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x THE NOISE OF Julian Ralph, the well known Ameri can Journalist, whn la in South Africa aa a war correwpnndert for the Lendon Mail, baa written an entertaining de scription of a modern battle for hi paper, lie says: The picture of our battles which are coming back to na In the London week lies are not at all like the real things. Art cannot keep pace with the quick advance of scle-nee, and the Illustrators reaiiae that they moat still put as much smoke and confusion In their bat- ties aa goes with the old picture of Waterloo. Otherwise the public would be disappointed and could not tell a battle from a rarade. I saw the other day a picture In one of the leading papers by one of the best Illustrators. It showed the British storming a Boer position. In the middle ground was a Boer battery, and the nly gunner left alive was standing up with a bandage around his head, while smoke and dame and flying fragments of sheila filled the air In his vicinity. In the rush of the Instant he must have been bandaged by the same shot that struck him, and as for the smoke and debris In the air, there was more of this In a corner of that picture than I have aeen In all the four battles we have fought. What la is a modern battle how docs It lok and sound? SO ENCOL'NTBa AT CLOSE RANGE. Really, the field of operations la so extensive and the range of modern guns Is so great that battle conditions have altered until there Is no longer i any general "clash of battle," or even any possibility of grasping or viewing an engagement from any single point. There Is no great resounding noise in war nowadays. You hear one of big guns loosed three miles over on the right, and another two miles on the left. If you are near one It makes a tremendous noise, yet I have not heard one explosion as loud as a good strong clap of thunder. You hear the guns of the enemy cough far in front of you, and their shells burst within your lines with a nearer, louder soundbut not really great or deafening noise by tiny means. Our guns create almost no smoke, though our lyddite shells throw up clouds of dust and smoke where they fall, miles away. Because the Boers are using old-faHhloned powder in their cannons there Is a small white cloud wherever one Is fired, und a spurt of red sand where their shells dig Into the veldt. The smoke of war, therefore, and the Bo-called "roar of battle" are both alike occasional, scat tered, Inconsiderable. , The rifle firing has been the princi pal feature of our battles, it sounds, as I wrote once before, like the frying of fat or like the crackling and snap ping of green wood In a bonfire, if , you are within two miles of, the front you are apt to be under fire, and then you hear the music of the individual bulleta Their song Is like the note of a mosquito. "Z-i-z-z" they go over your head; "z-z-z-z-p'' they finish as they bury themselves in the ground. This Is a sound only to be heard when the bullets are very close, You pick up your heels and run a hundred el even fifty yarda, and you hear nothing but the general crackle of rifle fire in and before the trenches. THE HURTLING OF SHELLS. The "putt-putt" (or Vlekers-Uorden-feldl) gun Is able to Interest you at a distance of three miles. Its explosions are best described by the nickname given to the gun by one regiment: "The blooming door-knocker." Its bullets or shells are aa big as the bowl of a largo briar-root pipe, and they tear and slit the air with a terrible sound, exploding when they strike. The firing of the gun was heard all over the larg est of our battle fields, and the explo sions of the shells sound a long way because they are apt to tape place on the quiet outer edge of the field. The whizz that even these missiles make in flying, however. Is like the whiiered answers of a maid In love, only to be heard by the favored Indi vidual who la especially addressed. In a word, there is not much noise In modern battles. These Individual sounds of which I speak are not loud enough to blend. The crowning, all pervading noises are ttioe of the guns and of the rille fire, and on the vast veldt, spread over double line of five to seven miles In length, only those that are very near are very loud. The scene of battle the general view Is exceedingly orderly. There may be a devil of a scrimmage where a com pany or two are storming a kopje, but level your glas on such a hill, and what do you see a fringe of tiny Jets of fire from the top where, the Boers are. and a lot of our men in khaki rising and reclining, and occasionally firing as thev make their way upward. METHODICAL. AS A CHESSBOARD. The great general view Is of an ar rangement as methodical as a chess board. There are several battalions flat on their faces In two or three long lines. Over here Is a battery In perfect order, with Its limber of horses at rest near by. Another battery, equally well arranged, as it to have Its photograph taken. Is to be wen In the middle field; a third Is on the farther side. The cav. airy Is sweeping across the veldt in per fect rank and