GUESSING. Oh. Tffa may be a blessing. But it has it share of gloom, For it somehow keep you giieaaing From the cradle to the tomb. i ilVTien a little child first glance ' On this world he erica nnd fret, "jDatwe he knows he' taking chances On the parent that he get. THE NAHRABAD GHOST TIGER msl By CLARENCE PULLEN. J.0C FOUND the Rnjnh of Bu-- f dhraporc . nt home In his )3 T o palace. lie received mo J K cordially enough, but, try WWT I would, I could not en list his Interest In the mat ter about which I had come, lie was gloomy and silent. Finding he could not be persuaded to talk, I gave over the business for the day nnd took my leave. But before I left the place I met Ram Abadhur, the hnlf-caste court In terpreter, and learned the cause of the Rajah's depression. "It Is the tiger that disturbs his ntghness," Bam Abadhur snld. "He bas appeared In the Jungle about Nah sabad, nnd there la much talk of him among the people. He Is a man-eater, but that Is nothing. Strange reports liave come to the palace that the beast la In the likeness of a tiger pictured on the flag of the old Kehab kings, and the atory has spread that he Is the re incarnation of BaJ Kehab. Ills com ing. It Is 'whispered, means some mis fortune to the reigning family n death, r It even might be that which his tilghness most dreads (this Is very ecrot, sahib), the return of the old ruling family to the throne." Through many traditions I knew BaJ pCehab, the mighty founder of the toyal family that had ruled Budhra Iore for a thousand years, up to the time, half a century before, when the Bast India Company installed In power the new dynasty, which began with the present Bajah'a grandfather, and I bad seen In the Viceroy's palace at Calcutta, kept as a rello. the flag which from the time of Raj Kehab down to the last king descended from him had been the emblem of the Kehab dy nasty. Its design was a tiger worked In white embroidery upon a dark-green ground. I rode home, and at the bnngnlow found Khatra Ahab, the shikari, await ing me In the compound. He was master of his craft. He knew the bablts of all the Jungle beasts and could read the tokens of their goings and comings as surely as the white tnan reads the business signs In the fclty streets. Before I had time to peak with him I was hailed from the Verandah by Captain Bent Murdoch, Dhlef of the Budhrapore police, who bad ridden with his orderly from Ca tamhat that morning. After bidding him welcome I questioned Khatra as to the truth of the report of a man dating tiger In the Nahrabad Jungle. "I have seen hlra," the shikari an swered. "Watching "from a tree, I aw him pass not twenty paces away. On that day he carried off my cousin's Wife from the rice field. Ha bad feast ed and had no need to kill, but he looked at me. Sahib, his color! I wear by Krishna, he was white. And tils eyes! The color of a tiger's eyes In daylight Is yellow, but bis were red -e red aa the blood smears on his fowls. When I saw his tracks I knew them, for I had seen them before, ftablb. It Is useless to follow him, for bo Is a ghost tiger. His lair Is In the baunted city of Nahrabad.1 "Then to Nahrabad we will go for blm," exclaimed Captain Murdoch, mho was famous aa a hunter of big Came. "Ghost or no ghost, white or triped, we'll wait for him there to night If lead fails we'll try a silver bullet. I suppose, major, you can lend arte a gun?" "Two, rf you wish," I returned. Khatra, you know the tiger's path. Too will guide us this afternoon to where we shall watch to-night by the Xiahrabad ruins." . The tfhlkarl tried to object, but I Overruled his objections, and he un willingly agreed to be our guide. The details having been arranged, I had time to talk with Murdoch. For sev aral months he hnd been unusually busy suppressing the dncolts who, nt the beginning of the year, bnd stnrted their annual carnival of robbery nnd murder in the Rajah's, domlnlnous He had broken up the principal bnnd and, so fur as could be known, those of the outlaws who hnd not been killed outright were lu Jull awaiting the trials which would determine -whether they should be bnnged or sent to portal servitude In the Anda mans. One only bad escaped, NadraJ, their chief, and no search could dis cover bis hiding place. ' "His death or capture would be worth more than that of all the rest of the band," Murdoch said. "There won't be an end of dacoity in Budbra pore so long as he Is alive." Everybody In Budhrapore knew of NadraJ, and most people, native or European, bad cause to dread him. A bigh-born Hindu, fanatically hating everything associated with