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Show THE INDEPENDENT. "William F. Gibson, - - Editor. E. H. Jordan, Business Manager. 1 Entered at tbe Post Office at BprtngYllle, Utah, for transmission through tbe mails as aaoond-claat matter. Issued Every Thursday Morning. TERMS OF SIBSCKIPTIOS. One Year $3 00 Six Months 1-00 Three Months 60 ASK FOR ADVERTISING RATES. LAND OF THE M00E. EVERY PROSPECT PLEASES AND ONLY MAN IS YILE. Tbe Orient in Sight of Europe Custom That Have Descended from Time Immemorial Im-memorial Where the Family Wanking la Done. (Special Letter.) For the average Englishman a certain cer-tain effort of the Imagination will, perhaps, per-haps, be found necessary to realize th fact that within a few hours' Journey from Gibraltar there lies a vast country coun-try which is still in a condition of absolute ab-solute benighted oarbarism. The empire em-pire of Morocco is, nevertheless, a more complete anachronism, when ludged by American or European standards of civilization, than that of Turkey. The tourist who steps outside the door of his hotel at Tangier finds himself In a land which, politically and socially, social-ly, haa no analogue in Europe, a land in which, so far as a bountiful nature is responsible, "every prospect pleases," and "only man" including his handiwork handi-work "is vile." But even that vile- i;i"t- PLOWING, ness, thanks to the rich beauty of earth and sky. and the remnants of what was once civilization of a high order, is always interesting, and, above all. picturesque. The rites and ceremonies of the religion reli-gion of the prophet are in themselves an inexhaustible study for the artist aa well as for the historian and the philosopher. Take, for example, the procession of the Sheep feast, which is. so to spe.ik, the Easter of the Lent of Ramadhan. Imagine a background of sky of the brightest blue above a line of green foliage; place in the foreground fore-ground the brilliant white of the snowy robes of the sultan, of the garments gar-ments of his retinue, of the veils of the women watching from the walls, with the glint of gun barrel and spear in the African sunshine, and what a picture it makes to the mind's eye! "What, again, can more adequately express ex-press the poetry of motion than the wild rush of the Arab cavaliers in the Sheep race? The game of powder, that is to say, the waving and firing in the air of innumerable guns, which is the part of the show the Arabs love best, gives the fantasia a warlike character which makes It the favorite sport of those born horsemen and warriors. The Sheep feast, which the Arabs call "the great feast," is a serious business. busi-ness. On that occasion every Moslem family must sacrifice a sheep; ant" care is taken to choose an animal witL fine pair of horns, because it is to them that the Moslem must hold tight when crossing the ricate, the bridge, narrow as a bair and sharp as a razor, which Is suspended above hell, and across which he must pass to paradise. The sacrificial act Is commeE:.ji aiive of the "ram caught in a thicket," divinely provided to avert the sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham. In no Mahommedan country Is the faith of Islam more fanatically fierce than in Morocoo, a3 is exemplified In the city of Fez, with Its 360 mosques. One of these mosques Is a sanctuary for even the most desperate des-perate criminals, for Fez is a ho'.y city. It is also one of remarkable beauty, situated In a charming valley dominated domin-ated by high mountains, aud studded with groves of lemon and pomegran-ite pomegran-ite trees, and gleaming w:th the whitewash white-wash of which the law of the prophet prescribes the use at regular intervals. From the sanitary point of view, however, how-ever, a Moorish town or village is but a whited sepulcher. Those women in the sketch are doing their family washing in the village well a gruesome grue-some thought on which the European mind does not love to linger. Agriculturally, Agricul-turally, too, Morocca Is as backward as In every other respect. The Arab plow, drawn by Gonder ox and an ass. does but scratch the marvelously fertile fer-tile ground, which, in Roman times, made the Barbary coast the granary of Southern Europe. In short, one may say today of Morocco, just what was said of it by an Englishman who went there with Lord Howard, the ambassador am-bassador of Charles II.. in 1669: "It were to be desired that such industrious indus-trious and public spirited persons did Inhabit there as might make an improvement im-provement of the goodness of the soil and of the conveniences of the place." For, as Rudyaid Kipling puts it, "In the east nothing ever changes;" and Morocco, despite its geographical position, po-sition, Is nothing if not Oriental. DEWEY AT TWENTY-SEVEN. This is a photograph of Admiral Dewey as he looked at the end of the DEWEY AT 27. Civil war. He was about 27 years old and lieutenant commander. Capt. Hodges of the Loyal Legion, Chicago, owns the photograph. A Queer Fad. The late Gov. Fuller of Vermont had one of the queerest fads on record.' Ha was a collector cf tuning-forks, of I which he bad 3C7 in hie possession j when he 313. In the lot Is tha use4 by John Shore, who, in ITU, inreated the tunics-fort. Afcoiter wib used by nana ana a third wrs gtven Mr. Tvl-lefr Tvl-lefr b PUi. . ft-. 