Show T t 1 rflNTEMp0Ry THUUFtT r Drink Bill of Notions Some interesting statistics have recently by the Board of cently been published l Great Britain and Ireland Trade of showing the consumption of alcoholic the past year In the during Hauors durng UCUOrs Kingdom France Germany j and Tinned the United States The following th revenues table showS the Government rcvcnues I beverages I alcoholic from nicholc Not rev Propor to from tax toL natl on drink revenue l7S7OIO per cent 3 United Kingdom SHSTOOg 1 per cent German iSJlTVo 18 per cent Gcrman UnlWl States 3o5W 1371iOO Z per cent I the four consumption of wine In The Is given thus countries Total I consump Per hd cnsump gals gala dom JS10SOO JM Kingdom United Jln t1S3153CiCO AQ Franco Ill 81SWOOO 113 1 gffi States 25346000 o 33 Unied table shows the consumption The following lble 7 sumption of beer Total e consutnp Per fid h t cnfump gals roled Iln dom 1 l2SiwO 19100 317 62 Franc n 275 L527SiS000 80 25 l 152 Germany 6m 534210000 133 rolLed States lr00 9 100 consumed is The amount of spirits conmmed J as follows given folows Total consump Per hd l pals gals j 19Cr Ials 112 United Kingdom lD 9 7 580 200 0 FrCC I07i0OD 1I I 1 Germany lC l11O 11 f Sl000OY 1nilL Slts Os SIO 10 are likely to surprise The figures with the unfamiliar who are tiar people remarks the Chicago Inter v J subject While France more than main I Ocean Frrce tains Whie ole reputation as the greatest world SncconsuminK country In the I Is found that the per capita consumpr ils IS I the United Kingdom > j tlon of beer In I j greater by about I per cent than In Gor geater which has scncrally been considered I J many 1 sidered preeminently the beerdrinking country Contrary to thrj popular Germany takes the lead as the I Idea i drinks comments d of strong consumer c on Inter Ocean and notwithstanding the anr J of our people as whiskY I 1 the reputation lmtalon ot of I a less quantity 1 drinkers we consume n quanlt drinker of capita than any I ardent spirits per capla I the others hp Topeka Capital says j of It Is evident that there Is plenty work for the temperance societies of the II 7 j world to do when not only Is the use > of alcoholic drinks excessive nnd intemperate alcoholc most civilized countiles hut temperate It Is steadily pn the Increase In England for example although twelve I years ago as much heel wan consumed per capita as Is now consumed In tho I 1 United States yet In these twelve years j the consumption has Increased nearly 1 i 60 per cent per capita and a good deal tt I more than 50 per cent In total volume I I i A Jolly Dialogue lil By AIntany Hope 1 U i Good afternoon Lady Mlckleham I 1 remarked smiling to myself at my t cleverness Is that all you have to say answered ltl an-swered Dolly gracefully swinging the IU kitten by Its tall Ive got to start the conversation J I somehow I replied quickly casting about for an epigram rt Y sbut you ought to say something YC ul really bright you know Here were il ka1 halfway down the page and havent 0 1 bon mot to our credit Come Make a = pun If you cant do anything else I cant think of one bad enough I responded In dismay absently putting forwnrd the hands of the onyx clock i Then wed better come to business What Is your object in calling so regularly I regu-larly Youve been at It now or a longer time Ihau Jt < care > to Tnen tlon d I NOw3 I guess I must bo going I remarked I and reached for 1J with graceful finesse rc1cleil r i i my hat but Dolly smilingly placed K Ion I-on tho floor and put her foot through It with a touch of firmnesn as I thought I Its no use Mr Carter she went on us Ir Hilary known everything about Then she knows a great deal jnore than you or I or any o our readers I said I greatly relieved to have made a witty remark at last You know she passed us In her automobile I auto-mobile Sunday said Dolly pensively plucking the fur from the klttenn back Mrs Hilary I replied Impressively capturing the kitten Mrs Hilary knows nothing A woman who knows half what she tells will tell all 1Oh you delightful cynifc crlcdDolly admiringly kissing cyrl And well have dear ole Dr Feebly to perform the ceremony wont we kllttn my sudden agitation I dropped then Id the-n down the back of my neck Now youve done to said Dolly pouting Youve lost the only moans chad of filling up tho gaps in the conversation con-versation ter 4 Well have to end tho chap Seeing the force of her observation I rushed to the club and burled myself I absinthe and repartee with the N llnth appreciative I appre-ciative t butler Harvard Lampoon I t Advises Women to