It oil dow late In tbe summer. AJI (earrh for young Howe hid proved Vuitlesa. Hii mother, suddenly old ud feeble from grief and suspense, it nod. one liny, looking toward tbe bay n a And bop?. Tbe Indian came winging slowly toward ber. Tbe boy tad been found. It vii on Indian jdand. A knife-wound gaped in big reaat, bta wide blue eye were up turned In a nior-klng grin, and tbe (rasa around blm was dotted and red. Again tbere waa no swooning, no vert demonstration of grief. Weeks f suspense bad taught the family In lie white bouse stoic endurance. Slkra came every week to do the trashing as usual, while ber son loiter td near the cedar trees. One evening le brought the heartbroken woman ir hat he considered a rare present, a nelon of prodlgoua aire. Tbe Indian iat down silently, and alowly and care hilly he cot It. It waa a trifle over ripe, tbe rich, red heart gleaming aa with blood. Tbe knife with which he lexterously sliced the melon was ugly looking, broad and flat, and the deer torn handle broken, as If by a dendr ite struggle when last wielded. The woman did not recognize It. "You are a good boy," she, said ab ent!y to the Indian, "to do these little tlndnestcs to Hal's mother." Kan Francisco Argonaut. H. 8. GILBERT S RECREATI0N8. great I.ll.rcttLt Live Retired I.lfc aa KnKl!h Country Gentleman. In bis lieautlful home at Grlm'a Oyke. Harrow Weald. W. K. Gilbert, ihe greatest librettist of the age. Uvea in retirement the life of an English touutry gentleman. There be Is sur founded by scene of such sylvan sim plicity that It Is next to Impossible to realize that the life ami bustle of the Uarble Arch are no more than fifteen miles away. At home Mr. (illhert Is no longer the treator of Beetles and sentences that Have net two hemispheres laughing; be m. from choice, the country squire, ami ai filling that role does not shirk the lutle attendant uon the ofllee of Jus-tji-e of the peace. He la one of the most regular attend Hit at the weekly sitting of the Kdg Rare, Bench, and his seniority among jis colleagues very frequently places iilm In the chair. When not In that re IjHinHllile position, Mr. (illhert often Jcgulles the teilium of a long and un interesting case by making pen aud-lnk Iketcliea of the parties engaged in It, u the foolscap provldinl for the pur pone of taking notes. Of this class Is the outline of a face f a typlcully criminal clianicter, be leath which Mr. Gilbert wrote the terse memorandum: "Two mouths' ti. 1." It in that of a ninn who waa lent to prison with hard labor for Uie jerlod Indicated, for having stolen a pair of ducks. Now and then Mr. Gil bert turns bis attention to the court jftlclals, and the result of one such oc casion Is often a wonderfully accurate ind triie-to-llfe portrait. Once at least the sketches have been known to lapse Into reminiscence. Oc casionally, note-taking and sketching ul.MAt O will Gilbert made the portrait of a pris oner and notes on his crime and Its punishment In making this memorandum, the magisterial librettist doubtless rumina ted ujKin his well known lines: ' My object all sublime I shall achieve in time To make the punishment fit the crime The punishment fit the crime. How to Get to Nleep When we are not necessarily over tired, but perhaps only a little tired from Uie day's work, It Is not uncom mon to be kept awake by a flapping curtain or a swinging door, by un usual noises In the streets, or by people talking. If we are willing that the curtain should go on Happing, the door go on slumming, or the noise in the street Miitlnue steadily on, our brains yield to the conditions and so sleep natural ly, because the noise goes through us, o to speak, and docs not run hard against our unwillingness to hear it. There are three facts which may help to remove this resistance. One Is that in almost every sound there Is a certain rhythm. If we ylld to the sound enough to become sensi tive to Its rhythm, that. In tlself, Is soothing, and what before was keep ing us awake now helps us to go to f li-ep. The rhythm of sound and mo tion In sleeping cars and steamers Is. In itself, soothing. If you keep your mind steadily on it, you will probably be asleep in loss than an hour, und, when the car stops, you will wake only enough to settle comfortably Into (lie sense of motion when It starts again. It is pleasant to notice the gentleness with which a good engineer Mart his train at night, and gives us Innny a lesson on the use of gentle be .'Innings, with other things besides locomotive engines. The second fact with regard to yielding, instead of resisting, in