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Roosevelt, Burroughs and Yellowstone Park (Continued from Page Three.) run. But tha colonel had Men htm from the Brit Jump and had his gun going. "Spat went a bullet against the sand atone. 'Too far to the left,' I yelled. 'Biff,' the next one, quicker than I can tell It, knocked, up the dust almost behind the ram's feet. 'Now's your chance,' aaid I, for the beast had been running almost par allel with the crest of the range and t was .frald every second he'd plunge down the bluff and we'd lose him. "With that the rifle cranked once more and that time I didn't see where the ball truck. But I did see the ram Jump Into the air, headed straight down the bluff, and disappear. When we got to where we lost him, fearing to find he'd made one of those glgantlo leaps down a precipice that the big horns are fond of In an emergency, the colonel gave a yell yoa could hare heard two miles. The Rough Riders say Sherman Belt of Troop K can beat 'em alt on the yell, but the colonel was right In It with him that day. The ram lay ten fet down the cliff on a little ebelf of a reck half over the edge and half propped against a dwarf pine. He was stone dead and we got the finest pair of horns I ever saw off him. It waa after midnight when w got home that Bight, and we were happy, even if our ears were frozen. , " 'We can get new skin on our ears said the colonel, 'but we'U never get another ram like that one.' " Oa the 'present i1p Mr. Roosevelt haa spent much time In Yellowstone park, hunting big gamo Just for the fun of see ing the animals and with no Intention of harming any'. Along; with him on this expedition of Inquiry was John Burroughs, the eminent naturalist, who holds the Amer ican championship for taciturnity. He never talks merely to be saying something or to be agreeable. When the conversa tional muse Is with him ha is the best company imaginable, but when hl inspira tion has taken Its flight there Is about as much company In John Burroughs as thera la In a deal and dumb person. He pays no more atteatlon to remarks adlressed to him than If he did not hear thera. As an lns'ance of his remarkable ability to keep his mouth shut, it Is related that an aggressive magazine editor went to Tlslt Burroughs at his hermit retreat In the Adirondacks a few months ago. Re waa House that Jack Built (Continued from Page Five.) when they are surprised to receive a com munication from the Man In fche Moon. Tholr chorus of greeting Is scarcely fin ished when the sound of trumpets an nounces the approach of Old King Cole with his pipe and bowl bearers and his fiddlers three The reception of this distinguished guest Is one of the prettiest parts of the operetta and la followed by the arrival of the Queen of Hearts, whoae coming has been eagerly awaited, aa sbs has consented to make some of her famous tarts. Her reception Is equally Impressive, but at this Juncture the revenge of tho Knave of Hearts and the Black Birds la complete, for it is remembered that the Humpty Dumptys, a most necessary Ingredient, are locked in the house and that the key la gone. The fairies tell who has atolen It aad a search is at once made and the cul prlta brought In. A trial la held before Old King Cole, who sentences them te be made Into a black bird pie. The captives plead for mercy, expose the knave and are Anally released oa oondltton that the key a found. This la readily dona, the Humpty Dumptya are brought out and the tarta are mad, and everybody la happy again, the acene closing, with dancing and song, for the entertainment of Old King Cola and the Queen ot Hearts. Artistic Shad Fishermen (Continued from Ninth Page.) ot the breed than those In diminutive Alpine. Thera has been no accession to the colony, except by birth, for nearly seventy fire years. About live yetrs ago an Irish man built himself a hut a half mite farther down the river, but that la aa close as any one haa come te adding himself to the shad colony alaee the Quinns moved- In three quarter of a century ago. "Don't you ever long to have a new face among yoa?" McLean waa asked, after ha had dilated upon the colony's ability to live to itself. "Well," he replied, "when we do, if there's any unmarried mil among-us, wo aend htm over to Brooklyn to get a wife; and then for the next ten yeara or so we find plenty of opportunity for talk In dis cussing her. "Why do we go to Brooklyn for our wives? Just a habit. The eolony's been doing It long before my father was born. Brooklyn