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a pilot house Odd though the habitation is which Is shown in the picture. it is not as:l; might be supposed, part of a wrecked J shern37n. With the aid of a few Yesstsl. The stanch Puget Sound tug ; cronies h hauled it up beyond high w Richard Holyoke still busily picks up off ter mark, installed a second-hand strive. Cape Flattery the big British ships that and .with fragments of driftwood, fitted come with increasing frequency to take! up a dwelling that is far from uncom cargoex of Northwestern what to the j fonable. ' ports of the United Kingdom. Old Charlie himself is shown In the A few years ago the tug was overhaul- picture, seated on the bow of an aban ed at Fori, Townsend and her deckhouse ; doned saia'.I boat, another gift fro;a the rearranged. The old pilothouse was : beach. BOOMERANG FOR BOYS. Novel among toys is a boomerang, and the principle on which it is con-. in fctnictf'd is highly Ingenious, 'inree.me or mcr vanes, wnien are so iormi umi they f.m be readily grasped by j band, radiate from a common center, and in order that they may cleave the air while they are rotating they are leveled on one side.-' Furthermore, with the object of in creasing their impetus the rear edges. of the vanes are thicker than those inie front At the ends of the vanes are I weights, which are of greater specific gravity than the material of which the vanes are made. A boy, it is claimed, can soon learn to become an expert marksman with this toy. Another merit which it possesses is that it admirably illustrates the man ner in which its prototype, the deadly boomerang, sh-uld be handled and thrown a subject about which Euro pean and American boys know very lit tle. . PEG AND ROPE PUZZLE. . Several small blocks and a cord di vided into a number of parts form the new puzzle which is shown in the ac companying nictnre. The blocks are arranged in equidistant parallel rows, and the various parts of the cord cor respond ia number with the blocks. and are distant from them the length of j KS. in "tZ "b.rta iS securea'to the various parts of the cord I are pins, which are designed for tn ; purpose of remaining fast in the boles when they are in proper position. The puzzle consists in so manipulat ing the various parts of thG cord that each part will be brought in contact with its corresponding block. A novice may fancy that it is easy to fasten the pins in the holes, but a trial will soon cinvlnce him that it is quite a difficult undertaking. FLOWERS MADE BY FROST. During very cold weather King Frost never fails to leave proofs of his artistic skill on he windows of rooms which are not heated, and wonderfully delicate yA rhnste nrp tho ervatnllina fltrnroa which are traced by him on the smooth I panes of glass. A notable specimen of i hft .nrk I" tWi line h shown in the accompanying picture, which represents a portion of a frost-covered window in a counlry house in Germany. The Ger mans call the fantastic designs which appear on the windows in winter "Ice flowers." and those who aaw the win dow shown In the picture say that King Frost excelled himself on this occasion. So beautiful Indeed was his work that a artist promptly made an exact copy of It. - Tka tin crystals on the window were symmetrically ana in sucn a aa tkay rspressnUd either a lr i win May ommoota or a man , ft -nl wttk kraaeana la all direction!. jw wrirwwl hat aa f iifialwl to taraatljpta 1 rtibtfi art tka aoaedsa r y T ft Crrb, ' mansion. .lifted off bodily and left on the beach. quictiiy caugnt. me nonce 01 vuamr vvaiierii. an oiu iunEsnurfuiau auu INDIAN JACKETS. When a Toba Indian wants to appear gala costume he puts on a jacket or pattern suowu iu tne acompanjiuB j picture. These jackets are made of ;the skins of animals, and any pattern that may be desired can either be paint - on them or produced by means of a skillful arrangement of ornaments Some of these Toba Indians live In Paraguay and others in Bolivia. They have many strange costumes, and espe cially differ from other Indians in the mater of their attire and ornaments A zealous European collector recently induced them to part with some choice skin jrckets of wonderful patterns as well as with seyeral ornaments, the like of which are not worn by any other Indians. - PHOTOGRAPHER'S CANOPY. In the accompanying picture is shown a screen or canopy which is especially designed for photographers. It consists of a suitable frame, a light-excluding ZVcl'fuX ZZZTll" r ? Is t0 Photographed, moTa- L" f ?J . - QnnTr fro on the canopy. It will readily be seen that in this way the light in any studio can be, so to speak, controlled. By moving the cur tains in the requisite direction the photographer can at any time exclude the light, either wholly or partly, as may be desired. NO NEW SUMMER DRINKS. Nearest