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"Qosh, Bill, wouldn't it be grand ef
Tho fatuity af It.
"There is a story." said the Philo
sophical Boarder, "of a goat In New
York city that late $19 in bills the oth
er day. and the owner of the goat and
the bills killed the animal and recov
ered the money. What would you con
sider the lesson of this incident?"
"There Isn't ny." spoke up the
Frivolous Boarder. "What is the use
of trying to teach a goat anything "
rtul TrtlKph.
jh guir tM nt ra s t
will show,
If to scan its maneuvers you stop;
Midst the rigors of winter It keeps ly
ing low.
And in summer it comes out on top.
Washington Star.
A Factor. The Father "How many
detectives do you think will be enough
to guard the wedding presents?" Chief
"About how many gnU will there
be V Harper's Bacar.
WISK WILLIE.
Mamma, didn't the preacher say before they took up the collection for
the heathens that the heathens didn't wear clothes?'
Yes, darling. f
Then why did papa put a button in the contribution box?
Qaoitlaa Mo. S.
The sexton of a certain country
church usually makes the most of an
opportunity and Is not above giving
what he describes as "a gentle 'int" to
the sightseer.
The other afternoon he had conduct
ed party round the church, and de
spite the casual dropping of more than
one "gentle 'Int" it appeared as if the
uexton was to go unrewarded.
Ia the porch the leader of the party
paused a moment, thanked the old sex
ton profusely and wished him "good
afternoon."
"I suppose," be added, "you've been
here many years?"
"Forty," replied the old man, ''an'
it's a werry strange thing as whenever
I'm a-showing a party out o' the porch
they alius asks me that question, or"
(with emphasis) "the other'n!"
"Indeed!" smiled the risltor. "And
what may the other question be?"
"What I calls question aumber two,"
replied the sexton, calmtX Is jest this:
ttanilwell, la tips allowed?' and Saml
well allns answers: 'Tips Is allowed!' "
9amlwH" watched the party leave
with a lighter heart and a heavier
pocket -Tld-Blts.
War OAm
- "It sounds funny to hear you talk
log that way. When we wen at tol
laf yoa didn't believe In eternal pnn
takaaeat at alL"
"I kaow, but I dida't have any rne-
taaa." PailaaalphU Press.
lira. JswsWOwr eoagngatloa ass
exit Ct E3Ulatar to tarops to get a
. fS-Ca5, Cm mUeT, or
Pictorial Bumor
'
dat wuz a beer gusher?"
CP - TO -
Sheriff What caused all that de
noose slip?
Warden No; the biograpb broke
PBOHAHI.V
4 V"
saw sbbb am an tnuitirint wrss m ii .nani
I . i -r-at " si 'f'fff ''Wy
Customer Look here, waiter, there's a roach In this suup.
Walter You must a-brought it in on you, sah, fer dey ain't s roach In
dig house. .
Artar tta auUaiUa.
Dooley "Say, Hooley, gin me a
punch on th' Jaw opposite phwere yea
kicked ma."
Hooley "Phat forr N
Dooley "I waat yea to straighten
out bm face." Baltimore World.
Ha "How do torn, fael whan t bant
yoa at waiatT"
fc"KK quits aa bad as yon feel
whan your friend Jenkins bants yon
at aokY."-Okio StoU Jovmnt
An Old Prlond.
From the Indon Spare Moments:
A clergyman, taking occasional duty
for a friend in one of the moorland
churches of a remote part of England,
was greatly scandalized on observing
an old verger, who had been collecting
the offertory, quietly abstract a half
crown before presenting the plate at
the altar rallit.
After service he called the old mail
into the vestry, and told him, with
emotion, that his crime had been dis
covered. The verger looked puzzled. Then a
Hidden light dawned on him.
"Why, sir. you doan't mean that ould
half-crown of mine! Why, Oi've 'led
off' with he this last fifteen year!"
Turning af Anllir Worm.
"John Henry," said the slatternly
woman with the sharp nose, "why
don't you eat your share of crusts?"
"Because, Bettina," returned the
hump-shouldered man. straightening
up for the first time in his life, "when
I used to eat all the crusts, for the
reason that I liked them, you told me
I was trying to pose as a martyr. I'll
see you in the Great Desert of Sahara
before I'll ever touch another one."
