VIEW FROM THE MAIN
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The Dublin International Exposition, which was opened
by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, contnlns a notnhlo
display of Industries ond manufactures. The art exhibit
Includes paintings loaned by King Edward and by the
Russian Emperor, and the entire collection on view Is
valued at $3,000,000. Japan has a special building on
the grounds ; so have Canada and New Zealand, and the
Irish Industries are housed In a magnificent structure.
The historical section Is of unusual Interest, and the
THE PICTURES.
.My little son, with puzzled, questioning
eyes,
Brought pictures for my wisdom to
make plnin,
And slowly voiced bis need in childish
wise,
Asking the meaning he had sought In
vain.
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lAnd some, by symbol, and by holy sign,
I could translate, and set his face
aglow ;
'But there were others I could not de
fine I knew the meanings, but be could not
know.
My little son fares forth to realms of
sleep,
While I sometimes unto the depths of
night
dSte pictures of God's children sinking
deep
Beyond men's love beyond their Fath
er's sight
But still I hope that where my faltering
mind
Is filled with pity and with dull de
spair, .
iGod reads the meaning with a purpose
kind,
And does not cease to know, and love,
and care.
"Well," whispered Marion to me, "I
jruess It doesu't make any difference If
we did have to wear silk gowns that
jom washed, turned, mended and made
over. Guess what I just heard."
"What did you just hear?" Iasked.
"Why," proceeded Marlon, delight
edly, "I was standing over by those
ferns a minute ago and just rouud the
corner I heard Mrs. Lewis say to
"what does this mean?"
Claudia Brooks: 'I' don't see how the
Harcourt girls manage to dress so
well,' and Claudia spiteful eld thing
said: 'I think they ought to be
ashamed; everybody knows they can't
afford It.' But Just then that grand
looking Mr. Maxwell came over to them
and It wasn't two minutes before I
beard him ask who that striking girl
with the red roses In her hair was.
That was you, Eleanor. Now, aren't
you flattered?"
"Dreadfully," I answered. "Anything
more?"
"Yes, Indeed," whispered Marlon.
"The best of It all was that he asked
right away If you were one of the Har
courts who had owned the old place up
town, and he asked her Oh. look!"
Marlon's volubility was checked at
this point by the apiearanee of the al
ready mentioned Mr. Maxv.ell with our
hostess on his arm. lie was a grave,
bandsome man, about 30, I thought,
and after Mrs. Lewis bad presented
him he sat down beside me. He had
talked about a good many things and
bad almost wearied of my monosylla
bic rr.dles, I fancy, when he finally
brought up Harcourt, and I proceeded
to astonish him by forgetting that we
were strangers, and telling hliu the
most ridiculous things with character
istic recklessness. I told him how we,
Marlon and I, went a round about way
to avoid passing the dear old place, and
bow, when there was no way out of it,
we went by with our heuds turned
away, because we loved It so. I told
blm we had been born there, and that
every big room and every dingy panel
brought up a memory that we loved.
And It was not until Marlon came for
me to go homo that I realized that he
bad .listened to me silently for about
an hour, and that Sirs. Lewis was an
gry with me fur monopolizing the lion
of the evening. I went home terribly
ashamed, and convinced that, notwith
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ENTRANCE OF THE DUBLIN EXHIBITION BUILDINCS.
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palace of Industrial arts Is an object lesson of Irish
progress In recent years. A stringent rule Is enforced
that no goods shall be sold on the grounds. No exhibitor
may do more than book orders. By this means the man
agement Is endeavoring to make It comfortable for visit
ors, saving them the annoyance of the persistent atten
tions of peripatetic salesmen. Fine trees and lawns
beautify the grounds.
standing that he looked very syuipn
thetlc, he was probably shocked.
But some days later, after Mr. Max
well called with Mrs. Lewis and was
so nice, I guess he didn't mind after
all. And In the weeks following he
came frequently and we met at several
places. Somehow I told that man ev
erything I couldn't seem to help it.