Approach to a Novelty is the "Florodora Fizz." Philadelphia Record: "No, there doesn't seem to be any strong clamor for new summer drinks this year, re- marked the bartender as he squirted the seltzer into a Scotch highball. "Usual- Iy along about this time, when the weather begins to get hot and even the co'lar on a glass of beer drops, there springs from some unknown source a new beverage with an alluring name. The nearest approach to It this year Is the Florodora fizz, which Is the worst sort of a counterfeit. I never have a call for It, except from young fellows who want to give the impression that they are the real thing. What Is it? Oh, nothing at all but an ordinary gin fizz colored to look like cirrus lemonade. A drop of raspberry sirup does the trick, and when the smart youth gets It In his clutch he thinks he's the real thing." Gates Took a Chance. John W. Gates was seated In his office yesterday afternoon smoking his Inevit able black cigar when a Uttered, for lorn miss of some 15 summers entered through the street door. Perhaps the ticker had been telling the magnate an unwelcome story, or maybe the cigar was not up to the standard. At any rate, with a swift glance out of the corner ot his eye, he said rather sharply: "Well, what can I do for you?" "P-p-pleaae, mister, won't you bay a ticket on our cuckoo clock?" replied toe ain, nesitatingiy. "Buy a ticket on your cuckoo clock T What on earth would I do with a cuck oo clock en If I should get It? "Ok, yon won't cat It, mister, PI buy a ueset." ' Ha hoaghL-New York News. hi frittlas I, WHEN CATS BEGIN TO BITE. When cats begin M bit, ".or" me, Way down the sbepy bend. W her blackbirds chatter merrily And sky and Ireetops blend; It sort o' leads a man with dreams Of bayous cool as night And spirits washed In sparkling streams. When cats begin to bite. Whw cats, those chuck-head cats, begin To dart amid the deeps. And with dtlatwl gill and fin Arouse the drift which sleeps. A fellow breaks the Sabbath and Most any day or night To tread the river's crunching sand W hen cats begin to bite. Will Chamberlain in the Elk Point, S. D. Leader. The Mysterious Box. BY HON. W .II. UU:'K) HIXIUCHSEN. (Copyright, 15GI. by Authors Syndicate.) E were at Forest Iake for a six weeks' outlug. Mattie and I, and I was really en joying . m..self. though there wre some unpleas I w mm, ant conditions. You se. M'tttie and I j were reared in the same village. Our people were ) m-pec table, though not rich, and we j their circle, so she is happy. Mr. hit went to Chic ago to make our living comb gave up his position and devoted soon after graduating from the high himself to the management of his school. Mattie was a stenographer, I I wife's property. I spend a great deal a bookkeeper. We bad positions to- of time with then), and am to be mar gether. We had admirers, of course, ried from their home as soon as the for we were by no means ill looking, i proper man can be found to officiate as Many people thought 1 was the prf t tiest. .Most of our callers were young men in no position to marry, so there could be nothing serious in their In tentions. One, however, was different from the others. . He was a plumht r, psst 10, and not very well preserved. I J is name was Hiram Mason. 1 am sure his call3 were at first in tended for me. but I did not encourage him. so he turned to Mauie. He pro posed to her in a week, ws accepted, and in another month they were mar ried. How I pitied her, but I said bothing. They went to housekeeping in a pret ty cottage which Mr. Mason owned, and appeared very nappy, in a year air. English Orientalist, in a recent lecture .Mason died and Mattie was left a t,t,fore Columbia university. It seems, widow, and a rich widow at that, for acconjng t0 this authority, that there her husband was wealthy, a fact which are reajy two distinct Chinese lan they had kept concealed from me. guages. the spoken and the written. She wore mourning for a year and xbe former may be easily acquired, but then began to go into society. Not in lne latter, the "book language," is a the circle she desired, but such society study 0f a lifetime. Few people can as she could command. I called on her r(,a(i a Chinese book or write a Chinese at her cottage frequently, and one day letter, and women in particular seem she proposed that I should accompany t0 fan in this. . her for a six weeks' vacation at Forest ( The Chinese never possessed a gram Lake, mar. The language is beyond rules. It "1 will pay expenses, Julia," she said, js always spoken in monosyllables, root and we will call me your chaperone." I was delighted, of course, and accepted this kind invitation. We bad a nice room at a little hotel, or rather board ing house. Mattie posed as my chap erone, but in speaking of our relations always mentioned that I was older than