Srm .hull not know I tov her, 1 will not let her lee The ronv riot in my heart When he ii kind to me. Hnw could I vex so fnir a maid, So fair And enlm and hipih, When I am shackled to the earth, Bond-brother to a sigh? n Up-to- Date By LESLIE OIS hnd two mints nnd n lover. The mints wore downright tyrants; the lover well, I was the lover. Lois wns rich. This fact caused all the trouble. Because Lois was rich the aunts regarded me with undisguised distrust; because Lois was rich they kept her eternally at home like a edged mouse; because Lois was rich, In fact, they forbade my marrying her. Because I was a fool, perhaps, I swore that I would marry Lois In spite of the aunts, her fortune, and all the personified objections that ever walked on earth. Because I was n fool, cer tainly. I made this plain to the aunts. Things went from bnd to worse. At first I wos allowed to see Lois any time I chose. But after n while the periods when I was permitted to find her "at home" were curtailed mightily. After a time, indeed, I was allowed to see her only on certain days, be tween certain hours, for nil the world as if rhe were in prison. I blustered. I swore vengeance, I talked United States law nt those two old Jailer aunts till my knowledge nnd powers of Invention were entirely ex hausted. But still they smiled se renely upon me, and intimated thnt I might call for a few minutes the week after next. I don't know what they told Lois about me. Anyhow, it did not in the least alter her love. But it was em barrassing sometimes when she would turn her great, trusting brown eyes upon me and ask if I bad ever killed a man or blown up n liouso with dyna mite. Because I bnd not. "I wish," she said to mo one day, "that I could bear your big, hearty voice all the time. It would make me braver." Plainly, if I could not be by her side I must fiud an alternative. There was the telephone, to be sure, but there were also the aunts with their opposi tion.'1. There was what on earth was there? Oh, yes I sent to a dealer in phonographs. 1 "I should like n tnlk," I said. ' He led me into bis private office. "Well?" "Into a phonograph," I explained, "for a reproduction of my speeeh, you know." So I tnlked. It cost me more than the long-distance telephone, but I paid willingly. I bought a phonograph nnd took lessons on making records. Then I presented the- mnchlne to Lois. "If you wind it up nnd put in a rec ord." I told her. "it will talk for me." The mnchlne swore eternnl love for Lois In my behalf nnd Lois smiled The next time I called I bought twelve records. Half of them were lastingly impressed with remnrks of mine and bnlf of them were blank. I explained to Lois tho process of revers lng the machine in order to produce a permanent record of her speeches. "Now, I hnve numbered these six records," I explained. "Put them on the cylinder of the phonograph in the proper order. After No. 1 has talked take one of the six blank records nnd reply to mine. In this manner we will keep up a close imitation of n convcr satlon." Tho nunls blandly Informed mc that I was not to be nllowed to call for a week or more. , Nevertheless, not all the aunts of the universe could keep me from marching up and down the walk in front of the house. So the next day I snuntered past that is, almost past. At the further corner of the yard I came to au abrupt halt, for the curtains of the house were down and no smoke curled from the chimney. It was deserted! There was no time for trifling. There might be a landlord or an agent who owned a key, no one was on the snot. Within.- five minutes I had broken Into the house. The rooms down stairs were bare Scarcely noticing them, I swept up the stairs to the front room, from whose window I bad often seen the face of Lois while I was walking in front of the house. It, too, was deseuled As I seatched tho room with eager haste my eyes spied a ginglo object rndcr the edge or the front window almost hidden by tho curtain, and np parently placed there to prop up the window, was a phonographic record. I burst Into the storo of my friend tho dealer in phonographs, with the impetuosity of a runaway train. Be fore he could restrain mo I had placed the record on a small phonograph nnd aiimeu the wheels of tho machine. un, I' rank," enmo tho trembling voice of Lois from the megaphone horn, "we are going away my aunts and I. They told mo to-night that I should never gee you again. I don't Know where we are bound for even "', uui we go to Evervillo from tore. Co ll'ft to mo l.Ymilr ivnn'r rnn I-iuy aunts are coming and I must hide the record. I pray that you may mm u. Evervllle I found to bo n llttlo rail "u Junction. It was easy to trace me luree Woman tn n Imtul Tliov hud occupied double room No. 10 the uigni cerore. "Anybody in Iloom 10?" I demanded vi me sleepy elfrk. on.. . u iim not