'UNDER THE: CANON SLIDE Robert Schwariz, the canon guide paurced on a little plateau on Bright Angel trail, and shading his eyes with his hand, examined an area of loose rock, high above him on the gigantic face of limestone that rims the Grand Canon; He Was carrying a pack load of provi- sions down to the Half Way for the use of tourists who chould make the trip down the canon the Colerddo River. Usually ie descended the steep path on burro back, but this morning all the ani- mals were in use, and he had been forced to walk. Schwartz frowned anxiously. that loose stone up there takes a notion to do a little toboggan slide j I've got to move out of here quick,' he thought to himself, "The worst of it is, the path goes back forth like a snake right here, and I can't see even a two-foot hole to craw! into if there's any trouble.' He shifted his pack, and pean to pick his way down the trail again. A volley of pebbles popped against the rocks twenty feet to his ri Apprehensively, Schwartz glanced up n. Where the yellow spot on the cliff had been he now saw a deep shadow. His ear caught a reverberating roar, that grew loud- era "per. Larger pebbles and small rocks whizzed past him The guide saw that he could net reach the turn of the trail toward safety before the slide came. Des- perately but vainly the searched for a crevice or an overhanging cliff under which he could flatten him- self. Then he crawled on his hands and knees to the' edge of the t! sand-foot rock wall. There might be a ledge under the brink that would give him a chance of safety. When he parted the bushes and looked down, he saw only a@ nar- row shelf a hundred feet below. On the top where he was bending over, a small spur of solid rock jutted out into space. Schwartz examined the juiting rock. Then he unbuckled his long pack straps, fastened them again, and threw the loop under the 5 ge The pack, on the other two ends of the strap, swung back and forth three feet below him. Dangling from the strap, a man would be swung slightly under the brink of the precipice by the angle of the projecting spur, The rock' seemed rm, but Schwartz hesitated on the edge, unwilling to hang over the pe ae ts mati is te ep nbeolnsel neces- Bie Soc os was. Sas ge Hundreds of great r most beulders crashed from terrace to terrace amid clouds of dust and flying debris. The roar echoed anc reechoed against the crags. ~T cliffs seemed to have found voices, and to be shouting at one another in anger. Trees shot out, as if fired from rocks explod- ed like bombs as they collided with other boulders and shattered into fragments. The first large rock came spinning toward the trail. It struck a clump of sagebush fifty feet away, gouged the vegetation out of its crevice, and rock, bushes and dirt crumbled over the edge, leaving a great yellow furrow be- hind them. Mechanically, Schwartz swung himself out_into space. By letting both of his hands slip simultane- ously, inch by inch, he was able to bring the two sides of the strap loop together, and holding with both hands, he managed to relieve the strain somewhat. He swung slight- ly under the spur. At least he would escape injury from trees and smaller rocks. What if one of the boulders, ten feet in diameter, hit the spur? If the |ing with exhaustion, but a j thermometer, the whole looking like he should fall, he would drop nine hundred feet to a flat-topped butte | that looked like a little red mush- room, deep in the chasm. Or he} might catch in the branches of a diminutive tree that he could see on the cliff side a quarter of a mile down. That train of thought threat- ened to destroy his presence of mind and he turned his face toward the rocks. The strain of hanging by straps began to tire Schwartz's arms. By bending one knee, he tried to rest part of his weight on the pack it- self. Immediately, one of the sew- ed strap ends parted, and the pack was left hanging on one side, useless as @ support. My = a crash | of splintering rock, e main aval- | anche rolled over i precipice. Schwartz shut his eyes. The branch | of a tree caught his coat, ripped off part of his sleeve, and tore a gash in his arm. very second he ex- pected to feel his hold slip; to be gyept off into space and down into the canon. Suddenly the tumult ceased. Hardly able to realize that he was still swinging from the aig guide opened his eyes. Far below % faint roar Esar indicated the F the avalanche. still swept in a thick cloud round him, but the dangerous rocks had dropped over the cliff Schwartz began to hoist himself, Yowly and painfully, by. the two straps. His tendons aching from the heavy weight of his