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Be Not Afraid to Pray. Be not afraid to pray--to p ay la right. Pray, if thou canst, with hope; but ever pray Though hopo bo weak, or aick with delay; Pray in the darkness. If light. Far is the time remote from human sight When war and discord on the earth shall i Tet every prayer for universal peace Avails the blessed time to expedite. Whate'er is good to wish, ask that Of Heaven, Though it be what thou canst not hope to see; Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray. Then pray to God to cast that wish away Hartley Coleridge. Fraulein, It 2s not only sympathy to his diplomacy in coaxing r O n e o f E a r t h ' s S i g h t s «• 1 ^r'ir " ' I. 1 ' •- E=SST After Athens, Rome and Constanti­ nople, I should rank Samarkand as the interesting city in the world, says Mr. Henry Norman, the well knowni journalist and traveler. It lies two thousand feet above the sea,.and is a desert of narrow streets and silent, mud-colored houses, surrounded by an earthly paradise of fertile fields, rich vineyards and blossoming or­ chards. In its midst is the inevitable bazaar, crowded from morning till night by dense crowds of haggling pur­ chasers and gossipers, through which a ceaseless stream of men and women on horses, donkeys and camels push their way with the greatest difficulty. One section is devoted to cloth, an­ other to silk, another to leather, an» other to arms, another to metal work, and the most interesting of all to manuscripts. Here I was brought all sorts of strange volumes to buy, and although this market had been scoured of late for rare treatises I could not help feeling that only my ignorance of their contents prevented me *ecur- ing some manuscript of great value. But probably my ignorance preserved me from less pleasing discoveries,, for much of the reading matter that de­ lights the East would produce a very different Impression upon a western mind. It is the marvelous rains of Samarkand, however, that .give the city its extraordinary interest. Alex­ ander the Great paused here; long atterward China made it into a great capital; then Mohammedanism, des­ tined to conquer from China to Tur­ key, converted it into the best-beloved and most admired spot of the world. Genghiz Khan destroyed it with fire and sword in 1219, and more than a century later Timur, the lame Tartar --Tlmur Leng, whence our Tamerlane --anticipated the beauty and the fame of Athens here, and adorned it with "the grandest monuments of Islam," whose ruins to-day, six centuries later, are worth the long journey to the heart of Asia to see. «nd wheedling, Hans German liad at- last succeeded in gathering together the theatrical troupe that was to bring J;, . him fame and money in the wealthy Iff* •'•United• States"..' 'it was with a sigh of ^7 relief that he heard the order to cast off. as lie stood on the deck of the Rhineland in the midst of his assem­ bled company. Meanwhile the company themselves looked critically at each other. They were quite well satisfied on the whole, Jbut there was one discordant note mmid the harmonious concert. The iwo leading ladies declared war at the •ery^itart. One. Fraulein Barcon, was tall and • thin, scarcely pretty, but, in her own opinion, at.least, her lack of flesh was m mark of the greatest distinction, and she was prouder of it than a duchess of her quarterings. The oth­ er, Fraulein Brussel, was the living antithesis to hfer rival; short, plump, golden-haired and extremely pretty, &e was as little like the haughty duchess as possible. The reason for their rivalry was not fat to seek. All the men of the troupe, including the larguishing dark-eyed tenor, were "f' %'ildly in love with the pretty Brussels S .'who, although she did not care a jot Cor any of them, dangled them in pub­ lic before the eyes of the lonely and deserted Fraulein Barcon. The journey was a long and painful one. ana Herr German uttered e sec­ ond heartfelt sigh when he finally landed his company on the dock at Kew Orleans. Then came the diffi­ culty of finding rooms for his large lEamily. Herr German's sighs were •many before this was completed. , Fate, often a merry jester, had des­ tined that pretty Fraulein Brussel .should be lodged with a certain Mr. Wittson, a director of funerals and a cheerful undertaker. The little sing­ er's gaiety was not lessened in the 'least by meeting constantly the black trappings and vehicles peculiar to her landlord's trade. A friendly relation­ ship was soon established between them and often after her meal Frau­ lein Brussel