order to get to sleep is that listening alone, apart from rhythm, tends to make one sleepy, and this lends us at once to ths third fact, that getting to sleep Is noth ing but a healthy form of concentra tion. Leslie's Monthly. Kxceptlon to the llule. "I wonder," said the resident, "who Originated the expression, 'Where therea smoke there must lie fire.' " "I dunno," said the east ender, "but I'll bet he made the remark before toy furnace was Invented." Baltimore t'ewa. When a woman owns a carriage, she alallgbU In lording It over women who )iava not Bat man feela uneasy In carriage, and shrinks when be meeta U acquaintance. BluVentionll Water Is often thought to be almost absolutely incompressible, but Prof. Talt baa now calculated that the ocean would rise 1RJ feet higher than at present If It were not compressed by Its own weight We are Indebted to this compression, therefore, for 2,000, 000 square miles of our dry land. Left eyeduesa la looked upon by Dr. George M. Gould of Philadelphia as of greater significance than left-handed ness. He la seeking facts concerning the two and their association, but sug gest that both may be due to the ab normal location of tbe speech center in the right side of the brain. He be lieves ambidexterity should be dis couraged, while he has aeen only bad results in the attempt to correct a de cided use of the left hand. At C'harlottenburg, Germany, re cently, a novel device to protect fire men from smoke and flames while fighting a fire at close quarters was tested publicly. The Invention con sits of an annular mouthpiece, situa ted a little back of the aperture In the nozzle of a fire hose, and capable of forming. In front of the man holding the nozzle, a circular screen of water. Tbe Btream from the nozzle is not In terfered with, and the fireman can see through the transparent screen which protects blm. Tbe angle of projection of the radiating scrireii can be varied at pleasure. A correspondent of Nature suggests that mu h knowledge of the processes of cloud formation, and other facts that would be Important to incterolo glntti, might be gained by taking, say, Wsi successive photographs of a "cloud scape" In the course of an hour, and then putting them rapidly through a klnetnatograph, so that in one minute all the changes would be observed that nature had required 10 minutes to bring about. A similar suggestion has been made with regard to the growth of plants, and other natural processes which are so slow that we lose the sense of successive and related steps in development. Statistics collected in Germany have shown that 2S per cent of the acci dents caused by machinery used for Industrial purposes, such as manufac turing, were due to defects In the ma chines and to lack of proper safe guards. On the other hand, over 40 per cent of the accidents occurring with agricultural machinery were traceable to those causes. According ly, there Is a call for the use of Im proved safety devices Uon all ma chines used on the farm. Feed-cutting machinery Is found to be particularly liable to cause accidents. A consider able majority of those Injured by ag ricultural machines are children and youths. In a paper read by Miss Adele M. Flelde before the section of biology of the New York Academy of Sciences, iha j,vinia composing the antennae of ants were described as a series of uoscs, each having a special function. Tlie first Joint distinguishes the ant's native nest from the nest of an en emy; the second discriminates between tbe odor of ants of different colonies, but of the same species; the third dis cerns the scent of the track left by the ant's own feet, and enables It to re turn over its route; the fourth and fifth Joints discover the distinctive odor of the larvae, nnd if removed dis able the ant from caring for tbe young In a nest; the sixth and seventh Joints make known the presence of an ant of different species. Only after these Joints are developed will ants of dif ferent species fight one another. How Water Freeze. it used to puzzle all thinking people why ponds and rivers do not freeze beyond a certain depth. This depends on a most curious fact, namely, that water is at Its heaviest when It reaches 40 degrees; Fahrenheit, that is, 8 degrees above freezing point On ft frosty night, as each top layer of water falls to 40 degrees It sinks to the bot tom; therefore, the whole pond has to drop to 40 degrees before any of It can freeze. At last It is all covered to this point, ami then ice begins to form. I!ut Ice Is a very bad conductor of bent. There fore. It shuts off the freezing air from the big body of comparatively warm water underneath. The thicker It gets the more perfectly dcs'S it act as a great cont. und that Is why even the Arctic Ocean never freezes beyond a few feet In thickness. A Census or llnoieiia. Dr. Ehrlleh, a physician of Slrass burg, Germany, bus recently published the results of an examination, made at the University of Slrussburg, of the colonies of bactcrlu residing on the surface of unwashed fruit, taken from the markets. He computed the num ber of bacteria found on half a pound of each of the fruits named as follows: Huckleberries. 