TVHt COLUMBIAN. B LOOMS B LI Rfl, FA What KB ins lb. IK: (By Kcmnctt Hurrls.) On tbo whole the people In Blb i. :riy HelnhU get along very well to. i i'.er. Hows between neighbor are i euueiit. Dut Jessup and Kllim j 1 a little misunderstanding last v nnier over a lawn mower. It has t beeu cleared up. Jessup says, j.bsup 1 a popular man, easy gO , and big-hearted. In all the time has lived In tho suburb ho hus not anything like a squabblo with a living soul except Kllng. Ha rinds something good to uay about every body. W hen he conies In ou Uio evening train every child runs to htm and breeta him like an own parent, al most more effusively. If anything, in many canes. !Io baa an Infectious laugh and nn open hand. He Is neighborly, likes to be on Rood terms with everybody. Still, he took rather a iiblike to Kllng tho firut time they met. That was In old Mrs. Kllsted'a shop Mrs. KUntjJ has a little home bak ery. She's a dear old soul and bakin the mont delicious bread and caka Imaginable. All tho women In tha Heights patronize her, but neccssar llv the patronage Is not large, as yet. The suburb la only just beginning to i;?t ts growth. Quite reasonable, too. In her prices. Hut Kllng was kiChillg. "Seven cents Is altogether too much for a loaf of bread," he said. "We've never paid more than 5 for It lu town." "I really don't make a great deal of prolit on It," said meek Mrs. Kli ted. You ought to," Bald Kllng. "The bakeries do pretty well. Some of 'em sell two loaves for 5 cents. I wouldn't mlud paying 5 but 7 1b ex orbitant." Mrs. Kilsted's withered cheeks fluolied. "The ladita generally say that my bread la much better than thu ordinary baker's bread," she said. "I dou't Bee It." said Kllng, look ing In a disparaging manner at the loaf he held. "It doesn't seem to me to be full weight even." Then, Boeing Jeuaup for tho first " he took two additional pennies i. .'singly from his pocket and pass. .. tiie loaf over to be wrapped. Jcs says that in half an hour more - d have persuaded the old lady to .1 him that bread for 5 cents If uc hadn't given in sooner. All the tradesmen had some sim ilar story to tell. Once Kllng came home overladen with bundles from town and a heavy sultcaso. Willie Pemberton, a most polite boy, seeing Kling waa having so: o difficulty baL aucing his load, offered to help him. "I guess I don't need you," snap ped Kllng, and forthwith dropped a packuge. As he stooped to pick It up he dropped two more. "Hey, boy ! " he called, "If you want to car. ry the suitcase home for me I'll let you. But none of your tricks!" Well, that's the sort of man Kllng The lawu-iaower difficulty cuit about like thi. Jmmup feot a no mower Lim. spring. He man t rouliy Uecu it, Dul txt) iM like nouio of ILuuo automobile cliupa; a new model ap puais to him, eruu U the old machine la working all right. Anyway, ho got the new one. A day or two lalor ho was walking home with Kliug, who lives ou the next street., aud Kllng complained that i..-. -.u was looking pretty ragged and wished he could tor row a mower somewhere. "I've got one I can let you have," said Jeaaup. "Come over und get it." "I'm afraid I'd be depriving you," said Kllng. "But I'll be much ob liged and I'll get it after dinner." "If there's anything eiae you need don t be alraid to tutk for it," suld Jeaaup, not ironically, but moaning It. Any one can borrow Jesup'a tools. Kling couldn't think of any thing elae, though, Jubt then, except a rake, which he took at the same tlmo he took the mower. Ho kept that mower two weeks am; never made any sort of motion toward returning it. In the mean time Poolcy came around aud said his lawn was getting pretty ragged an J He 'd bo glad of the loan of Jea uup'a machine. Jessup had already lent hla new one to Green, however. "But there's the one I had Utat your," lie said. "That's really a better one than tho new one. Noighbor Kllng Juu got that" "Darned If I'd lend ii. . thIng" said Booley. '"He's a lobster, that chap." "You're too harsh in your Judg ments. Robert," said Jeasup. "Kling's ail light. He has hla little peculiar ities, perhaps, but I've got mine aud you've got yours. I'll bet he's a good fellow when you come to know him. Anyway, I think he must be through with the machine now. lie had it for two weeks. I guess Da toi'got to bring it back. Oo over aud get It and get acquainted with him." lJooley weut. "L)ld Mr. Jessup Bay !ie wanted you to have It," e.