Complaint is made that tho stylos ol goods offered to the clothiers for their next fall's trade doxiot show enough novelty. The Textile Manufacturers' Journal says that the same fault has been found iu dress goods, and de clares that "buyers cannot be fooled." The organization of a naval reserve ought to be one of the results of the present excitement. This would ena ble tho Navy in war time to draw upon the merchant marine for trained sea men and even for educated officers. It might be possible also to incorporate the well-drilled young men of the naval militia in such a body. The Providence Journal observes: All this war talk in various parts of the world serves to remind us how import ant a part coal plays in these days in determining the question of hostilities or peace. It is possible, for example, that Great Britain may carry her point in Asia by the simple device of mak ing war impossible through the ac quisition of all the available supplies of coal. She is now reported to be buy ing up all the coal in that region ex cept that controlled by Japan. Mr. MacAleese's bill, recently in troduced into the British Parliament, to enable persons of Irish birth or ex traction to use the prefix "O"' or "Mac" before their names, is directed against the statutes of remote days, passed with the object of removing from Ireland everything distinctively Irish, aud forbidding tho use of these prefixes. The result has been that many Irish names have been docked of their prefix, aud as the House of Commons seems disposed to tuke a good-humored view of tho question these cherished particles will, no doubt, be restored to their owners. Sir William Van Horae, President of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, esti mates that from $200,000,000 to $250,- 000,000 will be taken into tho Klon dike country during tho present year, a nd it is a problem how much of it will be brought out. He bases this esti mate upon the expectation that from 200,000 to 300,000 people will start for the gold regions, and that each of them will take an average of SIOOO, which is very moderate and probably less than ths amount. Forty-two steamers and twenty-four sailing craft are now engaged between Puget sound and Alaska, and twelve British steamers and several schooners sail regularly from Vancouver. Every ship is loaded to the limit of safety with freight and passengers, aud tho congestion at all of the ports of embarkation is increas ing instead of being relieved. The rfext war will be a war of chem istry, mathematics and electricity, de clares the Chicago Record. The war between Japan and China is the only one that was ever fought upon scien tific principles, but it was hardly a fair test, because the Japanese met with no resistance. They maneuvered their armies and their fleets according to rules laid down by tho authorities on warfare, and it was possible for them to do so, because the enemy never interfered with their calcula tions. At the naval school at New port, R. 1., the students play games of war, in which problems are worked out with toy ships and gnus and sol diers on the theory that God is on the side of the heaviest artillery and that skill is superior to force. Here after in war there will he no scenes of gallantry such as have made heroes in the past. The hero of tho future is a man who can direct a torpedo with the greatest accuracy, or land a shell at a certain spot in tho enemy's fleet by tlio aid of a rai*ge-finder and a mathematical calculation. It is interesting to tho Chicago Times-Herald to observe that the United States has fought five wars iu the 122 years since the declaration an nounced the birth of our nation. In each one we have triumphed. In that period England has fought six wars— not including conflicts with savages in India and in Africa. Aud she has lost two—both to America. France has engaged in six, and has lost two—one with the allied powers and one with Germany. Prussia in tho same period lias lost two out of five wars. Austria has lost three out of five. Russia has lost two and has gained two. Spain has lost every war she has undertaken in that period—unless her ten years war with Cuba may bo called victorious. The United States lias declared war hut once—that instance being in 1812, and after such a series of insults aud injuries as no nation would now dream of inflicting. But there has never been a day when a declaration of war from another nation Las found us unpre pared. And every enemy which has first attacked