the English rule In India, his cituies and cruelties had been Inspired as much by hatred and revenge as by desire of plunder. Native mothers stilled their children with the threat of his name. As be was atterly desperate, even the Rajnb felsnself, who favored the English c Id not be safe from the chance of svssasslnaUoa while NadraJ was at Jare. I asa't think where be can be con He takes ehanees on Instructor When at school he firat appear" And on brakrmen and cor.ductoi And especially engineer. Your doubt Veep coming ateady And they fill your mind with paint Scarce you get one anawcr ready Ere you've got to guen again. Washington Star. II 1 HI cealcd," the captain continued. "If he were friendly to the Rajah I could un derstand, but bis Majesty bas the greatest motive of any one for wishing him off the earth. Do you know that this dacolt Is of the old royal family a lineal descendant, It Is said, of Raj Kehab? If the old dynasty had not been overthrown by the help of the English he might be Bajnh of Budhra pore to-day. We are going to his an cestral city to-night to wait for the tiger." Our preparations for the hunt were simple two heavy rifles, a haversack with provisions, nnd a mat to sit on. We made our start for Nahrabad In the nfternoon and rode to a little village at the Jungle's edge, where the people hnd already gathered the wood for the Ores which they would burn at night to keep the tiger away. Leaving the horses there In charge of the captain's orderly, we walked along the bullock path which led through a dense Jungle to the ruined city. An hour's walking brought us to a spot where the path emerged Into an open, grassy space. On the right, across a nullah, n ruined wall encircled the face of an eminence, and a vast heap of fallen stone rising like a hill within It was Nahrabad. Raj Kehab's city. Wild vines and bushes hid the ruin in places, and a few trees hnd forced their way Into the open among the stones of the fallen walls. Here and there a carved column or stretch of wall stood In place. Far tip In the ruins, nt the very top, there rose from the debris two marble posts, with the capstones still resting upon them. Here hnd been the main entrance of the Rnjnh's pnlnce, and from It a rock stairway, on which ten men might have marched abreast, could be traced down to a broad platform where a gate bad opened In the city wall. The gate and Its posts were gone, but a flight of steps, with the hewn stones broken and nwry, but still in plnce, remnlned, leading from the platform down to the foot of the slope below the wall. Be tween the foot of the wall and the nullah, which once had been a moat. there was a thick growth of Jungle shrubs as high as a man's shoulders. With Kbntra leading, we went cau tiously on until he paused nt a line of bent and trampled grass where some large, soft-footed creature had made a pathway between the Jungle and the nullah opposite the gateway. We fol lowed the path Into the nullah, which was swampy at the bottom. On the hard ground the tracks were Invisible to the white man's eye, but here they were deeply Imprinted In the moist soil, the great paws of a tiger, which, no. many hours before, had descended rrcm the jungle into the nullah nnd thence up the other side to the foot of the broken steps leading to the gate way. "The tiger Is at home," the shikari said. "If bs comes out to range to night he w11 pass here. We must await his coming beyond the nullah." We went back across the nullah to chose our places. The sun was near its setting, and we had no time to lose. About thirty yards from the brink was a korlnda bush large enough to shelter us all. We crawled under this, and the long, horizontally growing branches, with their tips drooped to the ground on every side, made a perfect place or concealment. Through the lenfage we cut loopholes from which we could command the pntfj on both sides of the nullah and the steps and gateway beyond. This done, we opened the haversack, ate our supper and settled ourselves for wnltlng. The sun had plunged down behind the ruins, and soon the blackness of the Indian night hid the ruined city a hundred yards away. The very stars were shut from our view by the overlapping branches above our heads. We tipped our rifle sights with phosporua in order tbnt they might readily be caught In the (lnrkness, nnd then made ourselves ns comfortable as possible. There wore the usual night noises of the Jungle, and our ears quickened at the rustling of small animals In the grass about us, but there was no sound to Indicate that the tiger had come forth. In nn hour