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TIIE LAST JOURNEY. The little traveler ?et forth With one la<t sm:le of sweet content. There are no footprint-!, south or north. To show to us the way she went; Notinv footprints iti the snow. Xo flower t">r tr?k?rti backward thrown. "Sweetheart." we wept, "why must you Smi^ntf, she went her way. alone. The little traveler went her way And left us all who loved her so. She journeyed forth at break of day? A long, long way she had to go. The stars.were paling in the sky? Their kind eyes must have seen her start. Wo could not see: tre could hut cry. "Come hack to us, dear heart, clear heart!" The little traveler's tinv feet Have found a path that we must find. She was so little an-1 so sweet! We cannot linger, left behind. We stumble, seeking, day by day. 0 little traveler! Who will send ? A guide to point us out the way To find you ar the journey's end? ?Francis ISarine. in Youth's Companion. SJ SAVED BY THE FLAG. I | How One San Francisco House I Stood With Ruins AH Around It. ; ? e g F. H. WHEELAN, in St. Nicholas. | catsaBDesatscras At 1634 Taylor street, in the city of San Francisco, there stands to-day a house, which, in the greatest fire of modern times, was saved from the flames by the flag. When over four hundred blocks of buildings lay in smoking ruins, this house was the only one left standing unconsumed along the east side of the full length of Taylor street?a distance of twenty-eight blocks, nearly two full | miles- * * * At the time of the earthquake and i fire, April IS, 1906, Mrs. Brindiey, a! daughter of Mr. Sheppard, was there awaiting the arrival of her husband tn steamer for Janan. She had long resided in that country, and had j had "earthquake experience,'' so to i speak. Accordingly, as soon as the J earth had ceased trembling, she proceeded to fill the bathtubs and all I -other receptacles in the house with j water. She feared that the disturbance of the earth had broken the supply mains; and hardly had she filled the last pitcher when her fear * was proved well grounded. The water ceased to flow. But the first ;3tep that made it possible for the flag to save the house had been taken. Mr. Sheppard and Mr. Dakin took the :second step. In order that the household might have a supply of drinking water, they brought heme from a neighboring grocery a dozen or so "bottles charged with carbonic acid :gas?the kind of bottles where you press a lever at the top, and the water fizzes out in a stream under pressure. They are commonly called -sipnons. At this time no one thought the house in danger. It had sturdily withstood the earthquake; and the fire was many blocks away. But all Wednesday and Wednesday night and all of Thursday the fire raged In fury; and at last It came creeping up the slope of Russian Hill. The flames reached the block in which the house was situated. The heat grew intense. The sides of the house sent forth .smoke. The veranda on the east broke into flames, and the under side -of the eaves on the north and east kindled to a blaze. Mr. Sheppard and his family had 'taken one last look at their home with its treasures, and had sought rrefuge with friends across the bay. 3Ir. Dakin had stayed to the last, hoping against hope. But all hope was gone. The house was burning ;ana ne was warned away. He determined to hoist his largest American flag and let the house meet destruction with the colors flying fair :.above it. He rushed to his room of flags, selected his largest Stars and Stripes, mounted to the" roof, attached the great flag to the halyards, .and flung it to the breeze. Then, with a feeling somewhat akin to respect for the conquering power of the great fire king, roaring forward in irresistible ruin, and with a spirit somewhat akin to the unconquerable pluck that stirred the breasts of his comrades in the days of the Civil War, he dipped the flag in salute. Three times the glorious banner rose -and fell; and then, fastening the halyards, Mr. Dakin desceneded the -stairs, locked the door, and with a heavy heart left the house to its fate. High in the air, shining bright in the light of sun and flames, above the house of pines that had grown by the shores of the Atlantic, streaming forth on a breeze that came fresh from the Pacific, stood "Old Glory." The white stars upon that flag were there as symbols of the States of the Union. One star was there for California and one was there for Georgia; but three blocks away, to the eastward, at the corner of Vallejo street and Montgomery avenue, at that moment, there chanced to be a company of men who represented all the stars on that flag's field of blue?a company of the Twentieth United States Infantry. Under the command of a young i lieutenant, the