"A 1do = wT oR 2B58SE = DWRBIAISDIRD[NO BONDING hh 2000 SER BEBE ERAURBLERABBEIAL er OE PR pT + — — ac} E ¥ Shore Hall a rr Shes i sanceer BTREISES RP “woeaecaY seuss ngdom oe at 0a. m., (every 3 p.m intin, at Mi t. Dale id. (ever at 9. m. Dallas ion as 5p. m t. Dale ving ad ith H ager a hour soak- vater, ineap- spher- . Add tea- mould ~ ream. bin " other birds. —— The New Doll. *Merican doll-do!l, how you do? @oldy-haired missy-doll, I love you. ‘Merican doll-doll, what oo say? spittle Jap missy do love play?” tty blue round eyes shiny shine, Very 'Merican dolly mine !—From The St. Nicholas. Flower Oracles. When you hold a daisy in your hand and pulling its petals off recite: “He loves me, he loves me not,’ you aii not the only child who does just this thing. In many countries and many climes the children are consulting the same oracles. The Italians say some- thing which, translated, means: “This year, another year, soon, never.” If no daisies are to be had a branch of a tree is taken, ome having alternative leaves. These are detached one by one, but the charm is valueless unless the consuliter turns his head as the mystic words are spoken. The English girl says: “He loves for me, longs for me, wishes me well, does not care,” etc, which means the same thing as that uttered by her Italian and American cousins. Ways of the Bluebird. The sweet disposition and gentle- loving ways of the bluebird, says a writer in St. Nicholas, are evident, even in captivity. In the summer of 1898 I had the pleasure of carefully studying the habits of the old and young in that condition. The old birds were kept in a large bird room with several other varieties of American birds. The bluebirds were models of good behavior, not only among their own kind, but in their relations with The young birds were kept in cages, and with a moderate amount of care and attention became very tame. It was amusing to see them, about the usual feeding time, ar- range themselves on a particular perch. Bach bird, in crder of precedence, would take the food from a stick, and if one was purposely omitted there was no fluttering of wings or selfish attempt to obtain the morsel as it was offered to the next bird. The Best Runner. “1 can run faster than anybody, said Jack. “I can run faster than anybody,” said Dorothy and Willie and Sarah. Uncle Will held in his hand a prize for the best runner. It was a box of candy. He set the box on the post beside the gate. “I will count three,” he said, “and then we'll see who is the best runner.” “One—two"'—-began Uncle Will. But just then mama called from the house: “I want some one to come and amuse » the baby. Who will it be?” Four little heads dropped. Jack said “Willie, you go: you can't get the prize anyway.” Willie said, “You go, Jack: vou're the biggest.” Sarah put her finger in her mouth and said noth- ing. Then Dorothy called out, “Ill do it, mamma.” Uncle Will counted again. Jack and Sarah touched the gate at exactly the same time. Over at the house the baby was laughing and cooing as” Dorothy ran up and down before the porch. “Dorothy is the best runner of all,” said Uncle Will. “Look! She is run- ning very fast, not for a prize, but just to please the baby and to help mam- ma.” “Oh!” said Jack, Sarah and Willie. But the “best runner” was a very generous one, so everybody had a, share of the box of candy.—Adapted from Sunbeam. Under the Umbrella. Three small boys were sitting under the umbrella, which was small too. The boys were rather ragged, and go was the umbrella. Two long slits let through a scattering downfall of both sunshine and shower from a clear blue April sky, and at the end of the ribs the silk had broken loose, and was on its way up to the top. But the three chums crowded close together and took turns sitting in the middle, holding the umbrella. Each was chewing one-third of a stick of gum, and all were deliciously cosy and happy. “1f I had a dollar,” said Pinky, “I'd buy us a great big umbrella that ud cover us up jest as slick.” “My! I wish ’t you did have a dol- lar, Pinky,” said Dumpy. “'N’ I wish so too,” said Popsy. “If I had a dollar,” said Dumpy, “I'd lay it out fer gum. You kin buy a stick fer a penny, an’ they’s a whole hundred pennies in a dollar-—so we'd have a hundred sticks o’ gum. Think of that!” “My! I wish ’'t you did have a dol- lar, Dumpy,” said Popsy. “°N’ so do I too,” said Pinky. “If I had a dollar,” said Popsy, “I'd buy streaked i-scream with it, and we'd get LFere all so snug and eat that i- scream right straight up, every single bit? There, sir!” And Pinky and Dumpy cried out with one voice then: — “My! I wish 't you did have a dol- lar, Popsy!”’