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'WWW 9S A Thankful Heart • ; W- .IT M Thou art not rich, thou art not poor, Thy fortune keeps the middle way; No Ills thy strength cannot endure. Apportioned to the passing: day, Thou art not young-, thou art not old. Yet, catm thou seest thy years depart; And Joy* are thine, a thousandfold-- Because thon hast the thankful heart. A thankful heart for life alone-- For beauty In the earth and skies, (And for such share as thou dost own By happy gift of seeing eyes). For human tave's endearing bond. Where stauchly thou dost bear thy part- Fir solace here, and hope beyond-- For all thou hast the thankful heart. So, to this day of drowning cheer. By easy course thy steps did tend. Since with each day of all the year Some grateful leaven ihou didst blend. No chance thy prize from the* can wrest; While life shall last thou shalt not part With that good gift (of all the best). The treasure of a thankful heart. --Edith M. Thomas in Harper's Bazar. Realism vs. Romanticism, BY F. H. LANCASTER. (Copyright, 1902, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) They were sitting on the gallery in the twilight and the discussion began by th® Woman Who Wrote taking ex­ ception to the extravagant prais« be­ stowed upon a modern book. "It is not true; not possible. If a human woman had attempted to live through such a series of sensations she would have died of heart failure In a week; or, been sent to an asylum for the insane." The Newspaper Man cut is dryly: "Realism will never appreciate ro­ manticism." "I wish to goodness that I could un­ derstand what is meant by realism and romanticism," announced the Green Girl. "Why, the difference is Just this," responded the Woman Who Wrote. "Realism deals with what would probably happen--every-day flesh and blood. Romanticism with impossible creations of nerve and fury. For in­ stance: "Once upon a time there was a man and a woman in a gaudy little garden and life looked glad. But as the sun hastened to its setting the glow of their gladness began to dim, for to the man sunset meant return to camp, and to the woman, making hot bis­ cuit for supper. So they watched the setting sun and their words were few­ er as their eyes grew wistful. For this is ever so in life, novelist to the contrary, notwithstanding. A full heart makes not a ready tongue. "Then into the garden came the maiden aunt of the woman, and she made obeisance to the man and said to him in pleasant, every-day, un- grammatical talk, that she would be mnch pleased to have him make a third at their teatable. Let any man who has learned to prize the presence of one woman above all others say what was in the heart of the man as he followed the old maid and the woman into the dining-room that smelled of new bread and sad salmon. " 'We will not bother about biscuit to-night, Polly, if you will slice some cold bread,' spake the aunt But the nan interfered, declaring himself to be familiar with the weapons, and laying hold upon the bread knife, at­ tacked the loaf valorously. Where­ upon the old maid went to the pantry for the tea. The door latch clicked in closing and the bread-knife was in the left hand of the man and his right arm was about the shoulders of the woman. His breath raised her hair, and then that happened which will al­ ways happen when any ordinary man and woman whose hearts have gone into each other's keeping, chance to find themselves alone together and safe from the eyes of others. For the space of a moment, heaven hung over the breadboard, then a loose plank squeaked and the woman began to lay places for six and the man cut slices of a thickness to beat the band. The man's hand touched the wom­ an's intentionally as he passed plate and platter. Marvel not, ye mortals of mundane flesh and blood, that the tea drank that night was a nectar compared to which the ambrosia of and we have been ordered against them." Do not condemn him for breaking it so rudely. His heart was hurting him too badly to think of finesse. It is ever so with an ordi­ nary man, pain makes him impatient. Well, the woman felt troubled; be­ cause she missed him, and because all at once she could think of him only as of a still, white face upturned to the moon. She went to the machine and made a couple of shirt waists with tucked fronts and Insertion as per or­ der, then she read the newspaper to keep from going into the garden. She did not care to talk about it--sym­ pathy upsets one's self-control. But the hurt in her heart grew worse aa wicked