the round moon came up behind us, flooding the scene with light, and the shikari, crouching behind me, touched my arm. "See, sahib! Below the wall, to the loft of the steps." Just above the tops of the bushes. between the nullah and the foot of the wall, a white spot was moving, as it afloat In the air, toward the steps that led down from the gateway to the ground. "What Is It, Khatra?" I whispered, but the shikari did not answer. With puzzled curiosity Murdoch and I watched the thing slowly skirting the foot of the wall. It was not difficult to understand that a superstitious na tive should see In It the spirit of BaJ Kebab patrolling the bulwark of his city. Up fat the ruins two Jackals, chasing each other about the palace steps, suddenly checked their play. pausc4 In as attltuds of listening and slunk away ont cf view. The shlkatl, crouching behind ma, trembled vio lently. Turning our gaze upward, Murdoch and I looked at the palace doorway, where a new figure had ap peared. The capstone on which, by tradition, Raj Hehab's tiger emblem stood carved In marble, had In the daylight rested level and bare upon the posts. Now upon the capstone, in the full rays of the moon, white ns the marble beneath it, the form of a tiger was silhouetted against the night sky. For a few long seconds, while wo waited nnd wondered, It remained like a statue of alabaster, then in an In stnnt vanished. It was all very queer and eerie. "It Is no delusion; we both saw him. What do you think?" I whispered to Murdoch. "We're here to shoot whatever comes," the captain answered. "If It Isn't a trick of Imagination, If that's the fellow that made the tracks in the nullah, he should show up next at the gateway. Ha! what's that be low the wall, at the foot of the steps? The tiger can't have gone down there so soon! It's a man and he's going up Into the city." In the excitement of watching the appnrltlon on the capstone we had taken no further thought of the white object afloat above the bushes, until now, emerging Into the open space at the foot of the steps, it took form of the turban of a tall man In native gnrb, who began to ascend the stops to the gateway. As his hend and shoulders rose above the landing he looked around, bringing his profile Into view. Murdoch started. "Khatra!" he whispered, shaking the trembling shikari, "tell me who It Is you seer' "Captain snhlb," the answer came qulveringly, "it is the spirit of his great ancestor. Raj Kehab. It Is NadraJ." The man went on, stepped upon the landing and stood upright, while bis shndow, stretching across the platform before blm, fell upon a square-faced upright stone, A pale something crept like a giant snake, then suddenly en larging enormously, shot forward in a white streak which gathered upon and overwhelmed tne tall figure at the landing. The sound of a man's cry of alarm was lost in the deep-throated note of a tiger's snarl, as the two. went together down to the pavement. A savage shake, the sound of crunching bone, heard plainly by us a hundred ynrds away, and the tiger, rising to his feet, lifted his head, and with eyes glowing with opaline flames looked over his victim across the nollnh as If In challenge to us. Our rifles were already sighted upon him, and we fired together. Through the smoke we saw the tiger rise Into the air above the man, fall half way down upon the steps below, and roll to the bottom. Before the rattle of our shots had died away among the ruins he lay outstretched and motion less at the foot of the steps, while at the top the head of the man be had killed, hanging limply over the edge of the landing, seemed peering down at his slayer. We reloaded our rifles, crawled from under the bush, and went over to where the tiger was lying. By the light of a torch we examined the mys terious beast which had terrified the Rajah and his kingdom. Its hair was milk-white from nose to tail tips, and Its eyes the color of red-hued irises. It needed no naturalist to tell us that the rarest of Jungle trophies, an albino tiger, bad fallen to our guns. 