—Carrie A. Parker, in Lit- tle Folk. Sense of Smell in Birds. A study of the habits of flsh-eating pirds shows that if they possess the sense of smell at all it is not sufficient. ly acute to enable them to use it in finding food. All observers are agreed that when a careass is hidden, by never so slight a screen, it is safe from the attacks of vultures and other carrion seekers; but the most remarkable proof of the ineffectiveness of the sense (if it exist at all) is afforded by experiences which Dr, Guillemard was good enough to re: late to me. Many times it has hap- pened, he tells me, that, having shot a wild beast or other game, which was too heavy to carry home, he has dis emboweled it and hidden the carcass in the hole of an “ant bear.” Ou returning with natives to carry it to camp he has found a circle of vul- tures standing round the spot where the offal had been thrown, completely unaware of the carcass within a few yards of their beaks. Of observations proving the possession of the sense | know none, unless we are willing ta accept as evidence the belief, which is very gemeral among fanciers, thal birds are attached to the smell ol anise, and the similar belief of gamer keepers in some parts of the countr) that pigeons may be prevented from deserting the dovecote by smearing their boxes with oil of anise. Poacher: are supposed to lure hen pheasants from a wook by anointing gateposts with tincture of valerian.—Nature. The Diary of a Chicken. First Day. I'm in a shell. I don’t know how] got in, but I think I'll pick my way out. Second Day. I'm out. I picked. I don’t see how that shell held me. I was too big fo it. Third Day. I have 2 mother. She is named hen [ thought at first it was feathers, bu! it turned out to be mother. Wasn' that queer? Fourth Day. This is the gréatest day of my life [ found a worm. 1 found it all by my self. Mother clucked and told me wher to look, but I did my own scratching Fifth Day. It is fine to get up high and see the world. I got on mother’s back, and ) could see everything. I suppose there are not many chickens as smart as) am. Sixth Day. [ don’t like that giant named “Little Girl,” that brings our meal; the meal is very nice, but a big giant like that is in the way. She takes up too much room. Seventh Day. I want to leave mother and go oul into the world and be a big hen. 1] know more than she does now, that is in the daytime; but when night comes and mother says “Cluck! Cluck” I fee] just as though I would like better t¢ be under her warm wing. Peep! Peep! —By Joshua F. Crowell, in Youths Companion. Neighbors. Upon rows of dried brush the early tender green pea-vines were scrambl ing and clinging with their leaves and tendrils to reach the topmost twig blossoming now and then on their up ward way. They were delicate, graceful, white winged flowers, nodding prettily te their more gaudy neighbors, the scarlef beens They looked down upon the barg brown earthy bed on the other side wondering who those ugly-looking neighbors were, with such stiff straight stalks, growing up a few in ches here and there, only to be cut down by the gardener, who came daily with his big knife and basket. They whispered together in their shy, tremulous way, “Why don’t they grow and climb and blossom as we do? r aren't they pretty and graceful or ht and gay like the scarlet beans! 1 I to have and to see. Now no one wants them, not even the gardener.” Spring passed. The white pea blos- soms had changed into green pods full of peas. The gardener, with his basket hered them daily as he had those The pea vines were withering on the dried brush, their tender beauty gone. But the brown earthy bed near by was hidden heneath a tiny forest of loveliest green light and airy as feath: ers in the breeze. It was sought by children to deco- rate their rooms. Later it was yet more beautiful and gay with shining scarlet berries, and was set off in vases in many a village home. The pea must have its early beauty and later usefulness, and the asparagus must have iis early usefulness and later beauty; for such are the laws of nature.—By M. E. M,, in Christian Re- gister. A Clean Face. Tnecleanliness of the complexion is often the cause of unsightly blemishes. The pores become so clogged with atmospheric dust that they become irritated in their work of breaking through the blockade, and eruptions result. A good facial shampoo ig made by melting pure castile soap and to half a cupful of this liquid adding one teaspoonful of alcohol. Apply to the face, rubbing in thoroughly and using hot water freely. Rug away the suds with almond meal, then bathe the face first in warm water and then with cold. For ordinary everyday cases of soiled countenance, the writ er can highly recommend the correct complexion brush, used with pure soap and hot water, the surface be- ing rinsed afterward. A good cream will soften the skin so that the peres can act more freely. Caring for Plants. Keep your plants out of drafts, give them sunlight, keep the leaves clean, if you use jardinieres do not let the water stand in them, and, last and most important learn to water them according to their needs. MUTINIES OF THE PAST. PARALLELS FOR THE OUTBREAK IN THE RUSSIAN NAVY. Greatest Revolt of Men.of-War's Men Took Place in 1797, When Many British Crews Rebelled, Blockaded the Mouth of the Thames and Had London in a Panic—Mutiny of the Channel Fleet Earlier in the Same Year Almost as Bad. Mutinies in a nation’s navy as se- rious as that the Kniaz Potemkine Ta- vritchesky are rare, and one must go back a hundred years or more to find a case so serious. The