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0n0 IaflcI1,cw.r~ fterilg noinov ece Although the mljority of health-seekers turn their faces to the seacoast of South ern California or the pines of Prescott for midsummer days those who brave the heat and remain are said to derive the greatest benefit at this season. The intense heat seems to heal the lung tissue and destro3s the germs. Sufferers from kidney trouble or rheumatism also make their greatest gain In summer. While nearly every ranch in the valley stands ready, for a consideration, to open its doors to the Invalid. the best results are to be attained from tenting on the desert itself. The ranches must be irri gated at stated intervals. The desert, no man's land, is dryness itself. Although the camper. assured of squat ter sovereignty, may set up his canvas es tablishment where he will, the geustion of a convenient water supply leads him to select a site near a ranch. A quarter will pay for a barrelful of wash water hauled each week on a stone boat from the irri gation ditch. while two bits more will keep the swinging olla, or Mexican water jar, filled and provide water for cooking from some adjacer_rwelI. Other supplies are also readily obtained. The Indians bring in from the reservaticns wagon loads of mesquite and iron wood, which they retail for $1 75 or $2 a load, while the same amount will buy dry almond, fig and apri cot wood from the orchards which have died for lack of water. Faggoting parties are t.iso popular, and he who will can gather for himself the flotsam and jetsam of the desert. Fruits may be obtained at the orange groves and adjacent orchards at a reason able price and of delicious quality. The roli-call of native fruits includes oranges, grape fruit lemons, apricots. peachws, pears, pomegranates. figs. grapes, necta rines, plums, berries and melons galore. Rich Jersey milk may be obtained at the ranches for five cents a quart. butter for twenty-five cents a pound, honey-deli cious as the famed honey of Hymettis fifteen cents a pound. Ice. artificial, can be obtained at any of the towns at sixty cents a h.tidred. The markets of P'ioenix supply tne best beef and 'mutton in the world at live and let live prices. Groceries are high, owin'g to the freight rates, but the stores would be a credit to any city of New York State outside the metropolis. At accurate account of i:ving expenses kept dur;rg the last year for a family of three adults and . child showed an aver a: of $ a month ftr table expenses, S6 for water, service and laundry; oil and repairs, $2 35, and fuel. C, 5n. Whie the table expenses seem disnropor tionatey high. it nus, be borne in mind that hyper- eeding and th? generous provi sion of the most t.ourishing mea:s and f.,n?d are a !arge factor in t" recov".ry of the consumptive. For the person addicted to the use of ham. bacon and cannel goods the outlay wou:d be materially diminis:hed. Ttn:s may be rent.d for from $3 ., $ a mr.anhi. acrording to furnishing-but the majority of campers prefer to own tneir canvas homes. Thes, can h; bought in any of the larger towns, new or ,econd hand. They are all put up with sid:ng and board floors, and are usually screened from the intrusive fly-and also furnished with a fly or seconi cover. The stage settings and furnishings may be as luxurious or as simple as individual taste and the pock?t book demand. A stove, two or three chair, a dresser or makeshift-and one learns 'o 'be an expert in the matter of mak:siifts on the desert or frontier-a bowl, pitcher and pail of tin, agate or paper-these are the necessaries. Lux:ri ir. the way of fugs. hammocks. book she'ves and pillows, pillows. pillows may be added ad lib. When light housekeeping is carried on-and this is the general scheme-cooking utensils, dishes. a screen cupboard and an icebox must be added to the list. A horse and some soi. of cart or wagon are esteemed essen!Ial parts of one's out-1 There is a ,'armher living just north of Evanston a;' a book agent somewhere in the cosmop an desert of Chicago, each of whom . s that he is the victim of a cruel ci mstance, says the Chicago Chronicle. Last week the farmer had a note from a nephew to say that the boy would visit the farm on Thursday. Uncle and nephew had not met for fifteen years, and the old man drove to the station in his most comfortable coat, that he might welcome his sister's only child. But the young man failed to come. After wait ing until the last passenger had disap peared the old man drove away, disap