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III SPRING CLOAK IN THE EMPI LONG TIGHT-FITTIN( WILD COSSACK RIDERS. rwo Amierican4 Saw Them ireak Wintet bt Camp in Turkestan. In The Century, Messrs. Allen and Sachtleben. who went around the at world on Ufcycles, give the following tj tecount of oie of their experiences in in Turke-tan: tl< Une of the chief incidents of our .. pleasant sojou: n was afforded by Gov- Si trnor ivanotf. We were invited to w hea I the procession of the Cossacks p( an their annual departure for their cl summer encamLpment in the mount- ri ains. After the usual religious cere- at mony, they tiled out of the city pa- fo rade-ground. Being unavoidably de- It tained for a few moments, we did not Ir come up until some time after the w columa had started. As we dashed b; by to the front with the Atuerican g( and Russian fars uteing side by pE side from the handie-bars, cheerafter ct cheer arose from the ranks, and even er the Governor and his party doffed m their caps in acknowledgnent. At. sD the camp we we e favored with a ar special exhibition of horsemanship. sil By a single twist of the reins the gI steeds wouil Ifall to the ground, and ai their riders crouch beh~nd them as a in bulwaric in battle. Then dashing w. forward at full speed, they would ti spring to the ground, and leap back C< again into the saddle, or, hanging by pr their legs would reach over and picT ed up a handkerchief, cap, or a soldier be suoposed to De wounded. All these movements we photographed with m our camera. Of the endurance of ti these Co sacks and their Kirghiz to horses we had a practical test. Over taking a Cossack courier in the early d; part of the day's journey, he became so interested in the velocipene, as ir the Russians call the bicycle, that he a determined to see as much of it as o' possible. He staved with us the b( whole day, over a distance of fifty- or five miles. His chief compensation ti was in witnessing the surprise or the natives, to whom he would shout us ac~oss the fields to come and see the se tomasha, adding in explanation that we were tfle American gentlemen sc who had ridden all the way from si America. Our speed was not slow. 1r and frequently the poor fellow would cr have to resort toi the whip, or shout: bi "Sbowly, gentlemen, my horse is3 tired. the town is not far away; it Is not m neccessary to hurry so." The fact is p that in all our experience we found di no horse of even the famed Kirghi7 yi Dr Turkoman breed that couid travel with the same ease and rapidity as ourselves even over the most ordinary road. ________ Too 'zany or Tnem Married. A curious and somewhat pathetic Atory comes from Edinburgh, Sc:ot- p land. The Cameron High) enders, hiho until recently formed the gar- i rison of that city, received orders for is Malta. The regiment had been sta tioned in the city .during a longer period than is usual, and it was dis tovered on their <lepa'rture that no p less than 250 soldiers had married, in dlefiance of the army regulations. n The wives, on the departure of their j husbands, had to be left behind. Not sa more. than 4 per cent. of a regiment is n gllowed the privilege of taking wives 1 with them on their travels, and these r must have had permission to marry. Pr Much sympathy is felt in the city for the wives left behind. Seeing that a t private soldier can send home only a la small sum of money weekly, even under the most favorable conditions, 1 the lot of the unfortunate wives is 41. most pitable one A public fund is - being raised for their assistance. ru Bare-Faced Robbery.Bj '-That's what I call hare-faced rob- rn nery," said the man~ who kicks. to "lecen having troubie?" "Indeed ] an have. That barber has just charged lii mec :5 cunts for a shave."-D~etroit ea Free Press. c CAOT HA AND4~ CAE. RE STYLE, AND HALF - VELVET COAT. HAD A POWER OF ETERNITY. Lke Was Wak In Legal Lore but Stronu In Dog and Gun. "Speaking of the term power o torney,' " said a well-known lawye e other day to a New York Even g Sun man, "reminds me of a lit a incident that occurred to Judgi -and myself last spring up it llivan County. We were out for i ek's trouting and determined t4 ach on the preserves of a tishins ab which had secured control of tho ver for a distance of several mile! d where public fisning was strictlj rbidden. We knew that part o: e creek was guarded by an olc ishman in the employ of the club ho patrolled the banks, accompaniet a fe.ocious-looking bull dog and; Ln identified with the revolutionar riod, but we decided to taki ances rather than return witi apty creels. So on the . followinj arning jLust at the peep of day, w( eaked up creek, through the woods id struck in at a point just out o ht of the club house. We bad rious time until about 9 o'clocli d had filled our creels to the crowd g point when suddenly old Mike, th his dog and gun, appeared om e opposite bank. 