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' Charles Marriott, the author of '"The Column," Ih now finishing a ucw novel which In entitled -The House on the Sands." "Old Paths mid Legends of New En gland," l,y Katharine M. Al)l)ott. Is shortly to ar'iit' with the Imprint of - P. Putnam's Sons. ' Dr. Lyman Abbott Ih now at work oti a wuigtaphy of Henry-Ward Beech r. which Houghton. Mllllin & Co. ex pect to publish next Se(teml)(T. , Murk Twain Ix making haste to put the finishing touches to his papers ou Christian Science that a hook may be made of lliein for early publication. Miss Alice Itrovvn, the author of "Meadow Crass," has written a third novel, "The Manncrltigs." The action passes in u country house and includes a double love story. The author of "The .Story of Mary McLane" Is at work upon a new book, it is 8a hi to be quite different in char acter from the iirst one, and to be written with more reserve. It Is ditli eult to imagine what form the girl's Ideas will take now that she Is two years older and lias seen more of the world. Henry Holt & Co. have in press for Immediate publication a handbook on "Money and Banking," by Professor William A. Scott, of the University of .Wisconsin. While Intended primarily for educational use, It will be service able also to the busy general reader who wishes a clear statement lu com pendious form of the first principles of modern currency. ', The little magazine which the Scrlb ners have published for so many years 'under the title of the Hook buyer, has .een transformed and given the title of the Lamp. It has been made a lit tle weightier, lending off with an ar ticle on "Macauiay's First Essay," by .Professor Wilbur L. Cross, nml 'department called "The Rambler" been relegated to the pages at the has the back. John Lane will soon publish n novel by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward called "The Light Behind." Mis. Ward Is a niece of the Duke of Norfolk, the premier British Duke. Her father was James Kobert Hope Scott, the parliamentary barrister, and a close friend of Glad stone. He came Into possesion of Sir .'waiter Scott's home, Abbotsford, by his marriage with the romancer's granddaughter and sole descendant. Miss Lockb.'irt. Mrs. Ward's childhood was passed at Sir Walter's home. She published an earlier novel some time ugo. culled "One l'oor Sample." PEIRIFILD rOSSIL flSHES. Ueccnt geological research has dis covered a series of wonderful fossil fishes among the shale deposits of Wyo ming. Their original forms have been somewhat flattened and changed. They measured from 20 to 30 feet long, and were lu life exceedingly ravenous and dangerous. That they fought among themselves Is almost positively known, for a specimen has been taken from the rock the stout back plate of which had been completely crushed in two, bearing In Its solid bone deep Imprints and gashes which lit the Jawtlps of this species, which had Jaws set with a bristling row of teeth. These for midable creatures are found along with others lu what are known as the "Had Lands" or fossil beds of the West. This whole section was. ages ago, a great lake, which, through changed geological conditions, was drained, leaving the mighty monsters of the deep to sink and become burled deep, away from the destructive elements of the air und flesh eating animals. By piling up successive layiTS of sediment nature has thoroughly embalmed and preserved their remains these millions of years, until the pick of the fossil hunter has cut and chiseled out their petrified forms. THErTiwy8ATRADE. Secretary Moody I'olnta tint It Op portunities for Young Men. "Not only the man behind the gun, but the man behind the coal shovel, the man behind the wheel, (he man In front of the engine, and, not by any means least of all, the. man In front of the galley range each of these Is the subject of solicitous thought by men wLo are distinguished as brilliant com manders of ships and of squadrons,'' aa Id (Secretary of the Navy Moody, apropos of the departure of enlisting parties for the navy, to cover the Mid dle West and Southwest. "I mean by that to convey forcibly that each of the many trades, callings and occupations which constitute the Industrial life of a modern warship Is belli scrutlnlwd for avenues of Im provement; that there Is a consistent and comprehensive effort being made to Improve the conditions surrounding the eullaud nun afloat, aa effort which has already borne auch fruit that I think I am Justified la saying that In do navy are tbt conditions of comfort which surround the Ben of the navy of the United Mate approached. "The system under which toe navy department Is training material foi crews Is, I believe, If continued along the present lines and with the Improve- tnents that experience will enforce, cer tain to give us the finest man-o'-wars: men the world has ever seen. A