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u TWO POETS. . Two poets lived: their time came and they died. Silenced, they slept their long sleep, side by side. Tn memory of the one with loud acclaim de.^ built a temple beautiful, of Fame. ' Mid richest carvings splendidly enscroiled "lis name shone radiant, embossed in gold. And even proclaimed him greatest of mankind, The Master-singer and the Master-mind. With lauds and praises did the temple quake, Out of the ether silenced poet no man spake. Calmly surveying from his heav-n's height i Tho temple-builders in their puny might, .Enthroned ia splendour sate the Oversoul: And on eternal tablets did a name enroll Upon the honour-list of heaven's best; In flaming colours it outshone the rest. But lo, the letters did not spell the name Of him whom men placed in their hall of Fame. ! A Voice snake: "Empty is the name ye quote: " I This poet lived the poetry the other wrote. ?Elizabeth It. Finley. I I AUNT MEG'S COLUMN. I ;; "Harry, I can sum up your case in ^ three words." said Lancaster. "The fact is?and you cannot deny it? you're in love. "How on earth did you find that out?" he muttered, fe "Experience and casual observation," replied Lancaster, shortly. "By \ the by, I saw Milly Holsworth today." \Then, with a grin, "Um, I thought I K Nasnt far out. She's a nice girl, |8|. ... \y, and a clever one. Women ^ys who are good looking and their own living are in great the matrimonial market, so a man i can quite believe it" dred anued Ellington, "but when cr?even t a paltry twelve hunfcuy him up^ar the idea of ?er? pleasant comito a lady who can "Personally, 're rise to unTaint heart,' etcm!" never know what try my luck, you decide to see henow. You affect the case anispire. say your return from Englace might be snapped up in the meH until haps the steamer might fbhight -and-" ^er"Don't Lancaster, don't!" shfcd Ellington. "Your advice, old cL fear has not advanced the imp ment of the outlook at all." "Then the only course that ren open for you is to consult Aunt h sighed Lancaster. "Aunt Meg! Who is she? And w she got to do with it?" "Aunt Meg is a lady connected a popular publication entitled * Daisy," whose official duty it is t< ceive and reply to, through the umns of the aforesaid journal, i questions that may be submittei her notice on the all important th of love and its attendant trials, understandings and vagaries in "Consult Aunt Meg!" the w< seemed to ring in Ellington's ears some time after the departure of friend Lancaster. "A precious fool I'd be thought,' mused, "supposing I was i enough to trust my private affairs llit; i.t'UUt'1 iliCiAJKJa Ul tt lUUUCiil 1 journalist, if the story leaked i Certainly one might write unde: nom de plume or initials, but the gki don't believe in such rot." Half an hour's meditation, howe1 *0. served to put matters before him i >different light. He reflected that journal in question bore & very h character, and he resolved to try A Meg. After due destruction of varii sheets of note paper, his communi tion was at last fairly neatly tra cribed and ran as follows: "To 'Aunt Meg,' Daisy Office, Fleet street, E. C.: "Madam?I trust you may be a to successfully advise me as to i actions in the following matter: To brief, I am aged 30 and am in rece of an annual income of twelve hundi and fifty dollars as private secrets to a titled gentleman, who is about depart on a voyage of infinite durati in three weeks' time for his healtl sake, and I am to accompany him. month ago I made the acquaintance ft rhftrrnino' lnriv ahnnt mv nn-n >< and we have met at various intervj ever since. "As you will already have surmis; I am deeply in love with her, thougt have not as yet declared my passic As far as I am aware, from the stai -r : ment of a friend, she is in receipt an income exceeding mine by two hu dred and fifty dollars per annum, d rived from her employment, the e . ' act nature of which, however, owii to the shortness of our acquaintanc I am unfortunately in ignoran beyond that it is something in a ci office. "I have every reason to believe th my attentions, such as they have bee are not altogether distasteful. Wh: would you advise me to do? Ask hi now and risk a slender income, < wait until I am in more affluent ci cumstances, which chance is slight! remote at the present outlook? ? H. A. E." Two Saturdays passed and left hii ^ in the deepest depths of despair, o\ ing to the nonappearance of a rep] to his communication. In the meantime he met Mildre Holsworth on two occasions at th house of a mutual acquaintance an once was almost on the verge of declaration, but checked himself i time to save making himself an arran ass, as he termed it. It was with feverish excitement tha t j * i- : - - ue opeutQ uie iasi issue 01 thf -L>ais; published before he lent' England 'Eagerly he scanned the page sacred'.; set apart for the benefit of "Aun * Meg" and her amorous amblings. Yes, it was there at last! "H. A. E.:?Waste no time, but