CM THE MOUNTAINS.
(They had missed him in the valley, they
were crouching in a hollow,
They were aheep without , a shepherd,
they were few,
Said the youngest, to the eldest: "We must
(inu him we must follow.
We munt lollow, follow, follow till we
do." '
Said the eldest (o the youngest: "Lot I
know I he road he a taken,
lie ia waiting where the pile he lighted
hii ma,
tlia word ia on my apirit and my faith ia
at ill unshaken;
We must follow, follow, follow till he
turna."
Said the youngest to the eldest: "Listen,
listen. (J my brother,
T,o, the tire in the valley has (rone out,
(tut up among the mountain he hna light
ed him another.
We must follow, follow, follow, we inuat
ahout."
Detective
Dorothy.
11 1W
"Nine of Dave Harper's chickens
tvero stolon last night, so I hear,"
said Dan, coming In with the wood
one pleasant summer morning. "The
raids are getlng pretty near home,
Dot!"
Dorothy looked up from the cook
ing stove. "Yes, I'm expecting the
thieves," bIio said. "They're coming
to this coiner of the township, of
course. My white Leghorns aren't
any safer than other people's chick
ens. But," and she straightened her
slim seventeen-year-old figure with a
lift of her small ho:id, "I've thought
out a plan If they do come."
"Burglar alarm?" suggested Dan,
with brotherly contempt. "They cut
the wire3 of the one at Allen's be
fore taking the chickens. They've
poisoned three dogs, so Brace would
be of no use. What can you do, when
every farmer round hp J been beaten
so far?"
"I'm not planing to keep them
from taking the chickens," replied
Dorothy, mysteriously. "They're
bound to do that. My Idea is dif
ferent. You needn't laugh! It is
an Idea only I don't know whether
It will work or not, until after "
"After they steal th9 chickens?"
said Dan, laughing. "What good will
it do then, Dot? Girls aren't a bit
practical." '
"Lots of things have to be theory
before they're practice," returned
Dorothy. "Wait and see."
That afternoon Dan heard a great
cackling and commotion among the
chickens. Dorothy was treating them
to "some of her notions," as her
brother expressed It.
"You'll have complexion washes
for those pullets of yours next," ho
said, teasingly, looking in on her as
she stood beside a pail of some sticky,
paint-like substance, dipping each
Leghorn's legs in It, amid of chorus
of protesting clucks and squawks.
"What is it? Tar? A specific for
loss of appetite, and keeps the feath
ers fromtfalling out, I suppose? But
It looks bad, Dot, to turn those in
nocent and Inexperienced chickens
Into blacklegs, even If it doeB keep
them from having the pip."
"It won't f.trike In," said Dorothy,
methodically and busily catching and
dipping the Leghorns.
They were plump, pretty creatures,
the best flock, although a small one,
In the neighborhood. Dorothy had
taken infinite pains with them, as
Dau knew, and kept every remedy
and mixture on the market for them.
The meanness of the chicken thieves
came over him as he saw his sister
among her petted tlock.
"I declare, those fellows ought to
be shot, stealing honest people's
chickens!" he cried, warmly.'
"If they steal mine romethlng will
happen," said Dorothy. She set down
the last Leghorn pullet to shake out
its ruffled feathers and walk off on
Its Minorca hued legs.
'It will happen to the hens, not
to the thieves, I'm thinking. In an
other v.eek, Dot, you'll probably not
have a chicken left to try toilet prep
arations on. Cassandra was no
chicken herself I'm not sure that
she ever saw a chicken and I'm not
dressed for her part, but I'll be Cas
sandra on this occasion. I prophesy
disaster, and I have faith that my
prophec;- Is the true Cassandra
kind!"
It certainly was. Two mornings
later the chicken yard lay desolate
not one cherished Leghorn left. There
wore .wagon tracks ia the lane, in
the soft pluces left by the rain. But
they told nothing, and were soon lost
on the beaten highroad. A piece of
newspaper was found near the gate.
But it was only a scrap of the local
papor, the Warrendale Gazette, and
bad no Identifying mark whatever.
"Dan," 'said Dorothy, "will you let
me have the light buggy and Rex?"
"What for?"
."Never mind."
"Don't you want me to go along?"
"No, thank you." Dorothy disap
peared Into the house. She drove
off five minutes later with a mysteri
ous box, carefully brought out and
packed under the seat by her own
hands.
"I'm going to take dinner at Cous
in Mary's, in town," Bite said, and
Dan was left to conjecture her errand
as best he might. Of two things,
j.owever, tie felt equally sure. One
was that she was after the chicken
inieves; tne other was that she
would not find theoi.
