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—Wichita
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
———
AN ELOQUENT DISCCURSE BY THE
REV. W. T. BEST. .
“Faded Leaves,” the Subject of a Helpful
Talk—=The Endless Variety of Leaves—
All Must Stand the Storms of Life
Alike and Come to the Same End.
CHASM Farrs, N. Y.—The following
sermon, entitled “Faded Leaves,” was
Preached here by the Rev. William T.
st. He took as his text “We all do fade
as a leaf.” —Isa. 64:6,
Nature has once more been disrobed
of her green foliage, “and the Stork
in the heaven knoweth her appointed
time and the Turtle and the Crane
and the Swallow” have gone to a
warmer region. While looking from my
study window, I noticed the leaves falling
and the children playing among the dead
leaves that Jay upon the ground. I then
began to think of the past year. I re-
membered distinctly its birth when we
knelt together in the Watch-meeting and
reconsecrated ourselves to the Master.
The thoughts of its youth revived those
pleasant memories that can be appreciated
only by ore living in the Adirondacks.
But, oh, how changed everything appears
to-day! The same river glides by the
door and the same mountains are on
either side of the house, yet a cloud of
sadness hovers o'er me as I watch the
leaves fall from the trees. “Ah! these
are harbingers of approaching storms; the
indication that another summer’s warmth
and beauty is about to be succeeded by
the chill desolation of winter.”
It is so difficult for us to understand re-
ligious truths that God was obliged to
draw them out in diagram upon the natu-
ral world. Therefore a minister may go
to almost any branch of nature and find
8 sermon. “Go to the Ant,” says the
wise man Solomon. Consider the ‘‘Lillies
of the field,” says Christ. Bush and brook,
beast and bird, day and night, the chang-
ing seasons; all abound with spiritual
lessons, and the faded leaves, blown wildly
about by “he wilder winds of autumn,
whirl up in our faces, and before our
doors, seeming to say, “What about us?”
God has commissioned us to Carry a mes-
sage to man, and mingling with the dirge
of autumn, comes the sadder dirge of the
Drones Isaiah, “We all do fade as a
eaf.
I. The _ndless Variety of Leaves.
Though there are so many different
kinds of leaves in the world it is doubtful
if there are two leaves of any class ex-
actly alike. Then all species of leaves are
not found on one tree. The king of white
oaks may witness 600 years of Canadian
history; the Californian pine may have
existed centuries before “Leif the Lucky”
discovered Vinland; the Parliament Oak
has seen 1500 years of European progress;
the cedars of Lebanon date their birth
from the time of the flood and the Boa-
bab of Senegal claim to be over 5000 years
pld; yet the leaves they ‘ave scattered
are but as a drop to the ocean compared
to the number that have fallen to the
earth. -
“God hath made of one blood all na-
tions of men,” and though there are so
many different races of mankind it is
doubtful if there could be found two men
of any race exactly alike. They differ as
do the leaves. Especially is this true
from a religious standpoint for all men
do not hold the same religious belief.
The main thing, however, is for all to be.
long to Christ. Let the fig leaf utter its
voice of warning, the maple suggest its
sweetness and the olive bring its message
of peace; vet there are time. in every life
when naught can be found but the weep-
ing willow.
Perishing, perishing! Hark, how they call
s
us;
Bring us your Saviour, oh, tell us cf
Him!
We are so weary, so heavily laden,
And with long weeping our eyes have
grown dim.
“Go ye into all the world, :nd preach the
gospel to every creature.”
II.Some Leaves Are Higher Up in This
World Than Others, But All Must
Stand the Storms of Life Alike and
Come to the Same End.
Some people are determined to go up in
this world, even if they go down in the
next. Men lose their health trying to get
wealth, and then lose their wealth trying
get health. God has a place for every man
in this world, whether it be in the minis-
try, at the work bench, or fcllowing the
plow. Let each man find his right place
and there be at his best for God. It is
useless fc: a leaf at the lower part of the
tree to le trying to get to the top, but
in each leaf in its proper place goes to
make a perfect tree. “For as we have
many members in one body, and all mem-
bers have not the same office; so we,
being many; are one body in Christ.” Let
us learn, therefore, in “whatsoever state
we are therewith to be content,” “run-
ning with natience the race set before us,”
and we shall as surely hear the “well
done” as the man with the greatest num-
ber of talents.
