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CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. FOR WOMEN AND HOME Yoke and sleeves of jetted black aious-seline de soie. sorts and patterns. It is known that insects have a marvelously keen scent, and it is believed that all these odd little objects are perfume boxes, and that the fragrance so thrown abroad is a signal call to the female butterfly which may be wondering about in the air. It is, to say the least, a very interesting guess, and there is evidence to prove that butterflies and moths are summoned from distances by odors that we would hardly no' ice.

man East Africa, says Lieutenant Werther in his recent book, are extremely warlike. The various subtribes and family factions are in almost constant feud, but their campaigns are carried on in a very easygoing and comfortable fashion. The men of rival villages will march against each other in the morning and engage in a desultory fight wnh bo and arrows. At midday the women bring lunch and hostilities are suspended for a time. Then the fight is resumed and kept up until night fall, when the warriors of both sides go home, very well contented with the days work.

Of course, there are a few casualties which only serve to prolong the vendetta. One day six messengers with despatches for Werther found their way blocked by a battle of this sort. They called out to the nearest party to stop fighting and let them pass. One of the chiefs thereupon yelled to his opponents: Hello there! Here are some men with letters far the white man in Kondoa. Stop shooting and let them through.

The light was promptly stopped be resumed as soon as the mail-carriers had passed. Staats-Zeitung, Feb. 19, 1899. of a certain amount of time, labor and dynamite directed along well-established lines to produce a channel 168 feet wide and from twenty-two to twenty-eight feet deep. The main channel, it should be understood, ends abruptly at Lockport in a wall six feet thick made of stone and backed up by thousands of tons of stone dumped in from the spoil banks.

There the channel widens from 160 feet, the regulation width of the cut, to a windage basin 600 feet wide, in which the largest ships can be turned around. This basin, of course, is locked on three sides by stone walls extending seventeen feet above the surface of the water when the channel will be filled. On the north wall stands the controlling works. The waters of the river, when they are turned in on some bright day in the future, will flow uninterruptedly down their new rocky bed to this point. There they will encounter the stone walls on the south and west and flowing to the north they will pass through the sluice gates and over the dam which comprise the controlling works.

These seven gates can be lowered, cutting off the flow of the water, and this dam can be raised, cutting off some more of it if necessary. The gates can be shut down altogether, presenting as impenetrable a front as the stone walls and the. bear trap dam can be raised until it is as high as the level of Lake Michigan. Then the water will stand still. It will not flow uphill.

Rather, if the dam be thus raised, the water will turn about and flow back toward the lake. Wliat Is Being Done in Tlie Fifty-Sixth General Assembly. JANUARY THIIU). The senate resume I its sittings with a fair at tendance. First mine a flood of bills and petitions.

Senator Allen (Neb presented a resolution calling upon the secretary of the truarsurj lor all letters and agreements between the treas ury department and New York banks concerning the deposit of funds. henutoi Pert grew offered a resol ut on asking the war department concerning hostilities in tlit Philippines. Its consideration was objected uliicli action Senator Ho.tr protested against. In the house a number of members attempfei to oiler the same resolnt on offered by Senate Allen in ihe senate, but they were headed off a estion of pr ivilege on the irt ot ainci enu regaiding certain published cri icUmi of his action in in the Roberts (I tub) investiga tion. In tins connec tion he oiler a resolution which was refined to a committee; when tb, house adjourned.

JANUARY FOURTH. Jn the senate Senator Beveridge (Ind.) pre sented the following resolution and abkel thu it be taken next Tuesday: '1 hat the 1 hillippine isands are terrltor belongin'? to the United State-, that it is th intention of th TTnitrt to retain thm a intention of the Uuited States to retain them a such end to and matntainsuch govern mental control through jut the archipelago ai the situation may demand. enBtor Allen resoluti in report of yester day was passed. The senate spent the rest its session in opening Uijussion of the senat finance bill. Tn the house Mr.

