The house in Bostou from which Paul Revere started out on bis immor tal ride on April 19, 1775. is now a "Bnnca Italiana." The Russianizing of the Chinese at Port Arthur has already begun. The Chinese denlers and merchants now make a point of adding Russian ter minations to their family names, lie sides aping the Russian dress and man ners. There is a large proportion of for eign residents in Pall River, Mass., than in any other city in the country, forty-eight per cent, of her population being of alien birth. Montgomery, Ala., with ninety-eight per cent, of her pop ulation native born, comes nearest to being an all American city. Albany has 5134,000,000 worth of prop erty exempt from taxation, of which $22,000,000 is State property. New York City has nearly $5,000,000 of ex empt State property; Buffalo, $2,800,- 090; Niagara Palls (the Park reserva tion), $1,900,000; Elmira and Blaghar.i ton, $1,500,000 each, and Auburn (the State prison included), $1,400,000. There is $90,000,000 worth of school property in New York State exempted from taxation. There is reason to think that the horse will continue to be with us. There will always be men who wiil prefer a high-stepping thoroughbred for their own use to any rattling, pul ing automobile, asserts the Philadel phia Record. No improvement in road locomotives can suppress the natural affection of men for a good horse. Perhaps for commercial purposes the horse may cease to be used, to the de light of all humane men whose hearts have bled over the cruelties of brutal drivers; but of line pleasure and racing horses we shall probably always have many. And now a London publisher an nounces that he has in his possession the manuscript of a novel by John Milton, whose "Paradise Lost" was one of the best selling books of the day and has gone into editions enougli to fur nish some very imposing ligures for ad vertising purposes. Probably the story deals with the period in which Milton lived, and has been held back by gen erations of shrewd publishers for the physic moment when it could be sprung as an historical novel, opines the Phil adelphia Saturday Evening Post. Its publication will serve one useful pur pose, at least, for we shall learn from It whether people really used to say "S'death!" when they were annoyed. The automobile is a useful hut some what dangerous contrivance when in the control cf a careful man who un derstands all its cogs and evolutions; but a speedy automobilie, guided by a daring and reckless man, is a terror liable at any moment to become a dangerous nuisance. .When used in cities these machines should be so geared as to be iucapable of a dan gerous speed. If the percentage cf deaths und maiming already attained in this country shall be maintained as the automobile shall become of more common use, the life insurance com panies will have to recast their tables and the cemeteries enlarge their grounds, remarks the Philadelphia Rec ord. .Within the last two years American cash to the amount of $200,000,000 lias been invested in mining and indus trial enterprises of Northern Mexico, according to the report of L'nited States Consul Manna at Monterey. The Con sul reports that investment money is ptlll coming over the border at the rate of $100,000,000 a year. These an nouncements will carry surprise with them to those who have not closely fol lowed the movements of American cap ital in seeking newly profitable lields. An effect upon Mexican prosperity of the incoming money and energy may undoubtedly be read in the Increase iof the export trade from $148,453,834 in 1889 to $158,247,933 in 1900-a growth of nearly eight per cent. The eccentricities of English game preservation laws are past all under standing. Lately a gentleman was fined S3O for selling salmon out of seusou. It seems that he owned pri vate fishing rights on the banks of the Tay and lust January caught five sal mon which he sent to London for sale. It was not disputed that It was legal tu catch the fish with rod und line ut that time of year, but It is 'forbidden to sell salmon in England between September 3 and February 1. Had he eaten the salmon himself or given them to friends lie would have been wliliin his proper rights, but as he sold them the salmon were eon jfiscated by the Fishmongers' Com pany, and he was lined. ' BY JACK LONDON. "l Tr OH land travel or seafaring the L/ world over a companion is | Usually considered desirable. d In tlie Klondike, as Tom Vin cent found out, such a companion is ab solutely essential. But he found it out, not by precept, but through bitter ex perience. "Never travel alone," is a precept of the north. He had heard it many times and laughed, for he was a strap ping young fellow, big boned and big muscled, with l'aith in himself and in the strength of his head and hands. It was on a bleak January day when the experience came that taught him respect for the frost and for the wis dom of the men who had battled with it. He