Come West I I I am a Yankee of Yankees I was 1 born In Boston as were my parents F and grandparents before mo bull musts must-s that with an excess of 7000 women t 4 In the population of Massachusetts It I Is not surprising that the women do not r receive the attention and courtesy that r is I not only due them but which Is J given them In the more sparsely settled Ecctlons of the country where women i are In the minority What you Jlnd wanting In this world r1 is what you most desire Jn the West ern part of our country the society of J i1 true and noble women Is I far more rare Es than It Is here In Boston and conse I Ci fluently more appreciated Tho women of the West havcf much I wider sphere ot Influence and can aasert themselves and can in the social and Jf Business life mark out for themselves I 4 a career far moro distinguished than t can their Blstorn In the East ogj For this reason I advise with Horace ti Grcclc Go Wost young lady There I 3 fine will have opportunity to develop jt her faculties and show without preju s wihout pleju t lice In a country not overcrowded her trtifb worth In a social And business life it llr8 Mar A Llvennorc ltl Reflections of a Bachelor xdl xcRti Women never believe I man nppre ciates the Importance of his engage ers 1 ment linings he nets restless and rattled restess ciA P < K > plo who wont share one rttei 11 their Joy with anybody will share their r miPcry with anybody that comes along Whether a man Is willing to Whrt a wllnS marry a I marr IfJ 1 widow or not depends mostly on ii1 vhother she Is willing to make him 1 c71 willing I llnl S The advantage the man who lives In I dit the suburbs has over his city friend Is cty S 1 j that he doesnt have his trouble trylrisr I 1 t to nnd his way back to the city late I crci a night clt lb t A woman can have absolute faith In I dm nor husband If I he makes her believe df that he believes that If he should lose M the lock other hair she gave him when o t they foil In love he would lose all his 1 luck tooNew York Press 1i Sunday Opening of Saloons iff In the current Issue or the Outlook are t j published certain opinions on the local i i option phase of the excise question Dr I l McConnell rector of Holy Trinity church of the borough IK among those t1 quoted 10 states flatly among Ii op f posed to the opening of saloons at any P S 51T Hour on Sunday he refuses to accede to d the I proposition that the saloon Is the 3 r poor mans club and In the ultimate 1z1F xjttlcmpnt of the situation he holds L1 i that the State and not the city nor any 1 pubilivlslon of the city should be oon ID jl f idered as the responsible unit The J 1 editor of the Outlook the Rev Dr Lyman Abbott believes that Dr Mc Councils view of the States rights and responsibilities cantalns the kernel Of the argument between the friends and opponents of local I I option With I Dr McConneHs view of the situation Dr Abbott disagrees He willnot admIt ad-mit that tho State Is supreme In a question i ques-tion t of excise which affects the greater J city so directly as does the proposition to open the saloons on Sunday he thinks the people of the city should I alone mi ke the decision and bear the responsibility The State Dr Abbott argues Is heterogeneous the ethical standards of one section are not those of another and It Is absurd to insist I that regulations which arc acceptable enough in temperate rural communities shall be applied to thc liquor traflip in I a big city > Dr Abbott pleads for local option by warda or even by election districts neither as a concession to an I enemy nor as an expedient In the solution solu-tion of a puzzling situation but he urges it because It Is Just and because II supplies the only logical answer to the perennially rejuvenated excise problem Brooklyn Eagle McKinley Stamps The proposition Is now being widely discussed for the issue of a new set of postage stamps which shall bear upon their face a vignette of the late President Presi-dent William McKinley and If any legislative authorization of such an issue Is needed n bill to give the Post masterGeneral the necessary authority I au-thority will probably be Introduced during dur-ing the coming session of CQnress I i is not probable that such a proposition will call forth the slightest opposition from any source f I has boon the rule ever since the establishment of the present postal system sys-tem In the United States that the face of no living man shall appear upon postage stamps and no matter how popular the personage this rule has I never been disregarded Now that Mr McKinley has