GEST PLACE TO LIKE, Tribute Paid by Dr. James R. Day to America. PREFERS EARTH TO HEAVEN. Syracuse University Chancellor Tells Y. M. C. A. Members He Doesn't Yearn For Mansion In the Sky De fends Wealthy, but Deplores Squan dering of Their Fortunes. Itev. Dr. James U. Day, chancellor of Syracuse university, who spoke to a crowded house the other afternoon at the Harlem branch of the Young Men's Christian association, in West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, New York, scouted the idea that the United States was in a state bordering on commercial and Industrial stagnation. He contended that, after all, this is a good world and altogether well worth living in. "Wouldn't you rather live here than in heaven?" asked the chancellor. "1 would, but I'd like togo to heaven when I can't be here. In fact, 1 think I'd be rather discounted in heaven till I got adjusted. You can get any thing you want here. You can live under forty odd governments, meet all the nations of the world, oat all the fruits of the world and get any kind of climate that you choose. So Ameri ca is the best place to live. Hut I think when a man can't stay here any longer he ought to steer for heaven. "For my part, I've never been very much fascinated with the idea of cor ner lots and mansions in the skies and songs and harps and such things. I like a place because it's busy, and the more business there is the better 1 like It. (Jive me lots of work and lots of people to oppose me, nnd then I'm happy. "I hope you young men—and old men, too—all have work. If you haven't you will have soon. This na tion is too big to be ruined, too big to stop long. The business of the country isn't going to stagnate or wither. It is going on. There's too much wealth In the interior, too much property on the surface, too much harvest on its broad acres, too many factories, too much money that's got to be invested to be safe, for us to halt very long. "You've heard that sublime, stupid nonsense about half n dozen men put ting the world in their pockets and not letting anybody else get any. Why, you may be one of those half dozen some day. These men aren't going to live forever. If they had Methuselah's prospects of life it might be a serious matter. Men get rich, and then they get l'at and got dyspepsia and die. The Lord takes care of that. Most of them are fools before they die and leave their millions to their sons and daugh ters instead of to Syracuse university. And most of the sons are fools too. They spend the money for autos and vaclits and great establishments, and by and by you all get it back. "Tho daughters distribute wealth too. They give some of it to those counts and no accounts the papers are full of. Most of it goes abroad, but it comes back again. Many of the daughters of tho rich sell themselves and give a bonus. We have a market here In this country for rich girls, just as much a market as they have in Constantinople. To this market go all the ragged, tat tered royalty that nobody lias any use for abroad. It is a spectacle for men and angels. You can't be personal about such things, but you know what I mean, and you can put it down that most of those sales aren't turning out very well. And that's a good thing. "Yes, the material outlook is very encouraging. And we won't blame the prosperous, because we all want to be prosperous ourselves. Let us all be without that dangerous antagonism to wealth that flows out of sources of malignity and ignorance. "Do you think there's any danger of anybody's being too big? Not a l.it of it. Of course there are thieves In all classes of society—thieves both big and little. But there aren't as many today as there were yesterday, and they will be still fewer tomorrow. They are fast disappearing. It's the gospel of Christ, not legislation, that's doing away with them. "Those congressmen making saints of us? No; not a bit of it. They're not in the saint making business. You don't need laws to make you good. How many of you kuow what tho or dinances of tho city of New lork are? There are a great many of them, and you walk the streets every day and never think of them. All you need to keep out of trouble is a spirit of right eousness. You have that within you that keeps you from violating t lie law. "I came here to talk ten minutes. Just outside the door I met a pious Methodist who offered to bet me I couldn't do it. It being Sunday, I didn't take the bet. and I'm glad, for I would have lost. I have talked more than ten minutes." Tho New Crozier Bullet. The new rifle bullet developed by Brigadier General William Crozier, chief of ordnance, is said to l»e one ol the most important recent achieve ments of that department. The head of the bullet has been modified and a powder produced which gives the rifle an accurate life of some 4,500 rounds. At the outset of the experi ments the accuracy of tho