3&im& W If STUDY OF PALESTINE THE MOST INPORTANT FIND IN RECENT YEARS. Valuable Relic of the Fast Pictorial Map on a Vast Scale of Christian Palestine and Egypt of the Early Centuries. (Special Letter.) One of the most important "Aiuls" r.ade in Palestine in recent years ha3 ..een the Madebra mosaic, which throws no little light upon the geography of contemporary Syria. The Palestine exploration fund cannot be directly redited with its discovery, but it is nainly due to the influence of its operations op-erations that the people of Palestine lave learned to set a due value upon md preserve such remains of antiquity is happen to come under their notice. ;n this case the actual discoverer was not an official agent of the fund, but X is very probable that if the work of he fund had not influenced intelligent i.Tiental3 this important reiic of the ,mst would have attracted no attention tr.d miftht even have been destroyed it is almost tl:e story of the Mjabite lone ever again, but, though the Mai'eba incsalc was partly mutilated, it was so treated from no superstitious .norivfs, but from something liice care- essness. Madeba, or MeJaba, where the sensational sensa-tional discovery was made in December, Decem-ber, isy6, is an ancient site in Moab, on the eastern side of the Dead sea. uetween Heshban (Ileshbon) and Dhi-!:an Dhi-!:an (Dibcn). It appears to have been n early times an important Christian center, and. after a desolation of thirteen thir-teen centuries, it is again peopled by Christians, who migrated thither from Xerak about twenty years ago. Remains Re-mains of churches and basilicas are very plentifully strewn about tbe place, and are mingled incongruously with the modern squalid abodes of the inhabitants. in-habitants. The meanest house (we read) has a beautifully carved lintel, or door post: built In the rudest wail may be found a graceful Corinthian capital. In front of the dirty, dark houses are courts with fine slabs of stone. One chamber, which Is shared alike by the owners and their chickens chick-ens and goats, is floored with a beautiful beauti-ful mosaic. The mosaic which has made Madebra famous in our day is a unique relic, and Is nothing less than a pictorial map on a vast scale of Christian Palestine Pal-estine and Egypt of the early centuries. Fifteen years ago the Greek patriarch of Jerusalem received a letter from one of his monks in Moab, Informing him of the existence of a fine mosaic pavement pave-ment at Madeba, containing the names of such cities as Jerusalem, Gaza, Nea-polis, Nea-polis, etc., and asking for instructions as to what steps he should take In regard re-gard to it. His beatitude apparently cared for none of these things, for he took no notice of the letter. Some years later his successor, coming upon the letter, sent instructions that the mosaic should be Included In the church which was about to be built at Madeba. During the erection of the church the mosaic which until then was almost complete was much damaged, dam-aged, and, like the Moabite stone, is now more or less fragmentary. The one who is regarded as the practical discoverer is Father Cleopas, the librarian li-brarian of the Greek patriarchate, who was the first to make a sketch of the map. This unique geographical mosaic mo-saic Is referred to the fifth century. It gives the tribes of Israel, each with its chief towns. The administrative districts dis-tricts into which the country was divided di-vided at that period are also given. Each city is represented by a prominent promin-ent building. Jerusalem, Nablus and Gaza are shown encircled by walls. The chief gates can be made out, and, in the case of Jerusalem, the principal streets. It need hardly be said that the distances between the several towns marked and their relative positions posi-tions are not mathematically accurate. Special interest attaches to the plan of Jerusalem which the hlstoriacl mosaic mo-saic supplies. As has been already 6aid, the leading streets of the holy city are marked. The street leading from the Damascus gate to the old Zion gate seems lined with columns. At Its northern end, near the Damascus Damas-cus gate, is a prominent column, which the distinguished Palestine explorer, Sir Charles Wilson, suggests may be the milion from which distances were measured. Constantlne's church of the Holy Sepulcher Is also given, and the representation, as far as it can be made out, agrees with the description of the church given by Eusebius. A conspicuous feature In this mosaic picture pic-ture of Constantlne's basilica is the Anastasis rotunda, with its peculiarly formed cupola. Palestine archaeologists, who have hitherto had access to the mosaic, or who have studied reproductions of It, 5 KHASNEH PHARAUN. (Pharaoh's Treasure House.) differ very widely as to the interpretation interpreta-tion of some