passed from thIs life heat he-at once becomes eligible to a place upon I the postal Issue of the Government I the face of President Mclvinley shall supersede that of Franklin which I f hns had a place upon the 1cent stamp for exactly fifty years It Is I quite likely l that Franklin would In turn supersede Daniel Webster who has had a place on the 10cent stamp since 1S30 Incase In-case Mr McKinley should appear on the 2ccnt stamp Washington might take Franklins place on the 1cent tke Fmnklns stamp and Franklin succeed Webster Ion I-on the 10cent Chicago Chronicle Eliot on Education President Eliot of Harvard thinks that the school teachers spend altogether I alto-gether too much time trying to teach arithmetic to younWchllt In a recent I re-cent lecture he told of a naughty boy his mother that I who was informed by he must either do as she told him or l leave the room The boy thought for a I moment and then remarked Thats fair I would give more for that Judicial comment for Its effect on the boys later life said President Eliot than for any amount of accurate llgur ing Artificial Manufacture of Sugar I The Cuban producers of cane sugar are sending delegations to Washington 1 to plead for n lower duty They say they cannot make a living without It The canesugar planters In the British West India Islands say their industry I will be ruined unless reciprocity treaties wi with the United States give them admission ad-mission to its markets on better terms 1 manufacturers The American beetsugar ers say that their Industry will be destroyed de-stroyed if I these concessions which Cubans Cu-bans and other canesugar producers ask for are granted Congres has to decide between these olposing partIes both oCwhom It would < like to accommodate accom-modate If It were possible I would be > a shock to these disputants if in a I few years the chemists were to come forward and destroy both their industries Indus-tries but this Is what one scientist of high reputation has predicted There was celebrated the other day at Paris tho Jubilee of Prof Berthclot who stands at tho head of living chemists Hc was the first man to make sugar artificially and he has declared that it will eventually be manufactured In such a way as to make the cult o I ono on-o the sugar cane and beet root unprofitable un-profitable and unnecessary Then what would become of the colossal beetsugar Industry of Europe and the youthful beetsugar Industry of the United States What then woud the Cubans do I to earn a livelihood Not long ago one of the men connected with the Agricultural I I Agricul-tural department advised Americans t I not to be In too much of n hurry to Invest In-vest In rubber plantations In Mexico and Central America because the chemists who were seeking to make tho manufacture of cheap artificial rubber a success might hit on the secret and then these Investments would lose their Value If the Agricultural department was of the opinion that the chemists arc going to make cheap sugar In their labbratorl < s surely it wiuld tell Americans Ameri-cans to be cautious about going Into the beetsugar Industry Chicago Tribune The First Lady in the Land I The wife of the President possesses happily not only the knowledge and experience requisite for the administration administra-tion of the social affairs of the White House but she Is endowed with the physical strength necessary for their proper performance which was lackIng lack-Ing in so many of those who preceded her and her amiability and good will the democratic spirit which the President Presi-dent fosters In all those about him cannot can-not fall to make her regime a notable one Moderation however will mark tho social plans of the President and Mrs Roosevelt this winter fOI the shadow of the late Presidents death Is still upon them and three of their official I cial family Secretary Hay Secretary Gage and Secretary Long are In deep mourning All I that tradition requires all good taste dictates will be done and Mrs Roosevelt has already announced an-nounced that she will revive the custom of holding weekly receptions on Saturday Satur-day afternoons custom so popular It Is difficult to understand why It fell Into In-to disuse which she proposes to begin In December giving three before the holidays sInce the date upon which T nJ 11 nln 1 nn h1 one The more l formal functions I will I not be Inaugurated until after the New Years reception when the usual state dinners the card and public receptions will take place For the first time since GoO Grants admlnlslration when Nellie was the pet of her fathers