Ex.
UATK OAT'.
lay at the hanging ;
down.
His .ood Tiro.
"Did you have a good tini on tbe
Fourth?"
"Never enjoyed anything f0 w'jll in
my life. You know that mean r.H
hunks that wakes me up so often at
daybreak by running his lavn mow
er?" "Yes."
w ell. the night before the Fourth I
got all the boys in my neighborhood to
agree to shoot firecrackers in front of
his house from midnight till 7 o'clock
and then I went out Into the couu
try." Chicago Tribune.
A Wllllaf Yontb.
"You say that you don't care for the
salary, so long as you can get a chance
to work?" said the billionaire.
"That's the idea," answered the
youth with the sharp nose and chin.
"I'm willing to start right in at a big
reduction and take one of those $25,
000 positions you say are so bard to
fill at half the money." Washington
Star.
TaetruL
Mrs. Nosepoke "John, don't you
think it's alK)iit time for ius to call
on our new neighbors?"
Husband "Why, tbey only moved In
this morning."
Mrs. Nosepoke "O. I know, but all
their stuff will he downstairs and I ran
see it better." Ohio State Journal.
f BE CASF..
Oeftaao.
,' "Say, pop, I've got to write a com
position on Hope. What Is Hops, any
way?"
"Hope, my dear boy. Is the joyous
expectation of being able to dodge our
Just deserts." Life.
Da Garry "Yon am the only woman
1 aver loved."
Mad "la tnat ens I ean't ba roar
mbumt girt I Aont want aay ama
ttnr." indja.
yesterday? Did the
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EXPLORING ARIZONA RUINS.
lavaatfa-attag rroalatarle BoltloaiMte far
aearaa ( Aauriraa Aallaalty.
Work haa been begun upon what,
from an archaeological point of view,
Is one of the most Important ajid In
teresting undertakings of late years.
Situated four miles east of Phoenix.
Ariz., are the ruins of what was once,
doubtless, a great prehistoric settle
ment. One Immense pile, about 25
feet high, and 100 feet wide, by 200
feet long, is surrounded by lesser
mounds, which extend for half a mile
northward and fade away In the river
toward the fouth. Some of these
smaller heaps have been explored by
relic-seekers and an Immense quan
tity of ancient pottery, stone tools, and
cooking utensils has been taken from
them, while in several instances skel
etons have been unearthed.
Evidently the walls In these ruined
heaps were all of adobe, a building
material still extensively used, and
the decay and weathering of hundreds
and perhaps thousands of years have
piled the debris around the lower
walls, which are still intact. The
walls where perfect, protected by the
fallen adobe, are from 12 to 18 inches
In thickness, and the great piles of
debris would Indicate original build
ings of 30 to 75 feet In height, while
the largest pile must have been of
much greater proportions. Authori
ties who have examined the ruins be
lieve them to have been built by the
Aztecs, a people thought to have come
up from Peru, across the Isthmus of
Panama, and from whom the ZunI
and Hopl Indians of northern Arizona
are thought to have descended. The
ruins, as they lie, help corroborate the
theory that the original buildings were
of a style of architecture still em
ployed by the Zunls and HopiB, great
bouses built in terraces, which are
reached by way of ladders. The ruins
east of Phoenix are by far the larg
est of any of the many traces of pre
historic settlements found in the Salt
River valley, and it is believed the
a large part of it was washed away
by the floods from the mountains, or
covered by the deposits from the floods
of ages past
INFANTILE ACTIVITY,
What Out llabr Did la th rrlad of
Fir Ml.utM.
Small Kathryne. aged 2. left a'one
one day in her mamma's bedroom,
said to beMelf: "Oh, won't I have a
great time?" And she certainly did.
She began by taking her papa's necktie-box
out of the bureau drawer and
displaying all the neckties on the bed,
where she thought they would be seen
to much better advantage. The box
wasn't Interesting, so she threw that
under the bed. Next she took a toy
lamp to pieces, but as that wann't
quite exciting enough as a lamp-study
she followed It up with even greater
attention to the regular one, threw its
wick out of the window, and poured
the oil down the front of her dress.
