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NOTHING .TO DO ft),
L^og to do but bake,
SbBwu: to da but make
Jg^HTe r\i!dren'? goWna and sow.
^Khing jlo but ruec i,
|Wot!nng to but natch.
^ tiling to do bht bend
^Bver the cookiepateh\
^Hhing to do-butlfrow '
Ht'Je feet how toV^--> ?
iQBiing to do, you kbP^V
jwt teaching the babe a? ta>"\
jj^Khing to 'do but swiilej^kfr
^ nd kiss the pain away; . > i\
^ thing to do the whity ' \ \
^ Vie httle ones are at \ \
^ thing to do but De . \
^Vweetest and best that'3 found, \
By, only free \;jHfcVlien
the sandman comes around.
^Bce Seymour Keller, la Xewv Yorl
f + * .? ? ? -? + ' 4
* *
By MIS. H. i. KIDDER. .
L, HE was aggravates f"01*1
I A tiie firrt: there if u0 m's"
^ take about that
She would jfl^ays iook
L/ her prettiest ^7 beau
m came; biting her plump
s ^ make them r^der, ?AZ
to \ls eyea -with her innocent
jjKig blv ones, v*?l1 my D:ooa oouea
^Hp^se(her. I couldn't help it?
H^iever before had spurned even
Bonn beneath my feet, much less
Brian being, and that one my owe
K. And now here she was dorni
beneath my roof, as pretty as
Wand- a great deal more aggravat
Bu are so sweetly situated. Ciara.'
[aid, wifti one of her soft, little
the day after her arrival, "thai
lost regret Dot having married
wish you had." I auswered;
t one might travel the world ovei
lot find such a husband as you
ideal?so romantic, so demonstra
md full of soul, ana, withal, sc
and, with a still softer sigh
[Burton crossed her white iiaud;
? lap and looked happy.
she was supremely happy. 1
10 doubt; for had she not planted
I her old-time-thorns deep, .deep
sensitive breast? My husband
ot romantic or outwardly demon
re to me. Had he been so to her'
Iilogy would have led me to inmuch,
had I not known my
r to be as true as steel to the
rife he had chosen from among
L
Iwas to spend- the winter with
I she expected a gay time of it;
lat with the failing health of
b mother, who lived with us,
I fragile delicacy of baby Maud,
It the most of our evenings at
litertaining but little company,
morning Rose rushed into the
I where I was assisting .Tane in
g dinner, with her usually pale
Ic-id face scarlet with rage.
I insulting wretch!" cried she,
I herself into a chair.
whom do yoM allude, Rose?"
wuitein alarm.
ftur husband, Robert Newman,
refused to accompauy me to
ft to-night, aithough he knows
n- tvss nnnn ^nine-"' sho
1:1s liis reason for doing so, I
I I said, calmly.
aason! that is the most exasjtoart
of it," she replied, going
late and throwing the opera
o the fire. "He prefers the
lof a miserable, puling infant
Or that of a superannuated
lu. I'll quit your house toI
I'll be revenged on him for
yet?see if I -aron't!"
9 turned, framed in by the
Iritb her eyes blazing and her
streaming a half yard below
the looked like a tigress. ?
It to her room, refusing to
Bt 10 dinner.
>oied troubled.
Plid*'t you go with Rose,
fisktd, as I passed him his
Whv ihould vou nn?w ho
f^baty is better, and there is
of he croup returning to;
neid not worry about her
>
.">ot -ny refusal to accomthat
angered her. Clara;
luse 1 ordered her to leave
i
t, Robert?"
md ask nurse, and look at
i."
mother b>art in a tumult. I
aight to tie nursery. Baby
sobbing herself to sletp on
, and the ioor. little, light
ed and so wbite this mornack
and blue from the "wrist
iv.
ild you let bab> fall?" I.aethe
nurse, who vas bathing
ruiseiT arm with trnica.
rt me that done t. marm;
I of the desate of Ifiss BurItooped
to kiss baby and at
ime pinched the pooi iittlp.
II almost to a jelly."
Bt aggravating woma,:1' I
J clasped tlie little da.iing
Bt. "Is it not enough Viat
Red to win away the he*rt
band from me, that su;
seek to injure our iunocen.
t, after tea, Rose came tc
r door to bid us good-by!
she *aid. in a mock-tragic
N both hate me, and I leave
se to-night, never to return;
jmber, I take all your happi
: me! Your seeking to find oui
at will be of no avail. You
the bare idea of caring a fi?
hereabouts, but we shall see;
aud she shut the door and
lio cf that mocking laugh
k my ears even to-day, eight
fir the event.
tfese had gone, Robert came
sat down by my side. Tears
lis handsome, brown eyes, and
jembled as he spoke,
u knows, Clara, that a great
I off my mind now that youi
I .gone. I shudder to think
li a desperate woman might
it when her hopes were
|| wish her no ill, but she has
Rdow in our happy household
WJ ... X
, Let us now go and see i? baby stH.\
sleeps."