'I am an old man and have hunted the Jungle for all my days," said the shikari, "but never have I seen or heard of anything so wonderful." Then we went up the steps to the landing where the dead man lay. Mur doch lifted the head the neck was broken and as Khatra held the torch down to the upturned face they both exclaimed together, "It la NadraJ!" We laid the dead dacolt out on the platform, with his folded turban cov ering his face, and went back to the tiger. The threat of death would not have Induced Khatra to touch the body. but be held the torch while Murdoch and I skinned the beast. We carried the skins by turn through the Jungle to the village, and, after informing the people that the tiger was dead, rode back to the bungalow. With a squad of police summoned from Caramahat, Murdoch and I next morning went to Nahrabad, where, having fully Iden tified him as NadraJ, we burled the dacolt chief by the side of the nullah, at the foot of the old wall cf the city his ancestors bad reigned. Our white tiger skin was one of the year's wonders in India. It bud seemed pure white In the night, but In the clear daylight the markings of the ordlunry tiger could be seen faintly indicated by clouded streaks, like light crayon peuellings on the white ground color. The Rajah was delighted' with what we had done, and he sent two splendid emeralds to Murdoch and me lu appreciation o our service In rlddlug his dominions of the ghost-like dis turber of the royal peace. Ho greatly desired the skin and repeatedly asked us to name a price for It, but Murdoch and I held It with the Intention of pre senting it to her Majesty the Em press at a convenient time. But we delayed too loug, for It vanished from the bungalow one day in my absence. and no search could recover it I sus pect that the Rajah and bis priests could have accounted for its disappear ance. Held in their custody, they would regard It as a hostage against future reincarnations of Raj Kehab, But nothing we could do helped the matter, and Murdoch and I bad to re gard the Rajah's emeralds as recom pense for the loss of our priceless trophy. Washington Fost Aa Iboum From Caralauama. The Incase of the British FostofSes from money in envelopes having no or Insufficient address Is 130,000 or $35,000 day. 44 kick fldtentdre. STIRRING INCIDENT IN MOROCCO EEKERS after adventure n y.l .... . 1 . m 1 HftU V MIS IU1IUIT I'JItl! I Morocco for stirring Incl- I deilt. Let thorn merelv la captured by the tribesmen who are in revolt ngnlnst the Sultan, and If they live to tell the story, publishers will be enger enough to buy it. They are fairly certain of receiving courteous treatment. They may be chopped to pieces na an ex ample of what the followers of the prophet can do to a dog of an un believer, but until that moment arrives they will live as well as their enptors Which, if not up to western standards, is better thnn not living at all. This Is suggested by the story told by Mr. Harris, the correspondent of the Lon don Times, who speaks from experi ence. His capture and retention by I he tribesmen constituted almost an International Incident ns his enptors desired and his release nfter three un comfortable weeks was the result ouly of much skilled diplomacy on the part of the British foreign oillce. Mr. Hnrrls is an old baud In the Enst. Ho hns lived In Morocco many yea is nnd knows everybody there that is worth knowing. He' has lived with tho Arabs of tne Yemen, and escaped from their desire to kill Christians by, so to sny, the skin of his teeth. But his capture shows that ho hns not yet fully fathomed the guile of the Orien tal. The troops of the Sultan had Just burned a vlllnge, and Mr. Harris went out to see what hnd been done. He was unnrmed, nnd was accompanied only by bis Moorish groom. Out on the plnln he was shot nt, and a retreat was ordered, when his movement was stopped by the approach of two tribes men, whom he knew, who advanced with conventional signs of friendliness. They wanted to know whnt the Sultan Intended doing, and asked him to come to the chief so that ho might get messages to carry to his innjesty. Under promises of snfe conduct he went, nnd was promptly pounced upon nnd captured by retainers of Ralsuli, the chief. Rnlsull, according to his story, is a handsome young man, inlld In manner nnd courteous In mldrcss. Mr. Harris hnd known lilni well In Tnngler before he took to tlie hills. He received the Englishman warmly and told him that no hnrm-would come to him ns loug ns tho Sultan mnde no attack. If this happened ho would sorrowfully be compelled to kill him. Ferhnps he would kill him anyway, for by whnt better means could he embarrass bis enemy thnn by killing a. prominent Christian, and an Englishman at that? This was all said in the presence of some 2000 tribesmen, most of whom were flourishing their knives nnd hangers In a most threatening mnnner. In the meantime, everything possible would be done for the comfort of the prisoner. They put him in Jnll. It was a very small, very dark and very dirty room. When the prisoner's eyes became ac customed to the darkness, be saw on the floor