The evolution of the steamship is a gauge to the prog
ress of the whole civilized world in this last period of
tremendous material activity. The modern ship is a
closely compacted municipality, with every convenience
of the most progressive American city! The steward,
when hw is arranging his menu for the day,' takes down
his telephone and calls up a dozen different soef'lons of
the great supply department, for all the world like the
housewife who makes use of the phone to order from
the butcher, the grocer and the caterer. The passenger
who does not care to dress and leave her stateroom lies
comfortably in her berth and calls up the friend at the
other end of the vessel for a quiet morning chat. ,The
ship would be behind the times indeed that could not
advertise "telephones in all staterooms." Another strict
ly novel comfort is the electric fall, which effectually
bnnlshes that stuffy sea atmosphere that formerly was
bo disagreeable when the water was tranquil. '
The busy man who wants to work on the way over,
and does not care to take his secretary with him, can
have the services of an expert stenographer and the in
experienced traveler need not make out her itinerary
before leaving home. All bug has to do Is to apply to
the bureau of information for advice.' Here she can
obtain trustworthy statistics of distances, hotel accommo
dations and cost of travel and lodging; in fact, anything
she wants to know, which is certainly more satisfactory
than the old way of taking Tom, Dick and Harry's im
perfect recollection and confused Impression of things
they saw and experienced several years ago. For the
benefit of the same Inexperienced person, ' the modern
steamer provides another great convenience, the trav
eler's check. This Is Issued in denominations from
SOUND DOCTRINE.
The signs is bad when folks commence
Findin fault with Providence,
And balk in' 'cause the earth don't shake
At ev'ry prancin' step they take.
No man is great till he can see
How less than little, he would be
Ef stripped to self, and stark and bare
He hung his sign out everywhere.
My doctrine Is to lay aside
Contentions and be satisfied.
Jest do your best and praise er blame
That follows that, counts jest tho same.
I've alius noticed great success
Is mixed with trouble, more or les;
And it's the man who does the best '
That gets more kicks than all the rest.
James Whitcomb Riley.
At the Extremes
Mrs. Itosemere sat surveying the lit
tle room uuseelngly, because It was
dim and she had come In from the out
Bide glare. She surveyed it silently,
because she was stout and, being un
used to climbing four flights of stairs,
was out of breath. : !
Her old irritation at Maggie's leav
ing her comfortable ten years' position
as cook In the Rosemore household to
marry rose in full force again as sho
recalled the room that was almost lux
urious with Its running water and
enameled Iron bed and pretty rug
which that misguided individual had.
abandoned when she left the Roseniero
home for matrimony and a man who
had enlivened her subsequent life by
chronically belus without work.
Maggie certainly hud not Improved
her condition by linking fortunes with
Tom Yarney. She lay now worn and
111, on the dismal little black walnut
bed Jammed up In the corner of the
small room. The faded", soiled-looking
wallpaper had once been blue and once
upon a time the window panes had.uot
been cracked.
"Where's Tom?" Inquired Mrs. Rose
mare, severely, her breath having been
regained.
Maggie turned her face toward the
wall. "Looking for work. I guess," she
aid. "He ho ain't been home for
three days!"
Mrs. Rose-mere sniffed and choked
and Maggie turned on her. "Oh," she
said weakly, yet violently, "I know
what you think but It ain't so, Mrs.
Rosemere! He does try! He's Just
Unfortunate! There ain't a better man
live!"
Mrs. lioaemcru surveyed her former
cook helplessly, ' a wonder trowing in
her small, commonplace eyes. It was
niiivly beyond human comprehension
why in the finTriif her poverty and dis
comfort Maggie should so gallantly
cling to and defend her hu.i.aud. She
certainly had always displayed abound
ing common sense when Kilt, ,.i ju,y
Rosemere kitchen and had sharply re
Wilted being imposed upon, but in tho
two years since her marriage she h id
developed queer whim. Chief among
them, lu Mrs. rtoseii.ci-o's eyes, was her
continued fondness fur her husband,
who eertainly did not amount to much,
file nttually s-enied iu love with the
nan!
