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Show THE INDEPENDENT. William I. Gibson, - - Editor. E. H. Jordan, Business Manager. 1 Entered at the Port Offlos at Bpring-rUU, Utah, for transmission through Uta malls as seeond-elass matter. Issued Every Thursday Morning. TERMS OF aCBSCBIPTIOW. One Year 2-00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months .60 ASK. FOK ADVERTISING BATES. IS A MUSTACHE PROPERTY A Man . 'it- fur )aiit;tl for the LoM or One. "Is a. mustache property?" said 4. s;uest in the St. Charles lobby the other evening. "If so. what is its value? Those points will be raised in a very peculnjr suit which is coming up at the uxt term of court in a town over in Georgia. I'd rather not mention any names, but I happen to be familiar with the facts, and they are briefly these: Almost a month ago a well-known well-known traveling man was staying at I he leading hotel of the place and went to the cigar wrand one day to get a light. They had a new-fangled concern con-cern that spouted out a jet of flar.ie when the lighter was lifted, but on this particular occasion it hung fire. The drummer was trying to make it work when all of a sudden it blazed out like a volcano and licked off his long, beautiful beau-tiful blonde mustache. He was furi ous, of course, because the mustache had been his chief ornament and pride but the affair might still have passed off without trouble if he hadn't been fo unmercifully guyed. The upshot of this was that lie demanded damages the landlord laughed at him. and he instructed a lawyer to bring suit for T2,r,oo. The papers will be filed in the next term of court. I am told they make some interesting allegations. It will be claimed, for instance, that the mustache wf.s of direct assistance to its owner in earning a livelihood, insomuch as it gave him a distinguished distin-guished appearance, and thus facilitated facili-tated his interviews with the trade. Its loss, he holds, was a disfigurement which has occasioned ridicule, falling off in prestige, and consequent shrinkage shrink-age in business. He will also allege that his r.itered appearance caused great mental anguish to himself and wife, and that that species of suffering suffer-ing may be reduced, under the law, to dollars and cents. Incidentally he will try to prove t h u t the absence of a mustache mus-tache affected his eyesight. So. as you may observe, a good many interesting and delicate questions will be raised, and I dare say the case will attract wide attention. I have the particulars I mention from the victim himself. What sort of defen-e will be set up remains re-mains to be seen." New Orleans Times-Democrat. WALES' ODD TASTE IN HATS. ne like Them of Crern Pelt with Feathers or Wolfs Teeth. Those who are knowing in such things have been heard to say of late that the prince of Wales is not the absolute arbiter that once he was in matters pertaining to men's fashions, but that he is still recognized as master mas-ter where hats are concerned. If this be so. Englishmen are in for a change of headgear, for the prince of Wales has been buying hats, the color, shape and decorations of which are all new. According to the Daily News the prince has a kind of passion for buying hats and giving them to his friends. He bought nine in Germany, and they are of new pattern, and some of them of a new color. The color is green and the material soft felt, and stuck in the back as if tne wearer, in hi9 hurry, had put his hat on wrong is a little tuft of capercailzie feathers. Most of them are capercailzie, but there is latitude lati-tude for choice. The head of a woodcock wood-cock as a sort of center for its own fine feathers, two teeth of a wolf with a tuft of wolfs bristle teeth and bristles bris-tles of a dog will do if the rarer articles arti-cles are not obtainable the curled tail feathers of a black cock; these are the chief varieties of ornament up to this. '1 he Daily News, indeed, accuses the prince of being mere plagiarist of the composer Offenbach, who 35 years ago, after a tour in the Tyrol, returned to Paris with the full equipment of a Tyrolese sportsman, and appeared on the boulevards wearing the green hat with its curl of feathers. The fashion caught on. It spread from Paris to London. Honolulu lietle I Without Guile. People rave for hours over the languishing lan-guishing Spanish girls, but like the native song I sing, "Give me the Honolulu Hono-lulu belle," whose graceful form, though nearly concealed 'neath the flowing gowns, can be faintly discerned through the clinging folds, and whose thoughts and passions can be read in the shy glances from their telltale eyes. They are rather dark, well developed, even at an early age. with even features fea-tures and large, expressive eyes, coal-black coal-black hair, intensely white teeth and walk leisurely, for this is a tropical climate. One can not help admiring these pleasant, soft-speaking women. The beautiful flower wreaths worn as hat decorations also tend, apart from their natural