GUNS GUARD SEALS Gannon and Rifles Bar Poachers from Pribilof Islands. W»wap ot Islands Containing Richest Seal Rookeries in World Care fully Watched by Government Officials and Natives. Washington.—Gatling guns, moun *®tn howitzers anti Krag-Jorgenson ■tffles mfide last summer’s sealing sea • tna in the Pribilof islands freer of dep redations than ever before, according to W I. Liembkey. United States gov ‘ecnment agent there, wbo has returned to Washington to prepare his annual import. This group of islauds con tains the richest seal rookeries in the -world. The determined raids made on the berd in 1S0C by Japanese pelagic seai «ar», when they were driven off with a bites of five killed and many captured, introduced an element of danger to •« good relations or Japan and the XUxiled States. Japanese schooners still hover out *#de the three-mile limit of American jurisdiction, but a revenue cutter pa and a strong guard on the beach have discouraged raiding attempts. When at the opening of last season •fir. Liembhey went to his post he took weeerai Gatling guns and howitzers. "There are about SO natives on the Mauds of St. George and St. Paul, the Mtier being the larger,” said Mr. Svenbkey. "It has a shore line of about &0 miles. The guard, which has toea thoroughly organized, is posted aft prominent lookout points. Tele jtoune connection is maintained with headquarters, where the Gatlings and howitzers are kept- on carriages ready tor instant transportation to the scene ■mf attack The revenue cutters the Hear, the Wanning, the Rush, and the Perry, form a cordon around the Islands, tore** of them always on patrol, while tttra fourth goes to Unalaska for coal. 'Site officials maintain a sharp watch ?npon all pelagic sealers/ that is. cn wil vessels which take seals by catch sn« them from the sea outside the ttfurce-nrle limit. The taking of seals from the rook eries ashore, where they are thickest, *» restricted to the North American. QUEEN OF ITALY GREETING THE CZAR OF RUSSIA. The ruler of the Russian empire is bending over the hand of the queen. The king of Italy is standing at his side. Around them are members of the royal guard, every precaution being taken to protect the visitor from assassi nation. Commercial Company, to which the government has leased the privilege to take 15.000 fur seals annually. It costs them $10.22% a seal. Therefore the government this year derived an in come of $150,000 from the fisheries. "The lessee must not take those above or below a certain size, and must refrain from slaughter of the young males annually marked for ex emption in order that they may serve the useful purpose of breeding and prevent the rapid depletion of the herd. Two thousand ‘bachelors' were so marked last year. "The whole herd now numbers less than 140,000 seals, and of these less than 50,000 are breeding females. “The shore guard is composed of Aleuts, who deem it, a distinct honor to bear arms for the government. They regard the seals as property of the American government and themselves as American citizens bound to protect the herd as a matter of patriotic duty. An alarm from a lookout that a raid is in progress is sufficient, to bring the whole native population to the scene of danger, anxious for a fight. This alertness has resulted In a steady de crease since 190ti in the armed efforts to raid the rookeries. "We have made no thorough enu meration of the herd for several years because to do so effectively requires that all the females should be driven off the rookeries and this would force many of the aintnals outside the three mile limit where they would be ruth lessly taken by the pelagic sealers.” OF JEREMIAH’S DA Y _w Prof. Petrie Tells About Recent Discovery at Memphis, Egypt. Palace of King Apries Was of Great Size—Even its Ruins Are De clared to be Quite Im pressive. Edinburgh, Scotland.—Prof. Flin ders Petrie, the Egyptologist, lectured in Edinburg recently In the Royal -Scottish museum to a large company iirchaelegists on the recent exca vations at Memphis. Egypt. His ad dress contained many important joints- and' in it was described the discovery of a new palace of ancient date. The recent - work, he said, of tile British School of Archaeology In Egypt had been continued at Mem phis and also extended to Thebes. The great result of the year's work at Memphis had been the discovery «af the palace of King Apries—the Pharaoh Hophra of the blble, who was contemporary with Jeremiah. Hitherto no palace had been known 1* Egypt beyond the tower at M.edinet, Hahn, and some portions of rather vecriier date. Now they had a great Mwflding about 400 feet long and half s» wide perserved to ten or fifteen fact high. The scale of the palace was nnpreasive The middle court was "well over 100 feet square and the atone columns in it were more than dorty feet high. The stone-lined Mails which remained were over forty fleet long and half as wide. The brick halls were nearly as large and the Trails were about fifteen feet “thick. A still larger court extended on the -north side. The approach to the palace led up through a great mass of buildings to a platform at a height of about sixty feet above the plain. These buildings served to defend the entrance as outer Ajrtificationa, Between these out works and the palace was a trench about thirty feet wide, which was doubtless crossed by a drawbridge. The roadway traversing the palace was sixteen feet wide. On one