lie grunted, tutl,vlntf 'T,11 tuke tuen," I announced hur. Before ho was through insisting thn single nerann ..i.i . ,., . . -v.m mm nu use tor room with t,.. ..,.. ..... ... i.ik 1 7. " 1KU" 1,1 "id thrown upstairs r 8UU WM lnIf waI th. vfJ"?? of the Cesser 1 found ill mm " mr wulcu I was searching, DOUBT. Mv pain 1ia11 not be hers to share, Mv passion away her not, And high and calm and fair she itill Shall count her happy lot. But doea ah count it ao, nor yearn To hear a lover a call 7 I cannot longer bear tho doubt, not longei i to tell I so to tell her all! Walter Pnc:urd J".aton. omance W. QUIRK. Without a second's delay I slipped H on the phonograph I carried. The voice of Lois presently broke the breathless silence. 'Aunt Itebecca thinks I am crazy," it said. "Perhaps I am, but it is not because I talk to my phonograph all the time, but because they are taking mo away from you. Somehow, Prank, feel that you will follow us. I do not know where we go from here, but you may be able to learn from the ticket agent. We leave at 8.30 to-mor row (Wednesday) morning." That was all. But It was the voice of Lois, and It cheered me and filled mo with fresh determination. I shut my Hps firmly and swore that I would follow the two .-.wits and Lois through every country on earth rather than lose the girl. "Think I can remember everybody that buys tickets?" growled the agent nt the station when I accosted him for information. I cursed him for a fool. It was evident that the aunts were using Lois' money for bribes. It seemed that I was off the trail nt the very start. But the porter of Uie parlor car of the 8.30 train the next morning set me right. Am yo' name Frank Bomer?" he asked, eying me as I boarded 'bis trnln. When I had assured him that It was he banded me n package. From a pow'ful scared gal," he chuckled. I unrolled the phonographic record. With the sight of it came the awful recollection that I had forgotten my pronogrnph. The situation was appalling. Here 1 was within sound of Lois' voice, but to all intents as deaf to It as a man with out ears. True, I could buy another phonograph when the train reached the city, but the chances were a hundred to one that the aunts would bundle Lois off at some little junction close at hand. Again the porter came to my aid He had been walking past me several times as I sat thinking, and was evi dently deeply curious as to the con tents of the package he had given me, Now he stopped by my seat. "Dat part of a phon'raph, sah?" he asked, looking at the record. "Yes," I explained; "It represents the vocal organs." Ho grinned. "Am yo' de owner of the phon-raph in de 'spress car?" I felt the hot blood rush to my head Salvation was at my back. It' required some Judicious tipping and lordly airs to gain access to the baggage car and secure possession of the phonograph. But when love backs man, even a do-nothing can accom pllsh wonders, while an ordinary be ingwell, I wound the machine and waited for the voice of my sweet heart. "This Is the most momentous day of my whole lire, came the clear tones of Lois. "It is my birthday, and I am no longer a girl. To-day I am of age free to marry whom I please. If you find me, Frank, I will become your wife at once, I hope the promise will spur you ou. We stop to-night at Hugby." The voice ended abruptly, nnd I fan' cied the aunts must have disturbed the girl lis she was talking into the phono' graph. How far from here is Rugby?" asked the conductor, after I was back in the parlor car. "Just passed it," he growled. I looked out of the window nnd found that the train was bowling along at too great a speed to Jump. Spring ing to my feet I whipped at the bell cord. The conductor turned with an oath nnd signaled to go ahead. The train had barely slackened speed. It was time for prompt nnd vigorous action. Grasping tho bell cord once more I pulled It sbnrply, nod then, be fore the official with the ticket puuch could object, I pinioned hi in to n seat. This time the train came to a full stop. When I dropped off the rear plat form and started bnck up the track dare say I left a car full of astonished people. I know I left n blaspheming conductor and the ill wishes of a crew whose train, had been delayed two precious minutes. But what doc man care for hades when he is chasing heaven? There Is no need of detailing tho steps by which I traced the record in rtugby. The station' master pointed out the cab driver, who In turn led me to the hotel clerk. Lois had evidently been given tho key of tho room to de llrer when they went, and hud taken the opportunity of presenting also the phonographic record, with instructions to turn it over to me. When I bnd purchased a new phono graph, I found that Lois' message con tallied but one short sentence: "Wo are going to Loighton," she told in e. - It was the Inst day