Lovingly and tenderly be put his arm
about my waist, and together we a?
cended the stairs to the nursery.
It seemed like the first happy days of
our marriage, and I in-voluuta>rify exclaimed:
"Robert, will this happiness last?"
"Heaven grant it. darling wife," said
he, as ne kissed me fondly, and then
bent dowu to turn back the light coverlet
of little Maud's cradle.
The room was in semi-darkness, and,
v as I turned up the gas, Robert gave a
wild and lightning-like glance around
s* the room and into nurse's lap, then he
" turned as pale as a ghost.
"Baby is not here!"
<^one can tell the bitterness of that
hofir but. those who have lost a beloved
K rhiM-ffl the ramp way. The coffin, and
' 'the shroud;, and the putting away of
I' th\j.!it#e farh). beneath .the sod is nothinsrVmPaired
with it. Rose, we knew,
hafcv^l*duV:te<i oilr child, but where had
s^e gone?\ Hiavrilt^ue were-her .word3,
"1 take youit; happiness with me!"
rj The nursj^xhad been drugged, and
when she recovered her consciousness
she grieved sorely(tor her lost charge.
It is uselessv$o tell of\the months
and years spentNn seeking a clew to
the whereabouts or Rose Burton, of the
' money expended antl the flood o? tears
1 shed to. the memory ot our , first blue1
eyed darling. Seven years passed, and
the year of the World's Fair in Chicago
dawned. Robert and myself, In the
' month of June of that yeir, took a
trip to the metropolis of the West,
staying three days. On our arrival we
1 registered our names at the Sherman
; House. The second day of our &t*y
1 a note was sent up to our room written
in a weak, trembling female hand. It
' ran thus:
"Dear Cousin Clara?I saw the notice
1 - ~ X.
of your arrival in tne paper, i^ome u>
me yourself. Don't let Robert come
tills time. I think I am dying.
"ROSE BURTON."
1 On the wings of love, pity and expectation,
I fairly flew to the place
' designated.
I found Rose in a poor, little room,
apparently dying of consumption. She
1 was sitting in an armchair when I en"
tered, and extended both her hands to1
ward me, while the tears coursed down
; her cheeks. My heart beat so that it
' was with trembling I asked the all?to
r me?important question:
' ''Where is my child?"
. "What do you mean, Clara?"
J- "Where is th? baby you stole from
us,*' I cried, "the night you left our
[ house, seven years ago?"
"As I hope for m'ercy, Clara, I am
innocent of such a crime as that. I
have wronged you, deeply wronged
; you; for I loved your husband even
' before you married him?loved him and
tried not to quench the Unhallowed
flame?but I never took your child."
; Truth shone in her dying eyes, and I
believed her; but my heart had now a
new sorrow. Where, oh, where was
my poor, golden-haired Maud, the child
that had ever held the first place in
my soul next to Robert, albeit other
little olive branches clustered around
our table?
Poor Rose was convulsed with coughing,
and, after the fit was over, she took
my hand, burying her head deep in
the pillow at the back of her chair,
for she had a story to tell.
"I have been 'thinking," she said, in
her hollow voice, "what I saw from mj
chamber window the day I left yourj
house. I think I can give you a clewj
to your child."
A e? ?V?/v onl/l c enma emtn/l
X\o OttlU LL4XO ilUUiC OVUWU auuuv-igv4
her attention, and she glanced towarcf
a side door, a look of terror comiutf
into her eyes.
Af this moment a beautiful litty
girl rushed into the room, and, goin?
up to the poor, dying woman, threF
her arms around her neck, exclaiming:
"I could not', stq^ in the bedroom,
mamma, as you told me. for I heard
you cough so terribly I thought you
must want your medicine, and?"
I knew my child in a moment. The
face was a perfect counterpart of Robert's.
I drew the little form up to me in
an agony of delight. The scalding
tears that had been penned up so long
-welled forth. I forgave Rose everything
in that supreme .moment She
had sinned, terribly sinned, but/ so had
the thief on the cross, and haa he not
been found worthy of paradise?
This last shock soon brought poor
Rose to her end. Before she/d-ied she
confessed to being accessor/ to the
abduction, or, rather, the pride mover,
assisted by a low fellow in ?he neighborhood.
/
'The reason for my last falsehood,"
she said, in a weak voice, "pvas that I
loved the child so I could i>ot bear to
think she would ever knqfa, what a
wicked woman she had cairxi mother,
for I taught her to call me\that. I
should have sent her to an%unt of
mine in North Dakota before^ died,
but God saw fit to bring ever%|>iug
out in the clear light of His trutffl^L
Rose died truly repentant. RoDafc
and I took home our first born, and the
rejoicing in our household was onH
equalled by that of the Shepherd wbo\
found the lamb that had strayed from'
the "ninety and nine."?New York
Weekly.