-. -l . ang, a little suspiciously, "whether I waa using o.' not?" "ou, of course, If you are uItig (P 1 Mi 9 "I was Just going to," said Kllng. "Whon I got through I'll take It back to Mr. Jeasup. I'd a little sooner, If you don't mtn-d. H any thing should happen to It my skirts will be clear then, you know." "You do what you iurn please with It, my geutlemnnly friend," said Booley, and walked off lu a huff. He told Joasup about It and Jessup laughod. "I guess you misunder stood him," he said. "Almost any thing can bo explained it you go at It right. I'll bet Kllng said some thing that you got twisted. Green brought tho new one back, though. Take that, old man." That evening Jeasup hailed Kllng. '''Hollo!" he said. "How's the lawn getting along?" "Well," said KllnC, Td have had It it: condition by this time If that mowing machine of yours had been any good." "No good, eh?" said Jessup. "It's Just a piece of old Junk," said Kllng. "Fierce! The blades Inter fere and the cogs are about worn out, to say nothing of the bearings. You'd think from the noise it makes that It might do something, but I could bite tho grass off quicker and evener If I had good teeth." "See here!" said Jeasup, madder than hops. "A man told me you v.er a lobster the other day and I de nied It. I'm going to apologize to him and toll him ho was right. Why you you " "Don't get excited," said Kllng, backing off. "Walt and let mo tell you " "You'll tell me nothing," said Jes. sup. "You bo much as open your mouth to talk to me again and I'll choke you. You bring that mower around Inside of half an hour or you'll see trouble." Then he walked away. He never spoke to Kllng until a bout a month ago. Jessup can't bear malice. And Is was a misunderstand. Ing after all. "He explained It all to me," said Jessup. "I forgot one evening and nodded to him on the train and ho camo over and sat by mo. He said the mower really was a pretty good one and he was obliged to me for the loan of It. The reason he spoke so of It was that bh I had another he thought I might want to sell this. He was. In fact, about to make me an offer for It." Germanic IVrfumery. Tho German perfumery Industry Is growing steadily, and gains cus tomers who formerly dealt exclusive ly in French and English perfumery. During the period of commercial treaties, the export of German per fumeries has largoly Increased. While for 1891 the exports of soaps and perfumeries amounted to but nine million marks, or two million dollars, tbey had grown to about 17, 000,000 marks In 1899. And since then, the gain every year has been noteworthy. The value of the per fumery exported last year was equal to the combined export of perfumery and soaps In 1899. This large Increase dates from 1895. Perfumery of German make has met with favor In England, in British Africa, In India, In Holland, Russia, Austro-Hungary, Turkey, Egypt, China, Chile and Australia. The chemical odors and artificial ethereal oils of German manufacture have greatly Injured the French bower-field Industry, as the prices for the artificial odors are much less than those of the natural ones. The (.having In the export of Ger man toilet soaps la leas favorable mainly, It ts claimed, oo acount of the low prices created by lively com petition. Besides there still eitUu a popular prejudice In favor of French and English toilet soaps. Still If the exports of toilet soaps In 1906 are compared with those of 1891, a great gain la observed, via; 1282 tons In 1891 against 6624 tens In 1906. Cultivating 4ie noet Crop. Too much stress can not be laid upon cultivation of the beet crop, especially the first one. Each going over should be deeper than tha one preoeedlng It I have come to be lieve lu more frequont and thorough cultivation and less Irrigation. Boots should not be Irrigated until be ginning to show the need of water which may be determined by watch ing them In tho afternoln of a bright, sunny day. The leaves will wilt to a certain extent but will re vive at night Even when the tops wilt in tho afternoon the beets are still growing and going down deeper Into the soil, which will give longer and better shaped beeU. Too much water makes a beet go to tops In stead of