attractiveness, to set off the languishing beauty of these natives. na-tives. A language that contains but twelve letters in its alphabet, one wrd meaning several things, tends to innocence inno-cence of mind and habits. The scandals scan-dals and intrigues, without which the Spanish would perish, are unknown to the Honolulu belle, and in her straightforward straight-forward and candid glance you can note the elevation of her mind and the purity of her thoughts. They love madly, too, as many tales bear out. "But that I know not of!" Cincinnati Enquirer. KIm Cost a Life. New York Correspondence St. Louis Republic: swr since they were mar-ried-rs! schillir- had placed the utmost ut-most faith in her husband's love, and ter grief was so intense when she saw him kiss another woman this morning that. Schilling killed himself. The Schillings were not well-to-do, but they were happy. Tho-nas acted as janitor In the house where they lived, 405 East Eighth street. He was 29 years old. It was only a lark, Schilling explained, ex-plained, when his wife saw hira kisr the daughter of one of the tenants. But Mrs. Schilling was broken-hearted. She wept and was hysterical. She said she would leave the house at once and never return. "I'll kill myself!" Schilling Schil-ling cried, remorsefully, and ran out of the house. Straight to the East river Schilling ran and plunged into the water and drowned. Ieflmxl. Bobby Pop, what is domestic economy? econ-omy? Papa It is the fine art of reducing re-ducing the grocer's bills and smoking 10-cent cigars at the samo time, my fon, New York World. .Jflg eqers ByBlowingUp the Kruger Could Cut "Blow up the gold mines? Why, it's the simplest thing in the world." Ths engineer officer one of the best-known best-known men in that corps of the army, who has made explosivee a special study scratched a match and lighted his pipe, writes a Washington correspondent corre-spondent under date of Oct. 1. "It's as easy as that," he said, throwing throw-ing away the match. "Of course, you know, it isn't necessary for the Boers, If they carry out their threat, to interfere in-terfere with the excavations. All they have to do is to attack the machinery, and It will only be requisite for them to blow up the pumping works. A few hundred pounds of dynamite will do the business." "The pumping works, then, are the vulnerable point?" queried your correspondent. cor-respondent. "Decidedly so. Once the pumping machinery is ruined, the mines are destroyed. de-stroyed. The shafts will fill up with water, and to empty them after that has happened is practically out of the question. It would cost less to dig new shafts. "The wonderful gold-bearing deposits depos-its of the Rand in the Transvaal form a single reef about thirty miles In length a narrow strip only a few feet wide, but running down into the earth slantwise, for miles, apparently. On the very edge of this reef is situated the city of Johannesburg, and along it are scattered more than sixty mines, owned by different companies, representing repre-senting British capital chiefly. The peril to these 'outlander' investments, which run up into hundreds of millions mil-lions of dollars, is very great just now. In view of the menace offered by the Boers. "Necessarily, gigantic sums of money have been sunk in the digging of these great holes. Think for yourself what a loss would be occasioned if they should all be permitted to fill up with water a disaster which, as I have said, would be to all intents and purposes pur-poses irremediable. The gold deposits would remain intact, of course, but, after the war is finished, all the work of getting at them would have to be done over again. It ehould be remembered, remem-bered, incidentally, that British investments invest-ments in the mines of the Rand do not represent the aggregated millions of capitalists merely, but the small savings of tens of thousands of English Eng-lish people, who have put their little all into shares of stock, hitherto regarded re-garded as admirable security. Widespread Wide-spread ruin, involving the widow and the orphan, as well a$ the rich shareholders, share-holders, would follow the destruction of the properties. "Naturally, the choicest locations for the mines are directly upon the outcropping out-cropping edge of the great reef. Other properties are located at short distances dis-tances from the reef's edge, but in the direction of its slant, so that the vertical ver-tical pits may strike the ore body further fur-ther along, after passing through barren bar-ren strata. The reef goes down at a tilt, you see, like one side of the pent roof of a house. Some of the holes thus excavated in pursuit of yellow wealth are among the deepest ever dug In the crust of this good old planet, and one of them, the Victoria, has penetrated pen-etrated over half a mile into the bowels bow-els of the earth. "The mines of the Witwatersrand, to give the district its full title, employ today somewhat more than 60,000 laborers, la-borers, I