company had been 011 Its way to San Francisco on the day of the earthquake, and had been delayed on its journey twenty-four hours. It had entered the city Thursday afternoon by the fe/ry from Oakland, and was at that moment marching under orders to go into camp at Washington square. The lieutenant and his men had seen the flag rise and fall in salute; and saw it now as it streamed forth in its beauty amidst smoke and flame. "Boys," shouted the young lieutenant, "a house that flies a flag like that i? worth saving!" His men responded with a cheer; and as Mr. Dakin vms sadly wending his way down the northern slope of Russian Hill, soldiers of the Twentieth United States Infantry were dashine up the eastern slope at a double-quick. No time was lost. They tore away the burning woodwork of the veranda, broke open the.doors and discovered the bathtubs filled with water. Some of them carried earth from the garden, others mixed it in the bathtubs to the consistency of wet plaster, and then certain ot their number stationed themBelves at the different windows, and as the wet mud was carried to them tlioy lv>rn!>ardod every spot that, lina kindled into name. Cue by one the houses in the block burned up and burned cut, until the old house stood alone. Every blaze that bad started upon its eaves and sides had been extinguished save one. There was one spot under the eaves at the northeast corner that, could not be bombarded successfully. Unless the fire at that point was put out all that had been done were done in vain. The soldiers were equal to the emergency. A squad mounted to the roof. One of the men lay fiat upon the edge, and while four of his comrades held him fast by the legs, he leaned far out over the wide oldfashioned eaves. Others passed to him bottles of the water charged with carbonic acid gas. And there, hanging far over the edge of the roof, so that ho might be able to direct the stream of water on the fire burning fiercely beneath the eaves, he squirted the fizzing contents of bottle after bottle, until the last flame and the last ember ~ere extinguished?and the house v\s saved. WEALTH IN ONIONS. Xcw Branch of Farming Adds (o Texas' Industrial Activities. The onion farmer is a comparatively new arrival upon the scene of industrial activities in Texas, says the Technical World Magazine. He is now one of the large contributors to the wealth of the State. In a little more than eight years the value of the annual production of onions in Texas for the market has reached approximately $2,000,000. When the fact is considered that this enormous wealth is derived from only about 2500 acres of land, some idea may be had of the abundance of the yield and the good prices that are obtained for the product. Onion growing has done another thing to help Texas. It has been the direct means of adding more than $2.500,000 to the intrinsic value of her lands. Inasmuch as the growers put a good portion of their annual earnings from the industry into property improvements in town and country the increase of taxable wealth from this source lias also been considerable. The wonders which were wrought by the magic touch of Aladdin's lamp were no greater than the transformation which onion growing lias brought to certain portions of Texas during the last few years. Land which, from the time of the earlyvisit of the Spaniards to the Rio Grande border section, was thought to be almost worthless, and at the very most only fit for goat grazing, is now bringing in an annual net return of from $300 to $500 per acre from the onions which it produces. Before the inauguration of onion growing any of this land could have been purchased at prices ranging from' $1 to $2 per acre. It has now no established value for the reason that none of its owners are willing to sell. They will not fix a value upon the land. Some of them are free to say that land which has such large producing qualities ought to be worth not less than $1000 per acre. Some of the onion growers say they.would not be willing to accept less than $2000 per acre for their lands. Even at that price the annual net return will average nearly twenty-five per cent, on the investment. Wild Animals Returning. The animals that prey are growing in such numbers in the northern part' of the State, particularly in those natural game preserves, the National and State parks, that they threaten the continued existence of animals of the hunt. And from the southern part of the State, even from such long settled regions as that about the hig bend of the Minnesota, in the neighborhood of Mankato, St. Peter and New Ulm, the three historic towns, the wolf from being a well nigh extinct animal has come into his own again and become a menace. Suddenly, at the semi-centennial