would descend into the little shop. transformed-a-L such times Into a reception room, and take part In a game of cards, while her merry bursts of laughter stirred the mortu­ ary wreaths hanging on the walls The day of her first appearance in* America dawned bright and fair. Frau­ lein Brussel felt no fear. It is inex­ plicable how fate could have had the courage to show herself so terrible to such a radiant litt-ife singer. Nevertheless, when she appeared in the coquetish costume of the Princess Eudoxia, with her plump lit­ tle self encased in short rosy petti­ coats, she was greeted with an out-! burst of laughter and hisses. The un- pitying audience paid no attention to tier good full voice and clever acting, and the poor little operatic star was promptly quenched. The nieht after the sad event, as «he sat alone weeping in her room, she received a call from her friendly landlord. "It is a wicked shame," cried the honest funeral director, clasping his bands in his wrath; "you have been the vict:m of a cruel catastrophe--a genuine cabal. But just wait until I lay my hands on the person who insti­ gated it!" fraulein Brussel smiled faintly. "They would never "do it again, would they? But, Oh, Mr. Wittson, joking aside, I shall have to return to T feel for you," he said solemnly. "It is love that fills my heart. Will you be my wife? Your future may be less brilliant than if you returned to Ger­ many, but I promise you it shall be none the less happy." For answer, Fraulein Brussel threw her arms around his neck and it was with the greatest joy that the little "'•-. ~~ Fraulein operatic star promised to shine for­ ever in the dark but cheerful sky of the funeral director's home.--Boston Herald. STOCK ACTOR IN TROUBLE. Lapse of Memory Made Work for the- Prompter. John Drew's father and mother were both on the stage, and the actor, coming from so historic a family, has naturally a broad acquaintance with stage history. The other day he was talking about prompters. "Prompters in the past," he said, "were more in evidence than they now are. When stock companies produced a new play every week, the best of their performers were apt to forget a line now and then. Hence the prompt­ er would often be seen dodging out of the wings, aftd his voice, prompting away earnestly, would oftener be heard. "My father used to tell about a stock actor who stalked upon the stage one night in the sweeping toga of a Ro­ man seuator, struck a heroic attitude, said, '1 was in Rome- ' and there stuck. " 'I was in Rome,' he repeated after a long and hideous silence. 'I was in Rome I was in Rcime ' "He wondered why the prompter did not help him. But the prompter, as a matter of fact, had lost the place, and was now turning the leaves of his prompt book rapidly and confusedly, quite unable to find^the passage, be­ ginning, 'I was in Rome.' "The actor stood stock still. The audience began to titter. " 'I was in Rome,' the poor man said, and then, turning to the prompt­ er,, he went on : '"Well, sir, what was I doing in Rome?'" _ .. ad Manners in Socie A woman of social prominence,, who has in her day been a leader, and, whojs so no longer because of her age, recently, in an intimate and in­ formal conversation, made severe strictures on some of . the manners of society at the present time. "I$*my day," she said, "it used to be under­ stood that the arranging of one's toil­ et in the presence of others was an offense against good taste. Such a thing, too, as putting one's elbows on the table while eating was also con­ sidered vulgar. I know that many of these rules were insisted upon so strongly that there was something of a reaction, and it came to be consid­ ered a sign that you were sure of yourself and of yonr position if you Occasionally broke them. "But the reaction has gone much too far and has set an example which has been followed too closely by that large class of people who, in the matter of social behavior, form their conduct and manners by observing what other persons do. I dined in a public res­ taurant the other night, and the way the women I saw there lolled on the table, both while they were eating and while they were not, was a sur­ prise. Another thing I saw there and I see it now in many other places, was a constant readjustment and rearrang­ ing of the toilet, especially the hair. "The need of the incessant attention to the latter that one now sees every­ where, the pulling And pushing and shaking is explained, I know, by ref­ erence to the present method of wear­ ing the hair en pompadour, but I do not admit that