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Astronomers are busily searching
for another world. And yet this one
seems to be more thau people can
readily handle.
Singing is now recommended r.s a
cure for disease. There are diseases
aud diseases. And, naturally, there
is sumo singing and other singing.
It is proposed to establish Chinese
commercial schools in England which
would be assisted by the government,
and which would train young men for
service in the Chinese export trade.
Two million tons of sugar are con
sumed annually in this country, while
the entire product last year from all
the sources under tho control of the
United States, including caue, beet,
maple and sorghum, was barely one
million tons.
One of the natural curiosities of
the Rhine—the Laufeuberg fall—is to
to be turned to commercial use by the
erection on it of a turbine plant capa
ble of producing thirty thousand
horsepower at low water. Thus ma
terialism is taking the place of senti
ment in the show places of the Old
World as well as ou this continent.
President Harper of Chicago univer
sity, in a reeeut address, has spoken
with great frankness about the pros
pect of careers for which college
courses are especially designed. He
said the "learned professions" are
now four in number, Pedagogy being
added to Law, Medicine aud Divinity.
He insisted that all four of them are
now overcrowded to the starvation
point.
Next to New York's $35,000,000
tunnel, the biggest municipal under
taking now on the tapis is Philadel
phia's scheme to filtrate its water sup
ply, for which the magnificent sum of
$12,000,000 has been appropriated aud
placed in tho hands of the mayor for
prompt work. No doubt it will be
worth the money if it accomplishes
the purpose aimed at, and relieves a
great aud wealthy metropolis of the
perils that always go with impure
drinking water.
A puzzling problem for educators is
how to iucrense the proportion of
high school pupils who continue to
ihe end of the course, albeit the solu
tion of the problem might necessitate
an increase in many places of high
school accommodations. From an in
quiry on this subject, instituted in
Philadelphia, it appears that one rea
son for tho dropping out of pupils
from the girls' high school in that city
is a failure on examination iu one or
two subjects. Probably the same
reason exists iu the boys' school. Dr.
Thomas G. Morton, chairman of the
board's committee on tho girls' high
school, points out that many a bright
girl is uow practically driven from the
school because she does not possess
special aptitude in one subject. "He
cause a girl can't draw a picture of a
horse," said Dr. Morton, "is no rea
son for keeping her out of nn educa
tion in other branches." He believes
that the present curriculum of the
school is drawn ou lines not sufficient
ly elastic. He would discriminate
for the benefit of the individual girl
and her special aptitude. And he
would readjust the courses in the high
school in a manner to permit any girl
of intelligence to continue her course
in spite of a faiiuro in one or two sub
jects.
raailTlll During Enoch Tim*
There is a prospect that Currier's
restaurant,on Fulton street, New York,
may be converted into a playhouse,
w-ere continuous vaudeville will hold
forth. Merchants in the neighborhood
and their clerks are having heated dis
cussions over the probabilities of suc
cess or failure of the enterprise. The
idea is to give performances during the
day, with especial attention to the
lunching hour—say from 12 to 2:30
when tables will be plentifully sup
plied with the best that the market af
fords. A c itizen can pay $1 at the door
and not only obtain an excellent mea l
but se a good show while eating.
Where the Soldiers Who Die at Manila Are Buriei
"DITCH OP THE DE\D."
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§ STRANGEST AMONG THE §
§ PEOPLE OF THE WORLD ARE §
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Dr. Max Oppenheim, a distinguished
European scientist and scholar, re
cently completed one of the most re
markable journeys ever undertaken
in the East. He explored little known
and out of the way parts of the Holy
Laud. He penetrated to Damascus,
which is rarely visited, nnd made
careful observations of the life of the
people now living in that ancient city.
During his journey Dr. Oppenheim
took a multitude of photographs show
ing the daily life of the people he vis
ited. These have now been devel
oped and printed in the New York
Herald and thoy have excited much
interest among scientific men in Ger
many who have learned of the results
of Dr. Oppenheim's journey.
