I i r i i Centennial of the “Lady of the Lake" From the New York World. This year, 1910, is the centennial of Bir Walter Scott's third great poem, “The Lady of the Lake,” which Is still widely read. Today all Scotland rises up and calls its author blessed, for tho canny Scot calculated that during each season tourists spend at least $1,000,000 in seeing the srots made historical by the great master of the English lan guage. The bard of Abbotsford didn’t lose by the poem, either; he wouldn't sell his rights for a mess of pottage, as did John Milton with his “Paradise Lost," or Soldsmith for some of his classics. Scott got $10,000 for the copyright, and received more in after life. None of Scott’s former works was ever looked for with half the anxiety as was the case with “The Lady of tho Lake." Tho cantos, as they were sent to the press, were read to select circles by James Ballantyne, and popular opin ion greatly favored them. Everywhere jt was anticipated that a great poem would appear, and when it was pub lished it excited an extraordinary sen sation. The first edition of 2,050 was soon sold out, and then followed in quick succession four editions, so that in a few months 20,000 copies were sold. All the criticisms of the poem were in its favor. In his Introduction to the 1830 edi tion Scott tells how the poem came to be written. The Highlanders, with their ancient manners, habits and cus toms, seemed to him to be particular ly adapted to poetry. He was also fa miliar with the country, where he was in the habit of spending tho autumn, while the custom of James IV—and more especially James V—of walking in disguise through Scotland af forded him a hint of which he made the most. Scott took great pains to verify the accuracy of the local circumstances of the poem, one day going into Perth shire to ascertain if King James could actually have ridden from Loch Ven nachar to Stirling castle within the time supposed in the poem, and found that it was quite practicable. And, notwithstanding the great success of the poem, Scott never grew conceited over it. “Never was he a partisan of his own poetry,” Ballantyne relates, reciting an anecdote. Being one day in Scott’s library shortly after the poem was published, he asked Miss Sophia Scott now she liked It. She replied with per fect simplicity; “Oh, I have not read it I Papa says there’s nothing so bad for young people as reading bad poetry.” Seven Million Dollar Joy Ride. From the Philadelphia Publlo Ledger. Seven million dollars on a Joy ride through the streets of Washington Is a sight to be seen every week day at the national capital. And this money stands less chance of getting hurt through the careless ness of the driver of the wagon It rides In or from outside forces than any Joy rider, animate or Inanimate, In the country. For the treasury has a new money wagon, a brand new vehicle, made of hard wood, Iron and steel, with heavy locks and bars, to bring money from the bureau of engraving and printing where It Is made, to the vaults of the treasury, where It Is stored for safe keeping. And not only Is the new wagon near ly bomb proof In Itself, but Just to make sure that some foolish person with visions of a Jesse James holdup scheme, will never succeed In accom plishing anything of the sort, eight heavily armed guards ride to and fro with the J70.000.000. All this extra precaution Is due to the change In the system of making money. Until recently the money was printed at the bureau of engraving and printing, but sent to the treasury minus the seal and the number, so that It was not real money until handled In the treasury. What Worried Him. From the Boston Globe. A peculiar instance of connubial af fection occurred some time ago In Ver mont. An aged couple, who through half a century of married life had wrangled with each other, were In all probability soon to be separated. The husband was taken 111 and w-as be lieved to be near his end. The old wife came to his bedside and after carefully examining and taking stock of his condition exclaimed: "W’y dad dy, your feet are cold, your hands are cold and your nose is cold.” "Wa'al let ’em be cold.” "W’y, daddy, you're goin’ to die.” "Wa’al, I guess I know what I’m ■bout." "Daddy, w'a’t’s to becum of me If you die 7” "I dunno, and I don’t care. W’at I want to know Is, w’at's to becum of me?” Found a Way. From the Argonaut. "Pedro, I owe about three thousand francs,” said a Parisian grocer to his shopman. "Yes, sir.” "I have two thousand francs In the j&te, but the shop is empty; I think It |s the right moment to fall.” “That is Just what I think.” "But I want a plausible pretext for my creditors. You have plenty of brains; think the matter over tonight pnd tomorrow morning.” The clerk promised to think It care fully over. On entering the shop next morning the grocer found the safe Dpen, the money gone, and In place a note which ran as follows: “I have taken the two thousand francs, and am off to America. It Is the best excuse you can give to your creditors.” High Value of