40,0i0; damsons, 470, ooo; yellow plums, 700,xi0; pears, H00, 000; gooseberries, 1,000,000; garden strawberries, 2,(HN),(NK; raspberries, 4,0(10,000; grapes, 8,000,000; currants, 11.000,000; cherries. 12,000,000. Dr. Khrllcb advises 1 lint fruit be cleansed by the use of running witter. A Mild Comment. "In some of those schools In Bos ton's suburbs they teach the boys lo sew and the girls to drive nails." "Well, when It conies to darning socks I reckon I'd rather give the boys the Job." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Never speak III of the dead; there are enough who are living to keep you busy. GOOD RESULT FROM HAZING. Boy Benefited by Prank of R hol mate Gem. Dick'a Notice. There la one Akron boy who believes In hazing in spite of the many things which have been said against it The boy in question is Ianslng Odell, son of W. II. Odell, a member of the City Council and manager of the Great Falls Paper Company, of this city. Young Odell has reason to believe in hazing, as through a hazing experience he has secured tlie appointment of cadet at the West Point Military Acad emy. The appointment was made a short time ago by Senator Dick, al though it came while tbe latter was still a Representative. Last spring, while General Dick was at home resting from the cares of a strenuous political campaign, be was startled one night by hearing sounds of a scuffle In front of his bouse. Run ning to the door, he saw a crowd of high school students carrying off a lad despite the fight he was putting up against heavy odds. Kemeniberiug his Investigation of the uses and abuse of hazing at West Point, General Dick started after the struggling students, but before he could get to them they had bundled their victim Into a wagon and were driving away at breakneck speed. General Dick pursued them on foot for about a quarter of a mile, when he met a mau in a buggy, and pressing the rig Into service, continued the pursuit But the high school stu dents evaded him ami carried their victim to a swamp outside of tlie city, blindfolded him, and turned him loose. The boy found his way back to the city, little the worse for his experience, but bis father was not satisfied to let the matter drop there. He had ideas of his own about hazing, and brought the matter to the attention of the i llce, with the result that a number of young men were haled Into court. It was then that General Dick learned that the victim of the escapade was Ianslng Odell. The trial of the case developed little, as Odell refused to tes tify against his clas-sinales, and Oils fact pleased Genera! Dick immensely. The manly bearing of the lad und his determination not to "peach" on his classmates made a bit with the gen eral, und he kept him In mind. Odell wanted to go to the Annapolis Naval Academy, and his father asked Gen eral Dick to recommend him for ap IKilntment. The newly elected Senator did not secure an appointment to the twival school for his protege, but found a berth for him at West Point. This is tlie reason young Odell be lieves in hazing, and his experience with the lingers In the high school here Is likely to prove of benefit to him when he reaches West Point. Akron Special Cleveland Icnder. THE SADDLE ZIBRA. Zebra for carriage horses and for riding piirjKises may soon be a com mon sight for a recent experiment at the Imdon Zoo has demonstrated that thews beautifully-striped animals can be easily tamed, and that they are even more docile and easily managed, W.