?A Wonder of Japan. GREAT BRONZE STATUE OF BUDDHA, Kamakura, Japan. CLASS HOUSES FOR CONSUMPTIVES HB originator of the Uleu of | the scientific treatment of ooiiRumption by sunlight. Dr. Biggs, the chief resi dent physician of the Phil adelphia Hospital, has in auced the municipal authorities to erect aJx pavilions, at a cost of $114,ink), for the express purpose of giving the pla:i a thorough trial. The buildings are now completed and will he furnished and ready for occupation within a few days. Each pavilion Is separate in Itself, with walla aud roof of glass, and only aufflcient metal work in its construc tion to support the framework. The floors are of cement, so as to be as smooth and nonahsorhent as possible. ! Bach pavilion is twenty-seven feet wide and thirty-six feet long. Hunnlng around the building Is a six-foot porch, alao surrounded by glass. The glass is arranged in frames ten feet in height. By means of an automatic device one aide of the building or all four sides ma/ be thrown open. {The glass above the doors is worked in the same way, ao that In warm weather each tier of glaaa frames may be opened, turning the pavilion into little more than a ahed with a glass roof. The Inside CUm la ribbed sufficiently to make It opaque. The glass of the porches is transparent. The buildings are Intended for use both winter and summer. In the win ter they will be heated by warmed air plant needs only to be placed In a saucer, without water, in a warm room, when, without showing either leaves or roots, the flower makes Its appearance, usually early in the year, thriving entirely upon the nourish ment contained within the bulb. As soon as the flower fins faded away, and a growth appears to bi coming from the bulb, it should be potted up in good soil and freely watered. Later on an umbrella-shaped leaf Is formed on a stout stalk re ^embling brown grsnlte In color, and sometimes reaching a height of thres fedt. In autumn this leaf fades, and at soon as It has died off. the bulb la lifted out of the soil, cleaned up. and placed in a dry condition in a warm room when the previous year's display will be repeated.?New York Times. Sun Parlor In the New Hospital For Consumptives In Philadelphia. forced In through metal conduits nt a height a little above a man's head. When cooler It finds an exit through ventilators raised a fod h? and ajwlt uuakcd to tk* outer circle of the crowd, statloaai < at dlfffMt then, aad t wo ltd Krai for the placed at proper intervals. "Then tho preflnMr climbed onto the box beeldo hie wiCe aad made hie eploL Ho wee awfully ?a?iy. hot hie balloon had Jost eprunf a leak, which could not possibly bo ripalrod. and ho could act go up. in ell that crowd ho could set identity the people who had con tributed. and be waated to know what to do with the weey. He had not earned It, end ea ha could not keep It. ** *Glve It to year wife.' ceme a role? from tho outskirts. That wee mj pal. poslog ae one of the contributor*. ** Tee. give It to her,' ceme from an* other place. That wee mc. 44 'That's It, giro It to your wife.* came from a doaea other place*. That wee the kids. "Of coarse, no one objected, end without string them a chance to kick, the aeronaut tbaaked bis friends for their generosity, and said he would do as they said. "We three met qaletly later and di vided the swag?fid?and we all got out of town.**?Arkansas Curette. LIVELY BALLOONING. For the first mile, while slowly ris ing. the balloon stgmagged between the lower currents, until at approximately 3000 feet It encountered a main sweep of air which, at that height, was fol lowing the course of the valley below. The horizon had been dear at starting, and the Impression was, as we sailed along In the current that we should have a fair passage, unless some cloud, not yet apparent. In our wake could ride after us and orertake us on a higher level, where wind velocity is generally greater. Perhaps, therefore, we paid insrtfllcteat-becd to a murky veil ahead of us, which began gather ing snd deepening and blotted out the view. We were soon enveloped In this gray curtain, and thus Its true appear ance was lost to us; but st Newbury, our starting ground, a large crowd was watching us entering a vast snd most menacing thunder-pack, and was won dering why we did not come down. The first real warning which we had of our predicament was a flash of light ning close on our quarter, answered by another