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iN.mr * * * - ARTHUR J. BALFOUR, Premier of Great Britain, wliose unexplained conduct at the time of Mr. Chamberlain's retirement* and vacillation In regard to the preferential tar iff scheme have led to ruinous dissensions within the party. He is a scholar of note, but has never been popular as a leader. FOR AN IDEAL CITY the Hexagonal Flan Suggested as That Best Suited For All Purposes. More attention Is being given to-day lo the systematic planning of cities, with a view of affording the most con venient means of getting from one polht to another, and at the same time ?f gratifying a growing demand for trtlstlc effect. In an article In the Craftsman. Charles It. Lamb gives the subject a thorough discussion, and tfter reviewing a number of plans of arriving at these ends, comes to the following conclusion: Municipal art must have for Its foundation practl "ability. Its very essence Is dependent npon the harmonious relations be tween this and beauty, and. therefore, a city planned to be developed In ar tistic and esthetic directions must be based upon the most practical plan. And what Is such a plan? To the writer's mind, all forms of rectilinear plans must be discarded. The cutting of these with diagonals is. af^er all. but ? makeshift. If not an oblong or a square, what form would be the basic one upon which to found the city? After the fullest consideration of all the possibilities that geometric figures give, the writer Is tempted to suggest the scheme shown In the ac companying diagrnm. the hexagon. This permits the development of the city to the utmost that might be possi ble within many decades, because with the hexagon, the groat advantage of the diagonal Is secured, and. at the same time, Intervening spaces which can be secured for playgrounds and park areas, between the large central areas, which, In turn, can be used HlIiOONAt PLAN OF A MUNICIPAL R1TKNSION. for groups of civic buildings In certnln part* of tbe city, aud, again, In other parts of tbe city seats of learning, recreation, business In all Its forms,' banking, publishing, tbe newspaper in dustries, and tbe thousand and one trades, wblcb. In tbelr turn, seem to be desirous of grouping themselves around a common centre. The more this plan Is studied, the more It will be found to approach the Idea of practicability, primarily in re gard to shorter distances thnt a person would have to walk or drive from any one point to another. Tbe sub-divlsk*. Of the !nter?>st<? into groups by a divi sion of the park area, is to be distinctly commended from Its sanitary point of ?lew, as these Interruptions of natural foliage give tbe greatest advantage to the Inhabitants of each quarter. Kstbetlcally. the grouping of tbe pub lic, semi public, and private buildings ?round common centres largely -In creases tbe architectural and artistic possibilities over the accidental oppor tunities offered by the ordinary plan of the city; while the angles caused by the hexagon permit Interesting variety In the treatment of the street facades over that developed by a straight and continuously curved street. Of course, such a plan Is assumed primarily for a level country, and must be modified when the con formation would Indicate distinct changes In levels. This Is Indicated kere, because the method of procedure with moat city officials Is to force any scheme to comply with differences In the elevation.?Philadelphia Record. Height of BalMlvf*. The building regulation* of Mar seilles, France, provides that the height of buildings on streets more than thirty-two feet wide shall not be more than double the width of the street, with a maximum of ?Ifhty-oae feet three Inches. OHIQI1T 1H OMR WATERJ. The vast amount of nutritious, whole some and delicious foodstuff resulting from the fisheries of tfce United States is not generally realized. Somt> con ception of It may be had from an ex amination of the diagram here shown from an article in the National Geo graphic Magazine by Dr. Barton War ren Ever man. of the Bureau of- Fisher ies. The total catch of food-flshes in the MeuT cf 24 or WfWNciwt nSHtmtS IM IOMIU40H5 of SALMON OUTERS < COD HERRING UKIMMMG ALE WtVCS t SHAD HAKE somrrtAcue CLAHS CRABS ?UltriSH halibut CARP I LOBSTERS I CATTISH I SUCKERS I NACKCREL I SHRWP I FLOUNDERS I LAKE TROUT WHTOFISH STURCEON HADDOCKl THX FISH CATCH OF THTS COUNTRY. United States and Alaska, as shown bj the last census, was 1.733.314.324 pounds, valued at $45,531.165. The number of men employed was 214.050 and the capital Invested was 972,201.