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The bird's cleverness Is not confined to the carrying of shells and other articles for the adornment of. the bower. It can give calls like the cackling of a hen, the barking of a dog, the sound of metal struck, and the cry of the hawk. This last accomplishment is of great use, for It scares away many a small bird which might otherwise Intrude. As the decorative flowers or berries wither they are removed and replaced by fresh ones. QUEER CAR FOR LONG TRIP A scientific research expedition com­ manded by Captain Kelsey and under the aus pises of the British government Is about to start on an automobile trip 'from the Cape to Cairo, and for its use a remarkable motor car has been t built. The body is detachable and ?tan be used as a pontoon for parrying m* chassis, engine and baggage across rivers and lakes. The car carries a searchlight for travel through the bush and provision is made for carrying a big Supply of gasoline. HOW FAR A BARBER SHAVES Did It ever occur to you how far the average barber shaveB ever year? As «t general rule the writer shaves him­ self, but the other day he had occa­ sion to visit the barber, and, being statistically Inclined, counted the number of razor strokes made in the course of the artist's operations.-"For a clean shave--chin, cheeks and up­ per lip--the number was 236, and the time occupied, including the prelim­ inary lathering and the final powder­ ing, was exactly ten minutes. Taking the average razor stroke as being, •ay, one inch in length, the distance traveled by the blade in removing su­ perfluous hair from the writer's face was six yards, one foot and eight Inches. t The barber's shop hours are from eight a. m. to seven p. m.--11 hours. Deduct one and a half hours for meals, and it leaves nine and a half hours. Assume half of this time to be taken up with hair-cutting, sham­ pooing, waiting for customers,^ etc., and it leaves four and three-quarter hours for shaving. As not every cus­ tomer is clean-shaven, we must also make an allowance on the number of strokes and on the time occupied. Suppose we take the average number of strokes at 150, and the average time for each shave as eight minutes. This would give time for the scraping of about thirty-six customers, and the distance traveled by the razor would be 5,400 inches, or 150 yards. The shop closes at one o'clock on Saturdays. Therefore, on the forego Ing basis, the number of customers Shaved per week will be about 196. AJlow a fortnight for the summer hol­ iday, and you have a total of 9,800 customers per year, with a razor Stroke distance of 1,470,000 inches, which is equal to 23 miles, 353 yards, one foot! Further Investigation revealed the tact that when the writer shaves him­ self something like 696 strokes are required to produce a result equal to that obtained by the barber with his 236. The greater skill of the barber Is thus represented by a saving in «r jllgUiicB of no lean than) 12 ards, two feet, four inches! The time advantage to his credit was six minutes. So much for the results Of specializing In industry. LIVE BOY IN THE COFFIN • While members of the family and relatives were grouped about the open $offiii of Mrs. J. R. Burney's three- fear-old son at Butte, Cal.; listening to ^he funeral service, the body moved ~gnd presently the child sat up and gazed about the room. His eyes hi» grandmother ips. * , -̂ 1 --A*" Asis&i.' L. P. Smith, eighty-one years old. The aged woman stared at the child as if hypnotized. Then she sank into a chair, dead. As she fell the child dropped back into its coffin, from which it was quick­ ly taken by the mother. A physician said there was no hope for the boy, and death came a few hours later. The following day there were two coffins in the Burney home. Double services were held and the child and its grandmother were burled side by side. WYOMING'S STRANGE ROCKS A wonderful region Is that around Laramie, in the southern part of"Wyom­ ing. The rock formations to be found here are not only of ths most singular shapes, but their very singularity tells the story that this part of the United States has had a most remarkable experience. This history extends all the way from the early ages when Wyoming was covered by a great sea and before there was any animal life in North America up through the epoch when