on our other side, and almost before we could realise It we were In the very focus of a furious storm which was being borne on aa upper wind, and a wild conflict was already raging round us. There was our cwn fast current carrying us westward; there was the atorm cloud slightly above hurrying to the east; and added to these there now descended a pitiless down-draught of Ice cold air and hail. We were doubtless in a cloud which was discharging Ughtnlnr over a wide area, each flash, however. Issuing from the Immediate vicinity of the balloon, and the Idea formed on the writer's mind was tbat many flashes were level ?that Is, as if from one part of the cloud to another. Any that reached the ground must from our known position have been at least a mile long. There was snother Idea forced upon the party, whlcb was that they would be more comfortable and far safer else where; and wheu suitable opportunity occurred a descent was msdo to earth. ?John M. Ha con, in Longman's Maga sine. SAVED CHILD PROM DEATH. As the train was pulling out of the Narbertb railroad station Miss Elisa beth Caldwell Sampson, who was standing near the ticket office, saw a little child playing on the ties beneath the secoud coach. With composure that is remarkable under such circum stances she bravely risked her*life to save the little one from a horrible death. To scream for assistance was useless. The rear wheels of tlie coach were fast beariug down upon the unsuspecting infant. She fell ui>on her knees on the platform aud succeeded in securing hold of the child's dress, and dragged him from certain death. The brave young woman's nerves were shattered momentarily by the awful shock. She swooned Into a seat in the sta tion, but soon recovered her composure mid fondled the smiling baby by her side. The identity of the child was at first unknown. The train was stopped in order to ascertain to whom It belonged. A nurse alighted nervously from the end coach aud made her way. Into the statlou. Tbe child, a two-year-old son of H. Caster, of Nnrbertli, had been in her charge. She had searched for him In vain in every coach. When she learned how his life had been saved she, too, fainted. Miss Sampson, who lives at Dudley and Windsor avenues, Narbertb, was overwhelmed with congratulations for her heroic deed.?Philadelphia Tele graph. FEAT OP A MACGREGOR. Sir William Mactiregor, upon whom Queen Victoria bestowed the Albert medal, Is the hero of such an adven* ture as one expects ordinarily to read a1>out only In fiction of a certain hue. The steamship Syria, with a lot of Indian coolies on board, struck on a rock, as the London Chronicle relates, about twelve hours from Suva, the capital of FIJI. Dr. MacGregor, then Acting Colonial Secretary, organized a relief expedi tion, clambered over a broken mast that wis the only path to the emi grants, and again nnd again returned with a man or woman on his back, nnd sometimes e child, held by Its clothes between his teeth. A man of vast physical strength, MacGregor wauted It all for his final feat. Down below on the reef was a woman who had fullon overboard, bad uot at the spirits, and was mad with drink. The captain of the ship and a police officer who had gono after her were being swept out to sen. McGre gor slid down a rope, caught tbe knot of the woman's hair In his teeth, and with his bands seised the two meu and dragged them both into snfety. lie went back to Suva In a borrowed suit of pajamas, having left all bin clothes and a good deal of his skin on the coral reef. Modest, like many heroes. MacGre gor left himself out of his owu report, :tnd It was from the Governor that the (jueen first heard the whole story. Vessels of eighty-five steamship liuea J enter the harbor of Antwerp regularly. POPULAR SCIENCE Professor George Darwin. F. R 8 has been elected Preeldent of the Brit ish Association for the meeting to be held in Booth Africa next jeer. The American traction engines are rapidly replacing the British type In Argentine. The former ere said to be lighter snd can be more easily moved over the ground, end are cheaper. The report of the Minister of Ball* ways gives the length of the railways In Csnsda on June 90. 1908, as 19.836 miles. Of this. 19.077 miles were op erated by steam and 709 by electricity. 