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A Vassar girl has jumped 13 feet seven and a half inches —and it wasn't at a man either. * Senator Hoar, in his estimate of great orators that he has heard, is Scribner's, places Edward Everett at tho head of all American oratorA The United States government gives its sailors only 30 cents a day each to live on, but the American navy is better fed than any other navy in the world. A young lowa lady saved her es cort from drowning the other day. There ought to be no question about her reward. She should have tho escort—that is, if she wants him. Another French duel has been fought in Paris, and this time with results. The duel lasted for two and a half hours, and the results were that both the combatants were tired. French duels used to make other peo ple tired. a Prominent women in various cities arc organizing themselves into socie ties ior the inspection of streets and alleys. Affairs have not yet come to such a pass that neglected husbands feel called upon to organize societies for the inspection of homes. Civilization advances in some direc tions at a compound-interest rate, so ; to speak. For instance, the popula- i tion of tho United States increased a little over 50 percent in the 20 years j from 18S0 to 1900, but in the samo pe riod the business and revenues of the postoflice increased 300 percent. The views of Massachusetts and Texas on the subject of railroad taxa tion are at variance. In the former state taxes are collected on both the tangible property and the franchises of the railroad companies, in the lat ter, the supreme court has held that this is double taxation forbidden by the state constitution. , s A woman minister who married a couple in Pennsylvania recently (and it is said to bo the first marriage cere .....iV, - ... - mony ever colcmnized by a woman in that sjtate) at once turned tho mar riage tee over to her husband. Minis ters' wives have so long been accus tomed to receive the wedding fees that the act seems to he quite just to the sterner sex. The woodpeckers are friends of the farm and should he protected, ob serves a writer in the American Cul tivator. They have remarkable ton gues—probes they are. The bird has a keen ear and locates his prey by this sense. When he hears the chip ping of a wood-boring beetle in an ap ple or other tree, and dislodges it with his sharp chisel hill and probe, it is likely that on his next rounds he will find a colony of ants enlarging the liurrow of the dead grub. The bird now brings into use the same tools used in catching the beetle, and the ants are drawn out and devoured. Both Insects are Injurious to the tree. A recent report from the census bureau shows that Rhoje Island Is still the most densely populated state in the Union. "Little Uhody" has 407 inhabitants to the square mile. Mas sachusetts comes next, with not quite 349 inhabitants to the square mile. New Jersey is third, with a little more than 290 inhabitants to the square milee. and Connecticut Is fourth, with a little more than 187 inhabitants to the square mile. The other states which have more than 100 inhabitants to the-Bquare mile arc New York, with 152.G; Pennsylvania, with 140.1; Maryland, with 120.5; and Ohio, with 102. Nevada has only four tenths of or.e person to the square mile; Alaska, cne-tenlh. Milkweed 07 Sarah AVery Fauno* Thousands of beautiful rosy stars Came tumbling down from the sky. And dear Dame June she gathered them up In a clustering family. The sun fell hot, and the world was strange To the little frightened things, Until August came to enfold them With a pair of sheltering wings. Tou will shine again with brighter rays, Sweet wanderers from the skies; The days are bringing you sure reward In a wonderful surprise. For Autumn carries the magic key To unlock a milkweed pod, And thousands of starry angels will Fly back to their home with God. An Effect in Rosemary BY ELIZABETH CHERRY WAI/IZ. Author "The Spread of Fire." (Copyright, 1901, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) The maid tied the last knot of rib bon and adjusted the last fold of gauze. Contrary to custom they were a quar ter of an hour too early. Mllly Ellis, on the programs Miss Millicent Dovereaux, laughed a little sarcastically. "No flowers? Wo are, indeed, In a strange land. Run out the call boy— anybody—there Is yet time. There should be a florist near." "And the flowers, madame, what shall they be?" A second's thought, then a rush of memory. For the sako of the past, Milly Ellis Bald, hastily: "Lilacs—white or purpla. There will be plenty this time of the year. See, they will suit my gown!" The maid snatched a cloak from the wall. "1 will go myself. I will not trust a youth. It is a matter of taste." Then Miss Dsvoreaux went up the steps that led to the green room and to the stage In front. She wished to see the audience before the play be gan. She walked slowly and haughtily through the laughing, impatient throng of chorus girls and villagers and took refuge in the wings until she saw an opening In the curtains through which she could look. There was a sea of faces, a great audience, but nowhere one familiar face, although Milly Ellis had been born and grew up in this great city and now returned to it, the star of an opera troupe. The bran new chandelier of stectrlc lights threw Its beams over the clean paint and gay draperies of ths sum mer theater. There were rows upon rows of heads and faces, but nothing familiar to respond to the fond long ing In her heart. A voioe sounded beside her. "A groat audience —a real triumph— and you are quite at your bast to night, Mies Devereaux." Beside her, bowing low enough, was the new tenor. "Surely a success—but perhaps Miss Devereaux will accept the flowers she can so well carry in the ballroom scene." He held a splendid armful of hot house roses, red and glowing. Miss Devereaux flushed somewhat angrily. It would not be politic to refuse. "I will carry them in the ono scene," she said coldly," but they are boo sumptuous for the village maid. I must wear or carry a simpler flower with this gown." In the wings Felice waited with an Odorous bunch, white lilacs with the "Lilacs —white and purple." most delicate perfume, with the subtle wood scent, with the message of eter nal hope of springtime. "Thank God, there is something left," whispered the womaa's heart, "something sweet and unchanged." She stood apart with the flowers on her breast until her call, stood ab sorbed in the dreams of an old house in the grove, of flashing waters, of old and gnarly lilac bushes, of silent stretches of field and meadow, of peace —for Milly Ellis, with her clear bird voice, had been only a simple country maiden ere she went away to learn to sing. Gone were the days of her training, her struggle in grim New York; van ished the Paris life where her voice had been perfected: like a dream were the tours In small Italian towns to test her powers and to become confident in her work. Gone, gone, nothing left, nothing worth while save the spring mornings in front of an old wooden house In a grove, the odor of lilacs, the calls of birds answering her own clear notee, mild and sweet beyond belief. No one knew —for she was ever re served as to her personality. No one knew that tonight she sang before her home audience. It was twelve years, and a girl Is forgotten In twelve years, wiben her friends have passed nway into the silence of the hereafter. She went onto the stage with a pen sive loveliness In her face and when she sang there were those tears In her voice that she dared not shed, the tears of the heart for the days that were gone. A girl again in her simple gauze Kown and hanging hair, she carried away her audience because she seemed one with them. In the ballroom scene she was alien to the time and place. They resented the attitude, the hour, the glowing crimson roses. Breathless ly they watched the mimic escape as a gypsy girl longing for her home, joy ously saw her return to her wlldwood haunts aud her lover. Then the audi ence rose In applause, and the hour of a great triumph had truly come to Milly Ellis. Her heart swelled when she went, with her jubilant manager, before the curtains. She longed to cry out: 'I am little Mllly Ellis, who was born and brought uj here, obscure enough "John Crompton!" she exclaimed, among you—and now—now I have conquered yon all!" But even in that hour there was to bo omethlng beside. As she bowed and smiled, speechless in her deep emotion, a slender tongue of flame leaped from above in one of the wings, and caught a swaying gilded banneret And, in the next second, hoarse cries of "Fire!" wero here and there and wild screams of terror. In a breath the woman was forgotten In the fear of death. The manager flew from her side to the rear, commanding, half mad with this sudden change of fortune. But the fire leapt, like a thing of life, from one fHmsy ornament and drapery to an other and the opening doors fanned the flames. In that moment when the manager left her alone, Milly Ellis stood sud denly stripped of