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Show XShe INDEPENDENT PRINQVILLE. UTAH 4 Once more the odor of moth balls announces the approach of -winter. A monument to Adam is proposed, to be built by chips of the old block. Even If David B. Hill had kissed a girl hs is too much cf a gentlaraan to own up. The Boer irreconcllables seem to be mainly the patriots who were tiot la the fighting. Waat f lot of trouble Bartholin could i-ave saved if he had done it a rew weeks earlier. Mrs. Roosevelt refused to entertain the Grand Dt:ke Boris. Perhaps she needed her sippers. Sir Wilfrid Laurier declined a peer age. What an enigma he must be to William Waldorf Astor. A land trust is being organized in Ireland, probably for the better pro tection of the old sod. Emperor William has 200 trunks out on the field. The horrors of mimic warfare are just awful. John S. Sargent, the portrait paint er, is coming over here in October. Make your dates for sittings now. King Alfonso is right, however, about American girls being the smartest and handsomest in the world. Russia and Turkey are now having a dispute. It's up to the sultan to make another neat little batch of promises. How many times did the girls say "Speak for yourself, John!" at the reunion of John Alden's descendants at Duxbury? When a doctor sues a dentist the long-suffering public, though it come not by its own, can afford to chuckle in Its sleeve. Emperor William's great naval vie tory over the J aitian gunboat entitles him to admission to the ranks of the heroic sea dogs. Fourteen Indiana people have been upset by eating cookies, yet the western papers criticise the cheerful pie of Yankeeland. Grand Duke Boris drank wine from the slipper of a Chicago Cinderella. It is safe to say he did not empty the bucket at a draught. The indications are that the army and navy will have to go out in the alley after all to settle which really won in the sham fight. Prices for all the necessaries of life are going up. From Peoria cornea the news that whisky has been advanced ad-vanced a cent a gallon. Then, too, Bartholin may have been moved by the laudable desire to save the people of Illinois the trouble and expense of a murder triaL The deer hunters in the Adlron-dacks Adlron-dacks are engaged in their annual practice of shooting men by mistake. Moral: Don't hunt deer in the Adir-ondacks. Adir-ondacks. King Alfonso's announcement that he will marry a millionairess instead of a princess leads to the belief that the young man is not much of a lunatic lun-atic after all. A leading financial writer estimates Senator Clark's nest egg at $25,000,-000. $25,000,-000. Mr. Clark is one of the men who will receive circulars this winter about hard coal. There are more than 4,000 million aires in this country, but only a few of them succeed in getting their names in the papers with any degree de-gree of regularity. Congressman Galusha A. Grow, who has just celebrated his eightieth birthday birth-day aniversary, has declined a renonv ination. Probably he wants to get into some regular business while he Is in his prime. Before a wedding could proceed down in Kentucky the groom had to throw two brothers of the bride out of the church window. Here is one woman at least who may be sure- of a protecting hand. A Philadelphia man who has been courting a woman for twenty-one years has finally won her by whistling "Darling, I Am Growing Old." A girl in another town would have de. manded that he grow young. It must be admitted, however, that the people who Insist on returning to Martinique deserve fully as much sympathy as the man who cOmes to grief hunting for the North Pole. King Alfonso says he is going to marry the girl he wants. That's right; speak up, Alfey, and if she says no hit her a good slap on the wrist. Holmes says "wisdom is the abstract ab-stract of the past, but beauty is a promise of the future." In other words, beauty is a promissory note. The esteemed Washington Post has an editorial entitled "Another Blow at the Mosquito." It has been our experience ex-perience that one good swat accurately accurate-ly delivered is sufficient. Another deer has been shot in the Adirondacks. This one's name was Herbert Short of Cleveland. The open season is coming on famously. A New York man has gone to Paris to purchase the "finest individual collection col-lection of jades in the world?" Is it necessary to go so far? While Dr. Andrews is recommending recommend-ing something for the morning after, he should not neglect "the clink of the ice in the pitcher as the boy comes down the hall." A movement has been started to depopularize the high-ball. The first error of the movers is to announce that It is not a healthy drink. A rooster in New Jersey crowed defiantly de-fiantly after beipg run over by a trolley trol-ley car. His time may