body, were almost ewhrusted, and he was faint }, and dizzy. Level with the epur da clu of other hand, dragged the flat rock, and lay jroseks pant- : Ps HIS FIRST INVENTIONS. A Remarkable Boy Was John Muir, The Farmer's Sen. In his autobiography, pake Muir tells the story of his first. appear- ance in the Petore pena after years of desparate the com- mand of a severe Aer The par- ent was forced to concede that from bedtime until four o'clock belong- ed to John, and after five. hour's sleep, the boy would work from one until four in the morning on mech- anisms: for clocks, thermometers and automatic One of my iventibce was a ther- momenter made of an iron rod that ae formed part of a wagon box. The expansion and contraction of this rod was manipulated by a series of levers made of str ae of hoop iron. The pressure of the rod against the levers was kept con- stant by a small counterweight, 80 that the slightest change in. the length of the rod was instantly shown on a dial that manipulated the --eeeion about 32,000 times, The thermometer was sensative that when anyone approac within four or five feet of it, the heat of the person's body caused the hand on the dial to move so fast that the motion was plainly visible. When he stepped back,.the hand moved slowly back to its normal position. The neighbors regarded it as a great] -. wonder, and so did his own father. When I told father that I was about to leave home, and inquired whether,, if I should need money, he would send me a little, he said "No, depend entirely on yourself," I had the. gold sovereign that my grandfather had given me when I left Scotland, and a few dollars, perhaps ten, that I had made b raising a few bushels nd een ona little patch of sandy gr - Father had cusctelly "taught us to consider ourselves worms of t dust, and devoutly believed in quenching every spark of pride and self confidence, without realizing that he might, at the same time, be quenching» -- else. Praise e considered. wicked, and he often assured me that out in the -- world, making my own way, would soon learn that although i eit have Pe de him a hard task- 5 Sa yer ss ba, aggage I pore was a eckaue made up of the two clocks and a some very complicat machine. The parting from mother and my sisters was of course hard to bear. Father let David drive me down to Pardeeville, a place I had never before seen, although it is only nine miles south of Hickory Hill rm. When I got to Madison, I thanked the conductor for my glori. ous ride, shouldered my inventions, and walked to the fairground. When I applied for a ticket at the window, I told the agent that I had something to exhibit. "What is is?' he inquired. "Well here it is. Look at it.'"' When he craned his neck through the window and got a glimpse of my bundle, he cried, excitedly, "Oh, you don't need a ticket--come right in! So I went up to the Fine Arts Hal] and looked in wondering if they would allow wooden things in so fine a place * was met at the door by a digni- fied gentleman, who greet me kindly, and said, 'Young.man, what have you got here 1% 'Two clocks and a thermometer,' I replied. 'Did you make these? They look wonderfully beautiful and novel, and must I think, prove the most interesting feature of the fair.' "Where shal] I place them?' I inquired. "Just look round, young man, and choose the place you like best, whether it is occupied or not.' So I quickly had a sholf laade large enough for all of thém, went out on the hill and picked up some glacial boulders of the right size for weights, and in fifteen minutes the clecks were running. They seemed to attract more attention than any- thing else in the hall. I got lots of praise from the crowd and the news- paper reporters. It was considered wonderful that.a boy on a farm had ; been able to invent and make such things. They gave me a prize of ten or fifteen dollars, and 'a diplo- ma for wonderful things not down de in the list of exhibits. * Unusual Obstacle. Bhe -- Gouldn't you get father's' consent? He--I wiight have; but after in- |terviewing him I couldn't get my own consent to accept him as .a father-in-law. Natural. "The professor has a very grave "Well, can't you see that. he's _ ARCHIBALD fe CAMPBE Canada's Depaty ty Minister of Rail "> -ways and Canals. : hatted, city-suited' pergon o puting. were engaged i 8 Ta ui anoque in Eastern Ontario, and farmers were ly emiled knowingly among th selves, although they ae hide r amusement from eyes under the derby hat: Then something came to that gave a new turn to eve The man with the derby hat and They were now waiting confidently for an opportunity to 'chortle' openly, But soon their smiles faded. away. The chap" seemed to know how to that machine. Ite wheels fede to revolve. It began to do its work,| and the man in the derby and freshly-pressed suit sat in his 60} and a new and a r of road. Beat Down Skepticism, The "city chap" was Mr. A bald W. Campbell, now De tet rs ways The incident took place $p "the e days of the g roads 'mover in Ontario. So widely known did Mr, bell become for his work in poretitig "he that it was ot n that he had been PArchibald Wilkam."