understand, all of whom would be thrown out of employment for an indefinite period by the destruction of the works. Enormous sums of money have been expended in the purchase and installation of costly machinery, which includes about 6,000 stamps for crushing the ore, or 'banket,' as it is called. Banket is the Dutch word for nutcake, and the ore is thus termed because of its resemblance to that favorite fa-vorite product of tbe Boer housewife's kitchen. Geologists call it a 'conglomerate,' 'conglom-erate,' which signifies that it is a hardened hard-ened mixture of sand and pebbles. They say that the reef was once a sea beach, millions of years ago, and the sand of the beach contained minute specks of gold, brought down from the land by streams. Today, solidified into rock, it still holds the precious metal, though the ore is of such low grade that all the deposits of the Rand would not be worth a cent if it were not for the cyaaide process, which makes it possible to extract the yellow stuff at a cost of only $6 per ton of 'conglomerate' 'conglom-erate' handled. But the available sup- THE EARL CENTRAL GOLD ply of banket is unlimited; it is of an even richness throughout, no matter from what part of the reef It is taken, and every ton may be counted on to give up $14 worth of gold. About 10,-000,000 10,-000,000 tons were crushed in 1898. "There is mucii gold in various parts of the Transvaal, but it has never possessed pos-sessed any interest for the Boers. On the contrary, they were inclined to regard re-gard the finding of it as a misfortune, and not without reason, as subsequent events have demonstrated. Inclined to a peaceful agricultural existence, they established their little republic In the Transvaal because they thought that nobody else wanted the country, and so they would be let alone. When, in 1864, the first discovery of the yerlow metal was made, they viewed the matter with alarm, expecting that it would attract at-tract greedy uiUander, and the? lost no time In publishing a decree forbidding forbid-ding prospecting and declaring that heavy punishment would be inflicted upon any one, be he Boer or stranger, who violated the ordinance. "The decree was revoked later, hew-ever, hew-ever, and great excitement was caused by the Hading of a number of large nuggets, some weighing as much as fourteen pounds, in the bed of a river. A good deal of gold was obtained In dd fcpots, but Jt was not until 1890 AND THE GOLD MINES Pumping Works Off theSupply that tbe reef of the Witwatersrand was discovered. Since that date about $500 pOO.OOO has been taken out of this woD-ierful ore body, and it is eaid hat $4,000,000,000 more is In sight. It is expected that the production for 1899 will not fall short of 4,280,000 ounces, worth $100,000,000 almost equaling the entire world's yield of the precious metal ($118,850,000) for 1890. It is obvious ob-vious that, in case of war between England and the Transvaal, the most important source of the world's supply sup-ply of gold will be cut off for a time. and, if the Boers destroy the mines, for an indefinite period. "Another project which the Boers are eald to have in mind is the blowing up of the principal buildings in Pretoria Pre-toria and Johannesburg . in case the British troops enter those prosperous towns. It is hard to see what military mili-tary purpose could be served by such a measure, but, of course, there would be no difficulty in carrying it out. The buildings could be mined In advance, and destroyed, all of them in the same second of time, by touching a button connected with a system of wires. "We are discussing wholly novel NATIVES AT WORK IN A QUARTZ AT JOHANNESBURG. uses of explosives for war purposes, and in this connection it is appropriate appropri-ate to speak of the fact that one of the items of information said to have been communicated in the famous 'bordereau' 'bor-dereau' had reference to the points at which preparations had been made by the French authorities for blowing up French railways in case of an invasion by the Germans, in order that the latter lat-ter might not be able to make use of those lines of travel. Systematic precautions pre-cautions of this kind are rather new in military engineering, but they may be desirable where countries preserving an armed peace are such close neighbors. neigh-bors. Railroads, however, may be ruined at a fairly rapid rate without establishing 'emplacements' for mines in advance. To destroy a rail requires from ten to twelve ounces of dynamite or guncotton, and two or three miles of track per hour may be effectually wiped out by a detail of eight men. Bridges, necessarily, are the most vulnerable vul-nerable points in a line of railway communication, com-munication, and it is a simple matter to render them impassable by the use of a few pounds of a high explosive. It is something of an art to know just where to put the dynamite, and army engineers are especially instructed in it. "The question of destroying a bridge is often a delicate one in military oper-erations. oper-erations. You remember, perhaps, the story told about the famous Gen. Blu-cher, Blu-cher, when he had it In mind to blow up the magnificent structure spanning the river at Jena. A dinner organized by the duke of Wellington dissuaded him from this project. 