"I hate to see you situated like this,
JiHH'." ber visitor burnt torth, get
jp5
mrnm
S 7f
... .
510 to $100, iu the currency of the country to be visited.
The woman who knows nothing of Italian money gets
a few small checks translated for her Into terms of the
foreign coin, and a letter of identification which will
enable her to cash the checks at a certain bank, where
she will receive various other courtesies, as the ward
of the steamship company. Verily, travel has been made
easy for1 the American who "simply must see Europe."
It has not only been made easy. It has been made
safe! The old, disagreeable rolling is practically done
away with! since the builders have taken to providing
the vessels with bilge keels, attached amidships to the
hull. The hull Itself Is a double construction with from
100 to 200 water-tight compartments, all of which can
be closed instantly by the oflicef on the bridge, so that if
one of them should spring a leak the water could not '
he communicated to the others. There la now no danger '
that the first-class, or even th steerage passenger, might
be called upon to do duty at the pumps. The modern
ship is practically unslnkable. 1
There are superbly decorated salons, libraries, music
rooms and smoking apartments. The promenade deck'
surface Is from four to ten times as extensive as It was
on the old-time steamer, and one of the recently con
structed vessels advertises a tennis court, so that, poor
old "shuflleboard" is no longer the chief amusement of
the voyage. Many of the finest staterooms aro fur
wished with brass beds, and the berths, built-in, are not
the low, narrow and altogether uncomfortable affairs
the older traveler remembers. In short, the Atlantic'
liner Is a floating pulaca hotel with every luxury and
every comfort to be had 0$ terra tirma. It Is the epitome
of twentieth century progress.
ting up and restlessly raising the
shades and wandering about. "John is
bringing up some, things Just a few
little things that may be of use to you
most of them are cooked and ready
to eat. How ou earth did you find such
a ridiculous dresser anyhow, Maggie?"
"(Jot it second hand," explained the
sick woman. "It does look funny lifter
what I had at your bouse but It was
cheap. It was so old the dealer was
glad to get a couple of dollars for it.
It's good of you, Mrs. Rosemere, to
trouble to come here and bring things
like you do!" ,
Mrs. Rosemere did not answer. Sho
stood with both hands in their delicate
gloves pressed on tho edge of the dress
er, leaning forward, .looking at the
carved grapes around tho mirror. Some
thing at the back of her head was alive
with excitement, which as yet meant
nothing to her comprehension. '
TJ10 light struck full on one of the
bulging grapes and over and over ngalu
she read the twined initials still show
ing, cut Into its surface, "(J. und S."
Then it was as 'i a curtain had been
Jerked away from that day thirty years
back when George had so daringly
marred the piece of furniture with ids
knife, his other arm about her as they
stood laughing like a palr'-of lU-be-haved
children. For It was their dress-
fiOT JT SKCO.MJ HAM).
er mid they could hack it If they chose.
Mrs. Rosemere was gazing upou the
identical piece of furnltnre that had
adorned her bitlroom when she had
married Georgo Rosemere-all those
decades ago !
She bad done her own work then and
a dollar was not one solitary dollar,
but one hundred cents to bo spread out
over a multitude of necessities. Hut
they had been happy. A queer llttl'!
warm thrlil swept over her at the mem
ory, bringing a Hush to her fa-e, mak
ing her In-art thump for a moment as
It hud when she had climbed those
frightful stairs.
The dresser had been a grand acqui
sition then funny, dumpy, ugly, warp
ed thing that it was to-day. She
thought of the one which ministered
to her needs at the present, a wonder
ful piece of mahogany with lnluy aud
hand carvings and crystal glass aud
tho rest of the hou-e matching it lu
costliness.
Suddenly' her whole roe-burdened,
hamperlug, rushing existence, with Its
many eiigagemuts. and George alwayt
hurrying, abstracted, bowed beneath
the yoke of wealth and Its stern de
mands on his time, arose and smote her
as she recalled sharply those early
days when there had been nothing lu
life for either of them but each other.
Tho picture hung before her eyes as a
mirage to a man In a desert.
Mrs. Rosemere Jerked . . her . head
around toward Maggie In a desperate
attempt to regain her mental balance.
