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WILD BEAUTY o/LAKE CHELAN -- ■ iffi‘ ■iwi Pictura a mountain gorge in the fastnesses of the matchless Cascades which is 62 miles long, averages two miles In width and is frequently one and three-quarters miles deep; then fill this gorge to a depth of from 1,500 to 2,500 feet with the sparkling waters that come tumbling down the precip itous sides of the mountains, decimat ing in summer time scores of glisten ing and fantastic glaciers; frame the whole, in imagination, in the blue of a sky unsurpassed and in the cease less glitter of millions of snow dia monds; then throw about it the misty glamor of a legendary past and the charm of a present solitude unbroken by rude evidence of civilization—and you will have a dim idea of the glories Df Lake Chelan. Before this picture of the imagina tion fades, draw another of the ages before the time of man. Extend this same Cascade Range gorge to a dis tance of more than 100 miles; take away its wealth of shimmering wa ters; supplant them by an ice pact ex tending from the crest of the Cascades to the very waters of the turbulent Columbia, varying in depth from a few' feet to more than 3,000, a river of solid ice more wonderful than the Muir Glacier, a resistless force of na ture slowly wearing and tearing and grinding its relentless way towards the waters that lead to the Pacific acean, scarring the mountain sides and preparing the way for a scene in the coming ages which is unsurpassed for the fertility of its beauty. Do this and you will have the story of the creation of the wonderful Chelan, which lies as a gem almost undiscov ered in the heart of wealth and plenty in northern Washington. It seems incredible that the greatest lake in the great state of Washington, a lake where nature has been more than prodigal with her scenic effects, should be so little known, so little sought and so little visited. Like the other great scenic attractions of the west and northwest, Lake Chelan is 3ft the main transcontinental thorough fares. It takes time and costs some effort to get there, and life is a race after time, with most Americans. Chelan, however, is soon to be rescued from the comparative seclusion it has enjoyed, and. it is not an idle predic tion to say that it will before Jong be •ivaling.the Yellowstone, the Yosemite and the Grand Canyon of Arizona in the bid for popular favor. Lake Chelan is a glacial-fed body of water, resembling a river more than a lake, a narrow ribbon of emerald blue in the scarred side of the eastern Slope of the Cascade mountains! It pxtends from the famous Stehekin canyon, southeasterly along nearly the entire side of Chelan county to within four miles of the Columbia river. Overland from the railroad the jour ney to the lake may be made through mountain passes, awe-inspiring can yons filled with many-hued rocks and watered by scores of tumultuous gla cial streams filled with imposing stone minarets towering above the fleecy clouds to the glistening, sparkling, melting snow fields above. This is the route, however, of the hardy moun taineer and of the glacier climber. The ordinary traveler prefers the river route. The railroad is left at Wenatchee, at the juncture of the Wenatchee and the Columbia rivers, and in a valley of the same name. Wenatchee, which sprang up in a aight, following the discovery of the magician’s wand called irrigation, bids fair to become the commercial center af northern central Washington. It nestles in an irrigated valley of Alla iinlike fertility, is on the main trans continental line of the Great North ern, and is one of the garden spots af the Pacific northwest. The sole means of communication between the Chelan country and the outside world at present is by the Chelan and the Selkirk, two small river * steamers belonging to the Co lumbla and Okanogan Transportation company. From Wenatchee to Chelan Falls is a distance of but 42 miles, yet It take sa steamer 12 hours to battle her way against the current, and but little more than three hours to come down with it. The trip up the river to Chelan Falls is one long to be re membered, and the time which the new railroad will save will scarcely be a recompense for the loss it will occa sion. On either side of the river for a short distance back the banks are dotted occasionally with , patches of green, making irrigated farms. Back of these the foothills rise abruptly, with their rocks and huge bowlders ground into fantastic shapes, and their many colors of soil and rock washed and mingled in nature's paint pot and then by the forces of nature