the headless trunk of a man. That was a cheerful beginning, nnd Mr, Harris's feelings were not quieted by the remnrks made by some men who a little later came in to remove the corpse. The Intimation was that soon there would be another In the tame room, and of a giaour. For nine days he was kept in this room, lie got, In quantity, all he wanted to eat, except once, when for thirty-six hours there was food for no one, and, save tor a few kicks and slaps with slippers, be was not misused. He was not allowed to change his clothes or to wash his face. Every evening at sun down he was taken out to have a con versation with Ralsuli, who kept assur ing him that possibly, but not prob ably, bis life would be spared. Once, s an earnest of this, he was taken down to a gully to see the mutilated body of a Moorish soldier, who had been captured, and Jokingly assured him that a few days might see him In tho same condition. At the end of nine days, on a hot, moonless night, he was put on a mule's back and tnken up Into the mountains, where he was the captive of a tribe friendly to him. Thero he remained for twelve days, lu great luxury, as compared with what he hnd endured at the hands of Ralsuli. He became. In a sense, one of the tribe, shaved his bend and adopted their customs generally. It was a very pleasant vacation, nnd would hnve been thor oughly enjoyed hnd not thero been fbe very uncomfortnblo reeling thnt should tho negotiations fall through be would bo put out of the wny with smnll cere mony. In tho end he got his release, although It almost led to bloodshed among tho tribesmen, nnd with great ceremony was conducted Into Tuugler. Thus ended the ndvenlure, which merely shows that the Balknns hnve not ft monopoly on the exciting Inci dents of tho modern world. A NIGHT IN A KING'S TOMB. Writing of somo of the many old places in which she hns slept during her travels around the world, Jesslo Ackenuan cays: While traveling In (lint most Interesting section of India, Cashmere, I heard of a wonderful tomb of some ancient King, and wus urged not to leavo tho country without seeing It. It was about a day's journey from whero I was stopping, nnd I started on tho trip our- morning lu a govorumcnt in it (British) with a native guide, who also acted ns Interpreter, and n coolie driver. Expecting to re turn that night, I took neither-bedding or baggag. Winter was just setting . 11 K lis m IBI Ell In, and men looked wise as we started that morning, predicting all kinds of unpleasant weather. The road was abandoned during the winter, because it led over a great waste, nnd no pro vision wo mnde for travelers. Fifteen miles from our destination an accident befell our horse. Dnrkncss was fssl gathering. The only possible refuge was the King's tomb, which we hnd stnrted to see, so we decided that the only thing to do was to walk the d tance. I hnve always been fond of walklna, but I cannot truthfully sny that I enjoyed that nftect'-inlle tramp through the cold and darkness. Reach ing the tomb at Inst, we decided that It would be best for me to tnke up my quarters within the tomb, the guide rcmntnlng with me, while tho coolie walked to ft village some miles farther on In search of another horse. It was dark beyond description limine the tomb, nnd when the footsteps of the coolie could no longer be henrd, every sound, save one, died away on the still ness of the night. I made my way cautiously to the farthest corner, grop. Ing along against the wall of the tomb, thinking to tnke whnt comfort could be hnd from so miserable a situation. No sooner hnd I settled for tho night thnn I henrd the most weird, unearthly sound thnt ever pierced Inimnn ears. The uncanny plnce bnd suddenly taken on the atmosphere of life. There was a sound of rushing of wings that froze the blood In my veins. My heart seemed to have stopped beating. Sud denly I discovered whnt It was. A horde of horrid- bats hnd awakened from their lethargy and simultaneously started on a tour of Invc'.Igntion. Bats are ugly creatures. I would rather have sixteen active babies all clutch my hair at the same time than surrender my locks to one sportive bnt, especially of the Inllan variety. Their wings and shrieks became a rhythm to which my tired senses kept time until bleessed slumber came, and the morn ing brought a pnlr of fresh horses and a coolie laden with breakfast for two. The Housekeeper, SAVED TnE GOLD. Surgeon-Gencrnl Sternberg hnd a pecnllnr experience at tho battle of Bull Run. Just before going In be was approached by an Irish sergeant-major of his regiment, who banded him