of June' w hen my train reached Lelghton. Ruin was fall lng ill -perfect torreuts, and the Mis- sourl. River already looked ugly and swollen. Housed in a comfortabls hotel, with four reproductions of Lois' cheering tulks, I watched the rain pout- down day by day. The weather wa at one with my mood, for try as might, I could find no new record from the girl. Bit by bit the river rose. Shanties and boathouses on the banks of the Missouri were caught in the mad swirl and swept down fctrenm. But still the water crept higher and higher. And then one night tho railroad bridge trembled and dually gave way cutting off all connection with the country beyond. The morning of the Fourth ot July dawned clenr. For the first time I strolled about the town, at a loss as to ray further actions. The pnstofllce caught my eye, and hnlf jokingly, I asked for mail. I was given a phono graphic record! "Dear Frank," snld Lois' voice, when I had fitted the record on the cylinder of my machine, "I think there Is n chance to overtake us. We go from here to Berryvllle, Just across the river, where Aunt Sarah says we shall stay for several days. I mail this becanse Aunt Rebecca has become suspicions of the phonograph. I saw her talking with the hotel clerk, nnd I am sure she was warning him not to give anything to you should you be following us. I somehow believe you will receive this record. Come quickly." Within a mile or two of Lois and for four dnys making no effort to reach herl I cursed my stupidity In not ask ing for mall before. I sprang np, ready to renew my search. Then I dropped back to my seat. Between Lois snd me rolled the Mis souri River, unbrldged and swollen in a mighty flood. I could never cross. I telegraphed north, south; np the river, down the river. Everywhere it was the same. Bridges were gone and no boat dared venture up the river. At the moment when I was about to give up hope a thought, of a surety heaven born, came to my rescue. A brisk wind blew straight across the river. Why not hire the aeronaut who was to make a balloon ascension at the Fourth of July celebration to allow me to accompany him? Without question the wind would carry us safe ly across the river. The aeronaut was stubbornly mer cenary. Dollar by dollar I raised my bid, till his great black eyes grew narrow In greedy anticipation. At last we agreed on a price. It was not until we had shot up Into the nlr with the speed of a bullet that he explained that It would be impossi ble to land at Berryvllle; it was too close to the river. So we sailed over It. I do not know whether the man was new at the busi ness or whether tho balloon acted badly, but we drifted on and on with the wind, never once tilting earthward, till I was frantic. Just at sunset we landed, with a terrible thump, in a field something more thnn fifty miles from Berryvllle. I should be forced to go back to that town to pick up the thread of the trail. Cold, dirty, discouraged, I trudged along by the side of my companion to ward a town near at hand. We came to it after a scramble over fields and through woods, and at once made for the hotel. There, sitting in front of the house, dellclouBly lonely, was Lois! Later we bearded the lions. "Young man," said Aunt Rebecca, looking severely at me over her spec tacles, "you are prevaricating." "Yes, Indeed," chimed In Aunt Sarah, "Lois has not been out of our sight twenty minutes. You are prevaricat ing." "I am telling you tho truth," I de clared, with my arm thrown protect lngly abou( Lois. 'The proof!" demanded Aunt Re becca. "The proof!" echoed Aunt Sarah. "It Is here," I proclaimed dramatic ally. I started the wheels of the phono graph and plnccd on the cylinder the sixth record I hnd given to Lois. From the horn, slowly and solemnly, came the voice of the dear old minister who had married us: , 'I pronounce you husband and wife." Milwaukee Sentinel. Practical Politics. A practical politician of the first wa ter cume to light in a email Indiana town not long ago. In this town there Is an officer, designated as Inspector of Streets and Roadways, who receives the munificent salary of $250 per year. As the opposing political parties are very nearly balanced in this town, there Js keen opposition, so thnt when this office became vacant and the au thorities ordered an election to fill it. there was n lively campaign for this small plum, no other elections being near. The Democratic candidate was a rather shrewd old fellow by the name of Ezeklel Hicks, ard it looked as though he would be successful, as a neat little sum had been subscribed and turned over to hiui as a campaign fund. To the astonishment of every body, however, he was defeated. "I can't account for it," one of the Democratic leaders snld, gloomily. "With that money we should have won. How did you lay it out, Eze klel?" "Hum," Ezeklel said, slowly, pull ing his whisker. "Yer seo that office only pays $230 a year salary, nu' I didn't see no sense In payiu' $!HK) out to get the olflco, so I jest bought me a little truck-farm Instead." Harper's Weekly. Chines lluuitllty. 