REMARKABLE MASTODON BONES DUG UP. ■ Sb IMCHtS UON& ■ UPPtR «X%< ifetTfclNCHti /^P^ U * j||l Taut Of BftCKßOri*. SaS*T "««»■ DITCH WHERE THE BOXES WERE rOOD. The remains of another mastodon have been discovered in Orange Oonuty, New York. This is the eleventh discovery of the kind since 1794, and Kentucky is the only other part of the conntry that can match Orange County in these pre-historic relic 9. The bones of this mastodon were first brought to the surface of the ground on the farm of Fred W. Schaefer, about one mile west of Newburg. The bones consist of the head, one tusk, the lower jaw, with the teeth intact, sixteen ribs, two sections of the vertebrae, a part of the shoulder blades and a number of smaller bones. The place where the skeleton was found was once the bed of a lake which has been filled by vegetable mould and washings from the hills. § Busy Days at the | | Recruiting Stations. | Ilow Uncle Sain Picks Out His Men g fb For the Philippines. Q a o OOOQOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO JUST now, by order of the President, ten new regi ments are being raised, equipped and sent out k to the Philippines for immediate service. i- There is no difficulty in making np these regiments. From all the various re cruiting stations established in the United States comes the reassuring report that the only difficulty is that of selection. Among the applicants there is of WOULD BE 11ECRUIT9 QUIZZING THE COK VORAi. course a certain contingent from that large, floating mass of waifs and strays who have not yet reached the stage of trampdom, but who live as best they can, with no settled home or calling. So it requires nice judgment to pick out the right ones from the mass. Then, there are tramps open and self-confessed, or if not actually con fessed Ly word of mouth, self-evident. When the evidence takes the form of an over fragrance of breath or an over rosinessof nose they are promptly dismissed. Stalwart and vigorous as mauy of them are in appearance, alcoholism is sternly barred by the army regulations. Permanent and professional tramphood would in it self be an insuperable obstacle, but tramphood that is only a recent ac cident in an otherwise orderly life may be overlooked if the applicant has excellent qualifications in other vespects. Then there is the large army of the unemployed who have no vagrant habits save those entailed in the dreary pursuit of work. These are what the French call conscrits de faim—conscripts of hunger. Though they are nominally volunteers, they BERVINO OUT EQUIPMENT TO RAW RECRUITS. are driven into enlisting by that hard est form of compulsion—starvation. For one that ivants to fight, ninety nine simply want bread. But if they have been earnest and willing and bonest in their search for bread, if thfj have »IWFXS PUICURBCI it by the sweat of their brows, and if they have the mental, moral and physical quali fications for fighting Uncle Sam will not deny them the bread which they are more willing to purchase with their blood. But not even these form the best material which Uncle Sam has thrust upon him for selection. Better far are the brawny, brainy and eager youth, from town and country, who, fired with the true soldierly spirit, unforced by emptiness of stomach, come with hearts and heads full of patriotism and generous ambition and high ideas to offer their services to their common uncle. The hardy backwoodsmen of New England, the daredevil cowboys of the Western plains, the stalwart farm hands in tho great agricultural dis TO BE SENT TO THEIB POST. tricts all over tho United States— these with a little training develop into the finest soldiers in all the world. There are three recruiting stations in New York. I have stood in all three of these places and watched the crowd of applicants streaming in, a panoramic study of human nature in its highest and its lowest forms, of alert and splendid youth, of depressed, disappointed and degraded maturity. In all of these stations the method is the same. • A sergeant sits at the desk in tho room into which the applicant is ushered. He is patient, but shrewd; kindly, but firm willed. He does not balk at any uncouthness iu manner or speech. He is not offended, sven by the freshness of the lad who bluntly de clares, "Say, captain,l want to enlist," or even the unconscious rudeness of the tough who inquires, "Be you the bloke who wants soldiers?" He recognizes that they are not yet soldiers, but if they hav» soldierly timber in them they may yet be pol lished to the point of proper soldierly deuortment. One thins lie is on the alert for at the start. This is untruth* fulness. . Lies about the age are mosl usual. The age limit is from eighteen to thirty-five. But boys under eight een must hare permission from parent or guardian, duly sworn to and at tested by a notary public. If a boy ol obviously not more than eighteen 01 nineteen declares that he is over t wen ty-one the chances are that he is on the lookout for a long truancy from home. But if the sergeant was satisfied that the applicant was neither too young nor too old for service he must be examined as to other points ol qualification. The requirements exact that if he b« a candidate for the regu lar urmy he must be a native born 01 naturalized citizen, able to speak English and to read and write; if fot the volunteers it is not necessary that he should be naturalized or know how to read and write, but he must speak English. These points are easily passed npon. It is