .J ; 4!I,W ! Eg?! 1,WW,723 l,9U7.'.'a ,2,123,'tfi;i AMERICA IS SUPPLYING EUROPE WITITCOAJC: 9 (f -rS&r ; 59 SK A- S: l Auntie Whom do you love best? Dolly Mamma. Auntie Who next? Dolly You. Auntie Who next? Dolly Baby. I-'ather (from the background) And when does daddy come In? Dolly About 2 o'clock In the morn ing: Sketch. Even In the Days of Tore. "Where is the eleetrleiauV".' yelled Noah, as he groped his way toward the engine-room. Thus, ,even in the days of yore, was there much commo tion when the arc lights went out, Drooklyn Life. Aa It L'aually Happen. "I suppose you had careful rearing. Mr. Courtney'" "No; I didn't have any rearing at all; my parents exhausted all their disci plinary enthusiasm on my elder brother Bill." Too Mach. He How do I know that your love for me will last? She What do you expect me to give you a written recommendation from the last I loved? No Loaa. "The boyg are eating your green ap ples," said one of the guests. 'Thaf a all right," replied the honest old farmer who was taking boarders for the summer. "Let them eat all they want It'll keep 'em away from the table for the next two or three days, and I'll charge their daddies for tbe apples besides." Chicago Tribune. Not So Funny. "No, Harry, I am sure we could not be happy together; you know I always want my own way In every thing." "But, darling, you could go on want ing it after we were married." Broot lyn Life. Bnffic'ent Reaaon. Warwick Why Is It that there are no real skyscrapers In London? Wickwlre There Is no sky. Puck. A Good Fcheme. Tourist Do those scarecrows save your crops? Farmer They work first-rate. You see, every tramp that comes along crosses the fields to see If th' clothes is wu'tlj stenlin', w'ch they ain't, an that scares th' crows away. New York Weekly. The Reaaon. Askington Why don't you get mar ried, old fellow? Is It because you can not afford it? Borrowby (frankly) No; It Is because the girl's father cannot afford It. Puck. The countries where tbe long finger The Malay race Is probably the nail is most affected are Slam. Assam, jiWllfnl In fishing, and tbe mQ Cochin China and China. The approved j Islanders are not behind the J length varies from three or four to, branches An Illustration show, 1 twenty-three inches. A Siamese exqul- jof their favorite ways of cttcoC jlte permits the nails on his fingers to , fishes which run along the bottom grow to such an extent that his hnnds j rivers, bays and arms of the lea , are practical': useless. The aristo-, consists of a long raft ranging fro' who affect these nails can noi.iweuiy """'J m lengm, and from dress themselves, or even feed , eight to twenty feet In width. At th selves. ! rear Part or stern there Is a nlatw The Siamese hold the long Auger nail laud on It a little house, in Which it,'. i In the same reverence we hold the j fishermen doze during the heat of th. family tree. Many of them never have : day aud sleep at night. In the mlddi, had their nails cut from the day of their ,ls a smull furnace In which the, birth. On the first finger the nail Ih of j their cooking, aud a Jar In which thet moderate length-three or four Inches; put fine fishes, and a tank through while on the other lingers the nails which tbe water moves where they grow occasionally to two feet. The j store their catches. In the bowl,, thumb nail, which Is also allowed to j cumbrous but Ingeulous drop net Dih. grow long, after reaching a certain anlsm. It consists of two long ln() length curves around like a corkscrew. strong poles fastened to the raft oU In both China and Slam the owners axles and by a rope at the upper end of of long nails wear metal canes over the two, which here touch each other them to preserve them, made of gold j running down to a windlass In thj or silver, and Jeweled. While long i stern sheets. To tbe top of this jllri. nails are not regarded as singular In j niast are fastened two enormous bam! China, they are rarely met with ex- boos, crossed In the middle and bent w cept on fanatics and pedantic scholars, a to form semi-circles. The four ends Among