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In Unknowi Labrador, the Lone La Tl p Bv Wi fate of Leonidas T briefly some of the has the hardihood t tmmmmmmrn tion in the Labara although seen by tl any other quarter o by daring navigator bleak, desolate, and forbidding r and heroism for the adventurous This strange, rugged, and ie Middle and South Atlantic States , Externally, Labrador is forbiddiii; in a large measure, accounts for i explorers. From a scenic point c T Her bays, islands, rivers, giganti always prove intensely intercstii delights in the grand and picture The interior of Labrador ha feet above s:a level, the fcothill these foothills at intervals alor.g many of wnich resemble the fior Of these, perhaps the iroet John's. This bay is between or long. . Great towering cliff? mor< on either hand. Glistening care: caverns lure one to explore then It is hardly probable that tl others from undertaking further Labrador is not nearly so well knowledge possesred by poograr stories of Eskimo?. Indians and - ?? -? - < < T XO ICilU iu itui.'Uij i i? i r.i ? The lesson cf their fete wiil The Labrador explorer should r sufficient emergency rat'"'"; to ci life risks. Guns and fishing tat seasons for food supplies, and he sooner or later. Had Hubbard realized this t have had a less tragic cndinc. ship and privation wan snT?red o will prove a valuable object 'esroi future day the wilds of the Lafcr< Selfishness < of 0 A Warning Aguinnt L By Bretsident battle lines of t! T conquests of peace i of scientific and inu mbmI of the Captains and no less than in oui jSggjjjg? scouting tend to cr< more fundamental r If wealth and dominion are source of National strength instc a false reliance. And it is an achieved wealth or dominion wil and remaining with the empty I they deemed themselves most p power there is apt to come a re ment of the means of industrial makes industrial ease the goal ai In almost every age of scien dogmas oy which discipline was : of tbe law mitigated by the pr< people, having lost certain outv deemed essential abandons the aoCorl tal-cc un a -npw nhiloSODh ? VOIVU, IU nvw w f w g . m ( merely because its weak points and ere the change is fuller reali: glory a thing of fi'-ie past. Our chief danger conies fro where ve are imperfectly prepar stituted and trained that the reli mercy of blind passion, but it ma blind spirit of selfish calculation. The- whole course of events i lay men open to this temptation, fundamental standard of right co: our unchecked animal instincts t" evil?political, social, or commer the permanent prosperity of our i acceptance of selfishness as a ba Melancholy Russia a Weak Nation By Am ^general Russian 1: Ting in many respec frivolity dominant a rnmmmtmm* ing the lower clasi calamity, a deep ur SSGui^E* is a marked charact antry. They seem without exception are in the mir charge ! with vague dread of son of the foreign journals, and the niinwprt to enter the empi / y<*pv* o %?*w .. ? in repressing unfavorable comm< going wrong in the Crimea. . J defeats of the Alma and Inkern and the destruction of the Russu case in Russian wars, came utt v everywhere one heard hints an< high places; of money which ou plies, but which had been expeni the Breda quarter at Paris. Then it was that there was 1 powerful as she seems when vie when viewed from the inside. T nesses resulting from autocraeynot one of the most highly endo lions of people?there was nowl great nation, as, for instance, ol Germans against France in 1813 and afterward, and of the Amer certainly many noble characters the condition of things; but ther class having been long kept in t which patriotism could take holf Had Seen Forty-two Revolutioi Thirty years ago, when vis Santc- Domingo in an official capa he was taken in hand by a n appointed minister, who undertoc show him around. Coming to courtway of a prominent buil< the guide pointed to a doorway remarked, as complacently as i t were indicating the name of a sti "Thris where our last Emp was shot." !n the course of his sojouri came upon an agea man, heli high esteem by the community cause he had been witness of a < exceptional number of revolut and lived to tell the tale. "How many have you seen?" isitor asked. "Forty-two," the patriarch mo i America. nd of the North, Leas Fl^plored ian Africu. illard Glazier. Hubbard in Labrador leads me to present conditions which confront the explorer who o break from the coast and attempt oxplorsdor Peninsula?the vast Lone Land, which, tie Cabots in 1497, is today less known than f North America. The coast has been sailed j s for more than four hundred years, yet the | nysterics of the interior still baflle the skill pioneer who has the courage to face them, e-fringed peninsula has an area equal to the or of Fngland. France, and Austria combined, if not repulsive, and t^is condition, perhaps ts having been so long neglected by American if view, however. Labrador has much to offer, c waterfalls and snow-capped mountains will ;g to the tourist ami student of nature who sque. s been found to be a tableland about. 