Bingham (Penn introduce the following resolution: Resolved. etc. that the thanks of congress are hereby tendered to Rear Adin ral William T. Sampson and Com modi. re VV infield Scott Schlev.

and the officer nd men under them for the destruction of thi Spanish fleet at Santiago. JANUARY FIFTH. The work bv congress for the day was all don in committee rooms, there having been nothing done in open session worthy of report here. The senate committee on privileges and elec ons began investigat on of charges of in connection with the election of Senator Clarl of Von ana The Roberts (Utah) investigation committee has been in sessmn since its sppointment. mos of the time Today Mr.

Roberts began his ar gumint reading fiom a t.vp written statement The senate committee ot elections made an adverse repoit upon the resolution to seat Senator Qu of Pennsylvania. The vote was 4 3. Colesburg and Ladysmith London, Jan. 5. An unexpected development of the situation has occurred at Colesburg.

The Boers returnee with reinforcements during the night and occupied the position from wh'iclj they were driven by General French. There is a deepening sense of anxietj respecting Ladysmith, whence ilis-heartening reports of the prevalence of sickness are received. Genera) hite reported a list of nearly twentj deaths a day from enteric fever ann dysentery and seventy-one serious case; in the hospital. The Mexican Clerical Party. City of Mexico, Jan.

3. El Pais, th Catholic daily, attacks the America! missionaries, charging them with mis representing Mexico in their home organs and asks why they do not publish more articles showing the great progress made here, but concludes that ii they did not make the American people believe Mexico to be steeped in paganism and barbarism they could nol secure funds to maintain their missions. The religious question is at the bottom of the clerical party opposition here to all things American. Crazy Conductor lllamed. Denver, Jan.

6. The coroners jury that investigated the death of Winfield Iandleman, the express messenger who was killed in the wreck on the Union Pacific railroad at Brighton, has found that the collision was caused by the criminal carelessness of Conductor E. W. McAllister. This man lost his reason at the scene of the accident, but is slowly recovering his mental balance.

lctory on Small Scale. London, Jan. 4. News reaches thi, war office that Colonel Rickards with 300 Canadian and Australian cavalry forty mounted infantry, 200 Cornwal infantry, two guns and a horse battery, surprised, whipped and captured forty Boers in a stronghold. Colonel Rickards occupied the town ol Douglass without opposition.

Congressman Hepburn, of Iowa, will press his bill for the construction of the Nicaraguan canal. Lawton Farid Big Enough. Washington, Jan. 4. General Corbin announces that the subscriptions to the Lawton fund received amounted to $39,263.35, which did not include all the subscriptions made to the independent agents in various outside cities.

General Corbin also announced that the amount subscribed already exceeded the amount hoped for when the movement was organized, and was amply sufficient for the purposes of the fund, which was to raise the mortgage on the Lawton homestead at Redlands, and to provide for the education of the children. Ice Harvest In Chicago. Chicago, Jan. The ice harvest has begun and iec twelve inches thick is being taken from the lakes and rivers of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin in the vicinity of Chicago. This work gives employment to over seven thousand men.

The annual harvest is not as early in arriving as last year, but it is so far fully up to all expectations on the score of quality ank abundance. That California Earthquake San Diego, Jan. 6. Reports received from the baek country show that the recent earthquake was the cause of a nifmber of strange happenings. The mud volcanoes on the desert near the Colorado river have become active.

The natural gas wells near Yuma are also in working order since the heavy quake. A correspondent from Moosa writes that a number of fissures were made in the ground at that place, twenty or more feet in length. Cooper Union Gets Casli. New York, Jan. 4.

Andrew Carne gie has given $300,000 to Cooper Union for the establishment of a day school, similar in scope to the present night school and the object of which will be to give such practical instruction a shall enable young men to become first-class skilled workmen. The school, which will complete the last department of the original plans of Peter Cooper, founder of Cooper Union, will be technically known as the Mechanics Art High School of Cooper Union. Kid McCoy and Pete Maher. New York, Jan. 3.