us has been first to sue for peace. THE CLOVER. Oh, for one more happy day, To run and romp and play, Ont in the fields, where ovor and over I could roll once more in the flagrant clover! For never was joy Like beinir a boy. Out in the fields of clover. Oh, for one moro bare-foot run, ' After the long hot day is done, Pown in the fields of fragrant clover. While by my side my old dog Rover Runs after the cows Who stop to browse, Out in tho fields of clover! for one moro vigorous swim In the deep old pool where the light Is dim. Where down I plunge, over and over, And when I oome up I smell of clover. As the wind blows fresh, On my naked flesh, Out from the fields of clover! Oh, for one more rest at night With my heart as free and light As in tho days now long passed over When I played in the fields of fragrant clover; For never was joy Like being a bov. Out in the fields of clover! —Everywhere. 1 MR. TEMPLETON'S S _ CHOICE. I bt ratxniß Montague. £ig|| R. THEOPHIL- ua Templeton ' eaue( l back \ \ .V\ ably in his crim ' son ' eft U ie r, brass-nail stud dod library y_ gf * 1* nv-V w'iF'S ehSlr, rested his elbows on tho arms, brought his finger tips together, and looked very benign and important. "A rich man, eh? Well, yes, I am a rich man—what some people would call a very rich man; and the beauty of it is, I made my fortune myself. When I started out for myself, a lad of ten—that's fifty years ago or more —I had all my worldly goods in a red handkerchief, siting on a stick over my shoulders. To-day —I say it with out boasting—there's not a finer line of stenmßhips afloat than the 'Clyties,' and I own 'em all—every blessed bak er's dozen of 'em." Fred Warrington listened respect fully—a handsome young fellow, with a wide-awake, frank look in his blue eyes, and general manly bearing about him that recommended him wherever he wont, very especially to ladies. "And yet, with all your wealth, your beautiful home, your kindly, af fectionate nature, yon have used all your life in accumulating riches. Yon nave never married—never had a real true home," he observed. "That's the rankest kind of non sense, my boy. I never married be cause I never yet saw the woman I wanted. But it's a good thing for a young fellow to settle down—l believe that, if I didn't practice it. I hope you'll marry early, Fred." A little twinkling look was in War rington's handsome face. "I agree with you there, sir, to a T. I think I shall marry early." Mr. Templeton bestowed a satisfied look on him. "All right, my dear boy] Marry early, and marry to please me, and I'll remember you handsomely. I'll give yon a country house to live in in summer time, and tho town residence for winter. I'll give you ten thousand a year income, and yonr wife shall have the handsomest diamonds Street's can collect." Anyone in the world would have thought Fred Warrington was trans ported to the seventh heaven of rapture at the bewildering prospect held out to him; but he merely looked a little gravsr as he bowed courteously. "f know you are just as good and generous as it is possible for man to be, UncU Phil, but " Fred hesitated in his speech, and a thoughtful frown gathered on his fore head. Mr. Templeton looked the surprise ho felt. " 'But!' Where can tho 'but' be to such au offer as that? You've only to marry to please me. By Jupiter, Frederick! it isn't possible you're al ready in love?" "Already; and engaged to the sweet est and dearest little dar " Mr. Templeton remorselessly cut short the lover-like enthusiasm. "O, of course—of course! But who is she? What is her name?" "She is Miss Rossie Fleming, and she is a music teacher, and her eyes are " Mr. Templeton tcoked sternly across the library table. "I don't care whether they are black or green, you can't marry her. I've picked out a wife for you, and the quicker you get clear of your music teacher the better." Fred colored—then the look of wild eyed defianeo Uncle Phil was ac quainted with came into his eyes,mak ing them deep and!darkly bine. "I beg yonr pardon, sir," he said quietly, "but a fellow prefers to pick out his own wife. I have chosen Miss Fleming." "The deuce you have! Well, then, let s hear what yon have to say when I tell you the lady I have in my eyo for my future nieee is tho most beautiful, cultured, refined girl who ever flashed into West End society. She's rich, too, and just the very daisy for you. A music teacher indeed, when Beatrice Lovett is to be had for tho asking!" "Which doesn't raise her in my es timation," Fred