Seeing France with
Uncle John
By ANNE
YVONNE to
lui)figlil. uj
CAEN.
Dearest Mamma: We arc Ht ill there,
and I'm so happy. Uncle Ih in lied, nud
at first lie thought lu wiih paralyzed,
but now lie says he's only refusing to
take chances. It's so nice having him
In bed, bocau.se Lee lit here, and uncle
makeH It all 1 itit wltliout knowing
anything about It. It was yesterday
that he thought ho was paralyzed; he
sent for nie before I was awake to tell
me. 1 was ho dreadfully stiff and lame
that 1 thought at first that I could not
get up; but of course I did, and went
to blin as noon as I could, lie told
me that he was paralyzed, really par
alyzed; but 1 wasn't frightened, be
cause, when he explained his feelings,
I knew every one of them, and of
course I knew that I wasn't paralyzed.
Only when he rolled around upon his
pillows and said he certainly would
end his days right here In Caen, I
couldn't help wishing that he had left
mo to enjoy my pillows, also.
Hut he wanted to talk, so I listened
for ever so long; and then he wanted
to sleep, bo I came away to write you,
and there was a note from Lee In my
room, lie was down-stairs waiting,
and I went right down, and my, but It
was good to see him!
Whllo we were talking, Mrs. Cnther
wood Chlglcy came in. I didn't know
that she was in Europe, and Lee was
dreadfully put out, for she sat right
down and asked all about. Ijee cx-
"Lee Was Awfully Rude and Kept
Like It by the Way
plained that he was here with a yacht
and that I wns here with uncle;- but
she didn't seem to believe us, and
shook her head. Lee was awfully
rude and kept yawning, and I know
she didn't like it by the way Bhe
looked at him. It was awfully trying
to have her just then, because, of
course, there's no telling how long
uncle will stay paralyzed. We really
thought she would stay until lunch
time, hut I'e yawned so that she
.vent at last.
Lee said that we ought to join them
In the touring-cars and do llrittany
that way, but he didn't like to tackle
uncle.
1 ran up, and uncle wns still asleep,
so I had lunch with Lee at the table
d'hote. Mr. Chlgley and Mrs. Cnther
woodChlgley sat opposite, and she
does look so funny w ith her wedding
rings and engagement-rings alternat
ing on the same finger. After lunch
con I ran up again, and uncle was still
asleep, so we went out to walk. We
had a lovely walk, and never looked
nt a sight, and when we came back
I ran up again, and uncle was still
asleep; so Leo and I sat down in the
parlor, and we were just going to be
so happy when Pinkie and nunnle
Clemens came In. They wanted me to
go to the theater with them, but of
course I couldn't, for I couldn't be
sure about uncle's staying paralyzed.
He slept till eight o'clock last
tight, and then he had dinner and
vent right to sleep again, bo 1 could
have gone to the theater after all; but
how could I know to dare to risk It?
Lee and the men from the yacht are
at another hotel, so ho didn't come
very early this morning, nnd It was
fortunate, because uncle sent for me
about nine to explnln Mr. Chlgley's
card, which they poked under the door
last night. I'nclo was so curious to
know what It was that he got out of
bed and found he could walk. He
said he had never felt sure that It
was pnralyBls, only he wanted to be
on the safe side, ond he Is In bed still,
only he is so lively that I am half
crazy over Lee. I know he Isn't going
to like It at all.
Lee says If there was time he'd go
to Paris and get a nurse and an electric-battery
and have uncle kept Just
comfortably paralyzed for a few more
days, but there Isn't time, and I am
so worried. If uncle loans any more
patience with Lee, he won't have any
patience left at all. nnd I'll have to
go all of the rest of the trip that way.
We took a walk this afternoon to con
sult, and we saw Elfrlda and her sis
ter. They have cut off their hair, he
cause It bothered them so, coming
down In their eyes, nnd Elfrlda says
she feels all the freedom of a man
S . .'5 &
iVARNER
Her MOTHER
.tU'ur; tu.
tlirilHng through her you know how
funny she always talks. They have
seven calloused plates on the inside of
each hand from the handle bars, and
Elfrlda says she's sure their insteps
will arch forever after. They were
coining out of St. Stephen's church,
and the only way to get rid of them
wns to say that we were Just going
In; so we said It, and went in.
