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Show X EVENT8 'The Literary Weather Bnrcau 1 ! 1 1 i stands strictly tip to date, It was founded by our I'nele Sam, who always fays the freight, iTh barometer of humor is a thing we greatly net d, lift n precious boon feed.nnets who are atrlctly off their John Burroughs Is the Naturalist who sings ot birds and tiees. Ills lives up in tbo Catskills, a shaggy hermit at his case Our country's changing temperature from dewy morn till night The Literary Weather lluieau Is the freshest mow in sight Keeping solid with the masses would dilve Jim In a trance The dear, delicious public likes Its literature from Frame. There's a cold wave fimn Alaska on Joaquin Miller's trail, From the Klondike comes "Jack London with his snowy, brutal tale. Stout. Ironqulir from Kansas brings a cyelone In his n In. Laura Jeun l.lbluv Hr Ills our factory girls with fine romantic Edwin At ink turn sings of idborpain, and the sturdy tollers' woe From "Bubbly Creek" comes Dooley with Ids tales of long ago What an avalanche of melody from the far Sierra rings, Fro n the fabled tnve of Echo, when Joaquin Miller sines Jt never rains In hie 'ling Kansas till the bards bombard toe And then they get a showersky.of frogs that Imp about and de The Nestors of our literature all hall from Boton town Theyre n chilly buneh of fossils of lenown. The Chinese Mandarins of letters with an until chorus strong. They grab their tinkling hammers and heat out a rousing song. 1 1 With Roosevelts staunch Rough Rld-ei- s in "The Winning of the West," The J resident has staked his claim and tamed the hronehos ciest, Owen Winter sings the cowboys of Wyoming long ago, The Win Cloud in the Balkans makes Harding Davis glow. From Tiuhhly Creek" comes Dooley with Ids keen Kilkenny laugh. down in lexas with CoL Davy Crockett Bowie on In staff. a id halls from India with a Kipling Rudy slrocio In his train. of the Himalayas" sweeps "The Hotspur on In fierce disdain. Wee MeOregors mushy dialect demands a ka'l yard key. And Swinburne slugs In sonorous strains the splendor of the seal: Some splendid sparkling star gleams on the swarthy brow of night. It twinkles on tne horizon with clear resplendent light. Ernest McOaffey Is a singer both gifted true and strong, With the saving sense of humor and a tender manly song, Wlggs ( abtn Batch In Louisville where rosebuds often grow, The fair Laureate of our Lake Shore Drive In Harriet Monroe. From Butte City In Montana comes the madcap Miss Mcl.ane, had a streak of genius In that throbbing, girlish brain. Chummle Fadden of the Bowery portrays the New York gang George Arte still thrills the rabble with Ills homespun. Bosev slang. OIJ H.ilsted's famous Whiskey Belt Is tapering to its end, The bunch have got rel'glous and their wavs they f In would mend. trust Is gone to The Indiana reels smash, they've struck for higher pa v. The I llernry Weather Bureau's In ths big combine to stay. James E. Klnsella, Chicago. The first edition of Burns poems was quickly exhausted, thanks to the Influence of his friends, and they advised a second edition, to be published in Edinburgh. Accordingly, Burns went to the capital, arriving there the 28th of November, 17811. Edinburgh' As Burns afterwards wrote: BUMS FAMED BOBBY LIFE OF SCOTIA'S GREAT POET. IN Dark Times in His Career the Result of Unfortunate Environments Was Once on the Point of Leaving His Native Land Forever. "Edina' Scotias dainng seat' All hail thy palaces und towers! Ills arrival in Edinburgh appears to have been an historical event, miKdi more so than he or Ills friends at the time si For some time after his arrival, Burns sent most of his time aimlessly wandering about tho city, the sights new to his eyes and brain and mind. He soon got to work, however. Influential friends soon found for him a publisher. Still other friends wroto for him favorable criticisms, and the poems themselves had already prepared the way for the young man, who was regarded at this time as a phenomenon, and he was asked hith- - (Special Correspondence.) The poet of Scotian J, Robert Burns, was born two iu.Ijs t outfit of Ayr. in the neighborhood of Allow ay kirk and the old bridge of Doon, on the 23th of January, 1759. The cottage waa a clay one and had been constructed by his father. William Burnea, the father, who spelled his name with the extra e, waa an admirable type of Scottish yeoman, and much superior to the peoplo with whom he dwelt in dally contact, for peasant he never was. Thus the poet. ,f j l 1 ' f f back over the Ice and attacked them. This Is probably the only battle In which cavalry was used directly against ships. Several other combats were fought between troops on the ico in these wars, and on one occasion tho Infantry is said to have worn