had left Calumet Camp on the Yukon with a light pack on his back, to go up Paul Creek to the divide be tween it and Cherry Creek, where his party was prospecting and hunting moose. The frost was sixty degrees below zero, and he had thirty miles of lonely trail to covcv, but he did not mind. In fact lie enjoyed it, swinging along through the silence, his blood pounding warmly through his veins and bis mind care free and happy. For he and his comrades were eertnin they had struck "pay" up there on the Cherry Creak Divide, and, further, he was returning to them from Dawson with cheery home letters from the States. At 7 o'clock, when he turned the heels of his moccasins toward Calumet Camp it was still black night. And when day broke at 9.30 he had made the four-mile cut-off neross the flats and was six miles up Paul Creek. The trail, which had seen little travel, fol lowed the bed of the creek, and there was no possibility of his getting lost. He had gone to Dawson byway of Cherry Creek and Indian River, so r.aul Creek was new and strange. By 11.30 he was at the forks, which had been described to him, and be knew lie had covered lifteeu miles, half the dis tance. He knew that in the nature of things the trail was bound to grow worse from there on, and thought that, con sidering the good time he had made he merited lunch. Casting off his pack and taking a seat on a fallen tree he unmittoned his right hand, reached in side his shirt next to the skin and fished out a couple of biscuits sand wiched with sliced bacon and wrapped in a handkerchief—the only way they could be carried without freezing cold. He had hardy chewed his first mouthful when his numbing fingers warned him to put his mitten on again. This he did, not without surprise at the bitter swiftness with which the frost bit in. Undoubtedly it was tlie coldest snap lie bad ever experienced, be thought. He spat upon the snow—a favorite uortliland trick—and the sharp crackle of the Instantly congealed spittle star tled him. The spirit thermometer at Calumet bad registered sixty below when he left, hut ho was certain it had grown much colder, how much colder, he could not imagine. Half of the first biscuit was yet un touched, but he could feci himself be ginning to chill—a thing most unusual for liim. This would never do. he de cided, and slipping the pack straps across bis shoulders lie leaped to liis feet and ran briskly up the trail. A few minutes of this made him warm again, and he settled down to a steady stride, munching the biscuits as he went along. The moisture that ex haled with his breath crusted his lips and mustache with pendant ice and formed a miniature glacier on ids chin. Now and again sensation forsook his nose and cheeks, and lie rubbed them till they burned with the returning blood. Most men wore nose straps; his part ners did, hilt he scorned such "feminine contraptions," und till now he had never felt the need of them. Now he did feel the need, for he was rubbing constantly. Nevertheless he was aware of a thrill of joy, of exultation. He was doing something, achieving something, mastering the elements. Once he laughed aloud in sheer strength of life, and with his clenched fist defied the frost. He wns Its master. What he did he did in spite of it. It could not stop him. He was going to the Cherry Creek Divide. Strong as were the elements, he was stronger. At suelt times animals crawled away into their holes and re mained In hiding. But he did not hide. He was out in it, facing it, fighting it. He wns a man, a master of things. In such fashion, rejoicing proudly, he tramped on. After half an hour lie rounded a bend, where the creek ran close to the mountainside, and came upon one of the most insignificant ap pearing but most formidable dangers in northern travel. The creek itself wns frozen solid to its rock bottom, but from the mountain came the outflow of several springs. These springs never froze, and the only effect of the severest cold snaps was to lessen their discharge. Protected from the frost by tlie blanket of snow, the water of these springs seeped down Into the creek, nud, on top of the creek Ice, formed shallow pools. The surface of these pools, in turn, took on a skin of ice which grew thick er and thicker, until the water overran, and so formed a second ice-skimmed pool above the first. Thus at the bottom was the solid creek ice, then probably six to eight inches of water, then a thin loe skim, then apotber six Inches of water und another Ice skim. And on top of this last skin was about an inch of recent snow to make the trap complete. To Tom Vincent's eye the unbroken snow surface gave no warning of the lurking danger. As the crust was thicker at the edge he was well toward the middle before he broke through. In itself Jt was a very insignificant mishap—a man does not drown in twelve inches of water—but in its con sequences as serious an accident as could possibly befall him. At the instant