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ARIZONA AS A HEALTH RESORT. sr ova MONTHS oj- avait an AKX> tuts JU: ST or rate nts AU avjixno. IhtlllOlt Komlt? uro to bo Attained for Comumpti vo? by Touting- on tito Do?ort Itiolf-Tbo?o who Urnvo tb? Mldium. mor Hoot nro Suld to l?orlve tho ?reat? cat lloiiollt. Tho extremo aridity of Arcona, which has caused tho downfall of m?hy a well luld agricultural Boheme and mude tho aun-klsscd Territory notorious, ls ono of Its great merits as a health resort, says thc Now York Sun. lt ls a generally accepted theory nowa day? Hint tho white plague la to bo Mompcd out only by the segregation of Its Violin i and an absolutely out-of-door life for thom. Tho first condition la manifestly impossible In thc crowded city and tho second ls feasible only whero mother na ture ls most beneficent, whero tho sun never goes Into hiding for months at a time, whero the breezes aro not too wanton and whore Hie night air ls as dry and freo from vapors as tho day. All those conditions for tho absoluto euro or tho amelioration of consomption arc to bo found at their best lu tho Southwest, particularly In tho Salt Uiver Valley, Ariz. Within Its area of G00.000 acres, fruitful as tho Garden of the Clods, so soon as Irrigation is applied, there aro miles of desert whero tho climatic conditions for tho relief ot all pulmonary troubles are perhaps unexcelled In this country or abroad. Hero the transition ot tho sea sons-and there are but two, four months of summer and tho rest of the year a per petual spring-ls slow and gradual. Tho skies aro a cloudless blue, tho nlr so sweet tl.<vt lt can almost be tasted, and tho a vet ago humidity so low as to be Incon ceivable to the sweltering resident of tho coast and lake regions. For December and January the mocking bird warbles his clear-throated oplthnlam lum to his brown mate lu tho cotton woods-tho full orchestra of red-winged blackbirds follows thc lead of Its sable precentor who sits up on a popper bough and conducts his followers through a chorus of Wagnerian melody, tho shirt waist girl swings In her hammock rs com fortably as In an Kostera Juno, and tho small hoy boats the sides of his bono or Indian pony with bare blown feet. Pic nics aro the order of tho tiny. In Febru ary tho almond orchards, which rim tho desert's northern edge, burst Into a mass of pink white bloom, the pomegranates are budded and tho blossoming orango groves send forth their fragrance for milos around. In tho colder lands thc Invalid would bo shivering in furnace-heated rooms, fearful of every draught. Hore he spends lils days and often his nights In tho open, thc starry heavens his canopy. Tho nights throughout tho winer aro cool, sometimes cold. There was ono week last January wlica leo formed In tho water bucket In tho tent, and a hot stone for tho feet, night, caps and bod socks were more than welcome. Blankets aro a necessity all tho winter. Yet with tho rising of tho sun genial spring again assorts Itself. This difference of temperature between night and day ls possibly tho ono exception to perfect climatic conditions, Forewarned, however, ls forearmed, and with plenty of bedding and warm nlgiu garments there ls no danger of taking cold. It ls il Str?ligo thing about this desert lifo, that lt has a charm which grows with acquaintance-and ono who has spent some time In tbt> desert ls said to ho never quito happy elsewhere. Tho summers are hot. There need 1)0 no reservations about that statement. For days last July the ther mometer registered anywhere from ail do groo to 117 degrees right along-hut tho absence of humidity made tin; heat much easter to hoar thou the close, muggy de vitalized air of Now York and Brooklyn There wore no Sunstrokes. Ho heat prou tratlons. ltnnchcrs went about their work suffering no Inconvenience, Although tlio majority of health-seekers turn their faces to the seacoast of South ern California or tho pines of Prescott for midsummer days those win? bravo tho boat and romain aro said to derive thc greatest benefit at this season. The Intenso heat seems to heal the lung tissue and destroys the germs. Sufferers from kidney tron?lo or rheumatism also make their grcates gain In summer. While nearly every ranch In tho valley stands ready, for a consideration, to open Us doors to the Invalid, the best result, aro to bo attained from tenting on tho desert Itself. Tho ranchos must bo Irrl gated nt stated Intervals. Tho desert, no man's land, is dryness Itself. Although the camper, assured of squat ter sovereignty, may set up his canvas es tabllshmcnt whore ho will, the qoustlon o a convenient water supply leads bini I select a site near ii ranch. A quarter will pay foe a barrel fill of wash water hauled each week on a stoup boat from tho lrrl gallon ditch, while two bits moro will kee tho swinging olia, or Mexican water Jai Ulled and provide water foi* cooking from some adjacent well. Other supplies ar also readily obtained. The Indians brilia in from Hie reservations wagon loads ol' mosquito and Iron wood, which they retail for $1 T.'i or ii a load, while tho same amount will buy dry almond, fig and nprl cot woo 1 from tho orchards which hnv died for lack of water. Faggoting partie are also popular, and ho who will cnn gather for himself the flotsam and jetsam Of Iii?' desert. Pr?lls may tie obtained at the orango groves and adjacent orchards at a reason able price and of delicious quality. Tho roll-call of native fruits Includes orange grape fruit, lemons, apricots, pcacltc pears, pomegranates, figs, grapes, ncetn ri nos, plums, berries and melons galor Rich Jersey milk may ix- obtained at tho ranches for live cents a (tuart, butter foi twenty-five cents a pound, honey-doll clous as ibo famed honey of Hymcttlfl fifteen cents a pound, lee, art?llela!, <.: hi' obtained at any of ibo towns at .slxt> cents a hundred. The markets of Phoonl supply the best beef and mutton in tb< World at live and lot live prices. <!rocerl< aro high, owing lo tho frotght rates, hut the stores woold bo a. credit to any cit of New York State outside tho metr?poli A'l accurate ar. ,unit ol' living exponsi kept during the lost year for 0 family o three adults ami .. child showed an ave axe of J|0 n month for table expenses, for water, servie,., and laundry; oil and repairs, M nr.. ami fuel, ii RO. While the table expenses? seem dlspropoi tionntcly high, lt must bo horne in min Mut hyper-feeding and the generous prov sion of tho mos; nourishing meats and foods ar.; a large factor in the recovery the consumptive, For the person addict to Che use of ham, bacon and canned goods th., outlay would be materially diminished Tents niny be rented for from $.t to $7 month, according to furnishing-but th majority of campers