g< and ask her at once. If I judg< rightly from the tone of your letter you need scarcely have any apprehen sion as to the nature of her reply. Ai to monetary matters, a girl who can not comfortably manage and be happj on the united income doesn't deserve a husband at all." It was all over. The last slipper had sped its course in the air and disappeared through the window of the compartments which had the honor ol accommodating the happy couple, and the last handful of rice lay whitening the platform like a miniature fall oi snow. "I'm so glad it's all over at last," sighed Mildred Ellington as she threw herself wearily back among the cushions. "But the whole affair was a complete success and went off without a flaw." "Yes, darling, quite complete, except for the absence from the ceremony of one to whom I owe a great deal of my present happiness?in fact one of your Bistc?r strugglers in the field of liter I j ature. Mllly, 'I've a confession to | make. I know you'll think I'm m awful fool, and perhaps be angry, but ! promise me, Milly, beforehand, that you will forgive me." I "I'd promise you anything, Harry, j It?it can't be anything dreadful, I'm sure," falteringly. "Then read that and put me out of my misery." And taking from his inside breast pocket a copy of the Daisy containing Aunt Meg's advice, which he had so successfully acted upon, he opened it at the fatal page and handed it to her. "Harry," she said quietly, pushing it away, her eyes filling with tears tlis while, "I?I know what you mean now. I She-?she was there, and?and you saw her." "I saw her her, Milly?" ejaculated Ellington, utterly taken aback by her answer. "Yes, Harry, and you see her now! j - - - a? a i ! I?I was Aunt Meg at tne ume, aim I knowing whom your question con- i i cerned replied accordingly. I, too, 1 j meant to confess all today, and you ! i have made it easier for me to do so. j I Kiss me, Harry, and say you forgive j me."?Waverly Magazine. QUEER ARE WCMEN. That Is, Some of Them Are, Says a Cyn- j leal Masculine Observer. "Women are critically curious creat- j ures," said a cynical citizen, "and the wonder to me is that they ever make ' a wise selection in marriage. I do not j mean to say anything unkind, for no man has a deeper or more profound regard for women than I have, and I admire Drummond chiefly because he said that woman represents evolution's, nature's, God's, highest achieve- j ment, and that she was really the cli- . max of all these forces, and they j reached their lirnft in her creation, a result the forces had been striving j to bring about from the very begin- j ning of time. I believe this is true. Being of a cynical turn of mind, I am j not inclined to admit that the world is j wholly good, but what good there is j j on this old planet is to be iouna iu j the other sex. "But why is it that we are constantly confronted by the perverseness of woman's taste in the matter of choosing between men as we find it. for instance, in the stage portrayals? Take the average play, and we will generiain/ find woman's love drifting leg ? an* s?me fellow who is totally un,y, a fellow who is a vertitable hat's **ia* word meacs*ecPe cases out of 10 it is neceswith from11 a men *n order to pro'The her liftod woman?on the stage? D re. least, on?ul tortures of living all I ccl- melodramP unworthy man. At all limit to theT111 have t0 be of the I i to be sacrificed il' wby .there is no erne out of a bad m?r fellows who win mis- men's ideals higii? *be woman gen- women? Is the hei^* bargain. Are i in man's nature rat**18 ?* j ords ?Ped aad more delicatesubIimfor these same impulses in\*y deve*~ ; his the fairer sex? Fiction?^ than and fiction of the standa^J8 ?' ' he fiHed with women of the ki 0Y' diot mentioned. Of course, they are 5 to of the kind / have been disci*! a(jy Shakespeare's women, for insta out. are made of sterner stuff, and histc r a cal examples of the stronger and m< ,n j thoroughly balanced kind are not la< ing. There are the women of 1 rer French revolution, who towered abc n a the men like giantesses. There are ( own noble women, who strugg! jgll through the blood and tears tl unt drenched the 'GO'S, and others mie be mentioned, for we may count 3US around us the good examples of w: ic4. women in all of life's relations. ns. "But I was just thinking lighi about the apparently natural devoti . which a woman has for the scalawj and in a majority of cases, if she called upon to make a selection 1 e tween two men, she will lean towa ^ the fellow who needs reclamation, i r* deed if she does not take him. If y< ^ j do not believe it, keep a tab on the e j for awhile."?New Orleans Times-Dei iry i ocrat. to on PEARLS OF THOUGHT, il's A TKa o * ? J. .ir, uug UUCULC VI. Jilt? IS CUI1CC] ?