He always knew Just when to smile,
and I never said a silly thing to cover
up a deeper feeling In all those weeks
that I did not see sympathy and un
derstanding In his face. Well, It was
a pleasant time as I remember It, and
I got to thinking a good deal about him
and to liking him very much. There
was only one thing to dampen our
pleasure ; one day the news came to us
that Mr. Griffin, who held a mortgage
upon Harcourt, had sold It to Strang
ers, and Marion and I told oufelves
that from that time our claim upon It
would, be only that of any other out
siders, who might look at Its dear old
walls and pass It by. As I say, this
darkened our lives a little, but there
were still Mr. Maxwell's visits to look
forward to, so It was worth while ex
lstlng.. But one evening, when he call
ed, he said : "Miss Eleanor, I am going
away to-morrow and - want you to do
something for me. Will you?"
"I don't know," I answered In a low
voice. Somehow I couldn't for the life
of me manage anything else. But he
didn't seem to notice that I said noth
ing about regretting his going away.
He simply" asked me if I would go
down to Harcourt with him. I was
too miserable to resist, and we went
My heart beat heavily as we walked
up the dear old oak avenue, and when
we had mounted. the broad steps and
opened the door I could not see the
familiar dim old hall because my. eyes
were blinded with tears. "Oh, well,"
thought I, as I stealthily dried them
away, "you're a dear oldplace, but
you're nothing to me now,1 and I've got
no right to cry about you." But later,
when we went up to the long hall above
and found that some Impudent person
had removed our few remaining pieces
of old furniture and had hung new
paintings there over crimson hangings,
I felt I couldn't stand any more. "What
does this menn?" I cried.
"The purchaser hopes live here,"
explained Mr. Maxwell, "and he Is get
ting it ready for occupancy."
Here, I suppose, the poor man was
bewildered enough, for I had restrained
myself as long as I could and I rushed
to the one place where the hateful
crimson did not cover the panels, laid
my head against their friendly support
and burst out crying.
"Oh, why did you bring me here?" I
said. "I cun't stand everything. I
would rather have tills old --'ace burn
ed to the ground with ouiy Its poor old
chimney left to show where It stood
than than to see It fitted with the most
beautiful things In the world by strang
ers. Everything I care about turns out
wrong," I concluded with a sob. "I
am losing my home, and now you "
I stopped, frozen with uorror. What
had I said! But Norman Maxwell
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denly put me Into' tho window seat and
sat down beside me. "Eleanor, look at
me," he said. But I absolutely couldn't
lift my head, so he put his hand under
my reluctant chin and turned my face
toward him. "Eleanor, be went on,
'don't you know I've loved you ai. e
time and that was going away with
the heartache, confident that you did
not care for me? Don't you care Just
a little more about me than for an or
dinary friend?"
"Oh!" I exclaimed, very much afraid
that my stupidity had forced him Into
It "I shouldn't have said I didn't
mean to " . But he put bis arms
around me and then I knew it wasn't
because of what I bad said.
Well, I was so happy that I cried
and laughed In my own ridiculous fash
Ion, and when we went borne Marlon
says It was difficult to tell which beam
ed brightest, my eyes or my nose. But
I think I have wept the last sorry
tears I shall ever shed, for the best
man In the world has bought Harcourt
for me and It Is to be our home when
wo are married. Boston Tost
THE AMBER OF SANTO DOMINGO.
Found tai Considerable Quantities
Conditions L'nder Which It Oocnra.
It Is an Interesting fact that Santo
Domingo Is one of the few places In
the world where amber occurs In any
considerable quantities. As Is well
known, the bulk of the supply used In
the arts comes from the nelghmorhood
of Konlgsberg, on the Baltic seacoast
There It occurs In the lower ollgo
cene, and appears to have been depos
ited originally in glaueonitlc beds of
clayey nntun;, which was afterward
eroded by wave action and the amber
distributed, though much of It Is taken
from beds In which it was orlclnallv
entombed.