side wasre stone-lined halls and on the jtfher the kitchen. Some of the fire places of the kitchen were still re maining. The great court was on the nest and there was a court, the larg est of -all, on the north. The farther $wrt of it had been entirely washed Away by the rains that had poured wJWwn- th<* slopes of the hill for over TjfiOO years. Little, he said, had any mote thought that so great a building remained on the top of the gray mud hill which every tourist had passenl who went by the road to Saqquara. This great gateway and the im mense walls descending deep into the mound showed that there lay here mins of successive palaces, probably belonging to the whole course of Egyptian history, and these palaces, it was hoped, w'ould be unearthed. The temple of Merenptah and the temple of Ptah bad also been excavated. In the former columns and capitals of the fifth dynasty had been found; in the latter pottery models of beads of foreigners such as Karian, Spaniard or Sardinian, and Bactrian could be identified; also many varieties of Greeks and other races. Some work had also been done in the cemetery of Thebes, which be longs to the period of the eleventh dynasty. Two long, dated inscriptions were found, one of which names the conquest of the country by King Uah ankh-Antef down to some forty miles north of Abydos. On the top of the northern mountain of Thebes some ruins were excavated, about 1,200 feet above the plain. They proved to be of a chapel of a kind hitherto unknown, being for the osiriflcation of King Sankh-ksra. Parts of his Osiris statute and cenotaph show the purpose of it. Such a place for a chapel is without parallel in Egypt. Calls Hat Ugly; Fined. Wilkesbnrre, Pa.—For making un kind remarks about the hat which Miss Ruth Devonde was wearing, MUs Mae Carey was fined $25 by Alderman Brown. Miss Devonde had Miss Carey arrested and complained that while she was In a restaurant and wearing what she believed was a perfectly stunning hat. Miss Carey entered and criticised it, saying it was out of style, ugly and showed uo taste. When Miss Devonde remonstrated she said Miss Carey made a scene. The Pure Food Problem t -■ ---- 7 Recent Congress Held in Paris Ham persd by Private Interests— Defines Whisky. Paris.—Dr. Edward P. Shatfter of the United States department of Agri culture, the American representative who has been in attendance at the international pure food congress here, said after tbe closing session: “In spite of the most active lobby ing of private Interests, the result of this congress will be of great benefit the world over. I received assurances that this lobbying, although very ani mated. would have no Influence so far as the purpose of the congress goes. It shows, however, that any interna tional efTort to get pure food will bring about the same kind of fighting and lobbying as was experienced by the congress at Washington during tbe pure-food agitation. “Between 1,200 and 1,300 persons attended the international congress here. There were delegates from Brazil, Uruguay and Chile and an offi cial representative from China, who will probably return to his country and demand that pure rice shall riot be coated with paraffine. "The work of the congress was to establish a standard of purity for food products. This was arrived at by stating in exact terms what consti tuted a pure food. Thus, olive oil was defined as oil extracted from the fruit of the olive tree. "The congress also succeeded in de- j fining whisky. It says whisky comes from a distillation of port prepared by the saccharification of cereals by means of malt and then fermented. "Some of the commercial lobbyists, ’ continued Dr. Shaffter, "wanted the congress to sanction the putting of borax iu butter for shipping, but the | congress was emphatically opposed to this. “The congress demonstrated one i thing clearly, and that is that the United States leads in the war on adulterated foods. They would not believe it when I told them that the American government spends $3,000. 000 each year on inspection and when all the inspectors of the various states are fully working the cost will be nearer $9,000,000. “The pure food question has never been agitated in'Kurope as it has been in America,” said the doctor. "The congress had great educational value in arousing public attention to the question." Boy’s Lie Saves Mother. Sidney, Neb.—Pleading guilty to murdering his father, Andrew Krup nicke, aged 14, takes a life sentence in the penitentiary, thus, perhaps, saving from the gallows his mother, first charged with the commission of the crime. But later the boy claimed his confession was false after it had secured the mother's freedom. Alligator Loose in Paris - ■*---— Saurin Accidentally Released Causes Much Excitement — Bullets Glance Off Its Back. "Paris.