* tration. An aimiess life is commonly a nami 1 s less life. Consideration is the daughter c ' j kindliness. >a. Time lost in menaing nets is save te- in catching fish. of Disgrace is not in the punishmen tn- but in the crime. I6* - Riches are not an end of life, bu x' an instrument of life. Trust your secret to another and i ^ will return badly soiled ty A truth that one does not under stand becomes an error. at Delicious rest is tue fruitage of toil n, it is strength's sweet restorer, at Success, if attained at all, must b er attained via the path of drudgery. :>r A good conscience is somet imes soli r* for money, but never bought with it. It is always a duty to enlighten con science; it is never a duty to disobey it ^ If thou suffer injustice, console thy v_ self; the true unhappiness is in doinj y It. The two great longings of a reallj d noble spirit are to be loved and to bt e useful. d If you wish success in life, make pera severance your bosom friend, experia ence your wise counsellor, caution youi t elder brother *nci hope your guardian genius. t y Sir William Harconr.'* Success. I. The most successful maiden speech y of recent times was that of Sir Wilt liam Ilarcourt. He was 41 years old when he took his seat as a member for Oxford on Feb. 16, ISfJ, and just a 3 week later addressed the house for e the first time The subject was hap; i pily one in which ie was well versed. - Viscount Bury asked for leave to in> troduce a measure tntii.ed the vacating - seats bill, to repeal *he statut" of r Queen* Anne which makes it necessary ? for members of the house to seek reelection on accepting office in the government, on the ground that it senel ' no useful purpose. Mr. Vernon liarcourt, as he was then calle!, protested s against leave being given even to I bring in such a bill. The speech, t which occupies six columns in lian: | sard and was loudly applauded ' j throughout, induced Viscount Bury to j withdraw his motion I'atlence. "I never lose my temper when a man insults me," said Broncho Bob. "But you didn't waste any time on Coyote Bill." "No. But I didn't lose my temper. I've learned by experience that nothing keeps a man from shooting I straight like losing his temper."? i Washington Star I i ELASTIC BANDS OUST STRING. Cheaper Than String In Some Usee? Tons of Them Sold. "No," said a rubber goods dealer, who had been asked about the sale of elastic bands, "we don't exactly sell them by the ton, but there are tons of them sold in the course of the year. "Originally designed more especially for a convenient binder for bundles of documents and that sort of thing, they are now used for a great variety of purposes in place of string. They are used to put around packages and bundles in stores, more especially small packages, as in drug stores. "They are used by many manufacturers to put around things of various kinds, which otherwise would be tied up. If many of these uses, aside from their convenience and their attractiveness as a part of the parcel, they are cheaper than string, because tho 11co of thom envpa so much timp A rubber band can be wrapped around a package in much less time than it can be tied up. ' Rubber bands in old times used to be sold by the dozen, now, as you know, they are sold by the pound, but you don't have to buy a pound, you can buy ar ounce, or a half ounce, for that matter. "Hov.* many bands to a pound? Well, that depends, of course, on the size of the bands. The biggest, heaviest bands used run only twelve bands to the pound; the smallest, a tiny little band called an election ring, from their use around bunches of ballots, number thousands to the pound. Most people buy bands of gray rubber, but nowadays there are not a few who prefer the bands of tho more modern terra cotta color. "I never heard an elastic band play, but there's sure to bo music in tho air when the small boy gets out with his beanshcoter, which he makes by attaching a rubber band to the prongs of a wishbone-shaped handle; this being on of the uses of elastic band3 that I forgot to mention."?New York Sun. New Uso For Fetroleum. Scientific investigation has proven that petroleum is far superior to coal for fuel, so that we need not worry should the coal supply give out. In nearly all of Nature's products we find that as soon as one material becomes scarce another is discovered to tako its place. There is one exception, however. ... . . TT. Ol. ? ?l, Pif>niU ana mat is rtostener ? oiuui?uii !?????. ? is Nature's own remedy for dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation and malaria, fever and ague. Don't fail to try it. The prodigal son of the hard-working hen i3 generally a bad egg. A Noted Teacher. Prof.Walter "Wilson, of the Savannah High School, says: "I feel it my duty to testify to the wonderful curative properties of Tetterine. It cured in a few days my son,whose feet were affected with stubborn skin trouble, after using other remedies without any benefit." SOe.a box by mail from J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga., if your druggist don't keep it. If ignorance were bliss, what a lot of people would be happy. Tyner's Dyspepsia remedy Cures Sour Stomach and*Headache. At Druggists, 60c. There are still districts in Italy where the peasants live on chestnuts and acorns. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many veers doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed > local remedies, and by constantly failing to pure with local treatment, pronounced it inarable. Science has proven Catarrh to be a ck - ^stitutional disease and therefore requires the titutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh )ve tLmftnu*ac*ure<i ky F. J. Cheney <fc Co., fro 0.. is the only constitutional cure on >ur j ^-et. It is taken internally in doses led svstc5Ps*? a teaspoonful. It acts directlat oiiy casl0^ and mucous surfaces of the and test7" offer ono hundred dollars for ' Co Tnlprf? t0 cure. Send for circulars all qAm rte- Address F. J. Chenet A ise Hall's FamL^ 75o Ship rats, wH.&re tho best. ily plaeue, have been propapators of the 011 at Marseilles by tfi ?ghly exterminated ig, acid. pj carbonic is * Best For the ie- J No matter what ails you^iB. rd i cer, you will never get well he to a canare put right. Cascabets hVour bowe;b n - you without a gripe or pain,ture cur3 on natural movements, cost you jusu?e oasv start getting your health back. .gnt31*0 Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put u ^bets a- boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. sta^t^ it. Beware of imitations. on The rich man traveling abroad dot have to be a linguist. Money talk3 every language. The average man returns a borrowed u: ? ! brella when it's worn out and he wants a ! other. . FITS permanently cured. No fits or norvou ne8s after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Gre NerveRestorer.$2*trial bottle and treatisefr 1(2 Dr. B. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St.. Phila., P Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't i ^ quire much practice to make a perfect fo< H. H. Green's Sons, of Atlanta. Ga., a ^ the only successful Dropsy Specialists in tl world. See their liberal offer in advertis ment in another column of this paper. "When a fellow carries a picture in b watch there is-usually a woman in the cas Wo refund 10c. for every package of Pttnam Fadeless Dte that fails to givo satii j faction. Monroe Drug Co., Unionviile, New York City is the chief manufactu e ing city in the United States. Piso's Cure cannot bo too highly snoken* 1 as ?i cougn cure.?>. w. u i>niE>, 6\Ll imr Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. G, 13C . | That man is lacking in diplomacy *.vli tries to guess a woman's age. I Coughs | I "My wife had a deep-seated cough f g for three years. I purchased two ? i | bottles of Aver's Cherry Pectoral, v . i g large size, and it cured her cm- v g pletely." ? l J. H. Burge, Maccn, Col. ^ Probably you know o? :j | cough medicines that re-fi Slieve little coughs, <~Ji | coughs, except deep ones' V The medicine that has p been curing the worst of ? I deep coughs for sixty | p years is Aycr's Cherry | g Three sizes: ?*c., 5*j , Jl. All Jnzgslrts. n i fej (V.nsnU your (%>? ;.?r. if lie says take It, 9 j 5 tl'ei. ?i? ;t.? .1 s:.y<. If l>e tells jtmi not S i ;I..i V T.nVe it lie lfiniin u I fe Leivr :t w!. ' jv: v*-. f-' .1 Vi j: '<>., lrtitreJ.MaM. j? The following named states and ter| ritories in 1900 did not contain any i ?ity with a population of 25.000 or i more: Arizona. Idaho. Indian Terrl:ory. Mississippi. Nevada. New Mexi| :o. North Carolina, Oklahoma. South | Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming. | Minnesota is called the "Bread and ! 3utter State." and rightly, too. for last | r'ear her mills turned out 26,630,500 carrels of flour and churned over 60,100,000 pounds of butter. WELL-DRESSED HORSES. ; j LAWS WHICH COVERN IN MATTERS i OF EQUINE COOD TASTE. i Improvement in lho Housing and. Ap* ! pointincnts of Park Trap*?Some Trapping*. However. Like Diamond* at Ur< akfast ? It ilos Not to I'e Violated. To those who deplore the extremes to which It is pretty generally con- i ceded the independent American citizen goes in matters of dress, it may be comforting to know that the Amer- i ican horse, at least, is coming to be ! looked upon as one of the best and j at the same time one of the most | 'properly" dressed horses in the world, says the New York Post. And. when ; it understood that a horse without lho least difficulty on its owner's part may appear in the park and on the boulevards in attire as shocking as diamonds at breakfast, it will be the better realized what this means. That j q -rCk c*ill floffpant vinlotinn? fif I tire laws which govern matters of equine good taste goes without saying, but they merely serve to furnish the contrast by which the general improvement is made more marked. To the horse-show associations, more than to anything else, may ne attributed this advancement in the proper housings of the American horse of fashion and the correct appointments for park traps and road turncuts. In establishing classes in which the appointments of the entries must betaken into consideration