Sho saw a strange lighting up of the
sick woman's face as she raised her
head and listened to footsteps cmnlng
up the stairs. ... '
"It's Tom!" Maggie said Joyously.
She waited eagerly, happily.
For a space, a very brief space', still
harassed by that mental picture at
which she had been looking, Mrs. Rose
mere bitterly envied her former cook.
Then as ' she went down the four
flights to the French touring enr wilting
to whirl her back to bondage and tho
Inlaid' mahogany Mrs. Rosemere hail
one of the rare flashes of real thought
that existence afforded her.'
' "I suppose," she said, "that nobody
In the word can expect to haVo every
thing at the same time! It's It's
kind of hard!" Chicago Dally News.
Anodic filaN.
The seventeenth century puritan
preachers talked for two hours or more
not "by . the clock." but by the hour
glass. "At least one of t(wm turned
the glass to humorous useount. He
found himself 110 further than the mid
dle of the sermon when the sands had
run out. "Drunkenness" was his sub
ject, and, reversing the horologe, I'Let's
have another glass.v said he. Sir
Roger L'Estrongo tells of a parish
clerk who eat patiently until tho
preacher was three-quarters through
his second glass and tho majority of
his hearers had quietly left tho church.
Rising at a convenient pause, he asked
the minister to close the church door
when he had done, "aud push the key
under It, as he and the few that re
mained were about to retire."
. ' Tax Titles.
It Is proposed In France, where In
genuity In devising new Bourn's of
revenue lias beeu raised to a lino art,
to impose a tax on titles of nobiffty.
In a nation which has taxed win
flows and doors the proposal will not
seem extraordinary. The odd thing is
that the republic, which has declared
such titles fictitious, should now recog
nize them us a means of national In
come. A point of Interest for the outer
world Is that only genuine titles will
he taxed. Their legitimacy will thus be
guarantee 1 by government stamp, and
fathers of heiresses contemplating un
Investment may pay down the purchase
money with the same assurances of
validity that safeguard real estate
transact Ions.
I'lirunl llu Va a t'untlet.
A III-! convict in the Aiidamans had
served some long period when an order
recently came for his release. All the
time he had been in the baud, and had
evidently so fhr forgot that he was a
prisoner that 011 his release he. rut In
a claim for ;r iislon on account of his
long and faithful servh-e as a govern
ment servant. Madras Mall.
t
I'ackluv for Vacutlon.
Mine. A. The worst Is deciding what
to take.
Mine. B. That's easy; I take all my
dresses and leave my husband!
Transatlantic Tnler
"Do you think people should i pun
ished for gambling at the raivs?" "A
let of tuom are I.; Mixing their money
taken away from them." Washington
Star.
fche He tells me nil his secrets. He
Well, you don't' object to that, do
you? She Ob. I don't know. I think
I'd rather find them out! London
Oplnlou. , , ,
The Maid Do you believe It's un
lucky to get married on a Friday? Thi
Abominable Bachelor Certainly. Why
should Friday be au exception? Black
and White. '.' t
Tom And when you proposed ho
gave you n sweet .answer? Dick She
did, Indeed. Tom Ah. she said "tes?"
Dick No, she said "Fudgo." Chicago
Daily News.
Molly When you spoke to father.
dkl you tell him you had $.t:0 In the
bank? George Yes. Molly And what
did he say? George He borrowed It
Sketchy llltsi -
The Judge Was your chauffeur
guilty In 'this accident? The Prisoner
No, your honor, the victim was run
over lu entlri compliance with tho or
dinance. Green Bag.
"I onu nnt live but a week longer
wlzout you!" "Really, duke? Now how
can you fix mi n six'citlc length of
timeT' "Ze landlord tlx on it, miss;
not I." Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Pardon me," the photographer said,
"but I think your smile Is unnecessari
ly broad. It will show all your teeth."
"Those teeth cost me $110," growled
the sitter. "I want 'em to show."
Chicago Tribune. 1
"You Americans don't appreciate
art," said the man from abroad. "Wo
don't, eh?" rejoined ' tho earnest pa
triot. "Why, we pay some opera sing
ers more than we do baseball players l"
Washington Star.