scattered over the face of the landscape. The little boats cf shallow draught I and powerful boilers have a battle j royal with a winding and twisting i stream of narrow channel, filled with | dangerous rocks, eddies and mael stroms rivaling the whirlpool of the Niagara gorge. With an average cur rent of eight miles fin hour the river frequently breaks into a turgid, roar ing, racing torrent of rapids against which the little steamer *throws her self valiantly. At Chelan Falls the Chelan river comes tumbling down its cavernous bed into the Columbia, making the connection between the snowfed gla ciers of the Cascades and the great river highway to the waters of the Pacific. In a four-horse stage the journey to the foot of Lake Chelan is made through five miles of w-ild scen ery. queerly mingled with domesticity and agriculture. An the lower end of Lake Chelan there Is very little promise of the grandeurs that begin to unfold them selves soon after the first turn in the 'lake is reached. Around the foot of the lake and adjacent to the two little towns pocketed away there from the outside world are many beautiful farms nestling among the foothills and producing their agricultural wealth only to receive most of it back in the way of decayed products, wasted be cause of the lack of adequate trans portation and of the excessive cost of the present wagon and river trans portation. The first wonderful fact about the lake Is that its waters are the only ones, in this continent at least, which are both above and below sea level. The Yellowstone has its wonderful lake more than 7,000 feet above sea level, but here are waters whose levels are more than 1,100 feet above sea level and which also extend from 300 to possibly 1,400 feet below sea level. So clear are the waters of the lake that the picture above and below their surface is the same. Look at the real picture, then turn the eyes into the depths, and there it Is mirrored with a faithfulness and vividness that first startles, then charms. Regarding the colors of the waters of Lake Chelan ! artists are ever raving. The blending of many colors is ever changing with the whims of the winds, of the clouds, with the shivering of the trees and with every mood of nature herself. Cold and clear, they are often swept by huge waves, which are beaten by a wind that comes roaring down the glacier-cut gorge, gathering strength and fury with every mile of canyon traveled and w ith every effort to reach the world outside the granite walls. In storm or in calm the grandeur and the beauty are ever there, and are ever changing. S. GLEN ANDRUS. Active English Statesmen. Despite his C2 years Sir Charles Dilke is one of the most active mem bers of the house of commons. He is an enthusiastic sculler and goes through a course of training every year. He Is also an enthusiastic fencer. V KISS WITHOUT REAL FLAVOR. Boston Writer Says He Doesn’t Want One from Bride. An English vicar declares that the :ustom of kissing the bride after the wedding is wicked and should be jtopped, calling it “foolish and irrele vant,” and the agitation resulting from ,his utterance has brought about quite a discussion in the English papers. One chap, who has been “six times i best man," rushes into" print to say •.hat the protests against the abolition 3f this good, old time English custom tt the dictation of a clergyman, and isks what other reward there is for he unfortunate best man, who has to pear the worries and responsibilities if encouraging the trembling bride jroom, supervising the social arrange ments and the departure of the happy pair from the church, to say nothing if the cost of clothes, tips to servants, tor which he is never repaid, and the worry oh his nervous system conse juent on being in the company of two foolish people who are thinking of no tody but themselves. “Six times a best man” seems to bf right as to the justice of his claim, but away oft in his judgment, says the Boston Traveller. If he likes the clammy touch of cold lips with a girl whose mental processes are occupied wholly in the speculation as to wheth er every bit of her harness sets prop erly and how she will look in her trav eling dress, he is welcome to it. As for us, we believe that we are with the vicar, and, with Swift, would say in this connection: “Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.” The bride kiss, after the marriage ceremony, to everybody else but Him, is an apple of Sodom, and not worth while. African Housewife’s Trial. Prices are high in South Africa and bills for laundry are frequently ex orbitant. Persian, Kaffir and Cape women do this work after a fashion. “One usually pays .61 ($5) per month a head,” says a woman correspondent, “and the woman who washes for you takes everything tor that, but la apt to vanish for a month on end with your clothes!" HONOR PIKE’S MEMORY. ACHIEVEMENTS OF PEAK’S DIS COVERER CELEBRATED. Valuable Services to the Government Given by Young Lieutenant—High Mountain Found While Seek ing Sources of Rivers. Denver, Col.