The millionaire can wear but one suit
of clothes, sleep in one bed and eat but
one meal at a time. In many respects
his. riches only increase his troubles, and
it 1s a mistake to suppose that he is not
subject to many of the disappointments
common to men. On the other hand, Jet
us not try to throw a romance about the
poor man’s lot. Poverty is hard, cruel,
unrelenting. But as surely as the different
kinds of weather are a necessity to the
leaves, so surely are the storms of life
fecessary to our highest good; for
“If all were easy, if all were bright,
Where would the cross be?
Where would the night?
But in the hardness, God gives to you,
Chances of proving that you are true.”
Death places the leaves all on the same
level. Said a widowed lady, whose hus-
band fills a drunkard’s grave, as she stood
y the grave of the wealthy saloon keeper
who had taken his money: “Ah! you are
on a level with my husband now.” Yes,
death places us all on a level. Where are
now the vast armies of the Assyrians,
Grecians, Persians, Romans? As with the
warrior so with the peaceful, as with the
rich so with the poor. Millions have gone,
millions more are on their journey.
“The boast of heraldry, the pomp of
power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth ere
gave,
Await alike the inevitable hour,
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”
ITI. The Decay of the Leaf is Sometimes
Hastened by External Cireum-
stances.
It may be affected by insects, excessive
moisture, excessive cold, ete., ete. Then
often the leaf is plucked from the tree
while in full bloom.
“The wicked shall not live out half their
days.” God gives every. man so long to
live, if he takes care of his body (which
is the temple of the Holy Ghost) he will
probably live out his appointed days. Yet
how often we see people called from time
into eternity just at the moment when
their brightest hopes are about to be
realized. Moses has led Israel through
the wildernéss. He has borne up under
their murmurings and backslidings, and
at times he has had to stand alone when
it seemed as though his shoulders could
not carry the care and responsibility
placed upon them. Yet he has looked for-
ward to this glad moment as the time
when his character shall be vindicated
and he shall iead the people, triumphantly
lead the people into the Promised Land.
But now the command comes from heaven,
“Moses, ascend Nebo to die!” Ah! this
is tragedy surpassing anything Shake-
spearean, yet it occurs almost every day.
A vessel i: wrecked at sea, a train has
jumped the track, a hotel has taken fire
and men and women just on the eve of
realizing their highest ambitions are
snatched from this into another world.
IV. The Leaves Fade in Concert Though
They Fall One by One.
“One cannot count the number of plumes
which those frosts are plucking from the
hills.” Thegqaisles of the woods will be
covered with a beautiful carpet of many
colozs. The imagination can scarcely com-
prehend the number of leaves that are
falling. The grave is the great city. It
has the laregst population, the longest
streets, the greatest number of hands,
billions of eyes, though they see not.
Kings and queens are there, orators,
statesmen, yea, men of every rank and con-
dition, yet it is the great city of silence.
Neither work, nor device. nor knowledge,
nor wisdom are there. The multitude of
the dying and the dead are as the autum-
nal leaves drifting under our feet to-day.
“One hv one, one by :, we shall soon,
ves soon be there.”
V. Let Us Proceed to Inquire, How Do
“ the Leaves Fade?
1. They fade naturally. It is what con-
stantly occurs. After the summer is gone
and the fruits are fully ripe, they change
their color, lose their interesting hue and
drop in rapid succession to the ground.
“Man that is born of a woman hath but
a short time to live, and is full of misery.