pointed. The book agent entered into the drama tis personae early the next morning. Looking over the top rail of the barn yard gate he called, "Hello, uncle." The book agent never got such a recep tion before in all his life. The farmer flung the gate wide open, seized the agent's hand, and pressed a whiskered kiss on the ironclad cheek. "Say, this must be Heaven," murmured the agent, following the farmer into the house and explaining that everybody at home was as well as could be ex pected. Not till the agent was full of a boiled dinner and attempting to sell a book did the farmer begin to see a dim light. Charged with impersonating the missing nephew, the agent explained that he greeted all -elderly strangers as "uncle:" that he even had a few almost real ones in South Clark street in Chicago. When last seen by the farmer the agent was still running, and when the real nephew does come he may' find an electric current in the latch-string. WRBEA T JN KAiSAS. Thousands of Bushels Piled on the Open .-od Walit>g for Trancporlation. For the first time in its history, says Leslie's Weekly, Kansas has more wheat than it knows what to do with. Not only are -the granaries and bins running over with grain, but the elevators are filled and the farmers are still bringing it 'to markdt by hundreds of thousands of bushels. The long dry weather was, in'a sense, a boi:anza for wheat raisers. Much of the grain was so heavy that it .fell to the ground and would have been lost had there been wet weather. But with the long hot, clear days every straw could be gathered. most of the farmers running the threshing machines into the field and haul ing 'the grain from the shocks to the ma eh:ne. Tne grain has 'all been of the best quality and the yield from 'twenty -to thirty-live bushels per acre. Not less than 8.00,>','X5' bushels will 'be gathered. and the high price is giving the farmers a tine in come. As the strings of wagons came to mar ket in the wheat belt the railraads were swamped. They could not furnish cars and the eleva:ors were soon filled to over flowing. Even in the small stations 'twenty to -thiity teams were waiting to be un loaded all day through the lat'ter part of the threshing. The ouyers finally began iing :he grain on the ,rarie. Great heaps o :l to i,i00 bush,as have been stored on -the ope'n sI1d and there they will remain urtil such tim:"" as cars can he secured in which to ship the grain. The sun does not hurt it. no one can steal it and so little rain fails during the summer that there is practically no danger from that source. Some enterprising huyers have secured circus 'tents and placed them over the piles, making curious features of the prairie landscape. The Boston Transcript (Rep) points out that the demand for the ship subsidy scheme docs not proceed from the alleged beneficiaries theory. "Subsidy or no sub sidy, the ship building interests of the country do not appear to be in a languish ing condition," remarks the Transcript. "The law of supply and demand does not cease its operations to await legislation, and just now the ship builders do not seem to be worrying much about the future." The real benefits would be confined to a limited clique. which, with the assistance of the politicians, are making all the de mand. n ma o ..Cut"d to JL two-Inc l a: tic k,,ot. T._. if sold at all, 4. be of the batswing shape. For evening wear there is a new tie. It is cut perfectly straight and has square ends. It is of uniform width throughout. When tied it shows a square, flat centrepiece and the ends stand out straight and come to the edge of the shirt bosom. In clothes I find indications which point to the usual fight of the tailors to force new fashions. In the first place, we will have the annual cry for color in evening dress and for the freedom from blacks and whites in day dress. All of Lnis I do not think will amount to much. The best tailor, are making trousers rather wide, but avoiding the peg-top form. The trous ers are about seventeen and one-half inches at the knee and fifteen and one half at the bottoms. They will hang per fectly straight from the hips. For even ing dress the white waistcoat will be given a very prominent place. These will be made both single and double-breasted and will have buttons covered with the ma.te rial of which the waistcoat is made. In evening dress coats there will be no change worth recording. That garment is a staple fixture and it seems impossible to Improve upon the existing standard. The frock coat will be practically