prefer lo own (hi canvas home:!. These can he bought ?ny of tte' larger towns, new or soe.m. band. They ar. all put up with siding and hoard Moors, and are usually screened fr, tho intrusive My-and als.? furnished with a Hy or second cover. Tho singe Scttlni and furnishings may ho as luxurious or simple as Individual taste and the pock, hook demand. A HtOVO, ; wo or throe ehail i ,lr..cc.i- or m ik '-iMfi find oe. , ba an oxperl in Hie molter of makeshifts nu the desert or frontier ,i how!, pitcher and pail of tin, agate or paper-those are tho nee searles. I.UXlirhff In (ho way ot' rugs, hammocks, book HIICIVCS and pillows, pill 'ws, pillows may bc add,,! nd llb. When light housekeeping ls carried on-and this is tho go'ieral sch onie-cooking utensils, li's, a screen cupboard amt an Icebox inilSl bo added to Hie list. A horse and some sort nt cart or wagon are esteemed essenflal parts of one's out flt? Nor ls this iin extravagance, for horse flesh, and pasturage are both oheap, and the whole establishment can usually bo sold at cost when thoro is no longer ne? cosslty for their use. A good solid.moun tain pony which was a delight under tho saddle and a family friend in front of tho two-scuted "Democrat," with humess, whip und all complete, cost the writer a trillo less than $00 and wan aold at tho end of the year for $17. Pasturage on an'ad jacent ranch cost ft 50 during tho winter, fl hi tho summer. - Nelthcr barns nor sheds aro a noccsslty for tho horse, but a brush shed or Indian vataw ls nn all-important adjunct to tito tents If ono would bo comfortable. Under its kindly sluulo tho hammock ls swung, tho tablo set, tho wator Jar hung, nearly all tho operations of dally living carried on. Theso va taws aro copied after tho In dians'. They are made of stout cottonwood polos, covorcd with brush and loaves hold in placo by tho all-pcrvaslvo balling wiro, which plays such a beneficent part in all tho operations und vicissitudes of Arizona Ufo. Tho question is often asked: Is not tho dosort lifo monotonous? To this tho answer ls: That depends. To ono who loves the procession of tho seasons, tho rugged mountains, tho purple buttes, thc bending sky and tho all-pervading sense of infinito freedom, a life so near to nature ls fraught with tremendous benefit, spiritual and ma terial. Por thc rider of hobbles-and a hobby ls a good thing to take un Invalid's mind oft his Ills-there Is an endless variety of sub jects. Tho myriad mounds left by the pre historic peoples Invite to archaeological re search, with the certainty of finds of tho old Aztec pottery-If nothing moro. For tho botanist, geologist, mineralogist, ornitholo gist and entomologist there, ls -material rich and rare. For the ethnologist there or>> tho Indians and Mexicans, in say nothing of stray representatives of every nation that on the eart'h doth dwell. Kor the artist and th-3 photographer there aro skies and lights and shadows and sub jects to ho found nowhere else. For tho sportsman there ls small game a plenty and for the one who simply wants to rest and lot the world go by-a peuce unspeak able. It goes without saying, that no ono should take up tue desert life "f In a phy sical condition that demands the attend ance of ?i dootor, or a hurry call upon tho druggist. For such thc? town. Neither should one cottM hither without money, thinking he can soon earn a living. There is no light work for invalids. drown strong or nt least familiar with the lay of thc land, there uro various occupations that may he taken up. If one can command the capital. Chicken raising, be> culture, vegetable and alfalfa growing-melon rais ing or u stock farm-will each furnish1 a good living. This, however, comes later-and there must bo means to live on In tlw Interim. If possible, every invalid should havo somo mem'her of his own family with him. While scores of men and occasionally a woman come alone, the chances of recov ery are much greater when there ls no danger of homesickness. All theso condi tions met with, u two-years' residence tri tents on the desert has demonstrated the fact that almost without exception thero is marked gain and often complete cure. Ill eas s In which the cure luis been begun In time many have been able to return to their homes entirely well. Others, appa rently recovered, 'have deemed it wiser to cast their fortunes with the Territory, and have given permanent setting to their lures and pennies. Three only, out of one colony of one hundred who had come for their health, returned home to die. With this showing the desert tent life for con sumptives seems to need no further com mendation to prove its efficacy. A t. veter HOOK A o EXT. Ho Meets with n Warm Reception ns tho Itotult nf M um ben Identity. There ls a farmer living Just north of Evanston and a book agent somewhere In the cosmopolitan desert of Chicago, each of whom feels that he ls the victim of a cruel circumstance, says the Chicago Chronicle. Lust week the farmer had a note from n nephew to say that the hoy would visit the farm on Thursday. Uncle and nephew had not met for fifteen yens, und the old man drove to the station In his most comfortable coat, that he might welcome lils sister's only child. Hut the young man failed to come. After wall ing until the last passenger hud disap peared the old mail drove, away, disap pointed. The book agent entered into the drama tis personne carly the next morning. Looking over tho top rall ol' the barn yard gate he called, "Hello, uncle." The book agent never got such a recep tion before in all his life. The farmer Hung the gale wide open, seized the agent's band, ?ind pressed a Whiskered kiss on the Ironclad check. "Say, ibis must be Heaven." murmured the agent, following tho farmer hilo the house and explaining that everybody tit home Wiis as well ns could be ex pected, Not till the agent was full of a belied dinner ami attempting to sell a book dbl the farmer begin to see a dim light. Charged with . Impersonating the missing nephew, Hie agent explained that he g rot'ted al) elderly strangers as "uncle;" that bc even had a few almos; leal ones in South Clark street in Chicago. When last seen by the farmer the agent was still running, and When the real nephew does cpmo he may lind an electric current lu the latch-slrlng. tr nie AT JJV a A xs A s, rilOUftnttri* of Bushels riled on tho Open sod w'nii 11.c t or Transportation. For the first time In tts history, says Leslie's Weekly, Kansas has more wheat than ll knows what to do with. Not only ire tho granaries and bins running over with grain, but the elevators are Ulled iud the farmers are still bringing it lo market! by hundreds itt thousands <vf bushels. Tho long dry weather was, in a. tclise, a bonanza I'or Wheat raisers. M nell ii' -.he