* 040. The salmon pack of Puget Sound alone In 1901 exceeded $4,500,000, an amount more than four times ns great a* the entire silver output of the whole region drained by the Columbia River. The salmon output of Alaska for 1003 Is valued at $10,000,000, which exceeds by more than $2,500,000 the amount which Alaska cost us, and If we add to' the salmon the value of the cod, halibut and other fisheries of Alaska, the total greatly exceeds all the other resources of Alaska combined. RESTS ON MIS TAIL. An Interesting photograph of the Tasmania wolf, taken by Mr. E. T. Keller, Is reproduced herewith from a foreign natural history journal. It Il lustrates the observation made by Mr. Keller that In the resting position the TASMANIA* WOLF AT REST. stiff tall Is used to support the animal. Mr. Keller Hays: "I have not aeon this Interesting fact recorded elsewhere. It Is. however, possible that It Is well known among students of the habit* of this animal." The Life of the Call. It Is no extravagance niul no mere figure of speech to say that cells, move about with apparent purpose, that they feel, that they suffer mid enjoy, that they absorb and assimilate food, that they live, love, morry, propagate and die. And we can sny with as much truth thut they think. The cell, therefore, does all that man does, has all that man has. and possesses, with in Its tiny compass, heart, vein, mus cle, nerve, ortery. skin, bone, carti lage and what-not of the future or ganism of the composition of which It forms one of the ultimate constitu ent parts.?National Magazine. The (letup field*. Not more than three hundred and fifty square miles of territory are un der cultivation In henequln or sisul hemp, yet on this small area Is pro duced the fibre that literally binds the wheat harvest* of the world. It Is used alike In Minnesota and Argen tina, In Siberia and Kgypt. A thousand million miles are covered by the various trains of this couutry i In the oeurso of a year. TtSLA'9 TOWER FOX . MBLO TELE8RAPHY tm ing eat to put of ? by which the eleUiklsg. Nicola TmIi, aajt he will Ian la operation before a great while and which ho calls "world telegraphy." From thla tower, which he haa been building at Werdeodjffe, on Long Isl and. for eome time, and which he haa recently completed, he bopee to send and receive meesgee from all orer the world Irrespective of distance or In tervening obetsdee. The construction of the upper part of this tower Is said to be so delicate that it will detect the slightest Impulses that come to It through the air. He says tbut he will be able to deliver the electrical current anywhere and in an)* amount by the use of certain artifices which he ba? discovered aud which be will make known in due course. While Mr. Tesla bus been responsible for a great many electrical inventions some of vfhicli were of a revolutloulx ing nature, he nas made a great many promises which he has failed to re deem up to the present time and foi this reason some of his electrical as sociates have referred to him as ft "very promising young man." It fins been said that in his present work he Is receiving support from some very wealthy and Influential persons. It if said that through his connection* witl) George Westlngbouse he h:is .1. Pier pont Morgan among his supporters. THE OCEJtNVS TLOOR. While carrying on her work for the Bureau of Fisheries, says the National Geographic Magazine, the Albatross has made more than 10.01)0 soundings, and more than 41H) dredgings, and has brought up from the bottom of the sen hundreds of tons of Usbes and other animals aud mud. The greatest depth from which the Albatross has secured any life was 4173 fathoms. This was In the Soutb Pacific between Tonga and Elllce Isl ands. The dredge brought up sllisious sponges, radioiarians and brown vol canlc mud. The greatest depth from which she has brought up fishes Is 2940 fathoms, or about one and a third miles. This was in the edge of the Gulf Stream off the coast of Virginia The deepest sounding. ever made by the Albatross was at Station 4010, neat Guam, where the euormous depth of 4813 fathoms, or nearly five and a half miles, was found. The depest sounding even made by any vessel was by the U. S. Nero wbllc on the Honolulu Manila cable survey. with apparatus borrowed from the A! batross. When near Uuam the Nerc got 52tH) fathoms, of 31,014 feet, onlj sixty-six feet less than six miles. II Mount Everest, the highest mountalr on earth, were set down In this bolo It would have above Its summit ? depth of 2012 feet, or nearly half ? mile of water. KOREA'./ WONbCRrviL BCLL A queeriy shaped