Dr. Oppenheim made his way with
a private caravan from the Mediter
ranean to the Persian Gulf. The at
tention of the world is fixed upon this
wide domain, for hero lies the land
which Germany, England and ltussia
are competing with one another to pos
sess by the building of railways. To
gain any real information of the peo
ple inhabiting this country a man
must be not merely an observer, but
a linguist as well. He should under
stand Turkish, Arabic, Syriac and
other Oriental tongues, and Dr. Op
penheim was well fitted for his task,
after a residence in Egypt of several
years.
Landing at Beyrout he gathered his
little caravan about him, and worked
his way up through the Lebanon
Mountains. He found a mixed mul
titude inhabiting these mountains, so
famous for their cedars in Bible times.
The Syrians, he found, were Chris
tians, but there were any number of
sects, Boman Catholic, Maronites,
Jacobites, Greek Catholics and oth
ers. He'attributes much of the suf
fering of these people to their divis
ions and lack of intelligent lenders.
The Jesuits and those coming from
A GROUP OP DRUSE WOMEN.
the American mission at Beyrout, says
Dr. Oppenheim, seemed to exert tho
best and deepest influence upon the
people. They are not prosperous,
and as a result some ten thousand of
the men emigrate every year.
4.mong the women, Dr. Oppenheim
says, he found many remarkable for
Iheir beauty. Some European iuflu
INNER COURT OF DAMASCUS DWELLING.
ences, especially French and German, .
are now being brought to bear for the i
development of agricultural interests
and industrial arts, but with no great <
success as yet. Along the slopes of
the Lebanon Mountains many of the ;
wealthy merchants from Beyrout have 1
their summer residences. A hotel
built on European models was opened
here in 1897.
Thence the caravan went to Damas
cus, the oldest city in the world, and
which has been inhabited for thirty
five hundred years. It is mentioned
in the TellAmarna letters found in
Egypt, dating from 1500 B. C., and
has been inhabited ever since, and no
one knows for how long before that
time. Here are ruins thousands of
years old.
But the houses and life to-day
in Damascus are most interesting and
THE DRWtJ/^
novel to the traveler from the West.
They exhibit a luxury and comfort little
dreamed of in Western lands as exist
ing in Damascus to-day. All sorts of
persons, says Dr. Oppenheirn, are to
be encountered on the streets of this
ancient town, from the Christian wom
en in their white garments to the Mo-
DBTJSES AT DINNER,
hammedun inhabitants of the harem
wrapped up to the eyes.
From Damascus Dr. Oppeuheim set
out with his caravan, consisting of
ten persons besides his three camel
drivers, two hostlers, two Syrian ser- 1
vants and an Armenian cook, a Bed
ouin and a pupil of the medical
school at Beyrout. Ho made his way
through the wastes of the desert,
studying as he went the Druses, whom
he had found in the Lebanon district
and scattered east of the Jordan
Biver.
These, he thinks, form probably the
strangest nation in the world. The
women are beautiful, the men are
brave and intelligent. Their religion
is very curious, being compounded of
Mohammedanism mixed with some
elements of Christianity. It is hard
for any one to say precisely what the
Druses do believe, but their life is a
peculiarly simple and righteous one,
Justice is done at any cost, and ahigh
sense of honor is well developed.
Like other Orientals, the Uruscs sit
cross legged on the ground and help
themselves at meals from large dishes
placed in the centre of the group.
They Beemto be industrious and satis
fled, although the dreams of former
glories sometimes rouse them to
strange flights of patriotic fervor.
Lovers of Browuiug will be glad to
learn something about that strange
people utilized by him for one of his
most dramatic poems.
The Germans assert, aud have fig
ures to prove, that the efforts of their
railroad to Angora and the district
south of it, Ivoniwyah, have stimulated
the people to renewed effects for the
acquirement of agricultural wealth.
Dr. Oppenheim's trip shows that there
is room for similar work all through
Syria, aud he has great hopes of the
time when this country will be trav
ersed by railways ruuning from the
Mediterranean Sea to the Persian
Gulf.
There is no doubt that the district
east of the Jordon Kiver is well
adapted to the raising of wheat, aud
it is only because of the lack of facil
ities for transportation that this dis
trict has not already contributed a
largo proportion of this cereal to the
markets of the^Orient.