grain was so heavy thal lt f.'ll lo tho ground ami would havo been lost liad liiere been wei weather. Hut with tile long iiot, clear days every straw could bu fathered, most Of (tho fanners running the threshing machines '.ito tin- iieM mid naili ng the grain from the shocks io the m:i .liine. Tile grain has all been of the best lUnllty and Hie yield from twenty lo fhirty-ilvo bushels per acre. Not less than 10,000,000 bushels will be gathered, and thu ilgh price ls giving the farmers a line Itt? ?onto. As tho strings of wagons came lo mar tot In 'the wheal bell tho railroads were IWanipCd. Tiley could not furnish cars iud the elevators were soon Ulled lo over lowing, l?ven lu tie- small .stations twenty o thirty teams were walling io 'be un onded ?ill day through (he latter purl of he threshing. The buyers finally began .liing tho grain on lin- prarie. Groat heaps if 30,000 io 50,000 bushels hilve been ?lored >u the open sod and there I ?icy will remain inttl snell lime as cars can lie secured In vhlcll to ship the grain. Tile sun does not nut It, no one can steal it ami so little alu falls during (he summer that lhere s practically no danger from that source, lome enterprising buyers have secured ircus tents and placed them over the piles, miking curious features of the prairie a ntl sen pe. Tho Hosten Transcript (Hep) points out hat the demand foi- the ship subsidy "..heme tl.. not proceed from Hm alleged M n e ll c I a r ie s theory. "Subsidy or no suh idy, the ship building interests of the IOU ll try ?lo not appear lo be in a languish in; condition," remarks the Transcript. 'The law of supply ami demand does not eas" its operations io await legislation, uni just HOW" the ship builders do not seem . he worrying much about the future." rile real benefits would be confined to a hulled Clk|tie, which, with the assistance f the politicians, arc making nil thc de na ml. STYLES IN MEN'S DRESS. FASHIONS Tit AX m r, j, in:' row. XiAIi THIS J Afr AND WIN TIC I{, Sombro Colorings mid Mont Kffoott--D*y ?nd Kventug Skirt?-Wrinkles In Col lara- Very Few (. lotus OH from X.nit Year. (Prom tho Haberdasher.) The coming autumn and winter season will tinier but little lu tho sartorial senso from that of last year. Tho changes havo been very few, and In tho main roprcsent .some slight modill?n lion of or departure from standards that havo bocomo very familiar. Men's dress ls being hold down to very conventional lines. Tho run of color that wan tho distinguishing featuro of last year Is to be curtailed and color will not bo prominent in anything that man wears. Sombro tones In overcoatings and suitings and very neat color effects In oravatlngs and shirtings will form tho most prominent and distinguishing feature In tho modo of thovcomlng season. I have observed in looking over thc new goods for autumn that all (hat is called nc-.v, paradoxical though it moy seem, la really old. Tbl? ls tho modern tendenoy In all things related o,ven In tho slightest dc degreo to art. Tho painters aro drawing on tho old schools for inspirations, design ers aro revelling In tho art of tho seven teenth century, house decorators aro copy ing old Interiors and furniture and tho ar chitects aro drawing inspirations from thc Greek and Haman schools. In dress wo aro modifying or changing fashions that have been In voguo before. Tho culross, the wing collar, the skirted greatcoats and the now narrow-tip shoes aro mero revi vals of old-time favorites. STYL.ES IN SHIRTS. In shirts I look for very few changes and practically no innovations. For dress tho plain linen bosom shirt, with slightly rounded or actuara link cuffs attached, will bo the best form. The bosoms will bo os wldo as tho chest of the wearer admits. Thc stitching will bo of moderate width. Some of tito dress shirts will have very lino ribbed plquo bosoms, but I do not think thnt this style will bo as generally accepted as the plain bosom. There will bo three stud boles In the bosoms, two of which will show In the waistcoat open ing. The shirt for wear with the evening jacket wlll.be the same ns that worn with the swallowtail cont. Some shirt makers show a line pleated shirt for wear with the Jacket, and no doubt lt will be unite pop ular with the younger set. Thc colored shirts for day wear show with plain bosoms and tho patterns are noticeably neat. Thc figures are printed on mndo plans or on satin broches or percales, The farmer fabrics are given more attention In the liner shops than percales are. The ligures are neat gcometrlcals In black, dark blue, reds or lavender; stripes are also displayed. They are narrow and widely spaced. Pleated colored shirts will llgnro quito prominently for wear with business suits. The plain neglige with a centre pleat and mode of madras or of Une Hannels will nlso be worn. The Hannels are designed for neglige and como . In rather neat stripes. COLLARS AND CRAVATS. In collars tho three new styles arc the wing, poke and straight stander. These ore ht both wide and narrow stitching. The wide stitched wing collar ls not os sightly na that with narrow stitching, owing to the liability of the edge, where tho wing bends, to swell and gop. The wing collars have well balanced, moderate spaced wings, the bottom of the wings forming a straight line. In cravats all of the forms ore large. The culrosses will be very broad and soft, the ascots wide of end and free of lining; The best four-in-hand will hove o wide end and 1?' graduated to a two-inch width ai tho knot. Ties, If sold nt all, will be of the batswing.shape. For evening wear there la a new tie. It ls cut perfectly Straight anti has square ends, lt Is of uniform width throughout. When lied lt shows a square, Hot centrepiece and the ends stand out straight anti come to the edfie of the shirt bosom. In clothes I lind Indications which point to thc usual light of the tailors to force new fashions. In the first place, we will have the annual cry for color In evening il ress and for the freedom from blocks und whites in day dress. All of inls I do r.ot think will amount to notch. Thc best tailors are making trousers rather wide, but avoiding tho peg-top form. The trous ers are about seventeen and one-half Inches at the knee anti fifteen anti ono Imlf ot the bottoms. They will hang per fectly straight from the hips. For even ing dress the white waistcoat will bo given i very prominent place. These will be made both single ami double-breasted and will have buttons covered with the mate rial of which the waistcoat ls made, in svcnlng dress coats there will be no change ivor th recording. That garment la a itnple fixture and lt seems Impossible to Improve upon the existing standard. The frock coat will be practically thc same i-. Inst year. The evening