'A Chinaman, wearing his finest gowu of silk, called at a house whero ho happened to disturb a rat, which was regaling Itself out of a jnr of oil standing on a benin over the door. hi Its sudden flight 1ho rat upset the oil over tho luckless visitor, rulniug his fine raiment. While the man was still pale with rage his host appeared, and after the customary greetings the visitor ticcounteil for his uppuarauce In this wise: ''As I was enter'.ng your honorable dwelling I frightened your honorable rat; while it was trying to escape it1 upset your honorable Jnr of oil over my poor nnd' lnslgulticnut clothing. This explains tho contempt ible condition In, which I find myself In your honorable preseuce." Chinese at Home. Many Blip, "Tolltlcs is extremely uncertain," re marked tho uiuu who makes trite re murks. "Yes," answered' tho discouraged looking citizen; "you lead the papers in the hopes of deciding on the best candidate, a-id then start out for tho polls. And maybe you'll be allowed to get to the polls. Thon, perhaps,, you'll be allowed to deposit a ballot, which in your excitement you may or may not have marked correctly. And If you did mark it correctly there is a chance of Its not belug counted, any how. As you say, it's extremely un certain." Washington Btar. One of Lord Kosoberry'l hobbles Is the collection of books. He is mine thing ot a poet when in the mood. ROMANCING By LEWIS HOPKINS OJ. HERE is nn ancient story J( m-f Jt that ought to be told oc O I O easlonnlly for the benefit KJvlfi of those who strain at a tdr gnat and swallow a camel of an old lady whose boy ran away to sea. returning after many years' wandering, nnd who wept over the awful mendacity of the boy when he told her of a monster of the deep, sixty feet long, that wrecked boats nnd killed men by a blow from Its tall; of great sharks that attacked and de voured unwnry swimmers nnd of flying-fish, hut who embraced lilm and forgave him for all these awful lies when be told her of their pulling up a wheel off of one of rharaoh's char iots on their ship's anchor in the Red Sen. We who write of the incidents thnt come under our observation, and occasionally embellish them, often have our pure fiction accepted as fact, nnd our unvarnished truths branded as tlctlon, and so unwittingly prove thnt truth Is stranger than fiction to some people. A kindly disposed friend will occa sionnlly call your attention to the ease with which In separates the wheat of truth from the chuff of fiction, in something you have written, nnd often will hnve the former In the fuel heap and tho latter In the grain bin. but If you love him, let It go at that and thereby keep your friend. That nn in cident recounted is out of the ordinary is no argument affecting its truthful ness. If not unusual nnd strange in some particular, why tell It, with the hope that It will interest or entertain the render? Many men eat fish for dinner In the city every day, which fact interests no one saving and excepting the fish denier. But one prominent, prosperous nnd well known citizen gets a bone of his fish fast In his throat one dny which chokes him to dcath.'nnd there upon the victim of the accident, the bone, the table nnd the waiter are one nnd nil portrayed upon the front page of the daily papers, with full nnd de tailed accounts of how it happened. So even so lnslgiiificnnt a thing as ti small fish bone can change an lncl dent from trivial to tragic, and many will rend and believe though they see not the bone nor be acquainted with the man. We all know many Incidents. great nnd small, that nre out of the ordinary and of Interest, some of which we allow to remain untol." for fear of the doubter. And yet I am sure that most of us, when dlssemlnnt ing hot nlr products, use due diligence to see that the output is duly brnnded, while molten, to the eye of the fair and reasonable reader. I often think of an amusing out of the ordinary incident that came under my observation in Florida last winter, W were at a hotel on the Halifax River where the fishing was good and one day a very large sheepshead was brought In by a lucky fisherman When all hud seen and admired the fish it was turned over to Bill, the ex pert fish cleaner, for preparation for the table. This Bill accomplished ly removlnir the scnles and slicing off each side, leaving the big head and frame. Including back fin and tail intact. I watched the two great slices of white flesh laid carefully on a tray to be carried to the kitchen, the frame, with its big head and bright eyes, cast as far out into the water as Bill's strong arm could throw