It was really very Interesting, and
the tomb of William the Conqueror Is
there. He built St. Stephen's, and
Mathllde built La Telnite at the other
end of the town, partly as a thank-offering
for conquering England and
partly as a penance for being cousins.
There was a monastery with St.
Stephen's and a convent with La
Trlnite until the revolution changed
everything. William's tomb Is Just a
flat slab in front of the altar, but he
really Isn't there any more, for they
have dug him up and scattered him
over and over again. The church Is
tremendously big and plain, and every
word you even whisper echoes so
much that Lee and I thought we'd bet
ter come out where we could talk
alone.
When we came back to the hotel, I
ran up, and the mail had come from
Paris; so uncle said If I'd fill his fountain-pen,
he'd Just spend the afternoon
letting a few people In Amirlca know
what Europe was really like. I'm a
little bit troubled, for I'm all over be-
J 'Am, 4
s3
Yawning, and I Know She Didn't
She Looked at Him."
ing stiff and sore from that climbing,
ond yet he seems to feel almost as
mean as ever. He has his meals in
his room, for, although we're on the
first floor, he says he cannot even
think calmly of u staircase yet. He
fays that Talbot's Tower seems v to
have settled in his calves, and heaven
knows when he'll get over It.
Lee nnd I went to walk this after
noon, and we visited the old, old
church of St. Nicholas. It said in the
book that the apse still had Its orig
inal stone roof, and Ie said it would
be a good chance to learn what an
apse was; so we set out to go there,
but we forgot all about where we Bet
out for, and It was five o'clock before
we finally got back to where it was.
It stands In an old cemetery, and it
says in the book that It has been secu
larized; so we climbed up on grave
stones till we could see In the win-
Caen.
dows and learn what that meant, also.
The gravestones were all covered with
lichen and so slippery that In the end
Lee gave up and Just helped mo to
look. We didn't learn much, though,
for It was only full of hay.
When we got back to the hotel, I
ran up, and uncle was gone! I never
was so frightened In ray life, and when
I ran back and told Lee, he whistled,
bo I saw that he was upset, too. He
Bald I'd better go to my room and
wait, and he'd dine nt his hotel to
night; so I went to my room, and un
cle was there, hunting all through my
things for the address-book. I was bo
glad and relieved that I didn't mind
a bit the way he had churned every
thing up, although you ought to see
my trunk, nnd I kissed him and told
him it was Just splendid to see him
beginning to go about again. He look
ed pleased, but he says the bucks of
his legs are still boyond the rower ol
description, and so I proposed having
dinner with him In his room, which
we did very comfortably, and he told
me that he should remember this trip
till the day he died, without any re
gard for the grease I spilt on his hat.
After dinner he was very fidgety, and
I can seo that the confinement is wear
ing on him; but I don't know what
to do.
Lee sent nie a note by a messenger
nbout 11 o'clock, with instructions In
French on the outside about their de
livering It to me when I was not with
uncle. They delivered It all right, and
1 read It. He Just said that the auto
mobiles had come, ami that lie was
going to ca.st his die clean over the
Rubicon tomorrow morning ut 11.
Tliat means that he is going, of course,
and that I am to be left here oil alone.
I do feel very badly over it, for uncle
will be almost sure to find out about
Lee whenever he can get downstairs
again, and then I'm sure I don't know
"He Has His Meals In His Room, for
He Says He Cannot Even Think
Calmly of a Stair-Case Yet."
what will hnppcn. Of course, I've not
done anything that I shouldn't have
done; but, dear me! doing right does
n't help if uncle chooses to decide
that it Is wrong. And if he can't walk,
to let us go on traveling, he's going to
keep getting more and more difficult
to get along with. Maybe uncle will
be better in a few days, so that we
can visit Bayeux. He's crazy to go to
Bayeux and see the tapestry, and it
Isn't so very far. Hut what shall we
do if we come to any town ngnin
where there are no cabs! It would be
awful.
Now, good-night, it's so very late.
Don't ever feel troubled over me, for
I'm having a splendid time, nnd It
was so kind of uncle to bring us.
Your own loving,
YVONNE.
WHY ARCHITECTS LACK FAME
"Art Personality" In Their Labor Is
Not Like That of the Sculptor
or Painter.
