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THE NAME AMERICA1 DISCOVERY OF FIRST MAP ON WHICH IT APPEARED. Precious Document Has Been Eagerly Sought for Four Centuries—Draw ing of the Then New Continent Is Rathor Vague. After nearly four centuries of mys tery the first map on which the name of America was used to designate the Western Hemisphere has been found. It was made by Martin Waldseemul ler. a geographer and cartographer of the little city of St. Diel, situated in the French department of the Vosges. Ever since the year 1507 the world has known of a little Latin book, printed in St. Diel and made famous because it first advocated that the new hemisphere should he called America, after Americo Vespucci. “I do not see who can rightfully object to its being called ‘Land of Americo,’ or ’America.’ ” said the writer, “from Americo. or Amerigo, the name of the sagacious man of genius who discovered it, since the names ‘Europe’ and ‘Asia’ were de IN MEMORY OF PAUL JONES * Bronze Tablet In Memory of Paul Jones Unveiled in the New East Boston School for the Naval Hero. The tablet purchased through dona tions made by chapters of the Daugh ters of the American revolution, through the efforts of Miss Marion Brazier, in memory of Commodore Paul Jones, was formally presented to the school committee by the Daugh ters of the American Revolution Fri day afternoon, April 15, with exercises at the school. Dorothy Bates, the lit tle daughter of the ’ governor, pulled the silken white cord which unveiled the tablet. Lieut.-Gov. Guild, in the enforced absence of Gov. Bates, rep resented the state.—Boston Globe. I This Is Believed to Be the First Map Ever Made on Which the Name “America" Was Used to Designate the Western Hemisphere. rived from the names of women.” From certain references in the book it was evident that it was accompan ied by some sort of map. yet the map was missing. Copies were found of a map which geographers believed be longed to the book, but still no one knew what had become of the origi nal. It was finally proved that Wald seemuller wrote the book, and certain maps were found bearing his name, but not the coveted map for which the world had been seeking so long. The search had been abandoned and the subject almost forgotten when a German professor stumbled over the missing map in the princely library of the castle of Wolfegg. Here it had lain hidden amid tomes of rich moroc co and parchment. The professor’s name was Joseph Fischer, of Feldirch, who was making an examination of the library of Prince Francis, of Walburg-Wolfegg. He found “a volume of great size,” says “The Monthly Bulletin of the In ternational Bureau of American Re publics,” “antiquarian folio, Gothic style, substantially bound, and hav ing for its covers two beech boards, .supplied with clasps or brass fasten ers, in which were found united, forming a kind of atlas, various leaves of three distinct maps. “One of these was the original Waldseemuller map of 1507. which had been so persistently searched for and of which so much had been spo ken, magnificently printed in twelve sheets, and in an excellent state of preservation.” The prince permitted the map to be photographed, so that the facsimilies which have been made public are cor rect reproductions. When its parts are put together the Waldseemuller map measures 8 feet wide and 4 feet high. It repre sents the new continent with a vagueness which seems comical to a man of to-day. Yet when one consid ers that It was drawn only fifteen years after Columbus had crossed the Atlantic on his first voyage, it is possible to understand the cloudiness with which the new' land is bounded. A few of the West Indies are depicted by clumsy blotches and North Ameri »a is pinched into a strfp of land, irhich looks more like an attenuated Island than a continent. The propor tions of South America are more near foe truth, and represent to a certain .txtent the V shape character of that continent. The name "America” ap pears written transversely in capital letters in the southern part of the continent to the north of the Tropic of Capricorn. Insisted on Her Dignity. President Roosevelt recently added a French governess to his household. The young woman has Quentin, Mr. Roosevelt’s youngest son, in her es pecial charge and insists that he shall address her as “Mademoiselle.” The Roosevelt children, accustomed to calling people by the first or last name only, were indisposed to agree, but the young woman at once served notice on Mrs. Roosevelt that every one in the house must call her “Made moiselle" or she would leave at once. She had her way and the children's ** revolt was summarily