? rr receit new christening by the -- f the people, an vo where simply: as "Good Campbell.'? Mr. ell s he agitation for the improv of the roads of the Province he was City Engineer of Bt. mas . He threw himself v }soul into the campaign and vice-president of the Good Association, and in 1896 was Good Roads Commissioner for" Province. While occupying | Mr. A. W. Campbell, . office and later as Deputy Mi to take up his present duties atlth federal capital--he went as a sle- gate from Ontario to the ™ Roads Congress.at Seattle. { * Old Middlesex Boy. | The present Deputy Ministe} ¢ Railways is an old Middlesex" He was born at Wardsville i in has : t his early oat there and at the High Schog St. Thomas. From school he ed to the engineering profe into which he graduated. aé t of 22. Six years later he city engineer of the Railway City, and it was there that He began his campaign for good roads It is now somewhat over four years since he left the civil: ser- vice of Ontario, where he was puty Miniegip Public. Works, and went to wa to take charge of the Department of Bae and Canals. When Mr.' J. Butler left the Government soxvi to en- ter the service of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company, Hon. George P. Graham was Mimster of Railways and ba ae and: remem. bering the good w. Campbell had dine for the "Pro- Graham breught him wn to take over the administra- 'ttion 'of the Government railways and canals. As Deputy Minister he became automatically chairman of the board of management. of the Intercolonial and of the Prince Ed- wa Island Railways; and he held is responsible position with honor until the present regime replaced the board of management by « sin- gle general manager, Mr. F, Gutélius. He is still, as Deputy } Minister, responsible for the pro- per administration of the Toad, al- though under the present eystein the details of the management ar buried in thought?' eentred at Moncton. He has A group of farmers and a erty scene was near oa lit canals of the "Without ut instruments of any kind, early have found impossible to al: time' with "@xactn But water nok The first water clock was an earthenware globe, pierced ini the bottom to penmit the water to jescape in reciba. That contrivance ag used to regulate the lenaeh ° of the speaches in the courts of justice The Egyptians are ved '}have used water clocks, and it is ge} Positively known that the Chinese }had {tic and ornamental, : readhoe the top, oe vale opens; a part of the water them, for there is a very old pone- still in existence in the city Canton, It consists of four cop- per jars, placed on a staircase, the r; the water trickles 1 a float- _ Water clocks were very simple crude at first, but the Greeks 'and Romans soon made them artis- and adorned with interesting figures and most famous C.; gale' is eeu in the icoiione Museum at Munich. 'According to Da bin Ich, Gustav |e rt, a well-known German Clock maker, recently received a smmission to restore the instru- nt to ite ori inal condition. ~ The clock is wt 1114 feet high. 'On & very graceful curved pedestal rests a column that contains 'g.series of water wheels so arranged [that they cause the column to make =jone complete revolution a year. At "jthe right, and standing very close to the column, is a figure of a weep- rom whose eyes the of the drops fall, they are collect- ed in a receptacle below, in which is @ little on which rests an- figure holds the dial. se i "the dial a Ws through the water wheel, and causes the column to turn one three- hundred-sixty-fifth of a révolution, 'BO that at the end of.a year is has 'turned completely round. At the 4 same time, the turning of the water wheels causes another valve to open receptacle beneath the figures tis emptied, and the float sinks to its lowest level, to start on another day's journey. ws ORIENTAL VIEW OF CHIVALRY A Hindu Gentleman Tells How to ~ Treat Women. The "Times of India'? (Bombay) publishes the following solemn Warning from Mr. Ramchaud Kash- elinath Dattraya, a Hindu gentleman concerning a mych-vexed question. He says: My purpos for writin on you this ' }is to enform many English