jacket will not be mode at il) by smart toilers. It ls now a ready made, "Cheap John" article, and may be banished entirely from the wardrobe of fi gentleman, A new coot something like the woning jacket will be made. Il will have \ breast and side pockets anti silk-faced dla wi collar and will c?tiso with two but ions. These coats oro designed for home inti club wear ont! ore worn with single irensted waistcoats and trousers of tho <ome material, white shirts, black ties and lither loee or button shoes. They're Just tautly dress cools to wear down.lo dinner tv to hang around the house or club In. NOVELTIR8 ?N DRRSS. One of tile best tailors on the nvenne evtll introduce several no volt les this coni ng autumn. Ono Of these ls nn evening ?nit made of clark groy cloth. The collar s of the shawl pattern, faced with gray ?Uk. The trous, rs anti waistcoat are made >f the same material os the coot. The (tilts are designed for wear at slag affairs, ibnut hotels anti clubs and for the theatre lyhcn women are not to be In the party, Another new Iden ls a house suit, lt will )(. made of a heavy rep silk anti lined villi silk. The colors are very brilliant. Tho trousers ore made like pojo mo IrotlS >rs and fasten about the waist with n irond bit of ribbon, with large silk tassels it Hie emin. The coat ls cul tlouhle-lircast - "1 and Mas large pockets, The suit moy >e worn wllh a silk shirt. It ls just for vonr In one's room. In overcoats the long Chesterfields anti he skirted coats will bo very popular. The killed coal will he worn In Die evening i;i well ns tim lng the day, These aro cut ike the "Paddock" anti have well Hared kil ls. The "Kaglan" Will only he In raln . roofs ami in coverts. The covert cont viii be very popular, lt will he cut full md quilo short. Sack suits will he made on lines thal. ?bile conforming to the lines of tho hotly. lo not accentuate them. Tho military ecket ls liasse. The new Jackets will bo nose and will have perfectly straight nicks. in uttooo iii? principal departure is in ibo ihopo of the toe. The latest model snows he flat last with the nutswung Hole, bul ho tip I:: brought in io a much harrower obit than Issi year's model. Low simes ?.-ill be worn during the autumn ami on ilrosonl tlays (luring lite winter, but many ook upon Hie low shoe os a mere .? Inter oil. The patent leather shoes with kid tips will be the formal footwear. Shoes viii bo very plain for dress', omi quito loborately trimmed for neglige and busl IC89 wear. O UH IBCHNiVAM. HOUoif l^ Ti.oy Pnrnlth th? l?o?t Bridge nulidon, Too) Makers HIHI Hallirny Constructors In th? World-Kuropeitn Methods Hnvo bsea Adapted Itathor thnn Adopted? (From the Brooklyn Eagle.) Merchants and statesmen to-day con gratulato themselves upon tho Wonderful i spread of this country's commerce tho ! ereiltest any nation lian over seen. But they do not, perhaps, realise that tho na tion has advanced In another way that ls possibly* tho true core Of our national suc cess. This is the extraordinary ?dvanco In sctcntllic learning, ns shown in tho universities, professional and technical schools and In everyday life. It this ranld moulding of America into a sclentine na tion docs not fully account for tho com mercial victories, lt IIOB at all events con tributed lurgoly to them. So pronounced bas been tho development of these universities and schools that now at tho beginning of the century they sur pass thoso of Europe. And yot surpassed ls by no means tho right word. Thero is no institution In Europe resembling them or organized on quito tho same plan, The sclontWc school of America in Its grasp ot what really constitutes practical, exten sivo training hus no counterpart in the world, lt turns out scientists that are at tho samo time workmen of tho highest typo. Tho universities and technical schools of Knglnnd and tho Continent, ex cellent as many of them aro, have not ful ly caught tho spirit and trend of thc timo. Tho treo of tho new American sclontlllc. education ls being known by Us fruit, lt bas brought a new sort of workman into tho field of labor, and European indus try stands by, wondering why her repre sentatives cannot do ns well. Tho explanation of lt is all very simple, however. American technical education hud its nrst beginning fifty years ago. Within tho past twcnty-flvo years tho scl ontlllc professional schools have been see ing their true development. Now tho com bined results have become so great that they aro apparent all over the world. "Tho earliest technical schoolB," wrote Prof Mendenhall, president of tho Tech nological Institute of Worcester, Mass, in bis monograph on "Scientific, Technical nnd Engineering Education in tho United States," prepared for tho recent Paris Ex position, "thoso of a hundred years ago or more, almost without oxceptlon, grew out of thc Industrial demunds of tho local ity in which they were founded. Ono of the best examples Is thc famous School of Mines, at Freiberg, which has enjoyed a long and illustrious career, and many of thc earlier European schools belong to the" sumo class. To these and tho more mod\ ern schools of sclenco and technology tho United States nro greatly indebted, espe cially on account of tho generous wel come that has olways been extended to American students and for tho Inspiration with which many of them have returned to take their part in the wonderful educa tional evolution which tho last half cen tury has witnessed "But in all cases European methods have boon adapted rather than adopted, . . ? and while thc. nearly 100 schoolB of science nnd engineering scattered over the United Slates have many points of resemblance, there ls much Individuality, particularly among thc strongest and best, and lt ls be lieved thnt their several types represent Important advances In tho direction ol scientific mid technical education." This matter of scientific training foi youth makes but a conservativo, quiet claim, though yet n substantial one. Mc might have pointed to some ot tho results of theso "believed to bo Important ad vances." American technical school grad uates have come to bo thc brldgo bul ldc* ri of tho world. There are no steel makers no tool makers lu Europe oqunl to tin cool, keen young scientists in American shops and mills. Nor lies the Continent nnd longland such a race of raliway coir structlon engineers. Only this summer thc Massachusetts Institute of Technolog; bold examinations In hond?n for tho yoUm Englishmen of scientific tastes, who, ti learn what they wanted to (H them foi the sclontlllc world, found their only re course an American school. And, In thi Held of medicine, four distinguished physl clans and surgeons of this country an now touring thc world nt tho request o foreign doctors who are anxious