Kid MeCoj again placed himself in the championship class by defeating Peter Maher is a brisk, well-fought battle of fiv rounds before the Coney Island Athletic club. The fight scheduled to last twenty-five rounds and the purs was to have been $20,000 but the attendance was not as large as had been expected and before the fight wa begun the principals agreed that tlu winner should receive the gross gat receipts. ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MAIDS AND MATRONS. A Smart Combination Evening; Gown Business Girls, Not In the World of Finance, but tbe World of Home Oar Cooking Schools. A Simple Word It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century; But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men; To write some earnest verse or line, Which, seeking not the praise of art, I Shall make clear faith and manhood shine In the untutored heart He who doth this, in verse or prose.

May be forgotten in his day. But surely shall be crowned at last with those Who live and speak for aye. James Russell Lowell. Hnsincss Girls. I do not mean a girl who has gone into some trade or profession, for the most domestic home bird of my girl readers may be one.

Indeed, if she helps to carry out her daily duties successfully she must do her utmost to become a business girl in my sense of the word. And when, in course of time, she passes to a home of her own, she will be at no loss in taking up her position as housekeeper and mistress. She will win the respect of those in her employ by showing them that she ui-derstands how she should be served, and that while comort is absolutely required, no extravagance will be allowed. She will cause her husbands lcve for her to increase by showing him how truly his interest is hers by bringing into play her knowledge of how to spend and how to save. To make home uncomfortable by mean, unnecessary savings is no real economy, but to plan with loving thought how to make every dollar yield its true EVENING Of yellow satin; very narrow strips of on bodice and skirt; white silk fringe on shoulder.

value Is housekeeping in Its best sense; for such a business girl will make a small income go further and give more real happiness and comfort than would one of double and treble the amount in inexperienced hands. But to make my girl reader a complete business one of the type which I write, she must also learn how to conduct her charities. Giving indiscriminately, without Inquiry or thought, is often more productive of evil than good, and she must be as wise over the spending of the portion allotted to help others, and give as thorough consideration to it as she does to what she puts apart for her personal concerns. A Smart Combination Visiting gown of drab velvet. Underskirt of black gauze embroidered in jet and black sequins.

Tunic ot the velvet draped slightly at the left side where a few hollow plants are inserted. It Is cut undulating at the bottom and is lost with a narrow band of sable. Corsage of vfivet, shaped hke a cuirass, with long basques that describe a scallop at the back and front Womans Sunday From Monday morning till Saturday midday the majority of husbands tell you they are hard at work. They rise at 6, 7, or 8, and, having eaten breakfast, get to business. At midday comes an hour for dinner and rest.

Then work fills up the time till 5, 6, or 7. The evening they claim as their lawful rest after a hard days bread-winning. When two of these hard-worked men meet they almost invariably, soonor or later, sneer or joke about the lazy lives women lead. Listen! If the head of a house rises at 6, his wife must rise at 5 in order to have his breakfast ready on a clean table in a cleanly swept room. The husband leaves for business, and his wife settles down to the necessarily dull routine of housework.

At the midday meal she most probably has to attend to the wants of two or three children. In the afternoon she must call on her neighbors in order to keep up friendships, so that her husband may have people to talk to when he wants variety in the evening. She also has to do the necessary shopping. At about a the hardest part of her day begins. First, the evening meal, then the children to he put to bed.

then she must try and be lively and amuse her spouse till such time as he chooses to go to bed. As to a wifes Sunday, every one who has ever been a child knows what that means. Remove Stain from Table Einen Tlfe careful housewife is much annoyed when a spic span tablecloth is marred by a stain of food or beverage. These can, however, De quite easily removed if taken when fresh. For tea stains, spread the stained place over a basin, then rub the spot well with either powdered borax or pure glycerine, then pour boiling water through the material, allowing it to soak well In this.