avowed serenely. "What!" Mr. Templeton said stern ly. "Fred, you're a—a—fool!" And then Fred laughed, which had a most exasperating effect upon the old gentleman. "I say you shall marry her, and I want you to put ea yonr hatand go with mo at once and be introduced to her! She's staying at Mrs. Saxony's. Gome along, sir." Fred rose promptly. "Certainly; I'll go and bo presented to her, and I dare say there will be no reason why I shall not admire lier im mensely. But as for falling in love with Miss Lovett " He laughed and shrugged his broad shoulders, then put ou his hat, and went out with Mr. Templeton to meet the charming young lady intended for his destiny. It was a beautiful little villa, not far from Mr. Templeton's stately mansion, a little buck from the Parade, and it a made a very pretty picture, with its white laee draperies floating in the still sea breeze, and the spray from the fountains blowing in a rainbow shower, and the gay striped awnings fluttering their scalloped borders in the July sunshine. The liveried footman bowed his best and regretted to lie obliged to inform' the gentlemen that Mrs. Saxony was not in. A swift look of dismay on Mr. Templeton's face perhaps touched that functionary's tender heart, for he hastened to assure them that "Miss Lovett was in the drawing-room— would they walk in?" But that Mr. Templeton declined doing, as he was not personally ac quainted with Miss Lovett, at least not sufficiently acquainted with her to present himself. He had known her when she was a girl of ton, and had always been hor father's most cher ished friend, nud had been in corres pondence with Mr. Lovett when that gentleman died so snddenly in India; but all the same, with an old bache lor's characteristic shrinking from pretty young girls, ho declined the in vitation until Mrs. Saxony should be present. , "It's too bad—too bad!" he said, as they went through the beautiful little park, into which carriages were not admitted; and, impelled byau impulse he recognized afterward as fate, Mr. Templeton paused midway down the path, and turned to look back at Mrs. Saxony's house. "By Jove! There she is at the window—Miss Lovett! lau't she a beauty? Isn't she sweet enough to turn any fellow topsy-turvy? Look, Fred—there's the wife I've picked out for you! Can your music-teacher beat that?" And Mr. Templeton seized his un offending nephew by the sleeve, and gesticulated emphatically toward the open window where a girl sat, beau tiful indeed—marvelonsly beautiful! fair and dainty—with dark, lustrous hair, braided on a proud little head, aud straight, heavy dark brows, that made tho purity of her complexion still more dazzling. A rosebud of a mouth, a round, handsomely chiseled chin, a white dress, with creamy lace, and a pink rose at her throat, made a picture fair enough to indeed have turned any man's senses "topsy turvey." She did not raise her eyes from her book, and she was unconscious of their espionage, or of Fred Warring ton's transiixed gaze. "So you're struck, eh? So you'll give the old man credit for having good taste, will you? You wouldn't mind having hor for your wife, after all, I suppose!" Fred drew a long breath, then quickly liuked his arm iu Mr. Temple ton's, and drew that gentleman away. "She is the sweetest, most beauti ful girl I ever saw. I'll marry her to morrow if she'll have mo," he said. And how tho old gentleman laughed. "Music teacher notwithstanding, eh?" he said. And then Fred laughed, and Mr. Templeton generously decided not to be too sarcastic on the poor boy. Almost at the same moment a tall, lovely girl, several years older than the fairy in white by tho window in Mrs. Saxony's drawing-room, entered and went up to her. "Absorbed iu your book still, Bossie? It is time for my lesson, isn't it?" And Bo3sie Fleming laid down her hook, and for an hour she aud Miss Beatrix Lovett devoted themselves to the music lesson, to he interrupted by a gentleman who had bribed the foot man to permit him to enter tho music room unannounced, and to whom Rossie flew, with a little shriek of de light. "Fred—o Fred! How did you know I was in Brighton? I only camo yesterday to assist Miss Lovett with lier music. This is Miss Lovett, Fred—Mr. Warrington, Miss Lovett." Aud before he had finished his very delightful call Mr. Warrington re lated to the ladies the mistake his uncle had made. "And I am sure Miss Lovett will not blame me if I insist that I shall marry you, little Rossie, aud tho sooner tho better, before