Machine-Made Pie.
Another blow for the arts and crafts
has resulted from the arrival of the
pie-making machine.
j-k xxao uccu uUppUSl'U tUilt LnaiN-llifc
pies, like picking cotton, was a work
for human fingers and would continue
to be until the appetite for pie was
* 'ost. Despite the inroads of machinfy
on the crafts that have hitherto
: l>en done by hand the pie artisan h?s
stood aloue, untouched by modern inI
veniveness. It was thought that a
pie vas too complicated and individualc
a crt\tion ever to be produced by
i brainltss mixers, and trimmers, and
: stamper.
; Crust ugredients and filling put in
I the muchue, which grinds and grinds,
shoving oi; pies that are not eve-a
i t*uehod by hard In being transferred
to the oveu.-Business Woman's xMagazine.
> An Ifonest Doctor,
I They are tell'ng a story cf an old
man who fell il. and called in a doo
: tor. After a wlii-e, as he grew no better,
they fetched h".m another medicine
man. This pliysicUn, after some pre:
liminaries, inquired: "Did your other
i doctor take your temperature?" "I.
: dunno, boss," said the invalid; "I alu'F
missed .nothin' but my watcb."
The tenth mooa ??^v?jrn has bf
named Themis. ^Wiy is already 1
name of the small plreuet No. 24.
The capacity of oeated air to abs<
moisture is made vfse of as a means
cooling men working in deep mill
says the Army.'and Navy Jonrr
They are allowed to drink all the
water they desire, and are then <
posed to a current of hot arir. The
suit is a rapid evaporation which p
duces the sensation ?f coolness.
In a recent'bulletin of the Trini(3
Botanical Department is an account
the method of preparing "clayed"
coa. The cocoa beans, after-being f
mented and dried, are collected
heaps, upon which men are . set
dance, while pthers-replace the.bes
as they scatter./ Meantime, the hej
are dusted over with powdered cl
which adheres to the gummy surfi
of the beans and acts as a polish,
" ' "?n- *T?o Hoflncj fittiimo
tnac nnauj' < "<- ??.?-? ?
pearance and color of polished l
hogauy.
Blowing wells, sometimes known
breathing wells, are now being inve:
gated by the United States Geologi
Survey. The best known examples
this type of well are found througlh
f Nebraska. The force of the air c
rent in one of the Louisiana wells
sufficient to keep a man's bat suspe:
ed above it. The cause of such a p
nomena is mainly due to changes in
mospheric pressure. Robert
Whitehead was the first
ventor to devise a torpedo which.woi
propel itself through the water. II
asserted?no doubt truthfully?that
received suggestions from an Austr
military officer, Lupuis, and it is :
unlikely that lie derived rrom an aui
ican, Rear-Admiral Howell, the i<
of employing tbe .gyroscope for ai:
matic/steering. Still, in a broad ser
Whitehead was a pioneer, and the
proveinents which he made upon
original model developed what rs n
the most efficient weapon of its 1*1
It has been adopted by the lead
navies of the world.
AN ARAB HOME
A Flcture of the Ltf? uf One. of the ]
Eastern Men.
?<- tv or a tn he admitted
At laou nv u ?
the home life of an Arab. Doft
oar slippers, we were ushered throi
tiie low, dark doorway into a Iil
Jjurt with a room on either side. 1
wife was seated on the ground ir
most picturesque costume of dark <
ors, without a veil, preparing the ev
tag meal. Hanging on the mud wf
Were various pans and cooking ut
eils, some of which were bronze, o
ers terra-cotta. On the floor was
,brass mortar and pestle used for p
verizing the coffee. Over the fire v
a large earthenware dish in whicl
jflat cake was being cooked. Both h
band and wife were so grateful to
great magician who had cured th
son that all conventionalities were c
carded and we all sat enfamille a
enjoyed couscous, dates flgs, nat
bread and delicious coffee. After d
ner the whole party indulged in clg
ettes and more coffee. The wife v
really pretty and had more express
than most of the women of the des<
especially when she gazed at her f
and heir with a mother love en
bling her dark but handsome featui
Had it been a daughter, all wo
have been different, for they are an
welcome increase in the family,
glected and ill-treated until they i
sold in marriage, a condition s
worse unless they bear male childr
The woman is the beast of burden,
drudge, and the general utility sis
as well as the banker for the lor
husband, who would not be degra<
by such a thing as labor.?Fr
"Shrines of the Desert," by D. L.
mendorf, in Scribuer's.
TVould Present Desertion.