Mrs. Baker My husband costs me a
good deal of money. Mrs, Barker-
Yes, aud ho isn't very good to you,
either. Mrs. Baker I know It, but I
got a dandy lot of wedding presents
with him. New York Times. 1
"Well," said Kwoter, "you know,
'faint heart ne'er won fair lady.'"
"Nonsense!" replied Miss Bright; "If
the lady's heart isn't faint and she's
willing to help him a little he can win
every time." Philadelphia Press. : ,
Biggs Do you believe that tho use
of tobacco Impairs the memory? Dlggs
Not necessarily. 1 haven't been able
to forget that cigar you gave me two
weeks ngo but perhaps there was no
tobacco In it. Chicago Dally News.
Phyllis Whnt an awkward waltzer
Charley Lltewate Is. Wonder he
wouldn't take a few lessons! ' Maud
Why, he has. He told me that he took
a regular correspondence-school course
In dancing last winter. Sunday Maga-
Jingle (to short, stout party) Just
had such a good time with that lady
over there. Awfully -flirty.; don't you
know. But now she won't even look
at me. Short Party (Just arrived)-
How funny ! Shu's my , wife. The
Tatler. '.
Tommy Pop, what is the difference
between u dialogue and a monologue?
Tommy's Po When two women talk,
my sou, it's a dialogue, when a woman
carries on a conversation with her hus
band, It's a monologue. Philadelphia
Record.
"I hnveu't heard of you going out to
Subbub'sto dinner lately." "No; he
suj.'s 1 can't, do that any more." "Why,
I thought you were his' closest friend.
Wijat's the matter?" "He tells mu
thlr cook doysu't like uie." Philadel
phia Press.
"Nellie," called. down tho strict par
ent, giving his daughter's nightly caller
the usual warning to get out, as the
titxk struck 11. "I'm coining down
there now."1 "You needn't' 'mind.' fa
ther," was the unexpected reply, "Mr.
Wells has wound up the is.'k and put
out tho cat.y-L!ppincott's Magazine.,
"Who," she asked, "Is that scrawny,
bow-legged, ridiculous looking person
taiking to Miss Rockingham?" "That
Is Count ; Brisey.pkkult.el !" "Oh!
What nu aristocratic, noble bearing lie
Boenis to have, now that he has shifted
bis position so that the light strikes
blui properly." Chicago Record Her
ald. - 1 ,
- "Well, sir," said tho old gentleiuuD
indignantly, "what are you doing round
hwre again? I thought that dellcato
hint I gave you with my boot Just us
you left the front door last night would
glrc you to understand that I don't
like you won't have you coining
here." "It did." said the. young mau
who was "after" the daughter, os a
look of .mingled pain and admiration
came over his face; "but I thought I
would come and ask you " "Ask
me what?" "if you wouldn't like to
otn tair football club." Stray Stories.
The Jedge Is yo' name Immanuel
Baxter? Immanuel Yussah. The
Judge Well, you are chargi-d by 0:11
eor Tucker with stealing a side of ba
con nt Walter's store Inst night. Ini
nmnucl Ah wants t.-r file a alibi. The
Judge What for? Immanuel Ah
don't know, se!i ;
Mlstnh Ite,'-imld
lawyeh- be done
The J edge--(lb, I
James he's a col'd
tol' me ter say 1l.1t.
see. But why didn't ou steal a baiulf
They're better than sides. Inuuaiiuel
Tht'y wasn't no bains down d ill. The
Jedge Thirty days.--Cleveland Lead
er. Kfner Smd-ii to (.erninny.
The number of American students at
th Herman universities Is lower than
It bas been for years. At the L'nher
slty of Berlin the figures are the small
est on record. Only sixty-eight men and
twsnty-seven women from America are
enrolled, as compared with u total of
more than 200 three years ago and
nrnre than 400 ten years ago. A similar
state of affairs Is said to exist lu aU
the other Gennru Institutions.
Opinions of
CHARACTER 01 LABOR HAS
Ii-XULIAtl and unexpected, though easily
'comprehensible, result of the "hard times"
and "business depression" Is reported in
LAI
1 , tbe'shape of a marked
mm
ficiency of the men who are still employed.