be broke through be felt the cold water strike bis feet and ankles, and with half a dozen lunges he made the bank. Ho was quite cool and collected. The thing to do, and the only filing to do, was to build a fire. For another precept of the north runs: Travel with wet socks down to twenty below zero; after that build a fire. And it was three times twenty below and, colder, and ho knew it. He knew, further, that great care must be exercised; that with failure at the first attempt the chance was made greater for failure at the second attempt. In short, he knew that there must he no failure. The moment be fore a strong, exulting man, boastful of his mastery of the elements, he was now fighting for his life against those same elements—such was the difference caused by the injection of a quart of water into a nortbland traveler's calcu lations. In a clump of pines or. the rim of the bank the spring high water had lodged many twigs and small branches. Thor oughly dried by the summer sun they now waited the match. It Is impossible to build a fire with heavy Alaskan mittens on cue's hands, so Vincent bared Ills, gathered a suffi cient number of twigs, and knocking the snow from them knelt down to kin dle Ills fire. From an inside pocket he drew out his matches and a strip of thin liireb hark. The matches were of the Klondike kind, sulphur matches, 100 in a bunch. He noticed how quickly his fingers had chilled as he separated one match from the hunch and scratched it on his trousers. The birch barb, like the dry est of paper, hurst into bright flame. This lie carefully fed wilh the smallest twigs and finest debris, cherishing the flaine with the utmost care. It did not do to hurry things, as lie well know, and although Ids fingers were now quite stiff he did not hurry. After the first quick, biting sensation of cold his foot had aclieil with a heavy, dull aclic and were rapidly growing numb. But the fire, although a very young one, was now a success, and he knew Hint a little snow, briskly rubbed, would speedily cure his feet. But at the moment lie was adding the first thick twigs to the lire a grievous thing hapiicned. The pine houghs above his head Were burdened with a four months' snowfall, and so flncly adjusted were Ihe burdens that his slight movements in collecting the twigs had been sufficient to disturb the balance. The snow from the topmost hough was the first to fall, striking and dis lodging the snow on the houghs be neath. And all this snow, accumulat ing as it fell, smole Tom Vincent's head and shoulders and blotted out his lie still kept his presence of mind, for lie knew how great his danger was. He started at once to rebuild the lire, hut his fingers were now so cold that he could not bend them, and he was forced to pick up each twig and splint er between the tips of the fingers of either hand. When he came to the match he en countered great difficulty in separating one from the bunch. Tills ho succeed ed in managing, however, and also, by a great effort, in clutching the match between his thumb and forefinger. But In scratching It he dropped it In the snow and could not pick It up again. He stood up, desperate. He could not l'ecl even his weight on his feet, al though the ankles were aching pain fully. Putting on Ills mittens, he stepped to one side so that the snow would not fall upon the new fire he was to huilil, anil heat Ills hands vio lently against a tree trunk. This enabled him to separate and strike a second match and to set fire to the remaining fragment of birch bark. But Ills body had now begun to chill, and he was shivering, so that when lie tried to add the first twigs his hand shook and the tiny flame was quenched. The frost had beaten him. His hands were worthless. But he luid the fore sight to drop the bunch of matches luto his wide mouthed outside pocket before he slipped on bis mittens In de spair, and started to run up the trail. One cannot run the frost out of wet feet at sixty below and colder, how ever, as he quickly discovered. He came round a sharp turn of the creek to where he could look ahead for a mile. But there was no help, no sign of help, only the white trees and the white hills, the quiet eold and tae bra zen silence! If only he had n comrade whose feet were not freezing, he thought, only sueli a comrade to start the fire that could save him! Then his eyes chanced upon another high-water lodgment of twigs and leaves and branches. If he could strike a match all might yet be well. With stiff lingers which he could not liend he got out a bunch of matches, hut found it impossible to separate them. He sat down and awkwardy shuttled the hunch nhout on his knees until he got it resting on his palm with the sul phur ends projecting, somewhat in the manner the hlade of a bunting knife would projoet. when clutched In the fiHt. But his fingers stood straight out. They could not clutch. This he over came by pressing the wrist of the other hand