. through fields caught me. It drifted in .a great white wall over the ressure, ridge, long, hay: fin- "Picking my 'way more iv, ested on. : . the dunes for a mile, except a little Ny ,would be inside, near the , to call them with considerable skill. The weather was 'mild, 'was beginning to red i up, but it 'suited me to take a few chances rather than wait overnight in a cheerless hotel for the stage. I left my bag at the store in the village; put on a thick sweater, baa a pair of skates, and-on the of the creek I strapped them | the mn 'Home this afternoon, Jimmy, after a year cooped up in an office, with no salt air and no surf and no good white salt-water ice !" I shout- ed to Jimmy Mallet, the old lobster fisherman, as I started across the frozen creek. "Be careful, boy!' he sang out. 'It's been a 'damp, oily day, and there'll be an ice fog before dark, I'm thinkin'. Before he had stopped speaking | | I was halfway to the dunes. I was taking the shortest way to our farm. Along the beach the smooth "bord'? ice runs out for a quarter of a mile. It is protected on the outside by a ten-foot -- ridge, -formed by the jammin bergs and heavy cakes that fn come down from the Strait of Belle- isle. In the winter it is a regular thoroughfare for hauling wood and sleighing, and is nearly always smooth enough for skating. When I was on the ice at last, saw that' the bord strip had felt the full effect of an early spring. In some places the surface was rough and honeycombed. Now and then I met a long, jagged crack that ex- tended from the shore all the way through the heavy berg jam. Be- yond, the gulf was dotted with bergs, floating out to sea. As skated along, I crashed of shell ice, and jumped over cracks a foot wide to floes that looked like white fudge. Several times I thought of turning back. But I knew that I could turn aside aud walk ashore whenever the ioe got too bad, so I kept on. Tor two miles all went well. Then, so suddenly that it eeemed to drop out of the s ice fog -4 Now the cracks became more nu- mérous and wider. I turned sharp- ly to the right, toward the land. The shore had begun to loom up through the fog a I saw a wide black line ahead. When I turned toward our farm, I found that the I doubled back, intending to re- cross a narrow crack I had just! Jucky you f iasnton te to call. bP Sy Youth's Companion, : a " RUENS -OF ap TEMPEE, Wonder of the 'Ancient World Un-} earthed at Babylon. Through the caniees worl of Ger-| B. man explorers temple which was one of the won- ders .of the ancient world. The walls of this temple, says The Christian Herald, have disappear- ed. Only the foundations remain, but from them the entire plan of the building is distinct. There were the outer and inner courts and the innermost shrine, or the holy of the holies, where the image of the great god stood. About the outer court were the chambers for the priests, and se- cret passageways led to -the shrine. Running from the temple «into the city was a paved street, the street of Daniel as the Germans have called it, without any special reason for doing so. Babil, the northern mound, still bears the ancient name of the city. It is a huge square hill more than & hundred feet in height, and with sides so steep that they are diffi- cult to climb. It is especially here that the Arabs have dug for bricks, and now a6 one wanders about the summit there may be seen far down the shafts the massive walls of the great arches, arranged side by side tier upon tier. Though the hollows of the arches have long been filled with 'tallen debris, once they might have been seen through. Dr. Koldewey believes that the ruin represents the Tower of Babel, because it still rs the - name. More likely the hanging gardens of Babylon were there. Shady trees and hanging vines grew upon the elevated terraces. Water was rais- ed from the Euphrates to the very summit, and came 'trickling down from terrace to terrace to nourish the vegetation. About the terraces were shady walks, and the long pas- sages beneath the arches were de- lightfully.cool-and dark. The en- trances nee saat concealed by the and q Babylonian summer, just as now the resident of Bagdad spends the hot day in his underground ser- aub. ee WEST AFRICAN BURIALS. Ceremonies Some of the Tribes Perform. Curious ? said Andy, } \ epee necn meal the heat of the « The Burning of the Huge White Elephant. Describing his drawing, Mr. Caton Woodville sends the follow- "The final obsequiés of a Burmese ing: ordinary spectacle. The holier the between his death and the. holding one occasionally For some days an open-air play, and so on. tral figure is a hu i sees the* funeral of-some particularly holy monk. there is @ general holiday-making, with roundabouts, Through priest provide an' extra- man, the longer the delay ceremonies. In Mandalay or out these festivities the cen- i bearing upon much singing man. Finally the rejoicings of er a amidst the. WIFE SHOULD BE THE ae] A GERMAN SPECIALIST GIVES|¢ HIS OPINION. to of the | sa steel have children who 'will be at genius, the mo-| eae shenid id bo several years older than the fat' This is the con- clusion of De "Vaerting, a German specialist who has just published a book upon the subject of the pro- duction of