J NOW. it you have hard work to do. Do it now. To-day the skies are clear and blue. To morrow clouds may come in view, Yesterday is not (or you; Do it now. II you have song to sing. Sing it now. Let the note of gladness ring. Clear as song of bird in spring, , Let every day some music bring; Sing it now. . AK1.Y In September Kills loft Toronto for the north Ij1 I Ontario- -woods partly for X-J I st camping and Ashing cruise, but chiefly with tin1 hope of obtaining photo graphs of big game, for be was nn "athusiastie camera hunter. In tipper Muskoka lie picked up n guide, mid they went up the Smoke Itiver in two canoed, traveling slowly and making ' frequent halts, while F.llis IHlicd or still-bunted with bis camera. But in that region the game had been hunted too much to be easily talked, and they portaged over a height of land to another system of streams that carried them into the Al gonquin National Park. In this great forest preserve, where tinnilng Is stri'tly prohibited, game of . all sorts lias multiplied exceedingly, and here Kills', efforts wcr,? more suc cessful. He obtained several good snap shots at deer, but the moose iwere too wary for him. Moose were plentiful enough In that . fiistviet, as the great tracks at every fiond-side showed. It was their soa on of love and battle! and the dis tant bellowing of the challenging bulls could be heard almost nightly. Once Kllis came upon a spot In the ' tersot where the ground was torn and trampled, and sprinkled with blood and wisps of coarse hair. lie would almost have given a finger to have photographed that duel. ' ' With bis guide's assistance, be tried "Jacklightlng" on the small hikes, with ' lantern In the bow of his canoe, a creen behind It, and the camera pre pared with a flash-light in the stern. He thus secured . several excellent flash-light photographs of deer, but no moose. He was one afternoon exploring the ' (windings of a small and unusually tranquil stream -when he came out up en a beaver pond. It was not the first fc had seen, for beaver are growing plentiful once more In, the park, but lie paddled over it with much curios- He was at once struck by the fact that some one had been meddling with ft The great rough dam, a rick-of mud and brush, had been oroken, and iwas not yet completely repaired. In the deepest water stood the lodges, four of them, like stacks of mud-plastered brushwood half above the sur face; and as he paddled alongside one tbem, he noticed that a great hole Itad been torn in it; partly Under wa ter, which had not been, repaired at 11. The other lodges showed traces of ' Injury, but had been made serviceable again. Probably the mischief was the Work of an Indian trapper, -who had broken the dam to . lower, the water ' and cut the lodges .to get at the beaver, although the fur was of little value at that season'.' " " ' '' The : beavers, or what was . left of them, had not deserted, however, and pieces of gnawed sticks scattered about the shore showed that they had been tworklng bard to repair the damage. They labor "hlcfly at night, and It oc curred to Ellis that he might ambush himself beside the dam till dark, and obtain a flash-light picture of beavers at work. It was then, nearly' sunset, and he pushed hig canoe deep among the alders that fringed the water and lay down In the stern. The sun went slow ly out of sight, but the long northern twilight still lingered. As dusk came on, one or tro beavers came out of tiding, showing their black heads be atifies the Wlges; but these glimpses were insufficient It grew, cold, and Ellis thlvercd in the cramped canoe. There was no moon, and the sky was clondy. He could no longer make out the beaver-houses or the dam, but sig nificant sounds ' began to arise eplashes and rippling?, and once a swimming animal brushed the stem of the canoe. Ellis was thinking of setting off a Bash-light and trusting to luck to catch something in focus, when, like at sudden thunderclap, there burst out the deep roar of a bull moose from the other end of the pond, not two hundred yards away. The sound was so terrific that Ellis cowered. The sery leaves of tbe forest seemed to vibrate at its tremendous volume. Almost Immediately the challenge iwa: answered by a sonorous bellow in the same direction, but apparently nearly a mile distant to which the challenger responded with a roar of rage. Ellis heard the great animal threshing his