Undo Fhil discovers his mistake." And the next week there was a quiet wedding at the local registrar's office, while Mr. Templeton was taking his snooze iu his chair, with his handker chief over his face, dreaming of tho days when beautiful Miss Lovett would reign royally in his nephew's home. At S o'clock tho same night ha was electrified by tho receipt of a note from Fred. "I liavo been nud gone and done it. Uncle Phil," it said. "I promised you I would marry tho lady you se lected for me, and I shall present her to you iu an hour. There's nothing like striking when tho iron's hot, is there?" And punctually to time Fred ap peared, his bride ou his arm—lovely as the morning, blushing like a rose, her blue eyes shiuing like stars, her sweet red mouth quivering as sho looked wistfully up into Mr. Temple ton's face when Fred presented her. "We've quite stolen a march upon you; but this is my wife, Ur ;lo Theo philus—Mrs. Fred Warrington, fast and sure." "I'm astonished and dumbfounded, and; delighted, my dear. However did you doit, Fred?" But before Fred could make the ex planation he deemed incumbent a ser vant announced a lady, who came came sweeping in in garments of deep jrarple velvet—a girl with starry eyes and hair as golden as sunshine. "Miss Beatrice Lovett!" said the servant. Aud then—well, thojscene is indes cribable, but with two lovely women beseeching him to forgive, and the pansy-purple eyes making him feel the queerest around his heart he ever had felt, somehow —he "never knew how—Theophilus Templeton simmered quietly down, and accepted the situa tion with tho best grace at his com mand until Bix months afterward, when he triumphantly announced to his nephew that the luckiest day of his life had been when ho mistook Rossie for Miss Lovett. "For since you wouldn't havo her for your wife you shall have her for your aunt, and help yourself if you can!" But as no one was at all anxious to help it, Mr. Templeton married his beautiful young wife, and it is a ques tion who of the quartet is the happi est.—Spare Moments, Tl© Wild Birds of Europe* If it were not for the climate's sake birds of passage would do well never to cross the Alps. In Germany, in Switzerland, in northern Europe generally, they are more or less pro tected by the laws, but as soon as they have reached tho Latin races their slaughter begins. Ticino awaits their coming with net, snare and gun, and the war of devastation spreads from Italian Switzerland to Italy. From south Italy it begins again in the spring, and in this promiscuous massacre it is noticed that of all our feathered favorites the lark, the nightingale, the swallow and the thrush suffer most. Tho Berlin Socioty for tho Protection of Wild Birds has fought for many years against tho evil, and while other countries have been legislating for the birds at home, this body has sought to attack the mischief in Italy, its very heart and canter. Some years ago a petition was ad dressed to Queen Margherita asking for her pity and protection in behaif of the bird emigrants, and to the queen of Italy such a prayer would not be addressed in vain. But the Italian peasant cannot be reached by these means. Tho same society in Berlin proposes now to try religious pressure and has petitioned the pope to the same effect. His holiness is implored to move the clergy throughout Italy to speak in tho cause of the birds, and to urge them "by doctrine and by re proof to stop tiiis wanton slaughter." The poor Italian is himself an exilo in all lands. He should feel some touch of pity for his fellow wanderer, the guest of many nations.—Pall Mall Gazette. To Market by Trolley* An English trolley line plying be tween Bessbrook and Newry through a rich farming district makes a sub stantial addition to its receipts by hauling farm wagons over its lines at tached to the motor car in place of the trailer which is sometimes seen. In order to keep the wagons on the track a second pair of rails is laid in side the working tracks and slightly higher. The towns at either end of the line are both market towns, and the lino runs directly to the business centres, where the wagons are drawn aside aud run into their places by a half-dozen sturdy men, who are paid a few pence each by the countryman for this service. It i 3, therefore, pos sible for a farmer to bring his produce to market and dispose of it without tho aid of his horses. It is not an un common sight, and always a rather amusing one, to lumbering farm wagon, loaded with hay or produce, flying along behind the motor car on its way to market. The farmers take kindly to the scheme, as it is a saving of money as well as horse flesh.