she. This, while true, was not pleas ant, and was wholly unnecessary. There were about 20 guests of both sexes at our boarding place, Among them was a Mr. Whltcomb, a newspaper man, about so years old, very nana some and entertaining. He was very Dolite to Mattie and me, but she de clared the she disliked him, and said repeatedly that she wished he would keep away from us. Mattie had more curiosity than any person I ever knew, and her dislike for Mr. Whltcomb was., I thotignt. due to his refusal to gratify this curiosity in legard to a certain matter. He was frequently seen carrying a box of light colored wood, highly polished and bound in brass, and the first time Mat tie saw It she wondered what it con tained. She asked him and he parried the question in a way to still further excite her curiosity. "What can the box be for, I wonder," she said to me a dozen times. I laughed and told her it was of no consequpence, but she Bald she would never be contented till she found out Mr. Whitcomb's room was in the eame hall with ours, and in passing his open floor one nay we gianceu iu, aim there lay the box on a chair, it was in nocent looking and about the size of an ordinary dress suit case. "I'll steal it and examine it some time when he is away," she muttered, spitefully. Sbe bored me about the box until I grew impatient, and I nnaiiy toid her that It was of no interest to me. Well, we had been there seveal weeks when, one Saturday, after we had gone to bed, Mattie began talking about that everlasting box. I groaned and said: "Please let me Vleep." "Now, Julia," said she, "you old dear, wake up long enough to listen to me, Just this time." "Go ahead," I replied sleepily. "I am going to find out about that box tonight" "How?" I asked. "You know Mr. Whltcomb went to the city this evening to stay till Mon day. He did not take the box along, I know. A I came through the hall I tried bis door and found it unlocked, and Just as soon as everyone Is asleep T.-fl can slip In and examine It at our leisure. "Pshaw," I replied, "I won't go." "I'll go alone, then.' "As you like.' "iVon't you go with me?" she asked. "No," I muttered. t sanr her step out into the hall In her nightdress, and then I went to sleep. V,'hn I woke It was coming davlight Mattie was by my Bide and sh was trembling. "What's the matter?" I asked, for she felt chilly as If she had Just come to bed, "Nothing, dear," she replied. I went to sleep again and was aroused by the breakfast bell. Mattie was already up and bad gone down stairs. I dressed and went to the dining room. Mattl ewas there. So was Mr, Filipinos aa Gamblers. In gambling the Filipinos are the most persistent race on earth. As soon ss a servant or day laborer gets a small take he top work and gambles to get rich quick. Monte and cock-lighting are the choice method. If success ful at plf the Filipino neyer work more; If he Iowa eyerythlng he will do anything to regain bl loae. An By (or Harmony. Mr. Blmpaoa ! roar musical direc tor a man of ability? Mia jMkla Ob, ym; at our eon cartalM alaeaa all tka piwttlrttrk la i tka Cam iWrHPWrx rna mm Whltcomb. She blushed scarlet when 1 entered the room. "So the railroad accident prevented your going to town last night, said ene of the gentlemen. " Whltcomb nodded and looked slight ly confused. A horrible suspicion assailed me. As soon as breakfast was over I took Mat tie up to our room, though she seemed unwilling to go. "My dear," I said, "Mr. Whltcomb was in his rocm when you went in there last night," and I looked severe. . She blushed, and, catching me in her arms, said: "We are engaged, and are to be mar ried this week." "I it not rather sudden?" "Perhaps, but 1 was In no position to refuse when he asked me." "Hut I thought you disliked him." "I thought so too. but I know now that 1 love him dearly." "But about the box?" "He keeps his laundry In it." They were married that week, and it broke up our outing, but Mattie always was a little selfish. I was consoled by Mr. Whltcomb, who said he would bring some nice fcl- lows to see me, and he did. His people were in society, and Mattie's money enabled her to cut quite a figure in bridegroom. CHINESE XA2JGTJAGE. The Spoken and the Written Are En tirely Different. Leslie's Weekly: It has been the popular impression that the Chinese language, like the Chinese people them selves, was a curioua compound, and almost beyond the cnmrrehenslon of j an Occiiieutallst. But it is a matter of Intercut to know what some of its pe culiar difficulties are. as thev were BtatP,j by Prof. Herbert Allen Giles, the ideas, which are adapted to surround- ng circumstances and suffer no change There is no gender, no inflection. Sounds to tho number of 420 represent 42,000 words. They are distinguished by subtle modulations of tone. The Chinese written language in uniformly