parts of It, and its representation repre-sentation of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher has been a special subject of controversy. Some have professed to see in It the mere ground plan of the famous basilica, but it more probably represents a view, thrown oft In a few thick strokes of the church, giving In vigorous outline its easern facade, with the three entrance gates mentioned by Eusebius, the roof, and. In the baek-ground, baek-ground, the rotunda, with its peculiar dome-shaped roof. It is a matter or doubt as to whether Constantino built one, two or even three churches upon the sites of the crucifixion, the resurrection resur-rection and the finding of the cross. The more probable view is that Constantlne's Con-stantlne's structure united in one imposing im-posing building the three sanctuaries of Calvary, the Holy Sepulcher and the Inventio Crucls and the Madeba mosaic seems to bear out that view. It need hardly be said that we have not heard the last word on the question ques-tion of Constantlne's church, in the light of this important dlscoVery. As for the genuineness of the site of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, bo recent evidence can be adduced that tear atraoiy upon the ufetftlq's. ' The i M iferi 1 ft I course f the second wall has yet to be traced and until that is done the question ques-tion will be brought no nearer solution. solu-tion. The subject will continue to be keenly debated by explorers and archaeologists, ar-chaeologists, until some fortunate officer offi-cer of the Palestine exploration fund (as I hope) settles it finally and forever. for-ever. Notwithstanding Maj. Conder's convincing arguments against its genuineness, gen-uineness, that well-known antiquary. Dr. Schick, stoutly maintains the traditional tra-ditional view. In view of the pilgrimage pilgrim-age to the holy sepulcher of the German Ger-man emperor Dr. Schick was requested by German residents of Jerusalem tc write a treatise on the subject for presentation to bis imperial majesty He wrote it and set out fully the pros and cons as they had come to his knowledge during the fifty years that he has been acquainted with the spot. The last utterance of that veteran archaeologist ar-chaeologist on a question upon which he feels strongly and upon which he is one of the greatest living authorities, authori-ties, may fittingly close our notice of the subject: "One thing has often struck me," he writes, "namely, people saying that the Christians of the time of Constantine were ignorant, superstitious supersti-tious and so on. Maj. Conder even says they hardly know the difference between Christ and Serapis. People who were persecuted for their faith in Christ and gave their lives as martyrs for Christ certainly knew the difference differ-ence between the risen and living Lord and pagan idols. Certainly also they knew the scriptures and were acquainted acquaint-ed with the configuration of the ground in and about Jerusalem much better than we. They lived only 200 years 1 M wmms l If, : &SvE' GROUP OF FELLAHIN. after the crucifixion, we 1800 years. Common sense suggests the question, 'Can we know It better tLan those of old?' " As for the excavations which have recently been begun under the new firman, fir-man, authorities anticipate with some confidence that one result, at least, will be the recovery of the ancient Gath of the Philistines, which has never yet been identified, and which disappeared from history about 750 B. C. Included in the area of ten square kilometers permitted by the Turkish law on excavations exca-vations are four important sites Tell-es Tell-es Safl, Tell-el-Judeideh, Tell Zakarl-ya Zakarl-ya and Khurbet Dhikerin. The first site is supposed by some to be the ancient Mizpeh (watch tower) of the tribe of Judah. It was the Blanca Guardia, or Blanche Garde, of the Crusaders, Cru-saders, so called from the conspicuous white chalk rock on which It stands. The summit is now occupied by an Arab village, with rich and extensive tobacco fields, which will prevent the mound being exhaustively excavated. The first mound to be attacked is Tell Zakariya, which Maj. Conder had marked mark-ed out as an important site, and, according ac-cording to the last report received from the explorers, Dr. Bliss and Mr. Stewart Stew-art MacAlister, the excavations are already al-ready being prosecuted with the greatest great-est energy. The hill rises almost 350 feet above the Vale of Elah. It commands com-mands views of almost the whole of Philistia, embracing the positions of Ekron, Ashdod and Ascalon. Tell-Za-kariya is free of modern houses and graves (which crown the summit of so many tells), and is, therefore, easy to excavate. The explorer, thus having a free hand, will make a thorough examination ex-amination of the mound and will leave none of its ancient debris untouched. The number of objects of antiquity already unearthed is considerable and is such as to encourage those interested interest-ed in Palestine research to anticipate discoveries of real importance. The tell must have been