boy from 15 to 17 years of age who enters' the navy as an apprentice at f9 a month) receives a good English education and a thorough training in seamanship. lie has certain preferences in the matter' of rating, and may easily, by good con- duet and continuous service, work his way up through successive ratings, which will give him from $30 to $5 a month; the latter pay, with the quart ters and rations, equivalent to at least $H." a month In shore emploment. Ilq Is aided at all times; If lie" evinces an ambition to perfect himself In his pro fession, by Instruction ou board alt lot and In special schools established for the instruction of petty officers and ad. vanced seamen, and Is eligible undefl certain requirements to take the exam ination for warrant officers, positions' ranking next after ensigns, and with pay ranging from $1,200 in the first tiva years of service to $I,8uO after twenty years of service, with allowances and permanence of position and employ ment that makes the rank quite as sat isfactory In a financial way as a very large proportion of the better-paid po sitions ashore. There Is also the posslt bility of securing a commission as em sign, a possibility that has been real' Ized within the past year by an ex apprentice." Washington Post. saaj 5 5 S JJJhJl 5 J Ways of People Who Steal Dogs. Dog stealing in London has Increased, to a very large extent latterly, and th professional dog stealers, of whom there are many, are having a very pros perous time. A well-known West Enij veterinary surgeon explained some o( the methods of the dog stealers. "These men," said . he, "are by na means ragged loafers, but well-dressel persons of some address, many of them well off," says the London Express, "They find out that a well-known so clety lady or gentleman has a doa which Is taken for a walk daily. Thcj cultivate that dog's acquaintance with surreptitious feeds, and then one daj the man finds himself round a cornel alone with the dog, and the theft li accomplished. ".Sometimes a decoy dog Is taken out, especially In case where It Is desired to steal an animal of the larger kind, Kensington Oardcns are the happy hunting grounds of the dog thief and scores of pets are there stolen from their owners. I should say from mj knowledge that nt least tlfty dogs a month are stolen In the West End Generally speaking, a lost dog can at ways be recovered If one goes the right way about It. For Instance, I got ta know a dog dealer who, though ht would never steal a dog on his own ac count, must, 1 am morally certain, In In touch with those who do. A clienl comes to me with a tale of a lost dog and prepared to spend money to get II back. "I go to fill' dog dealer, describe tli animal, and ask him to keep his cycj open for it. Very shortly he comes to me and tells me for what sum he will be aide to produce the dog. Sometimes negotiations go on for months. Where rewards are not forthcoming, or where the police? are hot on the track, th stolen dogs are sent down to Club How In ISethnal Creen, where there is a sail every Sunday morning." SADDEST KIND OF POVERTY. Mcntul l)eUt ut Ion Womc thun Lock of H(c0llriK Money. No other, foruajof poverty can com pare with mental 'destitution. Though a man own neither houses nor landi nor money, yet. It' he has a cultivated mind and a broad mental horizon, It! the door of his Intellect has been openl ed wide, so that he drinks lu beauty and Intelligence wherever he goes, anil If he has developed his sympa thies so that he is in touch with llfn at all points, he has found the seercj of success and happiness. On the other hand, if a man merely accumulates millions of dollars, though he own broad acres am live In a pal ace. If his mlud lias been starved, if lie Is Intellectually poor, he will know' nothing of the wotld beautiful lu hook he will see nothing to admire In art, nothing to soothe or elevate In inuslcj says Success; If he has been wholly absorbed lu crowding and elbowing his way through the world to the to tal neglect of his higher nature, ill spite of his bouses and lands, his palaJ tlal residence and all his costly stir roundlngs, he Is the most despicable and pitiable kind of pauper. Saving money and starving the mind Is the poorest business that any hu man being can 'possibly engage lu. Wear threadbare clothes, If necessary) sleep lu a bare aitle, If you must; saw rlllce legitimate but unnecessary amusements; do anything In reason rather than starve your mind. Teed that nt any cost short of Injuring, health. A youth who has learned the alpha bet has the key to all power. He i-tin make royal Invest ments, for mental Investment Is the greatest any one can make. It Is a form of wealth that will stand by one when panics or other1 misfortunes have swept away proper ly, when friends fall away, wbeu the whole world seems to have turned against you. No matter what hap pens, If you have a rich mind, If your Intellect Is a storehouse of precious knowledge, you can never lu reality be' poor. Mao la made of dust and the aver age girl la looking for the mannfac-' tured article. ' OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS The Passing of the Beard. NOTITINO Is presently plainer in a world that lives its little mysteries, and likes to keep the observer In a state of tremulous suspense.