"Dot might as well be going to a
sewing circle; but then, it diverts her
mind from her loss," said the young
philosopher, and went off to dig the
potatoes.
Young Prank Evans.statlon master,
ticket seller, telegraph operator and
freight and express agent of Milby
Junction, six nitlea away, thought
Dorothy the prettiest girl in the town
ship as she drove up to the platform.
He had thought so since they went
to school together In pinafores.
Perhaps Dorothy knew it, too. At
any rate, she came to him prepared
to rely upon Ms utmost assistance.
'l'rank." she began, ai he hitched
Rex lor her, "do you ship many
crates of poultry from her, or bar.
Mis of dressed poultry, t"
Said the eldest of them, angered: 'Lo, the
atripling hna been drinking."
But the youngest only curled hia plena
ant lipa
"lie ia watching on the mountain where
the aim he loved ia ainking,
We muat follow, follow, follow where it
dipa."
So they Bought him down the valley, arm
in arm in friendship linking.
And they atumhled on the ashes in the
dark,
But they found him on the moiintaina
where the aun he loved waa ainking.
With hia fingers apread to shield a new
horn spark.
And he laughed them out a promise, those
nbumloned -in the hollow.
"There are other llumea and other aims
beside:
But to know them you must follow you
must follow, follow, follow."
So they followed, followed, followed till
they died.
Westminster Gazette.
By PKISCILLA LEONARD.
"Yes, I ship a good many," said
Evans. "Why do yon ask?"
"I've just had all my white Leg
horns stolen forty of them. Every
one round here is losing chickens.
Now those chickens have to be mar
keted somewhere and not around
here. It's fifty miles to the city,
which is the safest place to market
them. If I stole chickens, I'd freight
them down, dressed and packed In
barrels. So I thought If anybody
round here was doing the thieving
and the thieves, whoever they are,
take the local paper, and certainly
do know this part of the county as
well as their hand I might get
some hint from your shipments."
"That's a first rate tdpa," said the
young man. "But I don't remember
any special shipper of dressed poul
try In barrels. The Walter boys pack
that way, but I guess we're not sus
pecting them! Mrs. Dixon sends a
barrel now and then. So do the peo
ple on the Lawrence farm; that's
been an experimental poultry farm
for the last year. I hear they report
they lost badly through a raid by
the thieves two months ago. The
Elliotts, over at Orwell, send dressed
poultry, too, but never very much.
It doesn't seem "
"No, It doesn't," said Dorothy,
looking perplexed. "But these chick
ens have got to get to market. Prank,
somehow. I've started to hunt this
county over till I find' what's become
of them. I guess I'd better drive to
the other stations up and down the
road. They'd be likely, to choose a
stupid agent to ship through, so I
dn't wonder they keep away from
here."
Then she flushed at having paid
Frank a complimeut, and Frank
flushed, too, with pleasure, for he
knew that his pretty schoolmate
never said things unlasa she meant
them. It put him on his mettle.
"But see here, Dorothy, why do
you have to drive up and down the
road? What's tho matter with my
telegraphlns instead? Come in and
sit down, and I'll get you all the in
formation you want in half an hour."
So Dorothy sat and listened to the
clicking wires, and- took some brief
notes on a telegraph pad that Frank
pushsd over to her across the table.
"Wagner, at Dorrance station, says
that the Lawrence farm sends a bar
rel now. and then and a crate occa
sionally. The Widow Ransom Is the
heaviest shipper sends both crates
and barrels. Jones, at Pond station,
says Hank Janeway ships a barrel
sometimes; so does the Lawrence
farm. The Browns send a crate bow
and then white Leghorns and Ply
mouth Rocks. Collins, at Felham
Junction, says that Mrs. Robinson
shlpB more than anybody else, but
Jim Henry sends a barrel or a crate
now and then, and so does the Law
rence people Plymouth Rocks, tnoBt-
ly. King, at Bellevue station, aays
everybody sends In crates, except a
barrel now and then from the Law
rence people and Sally Walker."
Frank leaned back and whistled
softly. Dorothy smiled and pushed
the telegraph pad under hb eyes.
Five nnderlinlngs marked the name
"Lawrence" repeated in each of the
five reports from Milby, Dorrance,
Pond, Pelham and Bellevue.
"You clever girl!" said Frank.
"You've got hold of the right end. No
honest poultry farm ever Bhlpped
that much to the city, and through
five different stations In small lots.