antlers against the trees and smashing up the underbrush, and lie thrilled at the possibility of a duel actually taking place in bis presence, even If he could not see it. For some minutes tne distant animal Wat silent, while the nearer moose continued to tear up the saplings, II yon have kind woria to sir, Say them now. To-morrow may not come your way, Do a kindness while you may. Loved ones will not always stay; Say them now. If you have a nmile to show. Show it now. Make hearts happy, rose grow. Let the friends around you know The love you have before they go. Show it now. -Charles R. Skinner, in New York Sun. The... FlashLight ...Hunter -o-o-o-o-c Dy FKASK LILLIE POLLOCK, gnashing his tee-.h with a loud chop ping noise. Then Ellis heard n sudden startled "Whosh:" There was a bel low out short and a rattling crash of locking antlers. The distant enemy must have crept up silently, made a circuit to approach his antagonist down wind, and then charged. In spite of straining his eyes, Ellis could see nothing, but the liolse was enough. Trees and shrubs crashed apart as the giant animals wrestled and swayed through the woods with stertorous snorts and gasps for breath. The huge prongs crashed together con tinually. Ellis thought that the light ers were equally matched, but sud denly one of them broke away, ran down to the bead f the pond,-and splashed Into the water. Tho other followed, with a terrific and triumphant blast, and the battle was resumed in the shallow water, with sounds like the dying flurry of a whale. Kllis could resist it no long er. The idea of obtaining so unique a photograph was too much for him, and he sat up in the canoe and pushed out. The slight current of air toward him, and the noise of the fight covered his movements. The distance was about fifty yards, and the focus of his camera was fixed for n hundred feet. The canoe tossed violently nn tho waves created by the battle, and when ne nail glided a sbort distance, there was a tremendous splash, a noise of floundering, and a scream like that of a wounded horse. One of the bulls had gone down. Ellis gave two more stroncr naddle- strokes, shipped the poddie. and poised his camera. The terrific threshine in the water continued, and he sighted ror the spot as accurately as ha could, waited a moment, and then with trem bling fingers pulled the triecer of ih flash-gun. In his excitement he did not hear the report. The gun was heavllv tnmleil with flash-powder for outdoor work. and in the momentary, vivid white glare be saw the dark forest, tho iinrb water, and a giant black animal stand ing with lieu turned suspiciously to ward him above Gomethinir that was hidden In a smother of spray. Ulack darkness followoil. ami with It came nn nrmallinc bellow from tim bull, and Ellis heard the sound of a plunge toward him. The ,brutc had sighted his new ene:nv In ih flash aud the killing fever was upon him. tins caught un the naddle. snnn th canoe round, and shot av.ay blindly in tfie inky darkness. lie could hear the bull apparently ahoi.t a floznn yards behind, coming with great bounds through the water. Hut in a few strokes the canoe collided violently witn somtlning solid. Ellis lost his balance, pitched forward, nml 'wpnt helpless overheard nnd under water. as ins neaa L-obited un. lit beard the smash of tin moose nnttlne a forefoot through the canoe. He dived, irying to swim under water, and tvn against the Jagged surface of one of the li..av. er-houses, which was, ii fact, the ob stacle upon which he had hrcn wrecked. The bull ch arced h till with n rush, and a sharp hoof grazed his leg. in tne muddy bottom of the pond lie blundered in!o what seemnl n serf of trench. It led to the beaver iodge, and as he brushed against the bristling sur face Of Knots and sticks, he felt nn opening near the bottom. It was the Cole that bad been cut to enlarge the entrance of the raided I nitre ami with a choking desire to take refuge any- wcere, ne tlirust himself inside. His head burst through o llcht floor. ing a foot above the water as be raised It. It was pitch dark. Lifting his hand, he felt the rough roof close above him. The water came nearly to his armpits as he squatted, and it was very cold. The air was damp and surcharged with animal odors. He could hear the moose splashing about outside, probably puzzled at its victim's disappearance. Occasionally there was a sharp blow upon the roof of the