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» WILHELMINA. '•'Wanted—In a publishing house, a well-educated woman; must be over 30 years of age.* “Isn't it mean. I don't seem to fit In aitvwhere. Very young girls and old women are in demand, but a girl of 23 Is neither young nor old; a drug In the market!” Wilhelmina Thurston looked disgusted. "You would Just fit In there. Will,” said her sister, reflectively. Wilhelmina went to the mirror and took the pins from her luxuriant hair, which was rolled hack loosely from her face and coiled on the crown of her head. She parted the hair down tho middle and drew it hack plain, braiding It and dressing It low. It wa3 unbe coming, for her rather severe type of beauty was rendered stern by the change. Sidney Spencer sat in his private of fice, with a bored look on his face and a pile of manuscript at his elbow. Out side in tho main office the clerks nudged each other and tittered, as young men will when the proprietor Is out of sight. “Another antiquated female!" whis pered John Stanwood to his neighbor, as a light stop on the stair was heard. A moment later Wilhelmina was ushered Into Spencer's office. “How old are you?” was the first query. "Thirty-one," she said bravely. "What experience?” "Ten years in a newspaper office." This was true, for while a mere child > she had assisted her father on the Daily Bulletin, now among the miss ing journals. .Spencer looked intently at the applicant. She seemed more promising than the rest. "Are you sure your age is 31? You look young, very young. Wilhelmina ro;.e to the occasion. Her assumption of offended dignity would have deceived a keener man than Spencer. "I’m sorry, sir, to have troubled you; perhaps you require a certificate of birth. Unfortunately I have none. Good afternoon.” "Wait a moment! Pardon mo. You do not understand why 1 am so par ticular in regard to age. There are a dozen young idiots in my employ who waste their time in attentions to a younger woman. Harmless enough, I'll admit, but this is not a courting school, and the work requires undivided at tention.” "I understand. I was young once myself," she sighed. There was an awkward silence. “Thirty-one is not very old,” said Spencer encouragingly. "It only seems old to fellows in the twenties.” "Thirty-one is a respectable age and needs no apology," was the tart reply. GATHERING UP HER BELONGINGS Her gray eyes snapped and she looked fierce. ‘‘She’ll do,” said Spencer to himself. “There will be no flirting.” Aloud he said: "Can you stay this morning and help me out with this?” Indicating a pile of manuscript. “I shall be glad to begin at once,” was the reply. A half dozen times during the morning Wilhelmlna caught her employer looking curiously at htr; she wondered if he suspected her de ceit. At night he said pleasantly: “I am very well satisfied with what you have done,” so she was engaged. Much as she longed to appear her old pretty self, Wilhelmlna dared not put aside her dark, unornamented gown and tightly drawn black hair. Her deak being In Spencer's office, and the fact that much of their work was done jointly, placed them on a fa miliar footing. It was agreeable work end had she not been acting a part. Wilhelmlna would have thoroughly en joyed It. A date In an article one day led Spencer to tell his age, 28, After this she felt still more uncomfortable, raying to Alice: “I wonder how he likes working with hU grandmother ?’* One morning when Spencer catne In Wilhelmlna knew «oruetblug had hap pened. In the months they had worked together she bad learned to note every change In his expressive countenance. She had also learned tu rare dearly for i his good opinion; the lie the had told j him weighed heavily. She found her- j •elf wishing that he knew she was only ! >3; five years younger than himself Would It make a difference? Thie mottling he locked at her s-> Intently that she blushed Then he | said abruptly 'What makes women so secretlee In regard to their age? J Are added yrars a crime* You are the I first use I have met who eunfeeees to 1 81; you ars realty yonager Lathing aad are brave nut to lie about It. Pour Wilhelmlna? Without thinking of the rosseitsvscet she said, hurried ly “I did Ite I am only 13 I es pet,t«.