, Now that Jobs are comparatively hard -to
get, tin; man, who has one does his best,
or at least his much better, to convince his employer
that he Is worth keeping, and his output of labor and
amount of (Production have both notably Increased over
what they were In the days when discharge was some
thing not at all to bo feared and ."soldiering" was as
safe as It. was pleasant pleasant to all except the" nun
Who ptild the wages, that Is. '' "
Roughly stated by one observer, the member of a
big contracting firm, sixty new men now do as much -as
100 did formerly, with a corres;ondlng reduction In the
cost of the work done. This. In many cases, has changed
what had sctmcd to be a losing contract Into a profit
able one, and lias made possible the continuance of
operations that otherwise would have had to stop, j ' ,
Looking deeper Into the matter, one gets some pew,
light 011 the petty reasons so often given in tho past as
Justification of tho worker who did not exert himself,, to
his fullest capacity. This, It was said, was for altruistic
reasons lu order that there mig'st be work enough to go
round and none should lc left without employment. 1 Ap
parently an even stronger argument along these lines
could now be made, but, if the facts are as stated, the
Inclination to make IC has departed and In Its place has
come what', according to old-fashioned people, Is tho old
fashioned habit of finding the highest self-luterest In
consideration of the employer's Interest. New York
Times. . .
.. .. THE IDLE RICH.
ULIUS CHAMBERS, lu the Brooklyn Eagle,
tells of a young man of his acquaintance
who has reached the age of 30, who has
an income from his father of $100,000 a
year, who owns live
standing order with
suits of clothes a month,
ttsrr.yj
three times a day, spends $10,000 on flowers, and when
he took a notion some time ago to make a trip to Spain
did not know in what part of the world that country Is
located, and only knew It was somewhere across the
ocean. '.'mm:
The young man said Ufo was a great bore to him, that
he has nothing to do, that he never did anything, and
Mr. Chambers avers that the young man Is intellectually
poverty stricken. 1
Perhaps he might have mnde a good business man had
he Ih-cii compelled to work. In a professional career he
might have climbed to tho top of the ladder had there
been.au incentive to apply himself. Hod ho been with
out money he might have become a captain of Industry,
ELECTRICITY IN KHYBER PASS.
rian I'ndrr War to Vtlllae Water
, Power of Affthanlatan.
There Is .a plan for utilizing the tre
mendous force which lies beyond the
Khyber Pass In flie wasted waters of
Afghanistan, says CharleH M. Pepper
In Scrlbners. It Is proposed to supply
electricity for lighting tho forts and
military cantonments scattered over a
lurge territory .and also for the sta
tions and yards along the railway lines.
The enterprise contemplates tho con
struction of trolley lines spreading out
through the dense populations of north
ern India and an electric railway from
Pcshwar up tho Khyber Pass to the
British outpost station there. .While I
write this article this project Is receiv
ing favorable consideration from the
British government. In iiouie form
within the next few years it will be
adopted., ( j '
'AproiKis of jlhP Himalayas and the
progress of elerUielty 11 query' Is raised
regarding Tibet. Ts the roof of the
world less susceptible to this progress
than Kashmir, which may be called
the caves? ;
Tho answer may be given that the
conditions are not the same, for Kash
mir Is habitable by a large number of
people. In altitudes ranging from 2,500
to 10,000 feet, while' Tibet at 14,000 to
80,000 feet could not sustain a largo
population. Yet should the . ultimate
outcome of fho' British political mis
sion to' Lhiissa With Its' military aceom
panlmont be (the prospecting of "the
Himalayas for gold, and discoveries of
that precious metal be made, the water
power would' be utilized as Jn the Kolar
gold fields of Mysore.
The Influence, of the , electrical ele
ment In' one of ifs primary forms al
ready Is seen. During the British In
vasion the "lineman" was with tho ad
vitnce guard of the troops, and commu
nication with the rear was kept up by
telephone' and telegraph apparatus.
To-day remote .recesses of the Chumbl
volley In Tibet are In communication
with the world's center London, New
York, Hongkong for the messages ore
tronsmltted to Darjeellng, tho Indian
gateway to the Tibetan passes, retelo
raphed to Calcutta or Bombay and then
cabled to their destination.