to leuri accurately of the advances of this bronc) of the science lu the New World. Out of many significant Instances thes' have been picked. Tho number might b greatly added to, with only tho ndvuntng of emphasizing tho point. That which ha tho most pronounced ls, however, tho turn lng of the tide. Thirty years ngo, and evei well onto very recent yenrs, the America! student of any kind ot sclenco found lt I part of his education to go to tho school abroad for ns long a period as his pocket book could stand, lils education was no thought/ completo till then. And lt wa not, for sclontlllc training In this conn tr was not formed. Now the student has n nerd to go. As lie takes his degree lie I far beyond what the schools of Europ tench. And year following year, In In creasing numbers, young Europeans ar coming over herc to grasp tho tralnln Hint, our universities are giving and t absorb tho technique and the thoroug practicalness that are making America scientists masters of men. "Adapted" was the word Prof Mender hall used In speaking of European met li ods and tho American universit?s, "ralht titan adopted." But lt has been very tune more Utan that. Brushing traditions asid these institutions of learning went lon ago to the root of tho matter. Year b year they have been building up the! equipment, strengthening their course: Questions of finance and Whether it woul ell pay they have politely laughed a Money was needed for thia and for tba Well, the chiefs would see that I. was ol tnlned. Machinery was necessary. / once the great manufacturera were lal under contribution, and they sent ns gift machines worth thousands. The technical school presidents kite bow lo arouse the sympathetic Ulldei standing of men of means and fon thought, Benefactors for this and for tin crowded In, their gifts were chronicled I the news of the day, commented upon t vast, the ligures added np and admlrei But no one saw the significance. Year after year students came out < courses of engineering, of medicine nu surgery, of chemistry, of electricity, < marine engineering, of agriculture tm forestry lind went Into workaday Hf Hitherto the scientific college mon bu not been hold In very high regnrd. .Matu facturer? had wanted men who had grow up In shops, "practical" they called then no "book learning fellows, who were a theory and clean clothes nnd hands." Bi even Hie most old fashioned soon came i appreciate that those "follows," too, can from "shops," "shops" In the colleges tin had n wider variety of machinery lu ac mil use than could ever he found In single factory. They grew to see that ll new "theory man" was broader, of mo intelligence, willing to learn about a cai In point ami able to grasp lt more qnlekl They devised economies and Itnprovemei whenever they were given a chance. Th* could make one mali do lite work of tw The tdd time foreman was a child befo them. Then, one after another, the far seelt manufacturera ohi?cltlcd. Thojf hi bridged the gulf between capital and labi and found real master workmen. Tht gave these men more swing and pow and kept on the lookout for moro youd from Ute technical schools. They came see thal the product from these Instit Hons was getting better every >'ear, Tho technical schools nnd unlversltl had won their point. They realized tl growing demand for their men. Tlujy \ doubled their efforts, added to Hu courses, consulted with tho greatest ot . ? ;?. . nf.ril,..,, tho most progressive manufacturers ae to 1 what their needs wcro and built up more perfectly their oqulpmcnt. Not alone, did they reach out for machinery, . but. tho newest and the best. Thoy-had at last created a new mnrkot for rr^n. If a concrete, striking instance is wanted of Hits, Sibley College or Cornell Universi ty may bo taken. That Institution has a very famous railroad course. Tho "ordert" that como to ihe college each spring for graduates aro greater than Sibley cnn possibly supply. Sho cannot turn out enough mon to meet the demand. Twice as many ns she graduates each year could ho assured of positions. For tho railroads say simply: "These aro tho men wo want; they aro tho men that will riso with us or with some other company. We can not now got too many of them." And so tho demand ls spreading out in many another branch of science The American technical schools aro turning out the product. It ls theso men that in lator yours do tho inventing and the great piceos of executive work' and make tho discoveries. Is lt any wonder that tho youth of longland and tho Continent uro commencing to como to this country for technical training? TH J: Iimi?MIT OF CAI'IS MALKA. Wby li o 1.1 voil and Die I on a Stupendous ClinT, Within Sight und Sound or tho Ocean. There ls one feature of Capo "Maloa that rarely falls to attract the notice of tho most careless voyager doubling it by day, a touch of human tragedy and pathos, belonging In point of chronology to our own limo, but In universal Inter est to nil ages. At the extremo pitch of the cape a stupendous cliff rises sheer from the fretting waves for about a hun dred feet. Then comes nn Irregular plateau or shelf, of perhaps two acres lu area, thc mountain rising nguiu abruptly behind lt to u height of about 2,000 feet. This plateau ls apparently In accessible, und yoi, perched upon a hugo bowlder In Hs centro, a muss of rock de tached from the mountain ages ugo, ls a house. It is rudely built of wooden fragments Ingeniously titted together, but Us outlines convey at onco the idea of Its designer having been an Anglo Saxon. It must be firmly built, too, for ll Is exposed to the full fury of wind re bounding from thc mountain face, and tho observer Instinctively wonders why, If a house must bo built on that shelf, so terribly exposed a position was se lected. Then If ho bc fortunate he will hear Its story, says 10. V. Hullen, In the London Spectator. About twenty-live years ugo there was a young snllor who, by dint of hard work. Integrity of character and firmness ol will, reached ut thc ugo of 20 tho summit of his ambition-becoming master of what would then be called a good-Sized steam ship, some 900 tons register. Upon this accession to good fortune he married tho ghi of his choice, who had patiently waited for him since us hoy and girl sweethearts they parted on his llrst going o sea. And with rare complacency lils owners gavo bim the Inestimable privilege of carrying his young bride to sea with him. How happy ho was! How deep and all embracing his pride, as, steaming down tho grimy Thames, he explained to the light of his eyes all tho wonders that she wns now witnessing for tho llrst time, but Which he hnd made familiar to her Hitit?, by hts oft-repeated sea stories during the few bright days between voyages that he hud been