The failure of the average Amerif
to regard military service as differ
from any other employment is to
great extent at the bottom of the f
quency of desertion. That the avert
soldier and sailor entertains such
light regard for his enlistment obli
tion is the direct result or tne jax
of the authorities in punishing des
tion. The military services take o:
a perfunctory effort to apprehend
serters with a view to their puni
ment, and the civil authorities mi
no concealment of their unwillingn
to aid in the task. The friends aid r
abet them by giving assistance, f
quently concealing them until ti
| haw been forgotten by their superic
Having little to fear from the auth<
ties and nothing to fear whatever
the way of social obloquy or ostracis
the deserter naturally takes a less s<
ous view of his act than that act
serves. Desertion is by law a cri
and there is no good reason why
, should not be punished as severely
<any other crime. If deserters w
run down and punished as promp
and inexorably as- other classes
offenders it would soon become a 1
popular method of getting rid
burdensome military restrictions t
untarily assumed If there were
certainty of apprehension and puni
ment'there would be fewer desertio
nnd the general public would come
realize' that desertion Js a more seri<
f>ffeiK*e than it has heretofore bi
counted.?New Orleans Picayune.
At the Phone.
The telephone hell in the bureau
infru mntion at the Union Depot n
and tho n'Kin who answers the publ
.questions took down the rocoivor. 'J
is what followed:
* "Hello!";
"Is tliis 090 Hickory?"
"Yes, ma'am."
'Bureau of information'/*'
"Yos, m;yam." ^
"Union depotV"
"Yes, nia*nm."
"Can you tell me what time my Ir
leaves tonight?"
"Yes, ma'am."
"Will you tell me?"
"'Yes, ma'am."
"When does%it leave, then?"
"What road :do you ro on, rnadai:
The woman at last reached the qi
tion she intended asking, and it \
immediately answered.?Kansas C
Star. j
! . \
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V
'
f i Stay-at>Home
J This Seeming Paradox is
** Now a Delightful R
Because of a {
vanceme
>rfo .
of ItS
es, _________
b tour of the
z in yoi
By ARTHU
of ******* AVE you dreamed of travl
eling? Have you longed
e*r" I H ? to know what it would
'n jLf" mean to stand in the
*? places where the world's
lu3 lii8tory;>has been made, ' to see for
ip!* yourself tbe grandeur and beauty, the
a^? stupendous energy and the endlessly
xcc varied life not only in our own land
but also In tbe distant countries of the
ap" .world?
Qa~ Tbe progress of scientific invention
now makes it possible for hundreds
of thousands to realize this dream for
a* themselves and for their children.
8 J" Travel of tbe truest kind is within
caj; your reach, and yet without, using
' either *ship or railway or any of tbe
ordinary bodily conveyances.
ur" This statement is so extraordinary
is
* In Its claims that probably ud reader
" " of these lines will believe it? at first.
" Indeed no one could have been more
at" sceptical about it than the writer was
udtil he visited the New York establishment
of Underwood & Underwood,
1.n, the business organization which^is reu.
, sponsible for tliis-truly-remarkable development
of a great scientific invention?as
wonderful in its way as the
a" telephone.
The first few minutes of my visit
, " were devoted to some interesting opti
1M
tQ_ cal experiments. I was given a couple
" of card3 about three by seven inches
' In dimensions. On each card were
drawn a pair of rather complex geoovy.
metrical figures consisting of many
nj curved lines crossing and re-crossing
. ' each other in numerous ways. One
card was marked A and the other
B, but all four of the-patterns seemed
to be precisely alike.
An ordinary stereoscope was handed
Far me with instructions to examine the
A card through its lenses. The efEect
,t0 was to enlarge the diagram slightly,
in? Then I was asked to examine the B
card- in. the same way.
^ Right before my astonished eyes that
circular "pattern" of black lines on a
\ a light card transformed itself into a
:0" sphere of slender wires. It was al^
most incredible. I did not imagine it
My eyes actuany qiq see a wire giuue
standing out in the open space as
plainly as they ever saw a solid ball
| ^ of wood or of metal. It seemed as
'r^s if I might reach out my hand and
J prove its roundness by grasping5 it.
Naturally, I asked for an explanation.
The cards A and B had apparently
eir been just alike, yet only the latter
}.g gave this marvelous effect of the third
ind dimension. But 1 was asked to wait
. a little for the explanation, with the
[in- Promise tliat would shortly be given.
Next I was handed a neutrai tinted
/as card of the same size as before on
ion .which, stereoscopic photographs of
Jrt; one scene were mounted in the manner
^ with which many people are familiar,
n0_ two prints on one card, side by side.
>e3 In the photographs I saw representul(^
ed a field with a cluster of houses
n_ beyond, and breaking surf on a distant
ne. sea beach; it was down in Martinique.
are A couple of men stood talking in the
field close by, and I could see some of
en the village houses in the space bejjjg
tween their standing figures.
lve I was asked to examine this also
jly through the stereoscope. It seemed
led to me hardly necessary, after the.inom
epection I had already given the twin
El_ photographs; however, I put the card
in the rack and placed my bead
against the hood of the instrument.