-. t. o I. 4Vnn 1 n I.W. ff (leU Ulfti-ll 111, lluitl Hit! p,. linl-'l Lii. ordinary horses. After sending four hours In breaking In a zebra Captain Horace Hayes is aide to ride It han dily. Ills first pupil was "Jennie,,' a 0 yearold zebra presented to King Ed ward by the Emeror Menelik, of Abyssinia. When first led into the paddock hhe was fidgety and nervous. In order to sooth her Captain Hayes etroked her gently with n long rod. She Ktixsl quite still during this pro ceeding, seeming not to resent It In the least. But when a ninn approach ed her with a halter she plunged and reared, raced madly round nnd round the paddock. Presently she quieted down and the trainer got near enough to slip a noose around her right leaf. She tried to kick It loose, but In dolus so got her left leg entangled in it She was thrown forward on her front legs In a kneeling position, ami then with a gentle push sent rolling on her side. Her four legs were then Imund with ropes until she was utterly helpless. Kcr an hour she was left In this plight, then the ropes were removed from her feet and she got up a meek and sub missive creutunv She stood still while a bit was placed in her mouth and n saddle. strapMsl to her back. Captain Hayes climbed into the saddle nnd Jennie consented to be ridden. She makes an excellent saddle horse, intelligent, fas) and thoroughly to be rolled upon. Only a Few Plans. "1 suppose," said the matinee girl, "you have made all your plans for next year." "Oh, bless you, no," replied the pop ular actress. "To be sure, my hus band, Mr. Blgstar, and I have ar ranged to be divorced, so that lie may marry Mrs. Footlltes, while I mnrry Mr. Footlltes; but whom we shall mar ry next we haven't decided as yet" Philadelphia Ledger. The women seem to like tales of knighthood chiefly for the reason that they are a reproach on the meu of today. KINO F.DWARD'S STIIII'KI) COW. OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Aaaerkaa Husbands. WBITEB In the London Telegraph deplore tbe fact that the American husband of the "middle claaa" doe not Interfere In domestic L1 affairs ana seiaom examine tne acoounta or 5 I the grocer, the butcher or the baker and hard ly x 1 ly knows the cost of staple article of food." ne aiao iui m uiai uio uuauana im eaunva ;aut and "doe not make hla wife a regular allowance, but (Irea ber aa much aa be can spare, freely, but without lystem." Tneae are simple extracts from the writer's long article md It shows the vast difference between the American ind the English husband. In England tbe husband thinks hat be has to "keep tab" on every penny and dole money iut to his wife In gingerly portions and, to tbe American vay of thinking, look upon his wife merely as a servant The writer in the London paper la perfectly right In his -eport The American husband is extravagant He does tot bother his hcud with the price of meat and flour and Kitatoes and other tUlags for the table. Whf abould he lo so? He has confidence in bis wife. The culinary de partment is not his dcfMirtment He runs things In his fft-e and allows bis wife to run things at borne. Both par ies are well content He has no Interest wbataoever lu lie bill sent in by his grocer or butcher beyond paying It fie knows that his wife has done tlie best she could. On he other hand, the wife does not concern herself with his tuslness. She knows taat the hills are paid promptly and 3iat her husband is satisfied. That is all she thinks about .he business. The natural Independence of the average American girl ould resent a husband's constant Interference In her lousehold duties and expenses. She considers herself per fectly capable of looking after tluit end of the family, and fhe is right This shows the difference between American tint English girls. St. Louis Republic. The Hero in Politics. HE case of Cantuin Richmond Pearson Hobson A I shows that Uie war hero does not always have I I tlie open sesame to the prizes of politics. Young B If, ,)...,,, riMilf.iiml frum tin, tiuvv a I'linf n r In-n ago, and announced that :iu election to Congress. Congress, as he recently jceii to work for the construction of a bigger navy for the 1 oiled States than England has. lie would give this coun y the s;iine pre-eminence on the sea that Great Britain las had for the past third of a century, even If this neces illnted the expenditure, within the next twenty yours, of wo or three billions of dollars. But Holison's war record did not prove to be so pow erful an asset as he and some others supisised It would be. 