If the stains are not fresh, this may require to be lepeated. Coffee stains may be removed in the same way. Fruit and wine stains are frequently very troublesome, and should be attended to as soon as may be. If possible, at once strain the stained GOWN the satin Interlaced over white satin, trimmings, large bow of black velvet part of the cloth over a basin, and sub the spot well with fine salt, then pour boiling water through it to prevent the mark spreading. A freshly cut tomato rubbed over the newly made fruit or wine stain is also said to be excellenL Another way is to rub-the stained part well on both sides, with a thick paste of starch; rub this weil in, and then expose it to the sun and air for three or four days, v.rhen the stains should have disappeared If they have not, repeat the process, sprinkling the linen now and again a3 it dries with a little water.

OUR COOKING SCHOOL. Salmi of Duck. Cut the flesh of a roast duck into pieces no larger than a half dollar and keep them hot. Put the scraps and trimmings in a sauce pan with half a pint of claret, two shallots, a bay leaf, a spring thyme, a pinch of red pepper, and a pint of stock. Reduce this over a quick fire and strain, add two ounces of butter, half a pint of shrimps or mushrooms and the juice of half a lemon.

Mix well, but do not boil. Dish the duck on slices of fried or toasted bread, pour the sauce over it and garnish with parsley. Golden Spice Caka Cream half a cup of butter, add one cup of brown sugar and beat well. Add the yolks of four eggs and one whole egg, well beaten; stir in half a cup each of milk and molasses, two and one-fourth cups of flour, sifted, with half a teaspoonful of soda, half a teaspoonful of clove, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one-fourth of a grated nutmeg, a few grains of cayenne and a few gratings of lemon peel. Bake in a square loaf, in a moderate oven, about an hour, and when cold invert and cover the bottom with a marshmallow frosting.

Chocolate Piiriiliii Take a quart of milk, mix a little of it with three tablespoonfuls of cornstarch and the same quantity of grated chocolate. Blend to a smooth paste, and stir it briskly into the remainder of the milk while it is boiling briskly. Cook for three minutes, remove and add a teaspoonful of vanila and the beaten yolks of three eggs. Pour the mixture into a buttered pie dish and bake from twenty to thirty minutes. Whisk the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, stir into them a tablespoonful of powdered sugar, and pile it carelessly on the pudding and place it in a warm (not hot) oven for five minutes to set.

Serve hot. Measures Considered Concerning Our Insular Possessions. COMMITTEE MAY VISIT CUBA. Washington, Jan. (5.

The commerce 011111X11106 of the senate lias presented i favorable report on Senator Frye's bill directing the secretary of the treasury to prescribe anil enforce regu-ations governing the hoarding of vessels in ports of the United States. Monitor Elkins, from the same committee, las reported favorably on a bill to expend the laws of commerce, navigation ind merchant seamen over Puerto ltico ind Hawaii. The senate committee on foreign rerelations ordered a favorable report on bill creating a territorial government for Hawaii. A few modifications yf the original hill were made, the most important being the validation of the sale of lands since annexation, anil fixing the tenure of the supreme court tuilges at nine years. The provision a delegate in congress remains in the bill.

The senate committee on Cuba held its first meeting. No action was taken but there was a general discussion of the attitude of the United States toward the island. The prevailing opinion seemed to be favorable to the Teller amendment, promising independence to the Cubans as soon as specific conditions could be restored. There was some talk of having the committee make a trip to Cuba for the purpose of investigating conditions there, hut no conclusion was reached. Kentucky Election Contest.

Frankfort, Jan. 4. The notice of contest by Senator Goebel and J. W. D.

Beckham against Governor Taylor and Lieutenant Governor Marshal have been served. Tbe notice avers that any one of the grounds of contest is sufficient to change tbe result of the election. Papers in seventeen contested election eases affecting scats of house members have been filed with House Clerk Leigh. Two more may he filed. Ten of the contestants are Democrats and seven of them Republicans.

The Result of these cases will have an important effect on the contests over governor and lieutenant governor. Big Saddlery Contract. St. Louis, Jan. 6.

