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' from Poverty **• Cake Tk»t WH Bwrat. -' .ttiar« tii a little cook, and she made • ' a little cake, fft« pot It in the om lost to bake, ^ bake, bake; ; ' It was foil of plums and spice. And of everything that's nice. And she said, "An hour, I reckon, it will take, take, take.** i£nd then that little cook went to have a little play. With a rery charming cat across^ the way, way, way; e forgot the cake, alack! + was burnt, well, almost blade I Wonder what the cook's aifflll ? would say, say, say! little cook ran off, aad confessed her tale of woe, l^r to find her cake a cinder was a / blow, blow, blow; ./•Chew up," the mother said, she stroked the golden head, accidents will happen, we all kaow, know, know/% Fussy, th« Wooidratiib 17 lived with her grandpar- Its on a little farm among the motm- 8e loved animals, and was without a pet of some kind. Ons iay aa Dorothy's grandfather was taking the cow to pastors, he noticed three little creatures playing near * large rock. He thought they wars young foxes, and he started to catch •ne; but before he could reach the place, two of the little fellows had tumbled into their hole. The other was •bout halt way in when Dorothy's grandfather grabbed him. It was not a fox, but a baby woodchuck--a queer, fussy, little ball of fur, with beady black eyes, stumpy tail, and big yel­ low teeth, The baby woodchuck bit and scratched and struggled to get •way. But at last he was tied in a handkerchief, and then he was carried to Dorothy. Dorothy was delighted With this new strange pet; and though iter grandfather said woodchueks rare­ ly became tame, she was sure this one would. She named him "Fuzzy," and then took down her old squirrel cage, and lined it with soft hay and plaeed Mm in It, with some fresh-cut clover and a little dish of water. For a few days Fussy was very wild. He be­ haved very badly. He insisted on spilling his water, and he would snap •id bits whenever his little mistress replaced it But by-and-by he saw that Dorothy did not mean to hurt him. Than he gave up biting. In two Weeks he would drink from his dish wiuiuui u|moulu§ it* and would nibble •lover from Dorothy's hand, and let her scratch his funny little head. In a month Fussy had grown to twice his tise, and had become so tame that he would let Dorothy take him in her •rma and carry him about. One day little Dorothy forgot to fasten the cage door and Fuzzy walked out But he did not go far, and went back to his cage ot his own accord. The door was never fastened again, and all day long Fuzzy would play about the ver­ anda or nibble grass in front of the house, but he always returned to his Wire housffor the night One day Dorothy's grandmother was baking cookies, ,and she gave one to fhssy. It was funny to see the lltUs Woodchuck taste It then taste again, •a if he were not quite able to make ID his mind whether he liked It or not finally he decided that he did like It and he ate it all. From this time, oookles were his favorite food. As toon as Dorothy's grandmother began to bake he would run to the kitchen, •ad sit on his haunches In the door­ way, and wait patiently until his OOoky was given him; then he would •Samper off to one of his grassy nooks and sat it at his leisure. Several times daring the summer Fuzzy wandered Off to the woods and spent the day. lit last one cool October day Fussy wont off and did not return. Dorothy Was afraid some one had killed him. All winter long she mourned for Vtazsy. One fine morning in April as Dorothy was walking down the.;ro£& With her grandfather they espied a tod woodchuck sitting on a stui • field. "Oh, grandpa!" cried D< thy, "see that woodchuck, doesn't he look Just like my dear old Fuzzy?" "Perhaps It is Fuzzy," said her grand- lather. "Call him and see." Stepping to the side of the road, Dorothy, waved hor hands and called, "Fuzzy! Fuzzy! some here, Fuzzy!" And what do you think happened T Why, the big red woodchuck first looked at Doro­ thy for a minute, with his head on one Side, and then came running across the field--and it was her dear old coming back to her after his winter sleep. Dorothy took the great red fellow la her arms and hugged and kissed klm. Fuzzy seemed to share her de­ light He rubbed his nose against her Sheek and grumbled down in his throat as woodchucks do when they •re pleased. Of course Dorothy carried Fuzsy home and fed and petted him; to mfike pp for all the time he had been away. That afternoon Dorothy's grandma got Out her baking tins and rolling pin. And the moment Fuzzy heard the Sound, he started up and ran to the kitchen door, and took his place again, to wait for his cooky. During bis long winter sleep he had not for­ gotten about the cookies. Ons day . Dorothy's grandpa found that his Vegetables had been nibbled off, and m Fuzzy had never been known to CO into the garden he thought some ^ Wild woodchuck had made his home »"•' doss by to be near Fuzzy. That night . he set a trap. The next day when he ' Visited the trap, there, caught fast by wt One leg, was Dorothy's Fuzsy! Poor pM:.'