'fley, ye divils me out 0' thot!' he shouted. We etended not to hear, meanwhile ging over toward the opposit< nk. " 'Av yez don't come out Oi'll sF e dog on yez!' roared Mike. Thi: ne 1 looked up, but pretended nol understand. "'Yes!' I shouted back, 'it's a fini ,y!' "'A foine day is it?' bellowed the ate Celt: 'Shure ye'il think it's ommed bad day if yez don't corn ~er here out co' thot!' And Miki ~gan to linger the antique muskel inously. I began to think it wa! e to temporize. " 'By what authority do you ordei out of this stream?' I asked as erely as I could. "'Be what autoority is it! eamed Mike, 'be what autoority! ure an' i'd have yez know tho' e full power av eternity over thi ek, an' av yez don't come out 1'1 w the top o' yer heads off.' "This was too much. We didn'1 ne the clog or the gun, but a 'ful wer of eternity' was something w4 in't want to contend with, so wv lded and left the stream." Victoria's Crown. The crown of the Queen ot Grea1 itain and Ireland, made in 1838 b3 mdell & Bridge, has been estimate( be of the value of ?300,000. I1 ~ighs nearly two pounds and corn ses more than 3,000 preciou nes, of which five-sixths are dia nds. The lower part of the band a row of 129 pearls, the upper parl 112. Between them, in front, is a largi phire. Behind Is a smaller sap ire, with six others and eight emer is. Between the two great sap ires are ornaments containing 284 monds. Above the band are eighi pphires surmounted by eight dia nds, and eight festoons containinlg 0 diamonds. In the front of th< wn is the ruby given to the Blacl ince by Pedro, King of Castile is is set in a Maltese cross, anc ming the cross are seventy-fivy ge diamonds. Three other crosses, containing 384 monds, are around the upper para the crown. Between the fou: sses are four ornaments with fou: bies in the center, and containing ~pctively eighty-four, eighty-six hty-flye and eighty-seven dia nds. From the Maltese cross rise r arches, composed of oak leave| d acorns, the leaves containing 72! monds. The thirty-two acorns are h of a single pearl and are set ir ps made of fifty-four diamonds ove the arch stands the mound taining 548 diamonds, and abovi e mound is the cross, containing ry large sapphire, four very largi d 108 smaller diamonds. All thi nes are genuine, and not, as i1 e other European crowns, colore< ass, which has replaced the gen e stones.-Retail Jeweler. A Qua ifrng Article. Teacher-In what manner is an ad tive employed? Pupil-It is use qualify a noun. Teacher-Giv e an illustration. Pupil-Wateri adjective. Teacher--What? iPu --It is used to qualify whisky. son Transcript iEisTRtY always raises the bes1 etale in its nwn garden. Tolls of AuthOrshp. The craft of authorship ts by no means so easy of practice as is gen rally imagined by the thousands who aspire to it. Almost all our works, whether of knowledge or of fancy, have been the products of much exer tion and study. Pope published nothing until it had Deen a year or two before him, and even then his printer's proofs were very full of alterations; and on one occasion Dodsley (his publisher) thought it better to have the whole matter recomposed than make the corrections. Golasmith considered four lines a day very good, and it took him seven years to beat out the pure gold of "The Deserted Village." Hume wrote his "History of England" on a sofa, and he went on quietly correcting every edition until his death. Robertson used to write out his sentences on small slips of paper, and after rounding and polishing them to his satisfaction he entered them in a book; which, in its turn, underwent considerable revision. Burke, the eloquent statesman and author, had all his principal works printed two or three times at a pri vate press before submitting them to Iiis publisher. Akenside an1 Gray were indefatigable correctors, labor ing over every line; but how fine is the "Elegy" of Gray. The imagina tive poet Thomson was of the same category, and upon comparing the first and latest editions of the "Sea sons" there will be found scarcely a page which does not bear evidence of his taste and industry. Johnson used to think that the poems lost much of their raciness un der such a severe regimen. He and Gibbon were the least laborious in t arranging their copy tor the press. Gibbon sent the first and only MS. of his stupendous work "Decline and Fall," to his printer, and Johnson's high sounding sentences were written almost without an effort. The loving lingering of Tennyson over his poems and the frequent al terations, not in every case improve inents perhaps,. that appear in suc cessive editions of his works an fa nillar to all his admirer. 