by the judges in making their awards, the association has set a definite standard of fashion. An owner, for oxample, whose pair of brougham horses are turned down (after the judge has weeded out the entire class down to his pair and one other), because his brass-mounted harness is equipped with steel instead of brass kidney links, learns next time to understand the importance of these little niceties of detail. And it is the attention to or the ignoring of these apparently insignificant details that make a park horse eithor "smart" or ridiculous. The black rosette's, for instance, when used on the bridle as emblems i of mourning, arc considered improper, unless a plain black brow band is substituted for the ornament one originally on the harness. The saddle housings, if in color, should likewise be changed. In this city it has become an unwritten law that the rosettes shall be cf the same shade with the carriage trimmings, but in London and in Paris this rule is not observed. In those cities violets and other flowers are frequently substituted for the i orthodox silk rosette. As in matters to masculine attire. ] T J? 1 '- ? m aXm a ?tl /\n in I l.onuon Jllvuwise IIIC lljico iu | fashionable harnesses. There is a j well-known importer of horse-furnish- I ings who has successfully introduced several new fashions into this country by first making them popular in London, where he has another store. Possibly the most conspicuous case of this kind was that of the Swiss collar which he offered as a substitute for the English collar, which had originally supplanted former Swiss 'importations. The new collar was made with an extremely broad breast-plate and two heavy brass terrets. As a light runabout harness, it has now almost entirely succeeded the old one. The French quarter-blanket made of leather has likewise largely taken the place of the English broadcloth blanket. It is cut shorter than the English affair, and is intended to protect only the horses loins, and thus in no way Impede the movements o' his hips. Harnesses, according to this Broadway importer, are divided, like men's garments, into two classes ?dress and undress?and to appear in the park with a victoria and an undress harness?which becomes undress if the kidney links are of steel when the other mounting is brass, or when the bearing reins do not cornform to the general ensemble?is as unpardonable as appearing on toe street in an evening coat and russet shoes. "Strangely enough," said the importer, "I find that the tendency here is towards ultra conservatism. There is j not the same latitude permitted here today that you will find in London. "hi3 is especially true of the brough- | n~ $ and heavy park vehicles. There n* tn?t any color is permissible in the HertbGs of a victoria or landau, any c\ one seems to dare employ 00 same th.?ther than black; and the a- The use holds true of the housings. e. 'servant is pole-chains here when a )!. is unpardonal11* is an offence which try. Pole-strap*11 civilized coun are alone pergth Wished buckles 0. chains were Thc, pole: - - - W lLll * vlonr of aiding smartness to Vg tuna'snd they should only be ustn to jn c. which a gentleman may do tlK^y. ing. It is not good form *itht ^ I' have quarter-blankets of one color housings of another, nor is it any lo ger the thing to use large monogram on them. We cannot revolutioniz< 1he styles :n harnesses as a tailor ma} >f with his wares. We are fortunate i: we can change with every four or fiv< years." In four-in-hand turnouts?no doubl _ from the character of its patrons? il a is probably easier to offend the pro | prieties than in any other department t in which the horse plays a part. There i are little niceties in appointment and i deportment, so finely drawn that to observe or td ignore them either makes old friends enemies or strang? ers friends. There is one school that | believes in driving with the left hand J held on a level with the chest. The | other school drives with a low hand, [ sneers at the former method and calls J it "driving in front of your scarf pin." ! The scarf pin advocates answer that j to work a four after this manner is I more difficult, and consequently Is more of an accomplishment. There ! are the gentlemen whips who contend that hip-straps or trace-bearers should never be used under any clrcum stances. Their opponents say that such details of the harness are entirely warranted in the case of a horse with a tendency to kick. There are certain set rules, however. that the owner of a coach must observe to be in form. Ribbons and rcsettes may not be used on a road ccach except on the last day of the season, then on the last stage Into town knots of ribbons on the horses' heads and similar ones with long* ends or. the saddles may be worn. It i;s ex| pected that these ribbons will corre1 spond at all times, but on a road j coach only flowers in season are perI missible. The flower may be worn in the cheek-piece buckle. The bridle tj be used with a