It, and as the diplomats say, cousldered the Incident closed. The next morning several of us were fishing off a point of rocks near the wharf when n new arrival appeared and began casting out with heavy hand line. The second cast he hooked something, nnd nlthough It mnde little resistance, he was novice enough to grow much excited and hauled In hand over hand as though he were landing a record fish. We were nil watching, mildly Interested, when, with a final jerk, he landed his catch, which proved to be the frame of the big sheepshead above referred to, and which was fairly hooked (by accident I ndnilt) In 'the mouth. To say that we were surprised Is to mildly express our condition, but the lucky (?) fisherman was a little more than this. He was profoundly aston ished, nnd genuinely frightened. At first it looked as though he would faint, and then ns he surveyed the big open mouth, with Its double row of white teeth and gruesome skeleton body, he tried to run. We soon ex plained matters and quieted his fears, but he fished no more that day. Now, this is on example of the un usual and unexpected happening, but If I told this story, as I positively de cline to do, some fellow would write to know it my real name was Mun chausen. Or this iucident, told by a untive of Florida, n young man of character and standing: "Accompanied by a negro man I was looking for n cow that had strayed off In the woods when we discovered a lusty rattlesnake. Arming ourselves with sticks of safe length we attacked and quickly dispatched It. The skin of such large snnk?s having ready sale, I determined to secure this one, expect ing my companion to do the skinning, ns I had never seen such an operation performed. But. thpre I, had another guess coming, for my man positively refused to even assist me. " 'Naw, suh!' he said, 'I wouldn't tech dat reptile, dead nor live, for all d money you could stuff in de hide, big as he is.' "It was up to me, so pulling off my cont and turning up my shirt sleeves I prepared to wado in. In order to avoid nil possibility of accident I per suaded the man to stand on a heavy stick laid across the snake's neck while I cut off the head, which I threw away a safe distance. Then as the body writhed and twisted In1 the usunl mnnuer of a dying suuke, I reached in among the colls trying to grasp the tnll to cut off the rattles. When I Anally got hold ot It tho snake's body had assumed the position which the rattler invarlubly takes when about to strike. "Intent upon securing the rattles un broken, I was stooping over cnrefully drawing them from the colt with my left hand and advancing the other in which I held the knife,, the negro man a little further away, but leaning for ward watcblpg with Interest, when suddenly the snake sprang forward, the end of Its bloody neck striking me with great force on the bare arm. Just H-low my upturned sleeve, knocking he knife from my hand nnd causing me more from fright than force of the blow to pitch over backward. "I have had narrow escapes before and since thnt time, but never before nor since hnve I suffered anything like the awful horror I felt on that occa sion when bitten by n (lend snake. I fairly writhed in agony for a few min utes, trying nil the time to gnln my self-control nnd realize that I was frightened nnd not hurt. "I do not know thnt I wos noisy, but may have been, for my companion was fairly splitting the nlr with shrieks of terror that would have drowned the braying of ft fog horn. He had been cloe to me, nnd the sud den and wholly unexpected attack of the dead nnd headless snnke, acting upon his emotional and superstitious temperament, frightened him nearly to death. Thp first Use he made of his recovered breath was to pronounce my doom. "'Yon Is n goner, still! You might live n few hou.ihs, nn' ninybe two or three days, but you Is (lis ns good as dend. Aln' nobody goln' git well when hit by a live snake, let alone n dead one.' 'I didn't skin that snnke. nor have I ever tried to skin one since." But the doubter will git you If you don't watch out. Forest and Stream. . USES CF DUST. Without It Thorn Wonl.l ltd N. SatneU or Hunrls, ghatles or I.iijhtf. While dust contains many of our mortal enemies, it is one of our very host friends, nnd the finer it Is the more wo owe to it. If there were no dust the sky would not be blue, there would be no raindrops, no suowfinkes, no hailstones, no clouds, no gorgeous sunsets, no beautiful sunrises. Tho iustnnt the sun passed out ot sight we should be In darkness. The Instant it rosa it would bo a sharp cir cle of light In a black sky. There would he no evening glow to chnt or think lu, no lovely dawn, with bird song and cattle low at nature's wak ening. The dome of the sky would be ns dark ns it Is on a bright moonlight night. The moon nnd stars would shine by day in all their