Hh - cometh up, and is cut down like ‘a
flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and
never continueth in one stay. In the
mids. of life we are in death,” and science
teaches that we are more apt to die than
to live, all our tendencies are toward
death, and it is one continual struggle to
keep soul «nd body together. Where are
now the builders of Babel? Abraham and
his seed? David and Solomon? Daniel, the
prophets, the apostles and the great men
of the past? nly remembered by what
they have done. They being dead are
still speaking. The serpent comes to the
sinner, coils about his body, presses his
heart tightly, and then comes the awful
sting. The same serpent comes to the
Christian. But oh, how changed! The
Christian, as he looks him in the eyes,
can cry out: ‘Oh, death, where is thy
sting?” “I have been dying for many
years, now I shall begin to live.”
2. They Fade Gradually.
The different periods of life are com-
pared to the revolving seasons of the
year. Childhood and youth when life is
all expectation and hope, are like a beauti-
ful May morning when the sun’ shines
brightly, and the dew is upon the flowers,
and everything is beautiful and lovely.
Nature is bursting her bars and is giving
promise of the unfolded splendors of a
summer’s glory yet to come. But oh, how
quickly time passes by! Th: boys and
girls of yesterday are the men and women
of to-day. Then, for none of us is there
such a thing as an ever-enduring man-
hood. “We pursue our course, from child-
hood, with its vigor and beauty, to age
with its feebleness and decay,. with the
unfailing continuance of the rounding sea-
sons. Gur march is an uninterrupted one
from ‘the cradle to the grave.” But, oh,
how we shrink at the thought of going
down the western horizon of our physi-
cial strength! The leaves, which a few
days ago felt the first touch of the frost
have day by day been changing in tint.
The work was not completed m a day.
No, it has been going on gradually and
after awhile, leaf after leaf, they will fall
to the ground. So with you and me.
trom day to day we hardly notice the
change, but the frosts have touched us.
VI. There is a Greater Beauty and Glory
Attached to the Leaf in Its Fading
and Dying Condition Than at Any
Time in Its Life.
Along the lake shores and river banks,
and up the slopes of the mountains, “there
is an inuescribable mingling of gold, and
orange, and crimson, and saffron, now so-
bering into drab and maroon, now flaming
into solferino and scarlet.” In the morn-
ing the forests look as if they were trans
figured, “and in the evening hour... .
as 1: the sunset had burst and dropped
upon the leaves.” Some of the mountains
appear to be all on fire, as if they were
submerged in che glory of the Lord. Said
ev. C. C. Townsend, as he stood by the
parsonage gate and looked upon the scene:
“Isn’t that beautiful? I must bring my
wife up rere to see that foliage.” How
>ften while driving along the road we no-
tice a tree where the leaves have faded
at the first touch of the frost, all turning
a russet brown. “No one stops io study
then:. They are gathered in no vase.
They are hung on no wall.” No one cares
anything at all about them. Such is.the
death of the wicked. They do not live
out half their days, but pass away into
plackness, and darkness, and despair’ with-
out a ray of light '» cheer the gloom.
But, thank God, such is not the death of
the Christian, for, “the path of the just
is as the shining light, which shineth more
and more unto the perfect day.” What
a beautiful sight it is behold a father and
mother in Israel who have spent their
lives in the service of Christ come down to
cross the river. Oh, what halo of glory
there is about them! What words of peace
and joy and comfort proceed from their
lips, and how strangely near the Holy
Spirit is as the Angels gently -loose the
silver cord.
“Fade, fade, each earthly joy,
Jesus is Mine.”
And the fading body flutters and falls
downward as the leaf, while “the spirit
returns to God who gave it.” Oh, that in
this sense, too, we may all fade with the
beauty and glory of the leaf.
VII. The Leaves Fall Only to Rise Again.
It is one of tha lrws of nature that
nothing is really lost. Things change their
condition, but exist in another form. In
the juice and sap and life of the tree the
leaves will come up again. Next May the
South wind will blow the resurrection
“trumpet and they will rise.” So with
our loved ones who sleep in Jesus.