argument. If all that hair-dressing really needs to go on in public the style, pretty, as it is, should be changed. You sometimes see wom­ en at the theater now, who, after tak­ ing off their hats, practically 'do' their hair all over again. They could just as well attend to this in the place provided in the lobby before they take their seats, but that would not help, for they keep on working with the hair all the evening." Across & .Great Glacier Major William R. Abercrombie, Thirtieth United States Infantry, has prepared an account of an exploring expedition which he led into the cop­ per river country, Alaska, in 1898. The work was conducted under the direc­ tion of the war department and its purpose was to determine the exist­ ence or nonexistence of an all-Ameri- can route to the Yukon. With an out­ fit of 557 Norway reindeer with sleds, equipment, supplies and 113 Lapland­ ers as drivers and herders, Major Abercrombie started from Seattle, April 8, and arrived at Port Valdez July 8. A month later he Crossed the great Valdez glacier at an altitude of 5,000 feet, and after extraordinary hardships descended into the valley of Copper river. "The mental strain at this stage of the journey," says Major Abercrombie, "waB terrific. The men and the ani­ mals were so badly used up that it would have been impossible for them to survive another night on the gla­ cier, and our progress through this network of crevasses had been so slow that I was afraid we would not cross the summit 4n daylight. We were up about 3,000 feet and in slush and snow about knee deep. Bearing Off froiti the fourth bench to the right we managed to get our train onto a series of snow slides and made fairly good time to the foot of the sixth bench. "This was the last rise 9f the gla­ cier, which was 11,000 feet on one mile or a climb of almost forty-five de­ grees. We returned to Port Valdez Oct. 15, having covered a little more than 80 miles on foot, horseback and by raft since August 5, demonstrating the existence of an ail-American route from Prince William sound to the Yu­ kon valley." ^ H a r d T a s k f o r S c i e n c e The search for a physical process which would act directly on the cir­ culating blood in case of intoxication in order to extract the poison which it may contain is not a new thing, two methods up to the present having been tried--transfusion of the blood and washing of "the blood. The transfusion has given proofs of its worth, but the difficulties are such that the applica­ tion of the method is necessarily re­ stricted. There has been little success hitherto with the washing method on account of the difficulty of adjusting the speed of injection to the narrow limits of cardiac tolerance. The chief difficulty has been, however, that the simple dilution of the blood does not render the renal filter permeable to the poisonous substances. M. Ch. Repin has just constructed an apparatus with which he has ex­ perimented on animals, the method be­ ing to extract a large quantity of blood from the organism and to mix it with eight or ten times its volume of an isotonic saline solution. This mixture--sufficiently incoagulaole for the needs of the experiment--is sent into a centrifugal separator, which is combined in such a way that all the blood globules are united almost in­ stantly at a single point, where they are passed into a pump which injects them into the animal. The working of the apparatus is automatic and con­ tinuous, the result being to extract the plasma with all the matter dissolved therein, and-to replace it with artificial serum; and this without injuring the blood globules, for which a short pas­ sage outside of the organism is not Injurious.--Revue Scientiflque. Value of the Windmill Fraulein Barcon. Germany by the first steamer. rein-" not live here after this." Mr. Wittson grew very pale. " "Do hot speak cf going away, Frau- lein," he said, entreatingly. "I as sure you that you have become the joy of my house, and to hear you singing, all the day, like a happy bird, rejoices my heart." "But how oould I stay without an engagement, or without family or friends. Alas, I am alone, entirely alone!" burst out the little singer, amid a fresh flood of tears. To-be a funeral director is hot to be the less man. Mr. Wittson felt his heart throb violently with emotion, as be took the soft hand of the weeper in «s <o£& He Must Have Been. The late Postmaster General Payne began life as cashier in a Milwaukee dry goods store, and the other day a Milwaukee man said of him:, "Payne, in liis youth, was a most entertaining