1 1 t DRESS WITH SHOULDER FLAPS. The Disappearing Desert. It is not at all unlikely that in the twentieth century the desert of Sa hara will have disappeared as com pletely from the maps as the Great American Desert has done in the nine teenth. In the year 1857 the French engineer, M. Jus, proved that that portion of the Sahara Desert included within the area of French Algeria contained large underground supplies of water, and the number of wells bored since that time in the depart-8 inents of Algiers, Gran, and Constan- 2 ine, amounts to more than 13,000. These wells vary from 100 to 400 feet . In depth, and the pressure of the water forces it a couple of feet above the surface of the ground. It is then ~ led to ditches, and is carried in this . ayt the vineyards, date trees, and wheat fields. No fewer than 12,000, ~00 acres of barren land have been ;nade fruitful in this way, an enter ~rise representing perhaps the most remarkable example of irrigation by pneans of artesian wells which cant (mywhere be found. Algeria owes to this method of cultivation that it s becoming a most important wine ~roducing country, as may be gauged rom the fact that~ln 1886 it sent to rance 10,500,000 gallons-. C r-roteconf from Eline BUhietfr Commenting on the penetrative 1 pwers of the small arms lately intro luced into the armies of all the great powers, Col. Lonsdale Hale states that the minimum thickness of ordi pary soil affording 'rotection is thirt~y Inches, while single brick walls, afteg - being struck a few times, no longer afford any cover. The new Germad rifle ranges up to 4,000 yards, and at 00 yards the bullet will penetrate, ten inches of fir or pine and fourteeri nches of sand. At 450 yards thd buliet can pierce three or four ranks* and at 1,300 yards a man may no longer consider himself safe, even if phe bullet has already penetrated two of his comrades. With regard to "smokeless powder," the same au thority observes that, though the re port of the rifles when fired is heard, it is very diffcult to see whence the rifles ar fired. Under certain - con ditions no trace of smoke can be dis tinguished. Minor acts of surprise, he considers, will be more frequent in the future, and will often partake of tbe nature of ambuscades. Very small bodies of cavalry, intimately connected with infantry, forming in action patrols of the latter, will, therefore, be necessary and it will no onger be possible to discover well posted batteries. On the whole, Col Hale considers that only a war can absolutely decede what the effects of the improvement of in small arms will be. One thing, however, is cer tan-that is, that the diffculty of l eading troops has considerably An creased. -London News. Toor Man. Poor man; he is bored to death to buy ticketS to amateur entertain ments, and then bored to death wnen he attenti.-A thison Globe BLOUSE WITH KNITTED ST AR ROSETTES. INFLUENCE OF BALMY AIRS Lre They Bostile to the Best Vigor c Encouraging? In the name of reason ana verac y, out of what peoples have mainl oome the art, the science, the powe ,nd the glory of the world? Froi vhat nations have we receive he richest legacies of the huma )rain and soul? From the dweller n harsh climates, or from thos :ountries where, life being somethin )eside a ceaseless struggle with th lements, the soul has had time t dlossom? asks a writer in Kate Field fashhigton. How about all thos mervated and emasculated race. Lnyway? How about Arabia, which preserve 'or ages the learning of the world Iow about the entire Orient, "th riginatress, the nest of languages he bequeather of poems?" Ho' bout the Hebrews "ancient of at lents;" the old empires of Assyri nd Persia and India, venerabl nother ahd priestess? Ho Y abou ,gypt, builder of imperishable mont nents? Did not Palestine