'Je has lieen beaten by John II. Bankhead, of the Sixth llubanin District, a very much less picturesque person, but I person who has hud an experience of eighteen years in Congress, and who served In the Legislature of his State u.'tiiy yeflrs before going to Washington, while Hobson lever ha had any jk11( leu I service of any sort Like his companion in arms, Dewey, the hero of the Herrlmoc has had bad luck In politics. The sailors In this wintry have been less fortunate than soldiers. Moreover, lie war In which Hobson figured has given no political irlze to anylsxly except President Roosevelt. It furnished lim tlie governorship of New York, and this led to. the iresldeney. The chances are that It has no more political kosts for anybody. St. Mills Globe-Democrat Will Penmanship Become a Lost Art. I SCl'SS ION of "vertical writing" in the schools, D which has been revived of late, naturally raises ihe questiou as to the future status of peninan mmml ship as a means of recording the facts of eom ',.flBftt" niercial exchange or conveying the thoughts of "" Is penmanship destined to become a ast art. "Vertical handwriting" was Introduced In the schools lecause It was supposed to be better adapted to the needs t our time than the old Spencerlan, running hand. It Is nore condensed, and, If properly taught, more legible than lie old style. But now comes tlie parental objector with lie contention that the "vertical" writing disqualifies the hild for clerical imsitlons In mercantile or hanking con CEED CALVES COD-LIVER OIL. V ni in u Is Make Great Ouins on This Kind of Nourinhincnt. An attempt Is being made to substi tute cod-liver oil for the natural fat of milk In feeding calves, according to the Philadelphia Record. Milk con tains, as is generally known, all the nutrients necessary for the full de velopment of young animal life. If one of these elements Is removed it has to lie replaced with a substitute of like kind in order to Insure thrifty development. Butter fat and crenrn, nf course, are the most highly prized and valuable of dairy products and some resourceful Individual suggested that these might be extracted by press ing the whole milk through a separa tor and their loss be ninde up to the calf by adding an equivalent amount of cod-liver oil, another fat nutrient. Experiments have accordingly been In progress for Rome time at one of the agricultural colleges In Yorkshire and recent reports seem to indicate that they are entirely successful There Is but little labor Involved. The cod- Uver oil and skim milk Is a cheaper feed than tlie whole mill; and the calves appear to thrive on It. During t feeding experiment embracing some H weeks it was found Hint the average dally gain of the calves fed on whole milk until they were weaned was 2 pounds; those fed on skim milk and oil and continued on an oil ration, 2.4 pounds, while those which had been fed oil nnd milk but from which the oil was subsequently withheld gained only 2.1 pounds. On slaughtering the animals no In jurious effects on the flesh could be discovered. The dally ration that ap peared to be successful was made up of five quarts of skim milk nnd two ounces of cod-liver oil. Fortunately tlie calves do not develop that aversion cod-liver oil which Is natural to most human beings, but, on the contrary, readily become accustomed to it Why don't they put rubber heels on boys' shoes? HE he Intended to seek One of his objects In declared, would have SOLDIERS SEATED Soldiers In tlie French army have a drill to perfect them in the art c sitting down comfortably without chairs. A dozen or more men stand in a circle each facing the back of the next in line, at a carefully calculated distance apart. At the word of command they sit down, each resting on the knees of the man behind him. In this way, as the accompanying picture illustrates, the weight is distributed around the entire circle. Food for Fishes. A recent publication of tlie Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History makes a new departure in the litera ture of scientific Investigation In Amer ica. This Is a rejiort of the results of an approximately continuous study of the minute plant and animal life (called the "plankton") of the Illinois River and its tributary waters, car ried on for five successive years by the staff of the Illinois biological station. It appears from these studies that the ratio of the "plankton" of the riv er, year In nnd year out, was 2.7 parts per million of the water in the stream, and its total average amount moving downstream past a glvcm point reach es the astonishing Aggregate of 75,000 tons per annum, or two nnd one-half tons an hour. This annual aggregate la about fifteen times the total weight cern, that It 1 "not a good band for bookkeeping. " And yet It waa this objection to the old, running, long hand that led to the Introduction of the vertical sygtent, whose condensed, legible form was auppoaed to adapt It perfectly to mercantile uses. The question suggested by the discussion of "vertical writing Is: How long will penmanship of any kind last? How