lodge, but it was thick and solid, built of mud and interwoven branches. As bis fright passed off little, Ellis felt about the interior of his refuge with much curiosity. The walls were rough and splintery, and a great number of small sticks were floating about Above tbe light flooring that he had broken through appeared to have been the main living-room of the family, for there was a quantity of dry grass arranged as if for a nest. As nearly as he could judge, the place was about four feet in diameter. He felt sure that the moose did not know where J e was, for the animal was wading about from oue lodge to another, smiling loudly at each. Pres ently he might return to finish his for mer antagonist, Ellis thought and hoped, for the water was bitterly cold and he was rapidly growing numb. After a time there was silence. Lis tening breathlessly, he could not hear the slightest sound. He waited for fully fifteen minutes r ore, however, to make sure, and tli"n ventured to thrust out his head and shoulders. It was too dark to see anything, but after listening again, he proceeded to crawl through the opening. He was half-out when something came rushing through the water. The cunning animal had waited sllebtly for his reappearance, aud a blow, for tunately half-deadened by tbe water, reached his arm. He squirmed back Into his shelter again -quickly enough to escape frrtber injury. 'A hoof-stroke that made the whole dodgi;, tremble came trashing upon the roof. A rain of blows followed that seemed as If they must knock the whole structure to pieces, but the tough walls held nobly. Finally, at a particularly heavy bio-,,-, a sharp hoof burst b. followed by the whole fore leg. Ellis dodged, knocking his h;ad vio lently against the sharp sticks in the wall. Directly over hlin the bull roared frightfully. Ellis could hear the long leg scraping about close to him; then he realized that tbe bull was no longer trying to reach hlin. It was merely trying to withdraw its leg, and was not succeeding. Tbe leg was firmly wedged into the hole, almost to tbe shoulder. At this reassuring discovery Ellis re covered from his panic. He might in fact, hove easily killed the animal by piercing the imprisoned leg with his knife, but be respected the truce of the park. The bull was now plunging about in tbe wildest terror, and seemed likely to break Its leg if he failed to extricate It; but Ellis was not dis posed to assist him to escape. As soon as he was quite convinced that the animal was hard and fast, he stooped again, carefully avoiding the kicking leg, and once more wrig gled out of the hole, leaving several strips of clothing on the projecting sticks about the entrance. The air seemed indescribably fresh as he emerged, and after the pitchy dark ness of tbe beaver's den It seemed al most light upon tbe pond. He could make out the vast black bulk of the bull standing over the lodge, and it bellowed terrify ingly and enveloped it self in spray at tbe photographer's ap pearauee. But Ellis did not stop to make observations. He was afraid the bull might break loose, and he did not even look for his escape or camera. He waded ashore, and started, drip ping, toward camp, which was three ot four miles distant. The next morning, however, lie re turned with his guide and a smaller snap-shot camera which be had at camp. The moose was still there, standing with its fore leg burled in the beaver-house. But its spirit was gone. It stood with drooping head, exhausted and utterly cowed. As the men approached, it eyed them apathet ically, while Ellis took several photo graphs of it; and it was so clearly harmless that a guide waded In and chopped it free with an ax. During this operation it only sniffed wearily, and when released it splashed slowly toward shore aud disappeared among the alders with a dejected air. Its leg was caked with dark blood, where it had worn off about a foot of tbe hide in its struggles to escape. Of the other moose engaged in the night's duel there was no trace be yond a maze of tracks and wisps of bloody hair on the torn-up earth. Un doubtedly it had gladly taken advant age of the diversion caused by Ellis to beat a retreat. The canoe, with a great hole In the bottom, bad drifted down against the dam, and tbe camera with it not very much injured. El lis' chief regret was for the plate which it had contained, bearing the photograph of that duel in the dark. Youth's Compaulou. A Foster Family of Ilncks. A curious experiment in the hatching of ducklings by n turkey was made1 recently on a model fnrm at Wlllerkof,. In the outskirts of Schlostadt.