/ Fussy*s leg was broken. He moaned f . aad groaned while it was being ban- daged. He was put to bed, aad Dor- othy smoothed him and petted him, jp?,. and cried over him, and she felt that J Fuzzy understood how sorry she was for him. After a long time Fussy was able to go about aa well as ever, but I f f i - ' : - SSV- iO ki he never again showed any inclination to go into the garden.--Little Folks. '*• Y*My*a Map* was oat la the fciusk yard, digging a well with an old iron spoon. He had on his grandpa's straw which, of course, kept *»in«g down over his eyes. "Teddy," called grandma, "It is too hot for you to stay out any longer; yon must come in now." It was time for Teddy's aap, hat (he didn't say so. « •1 ain't Teddy," said the little boy; Tse grandpa, and I'se diggin' a welL My bossy-cow is all tarvin' to deaf for water, so I'se got to dig it" "But grandpa comes la to rest when the sun is very hot, you know," said grandma. "You may go out to work agaia wkea it Is cooler, just as grand­ pa does." Grandma bathed the hot little fao^ aad took off his dress Sad his shoes aad stockings, so that his neck aad his arms, and bis little pink test ailght cool off. "Grandpa lies on the lounge to rest yoa know, Teddy," said grandma. "Bat I dont want to take a nap!" said Teddy. "Nor does graadpa; yoa see, he fast lias dowa and reads the paper, aad it he gats sleepy he goes to sleep; that's the way he does." "All wight!" said Teddy, seising a aewspapor and climbing on the lounge. "But I want some grass as, grandma, I can't see to read wivout grasses, you know." Grandma touad some eyeglass bows with no glasses la them; aad Teddy held them astride his nose with oaa hand. "Mus* I read to yoa, grandma?" ha asked. "If you please, sir; rd like to hear the news." "The news is--er--er," staring at the upside-down paper, and seeing the picture of a boat; "there's a awful storm and the boat's all turned over, and the people's all drownded dead!" "You don't say so!" cried grandma. "And there's a war," continued the little reader, "and the men wiv guns •hooted some uwer men, and--and" Hero the little fellow began to yawn. He stared hard at the paper, but his eyes would close; then down dropped the "grasses," and Teddy was teat The new England shrapnel shell la termed est of white-hot solid steel aad then drawn through successive narrow rings to toughen the metal and to ren­ der it more elastic. Bach shell is filled with 300 bullets, each weighing about a third of an ounce. The fuses are regulated by hand, without any mechanical assistance, the burning pe­ riod being twenty seconds, sufficient to make them effective at a range of about 6,000 yards. It is claimed that the maximum rapidity of fire with shrap­ nel would concentrate a ceaseless stream of 6,000 bullets a miaute upon A Vteg Day Etk» • Flag Day was observed in most of the public schools of New York re­ cently, and the members of the Grand Army of the Republic in most cases were the speakers at these public exer­ cises. For 126 years "Old Glory" has been our national ensign, and to its or­ iginal design of thirteen sby* have been added thirty-two, and to its glory and grandeur today no human eulogy can do adequate Justice. •utlBi with tha GMMM. The new sport begun by natural­ ists, of hunting all manner of wild creatures with the camera, spying upon them in the supposed privacy of their retreats, studying their habits, domestic customs and individual traits, offers a pursuit infinitely more significant more elevating and of greater value to humanity than the spoil; whose vlBta Is bounded by the ;hts of a gun-barrel. It certainly for a higher courage^ and inso­ much is a more manly occupation. Tracking big game to its lair, circum­ venting it at short range in order to get it in a good light, waiting for it to strike an effective pose, then calm­ ly snapping a shutter, while unfet­ tered by cumbrous weapon and am­ munition, is a braver deed than touch­ ing a trigger at rifle range. It cer­ tainly demands superior skill and yields superior results. When the ob­ ject of the chase is some little harm­ less animal, it is usually a much more difficult feat to secure its reflected im­ age than it would be to slay it with a charge of shot or to land it with a hook. Through camera observation, a vast nvf department of education is being opened up to the student, a vast field In delightful surprises; and a tender. Intimate appreciation of animal life, which cannot help but make better and wiser those who probe its myste­ ries. The hunt with the camera is an up­ lifting occupation, educating to a new reverence for the humblest of created things, and free from the brutalizing influences of sport which has killing aa Its end. It is an ideal pursuit for young peo­ ple, many of whom have shown them­ selves most successful in the delicate finesse, the patience and stealthy movement essential to drawing near their quarry without disturbing it In field and orchard, In canyon and vale, among the high mountains and In the forest depths, among birds and insects and shy four-footed things, weird and fascinating life stories are wafting to be unfolded, which have never yet been told.