Brothers to give honor and devotion to your ladys because they will in the end becum proud and then they will want to vote. 2or 3 things happen at Victory Garden tomorrow (yes- et terday) and then I all of a sudden made up my brain to write to you immediately. There was many En- glish womans and when mans are sittin on the bench and womans come mans stand and give their sits to womans. This happen 2 or 3 times tomorrow (yesterday) and I question you why I. again tell you why? Mans and womans are similar in this world then why mans honors womans? If they honors old, old womans, one thing, but they honors young lady. My purpos to write this is to enform the English Sahib (Englishman) that when they do this they spofl their feminine lady and then this lady get proud and 'walk like pocock and then ask vote and then spoil Ken Gardens and throw bomb on Loid Gorg put bursting powder in envelope and post and create other mischief. Therefore, I say to my English Brothers, please don't speil En- glish womans because by honoring them you people piit in their brains the sids (seeds) of Suffragitism and then they will get wild like Misses Pancurs. Please, please print this letter near the. Ruter's Telegram with big, big words. oe Why Men Wear Moustaches. An peas authority says men wear mustaches to hide or miodify their atrocious Soraralinoes He says'. he hides his own upper lip in this way because it looks like the upper Hp of a@man who would set fire to an asylum and dance in the eshee--e Ner- -loic upper lip, as it Ware. 600N | mer, ty-four hours cpouge ta the top F fanate his direct sentra! - DUCHESS MARY OX A LADDER. The Present Queen . Aided in hoodies. Fire. 'As I sat on a summer balers in head | Venice, age a Co ental | butor, I sig i a = charg wine this about Queen Mary of Ragland. "The husband of the Dutch lady was the founder of one of the largest aera houses in Venice, and she hed 3] _|says taken an active part-in the usiness, wealthy. We have a branch estab- lishment at St. Moritz every sum- One year I was there with Jaces that cost us 200,000 francs, and I had with me a young woman to p me with the sale. \.The in- refused to insure countr, wooden chalets burn hike 'Vinder, and the water supply is always in- adequate. "My. chalet was often visited by very kena ladies. The sister of toithe Emperor of Germany bought little, but "he loved to lock at the beautiful 8. e -- Princess Laetitia of Savoy was another ha- bitue, but the most friendly were the Duchess of Teck and her tall the Duchess of "York. "'One morning I heard a great commotion in. the street, and I stepped out to see what was wrong. A chalet was on fire not far away. A turn of the wind, and we should be caught. More than the flames even, I dreded the thieves who take advantage of such scenes of confu- sion. I si back into my chalet and locked the door, that we might be undisturbed. I pulled out ~ ~~ cases and trunks, and the Jaces and embroideries' when the Duch- esses of Teck and York came by. "Oh, let us help you!" they in- sisted. 'It would be dneadtal for aera: lovely things to be injured or oe They worked like .Turks. The Duchess Mary was so tall that she could reach everything, --_ as she poe carefully in the cases. The eman in waiting went back pte forth, and kept us posted as to the progress of the fire. The Duch- ess Mary even went up on a ee adder -jand fetched down the mirrors her- self. I have never had better or more energetic assistance, and it was done with such araene Wooden Soldiers Stood as Sentry at Her Door. In 1805, Ferdinand IV. was driven from the throne of Naples. All the members of the family except an half-sister, fled to Bicily. Of the lonely old Bourbon princess who remained in the land where her family had reigned, De Gute Kame- | om rad tell a touching little story. The victorious French, who had driven Ferdinand from the throne, treated the old lady with every con- sideratoin. The new King Joseph Bonaparte, left her property and} ther income virtually intact. But he did order that the sentry who always had stood before the door: of the princess a saluted | ed. And on this point, in. spite of the princess' pleas, he remained; reign, he said, and no royal honors | could be properly be accorded to | a member of the family. wounded the princess more deeply | than many more serious losses had | done. own Jand. She grieved so steadily that her strength began to fail. Finally the loyal servants who had stayed with their mistress, decided | to resort to a subterfuge in order to restore the old ladys. spirits. Ac- cordingly they fashioned a great! wooden soldier, of dignified