squelched. Prosperous Mission in China. The year 1903 in the Presbyterian mission in Canton, China, was the best in its history. To the twenty churches there were 1,098 additions, 1 and the local contributions amounted to more than $8,000. Famous British Artist. G. F. Watts,, a Royal Academician, vne of the most famous of British art ists, has passed his eighty-seventh birthday. KEYS IN FORMER DAYS. Were Real Works of Art in Their Ornamentation. In the sixteenth century European iron workers produced keys enriched with ornaments in relief and treated as works of art. Nothing could be more graceful than the embossed fig ures, coats of arms and grotesque arabesques which embellish the bows, which in this utilitarian age are re placed by ordinary metal rings. The * keys were first cast and then chis eled by an expert artisan. The so called "Strozzi key,” formerly the property of Henri III of France, changed hands a few years ago for the enormous sum of $6,000. The bow represents two sphinxes with grotesque heads, back to back, on the capital of a column. The stem is in the form of two concentric pipes; the bit is shredded like a very fine comb. Another famous key dates from the beginning of the seventeenth century; the elaborate bow represents two seated male figures supporting a du cal coronet. A third key is excep tionally ornate; the entire available space is enriched with arabesques, terminating in cupids, reclining river gods, a standing figure of Victory and similar devices. The stem of this key is supported by figures of a man and a woman. A Hot Time in Prospect. One of the many charitable women who are interested in the work of the University Settlement among the New York East Side poor tells of this incident, which occurred quite recent ly while she was making a round of visits in the tenements. She enter er one tiny apartment just as the doctor who was attending a sick child was leaving. He had ordered for the little patient a bath as hot as she could bear. While the visitor was talking to the physician the mother of the child came to the head of the stairs and yelled to her neighbor be low : "Mrs. Casey, will you lend me the loan of a washtub to scald the babby in?” Rat Eat Lint. At the outbreak of the war the med ical department at St. Petersburg should have had in store about $15, 000 worth of line. There was none. The official explanation is that the lint was “eaten by rats.” THE LATEST IN FLYING MACHINES Sir Hiram Maxim’s newest inven tion is a mammoth merry-go-round, with flying machines in place of the ordinary cars, boats or horses. The illustration shows one of these ma chines. For the present they will be 1 attached to the merry-go-round, but Sir Hiram hopes to alter their con struction so that they can be let loose in mid-air. Sir Hiram Maxim’s new flying machine is not an advance in the art of self-propulsion through the air, nor does it profess to be so, since It is merely a “captive flying ma chine.” It resembles a huge, roof ! less umbrella, with the ribs sloping upward, at the ends of which are suspended fish-shaped cars, in which the passengers sit. The cars are pro pelled round and round by the rotat ing shaft, or umbrella stick, at high rate of speed, and the sensation of traveling through the air fifty feet above ground at sixty-five miles or so an hour is sufficiently novel and exhilarating. One of these curious machines will be among the attrac tions of this year's' exhibition at Earl's Court, and another will delight holiday crowds at the Crystal Palace. It is said that Sir Hiram intends to devote the money received through this invention to the final solution of the problem of flight in the air.—The , Tstler. NEVER LOOK FOR DEER. Advice Given to Beginners by a Hunt ing Authority. Persons who have wondered why so many deer hunters are shot by fellow hunters may get some light on the matter from Theodore Van Dyke’s in structions to sportsmen. He says in his book on still-hunting: “Having selected the ground upon which you are to hunt you will probably, if left to yourself, go wandering around the woods with your eyes fixed about fifty yards ahead of you, expecting at every turn to see a large calf-like ob ject standing broadside to you in a nice open spot, patiently awaiting your bullet—distance twenty-five or thirty yards. The first thing you must do is to lay aside each and every idea of how a wild deer looks that you have ever derived from your imagination, from pictures, even by the best artists. Look carefully all around you as far as you can see, but do not look for a deer. Remember this singular advice. Do not forget ft for a moment. One of the great est