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f Holding lip trains has revived with
(other branches of business. Can tliera
be a train-robbers' trust?
Another epidemic of shirt waist men
is threatened for next summer. Sales
men for furnishing houses now on the
road say the demand for these gar
ments is several times as great as last
year.
Speaking of paradise, the tenant in
Holland must feel that he has about
achieved something approximate to
that happy condition. 111 that coun
try no landlord has the power of rais
ing the rent or evicting a tenant.
The American woman is becoming
an important personage in British
politics. By and by there will not be
a noble family in the realm that will
not point with pride to the picture
and the record of its American ances
tress.
At the beginning of the nineteenth
century the English language was
spoken by 21,000,000 people, and now
it is spoken by 130,000,000. Moreover,
nearly three-fifths or considerably
more than half of the whole numb-v.*
speak it to the music of the American
Union.
The productive qualities of the soil
of tropical Africa seem to be without
limit. Every experiment in agricul
ture . so far, has proven successful. It
now transpires that the climate ami
soil are peculiarly adapted to the pro
duction of coffee, and already the ex
portation of that grain has been in
augurated from Uganda.
Fairly reliable statistics show that
13.000,000,000 of hens' eggs were laid
in the United States during 1900, a
startling estimate truly, Inasmuch as
these eggs, stood one on top of anoth
er. point to butt, would make a column
401,048 miles in altitude, nearly twice
the height of the moon from the earth"
when that orb is seen overhead. The ]
annual value of this product exceeds j
that of any mineral except coal, and is j
greater even than that of our pig iron.
An Interesting statistical table of
murders in the various States during
the past ten years has been compiled
by the Chicago Times-Herald. It shows
Texas far in the lead, with 1021 homl
cides, and Alabama, Tennessee and
Kentucky in a second group, with a
total for each approaching 400. Cf
the other States, New York and Cali
fornia lead with 512 and 422 respec
tively. It is a grewsome competition.
Not a State in New England tops the
hundred; New Hampshire and Ver
mont have only fifteen between them.
At the annual convention of the Wo
men's National Indian Association, ir
Philadelphia, Mrs. Ruth Shafifncr Et
nier, formerly an instructor in the Car
lisle Indian School, spoke of the train
ing of Indian girls. She said that of
more than 1500 whom she had inter
viewed all but twelve preferred house
work to any other employment. Tiny
are fond of children and make good
nursemaids. Much-vexed housekeep
ers might do worse than to experiment
with this new material. In Mrs. Et
nier's opinion "they may be developed
into trustworthy helpers." Unfortun
ately they like the country best and
like to be on farms where they can
take care of animals.
The traveling men of Kansas have
succeeded. after several years, in rais
ing funds sufficient to erect a suitable
monument over the Rrave of Cap.tain J.
H. Barr, ot Humboldt, who kept a ho
tel there and was a friend of all the
drummers. He was affectionately
known as "Beefsteak Barr."
The tax on coffeo amounts in France
to about fourteen cents apouud, while
in England it is onlv three cents.
SOME LORE ABOUT BEANS
WITH PEAS AND LENTILS THEY LEAD
ALL VEGETABLES.
Proper Appreciation of the Ancient Len
til Lucking Here—llie Mexican Frijole
and the Chinese Soy lie an PeanuU
lieally Iteaim—Beans ami Fens as Food.
Farmer's bulletin No. 321 of the de
partment of agriculture is devoted to
the bean, the pea and other legumes,
and will have an intimate interest,
therefore, for all who live within the
great bean belt of New England,
whereof Boston is the centre. The
pamphlet was written under instruc
tions given by the director of the of
fice of experimental stations of the
agricultural department by Mrs. Mary
Hinman Abel, who has made an exten
sive study of the literature of the sub
ject, which she has condensed into a
little essay. It contains a deal of pop
ular information regarding these veg
etables, even to a number of sugges
tions as to cooking them and recipes
for preparations made from them by
people in foreign countries.
"The word legume," says Mrs. Abel
in her introduction, "is used by bot
anists to denote the one-celled two
valvcd seed pod, containing one or
more seeds borne by plants of the
botanical order seguinosae. The most
common representatives of this fam
ily which are used as food are the two
varieties of beans and peas. In com
mon usage the term is applied to the
plants themselves, which are hence
culled leguminous plants, or legumes."
