Tho way in which American anthro pological museums are growing Is a source of envy In England, where there is a lamentable Indifference to the subject. The recently deceaoej son of an English enrl wns regarded as having disgraced himself because he earned his living as a showman. Neverthe less he earned his living. The number of schools In Cuba has multiplied 10-fold In a single year. That West Indian Invasion of Now England has been followed by results of the largest practical value. Illinois la adopting drastic means to put down hazing and kidnapping. The maximum penalty for the former U a fine of f.r00 or six months In the county jail. Kidnapping for ransom Is made a capital ofence. The only two six-masted schooners float came in collision oft Capo Cod recently. This presents the sugges tion that those who are fond of mon keying with problems of averages can figure out what the chances are for their doing this again. Seventeen years ago, Germany, un tier Bismarck's lead, established the state system of accident Insurance and old-age pensions for worklngmen. It has grown to be a vast machine, and Its payments to disabled, sick and aged wage-earners average $250,000 a year. The red spiders of California that fcave Inflicted the orange groves to uch a fearful extent are in process of being exterminated by a new In sect, which has made Its appearance. This latCBt visitor devours the eggs of the spiders. As long as the eggs hold out the new insect will be all right, but after they are gone no tell ing what he may take a notion to de vour. The hope is held out that we inay yet be able to dispense with elaborate cooking. Several chemists are said to he at work on the problem of com pressed food, and they expect to com pass "In the capacity of a small vial" elements which will sustain life for days. One enthusiast predicts that science will yet be able to extract the life force that is In the heart of the corn, the kernel of the wheat and the IubcIous Julceg of the fruits. The Boston Herald takes occasion to analyze some of the statements concerning the amount of money paid hy Americans to foreigners for the service of ocean transportation. It aermes me assumption mat me cum reaches $150,000.00 0 to $200,000,000 annually, but It does not attempt to make a close estimate of the actual expenditure. One percent of the cost of the goods shipped. It says, would about size up the business. If this is the case, $24,000,000 would pay for the transportation of our Imports and exports. Perhaps the Insignificance of the amount accounts for the fact that Americans have not in recent years made any great efforts to secure the oversea carrying trade. There is some probability that quar rymen and stone dressers will gradual ly be crowded out of their occupation hy the use of artificial stone. In the manufacture of this stone the sand is heated and the cement added to the amount of 12 percent of the mixture. The steol molds are filled with the dry material and run upon a tramway into an immense cylinder, which is closed and bolted. Boiling water is then turned In under pressure sufficient to force It all through the snnd in the molds. The cement slacks, but the steel molds do not permit any expan sion to occur, and the stone Is formed and dried under an Immense pressure. The result is a very hard stone, which can be supplied In shapes desired much -cheaper than the natural stone. I It is to "be regretted that America has not "launched upon the flood of time" productive Intellects of the very highest order. But there is nothing extraordinary and discreditable in the fact, observes the New York Tribune. It was an amazing piece of good for tune for England that Shakespeare was born on English soil to speak the English tongue. Goethe fortuitously conferred unfading lustre on the Ger man name. It would be cause for profound pride and Joy if another Shakespeare or Goethe should appear in the United State with indubitable credentials. But In the meantime we cannot admit that we should hang our heads In shame, . It would be al mostindeed, for aught we can see, quite m reasonable to disparage Eng land because she has produced only one Shakespeare In a 1000 years, or to blush for the human race because "within that circle son durst walk but he." Br Jcjkir Davis Birto, "Do you bo Mr. Kane, sir? It's Mr. Peter Tidmore Kane, In tho real eBtute business, I'm wantln' to see." The gentleman addressed looked down with some astonishment upon the sharp little freckled vlsagu that was upturned as he replied: "I am Mr. Kane, my boy. What do you want with me?" "Sure. I ll be tcllln' ye, but ifs migh ty glad I am to see you, sir. SHake. then! I'm a namesake of yours, though belike you're not knowin' It, and I'm glad that I favor you, now that I've set me two