brightness. The whole earth would be a deep, dark shadow excepting where the sun's rays fall directly upon It In one great blinding circle. The moon and stars would make even our shadows. Rays ot sunlight or any other kind of light go straight through nil kinds of gasus, no matter of what they nre mndu. In passing through them, if they contain no dust, the rays cannot be seen. They are invisible. You have often seen sunlight enter n dark ened room through partly opened shut ters or a crack of n knothole. You hnve noticed that the rays are full ot dust moving about in every direction. The air is made of gases mixed. You did not see the rays of light, you saw the light in the sun reflected by the particles of dust. Millions of these particles were too small for you to see, but not too small for such a searching thing as light to miss. The light we call daylight is the light of the sun's rays reflected from the particles of dust 'in the air about our earth. Moonlight is the light of the sun reflected from the moon, which is a great mass of particles compressed Into a huge bull. The eurth is nothing more. If both of them were ground fine and scattered they would bo but dust, Each cubic Inch of air contains nn enormous number of dust particles. The number Is beyond our conception. John Aitkin, of Falkirk, Scotland, was the first to count these dust purtlcles. He counted them by a little mnchlne ho carried in his pocket, and lu a very simple way. Ho has been nble to count 7.500,000 dust particles in a cubic Inch of tho or dinary air of fllnsgow. The air of 1'lttsbitrg probably contains ten times ns many. After a tuee'iinr: of the mem bers of ' tho Royal Society of Edin burgh in their hall he counted 0,300,000 to a cubic Inch near the floor and 57, 5(K).000 to a cubic Inch ueur the coll ing. Sunday-School Times. Fan Knd. Many a simulated virtue has lived to plague the simulator. No secret bus more cocksure solvers than the mocking secret of success. It genius could be emulnted, then, Indeed, 'twere folly to be merely wise. Well-deserved praise always pleases the receiver and never hurts the giver. All great reforms are the culmina tions of world-old longings and aspira tions. Many n man who slugs the praises of another does so Just to call attention to himself. No man is fitted to command who lacks the power to put hiiuself lu an other man's place. The most serviceable knowledge to any man Is that which makes him dis satisfied with himself. The nature evidenced by man's first breath remains unchanged In bent and kind till death. . "J'ls their relation 'to the point of view that makes the mind's impres sions false or true. Thnt which degrades the coward nnd the slnvo degrades still more the manly and tho brave. ' , The fool sn.vetli in Ills heart, "Riches have wings," but the wise mau nd vlseth thus, "Clip the wings." It U the way of most philosophers that they would rather speculate on the unknowable and immaterial than set their faculties to work on jsome thlug useful and within the limits of tho attainable, Coast Seamen's Jour nal. A finrman Nantatt Kxlilblilon, A statement has been recently pub lished that in Berne a sausage exhi bition will be held at which 1758 va rieties of sausages will be shown. As Dominie Sampson would fay, this Is prodigious. It seems almost Incred ible that so many different sorts of sausages could be gathered together from the four corners of Europe. And yet there Is nothing Inherently Impos sible in the statement, for the kinds of sausage are of as Infinite' variety as the ingrt dleutu of which they are made. The trade in Berlin knows over 400 different species, and Berlin is by no means a centre of the sausage lu duairy. Loudou Telegraph. 1 THE FRANCES E. k J-1 fjvf.V : j y bi.-iU'vw i a 1 Recently Placed In Statuary Hall nt State of THE CAVITE DRYDOCK. DV UAt ALLKH WII.LEV. AOJV HE tests of JJ j( drydock des 0 rl O United Stnte j for service J(OM. HE tests of the floating designed by the States Government in the Phlllp- XOX pines hnve proved so suc cessful that the craft U now on its way to Cavlte. Since Its completion It has been lying at Chesapeake Bi-.y off Solomon's Island. Here nn cppo-nm'y has been given M thoroughly demonstrate its capacity for docking not only vessels, but to dock itself. In each trial the drydock has performed service up to the requirements of the specifications. The vessel selected for the test was the new cruiser Colorado. It may be needless to say that the Colorado is considerably longer than any of tho battleship class, being more than uOO Xeet. Consequently, the weight of the Col orado, though much more, wus distrib uted over such a greater length of the dock that tho strain upon It ns Indi cated by the deflection wus consider ably less thau when the battleship was lifted from the water; but as al ready