1500 s of which reach down to the sea. Piercing the 1.100 miles of coast Jine are deep inlets tls of Norway and Sweden, striking is Nakva!;. l.lf.O miles north of St. 0 and two miles in Width and twenty mi ire r* than 1.500 feet 'high jut out into the water tries tumble over their sides, and mystifying i. lie c v'apsc of ?'i - Hubbard party will det r oxnlc*ation wieh rlmilar purpose.*;. Central known g? equatorial Africa and the h'trla ?h *.-5 is chiefly d-rived from the unro'inble fur tra-'ert. Those conditions arc sufficient -Tubbard and Wallace failed to accomplish.. hardly be inner d by those who fellow them. ic: or.1;- fc? we'll equipped. but slioud carry nab'.c i in to carry fcrwsr 1 his work without k!? cannot be saf ly open at certain > who estimates differently vi'l <emo to grief he story of his undertaking would coubt'oss It is unfortunate Indeed that so much hardihhcut hwncdiste benefit: but his experience i to those who nay plan to penetrate at some tdor Peninsula. bz t V I\ wi &R !tsr Modem Life. and RnthuHia?m. A. V. Had ley, of Vale. tie nineteenth century have engaged in the is well as of war. The boasts ol' the leaders lustrial iwogress are no less loud than those Kings. In our assemblies and our markets r armies and our navies the tumult and me cwd out the remembrance of things that are ind more essential. t % made a primary object, and are trusted as a ad of its consequence or evidence, they prove unfortunate fact that very few nations have ;hout suffering loss of faith and enthusiasm, rusk of greatness at the very moment when lowerful. For along with the acquisition of laxing of discipline. Along with the achieveease there comes a philosophy of life which id end of human effort. tific progress and material prosperity the old supported are undermined and the old terrors agress of scientific criticism; until many a corks of an ancieht faith which were once whole ground on which that ancient faith y of life which scenis stronger than the other have not been sp fully examined and tested, zed finds its real power destroyed and its real in trusting to the work of reason in places ed for its operation. Most of us are so conexation of discilpine will not leave us at the ly leave us at the mercy of an aimost equally n the nineteenth century has been such as to The attempt to make human selfishness the aduct is as disastrous as the attempt to make he standards of right conduct.. Almost every rial?which constitutes a serious menace to country can b > traced directly to our tolerant sis of morality. of Russia. When Viewed From the Irmicie. 1rew D. White. ife, as I thus saw it, while intensely interestits, was certainly not cheerful. Despite the imoag the upper class and fetishism controllScs. there was especially in that period of idertone of melancholy. Melancholy, indeed, :eristic of Russia, and, above all, of the peassad even in their sports; their songs almost ior key; the whole atmosphere is apparently le calamity. Despite the suppression of most blotting out of page after page of the newsire, despite all that the secret police could do jnt. it became generally known that all was Jews came of reverse after reverse; of the lan, and, as a climax, the loss of Sevastopol in fleet. In the midst of it all, as is ever the er collapse in the commissariat department; I finally detailed stories of scoundrelism in ight to have been appropriated to army supJed at the gambling tables of Homburg or in borne in upon me the conviction that Russia, wed from the outside, is anything but strong i 'o say nothing of the thousand evident weak-1 -the theory that one man, and he, generally, wed, can do the thinking for a hundred millere the slightest sign of any uprising of a I the French against Europe in 1792, of the and in 1870, of Italy against Austria in 1859 icans in the civil war of 1861. There were ^n Russia, and these must have felt deeply, e being no great middle class, and the lower ?esotted ignorance, there seemed no force on I?The Century. ns. | ly replied. iting It appears that when a boy the old icity, man had seen Louis XVI. and Marie ewly Antoinette carried to the guillotine. ?k to Emigrating to Santo Domingo, the the . tale of revolutions rapidly ran up till ding. i it exceeded forty.?Cornhill Magaand zine. f he reet: German "Hello Girls." ?eror ! The four thousand telephone girls i be in Germany are government employi jn ees. Each must be of good chafacter - be- an<* live in a respectable family. The juiie P&y 53 1-2 cents a day, with an adtions vance of 'six cents in two