able to devoto to courtship I Tho ship was bound to several .Mediterranean ports, tho time be ing late autumn, mid consequently thc most Ideal season for a bonymoon that could possibly bo Imagined. Cadiz, Genoa, Naples, Venice, a delightful tour with nut one. weary moment wherein to wish for something oise! JOvon a Hying visit to old Home from Naples had been possible, for the two officers, rejoicing tn their happy young skipper's Joy, saw to lt that no unnecessary cares should trouble him, and bore willing testimony. In order that lie should gel as much delight out of those halcyon dnys us possible, that tho entire crew were ns docile ns could be wished, devoted to their blight command er and his benutlful wife. Then at Venice cunio orders to proceed to Gulatz and loud wheat for home. Great was thc glee of tho girl-wife. She would soo Constantinople and the Dan ube. Life would hardly be long enough to recount all the wonders of this most wonderful of wedding trips. And they sailed with hearts overbrimming with Joy as tho blue sky above them seemed welling over with sunlight. Wind und weather favored them; nothing occurred to cast a shadow over their happiness until, nearing Capo Malea ut that fatal hour of thc morning, Just before dawn, when moro collisions occur limn at any other limo, they were run Into by a blundering Greek steamer coming the other way, and cut down amidships to the water's edge. To their peaceful sleep or quiet appreciation of the night's sil vern splendors succeeded tho overwhelm ing Hood, tho hiss ami roar of escaping steam, the suffocating embrace of death. In that dread light for' Ufo all perished but one-ho so lately the happiest of men-the skipper. Instinctively dinging to a piece of wreckage, he hail been washed ashore under Capo Malea at the ebbing of the scanty tide, and his strong physique, reasserting Itself, enabled him lo climb those rugged battlements and reach the plateau. Herc ho was found gazing seaward by some gool herds, who, In search of their nlmblC-fOOtOd Hocks, had wandered down the precipitous shh": of the mou uta In. They endeavored to persuade him to come With them back to the world, but In vain. Ile would live, gratefully accepting some of their poor provision, but from that watching place he would not go. And those rude peas ants, understanding something of lils woe, sympathized with him so deeply that without payment or hope of any they helped him lo build his hut und kept him supplied with .such poor mor sels of food and drink as sufficed for his stunted needs. And there, with lils gaze fixed dining all his waking hours upon (bat Inscru table depth wherein all his bright hopis had suddenly been quenched, he lived until unite recent years, "the world for getting, by the world forgot." a living monument of constancy and patient, un complaining grief. Hy his humble friends, whoso language he never learned, he was regarded as a saint, ami when one day tliey came upon his lifeless body, fallen forward upon Its knees at a little glazed Window through which he was wont to look upon the sea where his dear one lay, they tell confirmed In their opinion of the sanctity of the hermit of Cape Malea. LINCOLN'S mn i liv i \< l: To bo IMIII/ed it? mi Aiylum for Incbrlulotf. Down In the Ribo Grass region of Ken tucky, on the same farm where Abraham Lincoln was 'born and spent his boyhood iljiys, says tho 'Chicago Tribune, the St Luke's Society, of Chicago, ls to estab lish a home 'for the Inebriates of the South. A. large hotel, .'-mall cottages (ind com modious ?'.wellings will bo erected by ibo docility, and, though the land ls lu the South, the negro will be made as welcome ns the white. Tho Lincoln Tarni ls lu the town of Hodgenvllle, flftV miles south of Louis ville, and consists of no acres of pasture land. On lt ls a spring of mineral .water, the fame of which ls great below the Mason and Dixon line, lt was- osvned by ?tomo prominent Methodists of Itbe South, imong them thc R?W J. W. (lingham. Home time ago Its owners decided to do l?ale ils use to charity, and they chose ibo si Luke's Society as the organization best suited lo curry out their plans. The farm will be turned Into a sanita rium, phunp-'il much nftci (hal now run t>y tlic sortie ty at Nos 1.710 to 1,718 Indiana ivenue. On lt will be taken only those who ire addicted to drugs, liquors or tobacco, Plie tren I mom ls to Ki slmllnr to that {Ivon ut the Chicago Hospital. While the officers of the society are busy Irylng to get Hie Lincoln farm In shape, hey are also at work establishing a branch isithln the'Cook County Jail. There plison srs known to be vldtlms of ?the drug, li 1UOr or tobacco habit are given over to Dr Miller and his assistant. Dr La Grange. Pho latter devotes all his time to 'them ind lives In the same quarters with them. JH? ffEART OF MONTROSE H i:QUiCATltJCl> li y Ttl It MA Ii Q Vt H TO HIS SIKVIC, ti AUX JN A VI Silt. Urueiome Rollo or a Valiant 6cottUh llera and how lt warn Mysteriously l.oat J U t lo Uopo of tito Ultlwato ltorovory nf the Hello, but Alter the I.apae of Ono Hundred Year? tho Heart ot the (irahnm May Once Agnlu Heat on scottish Holl. (From Chambers's Journal.) Alas that no ono knows where-but somewhere, certainly-tho heart of valiant James Qrahnm. Marquis of Montrose, awaits tho collector of curiosities! Tossed among bits of armor, old china, bric-a brac, In some old curiosity shop In tho north of France; possibly now carried to Paris or London, lt may Ho In somo old lady's lumber attic; or, trampled years ago Into tho ground of a back ?arden In Bou logno. Pierro and little Marlo may turn lt up any day with their spades. "Qu'ost-co quo c'est donc," this llttlo old, beaten, ogg-shuped box of stool? Why. Pierro and Marie, lt holds, If you only know lt, tao dust of a Scottish hero's heart, and tho cu.se Itself was fashioned out of his good steel sword. Montrose know Merchlston Cristie, Edify* , burgh, well; lt was, lu fuct, a second homo to him In lils boyhood, for lils sister Mar garet lind married Slr Archibald Napier when Montrose was Ci J 7 years old, and ho sjient much of his tl Mo with them. Tho Nnplors had, besicles, a town mansion within tho precincts of llolyrood House; but to llttlo Montrose, uroiuiht up in thc country, the old castle, with ito barns and out houses and granges, was no doubt a moro attractive holiday homo than a dull town house In tho fashlonablo Cannongato. Ono can fancy the llttlo llgure, In its clothes of "green camlet" or "mixed par gono" and "cloak with pnsmcnts," wan dering with his bow and arrows about tho p?rks, or, maybe, escaped from lils watch ful "pedngog," Muster William Forrett, Imperiling himself, boyllko, on tho battle ments of thc contle. Hut to got to tho story of the heart