water, but not hell a-gape, ' Would have stopped him now. lata the raging water, beating against It defying it, his magnificent muscles Btrained like whipcords, his face blanched, his lips numb. "The door burst open, Genevieve Trevallion sprang to her feet The man stood before her. His grand eyes, black and passionate as the night, burned into hers. His breath came in hoarse, gasping sobs. Pallid, spent, unkempt as the storm, he stood before her. Wet as a drowned rat!" "Ah, how outrageous!" "But he was wet," she protested. "Bother; if we cannot escape prosaic details let's have tea." As the Woman Who Wrote arose to follow the others, the Newspaper Man stopped her. "Did you really kiss that knife's handle?" "What knife?" "The one I cut ham with that night." "Why, you crank, you and I have never been anything to each other." "Don't be too sure of that. Remem­ ber the damage I did to your mother's china. If you hadn't been as cold as an iceberg you would have been bet­ ter posted on realism. When your own heart is going like a buzz-saw you can't feel the beat of another against it. See? This is realism." pn •ate of Andree Slilt X/ncertam Quay Was Outwitted. Senator Quay seldom admits that he has been outwitted, but he was In such high good humor after the recent Pennsylvania convention that he told a story on himself. "When Pattison walloped us," he said, "there were five men contesting for a marshalship--one of the few plums I had to dispose of. I had really picked the man and was trying to get the others off the field, when the five came at me. " 'Gentlemen, the returns speak for themselves,' said I. 'Losses every­ where! None of you deserves office.' " 'But I increased the vote in my district 50 per cent,' said a Berks county Dutchman. " 'If that's so, you can have the of­ fice,' said I, remembering that the few Berks county Republicans had nearly disappeared under the Patti­ son landslide. "We looked at the returns and found his district had cast nine Re­ publican votes. " 'Isn't that 50 per coat better than six votes?' he asked, pointing to the figures for the previous election, and I had to confess that it was and give him the office. 'The man had married Into a Demo­ cratic family and had brought his relatives into the fold."--New York 'i imes. *5 rhe bread knife was in the left hand ot the man and his right arm was •bout the woman's shoulder. As gods was but as milk and water. For all that I have told is very true and has come to pass many hundreds of times, and if the world holds will oome many hundreds of times more. lit last they said good-night in the' moonlight. And if there be any among foa who have not counted the mo­ ments by the delicious quiver of a heart beat against your own, I shall not strive to picture to you that pleas­ ant parting, for no words could make ft plain; and if there be those among you who have, neither will I expend energy a pon useless endeavor, for yon know that no words may do It justice. So for the sunshine. The shadow aame next day with his letter. "My owa dear Polly, Tfee Indians are a# li ' • The door burst open, Genevieve Tre- valion sprang to her feet. the day died and when the time cam* for tea, she felt as though the food was choking her beforehand. The eyes of the woman grew warm with tears as she looked upon the bread knife and thought of those great, clumsy slices, but she assented as a matter of course. Her fingers closed over the horn-handle and that haunt­ ing, nptomed face left her. She saw him again beneath the hanging lamp, his eyes aglow with mixed np love and mischief. Ah! how good to be able to think of him once more as her dear bad boy. When the house was still, she car­ ried the Itnife to her room and cov­ ered its handle with tears and kisses. Trouble not yourself with idle ques­ tionings, whether the man came back from the wars or no; for when a man has won such love from a woman that Bhe kisses handles for his sake, he has seen his Austerlitz; let him beware lest he live too long and so look upon his Waterloo." "That's realism." "In all save one particular," com­ mented the Newspaper Man. The Woman Who Wrote spoke hur­ riedly, "Now for romanticism: "It was a wild, dark night, dark as death. The rain poured down in cease­ less torrents; the wind tore the thou­ sand-year-old monarchs from the for­ est and lashed the sea into a raging mass of inky waters. Against it all, in the very teeth of the storm, the man held on his way. Heedless of the howl and roar, heedless of the jagged lightning that leaped from the lower­ ing