i i 1 i i Tw MythlraJ Maa. Marco Polu'n TraTI!' rirea account of two island, "duftant from K-n'ironin aboat fiOO miles to ward tho Pfeiith, and aboat thirtj mile? from each otlifr, the otio being inbab Hwl by i company of men without a tin Itlo woman unions llx-m, tbo other by women without the company of men. They are called, respectively, the Inland cf Alalen and the Inland of Females." loojrapherM and other interested in the curiosities of history and navigation have made many attempts to ascertain the rxiwt location of tlieso fantastically namel little njecks in the great ocean; bnt even after w much research and lady the Eitrio;ui unwell as the Amer ican ideographical societies have been forced to admit that their whereabouts is doubtful in the extreme. Some believe them to be identical with the Footnote islands, near Socota, but these last named are now too small for human habitation, besides being too near the shores of the Red sea to cor respond with those mentioned by Marco Polo. The mot probable conclusion that has yet leen arrived at is that Se rodah, a email island on the west coast of India, is the celebrated "Island of Fe males," it being the resort of dancing girls and women who retire to the place for a summer's outing after a hard win ter's work on the continent. As far as Marco Polo's "Island of Males' is concerned it is irretrievably J lost, the combined efforts of the geog raphers, the historians and the travelers not being equal to the task of bringing it from the mysterious mists which have hidden it for centuries. St. Louis Re public. Hoards of Trade In Western Cities. The novelty in western life is the in evitable combination of leading citizens pledged to promote the best interests of their town. Such a body is variously called a board of trade, a chamber of commerce or a commercial club. It is the burning glass which focuses the public spirit of the community. Its most competent officer is usually the highly salaried secretary. He does for his town what a railroad passenger agent or a commercial traveler does for his employers, that is to say, he secures business. He invites manufacturers to set up workshops in his city, offering a gif fc of land or of land and money or of exemption from taxation for a term of years. The merchants, and perhaps the city officials also, supiort his promises. In a Sonth Dakota city I have known a fine brick warehouse to be bnilt and given, with the land nnder it, to a wholesale grrcery firm for doing busi ness there. In a far northwestern city there was talk of sending a man east on salary to stay away until he conld bring back capital to found a smeltery. These boards of trade often organize local companies to give a city what it needs. They urge the people to sub scribe for stock in associations that are to build electric railways, opera houses, hotels, convention halls, water supply and illuminating companies, often divid ing an acknowledged financial loss for the sake of a public gain. Thus these boards provide the machinery by which the most ambitions, forward and enter prising communities in the world ex pend and tilize their energy. Julian Ralph in liana's. Salaniaudrr from .rtsin "V11. Mr. II. It. Zimmerman, of Albion, Ind., recently discovered in a trench leading from an artesian well a good sized and very lively mud puppy or wa ter dog. This well is eight miles north of Huron, S. D., and is 1.250 feet deep. Everybody was confident that the rep tile came from the well," as there is no other water for miles and miles, its head was shaped like that of our com mon catfish, its color was similar to that of the cattish, and it had bushy external gills, besides four legs. Many conjectures as to what the ani mal dould be were made; some persons thought it principally fish, others lizard, and the most general conclusion was that the thing was a mongrel between the two. A genius (Proteus) belonging to the same family as the above (which we take to le Nectnrus), and found in caves in southwestern Austria, is blind and colorless. Mr. Zimmerman states specifi cally that the puppy found by him had a good pair of eyes and was dark in color. Lake Byron, twelve miles north of where this batrachian was found, is said to fur nish good fishing. Forest and Stream. AViiere Artists Blunder. "I never saw an artist yet who could correctly paint a horseshoe," remarked a friend of mine, pausing before a Broad way picture store. "They invariably paint it with an equal nnmlier of nails on each side sometimes three, some times four, and even live nails. As a matter of fact, there are four on one side and three on the