moment, tae state appears to oe supj, porting as many fish, flesh and fowl as it did in Territorial days. The State will have to assume anew the extermination of wild animals, and bounties offered will be even more in demand. There is danger both to inhabitants and to game in these depredations. Particularly should there be concern for the scattered dwellers in the north of the State who are anticipating the coming of denser population, holding down lone claims and the like.?St. Paul Dispatch. Sharp Dealing. For once the American had discovered something British that was better than could be produced "across the pond." His discovery was a fine collie dog, and he at once tried to induce its owner, an old shepherd, to sell it. "Wad ye be takin' him to America?" inquired the old Scot. "Yps_ I enpss sn " saiH tho VtinL-oo "I thought as muckle," said the shepherd. "I couldna pairt wi' Jock." But while they sat and chatted an English tourist came up, and to him the shepherd sold the collie for much less than the American had offered. "You told me you wouldn't sell him," said the Yankee, when the purchaser had departed. "Xo," replied the Scot; "I said I couldna pairt wi' him. Jock'll be back in a day or so, but he couldn't swim the Atlantic."?Detroit Free Press. Turpentine in India. The production of turpentine and resin developed rapidly in Naini Tal forest division in India during 190G7. The profits for the year amounted to $11,333. The Government having put the industry on a paying basis. the enterprise will be turned over to individuals. The tapping of trees. however, will be retained under Government control. . Every Letter in One V"rse. In the twenty-first verse of the seventh chapter of Ezra can be found every letter of the English alphabet. It runs thus: "And I, even I, Artaxerxes the King, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are bfeyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra, the priest, the scribe of the law of> the God of heaven, shall require of you, It be done speedily." ; I Miss Peck Climbs Again. ! Miss Annie S. Peck, of Providence, J R. I., the mountain climber, who suc, ! jeeded in reaching an altitude of 25,, j ")00 feet on Mount Huascaran, but , ater was compelled to return to the ] owlands on account of the illness of , j )ne of her guides, determined to start , )n the sccoud attempt to reach the , : summit. Huascaran is believed to be . j :he highest peak in the Western j hemisphere. It towers above a noble [ group of volcanic summits in the . I ?outh of Peru. 1 A Woman's Hospital. A woman's nosjmai nas just ueeu j opened in Berlin and has a staff comi posed entirely of women. Two sisi :ers, Franzlska and Henrietta Tibur:ius, both doctors, conceived the plan and created the hospital. At present It contains nineteen beds, and any i .voman doctor in Berlin can send her patients there for attendance and for surgical operations. The United j States has had such a hospital for upward of twenty-five j'ears, the Telfair j Hospital in Savannah. This hospital j was built and is conducted according to plans set forth in the will of Miss Mary Telfair, who left it the bulk of her large property. It has in the neighborhood of fifty beds. I Xeiv Way to Wear Ostrich Plume*. Ostrich plumes are fastened in an j entirely new way. The drooping efi fects are not dethroned, but the I straight positions that add so much I to the height of the hat are considered smarter, anc. to obtain these the plumes are stiffened with fine silk wire. Another new trimming of charm| fngly decorative value for miladi's j hats is a cliou formed of four or live j Savers of chiffon or mousseline in difI ferent light tones. The effect of this ! filmy opalescent affair is absolutely ! delightful and nothing more graceful 1 and dainty could he selected. Something entirely new and just | rs simple as it is pretty is the new ! rravat bow used by French modistes j for holding in the desired erect posij tions ostrich plumes or brush effect oB . | Rag-Time Salad.?T j .2" = | make a floral centrepic C-3 m f meant to be eaten, for tl JSb ? ' with cress, and in the g , ? ( and red. The bowl was 1 S3 ^ ) carefully laid a ring of ? = j ring of cress, then gree "tSJ e > in the centre a mound U9 ? | .The whole was marinate | ( This is a new salad. 