- in Lower Alsace. It succeeded admira bly, as attempts not dissimilar have' succeeded elsewhere. The bird wai placed In a basket In which were tw plaster eggs, and it was kept there by means of n framework, In a couple of days the two artificial eggs were re placed with a dozen duck's cgs.s In due time nine ducklings were batche.l The turkey showed much attachment to Its brood nnd protected it devotedly. The first time the ducklings took to tbe water tho turkey followed tbem, but soon drew back and patiently awaited their return and its vigilance did not relax even when they bnd grown up, When the fowl could not share tbeii nest any longer, it left them in the evening to rejoin this fellow-turkeys, but when the coop was opened in the morning, it quickly sought its strange family, all the members of which are in good health. La Nature. Flying Turtles. In one of the gallery tanks on the salt water side of the Aquarium are three sea turtles, each about a foot in length, the three including two green turtles and a hawkbill. They attract much attention here, where they can be seen close at hand nnd their motions in the water studied. It may be that one of them will be seen swimming through the water, head up, with its body suspended at an angle and flapping its two broad forward flippers, one on either side, like the wings of a bird. Then the turtle looks strikingly like some sort of odd bird flying through the water. A visitor who halted in front of this tank yesterday was so struck by tbe sight of one of these turtles that be raised his arms and swung them with the swimmer's flapping Dippers, keeping time with the Hying turtle. New lork Sun, Modern Geography Like a Fairy Tale, Foil of Romance Marvel and Deep Interest. It Roll Call of Fascinating: Personalities t It Has Become a Necessity to Every Reader of the News of the Day. .JftOasv EOGRAPHY means more Q O days ot any one past Jl Jk thirty. It Is accepted now 5OW that It deals with "all the relations between tho earth nd its Inhabitants" which is wide scope indeed. Aside from autobiogra phies and newspapers, there Is not a more interesting' species of first-hand reading than the journnls or records of geographers and their subordinate classes of explorers nnd travelers, what n roll-call of fascinating person ages that provides, from Polo to Peary and to (.Miss) Foek. From Columbus. De Gama, Drake, Ernnklln, Living stone, Stanley and the rest to Nniiseu, AbrazzI aud Scott, and the Prince of Monaco. "Geogrophy Is not only prehistoric, it Is prehuman." As primitive man had to become familiar with ills en vironment, nud learn, for his sub sistence and existence, where to tlnd food and water, where to Und shelter in cave or thicket, what roots and fruits were nutritious or harmful, :vhut tnimnls were available for eating, and w-hnt animals he had to guard against If ho would live-so the birds and beasts had to do likewise, and learn, in their way, what we call geography nowadays. To understand what this science is nowadays, glance over the latest periodicals of societies devoted to It. Nothing that deals with the depths of the sea, the heights of the mountains, the run or tides, the dan ger of the plains, climate, excavations of ancient cities, the races of mankind, vegetable life nnd organic Hie, migra tion nothing that deals with these is outside geography, which once seemed the easiest siudy of young days. A? the late hydrographer of tbe Brit ish Navy sitid. in an address just printed after his death, '-to read the daily newspapers requires either a geographical knowledge or constant reference 1o maps," and the mistakes made by those responsible for the con duct of public affairs "by waut of the most elementary knowledge are In numerable." It Is not all In under standing a map, though that In ilself is not a common facility. Let us re member that It does not end with the charted outlines of the world, or tha relief of lands, or even of sea depths. Its field has been stated to be "the face of the earth." yet that, too, Is far with in what this most human science Is parent of. It has to do with tests of atmosphere, and the profile of the ocean's bed aud what lives there. How Irregular coast lines make a difference in