ENGLAND'S NEGLECTED QUEEN.
Clement ol I'ullux MieiU Number
I.lltbt on tier IX-cllnlnu Year.
An element of pathos sheds a somber
light on the declining years of Eng
land's queen. Xeglectel by the king,
Whom even her youthful beauty failed
to hold la unfaltering allegiance, she
dwells among the splendors of royalty,
but with an aching and desi.lato heart.
The effect of her unhappy life Is daily
becoming more nppnn nt in an Irrit
ability that inspires dismay within the
palace, .and causes comment outside.
The king goes traveling on the con
tinent several times a year und near
ly always without the queen. He Is al
ways the "-enter of a brilliant group
he most culthutcs. 'list lure of pleas
ure Is as strong 11s ever. The queen
enters little Into his thoughts; less Into
bis life. In Loudon the queen lives
her pitiful, embittered life. Discon
tented, growing deafer and more Irrit
able every day, sho has ended her
career as the youngest old lady of Eu
ro e.
With the aid of cosmetics and a wig
King Edward's 03-year-old consort has
Great Papers on Important Subjects.;
IMPROVED.
an Inventor any one of a thousand things In which he
wonld have benefltet the world.
The average young man' thinks ho Is greatly handi
capped , because he Is without moans. 1 He builds air
castles as to what he wonld do did he have thousands
to do It with. The chances are ho Is a better man land a
better citizen, better to his family, better to the world,
because he has no big Income. He uses his hands and
his brains, he docs things, and Is of use to mankind,
while tho Idle rich man, as shown In the example cited
by Mr. Chambers, Is a drone In the world's vast hive,
finding life a bore, adding nothing, spending money only
for Belf-gratlfleetlon and doing nothing for the benefit
of humanity.
1 Two strong arms and the will to use them and the
brain to Intelligently guide are better capital for the
young man than a herltago of mere, dollars and cents.
Toledo Blade.
advance In the ef
automobiles, has a
his tailor for three
changes his dress
fought Father Time successfully ' for
years. Now these weapons are no
longer able to conceal from' her sub
jects tho fact that Alexandra has
stepped over the borderland and Is at
last an old woman.
Slnco Edward mounted the throne
Alexandra has been leading a secluded
life. Edward sees as little of ber as
possible. He travels about England and
the continent, leaving her alone at
home, to while away, as best she can,
the tedium of being a queen with noth
ing to do and with no home compan
ionship. She ' kills time by opening
charity bazaars, visiting hospitals, and
going to tho theater. She Is an In
veterate 'playgoer and sometimes at
tends three or four performances . a
week. ' : " ' -.
Usually she Is accompanied by one
of her two only Intimates, her daughr
er, Princess yictorla( and her sister,
the dowager empress of Russia. The
1 V ritfc;'
ki' tit r - - .
i
. St.fr. ML
three are cloao chums und aro insep
arable. There Is a comiuou Ixiud among
them, for tho dowager empress ami
Alexandra have not led happy married
lives, mid the Princess Victoria U 40
years old und never has married.
i When with her daughter or sister
Alexandra has no Uilliculty lu over
coming her deafness. They curry au
American Instrument for traMsmlttlng
sound that is easily concealed, aud acts
when two persons uro In contact. Alex
andra, by linking arms with Princess
Victoria or the dowager empress, can
hear distinctly, With other people she
cannot link anus and she consequently
.tails ber Infirmity kveuly. At home a
wire arranged around a table supplies
T
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THUiaS HAVE CHANGED.
IIIRTY years ago one of the old-fashioned
steel-wire spring wagons was a luxury. In
a funeral procession a mile long you would
see perhaps two or three of them. Every
body rode la farm wagons. Twenty years
ago a. top buggy was a rich man's good
fortune, and but few of them were seen.
To-day a top buggy with a rubber tire Is as common as
a Democrat In Texas. Anybody and everybody has them.