'I must and will blow It up,' growled old Vorwarts over bis bisque soup. 'I shall have to blow it up,' he said as he finished his ragout. But when he got" to his coffee cof-fee and his third glass of champagne, he convulsively seized the duke's hand and cried, 'Mein Gott! Never was such a dinner before. I will not blow up the bridge of Jena.' " Rene Bache. Widow of the Czarowitch. The late czarowitch of Russia left a widow and family. His imperial highness high-ness was morganatically married to a MINE HOUSE, JOHANNESBURG. beautiful young girl, who before her marriage with him was in poor circumstances cir-cumstances and earned her living as a telegraphist, but who was descended from a princely family of the line of the last king of Grusien. The widow has three sons, and it is expected that the czar will make her a suitable allowance, al-lowance, but nothing is yet known. The marriage of the late czarowitch was an open secret in Russia and it took place with the consent of the late emperor, Alexander III., who is reported re-ported to have said that it was wrong to deny a dying man any wish he might have. He lived in great happiness happi-ness with his beautiful young wife, who was devoted to him, and who is reported to be overwhelmed with grief a. his death. London News. Traerle Seqeels to a Weeding. Baltimore Special New York Tribune: Trib-une: A bride's death by asphyxiation two days after marriage, and the accidental acci-dental death of her husband on a steamship at sea, two days later, are the tragic sequels of a wedding on Aug. 14. Adolph Pohlmann, an electrician on the North German Lloyd steamer Wlllehad, was married to a young woman of this city. The second morning morn-ing after Ms marriage Pohlmann rosa early, bade his bride farewell and Joined his steamer, which sailed thai day for Bremen. The wife, after h started, returned to bed. That was the iast seen of her alive. She was found dead, suffocated by gas. It is supposed that in turning off the gas after her husband's departure the sleeve of her night dress touched several bits of bric-a-brac hanging on the gas fixtures, fix-tures, treving them over the stopcock and opening it again. Two days later, according to letters received today, her husband fell down a hatchway of the steamer in a heavy storm and was kilted. He was burled at sea. MUST MARRY Before They Can Attend the Universities with the Men In Rualav If a girl in Russia wishes to study at any of the universities In that country etiquette does not allow her to do so until she is married, so she goes through the civil ceremony of marriage with a man student, whom very probably she has never seei before, be-fore, and this marriage is quite legal, though perhaps they may never speak to each other again. On the other hand, if they like each other, and wish it, they are married for life; if they don't the marriage is dissolved when their university course is finished, and they are free to marry some one else. The celebrated mathematician, Sonya Kovalevskl, whose autobiography at- traded considerable notice a few years ago, went through the marriage ceremony cere-mony with a student whom she then saw for the first time, and who afterward after-ward became her husband. The education edu-cation of women in Russia stands better bet-ter than in most European countries, owing to the persistent efforts of the Russian women themselves. By 1886 they had managed to get four university univers-ity colleges for women, with 1,412 students; stu-dents; one medical academy, with 500 students, and numerous intermediate schools. There are 700 women doctors in Russia, of whom nearly one-half are employed in the civil service, chiefly by the Zemstvos. SEWING BUTTONS ON. Some Instructions in the Oentle Art Printed for Bachelors Only. Bachelors will find here some good instructions for sewing on that missing button: The requisites for successfully success-fully doing this are, firstly, a large amount of patience; secondly, a tough cuticle, and, lastly, but by no means least, a good early religious training. train-ing. Having these, get your needle threaded; the best way to do this is to get some one else to thread it. Now thrust it through the cloth; by holding hold-ing your thumb on the other side you will easily know when you have succeeded. suc-ceeded. The needle is then pulled through by the teeth; but this is liable to splinter them, or, worse still, to break the needle, in which case you will have to begin anew. Some prefer fastening the needle in a vise and then pulling the cloth. The above is the ordinary method. We prefer the following, fol-lowing, which renders one independent of the needle: Get a corkscrew and jab its point through the cloth, push the cotton through the