E. F. Hutchings' president of the Great West Saddlery company, limited, at Winnipeg. Manitoba, was awarded the contract by the British government for furnishing the equipment for a large portion of the 10.000 new cavalry troops called out after General Buller's reverse at the Tugela river. The contract was a rush order, and, being unable to fill it, Mr.

Hutchings at once telegraphed the three leading army manufacturers of the United States located at St. Louis, Chicago and Cincinnati for assistance. tin the basis of the replies received, he awarded just half of the contract to the SL Ixxuis house, one-fourth to the Chicago house and one fourth to the Cincinnati house. Keen Lout Since Angaiit Topeka, Jan. 2.

Frank Brooks' the well known Topeka man who mysteriously disappeared about August has been heard from for the first time since his departure. His family this week received a letter from him stating that he was in business in Joplin, Mo. Brooks was a candidate for mayor and was defeated by Mayor Drew. A short time after this he suddenly disappeared from Topeka, failing even to inform his family of his intentions. Brooks was foreman of the Kansas State printer's bindery.

To Guarantee to Philippine. Washington, Jan. G. Representative McRae of Arkansas, has introduced the following joint resolution: Be it Resolved, Etc. That the United States hereby declare that their purpose in acquiring jurisdiction and control over the Ihilippine Islands was, and is, to secure to the inhabitants thereof as soon as practicable, after the suppression of the United States rebellion therein, a free, independent, stable government, republican in form ai A.

that the United States guarantee to said inhabitants protection against all foreign invasion. Rich Copper In Athabasca Winnipeg, Jan. 2. W. J.

McLean, a former officer of the Hudson Bay company, who was reported lost in the far northern Slave Lake country, where he bad gone in search of minerals in the xoterest of Clxieago parties, has reached here in safety. He reports having discovered valuable copper ore in the Athabasca region and says his party luffered no privations owing to the abundance of game. Oppose Pardons Washington, Jan. G. The farmers and dairymen of the country are vigorously opposing the petition for the pardon of Joseph Wilkins and Howard Butler, who were convicted in the United States court for violating the oleomargarine laws aud sentenced to prison in Philadelphia.

These protests are filed at the Agricultural department. Secretary Wilson of that department has come out in emphatie opposition to the petition sent to the president for pardons. Froduce Shipper Grievance. Topeka, Jan 4. The annual meeting Df the Kansas Produce Shippers' Association met here.

Thomas Parker, of Hutchinson, was elected president and J. C. Bowman, of Topeka, secretary, or the coming year. The members present complained of the encroachment of the Kansas City packers on their business. They claim that the jackeis are gradually running buyers and shippers out of xusi ss by reason of freight discrimi-jations.

General Campaign Begun. Manila, Jan. 3. The first move of a general southern advance has commenced. Two battalious of the Thirty-ninth infantry landed and occupied Cabuyao, on the south side of Laguna De Bay.

Two Americans were killed ind four were wounded. Twenty-four of the enemys dead were found in one house. One hundred and fifty prisoners and four six-pounder rapid-fire guns were captured. The embarkation of the troops from the Cascoes, was taade under the enemys shrapnel firq. (Chicago Letter.) i Within a month from this date, in all probability, the long-awaited action will be taken which will insure to Chicago an unpolluted water supply, will furnish to northern Illinois a magnificent waterway and add materially to the wealth and prosperity of not only Chicago, but the whole sanitary district.

The great drainage channel will be officially opened. The dark waters of the Chicago river will go bounding on their new-found way over the rocky bed and between the smooth stone walls of the mammoth cut to Lockport, and there joining with those of the Desplalnes will flow through Joliet and so on through the Illinois river to the Mississippi and to the ocean. For seven years this day has been anxiously looked forward to not alone by the trustees who have charge of the gigantic enterprise, but by the 2,000,000 and more people whose health is intimately associated with the successful completion of the task. Obstacles, unforeseen in the early days of the great work, were met and overcome. Heart-breaking delays, setbacks due to natural agencies as much as to human failure and malice, were constantly faced and overcome.