all she had held most dear, stood alone aud saw a mad fight for life begin. Where now was the dashing tenor whoso burning eyes had so lately pursued her own? Where now the fickle admirers of the past and present? She stood alone and the fire demon ran above her and dropped down upon her gauze draperies, burn ing gegaws which had glittered and shone hut a moment before. She In vited destruction, she stood alone. In that desperate moment, a deep voice said: "Come with me—at once!" A heavy wrapping, the curtain of one of the boxes, was twined about her. She was fairly whirled off her feet by the Impetuosity of a race across the stage and a plunge and jump into the orchestra box. Half dragged, half run ning, the singer was urged on until she stood in the alleyway back of the the ater. and knew she was safe. But it was dark and she heard the rattle of the engines coming. Holding to her rescuer's arm, they ran to a side street and at last sank down on the stono steps of a church. As they lay there panting the very heavens lit up. The theater was doomed. In the lurid light Mllly Ellis looked at her rescuer. He was tall and broad and she knew bis strength. As he sat still, breathing heavily, memory strug gled within her to formulate a name, a remembrance. She leaned forward and when the heavy drapery fell away, she smelled the white lilacs. "John Crompton!" she exclaimed. "John Crompton! And you have saved me?" "Everyone else deserted you," he said, "so I came to you." She deserved the words. Years be fore she had despised his friendship and expostulations against her career. "It was death," she whispered fear fully, "It was death!" "A short enough triumph for you," he said, more kindly, "the triumph of a few moments. Still, It may satisfy you—your art may still be more to you than friendship, love, and even life." But she caught his arm and clung to him. "After this? After I have learned what art means—how cruel it Is —how art is nothing to life? O John, my heart has been aching all day for the old time when I could be happy." For answer he wrapped the red dra pery about her and over har fallen hair. "You are not so changed," he said. There was a note of tenderness In his voice. "But you? What has come to you, John? You are different." "I am a man," he said, and as he spoke the lurid light fell upon his face, "I am a man now, and I claim a man's heritage. I would share no one with art I must have all or nothing. You know me of old." She knew him. He had not ap proached her or written her for years. "And you have waited all this time?" "I cared for no one else." The Immensity of the feeling she had long ago awakened struck at the door of her heart. She clutched at his hand. She wet It with her tears. "It was art or life," she said, broken ly, "and life won, John, life has won." HISTORIC TREES. Washington lias Many That TVCM Planned by Famous Americans. It was the custom of the late Charles A. Dana to visit this city occasionally, writes a Washington correspondent ot the New York Times, and to spend the entire day that he gave to sight-see ing in looking over the trees of the city with William R. Smith, in charge of the botanical gardens. Mr. Dana said of Mr. Smith that he knew more about trees than any half-dozen men of Mr. Dana's acquaintance. Mr. Smith has in his gardens a number of his torically interesting trees. There is a Kentucky oak grown from an acorn planted by John J. Crittenden, and a story goes with this information about the intimacy that existed between Crittenden, Robert Mallory and John A. Bingham of Ohio. Not far from the elm grown from one planted by George Washington at the time he laid the corner-stone of the capitol. Work men killed the tree while excavating for the architectural terrace at the west front. Mr. Smith propagated the new elm from the old roots, and the new tree was planted where it is by Senator James B. Beck of Kentucky. While Jefferson Davis was secretary of war his wife gave Mr. Smith some seed of the Monterey cypress, from which was produced a fine specimen near the end of the greenhouse. Two specimens of the bald variety of cyp ress are named "Forney" and "For rest," one planted by John W. Forney, an editor, and the other by Edwin For rest, the actor, 35 years ago. A Chin ese tree was grown from seed obtained at the grave of Confucius, and was pre sented to the garden by Charles A. Dana and planted by Representative Amos J. Cummings fifteen yenrs ago. Among other well known tree planters who have left their names are Thad deus Stevens, the