regarded in ancient an-cient times as strategically important, and the specimens of wares already brought to light cover the period of the Tell-el-Amarna and Tell-el-Hesy tablets. tab-lets. BABY MILLIONAIRES. Little Ones Who Will Have Great Fortunes. There are many little people in the world who will have, as long as they live, their weight in gold every day. In the great Goelet mansion in New York Is one little Vanderbilt baby .and another one In a grand palace in England. Eng-land. Every day these wealthy little ones ride In the parks in a fine carriage, car-riage, with a coachman and footman, and every night they go to sleep in bed3 of lace and down. The fortunes of either one of these babies is nearly $50,000,000, or many times their weight in diamonds. The one in England Eng-land may also be a prince one day, and he is already a marquis and several sev-eral other things he doesn't know or care about Just yet. Then there are the children of the czar of Russia, who will have a great deal of money, and many others. But they will not all be happy, for riches do not make happiness, happi-ness, and some day perhaps any one of these little ones, who today do not know much besides being hungry or sleepy, will wish they could trade places with a healthy, cheerful man or woman with their own way to make in the world. Who Know Kipling-. An English paper recently conducted an investigation to ascertain what the working classes think of Kipling, and concluded that he was practically unknown un-known to those about whom he has written so much. In marked contrast with this view is the following incident inci-dent described by the New York Commercial Com-mercial Advertiser: "During Kipling's illness a lady visiting Florida was standing on a wharf with a newspaper in her hand. A common sailor stepped up to her, and, lifting his hat, said he saw she had a paper and wished to know If she could tell him how Kipling Kip-ling was. It was a little incident, but showed how those stories and poems oi Kipling, which some critics have thought too technical, had touched the hearts of the workers among these technical things." A Queer Fad. The late Gov. Fuller of Vermont had one of the queerest fads on record. He was a collector of tuning-forks, of Which he had SOT In hlB possession when he died. In the lot is tme used by John Shore, whbi la if 11, Jnvtrated the tuning-fork. Another was need by-Handel by-Handel and a tbifd 'was given Mr. Fuller Ful-ler to Patti, r , -:::: mm Mm 1 fj irT 0UE BUDGET OF FUN. SOME COOD JOKES ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. A Variety of Jokes, Gibes and Ironies Original and Selected Flotsaffl and Jetsam from the Tide of Humor Witty Saylng-a. A Juvenile Strategist. "Got an orfui lickin' last night.ddn't yer?" said little Sammy Brown to his playmate. Johnnie Smith. "Naw!" was the scornful reply. "Didn't git no lickin' 't all. My paw never licks me." "Mebbe it was yer maw that done it, but I know yer got a lickin', coz I heard ye holler. Sounded like klllln' pigs." "That was me hollerin' all right, but I didn't git no lickin'. I always holler like that when paw gits ready to lick me. Then he gits Beared fer fear the neighbors '11 think how cruel he is, an" he lets me go. It's a bully scheme. Try it some time." A False Impression. Mr. Henpeck Don't scream so loud. Maria. The neighbors might think I was beating you. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His Opinion of It. "Jay Green seems to think he's con-sider'ble con-sider'ble smart," remarked Josh Med-ders; Med-ders; "but I don't know so much about it myself. Devver tell ye about how he gave himself away the time he went up to the city with me an" seen the first street sprinkler he'd ever set eyes on?" "No," returned Abner Appledry. "What did he do?" "Aw! He jabbed me In the ribs an' says he, good an' loud, 'Great gimmy, Josh! there's one o' them rain-makin' machines we've been readin' about." From a Late Novel. "You do not love me!" he cried, hoarsely. "I do, I do!" she sobbed. "How can you doubt it?" "Then prove it," he answered. "Yes, but how?" she asked, eagerly. "Lend me $10 untl next Saturday." The young girl drew herself up proudly. "Coward!" she hissed. "Would you strike a woman? Leave me and never return." And bowing his head in shame, the young man slunk away. The Fox and the Grapes. Once upon a time a Fox espied some grapes growing upon a tall tree or a telegraph pole; it does not matter wnich. The Fox tried to borrow a stepladder of a neighboring farmer, but failed. "I don't want your old grapes, anyway," any-way," the Fox now declared. "Appendicitis "Appen-dicitis isn't anything like as swagger as it used to be!" Then he bestowed the laugh upon the bystanders, who had looked for him to say the grapes were sour. Success at Last. "I see Von Daub, the artist, has a new suit of clothes, a new silk hat and a very prosperous look. He must have sold some of those pictures that he had in the salon." "No, he's been hired by a cigar company com-pany to decorate billboards." She Was in Error. "This is very bad taste in