Of all the legumes, the one least
grown is the lentil, though it is a veg
etable held in high esteem in foreign
lands, particularly in the Oriental
countries, declares the New York Sun.
The lentils that we have in our mar
kets are nearly all imported, although
the vegetable is grown to some extent
in the southwestern parts of the coun
try, New Mexico and Arizona, for in
stance, where the seed was first intro
duced hundreds of years ago by direct
importation from Spain by the ances
tors of the mixed race who now live
in that region. The European supply
of lentils comes largely from Egypt
and the reddish Egyptian lentil, ac
cording to Mrs. Abel, probably fur
nished the red pottage of Esau. It 13
the. most ancient of food plants, the
lentil, and that reason alone has right
to respectful consideration from Amer
icans even if they do not take kindly
to it as do some of the foreigners who
come here to live and who at present
are the principal purchasers of the
vegetable in the market. Americans,
however, are beginning to eat lentils
more and more from being introduced
to them in the French and Italian and
particularly the German restaurants
where they are not unfrequently
served. The lentil, it is believed, was
the first of the food plants to be
brought under cultivation by man.
Beans and peas grow everywhere in
the temperate regions as far north as
latitude G7, for they are of rapid
growth and come to maturity in even
the shortest summers of the northern
most parts of the temperate region.
They are capable, too, of enduring
great heat, and for that reason grow
well in sub-tropical and tropical coun
tries. And in many countries besides
New England the bean is a staple ar
ticle of diet. Mrs. Abel does not
waste much time in telling the Amer
ican farmer about the plain, everyday
bean about which the farmer possibly
could impart some information him
self, although lie might be a little be
yond his depth if he undertook to
specify just how much protein and
carbo-hydrates it contained, while be
yond the general fact that the bean
was "flllln'," he might not be able to
make a nice calculation as to its rela
tive nutritive and fuel value to the
pound. Concerning the more uncom
mon forms of beans—uncommon, that
Is, in tills country—Mrs. Abel's pam
phlet contains much interesting infor
mation.
There is the frijole, for instance,
about which we in this part of the
country know next to nothing, al
though it is an article of almost daily
food with the Mexicans and natives of
Spanish-Indian descent. I.ike the len
til. it is grown 111 our southwestern
territories. It is a small, fiat bean, fre
quently of a reddish brown or light
tan color. Next to Indian corn it is
the staple food of the Mexicans along
our Southern border.
There is a pea grown in the south
which is not a pea but a bean —for it
belongs to the bean family—which is
called the cow pea and is the field pea
of the southern states. There are sev
eral varieties—the red and black va
rieties, the round lady peas, the largo
black-eye and purple-eye and the
variously mottled and spotted whip
poorwill peas, besides many others.
The cow pea has been grown for at
least 150 years in the Southern States,
the seed having been brought from
India or China. It is grown both as a
forage plant and for human food, but
mainly as a fertilizer for the soil
(green manure). Considerable quan
tities of the cow bean are consumed
during the season, being gathered
when the pods begin to change color
and before they are dry. For winter
use the dry peas are cooked like other
dried beans and have a very agreeable
flavor.
Ot all vegetables of the pea and
bean families the most important in
Japan and China is the soy bean. Its
.emarkably high percentage of pr •
tein (34 percent) and of fat (17 per
cent) attracted the attention of Eu
ropeans som< 25 years ago. Since that
'.'me it has been cultivated to som •
extent both in Europe and America,
chiefly as a forage crop and as a fer
tilizer of the soil. Next to rice the
soy bean is the most important food
staple of the Far East. It is eaten to
a small extent boiled like other beans,
but in China and Japan it is elabo
rated into a variety of products, all oX
wiiicii liavo a high percentage of pro
tein, and when eaten in connection
with the chief staple food, rice, which
is deficient in that constituent, helps
to make a well-balanced nourishment.
Some of these products are eaten at
| every meal and by rich and poor alike,
especially in the Japanese and Chi
, nese interior provinces, where sea
food is not to be had. One of the most
important of these preparations is
■ shown, and it is the only one that has
1 been introduced to any extent into
other countries, where is is known as
soy sauce. To make it, a mixture of
the cooked beans with roasted wheat
(lour and salt is fermented for some
years in casks with a special ferment
| The result Is a thick brown liquid hav
ing a pungent and agreeable taste.