eyes on ye." "Favor me, Ihdee I, you young scare crow!" "On the inside, I mane, and I'd be glad If It was on the outside, for It's a mighty flne-lookln' gentleman ye are, then. They do be tellln' me you have the rlntln' of a-many of the houses hereabout, and It's to rlnt tho small place at the foot of the hill I'd be askln. I'll pay you as much as CO cents a week for it, and worrnk out the rlnt If you say it's a bargain." Mr. Kane was growing interested. The small boy had a brisk, business way with him, quite out of proportion to his size, which was that of an aver age 10-year-old. "It is a little out of tho usual line to take work In return " "Oh, it will be equally satisfactory It ye pay me in cash, then, Mr. Kane, sir, and 'tis a good bargain ye'll have, wld me mother along wld me, and she that alger to be at rest wanst more. 'TIs the plazed woman she'll be that all's settled so well." "But hold on!" said Mr. Kane. "I like to know something about my ten. ants. Whnt security can you give me that I shall find you responsible?" "Sure, I tould you that I was named after you, didn't I? It's Peter Tidmore Kane Mulligan I am, and me mothor says ye'll be sure to mind Biddy Moran that was cook to ye wanst. But I'm Tld for short. We'll move In the day, and I'll Just come up for me orders In the mornin'," and Tld walked away as contentedly as If he carried a signed lease In his pocket. ."Biddy Moran? To be sum She worked for us one summer a dozen or more years ago," said Mrs. Kane, when her husband appealed to hT for con firmation of the boy's story. "Not much of a cook, very green and a lit tle queer, as I remember her. I'm. afraid they'll be a load on your hands, Tidmore." "Well, the old shell can't be much worse with tliom In it than standing empty, and I'll warn them out if they prove a nuisance. The boy will get along If he favors me 'on the Inside,' as he says," and Mr. Kane Iauched In recollection of the sharp, little, un couth figure as contrasted with his own well-favored person. Sure enough, tho first sight that greeted Mr. Kane the next morning was Tld, keenly examining his garden. beds, shaking his head portentously over popples and lilies, and getting down on his knees to sniff at the tomato-vines, with a curious uncertainty, not to say contempt, that sent the garden's owner hurrying down to pre vent any possible catastrophe. "It's a fine lot of weeds ye've saved tip for me, sir," Tid greeted him, brightly, "but I'm feared they've run over the plants inttrely. Or It is a wild garden yon do be having here? tie mother tells me that you grow things small In this state, and ye do it uncommon well, I should say. Belike it has to be tuk out of you that way for the big hearts ye've got," with a re spectful deference that disarmed his employer's wrath. "Why, you young Jackanapes, where have you seen anything finer, that you should be turning up your nose at my garden, pray?" "Faix, I think It wor In Californay,,, hazarded Tid, as If he were drawing his recollections from some deep well of memory. "The tomatuses growed on vines as high as the house, I mind, and there were men up on step-ladders plckin' them, and the lilies and the vl'leta and the popples all run wild In tho floljs, they did, and the roses were like to smother the house, and the coo cumbers were as long as I am, and a dale longer sometimes. That's the country, if it's gardenln ye're after." "I wonder you left It," remarked Mr. Kane, sarcastically. "I'd wonder that mesllf, If there wor ary show for daclnt Americans out there." admitted Tld. "The pigtails and the greasers have It all their own way. It's quare how there's something forntnst wan most iverywhereg in the West. In Nelirasky It wor the 'hop pers, and in Kansas the drought. Up In Washington it all her rained all the time or the chlnook blasted things, and down In Texas there wor the cat tle every which way. It do be good to get home to the states," and Tld drew a long breath of satisfaction. "But this itm't worruk at all, and If ye'll put me to it, I'll be diggln in." Mr. Kane found the boy eager to loam and tireless in his efforts to please, and although he made some blunders, by the end of the week be had won the favor of the household, and was allowed to make hlnuelf use ful about the place in very 'much his own way. This sometimes resulted In queer turns of fancy, according to the Eastern view of things, a when he was found In the early morning sweep ing up grasshoDfters from the lawn to feed the fowls, and carefully treasur ing pocketfuls of gravel while he was till new to the situation. "Sure, It wor the lashings of 'hop pers we had out on the perrarles, but nlrer stone to the size of a pea - V TID. S there. Ye have them hotther distri buted here, and Its a fine country, though the things