understand all over China, sr.d is prac tically the same today as it was 2,50(1 years ago. It looks like a mass of signs, dots, and dashes, but is really in telligible. To express the words "flat tery" and "treacherous" the Chinese employ the character meaning "wo man" with other characters. "Friend ship" Is indicated by two hands, "great ness" by the sun and moon, and so on. Originally drawings, the characters are now words. SUSPECTS HIS RECTOR. And He Has Good Grounds, Indeed, for His Suspicion. New York Telegram: "I may he mis taken, but I can never get any inspira tion from the rector ot our church ngain," the pious man remarked as he ordered lemon and seltzer in a cafe near Herald square, Just to show that he was not a slave to the drln demon. "Do you see that half dollar? Yes, It's lead, and a rank counterfeit If it were not I could still get light from tbs clergyman I have mentioned. As It is now I have well, I am suspicious, to say the least. "What am I talking about? Well, I put that veritable half dollar In the collection plate last Sunuiy morning. No, there cannot be any doubt about it Just look at that mark some doubting Thomas has put on it That mark was when It came into my po?hess!on. Walt a moment now and I will tell you what all that has got to do with the clergyman. Sunday I put the coin in the plate. The next day I strolled into a place somewhat against my will, I must confess and bought a glass of ginger ale. I gave a dollar bill to the man and received the change. This balf dollar was in that change, and, as the church treasurer happens to be away and tbe clergyman Is handling the funds, it struck me as a strange coinci dence. "Perhaps it was sinful in me to put such a coin In tbe plate, but I believe the Bible says somewhere that one sin discovers another, and the men who wrote the Bible knew what they were talking about" Substitnte for Sleep. Springfield (Mass.) Republican : A London paper says that the health of people lu fashionable society Is being dangerously threatened by a new drug which la properly regarded as a sub st it ute for sleep. Very discreetly it declines to name this dangerous sub- stanre. When tea wag first introduced same virtues, and It was believed that It would no longer be necessary to waste seven or eight hours in sleep. But extended experience has shown tbe disastrous results of cutting short the period of natural rest and keeping awake by the help of tea, and there is no reason to suppose that chemists will ever be able to devise any aubstl tute for sleep which will not In the long run bring nervous breakdown. Comparison, ' "Would you like to trade your mule for this automobile?" asked the faoeti ous tourist, "No, sun," answered Mr. Erastus Plnkley. "Ef a mule git contrary, you kin always depend on him to move when he alls hungry. But, when a au tomoblle balks, de case is hopeless." Washington star. Try Little Helps. "We've got a little mora room in our flat now." "That aor "Tea. we've Just scraped the paper off tka waim." Fuuaflaisau nam PICTURES DRAWN IN SMOKL Co. ii.l anyone looking at the pictures here reproduceed, ever think that ihey were literally made out oi smo"; yet they were, and several persons in Europe are now spending much of their time at work of this kind. The only materials necessary for such an artif t ate a lighted wax taper or can dle, two or three delicate brushes and a plate made of porcelain, china or any similar substance, the only indispensa ble condition being that Its surface must be level and uniform. This plate should be carefully cleaned, as the least trace of grease or moisture would spoil the work. The first step is to cover the surface CAT HAS GOLD TOOTH. Here is a handsome young Maltese cat which boasts of a gold tooth. She Is the pet and, although Dainty that is the name to which she responds when summoned to the milk saucer is only 6 or 7 months old, she Is prob ably the only kitten In America with a mouth so ornamented. Hence she Is duly proud of her unique and distin guished position in aristocratic cat cir cles, and is proud of exposng her gold tooth for the admiration of human be holders. Several weeks ago Dainty's master noticed that one of her incisors was not as strong as it should be for the masti cation of fish and other delicacies high ly esteemed by feline epicures, so he resolved upon the gold tooth. Accordingly, Dainty was elevated to the throne of misery commonly known as the dentist's chair, carefully secured to prevent her good teeth and better claws from Interfering wih the work In band or the dentist's curlcle, and within an hour or so, lo! there was Dainty with a sword-like Incisor of the purest gold. Dainty took kindly to the new tooth Immediately and purred her gratitude. Indeed, she was quite set up about It, and went among the doctor's assistants and