the fakirs in Hindoostan ai0f the bamboos are connected l.r . peculiar custom is that of holding the ;great bag net ranging from twelve few hand tightly clenched and in one posl- j t0 forty feet square. When used the tlon so long that at last tbe nails grow j fishermen throw a lot of bait Into the through the palm, emerging at the back big net, and lower the arrangement bi of the hand, and growing thence al- j loosening the windlass and pernilttlni uivoi in me num. im tne rope to tin wma. rue masts rotatu muscles refuse to support tbe arm any j forward upon their axles, and the M longer It Is bound In position with gIrjkg uutU lt ne8 upon the bottom coriB- the water. The fish, attracted by th. In Nubia the long nail Is regarded as Daltt are goon crowding around tn ' Indicative of good breeding. The arls-, ter of the net The vmi&m ,g g, tocrats constantly subject their finger j t,)rnedt wnch ra,geB the bamboos then tips to cedar wood fire to lusure a good j tne rope connecting the ends, and I amwth ..... .. ""I or an tue center or the net. By the time the Ann are alarmed the ropei have passed the water's edge and . cape is Impossible. With this Ingeni ous mechanism a fishing smack will often take 1,000 pounds of fish in a sin-glecast. growth, The Inhabitants of tbe Marquesas Islands are among tbe most expert tat tooers on earth, and not even the crown of the head, the fingers and the toes are exempt from the needle. The hands are ornamented with utmost care, all the fingers having their own pattern, so that the hand would look as though Incased In a tlght-flttig glove were It not for the finger nails of enormous length which complete the hand adorn ment of the wealthier natives. Chica go News. Kt the Art Inat'tnte. with 4,000 the estimated maximum poa- j . . t ., . , ible. Russia, of all these countries J v J ."A? "L11 ?8' flud 1208 at home mice of $2.50 a ton. Yet this freight charge is vastly greater than would noid If colliers, especially con structed, were to do the can-vine All of the possibilities lending to this new exploiting or American coal huve found source In the high rates of freight in Great Britain, the cost o? mining, and In the unmistakable limita tion of the coal supply. The foreign production of coal Is not decreasing of course; It Is Increasing steadily. FrelKht Chief Fuctor. With freight rates from the IJnlteii States at $5 a tou, some one has figured the comparative showing that the Uni ted States product can muke with that of Great Britain In continental ports. Bituminous conl, with the mines' profits already ndded. Is worth $2.50 a ton. The freight to the Mediterranean Is ?5 a ton, making the cost, with only local profit to tho mine, $7.50 a tou at tue several ports on that sea. elsh coal Is worth S7 a ton at r.nr. .1 I Ml .a uiu, auu uie freight to Gibraltar Is $2.10, making It $0.10 a ton. These freights vary until this Welsh coal brings $0.70 a ton at Marseilles and $0.58 at Naples. Over this conl th American product has a margin of $i.ou a ton at Gibraltar, $2.20 at Mar seilles, and $2.08 at Naples, even after the mine profit has been received on tbe American side. These figures are reached, too, with the Inadequate present Ulceus of trans porting coul across the Atlantic. Moat of the vessels now carrying coal were designed roi package freight and are about as well adapted for the coal busi ness as Is a box car compared with one of the modern 100,000 pouud steel coal cars. Colliers especially made for the coal trade will be Indispensable to transatlantic business. It has been calculated that the cost of oneratlmr a 7,000-ton steamer to such an accessible port as Gibraltar, umklusr the lemrth of the voyage and time of unloading fifteen days, will be as follows: may develop unexpected deposits. British India shows only 35,000 square miles of coal beds, aud tho total of all these Is only 77,800 for Europe and Jnaia. As against this are the United Slates deposits of 19-1,000 square miles, with thousands of possible miles uiiex plored and undeveloped. To this Alas ka Is promising