Here I was astonished again. I was
:an no longer looking at a photograph?I
ent was seeing out into actual space, into
' a an actual place, and, moreover, this
re" piace was startlingly different from
lS& what I had supposed when I looked
a at the flat photograph without any
era- inoti'?monH Tnsfoofl nf Innkinir" from
the side of a field, I found I was on a
;er* high bluff, dropping abruptly perhaps
five hundred feet just beyond the two
de" men. The houses that I had supposed
?h" to stand at the farther side of the
lke field showed up as they really were,
pss at least half a mile distant over at the
U(i other side of a ravine.. I couldn't bere~
lieve my eyes at first. Then I asked:
iey causes this effect of being
,r?* right there with open space all
>*1"' around?"
_ "In the few minutes we have, there
would not be time to explain fully,"
^ri* was the answer, "but the possibility of
these effects of reality depends first
me of all on the principle of two-eye seeing
as distinguished from one-eye sceas
ing. You must begin with this principle
if you are to understand this
^ traveL system. Most people never stop
? to think why they have two eyes. If
es? the question occurs to them at all,
? they probably fancy the second eye
" is merely a piece of reserve equipa
ment?nature's provision against helps
* lessness in case of accident to one
ins
.' organ of vision."
0 Then my informant went on to explain
that a person with normal eye2cn
sl?ht sees very differently from a person
with only one eye. To demonstrate
T T*?r> c* nolroA frt m fl LrO
lllUl blULClUCUL, J. I*** vv ~ ~
of two or three personal exffcriments.
mg First I Held, my ngnc arm out strajguL
ic's in front of me, on a level fcith the
'iiis shoulder, the hand open, tliM palm towards
the left. Holding it fil that position
I looked at the bar*, i with my
right eye alone, keeping tie left eye
shut. I found I could see the edge
of my hand and a part of the back of
the hand. Nest, keeping arm and
hand in the same position, I closed
the right eye and used only the left
a in eye. That time I saw the edge of my
hand and a bit of the palm, but I
could not see around on the back of
the hand a3 before. Last of all, I used
both eyes together. Somewhat to my
own surprise, I noticed that I could
n?" then see the edge of the hand, part of
ies- the palm, and also part of the back
vas of the hand. Indeed, I found I actu Jty
ally ?aw part way around the hand.
Tha representative of the itere
> "
\,v. " ' . . : ' . ' :
Traveling?^ J
eality,
Scientific Ad- ^
fflt as Wonderful in 01
i Way as the Telephone ti
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WORLD ....... g
JR EASY CHAIR a
ni
R 30NSAL. ti
* s n<
gj
ograpliers then explained that a binocular
or stereoscopic, camera differs --p
i> from an ordinary camera' as a ".two- 'jj,
' eyed man differs from a cripple with .si
only one eye. It has\two: lenses,>seti iai
side* by side as far apart as a person's D
two eyes. One lens takes in exactly 0
what would be seen by the right eye
of a person standing in the camera's n<
place. The other leDS takes in what
would be seen by the observer's left lij
eye. Prints made from the two negatives
are, of course, almost alike and
yet never precisely alike. Their mount- ja
iiior nn the* ufsrono'P.nnh pnrrt ta n nm. /i
ctss requiring exact, expert workman- tc
ship. When the stereograph is set in ol
place in the stereoscope, the right eye
sees what it would, see on the spot and
the left eyee sees what it would see on
the spot. The result is analagous ei
to that of * lookiue with both si
eyes at your outstretched hand. T
You see part way around the
near objects, and that makes them
staifdriout real and'solid* just as they do
iu your ordinary, everyday experiences ^
of seeing things in your accustomed Cl
surroundings. It gives to your eyes j
perfect depth, perfect solidity, perfect E
space. hi
"Thus you see," my informant continued,
"the two small prints 3x3 111
inches in size and about six inches in ^
front of the eyes in the stereoscope 1
serve exactly as two. windows through ?
wliicli we look and beyond which we ^
see the object or place standing out a? o:
large as the original object or place
would appear to the eyes of one stand- h;
ing where the camera stood. Remark- is
able as these statements mat seem, w
when thoughtfully considered, still V(
they are absolutely true, based on
scientific facts whioh may. be fougd
explained In any reliable treatise on
binocular vision."