Odessa affair has few parallels in maritime history. In the days when the Spanish Main was thoughtlessly placing itself in the hands of future orthodox dime novelists and the less conservative sort who use boards for their bindings, a fleet of pirate craft would sail into the harbor of a city, bombard its fortifications, likely as not reduce them, and then land for pillage, rapine, murder and other dime rovelistic things. Of these pirate fleets the buccaneer Morgan had the largest and the most feared. Mutiny was no uncommon thing among these ships, and most of the pirate leaders died at the hands of their own men or else were mar- ooned to die by lonely reflection. Stern navy discipline has made mut- iny hard to hatch and difficult of main- tenance. France during the Napol- eonic wars suffered from several abor- tive attempts. It was during the same period that English history was re- cording the precedents for this mar- velous outbreak in the Baltic fleet. The English trouble was a gradual growth, however, spreading over sev- eral years. The Cullcden, Capt. Thos. Trowbridge, in December, 1794, fur- nished the first real outbreak against authority. English sailors were dissatisfied with their pay, which had not been raised since the days of Charles II, with the unequal distribution of prize money, and with what they characterized as undue severity in the maintenance of discipline. When ordered to weigh anchor the Culloden’s crew flatly refused to put to sea. Trowbridge sent to shore for help, and the ringleaders were thrown into prison and five of them shortly afterward were hanged from the Cul- loden’s yardarm. The mutiny on the Windsor Castle, of the Mediterranean fleet, stationed at San Fiorenzo, in the same year, was a serious affair. Her captain was Wil- liam Shields, but Vice Admiral Rob- ert Linzee had raised his flag aboard her. The crew did not like the rear- admiral, the captain, the first lieuten- ant or the boatswain and refused to obey their orders. Vice-Adrmiral Hoth- am, in charge of the fleet, for reasons which never appeared in history, changed the Windsor Castle's officers and punished rone of her crew. In April, 1797, an organized mutiny broke out in the Channel fleet, under Lord Bridport. The crews of the Royal George, the Queen Charlotte, the Roy- al Sovereign, the London, the Glory, the Duke, the Mars, the Marlborough, the Ramillies, the Robust, the Impetu- ous, the Terrible, the Defense, the Pompee, the Minotaur and the Defiance mutinied and refused to weigh the an- chors when Admiral Bridport signaled to set sail. The men were in earnest. They put the least liked officers on-shore. and delegates from the various crews met and drew up a statement of their grievances, which they dispatched to Parliament. A committee from the Board of Admiralty went down to Portsmouth on April 18, but could do nothing. On the 21st Vice-Admirals Sir Alan Gardner and John Colpoys visited Portsmouth and met the dele- gates on the Royal George. The muti- niers insisted on the pardon for all of the ringleaders. Sir Alex Gardner lost his temper at this demand and order- ed that the ringleaders and every fifth man should be hanged. The more peaceful of the mutineers fought back the others. Gardner was roughly handled and barely escaped from the ship with his life. A red flag was hoisted on the Royal George and the mutineers went into conference in her cabin. Such officers as remained on the fleet were confined, and ropes were hung to the yard arms as a warning as well as an indication that the mutineers intended to pre- serve order among themselves. All of the guns were loaded Bridport's flag was struck. Parliament now sent word to the mu- tineers that it would meet most of their demands and would pardon the ringleaders but the trouble was by no means over. Most of the fieet had dropped down to Spithead, where, on May 7, Lord Bridport hoisted the sig nal to set sail. The men refused to obey, claiming that they had no in- timation from King or Parliament that their demands had been met. A con- ference of delegates was called on the London, but as the boats rowed under the London Vice-Amiral Colp vs appeared on deck and shouted that the sailors could not come aboard. His marines were drawn up along the rail. The sailors persisted. “If you try to get aboard,” the Ad- miral shouted, “I will command the marines to blow you out of the wat- er!” A sailor in one of the boats explod- ed his gun and wounded a lieutenant of marines. The marines replied with a volley, killing five seamen, two of whom were delegates. Then the mu- tiny broke out under Colpoy’s nosc. The London’s sailors mobbed the ma- rines, who surrendered. A proposal 10 hang the commander of the marines and was defeated. This was the end of the mutiny, for on May 14 werd came from London that the sailors’ demands had been fully met. Serious as the outbreak inthe Chan: nel fleet had been the mutiny which fol: lowed a few weeks later in the flcet at the Nore was worse. Vice-Admiral Charles Buckner was in command and to him a delegation of twenty sailors went with a broadside of arrogant de- mands for more