There 'are also several varieties of
bean cheese, or similar products, made
from this vegetable, which are very
important foods. These are natto,
miso and tofu. Natto is made from
soy beans that have been boiled for
several hours until very soft, small
portions of the still hot mass being
! then wrapped securely in bundles of
straw and placed in a heated, tightly
closed cellar for 24 hours. Bacteria.,
probably from the air or the straw,
work in the mass, producing an agree
able change in the taste.
' For tofu, the soy bean, after soak
ing and crushing, is boiled in consid
erable water and filtered through
cloth. To the resulting milky
fluid 2 percent of concentrated sea
brine Is added, which, probably by
virtue of the calcium and magnesium
salts present, precipitates the plain
casein, which is then pressed into
little snow-white tablets. It is made
fresh every day. Tofu is sometimes
cooked in peanut oil before it is eaten.
In natto and miso the action of mi
nute organisms plays an important
part. In tofu there is no such action.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
In China only the plains and the val
leys are left for the living to make
their living. The dead have pre-e
tion rights over all the hills and hill
sides.
One of the curiosities of m.islcal
Paris just now is an Englishman, Mr.
Wod, conducting a German (Wagner)
concert with a French orchestra
(Lamoreaux's).
A singular accident happened in
San Francisco the other day. A Santa
Fe locomotive crashed through a
wharf and plunged into the Pacific,
going to the bottom ' in 50 feet of
water and carrying the fireman
it
The largest uncut diamond in the
world was the Braganza, owned by the
King of Portugal, 1080 carats. Its cut
ting reduced It to 367 carats, but even
thus it retains its supremacy; and the
I next largest is the Star of the South,
i 254 carats.
In the archaic vase room at. the
British Museum anyone can gaze upon
babies' feeding bottles of sunbaked
clay which were antique when Joseph
went into Egypt. The museum auth
ors' catalogue Is now completed, after
20 years' labor, and has cost $209,-
000. It consists of 400 volumes and
70 supplements.
An odd ceremony took place in
France not long ago In the baptism of
I two new bells for the Church of Pre
| ignac, in the Department of the Gir
onde. Two pretty children, Miles. Mir
veille de Girodor and Odette do Bra
; quillange, were godmothers to the
I bells, and were dressed, respectively,
in pale blue and pale pink.
I When a Chinaman is very swagger
he becomes possessor of a cheap
; American clock. These alarm clocks
| have found their way into every city
i and town in the empire. There is
j nothing the Colestial is so proud of
! as his alarm clock. If you take up a
| dozen photographs of Chinese you will
see that they always have the little
| clock on the table at their elbow.
Tli Plant for the Parlor.
! "Few persons are, perhaps, aware
that a thing of beauty is a common
peanut plant, growing singly in a six
or eight inch pot and grown indoors
in the colder months," observed a
florist recently. "Kept in a warm
room or by the kitchen stove a pea
nut kernel planted In a pot of loose
! mellow loam, kept only moderately
! moist, will soon germinate and grow
jup Into a beautiful plant. It is in a
similar way that the peanut planter*
rest their seeds every year, beginning
even early in the winter, and the fa-
I riiity with which the seeds will grow
! in this way has suggested to many
j Southern flower lovers the possibility
! of making the useful peanut an orna
mental plant for the parlor or sitting
: room window.
"As the plant increases in size and
j extends Its branches over the Mdes of
'he pot in a pendant manner, ♦here are
; few plants of more intrinsic beauty.
he curious habit of the compound
j leaves of closing together like the
j leaves of a book on the apprjach of
right oi when a shower begins to fall
oil them is one of the most interesting
habits of plant life. And then, later
I cn, fol* the peanut is no ephemeral
wonder, enduring for a day or two
i only, the appearance of the tiny yel
; lew flowers and putting forth of the
peduncles on which the nuts grow im
parts to this floral rarity a striking
I and unique charm all its own. There
is nothing else like it, and florists
throughout the country might well
add the peanut plant to their list of
novel and rare things."—Washington
| Star.
|^KWO/aaH^S|
. •steßErtEFr&teJ
Til® Stylo In Sliirtwnistn.
stylish young women are again
bearing with their shirtwaists of soft
blue, silk, satin, or cloth in cream
frhite, old-rose, various shades jf red
ind other fashionable colors, the fold
ed stock of our Revolutionary ances
tors seen in miniatures and larger
portraits. The style is repeated not
quite literally, but effectively in
black satin or velvet to wear with
every sort of waist. Also in black
and white effects and in gay color
melanges, with gray, tan, fawn-color,
and similar waists of neutral tone.