send forth )rophet or two under her midsumme !hristmas stars? Were not a "flowing literature," ather splendid chivalry, a Cid Can eadar, a Cervantes sent out of Spair nd a Columbus and a Galileo out c taly? The ancient Romans were a tolei Lble active and energeric body of mer onsidering the enervating climate body with a good deal of mind t eaven it withal. Several more tha: verage bright minds came out c ther cities of the peninsula. Bay an aurel come near hiding the lilies c lorence. Gree.ce reared herself an immorta emple or two beneath her smilin kies. Art, science, philosophy, statecrafi he matchless craft of war, powei :nowledge, beauty, all the graces c lying and the strength of life, th )et, the painter, the musician, th tudent, the philosopher, the herc he saint, have all been cradled i he breast of the sacred south. Th~ ight of the world through a thousan rindows has streamed from a souti: ~rn sun. Against their glorious record wha hall we set? Russia, Norway weden, Great Britain-even -Ge: any, the new home, but not th other or the birthplace, of music [he sum of these and many mor ill not balance by a long count th plendid overweight of the other. Save~d by the Pony. Elephants are extremely afraid c orses, writes Major John Butler 11 Travels in Assam." To that fac e owed the deliverance of his wi! nd child from a terrible deatt ith them he was travers.ng thb ngle over an exceedingly rougl >ad, through forest and grass jungl ternateiy. The way had to be cu s they advanced. I was in the lead on a large ele bant in my howdah, with a goo< attery of guns, when about midda: heard behind me a general cry c larm, and hastily .rode to the scena t danger. It seems that just after I ha< assed, with the coolies, who cu own the jungle, a huge Muikna ele hant had rushed from the jungle il terrible rage, and pursued the lit e baggage elephant, which was jus ehnd my wife and childi The lit e elephant screeched, and fled fo Is life, straight ahead. Fortunately a pony was led besida e paikee which contained my wif nd child. The wild elephant wa ose upon them, and they close< eir eyes in horror, expecting to b ragged from their places ani rampled to death. At that momen e great beast caught sight of th ~ony. It stopped short, turned aside nd tied back to the jungle as if pur ed by an evil spirit. The men were filled with astonish ent. Most of them had fled to th rotection or sheltering trees, leavin y wife and child alone. BLOUSE WITH EMBRO] DRESS WITH AT A PARK SALO. Hme. Aubernon Bules Her Guests in Most Autocratic Way. In the Century, Th. Bentzon na bright and Gossipy article on "C versation in France." The wri lescribes at length and with gr admiration, the salon of Mme. j ernon, whose Saturday dinners one of the features of Paris sot life. Her guests are chosen with'1 most particular care, and she here sees that they take up only worl topics for discussion. Some lazy minds think that c versation at Mime. Aubernon's d ners must be wori rather than ple ure. and that she behaves among I guests like the leader of a sympho; bringing each instrument to act: or to silence. 1t is perfectly ti . that she Dermits no private chats tween neighbors, which would b4 tresa ass against the good traaiti of the eighteenth century; she fit it) impolite and vulgar, injurio to the general effect, and when some rare chance It happens. i Y rings a tiny bell in the most deci ' way. She was punished once for t 3 tyranny. While some one was spe; i lng'--I think it was Bardoux, I n biographer of Chateaubriand's loy S friends, Mme. de Beaumont a e Mme.* de Custine,-another gu g whispered to the lady seated ne:-t e him; the tinkling of the bell stop 0 his untimely words. When M. B ' doux had ended, Mime. Auberi e bade the guilty cne speak in , turn. "What had you to say?" she i quired. ? "Oh, little, very little," he e swered in a rather distressed way. , "1 am sure it was something va Y able; we cannot. afford to lose - ray, speak out:" a With hypocritical modesty theo e er demurred. At last, with e t lowered upon his plate, he answer - " w. s saying I wou:ld willingly hi taken a little more salad." a There was a laugh and some c fusion for ,the autocrat. In tru Mime. Aubernon deserves to be cal a by Dr. Holmes-who, if he che would have the seat at hei rig - hand-the autocrat of the dinn table. Nor are the Saturday ainners 1 only ones she gives; t-ewe is Wednesday dinner for younger a less well-trained