pay, larger prize money, extensive shore leave and lax discipline. The admiral, of course, refused and communicated with the Board of Admiralty. Richard Parker, a seamon, had been chosen by the sailors as their leader. Parker was an organizer and a first- class sailor. He appointed committees of twelve to take charge of each ves- sel and to maintain a certain sort of discipline. He, sailed into Sheerness Harbor, fired a gun at the fort by way of warning and cut out several small gunboats stationed there. He sent ves- sels up the coast to corrupt the outly- ing ships of the fleet, but failed of re- cruits in this venture. On May 23 Parker hauled down Vice-Admiral Buckner's flag on the Sandwich, hoisted the red flag of mutiny in its place and took up his own headquar- ters in the Admiral’s cabin. Most of the officers were sent ashore, but sev- eral were confined on shipboard. On June 24 Parker, seeing the trend of public opinion, which augured the refusal of his demands, offered to ca- pitulate on the condition that every one should be pardoned. This offer was refused. The sailors were in the habit of landing at Sheerness and par- ading through the town with bands and with red flags flying. Admiral Lord Keith and Gen. Sir Charles Grey arriv- ed in Sheerness on the 27th and put an end to this form of diversion. Parker saw that his last chance lay in showing his #eeth, so he stationed the Standard, sixty-four guns, the Bril- liant, twenty-eight guns, the Inspector, sixteen guns, and a number of small boats at the mouth of the Thomas, blocking shipping and actually threat- ening London with bombardment. He had at his heels, as a reserve, twelve ships of the line, two boats armed with fifty guns each, six frigates and six smaller men-of-war. The Admiralty meantime had dis- patched the Neptune, ninety-eight guns, the Lancaster, sixty-four guns, the Agincourt, sixty-four guns, and several gunbe to attack the Parker forces. Fortifications were also thrown up on either side of the mouth of the river, furnaces were erected for the heating cof shot, and London be- gan to emerge from the period of ter- ror under which it had struggled for a week. Parker's position was clearly unten- able. Apparently all that remained for him and his men was flight, with or without the ships. He seemed un- certain what course to follow and dis- organization ran rampant throughout his fleet. A large party of the sailors advocated unconditional surrender and recriunits strengthened it day by day. Finally Parker's own men on the Sandwich mutinied again, this time against their leader, and set sail and dropped anchor under the guns of the fort. Parker and several of the ringlead- ers were tried. Parker was hanged from the yard arm of the Sandwich, acknowledging the justice of his death. Eight other men were put to death shortly afterward.—New York Sun. TOO MUCH SYSTEM. Educational Institutions Should Put More Stress on Individual Teachers. The prevalent tendency in educa tion just now is to trust too much to em. Ossian H, Lang, in the latest of the Forum, declares, “The only system worth having is one that will concentrate directing forces upon the fixing of minimum standards of results, careinily graded, and upon the selection and development of an nt teaching force. The initial issue the ex ations of teachers should de- termine personal fitness and profes- sional equipment. [he standard of results should be based upon broadly comprehensive research of a compara- tive nature, Next, individual respon- sibility should be fixed in a liberally intelligent spirit, but with rational firmness. This would assure to the individual teacher a large measure of absolutely necessary freedom of ac- tion. Individua 3 might then become a reality. As long as the teacher's individuality is kept in ab- ject bondage, the individualization of instruction can only be an iridescent dream. As long as there is no indi vidualization there will be misfits. The greater the number of misfi more self-condemned is Many of our Ar can students at- tend German uni sities for the ex- press purpose of studying under spe- cially eminent professors and this was the case with some of our American universities when some of the famous old teachers were alive. They were the chief attractions that drew earn- est and devoted students to the schools where they taught. Few of these great men are alive today, or if they are, they are retired, and it is seldom that the name of a university professor gets before the public now. A school is known for the greatness of its pecuniary endowment rather than anything else. The names of its teachers are seldom known outside its immediate circle, no matter how deserving and able.