the sea gave place to swamps where flourished the giant rep­ tiles of the early world; then the huge flesh-eating dinosaurs and terrible saber-toothed tigers; later when the land began to rise out of the sea and swamp; and finally when the great con­ tinental uplift erected mountains of granite to a height of 12,000 feet and over, and when the white man began to play his important part, first trap­ ping and prospecting and later rob­ bing and murdering and when pur­ sued retreating into the maze of rocks and gorges whence he could defy law and order. The stone composing the "Monkey Face" (the top of this rock showing an ape-like profile), and the "Hornets' Nest Park" could perhaps tell the most interesting story. This great stratum was deposited following the carboniferous age, when the atmos­ phere was so poisonous that the man of today could not have breathed it and lived. The vegetation of this peri­ od was the rankest and most luxuriant which has ever grown on our globe, and at this time southern Wyoming was covered with a tropical swamp jungle in which lived awful monfcters, half animal and halt reptile, and oth­ ers half bird and lialf reptile which alone could thrive in the fetid atmos­ phere. The fact that these sandstones, once the floor of an early sea and later of a vast swamp, now stands thou­ sands of feet above Bea level in a coun­ try which is so arid as to be a part ot the Great American desert Is Itself a thing to be wondered at. At another period of Wyoming his­ tory there were forced up under tre­ mendous pressure through these huge cappings of the sdlter sedimentary rocks vast flows of molten rocks from the interior of the earth, and these are represented in the great granite slabs and boulders which are found on the top of the Laramie mountains. "Steamboat Rock" could tell still an­ other story. This is a portion of a great bed of rock sandstone more than 1,100 feet in thickness which was once a red clay mixed with sand deposited by the tides of an ocean which existed perhaps 40,000,000 years ago. Like the other rock strata it has been bod­ ily elevated from 6,000 to 7,000 feet above its original position, which was below present sea level, and has witnessed the entire evolution of the animal life of the World from the earliest, lowest, form to the human animal of today. WOMEN OF NEW GUIANA The women and girls In many parts of New Guinea wear^a skirt ot native grass, which hangs \lown from the waist to the knee, each piece of grass being plaited into a strong encircling belt at the top. The material may also be cocoanut or banana leaves, the former finely shredded with a shell. Sometimes the grass used Is laid in the mud and stained black, or red­ dened by the juice of a root, and the three colors, red, bfaek and light brown, are blended very harmoniously. The effect of wearing the skirt, espe­ cially when composed of. banana leaves, is to make the girl's walk ap­ proach more closely to a waddle, and when some ducks were introduced lately at the headquarters of the Angellcan mission, the boys on gallant­ ly exclaimed: "They walk Ilka the girls!" MONTANA BADGER ROPED Though Wisconsin is knowu aa the Badger state. It has no monopoly of the badger. The fine specimen here shown, held by a rope, was caught in Montana. He Is not nearly so fierce as he looks. CROSS OF PERE MARQUETTE In a little Indian village of Michi­ gan stands a monument cross to Mar­ quette, the explorer-missionary of ths northwest Cross village, as it la known, has about 600 inhabitants equally divided between the white and red races. It was founded as an Indian, post upon one of Father Mar­ quette's exploring trips. It was at the site of this little village that Mar­ quette erected a tyrge cross and di­ rected his converts to preserve it for ever from time and storm. So well have the instructions of Marquette been followed that the cross stands to­ day exactly where it was placed by Marquette. LIKE A FAIRY BOOK -STORY IS THIS, T ROMANCE END OF*CHILD'S DREAM House of Tlioistsd Pitcfecrs Beauty, Talent, Wealth, and Now the Longed-For Prince Charm­ ing Gifts of Fortune to Little Carrie Foster of Waltham. NEW YORK.