root. Generally speaking, I think tvo Irrigations with our us ual summer ruins are sufficient and the last one should be completed In time to give the beeU at least four weka to ripen and mature. Kew Bpeda of Zubrnm. In Portuguese East Africa an ex plorer baa discovered a new a pectus of sebra, reaembltng the ordinary zebra In thape, but the head, neck, forelegs and fore half of the body are dark brown In color, the hind part of the body, including the legs, being striped. He also discovered a peculiar type of antelope similar In bize and shape to the Boor roebuck or lmpala, the distinct difference be ing a black line down the center of the back and on either hind leg down to the foot. When the animal Is startled it Immediately takes to flight, the Initial leap being fully ten feet through the air. ntE-coouxo OP rotTT. Method Which la n Croat Saving to California Growers. For years there has been great loss from decay lu shipping fresh fruits, both citrus and deciduous, from this Stato to Eastern ninrketa. The railroads havo seldom been able to get fruit through on schedule time and the neceBHary' Allowance for de lay has compelled growers to pick their fruit before It was fully ripe, to the loss of some of tho flavor and also to the tors of somo of tho weight which th fiult would gain If kit on the tree. Some fruits pears, for example ripen best after picking and are regularly picked quite green, but other fruits do not. Fruit picked In a temporaturo In the sun of moro than 100 degrees and packed Into boxes at onco car ried very nearly that temperature Into the car with It, and It was found that a carload closely packed would probably be more than 1,000 nilb'3 on Its Journey East before being Cooled by the lco to a temperature unfavorable to decay, and by that time much of the fruit which was reasonably ripe before picking wnj In n bad way and wont right to pieces whon exposed to warm air on arrl.-:'.l. The evident remedy for that was to cool the fruit In fore shipment, says the San Francisco Chronicle, an 1 Ingenious l'.'pn got to work devising practicable methods of cooling the fruit to a proper tcmprraturo be foro starting the car. This Is accom plished by exhausting the air In a car or In a room before loading, and replacing It with air made cool by passing over Ice. By the use of machinery the warmed air Is contin ually drawn out nn 1 replaced by the cold air, the circulation being con tinuous. By this method n carload of fruit can In two or three hours bo reduced to the temperature In which th. spores of decay will not grow and which undn former conditions It might not reach for a weok after Btartlng on Its Journey In a refriger ator car. The expense Is said not to exceed two or threo cents a crate. Tho fruit can therefore, bo allowed to get ripe enough to acquire lu distinctive flavor and still reach Its destination In far better condition than formerly with correspondingly better prices to growers. Experiments have now been mada for a long enough period to demon strate the value of the process, and cooling plants nre being rapidly in stalled nt all shipping stations of Importance. When the shipments from a station are not largo enough to Justify tho Installation of a plant the cars can he cooled at the first cooling station on the Journey. It Is evident that within two or three years tho cooling plants will be gen erally Installed, and it Is believed that the Invention will be found one of the moat profitable Improvements in the art of handling fresh fruits yet made. Dishwashing Machine. A radical departure In the con struction of dish-washing machines has been made by an Iowa man, as shown In the Illustration below. In the majority of such machines the dishes are piled In a receptacle, and the water forced over and around them with great force. This does not wash them It merely rinses them. In the apparatus shown here the dishes are actually washed, as much so aa could ho done with the human hands. The apparatus con stats of a pan for holding the water BRUSHES REMOVE DIRT. and a pair of revolvable brushes ar ranged to operate on tho opposite faces of the articles to be washed. There is also a small stationary brush which forms a support for the oentxal portion of the man. I ne mode of operation will be obvious at a glance. Tlwre la no doubt