come. He has not faced an automobile yet. . MODERN HOME AT MODERATE COST The modern home of moderate cost is one of the most difficult problems prob-lems that confront the architect of to-day, since he must produce for a modest expenditure a design which will embody the numberless comforts and conveniences heretofore only dreamed of, by the rich. This result can only be achieved by long study and through a natural genius in construction con-struction and design. Part of an architect's business is to make housekeeping easy and economical. Beauty is also important import-ant Nothing attracts more than an artistic house. It costs no more money than an ugly one. But you must know how. It is the thought that is put into the construction that saves the money. It is the knowledge of design that enables the architect to form a simple, yet refined detail. A cozy ingle-nook, a dainty oriel window win-dow render a home doubly attractive, and should you wish to dispose of your property, a practical and attractive attrac-tive design will frequently double its value. A few new features worked in this dainty little home makes it stand out iteili.HjiNijil' ill I? 5fi LTD i fcI lK NE "Ml tfl. lFr II LEE U V i HMi IFIMH'V H r n .. ? - Vim mil" in if yyiji'vwspwiippi quite prominent when compared with the ordinary five-room cottage. Note the beautiful bays and divans such a cosy place for the large, easy pillows, pil-lows, and Just the place to show them off to advantage. The large open stairway gives a roomy effect that you cannot get in any other way. In the ceiling Of the first story the joists are pine, dressed and varnished, on which is nailed a double floor, the under layer forming the ceiling. The rooms are not so large, it is true, but large enough to be easily furnished in artistic effects without expensive outlay. Large rooms naif furnished look bad. Why not consider quality instead of quantity even in building a home? Cost $900, built first class In every respect. HE WAS NOT IMPRESSED. Old Indian Chief Turned Up His Nose at Gorgeous Trappings. One of the civilians at the state house has a good one on the members mem-bers of the gilded staff which he is telling with great glee, says the Cape Ann (Mass.) News. ' Down in Old Town a few years ago, says the man who tells the story, they were entertaining the governor and his gold-encrusted staff. The Indians were enjoying the Btaff as much as the staff were en-Joying en-Joying the Indians. One old chief of a lost tribe had been wratching the gilding from a distance. Finally he came up to one of the aids, who was standing a bit apart from the rest. He looked the colonel over. He studied him attentively from the front and rear and sides. "Belong to the army?" he asked. "No," said the colonel. The Indian paused and studied the effect anew. "Navy?" "No." Another long contemplation of the gold lace. "Milesh?" queried the Indian. There was withering contempt in the "No" of the answer. The Indian went away back and sat down. He had run his limit, but still he wanted to know what all the trim mings stood for. Once more he loped up to the colonel, and catching hold of hi3 aiguillette, put the question squarely. "What do you belong to, heh?" "The governor's staff," replied the aid, adding a little strain to the double row of brass buttons that chased themselves down to his gold lace belt. "Oh, h 1," said Lo, andjae walked away with his head in the air. LONDON HAS A PROPHET. Rev. M. Baxter Predicts the Second Coming of Christ in 1929. . There appears in the most expen sive column of London's newspapers of the biggest circulation one of the most curious advertisements ever published. It consists of a long prophecy, occupying two and a half columns, and describing a series of momentous events which are to occur between 1906 and 1929, and which Will culminate in the second coming of Christ and the beginning of the millenium. The prophet describes himself as Rev. M. Baxter of London, and his .creed is another of those elaborate deductions from figures and signs in the Book of Daniel and Revelation. WISE PROVISION OF NATURE. English Physician Explains Falling Off in Appetite. Sir Henry Thompson deprecates in creased eating as a means of keeping np the strength of those who are ad vancing in years, and particularly ob jects to the repeated and general use of concentrated forms of animal nourishment nour-ishment for the aged. Overnourish-ment Overnourish-ment in old age Is apt to lead to pains and aches due to the impairment of excretion and a long protracted course of overfeeding will end in an attack of gout. Even artificial teeth are not to be considered an unmixed blessing, for by a provision of nature the teeth begin to decay and become useless just when the system begins to thrive without much animal food , ol coarse