guests-dinrers anarchists, as she calls them, bet ; tney get to be'tamed and broken harness. oflee Maidens of Francee Near the little town of La Ter in France, there Is an apple-t which bears only imperfect blossor and the fact having long been covered, has given rise to a very be; tiful custom among the maidens the village. e When spring-time comes, and 1 eapple-tree hails the joyous time iw a glad burst of blossoms, the mai ens of the village arm themsel Swith gay ribbons and perfect bl ~soms from their favorite trees, and Ssinging to the lonely tree which] produced only the imperfect blosso: SEach girl then Kisses a cluster of1 imperfect blossoms, and in so do! :lusts the former with the pollen fr the latter. She then ties a dist ?guishing ribbon near to the clus eshe had dusted., eThe tree looks very gay when t1 decorated, with the pink blosso smilhng up at Heaven, and the dail ribbons fluttering in the perfut t laden air; but the best of it is wi the petals fall like "summer sno1 tand the little apples begin to sha aThan the maidens pluck off all1 the best fruit, and let that take the strength of the tree, so that1 apples grow famously and come aperfection, LAnd now is seen the strange p of the affair; the apples, instead - being all of one kind, are as differs Ias the blossoms that kissed their b] Ssoms, the fact being that the appl expectly like the apple on the ti Sfrom which the pollen-bearing bl soms was taken. So on this one t Iwill be seen round, rosy-checked ~ples, long, yellow apples, juicy app -mealy apples, dainty little apples, S"monstrous big" apples. .Each ma en has the apple she wished the mC r An Appreciated Lesso. SMrs. Chancel-Oh, Henry! I 'a you had been to church this morni D 1r. DIves preached one of the I< Sliest sermons on 'Love our Neighb Sand the way his remarks made Sspiteful, hateful Mrs. Gabbers squ was something that would have d Syour heart good.-Puck, Jlmson's Baby. "Unfortunate thing, that, at Jimson's baby. It's marked for li S"No! In what way?" "It's Ivery image of Jimnson."-Exchat ~DERED IINSERTIONS, AND PLATEn WAIST. By Any Other Same. The young man laid his cigarette the down on the hall table while he went in to interview his father on the s a financial situation. After a few pre n. liminaries he said: ter "By the way, pop, can I have a few eat 'stamps' to-day?" lu- "Postage stamps?" inquired the are father innocently. :iai "No, sir," was the impatient re the ply; "I mean scads.'" elf "Scads, my son?" inquired the old thy gentleman, in mild astonishment. 4"1 mean the 'tin,' of course." on- "And what is the 'tin,' may J in. ask?" as- "Oh, the 'ready,' don't you know?' ber "No, I don't know." ny, "Don't you know, 'spondulix'?" ion "I can't say that I do. Who is rue he?" be- "Aw, come off, pop. What I'm out 3 a for is the 'stuff'?" >ns "What stuff?" ,ds "Why the 'soap,' of course?" :us "The soap? Are you in need of a by bath?" and the fatherlooked over his ihe specs inquiringly. led "No, no," impatiently. "I mean ,he the sugar." ak- "Oh; sugar and soap? Going to he make a plaster are you?" .y "Plaster nothing. I want the nd 'chink.' est "Chink? What's chink, pray?" tO "Why, it's 'dust.' Anybody knows >ed that." ar- "Oh, yes, excuse me. Get the brush i.n over there." his ''Tisn't that kind I want. It's *rocks?'" in- "Well, there's dust in rocks, Isn't there?" an- "Won't you never catch on?" ex lu- claimed the young man. "I wan't .u the 'duff,' the 'wherewithal' don't you know; the 'rhino,' the 'boodle,' plain, th- ordinary every day cash, pop, that s what I want." s "Oh," exclaimed the father in a tvd greatly relieved tone; "here's a quar ter," and that's all the young man on- got.-Free Press. - th. attention and Memd.. It d R A good memory is so very useful i and desirable a thing that persons . who profess to teach artificial systems of memorizing easily obtain attention ;he and profitable patronage; but there is a really no such thing as an "artificial nd memory," or even an artificially-as of sisted memory. Many people would ore undoubtedly have better memories to than they now have if, in their youth or in their past life, they had under stood the simple physiological prin eiples upon which the memory is founded. The most important part te, of the memory is the stowing away of ree things, not the bringing of them Ds; forth again; and, if peonle are care lis- ful. during the period of life which au- is chiefly occupied in stowing away Of things' to do this work with atten tion and thoroughness, and if they :he are able in after-life to keep them ith selves in a fairly good state of health id- and vigor, they are not likely to be es troubled with poor memory. The Los- first and most .imsogasL element'df go memory isthe taking of an impres as sion in such a way that it is likely tC ns.