The channel has been dug. The great cut extends Its yawning chasm twenty-eight miles from Robey street to Lock-port awaiting the influx of water. The bridges are in place, and where there Is delay the substructures are sufficiently advanced to allow of the admission of the water. The mighty mllu0. 1 6jl.il- SA controlling works at Lockport, by which the trustees can control the flow of water out of the canal and reduce It to a pint If necessary, are ready to do their part in the great Bcheme for purifying the water supply of Chicago.

The dams and retaining walls in the Desplalnes river approaching and in Joliet are prepared to sustain the increased pressure. All is ready for the official act which Bhall unite the waters of Lake Michigan with those of the Gulf of Mexico. For thirty years before the sanitary district was created engineers advanced various plans for solving the sewage problem of Chicago. As the city grew rapidly it became evident that the po-lution of the water supply by the sewage from the river was a constant menace to the health of the city. The Illinois and Michigan canal had proved Inadequate to carry off the polluted water of the river, as every heavy rain flushing the sewers, resulted in a change of course in the river, causing it to set toward the lake.

At about the town of Summit it was known the watershed between the SL Lawrence and MieBissippI valleys existed and it was evident that a canal of sufficient size and carrying capacity to convey the waters of the Chicago river over that watershed would solve the problem. A navigable canal was not thought of at that time because the Desplalnes and Illinois rivers, into which such a channel must empty its waters, were not navigable for deep draft ships. But as the idea grew in the public mind it was pointed out that the equipping such a broad, deep channel as was contemplated with swing bridges would be the first step toward a great waterway connecting Chicago yrith the Mississippi, to be completed at such time as the general government should carry out the dredging and deepening of the Illinois. The canal has already cost twice as much as the original estimates contemplated, and this, too, in spite of the low cost per cubic yard of the excavation resulting from the employment of machinery especially invented for the work. The increased cost is largely accounted for by the much greater amount of rock excavation than was originally contemplated and the cost of diverting the Desplalnes river and making a new channel for it for thirteen miles, so as to keep its floods out of the canal.

The Desplalnes is a prairie stream, draining a wide expanse of nearly flat country. It has great fluctuations, so that at some seasons its whole discharge would pas3 through a six-inch pipe, while at others it reaches 800,000 cubic feet per minute. This river heads in Chicago only a few miles from the lake and flows into the Illinois. Not only was it necessary to cut for it a new channel parallel to the canal, but a huge dike had to be built to confine it to this new channel, and also a back channel provided to conduct a portion of its flood waters north into Lake Michigan, for the reason that they could not safely be carried through the city of Joliet, which lies at the lower end of the canal. Few people realize what this diversion of the Desplalnes channel means.

The trustees really had to lift up the river and move it to one side that its bed might be used for part of the drainage channel. For thirteen miles a solid wall had to be built to separate the waters of the Desplalnes and the drainage canal, marking a new course for that river. Just below the city of Joliet the Illinois river is formed by the confluence of the Desplalnes and Kankakee rivers. Its surface is forty feet below that of the drainage channel, whose waters it will receive, and one of the engineering problems-was to lower the waters of the channel to this surface. To accomplish this certain dams in Joliet had to be removed, others changed; retaining walls had to be built and legal obstacles manifold overcome, bridges built and other work undertaken, while the main force of laborers were at work on the cut.

In fact, the digging of the channel proper was the simplest part of the T'ork. It amounted to an expenditure GUIDE POSTS OF THE BLIND. A Sightless Man Tells How He Is Helped to Make Ills Way About. New Orleans Times Democrat: There is a blind man living in the heart of the old quarter who walks nearly every day to a little restaurant near Canal street. The distance each way is from sixteen to twenty blocks, according to his route, and to see him sauntering carelessly along one would never suspect his infirmity.