skates. The battle cf Austerlltz was partly fought on a frozen lake, and when the allies were retreating across It the shot from the French artillery, plunging into tho Ice and breaking it up, caused the death of thousands of Rus sians and Austrians. Of the many underground battles which have taken place in history, the fiercest was probably that of the siege of Haarlem in the Dutch wars. The Spaniards mined and the Dutch countermined with equal Industry and below the ground a fierce conflict raged. When the Versailles troops took Paris after tho Commune they chased some of the Communist troops to the great sewers of the French capital, where some desperate struggles took place. Abuse of the System j There is no portion of the human system which la not benefited by exercise taken In moderation. It la a law of nature that the exercise of functions result In an Increase of their ability. Muscles become larger by .exercise. Brain matter, by constant Intellectual employment. Increases la weight and the brain cells become A young woman waa advised not long ago to take physical exercise out of doors. With an exclamation of disgust she proceeded to relate how, after a morning of close confinement at office work, she took a hurried lunch and at once rushed to a series of appointments, the distance between which amounted to several miles. It was explained that this was not exercise In the proper sense of the greater In number. On the other hand, any function word. It Is Impossible to digest food, may be wrongly employed. When a to exercise severely, to prosecuto busimuscle Is constantly used to excess It ness and to do all well at the same atrophies, or becomes smaller. Tho time. brain. If held too closely to its task, at The woman who wants to preserve length refuses to act. health to old age must exercise her There are, many things that tend to muscles and brains so that each day pervert the uses of physical exercise. shall receive a proper amount of solid, It loses Its effect, for example. If em- steady work, and, what Is equally imployed at Improper times, as Imme- portant of rest. If she feels herself diately after a meal; by being too lacking In physical strength she may hurried and short, as when one rushes be absolutely certain that by the use to catch a train, or by being so pro- of what muscular power she has she longed as to produce extreme fatigue. will gain more. Symbol of When the traveler approaches tho strange and fascinating, but most discouraging, city of Constantinople from the Sea of Marmora, says a writer, "he will find riding at anchor In the Bosporus, opposite the city, two men representing each one of the great European powers, with their national ensigns floating at their pinuatlis. If lie Is an Atm , perhaps his pride will bo touched a bit that there Is no ship to represent tho groat power of tho western hemisphere. If, however, he will sail a few miles up that wonderful stream which separates tho ocildent from the orient and mnrks the huttlegioum! where civilization nnd barbarism have contended for hundreds, yes, thou well-know- r rn-ait- ur Might 5 sands of years, he will see, high up above the Bosporus, on a bluff of the western shore, the buildings of Robert college, founded and sustained by Americans. They fa e the stream and the opposite Asiatic shore. Just them at the water's edge are the ruins of two am lent forts, that have played tlieir part in many wars. Tlu re, floating above Robert college, the stars and stripes kiss the breezes and tho beacon l.gl.t f liberty and education shines lorth. What more glorious symbol mnld there he of the laud vve love and of tho Idea that muhes that land gicat and powerful an idea of whli h the press Is, nnd Is to he. the i i. it f detendir and exonent, us suiily .is 'the pen Is mightier than the sword'?" LIFE-SAVIN- G MASK. Device to Be of Benefit to Shipwrecked Persons. A German Inventor has decided that many persons come to their death through drowning at sea, even though they are able to swim or are prevented from sinking by the wearing of life belts. He maintains that the deaths are due to the fact that the waves breaking over the wearer force salt water Into the mouth and nose, often resulting fatally to the victim. To eliminate this danger he has Invented a mask, preferably made life-savin- g V Mary 'f " ' , ' a ' A .'r , . ' . T rv - ". r Ar r ? J 4 Hr ' of some elastic material, as, for In stance, rubber, shaped to conform to the modeling of the fare. In the lower portion of the mask are open lugs covered with wire netting to reduce the water pressure, and prevent Its ready entrance into the lntciior of the mask. Short tubes inside cover these orifices, and are provided with e a hollow adapted to automatically close the orifices against the