late Senator Bayard, who planted an English oak; Proctor Knott, Daniel W. Voorhees, J. S. C. Blackburn, Lot M. Morrill and Justin 0. Morrill, who planted winged elms thirty years ago; Senator Hoar and Senator Evarts, and some more recent arrivals in Washington. There is a Carolina poplar that is interesting as the parent of 80,000 other poplars, liv ing in many states of the Union. STRANGE IMPS IN THE SEA. Capt. Moody Caught One Off Cape Charles Llglihlilp. Capt. William Moody of Baltimore believes there are strange imps in the sea, because he caught one recently while fishing off Capo Charles light ship. Capt. Moody is commander of the lightship, and it is his habit to keep a baited hook, attached to an ex tremely long line in the water at all times. Occasionally this persistency is rewarded with cod or other tooth some fish of deep water. The captain happened to be near the line when the "imp" fish was hooked. He started to pull it in, and then ensued as pretty a battle as ever warmed the heart of fisherman. Several times the creature was brought to the surface, and on one occasion it leaped ten feet in the air. After a battle lasting fully an hour the monster was harpooned and pulled on deck. The fish weighed about eighty pounds. The "imp" has wings, which are of the thickness of sailcloth, and are mottled with blue checks or squares. The month is filled with par allel rows of conical teeth, the rows varying from two, in the back part of the upper jaw, to eight in front, with twice these numbers in the lower jaw. The tail has throe rows of spines, re sembling the teeth running its whole length. The "imp" has no scales, creature has been shown to govern ment oxpoe-ts, but as yet remains un classified. Hatfffcs of the South in<l West. It is not difficult to tell by their ( clothes from which section of the country senators hail. Perhaps not so much by their clothes as the way they wear them, one should say, to be ac curate. All the string ties, for In stance, come fi-om the west and south. Eastern senators wear stylish scarfs almost without exception. Eastern senators button their frocks and cut aways; westerners and southerners leave them open. The western and southern members have low-cut vests, usually with one or two buttons un buttoned. Two finely groomed sena tors are Piatt and Depew, whose clothes are made by the best tailors in New York and London. Where will you find a more neatly dressed man than Aldrich of Rhode Island? And Wetmore —one of the 400? His clothes cost him the larger part of his salary.—New York Press. "IJnfTalo llllr." Amiable Wonknce., "Buffalo Bill" once allowed himself to be put to shame by failing to shoot a couple of deer at an easy distance. "Every one has hia little weakness," he exclaimed; "mine Is a deer's eye. I don't want you to say anything about it to your friends, for they would laugh more than ever, but the fact is I have never yet been able to shoot a deer if it looked me in the eye. With a buf falo or a bear or an Indian It Is differ ent. But the deer has the eye of a trusting child —soft, gentle and confid ing. No one but a brute could shoot a deer If he caught that look." KvpnUit'on to Stu-iy Fl.h, The German Antarctic expedition, which will start for Kerguelen Island In a few months, will give special at tention to the study of sea life and Its economic aspects. None of the useful varieties of llsh Is yet known to exist In Antarctic Wators. TONSORIAL ECONOMY. Dry Shnvinx Itpsponfdlile For the Beard, less State of Most Chinese. "Dry shaving has been a blessing to China, and in less than 300 years has almost removed beards from the faces nf the men of the empire," observed tin intelligent Chinaman to a Star re porter. "Originally the Chinese had benvy beards. This is easily verified by an examination of any of the old prints of Chinamen, for all of them show long-boarded men. In time the people found out that there was no particular use for a beard and that the wearing of it was expensive, out side of the time actually occupied in trimming or shaving it. How many Americans of to-day are forced to spend several hours a week in a bar ber's chair? Many men that I know, Americans and Europeans as well, spend twenty minutes in a barber's chair every day. "The Chinaman of the olden times— the kind of Chinaman who figures as a pirate in your prints, for the good Chinaman never seems to have got his picturo In your books at all, until within the last fifty years at most— always wore a long beard In reality as well as in the pictures. But even