rifle was nestroyed after but 1,000 rounds. Value of Liquid Air In Mines. Liquid air was used a.s an explosive in the building of the Simplon tunnel, nnd more recently it has been found of good use In English coal mines. The Iceland Bride. In Iceland, where various Interesting and fantastic superstitions abound, there is an ancient custom that every bride must Invite all ber friends to a dinner in her home, nnd every article of food must be prepared by the bride herself. If she succeeds in pleasing her critical guests, she achieves not only praise for her own skill, but she helps along her own younger sisters, who are then assumed to be equally well instructed in the intricacies of the culinary art and consequently have their chances of marriage more than doubled. rr j i NOTES C.M.UARMTZ IUVE.RSIDE . CORRESPONDENCE " SOLICITEI U/\ J*f I" ROCKING THE CHICKLET CRADLE When twlnlets arrive, order a cradle for two. When it's triplets, with an air of becoming importance, order n lit for throe. But when it's chicklets you generally order a chick kid cradle for 100 or one to lit tho incubator capac ity. It is then the chicken furniture man often violates his guarantee and sends a cradle that is too small for those bouncing baby boys and girls, and there come sad days to chick baby doui. The undertaker gets busy. You become parents to 100 chicklets. \ott cuddle them to sleep In a brooder cra dle that should rock only seventy-five. The next morning twenty-five lie out side tho cradle in tho cold. Tho sev eutv-livo left is the capacity of the cradle, and you should lose -0 per cent naturally, but they have been weak ened by overcrowding, overheating ami bad air, and hi a few days most of your chicklets will decease. You are ready to hang the murderer of your pretty fluffy birds, but take the lesson that all must learn—never crowd chicks under, hens or hovers. We gave a hen forty peeps. She raised thirty-nine. Gave her the same number tho second season. She raised six. Tell us why. "Woman's contrari ness?" No. Too much family. First season was warm and dry: second sea sou, cold and wot. The <>! d hen's heart was big enough, but her white wings and warm breast and l>i- fluff couldn't cradle them nil. Chicks need air under hover, l'tooin needed. They develop rapidly. More room still. Fill the cradle at the start; in a week it is one and a quarter full and the next week worse. You may be able to carry that much, but a chick cradle can't. If you're bound to hatch more than your cradle capacity, let your wife bring the surplus up ou the bottle. The next spring she will glad ly give you all her Easter hat money for more brooders and sympathize more when you brood. A brooder run in a brooder house uses less oil, and chicks generate heat. Keep a thermometer in your house and watch the one on your hover, but be sure they are true. We taper down tho heat hi the incubator nursery to 90 degrees. After thirty hours wo re move them to the hover. The first week brooders should be run from So to 105 degrees, or according to the height of the hover and the position of the thermometer. After that taper down. Follow the brooder rules unless you find them Impractical, and use your own think. Watch the thermome ter, but watch the chicks. If they pile in a heap, not sullicieut warmth. If they stand up with their mouths open, too hot. If they huddle outside in a corner, the hover Is too hot or not warm enough to be inviting, if they lie down like lambs, with their bright eyes peeping out from beneath the hover. It's about perfect. If they nre lively as crickets at the dawn, you are master, but if dumpy and not ready for breakfast the ventilation is not right, there is soot under the hover or they had too tnuch supper or got chilled. Important Pointer.—Put a ten-day old louseless chick in with the new hatch and he will adopt them, teach them to eat and drink and put them to bed. High, round, druinless hovers, with lamp box and chimney outside the brooder, nre best. Hot water brooders are hot water breeders. If lamp goes out easily and often or continually smokes, discard machine. Ventilate the brooder according to rules, but use your own think. Keep the smoke vents open. Brooders with lamp underneath sometimes have hot floors. Prevent with a thick layer of dry loamy sand. Use this until i hicks know what not to eat; then run dry wheat straw through the clover flit ter for bedding and scratch floor. But be sure sand anil straw bedding are warm and dry. Sot In a box of moist earth for playground to relieve dry ness of shanks and feet .that comes from brooder boat. When ehi ks pa rade to sun parlcr. change water vessel to keep cool. If soot leaks up Into hover, turn brooder over on side, brush off and cover joints with stove cement. Keeping chicks oil a I nirl scratching floor for two \voe:.s will prevent gapes. We have scratching playground