- about -a--good -many things than the fact that It is beginning to shave again. It has always shaved, more or less, ever since beards came In some fifty years ago, after a banlsbmeut of nearly two centuries, from at least the Anglo-Saxon face. . . . The flowing whiskers have long vanished; the beard that once streamed meteor-like upon the wind now streams only from the cheeks and chins of rustic sages; the Imperial and the goatee are rarer thsn the mutton-chop whiskers; the square cut chin-beard has ceased to be significant of our nation ality, It Is so Inadequate to our numbers; all other dots and dabs of hair upon the human countenance have been gath ered confluent!' Into the full beard, or have perished before the remorseless sweep of the razor. The gain of manly beauty through the fashion of clean-shaving, has not as yet, It must lie confessed, been very great. Those who had not grown beards, of course remain as they were. In their native plainness; but it Is in the case of those who had worn beards, that the revelations are sometimes frightful; retreating chins, blubber lips, silly mouths, brutal jaws, fat and flabby necks, which had lurked unsuspected In their hairy coverts now appear, and shake the beholder with surprise and consternation. To our own taste, we think the average man looked better In his beard. It was natural, and it was dlguitied. It hid certain things, certain features, expressions, that were best hushed up. That smirk, that sensual pout that bull-dog clinch, they were all mercifully hidden or they were at least so much palliated that they remained a dark suspicion, and not this dreadful conviction with which they now alllict the spectator. It can be said that there Is a gain for honesty, If not beauty, In the now fashion ol shaving, and this cannot well be denied. Hut It appears that the Creator could not trust the human countenance to Itself, at k'ast as It was given to men, and found it best to hush It up In a jungle of hair. Women were fashioned so fair that they could be allowed to look what they really were, but with men It was another story. Harper's Weekly. Mistakes in Modern School Methods. TWO theories have wn-ked no end of mischief in the graded schools of our cities. One Is the theory that oral Instruction Is superior to the old fashioned study of books. This is at the bottom of most of the bad spelling which Is fast coming to be a general defect. There are no rules for English orthography. A child cannot learn to spell by ear. The only possible way to learn spelling Is thorough familiarity with the appear ance, not the sound, of the word. And so long as correct spelling Is one of the commonest tests of education, it certainly seems as If every effort should be made to secure It In the schools. The other theory Is that methods are more important than results; that a child should be taught In a certain way, whether that way Is the quickest and easiest or not. The Important thing In education, and one would think that the veriest simpleton could see it, Is that the child shall be able to read aloud correctly, to write a good hand, to use the rules of arithmetic with ease and accuracy, to tell something of the countries of the earth on which be lives and their history, and to speak and write his own language without making any serious mistakes. It should be obvious that this Is enough to occupy the whole attention of the average child up to the age of twelve or thirteen, without any extraneous and ornamental studies. If school committees could be convinced of this fact, the HE MADE A SNIPE TRAP. HliiiolH l arnirr Tell of a Huccennfnl Contrivance. "Nope, snipe bunt'in' ain't what it used to be," said an Illinois farmer while in the city with a train load of live stock the other day. "Per a real lively Nimrod the Illinois prairies Is nlgb onto the slimmest picklu' In the land. I used to be as ytmr as Job's turkey didn't have a blamed cent but I bad more fun shootin' snipes than I now get out of tlgurin' up my bank deposits. When the snipes disap peared, I sold my olo blunderbuss and went to work, and, by George, I own a section of black land, and there ain't a snipe been on It In five year. "There wasn't anything a few years ago that afforded more genuine sport than snipe liuntin'. I've killed a bush el sack full of little sandpipers, long legged mudders ami Jacksnlpe In a day. I used to hunt while the burrs was a -i bokiu' the daylights out of my corn crop and