ho found out that there was no neces sity for It. The learned men of the empire were asked to consider the matter, and they arrived at the con clusion that dry shaving was to some extent a remedy. Anyhow, official edicts were issued giving this informa tion. The old fellows who had beards, of course, were not in it. and they lived out their days and passed out of ex istence with full beards, but the young were asked to 'dry shave.' Thus the reform started, and In five or six gen erations of people the beard has prac tically disappeared, so that the aver age Chinaman of to-day does not have to devote over one-half hour in a month to keep his face hairless. In the next two generations beards are expected to disappear absolutely. It took time to bring this about, but in the life of a nation such a thing as a century should not bo allowed to count much. I think beards would disappear from Americans and Europeans In five generations of people If the people wanted to have them disappear."— Washington Evening Star. Holding Up a Truck. One of the most amusing incidents imaginable was the hold-up of a truck in lower Broadway. It was one of those stout vehicles that are provided with a windlass and rope for elevating heavy merchandise. The rope had escaped from Its moorings and was trailing fifty feet behind the tailboard as the giant Perclierons lazily poked along. Pedestrians crossing the street stepped over it and said nothing, ex cept to themselves. Presently two able seamen from a United States ves sel lying in the Wallabout came rolling along with their sea legs on, and one, espying the rope, made a dash for it Near by was a hydrant It took him but the fraction of a minute to make a round turn and lialf-hitch, stepping forward to get some slack. Then, with his messmate, he stood aside to see the fun. The consequences came near being serious, for the giant grays, feeling a tug, laid their weight against the obstacle and probably would have pulled It out of the ground had not the sleepy driver aroused him self and stopped their progress. And what a "cussin'" and "swearin' " there was when he found himself anchored to a fire plug! The crowd yelled and chaffed and the sailors dis creetly disappeared.—New York Press. Five Generations in One Family. Representative Livingston, of Geor gia, Is one of the few men who can boast of belonging to a family that has living representatives of five gen erations. Mr. Livingston's father, aged ninety-eight years, is now living In the South in good health. Between the age of this oldest member of the family and the youngest there is a difference of ninety-five years, the baby and sole member of the fifth generation being a lively boy of three years who is living in this city. This young American is the son of Mr. Liv ingston's granddaughter, who in turn Is the child of his eldest daughter. The five generations have been photo graphed In a group and the picture is cherished by every member of the Liv ingston family.—Washington Star. Mere Opinion. The man who elbows past women for the purpose of getting a seat in the ear never crowds a lady out of her pew in church. Woman was created out of one of man's ribs, and in a good muny cases she seems to have his backbone too. Some people keep so busy looking out for the rainy day that they don't know the sun ever shines. Woman will, never be able to have herself placed upon an equality with man as long as her letters are deliv ered at the house. "Distance lends enchantment to the view." A rich man can see many ad vantages in being poer.—Chicago Itec ord-Herald. Controller Coler'B Shave. Controller Coler believes in the adage "To save time !s to lengthen life." When busy in his office he will say to an attendant: "Bring me a shave." In a few minutes the attendant will appear with razor, shaving cup and brush ready. In his private office Controller Coler dashes the lather over his face, and, without looking In a glass, shaves one side of his face with his left hand while signing checks with his r.ght hand. "I had to get used to this way of Rhaving while traveling in Western railroad trains," said Controller Coler, when asked for an explanation ot his hirsute feat.