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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.