fiber. Indigestion, says Sir Henry Thompson, is mostly not a disease but an admonition. "It is the language of the stomach, and is mostly an unknown un-known tongue to those who are ad- dressad." It means that the individual has not yet found his proper diet. "There is no food whatever which in Meson In itself; that food only la He declares that what was formerly Caesar's empire will be divided, between be-tween 1906 and 1917, into ten kingdoms, king-doms, including France, extending to the Rhine, taking in Great Britain without Ireland, and India, Spain, Austria, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Egypt and the Balkans. These ten kingdoms king-doms will form a Latin confederacy, which will be leagued against Germany Ger-many and Russia. The prophet says that a lot of terrible things will happen hap-pen in the ensuing ten years. Poor America does not figure in the awful chronicle, presumably because phe finds no place in Biblical history. WHERE BALLOONS ARE MADE Immense Numbers of Them Turned - Out On a New York Farm. "You would be inclined to think you were dreaming," says a writer in Pearson's, Pear-son's, Mr. McGovern, "were you to walk through the farm of Carl E. Myers, My-ers, nine miles from the city of Utica, state of ' New York. Here can be seen, on constant view, in summer time, a large variety of aerial craft airships that actually fly, just as they do in the story books, doing 6trange things that you had supposed could never happen in reality. "Besides the array of new kinds ri air craft, it is a fact little known that every American-made hydrogen balloon bal-loon in use in the United States whether by the government or by private pri-vate individuals is a product of this one farm. "Most striking among the things to be seen at the balloon farm is a flying fly-ing machine that really flies; not merely a working model of an airship that 'flies' a few feet along a track on the ground, but a fully completed flying fly-ing machine that soars into the actual ac-tual skies as high as any bird a ma chine that ascends, that turns and dives as readily as an eagle does. "Many other curious aerial vessels have been turned out from the Myers balloon farm, and some greater wonders won-ders are in course of construction. It is not only his own inventions that Mr. Myers constructs on his balloon farm. He makes all sorts of aerial contrivances! scientific kites, freak balloons, air vessels for other inventors. in-ventors. "The greatest number of the balloon farm products, however, are big hydrogen hy-drogen balloons." WAR LOSSES, OLD AND NEW. Perfection of Modern Weapons Has Had No Marked Result. Mr. Maurice Low's highly interesting interest-ing analysis of the cost of the Boer war and other wars, recently printed in the Tribune Review, and an article in the London Chronicle elaborating other phases of the same topic, suggest sug-gest to some the conclusion that modern mod-ern weapons and methods of battle have greatly lessened the number of casualties. That is a welcome conclusion, con-clusion, and it may be in a measure justified. But it is probably not as fully justified as some suppose. One writer says that "the perfection of modern weapons leads to an extraordinary extraor-dinary reduction of casualties." But his own statistics In the London Chronicle scarcely bear out his enthusiastic enthu-siastic belief. Beginning with Marengo, he gives statistics of the number of combatants and the number of casualties in twenty-two important battles, in eleven wars, down to the present time. At Marengo the casualties were 21.7 per cent of the whole number of combatants; combat-ants; at Austerlitz, 13.5; at Jena, 17; at Eylau, that "bloodiest picture in the book of time," 34.3; at Borodino, 32; at "that world's earthquake, Waterloo," Water-loo," 24.7; at Inkerman, 18.3; at Gettysburg, Get-tysburg, 26.5; at Sadowa, 6; at Grave- wholesome which is so to the individual." indi-vidual." Made a Good Guess. She was an amateur artist, and, like most of her kind, considered herself her-self several laps in advance of the average amateur. She was eager, however, to know how her work would impress one of the masters who had managed to grasp fickle Fame by the back of the neck. ' One day a real painter called at her home, and she immediately conceived con-ceived the idea of testir.g him. She would show him a specimen of her handiwork, but would reveal nothing that might lead him to suspect her as being the creator thereof. So the fair amateur proceeded to guide the real painter toward her masterpiece. master-piece. "Of what school would you call this palntng?" she asked, expectantly. "Of the boarding school," promptly replied the real painter. Spare Moments. Mo-ments. Time makes all things even except ic a poker game. loot. , -. 