--San Fraaslsso Chronicle. ministers b«for»~ all of them men ot good abil ity; all of tt«m man of high standing at home; aad all of thsfca so little in touch with tha affair* of tie country to which they war* accredited, that they were rsgsrdadl popularly as ob­ jects of cafiostty*-ftt la to be feared, soisstlmss as objects of derision by the unthlaking. The first of the list, Chen Laa Ha, was accredited to the United Statas la the administration of President Hayea, and then followed. In succession. Cheng Tsao Ju, Chang Yea- hoon, Tsui Kwo-yin and Yang-yu. So far aa the public waa concerned, one ot theoe gentleman was the same as another. Few, except the clerks la the State Department oould remember one of them without) consulting the record. It was knowtpto'* general way that there waa a Chinese legation in Wash­ ington, that there was a minister, pre­ sumably a heathen, that ha had attend­ ants patterned after himself, that their ways were not our ways, aad that their god was not our God. One ot the earlier in the list--which one does not matter now--thought to enter into the social life of the capital, and gave a reception. Invitations were issued, all in due form. Preparations were made oa a generous aad hospitable scale, and whoa tha alght eamo the well-bred Christians of Washington poured down oa the old Stewart Castle which wss then occupied as tha legation, and swarmed over it like aa untamed horde of Boxers. Some came by Invi­ tation, more without They crushed and crowded through the rooms; they battered tha furniture; they assaulted tha supper-tables la columns aad squares, seised tha champagne bottles from tha hands of tha helpless waiters, smashed the necks of the bottles to get at the wine more quiekly, and al­ together showed as little conslderattoa for their host as if he had been a freak In a museum. They did not mean to be rude, aad many ot them were heart­ ily ashamed of themselves afterward; but for years it never occurred to most people that the minister from China should be treated with as distin­ guished consideration aa the represent­ ative of any other power."--L. A. Cool- idge In Ainslee's. _ Career of F. A. VanderHp The Beard of Trade of Worcester, Mass., will raise $16,000 ot the 960,001 desired to erect la that dtya Stafcat of General Devens. JAPANESE CURIOSITY. •sPeae or Japan R«f«lulr lt*N at AaMiiean Renldeata. Tha foreigner traveling in Japan Is soon made aware of the quality ot curiosity. On every railroad platform he is surrounded by a crowd of people who, with their mouths as wide open sa their eyee in their effort to lose no detail of interest regard him slowly from head to foot and comment upon him among themselves the while. These people may have seen hundreds of foreigners--they may see them every day--but they continue to act-as if they had never seen one before. I visited some Americans in Tokyo who had lived in the same house with the same Japanese neighbors for about a year. Yet each time that we went out to drive the people in the little Jap­ anese house near by would rush to their windows and stand watching as eagerly as a small Yankee at the cir­ cus. This happened every day. It Is always possible to tell whether a for­ eigner happens to be in his garden, for a goodslsed crowd of Japanese gath­ ered about the gate announces the im­ portant fact I gave several talks and lectures to school children and young men and women in Japan. They were interpreted, I, of courss, speaking in English', so that half of the address was understood by only a few. Yet I have never seen audiences more abso­ lutely attentive. Not a word was lost and the same concentration was shown while I was speaking as when the in­ terpreter was turning it into Japan­ ese. Little school children--boys and girls--sat drinking everything in, with their eyes popping out of their heads until I had finished. I never flattered myself that this was due to the fascin­ ation of my discourse, but merely to the great curiosity of my audience, their power ot concentration aad their receptivity.