alignment. There Is no confusion anywhere noihing is helter skelter. I remember only two momen tary disturbances of the discipline of which 1 speak. One was In the after noon during the Modder river fight when a large band of mounted Boers made a Hank movement on our extreme rlaht and fired, a volley at our Immense mass of trans-port and ambulance wag. ons, water carts and ammunition wag ons. The drivers were, tken by sur prise and fell to lushing their mule teams, and howes, the mnjority to the ocoom pan Invent of the high-keyed Kaf fir yells. The rout only lasted five min utes or less, and was funny beyond de scription, because the leading mules climbed over the "wheelers," and the faster the bullet fell the douder the HOW HE NAMED LEADVILLE. In one of the quiet neighborhoods of Kansas City, Kan., Harvey Faucett, an old frontiersman and Indian flghler, who was a contemporary of Colonel W. F. Cody and Wild Bill In those perilous times when the American bor der was the scene of so much strife, Is spending the declining years of his life In an atmosphere of calmness that very beflttlngly follows his rough and stormy career. Harvey Faucett was city marshal of leadvllle, Colo., In the old town's palm iest days, when every man carried a six shooter and every other shanty was n dram shop. He was there when Ed Frodshaw, the road agent, and "Hkete" Stewart, the land jumper, wera lynched by the people cf Leadvllle, an event that wis attended with a public dem A BATTLEFIELD. Kaffirs yelled, and the more they piled their enormous whips. The bravery of our stretcher bearers la .as much beyond question as It Is beyond praise. When all of us lesser and immediate historians of the mo ment have told of the valor of all the generals, majors, captains and "Tom mies" of the army, we shall still have, In common justice, to describe how the chaplains, doctors and stretcher bear ers go In and out of the most hellish Are, not once or twice, but all through every battle. WHERE WAR'S HORRORS ARE. It Is just without the range of fire that you see and realize the horrors of war. It Is there that the wounded crawl and stagger by you; It is there that they spend their final output of energy and fall down to lie until as sistance comes; it is there that you se the stretchers, laden with their man gled freight, and the sound ones bear ing the wounded on their backs and in their arms. Better yet if so cheerful a phrase Is permissible In such a case to know the brutality and woe of war, happen upon a kopje that has just been stormed, or a trench that has been carried. Go to such a place today, twenty centuries after Christ came with His message of peace on earth and good will to men, and behold what you see there. "Here," said I to a photographer In such a place, "snap this scene. Look at the wounded1 all over the ground. Quick! Out with your camera." "Oh. I can't!" said he, "it's too hor rible!" "As you please," I said, "but , lt'i what the public wants." You read, In the writings of thosi who know nothing of war, about th writhing of the wounded and the groan ing on the battle field. There Is nc writing, and the groans are few and faint. There was one man who wa simply chewed up by a shell at Ma gersfontein, and his sufferings must have been awful. He kept erylng"Doc tor, cant you do anything?" Another begged to be killed, and the first wounded man I saw in this war kept saying, In ever so low a voice: "Oh, dear, dear, dear! Oh, dear, dear, dear!" But there is much less groaning than you would Imagine very little, In fact. Two things are so common with the wounded as to be almost like rules of behavior. HOW IT FEELS TO BE WOUNDED, First, they all beg for water (It used to be cigarettes that they asked for on the Turkish side In the last war in Europe), and next they seem always to be made gentle by their wounds. Men of the roughest speech, profane by second nature, cease to offend when stricken down. "Well, mate," says one, whose leg Is shattered, "you never know when your turn will come, do you?" And another simply cries, "Oh, dear!" Now and then you hear, "For God's sake, get me taken to an ambulance," but no profanity is Intended there. I have had half a dozen men describe how it feels to be wounded. All who had bones shattered by expanding bul lets used nearly the same language to describe the sensation. "You feed." they said, "exactly as If you had received a powerful shock from an electric battery, and then comes a blow as if you foot (or arm, or what ever part It may be) was crushed by a stroke with a tremendous mallet." It is much the same in a lesser degree If a bone Is struck by a Mauser bullet; but If the smooth, slender, clean, little shot merely pierces the flesh a burn ing or stinging sensation Is the in stantaneous result. "Lying six hours In the broiling sun was pretty bad," said one whose arm bone was smashed; "but the really awful experience was the Jolting over the rocks when I was carried oft In the ambulance." Another man, an officer, whose foot was smashed by an explosive bullet, said: "I,ook at my pipe. That's what I did to