luexhaustlble deposits or anthracite, which at least must re place the English coal that Is now sup plying the Pacific slope of the United States, Aside from the United States In this coming world supply of fuel, only China and Japan can be looked to. These countries have deposits about as large as those of the United States, but are lacking lu means of development. Their positions upon the map, too, are not fa vorable to the European trade'. World'a Yield of Coal. As to how the mines of the world have been drawn upou, the figures for 1803 are accurate enough for compari son. They show In long tons of 2,240 pounds: Tn. Great Itrltaln H',(H'.,(HK United States Hxi.Vsli.WHI (larinaujr Dl.OM.ooo rrnnet f , , SO,SH7,0UO W'lfluui ai,7,(KlO nui t....... W.ii.'SUXKI JP" 6,OMI,0OU ludU ........ 1.0HO.IWO ouuiu nam H, .KJ.tXM) '"1 3.30,000 Bpls 1.S50.C00 it wui ue seen rrom tuts that Great Britain, with only 0,000 square miles of coal beds, already lean from loug mining, Is drawing more heavily on her resources flian Is the United States, with more than twenty times the de posits, and they scarcely sounded in comparison. The exports of coal from the United. Elates within the seveu months ending juiy 3i, aggregated innsi tous of uu thraclte aud 3,000,274 tous of bitumin ous coal. The total exports showed an increase of 1,505,003 tons over the cor responding period of 1S00. This lu crease was largely In shipments of bitu niiuotis coal. Export shipments of American coke during the seven months ending July 31, amounted to 240,253 tous, an Increase of about 00,- t.H) touffover the same period lu 1800. No Demand for Anthrae'te, The United States coal which Is to re place the product of England and Wales In the mnrkets of the world Is the soft coal of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Alabama, Anthracite coal bus practically uo opportunity for loreigu exploitation at the present time Brazil 1,04(1,075 Olhraltar iCtt.soo Malls 454,784 llrltlsh Eust Indies CSO.Oie Other coiiii- trle 5,44 1, WW 1,010, 100 !ltf,03 4tU,ll3 (158,718 o,2U,4H3 WI7.771 a2.,8H7 41tf,4lil 8ti3,17T ,21O,340 Totals, gross In tluiVtio,',.-il7,01W'ln8 8U'M-'7U .03,50S coal for ateiiiiiers la foreluntra.le.10,435.758 11.24.'204 12 iff) M1 Compared with these shipments" are the 5,051,033 tons exported by the United Stutes in the year endln .!., 30, 1809, aud the 7,188,021 tons export ed In the twelve months ending June 30, 1000. Preaence of Mln;l. Physician Now, sir, you must make op your mind to smoke less. Patictjt Why, I never smoke at all! Physician (affecting to be annoyed) II'ui! Don't interrupt me, sirl As I was aylng. you must make up your mind to smokeless powder shells, a fowling piece and all that sort of thing. In oth er words, take a gunniug trip. Phila delphia Press. , Two Forma of Abnae. "My wife contradicts me continual-1 Iy." "Well, my wife acts as if my ideas weren't worth discussion." Chicago Record. Curious Cradles. In tbe palm region of the Amazon Blver there is a tribe which cradle their Infants lu palm leaves. A single leaf, turned up around the edges bv uiue uuiive process, makes an eveel. lout cradle, aud now and then It Is made to do service as-a bath tub. Strong cords are formed from the fibers of an other species of palm, aud by these this natural cradle Is swung alongside a tree, aud the wind rocks the little one to sleep. Long ago the Amazonian mothers discovered that It was not wise to leave baby and cradle under a cocoa palm, for tbe mischievous monkey de lighted to drop nuts downward with unerring precision. An older child Is stationed near by to watch the baby during his siesta, and the chatter of monkeys overhead Is enough to cause a speedy migration. Froaaic Reason. "So she has cone home to her mother. has. she? Don't you know, it is the sad dest tiling ou earth to think of a trust ing, fond woman awakening to find her Ideals have been shattered; that she loves him no louger; that her idol has feet of clay " "Oh, there was nothing of that sort In It. She loves him as well as ever, but she went back to ma because she was hungry!" Indianapolis Press. A Poor Advertising Medium. r ' m I "Uncle Eben, have you ever done in oil?" "Wal, not In oil, but I hev in gold bricks." Hia Best Shot. Officer (to straggler) What are you standing behind that tree for? The enemy is flying. Straggler-Hurrah! That's Just the opportunity I've been waiting for; I'm a first-class wing shot.