most difficult to determine whether his habits are orderly, his character good, if be is out of work, whether it is his own fault that he is so, and whether ho is unaarried. No married man is accented. The shrewd ness of the officer must supplement the answers he receives, and must further be called into play to deter- THE MAJOR ADMINISTERS THE OATH. mine at a cursory glance whether his physical characteristics are sufficient ly near the mark to make it worth while submitting him to the necessary examination by the army surgeon. If he succeed in passing the ser geant, this examination is the next step before his final acceptance. Every morning beginning at half-past eight the applicants who have passed the preliminary examination are mustered before the surgeon. Testa are made of the heart, the lungs, the eyes, the teeth, the hearing. The body is stripped and the individual is made to go through ealisthenic exercises. It is a curious fact that more people fail through defects of the teeth and of the eyes than any others. Uncle Sam requires a good digestion and good eyesight. The applicant must have at least two sound pair of molars, each directly above the other, so that they cau properly perform the function of masticating tho food. The eyes must be at least three quarters of the normal. Printed test cards are placed at a distance of twenty feet, and the man is made to read let ters of varying sizes. Many learn here for the first time, to their dismay that their eyesight is defective. It is really pitiful to hear the ex cuses, perfectly honest to themselves, which they make for what they deem to be a more temporary lapse. They bad been anxious; they had been ner vous; they had not happened to sleep well the night before. "Give mo another trial," pleaded a man, who bore every other appearanco of robust health. "I'll be all right to morrow." But the fiat had gone out. It could not be recalled. He went out angrily, rubbing his eyolids, as though they were rebellions children who had wil fully brought their parent to shame. To all tho men, indeed, who faii in the final test, just when acceptance seems in sight, rejection is a crushing blow. They who survive are propor tionately jubilant. To each of taese is given a meal ticket and a comforta ble cot in a room back of the recruit ing office which he makes his head quarters until he is sent off to camp for the training which will turu a mem ber of the awkward squad into a sol dier. Then he is ready to be shipped to the Philippines. From two hundred to three hundred men a day apply to tho three stations in New lork, but rarely have more than twenty-five or thirty been se lected. In the first half of the year the in surance companies lost by fire in the United States and Canada 865,695,750, an increase over the same period oi last year of $7,462,000. The fraternities of the United States >'ave 6,000,000 members. Masou* lead with 766,508. ' THREE WOMEN SOLONS, Their Bui? Careers Member* of th« Colorado Legislature. I Three women are members of the Colorado Legislature. Their official | actions have demonstrated that wom en can fill offices of trust and respon* DR. MARY T. BARRY. sibilitywith credit to themselves and benefit to the people they represent. DT. Mary T. Barry has served the past year as a member of the House from Pueblo County. In 1887 she graduated in medicine from the Northwestern University of Chicago. After one year in the preparatory school she attended in the hospital for one year as house physician, after which she practiced medicine for two years in La Crosse. Since 1894 she has been in active practice in Pueblo, where she served as county phjsiciau during the years 1896-97. Mrs. Harriet G. R. Wright, one of the two women representatives to the Twelfth General Assembly from Arap ahoe County, located in Colorado twenty-seven years ago, and has lived in Denver seventeen years. Her fam ily consists of a husband and three grown sons. Mrs. Wright is a recog nized social and political leader, and \rj\ y iP/ 112 I 1 ntS V KMil Mrs. HARRIET G. R. WRIGHT. enjoys the confidence and friendship of very many people. Her husband, Henry Wright, was one of the pioneers of the State, having gone to Colorado thirty-eight years ago. Mrs. Wright is a descendant on both sides from early colonial settlers of America. Two ancestors in her mother's family,Johu and Jacob Reeve, caine over in the Mayflower. Her father was a pioneer in Wisconsin, as she lias been in Col orado. He wa? a Presbyterian clergy man, and one of the earliest advocates for advanced education for girls. He founded the Wisconsin Fe male College, the first college for women in Wisconsin, and was the president for many years. Mrs. Wright's interests were all along edu .•atioufiil liues in her girlhood, and stie jas never changed in that respect. Mrs. Frances F. Lee, the other tvomau representative from Arapahoe County, is tho wife of Frank W. Lee, >f Denver. Mrs. Lee is the mother )( live children, of ages ranging from ;hree to eleven, nr.d has always had :hem in personal charge, and even low, while in attendeuce at the State House, helping to frame laws to im- Mils. FRANCES F. LEE. prove the present labor and munici pal conditions, is never too preoccu pied tc look after the interests of her family. Mrs. Lee has a well selected library, and through all the labor of personally caring for her home and children, she manages to keep in formed concerning all the leading questions of the day. She is amply qualified to act in the responsible posi tion she now occupies. She has in troduced five bills. She is a strong advocate of pure air and proper venti lation in school rooms, and oonsiders that much improvement can be made on the prosent system, to which she attributes the death of many children. —Elnora M. Babcock. For every dollar expended for spirit nous and malt liquors in this coun try twenty ceuts are spent for tea or .