--Under the trim trees in the big dooryard on Main street, in tidy Waltham town, a big hammock used to swing, softly .swaying in the summer breezes of the not so long ago. And there was one particular little fix}, who loved the hammock and the shady dooryard and the trees that looked as though they had been tak­ en bodily from Noah's ark, no precise and prim were their leaves and branches. But everything roundabout was precise and prim, too--the straight Street and the decorously dressed people In it and the old-fash icned house with Its closed blinds and its geometrical hedgerows and its haircloth furniture and its great walnut bedsteads topped with funeral urnB. Yes, everything--save only the lit­ tle girl. For never could she keep her pig­ tails braided and the carefully starched pinafores seemed always berry-stained and, time and again great holes opened up in the knees of the little white stockings that were never quite able to keep them­ selves spotless once they were on the little girl's chubby legs. Childish Dreams. Then# came one suihmer afternoon when the little girl could hardly wait for the end of the long dinner In the cool dining room, for she had a new fairy book full of beautiful pictures and there was her beloved hammock and the inviting shade all waiting for her. Bat at last the endless meal was over; she ran out, clasp­ ing her precious book, and soon she was curled up, reading as fast as she could spell out the words as they swam Into her delighted ken. Perhaps it was the heat of the long summer afternoon or the whisper of the gentle winds in the honeysuckles, but, anyway, the long, silken lashes came closer and still closer together and the little girl fell fast, fast asleep. And the little girl dreamed such a wondrous dream, just as so many lit­ tle girls have dreamed so many times before. She had diamonds and pearls and her clethes were of satin and lace and ermine, and she was curt­ seying to kings and emperors and queens and empresses, and In the end there came along a tall, hand­ some prince who loved her very dear­ ly, and they were married in a great cathedral and lived happily ever aft "Carrie-ee! Carrle-ee! It's fupper time and you haven't washed yosr hands and face yet!" So the little girl woke up with a start. The setting sun was slanting right at her from under the lowest branches of the trees. Up the village street, outside the gate, the factory hands were clattering home and the village steeple was dully tolling six o'clock and supper time. There were no kings and no queens and no dia­ monds and no pearls, and no cour­ tiers bent the knee to her--no, she was just little Carrie Foster of pro­ saic Waltham, Mass. And her handsome prince was gone :--gone, with all the rest! Dream Foretold Future. It was only a dream. Just such a dream as millions of other girls have dreamed .almost since the world be­ gan, but with only this difference: Her dream has come true at last, every bit of it! Yes, the little girl of yesteryear who played in the dooryard of the o l d - f a s h i o n e d This Little Girl Loved a Ham­ mock and Fairy 960k. fSkm .̂.AMERICAN GIRL NOW FRENCH PRINCESS 4 0' RELIC OF HEATHENISM She Looked "Al­ most Regal" as Catharine of Ai^ agon. home In matter-of- fact New England and later came to w o t b a - d n y - ' N e w York, the berry- stained little Car­ rie Foster who dreamed, is Ma­ dame la Princess de Faucigny-Lu- cigne et Coligny, intimate of their majesties the king- and queen of Eng- gland, mistress of millions in gold and silver and lands, called the best dressed wom- The Elderly Mil­ l i o n a i r e P a i d C o u r t T w o Years. This Is a part of the largest known collection of pitchers, the property ot Mrs. James A. Hensley of Knoxville, Tenn. Th number Is nesrlng 2,000 They include pitchers from nearly every land under the sun, and some ol them are centuries old. Gold, silver,' Ivory, glass, chins, wood and potter) ai£ HPQhfl J^e Diat^rialf. ^£r*»«rrted. an in Europe, a familiar figure in the •oyal halls of Europe and presented at the court of his august majesty the mikado of Japan! For the last of the little girl's dream has Just come true--she mar­ ried her Prince Charming only the other day in the dim light, of the stately Catholic cathedral In West- Queer Old-Time Remedies." The New England amateur physi­ cians bad some quaint "receipts;" the following was a favorite for Insomnia: "Bruise a handful of anise seeds and steep them in red rose water and make it up into little bags and bind one of them to each nostril and it will 