troubles that beset the beginner is looking all the time for a deer. If the artist’s deer is in sight you will see him quickly enough. Never mind that beast at all. Spend all your time looking for spots and patches of light gray, dark gray, brown or even black. Examine all you can see from the size of your hand to the size of a small goat. Never mind the shape of them.’' What Could Have Happened? “Never heard what broke up their friendship! Dear me! I thought everyone had heard that. Brown is engaged, you know.” “Oh, yes! I’ve heard that. Was White in lov<» with the same girl?” “No, no. Not at all. But White saw her portrait in Brown’s room and asked whose it was. ‘It’s a picture of my fiance,’ said Brown. White ex amined it'critically, and then put it down with the remark that she must be very rich. I don’t know what hap pened after that, but White was tak en home in a cab and neither of them was seen out of doors for a week.” LIKES HERMIT LIFE LONELINESS HAS NO TERRORS FOR THIS MAN. Charles Carlsen Lived for Fourteen Months Alone on Barren Island, and Is Perfectly Willing to Stay There All His Life. Charles Carlsen. the Robinson Cru soe of Clipperton island, came back to civilization yesterday on the steamer Peru, says the San Francisco corre spondent of the New York World. For fourteen months he lived all alone on the barren rock, his only compan ion during that time being a dog, be sides a dozen chickens, the myriads . of sea fowl and the big crabs that \ make their habitation on the flat island. Except for a rather tierce mustache and a cowboy hat, Carlsen looked like anything but an exile a3 hi stood on the Peru's deck. Carlsen took the position of lone watchman on Clipperton island from the Pacific Islands company, which has a concession lor the rock and its guano deposits. On February 4, the schooner Una called at Clipperton and Carlsen, accompanied by his dog, embarked for Champerico, where he caught the Peru and came directly to this port. “I knew what to expect when I when I went to Clipperton,” said Carl- 1 sen. “The men who had been there j as keepers before me had always had companions. I was the first to vol unteer to stay there alone. Time passed slowly, but I busied myself in working here and there and I read and wrote a great deal. My dog was companionable and I grew so attach ed to my chickens that not one of them served me for a meai. “I saw' only one vessel in the four teen months and that was the British warship Shearwater. She passed close J CHICAGO MAN PLANS TO J j ROLL TO THE NORTH POLE j V - - - - - - -J Peder Nissen’s pneumatic ball, “foolkiller No. 3,” is a canvas bag, thirty feet long and twenty-two feet in diameter, tapering to a blunt point at the ends, where there are glass portholes. The exterior of the con trivance is covered with several coats of oil and varnish to render it water proof. Inside the whole length of the bag extends a center shaft, around which, revolves a hub at each end and from each hub radiates 120 cotton cord spokes fixed in the canvas, which serve to hold the bag in shape and carry it around the center shaft. Be tween the spokes, suspended from the shaft, is a basket or seat in which the “rolling traveler” sits, steering by sliding the basket from one end of the shaft to the other. His only view of the exterior is through the small port holes at each end. After a trial Nisson expects to “roll” across the lake In the ball, and if this proves successful he will pre pare to start for the north pole. He declares the “foolkiller” will roll equally well on land, water or ice.— ■ Chicago Tribune. DIAGRAM OF HI7Z&10& to the island and a boat was lowered. I hailed from the reef but the boat did not come in. When the Una pick ed me up I was getting tired of the job. Three men are now on the island to keep each other company. My health was improved by the ex perience. “At first I busied myself making repairs to the buildings and imple ments that were under my charge and in my brief hours of leisure made friends with my dog and chickens. The crow of the roosters and the bark of the dog were the only sounds that broke the stillness of the long months, except for the strange sound of a shouting of men one day last De cember, when a boat’s crew from the British cruiser approached close to the shore, while their vessel was at anchor near by. “The island is about 700 miles off the Central American shore and the coasting steamers never pass within sight of it. All over the island, which is only about ten feet above the sur face of the sea, thousands of crabs are always sprawling, but they are harmless. The sea birds were so tame that I could pick them up from