| to be caught unite lime and , I'm foolish enough tu step Into the I trap Shall I tests this morning?** fiyeMef fuse end closed the •fosse In to the outer •vf.tee tty I hi« time Wit helming was gathertnf np her k’l •*!' ings and crowding them helter-skelter into her bag. “What's your hurry?" Spencer asked, putting a detaining hand on her arm. Wilhelmina looked up into a face so full of sympathy and tenderness that the tears of vexation on her lashes mir rored the wonderment in her eyes. “I want you to stay, little girl, be cause—well, because, I can't live with out you.” Wilhelmina concluded to stay. COUNTRY WITH ONE SAWMILL. let It Alxtunil* In Valuable Hint lltuutl ful Wood*. I'nele Sam’s new possessions, Cuba and the Philippines, are destined to cut considerable figure In the lumber trade as soon as American methods of push and enterprise are adopted, says tho Seattle Pod-Intelligencer. Cuba possesses some of the best mahogany and Spanish cedar in the world, 3nd the Philippine islands are covered With mahogany, ebony, eamphor wood and other valuable hardwood forests. .1. G. Hinkle, a member of the First regi ment of Washington voluuteers, a practical furniture maker, recently wrote to Charles R. Sllgh of Spokair, from Manilu, as follows: “There are half a dozen hardwoods here that take a high polish. They are somewhat lighter than mahogany in appearance. I know the name of only one. camphor wood. I think the others do not grow in other places. The native names would not enlighten you in regard to them. Ebony is also abundant. It is of.mahogany that I wish to speak, and on this point I beg information, it is the bull pine, or water elm of this country, so to speak. The meanest hovel as well as the plainest partition work is of mahogany. Notwithstand ing its abundance, lumber is high here. The native works almost for u song, but when it comes to whipsawiug 1,000 feet of boards you can understand why many people can't stand much of this song. There is one sawmill in the islands. The logs are cut up in the mountains and hewed out square, then nosed so that they will plow through reeds, grass, etc., down the Pasig liver. There are great yards full of them, and wiim American inacumery ami enter prise this industry could lie made of enormous profit. A word as to the quality of the lumber. We are at pres ent quartered in an old palace, once the tesidence of the archbishop of the church. I have hern told by some of the oldest natives that it has been here for fifty-eight years. In the main floor upstairs all the hoards are two feet wide and over, none le--.s. They are laid with screws that have heads countersunk and covered. There is not a single season check or knot In the floor that 1 have found. There are old places in the altar work of the various churches that have been built as far back as 1743 that only changes to the darker color with this weight of years. I am not posted on the differ ent qualities of lumber, but my Judg ment leads me to think this is the best.” James A. Fltzhenry, of Company B, same regiment, writes a Ballard friend as follows: "They teil us that this is the great est timber country in the world. There are four kinds of timber—mahogany, ebony, camphor wood and red wood. There are some fine timber claims that run right down to the edge of the riv er. Of all the timber that is used here there is only one sawmill on the island. That is run by a Chinaman, and he only saws the logs Into cants, and the rants are sold, and the man that buys them has to whipsaw them and make his lumber. These cants sell for $100 (Mexican) a thousand. Mahogany logs grow nearly as large as the flr in the states. As mahogany is the principal wood, you can see for yourself how much money a man could make if he owned a sawmill here. Before thi3 trouble with the insurgents got so bad my captain told me that there were ten officers of different regiments form ing a syndicate and were going to send to the States for hacking to start a sawmill. They say that there will be a boom in this country as soon as the trouble is over. If so, this will he a good place to make money. A man can