A farm wagon tn a funeral procession would be' a nov
elty. The upper tens ride In automobiles, and they are
fast getting to, be common. , A newspaper printed yester
day Is stale. If a letter is twenty-four hours traveling
a thousand miles there Is a kick coming. Ten dollars ,
don't last as long as 10 cents did with our grandfathers.
We upend more for socks and suspenders than grand
father did for bis Sunday clothes, and still we wonder
what la the matter with the world that It does not
grind out as, many rich blessings as It .did a century ago. .
Bethany CHppeM
HOTS FOR THE INDIAN.
HAT the red men in these advanced times
ar developing pride of 1 race must, be re
tarded (is a hopeful sign of a prosperous
- future tor i people who were : seemingly
brought nearly to extinguishment by the
vices and oppression carried to them by
the advancing tide of civilization. As seen
on some of the reservations, the remnants of formerly
powerful tribes appear a sorry lot of. listless Incompe
tents, but If sought In the right places many educated
and capable Indians can be found who are prosperous
as well as self-respecting, notably the civilized tribes In
the new State of Oklahoma.1 ' It seems a far cry from
the naked brave brandishing a tomahawk to the native
red American In broadcloth treading the halls 'of Con
gress, but already the latter fact is accomplished. Buf
falo Courier.
the necessary contact for conversation.
The queen, with one of the instruments
in her dress and her hand on the table
wire, can hear anybody talking who
also has , an Instrument and connects
with the wire. ' '
Queen Alexandra's real home Is not
in England, but In Norway, where her
Other daughter, Muud, s queenly When
ever she can Alexandra goes, to Chrls
tlanla and Joins the dowager empress
at a small house the two Jointly own
at Bygdo, Just outside Chrlstlanla,
beautifully situated 6n the Chrlstlanla
flord., ' ' ;;" '
There the royal sisters forget their
troubles, and lead the' life of two girls
on a summer holiday.' They go for long
walks, unaccompanied ;' they play bil
liards; they study their art collections
and paint, Alexandra,' particularly, Is
a very fair artist, and her water color
work ranks high among amateurs.
Alexandra ilkes to photograph, and at
Bgydo she has a huge collection of her
press-the-button work. , ; ,,
Alexandra is very popular among the
English, due not only to her constant
visits to charitable works, but to the1
keen sympathy felt for her because of
her , domestic uuhapplness.' , England
knows the , trials Alexondra has had
to suffer, and, overlooks the Irritable
tempep the queen has developed In con
sequence. ,. ,, t , '
I " GRAVITATION ,' 4
Tkl , Myilfrr ot Tin' Wonderful
"Force ln:-NiiW.:!'.'i
When plants are growti in recepta
cles fastened to "the rim of a' rapidly
revolving wheel, the slioo'ts irnd leaves
grow toward the centef and', the roots
away from, the center1' of revolution.
This, Is remarkable as showing the In
fluence of centrifugal motion upon
growth. '. '
But the earth, any point In whose
surface at the equator posses through
QftecQ miles in one minute,' has a cen
trifugal, motion so swift and so great
that It is almost Inconceivable. Why,
then, reasoning on the. basis of this
wheel experiment, do , not trees and
planta grow in the directions thoy are
urged by this centrifugal force name
ly, with leaves and boughs toward the
earth's center and nots pointing to
the sky? . :., 1: , .,
The answer Is hecausq there Is a
force called gravitation , which over
powers tho enormous centrifugal force
and practically reverses lev 1 Whether
this overmastering force which we call
gravitation Is electrical or what it Is
no one has yet been able to. discover.
There can be no doubt that It Is tho
greatest force we know of. .' '
To unveil tho mystery of It wouM
be to become masters of a iower whose
possibilities dazzle the human mind.
It would simplify the problem of build-ii-45,
water and air navigation1, projec
tiles and many other branches of n
chanlcs. It would revolutionize pres
ent methods. St. IauiIs Post-Dispatch.
ut ruliMuble.
"This Is a new shaving soap Put
using," said the burlier. "How do yoo
like It?"
"Applied externally," spluttered t?K
victim, as the brush slipped into liH
mouth. Tb Catholic .Standard and
Times.
When a mas Is lying on his death
bed, his friends never comfort him $j
telling him that be was the best danel
Id town.