—The people of Colo rado recently celebrated the achieve ments of Lieut. Zebulon M. Pike., who discovered the Rocky mountains of that state a hundred years ago this fall. The celebration was held at Colo rado Springs, and a long and varied programme was prepared, in which the United States and Colorado Iroops and various Indian tribes participated. The splendid background of these fes tivities was Pike's Peak, which bears the name of its discoverer. Pike first saw these mountains in November, 1S06, but the time of the celebration was fixed a little earlier to avoid the approaching winter. The work done by the brilliant young soldier is worthy of the high est honor. He was in his twenties, a boy in years, when he made his two great journeys. He was only 34 wken he was killed in battle, leading a charge against the British in the war of 1812. He had risen from the rank of lieu tenant to brigadier general, and no soldier in the country seemed to have a brighter future before him when he fell; but had he lived he might never have won prouder laurels than those which securely belong to him. Pike's great opportunity came to him in 1S05. The vast teritory included in the Louisiana purchase had been bought with the people's money, and the whole country was eager to know more about its new domain. Lewis and Clarke were sent by the president to traverse the great unknown in the northwest. Pike was dispatched by the general in command of the army, first up the Mississippi to near its sources, and then up the Missouri and to the mountains in the heart of the continent. His expeditions were purely military in their organization. His compan ions were detailed from the army, and the strict discipline of their com mander was one of the large factors in the great success he won. But it was Pike’s second and still greater expedition to the Rockies of Colorado that was most in mind at the celebration. His party was toil ing* over the high plateau on Novem ber 15, 1S06, when he saw what looked like a small blue cloud on his right, and he thought it might be a moun tain. Half an hour later Pike's Peak ap peared in full view, with many other summits, and his small party gave three cheers for the “Mexican Moun tains.” Pike wrote correctly that they are a part of the great mountain sys tem that divides the waters of the Atlantic from those of the Pacific. Pike named the highest of the moun tains Grand Peak, but his countrymen in later years attached his own name to it. Piko’s instructions on this journey were to ascend the Missouri and then strike out for the fountainheads of the Arkansas and Red Rivers, for no one knew where they came from. He was hunting for the sources of the Ar kansas when he discovered the moun tains and 'stood face to face with Pike’s Peak. Then through a terrible winter of want and misery he sought fcr the ZEBU LON M. PIKE. (Discoverer of Famous Colorado Peak Whom State Has Honored.) Red river and he made a curious but lucky blunder. He passed to the west of the Red river sources and missed them entire ly. Lost among the mountains and floundering through the snow, he reached a river in February which he thought must be the object of his quest. He was starting down the river when he was suddenly confront ed by 100 Mexican troops, who asked him where he was going. “Down the Red river,” said Pike. “This is not the Red river. This is the upper Rio Grande. Pike ordered his flag down and fold ed it. He knew he was in Mexican ter ritory (now New Mexico). He was suspected of entering for eign territory to spy out the land, and he and his party were taken to Chi huahua, where they were held foi months. The result was that Pike was able to add to his long descrip* tions of Colorado geography and the many new Indian tribes he met ir. this part of our new domain a vivid and lively description of the religions in New Spain, and of the manners morals and politics of its people, con cerning which we were very ig norant. • TREASURES OF A CLOISTER. Quaint Basketry Work of Nuns of Protestant Community of Solitary. Ephrata, Pa.