do grow small," ho decided, nppiovingly, when the waste of his efforts was pointed out to him. It would appear that tho Mulligans had drirted all over the West in an almles3 fashlun, "sailing health and betthrrment," as Tld expressed It, till the death of the father loft his mother free (o return "for the nicking of me," he confided to Mr. Kane. "Sure, a In J nudes to bo looking up to a good man, me mother says, and It's a rower of t'achln' I'll nade to come up to me name, I do be think In'." The amusement that Mr. Kane de rived from the glorified Ideal upon which Tld was basing tho formation of his character gave wny sometimes to a fleeting wish that he Hid culti vated more of the virtues which Tld credited him with possessing. There are drawbacks to being held as little less than a Rnlnt by even an Ignornnt Irish boy. Suppose, now, that Tld could look beneath the surface and fpo the true state of the man within him, how would the revelation affect tho lad's moral growth? Mr. Kane shrugged his shoulders and threw off his uneasiness. It was by no choice of iila tint he had been held up na a model. I.et the effects of the disillusionment fall where they be lonsed. It wns not likely that he was going to change his business methods, his sharp dealing, his keen seizure of apparent advantages, simply to spare the tender susceptibilities of this small vagrant; nevertheless the thought of Tid was at the bottom of more thnn one reform that he made In these days. Meantime Tld was cultivating a ten der heart among other things, and when he had the misfortune to set his foot unawares c:i a tornl one Jay, he was the more hurt of the two. "I'd no more scrunch the crature, aud It sitting by to do me a good turn, than you'd squeeze a tenant, sir," he protested, remorsefully. "There are some tenants that need tlie thumbscrews put on them. Tld." "Of course. Just as there are pertaty. bugs and cutworms and squash beetles to clane out. It's a fine thing to have t!ie head to pick and choose amoongst them as I weed out the docks and lave the cabbages, to hould the helpln' hand to t; wake and nadey, and turn the cowld back on the uulesarvln." I'm fpared I'll be long learnln' all that from you, sir." "Oh, you aspire to a share In the management of the tenants, too?" In quired Mr Kane, with that sarcastic accent which was quite thrown away upon Tld. "I'm studying hard to be fit to In tiie ollice come fall, when ycu'll not be nailing me in tho garding," admit ted Tld, modes:))-. "I'll be worth me k'ep Uwio outside cf me schoollu', I will that, ye'll Ree." "Hum-tim-m!" That Tld wns acting like a prickly bur on his conscience, the real estate man knew, and the far. reaching consequences of this pro piped move rather alarmed him. Hain't he closed up the typhoid well and drained Ague Alley and given a contract for rebuilding Hamshacklo Row all good-paying Investments, to be sure, and much-needed reforms simply and solely through the quick ened moral responsibility that the boy had roused In him? "If this thing goes on," he said to himself. "I'll bo renewing t'.io Taft mortgage and letting the Hope farm slip through my fingers. It's sheer Im becility on my part. Who wants an Inconveniently active consclenco In tlicgo days? I'll throw off the yo'.so be fore It fastens tlgiitcr. I'll discharge Tld and send the Mulllgma packing." But to lock Into TId'a trustful eyes and make this decision known was more than Mr. Kane cared to do at that moment. It nileht be better to talk the matter out with Tld's mother, he concluded. A little bribe, now, to perBiia le her to move on, say, without betraying his part lu the transaction, would make everything smooth and easy. Mr. Kane had not seen Mrs. Mulli gan. Tld had caught his fancy, but he bad felt sure that the mother would bo a bore, nnd hal avoided the house. Well, they had transformed tho deso late shanty Into rather a picturesque spot by the vines they had trained over It. and tho woman displayed some of Tid's own confidence lu receiving him. "Sure, I felt yez comln', sir," she ex plained. "Bo sated, plage. I'd pass the chair If I could step a foot under me, but It .was the lord's mercy that I kept on me legs till we r'ached ye, that it was, end I've some use of me hands still, so tbnt I do a dale wid them, and I can bitch me chair about while I Jo me chores quite nate and convenient. 