Driving tho Carabao.
The Americnn soldier is equal to all
sorts of transportation problems; but
the strangest one he has yet had to
meet is presented by the ordinary
beast of draught in tho Philippine
Islands, the water-buffalo. This ani
mal is cnlled the carabao in the
Philippines, and the name (pro
nounced carribow) is retained by out
soldiers; but the Philippine carrabao
does not differ greatly from the com
mon buffalo of India, China and other
Oriental countries.
R. H. Little, a correspondent o 1
the Chicago Tribune, says that the
carabao is slower than a camel and
more obstinate than a mule, and has a
bide "like the armor of a battleship,"
He "has but one hope, but one am
bition in life, and that is to lie down
in n puddle of water with just his
nose and horns sticking out." In
doing this he will, if he can, also give
a bath to all the supplies loaded on
the bull-cart which he is drawing.
Consequently a wild commotion
rules along the wagon-train when it
approaches a stream which has to be
forded. The soldiers, who are walk
ing behind the carts as guards, lay
aside their rifles, and begin to belabor
each animal and objurgate him in
three languages—English, Spanish
and Tagulog. The Chinese drivers
jump off the carts and also pound the
poor carabao, yelling in Chinese.
As the middle of the stream is
reached the excitement grows. The
carabao begins to stretch his neck,
and bend his knees, and grunt—sure
signs that he intends to lie down.
"Hi there!" yell the soldiers.
"Chop-chop! Prontol Git out of
that! Soega, blame you, seoga,
pronto, hi there!"
Possibly all this may get the cara
bao over the stream without his lying
down, but this is unusual good for
tune. To keep him in good trim, the
DRIVING THE CARABAO.
carabao must have a bath every few
hours.
Often the desire to bathe will come
upon him in the middle of the night,
and he will break his rope and start
out across country in search of water.
Where flie Stnle Eggs Go.
By saying Btale eggs is meaut those
that are not strictly fresh or that have
been preserved for a very long time.
Many of the eggs that belong to this
class are used by bakers, not only ior
the yolks, but for the coloring matter.
It is estimated that 40,000,000 are
used by calico printers, and another
120,000,000 go to numerous photo
graphic supply establishments, book
binders, glove manufacturers and
leather finishers. This estimate may
be exaggerated somewhat, but it gives
an idea of the lurgo extent to which
such eggs are used.
Pneumatic Coflee Pot.
A new appliance for coffee potß and
other liquid dispensers has a false
bottom, with a valve connecting to
tho main reservoir, which closes au
tomatically when prossuro is applied
to an air bulb, connected with the
bottom, forcing the liquid through
the spout.
CHANCES IN CAv'ALRY METHODS.
The Small Man May Yet Recfin the
Most l>irallc Soldier.
The improveEicnt of military rifles
and other death-dealing devices has
done away almost entirely with haud
to-liaud lighting. There was a time
in warfare when men ou powerful
horses, armed with heavy sabers, rode
to the opposing force and cut their
opponents down by sheer physical
force. For such exploits the heaviest
horse.- aud large men were most effec
tive. With modern magazine and ma
chine guns a cavalry charge of the old
fashioned sort is practically out of the
question, but this does not mean that
the cavalry has become obsolete as an
arm of the military service. It will
simply have to be made to conform to
the changed conditions. The same
change in weapons that has made di
rect frontal attack impracticable has
naturally compelled a resort in strate
gic methods. To accomplish efiectivo
maneuvering speed is a prime essen
tial and cavalry or mouuted infantry
must be employed. In fact, with the
present method of armiug cavalry, it
is practically mounted infantry, the
horse being used primarily as a means
of transportation.