'cause Sleep." Almost as soon as the colonists had built their homes they sent to England for seeds and in a short time had gardens of medicinal plants growing under their windows. .From these gardens they procured the •Blaster, London, and even now they are away on their honeymoon In ro­ mantic Tours, France. No fairy godmother ever wove a daintier love story for a little coun­ try girl. Fate endowed the one-time freckle-faced, chubby-legged child with beauty, talent, tact, position, charm, a little daughter who is quite as beautiful as her own beautiful mother--found great wealth for her, and now--her prince! Surely It reads like a fairy book story. Carolyn Foster, daughter of Ren- ben Foster, general storekeeper of Waltham, Mass., did not long remain a child, dreaming her dreams. With the years came a wondrous complex­ ion of roses and qfeam, regular fea­ tures cast in classic mold, a supple, slender figure, a wealth of blond hair and the grace and air of a gentle lidjr. ' Her First Wooing. The day of days which changed the whole course of her life came in 1890, when her friend, MIsb Jo­ sephine Barron, invited her for a little stay at the Twin Mountain house in the White mountains. And there she met Joseph Stickney, millionaire and fifty. He owned the big hotel and most of the fa­ mous B r e 11 o n Woods. But these were his play­ things--coal was the wellsprinfe of his millions. How the elderly millionaire paid court to the beautiful girl of twenty- two is still well remembered in Wal­ tham. But it took him two years to win her hand, and in 1892 the pair were quietly married in the church of Carrie Foster's girlhood--the old First parish. It was a simple cere­ mony because her father had died not long before. Joe Stickney thought nothing too good for his beautiful bride as the years sped on and he found himself growing richer and richer. He bought a splendid mansion in New York. There she entertained elaborately. Summers found them in the White mountains or in Europe, but always was there time for a little stopover in Waltham to see the friends of by­ gone days. Left Young snd Rich Widow. It all ended In 1903, at least for a time, when Joseph Stickney, richer than ever, breathed his last. Beyond a few legacies to relatives and char­ ity. his entire estate went undeserv­ edly to his beautiful wife, now In the prime of her wondrous beauty, a lead­ er of New Yo.rk society, but never forgetting the little town of Waltham, where she was born, and the good people who dwelt there. The millionaire had builded well. Todny- 'the- fortune Ik left, hit is figured at close to $10,000,000. She can satisfy her dearest wish by mere- ] ly turning over her hand. In assuagement of her grief, which was deep and abiding, the widow went abroad with her little daughter. As time passed and her mourning grew lighter she went about a bit. London, ever alert to the possibilities of clev­ er American women with fortunes, at once took to Mrs. Stickney. She was bidden everywhere. All portals were thrown open when she was formally presented to the king and queen-- her social position in England was thus firmly established forevermore. She rented a house In Mayfalr and began to entertain. And her rep­ utation for tasteful and admirable gowning kept pace with her social successes. "Best dressed woman In Europe," was her easily won reputation. Her attire was the subject of tele­ graph dispatches wherever she ap­ peared at the more important funo- tiona--Ascot, the royal ball or some smart duchess'. At the coronation ceremonies for King George Mrs. Stickney was perhaps the most con* spicuous of the few untitled Amer­ ican women present. She was bidden to the royal banquet at Buckingham palace, and at the Shakespearean cor­ onation ball she was Catharine of dragon in the Tudor quadrille, "look­ ing almost regal," the dispatches re­ lated. 