They shall not all sleep, but they shall
be changed. “For if we believe that Jesus
died and rose again, even so them also
which sleep in Jesus will God bring with
Him. For the Lord Himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel, and with the trump of
God; and the dead in Christ shall rise
first. Then we whicl are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in
the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air,
and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
VIII. In the” Heavenly Jerusalem the
Leaves Shall Never Fade.
“Soon will the shadows of earth’s life be
past,
Sorrow and partings be over at last;
Soon shall we meet in the ‘Mansions of
Day,’ i
Meet where our loved ones can ne'er fade
away.”
When ¥zekiel foretold the blessings of
the Messiah’s kingdom he spoke of them
under the figure of trees growing on a
bank whose leaves should not wither, but
be for medicine. When John saw in apo-
calyptic vision the heavens opened, and
the new Jerusalem de ding dymnafrom
God out of heaven. He saw iu ihe nudst
of the street and on either side of the
river, the tree of life, and the leaves of
the tree were for tire healing of the na-
tions. .
“There the sun never sets and the leaves
never fade,
There the righteous forever shall
like the stars,
shine
.In that leautiful city of gold.”
Alcoholism is extremely rare in the Ital-
ian army. In 1901, the latest for whieh
figures are available, enly twenty-five cases
were admitted to the hospitals.
Horse and Wheel Out.
The women of Berlin have tjred of
the wheel and horseback riding, and
are now devoting thempelves ener-
getically to athletic exercises.
.
“Blanche Plumes.”
Henry of Navarre himself need not
have disdained the new brilliant white
ostrich plumes which decorate our
dress hats this season under the name
of blanche plumes. The toque is of
crin, glistening gray, pearl color, soft
brown in many shades, dark blue or
black. With a singular unanimity of
choice the hat is trimmed with a single
long and wide curiing ostrich feather,
stationed in the middle of the ercwn
and curling forward so as to form a
complete circle or loop.
High Heels Are Barbarous.
Addressing the co-eds of the North-
western University the other day, Pro-
fessor J. Scott Clark said: .
“Of all the barbarous, senseless, idio-
tic customs that of wearing high-heel-
ed shoes is the worst. We think it is
horrible for the Chinese to bind the
feet of baby girls, but that custom is
not so barbarcus as is the custom prac-
tised by many American women of
wearing shoes with lofty heels. The
Chinese custom is uncomfortable. High
heels are not only nncomfortable and
barbarous, but they often injuriously
affect the hexlth for life.”
Lace Medallions for Ankles.
A pair cf lace medallions, left over
from the summer frock, can be put to
excellent use in trimming stockings
to’ match the gown. For instance,
with a pongee gown piped with lace
medallions, a plain pair of tan lisle
stockings were made very smart by
the use of lace medallions, one just
above each instep. They were first
appligued on the stockings with silk
thread, in very fine stitches, then the
lisle beneath was cut away, and the
edges "of the stocking biuttonhole
stitched closely and: finely to the
wrong side of the medallion. Worn
with brown suede shoes, they gave a
dainty finishing touch to the costume.
Patriotic Finnish Women.
Patriotism in Finland is not confined
to the men. Daughters, wives and
mothers are active in the cause of lib-
erty. Fcr cxample, says a writer in
Everybody's Magazine, nearly all the
secret agents of the National party
are young women of the best families,
and it is they who outwit the Russian
censors and assume the risk of dis-
tributing forbidden literature. The
prohibited writings are printed in
Stockhelm and London, and the wom-
en go after the papars, bring them into
Finland in their trunks at great haz-
ard, and distribute them throughacut
the country.
work would mean deportation to Si-
beria with the hundreds of other wom-
en thus banished for less cause.
A Chinese Lady's Toilette.