heavens. ^Deaf, blind, lost to con- sciousnss of aught save the sting of wounded pride and the fierce resent­ ment of an outraged love. None save gods or devils would have braved such a night, but he Woat was beat of rain and lash of wind? What was this wild storm without, compared to the fiercer one raging within? The rage of passion that sent the blood seething through his veins, and beat in his brain like hammers. "The crimson curtains with their satin fringingB swept to the floor, •hutting out the storm and the night. They could not shut out the wind that howled and shrieked like a thousand fiends In torment. Genevieve Treval­ lion crouched over her flre, her great, violet eyes staring In dense terror at the flames. For hours she had sat there cowering under a sense of im­ pending doom; suffering the agony of a hundred deaths. No torture devised by man so Intense so agonizing as that of undefined fear. She clenched her hand until the blood sprang from her tender palm and dyed her perfect nails; low moanlngs broke from her palid lips. 'He would not come, he would not come, and to-morrow would be too late, too late. Oh, God; the bitterness of a luxury that defeats love.' "The man fought on, not knowing that he fought Over rage and resent­ ment a desire had come to him, more blinding than the blue flare of the lightning. The desire to be with her, to breathe the Intoxicating perfume of her hair, to feel the wild beating of her heart on his, to crush her lips be­ neath kisses strong as eternity, eager as life. His foot sunk into deepening water and a stream of heaven's blue flre showed him the bridge--a nm of broken timbers heaped upon the farther shore. Beforjju, him, wild, Age Limit and Hair Dye. For a long time there has been close to complete cessation in the manufacture of hair dye, but in the past year or so a boom has developed In that branch of Industry. The gen­ eral establishment of an age limit in the employment of men In com­ mercial and mechanical pursuits is said to be responsible for this un­ expected revival. An official of the American Federation of Labor says he knows for a fact of maijy men who are using dyes to hide their gray hairs and hosts of others who shave constantly to look young enough to be able to hold their positions. Sta­ tistics prove that it 1b every day be­ coming more difficult for a man past the prime of life to secure employ­ ment. The skilled mechanic engi­ neer or employe who wants a Job in any service must have youth as well as ability. If he doesn't possess it he must counterfeit it. Presumably the elderly man with a bald head must wear a wig in order to cover his years. Minstrel Reminiscence. The first minstrel performance In London took place at a theater in the Strand, London, England--Emmett, Frank Ray and others. There, amid great excitement, the band of min­ strels performing bowed to the im­ mense audience and were about to take their seats when a man in a box called out to them: "Americans, go home and pay your honest debts." He was alluding to the trouble caused by the failure or trouble of the United States bank. A man standing near him called out in loud tones, "Americans, go on with your performance, and"--shaking his flst at the first speaker--"if that fel­ low disturbs you again we will throw him out of the window." Cheer upon cheer was given, and that was the cause of their great success--full houses every night.--George A. Cooke (aged 88 years) in New York Sun. Repairing Longfellow's Home. The repairs on the outside of the old Longfellow home, Portland, Me., have begun. The house is to have a new roof and the woodwork and blinds are to be painted. The floor in the vesti­ bule, from the street, is to be restored to Its original appearance, and the old stone front doorstep, which has been covered up for many years, Is to be raised and used again, as formerly. Over this old step the family have gone from the beginning of the house. On it stood Zllpah Longfellow, In 1798. the mother of the poet Longfellow, and presented a standard to the Portland federal volunteers, the first uniformed military company in Maine. This company was reorganized as the Portland light infantry, and next year the members are anticipating a cen­ tennial celebration.--Boston Tran­ script Japanese New Woman. The Japan Woman's University It said to have adopted baseball in a modified form as an exercise for Its students, says the Japan Times. The modification made by a gymnastic teacher consists of increasing the number of bases to five instead of four, and of shortening £!