entourage and society so-ciety as Wjll there will be a young lady In the White House Alice the Presidents b hisfirst wife dents eldest daughter by frt a Miss Lee of Boston wlo died not long after her marriage MIs Roosevelt is an extremely pretty girl bright and gay us all young girls should be with much of the originality and the spirit of determination which compel rnlmlra ton for her distinguished l father Her debut 1R announced the 2nd of January Janu-ary The entertainment to b glvt In her honor Is not yet decided upon but It will Inaugurate a series of festivities that will make the White Ilou ft gayer than It has been any time since Mrs Sartorls rjrcncd n belie there Mrs Charlotte M Conger In Leslies Weekly j ATilipino Washing An American sojourner in the Philippines Philip-pines says In n recent letter to friends at home I want to go home I want some washing done To show you how bad Isend you under separate covera handkerchief nnd collar Just hack from the laundry fake the handkerchief out and bury It and save the collar as a souvenir They dont pretend to get the dirt out of your clothes here They tako them down to the river hard water and partly salt souse them In take them out lay them on boards and with stones bat them full of holes and pound the buttons o I Then they smooth them out with 0 plank Who is tho Owner Who owns thlo house my lord or 1 Ho In whose name the title runs I Or I who hoop It swept and clean t I And open to the winds nnd sun t Ho who Is absent year by year On some far business of Ills own I Or I who tend It root to sill With fond ungrudging flesh and bone I What If 11 proves a fable l 1 ThlH rumorof an absent lord i And T should find myself In truth Owner and master of tho board Of friends no landlord In the world I Could lovo the place so well as II Love IB I the owner of the house Anl t all tho lands of destiny I Bliss Carmen in tho Era Roosevelts Masterpiece President Roosevelts literary char c lerJstics have been declared bv several people to resemble his personal i characteristics charac-teristics directness Inclslv ness frank drelncss ness nnd occasional vehemence being notable among them This may be says I the Detroit Tribune October llth a correct view of the PresIdents past literary work hut how about his future productions while In omce The conditions con-ditions of his new environment will necessarily ne-cessarily exetclse a powerful Influence upon his productions and we are of the opinion that his most prized contributions contribu-tions of the Immediate future while the critics may find that he has lost something some-thing o freedom and originality will be cherished by the recipients of first editions with a passionate fondness which the writings of no other living author can excite These forthcoming masterpieces which are to prove more Important than histories more fascinating fasci-nating than tales of adventure moro effective ef-fective than essays and the makers rather limn the mere recorders of blog raphjv will begin To whom these presents may como Reposing special trust and confidence in 1 hereby appoint etc etc Dont Mind the Germs A physician writing to the London Times says Everything we cat and drink and wear runs the gantlet of 1 germs to an extent which nervous people peo-ple had better not contemplate Far too much fuss Is made of them If we listened to all these scares there would be nothing left to do but get Into a bath I o carbolic acid and stay there until starvation freed us from the dangers of lfeThis This Goat Flagged the Train Tan I Patrick OFIaherty owned a bl goat I which after the manner of Its kind occasionally departed from the straight and narrow path Patrick also had anew a-new iccl shirt for which he had paid 260 legal currency Now Pat awoke on the morning of election day to a realizing sense of the fact that u holiday confronted him Ho sought his new red shirt that he might fittingly celebrate the occasion The shirt however was not where he had left it Nora he demanded of his wife wheres that new shirt of mine You havent any new shirt she replied re-plied But I have Insisted Pat I bought It yesterday and paid two dollar dol-lar bills and a 50ccnt piece for It Nowhere where Is it I know but you havent got It anymore I any-more Nora continued sadly the goat swallowed lo Pat was furious and vowed that he would get even with the goat Hell never swallow a shirt of mine again he remarked with a sinister look which boded no good for poor Billy There Is a railroad track near Pats house and to that track he went forthwith forth-with leading