I sat back and wondered. It seemed S1
hard to realize that, in the stereoscope, w
I could see in their natural size parts II
of rmintriPH pjHps nnrt tnwns all nvor
the earth. L
"But," he went on, "we now come to
a far more remarkable fact Tsycho- 0
logists are saying that if we look at
these life-size scenes in the right way, ^
namely, if while looking we have rj
some means of knowing definitely
where on the earth's surface we are p
standing, in just what direction and ei
over what territory we are looking, s<
and if we take time to think of our sur- rc
roundings there, then we can gain a
distinct sense or experience of location a:
in that place, or what they call genu- ^
ine experiences of travel. Of course, sI
you would not be likely to believe this
' at once, but reserve your judgment for ^
a few minutes. ^
"To furnish the knowledge, to make '
this possible a new map system has
been devised' and patented?an entirely lE
new system."
Then he proceeded to show me a ^
most ingenious map system of which $
I had never before heard. Like many u
another bright idea it is essentially so
simple one wonders why it had not A
been devised before. He showed me fi
several of the patent maps. . All were tl
in the first place excellent, clear maps
of the ordinary sort, but a clever de- T
vice of conspicuous red lines showed ^
just where a person was to stand, in p
whatever vicinity it might be, in what
direction he was to face and just how ^
much territory in a town, a house in
terior or a stretch of open country he
was to include in his outlook from that C]
particular point. U
"But what are educators saying about
this?" I asked. "Much," was the re- M
ply. "Here is what a professor of h
psychology in New York University,
Professor Lough, says:
" 'The essential tiling for us is not
that we have the actual physical place
or object before us. as a tourist does, fl1
rather than a picture, but that we have "j
some at least of the same facts of consciousness,
ideas and emotions, in the c]
presence of the picture, that the tourist a
gains in the presence of the scene, si
This is entirely possible in the stereo- p
scope.' A
"But," he added, "we do not claim
that even these experiences can be got- 0
ten unless the stereographs are used ^
with certain helps and in the right
spirit. (Speaking in a general way j
this means we must treat the place ^
ssen in the stereoscope as we would ai
treat the place itself in actual travel).
"To supply this need books are being ei
prepared by people of wide travel and n
broad culture to accompany the stereo- hi
graphed scenes of a city or country." ai
Then I was shown cuide books by
such men as Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, D.
D., on Palestine; Dr. D. J. Ellison and
Professor James C. Egbert, Jr., of Co- m
lumbia University, on Italy; Professor
James H. Breasted, of Chicago Univer- 11
sily, on Egypt; Professor James Rica!- Vl
ton, the veteran1 traveler, on China;
George Kennan, the famous journalist
and lecturer, on Martinique. In these e'
books the authors or guides make
their comments on the differs'at places ^
seen through the stereoscogu in the ^
same natural order that tkiy would
treat t!;em during an actual journey.
They pMnt out the objects c.i.' interest tl
in each place and give some /! the his- b;
tory oOnected with it. E t strives tl
to answer the very questions a newcomer
would be likely to ask -chen on f
me {f?ounu. melt? ute uiiiiij' u 7r.muu& w
and scientifically helpful Lritbois B
worked ou*?. by these writers that I ?
must leave unnoticed here.
"You see," concluded my Informant, r<
"this is no sleight o? hand scheme or tl
magical performance. This travel
system is worked out In accordance G
with well established though not gen- n
erally known laws of the mind. If tl
the right methods are observed it Is
now being recognized that genuine experlences
of travel may be gained in e
one's home." - ?
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JITS I NEWS
WASHINGTON.
Thirty seed dealers of the country
ive protested to the President agaLns^,
le free seed distribution by membfers
Congress.
The twenty-second annual report of
ie United States Civil Service Comlission
was made public.
Receipts from internal revenue for
ie year ending June 30 were $234,r8,976,
an excess of $l,2&i,195 over
,st year.
The Washington Typothetae posted
Jtice in all their shops announcing
iat after January 1, 1906, their busies
would be conducted as "open
iops."
Orders have been- issued to the tug
otjiq^c to.accompany,, the Glacier on
?r "cruise to the Philippines, and asst
that, vessel and tbe^colliers. Brutus
id1 Gae^ai'.nin ntQjvi,ng tlie-drydock
ewey from Solomon's Islands to
longapo.
It was said that th-> President has
3t yet decided to institute a prosecuon
of the Standard Oil Company, but
awaiting the completion of Commisoner
Garfield's report on the oil <inustry.
A bill conferring the power to reguite
railroad rates on the luterstate
ominerce Commission was presented
> the Senate committee haviug charge
t that subject. ;
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.
Owing to the recent murder of Clarice
Allen, principal .of the public
2hool at Ormoc, P. I., by a fifteenT?:t:A:nA
~a ~
cai-uiu r lupiuu uvj, aua tut? wuuuulg
of Mrs. Allen by the same youth,
le American teachers have been withrawn
from ..that .Rlace...
Russians representing a colony, near
iOS Angeles, Cal., have held numerous
inferences-.with Governor Carter and
.and Co in m'iss tone:- J. B. Castle, at
lonoiulu, H. I., regarding a plan to
ring a colony to Honolulu.