But supposing it's so, how are we go
ing to prove it?. The man doesn't live
who can identify an ordinary white
Leghorn hen or Plymouth Rock pul
let." "But the girl does!" cried Dorothy,
triumphantly. "Since day before
yesterday t can pick out any one of
my forty LeghornB with absolute cer
tainty, Frank. I I dipped their
legs,-every one of them, in a fast
black that won't come off, so that I
could know them again it they were
stolen."
Prank Evans lay back in his chair
and laughed delightedly.
"Don thy, you always were at the
head of the class," he said, heartily.
"But what are you going to do
now?"
"I'm going to the Lawrence farm,"
said Dorothy, unfastening the hitch
ing strap.
"You mustn't do that. They might
do you an injury, Walt till I can get
a constable .and a search warrant.
You rauBtn't go alone, Dorothy. I
won't have It."
, "I don't mind a search warrant,"
said Dorothy, with composure. "That
la what I brought this tor."
She pulled out the mysterious box,
and disclosed various brightly labeled
bottles and packages. "I am Miss
Jane Smith, Prank, agent for these
poultry remedies, which I am driv
ing about the county Introducing
among intelligent poultry farmers. I
shall get Into the Lawrence chicken
yards, and come away again without
any trouble, thank you. But I should
like the constable to be at the end of
the lane, ready to come in a little
later."
"I'll get Dick Wlllla-ns to tend the
station," said Frank, "and drive over
with you past the constable's; and
he'll hitch up and follow us to the
Lawrence place, and you can drop me
In the lane when we get there. Then
I'll be right In call. I'll not have you
go alone, I tell you."
"Ota, I shnll bo glad enough to
have you within reach," said Dorothy,
frankly. "I do feel a ltttle queer at
tho Idea of thieves. But I know
they won't suspect me or give me
any trouble."
Nevertheless, It was a somewhat
timid young agent who hitched her
tioraa at thn Lawrence gate, having
oft a young man dovn In the lane be
Ind the hedges waiting for Consta
jle Parry's slow old maro to come
alone.
"I have some very good poultry
remedies here," she began, taking a
couple of bottleB from her box as a
rough looking youth como from
round the house. "It your chickens
suffer from roup, I have a special an
tiseptic mixture here which Is an un
failing remedy. I am introducing
also a cholera preventative and cura
tive, to be mixed in soft food, and '
"Jim might like that roup medi
cine. He fancies Viem 8ort of
things," said the lad. "Come this
way, Miss," and Dorothy and her bot
tles were escorted around a corner to
the chicken yards suspiciously small
for the amount of poultry shipped.
Hero are some Plymouth Rocks,
fat and placid, and a group of buff
Wyandottes; and plenty of Leghorns
In the further yard, where a man was
catching them, one after another, and
killing them as if for market.
"Hi, Jim," called out tho youth.
"I'll go over, and not bring Min
out from hlB work," said Dorothy,
hurrying forward. While she , pro
duced her bottles and urged her
wares, she saw all she needed in the
plump pullet that "Jim" held, with
Its legs showing black against the
white feathers. She hurried through
her sentences, but tho man seemed
Interested. He had a smooth man
ner, but "shifty" eyes.
"I've got some Brahmas with the
roup," he Bald. "Guess I'll try a bot
tle or two of that. Got any more
with you?"
"There's another bottle in tho wag
on, said Dorothy, iu a professional
tone. "I'll get It." She flew back
to the gate, and looking down tho
lane, beckoned in haste to the two
men who stood there, watting im
patiently. Then returning with the
bottle, she had just handed it over
to Jim, when Frank and the constable
came upon them.
It was rather an exciting scene
after that, for not only did Dorothy
pick out her Btolen Leghorns, dead
and alive, but Constable Parry found
one or two of his fine Brahmas that
he said he could swear to.
The roughly dressed youth tried
to run. Jim showed fight for a mo
ment, but found Frank's muscular
hand on his .collar, and thought bet
ter of it. In the end the two sus
pects were marched to the constable's
wagon, and driven off to the justice's,
while Dorothy followed with ono of
the marked and murdered Leghorns
as the corpus delicti.
"He's only killed ten of mine,
Frank," she Bald. "But If you and
the constablethadn't been there, the
other thirty would havo been candi
dates for the barrel In a few minutes
more."
"Don't give us any of the glory,"
said Prank, as he helped her into the
buggy. "We don't deserve it. It's
the cleverest bit of detective work 1
ever knew, and it's all yours. Your
chicken trade mark Is a stroke of
genius, Dorothy. It did the busi
ness." And at the trial, when the whole
county were shown to have been con
tributors to the Lawrence chicken
yards, and the clever methods of the
thieves werb expoBed, it was still
Dorothy's testimony, first and fore
most, that convicted them.