keep from saying anything." Ho had bitten off an Inch of the hard ened rubber mouthpiece. That was before his wound was drlssed. The re lief that Is given by the dressing of a wound must be gigantic, for you hear next to no groans 'or moans after a doctor has given this first attention. MORTALITY HAS NOT INCREASED. In this army of Lord Methuen's the great majority of the woundH have been In the arms and feet, but other points about our experiences In war are more remarkable. First, the chances of receiving a wound seem not to have greatly increased with the improve ment in death-dealing weapons. There were more than a million shots fired at Modder river, and yet only about 800 men were hit. Second, the number of bulleta that hit water bottles, haver sacks, ration tins and coat sleeves has been astonishing. Third, the damage to life and limb by the excessive ar tillery fire has been next to nothing. Hut to return to the field of battle. The armies oppose one another with orderly masses. The officers ride hither and thither. The batteries rumble to and fro at long Intervals as they are ordered to take their positions, and in the same way the cavalry appears and reappears on. the edges of the field. The stretcher-bearers bring the wounded out of the zone of danger, and the am bulances roll up, get their loads and roll away again, all day continually, as In a ceaseless train. Brave privates bring out the wounded and work their way bark Into fire again, now running forward, now dropping flat upon the veldt. Skulkers work back to the edge of the field In the same way a few only and are gathered up and sent forward In batches by the officers who come upon them. At laBt the cheer of victory is heard, and the whole army rushes forward, or darkness falls upon an unfinished fight, and we grope about the veldt seeking our camps and the food and drink that most of us have gone without too long. onstration and accompanied by a brasi band. For years a reign of terror prevailed In Leadvllle as a result of constant friction between the vigilantes and the lawless clement, but while Faucett whs city marshal of the town much of the disorder was stopped, and the better clas sof citizens was given an oppor tunity to mako Leadvllle the progres sive little city It Is today. This veteran of the hills and fearless old pathfinder was tamed by the gentle hand of civilization Just as have been his old foes, the red men, and when there was no longer need of them ho hung up his shooting irons and made his peace with mankind. Now he has a good wife, two Intelligent little chil dren and a happy and contented home, where he expects to spend the rest of bis days. J MAltHA AID BDZETTE. 4w "Is Mis Martha at home?" "No, but Miss Kuette is. She is in the parlor." "ood I will go in and speak to her. Do not trouble yourself, Jeannette, I know the way." Pushing- tbe servant sside, he hur ried into the little parlor, where IS li ra nne "Suzette'' as she was lovingly called by her biff sister and the old maid servant sat at the piano in a listless attitude that showed her thoughts to be far away. She turned her face, framed in golden curls, to ward the visitor, and the blush that spread over it when she saw who it was made her appear even prettier than before. "Jt is you, Mr. Andre!" In a peculiar tone he replied, "Yes, it is I." He pitt clown his hat and took a seat beside the.piano, with the air of a man determined to remain there for some time. Suzette noticed this immedi ately. With studied, perhaps even ex aggerated reserve, she said: "My sister is not at home, Mr. A fl are." "I know it," heresponded quiefly. Looking- at him almost fearfully, (he said. "You knew it?" "Yes." Then gazing at her intently, as though he would devour her with his eyes, he suddenly exclaimed: "My dear, dear Suzette!" The tender grace of the young girl, Ihe delicate charm of her slender, gra cious personality, the childish gentle ness of her face, always awakened people's sympathy. Everyone felt that she needed protection. Conse quently she had never gained a knowl edge of the art of self defense. Still she surmised that Darccy meant more than he said, and she tried to assume, a severe tone. The trembling of her clear voice betrayed her, however, as she said: "Kcally, Mr. Andre, I do not under stand " He seized her hands. "You do not understand that' I will bring matters to an end? That I can no longer bear this life of hypocrisy, of struggle and deception. You do not understand that I love you, and you alone?" She gave a little cry, and struggling to release her hands from the strong grant) that held them, she stammered: "What are you saying? Of what can you be thinking? You are engaged to my sister my dear Martha, who has been my mother, to whom I am all in all that would be treason." Drawing closer to her he continued "Don't I know all that myself? Do you think I have spared myself? As I saw you grow up from c-hildhod to maidenhood, you won my heart. When I first preeoived this, I thought I should go crazy! Anxiety followed me everywhere. My days were a lone- mar tyrdom, my