Amber is simply fossilized rosin, de
rived apparently from certain conifer
ous trees. The conditions under which
It occurs In Santo Domingo do not nn-
pear to differ substantially from those
on the Baltic seacoast.
It Is found near Santiago CIrv. nsso-
elated with lignite, sandstones and con
glomerates. These beds probably be
long to the ollgocene formation and are
found containing amber at a number of
pluees on the north const, as well as on
both flanks of the Monte Crlstl range.
It also frequently occurs in the streams
flowing through these beds.
The amber Is usually In ovate 1 lining
ranging from the size of a tn n
man's flst, often flattened, dull on tli
exterior, being covered with a kind of
a brownish crust. None of these depos
its has been studied scientifically, al
though several abortive attemnts ha
been ninde to operate them for commer
cial purposes. Cassler's Magazine.
How They Were Constructed.
"What kind of a man Is he?"
"Self-made."
"And she?"
'"Tailor made." Milwaukee Sentinel.
It's tough even on the six-footer when
ne nas one root in the grave.
AMAZING CASE OF APHASIA.
farawd Badness Man Deprived of
Speeeh for Seven Years.
Discussing aphasia at the Academy
of Medicine, New York, Dr. William II.
TIkuiioii toldrt story of mental acumen
following loss of spivch which greatly
Interested bis liearcra and which was
acknowledged to lie one of the most re
markable coses' of Its kind oil record.
A man well known In business,"
said Dr. Thompson, "came to tny ollice
one day accompanied by his son and
lawyer and Ask.d that I exanilno blm
medially to determine whether lie was
cumiictcnt to m.iko a will. I was In
formed that seven years befot ho lost
his HlMHHii and aIiichi thiMi Itnil ifwm nn.
I nhlo to utter a word. lie was literally
word blind. He could not tell when
printing was upside down. He explain
ed that he had considerable property
lw wished to dispose of, and that as
!.o rxiHcted his will would be contested
he v.anted a statement from me.
"I examined him thoroughly, found
he was inontally acute and In every
way responsible. In fact, my Inquiry
develoiKHl the remarkable fact that
while he was word blind he had devel
oped a remarkable arithmetical knowl
edge. He was an adept In every Bense.
Figures fairly sjmko to him. Since the
time he was stricken he had conducted
a big business and had done It in such
an astute way that he had accumulated
a fortune. Ho had completo mute
aphasia, but was ludeed a sharp basl
ness man. I was convinced that his
mental center for arithmetic was sep
arate and distinct
"To test his acuteness of Intellect I
misread two or three words In his will
and he Instantly caught me up and up
braided his lawyer. I made out a cer
tificate to the effect that In my opinion
be was perfectly comietcnt to make a
will. Two months later this remark
able man was found dead In bed, and
t learned later that the certificate which
I gave hlm was the means of prevent
ing a will contest."
The Chinese ladybird Is the greatest
of the boll weevil's foes.
New York City consumes 118,150,000
pounds of cotton each year.
The King of Benin wears a cap made
of coral beads, with a tassel of large
beads at one Bide.
Surface cars on Manhattan Island do
dally damage to parsons and property
In the average Bum of $2,750.
Electric furnaces at Notodden, Nor
way, are capable of producing about
1,100 tons of Chile aaltpeter annually.
There Is a dally yverage of thlrty-flve
Immigrants who apply for admission to
the port of New York and are rejected.
Victor EmmanueJ'a collection of the
coins of his own country amounts to
more than 5,000 Rptsiniens, with a cata
logue of nearly 35,000 slips.
The nir pressure produced by explo
sions often renders a miner unconscious
so that the afterdump catches and kills
even when the vletlia was neither burn
ed nor near the Initial explosion.
The knighthood of Lioutenant Colonel
Frederick Louis Nafchan establishes a
remarkable record, ftr this is the third
brother of one JewUh household who
lias earned knighthood In the service
of England.
India's peanut crop for 190iJ-lLK7 Is
2!,()00 tons of fair to good quality.