Then she picked off the wall about a
half yard square of paper, and pow
dered the bits on the floor with the
contents of a talcum powder box. The
pin tray on the bureau didn't suit hf r,
so she broke that in two pieces, and
added the pins and trinkets to the
scraps of paper and talcum powder.
Next she turned her attention to a
bottle of vaseline and rubbed it on
her face and into her hair. She knew
vaseline was made to rub on, so she
used it that way of course. The con
tents of a box of cold cream were put
Into the paper, powder and pin mix
ture on the floor. A small bank full
of pennies was going to go In next,
but In getting it down from a shelf it
stuck in a groove, so that had to be
left out. A shower of photographs lay
around the room in a fashion that
would have luu.; credit to the ambi
dexterous skill of a Keller or Herr
mann. This done, Kathryne was just
about to lay hold of her mother's shoes
when that lady herself appeared. The
baby tossed the pair of shoes over her
head backward and said, "See them
go." There was plenty of "go," In
deed, and all In Ave minutes' time,
too. This is a true story. Philadel
phia Times.
Rxa TiWs (irmttOrowlh.
In a Ventura garden in California
there Is a great Lamarque rose tree
which has made remarkable growth
since It was planted more than 25 years
ago. Its trunk near the ground Is 2
feet B inches in circumference, while
the main branches are not much small
er. In 1895 the tree produced over 21,
000 blooms. There Is a reat production
of roses at Los Angeles and Pomona,
and rose trees that bear between 10,000
and 12.000 blooms at a time are snld to
be common In southern California. At
Royton, In the Oldham district of Lan
cashire, there are three giant Marechal
Nlel rose trees at Stockfleld and Street
bridge belonging to Mr. Mellor and 1
Baron respectively, from which 30.000
rosea were cuL From Mr. Mellor's tree
at Stockfleld, which was the largest
of the three, 15,000 roses were cut and
sold In one season. , ,
EteaMBte la farm (Jiwla.
The corn grain has, In addition to
It starch element, a tiny germ- In
which Ilea its Ufa principle. This germ
waa formerly separated and thrown
aside as watte. Lately It has been
found that this germ 1s rich In oil
which can ba utilised. The germ Is
now asparntad from the stsrrh and
crushed. Th oil gathered from It
fads n ready market, and within the
Inat ftw yaara mllllona of dollars
worth of tble oil haa been exported to
Barop. Altar th oil la taken from
fen ajarm th flat lft la th cake
to Md for varnish, and th rtaldna la
favfftfeot . ..
SEARCH FOR A FOLK.
MUCH INTEREST TAKN IN
SOUTHERN EXPLORATION.
Th Eiplsrlaa; Sbla Dlarr 1' XmTf
Slroas- aa4 Will b ProvtalMMil far
Thre Taan Oiraii and Swdlb
Eipdlt!oa U Antaralla Hagloa.
Not since Captain Cook discovered
the Antarctic Continent In 1772 has ko
much Interest been taken in southern
exploration as at present. This large
ly is because of the Bucceraful results
of the recent expedition conducted by
C. E. Borchgrevlnk, under the patron
age of Sir George Newnes. Mr. Borch
grevlnk was the first man to hoist the
cnics jack os the Antsrctie Contin
ent. Three expeditions, -presenting
Great Britain, Germany and Sweden,
are now fitting out and will Btart
south as soon as possible. The British
party will be the first to get away, In
a ship called the Discovery, which has
the dlstin'tion of being the first vts-
! sel to be built in England especially
for an Antarctic, voyage. This expedi
tion is being equipped partly by the
Geographical society and partly by the
government The ship was launched
at Dundee recently and was christened
by Lady Markham. She is the sixth
vessel to bear the name of Discovery,
but she is better adapted to the un
dertaking than have been auy of her
predecessors. She is very strong, be
ing built of well-seasoned oak, 172
feet long, 33 feet broad and has a
mean draught of 16 feet and a displace
ment of 1,750 tons. She will be provis
ioned for three years. The expedition
111 cost $500,000, to which, the govern
ment has contributed 1225,000. The
explorers who are going out with her
are as follows: Captain, Commander
Robert Falcon Scott, who entered the
navy In 1881 and served recently on
the Majestic. Officers. Lieutenant. A.