—Kan sas City Architect and Builder. A Melancholy Fhjure In Illstory, Behind all this drama stand the melancholy, tragic figures of the house of Hupsburg, It is said that the Hapslmrgs regard the United States with superstitious feelings. The revolution that sent the daughter of Maria Theresa to her death in France was inspired in part by the earlier up rising in America. The Monroe doc trine was a blow at the holy allianco, in which Auotria led. Maximillian died in Mexico because of American intervention, and now the Queen Regent of Spain, a daughter of the Hapsburgs, finds the possessions of her son threatened by this same re public. The Queen Regent is n pathetic figure. Not Spanish in race or breeding, she finds thrown upon herself tho enormous burden of saving for her son his orown in days when Spain is distracted by the gravest troubles.—Springfield (Mass.) Repub lican. Socratlc Methods Made Absurd* Mr. Bradlaugli, tho well-known in fidel, was once engaged in a discus sion with a dissenting minister. Brndlaugh insisted that the minister should answer a question by a simple "Yes" or "No," without any circum | locution, asserting that every question could bo replied to iu that manner. The reverend gentleman rose, and in a quiet manner said: "Mr. Bradlaugh, will yon allow me to ask you a ques tion on thoso terms?" "Certainly," said Bradlaugh. "Then, may I n3li, have you given up beating your wife?" This was a poser, for if answered by "Yes," it would imply that he had previously beaten ber, and by "No," that he continued to do so.—Argo naut. SIBERIAN SNOW CAMELS. AN UNFAMILIAR ANIMAL ADAPTED FOR USE IN THE KLONDIKE. Mnch Better Tlian the Reindeer—lt Is as Indifl'crcnt to Col'.l as to Thirst—Sheds Its Fur Coat in Summer and Needs Little to Fat—lt Survives Everything* Carl Hagcnbcck, tlie proprietor of the Tliierpark at Hamburg aud the greatest importer of wild animals both into Europe and America, says: "The best animal for the Klondike climate is the big Siberian camel. These camels transport all merchandise from China to Russia, and can stand Siberian cold as 1 well as the greatest heat. They never need shelter, and sleep out in the deep snow. They can carry from five to six hundredweight, and also go in harness and pull as much as a big horse. They can cross mountains as well as level country. As for the difficulty of procuring them, there is none. I can deliver as many as may be wanted for §2OO apiece in London or Grimsby, or' §3OO, duty paid, in New York." The two-humped Bactrian camel, of which Mr. Hagen beck speaks, is the only beast of burden, not excepting the reindeer, of which Englishmen have absolutely no practical experience. It was not pro curable for the Afghan wars, even the native Afghan camel being a descend ant of the southern breed which has migrated to the hills, while the snow camel keeps north of the Central Asian line. The Russians are, in fact, the only Europeans who are ac quainted with this universal beast of transport of Northern Asia, while in Europe itself it has not b§en seen since the revolt of the Tartnrs, in the reign of the Empress Catharine. In that memorable and bloodstained exodus, when the Tartars fled from the banks of the Volga to the Great Wall of China, their h.rds of snow camels alone saved the remnant of the peo ple; and when, after five months, the flying horde, reduced from 600,000 to 350,000 souls, together with the pur suing Bashkirs, plunged into the waters of the Lake of Tengis, "like a host of lunatics jmrsued by a host of fiends," they were still riding on the camels on which they had started in the snows of winter and crossed the ice of the Russian rivers. "Ox, cow, horse, mule, ass, sheep, or goat, not one survived," writes De Quincey, "only the camels. These arid and adust creatures, looking like the mum mies of some antediluvian animals, without the affections or sensibilities of flesh and blood—these only lifted their speaking eyes to the Eastern heavens, and had to all appearance come out of this long tempest of trial unscathed and hardly diminished." These "innumerable camels" were all of the Bactrian breed, and evidence of the extremes of cold and heat endured in this enterprise of the Kalmucks may be found in the fact that during the beginning stages of the flight oircles of men, women, and children were found