people on the land; how man, superior to plants, has overcome mountains; how different he becomes In these altitudes from what he is in A DEEP BORINC. Facts of Interest (llcaned Through Half Mile Well. in 1857 for some reason it was thought profitable And possible to se sure nn artesian well In the State House yard. Tbe geology of Ohio as a science was still unwritten. Iu fact, the first volume of the Ohio Geological Reports contains Ue written record of this boring. Down 2773 feet over half a mile the auger was sent by the slow and laborious process of the time, and nearly a year was spout In the work. Tho boring wrs commenced on Novem ber 4, ISIj", nnd stopped October 1, 18."S. No artesian water was found. 'J he boring was made In the eastern part of the grounds. Its site was pointed out to the writer some years ago, and It Is now probably covered by the cement walk extending out to Third street from tho Judiciary build ing. Water was struck and plenty of it freh, salt, sulphur, magneslan, etc., but none of it came to the top. Professor Theodore (J. Wonnley, the professor of chemistry in Starling Medical College, embraced the oppor tunity to securj the to iiperature of this deep boring. With a thermome ter placed iu n specialty prepared Iron case, sud leU ut the bottom of the boring twenty-four hours, he found the temperature at the bottou to be 88 degrees Fahrenheit. Making de ductions for the distance below the surface at which the heat of the sun ceases to be felt, he computed that the temperature increased one degree for every seventyrone feet of descent. At that time K.ropean scientists who .were carefully studying this branch of physical geography had estimated that the temperature Increased in tuch con ditions ont degree for every sixty-six .'cet. There is no recrrd of the cost of the bo-lng. but it must have been con siderable, as the facilities and appara tus were primitive comparer, with thosj :u use now. Though falling of its principal purpose, tb? State seems to have turned it to account through its geologists, eo that it was :iot wholly money .;iisted.--Coii mbus Evening Dispatch. Imporiauce nf Dress. Dress is no longer the pre-occupatlon of the shallow-minded. It is recog nized of infinite importance by even the brainy r.ud intellectual of woman kind, who now frankly acknowledge the obligation imposed on them to look their nicest. The Gentlewoman. t:iectrlo mhnlrxl. Berlin's uew cathedral Is not only lighted throughout by electricity, hut the same power is used for ritiain'i the Ical of hells, aud the organ is oper ated by a nine horse power motor. - xx xv. vv.xx-.xxxxxcxxy.yvo: yx oc ?x the plains; how the Phoenicians ln COO B. -'. circumnavigated Africa, and yet how the Japanese, whose legends, not to meulion history, do not go back fur ther than that same 000 B. C, believe that their islands originated from the drip of the God Iznaga's sword (which he dipped into the sea'; bow this last mentioned nation is derived from a mixture of Korean aud Malay blood and it got its language and religion and art from China and Korea, and its present civilization Troin the West; how the Victoria Falls, discovered In 1SUO, may now be reached in comfort, and bow Siberia and Newfoundland may be crossed by rail ln "sleepers," and "diners" all this concerns modern geography. It Is part of geogrnphy how the Black Hills of Colorado, rising sud denly from a plain, produce rainfalls there, which lu turn produce forests aud wash chv the surface soil, ex posing ore. and thus attract population, it is part of geography when the 4TiO miles of Ice mass as high as tbe tall est New York building has receded fourteen miles toward the South Pole since 1811; or when It Is found that out of the Bed Sea runs at the bottom n current more rapid than that which runs In at the top. So also when Can ada creels two new provinces, or Alaska reveals gold, or removes Its capital from Sitka to Juneau, or when It is demonstrated that the moon does not foretell the weather. So, likewise, when Norway chooses to be a kingdom Instead of a republic (and elects a king!) and when 400 miles of tele phones are stretched up the Congo, or telegraph poles are, as they will be next winter, set across Sahara Desert. This scarcely begins to indicate what the new georgrapby comprises, or bow, with the growth of communication among the human Inhabitants of the earth with the invention of