Fa 2 etn eamnio io sialon wos emai can ansean Tn se a A ATTRACTIVE FLOWER . BED. OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN A FAV- ORITE SPOT OF MRS, ROOSEVELT. . This Corner of the White House Grounds, With Its Blaze of Color, Attracts the Sight«Seer. Mrs. Roosevelt's Old Fashioned Gar- den, as the generous collection of posies west of the south veranda of the White House is called, has been a continuous mass of bloom and color during the summer and fall, quite different from any of the other Govern. went flower displays. There are many of these, surrounding the different de- partmental buildings, those of the De- partment of Agriculture being pirticu- larly elaborate abd ornate, but it is the opinion of summer visitors to Washing. | old-time corner of the White House is the At least it seems ton that the mistress of the most pleasing of all, de strike the majority of fancies, for it] recalls the scenes and times of earlier | philanthropy. The result is that a com- This part of the White House | paratively grounds hag always been devoted to| days. flowers, but until Mrs. Roosevelt's ad- vent it has been rather given up to the! latest fads of horticulture than to a| display of the familiar blooms of the old-time flower garden, The changes in the White House a | couple of years ago were officially known as the “restoration,” but have, | perhaps, been more generally termed) the “mutilation.” It seemed necessary | that something should be done; there] was talk of reconstructing the White | OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. American System of Public Education Far Less Practical Than That of Germany, The general public school education of the country is complacently believed by the majority of people to be the best in the world. There are some, however, who insist that much of our education Is unpractical and does not fit the youth of the country for the ac tual hard knocks of life, and that our school system should fuclude a much greater preparation of Industrial work. An examination of German educa tional methods places the United States lat an aparent disadvantage in this re- | gard, An instance of this Is seen in a series of newspaper articles published | in Frankfort, Germany, by Myr. Hein- | { rich Back, the director of the »rank- fort Industrial School, who has been 1 twice sent by the German Government { to study the Industrial schools of this country, Mr, Back expresses surprise that we have not provided in our | school system for training our citizens | { in special directions, Instead of leaving | [the establishment of trade, industrial | and technical schools to the enterprise | of Individuals or the generosity of "| GREAT CANALS OF MARS. RECENT PHOTOGRAPHS ESTAD- LISH APPARENT ARTIFICIAL CONSTRUCTION, The Camera's Eye, More Sensitive than the Human Optic, Establishes New Data Interesting Scientific Discoveries. Astronomers and scientists In gen- eral are deeply Interested in the modest announcement made by Pro- fessor Percival Lowell and his associates at the Lowell Observatory partial successes and some complete failures the greater canals of graphed. Hitherto the general public has been compelled to accept or to reject the existence of the Martian canals on the word of the stargazing fraternity. But with the accomplishment of the Har vard observers in Arizona everyone will now have an opportunity to see In proof of what has long been considered as more or less of a theory, While several photographs small number of these | hi schools are found in certain favored | the actual photographs parts of the United States, while in the | major portion of the country little op- portunity Is offered boys to obtain prac tical and thorough instruction and to | tAken of the canals some weeks ago, increase their value to the nation by | It Was not until a few days ago that converting themselves into trained the solar photographers were ready to workmen. announce the complete success of the The German Government, on the | Undertaking. Professor Lowell, In the other hand, maintains in every part of | following account of the achievement, the empire good trade, industrial and | 18 unreserved in his bellef that the technical schools, drilling the youth of | Martian canals closely correspond to the country and sending them out, each | the familiar waterways of the same - general classification on this planet, Up to the present time human! knowledge of Mars has been largely theoretical—the principal facts regard ing the planet being that it 1s] 141.500.000 miles from the sun and approximately 47,000,000 miles from earth, The Martian year has 087 days Mars Is 4230 miles In diameter, the earth being TMS, Jupiter 86,500 and the | sun S66G.400 miles, “To photograph the canals of Mars,” says Professor Lowell, “has for many years been a purpose of the observa | tory established and maintained by | Harvard College in Arizona, The first | attempt to meet with an even approxi | mate success was made in 1901, when | a more or less satisfactory print was ile of the Mare Acidalivm, or Lake f Acid. “Yet, encouraging as that pioneer! effort was, no canal could then be detected on the negative with absolute tinty Today we can state as} positive and final that there are canals on Mars--becanse the photographs say #3, and a photographic negative Is ng if not truthful “In my firm belief, it Is only question of time, possibly of months ooert PaaS | A FAVORITE RPOT OF 1 louse, but the niggardly appropria- tions