for a ttiousan.l. They are all white. When thc.v tumble into that wonderful scratching -tttnt for their breakfast the;, are the prettiest nnd liveliest DON'TS. T- >'t allow me failure to make you i; -nlst. You're mighty small if o lo It. .oruct to provide fat roasts for your own dinners It's a funny fan cier that neglects No. I. Don't 'ret discouraged when the order rush stops. You can take the slack ilnie to count your profits and plan for greater things and shove-the-now. Don't wonder that your hotves try to run away. Your hens deserted the lousy pen for the barn. Now the barn's lousy, the horses nre lousy, and you're a lousy old bughouse yourself. BOOST THE RCOSTER. VYlien you've boosteu up your town And boosted up the booster. Just turn around and do it brown By boosting up the rooster. We can't expect tho preacher mail To boost tho r jostei up. • 3le boosts him down where'er he csa When he goes out to sup. The editor of brilliant brain. "Who's everybody's booster, Will run hts presses till they strain To help boost up the rooster. The doctor, 100, who's such a slave, Will quit his pills to booster. He'll lay his troubles in the grave And yell, "Hip, hip, for rooster!" And Yankee Doodle Dandy, too, Wilt boost up cock-a-doodle, While Uncle Sam, tho chicken man. Wilt boost hU rooster boodle. ABOVE THEM ALL. Poultry nnd t-Rf« }".*>. W.nnj Gold, silver, sin .i> and Wc01..., Ztt,43».32S Cotton 259,1*1.'11 C Wheat USO.'W.OfX! Hoks lv. 629.036 Oats 75.0M.M0 Potatoes tS.OW.OOO Tobacco 35.570.23 i Tho great Amorlean lion nnd enck-a doodlc-do nre on tho plntincle. T*erc was Home crowing done; there was ON TOP. some cackling; there was some laying doing; there were many juicy lion*, fat roosters, month melting broilers, tender frys, pound squabs, l'at ducks, Jumbo turkeys and geese for the cook pot of 1007, but no one Imagined it was tuned up to $000,000,000. Now let us crow and cackle over it and boost the rooster higher for 1008, and you, old knocker about liens not paying, go out and make C00,01X1,000 apologies to the great American hen. FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS. Fresh chick weed, tender lettuce and yoting green clover for chicks, turkey poults ami green ducks. "What will happen If I cross Black and White Mltioreas?" "Oh, you'll get a few mongrel inulattoes that a coon wouldn't steal." In setting eggs don't select the lar gest. The uniform medium sized eggs hatch the best and most chicks. Freaks from freak eggs. When you build that poultry house don't listen to Cheap John. If you're a three center you'll do it, but when you get more sense you'll rue It. It is a mistaken idea that the larger the gobbler the better the breeder. A twenty-live pounder is about right to bring the size most demanded in mar ket. In the isle of Bermuda everybody raises chickens, but breeding, feeding and rearing are unscientific, conse quently eggs sold for 75 cents at Christmas. The reason why so many duck breed ers get left on early eggs is because their ducks are exposed to cold and dampness all winter. They are so poor they must lean against the nest to quack. As the hot season approaches re member that corn is a cholera breeder. Cooling feed for summer and clean cold water, with shade and open house to catch tho breeze. No stimulants for poultry or poultryincn California now buys eggs by the pound. If tills gets to be the rule in all the states. It will be a stunner on storage, for they nearly half evaporate. Our White Leghorns lay eggs that weigh over two pounds to the dozen. When a mftn makes his own incu bator and brooder, his wife thinks lie's a gigantic genius till hatching time; then she wonders why she ever prom ised to "love, honor and obey" such an awful mail. The failure of a home made incubator Is nothing to giggle over. When a fowl's crop is full make an incision in front and take It out the front door or you'll Hood the Inside with chicken grub and your customer will have some barnyard fare for his Sunday dinner. "Taint" nice to bite on such things. It spoils the effects of that sermon. New York state has 300,000 persons interested in the poultry business. They have $15,01 ".000 invested in stock and $-15,000,000 in property and equip ment. a total of $00,000,000. New Yorkers don't all have "Americana I'.ementla," but there are hundreds of thousands gone chicken crazy. There are people in the poultry busi ness who are like a friend who had never seen an electric battery. For enlightenment we gave him the whole current. His eyes stood out, his hair stood up, but lie couldn't let go. When be was sulliciently informed we cut the current. The handles flew across the room. He buzzed like a circular saw and gave us so many complimen tary expressions of gratitude that we would repeat them, but he is a preacher now. Yes, friend, you made a mistake "•ben you let that paying job go and