Roup;, which oc eupies a position of honor In the contn of the city of Seoul, Korea, is wild t( be one of tbe largest In tUo world, am' Is called "the bell with the wail of e child In Its voice." When first cast the bell sounded with a harsh ?nc' cracked note, and the superstltlour Kmperor, fearing an 111 omen, con suited with his magicians. These gen tlemen held a long confab, and finally stated that the bell would nevei ? sound right until n live child was glvci ! to It. The mass was tkcn melted again, and n live baby wan tbrowi Into the moltpn metal. TIjp wall ol acony uttered l?y the III tie tot a* th* bronze engulfed It Keeniod to be r<* pented every time the boll was tolled, and to-day the Koreans still claim lhat the wull of a child can l>e heard in tht rolce of the metal.-New Torlr ] Time*. | Did lock# fldVentare. ALASKAN BliB STORY. KOBABLT the DMt re ?Mttbl* neap* from death on record In Alaska vu that ot V. X. Kins and hto partner. N. P. Pet erson, woo tu the Nonet roadbouse. across the Nom Hirer divide. These people have. In addition to their road boose duties, been prospecting on Homeetake Creek, at the base of the Sawtooth Moon tains. Ol* -tfce moraine of May 30 they start ed for their customary prospecting, when they were surprised to see the tracks sf a monster pair of bears, dif ferent from any they had ever seen be fore. After a tedious "mush" of sev eral miles tbey encountered a grlssly. the largest of the bear family and the most ferocioua animal In the world. > Peterson flred and the bullet struck, bat not in a vital spot, and with a growl of rage and pain the bear sprang over the cliffs and rolled almost to the bottom, some 900 feet below, where the regained her equilibrium and van ished among the rocks. Chagrined at the failure, Peterson turned and was horrified at seeing an other large grlssly sbout twice the size )f the other, spring upon bis partner. Mr. King, and was more horrified when he remembered that his waa the ouly available gun, and as the magazine; was out of repair, could only be reload Ml by removing the empty shell by hand. The liear sprang at his foe. but King, with tlie habitual presence of nilnd Inherent In the backwoods hunt er. thrust his weapon Into the face of his assailant. In the twinkling of an eye the hear had grasped the muzzle of the gun in bis teeth and was crunch ing the gun barrel like so much wood. Toweriug two feet higher than King, the latter realised that the only hope for him was to pull the trigger and maybe stop the beast until they pro cured safety in flight. A loud report and the bear gave a "spring high In the air and fell to the ground. The men beat a quick retreat, and after covering considerable ground, turned, and were surprised to see the beur still lying on the spot where It had fallen. They waited for a few minutes, in the meantime reloading the rifle, the shotgun being broken at the stock and the muzzle left In the mouth of the bear. After throwing several rocks nt a safe distance they ventured further, and. unreal and marvelous as It may seem, tbey found the bear stone dead. Upon finding the bear was killed, the men went back for a aled, aud after several hours managed to get the bear to^tlie bottom of the cliff, where they loaded It on the sled, after disembowel ling it. They took It to the NUgget roadliouse. and then started for Nome with niue strong dogs to draw the heavy load. It took them three days to reach the Sour Dough roadhouse. where the bear's remains were put In cold storage. The big brute was brought to town on June 3 and placed on exhibition at the Golden Gate Ho tel. It Is a perfect specimen of the grizzly, and the skin Is a beautiful one. The bear, disetnboweiied. weighs nearly 000 pounds. The skin was sold for $125. and the moat was purchased by local restiyirants at a dollar a pound. a remarkable thing was the enor mous power of the Jaws shown by the deep indentations ina<le in the barrel of the gun by the bear's teeth, not only the barrel being bent, but marks were made iu the steel connecting piece about one-fourth of an inch deep. Then there was the finding of a griz zly at this far northern latitude, nnd. to cap the climax, the strangeness and seemingly preposterous statement of fact that a grizzly bear weighing 634) pounds was killed by a discharge ?f birdrihot iu Lis mouth and with the aid of no other weapon than that. When one remembers that the grizzly bear is the rnont vicious of all animals, aud that the inoKt experienced hunters quake and turn pale at the thought of even participating in such a fray. It makes one maryel the