This disuse of the old-fashioned cav
alry methods changes the requirements
for tho mounted service. The fact
that there are likely to be few hand
to-hand encounters will make small
men particularly available for this arm
of the military service. Small men
can be carried long distances with
much less fatigue to the horses—a fact
which is important when it is consid
ered that in many countries the sol
diers will have to be mouuted on small
native horses The horses of the
tropics and of countries like the Trans
vaal, New .Mexico and Arizoua have
food aud water endurance much in ex
cess of the heavy horses of temperate
zones, and the fact that these auimals
are generally small adds to the de -
sirability of small men for mounted
service. A special dispatch from Col
orado Spriugs reports that a traiuload
of Colorado "bronchos" is soon to be
shipped to South Africa for the use of
the British army, this kind of horse
having been found preferable. The
'•broncho" is able to carry a pack of
300 pounds a long distauce without
food or water, but it cannot move
rapidly with its maximum load. To
tho extent which the load is reduced
theefficiency of the animal is increased
aud the mobility and effectiveness of
the mounted service augmented.
Apparently there is a flue chance for
the small man to become the most de
sirable sort of soldier. Hitherto he
has escaped military service, especially
for the iufautry. Perhaps in the
future the small man will find himself
eligible to military service, if not actu
ally preferred for some branches of it.
—Chicago Record.
Kvolution of the "Peace Idea."
The view has been very generally
entertained that all efforts to promote
the cause of peace aud order ,iu the
world by cut-and-dried schemes are
bound to fail, and it must be admit
ted that few truer words have been
written than.those which stand at the
head of this article. But this truth,
like seme others, may be abused.
Evidences are not wanting to show
that the iucredulity which preceded
the convening of the Peace Confer
ence, the skepticism which marked
its first sessions, and a certain want
of faith which lias since been mani
fested in various quartersiu the prac
tical value of tho measures adopted,
are all mainly due to a misapplication
of this truth.
The measures formulated at The
Hague do not constitute a "cut-aud
dried scheme," but, on the contrary,
they form au additional step iu a nat
ural, healthy and orderly evolutiou of
the forces of peace which have so ef
fectively asserted themselves in the
improvement of international relations
during tho latter half of this century.
—J. H. Vickery, in Appletons' Popu
lar Science Monthly.
A Crave Man'* UentleneNi.
The Army and Navy Journal gives
a touching incident, which shows how
gentle a nature may exist beneath the
sternness which at times reckons not
the life of men while in the pursuit of
victory.
The late Commander James W. Car
lin was iu command of tho Yandalia,
at Apia, Samoa, during the terrible
storm of March 10, 188 th
One eveuiug, some years afterward,
on retiring to his room while visiting
his sister, he found a mouse that hail
fallen iuto a basiu of water, aud was
struggling for his life.
"There was agouy and defiance in
that little fellow's eye," said the
Commander, speaking of it the next
day. "As I gazed on that helpless
little creature I thought of that terri
ble night on the Yaudalia, aud going
to the open wiudow, I gently emptied
the contents of tho basin. I didu't
dry him with my towel, but I saved
his life," the Commauder added.
The CAUSA of IIIN Anxiety.
"While Archbishop Treuch was Dean
of Westminster he delegated Canon
Cureton to preach at the Abbey on a
certain saint's day, says Pearson's.
On such days the boys of Westmin
ster School attended service, and after
service had the rest of the day as a
holiday. While Mr. Cureton, on the
morning of the day he was to officiate,
was looking over his sermon at the
breakfast table, his son asked in u
tone vibrating with anxiety;
"Father, is yours a long sermon to
day? '
4 No, Jimmy, not very."
"But how long? Please tell me.*
"Well, about tweuty minutes, I
should say. But why are you so anx
ious to know?"
"Because, father, the boys say they
will thrash me awfully if you are more
than half an hour."
E©[©T§ Of f=/\g,b)!ON-
NEW YORK CITY (Special).—lt is re
marked that the children's clothing is
decidedly dressy. Frocks in their
waist ornamentation are very ornate.
FROCK FOR A CHILD.
Little girls' dresses are not gener
ally cut with skirts in shape. This is
done only when tho skirt is entirely
pleated in narrow, lingerie pleats,
which are stitched down about one
third of the skirt, and then allowed to
fall loose, giving the necessary ful
ness to the lower part.