The ends are in scarf form carried
twice around the neck and tied in a
bow in front above the high stick
which is stiff enough to keep tho
folds of the scarf in place.
The Wrist Puffs.
A fashionable sleeve is that 'a
which the puff of lace or chiffon over
silk is introduced just above the wrist,
instead of at the elbow, its customary
haunt. This gives a sleeve with two
wrist, bands, one just above and one
below the puff. You may call the
wrist-puff an undersleeve if you
choose, but it has not the negligee air
of the undersleeve, but is a neat, com
pact and smart affair. The only full
ness is expressed at the outside of the
arm. It is laid close to the lining on
the inside of the arm. On both
sides of the wrist puffs is a
straight cuff or wrist-band of the
same material as the bodice and
sleeve. It is two inches deep an l is
completely covered with rows of
stitching. The sleeve is perfectly
plain from the shoulder down, but be
comes wider just above the wrist,
where the fullness is gathered into
five pleats at the outside of the arm.
The puff of lace begins and ends be
low the upper and lower bands. The
lower one is loose enough to come
quite far over the hand.
Tlie Joseph Ino Knot.
The court of the Empress Josephine
originated some graceful fashions
which recall the tall, slender figure of
the fascinating Creole to whom den
tiny foretold a throne while she was
yet a social nobody in Martinique in
the West Indies. The short-waistod
bodice, the directoirc and consulate
modes were many of them worn by
her. The first empire gown, more
commonly called an empire gown, is
that made famous by this empress.
We also borrow from her the * Jose
phine knot," the coiffure of the fash
ionable women of today.
This arrangement of the hair does
not prevent the locks being crimped
or waved closely around the fare be
fore being brought well up behind and
combed on top of the he ad.
The knot is quite high and Is worn
well forward on top of the head. It
looks like a double, or three story
knot, when wreathed about with a
string of pearls, or at any rate, a
string of beads or a ribbon ruching
which terminates in one large flower
made of silken or satin petals. This
flower is as large as a peony, natural
size, and is placed in front, to the
right side of the coiffure.
Indian Art in I iivor.
The fad for collecting teapo*.3,
souvenir spoons, pitchers and plates is
now overshadowed by the furore for
Indian baskets and the middle-men, if
not poor Lo himself, will doubtless
reap a golden harvest (luring the holi
days, says an exchange. The shallow
meal baskets are in special favor and
are used as plaques for wall decora
tions. The fagot baskets similar to
those which the squaws carry on their
backs when collecting mesquite and
iron-wood on the desert, are delightful
adjuncts to tho hall or library fire
place. While most of the baskets
made by the Apaches, Pimas, Ute.i
and Mokis show a geometric symbol
ism in their designs, the up-to-date
squaw has discovered decorative pos
sibilities in our alphabet. "Not long
ago," said a woman who has spent
much time among the Indians of the
Southwest, "I came across a Pima
squaw who was weaving a large
fagot basket out of black and white
splints. She had used as a pattern a
torn page of a magazine upon which
the virtues of somebody's soap wen
exploited. With infinite labor she had
traced the name in black splints,
using the letters in legitimate se
quence. After that, however, she had
allowed her fancy and the alphabet to
run riot together, the result being an
astounding hodge-podge of i's, z's, y's
and x's. Another woman had selected
a tomato can as her model; a fat., suc
culent tomato, with a tortuous render
ing of the name of the brand, embel
lishing her basketry.—Philadelphia
Times.
Working for rionMtir®,
"What career Is open to the rich cjl
lege woman after her college life is
over? is a question that is seriously
disturbing some of our educators,"
says a writer in the Home Journal.
"The college woman who has her liv
ing to make has no trouble in eInCV-
Ing her occupation; she devotes her
self to education, to medicine, 0"-iv
sionally to law, literature or business.
But the woman of ample means who Is
thrown on her own resources nfter
| 15 or 20 years of school life—
what Is she to do? She has acquired
tastes and habits that make a mere
'society' career unattractive; she
doesn't want to marry at once, as a
geneial thing, and often she finds the
men in her set uncompanionable; che
doesn't need to work for a living, and
perhaps she has conscientious scru
ples about depriving other women of
a 'job' through her competition. What
shall she do to be saved from ennui,
unrest, and the feeling that she ir. of
no real use in the world? A friend
told me the other day of a young wo
man in this predicament who, after a
year of idleness at home, had taken
up post-graduate work at Barnard
with great enthusiasm, and was work
ing harder than she ever had in her
school days, and radiantly happy be
cause she had again something to do
worth doing; and of another rich girl
graduate who had agreed to fit up a
new department in her alma mater if
she could have charge of it and thus
find some occupation more to her
taste than 'playing the lady.'