entrance of water, wihout restricting the freedom of breathing. A whistle is provided to enable the wearer to signal when desired. ball-valv- Fiqht Where They lire When the American marines and the Colombian troops recently confronted each other at C( Ion it looked for a time as If a battle was to bo fought on the pier of the Royal Mall Steamship company. The pkr Is rather an unusual place to fight a battle, but buttles have boon fought In many curious places, ranging from mountain peaks to sewers, from Ice fields to desert sands. At the battle of Monterey, In the Mexican war, the Americans were able to command the streets of the city with their artillery, but they had difficulty In dislodging the Mexicans from the houses. So, the city being buit of stone or adobe In solid blocks houses, the Yankees broke through the walls from one house to another, fighting and driving out the enemy, so that the battle of Monterey was largely fought indoors. In one of the battles of the wars of William the Silent for the Independence of the Netherlands, the Spanish ships were frozen In on thee Zuyder Zee. The Dutch came out on horse A : ylV '" - '. ' J. 1. A . t ;$v. -- A : 'v.-;-'- ' f v t " ; t v children who loved him; he was secure upon his farm, with his commission as exciseman to fall back upon. Here at Ellisland, In the full tide of health and spirits. Burns dashed off that Incomparable "Tam poem, OShanter. Here In the Tam O'Shanter tavern, as It is now called, Burns tells us, "A market nlaht. Tam had got planted unco rlRht; Kant by an Ingle blazing finely, l' reaming awats. that drank divinely." And so on, through the entirety ot that famous poem, with its swing and its dash, on until we remember now how we trembled as a child when, pursued by all tho witches and elves and devils, poor Tam dashes wildly on. "well mounted on his gray mare Meg," until they come to the "Brig o have met (and liked) various smugglers who frequented his rugged coast and to have been attracted by their lawless ways. Just at this time too, he had been Jilted by a sweetheart, and tho reckless life of the smugglers afforded ample opportunity for his feelings and morbidness to work themselves off. About this time Burns became an enthusiastic Mason. After the death of their father in Ayr, Burns and his brother Gilbert bought a farm and removed to Moss-gleBurns being now 24 years of age. and come to his full strength of limb, and brain, and health and passion. As a young yeoman on his own account he mixed more freely with the society of the country roundabout. The fortunes of the young man at this time were Intricate and rather bad. Tho farm was paying but poorly or not at all, and his unfortunate relations with Jean Armour were at a crisis. Burns resohed to leave the country and made arraugeinents to act as bookkeeper in Jamaica. Hill Increased, But,- - difficulties Burns had Insufficient money to pay his passage to Jam. lira. Upon the advice of his friend a and acquaintances ho resulted to publish bis verses, written from time to time and read or sung In merry company or to his brother unJ sisters. Burns knew the poetry possessed merit, and l, v-- ,, Modern Achievements and Inventions. During the last quarter cf a century so many wonderful works have been constructed and equally wonderful Inventions brought into use that It Is very difficult, If not quite Impossible, for any one to say which are the seven greatest wonders of modern times. In regard to several most people would probably agree, but with respect to others there would be a wide divergence of opinion. The following are entitled to be ranked among the wonders of modern times, hut which are the seven greatest we do not presume to say: The Suez canal, the Forth bridge In Scotland, the Brooklyn bridge in New York, the Assouan dam across the Nile In Upper Egypt, submarine boats, wireless telegraphy, the flying machine, the use of electricity for purposes of power, light, etc., the telegraph and telephone. Some of the discoveries in medicine and surgery, fc r Instance, the discovery of anesthetics, which render surgical operations painless, should also be ranked among the modern wonders. His Easier Task. Doon. The farm at Ellisland turned out badly, and Burns lost considerable of bis splendid health and spirits. He sold tho farm and removed his family to Dumfries. At this time Barns wrote the unfortunate treasonable verses at the Inn of Stirling on the window pane. Dumfries began to regard Burns with a dark lower. Tho political times were troublous, religious affairs were In deep commotion. And we finally hear of Burns, at a dinner party, when the health of Pitt was propoVed. Jumping upon his fu-- and quickly the heal'h of "George proposing Washington a better man, and of t Jew . i . Jimmie