Dresses are shorter than they were
last season. There has been some
attempt made to introduce trimmings
ft t the extreme edge of tho skirt, but
FOB BRIDES AND BBIDEMAIDB.
it has not been generally adopted.
The deep hem or frill, with the trim
ming in the skirt above it still ob
tains. Designers have at last suc
ceeded iu producing a pattern for a
circular-cut skirt in frock or coat that
does not sag in tho seams or hang un
evenly. This model is nuiversally
shown.
In cotton frocks seams are connect
ed with insertion by lines of veining.
These stripes of insertion extond in
Bome models to tho oxtreme edge of
the hem. In others they terminate
where the additional circular is at
tached. The Eton or bolero effect is
noted quite as often for children as
for "grown-ups," not only in woolen
frocks, but in cotton ones also.
Frocka For Wedding*.
Decided originality is shown by
many of the frocks now in preparation
for weddings. The first one shown in
the largo cut, reproduced from the
New York Evening Sun, is a wedding
gown in white satin. Its long tnnio,
reaching clear to the skirt hem, is cut
into a series of deep points finished
all around with frill upon frill in white
chiffon. A frilled and kilted under
skirt in chiffon is revealed by the
tunic's points. Tho corsage oonsists
of an underblouso in kilted chiffon
with a bolero of the satin edged with a
chiffon frill.
All-lace wedding gowns will be popu
lar. Here is one fashioned in a fetch
ing way that can scarcely be improved
upon as a model for this sort of frock
in this sort of material. Its founda
tion, of course, is white satin, over
which is draped the lace. In this
case, the laoe is Brussels of the finest
pattern. An edging of chiffon frills
[ round the court train is effective.
Ohiffou frills also trim the corsage at
throat ami the sleeves at wrist. Across
the draped l'rout of the corsage runs a
garland of orauge blossoms.
Tho quaint touch imparted by the
fichu seems to be in high favor for
bridemaid gowns. Hero, for instance,
is such a frock in white Liberty satin,
with yoke in white silk guipure and a
tichu iu white chiffon frilled all round.
At the waist is a broad sash with long
frilled ends in lily green chiffon.
Another model for a bridemaid's
gown has its tichu in white chiffon
nlso, but odged with lao. Soft white
satin is the material of this frock, the
skirt of which has a deep shaped
tlounce edged with chiffon frills and
headed by several bands of white lace
insertions.
The no-collar vogue appears iu a
third bridemaid frock model. This
also displays the bolero, without whioh
so few costumes of whatever sort are
seen nowadays. The bolero is cream
colored guipure embroidered in dead
gold; the under-blouse, whioh, finished
with the finest of frills at the throat,
does away with the necessity of a col
lar, is in kilted lily gieeu crepe de
chine.
A Pretty Wash Frock.
A pretty little wash frock for a little
girl is striped watermelon pink and
white, each stripe Laving a little
figure upon it. Stripos lend them
selves prettily to trimmings. This
has a pleated ruffle around tho skirt,
pleated so that the red stripe comes
together solidly at intervals. The
waist is pleated back atul frout so that
the red is again together, and the
same effect is given in the short puffed
sleeves. There is a lace insertion let
iu at all the seams of the skirt of this
little frock, at the head of the ploated
raffle, and it outlines the pleats in the
front and back of the waist. This is
made to wear with a guimpe.
Suit* For Little Olrln.
Many little girls' suits are made
with Eton jackets and skirts like
those of their elders. They are made
chiefly iu the heavy wash materials,
the linens, ducks and piques, and
have plain little straight waists of
heavy white wash materials.
A Revival In Gloves.
Elbow sleoves have brought a re
vival of the becomiug long mousqiio
taire gioves.
Made of Flowered Organdie.
The big sister's summer wardrobe
will contain a sunbonuet, which she
will wear while participating in the
most ancient and royal game of golf.
It is a dainty affair, made of flowered
organdie, berulHed and beribboned,
and the belle will indeed present a
charming picture when she sallies
forth in one of these elegant and
TIIJS SUMMER GIRL'S SUSBON'XET,
elaborate editions of tho homely
gingham and calico prototype cf oldou
times.