park drag may have a front piece ornamented with a simple chain pattern; for a road coach patent leather or worsted planted aiound a leather front is alone permissible. Another little nicety in four| in-hand appointments is the distincj tion made in the bridle-bosses. On ! the drag harness these bosses should | be on the inner as well as on the outer side of the bridle, on the coach har? p.ess only on the outside. The boss Is the only place where a crest or an initial should be placed. For wet weather work the harness should be of black leather throughout, with the metal parts covered?this rule applies, however, more to team harnesses than to fours. A TRIP TO DAWSON. Scenerj Beautiful ?Hardships of Travel Are lliingfl of the I'a^t. It is a matter of surprise to me that so few people travel through our northwest territory for pleasure and sightseeing. The scenery is beautiful and the hardships of travel are things of the past. The old timers like to relate their experience over the trails, with their dog sleds, and their trips on the Yukon, on rafts and in canoes, their solitary tramps over the mountains, in search of gold, with scanty provisions and how they were at times in peril from the Indians, but oftener from the weather. The rail' road over the mountains and the steamboats on the river have changed all this and have provided in its place the usual comforts of travel. The coast range of mountains is in view of the steamers that ply along the Alaska shore to Skagway. The hills are green with pines and cottonwoods and an occasional cateract may be r:een foaming down some steep hillside, while above it lies the glacier that feeds it. At this season of the year, Aug. 30, there are a number of small icebergs near Juneau, and they are as treacherous as they are beautiful. Of a light translucent blue color they rise 20 to 30 feet out of the water and look like islands of glass. They are not easily discernible at night and the face of the ill-starred islander awaits a vessel colliding with one of them. For miles from the mainland of Alaska the sea is full of islands, large and small, covered with a luxuriant vegetation. The sea in the inland passage between Seattle and Skagway is as smooth as glass, except in a very few places, like Queen Charlotte Sound. Indeed it is somewhat like the inland sea of Japan, which travelers are so delighted to visit and tell about, hut. it is all on a larger scale and with the human life of it. In places of tilled fields in terraces on the hillsides and the evidences everywhere of crowded life.', in Alaska and the great Northwest territory one is impressed with, the vast solitude. Thousands of miles are uninhabited except by a few tribes of Indians, some salman fishers and prospectors for gold. Skagway is not as busy a town as it was in '99. Some copper claims have been located between there and White Horse, but if they ever gave any promise that iSey would become mines they have not yet fulfilled it. My Norwegian friend, with a smile that was "childlike and bland," told me that he had sold a couple of them, but did not think nuch of them. But if there are no mines between Skagway and White Horse there is scenery to gladden the heart of an artist, and the railroad between these point3 is a triumph of engineering skill. It winds around the granite cliffs on grade of 4 percent In places, and through the car windows r? u - j nvpr Can 06 seen tar ui;iun iuu ?.?n- ? ? which the train has circled. An ascent of between 2000 and 3000 feet is made from Skagway to Lake Bennett. From there the train runs along the lake side and the banks of the Yukon tc White Horse. The length of the railroad is 100 miles. The current in the Yukon river is swift; it runs about sto miles an hour, so the distance down the river from White Horse to Dawson, 450 miles, is made quickly. The best river boats make it in betweer 30 and 40 hour? ?Mines and Min erals. Woman and the Doormat. j "Reginald," she said, "before wc go any farther I want you to tell mc something. At a meeting of some kinc J the other day a woman said men loolupon woinen as doormats. Oh, tel me?tell me, before it is forever toe I late?is that your idea?" "Well, darling," he said, looking fai down into her wonderful, deep eye; and feeling around for her soft littlf fingers, "to be perfectly frank witi you, I must confess that I do considei women to be like doormats?in i ?f sense. A pallor overspread her sweet face She sank down on the davenport 01 the dubuque, or whatever the fashion able name for it is, and motioned a him to stand back. "Don't touch me! Don't come nea: me!" she cried when at last she coul.: trust herself to speak. "Thank heaven I have found you out in time. Ugh! And they say this is an enlightener age! Oh, why did I let you kiss m< before I knew!" "You see," he said when she allowed him to continue, "if it were not fo: women and doormats I'm afraid som< of the men wouldn't always leave sc * much of their coarse clay outside a: 