other, the extra nail being on the inside of the foot, where the greatest strain comes." Which reminds me of the lines of a distinguished American poet in which he sweetly depicts the drowsy cattle on a summer's day lazily lapping the cool ing waters of the crystal stream. The same peculiarity is also poetically at tributed to the horse and other animals, the model of the poet having probably been the house cat. New York Heralil. Livery f I'arlor Mstid. English parlor maids wear a distinct livery, not often, though occasionally, seen in New Y rk houses. This consists usually of a plain, long, black or dark woolen skirt, a loose, open jacket of the same material, and either a white vest with gilt or ornamented buttons or a vest made of livery striin s. With this are worn cap and apron. New York Times. A Puzzled Yankee. A story is told of Lord Grosvenor, who, while traveling in this country, was asked by a Yankee how he got his living. My lord replied that he did not work, as his father snpported him. "What a dear old gentleman," said the Yankee; "how will you ever manage to live when he dies?"- tSan Francisco Ar- jonaut. A BRAVE BOG DEAD. HE RAN WITH .THE FIRE ENGINE UNTIL ONE DAY WHEN HE - FELL. Good MiUuml Dtttlo "C'hspple," of 14 Knglne Always Koaw Wlioa Ilia Ma chine Wan L'allrd Out and Always Kan Ahead of the Charging: Horses. Everylody in tho Eighteenth ward knew Chappie, the white bull terrior that ran with 14 engine. Chappie was a faithful attendent at all fires in his district. Stretched out in front of the engine the first ringing of the gong would open his eyes. With cocked ears he would wait to see if 14 was wanted. When the doors were thrown open ho raced in and out with an absurd energy, playfully snapping at everybody, tumb ling over himself, his incessant barking saying plainly as words: 'Come, now, get a move on you; no time to be lost; rush her along." Chappie is dead now, and the firemen of 14 engine ppeak regretfully of him. It was on the way to the fire that Chappie was in his glory. lie would bound ahead of the galloping team furi ously barking and springing np between the horses legs. Spectators would close their eyes, expecting to see him trampled or crushed, but from under the flying hoofs Chappie would come racing again, lead the procession for a moment, then back to the horses, biting and barking and urging them on. Arrived at the fire, Chappie became a reasonable creature, again installing himself on the driver's seat, comforta bly wagging his stub of a tail as he watched his comrades at work. Now and then he would indulge in a short bark of encouragement. The plucky terrier had not escaped unscathed in his frolicking with the galloping horses. He lost a piece of his tail at one time, had a leg broken at another time and received numberless bruises. One Saturday box was pulled, and Chappie started to pilot the machine to Twenty-third street and Third avenue. It proved a tough trip for the dog. He turned up with a fore paw broken in two places after the excitement was all over. It was bandaged and he was placed on the sick list. In spite of that he an swered 316 on the next night, running ahead on three legs. He didn't have far to go, the fire being on Broadway, be tween Ninth and Tenth streets. Probably the broken paw hindered him, but somehow he got under the horses' feet and went down. As he righted himself either the pan of the en gine or the pumps caught him in the back and crushed him to the pavement. The stout hearted fellows of 14 engine could have cried as they returned to their quarters, tenderly bearing the maimed Chappi The dog cami of the best blue blood in England, having been imported by William Waldorf Astor. lie had all the gameness characteristic of his breed, and scarcely a whimper betrayed his suffering. Dr. T. D. Sherwood, a vet erinary surgeon, who examined him, found a fractured spine, a broken leg and severe internal injuries. At first the firemen were for shooting the dog and putting him out of his misery, but afterward it was decided to try and save him. A canvas bandage was rigged on two billiard cues above a dry goods box and Chappie was suspended in it. Dr. Sherwood took great interest in the case, calling several times the following Tuesday. There was a little hope on Tuesday evening, but as the night wore on the brave dog gave such evidence of suffering in liis suspended position that he was taken down and laid upon the straw. It became plain from the ani mal's agony that he was fatally injured and opiates were administered. He died at 2 o'clock on Wednesday morning. Chappie weighed about forty-five