made by Congress prevented any extensive change or Improvement, There has, however, been nothing but approval for the changes in Mrs. | Roosevelt's garden. The location Is an | ideal one, somewhat sheltered and se- | cluded, and when the President and | Mrs. Roesevelt gave the garden party | last spring to the International Rail | way delegates there were many words of praise for the charming effect of the | hundreds of climbing roses, displayed | in full bloory and fragrance, their vivid | coloring cottrasting well against the walls of the east and west terraces. Special Floral Pets. Particular pets of the President's wife are hardy shrubs and annuals, too, but all of the kind with which men and women who loved flowers a half century ago loved to surround them- selves and with each of which for the older generation there lingers some po- etic or sentimental fancy. Hollyhocks, Jessamine, phlox, dahlias, China asters, lavender, rosemary, columbine, clema- tis, peonies and smaller shrubs and flowers have contributed generously to the riot of color and bloom which has pervaded this nook during the season. The mistress of this garden delights to pick up new plants which are yet old, and following her various visits to Arlington, Mount Vernon and other places have come many packages of pew favorites to find an unused corner in this old-fashioned garden. — Does Sugar Make Strength ? Various reasons have been assigned for the increase in stature and strength of the modern maiden, who has most | certainly grown uncommonly tall and proportionately muscular during the ast few years, says an English writer. t cannot be that outdoor sports, gym- nastic exercise and so on, have stretched her out and made her as strong as she 1s, because her brothers have had precisely the same advant ages, and they have not developed at the same rate. It seems to me, there fore, that the secret les In the fact, that of recent years girls have become far greater consumers of sweetmeats than ever were their mothers and grandmothers, Time was when we should never have dreamt of having sweets on our luncheon, dinner and tea tables. Now it would be quite extraordinary were one not to offer these daintien, And, what Is more, women are not merely contest to eat sweetments at our medls, but they consume thom at all times and in all places between meals. It was re cently sald that boxes of bonbons play a conspicuous part in modern lovemak- ing, “sweets to the sweet’ being ap- parently the text by which every young wan of the day guides himself through tie devious paths of courtship, The great Russian wrestler who Is shortly to enter again into contest with the Turk, Madrall, tells us that the more sweet stuff one eats the stronger one grows. Sugar Is the secret of strength, be declares. — Only a Portion of Russia, In order to appreciate the size of Biberia one must imagine the placing of all of the States and Kingdoms, principalities and empires, ete, of Eu. rope, excepting Russia, and all of the United Btates, including Alaska, in the territory occupied by that portion of Russia, and then would still have a swall amount of land uncovered, — In British Columbia as In England dis Julg ot the toad In TKD 35 the , maybe a few years, when we shall be able to determine the exact nature and probable purpose of the canals of our planetary neighbor. Meanwhile we have a number of excellent negatives | which have served to bring us a bit Closer to Mars than ever in the past, “The negati thoroughly confirm the eye In showing not only the exist f the eanals, but reveal them as 1% lines of tens and even hun dreds of miles In length, Of course is yet impossible to say positivel; whether the Martian canals are artificial or natural ereation, or exactly | of what composition Is the liquid or molten substance In them. Put ef; as we can at present conceive the) appear as corresponding to our fami iar waterways classified under the heading of canals. nt —e Value of Advertising. HE PRESIDENTS WIFE an expert or a trained specialist, to] play a useful and Intelligent part in| the great battle of International com me ree. ves — POKER IN THE PHILIPPINES. Who Knew the Reports came from time to time from Portsmouth showing that the Oriental envoys and attaches bad found a great liking for American ways and manners, and more especially for the true Awer- fean beverages, cocktails and high balls, and for that little bit of diversion known as poker. On top of these re ports came a message from a member | of the Taft party In the Phill that Datto Grande, one of the leading citizens of Bambang, had fallen down before the Sultan of Ganassi in the game of poker. Army officers stationed in the Philippines are stated to have carefully coached the Datto Grande in this game and their estimation of their ability to instruct has had a severe shock, a result of the Datto's losses of his carabaos, wives and raiment, since, it appears, his opponent had never been | taught how to play, but had relied upon | his untutored skill and the devices known only to the Moros. The next thing we may expect to learn will be that this wily Moro “Ah Sing” has | actually taken the uniform from some | of our army officers, aye, éven those considered adepts at the game. i This news Is probably of more in terest to the people of our island pos session and to the citizens of the United States than is at first implied, for It shows that for cumming and intelligence the Moros show ability to defeat even the skill of