against them, and so forcing them down upon the bunch. Time and again, holding thus by both hands, he scratched the bunch on his leg and finally ignited it. But the flame burned Into the flesh of his hand, and he in voluntarily relaxed his hold. The bunch fell into the mow, and while lie tried vainly to pick it up, sizzled and went out. Again he ran, by this time badly frightened. His feet were utterly de void of sensation. He stubbed his toes once on a buried log, but beyond pitch ing him into the snow and wrenching his back, it gave him no feelings. His fingers were helpless and his wrists were beginning to grow numb. His nose and cheeks he knew were freezing, but they did not count. It was his feet and hands that were to save him if he was to be saved. lie recollected being told cf a camp of moose hunters scmewliere above the forks of Paul Creek. lie must be somewhere near it, be thought, and if he could find it he yet might be saved. Five minutes later he came upon it, lone and deserted, with drifted snow sprinkled inside the pine hough shelter in which the hunters had slept. He sank down, sobbing. All was over. In an hour at best, in that terrific tem perature, be would lie an icy corpse. But the love of life was strong in him, and he sprang to his feet. He was thinking quickly. What If the matches did burn his hands? Burned hands were better than dead hands. No hands at all wore better than death. He floundered along the trail until he came upon another liigb-watcr lodg ment. There were twigs and branches, leaves and grasses, all dry and waiting the fire. Again he sat down and shuffled the hunch of matches on bis knees, got it into a place on his palm, with the wrist of his other hand forced the nerveless fingers down ngaiust the bunch, and with the wrist kept them there. At the second scratch the bunch caught fire, and he knew that if he could stand the pain he was saved. He choked with the sulphur fumes, and the blue flame licked the flesh of his hands. At first he could not feel It. hut it burned quickly in through the frosted surface. The odor of the burning llesli —his flesh—was strong in liis nostrils, no writhed about In his torment, yet held on. lie set his teeth and swayed hack and forth until the clear white flame of the burning match shot up, and lie had applied that flame to the leaves and grasses. An anxious live minutes followed, hut the lire gained steadily. Then he set to work to save himself. Heroic meas ures were necessary, such was his ex tremity, and ho took tlicm. Alternately rubbing liis hands with snow and thrusting them into the flames, and now and ngnin beating (hem against the hard trees, lie re stored (heir circulation sufficiently for them to he of use to liim. With his hunting knife lie slashed the straps from his pack, unrolled his blanket and got out dry socks and footgear. Then he cut away his moccasins and bared his feet. But while he had taken liberties with his hands he kept his feet fairly away from the tire and rubbed them with snow. lie rubbed till his hands grew numb, when he would cover his feet with the blanket, warm his hands by the fire and return to the rubbing. For three hours he worked till the worst effects of the freezing had been counteracted. All that night lie stayed by the fire, and it was late the next day when lie limped pitifully into the camp on the Cherry Creek Divide. In a month's time he was able to be about on his feet, although the toes were destined always after that to be very sensitive to frost. But the scars on his hands he knows he will carry to the grave. And "Never travel alone!" he now lays down the precept of the north.—Youth's Cotnpauion. "Johnny Bull" if* Slow. A striking example of the conserva tism that still obtains In certain lines of business in London, says the corres pondent of the New York Herald, was brought to my notice the other day. A young American came to London on Ills way to the Argentine Republic for his health. He noticed how far be hind advertising methods were com pared to those in vogue in America, and on inquiry learned that the cards in omnibuses and cars are never changed during an entire year. He called on several of the largest adver tising agents, submitted the idea of frequent change and offered to develop it for a percentage. The manager of one concern looked bored and said: "We were asked by a certain Com pany in the United States to change their advertisement at least quarterly. But when we submitted the propo sition to our directors they agreed that it was too much trouble." The Oeneßlfl of Fogs. Mr. Rollo Russell has for many years studied the formation of fogs, and now prints his principal conclusions. .Mist and fog are ordinarily caused by the mixture of currents of air of different temperatures. Fogs that do not de pend on the meeting of such currents are rare, but there are many cases of meeting currents where no fogs are produced. Karlr Agricultural Kxhibltlona. The