Say, Mame, when 1 tlnk I used ter pull yrr aroun' dis pond In dat boat las summer, I can't help but wish dis ice would never melt. how Preserved by Military Discipline. dianuttic scene was wit-ne- s ed a few days ago In a theater at Viohtda"tik, In Russia. During the performance in the town, n bouquet was being presented to the leading lady, vi lien by some accident a petroleum lamp became upset, nnd the "M.ery was set on fire. For a few moments, awed h the very excess of their terror, the audience kept tlulr MHts, nnd betore a panic had time to assert it si If the voice of the military commandant was heard yl.lrg onle-- s ot loud tores to the officers of whom many wue present, to see that all women and children were mnduetH safely to the doors. Under their coed direction the people restrained themselves ni'd uli.matcly were got out w I, he ut a M'mpMle. Shortly nft.-rllm place ol'; tita-A F -- H, v . t ... w ' . :' -- , f ,r s rv r I - C' r J rf f t , ; '.Vj i r-- x.'. -- : r. .A- - .MV .r, ' r t'x ., "T. - ' VT - f ." ro,J. K n -- I i - -- ' ua ; . f t J. . - ! 1 - 1 A I1 ,rv7 . -- , - . - L- . - v ' ' , f - n . s Trine e of Monaco, who devotes 1 ii the revenues of the gambllrg cash,1 to marine exploration, has just Into duced sev era! new traps. One la I triangular cage of iron work and net ting. There are holes In the sidet opening Inward and shaped like couei getting narrower as you go Into the cage. The curious fish pushes bis way in through this opening and then fs afraid to come out through the small end. Pockets inside dragnets are very effective In tangling up the fish and holding them. One new Ira; closes through the action of an elec trlcal current which is broken by the, 4 fish. New York World. The Wild Waa of India. f In the Northern Shan states, on tb border of Burma, there Is a trity called the Wild Was. These peol propitiate with human skulls the del mons whom they worship. Outside every village in their country thfre, are many pobts, all in one line, decked with human skulls. A niche Is cut it the back ot each poht, with a ledge otl which the skull can rest and gru throupu a hole in front of It. Evens village has a dozen and some as man;! as a hundred of these head posts! Fresh skulls are in special request a harvest time and are purchased fot" large sums, those of distinguished vis) tors being particularly desired. So as Mr. Scott, the British Superintea dent of the Slates, remarked sora years ago: "The Wa States ar therefore, no place for missionaries or globe trotters." Cocoanut Sent Through Malls. letter carrier In tho LonisvilW (Ky.) i.oktofllce was surprised to Cud among tho mail matter ready for hlt distribution a few days ago a large j cocoanut In all its natural hairy cuff erlngs. Ho thought at first that somej one was trjing to play a Joko on him hut upon looking closely discovered I that the eoioanut was duly stamped postmarked nnd addressed to a younr woman on his regular route. It had! been sent from a Florida town a boro sixteen two-ren- t stamps to coi er postage. At one spot tho hair hid been carefully scraped off, revealltif d a smooth surface on which the dross nac written In Ink. Tho unliptf mail parcel was promptly delivered to tne )oung woman, and she later Hid the post man that it had loht iiotiitto of its flavor by tou.son of Its oU method of ttnt'Hiiiswlon, , li fin 11 The First Automobile. it. i Keep Up Small School. j j The little inlet of Not'd s( t iindsehmor. , In the Not Hi Sea boasts 'w ha. H prole j uldy the Miialh'it school In the world. A century Allow Kirk. u;.i there' were flftv InIn ths quirt cliurihjird her l i habitants, who level ley IKhlug nnd mnny of lb Bures family are lev terrret rudn husbandry, and In IMtfl a little the advice, therefore met with his tils being suiky that his toast waa school waa erected, capable of providconsideration And It Is Indeed a not received with favor. ing for about u doren children. The cm ions historical fact that the poems He was In a chronic state of Irrita- population 1ms thinned and now numthat Scotland now regards as the tion against himself and against the bers no more than fiDeon soula. For In most precious her possession world In general at this period, al- five years past tho school attendance should have been published in order though we are glad to know the peri- has varied from nothing to half a to raise money sufficient to enable od was short. This Is the darkest dozen children. their author to fle,' the country. hour of Burns' life, and we like to All the world has heard of "Highthink how quickly the sky cleared. In Pledged to Abctsin from Slang, land Mary"; all t In world has not I79."i ho wroto and published the paSuch expteaslous of "fudge." "rubheard how Burns uml "Highland triotic song. "Doe Haughty Gaul