one must leave tho lifo and hasten to the death of Montrose. His sister und broth er-in-law had died long before, and tho owner of Merchlston In 1GG0 was Mont rose's nephew, tho second Lord Napier. A groat affection existed, between Montrose and his niece hy marriage, Lady Napier; and ns a mark of lt he bequeathed to her his heart-a strange, and, If ono must tell the truth, nu embarrassing, legacy; but looked upon by tho lady herself as a su preme honor and a sacred trust. Montrose was executed at tho Market Cross of Edinburgh on Tuesday, May 21, 1C50. Tho extraordinary composure and gallantry of his bearing aro well attested. An unsigned letter In tho British Museum, written by a spectator whllo the execution was actually golii? on, says: "I never saw a more sweeter carriage In a man in all my life. Ho ls Just now turning off from the ladder; hut hin Tountenance chnnRcs not." Another account says: "He slept along thc streets with so great state, so much beauty, majesty and gravity as amazed the beholders. And many of his enemies did acknowledge him to be tho bravest subject tn the world, and In him a gallantry Hint graced all tho crowd." Clothed In "line scarlet richly shammaded with golden lace, and linen with lino pearling about, his delicate white gloves in his hand, his stockings of Incarnate silk, his shoes with their ribbons on his feet," his dress was "moro becoming a bridegroom than a criminal." After hanging on thc ?Ihbet for three hours the body was taken down and the head was alllxed to tho Tolhooth; tho limbs wiro dispersed to various places throughout tho Kingdom, ami tho dismem bered trunk was enclosed In a "little short chest" and burled on thc Boroughinulr. Tho Horoughmulr was the usual place of execution and burial for tho worst crimi nals; lt was a place of evil reputation, llt tlo sought during tho day and much to be shunned by night. No wonder, then, that some "adventu rous spirits" were required who would steal to that grewsomo spot, rn Iso the hastily and none too deeply burled body, and cut from it thc heart of Montrose. The master of Merchlston was in extlo In Holland; lt was Lady Napier alone who planned tho night excursion and saw lt carried out. Did her heart fair her that May night, walting at Hie foot of the tur ret stair until her messengers, returning, put In her hands something not seen, but felt, with the square of (Ino linen all "tricked with bloody gules?" That same square of linen and the pair of stockings of "Incarnate" silk showing a still darker slain have remained ever since among tho treasured possessions of tho Noprtlr fam ily. Fdr ft time, thou, the heart was safe at Merchlston. It was embalmed and In closed In a. llttlo steel case made, of tho blade bf Mont rose's sword; thc case was placed In a linc Kohl filigree box which had belonged to John Napier, the Inven tor of logarithms; and the hox in Its turn was deposited In a silver urn. Before very long, however, Lady Napier dispatched the. casket by some faithful hand to tho young1 Marquis of Montrose, who, with Lord Napier and others of tho connection, was still living In exile In Hol land, and here b?nins the. first part of its adventures, of which, unfortunately, no record now remains. Ppr many years the heart was complete ly lost sight of, and any hope of ever re gaining lt had loni; been given up, when a friend of tho Napier family recognized tho gold filigree box enclosing the steel case anning a collection of curiosities in Hol land. Ile purchased the relic at ohco and relumed lt to Merchlston, nt that time the property of Francis, tho fifth Lord Napier. There for a second time the heart reposed, but nut for long. On tho death of the fl fl 1\ Lord Napier it passed into the keeping of lils only surviving daughter, Hester, afterward Mrs Johnston. Some years after her marriage Mrs John ston was on a voyage to India with her husband, her little son, nnd nil their household goods, when their ship, which formed part of Hie licet under Commodore Johnston, was at lacked by a French frlgato, and a st HT fight ensued. Mr John ston busied himself with four of Hie guns Upon the quarter deck, while his wife, who had refused to go below, remained beside him, a heroically obstinate figure, holding by the one hand her little boy, and In the other a thick velvet reticule, into which she had hurriedly crammed all the things she valued most, IncludliiK. of course, the heart. In the middle of the light a splin ter struck Mrs Johnston on tho arm, Wounding her severely. Tho velvet rel? enlo gave little protection to Its precious contents, and the gold filigree box was completely shattered, but the Inner steel case remained unharmed. It must have been some consolation to Mrs Johnston that, when the attacking frigate retired, the English commodore left the. UHR ship and, came on board tho Indlnnninn to offer his thanks and congratulations to thc Indy anil'her husband, who lind set the crew so gallant an example. Arrived In India, lt was easy to (Ind a clever goldsmith, who constructed another irold filigree box in pince of the one broken, also a silver urn like the original. On the 0.it aldo of thc mn was engraved In two native dialects a short account of Mon trose's life and death. The urn soon came to be regarded 'by thc nativos as something uncanny, and the report spread that lt was a talisman, and that Its owner would never i>e wounded or taken prisoner in bat tle. So one is not surprised to Karn that before long thc urn and its contents were Stolon, and In spite of every effort could not be (raced. Mrs Johnston, however, discovered nfl or some Hmo that lt had been sold for a large sum of money to a powerful chief In thc neighborhood of Ma dura, It was part Of tho training ot <ho llttlo boy who had stood beside hi? parents dur ing tho attack on tho Indiaman to spend, four months of every year with a nativo chief, In order to learn something of tho luiiHuago and native mothods of hunting and shooting. While on a sporting expe dition the boy distinguished himself In warding off tho attack of a wild hog; whereupon tho chlof, to show his apprecia tion of the performance promisod, In truo Oriental fashion, to givo tho lad practical ly anything he choso to ask. As this chlof wns thc purchaser of tho urn, young John ston naturally begged that the family property might be handed back to him. Tho chief mudo a generous speech In re ply, explaining that when he bought tho urn and Us contents ho hud no Idea that thoy wcro stolon goods, und adding that "ono brave man should always attend to tho wishes of another brave man, what ever his religion or "his race might bo; thoreforo ho considered lt his duty to ful fil tho wishes of tho brAvo man whoso heart was In tho urn, and whoso wish had been that his heart shouhl bo kept by his descendants." Accordingly ' tho boy re turned home laden with gifts of all sorts for himself und his mother, and carrying with him tho urn and a lotter of apology from Its bite custodian. Tho death of this liberal-minded chief forms an Interesting sequel to this ndventuro of the heart. Hav ing rebelled against tho Nabob of Arcot, he was taken hy English troops, and ho and many of bis family were executed. When tho chief was told ho would bc put to death ho referred to tho story of Mont rose, and said that as there waa something alike In tho Manner of their dying, so ho hoped that after death his attendants would preserve his boort, os tho heart of Montrose had been preserved, for futuro generations to bono.