--Ainslee's Magazine. Bnaltgkt at Different Localities. Instruments are set up at various meterological observatories that auto­ matically register the periods during which the sun Is unobscured by clouds during the daylight hours, and tables are printed giving the actual number of hours of sunlight during each year. By comparing the actual number of sunlight hours with the number of hours during which the sun is above the horizon at each place a percentage number is obtained, as in the follow­ ing small table. In New York city, for instance, 64 per cent of the daylight hours, on the average are sunny. St Petersburg, 34 per cent; Ham­ burg, 28 per cent; Dublin, 33 per cent; Berlin, 39 per cent; Oxford, 80 per cent; London, 23 per cent; Ventnor,, 37 per cent; Vienna, 38 per cent; Zur­ ich, 42 per cent; Lagano, 66 per cent; Padua, 46 per cent; Home, 66 per cent; New York, 64 per cent; Madrid, 46 per cent ' • if V.-f'i .-gts , ,gs&9 m ".rvv£. mm R • 1 • , ; mm Derby Wtaae* nl WeU ba America will be supreme when one 9f her citizens breeds a Derby winner and, without letting anyone else own so much as a hair of his tail, races him In his own colors. There is nothing in buying an English horse to win an English race. With such magnificent breeding establishments as Woodburn, Belle Meade, Elmendorf, McGrathiana, Runnymede, Dixiana, Rancho del Paso, the Nursery, Caetleton, Beaumont, Meadowthorpe, La Belief Brookdale and Rancocas, in which millions are Invested, the prediction is ventured that within five years we shall have the horse we are looking for--and the maa too.--New York Press. of tha remarkable products of our American institutions and an ex­ ample of what perseverance will make «C oven tha poorest boy Is Frank A. Vanderllp, formerly assistant secre­ tary of the United States treasury, who has Just returned from a Euro­ pean trip to sssume tha vice presi­ dency of a New York bank at a sal­ ary of 116,000 a year. This msa of 85, before whom apparently stretches a treat future, is recalled by gray-haired restdsats ot Aurora, m., as a bare­ foot hungry-looking boy, whoso ohlld- hood waa spent la poverty aad who had the scraps sslon of the prosperous. Aa a mere lad ho want to work hi the railroad shops of his native towa at wages amonntiag to 82 per weak. Tha wretchedness of his owa condition, aa compared with tha Joys of those autre fortunately sttaated, filled him with the dstsnalaattoa to employ every en­ ergy la tha amlrtng of his eareer. At tha bench, beside tha trip-hammer, in the smoky, grimy shops of a gnat railroad, ho stadied shorthand aad at alght eagerly read everything ho oould secure. Finally aa openiag presented Itself wltt a fnaaclal concern !a Chl- he qlaoed la the trsawiy dspartmaat. Before giving tfcam tha poaltlon he compelled all to andsrsgo a rigid amination proving their fltnass. Twice each month, on department pay days, they were obliged to bring their sav­ ings accounts to tha assistant seere- tary, to show that a portion of thstr wagee had been plaoed oa deposit aad was drawing Interest la time two of these young men went to Ksrvard. three to Dartmouth and tha remain­ der to minor Institutions of lssmfng When he retired oonnectkm with the ment at tha commencement of tha ond McKinley administration, ha was, perhaps, the most loved aad the hated man who ever held the seooad to the secretary. So was de­ nounced and praiaed. He wan rovlled and revered. He was guarded tor weeks by a secret sarviee offlosr to vent personal violence being dans During the same weeks voluntary tributtona were made to areata a with which an elaborate loving tap was purchased and presented, apoa M g - - - - CoaiolldatM The vast tide of emigration which has flowed from Irish shores for the past half century has undoubtedly done much to consolidate the small holdings of Ireland. In 1841, holding* between one and fifteen acres were 81.6 per cent The increase of farms above 30 acres between the years 1841 and 1900 has been at the following rates per cent in the four provinces: Lelnster, 119.6 per cent; Munser, 248.9 per cent; Ulster, 360.6 per cent, and Connaught, 434.6 per cent FRANK A. ttaao a confidential agent whoso daty tt was to look up the standing ot firms aad Individuals and to establish tha value of bonds and securities ss they came on the market To financial editor of a big Ohioago dally was a natural step, and when a publication devoted to economics aad flnanoe was founded he became identified with It Business opportunities were presented which he did not allow to pass unim­ proved. He became identified with a banking concern in a Chicago suburb, aad whsa Mr. Gage became secretary of the treasury Mr. Vanderllp's repu­ tation la the west as a financial ex­ pert was such that the new secretary selected him at once as private secre­ tary. His promotion to ssslstant sec- rotary waa but a matter of weeks. With increasing prosperity Vanderllp never forgot what to him had been the horrors of his early struggle against poverty aad want Aids Tews Mea. A sews or more young men of Chi­ cago aad bless him for making it poeaible to secure a higher educa­ tion than that afforded by the public schools. They are nearly all in the professions now. Never has he been known to make a mistake In nls se­ lection ot objects for assistance. Some­ times the start was wrong, but in the sad the results were satisfactory. Once he thought he had discovered a violinist of rare promise. From an humble poeitlon in life Mr. Vanderllp sent him to an Italian master. In ten months his protege wrote that he no longer felt Justified in accepting the bounty given him, as the preliminary work had established his inability to ever become a great musician. He had ooncluded that he was adapted to the practice of medicine. Vanderllp brought him back to America and placed him in a Chicago medical school. From this he went to the ma­ rine corps as a surgeon, and he has twice been sent abroad ss a govern­ ment expert, his reports on his return attracting unusual attention. From Chicago and Aurora ha brought a dozen young men whom A Fearlem Opal. The Imperial Opal, as it hss coma to be called, was on view the other day to the agents general and other lead­ ing colonials living in London. The owner of it, Mr. Maurice Lyons, in­ vited them to meet him and see it at the office of the agent general for Vic­ toria. Really there are two stones, but the smaller one is regarded as a fragment, though not by any means an "unconsidered trifle." It is the larger one, weighing 20 carats, which is the Imperial Opal. It is it that Mr. Lyons Is wishful of presenting to the king, for the royal regalia, in honor of the ^establishment of the Australian com- monwelath. Naturally there was talk about tha opal and Its qualities, and about opals in general. Sir Horace Tozer pointed out that the best way to see an opal was to look at it away from tha light. Held thus It appeared to be alive with flre; to burn, as it were, in all manner of changing colors. Bach facet la Its composition seemed to have its own gleam, and that gleam lespod from hue to hue with every mo­ tion Of the ritone. "It is," the owner ot It reauurked, "what is known as a harlequin opal, a name indicating tha various colons in it. This is the moot VANDERLIP. monial from with him. He brought to OM department tha business methods of ths bank and counting room. He insisted that work- lag hours be devoted to work. Be­ lieving that the eight hours' servlee required by the government ot Its em ployes was not a period too long to ba spent In serving its Interests faith­ fully, hs insisted on every employs reporting promptly and not deserting the desk until the full hours had been served. Drones who had, under tha protection of a civil service system, grown to believe that their places were secure, and as little service aa possible need be rendered, were as­ tonished at the methods of the assist­ ant secretary. It was they who hated, reviled and threatened him. Treasury employes who gave the department faithful service learned to know the secretary as he was. It was they who loved, praised and revered him. Haiaia- SaM t* w ' ; Some time ago there was published a number of things which, according to the discoveries of science, the hu­ man race must not do. Now it Is nec­ essary to remark on the alleged dis­ closures as to what ths human race must not eat Bread may contain alum, milk may secrete under its Innocuous surface the deadly ptomaine, meat may inocu­ late the system with the appalling truchinosis, and a list of deleterious things which water may pour into our Internal economies Is indefinite. It waa supposed that there was one edible that might be homely but was harm­ less. Yet science Is trying to cut us off from that It is asserted that a Washington analyst has discovered large quantities of solanin in potatoes, and solanin is asserted to be poison­ ous to humanity. Further specifica­ tions Is offered to the effect that at the indefinite date of "some years ago" a large number of Austrian soldiers were poisoned by potatoes containing solanin. perfect kind of opal the rarest and so always the most valuable." It appeared that opals with a bluish tinge, or hav­ ing a milky appearance, were quite inferior as compared to the harlequin type. Sir Horace Tozer said that of all the Queensland opals he had seen the one then 'on the table was the finest Bigger opals, it was mentioned, had been known, but they lacked the shin­ ing lustre of this one. It was discov­ ered in the western part of Queensland, in a pastoral district there which is famed for its opals. There are alluvial opals, and there are rock opals, and this one belongs to the latter class. The small part has been separated from the larger part during the dig­ ging of the opal from the quartz, where it had lain perhaps for cen­ turies. Somebody spoke an sxplan- atory word on how opals are formed-- on the process by which nature "opal- ixes" certain Ingredients In the quartz --and then once more everybody fell into admiration of the Imperial Opal, as it winked and blinked in beauty like a concentrated rainbow.