'TIs honored I am to have ye come sakln' me regardln' Tld is It, then? He's a credit to yez, that he is, sir. He couldn't lake aft her you sthronger It be wur your own blood born." It struck coldly home to Mr. Kane's understanding that his task was none the easier for coming here. This lit tle helpless woman, with her useless feet and crippled hands, all gnarled hnd twisted with rheumatism, and her wistful face beaming with tremulous pride, was scarcely a better subject for his retaliation than Tld himself would have been. Nettled and disconcerted, but unwill ing to retreat, he demanded, sharply; "How did you come by that ridiculous notion of trnlnlng the boy after met ' Wasn't there' any better model to be, found?" "Sure, I'd want no betther If 1M hunder' to choose from," averred the I llttlo woman, stoutly, "but I'd none other fit to pattern him by but yersllf, that's the truth. You see, it wor this wny. There wor mo brother ami me coushlns in tho onld country did be breaking their heads In their fights; and there was Mulligan got so In the , - i,,i i .,, t, ,. ' the police that ho eudn't lave oft the ln he camp m In the home. For, thrlck while he lived, and there was lthouKh conventionalities and ultra you with a Rood worrud to the foro, atWllou tastes have been left he ...i - i,.t, - ..,i i,!,..,. hind. In their place have appeared un- 7 ,r :Z . "V: t rSl'Jr: .Uw it was to tho high or tho low and It's the way that comes alsy to Tld, now that he has ye before the two eyes of him," said Tld's mother, proudly, while Mr. Kane groaned In spirit. How could he make these people un derstand that their attitude toward nerstann mat tnoir attiiu.ie towarn him was both unwarranted and unwel- cr.mc? Why should he consent to sad dle himself wl'h them? It was only his foolish good nature that had got him Into this scrape. They had no real clalnrcn H'm. "It ljn't Ivery fln glntlemRn that I'd pattern him by, that's tho truth," went on Mrs. Mulligan. "There's thlm. If you'd belavo, It, wud pee but tho lm pydince and nlver the honor of having a poor h'y thralned nflier thlm. Like as If Tld wi:J b- walkln' on tlil? creep. Ing thlng3 wld no thought for their hurls, that's how some wud be lookln' at the I'cor people that's to do thlm tho ciod turn." "Oh, I assure you that I feel the honor of It!" murmured Mr. Kane, Ironically ; but the struggle to express herself flllrd the woman's mini, nnd she went on without noticing the in terruption: "But if he thramped thlm all out, he'.Lbe thrampln' on the good frlnds of'.Jiqn, and thrampln' out the tinder nets is wdd make the good man of hlssllf,1 and nlver know that he wor more hurt by his ha lclepsness than thlm. Thxt's why I'm thankful to tho Lord that I'd the right kind to pattern him by,",, concluded the woman, fer vently; and no light retort fell from Mr. Kane's Hps now. What if this were so? What if he were 'crushing the better nature that wa3 struggling in him when he turned from them? What if the loss were his rather than theirs? What If these peo ple were sent to awaken his conscience and show him where he was drifting? It was a new thought to him that the claim of humanity might work both ways. From this point of view, he might owe something to the Mulli gans Instead of their owing everything to him. Sunpnse he turned them out, foreclosed the Taft mortgage, seized the Hope farm, fostered the spirit of greed and selflshnes) and thrust aside r sponHlbllity, as his Impulse had been; how would his gain weigh in the balance against whnt? Surely, the opening vista held more thnn lie had'consldered thus far. It was not only that he would shatter their faith ln m?.n's goodness by shat tering the Idol they had made of him. There was the hardening of Ills own heart, the tinning from his chance to become an uplifting force to the people about him. He was no better and no woine tha.a tho majority of careless, thoughtless men; but did he not have it In him to be either better or worse? And which should ho choose? He was still wrestling with that problem when a small shadow fell across the threshold, and Tid stood In the doorway. He brightened at sight of the visit r, and turned to his mother In triumph. "Didn't I bp telling you he would come wan day? Sho wor cravlu a sight of ye, sir, that she wor, but we wouldn't be askln' a busy man like yerrllf to como out of yer way for that." "It's for tho gooj of ye that he's ccme now, Tld. He'3 said as much, "Sure, he's been doln' us the good turn since the day we r'ached him," said Tid. contentedly. "Thrust his honor for that." , Mr. Kane stood up and shook his shoulders as If he were throwing off a load. To crush out trust like this, to refuse the blessedness of such simple faith and gratitude, surely thnt wns not work for Tidnioro Kane. Let the name mean as much for blm as for Tld. "Blarney!" he raid, lightly. "I don't want the roof here coming ln on ynur hrads and giving you nn excuse to sue me for damages. I'll Just look around and see what repairs are needed. And, Tld," more slowly "if you feel ready to como Into the office tomorrow, I find that I am ready to have you there." "Hooray!" shouted Tld. Youth's Companlcn. , 'TwnN Ilir FlrM Love, On a corner stood a little