you," remarked re-marked Mrs. De Tanque, when her better bet-ter half returned in an intoxicated condition. con-dition. "Your makin' mishtake m' dear. Bad tasht won't show up 'fore (hie) mornin'." No Chance to Talk. McFingle Poor Broome! He's gone over to the silent majority. McFangle Why I when did he is he dead? McFingle No married ! Mere Matter of Choice. "If I ever marry, it shall be to a woman of fine Intellect." "Huh! Wouldn't you rather have a wife who thought you a great man?" Highly Probable. Sunday School Teacher What was the song of the three children while they were In the fiery furnace? Tommy Smart I ''spose, mum, it was "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" To-night" Green and Yellow. "Louise, I could hardly sit through the sermon." "Sleepy, Arthur?" "No, but your hat looked so much like a spring salad that It made me hungry." - They STevsr Spteak Voir, Mrs. Naberly "Can yb'a give m'c- a feood recipe fot a spbnre cake?'1' Mrs. Smith ''Nd; but X win give you a recejpt for that pound of toa you borrowed a Hosto agp if you will bring It bafcVV HEARD WHEN YOU SNEEZE. Ejaculations in Many Languages to Ward Off Coming Danger. In many a family, particularly in New England, a sneeze is generally followed fol-lowed by a hearty "God bless us," though little thought is ever paid to the meaning of the phrase or why it Is used. A curious explanation of the origin of the phrase is given. It seems that several centuries ago an epidemic like our present influenza becani3 rife all over Europe, the first symptom of which was violent sneezing. The pope at that time prescriued prayers asainst the epidemic and recommended certain cer-tain short ejaculations, to be made when anyone sneezed in such a way as to show signs of having contracted the malady. Hence all over Europe we have these ejaculations, practically of the same character. Italy: "Dlo vi benedica!" in Germany, "Gott segne dich!" (also "Gesundheit! ') in France, "Dieu vous benisse!" among the Spanish Span-ish speaking people of New Mexico, "Jesus te favorescal!" in Arizona, "Jesus "Je-sus to oyude!" The English, "God bless you," or 'God bless us," corresponds corre-sponds to the Gaelic, 'Dia linn," "God with us!" Sometimes the response, "Agus ITuire!" "and Mary." is added, and in violent attacks, "agus Eoin Baiste," "and John Baptist." In New Mexico they say to children sneezing: "Dios te haga crecer," "God make thee grow!" An equivalent expression is used in Gaelic as a thank phrase, and I have heard people say in Ireland to a child sneezing, "God bless you, child, you're no fairy!" a semi-serious allusion allu-sion to the possibility of children being be-ing changed by fairies, as the old legend leg-end had it. Donahoe's Magazine. LIKE THE PROVERBIAL CAT. How the Professor's Desk Came Back al His Own Expense. The young lawyer has good taste in antiques, and has done much browsing about in search of them. He knows the places in Worcester and the neighboring neigh-boring towns where those who like old furniture and have the money to pay for it may find what will delight their souls. So it was no more than natural when the professor sold his desk.which was of ancient design but of doubtful age, and began looking for something better, that he should consult the young lawyer. The man of law was delightfully sympathetic. "I saw just what you want tne other day," he said, "but I'm afraid it's gone now. I'll keep my eye out for the next few days." "Well, if you see anything really good," said the professor, "buy it and hold it for me. It is not safe to let a bargain go too long. Only let me know as soon as you can, so that I won't be buying one, too. It would be a great favor." "Not at all," said the lawyer. "It's a pleasure to buy a good thing, even if you are not to keep It yourself." In a day or two the professor pro-fessor received a joyful note. The young lawyer's mother had found just what the professor wanted a beauty, one of those rare old bits that they cannot counterfeit, and such a bargain, only $10. The professor was charmed. He immediately sent his check to the young lawyer with an enthusiastic note of thanks and a request to send up the desk. He was In the hall when it arrived. He tore off the sacking and inspected his prize. It was his old desk that he had sold a few days before for $8.50. Worcester Gazette. Like the "Three Tailors of Tooley Street." From the Indianapolis Journal: Ths German newspaper publishers of Mis-sauri Mis-sauri seem to be taking themselves too seriously. The total number of German Ger-man newspapers published In Missouri is thirty-eight, of which six are published pub-lished daily, twenty-five weekly, and the rest semi-weekly or monthly. If every German newspaper publisher in Missouri was present at the St. Louis meeting, which is not at all probable, the total attendance would have numbered num-bered thirty-eight. As a popular demonstration dem-onstration this does not greatly outclass out-class the "three tailors of Tooley street." Nor is there any reason to believe that the mass of the German-Americans