years, and those four years in serving secure tbe seventy-one cents a day. Applicants for those positions usually wait two dest- years for an opening. : ST. LOUIS NEW YOR: :: FAIR I Addison Steele, After a ' . at Many Feature; JtOJC R. ADDISON STEELE, a J L well-known newspaper and g "1C7T ? magazine writer, of New 2 IVI 8 York, recently spent a week ^ S at the World's Fair. Returning home, he wrote the following appreciative aecount of his impressions for Brooklyn Life, which should convince any reader that it is worth his while to see this greatest of expositions: In the expressive language of the day, St. Louis "has the goods," I had expected much of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. for I had kept in touch with the making of it from its very inception, five years ago; but after nearly a week of journeying through this new wonderland I must confess that in every essential particular it is far beyond my expectations. The biggest and best it was meant to be and the biggest and best it is. The exposition, rumors notwithstanding, is quite finished. Those who imagine that the Columbian Exposition remains the last word in the way of a world's fair should remember PAL that eleven years have rolled by since Chi- | cago invited all the nations of the earth to come within her gates. These having been years of remarkable progress the mere fact that it is up to date would place the Louisiana Purchase Exposition ahead of not only the Columbian Exposition of 1893 but the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900 ?the only other world's fair of the period mentioned. The great development of horseless vehicles, certain wonderful advances in the field of electricity, the wireless telegraph, the submarine boat and the practicable flying machine?all of which' are special features at St. Louis?are, for instance, matters of the period since the Chicago event. To my mind, however, the one distinctive feature which places it ahead of all other world's fairs is the <5omprehensive Philippine exhibit. Ahead also of any previous showing are the individual buildings of eight of the foreign nations and, talking everything into consideration, the architectural and landscape gardening achievements are greater?as they ought to be with the world older. One of the.greatest, and certainly one of the most agreeable, of my many surprises was the supreme beauty of the main group of huildinas. For the simple reason that the camera does not exist which could take in the vast picture as the eye sees it, the early views of the group?a bit here and a bit there?gave a scant idea of the scheme as a whole. Nor did the t-ariv Views of the ten individual buildings which make up its component parts do justice to their nobility of architecture and general grandeur. Then again in the ground plans and bird's-eye sketches?the only possible msnnor of showing it?the fan-shaped arrangement of this group looked- stiff and unsatisfying. Far from that it is quite as remarkable in its way as the famous Court of Honor of the Columbian Exposition. In one respect it is even more notable, for instead of two grand vistas it offers a dozen. The main vista is. of course, the one looking up the Plaza of St. Louis ? whose GOLDEN CHA:NS. M. Max Regis Wore Golden Handcuffs ' For Years. It will be remembered, says the Westminster Gazette, that some years ago M. Max Itcgis was presented by a group of lady admirers with a pair of golden handcuffs, in commemoration of his arrest and imprisonment in the great cause of Nationalism. The Anti-Semite swore that he would wear the manacles as souvenir bracelets for the remainder of his life. For some time he kept his promise, and then it was observed that he had abandoned his decorative fetters. Why? Was it infidelity to the cause, or what? People wondered, and could get no satisfactory answer, until a few days ago there was a public sale of unredeemed pledges from the Mont de Piete. The mi'inn handcuffs (weighing forty-five grammes) were included In the catalogue. M. Regis having deposited them with "ma tante" to relieve a temporary indigence, and having neglected to recover them. To complete the irony of the situation, they were purchased by a Hebrew, who now wears them in the streets of Algiers and exhibits them to all his friends. Dr. Hsle an LL.U, Dr. Edward Everette Hale is now an LL. D. of Williams "College, from which his father graduated just 100 years ago. The doctor read an extract from his parent's graduating address, which dwelt with the question "Has There Been a Progressive Improvement in Society in the Last Fifty Years?" Dr. Hale jocosely remarked that a century ago the boys appeared o be wrestling with the same problems as are now discussed. I ; "HAS THE m K WRITER FINDS EEYOND EXPECTS Week at the Exposition, i?St. Louis