nights a nightmare. All was in vain. 011 live once for all in my heart. And people talk of an om nipotent will! Oh, my (iod, what irony! There is nothing but fate, and that we carry with us love true love is the greatest fate. A man can not tear it from his soul, even if he would give his life not to have known it." She listened to him with terror. Yet she was proud, in her triumphant youth, to be so loved. At the same time the thought of her sister cut her fo the soul; she loved her elder sister, who had been as a mother to her und whom she now wished to be tray. "And Martha, my poor Martha!'' she sobbed. "Martha?" he exclaimed, "She will, understand us! She is a being out of fi not her time. She possesses a hero ism that we do not know. Shall I con fess to you that she has sometimes frightened me? Her nobility lias im pressed me on a hundred occasions. Her whole life has been one long sac rifice, and I consider myself unworthy to live by her side. She is too per fect. She is not enough woman! We are more like Suzette, you and I. We Lave faults, weaknesses. You have moods and I am not free from them either. And then we are both young, The same warmth, the same enthusi asm unimatPH us both. You must not forget that Martha is four years oldef than I. In my inexperience I 'thought I loved her, because I admired her. To liny she seems to mo far away, strange und altered, ns a creature of another time, to which wc no longer belong. She is memory to me, but no longer my present and my future! Therefore I will have the courage, to be true I will tell her; with the greatest care, of course. She will understand, you .'may be sure. Let us love one another Suzette, let ns love one another!" Andre was perfectly sincere in what fie. said, inspired by the, magnificent egotism of n, man that feels a new love in his heart and dismisses the old with a wave of his hand. Suzette no longer tried to release lier hand, lloth were silent in the blissful rapture of budding tender ness. The cruel words fell on Martha's heart like so many blows. Hi-turning home unexpectedly, she had gone to her room to remove her hat, and had heard through the open door the passionate words spoken in the next room. And now. she leaned against the wall, deadly pale, with wild eyes and drawn mouth a living statue of sorrow or of insanity. All the good she had done arose to mock her. So there was. nothing more, neither affection, love nor confidence -nothing, nothing! And to think that they should reproach with being no longer young, whose youth had been lost in hard labor! To think that she had for so many years gone forth in cold, in rain ond snow to give music lessons, that she might feed, and rd ucnte the little child her mother had Intrusted to her on her death bed, and that this beloved child was now the tool of her misfortune. In all her wearisome struggles she had comforted herself with the belief that Andre's heart was hers. And to lay, when she was recognized at an ar tist, when st the price of unspeakable toil sod trouble she had won for bar self a position, that belief faded Into nothing, and the dreamed of happi ness vanished into the mist of the dis tance. Poor, foolish cresture, to have thought it was enough to be good snd gentle and to sacrifice herself, in order to be loved. One must be young, noth ing more! Hut was she, then, so old? With the step of a somnambulist, elie walked to the mirror, that reflect ed a pale, tender worn face, in which years and sorrows had graven deep lines. Yet she was barely thirty-four. Ah, yes, this face lacked the beauty of joy, whose absence was made a re proach to her. Her pitiless life had frightened that away! Courage! she must be content to be long to the forgotten. She must drain the cup to the dregs and learn the bit ter charm of a great sacrifice. She must give to the young, joyful crea ture the. place granted to the charm of youth. With the weary step of one going to meet her fate, she approached the par lor mid pushed aside the portieres. Andre and Suzette sat there hand in hand absorbed, happy. The younger sister sprang up on seeing her sister. "Martha! You were there!" Drawing her to her deeply wounded heart Martha replied: "I was there, but do not worry, my child . I approve of your choice." "O, Martha, my dear sister, you un derstand, you will forgive us?" Heroically Martha smiled, and, turn ing aside her head to hide the tears that filled her eyes, she replied in a 1 cheerful tone, though with trembling I lips: 1 "You are right, my friend. I am . not made for life as it is today. I be ' long to the things of yesterday." Psychology or FUbes. Numerous facts witness in a vague Kay to the ability of fishes to. profit by experience and fit their bchuvior j to situations unprovided for by their ' innate nervous equipment. All tho ( phenomena shown by lishes as the j result of. taming arc, of course, of tins sort, but such acts have not been exact enough, says Edward Thorn dike in the American .Naturalist, to make clear mental or nervous pro cesses involved in such behavior, or simple enough to be available asdem I onst rations of such proccases. 