11. , lotte, 9; at the third battle of Plevna, where the Turks moved the Russians down like grain, 19.5; at Santiago, 12; at Colenso, 5.5; at Paardeberg, S, and at Spion Kop, 19.2. In the last three only the British combatants and casualties are reckoned, the number of the Boers not being known. Now these figures do show a small er percentage of casualties in the later than in the earlier wars. But the change is not uniform and is not always al-ways marked. Gettysburg was more destructive than Waterloo and nearly twice as costi as Austerlitz. Inker-man Inker-man was worse than Jena. Plevna surpassed in destructiveness most of the Napoleonic battles. Our fight at Santiago fell little short of Austerlitz. In the Boer war the British losses at Colenso and Paardeburg were light, but at Spion Kop they were heavier than those at Austerlitz, at Jena, at Inkerman, at Sadowa, and at Grave-lotte, Grave-lotte, and fell just short of equaling those at Plevna. Moreover, as the writer quoted himself says, the Boer losses In these battles were probably much heavier than the British, and so, if they were taken into account. the proportion of casualties in this latest ' war would fall little short of that in the 'wars of old. Much has doubtless been gained for humanity. But not yet is war waged with rose-water. rose-water. Enjoys Joke on Himself. Peter Lynch is a New York man who is philosopher enough to extract some fun out of a joke at his own expense. ex-pense. He suspects some one of having hav-ing inserted an advertisement in the papers putting him on the matrimonial market. Mr. Lynch is handsome, passing pass-ing rich, debonair and 35. He is also a member of the exclusive Montclalr Bachelor Club. He said: "There were 140 young women who wanted to marry mar-ry me up to 6 o'clock last night. This morning I received twenty more v proposals, pro-posals, all of them coming from women wom-en scattered through New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. I belong to a bachelor club and would be subject to a heavy fine were I even to make the least semblance of a goo-goo goo-goo at any member of the fair sex. Of course some of the boys think they; are having a great joke on me, and have engaged other girl friends to push the game along, but I am a good healthy subject for them to practice on, and I guess I am having as much fun out of it as they are." . A Useful Barometer. According to a French meteorologist a cup of hot coffee is an Infallible barometer. "Put a lump of sugar in the cup," he says, "and then watch the air bubbles bub-bles which are formed on the surface. If they form themselves into a group In the center the weather will be fine. If they adhere to the cup, forming a circle, It is a token of rain or snow, according to the season of the year. Finally, if they separate from each other and occupy no fixed position, it is safe to predict that the weather will be changeable." A Fairy Tale. And," said the good fairy, "for your noble deeds I will grant you any wish you may desire." "I will choose," said the lucky person, per-son, "a ton of coal." Hereupon there arose great consternation conster-nation in the ranks of the fairies, which terminated in a proposition to arbitrate the matter in order, if possible, pos-sible, to compromise on a ton of diamonds. dia-monds. These long summer days are just like the short winter days in one respect re-spect a fellow likes to turn over for. another snooze In the morning. WON HIS DYING BET. Made by Bookmaker, It Increased His Estate by the Sum of $900. The funeral of "Butch" Thompson, the veteran bookmaker, was held at New York, and his partner, Leo Swatts, was collecting the last bt he ever made. Many prominent men, including in-cluding two United States senators, three Judges and the majority of the racing men. attended the funeral. The bet collected by Swatts was made the day Thompson died. It was on Herbert, the winer of a handicap. han-dicap. Thompson, who had been m the habit of sending small commissions commis-sions to the track from the hopsital where he was a patient, picked out Herbert as the winner of the race, when he knew he had but a few hours to live. He directed that $1,000 b6 placed on the horse at odds of 10 to 9. Herbert won easily, and Thompson Thomp-son made' $900. He died without knowing that his horse had won. Thompson left an estate cf $300,-000, $300,-000, mottly in personal property. It will go o his relatls-os Denmark- EQVESTRIAN STATVE OF GENERAL SLOCVM ERECTED AT GETTYSBVRG The part which the state and city of New York took in the battle of Gettysburg was celebrated on the battlefield bat-tlefield with peculiarly impressive services Friday of last week. The ceremony had for its climax the unveiling un-veiling there of an equestrian statue of Gen. Henry Warner Slocum, which stands where he stood on that memorable, memor-able, Friday, July 