& Inter-base distance. The field will therefore be pentagonal in shape. The heading of this note may sound objectionable, but In using it we do not of coarse In­ sinuate that our "new women" bo- have extravagantly, as their sisters In the West are supposed to do. Tho creation of "new women," adopted for national requirements, Is an In­ evitable consequence of the new of affairs in Japan. • The Rev. Dr. Farlles, a Church of England clergyman, arrived at New York from York Factory, Northwest Territory, and brings authentic infor­ mation of the fate ot' the explorer An- dree, and his companions. Two years ago, eight hundred miles north of York, a party of Esquimaus, under the leadership of "Old Huskie," saw the Andree balloon alight on a plane of snow in that vicinity, which is about two hundred miles north of Fort Churchill. Three men emerged from the balloon, and some of "Hus- kie's" people approached them out of covery of any portion of the outfit be­ longing to Andree, and though natives have gone in search of them they have pever returned, believing, as the Rev. Dr. Farlies says, that they will in some way be punished, for they now understtand that it was not an attack upon them, but an accident by which the gun was discharged that precipi­ tated the massacre. Had Andree made friends with tha natives it is held he would have been safely conducted south and would eventually have reached civilization. The Hudson Bay company has re­ cently sent another party in search of the balloon and outfit of Andree, and hopes to have conclusive evidence of the fate of ^e explorer within a few months. Solomon A. Andree, with two com­ panions, Strindberg and Frankel, afe, tnttmrnttt From Nea.| and Fa.f ivnnutMtvutMtmwmw Mloeollan Itoma of Intoroot Samuel M. Andree. Commander of the Expedition, curiosity. As they did so, one of An- dree's companions fired off a gun. This is a signal to uncivilized natives for a general battle. It is regarded as a challenge, and also instantly the na­ tives fell upon the three explorers and massacred them. Everything pertaining to their out- lit was carried away to the homes of the natives on the north borders of the Arctic region. "Old Huskie" himself gave this in­ formation to Ralph Alstlne, agent for the Hudson Bay company, and after being Investigated by the Rev. Mr. Farlles, was told by him. He says there is little room for doubt, as fre­ quent reports have since come of the strange implements which the north natives have in their possession, the telescope being particularly described. The Hudson Bay company has re­ peatedly offered a reward for the re- with a balloon. They embarked on July 11 from one of the islands in the Spitzbergen group. Since that time, many rumors of their being found, dead or alive, have been circulated, but in every case until now these have proved false. Several of them have located the party on or near the north coast of the American conti­ nent. The revival of an old story that An­ dree and his companions were mur­ dered by Esqulmaus up there faises a number of interesting questions. The first of these relates to the intelli­ gence of the men who from time to time have passed thie tale down from Hudson's Bay to civilization, and who pretend to have got it from the Es­ qulmaus. In view of tfce large numbor of "fakes" which have been perpe­ trated since Andree's disappearance in regard to his fate, some doubts may exist as to the honesty of the persons who are responsible for this particular account. But, granting their perfect sincerity, it is not inconceivable that they wrongly interpret the facts. Early last March this same story came from Winnipeg, and was attrib­ uted to a Mr. Alston, an agent of the Hudson Bay company. The officials of that organization, however, briefly discredited it. What Andree hoped for when he started was a breeze blowing fifteen miles an hour to the northward. This would,have enabled him to cover the seven hundred miles between Spits­ bergen ahd the Pole in two days, and NO*TH mr /wiwwH JtAflTtO ijzeei»at Jtetvrf urine m**u tgffi ffUSOt cmmtHiL Region Where Andree Is Supposed to Have Been. Life of President Kruger. • Utrecht correspondent tells this story of the way ex-President Paul Kruger spends his nights: He retires at 8 p. m., but gets up at 1 a. m., "dons a dressing gown and a pair of slippers and sits down to read his Bible, smoke and drink tea. The teapot Is set over a little spirit lamp and he brews It strong. And thus he sits from 1 until 8 o'clock, reading and commenting