Honolulu l.as on exhibition a specilen
of the iliili or "stone that breeds,"
om Kau Island. The natives say that
! the stone is placed in a glass jar and
rater poured over it and the jar be
orked for a couple of days the stone
rill reproduce itself in the form of four
r five smaller stones.
The island of Lanai, the smallest inibitedjsland
of the Hawaiian group,
! being laid bare by the ravages of
ild goats and the blowing away of its
egetation and' soil by high winds,
here are very few inhabitants there.
domestic:
The Illinois Steel Company, a branch
t the United States Steel Corporation,
astained a loss of ?1,000,000 by fire,
liicli destroyed a building in Chicago,
1.
The fourth competition for the J. h.
azarus scholarship for mural painting
as been awarded to Paul Chalfont,
I Boston, Mass.
The Pittsburg Steamship Company's
7. E. Corey, stranded during the remt
storm off Gull Island, Lake Supeor,
has been released.
Information was received at Altoona,
a., by John Simonton, that his brothr,
Samuel T. Simonton, his wife and
)n, had been waylaid, murdered and
)bbed of 32000 in Mexico.
Oria Morey, of Rupert, Vt., captain
ad pitcher of Beloit's baseball team,
as drowned in Rock River while
sating.
Harry Rowe, of Sidney, Iowa, eigh;en
years old, died from internal rnpires
received in a footbalPgame.three
eeks ago.
A hole 100 feet across has been torn
i the earth near the Humble oil field,
i Texas, by a blow-out of gas.
Several buildings containing costly
lachinery were burned at the United
tates proving grounds, at Sandy
look, the damage being unestimated.
There was great anxiety in Phoenix,
.nz., concerning damage to property
om the floods, Salt River being higher
ian at any time since 1891. '
A new tria) was denied Charles L.
ucker, at Boston, Mass., he having
een convicted of the murder of Mabel
age and sentenced to death.
Four persons escaped from jail at
uperior, Wis., after a daring attempt
t wholesale delivery.
Commissioner McAdoo will introduce
le thumb-print system of identifring
riminals in the New York City Police
epartment.
A mob stormed the jail at Mexico,
[o., to secure Edmund J. Bailey, who
ad killed Jay Lawder, but Bailey had
een taken away.
FOREIGN.
Russian and Japanese fought fire
de by side at Alexandroviska, Sakalin
Island, thirty buildings being deroyed.
'Over 1000 Chinese who are merliants
in a small way, at Singapore,
ttended a . meeting at which a conderable
sum was collected for the
urpose of continuing the boycott on
merican goods.
Three of the ten schooners driven
at of St. Johns, N. F., by the gale of
?cent date have been brought safely
> port.
The Vienna correspondent of the
ondon Daily Telegraph says: "The
iternationai fleet has occupied the islnd
of Lemnos (in European Turkey.)"
Reports from Libau state that sev al
of the nobility officials and other
>sidents of Livonia and Courland
ive been attacked by peasants, killed
nd mutilated.
The Russians propose to send home
om Manchuria six army corps and
How 322,000 men and 1400 guns to relain
for the present.
It is proposed to build a magnificent
nion station for the use of all the
lilroads at Mexico City.
The Royal Observatory at Florence.
:aly, recorded three violent shocks of
lrtnquate.
Professor Dr. Ton Louthold. surgeonsneral
of the army and the Emperor's
ody physician, died at Berlin, Gerlauy.
A dispatch from Odessa by courier
> the frontier says that at Voronesh
le infantry set on fire the Cossack
arracks, and a fight ensued between
le two bodies of troops.
The old seventy-four-gun frigate
orte, built in 1812, was sunk in Med ay
River, England, by shells from a
British guuboat, the vessel being on
re.
The payment of the last half of the
jvolutiouary soldiers' claims began
iroughout Cuba.
It was reported that the Turkish
lovernmeut had offered to accept with
lodificatlons the Powers' demand for
le financial control of Macedonia.
The substance of the treaty between
ipan and Korea is that the Tokio Gov.
rnment will direct and taka charge ol
l) matters relatinz to the emoire.
Insuranca InvestigarcHH^Hna^^^H^H
tinue His Inquiry
TUe Armitronjc Committee, ifTiote Tfsrk
Ends on December 31, to Be Xte*
lor mod by Legislatures.
New York City.?One of tlie menfbers
of the Armstrong insurance investigating
committee said- that the life of
that committee will doubtless be . extended
after January 1, although that
is the end of the period set in the reso.
iution that started the inquiry. . \- n$
The most urgent demand for the'
continuance of the investigation haftcome
from the insurance companies
themselves. 'Sewal of these. Companies
have decided rthat the best thinp
they can do to offset the effects of the
general scandal is to have their own
books opened. They assume, of course,
that no irregularities will be shown,
and that as far as they are concerned
business will be improved. <
Ten companies which have New
York charters and many o:itside companies
which do business iu this State -
have not;been examined.