—Some sensation was caused am the Rue d'Amsterdam by the es cape of an immense alligator which was en route to an establishment at Meuiily. This had arrived by train in at large box, which was loaded on board a dorry outside the Saint-Lazare station. The box, however, was badly Jbstened, and when the lorry was set ■fn motion fell to the ground. In its bil it was burst open, releasing the sanrln. At first the animal seemed mstber dazed by the electric light and Ms general surroudings. but after hesi tating a ■ few moments, it started to ettmb the Rue d’Amsterdam, causing .Cener&l terror among the passersby, ■Upon the reptile’s arriving at the worner of the Rue d’Athenes, a man f it, was al ways expeci's- ' Atingly fear ing It He trie.. v the letters away unread, be* rce stronger than his will, com. , _.ed him to open the envelope with trembling hands, to take out the letter, and to search in It for the solution of the riddle that tormented him. In vain. The letter consisted always of the same single word "Scoundrel.” The letter in the obolong envelope dominated Aladjev's life. An insig nificant incident nearly overthrew him. One day he met and old friend who insisted that Aledjev come out in the country with him and spend the night there. Upon arising in the morning at the home of this friend the guest found on his dressing-table the oblong envelope. His heart almost stopped beating. He pulled himself logether. opened the envelope. "Scoundrel," the one word, nothing more. Even here, In the home where he was by acci dent, and where he remained for one night only, this Implacable enemy had reached him. Shivering from cold he lay in his bed; an inexplicable dread seised him. He was unable to subdue bis excitement, incapable of collecting hie thoughts. .Th1; explanation of this incident was simple. Before he left his home Alad Jev had mechanically put the freshly arrived letter Into his pocket; tthen the servant was cleaning his clothes the letter dropped to the floor, and the servant put it on the dressing-table. In spite of this obvious explanation, Aladjev was deeply impressed and could not forget the incident. Years ago Aladjev bad begun to write for a liberal newspaper. His writings bore tbe stamp of purely Russian liberalism, and were perme ated with a far-off idealistic, high minded altruism. They reflected a vague longing toward the good and the true, and an instinctive hatred of the evil and the false. And he was daring almost to foolhardiness. This daring pleased the readers In the provinces and gave Aladjev the repu tation of the banner-bearer and leader in the fight for freedom. But besides some sort of reputation in regions where even the foxes bid each other good-night, and five kopeks a line, these writings brought no return to the author. However, he did not be come embittered; he merely deter mined to make a fortune for himself along different lines. A small mori bund paper fell Into his hands. Be ing a clever man, Aladjev compre hended that high-mindedness would not make him prosperous. And so he changed his tune. To those in power he spoke in an apparently daring, critical, unpreju diced vein; but it always happened that after his strongest attack the mighty ones shone'far more resplen dent than before. For'the weary and heavy-laden he had words of fatherly benevolence. With a show of com passion and love he pilloried their failings and vices. He discovered a new formula in writing—a cringing flattery, dad in the garb of high minded unselfishness, combined with an unctuous transceneental hatred of humanity. Th paper edited on these lines flour ished. Some loved, others hated It, No one respected it, but everybody read it Aladjev had reached his goal. His financial resources grew daily, his income became magnificent. But the years of such feverish activ ity left their traces. Aladjev grew old and Infirm. Against his will there arose in the bottom of his soul old long-forgotten, forcibly-suppressed longings. They brought in their train tbe painful consciousness of a duality, an unconquerable self-deteetatlon. His youngest daughter—the only one of his children whom he loved— had left him after she had told him that she was ashamed of her fathdr. She became lost among the hundreds of others pure of heart, unselfish ol purpose and deep of feeling like her self. Over his desk hung her picture. Her eyes looked reproachfully down on him. Right under her beseeching eyes, nay, in defiance of therm he wrote his clever, cold, lying articles. And yet Aladjev felt that there was more holy truth In one of her mis takes than in all his cold calculations. Insomnia tortured him; in his sleep less nights he could not drive away the all-pervading dread of death. The stillness of the night spoke to him in mystic dreams. The figure ol his sorrowing daughter gave battle to his agony in loving kindness. * He feared solitude. l>ate at night, when he did his work, all the deep shadows seemed to become alive. His dreams were heavy. He stood before the judgment seat and could not justify himself. Unknown shades, covered with blood, nbject in their despair, passed before him accusingly and their number did not end. "I know them not,• he said. "I did not hate them: if I have harmed them it had to be, because it was to my advantage.” Their number increased continually, they grew up like a wall between him and the Judge, they reached out after him, showed him their wounds—and, in nameless dread, he crawled out of his bed. shaking In i every joint. ___ The first report of the massacres ■ reached the editorial rooms. His co workers talked subdued, in whispers. Aladjev said nothing. He wrote an editorial in his usual mauner. He said a few words of regret and then he tried to show how unavoid able, how inevitable, how almost necessary were these events. He made use of a knavish trick. The massacres were not, he argued, the result of deliberate incitement; no, on the contrary, the massacres proved how justified had been the cam paign of incitement. He was pleased by the thought that he did not