but that tho dishes will be thoroughly cleaned, all particles adhering to the dishes being quickly removed by the revolving brushes, which turn the dish around, at the same time bringing each portion into contact with the brushes. Fur" Seeing Geology. The great project for rendering the Rhine navigable right up to the Swiss lakes has brought to Hht one or two great difficulties that will have to be encountered. It appears that during the 40 years that tie river has been embanked the stream has settled three feet deeper In its bed, and there Is a hard prospect for Lake Constance, which will become the river's reserve basin. Somo day the drift earth from the Rhine will choke It up and make Its S00 squarq miles of site so much plow lanl. But that will take 12,000 years. 1 S'1-'riftJ CURIOUS POSTAGE STAMP LCT.E. Animals Pictures on Stamps In Con-.o European Countries. The postngo stamp Is a mighty Small thing to be made tha tsubjivt of deep study, but there are men wliO know more About pontage stamps than tho average physician knows about diseases or the general electrician about electricity. Not a great many people, thougn, are learned In postage stamp lore For Instance not many have ever stopped to consider that such of the postage stamps as at this time fall In the way of the musses of tho people for payment of mall tolls are without representations of birds, or beasiH, or creeping things. In the northwest comer of the postal card there Is Inscribed an eagle, but It Is purely an allegorical figure. The United States government hns paid little attention to dumb animals In the decoration of Its stamps, hav ing practically confined all efforts in this direction to the Trans-Mlsslsslppl Issue of 181)8, on various stamps of which are tliown the buualo and a few other domestic animals. This country honors Its great men by dec orating Its stamps with their pic tures; the faces of the soverelgna of Great Britain have long monopolized the stampB of that kingdom, but hap pily for the stamp zoo there are lands which make a specialty of animal Issues and these form one of the most Int. renting und entertaining studies of philately. It will be surprising to learn what a long list of dumb creatures are por trayed in life-like representation on postage stamps, and thla, too, ex clusive of the mythical and conven tionalized characters, sucn aa tho dragon of China, the seahorse of the Bnrhadoes, the mermaid of Portugal, the double headed eagle of Austria, and a dozen others forming a class to themselves. A Freuch Guiana stamp bears na nnt-eater, a Paraguay stamp a lion, Portugal a camel, an African colony the giraffe, the Congo Free State au elephant. China a white elephant, one of the Malay States a stiger, North Borcea a bear, New Soutj Wales a leopard. North Borneo a stag and crocodile, Canada, a beaver, aud thj Frrinsbnck frc.n South Africa. George Washington Is a popular stamp decoration. Not only on regu lar adhesive postagu stamps has t tie picture of Washington been emblaz oned but on local stamps, newspaper stamps, revenuo stamps and envelope stamps. I2very revenue stamp Issu ed during the Civil War period bore the picture of the first president. The first stamp ever issued bearing tha picture of Washington appeared in 1842, aud was used for private pur poses. It was printed in New York City for the City Despatch Post, and carried letters and parcels through a private carrier service at two and throe cents, according to weight, size and other characteristics of the mail ed articles. It was printed In black ink on various colors of paper and spoclmens today are regarded as prizes. The stamp waa also used as a provis ional Issue of the New York postmas ter, the distinction being discernible only through tho concellation. In 1845 the postmaster at Now York camo out with a provisional five cent stamp bearing a mucJi batter picture of Washington, indeed, a most creditable work. One of the choicest of Unit ed States rarities in the stamp line is he Mlllbury, Mass.. provisional is sue of 1S47. a five cent black stamp on blnth paper showing the nead of Washington. Few stajnpa of this country are more highly prized. Unlucky Royal Sailors. In view of the fact that Prince Ed ward of Wales has entered Osborne Naval College It is Interesting to note says London Hit Bits