long will we need to teach It In the ticbools? Isn't the ypewtiter supplanting It In all departments of busineaf endeavor? To discuss Intelligently theae queeUons we have first to get rid of the notion that there 1 i.nythlng sacred about "penmanship." Following the law of evolution, if It be come useless, it will have to go. A a matter of fact Un't Its usefulness even now confined to social correspondence and bookkeeping? How long will It take to break down the social barriers against the use of the typewriter for polite correspondence May not the typewriter become atf common and as necessary in the home as the sewing ma chine? Aa for bookkeeping, machines have already been in vented for writing in iiooks, and It can be but a question of time when mechanical Ingenuity will supply the perfect anal practical bookkeeping typewriter. And then what will become of penmanship and the sticklers for a partio ular form of writing? Chicago Record-Herald. Mined Marriages. neonle who have latelv been aeitatina the Iqueetlon of "mixed marriages" of various sorts I I meaning by the term, marriages between j7jjJlTr ui uiiinniL n uiic laLra aiiu uiutjicub' sects are, of course, looking at the question from their own race or religious standpoint al together. This is a matter in which all the bane, or all the good, depends on tlie point of view. Broadly speaking, the interest of the American nation, lies In a multiplicity of mixed marriages. The safety of the republic demands that there shall be no upgrowth ot castes, no hard and fast delimitation of component elei ments. Our public schools are the greatest mixing agency on the earth. Our politics are themselves a mixed mar riage of races and cults. America is tlie melting pot of the nations. Our young people have taken their cue from the chool and the hustings. They mix, and no one can stop them from mixing. Nine out of ten of the young families known to every reader of these words are probably in some sense fusions. Religious considerations are a more potent bar to mixture than race considerations, save when the race happens to be African. But even religious bars fall before a fusion of elements which is proceeding here on a grander scale, and in more rapid movement, than has ever beforo been known. Ixive laughs at canons, at rules, even at anathemas. Perhaps It would often do better to obey them than to scorn them. It all depends, in the last resort upon the Individual will. And we have here a land in which Cupid Is as free as air, with no will or tradition or authority ta overmaster him. New York Mail and Express. Boy Bandits and Their Origin. HERE Is a groat moral In the execution of A I the three Chicago boy bandits, and it shows' I I that there is something worse for boys than I M crtt rotf eu It- la tha rlima rmvpl thnt trlortflAa the deeds of train robbers, bank robbers and other robbers. This may be the initiation of; public sentiment building for tbe suppression of publishing houses that issue such pernicious books. Four legal hangings and one prospective hanging In Illinois and Missouri and nine murders are the latest crop of this kind of printing. The criminal press becomes aa much a part of the care of the state as the criminal who performs the homicides. The criminal play staged at the theater is also part of the machinery that supplies gallows' fruit. A censorship of publications and of plays is likely to suggest itself to the public mind, although Uncle Sam's supervision of the United States malls in some measure serves the purpose. This Is a free country In which no one Is allowed to" incite to crime by public speech. Is any one to be per mitted to incite to crime by public print? Books sold under the name of "The Boy Bandits" or similar titles will con tinue to do their pernicious work until public authority must interfere. Illustrated Home Journal. WITHOUT CHAIRS. of the fish taken from the river in a J'ear. , Tho conditions which favor a largn annual production of this minutd aquatic life also seem to favor a largo1 catch of fish, but no direct connection, of cause and effect Is here made out "Plankton" is, however, an Indispen sable element in the food of fishes, tho young of nearly every species in our waters being absolutely dependem!) upon it at sonic period of their lives,; and adult fishes of several species mak. Ing large use of It during the season of its greatest abundance New Evening Post ' Ynrtf After awhile, you find out what la best for you. Profit by your expert cue. It Is cruelty to Insist that an unmu slcal child take music lessona.