women seem to tske to the quiet Ufa we lead as ey aa shad to- water. I gueea our forefathers noticed that fact, and, not wanting to be stirred on to undue effort, decided to secure an easy existence to themselves and their dsctnc.anta by es tablishing the custom of going to Brooklyu to get married." Be that an It may, It Is beyond question that tho little colony of leas than a dozen houses,, scattered among the protecting niches in the Palisades. Is aa free of the reetleea bustle of the modora world as New York or Chicago is typical of IU ceaseless well acquainted with the naturalist, having had a number of business transactions with him. Burroughs met the literary man. at tho door of his hot and offered a warm welcome. Then he took him on a ten mile tramp up and down the bll a When they returned to the eottage ha shook hands aarmty with the vUHer and said gocdVbye aad declared that he waa tho most en tertaining guest be had had for a long time. Not a word had been spoken during the ten-mile walk and tb visit was an absolute failure, from the editor's point of view, but he did not possess the ability to break through the cloak of silence with which Burroughs had enveloped himself. Burroughs lived in Waahinglon forty years ago. He waa then an army nurses At that time Walt Whitman waa employed In the Treasury department, and cheie two mada the acquaintance ot a str.et car con ductor, whose first nam was Mike, .'be tbrsa roomed together in a very bumble place, where the rent matched the en durance cf their pocket books. Mlko, judel by the world's standard, waa the best off, for each month he received $100 in tho depreciated paper money of the time for hla services to the tramway company. Ha rtlll occupies this enviable pc sit ion, fur he Is now the head baggagemaaier t.i oua of the Important stations on the Pannsylvaiia railroad. Burroughs secured a little patch of land near the capital, where tho two mada a re treat, and this finally became so attractive to Burroughs that ha gave up his govera- mant position. Thera he tended to tha cow, raised vegetables, watched the trees grow and studied the bugs and birds, which were always welcome to his patch. Human befnga were not Invited there. They an noyed tha things Burroughs loved best. 1is only human acquaintances were Whit man and Mike. It is quits likely that ha would not have tolerated them after ho became engrossed In his nature studies had they been talkative, but Whttmaa tould alt stilt and look at the garden for hours at a time, while tha ear conductor could alwaya remember not to rub the naturalist the wrong wsy and keep aa silent aa hla com panion. When Washington grew ont to tha retreat Burroughs gave up his place. Ho la not happy In the noise and bustle of civilisation. He says ha must have quiet. One "of tho many unique places this unique pair visited while In tha Yellow rash. It la a survival of the old mode of easy existence almost within rifle shot of tha chief example of tha present style of strenuous living. Anti-Oleo Law a Failure That the anti-oleomargarine law passed! by the Fifty-seventh c'wgresa at the be hest of tha dairy Interest, of the country haa proved a failure from tha dairymen's point of view la tho Inevitable conclusion to be deduced from a careful examination of the figures Just issued by the commis sioner of Internal revenue. It waa tha expectation of tha- promoters ot the law. says tho Washington corre spondent of the New York Tribune, that it would practically drive oleomargarine out of tho market, at least aa a competitor of butter. That It haa utterly failed in this object is proved by the commissioner's figures, which show that a total of 50,000, 000 pounds of oleomargarine haa been sold -in the eight months ended February 28, a decrease ot only 30 per cent from the cor responding period of the previous year, and a decrease by no meana surprising. In view of the fact that In the first few months of this period the production was mate rially curtailed because tho manufacturer were engaged la adjusting their methods to the provisions of the new law. Since what might be termed the readjustment period the sales havo steadily Increased, and It la doubtful it tho next eight months will show the slightest diminution. In the Judgment of some authorltiea they will show an increase. Out of the total of GO,0tK,000 pounds sold only 18,060 pounds was artificially colored, and- thus subject to the tax of 19 cents a pound. The remainder waa technically un colored, and