stated, the deflection was no more thau the calculations of tho engi neersin fuct, was not as great ns that for which allcwnnce had been mnde. The most Interesting of the tests by ...MMKMhJL.. THE CAN TIK Water Completely Pumped Out far was the docking of the centre sec tion of the structure by utilizing the pontoons at either end. The mulu pontoon Is no less than 310 feet over all, each end pontoon being 170 feet over all. Tho ends of the main pon toon overhang the smaller ones, each of the hitter having nu outside inde pendent, side wnll high enough to al low It to bo sunk nnd hauled under tho centre structure, literally fitting around the centre on tho tamo principal ns the fumlliur collapse or telescopic box. In docking the cruiser tho entire structure was sunk to tho maximum depth in one hour and thirty-six mlu utes, but pumped out In less thun this period, tiio exact time being one hour uud two minutes. Considering tho size of the Colorado und the magnitude of the work Involved, the time required was remarkably short, as only two hours and sixteen minutes elapsed from the time tho ship was landed on the blocks until the keel wus raised completely out of water. The decision of the board of super vising engineers was that the dock Is of sutllcleiit strength and capacity to dock a ship of 20,000 tons displace ment. The arrangemnts for towing this great structure are of no little interest, on account of the length of the voyage and the weight and dimensions of the dock. While the framework, plating and machinery coutalfied represent a weight ot ueurly 11.0(H) tons, its height above (be water, Its unwieldy propor tions, ns well as druft. make it far more difficult to tow lu a seaway than an ordinary craft. The towing Beet selected to take the dr.lock to Manila Is composed of mree UnPed Slates colliers. The largest of these Is the Glacier, a ship ot 7000 tons llsplace tuent and having engines ot 5000 horse- MILLARD STATUE the Capitol, Wnshington, D. C, by tha Illinois. power. The (Under will be assisted by the Caesar, of 5010 tons displace ment, having engines of 1500 horse power, nnd the Brutus, of (KMX) tons nnd 12.V) horse-power. Consequently, the entire towing power will nggregate nearly 8000 horse-power. The smaller craft, however, will be used not only for direct to-vlng, but for steadying the dock In rough weather. Pleasures of Carmraa. Caracas is a charming place to spend a vacation lu. One never tires of watching the pack trains arriving with loads of coffee, cocoa or marketing produce, or setting out with all man ner of queer merchandise for the coun try estates. Then there is the market, where one Is sure to find some new va riety of fruit or vegetable, no matter how often he visits it. Even more in teresting to me are the quaint houses, which seem so many centuries behind the times, nnd yet present such de lightful vistas as one glances through their forbidding doorways. And, of course, there nre excursions to be made on every side, tramps across the valley among the banana nnd sugar cane plantations, or rp the hillside to see a coffee estate. St. Nicholas. A steel chimney 200 feet high was re cently successfully completed in South Wales. lutYDOCK. of the Dock nnd the Vessel Raised. Oeneratloni or Tenth, Dr. Andrew Wilson, writing In Chambers' Journal on the "Repairs of Life," states the little known faet that In fishes and some reptiles successive crops of teeth are produced as the ani mal requires them. "One has only to look ut the array ot" teeth In the mouth of certain spet-les of sharks, or even in the Jaw of a cod fish, to note that as long ns the animal lives Us dental wants are provided for. Similarly, in the case of n reptile such as the crocodile we find sm cc.sivo gen erations of teeth i'i'odlng one anoth er from below upward. "An examination of a crocodile's Jaw would not merely show a tooth belong ing to the set In use, but below It on other tooth ready to take the place of the upper tooth nnd below this latter the genu of u third. These reptiles, lit common with many other forms, cuu, boast of uninterrupted generations of teeth. "Jinn, on the other hand, when ho loses any member of his second set, bus to hand himself over to the tender mer cies of the dentist, which, however necessary they may be in modern life, nre, like those of tho wicked, entitled to be termed cruel." Country's HIM or r Fnrguiian, It Is said thnt two Boston young women recently weiff'to Cuucord on a sightseeing expedition. Wbcu they were hown Emerson's home it did uot Impress them much, as neither had heard of hint. Tho Aicolt house created more Interest, however, as they decided it was the home of Cliaunccy Olcott, the actor. Argentina's exports of wheat for the calendar yeur 1U05 exceeded 113,000 000 bushels. 4
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