Aiding on a desert. A TRIP OVER THE SAHARA NOT ALWAYS UNPLEASANT. The Barking Camel and Ilia Trank*— .Inaaginr* Hlmaelf th* Hamming Bird, da Which Kipling'* Fancy Compared ■Ha ISHINO to give om baggage camel* an other day’« reat be fore starting on thf trying Journey from Murat Wells to Wa dy Haifa we profit ed by the delay t< take a long ride oul on the Abu-Hamed ro»J with our good friend Abdul Azhn Bey, says a writer In the London News, The ostensible object of thl* excursion was to see a huge rock in the shape ol a crocodile that Abdul Azlm had dis covered not long since about a couple of hours out from Murat and a few hundred yarda away from the Abu Hamed caravan track, Thl* rock, said our guide, had never yet been seen by Europeans, Mounted on a couple of our friend'* best bred running camels, and escorted by some half-dozen well-armed tribes men on small, active beasts as swift as -our own, we set out at that fast trot which Is as pleasant on a well-bred Hadjuy, as on a rough, bard-set brute It Is excruciatingly painful, It was Just after dawn dnd the air was delicious, for the sun does not begin to get really fierce until after 7 a. m., and as we wound down the Khor and out among the Kopjes of the desert, with a pleas ant breeze fanning our faces, with the camel's pad striking crisply on tbe firm, gravelly sand, and tbe men's accouter ments Jingling rhythmically as they Jogged along, we felt our blood tingle and our spirits buoyant with the exhil aration due partly to the glorious clt of the Joyonane** of thing* that he be gan suddenly to buck. Now, a bucking camel la, of all the plea*ant night* in nature, the moat laughable. The great beast *eem* at theae momenta of ex pansion to put off hla camel nature and to Imagine hlmHelf literally the bum ming bird to which Mr. Kipling's fancy has compared him. For Instance, when the spirit moves him to buck, the camel of a sudden hurls himself high Into the air, spread Ing out all hla splay limb* at right an gles to his unwieldy -irca*#. And he alights, after this gre que effort, with his feet all abroad, and a rock-splitting, spine-dissolving thud, only to make a fresh and more extravagant departure. It I# a soul-stlrrlng performance. He bring* a marvelous perseverance to the exercise and will keep it up over half a mile of country. Hut (t Is the hum ming bird he Is aping all the while, the graceful collbrl flashing Jewel-like Into the air (here the camel projects himself Into space) or poising feather light on the oleander blossom there he crack* a mountain on alighting). And he seems quite satisfied with the meas ure of success he attains, though It Is at best a success de'estlme. An Uirymlm l,o«k A locking device Is looked upon a* an esesntlal feature to every wheel by all bicycle riders. An Invention, pa tented by Max Oeseler, and known as the "Oessler lock," I* being placed on the market by Walter K. Idndsay He. Co., of Milwaukee. The lock Is placed Inside the front tubing of the frame, and does not mar Its appearance In the least. It Is cylindrical In form, one Inch long, and secured by means of a rubber washer expanded against the side of the tubing. The locking and unlocking Is effected by means of n key which engages the bolt directly, forcing It outwardly or Inwardly, lock ing the front wheel at an angle and thus bringing the bicycle out of opera tive position. Home of the points of superiority claimed for this lock are: First, It engages net filer spokes nor BOY’S ESSAY ON SHARKS. H* shows Much Skill In CMMmll>( • Kish Story. An examiner of lads under 1& for thq civll-servlee commission gave for a question, ’’Describe the habits of flsh," says the London Church Times. Here Is a literal transcript of one out of a batch of some hundreds of answers: “The shark Is about twenty feet long, and has five rows of teeth when the shark Is going to catch Its pray It turns on Its side. The sharks are found In India, where they are very numerous In Africa, etc. The way to catch sharks Is lowering a piece of meat on a sharp hook (and sailors will do It for amuse ment), and the shark Is very hungry always, that he will grab at the meat and And himself caught. “One of his foes are Hie sord Ash It will go and run Its sword through Its stummick. “When the shark has been Aoatlng about on the water for some time It gets a lot of small Ash In Its mouth and they will go and lay on the beach end let. small birds come in their mouth and pick them off and will not heart (hern. The shark can live In water and on land. Going from Kngland to In dlad, you will see sharks In the nlle, they will follow ships for many miles on purpose to get soma meat, and then perhaps not get any. They