81r William Ramsay, at a recent lec ture. said that cases of rodent nicer had been cured by the aid of radium, but as far as he knew, there bad been no successful effort yet to treat can cer. Experiments to ascertain the nutrl tire qualities of condensed milk, and to discover Its possible adulterations, are being made at the agricultural ex periment station of Wisconsin Univer sity. II. J. J. Siegfried bas given to the Institute of France the Castle of Lan geals. with the sum of 100.000 franca for the costs of Installations and an endowment yielding an Income of 10. 000 francs for Its support. One of the most Interesting posses sions of the museum st the Hahne mann Medical College, in Philadelphia, Is a complete nerve skeleton made by Dr. Rufus B. Weaver, the famous neu rologist. It Is said to be the only spec imen of the kind In the world. The Otto Wahlbruch prize, of the value of $3000, has been awarded by the University of Gottingen to Profes sor Wllhelm Pfeffer. Professor of Bot any at Leipzig. The prize Is awarded for the most important contribution to science during the past two years. HE WOULD NOT WED. Cynical Tlawi of ? Bachelor Md a Story - of Two Kaiaed Lira*. "I went to lunch with a friend the other day." said the philosopher. "He la a man about thirty-tlve. well to do, a good fellow In every respect. I asked him when be Intended to marry. He laughed good-humoredly. and told me that no consideration could ever Induce him to give up his freedom. He said he had seen too much of women ever to settle his faith upon any particular one; that In hla earlier days be had contracted the disease of love several times, and each time had been de ceived. He told me that he bad be come too much a settled man of the world ever to have any foolish hopes again. Then I lunged at him and ran him through again and again. I told him plainly that auch a pose, of all poses, was the most narrow minded I that a man could take. It was a de* | nial of the existence of millions of good, true women who all the world over do so much to make life better and nobler. To refuse to believe In the existence of these women because an experience with those who had proved deficleut wus as foolish as to foreswear eggs, not to believe that there were any more good eggs in the world because one or two had been found bad. I told blm a story, the In cidents of which bad come under my own observation, illustrating the con stancy of a true woman and her need of the perfect confidence of the ninn whom she loves. "This man was a good enough fellow In his way. but he was of a suspicious nature, and no loyal woman will ever discover her affection to the man who distrusts her. He believed that he had been deceived; she allowed him to be lieve It. He went his way. miserable and discontented. She was miserable also, but she kept a brave countenance and went about in her gay world; but the years went by and none of her suitors that surrounded her were ever successful in winning her. He did not know that all her gentle woman's heart required wus that he should cast away his unworthy distrust of her. Two lives were ruined, not by the fault of the woman. but of the man. On her deathbed he learned of the foolish course he had pursued and of his Irre parable loss. Unable to bear the mel ancholy wlileh took possession of him, he committed suicide. How many other men lose good women because of lack of faith? I could see my friend's face take on a serious expression as I told the story. Probably he was thinking of soine woman who was waiting for him and would give him a lifelong devotion. If ho had but the gumption to know how to win her."? New Orleans TImes-Dcmoeral. Tibetan*' "Praying Wheel.'* "To the Yellow God, the Black Cod. the White CJod and the Green Cod Please kindly take us all up with you. and do not leave us unprotected, but destroy our enemies." Such a prayer Is to be found on a Tibetan praying wheel, said Mr. A. It. Wright at a meeting of the Folklore Society held in Albemarle street, W. A novel feature of this prayer wheel which the Tibe tan spends much of the time In turn ing Is that If turned the wrong way everything done before Is undone. ' Rome of the nrticles used by the Ti betans in their devotions are very grue some. A human thigh bone covered with human skin is used as a horn for ?xorcl*lng demons and to draw the ?oul from hades. A double drum made from two halves of a skull, the skin covering being that of a human being, is placed on the altar of certain fiend Jeltles In the Tibetan religion.?Iahi Jou Mall. How Glovematcera Meat New Conditions, A size six glove to day Is larger than I size six glove Ave years ngo, and this ipplles to all the sizes made. The ex planation Is that ladles' hands have frown larger than they used to be, iirough tfeir practice of cycling, golf' ng. hockey, etc., but they do not like \o admit It. so the glov?makers meet :he new conditions and yet uvoid hurt, ng the vanity of thilr customers Westminster Gazette. News of Interest AFRO-AMERICANS Nsgro Girls School. ? dispatch from Montgomery. Ala., says: Laura J. Finch la preparing to open an inriuatriai school (or Negro girls At Sylacauga. Necessary build ings will be erected. ? ? ? ? ?There'll Come a Time.'