frozen stiff round tho campfires in the morning, while in the last stage the horde passed for ten days through a waterless desert with only an eight days' supply, and yet arrived "with out sensible loss" of these creatures on the shore of the Chinese lake. The constant references to the Bac trian camels made by De Quincey, and his careful repetition of their dis tinctive name, show his appreciation of the part they played. But in the end he is still under the dominion of the accepted opinion about camels in general. They are "arid and adust" —creatures of the sand and the hot desert, rather than of the mountain aud the cold desert or steppe, and the South Siberian snows. It is this dis tinction of habit aud habitat which gives novelty to Mr. Hagenbeck's letter. The physical barrierj of the Himalayas and the Hindu-Khoosh not only separates the two species with a completeness not seen in the case of any other breed of domesticated ani mal, but ha 3 relegated one solely to the use of the yellow men and the other to the service of the black or brown men. The one-humped camel of tho South has migrated under do mestication into the Afghan hills; there developed a thick coat of hair and a power of climbing, but neither the sturdiness nor tho cold resistiug powers of the Bactrian spe cies. From Afghanistan the Southern camel has followed the trade routes into Turkestan. There, too, it has acclimatized; but it is not tho in digenous animal, and cannot adapt it self to the extreme cold of South Siberia or the trade route from ca3t to west. On the other hand, the love of the Siberian camel for cold and the inhospitable steppes is even more strongly marked than that of the southern species for the lands of sun and heat. It makes no southern in vasion of the Indian plain, and such caravans as do penetrate to the Indus Valley come through Afghanistan in the cold season and return before the summer. The southern species, with its indifference to thirst and heat, makes the stronger appeal to the im agination. But the camel of the north, which can endure not only thirst, but freezing cold, long spells of hunger, and a bed of snow, is not only the stronger, but tho better equipped species. Before the summer heat it sheds its coat, but by, September it grows a garment of fur'almost as thick as a buffalo robe and equally cold re sisting. It is far more strongly built than the southern camel. It does not "split" when on slippery ground, though it falls on moist, wet clay which yields to the foot. On ice and frozen snow it stands firmly, and can travel far, partly beeauss it has de veloped a harder footpad than the southern species, partly because it has a kind of claw too projecting be yond tho pad of the foot. It is said that the cross between tlie male Bac trian and the female Arabian camel is among the best, bat that when the parentage is reversed the progeny is useless. Major Leonard, who notes this belief of the caiuel breeders, states that myay years ago General Harlan marched 2000 Bactrian camels 400 miles, crossed the Indian Caucasus in ice and snow, and lost only one animal, and that by an accident. The strongest proof that this is a beast made to endure not heat but cold, not the hot sands but the frozen snows, is the method of management adopted by the Mongol owners of the herds. "Nothing will induce an ex perienced Mongol to undertake a journey on camels in the hot season," writes Prejvalski. But from the end of September throughout the winter they cross deep snow, climb moun tains and perform services unequaled by any other animal. They carry tea chests weighing from four to five hun dredweight, can scale passes 12,000 feet above the sea level—Prejvalski's camels crossed eight of these in a jour ney of 060 miles—and are driven in carts and ridden. In summer they are watered every forty-eight hours, in winter they can do without water for eight days. They are not only hardy but long-lived. A Mongol cam el begins to earn his living at four year 3 old, and will carry the same burden until from twenty-five to thirty. Some live to be useful for some years beyond this limit. In the tea caravans from Kalgan the camels make two journeys each winter and earn §35 per camel. As most of their food is picked up en route, this leaves a good profit to the Mongol owners. Though these camels are owned in hundreds of thousands by the tribes of Central Asia, and are constantly in movement by the caravan routes, the direction of them is almost always from east