are differ ent kinds of sharks, the Black shark, etc. "The shark Is a very curious animal, It can lay Its teeth down when not catching any food. "Once upon a time there was a ship going to amerlca, and on board some slaves the slaves were packed so dose together that they could not live, and the cuptin of the ship you’st to let some come upon deck, and many of the slaves you’st to Jump oveboard, and be eat with sharks, so the captln deter mined to stop It If he could. Bo one day a black slave woman was Just In the acted to Jump overboard when the cap tin caught her, and had as many slaves as be could upon dock. And then he MAMMOTH MONSTERS THAT LIVED IN AMERICA AOE8 AGO. I Q, £) 1 Time hag brought muny change* to !he American continent. A trlde of one or two million year* ago the region that la now Dakota, Utah and other states In the Kocky Mountain* was blessed with a tropical climate, the arid plains of the present were lagoon* filled with warm water and surrounded hy waving palms and other vegetable growth to be found In torrid zone*. The region waa Inhabited by animals, strange and weird animals which have long since become extinct and their bones are uow hurled under three miles Of solid rock. Prof. Henry K. Osborn, curator In the American Muaeuui or Natural History, hag written an Interesting story of these prehistoric mil no*I*. which sip pears In the September t'eniury. ('hag. Knight ha* drawn picture* of th"iu from descriptions furnished by Prof. Osborn and other scientists. The great four-horned ulntathere was found In the Hrldger region of Southern Wyoming and Utah. A pic ture of Its head Is reproduced, show ing the peculiar formation of the horns and their arrangement. The body was longer, but In other respects resembled an elephant, and when grown It weighed two tous. Its brain weighed less than a pound. The ulntathere had less brain in proportion to Its sixe than any other warm-blooded animal. With Its tremendous body Its brain was as small as tbut of a dog, and to this fact Prof. Osborn attributes the suitual'a early extinction. Tb« tllanothcre was another giant that nourished perhaps s half million year* after the last th.m those of the unltathere, thus proving that tho bones are plentiful In the South Dakota l-ak<* basin, and are al ways found In a strata higher than those of the uintathere, thus proving that Its family tree does not extend backward so far. The pictures sh<*w what the animal looked like when ulive. lie was about the same alxe us the uin tathere, but had more brains and eho ild have lived louger, hut ho failed to do so. Among the fosaila cud skeletons of animals that have beta extinct for a million years are found skeletons of turtles, alligators and garfish, exactly like those to he found at the present age. They have survived, whether they were flttiwt or not, and live to-day as their ancestors did two million years ago, wm ( uk lltifi • •*a «•«•«*•' * ' >‘4 *'» ''*«•■ * *>•«.. i»i «i •***"*• iu Z rc.i ‘"’tTVi,!,!*?« «♦■ V It luiiM mwiii m tmi imn «. j tu wUjfta at •*»» ••<>«cl »*»* fhaaiii** at mlZrnnt **> ik/m.-lV.i.** «M INM •« a m. **| «u »r {Mrb*M 14 vaa Iky Ilka IWi All at ik«a 4» a»4 aaa aaa aa a«« V%k4H« Ilf Ala «aa#a •prockeu, doing away »ith tn<> rutnuu* ! effact |irwlui«l lit attempting tu rhl» ! before unlocking the machine He. 1 <>ud, hammer*. Alee, ptiera, nipper* are harmlean The loeh la out of eight as4 he goileti at Third. It I* ' Mna-plrkable Kuttrth. neigh* tea* khan I tan ounce*, I* realty operated, quickly ' adjusted, la atnaya In lb* machine ; when needed; hoi In your pochel or at home Indlanapotle Meniinet. a n«i *4 a r»»o*i* I picked up a nan thtug fur rldere of the nheel la New Verb * f**r day* **•“ »m*eat*d a popular nheel man ' Than* «ho bar* bad imubte tu Audio* am all puncture* mil appreehala It Too bnen lb* *u*tum«ry nay In heal* a tunctet* t# In immaie* iba nbael In a tub ef naia* Wbereaar tb* alt bubble* ; there mill be found Iba puneiur* In ■urn earn*, henever. the nlr pt*«#ur* I* not #-»•• lent l« make lb* air hub hie* lb ***** of Ibl* hind lather rum* auap and amend II **« the Urn A a»ap Hubble nIII horn then u«er *«*f> punetora, It matter* not bon email It t* time tueatnd, nearly *«•»» '“•» aa .na *S«i to do, u« ibtna* h# J * bleb I* lb* **m# iht*« tor lb* A’ • majority tend them to lb* abop# In be repaired, anjtben '* Waablnglon it*' had a rudp fulra<'4 arouml her walat, an» he did not hear a •tuple Hew of Wen# from the ootalda aorta In all the rear# of hla voallha# meal lla did out even know Ikal Parnell waa dead la our prison#, a hick have Ike am rulen of altamw «a l ahaoloic •» lu#i»n ike Inmate* l«ar* aveeylbtap ibai la pula* on, bull atthla and allkwol the priaoa b> a ••stem ol alpa# that than wot vWt* New York W.