--Ex­ change. The strenuous lite ot todsy that a yoaag woman, ao leas tl young maa, should have daflaita conoeraing a eareer, and that bar eatioaai work, and particularly bar eollcga training, shall ba along tha Has of preparation for sash sareer. At least, this is ths opinion that to en­ tertained by the up-to-date girl aad her family, and tha number of young giria who are entering the professions or fitting themselves for business lita proves that tha contingent ot tha com­ munity whleh believes in professional or business careers for women Is a large oae and steadily growing. There la one woman in town--a prominent worker In dubs and philanthropic sa- aoclatlons--who has carved oat a ea­ reer for herself la a literary way, aad Is desirous aad even audoua that her boys aad girls shall have a definite Ufa Wortc. Three of the children hava pretty wall defined ideaa aa to what they desire to make their Ufa wozk, including the elder girl, who is yet at oollega. The remaining child, the sec­ ond daughter, has ao ssttlsd opinions as to her "career," and her mother, in discussing her children's futures with a friend, said reoently, in response to her visitor's comment upon the prettir ness ot this young girl: "Yea, she la pretty, bat there It ends. She Is Just a dear, pretty gooee, without any dal ability or inclinations, and X poee shell have to marry." Tha more than the words conveyed the Im­ pression that marriage was the of a desirable eareer, and tha resort only of the girl with mediocre supplemented by considerable charm, although the woman who the observation was the happiest at wivee and has never entirely recov­ ered from the effects of her husband's death some years ago.--Kansas OKy Journal. • mt-m DAN DALY'S OOLF STO!TV« me MA I^M SUA* MM M Orilm "Stage Jokes are rarely made to or­ der," said Dan Daly to a writer la the Mew York World. "Mine turn up In all sorts of queer ways. In a barroom the other night I heard a fellow say he wss going to open a saloon on Broadway. "Who did you ever whip?* asked the bartender. The next night I worked it into 'The Girl From Up There,' and it gets a bigger laugh than anything else I say. My most suc­ cessful stage Joke--the golf story-- same to me by accident too. One after­ noon while lounging about the Casino stage I picked up a scrap of news­ paper that had evidently been used to wrap up something. In glancing It over I found the golf story, credited to 'Exchange.' I don't even know what paper It was, ss part of the page was torn off. It looked like one ot those patent insides used In small towna. The odd thing about it all was that I was never allowed to tell the whole story. You know it goes on to explain that after you hit the ball you walk a mile, and that If yon find it the same day you win. At that point the audi­ ence thought the climax had been reached and laughed. The first time I tried to finish the story, but nobody heard me and I never tried it again. It would have been useless. The story continues that if you don't find the ban the aame day you send your man to look for it the next, and if he finds it he wins. After awhile I saw that the audience was right and that the story really ended better where they insist­ ed it should. At first, though, it made me pretty mad." : Current Ti French Canadian Ai&t Edouard Girouard has Africa, and is now in and change. He is one of young men," and has had all the South African railways Kitchener's csmpalgw Star a French-Canadian, and Lord Kitchener to the Soodaa In tha '80s as a subaltern in tha Bsglsssis. He la now a colons! and ilC. M.