. "Dot, I take that all back about
your not being practical," said Dan.
"Three cheers for Mlsj Jane Smith
and the great roup mixture!"
Youth's Companion.
Giant Fish Caught.
The big fish whbph has caused so
much excitement on the part of fish
ermen at Ely Lake, and which has
been a prolific sourceof tall tales, has
been caught. At least, William Peter
son, of this place, believes that be
has captured the mo.iBter.
While fishing in the lake Poterson
secured a tremendous "strike." He
was almost jerked out of his boat
by the first angry struggle of the big
flah, but, being an expert with rod
and reel, soon recovered his equili
brium and began to "play" his catch.
The fish tried all the tricks known
to the finny tribe and many new ones.
It would set off at tremendous speed,
towing the Bkiff after it at a rate that
made the water churn. Then sud
denly the line would Blacken and
Peterson could hardly reel in his line
fast enough to keep It taut as the
fish came near.
After three, hours of hard work, at
the end of which Peterson'B wrlat folt
as if it had been kept in a vise for
that length of time, ho managed to
get the fish alongside and run a gaff
through its gills. Ho then took a re
volver and shot it. It proved to bo
a seveiity-flve-pound muBkallonge,
and although it was not seven feet
long, as many who had seen the fish
claimed it was, Peterson is satisfied
that there are few fish lu Ely Lake
its equal. Sparta correspondence, St.
Paul Pioneer Press.
Free For a Time.
The Northby Clarion uevor failed
to notice the presence of a visitor lu
the small town, and it he was a per
son known to fame the Clarion made
suitable comments. Occasionally
these comments were so worded as to
prove unwittingly keeu.
The Rev. Mr. Besom was a man
known in the pulpit as a fearless set
ter forth of rights and wrongs, but
In the domestic circle lie displayed,
for prudential reusons, consjdetablo
reserve of speech and action.
"Dr. Besom is once more among
ua for a brief seasou," wrote the
chronicler of Northby'a social and re
ligious life. "He says and doeB ex
actly as he thinks right, without re
gard to the opinions or belief of oth
ers. "His wife Is not with him."
YouU' Companion.
EUROPEAN POLICE DOGS.
Efficient and Incorruptible Thief
Takers of Continental Cities
(From tho Century Magazine.)
That a policeman on night duty
In a great city would be more respect
ed by criminals If accompanied by a
powerful and sagacious dog Is a rea
sonable supposition, yet It remained
for little Belgium to carry out this
innovation; in Antwerp, Ghent,
Mons, Bruges and Ostend an inno
vation which has now spread to
other parts of Europe. Monsieur E.
van Wesemael, Police Commissioner
of Ghent, was the first to suggest
trained dogs as auxiliary police.
In March, 1899, three Belgian sheep
dogs were bought for him by the vet
erinary officer of the city, and their
training was at once taken in hand by
the police commissioner. Shortly be
fore Christmas ten dog policemen
were at work, and after a reason
able period had elapsed a report was
sent to the burgomaster. After ten
months of trial the most conservative
members of the city council of Ghent
became enthusiasts over the new po
lice recruits and voted more money
for dogs to be used In the Faubourg
de Bruges and along the smaller
docks. Soon there were thirty big,
powerful dog policemen on duty and
working with surprising efficiency.
They would take a new man over his
night beat with a zeal, a thorough
ness and a relentless, systematic
ardor that would kill a lazy consta
ble. They knew their work, and
could and did correct many a man
who was a stranger to the beat;
The Bystem la now a proved suc
cess, and the veterinary surgeon of
the city periodically goes out to the
fairs to buy dogs. Many breeds have
been tried, but the best of all is the
big Belgian or French shepherd dog,
the powerful and sagacious Brlads
and Groenenduels, with hair long or
short, wiry or silky. These are un
matched the world over for their
endurance, boldness, fidelity and In
tuitive Instinct.
Some Belgian cities Mons, Saint
Gllles and Schaerbeek buy their
dogs at ten and even eighteen
months of age; but M. van Wesemael
prefers to buy his recruits when they
are six months old and can be sub
jected to an exhaustive training with
surer results. The period of train
ing varies from three to alx months.