3, thirty-nine years ago. The people of the little borough of Gettysburg have become used to statues, monuments, reunions and excursions ex-cursions ever since Abraham Lincoln, on November 19, 1863, before the grass had had time to grow over the blood of the battle, dedicated a great national cemetery there, with its massive mas-sive central monument and its three and a half thousand graves. Every FOREST FIRES DO For many miles along the Wyoming-Colorado Wyoming-Colorado line north of Pearl, Colo., a furious forest fire is raging, devastating devastat-ing everything in its path. Every effort ef-fort to subdue the flames has been exhausted ex-hausted without effect. According to the latest reports there are at least eighteen serious forest fires burning in Wyoming, to say nothing noth-ing of numerous smaller fires in southern south-ern Albany county that are destroying great swamps of fine pine timber in the Medicine range and threatening mining buildings. One hundred miles away from Cheyenne the smoke from these fires obscures the sky here and the odor of burning wood is plainly noticeable. The fires in southern Carbon county BURNING Shaded Spots Show Where Replanting Grass. The replanting of grass on the wasted cattle ranges in Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho and the Dakotas is to be attempted at-tempted by the railways penetrating those states. The first problem to be solved is the finding of a grass plant suitable for stock purposes. Nearly 4,000 acres will be fenced in and divided into thirty lots for experiments experi-ments in planting. These . western cattle ranges have been ruined by sheep. It is expected once the feasibility feasi-bility of replanting is proved the federal and state governments will lend their aid to the movement. ft ncivw - IB. fcv Ballooning Across the Baltio. A remarkable feat in aerial navigation navi-gation has just been accomplished, under the auspices of the Swedish Aero club, by Capt. Luge, a Swdish officer, in a balloon of his oww invention. in-vention. Ascending from Stockholm, the balloon completely crossed the Baltic, and after a voyage of 387 miles came to earth, in Russia at Novgorod. The journey occupied fourteen hours. Coach Dogs Out of Style. The old black and white spotted Dalmatian dogs, better known as "coach dogs," that were so numerous and popular throughout the United States from 1869 to 1882, inclusive, appear to have become extinct In this country, having, like the Newfoundland, Newfound-land, which has shared the same fate, gone out of style. Remarkable Freak Chicken. A chicken hatched in Guelph street, Wandsworth, London, recently, and which died soon afterward, had two beaks, three eyes, five claws on the left foot and four on the right, and three sets of brains, summer some historic society or association as-sociation of veterans assembles there or some state erects a new monument to its dead. Hundreds of excursionists excursion-ists go thither to roam over the historic his-toric hills and ridges, and hear again the story of Pickett's charge. The statue of Gen. Slocum takes first rank among the monuments of this historic battleground. It is an equestrian figure of bronze on a granite gran-ite pedestal. Bronze and pedestal, the monument measures 31 feet from base to tip. The statue itself is 15 feet 6 Inches high and 10 feet 6 Inches long. On the western plate of the statue are the words which Gen. Slocum uttered ut-tered at the council of war held on July 2, the night preceding the final day of battle. They are: "Stay and Fight it out." MUCH DAMAGE are burning fiercely. A government agent with a large force of men is on the ground, but is reported to be making mak-ing little progress. Five or more fires are burning in Fremont county, and more than 300 square miles of magnificent timber land is already in ashes. In Central Uinta county a fire is burning, and in the Jackson Hole country two big blazes are eating the timber in the game country. Farther east in the Shoshone Reservation a fire has been burning for weeks. In Natrona county a good-sized fire has been destroying timber for the last ten days. One big fire threatens the timber of the Big Horn mountains.. DISTRICTS. Forest Fires Are Raging. The Omnipresent Mosquito. From the equator on either hand to the Arctic and from the Antarctic the anophele is irrepressible. In the tropic jungle, as among the icebergs, the mosquito is equally pestiferous. In remote Alaska, as in Manhattan the venomous insect makes life a burden to man and beast alike. Cold that stiffens the mercury in the tube does not put an end to this plague, and the poisonous creatures revel In the extremest heats of Central Brazil or Middle Africa. For what purpose could they have been created? And why were they kept alive in Noah's ark? German