Chinese dress does not call for
great ingenuity on the part of the
makers, for in form it is always the
same. A lady's first garment; is_.a
plain piece of silk fastened round thé
waist to form an apron, which laps
over at the back. In the place of this,
poor women wear a sort of cotton
“front” which covers the chest, but
has no back. Next come the under
jacket and the overjacket, the trous-
ers, the apron, and the footgear. The
last consists’ of bandages and tiny
shoes for the “little footed” or a ‘“cot-
ton boot” and shoes of sensible size
for the uncrippled peasant woman. In
cold weather the number of jackets
worn is increased, the heaviest thing
outermost, which is padded and’ quilt-
ed or fur-lined. For outdoor wear a
sleeveless overjacket, known as a
“front and back” is used.
any
Daintiness in Taste.
A girl should study what style of
dress and what colors are most becom-
ing to her. Daintiness of taste in
dress is one of the most charming of
feminine qualities. Even if you are
very poor, or the conditions of your
life are harsh, or,%indeed, rather be-
cause of these things, cultivate as
much charm as you can, says the La-
dies’ Home Journal. The girl who
dresses tastefully, even in the poor-
est cloth, who puts, perhaps, a flower
at her belt, who arranges her hai
softly and becomingly, is expressing
outwardly some inner sense of beau- | ga:
ty. The pity is that many so-called
honest and practical natured people
discourage this kind of thing in girls.
There are some mothers and older sis-
ters thatsl knew who “are so dyed in
their own:.-drab-colored opinions that
they are ready to criticise the young-
est daughter when she comes down
to tea with a little creamy lace at
her wrists, a pretty ribbon at her
throat, a rose in her belt, or pinned
softly in her hair. To make our girl-
hood rich, to make it count for the:
the thing that is important and worth
while. for us all; and I know of noth-
ing which enriches the days more
than beauty and the love of it.
Heart of Rose.
A beautiful deep pink is known as
“heart of rose.” It is seen in the new
and soft fabric silks intended for eve-
ning gowns.
Heart of rose comes in Messaline
silk, in peau’de crepe, in the tribe of
To be discovered in this’
——
er rr
gauzes, chiffon and silken tissues gen-
eraly,.and in the taking “Cinderella”
silks,” intended for little gowns, not
very. formal toilets... Cinderella silks
resemble taffetas with a glace surface,
but arp soft to the touch and more
flexible. and supple than many pieces
of silk sold by the name of taffeta.
A pretty. gown is of heart-of-rose
chiffon, plaited and gathered. There is
a transparent shoulder yoke of white
lace cut in one with the high-shaped
neckband. This is bordered with very
narrow insertion of the same lace,
through which is run narrow black
velvet ribbon. Three inches below the
pointed yoke another row of lace and
velvet ribbon follows the same lines,
thus trimming the plaited blouse,
which fastens in the back. A shaped
girdle of the pink chiffon is trimmed
with velvet ribbon threaded in the
bands of lace insertion. The sleeves
consist of three graduated puffs, a
large one frcm shoulder to elbow, a
medium-sized middle puff and a small-
er one near the wrist. The puffs are
separated by bands of lace and velvet
ribbon. The full skirt shows a grad-
uated flounce headed by two rows of
the ‘‘beading,” or lace insertion
through which velvet ribbon is run.
This makes a deep point in the front of
the skirt, and rises toward the middle
of the back, an arrangement of lines
supposed to make the woman who
wears the gown look taller,
Winning in Beauty’s Race.
The pretty girl must learn animation,
The sad-eyed girl will not win in
beauty’s race, nor the girl who only
half listens to you; the girl who inter-
rupis you with irrelevant’ exclama-
tions; . the ‘girl. who lacks ahimation,
wit, vivacity—none of these girls will
win in the race for heauty. Of course,
the sharp-tongued girl will .never do.
She is the exception to all rules; she
is the girl who is absolutely barred out
of the race; the woman who, above
and beyond all others, cannot compete
in the race which all women run with
time and beauty, says Marian Martin-
cau in the Cincinnati Commercial Ad-
vertiser. The woman whe is to be
called beautiful, the pretty woman,
must be well groomed. When in the
first flush’ of youth ‘a girl may get
along without ‘grooming. She may be
able to draw her hair back and be ne-
glectful of her best points. But the
age at which she can do this passes
away at 18. After a woman has reach-
ed 18 she must take care of her own.