a bag of gold coin weighing three or four pounds. "Doctor," said the Irishman, "I know I'm to be kilt enthlrely, an' I wnnt you to take care of this money nn' see thnt It gets to the nuld folks nt home In ould Ihrelnnd." The doctor hnd no time to remonstrate or mnke any other arrangement, for the Irish man dropped the bag Into the surgeon's lnp nnd hurried awny to his place at the bead of the column. All through two bloody days Dr. Btornberg cnrrled thnt bag of gold with his surgical In struments, nnd It was a burden and embarrassment to blm. He tried to get rid of It, but be couldn't find any one willing to accept or even shnre the responsibility, and he couldn't throw It away for the sake of the "ould folks at home." Toward the close of the second day the surgeon was taken prisoner. He lost his surgical Instruments and his medicine case, but clung to the gold, and making a belt of bis necktie and handkerchief, tied It around his walsl next to the skin to prevent Its confisca tion by his enptors. During the long, hot and weary march thnt followed, the gold pieces chafed his flesh, nnd hll wnlst beenme so sore and bilstered at to cause him Intense suffering, but hs was bound thnt the "ould folks at home" should linvo the benefit of thnt money, nnd by the exercise of great caution nnd patience managed to keep it until he was exchanged with other prisoners nnd got bnck to Washington, Hero he found his regiment In camp, and one of the first men to welcome him was the Irish sergeant-major, who was so dcllghtod to lenrn thnt the doc tor hnd snved his money thnt bo got drunk and gambled it all away the first night. Washington Star. CLIMBING MOUNT nOOD. An excellent wagon road lends from the Wlllamett valley to within five miles of the summit of Mount Hood. To reach the top Involves much toil some climbing nnd no small amount o( dnnger. Despite .these ubstnclcs, the penk hns been ascended by thousands of persons, and only one fntnl accident In making the descent hns been re corded. Thnt occurred two yenrs ago. Although the air Is extremely rare nnd tho temperature low, a number of per sons have passed the night on the topmost crest. From the summit the scene Is ont of Indescrlbnblo grandeur and beauty, Here you are lifted above the clouds so far awny thnt the world lies reraots beneath tho eye; cities land towns shrink Into Insignificance. Vast Indeed Is the panorama outspread to view. Forests, mountains, plains, valleys and streams grow Indefinite nnd unsubstnu tinl like a subdued picture floating In tho sky. An all-pervading sense of the unreal tnkes possesslou of the soul Above the ethereal strata of'the cloudl you can gnze down upon them. The cloud effects nro wonderful. Looking In all directions, you fancy your eyes nre ranging over a vast, shoreless ocean. Vet there is a wildly tumbled and tossed aspect that the sea, even when shaken by tho most furious tempest, does not assume, Whllo the boundless stretch of clouds remind you of the vehement sen, yet tho fleecy masses seem far too light and airy for the limitless waters of the Tactile with Its fnr-reachlug waste of waters. -J. Mayno Baltimore, In Sunset Maga zine. tTae of Snuff la Unite States. The aggregate weight of sauff con sumed In tho Uulted States for one year Is 18,000,000 pounds. Snuff tak ing Is Increasing In this country at the rate cf sir per cent per snnuia. HOUSEMAID'S KNEE. IThy This fttrance-floonillns; III Itagea In Kngland Only. Housemaid's knee is a painful dls arder nnd one very difficult to cure. It Is a huge and sore swelling of the knee Joint; it attacks the housemaid only, and It Is due to this young wom an's protracted kneeling upon hard floors while she scrubs. In no country but England 1 the dis ease to be fouud. There, In great oumlx-rs, limping housemaids, victims of housemnld's knee, bobble to nnd fro. A surgeon explnlmd yesterduy why It Is thnt only English housemnlds get housemaid's knee. "The English." snld the surgeon, "nre unprogresslve. They won't adopt new Ideas. In every country there l a class of women, called housemaids technically, who do nothing but scrub floors. By scrubbing floors they make their living. "Take the American housemaid. How does she scrub floors? With a long-handled brush, standing erects "How does the Herman housemaid scrub floors? With n long stick to which a scrub-cloth Is ntlixed. She, too, scrubs standing erect. "How does the French mnld scrub floors? Why, with a footbruMh, never kneeling for nn Instant. "But the English housemaid, kneeling In the old-fashioned wny, scrubs with a bnndleless scrubbing brush, the