paid the tax of cent a pound. In lieu ot a 2-cent-a-pound tax provided by the old laws; but thia does not mean that it waa white, the manufacturers having so adjusted the proportion of lawful Ingredi ents as to give their product a reasonably rich color without tbe use of "artificial coloring matter," this being accomplished by an Increase In tbe amount of cottonseed oil and of genuine colored batter entering Into the composition of the oleomargarine. Moreover, tho government haa suffered a considerable Ices cf revenue as a result of tbe new law. For the eight months ended February 28, 1901, the revenue collected In the form of taxes on oleomargarine and licenses to tell the same amounted to $1. 863.461.73. Receipts lrom the same sources for a like period ended February 2. 1903, amounted to only $528,rtt.87, a decrease of 12.337,337.83. Notwithstanding the decrease In revenue; the number ot licensed retailers ot uncol cred cleomargarine has greatly Increased, the license feea having been reduced from $4S0 for wholesalers and $48 for retailers to $200 for whcleealers snd $8 for retailers ot the uufoiored product.' It waa tho freely admitted expectation of the promotera ot tha law that "white olao" woulJ Oud little sale, and had It been nec essary to make the product white thia as- stone National park la known aa "Death Gulch by far the most dangeroua section of the park. Thia gulch la In a remote sec tion and la seldom visited by tourists. Many yeara ago a trapper told of a remark able gulch strewn with carcasses of wild animals, to enter which was death. Thia story waa looked upon as a myth until yeara later, when the place waa found to actually exist. Death Gulch la located fif teen mllea from Yancey's. It la a'narrew canyon, with precipitous walls, for tho moat part. There are places where tha canyon may be entered down tha aides, but moat of tho unfortunate animals which wander Into tha gulch coma In by Its head. In the bottom of the gulch and along its aidea are strewn tha skeletons and remaiaa of elk. deer and bee that have met their end there. It I thia gulch that waa made famous by Seton Thompson In hia story of "Wahb," for it waa there that tha grizzly died. Three year ago Dr. Frank W. Trap hagen. profossor af natural sciences at the agricultural college at Boseraan, Mont., and en of tha best known chemists of America, and Peter Kecb, president of the Boseman National bank, visited the gulch. A strong wind waa blowing at the time and they were able to go Into It from Its mouth without danger. Dr. Traphagen found, aa ha had suspected, that the unfortunate ani mals which bad ventured Into tha canyon were killed by a poisonous gaa which cama from the bottom- of the gulch. He secured a number of samples of this gas, which ha carried hack to hia laboratory in Boteman. He found it to he a deadly gaa, heavier than the air, so that when no wind waa blowing the lower part of the canyon would b filled with it and it would causa death to any living- thing that breathed It. A writer la the Milwaukee Sentinel tella tha following story of the father of Presi dent Roosevelt and hia ambltiooa for hla sen, which ha did not live to sea realized: It happened la tha month of September, 1878, that I waa appointed to represent Wis consin at the national Conference of Char ities, at Saratoga, N. Y., aad waa there-' fore in attendance at tha meeting of that body. I waa mora attracted to a quiet, earnest aad hard-working delegate from New York than to any other. I Judged him to about 45 years old, though his lithe figure and face of Infinite variety in expression sumption would doubtless have proved cor rect; but the aklM of tho producers in giv ing to their product a yellow tinge haa de feated all such expectations. Tho anti-oleomargarine law alno provided for the proper labeling of renovated or , process" butter, for the systematic inspec tion of the factories and imposed a tax on the product of cent a pound. While there are aa figures with which ta make comparisons, it is the opinion of those fa miliar with the trade that tha sate of "process" butter has undergone no material djmlnution. Tha receipts for " the eight months ended with February from this source amounted to $96,488.40, showing salea of Ji .187.360 pounds. With no little shrewd ness tha manufacturer, although compelled to label their product "renovated butter," have aeixed on the government inapectlon aa fnrniahing a guarantee ot purity, and advertise it as "prepared under the super vision