steam, the printing press, electricity, Marconi graphs and the indefatigable enterprise of explorers tbe old "limitations have been extended. In a few years 1000 miles more of const line have been mapped toward the South Pole; few places in the ocean, which used to have "unfathomable depths," remain un sounded; the sacred and impenetrable city of Lhasa lias been penetrated; Korea has been deprived of nu Im memorial sovereignty; Mexico's "free zone" has been abolished; seven and one-half feet high gorillas have been shot rin the French Congo; the origin of the horse has been settled in our own West, nnd the discovery of tha birthplace of civilization Is believed to be on the eve of fulfilment by a Carnegie Institute expedition to Tur kestan, under sand drift brought on by the rec eding of rivers and the winds of time. New York Press. Japanese Jnrclers. The marvellous performances of the jugglers of .In pan have been widely known ever since the Isolation of the Island Empire was broken. More than thirty years ago Bayard Taylor, the American traveler and literator, told this story: ''I was witness to some astonlshiDS specimens of illusion. After n variety of tricks with tops, cups of water and paper butterflies, the juggler exhibited to the spectators a large open fan, which he held in bis right hand, then threw It into the nlr, caught it by the handle In his left band, squatted down, fanned himself, and then turning bis bead In profile,' gave a loud sigh, dur ing which the image of n galloping horse Issued from his mouth. Still fanning himself, he shook from bis right sleeve an army of little men, who presently, bowing and dancing, van ished out of sight. Then be bowed, closed the fan and held It In bis two bands, during which time his own head disappeared, then became visible, but of colossal size, and finally reap peared In its natural dimensions, but multiplied four or five times. They set a jar before him, nnd In a short time he issued from the neck, rose slowly in the air, and vanished in clouds along tbe celling." The Tw Worlds. Golden memories are undying. Tnre love Is Immortal. The bud of friend ship that begins to bloom on earth, bears precious fruit in heaven, noly remembrances call the assembled hither. Death, the silent key that un locks life's portal to let eartb-cofllned spirits up one step higher, severs no sweet attraction. Sympathies between the two worlds are as natural as be tween the two continents. The trans lated mother looks down lovingly upon her weeping child. Happy each glory bathed soul who cherishes the whisper accents breathed from those angel dwellers upon the shadowless shores of immortality. Trout's Narrow F.scane. A correspondent of the Field relates that he shot a flying heron that bnd been fishing in tbe Itiver Colne at Ux bridge, aud as tho ,bird fell there dropped out of its mouth a trout near ly one-half pound in weight The -fish was alive, though scored cn the back. A keeper procured a live bait can, filled it with waver, and put the trout into It. After a minute or r,o the fish, gained sirentli. In a few hours it seemed quite resuscitated, and apparently none the worse for its narrow escape from dea.h. It was accordingly returned to the river to recover itself fully. Loa dim jtaudai'd. The Church of England has an In come oi $T5,OUO,000 a year. SONC OF THE POLICY.HOlPEWs Come, five me the gaff I'm s policy holder; Come, give me the gaff and add to my joy- riini'gh furrowed my brow, till you'd think me much older. In knowledge I feel I'm the veriest boy. An aarent once came to my neat little dwelling And sang me a song full of love for the poor: The stnrv Is old and not worth re telling. Yet sadder tlinn e'en the "last aigh of the Moor." He had me afraid to go forth to my toil ing And have my good wife and the chicks . Iliat are ours; Behind ev'iy liusli was the death-serpent coiling I aniellcil the pine-iyifiin nnd waxy-nhite flowers. 