Newspapers. There are about 8,000 newspapers in Germany and twenty-five in Berlin, although only five of them would be considered newspapers in this country. coun-try. There are 140 socialist papers, of which fifty-two are dailies. The rest represent' the various other political parties, which are numerous in Germany more numerous perhaps than in any other country. The tendency ten-dency of the German mind to form its own conclusions and the German disposition dis-position to act according to Individual convictions are not conducive to political organization. It is a familiar remark that at times there are almost as many parties in the empire as there are voters. Trust Work to Max Lenz. Prof. Max Lenz has been officially asked to write a history of the first 100 years of the University of Berlin for the impending celebration of the centenary. Monopoly in Frankincense. Genuine frankincense is .produced only in Arabia and a part of East Africa. Wins Rosebery s Love Lady Naylor-Leyland Said of English (Special Correspondence.) f lUMORS have reached New-I New-I I port that Lady Naylor-Ly-L j land, the richest and mt beautiful widow In England, probably ere long will become the wife of Lord Rosebery, ad that a visit from the leader of the opposition in Parliament, and ote of the richest of Great Britain's noblemen, noble-men, is among the possibilities of tfce coming season. Lord Rosebery has been here several sev-eral times, and there was no expectation expecta-tion that he would repeat the experience ex-perience until it was known that the beautiful widow of Naylor-Leylaud was to visit the country of her birth for the first time since she left It is Jennie Chamberlain, of Cleveland. So potent were her charms that she took London by storm. In a fw months after her arrival half the court beauties of England were green with envy. King Edward, who was then the Prince of Wales, made ao effort to conceal his admiration of her. It was His Royal Highness who made the match between her and Kir Hubert Naylor-Leyland, an immens&ly wealthy man and one of his closest friends. She who had been Jennie Chamberlain Chamber-lain then found herself mistress at one of the half dozen most sumptuous residences in London a veritable palace at Hyde Park Gate, with marble staircases and a gallery of p-celess paintings. This happened while Consuelo Vm-c-bilt was. yet in pinafores. The lat- Lcrd P.cc-cry. ter was before long to become the wife of a Duke, but she had millions, while Jennie Chamberlain had little besides her beauty. The Prince of Wales attended the first ball given by the new mistress of the Hyde Park Gate house, and stood sponsor for her first son. The Recond son had for sponsors both the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of York. Dukes, Duchesses, Earls and C5untesses were familiar figures in her drawing rooms always. Her titled husband was a tall and handsome captain in the Life Guards. In the beginning of their married life people predicted that the beautiful American would help him in his career. ca-reer. When he ran for Parliament for Colchester that prediction received re-ceived its first verification. She aided him in his canvass, showing herself everywhere. Voters found it impossible impos-sible to resist her beauty and her most engaging personality. The prediction held good when, three years later, Naylor-Leyland retired re-tired from Parliament and announced his conversion to radicalism and free trade. Soon afterward he was created a baronet. The fortunate husband of this American Amer-ican girl continued to advance in a career in which she figured so potently po-tently until his sudden death in Mar, 1899. He left her a fortune of several millions. The report now current that she will marry Lord Rosebery brings into Mentmore Towers. prospect the most interesting nuptials nup-tials outside of the royal blood. Such a marriage will unite two persons who fill the world's eye in their respective re-spective personal accounts, and bring together two great fortunes for on the death of his wife, who was Miss Rothschild, Rosebery inherited several sev-eral large estates, besides a fine bank account. Lord Rosebery with all the space he fills in the public eye is by nature and by habit a good deal of a recluse. re-cluse. He is one of the most omnivorous omni-vorous of readers, and for that reason rea-son is never really alone. So habituated habitu-ated has be become in his solitary communing with books that often -e rushes from London to the country in ord'er to be alone there; and, vice versa, very often he spends Sunday alone in London because that happens to be the day when most of his own class are out of town and when, therefore, there-fore, he can be certain to remain undisturbed. un-disturbed. There is scarcely, a being more restless in