-Elchmond Despatch. ?DDIlJailW:wTA,,iiKi,'2sSEELfi lanr J30QCIJ juaooarj: Juaudo UJQQPQD Jaaaafcci To Keep Cider Sweet. Cider may be kept sweet Indefinite! by bottling. Boll the cider thirty min utes, then bottle; stand the bottle In hot water (with a cloth at the bottom t prevent breaking), and boll thirty min utes longer; boil the corks also, to ster lliste. Cork tightly and keeD In a wi place. mmm Fool for Luck. Qulzzell-My wife's the luckiest goose; found a dollar bill to-day and ten cents last week. : FrlzKell Humph! Mine finds some- tiling every day. Quizzell That's so? What? Krizzell Fault Sorry Uo Learned. "Did you ever know the difference between a boy who has been brought up with girls and one who has not? The one whose acquaintance with girls of his own age has been slight is apt to be awkward and unobservlng; where as, the boy who has breathed an at mosphere of feminine Influence notices the occasions for the small politenesses of life. The speaker was a young woimau who hnd had experiences, aud she pro ceeded to unfold them. "I was thrown last summer," she went on, "with a college boy who had no sisters, nor cousins, nor aunts, to polish him off. At Yale he had studied hard, and had not 'wasted his time, as he would have called It, on girls' af fairs. He didn't know how to do the iew tnousand small services that women like, and as he was. really clever and nice, I proceeded forthwith to polish him. I never went for any- thing I wanted. He had to go on nil 1 my er.-ands. I dropped my scissors, or book, or parasol, fifty times a day to ! teach him tn nlelr thom nn it ... r hn i had t0 remlnd Mm, but after a while he een jij i , ..... . . I ii muxio uuiuruuy; ann at tne end of j the season he thanked me sincerely. a ue sequel came a few dnvs mm. when I received a letter from him re proaching me ruefully for having made him ridiculous. T'm always Jumping around to help people when I'd better let them alone,' he says. 'The fellows can't drop a pencil In class but I find myself sprawling on the floor after lt before I stop to think. It will take years to undo the dlreful work of last summer." New York Telegram". Languid Louie-Say, dls Is a bum hews pape o' yourn. I put dls ad in for parduer wld tree million dollars four days ago, an' I ain't got a blamed an swer yet. A Veraton. We were not surprised to find among tnese simple pastoral people of the Far East a beautiful poetic version of the story of the fall of man. In this it was related that when the Serpent saw Eve with her mouth full of pins, fitting herself. to clothes, his heart smote him. "Can I be of any service?" he asked. "Well, I don't know!" faltered Eve and blushed violently. It was in this way, they naively said. that the garter snake had origin. Tuck. If you once get into the habit of tn. lug the truth you will fiml it mn.-h easier than lying. PROBLEM OF CHICAGO HOUSE-SHIFTING. Indignantly Resented. "Your milk seems to be well w. tered," remarked the summer boarder facetiously. ' '"Tain't no seech thing." remarked the farmer landlord; "we don't use well water. We've got a hydrant,"-Phila-delphia Kceord. Jnat One'a Luck. Cobble I wish I could stop playing poker. Stone Why don't you swear off?' Cobble I do. But every single time I swear off I begin to win. Life. What She Wears. The famous woman, Annie S. Peck who has been noted as having scaled the Matterhorn and broke -the record on Mount Orizaba, going 8,000 feet Into the clouds, wore flannel undergar ments, a waist of serge, a woolen sweater, knickerbockers and leggings of sage-green duck canvas, which she made herself. She wore the heaviest kind of winter boots, and a shoemaker .u osiumwa put an extra piece of heavy leather over