jumped head first into the chicken biz. Let go and quit before the sheriff serves a writ. The IMew turnery. [ln a short time, according* to a promi nent surgeon, it will be a < i>mmon thing to transplant with success the vital or gans of lower animals to a m in's body.) Bill Smith was in a railroad wreck—tho cars were ground to mutches— And when the surgeons y,• t to him Bill Smith was mostly patches. But soon with pair of rnlibit's cars Bill Smith was keenly harking. While hint's from out a setter dog had set Hill Smith a-barking. The doctors solved most capably the miss ing stomach question. Two stomachs from a mullcv cow bnilt up Hill Smith's digestion. And when a horse contributed (with no thanks to the giver) Bill Smith would not have taken back his ancient fautty liver. A pair of cat's eyes tickled Bill and fixed him up completely. And ho could see In blackest night and dodged his light bills neatly, And when folks asked if ho was pleased with all his borrowed tackle Bill Smith would Just throw back his head and give an old hen's cackle! —Denver Republican. A Suggestive Admission. "Here you've been telling me all ( along," said the bright faced young wife, "what a wonderful cook your mother was. And now your Aunt Jane j has just told me that your father was a chronic dyspeptic." "Well, you see," the young husband murmured, with a deep sigh, "mother learned by practicing on father."—' Cleveland Plain Dealer. IHI HUNT 108 JEFFS Uncle Sam's Attempt to Rescue Missing American Sailor. ONLY A FEW TRACES FOUND. The Yankton's Men Believe Galapagos Castaway Perished Miserably on In defatigable Island—Shot*, Rockets and Searchlights Used to Attract Marooned Sailor. The United States gunbont Yankton, tender to tho Atlantic battleship fleet, was sent from t'allao to the Galapagos islands to search for a missing Amer ican sailor, one l-'reil JofTs. The Infor mation furnished was of the most mea ger description, only that Jeffs was a member of the crew of tho Norwegian bark Alexandra, wrecked in the Gala pagos in May, 11)07. that he separated from his companions on indefatigable island and that when they were res- j cued in October of tho same year at a j place called Puerto Aguado, given as In latitude 4ii minutes south, longitude 00 degrees 20 minutes ;!(> seconds west, j Jeffs was not with them, lie had I therefore been nearly a year on Inde- j fatlgable island if alive. The distance to the Galapagos was covered in four days, and Hood Island, the most southern of the group, sight ed at noon on March 3, says a special correspondent of tho New York Her ald'on board the Yankton, writing! from Acapulco, Mexico. Previous to fighting land great quantities of sea life, for which the vicinity of these islands is noted, and numerous birds testified to Its nearness. In order if possible to gain Informa tion about the wreck, Chatham island, where there Is a settlement, was first visited. Anchoring in Wreck bay, a messenger on horseback was found waiting on the beach with the com pliments of the I' al authority, the "administrador," and a polite inquiry if any assistance i-oulj be furnished. The Inhabitants of this island num ber about 330. all dependents of a sin gle estate and mostly engaged in the; cultivation of sugar, cotton and tobae j co. The estate lies in the hills and | valleys on the southern slope of the i , island In the only place where water is obtainable. Water is the need of all this group of islands, and the lack of it is the keynote of their barren wastes and cactus covered slopes. The shores of all consist of black volcanic rocks and cliffs, with here and there in a sheltered spot a sandy lieach. The islands, rising in most cases to 3,000 or 4.1HM1 feet, have their slojies covered : with a giant growth of cactus min gling with a thorn, which made prog ress back from the shore impossible, without cutting a way. • Two guides sent by the admiulstra-' dor arrived on board the Yankton at daylight, and the course was shaped for Indefatigable island, thirty-five miles distant. The story of*the wreck as told by the guides was interesting. Their information was from a part of the crew which had landed on Chat- j ham island and from the captain of! the Island schooner, who had heard the wrecked captain's story ot Guayaquil, i The bark was becalmed near Albe- j marie island and swept by the strong ' current found in these islands ashore j under a cliff, where she soon went to j pieces. The crew escaped in two boats, i one with ton men, the other with the ! captain and seven men. During the ! night the boats became separated, the j Fioat with the ten men reaching Ilood island, and then, seeing Chatham island j In the distance, they reached it, found i It inhabited and told their story. The J administrador forwarded them by the : island's schooner to Guayaquil with a ; letter to the consul. The captain's boat, of