fellow. What particular­ ly distinguished him was the homely vigor and the striking originality of his speech. "He and I had a mutual friend who drank tod much. We tried to reform our friend, taking him out with us, keeping a watch cn him--in a word, brooding over his welfare like a cou- t pie of fond mothers. "One night our ward escapedLfrom us. Payne found him at midnight. He told me the next morning how he had found him, and when I said: 'Was he drunk?' Payne with a little laugh 6f disgust, answered: " 'I don't say he was drunk, but this I will say : The last I saw of him he was washing his face in a mud puddle and drying it on a doormat.'" An Astonishing Feat. The knowledge possessed by Mrs. Leonard, champion money-counter of the treasury, of the details of the various notes that have been issued by the government during the last halfrcentury is so absolutely accurate thai all money suspected of being counterfeit is submitted for her opinion. Not long ago she declared that a certain note which passed through her hands was counterfeit. Others in her department declared it genuine. Even those at the head o! the department thought she was wrong. But she would not reverse hei judgment. The note was sent to the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, and the expert there said it was genuine. Sti!! she held to her opinion. The note was laid aside, and later a description ot it was discovered among the records of counterfeits in another department --Everybody's Magazine, Like the trolley lines which run far out into rural districts and bring many small hamlets into close com­ munication with great cities; like the rural free delivery of mail, with its new facilities for the enjoyment of postoffice service for getting the news of the world, and for traffic of tho kind which used to be very incon­ venient for farmers, the windmill promises much more than it has al­ ready given the agricultural districts of the United States, says the Cleve­ land Leader. In this country and in Europe recent experiments in the use of wind power for generating elec^ tricity for lighting houses and barns and operating farm machinery are full of interest and suggest great advances In the same direction within the next few years. In parts of the west, where irrigation is often needed to supplement the uncertain and some­ times inadequate rainfall, big wind­ mills are used for pumping water from wells into irrigating d/tches in the driest months, and the same mills generate, power enough for electric motors to light buildings and to cut feed and do other work of like nature. To get more power is only a ques­ tion of more windmills. To Insure an adequate supply of electricity for lighting purposes and for operating farm machinery is a matter Of storage batteries. So far these experiments are rot for poor men to undertake, but the rich are making tests which promise ultimately to make the appli­ cation of wind-generated electric power to the wants of American rural life one of the most important addi­ tions to the pleasures and comforts of the farm. L a m e n t f o r P a s t D a y s •v < • Broken, dismantled and stark, Rotting and waiting the end. I am moored in a harbor where Death and the Dark In limitless shadows blend. "" My keel is buried in sand; Mv timbers creak in the wind; How I long for the weight oftheMas- ter's hand Qn the wheel, as we sailed to the Ind! Oh, to point by the Southern Cross, Or to follow the Northern Star! To fly a race with the albatrosa To the lands that lie afar! Oh, to ride from crest to crest. In the teeth of a merry gale; When the lightning's flash shows thl sea's unrest. And the cheeks of men turn pale! Turbine Dynamo. On the boat deck of the new North German Lloyd steamship Prince Eitel Friedrich is a turbine dynamo which can be operated by the officer, in com­ mand and will supply electric current to a number of special lamps to pro- Tide light for launching the lifeboats should mishap have stopped the work­ ing of the maln electric lighting ma- Sfcinery li the engine room. V 'r* / - Of- 4 E r x p c n s c s I Modern Beau Brummels The sound of the snapping mast. The shrieks of the frightened crew. Unheeded by me as I challenge the blast And plow the mad waves through. And- at last in the harbor's oalm, At ifst on the mirroring tide, I'd breathe perfume in the soft air's calm, ••-- - And the Master's will abide. This was the life I once lived; And a thousand deaths I have died. While fretting here like a soul unshrived At tho great wide water's side. "fwere better I had gone A hundred fathoms deep. To the grave for which good ships are born-- A cool, sweet shroud, and sleep. --J. W. Leathers, in Boston Transcript. Bequest to "Wee Kirk." The "Wee Kirk" of Scotland, con­ sisting of about two dozen small Highland congregations, to which re­ cently was awarded by the House of Lords all the property and funds of the Free Church of Scotland, amount-, ing to about 155,000,000, has Just re­ ceived *12E,000 by the will of a late member. "To him that hath shall be give*."