Billy by a stout rope Mr I Billy was then tied firmly between the I rails one horn connected to one side and the olhen to the opposite Pat then waited the arrival of the next train which was due In fifteen minutes The train came flying around the curve Pat looked the other way He waS of a humane disposition and did not want to see the goat killed He turned toward home merely glancing around to assure himself that the execution exe-cution had been properly accomplished Lo and behold There stood the goat ensconced safely between the rails and camly gnawing at the ropes by which ho was bound Billy had coughed up that red shirt and flagged the train New York Times A Donation Peed lUrs St lcsI was at the donation party last evening Mr Altarton 111 Allrlon gave us a splendid collation I was awfully hungry and the things tasted so good that I ate and ate until I was almost ashamed of myself Uncle GeorgeAnd your supper cost you how nluch Mrs StylesFor the lands sake what in the world are you Uijking about Uncle George mean how much did you contribute toward the donation Mrs Styles Oh I gave a fivecent piece I should have given a dime only T script didnt have the change Boston Tran IAn I The Vanderbilt Vanderbit Baby An heir to 60000000 the new Vander hilt baby Is quite an Interesting personage per-sonage In this city lie came on Sunday Sun-day night as a sort of consolation prize to Aided Gwynne Vanderbllt who had failed all the week before to gain a ribbon with his entries In the horseshow horse-show Howover the consolation seems to be highly gratifying to the father who controls the bulk of the Vanderbllt fortune under the system of entailment adopted for the family by the founder ot Us fortunes Commodore Vanderbllt The latest Vanderbllt baby the son of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and his recent re-cent bride who was Miss Elsie French up to January llth of this year is the 1 greatgreatgrandson 0 the old ferryman ferry-man who on his death left the great bulk of his fortune to his oldest son William H Vanderbllt The latter In turn left the greater part of the fortune for-tune VjhIcli had largely Increased under un-der hlsmanagement to his oldest son Cornelius The latter as the result of the bitter quarrel with his oldest son Cornelius because of his marriage to Miss Wilson practically disinherited him and made the second son Alfred G hla heir to what now amounts to 60000000 And It Is with this fortune constantly growing In sight that the new arrival will grow up Through I each successive generation the Vander bit millions have Increased so that the head of each generation could tit his I death leave the heir more than the himself Inherited and at father inherted the same lime leave several millions to each of the other children Both Alfred I G Vanderbilt and his wife are very young he being but 22 and she a year younger They arc now living In his city hqme at Fifth avenue and Fifty sixth street Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Ch I Was Up to Date The Honest Newsboy Suspicious I Customer Has this paper got the I America news of tho latest revolution In South t I Newsboy Ill be honest with you mister Its got all ceptln them whats I broke 9ut In the last fifteen minutes Chicago Tribune I Chlngo A Blow at Christinas Trees I f Those coldblooded beings the Insurance I In-surance underwriters have struck a I blow at the hearthstone They attack I the family the community and the i Nation us a whole Unfeeling as a stone 41 Jam t acidulous ns Scrooge they have I I I I declared against Christmas trees Gr at 1 Scott have we come to this that there LH I Is t be no more sentiment In the world Is Santo Clauo to be abolished Must the young be deprived of the privileges I of seeing the most t wonderful tree In tho world Vyrfivjs tx < xactly that though I there are those who may think so at I first reading I appears that useful I f I and ornamental us Christmas trees I I are In the community and no one can estimate this value In terms capable I of expression It is a cold hard fact I that they are a source of danger and I are liable to get afire and not only burn up but burn houses long with them Wherefore It seems that some companies com-panies have announced that they will I not pay Insurance on any house where the damage results from a lire originated origi-nated by the candles on a Christmas I tree This is hard on sentiment In ono I way but it only means that those who 1 erect the most wonderful trcps in the world must take care of them There In I 1 no body of men In the worldthat can