barefoot girl In her rags. Her soiled, pudgy lit'-lo hands hugged another bundle of rags caressingly to her stained, dimpled cheek, while she enjoyed all net Joys of young motherhood. The bundle was her "baby." Tied with a string near one end. the rags formed Into a head. Another string about the middle produced the 'effect of waist line, A young man saw the happy little mother. "What's that?" he asked, resting a hand on the un kempt hair of the child. "My dolly," sho said, hugging the rags closer. "Your dolly, eh? What a pretty dolly. And what do you call your baby?" "O tails U I tails It I talis It Bum Annie." New York Times. A Nebraska physician keeps In com munication by means of carrier doves with patients living: over a circuit of 50 miles. TtMT i rp 'm rfi)V TV CAMP " 11 AA AU wUlY 111 LAJJil NOVICES ASTONISHED AT THEIR FONDNcSS FOR PRIMITIVE FOOD. Pqnlrrrl fltew ttrnlllnc nn H flank A Man Mmln Mrml lli-eit1 with Mnvlnff Unnlitlna linking Vrnn In llin l.rniiiiil --Canoe I'le Provided for the restlillmn. Plans for the dnlly bill of fare, while of a far simpler nature, are as necos- wnted appetites for hearty food t..at in a party of healthy people can be re. lied upon three times and more a day. As the object of such a trip is recrea tion. It Is well to heed this fact, for no one can have a good time while ho is as hungry as the proverbial bear nnd sees no good dinner In prospect. Pco- , .. -- --- - - - nle BP"ndlng the r first summer In tne wmmn in iriiumve iRHiuon i w intn- rlably astonished by their sudden fondness for cooking thnt at the homo table would be scorned. Doughnuts and crullers, for example, assume now flavors and, with coffee for the morn ing meal, ln the woods excel tho choic est confections.. It is a good idea to tako along enough of these cakes to last for at least a we?k, taking pains to use recipes thnt Insure them agnlnHt drying too quickly. Once there, they can be put In a good bag and kept ln cool, and, If possible, not too dry place. Waterproof food bags ln va rious sizes are among the conveniences supplied by houses that sell sporting goods. Two or three bakings of mo lasses and one or two of sugar cookies will also bo appreciated. Among the utensils should always be Included a coverej iron potf for baked beana after a long day's tramp, or even for breakfast or dinner. If the supply of game falls short, are not only nu tritious but appetizing. The baking Is an over night or all day operation. First dig a hole In the ground that Is three or four times the size of tho pot. Start a fire in the bottom with pieces of bark, and then fill with good hard wood. Let It burn for two or three hours until the surrounding earth is well heated and there is a' glowing mass of coals In the bottom. Have the beans soaked In cold water for a day or a night previously. Then wash and parboil them, throwing off the first water, to which some people add a little soda. Rinse the beans, cover them with boiling water, add a piece of pork (about a half pound or so to every quart of beans), and cook over the range until the skins loosen easily. Ilemove the pork and drain the beans, saving tho liquor. Put the beans ln the pot without breaking them, and bury the pork In them. Sea. son the liquor with salt and pour it over them. Sprinkle with pepper, and If molasses Is to be had pour a table spoonful over the whole. Put on the cover, place the pot in the Impro vised oven, cover with tho ashes and coals and some of the earth, and leave for at least 10 hours. If bread cannot be bought It must be baked. Bread and biscuit can be made the same as at home, the only 'Iffpr- enco being that they are baked before an open fire, In a pan that comes for the purpose. Compressed yeast calteg that will keep all summer should be among the supplies. A brown bread made of one-third rye, one-third flour and one-third cornmeal, recommended by an experienced camper, has stay ing qualities desirable for Journeys re quiring a good deal of physical exer cise, it Is made like the ordinary white bread. A broiler In camp is not one of the needfuls, for a few shingle nails and a plank, a clean pine board or even a piece of log will answer Its purpose. If fish are to be cooked before the fire nail the heads against the wood, flesh side out, of course, and place them before the heat. A steak, bird, rabbit or squirrel can be prepared In the same way. For squirrel stew, a famous dish among epicures who haunt forest deeps, the old admonition to "first catch your hare" should be remem bered. If the day's shooting has been a success (from the hunters', not the squirrels', point of view), skin and dress them, cut Into pieces, and soak for a time ln cold salt water to draw out the blood, ltlnso and cook them with a sma'.l slice of salt pork In fresh