which Jeffs 1 was a member, reached uninhabited; Indefatigable island, where it was; smashed on a reef while making a landing. This second disaster -securely i locked the party on Indefatigable is land. as there is no kind of wood to, make a boat on the island. The party, finding only a few springs of brackish water near the beach, lie- I gan a search for a better camping j place and. abandoning their first camp.! moved to the place called by the na- j tives Puerto Aguado, but not marked i in any way on the chart. It was at j this time that the separation from Jeffs took place. According to the message, received j from the consul at Guayaquil, the cap taiu of the wrecked bark said Jeffs : preferred to loaf, and. though they j tried to persuade him togo with them. ' he refused, saying that the chances of I rescue were as good one place as an- ■ other and he was going to stay where ; he was. The story as heard from the guides was that he was ill and could ! not follow, and the others left him. The guides themselves were pic turesque characters, and one especial ly deserves more than passing mention. Old and tall aud gaunt with a strag gling gray beard and snappish eyes, he was a type not often seen. Unable to read or write, lie showed great intel ligence and caught the meaning of the ideas expressed before half the words were spoken. He cheerfully ackuowl- , edged that his acquaintance with Inde- . fatlgable island was due to a murder committed at some previous time, for which the administrador. who api»ears to be an absolute monarch, had ma rooned him on Indefatigable island for three years, during which time he had ilved there alone. The Yankton approached the land on the eastern side and dropped a whale lioat, which conveyed ashore Chief Boatswain Crone aud three men. They made their lauding through a break in the reef on a smooth sandy lieach. and the ship, after firing two shots from ?ne of her three Inch guns to attract Jeffs, if he were in that neighborhood, turned to the south to find Puerto ! Aguado, the point at which the captain and his boat's crew had made their camp. The party ashore was left to notify Jeffs if he appeared in answer to the signal guns and to search the coast if he did not show up. In the short interval that the boat was ashore a number of turtles were chased on the beach, but proved too much for their pursuers. Try as the men might to turn one, it would tear itself away and | get to the water, and none was caught until a bright lad found that fcc fctfptrhrr, which moment «rltv Mnnni-rt them, ftipy could lm tnrtioil on M> < * i bark* lieforo they recovered Before ♦ his one nr two men had fltmnwt tweti carried to sen by trying to hnne t > their turtle after It had rMH'IrtNl "»«• writer. The ahlp hove to off Puerto A<runrtn and a whnlelmat rnn Into n Ktins tiont harbor, and there Mood tho rr> mains of n camp evidently occupied tf ! a nmntwrof mm for ninny month* The kltrlieii win marked by a atone flr»- place, with thi' charred remains of n tire, it number of pegs arranged for cooking utensils and the bono* of tur tle* hanging up, the Hi'«"li drlnl on them. A rusty rifle was plotted up on one side. Hung over some hushes wore "lil, rough clothes, prolmhly hung out to dry when the try of "Rail ho!" had brought Joy to the despairing casta ways after their five months' Imprison mcnt. The object found of deepest Interest to the search party was a rusty razor with a black handle, on which wns scratched "Jeffs," tho name <>f the missing man whose fate is such a mystery. The reason for the camp at this place was found In a pool of 112 ilrly pood water, one of tho few on the const of the Island, as assorted by the guides. As the afternoon was now wearing away It lieeame necessary to hunt an aueborage for tho night, and, standing to the west side of tho Island, the an chor was let iro in Conway bay, an open roadstead. Here the searchlight was played about the mountain and swung from side to side to attract th« castaway's eye. At every half hour a rocket swished Its way Into the air from the bridge. The searchlight was soon by the party 011 the other side of tho island twenty miles away, so that Its beam must have been fairly visible all over the island. At daylight a lioat went into the boaeh In case the man had come down, but there was no sigu. One more point remained to be vis ited before returning to our search party, and this was the latitude ami longitude given in the consul's mes sage as the place where Jeffs remained behind. The guides said there was no water within miles of this vicinity, and no one could live there. The spot was marked by a high mass of rock off shore called Name-less island, and tho Yankton lay between this and the main island while the fruitless search was made. No remains of a camp, no water, no anchorage, no traces of any thing that could l>ear on the loss