—The early German settlers in Pennsylvania accomplished Mammoth Bread Basket some wonderful feats in spinning, weaving, basket making, etc., and there are few evidences of this thrift and skill that have been preserved that are more interesting than the wonderful basketry, the “Fracture Sehrift” inscriptions, and the hand woven linens that are now preserved in the Saal and the "Sister House" on the ancient cloister grounds here. One huge basket stands nearly as high as the cloister nun who made it, and it is nearly as broad as tall. It is a fine specimen of the workmanship of the Industrious “Sisters” of the fa mous Protestant Community of the Solitary, and it is said to have been made for holding the daily supply of bread for the monks and nuns of this quaint co-operative community. There are numerous varieties of baskets here, in all shapes and sizes, that were used for various purposes. In the “Sister House” are also found many types of ancient spinning wheels and other paraphernalia that produced the famous linens still preserved in the cloister buildings, while in the “Saal” are the handmade wooden plates and knive3 and forks, t*Le old time crockery and hourglasses, and rare specimens of “Fracture-Schrift,” mounted and framed. The Sister House and the Sister I Saal—old Saron and Penial—are ap j parently as stanch and well preserved j at the present time as when erected in ! the long ago, by the earliest of co j operative colonies. The milling Indus j tries, the curious architecture of the buildings, the hooded and inclosed doorways, the steep roofs, and other exterior peculiarities, also attract at tention; but the carefully treasured relics of the old cloister industries, hoarded within the buildings, are of still greater interest to the visitor of to-day. CHURCH HAS LIGHTHOUSE BELL. Once Signaled Vessels, Now Calls Peo ple to Worship. Boston.—The Baptists of Bryants Pond, Me., are called to church by a bell that wras originally in the light house on Minots ledge. After the lighthouse was destroyed in the great storm of the early ’40s the bell was secured from the ocean bot tom and placed in the Francis T. Faulkner W’oolen mill at Turner. It hung there more than half a century. After the burning of this mill in September, 1905, during which fire Mr. Faulkner lost his life, the bell was re . cast and presented to the Bryants Pond Baptist church by Mrs. Anna Chase, a daughter of the late Mr. Faulkner. J. Osborne Faulkner, Auburn, city editor of the Lewiston Journal and grandson of the late Francis Faulkner, wears a very pretty charm to his fob in the form of a miniature bell made from this same metal. By Their Acts Ye Shall Know Them. “You ought to marry that young man; he’ll make a good husband; he works like a horse.” “Yes, but he acts like an ass.”— Houston Post. Donkey Tastes Like Turkey. Having tasted the flesh of various animals, a gentleman declares that a donkey makes the most excellent eat ing of any animal, the flavor resem bling that of a. young turkey. Balked. “Doctor,” asked the caller with the badly inflamed eye, “what will It cost to take this grain of sand out of my eye?” “I shall probably have to charge you five dollars for the operation,” said the eminent oculist. “I can carry it cheaper than that,” rejoined the other, turning on his heel and walking out. Thus, owing to the greed of both parties, another prospective deal in real estate came to naught.—Chicago Tribune. In Sight. “Does she .carry his picture next to her heart?” “No; that would be a giveaway.” “Why, no one would know it.” “Yes, they would; she wears a peek-a-boo waist.”—Houston Post. What She Wanted. Clerk—What kind of a hammock do you want, miss? Summer Girl—Ob, a little one. Just about big enough for one—but—er— strong enough for two.—Life. Nature’s Prophets. The katydid had been insisting that there would be frost within six weeks. “I’ve no faith in your long distance weather forecasts," said the tree toad, “hut I'm willing to bet there will be rain inside of 48 hours.” Whereupon the rival weather bu reaus resumed their noisy predictions. —Chicago Tribune. The Eternal Feminine. “The ship will float but a few mo ments longer! Trust yourself to me and jump! Quick!” “Is my hat on straight?” “Yes! yes! but come!” “Tell me first how does my life pre server set in the back?”—Houston Post. Especially Sad. “I suppose,” said the sentimentalist, “that it makes you feel very sad to see the roses fading, the leaves with erlng; the grass dying—” “Yes,” interrupted Farmer Corn tossel, “an’ the summer boarder! goln’ home."—Washington Star. CHURCH WOMEN PICK APPLES. Earn Money to Pay Off Debt and Help Solve Labor Problem. Louisville, 111.