8ultors In Plenty. There were titled suitors, of course--the hungry kind who think their moth-eaten appellations are full recompense for dearly won American millions. But to all of them Mrs. Stickney turned a deaf ear. How­ ever, several Americans came In for more than their share of apparently well Informed gossip, but no an­ nouncement ever came. No; her prince had not come--yet! /But he has at last Not one of your typical fortune hunters, so well and sadly known to the average American woman of fortune, is Prince Jean Baptlste Marie Aymon de Fau- clgny-Lucigne et Coligny. On the contrary he is wealthy, traveled, tall and good-looking; he speaks English perfectly and has been a bachelor all his fifty-one years until now. He is a member of the three best clubs In France; he has a home in Paris in the Avenue Elisee Rectus and his es­ tate is the chateau of Chardonneux, where he has taken his bride. What's more, his name has never been mix­ ed up In a scandal of any sort--in fact, he is Just i. polished French gentleman of high title. To the princess he brings, more­ over, kinship to the ancient and royal house of Bourbon, for the prince himself le a great- great-grandson of King Charles X. of France. It must have been a whirlwinu courtship, for only r e c e n t l y h a s Prince Aymon re­ turned to Par ib from Mexico. Tim wedding was •» very simple one I n " t h e L a d y Chapel of the cathedral, hut the company of guests was very distinguished, Including both the American and the French ambassadors and their suites, several of the more prominent Americans now in London and a dosen or so of the French nobility. A gay wedding breakfast followed at the home of the bride, and the happy couple mo­ tored away for an all too brief few days at Knole, the historic mansion belonging to Lord and Lady Saok- ville, and then the Journey to TOUTS to meet the kinsfolk of the prince. And perhaps in the autump a trip to Waltham, for the boys and girls of long ago want to see their princess again and the prince of her child­ hood's dreams!--New York World. The French Prince Wooed and Won Her. BELIEF IN VAMPIRES It CENTURIES QUI. As Strong Today in Russia and tfc* Balkan 8tatea aa It Ever Wae-» Superstition Leads Frequent^l'(%%•-1; to Violation of Graves. 'r| Proofs of the persistence of th* belief in the reality of vampires are to hand from a small Russian village. Some three years ago the head of & family resident there died, and sine* that date nine other members of tha family have also difcd. Believing that their deaths were th# result of the roving spirit of their chief, the remaining surviving mem* bers of the family assembled together a few evening 6ince, disinterred the remains, and cut off the head, burying the body. They hope by means to prevent any further evil happening to the family. The belief in vampires can he traced back for more than two thou­ sand years, yet there is not on record a single authenticated instance of •. vampire having been seen by a hu­ man being, and there are no data available by means of which the ori­ gin of the belief can be ascertained with any degree of certainty. These blood-sucking apparitions, or 'living, mischievous, murderous dead bodies," as one writer quaintly term­ ed them, were common to all conn* tries, whether Occident or Oriental, but it was generally agreed that the phenomena of vampirism were to be Been only in persons cursed by their parents, excommunicated by th# church, the illegitimate offspring of parents themselves illegitimate or people attacked by vampires after death. Quite recently there was reported in the dally press the story of a Hun­ garian farmer who had dug up th# corpse of a supposed vampire, stuffed three pieces of garlic and three stones in the mouth and then driven a stake through the body. Servia and Bulgaria follow closely in the wake of Hungary, and In the eighteenth century an official examination at many graves was made, and the re­ port of such examination embodied la a public document It states that a large number of undecomposed bod­ ies, undoubtedly those of vampires, were discovered. In 1863 there was an epidemic of vamplriam In a Bul­ garian village. The inhabitants became so fright­ ened that when night set In instead of retiring to rest in the usual manner, they all assembled together In one central hall to pass the night In COMH pany. While they were away from, their houses, however, the enraged1 vampires entered them, turned evetr- thing topsyturvy and smeared all til* pictures, ornaments and furnitw* with blood and dirt. The Russians hold tenaciously to a belief in the reality of vampires, but they attribute the birth of a vamplte as due to an unholy union between a witch and a werewolf, or a devil, tn many parte of Russia watchers re­ main by the dead right through *mkf . night until burial. * Testing