of the ship or any of its men were found. Beturning to the place at which a landing hail been first made, the party who had sjK-nt the night and day were picked up. They had found footprints on the volcanic crust clearly depicted, showing that a man had lived in the vicinity at some past time. The foot prints led to a brackish pool of water almost hidden under some dense brush, and here the remains of a fire were found. Xo other trace of the missing man was found. The party separated and v a Iked miles up and down the lieach as far as time permitted both days they were ashore. Had Jeffs been alive and been any where on this side of the island he would liave heard the guns of the ship or the shots of the fearch party. It is therefore fairly safe to conclude that Jeffs died from illness and hardship alone on this most desolate of islands. The hardships of the party wha sur vived could le appreciated from see ing their wretched camp and realizing that their only food was turtle and fish, for even the cocoanut palm, found nearly everywhere lu the tropics, fails to find enough substance on Indefatiga ble to grow. A turtle steak is an ex cellent article the first time it is eaten. About the fourth time it pails, and to continue daiiy to live on it would out do the thirty days of quail so often cited. At night the shore of the island swarmed with mosquitoes, so that sleep for the party ashore was impossible, and they sat to leeward of a bonfire to relieve the assaults of the little liests. On some shallow salt ponds back from the loach tea!, piover and curlew swarmed at sundown, and to a party having a shotgun and plenty of ammunition these would have made a welcome relief, but it Is not probable that Jeffs had firearms of any sort and probably had but very little ammuni tion. There are undoubtedly certain val leys back In the mountain where there is water aud many edible fruits and plants grow. Also there are about these places wild cattle and goats, but to get them would mean clearing a path through an almost impenetrable barrier of cactus and thorn which to lie appreciated must lie seen. Water to last while the path was cleared would have to be carried; huge fissures In the ground would be met with which would block a trail except in certain spots, and the men who under took to do it would have to give up the chances of rescue which would come by living on the shore. Besides, a man ignorant of the Interior would not know It there were any places where life could be sustained while attempting to penetrate to it. Altogether the trip, while not realiz ing its object, was of the greatest in- : terest. and the glimpses taken of these extraordinary and Interesting islauds will be remembered by all on board. A Relic of Old Tims Hats. "it's lunny. isn't it.the money w« spend for unneccssaries?" said a Chest , nut street hatter. "Now. just takt your own derby hat. Do you see tha' little white bow at the back inside' What earthly use is it? It can't be fot, effect, because no one ever looks in : side your hat. But would you buy i hat without that same little while bow tacked at the back of the lining? '• guess not. No. sir; the manufacture! has to lay out money for silk to makt that little bow. It doesn't amount tc much for oue hat. but when you think how many hats a manufacturer turn; out in the course of a year you wil agree with me that the silk used uf amounts to a pretty item. The funny thing is that there is a reason for tha* bow too. It is a relic of prehistorii dajs. so to speak—that is, it had a us* once in the old days, but in spite ot the fact that its use has been abau donnd long ago the bow remains. Ir the good old days instead of making the hats in graded sizes they were al made one size and a ribl»on was rur around inside the lining. By tying thb ribbon or letting it out at the bow it the back the hat could be made to fi: the head."—Philadelphia liecord. SUPERB OPFRA HOUSE Mexico to Havr thr Finnt \n thp World, GREAT NATIONAL INSTITUTION Government It Fuminhing |fi,WJQ.O(K <o Build Magnificent Structure »' ♦he Capital—-Grmd Ballroom In th» Building—To Be Strictly fireprpnt i "Mexico IK t« linv* the flheM opera ' hixi c i> in the world 11 will >«l (SU.IMHI, mm and will in' magnificent icphlln ' tnrally, a* In lis furnishing* and In »\ ory oilier way." Till* was thp •tilimmt recentlj made by W ill J. I'avK manager of the lilt 1 nois theater, who had just returned | from a tour of tlie land of Plan, sa.i - the Chicago l'i«t He van tho guest ' of Arthur Ktlllwoll, pr* -Ulont of tin Kansas City, Mexico ami orient rail way, and of t.eiieral Manager I tick In »on of the same line. Nearly thro* weeks were occupied In Inspecting th r new railway and visiting the most Important cities and tow ns on tin r route, including n stop of several days ' in Mexico t'lty. "The opera house, which Is veil un t der