—The women of the Christian church of Flora are raising money by a novel means to pay off the lebt on the new $10,000 church edifice md in addition are helping to solve the labor question that is confronting the apple growers of Clay county. They were given permission to haul and sell to the evaporators the cull and windfall apples in the large or chards in the vicinity of this city and the entire feminine membership and the Sunday school children gathered apples in the Maney orchard. The women earned $15 for their day’s work and will gather apples in other or chards surrounding Flora every Sat urday until the apple season closes. Mrs. R. S. C. Reaugh, president of the Ladies’ society of the Christian church, has the supervision of the work. Although the apple-picking season will not open until later for the Ben Davis apples estimates place the num ber of bushels of apples exported from the five shipping sections in Clay county at 200,000 bushels, or nearly 75,000 barrels. The five evaporators in the county are using 5,000 bushels of apples daily and are estimated to have used 150,000 bushels of apples this season. The apples are selling readily and numerous buyers are in the field. The labor situation caused by the scarcity of hands is delaying the pick ing. On account of strikes the wages range from $1.50 to $3, a day. Only $1.25 was paid earlier in the season. DESERTS WIFE FOR A SQUAW. Wealthy Farmer Accused by Spouse, Who Then Puts Up Cash Bail. Tacoma, Wash.—Charged with the desertion of his wife for the doubtful attraction of a Siwash squaw, William Nottingham has been bound over for trial at the next term of the superior court at Conconnully. His wife, whom he left in Adams county while he maintained a second household at Con connully, secured his liberty by put ting up $1,500 in cash. Nottingham is a wealthy rancher of eastern Washington, having a 440 acre ranch near Lind, Adams county, with many head of cattle and horses. His wife, who has sued him for di vorce, estimates his fortune at more than $50,0001 They were married 24 years ago in Missouri and have eight children. Nottingham has always been highly respected in Adams county and was thought to be a faithful husband and a good father. His double life began about three years ago, when he took a large band of cattle to Okanogan county to feed an the rich pasture of the Indian reser vation. He leased an allotment from a squaw named Sophia San Pierre and is charged with having become en amored of her. Since then he has lived most of his time in Okanogan county and has deceived his wife, she claims, by telling her he was holding down a homestead. PRIEST WHIPS A TRAMP. Hobo Gets an Illustration of Muscular Christianity. Indianapolis.—Rev. Francis Henry Gavisk, one of the most popular mem bers of the Catholic priesthood in In diana, showed the other afternoon that he had not forgot how to take care of himself in a fight. He quickly disposed of a tramp who insulted him at his owrn home. The tramp rang the door bell and asked for something to eat. He was insolent about it, but Father Gavisk gave him a dime. At that the tramp acted as if he was deeply offended. “Do you think I am going to a cheap restaurant?” he asked. “I guess you don’t want that dime; so give it back,” answered the priest. The tramp replied with a string of oaths that he wouldn’t give up the money, whereupon Father Gavisk grappled with him. There was a short, sharp struggle, which the priest won. He not only recovered the money, but shoved the man into the street before he could recover his balance. The tramp attempted to renew the attack, but the priest was too clever with his fists to be injured. Japs to Have Great Navy. Victoria, B. C.—Advices have been received by the steamer Bellerophon that the Japanese naval department has decided upon a naval programme for the improvement of the Japanese navy, the expansion to cover a period of eight years. The diet is asked to vote $135,000,000 for the purpose, of which $12,000,000 will*be used to re pair present vessels, among them the former Russian vessels captured and raised. Many of the vessels now In service will be replaced. The pro gramme of the naval department will be to have a battleship squadron of eight vessels, representing the strong est and newest types, two armored cruiser squadrons of eight ships each and three fast cruiser squadrons of four ships each, representing a pro gramme of shipbuilding for the next decade. Finds Hand Imbedded in Rock. Pierre, S. D.