—New Orleans Picayune. Immense Game Preserve. Herman B. Duryea and Harry Payne Whitney of New York and Hobart Ames of Boston, own a 70,000-acre game preserve 60 miles from Mem- SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. Ammonia vapor has proven a pow erful disinfectant, a room filled with it being freed from cholera bacilli pustule germs or diphtheria microbes in two hours. The Chicago and Alton road has just demonstrated, for the first time the entire practicability of telegraph: ing to and from moving trains by wireless telegraph. The new glove for surgeons is an imperceptible covering that does not impair touch or the pliability of the skin. It is applied by immersing the hand in a weak solution of gutta percha in benzine or acetone, and it is as effective as an ordinary rubber glove in closing any crevice in the skin against pus or secretions and in making the hand antiseptic for opera tions. New facts concerning the intel ligent insects, the ants, are still com: ing to light. They keep aphides as we do cows, in order to milk them and that they have slaves was discov: ered long ago, but now we hear of a South American variety making flow: er gardens in the tops of trees. The gardens or baskets contain certain plants which are duly tended by the ants, and the insects plant the minute eds whence the plants spring. Glass containing manganese is slow: ly turned violently by sunlight, and Sir William Crookes has found that radium produces in a few days a col: oration as intense as that caused by the sun in years. F. Fischer has now been studying the effects of ultra violet rays and reports that the light of a mercury arc lamp in a quartz tube gave a slight color in 15 minutes to four out of eight glasses, and an in- tense violet hue in 12 hours. The col or proved to be due to manganese silicate. Silicon, the most abundant metal in the world, has been unknown on ac count of the difficulty of separating it from oxygen, but the electric furnace has now made it obtainable in quan: tities to meet any demand. It is ex pected to have’ some importance in iron alloys. It gives to steel valua- ble electrical properties, it imparts such hardness as to make some alloys possibly useful as abrasives, and the compound known as "'( alorite” serves like the thermite for obtaining high temperatures. It has long been suspected that the master makers of violin in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries knew of some remarkable gum which they employed in making the varnish for their. in struments. Mr. George Fry of the Chemical society of London, who has carefully investigated the subject, concludes, after showing that the var- nish exercises a decided influence ov: er the tone of a violin, that Stradivar- ius and other famous makers proba- bly used only such familiar things as turpentine, linseed-oil and resin rath- or than some mystical gum. The resin was oxidized with nitric acid. It is doubted whether the popular idea that age is advantageous rather than detrimental to a violin is well found- ed. Mile. J. Wery, a Belgian naturalist, has just announced the results of new experiments on the nature of the at traction of flowers for bees. She finds that perfume, by itself, offers little attraction. Artificial flowers are as attractive as natural ones if both are put under glass shades. Bril- liantly colored flowers offer much areater attraction when entire than when the petals or other parts have Honey has no attrac- been cut away. tive power. Both color and form, apart from scent, are powerfull; tractive. The three comi sige a maximum of &ttra n, four- fifths of which is due to form and col- or. This fact indicates that bees are guided more by sight than by smell when they go after honey. Dessicated Milk. There is really nothing distinctive ly new in the idea of dessicated milk, but a new process is no being brought out in London, by w! 1 much more seems to be achieved than by amy process previously invented. It is known as the Just-Hatt Sys- tem, and the following points are claimed for it, and are said by inde- pendent experts to have been amply justified by experiments, That the evaporation is so carried out as not o eliminate, or produce any essential change in any of the nutr ments of the milk; that the solidified matter, which is made in cakes or bricks, can he restored to tts origin- al form by the addition of water; that the milk will then produce perfect putter or cheese as may be required; and that the intense heat employed in the evaporating process complete- ly destroys dangerous microbes, and thus renders the milk safer for house- hold purposes than the ordinary dairy kind. Some cakes of the solidified milk were despatched on a voyage round the world recently, and were found to be in perfectly sound con- dition on being returned to ILondon. {f, as the inventors state, the miik will keep indefinitely in the hottest climate, the process should prove use: ful during the summer months. Aged Man’s Long Walk. Samuel Hardy, celebrating his 77th birthday, walked .. ues the other day from Matawan to Freehold, N. J, to dine with Deputy Sheriff Charles Close at the Belmont hotel. Mr. Har ly is quick of foot and made the dis- phis, said to be the finest in many re spects, of any in America. tance in five hours. He also re rned home on foot. FEATS OF WOMEN SPIES. How Secrets of Nihilists Were Made Known to Russian Secret Police. Russian history during the last 20 ; or 30 vears would not have beem what it has been if there had been no 3 Vera Sassulitch, of whom