to west or west to east, and the caravans do not enter China be yond the limits of the steppe. This accounts for their being out of touch with all English trade and travel, and renders it difficult to understand whence Mr. Hagenbeck can get as many as he pleases. The answer is— at Tiflis. This is the terminus of the caravan route and the present western limit of the wanderings of the Bactri an camel. There they come in thou sands every year, arriving iu the depth of winter and leaving before the snows melt on the southern slope of Cauca sus. There, after the caravans have unlondcd, the camels can bo bought cheap, and be shipped from the Black Sea coast, to which they are brought either by rail or road. An Oilil Little Gift. The young business woman was in a down-town restaurant for luncheon. At the table with her sat a little blind girl, with her mother. Sitting beside the child, she took pains to help her in every way possible, putting every thing that she might need within her reach. The girl became conscious of a helpful hand near, and, turning to her mother, said: "Who is it, mamma?" "It is a lady who is sitting next to yon," answered the mother. "Who is she?" asked the child again. "I am a business woman," came the answer from the subject of her ques tions. "And do you always come here to luncheon, and do many business i women come here?" asked the child, much interested. Then, as she re ceived a reply, she turned to her mother and said: "Is the lady pretty, mamma?" "She has a very pleasant face," an swered the mother. "Yes; I knew that from her voice," said the child. "Can't I give the lady ! something? Is this pretty?" Her hands had been wandering | over the table iu search of something that might do for a gift for her new friend, and she picked up an oyster ! shell, iu which a raw oyster had been ! served. "No; it is not pretty," answered the ; mother, "but I think the lady would take anything." "I should like very much to give - you this," said the child, prettily, ; turning to the business woman, and ! holding out to her the oyster shell. And the business woman took it grate- i fully, and keeps it among her treas ures as a souvenir of a very pleasant and pathctio little incident.—Now i York Times. Oregon Burros For Japan. Not long ago, when W. L. Powell j and A. J. Powell were riding through Wallowa County to buy horses they no- ! ticed on the range numerous herds of burros. They hunted up tho owner, 1 a hotel man at Elgin. "What do you want for those bur ros?" asked one of Powells. The owner fixed no price, but would sell. "I'll give you §3.50 a head and round them up myself or §6 a head, you to delivor them at the corrals." A contract was made on the latter basis for 600 head. The owner found the job of collecting those burros a big one. They were wild and free and objected to captivity. Since August last from six to ten men have been busy with lariats, and they have just finished the work. When a bunch of six or seven wore captured their heads were tied together aud they were re leased until wanted. Nearly a thousand head, many.of i them young jacks, wore at last rounded ; up aud delivered. The Powells took them all. They will be shipped to Seattle, and the majority are destined for Japan to be used there as pack ani mals. Some go to tho Klondike, how ever. The younger ones will be re- I leased by tho Powells on tho rangei near Proser, Wash., to further in crease and multiply. A dozen years or so ago the pack train of an emigrant outfit, consistingof burros, was turned loose in Wallowa valley. From these ancestors sprang the 1000 head thai now comprises the novel shipment ol the Powells.—Morning Oregonian. CuRiOUS FACTS. London was the first city to use i coal. I Soap was first manufactured in Britain in 152-1. A prince of Wales is of age from J his birth, and a chair is placed for liira on the right of tho throne in the- House of Lords. At the celebration of the fiftieth an - niversary of the marriage of a St. | Louis (Mo.) couple it was noted that j there had not been a death in the family in forty-five years. | A python that had been in the Zo ological Gardens of London since- I 1876 died not long ago. It measured : just twenty feet, and used to make its | meals off four or five ducks. | Cats can swim if they only care to exert themselves sufficiently. The ancient Egyptians used to fish with j them on the Nile, according to the ! representations on wails and so forth | that have come down to us. I Victor Bailliot, who