~ be retained; the more sharp and vivid the this Impression is made, the more ing permanent it is likely to be. Atten om tion in taking in what we wish to in- learn, then, is the secret of remem ter bering it afterwards. ius Harry. tfl If the habit of hurry is inimical to ity valuable work, it is equally so to a en valuable character. Begun, as it n usually is, in the daily employment, it soon becomes a habit of life. In Ssensibly we come to eat and drink in all a hurry, and so ruin our digestion or. the gans; to take our amusements in a to hurry, and so ruin their recreative effect; to think in a hurry, and so ar rtive at false conclusions; to converse ain a hurry, and so lose all the fine oft flavor of other minds. Hurry is the s- enemy of self-control, of manliness, isof dignity. There never was a greater mistake than to imagine that it add ls- to one's Importance by showing how r numerous and pressing one's duties ae and responsibilities are. It merely Lshows that, whatever they may be, efl one is not equal to them-that one is ~id- not master of the situation. Emer sson says, "Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities. A gentleman makes no noise, a lady is serene. The Jove of beauty is merely the love of measure or propor rh ion. The person who screams, or og' uses the superlative degree, or con or,' verses wihhet is quickly left ht alone." rm Women to work the Switches. In Holland, where a good deal o1 alcoholic liquor is taken-in conse quence perhaps of tne temptation oj there being always water at hand t< out mix with it-men can no longer b4 fe." trusted to work the switches on th( the railways, and women now fill thci. ie, places. This is a slap in the face in __deed to the male sex and a great tri. umphi to the advocates of femalt labor. But we have yet to see hov the thing works. The men say that there will be looking-glasses in th< Switcn boxes and that the womer will never leave them till they hav< smoothed their last hair and settled the bow of their last ribbon, and tha1 in the meantime there will be col [isions; that when left to themselve they never have been in time for the train as passengers, and will not be 'more punctual as pointswomnen; and, finally, that if they hear their lover's wvhistle anywhere in the neighbor hood they will pay very little atten jtion to that of the locomotive. Il Ithese objections are not valid, con clude the men, "we are not Dutch, mien." Piaying for safetyi Mr. Cox-John, why do you cal that pretty type-writer of yours Mar; Ann? You told me her name wa Mabel. Mr. Fox-Well, you see, have a bad habit of speaking in m sleep, and my wife's name Is Marj Ann. -Judge. That's Wherte the Girl Generally Is. If a woman says her husband pri posed to her on his knees she is nice wcman, but her memory is fal inw. Men don't propose on thei ONE OF LIF'S SP1YSTERIES. Why Some People Pass Empty Car SeaI and Crowd Those rarutaiy Oeupied. There is one thing that has alwayb oeen more or less of a mystery to me, said a traveler to a writer for the New York Sun, "and that Is the motive that prompts some passengers in a car in which there are entirely vacant seats to tare a seat with somebody. In some cases the reason for this is simple enough;'It may be that the person takes the first seat he comes to and is satisfied; it may be that the vacant entire seats are at the other end of the car aund not seen at a casual glance; sometimes a person unaccustomed to travel rather timidly takes the first seat: but the person that I have in mind is the one who either deliberately, or with what one might call deliberate thoughtlessness, takes a seat with somebody when there are vacant en tire seats i . plain sight. I have seen, for Instance, a muan sitting by a win dow, alone in a seat, in a car in which there was plenty of room, reading. Knowing that there was plenty of room he had perhaps sort of pre-empted that seat, and was making himself comfortable in it, and was thinking of nothing but his reading. Along comes a rather stout lady, who, though there ib more room elsewhere, for some to me