nothing is heard in these days. When the fa. mous Gen. Trepoff was only at the beginning of his career she was his invaluable assistant. Trepoff was the detested enemy of the Nihilists, and he was very anxions to obtain inside information as to their doings and their plans. Sudden ly, one day in 1878, he was fired at while driving through the streets of St. Petersburg by no other than Vera Sassulitch. She was at once seized by the soldiery and was charged with the attempted murder of Trepoff, be- ing tried in the ordinary manner, but to the amazement of the public she was acquitted. On her release the Nihilists gath- ered about her, desiring to admit such a friend of the people to their ciosest acquaintance. In this way she was ° admitted to all their private circles and was made accuainted with their secrets. These she at once commun- jcated to the Russian government. The truth was that the whole busi- ness, including the attempt on his life, was faked by Trepoff himself, and it was simply a clever ruse to get frome the Nihilists what could not be got in any other way. Thereafter Vera Sassulitch played the part of governs ment spy on innumerable occasions. There succeeded her as the Czar's chief spy one Emma Bellomo, who became the Countess della Torre. She was a woman of great mental ability and boundless ambition, and when her husband died she offered her sers vices as special secret agent to the Czar, and soon became indispensable to the Russian court. Whenever a document had to be secured she se- cured it, and she allowed nothing, not even a lifefi to stand in her way. By one remarkable and dramatic coup early in her career she obtained the unbounded confidence of the Czar. Information had been received by the Russian secret police that a plot against the monarch was being hatched conjointly in Rome and Paris. It was suspected that the plot was to be car- ried out through the instrumentality of a high official of the Czar’s house- hold, but all efforts to identify him failed. Thereupon this woman spy was put >n the scent, and she at once went to Rome, where she ingratiated herself with the Nihilists, and at last found out the name she wanted. She re- turned in haste to St. Petersburg and informed the Czar of what she bad discovered, but he refused to believe her, as the man named was one of his closest attendants and most intimate friends. “Then,” exclaimed the Coun- tess, “I must prove to your Majesty that what I tell you is true. In halt an hour I must crave permission to see you again.” When she left the Czar she at once sought out the officer in question and handed over to him a package of pa- pers, impressing upon him that on no account must he allow them to leave his person. “Keep them with you,” she said. “On your noble person they are safe; in my hiding place they may be found.” Her fascinations were too much for the officer and he agreed. She then returned to the Czar and at once said to him: “I beg that your Majesty will now at once summon this gentleman to your presence, and that you observe closely the count’s de- portment and features when he sees me at your side.” A few minutes later the officer entered the apartment and when he saw the Countess with the Czar he realized the state of af- fairs and turned pale with terror. “It is as I informed your Majesty,” said the Countess. “If you will search him you will find the proof.” It was found in one of his riding boots. The Czar ordered that he should be exiled to Siberia for life, but there was a general impression that he was mui= dered in his cell. —Tit-Bits. Fight Between Black Bass. A crowd of people witnessed a fight to death between two black bass in an aquarium in the show window of a store at Peru, Ind. A male bass weighing two pounds attacked another one that weighed two and a half pounds and finally killed it. The male bass made a nest © in the aquarium and when the other fish came near the fight began. The water fairly boiled, with the fish dart- ing hither and thither, and inside of 10 minutes every fin and the tail of the larger bass were torn off by the smaller After that the smaller fish frequents ly caught the larger one in its mouth and broke its bones. In a short time the cripple turned over and died. This is the third bass that has been killed by the two pound fish.—Indianapolis Star, one. The Japanese in Victory. The attitude of the Japanese people in the presence of this epoch-making triumph is a sight for men and gods. They have the grand manner of the ancients, and their invariable attitude throughout the war, whether in the hour of victory or in that of disap- pointment, has been worthy of a great people. No noisy and vulgar clamor, no self-laudation, no triumph over a fallen enemy; but deep thankfulness, calm satisfaction and once more re- ference of the cause of victory to the illustrious virtue of the Emperor of Japan, If this be the Yellow Peril, may the Fates grant that we catch the infection of it by closer and more ef- fective alliance with a people so wor thy of our warm reward! —Lendon Times Correspondence.
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