my horses were so ali bied poor they had to stand In the same place twice to make a shudder. I didn't have no time fer burrs and horses while the snipe were snuckltf around them prairie ponds and ditches. But the mos' fun was not In slutigh tcrin' the birds with a gun. It was lu triippin' them. Hain't you never hearu of a snipe trap? Oh, well, then, that's different. Well, sir, a snipe trap was the simplest thing you ever saw. It was nothing but a enlarged mouse trap with modern Ideas put Into use. Now, you know, a snlpo runs along the edge of a pond where the mud Is sort ' soft. "Well, I rigged up a flat box and look the murderln' devices out of a lot of mouse traps. I fastened 'em In the hox. Then I bored a lot of holes In .he (op of the box Just over the little traps Inside. I covered the box over wltli mud ami took a dead snipe and stuck Its head In one of the holes In the box. It would take a pttrty smart bird to see anything under the mud, and there was nothing there but a doz en little holes In the ground. "A tmlpo Is like n monkey. What one does they will nil do. If one sticks its head under a board and pulls out a worm, every other ono will stick lta Ili ad under. Well, as I said, I set a dead bird at the trap. Before long a drove of the birds settled around the pond. When they saw the dead bird With Its head stuck down ft hole III lie ground they thought he was boldln' t banquet. They hustled over and ii'ght to stick their heads Into tho oilier holes. 1 wn hid In the tall . !i(--t und I heard the wlrea cllcktn' nil,! .i' (he bin's Uopplu' their wings T I THEN was 1 I our yutn 1 ant text pupils who have as they were choketi. In two minutes every trap had a snipe. I walked out, dug uji the box and took out my game. There's no limit to hunt in' like that if you can find the snipes, but they ain't 111 my section of the State no more." Chicago Inter Ocean. BURNS A THOUSAND YEARS. Lamp First Lighted Ten Centuries Ago la Now Going Out. Since the reign of King Alfred, something like a thousand years ago, Towneley hall and park In England have been In the possession of the Towneley family, which traces Its origin back for more than a thousand years. The members of this family have a distinct claim to celebrity, for It Is to be feared that the famous lamp of Towneley Chapel was the last of (he so-called ever-burning lamps In England. At the beginning of the last century there were some half a dozen known to fame still alight and which had been burning for centuries, while at the time of the reformation and the dissolution of the monasteries by King Henry VIII. there wen; many hundreds of them that had been burn ing without interrupt ion from t lie time of the Norman conquest. Doubtless these perpetual lamps were a remnant of that form of pagan worship known as the everlasting lire, which was kept alight by guardians, both male and female, the latter known as vestals, and who were pun ishable with death If they allowed the fire to go out. How much Importance was attached even after the reforma tion and well on Into the seventeenth century In Europe to these ever burn ing lamps Is demonstrated by tho fact that some of the greatest scientists of those days devoted both much time and labor to the discovery of some species of illumlnant that would burn forever. Many works havo been writ ten about the matter by French, Ital ian and English writers, some of whom vouch for the most extraordi nary details on (lie subject. Thus, fori Instance, It Is solemnly asserted that nt the opening of the tomb of Tulllu, tho daughter of Cicero, lu Koine, in the Via Appla, In the sixteenth cen tury, a lamp was found burning there, which, If the story authenticated by records at the Vatican and bearing the signature of Pope Paul III. are to ho believed, must have been burning for more than 1,000 year. Bailey In his English dictionary of 17.10 tella that at the dissolution of the monaHterfes In the time of Henry VIII, there was a lamp found that bad then burned for more than 1,200 yean that la to aay, tinea tat aacand cen path of t lie overworked teacher would be easier, children would be better trained, and the people who make their living by Inventing new ways of teaching these simple things would have to employ their fertile brains In some other way.