1 Through the kindness of the officials of the I'nited States fish commission at Wood's Holl, he was able to test , the efficiency of some simple cxperi Inients directed toward this end. For the experiment the common fundultis was chosen and the fish was kept in an aquarium. The space on one end was shaded from the sun by a cover and all food was dropped in at the end. Along each side of the aquarium were fastened pairs of cleats, allowing the experimenter to put across it partitions of wood, glass or wire screening. These partitions were made each with an opening at some part and then the experiments were Ix-gun. When the fish was caused to leave a shady corner and suim up the sunny end by putting the slide without any opening in be hind him and moving it gently up toward the forward end, the oppor tunity was given for observing the animal's behavior to good purpose. The lish dislikes the sunlight nnd tried to go back to the shaded por tion. He swam against the screen, bumping ngainst it here and there along the bottom; occasionally he stopped and remained still for u while. Sometimes he would rise up toward the top of the water, especially while swimming up nnd down the length of the. screen. The screen used in the first experiment was cut away slight ly at the upper corner so as to leave un opening, so that, the slide some what resembled a letter with a post age, stamp on it, the postage stamp representing the aperture. After the fish bad been experimented upon six or eight times a day it was found it swam against the screen much Jess and less. He swam up and down it fewer and fewer times until finally his only act was to go to the right hand bide, ri.se up and swim out. The fish had clearly profited by his exper ience nnd modified his conduct to suit his situation, for which his innate nervous temperament, did not defin itely provide. He had, in common language, learned to get out. Keren! luvrntlona A jet of aft- can be heated rapidly by a. new electrical device, which has a coil of resistance wire set inside a casing, through the center of which 1 fie air pipe, is looped to come in close contact with the heated wire, becom ing hot enough to warm the air in its passage. Hoots and shoes can be rapidly cleaned and polished by a new ma chine, which has n footrest placed in Ihe center of a cabinet, with rods on cither side, which guide a long strip of cloth ns it is drawn back and forth across the portion of the shoe it is desired to polish. 1 Klectro-mcilii-nl treatment is given patients by means of a new sofa, which hns battcrii-R and nn induction coil contained in the lower portion, with head and footplates to be placed In contact with the patient. An Kngllsh woman has invented a toy duck which swims automatically, having a spring motor in the. body, which reciprocates a U-shaped device at the rear at the ends of which are pivoted webb feet., which engage the water at each backward stroke ond move horizontally at each forward ktroke. Bicycle racers can make use of a new harness 1o increase their lcver ige on the pedals, two flat, straps be ing joined (it the rear and attached to tho under side of the saddle, while the front ends are passed over the shoulders und secured to the handle liars, without fixed connection to the rider. Hacks nnd thumb screws were used to torture people In nnclent times, but in this age of enlightenment nothing remains but the camel-hair undergarment. HAS LIVED IN PREHISTORIC STYLE. One of the most unique pupils of the leaf and dumb Institution of Knox county, Indiana, Is Rhoda Hewitt, a stout, sun-tanned1 girl of between thir teen and sixteen summers. When she was brought to the school it was learn ed that she had lived a wild sort of life on an out-of-the-way farm, spending much of her time wandering around in the woods and fields, and often sleep ing at night under the hedgerow or in a fence corner. Her mother died when the girl was very young, and the father had not the time, nor perhaps the abil ity to tell her, after she lost her hear ing at three years of age, of the world about her. She grew up one of nature's own children. When she was brought to the school she was in great terror. She hung her head and threw her hands before her face to hide from the gaze of stran gers. She had never in her life, It was told, been to Monroe City, the nearest town to her home, and had never ssen many other human beings- than her father. The strangers of the school were at first looked on as enemies. She would strike, kick or bite when they approach ed. This savagenes sof temper lasted about three weeks, when she began to appreciate that no one would do her harm, but that all wanted to be kind to her. Rhoda was put in, Miss Elizabeth Ray's class. For three weeks she cried, hid her face and repelled all advances with kicks or fisticuffs or threats to use her teeth. By degrees she came to learn that no harm would be done, and began to look up and take a human interest In those about her. Her teacher and the other pupils in the class showed affection