A. Armltage, explored Franz Josef
Land with the Jackson-Hsrmmvort.h
expedition; Lieutenant C. W. Kawson
Royds. B. N.. who is a nephew of Ad
miral Sir Harry Rawson; engineer,
Mr. Skelton, late of the Majestic. The
petty officers and crew number about
twenty-five. There will be threi scien
tific specialists, including John Walter
Gregory, who has traveled in the
Rocky Mountains and in Last Africa.
crossed Spitsbergen with Sir Martin
Conway in 1SS6, and is now prof'-sjor
of geology In Melbourne t'nlverslty.
There will be two doctors, Inc'udlng
Dr. Koellltz. who was on the staff of
the Jackson-Harmsworth exprdltion.
The Discovery will work to some ex
tent In conjunction with the German
expedition, which is being equipped
at the expense of the state, the sug
gestion having come from Count Posa-
dowgky-Wehner, minister of the In
terior. The vessel Is now being com
pleted at Kiel. A name for her has
not yet been chosen, but it Is known
that In general construction she will
be like the Fram. with the Important
difference that she will be faster aud
generally more seaworthy. This expe
dition will be led by Professor Erik
von Drygalskl and the vessel will be
commanded by Captain Hans Ruser,
an experienced officer of the Ham
burger-American line. Though nom
inally equipped for two years, she will
be provisioned for a longer period.
The German vessel will proceed by
Cane Town. After wlnterlne. the
main expedition will continue to jour
ney westward and attempt to get
south of Kemp and Endcrby Islands,
then sail across Weddel Sea to South
Georgia, and eventually to Tristan de
Cunha, where the voyage practically
terminates. The plan may be carried
out In two years, permitting the re
turn of the expedition in the summer
of 1903. The Swedish expedition will
It will be no less determined an.I en
ergetic, so far as Its personnel is con
cerned. It ia to be led by Dr. Otto
Nordenskjold of Upsala L'niversity.
Dr. Nordenkjold proposes to sail to
the Antarctic region via Terra del
Fuego some time In November, and be
will start southward from there next
January. At the betdnnlng of March,
when the days begin to shorten, he
will gradually retmit northward.
Philadelphia Times.
New Ideas la tttalionarf.
Colored note-paper lias had a long
struggle to win fashionable patronage,
for women of best taste persistently
rejected It In favor of cream or Ivory
white, but recently such lovely tints
have been set forth by "exclusive"
dealers In high-class stationery that
many have found them Irresistible.
The palest green, the softest, coolest
blue, mauve, and delicate gray are
the most popular. The latest Kngllsh
envelopes are long and narrow, and
the sealing wax utd exactly matches
the shade of the stationery. A pretty
wedding present, and a moderate one
in cost. Is a box of stationery con
taining paper, cards, and envelop -a
Of different sizes, and In one of tho
new tones; the box also containing
sealing wax of corrsondlng color,
n seal bearing the hi Ids i monnyram,
and a sliver-mounted pea-holder, blot
ter and eraser.
HatlaiS Are tic tor.
It would ieem that the species sail
or Is about to become extinct. It is
only with the most careful nursing
and artificial training that specimens
are secured nowadays. For several
year past thi American itavy. has
been forced to the scheme of drafting
country boys from farms and field,
putting them on training ships and
sending them iround the world to pick
up the tricks of the nautical trade.
Now eomen iiord from England that
tba British niry Is In the nam dilem
ma, and Is nmbl to furnish half the
proper complmot of okVen and saan.
RATTLER ON HIS BAJT.J
A lUssaraaMe rifM WHana
fmpMtM la Artaaaa,
A rattler, a king snake, and a road
runner recently figured In a battle
part of which was waged on the fcraaat
of Herbert Housland. a prospector In
Arizona. The king snake Is a deadly
enemy of the rattler. The experience
or Housland was had in the Bradshaw
mountains. He was guarding hia
party's camp for the day and had lain
down to sleep when he was suddenly
aroused to find a great rattler colled
upon his breast.