start a small business and hire native labor for 50 cents a day, Mexi can money; that is, 25 cents in our money." • LONGEST DAYS. I.lgltl on the K|illMiilwr(«n fur Tlirru Months. The following list shows the dura tion of the longest day in various place* all over the world: New York has. so to say, the shortest longest day. which Is about 15 hours long; while In Montreal it la Id. laindon aud llrenteu each bask in a Id1* hours' length of day. closely followed by Hamburg and Hantaig with 30 minutes more The longest day In Stockholm lasts lith hours, but both dt Peters burg and Tobolsk. Siberia, go one be’ - ter with n day of eaarlly 19 Mount and their shortest & hours June 31 brings to Tomes. Finland a summer dsy nearly 33 hours long and Chris: - ms• day 3th hours only, tllow un fortunate a re the children of Tome* f I The foregoing lengthy day*, however, are easily left behlad by Wardburg Norway which boast* of a day lasting without brush from May 31 to Jui* but even this la surpassed by dpitg targe* where tairnbile diet a* tbe longest dey la something Ilk# three *n| a half months, M a rotes ast fere Sr. Twelve thou read microbe*, at t wag la a line, would make a pruswaaortt only «Mi* inch in length ANIMAL COMBATS, BmtJ That Are t'onllned In Cage* Flglit 111 Sheer Devilment. Fights in sheer devilment sometimes take place between animals in confine ment, says Cassell’s Magazine. A short, sharp battle took place in Ed monds’ menagerie between a lion and a tiger Just forty years ago. The lion was the same which had escaped from Jamrach’s yard, in what was then Rat cliff highway, and bitten a boy. Mr. Edmonds bought it, and is said to have hilled it as "the tiger that swallowed the child.’’ Of course the beast was a great draw, but after a few days In Its new quarters tho tiger managed to draw forward tho sliding shutter and ■squeeze Itself into the adjoining den, where a lion was confined. The lion resented the intrusion, but was imme diately seized by tho throat and, though thero wore tremendous strug gles, the fight was practically over a3 Boon as it commenced. Tho tiger never loosed Its hold and in a few min utes the lion was dead. About twenty years later a fatal fight took place in tho lion house of the Zoological gar den, Regent’s park, between a tiger and a tigress. The latter was ill-tempered and, In sparring with her mate, drove her ciuw Jhrotigh his nostril, and so began the fray. The tiger throw her down and struck her several times with his paw, but without doing serious damage, then turned away, as If to dis continue the fight. This the tigress would not suffer, for she sprang at h!s flank ami fixed her teeth in Ills thigh. This was more than he could stand. One wild hound freed him; In a mo ment she was knocked over, and ho gripped her by tho neck, In which his huge canine teeth made fearful wounds. Sutton, the keeper, now man aged to drive him off, and he used to say that when tho tiger loosed his hold tho blood spouted from his victim's neck and splashed on tho roof of th» lofty den. AN ITALIAN ON THE ENGLISH. Too Culm for Anything to Arotito Any Interest. "I think that the English calmness,” so writes Pietro Verrl In one of his letters of 1780, published In the Hu manitarian, “iloes not depend so much on the climate as on the fact that hero many truths have already become trite and commonplace. In Paris there Is an extraordinary enthusiasm for philoso phy because philosophy and Its truths are diversified and contrasted, and from this is produced a shock and a ferment which throw all minds into revolt; but in London no one gets ex cited about anything. If you wish to believe in nothing, you are at liberty to do so. If you want to believe only a little, you can do so. If you wish to believe this way, or that way, you are always free to do os you like. Should you want to found a new sect, you can found it. I)o you wish to say that the king Is a fool? You can say it as often as you please—my servant says it a hundred times a day. To sum up, here liberty, not being bound by any lim itation, is altogether peaceful. The most wretched beggar Is free to publish his opinion about anybody and every body, and a group of Scottish