boiling water, and add about 15 mln utes before they are dono potatoes and onions cut up fine, a pinch of oatmeal for thickening and salt and pepper. A littlo beef extract Improves tho flavor of the stew. Canoe plo, a mascullno Invention, for thoe of the party who Insist on city wayB to tho extent of an occasion al dessert, excels, bo claims Its origi nator, all tho oven baked concoctions In the world. That It can be made, providing the material Is at hand, on a minute's notice Is an undlsputoj ad vantage. Have ready a llsh of fresh or stewed berries sweotencd to taste. Toast pilot bread, reduce It to crumbs Bprlnklo It over tde top and the pie is complete. The following menu, a strictly man made one. Is contributed by a frequen ter of the wild lands of Maine: Blue berries fresh from the bushes (hand picked by Chaddie) ; dry, hot toasted bread, assorted pickles. Sizzling hot broiled bacon. Cold water, hot tea. Soaked toast with maple syrup. Fine, soft homemade bread, apple sauce, More hot tea. Music furnished by the gurgling Penobscot, Tepid food and cold grease on the plate do not contribute to the delights of a repast, even In tbe woods, but to avoid them some Ingenuity must be used, for It Is a well known fact that to a certain point foods cool quicker In tbe open air than in the refrigerator, A hot water plate for each of the party 13 a great convenience; but If tiiee are not to be had, heat the plates hot. There will be no danger of Injury to the polish of the dining table. Keep the dishes that are cooked first burled In the ashes at one end of the fire until all are done. Then get the crowd together not tho easiest of efforts when all aorta of Interests are at stake. When all are seated bring on the hot fond. There Is no excuse for poor coffee , anywhere. Tho usual difficulty with It . Is overboiling and allowing the aroma ! water. Scald the coffee pot, put In a large tablespoonful for every one in the camp and throw In an extra one, according to tradition, "for the pot." Add a cupful of cold water. As soon I os It bolls draw it to a cooler part of tha stove and pour In as many cupfuls of boiling water as there are campers. Fill the spout with soft paper and let It stand where It will keep hot, but not boll, for 10 or 15 minutes. JuBt before serving turn ln a half cupful of cold water and let It stand to settle for two or three minutes. Eggs, with the hens far away, are a valuable commodity and cannot be spared for the coffee, but the cold water will answer every purpose. Cold water can take the place of milk In all recipes for Johnny cake, molasses ginger cake, plain cake, bis cuit, muffins, etc., by adding a tea spoonful more of butter than the dlrec. tlons require. The water should al ways be fresh and cold, not tepid, or the production will he tough. New York Tribune, SLIPS OF THE PEN. fjnenr Error rrprtratfl by Authors Who Know rloltrr. When Mr. Anthony Trollope pic tured Andy Scott as "coming whistling np the street with a cigar in his mouth" he not only proved that he had never made personal experiment of the double feat of smoking a cigar and whistling a tune, but he was unconsciously following in the steps of still greater writers who made their heroes do amazing aud Impossible things. Those who remember Robinson Cru soe may recall a most wonderful feat of this hero of childhood. When he decided to abandon the wreck and try to swim asnore he took the precaution to remove his clothes, and yet by some strange magic, of which the secret has been lost, the author makes him, when in this condition of nature, fill his pockets with biscuits. The great Shakespeare himself bad a peculiar facility for making tho Impossible happen In his plays. One of tho most remarkable of these feats occurs in the fifth act of "Othello," when Desdemona. after she has been duly Bmothcred by the Moor, comes to life again nnd enters Into conversation quite rationally, even Inventing a gen erous falsehood to shield him from the consequences of his crime before she decides to .lie. The Improbability of a person recovering consciousness and speech after being smothered, and of dying after performing such a feat, scarcely needs pointing out. Shakespeare, too, had a trick of Introducing the nwet glaring anach ronisms so glaring, In fact, that there Ir more than a suspicion that they must have been Introduced consciously for some unknown reason. For In stance, he makes a clock strike ln ancient Rome at a time more than a thousand years before clocks were Invented, when such an event would certainly have been the eighth won der of the world. Quite regardless of the evidence of geography, he transports Bohemia to the seaside, and he introduces a printing prees long before the days of Gutenberg. He calmly Introduces a billiard table