For the first fifteen days new re
cruits are kept In the kennels and
are merely taught obedience. Mili
tary brevity, combined with unvary
ing kindliness, marks all orders. In
I due time certain night guards come
I and take out the iccruits with the
veteran dogs when the night bell
sounds. The dog police go on duty
at 10 o'clock at night and finish
work' at C In tho morning. They
never go out in tho dr.ytlme, and on
no account are allowed to become ac
quainted with tho ordinary public.
When on duty each carries a leath
er collar bearing a tin medal, with its
name, birth, date and the word "Po
lice." There is also a cloak for
stormy weather, which covers the
body from neck to tall, it m leather
mounted and waterproof. The dogs
also wear muzzles while on duty, for
their whole training makes them Ye-,
gard the civilian as an enemy, and
a muzzle is necessary for the protec
tion of peaceable citizens. Thitf muz.
zle is of a special kind. It Is a tin
cup, perforated for respiration, which
prevents the dog from eating any
food he may find in the road at night.
An elastic arrangement,- however,
permits tho unmuzzling of tho animal
in an instant, when the muzzle
swings from the collar, ready to be
replaced when the emergency has
passed. Thus unmuzzled the well
fed, trained and powerful animal is
a formidable adversary even for an
armed burglar, besides being an ac
cessory of great use to the night pa
trol .whether a criminal's intent .is
fight or flight.
The entire education of the newly
arrived dogs is undertaken by the
brlgadiers-controleurs, or officers in
authority over the night patrol.
When coaching the dogs tho brlga-dier-controleur
is always in civil
dress, and often he simulates' the
appearance of a tramp or suspicious
character. He goes through the' pan
tomime of assaulting the night
guards, runs away, Blouches along
with suspicious bundles, leaps into
ditches filled with deep water, scales
high walls and generally - runs the
whole gamut of a rascal caught in
the act.
Every week the dog police are
lined up in the paddock for medical
Inspection. They come to know this
event, and if space permitted, one
might relate amusing, pathetic and
all but incredible anecdotes of tho in
telligence of these carefully selected
and well trained brutes.
When a new recruit is beginning
to show aptitude under training, the
night guard to whom it is assigned
comes to the kennel and leads it forth
when the patrols with the older dogs
are assembled for duty. The men
are provided with bones or scraps of
meat for the newcomer, and in this
way stress is laid on the lesson it is
sought to teach namely, that only
men in police uniform may be trust
ed. All others are to be eyed with
suspicion. If not with positive feroc
ity. Later on the night patrol leads
out the beginner, to familiarize It
with every nook and corner of the
beat. For one month this work goes
on three or four hours a night in all
weathers, the hours of duty being
gradually increased to the standard
eight.
It the animal is slow to understand
the object lessons he is frequently
teased and irritated by a brlgadler
controleur. In extreme cases a alow -wltted
recruit is multreated and even
kicked and beaten a little by the of
ficial actor. Simultaneously every
policeman in the station caresses the
dog and gives it dainties. It is no
wonder, then, that the dog at the end
ot his training is at once eager to
obex, the wumaads a the police, and
'more than eager to attack a suspic
ious looking person in civil clothes.
In many cases ttie central police
bureau maintains in its grounds ar
tistically arranged walls, water
jumps and other obstacles, as well
as a regulnr staff of officers skilled In
training these dogs. They accustom
new canine recruits to hearing re
volver shots, to make flying leaps
exceeding six feet, and to attacking
fugitives in the bend of the knee.
They are trained In this last respect
by a pull at the leash when they
Jump for the neck. Thus, when the
policeman "criminal" In charge of
the training feels the dog's muzzle
touch the back of his knee, he drops,
to show that the object is attained.
This operation often repeated, shows
the intelligent dog what the object
or the pursuit Is and how it may be
best accomplished. After a timn the
animal operates without being held
in lensti, and yet instantly responds
to lis master's whistle, no mnttpr
how headlong may be the pursuit in
wnicn it is engaged.
When an officer arrives on Vila ho.nt
he releases his dog with the laconic
command, "Chcrche." Instantly the
dog passes swiftly into and around
farms and outhouses beyond the city
boundary. It knows all possible
places of concealment, for if durins
the earlier stages of the training its
memory in this respect has bean lax,
morsels of meat have been nlncod in
remote corners as an infallible guide
to ttiese places.
The dog does more scouting in ten
minutes than its well nald human
comrade could do in an hour. If it
barks or growls or In any way gives
notice of having found something
suspicious the patrol at once joins
the dog. Each night guard, by the
way, carries a revolver with twenty
rounds ot ball cartridge, a whistle,
handcuffs and dark lantern.