Journal ists do nothing every day but deride the government and the court. But, after all, what pleasure does an emo tional man derive from this? I, who, when In Milan had such a great deslro to laugh at our senate and our magis trates, do not even think of such a thing here. It would be just the same thing as to speak of the weather. N'itimur in vetltum. Home truths have become so common here that they no longer form the subject of surprise or enthusiasm.” About Stage Favorites. Gross earnings of twelve leading Am erican star actresses dn this thirty week season: Gross Name— Age. Receipts. Maude Adams .27 * 390,000 Mrs. I^slie Carter.34 330.000 Viola Allen .36 300,000 Julia Marlowe .34 270,000 Ada Itehan .39 250.000 Lillian Russell .39 250,000 Annie Russell .35 250,000 Adele Ritchie .26 200,000 May Irwin .37 150,000 Annn Hold .2H 150,000 Julia Arthur .30 100,000 Minnie Maddern Fiske ...33 100.000 Average age .33 *2.740.000 Gross reoelp:* of eleven star actors In the season of thirty week* which has just closed: Gross | Name Age. Receipts, j Richard Man-Held .42 * 425.00c William Gillette..,.46 310 000 John Drew ......46 .300 000 Nat C. Gnow In.42 *06.000 IvUaid II. Potheru...... .35 300,000 ; Henman Thouipenn ..,,, 66 250,tent (4o| Smith llussell. 51 250.000 Henry Miller . 37 ;oo'ooo William II Crane....... 54 200000 Andrew hlarh ..... S3 2ooouo Jamee K liarkett . 30 150.000 Average age .44 *3 ggj IMM i *»0* et UewO tke destructive value of little 1 thing* the la*t straw broke the cant , r! * bat k I r» *h) didn t MKr body keep it to lb hie tke elephant wtth”*- Detroit Free 1‘reae H»».C Did a I I we you f.n Ike tw«rh la* I night with one of thwaw 1 gi'Wy <*H4bretiee* It .it* Very likely I had my grnndmuthrr out fur a itrell la the *v«niag WAS HABD TO KILL BEAR SURVIVED LEAD AND A PRECIPICE. Itc<iutre<l a lliaar Ip a Canyon and Morn Lead — California Klnlirrniuu Huilrljr Interrupted liy a lllg Ilruwn Hear with an I’rIjt Disposition. From the San Francisco Chronicle: Wlille fishing last Sunday near the head of Squaw Creek, In Sonoma coun ty, a party of San Francisco and Clov erdale sportsmen were attacked by a huge brown hear. Luckily they were armed, and soon halted bruin In his fierce charge by some well-directed shots. After a long chase through dense underbrush and among pitfalls and precipices the bear was killed. The weight of the brute was 4G7Vi pounds. The members of the party were Steve Giannetonl, Fred I). Spaulding, John F. Qua tie of San Francisco and George H. llall and John Arnold of Cloverdale. They had been camping and fishing for three days near (he Geysers, Last Sunday they pushed on up toward the headwater of Squaw Creek, ami not far from the limits of Lake Mendocino and Sonoma counties. In search of a like ly spot In which to cast their lines, the fishermen were crossing Humming HIrd canyon, when one of them caught sight of the great brown creature ad vancing toward them, There was no time for the digging of trenches. Quickly they imslung their guns, and each one took careful aim, first select ing a tree thut could easily he climbed. On lumbered the big fellow until he was turned by a shot from Spaulding's rifle. ,\ second later George Hall pink ed the plantigrade Just behind the left shoulder, whereupon the bear col lapsed, lost his footing and went tumbling to the bottom of the canyon far below', carrying with him great rocks and hushes uprooted In his swift descent. Even then the bear was not done for. lie scrambled to his feet, growling fiercely, and made off toward the head of the canyon, followed by the dog of the party and all five of the men, of whom Hall was the fast est runner. Fully a half mile away Hall came upon the quarry, nearly ex hausted. He was finished by the nim ble Hall at close range. Hall’s break neck race through the thick chaparral and over the stones had left him al most devoid of clothing, and this fact, together with his scratehed-up face, led the slower members of the party, who soon arrived, to believe that he ha’ had a hand-to-hand encounter with the bear. GOSSIP FROM INDIA. The weather as Simla hag not been particularly favorable to the usual out door amusements picnics, Gymkhanas