—Ralph Bagby, a farm boy living near Okobojo, Sully county, while working in the Fox Ridge coun try near Moreau river, found a large bowlder which was set thickly with fossil specimens of fish, turtles and lower orders of life. The specimens are said by those who have examined them to have been of the mesozoic age. Near the center of the bowlder a perfectly formed human hand was imbedded in the rock. On the wrist was a circlet of metal, supposed to be of copper. Bagby carefully broke out the specimen, leaving about 25 pounds of the rock attached, and brought it to his home. Reliable parties who have seen the specimen say it is about the size of a human hand lying palm up and of perfect formation. Hongkong Greatest Port. London. — New statistics show Hongkong to be the foremost port of the world as regards import and ex port tonnage, wiih 19,042,889 tons. Next come London with 18,639,159, and after this are placed respectively New York, Hamburg, Liverpool and Rotterdam. __ I __ Interesting Relic of Slavery Days in New England. Slave Quarters of Old Royall House, Medford, Mass. Tlie famous old Royall house In Medford, one of the few mansion houses of colonial days left intact, has attached to it a relic of slavery days in Neu England, viz., the building that was used to shelter the slaves of Col. Isaac Royall. It stands to the left and slightly to the rear of the mansion. The original structure was of brick and wood, 20 feet in width, length unknown, one story in height. The west wall only was of brick. It was used probably as a cook house and doubtless was In existence in 1722. As many as 27 slaves were housed there at one time, they hating beet brought from the West Indies by Col. Royall when he came to reside in the mansion in 1737. THE AMERICAN “ NOBILITY.” WILL SOON BE CATALOGUED BY A BRITISH EXPERT. Son of Compiler of “Burke’s Peerage” Finds That Real Name of Our President Is “Van Roosevelt.” London.—“Prominent Families of the United States of America,'' is the title of a book soon to be published by Arthur Meredith Burke, son of the late Sir Bernard Burke, compiler of “Burke's Peerage,’’ and ether works on the ancestry of Great Britain’s un titled land owners. Armorial bearings in plenty are to appear in the book, the title page of which will bear the coat of arms of Washington. One of the specimen pages is de voted to the history of the Roosevelt family, and its coat of arms. The earliest recorded ancestor of the pres ident, Claes Martenzen Van Rosen velt, emigrated from Zealand in Hol land to the New Netherlands in 1649. | The progency of this man is shown to \ have figured prominently in the mili- ; tary and civil history of New York, culminating in the particularly strenu ous and brilliant career of Theodore, j The facts for the Roosevelt history i were furnished to Mr. Burke by Mrs. ' Roosevelt after considerable corre- I spondence. “I cannot yet say,” said Mr. Burke, I “how many families will be represent ed in my compilation, but it will be the most complete and authoritative work on American genealogy ever attempt ed. It will be published in a few months, and no family will be admitted except on its merits. Leading Ameri cans have been engaged for several years in tracing their lineage, and the results of their investigation have been submitted to me for verification. It has been an infinitely difficult and la borious task, but very fascinating. When my grandfather started “Burge's Peerage” he had complete official rec ords to go on. I must search out the necessary facts in parish and other local records of nonconformist associa tions, in family paiArs and scattered collections of manuscripts in Grea' Britain, Ireland and America. “The facts show that when English men and other Europeans sneer at the efforts of Americans to establish pedi grees they display not only discourtesj but ignorance. The lineages of the leading American families bring to the investigator extraordinary men ane women at every turn, and prove thai these families are proud and jealous o: their virtues and deeds, and are care ful not to marry beneath their level The persistence of lines of distinctioi can be discerned right through the so cial history of America. “While the Americans who are trac ing out and authenticating their an cestry are not actuated primarily by a desire to create an American aristo cratic class, they are in reality defining what the world is bound to recognize as an American aristocracy.” SENTENCES BOY TO BE SPANKEC Justice Decrees Whipping in Public by Father as Penalty. Fond du Lac, Wis.