that the only royal sailor Princes who have escap ed mishap are his father, the Prince of Wales, and the .Duko of Genoa. Somehow royal and imperial Princes who have adopted seafaring Ufa as a profession seem to be pursued by 111 luck. The Grand Duke Alexis, Lord High Admiral of tho Russian lleet, manag od to run his yacht Into a Russian steamship with little damage to the latter, but Injuring tho yacht bo much that the repairs cost 100, U00 rubles. Hla broterlnlaw, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha while Duko of Edin burgh, holding rank In tho British army, was so unfortunate as to lose his flagship, the Sultan, on a rock noar Malta. Admiral tho Prince of Llnlngen al so had the misfortune to run down a vessel In the Solent while In command of the royal yaoht, Queen Victoria herself being on board. Kovoral lives were lost in thla collision. Tho sailor brother of tho German Emperor has hitherto escaped marit ime disaster; but his misfortunes on land havo boon uncommonly numer ous, especially when be has been out shooting. Not only did he severely injure a Greek gontleman by the acci dental discharge of his gun at Corfu some few years ago but there Is also a gamekeeper of his uncle, the Grand Duko of Baden who is in receipt of a handsome pension from the Prince for a serious wound resulting from hla carelessness In handling a gun. Archduke John of Austria, who passed the examination necessary to secure )iU papers as a licensed skip per, disappeared from sight a few years ago while rounding Cape Horn In his ship. Other people's Intereat would be more endurable if thoy did not con flict with one's own.'' 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The first white :) ; in French h! tory was the banner of the Vlr-'in Mary, borne by Jo:':i of Arc In her hcoic campaigns for tlie drlV:ir' of the Dauphin. X pure wnlio ll.i.; wr.s occasionally used by Frauds I. In hi? struggles against the Emperor Chi'.rl '3 V., but It did not beeciiio the per manent royal banner until Henry IV., the first Duurboii, a.-ccn!'.i'ii the throne iu 15S9. The tricolor of the French P."VoV.i tlon was a compromise. The cock ades of the revolutionist;? were com posed of two colors, the red of the Paris commune and tho blue of tho ancient monarchy. In the troun'ed t'raes Just preceding the deposition and execution of Louis XVI., Lafay ette, to signify the desire of tho peo ple for a reconciliation with their King, added the lionrbou white to the cockade. The tricolor as a natural emblem was adopted by tho conven tion In 1794. Long before this, however, tho tri color had been the national flag of Holland. The Dutch were In fact tho first to uso It. When the United Prov inces pp.lr.ed their Independence from Spain In the sixteenth century, accord ing to a favorite old Rtory which con not bo nuthentlcatod, they Invited Henry of Navarro to choose their col ors, and ho suggested orange, blue, and whlto. Whether he selected thts combination or not, such were the colors of Holland until sometime in the seventeen'! century, when the orango was replaced by red. When V.'llllam of Orxnge bvoam King rt Finland In ho crossed the CVia- r.i;l under if white and blue. The Laro WarOrubut It Is not fashion to huve a largx stock of wearing apparel. Both time and labor are requlrod to care for aa extrusive wardrobe, and ev leum is a mutter to bo reckoned with a'.uo. A fiw well-chosen garments worn wullu tbey ore fresh and mod ish are lufinltyly bettor than a n urn tor of articles which must be car ried over from season to season, till they have given thulr value In wear and modern homes have no surplus closets, modern women no time for unnecessary burduue. They have dis covered that there must be a time tor laying down all burdens U they are to remain young and healthy. The government of Guatemala has recently rescindod the order Imnoslna a ."0 per cent additional duty on all nrtlclea sent Into the country under the parcel post regulations existing between the United States and Ona- emnls. MAGAZINE READERS SUNSET MAQAZIBB bcautiiuUyuluitaaUd.aoodctona -ud trticlct boul CJuafait sod " w til th. FI WL Jr' CAMTtBA CBAFT dmrolei web moota to tittle reproduction oi lta but $X.OO woik ol smtlcui and prolnioml . a photographer. 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