German-Americans in Missouri are excited about the alleged misrepresentations concerning the attitude of the German Ger-man government or the relations between be-tween the United States and Germany. There was no occasion for the meeting meet-ing nor for the protestations regarding the loyalty of German-Americans, which no one questions. There are over 1,000 English newspapers published pub-lished in Missouri. If the publishers of these papers should hold a meeting and pass resolutions condemning the thirty-eight Germans for trying to organize or-ganize a class sentiment on national lines there would be a fine state of brotherly love among the newspaper publishers in Missouri. Alcoholism In France. In a weighty paper just prepared for the French Bulletin Mec -al, Dr. Bru-non, Bru-non, an eminent medical writer, declares de-clares that the greatest national peril hanging over France just now Is alcoholism, alco-holism, and more than all, alcoholism among women. Singularly enough his researches have demonstrated that the women of picturesque Normandy are more completely in the grasp of the drink fiend than the women of any other oth-er province of France. Drink is sold by the grocer, the coal dealer even by the green grocer; and what is still more fatal, nearly every shopkeeper dispenses "wee drops" to customers worth cultivating just to steady the connection. The question assumes a dark aspect in its relation to the terrible ter-rible infant mortality In Normandy, which Dr. Brunon attributes to the almost al-most universal prevalence of chronic alcoholism among women of the peasant peas-ant and artisan classes. London Leader. Flight of a Cannon Shot. The longest distance ever covered by a cannon shot is said to be fifteen miles, but that was probably several miles within the possible limit, according accord-ing to Captain E. L. Zalinski, the retired re-tired army officer.who ranks among the highest authorities in the world on munitions of war. On the point of possible pos-sible range Captain Zalinski says: "Under existing conditions and with the guns, powder and projectiles available avail-able I believe It possible to fire a shot a distance of eighteen miles. The distance dis-tance will be greater when a powder is produced that will exert a uniform pressure on the gun throughout the course of the projectile from breech to muzzle." Fully Explained. "Yes, that wa3 Jobson's store. Poor Jobson! Splendid site, wasn't it?" "Yes, and a fine building, too." "One of the finest in town. And there never T9.s a finer man than Jobson. Whole l,,?ttrt nWeral and straight as a string. i t - i To tbinfe of the way he Went ddwni I It'e too ba4. But, of course, you know i he had one ruinous failing?'' "Why no What was It?" "lie Giact aaver-ttte aaver-ttte CSeV"d fiata Debtor i FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. SOME COOD STORIES FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS. A Letter from a Cat Saw Herself in the Mirror A Queer Indian Legend Running from Death, a Strange Story from One of Our Seaport Towns. Letter from a Cat. Dear Editor: I hereby take My pen in paw to say. Can j;ou explain a curious thins I found the other, day? There is another little cat Who sits behind a frame. And looks so very much like me You'd think we were the same. I try to make her play with me, Yet when I mew and call. Though I see her mew in answer. She makes no sound at all. And to the dullest kitten It's plain enough to see That either I am mocking her, Or she is mocking me. It makes no difference what I play. She seems to know the game; For every time I hook around I see her do the same. And yet no matter though I creep On tiptoe lest she hear, Or quickly dash behind the frame, She's sure to disappear! St. Nicholas. An Indian Legend. A curious legend, which we are told that the Indians believe and relate to this day, is about a huge natural spire of weather beaten sandstone, which rises sheer and stark eight hundred feet from base to top. This natural obelisk is in Arizona, in Dead Man's Canyon, and is called "The Spider's Tower." It happened, man;- centuries ago, that one of the peaceful cave dwellers was surprised a d pursued by a hostile tribe, and driven into this canyon. On and on he fled, vainly seeking a hiding hid-ing place ir which to take refuge. The enemy was steadily gaining upon up-on him, and his strength was nearly exhausted, when, coming near to this huge pillar of stone, he descried a silken sil-ken cord hanging from the top of it. With trembling haste he fastened one end of the rope to his belt, that his enemies cculd not reach it, and taking fast hold of it as high as he could reach, he began to climb, hand over hand, resting his feet in the jagged jag-ged rock. Nearer and nearer the hostile band came, but when he had gained tho summit of the rock, their arrows could not reach him, for the protruding edges protected him. Many days they waited for him at the base, but he fed upon dew and eagles' eggs and defied their siege. And when at lest they departed, and he returned to earth by means of the silken cord, he