the same as last year: The evening jacket will not be made at all by smart tailors. It is now a ready made. "Cheap John" article, and may be banished entirely from the wardrobe of a gentleman. A new coat something like the evening jacket will be made. It will have a breast and side pockets and silk-faced shawl collar and will close with two but tons. These coats are designed for home and club wear and are worn with single breasted waistcoats and trousers of the same material, white shirts, black ties and either lace or button shoes. They're just handy dress coats to wear down to dinner or to hang aroun.4 the house or club in. NOVELTIES IN DRESS. One of the best tailors on the avenue will introduce several novelties this com ing autumn. One of these is an evening suit made of dark gray cloth. The collar is of the shawl pattern, faced with gray silk. The trousers and waistcoat are made of the same material as the coat. The suits are designod for wear at stag affairs. about hotels and clubs and for the theatre when women are not to he in the party. Another new idea is a house suit. It will be made of a heavy rep silk and lined with silk. The colors are very brilliant. The trousers are made like pajama trous ers and fasten about the waist with a broad bit of ribbon. with large silk tassels at the ends. The coat is cut douhle-breast ed and has large pockets. The suit may he worn with a siik shirt. It is just for Wear in one's room. In overcoats the long Chesterfields and the skirted coats will lie very popular. The skirted coat will he warn in the evening as well as during the. ay. Those are cut like the "'radnclk" and have well flared skirts. The "Raglan" will only be in rain proofs and in coverts. The covert coat will be very popular. It will be cut full and quite short. Sack suits will be made on lines that, while conforming to the lines of the body, do not accentuate them. The military j:cket is passe. The nw jackets will be loose and will have perfectly straight backs. In shoes the principal departure is in the shape of the toe. The latest model snows the flat last with the outswung sole, but the tip is brought in to a much narrower point than last year's model. Low shoes will be worn during the autumn and on pleasant days during :he witer. but many look upon the lo. she. as a nore winter fad. The patent i-ather shes with kid tcps will be the formal footwear. Shoes will be very plain for dress, and quite elaborately trimmed for neglige and busi r:ructr!- # ~nLers. On tli ,unair the mass ac' setts Institut of Technology held examinations in London for the young Englishmen of scientific tastes, who, to learn what they wanted to fit them for the scientific world, found their only re course an American school. And, in the field of medicine, four distinguished physi clans and surgeons of this country are now touring the world at the req-:est of foreign doctors who are anxious to learn accurately of the advances of this branch of the science in the New World. Out of many significant instances these have been picked. The number might be greatly added to, with only the advantage of emphasizing the point. That which has the rhost pronounced is. however, the turn ing of the tide. Thirty years ago. 'and even well onto very recent years. the American student of any kind of science found it a part of his education to go to the schools abroad for as long a period as his pocket book could stand. His education was not thought complete till then. And it was not, for scientiic training in this country was not formed. Now the student has no need to go. As he takes his degree he is far beyond what the schools of Europe teach. And year following year, in in creasing numbers, young Europeans are coming over here to grasp the training that our universities are giving and to absorb the technique and the thorough practicalness that are making American scientists masters of men. "Adapted" was the word Prof Menden hall used in speaking of European meth ods and the Ame'can universites, "rather than adopted." But it has been very much more than that. Brushing traditions aside thesc in.stitutions of learning went long ago to the root of the matter. Year by year they have been building up their equipment, strengthening their courses. Questions of finance and whether it would all pay they have politely laughed at. Money was needed for this and for that. Well. the chefs would see that i, was ob tained. Machinery was necessary. A: once the great manufacturers were laid under contribution, and