"This unrest on the part of young
women of wealth and education is a
hopeful sign of the times. That some
of our best women find a life of mere
pleasure not worth living may well bo
set off against the selfish materialism
and ostentation of another class of our
women. The fact is a'so worth re
flecting on by those who shape our
college curricula. The women who
simply devote themselves to scholarly
celf-culture are, after all, living a one
sided life. They must give out as well
as take in. if they are to justify their
place in the world. The colleges ought
to prepare them for this, in a broader
training, in opportunities to engage in
social activities of a helpful sort, and
by inculcating a wider interest in
things human and humane."
My Lady's Fan.
Some one has said that a woman's
best weapon is her tongue. But that
was certainly not as chivalrous a
view as the one expressed by the gal
lant old courtier who declared wom
an's deadliest weapon to be her fan.
And when you come to think of it,
what artifice carries war into the
enemy's camp one-half so effectually
as the curve of a pretty fan, just dis
closing a pretty woman's rounded
cheek or the cupid's bow of her bps'
The fan is as irrevocably associated
with the Spanish woman as is the
lace mantilla with which she drapes
her dusky hair. In her hands it Is a
weapon to be reckoned with. The
Cuban women who made such a stir
among our brawny collegians this
summer were able to teach tlicir
American sisters a trick or two with
the fan well worth knowing.
As to the style of fan to carry, It is
simply a matter of choice, and the
variety may be even greater than tho
number of gowns hanging up In your
dressing room.
When you stop to think of it. fans
are not often the object of personal
selection; on the contrary, they usu
ally represent the mark of affection
for us of our dear friends and dearer
relatives. Where is the girl vho
doesn't own to having at least one
priceless bif of ivory and gold or tor
toise shell and filmy lace tenderly
swathed in cotton and carefully laid
away with regretful sighs for tho
money so lavishly, yet kindly, spent
for such a useless gift?
There was a time when the fan was
a necessary adjunct of the feminine
toilet, and if small fans were in large
cnes were out; and when the glossy
ostrich feathers were the correct
thing with which to create a gentle
breeze, then the fan of shimmering
gauze was banished to obscurity. Now
a woman carries whatever fan hap
pens to suit her fancy.
There is always something sumpt
uous about a gracefully waved plume
oi long curling ostrich feathers, even
though the breeze ft creates is far too
gentle to be refreshing.
The real French fan is always in
good taste, but it is not often carried.
The delicate material and exquisite
workmanship make it too much of a
treasure to run the risk of an acci
dental breakage.—New York Herald.
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Gold thread embroidery is a feature
of the latest chiffon for trimming
handsome gowns.
White mohair is one of the favorite
stuffs for indoor wear both for waists
and whole gowns.
White panne velvet rivals white and
tinted creped satin in the making of
theatre and dinner waists.
Either lapped or stitched seams are
equally comme 11 faut for the seams
of coats and the skirts of tailor giwns.
Delightfully becoming and stylish
arc tho new blouses of guipure seen
co often under the übiquitous bolero.
Muffs imported from Paris agree
with ours in being enormously large,
but are canoe shaped iustead of being
cf the large round kind.
The straight embroidered bodice
with a basque cut or slashed into littie
square tabs about the hips constitutes
an effective model for an evening
gown of rich brocade.
Iloleros of fur, sealskin, broadtail
or martin appear on the handsomest
out door costumes. They are usually
quite short and enhanced by artistic
belts of old passementerie.
Despite the fact that empire gowns
are seen among the imported cos
tumes, they have not as yet met with
as groat enthusiasm as was expected,
especially gowns designed for evening
i wear.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
It Is worse to apprehend than t
suffer.—Bruyere.
No man was eve- so much deceived
by another, as by himself. —Greville.
Of all the evil "pints abroad In the
world insincerity is the most danger
ous.—Frotule.
Doing good is the only certainly
happy action of a man's life. —Sir
Philip Sidney.