their nests and I was careful to main tain a close friendship with them. The birds’ eggs, with the canned pro visions that had been left for me, to gether with the sea air, made me a healthier man than ever before, though I was a robuset sailor before I went there. ‘‘Would I return to solitude of the Island again? Yes, I would not mind going back. One gets used to the soli tude and comes to look upon his ani mal friends as though they were almost human. Occasionally I would yearn for the presence of a human companion, but that feeling would soon pass away. Since I have return ed I feel out of place in the noise and bustle of civilization. “I believe that one spending his life as I have spent the last fourteen months would live to an enormous age. The absence of care, the healthy surroundings and the prohibition of all forms of disipation ought to keep a man perennially young. Patents in 1903. The patent office at Washington dur ing 1903 granted 31,699 patents. The net balance to the credit of this office since it was founded in 1836 is $5,682, 540. Failed to Recognize His Own Beard. Lynn was favored not long ago with a visit from Representative J. Adam Bede as a banquet guest there. He* was facetious, as usual, and in the course of his post-prandial remarks spoke about the folly of jumping at conclusions. “Let me illustrate,” Mr. Bede con tinued. “I never knew but one locomo tive engineer who had a long flow ing beard. He was a friend of mine, and lived in a certain Western state. One day he was running about sixty miles an hour, with a straight track stretching ahead. “This engineer poked his head out of the cab and' the wind whisked his long beard back in his face. Obey ing his first thought, that it was a haystack, he called for down brakes,” and while his audience was laughing at this Mr. Bede sprinted away to another ludicrous observation. Work in English Mines. In the coal mining industry in England the average time worked in 1903 waa 5.09 days a week, the low est proportion since 1896. LIFETIME ALL TOO SHORT. One Sin Southern Statesman Thinks Should Not Be Forgiven. United States Senator Edmund W. Pettus of Albany, though past 80 years of age, never held but one oth er political office. Back in the early ’50s he was a circuit judge in his state, and in presiding over a cele brated murder trial coined an aphor ism in his charge to the jury so human that it remains to-day the un written law of all the South, inalter able and unchangeable. A lad grown to manhood returned to a country town and shot the betrayer of his sis ter, who had been driven to suicide. “The state asks your honor to charge the jury in addition to the charge already given,” said the pros ecutor,. “that though the misdeeds of the dead man would have eventuated the crime of the prisoner~ff he had acted under impulse and done nyirder before cooling time had intervened, yet if cooling time has intervened since the wrongs committed by the dead man the prisoner’s crime is in no way or degree extenuated.” Like a flash Judge Pettus turned and said to the jury: “The court gives you the additional charge re quested by the state, and the court also charges you that in its opinion man's allotted three score years and ten are not sufficient time to oool a wrong like that done the prisoner in this ease.” The verdict was “not guilty” at once. German Emigration. Of the 2,500,000 emigrants of Ger man nationality who left the father land during the thirty-three years since the formation of the empire. 30.7 per cent came directly to the United States. With all the efforts that have been made to stimulate emigration to Brazil and to the German colonies in Africa and Asia, it has dwindled to a meager fragment. Increase Pay of Police. The Canadian government has de cided to increase the pay of the Do minion police. The only question is as to the amount of the increase, whether It shall be 15 cents all around or a graded increase of 15, 10.and 5 cents, according to the length of serv ice. Recipient of Temporary Aid. Mr. Fairbanks went to the senate chamber recently topped by a tall sleek-looking silk hat. It sat jauntily on his tall figure. Mr. Fairbanks, be it remembered, is one of the tallest men in the senate. When he left the capHol that even ing Mr. Fairbanks wore a little round felt hat. of narrow' brim, and it rest ed lightly on his ears. This was the sequel of Mr. Fairbanks’ forgetful ness in leaving his nice hat in the senate restaurant when at lunch. He did not miss his headgear till very late in the afternoon, when the res taurant doors had been locked. Senator Warren, finding a dinky little traveling hat among his own ef fects in the