1 I i s good eating, j 1 | aigrettes, and made of velvet or silk I ribbon. This charming and unusu! ally effective trifle is generally en>| ployed for the new one-side trimming effects that prevail at present, and it does not exclude the use of the popular bead trimming.?Pittsburg Dispatch. Self-Reliant Girls Needed. The chief end of doctors is to ! teach people to keep well with the j minimum of doctoring. The chief i end of authority is to qualify people : for self-government. The chief end j of parents and schools is to train I children in wisdom and knowledge, ! that they may be able to take care of | themselves. That has long been understood in its relation to boys. The I idea of education for boys is to train j then up through obedience to 11bi erty. We want to make them free, j and wise enough to thrive on freedom. As fast as they can bear it we put upon them increased responsibility for their own conduct, and their one use of time and of money. What we want of them finally Is not merely to respond with docility to the care that is taken for them, but gradually to become qualified to take care of somebody els?. And j steadily and rapidly our civilisation j has been coming to have a like attitude toward girls. They are not boys in skirts, but very different creatures; their needs are different, their ideal work in life is different, the processes of education which seem most profitable for them aro different, but in | them, too, we grow more and more ' solicitous to develop the capacity to ! take care of themselves, and eventu| ally of others; to develop, indeed, all I possible capacities that are not incomj patible with one ?inother, and with i the highest and best and most imporj tant destiny that life holds for girls, j ?Success Magazine. Now York Heiresses and Titles. It is inevitable that our comments on the union of American heiresses to titled foreigners should mainly be patriotic. But the eifect of the international alliance is permanently registered on European society far more than on our own, and one of the most interesting phases of it has been the subject of remark in the London Saturday Review?the introduction o? the free and independent American girl into the hushed nd protected zone of the Faubourg, where the "jeune fille" comes into flower in hot house innocence. The jealous care with which the French mother brings up her daugli! ter is proverbial. But this particular J proverb, unlike most others, is found: ed on existing fact. The "jeune | fille" remains "the most innocent | specimen of her kind on the ContiI nent of Europe." She-knows more j than she is supposed to know, even | in France. Curiosity persists everywhere. But the restraints put on unmarried girls in French society are in no sense obsolete. It is typical that "no carefully brought up girl is * ?.XI- ? i. T> t c ever aione wuu a proiesaur. ?s typical that "scriptural history is much bowdlerized" and that the expurgation of French history is still ! more complete. One has only to re, call the Immense number of prettified novels written by Frenchmen of gen # a- & Qea/rk I' ius to understand the sanctity which , ' hedges round the virgin daughters of the Republic. I j The amount of liberty allowed the j ^ carefully reared French girl is so slight that "a young Frenchman who C' is not bent upon marrying will very T rarely choose the society of girls who are kept very much to themselves." ^ The observer whom we quote is uu- ! doubtedly right in advising his coun- I trymen that "the smallest intimacy j ' may be at any moment, if he is bad- j ' ly off, put an end to the friendship, and if he is well off expose him to 1 ^ being asked what are his intentions, j The fastidious ideal of the French | parent has results not altogether | happy. Marriages made in the ! j? drawing room are not the very best I g to stand the wear and tear of domes- J tic intimacy. But the French re-"j spect for "covenance" is deep and the p stark and serious individualism of j the women of Ibsen or Tolstoy causes i j? + Vin TTVonoVi Timmnn nf rpfinpmpnt. I however divinely discontented, to j ? shudder. fle Yet a change is gradually taking place, ascribed by the writer to our ^ country women: "There is hardly a French family that has not made some alliance with ^ America, and the introduction of the American heiress has been making j a slow and gradual change. Many of these Americans are extremely adaptable and take up the manners and customs of the country of their . j adoption with all the fervor of con- ; g. verts. Some American mothers are j ^ more particular in this respect than j ^ French women, but the leaven is . bound to assert Itself, and liberty is . fl slowly developing through the con- j ^ tact of the daughter of these unions, i _ particularly if she has a mind of her ! own, with her American cousins." | If the American democracy could ; ever be introduced into the Faubourg, j and by a person so little consciously democratic as the average American I _( heiress, there would be a triumph j much subtler than any of the usual j "entente cordiale." But one is pre- 1 Jj pared to believe that the change will j be extremely slow.?Chicago Even- i ing Post. I {'< ! O he salad looked as though it might ?ce for the table instead of being | n le glass dish was traced about airily ;reen nest rested a picture in green h irst fringed with cress, inside it was h thinly sliced radishes, next another n beans cut into small pieces, and j tl of small beets cut in tiny circles. :d with a delicious French dressing. r( :t not only looks attractive, but is ^ f< Selling Gowns to Americans. Grace Margaret Gould tells in the B( Woman's Home Companion some oi ri the ways the Parisian dressmaking establishments sell their goods to . American women. Here Is one ruse I that she saw worked in one of the j biggest establishments in Paris: "There was a sudden and evident j ^ commotion among the employes. 'The j ? Princess! The Princess! She has arrived!' they cried. j a "American eyes be^an to bulge. j o "Out from a magnificent equipage i stepped a regally gowned grand lady. | c; attended by footman and maid, and n received by the whole bowing estab- ! lishment, to the neglect of all othei : 0 customers. She was in a gracious j mood this day, and easy to be pleased, praising their past efforts and select- j s< ing several of their new creations i n without regard to cost. After she j had made her departure amid like ; f< ceremonies there was no need of the ! a saleswoman bothering her head ovei j suggestions. Every American womar cpresent wanted a gown copied from [ a the one the princess had bougnt, and , j< she got It after much pleading and al J 0 a price far beyond the limit she had i set. "And the point of this fable is this, j The Princess was no princess, but ar employe of tke house. I "Hvery French gown has twc ; ^ prices-?am American price and s ; p French price. It ij needless to saj ( which Is the greater price. I ^ "Along about April the cry goe? up, 'The Americans are coming!' and i R then the prices go up, too. j "Along about November, when th< ! Americans have left, you might aV ; ? most say they are giving awa3 i * gowns, only the Frenchman nevei j ( does give away anything. Then it is that the Frenchwoman in generai and ' the French actress in particular be- ; ? lects her wardrobe." I a ' tl Do Xot Put on Airs. .j "I have not seen Mary lately; If j she away?" a mothar asked hei _ younger daughter. "Oh, no, she is only affected sinct ^ she came back from school I can'l | j. stand her. She rolls her eyes and j her voice grows so die away you car I scarcely hear it, and she uses rtie 1 broad "A so hard, you'd think hei | mouth was full of mush. Sometime! 'r she forgets and then all of us girl.' i w punch one another. ! a "And just think, mother, she wil: w not even answer her father, unless h( j Sl calls her Marie! Isn't it silly? .- ? coo u-'nv triple Vl fl VP tfl Dllt Ot I S! such airs just toe a use they've been ai f< boarding school!" 11 It is silly, but, unfortunately, al! i girls don't get stuck that way. Manj . of them come home from school a.< unaffected as when they left. Theii 2 s new friends and experiences do nol d make the old life seem something tc ti be scorned. ti Don't do it, girls. Don't "put or P i airs." Your home friends are the 1 [ ones who will count most in yom tl i good times. If they get disgusted r< i with you or think you think yourseli i too fine for them they will soon drop you.?New Haven Register. 1 v> Turkey holds the record for the p I number of aged persons in propor* d tlon to the population. t; "7h7vito?e"] >S>B?SQfiB9CCSOtllOCItO(t P. F. (Stillwater)?Please explain he mechanism of the vitoscope. In o 11 CI I. UUUO A W UlUV-l ItUlU tut XWu^WW~ cope? The vitoscope, meaning, literally-, 7 the exhibition of life," is a kineto- u cooe enormously enlarged, showing :s subject in the desired colors and ithout the indistinctness that is a ' is -oublesome feature of the kineto- j 4 cope. As put Into public operation, i otably upon the vaudeville stage, it j onsists as to its mechanism of a lens, I p uch as is used in a small camera. I f his lens is nearest the exhibition | creen. Just behind it is a metal | rame about one and one-half inches ! t: quare, over which the picture to be j y eproduced passes. Behind this is a irge lens, and just back of this is an rc light of 2000 candle power. The t! ictures reproduced have been pre- t: iously photographed on kinetoscope 0 lms, and are in size about as large 3 one's finger nail. The films, as pre ared for scenic production, are each ; a fty feet in length, and contain sev- S ral hundred pictures that go to make P p a panorama. In use, the film asses over a series of wheels at a ery rapid rate, propelled by electric c ower, and as the picture passes the f ame behind the small lens above E lentloned the light frontf the arc imp, passing through the large lens nd being