more. Mr. King is a Swiss, with a broad accent, and in rotating his narrative states that "de buyer corned at me like a wild beast, un I yust pulled de trig ger und he go dead,"?Nome Corre spondent of Seattle Post-Intelligencer. THE ENGINEER'S STOUY. "Yes, iudeed, we hare some queer little incidents happen to us," said the fat engineer. "Queer things happened to ine about a year ago. You'd think It queer for a roiufh man like me to cry for ten minutes, and nobody hurt, either, would you? Well, I did. and I can almost cry every time I think of It. "I was running along ono afternoon pretty lively when I approached n lit tle village wliere the track outs through the street.". I slacked up a little, hut was still making good speed, when suddenly, not twenty roils ahead of me. n little girl not more than three years old, toddled onto the track. You can't even Imagine my feeling*. There was no way to save her. It was Impossible to stop, or even slack much at that distanee. as the train was heavy and the grade descending. In ten seconds It would linve been all over; and after reversing and applying the brake. I shut my eyes. I didn't want to see any more. "As we slowed down iny fireman stuck Ills head out of the cab window to see what I'd stopped for. when he laughed and shouted at me: 'Jim, look here!' I looked, and there was a big black Newfoundland dog holding the little girl In his mouth, leisurely walk ing toward the house where she evi dently belonged. She was kicking and crying, so that I knew she wasn't hurt, nnd the dog had saved her. My fireman thought it funny, and kept laughing, but I cried like a woman. I Just couidn't help it. I had a little girl of my own at home."?(lalvcston Trl buae. TRAIN'S MAD RACE. Eighteen freight cars were being loaded at Laqaln on the Susquehanna and New York Railroad when they be gan to move. They could not be ?topped and a wild dash down the mountain aid* for twMty mixes fol lowed. ? paMMgcr train which VM but ten mlnatco thwd was warned not to stop and a~race for tho liree of the paainim followed. The passenger train was only caved when four of tho freight cars, the oalj ones which crossed a long wooden bridge safely, were thrown on a elding and ditched nt Monroeton. A few mlnntee after the care started ftrcss en engine was started in pnrsnit of the runaways. Running st terrific speed down the grade. the en gine overtook three empty cars, the train baring broken In three eectlons. With them ahead the race was -contin ued. Meantime the'other sections reached Schroder's Creek, which is spooned by a wooden bridge. They were moving about seventy-Are miles an hour and were closing In on the passenger trait, rapidly. Four of the cars passed the bridge safely. The structure gave way under the strain and the otbet cars crashed Into tl?? creek. Word of the runaways reached Mon roeton In time for the operator, aftet the passenger had passed, to threw a switch, and the four cars were wrecked. The pursuing freight engine continued its mad run to within a few rods of the bridge. Then the crew saw that the bridge was goue. By jumping the three ineu saved their lives and tht engine and three cars plunged luto tlif wreck at the bottom of the creek. Dur ing the race the passengers ou the train were panic stricken. KINO WOOLSEY OF ARIZONA. Sheriff Cook lias In his possession a weapon which was probably use* it the making of liictory in Arizona in tin days of the sixties and seventies, say* the Pittsburg Gazette. It is a revel Ver of an old model, Colt's pattern and it was found on the flat between Sentinel and Agua Callente a few duya ago. There were found to be rudely en graved lu the metal work the letter* "K. W." There were six notehes tiled on the stde of the barrel. The conciu slon was reached that the gun had been a part of the armory of the lat? King Wooisey. whose stronghold at Agua Calieute for years was oue of the best known places in the territory. The dilapidated old weapon was showu to Justice Burnett, who said that It re called to him an incident in a tour of a party of tenderfeet across the cou tinent. There was a breakdown of a South ern Pacific traiu near a place called Sentinel, which consisted of nothlu? more than a box of a railroad office The breakdown was of so serious a na. ture that there was 110 prospect of tk< train moving for several hours. The | tourists exhausted all the means of amusement at their hands, and flually one of them proposed*shooting at a target. A half dozen revolvers wer< collected, and several empty soda, beet and other bottles which were found lying around