The more we do, the more we can
do; the more busy we are the more
leisure we have.—Hazlitt.
Where there is much pretension,
much has been borrowed; nature
never pretends.—Lavater.
There is no outward sign of '.rue
courtesy that does not rest on a deep
moral foundation.—Goethe.
He who is not contented with what
ho has, would not be contented with
what he would like to have. —Socrates.
It is a wise man who knows his own
business; and it is a wiser man who
thoroughly attends to it. —H. L. Way
land.
The cheerful live longest in years,
and afterwards in our regards. Cheer
fulness is the offshoot of goodness.—
Bovee.
THE MANY-SIDED LLOYD'S.
Rpfdnl Fenlurei of Ihe Great Murine In
"There is a philanthropic side of the
corporation of Lloyd's. Whenever they
hear through any of their vast army
of agents of any deed of heroism on
the deep they immediately communi
cate with the hero or heroine and com
memorate the deed by striking off a
medal which is presented to the one
who has earned it. The committee of
Lloyd's has a standing advertisement
in Lloyd's Weekly Shipping Index, re
questing all captains who may call at
British ports to 'communicate any in
formation concerning any wreck or
vessel in distress, or making a long
passage, to Lloyd's agent at the first
port of call. The value of such in
telligence is great, and it may be suf
ficient to remind captains how often
such news may be the means of con
veying to the wives and families of
officers and crews the assurance of the
safety of their husbands and fathers.'
"At an office on the ground floor of
the Royal Exchange, Lloyd's answers,
free: of charge, all sorts of inquiries
from the wives, or relatives, or the
sweethearts of sailors anxious about
the cruise of Jack, or desirous of find
ing out where his ship may be. There
is a list kept by which the where
abouts of any British vessel may be
found in a twinkling. An important
book is the 'Captain's Register,' con
taining the biography of more than
30,000 commanders in the merchant
service of Great Britain. Another vol
ume not high in favor with the under
writers is called the 'Black Book,' in
which missing and wrecked ships are
recorded. Lloyd's publishes what is
practically a list of all the merchant
vessels of the world, measuring one
hundred tons or more. It is called
'Lloyd's Register of British and For
eign Shipping,' and it tells all about
every seagoing craft worth mention
ing. giving her tonnage,dimensions and
the name of her captain and owner." —
Ainslee's Magazine.
The Honesty of Our Forefather*.
It is worth mentioning that the ter
ritory of Mattabesett was bought of
Sowheag's Indians and duly paid for,
says John Fisk in the Atlantic. Some
times historians toil us that it was
only Dutchmen and not Englishmen
who bought the rod men's land in
stead of stealing it. Such statements
have been made in New York, but
if we pass on to Philadelphia we hear
that it was only Quakers who were
thus scrupulous, and when we arrivo
in Baltimore we learn that it was
only Roman Catholics. In point of
fact, it was the invariable custom of
European settlers on this Atlantic
coast to purchase the lands on which
they settled, and the transaction was
usually reckoned in a deed to which
the Sagamores affixed their marks.
Nor was the affair really such a
mockery as it may at first thought,
seem to us. The red man got what he
sorely covertod, steel hatchets and
grindstones, glass beads and rum. per
haps muskets and ammunition, while
he was apt to reserve sundry rights
of c atching game and fish. A struggle
was inevitable when the white man's
agriculture encroached upon and ex
hausted the Indian's hunting ground;
hut other circumstances usually
brought it on long before that point
was reached. The ago of iron super
seded the stone age in America by
the same law of progress that from
time immemorial has been bearing
humanity onward from brutal sav
agery to higher and more perfect
life. In the course of it our forefathers
certainly ousted and dispossessed the
red men. but they did not do it in a
spirit of robbery.
M mmtHiii Range in llie raeiflc.
From a scientific standpoint one of
the most interesting discoveries made
by the government survey in the Pa
cific was that of a submarine moun
tain range about COO miles from Guam,
which apparently connects with ono
which extends from the coast of Ja
pan to the Bonin Islands. In this
range was found a single peak which
came to within 498 feet of the surface,
and a careful survey of it developed
thtf fact that it closely resembles in
outline the famous volcano Fujiyama,
hear Yokohama. Japan. To the north
of this range, according to the report,
the bed of the ocean slopes gradually
to the eastward into the great Japan
ese Deep, which for years held the
record for ocean depths.—Philadelphia
Public Ledger.