focussed upon it throws the | t> icture through the smaller lens upon j 3 le screen magnified six hundred j c mes. In this manner the miniature ' o icture taken by the kinetoscope Is j t ^produced life size or larger, with ! very minute detail of life and action, i n the screen. What to many is the j J" lost surprising feature of the vito- , I Dope is that it throws in the picture j ? ichibited any and all colors upon the j * :reen. But the explanation is quite ? imple. The colors are not obtained ' y any photographic process?the lm produced by the kinetoscope is I :onochrome?they are painted on the lms later by hand, in such a way lat the color will not rub off as the lm passes over the wheels of the i itoscope.?New York Tribune. u f WORDS OF WISDOM. fi t Imagination is the disillusioner of r ealization. The girl who appropriates a man's t >ve is liable to penal servitude for a fe. y Fortunately the most Imposing s imily trees have their roots welji out s f sight. I A woman gives her heart but once; ? lagnanimous man is more liberal. * Many a "faithful" dog has- died at * is post after greedily eating the , urglar's poisoned meat. t True love will run smooth while le track is well greased with gold. c A woman's love is as the enduring ? Dck, a man's like the wave which f isses each rock in succession. / A man can love and love again and j jrget he ever loved at all. The true rating of many a vaunted JLletl jju^iuuu id tuvci cu uj tin imcijgation point. 2 Many a pleasure, like a man's pipe, ( i a solace to him though a nuisance j } others. I Which most pitiful? A sister with' [ ounger brothers or a brother with lder sisters? In leap year a girl gets him by j sking, thereafter she gets him with- \ ut bothering about asking. 1 The .man with broad views of life i annot condense them into the nar- ( dw confines of the home. Queer! Alcohol takes the temper ut of steel, but puts it into man. By the hands of the men in a skydraper shall ye know the age of the * lanicure girl. I l ! i DMPAOA *v\n?m'nflrn o man oel/ej Kll f 1 - DCIUIC uiai i ia^c a uaau uong k/ u u j j 3r one little word, afterward he gets ; t plenty without the asking. j j The longer a man studies the j j urves of a decanter the closer he is pt to imitate them on his homeward jurney.?From "A Woman's Point ? View," in the New York Herald. l 1 Gallows Work. i A curious note of Pepys' may be j t smpared with Count Tolstoy's refer- ; i ace to the former unpopularity of j I angmen in Russia. Commissioner t ett, who had traveled, Jold Pepys I t how despicable a thing it is to be a j ? angman in Poland, although it is a j t lace of credit, and that in his time j 2 lere was some repairs to be made j * l the gallows there, which was very j t ne, of stone, but nobody could be-J i ot to mend it until tho burgomaster 1 r mayor of the town, with all the 2 ampanies of those trades which are I ecsssary to be used about those re- 1 airs, did go in their habits with flags i r i solemn procession to the place, ! nd there the burgomaster did give j le first blow with the hammer upou j le wooden work, and the rest of the | lasters of the companies upon the ! orks belonging to their trades, that j } workmen might not be ashamed to ! e employed upon doing of the gal- ! >ws work."?London Chronicle. i Consumption of Coffee. According to statistics published 1 a leading coffee trade journal the j orld's consumption of coffee in 1907 j mounted to 1G.S25.000 sacks, of 1 * hich 6,!)S0,000 sacks were con- | imed in the United States, 3,0f>0,- I 00 sacks in Germany, 1,G25,000 f . icks in France, leaving 5,170,000 j t )r consumption in all other coun- ! ^ ies. ~~^I t Railways in Canada. ------- . ( Twenty-live years ago there were j ^ 000 miles of railroad in Canada. To- j ay there are 23,000, with three ; ? anscontinental lines. The total : j ade of this part of the British em- I j ire has grown from $34,000,000 in t S51 to $550,000,000 at present, and j le great impulse has come in very ( scent years. t t Pits Made by Winds. In the sandy deserts of Arabia 'hirling winds sometimes excavate its 200 feet in depth and extending i own to the harder stratum on which I he bed rests. 7B HI7V G 5 J &WORTH KgOWlNGjgl! No man ever ate himself to death u a meui uuneu The Government has just ordered i 50,000 yards of khaki for soldiers' j niforms. The first recorded mention of gold 3 in the second chapter of Genesis, e 004 B. C. n . 8 A potato that is said to be disease b roof has been introduced in France b rom Uruguay. ^ a The shipping tonnage passing g brough the "Soo" Canal so far this ? ear is 15,000,000. I b One of the fastest growing cities in & he world is Kobe, Japan; its popula- _ Ion increased from 190,000 to 360,00 in ten years. ^ Rejected by the British War Office, ' n aerial torpedo, the invention of a u .wedish artillery officer, has been urchased by the German army. ^ Although but a few miles from the ? aouth of the River Thames, noted or its fogs, the atmosphere of Home j. iay, England, is rarely obscured. 