and the like- and Ixml Curzon himself has been suffering from a bad chill contracted during a recent gpell of damp weather. After all, the ladles of Simla were disappointed in the rum ored drawing room, but the usual full dress birthday ball was given by Lady Curzon on June 20 In Ootaeamund the sporting season Is in full swing, though preparations for the more effeminate form of amuse ment are also well to the fore. The finals for the golf championship, played at Ooty, ended In favor of Dr. Menzieg, while the ladies' cup in the lawn-tennis championship was carried off by Mrs. de Fonblanque. Several al terations have been made In the hunt ing fixtures for the season, and the time of the "meets" has been altered from 6:30 to 9:30, a popular change, as 6:30 entails very early rising, and Ooty can he very “shivery" at sunrise. His highness the maharajah of Mysore is a devotee of the chase. Kodlakanal Is one of the smaller hill stations where the overworked and heat-worn Inhabitants of the Madras presidency go for the hot season, and besides being much quieter than Ooty, is also much cheaper, always a consid eration In a land of rupee deprecia tion! It Is situated io the Putney hills, some seven or eight hours' drive up from the plains, and Is quite one of the healthiest spots In the presidency. Among other diversion is tennis on the clnb courts, boating on the lake and hiryeliug ad libitum. The rajah of Pftdukntta 1s ut Kodia this season, where he has a beautiful place of his own. He is a thorough sportsman and very English in ways and dress. laist season he was in England for some months. It Didn't Work. Deary Madame, I haven't had anything to eat for three days. Mra, liardup You're doin' pretty well; hut I've Just been readin' about a man who fasted for four weeks, and worked every day at that. I net* Hu Sued ut tllw. Ml** frank tirurge semi* awfully fund of hia unde Mr*. Kharpe Why* Wise frank lies let him bate his wstrh. chain, atu.l and ring »in«e I have huuwn him. end that's only a month. Iti* leek. W g« -Trotter has great lurk at the r».-ea. be alware picks the wlaaere, j vv egg V»». and he seems to he equally •wereaefoi la plwklag the lowers eegMMmnseamanmme hMgmsHwn Jay ItaaaS Ike Hoard. "I kileaded a strawberry faetiyal last sight * Where waa Hf **At iranilsi house, at diaaer the laadSady (see we two btg dtehe* aptefe “ I STEEL RAILS GROUND TO DUST KfToct of flip Constant Wear anil Toar un u ItiCin.Kl. As consumers of steel the railroads in the vicinity of Pittsburg lead the world. During the last three months 170 miles of new steel rails averaging ninety pounds to the yard have been put down or distributed within thirty mllee of the center of the city, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. There are 1,760 yards In a mile, which would mean 299,200 yards for one line of rails In 170 miles, or 2G,928,000 pounds, or fay 63,856,000 pounds for both lines of rails, or 269,283 tons of steel rails need ed In one year for Pittsburg roads, 90 per cent of which was for renewals on old lines. There is somewhat of a mys tery regarding where the steel worn out on a big road goes to. It Is ground down almost to Imperceptible dust by the constant friction oi the grinding wheels, end this friction is 46 per cent greater on curves than on straight stretches of track. The wear Is also much greater on ascending grades on a straight track than on a descending grade. On curves the wear Is mostly lateral or horizontal, while on stralgut track It is perpendicular, with a slight Inclination toward the Inside of the rail next to the flanges of the wheel. The millions of tons of steel ground down to dust by the wheels of trains In t .is country arc lost. It cannot be regained for scrap, because It settles down Into (tie ballast, la brushed away by the tush of air caused by the swiftly mov ing curs, and, like the star dust which falls upon the ocean. It is lost forever. In time as civilization and the wheels of civilization move on, the railroads of the chief steam highways, as well as part of the adjoining ground, will be come thoroughly Impregnated with steel and Iron dust from the grinding of rails and wheels, because it must