same ns she did 100 yenrs ago. Hence she Is only too prone to limp about her work a victim of housemaid's knee, the English servant's bane." The Loreni Method. Conservatism In using the Lorenz method Is nt the present time most ad visable by American surgeons. There hns beeu crented such nn alnrmlng In terest In the operntlnn by the news papers that there is dnnger that opera tions may be undertaken by the un skilled nud the procedure be brought Into disrepute. The conditions that limit the choice of cases fit for the operation should be most carefully studied. It cannot he forgotten thnt even In the hands of one so experi enced nnd successful ns Lorenz him self only about one-half the operations are successful. It Is, moreover, the opinion of some thoughtful men thnt tho operation with the knife may Anal ly prove prefernble, even lu patients of six years nnd less. It Is also to be remembered thnt the primary success In getting the hend of the femur lulu Its socket still leaves the greater part of the work, nnd often the most diffi cult, to be cnrrled out In the long nnd delicate manipulations and care re quired after the enst Is removed. What ever method mny dually gnln prece dence In practice, nothing lint hnrm enn result from hnste and recklessness on our part in undertaking operations in ill-advised enses. If to (his should be added the misfortune of a poor operation, an over-revulsion will fol low, and progress will more thnn ever be sadly delayed. American Medicine. Railing Alllgntora. . A New Orleans correspondent writes: Tho departure by express to-day of two cages of small alligators to Hot Springs, Ark., disclosed the existence at that place of au alligator ranch for the purpose of raising alligators for the market, and that another alligator ranch, owned by the same breeder, Is In operation in Florida. The bunting of alligators has almost exterminated them In Louisiana and Florida, nnd It is evident that in a few yenrs the wild alligator will be extinct. In view of this and the great demand for alligators for zoological depart ments, an effort Is being made to ruisu them by hand. A considerable part of this year's hatchings, Instead of being mounted, Is being sent to (ho Arknnsns nnd Florida ranches, and raised for the market. It Is a slow process, but It Is thought that the alligator will become so much more valuable when the wild ones nre killed off that It will pny to raise then). 1'hlladelphla Record. Her Little Joke. They were In the studio. Artists' trappery and bohemlaii paraphernalia were placed about the room with studied carelessness. Heavy tapestries and portieres choked the walls. Costly statuary, mediaeval firearms, poulards, yata ghans, and priceless and historic ar mor were ranged Idly about the room. Seated on a heavily upholstered di van, eyeiug the American heiress at work on au Intricate landscape, was the Duke. "Bub Jove," ho ejnculatrd suddenly, "do you know. Miss Mlllylus, I'm wrapped up In you and " "Huh!" interrupted tho wealthy maiden with Yankee snrcnsin. "I don't see why you should be wrapped up; I bnven't bought you yet." . The Duke sat dumbfounded, wonder ing whnt there was in her remark to cause n smile to break out over her sweet visage. New York Times. Th Tacoin. Seattle DUpute. It is reported that the courts will have au opportunity to decldo whether Tucoma or Rnluer is the proper name for Washington's famous mountain. Au advertising solicitor, who must have been woefully ignorant of the local Interest in the name of the moun tain, attempted to collect pay for nn advertisement of a Tucoma man, while his pamphlet captioned the mountain as Mount Rainier. He now realizes his mlstuke, but can be comforted by tho thought that he might have cap tioned it Mount Tacoma and attempted to collect the bills for bis Seattle ad vertisements. The result of such na error is appalling to Imagine. The ad vertising man may win out on his suit, but the verdict will not chunge the name of tho mountain, so far us it Is used by the Tuceina people. i'ortland Oiegouian. LABOR WORLD. . Over 175,000 persons nre employed ltt mnklng cigars in Germany. The Brewery Workers Association bas a membership of 3:1,000 members. Stationary engineers nre ndvocatlng. ft movement toward tho establishment of a stck benefit fund. Public school teachers at Toronto, Can are talking of forming a union, for the purpose of improving wages. Eight thousand men employed on the river front at New Orlenns, La.. were recently locked out 1 the steamship companies. The ordinary man's wages In ."acto rles In Germany nre from