—New York Times. /(TkCi ,WortJmD3m Lawndale. Kan., a town of 2000 in habitants, boasts of a police depart ment that has not made a single ar rest in the last eight years. A single sturgeon was recently cap tured in the Volga by an Astrakan fishing firm, and it was valued at S4OO. The fish weighed 1700 pounds, the head alone counting 400 and the roe 220. A camel can carry -Kiu pounds weight forty miles a day, and work from the age of five years to thirty. An ox can not carry more than 200 pounds on his back, nor travel over twenty-four miles 4 a day. A runaway horse in Denver, Col., the other day finished his flight by I landing In the interior of a rapidly ] moving trolley car, where he rode for nearly a block before the vehicle could, be stopped. Snails are not only regarded as a great delicacy in Paris, France, but are reekoued as very nutritious. Hy gicnists say that they contain seven teen per cent of nitrogenous mattes, and they are equal to oysters In nu tritive properties. A tank holding forty thousand gal lons of water became too weighty for the beams which supported It on the roof of the Galbraith building, in Chi cago. It crashed to the cellar, making a hole of about forty feet square through six stories of the building. y, The first teapot made in England Is still In existence and shows the Lon don hall mark, 1097. Most of the early teapots seen in England were melon shaped and fitted with feet. Such a one is worth $125. Tea caddies a cen tury or more old are also valuable possessions. The phrase, "He's a brick!" meaning a good fellow, lias been traced to a King of Sparta four centuries B. C. A visitor to Laccdaemonia. the Spar tan capital, was surprised to find the ' city without walls and asked the King what he would do in ease of invasion. "Sparta has 50,000 soldiers," replied the King, "and each man is a brick!" A Naval Haven of I'est. Lieutenant-Commander William H. Scheutze, United States Navy, the officer who traveled the desolate delta of the Lena River with the party that went to Siberia to bring back the bod ies of De Long and his unfortunate companions of the Jeaunette cxpedl tion, has recently returned to Was - Ington after a tour of sea duty ex tending over the Santiago campaign, in which he participated, and later taking him to the Asiatic station. lie Is one of the most robust officers in the service, and comes back from Asia bronzed and vigorous and full of ad miration of the climate and the attrac tions of the station. "It is the ideal station," he says, "with no hard blows nnd just enough occupation to keep up an appreciation of a naval haven of rest. Good fortune sent me to Sa moa, and the island over which the Government of the United States has been extended. While Apia, on the German island of Upokl, continues to be the port of call, and Tutuiln, the American island, has fewer people on it than Upolu, the popularity of our management is drawing the inhabit ants to Tutuiln, and if it was big enough it would probably get them all in time. I'ago Pago, which the na tives call l'ango l'uugo, will become more important when the Spreckels steamers begin to stop there instead of at Apia. We have only about fifty five square inlles of territory there, while there are 550 square miles in Upolu."—New York Times. llow Birds liide Their Kgea. Some curious photographs repro duced in Pearson's show in a remark able manner the difficulties of egg col lecting on the seashore, where eggs are laid so cunningly that they can hardly be distinguished from the shin gle. "In photographing birds' eggs in situ," says the author of this article, "all kinds of precautious have to be taken. To obtain n picture of a Little Fern setting, the camera was covered by a khakt-colored cloth, set up within a yard or two of the nest, and then the setting bird was photographed from a distance of 320 feet, with the g aid of a pneumatic tube. Unless these * I precautions had been observed the bird would have been too frightened to approach her nest." Pearson's Magazine. Hare Chinese Books Burned. During the siege of the legation at Pekiu vast numbers of Chinese books were burned. Professor Giles, author of "The History of Chinese Litera ture," who tells the story in the Nine teenth Century, deplores above all the destruction of the unique copy of the Yung Lo Ta Tien, the great encyclo pedia of literature or history and science composed In the fifteenth cen tury. Professor Giles describes this work, the composition of more than 4000 scholars, as extending to 11,000 volumes, each half an Inch thick. By the side of an encyclopedia which would require a shelf 450 feet in length, the Britanica Is dwarfed into insignificance.—Current Literature. i The French Minister of War has ordered that all French troops em ployed on foreign or active service ar • tor the future to wear khaki.
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