*o Jufc. ?r 1 | CHILDREN'S COLUMN, j Tomorrow Land. Somewhere westward of today Lies a country far away, And Its name explorers say, Is Tomorrow Land. There, across tho starlit wave, Little people all "bohave"— Girls are good and boys are brave Xu Tomorrow Land. Lessons are not loft undone, And although there's lots of fun No one teases any ot.e In Tomorrow Land. "Shan't" Is a word no lips repeat, Tempers are serene and sweet, Hands are washed and clothes are neat In Tomorrow Land. Bedtime doesn't brim? a frown. And when some one tumbles down Outcries do not rouse the town Iu Tomorrow Land. Could wo emigrate to thore, Good resolves their fruit would bear; Mother wouldn't hive a eare Iu Tomorrow Land. —Felix Lei«h. Tt»e Story of Bulflncli Day. "Bullfinch day," observed at Mer ton colle-re, England, has a quaint I origin. When Charles II was king of England he sent his wife, Katharine, to Oxford,bidding her not to reappear in St. .Tames for a full year. The warden of Merton entertained the queen during th? time, and the rooms which she occupied in the quadrangle are still shown. One day as she sat working at an open window, a bull finch Hew into the room. The queen caught it and held it until a cage of hemp and rushes was made. Some weeks later, as she w.is leaving, the bird escaped and Hew away. On her departure from the college gate Her Majesty said: "Mr. Warden, iu re membrance of my happy visit, I pray ' you always liberate, hereafter, a wild bullfinch on this day." So it is that on this day every year the warden comes out into the quadrangle at 11 o'clock, holding a little cage of hemp and rushes in which is a bullfinch. The junior bursar, who has been awaiting his arrival, then advances | saving, "Mr. Warden, is this Queen Katharine's bird?" "Aye," the warden replies, "this is Queen Kath- I arine's bird!" The bivsar then opens I the oac;e and claps his hands until the J bird flies away. During the rest of i the year the cage is kept on a pedestal ' in the senior common room. Life of n Famous General. • General Ulysses S. Grant, who was j the eighteenth president of the United j States, was born at Point Pleasant, Clermont county. Ohi >, April 27,1522, and died on Mount McGregor, near Saratoga, July 23, 1880. The house where be was boru was a little log cabin. As Ulysses was the eldest of ! six children and the family were very poor lie was compelled during his boyhood to work hard assisting his father on the farm. The elder Grant also owned a tannery which in time yielded the family a good living. Ulysses attended the village reboot until the spring of 1839, w;>eu he was appointed a cadet to West Point. He had been named Hiram Ulysses, but the congressman who made out tho application for his appoiu ment, knowing only that lie was called Ulysses,and supposiug that his middle name must l.e that of bis fa'l e'-, Sampson, wrote the name Ulysses S. Grant-, and so it always afterward remained. He graduated in IS4'\ standing twenty-first in a class of 3?, He served in the war with Mexico and at its close went to St. Louis, v. here he married Miss Julia B. Pent, the sister of oue of his classmates. He resigned his commission in the army in 1N.")4 and settled on a farm near St. Louis. He worked in the Illinois hardware and leather store of his father as a clerk when the civil war broke out. He at once raised a com pany of volunteers in Galena ami offered bis services to the government. He euterod the war as colonel of the Twenty-first infantry; at its close he was the general, the head of the army. On March 18G9, he became presi dent.—Trenton (N. J.) American. A Km'injj Bir.l of tlip» Smith went. When fir-tl saw it the bird looked like a faded-out and moldy streak of blue lightning darting aero s the trail through the chaparral thickets. This was in western Texas several years ago. A minute or two after this first sight of the "read runner" it appeared in the trail forty or fifty feet ahead, stopped, looked back at me saucily and began to trot down the road in the most leisurely manner. The chaparral clumps were small and far apart. The open was covered with hairliko raesqnite grnss. Here and (here a net of orange-blossomed cactus sti od anchored among the limestone rocks on which "mountain-boomer" , lizards flattened in the sun. The day was sweltering, but the sight <>f flint impudent bird tr< tting along ahead made me eager t'o • a chase. So I dug my heels in my broncho's sides and loosened tlia reins. With a leap the horse shot ahead, almost trampliug upon the road-runner before it recovered from its surprise. We never got any nearer to that bird. Down the trail it ran like an arrow, whizzing close to the ground,its speckled shape of blue and black and brown lookiug more like a 1 shadow above the sand than like a living thing. After perhaps an eighth of a mile of this queer race tho chapar ral cock gave a cry like a scream of jesting laughter, made a flying lean to the top of a high bank, poised tliere for a moment and then sailed awav on rigid wings and disapj eared behind a thicket several hundred feet