uk terly incomprehensible reason, de. cides that she wants to sit in thai particular seat. She moves silently. She halts in the aisle at the end of the seat, and slowly moves in so that she can sit down. She says nothing to the man. She does not even look at him; she has not looked at him since the moment that she decided to take that seat, and he is as yet unconscious of her presence. Look ing straight ahead with great calm ness, she sits down deliberately. Then the man looks around with a pained sort of look. He moves closer to the window and goes on reading, but he won't regain his inward com posure for an hour. Now why the lady should have taken that par ticular seat is one of the things that I don't understand." A' Valuable Metal. The discovery of deposits of plat inum in this country would be as welcome as the finding of a diamond mine. At present the metal costA nearly half as much as gold, having risen greatly in price within the last three years. It is absolutely Indis. pensable for many purposes, being non-corrosive and resisting acids, It is utilized for chemical apparatus, scientific instruments and incandes cent lamps. There is some platinum in the beach sanas of Oregon, but not enough to pay for mining. Sma.1 quantities of it have been discovered recently in the copper mines of Can ada, where it occurs in a new com bination with arsenic . Two-thirds of the world's supply of platinum comes from two Siberian mines in the Urai Mountain metal is obtained the&~& a by pro dactotf1Thinn. The mining is done by scoopin gholes ithe ground to a depth of fifteen feet and then burrowing, rat fashion, I lld loads of earth are required to -yield ffteen pounds of platinum. The big- - gest nugget -ever found was about the size of a tumbler. Now the gold is getting scarce and the laborers have been drawn off to build the great Transiberian Railway. Hence the Increased cost of platinum, which, unless new deposits are found, is likely never to be cheaper than it is at present. Mrothers and Sisters in PontUes. The sex which is first in the Sun day school and last in the jail, which is most strongly represented at church, and at prayer meetings, and at mis sionary meetings, and most feebly represented in the liquor saloons and oacco snops or the laud, which Qoes the least of the world's preaching and the most of its practicing, which makes a poor figure in a battle be- -- tween Christian nations and a splen did figure in a battle between right and wrong-such a sex forms a very large part of the power that makes for righteousness. To turn this purifying stream away from politics is equivalent to asserting that politics has no need of righteousness&i -Wives and Daughters Etug of Ail Racing Mascots. - A peculiar Instance of the bold - which superstitious belief has on alli classes of racing men is furnished in the long line of blind beggars who line the entrances to each of tbe big local race tracks. Many racing men old that as a gilt-edged mascot the blind man has -no peer on earth. Those among them who would noc give a cent to save their own fathers from starvation cannot leave the blind beggar empty-handed. The beggars who have suffieent lnterest with the race-track owners to ge tand outside jthe gates reap hand. ~ some returns, and in one season can realize enough to keep them in comn fort through the win ter.-New York World. ________ Bow to Takce Away fie Concelt.I If you wish to take the conceit out of a peacock pull out his tail feathers, g fnd as soon as he finds the glory of Ihis plumage gone he becomes the humblest, most subdued and ashamed looking bird that ever walked the earth, A peacock In full feather is so vain and conceited as sometimes to be reaLlly troublesome. Not satis fled withi squaliing -at the top of his discordant voice, and with parading himself through' the yard and up and down the walks with expanded plum age, he will attack cats, dogs and - even children, and has been known te seriously injur'e smrall toys or girls that were incautious enough to yen. ture within his reach. Plucking his Stail feathers, however, causes all his courage to evaporate. He will sneak around the yard like a whipped spaniel, will keep out of sight as much as possible, ar d you will hear nothing of him and see very littleuon til his plumage has again grown. Gobe-Democrat.~ aA IAN In love is the dur~e of hi~ swn fnmagination, and when marriam( shows him his goddess is a mor tal, he