The pretty woman will have a clear
complexion, be it an clive or a peach-
blow." She must possess a nice pair of
lips, which are curved properly. She
mupst have delicate nostrils, not neces-
zarily Grecian, but at least refined.
And she must own a pair of eyes that
are always at their best. = Eyes that
are at their best will be arched with
brows that curve prettily; eyes that are
their best will not be imbedded in
eyes that are at their best will
ot be surrounded with red lines, but
will be clear and pretty. Eyes that
are af ‘their best will be bright eyes.
These few points can be controlled,
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shine, that are cf fair size, arched
with nice brows and that are not red.
weeping eyes. Po
Fashion Notes.
More handwork than ever is
gue.
the
oh
v
Many little dashes of orange help the
effect.
Biz, drcopy bows on stocks are to
be seen.
One or two flounces are on almost
every summer skirt.
Loops instead of buttcmhobles are on
some of the new blouses.
Directorie styles are more and more
favored by fashionable women.
Tan shoes with brown gowns seen
on the street—and they are very effec-
tive, too.
Madras waists in pastel effects of
pink and blue, with medallions of lin-
en lace, are new and becoming.
A green parasol has a green stick,
the end of the handle finished with a
<’s head in the same green and
with a black bill.
For applique lace the fine
duel
branch
with cone and leaves has been adopted
as a mcdel and this pattern is much
favored by the Parisian modiste.
Chiffon in light
dark hues is
ing dresses,
ncipal trim-
or bertha.
r hat is trimmed with a
rds’ heads in white, with
iocoki at a little
cnerries were dotted over
als
the white.”
A pale blue siliz stock, hand made,
has set in the front a butterfly of gold
and in ‘the end of the littie stole piece
pendent from the stock a star of gold,
and cther stars are set in at the sides
collar.
of tx
On street gowns one finds often a
single puff of slightly more than el-
bow length finished by a wide flat cuff
band or drooping slashed cuff from
under which escape frills or a puffed
undersleeve reaching to the wrist.
Another sleeve well liked for the
street frock is long and plainly fitted
over the inner arm, but into the outer
side of the arm is set very full width
of material tucked hor zontally or
trimmed * with tiny plaitings or frill-
ings.
‘ture.
and every woman can Rave eyes that,
GETTING RID OF MOSQUITOES.
Texas Town Shows It is Possible to
Exterminate the Pests.
,. Laredo, Texas, is proof that it is
“possible to rid a town of mesquitoes.
In order to do this concerted action
is necessary. The people of Laredo
are working on this theory, and it
costs a citizen of that border town a
fine of from $5 to $20 every time
young mosquitoes are found about his
premises.
It is pretty well established that
the germs of yellow jack are carried
by mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are bad
enough, but yellow fever is worse,
and the health authorities in this lit-
tle Texas town believe that both can
be avoided by enforcing certain sim-
ple laws of sanitation.
The people of Laredo have learned
that a swamp or a marsh is not
necessary to the propagation of mos-
quitoes but that the insects are hatch-
ed in a thousand and one places not
ordinarily thought of.
It your next-neighbor throws a tin
' can into the back yard, and rain wat-
er accumulates in the can and re-
mains there for even a few hours,
the result is likely to be a small
swarm of mosquitoes on your premis-
es. Cisterns and barrels of water,
pools of rain water standing in gut-
ters or in flower-pots are favorite
places for mosquitoes to breed. The
obvious advice is: Get rid of the water
or cover it with a screen.
The difficulty is, of course, that it
is improssible to secure concerted ac-
tion to fight mosquitoes according to
this method, except under stress .of
great public danger. In Laredo there
would be no crusade against mosqui-
toes were it not for the fact that the
health authorities and the pgople gen-
erally are convinced that the insects
transmit the germs of yellow fever.
It has been declared by the city
council of Laredo that all wells, cis
terns, tanks, reservoirs and other wat-
er containers which are not either
coated with oil or protected by screens
are public nuisance, and the persons
on whose premises they are found
are liable to a fine in the police court.