highly experienced and practiced American army officers, and, | as an exchange remarks, it shows that the Filipinos are, and of right ought to be free and independent. a — The Postmaster General's Paals Fitted, Hoke Smith, Postmaster General during Cleveland's last administration, tells a story of a darky employed at A Few Aferthoughts, cnee rontinusus One Moro Game of | ppines | Once, beset with pain and trouble, When the day was dreary and dark, And I felt most weary sinking Of my liver, lungs and heart In the papers | was scanning, ¢ Advertisements by the score, Trusting there to find some doctor In whose ears my woes I'd pour. Then there flashed across my vision As if writ In living light; Tell, oh, tell, old Doctor Cartin! Tell, before you sleep, this night. All your woes and all your troubles, All your aches and every pain He can sooth you, he can cure you; Put new life in every vein. And when all your troubles vanish, And your liver works all right, And your lungs resume their functions And your heart with joy is bright. Then you'll sing loud Hallelujahs, And you'll pay your bill in gold, | Thankful that to Dr. Gartin All your troubles have been told, And you'll know that lucky Fortune Made you know, at any rate, That it pays for all to keep their Advertisements up to date, ——— PIO in Arizona recently that after several | the | planet Mars had at last been plhoto-| were | } Ameri i» - Or 801 A Sis SIRE SHOW GREAT EXPANSION OF FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL MA« CHINERY TRADE, Pass Resolutions For Land Law Re- form—Against Giving Inter-State Commerce Commission Power to Fix Railroad Rates. A recent meeting of the National As. | sociation of Agricultural Implement and Vehicle Manufacturers at Niagara Falls brought forth a number of inter- esting and Important facts relative to the great progress which has been made in recent years in the making of all classes Bf farm and working imple mente and also the great expanse of this class of trade abroad, Since 1899, when our exports in this line for the first time shot ahead of those of Great Britain, the United States has been easily the heaviest ex porter of agricultural implements and machinery in the world. Manufacturers claim, and their efforts to secure for. eign markets seem to substantiate it, that exports play a most important {part In the successful conduct of agri- cvitural implement manufacturing | The last census puts the annual value of this class of production at $101,000. 000, and it Is estimated (HAL the pres ent year's production is greater, This A Courtesy Washington Star, JUDGE PETER 8, GROSSCOUP. has grown from $6 000 00 inerease in exports, how far greater gs h other, captured foreign 1570 we exported only a million lars’ worth of foreign implements: 1900 we were at the $16.000.000 mar) and the high water mark was reached no 1904 with $22700,000, or over one fifth of the product. Much Work Ahead. The Niagara meeting. however ought forth the fact that there ar many fields ss yet unconguersd by ou mpiement makers, In sharp contras with the brilliant success achieved an harvesting machinery in Rus A, American } v8 are practically un known in that vast agricultural coun try. The plows used are mostly Ger man or of local make, while the Amer. ican types of light, strong plows, cap able of doing almost twice the worl ver, wi Ave, one alt marie IMPLEMENT MAKERS MEET! SINGULAR I NDIANS OF NORTH WEST. The Marriage Contract a Compli- cated Document, Many peculiar customs exist among | the Kwakiute Indians who live along the const of British Columbia, These Indians are divided Into pumerous tribes or clans, entry into one of which | Is obtained only through most exact-| Ing laws, Marriage among them is considered a purchase which Is con- ducted on sound business principles, But the object sought is not only the woman, but also the right of member ship In her clan for the future children | of the couple, The privileges of the clan are pot glven as a present to the son-in-law, but he becomes entitled to | them by paying a certain amount of | property for his wife. The wife Is] given to him as a first Installment of | the return payment, The crest of the | clan, Its privileges, and a considerable | amount of other property besides, are | given lseer on, when the couple have | children, and the rate of interest paid | by the wife's tribe increases with the | number of children, For one child, 200 per cent, of interest is pald; for {two or more children, 300 per cent. | After the entire payment is made the marriage annulled, because the wife's father has redeemed his daughter, If she continues to stay with her husband, she does so of her own free will, Oftentimes, however, to avold complications, the busband makes a new payment to his father in-law In order to have a claim to his | wife. is RE A RATTLER STORY. Where a Miss Was as Good as a Mile. “Being no devotee of hunting, I sel dom carried anything but my revolver, while my partner, an enthusiast for any game from bear to poker, great or simeall, as I was the reverse, seldom gtirred from the tent without his double-barrelled shotgun,” sald the old was fairly plenty in Sierras Jim generally | f-way, lest it might bel before he had an op it. This afternoon merely going & short back of our had not taken a pect ol {to shoot w : : t 5 ountain our bh The gun wa | bul the ; for "Jim hed orses pros on ahead and f the Russian plows, and which have vept everything before them in Sout! Africa and