--Tid-Bit*. OUB. d»JWER JST BRIDFOROOM VUX DO ttORR TO BOOH BOSlRES* AT TfiE. A* "DCS2EK YORWAL YOflCTVaife TfiE. VftiCT tAO^T K*Cf* •WiAT TO AMD SV3WTO XX> IT 8ome Expend at Least $2 0,000 Each on Wardrobe. The modern American Beau Brum- mel expends $20,000 a year for his clothes. The original Beau Brummel was an exquisite, who dressed that the world might gaze upon him in won­ der and admiration. His twentieth- century representative cares not a whit for mere externals, but he is a veritable sybarite. "Thousands for comfort, but not one cent for per­ fumes,". is the paraphrase which might fit the well-dressed man of to­ day. He leaves faddishness and scents to dancing masters apd hair­ dressers and asks to be merely well groomed. It is not New York's multi­ millionaires alone who expend this amount on clothes. Boston, Philadel­ phia, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis, Denver and San Francisco all boast their quota of sartorial spendthrifts, but certain New York firms, haber­ dashers, trousersmakers (the term tail­ or is obsolete) and importers of men's wear practically control the extrava­ gant trade. Men like the Vanderbilts, Goulds and Astors, who have both country and city homes, have their wardrobes in duplicate; that is, one complete wardrobe is maintained in the town house and one in the country, and clothing is not carried back and forth. This keeps the garments in better condition and is well worth extra ex­ pense. THE LOSS FROM STRIKES; Labor Disturbances Cost an Immense Amount of Money. The statistics on this subject show a loss to the country from strikes that is simply appalling. We, who are so familiar with the word "strike" that we scarcely give it a second glance while reading our papers, have not trie slightest conception of the vast amount of money that has been lost through labor disturbances. Available figures show that in the twenty years between 1881 and 1900 there were 22,793 strikes, which cost the country in wages, expenses and direct loss of trade the enormous sum of $396,769,392! During the same pe­ riod there were 1,005 lockouts, costing $72,199,189, making a total of $468,- 968,581! Here is a loss of almost half a billion dollars figured from three items only--that is, loss of wages, assist­ ance, or money advanced to strikers by their sympathizers, and loss to em­ ployers. It would be a fair computa­ tion to estimate an equal sum lost di­ rectly and indirectly by the general public because of the strikes. Total, one billion dollars in twenty years!--Woman's Home Companion. Agency Formed to Jog the Memory. The frequent cases of weakness or loss of memory which threaten to make this age remarkable have given rise in Vienna to the establishment of a "Memento Agency," whose function is to relieve of anxiety those people who can not rely on their own recol- ection with regard to future engage­ ments. The agency issues a double envelope to its clients. In one, on which you write your name, address and the date on which you wish to have your memory jogged, you inclose a note of the particular business of which you "want reminding. You seal it up and send it, in the second en­ velope, to the agency, which returns you the inclosure exactly at the de­ sired time. You are thus freed from all intermediate worry. There is only one possible flaw in this arrangement. Who can guarantee that the employes of the agency will not also lapse into forgetfulness? Money Invested in Railroads. Of the sum which had been invested in the world's railroads at the clpse of 1902 it is estimated, according to the English Railway Magazine, that more than £3,760,000,000 has been spent on 184,000 miles of European railroad and £3,232,000,000 on. the 337,000 miles owned by the rest of the world. On this basis it is found that the roads of Europe represent an in­ vestment of £22,952 a mile, while those of the rest of the world average £ 11 ;402. Great Britain's railroads rep­ resent the highest cost per mile, fig­ ures standing at £51,368, while those of Belgium come next with £30,048. Putting It Delicately. ••Henry," said Mrs. Fussy as they went in to dinner, "I wish you would tell Willie in some way, so it will not offend him, that he takes too much sugar ̂ n his coffee. It isn't good for him, and I know his mother wouldfa't allow It." "Willie," said Mr. Fussy a few min­ utes later, turning to the young nephew who was visiting him, "you don't mix quite enough coffee with your sugar."