the station. The marksmen established r. rang* some distance from the train and kept popping away at the bottles for an how or two. One of the tourists, but only one of them, succeeded lu hitting a bottle now and then, and he was rec ognized as the Dr. Carver of the party Au old man with flowing whiskers, at tracted by the discharge of firearms rode up and sat on his horse observing the target practice. Whenever the champion tourist fired the old man would give a grunt expressive of con t teuipt. | FinnII)- the champion turned to hin> and said: "Maybe you tliiik you can shoot." The old man said nothing, but dis* mounting, he picked up a bottle, fas tened n string about the bottom of It In such a manner that the bottle would hang perfectly horizontal in its invert ed position. The old man tied th* string to the low limb of a mesquite He next took the cork from the bottle, and when the bottle bad become sta tionary he measured with his eye a spot directly under the mouth of it. He placed a Hat stone there and pu* the cork on It upside down, direct I j under the mouth of the bottle. Ther the old man set the bottle swinging nnd walking away a distance of thir ty yords. he estimated to a nicety the position of the bottle and Its semi-cir cular path and made an absolutely ac curate calculation of tbe effect of tlu momentum. He drew a slx-shootei and fired. The l>ottle fell and one o? the tourists ran and picked It up corked. One of the tourists nsked flu old man who he was. As he mounted his horse and rode away he replied. "I'm King Wooisey." THE KANSAS TEN-YEAR OLD BOl Near Melvern, Kan., the other dsj George Cheever, aged ten years, wa? caught in the lariat with which he wa? leading a horse. The horse ran away with him, drawing his body feet firs! over the rotiKh ground for more than 9 quarter of a mile. He was .picked Uf apparently dead. When the folks wer# wildly ruunlng for a doctor, however, he sat up and said: "Whoa!yotJ blamed old fool!" And tbe account says thaf the doctor was able to keep him In bed only one day.?Kansas City (Mo.) Journal. Mortality In India. India is perhaps most commonly known to us ns a land of famine an</ plu?ue and cholera. and a population of 30I>.0(NMNIO. Tln? recent blue book Issued by Knuland tells some astound Ing facts about the Indian people. The death rate Is given as 17.3 for uppet Hurmah, 44.1 for I'ut.Jab, an average of 31.40, or Just double the average in Knglund and Wales. And yet In spiff of that, the birth rate for the country was 30 per 1000, two and a half time* that of Knglntid and Wales, and ris ing in one province to the enormous figure of 00.0. It nowhere fell beiow 28.0. The moral figured are hardly le$s definite. To keep these millions in or der 180.000 police sufficed, ('rime I* on the decrease. The prison popula tion dropped to 03,700 from 105.013 in 1900. The people are supposed to be Illiterate, yet they managed to dls? patch 520,.V?8,125 letters during the year, and the number Is Increasing an nually at the rate of 25.000.000. "Hher look Holmes" and "Mrs. Caudle's Cur tain Lectures." are ? preferred hooka from the outside world.?Boston Tran script. Newsaf bterest 4R0-AHEMUNS Deal jMkMn Mill l?ada lint bale at OtonU'a n?w .crop ?C allt wm aold la Albany on July 1X4 by Deal 1* Jackson, a colored who has boon Ue first bal? merai yaars. The bale weighed 351 pounds and waa elaaaed aa good middling. It aold for IS centa par pound. The'flrst bale was marketed laat year August 3rd by tke same man. ? ? ? ? Colored Woman Elact Officers. The National Association of Color ad Women, which haa been holding lta fourth biennial convention here, has adjourned after electing the follow* lag olBcers: President. Mrs. J. Sllone Tales. Kansas City; rice president, Mrs. Booker T. Washington. Tuske gee. Ala.; corresponding secretary, Mra. Cornelia Bowen. Whugh. Ala.; re cording secretsrles Include Mrs. Mary B. Stewart, Louisville, an? Miss Jose phlne H. Smith. 