Cool and P: crowning feature ia the great Louisiana Purchase Monument?and across the Grand Basin to the Cascade Gardens. On the ri^ht are the Varied Industries and Electricity buildings and on the left the Manufactures and Education, these?with Transportation and Machinery still further to the right and Liberal Arts and Mines beyond at the left?making up the body of the fan. For its handle the fan has the Cascade Gardens?rising in a grand terrace to a height of sixty-five feet above the floor level of the buildings mentioned and crowned by the great Festival Hall, the Terrace of States and the East and West Pavilions?and the Fine Arts building directly behind. In the architecture of the group there is no uniformity of style. The very liberal use of great columns gives the four buildings fronting on the Plaza and Basin a certain architectural kinship, but the Mines building, with its two huge obelisks ' - T- ? 1. ,1 ,?l. ana somewnai r.gypuan usut-ci, mc mui.iiturreted and belfried Machinery building; the highly ornate Transportation building, with its gigantic arches and pylons, and ; V ? : /: . , ' V> - '.? .: v . X , . V-. ; ; y--'Z?\ - SJlaraBBwifTlB m" ACE OF MIXES AND MET ALL UK % the Romanesque Liberal Arts building have pronounced individuality. Yet in the general picture all these buildings blend finely. Xor is there any clashing in the case of the French Ionic style of tne buildings of Cascade Gardens. Twelve handsome bridges across the waterways, which form a figure eight by running from the Grand Basin around the Electricity and Education buildings, further contribute to the architectural spiendor of the scene. Rows of fine, large maples set off the buildings in the main vista, adding immeasureably to the beauty of the picture and furnishing one of the many demonstrations of the superiority of this exposition in the matter of landscape gardening. There are also many trees to set off the other buildings of the group, shrubbery and small trees have been used in profusion around the entrances and the bridges and there are handsome sunken gardens in two places. The landscape treatment of Cascade Hill is similarly fine. * * The Philippine section covers no less than forty-seven acres, has 100 buildings and some 75,(XX. catalogued exhibits, and represents an outlay of over a million dollars. A week .could easily be spent theie to advantage. Entrance to the section is free, but twenty-five cents is charged to go into each of the four native villages, which are intensely interesting. The villages run along Arrowhead Lake, and the inhabitants all have sonic way of entertainiug their visitors. The Igorottes, who Wear as little clothing as the law of even savage lands allow; bontocs, Tinganues and Suyocs are in one village; the lake-dwelling lloros and Hogobos in another; the black Negritos in the third and the civilized Yiscayans, who have a Catholic Church and a theatre, in the fourth. As a matter of education this great encampment of the "little brown men" is one thing that no American can afford to miss. Eight of the numerous buildings of forONE hUNDRED FOR AN ECC. An Indian Game Fowl That U Very Valuable. Not often does the price of a single egg climb to $100, but this is what was offered for each of the eggs of a certain Indian game hen, which was brought to England some time ago. For centuries the Indian game, or Azeel fowls, have been the very apex of the game breed, for the pureness of blood and pedigree have been most carefully preserved for so long that the date of the origin of the race has bees lost in the past. Tf le olmnct imnnsethlp to nfOClirp specimens of the purest blood, for they are treasured by the Indian sportsman at the highest value. As game fowl they are great fighters. Those who have seen them in India ? for the finest birds never reach our coldei climates?tell of their prowess and ungovernable tenacity in battle. With them it is always victory or death. In America, however, the game fowls are seldom raised for lighting purposes, lut for show, and as pets and hobbies of poultry fanciers.?Country Life in America. A Mmlrat EnglUhraiui. Like the traditional Englishman, Arthur Stanley, Dean of Westminster, wore home from his first visit to America an expression of amazement which only time could effac?. He was at once beset by interviewers, who asked the usual questions. "What was the thing which most impressed you in America?" was one of these. Without a moment's hesitation Dean Stanley replied: "My own ignorance." ?Argonaut. J GOODS.