1, v Two monster whales have just d een killed on the Eden coast of New iouth Wales, thereby furnishing a re- ? Hinder that the whale fishery was nee looked upon as the staple indus- ' ry of the Australian continent. The discovery of the Mammoth o !ave of Kentucky was due to a search or saltpeter in 1807. Congress had F orbidden American vessels to sail for a ]urope, and foreign vessels to land C argoes in this country, and saltpeter r ras needed for gunpowder. low the French Farmer Lives a t: By VANCE THOMPSON. The French farmer, Pierre, whom visited that year, raised 2000 measires of wheat; 100 were laid aside j or seed; 150 went for the family a lour; the remaining 1750 measures c le sold at sixty cents, for $750. His n ye, barley and fodder, after deduct- " ng seed and supplies for the cattle, c irought in $420. He sells every year i pair of oxen?the old ones; last ear he got $130. The sale of other ^ tock brought him $210. Another D ource of Income is the poultry yard, q Jut this and the dairy may be set li iside as equivalent to the many t axes that weigh upon the peasant- c armer. In round numbers, then, r Merre's income in an average year is ? >1500. Over against this he places lis expenses, thus: 1 "wo men at $100 a year $203 )ne man 80 f )ne herd 33 r )ne lad 13 ^ )ne woman el , L dairy maid ".... 53 Vo haymakera at $5 a week 10 Sxtra hand for harvest and so forth.. 69 * $502 c Food for seven laborers (Pierre I ind wife not included): ^ Vheat ; $92 1 ?ider 35 1 ?acon 40 i iutcher's meat 72 Jroceries SJ I 'etroleum for lighting 15 ?33f Jlacksmith $*2) iarnessmaker 0 Wheelwright 21 Tools, etc 25 ITi ?oat of attending fairs, selling cattle and grain, etc $63 insurance 12 $72 And the total is $979. Thus be^ ween Income and expenses there is'" i difference of $521, which is Pierre's ' jrofit for the year. With this sura le provides for his family and meets * he needs of life.?From "The French J feasant in His Fields," in the Out- { ng Magazine. , I A Cultivated Memory. t E. C. Laston, who issued a chalenge to the world for the memory * :hampionshlp, although only a young nan of twenty-three years, is a verita>le walking encyclopaedia, for he has j nemorlzed 40,000 dates of the princi- j >al events in the world's history since he creation. It was quite by accident < hat he discovered that he had an sxceptional gift of memory. He was i >elng trained as an army officer, when ( in attack of rheumatic fever dispelled 1 lis hopes in that direction. At that ] ime he happened to meet the Zancigs n India, who, noticing what a re- : narkable memory he had for dates, Ldvised him to cultivate it. He then ( 1 J ~ 'c ? TVn_ f juruuaieu * tup/ ui ixajuu o L/IOionary of Dates," and sought to com- 1 nit to memory the dates of the most } mportant events in the world's hisory by writing fifty to a hundred j lates on a piece of paper, and revriting them three or four times until , le had fully grasped them, with the t esult that he has a repertory of ( housands of dates, and can give the ! :orrect answers without the slightest J lesitation.?London Tit-Bits. t Mail Bag Was Robber. i "Office robbed last night. No clew o thief. Loss about $300." < That was the telegram that came < ikimming over the wires from Cerro ' jordo, 111., to the Chicago postoffice his morning. \ Postmaster Campbell answered to he postmaster at Cerro Gordo: "Was 1 he money in a cigar box, 'Bouquet i le Straw' brand?" i When the wires had been used for J ' l brief time the down State official ' :ame to, and then there were apologies. Through Cerro Gordo's mind there ] ilowly percolated the remembrance hat just before he locked his office j ast night he placed his cigar-boxed < reasure in an empty mail sack, fear- ] ng thieves. Then the last thing he i lid was to send all the empty sacks :o Chicago.?Chicago Telegram to , he Philadelphia Record. - m Cat Not Guilty, A cat accused of killing a chicken was found guilty on the grounds ofl self-defense by a jury in a Justice's jourt at Marysvllle, 111., recently. - v Latest News BY WIRE. 