Australia, have thus far ne reason, falled 10 galn an en ry into Russia, American Manufacturers Foremost, It seems that the American ment makers are a progressive set a secret of their phenomenal su e888 was been In their good organiza tion and the close study th have made of the wants of the foreign peo ples. The American manufacturer ha made a study of conditions and ha thus beaten the Britisher with his ‘take it or leave it,” and the German plan of making an exact imitation of the native or local implement, The National Association of cultural Implement and Vehicle facturers is an influential body and its annual meetings are participated in by some of the heaviest manufacturers In the world, It takes up, in addition to its regular busine¢ the various broad questions of the day as they may have some direct or Indirect bearing upon the prosperity of their Industries Among other questions discussed at the recent meeting were the ten-hour la bor day, certain phases of the tariff the paree] post question ship subsidy the railroad rate question and the re peal of the land laws. The principal discussion, as noted by the dally re centered around the raliroad | rate and land law questions and parcel post, although there was, of course, no dissention to the view that everything possible should be done to expand for- eign trade Questions of Legislation, imple : the ue LAS | Agri Tr RE BER i, . oA ports his home who was usually the recipient | she negro who demanded $5.60 from a of all of Mr. Smith's cast-off clothing. New York fe Insurance [company i to Many of the coats, vests and trousers, tamer with the New York methods He when cast aside, were of a fine quality | should have applied for the gift through and as a result this negro shone in the | a syndicate. society of his fellowmen, On one oe easion the ex-Postmaster General pur. A mining en maar In Cubdalajara, Mex. chased an elegant pair of trousers from | ypderground. This Is almost as starting Paris. Somehow, these trousers would | as the seedless apple fake. not wear out. Mr. Smith would wear them day in and day out, rain or shine, f and if apparently soiled a little clean- | JAVA _epffes Imported raat Snited Ing up would make them as good AS | strange that during that time grocers new, Try what be would, the servant | Sian pe ge SOUR avi $014 0, 0 could not get the master to cast them h away. . One rainy day, Mr. Smith came home | A Bung artlcle In nt from a ride into the country on horse | “Ordinarily my experience has been that back with his trousers very much the bears were not flurried when 1 suddenly worse for mud and water, “Sambo,” Surely’ the Present he sald to his helper, “take this pair of pants out and give them a good cleaning, as I want to wear them to morrow.” Bambo eame back In an hour or two, his face sad and gloomy. “Deed Marsa Hoke,” he sald, “somehow I can't get that thar mud off'n your pants, dey certainly am a sight.” “I'ry some soap and water, Sam,” sald Mr. Bmith, “Done tried sonp and water, sar.” “I'ry some gasoline,” Mr, Smith re led, —— Purman I ™ " tN Done tried gasoline. stealing a bag 5 when ken the There wete 157.000 pounds of Mocha and eame upon them." was disguised, The German who has bullt a house en tirely of cork must be an Irishman, A clever counterfeit of the ten.dollar “Buffalo” note ls being passed in New York. Another indigestible security, only i has the misfortune to be technloally Hall Caine has roneluded that he will not write a novel on American millon. res, bly unable one who would a vy o fina good “I'ry turpentine,” desperately eried |} precaution to do hero, Bald have og ve the ex-Postmaster General, the Chicago Bh “Did you try ammonia? Hoke 1 knows deyll ft 8 you're sure to be right” “Talut no use to 3m on, Mars on “Done tried turpentine.” — | It r bought out & Judge Grosscup of Chicago, who re | cently attained fame In his beef trust decision, auuressed the association {upon the evils waich he rild would re sult In case the Interstate Commerce Commission was vested with power to {act as both prosecutor and court, as they would If they were given power to fix rallroad rates. He look strong ground against all rebates and discrim. | inations and declared that it would be {wise to replace the present machinery by A government bureau empowered to Investigate all complaints, with a court of transportation to adjudge the va. rious points raised, Resolutions were adopted embodying this idea. The association also indorsed the re port_of President Roosevell's Publie Land Commission, advising the repeal of the Timber and Stone Act and changes in the Desert Land Aet, and the Commutation Clause of the Home stead Act to prevent land frauds, The interest of the association in this mat. ter and In the government irrigation work is metive, since irrigation and home bullding on millions of acres of Western lands will furnish an unpar alleled market, The proposed parcel post legislation came In for a scoring as being inimical to Independent manufacture and de stroyer of the thousands of retall and even wholesale dealers throughout the country with whom the farmers do business directly and tending to fur nouniain sic ward with my tance nort Gl hot report | A Tension "Indicator of the tension at a glance. Its use means time saving and casier sewing. It’s our own invention and is found only on the Sewing Machine. We have other striking improvements that appeal to the careful buyer. 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