The crop area Is 001,400 acres, an In
crease for the year of 115,500 acres, or
Z'-i.H ier cent. Exporis In 1!KHJ-1!)07
(nine months) were 0B,G33 hundred
weight, about the average.
Colonel Hugh L. Scoti, superintend
ent of West I'oint, has Uimmi most suc
cessful In capturing savufe chiefs, both
in tills country and In thi Philippines.
He owes part or bis prowws to his ro
markable understanding of the slgu
language as used by the North Ameri
can Indians.
The Euche Indians, 500 in number,
who live In a remote part of the Creek
nation, cling to their own language and
marry principally among their own
tribes after being conquered and ab
sorbed by the Creek Indians more than
2H) years ago. In some cases a Euche
may marry a Creek and the children
will sieak to the father in the Eucho
language and to the mother In Creek.
NO SUCH RECORD OF TALK.
Plfty-nlnth Conareesa the Most Talk
atlra In the Country's History.
Completed records made by clerks
of the Senate and House show that the
last Congress the Fifty-ninth did
more talking than any other In the his
tory of the country. Their researches
go back fourteen years, or to the Fifty
second Congress. The Utter Congress,
filled 2,020 pages of the Congressional
Record with Its talk, as against 4,810
for the Fifty-ninth.
In the Fifty-second Congress 10,323
bills were Introduced, but the Fifty
ninth set a new figure with 25,807. The
Fifty-second Congress was in session
340 legislative days and passed 3t)S
public and 324 private bills. The Fifty-ninth
was In tension 227 legislative
days and passed i!)2 public and 0,248
private acts. Most of the measures
known as private acts are for the cor
rection of military records or tho grant
of pensions.
No Congress ever imss.1 the number
of bills that were wade into law as tho
Fifty-ninth. It appears that such a
thing as a dishonorubl discharge from
tho army or navy, uncorrected ,y 1,.
Islatlve act, will soon b a is!tlve curi
osity. Congress Is uo only generous to
the nation's fighting ii.en In the matter
of jH-imlons, but It Is alao charitable In
the matter of expunglrig from the reo
ords anything set down against theli
conduct.
Queer.
Aum He doesn't seem to be very
ppular In political circlet jut now.
Wise No. He has Just uiuuhod a
boom for himself as "the papular can
didate." Philadelphia Pre.
A wldowwr with" seven chllOran stands
a better show of getting uarrted again
than a widow with oua.
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77ircQ ConfincnSzArmricay
Luropa and Africa -now -.P-
fvQcwiar and '&mitnp
Problems
Ono of the most difficult of the prob
lems which confront modern engineers
are tho menacing oceans of sand
which In different parts of the world
nro converting fields Into deserts. What
terrific ravages can be caused by n
vast sea of nam! Is perhaps Itest sti
In Africa, but in England to n sma'.l
; rxtent and In the United States to a
seiious degree, there may be found
demonstrations of the sand plague
which are, to say tho least, disquieting.
A grain of sand, torn away from the
granite rocks counties yenrs ago by
the great glacial drift, seems such an
Infinitesimal object that proverbially
It Is the least vlslblo thing In the
world, yet when It Is united with In
numerable other grains, and the whole
propelled by the winds, It becomes al
most Impossible to stop the progress of
the shifting mass. It pours down over
a country, slowly, relentlessly, laying
waste everything. Buildings are under
mined, roads are obliterated and Its
gruesome work once begun never
ceases.
Erpt Not Aln-ays Waste.
Egypt was not always the sandy
waste the modern tourist finds It. Yet
If the visitor to the Nile country makes
a Journey to the Sphinx he will find
that remarkable piece of sculpture has
been partly obscured by the sand
waves which now cover upper Egypt.