"I almost suffocated from fearing to
breathe lest I should bo bitten," he
said. "The snake was greatly excited
and in a minute I saw the cause. A
king snake was trying to excite the
rattler to combat, and my person was
the chosen battie ground. The kinj
snake had probably forced the rattler
to refuge upon my body, and follow
ing up his agKresslve tactics was run
ning In a circle around the rattler very
rapidly. He crossed my breast from
left to right and my thighs from right
to left, and within less than a foot of
the rattler's body. The velocity of
the snake was most wonderful. It
seemed to be one continuous ring, and
part of the time I could seemingly see
three or four rings at once. I made
a slight movement with my right foot
which attracted the rattler's attention
for an Instant, and that waa fatal to
him. At that one false movement of
his eyes, the king snake darted In
and seized the rattler by the throat,
close up to his head and began In
stantly to coil around his victim.
They rolled off me in their death
struggle and became one tangled mast
for ten minutes, wjien the rattler's
sounds died away gradually. While
I lay exhausted from my fright a road
runner darted out of a bush and
grabbing the two snakes in his beak,
began to drag them away. The weight
was too great, but he killed the king
snake by a blow from his long bill,
and ran away as I arose. I threw the
two reptiles Into the I; h c- asd there
the bird and his mate devoured them."
FOR A BEET COLONY.
tfaUallou Arm j ' Start a Million-Acr
On In Colorado.
The Salvation Army is about to em
bark in a great commercial enterprise
which Involves the colonization of t.
tract of land In Colorado. Here will
be started a practically new Industry
In that section the raising of sugar
beets. While In a sense the scheme Is
commercial rather than religious, of
ficers of the army In New York think
they can do much good through the
enterprise. A large corporation has
bought up and procured options on
over 1,000,000 acres of ground. The
Salvation Army will act as the agents
of this corporation In procuring and
guaranteeing the integrity of the colo
nists. Commander Booth-Tucker, who
is now In Cleveland, will return to
New York soon. When he arrives
the plans for starting the work will be
laid before blm for bis approval. Di
rectly that Is obtained, offices will be
opened on Fourteenth street, opposite
the present headquarters of the or
ganization. Staff Officer McPhee will
be put in charge. The reason that out
side offices will be established is that
the present charter of the army will
not admit of such an enterprise being
carried on at Its headquarters.. The
tract covers the greater part of three
counties Kiowa, Bent and Prowers.
It Is skirted by the Arkansas river and
interested by irrigating cana's. which
are fed from reservoirs having a ca
pacity of 3,570,283,520 cubic feet. It Is
at Amity, Col., that a flourishing Sal
vationist colony Is now established.
The new colonists will not be re
quired to raise the sugar beets unless
they so elect If they do, the sugar re
fining company will p&y timm the mar
ket value. It Is understood that many
wealthy capitalists of Colorado are be
hind the plan. New York Mail and
Express.
fTtaaa Rarrlag Wara Float?.
In former dsys herring were so
abundant In Newfoundland waters
that the most wanton slaughter of
them was permitted without any re
striction whatever. Seines wore al
lowed to retain 1,000 or 2,000 barrels of
the flsh until they perished, and then
the net was freed and the whole con
tents fell to the bottom to pollute the
ocean for miles around. When a
poaching smack was captured the
herring It had on board were all
thrown Into the sea, and frequently
boats when chased resorted to the
fame means to get rid of Incriminating
evidence. The fish then fetched only
fifty cents a barrel of 500 herring, or
10 for a cent; they sell now In Ameri
can cities sometimes for five rents tho
single fish. Such wanton waste gradu
ally had Its effect, and now the colo
nial fishing laws safeguard the Indus
try more vigilantly, and ushermen of
all clashes know better how to hus
band their resources In this connec
tion. Today herring bait usually
brings $5 a barrel, and sometimes
twice that, and tho smuggler who
plans to land a rargo at St. Pierre con
tracts for $10 a barrel before he
touches a rope on his boat."
Milliards and llralm.
Herbert Spencer was once an adept,
tit billiards, and rather proud of his
skill. On one occasion, however, at the
Athenaeum Club, he found his master
In a very young man, who beat blm
thoroughly. When his defeat was no
longer to be dlsgulsd tho philosopher
leant on his cue and delivered tba fol
lowing speech to his fortunate aaUf
onlst: "A certain proficiency la thin
game Is possibly a desirable accom
pllsbment, but ths extraordinary abili
ty, sir, you have Just displayed can
oaly ba the fruit of a misspent yontaV
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