Talking with an inquisitive reporter, he declared that he saw with his nose and feet, and this was the way he explained it: When a man has his sight, he said, the smells of the street are all mixed up, but when hes blinu he learns to separate them. The smells of the shops are almost as plain to me now as the signs used to be over the doors. Some of them you would hardly suppose to exist. Take a dry goods store, for instance; it smells of cloth, and has a very peculiar odor. Iron and tin have smells of their own, and I can tell a hardware store immediately.

I pass two book stalls nearly every day, and I scent them yards off by the old books. Then there are a great many indescribable odors by which I know this place and that. Of course, my feet are my principal guide, and Ive been over the same ground so often that 1 have learned every inequality by heart, but I couldnt get along with either nose or feet alone. i ney work together, and where one fails, the other helps out. Between them' they make very good eyes.

The secret of my stepping out is this: Ive learned how to stop. People who can see hurl themselves forward like locomotives. Thats why the shock is always so unexpectedly violent when you collide with another person. 1 put no extra power whatever in my movements, and if the toe of my boot touches some unknown obstacle I stop stock still instantly." This clever blind man leads a very tranquil life. He has a small income and lives with a granddaughter.

A servant is hired especially to real to him every afternoon. Many of those who know him are unaware of his blindness. Man Who Uldn't Cat HI Friends. Father Darcy, one of Ireland's real wits, was a man who hated to say an unkind thing, yet could not help saying something to the point when the opportunity offered. Sqch an opportunity presented itself one day when he was invited by a man who was known as an ignorant braggart to visit a new and beautiful house which the person, who had become wealthy suddenly, had bought.

With more than his usual pomposity the host dragged the priest over the place and expatiated on the excellence of everything that he owned. Finally they reached the immense library, where there were thousands of volumes, all splendid in binding. The host sank into one of the great leather-covered chairs with a sign of contentment and exclaimed: But. after all, father, what is all this luxury compared with my favorites here? The other rooms, maybe, give pleasure to my wife and daughters; but this is my place right here among these books, which are my friends. And these here on the desk pointing to a score of fine volumes are what I may call my most intimate friends." Father Darcy got up and examined one of them, when a broad grin spread over his good-natured face.

Well, its glad I am to see that you never cut your intimate friends! he exclaimed. Cabby Knows III Fare. From Tit-Bits: In Dublin the legal fare for a car-drive between any two points in the city is sixpence, but when these points are very far apart the fare is expected to bear this in mind. It was overlooked, however, by a big, fat commercial traveler, who mounted a car at onef extremity of the city to be driven across to the other but who, on dismounting, offered the car-driver the customary sixpence. The driver, instead of taking it, took the horsecloth briskly out of the well of the car, shook it out, carefully covered with it the horses head, and then, turning to the traveler, touched his hat cheerfully, and held out his hand for the sixpence.

What was all that for? asked the traveler. To whom the driver replied, in a confidential tone: I didn't want the dacent baste, your honor, to see what a big load he had brought all this way for one little sixpence. Tlreaome for tbe San. Grandmamma had been explaining to the little girl how our earth is kept from flying off into infinite space by the attraction of the sun, which is constantly trying to draw the earth toward itself, while the latter always keeps its distance. Grandmamma, said the little girl, I should think the sun would get discouraged after a while and let go.

Cincinnati Enquirer. Inexplicable Wants. From the Detroit Free Press: He I dont see what you want with a golf cape when youre not a golfer. She But you can, no doubt, tell mg. why you wear a box coat and never could bs a boxer.

WRESTLING WITH LANDSCAPE. The Original Iowan Got Tired of Climbing Hills. Westward of the Mississippi, the dramatic play of physical nature against the migrating will of human beings assumes many times the interest and impressiveness that it had in the movements from the Alleghanies to Illinois, says a writer in Ainslies. in an article explaining the settling of the United States. The struggle of the settler with the swamps and marshes and malaria of Indiana, a struggle that lasted to within the most recent generation, was but a proem to the hardships and conflicts that followed when the Iowa immigrants crossed the big river, and the Missourians that were to be forsook the hills of Tennessee.