and! martial appearance ; on this dummy they painted the gay uniform of the, Neapolitan grenadier. They set the | figure in a sentry box by the gate | of the princesss' residence, and | out. They counted on the nearsighted- nees of the princess, and on the fact | that she always passed through the | ruse successful. And when at last the carriage did pass, they saw by the glad flush that came to the prin- | cess' face that she had not detec-' ted the deception. From that time the princess re- vived. e sentry never left his post, and the princess never dis-| covered the ruse by which her loyal | servants had restored her spirits and her health. But oocasionally she did complain that under the new regime soldiers did not present arms, as they had done in the days when her brothior was king. PES SSL The bodies of the four drowned in the Grand River were recovered. A bag of mail found in a yard at Thomas was apparently stolen from a train. ¥ % ; THE PRINCESS WAS FOOLED. one} daughter, the Princess Mary, then | debt, handed the laces to me I packed when she passed, should be remov- | | } firm. The Bourbons had ceased to | found out. The loss of this mark of respect | For the first time she felt through. herself an outcast, an exile in her! | } \ | | waited for their mistress to drive; gate in her carriage, to make the | STORY OF THE EMBEZILE HIS EXPERIENCES SHOULD BE; __ READ BY YOUNG MEN. Step by Step on the Downyvard _ Grade With a Man Who- Went Astray. Tt started very soon after I mar< ried. We wore = Mat -gireve matter of dress, and human that we should "A mere matter of form my boy"-- disappeared. Hiding the Shortage. I woke one morning to the d realisation that I was heavily in! moreover, there was a little liklihood of my being able td pay @ quarter of what I owed for a simple. Every trusted servant who had to deal with tha money of his employers knows means by which he can "borrow,'! and also of various ways in whiot he can cover up the no ortmee fot months, or, perhaps, for years, I regard my a' at thi time as desparate. I little knew how really well-off I was even thenj aoapened with what was to happen after The first step was easy. A couple of entries in my books, and a fives pound note was transferred from the ones of the firm to my own ete, It was not enough to clear me{ but it was all I dared to take al that time. I grew more ambitious later. I put the fiver on a horse. It waa: my first bet, but I had made up my mind to follow my swagger friend into obscurity and beg, borrow or steal our fares to Canada if the bet did not come off. But begin- ner's luck operated in my fayou toone!"? | Drifting Backwards. ue the bet put me on my I paid all I owed, and ze- placed the borrowed fiver, the false entries were correc lor a time all was well. up my -mind that never again would I sail so near the wiid,| poor a couple of months we econ- But gradually we drifted back to the old ways. I my wife nothing of what had happened and consequently she upbraided mo at times for meanness, which is an im- putation that rankles in any man. To cut the story a: in three months I had made a second "dip" into the firm's money ; ; but this time the horse did not win. After that I seemed to lose all sense of shame for the act itself. My only fear was that 1 might be As I look back I mar- 'vel to think of the. time the thing ' went ons but, oh, the long agony of ita Gecner and deeper in the mire | got--discovery grew nearer with each black month that I lived Caught Through a Slip. And, oh, the torture of the holi- day season, when, perforce, some- one else had to have charge of those precious books which hela | within them the secret of @.man's shame. Everything was km =. a now, to my wife, and first we got money from friends to make up the balance | which I was bound to hand over at - holiday time; then I had recourse to moneylenders and every possible method of raising money. Discovery came one morning through a slip of my own. knew when I saw the angry face lof my old employer, that all was known. , "You, that we trusted--you that we paid well, and showed every, _consideration--nothing but a thief, a miserable, clinking rascal ! € ought to prosecute, but we think of |your wife. Get out of the place! | Never let me sce your face again !" I walked into the street, a man ; without work and without a char- acter, with Jess than a sovereign to fight a world which has no use for chara 'terless clerks; to face a weep- ~ ing and reproachful wife; but--ah, the relief! , ; ace Ah, That's Different. Eileen -- Charles has money, enough to get married. * arion--But has he money ' eriough to stay sot