Wool Fabrics. Two good ways of telling whetlMT or not the cloth you buy for "all* wool" is really what it is represented to be are given by Miss Anabell Turn­ er of the home economics department of the University of Wisconsin In tlM Rural New Yorker. "Unravel a sample of the material exposing the warp and weft thread* separately," she says. "Wool fibers are more curly than the cotton. Then burn some of the threads; if cotton, they will burn quickly; if .wool, mare slowly with an odor like that of hum* ing feathers or bone. "If cotton and wool hare been Bpvn together In the same thread "Qm above test is not reliable. In such, a case, the alkali test should be ustid- Mix together one tablespoonful M Lewis lye and one pint of water. Place the sample of goods in a gran­ ite dish, cover with solution, and boll for five minutes. At the end of this time all the wool will be dissolved out leaving the cotttm intact, so that It is easy to see how much cotton was used to adulterate the /pure wooT fabric." Couldn't Call It Stealii^ ' "Whether you believe or don't be» lleve in the tariff, you'll admit that we'd have fewer multimilllonairee if wefd never had high protection." The speaker, Representative Ablv vCjk- romble, lighted a cigar and resumed! " "This sort of thing reminds me, just Program All Arranged. "Alcohol ties queer kinks in the brain," remarked a minister when the subject of Intoxicants arose. "As I was going home on a recent Saturday evening I noticed a fellow walk­ ing with slow and unsteady gravity Just ahead, from time to time mum* bling to himself. "As I overtook him I caught his words, and this Is what he was r^ peating over and over to himself anxious, no doubt, that he shouldn 1 forget his line of defense: " 'Been drunk, an' ain't been home for three days, hie! Goin' home now, *n' if dinner ain't ready I'm goin' t raise old Harry. If 'tis ready I ain't goin' t' eat a gol-dajrned thing!" componenas of a peculiar mixture which was claimed to be a specific for melancholia: "Anise seeds, Bage. cinnamon, hartshorn and a variety of other ingredients, including ale, red rosebuds and sliced apples." ' Why He Was Boycotted. A41 the polieemen in this city are in a state of uneasiness %hd no wonder; only the gods know whose head is to be lopped off next. Patrolman Peace had felt for some time that everything was not as it should be. His popular­ ity had obviously waned and his com­ panions rather avoided him. His captain noticed it and called the pa­ trolman into his office. "Peace," he said, "is there anything in your life with which I am unacquainted?" The patrolman shuffled and smiled sheep* ishly. "Don't be foolish," said the of­ ficer. "We can't have mysteries heret What is all this boycotting about!" "Well," said Peace In a hoarse whis­ per, "I'm clarinet in a band. Ifs not an easy job--and one night the hoys hsaj-d- nie."--London Answers. • v A cromble, lighted a cigar and resumed? '/ft b. jurt a little bit, of old Calhoun Clay. "'Is this your first theft, Cal?* t)M old man's mistress asked, after she had caught him walking off with a buUlu of b€CX. "'Yas'm,' Cal replied., Taa'n*. reckon dish-yere's mahi fust thet^ ; J< mum.' '"Now, Cal, be careful.* said tlta^. mistress, smiling, for she liked the old 0. man well. "Didn't you sometimes UN ifti to take a chicken from the "ole massa** when you were a young fellow do^ south?' ' , " 'Why, yas'm. mebbe I did take jetf one chicken.' Cal agreed.' 'But daS ^ wa'nt no stealin', mum. Dat wuz jes* prop'ty takln' prop'ty to suppot PtO|fV ty.' "--Washington -Star. •.' rife- ^ - : f Peculiarities of Engllah Law. v" ^ „ Women' ennnot be lawyers In Snpf^ ^ land, but they can be queens, ma(« shals, champions of England, sos* . tons, church wardens, constable^ workhouse governors, returning oS» > ^ fleers, overseers of the poor and. . sheriffs of assises. And yet the object* ^ |§ t "UUU_ Vi LUO~ uiw nwivvj «>w e» wvinnn entering the legal profession la thafe . v ̂ she is not a "person." Certainly wheSK | English law entitles her to fulfill so many functions she cannot be called - a ,4nobo<iy.M--Rochester 'Post *xpre«i^^,4 Literally So. . v He--That's old man Driver w)m just went by. He makee me tl/ed- She (reprovingly)--That expre* sion is not only slan$ but very stale slang. He-^No slang ahont It ||»ts «SS man ] WOTk for. Ma v'f •" y--"'*;"- > •••