ten to tweiva and one-half cents an hour, or from L to $1.25 for ten hours' work. City letter carriers at Omaha and rural free delivery carriers throughout Nebraska are preparing to mnke a strong fight for Increase in compensa tion, based on tho cost of living. A plan has been suggested In Eng land for the erection of p. Danutnrluia fer tho reception of tuberenlofls pa tients on terms thnt would be within the means of the working classes. San Francisco, Cnl., Street Car Men's Union hns determined to take care of its own sick nnd Injured members. A fund bns been established and I20X per month will be added through at fifty-cent monthly assessment. The Brotherhood of ralnters, Decor ators and l'nperlinngers hns shown the most phenomenal growth in the past eighteen months, 40-1 new unions hav ing been chartered and 33,0(10 men added to the ranks. The membership is now nenrly 70,000. According to the Lnbor Commlsw Btoner of Michigan, (here hns been aa increase In the membership of trnilo anions In the past year of over 40 per cent. ' Wages have been Increased over fourteen cents a day, and forty per cent, of the unlous have shortened the hours of work. CAPITOL IN HONEY. Ont of Colorado's Exhibits at tho fit. Louis World's Fair. A miniature fac simile of the atfttf wpltol -building, 24 feet in height aoA the other dimensions In pro portion, sonstructed of honey, of which ovar :wo tons will be used, Is the latest plan of the world's fair commission m-s to advertise the resources of Col rslo. This state will produce orar (,000 tons of honey this winter, and lext spring and 60 tons of that baa llready been promised to the world's !air committee for exhibition at 8t Louis. Colorado Is noted for the qual ity and quantity of her honey, and it a estimated that she furnishes nearly me-quarter of all used in the United States. At every exposition since the Chicago fair Colorado honey has car ried off all the prizes. The matter waa taken up at the meeting of the auxil- . lary agricultural board yesterday after soon and thoroughly gone into. All of the members were enthusiastic over Iho plan, and Commission in Chief Paul Wilson was instructed to go ahead and arrange the details for pre paring the miniature building aa soon s possible. The State Agricultural College of Fort ColllnB will have sbarge of the Irrigating farm of 40 acres that Colorado will use, and the Itudents will show a model farm In jperatlon, growing all kinds of agrl tultural product ARMENIANS ARE LOYAL. MHaslonaHss Repudiate Statement that They Fired American College. H. MJcnaelyan, of Pittsburg. Pft-, write concerning a recent statement referring to the attempt alleged to have been made to burn the Euphrates College in Harput, Armenia, In which It waa said that Harput baa alwaya been a turbulent place, and the Ar menians could easily be persuaded to further the ends of the enemies of Turkey by attacking the American in terests at that place; also that there Is not much doubt the Armenians fired lire college for the sole purpose of making trouble for the Turkish govern ment. On reading this Mr. Michaelyaa rote to the American Board of Com missioners for Foregn Mission, Bos ton, which more than any other au thority In the United States would be In a position to know, to ask If there was any ground for a statement of this kind. In reply he bam received a letter saying: "We have never heard such a report, or even heard it sug gested on the part of missionaries or others, that the Armenians bad any thing to do with the burning of the col lege buildings or any sympathy with It. We have never had suon a thought. They have alwaya been loyal to ns, with very few exceptions, and we ap preciate It" White Colonists of Great Britain. The figures representing the white population of Great Britain's colonies will surprise many persons. The Im portant on os are Canada, 5.525.000;' Australia.. 3.800,-000; South Africa. 873.000; New Zealand. 815,000, which make a total of 11,075,000 persona. There are, however, says the London Times, 20,000 white neraons now go ing to the colonleeMo settle each month as a reau'.t of bard times in A perfectly satisfactory artificial gutta-percha is being made in England under the Qentzach patents. The LATEST FASHIONS IN GENT'S CLOTHING The newest, Bneataloths, the latest designs, all tha most faahtooablecuta for the summer season. Call at our shop and see samples of oioth oompleta Hoe and let aa eoavlnoa you that we are the leaders in our Una. Reasonable prices always and satiafaoUoa guanus Johns &
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