—A spanking ad ministered by his father in public court is the sentence pronounced or, Guy Higgins, a 15-year-old boy, by Justice of the Peace D. F. Blewett The boy attended a baseball game and he, with other boys, threw grass and sticjcs at the visiting players. Aftei the game was over and the visiting team had boarded a street car he threw a stone through the window ol the car at one of the men. Mayor T. L. Doyle and his little daughter were on the car and 1he mis site just missed them and struck one of the players on the arm, cutting it The mayor jumped off and arrested him. The mayor appeared against the boy oil a charge of disorderly conduct Justice Blewett found him guilty, but said he would suspend sentence if the boy s father would administer a good, old-fashioned spanking. The boy thought he would earn money enough to pay his fine, but his parents thought differently. THE COAL OUTPUT INCREASES Big Increase of Product in 1905 Shown by Government Report. Washington.—The geological survey has made public statistics on the pro duction of coal'in the United States in 1905. From these it appears that both in quantity and value the production surpassed all previous records in this country. The output amounted to 392,919,341 short tons, which had a value at the mines of $476,756,963. Compared with 1904 the output in 1905 exhibits an increase of 41,102,943 short tons, or 11.7 per cent. In quantity and of $32,385,942, or 7.3 per cent, in value. Of the total production of 1905, 69, 339,152 long tons, equivalent to 77, 699,850 short tons, were Pennsylvania anthracite, with a value at the mines of $141,879,000. The total production of bituminous coal and lignite was 315,259,491 short tons, valued at $334, 877,963. The production of anthracite coal in Pennsylvania for 1905 was 4, 020,662 long tons, or 4,503,151 short tons, more than that of 1904, while the increase in the production of bi tuminous coal and lignite was 36,599, 882 short tons. > A portion of these increases in both anthracite and bituminous productions was due to the efforts of operating companies to provide a supply of fuel in anticipation of a strike in April 1906. The total production of this country last year was nearly 50 per cent larger than that of Great Britain, ■which until 1899 was the leading coal producing country of the world. The total value of the stone pro duced in the United States during 1905, according to a forthcoming re port, was $63,798,748. The correspond ing value for 1904 was $58,765,715. The increase was caused by more activity in the building trades. The production of coke in the Unit ed States during 1905 surpassed all previous records in the history ol cokemaking in this country. The total output of coke in the United States last year amounted to 32,231,129 short tons, against 23,661,166 short tons in 1904. The Proportions. “Sir!" cried the grocer indignantly “do you mean to accuse me of putting chicory into my coffee?” “Not at all,” replied the customer coolly. “I always give you credit foi putting some coffee into the chicory.” A Dog Journeys 500 Miles. kAnimal Travels from Nebraska to Old Home in Iowa. Des Moines, la.—Thin and gaunt, and with no other instinct to guide him save the memory of a warm kennel, good food and an occasional caress, a little Scotch collie dog sold to a man at Valentine, Neb., by D. Weeks, of this city, returned 500 miles to its for mer master in Des Moines. So wabbly and weak was tfie dog that had it not been for a glad light of recognition that sprang into his eyes as his for mer master opened the door, he might have been driven from the premises. Just how long the dog was making the distance has not yet been ascer tained, but with unerring instinct he made his way over hill and prairie, through timber and across rivers, final ly arriving in Des Moines, where he was given a hearty welcome, a warm kennel and a hot bowl of milk for a starter. Five weeks before a man from Val entine, Xeb., saw the collie, bought him and took It back with him to Val entine. ' ■ After the collie left his new bccw he was seen at Fremont, Neb. when some boys threw stones at him whilt he was stealing a meal from a bacl door. This was the report untfl ht appeared in Des Moines. Mr. Weeks was awakened by a slight scratching at the front door. On open ing it he saw a shaggy, thin, dirt} little collie, and from his actions a first judged he was mad. He soot recognized his former pet, however and declares he would not now par with the animal for twice its value. Japan Prohibits Tobacco. Washington.—The postal admlnis tration of Japan has advised this gov ernment that packages containing to bacco destined for any country beyond Japan are prohibited from passing over t he territory of Japan even i; sent by parcels post