geniuses. Scholars. and scientists in Ger- | *8°% many--both genuine and pseudo-- In the minds of most bush peo- jumped, and thus to get to shore. | it came in sight, a sudden' Ww Ea me skate toward it at fulP'epeed. At the edge I stopped. Since I) had crossed over, the ice floe had | drifted out tow the open gulf, and the once narrow crack was now ten feet wide. As I watched, the distance increased to twelve feet, to fifteen, to twenty. The whole floe was floating out to cea. For a moment I stood stupefied. Then I raced out to the bergs to see if there was any narrow place where I could get across. There was none, I thought of taking off my clothes and trying to swim across the wid@ning channel], but I was a poor swimmer, and I knew I; could not live in that icy water. ; By this time I could not see the} shore at all, I sat down on the ice and tried to} think. There was not a house on| shanty on the beach, owned: by An- dy Cahill, a market-gunner. Would he be on the dunes? I shouted with all my might. There was no an- swer. On 6uch,a foggy afternoon, Andy, if he were at his shanty, . warm stove, with the door tight shut. Out to sea I must go, until the ice broke up in the night. Then out of the fog came a clear ery: 'fArr-honk! arr-honk!" Wild geese on the dunes, I thought. It was a famous place for them in April and early May. I-had often shot them there, and had learned For some teason I answered their voices with the darion note of the migrating goose fooking for shelter, en of calls-came through the suddenly-I s rang to my with a ery of deli These might be Andy's tame oys | Perhaps the noise of the calling geese wou rouse Andy. Eight or ten good lusy honks ex- cited more of the geese, until @illed the air with their clamor minute or two I waited, and then I 'shouted oneé@, ~ twice. with excitement, I Through the log came a taint "Hel- otha -| saved his life. by committing suicide | ples no hard and fast line seems to | }exist between the living and the! dead. Ghosts are thought to exer-| cise great influence over those who still dwell on earth. At all cere- | monies of importance the names of the principal ancestors are invoked and at feasts part of the food is al- ways laid aside for them, in some such words as the following: 'Listen, my family! Here is the offering (goat, sheep or cow) which we have killed for him who has died. Here is your portion. It is time for us to eat."' A libation is also poured out in order that the dead may drink with the living. By a beautiful fancy any stranger who dies in a town is buried on the road by which he entered it, go that his spirit may easily find the way | back to his home, or at least watch the road thither and listen for the coming of friends. Among many tribes those objects most used by the dead man while in life are broken and laid around his grave, co that their spirit, set free by the breaking of their earthly forms, may be borne by their owner into the world of ghosts. % GRAINS OF GOLD. A man cannot ravel out the stitches in which early days have knit him.--H. Beecher Stowe. If you wish to destroy avarice you must destroy luxury, which is its mother.--Cicero. It is only when there fs no possi- ble amelioration that endurance is fine courage.--H. 8. Merriman. The perfect ye Seng os is not only a sound, ut a very ela sborate fabric of niet --H. 'G. Wel There 2 are a variety of little things i in life wate ke pins a, a y's dress, th keeping it towstber, Fad yn if pees it neatness and elegance. --Boswell. 'An ny meeting a " trlend x Fragen: of their , Poor o yr. Didn't you ae Why, - he was condemned to be hanged, but he old in prison.' > . ally and &themselves. have of late devoted much time and ink to the ways and means of how to preserve the human race in gen- !eral and the German race in par- ticular. Dr. Vaerting has discover- ed what he believes will change the downward trend of the race give it a strong upward turn, if his ideas are carried out by the young- er and future generations. He would reform the matrimonial ideas of the world. He wants to change the present custom of oldér men marrying younger women. Vaert- ing says that Nature has intended that young men should fall in Jove with women several years older than themselves. To the marriage of men to women and girls younger than themselves he attributes e alleged deterioration of the race. When Men Should Marry. Man should marry when very young, says Dr. Vaerting; woman when more mature. Dr. Vaerting claims that children inherit the beet qualities of their parents when the mother is from-\three to eight years older than the|father. He ad- vocates the marriagd of young men ages from eighteen to 25; women should marry at from 21 to 30. To prove that this is productive - of children strongest physically, mor- intellectually, Vaerting gives columns dnd columns of stat- istics, In this day and age, says Dr. Vaerting, men and women contem- plating marriage have but one thought regarding their offspring, and that wholly material--that they will be able to give their chil- dren all --, material advant- ages and a g material start in life and leave them a material in- heritance when they die. Of the physical, mental, intellectual, mo- ral and spiritual genius