Iowa itself, excluding the consideration of the warfare with the doughty Sioux, was not such a basis of tragedy, nor was Missouri topographically so, but Iowa and Missouri furnished the basis of the exodus to the further west, and in doing so gave both the genesis and the nemesis to many a habited place on tbe way to the Pacific. Iowa itself is an illustration in a minor way of the law of least resistance, and Missouri is an illustration of the law of greatest endurance. The excess of population from Illinois would doubtless have gone over tne Missouri as well as the Mississippi and have stretched across the plains of Nebraska twenty years before the Union Pacific rails were laid, had not Iowas surface been as it is and the nomads grown tired of rolling up and down the undulating hills, and decided that the easiest thing to do was to settle in the attractive wooded vales and stick their plows into the deep, loamy corn-producing soil. The thousands who remained have always been of the remaining, sticking kind, steady, industrious, thrifty, but circumscribed by the hills from whose outlook only hills are to be seen. The Hotter!) Pocket.

From the Philadelphia Times: The male butterflies have the proud privilege of a pocket, but the pocket or a butterfly is wonderfully made. It is really an extension of the under wing folded back on the upper side, but it is exquisitely colored and marked like the upper side so that it is very bard to detect, and no one has yet discovered just how it is opened, although undoubtedly the butterfly can throw it open while he is flying. At first glance there seems to be only white or amber-colored silk floss within, but examine this with a microscope and you will find twisted ribbons, slender rods shaped like a shepherds crook, others jointed bamboo-like, and flexible rods and tiny scales of various HARRISON. ceived with open arms by a white-capped nurse. It was quite evident that there was some use for the baby carriage.

Mis3 Mary Elizabeth Harrison wa3 born two years ago, in Indianapolis, when the ex-president was abroad as a member of the Venezuelan commission. V. ff 1 A i There are seven sluice gates at present and each weighs twenty tons, but so nicely are they counterbalanced that but two men are required to work the machinery to raise or lower them. They are built in solid masonry which suggests the frowning front of a fort, but this is necessary, as the pressure againBt them the water will exert will be tremendous. The heavy granite and brick wall contains seven other spaces for additional sluice gates, which are now bricked in solidly, awaiting the time when Chicagos population has so greatly increased that the capacity of the channel must be doubled.

Then these gates will be put in to permit an increased flow of water into the Des-plaines. But the gates in themselves, while they are massive pieces of engineering work, are not enough without the bear-trap dam. It is called a bear trap, the engineers say, because its shape suggests the old deadfall bear traps which were once in use by early settlers. It consists of two hinged metal leaves which present an inclined face 160 feet in width to the waters. The place of joining, known as the crest of the dam, can be raised by hydraulic power, the turning of valves allowing water from upstream to flow into chambers under the dam and easily raise its million pounds of weight.

It has a total oscillation of seventeen feet that is. it can be raised that much from its lowest point if necessary. To lower it other valves are turned and the water from the chambers under the dam are released to flow out into the tail race and the great metal barrier settles slowly down to the required level. Over the top of the dam the flotsam and jetsam of the channel, the trees, sticks, barrels and ice floating on the surface will be allowed to pass, which would never get through the sluice gates for the reason that the water will pass under the gates, leaving the surface almost placid and immovable, holding all floating objects, and in the course of time the windage basin at the end of the channel would be filled with floating debris from the twenty-eight miles of canal all hurried down against the end wall. These things will easily pass over the dam, which will ordinarily have a foot of water pouring over its crest to the tail race.

A Merry War. The Warangi, a wild tribe of Ger- LITTLE MISS It was not much over two years ago than an expressman, with a broad smile and a wink which signified considerable, took a bright new baby carriage from his wagon and carried it up the front steps of the residence of ex-PresIdent Harrison. The door opened ami the new vehicle was re it Vy t. i 1 1.