'ires Threaten Maine. Augusta, Me.?A dense pall of smoke hat in many places obscured the seting sun or made it appear blood red nveloped the State as the result of umerous forest fires. The most erious fire was in Hancock County, ut v.ist sections of woodland were urned in Piscataquis, Androscoggin, iomerset, Oxford, York, Cumberland nd Penobscot Counties. The towns .nd villages where the danger is reat or damage heavy include Jrooksville, West Hancock, Surry, )icksvale, Jackman, Lisbon, Scaroro, Biddeford, Eliot, York, Clamon, Iilford, Cardville and Costigan. lodjeska to Publish Memoirs. Los Angeles, Cal.?Mme. Modeska, who has permanently retired t rom the sfag?, started for New York o arrange to have her memoirs pubIshed. feorge F. Parkman Dead. Boston.?George Francis Parkman, , member of one of the oldest familes in Boston, died at his home oil leacon Hill, in his eighty-fifth year. le was a graduate of Harvard Coljge and the Law School. His father ;as the victim in the Parkman murer case years ago. dominated For Governor. Concord, N. H.?Henry B. Quinby ras nominated for Governor by the >ftnuKH/>on Ctofa Panironf\nr\ icy uuu^au k>uuvv/ wu? vutiwu iu 41 v? lampshire. lird Reservation of 70,000 Acres. Redding, Cal.?By an order of resident Roosevelt about 70,000 cres of land adjoining the Oregon!alifornia line is to be set aside as a eservation for the propagation and1 rotection of native birds. The order Qcludes land not suitable for agriultural purposes. The tract is probbly the greatest breeding ground in he world fof water fowl. [arry O. Landers Dead. Chicago.?Harry O. Landers, the ainter of Irish scenes, died from inuries received by being run over by sightseeing automobile. He was rossing Dearborn avenue and did ot notice the approach of the autoaobile. His relatives live in Syrause, N. Y. 50,000 Feet of Lumber Bnrn. Calais, Me.?The big mills of the Lmerican Lumber Company at Talaage and 650,000 feet of lumber rere destroyed by fire, entailing a 3S3 of $150,000. The fire started in he dry-house, a wooden building, ontaining 150,000 feet of lumber eady for shipment. The principal tockholder is J. Franklin Faxon, of luincy, Mass. le Insulted Lincoln. 1 * Glen Echo, Md.?William Henry iles, who once insulted President Lincoln and on another occasion lared Jefferson Davis to slap his face, lied here, aged ninety-seven years. Captain Walton For New York. Washington, D. C.?At the request if the Governor of New York Captain tomolus F. Walton, now at the River Hew Academy, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., las been assigned to the organized nilitia of that State. He will report n person to the Governor at Albany. Jay Shore Hotel Burned. Jacksonville, Fla.?The Bay Shore Hotel, at Green Springs, one of the argest hotels on the west coast, was lestroyed by fire, forty guests having larrow escapes. Several women vere rescued through windows. The lotel was owned by R. T. Young )lood, of Tarpon Springs. ! BY CABLE. tfnited Stotes Leads. St. Petersburg, Russia.?The Minstry of Agriculture has submitted a )roposal to the Cabinet for the estabishment of an agricultural agency in he United States to study American nethods of farming. The ministry jelieves that America, in these maters, leads the world. Cadets Condemned by Court-Martial. Vilna, Russia.?Three cadets atenaing tbe military school here were :ondemned by court-martial to exile n Siberia for having formed a revoutionary society. Jnban Newspapers Angry. Havana, Cuba.?The Cuban Press Association held a meeting and adopt;d a resolution condemning the recent etter of Governor Magoon which di ected that a libel suit be brought igainst the Diario Espanol. S'o Clemency For Mulford. Aroniia p T?The Governor-Gen ral has denied the petition for a parIon for Harry Mulford, formerly a Uajor of the Thirty-ninth Volunteer nfantry, who was cashier of the deunct American Bank. Princess Dc Broglie Will Sue. Paris. ? The Princess de Broglie, rife of Robert de Broglie. announced hat she intended to bring suit for livorce against her husband on the ;round of desertion. Princess de Broglie was a Miss Estelle Alexander, if San Francisco. She was married ;o the Prince in Chicago in 1006. \. Victory For Russian Women. Sr. Petersburg, Russia.?The worn?n students won a notable victory jver M. Schwartz, the Minister of Education, in the Cabinet, on the quesion of restitution of their right to lttend lectures at the Russian universities. Plan to Reform the Lords. London.?The Express says that a Majority of the House of Lords Committee, of which Lord Rosebery is :haii-man, which for months past has )een considering reform of the upper uouse, has agreed. Ww Partv in Cuba. Havana, Cuba.?Cuban negroes organized a political party and threatEsned to make the island a black republic, similar to Haiti. Turkish Loan Proposed. Constantinople. Turkey.?The new Council of Ministers has been approved. The Council will provide bonds for about $20,500,000, bearing interest nominally at four and a half per cent., issue price eighty-five, with an ontion in favor of the bank of fifteen days, dating from the sanctioning of the measure by Parliament. Tbia loan is for immediate necessities