abolish the Christmas tree but It Is quite likely that the rule promulgated 1 will lcndlo more care than has heretofore here-tofore been exercised Philadelphia I I Inquirer I An Unreasonable Club I Why did you resign from your club < asked I Oh they were so absurdly particular I particu-lar she replied I How I Why the chairman wouldnt let me talk Just because some one else was talking as if that made any difference dif-ference Chicago Poet ThoJilnstcr Musician 1clJnstet Jtusicinn Thy melodies arc traced as wreaths of foam That ling their filmy treasures up tho sand In symphonies bY gray old Ocean planned Ncath Heavens twilightclouded I shadowy shad-owy dome When oor tho keys thy subtle fingers roam Within our hearts wo hear at thy command com-mand The surging rollers on tho curving strand Break home In wild longing for their restless Thy harmonies ate heard through wind and storm Their chord roll onward grandly as tho waves That rise and fall with neither rest nor sleep Though l h ar windtocscd spray thy fancies form c Faintly their echoes die In seaswept cavog Whcro far beneath resounds tho mighty deep Alls Dunbar lit the Book WprlcL Kissing by Telephone When the woman at the soda water fountain turned round to pay her bill she saw the fat clerk braced back against the perfumery stand fanning himself limply Did you hear that he asked Hear what 7 said the Avomau What 7 he repeated incredulously I doesnt seem possible that anybody could become so absorbed In a glass of Ice cream soda as to miss that I mla m-la ld ng of the osculatory performance of the woman who just went away from the phone Honestly that custom Is a new one on me Ive been4 working In drugstores drug-stores one place and another a good many years and have heard several millions of women talk through the phone but this hi the first time I ever heard of one of them kiss over the wire Sure didnt you hear it Why the smash sounded like a popgun Ill bet the fellow at the other end of the line caught all right He couldnt miss it even If he was away out In San Francisco Fran-cisco 1 I wonder if this thing of ending a telephone conversation Is something new or Is it an old fad that I am Just catching 6n tb because Im so mortal green Im used to hearing pet names slung over the wire by the dictionary Cul but this is my first kiss figuratively figurative-ly speaking Its funny Longdistance kisses may be old style In other parts o the town but I tell you theyre a novelty nov-elty hCIeNew York Sun A Petty Economy I To a young New York friend says James Grant Wilson In the Christmas Christ-mas Century Thackeray who was usually free and lavish In his expenditures expendi-tures and tips exhlbltel a whimsical Instance oCecbnomy by saying as he returned the visitors card which had been Sent to his rooms on the third floor of the Clarendon fronting on Fourth avenue Better put this In your pocket again It will serve your purpose for another cal By a curious coIncidence almost the identical words Vero used a decade laterby William Cullon Bryant us he lifted 1 la card from his editorial table In the office of the Ecnlu Post and handed JtMmck > to tho same person who had called when n youth on Thackeray at his New York hotel The Venezuelan Version Following Iic a frco translation of the Venezuelan version oC the song Goor sonsG bye Dolly Gray which hns become very popular tlwro since tho Inauguration of tho practice of postponing the revolution during tho min Oh the weather man has said i Fair today And the blood vlll soon run red In the fray I must leave your loving side > And confront the foe with pride Meet what I fate may me bctldc I By the way A1I u e jvuiuis my ouiHriiiL1 I must go and revolute For the weather man assures us H Is Just the day to shoot Adios my Senorita Ah this parting gives me pain If youre not so very busy Kindly pray for rain I I Ah caramba J Is tough Care mine I That the bun should make this bliff At a shine v In a moment Ill be gone 3 To combat some other Don i I But Ive ot my rubbers on > v Caro mine > tr it < Adios my Senorita Hear I the revolution whirl I T must KO and make a crisis r so AdIos my little fclrl Do not weep my Senorlta But be nure with might and main To put up supplications For a good long rain Josh Wink ire Baltimore American Compel Citizens to Vote The Belgians have made an Important Impor-tant discovery They have found out how to accomplish something that no American commonwealth accomplishes They have found out how to compel citizens to vote They do not send the nonvoters to Jail but the coercive means employed Is I so