they sent as gifts nmachines worth thousands. The technical school pr'sidents knew how to arouse the sympathetic under standing of men of means and fore thought. Benefactors for this and for that crowded in. their gifts were chronicled in the news of the day, commented upon as vast, the ligures added up and admired. But no one saw the significanoe. Year after year students came out of courses of engineering, of medicine and surgery, of chemistry, of electricity, of marine engineering, of agricultt're and forestry and went Into workaday life. Hlitherto the scientifi college man had not been held in very high regard. Manu facturers had wanted men who had grown up in shops. "practical" they called them, no "hook learning fellows, who were all theory and clean clothes and hands." But even the most old fashioned soon came to appreciate that. these "fellows," too, came from "shops." "shops" in the colleges that had a wider variety of machinery in act ual usP than could ever be found in a single factory. They grew to see that the new "theory man" was broader, of more intelligence, willing to learn about a case in point and able to grasp it more quickly. They devised economies and improvement whenever they were given a chance. They could make one man do the work of two. The old time foreman was a child before them. Then, one after another. the far seeing manufacturers chuckled. They had bridged the gulf between capital and labor and found real master workmen. They gave these men more swing and power and kept on the lookout for more youths from :he technical schools. They came to sr-e that the product from these institu tions was getting better every year. The technical schools and universities had won their point. They realized the growing demand for their m6:.. They Ire doubled their efforts, added to their couraes, consulted with the greatest and entire crew were as docile as could be wished, devoted to their brlght command er and his beautiful wife. Then at Venice came orders to proceed to Galatz and load wheat for home. Great was the glee of the girl-wife. She would see 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 wi:h joy as the blue sky above them seemed welling over with sunlight. Wind and weather favored them; nothing occurred to cast a shadow over their happiness until, nearing Cape Malea at that fatal hour of the morning, just before dawn. when more collisions occur than at any other time. they were run into by a blundering Gre;k 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 the overwhelm ing flood, the hiss and roar of escaping steam, the suffocating embrace of death. In that dread tight for life all perished but one-he so lately the happiest of men-the skipper. Instinctively clinging to a piece of wreckage, he had been washed ashore under Cape Malea at the ebbing of the scanty tide, and his strong physique, reasserting itself, enabled him to climb those rugged battlements and reach the plateau. Here he was found gazing seaward by some goatherds, who, in search of their nimble-footed flocks. had wandered down the precipitous side of the mountain. They endeaeored to persuade him to come with them back to the world, but in vain. He would ive. gratefully accepting some of their poor provision, but from that watching p.ace he would not go. And those rude peas ants, understanding something of his woe, sympatt1ized with him so deeply that without payment or hope of any they helped him to build his hut and kept him supplied with such poor mor sels of food and drink as sufficed for h:s stunted needs. And there. wi:h his gaze fixed during all his waking hours upon that Inscru table depth .wherein all his bright hopes had suddenily hein quenched. he lived un:il quite reren1L years. 'ih world for getting. iy ihe wn,i forgot.' a living monument of c.tts aic nl ;Ptient. un -mplnipiiing grief.. ly his humb.e friends, whose languad. he never leartne, he was regardt as a saint. and when one day hey cani upon his lifeless b.dy, fallen forward ipin its knees at a little glazed wind,uw tlroiugih which he was vont to ok u;n'i the sea wir' his dear one lay, tey ,.' t cntirmed itn : h ir ,pi on ,,f the sa.tity of he hermit of Cape Malca. L2YCOL.'s BIRTHPLACE To be Utilized ac nn Asylum for JInc"hri:ltes. Down in the Blue Grass re ion of Ken tucky. on the same farm where Abraham Lincoln was i,orn an. spent hi- boyhood days, says the h'iti'.go Tribtn. the St Luke's Society. of ('hicagl. is to estab lish a home for the inr"hriat-s " -the South. A large