pounds. His ferocious looks utterly be lied him. He was especially attached to any one wearing a fireman's uniform, but he was friendly enough to civilians, and the children of the neighborhood were his playmates. The only time he lost his temper was when a policeman hove in sight. He could not tolerate that kind of a bluecoat and could tell it at a glance from a fireman's uniform. None of the finest made 14s house a lounging place while in uniform. A policeman once used his night stick on Chappie, and the whole force was made to suffer for it. The firemen of 14 engine are full of reminiscences of their dead playfellow. Remarkable stories of his intelligence are told. He understood the signals and would not stir if the alarm denoted a fire out of 148 district. While strangers were permitted to make friendly ad vances outside the door, a snarl and gleam of ugly teeth warned against tres passing inside. Chappie was left in the house on guard upon one occasion. Fire Commissioner Martin came in, but was not permitted to leave until the men re turned. New York Sun. Mimicry in Caterpillars. A very Jarge caterpillar stretched it self from the foliage of a tree which I was examining, and startled me by its resemblance to a small snake. The first three segments lehind the head were dilatable at the will of the insect, and had on each side a large black pnftillated siot, which resembled the eye of the snake. It was a ioisouons or viperine species mimicked, and not an innocuous snake. This was proved by the imita tion of keel ?d scales on the crown, which was producod by the recumbent feet as the caterpillar threw itself backward. I carried off the caterpillar, and alarmed every one in the village where I was then living to whom I showed it. Rec ords of a Naturalist in the Amazon. The Ueligloiiw Itillposter. Massachusetts legislators, according to the notices posted on the fence sur rounding the statehonse extension, will never have a chance to go heavenward. Some one interested in their welfare has issued an invitation which reads, "Come to 'Jesus." Under these encouraging wotds is the hopeless announcement, "This wav ia closed." Boston Post. "If men were am ecoaosnMam in their Bocial ralfcaosM as woman r ws would not b took a nation a? pendt)trif ts," aid T. B. Ion, of Minneapolis. "I was impmawri with tha force of this idea to day by an olervition begun in a cable cur and pursued through a dry goods es tablishment and a restaurant. I saw two ladies chatting together intimately on a car, and when the conductor ap proached them to collect the fares one of them had no change. The other offered to pay for her companion's ride, but the latter wouldn't submit to the proposi tion. Instead she borrowed a nickel from her friend, remarking as she did bo that she would break a bill as soon as the got down town and repay her. My curiosity was excited to see if women really dealt that way with one another, no I followed the two after they got off the car. They first entered a dry goods store, where the borrower made a small purchase, and as soon as she got her change she handed her friend five cents, which was received without the slight est protest. "Then they went into a restaurant to get lunch. Each gave separate ordero and the bill of each amounted to thirty cents. They marched up to the cashier and each paid her own bill. Now, these are small transactions, but they are in dicative of the difference in the charac ters of men and women. Had the obje ts of my observations been men instead of women, the man who offered to borrow a nickel for car fare would have insulted tho other, and one of them would have ordered that dinner for both and paid the bill, which, I may as well say, would have amounted to dollars instead of cents." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. . The True Artist. Henry Norman gives the following instance of modest self estimate in the case of a man who is one of the most skillful and original artificers in the world, and whose works are every where admired: This ivory carver sat in his little room, open to his little garden, chiseling upon a magnificent tusk, from which was just emerging a very graceful female figure. The ivory he held between his knees, and the tools were spread out at his side. "How long will this take you?" I asked. "About four months," he replied. "And what is the proportion between the value of the material and the value of the labor in such a work as this when completed?" "I paid 140 for this piece of ivory," said he, and four months' work, at $-j0 a month, is $200." And this man was estimating his work at less than forty