8outh Atlanta. Ga.; treasurer, Mrs. Llbbie C. Anthony, Jef ferson City, Mo. The next convention will meet in Detroit, In July. 1906.? Indianapolis Freeman. ? ? ? ? Against Mob Violence. A Montgomery. Ala., dispatch says: At a meeting of Camp Lomu, of Con-. federate ..Veterans, a resolution con demning mob law and the torturing of persons was presented and referred to a committee to report at the next meeting. The resolution was present ed by Captain Clifford Ijanler, and not only puts the camp on record as op posed to violence in every way. but calls on all patriotic organisations to suppress the sentiment of disrespect for law. Captain Lanier held that mob law waa confined to no section and every good cltlsen ought to ^>ut the weight of his Influence against it. ? ? ? ? Negroes in Cotton Mills. The failure of the only cotton mill In the south employing Negro labor is algniflcant of nothing except the un wisdom of an attempt to launch a business under adverse conditions with inexperienced management and untrained labor. T\ie qualities which have generally excluded the Negro from the cotton milla have relation to his general unfitness tor a monotonous occupation which demands patient in dustry and steady application. The difficulty with an experiment of this character Is that, had it been success lul. It would have done vastly more Larm than good to the Negroes of the south. Indeed, Its failure Is a cause for congratulation, since it will avert the misfortune to the most thrifty Ne groes of unprofitable investments in milla with little or no chance of sue cess.?New York Times. Negro Statistics. In his interesting work of preparing a bulletin on the Negro population of the United States. Walter P. Wlllcox, of the census bureau of the depart ment of commerce and labor, gives some facts and makes some conclus ions that throw much light on the so called race problem. In the south Negroes are about one third of the population, both In the cities (30.9 per cent), and In country districts (82.6 per cent). Since 1840 the increase In the Negro population of the south has been less rapid than that of the whtte popula tion. During the past decade the Negro Increase In the country districts was only about two-thirds that of the whites, and five-sixths In the towns. The center of the Negro popula tion Is In DeKalb county, Alabama. Between 11 and 16 per cent have or are believed to have some degree of white blood. The rate of Negro Illiteracy la giv en at 44.5 per cent, or seven times as common as among the whites. The death rate of Negroes* In the registration area In 1900 wan 30.2; that of the whites, 17.3. The Negro population of the United States, Including our Insular posses sions, Is given as 9,204,531, niue tenths of them being residents of the southern states.?Atlanta Constitution. ? m * ? To Uplift ths Colored Rscs. An organization of colored women, known as the "Mothers of the Twen tieth Century," has asked permission to hold meetings on Decatur street. In Atlanta, Ga., and to erect a small plat- j form at or near the oorner of Decatur 1 and Ivy streets, where the worse ele ment of the colored population of At lanta oongregate. The application Is made by Caddie Whitman, president, ?nd Eugenia Keaton, secretary. In the petition to the mayor and the efclef of police it Is ihtted that the ob ject of the "Mothers of the Twentieth Century" is to uplift the race by ex tending a helping hand to those who need to be led Into * better way of living. It Is said that there are colored boys and girls who would be better men and women If they only had some one to direct them. The organization was granted the permission asked for, and the street meetings will begin at once. As the efforts of the "Mothers of the Twenti eth century" are solely In a line t? help upbuild charaeter, the organiza tion will be given every encourage ment by the Atlanta authorities. Under the head of "A Oood Cause," the Atlanta Constitution comments editorially anent the above as follows: The action of Mayor Howell In granting a permit to the organization of leading colored women known as "The Mothers of the Twentieth Cen tury" to make addresses upon Deca tur and other streets In the section of the city which Negroes frequent will meet the hearty approval of aV i familiar with this the woman who are at Its bwl Tha society, which haa been ed on the general llaee of tha Kiag*a Daughters, has for Its purpose tM elevation of the yoaag working wo men of the race. Its work la tml' on the theory that the best posstbla I service which can be rendered the col ored people is to teach them srst to differentiate between the good and had of their race, and to instill into the hearts of the young of both saxes the desire to attain the respect of their fellowa. Tha women who hare undertaken this work are recognised aa leadera. x They are devoting their time to it with ino hope of other reward than the consciousness of performing 0ood service to their fellows. After an to vestlgatlon Into their plans and par* poses. Chief of Police Ball gave his official approval of their application thst they be permitted to hotd street meetings on Decatur and Ivy streets, snd Mayor Howell not only gave this his Indorsement, but