aloud on the Bible texts. At 3 o'clock he returns to his bed to finish the night's rest until 5, when he rises for a fresh day's labors." Female Coal passers. &The big steamers which arrive at Nagasaki, in Japan, are coaled en­ tirely by women, who form an un­ broken line up a series of platforms from the sampans, or coal-hulks, up the side of the ship. The coal comes up in baskets, each holding about forty pounds, and these athletic girls will pass baskets of this weight at the rate of sixty to sixty-nine a min­ ute. Between ten and four they are able to put on board a full thousand tons. Helped Him in Church Work. Dr. Brooke Herford, who Is serious­ ly ill In London, before entering the ministry was in the insurance busi­ ness, and says the lesson of his busi­ ness experience was very useful to him in learning how best to deal with men. Woman Made Master of Arts. Tufts college recently conferred the honorary degree of master of arts upon Miss Sarah L. Arnold, dean of the new Blpamona college In Boston. Formerly Miss Arnold was supervisor of Boston public schools. Sixty years ago Paris had only one postofflce. With the Philippines we acquired 25 volcanoes. Every year 20,000 Spaniards emigrate to South America. In Germany the yearly number of divorces exceeds 10,000. California had, at the end of last year, 2,040 petroleum wells. All beet-sugar factories in Denmark are under one management. There are now more than 1,100 pulp and paper mills in America. Nearly 4,000,000 acres of land are irrigated by farmers in Colorado. Greece holds the earthquake record with 3,187 shocks in five years. Some Russian railways employ only members of the orthodox church. The thirty-four biggest estates in Britain average 183,000 acres apiece. The average value of all meat cattle in the country was, in liKK), ?21.7T. Women of all classes In South American take a keen interest in politics. Australia hgg, proportionately, more churches than any other country. The highest mountain peak in Colorado is Sierra Blanca, 14,483 feet high. Ohio has a trolley line which has Introduced Bleeping cars on its long runs. Japan has 150 varieties of rice, many of which are adapted to American soil. An optimist is a man who believes that all eggs will hatch.--Ghloago News. A candle once extinguished may never be relighted In an Austrian royal tempted In 1897 to find the North Pole . . . Most of the Manila cigarmakers are women. One factory employs 8,009 hands. Kaffir corn has been planted In abont 600,000 acres 6f Kansas land thtt season. Halifax leads all Atlantic ports in the shipment of apples to Europe this season. , A negative answer may be given in a positive manner.--Philadelphia Record. The sun's flames spring at times to a distance of 350,000 milee from lta surface. The sponge yield in Florida last year amounted to 365,000 pounds, worth $567,000. The Hindus are said to regard us as no better than cannibals because we eat meat. The maple sugar crop of Vermont will be worth not less than $1,000,000 this year. It isn't the girl who fires up quickest that makes the best match.--Chi­ cago News. Jerusalem is 2,494 feet above the Mediterranean and 3,736 feet above the Dead sea. All the flour consumed by the 11,000,000 people in Slam comes from tho United States. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw never eats a meal away from home if he can help it. England was the first European country to have a railway (1825), Servla the last (1884). Workmen report that Mont Pelee is «*llt from peak to base by a Assure 1,000 yards long. Ninety-five tons of gold and 520 of silver are extracted from the earth la a single year. The production of silver in the United States this year was practically the same as last. Zulu women always Indicate by their head dress whether they are mar- lred or unmarried. Charles Ely Adams, in the Forum, says that the American hobo patronizes literature and soap. One of the favorite beverages in St. Pierre was cocoanut milk and rum mixed In the shell. ^ Routt county, Colorado, is 130 miles long and seventy-live miles wide, an empire in itself. Only the man who knows he Is in the wrong can afford to lose his tem­ per.