One of our neighbors complains that
architects, compared with painters
and sculptors, ore ignored nud unhon
ored by the public; that while many
people know who made the Sherman
statue at the Plaza, few know who
designed the Madison Square garden,
the Pennsylvania Railroad station or
the Columbia University library. This
is true and the reason is obvious. The
sculptor or painter works, in one
sense, much more freely than the ar
chitect, and can therefore make his
work more obviously personal; it calls
attention to the maker because it ex
presses more strikingly his personal
temperament. In it he can give ex
pression to his individual Insight nnd
plastic ideas more absolutely than
can the architect, who Is relatively
controlled by the practical considera
tions of his work. He has a very de
tailed building problem before him.
His structure must have so many
rooms, of a certain size and charac
ter; It must observe city regulations,
must cost a certain amount, must lit
in with surrounding buildings; a
great part of his work has nothing to
do with his artistic "temperament."
The conditions are largely laid down
for him. The result is that his "art
personality" enters relatively little
into his work. Though he receives
less attention than the sculptor or the
painter, his material reward Is great
er and for the same reason that his
fame Is leas. Ills work Is mare neces
sary; has greater practical value. We
must have buildings, but could get
along without statues or paintings.
New York Post.
Marvelous.
The world moves rapidly In these
times, and within a few days has
passed qulto i series of records and
caught up with u number of novel
ties. Orvllle Wright made the highest
aeroplane night. TC.5 feet; a White
Star liner, steaming Hi knots an hour,
stopped, hacked utnl rescued In 20
minutes u seaman who had fallen
overboard In mid ocean; on a bare plot
of ground In St. Louis a $1,300 cottage
was "completed" In eight and a halt
hours, fit mechanics being employed;
"tho first aerial Masonic lodge" was
formed In a Massachusetts balloon
floating at an elevation of some 7.000
feet; a New York coroner's physician
performed an autopsy upon nn arm
less man whose kidneys had been
practically non existent from birth ami
whoso heart had for 15 years been
eaten by a cancer, yet who died of old
age; New Jersey farmers experienced
a chicken thief who travels In nn au
tomohlle and sends a collie dog to rob
the roosts and fetch out the poultry
without killing It; also In New Jer
soy, four trees yielded eight bushels
of plums. Does the reader protest that
these occurrences have no natural se
quence or normal relation? Let him
remember that "It takes nil kinds of
people" and events "to make a
world."
The Belf possessed burglar takef
things quietly.
cD i I
ANT an aoudad? Want
n ring-neck Swinhoo or
a degface baboon or
anything else In the
animal line? You can
get them if you've the
money and you will not have to do
much more than use the telephone
nnd sign the check. For, let It be
known, that in Kansas City you
can buy anything in the animal line
from a green-eyed mole to a prong
horn antelope, nnd if you've a lot of
animals that you're tired of you can
trade 'em off for new ones. For in
Kansas City are the offices of one of
the world's four clearing houses for
animals the Home Zoological arena.
Over one ordinary desk in the office
at 318 Keith and Perry building an
imals to the value of thousands of
dollars pass every week figuratively
speaking, of course. From that desk
they're sent all over the world, trad
ed, bought, sold and rented. It's the
desk of I. S. Home, one of the own
ers of the arena.
As to tho animals, they're In nil
parts of the world. Some of them are
Just commonly tame, others are tamo
enough to Jump through hoops, lay
dead, roll over nnd do 20 other per
fectly good and guaranteed acts, while
still others are still biting nntives
nnd playing hide and go seek with
hunters In their native jungles or
plains, as the case may he.
The tame ones are at various parks,
circuses and animal shows and aro
leased, rented or "hired out" for their
keep. You can get those any time.
Tho wild ones can bo. got, but, of
course, that takes a littlo time. As
for the prices, they're reasonable.
You can take a perfectly docile "and
guaranteed-tobe-clty-and-circus broke
hippopotamus home for the reason
able sum of $3,000, no more than you
would pay for a llniousino touring
car. So why buy motors while hip
popotami are so cheap? Elephants
rent from $100 n month on up. Com
mon, ordinary Hons" cost $130, whllo
the better grades are worth on up to
$1,000. IJengal tigers come higher,
with the market always standing pat
at $1,000 to $1,200, while a chim
panzee, if he's good, costs the moder
ate Bum of $150.