hole and then through the button; repeat a few times. Should you have sewn the button but-ton on out of place the right way is to make another buttonhole with a knife. If you happen to cut through the edge of the cloth, try again. We think these simple instructions will enable you to sew on a button that will hold for at least a week. Trusted His Doc Too Far. It is not always safe to put too muck trust in a dog. An Ellsworth mai had a highly prized dog, and when s neighbor presented a bill for two hens which he claimed had been killed by the brute, the dog owner was grieved and positively refused to believe the charge or pay for the hens. A few days later the Ellsworth man was driving driv-ing by the farm where the hens had been killed. The dog was with him in the carriage. He drove into the farmer's farm-er's yard to prove to him that his dog was not guilty. "Let out your hens," he said, "and I'll call the dog out ol the carriage to prove that he will not kill hens." It was done. Before the dog could be stopped he had killed four. The owner of the dog, who never dishonors a just bill, pulled out his wallet and settled for six hens. Bangor Ban-gor (Me.) Commercial. Queer British War Tessels. The most singular vessel in the world is the Polyphemus of the British Brit-ish navy. It is simply a long steel tube, deeply buried in the water, "the deck rising opJy rar feet above the csa. It carries no masts or sails and is used as a ram and torpedo-boat. Originated with Indiana. It has been asserted that our brown bread was Invented at Boston about 150 years ago, but the writer conjectures conjec-tures that it originated at Plymouth soon after the Pilgrims landed, and that baked beans were early adopted by them from the Indians. Her Mistake. She And to think you have forgotten forgot-ten that this is our anniversary day. Why, you must be mistaken. We were married on the 20th. She Oh, I beg pardon! I was thinking of my first marriage. Detroit Free Press. Worst Eye Strain. Scientists declare that black letters on a white background form the worst possible strain on the eyes. Divorce, fostered by inequality, Is the greatest curse in this country today. to-day. Rev. 9, J. Burke. FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS. Little Miss Pry tart and Stop RHt-lesa RHt-lesa Animals, Why They Are Always Walking- About in Their Cages Good Imitation. The Children. Do you love me, little children? O. sweet blossoms that are curled (Life's tender morning glories) 'Round the casement of the world! Do your hearts climb up toward me. As my own heart bends to you. In the beauty of your dawning And the brightness of your dew? When the fragrance of your faces And the rhythm of your feet. And the Incense of your voices Transform the sullen street; Do you see my soul move softly Forever where you move, With an eye of benediction And a guardian hand of love? O, my darling! I am with you. In your trouble, in your play. In your sobbing, in your surging, In your dark, and in your day; In the chambers where you nestle. In the hovels where you He, In the sunlight where you blossom. And the darkness where you die. Not a blessing broods above you. But it lifts me from the ground; Not a thistle-bark doth sting you, But I suffer with the wound; And a chord within me trembles To your brightest touch or tone, And I famish when you hunger. And I shiver when you moan. Can you tell me. little children. Why it is I love you so? Why I'm weary with the burthens Of my sad and dreary woe? Do the myrtle and the aloes Spring blithely from one tree? Yet I love you, O my darlings Have you any flowers for me? I have trodden all the spaces Of my solemn years alone. And have never felt the cooing Of a babe's breath near by own. But with more than father passion. And with more than mother pain, I have loved you, little children. Do you love me back again? Richard Realf. Little Miss Pry. Pussykin was a little girl with very round blue eyes, a quantity of frizzly yellow hair, a freckled fate and an inquiring in-quiring nose. Her real name was Lucia, Lu-cia, but that did not seem to fit her so well as any one of the half-dozen and more that she was called. There were Pussykin, Trot, Flaxie, Flossie, Little Miss "Why," The Interrogation Mark, and several others. If you happened to be near her for ten minutes you would understand very well how she came by the last-mentioned ones, although, al-though, indeed, you would only need to see her to know that she was always al-ways asking questions. "What makes the grass grow?" "What makes it green?" "How do the flowers open?" "Why ain't they green, too?" "Where does the wind come from?" "Where does it go to?" It kept folks at their wit's end to answer her. Now, of course, a desire for useful information is all right, but Lucia asked a great many unnecessary questions, and she did not stop there, by any means. Her inquisitiveness went a great deal farther, far-ther, and earned for her another name Little Miss Pry. Those round eyes, helped by her busy