*' iA WORLD'S iTIONS Expresses Amazement rices Reasonable. eign nations would alone form an exposition worth the journey from New York to St. Louis. Germany's building, Das Deutsche Hans, is a reproduction of Cbarlottenburg Schloss, 450 feet long and finely located on an eminence overlooking Cascade Gardens. The interior as well as the exterior is a faithful reproduction of the Jialace; Gobelin tapestries, {he old Charottenburg furniture and the Kaiser's wedding silver having been bfought over for the superb anartnients. Nearly a mile to the westward France has reproduced, at a cost of half a million dollars, the Grand Trianon, the building and great garden covering fifteen acres. Great Britain has a copy of the banouetin^r hall of Kensington Palace; .Japan, the Shudiinden Palace, one of several buildings in a characteristic park, and China, the country seat of Prince Pu Lun. Italy has a superb Graeco-Roman temple. Austria an architectural glorification of Moderne Kunst, and Belgium a magnificent structure from an original design. lesser reproduction of note are the tomb oT Ktmad-Dowlah, by East inUia, ana the new Bangkok temple, by Siam. . * > '? . ' . r ' " ' ' ; V vVv j .. f *4 'S: ' ;GY. The Pike has in the Tyrolean Alps the finest concession that I have ever seen. There is a great square with many quaint buildings, a little village street, and above the snow-clad mountains?which look veiy real as the evening falls. The best scenic railroad yet devised affords several fine glimpses of the Alps, and there is a very graphic exposition or the Oberammergau passion play in the little church. The Cliff Dwellers' concession also looks very realistic at nightfall. It is elaborate in arrangement, end the courtipg, snake and other dances by the Southwestern Indians make it another of the Pike shows which should be taken in by all. In Seville there is an amusing marionette theatre and some ?:enuine Spanish dancing. For the rest the 'ike offers infinite variety, and as a rule the full money's worth is given. The enormous Jerusalem and Boer War concessions are not on the Pike. It is a case of dine at the German Pavilion and die at the Exposition. Is a beautiful Moderne Kunst building adjoining Das Deutsche Haas the best tood and the highest prices on the grounds arc to be found, the table d'hote lunch and dinner costing $2 and $3. respectively. There is also a la carte service. Everything considered the prices are not excessive, and at least one meal should be taken there for the experience. Another should be taken at the Tyrolean Alps, either outdoors or in the gorgeous dining room in the mountainside. The best French restaurant is at Paris, on the like. Lower in prices and in every way admirable are the two restaurants conducted by Mrs. Rorer in the pavilions of Cascade Gardens. The east one 1 has waitresses and no beer and the west one waiters and beer. For a bit of lunch Germany, France and England all offer delicious pastry in the Agricultural building. These are not free ads., but time-saving tips for the traveler. There are no end ol restaurants to fit all purses on tHe grounds. THE SILENCE OF BUTTERFLIES. This Insect Represents a Truly Silent World. After all, the chief charm of this race of winged flowers does not lie in their varied and brilliant beauty, not yet in their wonderful series of transformations, in their long and sordid caterpil lar life, their long slumber in the chrysalis, or the very brief period which comprises their beauty, their love making, their parentage and their death. Nor does it lie in the fact .that we do not yet certainly know whether they have in the caterpillar shape the faculty of sight or not, and do not even know the precise use of their most conspicuous organ in maturity, the antennae. Nor does it consist in this? that they of all created things have furnished man with the symbol of his own immortality. It rather lies in the fact that, with all their varied life and activity, they represent an absolutely silent world. All the vast array of modern knowledge has found no butterfly which murmurs with an audible voice and only a few species which can even audibly click or rustle with their wings.?T. W. Higgin* son, In Atlantic. The Playwright's Complaint. A popular author, who has lately turned to play writing, has not succeeded in impressing managers with the availability of his productions. Not long ago, thinking to get soure useful pointers from the current drama, he made an observation tour of the theatres. "Well," he remarked to a friend at the end of the evening, "I seem to be the only man alive who can't get a poor play put on."