Into Cleopatra's palace, and makes cannon famllar to King John and his barons. Thackeray was no mean rival to Shakesppare In vagaries of this kind; but In his case they appear to have been the result of pure carelessness and forgetfulness. The most flagrant case, perhaps, Is where, after burying Lady Kew and , effectively dismissing her from the story, he brings her to life again to help him out of bis plot, and in other cases his capacity for mixing up the names of his charac ters is as confusing as It la wonder ful. Emllo Zola, ln spite of his careful ness, makes the astonishing statement In olio of his novels- (Lonrdes) that the deaf and dumb recovered their hearing and sight, en event which savors very much of the miraculous. Tho moon has Innocently been the cause of much blundering on the part of authors. Wilkle Collins ln some mysterious fashion, made It rlso on one Important occasion in the west; Rider Haggard In "King Solomon's Mines" contrived an eclipse of the new moon for the benefit of his read ers; and Coleridge Ingeniously places a star between the horns of the cres cent moon as she vises in the east. Tit-Bits. An Incident of n Ifanqrlnqr. E. V. Mcthever, the murderer of Dorothy McKee, a Long Beach girl, paid the penalty of his crime by be ing hanged in the gallows room of San Quentin prison. Methever was dressed in a sombre suit of black, with a white rose pinned over his heart. It was 11 minutes before Drs. Casey, Edwards and Teaby pronounced Methever dead. In the silence fol lowing the springing of the trap a bird alighted oni one of the barred windows of the gallows room and burst Into song. Its voice for several minutes mingled with the prayers of the priest, and It was not until a slip per from the hanged man's foot fell to the floor with a noise that the feathered chorister flew away. San Francisco Argonaut. TWO BOY HEltOES. ar sons Tunngatnrs Winning Dlitlncttoa M (Jntlmr llantart,. Two young heroes have been devel oped fn Arizona. They are Dick and Alfred Bocha, 14 and 15 years old re spectively, and alrtady they have laid a foundation for fame as Indian trail ers and sleuths. These lads have 4c- comnanlod their father. Pete Boscha. denutr .wift t rnnsres. Arls.. on iha ... npriloim enedltlons and crlm- ,Im, huntlI never nnchlng, even under the hottest fire. They are expert marksmen, having been trained to fire arms from their infancy. Alfred first distinguished himself two years ago by the capture of Slnovla Garcia, a notori ous Mexican desperado, who bad shot the husband of a woman of whom he was enamored. Sheriff John Munds, Deputy Sheriff Pete Boscha, and hit two sons started In pursuit of the bandit, and, after following the trail for some distance, separated. Several days after Alfred encountered the des perado In a lonely canyon, and suc ceeded In getting the "drop" on hlra. Garcia surveyed tho dwarfed and youthful figure before him with considerable amusement, and laugh ed at the boy's assertion that he was under arrest Ho reached for his gun, when young Boscha open ed Bre, clipping oft one of Garcia'a ears and sending two bullets through his hat This was convinc ing proof of Alfred's aim, and the bandit surrendered himself uncondi tionally. A few months later Dick Boscha was the hero of a capture that waa equally as remarkable. Vincents Ortego and two others cut tbe throat of an Italian and robbed him of con siderable gold dust. The lad trailed the murderer over precipitous moun tains, and after several days returned with him triumphantly. Ortego is now serving a life sentence In prison at Yuma for bis misdeeds. The Weaver district, where the Boschas live. Is tbe heart of what once constituted the bad lands of Arizona. Famous old Geron lmo, at the head of tbe most san guinary band of Indians then In ex istence. Infested the Rich Hill moun tains and the Weaver and Blue Tank districts, firing settlers' cabins, mur dering, plundering, robbing stages and bullion trains, and creating a reign of terror that will live In history. Mde 40,000,000 In a Toar. c it lit. A. F. Lucas, the discoverer of oil ln Beaumont, Tex., who Is said to be worth $10,000,000, was practically penniless a year ago. Though a min ing engineer and geologist by profes sion, he was a railroad conductor for a number of years. After losing his place about two years ago, he drifted about and finally went to Beaumont. He succeeded in Interesting some cap italists ln the region, and the cele brated Lucas gusher was soon struck. rnbtlfi Fxpnrtltaru4 In Mexfeo. The Mexican army of more than 25, 000 men Is supported upon a trifle more than 1.000,000 Mexican dollars a month. Tho Mexican congress docs not cost 11,000,000 a year. God does not expect roses to bloom on bare rocks. 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