The Home Zoological arena hns
been In existence in Kansas City for
years, but, as most of its dealings are
made outside the city, not much Is
known of it. And the size of the offi
ces arc no Indication of the business,
for every week enough business I3
done to equal that of n largo mercan
tile establishment. Nothing costs
less than $15 and from there on up to
$1,500, nnd tho greatest business usu
ally is done in the high priced ani
mals. "Wish I could get my hands on n
few more elk tight away without hav
ing them caught," I. S. Horno wns
saying tho other day when a visitor
entered, "and say," he added to his
stenographer, "tell Umpty-Uniph &
Company that 1 won't trade that
bunch of elephants unless ho throws
In n Sunda tiger, one polar bear nnd
a couple of leopards."
By this tlmo the visitor wns making
his wants known. lie hnd an Idea
that ho would like a little zoo of his
own, bo he had gone there to find out
about It.
"A zoo?" the animal dealer ques
tioned. "Of course you'll want a good
one."
"Oh, yes," tho visitor answered
vaguely; "thought I'd nsk you nbout
It. Now, what would you"
"Advise? Why, let's see, of course
you'd want a Hon nnd some leopards
nnd tigers. Pumas are nice and then,
oh, yes, you must hnve a Jagunr."
"Oh, yes," again came from the
visitor. The animal man was busy.
"Now an, to bears. You'd want a
w
pair of polnrs they're very popular
now since the north pole was dis
covered and a black bear and a griz
zly and u sloth and a Kndiak. You'll
need a hippopotamus nnd certainly
you'd wunt a rhinoceros. No first
class zoo is complete without an In
dian nnd an African elephant. Now
there's the South American tapirs, a
giraffe, a buffalo, some elk, a few
deer, a couple of pronghorn antelope,
nn aoudad, or Barbary sheep, a Sing
Ring wnterbuck. and then in the
monkey class "
"I couldn't very well keep those in
the basement, could I?" the zoo want
er asked.
"Hardly," came dryly from the anl
nial man.
"And the price?"
"Oh, nbout $50,000.
"Well, I don't guess I want any
zoo," the visitor said slowly. But be
ing there, he just stayed a littlo while
longer and found out some things
nbout the animal business.
"Much to do?" Home asked. "Why,
there's more than we can attend to
right now. You see, the parks and
zoos all over the United States are
buying right now, while the circuses
are selling. So it keeps us busy get
ting them in and shipping them out.
Just in the last month we've sold
nearly $33,000 worth of elk, and we've
still got orders.
"Everybody's buying elk and polar
bears in fact," we've had the best
polar bear market this year we've
ever had. Sold nine in a month.
Rhinoceroses are moving rather slow
ly, while hyppos ore steady. The
pheasant market Is bearish, while the
elephant trade is rather Inclined to
bull a bit now nnd then. Just a few
weeks ago I took a flyer on a bunch
of parrots that a circus wanted to get
rid of and came out very well on It.
"So, you see, that's the way It goes
Right now it's elk and polar bears.
In another month likely, everything
may be going to tigers, while a month
later no one will want anything ex
cept African Hons and Indian ele
phants.
"Trade animals? Why, certainly.
And often, we do more trading than
selling. For instance In the spring,
when circuses ore getting In menng
erle stock that is good only for cages,
I can take up a lot of untrainable
stock from the animal shows and
trade It Into the circuses. Then
lenses on animals run out every once
In a while nnd so It's traded in for
new stuff upon which leases can be
taken. Many of the animals in the
shows are owned by us nnd rented
out. For instance, right out in Den
ver there are three elephants belong
ing to us from which we get a rental
of $1,000 a month."
What Is perhaps the most famous
bear In the west to-day, nnd the one
seen by more people probably than
an other, Is tho famous Hearst grizzly
of the Golden Gate park, at San Fran
cisco, Cal.
Old Monarch, as he Is known, is said
to tip the scale at 1,400 pounds. His
capture was effected about 16 miles
from Santa Paula, Cal., on Pine moun
tain. Some two years before the midwin
ter fair of 181)1-2 the bear was taken,
but he does not Beem to have Buffered
by his captivity in the least. If any
thing he has prospered.