Strict orders are given to the men
to prevent their dogs from picking
up oones or tempting morsels on the
beat. Some superb nnimaln we inf
before the chief commissioner and
his veterinary surgeon settled on the
diet, which now renders the doss nt.
most indifferent to delicacies casually
round in the night.
The men are warned never to take
away the body of a dog colleague
suddenly poisoned while on duty.
The malefactor-irgues that the pa
trol will take up the body of hia
loyal and faithful friend and bear it
back to the bureau, bo leaving the
field unguarded. The mere fact of
the poisoning of n dog shows the
proximity of a criminal on the beat,
so the patrol must call for nid from
the next round if he wants it and
push on in search ot the criminal.
Afterward he must carry the dog'e
body to the police abattoir, so that
the veterinary surgeon may hold n
post-mortem and determine the cause
of death. Tho poisons moat com
monly used nre strychnine and prus
sic acid. While on duty the dog
rarely quits the heels of its human
colleague, save to carry out the sharp
military words of command. "Pher.
die!" "Attaque!" and so on; but It
win rush to aid an officer ou a neigh
boring beat. on hearing the shrill sig
nal for assistance.
Before its first year is over, in
deed, the dog is as admirably drilled
as the smartest Prussian infantry
man. It obeys the word of command
without a moment's hesitation. It
will leap a fence, swim a at ream nr
walk in front, behind or at the Bide,
according to its master's pleasure.
It is hungry for work, nnthntlonllv
anxious to help. Wagging its tall
witn excitement which must al
ways bo suppressed while on dutv
It is an amusing picture of impulsive
zeal; great is its delight and triumph
when it makes an arrest.
Each canine "officer" costs the pio
neer city of Ghent a little more than
five cents a day. M. van Wesemael
pointed out to me that thirty dog po
lice cost the city only 3285 francs a
year and did more than four times
the work that would have been ac
complished by twelve men, who
would have cost at least 12,000
francs.
One of the first foreign police of
ficers to inoulre into and aitnnt tho
dogs was M. Lepine, Police Prefect
of Paris. At first eight of these fine
beasts were bought for M. Lepltie.
These, Paris pioneers Pelvoux
Paris, Turco, Cesar, D'Artagnau,
ftleidje, Diana and Athos became
the pets of all Paris, visit nrs nnn
residents alike. They proved so sue
cessful that their number was fast
Increased, until now evei-v nnn nf
Lepine'a agents ptongeurs is Accom
panied on his rounds along the Salne
quays by a chlen sauveteur.
The alert German Minister nf thn
Interior sent a police commissary Into
Belgium to investigate for himself
the merits of the dog police. The re
port of this official as to efficiency
and economy was no striking that
within three years 150 German cor
porations had also installed does as
auxiliary police, and were soon sat
isfied, as also were many cities of
Austria, Hungary and Italy, of the
canine policeman's superb sense of
duty, as well as its lovaltv. vlellunpA
fidelity, and its indifference to bribes
and salary alike.
The Itubblt Welched.
One day Willie's mother founl her
young hopeful holding his pet rabbit
by the ears. From time to time he
would give Bunny a violent shake
and demand sharply. "Two nhis
two? Two pluB two?" or "Three plus
three? Three plus three?"
"Why. Willie," asked his mother
with deep concern, "what makes you
treat your poor little Bunny that
way?"
"Well." replied Willie, greatlv dta.
appointed, "teacher told us in school
to-day mat rabbits multiplied very
fast, but thU dummy can't even
add." Everybody'!.
A YEAR'S FIItR LOSSES.
World's Oold Output This Year Would
Not Pay Our Losses by Flames.
We have in the United States 11,.
600,000 buildings, valued at $14,
600,000,000, or more than all the
railroads In the country put together,
and ot all these just one Is absolute
ly fireproof. That one was built in
Chicago by the great Insurance com
panies for a testing laboratory. There
are 4000 nominally fireproof build
ings. Yet the one actually fireproof
building, according to Collier's, cost
only twelve per cent, more than a
building that would shrivel up at the
first breath of an advancing fire.
In 1905, which was a normal year,
we spent $500,000,000 for new build
ings and burned old ones to the value
of $200,000,000. We paid $300,
000,000 for fire fighting and $195,
000,00 in fire insurance premiums,
of which we got back $95,000,000
from tho companies in payment for
losses. Hence it would cost us more
to burn part of our old buildings and
protect the rest from burning than
it did to put up all our new ones.
And that was a normal year.
This year it net normal. This
year San Francisco has raised the
fire losses of the United States to
$500,000,000, even if we do not let
another city burn down between now
and next January.