--Chicago News. Pet pigs are taking the place of pet dogs in many families In Cumberland county, New Jersey. England )s going to coin £2 pieces in gold. They will be about the size of our $10 coins. Only 80,331 of the 700,000 British subjects who died last year had any* thing to leave by will. No fewer than 61 _per cent of German students are short-sighted, states Prof. Cohn, of Breslau. Cherry is the best wood for ebonizing; the counterfeit can only be detected by an expert. Among the articles made in Philippine prisons are tables inlaid with pearl and oyster shells. The difference between repartee and impudence depends on the size of the man who gets it off. A $90,000 cancer hospital is to be built at Dundee, Scotland, by a wealthy manufacturer of that place. The man who can't swim is a fool to rock the boat; but so is the man who can.--Baltimore News. The number of election districts in New York, 1,537 last year, will bo 1,543 this fall, a gain of six. Senator Teller always weeps while delivering a speech In the Senate he deems unusually effective. Near Scarborough, Eng., there is a farm for raising butterflies and motha. The output is 20,000 a season. Crows have no fewer than twenty-seven different cries, each distinctly referable to a different action. Satisfactory experiments with oil-fuel for fire engines have been made by the London county council. String beans may be obtained during the entire summer by planting once a month for successive supplies. Almost a quarter of the women of Germany earn their living by their own labor, mostly in farm work. The freight charges for hauling anthracite coal from the Pennsylvania mines agregate $40,000,000 a year. Lord Wemyss has invented a combination pick, mattock, spade, chopper and saw, called a '*$nultlmplement." The Lutheran Ministerium, of Pennsylvania, has decided against tho use of individual communion cups. in California alfalfa sends its roots twenty feet into the soil and pro­ duces three crops of hay a season. Senator Chauncey M. Depew has confessed to a newspaper reporter that he suffers horribly from the blues. The California giant trees, or Sequoias, are, in the opinion of Richard T. Fisher, probably 5,000 years old. There are physicans in Germany who charge only two cents for a ooo- sultation and four cents for a visit. The increased importation in France of American corn meal is due chiefly to its use for fattening geese. The Amir has forbidden all cock and quail fighting in Afghanistan, and tho order has displeased his subjects. It is said that it costs twenty times as much to make a rifle In China as it would cost to buy one in Europe. A Brussels publisher has felt justified In starting a periodical devoted wholly to the scientific study of milk. Iron finger posts bearing the names of thoroughfares are now being erected at the street corners in Berlin. Spanish is one of the studies in Newcomb College, Mississippi. Professor Nunez de Villivicencio is the instructor. A young woman of Lyons, Colo., killed a bear and two cubs while sho was out hunting cattle one day recently. A Massachusetts man has died from apoplexy brought on by too great concentration of mind while playing chess. Frederick D. Underwood, who is slated for the Northern Pacific presi­ dency, began as a brakeman on the St. Paul. A Western cattleman says that all cows lie down on their left side and never on their right unless the left is injured. Santos-Dumont's balloon has been found a hopeless wreck at the Crystal Palace. The aeronaut suspects malicious intent. Extra pay at the rate of 60 cents a day has been allotted to the Brussels police for their services during the recent riots. The modern 'system of "personally conducted" tours has opened pretty much all of the known world to the globe-trotter. Dr. Butler, the new president of Columbia, is said to have declined foitr- toon college presidencies before he got the offer that he wanted. Two aeronauts, MM. Latruffe and Judio, will shortly attempt to CTOM the Mediterranean In a navigable balloon of their own invention. This bit of wisdom comes from China: "There are things whltih earn never be imagined, Iftit there is nothing which may not happen." A ten-pound rainbow trout has been caught in a lake in Ellis oonnty, Texas, as a result of plants' made by the Fish Commission in 1889. A henevolent society has been incorporated at Torrington, Conn., under the name of the Lieutuviszkos Draugystes Broliszkos Pagllbos, Varden-Skr Ylnclnto. The classrooms of the Art Institute of Chicago now house about 2,000 pupils, and the institute is visited each year by more than 700,000 persona. Nebraska was one of the first States to recognize the importance of keeping reliable records of the flow of Its streams. Pennsylvania has 6,328 lawyers or Judges. They are distributed ta about 284 places, nearly half of them being in Philadelphia and Pittsburg. The value of gems found in