hotel, small cot:ag's and com modious dwellings -i!il he erected by the soeiety, and. thr^ the land is in the iouth, the negro will b-: nad as wu'"one as the white. The Lincoin farm is in tho town of Iodgenville, iifty miles t of Louis viIie. and consists of i1' arr" of pasture land. On it is a spring of mnerai wa:r. the fame of which is g;ra: helo' the Mason and Dixon line. TIt was ownd b.y some nrominent Meh e i o South among them the R.v J. W. Pin. him. Some time ago i:s wn,irs, decild to do nate its use to charity. an. ih"y h, the St Luke's Soer y .. .i n " .:,i:ation best 6uited. to :ar:-y omtind"r plans. The farm will be turnei into o sanita rium. planned mich :er :;a now run by the society at N 's 1.71 to 1.71' Indiana avenue. On it will h- :ake"n only those who are addicted to 'ii;s. liiquors or tohaccn. The treatmer: it simlilar to that iven a: the Chi,uc lI.t p:ai. W hile thr" ollli -rs "f : h ..,i;tr are btsy trying to et thc - i:. u'n ':ttar in h:p tn' :ire~ :l: ' a: a rk :1 " tr:::': within the ('ok ' .v i . T'.1 o rr pri on era known to b v--iims of the drug, li quor or tobacon hahit are gien over to Dr Miller and his assistant. Dr La Grange. Th. latter devotes all his time to them and lives in the same quarters with them. .a a bhol est" and buried on t Boroughmui; "he Boroughmuir was th usual place c execution and burial for the worst crim, nals; it was a place of evil reputatio.n, lit tle sought during the day and much to b shunned by right. No wonder, then, that some "adventu rous spirits" were required who woul, steal to that grewsome spot, raise th hastily and none too deply buried body and cut from it the heart of Montrose The master of Merchiston was in exile it Holland; it was Lady Napier alone whr planned the night excursi.on and saw i carried out. Did her heart fair her tha May night, waiting at the foot of the tur ret stair until her messengers, returning put in her hands something not seen, bul felt, with th.e square of fine linen ai. "tricked with bloody gules?" Tl t same square of linen and the pair of stockings of "incarnate" silk showing a still darker stain have remained ever since among the treasured possessions of tie Nupair fa::i ily. For a time, then. the heart was safe at Merchiston. It was embaincd and in closed in a little steel case made of the blade of Montrose's sword: the case was placed in a fine gold Sligree box which had belonged to John Napier, the inven tor of logarithms; and the box in its turn I was deposited in a silver urn. Before very long, however. Lady Napier dispatched the casket by some faithful hand to the young Marquis of Montrose. who, with Lord Napier and others of the connection. was still living in exi: in Hol land, and here begins the first part of its adventures, of which, unfortunately, no record now remains. For many years the heart was complete ly lost sight of. and any hope of ever re gaining it had long been given up, when a friend of the Napier family recognized the -old tiligree box enclosing the steel case among a collection of curiosities in Hol land. He purchased the relic at once and returned it to Merchiston, at that time the property of Francis, the fifth Lord Napier. There for a second time the heart rcposed, hut not for long. On the death of the fifth Lord Napier it passed into the k"eping of his 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, and all their household goods, when their ship, which formed part of the fleet under Commodore Johnston. was attacked by a French trivate. and a stiff ;i,ht ensued. Mr John ston busied himself with four of the gunls unnon the quarter l:ck, while his wife. who had refused to go below. remained beside hin. a heroically obstinate figure, holding by the one hand her little boy, and in the. other a thick velvet reticule. into which I she had hurricdly,cranmed all the things she valued most, including, of iourse. tie heart. In the middle of .he :ight a splin ter struck Mrs Johnston on ihe ara, wounding her severely. Th" velvet reti cule gave little prot~ction to its precious content, an dI tile -old filigree box 's completely shattered. but the innsr stee! ease remaird unharm--r . It must have been some c~nsliation to M'rs Jobnston that. when the atnicking frigate retirt"d. the Enei.-h conmmodore left tie tags sh:p and came on board the Ird:anman to offer his thanks :iand cgrouta:on to he lidy and her husband, who had set the crew so gallant an example. Arri:, in Indil, it was eas, to find a c: c ' xr golIsmi: [1. v , cit trie;. i n.:7ir ijlizrae box itn p;ac---f : he on- rokena, a1lso a si:ver urn iike tl- oriinal. (n :h? o,j:sidC f th ie Ilrn w. e:]ngrad in tw) :a:ive dIleCts a shor. accou:t of Mon rer life .nd dn:. T u - .