'i IT" told of a plan by benevolent persons To cine for my loved ones when I should be gone. His story had surely had lots of re henrsin's s Since tlx n 1 have learned 'twas a bundle nf con. The chaives, he said, for this kindly pro tection, Were scarce what it cost the good men in the pieme Of late I've been reading of certain detec tions That rudely awakened me out of my dream. I find that my money's been paying for yathtes And horses and homes and champag ny palore; t find that I've made millionaire-men in batches. And plutocrats, too, by the dozen and score, I find I've invested in things never heard of. Contributed much to the hoodie cam paigns Willi other sitoh thing? that I knew not word of, And now 1 am getting the laugh for my pains. Come, kick me around I'm a policy holder; Come, gull me and skin me and heighten my joy. Though a-liei iv cheek till you'd think me mtif ii nlder. In nUm-v ptill I'm the veriest hoy. trw-l:land W. Gillilan, in Puck. "The duke is dead In love with her, Isn't heV "He is prepared to lay all his liabilities at her feet." Life. Teacher '-When water becomes ice, what Import.'! ft chaiig-; takes place?" Pupil "The change In price." Cleve land Leader. "You've bern so prosperous this year you ought to be very happy." "How can I be happy when I haven't a thing In the world to growl about?" Atlanta Constitution. "That flinislly constructed public building is a scandal!" exclaimed the patriot. "Never mind," answered Mr. Dr graft soothingly, "it'll soon blow over." Washington Star. "Sunday," remarked the tired-looking passenger, "is no day of rest for me." "Ball player?'' queried the other pas senger. ''No leader of a church choir." Chicago Tribune. Lives of great men all remind us, As their pages o'er we turn. That we're apt to leave behind us Letters that we ought to burn. London Star. Miss Thin "I'm going to send Mr. Millions a picture of myself ln evening dress for n valentine." Miss Cutting "Oh, what makes yon send him a comic?" Detroit Free Tress. Dorcas "The operation was success ful, but tbe patient couldn't survive the shock." Sirs. Dorcas "Gracious! How careless to let a poor man in his condi tion find out what the operation cost." -ruck. Mrs. Klubhs (severely) "I've been ly ing awake these three hours waiting for you to come home." Mr. Klubbs (ruefully) "Gee! And I've been stay ing away three hours, waiting for you to go to sleep." Cleveland Lender. "Have you ever made any effort to bring your coileacues to your way of thinking?" "No." answered Senator Sorghum. "I dnn't care anything about their way of thinking. What I want is to bring them to my way of voting." Washington Star. UM Time Wars. The soldiers were on the war-path in a flash, and there was a regular mix up. I saw one of the haymakers draw a murderous-looking knife, nnd before I could get to him he plunged It into the back of one of the cavalry men 1 went for him, and as I reached and grabbed him by the collar, two or three of his friends ran toward me and one of them yelled, "Cuss yon, take your hands off my pard." I said nothing but kept moving out of the crush still holding my man. The soldier he bad knifed lay finite still with wide open, staring eyes. He was stripped naked to the waist, having gotten ready to fight a fellow soldier with his fists. The blood from the knife-cut nearly covered his whole back and breast. He lay half on his back with his face turned to the sky. I noticed all this, for he presented such a revolting sight W. J. Carney and Cbaunccy Thomas, in "Kit Carson Town in the Early Seventies," From Outing. A Snnlld Match. Sums of money have relative value. To the man who has nothing $1000 looks like a neat little pile, while to the man who has just failed for a mil lion it is not a drop in the bucket. A traveler from one of the rural countries in Europe where the people live simple lives and seldom see the color of money tells a story of a hus band and wife who were always quar reling. Getting on confidential terms with the man, tho traveler asked him why they didn't make up. "I don't want to make up," declared tho man frankly. "1 never did care anything for her. I only married her for her money." "I didn't know she had money." "Yes, she did. She had forty dollars." POPULAR SCIENCE (I Airship travel seems to be already popular. W. de Fonvielle estimates that seven or eight hundred balloon voyages are now made annually, and states that tbe members of tbe French Aero Club alone made more U91 two hundred last year. Tbe forms and colors of the clouds, the brightness, and tbe new views of the earth give a won derful charm to sky automoblllng. Julius Rosenberg considers ultro-vlo-let rays remedial agents of tbe greatest value, especially for the relief of pain, says the Baltimore Sun. He employs a thirty -fire-ampere arc, with mirror reflectors, and nttaches importance to the use of iron-carbide electrodes. He