--Boston Post. Japanese Army Telegraph. JHbctricity never played so imports ant a role as it does at present in the far East. The Japanaese generals use both telegraph and telephone i^ is­ suing their commands. As soon as firing is heard in any direction bam­ boo poles are planted and wires strung, and in a short time the line is ready for use. Record for Pigeon Flyln. Ay flying 301 mile3 in four hours, tho pigeons of the Adelaide (Aus­ tralia) Flying club have established record. „ • SPRUNG FROM SAME SOURCE. Whale and Lion Said to' Be of Identi- ca| Origin, - As every one knows or ought to know, the whale is not a fish, but mammal, and zoologists have long pondered and disputed about its fam­ ily tree. In Eocene times the ances­ tors of mammals were beginning to take shape somewhat like those of to­ day and to lose the grotesqueness in­ herited from their reptilian progeni­ tors. To be sure, animals were very different from those of to-day. Horses were no larger than dogs and had five toes, while cattlelike tinoceras, twice the size of an ox, with six horns, tusklike teeth and five toes, cropped the heritage of Wyoming. Along with these peculiar plant feeders there dwelt some very primitive flesh eat­ ers, to which Prof. Cape gave the name of creadonta. The scene shifts to modern times. Prof. Fraas of Stuttgart, Germany, is delving in the rocks near Cairo, Egypt. He is getting out huge Jaw bones that have been petrified. The jawbones are those of whales and the rocks near Cairo were, in Eocene times, the seashore. * The professor has studied his whale jaws and com­ pared their teeth with other fossil teeth. Now he tells us in a recent Abhandlungen that these teeth of an­ cient whales are like those of the ancient carniverous creodonts. From this he argues that on Eocene or ear­ lier times some primitive flesh eater took to an aquatic life. From these old times to the present whales have been becoming more fishlike. It is hard to believe that the raven­ ous lion and inoffensive and toothless whale of to-day had a common ances­ tor, yet they both have the same tastes for blood, only the whale swal­ low* his food whole. DoiVt Grow Old. Many women become middle-aged from the simple reason that they al­ low middle-aged habits to steal upon them, and relapse into a state of phys­ ical indolence just at a time when they should fight against this ten­ dency to give up exercise, says Wom­ an's Life. "The best preventatives against growing middle-aged," says a charming woman of 45, whose un- wrinkled face and slim figure give her the appearance of being at least 15 years younger than her real age, "are cheerfulness, a strict determina­ tion not to worry over trifles, and a sense of humor that saves one from depression. A cold tub every morn­ ing, a walk every day in rain and sun­ shine, face massage with cold cream at night, ten minutes' physical exer­ cise immediately on rising, friction of the hair to stimulate its growth, will keep any woman free from wrinkles, and will preserve the. contour of her figure. FLOWERS THAT TELL TIME, v Servant Problem an Old One. How ancient is the servant prob­ lem? A correspondent quotes from a letter dated North Ya/inouth, Maine, March 26. 1785, as follows: "I have been without any but Betsy about a fortnight, and am determined to con­ tinue so rather than endeavor to hire one of this country. The pride of in­ dependence is so prevalent here that the people had rather slave at home than live in my kitchen in plenty. Were I to take them to my table they would have no objection to oblige me. The want of good domestics is general, therefore I have less reason to com­ plain, but I wish a method could be found to render us less dependent upon them." Past and Present. So our rich American citizens are buying up feudal castles in England. What a shock the click of the type­ writer must be to ancient skeletons in armor! And think of sending tele­ grams to the steel trust from haunted and queens kissed hands with death! chambers where kings held court, --Atlanta Constitution- to the Mi nut# In Their Petals. There are flowers that act as timti»| keepers for those who have by obser-: vation studied their