way," continued Mr. Davis, " is a I national affair, tlie Mexican govern ment furnishing the money for the L purpose. It will stand In the center ot . a square, facing one of the most lieatt . tlful plazas iu the city. The buUdlnp ' will l>e 220 feet wide and .130 feet ! deep. "The architect Is Ada mo Boari. lie 1- t an Italian and was for some time asso t elated with Hurnhatu iV Hoot of «"hi cago when that firm was planning and *Uf>crtntcnding the erection of tin ! World's fair buildings In Chicago | i Mr. Boari showed me all of his plans and models and then escorted me I through such parts of the structure as , It was possible to Inspect. "In his working rooms he has twe . complete models of the building and grounds made in plaster of |»aris, and he also has a plaster of paris model of one-half of the opera house, with littli L plaster figures of men and women , occupying every seat, giving an idea a> to sight lines and appearance of the , auditorium when tilled. "Another model, made of hard wood. i represents the other side of the build ins. auditorium and stage, also looking . toward the proscenium, which 1s of 5 maguificeut design and capable of the highest order of ornamentation. Models , of the decorations. lioth in design and color, were shown to me, and they arc ; r very beautiful. "Mr. Boari told me that, while hi . was deferring in many respects to the . wishes of the people In Mexico City. ; who are mostly iu favor of European * models In architectural art, he was In ! j clined himself to subscribe to the moil eru style In theatrical building ns illus trated in leading American theaters. "When I tell you that, notwlthstan I , Ing the gn-.t size of the house, he li::s j ■ planne l for something like 2.0ii0 seat-1 I only, jou will understand that he Is , largely complying with moderr Ideas, which are designed to bring an andi . ence as clikw to the stage as possible. "Although the stage will be one ot : the largest iu the world, the proscenl I urn opening will lie only forty-two feel i square. Thus it will be possible to ; stage light operas and even comedy a . well as the most pretentious prodnc - tions. "The auditoduta proper consists of a » jiariiuet floor Trhich is truly American - ! in its proportions. Tlie circles are i Jtterned more after the European! tyle ar.d consist first of a mezzanine ! I Boor, which is composed of boxes alto » gether, the president's belt:-.? directly . iu the center and much larger than the * others. There will be a capacious re .• . ception roo.n directly o:7 the pre-i ! dent's I- •; for his exclusive u<e lubes 1 retiring rooris are back of tho boie i all around tb-- mez:* -: :e > >r. A bal ' cony and gallery couiplete the seating : ttccomtiuidntious of the bouse. "The spacious front interior of the i structure v. 11l const- 1 Crst if a grand - state 1 ai!room and then a series of promen ides, one for each floor of the - auditorium, ail stretching around a ■ square court which extends from the ! ground to the roof. In the center of t this court will be a fountain, around r which at all times of the year will be i a profusion of tropical flowers and j ■ plants. ' "The front exterior of the building " and.in fact, both sides of It are high ! ly ornamental architecturally. A mag- I ! nlficent flight of steps semicircular In 1 form lead up to the front and straight 1 away flights on either side. Two sets of capacious elevators will convey pa- i 1 trons t > any desired floor. Cafes anil ! restaurants are provided for; also read ing. stroking and retiring rooms. I "The opera house is being construct ! j ed entirely of steel, stone and cement ' and will L' strictly fireproof. The | very latest electtic lighting appliances ■ i will U» installed, and modern couvi n lionccs generally will !k> used through out the building ! "Tlie immeii - 1 width of the stage j will give e\ ry facility for ample dr. s ! ing rooms as well as scene packs and f 1 carpenter ;■: i property rooms. The . ; height ever all on the stage will be 1 I 12t> feet aud something over 100 feet clear to the rigging loft. Underneath ! the stage there will lie ample room for |( ! the working of most gigantic spectacu ( | lar and mechanical effects. -*Mr. Boari informed me that it was * not thought possible to have the build ing ready for opening before Septem- J ber. 1910. It is understood that the Mexican government will subsidize the opera house In such liberal manner as will provide for the very best character of grand opera entertainment." 1 j Smoking In Clubs, j The question of smoking was a burn i* Ing one in tlie uiidnineteenth century, i and it was not until l v 4."> that White's * pave up a room to the users of tobac >l CO. and In all clubs the smokers were l relegated to the most dismal apart r meuts. It was King Eilwanl when r prince of Wales w*ho broke through 1 the tradition, and when White's re r fused to extend the accommodation for Lt pmokers started ''' ■ Marlborough, i wherein smoking 1 • permitted in ev il ery part of the house but the dining loom. —London Chronicle. MM I KIM Droll Iniudon! In thp Rpiqn of Jam*!