Lands in France. From Dally Consular and Trade Reports. Intensively cultivated alluvial lands In southern France are worth $660 to JS00 an acre, especially In the Valley of Easse-Durance, where fruit and vegetable growing Is carried on. This Is the statement of an agricultural authority quoted by Consul General A. Gaulln. of Marseilles. On the hillsides of Roquevalre, where many apricot trees are planted among other vege tation, the value of the land does not exceed $80 to $240 an acre. This range of $80 to $800 represents the limit of variation In the value of lands on which fruit Is cultivated. Another authority says that vineyards In southern France are worth $240 to $400 and flower and vegetable lands $400 to $800 an acre. A Successful Quest. From Harper's Weekly. “Well, Bill, how did you come out with the trust company?" "Fine.” “They accepted your ofTer, did they?" “Yep.” “What kind of a Job did they give you?” “Didn’t give me any.” “Then how did they accept your proposition?" ' "I offered them the refusal of my services, and they accepted It—refused ’em right of£ the handle ” WESTERNERS KNOW HOW. That Is Why Farm* Are Worth Five Times as Much as Thoso in East. From New York Times. If the Times really wants to know why It is that western land—in Iowa or Illinois—sells for $100 to $200 an acre, while plenty of farms can be bought in New York for $10 to $20 an acre, let It pay attention. The secret is about to be released. And let me say at the outset that with considerable famil iarity with both west and east I’d much prefer to buy eastern to western lands. One point in favor of the western farm is that, whereas, a western farm, properly handled, will raise crops which pay a good interest on the investment without fertilizer, a great many acres of land in the $10 and $20 belt are merely something to put productive soil on top of. The French method of car rying the land away when one moves wouldn’t go bad in connection with peveral cheap New York farms. Another thing, one can take an 80 acre farm in the middle west and plow every foot of it, while there are very few cheap farms in this section which can be cut up into fields large enough to pay for using large machinery. The result is that the eastern farmer, if he Is to make use of the cheap lands, must ’putter.” Now the right sort of put tering is profitable—fruit, berry and truck raising will make moderately i rge fortunes for diligent nnd capable men—but most men don’t like that sort of business. The middle westerner is a whole lot happier with a four-horse gang plow and a harrow that wouldn't go between stumps in tho east than ho would be on a $10-an-acre New York farm. And he doesn’t strike as many stones in tho course of a season as the New York farmer will in a day. Tho American farmer hasn’t lost his sense of "bigness” of the country yet, und until he does lose it he will prefer to work the large farm rather thap the small one, even if he gets no moro for his labor. Furthermore—and this is not to be ignored—around that high priced land in the west will be found a more intel ligent, better educated body of men, taking them ‘‘by and large,” than in a given number of eastern farmers, be cause the factories and the other city Joys seem to lure a much larger pro portion of the ambitious youth of the east. Tho city is so close to the farm that the transition is but a step. Of pourse there are many of the most in telligent farmers of the country here, but the farmer with a desire for intel lectual associations—and some have it —will find loss of this opportuinty in the $10 and $20 localities than In the west. Intelligent farmers, like men in | other professions, like intelligent com panionship. WHY FISHES CHANGE COLOR. Director Townsend Gives Result of Some Curious Observations. From "Chameleons of the Sea,” by Chas. Haskins Townsend In the Century. The colors shown on many well known colored plates of West Indian fishes published In standard works on Ichthyology are, we And. not those of normal conditions; but rather those of dying, dead, and rapidly fading fishes. Experiments In the New York aquarium have shown that such col ors are merely the vestiges of the last convulsive color excitements ol the specimens used. This Is the ex planation of the rapid changes foi which the dying dolphin Is celebrat ed. Even If painted from newly caught wild fishes, held in a portable ; aquarium, as some of them were, they i show hiding or alarm colors only and In every case represent merely one of several possiblo phases of colora tion. In fact, It has been possible to shoxe by experiments with living fishes lr the aquarium Just which paintings ant photographs reproduced in standart works were made from dead specimen! and which were not It Is well known that Northern set fishes habitually frequenting green 01 yellow seaweed acquire to somo ex tent the general color tone of theli habitat, and that trout from darl water are dark colored, while thosi Inhabiting waters where there li Sandy or gravelly bottom are llghl ] colored. Such conditions have long been appreciated at the aquarium ./here fishes kept In tanks lined with white tiles habitually wear theli lighter colors, only an occasiona Wind fish remaining unchanged. Th< pale, colorless fishes of the Mam moth cave gradually become darkei when exposed to light In the aquarl am. These fishes, although wltl Byes that are virtually useless, are stll ible to distinguish light from dark ness. The Books Boys Read. In an attempt to solve the question ol what kind of books boys like best, a re luest was sent to the library assistants in charge of children's rooms in New Fork city, asking them to make a Us! pf the 25 books of Action most populai among boys of 12 to 15 years old. Th< Vsts were made after careful consid eration and without consultation and represent very fairly the preference ol fhe boys. The following are the 21 books: "Tom Sawyer,” by Marl Twain; "Huckleberry Finn,” by Marl Twain; “Cadet Days,” by Genera Charles King; “The Adventures of Buf falo Bill," by Colonel W. F. Cody | "Robinson Crusoe,” by Daniel Defoe | “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,’ by A. Conan Doyle; “Treasure Island,’ by Stevenson; “Crimson Sweater,” bj Barbour; "Behind the Dines," by Bar i hour; "Jack Among the Indians." bj ! Grinnell; "Halfback,” by Barbour i "Fast Mail,” by Drysdale; "Substi tute,” by Camp; "Pete, Cow Puncher,’ by Ames; “Ivanhoe,” by Scott; "Cap tains Courageous,” by Kipling; "Red skin and Cowboy,” by Henty; "Storj of a Bad Boy,” by Aldrich; "Rohir Hood," by Pyle; “Yale Cup,” by Dud ley; "Oliver Twist,” by Dickens: "Mon te Cristo,” by Dumas; "Twenty Thou sand Deagues Under the Sea," bj Verne; “The Spy,” by Cooper; "Kid naped,” by Stevenson. California’s Unexplored Caves. From the Pathfinder. In the vicinity of Tulu lake, Cal. about 40 extinct volcanoes have beer found, many already being covered with thick vegetation, and beneath tin beds of lava given off by them in th< past numerous interesting caverns hav< recently been discovered and explored One Is said to be 200 feet long, 50 feel wide and 40 feet high. Another has beer reported discovered which is miles long it has been named the Mammoth cav< of California. One recently explored k said to contain two stories, the temper ature in the under one being so low that Icicles two yards long depended from the celling. Darge caves have va rious origins. Many have once beer solid ground, covered with heavy claj and limestone rock; the lower ground is washed away by underground wa ters, a roof and floor being left. Oth er caves are the result of air or othei gases getting Into the molten lava expanding with the heat and blowing themselves into lava bubbles, leaving hollows and caverns when the lava has cooled and hardened, Just as aii bubble* may be seen to do In moltea j tar. ARE YOUR KIDNEY8 WELLT | The kidney secretions tell if disease ■ lurking in the system. Too fre I luent or scanty urination, discolored | arlne, lack of control at night, indi cate that the kidneys are disordered. Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys. J. F. Haynle, 7th Rt., Forest Grove, Ore., says: "Doan’s Kidney Pills saved my life. 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No cessation in numbers going from United 1 Stales. Wonderful opportunities remain for those who intend making Canada their homajl ; New districts being opened up for settlement. Many farmers will net, this year, $10 to *16 pej j acre from their wheat crop. All the advantages of old settled countries are there. Good schools, churches, splendid markets, exoellent railway faculties. See the grain exhibit at th^J different State and some of the County fairs. , j Letters similar to the following nre received every day, testifying to satiafactor#, conditions; other districts are as favorably spoken of: J TOBY 8BNT FOR THBIR BON. Myorother-ln-law, Mr. Frank J. Zimmer, lives therd Maidstone, Saaky Canada, Aug. 6th, 1910. Lhrough we decided to looatw (q 1 J "My parents came here from Cedar ballariowa, M RiebardUenry Eblnger, fl % four yeare ago, and wore so well pleased with this j Skcnu'p^X.mSlie^near^'“sSd aTperteril? 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Apropos of the enmity, now happily burled, that used to exist between Minneapolis and St. Paul, Senator Clapp said at a dinner In the former city: “I remember an address on careless building that I once heard In Minne apolis. “ ‘Why,’ said the speaker In the course of this address, ‘one inhabitant of St. Paul is killed by accident in the Streets every 48 hours.’ "A bitter voice from the rear of the hall interrupted: “ ‘Well, It ain’t enough,’ It said.” Shrewd Scheme Stopped Run. Manyi years ago, in consequence of a commercial panic, there was a severe run on a bank in South Wales, and the small farmers jostled each other In crowds to draw out their money. Things were rapidly going from bad to worse, when the bank manager, In a fit of desperation, suddenly be thought him of an expedient. 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