in cite the riots. He ate his dinner with relish and was in good humor. He went to the theater to see a French farce, lingered at supper, and came home late, a little tired, but pleasantly agi tated. On his dresslngn-table was the oblong envelope; this time it had a wide black border. “So you are mourning for the vic tims of the massacre!" he exclaimed, sneeringly. He placed the letter with out opening it under his pillow, and immediately fell asleep. He awoke suddenly. He did not know what had happened. Icy dread was strangling him by the throat. The black border of the letter stood in front of him and gripped his chest. A terrible pain had made him insensible. Soon he began to compre- i hend. Yes, that was it Why had he put the letter under his pillow? It was the black border which had ter rorized him. Suddenly he saw clearly. Those hateful letters were the dread ful shadows which tortured him. If he could but get rid of them all would be well, the shadows would disappear,, and his soul would find peace. He arose from his bed and, without put ting on any garment, he tiptoed Into his working room. The full moon flooded the room with pale light. He opened the drawer. There were the letters. There were many, many of them. He took them out one by one, read each, and threw it away. But the more he threw away, the more re mained. Everything was littered with them—the floor, the chairs, the couch, the tables. He hurried in fear, for tnese yeuowea sneets wmsperea be hind his back—he was afraid to turn around—they conspired against him. They flew around like a flock of white birds, and touched him with their wings. He drove them away, but they surrounded him in ever narrowing cir cles, thier number grew and grew, they slapped his face with their wings, and every movement of their hissed the one word, “Scoundrel.” And suddenly the circle opened. What was this? The letter with the black border stood in front of him. The double sheet opened and began to compress, to break his breast. No help, no salvation? He wanted to cry out; his weak groan was lost in the joyous flappings of uncounted white wings. In despair he looked up to the picture. She alone would plead-for him—she alone coulu save him. The picture was no longer there. He himself had removed it yesterday to escape the everlasting reproach of those mournful eyes. With a wild cry he threw himself against the black-bordered letter. In the editorial rooms the night force had. heard the shriek. They hastened into Aledjev’s room. They found him atop of a heap of letters, his face distorted with horror. A few weak signs of life remained in him. They laid him on the couch. Everyone had picked up instinctively one of the letters. The solemn silence around the dying man was broken by a sub dued whisper. As they looked at the letter eaoh one pronounced in an un dertone the one word. “Scoundrel.” Importance of Teeth. Dr. Osier has stated that the ques tion of preserving the teeth is more important than the liquor question, says Scientific American. No doubt much dyspepsia is due to decayed and defective teeth, which preclude complete mastication of the food Ueven if anybody in America had the time to eat propqrly). Dentists, like doctors, are now beginning to realize that their true mission is not "a gen eral rebuilding system,” but a sys tematic and well-considered effort to prevent and overcome the decay and loosening at human teeth. PLANS FOR CONCRETE FOUNDATION OF SILO Bulletin from Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture Gives Detailed Instructions. • * •* —* Laying of the Foundation. The accompanying illustrations and description of a silo built on a ce ment foundation are taken from bulle tin 136 of the dairy division United States department of agriculture. To lay out "the foundation, drive a stake in the ground at the center of the proposed silo. Saw off this stake at the height desired for the founda tion wall, which should be at least one foot above the ground on the high side, If the ground is sloping. One end of a straight 2x4 inch scantling, a lit tle longer than is necessary to reach from the center of the silo to the out side of the foundation wall, should be nailed on the outside of the stake with a 40-penny spike. This spike then marks the exact center of the si S*---1 down straight, and to leave the bot tom level. The concrete should be made of one l>ait cement, three parts sand, and tive parts broken stone. The broken stone may be of all sizes, np to pieces that will puss through a two-inch ring. Washed gravel, broken brick or screened cinders may be need in place of broken stone, if the graved con tains sand, the amount contained should be estimated by screening some of it, and the proportions of gravel and sand should be so adjust ed as to conform approximately to the above formula. For mixing the concrete, a box about four feet wide, eight feet long, and one foot deep, may be used, or a --— -^ Form for Foundation Above Ground. !o. Krom it. measure off on the scant ling the distance to the inside and outside of foundation wall. and. hav ing nailed on markers lay off the foun dation. The thickness of the wall should va.y from 10 to 18 inches, depending upon the size of the silo, the material of the foundation, and the ground on which it is located. The inside of the foundation wall should be at least two inches nearer to the center of the silo than the inside of the staves. Where