had learned that a spider, seeing his distress, had spun this cord of extra strength, and fastening fasten-ing one end to the rock, had dropped the other that he might be saved. For, like all the brute creation, the spider loved the quiet cave-dweller better than the unmerciful hunters; and it was in gratitude to his preserver that the Indian told his story to his tribe; and you, to this day. may visit the spot and see the "Spider's Tower." A Small Liquefier of Air. At a recent meeting of the French Association for the Advancement of the Sciences M. Dommer announced that Dr. Linde was now engaged on the construction of a small piece of apparatus for the production of liquid air which will weigh less than two and a half pounds and will liquefy the air in eighteen minutes. With respect to the preservation of the liquid air when once made, M. Dommer stated that with the latest form of vacuum vessel of about half a gallon capacity the liquid li-quid will take fifteen days to completely complete-ly evaporate. As the nitrogen of the liquid air boils off more rapidly than the oxygen, the liquid becomes continuously contin-uously richer in the latter gas, and Dr. Borchers has accordingly used the residual resi-dual liquid for obtaining the high temperature tem-perature necessary for producing calcium cal-cium carbide without the aid of electricity. elec-tricity. By soaking cotton wool in this residual liquid a powerful explosive Is produced, which, though it must be prepared on the spot and fired within a limited period, is nevertheless stated to be very cheap, as one pound of explosive ex-plosive can be obtained for an expenditure expen-diture of one and a half to two horsepower horse-power hours. At tbe Simplon Tunnel works, therefore, a plant is being erected capable of producing about one and one-half gallons of liquid air per hour. Engineering. Sly Mr. Coon. Mr. Goodrich, of Potter County, Pa., missed a great many of his chickens, and one night not long ago he hid near his henhouse to catch the thief. He had not waited long when he saw a four-footed coon come stealing along the fence and squeeze in at a small hole near one corner, which he had not noticed before. As soon as the coon was safe inside Mr. Goodrich clapped a big stone over the hole and went Inside to capture the coon, and closed the door after him. Through a window In the henhouse the moonlight moon-light came in so that he could see plainly all over the floor, but he could not find the coon any place, and had almost made up his mind that It had found some other way oilt when he chanced to look up at the roosts, where the chickens were sleeping, and saw two great eyes staring at Lim out of the dimmest corner. The coon had slipped up on the roost among the chickens, thinking that perhaps Mr. Goodrich would not eee him. At first he had his back turned, but he was curious and had to see what was going go-ing on. And that is why he got caught. Running from Death. In one of our seaport towns lives i mother who determined that, what-iver what-iver happened, her son 6hould never se drowned. Her father was a sailor, ind was drowned at sea. She lost aer husband and her brother in the lame way. The horror of the great ieep was upon her. Only those that lave lived by the sea know what this ;error is. To guard her only son from i watery death became a real passion with her. The thought qualified all her plans for his future and kept her in ceaseless watch of his movements. As the boy grew he was not allowed to paddle In botts or to learn to swim, tnd when he was old enough to earn als own living Lis mother sent him to in inland town In the neighborhood of Boston. "When you get started," she said. "I will come and live with you. I Son't ever want to see the water igaln." It was not Ions before the young can found work m a ten ma tor." His irork was satisfactory to aim aud to lis employers, but one fa? the horses WH fright arrtl ran away. Tin heary agon swerved and upset upon a plans tridge, under which a little stream Bowed. The driver was struck, and becoming unconscious was hurled Into the brok. The water barely covered him. He was drowned. There Is an ancient Jewish proverb, "Wheresoever a man is destined to die, thither will his feet carry him." A curious corroboration of this saying related in the Talmud. On one occasion occa-sion King Solomon, attended by his two scribes, met Azrael, the angel of death. Seeing that the angel's countenance coun-tenance was sad, Solomon inquired the reason, and was told that the king's scribes had been demanded at his hands. On this, Solomon transported his two favorites to the land of Luz, where, according to a current legend, no man ever died. The next morning Polomon beheld Azrael again, but this time the angel was laughing. "Why do you laugh?" demanded the king, surprised. "Because," he answered, "O King! You have sent these men to the very place whence I had been ordered to fetch them." To live one's life naturally and righteously, without faithless worry and fret, Is both good sense and good religion. Over-anxiety not