accompanied it ' with the assurance that he would do everything in his power to aid the good work; an sssurance which we feel sure will be supplemented by all who inform themselves concerning tha ? alms of this admirable organisation. Two Conventions Compsrsd. The following highly Interesting communication appeared In The Wash ington Post recently: Editor Post: Aa a colored man I wish to call attention to the difference between the republican and the 'dem ocratic national conventions. At the republican conveentlon the colored j ! man was treated as a companion. | friend and brother. There he was | made to feel as if he were not only i a political, but a social equal. The | delegates followed the advice and ex ample of our beloved President Theo dore Roosevelt, who teaches that the colored man deserves to be treated sa a social equal. To emphasise this fact, he had the couragS" to have at his table Professor Booker T. Wash ington. if Roosevelt is elected it wilt so encourage the colored men that we will demand that Professor Booker Wsshington shall be the republican candidate for vice president In 1908. Let not my colored brethren forget that ecene in the republican conven tion when a beautiful white girl was placed upon the stage, and by her side a Negro boy. They then placed flsgs( In their bands and allowed them to lead the cheering, thus making the first and grandest example off the. equality of the races that history) records. In the democratic convention there was not a single colored man. It WM| In word and deed a white man's con vention of a white man's party. Alt) hail to Roosevelt .who has given tha^ poor Negro so much to encourage hfafc, to persist in his political and social; rights. HENRY. 8. BAKER. Worms our Friends. After you have read this little ac count about worms, go out and look at some of the little things, but treat them kindly. Worms are not precisely blind, but they can only see well enough to toll the difference between light and dark ness. They have, however, a wonderful seDse of touch. They can hardly smell at all, and are quite deaf. They breathe through their skins, having no lungs. They can crawl backward and for ward and curl up Into any position If by accident a worm is cut Into several pieces it does not. necessarily die, because it is so mai'e that each piece ?:an go on living Independently of the others. But the pieces always do thole best to And each other and come together again. A worm's working year lasts only about six months, because It cannot burrow through fho oarth while the ground U frozen. In these six months the worms will turn over an average of ten tons of soil to an acre. Think of that! Stones, twlga, leaves and shells will be thoroughly chewet! ?;y and mixed with it. Then the larger worms do still more. They burrow down to a great er dopth than the smaller worms, and dig canals for the rain and moisture to flow through down to the rootu of the plant* and trees. So, altogether, you see, boys and girls, the worms are our good friends, helping to make the earth green and Beautiful and productive for our bene fit. WEALTHY MEN OF OLD. Their Fortunes Make Even Rock* feller'e Millione Seem Small. A writer In a Jewish magazine hay been looking into the Agadlc hlatorv of the Talmud, awl believes that there were richer men before the Christian era thun there are now. W? know that. Croesus wan rich, and that there were huge Roman fortunes in the times of the empire. The Talmud stories go back further still. The great .lorner In corn that .Joseph man aged was fabulously profitable. Tra dition says that. Joscp'i, acting fot Pharaoh, got his hands on pretty much all the ready money there wan In his day, and burled three enor mous treasures, one of which wa? found by Korah, whose fortune esti mated according to the modern star. I* ari!s of value, Is rated by the maga zine at three billion dollars. rtolo mon's stable, with Its hornes, chariot* and horsemen. Is said to have lepro *<?nted a sum the modern equivalent of which would b? throe :*r four hun dred millions, and ho spvtit. two hun dred and fifty millions on his temple. Herod's temple cost more still. In Jerusalem In Roman time:-* there were three Jews, who between them, felt able to fare an expenditure of a hun dred millions a year for twenty-one yi'ars. They offered to feed the mil lion InhabPanfs of jTiisalem for that length ->f time rather than surrender the city One of these Jews, Nlko d"mon. :<'!'?.? h!a daughter i dowry of |42f>,0'?0.0il0. There were other Jew* of who*;* enormous wealth the Agadlc history record. ?Harper'" WoeUIy.