the whole lower part of the shoes, toes and heels, and then nearly covered them with nails In many of her trips she has worn fur topped gloves, but for the Mottv. she wore woolen mittens. A substan tial canvas hat tied on with ribbon, and yell, as well as smoked glasses complete her outfit. She takes the pr caution to put cold cream on her face before facing the severe weather. The Cook Got ETen. A cook here who quarreled witi, owner of the restaurant got even In th s way: After making the Rn iZ proved it by the Introduction of several" foreign Ingredients, such as a quantity of sand half a cupful of red pepper a pound of tacks, a bunch of Sn wood chopped fine and i kid gloves a la noodles. The feeZ! yt', v kjte s- .."lit 1 -1 liu.'' - . . - . .... .i .- -y e . . . s much different from the coal that for. L ' . W i". " i ? Li; Vti ' '-U. .Jlrs- B,l'k, eigu consumer, lmv been accustomed ' 'V.' , 1 V v , T on "ne of to using that they are not at all in- ' 1 Viit- PJf ifcuf W' -S 4 "ners.azar. '"c ' Kiaies or new LP" 'ti I I i "Jerrt. if tou were stoves and entirely tlfr,.i,mt ..t,. I h 8 I PI 1 TttTj- Ttlk-W I J .?"-?jn .!.,.: r-'' fou ner of firing. Only the several varieties of t f-- ".SSSSSstt VSarj 11 Kl -ZZZl " a rattling good tL,e - for the seaboard trade what Is kuown iSiSaf ttLvmiJaur -.v-iwi.'.A! ". ' " ' fj l Bracel to Endnre. "Were you In good health while you were abroad?" "Oh, excellent; we couldn't drop out Of OUr Derson.lllv .nn,li,......l ...... .. iv v. aiij a ju Know, without losins money." big Not Made for I'ee. "What was the cause of. the latest quarrel between Mr. and Mrs. Bick ers: t her husband soft cushions." College Life. First College Man You say your ar rest was a case of mistaken Identity? Second College Man-Yes. The con ! Bat down 83 "S"al last evening i.. had on citizen's clothes and I didn't i 8000 as tbey sampled kuow he belonged to the police In time ' ro8f up agaln ea masse and alnma to get away.-Puck. ' mlbed the w hole shooting match a7 coming to tne evidence produced at the prelim nary, hearing a more fearft brew than this soup was never con cocted even by Macbeth', weird T Frances Skinner has made a transla, tlon of a novel by Peter Roseggor, the popular German novelist, entitled "Th t orest Schoolmaster." "The Life of John Paul Jones," by Augustus C. Buell, represents the re sult of fourteen years' researches In England, France and St. Petersburg, u well as In this country. In. commenting on the fact that James Lane Allen's "The Choir Invisi ble" Is reported to have sold 200,000 copies, the London Academy makes the surprising statement that no book of equal merit ever received half sa warm a welcome in England in the same time. More than 200,000 copies of "To Have aud to Hold" have now been sold and the demand for tiie book continues. If the dramatization of the work proves successful the story will doubtless have 3, fresh boom. The writing of the stage version has been Intrusted to Ernest Baddlugton, dramatic critic of the Brooklyn Eagle. Mrs. Schuyler Crownlnshleld has a book In press which, It Is said, will be published as soon as the author and publisher can agree upon a title. This Is not an uncommon stumbling-block to publication In these days, when the inarKetauie value of a title is recog nized by both author and publisher, aften from diametrically opposite points of view. "On the Wing of Occasion," by Joel Chandler Harris, Includes a novelette of about 30,000 words, entitled "The Kidnaping of President Lincoln," aud three stories, entitled "Why the Con federacy Failed," "In the Order of Providence" and "The' Troubles of Martin Coy," dealing with the unwrit ten history of the civil war and with the elaborate secret service then main tainedi ,- - The editor of the Century is receiv ing Inquiries about the author of "The Helmet of Navarre," the historical ro mance. Miss Bertha Runkle Is the only chila of Mrs. L. G. Runkle, a well know n New York Journalist, and one of the editors of the "Library of the World's Best Literature." The pres ent work Is a maiden effort