be rente1 tube red that the wheels grind ITIe rails and the* rails grird the wheels, and tills conslunt shower of Iron and steel dust Is accumulating ulong our railroads at a rapid rate. BEAR MEAT IN LONDON. II Is Very Popular unit llrlui;* h Hood Price. I/indon News: A consignment ot frozen Russian boars arrived at Lead enhall market a day or two ago. Mix came In their skins u block, a brown, two half-grown bears und two cub* - and In addition there were <>0 pounds of ursine Joints, steaks and cutlets. A correspondent Informs ua that he In quired how far the speculation In bear’s meat bad been justified by re sults. “Gone, all gone," said Mr. Tabor, “save that Joint hanging there, which you may take home with you If so minded.” It needed more courage to accept than to decline with thanks. "See this,” pressed Mr. Tabor, encour agingly, at the same'tlme producing a bulging meat basket, containing about a baron of bear. "A gentleman of light and leading In the Fourth Es tate will call for it shortly,” And he did, Mr. Tubor straightway Introducing the epicure und the skeptic. The val iant trenchman then pronounced a glowing eulogium on the succulence of ursine flesh, which may possibly blos som into a "Dissertation on Roast Hear" In one of the new Sunday papers, should righteous Indignation spare them long enough. In bis view bear tasted as sweet as a Southdown sheep, and the British palate was ridiculous ly squeamish, lie strode away ua Jauntily as a man goes to a feast. The salesman, resuming, said the six bears had all gone to restaurateurs up west. He supposed they were eaten now, though whether digested he could not say. They brought two shillings a pound In Ixmdon. While hanging In the market the hears attracted bigger crowds of curious spectators than ever gathered around a bear pit at the Zoa OLDEST JOURNALIST 1 IMIU n \ Irtinit l>»lly fit Nlncljr-Flm Y«*urn of A The Fremdenblatt (Tourist Journal! which is published daily at Vienna, hus the unique honor of having on Its staff the oldest working journalist in the world, Herr Leopold Hitter von Hlum encron, who was born on Feb. 21, 1804. On his 85th birthday, Iu February last, he was surprised to find the desk of Ills editorial office decorated with Mow ers. Herr von Hlumenerou still walks every morning to and from the Frem denblatt offices iu had weather and In good, mounts to the first floor, reads the papers at his desk, and writes wl*h i his own hand a leaderette or para graph for the evening edition, as well as, in the afternoon, one or two con tributions to the mornlug issue. Hr na* in the military and diplomatic service before he turned Journalist, and In hi* new profession utilised th*» experience of hts former calling* Surgut Himself. A Me nt'intnded person* are not In frequently met among the nodical pro f< -ton who if ail men should always have their wit* about them. It Is re lated that a well known doctor was one* present In a public piece when an nr 'Idea* wrurntl, and sewing g wounded loan went alniut tailing "A doctor* A doctor* Somt-Utdy gu f> tfh a doctor"* A friend who was hr his side ventured to Inquire. "Well, Well what aboil yourself” ‘Oh, dear,** answered the doctor, suddenly rwewltlng the fact that he belonged to the medical prulMlaa. I didn't think at that" UmiIkS Is hssslsi “I hear Mi-* dq tailin', has a very las volte I «u«-* >. »r dim » hear It. or > ...» • e|M It ti betel” BLAINE'S CRANDSON A WRITER A Vrrjr young Contributor will* a Very III* Name. A very young contributor with a very familiar name sends this story to the letter Box. says St. Nicholas. He calls It “Jerry.” Jerry Field lived in a large house with two deaf half-blind c aunts, In the upper part of New York city. Jerry often wished that he was a newsboy and could jump on cart and cry: “Extra Telegram, just out!” and not the nephew of two rich maiden aunts. But, as he could not, he had to hope for the best. One spring day, us Jerry was walking down Broadway, he saw a newsboy who looked exactly like himself. Jerry accosted him thus: ‘You just look like me and have the same sort of volte. Now, If you want, we'll change In some dark alley and you put on ray clothes and I'll put on yours