inheritance little or no thought iq taken, And yet, according to Yoerting, the lat- ter is of far greater nap inept 173 rage to children than mere w That great men seldom have - if talented s, Dr. Vaerting. dase n 5 prove his theory. Investigation in euch oases, i shown that such men yy ve married or have married women much younger than J Woman's Marrying Age. Hundreds of Portugal's Citizens 1 > Bias she: Paitin oe 'made her Are Confined in Dismal Prisons, her notable attack upon the| edministration of justice in Portu- gal there has considerable 'controversy as to whether tho peo- ple of Portugal were in reality liv- ing under # reign of terror, as the Duchess alleged, or whether the at- ® upon thé Portuguese Govern- ment are.merely the inspired utter- ances of those who wish to see the monarchy restored. In order to get the facts at first hand, the Lon- don Daily Chronicle sent Mr. Philip Gibbs-to the country to 'investigate. The result is a series of articles, in which Mr. Gibbs offers proof that Practically every chargo made against the Gevernment is .true, and that the Portuguese enjoy about the same liberty as the Mexi- cans. Yet the Government made no effort to prevent Mr. Gibbs in- vestigating, so long as he promised to undertake the task with an open mind. The Cabinet Minister whom he interviewed said that he would find Portugal had been slandered. Mr. Gibbs finds it difficult. to be- lieve either that the Cabinet Minis- ters are ignorant of what is going on, since it could not go on without thei r sanction, and even direction, or that they can believe what is go- ing on is not terrible. Only on the assumption that they regard al! persons suspected of sympathizing' with Manuel as wild beasts can the attitude of the Government be un- derstood. No Justice for Royalists. It is probably true in Portugal that the average man who has not enough money to attract the graft- ers, whg,is a sympathizer with the present vernment, and who goes about his own business j is NO worse off -now than under the monarchy. ~ Tt is a well-known fact that| This man is not accused of a crime, jung men are nearly always at-| and consequently the outrages = y and feel themselves upon. justios that are committéd awn to women considerably cannot concern him person- | than themselves, - says Dr. ally. But for the man suspected of «This is particularly no- aym Manuel there is no} © among the educated. That! such gah Shoe an justine tc be het ial "conveys to to. and in| s in children thé highest an , morally, intellect ae red spiritually. That is the kind of inheritance that should Se given by those who desire that their children chould be great. To trans- plot these qualities to offspring, should marry between the ages of eighteen and 25, and they should select as wives women from to six years older than them- mes... A woman should not mar- ry@ man not older than eighteen or nineteen. That makes for naget- hess in married life." Dr. Vaerting says that economic conditions and the high cost of ving to-day prevent marriages at ges which are for the future of tt the race, and that postponement of marriages by men until late in life tends toward degeneration of intellect. and. talent. He says that Pe, average man who is not able to support a wife should marry a woman older than himself, and one who is able to help him keep up a household until he can do it alone. mer i ta WIRE TELEGRAPH POLES. Are Taking Place of Wooden Ones! in Germany. "There is a manufacturing plant near Frankfort, Germany, which turns out in large! numbers tele- phone and telegraph poles of glass. In order to give them solidity and strength there i is a thick framework of wire woven in the glass. These poles are taking the place of wooden ones in Germany and many advantages are claimed for them. In the first place they will last for all time, except in euges ¢ = unusual accident, where they be broken, as in railroad wieeke. They will last even longer than iron or steel, as weather has prac- tically no effect upon them, nor can insects get into them and destroy them. rimenis are also under way ae manufacture of railroad ties of glass, in which wire netting is the glass. Paving blocks are made of glass and have proved to be a practicable material for street surface, being fitted to- gether in such a manner as to be water tight, ater running down faeyeen ce Coat ére are in Lyons, France, a number of streets paved with glass, and they have a glass paving blocks are now said 'to be actually cheaper than ant granite blocks. etter resistance | 'sent Government, are tried by d| court-martial. A few of them were tried by the ordinary civil courts, but since these courts acquitted several persons they have been dis- pensed with, and now all these trials are conducted by military officers, with juries.of soldiers. As a@ result there are very few acquit- tals. Penitentiaries Are Crowded. The penitentiaries of Portugal are crowded with political prison- ers, hundreds of them in solitary. confinement, going insane at the rate sometimes of half a dozen a day. _ hundreds are under- gro a huge prison outside abot, | in' "which all the cells are below 'the surface of the earth. Many of these prisoners haye not yet been tried. They are arbitra- rily deprived of their liberty, and punished as though already tried and convicted. Among them are some very distinguished .. persons. One of them is a famous newspaper editor, who ventured to criticize the present administration. He has| ag been imprisoned for months, await- ing trial. Of course, there is free- dom of the press in Portugal, free- dom to praise in the most fulsome terms the present Government, and to denounce with the utmost fero- city and in the coarsest language the Royalists nm gencral and Man- uel in particular..