<&, t f ' Olaats* Kettiaa la ^ In the Interstate Park, near Taylor's Falls, Minnesota, has been discovered a singular group of "giants' kettles," or potholes, covering an area of two or three acres and ranging in diameter from less than a foot to 26 feet, and in depth from one foot to 84 feet. They have been bored in exceedingly hard rock, and in many eases they are like wells In shape, the ratio of width to depth varying from one to five up to one to seven. Mr. Warren Upham ascribes their origin to torrents fall­ ing through glacial " moulins" at the time when the northern territory of the United States was buried under ice. As with similar pot-holes else­ where rounded boulders are occasion­ ally found at the bottom of the eavi- tlea. Modera Art Hot Appreciated. Unless some very marked change comes soon in the position of affair* srtista will have cause to remember the present season as one of the worst On record, says a London newspaper. Not for many years have the sales at the art galleries been so disappointing. A daub by a inan who has been dead long enough will fetch hundreds or even thousand^, while a better piece of work by a living artist will not find a bidder. ftetktuki Iwallm a T afc». An earthquake wrecked several buildings in the town of Aulton, Mex­ ico, and then passed on to Zopothon, where it sported with the waters of a big lake. At first the waters seemed In a state of great agitation, and then they subsided and gradually disap­ peared. The earthquake had caused a Assure In the bed of the lake, and through this the lake had passed oat *f sight ik- -4, aV 'J J/ He who knows nothing never doubts. For a web begun God sends thread. Oar Fapolatloa aad Sreat Brltala**. Forty-one and one-half millions of people are now crowded into the United kingdom, says the National Seo graphical Magazine. A eimil&r density of population in the United States would mean a total population in this country, excluding the depend­ encies, of about one billion thirty-six nilllons. ITreifn rm-rft- TiIMIch John Johnston is in reoelpt of a par. sonai letter from Andrew Oaraegie, la which the multi-millionaire invites the Milwaukee Scotchman to visit him in Scotland. Mr. Carnegie writes that he will give Mr. Johnston a "genuine Highland welcome.'Milwaakee Wis­ consin. He who would be long sa olid maa must begin betimes. BDOUARD GI so Us advancement has rapid as that of his chief. A Fowff JVIs» Tha stats of Wyoming la a geologlsst wonderland, for, ge It la the newest land on the There are very rich ftoasll the state, the remains van from little Invertebrates to;|p dlaosaurs. In the richest portkfci has been established a Ml situated in the extreme part ot Wyoming, near the Kemmerer, at the summit of tain 8,200 feet above the sea tattli geological formation Is known "Green River Tertiary." The here is laminated and and some streaks are liHiiinlnaijiu rylng paraffin and oil la large ties. The quarry Is worked exclusively b !̂ hand and there are po blasting < ttons. The shale is split Into broken with sledge hammers thrown over the bank by hand. the top of the quarry to the few feet below, the shale sils. When the slabs con taMIMiithr specimens are cut and taken oat th ̂ are very moist and are dried fcilt to about a third of their original Wllght before the cleaning process bsglsi. It la difficult to clean the the shale is too dry, for It i utmost skill and care to dean delicate specimens. Knives aad aawa made especially for the purpcos ars used. A hut or cabin is situated at the foot of the mountain, more than from the quarry, and the bring the slabs to this place to prepara them. The specimens whea they an properly cleaned are tiful, the fishes with all outlined being especially The Green river fishes are i the finest specimens of fossil A Carrssr. The first-born of the king and of Italy will take her outings In an YOLANDA*S PERAMBULATO*. <English perambulator. The baby pria* cess Yolanda is not to through the parks of the ties in an old-fashioned baby but in what Is known aa an canoe pattern, mounted cm col and proof against Jolting that may Jar the good nature of tha royal infant Princess Yolanda'a peraatatletor waa made by a Londoa raaanfsctarer.. Its entire framework. Including wheels. Is silver-plated. The body! the little vehicle is painted a white and the interior is lhwd a rich white satin, with an awning of white corded silk, with: lace to protest the precious ooeapsai from the Italian sun. V The Marquis of Rlpon, who recently celebrated his golden wedding, baa been a dairyman for years, ia ;aia(£/ about the picturesque towa Of Yorkshire, may be seen milk wmsaMHI bearing his formal titla, "The am noble the Marquis of Rlpon.** He also has a milk store in Londoa. wheea,. country dairy products are s<M. f Chairman Burton and eleven (Mrs of the river and harbor commit­ tee, after their return from Alaska, ex­ pect to visit the "inland empire^" They will inspect the Columbia aad Snake rivers from Portland. Qjrjfc. (a Lewiston. Idaho. | TPrince Ferdin­ and of Bulgaria, tt Is reported, will shortly become en­ gaged to Princess Junia, a younger daughter of tha Prince erf Monten­ egro. and sister of the Queen of Italy. The matchmaker in the esse is to be the czar him­ self. The otd court house in WUliasaaf burg, Va., where Patrick Henry his famous speech on the stao||||p.i| still in existence. It Is used |p|| dicial purposes and every morn lag petty offenders Jf* ' there* -