American dollars a month! His was the true artist's tem perament, for he was willing to accept only what would supply him with the necessaries of life, depending for his actual reward on the joy of seeking to do a perfect work. "Are you not very sorry sometimes,' asked I, "to part with one of these works, that have been companions and a part of your life for so long?" He looked up for a minute at a great white lily nodding above him in the garden, and then gently shook his head. "No," he said. "I expect the next to be more beautiful still." A Suggestion About Dinners. The next time you give a dinner give a good one. Do not feel that because you can afford it your dinner must con sist of complex, mysterious, rich, indi gestible dishes. Xo one wants them. All men hate them. When a man goes to a restaurant he never orders such a medley for himself. He never wishes them on his own table. Few women .care for them, and not one person in fifty can digest them with comfort. Al though such dinners are very common in New York, they are not given be cause we desire or respect them, but be cause we are a rich and vulgar people without the ability to realize our vul garity. There are many people in this city, and happily the class is growing, who have the good taste and courage to offer a simpler dinner to their guests. Such dinners can be as long and as dainty as the most fastidious may desire, and they are infinitely more satisfying. Try t- bear in mind that a dinner consisting of complex and mysterious dishes is only a development of American vulgarity. When a woman gives such a dinner you are correct in supposing that either her own taste is vitiated and false or that she does it because she thinks it "the proper thing." In either case it indi cates the presence of more money than intelligence. Life. They Agreed Then and After. A Baptist minister took charge of a parish near Boston where he knew that one man was decidedly opposed to his pastorate. Soon after his arrival the Rev. Mr. X. called upon Mr. A. "Brother," said he, "I hear that you think I am the wrong man to be the pastor of this church." "Well, to be frank," replied Mr. A., "I do think that another would have filled the place better." "Now that is just what I think." said the pastor. "But as long as we hold this opinion in opiosition to the majority of the parishioners, let's try to be unselSsh and make the best of it." After that call Mr. X. never had a firmer friend nor more faithful cham pion than Mr. A. Boston Herald. Why Petrarch Is Kememhered. Petrarch thought it , a disgrace that his verses should be sung in the streets, and he regretted that he had written anything in tho vulgar tongue. No one now reads his Latin poetry, but every reader of Italian is charmed with the poems that attracted and suited the pop ular taste, which is made kin by a touch of nature, whether from the l-re or the pen. Notes and Queries. The Irory of Solomon's Time. U is not impossible that ivory and apes in Solomon's time may have come from Somali land and not from India. Scot tish Review. T Catholic St. Paul's Church . ak. hetwees Fifth and Sixth. Father t ainey. factor Services : Vhsm at -ud 10 :30 a. hi Sunday ncuooi at z :30. Hli uenedicuut.. Chkistixn. Corner Lorust and EIkuiu htn Krnrlced inornliiK and rvei ipir. rlrirr aloway pastor Sunday School 10 A. M. ItHB'joHAL. St. I.tikr's Church, corner Third Hhd VIK-. He II II. HiiriieeB iiactor. Ser Vices : 11 A. M . a d 7 -30 r m. Sunday School Hi 2 :30 P. M. ( HUMAN M F.TiioiMST t urner Sixth St i intuit". Kev. Ulrt. factor. Services : 11 A. and 7 :30 P. M. Snnoay School 10 :30 A M. I'HKHKYTrRlAfk. ervlcen In few church. cor n-r Sixth and CrxMte Me. Wy . J . T. lHin lHtor Miiula-sc ' l at 9 :.t0 ; 'reaching at II a in ! f i in 1 h V K. f. C. r "f i h' church inets every .Snhhitth eventi ) at lft In the hascmei t of the cliiicili All i ie Invited to utt nd theee ii eetliiKH Kiiiht Mthoiiiht. sixth St.. Iteiweu Main and I'earl. Kev I. r. mitt. 1. 1). pastor. Service :11a.m. 8 :0(i e. M Sunda School 9:30 a M fray-riiieeti Wednesday even lllR. iKKMA I'KfHHYTKKiAN. Comer Alain and Ninth. Kev W-tle. p:ist"r. Services usual hours. Hund:iy chool 9 :30 A. m. j SWfKDIKH "N(.HM)ATI(IKAI. C mil lie, D- i ween i-mn ana iixtn I'olokko Baptist. Mt. Olive. 1 ak. between tenth und Eleventh Kev. A. Honwell. pas tor. Seivi' es II a. in. mid 7 :30 p. in 1'rayer reeennir v eont-soay eveninjt. Yiiu.hi Mfn'h t tnti-TiAN Association Koonis in ' aO'iiiiHii Mock, Main street. jos pel meet Inc. for men only, everv Sunday af ternoon at 4 o'clock. 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