ways and habits,! and so punctual are they that labor*! ing men in some countries tell from: them when the hour for dinner and' leaving work has ccise; while in cer­ tain districts the school children ar»' said to be dismissed when the goat'*- beard closes, which it does at the same time every day. gardener to a millionaire has provided' a flower-clock in the shape of a cir­ cular flower bed, with twelve divi­ sions. Each of the divisions, from one to twelve, contains flowers which open or close at the corresponding hour. Thus the two space is occupied by ||« n, made of hawkseed, which close* at 2 p. m., precisely, and so on. He had no difficulty in* finding flowers to suit the several hours, and in some cases the figure has been made of more than one flower. Amongst the flowers used are the snow thistle,' blue chicory, pimpernel, marigold, Star of Bethlehem, and evening Prim­ rose. The Yellowstone park contains the most unique greenhouse for flow­ er cultivation in the world, tjie heat being obtained from one of the natu­ ral hot springs, or geysers, the watef of which issues from the earth at * temperature near boiling point. The shortest-lived flowers are the dew flowers of the Death Valley in Cali­ fornia. Heavy dews are wafted by the winds from the mountains over' the parched plain, and an hour or two before sunrise the moist sand, with its under-current of warmth, gives life to- the dew flower. When the light be­ gins to glow in the east, myriads of tiny pink flowers burst into bloom, hugging the sand for the few minute* < they are destined to live. Thie sun'* rays come slanting across the sur­ face, and, as thought a touch of fire had passed over them, the dew flow­ ers wither and disappear.--Montreal Herald. A Rubber Neck. The effect of opium in reducing the body to a mere skeleton has many illustrations among the Chinese of r.i American cities. A striking example of the effects of the drug is illustrated herewith. The Chinaman in question weighs only eighty-seven pounds, al­ though he is over five feet in height and was originally a man of normal size. The skin of the face, it will be seen, is stretched tightly over the skull, while the bones of the neck are painfully prominent. The proportion* of the neck add a curious mixture of comedy to this tragic figure.--New York Herald. Sermon from the Heart. A sermon written by a Newark pas tor while awaiting an important oper­ ation in a hospital showed so much self-control, so much judgment and discretion that it has been made pubs lie. It was read to the congregation of which he was the pastor. The subject was "Is Life Worth the Liv­ ing?" and it taught the lessons of resignation, philosophy and faith in a highly effective manner. Electricity and Windmills* In. Germany electricity, among oth­ er curious results, has rehabilitated the discarded windmill. At Neres- helm a windmill supplies power for thirty-six incandescent lamps tb^jt light a large paint factory. Another in Schleswlg-Holstein keeps-a steady current of thirty volts. At Dusseldorf a windmill winds up a heavy weight, of which the descent works a power­ ful dynamo. «_ Rare Relics of Early History. George W. Bennett of Abbott, Maine, is the possessor of a silk badge worn by his grandfather, who was • captain in the revolutionary war, at the dedication of Bunker Hill; also a piece of the dress wora by hi* grandmother, given her by Lafayette during his second visit to the Unitei* States. Productive Pumpkin Seed. _ From a single seed Jerome Jordaft of Webster, Mass., has produced ju«t 466 pounds of pumpkin. From a sin­ gle seed of the ordinary garden pump> k'hi variety he has this season pro­ duced twenty-three pumpkins on the Vine, the largest individual vegetable weighing twenty-seven pounds. Lobster Would Make Many MeaHk A fourteen-pound lobfeter was r# cently secured by G. B. Hunt of Eadfc? port. Me. The lobster measured nine* teen inches from head to tail, the tvcO feelers from tne head measurirfH° eighteen inches and the claws each seventeen inches in length, and the largest six inches in width. A Marvelous Tunnel. The Swiam tunnel on the Transean- casian railroad is located at an allt» tude of nearly 4,000 feet and is twe and a half miles in length. It haii been completed in four <-«»•<rs. ^The nveraee advance in twenty-foar hour* iras about eighteen tect. Hard Task lor Teacher. One of the most difficult propos* tions a Maine Bchoolmarm has encoun­ tered this fall was a bunch of nine lit­ tle Russians, not one speaking a word of English, who entered a New A®> 4>urn school l*st mmi*. •