concludes that the ultra-violet rays ob tained in this way are a specific rem edy In acute muscular pain, such as lumbago. Professor W. E. Ayrton points ont that the common expression "buying electricity" and "consuming electric current" are misleading. No electricity Is used up in lighting buildings, driv ing machinery, and propelling cars and trains. "Just as much electricity flows away per minute, through the return conductor, from your electrically light ed house as flows to it through the coming conductor. Tbe pomelo, sometimes called the Chinese breadfruit, a citrus-fruit which may be described as a cross between tbe orange and the grapefruit, combin ing tbe good points of both, is the subject of an interesting report by Mr. Anderson, tbe United States Consul lit Hangchow. Mr. Anderson regards it as tbe finest fruit grown in the Far East. He believes that it might be In troduced with profit into tbe Southern United States. The gigantic animals of the so-called age of reptiles, whose remains are es pecially abundant In some of the lands bordering the Rocky Mountains, ap peal so powerfully to the imagination that an exaggerated notion of their size and weight is frequently enter tained. It has more than once been pointed out that, as far as paleontology shows, the earth never contained more bulky creatures than the whales of to-day. The construction of an ordinary tel egraph line between Lima, on the Pa-" clfic side of the Andes in Peru, and Iqultos, near tbe Amazon, being all but impossible, btcause of tbe density of tbe forests and tbe animosity of the ignorant natives, the wireless method is to be employed. Already communi cation by wireless telegraphy exists between Lima and Puerto Bermudez, and this line will be extended to Iquitos, a distance of about GOO miles, with three intermediate stations. One on the Conductor. Colonel Sanders was a passenger on one of tha Montana railroads at one time. He bad the annual pass on tbe road, bnt on this occasion he had left It at home. He had traveled the same route many times before and was well known to tbe conductor. When that offiel-I came around for the tickets, tbe Colonel told him of his forgetfnlness. The conductor, however, was obdurate; he must have ticket or money. The Colonel, rather than have a scene, finally pulled out a five dollar bill, which was ample to cover the expenses of his trip. It was a very ragged af fairall torn and pasted. "That's a fine looking bill to giva me," gro". led tbe conductor. Colonel Sanders was by this time thoroughly nettled. "Well," he cried in a voice that could be heard all over the ar, "if you don't like it, turn it in to the company.'? ' The laugh that went up was at tbe expense of tbe conductor. Pittsburg Dispatch. Wild Beasts or India. Tear by year records are published of the destruction of human and cat tle life by tbe wild beast and snakes of British India. ' Last year 24.576 human beings and 96,220 cattle were killed, and of tbe people, 21,827 deaths were attributed to snakes, while of tbe cattle, 86,000 were killed by wild beasts, panthers being charged with 40.000 and tigers with 30,000 of this total; enakefl accounted for 16,000. And this is but a trifling percentage of tbe actual annual mortality,' as it ex cludes the feudatory States, with their 700,000 square miles and 60,000,000 in habitants, where no records are obtain able. Nor do the fatalities grow ma terially less, notwithstanding tbe ef forts of sportsmen and rewards by Government, because the development of railways and roads, as the Jungle Is reclaimed for agriculture, means con tinuous Invasion of the snake and tiger infested territory. Caspar Whitney, ln "The Trail of the Tiger," in Outing. . Cheering Him Pp. - "Ye-es," Mr. Billings said, reluct antly, iu reply to his friend's remark that Mrs. Joyce was "nn awfully sweet little woman." "So cheerful! Al ways sunny; always looking on the bright side!" Billings' friend contin ued, enthusiastically. "There's such a thin; as overdoing that 'bright side' business," said Bill ings. "The other night I was up there and Joyce you know how absent minded he Is? put the lighted end of his cigar Iu his mouth, no jumped! three feet, and was a little noisy for a minute. Right in the midst of it all Mrs. Joyce smiled blandly, and said: " 'How fortunate ycu were, dear, to discover it at oncer "
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