-Washington TImesr Bad Spelling. the last spelling book published? Havt outgrown the use of that once lmport- book? It would seem oftentimes, from I their ignorance of the rules of spelling and their arrangement of the letters In words, that they disdained the practice of good orthography. It Is all very well to talk about some people being natural spellers and some being poor spellers. There are faulu of ear which are hard to overcome; but eyes can be trained to correct these faults, and decent spelling, under all circumstances, at least from every graduate of the grammar grade, should be demanded. It is a fact of observation, explain It how you will, that taken prizes for scholarship In grammar schools of good Rtanding cannot write a letter free of blunders In spelling; another fact, that pupils in high schools, remarkably well read for their years, are guilty of gross errors in spelling; still another that pupils who have the wit and brains and style to write a charming let ter, misspell abominably; and yet another, that boys seek ing entrance to colleges of first rank, able to pass examina tions in mathematics and science, spell after the fashion of "witch." Boston Transcript. American Extravagance, ECONOMY In this country (the United States;, and e peclally on the Pacific coast, Is almost disreputable. A man Is ashamed to acknowledge that be walks to save car fare or orders a light lunch to save the ex pense of a heavy one. One never finds Californians ordering one portion of meat at a restaurant for two per sons even when they know that one portion would be more than enough for both. There was a time, not very long ago, when people In San Francisco disdained to accept change from a quarter of a dollar. To be saving In the United States a man must have moral courage. The man who refused to pay more than a reasonable price for clothes, let us say, or for dinners, and who puts the money thus saved into a bank, feels like a thief; and people talk and act as though to save money were in fact to steal it. Only in extravagant America, however, Is economy dis reputable. Here, as some one has written, where one man is as good as another, he must bo lavish of his money; being all sovereigns, we must be as prodigal as princes. But in Europe no one respects a man the loss or treats him the worse for trying to live cheaply. People of wealth and breeding do not disdain to practice little economies in Eu rope. They dare not to order a big dinner when they want only a light collation. They are not afraid to travel sec ond class or to put up at the quieter and less expensive first-class hotels. This extravagance with money is a natural trait of rich people, and It would do less harm if only the really rich Americans displayed it. But the middle-class Americans, striving to show themselves as good as the millionaire countrymen, are the most prodigal of all, and it is they who, while spending more than their means made reason able, have created the general opinion In Europe that every American traveler is an unspeakably opulent person to rob whom is the patriotic duty of every European brigand that goes under the name of inn-keeper, guide, merchant, servant or others of that ilk. San Francisco Bulletin. tury of tho Christian era and de clared that this lamp was in his days to be seen at the museum of rarities ut Leyden, in Holland. Shakspeare in his address of Pericles refers to "ever burning lamps" and Spenser, too, al ludes to "lamps which never go out." From a purely antiquarian point of view, therefore, it must be a source of great regret that the owners should permit the extinction of a lamp which, according to tradition, had been burn lug without Intrruptlon since the days of King Alfred that Is to say, for more than 1,000 years lu the chapel on the Towneley estate. Relic of John Brown's Knd. One of the Interesting curios on view at the late Middle States and Missis sippi Valhy Negro Exposition at the First Ueglmcnt armory was owned by Henry Washington of 5'Jl West Lake street. It Is a piece of the rope with which John Brown's existence was end ed at Harper's Ferry. Washington vouches for the authenticity of this reminder of the martyr, whose spirit "goes marching on."' He bases his credence on the following circum stances, as related by him: His mother, Harriett Duckett, a free woman, was married to a slave owned by Edward Stonebreaker, of Pleasant Valley, Md. Because of the difference in the social condition of the two she was compelled to live apart from him at Harper's Ferry. When John Brown made his appearance at that place his arrival was known only to a few free colored people thereahouts. Notable among these was Harriett Duckett. On the day that Brown became a martyr to tho cause which he believed to be right throngs of curious people came to view his execution. After the bunging the rope was cut up and the pieces distributed among the owners of the nenr-by plantations as souvenirs. Among those who secured a piece of the rope was the master of , Henry Washington's father. When freedom finally came to the slaves tills black mini found himself In possession of this historical relic, which at his death ho left to his son. Chicago Kccord-Uer-ald. llrr Devotion. "I believe Anglo married that rich perfHinery manufacturer for his mon ey." "She saya alio didn't aweara ahe'd tick to him if he didn't have a scent" -Philadelphia Bulletin. When yon hear a man aay that every man baa his price ba