effective that at a recent election out of 1058165 eligible voters only R551 failed to vote without giving previous notice to the courts as required by law and of this number 2G21 when summoned before the magistrates magis-trates were able to present acceptable excuses such as age Illness or unavoidable unavoid-able absence The number punished for not voting at that election was 2930 or exactly 276 out of every thousand How has this wonder been achlfved Jn the case of first offenders the stale is I far from being harsh The magistrates simply admonish the negligent citizen that the habit of staying away from the polls will cause him trouble If persisted in He has b gun to make entries on the wrong side of his account with the state I he falls to vote a second time there will be a penalty Tn that event he hands the magistrate o and If he still continues to refrain from voting as the elections recur his political nights are suspended for ten years Some day we ghall be as efficient as the Belgians are In enforcing the performance of political duty Hartford Times Origin of Nome Org At last the question as t why pape Name Alaska was so named has been solved by Prof George Davidson of the University of California who explain exrJalni that It was merely tho result of a ludicrous ludi-crous blunder In reply to an Inquiry concerning the matter the British Admiralty has Informed In-formed him that while the British frig ale Herald was searching Northwestern North-western waters of North America from ISIS to 1851 for traces of Sir John Franklin a chart was made on which this cape was Included amid r It wag not known by any name It i was desig I tinted In this way Name A copy of I the chart assent to London and the I draughtsman In the Admiralty office Interpreted In-terpreted Nome for Name And I Cape None It remains to this day National I Na-tional Geographical News I I Water in the Northwest 1 I The steady Increase in the use of Irrigation Irri-gation In parts of the West and the l success whichhaa attended Its practice has naturally led I to a close Inspection of large tracts of land which are now I I desert wastes In the hope that they l may also he brought under cultivation i Many thousands of acres of desert land I In the arid sections are remarkably fer I I tie and capable furnishing homes for large populations which may become centers of thriving Industries If only I I water their great need and absoutrt necessity can be procured In view of those facts the Inycstlga ti ins of two parties among lEa the United Staples geological survey which were engaged In studying the water resources the Northwest will be of interest Prof Israel C Russell who has been working on the great lara I covered section of southern Idaho scl Idtho reports I I re-ports the discovery of an artesian basin oyer a hundred miles In length whose I western limit though undetermined lies in the vicinity of Nampa and Caldwell Cald-well nearthe Oregon border The land which can be supplied with water from I this basin lies along the Snake river and In the Bruneau valley a tributary to the Snake on the south Several flowing wells exist In this locality lo-cality already and there are Indications of artesion water also near Shoshone The other party under F II Newell the chief of the division of hydrography of the geological survey made an ex ul tended reconnaissance of northern Ore gon with reference to the water supply of that section Springfield sUPI seclonSprngfeld Republican Here by My Fire Hero by my tire which cracks and Glows rdl 1 sit while fleecy pnowa Arol lying on the tnOW3 cold breast And muse on all that J love best t iorgetful of my wants and woes be Softfooted Sleep a touch bestows And weary eyelids part way close clos And fitfully i wake and rest Hero by my llrb The flames arc full of friends and foes The mute procession comes and goes Led by a form divinely dressed Of her I dream This girlish guest girlsh May share jny scat some timewho knows Hero by my fire Frank Dempster Sherman Quite a Difference Years ago John D Rockefeller was a clerk In poor Cleveland drawing a salary of SIO a month He had an ailment ail-ment which required a simple and I harmless surgical operation lie went to a surgeon of high repute In Cleve land and arranged to pay so much a month The surgeon was willing and it took Rockefeller about a year to pay the bill of 40 without Interest Not so very long ago Mr Rockefeller sent for the same surgeon now an old man and entertained him at his Tarry Forest home The magnate wanted another an-other consultation regarding the