The Sahara, the greatest desert In
tho world, was, according to the best
scientific opinion, once an Immense In
land sea. In the time of that sea the
climate In upper Africa, Indeed the
whole surface of the northern part of
tho continent, was very different to
what It now Is. At present the Sahara
makes the climate for the Mediterra
nean and Central Europe, and while
thla 1b agreeable enough, the gradi al
expansion of the great ocean of snud,
whloh Is by degrees lapping the' valleys
of Algeria, th .en tens to lay waste final
ly to the coast. The Atlas Mountains
alone appear to have held the monster
In check.
Various propositions have been made
concerning the African desart, and one
of them, a scheme of inundation. Is al
most too oblmerlcal, If In effect It
would not be mlshlevous, to deserve
serious attention. To stem the tide of
Band In this vast ocean by ordlnnry
means 1b Impossible, and probably na
ture will be left to repair her damage
In ber own way.
It Is the struggling vegetation on tho
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STRUGGLING VEGETATION ON THE
edge of the desert which Is responsible
for the tardy strides of the sand. And
It Is from so casual a bint that suc
cessful experiments have been made
with brush and grass on the North
Carolina coast, where the sand enemy
has grown to be as terrible us a night
mare, only far more potent of destruc
tion. Inundation at Southport.
While parts of the English coast nro
being washed away aud eaten up by
tho sea, other parts are being added to
with rapidity. Although the Inroads
of aaud may be nature's way of mak
ing compensation for what she has else
where deprived the couutry, the inhab
itants of Southport, for Instance, do
not view lbs situation with any satis
faction. Within the last few years some mil
lions of tons of sand have accumulated
on the shores at Southport. The wind
is mainly responsible for the over
whelming character of the sand. At
a recent meeting of the Southimrt
Chamber of Commerce it was stated
that unless a new channel was cut al
most lmmodlutely the town would In a
very few years be four miles from
deep water. So far as the filling up of
tho channel Is concerned, tho blame
must bo put upon the sea. However,
It will cost $100,000 to dredge this new
channel, and the necessity for the work
Is apparent. Tho pier at Soutlqiort Is
Dearly a mile in length, but with deep
water receding at tho present rate Ihu
pier soon will become useless.
Rsplauade Overwhelmed.
But this Is a matter of commerce.
Wlfti the overwhelming of tho espla
nade, or seawulk, lit the same place,
Which has been accomplished by tin
sand and wind In a very thorough
manner, an equally serious problem Is
eucountered. This cannot bo gotten rid
of by such simple menus as dredging
a channel. The sand must be removed,
and a very pretty problem It presents.
In some places the magnificent railed
esplanade Hub under five or six feet of
sand. Not only has the wayward sand
covered the walk, but has accumulated
la iuum between the esplanada aud
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the sea, effectively shutting out the
view.
Some Imaginative geographers have
affected to Mlcvc In a girdle of des
erts around the world. By means of a
specially drawn map this phenomena
Is apparent. Following a curved line
It Is seen 'that the great deserts of
Asia. Africa and the lesser sandy
wastes of North America seem to bear
geographical relation to each other.
l.lko Lnvater's great circle of Are
around the Pacific Ocean, this semi
circle of deserts at first sight Is very
convincing, but that It is more than a
remarkable coincidence remains to be
established.
Desert Lands of th West.
The Colorado Desert, at the base of
the Sierra Nevada, like tho Sahara,
nears signs of being the bottom of an
ancient sea or lake. These arid lands
of the United States arc found In Utah,
Oregon, California. Nevada and Arl-
sona. The Coast Mountains effectual
ly shut out from them the moisture
which otherwise might be precipitated
over these wastes. The' lightest annu
al rainfall In the United States Is to be
found In this region, particularly la
Southern Arizona.
While these desert lands are not so
great In area as tho Sahara, they are
of suffllcent sice and Importance to
make their reclamation desirable. With
this end In view, the Federal Govern
ment Is spending millions In Inaugu
rating one or tue most extensive Irri
gation systems ever proposed. That
part of the Arizona desert upon which
the experiment has been tried hns giv
en most encouraging results. Contem
plating the Immense fields now under
cultivation In some of the desert val
leys the visitor fluds it difficult to be
lieve that ouce this was a region of
waste sands, superheated nir and prac
tically rainless.