away from the trail. That was the last I saw of that particular bird but tho I species is common in tbe southwest, where the bird in known tinder maus names, such as "suake-killer," "liz nrd-bird," "ground cuckoo," aud sc forth. The bird is a famous killer of rattle snakes, which it tosses into th« "prickly-pear" or cactns nests, where the snake ia impaled on the long spines aud soon becomes exhausted from thrashing about and wounding itself. Tue road-runner also feeds on the tender lizards that are found everywhere in the southwest. Its warj game makes the creature stealthy and silent of habit,and it steals about like a small boy searching the pantry foi forbidden jam. The road-runner is> over two feet long, including its long neck and still longer tail, and its body is remarkably slender. The creature cannot tly better than the ordinary barnyard rooster, Lut it is a great sailor if it gets a goo 1 start from a high place.—Chicago Record. More Faithful Tlimi Hl« .Master. About the year 1850, a persona) friend of the narrator, residing ing remote New England town, left hi? young wife and happy home to seek his fortune in Cali.ornia. On a summer afternoon, nearly eighteen months afterward,as she way sitting oil the lawn before the cottage of which she was the sole occupant, aud which was situated on a retired road nearly two miles from a small village, she was agreeably surprised by the appearance of uu etpressman who had brought her §200:) in gold aud a welcome letter from her long absent h usliand, the gold being the result of his first year's labor at the mines. Alter the excitement of her surprise had somewhat subsided, she begun to think that it would be unsafe for liei to remain alone in the house with sc much money. It was the hard earn ings of her self-sacrificing husband, and shoal 1 be safely kept. While she was pondering in he? mind what to do with the money, and also whom she could get to keep hei company that night, she saw hei butcher, a resident of the village, riding along the road in his wagon to ward his home, and haviug eoufi leuce in him as a trustworthy friend aad adviser, she called to him to stop that she might relate to him her good for tane. The batcher listened attentively to her story of fortune,and said he would leave his faithful dog "Hose," a large mastiff, who, hs said, perfectly under stood his busiuess when any propertj was intrusted to his care for safe keep ing - . ■The batcher said to his dog, "Bose, do you lie down on that door rug, and don't let any person come into this house tonight, - ' saying which the butcher rode away. 'lho lady feeling perfectly safe, thought she would make friends with the do., aud offered him something tc eat; but "Bose" would not eat.neithei would he take any notice of hei-, ex cept to occasionally follow her witt his eyes wlieuever she moved aboal the room. Failing to make a com pani li of the dog, she to be afraid, and her persouai fear of the dog was now greater than the tear o) losing her money. The lady reti;ed to her bed, leaving thi door of lie l ' bedroom a;ar, so that she co lid see the dog as he lay on the rag at the sitting room door, and whe neeuied to keep a constant watch upon her, st> much so that she dared not gt! to sleep, and almost wished the dog was not in the house. At last she fell into a drowsy slum ber, from which she was suddenly aroused by Bose as he sprang froit his place on the rug toward the win I dow. kdia ha d him growl ant' struggle, then a 1 wa< quiet. She was so much frightened that she dared not move, yet she cor Id not now see the dog from where she lay, neither did she know what had happened. She lay in terrible suspense until morning, when she ventured cautious ly to leave her bed. Going into the | sitting room she found the window i open, and the body of the butchei lying across the window sill, his head in ti e room, hi< feet on the outs : de o: the ho ise; he was dead. He had at tempted to rob his confiding friend,iu doing which his own dog had seized him by the throat, and caused him tc choke or bleed to death. Bose had strictly o' eyed his orders aud "let nc person into the house that night."— Week'y Witness. A Modern Courtship. "I suppose that some of her foo fiie ds must have let it out," laughed the Atwater street commission man, who was at the same 1- ncli table witl the ! a ker, "but it's true, all right enough." "Iretty sharp work, wasn't it?" ''Yes, but < haracttristic of the apre aud < oantrv. It was what you nigh' call ii condensed courtship, for there was considerable detail, after all. She's a", orphan you ki.ow, is a good many le.loves fro.a poverty, krows her own iri d a :d ooesn't have tc cha ge it fifty or sixty times before reachii.g a ti. al determination. She vas going east for a visit, and had trunks full of finery. On the train a mutual frieud introduced us, a::d il was one of those first-sight cases. An 1 tilings came our way. We talked ust, we had adelighrful little luncheon at a r o utaia station, we passed through thre> tun! els, had u big box of boti-bi as, refreshed with ice cream soda when we reached Philadelphia, and e t from the fountain to the mil is o"." "They say your conitship lasted b'.it five bonis?" "Yes, about that. But to be abso lutely iiccurate, it was just four hours a d fifty-five miuutes fi om the time ] lifted my hat at our introduction till I kissed the biide. Millions of men hav courted for .years anr j f M worse."
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