fingers, went prying pry-ing about into cupboards, chests and boxes her tongue tasted, her nose smelled.her small ears listened to what was not intended for them. Lucia's friends tried to break her of these disagreeable habits, and she had some unpleasant experiences, also, as, for instance, when she took a good big sniff at a bottle which contained strong ammonia; when she tasted of what looked like delicious candy and found it was a -piece of soap; when she was examining a funny looking box, and her fingers were caught in a mousetrap; mouse-trap; when she listened under the kitchen window while Jane was entertaining enter-taining a caller, and heard herself called a naughty, mischievous girl, who deserved a spanking if ever a child did. No, these things were not pleasant, certainly, cer-tainly, but they did not break her of her prying ways. Finally, however, she had an experience which taught her a severe lesson, and helped her to see herself as others saw her. Still, I do not say that it was just right for her brother George to do as he did. George had the present of a kodak on his fifteenth birthday, and after considerable con-siderable practice, he became very expert ex-pert in the art of taking "snap shots," although if he had not been careful to keep the camera out of reach of Lucia's busy little fingers, I fear its usefulness would soon have ended. He took a number of pictures of her, however, which pleased her immensely, and under un-der each he wrote Trotsie, Pussykin, or whichever name seemed to best suit that particular photograph. One morning, morn-ing, just as George was leaving home to be gone a week, he gave Lucia a little lit-tle book, when they were alone for a moment. "This is just between you and me, Pussykin," he said. "I haven't let anybody else see it, and you needn't unless you want to." Then he hurried away. Lucie ope ned her book, and on the first page was a little girl, herself without a doubt, standing by the kitchen table, holding a small box to her nose. Lucia's face grew red, but as she turned the leaf it grew redder still, for here she was on a high chair in the pantry, lifting the cover from a dish on an upper shelf. She wanted to throw the book right in the fire, but her curiosity would not let her do that, so she slowly turned another leaf, and saw herself with her ear close to the keyhole of the parlor door. On the next page she was cautiously tasting tast-ing the contents of a bottle, and on the next her head was inside a cupboard door. That was all. Trotsie looked at the pictures over once more, and then, running out to the kitchen, she threw the hateful book in the stove. Then she went up stairs to her own pretty little room and cried awhile, half angry, an-gry, half ashamed. But she was very glad that George was away, and that he had not showed the pictures to any one else ;so her tears were soon dried, and she was the same Jolly little girl again, although not quite the same meddlesome little girl. When George came home,-he brought Pussykin such a pretty new doll, and was so kind and fall of fun, that she could not feel hard toward him for the lesson he had given her. And when any one speaks, in George's hearing, of the great improvement improve-ment in the little girl's ways, and wonders won-ders what has caused it. he looks wise and says nothing. C. P. Srart-and-Stop. Did you ever hear of any little boy named Start-And-Stop? I think he must have been first cousin to that little boy who always said, "In a minute." min-ute." This boy would start well enough when called or told to do a thing, but he was sure to stop again until some one would say, "Hurry up!" Then he would go on until he stopped, and must be started afresh. So everybody has got to calling him "Start-And-Stop." Of course he doesn't like it at all. He wewrta much rather be called his own name, which is a very pretty cne, but I'd rather not tell it to you until he gets over this bad habit, and he will cure it, I know, if he once realizes real-izes what a very disagreeable habit it Is. The other day his mamma went to visit his school, and almost the first Trords his teacher said to her weri: "Can you tell me how to make your little boy hurry up? He Is a very good nice-mannered little boy, and he learns easily and does his work very nicely, only he doesn't go on with it. He stops every little while, and if I don't speak to him, he won't get done in time. I thought perhaps you have found some way to deal with this fault of his." It is really the only one I find in him." "I know,", sighed the mamma, "and I hoped you might find a cure for It We have tried everything we can think of at home, to no purpose." The other morning his uncle saw him sitting over his clothes all in a huddle, dreaming of something, instead of putting them on. "I'll give you a dime," he said, "if you are dressed in fifteen minutes." The time was just up when he presented himself, not only all dressed, but wash ed, combed and teeth and shoes brushed. "Now, that shows," his uncle