Some experiments made by Collier
Cobb, professor of geology In the Unl-
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EDGE OF SA1IAUAN SAND SEA.
verslty of North Carolina, show what
can be done to prevent damage by sand
and wind. Professor Cobb selected
for his experiments some of the sand
reefs on tho North Carolina coast, and
tho result of his investigation was
hojHful. The Investigations, however,
were only experl incuts, naturally on a
diminutive scale, but sufficiently Illu
minating to lead to a belief that with
governmental aid much of the wastes
011 the North Carolina coast coidd be
made to flower with tho prodigality of
the seinl-troplcs.
Alone lb Atlantic Coast.
During the winter the strong north
winds pile the sands up Into great
dunes, which are moving steadily
southward. "These," says Professor
Cobb, "are best developed along the
Currituck Banks, from Virginia as far
south as the Kill Devil Hills. These
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wind ripples, started In sands exposed'
Ty the removal of a strip of forest next
the shore, have grown In size to great
sand waves, which are advancing on
forests, fields and homes. As the sand
wave has advanced It has taken up sev
eral feet of the looso soil over which .
It has passed, undermining bouses, lay
ing bsre the roots of trees and expos
ing tho bones of the dead In the ceme
teries." He relates that at Nag's Head, a
large hotel, constituting a solid ob
struction, held out for a while, but In
a little while the sand wave built up a
short distance in the? rear until the
level of the hotel roof was reached.
Then the wave advanced and the build
ing was engulfed. In this region the
land gained on the sound 350 feet In
ten year A fishing village on the
northern end of Hatteras Island was
burled in the same way, and what, at
tho time of the Civil War was "The
(treat Woods" Is covered by sand and
not a Rtlck shows where the island for-'
est was.
"Tho chocking of these moving
dunes," according to Professor Cobb,
"presents a problem of Increasing Im
portance, not only to the Inhabitants of
inese BHiiu Keys, out 10 lue navigators
of the Inland waterways as well, and
It Is of Interest to know that Its solu-
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Hon Is at hand, and that the encroach
ment of the sand upon the land and
upon the sounds may be effectually
stopped." ' 1
Owing to the fortunate chance that
the north winds which pile up the sand
here blow only in the winter, and that'
the spring rains are usually of light In
tensity, especially on Hatteras Island, '
the solution of the problem Is rendered
comparatively easy. In 1880, Professor
Cobb began his experiment He found
It a simple matter to plant grasses and
nhrubbery In the late winter and early
spring and have them gain a firm foot
ting before the strong winds came.
Trees aa Wind Breaks.
He planted the seed of the loblolly
pine on the back of a duno and covered
the area with brush cut from a near-by
road In process of making. The brush
served not only to break the wind, but
to conserve the moisture In the sands.
To-day, be says, from that modest be
ginning of 21 yenrs ago, there Is a for
est of several acres. The European
plan of building a barrier dune by
means of wind breaks, he Bays, has
been tried along the const, but always
without success. -
It having been proved that the sand
seas may be conquered, It may be re
garded as certain that in time human
Ingenuity will reclaim every large arid
waste In the world. In another genera
tion, perhaps, there will not be a des
ert within the boundaries of tho United
States. U10n ouce the way to solve
tho problem has been shown, enterprise
will probably attempt to conquer the
Sahara and perchance even the great
Gobi.
Froof.
"Does your husband love you?'
wo
naked.
"Madly, devotedly !" she answered.
"Are you quite sure?"
"Quite. How can I doubt It? Ho
has shut me up here In this little cage
of a place, where ho expects me to
spend all my time, with nobody's com-,
pany but bis own. If he does not love
me. why does he take so much trouble
to make me miserable?"
And there shone In ber fine eyes the
txnut!ful, strong light of unshaken con
fidence. Puck.
With the amateur piano thumper it
seems to be all work and no play.
Courtship Is the Juicy grape and
marriage the appendicitis.
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