first agricultural exhibition held within the limits of the United States is said to have been organized and carried to a successful conclusion at Georgetown, in the District of Colum bia, In 1810. Tnls claim is disputed, various towns and counties in New England asserting that agricultural fairs or expositions were held in them at an earlier date. WHEN SIZE DOESN'T COUNT. My little boy came running in Our houfie one recent day; His pretty nose was minus skin, I much regret to say. On leaving home his two bright eves With laughter had been stirred; Now he had three, to my surprise (A black one was the third). Out poured his tale: how Jimmy Jones Had caught him unaware, And mopped the pavement with his bonea While pulling out his hair. But, then, oh, triumph of the tale! That youth went on to say He'd tackled Jimmy, tooth and nail, And "licked him every way." Seeking to hide my sinful pride From that small urchin's view, I said, "How could you lick him gooj? Jim's bigger far than you." Whereat with scorn that sturdy elf Looked fixedly at me. And straighaway he rid himself Of this philosophy: "He's bigger'n me? Why, Papa Jack Bigness don't count, I say. My pony's swifter on a track Than a cart horse any day; My pouter pigeon has a threat Beats any living thing, But not one single little note I've heard that pouter sing. "The el'pliant's big as any house, And weighs about ten ton; But could an el'nhant catch a mouse If mousie tried to run?" Some more comparisons as pat That small boy with a grin Shot forth at me; and while J fat My little wife came in. She only weighs a hundred pounds, But when she saw my pride In Willie's pugilistic rounds Her voice rang high and wide. Such scorn! such fire! I quickly fled, Defeated, from the din. And as 1 went that small hov said, "Say, pa, does bigness win?" * —John O'Keefe. Helen—"So your sister Julia is mar ried?" Herbert—"Yes." Helen— I "Which one of those men she used to make l'nn of did she marry?"—Puek. "Does Billy Billions get much fen out of his automobile?" 'I don't, be lieve he does. I never hear of ids be ing arrested."—'Washington Star. To mask as things of sentiment Onr ailments nit make bold: We tlnnk we're melancholy wilt i 1 We're merely taking cold. —Washington Star. He—"College graduates do not al ways marry." She—"Well, when a gill has had a lot of money spent on her education it. makes lier awfully par ticular."—Detroit Free Press. Kwoter—"There's 110 doubt about that old saying about driving a horse to water." Kidder—"Yes, and although a man may drive 11 pen, a pencil must he lead."—Philadelphia Press. Nurse—"You dreadful children, where have you been?" Young Hopeful— "Oh, nursie, we've been trying to drown those dear little ducks, hut they will come to the top."—Punch. "Will I hav' a harp wlicn I die an' go to hevvun?" asked little Bobbie. "I hope so," replied his mother. "Aw," said Bobbie, impatiently, "I'd rutker hav' a drum,"—Ohio State Journal. A woman's crowning glory, tn ancient song ami story. Was woman's wealth of hair; bat that Was long ago. "Pis now her liat. —Philadelphia Keeord. "Did 1 understand you to say that she lowered herself wheu site married him?" "Yes. She slid down from a tliird-story window, using a rope made of bedclothes."—Chicago Kocord-lier ald. He—"lt isn't always safe to judge by appearances, you know." She "Quite true. I once knew a young •man who wore a yachting cap and who really owned a boat."—Chicago News. "Can you make me a set of teeth that will look natural?" asked the pa tient. "My dear sir," replied the tooth carpenter, "the teetli 1 make are so natural they fairly ache."—Chicago News. "Amy feels terribly about her new dress. She knows H isn't a hit be coming." "What makes her think so?" "Why, several of her girl friends have told her it looks perfectly sweet."— Philadelphia Bulletin. "Harold, I must have your hair shingled," observed the fond mother, as she curled the little fellow's golden itresses. "Ain't my sailor hat a good enuf roof?" asked the youngster in nocently.—Ohio State Journal. "Where does the electricity come from that lights our houses?" asked the teacher. "It comes from the wall," answered the little girl who resided in an apartment house. "The janitor goes and unbuttons it."—Chicago Trib une. Sponges of Rubber. Novelty iB shown iu a sponge that has made its appearance. It is of Russian manufacture and resembles closely a dark brown sponge, hut while it consists cliielly of holes, what ever solid material (here Is of it is rub ber. These sponges come in two sizes, olilong, with rounded corners. Wheth er, being made of rubber, (hey are less likely to form germ repositories than the genuine articles remains to he seen. Sheep Dcntibtry. A New South Wales correspondent says that a shepherd of llargreaves, near Mudgec, has tried dentistry for sheep with great success. He had a valuable ram which found great diffi culty in masticating Its food owing to the loss of teetli. Artificial teeth were inserted, and the animal lias since vigorously attacked its fodder. This is believed to he the first experiment of the kind in the colony.