7 they do or try to do qnder the cirf cumstances." - In a moment she was pinioned painst his breast and words ha.: t <ased passing between them.?Chicat S Record-Herald. The Earth's Bending*. kfle bendings are in progress al [ ?mc the world over. The "im, niovaie" hills are bowing and scrap, ing tceach other constantly. Everj evenin, as the dew settles in the valleys beveen them, they nod to on< another, go, likewise, do the mountains, eve> to a greater extent. Gravity is tugfeng all the time. And ij: London, toe where earthquake sensations are tactically unknown, the earth bends laily, and the buildings l)K*p thp hillcnn^ mnnntainit nrw to their frierds; opposite when the morning traffic begins. On Sunday usually, th2ir manners take a rest excepting ii such places as Petticoat lane, where business flourishes in as lively a fasiion as in Paris. Heine said that e\en the trees made obei sance to Naioleon the First when he entered Berlii. This was imaginative yet truthful, fcr the weight of -lie crowd along Titer den Linden made a tilting sufficient for Professor Milne's pendulums, to hive recorded distinctly. One migftt say the crust of the ear? acts like a steel spring, it bends so easily?Everybody's Magazine. Intelligence *nd the Suffrage. Symonds?So you object to woman suffrage. I shoald like to know upon what grounds, if you have any reason able ones. [ Belcher?I've heard more than a hundred women say the men are all alike. With such an idea in their heads, how can you expect an intelligent use of the suffrage from themf? Boston Transcript. The bones of a mastodon recently found in Missouri indicate that the beast ^iad a throat six feet in diameter. "N SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. It appears that the greatest velocity of a rifle ball is not at the muzzle, but some distance in front An average oi 10 shots with the German infantry rifle has shown a muzzle velocity of 2CG8 feet per second, with a maximum velocity of 2132 feet per second at 10 feet from the muzzle. The extension of the use of electricity in British warships in place of steam for subsidiary purposes :s to be made the subject of a series of experimental tests. At the present time the capstan, steering engines, ventilating fans and derrick hoists are worked by steam power. Arsenic is a very brittle prietal, steel gray in color, and of no great importance in the arts. Metallic arsenic is found native in veins in metamorphic rocks in Saxony, Bohemia, and abun tiantly ftt Chanarcillo in Chili. Arsenic is widely disseminated, as few sulphur ores are free from traces of it. The white arsenic of commerce is arsenious acid. A striking proof of the lasting qualities of cedar wood nas been discovered in the state of Washington. Near Acme is a forest of hemlocks, which has grown up over a buried forest of cellars. It has been lound that the trunks of ceuar are well preserved, although they have been lying in damp soil for at least 150 years. The rings of growth on the hemlock show that they have been growing over the cedars for that length of time. Mr. Birkeland has continued his calculations to determine whether the periodic changes in the area of the spotted regions of the sun's surface are in any degree due to gravitational disturbances produced by either of the planets Mercury, Venus or Jupiter, x^s latest calculations cover the period 1892-96, and his conclusion is that we must seek for oiher causes than planetary influence to explain sun spot period and that in future it is idle to look for the cause of this period outside of the solar sphere itself. Professor Georgeson, who Is in charge of the agricultural experiment stations in Alaska, sends encouraging reports of the conditions there. He made a trip into the interior and down the Yuuon early in August and found new potatoes, cabbages, cauliflowers and other vegetables ready for the table, and gardens blooming with a variety of annual flowers. On the lower Yukon he found extensive tracts of land covered with luxuriant grasses, six feet in height in places, and apparently well suited to agricultural purposes. The following item relaung to the Manila observatory is taken from Prof. Barward's account of his trip to Sumatra: The observatory is equipped for both astronomical and meteorological purposes. It has a fine refracting telescope of 19 inches aperture, the cbject glass being by Steinheil and the mounting by Saegmuller. On account of the troublous times of the * A' iv. _1_ V. o ^ past inree year uie uujc^l giaaa "?