- Freedom ends there. Without trial or charge pri- vate police may enter a newspaper office, throw the types into the street, destroy the furniture, and seize the editor if he has been --- ing enough to criticize the Mi stry. Haunted by Spies. The streets a spy haunted. One is not in Lisbon half an hour be- fore he ees a number of quecr- looking men, with big black ties and supple sticks, who are loafiig about everywhere, their eyes busy upon the people patsing in the streets. In the cafes they are» as numerous as waiters: In private houses they disguise themselves as servants, and work industriously to find or vce a evidence againet a suspected alist. These are the members of the Oarbonaria, the secret society that is the great- est single"influence in Portugal to-| po} y. It is like the Free Masons ot lies rance and Spain, is in close touch with them. Tt i# wonderfully organized into small } sedgre tha cover the country. Each little lodge fs at once a centre of spies and sol- diers for the Government. ty tat plot, for Mr. Gibbs says man w pre- 'hour, and the the grand betrayal was Homero dé Lanc He pos-) ed as an ardent Royalist, and went, ho made signatures to a document that! was to be sent to Manuel, inducing others to oblige him by hiding piss tols in their homes, borrowing | money for the cause from others,' and. industriously inotiminati come thousands of persons who had made no hostile move whatever to ward the Government, At'the me per -moment Lancastre betray these unfortunates into the hands of the Carbonaria, and to-day they lie rotting in prisons, with t : ception of axhundred or more whe: sufferings have been ended i death ----_--_4,---_--_--_---- PASSING OF THE LOCOMOTIVE Electricity and Internal Combus<« tion Engines Next. What is to take the place of the: steam locomotive was considered recently by F. W. Lanchester in al British association paper. After, coasts a century of service with! nged essentials, the passing of this machine seems to be near atl hand, and railway development ig" progressing 'along the two distinc' lines of complete ¢lectrification an the adoption of internal combustion' engines. In the former system the prime, mover is stationary, the power be4 ing transmitted to the locomotive electrically. The use of the inter+ nal combustion engine is taking two-forms--that of turning the wheels directly, inthe old way, and that of serving asa portable power station, generating electrical 'cur-- rent that in turn «drives electric mo- tors sonnectes with the Seni ae id 8 Ea. ; future Ticpendant popecoeg may be coupled together in trains under thé control of the leading coach, and then uncoupled at independent seo/ tions at different junction points along the line. ---------- WHAT TRAVEL TEACHES. Tolerance, Charity, Resourceful ness, and Tact. What travel does is to rub the edge off islanders and to open their, eyes to a saner perspective, 50 that when they go among their neighbors they need not only follow their = judices by seeing evil in the but may also reap the benefit of in- tercourse and see good in the worst, Travel teaches other lessons, and its schoo] is a pleasant one. The gal- lant Prince ----- once wrote ' a friend that "he who wants learn by ol must go far.'"' Y¥ in point of fact; many of the m valuable lessons of travel may L-~ learnt near home, and a man might garner more human experience of _ bi iad in' Providence than in Pat oe trichias tolerance, charity, re« sourcefulness: and tact, virtues which, thongh not always lackiag in untravelled folk, are more often than not acquired on the long trail. Tis lessons are not set out in text- books. It intimates standpoints that lie outside the crabbed outlook of the stay-at-home. It imparts a wider knowledge than that compris- in the curriculum of "music and the uses of the globes, and French and @ the usual accomplish- ments.' Use Tighted Projectiles. Some suggestive experiments have been made on German, war- ships with lighted projectiles, which it is thought may: take the place of the electric searchlight. The pro- jectile, which is filled with calcium carbide, is fired from a cannon, and since it is lighter than water after striking it comes to the surface. During its immersion water is au- tomatically admitted and producet acetylene gas, which burns with an illumination om to that of 3,000 candles. -------- As She Saw It. The ty ag you grow up to be ar, an ave seri Np fl and marry i oh , 1 "Shall be perfectly satisfied The Daughter (aged twelve) nm I don't. need any education isn t that lovely. The tramp hae on a' advantage membérs of*the Carbonaria are well paid for their work. Thous- over an automobile --> > you oon'4 puncture his tire. * \ .