—Tit-Bits. | Farm Topics? A Lnrge Duck Incubator. Some one in Australia, lias had built an incubator on a duck ranch, which is said to be the largest in the world, having a capacity for 11,440 ducks' eggs, or 14,800 hens' eggs. It is built in the open, of ordinary pine weather boards with a corrugated iron roof, and is properly a hothouse, being heated by steam pipes from a boiler. There are four trays end to end on each side of the room, in eleven tiers, each holding ISO ducks' eggs or IGO hens' eggs. It is said to be work ing well and bringing out a good per centage of ducks. They do things on a large scale out there. Young PIRI on the Pasture* The summer season is the time to make pigs pay. They then need no protection against cold, are not stunted in growth, and demand but little at tention. Grass is the cheapest and best foood for pigs, and they will thrive and grow upon such diet, as grass contains an abundance of min eral matter, which promotes the growth of bono. Grain is deficient in lime, which is essential for all young stock. Clover contains more than twenty times as much lime as corn. To feed corn to pigs in summer is to supply them with a kind of food which they do not require, as growth at this season is more to be desired than fat. Those who make a profit from hogs depend largely upon the pasture free dom and the privilege of selecting a variety of food, promoting the thrift of the-pigs and warding off disease. A Modern Hue Hive. An up-to-date hive should contain movable frames so that the bees may be easily inspected and manipulated in any way desired. It should contain an air space all around the sides and over the top as a protection from the heat of summer and the cold of winter. It should be made in a first-class manner of seasoned material, with corners per fectly true and tight. The hive and supers should be as simple as possible for ease and quickness in handling. There are several makes tind styles of hives and the choice between them is largely a matter of personal taste. Few beekeepers have the necessary tools to make hives, and it is generally more satisfactory, and quite as cheap, to buy them in the fiat from manufac turers who get them out in large quan tities by machinery with all pieces cut true and uniform. They are easily and quickly put together. Clipping the Queen'H IVingn. Clipping the queen's wings is com monly done to prevent the queen from flying away with the swarm. It should be done when the bees are gathering a little honey, and is best accomplished in the early part of the season during fruit bloom. The bees should be handled, if possible, without smoke. When the queen is found, which is a somewhat difficult feature for the nov ice, she should be taken by the wings with the thumb and finger of the right hand, pass her to the left hand, let her grasp the end of the second finger of the left hand with her feet and then close the thumb and forefinger gently against her body, letting the abdomen hang down from the second finger. Clip the wing on one side .slantingly lengthwise, taking only the lace. Do not cut the hard bony part. Place her on the top bar of the hive and let her go. If it is done right there should be no loss of queens. New England Homestead. Cheap Brooder House. These little houses are scattered over my place, about 150 feet apart, so that one colony will not interfere with the other at feeding time, and each flock will go to its own house at night. The dimensions are six by six feet with shed roof five feet high at. front or south side and three feet high on north. Sills are two by six, and the house is studded with two by four, two feet on eet.' , and sided with six inch drop siding. The front has a window nine by twelve feet set eight inches above thg sill so as to leave place for the chicks to get to the yard, and the window should be arranged to slide wide open, making a kind of shed of it when weather is warm. The door is two and a half by four feet, placed on east side so you enn enter the building without first climbing into the yard. The roof is of dressed and matched fencing, then shingled, making it al most windproof. The interior shows a brooder, a. set therein. These brood ers are hot air, thirty-six inches square, sunk in the ground floor of these houses about four Inches. The dirt that is taken from the excavation is filled in around the brooder, which gives the chicks a nice earth floor til scratch nnd ruffle in when the weather will not let them go out. As they grow older, say when four weeks oldj they are given full liberty in pleasant weather.—C. E. Mntteson, in New England Homestead. The luxurious wood carving of twen ty years ago is now done by machinery at a fraction of Uu: former cost.
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