for her by stroking her arm- or shoulder, but It was a long time before this met with response. Today he Is one of the most affectionate pupils In the class, and rarely passes her teacher without touching her In an affectionate way WOOL MADE FROM LIMESTONE. Alexandria, Ind. (Special.) There is 1 small but promising factory here that is engaged In the queer business of making wool out of limestone. The chemist who discovered the process is K C. Hall, a young man who came from St. Louis with the Union Steel company. In apartments to which there is no admittance he has a strange looking furnace, into which he feeds pieces of Alexandria limestone. Out of the other end a white wool-like sub stance Is blown. The wolo has not the qualities which make It desirable for weaving, but as a non-conductor It has no equal, and at the some time It has the principal qualities of asbestos. The process Is a secret one. The stone, however, Is of peculiar chemical formation, and when subjected to a certain temperature it melts quite readily. While in a molten state It Is mixed wjth a chemical solution In which pow dered glass is thought to be one of the Ingredients. It is then sabmltted to a blowing process which spins It out Into the finest threads of wool. It has the strength for weaving, but the nap is not long enough. There Is also a residue in the shape of small beads of glasslike substance, which the chemist has thus far been unable to get out of the wool. He can not subject it to the combing process, and Is now at work on a scheme of chemical dissolution which may possi bly run the beads out and at the same time have a refining effect upon the texture of the wool. As it la at present It is wool silica. It has no equal for deadening floors, for packing around refrigerators to confine the cold and for placing around pipes to confine the heat. The product has hardly passed be yond the experimental stage, but It has OUTING SYSTEM FOR INDIANS From Washington It is announced that the Indian department will try to establish a permanent "outing" system throughout the entire Indian service. This is the placing of Indian students In the best white families during vaca tions. Major Pratt, of the Carlisle In dian Institute, inaugurated this move ment some three or four years ago, and it has proved so successful that In his last report he says the outing enabled him to carry 250 more pupils than the number for, which he had received an appropriation. An average of 250 pu pils remained out during the winter, attending the public schools. Six hun? dred pupils were out during vacation. The department officials argue that while the boarding schools are excel lent training schools for the Indian, he needs at times to be cut off from the sweep of school life and put upon his own solitary resources. They say he will not find In life a community of possessions and must learn to think and work for himself. He should do this during the period ot education, and be made to trust solely in individ ual effort. The outing Bystem tenas 10 aeveiop the Indian in what is akin to the best in fa mil v life. In the well-ordered American home ho sees a wise adjust ment of the personal life to the needs of the family and of the family life to FARMER'S CLEVER "AD." COW FOR SALE Owing to ill-health r will sell one blush raspberry cow, aged eight years. She Is a good milker and Is not afraid of the cars or any thing else. She Is ot undaunted cour age ond gives milk frequently. To a man who does not fear death In any m . Bha 1 1 ,1 a a D-rAn I hnnn. She Is much attached to her home at pres ent by means ot a large cnain. iui she will be sold to any one who will use her right. 1 will also inrow in u double-barreled shotgun, which goes with her. In May she generally goes .ni frr a ivpek or two and returns with a tall red calf with wabbly legs. I would rather sen ner to a nun-ren-dent of the county. Inquire at Over brook Farm, South Mlddlebush, N. J. This novel advertisement wan posted rnn r,f tli fnrmnr ff Mldlllpbush at i iunrrn mini (vlllee rpeenllv and has since been the talk of the town. Why the owner should be so anxious to uis ,.r tha mwv 1 ho fiirmei-s u re unable to figure out. That the method Is unique and attracts tne attention no sired by the owner Is a fact beyond dis pute. Not a few people have visited the farm out of curiosity to see If the animal advertised was reany a cow wr some sort of a wild beast. characteristic of the deaf. (Sometimes) the affection Is shown by a rather toe, severe blow in the back, and one of taa teacher's duties is to make her undr stand that physical force is not eseaa tial to affection. When Rhoda was In a pubnacloua and fnconsolable frame of mind maair ways were tried to comfort her. She was shown a picture book. This en gaged her attention a little while. She recognised the picture of a cow, and apparently thought of home, for she be gan to cry, and pointing as if toward home, said: "Papa, papa," This wont and "baby" she could speak when she came to school words she had learned to articulate before she lost her hear ing. She has