--n 'ame t,) be regard;"d bytmnativ . as :nmething un,anny. and th report spread that it was a aiMAn,i an.d thm, its owner wou:d nev,.r 'i wounded i tak-n hfo r, in n urn and its cin n:ii:. ._ n:>t he tracei. Mrs J' n: r. hiowe < . discover red tir -e- ime that i: . a been d for a:arz"- sum n ): money aa powerful chief in the ne:;::borh.ood o JSa t Pw r. wch is pe i a "'r:n of infect.on own-up hmnIi beings of go .ea t an stri-ng powers of resistance, but that it'is all the more destructive to the tender organism of a child or to the organism of those I grown-up persons who have weak consti tutions, or w:-o are ill-fed and, therefore, not so cap.ble of resisting infective germs." THL31YSTEIt' OF SLEEP-WALKI3G Scientists are Still Puzzled Over t:e Many Phases of it-A Charleston Physician's Experiences. (From the Cincinnati Commercial.) I"Sleep-walking is sometng bea.ter un derstood now than frmeriy, but psy ;:holugists are not thoroughly agreed in regard :o many of the phases," observed a New York physician. "One of the re cent cases, that of a young man out West walking ten miles to visit his father, and of an even more recent case, that of a young lady walking three miius on a cold night in har nigh: gown, without awak ening, upsets many of the previously ac cep:ed theories. It had been thought that exposure to intense cold as well as in tense heat would awaken the sleep-walk er. but in these cases, which are well au thenticated, it appears that this opinion, while correct, possibly, in the main, is not always so. "In my early days, when attending lec tures at a medical college in Baltimore. I, with some other nedical students, wit nessed one of the famous sleep-wallting cases that is quoted in many of the stand ard books. One night we were passing along Lexington street, where the Lex ington street market is located. One of our party called attention to a moving figure, clad in white, on the roof of the market building It proved to be that of a girl about 17 years of age. She had lost a canary bird the after noon before, which was last seen on the eaves of the roof of the market house. Darkness came on, however, before a thorough search for the bird could be made, and it was given up. The girl went to bed, and during the night left her bed and returned to the market house and and climbed to its roof. "This in itself was not a dIfficult task. for there was a series of sheds leading to it. She walked the entire length of one side of the market, along tl'e ex treme edge of the -roof. At ever; step it seemed she would step over the edge, and had she done so she would likely have been killed. "Our party divided up. and one, now the leading physician of Char:eston. S. C., climbed to the roof and seized the girl. She aw,ke the instant he :ouched her. and it was with th"- greatest difficuity that h: could keep hr-r from falling, for, while in her s:ct she appeared to be an expert, she was a very poor climber when awake. 1: was a clear case of sleep walkirg, and had she go.e ten feet farther he ;would have found the bird, which had roost"-i for 'ho nht in the raii gutter which ran along the roof, and where it was found a few minutes :rwa d. S.Iep-wa kir is much mo-re 'rc uent than is gen ra.y understood, Ough, as a rule, iti confined to chil dr,n. I have known of several cases of adutl: who would t.ke walks in their sleep as often as once a week." SlVED BY Tll f'ASONI{' SIGN. (From the American Tyler.) During the memorable raid :hat Grant's army made4, on Petersburg. Va. on April l5, whn Le's lines wre brok:n. a, young t'onf-d-ra:e officer lay on the road er: ly wouindl an..d when, without a m.m ws warni: a compa:: ' 'f*dea a ry r"e.dwards him at a full fa,c . H s Jrr : ogh.it va s ) )s'sibly there mith: 'h a Mason irrong 'm,and he gave' -ik' of distriss known ony t, Ma'aoi:e Then the Fedr. al cap:ain rode ({ :ek!v to is id, di:smrnr,: :d and part "d hcompany in "the cePinrr-. without mo ,-:n th, mn:n the,h:eet. Hie was r{?u ikly pi ke"d up,cthough a prisone, :andi kntth r%ar andi tende_rly cared for. and in :h cour of .im-. 7ntirely recov "".r. "B:s hF.:. B''her I. W. Ma-on, of Rcnkw'i. Tox, a prominent physician, is anxious to learn the name and ris: d:-ice of the officer who saved his life in an:wer to a Masonic gnt, and asks that this item be pubi'shed ir all Masonic jour