servants, soliciting their atten tion. Now she is a regular show fea ture of the establishment, Every time a victim beg pardon, patient enters Dainty makes for him or her, yawns widely and ostentatiously reveals the glittering tooth. Dainty is remarkable for many other things. She Is extraordinarily Intelli gent and has been taught a score or more of tricks, which she performs readily when requested. Sbe can make a standing Jump of six feet ten Inches and pass through a small hoop. She can also leap from the floor to her mas ter's shoulder, but after the perform ance of this feat Dainty insets that the doctor shall brush her soft coat with a whisk broom, Every morning she Is served with an egg, medium boiled. This she eats from an ordinary egg cup, using her paw to convey the contents to her mouth. Should the cook prove so re miss as to boll the eg a trifle hard, pres to! away go cup, egg and all, angrily flung about by the Indignant puss, who will then quarrel and scratch until an egg of the proper consistency Is set be fore her. Dr. George A. Barton, profesitor of Biblical literature and Semitic lan guages at Byrn Mawr college, will go to Palestine In June to take charge of the school of oriental research, with headquarters In Jerusalem, an Institu tion supported by 21 schools and col leges In the United States. Each year a director for the school is selected from the faculty of one of the Institu tions interests. This year the cholca fell to Dr. Barton, and he has been granted a year's leave of abaenc from Byrn Mawr college to aaaum charge of tka work. . ' .of the plate with black smoke by meat. ! of tbe lighted taper .and the picture Is jlhen made by removing the black from I certain parts of the plate. This may bo I done with brushes or with the point of 'a penknife, or even with the tips of I one's fingers. If too much black hap 1 I if II K 1 t he taken awav from any spot j through a blunder, it can easily be re ' placed by the lighted candle. As soon as the picture is maue vuo plate should be slightly warmed and over its surpace should then be poured some transparent varnish. In a few bouts this varnish will be dry and the picture will be permanently preserved. A TRUMPET VIOLIN. Remarkably extraordinary is a mu sical instrument which has just been In vented. It can best be described as a violin which has a trumpet in place of the ordinary sounding board. This trumpet Is made of aluminum and is firmly secured to the violin. The vlbra tionrt of the strings are produced by means ol a diaphragm, which Is con nected with the trumpet Miss Ethel Lynd played on this In strument in London recently and at tracted much attention, not only from professional musicians, but also from members of the Itoya! institute. The latter examined tho Instrument care- J fully and were highly pleased with the sounds which it produced. j The music of a trumpet differs wide- , ly from that of a violin, yet It is said that when the two are played together, as they virtually are on this Instru ment, most melodious sounds are the result HOOKS FOR BABIES. It seems Incredible that the twentieth CellMirV Wltlritm living In ,.(,,1 1 1 .,! country should treat their lnafnts In the manner In w hich they do in certain districts of France. When they are obliged to leave their Infants alone for an hour or so they never fall to place them out of farm's way by hanging them either from the ceiling or from one of the walls of the room. They have a rope with a loop for this purpose, and all they have to do Is to fasten the rope to the cradle or clothes of the shlld and then place the loop over a hook, which Is always fixed at a considerable distance from the ground. That Infants In such a rramped posi tion are not comfortable rai readily be seen; Indeed, It Is said' Lt many of these unfortunate 1 It tlaV attires are seriously Injured through such treat ment. Happily this barbarous custom is not as much in vogue now as it was some years ago. Will Not Work in Bain. "There's a queer thing about Italian laborers," said a contractor who em ploys a great many of them, "and that is that they absolutely refuse to work In the rain. Stop a minute and think. Did you ever see a gang of them work ing in the streets, digging trenches or doing any other manual labor, In the rain? Well, you never did, and prob ably never will. Just as soon as a shower sets In no matter how slight mey win scramoie ror cover. If toe rain continues they will soon complain of feeling sick, and knock nit ., day. One fellow will have a sore throat. ""'" win Do aounied up with palm In bis stomach, and other will sud denly acquire equally severe ailments of all sorts. It Is useless to attempt to do anything with ihem, and pretty ?" totf, " f trooping home. Whjr Is It? I suppose it their natural wter.''--Pb,dtp'b7, . . . , . " t it f , r -V