room of the committee on claims, loaned it to the tall Hoosier, who w’as pleased at being able to escape from such a predicament as departing from the capitol barehead ed. Noted Miasiuippian. Lyman Warren Ayer, the first white person born in Mississippi, will be 70 years old June 10. . WOULD HAVE LET THEM DROWN _ i Slight Change Critic Suggested in Young Author’s Book. “At your request,” said the kindly critic to the young author, “I have read your book from beginning to end.” “So good of you,” returned the young author. And now I want you to feel that you can speak frankly and tell me just what you think about it. I suppose you saw a great deal in it that you would change if it were left to you.” “No-o,” replied the kindly critic, thoughtfully. ‘ On the whole I think I may say there was very little.” “Really!’ exclaimed the young au thor, delightedly. “Do you know, 1 had an idea you’d tear the whole book to pieces, figuratively speaking, of course. I can’t tell you how pleased I am. But of course there are some changes that you would advise rela tive to the publication of a second edition. What are they?” “There's only one that’s of mouch importance,’ said the critic. “And that?” asked the young author inquiringly. “Why, that’s where the hero jumps from the yacht into the ocean to save the heroine from drowning.” “Is it to thrilling? Wouldn't you have him jump after her?” inquired the young author anxiously. “No, it’s not too thrilling,” was the reply, “and of course I would have him go' in after her. but, you see, they are both rescued. I would not have that.” "You—you wouldn’t have them res cued?” “Certainly not. Let them both drown.” "But this happens in the first chap ter—almost the first thing in the book.” “Precisely. That’s just when it ought to happen.” Before and After. A pompous man wearing a silk hat. which surmounted a fringe of white hair, boarded an elevated train at Sixty-sixth street. The train started before he was seated and he lurched heavily against a giddily dressed woman. The encounter took place so quickly that he did not have time to see his fair neighbor, but a rapid glance from the corner of his eye, as he pivoted into place, showed him an attractive form. “Beg pardon, miss.” he ejaculated, as he settled himself and turned toward her. Then he got a glimpse of hair as white as his own, and add ed hastily, “or madame.” His embarrassment, apparently, was equaled by her indignation, for at the first opportunity she moved to an other seat.—New York Press. Main American Exports. Agricultural products form the largest group of exports from the United States, amounting to $873,000, 000 in 1903, or 63 per cent of the total, while manufactures amount to $407, 000,000, or 29 per cent of the total. In 1880 agricultural products formed 83 per cent and manufactures but 12 \£ per cent of the total Exports of domestic products. Silk Mill at St. Louis. The process of silk weaving is il lustrated at the world’s fair. A silk mill demonstrates the interesting process and runs constantly. The finished products of the loom will create a center of interest and will be useful in demonstrating the possi bilities of sericulture in this country. To-day the United States consumes more raw silk than any other nation in the world. Reward Faithful Janitor. A unique occasion was that recent ly celebrated in the .Fifth avenue church, New York, when the church recognized the completion of the fifty years of service of the assistant jani tor by presenting him with a check for $1,100. A similar gift was made by this same church last autumn, when the janitor also completed a half century of service. Simplon Tunnel. Of the Simplon tunnel, uniting Italy with Switzerland, only 1,565 me ters remain to be bored; the number of meters completed is ove. 18,000. MAKING GOOD ROADS GREAT PROGRESS UNDER THE STATE-AID PLAN. Thousands of Miles of Fine Thorough fares in Existence In the Northeast. New York Proposes to Spend $50, 000.000. In the Northeastern states from Maine to Pennsylvania more progress has recently been made in building good roads than in any other section ->f the United States. This is mainly due to the adbption of the state-aid plan. New Jersey was the first state to adopt this plan. The law enacted there in 1891 provided that the state pay one-third of the cost of improv ing the roads, and the counties two thirds, part of which may be charge*] up to the towns in which the roads are built. The farmers were at first opposed to this law, but now the;, are enthusiastic In its support. More than a million and a half dollars ha-.