and take your papers. You go to IS West Eighty-First stioet and act asyou think best.” The trancactlon was no sooner said than done. So Jerry went Ills way and the newsboy Ills. In about two weeks a miserable, half-starved newsboy could have been seen crying In Central park, ile, however, had not been trying long when he saw a vic toria with two old ludles in It and a yrung boy. Jerry gave a yell and made a dash for the carriage, but It had gone and Jerry wandered back to Ills seat, crying bitterly. In about twenty min utes the same carriage appeared, but Jerry was not to lose It, so he cried to the coachman to stop, which lie did, and Jtrry made himself recoglnzable. When they reached home lie told bis story. The newsboy, however, was not to be left out. He was sent to board ing school and lived to be a great man, JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE III. PEOPLE OF TITLE. Extensive Improvements are to lie carried out at Sandringham before Oc tober. The prince of Wales has de cided to introduce incandescent light. The Empress Eugenie haa been cruising In the neighborhood of Na ples In her yacht Thistle, and has vis ited Salerno, Tmalfl, Sorrento and tho Islands of Capri and Ischia. The em press Is In much better health than when she left Cape Martin, and she will probably extend her cruise to Cor fu and Palermo, it being her Intention to land front the yacht at Marseilles, and she will then proceed to Paris on her way to England. The Queen of (he Netherlands and her mother, the Queen dowager, who have been staying for three weeks at Hadenwt Per, In the Black forett, are now stopping at Konigswinter, near Bonn, In order that thqy tnay see something of the Queen of Swedpn.who Is an aunt of Queen Emma, and she is residing at Hcnnef, a village about two miles higher up the Rhine. Queen Wilhelmlna and hpr mother will spend a month at the chateau of Socstdljk, near Utrecht, when they return to Holland, before settling at Hulshoo foi the summer. The comtesse de Paris, who has left Vlllamanrlque, her estate In Andalusia, after a residence of seven months, has been on a visit to the due and duchesse de Chatres at the chateau of Salnt-Fir min, In the park at Chantilly. The comtesse de Paris and Prlncesse Isa belle d’Orleans are going to England shortly on a visit to the due and duchesse d’Orleans at York house, Twickenham, and they will be the guests of the queen at Windsor castle shortly after her majesty’s return from Balmoral. The comtesse de Paris In tends to spend the summer and carl/ autumn at the chateau of Randan, her beautiful domain In the Puy-de-Dome. It Was Lucky. The little boy’s mother awoke the olher night and remembered that something had been left unlocked in the lower part of the house. So she quietly stole down the stairs and at tended to the errand. She was on her way upstairs again when a hoarse lit tle whisper assailed her ears: ■Who's that?” She looked up quickly, and there on the top step, outlined against tho gloom, stood the tiny white figure. And the figure's arm was oulstretrhed. and in the small hand was a gleaming toy pistol. Of course he knew her as soon as she spoke, and was presently back 111 bed again, with his precious shoot ing Iron beneath his head. At the ta ble next morning he gravely remark ed: “It was a mighty lucky thing fur you, mamma, that you spoke when you did.” Strength of ■ More*. A horse will travel 400 yards In four and one-half minutes at a walk. 400 yards lu two minutes at a trot, 400 ^ yards In one minute at a aallop. The usual work of on* hors* I* taken at ' 12,&on pounds raised on* foot per mluute fur eight hour* per day. A hur*« will carry IW pound# twenty five mile* per day of eight hours. An average draught hors* will draw I.WHt pounds twenty -I hree miles per day on a level r«*a*t weight uf wagon Includ ed The nvseage weight of a hears* I* l otto pounds and htn slrsng h I* equivalent to that of n-» men - At lanta Constitution Watt. Nst I imII)> llruwu I hear you married a »«ry -'harming young widow sine* I iaat aaw you. Ur**n That's what I thought the day we w*ra to*cried (troan Well, didn't you? l|r«aw No, ahw married me t'antsrhury tathedral Is 114 f**t !••« %