>.? I- been removed and hidden away during that period, so that the telescope was not in a condition to be used when the ! observatory was visited by the Amerii can eclipse observers during their stay i at Manila. Father Algue, the director i of the establishment, stated that they had a large percentage of clear nights i curing the year, and that the atmos: phere was steady much of the time, i This observatory is doing very valua hie meteorological work. The study and s prediction of typhoons?so destructive i in the China sea, and of which Father Algue has m; a special study?is of the utmost importance to navigation. The work was spoken of highly by the officers of the various vessels on which ! the expedition sailed. % Mra?nrlng Hninlditr. : To most minds scientific instruments * ?re so fearfully and wonderfully con) structed that no attempt is ever made to pry into the manner of their perr forming their functions, the results 3 obtained being accepted as a matter ' of course. Yet many such instruments 1 while apparently complicated, are f really based on very simple principles. 1 Of these the thermometer and the barometer are, of course, now general ly understood, although this was not r always true. Another meteorological instrument, however, which is much used, out which is more or less mysterious to " the public, is that by which the amount * of moisture in the air is determined. J.II ? i ~1.. Vti 1 ( Willie UeiUJB.Ltij' cuiion iaau auu u<xianced by means of fine springs, the * chief reliance is placed on a few horse 2 hairs, which are exceedingly responsive to the influence of dampness. * When the air becomes moist they r relax, and a pivoted bar, one end of 2 which forms an indicator, is drawn * along a scale, which snows just to what ? extent the air is saturated with water. When the air is dry the horse hair | becomes tense and the indicator is 1 returned to its appropriate place on * the seals. It is in this way that track is kept of General Humidity, whose damp j forces so effectually conspire to keep j humanity in misery during warm weather. An 1o Folding l>d*. All purchasers of folding beds do not buy them solely for the sake of saving room. According to a maufacturer, some people with ample house room at command buy them, for one reason, so that the rooms in which they are placed can be put to other uses than as bedrooms. This manufacturer mentioned one New York family in whose house are eleven fine folding beds. Any room in the house designed for and equipped as a sleeping room could be easily A ? n frt Ana irausiui uieu li uui a ucviuvui iu uuc ' that had 110 appearance of a sleeping ! apartment whatever. There are produced nowadays fold; ing beds of one kind and another that f are sold at low prices, but the most costly of the finer folding beds may 1 easily be pretty dear affairs. 1 The manufacturer told of one elaborately designed and finished folding bed that cost $1000, the cost of the carving alone having been $300.?New York Sun. Betraying Hi* Ignorance. 1 "I am always putting my foot in it,,! 1 said Mr. Cumrox, -sadly. "What's the trouble?" "I am always displaying the fact 1 that I have no taste or refinement. ' Mrs. C. asked me which of two gowns ' I preferred and I immediately betrayed my ignorance. I admired the one which cost at least $75 less than the other."?Washington Star. i ) Nearly a half billion pounds of tea were consumed in the year. 1000 in countries other than the sources of production.. * ' j. . * .. * ~ -:*'i ' --I-.?jfer 1&7-. , - (..?a * ' ''' ^ ' ?""" Mrs. L. A. Harris, a Prominent Member of a Chicago Woman's Political Club, tells how Ovarian Troubles may be Cured with* . 01 out a Surgical Uperation. sne says: i "Doctors have a perfect craze for operations. The minuto there is any trouble, nothing but an operation will do them; one hundred dollars and costs, and included in the costs are pain, and agony, and often death. " I suffered for eight years with ovarian troubles ; spent hundreds ;, of dollars for relief, until two doctors agreed that an operation was my only chance of life. My sister had been using Lydia E. Pink* ham's Vegetable Compound for her troubles, and been cured, and she strongly urged me to let the doctors go and try the Compound. I did so as a last resort; used it faithfully with the Sanative Wash for five months, and was rejoiced to find that my troubles were over and my health restored. If women would only try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound first, fewer surgical operations would occur."?Mrs. L. A. 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TRIPLE INCOME CORN "^ggftlgSlHI KIMK gEjwIfec^xS Holr ?orl<l 150 ba.hel. per acre imlt to* at the prr.ent nrloe. of eornT ^BaSAXyflBM ICTb Srf^lflnT Aalaer'.eemferwyfllwdeeethlalbrrealeI30I. CatalogteUa. SmHBS ffifflpwBB Fodder Plant*, Graaaea and Clover vUn J^fVW JJ7& ? hare the 1 orgeat array of feddar plaata too ad la amy catalogue IhV H fajL-fn Aet, la Amarioa. We hare the flaeat rartoila., the btggeat yieldere and KIQKwOTf enreet erappere. Oar Gleet laearaaie Cfeeer prodaec. aar*p 3 ft. /gsgtjelBPdgigWM MK] IrJRWmIKt hip la alz wacki after atediag. Oar Ft* Oat peeo 8 too. of hay BU fjrujmtlf/ acre; ear Teoeiate ie feed for 80 too. of green fodder ear Thoaoasd ^(Na|^H BBJtnttn^ Headed Kale aad Dwarf Ylcteria Hope make .beep aad .wire and cattle . grewtegnt lo. a peeed peeethle. 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