Many Republican politicians have
meanwhile expressed the opinion that
it would be a ereat Dolitical mistake
for the Republicans to call the inquiry
off before Counsel Charles E. Hughes- ,
had finished.
Meanwhile, it is announced, the inquiry
will be held five days a week instead
of three as heretofore. Mr.
Hughes declined to discuss this, but
he gave reporters the impression that
lie was glad of the decision.
Mr. Hughes refused to say whether
Secretary Cortelyou, Cornelius N.
Bliss and ex-Governor Odell were to
bp summioffed^before the committer before
the end of the year to tell \yhafc
happened to the campaign, contributions
of insurance companies in thelast
campaign. '
Washington; D. C.?Postmaster-General
Cortelyou, who is Chairman of tb?
Republican National Committee, declined
again to discuss the report that
o fun/1 nf tOOf? (Wl liorl honn mo/1/v fiAi
iv jbU&AUb ul uuu uiauu u?r
by corporations for use in the" Republican
campaign last year, and that the
Equitable Life Assurance Society had
contributed $25,000 of the amount. At
the same time Mr. Cortelyou denied
the story recently sent out from Washington
tbat he was preparing a complete
list of contributions made*
through him in the last campaign, and '
tbat this would be ready in a few- days.
When this denial was shown to.a
prominent member of the Republican ,
National Committee who is now in
Washington, he said it was extremely
doubtful if Mr. Cortelyou could telt
now, however much he might desire*
to do so, the names of half a dozen
contributors to the Republican fond
of 1904.
As far as the Armstrong committer
is concerned, this man said that Mr.
U)rteiyou. ana all tne otner memoers
of tlie Republican National Committee
might go before it and testify Tin- ,
til they were all tired out, and still
be unable to give the sort of information
for which there is a demand. ^
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WOMAN AT BAY IN CAB.
Insane Passenger in Kansas Shoots at
All Who ApproachGIrard,
Kan.? Mrs. Ira Berry toot,
possession of a car that was sidetracked
at Farmington Station at night, after
she had cleared the passengers out -by,
shooting right and left with a revolver.
No efforts were made to capture thfr
c.azed woman, except by persuasion,
but ihe-threiatened to shot all who approached."
?A dummy was fixed up and moved
+nnrar<1 tha rlrtnr nf tha frtllof rrtrtm
which she had been using as a fort,
and she fired a shot from above tl?
transom, the bullet striking the dummy
squarely on top of the head. The ruse
was repeated, but she could not be induced
to shoot the dummy again.
There was no fire in the car after it
was sidetracked, and the woman ha&
nothing to eat unless she had something
with her when she- entered th?
toilet room. Offers of food have been*
made to her and baskets of provisions
carried "toward the car, but she held
off with her revolver all who have attempted
to help her.
The woman was on her way from (
Washington, D. C., to Tulsa, I. T.,
when 8h? became violently Insane.
The City Marshal received a telegram
from Vancouver, Washington, which
read as follows:
"Is insane woman, Mrs. Berry,
daughter of Colonel Bainbridge? Wire*
description. S. T. MILLER."
A photograph found in the woman'?
valise is supposed to be a picture of
herself. It was taken at Spokane,
Washington, the name of the photographer
being Libby.
KAISER DEPORTS OUR WOMEN.
Two Americans Ordered to Leave
Prussia For Lest Majeste.
London, England.?According to the
Berlin correspondent of the MorningLeader
two young American wome?
received an expulsion order requiring
them to be across the Prussian frontier
in twenty-four hours. ^
Their crime is lese majeste. They
committed the heinous offence of
speaking unreservedly of the Kaiser
in a train. They were overheard by
a Government official conversant wliht
the English language, with the above
result.
Manhattan's Babies. ,
Health Department figures showed
that 55,000 babies have been born in
Manhattan Borough, New York City,
this year.
New York Editor Remembered.
The New York Sun men celebrated
the twenty-fifth anniversary of Chester
S. Lord's managing editorship.
Odessa .Tews Anneal.
Odessa Jews appealed to all civil-x
ized nations to'save them from a new
luassacre.
Curzon Back From India.
Lord Curzon, ex-Viceroy of India,
and bis family arrived in London,
Eng., from tlie East.
Labor News Notes.
Paper sacks are made by Rtfssiaa
Jews in New York.
Ketnanee. HI., claims to be the banner
union city ill America.
The strike of painters at Philadelphia,
Pa., has been callcd off.
Tlie Glass Biowers' Union some time
ago adopted the income tax for does.
Bradstreet fixes the loss in wages
during the Chicago teamsters' strike at
$1,000,000.
There.is a threatened tie-op in tl>*
building trades industries at Santo
Rosa, Gal.
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