already learned from the other children what it is to lie. The children are forbidden to say that any one lies. Rhoda made a sign Indicating this the other day, and was punished by being put In a seat separate frona the other children. She understood the purpose of the punishment, for she told her teacher afterward that she ha used the word lie, and had been mad to sit apart from the other children. Her conception of a creator is diffi cult to learn. The teacher takes many occasions to try to Impress upon, her some notion of God, and Rhoda hum learned to point upward, aa if to aa unseen power, when she is asked about the Maker and Preserver of all. Her development has been so fast since she came to the school that It hi difficult to learn how far it has gone. She seems to understand many things that she has no way to express. The first word she associated wltbk an object was "shoe." She can say shoe in a rudimentary fashion. She reads) and imitates the motions of the teach er's lips when she wants to express a, word for an object. She now knows sixteen words. When the teacher point out the picture of a cow on a chart. Rhoda can write the word "cow" on the blackboard. been exhibited before government er perts and given general approval. All Mr. Hall can make is now being ship ped to the Philippines, where it will b used as a non-conductor In the store houses for American troops. The cli mate In the Philippines Is such that th government has experienced great dlfr Acuity in keeping government stores, from spoiling, and the experts belleva that this wool will solve the problem. A firm in Boston is aiding Hall's ex periments with the hope of lengthening the nap so that it can be woven. If this could be achieved the cloth would have many advantages over any now In the market. As underclothing It would b soft, and would confine the heat to the body, and being impervious to th blasts of winter it would be a capital raiment for Klondikers. When it had) to be washed it could be hung In the; flames of a Are to dry- It could be converted into fire curtains for theater and screens for other fire protection purposes would come within the scope of its many uses. There are 80,000 coal miners on strike. In Austria. Most of them are worker in the Bohemian mines, though the movement began in Styrla and Carta thia. The men want the eight-hout work day, recognition of the union, and monthly wage payments in cash. The. strikers are mostly Slavs, but there hat been no rioting. Plumbers and kindred trades of New York and vicinity are discussing the advisability of demanding $4 for ar eight-hour work day, Saturday half holidays, doing away with the heJpe system and the settlement of differences between employers and employed bj conference and arbitration. the needs o the community: that weakness In one place la felt in ali places, and so "individual responsibil ity" grows to have large meaning ta him. He learns to distinguish between the glitter of life which so readily takei his eye andl the 'substantial thing which give strength to the home life. He perceives that the order which hi! teachers inculcate makes the home In comparably better, and systematic do ing Is what gives permanent results. lie sees also how all things are done with exactness, or some degree of It. and the higher the degree the greater the success, and this must b continuous He sees that order, system, exactness and persistence are the things that make a family a power. New York Herald: Official promul gation is made of the pope's decree for bidding the Christian brothers here tf teach the classics in their schools after the current scholastic year. Although some hope that a compromise may yet be reached, the alternative of tlu founding of an independent American branch of the order seems the most popular solution of the trouble. Sixteen co-operative bakeries in Scot land have a capital of over $350,000 ana a business of over $3,000,000 a year. HOW BIRDS AND ANIMALS RES1 THEIR MUSCLES. When a man Is tire dhe stretches his arms and legs and yawns. Birds and animals, so far as possible, follow his example. Birds spread their feathers and also yawn, or gape, Fowls often do this. Fish yawn; they open their mouths slowly till they are round, the bones of the head seem to loosen and the gills open. Dogs are Inveterate yawners and stretchers, but seldom sneeze unlest ' they have a cold. Cats are alwayi stretching their bodies, legs and claws, as every one knows who has a cat for a pet. Most ruminant animals stretch when they rise up after lying down. Deer do It regularly, so do cows. This fact Is fo well known that It a cow when aris ing from lylnij down (loos not stretch herself It Is a sign xhe is 111. The reason for this Is plain the stretch moves every muscle of the body, and if there be uny Injury anywhere It hurls. Dr. Mary M. rotrlck, president of the American College for (i'.:ls at ConMnn tinople. is now In this country mikln heroic efforts to raise the sum of $S00, 000 for the endowment of the college, which Is doing a noble work for the Eli is of Turkey. YY'- f I