During tho winter his benrshlp eats
but littlo twelve to 14 loaves of
bread will do for tho three bears In
the cage, although in the Bummer 35
are needed. This is despite the fact
that he does not hibernate. Grass
ond weeds, too, are giveu him at his
hungrier season.
Captivity has not softened his griz
zly heart, nnd he will, moreover, at
tack his keeper, If given a chance. So
the keeper takes good enre that the
bear never gets him in a corner. Id
fact he only enters the cage when he
absolutely must.
At tho same time this full-bred old
grizzly, whoso age Is estlmuted at
nbout 30 years, plays about with the
other bears in tho water as gently, It
seems, ns n lap-dog.
Old Monarch was taken 15 years
ago as n result of tho attempt to cap
ture another famous grizzly, known as
"Old Club Foot," that had been at
tacking the Bheep about Pine moun
tain. Instead of "Old Club Foot" "Mon
arch" wns caught In the old log trap,
nnd after being roped into a sled was
chained down and then drawn out
eight miles through the wilds Into a
cage, within which ho wns shipped to
a Bummer garden near Frisco.
Ik was later khlpped to Goldot
Gate park.
STARTED AS LUMBERJACK
Edward F. Terry, Builder of Great
Bridges, Began Career in the
Wisconsin Woods.
New York. Edward F. Terry, "out
side man" of the bridge building firm
of Terry & Trench, which did all the
steel work on the wonderful Man
hattan bridge, New York, using 40,000
tons of metal, and most of the work
on the $20,000,000 Williamsburg
bridge, which has the second longest
span In the world, was once a lum
berjack In Michigan and Wisconsin
lumber woods.
Left fatherless at 12, Terry, a na
tive of New Hampshire, with only a
boy's strength and a boy's education,
Edward F. Terry. 1
was compelled to become the main
support of a family of six children.
He went Into the woods, which ha
knew.
In Wisconsin he happened to be
come a laborer on one of the first
Iron bridges built In that state.
From that time his rise was rapid.
At 25 he was superintendent of
bridge work for the Alden Bridge)
Company, Rochester, N. Y., and at 80
in business for himself. Since that
time he has left bridges from the Mis
souri to the Hudson to mark his up
ward trend. He U at present engaged
in constructing the New York ter
minal of the New York Central, the
biggest job he has ever tackled.
NEW ASSISTANT TO KNOX
Chandler Hale of the State Depart
ment Comes of a Distinguished
Family.
Washington. Chandler Hale, newly
appointed third assistant secretary of
state, if there Is anvthine in thn hr.
editary proposition, ought In time to
necome one of the nation's greatest.
Both father and grandfather have
been senators and men of force. The
new secretary's father. Eueene Hale.
senator from Maine 1881 to 1911, on
December 20, 1871, married Mary
Douglas Chandler, daughter or the
late Senator Zacharlas Chandler of
Michigan, the Warwick of President
Hayes' administration. The father wai
appointed postmaster general by
President Grant In 1874, but declined
and was tendered the naval portfolio
by President Hayes, but declined thlr
also.
So far the youngest of this nations,
group of three at the age of 36 hai
served his country as secretary of thw
American embassy at Vienna and a
Chandler Hale.
secretary of the American delegation
to the 1907 Hague peace conference.
Like his father, he is a lawyer, but
unlike his father, he has confined him
self to the subject of International
law, which leads toward a position as
secretary of state, or as diplomatic
representative of his country, rather
than as a career as a vote seeker.
. j
A Gentle Rebuke.
It was late in the year for straw
berries, but Mrs. Beacon was deter
mined to have some for Sunday din
ner. Over the telephone came the
news that they were "very fine,
ma'am, very fine Indeed." Being, how
ever, a cautious housekeeper, she de
cided to look over the fruit herself,
as the grocer was not always to be
trusted.
"They don't appear yery good," she
said, somewhat later, examining care
fully a basketful. "They look here
she extracted one and tnsted It "they
look a little green. I don't know.
Just let me try one." she took an
other. "I gueia I'll take ono box,
please. You don't put very many la
a box, do you?" she Inquired.
"There was," said the grocer re
spectfully, "but there's been so many
es looking 'em over that there
"You may give me two boxes," i&14
Mrs. Beacon.-Youth's Companion.