l looking for t buyer. X SON WAS MOURNFULLY LATE The old farmer died suddenly, so when Judge Ciilroy, his only son, re ceived the telegram, he could do noth ing but go up to the farm for the fu neral. It was difficult to do even that, for the judge was the leading lawyer in , and every hour was worth many dollars to him. As he at with bent head In the grimy little train which lumbered through the farms, he could not keep the details of his cases out of his mini. He had been a good, respectful son. He had never given his father a heartache; and the old man died full of years aad virtues, "a shock of corn fully ripe." TJie phrase pleased him. "I wish to tell you," said the doctor, gravely, "that your father's thoughts were all of you. He was ill but aa hour, but his cry was for 'John! John unceasingly." "If I could have been with him!" said the judge. "He was greatly disappointed thai you missed your half-yearly visit last spring. Your visits were the events ol his life," said the doctor. "Last spring? Oh, yes; I took my family then to California." "I urged him to run down and see you ou your return, but he would not go." "No, he never felt at home in tl)9 city." The judge remembered that he had not asked his father to come down, Ted was ashamed of his grandfather'! Wide collars; and Jessie, who was a fine musician, .scowled when she was asked to sing the "Portuguese Hymn" every night. The judge humored his children and had ceased to ask hi& father to the house. The farmhouse was in order and scrupulously clean; but its bareness gave a chill to the judge, whose own home was luxurious. The deaf old wo man who had been his father's servant sat grim and tearless by the side of the colli n. "Martha was faithful," whispered the doctor, "but she's deaf. His life was very solitary. The neighbors are young. He belonged to another generation." He reverently uncovered the coffin, and then with Martha went out and closed the door. The judge was alona with his dead. Strange enough, his thought was still of the cold bareness of the room. Those hacked wooden chairs were there when he was a boy. It would have been sa easy for him to have made the house comfortable to have hung some pi lures on the wall! How his father had delighted in his engravings, and pored over them! , Looking now into the kind old face, with the white hair lying motionlesj on it, he found something in it which he had never taken time to notice be forea sagacity, a nature fine and sen sltive. He was the friend, the com rade, whom he had needed so oftenl He had left him with deaf old Mar tha for his sole companion! There hung upon the wall the photo graph of a young man with an eager, fStrong face, looking proudly at a ehuo liy boy on his knee. The judge saw the strength in the face. "My father should have played a high part in life," he thought. "There js more promise in his face than in mine." In the desk was a bundle of old ac count books with records of years of hard drudgery on the farm; of work in winter and summer and often late at night, to pay John's school bills, and to send him to Harvard. One patch ot ground after another was sold whila he waited for practice, to give him clothes and luxuries which other young men In town had, until but a meagrs portion of the farm was left. John Gilroy suddenly closed the book. "And this Is the end!" be said. "The boy for whom ho lived and worked, won fortune and position and how did he repay him?" , He knelt on the bare floor, and shed bitter tears on the quiet old face. "Oil father! father!" he cried. But tbert was no smile on the quiet face. He was too late. Youth's Companion. F.ggs Exported lom Kgrpt. A remarkable feature of Egyptian trade Is the great expansion In the ex portation of eggs. According to the Egyptian customs returns, the total quantity shipped during the first elev en months of last year, January to No vember inclusive, was 04,2(52,500, val ued at E.7r,uT(, England taking 58, 721,000, (lermauy (183,000, Austria Hungary 2.205,000, France 2,109,000 and Italy 7."i,500. The exports during December also, It Is understood, were exceptionally enormous, England be ing a large buyer. As a result the price of eggs Is rising In Egypt Egyp tian eggs are said to be gradually oust ing Kusslan eggs from the KngHsh market. Tho Man Who limn. "An old college chum of mine located down this way several years ago," said the Eastern tourist. "He was rnlhei unscrupulous, but bound to rise. W considered him a good man to tie to Jenkins, bis name was " "Ah, yes," replied tho Texan. "V considered him 'a good man to tie, to - to lie to a tree. Oh! he rose al right.' "-Philadelphia Press. fust Itamtnder. (itiest I used to come In here several years ago. Walter Yaa, nab; an' I Barred yo'. Guest That so? I don't remembef you. Walter-But yo' useter; yaa, aah, ebry time yo' useter remember me, tak, -Philadelphia Press.