Europe; or one who so flits about from place to place. He has a beautiful house in Naples. . He is to-day at the bath in Hastings; tomorrow to-morrow at the bull fight in Barcelona; St k to Have Captured Heart Statesman. the next day one hears of him In Vienna or in Paris. He keeps up ev-e;al ev-e;al palatial houses at Dalmeny, in Scotland; at Mentmore, in Bucks; at tho Durdans, on Epsom Downs, and at his house in Berkeley Square. And it Is hard to tell when he is to be found is one or the other. The one thing cer- Lady Naylor-Leyland. tain is that he will never stop very long in any of them. Head of a popular party, he nevertheless never-theless has given up none of the manners man-ners and customs of tne great aristocrat, aris-tocrat, if one go to any of his dwellings, dwell-ings, there are all the outward mark and tokens of the great noble; indeed,, it is almost like a plunge into the eighteenth century to visit some of his residences with the cornet everywhere, every-where, the retinue of retainers, the ample and varied equipages. You may see him in the Summer time traveling trav-eling from one great house in Buckinghamshire Buck-inghamshire to another with postil-lioi'S, postil-lioi'S, quite as if he lived in the days before the railway; and, in short, be is irrand seigneur to his finger tips. Soon if the news that Newport hears with so much interest is authentic Lord Rosebery will have another house to flee to when his own bore or fail to inspire him the palace at Hyde Park Gate, with its staircases of Carrara marble and its paintings by Murillo, its tapestries by Kopu, its panels of Delia Robbia faience, and its mistress, who is the subject of Amelia Kussner's very exquisite miniature in ivory. Paderewski's "Inspiration." Paderewski, when told by Her Royal Highness, Princess Victoria, perhaps the most accomplished musician musi-cian of all the members of our royal family, that he was "surely inspired," answered : "Your Royal Highness will, I Uare say, be surprised when I tell you that I remember the day when I was quite an indifferent player. I was determined, deter-mined, however, to be what the world calls a genius, and to be a genius I well knew that I must first be a drudge, for genius and drudgery always al-ways go hand in hand. Genius" and Paderwiski spoke exacitedly "is three-quarters drudgery that's what genius is. I at one time practised day after day, year after year, till I became almost insensible to sound became a machine, as it were. Now 'Paderewski is a genius,' says the world! Yes, but Paderewski was a drudge before he was a genius!" The Little Busy Bee. When one thinks that any bee that walks out of its cradle, j?ale, perhaps, but perfect, knows at once all that is to be known of the life and duties of a bee, complicated as they are. and comprising the knowledge of an architect, archi-tect, a wax-modeler, a nurse, a lady's maid, a housekeeper, a tourist agency and a field marshal, and then compares com-pares that vast knowledge with the human baby, who is looked upon as a genius if it gurgles "goo-goo" and tries to gouge its mother's eyes out with its finger, one realizes that the boasted superoiority of the human brain depends largely on human vanity. van-ity. London World. Work of European Anarchists. Bands of anarchists have, for some time past, been worrying the harbor authorities of Brest, France, by attempts at-tempts to torpedo warships, sink torpedoes tor-pedoes in navigable waters, shoot sentinels and threaten the ammunition magazines. The French war office has accordingly given orders to patrol pa-trol the harbor day and night. Some months ago- the Austrian harbor of Pola was terrorized by anarchists in the same way. Much damage was done to war material and several soldiers sol-diers were killed and wounded. Confusing to the Court. At a trial before an Irish justice, the plaintiff's attorney had made an eloquent and logical argument. When the counsel for the defendant took the floor a dialogue ensued which is thus recorded in "Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar:" "What are you doing?" asked the justice, as the defendant's counsel began his argument "Going to present our side of the case." "I don't want to hear both sides," replied the justice. "It has a tindincy to coufuse the coort." Death Result of Incorrect Diagnosis. ' Dr. Jean Jacques, a well-known specialist spe-cialist of diseases, attached to the University Uni-versity of Paris, diagnosed his own ailment ail-ment as indigestion when it should have been cancer of the stomach, And died. First Japanese Woman's Statue. Japan's first statue in memory of a woman was unveiled recently at Shtjo-Nawate, near Kioto. Robbed Himself While Asleep. Adolph Reinarch, of Vienna, was caught robbing his safe while asleep, concealing the money under a carpet |