fought at Waterloo and was subsequently dis j charged from the French army at the j age of twenty-two years as a consump j tive, died recently at La Koche-sur j Yon, aged 103 years and ten mouths. ! Three traveled Welshmen gave a i horseflesh banquet at a Khondda Val ' ley hotel recently, to which they in- I vited eighty-four persons. Only I seven, however, presented themselves j to feast on a "sirloin of four-year-old , horse." I The only Englishman who ever ruled as Pope was Nicholas Break | spear, who was horn about the year 1100 at Langley, near St. Albans. He was unanimously selected for the i papal ohair in November, 1134, and i bore the title of Adrian IV. ! The Egyptian women wore bangle hoops of gold in their ears, which were regarded as the wearer's choicest possessions, and were parted from 1 only under direst stro3S. Tho golden calf was supposed to have beeu made : entirely from tho earrings of the peo ple. j The names of no fewer than 105 j battles are emblazoned on the banners j of the various regiments which form I tho British army. But many action® j of great importance, both as regards j military results and the roll of killed and wounded, are not so commem - orated, i A curious industry in some of the j provinces of China is tho manufaeture of mock money for offering to the : dead. The pieces are only half the size of the real coins, but the j dead are supposed not to know the ' difference. Tho dummy coins are I made out of tin, hammered to the j thinness of paper, and stamped out to j the size required. ; The remains of Lon J. Williams, a member of Jesse James' gang, have ■ just been discovered in the Bad Lands, where he starved to death many'years ago after his escape from the authorities at Dnrand, Mich. Hia brother Ed, who was under arrest at the time, was lynched, and the Cor oner's jury returned the verdict: "We, the jnry, find that Ed Williams died from a fall down the Court House steps." Children In War Times. Of tlie many forms of suffering that the war in Cuba is responsible for, none is so pitiable as that of which children are victims. In Spanish households the world over, whether in the mother country or the new gov ernments formed from her colonies, the place for eaoh child in the family is that of a sovereign. Children are as beloved and as longed for and cher ished a3 ever they were in tho camp& of Israel. The neglect that tho littlo Cubans have hail to endure is there fore a sure sign of the awful suffering which attacks the whole island. That they have been sacrificed is only too true. Even children too small to be* objects of suspicion have been wan tonly ill-used, if not killed outright, and those old enough to carry mes sages have been, in soino cases, treat ed like grown men, and .dealt with just as severely. Joec Priest, a lad of fif teen, died from wounds received when he was carrying bullets and bread to his father iu the insurgent camps, and Hueda Hernandez, who was only eleven, was arrested and thrown into prison because of tho packago she was found to bo conveying to the enemy, although she had carried it only as a favor, and upon the battlclield little ones have loaded muskets, brought water, helped the wounded and yield ed up their own lives for "Cubalibre."' —New York Tribune. The Mythology of Peas. There are curious myths regarding oar common, little, every-day green pea. By some peasants of Europe the plant is in some way related to celestial fire. Peas are held sacred to Thor, and in Berlin aro a standing dish on Thor's day. It is also rec omended that the children with the measles should be washed in water in which peas havo been boiled. Tho use of peas concerning love matters is accounted for by the fact that they aro sacred to the.patron of marriage. In Bohemia girls go into fields of peas aud make a garland of different col ored flowers; this they lie on aud in the night hear a voice from underground which tells them what kind of a husband they will have. In England, when the housemaid shells peas, if she chances to find a pod containing nine ' peas, she hangs it over the kitchen door, and the first rustic who comes in will bo her 'husband, or at least lior sweetheart. A Cumbrian girl, when her lover proves unfaithful, is, byway of consolation, rubbed with pea straw by neighboring lads, and when a Cumbrian youth li.3es his sweetheart, the same comfort is ad ministered to him by the lasses of tho village. —Detroit Free Press.
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