at fletioo- ; writing.' She was born In New Jersey a few and twenty years ago, never went to kindergarten as a child, nor to col lege as a young woman, has traveled little, and has never been In France which possibly accounts for her laying there the scene of her romance. Why He Wanted to Know. A rather amusing story is told in con nection with a certain learned profes sor. He had been asked to deliver a lecture which he readily consented to do in the village schoolroom, and on the Important night the place was packed with an expectant audience. The front seats were occupied by a few of the shining lights of the neigh- """'"unicauon which bears evi the mtu n , i ' . borhood. and aooarentlv the leetntr i den having been cro, Jm ev!-! he ttle feUow- He been a When You Write to the The paper on whieh wl". ?en' i Ps Victoria are written mnat n . WUeen I spite of tne misdemeanor the Bishop No communicfltinn u .ue roiaea- couW " in his heart to scold Why the Bishop Did Not Scold. "A little boy In the neighborhood of . Bishop Brooks' home in Boston was one day mischievously ringing door bells and running away before the doors were opened," says a writer In the Ladies' Home Journal. "In pursuit of this amusement he ran up the step of the Bishop's residence and the Bish bp, happening to" be in the hall ready to go out, opened the door quickly, be fore the boy had turned to descend the . steps. The child was so startled by the sudden appearance of the good man, who had a kindly smile for all children, that he ejaculated: 'Why, Phl'ps Brooks! Do you live heref In the only man at must have had keep up with made me rattle p i i' , ' " .lviuui i , . , - ..voacy Will ...... .i,w! .i. . . t fall Into her Maloat,- . 1U waa iuuicssiuj mc lew, lor ue ! - a oivn nailia T, ..M.-J , ... iproner methrHl la tae tniieu cuujpieieij over me neaas 01 tue ! i rue ever j boy." as Clearfield coal, originating mostly ou the Hue of the Pennsylvania railroad, but also reaching market over the' Phil adelphia and Heading railway. This general name includes the coal from several minor regions and is a compre hensive trade term. Further to the wesiwaj-d is the Pitts- rest of the audience. At length, at the expiration of a cou ple of hours, tc professor dropped his lofty style and blandly remarked: "And now, friends. In conclusion, al low me to say that If anyone has a question to ask I will do my best to answer him." ! glossy white paper and tn on thick, A Fad of the Times. I Isn't Grlirirst marrrlnw . v - fell, UJUCB i oliler tlmn Hn,.,,lr." I ."Oh. ye. but he wants her to be com- U T,ery 0,d vi!laSer ,n ,lle back wkh the directions how to f tbe Wrlter Jpany for his mother." seat 14 no slowly rase to his feet andlExchanee - - forward it,- Lrfn.r. Plflnto. disnflti'h Tho lnnnos. .1..,. I 11 missive in an envelone n-M v ci -""ti ymuia m iub wuuu ui Any folded communleannn " flts ' eawee1- One tropical and sub-tropical ?s the Oneen f, ?! I0? neTer wach-! variety Is known which, when it she never looks at It A 1 v reacnes Its ful1 development, is at least are opened bv the n.(. 8Uch letter , 600 feet In length. Seaweeds do not - uiiatiMita ni . aWwa, uU as a rule their or tha arn4 . ?r aetbevon.l ."als Bev- itolortanc..,tisVetLi8' aloving a large church structure a. toss elevated railroad tracks Ir Chicags. The hummer Girt He I love yon. She tdreamilyh-It seems to me I've beard that before. asked the first and only question 'Aw'd be vurry mich obleeged, meas receive any nourishment from the sedi ment at the bottom or borders of the sea, but only from air and mineral mat ters held In solution in the sea water. We know a man who has ., ter," he remarked, "if ye'd jest tell us j lstry and ability In hia i-,. . Sh ,u- a conspicuous success If h ds tZ T didn't keep him down W'J'" wot on airth It is that ye've beenpralch; Ing abooL London Spare Momenta. Lake that Turned Red. Lake Morat, In Switzerland, has tbe curious property of turning red every ten years, owing to the presence pf cer tain aquaUcl plants which are not k&owa In my other lake la the worli