If we should burn up the whole of
our bonanza wheat crop we should
think the country bad suffered a ca
lamity, yet it Is doubtful whether
that whole crop would pay for the
property we actually have burned
and are burning this year. Our en
tire year's gold supply would not pay
for a sixth of It. The entire gold pro
duction of the world would not come
anywhere paying for it.
The $500,000,000 worth of build
ings which we put up in a year to
burn down would cost, about $550,
000,000 if they were built not to
burn down. For the extra $50,000,
000 we could save more than $500,
000,000 that we pay In normal years
for fires and fire protection. In oth
er words, we should havo the equiv
alent of another wheat or cotton crop
added every year to the national
wealth.
How Much to Fat.
How are you to determine how
much food to eat? Let your sensa
tions decide. It must be kept in
mind that the entire funOon of di
gestion and assimilation is carried
without conscious supervision or con
currence. It should be entirely un
felt and unknown, excepting by the
feeling which accompanies and fol
lows Its normal accomplishment.
Satiety is bad.. It implies a sensa
tion of fulness in the region of the
stomach, and that means that too
much food has been taken. The ex
act correspondence in a healthy ani
hial between the appetite and amount
of food required is extraordinary.
As a rule, the meal, unless eaten
very slowly, should cease before the
appetite is entirely satisfied, because
a little time is required for tho out
lying organs and tissues to feel the
effects of the food that has been in
gested. If too little has been taken,
It is easy enough to make it up at tho
next meal, and the appetite will only
-be the better, the food more grateful.
No one was ever sorry for having
voluntarily eaten too little, while mil
lions every day repent having eaten
too much. It has been said that the
great lesson homeopathy taught the
world was this That, whereas physi
cians have been in tho habit of giving
the patient the largest dose he can
stand, they havo been led to see that
their purpose was better subserved
by giving him the smallest dose that
would produce the desired effect.
And bo It is with food. Scottish
American.
Scientific Wrecks.
The German Government has taken
possession of a short strip of track
near Berlin, and is planning to exe
cute a unique series of railroad "ac
cidents" made to order. Every vari
ety of misplaced switch will be tested,
every possible defect in wheels, axles
and car equipments will be tried out,
and the grand finale is to be an im
mense headon collision ot locomo
tives. These spectacular exhibitions are
not planned by the Government as a
national amusement. They a.'e foi
the purpose of scientific experiment,
so that the engineers and railway ex
perts may study ways and means to
prevent accidents of all kinds In the
future.
Railroad accidents have occurred
with alarming frequency iu the Ger
man Empire. It is estimated that the
German railways lose $1,260,000 an
nually through damages. After the
causes and effects of each variety of
wreck have been noted it will be the
task ot the Government officials to
devise safeguards. St. Louis Post
Dispatch. A Costly Monument.
Twenty years ago the Italian Par
liament authorized the erection ot
a monument in Rome to Victor Em
manuel II. The work has been pro
ceeding since that time und has al
ready cost $4,000,000. At least $1,
000,000 more will be required to
Complete 't. The monument, which
is being e. ected between the Forum
and the Capitol, will be the largest
in the world, and will include seven
ty groups of statues by the most re
nowned sculptors of modern Italy.
Paris Journal.
No Longer "Broke."
Sixty families ot Kaput, a German
community established northeast ot
here fifty years ago, petitioned to-day
that their settlement's name be
changed to Brandenburg, the town in
Germany from which the pioneers
came. Kaput is a derisive term,
meaning "broke," which fastened it
self on the village, and tor half a
cantury the place has had no other
bame. Kewanee correspondence Chi
cago Chronicle.
i For some unknown reason the
hark has returneB to European wat
ers. In the Baltifl, for example,
where sharks had been extinct since
J 769, they have made their appear
nee In considerable number.
'llii JlAlttl-.M ....
Four society girls of Walla Wolla. Wash.,
are helping their father harvest his wheat.
l'reaa dispatch.
You can talk about your bridge wliiat girls,
And those who love pink tea.
Or the girl who drive their motor boats
Right tlirolgli the foaming seas;
But xive to me the W estern maiila,
Pure grit from bead to feet.
Who a.illy forth in summertime
To help dad liarveat wheat.
Oh, the girls of Walln Walla!
Who wouldn't follow, follow.
When they don the jeans and jumper and
atnrf out to work. b'gosli!
The boys ttock from the city '
To view these girls so pretty
When thev ".--allow in the winipling wheat
at Walla Walla, Wash.!