‘Moreover, the law is being enforced.
The result is that mosquitoes are
practically unknown in that town.
The same is true in several other Tex-
as towns along the border.
Walking With Broken Legs.
Experiments have recently been
made by the London Hospital with
new: splints which enable a person
with a broken leg or thigh to go about
his business within a few days of his
acccident. The invention hails from
the continent, where it has been in use
for some years. The principle Of
the splint is that round the seat of
the fracture is fastened a hardened
leather case, which fits the leg close-
ly everywhere, and prevents any
movement of the fractured bones. The
weight of the body is then carried by
jointed steel rods attached to anoth-
! er case fastened above or below the
knee, according to the place of frac-
With this appliance the patient
is enabled to walk before the broken
bone is joined, and there is none of
that after trouble with stiff joints
which comes when a limb has been
held. rigidly for weeks.
The method of applying the splint
is to first take a cast in plaster of
the broken limb, from the plaster cas-
ing to make a model of the leg, and
upon this to build up, in leather
strengthened with steel bands, a case
which exactly fits the limb. Along
each side are clamped strong and ad-,
justable steel supports, which carry
the, weight of the body from the leath-
er casing to the.ground. Around the
ankle and foot is placed a steel sole
piece and anklet, which receives the
other end of the jointed support.
Thus a man who has had the mis-
fortune to break his leg may in a few
days be out and about his business,
since the appliance is concealed by
his clothing. The only indications
that anything was wrong would be
stiffness in walking and the necessity
of using a stick.—London Hospital
Gazette. J
Yukon Hay Fever.
A good hay farm in Yukon valley is
a better paying proposition than an or-
dinary gold mine. This fact has been
demonstrated by a Dawson freighter,
who is farming a large tract of native
hay at Gravel lake, on the trail be-
tween Dawson and the Duncan dis-
trict, Stewart river. Last fall this
man put in an immense quantity of
fine hay, enabling him to bale more
than 600 tons this winter. Besides
wintering his own large herd of stock,
Le has had considerable feed for sale,
receiving $140 a ton. At this price
his crop was worth $84,000. He clears
a profit of at least 100 percent. Win-
ter weather has not prevented continu-
ous work. A crew of ten men has
been employed and two six-mule teams
to collect the bales and carry them to
market. His entire .crop was cut
with scythes and handled in a primi-
tive manner. Next season he will re-
place these methods with modern
farming implements, greatly reducing
the cost of handling the crops.—San
rancisco Chronicle.
Veteran of Mexican and Spanish Wars
Only ore veteran of the Mexican
and Spanish wars has thus far ap |
plied for a pension from the govern:
ment. The one applicant is C. B. Hunt,
who was once a resident of Massa:
chusetts. Any veteran of Mexi-
can war who survived to fig against |
Spain must have been three |
score and ten years old, the allotted |
span of life, and the man who enlist
at the age of 70 .. must needs
patriotic and well fortified
strong constitution in.order to unde
take the fatigues of a second cam-
paign.—Boston Advertiser.
with a
i the corresponding fi
*! toria Falls in
A GIFTED CROW.
Black as the Wings of Night and Chat.
ters the Live-Long Day.
That the American crow can con-
verse freely in his own language is a
statement oft repeated by naturalists,
but that he can also learn to talk good
English is a fact not generally known
even to his best acquaintances. In
one case, however, a common black
crow learned considerable English,
The bird is a well known resident of
Cameron, Mo.. the proverty of Home
McGee, son of a carpenter. :
The bird is in the habit of greeting
persons whom he meets in the streets
in a loud voice, though, aside from a
few words, his vocabulary is little
known to the ordinary citizen. But at
home he becomes loquacicus ard his
owner is sometimes compelled to in-
sist that crows shall be seen and not
heard.
One gray-haired woman relates that
she was leaving home one afternoon
when she heard a crr of “Grandma!