ot the United Statea government." Taking a general' view of the reaulta of the law. it is doubtful if It haa in any way benefited the producers of genuine butter, while it has occasioned no inconsiderable loss of revenue to the government. I Father's Last Request A millionaire had died. There had been great apparent grief among those who bad been most substan tially remembered. And soma real-for-sure regret among those who bad expected to, but hadn't got a dollar. Tha funeral was over. Tha million ire'a son bad gathered for conference. Among the pet plans of the old man's declining days was a magnificent palace on whoso style ot construction be had dis agreed with every other member ot the family. "You w!i remember," said the eldest son, choking back his emotion wonderfully well, "that It wss the Isst request that we carry out every plan he had made regard ing, the new house." "Yes." they groaned in chorus. "Well, I havo arranged that it be done." Thereupon he plied an the plans of bio father's architect Into a large waste bas ket and bore tbem triumphantly out to the rubbish bin In tho back alley. . "T may say, truthfully, that It Is a pleas ure to carry out plans, even though we disagreed In their forming," replied the young man aa ha returned with the empty basket. Baltimore American. In a Line or Two Lord Curzon la the tweaty-soventh gov ernor ot India. But 2 per cent of the people ot Bul garia are Moslems. The submarine cables If Joined would reach) to the mosn. By the use of electrical appliance three men now do the charging of twenty fur- mad It difficult to eoma t any deflntta conclusion aa to hi age. His name waa Theodora Roosevelt. To my great satisfaction, Mr. Roosevelt seemed to be Interested In me perhaps because I waa tha youngest member ot tha conference, and perhaps because I cam from tho middle west, where It was mora common than In the east for new ideas to be subjected to the test of actual experi ment. At any rata ha talked freely with me when opportunity waa presented. When the work of the conference wa closed, a day or two after It opening, Mr. Roosevelt invited rae to spend the day with him at Moon's Lake, about four mile away from town. There was n railway to that side reeort at the time, and conse quently w drove out. aver a very pleasant road, my friend handling the lines In a way that showed hhn to be perfectly familiar with that kind af work. My Impression Is that thera were no other visitors at the lake resort that day, aad that we had tbe en tire establishment to ourselves. We cer tainly spent a day fall of keen pleasure aad great profit ta myself especially In regard to discussion of the management of children, a subject which waa then be ' ginning to have a strong personal interest to me. It waa in the course of conver sation In that line that I first heard ot the present president of the United States. "I have a son who is Just beginning hi course at Harvard," said Mr. Roosevelt, "in whom I take an Interest that sometime appears to me almost sinful. In his early boyhood ha waa physically frail and deli cate, and every day of hla life gave ma soma new reason for anxiety about him. But I have seen to It that he should have every possible encouragement for outdoor exercise such as would be likely to develop hia body, and have been contented to let hi brain take care of Itself. So ha has grown up with some rough corners, but appar ently well equipped with health, strength and energy. In fact, hia energy seems so superabundant that I fear It may get tha better of him In one way or another. If h escape that danger I shall hope to sea him do something useful in due time." Unfortunately, Mr. Roosevelt' hope was not merged In realization. He died in 1878, before his son had reached tha end of hie collegiate course or tha period ot adult age. nates at Homestead which formerly ra Quired 200 men. In Valparaiso all the conductor on trol ley cars are women. Thar are about 30.000 automobiles In use' In tha United States. It takea ninety threads of the spider to equal In sis one of tha silkworm. In western Canada 280.000,000 acres of arable land today await the plow. In New York City 100 new eoaea of con sumption develop eaeh day. Australia la to have a transcontinental railway from Adelaide to Port Darwin. Americana are making aa effort to estab lish a ateel plant at Flushing, Holland. Twelve thousand people were arrested in Glasgow last year for using obscene lan guage. 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