old I complaint and chose to send for the surgeon of his youth They talked it I over and then Rockefeller asked for the bill remarking I wont keep you waiting ns I did years ago Things have changed since then Oh I am out o practice I wish no fee Mr Rockefeller That Is all right Dont mention It Rockefeller opened a drawer at his desk disclosing L few pounds of new greenbacks Putting a few bills In an envelope he handed It to tho surgeon saying Well If you do not want to take a fee give this to some poor young doctor of your acquaintance There was 500 in the envelope and after arrival ar-rival home the old surgeon did not think of any young doctor to whom he could give the money and kept it PJltsburg Dispatch Rebuked the Dog The porter at an Arkansas railroad eatlnprhouse began to ring a large gO nS when the train stopped The porter had heard some forcible expres J slons as to the quality of the food from I these who had eaten on previous occasions occa-sions He kept on ringing and as you know a gong is worse than n church bell to set adoS howling and this gong was working with telling effect on a lean lank hound standing on the platform plat-form The porter stopped lon enough tosay What you howling for dawg you dont have to eat here Current Anecdotes Longevity of the Pope The longevity of Leo XHI Is wonderful wonder-ful Thirteen years ago Signor B de Cesare wrote a little book on The Coming Com-ing Conclave and it has not yet mot to elect t successor During that time of the five papablll liable to be elected Pope three have died and the two others are no longer likely to be elected In an article In the North American Review arlcle view for November the same writer mentions four present papablll Cardinals Cardi-nals Gotti Vannutelll Svampa and Sarto and already we have the news that Cardinal Svampa the youngest and most hopeful of the four Is on his deathbed Only three cardinals survive appointed by Leos predecessor He Is now 01 years old and bids fair to livelong live-long enough It requires but a year more to have reigned longer than all his predecessors except Pius IX Urban VIII survived ever cardinal appointed before his election and In honor of this event he struck 1 medal with the Inscription In-scription In Latin Ye have not r chosen me but I have chosen you National Park Kcsoirations I The most noteworthy natural feature of a 1 the region east of the Mississippi when the English colonies were planted in America were the forests of broad leaved trees which stretched from New England to Georgia I a senpe of na llonal responsibility as to the public domain had como to Congress at its first session the choicest areas of that forest region would have been reserved as national possessions In whl hthc primeval woods might be Keen in all their splendor by the people of the United States forever But that sense to which we owe the great national parks of the West did not come to Congress until all the land cast of the hundredth meridian had passed out of the hands of the Government and the question arises whether there Is anyway any-way In which w c can secure a Government Govern-ment reservation Intc East on which coming generations may see with their own eyes the very aspect which virgin America presented to the view of her earliest European visitors In an article In the December nUI bar of the North American Review Prof N S Shalor of Harvard advocates the purchase by the Federal Government of a large area In the great Southern upland In tho State of North Carolina to serve asa rtl a great Eastern national park That such an enterprise would meet with popular approval Prof Shaler Is sure If any one questlona whether the establishment es-tablishment of the proposed reservation in the South would meet with the approval ap-proval of the people he may have bin doubts removed by observing the resort of the folk of the Rocky mountains to those which have been established In the far West particularly to the National Na-tional park of Wyoming All through the summer he may see camping parties or the countryfolk on the way to these pleasure grounds They often journey for hundreds of miles to have their outIng out-Ing on what they Justly feel to be their I I own property Living In their wagons I and tents In the care of an admirable corps of guards they rejoice In their I I domain theirs and their successors forever Such truly Imperial gifts have I greatly enriched n part of this country Ir will be well before the remnants of primeval nature have vanished that I the other parts of our realm should have like share In them |