* An Italian living at Star, Mississippi, has got into a lot of trouble by al? lowing a black man to eat in bis res taurant. The dear, sensitive whites are up In arms about It and insist tbat the descendant of the Caesars shall close up his shop and get out of the town. He objects, as well, he may and has a freeman's right to. aiMl has appealed to the state authorities who have de clared that they have no power to pro tect him. and to the Italian consul. The Italian will have to get out. we are persuaded. He can't be a free man in Misslsalppl. under existing condi tions. any more than the black man can; but. "there'll ctime a time." No such outrageous condition can prevail always.?New York Age. ? ? ? ? Trial by Jury Was Denied. A Macon, da., dispatch says: Arm ed with a writ of habeas corpus issued i by Judge Speer at Mount Airy. Dep 1 uty Marshal Thomaa journeyed to the 1 Bibb county chain gang a few daya I ago. and after serving the paper on Superintendent Wimbush. returned to I Macon with Louis Pennington, colored, sent up from the recorder's court for six months. United 8tates Marshal White fixed PennlngtolTs bond at $100. Pennington Is now free from the shackles and stripes of the chfib King. It was another Henry JemUon case, and It was alleged In the petition pre sented to Judge Speer that Penning ton was convicted without due process of law and in violation of the four teenth amendment of the federal con stitution. President Refund to Interfere. A Washington dispatch says: Pres ident Roosevelt has declined to Inter fere in the case of John W. Burley, a colored man confined In the jail ot the District of Columbia under sen tence of death for the crime of crimi nal assault, the victim having been a little girl four and a hair years old. The president has directed that the sentence of the Jury be carried into effect on August 26th instant, as de creed. An application was made to the prea* ident to commute the sentence of Bur ley to Imprisonment for life, It being alleged that the prisoner was of mind ao weak aa to be irresponsible for his crime. The aubjeot waa referred to At torney General Moody. He Investigat ed the case and reported to the preai dent fully as to the facts. In rejecting the application for the commutation of Bujley's sentence President Roosevelt made the follow ing memorandum: The application for the commutation of sentence of John W. Burley is de nied. This man committed the most hideous crime known to our laws ancf twice before he has committed crime of a similar, though fess horrible, char acter. In my judgment there is no jus tification whatever for paying heed to tho allegations made after rite trial and conviction. Nobody would pretend that there had ever been such a de gree of mental unsoundness shown ad would make people even consiJer send ing him to an asylum If he had not committed this crime. Under such cir cumstances he should certainly be es teemed sane enough to suffer the pen alty for his monstrous deed. I have scant sympathy with the plea of Insanity advanced to Bave a man from the consequences of crime, when unless the crime had been com fitted It would have been impossible to per suade any responsible authority to commit him to an asylum as insane. Among the most dangerous criminals and especially among those prone to commit this particular kind of offense there are plenty of temper so HendUh or so brutal as to bo incompatible with any other than a brutish order of Intelligence; but these m*?n are nevertheless responsible for their acts and nothing more tends to encourage the crime among such men than the belief that through the plea of insan ity or any other method It Is possible for them to ?scape paying the Just penalty of their crirr.es. The crime In ?)???? on ? ;