*. Tho Johnston faml.'y returned to Europe In 1792. Hoing In Franco at tho timo when tho Revolutionary Government compelled nil persons to givo up their gold and silver plate and Jewels, Mrs Johnston ontrustcd the silver urn, with Its enclosures, to an Englishwoman living at Boulogne, who promised to keep lt hidden until lt could bo safely convoyed bach lo England; but tho woman died soon afterward nnd from that timo nothing has been seen or (heard of tho heart of Montrose. There would appear to bo little hope of thc ultlmato recovery of tho relic; yet stranger things have happened, nnd it may be that even after the lapse, of one hundred years the heart of the Graham may once a'?uin rest on Scottish soil. xviiuncvitovs cowa J. A NU ic no vs Vrof Kooli'? Dirt mn Controvor t cd In Ger many UR li I HOW'nor-1. (From tho Baltimore chm.) Prof Koch's dictum that the tubercu losis of cows ls not transmissible to man or child ls controverted in Germany, ns elsewhere, with virtual unanimity. Prof Virchow opposes tho view of tho great bacteriologist lind ls reinforced by Dr Joline, professor ?>( pathological anatomy nt Veterinary Collcgo of Dresden. In his essay, Just published, Dr Joline says that "it ls precisely tho milk of tuberculous cows that plays the chief part in cases of tuberculosis among children." Toi provo his point tho Doctor mentions tho caso of a veterinary surgeon who Injured his thumb while dissecting a diseased cow. Six months Inter tuberculosis manifested itself In the scar of the wound, and after ward tuberculous bacilli were found in his sputum. Tho surgeon died of consumottotl. and "at thc post-mortem examination," thc Doctor adds, "a considerable number of similar bacilli woro found in tho Joint of the deceased's thumb. Tho conclusion Is "that the bacillus of bovine tuberculosis is a tuberculous bacillus of less Intensivo power, which ls perhaps less dangerous as a germ of infection for normal grown-up human beings of good health nnd strong powers of resistance, but that lt ls all tho more destructive to the tender organism of a child or to thc organism of those grown-up persons who havo weak consti tutions, or who are. Ill-fed and, therefore, not so capable of resisting infectivo germs." Tin: M I'S TEM! OF til.tSti J*- WA I. lil Sd Molen t li t? io o Still I'uzzlod Ovor tho Many Minnon of it-A Charleston 1'hyilclnn'a lCxporlcnooa. (From the Cincinnati Commercial.) "Sleep-walking ls something better un derstood now than formerly, but psy chologists aro not thoroughly ngreed In regard to many of the phases," observed a New York physician. "Ono of the re cent cases, that of a young man out West walking ten miles to visit his father, and of an even moro recent case, that of a young hnly walking three miles on a cold nlglu In her night gown, without awak ening, upsets many of the previously ac cepted theories. It had been thought that exposure to intenso cold aa well ns In tense heat would awaken the shep-walk er, but In these cases, which art; well au thenticated, lt appears that this opinion, while correct, possibly, In the main, ls not always so. "In my early days, when attending lec tures at a medical college In Baltimore, I, with some other medical students, wit nessed one of the famous sleep-walking cases that ls quoted tn many of the stand ard books. Ono night we were passing along Lexington street, where the Lex ington street market ls located. Ono of our party called nticmlon to a moving Uguie, clad In white, on thc roof of tho market building, lt proved to bc that of a girl about 17 years of age. She bad lost a canary bird the after noon before, which was lani seen on tho eaves of tho roof of the market house. Darkness came on, however, before a thorough search for tho bird could bo made, and lt was given up. The girl went to bod, and during the night left her bed and returned to the market bouse and and climbed to Its roof. "This In Itself was not a difficult task, for there was a series of sheds leading to lt. She walked tho entire length of ono side of the market, along the ex tremo edge of the roof. At every step lt seemed she would step over tho edge, and had she done so sno would likely have been killed. "Our party divided up, and one, row thc leading physician of Charleston, S. C., climbed lo the roof and seized thc girl. She awoke the Instant he touched her. and lt was with the greatest dllllculty that be could kef p her from falling, for, while In her sleep she appeared to be an expert, she was a very poor climber when awake, lt was a clear cast; of .sleep walking, and had she gone len feet farther she would ?lave lound tho bird, which had roosted for the night In tho rain gutter which ran along the roof, and where lt was found a few minutes afterward. Sleep-walking ls much moro frequent than ls generally understood, though, as a rule, lt ls confined to chil dren. I havo known of several cases of adults who would take walks In their Bicep as often as once a week." SAVED DY THI3 MASONIC SIGN. (From the American Tyler.) During the memorable raid that Grant'o nrmy made on Petersburg, Va, oh April J, 1S(!5, when Lee's lines' were broken, a voling Confed?rate ollleer lay on the road Rovercly wounded, and when, without a moment's warning, n company of Federal cavalry rode down towards him at a full Salop, ho saw (hath staring him in the face. Ills first thought was thal possibly there- might be a Mason among them, and lie gave the signal of distress known only io Masons. Then ibu F?deral captain rodo inlckly to his side, dismounted and part ed tho company lu the centre, without mo lesting (he man in the least. Mo was inlckly picked up, though a prisoner, and taken to the rear and tenderly cared for, md In ibo course Of time ctnlrely recov ered his health. Brother ll. W. Mason, if Rockwell; Tex, a prominent physician, ls noxious to learn thc name and resl lence of the officer who saved his life In Answer to a Masonic sign, and asks that this item be published in all Masonic Jour lois.