They cannot drive the horsea straight,
And they fear to awing the scythe,
But they iook well in the scenery,
And they enrol songlcts blithe;
They're advertised from Kast to W est, s
And they've every elmnre to wed,
For o'er such pretty harvest maids
Mere man will lone his head.
Oh. the girls of. Walla Walln!
Their hearts are hollow, hollow.
If thev do not wed some fellow who ia too
lovesick to josh:
The fence ia lined with suitors
All enthusiastic rooters
Fur earh goddess of the harvest lielda at
Walla Walla, W ash.!
Denver Republican.
A Novel In Three Chapters: Chap
ter I., Maid one; Chapter II., Maid
Won; Chapter, II I., Made One. Ram
bler. A country paper Informs his read
ers, "When a gentleman and lady are
walking in the street the lady should
walk inside of the gentleman."
Mrs. Rurale "Did you ever find
a man under the bed?" Mrs. Out
skirts "Yes, tho night we thought
burglars were in tho house I found
my-husband there!" Troy Budget.
Inebriated Customer (fondly em
bracing a telegraph post "Don't
talk to me of new inventions! What
ever will become of me when they
have wireless telegraphy?" II Rtso.
I dure suggest, though sculping'a not
Of all my gifts the ehiet.
That Mary a lamb would please a lot
If done in baa-relict.
Woman's Home Companion.
The Stranger "My friend, do you
drink?" Blobbs (haughtily)
"That's my business, sir." The
Stranger "No doubt. But haven't
you any other business?" Pick-Me-Up.
He "Do you femember that rich
girl I was so thick with at the
beach?" She "The one that looked
like a little china doll?" "Precisely.
Well, she's broke." Yonkers States
man. Yes, the man with $1 may be a
better man than the one with $20,
but let's agree to let the $20 man
live a few years longer. We may
want to borrow his $20. Brooklyn
Eagle.
Mrs. Knagg "You talked about
coming home early to-night, but I
thought It would nil end in talk."
Mr. Knagg (wearily) "So did I, my
dear." (It did!) The London
Sketch.
Telegraph Operator "Thirty
words, that will bo $1.85, madam."
Madam "Oh, you're mistaken. The
message is only ton words, the rest
is simply a postscript." Boston
Transcript.
All records are brittle.
For, by the wune tokeu.
One cannot be lowered
W'uhout being broken.
Philadelphia Press.
- A pompous young lieutenant, pa
rading in full uniform, and approach
ing a sentry, was challenged: "Halt!
Who goes there?" "Ass!" was the
contemptuous reply. "Advance, ass,
and give the countersign."
"Walter, do you mean to say thla
is the steak I ordered?" "Yes, sir."
"It looks like tho same steak the
gentleman across the table refused
to eat a few mlnuteB ago." "Yes,
sir; we always try it three thlmes be
fore we give it up, sir."
Dead on to Them.
A statesman, in an argument, had
turned the tables rather neatly on
his opponent. Senator Dolllver, in
congratulation, said:
"You remind me of a Fort Dodge
doctor. Dr. X . This" gentleman
once had a grave dug for a patient,
supposed to be dying, who after
wards recovered, and over this error
of judgment the doctor was joked
for many years.
"Once he attendtd, in consultation
with three confreres, another patient.
This patient really died. After
death, as the physicians discussed
the case together, one of them said:
" 'Since quick burial is necessary,
we might inter the body temporarily.
I understand our brother here has
a vacant grave on hand.'
"Dr. X smiled.
" 'Yes,' he said, 'I believe I am
the only physician present whose
graves are not all filled.'. "-Harper's
Weekly.
"Without."
The German girl who presided
over the soda fountain in Heckelmey
er's drug store was accustomed to
patrons who did not know their own
minds, and her habit of thought waa
difficult to change.
"I'd like a glass of pluln soda,"
said a stout man, entering one day
in evident haste as well as thirst.
"You havo vdnllla or you have
lomon?" trunqullly iuqulredv tho
young woman.
"I want plain soda without sirup.
Didn't you understand me?" asked
the stout man, testily.
"Yas," and tho placid German face
did not change in expression or color.
"But wat kind sirup you want him
mitout? Mitout vanilla or mitout
Jemon?"
Poor Henry.
"Very prqb'atly I'm a atupld
chump," said the reader, "but I tnust
confess I don't like Henry James'
novels."
"O! you are not necessarily a
chump," replied the critic. "The
people who don't like bis novels are
divided Into two classes those who
don't understand him and those who
do." Philadelphia Preaa.