?Harper's We.'kly. JAPS LOSE HEAVILY Late Reports Indicate Tremendous Slaughter STOESSEL SAYS IT WAS 10,000 Official Report of the Fighting at Port Arthur From July 26th to July 23th Received at St Petersburg. St. Petersburg, By Cable.?An official report from Lieutenant General Stoessel, commanding the military forces at Port Arthur, says that the Japanese were repulsed with tremendous loss in a three days' fight from July 2Gth to July 28th. General Kuropatkin reports from Liao Yang some small Russian successes in outpost fighting up to August 8, without the expected great battle having been opened. The simultaneous receipt of favorable news from these commanders in the far East raised the spirits of those It. *ho Russian pnnital immensely. The dispatches were printed in special newspaper bulletins and were eagerly bought up on the streets. The newsboys around the depots met the returning1 crowds of Sunday plcasureseekers and shouted their wares without being reproved by the police, and thousands of St. Petersburgers went to their homes apparently satisfied that a favorable turn of affairs had commenced at the front. General Stoessel's report, though ten days old, is taken as a satisfactory refutation of the recently repeated rumors of the fall of Port Arthur. He states that the determined Japanese assaults < were repulsed with tremendous loss, and figures 10,000 as the number of Japanese killed or wounded. This is admittedly on Chinese information, which heretofore has proved to be of exceedingly doubtful value: But with Russian losses of 1,500 as a basis, the authorities here consider that 10,000 is a fairly conservative estimate, since the Japanese were beaten off in what must have been a desperate assalt on tremendously strong fortifications. The fact th^t the Japanese were not able to remove their dead and wounded is taken to prove that their defeat must have been one of great severity. The part played by the fleet bears out the prediction of the Associated Press that Rear Admiral Wlthoft is able to render efficient support to the garrison. It is considered significant that no mention is made of Vice Admiral Togo, indicating that the Japa ?_ i ? * *- > nl/1 rvp ininrft nese IS imputtrm iv am ? foe. The authorities do not. divulge the source of General Stossel's report, though it is understood that it came by way of Chefoo. The fact that the Japanese are in possession of the country as far north as Haicheng renders it unlikely that it came by the land route. General Kuropatkin's report states that the Japanese are stationary on his , eastern front, the greatest activity being on the south and southeast positions, where the Russians are able to i take the offensive. While the movements in themselves are apparently of no gre it importance, they are interesting as showing that the Japanese are still halting before undertaking the serious task of attacking Liao Yang, with its strong circle of defenses. Gen. Stoessel Claims Victory. St. Petersburg, By Cable.?Lieutenant General Stoesscll, commanding the Russian military forces at Port Arthur, in an undated dispatch to the Emperor, says: , "I am happy to report that the troops repulsed all the Japanese attacks of July 26. 27 and 28 with enormous losses. "The garrison's enthusiasm was exr traordinary. "The fleet assisted in the defense by bombarding the Japanese flank. "Our losses during the three days were about 1.500 men and 40 officers, killed or wounded. "According to statements of Chinese and prisoners, the Japanese lost at. many as 10,000. "Thaii- inacos wero so ereat that the enemy has not had time to remove the dead and wounded." Defending All Positions. Liao Yang. By Cable.?The past week has been a most dramatic and eventful one. The Japanese intend to follow up the Russians and to gain ground east and south by an attack on Anshanshan (midway between Haicheng and Yiao Yang). It is reported that the Japanese are advancing on the west, and exciting rumors are current. Though apparently beaten at every point, and though the Japanese have advanced well on the Russian flank, the Russians, in council of war, have determined to defend all their positions as heretofore. Train Strikes Trolley Car. Kansas City, Special.?An Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe passenger train /^V? Ino rrr\ OMflhoH fflfrt A U'pll IlUUi V/UtVU^V viuuitvw ? .. ? ? filled trolley car Sunday at Fifteenth street, in the eastern end of the city. J. L. Morris, of Pleasant Hill, Mo., was killed and ten persons were injured, Mrs. Minnio Stanbury, of Kansas City, seriously. The .accident was caused by the crossing gates being up. Harry Black, the flagman, who was slightly hurt, says that ho was sick and unable to bring the gates into position. The engine struck tho car in the middle and overturned it. Vessel in Distress. New York, Special.?The Nova Scotia ship King's County arrived Sunday in distress. The ship sailed July 21 from Pensacola for Rio De Jeniero with a full cargo of lumber. On July 28, the ship was struck by a terrific squall and hove down on her beam ends, obliging her crew to cut away spars and sails to right her The ship lost the fore and maintopgallant masts, the mizzen royal and Jibboom with sails attached. Captain Salter put into this port for repairs.