unfrequent-ly unfrequent-ly invites the very disasters that imagination im-agination dreads. Youth's Companion. This Cat Works. Near Stockton, Cal., Is a cat by the name of Bildad, whose mistress, Miss Angle Eddes, also owns some almond trees. When these nuts are ripe, and start to fall, Bildad begins work. His mistress sets a large basket out in the almond grove, and goes back to the house. Then Bildad picks up all the plump brown nuts, and carries them to the basket, never stopping till it la full, when the useful cat goes in and pulls at the apron of its mistress to let her know that it should be emptied, so Bildad can fill it again. Bildad also churns. Mr. Eddes has made a treadle to work the churn, and upon this Bildad Bil-dad stands and churns away. The cat can tell by the sound of the milk wen the butter has come, and strikes with his paw on a little bell to let his mistress mis-tress know that he is through. Besides all this Bildad plays and enjoys a romp as much as any other cat. Horses That Count. A Russian doctor has spent a great deal of time finding out how much animals ani-mals can count, and has found that horses can count more numbers than any other animals. He has found that a parrot can count xour, a cat six, crows ten and some few dogs twenty. But he found horses that cculd count more than this. One would plow across a field 20 times, and would then stop and rest, but it never stopped at 19 or 21. Always just 20. Another horse always al-ways counted the miles alone the road by the white mile posts that were set up, and stopped every 25 miles, as it had been taught to do, to be fed. Another An-other one was always fed when the town clock struck 12. When the clock struck 11 it would lift up its head and listen, but when the bell had stopped would again droop its ears. But when the clock struck 12 it always neighed loudly for its dinner. Hear Liked Sugar. In a Vermont maple sugar camp, owned by a Mr. Forsythe, the owner this spring often missed cakes of the-maple the-maple sugar which had been set out in the snow to harden. For a long time the men at the camp watched for the thief, but never caught him, until at last one day they found bear tracks leading away from the camp, and followed fol-lowed them until they came to a cave in the hillside. Mr. Bear wa3 not at home, but in one corner of the cave they found their cakes of maple sugar neatly piled up. Mr. Bear had hidden away nearly 200 pounds of the sweet stuff, and when they went to carry it away they met him coming through the woods, walking straight up on his hind feet like a man and carrying more sugar in his arms. When he saw the men he did not wait to be shot, but dropped his sugar and ran away Like any other thief. Wise Squirrels. In Kansas City there is park which is near a school, and in the trees of thi, park are many squirrels. All day long they frisk and scamper about, with their bushy tails up over their backs, peering around the limbs of the trees with their little, beady eyes, at the grown-up people without a bit of fear. But as soon as they hear the bell for school to let out they scamper for their nests, and by the time the fir3t boy is out of the door there is not a squirrel to be seen. The wise little animals an-imals know that when the bell rings the boys will come out and stone them. More than this, the Equlrrels have learned never to show themselves on Saturday. This speaks will for the smartness of the squirrels, but it speaks badly for the Kansas City boys. Electric Power in Mining. The application of electrically transmitted trans-mitted power to ore-crushing mills, situated at the mines is regarded as working almost a revolution in some mining operations. At the Sheba gold mines in Africa, water power is transmitted trans-mitted by wire for a distance of five miles, and an enormous saving in the cost of milling the ore has thus been effected. In a mountainous country no other means ? conveying power is comparable wl'4 a flexible copper wire, which crossed hills and valleys, and winds one way- or another vitt equal ease. Book-Binding Colors. A bookseller has been telling Literature Litera-ture that the color of the binding Lfcs a great deal to do with the success of a book. Red books sell. The great mass of book buyers, of course excluding exclud-ing the few who really knew something some-thing of books, judge by appearances. Drab and gray and brown books are not inviting to look upon, and they de not sell easily. Green makes a better showing, and books in blue will generally gen-erally find a buyer, but red books have always the best sales. Perhaps, after all, It is not a bad plan when you know nothing of the book you are buying buy-ing to buy it because of its color. Color is always essentially suggestive. Red is bright, warm and good to look upon, and it is well that the binding of books in drab should be discouraged. Relieved of Road Duty. The Blakely fGa,) Reporter eays there Is a man in Early county who has been relieved of road duty for years on a "technicality." 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