* I. o1 Enqhnd. A TRICK ON AN AMBASSADOR thi Inltrprtittiam ef the liw P*f4sflt>*d by a Cratktiy Spaniard and a Hard M»»d*d and Canny Ol*i Stoteli Bwtehar It I* cald that Kind .Into. - lon r.. moving to tsoftdoft i\ n« v nltc'i upon by the Kpitnl«li utnl'icvmlor, a n tt» of erti illtlon, but who had a crotchet in hl< hnnd that «>\t>ry eonntr> ahonld havn a jjnUN* >r "t to (MM h MW and 1h« like of hlui to nuderataud one nnotltPt The nml>n«artdor Wax lamenting one flay lief ore the ling this cri it rti*«|t|er ittttnt throußlemt all Knroim, when th» klnc *al<l to him: "Why, I have it pr" fessor of «iiirtis In the northernmost eo legi» In my dominions \ iy„ nt Al>ei •Icon Irtit It Is a great wa> oft, perhaps (WO miles." "Were It 10.000 leagues off 1 shall Pee him," said the ambassador, "and Bin determine*! to set out In two or three days " The king saw he Imd com mltted himself and wrote, or caused to Ih» written, to the University of Alier deen, stating the case anil desiring the professors to put him off some way ot make the l»est of hiin. The amhassa dor arrived, was received with great solemnity, but soon liegnn to Inquire which of them had the honor to lie pro fessor of signs. Being told that the professor was nlisent In the highlands and would re turn nobody knew when, the sador said. "I will wait his return, though it w ere twelve months." Seeing that this would not do and that they had to entertain him at a greot exi>eiise ail the while, they con trived a stratagem. There was one tieordv. a batcher, blind of an eye, a droll fellow, with much wit and rogu ery about him. He was got. Instruct ed to lie professor of signs, but not t > speak on pain of death. Geordy cheer fully undertook the role. The amlia sador was told that the profe or of signs would lie at home noxt day, nt which he rejoiced greatly. Next day Geordy was gowned, wig ged and placed in a chair of state In a room in the college, all the profess ors and the ambassador being in an adjoining room. The ambassador was shown into Geordy's room and left to converse with him as well as he could, the professors awaiting the Issue with fear and trembling. The ainlmssador held up one of hi* fingers to Geonly; Geordy held up two of his. Tlie ambassador held up throe; Geordy clinched his tlst and looked stern. The ambassador then took an orange from his pocket and held it up, Geordy tool; a piece of barley cake from his pocket and held that up. After which the ambassador bowed to him and retired to the other professor, who anxiously Inquired his opinion of their brother. "He is a perfect miracle," sai 1 the ambassador. "I would not give him for the wealth of the Indies." "Well." said the professors, "to de scend to particulars." "Why," said the ambassador, "I first held up one finger, denoting that there is one God: he held up two. signifying that these are the Father and Son. I held up three, meaning tlie Father, the Son and Holy Ghost; he clinched his fist to say that these three are one. I then took out an orange, signifying the goodness of God. who gives his crea tures not only the necessaries, but the luxuries, of life, upon which the won derful man presented a piece of bread, showing that it was the staff of life and preferable to every luxury." The professors were g!aJ that r ti ters bad turned out so well; so, having got quit of the ambassador, they next got Geordy to hear his vers: ci of the signs. "Well, Geordy, how have yon come on and what do you think of yon inan ?" "The rascal:" says Geordy. "What did he do first, think ye? lie held up one finger, as much as to say. You have only one eye. Then 1 held up two, meaning that my one eye was perhaps as good as both his. Then the fellow held up three of his fingers, to say that there were but three eyes between us. and then 1 was so mad at the scoun drel that I steeked my nelve and was to come a whack on the side of his head and would ha' done it, too, but for your sakes. Then the rascal did not stop with his provocation here, but. forsooth, takes out an orange, as much as to say. Your poor, lieggarlv, cold country cannot produce that. I show ed him a whang of a bear bannock, meaning that I did na' care a farthing for him nor his trash neither as iang's 1 ha' this. But, by a* that's guid." cot - eluded Geonly. "I'm angry yet that I didn't thrash the hide o" the seoun lire!!"— London T. I'.'s Weekly. Walt is a hard word to the hungry. •-German Proverb. sin ra! A. Flella tole TIN SHOP For all kind of Tin Roofing, Spouting nnd Canoral Jot* Work. Stoves, Heaters. Ran«M„ Furnaces, sto- PRICES TBfi LOWEST! jjliiLITY TOE BEST! 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