this country during the year 1900 waa $233,000. They are largely from quartz. Palladium is employed in the making of astronomical Instruments at a cost of $480 a pound, being more precious than gold. The rainwater barrel should be covered with mosquito netting, or hava some gold fish in it, or both, says the state entomologist of New Jersey. Mr. Kruger's life at Utrecht iB described as one of comfort and lelfttirfc He rises at 5 a. m., and sleeps in snatches through the twenty-four hours. In a London police court a man named Frank Houghton was fined tor being drunk and shooting. Defendant pleaded that he was under the lmprea- alon he was singing. The little town of Malin, in Bohemia, produces the finest horaeradlafc In the world. Malin horseradish is known all over Europe. Blocton, Ala., is able some months to pay all the town expenses Croat the profits of the local liquor dispensary, which it shares with the oounty. More mushrooms are grown at Kenneth square and Lansdale, near Phila­ delphia, than in any other section of the country. Tory island, nine miles off the coast of Donegal, Is to be cleared of Its 100 inhabitants. They have paid neither rent nor taxes for years. Lake Superior Is the deepest of the great lakes. Its greatest depth la 1,003 feet and the lake is 601 feet above the level of the sea. The extent of French vineyards waa enlarged 4,894 hectares (12,0M aaree) last year, which made In all 1,7S5,345 hectares (4,288,037 acres). It is reported that no fewer than thirteen officers of the garrison at Penemlsl, in German Poland, committed suicide within three months. In one village In county Derry, Ireland, there are thirteen houses, elorM of them being public-houses, the only prowlaw uoi llowuseu psttoo barracks and a creamery. carry him over to Behrlng Strait in six. The last news received from him, dated two days after starting, was dis­ patched by a carrier pigeon. This report of latitude and longitude showed that he had gone in a north­ easterly direction about one hun­ dred and fifty miles, or at the rate of three miles an hour. If there had been no calms intervening thereafter and no deviation from a straight course that speed would have brought him to Eastern Siberia in about a month or six weeks. But the winds In the Arctic region are exceedingly fickle in summer. What is Btlll more important, it is hard to render a bal­ loon so completely gas tight as to re­ tain its buoyancy more than a few days. It is in the highest degree prob­ able that Andree was compelled to abandon his balloon for this reason at some point hundreds, probably thou­ sands, of miles from land. Search parties have looked in vain for some trace of him on the east coast of Greenland, in Spitzbergen, Franz Jo­ sef Land, the New Siberian Islands, and Siberia. The chance of his reach­ ing Alaska or British North America was much smaller than that of land­ ing in these other places. Hence, un­ til the relics which are reported to have been found up near Hudson's bay are Identified by competent au­ thority It will be wise to receive the story with caution, not to say scepti­ cism. Tact of French Statesman. Leon Bourgeois, the new president of the French chamber of deputies, represented France at the peace con­ gress at The Hague, and gained there a reputation as a diplomat. He has been minister of public instruction. He is an orator and possesses all the arts of the trained parliamentary speaker. To M. Deschanel, whom he had beaten in his new office, he said: "I succeed you; I shall never replace you." That was a delicate way of sof­ tening defeat which is not habitual at the Palais Bourbon. Jules Verne 8tiil at Work. It Is now declared that Jules Verno, the French writer, Is not in danger of becoming totally blind, as haa been reported. For some time he haa been troubled by a cataract growth, but he is able to go on with his work, declar­ ing that he does not mean to stop un­ til he has written 100 books. His lat­ est work published Is the eighty-seo- ond, but about a dozen more are near­ ly or quite ready for the printer. 1L Verne is now 74 years old. Rosebery as Novel Writer. It Is said that Lord Rosebery has written a novel, but has decided to put it aside, for a time at any rate, fearing that the publication 'might injure him in his political career. Growing Trade With Japan. Seattle's exports to Japan aro now about $5,000,000 per anwwf, which is eleven times what they were six yeara ago. OHs from Wood. Essential oils may be got from wood placing the wood in a bottle and pouring ether on it.