un-cle said, as he handed him the money, "that you can do things in the proper length of time. Don't you think you ought to do it every time, to please your good, kind papa and mamma?" Start-And-Stop said he knew he should, and he would try, and I do hope he will succeed, and will never give any occasion to be called by that name again. But if any of our readers know a cure. for this bad fault I hope they will send it to be published in the , for the benefit of all tho Starts-And-Stops in the country. The Parson-Bird. One of the most curious forms of honey-eaters is the tui, or parsos bird, of New Zealand, so called from the two tufts of white feathers which hang beneath its chin in great contrast to its dark, silky plumage, and suggests a likeness to the bands worn by ministers min-isters of several religious denominations denomina-tions when officiating. "This bird," according to Mr. Buller ("Birds of New Zealand"), while uttering its wild notes, indulges in much gesticulation, which adds to the suggested resemblance. resem-blance. It has great power of mimicry and is a favorite cage bird both with the natives and colonists. On one occasion," oc-casion," says this gentleman, he had addressed a large meeting of Maories on a matter of considerable political importance, when "immediately on the conclusion of my speech, and before the old chief to whom my argu ments were chiefly addressed had time to reply, a tui (parson bird), whose netted cage hung to a rafter overhead responded in a clear, emphatic way, 'Tito!' (false). The circumstance naturally nat-urally caueed much merriment among my audience, and quite upset the gravity grav-ity of the venerable old chief, Nepia Taratoa. 'Friend,' said he, laughing, 'your arguments are very good, but my mokai is a very wise bird, and he is not yet convinced.' " Cheap Camera. A camera can be made by any fairly deft amateur with the following materials: mate-rials: A cigar box, piece of tin an inch square, 12 small nails, some glue and a narrow strip of tin an inch long. Make of one side of the cigar box a little box two and a half inches square, with one end left open. Blacken the inside with Ink. Cut a hole one fourth of an inch across in the end of the box opposite the open side. Bevel the outside out-side edges of this hole. Drill a hole the size of a pin point in the center of an inch square piece of tin and glue it inside in-side the box over the hole in the wood. Tbe hole in the tin makes a lens. Make a plate holder by gluing into the four corners of the box four thin pieces of wood, each two inches long, the end of each resting on the end of the box where the lens has been placed. Make the lid to the camera of two thicknesses thick-nesses of cigar box wood, blacken it on the inside, and on the center of the inner side fasten a strip of tin an Inch long, very narrow and bent in a semicircle, semi-circle, with the center fastened to the lid. This tin strip, when the lid is put on, will hold the plate in place. The camera is made for dry plate measuring measur-ing 2 by 2 inches. Lawless Sparrows. Sparrows seem to be governed by about the impulses that cause a hungry hun-gry boy to tiptoe into the pantry and "coon" a fistful of cookies; that is, they think a thing is right because they want to do it. It is no uncommon thing to see a busy little cock sparrow hop between a horse's hind feet and then dart up and seize a hair of the horse's tail. Unless interrupted the sparrow will pull that hair until he gets it Then he will fly away to his nest in triumph. An English writer describes a similar experience with a London sparrow. He says: "I have received a small story from St. James' park which is interesting as a confirmation confir-mation of the conclusions of science. My informant was feeding with bread crumbs a wood pigeon at his feet. One of the bird's feathers, an under tail-cover, tail-cover, which was ruffled and out of place, caught the eye of a sparrow. Ths sparrow flew down, seized it in its beak and pulled its best. The feather did not yield at once and the pigeon walked walk-ed off with offended dignity. The sparrow spar-row followed, still holding on, and in the end flew off triumphant with th trophy to its nest." Restless Animals. When you see the animals in the park menageries pacing back and forth restlessly in their cages do not take it for granted that the creatures are unhappy un-happy or even discontented. It may be that the lion or the tiger or the polar bear that moves about with apparently apparent-ly ceasless activity is only taking his daily exercise, without which he would pine and die soon. When the wild creatures are in their native jungles they are kept pretty busy hunting food. Thus each day they walk many miles, perhaps. In their narrow cages in the parks they are plentifully supplied with food, but their brawny bodies still demand a great amount of exercise. exer-cise. Mile after mile is paced off daily by the uneasy creatures. 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