>«td ta* *uii u#e.ita#ili Mr* Tiilktbl IVhal 4,#* tuake )ou talk ae mark ta iout sleep Joseph* Joseph Uweh' It * the oat) than** I •««» fat. A DIFFICULT QUESTION. It Mm«d an Rm; Oaf, bat tha Qgtrf Kdltar Klnndnrad Over It. From the Chicago Post: "The ques tion, sir," said the chairman of the delegation, "Is an Important one, but more difficult to answer than you would think when you first hear It. We bare wagered a matter of three glasses of beer and two cigars on it, also, so there Is a double reason why you should be very careful In answering It.” "Fire away," said the query editor shortly. "Well, you see It's this way," ex plained the spokesman. "Over In our ward there were two men named John Jones, and they were father and son. Is that clear?" "Perfectly. Go ahead." ' "Well, last night they were both burned to death In the same hoTte, and to-day when we were making up a list of those who lost their lives the boys Insisted on putting down ‘John Jones, 8r„‘ and ‘John Jones, Jr.’ ” "Quite right,” asserted the query edi tor. "That’s what we came to ask you about,” returned the spokesman. “Of course, we ail anew wno was meant, but technically-—" "Technically It was exactly right,’ Interrupted the query editor. "Sure?" "Sure! Of course, I'm sure. Hoi else would you refer to them?" "Ob, If you’re eo dead sure about It we're not going to dispute you, but you ought to take all the technicalities intc consideration." "I have!” thundered the query editor. "If you can advance any reason why they should be referred to In any other way, flee ahead; If you can’t, got out and let me go on with my work." "Well," said the spokesman slowly and deferentially. "I'd figured It out a little differently. You see, the old man lived down stairs and the hoy lived on the floor above, and the Are started In the basement. Consequently, It stand* to reason that the old man died first.” "What of it?" demanded the query editor. "Why, when the old man died tht young man ceased to be ’Junior,’ dldn’i he?" "Um-ah—’’ "And If he did he was not John Jones, Jr., when be died. Consequently no John Jones, Jr., died at all, That Is the way I figured It out, but, of course, a query editor is always right, and if you say that—’’ The chairman of the delegation dodged and a paper-weight struck the wall. Then the delegation retired, while the query editor kicked himself around the room and declared that the next man who tried to play him for a sucker would not live to tell of It. Tola Once Mors. I»rd Russell’s visit to America re minds the London Chronicle of an an cient story. It saya that during Lord Russell's previous tour In this coun try with f.«ord Coleridge he came In contact with many members of the bar, Including Mr. Evarts. It was while walking with Mr. Evarts one day along the banks of a stream that his atten tion was called to a point at which Washington, according to a tradition, had thrown a dollar right across. The water was wide, and Ixml Russell looked doubtful. "You kn*w a dollar went further In those days than It goe* now.” The American lawyer blandly Insinuated. "Ah,” said Lord Russell, quite equal to the occasion, "and It may have been easy enough to Wash ington; It Is well known that he threw a sovereign across the Atlantic." Mtad*ut* HatlU WnUr Work*. The students at Park college. Park vllle, Mo., are an enterprising lot of young men. They are going to build a water works system for the town. The college Is conducted partly on tho co-operative plan. CAUSE AND CURB OP HEADACHE An eminent physician says the best treatment for headache Is preventive, arid If we would all allot eight hours for work, eight for play, aud eight for sleep, we would rarely suffer from this cause. The headache which comes from dis eased eyes Is most common and least r< cognised. Its symptoms are pain In the eyes, temples and over the brows, Hot water Is a very valuable stimulant for the eyes. For nervous headache a hot hath, a stroll iu the cool air or a nap tti a cool, quiet room will often he found successful, A headache from Intlkue may he helped by preeslug a sponge wet with hot water on the nape of the neck and on the temples. Ill linos or sick headaches are com mon to the Aral half of life, and some times stop of their own accord when I one reaches middle age. They come I when a person lisa eaten food wttlch i doe* nut digest readily, and a careful I diet l* imperative, sweetmeats and pas try being especially dangerous. Neuralgia Is caused eul only cool sir, hut by acidity of the ipasili, ] starved nstvsa or Imperfect diet. 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