Grandma!” She looked everywhere,
thinking that her little grandson had
come, but presently saw the crow
peeping mischievously from the house
top.
The bird calls members of the fam-
fly, “Papa,” “Ma,” “Nora,” and “Hom-
er.” His interrogative, “What for?” is
scattered through the conversation,
with langhable results.
He calls chickens to their food,
clucks like a hen, and mews like a kit-
ten. It is said that he enjoys a dog
fight above all else, encourages it in
the beginning by shouting “Hi-hi-hi!”
and adds fuel by spirited ejaculations
of “Sick ’em!” and “Lick em!”
He plays with children, but fights if
they disturb him. He is neat in his
habits, taking a bath frequently, and
using as a tub any vessel which hap-
pens to contain enough water. He
takes great pleasure in scattering over
the floor any nails which he may dis-
cover. He allows nothing to grow in
his owner's garden after its head has
once appeared above soil.
The Caspian Sea.
One of the most remarkable physi-
cal features of the globe is the deep
and wide depression in the hollow of
which stands the Caspian Sea, and
near to it the Sea of Aral. The Cas-
pian is nearly as large as France,
and its surface is 34 feet below the
level of the Black Sea. The Sea of
Aral is nearly as large as Ireland,
and is very little over. the sea level.
Within recent geographical times the
vast expanse in which these lakes
are found was sea. its floor has been
gradually raised, and the waters §ll-
ing the depressions are all that is
left of an ancient Mediterranean. A
strange feature of both bodies of
water is that, although they receive
large rivers, especially the Caspian,
into which the Volga, the Ural River
and scores of streams from the Cau-
casus flow, both have for many vears
been getting shallower. Evaporation,
for they have no outlet, exceeds the
inflow. But for some climatic reason
probably, like Lake Aral and its neigh-
bor, Lake Balkhash, have since 15891
been increasing in depth. “Nature”
reports that M. Berg visited Lake
Balkhash last summer, and found that
the level was rising with comparative
rapidity. Whereas the Caspian, like
the Dead Sea, is very salt, owing to
the rate of evaporation, Aral and
Balkhash are brackish only. These
remnants of what was once a great
sea opening into the ocean, as the
Mediterranean does now, still con-
tain marine fish and seals. Some of
the latter survive in the Aral and
Baikal lakes, having gradually become
fitted for their habitat though it is
no longer salt, but merely brackish,
and in the case of Baikal, actually
fresh water.—London Telegraph.
Motor Omnibuses,
Motor omnibuses manufactured in
Edinburgh have been introduced in
some cities and towns of England and
Scotland, ' experimentally, for street-
passenger traffic, but a sufficient time
has not elapsed to make it clear wheth-
er or not they are adapted to this pur-
pose.
In a paper read before the Scottish
Automobile club Mr. John Sterling, of
Granton said: “Tramways, with their
huge cars, constitute a perpetual
street obstruction. They run on their
fixed lines and altogether trafic must
make way for them. As time goes on
the congestion and attendant street
dangers will multiply unless a remedy
be found—and a remedy must be found.
Alongside the growth and development
of electrical engineering, and especially
that department of it relating to loco-
motion, there has been arising and ad-
vancing steadily a new competitor
which promises to become at no great
distance a serious rival to the tram-
ways. This is the evolution and perfect-
ing of the motor omnibus. Tt is pos-
sible that those interested in tramways
may smile at'such a prediction, but I
make it in all seriousness; the self
propelled omnibus will be adopted in
many places instead of tramways and
will yet displace existing tramways in
crowded cities.”
To Exploit Victoria Falls.
A company has been formed to ex- |
ploit Vivtoria Falls, in the Zambesi,
and will build a hydro-electric gener
ing station, with ithe expect
supplying power to the Waukie
fields, Buluwayo, the Kwelo.
and Hartley gold fields, :
are wit 300
over 400
amount of
at Niagara is 7,000.
the
wet
000,000. The
Ci ed to wi 70 miles
falls, and will reach them before thie
end of March
lway has