In- ber," "swell," "cany mark," and kinhecimo Mary" acquainted. Indeed, vasion Threat?" This song Iminodk their love affair Is rather hscure. atedy became popular, and showed at dred slang phrases have been tabooed by members of the senior rlasa of the But sufficient Is It for us that Burns once to the world that the heart of Derby, Conn, high school, In a resoloved her ns ho lovei no oilier womthe writer was sound to tho core, and an. and that sontw of his best and that he wished to steer a firm hut lution aimed ot clamt meeting. All members of th fhtss are pledged to truest verses were inspired ami In- cheerful middle course during those abstain from tiling slang either In scribed to her. troubled times. writing or speceh until graduation. SOI A c - tra;-ar- myste-ou- Remarkable j- , i with Trjf ' - 7 Burnt Monument, Ayr. Robert Burns, and he was first born, er and thither, often from friendliinherited a general superiority, a sen- ness, often for diversion, and some- Bitiveness and brain quality from times for mere curiosity. his father, and from his mother a love In 1788 Burns married Jean Arfor song and ballad and a most excel- mour and cut off his last ties with lent memory. Edinburgh, purchased a small farm When Burns was 16 his family re- at Ellisland and accepted the office moved to I.ochlea. Here Burns at- of exciseman. Burns himself has tended dancing school and his brother left on record that this time and the Gilbert tdls us that his brother Rol few succeeding years was the happiert was almost constantly in love. In est period of his life. He had friends, his 19th year Burns, still attending with whom he kept up a constant (lancing school and still falling in correspondence; he had a wife and love, still becoming acquainted Prince of Monacos Deep Sea Many new and Interesting being made to catch the inhabitants of the deep " - the Inside of jolly taverns, seems to , WONDERS OF THE WORLD. . a . -- HOUSE OF 6,000 BITS OF Woct s Made by a Woodworker i. Connecticut Town. George Wright, a sawyer h, Y employ of a dock company j , rlngton, has completed a house, says the Waterbury p0Yf can. It Is gothic in style, a story , a half in height. There Is a in front, the roof of which (s gap by pillars. On each side of the dJ and separate from It are baW' There are two how windows. j The house is built in Imitation building, and Is composed 1 5,182 pieces of wood, including s, more, or California red wood, as it) called, and mahogany, and fine tv paper Is used between the brick--, represent mortar. Over the nnnoJ the front of tho hoite la a s 5 clock. There are windows with li? curtains and shades. In e"ery respect It Is a compK and well appointed house. It t, very handsome piece of work proves Mr. Wright to possess a larj amount of patience. The work I been done at odd momenta at L home in Torrington. he also has a number of 0.)( pieces of his handiwork, lnrludirg picture frame composed of 40,y pieces of wood, but probably there jf nothing that he has done that t quite equal the house In design workmanship. r. O' vx - rn.-iu- Statehood hearings are raiher dull homes of England, on the sunny hills and prosaic, as a rule. Members of of France, or on the banks of tho the House committee on territories go llacid Rhine, or down by tho Shandown to their room for the prolonged non's side, when we cento here and sessions with wry faces. Smiles don't lift up our heads In fealty to tho banner of the free, then, as did tho Danes hut of predominant In that precinct, old In Erin's Isle as to tho sometimes there Is a burst of eloquence vve become more American thanIrish, tho such as happened the other day when Americans themselves, and entitled to a Delegate Roduy, himself "furrlner," share In that blessed heritage of libwaa drawn out on the subject of ft erty that was horn of your fathers blood and snnctiiled by your mother' populations, I might grow a little eloquent on Pars, and dedicated to tho oppressed that question as to foreigners," he de- of all the world." clared In the course of a hearing. "In Tho territories committee gate the this grand and glorious country we New Mexican delegate a round of are all Amerlcars. No matter whether plaudits for his generous nnd patriotic w were born amidst the merry Monument. Washington Tost c fen ,(wl Built motlv." In 1769, known as a "man0 hei We Celebrated 103d Birthday. Miss Rachel Martense of Brooklyn who Is sall to be tho oldest woman I Kings county, received a number 0 visitors Wednesday at her home, Flat bush and Linden avenues, on the occa slon of her 103d birthday. Iler y!1, tor Included relatives, Inttmat friends and acquaintances. She re cslved presents of flowers and fruif and messages of congratulations from many part of the country. Bosto Globe. JOI gq th Wi lit! 1 'll U |