* been appropriated by the state under this law. Nearly 1,000 miles of road have been macadamized. The sta'. aided roads must conform to the plan laid down by the state commission* r of highways. In Massachusetts the state pays the entire cost of building the roads, bit' requires the counties to pay back on* fourth of the cost. Nearly half a m lion is appropriated annually for tl.: purpose. Nearly five million dollar have already been invested in road by the state. As a result Massachu setts has hundreds of miles of a- fine | roads as any in the world. Connecticut has also operated und r this plan since 1895. The slat*' pm up two-thirds of the money for road building. The plan is considered a great success. More than a million and a half has been appropriated an ! spent, and about 500 miles of fire roads have been built. In New York State the state pays one-half the cost of building the roads, the counties 35 per cent, and the township 15 per cent, and the plan is working admirably. Last year $600,000 was appropriated by the leg islature, and over two millions have been voted since the law was enacted. It is now proposed to raise by an i sue of bonds fifty millions to be spent during the next ten years. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont. Rhode Island and Delaware all have state aid laws which are working sat- • isfactorily, though expenditures and operations are on a smaller scale than in the other states named. The fundamental principal on which the state aid plan rests is that the public highways are for the use and benefit of the whole people, and that all should, therefore, share in the cost of their improvement. From state aid to national aid is but a single step. Both embody the same principle. It is an interesting fact that the people of these states are enthusiastically in favor of taking “Uncle Sam’’ into the general scheme of co-operation. The state highway commissioners of New Jersey, Con necticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont are outspoken advocates 1 of national aid; and the New York legislature has memorialized Con gress to enact the Brownlow bill. If national aid would accomplish for the whole country what state aid is doing where adopted, it certainly deserves serious consideration. On Japanese Torpedo Boats. A Japanese officer serving on a torpedo boat has been telling his ex periences. Very few caught cold, de spite the bitter weather. The offi cer attributes this to the fact that they did not expose themselves to variations of temperature, as is the case with men in a big ship where cabins can be warmed and heat-gener ating processes employed. On a de stroyer or a torpedo boat the only source of artificial heat is a brazier, and braziers have two serious draw backs; one that in a little craft pitch ing and rolling badly live charcoal is a dangerous companion; the other that, as all apertures have to be closed to keep out the sea. the fumes of a brazier would be perilous. There was nothing for it, consequently, but to dispense with all heating appli ances. and the men, living in a uni formly cold temperature, seem to have kept their health better than they would have done had means of generating artificial heat been acces sible. Be Near. Rest for the weary hands is good. _ And love for hearts that pine. But let the manly habitude Of upright souls be mine. Let winds that blow from heaven refresh Dear Lord, the languid air: And let the weakness of the flesh Thy strength of spirit share. And if the eye must fail of light. The ear forget to hear. Make clearer still the spirit’s sight. More fine the inward ear! Be near me in mine hours of need. To soothe, to cheer or warn, And down these slopes of sunset lead. As up the hills of mom! —John G. Whittier. The Boy and the Clock. Lives there a boy with soul so dead who never to himself hath said. ‘Til build a clock?” The common experi ence of the youthful clockmaker is with a worn-out or broken-down time piece which his parents have thrown away. After tinkering at It for a week or two he gives it up in disgust. The mainspring escapes and runs all over the house. Cogs refuse to fit. Screws are lost. Now comes a man who un derstands the youngster’s fancy for clockmaking. He has invented a take down clock which a persistent boy of mathematical bent absolutely can put together so that it will go “tick-tack” and keep accurate time. Bass and Soprano. In a speech at the Greenroom club. Wilton Laekaye once said: “No, I don’t believe in the contention of the realistic school that a man must ex perience a condition in order to be able to describe it. If a man goes too much into the slums, he becomes base; if he goes too much into soci ety, he becomes soprano.”—New York Tribune.