the ground on which the silo is to be located is not level, the markers can be lengthened by holding a longer board against either marker moving it up or down to keep it touching; the -__r simple floor or platform six by teu feet will suffice. To measure tbe mate rials an empty barrel (preferably a cement barrel) with hath ends knocked out will be most convenient First measure up sand enough for a batch of convenient Rise, and spread it on the floor or platform. Measure up the cement, spread it over thu sand, and with a hoe or above), mix them until no streaks appear. This mixture is then built up into a low, circular pile, with a crater-like basin in the center. Into this "crater" pour water, and, by drawing in tbe dry mixture from all sides with a hoe, mix thoroughly, adding more water if nec essary, until the hoe will leave the Form Filled with Concrete. ground while the scantling is held lev el. If the ground is very uneven, it may be difficult to make the line con tinuous, in which case points can be marked every few inches, and these joined afterward. For 'a concrete foundation, a ditch must be dug before any of the earth in the center is removed. The earth between the two lines that mark the inside and outside of the foundation should be taken out, until firm ground below frost line is reached, care be ing taken to cut the sides of the ditch mortar without the mortar chuglug to it, after which the mortar is spread out on one end of the platform. Now measure up the broken stone or coarse gravel. Drench it with water to wash off all particles of dust, and dump it on the wet mixture of sand and cement. The final mixing In dons by shoveling the material back and forth until it is thoroughly mixed. It should be shoveled at least three times. The concrete is now ready for use. and should be put in place with as little delay as possible. TRIM FRUIT TREES YEARLY All Dead, Diseased and Decaying Branches Should Be Cut Out First, Then Thick Places. In winter time the h<>ad of the fruit tree is open to the light, and all surplus and obstructing branches can easily be seen and reached. The trimmings easily slip down through the branches and cause little trouble in the progress of the work. The air being cold, they can usually be burned in the orchard without danger to the living trees. In burning the trimmings Insects and diseases are destroyed, and the ashes, a valuable orchard fer tilizer, are left on the ground, where most needed, and there is no extra labor in hauling them away. In trimming trees at any time all dead, diseased, and decaying branches should be cut out first. After that cut interfering branches and thin out | places where they are thick. It should be the aim to leave enough branches for supporting a good crop of fruit, but they should not be so thick that when in foliage sunlight will be en tirely shut out and some parts of the tree top be in dense shade. Direct sunlight is essentia] for the perfect setting and ripening of good fruit of high flavor and color. More apple trees have tops with too much shade than those that have too much sun. The trouble with most orchard own ers is that when they start to trim they have not the courage to cut out as many branches as they should. Fruit trees should be trimmed a lit tle each year, rather than to let them go for several years and then cut out a whole wilderness of brush. A very heavy trimming of a tree at one time is a shock to its vitality, especially where branches more than two inches in diameter are removed. A few small branches removed at one time are not felt. 1 Diffidence of intellect is true bumil [ ity; the more one knows the more I one is ready to believe others know. FROZEN FLOWERS KEEP FRESH Picked In the Bud und Preserved by Refrigeration While Being Transported. Freezing flowers to keep them fresh is a modern idea. They are picked in the bud and preserved by refreg eration while being transported. They can travel safely In this way for sev eral weeks. When unpacked they are found free of damage and w hen placed in water and left alone they slowly awaken and come into full bloom. It appears that experiments are being made in South Africa with a view to dispatching them in this way ir bulk at the seasons when they are scarce elsewhere. The flowers undergo no deterioration from the treatment eith er in the beauty of their color or in their longevity after immersion in wa ter. Curiously enough growth sus pended by refrigeration appeai-s to resume so slowly that the blossoms thrive in a room for a considerably longer period than if placed there ini mediately after being cut in the gar den. The process would also serve to in troduce to our notice many beautiful members of the horticultural family with which at present we are unfa miliar; such plants as the gorgeous iris, which grows wild in luxurious profusion in South Africa, or those which abound on the slopes of the Andes in South America. Plymouth Rocks. Plymouth Rocks are an American - production, and seem especially suit ed to our manner of growing poultry. They are easily fattened for market, and are not inclined to be wild; in fact, they possess almost all the good qualities and have very few faults or defects. The very fact of their being raised in such numbers is sufficient proof of their popularity. Folly of Fretting and Fuming. Stevenson: To fret and fume U un dignified, sulcldally foolish, and theo logically unpardonable.